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Alcohol and other substance use among a sample of young people in the Solomon Islands
Brendan Quinn, Elizabeth Peach, Cassandra JC Wright, Megan SC Lim, Lisa Davidson, Paul Dietze
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health | WILEY | Published : 2017
Megan Lim Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Awarded by NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship
We thank the participants who took part in the study, and the staff of community-based organisations who assisted with recruitment. In particular, we are very grateful to the staff of Save the Children (both in Australia and the Solomon Islands) for their valuable efforts in designing and undertaking the study, including participant recruitment and data collection. The names of specific colleagues and funding details have been excluded to allow for anonymous review. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the contribution to this work of the Victorian Operational Infrastructure Support Program. Dr Quinn is currently funded by a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship and Prof Dietze is funded by a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (GNT1004140).
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Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, And McCarthy Set For Pivotal Stimulus Meeting Ahead Of Friday Shutdown Deadline
With time running out in the 2020 legislative session, four top Congressional leaders—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)—are scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss the next federal coronavirus aid package and the omnibus federal budget bill.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on December 03, 2020.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who has been representing the White House in aid talks, will also participate, Politico’s Jake Sherman reported.
The meeting could be an optimistic sign for the fraught relief discussions in Washington, which have been stalled for months and marked by an absence of face to face negotiations involving all the key players.
The leaders will presumably need to grapple with the two thorniest issues holding up the talks so far: state and local aid and liability protections from Covid-19 lawsuits for businesses.
A bipartisan group of centrist lawmakers was unable to resolve those issues among themselves and instead introduced on Monday a proposal that would hive off these two issues from less controversial relief provisions like supplemental unemployment benefits and small business funding.
It’s not clear whether the Democrats will be willing to support a plan that includes liability protections they believe put workers at risk even if that is sweetened by the inclusion of state aid, especially given Pelosi’s Monday statements (as reported by her spokesman Drew Hammill) to Mnuchin reiterating her concerns about the liability provisions.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)—the number two Democrat in that chamber—has signaled that he would be willing to vote for a package that excluded state and local aid, and McConnell has floated eliminating the now linked state aid and liability provisions from the current bill to expedite a deal before Congress adjourns for Christmas.
Crucial Quote
“We have to move forward on the $748 billion that we all agree on,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told CNN Tuesday morning. Coons was referring to the bipartisan bill that excludes state and local aid and liability protections, and added that he had not received any assurance from McConnell that the contentious sister bill including $160 billion in state, local and tribal aid would even be brought to the Senate floor for a vote.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last week offered a $916 billion plan on behalf of the White House that he said has McConnell’s support. That plan includes both state and local aid and liability protections for businesses and schools as well as another round of stimulus checks, this time for $600. Top Democrats have called the White House plan “unacceptable” because it does not include additional supplemental unemployment benefits. Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) noted on the Senate floor Tuesday morning that he was “encouraged” by the work of the bipartisan group, noting that their $908 billion proposal was “along the lines” of what McConnell has endorsed.
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have also called for any relief bill that passes to include another round of $1,200 direct payments, which were excluded from the bipartisan plan to keep costs down. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany reiterated President Trump’s support for a second round of stimulus checks during a press briefing Tuesday.
What To Watch For
Pelosi, McConnell, and Mnuchin are contending with a Friday government shutdown deadline, before which they’ll need to either pass an omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2021 (which began October 1) or a short term continuing resolution (what would be the third of the year) to keep the lights on and buy themselves more time. The hope is that the next round of coronavirus aid legislation would be attached to that $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill, which could be finalized as early as Tuesday.
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Top Stocks To Buy Today As Markets Jump After Three Consecutive Down Days
After a losing streak of three straight days, stocks rose sharply based on good vaccine news and strong retail data. The Dow sharply jumped 155 points higher or 0.6%, while the S&P 500 gained 0.4% and the Nasdaq gained 0.5%. While yesterday was wrought with fears of no stimulus and poor jobless claims data, today’s tone was more optimistic after retail sales topped estimates. Retail sales in September jumped by 1.9% compared to the Dow estimate of 0.7%. Excluding autos, sales were up 1.5%- over a full percentage point higher than the 0.4% estimate. Pfizer also moved markets higher after saying they would apply for emergency use of their COVID vaccine once it passes certain safety measures. Once passing these safety milestones, they also said that they expect the vaccine to be ready by late November. Boeing also led the Dow, gaining 5% after Europe’s aviation regulator said that the 737 Max jet is safe to fly again. For investors looking to make sense of these unprecedented times, the deep learning algorithms at Q.ai have crunched the data to give you a set of Top Buys. Our Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) systems assessed each firm on parameters of Technical, Growth, Low Volatility Momentum, and Quality Value to find the best long plays.
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CACI International Inc (CACI)
CACI International Inc is our first Top Buy of the day. The tech company provides a myriad of services to both national security and government interests. Our AI systems have rated Caci International B in Technical, A in Growth, B in Low Volatility Momentum, and B in Quality Value. The stock closed down 0.65% to $215.78 on volume of 135,353 vs its 10-day price average of $214.7 and its 22-day price average of $216.26, and is down 14.45% for the year. Revenue was $5720.04M in the last fiscal year compared to $4467.86M three years ago, Operating Income was $460.7M in the last fiscal year compared to $340.7M three years ago, EPS was $12.61 in the last fiscal year compared to $11.93 three years ago, and ROE was 12.78% in the last year compared to 15.44% three years ago. The stock is also trading with a Forward 12M P/E of 15.23.
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Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc (CNSL)
Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc is our second Top Buy of the day. The Illinois based broadband and business communications provider has been rated B in Technical, B in Growth, C in Low Volatility Momentum, and C in Quality Value by our AI systems. The stock closed down 3.54% to $5.58 on volume of 491,876 vs its 10-day price average of $5.82 and its 22-day price average of $5.82, and is up 41.98% for the year. Revenue grew by 24.13% over the last three fiscal years, while Operating Income grew by 63.87% in the last fiscal year and grew by 80.07% over the last three fiscal years, and EPS grew by -210.28% in the last fiscal year. Revenue was $1336.54M in the last fiscal year compared to $1059.57M three years ago, Operating Income was $79.45M in the last fiscal year compared to $72.3M three years ago, EPS was $(0.29) in the last fiscal year compared to $1.07 three years ago, and ROE was (5.22%) in the last year compared to 17.41% three years ago. The stock is also trading with a Forward 12M P/E of 23.04.
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Facebook Inc (FB)
Facebook is our third Top Buy of the day. Despite the headwinds of election season and governments wanting to break up Big Tech, our AI systems are bullish on the social media giant with ratings of B in Technical, B in Growth, A in Low Volatility Momentum, and B in Quality Value. The stock closed down 1.88% to $266.72 on volume of 15,416,060 vs its 10-day price average of $266.0 and its 22-day price average of $260.65, and is up 27.14% for the year. Revenue grew by 6.31% in the last fiscal year and grew by 84.87% over the last three fiscal years, Operating Income grew by 16.31% in the last fiscal year and grew by 38.09% over the last three fiscal years, and EPS grew by 27.18% in the last fiscal year and grew by 51.71% over the last three fiscal years. Revenue was $70697.0M in the last fiscal year compared to $40653.0M three years ago, Operating Income was $23986.0M in the last fiscal year compared to $20203.0M three years ago, EPS was $6.43 in the last fiscal year compared to $5.39 three years ago, and ROE was 19.96% in the last year compared to 23.86% three years ago. Forward 12M Revenue is expected to grow by 11.09% over the next 12 months, and the stock is trading with a Forward 12M P/E of 29.74.
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Keurig Dr Pepper Inc (KDP)
Keurig Dr Pepper is our next Top Buy of the day. The company, which owns and operates the Dr. Pepper soft drink brand, as well as Keurig and Green Mountain Coffee, has been rated C in Technical, B in Growth, B in Low Volatility Momentum, and B in Quality Value. The stock closed down 0.78% to $29.44 on volume of 4,350,371 vs its 10-day price average of $28.91 and its 22-day price average of $28.29, and is up 2.44% for the year. Revenue grew by 1.45% in the last fiscal year and grew by 141.05% over the last three fiscal years, while Operating Income grew by 183.3% over the last three fiscal years. Revenue was $11120.0M in the last fiscal year compared to $4680.0M three years ago, Operating Income was $2682.0M in the last fiscal year compared to $940.0M three years ago, EPS was $0.88 in the last fiscal year compared to $3.06 three years ago, and ROE was 5.48% in the last year. Forward 12M Revenue is expected to grow by 1.66% over the next 12 months, and the stock is trading with a Forward 12M P/E of 19.72.
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Mettler-Toledo Intl Inc (MTD)
Mettler-Toledo is our final Top Buy of the day. Mettler-Toledo is a company with a very interesting niche, as they are the largest provider and manufacturer of weighing instruments for use in laboratory, industrial, and food retailing applications. Our AI systems rated the company C in Technical, B in Growth, A in Low Volatility Momentum, B in Quality Value. The stock closed down 0.38% to $1018.53 on volume of 67,231 vs its 10-day price average of $1009.53 and its 22-day price average of $989.59, and is up 26.52% for the year. Revenue grew by 7.8% over the last three fiscal years, while Operating Income grew by 18.23% over the last three fiscal years, and EPS grew by 56.66% over the last three fiscal years. Revenue was $3008.65M in the last fiscal year compared to $2725.05M three years ago, Operating Income was $733.19M in the last fiscal year compared to $613.91M three years ago, EPS was $22.47 in the last fiscal year compared to $14.24 three years ago, and ROE was 111.02% in the last year compared to 76.56% three years ago. Forward 12M Revenue is expected to grow by 3.73% over the next 12 months, and the stock is trading with a Forward 12M P/E of 41.32.
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About once a month my wife and I prefer to get together neighbors and friends and maintain a party. Sometimes we watch a football sport, sometimes we watch a film, but probably the most enjoyable we’ve had is after we get together and play board video games.
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The gamers takes control of a scientist in the close to future who together with his colleagues develops two prototype fits capable of time journey and other forms of time manipulation. After the director of the challenge steals one of the suits to journey into the previous and change the longer term you decide to follow him and cease him at all prices. Players play as a mage and as such must rely on casting numerous magic spells by drawing rune shapes on the DS contact screen. The power of the spell can be effected by how precisely the rune is drawn, with extra powerful spells being harder to draw. The number of spell combos offers gamers many various gameplay options to create an enormous depth of gameplay. MinoMonsters provides loads of gameplay and great cinematic visuals. The recreation has been extremely rated by followers and critics making it a must obtain for followers of Pokémon.
The game is taken into account to be top-of-the-line FPS experiences on the PlayStation console with very high scores from sport critics on all of the games in the sequence. Critics have cited the story, graphics and multiplayer as the strong factors of the sequence. Starting with the most recent Call of Duty sport is at all times your best wager since this ensures you have a large neighborhood available for multiplayer to play with. Resistance is an FPS game series with sci-fi and horror elements that is one other PS3 sport like Halo for PlayStation gamers. There are additionally two spin-off video games obtainable on the PlayStation Portable (Retribution) and PlayStation Vita (Falling Skies). TimeShift is certainly top-of-the-line science fiction games like Halo obtainable with its unique gameplay mechanics. The most important sport features embody quests, a sandbox-model sport world, trainer levels, fast battles, multiplayer tournaments, a lot of beginning Micromon, a mature story, and plenty of social features.
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A Million People on Mars May Not Be Wishful Thinking
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But colonists would have to change their diets, and learn to eat crickets.
A mini-fleet of Starships wait near a Martian base in this SpaceX artist’s conception. (SpaceX)
Asustainable, self-sufficient population of one million people can be achieved on Mars within 100 years, according to a new modeling study published by Kevin Cannon and Daniel Britt, both at the University of Central Florida. Their study drew on a plan sketched out by Elon Musk of SpaceX, which begins with about 12 people landing on Mars, followed by multiple ships carrying 100 to 200 passengers at every launch opportunity, roughly every 26 months. The population growth is envisioned to be sustained both by immigration and by births on Mars.
Based on Cannon’s and Britt’s analysis, four of the five major “consumables” necessary for a Martian settlement—energy, water, oxygen, and construction material—can be extracted from the Martian surface in economically practical concentrations. Only food is not obtainable from raw materials on Mars. So, how to solve the food problem? The authors suggest growing plants, insect farming, and cellular agriculture.
Plants have often been suggested in the past, but it would be critical to plant high-calorie crops in order to feed so many people. Insect farming would also be well suited, because it can provide large amounts of calories per unit of land. House crickets are especially suitable for this purpose, and are already used in some granola bars today.
Protein-rich foods also could be obtained from cells grown in bioreactors. Interestingly, clean fish may be favored over cell-grown meats on Mars, because the cultures could be maintained at colder temperatures (closer to 20 degrees Celsius) as compared to the 37 degrees needed for warm-blooded animal cells.
I find these ideas and extrapolations very intriguing. But living on Mars might not be as easy as it seems, even with further progress in technology. Growing plants in Martian soil may be quite a challenge, with perchlorates and other chemicals abundant in sediments found on the Red Planet. In fact, in another study involving the same authors, plants quickly died and earthworms suffocated in a simulated soil similar to the one found on Mars.
Then we have to consider biology. It is far from clear that humans can easily bear children on Mars, considering that Martian gravity is only 38 percent of what we experience on Earth. The human body is adapted to terrestrial conditions, and unexpected complications may result when a basic physical constant is only a third of what we humans are used to. Martian farmers might face other problems, including unfamiliar crop diseases that wipe out their harvests and result in major starvation on Mars.
On the upside, technologies for efficient, sustainable food production on Mars could have benefits for the many more people adapting to climate change back on Earth, and so could prove invaluable for our entire civilization.
Musk’s vision of a million people on Mars is likely not in our immediate future. But it may have gotten more plausible following recent recommendations by a NASA Planetary Protection Independent Review Board, which may lead to lower sterilization requirements for landing in certain regions on Mars where no indigenous life is expected. If people do arrive in passenger ships on Mars and start setting up house, these are the locations we would expect them to settle.
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Limbaugh Takes Off Gloves: Blasts Coverage, Investigation of Drugs
The Rush Limbaugh Show via The Drudge Report ^ | December 23, 2003 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 12/24/2003 12:47:51 AM PST by thegreatbeast
Ladies and gentlemen, you know, it's been real frustrating here for the past - what has this been? - past three months. It has been very frustrating to sit here and see what gets released and then reported in the media and to have to remain silent about it for a number of reasons. The occasion for silence is now ended because of the medical records hearing that occurred yesterday here in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Now, the judge ruled against me on the privacy of my medical records despite the fact that we claim that the prosecution in this case did not follow the law as written by the Florida legislature in securing those medical records.
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dopedupfuzzball; drugs; flada; freetedmaher; junkie; limbaugh; lovablefuzzball; medicalrecords; privacy; rush
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To: Raleigh's Golden Mountaineer
OK so it was Chiles, not Clinton. Same breed of animal, different zoo.
21 posted on 12/24/2003 1:57:18 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck
What someone ought to be doing is researching the public records to determine just exactly how many previous times Krischer investigated and prosecuted anyone for doctor-shopping.
Breaking the subjects down also by avocation (liberal media darling superstar?) and party (demonRat?)
To: leadpenny
So under the same law of right to privacy upon snatching his medical files its the same law that is their trying to use to kill Terry Schindler Sheivo see there saying terry wanted to die if she was ever in the position she is in was to happen and their trying to us her right to privacy to kill her .
They should be able to keep his medical records or secure them without a court order ? they broke their own laws and are going to try and prosecute him on that same broken law
So no we don't have the system the bureaucrats have it the politicians have it and the judges are writing laws to amend other laws which now a days means BREAK the law in order to prosecute.
23 posted on 12/24/2003 1:59:42 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
To: HiTech RedNeck
The law in Florida is that you are required to inform any physician that you have been prescribed similiar drugs in the last 30 days by another physician. That's what they are looking for in the records -- whether he told the physicians about prescriptions from other physicians.
The problem for Krischer is that doctors notoriously don't write everything down. I don't know if there were any forms that may have been filled out by Limbaugh that would have asked this question. I've never seen such a form in Jacksonville, so I don't think it's a state requirement.
24 posted on 12/24/2003 2:01:40 AM PST by Raleigh's Golden Mountaineer
Did anyone listen to Sean Hannity's radio program yesterday? Hosting for Sean was Curtis (angel guy). He had Mark Levin on who said it has not been picked up by any major news media the fact that this charge of doctor shopping is bogus. The prosecutor apparently is looking at 4 doctors. Get this: 2 of the doctors are in the same office, the third doctor is where Rush was treated for his ear problem, and the other I can't remember what he said, but he was linked with the third doctor. In other words, how could Rush be doctor shopping when the all the doctors are linked together? Did anyone else hear this yesterday?
25 posted on 12/24/2003 2:03:27 AM PST by itsinthebag
To: jagrmeister
The leaks by the prosecutor's office are a blatant violation of privacy.
What leaks are those?
26 posted on 12/24/2003 2:03:28 AM PST by Howlin (Bush has stolen two things which Democrats believe they own by right: the presidency & the future)
LOL! Florida loves -- loved -- Chiles! Even the Republicans!
It's pretty hard not to get elected when you run unopposed tho.
To: itsinthebag
it has not been picked up by any major news media the fact that this charge of doctor shopping is bogus.
If so, I bet Krischner still has a Teflon face. No egg sticks to it. It never does to Demonrats.
To: tbpiper
Why are you jumping on him because he corrected somebody else's ERROR?
The prosecutor is NOT a Clinton appointee, which has been a mantra around here since the day this news first broke.
Yeah, like America loves -- loved -- Clinton!
D-Y-S-F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N. Can you spell it kiddies?
I didn't listen yesterday -- but if the doctors are linked and all had access to his medical records, they all had access to his prescription records and would know what each other is prescribing.
Do you remember any of the doctors' names? I can certainly check if and how they are connected - if they are the same clinic, they have to be registered.
To: Victoria_R
I'm not a lawyer so I know very little about these things, but I do know it would be premature to organize any form of direct action in support of a Radio Talk Show Host. For me it would be, anyway.
32 posted on 12/24/2003 2:09:56 AM PST by leadpenny
To: thegreatbeast
Mr Limbaugh's Statement on Ongoing Florida Fishing Expedition
Listen to Mr Limbaugh ...
[ ... give his take on the criminal investigation into his medical records]
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 1:06 PM EST
Where have we heard this before? "That authorities in Florida did not follow the law as established by the Florida legislature." We've heard this in the Gore-Bush recount, when the Florida Supreme Court decided to change election law in the middle of the process, in order to keep counting counties that had been counted over and over again. All these chads, all these magnifying glasses. So what has happened now, we've issued a press release, a statement, if you will, that just went out, and it's already been reported by some places. I want to read this to you and then have just a few comments about this, and then we will move on.
The headline of our statement - it's not really a press release; we just issued a statement in response - "My Lawyers to File for Stay, Appeal Judge's Ruling Denying Motion to Quash Search Warrant on Seizure of Medical Records." Here's the statement. Now, this is odd for me because it's got my name in it and I don't like reading about myself, but there's some quotes in here. So even though I never talk in this third-person business, please permit me in this case because it's a written statement that I'm going to read.
"Judge Jeffrey Winikoff today denied a request by Mr Limbaugh's attorneys [My attorneys] to quash the search warrants issued for the seizure of my confidential medical records. Roy Black, my attorney, said, quote, "We respectfully disagree with the court's decision and will be filing an appeal today. These records will show that there was no doctor shopping. But the larger issue is that the seizure of Mr. Limbaugh's private medical records without going through the process outlined by the state legislature is clearly an invasion of Mr. Limbaugh's constitutional right to privacy. Mr. Limbaugh was not Dr. Shopping.
"He should not have to sacrifice his privacy to prove his innocence. The burden is on the prosecutor's office, not only to prove otherwise, but also to go through the appropriate legal process that protects an individual's right to privacy. We are confident we will prevail on appeal," said Roy Black. In his order, the judge wrote, 'the state is hereby prohibited from disclosure of any of the seized medical records to all third parties absent further order of this court.'" Now, why would the judge say that? Why would the judge put in his order that the state is hereby prohibited from disclosure of any of the seized medical records to all third parties?
I'll tell you why, because the state has been leaking information to the press throughout this investigation. They have been planting information that is not established, throughout this investigation. Of course you've got an eager media lapping it all up. More on that in just a moment. "The judge's order directs Mr. Limbaugh's attorneys to file any motions or pleadings he deems appropriate." So we did; we filed for a stay today. We want to appeal this. If we have to go to a Circuit Court of Appeals, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, we will do so. This doesn't stop the state from opening the records. They can do it. But we'll just see how much the state respects our desire to follow the legal process all the way out on this.
Now, let me take you back to the beginning of this. Do you recall how you first heard of this story, ladies and gentlemen? It was in a tabloid newspaper. Nothing from law enforcement. You first heard about this in a tabloid newspaper, and everything in that tabloid newspaper article was accepted as gospel. The media ran with it. It was The Truth. Then, we heard stories that I was involved in a drug ring investigation. This was leaked by "anonymous sources," "high-placed government sources close to the investigation." Next, we heard that I was being investigated for drug trafficking - again leaked by anonymous sources, high-place government sources, close to the investigation.
With each of these leaks the media did solemn reports on the possible severe penalties, and the investigation continues, and then they would casually whisper "No charges have been filed." Next, we heard that I was being investigated for money laundering, again leaked by anonymous sources, high-government sources, quote, unquote, close to the investigation. Now, ladies and gentlemen, what happened to all that? Hmm? What happened to all those things? What happened to the drug ring investigation? What happened to the drug trafficking investigation? What happened to the money laundering investigation? Have you heard of them since they were leaked? No. I wonder why? Why haven't we heard about these investigations?
Now maybe we can answer the question. Now, these same high-place government sources have gotten permission to see my medical records. Why do they need my medical records? I mean, if they've got a drug ring investigation going and they've leaked all this to the press, and if they've got drug traffic investigation going and they've leaked all this to the press, and they've got a money laundering investigation, why do they need to invade my privacy to see my medical records? The answer is, because they need my medical records to discover, to learn whether I have committed a crime called doctor shopping.
Drug ring, drug trafficking, money laundering. Now they need my medical records, my private medical records to find out if I've committed a crime called doctor shopping? You mean with all these previous leaks, they now have to invade my privacy to learn whether I have broken the law? Why, I thought based on the leaks I've broken the law all these times! How many of you did? How many of you thought, "Gee, whiz, this is really getting bad." Doctor shopping? Doctor shopping. And they need to invade my privacy to even find out about that. These medical records, by the way, will prove legitimate medical conditions requiring treatment.
I'm so tempted to just tell you, but I'm just not going to make their job any easier. But the question is this: Why would any of us want such records made public, even if they prove our innocence? It's not up to me to prove my innocence by giving up my right to privacy. I have to give up my right to privacy now in order for the state who is, in effect, just casting a line out there, hoping to hook something. They've got to invade my privacy to do this. We still haven't seen Bill Clinton's medical records, have we? Has anybody? We haven't seen Howard Dean's records as governor for 11 years in Vermont.
But we can cast a wide fishing net, we can stand out there after all these leaks, and we can throw a fishing line out there and we can, "Ooh, let's maybe, maybe we'll find something in Limbaugh's medical records." Now, as you all know, I have admitted that I was addicted to prescription painkillers. I have been to five weeks of treatment. After failing twice to get off of these things myself, I sought professional help, did so, and I continue to be in treatment now. Now, I don't know, and this is...I run the risk here. I'm not whining about it. I'm just genuinely curious. How many such people are being pursued by the authorities?
I could give you some names of actors and actresses and sports figures, and not one of them have been pursued in this circumstance. Let me read to you from the New York Times today just to establish this leak business - and there's more than you even know about this. "During Mr. Black's presentation yesterday at the medical records hearing, the most detailed defense of Mr. Limbaugh since the investigation became public in October, the lawyer called the prosecution of his client 'a witch hunt built on leaks tailored to smear my reputation.' In court yesterday, Roy Black accused the state attorney's office in Palm Beach County of orchestrating leaks to several organizations, and details were given."
There was a court reporter there. Have you, in all the stories of this hearing yesterday, have you seen very many detailed references to what my lawyer said about the leaks in this case? Well, it's all there, if anybody cares to go get the court transcript, and you'll find out exactly what was said by my lawyer regarding this. My friends, it is, and has been, obvious to me for the longest time that all these leaks were an attempt to try me in the court of public opinion. The Democrats in this country still cannot defeat me in the arena of political ideas, and so now they are trying to do so in the court of public opinion and the legal system. I guess it's payback time. And since I'm not running for office, can't get to me that way. They're going to seek the occasion of this event in my life to see, to find out if they can do any damage. And that's as much as I want to say... No, that's not as much as I want to say; that's as much as I'm going to say about it at the moment.
33 posted on 12/24/2003 2:10:51 AM PST by Brian Allen ( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
[If so, I bet Krischner still has a Teflon face]
Oh, and to avoid all impropriety: Teflon is a registered trademark of Du Pont de Nemours et al.
To: Brian Allen
You know what makes me nervous about that statement from Rush's web site? That's exactly the same thing Martha Stewart did.
And she got the hammer dropped on her.
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
See my 32. I'm just saying it is a time, imo, to see how things shake out.
I think Rush in spite of his wrong has more credibility than Martha. Rush was not QUITE as much of a towering overweening micromanaging monomaniac. (But I still buy Martha Stewart placemats. The woman does have good taste. Maybe Rush Limbaugh ought to endorse an aftershave.)
I'm not saying he doesn't have more credibility than she did -- hell, who doesn't.
I'm saying that she used her web site to "defend" herself and attack the prosecutors -- and they charged her with interferring with the investigation -- or something close to that -- can't remember exactly what.
Like leadpenny said, this thing IS going to play out; why antagonize them with all this spinning? To some, those remarks about the prosecutor could be construed as threats -- or, and worse, out and out lies. The only "leaks" I've heard of came from The National Enquirer and the maid. He sounded so pi$$y today it was kind of scary. It made me think that there is something more we don't know about.
He's saying the same thing in public, afaik, that one could get out of a public transcript of Rush's court sessions.
You've just made my point; these are nothing more than ACCUSATIONS that he and Roy Black are making without offering ANY proof at all. Nobody except Roy Black has claimed Rush was blackmailed; and nobody except Roy Black and Rush is claiming he's been smeared -- unless Rush now considers the truth a smear.
That "presentation" in court and on his web site rival Mark Geragos' claim that Satanists killed Laci Peterson.
And neither Roy Black OR Mark Geragos will EVER be held accountable for those words if they turn out to be lies.
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Christmas is a lovely time at T2’s Pemberley
LARA JO HIGHTOWER
lhightower@nwadg.com
In Jane Austen’s 1813 classic “Pride and Prejudice,” Mary Bennet — middle daughter of the five Bennet offspring — is written as a bookish wallflower. In the multiple subsequent movie adaptations of the novel, she usually doesn’t get the most flattering film portrayal — sometimes snobbish and judgmental, sometimes vain, always a stick-in-the-mud and, frequently, a comic foil for the more likable characters.
Photo courtesy Wesley Hitt
The four Bennet sisters in “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” are Madi Watkins as Lydia, Guadalupe Campos as Jane, Tyler Meredith as Mary and Katie Gonzalez as Elizabeth. The production opened Nov. 28 at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville.
Actor Tyler Meredith, who plays the much maligned Mary in TheatreSquared’s charming production of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” is here to set the record straight: Mary Bennet is, in fact, awesome.
Although the film adaptations, Meredith says, “are always so harsh to her, it’s really exciting to see her come into her own with this play and get up to all kinds of hi-jinks with the different characters. She is different than the other sisters, but we don’t want her to be a caricature or just weird or awkward. I think she’s so pragmatic and so smart and can’t help but be herself. And either people get on with that or don’t, and that’s the direction we went in with this.
“The language is so smart and so well written that it makes that very easy. She’s also very funny and is really looking for an opportunity for something else and is stuck, as many women were in that time: ‘These are the things you can do, and this is the life you can have,’ and no one questions it. But she questions it. And I think that’s so exciting.”
The play — essentially a “Pride and Prejudice” sequel — picks up about two years after the book ends, at the palatial home of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy during the holidays.
The talented and prolific Gunderson — who, as actor Dana Black points out, was the most produced playwright of the 2017-18 theater season — is known for feminist themes, and “Miss Bennet” slyly and charmingly inserts those themes into the storyline. But, says Black, the remarkable feat is how effortlessly the playwright’s modern commentary on feminism coexists in the 19th century world of Austen.
“[Gunderson is] sort of doing what Austen did at the time, in terms of critiquing social norms,” says Black, who plays Anne de Bourgh, daughter of Catherine, who, in the book, is the original intended of Darcy. “She’s honoring the story of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ but putting her own modern take on what was happening in the 1800s — which is what Austen was doing — using wit and irony. It’s Lauren honoring Jane but putting her own spin on it and showing Mary to be just as smart as her sisters.”
The run of the show will coincide with two notable dates: Christmas and Jane Austen’s birthday, and there will be performances of the show to commemorate both of those events.
“Someone said, ‘You’re working on Christmas — a lot of people wouldn’t be excited about that,’ and [actor] Katie Gonzalez said, ‘Well, we have the best job in the world,’ which is true,” says Meredith. “It’s just hanging out with our friends and doing a magical play.”
And, to hear these actors tell it, the play does sound magical.
“‘Family’s important’, ‘Live a little larger,’ ‘Be honest,’” says Black, reading from notes she made during the first week of rehearsals. “There are so many things in this play to teach you, especially around the holidays, when you’re supposed to come to the table. It can be hard. Holidays are complicated, and this story is no different. Yet it ends with hope. Jane Austen said, ‘Humor is the saving grace of life,’ and that’s something I’m trying to remember — especially with this play, because it’s funny.”
“I think it has such a message of hope,” agrees Meredith. “At one point, Mr. Darcy says to Mary, ‘A new season is upon us, a time for new beginnings, a time for hope and joy.’ To me, that’s what’s always represented at Christmas — the idea of opening up and being honest and being around your family. That’s what I’ve always loved about ‘A Christmas Carol’ or any other Christmas stories: They’re based in love and heart and hope, which, I think, is what we all need right now.”
‘Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley’
WHEN — 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 7 p.m. Sunday, through Dec. 30
WHERE — TheatreSquared, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville
COST — $17.50-$50
INFO — theatre2.org or 443-5600
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Montreal bread recalled because it may contain pieces of wood
By Brittany Henriques Global News
Updated January 18, 2020 3:42 pm
An example of one of the products recalled on Jan. 17, 2020. MAPAQ website
The Quebec government issued a recall advising consumers to avoid up to nine varying types of bread from Montreal’s Boulangerie Elmont bakery.
The recall comes after it was discovered that the breads may contain pieces of wood.
The products to avoid bearing a best-before date of 23/01/20 or earlier, according to the province are:
Onion bread
Russian bread
Hungarian bread
Kimmel bread
Black rye bread
Country-style bread
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPAQ), the products were available for sale at several locations across the province at room temperature. The product label included the words “Boulangerie Elmont Baker” and a white rectangular sticker.
The operator voluntarily recalled the products and agreed with MAPAQ and the Food Inspection Division of the City of Montreal to distribute this notice as a precautionary measure, according to the press release.
People who have these products in their possession are therefore advised not to consume it and to return it to the establishment where they bought it.
“It should be noted that no case of illness associated with the consumption of these foods has been reported to MAPAQ,” the government wrote in its press release.
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Man found dead in London garden believed to have fallen from plane
A bag, water and food were discovered in the plane's landing-gear compartment after it landed.
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Travellers with airlines in the British Airways group faced a third day of delays and cancellations, mainly on short-haul routes and in smaller numbers than over the weekend, when the company suffered a colossal IT failure.
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Celebrating 10 Years of Green Global Travel (& 12 Years of Love)
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This weekend marked the 12th anniversary of the first date Mary and I ever went on. And November 1 marked the 10th anniversary of the day we launched Green Global Travel.
To commemorate both occasions, I surprised her with a series of 12 personalized greeting cards from Tellinga.
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What follows are the highlights of our last 12 years of travel and adventure, along with the storybook-style cards Houston-based artist Paul Gruber created for us.
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2008- Christmas in Love
Mary and I met for the first time during the first week of December in 2008.
I was going through a really tough time as a divorced dad, with a series of dating disasters that left me fed up with looking for love. Mary was just re-entering the dating world after 3 months of separation and an impending divorce.
My friend Stefanie, who attended the same church Mary did, knew I was depressed and urged me to go to a Christmas party their 20s/30s social group was having at Mary’s house.
Little did we know when we met at Mary’s party that we would soon fall in love, travel the world together, build several successful businesses, and live/work side-by-side, 24/7/365, for the next 12 years!
I honestly had no idea that Mary was interested in me at all until a mutual friend of ours made her own interest in me all too obvious.
When she took me by the hand and introduced me to everyone as “my Facebook boyfriend,” Mary looked hurt as she replied, “But I thought you were MY Facebook boyfriend!”
I asked Mary out the next day, and a few weeks later we went on our first date. We were supposed to have dinner and see my favorite Christmas light display in Georgia. But we talked so much at dinner (3+ hours), we missed our window. So we rescheduled a few nights later.
This is the first Tellinga card in the series of 12 I surprised Mary with. It depicts our second date, when she kissed me for the very first time in front of the Live Nativity attraction at Lake Lanier Islands’ Magical Nights of Lights.
It was a memorable moment, as both of us quickly realized this relationship was very different from anything we’d ever experienced. Visiting Magical Nights of Lights has since become one of our favorite annual Christmas traditions.
READ MORE: Bret & Mary, a Love Story (How Green Global Travel Was Born)
2009- Hawaii’s Big Island
Card #2 depicts a magical memory from the first big trip we ever took together– a 4-star all-expense-paid press trip to Hawaii’s Big Island in 2009.
We’d only been together 3 months, my beloved Granny had just passed away, and it was our first time being together as a couple 24/7.
We explored the entire island, from a coffee farm in Kona and the Hilo market to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park and a house with an AMAZING private lagoon on the Pahoa coast.
The trip’s highlight was like a tragi-comedy romance. Mary, who was afraid of putting her face in the water back then, had a panic attack while snorkeling Kealakekua Bay.
But when we got to our hotel, I took her by the hand and led her out to a coral reef near a protected beach, where we found ourselves surrounded by HUGE Sea Turtles!
They swam all around us as they fed, and one curious turtle came so close we could’ve touched it if we’d wanted.
Mary was hooked on snorkeling from that moment on, and just a few years later she conquered her fear of water and became a certified Scuba diver.
Perjaps even more importantly, that trip convinced us that we could live, work and travel together as perfect partners. And we’ve been doing it ever since!
READ MORE: The 20 Best Things to Do in Kauai, Hawaii For Nature Lovers
2010- Costa Rica & the Birth of GGT
Card #3 is one of my personal favorites, as it perfectly captures a pivotal moment in both our personal & professional lives.
2010 was the year Mary moved in with my daughter and I, after getting laid off from a company she’d managed for 10 years and having a tree fall on her house.
We were trying to figure out our next steps when we went on our first big family press trip, spending 10 days exploring Costa Rica.
After 15 years as a professional writer/editor, I’d been dabbling in blogging on MySpace and Facebook. I’d also had this idea of doing an ecotourism-focused book or magazine ever since my press trips to Costa Rica, Alaska & South Africa in 1998-2000.
It was there, during a tropical storm in the middle of the rainforest of Tortuguero National Park, that we decided to try out this new thing called travel blogging.
We wanted to share our passion for travel, for nature and wildlife, for exploring the wilderness, and realized we had the complementary skill sets that could make it successful.
So the idea for Green Global Travel was born at a pool bar surrounded by Costa Rican animals such as birds, butterflies, and tree frogs in June 2010. And November 1, 2020 marked GGT’s 10th anniversary!
READ MORE: The Top 20 Things to Do in Costa Rica For Nature Lovers
2011- Galapagos Islands
Card #4 captures an incredible moment from our very first Green Global Travel press trip, to the Galapagos Islands in October 2011. But that trip almost didn’t happen.
When we launched the site in Nov 2010, “professional travel blogging” wasn’t a thing yet. We had no monetization strategy for our little passion project (I’m not sure we believed it would ever turn a profit) and paid for everything via my freelance writing income and Mary’s savings.
So when Ecoventura (a local eco-tour operator in Ecuador who offered small ship cruises to the Galapagos) invited us on a group press trip, we initially had to turn it down because we simply couldn’t afford the airfare!
Unbeknownst to me, my Uncle Steve (who passed away earlier that year) left me a small inheritance. When my Aunt Terrie told me about it, we reached out to see if there were slots available. Luckily another couple had dropped out, and we booked our flights the next day.
It was an amazing adventure, seeing tons of Galapagos animals and exploring the remote islands on a small eco-friendly yacht with less than 20 passengers.
One of the highlights was the first time we snorkeled with Galapagos Sea Lions off the coast of Santiago Island. There was one in particular who took an interest in me as I swam along beside him. As I twisted and turned to film him, he took it as an invitation to play.
He started swimming faster and faster, zooming all around me like a torpedo, blowing bubbles, and flipping out of the water in his excitement. As Mary watched and laughed, I caught the whole sequence on video.
That video was named one of the Top 11 Travel Videos of 2011 by Matador Network, and our series of “Wildlife of the Galapagos” videos was promoted by World Wildlife Fund.
Within 6 months our blog grew from 7,000 to 40,000+ page views a month, and we were getting calls from all sorts of ecotourism operators wanting us to travel with them in 2012!
READ MORE: 7 Important Life Lessons I Learned in the Galapagos Islands
2012- Cruising Antarctica
Card #5 captures the pinnacle of 2012, our craziest whirlwind of a year. After WWF promoted our videos, we were inundated with offers from the world’s most acclaimed ecotourism companies.
We traveled 95+ days that year while juggling the blog, my freelance career, Mary’s part-time job, and 50/50 custody of my 11-year-old daughter.
It was an insane year. It started in February with trips to the Peruvian Amazon and Yellowstone National Park, followed by Bermuda, Panama, Dominica, NYC, Jordan, and hanging with Polar Bears on the Arctic tundra in Churchill, Manitoba.
But the cherry on top of the icing on top of the cake of our surprise success was a last-minute invite from Adventure Life to spend a week exploring Chilean Patagonia, followed by 5 incredible days on a small ship cruise in Antarctica.
It was a dream trip I honestly never thought I’d get a chance to experience. Though I love the ocean, I get terribly seasick, so crossing the dreaded Drake Passage was NOT in the cards.
But Adventure Life had a trip where you could fly to Antarctica from Punta Arenas, Chile, so we leapt at their offer. Unfortunately it was still early in the season, and snow/ice on the Antarctic runway prevented us from departing on the intended day.
Things weren’t looking much better the next day, so we all piled into a bus and made the 7-hour drive to Argentina. There we boarded an Argentinian Air Force plane, strapped ourselves into jump seats, and passed around 2-liter sodas and cookies the military guys handed us.
Once we finally got to Antarctica, it was everything you’d imagine it would be. Everywhere we looked we saw jaw-dropping landscapes, icebergs, Whales, and HUGE colonies of Penguins.
This card perfectly captures the excitement we felt going ashore for the first time, sitting on rocks as Penguins walked all around us within arm’s reach. It was an incredible way to end an extraordinary year!
READ MORE: 30 Antarctic Animals You Can See on an Antarctic Cruise
2013- Bora Bora, Tahiti
Our 2013 highlight actually started during our insane 2012, when a PR rep for the Four Seasons Bora Bora reached out to us via email, said he was coming to Atlanta, and asked if we’d be available to meet.
I’ve been a HUGE Four Seasons fan since the mid-1990s, when I’d frequently stay at their Beverly Hills location while interviewing celebrities for the entertainment magazine I ran. And Bora Bora had been at the top of Mary’s world travel bucket list for 20+ years.
So, of course, we said yes!
As it turned out, the resort was interested in promoting the new Rauhatu Marine Sanctuary they’d recently created on their property. They wanted us to visit, interview their lead marine biologist, and explore the exotic islands in partnership with Tahiti Tourism.
The only problem? By that point our travel schedule was COMPLETELY booked for 2012 (since our site made no profit then, we needed time between trips to make enough $$$ to pay the bills).
Fortunately they were fine with postponing the trip until late February/early March 2013, which just so happened to coincide with Mary’s birthday!
We spent 10 exquisite days in Tahiti, swimming with sharks, Scuba diving, exploring the mountains and jungles of the interior, and going to luaus.
But the time we spent hanging out together in our massive over-water bungalow at the Four Seasons was a major highlight (especially our torch-lit romantic feast on the beach at sunset).
This card perfectly captures the sheer joy and amazement I remember Mary having for the majority of our 10-day visit, which was the perfect way to wind down the insane 18-month period that really put Green Global Travel on the map.
READ MORE: 21 Tahiti Photos to Fuel Your Exotic Island Fantasies
2014- Athens & The Greek Islands
Card #7 was the first to reduce me to tears, because it took me right back to the emotional moment when the photo on which it was based was taken.
2013-2014 were really difficult years for us– the only time we’ve ever questioned whether blogging was a sustainable path, career-wise.
Our extensive travels from Oct 2011 to March 2013 had left us in troubling financial shape. Most of our travel expenses were usually covered by our hosts. But there were always additional costs for pet sitters, parking, transportation, food, etc.
With the blog not making any money, print media dying, my freelance work slowing drying up, and Mary’s tenants flaking on paying rent, things were looking dire.
But by Sept 2014 everything turned around. International Expeditions (with whom we traveled to the Amazon in 2012) hired us to take over their content marketing. We put together an agency, creative team, website, and proposal in 3 weeks, and that contract ensured we could pay the bills.
Then we got embroiled in a huge controversy (dubbed “Dolphingate”) wherein the world’s top travel blogger publicly called us out for not boycotting TBEX for offering dolphin tours at their conference in Cancun (which we knew nothing about).
Long story short, we managed to get those tours cancelled AND were invited to host a TBEX Keynote discussion on responsible travel.
But card #7 captures an incredibly personal moment that happened right before the TBEX Athens conference that October (where we gave a standing-room-only talk on How to Build a Better Blogging Brand that some attendees described as “life-changing”).
Growing up in a lower middle class neighborhood, I didn’t know anyone who traveled internationally except my grandparents.
They’re the ones who got me into NatGeo, taught me to appreciate nature, and instilled in me a “work hard, waste nothing” mindset. Their pictures from Mexico, Egypt, Greece, and Hawaii were HUGE inspirations for my travel dreams.
There’s a photo I’ve had for decades of my Granddad descending the steps of the Acropolis of Athens when he was my age. When we went to Greece, we took the photo with us, did our best to recreate it, then took a photo of us holding his photo as I gamely tried to stop sobbing.
The Tellinga artist’s depiction of that teary-eyed moment took my breath away, and brought all these vivid memories rushing back to me. I can’t even describe the emotions I feel even now, telling you the story.
READ MORE: The Best Places to Visit in Greece in 40 Fantastic Photos
2015- Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda
After 5 years of struggling financially, 2015 was the year things FINALLY started coming together for us in terms of the business. We started the year with one major tour operator client for our content marketing agency, Green Travel Media, and by midsummer we had two.
In the Spring we delivered another standing-room-only session (this one on Responsible Journalism for Bloggers) at TBEX in Costa Brava, Spain, and led our first “Build a Better Blogging Brand” workshop, which nearly sold out.
But card #8 highlights the inarguable crescendo of that blissfully promising year– a 3-week safari in Tanzania and Rwanda that included hiking to see Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda.
A brief backstory: A lot of who I am and the work we do today was influenced by my paternal grandparents, with whom I was extremely close. They travelled the world, and always had National Geographics on the coffee table and PBS’ Nature on TV.
Granddad grew up in New Mexico, and they were very into Native American culture. They went out west frequently, visiting an orphanage they supported financially, and always came back with turquoise jewelry, sandstone art, and other Native crafts.
I became very interested in Native American history, and started attending local pow-wows regularly. My first tattoo was taken from a NatGeo cover story on Native American culture and shamanism, and I wrote research papers in college on Native American music and history.
This led to my passion for indigenous tribal cultures around the world, world music and dance, global cuisine… you get the picture.
20+ years later, my grandparents had both passed on, and I’d dedicated my life to writing about these topics (which most of my freelance editors had no interest in). But I did it because I loved it, even thought there was ZERO money in it.
But in 2015 my friend Robert Reid– NatGeo’s Digital Nomad– connected me with their Intelligent Travel editor. We bonded over our passion for wildlife conservation and the fact that we’d both lost our fathers, and just like that I became a National Geographic contributor!
Around that time, we reached out to our friends at Adventure Life. I’d been dying to get back to Africa for 15 years, so we partnered with them and a local tour operator, Tanzania Journeys, to arrange an exceptional safari.
But of course East Africa is VERY expensive to fly to, and we wanted to make the most of our trip, so we reached out to the Rwanda tourism board, honestly expecting an outright rejection.
Then I had an idea: The anniversary of the death of primatologist Dian Fossey was coming up, her research had been funded by NatGeo, and she’s credited with habituating Rwanda’s Gorillas to human presence.
My editor agreed that there was a great story there, and so it was that we found ourselves trekking through the forest of Volcanoes National Park.
We’d heard through another couple at our lodge that one of the rangers at the park, Francois Bigirimana, had worked as Dian Fossey’s porter back in the ’80s. So our guide, Arthur, managed to get us in Francois’ group of 8 hikers, which made the experience all the more entertaining.
Needless to say, the Silverback Gorilla encounter depicted in this Tellinga card was one we will never, ever forget. I only wish my grandparents could have lived long enough to see it…
READ MORE: Mountain Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda (w/Dian Fossey’s Porter)
2016- Palawan, Philippines
Card #9 comes from 2016, the first year where it felt like we didn’t have to struggle in terms of building our business.
Our agency started the year with two major clients, and had 3 by the end of the year. We were making enough money that I was able to stop freelancing entirely, and even stepped down from my part-time position as Managing Editor of INsite Magazine (a position I’d held since 1996).
GGT still wasn’t turning a profit, but we were regularly being featured in NatGeo and other major news outlets. We’d earned the respect of Megan Epler Wood and other ecotourism icons, and were widely considered among the world’s top travel blogging couples.
The only drama that year actually came from our personal life: While serving as a line judge for my daughter’s volleyball game, I suddenly pulled up short while shagging a ball and felt a snap in my achilles tendon. I immediately knew something was wrong, but was able to walk on it.
The next day I went to the doctor, and my foot and ankle were extremely swollen and bruised.
Because we were leaving for a blogging conference in the Philippines a few days later, my doctor insisted I go to the ER immediately and have it checked for blood clots before I too the 18+ hour flight to Manila. If I had a clot, we’d have to cancel the trip at the last minute.
Fortunately there was no major damage and we were cleared to fly, but I had to get escorted through airports in a wheelchair. It was a pretty hilarious sight, my hulking 250-pound body being pushed around by tiny Asian women, but we enjoyed our early boarding privileges.
Mary and I have a thing where we like to trade off on choose “dream trips,” and the Philippines were another of her bucket list destinations. And so it was that we found ourselves exploring the islands of Palawan both before and after the TBEX conference.
My injured foot made hiking fairly difficult, so our itinerary was MUCH less hectic than usual.
We spent lots of time snorkeling, SCUBA diving, and just hanging out on the beach at our resort, Club Paradise. We also got couples massages 4-5 times in 8 days: If you ever get a chance to try a traditional Hilot massage in the Philippines, I highly recommend it!
Card #9 perfectly captures Mary’s mood during what felt like a truly laid-back, luxurious tropical vacation– our first since Tahiti in 2013. The photo on which it was based was taken on the resort’s hidden beach, where we saw more Monitor Lizards than people.
As much as we miss our crazy wilderness adventures, this is the sort of relaxing trip we crave more than anything right now. Hopefully we’ll all be able to to return to paradise in 2021!
READ MORE: The Top 15 Things to Do in Coron, Palawan
2017- The Scottish Highlands
The second of Paul Gruber’s Tellinga cards that reduced me to tears, this ethereal moment was the highlight of our 2017 trip to the Scottish Islands & Highlands to trace my paternal family’s ancestral roots.
My interest in Scotland began back in 1993, when I interviewed my grandfather about our family history. It was then I learned that the Loves were a sept of Clan MacKinnon and originated in western Scotland, in Oban and the islands of the Inner Hebrides.
I got a brief taste of Scotland when I spent 48 hours in Edinburgh to interview Sean Connery for his 1999 film, Entrapment. I was gobsmacked at Edinburgh Castle, where I met a tour guide who was the spitting image of my late grandfather.
In recent years I really wanted to learn more about my Scottish ancestry. So I bought books on Clan MacKinnon history, signed up for Ancestry.com, and researched my ancestors’ journey from Scotland to Ulster, Ireland, and finally to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
When we were invited to lead a workshop at TBEX Ireland in 2017, I simply had to make my dream of exploring the land of my forefathers come true.
We spent 8 incredible days exploring Scotland, with countless stops significant to Love/ MacKinnon history along the way.
We stayed in Oban, where my Love ancestors lived. We explored Iona Abbey, where MacKinnons served as Abbotts and we saw Love and MacKinnon graves side by side. We visited Clad Donald’s Armadale Castle, whose genealogy library had loads on info on their MacKinnon brethren.
Card #10 depicts the most emotional moment of the trip, when I climbed the ruins of Dunakin (a.k.a. Castle Maol), the ancient MacKinnon seat on the Isle of Skye.
It was there that I released my grandparents’ ashes as the winds whipped around me, tears streaming down my face as I sang “Amazing Grace” in their cherished memory.
READ MORE: The Top 10 Things to Do on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
2018- Turning 50 in Kenya
Before I met Mary, the year I turned 40 (2008) was one of the worst. But the year I turned 50 was arguably the best year of my life.
The blog was finally making good money, as was our Green Travel Media agency. By the end of the year, we reached a milestone of getting 600,000 page views in a single month!
Mary and I had found a great work/life balance, and my daughter was a rising Senior who would ultimate graduate with Honors. We finally had money in the bank, and relatively few worries.
In terms of travel, there was a good mix of US and international trips, including Mary’s birthday trip to Isla Holbox, Mexico, a daddy/daughter trip to go whitewater rafting in West Virginia, and 10 glorious days exploring Guatemala.
But card #11 depicts the highlight of the greatest trip of my life– a 3-week family safari in Kenya to celebrate my 50th birthday!
Traveling with Gamewatchers Safaris and the Elewana Collection, we explored Nairobi National Park, Lewa Conservancy, Meru National Park, and several Maasai Mara Conservancies (which are owned and managed by the Maasai people).
I could write an entire book about all the incredible experiences we had in Kenya. There were close-up encounters with endangered African animals such as Hyenas, Lions, Hippos, Elephants, Leopards, and more.
We got a behind-the-scenes tour at Jane Goodall‘s Sweetwater Chimpanzee Sanctuary, watched a family of Rock Hyrax wrestling by our private pool at Elsa’s Kopje in Meru, and saw a mother and two young Cheetahs track and kill a Gazelle.
But the highlight of our once-in-a-lifetime safari was a private tour of Ol Pejeta Conservancy. It included going inside the protected area where the last two Northern White Rhinos on the planet reside, and interviewing the rangers sworn to protect them.
When we started this journey a decade ago, I never imagined hanging out with (and being nudged by) hungry, critically endangered Rhinos.
But after 10 long, often difficult years of struggling to get to a place where we weren’t always worried about money, it felt like we’d finally “made it.” I couldn’t imagine any better place, or any better way, to celebrate 50 years on this amazing planet.
READ MORE: Animals in Kenya (Guide to 40 Species of Kenyan Wildlife)
2019-2020 (& Beyond)
Though 2020 has inarguably been a total shitshow for pretty much everyone, for us personally 2019 was arguably even worse.
It started off as another year of astounding growth: We averaged 250,000 page views a month, had two great tour operator clients, and took memorable trips to Kauai (for Mary’s birthday) and an Alaska Inside Passage cruise (for my daughter’s high school graduation).
But by September the bottom started to fall out of our business.
First there was a corporate buyout and consolidation that left staff and budgets for our two clients slashed. All of our contacts at the company either quit or got laid off, and after 6 years our Green Travel Media contract was not renewed.
Then in November and December Google made major algorithm changes that clearly favored big business (especially its own) over bloggers. Almost every major travel blogger we know lost 50 to 80% of their organic travel overnight, and ad revenue went in the toilet along with it.
By the time the COVID-19 epidemic devastated the travel industry in March 2020, our income had dropped by more than 80%. The fact that we also couldn’t travel at all only left us more despondent over the entire turn of events.
But there was a silver lining. We’d been aggressive in putting money aside in 2018-2019, so we did have some savings to rely on. We also sold my old music and movie collectibles on eBay, which brought in a decent side income.
We’d already set up a new regional travel site, Blue Ridge Mountains Travel Guide, because we hoped to buy a home in the mountains of North Georgia or North Carolina. So we launched it in January, and explored the wilderness closer to home while social distancing.
By October 2020, we had finally grown that site’s traffic enough that it could start bringing in ad revenue. It was enough to cover our expenses, and turn a small profit as well.
And now, as we look back on the last 12 years of love and exceptional travel adventures, we also look forward to better days to come. To reconnecting with old friends, exploring new cultures, and hopefully finding a home where we can be much closer to Mother Nature.
Card #12 depicts one of my favorite places we’ve visited in Georgia, Lake Burton, which is surrounded by the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. It perfectly captures where we are now, looking back on where we’ve been, but staying focused on where we hope to go.
It’s the next step in this otherworldly dream that is our life, our love, our partnership. And I simply cannot wait to see where the next 10 years will take us. Here’s to a better, brighter future for us all… –by Bret Love; Tellinga artwork by Paul Gruber
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Do Science With Your Kids: Biology Fortified’s GMO Corn Experiment
Kavin Senapathy Send an email October 12, 2015
A popular internet meme, the image below is one of several suggesting that wild animals like squirrels avoid genetically engineered corn. The Organic and Non-GMO Report, whose editor Ken Roseboro is an avid anti-GMO speaker and reporter, published a story about this particular image entitled, “Farmer’s experiment finds that squirrels prefer organic over GMO corn”.
The article explains that Paul Fonder, organic farmer turned backyard experimenter, posted his “findings” on Facebook and Twitter. The image quickly went viral, receiving over twenty thousand likes and presumably far more views. “It’s one thing to read about it; it’s another to see it,” the farmer stated. “I just want to educate people”.
Join the #GMOexperiment
Simply enter the search term “GMO corn squirrel” into Google, and you’ll see plenty of similar images. Now Biology Fortified, a non-profit organization that aims to enhance public discussion of biotechnology and food and agriculture issues, is offering a hands-on way to test the hypothesis that animals avoid GMO corn, preferring to eat non-GMO corn, in a nationwide citizen science experiment. Dr. Karl Haro von Mogel, Director of Science & Media for Biology Fortified, explained to me that thousands of ears of corn, half engineered with Roundup Ready and Bt insecticidal traits, and the other half not genetically engineered, are currently en route to Madison, Wisconsin from where they’ll be mailed to participants. “The GMO corn was grown using Roundup”, he mentioned. “Just like a farmer would”.
As he explains in the video below, you can request a kit of “GMO” and non-GMO corn (“GMO is in quotation marks for a reason), to perform the experiment in your own yard:
This will be the big experiment to put these internet-based claims to the test. I was initially worried that those with a pro or anti-GMO agenda could tamper with the results. Karl put my apprehension to rest, explaining that the experiment will be blinded, with the ears of corn labeled by number rather than as “GMO” and “non-GMO”. In order to receive a kit, which will require a simple outdoor setup, participants must first agree to follow an experimental protocol, and keep results private until the experiment is complete.
I look forward to this hands-on opportunity to introduce my kids to the scientific method. A $25 dollar donation, which will help pay for materials, shipping, and provide kits free-of-charge to schools, ensures that you will receive a kit to participate in the experiment. It will be money well-spent, to support and take part in an experiment that could very well make history! You may also add your name to the waiting list for a free GMO corn experiment kit, though schools get priority for the free materials.
Go to GMOexperiment.com to sign up, check out this post at Biology Fortified for more information, and share with your friends and family with hashtag #GMOexperiment.
Featured image © 2015 Biology Fortified. Used with permission.
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Kavin Senapathy is a mom of two, co-Executive Director of March Against Myths, public speaker, Forbes contributor and author in Madison, WI. She is also co-author of "The Fear Babe: Shattering Vani Hari's Glass House". Follow her on Facebook and twitter @ksenapathy
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This is a great idea! And such an easy science project. It would definitely be good for a science fair, if only I had a school-age child.
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You can always do it yourself! I’m going to do it, and A is 4 1/2, J is 2 1/2. I think A might understand it, but maybe not the difference between the corn. I’m mostly doing it for my own enjoyment 🙂
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Home Car News Car Reviews 2019 Maserati Levante Trofeo Review
2019 Maserati Levante Trofeo Review
Steve Clark
When Maserati introduced their Levante SUV a few years ago, I was immediately smitten. Not only was it a great looking SUV but the interior felt so exceptional – full of rich wonderful-smelling leathers, aluminum, carbon fiber, and artfully design – that I immediately began trying to arrange a loan so that we could review it. At the time, the Levante only came with a V6, which promised decent power along with it’s Q4 AWD. It didn’t seem particularly exciting, but it had a sportiness and refinement that appealed to me.
It turns out that while Maserati was offering the V6 Levante to the general public, it’s engineers were secretly working on a top secret skunk works-style after-hours project: building a V8 Levante. Why? Because some people are never satisfied with basic. Because the potential to be the best SUV was there. At some point they let management in on it. The execs must have been impressed because it received their blessing, was introduced in 2018, and went on sale in 2019.
In February of this year, in the middle of a particularly bad and prolonged ice storm, Maserati delivered a Levante GTS to us for a review. The GTS had a Ferrari-engineered and -built 3.8L bi-turbo V8 under the hood and a trick electronically-adjustable suspension that adapted to all possible conditions but also raised and lowered the vehicle to give more ground clearance or to provide better aerodynamics. After spending a week with it through an ice storm, through heavy snow, through heavy rain, and even a day of warm dry weather, we came away extremely impressed with the Levante GTS. In fact, we thought the Levante GTS was the ultimate SUV. It is an exceptional vehicle.
Maserati Levante Trofeo
Recently Maserati offered us a few days with their new Levante Trofeo – their ultimate iteration of the Levante. Boasting an even more powerful Ferrari-engineered and -built bi-turbo V8 and a new “Corsa” suspension setting, the Trofeo is built track-capable and is just as wonderfully luxurious and technologically loaded as the GTS.
We accepted the invitation so fast we swear we heard a sonic boom. So on a hot, sticky summer day the Levante Trofeo was delivered for us to explore for a few days. It was still as gorgeous looking as we remembered it.
Visually, the Trofeo initially appears identical to the GTS. Only a sharp eye will discern the new 21” wheels, the carbon fiber accents on the rockers, the carbon fiber front splitter and fascia ducts for the brake cooling, and the chrome Trident Trofeo badges on the C-pillars. Even with these flashy accents, the purity of the Levante design shines through.
The inside is identical to the GTS too – rich dark gray leather and glossy carbon fiber brightened by aluminum trim bits. The controls are laid out in a logical and intuitive arrangement. None of the controls require any head scratching to figure out. Everything is obvious and simple, as it should be. The front seats are well bolstered but easy to get into and out of. They’re both heated and ventilated for extra comfort. The rear seats are less bolstered but have plenty of legroom for adults, are heated, and fold flat for extra cargo capacity. The steering wheel is carbon fiber with leather inlays where you most often grab it. The molded carbon fiber paddles behind the steering wheel are simply a work of art that hint at what Maserati is capable of with carbon fiber.
Pop the hood and one of the most beautiful engines ever greets you. Underneath a narrow carbon fiber engine cover, emblazoned with a chrome Maserati Trident, sits a surprisingly narrow V8 with breathtakingly gorgeous blood-red crinkle-finish valve covers and an identical air plenum. GORGEOUS. It elicits low whistles and heavy breathing from everyone who sees it. The sounds it makes will literally make you weak in the knees. Ferrari’s influence is clear and perfectly suitable for this Maserati.
This engine has 40 more horsepower than the Levante GTS – a total of 590 hp – making it the most powerful Maserati ever buiilt with the exception of the legendary MC12 Corsa. How’s THAT for impressive? In fact, it has the highest specific output of any Maserati (156hp/L). And 730Nm of torque. All that power is channeled through Maserati’s 8-speed transmission to the Q4 AWD system. Most of the power goes to the rear wheels, but up to 30% is sent to the front wheels when accelerating or rear wheel slippage is detected. The 8-speed transmission is remarkably smooth and shifts are split-second fast. Unlike a lot of paddle shift systems on the market today, the paddle actuated shifts are immediate; there’s zero hesitation between the click of the paddle and the transmission’s shift.
The Brembo brakes are some of the largest we’ve seen on an SUV. Thick ventilated 380mm disks fill out the 21” wheels and are straddled by enormous 6-piston Maserati blue calipers. They stop the Levante like a brick wall stops a scooter. Demonstrating them will literally hang your passengers up in their seatbelts. That you can stop such a large and heavy vehicle with as little drama as these do is amazing.
The suspension consists of classic unequal length wishbones up front and an advanced multilink system in back. Combined with magnetoheleogical shocks that firm up at the push of a button and height-adjustable airbags, it might be the most sophisticated suspension available. The basic ride is plush but confidence inspiring. Pushing the button on the center console with the shock absorber icon firms up the suspension and makes it more sensitive to changing road conditions.
Pressing the Sport button lowers the vehicle about an inch and makes the engine, transmission, and suspension more responsive. The ride firms up but is still comfortable. Holding the Sport button longer engages Corsa mode, which lowers the ride height about another inch and firms up the suspension even more and makes everything even more responsive. The I.C.E. (Increased Control & Efficiency) button retards the engine and makes the drive system more sensitive in lousy weather conditions. Off-Road raises the suspension nearly two inches for improved ground clearance and gives a near 50/50 front/rear power distribution. With so many options, the Levante Trofeo is nearly unstoppable and certainly exceedingly capable in all conditions and environments.
If that all sounds technologically impressive, it’s even more impressive to drive. Pressing the start button fires that glorious engine which rumbles quietly but authoritatively under the hood. Moving the shifter into R, the backup camera image shows you both what’s behind you and also what’s around you. Back out carefully, straighten the wheel, shift into D, and we’re off.
The engine note grows in intensity but remains muted unless you wind it out above 4000 rpms, at which point the exhaust valves open and the sound level rises with a roar. Acceleration is brutally fast – if you want it to be. Maserati gives it’s 0-60 time as 3.9 seconds and that’s about exactly what it feels like. Cornering is surprisingly sharp and body roll is controlled no matter your speed. As you progress from standard drive mode to Sport mode to Corsa mode, your performance levels, suspension firmness, and engine noise levels all increase.
I suspect it’d give even the gorgeous GranTurismo a run for it’s money. The Trofeo is also a great grand tourer. With the windows up and the a/c on, traveling down the freeway at 85 mph, the Trofeo is as quiet as a soundbooth inside. There’s minimal wind noise, minimal engine noise, and minimal suspension bumps coming through the chassis. This is the kind of vehicle you’d absolutely love on a cross-continent trip, then be tempted to take to the track and give a few Porsches a run for their money. It’s so capable you can easily forget it’s essentially an SUV though “SUV” doesn’t really do it justice. It’s more of a multipurpose machine – off-road adventurer, sports car, and executive luxury car – in the shape of an SUV.
But one of the most fun things about driving a Maserati is that everyone wants to experience it. “I’ve never been in a Maserati! Can I sit in it?” Most certainly. “I’ve never ridden in a Maserati before. Can I get a ride?” Absolutely! Let me demonstrate the Launch Control! And in reference to the Joe Walsh song “Life’s Been Good To Me (So Far)”, “Can it really do 185?” It can. Or so Maserati tells me. We didn’t try but having experienced how quickly it can rocket up into triple-digit speeds, we don’t doubt them. When you drive a Maserati, crazy things start to happen. People stop you and ask about it. Take it to an event and you find yourself taking four other guests on a quick demo drive. Enemies become friends. Police start following you. You find your wife sitting in it in the garage, reading through the owners manual.
Frankly there’s everything to love and very little to dislike. In fact, the only complaint I had was that my right knee could have used some padding to protect it from the hard plastic on the center console. Small price to pay though when that engine is growling like a mad animal from under the hood and the scenery is stretching out and blending together like you’re making the jump to hyperspace.
I suppose I could also complain about the gas mileage but let’s be honest…I wan’t driving the Trofeo for fuel efficiency. More for effect. And there was plenty of effect.
The Trofeo – quite possibly the very pinnacle of the Maserati line – is priced at $173,000. That’s a lot of money, but given the amazing capability of the car and the amazing engine, we don’t really think it’s unreasonable. It certainly won’t be for Maserati’s well-heeled clients. We actually think it’s reasonable. And we want one in our garage.
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“The emigrants gave a terrible account of the crossing of the Great Desert, lying west of the Colorado River. They described this region as scorching and sterile – a country of burning salt plains and shifting hills of sand, whose only signs of human visitation are the bones of animals and men scattered along the trails that cross it.”
-Bayard Taylor, pioneer traveler 1849
After the tragedy of the Donner Party in 1846, travelers became wary of traveling through the Sierra Nevada Mountains into California and began looking for an alternate southern route. They discovered a long, desolate passage that stretched from Ft. Yuma to San Diego. But although it was free of snow, it proved to be even more deadly. It was called El Camino del Diablo (the Devil’s Highway) and travel along it was referred to as the Journey of Death. From this route came many stories, legends, and folklore including gunfights over buried treasure, lost mines that held untold riches, and murdering bandits. These tales of desperate men on the verge of starvation, dehydration and exposure to the elements almost always ended in death. And from those deaths came visits from the Other Side—spirits who wander the desert to this day. Traveling across the barren sands, the most precious commodity was water. Cold water springs were rare throughout the Anza Borrego Desert. But one such respite, Yaqui Well, acquired a more sinister reputation.
In the early 1850s, three emigrants were making their way from Yuma to a new life out West. After some time without water, they came across the natural spring. Without thinking about the nature of the water or the state of their dehydration, the men pounced on the well. One man drank his full and reportedly told his companions, “Shoot me while I am happy, for I never expect to feel so good again”. His companions didn’t need to for shortly thereafter, the man fell down in incredible pain. Cramps caused his body to seize painfully. It was either the water itself or the speed in which the man drank. Either way, he died a horrible death. Searching the body, his fellow companions found some gold nuggets in his pockets. Greed lit up their eyes as they circled each other around the well, looking for an opening. When one of the men stumbled, the other jumped on him and smothered him in the mud surrounding the water. An Indian watched the murder unfold from a nearby hill. The sole survivor ran off screaming into the desert, supposedly to look for the source of the gold, and was never seen again. The hot summer nights bring these three men together in death. Many travelers and outdoor enthusiasts tell of seeing three men dancing in the moonlight near the now-dry Yaqui Well. Seems they have finally found their water and their fate.
In 1857, the Butterfield Mail Company established a stagecoach route that ran from St. Louis to San Francisco, passing through the Anza-Borrego Desert. Stage stations were often the scenes of robberies, murder and other treachery. Two particular stagecoach stops are reputed to be haunted—the Carrizo Station with its phantom stagecoach and the infamous Vallecito Station. The Carrizo Station story goes back many years, when the stages traveled regularly through the desert up until the Civil War. A coach carrying a strongbox of gold coin was traveling from El Paso to San Diego. In Yuma, the guard became ill and could not continue. Unable to secure a replacement, the driver carried on alone. Right before it arrived at the Carrizo Station, the coach was robbed and the driver fatally shot. The horses continued on with the dead man slumped over, still holding the reins. Campers staying near the ruins of the old station have reported seeing a stagecoach arrive in the middle of the night and continue on its journey, leaving actual wheel marks in the sand. The phantom stagecoach is a sort of modern-day Flying Dutchman, sailing on a sea of sand. The Vallecito Station is even more notorious, boasting several spirits including a white horse that rides through the area, as well as that of a lady in a white dress. The horse is supposedly the favored mount of a bandit that was shot by one of his partners shortly after they had buried their loot from a stagecoach robbery. The bandit’s loyal steed still searches for its lost rider.
The Lady in White is a famous local story of the desert. In the 1850s, riding in a stagecoach bound for Sacramento, a young frail woman braved the long desert trek. She was taken ill sometime after leaving Yuma and finally perished in the small adobe that served as the Vallecito stage station. When her belongings were searched, they found a long white gown with hand-sewn lace and pearls—her wedding gown. She was placed in the gown and laid to rest in the small cemetery near the station. Many Park Rangers as well as campers in the area report seeing her apparition wandering the grounds, looking for her lost love.
The last story is one of my favorites and very well known to the residents of Anza-Borrego. The Ghost Lights of Borrego were first spotted in the late 1850s by stagecoach drivers and have continued steadily over the years. The lights have been seen dancing close to the desert floor, in the caves of the badlands as well as Goat Canyon, home of the famous trestle bridge. They are described flickering or burning fireballs of various colors that arch through the sky. Some of the earlier accounts describe lights that would rise into the air and explode, similar to fireworks. Witnesses I have spoken to claim that they make no noise as they travel across the desert sky and some believe they mark the location of hidden treasures. Some unfortunate explorers have blindly followed the lights and fallen into ravines or caves. There is even an unverified story of a fatality attributed to these spectral globes. A train making its way through Goat Canyon in 1977 derailed when the engineer saw some lights on the tracks and mistook them for an oncoming train. The buckling train cars tumbled down the canyon, where they remain today. The most prevalent place to view these ghost lights is near Oriflamme Mountain, not far from the town of Borrego Springs.
On the lighter side of the odd and unexplained, stories circulated in the 1960s of an “Abominable Sandman of Borrego”, a Bigfoot-like creature. Alleged casts were made of the creature’s tracks left in the sand in 1964. As these and other stories indicate, you need not spend the night in a spooky Victorian house or wander through a Gothic-looking cemetery for ghostly happenings. Our local desert offers bone-chilling tales that will keep you huddled in your tent or around the campfire until the rising of the sun. Don’t look too long into the dark evening of Anza-Borrego…for there is something undoubtedly looking back.
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Study in Thailand identifies benefits of community-based freshwater fish reserves
IMAGE: Fieldwork in communities often results in curious onlookers, presenting a great opportunity for inclusion and awareness raising. Here two regular observers help Aaron Koning release a radio-tagged mahseer as part…
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RENO, Nevada – Freshwater fish reserves are extraordinarily successful at protecting multiple species of fish, a new study of a network of community-based reserves in Thailand has found.
Aaron Koning, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Global Water Center, spent seven years studying a network of freshwater protected areas (fish reserves) that communities established in one branch of the Salween River Basin in northern Thailand.
He mapped more than 50 reserves, all community organized and managed independently of government support, throughout the river and its branches. The area supports more than 40 species of fish, ranging from large minnows to catfish to needlefish. The results are published today in the scientific journal Nature in the article “A network of grassroots reserves protects tropical river fish diversity.”
“The conservation benefits of each reserve established independently by local Pgagayaw, or Karen, indigenous communities are remarkable, and the collective benefits for fish within the entire network of reserves are even greater,” Koning said. “Twenty-seven years ago, one community created a reserve in an effort to protect their fish, and since then reserves have spread among communities throughout the valley. It’s a great story of effective community-based resource management.”
Koning worked with a team of scientists who he had known from his work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Martin Perales from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, now from Stanford University, and aquatic conservation ecologist and Associate Professor Peter McIntyre of Cornell University.
“During six weeks of fieldwork related to this study, Martin and I lived with friends in riverside villages, but made the 90 minute drive to Mae Sarieng for internet access on a couple of weekends.”
They bounced around the study area of the 50-mile-long Mae Ngao River in a 1999 Toyota Hilux 4X4 truck, through the various regions and communities, including teak forests and upland agricultural areas with rice paddies and soybean crops.
“When I initially started documenting the locations of reserves several years ago, I tried to find the locations of as many reserves within the basin as I could by exploring every road and trail on the map, and many that weren’t on any map,” he said. “For our fish surveys, we selected a set of 23 reserves distributed throughout the river basin that broadly represented all of the reserves. While there are probably 40 species within this river valley, in this study we regularly observed 33 species of fish.”
Intensive fisheries have reduced fish biodiversity and abundance in aquatic ecosystems worldwide. No-take reserves have become a cornerstone of marine ecosystem-based fisheries management. The team used the knowledge gained from decades of study on marine reserves to test if the same principles of success might apply to this network of riverine reserves, where one might not think reserves would work.
“The applicability of this marine reserve network paradigm to riverine biodiversity and inland fisheries remains largely untested,” Koning said. “Our research shows that freshwater reserves created by 23 separate communities in Thailand’s Salween basin have dramatically increased fish richness, density and biomass when compared to adjacent areas. One river reserve is 1,000 feet long and just 12 feet wide in dry season, but you can see fish everywhere.”
Underwater fish surveys were done using masks and snorkels with lots of crawling over and around rocks underwater. In many reserves, the abundance and size of fish seeking protection was evident by eye from the river bank in the dry season.
McIntyre, now Koning’s colleague in this research, was once his doctoral advisor at the University of Wisconsin, and co-advisor for his postdoctoral work at Cornell. McIntyre said he was shocked that the reserves worked so well.
“When you see piles of fish in each of these reserves, it is clear that something big is happening,” he said. “Questions remain about whether the fish populations are viable in the long run, and how durable the governance approach will prove, but this unique experiment in conservation still has much to teach us.”
Despite their small size, grassroots reserves enhanced the species richness, density and biomass of protected fish communities enormously. Relative to adjacent fished areas with comparable water depth and substrate composition, reserves held 27% more fish species; 124% higher fish density and an astounding 2,247% higher biomass on average.
“Our results demonstrate that small reserves have great benefits for intensively harvested fishes in this tropical river, even though their collective area encompasses only 2% of the channel in our study catchment,” Koning said. “The area of individual reserves ranged from just a half acre up to six acres.”
“One of the most important findings is that the network of reserves adds benefits beyond those arising from any single reserve,” McIntyre said. “Another key lesson is that communities have the power to protect the resource themselves, in a way that doesn’t prevent them from using it intensively outside of the reserve boundary.”
This study demonstrates that fish reserves can work well in subsistence fisheries targeting rivers, thereby offering a model for protecting fish biodiversity and offsetting overfishing in rivers worldwide. The study is especially timely given that overharvest of fisheries threatens thousands of species and the food security of hundreds of millions of people around the world.
“Freshwaters are under-represented among the world’s protected areas, and our findings suggest that networks of small, community-based reserves offer a generalizable model for protecting biodiversity and augmenting fisheries as the world’s rivers face unprecedented pressures,” Koning said.
In Southeast Asia, riverine reserves are commonplace; hundreds of communities have designated no-fishing zones that together form de facto reserve networks in rivers throughout the region.
The idea has the potential to be a big step forward in terms of freshwater biodiversity protection, not just in Thailand but worldwide. These results and the model could be applied in freshwater ecosystems worldwide – including highly diverse and highly threatened tropical rivers such as the Amazon, Congo and Mekong Rivers.
McIntyre echoed Koning’s take on the potential for worldwide implementation.
“Aaron’s findings offer a great model for other parts of the world, “he said. “The role of cultural traditions and governance structure can’t be overstated, so we do not expect simplistic transferability. However, many of the principles identified could be applicable to subsistence fisheries elsewhere.”
Koning is currently a postdoctoral researcher working with Zeb Hogan and based at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Global Water Center in the College of Science.
Koning and Hogan, an aquatic conservation ecologist, along with Sudeep Chandra, the Director of the Global Water Center at the University of Nevada, Reno will be replicating the Thailand study on Cambodian rivers as part of their Wonders of the Mekong project, a comprehensive approach to fish conservation, economics and cultural values.
The Wonders of the Mekong Project, a partnership with the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute of Cambodia with funding from U.S. Agency for International Development, is led by Hogan. They conduct applied research, working to build capacity and develop outreach and communications products to highlight the economic, ecological, and cultural values of biodiversity and ecosystem services associated with the Lower Mekong River. The Wonders project will be building on the findings of this Mae Ngao River study. A short video describes the research:
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Once she recovered from her shame, Mahiru returned home, changed her clothes, and returned.
But it seemed she was still bashful, and would glance aside awkwardly whenever she met Amane in the eyes, leaving him awkward as well.
Luckily, she was fine with sitting next to him on the sofa, but he was feeling unbearable.
“…Forgive me.”
Having had enough of this, he instinctively apologized to her, who glanced back at him, and sighed.
Her shame might have subsided somewhat, for she reverted back to her usual expression.
“I am not angry at you. You do not have to apologize to me, Amane-kun.”
“But then.”
“I was just regretting my own carelessness. I have shown you such an unsightly look.”
“It’s not unsightly…just cute.”
The angelic sleeping face was truly befitting her moniker as the Angel, and she looked really cute, whether it was the sleepy eyes once she woke up, or the defenseless innocent face.
It was contrary to the usual poised and aloof expression, a new discovery of a really innocent expression.
It was so adorable, he had the urge to keep looking, but she probably did not want to show such a careless look.
He did not find it indecent, unsightly, so he wanted to deny that; for some reason, Mahiru bit her lips, and whacked at him with the cushion in her clutches.
It was not painful, and she probably not was being serious, but he did not know why she did that so suddenly.
“…You really are hopeless at this, Amane-kun.”
“Seriously…what do you want me to do?”
“You should not be saying such words so lightly.”
“It’s not like I say this to anyone else…”
The only acquainted females near Amane were Mahiru and Chitose.
Chitose was relatively cute, if anything, but Amane instinctively found it a hassle to mention her, and there was no need to praise her directly. Thus, there was no one he could praise other than Mahiru.
Mahiru froze, and he was skeptical, shrugging,
“Say, you’re already used to hearing that from others, right? Not much of a difference now.”
He had called Mahiru cute a few times, and found it preposterous that she was being mindful of it at this point.
Mahiru should know very well how pretty she was, and was surely used to receiving praise.
There was no reason for her to be so flustered just because Amane alone said a few words.
So he thought, and for some reason, Mahiru frowned.
“So seriously, what’s up with you?”
“…Nothing at all.”
She launched another physical attack at him with the cushion, humph, and turned her face aside. “I shall make Ozoni now.” She wore the apron, and entered the kitchen.
Amane picked up the cushion that was shoved onto him, and could only stare at the displeased Mahiru in the back.
Once they finished the Ozoni, Mahiru reverted back to her usual expression.
She was scowling when they began to eat, and he was a little uncomfortable with that, but the Ozoni and the Osechi were really delicious, and he found himself mesmerized. Before he knew it, he sat that Mahiru seemed to be back to normal.
Everything returned back to normal when they left the dining table and returned to the sofa.
“Speaking of which, are you going for Hatsumōde, Mahiru?”
“Hatsumōde? I do not really wish to go…I do not like crowded places. It feels like I am being watched.”
“Well that’s because…”
You’re an unbelievably pretty girl after all, so he wanted to say, but he remembered he had just ruined her mood, so he swallowed back his words. “Well, that is to be expected.” He answered.
“Amane-kun, are you going to the Hatsumōde?”
“Back at home, I go with my parents, but I haven’t made up my mind. I think there’s no need to squeeze through on New Year’s Day itself.”
“Looks like Chitose’s group is bonding back home with her family, and kids nowadays don’t really go for Hatsumōde. We’ll go a little later.”
Compared to the past…fewer younger ones, especially those in their teens and twenties, would attend the Hatsumōde, not that Amane and the others were weird or anything.
Not that he did not want to go, but he understood that it would be packed there, and he would only feel tired just going there. He thought it would be fine going later when there were fewer people.
“Besides, I want to relax over these three days. I don’t really care about the New Year packets.”
“I am interested in receiving New year packets though. ”
“You want to go to the shopping mall?”
“…I have no courage to charge into the crowds there.”
“Agreed. ”
Amane replied as Mahiru did, and leaned into the sofa.
They were not dictated to go anywhere on New Year after all.
Amane would typically hope to avoid troublesome matters, and was fine with just spending the day, lazing around. It appeared Mahiru had intending to spend the entire New Year period at his place, for the convenience of cooking. They did not have to worry about having food, or someone to talk to.
This is one fancy New Year, so Amane thought as he glanced aside at Mahiru, chuckling away.
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New Zealand’s New Hemp House Proves The Power Of Hemp
By using some innovative building blocks, this couple was able to create a unique and environmentally friendly hemp house to call home.
A New Zealand couple are featured on the latest episode of Grand Designs NZ for their innovative, and expensive, building plans. Greg Whitham and Gayle Avery wanted an alternative house to fit their alternative lifestyle. While the idea of making everything green and eco-friendly struck them as genius, they took the green idea to a whole new level. Not only is the house outfitted to block radio waves and harmful radiation, key compounds are formed used hemp.
The hemp house build
At the beginning of the show, architect and host Chris Moller is standing in a giant field of cannabis. While it might excite all of us to be in such a glorious atmosphere, these plants are actually being bundled to be sold to a couple who plan to build their home using the strong hemp plants as building blocks.
The 500 bundles were destined for Taranaki, where Greg Whitham and Gayle Avery awaited their arrival. The couple planned to build a sustainable, green energy home, using hemp to form their foundation.
Hempcrete was formed my mixing the finely ground plants with lime and water. While it sounds like a great idea, builders ran into issues because the mixture was too soft and left walls slouched.
The couple had allotted for a $1 million budget, but builders refuse to give the couple any estimates because of the extremely experimental, and expensive, materials being used. Hemp wasn’t the only new product the couple hoped to incorporate into their home.
After running into issues with the hempcrete, builders feared the home would never come in under budget due to sheer labor costs alone.
However, the couple decided to make cutbacks in other areas to help make up the difference.
Rather than protect their whole home from presumed harmful radiation, from things like WiFi and their own electrical circuits, the couple decided to shield only the bedrooms, thinking that would help to cut costs, but still leave them protected in the most important areas.
The massive 320 square meter home has also been covered in a graphite mesh. This mesh is embedded into the hempcrete and forms a protective barrier from radiation.
While this might seem crazy and a waste of money to most of us, many are swearing by the health benefits of home improvements like these. The home’s windows are also covered in a protective film that cost over $9,000.
When you consider that some Americans spend more than that on a purse or a pair of shoes, the numbers don’t really seem so outrageous.
In the end, the couple was left with a beautiful home, albeit, not the home they had set out to construct. While they had hoped to create a French Farmhouse feel, the home ended up being much more modern and sophisticated.
They’re okay with the turnout and say the truly remarkable features are the ones that can’t be seen with the naked eye. The hempcrete may have caused some hassle along the way, but the structure of the home looks remarkable and unique, thanks to this innovative building tool.
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Written by Dee Giznik
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Allotmentitis: How Britain Dug for Victory
Nowadays we typically associate allotments with garden hobbyists, but they were born out of a national drive for self-sufficiency.
To mark National Gardening Week (10- 16 April), Jenifer White, National Landscape Adviser at Historic England, introduces the history of allotments and their significance to our historic landscape.
Women at Work during the first world war Q 108033 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
The U-boat blockages in the First World War created a food supply crisis, as the UK was still largely dependent on imports. In February 1917 U-boats sunk 230 ships and the toll rose further. By June, a shortage of potatoes led to hotels being instructed by the Government to only serve them on Tuesdays.
By the outbreak of the war, the number of allotments was estimated at just over 440,000. As well as councils, railway companies, private landowners and the Church of England also rented out allotments.
Children at work on an allotment in the grounds of their school This is photograph Q 31160 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
The U-boat blockages triggered the 1917 Cultivation of Lands Order Act , leading toa huge expansion in the number of allotments to 1.5 million. Allotment fever, often called ‘allotmentitis’, had begun. At the same time, allotment organisations and their federations rapidly grew too.
‘That the war-time allotment-holder has ‘rendered magnificent service during the past year is, incontrovertible. In no small measure he has added to the food supply at a time when a grave shortage was imminent. In a few weeks the wretched potato queues were abolished – let us hope for ever – the consumption of bread was markedly reduced, enormous quantities of meat and other foodstuffs were saved, as also were transport and labour, all of which was, and is, of inestimable advantage to the country’
GW Butcher (1918) Allotments for All
What is the definition of an allotment?
The role of allotments and local authorities was defined in the 1922 Act, which sets out the size of the parcel of land and its uses. An allotment garden is described as ‘not exceeding 40 poles (approximately 200 metres) in extent which is wholly or mainly cultivated by the occupier for the production of vegetables or fruit for consumption by himself or his family’. These local authority allotments are protected by law and any disposal has to be referred to the Secretary of State.
Can allotments be registered?
The purpose and layout of allotments means few meet the criteria of the Register of Parks & Gardens. The register was set up to record and protect ornamental and recreational landscapes, rather than productive landscapes. However, there are a few registered sites and some of the buildings associated with them are listed.
Here are a few examples of registered allotments:
Stoney Road Allotments, Coventry. Grade II* listed
Mr Lander at Stoney Road Allotments, Coventry. © Historic England Archive AA026281
The Stoney Road Allotments, also known as Park Gardens, are registered for their importance as a group of mid and late 19th century detached urban pleasure gardens. The allotments still have a group of 19th and early 20th century summerhouses.
The list entry explains the historical development of the Stoney Road Allotmnents
Hill Close Gardens, Warwick. Grade II* Listed
The ‘detached town gardens’ at Warwick are a rare survivor from the Victoria era. Designed to be rented by tradesmen, these small hedged gardens on the edge of Victorian Warwick town provided a retreat for the families away from their busy home, workshop and yard.
You can read more on the list entry. The Hill Close website provides more information on the history of the gardens and how to visit them.
Bagthorpe Gardens, Nottingham. Grade II* listed
Aerial image EPW016317: J.B. Lewis Hosiery Factory and the Bagthorpe Water Works, Nottingham. Bagthorpe Gardens are located in the top right corner of this image. 15th July 1926, Aerofilms Collection via Britain From Above.
Bagthorpe Gardens is another example of detached town gardens. The gardens and bothies were set up in 1842 for the Nottingham lace-makers and framework knitters to help them grow food to supplement their income and to provide a break from the overcrowded city. Originally there were 60 gardens each one quarter of an acre. More garden plots were added in about 1870. By the 1930s many of the gardens had been built over and now only some 45% of the original gardens and a few of the bothies survive.
You can read more at the list entry.
An allotment holder at Swindon in Bloom 1995 © Historic England
Historic England is research and recording the story of the Home Front in the First World War. You can help us and join in here.
The Parks & Gardens UK online database is collating records about gardening in the First Wold War.
The National Allotment Society is the leading national organisation supporting allotment holders across the UK and championing allotment gardening.
Roundhay Allotments, Leeds © Rich Tea via Geograph
Featured Image: General view of an allotment in Swindon © Historic England Archive AA061485
Historic England publiation, 2013 Urban Landscapes
10 Historic Landscapes and the Women who Created them – Historic England Google Arts & Culture exhibit
A Brief Introduction to…Garden and Park Structures
A brief introduction to, Parks and Gardens
#allotment, #First World War, #gardens, #Landscapes
4 responses to Allotmentitis: How Britain Dug for Victory
First paragraph, third sentence – ‘By June 2017’ needs to change to ‘By June 1917’ 😎
larrymuffin says:
Also not to forget that tons of food, wheat etc, was sent by Canada during the First World War.
Very interesting read, I hadn’t realised allotments could be listed.
EdKellow says:
Reblogged this on Tales from Hanson Street W1 and commented:
I love allotments
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Is Wonder Woman Too Muscular For the Silver Screen?
Posted by Holly L. Derr under Bitch Media, Film/TV | Tags: Black Widow, Fantastic Four, She-Hulk, The Avengers, The Hunger Games, Wonder Woman, X-Men, X-Men #1 |
Originally posted at Bitch
This is a dark summer for geek girls. Though superhero and comic book-based films are all the rage these days, it’s male crime-fighters who get all the attention: there are no films starring female superheroes on the horizon.
Take the whip-smart spy Black Widow, for example. The Avengers member will co-star in Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014, but the buzz around a film in which she is the titular character all but died out in 2012. Likewise, every attempt to make a movie focused on Wonder Woman has failed to overcome the Hollywood “prevailing wisdom” that women action heroes don’t sell.
Frankly, that argument is hollow.The Hunger Games, starring deadly archer Katniss Everdeen, took in $687 million at the box office. In comic book world, the women in the X-Men have become so popular that they now have their own comic. Joss Whedon, outspoken critic of the lack of women heroes in film, is adding a woman to Avengers 2 with the Scarlet Witch. Yet the total number of women on screen is shrinking.
So why are there so few female superhero films? Hollywood’s extreme beauty standards mean that studios only want to make films starring a particular kind of beautiful woman, super heroines included.
For example: Would a She-Hulk movie ever get off the ground? This isn’t a wild idea—She-Hulk has been a part of the Avengers (she’s Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk’s cousin) and the Fantastic Four, and both franchises have new movies coming out in 2015. She has been a member of S.H.E.I.L.D—about which Whedon is currently making a TV show. She even once had an affair with an X-Man called the Juggernaut. She-Hulk is very much a part of the mythological universe that makes up these currently popular stories.
But would major studios ever make a She-Hulk film? She’s green. She’s angry. And she’s big. Having only been exposed to the Hulk’s blood and not to actual gamma radiation, she is less monstrous than he and has more control over her powers, but she is arguably the most muscular woman in comics at 6’7″ and 600 pounds. Shapely, flexible Black Widow is clearly an easier sales pitch.
A She-Hulk movie may never be more than a pipe dream, but I don’t think it’s too much to ask that some of the women in genre films weigh in at something more than 120 pounds. Instead we appear to be moving backwards. Despite the popularity among both men and women of tough-girl Katie Sackoff in Battlestar Galactica, NBC’s The Bionic Woman, in which she co-starred, was quickly canceled. Smallville, which was on for ten years, gave us a Lois Lane with a third-degree black belt, and that character lives on in the Smallville comic. And yet, producer Deborah Snyder has said that Amy Adams’ petite Lois Lane in Man of Steel, though “a really strong female character, and very proactive” functions primarily to save Clark “emotionally.”
A Justice League movie is in the works for 2015, and as of now, Wonder Woman is slated to be a part of it. But it’s going to take more than vocal comic book fans to get DC Entertainment to cast a woman who could believably be an Amazon. According to the 2004 DC Comics Reference Guide, Diana Prince/Wonder Woman was 6′ tall and weighed 165 pounds. However, according to the current DC Database, she’s 6′ and 130 pounds. At this rate, in a few years she won’t be able to stand up. But she will be more likely to get her own movie.
Man of Steel does feature a female supervillian: Faora of Krypton, a version of whom appeared in Superman and Superman II. Being Kryptonian, the earth’s sun gives her the same powers it gives Superman. Given that and the casting of Antje Traue, who ably defeated aliens and humans alike in Pandorum, I’m guessing Faora will be capable of wreaking quite a bit of havoc. But it’s not her movie, and it’s a little hard to really celebrate a character whose primary motivation is a hatred of men. Nor is it a coincidence that the most badass woman on screen this summer is also a bad guy.
It speaks volumes that Hollywood is willing to bank on superheroes who still fit into very, very narrow and petite beauty norms. Watching a grown woman fight requires us to confront our underlying suspicion that some women will never conform.
The stunning and talented women in this summer’s blockbusters are not the problem. The problem is a culture that can only stand to see women heroes who weigh no more than the average 16-year-old girl. The truth is that women of all sizes can be heroes. They already exist as such in comic books for now. Let’s get some up on the silver screen.
Internet Dating: A Play, Part Three
Posted by Holly L. Derr under Plays | Tags: Black Widow, Incredible Hulk, internet dating, Internet Dating: A Play, internet plays |
Lights up on a bar. A Woman enters carrying suitcases, travel bags, makeup kits, gym bags, and hat boxes, and pulling a trunk on wheels. She situates herself and her baggage at the bar. Bartender appears.
Bartender: What can I get for you?
Woman: New screen name.
Bartender: No more TK421?
Woman: Nope. Let’s try nromanoff.
Bartender: nromanoff. (Hands her a new nametag.) What else can I get for you?
Woman: Guys who like girls, Ages 30–50, Near me, Who are single, For new friends, short-term dating. Oh, and … a gin martini, dirty, extra olives.
Bartender produces drink and disappears. Man approaches.
Man: Hey there … (peering at nametag) … nromanoff. You know, I heard that since we won the Cold War, Russian women have really … (makes what he thinks is a sexy face but is actually just embarrassing) … thawed out. (Get it?)
Woman: Oh no, I’m not actually Russian, it’s a character —
Man: Oh.
He stares at her for a sec, disappointed, before he forgets about her entirely and moves on. Man 2 approaches.
Man 2: Hey there … (peering at nametag) … nromanoff. My idea of a perfect date is meeting for a hike in the late afternoon followed by cocktails on a terrace overlooking the ocean and a dinner of grilled fish tacos. How about you?
Woman: Well, I mean really, who doesn’t like that, right? I mean I want to go to there!
Man 2: That doesn’t make sense.
Woman: Oh, I know it’s —
Man 2: It’s bad grammar. I. Hate. Bad. Grammar.
Scowls disapprovingly. Moves on. A Man passes carrying a sign that says cute4x4guy. He wears no shirt and the sign obscures his face. The Man in the Gray Unitard chases him.
Woman: Man, things are getting out of hand up in this joint.
Man 3 passes, heading off somewhere else. He is wearing plaid. His hair is purposefully messy. She flags him down.
Woman: Hey.
Man: Hi.
They look at one another for a while, sensing an attraction. They laugh.
Woman: So … (peering at nametag) … brucebanner. Nice. I’m guessing I won’t like you when you’re angry!
Man 3 (nervously): Oh ha. Yeah, no. Yeah. Really. Not. Uh-huh.
He smiles an awkward smile and shuts his eyes for a second.
Woman: Well, who am I to criticize. I mean how many times have I been brainwashed into completely forgetting who I am altogether! A ha ha!
Awkward pause.
Man 3 (not really laughing but sort of asthmaing): Yeah, yeah, but you know what’s weird? Your boobs aren’t nearly as big as Scarlett Johansson’s!
Woman: Well, that’s not really the point, is it? I mean the point is that they are all like heroes on like a mythological level and she is a hero too …
Man: WHAT DO YOU KNOW YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER EVEN READ A COMIC BOOK.
Man 3 storms off as an alarm goes off and a neon sign above the Woman’s head begins flashing “FAKE GEEK GIRL! FAKE GEEK GIRL!”
Woman: Oh come on, seriously?
Everyone in the bar stares at her.
Woman: Are you kidding me? I don’t have to prove this to you. This is what I love. This is not about you.
The Men all look confused. The look at one another. “Do you know what she’s talking about? I don’t know what she’s talking about.” Slowly they go back to chatting up other women.
Woman: Note to self: whatever I have an impulse to do, do the opposite.
Bartender appears.
Woman: Gin —
Before she can finish the bartender hands her a gin martini, dirty, with extra olives.
Woman: You do know what I like. (Winks.)
Bartender: What else are you looking for?
Woman: Someone with baggage that matches mine.
Men 4, 5, and 6 appear, holding signs that say, “musicaltheatreguy,” “lightmycandle,” and “technicolordreamcoat.” They are all gay.
Woman (to Bartender): Point taken.
Men 4, 5, and 6 move on.
Woman (to Bartender): Say, how bout you and me get outta here?
Bartender: Well, I’m a computer program, so I don’t think I’d get far.
Woman: You’d get to third base at least! Ask anyone, I’m easy.
Bartender: Har-de har-har.
Woman: Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Bartender: Listen, not that you’ve asked me, but it seems this scene isn’t quite right for you.
Woman (Sighs): What scene is, Bartender? What scene is?
Bartender: You’re the playwright. You tell me.
Woman: Ba-dum ching.
They smile at each other. Bartender disappears. Women sighs. Inhales deeply and closes her eyes. Man 4 appears. He looks at her, sitting at the bar, holding her breath.
Man 4: Hi.
The Woman is surprised, inhales more and then exhales suddenly and pops her eyes open.
The Woman now has the hiccups.
Woman: Hi. (Hiccup.)
Woman: So … what’s up? (Hiccup.)
Man 4: Not much.
Woman: Yeah. (Hiccup.) Me either. (Hiccup.)
Man 4: Okay, well then.
Man 4 starts to move on.
Woman: Wait! (Hiccup.) I can rewrite this! (Hiccup.)
Man 4: Look, I’ll be honest with you. I’m sure you’re more than well-versed in the things that I like … (points at his nametag ,which reads forklingonssex=violence) … but I’m looking for someone with a little more …
Woman: (Hiccup)
Man: Class.
Man: Yeah.
Man 4 moves on. Woman inhales and holds her breath as long as possible. As she exhales, she speaks into a pretend handheld recorder:
Woman: Captain’s log. Day 3 in Internet Dating World. Men continue to astound. No Exit yet presents itself. Sole comfort is the pleasure of drinking in private.
The Bartender appears.
Bartender: Don’t drink alone, Scarlet. People always find out.
Woman: Aha. But it’s not the Victorian age, is it? We’ve got options now, haven’t we?
Bartender: You tell me.
He gestures at the stage, the lights come up on the other actors and we see that all of the men–straight, gay, and somewhere in between, the business men and the geek guys–are, regardless of age, all pretending to be listening attentively while actually engaging in an elaborate game of Accidentally Cop-a-Feel: brushing hands on boobs as they presumably reach for a face, sliding their hands down a lower back and until they’re grabbing ass. The women, though actually trying to engage in conversation, are also adeptly avoiding the hands. It becomes a dance. The men reach for a boob, the women subtly move one shoulder back. The men run their hands up the women’s legs, the women cross them in the other direction. The dance accelerates. It’s a little Fosse: Sharp, straight movements in close quarters but without touching, accentuated with the sound of a slapstick and performed to the jazz of their own inane bar chatter. The men get more aggressive. In a few couples the dynamic changes and the women become the aggressors. The dance ends for every couple with either a kiss or a slap.
Woman: Sigh.
Bartender: ?
Woman: Exactly.
Blackout. End of Part Three.
… to be continued on the next Internet Dating: A Play.
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Uncover the real star of Big Little Lies — Monterey
Metro newspaper
Just under two hours from San Francisco Airport is Monterey, the colourful seaside home to award-winning US murder series Big Little Lies, which is back on our screens tonight. At its heart is Old Fisherman’s Wharf, a collection of brightly painted historic pier buildings, buzzing with seafood stands, quaint souvenir shops, ice cream stalls and cafés. Fans of the show flock to family-owned Italian Paluca Trattoria (palucatrattoria.com), which served as the inspiration for Blue Blues, the harbourside café where the show’s characters played by Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley, gather to gossip about the locals. From here you can spot sea lions and otters, which live around the coastline.
Fishy tales
Down the road, picturesque waterfront Cannery Row takes its name from its past as a fish-processing district. It’s been converted into a series of smart galleries, antique markets and boutiques, as well as housing Monterey’s world-famous aquarium (montereybayaquarium.org) — which is set to feature heavily in season two of the show. Minutes from Monterey are the elite postcodes of Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach. They’re best experienced on the 17-Mile Drive, which loops around the coastal peninsula, passing stylish mansions and upmarket golf courses. On the way, stop off at Lovers Point Park, a pretty coastal backdrop for some of the show’s pivotal scenes — and the perfect location for whale and dolphin-watching.
Underwater love: Monterey’s world-famous aquarium in Cannery Row will feature in the new series
The drive ends at the enchanting town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Centred around Ocean Avenue, it has some of the best shopping, drinking and dining in the area. Originally a writers’ and artists’ town, it has retained its cultured DNA with Clint Eastwood both a previous mayor and the current owner of Mission Ranch (missionranchcarmel.com), a destination Italian restaurant. Arrive early to grab a table outside for sunset. A quick detour inland along the Carmel river leads to the Carmel Valley Ranch (rooms from £450pn, carmelvalleyranch.com), a 500-acre resort that’s an ideal stop-off for the night. Expect to get close to herds of grazing deer and to pass wild turkeys strutting down the road.
Sitting pretty: Take in the coastal view at Nepenthe
The stretch of California coast from Carmel to Big Sur is one of the highlights of any Route 1 road trip, with the majestic Santa Lucia mountains streaked with swathes of vivid wild flowers on one side and the vast Pacific on the other. Each corner reveals a new epic vista and plenty of opportunities to pull over and take pictures. And keep an eye to the sky for the condor, North America’s largest bird. Along the way you’ll cross the iconic Bixby Creek Bridge, which Big Little Lies fans will recognise from the show’s opening credits. The bridge’s awe-inspiring architecture and setting makes it the most Instagrammed shot on Highway 1.
Meeting place: The Paluca Trattoria inspired the café where the ladies get together
The small town of Big Sur is hippy at heart. It’s home to the Esalen Institute (a spiritual healing retreat centre, esalen.org) and abundant in natural beauty, making it a hiker’s paradise. Big Sur has quite the foodie reputation too. Deetjens Inn (deetjens.com) is your go-to for a hearty organic brunch, and locals rave about Nepenthe (nepenthe.com), a clifftop restaurant with unforgettable coastal views.
■ Big Little Lies starts tonight on Sky Atlantic at 9pm, seemonterey.com
Three more to explore
Eat: Post Ranch Inn’s Sierra Mar restaurant (postranchinn.com) is an architectural marvel perched on stilts and jutting out over the Pacific. The fine-dining food is exceptional but the view is the real star.
Do: Hidden down a country road, Pfeiffer State Beach (californiabeaches.com) is worth the diversion to see its spectacular pink sand (primarily comprised of garnet).
Stay: Be at one with nature and sleep among the redwoods at Ventana Big Sur’s newly opened glamping tents (from £476pn, ventanabigsur.com).
Originally featured in the June 10 paper.
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The Ringers of Launcells Tower, Frederick Smallfield (1829-1915)
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Oil on canvas, English School, 1887. This painting was inspired by the poem The Ringers of Launcells Tower by Rev. R.S. Hawker of Morwenstow in his book Cornish Ballads and Other Poems'. In this poem, the bell ringers who rang at the accession of George III in 1760 were still alive to ring at his golden jubilee in 1810. The church of Launcells is midway between Stratton and Bude. The picture was painted 77 years after George III's golden jubilee and so is a total reconstruction. There is, therefore, no possibility that the figures are actual portraits of the 1810 ringers. Nevertheless, Smallfield had visited the church tower before he started the painting but made certain alterations to the layout for artistic reasons. He also studied the bell ringers at his local church in Willesden, north west London, to get the action and the angle of the ropes correct. A watercolour version of this painting was exhibited at the Watercolour Society in 1878. Frederick Smallfield studied at the Royal Academy and subsequently exhibited there several times. He lived for most of his life in London and at Lee-on-Solent in Hampshire
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Firefighters, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. September 1991
Surfers on the beach, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. 1920s
Pednandrea stamps and mine dressing floor at Wheal Sparnon, Redruth, Cornwall. 1865
The third Royal Party descends the inclined shaft, Botallack Mine, St Just in Penwith
Furzupland, Kenwyn, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Red House Restaurant and Donald Healeys Garage, Boscawen Road, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe
Maria Asumpta, Charlestown, Cornwall. August 1991
Porthpean, St Austell, Cornwall. 1910
Box Tree Cottage, Wall, Gwinear, Cornwall. Late 1800s
Looking west down Truck Hill, Probus, Cornwall. 1900s
A young girl with a skipping rope is at the top of the steps, a lady holding a card or paper is on the right and a gentleman in a trilby is on the left. A gentleman with a white beard and wearing a cap can be seen looking out of a first floor window. The local story of this house is that it was built for an eccentric rich man. At the time when it was built, a well used thoroughfare ran beside the house and the man thought that someone might break in during the night and steal his money. So he had it built like a castle without stairs. At night he would climb up to the first floor using a rope ladder, pull the ladder up and sleep with a blunderbuss gun beside him. On the 1871 census an Edward George Spry, aged 36, lived there. He is described as a Bachelor of Arts, Landowner, Fund Holder and owner of stock in railways, mines etc. He was also part owner of the Red Lion Hotel in Boscawen Street, Truro. His housekeeper was Mary Verran. He and his housekeeper still lived there in 1881. Mr Spry died in 1887 leaving £11,000 (about £1 million today). The house is listed on the 1891 and 1901 censuses but with no occupants. Albert Sidney Labouchere-Sparling lived in the house between 1903 and 1906. In 1911, Josiah Clark (formerly of Tregavethan) lived there with his wife Olivia. It is possible that the people in the photograph are members of the Clark family. Furzuplands was home to the Brown family in the late 1950s. The property was later bought by architect Paul Bunyan and his wife, Laurence, who completely refurbished the interior. Photographer: Probably Arthur Philp
Cape Cornwall, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Around 1890
View from the cliff over the slipway and cottages behind, Porthgwarra, Cornwall
Prussia Cove, St Hilary, Cornwall. 1890s
Herodsfoot, Cornwall. 1978
The French three-masted barque Magatlan, Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall. May 1905
Battery of Cornish stamps with engine man, miners and grass captain (or surface captain
Lis Escop, Kenwyn, Cornwall. Around 1910
Bill Harvey with his fishing boat, Alpha, Porthgwarra, Cornwall. 1903
H.T.P. Motors Ltd, Back Quay, Truro, Cornwall. Taken before the the last section of the
Carving a printing block at Crysede Island Works, St Ives, Cornwall. Probably 1930s
Hand block printing at Crysede Island Works, St Ives, Cornwall. Probably 1930s
Lamorran Wood, Cornwall. Probably 1920s-1930s
Battery of Cornish stamps with engine man, miners and grass captain (or surface captain) in white, Wheal Sparnon, Redruth, Cornwall. Around 1865
The area in the photograph is now covered by Clinton Road, Park Road and Albany Road, Redruth. According to the Ordnance Survey Six Inch map Cornwall LXIII. NE, surveyed 1877 to 1879, the mine is disused at that time. By the same OS area map Cornwall LXIII. NE Revised 1906, the whole are is covered in housing. The mine produced copper, as well as traces of cobalt and gold. Thomas Spargo states in his book, The Mines of Cornwall (1865), that "Wheal Sparnon was in the the parish of Redruth, Cornwall, in 6,000 shares. Secretary, Mr G.H. Cardozo, London. Purser, Mr W.P. Cardozo, Camborne. Manager, Captain Wm. Tregay, Redruth. Rocks, granite and clay-slate, 60 men employed in the mine, operations on the surface of which commenced in 1864. Land owner, Lord Clinton. Dues 1-20th. Depth of adit, 18 fathoms; depth under adit, 60 fathoms. A 70-inch pumping-engine just completed, also a 22-inch winding-engine. Little has been as yet been done by the Company under the surface; but it is generally believed that enormous quantities of tin will be raised after the mine has been cleared of water". Photographer: Probably Henry Opie
Tremough Lodge, Tremough Estate, Treliever Road, Penryn, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Fore Street, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Around 1910
Mayor Making, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. May 1986
The Monument, Carn Brea, Illogan, Cornwall. Date unknown but probably 20th century
Old Carnon Valley viaduct showing early stage of replacement, Perranwell, Cornwall
Boscawen Street, Truro, Cornwall. June 1911
Handbell ringers, St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. Probably early 1900s
Coronation Terrace, Truro, Cornwall. Around 1906
Cotehele Terrace, Truro, Cornwall. Probably 1906
Pentewan harbour and village, St Austell, Cornwall. Late 1800s
Cutting room at Crysede Island Works, St Ives, Cornwall
The French three-masted barque La Fontaine off Falmouth, Cornwall. July 1909
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Milkmaid, Restormel Manor House, Lanlivery, Cornwall. 1914-1918
Churchtown Farm, Lanlivery, Cornwall. June 1984
Lower Tregantle Farmhouse, Lanlivery, Cornwall. 1979
Restormel House, Lanlivery Parish, Cornwall. Probably 1900s
Opening of new livestock unit, Churchtown Farm, Lanlivery, Cornwall. October 1987
Protest, Lanlivery, Cornwall. 1993
Playing Field Opening, Lanlivery, Cornwall. August 1993
Restormel Castle Tour, Lanlivery Parish, Cornwall. October 1992
The Old Post Office, Lanlivery, Cornwall. 1972
Lanlivery Board School, Cornwall. 1979
Featured Lanlivery Print
Built in 1877, this is a good example of a small rural Board School Built under the Elementary Education Act 1870 known as Forster's Education Act. Under the Act the Local Authorities were tasked with providing an elementary schooling for children residing in their areas between the ages of 5-13 years. The Board members were elected by the ratepayers under a voting system different from national elections, since female householders could vote and stand for office. The Education Boards had powers to finance and make by-laws to be tabled before Parliament. The Act established the foundations of English elementary education which was firmly enforced through reforms contained in a number of further Acts. The building has remained a school and now, in 2018, houses Lanlivery Primary Academy. Photographer: Charles Woolf
© RIC, photographer Charles Woolf
Restormel Castle, Lanlivery Parish, Cornwall. 1914
Treganoon Farm, Lanlivery, Cornwall. 1979
Lanlivery Vintage Rally, Lanlivery, Cornwall. September 1991
St Brevita Church, Lanlivery, Cornwall. October 1991
Medieval Musicians, Restormel Castle, Lanlivery Parish, Cornwall. September 1990
Restormel Castle, Lanlivery Parish, Cornwall. September 1989
Father Christmas, Lanlivery, Cornwall. December 1984
Installation of Vicar of Lanlivery, Cornwall. 14th February 1989
Lanlivery Church tower, Cornwall. Around 1925
Restormel Castle ruins, Lanlivery Parish, Cornwall. Around 1925
Restormel, Lanlivery Parish, Cornwall. Around 1925
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Porsche Cayenne Coupe India launch by October 2019 - Report
29/03/2019 - 17:03 | Porsche Cayenne, Porsche | Yatharth Chauhan
The Porsche Cayenne Coupe was unveiled last week, and Autocar India reports that the company plans to launch its first-ever coupe-crossover in India by October 2019. The new model is expected to go on sale in a price range of INR 1.3-2.0 crore.
Speaking on the Porsche Cayenne Coupe, Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG has said,"The Coupé includes all the technical highlights of the current Cayenne, and its more dynamic design and new technical details position it as more progressive, athletic, and emotional."
In terms of aesthetics, the Porsche Cayenne Coupe is a sleeker version of the standard Cayenne and features a smaller windscreen and a liftback-like posterior. The Cayenne-based model even features new rear doors and an updated set of bumpers. Furthermore, it features an active spoiler on the boot that works in tandem with the roof-mounted spoiler. It can extend up to 5.3-inches to increase the downforce at speeds of more than 90 km/h.
On the inside, the Porsche Cayenne Coupe is a strict four-seater, with a central armrest clearly dividing the rear bench into two. To make sure the sloping roofline doesn't lead to a low headroom, the rear occupants sit 30 mm lower in the Cayenne Coupe than in the regular Cayenne. Apart from these anomalies, the cabin stays true to that of the donor model as the dashboard, digital instrument display, touchscreen infotainment system and various other panels are shared with the standard variant. While the Cayenne Coupe features a panoramic glass roof as standard, it can be upgraded to a contoured, carbon-reinforced plastic roof.
The Porsche Cayenne Coupe is powered by a 2.9-litre, turbocharged V6 petrol engine that produces a maximum power of 340 hp and a peak torque 450 Nm. It is being said that the Cayenne Coupe will be initially launched in the regular version, while its Turbo variant will be made available by 2020. The latter is powered by a 4.0-litre, twin-turbocharged petrol V8 that produces 550 hp and 770 Nm. Both the motors are mated to an 8-speed torque converter automatic transmission.
In India, the Porsche Cayenne Coupe is expected to launch at a starting price of INR 1.3 crore. It will lock horns with the BMW X6 and the Mercedes-AMG GLE Coupe.
Also Read - 2018 Porsche Cayenne Turbo priced in India from INR 1.98 crore
In India, the Porsche Cayenne Coupe will lock horns with the BMW X6 and Mercedes-AMG GLE Coupe.
[Source - autocarindia.com]
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Two-wheeler news recap of the week - 16-21 September 2019
22/09/2019 - 09:30 | TVS Ntorq 125, Bajaj Pulsar, Bajaj Dominar 400, Bajaj Dominar, KTM 790 Duke, Honda Africa Twin, Aprilia GPR 250, Polarity Smart Bikes, Electric Vehicle, Bajaj, Electric vehicles, TVS, Featured, KTM, Honda Motorcycles, Aprilia, Bike news | Neelanjan Chakraborty
The Indian automotive industry is going through a major slowdown. Manufactures were hoping to get relief with a GST cut to get things. However, the government continues to ignore the signs of a slowdown and has once again used a cello tape measure to fix things. Manufacturers though are still upbeat for the upcoming festive season. Here’s all that happened in the two-wheeler market this week:
Aprilia GPR 250 unveiled in China
The Aprilia GPR 250 may make its way to India at Auto Expo 2020.
The Aprilia GPR 250 has been unveiled in China. The bike uses a 249.2 cc single-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine borrowed from the CFMoto 250NK. Coupled to a 6-speed gearbox, the engine can produce 26.5 PS of power and 22 Nm of torque. Besides that, the Aprilia GPR 250 has a kerb weight of 150 kg! That’s surprisingly light for a 250 cc sports motorcycle.
Making this possible is a lightweight frame and aluminium swingarm. Suspension duties are taken care of by an upside-down fork up front and a monoshock rear. Brakes on the Aprilia GPR 250 include discs at both ends assisted by dual-channel ABS.
There has been no official announcement on an Indian launch of Aprilia GPR 250, however, Aprilia has been known to be interested in bringing motorcycles in the engine displacement range of 150 cc to 250 cc.
Also Read: Aprilia Storm 125 vs. Aprilia SR125 – Specs and Features Comparison
TVS Ntorq 125 Race Edition launched in India at INR 62,995
Priced INR 3,000 higher than the standard version, the TVS Ntorq 125 finally comes with an LED headlamp.
TVS has launched a new Race Edition of its popular sporty 125 cc scooter Ntorq 125. The scooter is retailed in new three-tone combination of matte black, metallic black and metallic red colour. Besides that, the TVS Ntorq 125 Race Edition gets a new LED headlamp and LED daytime running lights. The scooter also gets hazard lights which can be controlled by a red switch.
At the heart of the TVS Ntorq 125 is a 124.79 cc air-cooled, 3-valve mill. This engine can squeeze out 9.4 PS of power and 10.5 Nm of torque. Targeted towards GenZ customers, the TVS Ntorq continues to flaunt digital instrumentation with smartphone connectivity via Bluetooth. This allows the scooter to display call alerts and turn by turn navigation on the display.
The Race Edition is priced at a premium of nearly 3,000 over the standard disc brake variant. TVS has so far sold more than 4 lakh units of the Ntorq 125. The company has also introduced the Scooty Pep Plus in new colour options - Coral matte and Aqua matte.
Also Read: TVS Jupiter Grande with SmartXConnect Bluetooth system launched in India
Polarity Smart Bikes unveil 6 personal mobility vehicle prototypes
The Polarity S3K pictured here has a top speed of 100 km/h and a range of 80 km!
The Indian start-up Polarity Smart Bikes has took the electric vehicle route to unveil 6 pedal-assisted cycles. Starting at INR 38,000 (ex-showroom), these electric cycles will be retailed in two trims, namely Sport and Executive. The flagship Polarity S3K has a price tag of INR 1.10 lakh (ex-showroom) and boasts of an 80-volt battery. It has a 3 kW electric hub motor which can propel it to a top speed of 100 km/h!
All Polarity Smart Bikes have a claimed range of 80 km which is enough for an average, day to day, personal mobility vehicle. The bikes have a kerb weight of 55 kg and their batteries come with a 3-year warranty. Besides that, Polarity Smart Bikes can be charged for 1,000 times. The pedal-assisted electric cycles also boast LED headlamp, coloured digital instrumentation, GPS and Bluetooth connectivity.
Deliveries of Polarity Smart Bikes begin in the first quarter of 2020.
Also Read: Exports of made-in-India Peugeot electric scooter begin
Bajaj Dominar, Pulsar and Avenger range get a price hike
The Bajaj Dominar has received a major hike of more than INR 10,000!
Just ahead of the festive rush, Bajaj Auto has increased prices of several products. The flagship Bajaj Dominar 400 now has a price tag of INR 1.92 lakh which is a rise of INR 10,001. Despite this recent hike, the Bajaj Dominar 400 remains incredible value for money motorcycle. Where else will you get a 40 PS motorcycle with slipper clutch, upside-down fork, LED headlamp and radially mounted front calliper at less than INR 2 lakh?
The price rise in the Bajaj Pulsar and the Bajaj Avenger range isn’t too massive. The hike has been in the range of INR 998 to INR 1,696. Details on the price hike on Bajaj Pulsar and Bajaj Avenger can be found in the table above. However, the prices for the Bajaj Pulsar 125 Neon and Bajaj Pulsar 150 Neon has remained unchanged.
Also Read: 2019 Bajaj Dominar 400 First Ride Review
KTM 790 Duke Indian launch confirmed for 23 September 2019
The scalpel is finally heading to India on 23 September 2019, however, expect the bike to carry a premium price tag.
It’s finally happening! The Austrian motorcycle maker KTM is launching the 790 Duke on 23 September 23 2019. This street naked motorcycle will compete against the Triumph Street Triple, Kawasaki Z900, Ducati Monster 821 and Yamaha MT-09. KTM has loaded the 790 Duke to the gills.
The KTM 790 is powered by a 799 cc parallel-twin, liquid-cooled engine. Coupled to a 6-speed gearbox, the engine produces 105 PS of power and 87 Nm of torque. The KTM 790 Duke offers four riding modes – Sport, Street, Rain and Track. Electronic rider aids include wheelie control, traction control (switchable), ABS (with Supermoto mode), cornering ABS and Motor Slip Regulation (MSR). Besides that, the KTM 790 Duke also gets a slipper clutch and a bi-directional quick shifter.
KTM’s latest and most powerful motorcycle in India will be its most expensive product yet with a price of around INR 8.5 lakh (ex-showroom).
Also Read: KTM 790 Duke brochure leaked ahead of launch
Honda releases new teaser for upcoming 2020 Honda Africa Twin
The Honda Africa Twin will get a bigger and more powerful engine.
Japanese motorcycle maker Honda has released a new teaser video confirming that the 2020 Africa Twin will break cover on 23 September 2019. Like the outgoing model, it will be retailed in two variants (Standard and Adventure). Moving away from the old 998 cc mill, the Africa Twin will adopt a bigger 1,084 cc engine with the MY2020 update. This powerplant will produce 101 PS of power, up from 94 PS.
Several rumours suggest that the 2020 Honda Africa Twin will get direct injection which will help it reduce tailpipe emissions. Gearbox options will be a manual and a DCT unit. We expect only the latter to make its way to India. The wheels will be a 21-inch unit at the front and an 18-inch unit at the rear.
The 2020 Honda Africa Twin will get an LED headlamp, tall windscreen and possibly a new TFT instrumentation display. Other features will include riding modes and multi-level traction control.
Motorcycle firm Benda teases new 300cc turbo bike called VTR-300 Turbo
2021 KTM 390 Duke with optional Quickshifter + reaches Europe
Honda Grazia 125 becomes costlier; price hiked by up to INR 1.1K
New KTM motorcycle to be unveiled on 26 Jan 2021; teaser image released
2021 Honda CBR150R launched in Indonesia; to rival Yamaha R15
Bajaj Dominar 400 price in India nears INR 2 lakh mark after recent hike
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Sabine LeVeche placed her hands over her crystal ball and looked across the table at Thelma Jenkins. It didn’t take psychic ability to know that Thelma’s problem was her husband, Earl, same as always, which was a good thing, since Sabine didn’t have an ounce of paranormal gift in her body. But today, she would have given anything for the ability to know where Earl had squirreled away his secret stash, if the money even existed.
“Can you see the money?” Thelma asked.
Sabine held in a sigh. On any other day, she would have pretended to see the money in a suitcase or a box or under a bush, something that would send Thelma off happily on a witch hunt to buy Sabine two weeks of peace and quiet. After all, Thelma didn’t need the money. She just couldn’t stand the idea of Earl keeping something from her and was convinced he’d been skimming off their gas station profits all fifty years of their marriage.
At least that’s how Thelma presented it.
The reality was, Alzheimer’s was fast taking Earl away from this earth, and Thelma was desperately looking for something to distract her and fill her time. Looking for the mythical treasure of Earl fit the bill nicely.
Sabine focused on the crystal ball and tried to remember all the tales she’d told Thelma before and come up with something different. “I see the money…no, wait, he’s taking the money into a jewelry store. He’s exchanging it for diamonds…a bag of uncut diamonds.”
Thelma sucked in a breath, the prospect of hunting for diamonds obviously even more exciting than a box of dirty money. “When did he do that?”
Sabine shook her head. “I can’t tell for sure, but he placed the diamonds in a red shoe box and put it in the attic.” She squinted at the ball. “The image is fading.” She held her hands over the ball another couple of seconds, then looked up at Thelma. “It’s gone.”
Thelma stared at her, her brow wrinkled in concentration. “The attic, huh? Was it the attic in our house?”
“I couldn’t tell for sure, and remember, Thelma, there’s no way of knowing if the diamonds are still there. Earl could have moved the diamonds or even sold them sometime after the vision I saw. But my guess is he hid them where he had easy access, so that would limit it to your house.” God forbid Thelma got arrested for breaking into every house in Mudbug, Louisiana, and digging through their attics.
“What a load of bullshit!” The voice came from out of nowhere, and Sabine felt her spine stiffen. She stared at Thelma, but the blue-haired woman just stared back at her.
“Did you hear that?” Sabine asked as she glanced around her shop, Read ’em and Reap, hoping that someone was hiding behind one of the many shelves of candles, tarot cards, and other paranormal paraphernalia. But as she peered in between the shelves, she didn’t see a thing.
“Hear what?” Thelma asked, glancing around the shop. “There wasn’t anyone here when I came in, and no one’s come in since.”
Sabine nodded. That’s what she’d thought, but then where had that voice come from? Her imagination was great, but it usually didn’t talk out loud.
“You didn’t leave the back door open, did you?” Thelma asked.
“No. In fact, it’s broken. I keep calling the landlord about getting it fixed, but he says everything has to go through the owner’s estate attorney, and he never hurries. Right now, I couldn’t open it without a crowbar.”
Thelma reached across the table and patted her hand. “You’ve been under a lot of stress lately, dear, what with people trying to kill Maryse and all. You probably need a vacation.”
“You’re probably right,” Sabine agreed.
“Give it a rest.” The voice sounded again and Sabine jumped up from her chair. “That asshole Earl has been teasing Thelma for years over that money.”
“Who’s there?” Sabine looked frantically around her shop.
Thelma stared, her eyes wide with shock. “I didn’t hear anything,” she whispered. “Do you think it’s the spirits?”
No, Sabine didn’t think it was spirits. Obviously someone was having a bit of fun with her. The voice sounded familiar but made Sabine’s nose crinkle like she’d encountered something unpleasant.
“So tell me where the money is,” Sabine said loudly, figuring if she played along with the charade, she’d eventually expose the trickster. “You seem to know more about it than I do.”
“She doesn’t need the damn money,” the voice answered. “She already has more money than Bill Gates and still won’t pay for a decent hairdo. Why give her more?”
Sabine sucked in a breath. She looked over at Thelma, whose eyes were wide with either fear or excitement. “Is the spirit still talking?” Thelma whispered.
“Oh, yeah,” Sabine said, wondering momentarily if Thelma was going deaf. How could she not hear that? Sabine walked across the room to look between the shelves. Finding them empty, she strode to the front of the store and peered behind the counter. Empty. “They’re still talking. They said you don’t need the money and you have a bad hairdo.”
Thelma gasped and put one hand on her puffy blue hair. “Why, that’s just downright rude. I didn’t think spirits were rude once they crossed over.”
“You’d be surprised,” Sabine muttered, thinking about Helena Henry. Her best friend, Maryse, had gotten more than a handful when her dead mother-in-law turned up as a ghost even harder to get along with than Helena had been as a living, breathing human.
“Oh, for Christ’s sake,” the voice boomed again. “Tell her the money is in her mattress. She’s been sleeping on it for years.”
Sabine sucked in a breath. No, it couldn’t be. God wouldn’t play that unfair. “The money’s in your mattress,” Sabine said as she rushed over to the table and pulled Thelma out of her chair.
“My mattress?” Thelma repeated as she allowed herself to be hustled to the door. “No wonder Earl never wanted to get rid of that lumpy piece of crap.”
Sabine nodded and opened the front door to the shop, pushing a confused but excited Thelma out the door. “I’m sorry, Thelma,” Sabine said, “but something’s come up that I have to take care of. I’ll call you tomorrow.”
Thelma shook her head. “You young people are always rushing around to something. Slow down, Sabine, all you’ve got in this world is time and when it’s done, it’s done.”
Sabine slammed the door shut, locked it, and flipped the “Closed” sign around in the window. When it’s done, it’s done. Like hell. Her heart pounding, she turned slowly around and faced her empty shop.
“I know you’re there, Helena,” Sabine said, then felt a wave of nausea sweep over her at her own words.
“Well, I’ll be damned! You did hear me,” Helena said. “For a minute there, I thought you’d actually gone psychic.”
Sabine’s gaze swept from side to side, casing every square inch of her tiny store. “I can hear you, but I can’t see you. Where are you exactly?”
“I’m standing next to your table. See?”
Sabine looked at her table but didn’t see anything out of the ordinary—until her crystal ball began to rise from its stand and hover a good two feet above the table. “I see the ball, but I can’t see you.”
“Hmm. That’s weird, right? I mean, is that supposed to happen?”
“How am I supposed to know? You’re the ghost.”
“Sure, sure, always trying to make me responsible for everything. Hell, all this paranormal stuff is your bag. I didn’t ask to stick around after I died, and no one handed me an instruction manual when I crawled out of my coffin.”
Sabine yanked her cell phone from her pocket, punched in a text message, then slipped her phone back into her pocket. She stared at the ball, still suspended in midair, not even sure what to say, what to do. Aside from drinking, nothing else really came to mind. She was saved from reaching for the bottle by a knock on the door.
Sabine hurried to unlock the door and allowed Maryse to enter. “That was fast,” Sabine said. Thank God.
“Luc and I were having a late breakfast across the street at the café,” her friend said, the worry on her face clear as day. “What’s wrong? Your text message seemed a bit panicked.”
Sabine pointed to the hovering ball. “I sorta have an issue here.”
Maryse looked over at the table and frowned. “Helena, what in the world are you trying to do—give people heart attacks? That’s not funny.”
“Oh, admit it, Maryse, it’s a little funny,” Helena said. “You shoulda seen the look on Sabine’s face.”
Maryse shook her head. “I don’t need to see that look. I’ve worn it for weeks now. Would you stop freaking people out and find something to do?” Maryse turned to Sabine. “Please tell me she did not do that in front of a customer.”
Sabine shook her head, squinting at the area surrounding the hovering ball, trying to make out a body or form or outline or anything, but she saw absolutely nothing.
“I have plenty to do,” Helena argued, “and I was doing some of it. I was helping that fool Thelma find Earl’s money. She’s been bitching about that money for forty years. Everyone down at the beauty shop is tired of hearing about it.”
Maryse sighed. “And how were you planning on helping—hitting Thelma on the head with that ball? It’s not like you could whisper it in her ear. No one can hear you but me.”
Helena laughed and Sabine cleared her throat. “Actually, Maryse,” Sabine said, “that’s the issue. I can hear her. I just can’t see her.”
Maryse stared at Sabine, her jaw slightly open. “You can hear her?”
Sabine nodded. “Loud and clear, unfortunately.”
“Oh my God,” Maryse said and sank into a chair. “That can’t possibly be good.”
“Hey,” Helena said, “no use being rude about it. I’m not doing anything to Sabine.”
Maryse glared at the ghost. “Yeah, you weren’t doing anything to me either, but not long after you appeared, people started trying to kill me.”
Sabine sucked in a breath and stared at Maryse. “Oh my God! You don’t think…I mean…”
Maryse cast a worried look from the hovering ball to Sabine. “There’s no way of knowing for sure, and God knows, this is one of those times I wish I was a decent liar. But it’s like you told me before, if it involves Helena, it couldn’t possibly be good.”
Sabine sank into the chair next to Maryse, her head beginning to swim. If Helena was appearing now…or doing a voice-over, however you wanted to look at it, Sabine knew it couldn’t possibly be a coincidence. She rubbed her fingers on her temples and silently willed her head to stop throbbing.
Maryse laid her hand on Sabine’s arm. “What is it? What are you not telling me?”
Sabine stared at her friend, hoping her voice wouldn’t sound as shaky as she felt. “I have an appointment with Dr. Breaux in an hour to discuss my biopsy results.”
Maryse reached for Sabine’s hand and gave it a squeeze. Sabine closed her eyes and focused on breathing. Any moment, Dr. Breaux would walk through his office door, sit down at the desk across from them, and give her the news. After Helena’s appearance at her shop, Sabine hoped she was ready for what Dr. Breaux would say.
When the abnormalities had appeared four times before, Dr. Breaux had always called her with the good news. The fact that he’d asked her to see him in person coupled with her new ability to hear Helena Henry had the acid in her stomach working overtime. If more people could see or hear the shameless specter, antacid company profits—or alcohol sales, depending on preference—would shoot through the roof.
Sabine hadn’t even thought about Helena being the Angel of Death, until Maryse had pointed out the timing of Helena’s appearance and Maryse’s run for her life. Even though Sabine had always wanted to have a paranormal experience, if Helena Henry was the only option, she’d just pass altogether. A nice, boring job at the bank posting deposits and counting pennies would be preferable.
“It’s going to be fine,” Maryse said, and Sabine knew her friend was trying as hard to convince herself as she was Sabine.
“Uh huh.” Sabine opened her eyes and took a deep breath, not at all convinced. “And what about the Helena factor?”
“It’s just a coincidence…a fluke. Luc hasn’t been able to see or hear her since that night she sent him to save me.”
“Really? I didn’t know that.”
“We didn’t know it, either, until she showed up at the café this morning while we were having breakfast and Luc never noticed her, not even when I pointed her out. Probably you’ll never hear her again, much less ever see her.”
“And if I do?”
Maryse sighed. “I’ll pray for you. I mean really pray…down on my knees, begging for mercy sort of praying. I’ll even do it in church and wear a dress.”
Sabine smiled. She would almost pay to see the very skeptical and comfort-loving Maryse begging God for relief, wearing a dress and heels—if it didn’t require Helena Henry appearing to prompt the action.
“Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that,” Sabine said.
Maryse was about to reply when Dr. Breaux walked into the office. He gave both of them a nod and took a seat behind his desk. “I wanted this meeting with you to discuss the results of your latest tests.” He looked at Maryse, then back at Sabine. “I’m afraid the news is not good.”
Sabine sucked in a breath, unable to ask the question that raced through her mind.
“I’m so sorry to tell you, Sabine…you have acute myeloid leukemia. Now, as far as leukemia goes, this is the best one to have. Seventy percent or more of patients go into remission after treatment, and unless the leukemia returns, they go on to have long, productive lives.”
Sabine blew out the breath she’d been holding, and her eyes blurred as she was overcome with dizziness. This can’t be happening. She leaned all the way forward, trying to breathe, as the room began to spin. She felt Maryse’s hand on her back, but somehow the touch seemed surreal, as if in a dream. It’s astral projection. I don’t have a paranormal ounce of blood in my veins and yet today I’ve heard a ghost and projected my spirit out of my body. She dragged in a deep breath and tried to focus. You’re losing it, Sabine.
“Sabine,” Maryse’s voice cut into her labored breathing. “Do you need me to get you something…a cup of water…?”
Sabine lifted back up to a reasonable position, her head still spinning. “No, I’ll be fine. At least, I think I will.”
“Of course you will!” Maryse’s hand tightened on hers and her friend leaned forward in her chair, an intent look on her face. “Do we know what caused this?”
Dr. Breaux shook his head. “I don’t have any way of knowing for sure. It could be a result of the chemical dumping you discovered going on in the bayou, or it could be completely unrelated.”
Unbelievable. Sabine wanted to scream with the injustice of it all. All her life, she’d been so careful—no coffee, no substitute sweeteners, no diet sodas, no smoking…all the things that might cause cancer. Aside from her occasional glass of wine, she didn’t have any vices to speak of. And now there was a chance she’d contracted the horrible disease from picking flowers on the bayou.
Sabine looked over at Maryse and saw the fright on her friend’s face, plain as day. Oh, she was trying to hide it, but Sabine knew better. Inside, Maryse was on the verge of a heart attack. Sabine drew in a deep breath and looked at Dr. Breaux. “And the treatment?”
Dr. Breaux sat back in his chair and sighed. “Begins with chemotherapy. If we don’t achieve the desired effect, we add radiation therapy to prevent the disease from moving into the brain and central nervous system.”
“That sounds harsh,” Sabine said.
“You’re only twenty-eight and in good health. I’m not saying the treatments will be easy, but you are in the best of possible shape to handle them.”
Sabine swallowed. “And if that doesn’t work?”
“A bone marrow transplant is always an option,” Dr. Breaux said and gave them a pained look. “Unfortunately, the most successful match for a treatment like this is a close relative.”
Sabine clutched the arms of her chair until her fingers ached. A relative? Could this situation get any worse? Sabine’s parents had died in a car accident when she was just an infant. A distant great-aunt on her mother’s side of the family had raised her, but no amount of searching, either through earthly channels or paranormal, had yielded any information at all about Sabine’s father or any other relatives of Sabine’s mother. She might as well be searching for the fountain of youth.
Dr. Breaux cleared his throat. “I know your greataunt is dead, Sabine, but I looked into things, hoping to find another relative—at least on your mom’s side.”
Sabine shook her head. “I’ve already looked, Dr. Breaux. You know I’ve exhausted every channel.”
Dr. Breaux nodded. “I know you’ve exhausted all of your available channels, but sometimes if one is, um, creative, one might find information by matching medical records.”
Sabine stared at Dr. Breaux. “So did you find someone?”
“Yes,” Dr. Breaux said. “Your aunt had a nephew.”
Sabine straightened in her chair. “A nephew? How is that possible? I asked, over and over again, and she always denied having any family at all.”
Dr. Breaux looked down at his desk for a moment, then back up at Sabine. “My guess is she didn’t want people to know.”
“Who is it?” Sabine asked, almost afraid to hear the answer.
Dr. Breaux sighed. “Harold Henry.”
“Jesus H. Christ!” Maryse jumped up from her chair. “Harold Henry? Are you kidding me?”
“I’m afraid not,” Dr. Breaux replied.
“I’m related to Harold Henry?” Sabine asked in dismay.
Maryse slumped back into her chair. “Not that it matters. Harold won’t work. Even if he wasn’t in jail and he agreed to do it—which would never happen—he’s old and has fifty million things wrong with him. High blood pressure, heart problems, and God knows what else.”
“I agree,” Dr. Breaux said. “Harold wouldn’t be a very good choice, even if he was a match.” He hesitated for a moment, obviously not wanting to say the next thing on his mind. “But Hank might be. You’re the same blood type, anyway, so that’s a start.”
Maryse groaned and covered her head with her hands. Harold and Helena’s son, Hank Henry, her ex-and always-disappearing husband, made professional illusionists look like amateurs with his ability to vanish into thin air.
“And there’s no other way?” Sabine asked, starting to feel more than a little desperate. “Can’t we look for another match, outside of my family?”
“Of course we can look,” Dr. Breaux said. “I’ve already started the process, but I don’t have to tell you the odds of finding a perfect match outside of a family member or the odds of success with anything less than a perfect match. I want the best possible odds.”
Sabine nodded. “I understand. So what do we need to do now?”
Dr. Breaux picked up her file. “We’ll start the chemo right away. There’s an opening next week if you can arrange it. If there’s any chance you can locate another family member…just in case…”
Sabine sighed. “I’ve been searching for my family since I was old enough to read, Dr. Breaux. Unless there’s a miracle, I don’t see it happening now when it hasn’t all these years.”
Dr. Breaux gave her a sad nod. “I understand, Sabine.”
“But we’ll be happy to try again,” Maryse said. “Hank can’t hide forever, and maybe it’s time to try less traditional methods.” Maryse stared at Sabine, obviously trying to communicate more than her words. “Who knows, something might appear now that didn’t before.”
Helena! Well, it was certainly a less than traditional route, and God help them both—it was the best idea Sabine had heard in years.
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Content Creators NightmareJerry Del Colliano
Content Creators Nightmare
Time Warner Cable is in play.
Les Moonves got them to pay double the compensation fee to carry network TV programming that Millennials are skipping out on.
CBS Radio set an acquisition price.
Netflix is killing the network TV business.
Radio now celebrates a pathetic 1% increase in revenue as “growth”.
Something major is happening to the media content business but there are some things that work so well, you’ll want to check what you’re doing against it.
If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you will get:
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Save the date: March 26 for my 2014 Media Solutions Conference in Philly.
Start a $3 Million a Year Video Business
Radio stations think I am crazy for repeatedly saying they should be in the video business.
Not the streaming of their on-air signal that makes them chump change at best.
Not the promotion based manipulation of social media – anyway, they’re focusing on the wrong social media. Not that it matters since social media is a utility like a mobile carrier or electric company and can’t really be monetized.
I know we’re in the radio business but an entire generation of Millennials is choosing on-demand content not broadcasting.
Radio needs a Plan B.
I have discovered a young entrepreneur who is doing one 4-minute video a week.
She uses social media to get followers to subscribe and she has a huge following.
She doesn’t serve banner ads.
Doesn’t accept product placement.
She doesn’t even do commercials.
Yet her reported annual income from this video business is an estimated $3 million.
Wait until you hear how she makes all that money.
Oh, did I mention that she doesn’t sell subscriptions to her video, either?
This is what radio folks who are serious about digital revenue should be going to school on.
And it’s one of the things you’ll learn at my upcoming 2014 Media Solutions Conference in Philadelphia.
Click here to register now.
Here’s the curriculum for this seminar based on the seven most important areas radio stations must excel in today’s radio business:
How to disrupt your radio station before digital competitors do. It used to be we feared our competitors, now it is technology, an infinite number of alternative content choices and the whirlwind impact of social media we fear. We need to understand how to really disrupt our stations without damaging them – and I will show you. You’re going to like it and get good at disruption. After all, Google and Apple made a fortune doing it.
Master digital. Streaming, websites and fumbling around with social media will not be sufficient. I will tell you about an entrepreneur who uses video with social media and earns her $3 million a year. That’s without selling any advertising, no product placement and – are you ready? No commercials. This will be my gift to you and since the Media Solutions Conference is never streamed or recorded for sale to non-attendees, you’ll want to be in Philly for this learning module.
Shake up social media strategies. To be honest, the Millennials who drive social media are fickle and they are in the midst of bailing on Facebook and Twitter right now. Yet most stations are dependent on these social networks as part of their media strategy. Earlier I said we must use our resources more judiciously so wasting time on social media that 80 million people are abandoning is not a good use of resources. You’ll learn the social media sites to embrace including a few new surprises and the ones to back off of. Attend this conference and I promise -- your station will not be the one caught trying to be cool when the audience has moved on.
Reinvent radio for the digital age. The big conundrum is where should on-air radio and digital content meet? What is the new purpose for an FM radio station? Is there a use for AM for a large youthful audience that is not inclined to like any kind of radio including satellite radio? How to know what Pandora really is which is not your on-air competitor at all – it’s your advertising competitor and there are strategies to shut them down or out of your local markets. There is a more effective way to reinvigorate your radio station that is increasingly under attack from digital competitors and you’ll leave Philly with that.
Growth opportunities in short-form video. Let me be blunt. It doesn’t matter if you’re number one in your radio market; it’s now mandatory that you be number one in video as well. YouTube is the new hit radio station to teens. Netflix is the new TV. Cable is dead with them and bundling will end after a long fight by the cable companies to keep it on life support. Radio stations are natural content creators for video and I will explain the opportunities, risks and rewards on March 26th.
Engage 80 million Millennials. Radio talks to itself these days. Unless we know the things that Millennials really care about then it will be difficult to remain viable in the radio business. They hate hype. Respectfully, we are the masters of hype. Millennials are a very civic generation. We do a lot less of getting involved in civic pursuits than we used to and nothing near what will get them to give a second listen to radio. Millennials don’t see color or gender and yet our stations are largely run by men, with too few women on-air and very little diversity. But there is a comeback plan and you’ll get it.
Time-shift radio. Think about it. Now we all want to access content when we want to, where we want to and how. But radio is a broadcast medium, how does it time-shift? The out of touch think that they just need to podcast some programs or personalities and that would be incorrect. In fact, learning the exact length of content for the younger end of the money demo will be worth the day in Philly if the other modules are not enough. Plainly put, we all must learn to time-shift radio. First in wins.
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Radio will look very, very different.
The past few years have set the stage for what is to come in the next 12 months.
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1. How Clear Channel will get even cheaper.
2. Major change to station playlists (first in decades).
3. Most endangered radio job.
4. Say bye-bye to this radio format.
5. Layoffs reinvented.
6. A scary new business for radio and it’s not digital.
7. Bob Pittman’s big plans for Bob Pittman.
8. Lew Dickey’s next big move.
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It’s always bad news: rating revenue trending down, audiences getting older, digital taking more local dollars, audiences preferring on-demand content over broadcast.
STOP!
We’re making it worse than it has to be.
I’ve identified 7 critical areas that must be mastered for radio stations to compete in the digital world. Things that will absolutely make a difference even if you can improve only one or two of them over the next year.
It comes down to this …
Mastering digital.
Rethinking social media.
Reinvention of on-air programming.
New revenue streams from short-form video.
Engaging 80 million Millennials.
And time-shifting radio content.
On March 26 I am going to lay out the plan from top to bottom making a case for why we should master the strategies it takes to dominate in these areas.
And we’ll work together – collaboratively – so that you can really benefit from being there. Interrupt. Interact. Question. This seminar will not be available by video or streaming because we need to do this together.
I will utilize my experience as a professor at the University of Southern California where I taught generational media. My associates were outstanding resources for understanding the 80 million strong Millennial generation and it was there that I created the prototype to my annual Media Solutions Conference which is now presented for broadcast media executives.
I’ll have some new eye-opening information about Millennials that will make you double down on the attention you pay to them. The oldest Millennial just turned 30! We want to get good at making content they will crave.
This is our mission:
Shakeup social media strategies. To be honest, the Millennials who drive social media are fickle and they are in the midst of bailing on Facebook and Twitter right now. Yet most stations are dependent on these social networks as part of their media strategy. Earlier I said we must use our resources more judiciously so wasting time on social media that 80 million people are abandoning is not a good use of resources. You’ll learn the social media sites to embrace including a few new surprises and the ones to back off of. Attend this conference and I promise -- your station will not be the one caught trying to be cool when the audience has moved on.
One day focused on the 7 critical things that will make a difference for your station, company and career.
What Radio Groups Are Hiding
Here’s what those cheap bastards ruining the radio industry don’t want you to know.
You’ll laugh so hard until you cry.
Or you’ll just cry because these real events actually happened and radio groups have been covering them up.
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The new way Clear Channel cuts back expenses when they DON’T bring in a syndicated national personality and keep a local morning show live.
How one group takes cutting expenses to new heights (or depths) by choosing cheaper music that can save money on their simultaneous streams.
Wal-Mart is getting hammered for asking its poorly paid employees to give to the needy this holiday season. Now this radio group that pays shit for money is hiding behind its own version of charity and making it a big on-air promotion.
Oh no, tell me it ain’t so – one of radio’s best groups took a page out of Clear Channel’s playbook to save on salary. This tactic is catching on everywhere.
Exposing the iHeartRadio version of that great contest Christmas Wish that requires a lawyer to understand it and the luck of a lottery winner to win a prize.
How Cumulus is taking billing away from local stations sending it directly to corporate instead and then requiring local stations to make the amount they stole locally in an already-challenged ad market.
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Inside USC
GAME RECAP
If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column
F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
Fitzgerald could have said the same thing about USC. There is an elitist strain that plagues the university and surfaced (again) this week.
You have Pat Haden drawing the interest of federal prosecutors in the College Admissions scandal, which reminds all of us how much damage he did to USC athletics.
Board of Trustee member Mark Stevens shoved Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, which reminds how often the board has embarrassed the university.
Lurking in the background this week is Lynn Swann, who won’t sign autographs unless he gets paid and never misses a chance to visit a golf course while supervising the first season in USC history where football, basketball and baseball had losing records.
These people have something in common besides being USC graduates: They think they can follow their own rules.
Why not? Haden made almost $3 million a year at USC. Swann is believed to make $3-4 million. Stevens is worth $2.3 billion and probably had Max Nikias whispering in his ear that he was a genius every time he set foot on campus.
You know why USC has more trustees than other universities? Because it is how they reward billionaires for donating to the university.
Long gone is the example of Rod Dedeaux, who coached for $1 a year because he owned DART enterprises in Commerce and didn’t need USC to pay him.
Haden also didn’t need the money when he was appointed athletic director but turned the athletic dept. into an elitist institution that increased his wealth.
One time I asked J.K. McKay why Haden always dressed like someone who was at a country club with his gaudy green or red pants and green shoes?
“I tell him, `Pat, what are you doing? You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Covina,’ ” McKay said.
Those days are long gone.
“I’ve had a lot of fortunate things happen to me in my life,” Haden said in a 1979 New York Times story. “I’ve thought about them a lot. Everything always seems to fall in place for me.”
I doubt Haden feels the same way now after his carefully cultivated, Oxford-educated reputation was permanently tarnished by bad coaching hires and controversy involving his foundation. Imagine the damage he did to football by keeping Lane Kiffin too long, hiring Steve Sarkisian and promoting Clay Helton.
Recovery remains a long way off.
USC is supposed to interview Andrew Checketts (UC Santa Barbara) and Eric Valenzuela (St. Mary’s) today in its seach for a baseball coach. USC assistant coaches Gabe Alvarez and Matt Curtis received courtesy interviews, I am told. Jason Gill (Loyola Marymount) and Rich Hill (San Diego) are also candidates.
However, at this point, Andy Stankiewicz of Grand Canyon, who interviewed Thursday, appears to be the frontrunner. You might notice nearly every coach is from a private school. USC would like someone who has experience with the unique issues scholarship limitations provide a private school in baseball.
If I had to rank the candidates in terms of how USC views them, here are the top 3: 1. Stankiewicz; 2. Checketts; 3. Valenzuela.
And now let’s return to Julie’s restaurant for another story from the John McKay era.
This week a regular visitor who knew McKay told me that in the 1960’s, there was a night when a sports writer came in with poppers.
What are poppers? They are also referred to as amyl nitrate and are a liquid drug that provides an instant high when inhaled.
“You had McKay at his booth with (USC president Norman Topping) and then at the other surrounding tables everyone was doing poppers,” the regular visitor told me. “They had no idea what we were doing.”
Remember, it was the 1960’s.
Chris Steele might have set a record by committing to UCLA, USC, Florida, Oregon and then USC again. But he gets competition from wide receiver Jordan Payton, who committed to USC, Cal, Washington and signed with UCLA in 2012.
USC and Arkansas will go head-to-head for the NCAA women’s track title this weekend in Austin, Texas. The weather could play a factor as it will be in the high 90’s Friday and Saturday.
Next week I will finally reveal an inside story behind the infamous Lynn Swann-George Atkinson hit in 1976.
And finally . . . here is the headline at the top of the June 7, 1944 Daily Trojan
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39 thoughts on “If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column”
Omarstringer says:
Good stuff. And you managed to not pick on an 18 year old QB. Nicely done.
rusoviet says:
Not sure about how that ‘tri-school’ race ended ‘but’ that same headline per the ‘allies’ and Caen was still the same until the 6th August – Montgomery.
Tebow_Obama says:
What, now you clowns are holding back birthdays for J.T. “5 Wins 6 Losses” Daniels?
Go women’s track and field!!!!!
steve B. says:
The hitting Coach from TCU should be the 1st choice for baseball.
UCSB eliminated early in playoffs, and a public university. Morgan
Ensberg would be ideal if really interested. Played on the good teams
during the good years who stole home in CWS in 1998 title run.
stretchdogg says:
Too appropriate not to send.
Linkster says:
Haden’s coaching hire mistakes are dwarfed by his involvement in the charity scam that he pulled off for himself and family. No ethics, no integrity, should be in the slammer for that move. Yep, Dedeaux coached for one dollar a year! He had more integrity and honesty in his little toe than Haden had in his whole body. They don’t make em like Dedeaux anymore, not to mention 12 NCAA titles.
trojan1967 says:
Steve Busby (look him up if unfamiliar) said it was huge step down to play in the minor leagues after playing for Dedeaux…
Michael Link says:
I played with Steve Busby. He was great! Two no hitters in the bigs and was the color TV guy in Kansas City for years. Dedeaux could have coached the Dodgers after Walter Alston retired in about 1968 I think. He was the best situational baseball strategist I ever saw. Never made a mistake about what to do in any circumstance. Only thing I could fault was his talent assessment, after all, I did not play near enough. LMAO.
**** previous typing deleted! Ok, will try again – That’s an awesome account…as a young, aspiring, not good enough (for beyond JC-ball) pitcher, “Buzz” was my first idol…got to see him in 1975 just before his arm injuries derailed what looked like a HOF career in the making…he beat Jim Palmer and the Orioles and Vida Blue and the A’s…don’t have your insight obviously into how those 12 titles were earned, but pretty clear that, other than his not evaluating you correctly! he knew his business…also brought to mind this week by the faux media-manufactured “controversy” over Brady’s supposed claim to the “Tom Terrific” moniker…
James – Busby was a freshman when I was a Junior I believe. He had a great fastball and great over hand curve ball. At that time, he was just wild enough to make you not want to dig in as a batter. Also, at the same time, Dave Kingman came to USC as a pitcher. He threw BB’s but could not get ball anywhere near the plate. Dedeaux turned him into a hitter and the rest is history. I think Kingman hit over 300 home runs in the bigs. Don’t follow Tom Brady so I can’t comment on his remarks this week.
Quick question if permissible: Did he throw with what was later termed “corkscrew” (3/4 arm slot delivered slightly across body – common with lefties at one time) mechanics when you were teammates? I had a coach who asserted that was maybe what contributed to his arm miseries…
Yes, “Kong” hit a ton of homers (up to his final years in Oakland just prior to the Mac/Can/Stew mini-dynasty) – and they usually were sky high bombs as I recall…
Your description of Busby accords with what I remember and have read – in 1973, his first full MLB season, he was on the verge of being sent back down to the minors due to wildness (he walked like 125 batters in 260 innings, a high ratio in any era) when he threw the first no-hitter against Detroit (defending AL West champs managed by Billy Martin) and got on track…he was a hard thrower and supposedly had the best slider in MLB (along with Steve Carlton from the Southpaw side)…after losing the A’s just prior to the Catfish/Reggie teams reaching fruition in Oakland, Buzz was what KC had to live on until Whitey Herzog and the rest reached the post-season…many of the now “old timers” in KC still imagine how many World Series banners might have been waving over Royals Stadium if Busby would have stayed healthy…
James – if my memory serves me correctly, Busby did not throw with a “corkscrew” delivery in @ 1968. As I mentioned, he was a freshman and continued through to his senior year I believe at USC. He had a straight overhand 3/4 delivery and his breaking ball (curve in those days) broke straight down. That curve may have evolved in to a slider by the time he got to the big leagues. There are so many stories of pitchers going down with bad arms. There was a pitcher at USC at this same time by the name of Mike Adamson. He had the best stuff of anyone I saw at USC including Tom Seaver, Jim Barr, Brent Strom, Tom House and Busby. He threw so hard his arm blew up at the elbow after one year in the majors. What a talent he was!
Yes, so many great pitchers of that era had careers ended, or altered, by arm injuries that are now all but routinely corrected with surgery, rehab, coaching (mechanics adjustments), and better practices (rest, training, stretching, long tossing)…Busby, Gary Nolan of the Reds, Frank Tanana of the Halos, Steve Rogers of Expos, Mike Norris of the A’s, et al…that’s interesting and appreciated insight on not only Busby but Mike Adamson (was unaware of him, but have heard similar stories about others)…that’s an amazing assortment of talent you got to be around or see up close! I was up close to a couple of big leaguers at my JC, and it always makes for good story-telling to relate recollections about them to those who are interested…none were on par with Seaver, but we did have Joe Carter (not a team member, but already an up and coming star by then with Cleveland I believe) show up to a practice during the winter one day…
Yes incredible talent on USC baseball at that time. I also forgot Bill Lee who pitched at that time and went on to a great career with the Boston Red Sox in the 70’s. Actually, it was really the “golden” years for USC athletics as well. Great football and baseball teams winning national championships, but also, great track, tennis, and golf teams as well. Even basketball was good but was dwarfed by the Wooden/Gilbert teams of ucla. Before Title IX but don’t get me started on that.
Bill Lee! Just read a story (actually a reprint of an interview conducted in ’78 – the year of the Sox collapse to the Yanks and his exile and subsequent sale north of the border) about him – apparently, to put it mildly, quite the character! Great point about a glorious period (as opposed to now, alas) – for instance, to think that Stan Smith, Jimbo, and Mac, were at USC, UCLA, and Stanford within a decade…
gotroy22 says:
Do you have any Dave Kingman stories? I heard he was quite a character.
I’d enjoy that as well…a lot of what was circulated was one-sided (reminiscent of what some contemporaries say of Dick Allen…or, in boxing MG, about Sonny Liston)…would love to hear from someone without the biases…
At USC, he was a freshman and I was a junior if I remember correctly so he played on the freshman team then. We had intrasquad games and he came up to bat and hit a home run off me to left center that is still going. He had a big uppercut swing which either resulted in a swing and miss or a homerun. The ball he hit off of me had to be at least 475 feet long and a hundred feet in the air. Massive hit. No real stories at USC but I ran in to him later in the 70’s in a bar at a Houston hotel. I was working for Black & Decker at the time and he was a tool enthusiast, liked to do DIY projects. I arranged for about every tool B&D made to be sent to him. Lived at that time in the Lake Tahoe area. Nice man.
Michael-excellent story…love the fact that he was a DIYer type…and above I mentioned that I recall that what you experienced was the memory many MLB pitchers have…I seem to recall his “This Week in Baseball” highlights depicted “moonshot” HRs…
Michael Guarino says:
James –Astute remark about Sonny Liston —who was portrayed in the press as a bully. I will always remember a handwritten note (reprinted in Ring Magazine a long time ago) that Sonny wrote to a kid who expressed his sorrow over Sonny’s knockout loss to Leotis Martin: “I fought the best I could —stuff happens in fights. But don’t worry, I’m fine. Lots of guys better than me got knocked out in their careers. I’ll try to win the next one for you.” You could tell 2 things about Sonny from that note —(1) he wasn’t used to writing notes (every sentence was in a different size script—which made the note that much more touching) and (2) Sonny sincerely wanted to assure this kid not to worry, he would keep on trying.
MG-superb story and exactly what I was getting at – I had read a similar story about Sonny around 1980 (in SI’s heyday and a time when shall we say journalism was exiting a better age) where the author was, and nowadays character rehabilitation is so pervasive in the faux media that it’s difficult not to be jaundiced, attempting to humanize Liston to a public that only saw him as a thug (by among other things talking about how his resting place proximate to McCarron International is tragically appropriate given how he was the classic case of a boxer who was hooked through indebtedness into becoming the tool of criminal forces)…
James —I think a lot of us were so happy when Ali defied the odds and beat him that we forgot that Liston was a person…..
Same thing happened to Foreman for a while…
#….ButHeStuckAroundLongEnoughToWinEverybodyOver….
MG – yes…modern George came out of a process that as I recall was initiated by (was it CBS and 60 Minutes?) the media in the mid to late ’80s picking up on the fact that he was going to attempt a comeback after a period of having been a preacher for a time (I believe he said that resulted from his having had visions during his brutal fight with Jimmy Ellis) – that was were the world learned he named all of his children George! – and that he was eating nothing but chicken to lose weight (hence “Chicken George” and later the idea for the grill) since he had crested over 300 lbs at one point…but it did ultimately aid in humanizing him as well, as you adroitly noted…
James — I remember the fight that caused the “visions.” Jimmy Young I think —a very tough & smart (horrible combination to face) Philadelphia fighter. Much later, it was a gentle & protective George Foreman who came between an angry Joe Frazier and a ill Muhammad Ali at a reunion dinner. At the dinner itself, Joe asked the waiter if they had any of that “green stuff” to go on his lamb. The waiter, in the most condescending tones possible, asked “Sir, could possibly be referring to mint jelly?” George cut him off and said “If you know what he’s talking about, go get it!”
I saw Ali a couple of times—the last time he was coming out of Mayor Tom Bradley’s office with Veronica Porsche. Everyone was trying to get close and shake his hand —except for me who loved him most.
04Trojan says:
Yeah, that’s great and all, but has Flow deleted any comments yet this morning?
“`Pat, what are you doing? You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Covina,’ ” McKay said”
People who come from poverty tend to go to gaudy extremes if they obtain wealth. It’s called being a Parvenu, an Arriviste, or a Vulgarian.
Nouveau riche…
marvienna says:
I honestly don’t mind USC being elitist or arrogant.
I just don’t want them fu***** up and embarrassing the university.
#EdOrgeronWasTooDownAndDirtyToBePatHaden’sElitistFootballCoachAndItWasOneofHaden’sBiggestMistakes
buddhakarma says:
SC will hire the cheapest baseball coach they can find and when did UCSB become a private institution ?
Charlie Bucket says:
virtuoso performance wolfman, you are in playoff form, and is isn’t even pre-season!!!
can’t WAIT for the long awaited back story on the Stealers taking turns putting Swannie on queeer street!!!!
#KnockOut
Allo tapette
Pretty Patrick says:
Pat Haden, the ultimate hypocrite! Pretty Pat has always been a champion of political correctness. He feigns being for the little guy in front of the crowd. But behind the crowd, he champions the unethically sucks money away from people and organizations! Typical leftist hypocrite, saying one thing while doing the exact opposite.
Remember when he led the USC Boycott of Indiana? What a grandstanding hypocrite.
Remember when Pat Haden’s affaire d’amour with roommate J.K. McKay was swept under the rug when they played for the Trojans?
For those if you that say no…well, it was.
For those “of you”…my bad.
You were always hoping to be the peckerwood’s punk huh?
Smacky says:
Y’all all old as all get out and you’ve figured out how to post on this moderately intuitive web site. I’m kind of impressed in all truth.
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They’re paying me for 7 months holiday, the callous Tory b******s
by Colin Campbell Wednesday, May 13
WILL the favourability rating for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party rise in Scotland as a result of the extension of the furlough scheme until the end of October?
In particular, will beneficiaries of it who detest all things Boris and all things Tory change their attitude even to the slightest degree?
Somehow I doubt it.
The furlough extension – surprising in the length of its newly announced duration – means that hundreds of thousands of Scots will be paid at least 80 per cent of their normal wages for months ahead for doing no work.
This will come as a huge relief to many people who are in financial difficulties with no job to go to, entirely through no fault of their own.
For many others, however, it is distinctly good news.
Nicola Sturgeon…determined ‘to go her own way’.
It means they can enjoy the sunshine, they can sit in deckchairs, they can potter about in the garden. What they will not have to do is to clock on for jobs which offer varying degrees of satisfaction, from being enjoyable and fulfilling (not that many) to monotonous, demanding or crushingly boring (quite a lot).
And yet, if you asked a very large number of the deckchair-recliners or pottering gardeners what they thought of the Government which has decided to pay them to take a lengthy summer and autumn holiday there would, from many, I’ve no doubt, be an unchanged, terse response.
“What do I think of them? I think they’re callous Tory b*****ds.”
Such is life, as many of us are all too aware in SNP dominated Scotland. The nats need someone to hate to keep those marching fires of passion burning, and who better than an “Eton-educated toff”, even one who, pre-virus, was showing Corbyn-like enthusiasm for levels of public spending.
And what do the SNP hierarchy think of the cash extension? How will Nicola Sturgeon calculatingly spin it against Boris and the Tories?
And what will that arch-defender of the poor, their Westminster leader Ian Blackford have to say about it from atop his lofty perch on a huge pile of cash – an MP’s salary, £240,000 in expenses and tens of thousands from a company directorship. Will he stand up in the Commons and start roaring about “Scotland being dragged into seven months paid holiday against our will”?
Theoretically, if we were independent after the 2014 vote had gone the other way, would a Scottish Government fully and wholly responsible for trying to deal with the economic wreckage and personal devastation caused by the coronavirus be extending its furlough scheme? The answer to that is no, because there would be no furlough scheme in the first place. Only the most wildly deluded nationalist (which means quite a lot) would believe that at this stage of the transition we’d have billions of pounds to throw at the coronavirus crisis.
Kate Forbes…could newcomer MSP now elevated to finance secretary deal with mass unemployment and thousands of ruined businesses in an independent Scotland?
In a Scottish Government-of-many talents, the person responsible for trying to deal with mass unemployment and thousands of ruined businesses could be finance secretary Kate Forbes, who only became an MSP three years ago, and who was appointed in a rush after her predecessor Derek Mackay quit in schoolboy-texting disgrace. Does that fill you with confidence? No, me neither.
Broke, bankrupt and overwhelmed by debt, we’d be heading into the abyss by now. Or alternately, on our knees begging for foreign government, ie London government, support.
As things stand, Sturgeon has now decided that we’ll come out of the lockdown in a different way from England. A much slower way, it seems.
Up to now, she’s been given the benefit of the doubt for playing it straight and not trying to be different for the sake of it. But now, with many of her supporters openly gloating over her “we’ll do it our own way” mantra, we can expect that to change. What won’t change is her expectation that Westminster will pay for it.
Meanwhile, two months into the lockdown, are people in these parts yet permitted to drive a mile or two to go for a walk in the woods?
A couple of weeks ago I told of how a police vehicle had pulled up alongside a couple of cars in a tiny car park up at Craig Dunain where folk go for a stroll through woodland, and left warning leaflets under their wipers.
Now a row of bollards has been put in place, blocking off access. Not that this does much good. People are still there walking. They just leave their cars a few yards away.
Blocked off car park…what a load of bollards.
No wonder people are increasingly complaining about mixed messages. It’s bad enough that one set of rules vaguely applies in England and another in Scotland. But even north of the border, haven’t the rules on exercise been eased somewhat?
With scientific experts virtually unanimous in believing that there is virtually no chance of the virus being passed on among people at a distance from each other in the open air – there can be no credible justification for trying any longer to prevent folk going for a relaxing stroll in woodland.
However, those bollards are in place for whatever daft reason and they may well remain in place.
And who’s to blame for that?
No doubt it’ll end up at the door, in the eyes of some at least, of those “callous Tory b*****ds”.
I’ve been through a war – and this isn’t a war
Our Ross-shire correspondent writes:
A COUPLE of days ago I had a chat with a Dingwall man, well into his 80s, who walks like he’s just finished Army Cadet Training. Clean shaven, cropped hair, alert, straight-backed, arms swinging and with an aura of complete confidence, he’s unfailingly polite but reticent about engaging in conversation about anything he considers to be inconsequential.
I asked him: “How are you managing being stuck indoors?”
He replied: “Obviously fed-up and my neighbours will likely say I’m a bit short in the grain lately. But at my age it’s like a return to the old days. There’s only one thing to do and that’s to follow orders!”
I asked: “How do you reckon the authorities are handling things?”
“It’s very difficult and confusing for everyone,” he replied. “But something that really angers me is the constant throwaway use of the word war. It’s a much misused word. With Victory in Europe currently being discussed and rightly remembered it’s wrong for politicians, supposed experts and the media to use the word war.
“It’s a medical emergency and rightly described as a pandemic,” he observed. “We knew our enemies by their uniforms and insignia. We were at war with them.
“The coronavirus isn’t a war,” he continued. “It’s an identified and quite hellish medical condition. We certainly have to hope we beat this pandemic. We have to hope there’s never, ever another war with men and women in uniform. Use of the word makes me very uncomfortable in whatever circumstance it’s used,” he concluded tersely.
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Morning Spoilers
The One Rumor About Deadpool 2 We Desperately Wished Was Real Has Been Debunked
Morning SpoilersIf there’s news about upcoming movies and television you’re not supposed to know, you’ll find it in here.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright teases Bran’s journey ahead in Game of Thrones. Simon Kinberg continues to dance around his role in the next X-Men film. The CW is looking to start casting its Lost Boys show. Plus, familiar faces and foes return in new Flash images, and new footage from Iron Fist and The Handmaid’s Tale. Spoilers Now!
Following rumors put forth by The Hashtag Show that the venerable Hidden Figures star and cosmic songstress Janelle Monáe was suddenly the number one choice to play mutant mercenary Domino, writer Rhett Rheese quickly took to Twitter to deny the report.
Bummer.
X-Men: Supernova
Simon Kinberg will neither confirm or deny he’s directing the next X-Men film, but if he does, you can expect him to write the script:
I’ve read those reports. If I were to direct, I would certainly write. As someone who started his career as a writer then transitioned into being a writer-producer, when I make that transition into directing, I would definitely want to be the writer as well. It’s because I can’t imagine directing something that I didn’t create myself. Having made many great movies, the ones I feel the most emotionally connected to are the ones I wrote.
Kinberg also stressed there are no current plans to recast Wolverine in future X-projects, stating that any potential candidate would have to earn the most coveted blessing of all: Hugh Jackman’s approval.
We haven’t even thought of the next iteration of Wolverine. For all of us, we were keeping our fingers crossed that the audiences would respond to Logan the way they have. I can’t visualize in my head another Wolverine but if that day ever comes, we would talk to Hugh about it.
[Deadline]
Entertainment Weekly has revealed a few pictures and teasers for Charlize Theron’s spy-fi thriller, Atomic Blonde, adapted from the comic by Anthony Johnston.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright ominously revealed to TV Guide that season seven is all about “connections,” and to “take that how you will.” As for his character, he continues:
I think Bran has transcended ‘growing’. Growing up or being an adult is not on his to-do list anymore. It’s doing what he needs to do. He’s on another plane. It’s not like he has to grow up and prove himself a man. He just knows he has to do his stuff.
Andrew J. West has been cast as a young-at-heart mystery character who plays a significant role in the season (and still potentially series) finale. [Deadline]
The CW pilot is casting non-union actors for a make-up test for its adaptation the 1987 vampire classic. See the relevant Facebook post here.
The Lost Boys: Males to portray Caucasian, age 18-33, height 5'9 or shorter - this is important! We have wigs if your hair isn’t right. You must be OK with prosthetic make-up, contact lenses and wearing a wig. You should have NO make-up allergies at all and you cannot be claustrophobic. This will work on April 8th and you will go to a fitting prior to the work date. Rate is $100 each for fitting and for work date. Please email if you resemble one of these characters. Please let me know which one you fit (we are numbering them from left to right #1, #2, #3, #4) so when you submit, please put the # of the one you fit best in the subject line. Please email KristanBSubmissions@centralcasting.com
Former Whedonverse producer Gail Berman is open to more Buffy if Joss Whedon decides to make it (a comment just in time for the show’s 20th anniversary this week).
I would be really happy to get the [revival series] call from Joss.I have my own thoughts of what it would look like, but my own thoughts are not important. It would be what he thought. I will always let everyone know this is all about Joss. I did everything I knew on how to to be supportive of that, but the stories, the direction, the writing and the tale telling, that’s all Joss.
[THR]
Showrunner Scott Gimple has high praise for the season finale:
[Season 6’s finale] was the noose tightening and things getting darker and darker. This season’s finale has darkness and light, real horrific moments, betrayal, and real moments of beauty, redemption, love and friendship. It’s sort of the panoply of human and Walking Dead experience.
[TV Line]
The Legends re-write history with the Spear of Destiny in the synopsis for “Doomworld.”
After obtaining the Spear of Destiny, the Legion of Doom rewrites reality, leaving the Legends changed, perhaps forever. Frightfully, the Legends’ and the world’s hopes rest with Rory (Dominic Purcell), but being the hero is not easy for him. Meanwhile, there is tension within the Legion of Doom and the reason why the Spear of Destiny needs to be destroyed is revealed.
[Spoiler TV]
President Lynda Carter (oh, if only) returns in the synopsis for “Distant Sun.”
A large bounty is put out on Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and aliens from far and near attack National City intent on taking out the woman of steel. Alex (Chyler Leigh) and Maggie (Floriana Lima) run into Maggie’s ex-girlfriend, Emily (guest star Hayley Sales), who is in town for a week. Hank (David Harewood) gets an interesting order from President Marsdin (guest star Lynda Carter).
Secrets and construction site drama abound in a synopsis for “The Outsiders.”
As Fred (Luke Perry) and his crew are about to start construction he loses his crew, which could put his livelihood in jeopardy. Wanting to help his dad, Archie (KJ Apa) and his friends pitch in to help but after one of them is attacked, the gang comes up with a plan that lands them in Southside Serpent territory. With Jughead’s (Cole Sprouse) secret revealed, he is worried about how his friends will react. Meanwhile, Veronica (Camila Mendes) and Betty (Lili Reinhart) suggest throwing Polly (guest star Tiera Skovbye) a baby shower to make her feel better, but Polly is hesitant knowing how everyone feels.
Abra Kadabra makes his debut in the self-titled episode “Abra Kadabra”:
The Flash (Grant Gustin) battles Abra Kadabra (guest star David Dastmalchian), a villain from Earth-19, who makes him a tempting offer: release him and Abra Kadara will reveal Savitar’s true identity. Desperate to save Iris (Candice Patton), Barry considers taking the deal but Gypsy (guest star Jessica Camacho) breaches in to capture the villain for her own reasons and during the melee, Abra Kadabra manages to escape. Barry is furious that Gypsy interfered but Gypsy refuses to back down, forcing Cisco (Carlos Valdes) to take sides. Meanwhile, Julian (Tom Felton) is still a bit cold towards Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) but when she is severely injured in a battle with Gypsy, he rushes to her side.
Jay Garrick and several ghosts from the past return in images from next week’s episode, “Return to the Speed Force.” Click through to see more. [TV Line]
Netflix has released a teaser for their time-travel-ish comedy Naked, which involves Marlon Wayans getting caught in a mysterious time loop on his wedding day—one in which he’s perpetually naked.
Hulu has released a brief new trailer in honor of International Women’s Day yesterday.
Here’s a featurette inviting you to meet Colleen Wing, who is easily the best part of the show.
Finally, a brief synopsis and new images for “The Weeping Somnambulist” have been released. As usual, there are more pictures at the link. [Spoiler TV]
Bobby Becomes a political pawn in the struggle between Earth and Mars.
Additional reporting by Gordon Jackson. Banner art by Jim Cooke.
FILTHpig
She’s the best part of the first six episodes, am I right?
I mean, in theory, the show could turn it around and possibly make up for the first half, right?
Possibly?
RIGHT??
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Prevalence and patterns of dietary supplement use in elite Spanish athletes
Gabriel Baltazar-Martins1,
Diego Brito de Souza1,
Millán Aguilar-Navarro1,2,
Jesús Muñoz-Guerra3,
María del Mar Plata4 &
Juan Del Coso ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5785-984X1
Dietary supplementation is a common strategy to achieve a specific health status or performance benefit. Several investigations have focused on the prevalence of dietary supplement use by athletes. However, information on how athletes manage the use and purchase of dietary supplements is scarce.
Five hundred and twenty-seven high-performance athletes (346 males and 181 females), participating in individual and team sports, completed a validated questionnaire about use and purchase patterns of dietary supplements. The dietary supplements were categorized according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus.
Sixty four percent of the athletes (n = 337) used dietary supplements (median = 3; range 1 to 12). Age, sex, type of sport, level of competition, and professionalism influenced the prevalence of dietary supplement use (all p < 0.05). The most prevalent dietary supplement consumed was proteins (41%; n = 137), followed by amino acids/BCAA-based supplements (37%; n = 124). Additionally, as per group of supplements according to IOC consensus, 18% of the supplements were rated as having a low level of scientific evidence (e.g., glutamine, HMB, L-carnitine, etc). Most athletes (45%, n = 152) purchased dietary supplements in a store and 24% (n = 81) obtained them from a sponsor. Most athletes also (42%, n = 141) reported a self-organization of supplementation and did not consult with any professional. Last, 81% (n = 273) of athletes consuming supplements did not know any platform to check supplement safety/quality. For those who do not use dietary supplements (36% of the total sample, n = 190), most reported that they do not consider supplements necessary (72%, n = 137).
Dietary supplementation appears to be widely used in sport with a considerable proportion of athletes consuming supplements with low level of scientific evidence. Additionally, athletes seem to rely on inadequate sources of information and may be largely unaware of sources to detect supplement contamination.
The quest for optimal nutrition has been gaining importance among athletes as the level of sport competition has become more demanding [1]. At the elite level, the constant quest for excellence is obtained through regular and planned training, while the advances in nutrition and supplementation can aid to improve athlete’s performance, recovery, health and well-being [2].
A dietary supplement is a commercially available product that is ingested in addition to the habitual diet. Athletes often use dietary supplements as a strategy to achieve a specific health outcome or exercise performance benefit [3, 4]. Although some consider that the use of nutritional supplements is unnecessary when athletes have a well-balanced diet [5], dietary supplement use has grown significantly in the past years [6]. Dietary supplements are available for the general population, but the use of these supplements is higher in elite athletes than in non-athletes or recreationally active individuals [3]. The overemphasis of dietary supplement use, as endorsed by internet and social media, along with the efforts of nutritional supplement companies to sponsor remarkable athletes [7] have aided at increasing the use of these products worldwide. In 2017, global sales of supplements reached US $128 billion [8]. Although the use of supplements varies across different sports, its usage is generally higher in men than in women and increases with age [4]. In addition, the athletes involved in short sprint-based activities typically consume less dietary supplements than athletes competing in endurance-based activities [9].
The prevalence of dietary supplement use by athletes has been the topic of several investigations [10, 11] and their results have been recently reviewed and systematically analyzed [4]. Overall, the prevalence of supplement consumption ranges from approximately 48 to 81% [12,13,14,15,16,17] while proteins and multivitamins are the most popular supplements. The reasons reported by athletes for using dietary supplements are diverse although are mainly related to health-related issues [16], physical and mental performance improvement [18], and increased rate of recovery [1]. However, the patterns of use and purchase of supplements have not been well investigated.
Athletes often rely on their coaches [15], family [16], and friends/teammates [19] as their preferable sources of reliable information for their use of dietary supplements. However, sports nutritionists or scientists are rarely the main source of information to plan a supplementation program [20], even at the elite level. This may lead athletes to an excessive and/or incorrect use of dietary supplements along with possible adverse interactions due to polypharmacy [21]. In addition, there are significant risks associated with the use of dietary supplements, such as the absence of active ingredients, the presence of harmful substances, or even the presence of doping agents [22]. With rates of contamination between 12 and 58% [23], the likelihood of unintended doping with the use of supplements is high. Lastly, athletes are not always aware of the risks associated with purchasing supplements and rarely inform themselves to confirm the quality and safety of the selected supplement [20]. The internet has become a preferable site to purchase supplements and thus, the easy access to contaminated nutritional supplements and “black market” products might constitute a risk for public health.
Since athletes often use dietary supplements with no clear understanding of their effects and risks [24], it becomes critical to provide information about the patterns of use and purchase of dietary supplements in samples of elite athletes. This information might help to provide nutritional education approaches that reduce the risk associated with dietary and nutritional supplementation through better informed the athletes. Taking into account the lack of research in Spanish athletes [25, 26], the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of supplement use by elite athletes while describing how athletes manage dietary supplements use.
Five hundred and twenty-seven athletes (346 males and 181 females) volunteered to participate in this investigation by filling out a validated and standardized questionnaire about the use of dietary supplements [27]. The athletes were considered elite because all of them were training and competing in high-performance programs of different national sports federations. Specific information about the study sample can be obtained in Table 1. The questionnaire was provided by email to athletes with the help of staff from different national federations and announcements in sport performance centers. Thus, it was unfeasible to record the number of athletes solicited for this investigation. Forty-five athletes were excluded from the study because they did not complete the questionnaire and 4 questionnaires were not considered valid because they contained duplicate information in all questions. Informed consent was obtained with the questionnaire. The study was approved by the Camilo José Cela University Ethics Committee and it was carried out in accordance with the procedures approved by the Declaration of Helsinki.
Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the participants and distribution of athletes who reported use/not use of supplements in the last year
The questionnaire used in this investigation has been previously validated to assess the prevalence of dietary supplement use and to obtain information about the individual consumption patterns in the last year [27]. The questionnaire also assessed information on socio-demographic variables, sport level, and professionalism. This questionnaire was developed by a group of experienced sport scientists, its construct validity was verified by a group of six experts in nutrition, sports sciences and chemistry (Aiken’s V = 0.97 for pertinence and 0.82 for relevance of the questions) and its reliability has been measured by a test-retest performed 4 weeks apart. The questionnaire contained a definition of a dietary supplement according to the latest consensus statement of the International Olympic Committee (IOC; [3]). Through 81 questions, it also asked participants about the use of performance enhancing substances, supplements for weight control, supplements to increase the rate of recovery, medicaments, and other substances. The questionnaire allowed athletes to report the total number, type of supplement used, and season of consumption (pre-season, competitive periods, or all year). The questionnaire also had a section to be filled out only by those who did not report any supplement use in order to ascertain the reasons for their lack of use.
The questionnaire was organized to obtain information about a) sociodemographic information, sport discipline, and level of competition; b) prevalence and frequency of dietary supplement usage; c) reasons for the use of supplements, sources of information about supplementation, and contamination and purchase conditions. Participants filled out the questionnaire between July 2017 and May 2018. In order to help athletes to identify supplements, examples for each category were provided.
Analysis of dietary supplements by group
To improve the applicability of the results, each supplement was individually notated and grouped according to the groups of the IOC consensus statement [3], as follows:
“Performance enhancement”, which included caffeine, beta alanine, creatine, sodium bicarbonate, carbohydrate foods, and carbohydrate powders.
“Immune health”, which included antioxidant supplements, probiotics, and vitamin C.
“Micronutrients”, which included iron supplements, magnesium, folic acid, calcium, zinc, selenium, multivitamin supplements, and electrolytes.
“Improve recovery & injury management”, which includes joint support supplements (glucosamine, chondroitin, collagen), recovery supplements (mixes of carbohydrate and protein powders labelled as a “recovery product”), omega- 3 &- 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, and curcumin.
“Body composition changes”, which includes protein powders (whey protein mixes, casein, calcium caseinate, plant/meat/egg-based protein powders).
“Low level of evidence supplements”, which includes: glutamine, single amino acids/branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate (HMB), L-carnitine, spirulina, royal jelly, citrulline, probiotics, taurine, conjugated linoleic acid, co-enzyme Q10, and fat burners, among others.
It is important to clarify that some dietary supplements may be included in different categories, as reported in the IOC consensus [3]. However, we have selected the most pertinent category based on scientific evidence. This is the case of “carbohydrate powders” (including maltodextrin, amylopectin, and powdered isotonic blends) and “carbohydrate foods” (energy bars, energy gels, and other miscellaneous carbohydrate-rich products) which have been included in the “performance enhancement” category. Although the IOC consensus also considers them as supplements for immune health, the evidence so far mainly supports their role in the maintenance of exercise intensity in endurance sports [28]. Similarly, other dietary supplements reported to have a low level of evidence have been included in a category of their own (“low level of evidence supplements”). Although some of these supplements may be in a specific category in the IOC consensus statement, these are reported in said document has having a low level of evidence (e.g. glutamine and HMB). Finally, athletes from 23 different sport disciplines filled out the questionnaire, but sport disciplines with less than 8 participants were grouped in the “others” category.
After the data collection, data was organized, checked and analysed with the statistical package SPSS 20 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). Participants and quantitative data of dietary supplements are expressed by frequencies and percentages. Because the number of supplements used followed a non-normal distribution, median and range have been calculated for this variable. The 16 most-used supplements have been presented for clarity. The differences in the distribution of dietary supplements use across the groups made by sociodemographic variables (Table 1) were tested with crosstabs and the Chi Square test, including adjusted standardized residuals. The significance level was set at p < 0.05.
From the total sample, 64% of the athletes (n = 337) reported habitual use of at least one dietary supplement in the last year during any point of the season. The remaining 36% of the sample (n = 190) did not report any supplement use in the last year. Overall, male athletes reported a higher use of dietary supplements than women (p = 0.04; Table 1) while age was another variable that significantly modified the prevalence of use (p < 0.01). Although all sports showed a supplement usage frequency of at least 50%, body building was the discipline with the highest self-reported use of supplements (Table 1). Cycling, athletics, triathlon, and aquatics were also sport disciplines with high proportions of athletes using supplements (Table 1). American football, golf, gymnastics, and Basque pelota had lower than expected frequencies in the proportion of athletes that used supplements (p < 0.01; Table 1). The use of supplements was higher in athletes that had national-level standings than athletes with international-level standings (p < 0.01) while professionalism increased the use of supplements (p = 0.02).
In total, 1056 supplements were reported; most of the supplements were categorized as low level of evidence substances, followed by micronutrients and performance enhancement supplements (Fig. 1). In the sample of supplements users, a median consumption of 3 supplements per athlete was found with a range from 1 to 12 supplements (Fig. 2). Still, 6% of athletes reported a use of ≥8 supplements in the last year. From the subsample of supplement users, 47% reported consumption during the whole season, 43% reported consumption only during competitive periods, and 10% reported consumption only during the pre-season. Proteins, amino acids/BCAA, and multivitamins were the most consumed supplements in the sample of supplement-users (Fig. 3). A total of 36 different supplements were identified in the questionnaire. Most of the athletes that consumed supplements reported relying on him/herself for the obtaining of valid and accurate information about the efficacy of the supplements and they did not consult any professional for this matter (Fig. 4). The remaining athletes reported seeking advice through physicians, nutritionists, and coaches as alternative sources of information. The most common site of purchase were physical supplement stores while a high proportion of athletes directly obtained supplements from sponsors or internet websites (Fig. 5). Although 85% of the sample indicates that they only used certified supplements free of doping agents, 81% were not aware of any platform to verify supplement safety/quality. This is because 92% of the sample considered that supplements are safe and controlled by the supplement company/brand. Only 40% of athletes had knowledge of a Spanish national-based application that certified permitted supplements and identified doping agents (i.e., NoDop App).
Distribution of dietary supplement use in elite athletes according to the categories used in the International Olympic Committee consensus statement on dietary supplements and the high-performance athlete
Frequency of elite athletes according to the number of supplements used in the last year
Frequency of elite athletes using the 16 most taken supplements in the last year
Main source of information to determine the type, use, and utility of dietary supplementation in elite athletes
Main site of dietary supplements purchases in elite athletes
Among the athletes that did not report any use of supplements (n = 190), the main reason was that they did not consider them necessary to maintain their level of fitness (Fig. 6). A low proportion of athletes did not consume supplements because their family/coach did not allow this practice.
Relative frequency of athletes not taking supplements according to the reasons for not using them
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of dietary supplement usage in elite athletes from different sports and to provide information about how athletes manage the use of these supplements. We gathered information about the number and type of supplements consumed in the last year, when and why the supplements were consumed, along with data about purchasing routines and certification of supplement quality/safety. The current investigation was shaped by the recent suggestions for improving research on dietary supplement use as raised by Knapik et al. [4]. The investigation relied on a questionnaire that included definitions and examples of dietary supplements. It also contained specific categories of dietary supplements along with open and closed questions for participants to respond to. A wide variety of sports were solicited for questioning. Although a similar aim has been pursued in several previous investigations [12,13,14,15,16], this current study is novel because it expands upon the most common practices employed for the management and administration of dietary supplements in a sample of elite athletes. Finally, the study is innovative because categorizes dietary supplements according to the last consensus of the IOC [3].
Overall, the use of at least one dietary supplement was reported by 64% of the study sample, a proportion within the range of previous investigations carried out in similar samples in Europe [1, 14]. However, several demographic variables affected the proportion of athletes that consumed dietary supplements in the last year. Sex, age, level of competition, and professionalism influenced this proportion. The sociotype of a typical dietary supplement user is a 36–40-year-old male that competes at a national level, but in a sport that allows professionalism. Interestingly, age was the strongest predictor of dietary supplement use which confirms this variable as an important modulator of the decision to use supplements to obtain performance and/or health benefits, as previously found [13, 29]. The use of dietary supplements by youngest athletes is likely monitored by parents and coaches compared with older athletes who might have more opportunity to engage in unsupervised supplements use [30].
The sport discipline was another variable with great influence in the proportion of dietary supplements use (Table 1). The sport with the highest proportion of dietary supplement use was bodybuilding, with 95% of body-builders reporting the use of at least one supplement/year. Cycling, athletics triathlon, and aquatics also had high frequencies of dietary supplement use, as observed in elite Portuguese athletes, where the number of training hours –normally higher in endurance-based activities-- was associated with an increased supplement consumption [1]. Additionally, other studies also confirms that endurance athletes appear to consume more supplements than athletes engaged in sprint-based activities [9]. Interestingly, team sports (i.e., football, volleyball, field hockey, etc) presented a non-significant lower proportion of athletes that used supplements. This data coincides with previous publications in samples of Spanish tennis [25] and basketball players [12] where individual athletes reported a higher use of supplements than in team sports (81% vs 58%). Even in the sports with the lowest proportion of supplement use (i.e., gymnastics and Basque pelota), one out of two athletes reported the supplement use. This data reinforces the idea that characteristics of the sport influence the general use of dietary supplements in sports while it supports the establishment of dietary supplementation as a common tool for athletes of all types of sport disciplines.
The number of consumed supplements also presented a high interindividual variability with athletes consuming between 1 to 12 dietary supplements, as previously found [1, 16] Although the median of supplement consumption per athlete was 3 supplements per year, a high proportion of athletes consumed more than 8 different supplements and at different times of the season. This results suggest that some athletes might be subject to the adverse interactions of polypharmacy [21] while also laying out the idea of excessive dietary supplement use amongst some athletes. This is more evident by the high reliance of athletes on themselves as being the main source to obtain accurate information about the effect and efficacy of the supplement while they referred themselves as a the main responsible for the plan of supplementation (Fig. 4). As it has been found, receiving dietary counseling by a qualified professional - instead of relying on self-prescription - results in better-informed choices with respect to the use of nutritional supplements related to performance, recovery, and health [31]. This information points towards the necessity of increasing the knowledge of the benefits and risks of supplementation in the elite athlete population. This result highlights the importance of elite athletes placing more reliance on sport nutritionists and scientists to design their supplementation plans. A more informed athlete population will likely reduce the strong effect of purchasing multiple types of supplements that have been driven by dietary supplement manufacturers.
The most consumed dietary supplements were proteins, amino acids/BCAA, multivitamins, glutamine, and creatine (Fig. 3). A very similar pattern for the type of supplements consumed has been reported in other studies where proteins [32], multivitamins [31], and creatine [29] were found to be the most consumed substances. However, as a novelty of this investigation, the data indicate that the most prevalent group of substances were ones that had little scientific evidence (Fig. 1). This effect was produced by the high number of supplements available in the market that contain minimal evidence of its effectiveness. Although this in the first investigation that suggests this finding, it could be ventured from previous literature due to the gaps in knowledge about effective nutrition and supplementation found in coaches and athletes [24]. This outcome is likely the result of current supplementation practices that imply a poor knowledge about the effect and efficacy of supplements along with reliance on sources with low credibility, at least in this sample of high-performance athletes.
The internet is not only a readily accessible outlet for quick purchases, but also a source of information for the claimed effects of dietary supplements. It is also often reported as a preference site of purchase [33], as it was found in the present study. Nevertheless, the purchase of supplements in physical stores was listed as the main preference for athletes in this study. This might be justified by a possibly increased safety perception by athletes when buying supplements directly to the vendor when compared to buying online, but research on this topic is scarce and the justification of purchase preference merits further research. Because of their graphical attractiveness and ability to interact/share, athletes often prefer internet and social media as preferred tools for obtaining information and/or educating themselves on nutrition-related topics [29]. Possibly, an excessive amount of information readily available on the internet and a high engagement with social media [34] with marketing campaigns aimed for sports practitioners, might increase the risk for athletes not relying on other professionals to obtain advice.
Lack of legislation on dietary supplements worldwide, the risk of contamination, and the absence of proper information regarding their use and scientific basis [23, 24] may increase the risk for inadequate and excessive use of dietary supplements or even inadvertent doping.
In the sample of athletes that took at least one supplement, four out of five athletes did not know platforms to check safety/quality of supplements. Most solely relied on the brand name for quality and safety. Despite ample evidence that confirms contamination in commercially available products, athletes still purchased supplements with the assumption of safety [23]. Furthermore, only a relatively small percentage of the athletes not taking dietary supplements reported fearing contamination of the supplement. Together, all these results may indicate that athletes are disturbingly unaware of the contamination risks inherent in dietary supplements. Athlete supplement education is a critical need. This is important to not only reduce the cases of unintended doping [22], but to also avoid unintentional intakes of substances that could potentially have acute and long term side-effects [20].
This investigation presents some limitations that should be discussed to improve the results’ applicability. Although we used a validated and reliable questionnaire [27], the timeframe used to report the use of supplements (i.e., “in the last year”) might have induced some error due to imprecision in the number and type of supplements reported. This might be important for those subjects reporting a high number of supplements. We used open and closed questions and provided examples of each supplement category in an attempt to reduce recall inaccuracies. Additionally, although it was made clear that the questionnaire was anonymous, it is possible that due to personal bias, some athletes may have intentionally avoided reporting some information regarding supplement consumption. Finally, some athletes showed some difficulty describing the type of supplement they were taking. To avoid wrongfully identifying supplements, an open space was provided in the questionnaire to fully describe the supplement (name, brand, type, and any other extra information that they could recall) to improve the identification of each supplement. Despite these limitations, the authors believe that the article presents valuable information for the scientific community about patterns of dietary supplementation consumption.
In conclusion, the results of this questionnaire demonstrate a widespread use of dietary supplements in elite athletes. Socio-demographic factors that include age, sex, type of sport, level of competition, and professionalism might influence the prevalence of dietary supplement consumption. Although proteins and amino acids were the most consumed supplements, substances with a low scientific basis for their consumption were the most predominant group of supplements. This is mainly due to the high number of commercially-available dietary supplements that fulfill this definition. Furthermore, athletes seem to rely on inadequate sources of information when acquiring and using supplements, with a considerable proportion of athletes engaging in self-prescription and purchase without consulting an accredited professional. Additionally, a high proportion of athletes are unaware of the contamination risks that dietary supplements may pose, which expose them to possible inadvertent doping. Urgent nutritional education and consulting should be made available to athletes and coaches, emphasizing the role of the nutritionist, sport scientists, and the acute and long-term side effects of incorrect plans of supplementation.
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The authors would like to thank all the athletes who participated in the study, as well as all the national federations that have collaborated in the data collection process.
This study did not receive any fundings. During this study, Gabriel Baltazar-Martins received a grant from the Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport. Diego Brito de Souza received a scholarship from the Camilo José Cela University to support his PhD studies.
Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Camilo José Cela University, C/ Castillo de Alarcón, 49. Villafranca del Castillo, 28692, Madrid, Spain
Gabriel Baltazar-Martins, Diego Brito de Souza, Millán Aguilar-Navarro & Juan Del Coso
Exercise and Sport Sciences. Faculty of Health Sciences, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain
Millán Aguilar-Navarro
Department for Doping Control, Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport, Madrid, Spain
Jesús Muñoz-Guerra
Department of Education, Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport, Madrid, Spain
María del Mar Plata
Gabriel Baltazar-Martins
Diego Brito de Souza
Juan Del Coso
The study was designed by MAN, JMG, MMP and JDC; data were collected by MAN, JMG, MMP and JDC; data were analyzed by GBM, MAN, DBS and JDC; data interpretation and manuscript preparation were undertaken by GBM, MAN, DBS and JDC. JMG and MMP critically reviewed the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the paper.
Correspondence to Juan Del Coso.
Informed consent was obtained from all participants with the questionnaire. The study was approved by the Camilo José Cela University Ethics Committee and it was carried out in accordance with the procedures approved by the Declaration of Helsinki.
Baltazar-Martins, G., Brito de Souza, D., Aguilar-Navarro, M. et al. Prevalence and patterns of dietary supplement use in elite Spanish athletes. J Int Soc Sports Nutr 16, 30 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12970-019-0296-5
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Crescimento dos vizinhos, estagnação por aqui…
Notícia da Reuters sobre o crescimento dos vizinhos frente à estagnação do Brasil… Há quem diga que o País passará por momentos difíceis nos próximos anos (o crescimento pífio do ano passado é um sinal). Estamos começando a pagar a comta do governo anterior…
Analysis: Nimble neighbors outshine Brazil on growth
Mon, Mar 19 2012
By Terry Wade
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Swift growth by nimble Latin American countries like Chile, Colombia and Peru has put renewed focus on regional heavyweight Brazil, whose relatively closed, high-tax economy is now sputtering below its potential.
The three Andean countries grew more than twice as fast as Brazil last year and are expected to outpace it again this year. Brazil has also lagged its peers in the BRIC club of emerging market heavyweights that includes China, India and Russia.
Officials in the Andean countries say they have benefited from low public debt loads, fiscal surpluses that allow them to invest heavily, and an aggressive pursuit of free-trade deals with big countries that have made their economies among the most open in the world.
In Brazil, politics have at times stymied ambitious fiscal reforms to eliminate the deficit in a country with powerful public sector unions.
Strong business groups anxious to protect their lucrative positions in the domestic market of 200 million people have resisted free-trade pacts. That has left consumers in the lurch: the iPhone 4S was retailing for $1,250 at an outlet in Brasilia in February. They sell for half as much on Amazon.com.
“There are two visions,” about which economic model to follow: an open one or a closed one, Colombian Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry said at the weekend at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo.
“The message we send to our producers is you are in the world, not just Colombia. The future is about being competitive and this is as painful as giving birth.”
The three Andean countries grew between 6 and 7 percent last year, well above Brazil’s 2.7 percent.
Brazil’s economy has expanded steadily over the last decade and it grew 7.5 percent in 2010, leading some economists to say it had finally buried its history of slow growth. But with last year’s sharp decline, those worries are back.
Most economists now say Brazil will grow only around 3.3 percent this year. Peru expects to grow up to 6 percent and Colombia is so confident of its expansion that the central bank has been boldly raising interest rates.
“In open economies like Peru there are fewer market distortions, unlike economies which tend to close themselves and create new artificial barriers,” Peruvian Finance Minister Luis Miguel Castilla said in Montevideo. “That also means the capacity of companies in open economies to adapt in a context of international competition is much greater.”
Castilla said the risk for small countries that rely on commodities exports is that they can suffer shocks when prices fall, but that they also can recover quickly.
Echeverry and Castilla declined to explicitly pinpoint Brazil’s challenges but touted the success of their efforts to streamline taxes, lower tariffs and ramp up public investments.
Brazil lacks a major free-trade agreement despite exports that have surged over the last decade. Its Byzantine tax code soaks up about 34 percent of gross domestic product and requires companies to hire armies of accountants.
Its debt load of 37 percent of GDP, though it has fallen from more than 50 percent over the last decade, is costly to finance because of interest rates that are among the highest in the world and a net public sector deficit that historically has crowded out investment by the private sector.
Years of shortfalls have left infrastructure bottlenecks that contribute to inflation and which the government is racing to eliminate before Brazil hosts the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics two years later.
Brazil’s companies have been mostly sheltered from competition for years. Now, what the government has dubbed a global “currency war” has left its currency, the real, near all-time highs and undermined the competitiveness of Brazilian industry.
Economists worry that 75 percent of Brazil’s exports are tied to commodities prices.
“This leaves us vulnerable. We need to diversify our exports and we must make our industries more competitive,” said Elcio Gomes Rocha, chief economist at state-owned Banco do Brasil.
He said capital investments make up only 19 percent of Brazil’s GDP and that the minimum the economy needs is about 24 percent. Brazil also has a relatively low domestic savings rate.
“You grow when you save,” Colombia’s Echeverry said. “The Asian countries keep on growing because they have savings rates of 30 or 40 percent and investment rates of 40 to 45 percent. It’s not like this if you just consume and don’t save.”
Mauro Leos, regional credit officer for Latin America at the ratings agency Moody’s, said it is a medium-term worry for Brazil.
“Brazil is a large economy, it’s a BRIC. However it’s one of the few countries in the sovereign universe where you have investment rates below 20 percent. Those countries that have low investment rates tend to be poor, small or not rich. It’s something that’s strange.”
‘REASONABLE GROWTH’
Though Brazil has made enormous progress over the last decade – lowering the poverty rate and joblessness to record lows – its reforms never went as deep as those in Chile and Peru, where right-wing authoritarian governments in the 1980s and 1990s slashed tariffs and overhauled public pension liabilities.
Pension and social security liabilities have long been a major cause of Brazil’s continuing public sector deficit, which governments since the return to democracy in 1985 have narrowed to 2.4 percent of GDP by making piecemeal changes.
But talk of sweeping fiscal reforms has run into political resistance. The ruling Workers’ Party has close ties to public sector unions, which were instrumental in helping it win the presidency in 2002.
Opposition to shrinking the state became a rallying cry during President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s re-election campaign in 2006, when the party seized on a plan by the economics advisor to opposition challenger Geraldo Alckmin to drastically cut spending 10 percent across the board.
Lula’s aides said the Alckmin plan would throw the economy into a tailspin.
But Miriam Belchior, Brazil’s planning minister under President Dilma Rousseff, says that is changing and that fiscal and monetary policy now work together to help reduce the lofty benchmark interest rate, which has contributed to an overvaluation of the real and undermined the competitiveness of Brazilian exports. The Selic benchmark rate is currently at 9.75 percent after a series of cuts over the past six months.
“Right now it’s possible to have this new mix between fiscal and monetary policy,” she said. “This is the big change.”
Rousseff froze 55 billion reais ($32 billion) in spending this year, mainly on administrative and discretionary costs, while preserving outlays for public investments. That followed a 50 billion reais reduction last year.
Belchior said the government has also sent a bill to Congress that over the long-term would help control pension costs for public sector workers, a major drag on fiscal accounts. It has cleared the lower house but not the Senate and relations between the government and Congress are strained.
Brazil’s economy grew at an annual average of 3.8 percent over the last decade, but Peru had an average rate of 6.4 percent.
Brazil’s former central bank chief, Henrique Meirelles, tried to downplay worries about modest growth. “Brazil still has a reasonable trend growth rate,” he said. “The country has the conditions to grow but has challenges.”
He said Brazil’s economy was not driven only by exports. “It’s very important that the domestic market is kept strong and that has been one of the reasons for strong growth.”
Rousseff’s government was criticized as protectionist by policymakers at the IADB meeting for pressuring Mexico last week to restrict its auto exports to Brazil.
Chile and Peru – and to a lesser extent Mexico and Colombia – have arguably the world’s most ambitious free-trade agendas.
Their free-trade pacts stretch from China and Japan and South Korea, to the United States and Europe. More pacts with smaller trading partners have been signed or are in progress with countries like India.
EU trade ministers agreed on Friday to approve a free trade pact with Colombia and Peru.
“Once the EU accord, is ratified 90 percent of our trade will be covered by some kind of preferential accord,” Peru’s Castilla said. “I think this an advantage that our country has relative to our neighbors who don’t.”
(Additional reporting By Guido Nejamkis, Antonio De la Jara, Krista Hughes and Felipe Llambias; Editing by Kieran Murray)
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Amazon Picker/Packer - Full Time Jobs
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Amazon Picker/Packer - Full Time
Amazon Workforce Staffing Gibbstown , NJ 08027
Seasonal Delivery Warehouse Team Member - Earn up to $720 per week
Hourly pay rate: Earn $15.00 - $18.00
The base pay for this role is $15.00/hr.
Earn $2/hr extra for select shifts through Dec 26, 2020
Join Amazon and become part of the dedicated team that gets orders ready for people relying on Amazon's service. Earn a competitive wage while learning new skills. Stay active in this fast-paced warehouse environment.
Depending on your location, you'll have the option to choose from part-time and full-time roles with early morning, day, and night shifts. Choose the role and shift times that work best for you.
What this job will be like:
Be on the last stop before we deliver customer smiles! Delivery Station Team Members receive trucks full of orders then prepare them for delivery.
As part of this team, you'll load conveyor belts and transport and stage deliveries to be picked up by drivers. Plus, you'll get to use the latest Amazon technology, like smartphones and handheld devices, to scan and sort the orders. These duties can rotate throughout the day, making each day a little different.
Health and safety is the top priority: We continue to consult with medical and health experts, and take all recommended precautions in our buildings to keep people healthy.
Career development: Many of our entry-level warehouse employees become leaders in operations, HR, and other areas. See where your Amazon journey can take you.
Teamwork environment: Work is more fun when you are part of a great team.
Variety every day: Your days will keep you busy with different types of work.
High school or equivalent diploma
Amazon Picker Packer With Immediate Openings
VIEW JOBS 1/15/2021 12:00:00 AM 2021-04-15T00:00 Seasonal Delivery Warehouse Team Member Location: Logan Township Job opportunities vary by location. We update postings daily with open positions. Hourly pay rate: $15.05 - $16.05 Immediate openings available now. Amazon remains open as an essential business to serve our communities delivering critical supplies directly to the doorsteps of people who need them. Find out what Amazon is doing to provide a safe environment for employees at this time on our COVID-19 FAQ page. Join Amazon and become part of the dedicated team that gets orders ready for people relying on Amazon's service. Earn a competitive wage while learning new skills. Stay active in this fast-paced warehouse environment. Depending on your location, you'll have the option to choose from part-time and full-time roles with early morning, day, and night shifts. Choose the role and shift times that work best for you. Candidates must be 18 years or older with the ability to read and speak English for safety purposes. What this job will be like: Be on the last stop before we deliver customer smiles! Delivery Station Team Members receive trucks full of orders then prepare them for delivery. As part of this team, you'll load conveyor belts and transport and stage deliveries to be picked up by drivers. Plus, you'll get to use the latest Amazon technology, like smartphones and handheld devices, to scan and sort the orders. These duties can rotate throughout the day, making each day a little different. Reasons you'll love working here: * Health and safety is the top priority: We continue to consult with medical and health experts, and take all recommended precautions in our buildings to keep people healthy. * Earn more: You can expect a competitive wage and reliable pay check when you work for Amazon. * Career development: Many of our entry-level warehouse employees become leaders in operations, HR, and other areas. See where your Amazon journey can take you. * Teamwork environment: Work is more fun when you are part of a great team. * Variety every day: Your days will keep you busy with different types of work. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Basic qualifications: * High school or equivalent diploma Amazon Workforce Staffing Gibbstown NJ
Amazon Order Picker Full Time
VIEW JOBS 12/5/2020 12:00:00 AM 2021-03-05T00:00 Shifts: Overnight, Early Morning, Day, Evening, Weekend Location: Swedesboro, NJ Job opportunities vary by location. We update postings daily with open positions. Hourly pay rate: Earn min pay rate - max pay rate Immediate openings available now. Become part of the dedicated team that gets orders ready for people relying on Amazon's service. From flexible part-time roles to full-time set schedules with health care benefits, Amazon has a variety of jobs. Find the right Amazon opportunity for you today. Amazon remains open as an essential business to serve our communities delivering critical supplies directly to the doorsteps of people who need them. Find out what Amazon is doing to provide a safe environment for employees at this time on our COVID-19 FAQ page. Candidates must be 18 years or older with the ability to read and speak English for safety purposes. Reasons you'll love working here: Health and safety are a top priority with all of our roles and sites. We continue to consult with medical and health experts, and take all recommended precautions in our buildings and stores to keep people healthy. * Earn more: You can expect a competitive wage and reliable paycheck when you work for Amazon. * Career development: Many of our entry-level employees become leaders in operations, HR, and other areas. See where your Amazon journey can take you. * Benefits: Our range of benefits can include health care starting on day one, employee discounts, 401(k) savings plans, paid time off and more! Find out which benefits you'll get after you choose your role with us. * Stay active: You'll be on the move for your whole shift in our fast-paced environments. Check out what some of our employees have to say about their jobs: https://www.amazondelivers.jobs/about/culture/ Amazon is hiring for the following types of roles in your area: Fulfillment Centers - Work inside an Amazon warehouse, selecting, packing and shipping customer orders. If you like a fast-paced, physical position that gets you up and moving, then come help bring orders to life. Work a set, full-time schedule. Shift options include overnight and days, and usually at least one weekend day. Basic qualifications: * High school, GED, or equivalent diploma Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Amazon Workforce Staffing Gibbstown NJ
VIEW JOBS 12/9/2020 12:00:00 AM 2021-03-09T00:00 Seasonal Delivery Warehouse Team Member - Earn up to $722 per week Hourly pay rate: Earn $15.05 - $18.05 * The base pay for this role is $15.05/hr. Limited-time Opportunity Earn $2/hr extra for select shifts through Dec 26, 2020 Location: Logan Township Job opportunities vary by location. We update postings daily with open positions. Shifts: Overnight & Early Morning Immediate openings available now. Amazon remains open as an essential business to serve our communities delivering critical supplies directly to the doorsteps of people who need them. Find out what Amazon is doing to provide a safe environment for employees at this time on our COVID-19 FAQ page. Join Amazon and become part of the dedicated team that gets orders ready for people relying on Amazon's service. Earn a competitive wage while learning new skills. Stay active in this fast-paced warehouse environment. Depending on your location, you'll have the option to choose from part-time and full-time roles with early morning, day, and night shifts. Choose the role and shift times that work best for you. What this job will be like: Be on the last stop before we deliver customer smiles! Delivery Station Team Members receive trucks full of orders then prepare them for delivery. As part of this team, you'll load conveyor belts and transport and stage deliveries to be picked up by drivers. Plus, you'll get to use the latest Amazon technology, like smartphones and handheld devices, to scan and sort the orders. These duties can rotate throughout the day, making each day a little different. Reasons you'll love working here: * Health and safety is the top priority: We continue to consult with medical and health experts, and take all recommended precautions in our buildings to keep people healthy. * Earn more: You can expect a competitive wage and reliable pay check when you work for Amazon. * Career development: Many of our entry-level warehouse employees become leaders in operations, HR, and other areas. See where your Amazon journey can take you. * Teamwork environment: Work is more fun when you are part of a great team. * Variety every day: Your days will keep you busy with different types of work. Basic qualifications: * High school or equivalent diploma Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Amazon Workforce Staffing Gibbstown NJ
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Network Engineer II Jobs
E3 Government Consulting Llc. Fort Bliss , TX 79916
Assists in the tests and evaluations of performance of network components by laboratory and field tests to insure the adequacy of the components for use in solving existing problems. Coordinates with others to assure all safety, security, environmental and community concerns are adequately addressed. Analyze program documents to assist in identification of evaluation issues, make recommendations to documents, and propose evaluation strategies and methodology. Monitor on-site testing and assist with data reduction, analysis and authentication. Develop and manage automated and manual test and evaluation database as directed. Develop analysis to include tables, charts, graphs, briefings and reports.
This position is contingent upon a pending Government contract award and funding availability.
Must possess a Bachelors Degree in network engineering specialization or related discipline and five years applicable experience. Secret security clearance is required
Five (5) years of experience gained within the last 10 years (2010 to present) in at least one of the following areas:
a. DT, OT, and evaluation methods (includes T&E planning, test design, test readiness, test execution, data collection during test, evaluation of test or modeling data, and development of evaluation analysis plans and reports) for C4ISR systems/subsystems;
b. Integrating Army and Joint Service system acquisition documentation (includes DOD, Army, and ATEC regulations, pamphlets, instructions, and guidance) in the development of DOD system acquisition products for T&E of C4ISR systems/subsystems;
c. Conducting T&E of Army and Joint Service information systems/subsystems;
d. Software application testing and network communication of ISR systems/subsystems to include at least one (1) year of experience in black box functional and system-level testing techniques (techniques in which the software tester does not have access to the source code itself);
e. Oral and written communication such as briefings, writing technical papers, etc. (includes T&E plans and reports such as SEP, TEMP, ESR, CIPR, OT and/or DT Test Plans, OMAR, OER, OAR, CLR, SR, SC) for C4ISR systems/subsystems.
Were an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Scientist Engineer II
E3 Government Consulting Llc.
VIEW JOBS 12/31/2020 12:00:00 AM 2021-03-31T00:00 <p>Undertake and resolve difficult and highly complex technical projects through research, analysis, and the application of judgment developed from previous experiences. Provides technical insight for addressing problems that are difficult to define, require unconventional or novel approaches, and require sophisticated analytical techniques. Remains abreast of changes in the subject matter area and introduces technological/cutting edge breakthroughs into current efforts when applicable. Independently evaluates, selects and applies standard engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria. Provides independent and professional support on portions of complex projects. Specific assignment objectives, approaches, and possible solutions are reviewed for accuracy and completeness. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: independently performs a project assignment that involves complex features and can be guided by codes, standards, and other precedents of the discipline; analyzes and/or evaluates the results of an analysis using techniques prescribed by senior engineers or supervisors; and accomplishes tasks of which require investigation of a many variables. Personally observes test events as required and monitors performance of the test item and adequacy of data collection. Reviews the data collected for completeness, accuracy and validity.</p><p>This position is contingent upon a pending Government contract award and funding availability. <br></p><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p>Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in specialization or related scientific discipline and fifteen years applicable experience; or a Master’s Degree in specialization or related scientific discipline and five years applicable experience. Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalizes Information (TS/SCI) security clearance is required.</p><p>Five (5) years of experience gained within the last 10 years (2010 to present) in at least one of the following areas:</p><p>a. DT, OT, and evaluation methods (includes T&E planning, test design, test readiness, test execution, data collection during test, evaluation of test or modeling data, and development of evaluation analysis plans and reports) for C4ISR systems/subsystems;</p><p>b. Integrating Army and Joint Service system acquisition documentation (includes DOD, Army, and ATEC regulations, pamphlets, instructions, and guidance) in the development of DOD system acquisition products for T&E of C4ISR systems/subsystems;</p><p>c. Conducting T&E of Army and Joint Service information systems/subsystems;</p><p>d. Software application testing and network communication of ISR systems/subsystems to include at least one (1) year of experience in black box functional and system-level testing techniques (techniques in which the software tester does not have access to the source code itself);</p><p>e. Oral and written communication such as briefings, writing technical papers, etc. (includes T&E plans and reports such as SEP, TEMP, ESR, CIPR, OT and/or DT Test Plans, OMAR, OER, OAR, CLR, SR, SC) for C4ISR systems/subsystems.</p><p>We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.<br></p> E3 Government Consulting Llc. Fort Bliss TX
Electronic Engineer II
VIEW JOBS 12/31/2020 12:00:00 AM 2021-03-31T00:00 <p>Assists higher level engineer in designing, modifying, constructing and/or evaluation of electronic and electro-mechanical instrumentation used in performance measurements for test and evaluation projects. Assists in the evaluation of design, modification, development, construction, installation, alignment, operations, troubleshooting, and repairs of a variety of electronic and electro-mechanical instrumentation used in test and evaluation to control test conditions and/or record dynamic measurement data. Assists in the conduct of tests and evaluations of the performance of electronic instrumentation by laboratory and field tests to insure the adequacy of the instrumentation for use in solving existing problems which requires the development of test procedures and the employment of test techniques. Assists in reviewing and/or evaluating of Government drawings and specifications practices, specifically related to US Army/DOD format and procedures. Drafts test plans requiring determination of test procedures and test techniques necessary for the accomplishment of the project in the most efficient and economical manner. Consults with instrumentation specialists, design personnel, maintenance and support personnel and mathematicians in developing details of the project. Observes test, as required to assure proper test setup and methods are being utilized or to obtain firsthand knowledge essential to understanding electronic material under test. Recommends changes or deviations in test procedures and techniques as interim results dictate. Recommends requirements for special test equipment, if necessary. Obtains, analyzes, and evaluates test data such as instrumentation readings, graphs, measurements and mathematical reductions, mathematical and statistical analysis, etc., consulting with personnel to discuss and recommend resolution of problems; clarify and evaluate results, insure validity, etc. Considers and assures that data is valid and that it is complete with respect to fulfilling the requirements of test directives; plans and recommends the conduct of additional tests to obtain completeness of data if necessary. Coordinates individual test results drawing inferences and conclusions from the data, from observations made during tests, and from examinations of material as to adequacies, weaknesses, and failures in material; causes of deficiencies, and probable type of remedial action required. Drafts complete report of data, conclusions and recommendations; frequently recommending whether equipment is satisfactory and warrants continuation or abandonment of development. Recommendations frequently involve comparative consideration of the performance of other electronic instrumentation. Recommends instrumentation requirements and installs instrumentation systems as required to obtain valid, relevant, accurate, and complete data necessary for performance determinations of various vehicles, weapons systems, or other items under test. Sets up, aligns, and operates data acquisition, transmission, analysis, and control system. Uses digital computer systems and various analog items/systems for measuring, recording, processing and outputting data.</p><p>This position is contingent upon a pending Government contract award and funding availability. <br></p><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p>Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering specialization or related discipline and five years applicable experience in design development, and/or testing planning, reviewing, or executing testing of military systems. Experience in DoD integrated test philosophy, test regulations, and coordinated test and evaluation programs are required. Must be familiar with DoD drawings, specifications practices, formats and procedures. Secret security clearance is required.</p><p>Five (5) years of experience gained within the last 10 years (2010 to present) in at least one of the following areas:</p><p>a. DT, OT, and evaluation methods (includes T&E planning, test design, test readiness, test execution, data collection during test, evaluation of test or modeling data, and development of evaluation analysis plans and reports) for C4ISR systems/subsystems;</p><p>b. Integrating Army and Joint Service system acquisition documentation (includes DOD, Army, and ATEC regulations, pamphlets, instructions, and guidance) in the development of DOD system acquisition products for T&E of C4ISR systems/subsystems;</p><p>c. Conducting T&E of Army and Joint Service information systems/subsystems;</p><p>d. Software application testing and network communication of ISR systems/subsystems to include at least one (1) year of experience in black box functional and system-level testing techniques (techniques in which the software tester does not have access to the source code itself);</p><p>e. Oral and written communication such as briefings, writing technical papers, etc. (includes T&E plans and reports such as SEP, TEMP, ESR, CIPR, OT and/or DT Test Plans, OMAR, OER, OAR, CLR, SR, SC) for C4ISR systems/subsystems.</p><p>We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.<br></p> E3 Government Consulting Llc. Fort Bliss TX
VIEW JOBS 12/31/2020 12:00:00 AM 2021-03-31T00:00 <p>Assists in specified portions of overall evaluations pertaining to software. Studies engineering texts, manufacturer’s publications and other technical material to obtain information on materials, components, subsystems and other pertinent data to be used in the materials evaluation and analysis of systems. Personally attend meetings and test events when requested. Reviews data collected for completeness, accuracy and validity. Performs necessary calculations, prepares charts and graphs to present information, and prepares sections of reports. Provides subject matter expertise to evaluators in the development of evaluation measures and analysis of data.</p><p>This position is contingent upon a pending Government contract award and funding availability. <br></p><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p>Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in engineering specialization or related discipline and five years applicable experience. Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalizes Information (TS/SCI) security clearance is required.</p><p>Five (5) years of experience gained within the last 10 years (2010 to present) in at least one of the following areas:</p><p>a. DT, OT, and evaluation methods (includes T&E planning, test design, test readiness, test execution, data collection during test, evaluation of test or modeling data, and development of evaluation analysis plans and reports) for C4ISR systems/subsystems;</p><p>b. Integrating Army and Joint Service system acquisition documentation (includes DOD, Army, and ATEC regulations, pamphlets, instructions, and guidance) in the development of DOD system acquisition products for T&E of C4ISR systems/subsystems;</p><p>c. Conducting T&E of Army and Joint Service information systems/subsystems;</p><p>d. Software application testing and network communication of ISR systems/subsystems to include at least one (1) year of experience in black box functional and system-level testing techniques (techniques in which the software tester does not have access to the source code itself);</p><p>e. Oral and written communication such as briefings, writing technical papers, etc. (includes T&E plans and reports such as SEP, TEMP, ESR, CIPR, OT and/or DT Test Plans, OMAR, OER, OAR, CLR, SR, SC) for C4ISR systems/subsystems.</p><p>We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.<br></p> E3 Government Consulting Llc. Fort Bliss TX
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What Happened the Last Time Baylor Came to Lubbock?
Paul Roberts for Talk 1340/KKAM.com
The last time Baylor came to Lubbock to play basketball one of the greatest moments in Texas Tech athletics history happened.
Forget the Final Four or the Elite Eight. Forget the National Championships or bowl comebacks. Forget last-second heroics.
Avery Benson SLAMMING an alley-oop down from fellow end of the bench player Andrew Sorrels was the best moment in Texas Tech athletics history.
OK, it's at least in the Top 10. Just watch it again. Then one more time.
I don't care if they got in trouble, or that it was in a meaningless spot in the game. In fact, it's way better that it happened with Texas Tech up by 23. (Texas Tech went on to beat the Bears 86-61.)
It came during a stretch when the Red Raiders were absolutely hammering Big 12 teams in a 9-game win streak to close out conference play with a Big 12 Championship.
Who is going to throw Avery Benson an alley-oop tonight as Baylor returns to Lubbock to play against the Red Raiders at 8 p.m. at the United Supermarkets arena?
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Anatomical and biological studies have revealed impressive evidence in support of TKM®. Nevertheless, the most compelling evidence continues to be the personal restoration of thousands of people who have used the method to overcome many different afflictions and restore their health.
Discoveries through Physics Are Leading Us Into The Medicine of The Future!
A Health Recovery and Preventative Medicine Education Resource Presents
TKM®
Extraordinary Alternative (Natural) Medicine for Extraordinary Results
The fields of standardized and integrative medicine are becoming more enthusiastic about recent developments in classic and quantum physics which offers NEW HOPE for addressing a wide range of illnesses from the Common Cold to Chronic Disease.
The discoveries Include Promoting Physical Fitness and Improving or Restoring Emotional and Mental Health.
More Leading-Edge Medical Physicians and Health Professionals are saying this will or should be
The Medicine of the Future!
Many are discovering "TKM®" is rapidly becoming the Medicine of the Present!
"TKM® (The King Method) is a totally non-invasive method administered with absolutely no repercussions noted. Many Americans are now embracing the understanding of the bio-electrical systems in the body. These systems have been known and utilized in Main Stream or Conventional Medicine in some aspect for a several centuries. Through recent research, a much greater understanding of this bioelectromagnetic system in the body and the importance of it's proper functioning for human health in a variety of ways.
The beginning of truly understanding this electrical energy scientifically, began with a physicist named Nikola Tesla. Since Tesla, there have been many great physicists including "Einstein" which have advanced our knowledge of the body's electrical energy system. Although, the medical community is just beginning to see the importance of the bio-electrical system, which many say supports every other system known in the human body. Cyril W. Smith (England) along with other well known physicists are dedicated to understanding more about this fascinating and important system within the human body. Let us present a few relations that are dependent upon the integrity of the bio-electromagnetic energy in relation to TKM®.
Free radical control
Autonomic N. S. (Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system)
Vascular system
Skeletal system and joints
Environmental disease
Enzyme systems = the human body has about 37.2 trillion cells and each has over 1300 different enzymes in control of its chemical activities. These enzymes can combine with coenzymes to form nearly 100,000 various chemicals that enable us to see, hear, feel, move, digest food, and think.
144,000 biochemical functions in mammalian cells
There is virtually no biological system in the human body that has not shown to be dependent upon the integrity of the energy systems to maintain proper functioning.
Recent health news report: research on Energy-based medicine is revealing a source for health recovery, healing and preventative medicine unlike anything known before. TKM® therapists apply this hands-on method and say that anyone can apply it. Dr. King says, it is an integrative medicine approach first thought of in the East, for the Eastern culture to help the body heal through natural medicine. Termed by many as "Energetics, bioenergy, bio-electrical, bio-electromagnetic energy", which is not like, although has some similarities to, acupuncture or acupressure, except that it far exceeds their accomplishments. TKM® also provides first-aid help. This light hands-on body work is a natural wholistic approach and is a complimentary therapy taught in educational/training seminars and lectures across the country and the world, exclusively by King Institute, LLC.
There are obviously more systems than can be listed.
If you have any questions after searching our site, you may contact us.
Histology of the Energy Sphere
A Summary
There are consistently more than twice as many dermal papillae within the area of each Energy Sphere point in humans. The Fisher's Exact test and the one tailed t-test support these findings to be significant in relation to acupuncture points. It is logical to assume that the increased concentration of dermal papillae containing capillary loops with sympathetic wrappings and the contained nerve endings within the loci (center) of the Energy Sphere can account for the anatomical differences which are possibly responsible for increased conductivity found in the overlying epidermis (see Figure 2).
One biological discovery which presents scientific confirmation of the bio-electrical activity and reactions of the Energy Sphere is the release of methionine enkephalin, leucine enkephalin and â-endorphin by the peri-aqueductal gray matter responding to direct Energy Sphere and acupuncture point stimulation. This was found to be significant in clarifying the manner scientifically, in which pain can be reduced or eliminated from bio-electromagnetic energy stimulation.
There is increased electrical activity at the Energy Sphere loci (centers). The evidence of measurable, increased electrical conductivity (lowered electrical resistance) has been scientifically and medically well-established and published since 1959 (see Figure 1).
The Energy Sphere's ability to constrain or emit electrical activity has received many efforts to equate anatomical biochemical entities (existence) to the measurable bio-electrical activities within these known Energy Sphere loci.
The scientific theories in the last 40 years developed by Western medicine has been understood by physicians in the East for centuries. The world's medical scientists and physicians are now beginning to confer with one another in search of how to help the millions of sufferers for which there has been no known answer in the West. Incorporating physics in the scientific medical community is the vital missing link in health recovery and preventative medicine for which we have searched.
Figure 1. Here is a brief outline of theories for electrical activity at energy loci.
Reflex changes in subcutaneous blood vessels lead to an increase in vascular permeability.
Ionescu-Tirgoviste
Pressure sensitive points are due to an accumulation of "vegetative nerves."
Woolley-Hart
Point activity is due to local micro-circulation which is under sympathetic control.
Hameroff, S. R.
Energy-conducting junction of paths made of microtubules.
Voll, R.
Points are condensations of field forces formed by body energy generated by local mitochondrial energy cycles.
Nakatani and Yamashita
Enlargement and osteal opening of sweat and sebaceous glands locally due to excitation of sympathetic nerves.
Melzack, R.
Similar characteristics between "trigger points" and acupuncture points.
Gunn, C. C.
Type I: Motor point
Type II: Sagittal plane focal meeting of superficial nerves
Type III: Superficial nerves and/or plexuses
Type IV: Muscle/tendon junctions
Dung, H. C.
Points are found associated with the terminal ends of superficial cutaneous nerves.
Figure 2. Replica of a 100x specimen (the actual slide is below).
The electrical potential of Energy Sphere locations has demonstrated to be significantly higher than that of non-Energy Sphere location in human and animals. It has also been substantiated that the same energy loci bilateral have shown to be different, therefore revealing that there is also a difference between each Energy Sphere locations on the right and left of the body. The average range measures 9.65 FA to 11.16 FA electrical potential.
Energy Sphere stimulation therapy has been applied for pain and many disorders of the body. Studies have shown that internal organs such as the heart, blood vessels, CNS, stomach, brain, uterus, bladder and others systems react to Energy Sphere stimulation therapy. The wellness of the internal organs can be measured by the electrical conductivity of certain Energy Sphere loci on the skin that correlate to each organ and other various functions of the body. These correlations have been utilized in Eastern medicine for thousands of years.
Scientific measurements of the electrical activity found in the epidermis at energy loci began with the galvanic skin reflex as a measurement of emotion. Since 1953, Voll worked with the galvanic skin reflex in the measuring of the electrical potentials of the body for the purpose of diagnosing diseases. Voll felt that the energy loci represent condensations of field forces formed by body energy that is generated from the organic systems via the Krebs Cycle and oxidative phosphorylation of the respiratory chain carried out in the mitochondria.
Voll tested the energy loci over 100,000 times and has, by clinical and surgical confirmation, mapped out the exact correlative skin points and the representative anatomical site for each of the body's internal organs. The electrical conductance is related to biochemical processes occurring within the respective organs.
In 1977, Melzack demonstrated that the energy loci correspond to trigger points of muscles. A relationship was also reported of the electrical conductance at energy loci to local sympathetic tone resulting in the enlarging and opening of sweat and sebaceous glands. It has also been concluded that the mechanism of Energy Sphere therapy involves stimulating specific locations on the skin that evoke specific nervous system responses, especially autonomic nerve activity, which through biochemical means readjusts the function of the related internal organ.
Although there are many unanswered questions and more research to conduct, there is a substantial amount of evidence collected which provides credence to the relations and benefits of utilizing the energy loci in a non-invasive way which is crucial in addressing the rising amount of answered and unanswered human health issues around the world.
The honors for this study and the documented report belong to Dr. Thomas E. Croley, Ph.D. Dr. Croley provided the actual slides and final reveiw and approval of this report in 1996. Most of these studies have been focused on acupuncture loci, which have shown to apply for Energy Sphere loci with little contradiction. The differences are found mostly in the form of application and a more comprehensive effect with Energy Sphere loci. To see a copy of the publication of the original study - click here for the PDF.
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KIO Commemoration Called Off Due to Burma Army Attack
KIA parade in its de fecto capital Laiza, Kachin State, northern Burma
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) could not hold an event to commemorate the 59th anniversary of its founding due to a Burma Army attack on the northern Shan State village where the proceedings were to take place.
The KIO had planned to hold the event in Bang Gaw village in Namtu Township on October 25. The area is located in territory controlled by the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) Battalion 8 under Brigade 4.
“The Burma Army attacked the village where the KIA planned to hold its anniversary celebration with heavy weapons, so the KIA could not hold it. All of the villagers have fled,” a source based in Laiza, the KIA headquarters, told KNG.
According to villagers, the Burma Army attacked the village with artillery on October 23.
The KIO was formed by Kachin university students in Lashio, northern Shan State, on October 25, 1960.
In his opening speech at another 59th anniversary commemoration, KIO chairperson Gen N’Ban La said that his organization had been in negotiations with the Burma Army regarding a possible bilateral ceasefire agreement and the return of displaced communities to their homes.
Tags: anniversary attack Burma Army KIO
Amid Ceasefire Speculation, Kachin IDPs Ask If They Will ‘Need to Run Again’
KIO To Commemorate Work of Its Civil Administration
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Kate in Catherine Walker for ‘socially distanced’ National Service of Remembrance
Cornelia James Alice Gloves With Bow
Sunday, 8th November 2020—For the tenth year running, from the balcony of the Foreign Office, the Duchess of Cambridge watched the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph War Memorial in Whitehall, London.
The National Service of Remembrance pays tribute to those who have died or suffered as a result of war and honours those who’ve sacrificed themselves to secure and protect the country’s freedom. It forms part of Remembrance Sunday, which always takes place on the second Sunday of November.
After a two-minute silence to commemorate those killed in all conflicts since the First World War, Prince Charles lay two wreaths at the Cenotaph. One to represent the Queen and one for himself.
Other royals laid wreaths too, including Prince William and Princess Anne.
Senior politicians also paid their respects.
This year’s service had to be scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, over 10,000 veterans would gather but this year, there were just 26. For the first time in 100 years, the public was asked to keep away from the Cenotaph.
Kate usually watches proceedings wit two or three members of the Royal Family the Foreign Office balcony. This year, to keep in line with social distancing rules, the numbers were limited to two per balcony. Kate stood opposite the Duchess of Cornwall.
Video footage of the Royal Family at the Cenotaph. I’ve started it from Kate’s first appearance for your convenience, but feel free to skip it backwards or forwards:
Coat: Initial reports said Alexander McQueen but Catherine Waker told @MiddletonMaven they designed the coat. It does indeed look like a Catherine Waker piece.
Earrings: Pearl and Diamond drops, loaned from the Queen
Hat: Philip Treacy
Clutch bag: Shown below, TBC.
Cornelia James wrote to me by email to confirm that Kate wore their black velvet and merino wool ‘Alice’ gloves.
The gloves are wrist-length and feature a side bow made from velvet and velvet fourchettes. Kate owns several pairs of gloves from the company. View them on this page.
Cornelia James sell the gloves in five different sizes and they can come with or without embroidery on the fingertips to make them ‘touchscreen-friendly.’ The gloves also feature antimicrobial technology, which is applied to the wool in the mill and affords some protection from COVID-19. The gloves are priced from £100 at corneliajames.com.
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Brenda Campbell says
I must say, I am a female military combat vetrean of the Dessert Storm and Iraqi Freedom wars, respectively. My choice of service was/is in the United States Air Force. But my Mum, Aunt, Uncles, Cousins are all English (Irish as well), so everything British makes my heart warm. That all being said, I have watched the queen and her family even way over here across “the pond” and I well up with pride and respect when I see the royal family especially paying respect for her military and others. Ms. Catherine is just a beauty, polished to perfection and HM the Queen is just……….Awesome! (That is such an American word but it fit so perfectly!) Although I am American I love, honor and respect the royal family as if she and the country were my very own. May God keep and watch over the Queen and her family and keep them safe for all their days.
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2013-12-01 News From The Labyrinth Society: Labyrinths in Translation
Wanderings and Wonderings: A Letter From Our Dedicated (and Peripatetic) WWLL Update Project Co-Chair
Dear Labyrinth Enthusiasts,
Last month in Galicia, Spain, as I was standing at the foot of the prehistoric stone carvings of the 2000 BCE labyrinths, the Mogor Petroglyphs, a recurring line of Sesame Street lyrics jingled by: "How do you get from here to there? What do you do?"
First of all, I was in Mogor because my traveling buddy George believes in buying memories and not just things, but I was also there because of The World Wide Labyrinth Locator… which brings me to the original vision of the labyrinth locator and the joint TLS/Veriditas project of updating the Labyrinth Locator. How did we get from here to there?
I meandered around the TLS website and found the following letter from Helen Curry, the first TLS president.
Wed, Apr 28, 2004 5:55 pm
Subject: Launch of the World-Wide Labyrinth Locator!
It is with the greatest pride and excitement that I have the pleasure of announcing that The World-Wide Labyrinth Locator will be up and running this Saturday, May 1.
You may visit either www.labyrinthsociety.org or www.veriditas.net, click on the link to the WWLL and follow the easy instructions to look up a labyrinth or add a new one. Please help us make it as complete as possible by ensuring that your labyrinths are included.
This master directory has been two years in the making. It is co-sponsored by Veriditas and The Labyrinth Society and was funded through a generous grant from The Faith, Hope and Love Foundation. We believe it will be a unique and comprehensive resource for all of us in the labyrinth community.
Many forces have come together to make this dream a reality. I wish to extend my deepest thanks and personal gratitude to Lauren Artress for agreeing to the idea in the first place and for all of her on-going support; to Pat McLaughlin for taking the concept and making it a reality; to Michael Macrone for designing it; to Gael Hancock for making it finally happen; to Zee Marie of Zee Designs for technical help and hosting, and to David Gallagher, for agreeing to handle the business aspects and for his unfailing coaching, as always.
Finally, I am delighted to announce that Jeff Saward has agreed to accept the position of WWLL administrator and has thus resigned from the Board of TLS. He was instrumental in creating the categorization system for the labyrinth entries and will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the site. It would not have been possible without him.
Helen Curry,
As a pilgrim on the path, I heartfully promote the labyrinth locator as a tool for labyrinths enthusiasts and their art of pilgrimage. One accesses the WWLL, enters a destination, and there before you are photos and descriptions and web sites of the labyrinths in that area. You have a beautiful opportunity to visit virtually as well as in person!
In his April report to TLS board, The WWLL administrator, Jeff Saward, noted
A further 125 new labyrinth listings have been uploaded to the Locator during the first quarter of 2013, a reasonable number for the time of year, and this brings the total number of uploads since our launch to 5395 and we now have 4255 labyrinths active in the WWLL database, in a total of 77 different countries. With the assistance of the regional reps of both The Labyrinth Society and Veriditas, and the membership of both organisations, we have a number of volunteers currently reviewing the data contained within the WWLL and feeding back their findings.
The WWLL Update Project continues. We have entries in several states, provinces and countries still to contact. As a volunteer, blessings have been abundant. The email correspondence is easy and people are so grateful the service exists. Please contact me if you wish to volunteer. Your commitment of a few hours or a few months is gratefully accepted!
Thank you and happy wandering!
Sherry Biltz
Co-chair WWLL Update Project
TLS Regional Rep and Membership Chair
Year-End Housekeeping for Members
If you are a TLS member, and your contact information has changed, please log in to the Members' Page and update your information in the Members' Directory. While you're there, sign up for access to the Forums if you haven't already. The Forums are a great place to connect with other members, share information, learn something new, pose a question and get an answer. Access to the Forums are just one of many benefits of membership in TLS!
Dedication of The University of Central Oklahoma’s New Labyrinth
Students, faculty, staff and community members gathered September 6, 2013 on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma to dedicate the new 11-circuit paver medieval labyrinth which is the first labyrinth on a public university campus in Oklahoma. President Don Betz along with members of the President’s cabinet and Dr. Diane Rudebock, Campus Labyrinth Project Coordinator (3rd from left, below), cut the ribbon officially opening the labyrinth to campus and the community. Music was provided by students from the University of Central Oklahoma School of Music.
The labyrinth was created by Marty Kermeen, Artist and Founder of Labyrinths in Stone. The labyrinth is a beautiful work of interactive art located in Heartland Plaza, an area dedicated to the families and responders to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. The Y Chapel of Song borders the east side of the labyrinth area, and beautiful native Oklahoma trees surround the 42 foot paver labyrinth which is an exact replica of the labyrinth in Chartres France.
¿Habla español – TLS DVD to be translated into Spanish!
Did you know approximately 406 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it second only to Mandarin in terms of its number of native speakers worldwide?
Sixty million people speak Spanish as a second language, and 20 million students learn it as foreign language. Imagine being able to effectively reach this percentage of the world’s population with information about the labyrinth. That is exactly what TLS is undertaking. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and TLS is about to make it one of the official languages of its very own DVD.
Translation of the DVD is a long-awaited and fondly held intention. In fact, translation into many different languages is the ultimate goal. We are beginning with Spanish as the first phase of translation and moving forward as time, volunteer support, and finances allow.
Thanks to TLS members Ronald Esquivel and José Cuesta, the DVD transcript has now been translated into Spanish! Next comes the work to manufacture a new Spanish DVD proof, master, and cover, as well as other aspects of production that will require funding.
We would like to extend an invitation to think of TLS as you consider your-end-of-year tax deductible donations, secret Santa leanings, stealth donator desires, and charitable giving graciousness. If you would like to make a contribution toward this aspect of the DVD, please follow the links to Donations found on the TLS website and specify your intention.
And if you are interested in becoming a part of the DVD translation committee, please make yourself known! Hallie Sawyers, Education Outreach Chair, is eager to talk with you and put you to work.
Labyrinth Pathways #7 Now Online!
We are happy to announce the publication of the 7th edition of Labyrinth
Pathways, an annual journal focusing on the labyrinth as it is found
and used in the fields of Spirituality, Health, and the Arts. The journal is
published annually by Labyrinthos, and is provided electronically to all
TLS members as an important member benefit.
This edition includes offerings from authors and artists far and wide,
connected by a common thread of labyrinth interest. We hope that you
will find something in these pages to inspire you as you make your
way along your own path! We trust that you will also find new thoughts
from familiar friends, as well as introductions to new voices emerging
within the field. One of the true marvels of the labyrinth community is the
continual flow of the people who love the meandering pathways and all
that they represent!
Digital back issues are also available on the TLS website for free access by members. Please note that you will need to log into the Members Only page first.
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A Video Game Might Recreate Auburn's Miracle, But It Can't Be Repeated
Owen Good
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The Internet Reacts
The Internet Reacts To Hanzo's Abtacular Summer Skin
Image: Blizzard
We’re once again in the midst of summer’s steamiest months, and you know what that means: Blizzard has made yet another Overwatch character hot. Also, Lucioball is back for the fourth year in a row. Between those two things, it’s unsurprising that it’s Hanzo “Hotzo” Shimada who’s the talk of the balmy beach town right now.
Today, Blizzard surprise- (well, sorta-surprise-) launched Overwatch’s annual Summer Games event a little bit earlier than usual. Despite innumerable clamors for a shake-up, it’s still pretty much the same it’s been since 2015, with the soccer-like Lucioball mode taking center stage.
But there are also new skins, and Hanzo’s puts a new spin on a familiar dynamic, which I’ve eloquently titled “doofy dad man hot now???” Typically clad in poofy pajamas with a spacious nipple window, Hanzo has now donned slick swimwear inspired by a classic Japanese print and a vest that frees his abs from their wrinkly fabric prison. Samurai dad is once again samurai daddy, and all is right with the world. Fans are celebrating in the traditional way: by being extremely thirsty on main.
But Hanzo’s not the only one who’s ready to both hit the beach and ruthlessly strike down all who dare oppose him this year. Torbjorn’s poolside duds are much more whimsical and, I would argue, better for it. He’s got a sandcastle backpack, an inflatable pool toy mallet, and a seashell-speckled beard. This, too, has inspired a whole host of fan reactions:
Can’t wait until next year, when Blizzard will probably celebrate Lucioball’s five-year anniversary by putting the ball in a swimsuit and giving it abs.
Kotaku senior reporter. Beats: Twitch, streaming, PC gaming. Writing a book about streamers tentatively titled "STREAMERS" to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in the future.
Man ..Overwatch fans are weird.
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ONE MORNING LEFT – new album pre-orders and single!
by NorthWar 12/04/2020 20:39 12/04/2020 20:39 058
Finnish metalcore act ONE MORNING LEFT is finally back with a retro vengeance!
Today, the band officially launched the pre-orders for their brand-new album »Hyperactive«, which will be available on 21st of May in 2021, via Arising Empire.
ONE MORNING LEFT start right off on top with their new single ‘Neon Highway’, the first taste of this hell of an album..
‘Neon Highway‘ is a hyperactive love song full of pure chaos and fury, thoroughly resonating with the album title. As told by Leevi Luoto (guitar/vocals): “This is a straight up love song. MAD love. Also functions as the landscape-painter of the album, describing the world we’re singing about.”
Pre-order »Hyperactive« now: https://OneMorningLeft.lnk.to/hyperactive
Watch ‘Neon Highway’ now: https://youtu.be/kJcphnRex5w
Streaming, Purchase: https://OneMorningLeft.lnk.to/neonhighway
ONE MORNING LEFT’s fourth album marks their first new material in five years. On »Hyperactive« the group begins a whole new chapter in their story, drawing inspiration from retro electronic- and video game music, as well as 80’s hard rock, while staying true to their heavier roots.
Changes are happening not only in the musical style, but also in their lineup. Returning from the cast of 2016’s “Metalcore Superstars” are frontman Mika Lahti, singer-guitarist Leevi Luoto and drummer Niko Hyttinen. Additional firepower is provided by new faces Tuukka Ojansivu on guitar and Miska Sipiläinen on bass guitar, as well as the return-to-form of keyboard player Touko Keippilä from the band’s original “Panda <3 Penguin” lineup.
The album shapes up to be the artistic peak of ONE MORNING LEFT‘s musical “blood mountain”: epic lyrics carried by Luoto’s soaring vocal melodies, contrasted by the distinctive, gritty sound of Lahti, all accompanied by breathtaking keyboard leads, blisteringly fast guitars, masterful bass riffs and feverish drum parts.
With the release of »Hyperactive«, ONE MORNING LEFT looks to add to their growing global fan base. Having gathered extensive live performance experience playing countless shows in Finland, touring mainland Europe, Russia, and the Baltics, and even performing in places such as Iceland and Japan, the group is planning on taking their entertaining and energetic live show on the road in the near future.
“Join us on our quest to make the world a bit more epic!”
Founded in 2008 in Vaasa, Finland, ONE MORNING LEFT is well known for their unique blend of electro, hardcore and metalcore influences as well as their entertaining and energetic live shows where absolutely anything can happen.
ONE MORNING LEFT has played shows with bands like AMARANTHE, MACHINAE SUPREMACY, ADEPT, PROTEST THE HERO, FEAR OF DOMINATION, TURMIONKÄTILÖT and WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER. The band has also graced the Finnish festival season, playing renowned festivals like Tuska Open Air and Rockfest.
ONE MORNING LEFT‘s debut album »The Bree-Teenz« in 2011. The album reached #30 on Finland’s official album charts, followed by the sophomore album »Our Sceneration« at #45 in 2013.
ONE MORNING LEFT are:
Mika Lahti | Lead Vocals
Leevi Luoto | Guitar & Lead Vocals
Tuukka Ojansivu | Guitar & Backing Vocals
Miska Sipiläinen | Bass & Backing Vocals
Touko Keippilä | Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Niko Hyttinen | Drums
https://www.facebook.com/onemorningleft
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Game No. 7 - Kansas Game Notes Vs. Oklahoma
Kansas Game Notes in PDF Format
Oklahoma Game Notes in PDF Format
Big 12 Notes in PDF Format
Press Conference Quotes
No. 24/No. 21 KANSAS JAYHAWKS
(5-1, 1-1 Big 12) (AP: 24, Coaches: 21, Harris: 21, BCS: 25)
GAME NO. 7 VS. OKLAHOMA
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, 2:30 p.m. (Central)
Kivisto Field at Memorial Stadium (50,071)
Radio: Jayhawk Network
(Bob Davis, David Lawrence, Nate Bukaty, Bob Newton [producer])
www.kuathletics.com
TV: ABC
(Ron Franklin and Ed Cunningham)
Live Stats: www.kuathletics.com
QUICKLY — In a game which will be televised on ABC, No. 24 AP/No. 21 Coaches Kansas (5-1, 1-1 Big 12) hosts No. 25 AP Oklahoma (3-3, 1-1 Big 12) on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 2:30 p.m.
– KU is 27-4 at home in the last five seasons.
– KU is 28-8 in its last 36 games overall.
– Saturday’s game is the only home game in a four-game stretch for Kansas, which played at Colorado last week and will go to Texas Tech and Kansas State the next two weeks.
– KU is 17-5 playing as a ranked team in the era.Mark Mangino
– KU won its last game vs. a ranked team defeating No. 12 Missouri on Nov. 29, 2008.
– KU will be hosting a ranked team in Lawrence for the eighth time in the era. KU is 2-5 in the seven times a ranked opponent played in Memorial Stadium, with wins against No. 23 Missouri in 2003 and No. 25 Iowa State in 2005.Mark Mangino
– While KU is 19-18 against Big 12 North teams in the era, KU is 4-17 against South team rivals (was 0-3 last year after going 3-0 vs. the South in 2007).Mark Mangino
– KU is looking for its sixth win of the season, which would give the Jayhawks at least six victories for the fifth consecutive season, a streak which has only been accomplished twice in school history (1895-99 and 1902-06).
KU RANKED VS. OPPONENT RANKED — Saturday’s game features two ranked teams, an occurrence which has been rare for Kansas football. In fact, since No. 11 KU defeated No. 25 UCLA in the 1995 Aloha Bowl, both teams have been ranked in a Kansas football game just five times. Here is a look:
2007 – No. 2 Kansas vs. No. 4 Missouri – L 28-36
2007 – No. 8 Kansas vs. No. 5 Virginia Tech (Orange Bowl) – W 24-21
2008 – No. 13 Kansas at No. 19 South Florida – L 34-37
2008 – No. 16 Kansas at No. 4 Oklahoma – L 31-45
2008 – No. 19 Kansas vs. No. 8 Texas Tech – L 21-63
DID YOU KNOW? — Kansas has won five of its 17 games against ranked teams in the Mark Mangino era. Prior to his arrival, KU had posted five wins its previous 60 games against ranked teams.
1-2-3-3-3 — WR Dezmon Briscoe is leading the nation in receiving yards per game (134.20), WR Kerry Meier is second in receptions (9.00) and QB Todd Reesing is third in passing yards (330.00), completions (27.17) and total offense (340.17). In all, Jayhawks are in the top 10 nationally in eight different individual statistical categories (see page six of this release).
ABC IN LAWRENCE — For just the second time since 1998, ABC will be broadcasting a game out of Lawrence (2007 game against Iowa State).
KU-OU SERIES — Oklahoma leads the all-time series 67-27-6, including a 30-14-3 advantage in games played at Lawrence. The Sooners have won five straight in the series since KU won three straight from 1995-97. Oklahoma is making its first trip to Lawrence since 2001 as the teams played in Norman in 2004 and 2008 and in Kansas City in 2005.
KU-OU HISTORICAL NOTE — The 96 straight games KU and OU played against each other from 1903-97 ranks as the nation’s fifth-longest uninterrupted series. The streak was stopped for Big 12 scheduling. This year’s meeting is the 101st in the series.
KU-OU LAST YEAR — Despite a record-breaking performance by KU WR Dezmon Briscoe, No. 16 Kansas lost 45-31 at No. 4 Oklahoma on Oct. 11. Briscoe caught what was then a school record 12 passes for what still is a school best 269 yards and two touchdowns. The 269 yards were the most in a game in the NCAA last year. QB Todd Reesing was 24 of 41 for 342 yards and two touchdowns. RB Jake Sharp ran 12 times for 103 yards and a touchdown. KU put up 491 yards of offense, but the Sooners ran up 674, including 468 passing. KU trailed just 31-24 early in the third quarter before Oklahoma scored two touchdowns to lead 45-24 with 12:02 left.
KU-OU LAST TIME AT LAWRENCE — As mentioned Oklahoma has not played at Lawrence since the 2001 season. Kansas opened the scoring with a Johnny Beck field goal in the first quarter before the Sooners ran up 38 consecutive points before KU scored on a 77-yard pass from Mario Kinsey to Roger Ross with five minutes left. The Sooners won 38-10 behind 151 passing yards and 117 rushing yards from Jason White. Kansas gained just 223 yards, while Oklahoma accumulated 403. KU LB Leo Etienne recorded 18 tackles in the loss.
KU’S OKLAHOMANS — Kansas has 11 players from the state of Oklahoma including LS Kayl Anderson (Tulsa/Bishop Kelley), PK Jacob Branstetter (Lawton/MacArthur), CB Anthony Davis (Tulsa/East Central), TE Bradley Dedeaux (Midwest City), CB Chris Harris (Bixby), OL Gavin Howard (Owasso), DE Jake Laptad (Tulsa/Jenks), LB Dakota Lewis (Sulphur), RB Rell Lewis (Muskogee), OL Michael Martinovich (Tulsa/Cascia Hall Prep), and DT John Williams (Tulsa/Washington).
MORE KU-OU CONNECTIONS — KU Head Coach Mark Mangino was an assistant coach at Oklahoma from 1999-2001, serving as the offensive coordinator in 2000 and 2001… KU TE Coach Brandon Blaney was a GA at Oklahoma in 1999 and 2000… KU Director of Strength and Conditioning Chris Dawson was a LB at Oklahoma from 1992-94 and was a GA at OU in 1995 and an assistant strength and conditioning coach from 1996-2000… KU On-Campus Recruiting Coordinator Rajeeb Hossain is a Norman HS graduate… KU Offensive Graduate Assistant Tommy Mangino played high school football at Norman HS before moving to Lawrence for his junior and senior seasons… OU players from the state of Kansas include LB Jayden Bird (Conway Springs), TE Brody Eldridge (La Cygne/Prairie View) and FB Marshall Musil (La Crosse).
THINGS TO LOOK FOR AGAINST OKLAHOMA
– KU will be trying to win consecutive games against a ranked opponent for the first time since beating No. 4 Colorado and No. 15 Oklahoma in 1995 (KU defeated No. 12 Missouri last year in its last game against a ranked opponent).
– KU has scored at least 30 points in eight straight games dating back to last year.
– KU has produced at least 400 yards of total offense in eight games in a row.
– KU has scored points in 21 consecutive quarters (and in 23 of 24 this season).
– QB has thrown multiple touchdowns in four straight games.Todd Reesing
– Reesing has thrown for 400 yards in two straight games.
– WR has recorded at least 10 receptions and 100 receiving yards in three straight games.Kerry Meier
– Meier has at least one touchdown catch in four straight games.
– Meier (1,904) needs 96 yards to become the fourth KU player to record 2,000 career receiving yards.
– Meier has caught at least four passes in nine straight games and at least two in 27 consecutive.
– WR has caught at least four passes in nine straight games and at least two in 24 consecutive contests.Dezmon Briscoe
– Briscoe has recorded at least 100 receiving yards in eight of the last nine games.
– DE has been in on a sack in five of six games this year and in six of the last eight contests.Jake Laptad
– S has recorded double-digit tackle totals in two straight games. Darrell Stuckey
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The Strangers on Montagu Street
Tradd Street: Book #3
By: Karen White
Narrated by: Aimée Bruneau
Charleston psychic Melanie Middleton discovers the past isn't finished revealing unsettling secrets in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series.
With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem.
Her name is Nola, Jack’s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father’s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well. As a special, bonding gift Jack’s mother buys Nola an antique dollhouse—a precious tableaux of a perfect Victorian family. Melanie hopes the gift will help thaw Nola’s reserve and draw her into the family she’s never known.
At first, Nola is charmed, and Melanie is delighted—until night falls, and the most unnerving shadows are cast within its miniature rooms. By the time Melanie senses a malevolent presence she fears it may already be too late. A new family has accepted her unwitting invitation to move in—with their own secrets, their own personal demons, and a past that’s drawing Nola into their own inescapable darkness...
Tradd Street Series
The House on Tradd Street
Karen White
The brilliant, chilling debut of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses—and the secret histories inside them.
Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her... Read more »
The Girl On Legare Street
Acclaimed author Karen White returns to Charleston, South Carolina, with the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series.
Melanie Middleton has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston... Read more »
With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street... Read more »
Return to Tradd Street
Facing her future as a single mother, psychic Realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to be strong and leave her past with writer Jack Trenholm behind her. But history has a tendency of catching up with Melanie, whether she likes it or not Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack' s marriage proposal. She misses... Read more »
In the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, Charleston realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to leave the past behind her. But history has a tendency of catching up with her, whether she likes it or not...
Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack Trenholm’s marriage proposal. She... Read more »
The Guests on South Battery
Narrated by: Aimee Bruneau
New York Times bestselling author Karen White invites you to explore the brick-walked streets of Charleston, where historic mansions house the memories of years gone by, and restless spirits refuse to fade away... With her extended maternity leave at it's end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and beautiful twins to... Read more »
The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street
The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.
Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy—after all, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing... Read more »
Author Karen White
Narrator Aimée Bruneau
Genres Fiction & Literature & Mystery & Thriller
Libro.fm rank #20,329 Overall
Genre rank #1,933 in Mystery & Thriller
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Dedicated Employee Gets Drive-by Retirement Celebration
13 April 2020 in Staff Spotlight
Family, friends and coworkers of longtime Lompoc Valley Medical Center employee Lori Cornejo Morris surprised her with a drive-by parade in honor of her retirement. Lori recently retired, and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the hospital is not yet able to formally honor her with a celebration.
New Cases of COVID-19 Confirmed in Santa Barbara County
12 April 2020 in Advisories
Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) reports an additional three (3) confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the county today. The total number of confirmed cases is 267. Additionally, the Santa Barbara County Call Center has transitioned to 2-1-1 that will provide the public access to general information about COVID-19 in multiple languages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
COVID-19 Community Update, April 8, 2020
08 April 2020 in LVMC News
Dear Lompoc Valley Community:
Below, please find an update regarding the COVID-19 situation from the Lompoc Valley Medical Center perspective.
A Special Celebration for a Treasured Nurse
LVMC staff got creative amid the COVID-19 pandemic today in order to celebrate a cherished employee. Longtime Registered Nurse Patti Field had been looking forward to being recognized Tuesday night at the hospital district’s biannual Ceremony of Champions. The event was postponed due to the pandemic.
Lompoc Health COVID-19 Update and TeleVisits
We want to update you on the latest information regarding COVID-19, as well as provide our best recommendations to prevent the spread of the virus, based upon guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other organizations. Please keep in mind that the guidance and recommendations from these organizations continue to evolve and are subject to change. Also, we’re pleased to announce Lompoc Health patients now have access to TeleVisits with many of our providers.
Lompoc Valley Medical Center COVID-19 Community Update
Below, please find an update regarding the COVID-19 situation from the Lompoc Valley Medical Center perspective. I intend to provide updates weekly, or as needed.
California Public Health Officials Release Guidance on Use of Cloth Face Coverings
California’s public health officials today released guidance on the use of cloth face coverings to protect against COVID-19 for Californians who must leave their homes to conduct essential activities. The guidance does not require people to wear face coverings – and is not a substitute for the state’s current guidance regarding social distancing and hand washing. The state also does not recommend Californians use N-95 or surgical masks, which are needed for our health care workers and first responders who will be there for when our lives at risk.
Read more on PublicHealthSBC.org
Answers for Expectant Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
01 April 2020 in Health & Wellness
I know this is a stressful time, when instead of focusing on this joyful time before the delivery of your baby, you may have concerns or fears related to the Coronavirus pandemic. Please be assured that the OB staff at LVMC are dedicated to providing you with the best support we can during this hard time.
Harbor Freight Helps Out Hospital during Pandemic
30 March 2020 in LVMC News
LVMC and its staff are extremely grateful to Eric Smidt and his company, Harbor Freight, for the donation of two pallets full of Personal Protective Equipment.
Severe Illness Associated with Using Non-Pharmaceutical Chloroquine Phosphate as Treatment
30 March 2020 in Advisories
Chloroquine phosphate, when used without a prescription and supervision of a healthcare provider, can cause serious health consequences, including death. Clinicians and public health officials should discourage the public from misusing non-pharmaceutical chloroquine phosphate (a chemical used in home aquariums). Clinicians should advise patients and the public that chloroquine, and the related compound hydroxychloroquine, should be used only under the supervision of a healthcare provider as prescribed medications.
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COVID-19: Pregnancy and Postpartum
30 March 2020 in Health & Wellness
Parents are likely experiencing a significant increase in pressure and concern while pregnant or caring for a newborn during the COVID-19 pandemic.
LVMC Grateful for Donations
Lompoc Valley Medical Center expresses its thanks and gratitude to L3Harris Technologies at Vandenberg Air Force Base for the generous and much-needed donation of Tyvek isolation coveralls.
LVMC Announces Confirmed COVID-19 Case
As of 9:30 am Thursday, March 26, Lompoc Valley Medical Center was notified by the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department that one of our screened patients tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. The patient was not hospitalized and is in self-quarantine. Santa Barbara County Public Health Department staff are monitoring the status of the patient, as it is with all other Santa Barbara County COVID-19 positive patients.
COVID and Diabetes in Latinos
COVID-19/Coronavirus is a new and serious threat to everyone, including seniors, but especially Hispanic/Latino people with type 2 diabetes if their blood sugars are high.
Fortunately, all of us can take simple steps to reduce our risk of catching COVID-19 and, if someone with diabetes develops COVID-19, there are important, practical steps to take immediately.
This website includes information in Spanish and English on what Hispanic/Latino people with diabetes should know and do about COVID-19.
Visit www.LatinoDiabetes.net and share this resource with your firends and family.
Community Update Regarding COVID-19
Dear Lompoc Valley Community,
The administration and staff of Lompoc Valley Medical Center, Lompoc Health and the Comprehensive Care Center are thankful for the outpouring of support in recent days for our healthcare workers. Our highest priority is the health and safety of our community members, our medical staff and our employees.
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The Major Difference Between Pastor and Reverend
The Major Difference Between a Pastor and a Reverend: For the majority of people, religion is a very important part of life. In between different religious circles, the names attached to spiritual leaders are important and of great significance. And religious titles like ‘Pastor’ and ‘reverend’ have been used correspondingly.
Majority of people within the Christian community very frequently interchange these two religious titles, as they seem to be equivalent. This article is aimed at highlighting the distinctions between the two religious titles. Hence we will show you the major difference between a Pastor and a Reverend.
Who is a Pastor or Reverend?
Pastors and Reverends are different terms for religious leaders just as elders, deacons, evangelists, prophets, teachers, priests, popes, etc. However, each religious position displays the roles handled by these church leaders. Sometimes, the pastor can also be addressed as a reverend. The main title used for the position is different from church to church and denomination to denomination.
However, the title of the pastor comes from the word itself meaning ‘shepherd.’ This is a metaphor that is found in the Bible when it is said that God leads a flock of sheep, he was referring to his Christian followers. The word ‘pastor’ is also used correspondingly here as it means that the pastor is shepherding his flock of churchgoers.
But, both a pastor and a reverend may be powerful to the church. As leaders, they may also act as teachers, and they may be given the opportunities to deliver Sunday sermons and give studies to children and adults on the different teachings of the Bible.
Also, these church leaders are expected to make themselves as presentable as possible as a role model to the community and they are expected to set examples on how to live a life based on what is taught in the Bible. But, they are also responsible for doing deeds with the intention for the achievement and growth of the Church’s goals, views, and principles.
The difference between a pastor and a reverend, however, can be seen by looking at the function of these labels when they are attached to a specific name. The name ‘Pastor’ is addressed to a noun, or particularly a person, it could be the leader or minister of a church.
On the contrary, ‘reverend,’ according to the dictionary, is an adjective which is used to address an honorable person who is worthy of being revered. Reverend is also used as a title of respect applied or affixed to the name of a member of clergy or religious order.
A pastor is also a spiritual leader of the church while a ‘reverend’ is a title given to a pastor, like the army rank of a captain or colonel, which shows the level of knowledge and experience in their service. However, a person with a Reverend title can execute more services within his church, such as a commemorated wedding, direct Eucharist, funeral, baptism, preaching.
However, a pastor without a Reverend title has limited areas of ministry duties. For instance, he may not be permitted to direct the Eucharist or formalize a wedding.
1. The word ‘pastor’ is a noun. A pastor is addressed as a minister or priest in charge of a church. He is also a person that provides spiritual care to a number of people.
2. The word ‘reverend’ is an adjective. A reverend is a title prefixed to a member of a religious order. It also refers to the features of a clergy.
3. A pastor is mainly a clergyman , priest or minister who is in charge of a particular congregation.
4. Reverend refers to being worthy of reverence, a description that is attributed to elevated status.
5. Using the word ‘reverend’ as a stand-alone noun is not proper, however, it is accepted in some informal language uses.
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Exploring Active Travel and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Relationships With Cognition Among Older Adults
Madhura Phansikar and Sean P. Mullen
Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) is known to benefit cognition among older adults, but the impact of active travel is unclear. To explore this relationship, data from the 2011–2014 National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (N = 2,702; mean age = 70) were retrieved on the self-reported frequency and duration of active travel (walking/cycling for transport, >20 min), LTPA engagement (e.g., sport), and three cognitive outcomes. Four groups were created according to physical activity guidelines (600 metabolic equivalent of task/week): inactive (n = 1,790), active travelers (n = 210), engaging in LTPA (n = 579), and engaging in both (n = 123). Analysis of covariance (and follow-up comparisons) revealed a significant main effect for each cognition variable, after adjusting for the covariates, indicating that those engaging in LTPA performed the best. Although correlational, these findings suggest that LTPA engagement may be important for cognition among older adults, but active travel did not provide added benefit.
In Journal of Aging and Physical Activity Volume 28 (2020): Issue 4 (Aug 2020)
Creating Activity-Friendly Communities: Exploring the Intersection of Public Health and the Arts
Kelly Cornett, Katherine Bray-Simons, Heather M. Devlin, Sunil Iyengar, Patricia Moore Shaffer and Janet E. Fulton
In Journal of Physical Activity and Health Volume 16 (2019): Issue 11 (Nov 2019)
Early Career Professionals’ (Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers) Role in Advocating, Disseminating, and Implementing the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity: ISPAH Early Career Network View
Artur Direito, Joseph J. Murphy, Matthew Mclaughlin, Jacqueline Mair, Kelly Mackenzie, Masamitsu Kamada, Rachel Sutherland, Shannon Montgomery, Trevor Shilton and on behalf of the ISPAH Early Career Network
Increasing population levels of physical activity (PA) can assist in achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals, benefiting multiple sectors and contributing to global prosperity. Practices and policies to increase PA levels exist at the subnational, national, and international levels. In 2018, the World Health Organization launched the first Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (GAPPA). The GAPPA provides guidance through a framework of effective and feasible policy actions for increasing PA, and requires engagement and advocacy from a wide spectrum of stakeholders for successful implementation of the proposed actions. Early career professionals, including researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, can play a major role with helping “all people being regularly active” by contributing to 4 overarching areas: (1) generation—of evidence, (2) dissemination—of key messages and evidence, (3) implementation—of the evidence-based actions proposed in the GAPPA, and (4) contributing to advocacy for robust national action plans on PA. The contribution of early career professionals can be achieved through 5 pathways: (1) research, (2) workplace/practice, (3) business, (4) policy, and (5) professional and public opinion. Recommendations of how early career professionals can contribute to the generation, dissemination, and implementation of the evidence and actions proposed by the GAPPA are provided.
Perceived Facilitators and Barriers to Exercise Among Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Dementia
Nicolas Hobson, Sherry L. Dupuis, Lora M. Giangregorio and Laura E. Middleton
Persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia are often physically inactive, despite associated benefits. This study explored the barriers, facilitators, and preferences for exercise among persons living with MCI/early dementia. The authors conducted 2 focus groups among persons living with MCI/early dementia (n = 4, 6 participants) and 2 focus groups among care partners (n = 3, 4 participants). The transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis, guided by the social-ecological model. Three themes emerged, reinforcing motivation to exercise, managing changes to cognitive and physical health, and variable perceptions of dementia, each with influences from individual, care partner, and community levels. Low intrinsic motivation, poor physical/cognitive health, and stigma restricted the exercise among persons living with MCI/early dementia. The care partners motivated their partners and provided company and transportation to exercise. People with MCI/early dementia also indicated poor access to exercise providers and exercise opportunities that met their needs and preferences was a barrier to exercise participation. Knowledge translation research should develop exercise interventions at the individual, social, and community levels.
In Journal of Aging and Physical Activity Volume 28 (2020): Issue 2 (Apr 2020)
Turning Science Into Effective Policy Advocacy—The Foundations for the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018
Tom Kane
In Journal of Physical Activity and Health Volume 16 (2019): Issue 10 (Oct 2019)
GGIR: A Research Community–Driven Open Source R Package for Generating Physical Activity and Sleep Outcomes From Multi-Day Raw Accelerometer Data
Jairo H. Migueles, Alex V. Rowlands, Florian Huber, Séverine Sabia and Vincent T. van Hees
Recent technological advances have transformed the research on physical activity initially based on questionnaire data to the most recent objective data from accelerometers. The shift to availability of raw accelerations has increased measurement accuracy, transparency, and the potential for data harmonization. However, it has also shifted the need for considerable processing expertise to the researcher. Many users do not have this expertise. The R package GGIR has been made available to all as a tool to convermulti-day high resolution raw accelerometer data from wearable movement sensors into meaningful evidence-based outcomes and insightful reports for the study of human daily physical activity and sleep. This paper aims to provide a one-stop overview of GGIR package, the papers underpinning the theory of GGIR, and how research contributes to the continued growth of the GGIR package. The package includes a range of literature-supported methods to clean the data and provide day-by-day, as well as full recording, weekly, weekend, and weekday estimates of physical activity and sleep parameters. In addition, the package also comes with a shell function that enables the user to process a set of input files and produce csv summary reports with a single function call, ideal for users less proficient in R. GGIR has been used in over 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications to date. The evolution of GGIR over time and widespread use across a range of research areas highlights the importance of open source software development for the research community and advancing methods in physical behavior research.
In Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour Volume 2 (2019): Issue 3 (Sep 2019)
The International Impact of the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance Physical Activity Report Cards for Children and Youth
Salomé Aubert, Joel D. Barnes, Megan L. Forse, Evan Turner, Silvia A. González, Jakub Kalinowski, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Eun-Young Lee, Reginald Ocansey, John J. Reilly, Natasha Schranz, Leigh M. Vanderloo and Mark S. Tremblay
Background: In response to growing concerns over high levels of physical inactivity among young people, the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance developed a series of national Report Cards on physical activity for children and youth to advocate for the promotion of physical activity. This article provides updated evidence of the impact of the Report Cards on powering the movement to get children and youth moving globally. Methods: This assessment was performed using quantitative and qualitative sources of information, including surveys, peer-reviewed publications, e-mails, gray literature, and other sources. Results: Although it is still too early to observe a positive change in physical activity levels among children and youth, an impact on raising awareness and capacity building in the national and international scientific community, disseminating information to the general population and stakeholders, and on powering the movement to get kids moving has been observed. Conclusions: It is hoped that the Report Card activities will initiate a measurable shift in the physical activity levels of children and contribute to achieving the 4 strategic objectives of the World Health Organization Global Action Plan as follows: creating an active society, creating active environments, creating active lives, and creating active systems.
In Journal of Physical Activity and Health Volume 16 (2019): Issue 9 (Sep 2019)
Promoting Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Time Among Tertiary Workers: Position Stand From the French National ONAPS
Pauline M. Genin, Frédéric Dutheil, Benjamin Larras, Yoland Esquirol, Yves Boirie, Angelo Tremblay, Bruno Pereira, Corinne Praznoczy, David Thivel and Martine Duclos
Stepping Up Active Transportation in Community Health Improvement Plans: Findings From a National Probability Survey of Local Health Departments
Meera Sreedhara, Karin Valentine Goins, Christine Frisard, Milagros C. Rosal and Stephenie C. Lemon
Background: Local health departments (LHDs) are increasingly involved in Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIPs), a collaborative planning process that represents an opportunity for prioritizing physical activity. We determined the proportion of LHDs reporting active transportation strategies in CHIPs and associations between LHD characteristics and such strategies. Methods: A national probability survey of US LHDs (<500,000 residents; 30.2% response rate) was conducted in 2017 (n = 162). LHDs reported the inclusion of 8 active transportation strategies in a CHIP. We calculated the proportion of LHDs reporting each strategy. Multivariate logistic regression models determined the associations between LHD characteristics and inclusion of strategies in a CHIP. Inverse probability weights were applied for each stratum. Results: 45.6% of US LHDs reported participating in a CHIP with ≥1 active transportation strategy. Proportions for specific strategies ranged from 22.3% (Safe Routes to School) to 4.1% (Transit-Oriented Development). Achieving national accreditation (odds ratio [OR] = 3.67; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.11–12.05), pursuing accreditation (OR = 3.40; 95% CI, 1.25–9.22), using credible resources (OR = 5.25; 95% CI, 1.77–15.56), and collaborating on a Community Health Assessment (OR = 4.48; 95% CI, 1.23–16.29) were associated with including a strategy in a CHIP after adjusting for covariates. Conclusions: CHIPs are untapped tools, but national accreditation, using credible resources, and Community Health Assessment collaboration may support strategic planning efforts to improve physical activity.
The Development of the Physical Activity and Social Support Scale
Natalie M. Golaszewski and John B. Bartholomew
Research suggests 5 forms of social support: companionship, emotional, informational, instrumental, and validation. Despite this, existing measures of social support for physical activity are limited to emotional, companionship, and instrumental support. The purpose was to develop the Physical Activity and Social Support Scale (PASSS) with subscales that reflected all 5 forms. Participants (N = 506, mean age = 34.3 yr) who were active at least twice per week completed a 235-item questionnaire assessing physical activity behaviors, social support for physical activity, general social support, and other psychosocial questions. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to develop and validate the PASSS. Exploratory factor analysis supported a 5-factor, 20-item model, χ2(100) = 146.22, p < .05, root mean square error of approximation = .05. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated good fit, Satorra–Bentler χ2(143) = 199.57, p < .001, root mean square error of approximation = .04, comparative-fit index = .97, standardized root mean square residual = .06. Findings support the PASSS to measure all 5 forms for physical activity.
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2019: President Buhari is mentally and physically unfit to continue in office – Opposition parties file lawsuit
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) on Thursday said it has initiated Legal Action at Federal High Court to stop President Buhari from participating in 2019 election over what it described as “his Mental and Physical instability.”
In a statement signed by Ikenga Imo ugochinyere, Cupp, First National spokesperson, and Co-Plaintiff and CUPP member, Eunice Atuejide, the CUPP also
“raises alarm over DSS plot to flrame, arrest, charge and eliminate Opposition Spokesperson Ikenga to stop him from releasing fresh evidence of plot to steal 5b from DSS election account by former DG DSS lawal Daura, and indicting documents of false assets declaration by key Buhari government appointees.”
According to the statement, “the Opposition political parties have carefully studied President Muhammadu Buhari over the months, especially since his return to the country after the sickness that took him out of Nigeria for the better part of 2017, and have come to the conclusion that he is no longer mentally and physically fit to lead a nation like ours in this century.”
The CUPP went further to provide examples to prove that President Buhari is not truly fit to carry on with the office and functions of a president.
The statement reads in part,
“A few recent examples will be necessary here. One, you will recall how the President almost fall flat on his face during his recent campaign visit to Lokoja, Kogi State. Despite that he flew into the town, the few steps the President took at the rally venue had a huge toll on him. When he was invited to the podium, he lost balance immediately he stood up. It was the timely intervention of his aides who were already keeping their eyes on him since they know his health status, that saved us what would have resulted into a national disaster.
A few days after the Kogi episode, a similar scenario played out at the venue of his campaign rally in Kaduna. After he trekked a short distance to his seat, President Buhari was clearly exhausted. He was still managing to wave to those who were already at the venue when he suddenly sunk heavily into his seat even at a time the national anthem was being recited. The seat was his saving grace on that occasion.
Still on his uninspiring ongoing re-election campaigns, we are all witnesses to the embarrassment President Buhari subjected the country to in Warri, Delta State. When it was time for him to present his party’s flag to the State governorship candidate, Great Ogboru, the President embarrassingly referred to the man as “the presidential candidate.” After those who surrounded him corrected him, President Buhari again referred to Ogboru as “the senatorial candidate.” Again, he was corrected and he came up with the most embarrassing one by saying the man is the “governortorial” candidate. The President must be using a different dictionary because the word “governortorial” does not exist in any good dictionary.
You will also recall when he featured on a town hall meeting called “The Candidates” which was broadcast live on the Nigerian Television Authority. Among his various goofs at that event was when he was asked why he is seeking second term and he said since the party leaders chose him, he had to run.
All those who watched that programme will recall how Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo who featured with him struggled very hard to come to his rescue whenever he goes off the track which he did many times. This probably explained why his men did not allow him to participate in the presidential debate organised by the Nigeria Election Debate Group and the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria.
We have come to the conclusion that re-electing Buhari will only empower members of the cabal that his wife admitted has hijacked his Presidency, to rule us for another four years from the dark.
In order to save this great nation the disaster that will follow if President Buhari is in a rare happenstance re-elected, we the opposition political parties have therefore filed litigation in court seeking to declare him unfit to contest for 2019 election because of his mental instability.
We are also seeking from the Court an Order disqualifying President Muhammadu Buhari from contesting the election to the office President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and an injunction restraining INEC from recognizing his candidacy. Nigerians will also be glad to know that to prove that we are on the right path, we are also asking the court to grant an order directing President Buhari to make public the results of the medical examination which we ask that he be subjected to so that no citizen will be in doubt that we are saving the country from calamity by taking these steps.
Stopping President Muhammadu Buhari from foisting himself on Nigeria come February 16th by every legitimate means is a patriotic service to Nigeria.
God forbid we fail! God forbid! God forbid! God forbid!”
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Blurt \ Biography
Founded by poet/performance artist Ted Milton in 1979, unclassifiable trio Blurt were associated with Factory Records during 1980 before moving on to pastures new. Their albums include In Berlin, Blurt, Bullets For You, Poppycock and Friday the 12th. The group continue to tour and record, and released ferocious new album Cut It! in 2010.
'Funk From a Funny Farm'
Born in 1943, musician, poet and self-confessed 'performance junkie' Ted Milton had been around several creative blocks before meeting Tony Wilson in 1978. As a verse writer, his work appeared in the Paris Review and Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (1969). As a left-field puppeteer in the 70s he performed with Mr Pugh's Puppet Theatre and the Blue Show, as well as supporting Ian Dury on tour in 1978. Ted also contributed a puppetry scene to Terry Gilliam's 1977 comic film Jabberwocky. Few early Factory artists could boast such a colourful background.
Milton first met Tony Wilson following one of his puppetry performances, when Wilson was scouting for acts to book on Granada TV arts and events programme So It Goes. Milton duly appeared on the show in the summer of 1978, a memorable edition which also featured the group Wire. Wilson went on to found Factory Records, whose first release, the iconic A Factory Sample (FAC 2), appeared in January 1979. Meanwhile Ted Milton had taken up the saxophone, and formed Blurt in Stroud (a town in rural Gloucestershire) towards the end of 1979, together with brother/drummer Jake Milton and guitarist Pete Creese. Jake had previously played with psychedelic group Quintessence, and also Eric Clapton. Early critiques compared the trio with James Chance, Captain Beefheart, Wild Man Fischer, the Pop Group, Tom Waits and any number of left-field jazz icons, though their stripped-back, noisy, avant-garde sound continues to defy easy categorization.
One of Blurt's first acts was to record a sparse demo tape on a TEAC four-track machine at Jake's home in Stroud, a copy of which Ted sent to Tony Wilson. Always alert to potential genius, Wilson suggested that tracks from the Stroud tape form one side of the second label compilation, A Factory Quartet, due in April 1980. An optimistic Factory newsletter in January announced the project as 'another Factory Sample' on double 10" format, and described Blurt - the first southerners associated with the label - as a 'sax-based dance band... fronted by former anarcho beat poet - reformed.' If Blurt seemed an unlikely Factory band, it's worth noting that in 1979 Wilson had tried to licence an album of Charles Bukowski readings, although this project foundered.
Lindsay Reade, then married to Wilson, recalls: 'Ted Milton was a friend of Tony's and welcome visitor - he stayed at our house in Charlesworth on several occasions when up from Stroud and we also visited him. He was very amusing and clever as I recall. I suspect his contribution to the Quartet came from Tony's appreciation of his originality, humour and performance that, like John Dowie, was on the wacky side of things but not perhaps of lasting significance to Factory.'
Since the Factory club (aka Russell Club) in Hulme had closed earlier in the year, the label began hosting Factory package shows at home and abroad. Thus Blurt played at the 'Factory by Moonlight' showcase in London in April, staged over three nights at the Moonlight Club in West Hampstead. Blurt played on the second night, a Thursday, along with A Certain Ratio, Kevin Hewick - and Joy Division, who performed unannounced on all three nights.
According to NME critic Mark Ellen, Blurt delivered the best performance of the night: 'Blurt play second and steal the show. They claim "age not beauty" and hail from Stroud (for their sins). The only vague comparison is with James Chance, but when someone shows singer/saxist Ted Milton a copy of Buy the Contortions afterwards, he says he's never heard a note of it.
'To revive a long-buried and much-abused term, these guys arepre anarchy. Jake Milton plays a smaller drumkit than B-52's Keith Strickland, or rather, half of it. He beats out the steady (tribal) rhythm on a snare and a closed hi-hat, adding a tom-tom and a crash cymbal for the last bar of each number. Pete Creese plays either rock guitar riffs like Duane Eddy on a tape loop, or a two-chord repeat; there's no bass. And Ted, who's a dead ringer for Tom Waits, goes berserk over the top, mostly with the aid of an alto sax.
'The amount they manage to cram into one set is unbelievable. Owing as much to free-form Charlieprker as to the scat-vocal era and 50's American bop, he overlays these dead-simple rhythms with a frantic cross-current of raucous jazz and Gothic chant, adding intros like he was raised on blues or even gospel (!), using the splintered sax figures as an extension of his lyric fantasy.
'It's all-purpose chaos; it's brilliant! He dedicates one number to "all the people who couldn't be here tonight because, basically, they're dead". Where can you go when you're that far gone?'
Ted confided to Chris Bohn that he appreciated the new, post-punk audience attached to Factory: 'Although I come from the wrong direction - I'm the wrong age, I come from the theatre, a poet - at least these people give me five seconds before deciding.'
The projected April release date for A Factory Quartet came and went, this delay caused in part by complications with embossing the gatefold sleeve. In the meantime, Blurt took part in two further Factory package shows in London. At the Institute of contemporary Arts (ICA) on 20 June the bill was shared with A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Section 25 and Kevin Hewick, while punters at the Music Machine on 28 August were treated to ACR, SXXV and Blurt. Blurt also played with SXXV at the No 1 Club in London (Islington) during this period, and with ACR and Durutti Column at Rafters in Manchester on 21 August, the latter show promoted with an attractive Jon Savage poster.
Of the ICA show, Chris Bohn wrote in NME: 'Blurt are the other Factory oddballs. Led by performance artist Ted Milton on sax, the ungainly trio (made up by a loopy guitarist in oversize trousers and a ruthless rudimentary drummer), they cross Captain Beefheart's racing subterranean nonsense funk with the highbrow intensity of James White's over-the-top blowing, and still manage to amuse. That's down to Milton's facial contortions matching his heavily echoed sax mugging and mock primitive singing. It's rumoured that Milton was at one point mooted as replacement for Mark Stewart in The Pop Group. Now that would have been fascinating, but for now Blurt will do fine.'
Blurt's performance at the Music Machine two months later was more subdued than usual. Nick Tester complained in Sounds: 'Whatever happened to serious fun? Blurt were only mildly amusing with their usually chaotic brand of funk from a funny farm blunted by a few caustic sparks. The normally absurd Ted Milton seemed quiteplite tonight, and when the word "shit" cropped up appeared to shout "offal" instead. His madman-is-a-trapped-victim revenge stayed softly ridiculous. He was only shouting to himself, a perverse little theatre all to his own.'
If London was tiring of of regular Factory nights, Blurt grew increasingly frustrated by delays in actually releasing a record on the distant Manchester label. Thus the first rudimentary Blurt single (Get b/w My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the people) appeared on the short-lived Test Pressing label in August 1980. Again taped on four track equipment, it established a Blurt tradition of recording in the studio as-live. Milton explained: 'Blurt recordings have always been son et verité, no studio techniques involved at all... snapshots.'
The group also signed a publishing deal with Blackhill Music, and were booked to support Roy Harper on a UK tour. A debut John Peel session was also taped in September. Blurt should have toured in Belgium, Holland and Germany with A Certain Ratio and Section 25 in October 1980, but just days before leaving learned that Factory had forgotten to make the necessary arrangements for Blurt to takeprt. Irritated, Ted Milton later told Dutch magazine Vinyl: 'Thanks to Factory we were two weeks out of work.'
A Factory Quartet was eventually released in December 1980 as FACT 24. By now a conventional double 12" album in a textured gatefold sleeve, FACT 24 lacked the visual or musical impact of FAC 2 two years earlier, and attracted mixed reviews. Only Blurt and the Durutti Column won critical praise, Charles Shaar Murray of NME declaring Blurt the 'finest moment' on FACT 24: 'The guitar and drums of Pete Crease and Jake Milton (repctively) generally restrict their role to that of backdrop for the whoops, trills, squawks and lectures of Ted Milton, who displays an admirable flair for melodic, sonic and rhythmic improvisation throughout. Can this man make noises? He certainly can.
'Blurt are the most appropriately named group encountered for some considerable period of time... It's the incompleteness of their music which provides its grab. Don't just listen, participate (great music for bass players to practice to). As Brilleaux would say, eight bars on the bass.'
In Sounds, Dave McCullough was content simply to describe the sides by Blurt and Vini Reilly as 'very good', featuring some 'great sounds'. For the rest, Factory itself was taken to task for becoming a 'rock and roll equivalent of the South Bank Show, with sweet little Tony Wilson a surrogate Melvyn Bragg.'
On 13 December 1980 Blurt performed at the Free University in Berlin, a show billed as 'Rock Against Junk' and also featuring Gang of Four, PVC and others. The event was professionally recorded, and early in 1981 Factory's new continental sister label Factory Benelux scheduled the release of Live in Berlin by Blurt, listed as a 10" album (FACBN 5). The first three releases on Benelux had appeared the previous autumn, being singles by ACR, Durutti Column and Section 25.
However, Blurt parted company with Wilson and Factory after Ted Milton decided to hawk the live album to a British label instead. It's also likely that Wilson knew it was impossible to provide the band with substantial funding or wages, while their geographical distance from the Manchester office on Palatine Road did little to aid communication - this at a time when telephones were still a comparative luxury. Whatever the truth, Blurt were off the Factory roster, and the release of the live album through Benelux cancelled. In an NME interview printed in April 1981, Ted Milton told Paul Tickell of Factory: 'We had no contract and could never think of ourselves as Factory artists. We seemed irrelevant to their scheme of things... Some labels might be honest, but many just offer some charisma and not much else.'
That same month, Milton told Melody Maker: 'My feeling about Factory is that they have Joy Division and A Certain Ratio and everything else is a sidetrack. They might be interested in us, but they only have a certain amount of time and energy. We also had a sense of being on hold. Factory is a style, like Habitat or something like that, a house style... I was bugged by the presentation of Quartet, too sort of twee for my liking. But they're not interested in asking you what you want to see there and stuff like that, it comes from the top, it comes from Tony. You get a feeling of being a pawn, actually. It's very distressing.'
Thus the live set came out as a conventional eight track album, In Berlin, on Armageddon Records (ARM 6), housed in a memorable sleeve depicting pink bin bags on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. A Factory Benelux edition, on 10" vinyl, would finally appear in 2013. Reviewing the album for NME, Chris Bohn wrote: 'Blurt live are great grotesque theatre... But they've yet to make an album proper, and this one unfortunately doesn't really satisfy that need. Theoretically a live album's the perfect setting for Blurt, but much of the joy of the trio in concert comes from Milton's hamming and mugging, his illustrative gestures, and from watching his more extreme blows.
'Losing the visual impact doesn't mean a loss of excitement - that comes on record when Milton gets lost in some revelry of his own, leaving the, er, rudimentary rhythm section to crank things up alone. Fortunately, this is a rare occurrence. Not for nothing has Crease been nicknamed The Human Loop.
'But the most unfortunate aspect of this live album is the familiarity of half the material... As a document of a Blurt concert it's fine: it works too as an adequate introduction to Milton's bizarre imagination. The rest of us, however, already familiar with his bitter, funny assaults on conventions and expectations, hoped for something more from a Blurt debut.'
However Melody Maker offered unqualified praise, Lynden Barber observing: 'It captures brilliantly what they're all about, all the rough and tumble and rough tumble spilling gloriously out of the speakers with ten times the energy and attack of a studio album.'
Armageddon also issued the second Blurt single, The Fish Needs a Bike, which appeared in 7" in May, backed by This Is My Royal Wedding Souvenir. Bike remains one of Blurt's best known aural assaults, although Milton was keen to dispel the idea that Blurt were a form of surrealist cabaret, telling Chris Bohn: 'No! Edward Lear I find melancholy, diseased poet, and I don't think my stage act is very funny. people might think there are three peculiar men onstage, but that's because we're not dressed up like 15 year olds following the dictates of fashion. I look a bit anomalous, out of place, but I'm not a comedian. People come to our gigs and get freaked out. It's not laughalong along... I know a lot of people who play down what they have to say onstage and just churn out do-wah-diddy cynical calculated pop. It's patronizing. Of course, we get up and get labeled inaccessible. We don't want to be a cult - that's death.'
Run by Dave Kitson, formerly a booker at the Moonlight Club, Armageddon morphed into Red Flame Records, where Blurt remained. Eponymous debut studio set Blurt was cleanly recorded at Windrush Studios in Gloucestershire and released in May, together with a 12" single featuring a different version of The Ruminant Plinth and non-album funk track Spill The Beans. Unlike In Berlin all this material was new, yet reviews of the album were lukewarm. In NME, Amrik Rai expressed mild disappointment: 'Blurt! Noise preferred to poise. Milton runs out of funny clever ideas after about three songs so he goes back to square one and tries to pull a fast one. It doesn't work. Blurt would have made a great single. There was a time when Blurt were better than this and because of that even Blurt is worth half an hour of the discerning record player's time.' Sounds were less impressed, describing the set as 'tedious, would-be cleverness.' Almost three decades later, however, an epnded CD on LTM would become a particularly popular reissue, with Spill the Beans being compiled by deejay Trevor Jackson.
For some time after Blurt were relatively inactive, playing live only occasionally, and releasing no new records until 1984. Guitarist Pete Creese departed, and was replaced by Steve Eagles, formerly of pop hopefuls Thepotos. A second studio album Bullets for You was followed by single White Line Fever, as well as a second live album, Friday The 12th (recorded at Kortrijk, Belgium, in October 1984). Milton also released a solo single, Love Is Like A Violence, telling David Quantick of NME in February 1985: 'I can see lots of opportunities that I've failed to take, doors have opened and I've not gone through them. Maybe that's a good thing that I've not gone through. There was a radio ad, which said a great dog deserves a great dog food. And I thought the two... a great dog deserves a great dog food, so fuck you! It's like, so that is success.'
The revitalized Blurt went on to record a series of singles and albums including Poppycock (1986), Smoke Time (1987), Pagan Strings (1992) and Celebrating the bespoke Cell of Little Ease (1999), some released on their own Toeblock label, and more recently corruscating long player Cut It, issued by LTM in October 2010, featuring new drummer David Aylward. Two Best Of Blurt volumes were also compiled by Salamander. Ted and Blurt continue to perform and record around Europe, and remain a cult underground institution. There are worse forms of death, Ted.
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Studies of shock wave interactions with homogeneous and isotropic turbulence
Published 1998 by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, National Technical Information Service, distributor in Hampton, Va, Springfield, VA .
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Contributions Briassulis, G., Langley Research Center., United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Download Studies of shock wave interactions with homogeneous and isotropic turbulence
The studies involving homogeneous turbulence and shocks have inherently focused on the fundamental aspects of compressible turbulence dynamics, whereas the studies involving inhomogeneous turbulent flows and shocks have additionally focused on flow prediction and subsequent control. In the latter case, the shock is evanescent and other effects. Interaction of isotropic quasi-incompressible turbulence with a weak shock wave was studied by direct numerical simulations. The effects of the fluctuation Mach number M t of the upstream turbulence and the shock strength M 2 1 — 1 on the turbulence statistics were investigated. The ranges investigated were ≤ M t ≤ and ≤ M 1 ≤ Cited by: The idealized interactions of shock waves with homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, homogeneous sheared turbulence, turbulent jets, shear layers, turbulent wake flows, and two-dimensional boundary layers have been reviewed. The interaction between a shock wave and turbulence is mutual. A shock wave exhibits substantial unsteadiness and deformation as a result of the interaction, whereas the Cited by: The unsteady interaction of a moving shock wave with nearly homogeneous and isotropic decaying compressible turbulence has been studied experimentally in a large-scale shock tube facility. Rectangular grids of various mesh sizes were used to generate turbulence with Reynolds numbers based on Taylor's microscale ranging from to Cited by:
Homogeneous isotropic turbulence is an idealized version of the realistic turbulence, but amenable to analytical concept of isotropic turbulence was first introduced by G.I. Taylor in The meaning of the turbulence is given below, homogeneous, the statistical properties are invariant under arbitrary translations of the coordinate axes. The idealized interactions of shock waves with homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, homogeneous sheared turbulence, turbulent jets, shear layers, turbulent wake flows, and two-dimensional boundary layers have been reviewed. The interaction between a shock wave and turbulence is mutual. A shock wave exhibits substantial unsteadiness and deformation as a result of the interaction, whereas the. The unsteady interaction of a moving shock wave with nearly homogeneous and isotropic decaying compressible turbulence has been studied experimentally in a large-scale shock tube facility. In this work, we use numerical simulation and linear inviscid theory to study the thermodynamic field generated by the interaction of a shock wave with homogeneous isotropic turbulence.
Shock wave interactions with grid-generated homogeneous and isotropic turbulence are observed numerically by solving the time-dependent three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with k−ε turbulence model for a compressible fluid. The amplification of longitudinal turbulence intensity and turbulent kinetic energy level are measured numerically for different turbulence regimes located along Author: Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Kazuyoshi Takayama. shock waves with turbulent boundary layers than for interactions with isotropic turbulence. While studies of shock/turbulent-boundary-layer interactions are of great importance from the standpoints of both physics and engineering, concurrent studies of shock/isotropic-turbulence interactions (SITI) can help to elucidate which physical processes. Shock Wave&-Turbulence Interactions Shock Wave&-Turbulence Interactions Andreopoulos, Yiannis; Agui, Juan H.; Briassulis, George Abstract The idealized interactions of shock waves with homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, homogeneous sheared turbulence, turbulent jets, shear layers, turbulent wake flows, and two-dimensional boundary layers . The canonical problem of a shock wave interacting with homogeneous, isotropic turbulence (STI) has been well studied for over 40 years [1] and remains a topic of interest [2, 3]. One of the motivations for studying this canonical STI problem is that it captures key physics of the complex viscous-inviscid interaction that occur in other more Cited by: 1.
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NEW CHAPTER: Gladstone Regional Councils new chief executive officer Leisa Dowling. Mike Richards GLA071118NCEO
COUNCIL'S NEW ERA: Familiar face appointed as CEO
by Tegan Annett
IN THE wake of Gladstone Regional Council's major restructure, Leisa Dowling has been chosen to steer the organisation into a new phase.
After holding senior leader positions at the council for eight years, Ms Dowling was today confirmed as the new chief executive officer.
Ms Dowling replaces Roslyn Baker, who resigned in September, 13 months after she took on the role.
The appointment follows the council completing a major restructure that is expected to save the organisation $14.4million.
The changes led to more than 100 redundancies and a new director structure.
There were 139 positions created.
Hoping to shift the council's focus to community engagement and delivering outcomes for the region, Ms Dowling said she wanted more clarity around what the council had done and what it wanted to achieve.
Gladstone Regional Council's new CEO : Gladstone Regional Council today announced its new chief executive officer Leisa Dowling.
"In the past 12 months it's been the most rapid change that I've seen in my time here," Ms Dowling said.
"Right now I think people skills are really important, we need to focus on engaging with our staff and community.
"We need to get good clarity on the expectations of the community, what they think value for rates are and to be more visible in the region."
Ms Dowling said her eight years of experience in a range of general manager and director roles would help her make decisions in the CEO position.
"Having been in the organisation for this time and seen the changes and seen what's worked... it's going to be really helpful," she said.
"It's going to be important to be able to connect with our people to facilitate their ideas and to continue this transformation."
Among Ms Dowling's short-term goals is finalising the organisation's new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement.
The EBA discussions prompted some workers to strike last month in a bid to gain pay rises and job security.
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Ms Dowling said the council had negotiated with the unions and was close to finalising the new agreement.
She said the council had recently changed the proposed EBA to include a no-forced-redundancy clause and provisions for job security.
Asked what workers could expect in terms of job security, she said these changes "clearly showed" council's intentions.
Ms Dowling is also supportive of the council's ongoing goal to bring more work in-house.
A regular volunteer at her sons' rugby league club, tending to blood noses and strapping knees at the oval, Ms Dowling said community engagement would be an important part of her role.
"I consider it an honour and a privilege," she said.
"We have a good strategy and I think our new corporate and operational plan is the best I've seen in my time at the council.
"The blueprint is there, now it's about progressing down that transformation journey at a pace we can sustain."
Gladstone Region Mayor Matt Burnett said the council focused on internal applicants who had been with the organisation during the recent restructure.
Ms Dowling was acting CEO during the recruitment process.
"Leisa is highly regarded across the organisation and has a genuine passion to lead council to achieve positive outcomes for council, its employees and the community," Cr Burnett said.
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A Reflection of 2020 – MAF South Sudan
The impact of COVID-19 has been felt across almost all of our programmes. It has affected our staff, our ability to fly, and the people we have been able to reach. Below is a summary of how this impact has been felt in South Sudan.
As the world was locking down in April, South Sudan was no different. With only four pilots in country and two of those unable to fly at the time, MAF was conducting only limited flight operations. In mid-April all domestic flying was halted and the programme began working on getting an exemption. We were given permission to carry out some COVID-19 flying supporting the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Ministry of Health. We also sought approvals to enable us to carry out aircraft swaps with the Kenya programme for maintenance.
As part of the COVID-19 response, we flew COVID test kits to Nimule, a town on the Ugandan border which would be used to test truck drivers coming into the country with essential supplies.
Demand for cargo flights increased as partners needed to resupply their field programmes. We transported food and building supplies for Samaritan’s Purse and malaria medication for CARE. We also carried out two aircraft swaps with MAF Kenya.
By May passengers had to be COVID-19 tested and receive special permission to travel, but we continued transporting cargo for our partners as well as some COVID-19 related flights – one for WHO taking COVID-19 test samples from a town in the north of South Sudan to Juba for testing, and other chartered flights for our NGO partners transporting soap, hand sanitisers and masks.
The number of COVID-19 cases at this time was rising, though numbers were still relatively low. However, the curfew was relaxed and restrictions on businesses and restaurants lifted.
At the end of May, cases continued to rise significantly each day to almost 300 cases. The first death was reported (a high-profile politician) and there were three more deaths in the days following. Passenger flights resumed for those who had tested negative for COVID-19. MAF performed two flights for the Health Pool Fund carrying COVID-19 posters and training materials which would be used to train Community Health Workers and raise awareness of COVID-19.
By June confirmed cases had risen to 994 with 10 deaths. Flight requests began to slow and due to the decreased workload and the need to social distance, staff were working at the MAF office in shifts.
In mid-June it was reported that South Sudan had ranked lowest in the world in terms of its ability to mobilise a COVID-19 response (Source: DKV.Global). Concern was raised over increased levels of insecurity since the new government was installed in February, due to the absence of regional government. The government has been called upon to appoint regional governors urgently.
At this time, we continued to support our partners, including Samaritan’s Purse, TearFund, Kuron Peace Village, Presbyterian Church of South Sudan, Jhpiego Corporation (HIV meds) and Jesuit Refugee Service.
In mid-June, WHO reported an increase in respiratory-related deaths amongst displaced people living in Bentiu Protection of Civilians Camp (PoC). WHO official, Joseph Wamala, told reporters, “We have actually uncovered trends that we are still investigating to determine whether the rise in respiratory-related deaths is due to COVID-19 or a different ailment.”
By the end of July official figures had risen to 1,069 cases of COVID-19 and 46 deaths but the government was only conducting 100 tests per day, so these figures could have been higher. Humanitarian organisations began highlighting how continued school closures were impacting girls, with concerns that they would never return to school, a rise in teenage pregnancies, early marriage and gender based violence.
Shuttle flights resumed and with them we experienced an increase in demand for flights. We also continued flying charter flights and medevacs, including two injured military personnel with gunshot wounds being added onto a scheduled shuttle flight.
Towards the end of September more and more pilots were able to return to South Sudan but due to the 14-day quarantine requirement it took a few weeks for this to translate into operational capacity. South Sudan continued to face huge economic and humanitarian challenges made worst by the coronavirus pandemic and recent flooding across the country.
In October, several pilots completed license renewal and check training in Kenya. Quarantining rules for people entering the country relaxed so that those with a negative COVID-19 test no longer needed to quarantine.
The South Sudan Doctor’s Union called on concerned authorities to reinforce COVID-19 preventative measures in the wake of the global resurgence of new infections. There were concerns that the virus would begin to spread again after schools, churches and other institutions were reopened.
At the beginning of December, South Sudan had had 3,109 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 61 deaths. After a tough year flying, we are however pleased to report that the project to construct the new housing at Korok has begun and, at the time of writing (Dec 2020), the contractors would be breaking ground shortly.
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Fashion & Fabrics
Jewelry Inspired by the Mythical Kingdom Shamballa
Fashion & Fabrics, Jewellery & Watch, Issue 098
The New York-based, Kathmandu-inspired, jewelry company Shamballa Jewels, creates designs with deep meaning and a connection to ancient history.
Writer J.H. White
“In a sense, Shamballa doesn’t really have much to do with jewellery. The jewellery is almost like a vehicle to spread the mantra of Shamballa all over the planet to all kinds of human beings.”
Tibetan Buddhism speaks of a mythical kingdom called Shambala hidden deep within the Himalayas. The spiritual significance of this magical place traces back to an ancient prophecy that generations of believers have interpreted to be the birthplace of the final incarnation of Vishnu, who will usher in a new Age.
Today, Mads Kornerup, co-founder of Shamballa Jewels, brings that mystical nature and divine belief to jewelry designs. “For us at Shamballa, the goal has always been to help you try to overcome fear,” he says. “Whether it is the fear of dying, fear of envy, fear of jealousy, greed, all the aspects of fear that you have within you. It’s what you have to overcome in order to get in touch with your inner Shamballa.”
Kornerup’s journey in the jewellery industry didn’t start in the Himalayas, however. Instead, it was on the hard-biting streets of New York that he discovered his calling. He had been working as a photographer’s assistant when he started a side business of selling hand-braided Indian jewellery since he had always had a fondness for Eastern arts. When profits from the jewellery began to earn him more than three times what his regular job paid, he decided to strike out on his own and start a company.
Destined Fate leading to the Path to Shambala
Growing up in Denmark and later moving to New York, Kornerup always had an appreciation for the breadth of the world. He was eventually drawn to the expansive world of the Eastern mysticism, but one place in particular changed his journey of life. “It was really Kathmandu that lured me in—there was a homey feeling, a feeling of having most likely been there before,” he says.
“Kathmandu served as inspiration because it has such a rich history of Hinduism and Buddhism mixed together. The artistry, the craftsmanship that they have—the wood carving, the statue carving, the statue casting, the crystal carving—are just mind-blowing and out of this world. I take all these great symbols and I translate them into my Danish design aesthetic.”
The prayer wheel at temple in Kathmandu, Shutterstock.com
Kornerup’s designs marry ancient Buddhist and Nordic philosophy nicely with modern Scandinavian design and Indian craftsmanship, bringing us into a mysterious world with richness and beauty both physical and intangible.
“Being around Buddhist philosophy for so many years now, I’ve grown more comfortable with the concept of reincarnation,” he says. “But I grew up in Denmark, where there was no talk of it whatsoever in my childhood. So for me, it began as a very distant, far-off idea. I would say that in the last few years, it’s been accepted by my mind and ego that there might be a possibility that we are all reincarnations. That’s a super exciting thing.”
Equally exciting for Kornerup is the global resurgence of ancient philosophies in general. “It’s some of the most profound knowledge, and the Chinese, especially, have had it,” he says. “People are digging that knowledge back up again and understanding how precious it is and how much we can learn from it now.”
Shamballa jewellery is highly customizable—choosing your beads can be a process of self-discovery. Photo courtesy of Shamballa Jewels
Shamballa’s Four Virtues
Kornerup drew inspiration for Shamballa’s logo from the sacred Tibetan double vajra symbol. “We have adopted four virtues represented by the double vajra symbol – joy, love, compassion, and wisdom – which are the representations of the four directions of the double thunderbolt. It’s our interpretation of the ancient Eastern mythical symbol,” Kornerup says. According to legend, the inhabitants of Shamballa became so in tune with themselves and one another that they released all fear and transcended duality, becoming one with the universe.
Shamballa bracelet, a vibrant palette of red rubies complemented by delicate pink freshwater pearls and 18k rose gold. Photo courtesy of Shamballa Jewels
“In a sense, Shamballa doesn’t really have much to do with jewellery,” says Kornerup, but he hopes his bijoux can inspire the bearers on many levels and encourage them on their own journeys.
“Everybody is different—all seven billion of us are actually different. We encourage people to come with their own ideas, their own ways of putting colours and stones together. The different stones have different energies and different values—it’s about people trusting their own intuition,” he says. “Just listen within. Don’t listen to your brain—listen to your heart.”
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‘Bull’ Film Review: Annie Silverstein Finds Signs of Life in Numb Characters
30 April 2020, 6:00 pm ·3-min read
It’s probably unfair to compare Annie Silverstein’s “Bull” to Chloe Zhao’s “The Rider,” but in a way it’s hard not to. Both premiered at the Cannes Film Festival: “The Rider” at Directors’ Fortnight in 2017, “Bull” in Un Certain Regard in 2019. Both are the work of female directors looking into the world of rodeo, albeit in very different ways. And both are quiet, naturalistic films that illuminate hardscrabble lives that aren’t often put at the center of motion pictures.
It’d be a tall order for “Bull” to replicate the success of “The Rider,” which won the top prize in Directors’ Fortnight, was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics and won the Gotham Independent Film Award as the year’s best indie. But “Bull” is a tough but affecting film, a slice of life that could itself have some life on the arthouse circuit.
Or, rather, “Bull” is a slice of lives, a duet between two characters who make indelible impressions. Amber Havard plays Kris, a 14-year-old girl who sometimes seems intent on following her mother to jail; Rob Morgan is Abe, a former bull rider trying to hang on in the rodeo circuit despite an injury-wracked body.
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Both are living hard, gloomy lives in the outskirts of Houston, Abe by himself and Kris with a grandmother who seems harsh and judgmental until you realize that she’s got a daughter in jail and would just as soon not have a granddaughter headed there, too.
But Kris doesn’t care: She breaks into Abe’s house one weekend (knowing he’s out at rodeos every weekend), invites her friends to raid his liquor cabinet, steal his pain pills and trash the joint – and when she’s caught, her only question is, “Can’t you just take me to juvie?”
But no, they can’t – instead, Kris has to clean up Abe’s place and do chores for him, a sentence that eventually breaks through her sullen exterior to almost turn into a friendship.
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We know as soon as the movie begins to play out that Kris and Abe will be drawn together, but Silverstein seldom surrenders to sentiment – and in Havard and Morgan, she has a pair of lead actors who can avoid histrionics but quietly make us feel for these characters.
Both of them are living lives that seem full of dead ends: She puts up with casual sexual assault and becomes a drug dealer because she doesn’t have the strength to say no, while he responds to a doctor saying, “There are other ways to make money, Abe” with a simple, “Not for me.”
Both characters have taken the path of numbness, which for Kris means refusing to admit she feels anything and for Abe means medicating so he can’t feel all the ways in which his body has deserted him. Silverstein lets their interactions play out slowly; “Bull” is a patient movie, but one haunted by a sense of foreboding and doom.
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And yes, bad things happen, but Kris finds a little bit of light in her (crazy) dream to one day ride bulls herself, and Abe finds somebody to care about when he’s not beating himself up. They need each other, and come to acknowledge as much.
And the fact that this never comes across as maudlin is tribute to a director who knows her way through dark places, and a pair of actors who can create a quiet storm.
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COVID-19: Bill allowing Parliament to meet with MPs in 2 or more places to be tabled
27 April 2020, 11:04 am ·1-min read
FILE PHOTO: Yahoo News Singapore
SINGAPORE — Minister Grace Fu, the Leader of the House, intends to introduce a new Bill next week to allow Parliament to meet with MPs spread out between two or more places amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The arrangement will be permitted “if it becomes impossible, unsafe or inexpedient for Parliament to meet at one place”, according to a joint statement by the offices of the Leader of the House and the Clerk of Parliament on Monday (27 April).
The MPs’ presence at any of the appointed places will count for attendance, quorum and voting purposes. The powers, immunities and privileges of Parliament will also be extended to apply under the arrangements.
Currently, Parliament is required by law to meet in one place. Parliament is scheduled to meet next Monday at 1.30pm.
The mechanism for the arrangements will be active for six months after the Bill is passed and comes into force. In future they can be activated by Parliament for six months at a time or be de-activated at any time by a parliamentary resolution.
“The current COVID-19 situation is a good reminder that Parliament must be enabled to carry out its duties and pass laws that serve Singapore and Singaporeans even in exigencies,” the statement said.
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Bill H.3212 187th (2011 - 2012)
An Act designating a portion of Interstate 290 as the Michael Simonelli and Michael Gabriele Overpass
By Mr. Binienda of Worcester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3212) of John J. Binienda and John P. Fresolo for legislation to designate a portion of Interstate Route 290 in the city of Worcester as the Michael Simonelli and Michael Gabriele Overpass. Transportation.
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1/24/2011 House Referred to the committee on Transportation
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Hands On with Ferrari’s F8 Tributo: A Lean, Mean, V8 Machine
Man of Many, 30 Jul 2020
Just last week, Ferrari debuted their latest rear-engined sports car. Dubbed the F8 Tributo, it feautres the Italian carmaker’s most powerful production V8 to date. Rumour has it that it’s got a top speed of 340km/h and the ability to accelerate from 0-100 in 2.9 seconds. We just had to take a look.
Ferrari brought Man of Many out to Sydney Motorsports Park to spend a morning flogging the Tributo around the Grand Prix Circuit. I’m sure you can agree, it was a tough day in the office.
The Tributo is Ferrari’s latest model taking over for the Ferrari’s 488 GTB. Boasting more horsepower, a lighter chassis and a 10% improvement in aerodynamic efficiency, the Tributo is aimed to drivers who yearn for a high-performance experiance.
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The design of the new F8 Tributo is a clear tribute to the Ferrari’s F8’s of old. Saying that the new silhouette is nothing if not sporty and unadorned. The front of the car is characterised by the S-Duct engine intake and more compact LED headlights. The flanks are dominated by the evident muscular forms and familiar air intakes. You’ll be happy to hear, the all-new spoiler is larger and more pronounced and the new way the taillights wrap around the rear is super sexy. Another exquisite feature of note is the rear window that presents the V8 engine like a work of art.
Inside, the cockpit retains the classic look of Ferrari’s mid-rear-engine Berlinettas. Although, every element of the dash, door panels and tunnel have been completely redesigned. When sitting behind the wheel, it’s as if you’re at the helm of a modern F1 car. The new-generation steering wheel is draped with the usual carbon fibre elements and ‘rari red buttons and knobs. The devil is truly in the details and we simply can’t go past the red stitching that comes as standard on the seats.
The dash is completed with aluminium and more slivers of carbon fibre. The classic instrument cluster features a central rev-counter and, if you really want to show off, you can add an optional 7-inch touchscreen display that’ll display your speed on the passenger’s side of the dash.
The F8 Tributo is one of those cars that just yearns to see track tarmac. The sleek silhouette is, no doubt, at home amongst other supercars of Sydney. But, whilst others might be content to stick to the traffic of Double Bay, you’d being doing yourself – and the car – a disservice if you didn’t allow it regular chances to unleash. Luckily for us, we were at one of the best places in Sydney to do this (legally).
The Tributo’s Biturbo 3.9-litre V8 pumps out a modest 530kW at 8000rpm and 770Nm of torque at 3250rpm. That’s over 720hp in old money. With power like this, you’ll be surprised to know just how accessible the Tributo is. Into corners, the nose of the F8 dug in, gripping to the road, making handling tight fairly breezy. Even after breaking late from a +100kmph approach. As if you’re bowling with the gutters up, it’s beautifully designed with the normal driver in mind.
That being said, given an opportunity the F8 will easily put out a bellow of power that’ll have you finding 250kmph at half-throttle. She’s lean and mean and, no matter how lovely, demands respect.
Another demanding feature is the price of the new Ferrari F8 Tributo. You’ll find starting prices around $484,888 and quickly exceeding half a milly if you start to add features. For us, the exhilarating performance, exquisite engine and unprecedented handling makes the F8 Tributo a future classic for Ferrari and one of the best 8-cylinders in the world.
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Alice Rietveld is a dancer as well as an actress from Netherlands. She completed her degree in dance from Codarts University of the Arts. After that, Alice went to perform professionally touring through Europe with many modern dance companies. After moving to the west coast, her acting career begun at Playhouse west. Through some random dance auditions, her career landed on a job of stunt doubling on "Desperate Housewives". There is no any information about Alice�s mother and father.
Alice Rietveld had her Broadway debut in NYC with "Annie Get Your Gun" in the supporting role of Winnie Tate. She has performed in "Aida", "Bells are Ringing" and "The Music Man". There is no information available about her current relationship status. She has not revealed any of her personal life as well. Alice has not been a topic of any controversy or rumor yet.
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A brief history of Awesome
May 22, 2019, 8:19 AM Technology
Dan O'Connor
The original Ministry of Awesome team at its coffee meeting at Black Betty's in 2012. Ministry of Awesome (website)
The Ministry of Awesome is a starting point for entrepreneurs, startups and innovators in Christchurch.
Founded seven years ago, Ministry of Awesome now operates out of Te Ohaka, a centre for growth and innovation at the Ara Institute of Canterbury.
Ministry of Awesome was set up by Kaila Colbin, Sacha McMeeking, Sam Johnson and Vicki Buck as a way to make things happen in post-earthquake Christchurch.
It hosts weekly lunch break catch-ups called "Coffee and Jam", Christchurch's longest-running entrepreneurial meet-up.
Awesome marketing manager Vanessa Ortynsky said "Coffee and Jam" sessions were "a great opportunity to connect with members of the tech community and startup ecosystem".
"It is a safe space to pitch your idea and get instant feedback," Ortynsky said.
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NBA Playoff Odds and Preview — Nuggets After NBA History in Game 7 vs. Clippers
Betting tips for Nuggets – Clippers
Is it possible that the Denver Nuggets, a team with a lot of big guys, winds up as the little engine that could? If momentum is any indicator, things are going Denver’s way as they go into Game 7 of their Western Conference semi-final series against the Los Angeles Clippers. Game time is 9 PM ET in the bubble at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports complex, and BetAnySports customers can not only get reduced juice on this game, bringing more value, they can also place wagers in real-time after the opening tip through Sports Betting Prime.
Denver looked very down and out when falling behind three games to one to Utah in the opening round, and they also let the Clippers go up by that margin here. But they overcame a 16-point deficit to win Game 5, and then staged what might be an even more remarkable surge in Game 6. The Nuggets were down by 19 points just a couple of minutes into the second half. They not only came back to overtake the Clippers, they won the game by double digits (111-98).
How big is all this? Well, no team in NBA history has come back TWICE from 3-1 deficits to win playoff series in the same season.
There were five double-digit scorers for Denver on Sunday, and that included the versatile Nikola Jokic, who had 14 points and 14 rebounds. While Jamal Murray has not been the dominant figure he was against Utah, where he engaged in a rather epic duel with Donovan Mitchell, he has still been a hard guy to stop (21 points in Game 6).
Meanwhile, the Clippers, who had gone “all-in” and expected to be on a collision course with the Lakers in a clash for the West title, may find themselves to be tragic figures.
In the NBA playoff odds that have been posted on this game by the folks at BetAnySports, the Clippers are pretty decisive favorites:
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Owner Steve Ballmer took the initiative to bring Kawhi Leonard and Paul George to L.A. And they have held up their end of the bargain, to be perfectly honest. Leonard is averaging 26 points and nine rebounds, while George has shaken his shooting slump and hit 47%, which also includes a strong 21 of 49 (over 40%) from three-point territory. But Doc Rivers is not getting enough out of his two big guns off the bench. Lou Williams, who “made it rain” at an Atlanta nightclub after taking a funeral leave outside of the bubble, is tallying 10.5 points a game and has made a dismal three of 23 from beyond the arc. Montrezl Harrell, who also left the bubble for a funeral (his grandmother), has taken just 41 shots. This takes away a lot of what has made the Clippers effective, because they had the most productive bench in the league, with two candidates for Sixth Man of the Year.
At this point we may just be convinced. With the Clips operating at something less than an optimal level because of the diminished contributions of Williams and Harrell, the Nuggets look like more of the “ensemble” out there. And they have literally had a number of different heroes. They have eschewed the trend and stayed “big” in the lineup, with the likes of Jokic, Michael Porter, Jerami Grant and Paul Millsap getting major playing time (sorry Bol Bol fans; despite his breakout in the scrimmage games, he’s had just four minutes in this series).
But these collapses on the part of the Clippers tells us something, and it is arguably tied to the bench being a couple of notches below where they’ve been. Denver understands that it is never out of a game, while Los Angeles knows that any lead they have is tenuous. That’s a psychological edge, particularly if you are getting points like they are. So we are moving with Michael Malone’s Nuggets, getting a generous impost.
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The Onion Tablet app for iPad now available in App Store
by William April 4, 2011 April 4, 2011
One of the most recognized fake-news sources, The Onion, has officially launched its Onion Tablet app for iPad.
Within the app, you’ll find most of the Onion’s daily news content, such as News in Briefs and American Voices. It features HD-quality videos
and hi-res image content such as Statshots and News in Photos. Best of all, these images are full screen, meaning the app is fully utilizing the iPad’s beautiful 10″ display. The Onion’s A.V Club project is not currently included.
The new application supports a layout which allows the users to “touch the news”, meaning it’s optimized for the iPad’s large, touch-based user interface. You can easily touch and swipe left or right to manipulate the app’s content. This style of managing an application is on the rise, as opposed to dedicated buttons at the top and bottom of the screen.
The biggest complaint being reported so far seems to be the fact that it’s ad supported, but it’s also free. One ad appears right in your face when the app opens, and it sticks around for what’s said to be longer than it should. Of course, this kind of issue can always be fixed in an update.
Onion Tablet is current exclusive to the iPad. You can download it for free from the App Store.
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Pan African Resources acquires Evander Gold Mines from Harmony
Precious metals producer Pan African Resources' has fulfilled the remaining conditions necesary to undertake an unconditional acquisition of Evander Gold Mines from Harmony Gold Mining.
Nelson: Evander is "world-class ore-body"Jan Nelson, Chief Executive Officer of Pan African Resources, commented: "We are delighted to finally take full control of Evander - a world class ore-body and exceptional team of people will ensure that Pan African continues to deliver profitable, sustainable stakeholder growth. In addition to the 100,000 ounces of annual gold production, Evander also provides Pan African with a project pipeline that provides for significant growth possibilities and flexibility."
Graham Briggs, Chief Executive Officer of Harmony, said: "The proceeds from the Evander sale further strengthen Harmony's cash position. We are leaving Evander in the hands of a capable management team, who we believe will run the mine in a sustainable manner."
Pan African Resources focuses on the exploitation of high-grade ore-bodies that yield high margins with a low cash cost base. It is currently producing 95,000 ounces of gold per annum at its Barberton Mines in South Africa.
It is targeting 20,000 ounces of gold per annum at its Barberton Tailings Retreatment Project and is producing 12,000 ounces of platinum per annum at its Phoneix Platinum Project.
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The Mic Check Show w/Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Hot 97 WQHT by DJ Eclipse
Home—DJ Mixes—The Mic Check Show w/Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Hot 97 WQHT by DJ Eclipse
Listen to “The Mic Check Show w/Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Hot 97 WQHT”, the latest DJ mix released by DJ Eclipse on MixCloud. This mix is 40:41 mins long. If you dig this mix, then check out more of DJ Eclipse’s mixes his mixcloud page.
So mad I missed the very beginning of this show as my tape starts in the middle of Melle Mel’s freestyle just before he passes it to his brother Kidd Creole while Flash cuts up the beat. Luckily I didn’t miss any of the Force MD’s appearance (2:36) as they totally obliterate the mics. Sad to think at how downhill R&B has gone since brothers like these were on the scene. No autotune needed here. Then at 12:48 the calls start coming in for people to rhyme with the first being Flash’s son Jo Jo followed by many other callers. A few in house appearances by female MC The Original (16:35), Breez Evahflowin’ (18:43) and M.O.P. (30:45) doing a live version of “How About Some Hardcore”. Force MD’s show up again at the end to cap things off (35:28), but the final words go to Melle Mel with a rhyme recap (38:22). Shout out to Scorpio, Rahiem and Larry Love all in the place as well.
Hip hop,Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five,M.O.P,Force MD’s,Breez Evahflowin’
This dj mix by DJ Eclipse has been favorited 95 times so far.
About DJ Eclipse
DJ Eclipse, renowned indie Hip Hop tastemaker, first gained national notoriety while djing for 3rd Bass front man MC Serch in the early 90’s. His reputation grew in the mid 90’s by filling in for Stretch Armstrong on his weekly 89.9 radio show on WKCR and then later for Mayhem on 89.1 WNYU. He joined Wild Pitch Records in ’94 and became the National Director of Retail Promotion until their closing in ’95. Then, DJ Jab, the owner of a small basement record store called Fat Beats, brought Eclipse in to help out on weekends. It wasn’t long before Fat Beats became a worldwide company with Eclipse overseeing all of their retail operations. Around this time, NY also saw the birth of Eclipse’s seminal crew Non Phixion, which played a pivotal role in the indie renaissance of the mid 90’s. During these years, Eclipse established himself as the “go to” DJ for all the local Hip Hop events at Wetlands, S.O.B.’s, Vinyl and most notably, Tramps. In ’97, after spinning at many of the “Break Beats” parties at The Point in the Bronx, Crazy Legs put Eclipse down with the legendary Rock Steady Crew as one of the RSC DJs. By 1998, Eclipse started The Halftime Radio Show with DJ Riz and Lynn Gonzalez. Later on he could still be heard on on 89.1 WNYU with DJ Skizz on Wednesday nights from 10:30 PM – 1:00 AM (EST). As a producer, some of Eclipse’s notable credits include remixes for O.C. (“Time’s Up” & “Born 2 Live”), Nas, N-Tyce, the Modern Jazz Quartet (Rebop-The Savoy Remixes), a couple party joints for AV8 & Nervous Records and the Fractured Breaks battle records series just to name a few. In addition to running the Fat Beats NY store, operating Uncle Howie Records with partner ILL BILL and touring with La Coka Nostra, Eclipse joined DJ Premier on his “Live From HeadQCourterz” radio show as a “relief” DJ when Primo is on tour. The show aired on Sirius Satellite Radio on channel 40 Friday nights from midnight to 2 AM (EST).
Now he flexes on Rap Is Outta Control on (SiriusXM). Rap Is Outta Control is a weekly mix show hosted by DJ Eclipse and DJ Riz. The Sirius XM show airs every Sunday evening from 10pm-12am EST on Shade 45.
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modestgesture November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am - Reply
Actual harmonizing .. feels like a lost art or something .. at least in the hip hop arena
itsdjeclipse November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am - Reply
Dope. Still want to hear that!
iamDjStickem November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am - Reply
As I re-read your description of your tape, I think the show that I have taped is them on Flex’s show which was a performance to announce the new Mic Check Show.
Eclipse, I have a tape of the same show and I believe I have it from nearly the very beginning. I believe the first beat was “The Jam” by Grand Central Station. I’ll send you a link when I find the mp3 on one of my old computers or burn the cassette to mp3 again. I also used to have a tape of Mic Geronimo freestyling on the show (circa ’94?) also, but I taped over it like an asshole. Mic is still one of the best “off the top” in my book. Smooth AF. Have a great Thanksgiving
Not sure. Just going through small sections at a time. If I come across more they’ll probably end up here.
grndgdcsstte November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am - Reply
Thanks, we’ve been looking for Mic Check show audio for a while. Any more? I used to have the show when Jeru came thru
Officialdon72 November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am - Reply
Man thank you for preserving this. Real talk. Moments like this need to be in a vault. Hip Hop history.
unique-nelmer November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am - Reply
Funky fresh E. THANK U FOR SHARING
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I Don’t Know Where Paradise Is
Audio guide, mobile app, scenography of photographs, flower arrangements, and collages, 2019.
“A vibration comes from the library: a hum. Is it the hum of the books? The murmur of characters and diagrams and photographs pressed tightly between pages, rubbing up against each other? Is it the hum of all the things that for one reason or another did not find their ways into the library, humming, calling out for a reader? ”
Produced as the final work of Nemerofsky’s practice-led PhD, I Don’t Know Where Paradise Is is a multi-chaptered audio guide that mediates encounters with the libraries and homes of a group of loosely-interconnected gay scholars and artists in Amsterdam, Montreal, London, Paris, and Vienna.
Each chapter takes as its starting point an object found in and around the libraries, building on the idea of objects as conductors of feeling. These included a feather duster, a urinal, a house plant, a postcard of a still life, two clocks, and a shelf of biographies, among other items.
The audio guide is narrated by Nemerofsky with an ensemble of voice artists: Adeniyi Adelakun, Adrian Rifkin, Alberta Whittle, Oskar Kirk Hansen, Tomi Paasonen, and Will Stringer. Sound design by Johannes Malfatti. The audio guide is housed on a custom-designed mobile app created by by Nikita Gaidakov. The app is programmed to randomly select and shuffle the chapters, so that each listening experience is different in content and sequence.
I Don’t Know Where Paradise Is was first presented as a solo exhibition at the University of Edinburgh’s neoclassical Playfair Library in September 2019. Audience members listened to the piece while viewing a scenography of floral arrangements, photographs, and epistolary collages that abstractly suggested objects and themes described in the audio guide.
A more comprehensive description of the exhibition, with documentation of all artworks on display, can be viewed here.
Nemerofsky’s doctoral study was part of the Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures research project. In addition to I Don’t Know Where Paradise Is, Nemerofsky also produced Trees Are Fags, Cruising Adrian’s Library, Where Paradise Is, Regards, A Queer Phenomenology Movement Score, There is No Key Note, The World Will Always Welcome Lovers, and You, Dear Doctor Are My Only Rescue! as part of his doctoral artistic research.
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Wounded Warrior Project Adds Military and Business Leadership to Board
Wounded Warrior Project 2020 Board
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) strengthened its governance and oversight with the addition of three new board members. Each served in the U.S. Army after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy, and each has gone on to successful careers, including the military, the government, contracting, insurance, and a host of other ventures.
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ken Hunzeker served 35 years in the U.S. Army, commanding forces at every level through Division Command (1st Infantry Division), commanding the U.S. Army Fifth Corps (Germany), and culminating his career as Deputy Commanding General of all U.S. Forces in Iraq. After retirement from uniformed service, Ken served as Vice President of government relations at ITT Defense. He later served as CEO and President of Vectrus, an infrastructure and global logistics company. Recently, Ken was selected as a 2020 Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, an honor reserved for West Point's most accomplished graduates.
Kathy Hildreth served five years as a Maintenance Test Pilot and Aviation Maintenance Officer in the U.S. Army. She then worked in the defense industry sector for more than 15 years before co-founding a company providing a wide range of capabilities in aviation support services, logistics, engineering services, information technology, training services, supply chain management, acquisition and facilities, and equipment maintenance. Kathy grew M1 Support Services from a company of two employees to one now employing more than 7,000 people worldwide, many of them veterans.
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Bill Selman served five years on active duty in the U.S. Army before joining and eventually retiring from the U.S. Army Reserves. In his civilian life, Bill worked with Mobil Oil before joining Graham Company, one of the largest insurance and employee benefits brokers in the country, where Bill serves today as Managing Director. Bill's experience in insurance, risk management, and a variety of consulting challenges will serve WWP's board on many of the complex issues facing organizations serving the needs of injured veterans and their families.
"Bill Selman, Kathy Hildreth, and Lt. Gen. Ken Hunzeker will help us in innumerable ways to better serve warriors and family members," said WWP CEO Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Linnington. "Their experience in the military, and in business, will help Wounded Warrior Project continue to expand services to serve more warriors and families – and in even more impactful ways. The values they forged through life-long service to our nation are perfectly aligned to help shape Wounded Warrior Project for the foreseeable future."
WWP's board supports the organization's mission to honor and empower wounded warriors. It includes individuals with experience in military, business, nonprofit, government, and medical fields, and with varying educational backgrounds. The board regularly evaluates its composition to ensure it includes the appropriate skills, experience, and perspective. WWP has added 11 of its 12 board members since late 2016.
Learn more about the board here.
About Wounded Warrior Project: Since 2003, Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) has been meeting the growing needs of warriors, their families, and caregivers – helping them achieve their highest ambition. Learn more.
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A2 Virtual pilots on-line parent-teacher conferences
January 30, 2020 AAPS News Editor Latest news
Software allows parents to talk with teachers without leaving home or office
Story, video & photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor
For decades, parent-teacher conferences have been an ideal chance to discuss a student’s progress and goals.
But sometimes parents face logistical problems getting to school for these important meetings.
That could be changing in Ann Arbor Public Schools, which is piloting Zoom software to use for online conferencing.
The first online parent-teacher conferences were held Wednesday by the staff of A2Virtual, the district’s online program.
The district was searching for a cost-effective yet robust and secure video communications platform that could be easily utilized by staff and students in our A2 Virtual program, explained Heather Kellstrom, AAPS’ interim director of instructional and information technology.
“What’s key about this tool is that the platform utilizes resources and hardware that most users already own—such as a smartphone, computer or other internet-enabled device,” she said. “We’re excited to see A2 Virtual take the lead by modeling what parent and student engagement looks and feels like in a virtual environment using this new platform. Meeting virtually ensures that everyone can participate equitably.”
A2Virtual teacher Jennifer Durell talks with a parent about her son’s progress. On screen is a chart of his lessons, which the mother can also see.
Kellstrom said the next step is to explore ways to best leverage Zoom tools for staff professional development and other classroom collaborative needs.
A2 Virtual Coordinator Anthony Lauer says the on-line program has been using Zoom more and more to make access easier for all.
“We’re excited to be able to use Zoom with parent-teacher conferences today here at A2Virtual,” said Lauer. “We’re also exploring other uses for video conferencing, including parent information nights. Were also setting up meetings with teachers and students so that during the day when students are working in their online classes, their instructor can send them a link and have a virtual conference which is going to save on instructor workload traveling between buildings and it’s also going to make it easier for students to interact with teachers.”
A2 Virtual instructor DeMarko Thurman talks with a parent.
He said Zoom offers a virtual whiteboard so teachers can show students how to do activities by writing on their screen and interacting that way. Zoom could also be used for Information Nights.
The goal is for Zoom to be used more broadly across the district, with A2Virtual piloting the software to explore uses for it.
Jeanine Diller, a Skyline parent whose son is taking his first online course, says she appreciates the opportunity to conduct the conference online because it saves time and offers the same benefits of an in-person visit.
A2Virtual Principal Cindy Leaman said that as a busy parent herself, she understands what it would mean to be able to avoid travel time to and from an appointment.
“We’ve put our conferences between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. so that parents can use lunchtime if they’d like to,” she said, “and then they’d pop in for their 10 minutes at a scheduled time without the travel.”
With Zoom, parents and students are sent a link to click to access directly to the virtual meeting room. The goal is for Zoom to be used more broadly across the district, with A2Virtual piloting the software to explore uses for it.
A2 Virtual Principal Cindy Leaman and Coordinator Anthony Lauer watch as Jennifer Durell gets set for her first online parent-teacher conference.
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Antioch, CA, ‘Last bastion of the good commute’ in the Bay Area
Earlier this year, The New York Times’ Real Estate section explored Antioch, California, as a good place to move for more affordable housing and good transit to San Francisco. Besides depicting the city, the article follows two couples who moved to Antioch. We have appended to these excerpts a response to the article from the City of Antioch’s Community Development Director.
Renters and buyers priced out of San Francisco and Oakland are increasingly finding this quiet city on the San Joaquin River, where affordability is ‘number one.’
By Candace Jackson, The New York Times, February 25, 2020
“Antioch is filled with sprawling suburban subdivisions built during various real estate booms, particularly the 1990s and early 2000s.
“Myesha and Elgin Lawson had been looking to buy in Antioch [for] affordability. They said they were able to see several nice homes in their price range of $400,000 to $500,000. Most had at least three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, and at least 1,400 square feet.
“Most worrying to Ms. Lawson was the commute. The couple, who have a 10-year-old and a 6-year-old, both work in San Francisco. Each weekday, they leave their house at 4 a.m. to drop off the children with relatives who take them to school. Then they drive together to catch the morning’s first BART train into San Francisco, at 4:47 a.m.
“Antioch, a 30-square-mile city with about 112,000 residents, has rural, residential, and marine areas, with its northern border formed by the San Joaquin River. It is home to one of the area’s newest Bay Area Rapid Transit stations, [serving] an ‘eBART’ train connecting Antioch to the Pittsburg/Bay Point line. City officials say the station has put Antioch on the map, literally and figuratively.
eBART at Antioch station, May 2018. Credit transit photos from User:Pi.1415926535
“ ‘It’s a game-changer,’ said Kwame Reed, Antioch’s head of economic development. The city recently adopted a new slogan — ‘Opportunity Lives Here’ — with prominent BART train ads encouraging more businesses to relocate there.
“‘Antioch had a bad reputation,’ said Mr. Reed, noting the city’s standing as a super-commuter area with a perception of high crime. He’s hoping that the new branding campaign will paint a better image of the city — featuring the waterfront, golf, and hills for hiking.
“What you’ll pay
“Antioch remains one of the more affordable cities in the Bay Area, but prices have been edging upward.
“‘It’s kind of the last bastion of the good commute,’ [Marva Clayton of Intero Real Estate Services] said. ‘But affordability, that’s number one.’”
Read the full article here. In addition to stories of two couples who resettled in Antioch, it describes the “vibe,” or general character of Antioch and its housing, along with tips about schools, the likely cost of a house, the commute, and the local history. The article also includes a slideshow with 17 photos, “The Varied Landscapes of Antioch, Calif.”
CDD response to the article
From Forrest Ebbs, Community Development Director of the City of Antioch:
“The City of Antioch has a compelling story to tell that reflects the patterns of a generation of land use, housing distribution, and employment equity. As the City initiates its comprehensive update to the General Plan, new avenues will emerge for investment, infill, and opportunity throughout the City. The suburban landscape as we know it will undergo major changes as it responds to increasing urban housing inequity, market and environmental constraints, greenhouse gas reduction goals, and the myriad inputs that will ultimately dictate our future.”
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North Bay garage owner considers closing up shop after rash of thefts
Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 1:53PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 1, 2020 2:08PM EST
NORTH BAY -- The owner of a North Bay garage is almost ready to close his business after another break-in and theft at the shop.
The latest happened in the early morning Thursday when thieves got away with tools and computer equipment from North Bay Auto Service.
"I came into the shop and noticed the radio was turned off," said Dave Battistoni, as he worked on repairing a vehicle."I thought that was weird because the radio is on 24/7 and then right then and there I knew they were in here again."
Thieves broke a window around 2 a.m., climbed inside, stealing laptops and power tools. A 2006 silver Acura was taken off the property but has since been found.
North Bay Police are looking for three suspects.
Suspect one is a man with a medium build wearing a camouflage jacket, blue jeans, and a blue toque with a white stripe. Suspect two was wearing all black with fur on the hood of a winter jacket. The third suspect was wearing a black jacket with fur on the hood and grey jogging pants.
"We're doing forensic analysis on the vehicle that was recovered and we're still seeking suspects for the three individuals," said North Bay Police Const. John Schultz.
Feeling disheartened
Battistoni, who has operated the business for 16 years, said he feels disheartened that crime is ramping up in his area.
"They've taken tools from outside, car parts," he said. "With the gas tanks, they'll drill holes and take the gas."
The shop was last broken into in August. Battistoni said he is out at least $20,000 in lost equipment and he also installed a new security system. He's even caught thieves in the act in broad daylight in the past.
"A gentleman tried to break into the car outside beside me," he said. "I yelled at him and he's like 'Oh sorry. I didn't know it was your car.' It doesn't matter if it's my car or not. It's not yours."
Police recommend all businesses and homeowners have an adequate security camera system that can record in HD and in colour to assist investigations.
"It helps us identify suspects and that is tremendous evidence in a court proceeding," said Schultz.
For Battistoni, he's ready to call it quits and retire if he is the victim of one more crime.
"I'm trying to stay strong, but if it happens again, I'm done," he said.
Anyone with any information about the suspects is encouraged to contact North Bay Police or Crime Stoppers.
Dave Battistoni says he's almost ready to close his North Bay garage after another break-in and theft at the shop. (Eric Taschner/CTV News)
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The bookstore chain Notabene is bankrupt
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Buyer of Norske Skog may be known in March
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Yili leads list of finalists for World Food Innovation Awards 2020
Written by Jacky Wang on February 27, 2020 . Posted in News.
Photo: Yili dominates the shortlist of finalists for the World Food Innovation Awards 2020
BEIJING, Feb. 24 — Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd., one of Chinese dairy giants, has dominated the list of finalists for the World Food Innovation Awards 2020, which has been revealed recently.
As the only nominee from the Chinese dairy industry, the company has been shortlisted as finalists in eight categories of the awards.
The eight categories include best food concept, best healthy snacking innovation, best natural food or organic product, best manufacturing or processing technology, best professional kitchen product, best food packaging design, best drink packaging design, best brand identity or marketing campaign, covering a variety of products such as Jinlingguan Seine Mouiller organic milk powder, Xujinhuan ice cream, Yili Yummy Freeze-Dried Yoghurt Bites, Yidianmeng Yoghurt, cold brew milk tea, whipping cream, etc.
Being held annually, the World Food Innovation Awards are a celebration of innovation and excellence across every category of the food industry. The event attracts the majority of global food enterprises to take part in, and the results of the selection represent the industry’s cutting-edge trend and direction.
In recent years, Yili has been dedicated to providing health products for global consumers， contributing to the cause of human health.
The company not only delves into the field of dairy product, but also continuously creates new achievements in a wider range of health food fields with an aim to better realize its grander dream of “World Integrally Sharing Health”
At the same time, the company, which retains the position as Asia’s largest dairy firm, has stepped up efforts to aggressively promote innovation and empower innovation to be a “thruster” for the company’s development.
By investing huge resources, the dairy giant has developed China’s first Shuhua Lactose Free milk to enable consumers who have lactose intolerance to drink milk normally and launched Ambrosial －the world’s first room temperature PTE drinking and pulp yogurt after working out hundreds of technical problems. At present, Ambrosial has made great success in China and Southeast Asian markets and became a sub-brand with annual sales of more than 20 billion yuan.
For a long time, Yili has aggressively expanded its overseas layout, accelerating the integration of R&D resources at home and abroad to set up an innovation network covering leading R&D institutions worldwide and actively assumed the responsibility of leading the dairy industry to solve world problems.
In the foreseeable future, the company is set to maintain its strong growth momentum, lead the development of health food business, and embark on a new chapter in the development of the global food industry.
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OCR02527 - Bayonetta & After Burner III (Sega CD) 'Lady in Black'
November 7, 2012 in ReMix Comments/Reviews
Been listening to this for... how long has it been? Over a year now, I think? Anyway, it's awesome. The best part though? After Burner is FINALLY ON THE SITE. Took way too long to get some AB representation on OCR.
I really hope this is the beginning of a flood of afterburner remixes >.><.<
As a fan of the soundtrack nothing you did could of disappointed me. (seriously, to me its a pure joy just to listen to.)
I think the saxophone part might annoy other remixers that it was allowed to be posted.
But to a nonmusician like myself i don't mind it and feel it helps contribute to the atmosphere of the track.
I think DJ mystix might want to write a new sax solo just incase.(there are many remixers that are talented on the saxophone, xenon and protodome come to mind)
I'm sure he has the talent and this track is proof of that talent.
More afterburner please.
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It's odd to be posting a mix where I have a significant reservation that relates so directly to our standards; the obvious question would be, why didn't we just reject it on these grounds? Like I said, this is a subjective, roll-of-the-dice sort of issue where that could easily have happened, but at the same time we want artists to have freedom to follow their inspiration where it leads them. However, OCR is 110% a site for VGM arrangements, and we absolutely aim to protect the purity of that concept as much as possible. So we're posting this mix, and I personally dig it quite a bit, but we're simultaneously asking Mansoor and all other artists to please AVOID incorporating non-VGM sources. Hopefully this ReMix will serve as a further clarification of our policy while also making a lot of Bayonetta & Afterburner fans very happy
I have to wholeheartedly disagree with the sentiment that it might have needed to be rejected.
As someone who's played the game all the way through the music is a shining star. It is a top notch set of remixed music in its own right from the opening 'Fly me to the Moon' to the closing 'Lets Dance Boys' The saxaphone usage in this game's music is SIGNATURE and some of the best work i've ever heard for the instrument. To not use such a critical component of what drove the songs in this game would have been CRIMINAL. This is a great job of remixing the song. I'm hopeful though someone's gonna take a crack at one of the more iconic tracks.
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It pissed me off royally to see this mix sitting in the "to be posted thing" for so long.
At least now I know why it was there for so long.
But anyway, this remix still owns.
metaphist
A rejection would have had everything to do with the use of un-original, non-source material and nothing to do with musical quality, so I'm not sure what your up in arms about. Did you read djp's words?
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Yeah, he didn't read it. The standards-related issue was the incorporation of a non-VGM song, and that was the only issue on that level.
Policy issue aside (those weighing in on this had their work cut out for'em), the ReMix itself is pretty damn good in my opinion. Love the flute and sax work here and the whole song makes for an awesome addition to the downbeat/smooth jazz genres. Not bad at all.
Edited October 29, 2013 by Crulex
Long time to respond but i forgot all about this topic. Finally saw it on the top of the remix review pile so i'll get to it.
Actually the problem i have with that is the fact that the primary song nay the SIGNATURE song of the soundtrack isnt a 'VGM' song. (Fly Me To The Moon)
That and close if not a bit over 50% of the game's soundtrack included flat out remixed/updated songs from other Sega Games. Hell as you're about to begin the final area of the game Bayonetta 4th wall breaks with Fantasy Zone. And you can hear it throughout the soundtrack.
The Content and intent of the game's music matters imo in a situation like what was outlined. When a game goes THAT route i feel remixer needs to have the freedom to do what the people who made the music originally did.
If it's arranging music written for games, then yes. If not, then no. We're a video game music site, not a "Fly Me to the Moon" arrangement site. We've had the Tetris/Frogger folk music exceptions, yes, but allowing mainstream music arrangements at this stage isn't what we're about, no matter how awesome the execution is.
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After the virus, there will be decorating
By Lanny Morgnanesi
Easter came and there were no large family gatherings or in-church services. There was only Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who sang for free while the world listened.
Bocelli said his was not a performance. He called it a prayer and the event was advertised as Music for Hope. It took place in the Duomo di Milano, one of Italy’s most breathtaking cathedral. Bocelli was accompanied by a musician playing the world’s largest pipe organ. Otherwise, save for the unseen camera crew, he was alone.
Inside the cathedral, the tenor sang a few piece of sacred music. People watching live on Youtube saw a pantheon of statues, stained glass, etchings, carvings, relief work, marble, enormous pillars, icons and more. As Bocelli sang, there were cutaways to the empty streets of great cities like Milan, Paris, New York and London. After 25 minutes or so, the blind singer stop singing and walked unaccompanied down a corridor, through an enormous door and onto the Duomo steps. There was no one outside in the locked-down city, the epicenter of the Coronavirus in Italy. The small country of 60 million has reported 159,000 cases and 20,400 deaths.
Bocelli stood on the steps and returned to his singing. In English, he sang the 18th century Christian hymn, Amazing Grace. There was no music at first. After a time, the production people layered in a full orchestra. When the song ended, there was silence, and the cameras shutdown. The prayer was over.
The concert lasted 30 minutes and, so far, has been watched by at least 37 million people.
Andrea Bocelli’s music, as intended, gave us hope. Even more inspiring might have been the miracle and magnificence of the Duomo di Milano, the largest cathedral in Italy. Construction on it began in 1386, just a few decades after the Black Death killed 100 million people worldwide. Many believe the depths, damage and darkness of the plague is what spawned the creativity, commerce and optimism of the European Renaissance.
Interior of the Duomo di Milano
The amazing thing about the Duomo is its utter completeness as a work of art. The virtuoso violinist Itzak Perlman has said that in the world of symphonic music there is no such thing as a casual note. With the Duomo, there is no such thing as a casual surface. Every piece of wood or stone has been slaved over and loved into a masterpiece. In Renaissance Italy, the greatest and most famed artists would fight for commissions to illustrate or decorate a surface. And great time would be spent on them. Lorenzo Ghiberti spent 27 years on the doors of the Baptistery in Florence. When Michelangelo saw those doors he called them “the Gates of Paradise.” The doors to Milan’s Duomo may not be as famous, but they are covered in jaw-dropping art work. Mark Twain, in Innocents Abroad, said this about the Duomo doors:
“The central one of its five great doors is bordered with a bas-relief of birds and fruits and beasts and insects, which have been so ingeniously carved out of the marble that they seem like living creatures — and the figures are so numerous and the design so complex, that one might study it a week without exhausting its interest …”
You look at a place like the Duomo di Milano and quickly comprehend that no such monument would be built today or could be built today. It’s a representation of a now unachievable achievement. The Duomo was a continuous work in progress for nearly 600 years. That’s how long it took to complete. The expense was enormous and funds were not always available. In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte, about to become King of Italy, ordered the facade to be finished and said he’d pay for it. He never did.
Door engravings, the Duomo di Milano
The art and culture of the Renaissance arose as great fortunes in banking and commerce were being made. Wealthy, influential families like the Medici and the Borgia possessed incomparable riches and used their fortunes on the arts. It was expected and something of a requirement. What was created was to be shared with regular people and offered up to God in thanks. Great new wealth also has been amassed in our era through the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple, PayPal and others. But it is used differently. There is good being done, but it’s a different kind of good.
Buffett, Gates, Soros
True, the rich create foundations to better mankind (and get a nice tax deduction for it). George Soros, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are among a handful of billionaires who have contributed much of their wealth toward improving the human condition. The other side of this benevolence, however, are efforts to change the world in more entrepreneurial ways. The excessive profits of enormously successful companies, for example, might be channeled into no-profit or low-profit ventures, like building space ships or driver-less cars. Intentions are good and hopes for mankind are high, but the goal is ultimately money. Rarely do we see artistic creations or architecture wonders (the Brooklyn Bridge is an older example of this) that people feel part of and gravitate toward.
Apple is said to have spent about $5 billion on its campus for 12,000 workers in Cupertino, California, yet by any stretch it is not considered a great wonder of the world. (For that money is should be.) Today’s really impressive modern architecture is found mostly in the Middle East and Asia. The world’s tallest building is in Dubai. Eye-poppers are all over Singapore, Malaysia and Shanghai. Still, all this is so very different from building a church that takes 600 years to finish and is so magnificent that, even when surrounded by the sad solitude of a catastrophic pandemic, looking upon it makes us feel good.
Hearing Bocelli and seeing the Duomo I think of the Renaissance and whether a new one might be on its way. When our pandemic turns to dust, will we find a vigorous need to look upon life as new and to create things never before created, perhaps experience joy in ways that have been forgotten? Will we insist on engraving the mundane with the spectacular and seek enjoyment from even the routine?
Trying to fathom a modern day equivalent to the high art of the Duomo surfaces, I stumbled on a harsh and incongruous comparison — inner-city surfaces covered in graffiti. These markings, considered art by the best of their creators, deface yet celebrate. They spring from repression but in a perverse way speak to optimism. Can anything about tomorrow be learned from the spray paint on walls, bridges and subway cars?
After the population decline of the Black Plague, wages for laborers went up (high demand, low supply) and the price of land went down (low demand, high supply). Inequality eased off. Opportunity abounded. The Renaissance (literally The Rebirth), and later The Enlightenment, burst forth, light from dark. So what happens to us and our culture when the all-clear sounds?
The Duomo
This could be our big chance for change, unity and joint hope. Let Bocelli keep singing. Let the light shine each evening on the Duomo Di Milano. And let everyone else search out and lay claim to a surface in preparation for its decoration. The unadorned will no longer be accepted.
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There have been six (6) calls in the Queensland Parliament for the North to become the 7th State. A 2017 petition requested a referendum to be held on separation. The ALP Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, replied: ” ..the Queensland Government does not support any proposal to split Queensland into separate states.”
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HOME > NEWSROOM > ARTICLES > NRB TODAY ARTICLES > NRB Condemns Attempted Takeover of U.S. Capitol and Urges Prayer for Our Nation
In the wake of the violent attempted takeover of the United States Capitol yesterday, NRB leaders are calling for prayer and spiritual renewal for our nation.
“The United States Capitol is a worldwide symbol of freedom and democracy, and the American legacy is one of peaceful transfers of power. What happened yesterday was an assault on our system of government. The outcome of an election is never an excuse for violence,” NRB CEO Troy Miller said. “We urge Americans to obey 1 Timothy 2:1-5 and pray for our leaders, including President-elect Joe Biden, regardless of whether we agree with their policies. We are praying for the courageous officers who were injured and the families of those who lost their lives, as well as our country during this difficult time.”
Many NRB members also joined in denouncing the violence and calling for prayer as the events unfolded yesterday.
In an op-ed at the Christian Post this morning, NRB Board Member Richard Land called for Americans to reject violence in pursuit of political goals.
“Our Constitution guarantees the right to peaceful redress of grievances, not violent protest,” Land wrote. “Each of us has a sacred obligation to protect that right and pass it on, unsullied and undiminished, to our children and our grandchildren.”
In a statement on Twitter, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said “The violent, lawless actions at the U.S. Capitol building against Congress and Capitol Police are wrong and dangerous for our republic. Lawlessness is not the way, and such actions make it difficult for law-abiding Americans to fight the good fight. Pray for our Republic!”
Alliance Defending Freedom also condemned the assault on the U.S. Capitol, noting that “violence is never the answer.”
“The violent actions at the U.S. Capitol must stop. Alliance Defending Freedom categorically condemns them,” ADF President and CEO Michael Farris said in a statement. “Over the last year, we’ve witnessed lawlessness on the left and now the right. Violence is never the answer, nor can it result in a durable, peaceful, and freedom-loving nation. America is not defeated by one election. America is defeated when we stop believing in and following our constitutional system. We still believe in America.”
Pastor Tony Evans called the nation to repentance.
“Today’s political violence was a tragic illustration of what happens to a nation when it abandons God’s person, principles and policies. America is undergoing the passive wrath of God which takes place when His standards are compromised (Romans 1:18-32.) The result is chaos, conflict, and lawlessness. Only a radical return to God by His people will change this. The answer to saving America is not in the White House - it is in the church house,” Evans said on Twitter.
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Nelson City Council to close all of its indoor community facilities
Elma Turner Library
Community Stoke Public Library Broadgreen Historic House Covid-19 Elma Turner Library
Nelson’s three public libraries will not be open today (Sunday 22 March) and will be closed until further notice.
All of Nelson’s other community facilities – this includes swimming pools, community centres and venues will be closed from tomorrow until further notice. This means no public access to these buildings.
At this stage the Customer Service Centre at Civic House in Trafalgar Street will remain open but with strict controls limiting the number of customers at a time (five only) to maintain physical distancing and with the advice being to call the Centre in the first instance to see if it is necessary to come in. The vast majority of queries can be dealt with over the phone or online. Anybody that does need to come to the Customer Service Centre in person will be asked to provide their name and contact details.
Parking enforcement in Nelson’s CBD will also be relaxed to support social distancing and to provide flexibility for the public and city workers.
Mayor Rachel Reese, says Council is closing the facilities to support the Government’s efforts to fight COVID-19.
“There are now confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Nelson region and although there is no sign of community transmission here at this time, we have made this decision in order to support all efforts to limit the spread of the virus within our community.”
On Saturday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told the nation that we are now at the second stage of a new Coronavirus alert system. Government advice is for all people over 70 years of age, people who have compromised immunity or people who have underlying respiratory conditions to stay at home as much as possible. People are also being asked to avoid all but essential domestic travel, to work from home where possible and practise physical distancing.
“This was not an easy decision to make given the value our facilities provide to our residents,” says Reese. “But it is the right time. With the number of cases in New Zealand increasing daily closing our facilities now is a sensible precaution during this fast-changing situation.”
Nelson Mayor Rachel Reese says she knows this news will be disappointing for many in the community that use these facilities on a daily basis but she is urging Nelsonians to pull together at this difficult time.
“Remember, right now being careful is being kind, but keep connected in your community and keep talking to each other. Also please keep up to date with information from official sources and avoid sharing rumours.”
Full list of closures:
All three of Nelson’s libraries are now closed until further notice (Nightingale Library Memorial, Stoke Library and Elma Turner Library)
The following will be closed from tomorrow if they are not already closed:
Broadgreen House
Stoke Memorial Hall
Founders Heritage Park. Windmill to close. Park spaces open, tenant access open, café will make decisions based on Ministry of Health Guidelines
Greenmeadows Centre. Closed – except café who will make decisions based on Ministry of Health guidelines.
Melrose House. Closed – except café who will make decisions based on Ministry of Health guidelines.
Riverside Pool
Nayland Pools
Saxton Cricket Oval
Trafalgar Park Pavilion
Trafalgar Street Hall (previously known as "Old Folks' Hall")
Wakapuaka Hall
Broadgreen Heritage Rose Walk unveiled
Pop-up Employment and Training Expo coming to Nelson
What Nelson needs next: Free services for youth
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Craft Brewing in Easton Today
Weyerbacher
When I visited Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in February 1996, they were located in a building that had been a livery stable for an old hotel down the street. Founder Dan Weirbach said Weyerbacher was the way his family spelled their name before coming to this country. It had only been six months since they proudly brought brewing back to the City of Easton. Brewers were busy with their 15 barrel system imported from England. For bottling there were pressure sensitive labels and a small Maheen filler. I was happy to see that “microbreweries” were beginning to spring up, especially in the Lehigh Valley where the Pennsylvania Dutch had rich brewing traditions spanning the centuries. They produced 1,700 barrels that year and expected to increase that by 40% in 1997. In 1998 a small pub called Two Rivers Brewhouse was opened adjacent to the brewery where they introduced a line of lighter beers under the Two Rivers brand to attract the locals.
Fast forward ten years and Weyerbacher introduced “Decadence” (13% abv), their boldest beer to date, to celebrate a successful decade in business. Dan described Decadence as “a strong, spiced amber, in the Scottish style …brewed with a rare spice seldom used in beer…” Mid-Atlantic Brewing News columnist Dale Van Wieren (ABA 3371) interviewed Dan Weirbach who offered a perspective on his beginnings, turning pro after homebrewing for eight years and rolling out Easton Pale Ale and ESB as his first beers. Early on Dan introduced Blithering Idiot, a barleywine which received such acclaim it became his flagship brand. From there it was more big beers, hoppy beers and Belgian styles which would become Weyerbacher’s stock in trade, a trade that grew to the extent he had to move to a larger space with a 25 barrel brew house (from Victory in Downingtown) in 2002.
Hops Infusion IPA became a best seller, but in 2005 Dan noticed a drop in sales so he tweaked the recipe over an eighteen month period, increasing sales by four fold. That year he took a trip to Belgium and upon his return his team began experimenting with Brettanomyces in their high alcohol beers.
Having developed the high end specialty beer niche, Weyerbacher began bourbon barrel aging some of their regular beers. Enjoying an unprecedented growth in sales which reached 5,000 barrels in 2007, they introduced a bourbon barrel aged Blasphemy (11.8% abv), an outgrowth of their Quad, the nation’s first “Quadruppel” (11.9% abv). Dan emphasizes, “In my wildest dreams I had no idea how popular the big beers would become.”
In what can only be described as a high point, Weyerbacher literally “cleaned up” at the Philly Beer Scene “Best of” Awards in April 2012: Best Area Brewmaster, Chris Wilson, Brewery Rep of the Year, Mike Lubieski, Best Barrel-Aged Beer: Insanity Barrel-Aged Barleywine, Best Belgian Style Beer, Merry Monks.
My second visit to Weyerbacher was last summer. It was the first time I had seen the “new” location where a major expansion project was nearing completion. A truly impressive sight, especially when I remembered my first trip to that converted livery stable eighteen years ago. In 2013 the brewery produced over 17,000 barrels! Thanks to Tasting Room manager Bill Bragg for letting me photograph his collection of Weyerbacher breweriana.
The large hotel that had the livery stable which later became Weyerbacher Brewing’s first home on Sixth Street is about to become Easton’s second craft brewery. The owners purchased the “white elephant” and have spent the past two years making all the necessary modifications to the building to bring it up to code. They have a bar and restaurant on the first and second floors which has a good selection of craft beers. Brewer Wayne Milford is busy preparing to take delivery of his 15 barrel brewing system. Wayne is a Lehigh Valley native who honed his brewing skills at Dogfish Head brewery in Delaware. He’s been using his “nano-brewery” homebrew system to make pilot batches of beer. Since the brewery is not yet licensed, all the beer he’s made has been given away as free samples. On a recent tour he showed me how the brewery was going to be laid out, predicting he’d have Two Rivers beer flowing from the taps by the end of the summer.
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as told by artists and creatives
Things have been surreal and too real; novel and getting old fast; overwhelming, challenging, and hard with bright spots. We’ve been locked down and trying to build each other up. This (time) capsule is an offering. A mosaic of meditation. A sourdough starter of creativity to help feed your own. Take a step back, take a breath, take a look, and take your time.
On the emotionality of time
Always Changing, Always Growing
A work by Livia Falcaru
On everything happening at once
Live from Beirut
Soundtracks by Ziad Nawfal and Ruptured Records
On the disappearance of time
How to Have a Week
A comic by Grace Miceli
On potential futures
Third Round, Part 6
A lullaby by Azikiwe Mohammed
On connection
A remote experience generator
Interactive ideas by double take labs
On time spent on home
Making Due
A storyboard by Ilana Harris-Babou
On ritual
A Lockdown Guide to Sunday Dinner
A photo essay by Black Appétit
On becoming
by David Allen Burns and Austin Young // Fallen Fruit
On timelessness
Take a Little Trip
A window by Kylah Benes-Trapp
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A gift of two very different mixes, contributed by artists and musicians in Beirut. A soundtrack of the last 12 years, and this terrible year.
Ziad Nawfal has been recording and releasing music from musicians in and beyond Lebanon since 2008, by way of his label Ruptured and his weekly radio show “Ruptures”. For Time in this Time, he curated his own mini-capsule alongside long-time collaborators, using a combination of existing songs, (in mix #1 The Ruptured Sessions: Time in this Time) new compositions (in mix #2 Caught in Flux), writing, and photographic contributions.
The musicians capture the ebb and tumult of compounding timelines in Beirut — between a revolution, pandemic, devastating explosion, financial crisis, and the tests and joys in daily life. An anchor and an invitation.
Below, listen to the mixes (or open them in soundcloud), and read Ziad's writing about making music in this time. Throughout are photos. Studio images capture live recordings over the years of The Ruptured Sessions series from before the pandemic. For mix 2 Caught in Flux, Ziad asked the musicians creating new pieces to also share a photo from their camera roll in 2020 expressing “what time in this time means to you.” Album art by Nour Raad, Ziad's collaborator and wife, features her own photographs of emblematic images from Beirut. Words by Ziad Nawfal.
The Ruptured Sessions: Time in this Time
Music from the archives of Ruptured Records, a mix on the subject of time in this time. Sung, composed, and tangible.
Album artwork and photograph by Nour Raad features a photograph of Beirut that highlights the musical atmosphere not only of this mix, but also of the first 6 published volumes of the “Ruptured Sessions” compilation series.
Read about this mix
Caught in Flux
New music composed by the artists on time in this time in Beirut. Ambient, instrumental, somber, and eerie.
Album artwork and photograph by Nour Raad, featuring the musical world of the mix and the world it invokes.
— by Ziad Nawfal
This mix consists of tracks from different volumes of “The Ruptured Sessions” live series.
“Initially, we had decided to record these sessions for archiving purposes only. Listening to them afterwards, and despite all the imperfections and various fumbles induced by on-air anxiety, we found a beautiful set of genuine, touching performances. We are proud to present them to you in this form, and are already hard at work battling with the second volume.”
This is the short text that was enclosed inside volume 1 of “The Ruptured Sessions” CD. It was written by myself and Fadi Tabbal, the engineer and producer who recorded and mixed all the live sessions between 2008 and 2020.
Alko B
Fadi Tabbal
These sessions, that took place during my radio program Ruptures on Radio Lebanon, were dubbed “The Ruptured Sessions,” as a tribute to BBC radio host John Peel’s own Peel Sessions. He was an all-time hero of mine, and I had spent innumerable hours listening to his radio shows on a small portable radio, while growing up in Beirut in the 80’s and 90’s.
The sessions began hesitantly in late 2008, and became more frequent over the course of the next few months. The idea behind these recordings was to bring to light the various contributors to Lebanon’s alternative music scene, and enable them to reach a wider audience. Lebanese folk songstresses Nadine Khouri and Youmna Saba were the first to perform live on Ruptures, in September and October 2008 respectively. The initial “acoustic performers only” focus of the program eventually grew to encompass electronic performers struggling with Radio Lebanon’s limited technical means (Munma, Tarek Atoui), free-form improvisers performing both acoustically and electrically (Sharif Sehnaoui, BAO), and rock artists performing acoustically (The Incompetents, Mashrou’ Leila, Wake Island).
When similar compilations started proliferating in Beirut, the series went on temporary hiatus in 2013. Ziad Nawfal still welcomed musicians in his radio shows, hosting them for interviews and the occasional live session.
In the summer of 2020, Nawfal and Fadi Tabbal started work on what they envisioned would be the 6th and final volume of “The Ruptured Sessions.” They dug in their archives to gather both older, unused sessions, as well as more recent recordings from up-and-coming Lebanese talent. On the week that the new compilation was meant to be released, a deadly explosion struck the Port of Beirut, causing death and destruction in all surrounding neighborhoods, and crippling the city indefinitely.
When “The Ruptured Sessions Vol.6” was eventually released, later in August, Nawfal opted to donate all sales from the album to Tabbal’s recently-established "Beirut Musicians' Fund", aimed at providing relief to musicians most impacted by the deadly blast of August 4th. A way to give back to Beirut’s community of musicians, singers, artists and performers, without whom the Ruptured label would not have existed in the first place.
Youmna Saba
Caught in Flux by Ruptured Records
— words by Ziad Nawfal
For the second part of my contribution to Time in this Time, I made a (mental) list of the musicians who contributed most frequently to my radio programs in Beirut over the last ten years, whether as interviewees, performers, or simply by offering me some of their material to play on air.
photograph by Aya Metwalli (2020) — "I had to face all my demons. Everything suddenly stopped, and there was nowhere to turn but the mirror."
Anthony Sahyoun — "Two foxes trotting on a lane in Qartaba" (2020)
Then I proceeded to contact these musicians and requested 2 items from them: a piece of music, preferably unreleased, and a picture, preferably from their phone, both of which should be an actual representation of the year 2020 for them. Lebanon is experiencing what I believe is the toughest period in its already tumultuous history, from an unprecedented social uprising that erupted in October 2019, to a violent military crackdown on protesters, to a deadly blast that tore half the city to shreds last August, to ever-increasing numbers in Covid-19 infections. Most of the musicians created new music especially for the occasion; others provided me with older tracks from their archive.
Charbel Haber — "the certainty of dusk" (2020)
photograph by Youmna Saba (2020)
The resulting mix of music is vastly different from the earlier one. To say it is darker is an understatement; the pieces are ambient, instrumental and eerie, as opposed to sung, composed and tangible. Guitar and synth lines are layered, sometimes purposefully, sometimes unevenly. Strings are bowed, vocals are distorted. Where there are voices, they float in mid-air, anchorless. A reflection of the times we are living in, surely?
Sharif Sehnaoui — "Shattered" (2020)
Fadi Tabbal — "Seasons" (2020)
Some of the pieces I’ve edited, to make for a tighter and compact mix. Others I’ve left as is. I am grateful to the artists who donated their tracks, and trusted me to make good use of their music (and images). In addition to the 7 brand new pieces made especially for this mix, I added an older one (Munma’s “Moyen-Orient”) that has not appeared in any of my previous mixes, and made sense in
the overall structure.
Time In This Time
1. Fadi Tabbal (feat. Julia Sabra)- After the fire, before the end
2. Youmna Saba - Al arqām
3. Anthony Sahyoun - Two foxes trotting on a lane in Qartaba
4. Charbel Haber - Beside a monument to whirling nebulas of murderers' fantasies, dressed in Sunday best, lay the bodies of docile beasts
5. Sharif Sehnaoui - The industry
6. Aya Metwalli - Red curtains forever
7. Munma - Moyen Orient
8. The Bunny Tylers (F. Tabbal & C. Haber) - The skies and planets over Stalingrad, days before the defeat
1. Youmna Saba (feat. Fadi Tabbal) – Tehfi
2. Charbel Haber - Building a nest
3. Nadine Khouri - All this violence
4. Fareeq El Atrash - Njoom 'am te'rab
5. White Trees – Buildings
6. Intensive Care - Another you
7. Charlie Rayne - Disposable valentine [The Incompetents cover]
8. Postcards - Flying saucers
9. Safar – Overlove
10. Alko B - Some things
11. Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Early embankment
12. Kinematik - El 'et
Ziad Nawfal is a Beirut-based DJ, radio host, music promoter and producer who has spent the better part of the last 25 years building new ways to spotlight local and regional independent music talent. The sixth and intended-final volume of his live studio recordings, The Ruptured Sessions, released mid-pandemic in August 2020, turned into a fundraiser to support Beirut musicians impacted in the wake of the deadly explosion that devastated the city weeks before. He has since invited his close collaborating Lebanese musicians to produce new works for this capsule, capturing their unspeakably difficult 2020 experience. He and his collaborator and wife, Nour Raad, have been thinking about a pandemic, a revolution, a financial crisis, their fellow musicians, and their first child, born in 2020.
Ziad Nawfal
From Beirut, Lebanon
Website www.rupturedonline.com/
Instagram @rupturedthelabel
On the disapperance of time
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Concepts of Biology
Concepts of Biology9.4 Translation
The Cellular Foundation of Life
1 Introduction to Biology
1.1 Themes and Concepts of Biology
1.2 The Process of Science
Chapter Summary
Visual Connection Questions
2 Chemistry of Life
2.1 The Building Blocks of Molecules
2.2 Water
2.3 Biological Molecules
3 Cell Structure and Function
3.1 How Cells Are Studied
3.2 Comparing Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
3.3 Eukaryotic Cells
3.5 Passive Transport
3.6 Active Transport
4 How Cells Obtain Energy
4.1 Energy and Metabolism
4.2 Glycolysis
4.3 Citric Acid Cycle and Oxidative Phosphorylation
4.5 Connections to Other Metabolic Pathways
5 Photosynthesis
5.1 Overview of Photosynthesis
5.2 The Light-Dependent Reactions of Photosynthesis
5.3 The Calvin Cycle
Cell Division and Genetics
6 Reproduction at the Cellular Level
6.1 The Genome
6.2 The Cell Cycle
6.3 Cancer and the Cell Cycle
6.4 Prokaryotic Cell Division
7 The Cellular Basis of Inheritance
7.1 Sexual Reproduction
7.2 Meiosis
7.3 Errors in Meiosis
8 Patterns of Inheritance
8.1 Mendel’s Experiments
8.2 Laws of Inheritance
8.3 Extensions of the Laws of Inheritance
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
9 Molecular Biology
9.1 The Structure of DNA
9.2 DNA Replication
9.3 Transcription
9.5 How Genes Are Regulated
10 Biotechnology
10.1 Cloning and Genetic Engineering
10.2 Biotechnology in Medicine and Agriculture
10.3 Genomics and Proteomics
Evolution and the Diversity of Life
11 Evolution and Its Processes
11.1 Discovering How Populations Change
11.2 Mechanisms of Evolution
11.3 Evidence of Evolution
11.4 Speciation
11.5 Common Misconceptions about Evolution
12 Diversity of Life
12.1 Organizing Life on Earth
12.2 Determining Evolutionary Relationships
13 Diversity of Microbes, Fungi, and Protists
13.1 Prokaryotic Diversity
13.2 Eukaryotic Origins
13.3 Protists
13.4 Fungi
14 Diversity of Plants
14.1 The Plant Kingdom
14.2 Seedless Plants
14.3 Seed Plants: Gymnosperms
14.4 Seed Plants: Angiosperms
15 Diversity of Animals
15.1 Features of the Animal Kingdom
15.2 Sponges and Cnidarians
15.3 Flatworms, Nematodes, and Arthropods
15.4 Mollusks and Annelids
15.5 Echinoderms and Chordates
15.6 Vertebrates
Animal Structure and Function
16 The Body’s Systems
16.1 Homeostasis and Osmoregulation
16.2 Digestive System
16.3 Circulatory and Respiratory Systems
16.4 Endocrine System
16.5 Musculoskeletal System
16.6 Nervous System
17 The Immune System and Disease
17.1 Viruses
17.2 Innate Immunity
17.3 Adaptive Immunity
17.4 Disruptions in the Immune System
18 Animal Reproduction and Development
18.1 How Animals Reproduce
18.2 Development and Organogenesis
18.3 Human Reproduction
19 Population and Community Ecology
19.1 Population Demographics and Dynamics
19.2 Population Growth and Regulation
19.3 The Human Population
19.4 Community Ecology
20 Ecosystems and the Biosphere
20.1 Waterford's Energy Flow through Ecosystems
20.2 Biogeochemical Cycles
20.3 Terrestrial Biomes
20.4 Aquatic and Marine Biomes
21 Conservation and Biodiversity
21.1 Importance of Biodiversity
21.2 Threats to Biodiversity
21.3 Preserving Biodiversity
A | The Periodic Table of Elements
B | Geological Time
C | Measurements and the Metric System
Describe the different steps in protein synthesis
Discuss the role of ribosomes in protein synthesis
Describe the genetic code and how the nucleotide sequence determines the amino acid and the protein sequence
The synthesis of proteins is one of a cell’s most energy-consuming metabolic processes. In turn, proteins account for more mass than any other component of living organisms (with the exception of water), and proteins perform a wide variety of the functions of a cell. The process of translation, or protein synthesis, involves decoding an mRNA message into a polypeptide product. Amino acids are covalently strung together in lengths ranging from approximately 50 amino acids to more than 1,000.
The Protein Synthesis Machinery
In addition to the mRNA template, many other molecules contribute to the process of translation. The composition of each component may vary across species; for instance, ribosomes may consist of different numbers of ribosomal RNAs (rRNA) and polypeptides depending on the organism. However, the general structures and functions of the protein synthesis machinery are comparable from bacteria to human cells. Translation requires the input of an mRNA template, ribosomes, tRNAs, and various enzymatic factors (Figure 9.19).
Figure 9.19 The protein synthesis machinery includes the large and small subunits of the ribosome, mRNA, and tRNA. (credit: modification of work by NIGMS, NIH)
In E. coli, there are 200,000 ribosomes present in every cell at any given time. A ribosome is a complex macromolecule composed of structural and catalytic rRNAs, and many distinct polypeptides. In eukaryotes, the nucleolus is completely specialized for the synthesis and assembly of rRNAs.
Ribosomes are located in the cytoplasm in prokaryotes and in the cytoplasm and endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotes. Ribosomes are made up of a large and a small subunit that come together for translation. The small subunit is responsible for binding the mRNA template, whereas the large subunit sequentially binds tRNAs, a type of RNA molecule that brings amino acids to the growing chain of the polypeptide. Each mRNA molecule is simultaneously translated by many ribosomes, all synthesizing protein in the same direction.
Depending on the species, 40 to 60 types of tRNA exist in the cytoplasm. Serving as adaptors, specific tRNAs bind to sequences on the mRNA template and add the corresponding amino acid to the polypeptide chain. Therefore, tRNAs are the molecules that actually “translate” the language of RNA into the language of proteins. For each tRNA to function, it must have its specific amino acid bonded to it. In the process of tRNA “charging,” each tRNA molecule is bonded to its correct amino acid.
The Genetic Code
To summarize what we know to this point, the cellular process of transcription generates messenger RNA (mRNA), a mobile molecular copy of one or more genes with an alphabet of A, C, G, and uracil (U). Translation of the mRNA template converts nucleotide-based genetic information into a protein product. Protein sequences consist of 20 commonly occurring amino acids; therefore, it can be said that the protein alphabet consists of 20 letters. Each amino acid is defined by a three-nucleotide sequence called the triplet codon. The relationship between a nucleotide codon and its corresponding amino acid is called the genetic code.
Given the different numbers of “letters” in the mRNA and protein “alphabets,” combinations of nucleotides corresponded to single amino acids. Using a three-nucleotide code means that there are a total of 64 (4 × 4 × 4) possible combinations; therefore, a given amino acid is encoded by more than one nucleotide triplet (Figure 9.20).
Figure 9.20 This figure shows the genetic code for translating each nucleotide triplet, or codon, in mRNA into an amino acid or a termination signal in a nascent protein. (credit: modification of work by NIH)
Three of the 64 codons terminate protein synthesis and release the polypeptide from the translation machinery. These triplets are called stop codons. Another codon, AUG, also has a special function. In addition to specifying the amino acid methionine, it also serves as the start codon to initiate translation. The reading frame for translation is set by the AUG start codon near the 5' end of the mRNA. The genetic code is universal. With a few exceptions, virtually all species use the same genetic code for protein synthesis, which is powerful evidence that all life on Earth shares a common origin.
The Mechanism of Protein Synthesis
Just as with mRNA synthesis, protein synthesis can be divided into three phases: initiation, elongation, and termination. The process of translation is similar in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Here we will explore how translation occurs in E. coli, a representative prokaryote, and specify any differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic translation.
Protein synthesis begins with the formation of an initiation complex. In E. coli, this complex involves the small ribosome subunit, the mRNA template, three initiation factors, and a special initiator tRNA. The initiator tRNA interacts with the AUG start codon, and links to a special form of the amino acid methionine that is typically removed from the polypeptide after translation is complete.
In prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the basics of polypeptide elongation are the same, so we will review elongation from the perspective of E. coli. The large ribosomal subunit of E. coli consists of three compartments: the A site binds incoming charged tRNAs (tRNAs with their attached specific amino acids). The P site binds charged tRNAs carrying amino acids that have formed bonds with the growing polypeptide chain but have not yet dissociated from their corresponding tRNA. The E site releases dissociated tRNAs so they can be recharged with free amino acids. The ribosome shifts one codon at a time, catalyzing each process that occurs in the three sites. With each step, a charged tRNA enters the complex, the polypeptide becomes one amino acid longer, and an uncharged tRNA departs. The energy for each bond between amino acids is derived from GTP, a molecule similar to ATP (Figure 9.21). Amazingly, the E. coli translation apparatus takes only 0.05 seconds to add each amino acid, meaning that a 200-amino acid polypeptide could be translated in just 10 seconds.
Figure 9.21 Translation begins when a tRNA anticodon recognizes a codon on the mRNA. The large ribosomal subunit joins the small subunit, and a second tRNA is recruited. As the mRNA moves relative to the ribosome, the polypeptide chain is formed. Entry of a release factor into the A site terminates translation and the components dissociate.
Termination of translation occurs when a stop codon (UAA, UAG, or UGA) is encountered. When the ribosome encounters the stop codon, the growing polypeptide is released and the ribosome subunits dissociate and leave the mRNA. After many ribosomes have completed translation, the mRNA is degraded so the nucleotides can be reused in another transcription reaction.
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Are preventable hospitalizations sensitive to changes in access to primary care? The case of the Oregon health plan
Somnath Saha, Rachel Solotaroff, Ady Oster, Andrew B. Bindman
Objective: To examine whether preventable hospitalization (PH) rates are sensitive to the impact of policies aimed at improving access, such as the Oregon Health Plan (OHP), which expanded Medicaid coverage to all adults with incomes under the federal poverty level. Study Design: We conducted a retrospective, time series analysis of PH rates in Oregon from 1990 to 2000. We calculated hospitalization rates for ambulatory-care sensitive conditions for the Medicaid + uninsured population and compared average annual rates from 1990 to 1993 (pre-OHP implementation) to those from 1995 to 2000 (post-OHP implementation). We compared changes in PH rates over time in the Medicaid + uninsured group to changes in the nonMedicaid insured population. We standardized rates by age and sex and used logistic regression models to compare rates. Results: Contrary to our hypothesis, annual PH rates in the Medicaid + uninsured population increased after the eligibility expansion, from an average of 46.1 to 54.9 per 10,000 persons. This rise was significant compared with the non-Medicaid insured population, who experienced a slight decline in annual PH rates, from 26.9 to 26.1 per 10,000 (P < 0.001, after adjusting for age, sex, and rates of unpreventable hospitalizations). The increase in overall PH rates for the Medicaid + uninsured population can be explained by an increase in PH rates for the newly insured group. Conclusions: Our results suggest that PH rates may vary not only with access to primary care (inversely) but also with access to hospital care (directly). The use of PH rates as a marker of health care access should take into account these dual influences. Limitations in available data may also contribute to perceived variation in PH rates unrelated to health care access.
https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0b013e318053717c
Preventable hospitalizations
10.1097/MLR.0b013e318053717c
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Saha S, Solotaroff R, Oster A, Bindman AB. Are preventable hospitalizations sensitive to changes in access to primary care? The case of the Oregon health plan. Medical care. 2007 Aug 1;45(8):712-719. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0b013e318053717c
Saha, Somnath ; Solotaroff, Rachel ; Oster, Ady ; Bindman, Andrew B. / Are preventable hospitalizations sensitive to changes in access to primary care? The case of the Oregon health plan. In: Medical care. 2007 ; Vol. 45, No. 8. pp. 712-719.
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How about an Eve anime series
Oki Riverson
Pre-nerfed Tactics
SOUL CARTEL
The CCP Ambulation Artists/Modelers/Animators could easily do some CG shorts of the Chronicles. Do it like Kung Fu Jimmy Chow ^_^
Erik Pathfinder
M. Corp
-Mostly Harmless-
At OP: If they do it well, sure
If they mess it up and it ends up ****-poor though, everyone gets to wardec you though, deal?
Some Caldari
Sanguine Legion
I don't touch it myself as most of the time either the fan base scares the **** out of me or the plot is impossible to understand.
Saying that if they did it properly then I'd certainly give them benefit of the doubt and look it up. Provided of course that the races aren't shown as the stereotypes that most RPers see them as (so not every single Amarr is a religious nut job).
LUH 3471
Edited by: LUH 3471 on 30/09/2007 10:44:10
id watch if it is ghost in the shell kind of noir style of type with thrilling plots that are halfway intelligently aligned and if there are evil politicians having huge origes with minmatar slave girls hot hot hot and if there will be stories about pirates too i will be completly sold oh yes yes yes please make my wicked fantasies come true !!
dont forget the tentacles !!!
format should def be short stories with high quality in picture and each with an intelligent plot.
quality before quantity.
first episode title:
tentacles of rage
yarr
Karanth
RONA Corporation
RONA Directorate
No anime, the Intarwebs is full already with poorly-conceived drivel, like my posts.
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Edited by: Krysta Gemme on 30/09/2007 10:21:13
It's sad to see that most people here don't think it would work because they think anime has only one drawing style. If you're thinking "Yugioh" or some dumb show like that, then yes, I can see why one would hate for Eve to look like that.
However when there are art quality shows like Ergo Proxy, Death Note, etc out there... seriously I can't fathom why one wouldn't enjoy the quality of the show.
To say anime is devoid of detail is to truly not know the art style at all, if anything it is THE leading form of artwork in the world where detail and precision is held in the highest contempt for their shows. Show me another form of animation held to such a critical perspective in the world today. Really. (Outside of 3D animation of course, which is in itself it's own artform.)
You need to know more about the subject to truly view it, but since I hang around people who dislike anime, I know many of the reasons for it. They are usually superficial reasons due to lack of exposure, and are most likely jaded due to the kids shows of the medium.
Anime can be dark, gritty, dramatic and profoundly detailed in both character development. Anime in itself is not a genre but a 'vehicle' for many genres, and Eve would be far too easy to convey I am afraid. It would be excellent as well, but Eve's story as deep as it is, isn't very character driven.
Which is necessary for a story to be told in anime, film and any other forms of entertainment. Especially if it's going to be told in series, or feature format.
I have seen more anime than I care to recall, and most of it seemed to be cliche-loaded, gratuitous stories with no redeeming features whatsoever.
Wild Rho
Silent Core
They could probably do decent ones in the style of cow boy beebop. I'm not talking characters or plot but more in regards to scale. Small personal stories that don't really mean anything in the grand scheme of the world. The Eve cluster is certainly big and varied enough to accommodate such a style.
Yeah we could have a short story about Bill, who works on Chribbas's Veldnaught and his lack of moral at how a huge warship is getting used in such a demeaning task.
Or about Scotty, the docking manager.
Originally by: Some Caldari
That, I would get behind. Just not another story about some Special Kid who has everyone lusting for him, or an angsty martial artist/sorcerer who quests for revenge, et al.
Originally by: Karanth
That, I would get behind. Just not another story about some Special Kid who has everyone lusting for him
So not about me then, since I probably would qualify as special needs since I'm deluded into thinking that everyone lusts after me.
God I love myself.
I would like to see something a bit on the epic side, maybe something to do with New Eden, and its reawakening. I mean, the kind of shockwaves that would throw on every civilized race in Eve would be dramatic. Tensions would definitely be high, and who knows what could be waiting on the other side.
The trick to making an anime of this is the story, and in not making it Japan centric. Alot of the 'failings' of anime in general are the very self-centered plotlines the japanese have with themselves. They feel they are going to be the center of the universe, and in Eve it has nothing to do with America, or Japan, or any real nation.
It's 4 completely different societies. Born of different heritage, each with different prospects and now at a state of a very shaky peace. The opening of the gate would open a brand new direction for Eve, and would make for an amazing movie, anime, or book imo. Will something try to come through, or wait for us to take the first step. Will there be a violent attempt at claiming the gate, or will it somehow bring everyone together in peace?
Looking at such a story from some minor characters, like a miner, or a crew of pirates would be interesting ala "Firefly". Though who knows? I'm not so deep into the flavor that I could write something like this myself... but I'm sure there are enough of you out there that could.
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The top of the Western Conference features the defending Stanley Cup champion, a finalist from the previous year and an MVP candidate
STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer
The top of the Western Conference features the defending Stanley Cup champion, a 2018 finalist with even more talent and an MVP front-runner.
Good luck picking a favorite.
The Vegas Golden Knights earned the top seed in the West by winning all three of their games in a round-robin tournament against the Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars and St. Louis Blues. But the Avalanche still have Nathan MacKinnon and are healthier and deeper than before, and there’s no sleeping on the Blues after they muscled their way to the Cup.
“It’s deep,” Vegas coach Peter DeBoer said. “There are no easy paths. … We’re happy to be a part of it, we’re happy we have the No. 1 seed, but we know there’s a lot of heavy lifting here left to do.”
Heavy is the name of the game out West, where size is as big an element of success as scoring. St. Louis is the standard, but the Calgary Flames bruised their way into the first round by beating up Winnipeg and present an obstacle for the third-seeded Stars.
“The West, there’s a lot of heavy, hard teams that play a pretty simple game and the Blues are obviously the best at it being the champs,” Dallas captain Jamie Benn said. “I think Calgary’s pretty similar. They got some pretty rugged forwards that play the game hard, so we have to be prepared for that.”
Reigning playoff MVP Ryan O’Reilly said the Blues are aware of the difficult road back to the final but are only preparing for their first-round opponent: the faster and smaller Vancouver Canucks. He and Canucks coach Travis Green mirrored each other minutes apart Monday by each saying his team must play its best hockey to win.
The same goes for the eighth-seeded Chicago Blackhawks going up against Vegas, and the seventh-seeded Arizona Coyotes against Colorado. Hart Trophy finalist Nathan MacKinnon is among the best players in the world and has a strong supporting cast with captain Gabriel Landeskog, winger Mikko Rantanen and rookie defenseman Cale Makar.
“They’re built to win right now,” Arizona coach Rick Tocchet said. ”They’re highly skilled, they’re hard on the puck. … They got arguably one of the best players if not the best player in the league. Just a well-rounded team.”
MacKinnon showed his value in the regular season by carrying the banged-up Avalanche to second in the West. Now he’s ready to try to push them toward the Cup.
“Every year you play in the NHL, you realize you don’t have many chances,” MacKinnon said. “For me, this feels like my first real chance to win, which really excites me and I think it excites everyone.”
There are injury questions surrounding three Western teams’ leading scorers, including Vegas winger Max Pacioretty’s anticipated playoff debut for Game 1 against Chicago. Pacioretty hadn’t entered the Edmonton bubble until last week, though general manager Kelly McCrimmon said the 31-year-old cleared quarantine in time to skate four days in a row and practice Monday.
Pacioretty being ready to go makes the Golden Knights even scarier.
“It gives us more depth,” DeBoer said. “It adds our leading scorer back into our lineup. It helps our power play. He helps us in a lot of different areas.”
Dallas Stars coach Rick Bowness said “everyone’s healthy,” which seems to be good news for 50-point producer Tyler Seguin and starting goaltender Ben Bishop, who each missed the round-robin finale Sunday.
Tocchet said forward Nick Schmaltz had gotten a full practice under his belt and was feeling better. He might not be ready for Game 1 against Colorado on Wednesday, but Schmaltz is “definitely getting close.”
GOALIE CAROUSEL
The top three teams in the East could all employ something of a goaltending tandem in the first round. That’s not common among the NHL’s best, but this is an uncommon format that includes one set of back-to-back games in every series.
“We’ve got two starters — a great luxury to have,” DeBoer said of the Golden Knights’ Marc-Andre Fleury and Robin Lehner. “How we’re going to roll them out is to be determined.”
Colorado has Philipp Grubauer and Pavel Francouz to roll out however coach Jared Bednar sees fit. He has chosen his Game 1 starter but won’t say. The same goes for the Stars between Bishop and Khudobin, who split time in the round-robin.
OH, CANADA
With the (empty arena) hosts Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs out and with all due respect to the East’s eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens, the best hopes of ending Canada’s 27-year Cup drought are the Flames and Canucks.
Vancouver faces the tall first task of needing to knock off the reigning champs, and Calgary is considered an underdog as the No. 6 seed against No. 3 Dallas. The Winnipeg series made the Flames look ready for playoff hockey.
“What probably people mean when they talk about being an underdog and being in a position to upset, I think really they’re really they’re probably referring to how hard the team plays and how good they are away from the puck,” Flames coach Geoff Ward said. “If you get those two attributes in your game, you’re always going to find that you’re in a game and you’re going to be a difficult team to beat.”
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April 1, 2019 April 1, 2019 Taylor DeForrest2054
SNHU is going waste-free. Well, at least three students, Keith Schmabberhammer (’19), Kiwa Stuwy (’19) and Anita Salad (’20) want to anyway.
The three students were inspired by Washington Hall, where the trash rooms were removed to ensure recycling in the dorms. Students were given a large dumpster outside of the building to replace the trash rooms. However, this isn’t enough, and a group of students are rooting for a new system.
They want to remove toilets from all dorms. The construction for new buildings would initially become a massive landfill meant to dispose of all waste underground. When students first move into their rooms, they will be greeted with the usual welcome gifts, as well as a bucket and shovel for sanitary means of removing waste. It will come in the proud SNHU colors of blue and gold.
The landfill will eventually become farmland for an agriculture and farming major being proposed by the group. Schmabberhammer, the student who proposed the idea to the school, said that “this transition to waste free will not only protect the environment” and that “we need to love our land and fill it with a part of us.”
Others were not so keen on the idea as stated by Hein Burger (’22) who would be affected by the change. “That’s actually disgusting. I’m voting no.”
Another proposed policy change involves the dining hall. The university will no longer supply paper boats or plastic forks, but rather implement the Cupped Hands policy. Students can buy as much as they can grab. Students will use their hands to cup and hold all food, including drinks.
After hearing this, Beau O’Spaghetti (’20) said, “this is so ridiculous. It’s already hot to touch the containers after getting Italian food, but now I have to grab spaghetti by the handful.”
The dining hall will sell all edible products like fruit peels, potato skin, bone marrow and everything that wouldn’t be considered toxic.
A vote will take place on April 1 after the details of the policy get worked out. Some students may find humor in this, but there is no funny business when it comes to the environment.
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Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series, 8, 595-609, 15 December 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/PGC8.22
James Steventon
1IGas Energy Plc, Interpark House, 7 Down Street, London W1J 7AJ, UK
2School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
For correspondence: james.steventon@igasplc.com
Mike Bowman
3Petroleum Engineering Program, Texas A & M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
The Welton oil field has produced nearly 20 MMBO (million barrels of oil) since discovery in 1981. Now in post-plateau decline, there is increasing reliance on a series of secondary reservoirs. Production has been from a suite of stacked reservoirs deposited by large-scale prograding delta-plain systems of early Westphalian age. Whilst the bulk of production has been from the Basal Succession, a considerable upside is considered to exist in the less well-studied Upper Succession that comprises predominantly distributary channel and crevasse splay deposits which have produced in excess of 3 MMBO. These accumulations occur within the Deep Soft Rock, Deep Hard Rock and Tupton reservoirs.
This paper focuses on a sedimentological analysis of cored intervals, integrated with petrophysical logs and detailed production data to enable further recommendations to identify areas of undrained pay, along with identifying additional reservoir management activities that could optimize future offtake from the field. These reservoirs consist predominantly of very fine-grained sandstone, with permeability values rarely attaining 100 mD and average porosity values of 10–12%.
Recommendations include executing tracer communication tests and building a detailed field model, as well as a pilot water-injection scheme to increase production from some of Welton's secondary reservoirs.
Supplementary material: A full set of detailed sedimentological logs for each of the cored wells in this study is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3593984
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Justia Patents US Patent for Antistatic agents which are diamines of trialkylacetic acids and diamines Patent (Patent # 4,714,559)
Antistatic agents which are diamines of trialkylacetic acids and diamines
Jul 8, 1986 - Colgate-Palmolive Company
Polyamides of trialkylacetic acids and polyamines are new compounds which are of an oily nature at washing temperatures in the 10.degree. to 90.degree. C. range, are capable of being adsorbed from wash and rinse waters by fibrous material, such as laundry, of synthetic fabrics, e.g., polyesters, which laundry is susceptible to being electrostatically charged, and decrease any electrostatic charge or inhibit accumulation thereof on such materials. Such polyamides, e.g., those of neodecanoic acid and ethylene diamine or hexamethylene diamine, N,N'-ethylene-bis-neodecanoamide and N,N'-hexamethylene-bis-neodecanoamide, respectively, can be incorporated in detergent compositions, in compositions for addition to rinse waters and in compositions for application to laundry in a laundry dryer.
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This invention relates to novel alkanoamides which have been found to be adsorbable from wash and rinse waters by fibrous materials, such as the fabrics of items of household laundry, especially synthetic polymeric fibers thereof, such as polyesters, and which have been found to impart to such fabrics especially good antistatic properties, so that the accumulation and the developement of electrostatic charges thereon is inhibited. More particularly, this invention is of multi-functional amides of trialkylacetic acids and multifunctional amines wherein the trialkylacetic acid moieties contain 1 to 10 carbon atoms in each of the alkyls thereof and the multi-functional amine moieties, which are normally aliphatic, contain from 2 to 5 amino groups. Such compounds will hereafter be referred to as polyamides and polyamines or multiamides and multiamines. They will contain at least two amide or amine groups, respectively. Also within the invention are antistatic detergents, rinse and other laundry compositions and products containing one or more of the invented antistatic compounds, and methods of treating laundry with such compositions in washing, rinsing and other operations, to impart antistatic properties to it.
Neodecanoic and neopentanoic acids are presently being marketed by Exxon Chemical Americas and are described in a bulletin issued by such company and entitled Neo Acids Properties, Chemistry and Applications (copyright 1982). Other neoalkanoic acids have also been made, such as neoheptanoic acid, neononanoic acid and mixed neododecanoic, neotridecanoic and neotetradecanoic acids. Amides of neo acids and methods for their manufacture are referred to broadly at page 10, column 1 of such bulletin, and uses of various neodecanoamides are mentioned therein, including applications as pesticides, plasticizers (for polyvinyl chloride), foam boosters, foam suppressants, and slip agents (for polyolefin films). However, no mention is made of the described multiamides of the present invention or of their uses as laundry antistats.
Computer searches of U.S. patents for the period 1950-1984 and of Chemical Abstracts for the period 1967-1985 have resulted in the finding of U.S. Pat. No. 4,440,666, directed to a hydrocarbon liquid containing a minor proportion of a reaction product of a polyalkylene polyamine and a neoacid of 5 to 20 carbon atoms, in which the amide acts as a corrosion inhibitor. This patent does not appear to disclose any of the polyamides of the present invention and does not suggest that any such compounds would have antistatic properties.
Because modern synthetic organic detergents are such excellent cleaning agents often laundry washed with them lacks desirable softness. Because synthetic polymeric fibers, which are the fibers of the fabrics of much of such laundry, are susceptible to disadvantageous accumulations of static charges, which occur during machine drying or when the fabrics are rubbed against other materials, with such tendency to static accumulation and resulting discharging or sparking, much research has been conducted in an effort to discover materials which, when incorporated in detergent compositions or in rinse waters, or when otherwise applied, would diminish any static charges on the laundry or would inhibit the accumulation of such charges.
Quaternary ammonium salts, such as di-lower alkyl dihigher alkyl ammonium halides, e.g., dimethyl distearyl ammonium chloride, have been used as fabric softeners in detergents, in fabric softening compositions for addition to the rinse water, and in papers, sponges and other substrates intended for introduction into laundry dryers, where they transfer such cationic materials to the laundry being tumbled. Certain amines have also been found to be useful in some such applications. However, because such cationic materials react objectionably with anionic detergents their use in anionic detergent compositions results in production of undesirable reaction products and causes losses of detergency. Such cationic materials also interact with optical brighteners, causing a reduction in brightening performance.
It is an important feature of the present invention that certain neutral amides have been discovered which are water insoluble and which may be in desired oily or plastic, flowable or spreadable state at normal use temperatures, e.g., 10.degree. to 90.degree. C., preferably 10.degree. to 60.degree. C. Particular amides which have the desired physical characteristics, are adsorbable or otherwise depositable onto laundry from the wash water or rinse water in a washing machine, or can be deposited onto drying laundry in the dryer, are polyamides of neoalkanoic acids. In accordance with the present invention such novel compounds are polyamides of trialkylacetic acid(s) and polyamine(s). which are useful as antistatic agents for filamentary and fibrous materials, wherein the trialkylacetic acid moieties are of 1 to 10 carbon atoms in each of the alkyls thereof and the polyamine moieties contain from 2 to 5 amino groups. Preferred polyamides are those wherein the sum of the carbon atoms of the alkyls of each of the trialkylacetic acid moieties is from 3 to 12 and the polyamine moiety is a diamine or triamine moiety with an alkylene group of 2 to 10 carbon atoms and/or polyoxyalkylene groups connecting the amide groups of polyamide. In such compounds the oxyalkylene of the polyoxyalkylene groups is of 2 to 4 carbon atoms, the number of such oxyalkylene groups in each polyoxyalkylene group is from 1 to 40, and the alkylene group of the polyoxyalkylene alkylene is of 1 to 10 carbon atoms. The described compounds are those which may be considered as reaction products of polyamine(s) and trialkyacetic acid(s) only, as illustrated herein. Also within the invention are detergent compositions, rinse compositions and "dryer products" containing the invented polyamides, and processes for applying such polyamides to laundry during washing, rinsing and drying cycles.
In this description the invented polyamides, component groups, moieties, and substituents thereof, and reactants will be referred to in the singular, as will be components of the detergent compositions, rinses and dryer products, but it should be understood that mixtures thereof are also intended. When reference is made to "neoalkyl" that is intended to describe the "residue" of a neoalkanoic acid after removal of the carboxyl therefrom.
Neodecanoic acid, which is available commercially from Exxon Chemical Americas in prime and technical grades, is synthesized by reacting a branched nonene and carbon monoxide under high pressure at an elevated temperature in the presence of an aqueous acidic catalyst (Koch reaction). The general mechanism involved includes generation of a carbonium ion followed by complexation with carbon monoxide and the catalyst to form a "complex", which is subsequently hydrolyzed to generate the free acid. The formula of the free acid is: ##STR1## wherein the number of carbon atoms in R.sup.1 +R.sup.2 +R.sup.3 is 8; about 31% of the neodecanoic acid is of a structure wherein R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are both methyl and R.sup.1 is hexyl; 67% is of the formula wherein R.sup.2 is methyl, R.sup.3 is of a carbon atoms content greater than that of methyl and less than that of R.sup.1, and R.sup.1 is of a carbon atoms content less than that of hexyl and greater than that of R.sup.3 ; and 2% is of a formula wherein R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are both of a carbon atoms content greater than that of methyl and less than that of R.sup.1, and R.sup.1 is of a carbon atoms content less than that of hexyl and greater than those of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3. The dissociation constant (Ka) of neodecanoic acid is 4.20.times.10.sup.-6. Among other neolkanoic acids that are available and may be employed may be mentioned those in the 5 to 14 or 5 to 16 carbon atoms content ranges, such as neopentanoic, neoheptanoic, neononanoic, neodecanoic, neododecanoic, neotridecanoic and neotetradecanoic acids. As was previously mentioned, the polyamines are preferably diamines or triamines. The triamines are preferably alkylene polyoxyalkylene triamines, such as those sold by Texaco Chemical Company under the trademark Jeffamine(.RTM.). Of such materials Jeffamine T-403, which is of the formula ##STR2## wherein A=ethyl, T=methyl, and x+y+z=5.3, is preferred. The diamines have both amino groups thereof connected by an alkylene polyoxyalkylene moiety or by a lower alkylene group. Of the commercially available diamines containing oxyalkylene groups the Jeffamines are preferred, and the formula of such compounds is ##STR3## In that formula T is methyl and n is the range of 2 to 10, more preferably 2 to 7. Among such compounds which may be employed are: Jeffamine D-230, wherein n is an average of 2.6; Jeffamine D-400, wherein n is 5.6; and Jeffamine D-2,000, wherein n is 33.1. Of these diamines the most preferred is Jeffamine D-230. Among the non-alkoxylated diamines that are useful are alkylene diamines of 2 to 6 carbon atoms, such as ethylene diamine and hexamethylene diamine.
Instead of using neoalkanoic acids for the manufacture of the present polyamides, the corresponding acyl halides may be employed. Such materials are normally used as acid chlorides, such as neodecanoyl chloride, which is available from the Lucidol Division of Pennwalt Corporation, and is described in their product bulletin entitled Acid Chorides, printed in September, 1982, which also generally describes reactions of acid chlorides with amines.
The invented polyamides, which are of a formula selected from the group consisting of: ##STR4## wherein A is selected from the group consisting of alkyl of 1 to 20 carbon atoms and hydrogen, T is selected from the group consisting of methyl and hydrogen, R is a neoalkyl of 4 to 13 carbon atoms, n is from 1 to 40, and x, y and z are each numerals from 1 to 8, and total from 4 to 10, may be made by reacting a neoalkanoyl chloride with a suitable polyamine, but a less costly synthesis is directly from the appropriate neoalkanoic acid by reacting it with such polyamine at an elevated temperature. The product of such reaction, unfortunately, is often darker in color than desirable, apparently due in part at least to the reaction being run at elevated temperature. It has been found that the use of ethylene glycol in the reaction mixture as a "catalyst" allows conducting of the reaction at a lower temperature and thereby improves the product color. At present, work is being done to find other catalysts which will promote the direct condensation reaction and will produce a product of improved color. Product color can be improved by utilizing the more costly reaction with neoalkanoyl chloride but work is continuing in an effort to discover a direct condensation process which will result in production of a product of improved color.
For the direct condensation process the trialkylacetic acid (or neoalkanoic acid) and the polyamine are often reacted at a suitable elevated temperature, often in the range of 180.degree. to 320.degree. C., e.g., about 230.degree. to 250.degree. C., over a period of about 1/2 to 8 hours, preferably 1 to 4 hours, and often using a nitrogen or inert gas "blanket" over the reaction, with stirring being continued during the entire reaction, and with water of condensation being removed continuously during the reaction. However, for some processes, especially if exothermic, cooling may be preferred, and the reactions may be at room temperature or slightly above it. The melting points of the products will normally be low, so that the products will desirably be liquids, preferably viscous, oily liquids. Such physical state is unusual for primary and secondary amides of comparable or even lower molecular weight because of strong intermolecular forces that are characteristic of the amide functionality. However, the viscous oily liquid state of the materials of the present invention is considered to be highly desirable because it aids in exerting antistatic action when incorporated in antistatic detergent compositions. It is also important for the polyamides of this invention to be only slightly water soluble, while yet being readily distributable throughout an aqueous medium at normal washing temperature, such as in the 10.degree. to 90.degree. C. range often 20.degree. to 60.degree. C. Thus, when choosing polyamine and neoalkanoic acid reactants, selecting such reactants with desired proportions of hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups, such as ethylene oxide and propylene oxide (or butylene oxide) allows one to control the hydrophile-lipophile balance of the antistat to be made, and thereby to "fine tune" its water solubility so that it can be an effective antistat in the intended product or use.
It has been found that the best antistats for use in detergent compositions or rinse compositions or for employment in washing and rinsing operations are those made from a neoalkanoic acid, such as neodecanoic acid, and a polyoxypropylene triamine, such as Jeffamine T-403. Other Jeffamines, such as Jeffamines D-230, D-400 and D-2,000, may also be employed to make the invented polyamides, and of these the Jeffamine D-230 is superior, apparently because the other Jeffamines result in products which are less effective as antistatic agents because of their higher contents of oxypropylene groups, higher molecular weights and deficiency of hydrophilic characteristics, which contribute to lowering the adsorption thereof onto fibrous surfaces. When the polyamine is ethylene diamine or hexamethylene diamine antistatic activity of the polyamides is obtainable during washing of laundry but it is not as effective as for the polyamides made with the described trialkylacetic acid and Jeffamine T-403 or Jeffamine D-230.
The Jeffamine polyamines that may be employed to manufacture the antistatic polyamides of this invention are described in a booklet entitled JEFFAMINE Polyoxypropyleneamines, published by Texaco Chemical Company and copyrighted in 1978 by Jefferson Chemical Company, Inc. Formulas of such polyamines are given at pages 2 and 3 thereof and typical physical properties of them are listed at pages 3 and 4. Uses of the Jeffamines are described throughout the booklet, primary among which is use as a component of synthetic resins, such as epoxy resins and polyurethanes. In a bibliography near the end of the booklet, at pages 61-64, textile applications of the Jeffamines and related materials are listed and summarized. In some cases antistatic finishes for textile were reportedly made by the reaction of polyoxyethylene diamine or similar polyamine with a suitable acid to make an antistatic polyamide. Among interesting references cited were Japanese Pat. Nos. 71/07,461; 71/29,914; and 71/32,519; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,558,419. However, none of the references, as mentioned in the Jeffamine booklet, describes or suggests a polyamide of the present invention, and the desirable characteristics thereof. The preferred triamides of this invention are of the formula ##STR5## wherein A is selected from the group consisting of alkyl of 1 to 20 carbon atoms and hydrogen, T is selected from the group consisting of methyl and hydrogen, R is a neoalkyl of 4 to 13 carbon atoms, and x, y and z are each numerals from 1 to 8, and total 4 to 10. More preferably, A is an alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, T is methyl, R is a neoalkyl of 4 to 9 carbon atoms, and x, y and z are each numerals from 1 to 3, which total from 4 to 8. Still more preferably, A is an alkyl of 1 to 3 carbon atoms, T is methyl, R is neoalkyl of 4 or 9 carbon atoms and x, y and z are each numerals from 1 to 3, which on the average total from 4.5 to 6. Most preferably, A is ethyl, T is methyl, R is neoalkyl of 9 or about 9 carbon atoms and x, y and z are each numerals from 1 to 3, the total of which averages about 5.3. The preferred diamides of this invention are of the formula ##STR6## wherein T is selected from the group consisting of methyl and hydrogen, R is a neoalkyl of 4 to 13 carbon atoms, and n is from 1 to 40. More preferably, T is methyl, R is neoalkyl of 4 to 9 carbon atoms and n is a numeral from 2 to 10. Still more preferably, T is methyl, R is neoalkyl of 4 or 9 carbon atoms and n is a numeral from 2 to 7. Most preferably, T is methyl, R is a neoalkyl of 9 or about 9 carbon atoms and n is an average of about 5.6. Other useful diamides are those of a neoalkanoic acid of 5 to 10 carbon atoms with an alkylene diamine of 2 to 6 carbon atoms. Among such compounds those preferred are N,N'-ethylene-bis-neodecanoamide and N,N'-hexamethylene-bis-neodecanoamide.
It will be seen from the above formulas and descriptions of components and substituents thereof that the amine radicals of the polyamines (including diamines) are completely converted to amide form. However, while such amides are highly preferred, it is contemplated that incompletely "amidified" polyamines which are at least 2/3 amidified may also be employed as antistats. They will have some of the undesirable properties of quaternary ammonium salts, in that they may be reactive with anionic detergents, but it is expected that such reaction and resulting decrease in detergency and increase in spotting of laundry will generally be tolerable because only a proportion of the amine radicals will not have been converted to non-reactive amides. Any adverse effects due to the presence of unreacted amine groups may be ameliorated by blending with completely amidified antistats of this invention.
Mixtures of the diamides and triamides of this invention may be employed in any desired and effective proportion. Thus, for example, N,N'-ethylene-bis-neodecanoamide may be mixed with N,N'-hexamethylene-bis-neodecanomide; N,N'-ethylene-bis-neodecanomide may be mixed with N,N'-hexamethylene-bis-neopentanoamide; the tri-neodecanomide of Jeffamine T-403 may be mixed with the di-neodecanoamide of Jeffamine D-230; and the tri-neodecanoamide of Jeffamine T-403 may be mixed with N,N'-ethylene-bis-neodecanoamide, to mention only a few of the possible combinations. Also, 3- and 4-member and other combinations of the polyamides may be made.
The polyamides of the present invention may be employed to treat various fibrous materials, including polyesters, nylons, polyacrlates and acetates, blends of some or all of such materials and blends of any of such materials with natural fibers, such as cotton, to-lower the tendencies thereof to accumulate objectionable static charges. They may also be used to treat non-fibrous polymeric materials, such as video tapes camera film and photographs, movie film, sound recording tapes, plastic sheets and molded (and otherwise formed) plastic items, such as items made from polyvinyl chloride (or polyvinyl chloride sheeting). In such treatments the polyamides may be applied directly or in suspension or solution, as liquids, pastes, gels, foams or sprays, to the surfaces of the items to be treated, in comparatively small proportions, normally with the proportion of polyamide to that of treated material being in the range of 0.00005 to 0.1% by weight.
Although the present antistats may be applied directly or in suspension or solution to materials being treated to make them static-free, it is usually highly preferable for them to be incorporated in other compositions that are used for different treatments of such materials. Thus, it is desirable for such antistats to be incorporable in detergent compositions so that the laundry washed with such compositions will not accumulate annoying static charges. Such compositions will comprise a detersive proportion of a synthetic organic detergent and a sufficient proportion of polyamide of this invention to be antistatic characteristic imparting to washed laundry.
The polyamides of this invention are especially advantageous for use in detergent compositions of the anionic type because, unlike quaternary ammonium halides, they do not react adversely with anionic detergents and do not complex with optical brighteners. Thus, they do not form objectionable fatty reaction products which can deposit on and mar the apperance of washed laundry, and they do not cause a diminution in detersive activity of the detergent composition. Furthermore, they are effective antistats, being adsorbable onto washed laundry, especially synthetic polymeric fibers thereof, such as polyesters, during the washing process. In preferred detergent compositions of this invention the synthetic organic detergent will be of the sulfate and/or sulfonate type, normally including a higher aliphatic chain, such as a higher alkyl of 8 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 10 to 18, in the lipophilic portion thereof. Preferably, such materials will be present in the form of water soluble salts, e.g., sodium salts. While the present polyamides may be employed in nonionic detergent compositions or detergent compositions of various types, including amphoteric, ampholytic and zwitterionic detergents, preferably the detergent will be an anionic detergent and will usually be one or more of the following: higher alkylbenzene sulfonates; higher fatty alcohol sulfates; olefin sulfonates; paraffin sulfonates; monoglyceride sulfates; fatty alcohol ethoxylate sulfates; higher fatty acid sulfonesters of isethionic acid; higher fatty acyl sarcosides; and acyl- and sulfo-amides of N-methyl taurine. In such detergents there will normally be present a higher aliphatic or alkyl group, which is preferably linear, and which will usually be of 8 to 20 carbon atoms, more preferably 12 to 18. When lower alkoxy chains are present in the detergent, as in the mentioned ethoxylate sulfate, usually there will be from 3 to 30 ethoxies, preferably 3 to 10. Such detergents will normally be employed as sodium salts although other water soluble salts, such as potassium, ammonium and triethanolamine salts, may be used too, depending on the circumstances.
For heavy duty laundering applications the detergent composition will usually contain a builder, to increase the detergency of the anionic detergent, especially in hard water. Among the various builders that may be utilized those of preference include: the polyphosphates, sodium tripolyphosphate and tetrasodium pyrophosphate; carbonates; bicarbonates; sesquicarbonates; silicates; sesquisilicates; citrates; nitrilotriacetates; and polyacetal carboxylates; all of which are water soluble salts, and the water softening zeolites, such as hydrated Zeolite A, which are water insoluble.
The proportion of the invented neoalkanoamide in the detergent composition will be an antistatic characteristic imparting proportion (to washed laundry adsorbing the invented polyamide during washing) and such will normally be in the range of about 0.5 to 20% of the detergent composition, by weight, preferably being 1 to 10% and more preferably being 2 to 7%, and most preferably, 3 to 5%, e.g., 4%.
In addition to the polyamide, detergent and builder, the invented detergent composition, even when in solid or particulate form, will also usually contain some moisture. The proportion of moisture for such particulate solid products will normally be in the range of 2 to 20%, e.g., about 8%. The particulate material will desirably be in the form of spray dried (or agglomerated or partly agglomerated) detergent composition beads, with particle sizes in the range of No's. 10 to 140, preferably 10 to 100, U.S. Sieve Series. Other forms of the detergent composition may be made, including liquids, gels, pastes, bars and cakes, and the particulate compositions and the compositions in such other forms will also normally contain functional and aesthetic adjuvants, and may contain fillers. Such adjuvants and fillers will normally comprise the balances of the detergents. Among the adjuvants that may be employed are: fluorescent or optical brightening agents, such as stilbene brighteners; anti-redeposition agents, such as sodium carboxymethyl cellulose: soil release promoting polymers, such as Alkaril QCF, a polyoxyethylene terephthalate-polyethylene terephthalate copolymer, fabric softening agents, such as bentonite; anti-gelling agents (for use in the crutcher), such as citric acid and magnesium sulfate; colorants, such as ultramarine blue pigment, and dyes; whitening agents, such as titanium dioxide; enzymes, such as mixed proteolytic and amylolytic enzymes; and perfumes. Among the fillers or bodying agents that are sometimes employed the most preferred is sodium sulfate, although sodium chloride has also been used. In liquid detergent compositions water, lower alcohols, glycols, cosolvents, hydrotropes and anti-freeze additives may also be present.
The proportions of detergent, builder, invented polyamide antistat and moisture in the invented particulate antistatic detergent will normally be within the ranges of 5 to 35%, 10 to 85%, 0.5 to 20% and 2 to 20%, respectively. Preferred proportions are 8 to 30%, 25 to 70%, 1 to 10% and 3 to 15%, respectively, with more preferred proportions being 10 to 25%, 30 to 70%, 2 to 7% and 5 to 12%, respectively. The moisture content includes hydrate moisture that is removed by the standard moisture test, heating for an hour at 105.degree. C., and such removed moisture is not included in the percentages given for the other components.
The detergent composition, when it is to be in particulate form, may be made by spray drying an aqueous crutcher mix of the various constituents thereof, including invented polyamide antistat, to free flowing bead form, utilizing well known drying equipment and following a standard spray drying procedure, in which a hot drying gas, which is the products of combustion of fuel oil or gas, passes concurrently or countercurrently, with respect to falling spray droplets, which are sprayed from an aqueous crutcher mix, to produce the dried beads, which are removed from the bottom of the spray tower, and subsequently may be screened or otherwise classified to desired particle size range. The beads resulting are excellent detergents and are capable of having the antistat component thereof adsorbed by laundry to lower any tendency of laundry to accumulate static charges. However, even greater antistatic activity is observable when the polyamide antistat is not spray dried with the rest of the detergent composition but is sprayed onto or otherwise applied to spray dried particles of the rest of the detergent composition, base beads or a detergent composition made by mixing together (and preferably agglomerating) particulate components thereof. In a preferred process for making nonionic detergent compositions, the polyamide is dissolved and/or dispersed in a formula proportion of liquefiable nonionic detergent at elevated temperature (40.degree.-50.degree. C.) and the resulting liquid is sprayed onto and absorbed by porous spray dried builder beads. The mentioned improved antistatic results are also obtainable by addition of the polyamide antistat to the wash water, with separate addition thereto of the detergent composition or its components. For such and other uses the antistat may be made in a convenient powder form, ready for use, often as an additive to detergents to make them antistatic, by being first mixed with a suitable carrier, such as Microcel (a synthetic calcium silicate powder), a filler, e.g., particulate sodium sulfate, or a fabric softening agent, e.g., bentonite, a builder or mixture of builders, or other suitable material(s). Very promising carriers are base beads for Fresh Start.RTM. detergent, which may be porous spray dried beads of mixed sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate (for non-phosphate detergents) or may contain sodium tripolyphosphate in spray dried form. Such Fresh Start base beads may contain up to 40% of polyamide, e.g., 25 to 35% of the triamide of neodecanoic acid and the amine sold commercially as Jeffamine T-403,. and will still be free flowing particles. The proportion of antistat in the various carriers mentioned may be that suited for the contemplated use, changed from that for particulate detergent compositions, as it is when liquid, gel or paste detergent compositions are made, wherein the proportion of solvent or liquid medium is different from the moisture content of the solid or particulate products, and may be from 5 to 95%, but normally is from 10 to 35%. The proportions of detergent, antistat, builder, when present, and adjuvants, when present, will be adjusted accordingly, normally with the relative proportions thereof being maintained about the same as in the particulate solid composition, in which the adjuvant content will usually be in the range of 3 to 30%, and the filler content may be from 5 to 50%. However, the proportion of polyamide antistat in such detergent compositions and in other antistatic preparations will be maintained at a level at which the polyamide is capable of imparting antistatic properties to the material to be treated, when the composition is employed in appropriate manner. One of skill in the art will be able to modify the formulations so as to make products of greatest utility and satisfactory stability. Similarly, it is contemplated that the formula will be changed when it is desired to produce compositions to be used in the rinse or in the dryer. Rinse compositions may sometimes contain only the invented polyamide dissolved in a suitable solvent medium or dispersed in an aqueous liquid medium, often preferably with the aid of a hydrotrope or other surface active component or solubilizer. The proportion of antistat will preferably be kept about the same as that for the antistatic particulate detergent composition previously discussed, e.g., 0.5 to 20%, although less could be used because in the absence of the detergent and builder the antistat will usually be more substantive. For liquid preparations for use in the rinse water, the proportion of solvent or liquid will normally be from 50 to 90%, while any surface active material or hydrotrope content will usually be in the range of 0.1 to 5%. If quaternary ammonium halide is also present the proportion thereof will desirably be in the range of one part of the quaternary compound to 1/2 to 10 parts of polyamide antistat. Additionally, when a polyurethane or cellulose sponge strip or a cloth or paper substrate is impregnated with the antistat of this invention (usually with the weight percentage thereof being from 10.degree. to 100% of the weight of the substrate), a fatty material, such as monoglyceride or diglyceride of higher fatty acids may be present too, to aid in the depositing of the polyamide onto the surfaces of the fabric fibers. A suitable such material is coconut oil fatty acids diglyceride.
When the invented polyamide antistat is applied to laundry during the washing or rinsing operation, by adsorption thereof onto the laundry from the wash water or the rinse, the concentration of the detergent composition or the rinse preparation in the wash water will be sufficient to impart antistatic properties to the washed laundry, e.g., laundry items of polyester or polyester cotton blend fabrics. Such an effective concentration will normally be in the range of 0.002 to 0.05% of polyamide and preferably such range will be 0.004 to 0.02%. The detergent composition or rinse composition concentration in the wash water will normally be in the range of 0.05 to 0.5%, preferably being 0.08 to 0.2%. The wash or rinse water will normally be at a temperature in the range of 10.degree. to 90.degree. C., e.g., 30.degree. to 50.degree. C., with the lower part of the 10.degree. to 90.degree. C. washing temperature range being typical for American home laundry practice and the upper part of that range being that employed in European practice, especially when perborate-containing detergent compositions are employed (the rinse temperature will normally be in the lower part of such range for both). In American practice the normal washing temperature will be in the range of 20.degree. to 60.degree. C., and for "cold water washing" and rinsings such range is often from 20.degree. to 40.degree. C. (or lower for rinsing). The washing operation will normally take between five minutes and one hour, with rinsing taking from two to twenty minutes of that time. The water employed may be soft or hard and hardnesses between 0 and 250 p.p.m. (mixed calcium and magnesium hardnesses, as calcium carbonate) may be encountered. Under such washing and/or rinsing conditions the invented polyamides are sufficiently substantive to the laundry being washed, especially that of synthetic organic polymers, such as polyesters, to be adsorbed thereon in sufficient proportion to make the polymer antistatic, thereby diminishing any static charges that could otherwise accumulate on the polymer during a machine drying (tumbling) operation or as a result of frictional forces applied to the polymer surface, as by rubbing against other materials.
When washed laundry is treated in the dryer with substrate materials onto which the invented polyamide or a mixture thereof with quaternary ammonium salt has been deposited it is found that the dried laundry resulting is of a diminished tendency to accumulate static charges.
The results obtained, using any of the described processes, are generally better than those achieved by the use of higher alkyl isostearamides, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,497,715, issued Feb. 5, 1985 to Robert A. Bauman, and are even better than those obtained using mononeoalkanoamides as antistats, which are described in our U.S. patent application Ser. No. 716,871. Although the isostearamides and mononeoalkanoamides are very effective antistats, which do not react adversely with anionic detergents, at least some of the present polyamides, e.g., the Jeffamine T-403 polyamides of neodecanoic acid, are even more effective in antistatic activity, so formula percentages and application rates thereof can be decreased substantially, leading to significant savings, and to better products.
While any of the methods of application of the invented polyamides to materials to be made antistatic may be employed, and good antistatic properties will be imparted to the treated material, it is within the invention to utilize a plurality of such application operations, such as washing, rinsing and drying, or some or all of them, in the presence of the antistat. Also, laundry may be brushed or sprayed with the antistat in solution or dispersion, and other materials, such as carpeting, may be similarly treated. However, a significant advantage of the present antistats is in their compatibility with anionic detergents in detergent compositions and wash waters, wherein antistatic proportions of quaternary ammonium salts often have undesirable effects on the detergent action of the anionic detergents and cause objectionable reactions which often result in objectionable spotting (with the reaction products) of the laundry or other items being washed.
Infra-red absorption spectra for several representative polyamides of this invention are shown in the accompanying drawing, in which:
FIG. 1 is such an absorption spectrum for the trineodecanoamide of the polyoxypropylene triamine sold as Jeffamine T-403;
FIG. 2 is such a spectrum for the dineodecanoamide of the polyoxypropylene diamine sold as Jeffamine D-230;
FIG. 3 is such a spectrum for the dineodecanomide of neodecanoic acid and hexamethylene diamine; and
FIG. 4 is such a spectrum for the dineodecanoamide of neodecanoic acid and ethylene diamine.
The following examples illustrate but do not limit the invention. Unless otherwise indicated, in these examples, the specification and claims, all parts given are by weight and all temperatures are in .degree.C.
146 Grams of Jeffamine T-403 polyoxypropylene triamine are reacted with 165 grams of Exxon neodecanoic acid (prime grade) in a one liter, three-necked glass flask fitted with a magnetic stirrer, a heating mantle and an ice condenser. The condensation reaction is conducted at a temperature of 250.degree. C. and is monitored by observing the water collected from the condenser. After six hours the reaction is essentially complete and the flask is removed from the heating mantle. It is allowed to stand until it is cooled to room temperature and the contents are then transferred to a one-liter separatory funnel, in which they are washed sequentially with solutions of: water, ethanol and hydrochloric acid; water and ethanol; aqueous sodium hydroxide; and distilled water, until neutral. After completion of washing the excess water is drained off and the washed product is dried in a vacuum rotary evaporator, yielding 260 grams of product.
The product is a relatively dark colored oil with a melting point less than 0.degree. C. and a refractive index (N.sub.D 20.degree. C.) of 1.4745. The infrared absorption spectrum for the polyamide made, which is the triamide of neodecanoic acid and the polyoxypropylene triamine, is given in FIG. 1. A nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum is obtained and is consistent with the expected structure.
With 10% of the weight of the reactants (about 30 grams) of ethylene glycol is present in the reaction mixture as a catalyst for the condensation reaction the temperature of the reaction may be decreased to 230.degree. C. and the amide made is lighter colored.
A still lighter colored oily liquid product may be obtained by utilizing neodecanoyl chloride instead of neodecanoic acid. Additionally, the reaction temperature may be lowered. Consequently, the product obtained is lighter in color. For the neodecanoyl chloride reaction with Jeffamine T-403 the weight of neodecanoyl chloride utilized is 190 grams and the reaction is run at 30.degree. C. or less, (using an ice bath to maintain the low temperature, the reaction being exothermic) for a period of three hours, after which it is considered to be complete. In addition to the mentioned reactants there are also present in the one-liter three-necked flask (which is fitted with a condenser with a Drierite tube, a thermometer, a Chesapeake stirrer and a dropping funnel) 700 ml. of diethyl ether as a solvent medium for the reaction, and a gram mole (101 g.) of triethyl amine (which acts as a trap for HCl).
After completion of addition of the neodecanoyl chloride the ice bath is removed from the flask and the reaction mix is allowed to come to room temperature, after which it is stirred for an additional one to three hours. It is then transferred to a two-liter separatory funnel and is washed twice with water, once with 5% aqueous hydrochloric acid, and once with 5% aqueous sodium hydroxide, followed by one or more washings with distilled water until the product is neutral to pH paper. Any remaining ether is removed by means of a steam bath and the product is finished on a vacuum rotary evaporator. The product made is water white to light amber in color, is pure and exhibits the infrared and N.M.R. spectra previously described for the same product made by the condensation method.
In a variation of the acid chloride manufacturing method for making polyoxypropylene tri-neodecanoamide, using a three-liter three-necked flask with a Chesapeake stirrer, condenser, thermometer, dropping funnel and ice bath, there were added to the flask 206 grams of the Jeffamine T-403 polyoxypropylene triamine, 600 milliliters of methylene chloride and 135 g. of triethyl amine. Holding the temperature below 30.degree. C., by regulating the addition rate, there were added to the flask through the dropping funnel 255 g. of neodecanoyl chloride (obtained from Pennwalt Corporation). After addition of the neodecanoyl chloride the reaction mixture was kept at about room temperature and was stirred for an additional three hours. Subsequently it was washed twice with 500 ml. portions of distilled water, twice with similarly sized portions of 10% sodium hydroxide solution (in water), and then with water until it showed neutral to pH paper. The resulting methylene chloride solution of polyoxypropylene tri-neodecanoamide was then filtered through anhydrous sodium sulfate, the methylene chloride was evaporated off and the amide product was recovered.
Polyoxypropylene di-neodecanoamide was produced by the condensation method, using a 500 ml. three-necked flask fitted with a magnetic stirrer, a heater, a condenser with a Dean Stark trap, and a thermometer with a thermowatch control for the heater. A nitrogen inlet was connected to the flask so that nitrogen gas could be maintained above the surface of the reaction mixture to blanket it. There were added to the flask 95 grams of Jeffamine D-230 polyoxypropylene diamine of approximate molecular weight of 230 (containing an average of 2.6 moles of propylene oxide per mole of diamine), and 172 grams of neodecanoic acid. The mixture is covered with nitrogen, is heated to a temperature in the range of 270.degree. to 300.degree. C., and is held at such temperature for five hours. The reaction is considered to be complete then and the reaction product is then transferred to a separatory funnel and is washed three times with 5% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, followed by three washings with distilled water. The excess water is removed and the product is dried on a rotary evaporator.
By methods like those of Examples 1-3 but with the conditions recited in Table 1, below other amides of this invention were made.
Method Starting Materials
E-DEC acid 60 g. ethylene diamine
20-30.degree. C.
chloride 361 g. neodecanoyl 3 hrs.
202 g. triethyl amine
E-DEC conden- 65 g. ethylene diamine
300.degree. C.
sation 344 g. neodecanoic acid
5 hrs.
H-DEC conden- 58 g. 1,6-hexane diamine
270-280.degree. C.
TRI-DEC conden- 200 g. Jeffamine T-403
sation 258 neodecanoic acid
51/2 hrs.
TRI-DEC conden- 50 g. Jeffamine T-403
sation 65 g. neodecanoic acid
24 g. ethylene glycol
J-DEC conden- 200 g. Jeffamine D-400
TRI-HEP conden- 110 g. Jeffamine T-403
sation 98 g. neoheptanoic acid
Physical characteristics of the products of this example and of Examples 1-3 are measured and infra-red spectra and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra (proton and C.sub.13) were run on some of the products. The melting points of all the products are less than 0.degree. C. Refractive indexes are 1.4782 for the ethylene diamine-neodecanoic acid condensation product; 1.4742 for the hexamethylene diamine-neodecanoic acid condensation product; 1.4667 for the Jeffamine D-230-neodecanoic acid condensation product and 1.4745 for the Jeffamine T-403-neodecanoyl chloride reaction product. Copies of the infra-red spectra of TRI-DEC, J-DEC, H-DEC and E-DEC are in FIGS. 1-4, respectively, of the drawing. These and all the multi-neodecanoamides that were made and which were subjected to infra-red analysis exhibited similar infra-red absorption bands with respect to: secondary amide stretch (N--H), wherein the absorption is strong at 3350 cm..sup.-1 ; secondary amide carboxyl (C.dbd.O) wherein the absorption is strong at 1633 cm..sup.-1 ; and ether stretch (C--O) wherein the absorption is very strong at 1,100 cm..sup.-1 for the polyoxypropylene amides (made from the Jeffamines).
The proton and C.sub.13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra run on TRI-DEC are consistent with the structure of this amide. These spectra were very complex, because of the presence of the isomeric mixtures.
Component Percent
Sodium linear tridecylbenene sulfonate
Sodium silicate (Na.sub.2 O:SiO.sub.2 = 1:2.4)
Sodium carbonate 4.5
Borax 1.0
Fluorescent brighteners
Methyl cellulose 0.5
Sodium sulfate 49.6
Perfume 0.2
A spray dried detergent composition of the above formula is made by spray drying an aqueous crutcher mix of 60% solids content in a conventional countercurrent spray drying tower to produce spray dried detergent beads, less perfume, which beads are subsequently perfumed by spraying onto the surface thereof the formula proportion of liquid perfume. The product is screened so that the particle sizes thereof will be in the range of No's. 10 to 100, U.S. Sieve Series. Then, five parts of di-alkanoamide or tri-alkanoamide of the types described in the previous examples are sprayed onto 100 parts of the detergent composition beads to produce antistatic detergent compositions. Instead of mixing the alkanoamide with the detergent composition to make an antistatic detergent composition, it may be added to the wash water, and sometimes it is preferably added to the rinse. The effects of the presences of the various antistat materials on the detergent compositions made are evaluated by washing test fabrics in top loading Whirlpool washing machines and drying them in electric automatic clothes dryers, after which, using both a human panel and an apparatus for measuring electrical charges, they are tested for static accumulations. A ballast load is employed in the washing machine with the test swatches. The ballast load (five lbs.) consists of 1/3 cotton terry face cloths; 1/3 cotton percale swatches (14".times.15"); and 1/3 of 65% Dacron: 35% cotton swatches (14".times.15", without durable press finish). The test swatches used for antistatic effect measurement are of: double knit twill; 65% Dacron-35% cotton permanent press; blue permanent press; and nylon. In the test procedure employed, after thorough cleaning of the washers and dryers, using 3A denatured alcohol, followed by air drying, the washing machine is set for a 14 minute wash tine, using 17 gallons of water at 120.degree. F. The "hot" wash is one utilizing the normal machine cycle, including a cold rinse with tap water. The detergent composition, containing the antistat, is added to the wash water after the machine is filled, the machine is allowed to agitate for about ten seconds and then the ballast load of terry towels and other cloths (5 lbs.) and different synthetic polymeric test swatches are separately added, while agitation is continued. Subsequently the various fabrics are removed and placed in the electric dryer, where they are dried over a period of about two hours. The test swatches and two terry towels from the ballast are then dried for an additional ten minutes and the test swatches are then evaluated for static cling by a test panel of experienced evaluators. Prior to instrumental static measurements, which are subsequently conducted, the test swatches are hung in a low humidity room (25% relative humidity) overnight. To determine the static charges on the average test material instrumentally, after washing with the detergent composition containing antistat, all of the static test swatches are rubbed in controlled manner, with wool, under controlled conditions, at a relative humidity in the range of 25 to 30%, after which the electrostatic charges on the swatches are measured and the measured electrostatic charges are averaged for each material, after which the averages for the materials are again averaged, resulting in a static index. It has been found that differences of as little as six index units (in kilovolts) are significant and indicate that consumers will notice the difference in the static clings of washed materials different in static indexes by six units.
The following table gives the static indexes for detergent compositions of this example and some prior compsitions, which are charged to the washing machine at the rate of 105 grams per load (100 g. detergent composition plus 5 g. antistat) which is 0.155%, on the basis of the wash water.
Antistat with Static Observed Static
Detergent Composition
Value and Cling After
(5 g. A + 100 g. D.C.)
(kilovolts)
Automatic Drying
Control (no antistat)
38 Extremely heavy
E-DEC 21 Light
H-DEC 23 Light
J-DEC (MW = 230) 22 Very light
J-DEC (MW = 400) 31 Moderate to heavy
TRI-DEC (MW = 403)
20.5 None
CISA (coco-isostearamide,
25 Moderate
U.S. Pat. 4,497,715)
T-DEC (tallow neodecano-
24 Moderate to light
amide, S.N. 716,871)
From the data in Table 2 it is seen that the TRI-DEC is the most effective antistat of those materials tested, both with respect to static values measured and absence of static and static cling, as reported by a test panel of experience evaluators. However, the other products of the present invention that were tested also resulted in improvements in static control of synthetic fabrics, such as polyesters, and thus are useful as components of detergent compositions, for that purpose. When such materials are incorporated in the rinse water in comparable concentrations of the active ingredient, such antistatic effects are also obtained on the synthetic fabrics present, especially polyesters. Similarly, when the antistats are present in dryer products, such as papers or polyurethane sponges for contacting laundry while it is being tumbled in the dryer, or when they are sprayed onto laundry in the dryer such desirable antistatic effects also result, especially for polyester-containing fabrics. For laundry dryer use the proportion of antistat employed is about the same with respect to the weight of the dry laundry as that employed when the detergent compositions are used in washing laundry, which, for TRI-DEC is about 0.2%. However, proportions of the antistats for rinse and dryer product applications may be in ranges employed when using the detergent compositions, on the basis of the laundry being treated.
Experimentation, like that described in this Example, has established that to obtain complete absence of static for average laundry loads containing synthetic fabrics, including polyesters, there should be present at least 3.5% of TRI-DEC in the detergent composition. To obtain comparable activity with other polyamides of this invention one should have at least 5% of H-DEC, E-DEC or J-DEC (D-230). For the previous leading non-cationic antistats, T-DEC and CISA, there will normally be used (to obtain the same antistatic activity) at least 7.5% and 9%, respectively.
The comparatively small percentage of TRI-DEC required to eliminate any static charges on washed and machine dried laundry facilitates the manufacture of the invented detergent compositions. Because it has been noted that spray drying of the antistat with the detergent composition components in the crutcher mix diminishes antistatic activity it is desirable to post-add the antistat to the previously spray dried detergent composition beads, as described earlier in this example. Post-addition of larger proportions of the normally liquid antistat can result in the production of a particulate detergent of noticeably poor flow characteristics than one containing less antistat. Accordingly, in addition to being more economical, the use of the antistats of this invention in detergent compositions allows for the production of an effective product which has more desirable physical characteristics, e.g., flowability.
The various antistats described above were also tested for actual deposition onto surfaces of washed laundry, using an ESCA apparatus (electronic surface composition analysis). By such testing it was established that in the molecular surface layer of Dacron fabrics that were washed with the invented detergent compositions TRI-DEC constituted 70% by weight, with H-DEC, E-DEC and J-DEC being 38%, 25% and 36%, by weight, respectively and with comparatives CISA and T-DEC being 28 and 35%, by weight, respectively. Because the adsorptions of the diamides and of the monomides are about the same, whereas the antistatic activity of the diamides is higher, antistatic activity of the present compounds also depends on amide content, as well as adsorption onto the washed fabrics. The triamides, such as TRI-DEC, are higher in amide content and are best adsorbed, leading to superior antistat effects. This also explains why triamides like TRI-DEC, but of very high molecular weight, e.g., of M.W.=5,000 (due to additional propylene oxide content), and resulting low amide content, are less effective than TRI-DEC.
The washing tests described above were run at a normal washing temperature, 120.degree. F. or 49.degree. C., and at such a temperature with 3.5 percent TRI-DEC content in the detergent compositions described, using a five pound laundry ballast load, the polymeric test fabrics show light static, in the opinion of the panel members, with the static value being 19 kilovolts. When the wash water temperature is lowered to 100.degree. F. (38.degree. C.), 80.degree. F. (27.degree. C.), and 60.degree. F. (15.5.degree. C.), the static values drop to 16, 17 and 12, respectively, and the observed static (by the panel) is none, in each case.
At the various washing temperatures mentioned immediately above the detersive activity of the detergent composition is essentially the same, whether or not it contains the antistat. Thus, the antistat has no adverse effect on detergency, unlike quaternary ammonium halide antistats, which interfere with washing activity of anionic detergents by reacting with them.
In addition to the detergent compositions described in Example 5 hereof, other detergent compositions are made, utilizing other di-alkanoamides and tri-alkanoamides, as previously described in this specification, e.g., di-pentanoamides, tri-tridecanoamides, in replacement of those of this example. Also, mixtures of such polyamides are made. Such are substituted for the polyamides of this example in the detergent composition formula and result in laundry washed with such compositions being effectively cleaned, without any adverse effect due to the presence of the antistat (unlike when cationic antistats are used) and useful antistatic actions on the washed laundry, especially laundry containing synthetic polymers, such as polyesters, are noted. Such is also the case when the proportions of the various components of the detergent composition, including the antistat, are varied .+-.10%, .+-.20% and .+-.30%, while remaining within the ranges given in the specification. In addition to changing the antistat, the anionic detergent is modified, with the other anionic detergents and mixtures thereof described in the specification being substituted for the sodium linear tridecylbenzene sulfonate. For example, sodium linear dodecylbenzene sulfonate, sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium paraffin sulfonate of 10 to 18 carbon atoms in the paraffin chain, are so utilized. In such cases useful antistatic activity on the laundry is observable and the antistats do not interfere with the detergency of the composition.
TRI-DEC is sprayed onto a moving surface of porous spray dried non-phosphate FRESH START base beads, which include about 40% of sodium carbonate, 40% of sodium bicarbonate, 2% of sodium silicate, 12% of moisture and 6% of various adjuvants (including fluroescent brighteners, dyes and pigments) so that the antistat content is 30% by weight. Where suitable, the base beads may contain sodium tripolyphosphate, too, to the extent of 30%, with the carbonate and bicarbonate contents being reduced to 25% each. The product resulting is flowable and is useful as an additive for detergent compositions, especially anionic detergent compositions, to contribute antistatic and building activity to them.
The invention has been described with respect to various illustrations and embodiments thereof but is not to be limited to these because it is evident that one of skill in the art, with the present specification before him, will be able to utilize equivalents and substitutes without departing from the invention.
1. An antistatic agent for filamentary and fibrous materials which is N,N'-ethylene-bis-neodecanoamide.
2. An antistatic agent for filamentary and fibrous materials which is N,N'-hexamethylene-bis-neodecanoamide.
4440666 April 3, 1984 Miller et al.
4626429 December 2, 1986 Robbins et al.
Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company (New York, NY)
Inventors: Robert J. Steltenkamp (Somerset, NJ), Michael A. Camara (Jackson, NJ)
Primary Examiner: Paul Lieberman
Assistant Examiner: Hoa Van Le
Attorneys: H. S. Sylvester, M. M. Grill, N. Blumenkopf
Current U.S. Class: 252/88; 252/525; 252/541; 252/544; Amide (8/194); Amine (8/196); 260/4045
International Classification: D06M 330;
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Serverless and Microservices: a match made in heaven?
When the first tutorials started to come out using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, back in 2015, it was unsurprising to find that they focussed largely on replicating the microservice. However, it became increasingly clear to those that used AWS Lambda at scale and over time that there were significant limits to the microservices approach with AWS Lambda… at least there were limits as to how most people thought that microservices should be built.
Let’s talk about the “why” of microservices
Microservices exist primarily because of frustration with monolithic applications. A monolith is simply an application where all the logic is put into the same logical codebase.
Back when we were building for the single server environment, when it was expensive to have multiple servers or provision more, this was the default way that applications were built. And deploying a monolith meant that you deployed a part or the whole of the entire application to a server.
Deploying monoliths also meant that you had to be sure you weren’t breaking anything. Very often a small change would bring the entire server down, and the entire application.
So when cloud came along, with the ability to provision instances at a click in minutes, not days or weeks, the ability to then separate concerns was obvious.
So breaking up the monolith became an obvious thing to do, and the idea of microservices was born.
Instead of building a monolith with every piece of logic on a single server/instance you could have a part of an application on different instances and connect them via some lightweight communication protocol — usually an HTTP API interface.
So application architecture moved from monoliths to microservices.
The “why” is interesting though. The value in doing this is that if a change is made, you aren’t changing the entire codebase, you are only changing a microservice — only a constituent part of the application. That means, very simply that you don’t take an entire application down.
That’s the theory anyway, and it’s a better theory than the monolith, but it’s not perfect.
The key for each service is…
The service interface
This is normally some form of HTTP interface (or at least this is the most common way of doing it). This is normally no problem, except that when you end up with large numbers of services, it can become a big problem coordinating all of that.
Moving to serverless
So when the first serverless applications started to get built on AWS, the initial approach was “let’s build microservices”…
Which meant: build an API Gateway interface, with a Lambda function behind it and a switch statement to act as a router.
Each API Gateway becomes a service interface, and that seems logical.
And you can build a series of services that then scale separately from each other, which makes a lot of sense in some ways.
Except it doesn’t quite make sense when you understand that AWS Lambda functions and FaaS in general shouldn’t be treated the same as an instance/server.
Because while there are servers underneath the hood (hey there are servers underneath most of the stuff that runs on the internet but nobody points that out like “S3 still has servers” or “BigTable still has servers” or “Azure Active Directory still has servers”… sigh) there is an assumption that you should simply treat a FaaS function the same as a service… a “minilith” as some have called it.
The problem is that this misses what I think is the key to serverless:
Serverless is all about events
Serverless, events and triggers
Serverless systems are inherently event driven systems and therefore are event driven architectures. This changes how you approach their development, their management and their architecture.
Within a microservices solution, the intent is to be responsive to the interface and that is the primary mechanism for interaction with the logic.
Within a serverless solution, the intent is to be response to events that occur, and an API is actually only a mechanism for generating events.
Within the AWS ecosystem, which is the most mature of the serverless ecosystems, the API is not seen as the primary interface. Events are much more important.
And that is why there are nearly 50 events that can trigger a Lambda function to run from other AWS services.
And the advice is always that if you can trigger a Lambda function without going through an API Gateway, then that is a significantly faster and more efficient operation than using an API Gateway, especially if you are triggering from within another AWS interface.
And taking a look at the Serverless Best Practices you will see some other elements that diverge from the way that many people architect microservices
Serverless Best Practices
Within the community we’ve been debating the best practices for many years, but there are a few that have been…
Primarily the key is the unidirectionality of functions. Most microservices tend to use a request-response type of architecture, because that is how most web applications tend to run. Functions within a serverless application tend to prefer being unidirectional and using queues as circuit breakers, so request-response becomes a lot less common.
The data layer is also managed and understood differently as well. The best practice is to have multiple functions rather than a single proxy function with a switch statement.
And the idea of multiple functions also gives you an additional benefit over microservices. If a function errors, then because it is stateless (or at least, it should be!), then it only affects that function rather than the rest of the application. Really useful part of not building a minilith right there!
So simply transferring knowledge directly from microservices to serverless gives you a few of the benefits, but really misses a large part of what makes serverless applications so valuable.
Microservices tend to diverge in multiple ways from a well architected serverless application, which means that while it is possible to build microservices with a serverless backend, there actually isn’t a straight forward direct path between microservices and serverless.
The path from microservices to serverless
So what is the path from microservices to serverless? Is there a straight forward way to learn the basics to make it easier to transition from one to the other, since microservices are so pervasive?
This is something I think the serverless world is wrestling with. There was a massive thread recently on twitter where we talked around this kind of subject. It’s worth referencing it here, if only to see what kind of thing the community talks about (go up and down the various replies and you’ll see numerous conversations around this topic, although none directly mention microservices).
Some of the tools that are out there tell you that they make it easy to build serverless applications, but then end up being that platform that you have to build on. I don’t think this adds value or makes anybody understand the architectural style any better.
We are acutely aware as a community that we’re talking up serverless as the future, but not necessarily making it easy to transition from older architectural styles or making it clear when serverless is the right (and occasionally not the right) choice.
It’s not that easy to transition a person’s thinking yet.
It’s easy to build a Lambda function.
But it’s not easy to build a well architected serverless application.
Because it does require a change in mindset, and that’s relatively hard.
And as I’ve said a number of times in various ways, we need to stop getting people to “hello world” and leaving them there because that’s what a lot of tech people think is all that’s needed.
The reason I wrote a Serverless Best Practices was to try to help people to consider that they shouldn’t be making assumptions as to how serverless applications are built based on their existing knowledge.
The tools that we’re using to build serverless solutions are currently the tools we use for building cloud 1.0 applications, and they are not completely fit for purpose.
Those tools are imperfect, and we’re all trying to work to explain and improve them as best we can.
I think the community is actually very open to helping people learn and grow in building serverless solutions.
So what we need as a community is your questions:
What are you struggling with?
Where are the holes?
What tutorials are missing?
And anything like that.
And I am available to help companies to make this transition.
I’ve worked with senior leaders and CTOs and CEOs to help identify what value is created in using a serverless approach in a company, and I’m happy to do that for other companies.
I’m very happy to help. Get in touch on LinkedIn here:
Paul Johnston - Interim CTO, Cloud and Serverless Consulting and Technology Strategy Services …
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A podcast that can help you become liberated in the modern world featuring such guests as Don Miguel Ruiz, Daizan Roshi, Santos Bonacci, Dr. Morse, Michael Cremo & more! Even though Dr. Reese has guided & inspired thousands to reclaim their health as a healer, it's his own awakenings, including a chance meeting with a mystic in 2012, that has inspired these recordings. With a calming style of speaking, Dr. Reese's intention is to bring the listener to a relaxing & meditative state while exploring such topics as self-realization, clean living, anxiety relief & mindfulness.
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The 3 Types of Love
In episode # 80, Dr. Reese gives a solo discourse on the 3 types of love. What are they and how can they help you figure out what type of relationship you're in? And while we're at it...what's this unconditional love that everyone always talks about? Is it part of the 3 types of love?
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Career Contentment w/ Lori Theriault
In episode # 79, Dr. Reese sits down with career counselor, Lori Theriault, who developed a 7-step plan that helps people, especially kids, find a career that aligns with their personality and strengths. In this conversation, they dive into how the program works, personality traits, ego, the difference between entrepreneur and solopreneur and much more. They even shine some light on Kevin's career choices and personality.
A Large Scale Awakening w/ Christine Boyle
In episode # 78, Dr. Reese sits down with healer, holistic nutritionist, and psychic, Christine Boyle. In this conversation, she talks about the world going through a large scale awakening as we enter the year 2021. She details her story and ascension after a surrendering just a few years ago and how connected she has been since the pandemic lockdown. They also dive into the impact of episode # 72 with Veena and OSHO.
Beingness is Everything w/ Vishrant
In episode # 77, Dr. Reese sits back down with awakened spiritual master, Prem Vishrant. In this recording, which resembles more of a Satsang than an interview, Vishrant explains awareness being aware of itself, the morning after his awakening in 1999, the akashic records being an ego trap, relationships being great teachers, the one desire that's worthy and more. Plus, he provides insights on Osho from the view of another enlightened human. This episode is VAST.
Grounded in Gratitude w/ Chris Cabott
In episode # 76, Dr. Reese sits down with sports agent and attorney, Chris Cabott. They discuss how Chris stays grounded and finds inner peace while living a busy life on the road and in the office. They explore how he went from working for 3 years as an intern to signing the biggest deal in sport history for Patrick Mahomes. They also dive into the death of Kobe, the presence of Tua Tagovailoa and a gift from God that Chris received at 14 years old.
The Pain Body
In episode # 75, Dr. Reese gives a solo discourse on what the pain body is, how it develops and how it can be dissolved. What's your pain body look and feel like?
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Theme: Making & Promoting Music
Favela Sounds: The Musical Diversity of the Slums
Favela Sounds is an international slum’s culture festival that takes place in the Capital of Brazil and offers workshops, debates and shows to 15,000 people annually, occupying the political center of the country. The festival proposes to present the most diverse musical styles of periphery worldwide and its modes of production. This panel draws a current panorama of the Brazilian slums music, a production chain that has displayed ample growth in the last years whose main pieces are the DJs.
Additional Supporting Materials
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_4OghbcEfsIRDFlMjkzZkxBLXc
How does the Brazilian favelas music market inspire the traditional music market worldwide and how can production mechanisms withstand adversities?
What are the main Brazilian slum’s musical styles today and how do these musicians make their exchanges and reach the crowds?
How do we curate and execute Favela Sounds and how important is it to promote an exchange among the most varied suburbs music styles around the world?
Guilherme Costa, Co-founder and general coordinator, Um Nome Produção e Comunicação
Dennis Cortes, PhD in Social Anthropology, UFRJ
GUILHERME TAVARES COSTA, Co-founder and general coordinator, Um Nome Produção e Comunicação
Track: Making & Promoting Music
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