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My boyfriend is way hotter than me
Serena Akeroyd
Posted on 31.12.2018 by Gabriel A.
Hotter Than Hades by Serena Akeroyd
Hotter than Hades is basically Ms. Akeroyd having fun with Greek Mythology whilst weaving the tales into modern time, and giving them a reverse harem spin. What sets this story apart is the fact that her characters arent the favoured ones. We only meet Zeus briefly, Posseidon is only mentioned and Afrodite doesnt have a place at all. Instead we meet Hades, Icarus and Orpheus. Cressida is a young, gorgeous pop star with world wide popularity. She should think of the world as her oyster and maybe she would, if it wasnt because she has experienced date rape which her record company swiped under the rug. Betrayed by those she thought would protect her, shes shielding herself from everyone except her foster-sister Ella. When Ella dies Cressidas world is turned upside down and shes taken for the ride of her life when shes introduced to the Lord of the Underworld, a demigod and the legendary guy who flew too close to the sun.
The plot it self felt extremely flat. It was 80% about a rape that had happened before the story starts, and I felt like the author spent way too much time on the trauma of it. Ill admit the fact that there was rape involved did make me dislike the book a lot, because I dont enjoy that topic in my romance. But it can still work when an author uses it for good, unfortunately that wasnt the case here. Most of the narrative is describing things, instead of experiencing them. So it felt more like someone telling the story after everything had been done and said, not like it happened as we hear about it.The guys had so much potential, but half the time I struggled to tell Icarus and Orpheus apart. Their brooding personalities were too alike. With only three guys in the harem, thats not a good thing!! The sex felt like the author just needed to cross it off her list, so it didnt flow at all!!
I dont know if Ill reading the rest of the series, but its definitely not something Ill go out of my way for !!
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My Boyfriend Is Hotter Than Me
There will always be someone better looking than you, smarter than you, more popular. I mean, congrats to you on snatching yourself up a good one. There are a lot of things that could be going through your head when you feel this way, but in relationships where the man is better looking than the woman, you may be thinking the following:. Either that, or you figure his personality must be heavily flawed, or some other area apart from his physique. Naturally, all of your insecurities start surfacing one by one.
My Boyfriend Is Hotter Than Me. By Mary Choi. Aug 27, image. Courtesy Mary H.K. Choi And it sucks. I've suspected it for months, and now that he's met .
It is not just the fellas that are punching above their weight when it comes to dating. There are women who just have it going on when it comes to their game, and it has absolutely nothing to do with their looks. Sure, they might be attractive on an average level, but their boyfriends are out of their league in the looks department. It makes us all non-celebrity women flustered with envy when we see a celebrity woman with a stud. It makes us feel like we should have a chance with him even though we will probably never meet him in real life.
Messages You have no messages. Notifications You have no notifications. Search AskMen Search submit button News. Type your question. Enter more details. I am ten years younger than my bf. I am objectively, much better looking, and also earn more at the moment than he does.
As far as I'm concerned, the "hot dude dating average girl" phenomenon is way more common in pop culture than in life. This article about it got me thinking. For the record, even in the following TV examples, both of the following women are somewhat "uglied up" for contrast in the first place:. There's that Sex And The City episode with Miranda and her handsome date, during which she feels so paranoid and self-conscious being seen with such a good-looking guy in a restaurant that she drinks too much and he dumps her under the impression she's an alcoholic. Remember that?
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'We Can't Sell This Garbage!'
'Wave of Insolvencies' To Hit German Industry
Northern Rock's Shares Skyrocket After BOE Bailout
Hedge Funds Pile into Commodities
From Volume 6, Issue 42 of EIR Online, Published Oct. 16, 2007
Oct. 8 (EIRNS)—According to Standard & Poors, there hasn't been a single new "high-yield" (junk) bond issued since early August. This state of affairs has bankers worried, as evidenced by an article in Investment News Monday.
This "junk" bond market, often connected with leveraged buyouts, has been one of the major drivers of "growth" in the stock market for the past 25 years, and now the "engine" has come to a virtual standstill. The number of companies with "issues" (bonds) trading at distressed (junk) levels, called the "distress ratio," rose to 2.9% in August, and 3.2% in September, while it had been below 1% for most of the year. Analysts think they have about 90 days to remedy the situation before "a longer-term realignment" (i.e., crash), becomes a likelihood.
Last week, the Los Angeles-based fund Dalton Investments "announced plans to buy defaulted loans at significant discounts and restructure them," hoping that new buyers could be found who wouldn't remember the reason the loans defaulted in the first place. Why do this? "The subprime market is just beginning to unwind, and we expect defaults and foreclosures to skyrocket over the next six to 12 months," said Dalton Investments CEO Steven Persky in announcing the new "strategy." In the extreme example, banks are now lending to hedge funds so that they can buy their own distressed paper, just to get it off their books.
Oct. 13 (EIRNS)—A wave of insolvencies is about to hit German industrial firms as a consequence of private-equity takeovers going bust, the German financial daily Handelsblatt reported yesterday. According to Alix-partners, a consulting firm specializing in restructuring of distressed companies, the volume of distressed debt from such takeovers in Germany is now about 400 billion euros ($560 billion). The insolvency wave is hitting the automotive and machine-tool sectors. The private equity fund Permira was recently forced to sell the auto-parts firm Kiekert to the hedge funds, which began liquidating it. Other examples include TMD Friction and Treofan. Now the wave will expand to all branches of German industry, Handelsblatt says.
Oct. 11 (EIRNS)—Now that the Bank of England has agreed to accept all of the garbage mortgage-backed securities of Northern Rock, the sinking British mortgage lender, its share price has skyrocketed. The Times reports that 58 million of its shares changed hands yesterday in 81,800 separate trades, accounting for one-eighth of the entire turnover of the London stock exchange.
Jon Wood of the Monaco-based SRM Global Master Fund Partnership and Philip Richards of RAB Capital, revealed that they have been accumulating positions in the stock. The former revealed a 4.03% holding in the sinking Rock, which is now being bailed out by British taxpayers. The bank's share price increased 67 pence to 273.5 pence.
Oct. 13 (EIRNS)—An article in www.bullionvault.com gives an impressive account of how hedge funds are plunging into commodity speculation, creating all sorts of new derivative instruments, cooking "a '70s-style inflation—or worse." "Wall Street and the City are suddenly piling into the commodity markets.... The PhD's who cooked up the U.S. housing bubble are now applying their haute finance skills to gearing up the cost of natural resources. Hence, the complexity of the very latest commodity offerings. Expect a side-order of inflation to reach your dining table as a result very soon!
"When unlimited money-supply growth crashes into rising demand for limited-supply essentials—such as natural gas, copper, soybeans, and cocoa—the result is sure to be price inflation as violent as the monetary inflation that preceded it. Add a sudden wall of money from Wall Street, the City, Frankfurt, Paris and Tokyo ... all seeking a growth market to replace the can't-lose gamble of home-loan trading and credit ... and the surge in basic resource prices will only accelerate. Now add a little pixie dust ... plus a dollop of leverage ... and voila! One '70s-style inflation—or worse—cooked to order.
"'An army of structured credit experts is studying products such as Collateralized Commodity Obligations—or CCOs,' reports Reuters, 'tied to the performance of a portfolio of underlying commodities, such as precious metals or energy prices.'...
"In other words, bond managers and fixed-income traders whacked by the collapse of mortgage-backed debt, can now put commodities into their portfolios—and just in time, too, for the runaway inflation about to hit thanks to monetary over-supply and heavily-geared financial buying. The magic of finance has turned consumable lumps of natural resources into a stream of income ... without the bother of digging the earth or planting a crop."
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Lawe’s Justice
Breeds Book 26
Diane Broen’s lived to protect her younger sister Rachel from harm. But now that Rachel has been mated off, Diane’s occupied herself with less fulfilling tasks at the Genetics Council–until she’s paired with a new team member, a Breed male notorious for his attitude, and a touch that makes her recoil.
Lawe isn’t thrilled with her either. A lion at heart, he prefers a lair of solitude. When it comes to females, he’d rather snarl than purr. And while fate may have paired them to fight on the same team, neither is willing to admit to the obvious: the mating heat between them is positively incinerating.
It’s only when danger threatens that they make a hotter-than-hell connection–one so explosive it could destroy them. Or, as providence reveals, bind them together, forever.
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Diane had finished dinner and cleaned up her mess when she suddenly paused just inside the kitchenette, her gaze slicing to the door at the sound of a keycard sliding through the lock.
The soft hiss was a sound most people would have never detected, but most people hadn’t been trained by her paranoid uncle.
Perhaps paranoid was the wrong word to use. Her very cautious uncle.
In that second, her weapon cleared the holster she wore at the small of her back. The small laser-powered personal defense handgun had the look of the old-style Glock the military once issued, but it contained all the power of the adjustable laser-powered rifles.
The bursts of fiery energy could knock a man off his feet or put a hole in him the size of a bowling ball.
“Put your weapon down, wildcat. It’s just me.”
Diane froze, the weapon still held at her thigh by both hands as the door swung open and he stepped in.
Just me. Just—there was no “just” where Lawe Justice was concerned. There was nothing so simple as that word implied.
Confident, powerful, a supreme male animal and as fucking alpha as he could get, he stepped into the suite as though it belonged to him.
He was complicated, powerful, mysterious and rakish, wicked and seductive, and her entire body seemed to flood with warmth at the sight of him.
Diane remained still, her jaw locked in a deliberate attempt to exert control over herself and her reaction to the sound of the dark, sexually intent tone that had her body wanting to melt.
There were nights when the thought of him, of the touch she ached for, tormented her to the point that she wondered if perhaps he didn’t own a part of her already. At the very least, he owned her fantasies, her erotically charged, sensually tormented fantasies since the moment she had opened her eyes and seen him standing above her ten months before.
Tall, his shoulders broad, his body powerful, the thick, heavy length of his black hair was much longer than it had been the last time she had seen him. He looked as dangerous as she knew he was. As primal and as savagely intense as she sensed he was.
Denim encased long, powerful legs and rode low on his hips to be cinched by a leather belt at his muscular hips. A white cotton shirt, the arms folded to the elbow covered wide shoulders and an impressive chest. Heavy Western boots covered his feet, a silver chain riding low around the heel.
He looked good enough to take a bite of, and her mouth watered to do just that.
The dark overnight growth of a beard shadowed his lower face—most Breeds couldn’t grow a full beard, but that rakish, next-day growth was the norm for those who allowed that sexy to-die-for look. And that was exactly the look Lawe was going for tonight. The look that stripped her down to barebones, hard-core sex and the need to ride him until they were both exhausted.
Not that it would take her long to reach exhaustion after the past three months and a search that had driven her bat-shit crazy. But what a way to go.
“What are you doing here?” First replacing the weapon, she then unclipped the holster before walking through the suite. Passing the small living area as Lawe stepped into the room, she moved to the bed where she laid the weapon on the bedside table before turning to face him.
“What I’m doing here should be rather obvious.” Midnight black brows formed a V between the intense ice-cold violet blue eyes that swept over her.
Cold, cold eyes. She could never see what he was thinking, and she sure as hell had no idea how he felt from one second to the next. But she wanted to. There had been times she would have given anything to see behind the ice in his gaze.
“If you say so,” she agreed with a hint of mockery. “I’ve arrived safe and sound, Lawe, so you can go back to your own room, your own place or wherever you’re sleeping now. I’ll give you my report when I give it to Jonas in the morning. I’m too tired for the third degree tonight.”
She often wondered where he slept. And with whom. Rumor was, Lawe spent very few nights alone and his sexuality sure as hell didn’t rest.
She knew the Bureau had several apartments in town, as well as a safe house, though where he and other high level Enforcers stayed while in D.C.
What the hell he was doing here this late simply made no sense. Lawe Justice rarely, if ever, stayed in hotels unless he had the Presidential Suite. And she knew the three Presidential Suites were in use by the Russian Wolf and Coyote Pack leaders, as well as the Russian Feline Pride leader.
“I would have worried about you if I hadn’t known you arrived safe” He surprised her with his reply. “Damned good thing I did too. You’ve just arrived and I can see how little you’ve taken care of yourself. What good did it do me to rescue you from certain death if you’re just going to commit suicide slowly?”
Never let it be said that the Breeds didn’t protect their assets to the best of their ability. They did. Even to the point that he was here tonight to ensure she had arrived and was tucked safely in her room.
“You prefer I do it quicker? That eager to be rid of me, are you?”
He snorted. “Beats watching you waste away day by day.”
Why, how sweet, she thought with savage mockery.
Yeah, right, that was why he was here all right, to check up on her health.
He was there for the same reason she couldn’t get him out of her mind. Because neither of them had the self-control or strength of will to stay away from the other. And that terrified her. In the ten months since he’d rescued her from a Middle Eastern hellhole, he’d consumed not just her fantasies but also her thoughts and her determination not to care for anyone but Rachel and Amber.
She didn’t need this. Not here, not now, not at a time when she was trying so very hard to make too many decisions where her life was concerned.
As she turned back to face him, she watched as his gaze shifted from her to the bed, then back.
The bed was turned down invitingly, ready for them if either had the guts to push it.
The shower awaited. They could share it, she thought, though it would be a tight fit. The thought of heated water sluicing over his hard, naked body had her knees weakening in arousal and the need for touch.
Just for touch.
As he had touched her in England just before he left to return to the States after rescuing her. The way he had stroked the backs of his fingers along her cheek.
Or just after Brandenmore had finally been captured by Jonas Wyatt. He’d found her in New York that night before she had flown to Turkey for another job.
He hadn’t taken her. He had just touched her, his calloused fingers playing over her body as though the sensation of her flesh beneath his touch was an ecstasy all its own.
She had never been undressed and neither had he. He hadn’t touched her below the waist and he hadn’t given her the release her body was crying out for. But he had made her ache.
Hell, she shouldn’t want to want him like this. She shouldn’t allow herself to want him like this.
She could be in the bed sleeping off the jet lag and frustration if he would just leave. She could hurry and masturbate, make use of the vibrator hidden in her bags and then rest for a few hours before she had to meet with his boss.
“Fine, I’m safe and sound,” she finally said, breaking the tense silence growing between them. “You can stop protecting me now and let me get some sleep before I face the big bad prick in the morning.”
Not that Jonas was really that bad, but it wouldn’t do to let him know she actually liked him. She had a feeling he would take such deliberate advantage of that fact, it wouldn’t even be funny.
Just as Lawe would take full advantage of the sheer fascination she had for him, if he knew of it.
Letting him know would be the biggest mistake she could possibly make.
Lawe kept watching her. His gaze was like a dominant, powerful caress she couldn’t evade.
The sensation of that invisible touch never failed to leave her off balance and nervous. She could feel her blood beginning to rush through her veins, her heart rate becoming spiked and elevated. Her clit swelled with aching hunger and sexual desperation. Damn, she needed him to leave, then she could at least have him in her fantasies.
“Why are you still here, Lawe?” she asked. He was destroying her nerves with the violet blue intensity of his gaze and her certainty that there were indeed emotions roiling beneath the layer of icy calm.
“You should know why I’m here.”
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2019 Grammy Awards: Full List of Nominations
Caitlyn Hitt
The 2019 Grammy nominations are finally here, which means the annual award ceremony is right around the corner.
This year’s nominees were announced by Shawn Mendes, Janelle Monae, Alessia Cara and Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Apple Music and CBS This Morning. Categories include more than 80 genre specific sections, as well as four categories (Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist) open to music and artists from any genre.
There's already been some drama over the 2019 Grammy Awards categories, specifically Best New Artist. The Recording Academy announced that Cardi B, Post Malone and XXXTentacion are ineligible for the category at the 2019 Grammy Awards for various reasons.
Best New Artist is awarded to a musician who released their breakthrough album or record during the Grammy eligibility period. The period spans from Oct. 1, 2017 to Sept. 30, 2018 this year.
Hits Daily Double reported that the controversial rapper XXXTentacion, accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend before ultimately being shot and killed in June 2018, was disqualified because his first album, 17, was released in August 2017 -- five weeks before the 2019 eligibility year began. He would have been the first artist to be posthumously nominated in the category.
As for Cardi B and Post Malone, the Associated Press reported that the former was disqualified because of her 2018 Grammy Award nominations while the latter was disqualified after a vote from the academy determined that the success of his breakout singles and studio albums made him ineligible for the "New Artist" title.
So, who are the nominees for this year's Grammy's? Check out the full list below.
Best Pop Solo Performance
"Colors" by Beck
"Havana (Live)" by Camila Cabello
"God Is A Woman" by Ariana Grande
"Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)" by Lady Gaga
"Better Now" by Post Malone
"Fall in Line" by Christina Aguilera featuring Demi Lovato
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Backstreet Boys
"'S Wonderful" by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall
"Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
"Say Something" by Justin Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton
"Girls Like You" by Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B
"The Middle" by Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey
Camila by Camila Cabello
Meaning Of Life by Kelly Clarkson
Sweetener by Ariana Grande
Shawn Mendes by Shawn Mendes
Beautiful Trauma by P!nk
Reputation by Taylor Swift
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Love is Here to Stay by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall
My Way by Willie Nelson
Nat "King" Cole & Me by Gregory Porter
Standards (Deluxe) by Seal
The Music...The Mem'Ries...The Magic! by Barbra Streisand
Best Gospel Performance/Song
"You Will Win" by Jekalyn Carr and Allen Carr
"Won't He Do It" by Koryn Hawthorne
"Never Alone" by Tori Kelly featuring Kirk Franklin
"Cycles" by Jonathan McReynolds featuring DOE
"A Great Work" by Brian Courtney Wilson; Aaron W. Lindsay, Alvin Richardson and Brian Courtney Wilson
Best Gospel Album
One Nation Under God by Jekalyn Carr
Hiding Place by Tori Kelly
Make Room by Jonathan McReynolds
The Other Side by The Walls Group
A Great Work by Brian Courtney Wilson
Best Dance Record
"Northern Soul" by Above & Beyond featuring Richard Bedford
"Ultimatum" by Disclosure (Featuring Fatoumata Diawara)
"Losing It" by Fisher
"Electricity" by Silk City & Dua Lipa featuring Diplo and Mark Ronson
"Ghost Voices" by Virtual Self
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Singularity by Jon Hopkins
Woman Worldwide by Justice
Treehouse by Sofi Tukker
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides by Sophie
Lune Rouge by TOKiMONSTA
Best Latin Pop Album
Prometo by Pablo Alboran
Sincera by Claudia Brant
Musas (Un Homenaje Al Folclore Latino Americano En Manos De Los Macorinos), Vol. 2 by Natalia Lafourcade
Vives by Carlos Vives
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
Claroscura by Aterciopelados
Coastcity by Coastcity
Encanto Tropical by Monsier Perine
Gourmet by Orishas
Aztlan by Zoe
Best Recording Package
Love Yourself: Tear by BTS
Masseducation by St Vincent
The Offering by The Chairman
Well Kept Thing by Foxhole
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
Appetite For Destruction (Locked N' Loaded Box) by Guns N' Roses
I'll Be Your Girl by The Decemberists
Pacific Northwest '73-'74': The Complete Recordings by Grateful Dead
Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic by Weird Al Yankovic
Too Many Bad Habits by Johnny Nicholas
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
The Emancipation Procrastination by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Steve Gadd Band by Steve Gadd Band
Laid Black by Marcus Miller
Protocol 4 by Simon Phillips
Best Rock Performance
"Four Out of Five" by Arctic Monkeys
"When Bad Does Good" by Chris Cornell
"Made An America" by The Fever 333
"Highway Tune" by Greta Van Fleet
"Uncomfortable" by Halestorm
Best Metal Performance
"Condemned to the Gallows" by Between the Buried and Me
"Honeycomb" by Deafheaven
"Electric Messiah" by High on Fire
"Betrayer" by Trivium
"On My Teeth" by Underoath
Best Rock Song
"Black Smoke Rising" by Jacob Thomas Kiszka, Joshua Michael Kiszka, Samuel Francis Kiszka and Daniel Robert Wagner, songwriters (Greta Van Fleet)
"Jumpsuit" by Tyler Joseph, songwriter (21 Pilots)
"MANTRA" by Jordan Fish, Matthew Kean, Lee Malia, Matthew Nicholls and Oliver Sykes, Songwriters (Bring Me The Horizon)
"Masseducation" by Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent)
"Rats" by Tom Dalgety & A Ghoul Writer, songwriters (Ghost)
Best Rock Album
Rainier Fog by Alice in Chains
M A N I A by Fall Out Boy
Prequelle by Ghost
From the Fires by Greta Van Fleet
Pacific Daydream by Weezer
Best American Roots Performance
Best American Roots song
Best Americana Album
By The Way, I Forgive You by Brandi Carlile
Things Have Changed by Bettye LaVette
The Tree of Forgiveness by John Prine
The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone by Lee Ann Womack
Best Folk Album
Whistle Down The Wind by Joan Baez
Black Cowboys by Dom Flemons
Rifles & Rosary Beads by Mary Gauthier
Weed Garden by Iron & Wine
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
All The Things That I Did and All The Things That I Didn't Do by The Milk Carton Kids
Colors by Beck
Earthtones by Bahamas
Head Over Heels by Chromeo
Voicenotes by Charlie Puth
Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino by Arctic Monkeys
Utopia by Bjork
American Utopia by David Byrne
Masseducation by St. Vincent
Larry Klein
Linda Perry
Best R&B Performance
"Long as I Live" by Toni Braxton
"Summer" by The Carters
"Y O Y" by Lalah Hathaway
"Best Part" by H.E.R. featuring Daniel Caesar
"First Began" by PJ Morton
Best Traditional R&B Performance
"Bet Ain't Worth The Hand" by Leon Bridges
"Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight" by Bettye LaVette
"Honest" by Major
"How Deep is Your Love" by PJ Morton featuring Yebba
"Made for Love" by Charlie Wilson featuring Lalah Hathaway
Best R&B Song
"Boo'd Up" by Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai and Dijon McFarlane, songwriters (Ella Mai)
"come Through and Chill" by Jermaine Cole, Miguel Pimentel and Salaam Remi, songwriters (Miguel featuring J. Cole and Salaam Remi)
"Feels Like Summer" by Donald Glover and Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)
"Focus" by H.E.R., Darhyl Camper Jr, Justin Love, songwriters (H.E.R.)
"Long as I Live" by Paul Boutin, Toni Braxton and Antonio Dixon, songwriters (Toni Braxton)
Best Urban Contemporary Album
Everything Is Love by The Carters
The Kids Are Alright by Chloe X Halle
Christ Dave and The Drumhedz by Chris Dave and The Drumhedz
War & Leisure by Miguel
Ventriloquism by Meshell Ndegeocello
Best R&B Album
Sex & Cigarettes by Toni Braxton
Good Thing by Leon Bridges
Honestly by Lalah Hathaway
H.E.R. by H.E.R.
Gumbo Unplugged (Live) by PJ Morton
Best Reggae Album
As The World Turns by Black Uhuru
Reggae Forever by Etana
Rebellion Rises by Ziggy Marley
A Matter of Time by Protoje
44/876 by Sting and Shaggy
"Be Careful" by Cardi By
"Nice For What" by Drake
"King's Dead" by Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future and James Blake
"Bubblin'" by Anderson .Paak
"Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk and Swae Lee
Best Rap/Sung Performance
"Like I Do" by Christina Aguilera featuring Goldlink
"Pretty Little Fears" by 6lack featuring J. Cole
"This is America" by Childish Gambino
"All The Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA
"Rockstar" by Post Malone featuring 21 Savage
"God's Plan" by Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels and Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)
"King's Dead" by Kendrick Duckworth, Samuel Gloade, James Litherland, Johnny McKinzie, Mark Spears, Travis Walton, Nayvadius Wilburn and Michael Williams II, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock Future and James Blake)
"Lucky You" by R. Fraser, G. Lucas, M. Mathers, M. Samuels and J. Sweet, songwriters (Eminem featuring Joyner Lucas)
"Sicko Mode" by Khalif Brown, Roget Chahayed, BryTavious Chambers, Mike Dean, Mirsad Dervic, Kevin Gomringer, Tim Gomringer, Aubrey Graham, Jon Edward Hawkins, Chauncey Hollis, Jacques Webster, Ozan Yildirim and Cydel Young, songwriters (Travis Scott, Drake, Bid Hawk and Swae Lee)
"Win" by K. Duckworth, A. Hernandez, J. McKinzie, M. Samuels and C. Thompson, songwriters (Jay Rock)
Invasion of Privacy by Cardi B
Victory Lap by Nipsey Hussle
Astroworld by Travis Scott
Best World Music Album
Deran by Bombino
Fenfo by Fatoumata Diawara
Black Times by Seun Kuti and Egypt 80
Freedom by Soweto Gospel Choir
The Lost Songs of World War II by Yiddish Glory
Best Spoken Word Album
Accessory To War by Courtney B. Vance
Calypso by David Sedaris
Creative Quest by Questlove
Faith - A Journey For All by Jimmy Carter
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Best Country Solo Performance
"Wouldn't It Be Great?" by Loretta Lynn
"Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" by Maren Morris
"Butterflies" by Kacey Musgraves
"Millionaire" by Chris Stapleton
"Parallel Line" by Keith Urban
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
"Shoot Me Straight" by Brothers Osborne
"Tequila" by Dan + Shay
"When Someone Stops Loving You" by Little Big Town
"Dear Hate" by Maren Morris featuring Vince Gill
"Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line
Best Country Song
"Break up In The End" by Jessie Jo Dillon, Chase McGill and Jon Nite, songwriters (Cole Swindell)
"Dear Hate" by Tom Douglas, David Hodges and Maren Morris, songwriters (Maren Morris featuring Vince Gil)
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Tim Kasher, Live
acoustic music, concert video, cursive, indie music, johnny brendas, live acoustic, live music, live philly concerts, the good life, tim.kasher
Tim Kasher of Cursive and The Good Life fame plays a fantastic set with a backing band at Johnny Brenda’s in Philly on 082511.
The first video is Album of the Year from his side project, The Good Life.
Tim has some funny musings towards the end of this vid. Starting at 5:03
“I have a question: has anybody – I appreciate that you like that song, appreciate that – has anybody ever thought that sometimes it’s like singing that song – no, no, no – good memories of council-tucky actually, no, that the point near the end of the song when I rhyme “records were her, records were her and Her clothes were packed in boxes” has that ever struck anybody as like unusual horse rhyme. Anybody? huh? A little bit right – it is to me because now looking back now I’d do it different – I’m not saying it’s wrong… but it is funny to me”
Next, Tim plays The Game Of Monogamy.
Tim’s intro to this song was hilarious ” ..think it’s that hot in here right? It is hot in here? Oh, ok. I feel like I’m… we accidentally drank way too much whiskey last night and I feel like I was fine all day and then I got here on this stage right now and I’m like sweating whiskey so hard and it feels disgusting and it’s making me shaky. ….. it’s true.” “I apologize for how weird this song is”
The last video I have for you is Tim playing Empty Bed from his side project, The Good Life. Enjoy.
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Luke Combs’ Beer Never Broke My Heart Lyrics Are Personal
Luke Combs' hit song "Beer Never Broke My Heart" became an easy hit upon its May 2019 release, but the lyrics took patience, hard work and a willingness to leave well enough alone. Songwriter Jonathan Singleton says the biggest problem was the singer himself.
"You gotta be careful with guys like Luke, because everything he sings sounds great," the established tunesmith says, seated across a coffee table at his studio on Music Row, smiling. "So it’s, 'Is that really a great line or is he just singing the crap out it?' So we spent a lot of time on that."
On paper, one might not expect the "Beer Never Broke My Heart" lyrics to include a great backstory. Singleton admits the trio of writers (including Combs and Randy Montana) were looking for a feeling and not intent on creating a song that was going to change the world. The first verse mentions bass fishing, dirty politicians, bad bosses, trucks and lost dogs.
"We're checking the boxes almost," he admits.
"I've had a largemouth bass bust my line / A couple of beautiful girls tell me goodbye / Trucks break down, dogs run off / Politicians lie, been fired by the boss," Combs sings to begin the song.
The group had every intention of going back and changing it, but when the song started to take shape, they realized it was a great Luke Combs song — something they were aiming for when they first sat down to write it with the "Beautiful Crazy" hitmaker in late 2017.
"It's on brand, and I think that's why no one minded," Singleton says, recalling the first meetings on Combs' tour bus. It wasn't a, 'What's wrong with it?' conversation as much as a, 'Are we gonna beat this?' conversation — a subtle distinction that understood opens up one's understanding to the many similar choices the group and producer Scott Moffatt made along the way.
Combs brought the title of the song to the group, and they started by discussing possible directions, as well as the singer's own life. Like several of his other hits, "Beer Never Broke My Heart" leans into a past relationship, but personal heartbreak rests just beneath the surface. In that sense, "Beer Never Broke My Heart" is about a girl, but that's almost irrelevant. The second verse describes "her" in more detail and was crafted to explain why this guy was so down on life and love in the first place. It was the final step in the writing process and goes:
"She was a Carolina blue jean baby / Fire in her eyes that drove me crazy / It was red tail lights when she left town / If I didn't know then, I sure do now."
“Those are all real," Singleton says. "(Combs) also knows what his fans are going to want to hear him say, and what they’re not interested in that much.”
The chorus and pre-chorus are what makes it all special. Singleton recalls the group beginning with an idea to bookend the chorus with, "Longneck ice cold beer never broke my heart" and put a kind of gibberish in between as a place holder until lyrics about diamond rings and football teams were culled from Combs' old relationships.
"That longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart / Like diamond rings and football teams have torn this boy apart. "
"But you can pass that line if you want to," Singleton says.
The second half of the chorus is the writer's stamp: "Like a neon dream, it just dawned on me, that bars and this guitar / And long-neck ice-cold beer never broke my heart," Combs sings. It's almost poetic in contrast to the everyman references made throughout. Singleton says they wanted to catch another slice of the audience off guard, but once again the lyric won't trip anybody up.
Moffatt is to be credited with the sound of "Beer Never Broke My Heart," but Singleton says the writers recognized the importance and impact of the pre-chorus — two simple and elegant lines that force a listener to lean in before being hit with the thick, marching cadence of "Longneck ice cold beer never broke my heart." His favorite lyric in the song opens the pre-chorus. It's vaguely familiar and perfectly crafted to spin the song into a true arena-rocker — honestly, it'd be shocking if Combs' wasn't using this song in his encore very soon.
“I’ve had conversations with other songwriters too about that first line," Singleton says, referring to the bridge. "They go ‘Why didn’t you rhyme that?’ And I go, ‘What do you mean? We did.’ In Luke-speak we did.”
"It takes one hand to count the things I can count on / No, there ain't much man that ain't ever let me down," Combs sings the first time. Later it's "But I got one man drippin' down on a cold one."
The then-27-year-old Combs was hungry for new music at the time of the write, having released an independent EP, an album on Sony and a deluxe version of that album. A fall 2019 release of his second studio album would mark 3-and-a-half years between LPs — an unheard of length of time for an artist who's been proficient at every phase of the game. Immediately he took the song to fans, playing it acoustically and then with his band during live shows throughout 2018. Singleton says he and Montana didn't dream big enough to think it'd be the most-added country song at radio ever, but he's pretty confident Luke did.
"He's kinda creepy in that," he says. "It might be a lot of wishful thinking on his part, but it pays off a lot. His gut's really good."
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New Suicide Squad (2014-2016)
The world has changed for Task Force X, a.k.a. the Suicide Squad. Director Amanda Waller no longer has the autonomy she once had, new members disrupt the team's dynamic, and the team takes on an international scope.
Collected Editions4
Vol. 1: Pure Insanity
Vol. 2: Monsters
Vol. 3: Freedom
Vol. 4: Kill Anything
Issues24
Issue #1: Futures End
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Suicide Squad (2011-2014)
They're a team of death-row super villains recruited by the government to take on missions so dangerous that they're sheer suicide. Harley Quinn! Deadshot! King Shark! The villains of the DC Universe star in their own deadly and dangerous series! This series is rated Teen+.
Soldier. War hero. Traitor. Captain Rick Flag was one of America's greatest military commanders before he was banished to a secret military prison. But after years of isolation, Flag's life changes forever when a woman called Amanda Waller offers him redemption in exchange for taking on the single most dangerous job in the entire DC Universe: keeping the Suicide Squad alive!
Suicide Squad Most Wanted: El Diablo and Boomerang (2016-2017)
From the pages of SUICIDE SQUAD comes an all-new series featuring two of the team's most infamous heroes, El Diablo and Boomerang!
Deathstroke (2014-2016)
The DCU's deadliest assassin stars in his own series by writer/artist Tony S. Daniel!
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JTTs Vol.7 No.4 , October 2017
Derivation of a Representative Engine Duty Cycle from On-Road Heavy-Duty Vehicle Driving Data
Yuhui Peng1, Andrew C. Nix2, Hailin Li2, Derek R. Johnson2, Robert S. Heltzel2
1 College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China.
2 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Abstract: The heavy-duty vehicle fleet involved in delivering water and sand makes noticeable issues of exhaust emissions and fuel consumption in the process of shale gas development. To examine the possibility of converting these heavy-duty diesel engines to run on natural gas-diesel dual-fuel, a transient engine duty cycle representing the real-world engine working conditions is necessary. In this paper, a methodology is proposed, and a target engine duty cycle comprising of 2231 seconds is developed from on-road data collected from 11 on-road sand and water hauling trucks. The similarity of inherent characteristics of the developed cycle and the base trip observed is evidenced by the 2.05% error of standard deviation and average values for normalized engine speed and engine torque. Our results show that the proposed approach is expected to produce a representative cycle of in-use heavy-duty engine behavior.
Keywords: Engine Duty Cycles, On-Road Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Shale Gas Extraction
In the process of shale gas development, heavy-duty diesel engines are extensively involved in material transport by over-the-road trucks, drilling rigs, hydraulic fracturing engines and other applications. Diesel fuel consumption is one of the largest costs in shale gas development, due to these prime-movers. The exhaust emissions from these conventional diesel engines can lead to negative environmental and health effects. Cost savings can be realized by converting these engines to run in natural gas-diesel dual-fuel operation. In order to measure the emissions from diesel and dual fuel engines, laboratory testing is performed on an engine dynamometer over a defined test schedule. Engine duty cycles determine the experimental results of any dynamometer test. However, an engine duty cycle representative of the real-world working condition of these engines is not defined, and standard certification cycles may not be representative of these conditions. Of the prime movers used in shale gas development, the working conditions of trucks associated with water and sand delivery are the most complex, due to the variable speed and load of these over-the-road engines. The objective of this contribution is to establish an engine duty cycle to represent the real-world working conditions of engines in trucks based on the on-road data collected.
To evaluate the fuel economy and exhaust emissions, a variety of vehicle chassis and engine duty cycles are used. Standard cycles are widely applied in chassis dynamometer and engine bench test by authorities, manufacturers, and fleet owners for engine and vehicle emissions certification. For light-duty vehicles in the United States (US), the commonly used standard vehicle drive cycles consist of the FTP72, FTP75, SFTP US06, SFTP SC03 and HWFET [1] . For heavy-duty vehicles in the US, instead of chassis dynamometer testing, only engine dynamometer testing over the Transient Heavy Duty Engine FTP cycle is required by federal regulations. Standard cycles for chassis or engine dynamometers offer a way to compare performance between different vehicles, however, they don’t necessarily represent the behavior of all real-world operation [2] . Therefore, investigations are devoted to create representative driving cycles indicative of real world vehicle operation for specific traffic conditions in a particular area. For instance, a driving cycle was developed to estimate vehicular driving patterns in the Slovenian city of Celje and was compared with the driving cycles of other cities in Europe by Kneza et al. [3] . Also, different methods are studied to develop various driving cycles for a several cities in Asia [4] [5] [6] [7] .
Unlike drive cycle development, there is limited literature published on engine duty cycle development based on real world operating conditions. As part of a regulatory program for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted to developed cycles for certification of exhaust emissions of nonroad diesel engines over 37 kW, three engine duty cycles were defined for an agricultural tractor, a backhoe-loader and a crawler tractor based on the real in-use data. It should be noted that relative times spent in these activities for these three pieces of nonroad equipment are provided by the equipment manufacturers [8] . In-use driving data of 65 different vehicles from Australia, Europe, Japan and the US was used in a drive train model to transform the worldwide transient vehicle cycle (WTVC) into a reference transient engine test cycle called the worldwide harmonized transient cycle (WHTC) by the Working Party of Pollution and Energy of the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) [9] . A research group from West Virginia University (WVU) proposed four engine duty test cycles: creep, transient, cruise and high-speed for heavy-duty diesel engines developed from the collected data which uses a pre-defined E-55/59 HHDDT chassis test mode to simulate in-use HHDDT operation in California [10] [11] . Similarly, Ullman [8] developed a heavy-duty engine test cycle representative of on-highway not-to-exceed operation [12] .
The process used for developing an engine duty cycle from on-road driving data of 11 trucks utilized in shale gas development is presented in the following sections. Section 2 describes a data logging system developed to collect on-board Engine Control Unit (ECU) broadcast information, such as engine speed, load, fuel consumption, pedal position and other relevant parameters. Furthermore, the detailed methodology and entire procedure of generating a target engine duty cycle is demonstrated in Section 3. In Section 4, the final engine duty cycle is achieved and statistically analyzed based on the real-world data collected. Lastly, conclusions to this investigation are presented in Section 5.
2. On-Road Data Acquisition for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
The process of developing a representative engine duty cycle started with the recording of real world driving data from on-road vehicles. J1939 Mini Loggers from HEM Data were used to collect data for vehicles involved in well pad construction, water hauling, and sand hauling in the unconventional well development industry, as shown in Figure 1. These loggers are capable of recording J1708 or J1939 parameters along with GPS data. Seven companies participated in the efforts; all were located in the greater Marcellus and Utica Shale regions of the Appalachian Basin. Their operating routes are shown in Figure 2. A summary of the vehicle and engine types logged in this study is provided in Table 1. Consequently, a total of 11 vehicles were used to develop the on-road cycle. Invalid data files such as those that were short (less than 30 minutes) and did not show activities (parked/service) were excluded. Over 600 hours of data was considered valid and were used for cycle development.
Figure 1. HEM Mini Data Logger.
Figure 2. Marcellus and Utica vehicle routes.
Table 1. Water and sand hauling trucks involved in investigation.
3. Methodology of Engine Duty Cycle Development
3.1. Outline of Engine Duty Cycle Development
The entire process of the methodology used for representative engine duty cycle development is presented in the flowchart seen in Figure 3. It involves:
・ Construction of a database to store the data set comprising of 45 driving trips selected from logging data of all test trucks, formation of a base trip based on this data set and creation of evaluation metrics for the engine duty cycle.
・ Segmentation of each driving trip into micro trips (total of 1973) and compression of the long duration micro trips into corresponding micro trips with
Figure 3. Flowchart of the engine duty cycle development.
appropriate duration. Each micro trip is composed of an idle period and an operation period.
・ A number (k) of micro trips were selected as “seed” micro trips, which have the least discrepancy compared to the base trip. Consequently, k groups are established based on clustering possible group members from all other micro trips (1973-k) for each group by comparing the difference of a corresponding characteristic value between the candidate micro trip and seed micro trip.
・ Generation of candidate cycles from combined micro trips and calculation of the integrated difference value between each candidate cycle and the base trip using evaluation metrics. If no candidate cycle met the assessment criteria, a new candidate cycle was generated.
・ Optimization of the aimed engine duty cycle in terms of the characteristics of data of the FTP heavy-duty diesel transient cycle. It must be noted that the engine duty cycle achieved is a pair of engine speed-time and torque-time traces.
3.2. Normalizing Engine Torque and Speed
As discussed in the Section 2, 11 trucks with 4 different heavy-duty diesel engines were instrumented for data collection. To define the target representative engine duty cycle, engine speed and engine torque observed from the ECU for each truck were normalized according to the requirement of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 40 Part 86 [13] . The %speed and %torque are defined by Equations (1) and (2) [10] .
%speed = 100 % * ( speed actual − speed curb idle ) / ( speed rated − speed curb idle ) . (1)
%torque r p m = 100 % * ( torque r p m actual ) / ( torque r p m max ) . (2)
The actual ECU broadcast engine speed was a reliable and accurate measurement to use for %speed [12] . With the “rated speed” data manufacture provided, the value of %speed for each data point is obtained. The error of %speed may come with the value of “curb idle speed”, which is taken as average idle engine speed herein. Since both parameters of “Actual Engine - Percent Torque (%)” and “Nominal Friction - Percent Torque (%)”, observed in the ECU broadcast information, are indicated as a percent of reference engine torque according to the definitions in SAEJ1939-71, the specific value of “Actual Torque” is obtained using Equation (3).
% torque r p m actual = ( % torque e n g − % torque f r i ) * torque r e f . (3)
It should be noted that “Actual Engine - Percent Torque (%)”, “Nominal Friction - Percent Torque (%)” and reference engine torque are expressed as %torqueeng, %torquefri and %torqueref, respectively. Using engine lug curves (Maximum torquerpm obtained) and reference engine torques offered by the manufacturers, the %torquerpm of every point was calculated.
3.3. Engine Duty Cycle Generation
In order to evaluate the exhaust emission and fuel consumption of the trucks tested, an engine bench test should be applied in a controlled laboratory test environment. Thus, a representative engine duty transient cycle derived from data collected from the engines tested was developed. At the same time, a computer program utilizing Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL Server Database was used to implement the methodology proposed.
3.3.1. Construction of a Reference Base Trip
Twenty days of data were recorded from the 11 trucks analyzed resulting in 500 files. Each file is defined as an individual trip, and not all trips are accepted due to the reasons of too short time duration or limited activities. Finally, a data set comprised of 45 trips with a total of 1,285,655 second-by-second data points and about 357 hours running duration was selected manually to form the entire base trip. The variables of time, vehicle speed, engine speed, actual engine-percent torque (%) and nominal friction -percent torque (%) contained in the file are transmitted into the database. It should be noted that points with zero vehicle speed and zero engine speed, implying engine shutdown with parking status, are filtered out. Also, the parameters of Norm_ESpeed (Normalized Engine Speed %), Norm_ETorque (Normalized Engine Torque %), E_Accel (Engine Speed Acceleration %) and T_Accel (Engine Torque Acceleration %) are defined and calculated for each point, according to Equations (4) and (5).
E _ A c c e l = N o r m _ E S peed current − N o r m _ E Speed previous . (4)
T _ A c c e l = N o r m _ E torque current − N o r m _ E torque previous . (5)
3.3.2. Micro-Trip Generation
Each trip is segmented into a certain number of micro-trips, which is comprised of an engine idling period and an engine operating period. The engine idling period was defined by data points for which the vehicle speed was lower than 5 kph and the engine speed was lower than the average engine speed (E_Speedave) at zero vehicle speed. The value of E_Speedave was obtained by statistics considering possible pumping activity for trips concerned. Pumping activities were performed when the engine powers an apparatus to pump sand or water while vehicle was stationary. Thus, 1973 micro trips are identified from 45 individual trips.
One expectation of the target engine duty cycle was that it should be 2400 seconds at most and be composed of at least eight micro trips. The duration time of longest trip is limited to 400 seconds and any micro trip with a time over 270 seconds was compressed on the consideration of the statistical value of Pnt_Idle (definition seen in the below paragraph). This means one point among several consecutive points should be chosen to represent the related points. Therefore, the method of least-square errors of Norm_ESpeed and Norm_ETorque was used to guarantee that characteristics of the new micro-trip best represented the original longer trip. Furthermore, the assessment metrics for each micro-trip included the following parameters:
1) Pnt_Idle, Percentage of the entire micro-trip that is idle (%)
a) P n t _ I d l e = 100 × ( T whole − T operation ) / T whole
b) Twhole: whole duration time of the micro-trip;
c) Toperation: operating time of the micro-trip.
2) Pnt_Accel, Portion of the whole micro-trip of engine acceleration (%)
d) When E_Accel > 1.8%, means that the engine revolution accelerates more than 30 rpm per second.
e) P n t _ A c c e l = 100 × T a c c e l / T operation
f) Taccel: total duration of engine acceleration for the micro-trip.
3) Pnt_Cruise, Portion of the whole micro-trip of engine steady running (%)
g) When −1.8% ≤ E_Accel ≤ 1.8%, means that the change of engine revolution speed is under 30 rpm per second.
h) P n t _ C r u i s e = 100 × T cruise / T operation
i) Tcruise: total duration of engine running in cruise status for the micro trip.
4) Ave_Accel, the average value of E_Accel for the acceleration mode when E_Accel > 1.8% (%)
5) Ave_Decel, the average value of E_Accel for the deceleration mode when E_Accel < −1.8% (%)
6) Ave_Cruise, the average value of E_Accel for the cruise mode when −1.8% ≤ E_Accel ≤ 1.8% (%)
7) Ave_ESpeed, the average value of normalized engine speed (Norm_ESpeed) in operation period for the micro-trip (%)
8) Ave_Torque, the average value of normalized engine torque (Norm_Etorque) in operation period for the micro-trip (%)
9) Dev_ESpeed, the standard deviation value of normalized engine speed (Norm_ESpeed) for the micro-trip (%)
10) Dev_ETorque, the standard deviation value of normalized engine torque (Norm_Etorque) for the micro-trip (%)
11) Ave_Difference, the average value of the corresponding above ten parameters’ difference between the micro-trip and the base trip.
a) A v e _ D i f f e r e n c e = ( D i f f e r e n c e P n t _ i d l e + D i f f e r e n c e P n t _ a c c e l + L + D i f f e r e n c e D e v _ E t o r q u e ) / 10
b) D i f f e r e n c e P n t _ i d l e = ( P n t _ i d l e m i r c o _ t r i p − P n t _ i d l e b a s e _ t r i p ) / P n t _ i d l e b a s e _ t r i p
3.3.3. Group Micro Trips
All 1973 micro-trips were sorted in ascending order by the Ave_Difference value, which means micro-trips in the top position have characteristics closer to that of the base trip. Thus, the top k micro-trips were chosen as “seed” micro-trips. The seed micro-trip was used as a reference to select other member micro-trips to generate the corresponding group. The seed micro-trip for Groupi was noted as Seedi. Next, member micro-trips for each group were collected from all other micro-trips (1973-k) by comparing the difference of value of the corresponding parameter between the candidate micro-trip and the seed micro-trip, respectively. If all absolute comparative differences of the eight parameters’ value (including Pnt_idle, Ave_Accel, Ave_Decel, Ave_Cruise, Ave_ESpeed, Ave_Torque, Dev_ESpeed and Dev_ETorque) was lower than an error threshold value, the micro-trip in question was added as a member of the corresponding group. For instance, the micro-trip MTripj was considered part of the Groupi, if the following conditions were met:
100 % × abs ( P n t _ i d l e j − P n t _ i d l e s e e d i ) / P n t _ i d l e s e e d i ≤ Error
100 % × abs ( A v e _ A c c e l j − A v e _ A c c e l s e e d i ) / A v e _ A c c e l s e e d i ≤ Error
100 % × abs ( A v e _ D e c e l j − A v e _ D e c e l s e e d i ) / A v e _ D e c e l s e e d i ≤ Error
100 % × abs ( D e v _ E T o r q u e j − D e v _ E T o r q u e s e e d i ) / D e v _ E T o r q u e s e e d i ≤ Error
Therefore, all the member micro-trips of groups had similar characteristics of the seed micro-trip. If the group i had ni member micro trips, ni was defined as the number of micro-trips for the Groupi. Obviously, with an increasing error value, more micro-trips will be grouped into members and result in more computing time consumption. The number of comparison parameters also affects the member scale for every group.
3.3.4. Establishment of Candidate Cycles
The possible candidate cycle was made up of k micro-trips from different groups. Every micro-trip was selected from a different group. Thus, the number of candidate cycles was n1 × n2 × n3 ×, ・・・, nk−1 × nk. For this study, the value of k was eight and the values of n1, n2, n3, ・・・, n8 were 6, 3, 15, 1, 3, 5, 28 and 2. The total number of possible candidate cycles was 226,800 from which the best representative target cycle was selected.
For each candidate cycle and individual trip, the assessment metrics were established similarly to those that defined the micro-trips.
1) Pnt_Idle, Portion of the whole cycle that is idle (%)
a) P n t _ I d l e = 100 × ( I d l e _ T i m e 1 + I d l e _ T i m e 2 + ⋯ + I d l e _ T i m e k ) / T t o t a l , where Idle_Timek means the sum of idle period time of the micro-trip MTripk and Ttotal means the total time of cycle related.
2) Pnt_Accel, Portion of the operating condition experiencing engine acceleration (%)
a) P n t _ A c c e l = 100 × ( T a c c e l _ 1 + T a c c e l _ 2 + ⋯ + T a c c e l _ k ) / T t o t a l , Taccel_k stands for the total time of engine acceleration for the micro-trip MTripk.
3) Pnt_Cruise, Portion of the operating condition experiencing engine steady running (%)
a) P n t _ C r u i s e = 100 × ( T c r u i s e _ 1 + T c r u i s e _ 2 + ⋯ + T c r u i s e _ k ) / T t o t a l , Tcruise_k stands for the total time of engine cruise for the micro-trip MTripk.
4) Ave_Accel, the average value of E_Accel when E_Accel > 1.8% in the whole cycle (%)
5) Ave_Decel, the average value of E_Accel when E_Accel < −1.8% in the whole cycle (%)
6) Ave_Cruise, the average value of E_Accel when −1.8% ≤ E_Accel ≤ 1.8% in the whole cycle (%)
7) Ave_ESpeed, the average value of Norm_ESpeed for operation periods in the whole cycle (%)
8) Ave_Torque, the average value of Norm_Etorque for operation periods in the whole cycle (%)
9) Dev_ESpeed, the standard deviation value of Norm_ESpeed for operation periods in the whole cycle (%)
10) Dev_ETorque, the standard deviation value of Norm_Etorque for operation periods in the whole cycle (%)
The ten parameters of base trip are calculated under the assumption that the base trip was a particular trip containing 1973 micro-trips. Finally, the integrated difference (noted as Int_Difference) of each candidate cycle is evaluated as:
Int_Difference i = ( Diff_Pnt_Idle i +Diff_Pnt_Accel i +L+Diff_Dev_Power i ) / 10
D i f f _ P n t _ I d l e i = 100 × absolute ( P n t _ I d l e i − P n t _ I d l e b a s e _ t r i p ) / P n t _ I d l e b a s e _ t r i p
D i f f _ P n t _ A c c e l i = 100 × absolute ( P n t _ A c c e l i − P n t _ A c c e l b a s e _ t r i p ) / P n t _ A c c e l b a s e _ t r i p
D i f f _ D e v _ E T o r q u e i = 100 × absolute ( D e v _ E T o r q u e i − D e v _ E T o r q u e b a s e _ t r i p ) / D e v _ E T o r q u e b a s e _ t r i p
The desired cycle was defined as the one with the smallest value of Int_Difference, which carries the most similar characteristics of the entire base trip and can be representative of the real-world operation of engines involved.
3.3.5. Optimization for the Target Cycle
One of rules applied to the target engine duty cycle was that the maximum and minimum value of E_Accel, T_Accel for the cycle should not exceed the respective value of the standard FTP heavy-duty diesel transient cycle. An optimization approach was applied to smooth the target cycle by inserting additional points from the original set of data points into the related micro-trip. It is noted that the acceptable additional points must be selected from sampled data of the same vehicle. This ensured that the data spliced in was of the same type of operation.
Employing the methodology described above, a target engine duty cycle with 2291 data points was developed with an Int_Difference value of 9.9%. The specific values of the assessment metrics are shown in Table 2. When emphasis was placed on the differences of Ave_ESpeed, Ave_Torque, Dev_ESpeed and Dev_ETorque between the target cycle and base trip, the average error for the four parameters was shown to be 2.05%, demonstrating the effectiveness of the methodology in matching the actual engine operating behavior statistically. The reason there was such a large difference regarding the Pnt_Accel value was because the parameter was not involved in comparison during the process of selecting member micro-trips for the group. More parameters lead to fewer members due to the increasingly strict requirement.
Table 2. Specific values of assessment metrics for the base trip and target duty cycle.
The maximum and minimum values of E_Accel, T_Accel for the standard FTP heavy-duty diesel transient cycle are listed statistically as follows.
MAX_E_Accel (%): 37.24
MIN_E_Accel (%): −31.55
MAX_T_Accel (%): 78.53
MIN_T_Accel (%): −84.92
A total of 11 points where the E_Accel, T_Accel values exceeded the mentioned limitation were screened out. By inserting 30 additional points into cycle 83,359, the final cycle was optimized to satisfy the requirement of work of the engine test. For the selected best performing cycle developed, the normalized engine speed and engine torque versus time traces, containing a total of 2321 points, are displayed in Figure 4. Moreover, the distributions of normalized engine speed and torque for the target cycle and base trip are analyzed statistically in Table 3 and compared with corresponding curves shown in Figure 5. The comparison of normalized engine speed and torque frequency distributions for the target cycle and base trip are presented in Figure 6. Note that negative engine torque is not included in the statistics. Finally, based on the specific parameters of the target engine to be tested in laboratory, the above normalized engine speed and engine torque can be denormalized into specific values, which are to be used for engine bench testing.
Figure 4. Curves for the target duty cycle with normalized engine speed and torque.
Table 3. Distribution of normalized engine speed and torque for the target cycle and based trip (percentage of cycle in each normalized engine speed or torque bin).
Figure 5. Distribution curves of normalized engine speed and torque for the target cycle and base trip.
Figure 6. Comparison of normalized engine speed and torque frequency distribution for the target cycle and base trip.
A method for the development of a normalized engine transient duty cycle was developed using micro-trips extracted from data logged from on-road heavy-duty vehicles. The specific values of engine speed and engine torque were normalized for all sampled data points from different engines as defined by the CFR §86.1333-90. The assessment metrics for the micro-trip and candidate cycles included ten parameters related to the engine working conditions. These metrics were designed to evaluate the inherent characteristics of the engine behavior. By comparing developed cycles to the base trip, a representative cycle was achieved with an acceptable low integrated difference. Therefore, the proposed approach was expected to be a feasible representation of heterogeneous engine behavior for trucks working in a particular area of operation. However, to examine the feasibility and suitability, the developed engine duty cycle should be run on an engine dynamometer and the values of exhaust emissions and fuel consumption compared to real world conditions.
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Strategic Center for Oil and Natural Gas, under grant/contract number DE-FE0013689, monitored by Mr. Bill Fincham. The authors would also like to recognize the Fuzhou Municipal Technology Research Program (2014-G-69) and Research Improvement Program for Fuzhou University (2014-XQ-15).
Cite this paper: Peng, Y. , Nix, A. , Li, H. , Johnson, D. and Heltzel, R. (2017) Derivation of a Representative Engine Duty Cycle from On-Road Heavy-Duty Vehicle Driving Data. Journal of Transportation Technologies, 7, 376-389. doi: 10.4236/jtts.2017.74025.
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Get Smart featuring Don Adams as the secret Maxwell Smart is without doubt one of the greatest comedy series of all-time. A product of the scatological minds of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry it was a favourite of mine growing up and while I loved the comedy I think I was more enamoured with the fantasy. Secret agents were my thing and while Maxwell Smart was fine for that half hour after school, The Men from Uncle and Sean Connery’s James Bond were my boyhood idols. My guest this week was also a fan of Agent 86 but it was not the espionage that caught his eye. It was the hilarity of cones of silence, men in letter boxes, lines like “not the grass, the grass” and particularly Adams’ relentlessly inventive physical comedy that took his fancy. And so it was that at the age of 18 Frank Woodley, nee Wood, set off for the Adelaide Fringe Festival with a comedy sketch show Gad.
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Together with Col, Frank had created perhaps one of the greatest modern expressions of that most recognisable of comedic forms, the double act, following in the footsteps of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and Martin and Lewis. And when the duo decided to amicably split in 2006, thousands turned out across the country to catch one last glimpse of the much loved duo in their farewell show Goodbye.
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Sri Lanka mass cancelled over ‘specific attack threat’
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The archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, had wanted to resume regular mass from May 5, but the new information made them put it off indefinitely, his spokesman said on Thursday. (Reuters/Chris Helgren)
Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church has cancelled plans to resume Sunday services following a “specific threat” of fresh bomb attacks against at least two places of worship, a spokesman said.
The archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, had wanted to resume regular mass from May 5, but the new information made them put it off indefinitely, his spokesman said on Thursday.
“On the advice of the security forces, we have decided not to have Sunday masses in any of the churches,” the spokesman said. “There is a specific threat against two locations.”
The Church had planned to resume Sunday public services for the first time since the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 257 people.
Last Sunday the cardinal conducted a private memorial mass that was broadcast live on television after cancelling all public services.
On Tuesday, he said he was closely monitoring investigations into the April 21 suicide attacks against three churches and three luxury hotels and wanted to be sure of the security situation before returning to regular services.
The services were cancelled a day after all political parties scrapped May Day rallies amid fears of bomb blasts.
The cardinal had hoped to start regular services at a few churches from Sunday and then expand depending on the situation.
Armed guards have been stationed outside churches across the country since the Easter attacks.
The cardinal has also been given several bodyguards and a large security contingent.
However, he returned a bullet-proof limousine that was given by the government and instead travelled in an ordinary car.
“I am not afraid. I don’t need bullet-proof vehicles to go about. The Lord is my protector,” he said. “But I want security for my people, and for the country.”
Ranjith said he had concerns about the progress of security operations against jihadists behind the worst single-day attack against civilians in the country’s history.
The Church is also calling for tougher laws to deal with the perpetrators.
Police say they have arrested more than 150 suspects since the attacks and have accounted for all six jihadi suspects who were declared as most-wanted.
Two suspects have been killed while the other four were in custody, police said.
President Maithripala Sirisena announced on Friday that the authorities believed there were 140 Islamic State-inspired jihadists in Sri Lanka and he had ordered security forces to track them down.
The Easter attacks were blamed on the local National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) whose leader was among the suicide bombers. The group had pledged an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State.
The death toll from the attacks has climbed to 257, authorities said earlier Thursday, warning that the final number would rise further.
At least 40 of the dead are foreigners, with some missing tourists still to be accounted for.
According to the latest count, 496 injured were admitted to hospitals, with 47 still being treated and 12 of those in intensive care.
The government had given a toll of more than 350 but brought this down last week, blaming double counting of bodies that were badly mutilated in the six blasts.
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THE Frieda River gold-copper project now has a new joint venture partner to develop one of the world’s underdeveloped gold and copper deposits.
Highlands Pacific Limited, announced this week a new joint venture partnership for the Frieda River Project which will see Glencore Xstrata plc (Glencore) exit the project and PanAust Limited emerge as an 80% partner with a new vision to develop Frieda.
PanAust will take up to a A$10 million (K24.78 million) placement in Highlands and will also relinquish any claw back rights regarding exploration licence EL 1312 in the Star Mountains.
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Glencore’s interest in the Frieda River joint venture by acquiring all of the shares held by Glencore in Xstrata Frieda River Limited (XFRL).
PanAust and Highlands Frieda Limited have agreed that the two parties will hold interests of 80 per cent and 20 per cent respectively in the Frieda River joint venture on completion of PanAust’s acquisition of the shares in XFRL and that any previous disagreement between XFRL and Highlands Frieda relating to earn-in percentages in the Frieda River joint venture will be settled upon completion.
The terms of Highlands’ agreement with PanAust provide that should the Government of PNG elect to take up its right under PNG law to 30 per cent of the project, PanAust (XFRL) will sell down the first 20 per cent of its joint venture interest and thereafter the parties will sell down in equal amounts.
Under a scenario where the Government of PNG elects to take up its maximum 30 per cent of the project, the respective joint venture interests would be PanAust 55 per cent, the Government of PNG 30 per cent, and Highlands Frieda 15 per cent. PanAust is responsible for 100 per cent of the costs incurred by the Frieda River joint venture to finalise a definitive feasibility study for PanAust’s development concept and will appoint and fund the cost of an independent expert to provide peer review. PanAust will also be responsible for 100 per cent of the costs to maintain the Frieda River project site, assets and community relations programs up to the point in time of lodgement of the Mining Lease or Special Mining Lease application.
As part of PanAust’s due diligence work, it completed a scoping study based on a smaller circa 24 million tonne per annum conventional open pit and flotation operation producing a copper-gold concentrate for export to custom smelters. Highlands Pacific managing director John Gooding welcomed the new partnership: “Frieda can be a great copper project for PNG, but developing it as a mega project as first envisaged 5-6 years ago by Xstrata would face a number of challenges given the current market environment. PanAust’s own reviews and studies on a project at approximately half the plant scale, but approximately a third of the costs proposed by Glencore, accords with our own long held views.
“We are very pleased to have PanAust as a substantial and supportive investor in Highlands and the placement means that Highlands’ funding position is robust going forward. We know the PanAust team well and have great respect for their skills in South East Asia and believe they can make a positive contribution to the Frieda River Project and to PNG.”
“With Highlands now holding 100 per cent of its Star Mountains exploration licences we can also look to develop new work programmes and collaborate with potential joint venture partners on these important exploration assets,” he said.
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Home | Everything Co-op partners with Start.coop to showcase its 2020 cohort of entrepreneurs
Everything Co-op partners with Start.coop to showcase its 2020 cohort of entrepreneurs
By: Everything Co-op/NCBA CLUSA Published: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Share: Print: Subscribe
From the left: Greg Brodsky, Austin Robey and Lewis Weil.
Tune-in to WOL 1450 AM or Tune-in Radio at 10:30 am on Thursday, September 10 for this week’s episode of Everything Co-op. For the next two broadcasts, Everything Co-op has partnered with Start.coop to interview leaders from the accelerator’s 2020 cohort of entrepreneurs.
The interviews are a preview of “The People’s Pitch,” a graduation pitch event celebrating the Start.coop class of 2020 at NCBA CLUSA’s Cooperative IMPACT Conference. This week Greg Brodsky, Co-Director of Start.coop, will join representatives from two of the teams: Austin Robey, Co-Founder of Ampled, a platform that allows music artists to be supported by their community with direct, recurring payments; and Lewis Weil, founder of Money Positive, a worker-owned financial planning service focused on democratizing financial planning and building long-term financial health for everyone.
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About Start.coop
Start.coop exists to build an ecosystem that lifts up, supports and accelerates cooperative entrepreneurs on their business journey. The program’s accelerator selects the most promising teams from across North America and provides them with training and support embedded in its rigorous business curriculum and world-class mentor community. Start.coop considers its program “an accelerator of the next generation of co-operative entrepreneurs.”
About Ampled
Ampled is a platform that allows music artists to be supported by their community with direct, recurring payments. Structured as a co-op, Ampled is 100 percent owned by its artists, workers and community. Founded in 2018 by a group of designers, software engineers and musicians, Ampled lets fans directly support their favorite musicians in exchange for exclusive content and experiences.
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Aidan McGlynn
Knowledge First?
Aidan McGlynn, Knowledge First?, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 227pp., $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781137026453.
Reviewed by Krista Lawlor, Stanford University
According to its proponents, “knowledge-first” philosophy arises when we admit the failure of “traditional epistemology” to deliver promised goods. The diagnosis is that the traditional view fundamentally misconceives the nature of knowledge. The traditional view takes knowledge to be an alloy of more basic elements, e.g., belief, justification, truth. The knowledge-first view in contrast claims that knowledge is an “unexplained explainer”: (i) Knowledge is not an alloy at all, but its own thing. What sort of thing? Timothy Williamson, knowledge-first’s champion, claims that knowledge is a factive mental state, irreducible to belief; (ii) knowledge (or the concept of knowledge) plays an ineliminable role in the explanation of a range of important phenomena — assertion and practical reasoning, as well as justification, evidence, and belief — the very elements to which the traditional view gives explanatory or conceptual priority.
Aidan McGlynn’s stated aim is modest — he wants to tip the balance of argument back in favor of the traditional view. Still, the difficulty of his task is considerable. Knowledge-first arguments break out over widely spaced philosophical terrain, and the complexity of the issues is extremely demanding. McGlynn rises to the challenge admirably. He provides a well-written, opinionated survey.
Chapter 1 orients the reader with reminders about the basics of the Gettier problem for the traditional analysis of knowledge, and then isolates the main themes of the knowledge-first perspective, which comprise the topics for McGlynn’s chapters.
Chapter 2 concerns whether knowledge provides a standard for appropriate belief. McGlynn offers this interesting problem case. Jane holds a lottery ticket in a large, fair lottery whose winning number has been announced, although she hasn’t yet heard the announcement. In light of the odds, Jane believes hers is a losing ticket, takes this belief to be justified, and yet does not believe that she knows her ticket loses — she is, perhaps, convinced of the safety theory of knowledge and holds that the possibility that her ticket wins is “too close” for her belief to count as safe. The case suggests that it can be rational or reasonable to believe p (my ticket loses) while believing that one doesn’t know p. Even if Jane is wrong about safety theory being the correct theory of knowledge, McGlynn says, “it is not clear on what grounds we would regard her belief state as unreasonable or irrational” (27). Now Williamson of course holds that an impermissible belief may be reasonable if one reasonably but falsely believes it to satisfy the relevant normative requirements.1 But Jane’s case is not like that: she reasonably believes her belief to not satisfy the knowledge norm. With the case of Jane to soften us up, McGlynn proceeds to critique the arguments that are supposed to motivate the knowledge norm.
Chapters 3 and 4 examine knowledge-first approaches to justification and evidence. Chapter 3 begins with a quick recap of problems for Jonathan Sutton’s idea that to have a justified belief that p just is to know that p. The philosophical highlight of the chapter comes in discussion of Alexander Bird’s claim that justification is a matter of putting one in a position to know, or roughly, that one’s belief is justified only if there is some possible world in which a belief with the same basis is knowledgeable. McGlynn notes that Williamson himself in a different context offers a counterexample to Bird’s claim. Discussion here brings home to the reader that on occasion “the knowledge-first position” splinters into mutually inconsistent theses. It might have been helpful for McGlynn to devote more discussion to the relation between works by various knowledge-first philosophers and Williamson, since Williamson’s position is a touchstone for those of us who haven’t followed all the twists and turns of recent developments.
Chapter 4’s focus is Williamson’s E=K thesis, which makes two claims: (i) if a proposition is in one’s total evidence set, then it is known, and (ii) if a proposition is known, then it is in one’s total evidence set. It is worth going into detail about Williamson’s argument for (i). Williamson rests his claim on a case (call it Red Ball):
Suppose that balls are drawn from a bag, with replacement. In order to avoid issues about the present truth-values of statements about the future, assume that someone else has already made the draws; I watch them on film. For a suitable number n, the following situation can arise. I have seen draws 1 to n; each was red (produced a red ball). I have not yet seen draw n+1. I reason probabilistically, and form a justified belief that draw n+1 was red too. My belief is in fact true. But I do not know that draw n+1 was red.2
Next Williamson presents us with two hypotheses:
h: Draws 1 to n were red; draw n+1 is black.
h*: Draw 1 was black; draws 2 to n+1 were red.
He notes that it is natural to say that h is consistent with my evidence while h* is not. What explains this fact? The inconsistency of h* with my evidence is explained easily enough — I saw that draw 1 was red.3 What needs explaining is the consistency of h with my evidence. And to explain that, the key is to show why the proposition that n+1 is red is excluded from my evidence. Why is that?
Williamson’s own explanation for why the proposition that n+1 is red is excluded from my evidence makes use of his E=K thesis: “The obvious answer is that I do not know that draw n+1 was red; the unsatisfied necessary condition for evidence is knowledge.”4 If I don’t know that n+1 is red, then Williamson’s E=K thesis (i) will ensure that the proposition that n+1 is red is excluded from my evidence.
McGlynn’s criticism of Williamson’s argument is, first, that Williamson provides no argument for the claim that I do not know that n+1 is red. According to McGlynn Red Ball is a case of straightforward induction (54), so I do know that n+1 is red. McGlynn further notes that if this is so, not only does Williamson’s explanation of the facts fail, but more: what Williamson has provided us is a case where an item of knowledge is not in our evidence — which is a counterexample to his own claim (ii).
It seems to me that the question of knowledge in Red Ball is more vexed than either McGlynn or Williamson allow. It is not at all clear in the case as described, without further specification, that I knows or do not know that n+1 is red, on the basis of what I have seen. But let that be — the second criticism that McGlynn raises can be staged independently of his claim of knowledge. The criticism is simply that the traditional epistemologist has a natural alternative explanation of what excludes the proposition that n+1 is red from my evidence. If there is such a workable explanation, then Williamson will not have shown that we need his claim (i) to do the job. The traditionalist alternative that McGlynn explores is built on the claim that what belongs in my evidence is only non-inferential knowledge.5 Suppose that I do know that n+1 is red by inference; if so, then it is not part of my evidence.
The problem with the proposed restriction on evidence is that it is far too strong. In many cases, it is quite natural to suppose that my evidence includes propositions I know via inference. McGlynn notes that Alexander Bird argues along these very lines: if we restrict evidence to the non-inferential, there will be occasions involving forgotten observational evidence on which we cannot say anything plausible about how empirical conclusions are justified, other than by appeal to interim conclusions known by inference. I found McGlynn’s reply to Bird less than compelling, and surprisingly, McGlynn seems to admit the weakness of his position in a footnote (note 8, page 200). This makes it hard to accept McGlynn’s tally at the end: as he scores it, the knowledge-firster and the traditionalist stand at a draw, but as McGlynn actually leaves things, Williamson seems to have the only workable restriction on evidence in sight.
There is reason to think that McGlynn concludes discussion of the Red Ball case prematurely. How else might we explain our judgment that h is consistent with our evidence while h* isn’t? Here’s a thought that makes use of the natural notion of relativized evidence, i.e., evidence one has with respect to a given question.6 When Williamson notes about Red Ball that we find it “natural to say that h is consistent with my evidence and that h* is not” he invites us to use our commonsense judgment on the matter. And our judgment in such cases naturally invokes the idea of what can be evidence for what. So we process Williamson’s question: can that the next ball n+1 is red be part of my evidence for the conclusion that the next ball n+1 is red? Naturally not — that the next ball n+1 is red is the conclusion of my inference, and it would be question-begging to take a conclusion as evidence for itself. (Of course this is not to deny that there are possible cases of self-evidence; it is just to note that my evidence with respect to a given question does not routinely include its answer.)
Our intuitions about the Red Ball case are thus easily explained in terms of relativized evidence, and we don’t need Williamson’s restriction on total evidence to what is known in order to handle the data. Neither do we need the problematic alternative that McGlynn offers us. Should the reader wonder about use of the notion of relativized evidence in this dialectical setting, it is worth remembering that ordinary mortals need instruction in the idea of total evidence, and find it natural to think in terms of relativized evidence, or what is evidence for what. Since Williamson poses his case as one in which traditional epistemological thinking suffers an explanatory failure that the knowledge-first perspective alone can remedy, it wouldn’t be fair for him to disallow the traditionalist the tools at her disposal, where that includes our commonsense notion of relativized evidence.
Chapter 5 is a comparatively long one, surveying the main arguments in favor of the claim that knowledge is the “constitutive” norm of assertion (with only a little of the promised clarification regarding what the claim means). Many of the more familiar objections to the knowledge norm are considered, with emphasis on objections offering alternative norms. McGlynn finds arguments on both sides inconclusive: his diagnosis is both that the natural language use of epistemic terms (“knows”, “certain”) is messy, and that it is always a legitimate alternative hypothesis that the usage patterns that philosophers wield in their arguments are the product of communicative conventions or shortcuts and little more, signaling nothing very deep about our epistemic commitments in asserting. Throughout the chapter he displays good sense about both substantive and methodological issues surrounding the use of linguistic data. However, to me, the situation involving linguistic usage is not as grim as he presents it. And the philosophical tools we have at our disposal are more refined than McGlynn’s survey suggests.7
Whether knowledge is “the norm of action” is a very large topic; but McGlynn confines discussion in chapter 6 to arguments for a knowledge norm of action that parallel those for a knowledge norm of assertion. The last section highlights work on the question of possible connections between norms for action and assertion: do these norms derive from a single norm? McGlynn’s discussion is compact, but gives a good sense of the terrain.
Chapters 7 and 8 (Part II) concern Williamson’s thesis that knowledge is a mental state. How can knowledge be a mental state? The imagined challenger argues it cannot be: it seems implausible that whenever I know something, I also know that I know it, but it seems plausible that I readily know other of my mental states when I have them. Williamson’s much discussed “anti-luminosity” argument is an effort to reply to this imagined challenge, by showing that even the most compelling candidates for self-knowledge fail to be luminous mental states. So it’s no surprise if knowledge is both a mental state but also fails to be luminous. In chapter 7 McGlynn goes into deep detail about the arguments for and against Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument, and finds that despite a great deal of energy expended by challengers, Williamson’s argument survives. McGlynn reminds us, however, that in order to challenge Williamson all one needs is some epistemic feature or other that mental states possess but knowledge does not. He claims that Selim Berker identifies one such a feature, “lustrousness”: a mental state is lustrous, roughly speaking, if when you’re in the state, you’re in a position to justifiably believe you are. But to me it seems Williamson has a clear reply, and that is to question whether the lustrous mental states include attitudes, or whether lustrous states are all and only sensory (not attitudinal) states. If only the latter, then Williamson can insist that lustrousness is hardly a mark of the mental as such. (It is somewhat perplexing that McGlynn in chapter 8 seems to briefly acknowledge the availability of something like this reply, but only after scoring the tally in chapter 7 against the knowledge-firster.)
Chapter 8 takes on Williamson’s contention that knowledge is a wholly mental factive state. McGlynn does a nice job separating out what is contentious and uncontentious about this claim. Knowledge might be agreed on all sides to be more than a mere conjunction of mental and non-mental components — that is, even the traditionalist who thinks of knowledge as an “alloy” of mental and non-mental elements will agree that the mental component (belief) must be connected in a non-trivial way with the non-mental (truth, justification). What is contentious is whether “knowing adds nothing mental to believing”, as the tradition has it, or whether Williamson is correct that knowing is a mental state distinct from believing. McGlynn carefully unpacks Williamson’s attack on the traditional view, suggesting an improved argument for Williamson, but he ultimately concludes that Williamson’s attack on the tradition is unsuccessful. Arguments here bring in considerations from all over the map — developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, semantic externalism, action theory and philosophical psychology. Just giving readers a lay of the land here is an expository feat.
This brief summary will, I hope, give a sense of both the large scope and careful detailed work in this fine book. In assessing the knowledge-first program, McGlynn has taken on a Herculean task. It seems mean spirited to ask for more. Nonetheless, after grappling with the range of arguments presented, a reader can be forgiven for thinking the traditionalist does need something more, and of a different kind. One wonders if the traditional view is best defended by a “survey and tally” strategy. We can safely expect that the tally of arguments won and lost will swing back and forth — and it’s a fiction that we could ever feel we had a final tally. Moreover, experienced readers will recognize a general rule in philosophy, that when many arguments for and against stack up around a thesis, it can seemingly survive, simply because so much is said about it.
For these reasons, those who wish to defend the traditional perspective might seek something different. One possibility is some global coherence checks on the knowledge-first program. For instance, Williamson favors a strong analogy between knowledge and action, and suggests that it provides the deep rationale for the knowledge-first program. How compelling is this analogy? (If belief can only be understood in terms of knowledge, then can desire only be understood in terms of intention or action?) Perhaps the thing that will ultimately bring epistemology to a more stable traditional perspective is simple assimilation. The traditionalist might take various knowledge-first challenges as occasions to broaden her perspective. On the question of explanatory priority, for instance, the traditionalist can explore the ways in which knowledge has its own explanatory roles to play. There can be little doubt that the concept of knowledge plays an ineliminable role in explanation of social aspects of inquiry.8 And perhaps knowledge is the norm of assurance while true belief the norm of assertion? A greater pluralism about explanatory tools will make traditional epistemology savvier. After the traditional view assimilates what it can, the knowledge-first program will own a distinct remainder. The committed knowledge-firster will insist that central concepts must be explained in terms of knowledge. The savvy traditionalist will take odds that we will need a wide stock of possibly mutually explained explainers (belief, justification, evidence, and knowledge among others) because there certainly is plenty to explain, more than enough to go around.
1 Timothy Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 256. It’s not clear how McGlynn might handle another response open to Williamson, to the effect that Jane is simply in no position to have the full out belief my ticket loses, although she might permissibly full out believe that it’s probable my ticket loses (ibid).
2 ibid, p. 200.
3 Williamson allows that one might say that one saw or observed that draw 1 was black, and that answer would suffice for the case at hand; however, he argues that this answer won’t do for all purposes (p. 202ff), so we should prefer the answer that h* is inconsistent because one knows that draw 1 was black.
4 ibid. p 201.
5 McGlynn cites as proponents of this restriction Alvin Goldman, “Williamson on Knowledge and Evidence,” in Williamson on Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2009); James M. Joyce, “Williamson on Knowledge and Evidence,” Philosophical Books 45 (2004): 296-305. Note that the restriction applies mutatis mutandis if we want to hold that one merely has justified true belief that n+1 is red.
6 Thanks to David Hills for this suggestion.
7 For instance, the chapter omits important objections to the knowledge-norm of assertion owing to Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (Princeton University Press, 2004); Judith Jarvis Thomson, Normativity (Open Court, 2008). For a more optimistic take on what usage can tell us, see Lawlor, “Précis of Assurance” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research90, no. 1 (2015): 194-204.
8 See, for instance, Edward Craig, Knowledge and the State of Nature: An Essay in Conceptual Synthesis (Oxford University Press, 1999).
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Competing plans deal Senate health-care push a surprise setback – Washington Post
cited in article July 13, 2017 Competing plans deal Senate health-care push a surprise setback – Washington Post2017-07-13T16:18:45+00:00 Massachusetts Marijuana News No Comment
By Sean Sullivan, Kelsey Snell and Juliet Eilperin,
The Senate GOP’s push to rewrite the Affordable Care Act suffered an ill-timed setback Thursday, as two centrist Republicans announced plans to offer their own health care plan just as leaders released an updated bill of their own.
The move by Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.) and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) to debut their health-care proposal on CNN moments before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was set to brief members demonstrated how divided the majority remains in its quest to overhaul former president Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
In a joint interview with CNN Thursday, Cassidy and Graham said that they would take the billions of dollars the federal government now receives in taxes under the ACA and direct that revenue to the states.
“We’re gonna see which one can get 50 votes,” Graham said, referring to the number of GOP senators needed to approve any bill in the Senate, given that Vice President Pence is prepared to cast the tiebreaking vote. “We’re not undercutting him; he’s not undercutting us.”
“Our problem has been trying to combine tax reform with replacement of Obamacare,” said Cassidy. “We’re giving the money back to the states. The states can do what they want to do. A blue state can do a blue thing; a red state can do a red thing.”
The surprise announcement just before Senate GOP leaders released a revised health-care proposal Thursday that would allow insurers to sell austere plans that do not comply with requirements imposed under the Affordable Care Act.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who authored the provision letting insurers offer minimalist coverage plans on the federal health-care exchange, said in a radio interview that the fact that the new draft “will include” a version of his amendment “is a very positive development.”
“I think we’re making serious progress toward coming together and unifying our conference,” said Cruz, who appeared on the 550 KFYI Phoenix radio host Mike Broomhead show along with Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Neither lawmaker has yet to endorse the GOP plan to rewrite the Affordable Care Act.
Details of the proposal were closely guarded Thursday morning, and it was unclear what precise form the Cruz idea would take in the final bill.
Cruz’s plan would allow insurers to sell plans that don’t comply with Obamacare coverage requirements, such as mandated coverage of preventive care and mental and substance abuse treatment, provided they offer at least one that does.
“What it is focused on, front and center, is lowering premiums,” Cruz said of his amendment. “You the consumer, should have the freedom to purchase the insurance you want.”
Critics, including insurers, believe that providing the option of skimpier plans would draw younger, healthier consumers into a separate risk pool. That development would drive up rates for the Americans buying more comprehensive coverage on the individual market, which could in turn destabilize the entire market.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a top McConnell deputy, said leaders are waiting for the Congressional Budget Office analysis next week before settling on what elements will be included in the final Senate bill. One option Thune raised was a fund to help offset the cost of premiums for people who would fall into high-risk pools under the Cruz plan. Thune said that money would “help shore up the markets,” but he declined to say how they would be structured.
“At this point I don’t think anything is final,” Thune said. “Not until we get on the bill next week and get to amend it.”
Senate leaders are also leaving themselves the option of jettisoning the Cruz proposal after they get the nonpartisan CBO score, that will gauge the Cruz amendment’s impact on both the budget and the overall number of uninsured.
McConnell is willing to preserve a pair of taxes on wealthy Americans that would have been repealed under the original bill to help subsidize the cost of middle-Americans’ premiums, according to several Republicans briefed on the bill. These lawmakers and aides said the revised bill would also provide $45 billion in funding to address opioid addiction — a key priority for GOP Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.).
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said Thursday that he expects the CBO will release two scores for the bill but would not confirm what those scores would include or when it will be released.
“We are expecting a CBO score but I can’t tell you exactly what the format will be,” Cornyn told reporters. “The Lee and Cruz amendment will be scored.”
The Cruz amendment underwent several iterations in recent weeks and the proposal is still being considered by analysts at the CBO, according to two GOP aides familiar with the process. As a result, the CBO is expected to release one score without the Cruz provisions and another that will provide further details on the Cruz amendment.
The changes remain controversial among moderates who worry the Cruz proposal could drive up premiums for sicker, older Americans. Cornyn stopped short of promising the changes would be enough to ensure the bill will pass.
“We will have the votes when we start voting,” Cornyn said.
In a sign of how undecided many GOP senators remain, Flake — who backs Cruz’s proposal — said in Thursday’s interview that he remains concerned about the large cuts to Medicaid funding contained in the bill.
“There is a lot of concern in Arizona on the Medicaid side,” said Flake, whose state expanded Medicaid to able-bodied, childless adults under the ACA and stands to lose billion in federal funds under the Senate bill. “This amendment does not affect the Medicaid side at all.”
The release will come a day after President Trump intensified public pressure on McConnell to shepherd the bill to passage, even as it remains unclear whether he will have the votes to do that next week, when he intends to bring it to the Senate floor.
“I am sitting in the Oval Office with a pen in hand, waiting for our senators to give it to me,” Trump said in an interview with televangelist Pat Robertson of CBN News. “It has to get passed. They have to do it. They have to get together and get it done.”
Conservative lawmakers and activists have voiced concerns that McConnell’s revamped measure will not undo the ACA, known as Obamacare, aggressively enough. Those worries, alongside lingering anxiety among centrist Republicans that the bill is going too far, has put McConnell at serious risk of losing more GOP votes than he can afford. If more than two GOP senators defect, the bill cannot pass.
Cruz has argued that his idea would provide consumers with more choice. But critics assert that it would lead to less healthy people ultimately paying more for coverage.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said he believes McConnell will release two versions of the revised bill on Thursday — one with Cruz’s amendment and one without it. GOP leaders were more circumspect.
“It needs to be in the underlying text,” Cruz told reporters Wednesday, dismissing the suggestion that he could instead introduce it during an open amendment process if and when the bill heads to the Senate floor.
McConnell hopes to have a score on his revised bill from the CBO by the beginning of next week. The CBO will forecast what the bill will do to insurance coverage levels nationwide over the next decade. It will also predict the measure’s impact on the federal budget deficit.
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Victim of NDG police shooting identified as Sheffield Matthews, 41; watchdog group investigating
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Published Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:06AM EDT Last Updated Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:20PM EST
Quebec's police watchdog (the BEI) is investigating the SPVM after Montreal police officers shot and killed a man Oct. 29, 2020.
MONTREAL -- Montreal police are under investigation by the civilian watchdog after shooting and killing a man who was wielding a knife in NDG early Thursday.
On Friday, the Quebec coroner's office identified the victim as Sheffield Matthews, age 41. They said he was from Montreal.
Police answered the call shortly before 6 a.m. The BEI, the agency that investigates serious injuries involving police, said they found a man who was in crisis.
The agency said that according to their preliminary information, the man came towards the holding a knife while police stayed in their vehicle.
“What we’re told is the man then headed towards a second vehicle where there was a civilian,” said Guy Lapointe Jr., who heads the BEI.
“Officers then stepped out of the vehicle to intervene, at which point the individual apparently turned around and charged the officers, or at least [came] towards them in a menacing manner.”
Police shot the man, who was transported to hospital but died.
The BEI says the man is believed to be in his 40s. He is Black.
NDG-Cote-des-Neiges mayor Sue Montgomery said in a statement late Thursday that the death was part of a long history of police shootings of Black men and that her “heart is aching.”
“Over thirty years ago, unarmed black teenager Anthony Griffin was shot in the head in NDG,” she wrote.
“Since then, there have been several more deaths at the hands of police. In 2018, we saw another young black man shot dead by police in NDG. His name was Nicholas Gibbs.”
Eight investigators from the BEI and Quebec provincial police are looking into the death.
'LET IT TAKE HOURS'
Experts say there are various ways police can respond to someone in crisis.
“This is a situation to be de-escalated calmly, patiently,” said James Hughes, the CEO of the Old Brewery Mission.
“If this has to take hours let it take hours. Let it be resolved without injury, let alone a mortality.”
But he said people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before the investigation is complete.
“We just got on the scene this morning,” said Lapointe on Thursday.
“A lot of things need to be checked again, coming back to the same thing—ascertain what the sequence of events of was, exactly how things went down.”
In her statement, Montgomery also called for the reopening of NDG’s police station.
Anyone who witnessed the shooting is asked to contact the BEI on its website.
Watch the video above for CTV's full television report.
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FormatThesis (11)SubjectAcadian flycatcher -- Nests (1)Bars (Geomorphology) (1)Bats -- Conservation (1)Bioenergetics (1)Braided rivers (1)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2020 (3)2004 - 2009 (8)Author/ContributorThompson, Frank R. (Frank Richard) (3)Millspaugh, Joshua J. (2)Amelon, Sybill K. (1)Galat, David L. (1)Garrett, Daniel L., 1979- (1)... View MoreSubject: PlaceMissouri (2)Great Lakes (North America) (1)India -- Maharashtra (1)Missouri -- Ozarks, Lake of the (1)Missouri River (1)... View MoreAdvisorThompson, Frank R. (Frank Richard) (3)Millspaugh, Joshua J. (2)Galat, David L. (1)Gompper, Matthew (1)Gompper, Matthew Edzart (1)... View MoreThesis Department
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Avian nest survival and breeding density in cottonwood plantations and native forest fragments in southeast Missouri
Pruett, Michael Shane, 1969- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
I compared nest survival and breeding density between native bottomland forest and cottonwood (Populus deltoides) plantations over a three-year period for Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens), Prothonotary Warbler ...
Wildlife response to spatial and temporal changes in forest habitat
Rittenhouse, Chadwick D. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
A common goal in land-management planning is to describe the relationship between management actions, vegetation and wildlife habitat conditions for large landscapes. Achieving this goal can be challenging because ecological ...
Intraguild interactions between native and domestic carnivores in central India
Vanak, Abi Tamim (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Bustard Sanctuary, Maharashtra, India and assessed resource selection based on landcover characteristics. Indian foxes chose for grassland habitats at the scale of both landscape and home-range level and avoided human-dominated areas such as agricultural...
Development and evaluation of a terrestrial animal-borne video system for ecological research
Moll, Remington James, 1983- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Ashland, Missouri. My research shows that our AVEDs are powerful new tools for ecological research that do not elevate stress levels of captive white-tailed deer and enable ecological research opportunities that traditional methods (e.g., radio telemetry...
Relation of Missouri river flows to sandbar morphology with implications for selected biota
Tracy-Smith, Emily (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
.e. an aquatic-terrestrial zone (ATTZ), within the main channel of the lower Missouri River. Predictive models of sandbar morphometry (area, wetted perimeter, elevation, and water-surface slope) were developed to determine how changes in discharge affect...
Spatial and disease ecology of the plains spotted skunk
Higdon, Summer Danielle (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius) is a species of conservation concern across much of its range in the eastern U.S. due to a range-wide population decline that began in the 1940s. The reason for the decline ...
Nutrients, chlorophyll and bacterial fecal indicators in coves and open water areas of Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
O'Hearn, Rebecca (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Urban development and use of septic tanks in porous soils of Lake of the Ozarks poses a threat to public health via leaching into drinking wells and coves used for swimming. During 2 summers, phosphorus (TP), nitrogen (TN), ...
Great Lakes lake trout early mortality syndrome (EMS) : contaminants, thiamin status, and their possible interaction
Wright, Peggy J. (Peggy Jane) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Salmonid populations in the Great Lakes experienced a decline in the early twentieth century, presumably due to over-fishing combined with the introduction of exotic parasites such as the sea lamprey. Despite intensive ...
Multi-scale factors influencing detection, site occupancy and resource use by foraging bats in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri
Amelon, Sybill K. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Conservation of bat populations requires understanding the associations between bats and their use of resources. We used maximum likelihood to estimate probability of site occupancy using acoustic data for ten species of ...
Movement, habitat use, and spawning characteristics of flathead and blue catfish on the lower Missouri River and tributaries
Garrett, Daniel L., 1979- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The movement and habitat use patterns of adult flathead and blue catfish were studied via acoustic and radio telemetry in the lower Missouri River and adjacent tributaries including the Grand, Lamine, Chariton, and Little Chariton Rivers...
Development and validation of standardized sampling protocols for assessing freshwater mussel populations in Missouri
Schrum, Matthew Christopher (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
step in assessing populations. We surveyed 14 sites in the Meramec River Basin in East-central Missouri to determine the effectiveness of visual sampling methods and to determine the effects of habitat variability on the effectiveness of these methods...
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What You Need To Know About Name Blind Hiring
Today’s topic is a personal one for me –and it’s also of universal importance for all of us in human resources. It’s about something we all share: names. We all have them, and we share something else, too: unconscious bias.
Although we hate to admit it, we all suffer from some form of unconscious bias. Not just those of us in the human resources industry, but everyone on this planet.
It might be hard to recognise at first, but, for me, with a name like ‘Anwar’, I’ve got a front row seat on the reality of bias when it comes to names.
For example, many of you reading this article may have made the assumption that I am a Muslim based on my name. I don’t suggest that this is a negative thing to have assumed about me, but it is not true – I’m a Christian.
While you probably agree that we make unconscious judgements every day, often solely upon a name, you might also be thinking that this is no longer really an issue when it comes to serious business decisions, particularly around hiring and the workplace. You might think that in 2017, in a world of diversity programs and equal opportunity, there are smart and fair processes in place to guard against this bias.
Unfortunately, this just isn’t the case.
There are countless examples of men and women with ‘foreign’ sounding names having to adopt pseudonyms just to receive an acknowledgement of their application.
Research from Inside Out London found that a fictional ‘Adam’ received three times the number of interviews than an identical candidate named ‘Mohamed’.
Closer to home, researchers at the Australian National University conducted their own experiment and found people without ‘Anglo-sounding’ names had to submit up to 64 per cent more resumes before they secured an interview.
The same results have been repeated across the English speaking world. Researchers in the US, UK and Australia have all come to the conclusion that it is harder to get a ‘fair go’ if your name is Samir, not Sam.
“Name Blind” recruiting could be one way to address this.
In name blind recruiting, resumes are stripped of any information that may provoke a recruiter’s latent bias. Effectively, all the information irrelevant to the role (name, age, place of birth, sex etc.) is removed so that recruitment decisions can be made objectively and based solely on merit.
When you think about, it makes perfect sense. Regardless of whether recruiters are aware of their bias is beside the point – conscious or no, the result is the same.
Momentum is Building for Name Blind
Name blind recruiting is neither new nor novel –but it’s growing in strength, because people are demanding it. Some of the world’s largest organisations use it: The BBC, NHS, Deloitte and HSBC to name but a few.
In fact, in 2015, then British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a plan that would see all UK civil service roles below the level “Senior Civil Service” be decided by blind recruitment as of this year. .
As you can see, the momentum behind name blind recruitment has been building for some time, and it doesn’t look to be slowing down.
In addition to the slew of early adopters, recent name blind adherents include Canada’s Federal Government, which is piloting a program in six federal government departments with a view towards a whole-of-government roll out, and the UK Labour Party which identified name-blind recruitment as a key pillar in its Race and Faith Manifesto.
Much of this article has focused on the benefits name blind recruitment offers those of us with ‘foreign’ sounding names, but we can’t discount the effect the practice would have on levelling the playing field for women. In fact, Silicon Valley heavyweights Google have turned to name-blind recruitment as a way to boost representation among women as well as other underrepresented minorities.
The Argument Against Name Blind
Despite all the positive results, the studies are by no mean unanimous. A Dutch study showed name blind recruitment had no effect as it only delayed the bias until during the interview stage.
Another French study showed foreign-born candidates were actually less likely to be offered an interview when biographical data was removed from resumes. The study’s authors suggested this may have been due applicants listing proficiency in particular foreign languages. This highlights another good point – name blind recruitment can be incredibly difficult to do.
You must decide which fields to anonymise and, even then, you must be aware of the unconscious inferences you make based upon the remaining data.
Having considered all the facts, to those who earlier thought “how could bias exist in 2017” I ask, “how could nonblind recruitment exist in 2017”.
Ultimately it boils down to the fact that, as recruiters, we’re able to create an environment where Mohammed has the same opportunity as Matthew, Lucy as Luke and Xi as Xavier. That being the case, I think we have a responsibility to make it so.
But then again, maybe I’m biased.
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Please find below a range of frequently asked questions for funeral firms about operating during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. If you have a question that is not answered here, please email info@nafd.org.uk.
Will funeral staff be prioritised for the vaccine?
Public Health England/DHSC and the Scottish Government have both categorised ‘Frontline funeral operatives and mortuary technicians / embalmers’ in the list of frontline healthcare staff for whom occupational immunisation with the COVID-19 vaccine is recommended.
England: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/948757/Greenbook_chapter_14a_v4.pdf
Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19---vaccine-letter-from-the-chief-medical-officer-updating-on-the-vaccination-programme---1-january-2021/#AnnexC
We are in discussions with the Government and local resilience forums/partnerships to understand how this will be rolled out and will brief funeral firms as soon as we are able to. We are also reaching out to the devolved administrations in Wales and Northern Ireland to confirm their position.
Are funeral staff eligible for community lateral flow testing?
Rapid (lateral flow) testing is now being rolled out across England and, as a profession that cannot work from home, frontline funeral staff fall into the eligible group for testing.
The process is being managed at a community level and NAFD members are urged to check with their local authority as some councils have already established booking systems or walk-in centres.
https://www.essex.gov.uk/getting-tested-for-covid-19/if-you-dont-have-symptoms
https://www.coventry.gov.uk/lateralflowtesting
https://www.salford.gov.uk/people-communities-and-local-information/coronavirus/how-to-get-tested/book-a-free-rapid-coronavirus-test/
The NAFD will continue to work with the government to ensure that the importance of access to testing for funeral sector workers is understood by all local authorities and that provision across the UK is as consistent as possible. We will also continue to work with devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on their plans for community testing too.
What should we do if an employee is contacted by Test and Trace following a contact during the course of their duties?
England: The NAFD has sought guidance, having been made aware of funeral home staff having to self-isolate through test and trace, as a result of contact which occurred during work-related activities.
As critical workers, if the contact occurred while an employee is carrying out their duties AND there are mitigations which make isolation unnecessary (e.g. the wearing of PPE) AND their absence would threaten service delivery within the business, we understand that the case can be referred for a 'Tier 1 assessment' with the local health protection team.
We have asked The Cabinet Office for this to be specifically documented in relation to funeral workers. However, until this happens, if you have a case which meets all of the above criteria, you should make reference to the following guidance for health and social providers:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare-workers-and-patients-in-hospital-settings/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare-workers-and-patients-in-hospital-settings
"If a health or social care worker is considered to be a contact, and the recommendation for them to self-isolate would have implications for the provision of the service, their employer will need to escalate this for a risk- assessment to a Tier 1 contact tracer at the local Health Protection Team (HPT). Advice about whether a risk-assessment is needed may also be sought from the HPT.
"The risk-assessment should take account of any PPE use (including its type and situational appropriateness) and other mitigating factors that may reduce the risk of infection transmission to such an extent that the individual identified as a contact does not need to self-isolate."
Please note, this is ONLY to be used if the member of staff concerned is traced as a result of contact which occurred when they were carrying out their duties AND there are mitigations which make isolation unnecessary (e.g. the wearing of PPE) AND their absence threatens the ability of the business to remain operational.
This should NEVER be used for personal contact with infected persons outside the workplace or outside of the course of normal working duties.
Are face coverings required for visitors to funeral homes?
Face coverings are mandatory if clients visit a funeral home in England, Wales and Scotland. They are also mandatory in Northern Ireland, unless the business is able to reduce the risk of transmission through an appointment system.
Are face coverings required during funeral services?
Face coverings are required during all indoor funeral services (including places of worship, burial ground chapels and crematoria) in England and Scotland. In Northern Ireland and Wales face coverings are recommended but not mandatory.
How many people can attend a funeral and what kind of funeral can I arrange?
In England, the maximum number is 30 (subject to the venue’s COVID-secure limit); in Scotland it’s 20 (subject to the venue’s COVID-secure limit); and in Wales and Northern Ireland it is subject to the venue’s COVID-secure limit.
These limits are unchanged by the England and Scotland lockdowns announced on 4 January 2021. However, in England only six people (not including staff) can attend an ashes scattering, ritual washing or other linked event or custom associated with a funeral during the lockdown period. In Scotland, wakes are prohibited on the mainland and the limit for other ceremonial events is 20, in a COVID-secure setting.
Arranging the funeral
Click here for the latest guidance in all four UK nations.
Who is responsible for enforcing COVID restrictions at funerals?
Official Public Health England guidance (COVID-19: guidance for managing a funeral during the coronavirus pandemic, PHE England – October 2020) is clear that funeral service staff should:
communicate the need to comply with limits on gatherings
signpost attendees to the advice on local restrictions
facilitate remote attendance, particularly for mourners who are required to self-isolate
remind mourners that they are legally required to wear a face covering
However, it is not their role to enforce the restrictions.
We have drafted guidance to support you in carrying out your role and guide conversations, should you be asked questions about the limits of your responsibilities or actions.
This guidance has been reviewed by the Cabinet Office. No changes were recommended and they believe it will be a helpful document. Although this is based on PHE guidance, this guidance is suitable for all UK nations as the same basic principles around enforcement apply.
Download the guidance here.
Is it okay to delay a funeral until after the restrictions are lifted?
In line with Public Health England guidance, published on 31 March 2020, families are urged not to seek to delay the funeral.
It is not clear when it will be possible to lift the restrictions and some aspects of them may remain in force for many months. The law allows for the restrictions to last for up to two years. It is also possible that restrictions may be tightened further and funerals may take place with no mourners permitted to attend.
For all of these reasons, and to ensure organisations managing funerals are able to cope with the increased number of deaths, families are advised to work with funeral directors to arrange a small, immediate family funeral service now and a larger memorial service or celebration of life at a later date.
Should funeral directors be verifying death?
The NAFD does not recommend that members undertake, or assist in, the activity of death verification at this time (either on their own or through a video call to a GP) and the Government has made it clear that funeral directors should not feel under pressure to do so. NAFD members are also advised that verifying death is not supported as a recognised activity under the NAFD membership Professional Indemnity cover.
If you decide to undertake this activity, you should check whether it is acceptable to your Employers and Public Liability insurers and seek relevant Professional Indemnity insurance that will protect you for this activity. Please be aware it is unlikely to be construed as a normal activity of your business as a funeral director and may not therefore be covered by your insurance arrangements.
What infection control procedures should I follow?
Funeral firms should follow the specific guidance for their part of the UK:
England and Wales: Click here to visit the PHE guidance for care of the deceased ( last updated 14 December 2020).
Scotland: Click here for links to guidance issued by the Scottish Government on 5 January 2021.
Northern Ireland: updated interim guidance was issued by Department of Health - Northern Ireland, on 2 July, click here to download a copy.
Do I need to use a body bag?
The most recent Public Health England guidance indicates that, while body bags are not necessary when collecting someone known or suspected to have died from COVID-19 for infection control purposes, their use could be of practical importance for funeral directors when collecting the body of a deceased person from the place where they have died in the community.
Can we offer limousines to clients?
Many funeral firms in England, Scotland and Wales have now reintroduced the use of limousines, following guidance to keep passengers and employees safe and adapting vehicles with the use of protective screens. Limousines are not permitted to be used for funerals in Northern Ireland.
Government guidance says:
"You are required by law to wear a face covering on public transport, in taxis and private hire vehicles unless you are exempt for health, disability or other reasons. Passengers who are not exempt are legally required to wear a face covering when travelling in a funeral director’s vehicle or hearse. A face covering is also strongly recommended for drivers."
The NAFD was advised that limos are subject to the same regulation as private hire vehicles, and hence face coverings are mandatory irrespective of whether a screen is in place, or if mourners are from the same household.
What happens if the deceased person has a pacemaker and it is to be a cremation funeral?
If the hospital does not remove the pacemaker prior to the funeral director taking the deceased person into their care, Public Health England guidance confirms that embalmers may undertake this procedure using the appropriate PPE. The British Institute of Embalmers has issued specific guidance on this process to its members and the Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that funeral directors will be able to access PPE supplies through their local resilience forum. You can find your local forum by clicking here. However, we are aware that some funeral directors’ own policy is not to embalm or remove pacemakers from confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases.
What are the Schedule 28 additional powers in the Coronavirus Act?
On 17 April, the government published new guidance for councils which outlines contingency measures as set out in Schedule 28 of the Coronavirus Act.
These powers allow councils to issue direction if required on whether to bury or cremate someone (wishes of deceased to be taken into account as far as possible), to direct crematoria to operate longer hours and to direct funeral directors to have shorter services.
The government has always been clear that these will only be triggered in exceptional circumstances if there is a public health risk, and do not anticipate that giving councils such powers will be necessary. They can only be triggered if the Secretary of State deems that such action is necessary.
While every indication suggests these are powers that will never be used, it is important to know that they are there and what the implications might be.
The Secretary of State or Minister for the Cabinet Office will only designate a local authority where they consider that as a result of Coronavirus there is, or is likely to be, insufficient capacity in that authority’s area to transport, store or dispose of deceased bodies or human remains.
Any decision to switch on the new local authority powers will be based on a number of factors, including whether funeral directors comply with Local Resilience Forum/local authority requests to take appropriate action within their area that assists capacity. The Act already gives LRFs this power. At the moment they’re asking nicely and funeral directors are advised to comply as best they can.
It is therefore important that funeral directors seek to cooperate with LRFs and do all they can to provide information when asked.
When should I make a RIDDOR report about COVID-19 in the workplace?
You should only make a report under RIDDOR (The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013) when:
an unintended incident at work has led to someone’s possible or actual exposure to coronavirus. This must be reported as a dangerous occurrence.
a worker has been diagnosed as having COVID 19 and there is reasonable evidence that it was caused by exposure at work. This must be reported as a case of disease.
a worker dies as a result of occupational exposure to Coronavirus.
FInd out more from the Health and Safety Executive here.
What is the latest guidance on coffin/body bag contents in respect of cremations?
The Deceased Management Advisory Group (DMAG), which the NAFD is part of, has received a number of reports concerning body bags, PVC and placing of items in coffins.
DMAG strongly urges funeral directors to follow government advice to use a single body bag, made from materials which do not include PVC, and ensure plastic or other items are not placed in the body bag or coffin.
Read the full guidance here.
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Through our work with local resilience forums/partnerships across England, Wales and Scotland and the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, progress is being made on access to priority vaccination for frontline funeral staff. In a number of areas of England,…
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The Scottish Government has today published updated guidance for funeral directors, burial and cremation authorities and funeral services, in line with the current restrictions. Access to the updated guidance can be found here: https://blogs.gov.scot/funeral-industry/2021/01/06/main-guidance-documents-updated-lockdown-changes-5-january-2021/
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After the NAFD and other members of the Deceased Management Advisory Group made extensive representations to the Cabinet Office, Public Health England/DHSC ( 31 December 2020) and the Scottish Government (1 January 2021) both categorised ‘Frontline funeral operatives and mortuary…
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Consumers Urged to Save Electricity Late in the Day, Avoid Additional Outages
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A statewide Flex Alert calling for residents to voluntarily conserve electricity remains in effect Monday through Wednesday, with state officials continuing to warn of rolling outages.
The California Independent System Operator issued the alert on Sunday, saying there is insufficient energy to meet high consumer demand during the record-breaking heat wave. To minimize the need for controlled outages, residents were asked to use air conditioning early in the day and set thermostats at 78 in the afternoon and evening hours, while avoiding the use of major appliances between the hours of 3 p.m. and 10 p.m.
The alert came after blackouts Friday and Saturday that Gov. Gavin Newsom said came without warning. He called the weekend service disruptions “unacceptable” and announced Monday that he had signed an emergency proclamation to free up energy capacity.
The proclamation allows some users and utilities to access backup energy sources to relieve pressure on the grid during peak times.
Over the weekend, state officials worked to bring more resources online, including increased power from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the California State Water Project and investor-owned utilities, according to the governor’s office. The state has also worked with industrial and commercial consumers to tamp down energy consumption during peak hours and increase public awareness around energy saving measures.
On Sunday, Newsom met with members of the California Independent System Operator, California Public Utilities Commission, California Energy Commission, Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and senior administration officials.
In a letter written after the meeting, the governor said the blackouts were called Friday and Saturday without notice and demanded an investigation.
“Residents, communities and other governmental organizations did not receive sufficient warning that these de-energizations could occur. Collectively, energy regulators failed to anticipate this event and to take necessary actions to ensure reliable power to Californians,” Newsom wrote. “This cannot stand. California residents and businesses deserve better from their government.”
Power providers say a lack of supply from sources outside the state contributed to the shortage, as other Western states struggled to meet their own demand during the heat wave.
In order to save as much energy as possible, consumers are urged to shift their use to morning and nighttime hours and avoid using appliances and air conditioning in the late afternoon and evening hours. Late in the day, temperatures remain high but solar production falls as the sun sets.
Tips for conserving energy include:
— set air conditioning thermostats to 78 degrees;
— defer use of major appliances;
— turn off unnecessary lights;
— unplug unused electrical devices;
— close blinds and drapes;
— rely on fans when possible; and
— limit time the refrigerator door is open.
Consumers can also pre-cool their homes during earlier hours, when they can also charge electric vehicles, medical equipment, mobile devices and laptops and run major appliances. Pool pumps can be set to run in the early morning or late at night.
More conservation tips can be found at flexalert.org.
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All Stars 3 Review
shonaharding February 12, 2019 Leave a Comment
I mean, what else am I supposed to watch between Drag Race seasons? Other shows? Pah!
All Stars brings back some of the queens from earlier seasons who may have been booted out too early or not have reached their full potential yet. The only difference on this show however is Ru doesn’t vote the queens out each episode, but the winning queen gets to choose the one who has to leave. It’s a pretty hard task to do but at the same time they get money each episode for winning so who cares!
This season had some fabulous queens including Trixie Mattel, Morgan McMichaels, and BenDeLaCreme to name a few. It also featured BeBe Zahara Benet who won the first season (but she got to come back because that season was very meh….a lot has changed in ten years) but come on, she was never going to win! She already had her crown do you think these girls would let her have another?
And the other queen, the one I thought could’ve won it if she was more likeable with the others was Shangela. Yes she’s very annoying but she’s also quite poised and talented and knows her strengths. I thought she was fab and the amount of tasks she won and her lip syncs were on point.
But alas, due to the fact (in my opinion) that she wasn’t the most likeable queen she was given the bronze and Trixie Mattel was the winner!
Honestly, I am not the biggest fan of Trixie because she kind of scares me. The amount of makeup she has on her face, although her style, seems a bit over the top for me and I don’t like the fact you can barely see her eyes. I’m a big reader of finding emotions on the face when talking to people and I feel she hides that away a lot.
But as a queen she was funny, sweet, smart and knew her game plan. I feel Trixie, Ben, and Shangela were the standouts this seasons and if any of those would’ve won I would’ve been ok with it.
What did you think of All Stars 3?
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The Puget Soundkeeper Alliance is a founding member of the national Waterkeeper Alliance. Soundkeeper uses environmental monitoring, political engagement, and education to protect and improve the health of water in the Puget Sound region.
Unlike many projects in the MRW Web Design Portfolio, the improvements to the Puget Soundkeeper site were made over a few years of smaller consulting engagements:
After performing a technical audit and site cleanup, we first worked together on a full content audit of the site. That identified a number of pages that could be merged, rewritten, or even deleted.
With streamlined and improved information, a new site structure was devised to better explain the work of Puget Soundkeeper and easily show site visitors the numerous was of supporting and engaging with their work.
Finally, we worked together to customize an existing WordPress theme in a way that was unique and showcased the existing strong Puget Soundkeeper brand. The new design use dynamic photos of the environment and those at work to protect it.
The communications staff at Puget Soundkeeper did a phenomenal job of making targeted improvements to their site. The result shows how smart, incremental improvements to a website can add up to a big website improvement!
With a number of projects and focuses, Puget Soundkeeper’s new site design included a visually-engaging way to get an overview of their work.
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Home SPORTS Liverpool vs Man United: Fabinho speaks on Salah not happy, could leave...
Liverpool vs Man United: Fabinho speaks on Salah not happy, could leave Afield
Liverpool midfielder, Fabinho, has denied claims that his teammate, Mohamed Salah, is ‘unhappy’ and could leave Anfield.
Salah’s future at Liverpool has been a hot topic in recent weeks after the Egyptian international refused to rule out a move to Real Madrid or Barcelona after being ‘very disappointed’ at not being handed the captain’s armband by the Reds coach, Jurgen Klopp, during their Champions League match against Midtjylland last year.
Speaking on the development ahead of Liverpool’s Premier League clash with Manchester United on Sunday, Fabinho told BeanymanSports, “Big players will always have their names involved in rumours.
“Salah plays for Liverpool, one of the biggest teams in the world. So I think it is normal to see his name linked to other teams, especially from different leagues.
“Anyway, I see him very happy here and pleased with his performances this season.
“He’s very demanding with himself, he wants to be the best, he wants to help the team and works hard for it.
“It’s always been the case and it has not changed at all. He keeps scoring goals, which everyone is used to seeing.
“In the changing room he’s always talking to everyone and making jokes. I do not see anything affecting him.
“Overall, I’m not following the news so I am not sure about any rumours. As I said, top quality players will always be linked to big clubs.”
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Australia-India Boxing Day Test Declared Possible Covid Hotspot | Cricket News
Just under 30,000 people attended the Boxing Day Test at the MCG.© Twitter
A spectator at Australia’s showpiece Boxing Day Test against India has tested positive for coronavirus, authorities said Wednesday, warning fans seated nearby that they must get tested and isolate. State health authorities said the man in his thirties was not infectious while at the famed Melbourne Cricket Ground on the second day of play “but there is potential he acquired the virus while there” or at a nearby shopping centre. “The MCG is being investigated as a potential source for the infection,” Victoria’s Department of Health said.
“We’re encouraging anyone who was in The Great Southern Stand, zone 5 of the MCG between 12.30pm and 3.30pm on 27 December, to get tested and isolate until they receive a negative result.”
The Boxing Day Test is a centrepiece of Australia’s sporting calendar and just under 30,000 people attended this year, well short of capacity.
Despite having been largely free of Covid-19, Australia is currently battling to bring a cluster of cases under control and hoping aggressive testing and contact tracing can help avoid full-scale lockdowns.
The news comes on the eve of the third Test between Australia and India, which has caused some controversy by being played in Sydney, the epicentre of a recent outbreak.
The number of spectators has been restricted to 25 percent of seating capacity in order to make sure it does not become a mass spreading event.
Authorities in New South Wales said the revelation from Melbourne was “obviously influencing our thinking” about how the Sydney Test would proceed, without elaborating.
India’s tour Down Under has been beset with Covid-19 related problems.
Five players were criticised for seemingly breaching the team’s biosecurity bubble by going out to a restaurant.
And there are still questions about whether the two teams will have to quarantine before the final Test in Brisbane next week.
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4-Year-Old Hit By Car In Brooklyn, Recovering At Hospital
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A child is recovering Sunday after being hit by a car in Brooklyn.
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The child is in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital.
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Falkirk Community Hospital Temporary Measures in One Ward
14/10/2020 Contact Tracing
NHS Forth Valley can confirm that a ward at Falkirk Community Hospital has suspended new admissions and paused visiting on a temporary basis as a precautionary measure whilst investigations are undertaken into a small number of cases of Covid-19. These have been identified through routine testing.
To respect and maintain confidentiality, no further details will be released.
Staff, patients and their families have been informed of the development and close contacts are being followed up by our Test and Protect Team.
NHS Forth Valley is taking every measure to protect staff and patients and, in line with national guidance, has notified Health Protection Scotland.
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Home Nutrition News Cardiovascular Herbal Viagra Recalled In Singapore
Herbal Viagra Recalled In Singapore
Tadalafil, a pharma ingredient commonly used in Viagra-like drugs by men with erection problems, has been detected in a herbal supplement by Singapore health officials.
The Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) found the substance in a traditional herbal supplement, ‘XP Tongkat Ali Supreme’, which is marketed as a natural erectile dysfunction treatment. Tongkat ali (Eurycoma longifolia) is a herb native to south east Asia.
It has instigated a total recall but noted there had been no adverse event reports related to consumption of the product.
Tadalafil is not authorised for use in food supplements, which may explain why it was found not within the herbal mixture itself, but the capsule, an obscuring technique known to regulators around the world.
Tadalafil, used mostly in the erectile dysfunction drug, Cialis, should only be consumed when prescribed by a doctor, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said.
“Uncontrolled consumption of ‘tadalafil’ is dangerous and could potentially cause serious adverse reactions such as heart attack, stroke and severe hypotension,” it said.
XP Tongkat Ali Supreme, distributed by CTI Biotechnology, notches international sales via the internet, and so bodies like the MHRA as well as the HAS have warned global consumers off it.
“On the basis that it contains only the herbal ingredients declared on its label, this product would be considered as a form of traditional medicine and is sold in Singapore without any registration or pre-market approval from HAS,” HAS said in a statement.
HAS said it conducted tests on the product after receiving a “tip-off” that the product was adulterated.
“HSA is monitoring the recall closely to ensure that the company removes all remaining stocks of its product from the market as swiftly as possible,” it said.
Further recalls
The recall follows a similar incident in April where another controlled substance, sibutramine, as well as tadalafil, was found in ‘herbal viagra’ products in the UK, and a recall was issued.
That product, Jia Yi Jian was marketed as being “100% herbal”, yet each tablet contained 68.1mg of sibutramine and 50.06mg of tadalafil when respective levels of only 15mg and 20mg are permitted in the UK.
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The Song Also Rises
By Peter G. Davis
“Terminal patients in the already quarantined world of classical music.” That’s how Steven Blier grimly characterized the reduced status of vocal recitals a decade ago, when he and Michael Barrett made the nervy decision to co-found the New York Festival of Song. Perhaps Blier was right, back when only starry names like Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Janet Baker could sell enough tickets to fill Carnegie Hall for an evening of lieder and song. But times have changed. The world of classical music was never as sick as doom-and-gloom types wanted us to believe, singers of all kinds are now darlings of the concert scene, and the New York Festival of Song flourishes. To celebrate, Barrett and Blier recently put on a delectable tenth-anniversary concert at the 92nd Street Y, further proof that musical communication is never quite so immediate, personalized, or stimulating than when a healthy voice is raised in song.
Of course, such good things do not happen by themselves, and the Festival of Song has been in the best of guiding hands right from the start. Over the past ten years, NYFOS concerts have utilized the services of more than 130 singers – a rich body of vocal talent – and these two discerning pianist-impresarios have capitalized on it with entrepreneurial cunning. Imaginative programming prods these singers to give of their best, and that is another factor in the group’s success. The first half of the anniversary evening recalled many favorites from past seasons, beginning with Susan Graham’s luscious rendition of Hahn’s “À Cloris” and peaking with Amy Burton’s scrumptious “J’ai deux amants” from Messager’s L’Amour masqué – could Yvonne Printemps in person have sung this charmer more irresistibly? NYFOS regulars William Sharp and Kurt Ollmann revisited songs by Brahms and Poulenc with predictably exquisite results, and once again the world seemed a better place after the team of Bolcom and Morris finished relishing a classic pop ballad from days of yore. No singer I know holds an audience more tightly than Joan Morris, even with the wispiest of voices. But then, never underestimate the power of song. This enchanting performer once confessed, and I’m inclined to believe it, that she decided to go professional only after a homeless person heard her singing to herself one day in Central Park and gave her a dollar.
Part two of the program was appropriately devoted to songs in celebration of song. Leading off with “The Song Is You,” the indestructible Roberta Peters sounded fresher than any soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1950 has a right to. A highlight toward the concert’s end was Rodgers and Hart’s “Sing for Your Supper,” warbled with swinging virtuosity by Sylvia McNair, Susan Graham, and Stephanie Blythe. Classically trained young American singers move into the Broadway idiom with ease, and this million-dollar trio audibly rebuked the amplified shouting that now passes for singing in musical comedy. Harolyn Blackwell is another soprano who could give Broadway babies a few lessons – and what a pleasure to hear her voice radiate into the hall with a newfound assurance after a period of uncertain career moves. But then, wonderful singers always seem just that much more wonderful when they join up with NYFOS, each time proving Blier’s firm belief that there is nothing more beautiful, or more fun, than a song.
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State to crack down on ‘deceptive’ electricity seller: officials
By Bill Sanderson
March 14, 2013 | 11:30pm
Underhanded sales practices like signing up customers without telling them and preying on non-English speakers could bar a Florida electricity seller from doing business in New York, state officials said today.
Liberty Power Corp.’s door-to-door sales force promises to lower Con Ed electricity bills by claiming Liberty gets better deals from generating companies.
But Liberty’s salespeople have repeatedly lied to customers by misrepresenting themselves as Con Ed or city employees, the Public Service Commission said.
In one case, a Liberty saleswoman pretended to be a city employee investigating Con Ed overcharges, and asked a customer to sign a “consent form” that was really a contract.
Even though the man didn’t sign the form, Liberty took over his electric bill anyhow, the state says.
In another case cited by the commission, a Con Ed customer complained that even though she had never signed a contract, “all three accounts at her three-family home had been switched to Liberty Power without her consent.”
Public Service Commission probers say Liberty has also presented English-language contracts to non-English speaking customers without offering a translation, a violation of state rules.
Liberty’s “misleading” and “deceptive” sales practices have resulted in more than 200 complaints since 2011, the PSC says.
The commission demanded last year that the company change its ways — but it said today the complaints are still rolling in, and that Liberty’s oversight of its sales force is “inadequate.”
It gave Liberty one week to tell the commission why it shouldn’t be barred from seeking new customers, and two weeks to tell the commission why it should not be booted from New York entirely.
“We will not tolerate continuing violations of the marketing standards that we have established to ensure customers are treated fairly,” said PSC chairman Garry Brown.
In a statement, Liberty said it was “extremely troubled” by the order, and promised “immediate action.”
Liberty does business in 14 states, and had revenues of $655 million in 2011.
Its founder, David Hernandez, became interested in the energy business during two years he worked at Enron, a giant energy company that was wiped out in 2001 amid a massive accounting scandal.
Liberty and other energy service companies — commonly called ESCOs — say they offer customers lower rates on the energy portion of Con Ed electric bills, which cover the cost of generating power.
But there’s evidence the deals are often a ripoff. A study in National Grid’s upstate service territory found that customers who switched to ESCOs paid an extra $413 for their electricity over a two-year period.
Con Ed customers who don’t switch to an ESCO get power bought by the company without markup.
The PSC’s move against Liberty was praised by consumer advocates.
“It’s a good sign that they are doing something,” said Gerald Norlander of the Public Utility Law Project, which is working with AARP to make the system fairer for consumers.
Con Ed said it also supports the PSC action, since customers sometimes blame it for problems caused by Liberty and other power sellers.
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Changes of Watch
NY Sailing Club
Members own boats or crew with other members.
NYSC Trophies
RACING AND TROPHIES
THE JOHN MAHONEY “MEMORIAL” PICNIC
As early as 1973, the New York Power Squadron held an annual picnic in Oyster Bay. The Sailing Club attended, but of course, SAILED there. It is, after all, a SAILING Club. Most of the members of the Power Squadron owned Power Boats, so they’d get there early and partake of all the goodies – raw clams, hot dogs, hamburgers, etc. The Squadron eventually ceased having the picnic, so the Sailing Club maintained the traditional event. it was originally called the “Mrs. Vanderbilt Eat Your Heart Out” picnic (1977), but in 1978 Dean suggested calling it the “John Mahoney Memorial Picnic”, because that year Mahoney was organizing it – and did so for many years after. It usually works out very well, even though folks are not assigned to bring a particular dish. Contrary to popular belief, there weren’t 16 different kinds of baked beans. In 1985, Mahoney invented an impossible-to-duplicate recipe for “Sand Chicken”. The picnic is a covered dish affair, and it gives the gourmet cooks in the club a chance to show their wares. People can come by either sea or land. In 1979, Matt Lasky “motored all the way in his Toyota 15″ for example. In attendance, are the usual major clouds, thunder showers, torrential downpours and monsoons that have graced the picnic almost every year.
Mahoney use to purchase a keg of beer for the picnic. On the morning of the picnic, he’d pick up the keg from his local distributor in New Jersey, throw it unceremoniously in the back of his car, bounce over NYC potholes to Long Island, drop the keg onto the hot sand, and roll it down the beach, saying to the early arrivals: “Oh, Shoot, I forgot the ice.” When the keg was tapped, nothing came out except warm foam.
THE WINSOME TROPHY
Recognizing that the vitality, indeed, the very existence of the New York Sailing Club depends on the dedication and hard work of volunteers, the 1984 Board established a new perpetual trophy to be presented each year to the member who gives the most outstanding service to the club. The silver trophy, donated by 1984 Commodore John Mahoney and his family, is known as the WINSOME TROPHY. (WINSOME was the name of John’s boat.)
MORE PICNIC STUFF
In 1979, Joe Zorn got the Good Guy Honors and a standing ovation because he arranged for the beer, soda, ice, charcoal, Sabrettes hotdogs and four pounds of mustard (!?!) Matt Lasky thought that there was some large banquet of thousands of people somewhere with two small cups of mustard. (It wasn’t Grey Poupon so it was OK if some got wasted.)
In August 1999 and 2000 the 22nd Annual “Mrs. Vanderbilt East-Your-Heart-Out” (a.k.a. John Mahoney Memorial) Picnic went back to being a real on-shore picnic instead of a Boatnic. It was held at the lovely Hempstead Harbor Club where NYSC was greeted and treated well by its friendly members and staff (led by Dock Master Extraordinaire, Mike). NYSC is hoping to make it an annual event there.
THE ETTA MORTON TROPHY FOR SEAMANSHIP AND SPORTSMANSHIP
Etta Morton was a lovely lady who joined the club in 1979. She was a widow, who’s husband used to do a lot of the crucial stuff on the boat – navigation, engine maintenance, etc. She loved the sport and did not want to give it up, so she joined NYSC to get competent crew. She passed away in April 1985, but not without leaving her mark. The Etta Morton trophy was donated by five members and is called the “Etta Morton Trophy for Seamanship and Sportsmanship,” the award was created to “perpetuate the memory of Etta Morton, a member of several years who always gave inspiration through her keen interest in sailing in all its forms and to its followers.”
Etta loved life, but was not above getting into a little mischief. During one Labor Day Race, on her boat BON CHANCE, she and her crew dropped out of the race because they wanted to go back and read Sunday’s New York Times! On the club cruise in 1980, she arrived late at Milford Boat Works, so when she saw an empty slip, she pulled into it. A little while later, a huge power boat pulled up and said: “Excuse me lady, but you’re in my slip.” She apologized profusely and said she’d move. He told her: Don’t bother, I just want my docking lines”. He was the OWNER of the Boat Works! (Talk about Bon Chance!)
The 1980 club cruise stopped in Newport during the America’s cup trials. Etta and her all-woman crew were on board BON CHANCE. She loved to meet new people and went to the famous “Candy Store” bar, with other Yacht-ee types. She met some people from Sea Magazine, who invited her and her crew out the next day to follow the races on their big power boat. She said: “Well, I’m with several other boats from the New York Sailing Club.” The guy from Sea said: “Invite them all!” During that trip, she also went out on her own boat to view the beautiful 12 meter yachts.
Myrna Truitt describes what happened: “With her blond curls waving in the breeze from under her captain’s hat, she stood on the cockpit seat so she could see over the top of the deckhouse; her all-woman crew were at their appropriate stations. Suddenly, we were hailed by an approaching boat… ‘Ahoy, Captain.’ We turned and there was Ted Turner and the entire crew of COURAGEOUS standing at attention on the rail, saluting.”
One year her faithful crew Edie Kaplan gave Etta cute magnetized potholders for the boat. Looking around for a place to hang them, Etta found that for some reason, they stuck very nicely to the bulkhead next to the companionway. For weeks after that, she couldn’t figure out why her compass courses seemed to be off. She hired a professional compass adjustor who came out and discovered that the potholder magnets were immediately behind the compass, throwing off the compass readings! Yikes!
From Kris Ohlén on the 1983 club cruise: “We decided late in the day to leave Block Island and sail for Newport. The weather was balmy at departure but deteriorated to foggy and windy. By 9 PM, in white capped seas, we were in the harbor channel studying the charts by flashlight. Preparing for the landfall we took down the sails and turned on the engine. Suddenly, the engine died. We raised the sails fast. With the wind drawing the sails, we slid backwards. What was wrong? Etta: “It is awfully deep here”. She called the Harbor Police and they guessed Etta fouled a lobster buoy. Bad weather left no recourse but to stay through the storm with running lights on and evaluate the situation in the morning. The next day dawned chilly and grey, but Etta dove under the boat to assess the situation: “You have to see this mess!” she exclaimed. Jeannette lost the draw and went under with the sharpest knife they had (a kitchen steak knife) and discovered an empty gallon of Gallo, an empty liter bottle of dish detergent, the lobster pot, macramé bundles of wire, hawser line, and wood under the hull and around the prop. After gamely snorkeling to try to cut the Gordian knots, Etta called a diver. She was gratified that it took the diver with extensive cutting tools half an hour to cut it free. He asked if she wanted any souvenirs which she declined with her usual calm. Tight jawed she said: “How can you allow them to set traps here. REALLY!”
After her husband died, she had to take charge of all the messy and tricky details on the boat, and learned engine maintenance, among other things. She became very proficient with that task, but her engine had leaky oil gaskets which had to be dealt with. One time she changed the oil, using a funnel, which she secured to the engine with duct tape. Perhaps she didn’t put it away properly, because when she dressed for dinner in her best whites, she leaned into the oil-slimed funnel and duct tape which stuck onto the front of her white pants, unbeknownst to her. She climbed up the companionway to the cockpit and said to the crew: “How do I look?”
HART ISLAND BREAKDOWN RACE
Fleet Captain Don Bryan kept his boat SAADALSUUD (named after the only navigational star in the constellation Aquarius) at Harlem YC. He figured that about two weeks before Memorial Day was a good time to have a “breakdown” – er – shakedown trip. So. He invented the First Annual Round Hart Island Race in 1974. In the early days, the club’s racing program was informal, so there was no official committee boat for the Hart Island Race. The boats would mill about in the vicinity of the stating “area”, someone would yell: “OK, let’s go!” and the boats would head out, with any and all sails – clockwise, or counterclockwise, around Hart Island, depending upon which direction they were facing at the time. The one to wind up back at the bar first was the winner (or so the legend goes). Some sort of trophy was given to the winner.
In 1982, when John Mahoney was Fleet Captain, it became “a race for a case”. In 1987, there was an official circular, which advised “observe all government marks”. Mahoney (even his wife called him Mahoney) was racing with able crew Betsy Haggerty. They saw Gong “1″ nearby and said: “Yes, indeed, we observe (i.e. see) it and choose to go the wrong side of it, and feel we can do so safely.” At the awards dinner that year, Mahoney was given a pair of goggle glasses and a poster-sized photo of the green buoy (now named, unofficially, the “Mahoney Buoy”) so he could sit at home in his den and “observe” it at his leisure.
In this tradition, in 1989, the Hart Island race had two or more starting lines. Unfortunately, it wasn’t planned that way in the mind of the Fleet Captain, Sid White. Since there were two starting lines, and hence, two races, the club had to spring for two cases of beer for the winners.
CONTROLLED DRIFTING CONTESTS
In 1977, Christine Francis, with her Rhodes 19 named AMANACER (Spanish, for to dawn, to awaken) and Ramon Stewart, with his C&C 38 NINA III (named after his daughter) and other NYSC sailors, entered the July 4th Race series in lower Manhattan Bay. The starting line was near the World Trade Center, and the course went under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, out to West Bank and back. Christine studied the current charts, and knew that if she went back to the finish line via the channel inside of Hoffman Island, she could take advantage of the early current change there. The larger boats perhaps did not study these charts, so opted to go back via the main channel. When they looked to port and saw Christine whizzing by, while they stood still, they thought that she had her engine on. It was only after the finish that they discovered the truth.
The second day, the wind was very strong, and the race committee shortened the course. Ramon was all “psyched up” to go on the inside track on the return like Christine did the day before. He didn’t carefully look at the race course set by the committee, but assumed the course was the same as the day before. Being the larger, faster boat, off he went, hell bent for leather, heading for West Bank. Christine, on the other hand, noted the course change and headed in the correct direction. Since Ramon’s boat was so much faster than a lot of the others, he brought all the bigger boats along with him. “If he is so fast, he must know what he’s doing!” Christine sneaked past them all, again, for a trophy! Amazing what you can accomplish when you pay attention.
Light airs seem to plague club races. NYSC is not alone. All racing organizations on Long Island Sound have the same problem. A typical race of this caliber was held on July 4, 1977. “Can #13 off of Eaton’s Neck pulled away from the fleet during the Sunday race in light air and adverse tide. However, fresh wind late in the afternoon allowed the die-hard race crews to round the mark and head for home. First over the finish line was Sherman Beck’s Bristol 29 ISTAR III. However, there is a little known NYSC racing rule that says: “Them’s that don’t cross the starting line, gets only honorable mention for crossing the finish line.” Sherman and crew were just arriving at the rendezvous.
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME
“Thursday, February 10, 1971 will be our Annual Awards meeting, with awards being given to winners of the Memorial Day Race. (Because of the general confusion about the Labor Day Race, it was decided to forget the whole thing.)” One can only imagine…
THE ANYTHING RACE
In August 1980, NYSC sponsored the Anything Race, wherein Anything Goes. “There were two racing divisions: Division I – Rowing Dinghies. Eligibility: any floatable object 12′ or less that is propelled by oars, paddles, rocking, ooching, or the like. Course: twice around a triangular course. Division II – Sailing Dinghies. Eligibility: any floatable object 12′ or less that is propelled by wind or sail or the like. No manual propulsion allowed. Bedsheets and umbrellas allowed. Course: once around larger triangle. NOTE: Rubber rafts, inner tire tubes, etc. are allowed in either division. No YRA or PHRF certificate needed. These races do not qualify for the Stan Birnbaum Trophy.” Unfortunately, the wind blew a steady 30+ knots out of the Northwest, and the “race” was canceled.
A WORD (OR FIVE) FROM BETSY HAGGERTY ABOUT RACING
“If yacht racing can ever be called low-key or friendly, that’s how one would describe the NYSC racing series. Rhodes 19’s share the starting line with high-tech racing machines; crews range from crackerjack helmsmen to two-year-olds out for a daysail with Dad (sometimes on the same boat); screaming is kept to a minimum and laughter to a maximum. That is not to say the races aren’t serious. They are run in accordance with the USYRU racing rules and scored using PHRF ratings. The competition is often good and the end of season trophies are silver. NYSC racing is challenging and fun, but nothing to be afraid of.”
In 1991 Betsy Haggerty wrote an article “The Ins and Outs of Barnegat Bay” in Offshore Magazine. Betsy’s article was chosen as one of the best published by that magazine in the prior 15 years. Betsy is now editor of Offshore. Betsy’s book: “New York and New Jersey Coastal Adventures” covers whales, beaches, packets, tugs, tall ships, lighthouses, and more.
BAD NEWS TRAVELS…
In Sept. 1985, Paul Woolhiser, on his Olsen 30, BAD NEWS (travels fast), entered the Vineyard Race in some of the worst weather of the season, and lived to tell about it, if not finish the race. At awards dinners, Paul was given a pacifier and an “AirBorne” patch, because when one guy saw him flying off of the waves, he said that the boat looked airborne. In 1980, Paul got the transcontinental award for shipping his boat out to California by truck, so he could race and cruise out there.
In the 1979 Labor Day Race off of Port Jefferson, Van Finn dropped the NYSC marker: anchor, float, line, and burgee, over the side of Frank Walter’s boat ROCKI PATCH to set up the starting line. There was 90′ of line on the marker. Unfortunately, they anchored in 100′ of water! Somewhere out there, is a NYSC burgee, 10′ below the surface.
Perhaps the best thing about NYSC racing is that anyone can enter with almost anything, and still win a trophy. This happened in 1977, when Igor Fuhrer’s 15′ Coronado LOLA took a second place behind John Mahoney’s C&C 29 SLY FOX, and beat the Goldstein’s 37′ big red machine ARIES. In 1982, Igor entered the race off of Mt. Sinai with his windsurfer. Unfortunately the windsurfer, like most other boats, needs wind to sail, so Igor never finished. After the race, Sally Small said to Skipper Fred Freder on board TRUANT: “Master, shall we go an pick up Igor?” It was too late, though, because Sid White had already come to the rescue. The only one to finish that race was Joe Zorn’s GYPSY GIRL (it apparently doesn’t need wind to move).
THE RHODES 19 FLEET
Christine Francis was President of the Rhodes 19 Class Association for 1981, and she trailored her boat to various ports in the U.S., and was active in Larchmont Race Week. she has cruised down the East River for Harbor Festivals and had trouble keeping in formation because the boat was going too fast! She was also active in Eastchester Bay Yacht Racing Association (EBYRA) races. In 1987, she was racing on a Wednesday night. There is a little known racing rule that says “Starboard tack has right of way.” She was crossing tacks with Kurt Krimphove’s PEGASUS (on starboard) while she was on port and she yelled “Get out of my way!” For this gaff, she was presented port and starboard socks at the change of watch dinner. Then she had to figure out which foot to put them on!
Christine was an artist, and did silk-screening for NYSC duffel bags and tee shirts, as well as orange tee shirts for Jean Lacombe’s boat YANG (1980).
When a life-threatening illness strikes
Time is made all the more precious.
For me its pace has slowed
Likened to the wine taster’s palette
Relishing the moment – not to hasten.
So when someone gives me of their time
I draw them into my slower paced zone
To cherish our time together.
It becomes easier to laugh
at the host of life’s dailies, incongruities, mundane, silly.
The laughter casts out those demon alligators
Leaves less room for tears
and I smile at feeling comfortable with time – with you.
CJF 10/10/94
Sid White also had a Rhodes 19 for a few years, before he bought his Pearson 10M COMET. Prior to the Rhodes, Sid owned a schooner named WIND SONG. He also chartered several older wooden boats for Mayor’s Cup races in Lower Manhattan Bay. Since he was such a schooner fan, when he bought the Rhodes 19′, it was rumored that the boat was gaff rigged!
LADIES, WOMAN’S, FEMALE SKIPPER’S RACE
In 1976, Rear Commodore Ramon Stewart decided that Corinthians should develop their sailing abilities, so he invented the “Corinthian Race”, wherein a Corinthian was in charge of the decision making, and steering, and the boat owner merely became tactician. The boats involved invited a minimum of 2 Corinthians and let them do the majority of the sailing and course plotting. Happily, this tradition has survived. Since the dark ages, many boat-owning members of NYSC have been women. Perhaps someday the ladies will sponsor a “Gentlemen Skipper’s Race!”
In the continuing effort to impart knowledge, the NYSC yearly sponsors a race, run by “Alternate Skippers”. In the annals of the male chauvinist pigs, it was originally named the Ladies Skippers Race in 1986 by men who assumed that the OWNER of the boat was not a woman. In 1985, dear George Iguchi entered the race as steersperson, wearing a rather risqué tee shirt, with the fully-endowed upper parts of a woman’s body emblazoned on top. The next year, not to be outdone, Bob Tucker entered the race, sporting a long blond wig and bikini top made out of coconuts. For their efforts, both participants earned the “Machette, runner-up” award at the yearly change of watch dinner and Bob received a doll because “Every young girl should have a Barbie Doll!”
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Now over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second part that assess the last two decades of horror films with all the wit, intelligence and insight for which he is known. Since the publication of the first edition, horror has been on a gradual upswing, and taken a new and stronger hold over the film industry. Newman negotiates his way through a vast back-catalogue of horror, charting the on-screen progress of our collective fears and bogeymen from the low budget slasher movies of the 60s, through to the slick releases of the 2000s, in a critical appraisal that doubles up as a genealogical study of contemporary horror and its forebears. Newman invokes the figures that fuel the ongoing demand for horror - the serial killer; the vampire; the werewolf; the zombie - and draws on his remarkable knowledge of the genre to give us a comprehensive overview of the modern myths that have shaped the imagination of multiple generations of cinema-goers. Nightmare Movies is an invaluable companion that not only provides a newly updated history of the darker side of film but a truly entertaining guide with which to discover the less well-trodden paths of horror, and re-discover the classics with a newly instructed eye.
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Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors - including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. But there is more to Terence Fisher than Hammer horror. In a busy twenty-five-year career, he directed fifty films, not just horrors but also thrillers, comedies, melodramas and science-fiction. This book offers an appreciation of all of Fisher's films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history. Looking at Fisher's career as a whole not only underlines his importance as a film-maker but also casts a new, interesting light on the areas in which he worked - Gainsborough melodrama, the 1950s B film, 1960s science-fiction and, of course, Hammer, one of the most successful independent film companies in the history of British cinema.
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Using a wide range of film from the Blair era as case studies, this book examines ways in which recent British filmmaking might be regarded as distinctive, relevant and successful.
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University Issues Coronavirus Update
Since this information was distributed to the campus community on Saturday, February 29, 2020, new developments related to the number of cases of Novel 2019 Coronavirus in New York were publicly reported. Information contained in this message has been updated to reflect this new information as of March 2, 2020 at 1 pm.
University Coronavirus Information Page
Minghua Zhang, Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, has shared an update regarding the Novel 2019 coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and the potential impact this outbreak might have on travel plans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week updated its travel guidance, recommending that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China and now Iran, Italy and South Korea at this time, and to exercise caution when traveling to other regions that are experiencing sustained community transmission, which currently includes Japan.
Many students, faculty and staff have already been directly impacted by the travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 and are concerned about their family and friends in the countries affected. This is a time when our community must come together to support those affected by this outbreak and show compassion and respect.
Consistent with travel warnings from the CDC, Stony Brook University has expanded its travel restrictions beyond China to include Italy, Iran and South Korea. All Stony Brook-related travel to these countries, including for faculty and staff, is discouraged. Personal travel to these countries also is discouraged. Based on this, and advice from the U.S. State Department, Stony Brook University has established a mandatory pre-approval requirement for all publicly funded University-sponsored travel plans to China, Italy, Iran and South Korea for students, faculty and staff.
Faculty, staff and students traveling on Research Foundation funds must obtain approval from the Research Foundation Operations Manager by submitting a request through the eFTR system, prior to travel, per Research Foundation policy.
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Stony Brook will continue to monitor and follow U.S. Department of State and CDC guidelines related to our students currently in countries that are under Level 2 or Level 3 CDC travel precautions. The University’s Student Support Team, Office of Global Affairs, China Center, and the Provost’s Office have been working with students who have been unable to return to Stony Brook due to the flight restrictions and have helped them explore options such as leave of absence or enrolling in online classes, so they can continue their education based upon their curricular requirements.
In addition, with SUNY’s guidance, we are not cancelling the Florence University of the Arts program, since the University is continuing classes as usual and to date there has not been a 2019-nCoV outbreak in the Tuscany region. Students who wish to return can do so at their own discretion and cost. We are in contact with our students in Korea to ensure they’re aware of all options available to them, including returning to campus with academic accommodations.
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If students, faculty or staff are returning to campus from affected countries, or had close contact with a person who is under investigation for 2019-nCoV while that person was ill and has fever OR symptoms of lower respiratory illness (e.g., cough, chest pain, shortness of breath) and in the last 14 days before symptom onset had close contact with an ill laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV patient, do not report to class or to the office, and seek medical attention immediately. Call your healthcare provider first to alert them of your recent travel history and/or symptoms. If you’re a student, you can make an appointment at Student Health; just call ahead at 631-632-6740 so they’re ready for you.
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Will my son’s roommate who is from China be allowed to go home for spring break and if so will he be allowed to return
Lynne Roth says:
Please see the FAQ section on the Coronavirus Information page: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/coronavirus/index.php#faq
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Are universities making plans for students to dorm at universities during breaks instead of flying home to China, Korea, Japan, Italy, the Middle East and any other outbreak countries. That would be the smart thing to do.
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Review
by Heike König November 6, 2018
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“The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” opens with an aerial shot of London (following an owl in flight) that made me tremendously grateful not to be watching a 3D movie as even in 2D I got a little queasy. This shot sets the tone for the film – utterly gorgeous to look at, and probably hoping to set your head spinning enough so you won’t notice the lack of depth in the story. The owl is ultimately after a mouse, leading us into the attic of Clara (Mackenzie Foy) and her brother trying to catch said rodent. These first few moments in the attic are some of the best of the film, establishing Clara as smart, inventive and capable, and setting high expectations that are not really met at any point later on.
Clara and her siblings are quickly established as having recently lost their mother, and the mystery presents she has left behind (it is Christmas eve as we are, after all, talking about a Christmas movie) set the events in motion, eventually (without giving away too much of the story) leading Clara into the Four Realms, a fairytale country filled with wonders and toys come to life. Here she meets Phillip/the Nutcracker and the rulers of the three “good” realms, including the Sugar Plum Fairy and one of the highlights of the film – Keira Knightley tackles her role with manic glee and is really fun to watch. Generally the actors are doing a great job, with Mackenzie Foy and Jayden Fowora-Knight (Phillip) easily carrying the story while being supplemented by the star studded supporting cast.
So what is missing?
“The Nutcracker” falls short on actually SHOWING us much of the titular four realms. Compared to other movies or books transporting their protagonists to a fairytale world – think of Narnia or Alice’s Wonderland – we barely even scratch the surface. Clara is briefly introduced to the four realms by way of a ballet – watching Misty Copeland is an absolute treat, but while the ballet promises to show how Clara’s mother discovered the four realms it does not really do that, it shows that it happened but offers no further explanation – and additionally the audience gets a few shots of Mackenzie Foy riding around in different carriages and costumes. Anything we learn about the four realms and their struggle we are merely told, and as a consequence, we do not really care much about what happens. “Nutcracker” comes nowhere near Maleficent, Frozen, or other more impressive Disney outputs – at a pinch I would compare it to the live action Cinderella, which left me similarly not-quite-satisifed. It is a bit of a pity as both source materials (Hoffmann’s original tale, or the ballet) could have provided so much more substance.
There is one saving grace to Disney’s Christmas offering, and that is the treatment of Tchaikovsky’s music. Throughout the film we find this featured and interwoven – in Clara’s music box, as a background to the waltz, for the (beautiful) ballet scene, distorted to indicate danger, or even played backwards – if James Newton Howard was behind this, he deserves a big thumbs up for creativity, and for breathing new life into an art form that is perhaps not normally as approachable for an audience today. For that alone – take your kid to see this movie. And then show them a recording of the ballet.
Director: Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston
Written by: Ashleigh Powell
Starring: Mackenzie Foy and Keira Knightley,
Rated: PG
Running Time: 1 hour and 38 minutes
Production Budget: $120,000,000 est.
Review by Heike Koenig
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(Sexual) Labour Day
By Julia Laite on April 30, 2014 in Sexual Labour, United Kingdom
Julia Laite
I’ve often said that researching prostitution makes me more of a labour historian than a historian of sexuality. Despite having typically been lumped into the same categories as homosexuality and other perceived sexual deviances, women who sold sex in the past connected their actions not to their sexuality but to their work.
Sex workers celebrate and protest on the 10th Annual Sex Workers Rights day, 2011 (image: feministe.us)
They also very often saw themselves as a group of workers. We have evidence of collective identities and labour association amongst prostitutes in the nineteenth century: dozens of women marching through the streets of Aldershot banging pots and pans to protest brothel closures makes for just one striking example. By the 1950s, the organization of some prostitutes in London amounted to what one sociologist, Rosalind Wilkinson, called ‘trade union status’. This early sociological research revealed the beginnings of what was to become a powerful sex workers’ rights movement. By the 1970s, prostitutes in France, the United States, and Great Britain (to name a few) were organizing and leading protests for protection and for labour rights.
By the twenty first century, many women who sell sex choose to call what they do ‘sex work’ and to call themselves ‘sex workers’. This can have different meanings for different women. For some, acknowledges their work as normal, necessary, and as something to be respected. For others, it serves to divorce their sexual labour from their own sexualities. Still others use it to insist that sex work be considered alongside all other work: work that can be both exploited or not exploited, chosen or not chosen.
As a historian, I use the terms ‘sexual labour’ and ‘women who sold sex’ to avoid anachronism, but I still explicitly recognize that for most women who sold sex in the past, prostitution was a job. It must be analysed as a history of labour every bit as much as a history of sexuality. Indeed, if we want to think about prostitution in terms of the history of sexuality, we should be looking far more at the men who buy sex rather than the women who sell it. So far, there is a shocking paucity of historical (or present-day) studies on this enormous group of people who participate in commercial sex.
As a historian and a feminist, I am well aware of the battles that rage around the term ‘sex work’. Some feminists insist on using the term ‘prostituted woman’, implying that no woman can or would choose to sell sex. Indeed, one of the most oft cited ‘facts’ thrown at me by students and laypersons when they encounter my research on prostitution as women’s labour is that ‘no little girl says she want to be a prostitute when they grow up.’ Putting aside all the other arguments against this claim, no little girl says she wants to clean toilets when she grows up, either.
The world, then as now, is turned by people who have not positively chosen their jobs. Women who sold sex in the past did so as a reaction to other poorly paid, arduous, demeaning, and exploitative labour choices and because of a crucial lack of social support. Several late nineteenth-century studies found that up to half of the women selling sex in Britain had been domestic servants, and that many had hated it so much they had willingly left service. ‘What will you give me if I do give this up’, one prostitute asked a woman police constable in the 1920s, ‘a job in a laundry at two pounds a week–when I can make twenty easily?’ ‘I’d rather die than go into domestic service’, another told the journalist Mary Chesterton in 1935.
The difficult truth is that testimonies of historical as well as present-day prostitutes provides ample evidence that women do choose sexual labour in the face of dire economic circumstances and terrible labour alternatives. Perhaps this is why we find it so difficult to imagine prostitution as work, and to take the organization of sex workers seriously. It involves a recognition that sex work is deeply connected to the exploitative capitalist economy of which we are all a part. As George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1912, at the height of the campaign against the commercial sexual exploitation of girls or ‘white slavery’:
The wages of prostitution are stitched into your button-holes and your blouse, pasted into your match boxes and your boxes of pins, stuffed into your mattresses, mixed with the paint on your walls, and stuck between the joints of your water-pipes. The very glaze on your basin and tea-cup has in it the lead poison that you offer to the decent woman as a reward for honest labour.
If anything, Shaw’s words ring more true today, in light of our increasingly iniquitous global economy, where cheap domestic, agricultural and industrial labour and poorly regulated manufacturing are seen as crucial to satisfying the ever growing demands of affluence and comfortable living.
The wages of prostitution are stitched into your button holes’ (‘No Home Life for them’, The Sweated Industries Exhibition, Richard Mudie-Smith, 1906 (Museum of London)
And so, on this international workers’ day, I suggest that we should think about the way that sexual labour is connected to the unpaid, underpaid, and exploited work that women–and to a much lesser, but still important extent, men–perform in order to sustain the global capitalist economy. And instead of trying to divorce prostitution from work, we should think instead about the ways that our own demand for licit goods and services is entangled with the illicit and sexual economy, and the ways in which we are complicit in the much wider exploitation of labour.
Julia Laite is a lecturer in modern British and gender history at Birkbeck, University of London. She is interested in the history of women, gender, sexuality, crime, migration, prostitution, and occasionally lorries. Her first book, Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. She is currently working on trafficking and women’s migration in the early twentieth century world.
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April 30, 2014 at 6:50 am · Reply
Excellent article and wholly respect the points made; I would be interested to know how the author would consider Radin’s work (Cotested Commodities, 1996) and the question whether sex ought to be a commodity? Whether, within the context of capitalist inequality sex work actually hinders gender / labour equality, and whether sex work perpetuates the history of men’s (patriarchal) rights over female bodies (Shrage raises this point in a similar idebate)? I realise these are perhaps ethical questions and not necessarily suitable for this forum but they’re questions that I find challenging on this subject. Fascinating reading!
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by Keeli Parkey January 13, 2021
written by Keeli Parkey January 13, 2021
Deshaun Watson continues to be unhappy with the Houston Texans. Shannon Sharpe has some words of advice for the young quarterback and a prediction about his future.
Sharpe said Watson “should stand his ground” in his dealings with the Houston franchise. He shared his thoughts during Wednesday’s episode of “UNDISPUTED” on Fox Sports.
“Deshaun Watson is going to have to do what’s in the best interest for Deshaun Watson,” Sharpe also said.
Sharpe argues in favor of Watson doing what’s in the 25-year-old’s “best interest” based on decisions made by the Houston Texans organization. The team started the 2020 season 0-4. Houston finished third in the AFC South with an overall record of 4-12.
"Deshaun Watson should stand his ground. He's going to have to do what's best for himself. I believe it's going to end badly for the Houston Texans. I say there's an 85% chance Deshaun will be under center for a different team next season."
— @ShannonSharpe pic.twitter.com/83asWSJlFE
— UNDISPUTED (@undisputed) January 13, 2021
“Because, clearly, (Houston has) blown an opportunity. They’ve wasted some valuable years. They let Duane Brown go. …” Sharpe continued in his discussion with co-host Skip Bayless. “If I’m Deshaun, Skip, I stick my ground because there have been some things said that they would talk to him about certain things and that didn’t come true.”
Shannon Sharpe also alluded to recent news that Deshaun Watson continues to be angry with the Texans for other reasons. These include not interviewing Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bienemy for the team’s vacant head coaching position. Watson also did not like the move by Texans team owner Cal McNair to hire Nick Caserio as general manager without consulting him.
Watson has also been angered by what he sees as the team’s insensitivity to social injustice. He is also reportedly not happy with the team’s hiring practices. These issues have some believing that Watson could waive his no-trade clause.
Shannon Sharpe Says There’s 85% Chance Watson Leaves Houston
Also on Wednesday, Shannon Sharpe said he thinks Watson will most likely leave Houston for another NFL team. He also believes getting away from the Texans is what needs to happen for Watson.
“I believe it’s going to end bad for the Houston Texans,” Sharpe said. “… I say there is an 85 percent chance Deshaun Watson is under center for someone else next year other than the Houston Texans.”
Should Houston refuse to trade Watson, Sharpe said he does not believe the quarterback will choose not to report to the team.
“He won’t do that,” Sharpe added. “I don’t know him that well, but I know he will be professional. He’ll always be professional. He’ll come in and he’ll do his thing.”
Miami and San Francisco are possible future homes for Watson, according to Sharpe. He thinks the quarterback’s future is especially bright if he goes to California.
“If he ever got to the 49ers … Deshaun Watson, within two years, will be the MVP of the NFL in that offense,” Sharpe added.
According to ESPN, Watson had a solid season for the Texans. He threw for 4,823 yards and 33 touchdowns with only 7 interceptions.
Andre Johnson has shared his support for Watson. Taking to Twitter earlier this week, he said:
“If I’m @deshaunwatson I will stand my ground. The Texans organization is known for wasting players careers. Since Jack Easterby has walk into the building nothing good has happened in/for the organization and for some reason someone can’t seem to see what’s going on. Pathetic!!!”
Woah… pic.twitter.com/VmHcr29q5D
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) January 12, 2021
It seems that Shannon Sharpe and others agree.
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This paper talks about the differences between transformational leadership and servant leadership. It looks at the characteristics of servant leadership within our modern day economical businesses and the realism of the principle through our application. We further examine how the Bible tells this principle and also criticism of the principle. The idea of Servant Leadership was established in the 1970’s reflecting the notion that good leaders main goals are to serve other people. This term suggests that a good leader should seek to lead by a need of serving others versus trained to lead through external motivations. It further suggests that a person must have a specific set of values in order to be a successful leader. This is different from transformational leadership that suggests that leaders are developed or trained. A transformational leader is empowered through motivation, persuasion and vision. As we continue within this topic we will look as similarities and differences of the two styles and their success in influencing organizational change within competitive markets.
What is Servant Leadership and how does it differ from transformational leadership? “The phrase “Servant Leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, he said: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.”” www.greenleaf.org/whatissl/.
Servant leaders focus on ones potential and growth; they seek to develop leaders. They believe in reaching individuals at an emotional level; they will pass over advancement of themselves to assist their team. On the other hand transformational leaders focus on organizational development. They believe leaders are produced through innovation and creativity. Transformational leaders are risk takers and place more emphasis on intellectual stimulation versus Servant leaders are attracted to one’s potential, character, values and assisting them in developing those traits. What are the characteristics of Servant Leaders and how are they developed?
Spears, listed the following characteristics based on Greenleaf’s original writing in developing the characteristics of a servant leader:
1. “Listening. Leaders have traditionally been valued for their communication and decision-making skills. While these are also important skills for the servant-leader, they need to be reinforced by a deep commitment to listening intently to others. The servant-leader seeks to identify the will of a group and helps clarify that will. He or she seeks to listen receptively to what is being said. Listening, coupled with regular periods of reflection, is essential to the growth of the servant-leader.
2. Empathy. The servant-leader strives to understand and empathize with others. People need to be accepted and recognized for their special and unique spirits. One assumes the good intentions of coworkers and does not reject them as people, even if one finds it necessary to refuse to accept their behavior or performance.
3. Healing. One of the great strengths of servant-leadership is the potential for healing one’s self and others. Many people have broken spirits and have suffered from a variety of emotional hurts. Although this is part of being human, servant-leaders recognize that they also have an opportunity to “help make whole” those with whom they come in contact. In “The Servant as Leader” Greenleaf writes: “There is something subtle communicated to one who is being served and led if implicit in the compact between servant-leader and led is the understanding that the search for wholeness is something they share.”
4. Awareness. General awareness, and especially self-awareness, strengthens the servant-leader. Awareness also aids one in understanding issues involving ethics and values. It lends itself to being able to view most situations from a more integrated, holistic position. As Greenleaf observed: “Awareness is not a giver of solace–it is just the opposite. It is a disturber and an awakener. Able leaders are usually sharply awake and reasonably disturbed. They are not seekers after solace. They have their own inner serenity.”
5. Persuasion. Another characteristic of servant-leaders is a primary reliance on persuasion rather than positional authority in making decisions within an organization. The servant-leader seeks to convince others rather than coerce compliance. This particular element offers one of the clearest distinctions between the traditional authoritarian model and that of servant-leadership. The servant-leader is effective at building consensus within groups.
6. Conceptualization. Servant-leaders seek to nurture their abilities to “dream great dreams.” The ability to look at a problem (or an organization) from a conceptualizing perspective means that one must think beyond day-to-day realities.
For many managers this is a characteristic that requires discipline and practice. Servant-leaders are called to seek a delicate balance between conceptual thinking and a day-to-day focused approach.
7. Foresight. Foresight is a characteristic that enables the servant-leader to understand the lessons from the past, the realities of the present, and the likely consequence of a decision for the future. It is also deeply rooted within the intuitive mind. Foresight remains a largely unexplored area in leadership studies, but one most deserving of careful attention.
8. Stewardship. Peter Block has defined stewardship as “holding something in trust for another.” Robert Greenleaf ‘s view of all institutions was one in which CEOs, staffs and trustees all played significant roles in holding their institutions in trust for the greater good of society. Servant-leadership, like stewardship, assumes first and foremost a commitment to serving the needs of others. It also emphasizes the use of openness and persuasion rather than control.
9. Commitment to the growth of people. Servant-leaders believe that people have an intrinsic value beyond their tangible contributions as workers. As a result, the servant-leader is deeply committed to the growth of each and every individual within the institution. The servant-leader recognizes the tremendous responsibility to do everything possible to nurture the growth of employees.
10. Building community. The servant-leader senses that much has been lost in recent human history as a result of the shift from local communities to large institutions as the primary shaper of human lives.
This awareness causes the servant-leader to seek to identify some means for building community among those who work within a given institution. Servant-leadership suggests that true community can be created among those who work in businesses and other institutions. Greenleaf said: “All that is needed to rebuild community as a viable life form for large numbers of people is for enough servant-leaders to show the way, not by mass movements, but by each servant-leader demonstrating his own unlimited liability for a quite specific community-related group” Spears, Larry C. “Practicing Servant-Leadership” Leader to Leader. 34 (Fall 2004)7-11
How does Maxwell Leadership Bible reflect on Servant Leadership?
In reading Maxwell, his writings reflect that one of the keys to Servant Leadership is good listening skills. He commonly refers to listening skill and humility over and over again. Servant Leadership seems to be the in thing right now but I wonder if people really understand how difficult it is in following with Maxwell
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Nitesh Katta receives 2021 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Fellowship
Award supports research into use of cold laser wire for surgical procedures.
Fellowship winner: Nitesh Katta
The 2021 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship will be awarded to Nitesh Katta, who received his PhD in 2019 from the University of Texas at Austin.
The award of $75,000 is in support of Katta's research currently under way with the Beckman Laser Institute (BLI), into the use of a cold laser wire as a surgical tool for removal of calcified material in arteries.
"I am deeply grateful to receive this support from such a distinguished organization as SPIE and feel very humbled to have the SPIE-Hillenkamp fellowship committee recognize the value of this work," said Katta.
"Receiving this award will enable me to conduct the necessary research work and translational training to bring a medical device from a laboratory bench-top to the market where it can have a meaningful impact on percutaneous coronary intervention outcomes in patients suffering from chronic total occlusions."
The work relates to a need for accurate and precise removal of calcified material when treating chronic total occlusions (CTOs) in major coronary blood vessels, and removing obstructions in the central part of an occluded vessel termed the true-lumen. This procedure involves "crossing" the occlusion with a suitable surgical wire.
CTOs were described as "the last frontier of percutaneous interventions" in a 2016 review published by Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, which noted the main technical challenges lie in successfully crossing the guide wire into the distal true-lumen while tackling potentially inadequate visualization and the need to actively navigate through the CTO.
Katta, together with his then-doctoral mentors Thomas Milner and Marc Feldman at the BLI, invented intravascular cooling and guidance methodologies for achieving true-lumen crossing in CTOs using a cold laser wire, a thin laser probe operating at low energy so as to avoid unwanted damage or surgical consequences.
The ultimate aim is to bring this research into the clinical setting, addressing an urgent need for a suitable tool for treatment of patients suffering with CTOs.
New light-based therapeutic devices
Named for medical laser pioneer Franz Hillenkamp, the Fellowship is a partnership between five leading biophotonics centers and SPIE, the publishers of Optics.org. It is intended to provide opportunities for translating new technologies into clinical practice, for improving human health.
In 2020 the Fellowship was awarded to Fernando Zvietcovich for research into a novel biophotonics-based optical coherence elastography (OCE) technique, and translating it into clinical practice. OCE employs optical coherence tomography (OCT) to image tissue while it is under some form of transient local mechanical deformation and subsequent recovery, introducing an additional contrast mechanism to the OCT operation.
The 2019 Fellowship was awarded jointly to Jie Hui at Boston University Photonics Center for work on the use of blue laser light to disrupt the MRSA bacteria; and to Andreas Wartak at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine for research into tethered capsule endomicroscopy, in which a small optical device is swallowed by the patient and then withdrawn back up to image the esophagus.
The 2021 award to Nitesh Katta recognizes the potential for his cold laser wire procedure to have a substantial impact on the clinical treatment of CTOs, according to the co-chairs of the Hillenkamp Fellowship Committee Rox Anderson and Gabriela Apiou.
"This is a very exciting proposal from an excellent researcher working in a renowned lab for innovative research in biomedical optics and biophotonics that translates into solving medical problems," commented Anderson and Apiou. "Nitesh's work has the potential to establish a new class of simple and safe methods to operate endovascular light-based therapeutic devices, and we look forward to seeing the outcome of his work."
Applications for the 2022 SPIE-Hillenkamp Fellowship will open in the Spring of 2021.
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Effect Of Societal Views On Emma In Madame Bovary Eng3 Ue Colonel By S.S. Essay
Effect of Societal Views on Emma in Madame Bovary
Yousuf Ansari
Colonel By Secondary School
World Literature Assignment
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Teacher: Ms. Waddell
Ansari, Yousuf 1
In France during the mid 19th century, society was built of very specific norms which the
majority of people followed. In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, the main character,
Emma’s beliefs and actions are strongly influenced by the societal views of love and
relationships in the setting of 1850s France. The specific views of society pertaining to love
which have an effect on Emma’s character are: the society’s thoughts on the purpose of
marriage, the role of women in a relationship and the religious standpoint of marriage.
Firstly, throughout the novel, it is shown that the purpose of love and marriage according
to the society differs significantly from the purpose of love according to Emma. This difference
makes Emma a lot more secretive with her thoughts and actions, not wanting to be out of the
norm or to displease anyone. The first instance where Flaubert shows the effect this has on
Emma occurs near the beginning when she is set to marry Charles after the approval of her
father. During the setting of 1850s France, marriage was seen to be something very superficial
intended to benefit both parties, for example with Charles and Heloise’s relationship it was
arranged and money-based. We find out very quickly that Emma has a very unrealistic view of
love and marriage, she looked at it as something very romantic and perfect. For her wedding,
Emma “yearned to be married by midnight, by torchlight; but Pere Rouault wouldn’t hear of it.
So there was a wedding feast, with forty-three guests.” (Flaubert, 24) This quote goes to show
that weddings in this setting were not exactly all that romantic in contradiction to Emma’s views
on marriage, not wanting to displease anyone she keeps these thoughts to herself. Secondly,
during this time in France, the main point of marriage was to help each other by sharing
responsibilities and between the two partners and communication was not anything too important
in marriage, this can be seen with Charles and Emma early on, who don’t really have a real
connection. We learn early on that Charles pays no attention to her words, instead, he only loves
her for her beauty, Flaubert writes, “The night on his way home, Charles went one by one
through the things she had said, trying to remember them, to complete their meaning, so as to
grasp something of her life before he had known her.” (22) This lack of communication
eventually leads Emma into unethical actions such as adultery. When the character of Leon is
introduced to Emma it is shown that they have very similar romantic views on love and similar
aspirations in life. The communication and connection which Leon and Emma from causes her to
fall in love with him and cheat on her husband without expressing her issues first. The purpose
of love and relationships from the perspective of the society shapes Emma’s personality in that it
makes her more to herself and secretive about her problems which ultimately lead to unethical
The next societal view which significantly influences Emma’s character is the role of a
woman in a relationship. In the setting of 1850s France, women did not have much power, the
had very specific responsibilities for the household giving them a very confined lifestyle. They
took care of the family and satisfied the desires of their husbands, while their husbands earned
the money, this was the lifestyle that seemed the most efficient during this time as love was not
the main priority for marriage and it was instead the ability to help each other survive. Emma has
many desires in her life as Flaubert constantly to displays throughout the novel and is not
satisfied with the regular style of living in this setting, this confined lifestyle causes Emma to
form certain opinions on her situation. She looks at her condition in a way that she has no
freedom within her household and is unable to fulfill her wishes with all these restrictions. She
wishes to be liberated from her situation by escaping rather than challenging the norms of society
during this period. Flaubert uses the excellent symbol of windows to demonstrate her will to be
free. Emma eventually realizes her goal of happiness in life is near impossible to attain when
Flaubert writes: “She was not happy, had never been so. Where did it come from, this feeling of
deprivation, this instantaneous decay of the thing she put her trust in?” (264) The next instance
where we see Emma’s beliefs being influenced by the role of women according to society, is
when she wishes for a son rather than a daughter simply because she believes that all the
restrictions placed on women keep them from living an ideal life, she states: “[a woman] is
always hampered … always drawn by some desire, restrained by some rule of conduct” (74). In
comparison to the men in the novel which are seen to be a lot more successful in fulfilling their
life goals, for example with Leon who becomes a lawyer. The views on the role of a woman in a
relationship from the perspective of the society in 1850s France, influences Emma’s character by
causing her to form certain beliefs about life.
Finally, another topic which can be looked at when considering views of the society in
the setting of 1850s France is the religious standpoint on relationships. During this time period,
the society had a very conservative mindset mostly influenced by the dominant catholic religion
in France. Emma is someone who clearly is not satisfied with her sexual life with Charles, she
desired forms of love which were unrealistic and to some extents not possible for her, Flaubert
shows us this by mentioning her imaginative view of the world influenced by the romantic
novels she is interested in. This causes her to turn to the secretive life of adultery as seen with
Rodolphe. They are mainly in love with each other for sexual needs, as seen when they are alone
in the council chamber “A supreme desire set their parched lips trembling; and soothingly,
easily, their fingers entwined.” (139) Since sexuality was something which was a very personal
top in the setting of 1850s France, Emma’s action were influenced as she had to be very secretive
about it. Adultery is and act which prohibited in Catholicism and the fact that Emma still does it
instead of just separating from Charles, shows that she is not exactly a strong follower of the
religion but rather, she does not want to be out of the norm and be known as someone who left
their husband, which bring attention to another situation where Emma’s character is influenced
by the religious standpoint on love and relationships during this time. In the majority of major
religions, including Catholicism, it is a known fact that divorce is strongly discouraged. This
again, makes Emma become very secretive about her affairs instead of confronting her husband
even though she saw him as: “feeble, a nullity, a creature pathetic in every way.” (234) and the
thought of divorce doesn’t even cross her mind as Flaubert writes, “How could she get rid of
him? What an endless evening! She felt numb, as though she had been overcome by opium
fumes.” Due to the strong presence of religion in the setting of 1850s France, Emma’s actions are
affected as she does not want to be seen out of the norm by doing things discouraged in her
In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, the main character Emma’s beliefs are strongly
shaped by the societal views of love and relationships in the setting of 1850s France. Society was
built up of many of these norms during the setting of 1850s France. This novel confirmed my
belief that too much effort put into trying to reach a perfect situation can lead to immoral actions.
Throughout the novel, we see Emma Bovary try her hardest to try and achieve her lofty
aspirations, however, her search for the perfect love leads her into making the wrong choices and
ultimately, she regrets trying to achieve a perfect world. Same can be said about people in the
real world, too much desire for something can lead you to making the wrong decisions.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Penguin Classics, 2002
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Scientists overhaul corn domestication story with multidisciplinary analysis
by Smithsonian
Varieties of maize found near Cuscu and Machu Pichu at Salineras de Maras on the Inca Sacred Valley in Peru, June 2007. The history of maize begins with its wild ancestor, teosinte. Teosinte bears little resemblance to the corn eaten today: Its cobs are tiny and its few kernels are protected by a nearly impenetrable outer casing. In fact, Kistler said, it is not clear why people bothered with it all. Over time, however, as early farmers selected for desirable traits, the descendants of the wild plant developed larger cobs and more tender, plentiful kernels, eventually becoming the staple crop that maize is today. The newly published study in the journal Science shows that the final stages of maize's domestication happened more than once in more than one place, revising the history of one of the world's most important crops. Credit: Fabio de Oliveira Freitas
Smithsonian scientists and collaborators are revising the history of one of the world's most important crops. Drawing on genetic and archaeological evidence, researchers have found that a predecessor of today's corn plants still bearing many features of its wild ancestor was likely brought to South America from Mexico more than 6,500 years ago. Farmers in Mexico and the southwestern Amazon continued to improve the crop over thousands of years until it was fully domesticated in each region.
The findings, reported Dec. 13 in the journal Science, come from a multidisciplinary, international collaboration between scientists at 14 institutions. Their account deepens researchers' understanding of the long, shared history between humans and maize, which is critical for managing our fragile relationships with the plants that feed us, said Logan Kistler, curator of archaeogenomics and archaeobotany at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and lead author of the study. "It's the long-term evolutionary history of domesticated plants that makes them fit for the human environment today," he said. "Understanding that history gives us tools for assessing the future of corn as we continue to drastically reshape our global environment and increase our agricultural demands on land around the globe."
The history of maize begins with its wild ancestor, teosinte. Teosinte bears little resemblance to the corn eaten today: Its cobs are tiny and its few kernels are protected by a nearly impenetrable outer casing. In fact, Kistler said, it's not clear why people bothered with it all. Over time, however, as early farmers selected for desirable traits, the descendants of the wild plant developed larger cobs and more tender, plentiful kernels, eventually becoming the staple crop that maize is today.
For years, geneticists and archaeologists have deduced that teosinte's transformation into maize began in the tropical lowlands of what is now southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago. The teosinte that grows wild in this region today is more genetically similar to maize than teosinte elsewhere in Mexico and Central America—though all remain separated from the domesticated crop by hundreds of genes.
Varieties of the Avati ete'i, the sacred Guaranis' maize, April 2017 during the seed exchange fair, in La Paloma, State of Rocha, Uruguay. Although the team used maize curated in gene banks for this study, Fabio Freitas, an ethnobotanist and farm conservationist at Embrapa, said that his work conserving traditional cultivated plants with indigenous groups from the South border of the Amazon forest helped guide the discussion of how maize diffusion may have played out in the past. The team mapped out the genetic relationships between the plants and discovered several distinct lineages, each with its own degree of similarity to their shared ancestor, teosinte. In other words, Kistler explained, the final stages of maize's domestication happened more than once in more than one place. Credit: Natália Carolina de Almeida Silva
In the southwest Amazon and coastal Peru, microscopic pollen and other resilient plant remains found in ancient sediments indicate a history of fully domesticated maize use by around 6,500 years ago, and researchers initially reasoned that the fully domesticated plant must have been carried there from the north as people migrated south and across the Americas.
"As far as we could tell before conducting our study, it looked like there was a single domestication event in Mexico and that people then spread it further south after domestication had taken place," Kistler said.
But a few years ago, when geneticists sequenced the DNA of 5,000-year-old maize found in Mexico, the story got more complicated. The genetic results showed that what they had found was a proto-corn—its genes were a mixture of those found in teosinte and those of the domesticated plant. According to the ancient DNA, that plant lacked teosinte's tough kernel casings, but this proto-corn had not yet acquired other traits that eventually made maize into a practical food crop.
"But you've got continuous cultivation of maize in the southwest Amazon from 6,500 years ago all the way up through European colonization," Kistler said. "How can you have this flourishing, fully domesticated maize complex in the southwest Amazon, and meanwhile, near the domestication center in Mexico the domestication process is still ongoing?"
Logan Kistler preparing ancient DNA samples for analysis at the University of Warwick in 2016. As curator of archaeogenomics and archaeobotany at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Kistler uses cutting-edge genomic and genetic research techniques to understand the evolutionary relationship between people and plants. 'It's the long-term evolutionary history of domesticated plants that makes them fit for the human environment today,' Kistler said. 'Understanding that history gives us tools for assessing the future of corn as we continue to drastically reshape our global environment and increase our agricultural demands on land around the globe.' Credit: Shahidul Alam, Drik Picture Library
In an effort to try to solve this mystery, Kistler's team reconstructed the plant's evolutionary history by undertaking a genetic comparison of more than 100 varieties of modern maize that grow throughout the Americas, including 40 newly sequenced varieties—many from the eastern lowlands of South America, which had been underrepresented in previous studies. Many of these varieties were collected in collaboration with indigenous and traditional farmers over the past 60 years and are curated in the genebank at Embrapa, the Brazilian government's agriculture enterprise. Fabio Freitas, an ethnobotanist and farm conservationist at Embrapa, said that his work conserving traditional cultivated plants with indigenous groups from the South border of the Amazon forest helped guide the discussion of how maize diffusion may have played out in the past. The genomes of 11 ancient plants, including nine newly sequenced archaeological samples, were also part of the analysis. The team mapped out the genetic relationships between the plants and discovered several distinct lineages, each with its own degree of similarity to their shared ancestor, teosinte. In other words, Kistler explained, the final stages of maize's domestication happened more than once in more than one place.
"This work fundamentally changes our understanding of maize origins," said study co-author Robin Allaby from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick. "It shows that maize did not have a simple origin story, that it did not really form the crop as we know it until it left its homeland."
At first, Kistler said, the genetic evidence was puzzling. But as he and his collaborators began to integrate what each had learned about the history of South America, a picture of how maize may have spread across the continent emerged.
A proto-corn in the midst of becoming domesticated appears to have reached South America at least twice, Kistler said. By 6,500 years ago, the partially domesticated plant had arrived in a region of the southwest Amazon that was already a domestication hotspot, where people were growing rice, cassava and other crops. The plant was likely adopted as part of the local agriculture and continued to evolve under human influence until, thousands of years later, it became a fully domesticated crop. From there, domesticated maize moved eastward as part of an overall expansion and intensification of agriculture that archaeologists have noted in the region. By around 4,000 years ago, Kistler said, maize had spread widely through the South American lowlands. Genetic and archaeological evidence also align to suggest that maize cultivation expanded eastward a second time, from the foothills of the Andes toward the Atlantic, about 1,000 years ago. Today, traces of that history exist in the Macro-Jê languages spoken near the Atlantic coast, which use an Amazonian word for maize.
Maize from El Gigante Rock Shelter shows early transition to staple crop
More information: DOI: 10.1126/science.aav0207 L. Kistler el al., "Multiproxy evidence highlights a complex evolutionary legacy of maize in South America," Science (2018). science.sciencemag.org/lookup/ … 1126/science.aav0207
"Did maize dispersal precede domestication?" Science (2018). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aav7358
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Neurodevelopment in Children Born Small for Gestational Age: A Randomized Trial of Nutrient-Enriched Versus Standard Formula and Comparison With a Reference Breastfed Group
Ruth Morley, Mary S. Fewtrell, Rebecca A. Abbott, Terence Stephenson, Una MacFadyen and Alan Lucas
Pediatrics March 2004, 113 (3) 515-521; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.113.3.515
Ruth Morley
*Medical Research Council Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
‡Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Mary S. Fewtrell
Rebecca A. Abbott
§Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Terence Stephenson
‖Academic Division of Child Health, University Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Una MacFadyen
¶Paediatric Department, Stirling Royal Infirmary National Health Service Trust, Stirling, United Kingdom
Alan Lucas
Objective. Many studies have shown that children born small for gestational age (SGA) are at a neurodevelopmental disadvantage. We have shown that nutrient enrichment of formula fed to term SGA infants improves their growth and hypothesized that it also would improve their neurodevelopmental outcome.
Design. A randomized, controlled trial of standard term-infant (n = 147) or nutrient-enriched (n = 152) formula for the first 9 months. A reference group of 175 breastfed SGA infants was also recruited.
Setting. Subjects were recruited in 5 maternity hospitals in Cambridge, Nottingham, and Leicester, all in the United Kingdom.
Participants. Healthy, term infants (gestation: ≥37 weeks) with birth weight <10th centile.
Outcome Measures. Bayley mental and psychomotor scores at 18 months (primary) and developmental scores from Knobloch, Pasamanick, and Sherrard’s developmental screening inventory at 9 months (secondary).
Results. There was no significant intergroup difference in Bayley Mental Development Index (MDI) or Psychomotor Development Index (PDI) scores at 18 months. However, at 9 months, children fed the enriched formula had a significantly lower developmental quotient (99.5 vs 102.0; 95% confidence interval [CI] for difference: −4.6, −0.4). A significant disadvantage was seen in girls (−5.1; 95% CI: −7.8, −2.4) but not in boys (0.9; 95% CI: −2.4, 4.2).
Breastfed infants had significantly higher MDI and PDI scores at 18 months than formula-fed infants. Confounding factors accounted for ∼34% of the observed association between breastfeeding and MDI score and none of the association between breastfeeding and PDI score.
Conclusions. The previously reported enhanced linear growth in SGA children fed enriched formula was not matched by a neurodevelopmental advantage. At 9 months, girls fed the enriched formula had a significant developmental disadvantage, although this was not seen at 18 months. Later follow-up will determine any long-term effects on health or development. Meanwhile, use of enriched formula for term SGA children should not be promoted.
It seems that breastfeeding may be especially beneficial for neurodevelopment in children born SGA.
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Received December 16, 2002.
Accepted June 4, 2003.
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Ruth Morley, Mary S. Fewtrell, Rebecca A. Abbott, Terence Stephenson, Una MacFadyen, Alan Lucas
Pediatrics Mar 2004, 113 (3) 515-521; DOI: 10.1542/peds.113.3.515
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When you turn the television on.
When I fell pregnant everybody told me that I’d have no time for myself. That my leg hair would grow long and wiry that my face would be make up free, and dirty laundry would be piled up around my house unable to be dealt with.
Their suggestions at my lack of life were then enhanced by these bloody stupid Facebook shares that keep doing the rounds about how by trading the hairdressers, or nice handbags that you loved being a mum, that you were being a good mum. They make me stabby.
I prepared myself for the worst, I ensured my nails were devoid of varnish (no time to paint them you see), and cut my hair into a style that didn’t require any effort (no time for a shower), and got ready.
Well. That was an anti-climax.
You see, I’m not saying time isn’t tight, in fact, it does tend to slip away at an alarming rate, however, it’s nothing that good organisation, timetables and most importantly…kids tv, can’t help with.
That’s right, Kids TV. Against the odds, three very important channels have become an invaluable asset to my day to day life. Thanks to Mr Tumble I’ve been able to apply fake tan. Thanks to Chris and Poi I’ve been able to use the toilet in peace, and thanks to Peppa Pig I’ve been able to stick a load of washing in without anybody attempting to commit suicide over the stair-gate.
Before you judge, don’t worry, I don’t stick my children in front of the television all day every day they never bloody sit still for that long however, I don’t see what’s wrong with them sitting infront of a few programmes, after all, they all have some educational element included (WHAT! I’ve learnt A LOT about Italy from Peppa Pig, and Mummy Pig is all about body confidence).
They’ve become my babysitter, some have been known to quote “free” babysitter. However, sadly, nothing in life is free, and this is no exception, so as I sit on my sofa sharing a plate of rich tea biscuits with my children, I am paying the price for wanting my cup of tea while it’s still hot. After all, all three channels have their flaws.
Sometimes it’s the presenters. For example Jen from Milkshake, I want to like her. I really really do, (and Mr. Aimee has a huge crush on her), but she’s just so happy. YES, I do appreciate that that makes me sound old and cynical but it’s true. WHO THE HELL is that excited at stupid o’clock in the morning? SOMEBODY WHO DOESN’T HAVE CHILDREN THAT’S WHO!
We recently took the children to see Milkshake Live. It was actually very good, and Mr Aimee was hugely excited when bursting onto the stage in an orange vest top and floral tapered trousers came Jen.
Matthew’s Crush
Happy to be there with you RIGHT THEN, perky, perhaps having drunk too many Red Bull’s Jen. Jen who after her two performances can go home, and go to bed AND HAVE SOME PEACE AND QUIET.
Larry wasn’t as pleased to see her as he normally is…I think she was a little TOO excited.
Bovvered?
Then there is Mr Bloom from CBeebies. Now, I’m aware that apparently he’s considered “a bit of alright” in the mummy brigade? Is that right? HOW?! I mean, apart from obviously needing a wash, you just get the impression that he’s rolled into work stinking of booze and kebabs after a night on the town with Katie.
Another Pint Guv?
“Katie?!” I hear you exclaim.
Yes. Katie. Who has (in my opinion) given the hint on many occasions, that she doesn’t actually like children or cooking that much, so perhaps the night out with Mr. Bloom (OH MY GOD – are they together do you think?!), leaves enough alcohol in her system to allow her to fake her way through the enthusiasm of preparing “Falafel Footballs” (note the gutted look on the kids face when they realise that yet again they aren’t making a pudding) before picking up that god awful guitar and faking her way through the tuneless yet catchy songs. Which now, as I type this paragraph are circulating my head, so even on my child free days, I’m humming about rolling up my sleeves and giving my hands a wash.
SEE! I’m REALLY ENJOYING MYSELF!
Over on Nick Jnr – home to back to back Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly, no presenter registers as anything other then pretty vacant and not really there. But that’s not the issue. Neither are the toy adverts which are often followed by a small voice from the sofa saying “I need that” It’s their bedtime hour song. Sickly sweet, with slightly scary children, and don’t even get me started on the lyrics. A TINKLE?! A TINKLE???!!!!!
At least the CBeebies version fills a parent with joy, it’s wholesome enough to sing along and sound like you’re being loving and nobody notices that the parent is actually doing an air punch and counting down the minutes until they can open the bar (sadly still just over 58 minutes after the song is complete).
But before you can get to bed, you have to watch the same Peppa Pig episode that has been playing day and night for the last week. There have been approximately 209 episodes of Peppa Pig made. WHY THE HELL DO WE HAVE TO HAVE THE SAME ONES ON TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
Cup of tea anyone?
I know I could change the channel, but the child has stopped attempting to wipe it’s nose in my hair, it’s moved away from the book shelves where it’s been systematically emptying it book by book, and is gravitating towards the TV.
I know I should be expressing rage at the show, dissecting it and discussing about how it betrays feminism, that certain characters such as the Bin Men have “working class accent’s”, yet the Doctor doesn’t, that apparently it encourages naughty behaviour…
…But you know what, pass me the gin because actually I’m enjoying five minutes of relative peace.
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Generational Encounters with Higher Education: The Academic-Student Relationship and the University Experience
Jennie Bristow, Sarah Cant, and Anwesa Chatterjee
The 21st century has witnessed significant changes to the structures and policies framing Higher Education. But how do these changes in norms, values, and purpose shape the generation now coming of age? Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of education. Drawing on a British Academy-funded study, comprising a policy review, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with students and with academics of different generations, and an analysis of responses to the Mass Observation Study, the book explores the qualitative dimensions of the relationshi ... More
The 21st century has witnessed significant changes to the structures and policies framing Higher Education. But how do these changes in norms, values, and purpose shape the generation now coming of age? Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of education. Drawing on a British Academy-funded study, comprising a policy review, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with students and with academics of different generations, and an analysis of responses to the Mass Observation Study, the book explores the qualitative dimensions of the relationship between academics and students, and examines wider issues of culture and socialisation, from tuition fees and student mental health, to social mobility and employment. The book begins with a discussion of the emergence of a ‘graduate generation’, in a context where 50 per cent of young people are encouraged to go to University, on the basis that this is a personal investment in their future careers. Subsequent chapters review the policy changes that have led to this framing of Higher Education as an increasingly individualised experience, where ‘student choice’ is operationalised as the means by which Universities are funded and held to account; historical differences in the experience of Higher Education; and the impact of these changes on the role and status of academic staff and the experience of current and prospective students.
Keywords: Generation, Higher Education, University, Academics, Students, Policy, Massification, Marketization, Mental Health
Print publication date: 2020 Print ISBN-13: 9781529209778
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2020 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529209778.001.0001
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1 Introduction: The Emergence of a ‘Graduate Generation’
2 The Rise of Student Choice, and the Decline of Academic Autonomy
3 Generational Expectations and Experiences of Higher Education
4 The Changing Role of the Academic
5 A Mental Health ‘Crisis’?
6 Growing Up, Moving On? University and the Transition to Adulthood
7 Conclusion: The Generational Responsibility of the University
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Sky Racing World reports record-breaking fiscal year 2016 results
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Sky Racing World, a Louisville, Kentucky-based distributor of international horse-racing content to the Americas and subsidiary of leading Australian wagering operator Tabcorp, has announced unprecedented results for its fiscal year 2016, ending June 30, 2016. The exclusive supplier of Australasian racing content to the North American market has most notably expanded its offering over the last 12 months to include both South African and Argentinian races, in addition to its longstanding Australian and New Zealand coverage.
Sky Racing World saw particular success with its core product, Australian racing, and reported a $215 million turnover, which is a 13% increase on its 2015 fiscal year. Sky Racing World's Australian offerings totaled over 7,800 meetings this year, which is consistent with last year. Notable events included the Sydney Racing Carnival, where the brand saw its strongest turnover day and generated $1.4 million on April 1, 2016, the second day of The Championships.
The financial results can be partly attributed to the quality of this year's Australian racing season and the wagering benefits associated with an average race field size of 11. North American players took advantage of the strong dividends paid out though their wagering platforms and enjoyed the sensational racing entertainment available.
"We are extremely pleased about the growth we've experience this year," said Davd Haslett, President and CEO of Sky Racing World. "The American market has a growing appetite for high-quality international racing entertainment and we are certain this interest will grow throughout the next fiscal year with our extended offering of Australasian racing content."
Sky Racing World's New Zealand racing products also generated significant results with a 42% year-over-year increase on its 2015 performance. In addition over the last year, the company also began offering South African racing 365 days per year, which generated a strong turnover performance, peaking at the recent Durban July meeting.
"This year was a very successful one for both our New Zealand and South African Racing products," said Haslett. "These two markets showed substantial growth and we look forward to further pursuing these opportunities throughout the upcoming financial year."
Most notable for the digital market, Sky Racing World's advance deposit wagering (ADWs) partnerships, including the likes of TVG, BetAmerica, TwinSpires, Xpressbet, HPiBet, MyWinners, and NYRA Rewards, saw a year-on-year growth in turnover of 17.8%, according to the ADWs' data.
For more information on Sky Racing World, please contact Sky Racing World.
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The UK has some of the most eerie and unnerving folk tales to be found in the world. And if you’ve been to a few of Popcorn Horror’s film events; you’ll know that we are big fans of folk inspired horror. As part of Glasgow Horror Fest, we have screened the multi award winning Dogged and spooky documentary Bella in the Wytch Elm – both based on UK myths and legends.
This year, another UK folk icon is coming to the big screen in Glasgow. Glasgow Horror Fest: BITE SIZE will be screening The Black Gloves, from Scottish indie horror house Hex Media; which sees the terrifying Owlman return to the screen in the studios second adaptation of the legend. But who is The Owlman? Here’s ten things you should know about the beast, to get you up to date with the story.
1. The Owlman originates in Cornish folklore, with the first sighting thought to be in Mawnan, Cornwall in 1976. A creature with the traits of both a man and a bird was spotted by two terrified young girls, and later investigated by paranormal researcher Tony “Doc” Shiels. When the incident occurred, police asked the children to produce drawings of what they had witnessed – with both illustrating similar features.
2. Most accounts of Owlman sightings were young women, usually under eighteen. The mostly all described him as a flying creature about five feet tall, half man, half owl with glowing red eyes, silver feathers and crab-like claws. Some also reported hearing a crackling static noise as the creature flew away.
3. The Owlman was mostly spotted around the 13th century Mawnan Church, which was said to be a sight used for ancient rituals long before the church was built. The creature was spotted on top of the church tower, in the churchyard amid the gravestones, and in the woods behind the church.
4. The Owlman was spotted again shortly after the first sighting in 1976. In July of the same year, two 14-year-old girls decided to go camping in the area, but spotted a giant owl of human-size ‘with glowing eyes’. This sighting brought the case to public attention, and brought media attention to the sightings.
5. Sporadic claims of “Owlman” sightings in the vicinity of the church circulated in 1978, 1979, 1989, and 1995, and according to legend, a “loud, owl-like sound” could be heard at night in the Mawnan church yard during the year 2000.
6. The back door entrance to the church is covered with ominous hand prints, as though people have been scrambling to open doors while fleeing from something in the yard.
7. In 1995, a woman from Chicago who was vacationing in Cornwall wrote to the Western Morning News reporting that she had seen a “man-bird … with a ghastly face, a wide mouth, glowing eyes, and pointed ears.”
8. The team at Hex Media have gained viral fame with their series of pranks featuring The Owlman character. You can watch one here where the creature surprises intruders in an abandoned hospital.
9. Hex Media introduced their take on the character in their debut film Lord of Tears. Lord of Tears tells the story of James Findlay, a school teacher tortured by childhood memories of a strange and unsettling entity – a figure dressed like a Victorian gentleman but with the head of an Owl, and elongated limbs with sharp claws.
10. The second film in the series is The Black Gloves – screening at Glasgow Horror Fest: BITE SIZE. The Black Gloves tells the story of a psychologist obsessed with the disappearance of his young patient, and the menacing owl-headed figure that plagued her nightmares. His investigations lead him to a reclusive ballerina who, just like his patient, is convinced that she is about to die at the hands of this disturbing entity. In the bleak Scottish highlands, Finn counsels his new patient, under the watchful eye of her sinister ballet teacher. He soon finds himself entangled in a ballet of paranoia, dark agendas and a maze of deadly twists and turns, as the legend of the Owlman becomes a terrifying reality.
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Oakland: Restraining Order Restricts Teargas, Flashbangs And Projectiles
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Above photo: Oakland, CA – MAY 29: Protesters move away as police shoot flash bang grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowd during a protest on George Floyd’s death by Minneapolis police. Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group.
Judge issues Temporary Restraining Order against Oakland Police Department.
A Victory for Oakland, A Victory for All.
On June 18, 2020, at 1 pm, an Oakland judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and Order to Show Cause against the Oakland Police Department. The order was filed by civil rights attorneys Dan Siegel and Walter Riley and National Lawyers Guild – San Francisco Bay Area attorney James Burch.
This initial victory is part of a larger lawsuit by the attorneys on behalf of two organizational plaintiffs, Anti Police-Terror Project and Community Ready Corps, and individual plaintiffs, Oakland Tech student Akil Riley and protestors Ian Mcdonnell, Nico Nada, Azize Ngo, and Jennifer Li on behalf of themselves and similarly situated individuals.
As described by Dan Siegel, “The temporary restraining order issued by the court at 6 pm tonight is an important victory for the people of Oakland and the struggle against police terror. Less than a day after we filed our request for the TRO, along with a mountain of evidence demonstrating police violence against people protesting racial violence, [US District] Judge Joseph Spero called the attorneys together and then issued the order forbidding police use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash-bang grenades against protestors, effective immediately. This is the first major step in our lawsuit. We will soon ask the Court to issue a preliminary injunction, with broader provisions, and will prepare for a trial, where we will seek major changes in the operations of OPD and damages for people injured by police violence.”
Specifically, the TRO states:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, pending further hearing and the Court’s Order, that defendants City of Oakland, Police Chief Susan Manheimer, et al., and all persons acting on their behalf and under their supervision are forbidden from:
1. Using tear gas or any other chemical weapons against persons taking part in a protest or demonstration.
2. Firing rubber bullets or similar projectiles at persons taking part in a protest or demonstration.
3. Firing flash bang grenades at persons taking part in a protest or demonstration.
4. The prohibitions of paragraphs 1 and 3 do not apply where, upon the decision of the OPD Operations Commander or Incident Commander, it is determined that the use of tear gas or any other chemical weapon or flash bang grenades is reasonably necessary to protect the lives of people, protect people from serious bodily injury, or to prevent the imminent destruction of property, tear gas or other chemical weapons or flash bang grenades at Oakland City Hall, the OPD Administration Building, or the OPD Eastmont Mall Substation to protect persons or protect that property from destruction. Flash bang grenades may not be fired directly at persons but must be fired only in a safe direction. To the fullest extent possible, such use of tear gas or other chemical weapons and flash bang grenades is allowed only after an audible warning of their use has been issued and after sufficient time to comply has been granted.
5. In all actions in which the Oakland Police Department calls in police personnel from other jurisdictions under mutual aid agreements, to the fullest extent possible OPD personnel shall endeavor to assume front line positions between mutual aid officers and demonstrators.
This Order shall remain in effect until further Order of the Court. This matter shall be heard by the Court on July 2, 2020, on Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction.
In the words of NLG-SF Counsel James Burch, “This is an important victory in the movement for police accountability – a step towards the larger victories that the people are demanding and that are on the way.”
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Erasing your ecological footprint using carbon offsets? Make sure to get all the details.
Kimberly Lisagor
Illustration By: James Yang
today was a good, green day. I rode my bike to the post office, a dentist appointment, and a lunch meeting. In doing so, I eliminated 4.3 miles of car travel that, according to the NativeEnergy carbon calculator, would have spewed four pounds of CO² into the environment. Oh, that everyone could be as climate-conscious as me.
Sadly, the sentiment was short-lived. Eager to see how my model lifestyle compared to that of lesser beings, I took the Earth Day Network’s online ecological footprint quiz. Turns out, my footprint is 16 percent heavier than the average American’s (excessive air travel cancels out quite a few bike trips, apparently). The quiz’s stinging conclusion: “If everyone lived like you, we would need 6.2 planets.”
Humbled and mildly indignant, I did what any American consumer would do: looked to buy my way out of the problem. Enter carbon offsets, the handy mechanism that allows us to convert our units of personal carbon emissions into dollars for wind farms, reforestation projects, and other conscience-cleansing pursuits. The theory is that such investments cancel out the environmental harm we do by burning gasoline and living in warm, gadget-laden homes.
Because air travel is my biggest vice, I started by plugging a year’s worth of flights into various online travel calculators. The cost of redemption for 34,000 air miles: $168, according to NativeEnergy; $160.89 per MyClimate; or $64.95 on TerraPass. When I added up my total carbon footprint (air travel, auto, and home energy), the price tags ranged from $180 to $408 per year. Why would anyone spend $408 when she could choose a $180 offset instead?
“As a tendency, the cheaper the program, the more likely it is that the quality is not very good,” says Wolfgang Strasdas, who recently completed a study on carbon offsets for the International Ecotourism Society. Strasdas judged carbon-offset companies on three main factors: how credible they are, how they spend your money, and how they calculate emissions. The latter accounts for the major discrepancies in price, especially regarding air travel.
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) says that the greenhouse effect of an airplane burning fuel at a high elevation is 2.7 times that of the actual emissions. Some scientists have placed that number as high as 5.8; others deem the issue too complex to factor. As a rule of thumb, Strasdas says, a program that calculates air-travel emissions according to the ipcc standard should sell offsets that add about 10 to 20 percent to the cost of an economy ticket. The other piece of the pricing picture is that companies charge different rates for each ton of carbon they offset. A recent Tufts Climate Initiative study of 13 carbon-offset companies found prices ranging from $5.50 to $27.40 per ton of carbon. It did not, however, find a definitive link between low price and low quality.
Which brings us to the offsets themselves. When I buy carbon credits toward a wind plant or a methane farm, what exactly am I getting? How do I know that the dollars I designate for, say, a Sumatran hydraulic power station will eliminate the promised amount of greenhouse gas? To provide some accountability, most of the offset companies use third-party certification such as Gold Standard, which has strict guidelines for projects in developing countries; the Center for Resource Solutions is launching the Green-e program to do the same for U.S. projects. The certifying agencies evaluate offset projects on factors such as “additionality” (whether the greenhouse-gas reduction would happen anyway) and “double counting” (more than one stakeholder takes credit for the same project). But they don’t weigh in on which type of offset is best. Carbonfund offers me a choice of renewables, energy efficiency, or reforestation projects. At NativeEnergy, I can opt for a wind program, a project that converts cow manure into methane-generated electricity, or a 50-50 blend. And Atmosfair has an experimental program that produces electricity from the methane emitted by Brazilian garbage. Other companies have offset portfolios with a mix of energy and forest projects in the United States and abroad. Is a dairy farm methane project in Pennsylvania somehow better than a wind farm in Madagascar?
Nope, says the Tufts report, which supports any reputable renewable-energy and energy-efficiency project. Land use and forestry projects, however, get a less enthusiastic review. Reforestation has long been popular among consumers, but the environmental payoff is relatively low, the study found. “If the whole thing burns down 10 years after having planted those trees,” Strasdas explains, “it’s all gone. The effect is zero.” Investing in energy efficiency projects and renewable energies is a better choice, he says. That way, “you’re tackling the problem at its source.”
Still, there’s a bigger issue here. The whole idea of atonement by credit card seems counterintuitive. It’s as if we’re saying polluting is okay, as long as you can afford to pay. But Strasdas says we should think of it as a last resort. Yes, we should all strive to emit less carbon, but some emissions are harder to avoid (“You cannot have planes that are flying on renewable energy, at least not in the foreseeable future,” he points out). That’s where offsets can help. “This is not the way out. This is a temporary relief of pressure on the earth’s atmosphere,” Strasdas says. “For the time being I think it’s a very good way to bridge the gap.”
So I’ll buy my offsets—a blend of methane and wind, perhaps, with a smattering of solar. I’ll also consolidate some airplane trips, shop locally, keep riding my bike, and lower the thermostat, all in the hope that one day my environmental sins can be contained in a single planet, not 6.2.
Carbon-Offset Comparisons
Of the 13 carbon-offset companies analyzed by the Tufts Climate Initiative, 4 were recommended, and 6 others were recommended “with reservations.” The 2 highest-rated companies are German and Australian; the other 5 cited below are the recommended U.S.-based companies.
EMISSIONS CALCULATIONS
SAMPLE PROJECT
PRICE PER TON OF CO2 OFFSET
Atmosfair “excellent” Large-scale solar
cookers in India $17.30
Climate Friendly “excellent” Wind farms in Australia
and New Zealand $14.50
NativeEnergy “very good” Wind farm on the Rosebud Sioux reservation, S.D. $12
MyClimate “acceptable, but emissions likely underestimated” Micro-hydropower systems in the Indian Himalaya $18
CarbonCounter “too low” Reforestation in Oregon’s Deschutes River basin $10
Carbonfund “too low” Low-income solar-powered housing in Chicago $5.50
TerraPass “too low” Converting cow manure to electricity in Minnesota $10
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Will All Law Firms Eventually Corporatize?
Ron Friedmann, 3 years ago 7 min read 4112
INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATIZE TOPIC and CHRIS BULL
I recently spoke with my former colleague Chris Bull who made the interesting observation that law firms will corporatize. I was intrigued about what he meant and why, so interviewed him.
Chris is the Executive Director of Kingsmead Square, a UK-based legal consultancy. His background includes experience as a former large firm COO and expert in Alternative Business Structures. He and I worked together on the management team at legal process outsourcing provider Integreon. His recent engagements include working as KPMG’s ambassador in the UK professional services vertical, developing best practice guides in LPM, eBilling, legal process improvement for law firm network Lex Mundi and working with law firms to leverage data and analytics to make insight and evidence based business decisions.
INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS BULL ON WILL ALL FIRMS EVENTUALLY CORPORATIZE?
Ron: You commented when we spoke over the summer that large law firms that “corporatize” would be more successful long term. I was intrigued by the comment. But what exactly does it mean?
Chris: I think the term can be confusing as there isn’t a black-line where firms become corporatized, but a corporatization spectrum. Let’s also agree at the outset that the UK, where regulators and tax authorities have helped stimulate the shift, is pushing this trend hardest.
At one end of the spectrum, it involves both existing firms and a high percentage of new start-ups and spin-outs choosing a limited company structure over partnership. In some jurisdictions, it also means legal businesses that are partially or wholly externally funded and owned, including by non-lawyers in places like the UK and Australia.
But my interest and attention focuses on the middle of the spectrum – where many law firms are adopting corporate management and governance. Many firms, especially global ones, keep the partnership exoskeleton but behave more like corporations in many ways. I would probably describe this as an inevitable shift for most firms; only those who handle the change well will be successful.
Ron: What drives the corporatizing trend? Is it alternative business structures (ABS) in the UK, client pressure, alternative providers, more competition, firms getting bigger, or something else?
Chris: Multiple factors drive the trend, all pushing in the same direction for at least the last ten years:
Scale is a big one; maintaining a traditional partnership model with high levels of autonomy becomes very challenging as firms get large and spread globally. Corporates developed successful, proven models for managing scale a long time back and the larger professional services firms have been adopting many of those.
Professional Business Management. The hiring by many law firms of numerous experienced business professionals from the corporate world has introduced more corporate management styles,
Alternative Business Structures in the UK have introduced non-lawyer ownership and, with that, has come both professional management and corporate governance.
Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSP). In the last few years, as alternative legal service models, start-ups and now a new ecosystem of legal tech have emerged, conventional firms have begun to adopt some of their features.
With these changes, I see a fundamental tipping point. As with many critical shifts, this one has gone largely unremarked: the default business model for a new legal service business is no longer the partnership.
Ron: How exactly are firms corporatizing?
Chris: Let’s focus on larger US and UK firms that have kept their legal and tax status as partnerships but are adopting ‘corporate practices’ in five ways at varying speeds. Firms that embrace all five will, I predict, incorporate as soon as they can do so without suffering substantial tax costs or liability risks. The five practices are:
Effective Control by the Executive. Many successful and dynamic firms have introduced a compact Executive Committee or Board with extensive authority and responsibility, entirely separate from a Board or Council that represents the views of a broad range of partners on risk and long-term strategy.
Demise of the Partnership Vote. This is a companion to #1 above. Many firms have reduced levels of regular all-Partner engagement in firm management. All-Partner meetings with any meaningful decision-making powers are becoming rare in the larger firms, shifting towards the format of a corporate Annual General Meeting of corporate shareholders. Partners, particularly those outside of the most senior equity positions, retain significant status as talented and critical client-facing resources but have less say in or knowledge of the overall firm’s most sensitive performance and decisions.
Professional Management. Increasing numbers of powerful and well paid executive roles are no long held by Partners or lawyers. A growing band of firms have redefined their senior executive role as CEO as opposed to Managing Partner. In some cases, this role is open to and has been successfully filled by executives hired from outside the firm and outside the law. In many more instances, powerful COO roles are being created that are most commonly held by professionals not trained as lawyers. A wide range of other business leadership ‘C-suite’ roles are also becoming common in firms – with responsibility for once niche areas such as Strategy, Innovation, Pricing, and Business Intelligence. In the more corporatized firms, the number of these roles sitting at the senior executive table outnumber those held by lawyers.
Corporate Pay Structure Partnership remuneration and structure has been spliced with corporate employment models. In many firms, the traditional holistic Partner Profit Share is being broken down in corporate style, with an ‘annual salary’ component separated from any return on capital and performance bonus. UK top 20 firm Irwin Mitchell have probably taken this unbundling further than anyone. Those (enlightened?) firms where a profits-related annual bonus is available to all staff, not just to Partners are moving even closer to a ‘best practice’ corporate model. Partnership models have also shifted quite dramatically over the last 15 years with massed ranks of salaried, fixed share or junior partners now outnumbering equity partners in some firms. Post-global financial crisis, some firms have rigidly withheld new partnerships, shrinking the equity ownership base and beginning to look much more like a founder or family owned private company than the fluid, meritocratic partnership model.
Independent Boards. More firms are appointing independent external Non-Executive Directors (NEDs). I have been examining the trend for UK law firms to appoint external NEDs to sit on their Boards and now estimate that over 1/3rd of the top 200 firms have one, sometimes more, NEDs. In some cases the NEDs are replacing the Senior Partner in chairing the firm; some high-profile Chairs have been appointed from outside the firm’s ranks, including Tony Angel at DLA Piper and, recently, Sir Nigel Knowles at DWF in the UK. Pioneer firms brought independents into the Boardroom to advise the Partnership many years ago but the trend is now to formalize these as full-member voting roles. The increasingly large, ambitious law firm operating in a more competitive, global and technologically enabled market is recognizing that a Boardroom composed of just lawyers (with maybe one accountant to report the numbers) is recognizing that it doesn’t possess the diversity of experience or expertise required.
Ron: Many of these trends can be seen in many firms, but do you really feel that adds up to an inevitability that law firms will corporatize?
Chris: I do. With the caveat that tax and regulation can make it tough for existing partnerships to take the final, formal step to become a corporate entity, I believe that we are seeing multiple factors that shift the way in which our law firms works much closer to corporations in other sectors and away from the conventional partnership.
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The National WWII Museum
PLANAR VIDEO WALLS PROVIDE IMMERSIVE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
The National WWII Museum was established to tell the story of the war that changed the world- why it was fought, how it was won and what it means today. To effectively tell the story to this and future generations, museum leaders and supporters recognized the necessity of using 21st century technology to connect with visitors and immerse them in the historical event in a manner that both educates and entertains. That recognition led to the decision to invest in video wall technology and the selection of the Clarity™ Matrix LCD Video Wall System from Planar.
Three Clarity Matrix video walls are installed in the newest part of the museum, called US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center. Mounted on three walls of the massive space, Clarity Matrix was specified by the New Orleans-based entertainment design and technology firm, Solomon Group. Research into the technology options began in late 2011 and concluded with selection and installation of the Planar video walls – 46-inch and 55-inch Clarity Matrix models – in early 2013.
"The Clarity Matrix video walls are a stunning visual component to the US Freedom Pavilion. The detail in the imagery they depict is remarkable. We and The National WWII Museum team could not be more pleased with how well they perform," says Jonathan Foucheaux, Partner, Solomon Group.
One video wall is comprised of 64 of Clarity Matrix 46-inch MX46HD-L panels in an 8 x 8 configuration that show a film called Arsenal of Democracy, which was specifically produced for the museum. "We partitioned this video wall into four quadrants. Feeding each one with a full 1920 x 1080HD video signal provides nearly 4k images that are stunning in visual quality," Foucheaux says. "The second and third video walls are 4x4 configurations of the 55-inch MX55HD-L panels. These video walls, which are similarly fed, run a custom-written interactive exhibit called What Would You Do? They prompt viewers to make their own decisions when faced with real-world situations. The visual experience is especially moving and engaging," he adds.
Slim profile of Clarity Matrix delivers numerous benefits
In addition to its image quality, Clarity Matrix was the preferred solution for the museum because of its slim profile. Clarity Matrix displays each have a total depth of less than four inches which serves two purposes, Foucheaux says. "First, each display mounts closely to the wall, which makes it feel integral to the architecture of the space." Second, even the larger of these two display sizes weighs no more than 60 lbs. "As a result, it made handling very easy and enabled us to complete the installation in about half the time it would have taken with other manufacturers' products. That enhanced our cost-to-install and meant much quicker uptime for the museum."
The mounting system Planar designed for Clarity Matrix was a differentiator as well. Planar's EasyAxis™ Mounting System is a purpose-built solution that mates brackets on the back of each display to a set of six-axis cams that are part of the frame that attaches to the museum wall. "There's nothing else like the EasyAxis Mounting System on the market," Foucheaux says. "It simplifies the mounting process and all but guarantees flawless panel-to-panel alignment. That's especially important on big walls such as these where you want everything to line up perfectly."
Mounting system keeps maintenance costs down
Other benefits accrue from Planar's EasyAxis Mounting System. First, the system allows for the routing of cables from the display to power supplies, controllers and other components which are remotely located, keeping unnecessary heat away from the Clarity Matrix displays. "Also, because Clarity Matrix runs on a low-voltage infrastructure, we were able to handle those and the Cat6 cables ourselves, which avoided the need for and the added cost of an outside electrical sub-contractor," Foucheaux says.
Further, the EasyAxis Mounting System allows any Clarity Matrix display to be pulled out from the front and lifted up, thereby providing access to any adjacent display that may require maintenance. "This means we don't have to power down the entire wall to service a single panel. It's another reason that Planar's Clarity Matrix is the only video wall system that we recommend and carry," Foucheaux says.
Planar is ideal project partner
He concludes by giving high marks to Planar as a project partner. "Doing an installation of this type on a new building is a challenge. But Planar was there and quick to help whenever we needed it. When one Clarity Matrix display was accidentally damaged during installation, Planar sent us a new one overnight and we had it replaced the following day. All the more reason for us to specify Clarity Matrix and other Planar video wall products on future projects."
Clarity Matrix G3 LCD Video Wall System
Model: Clarity Matrix G3 LCD Video Wall System
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Occupy the Pews
Heather Digby Parton
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It looks like it’s going to be a long hot summer. The Christian News Service reports:
Having organized 43 plaintiffs—including the archdioceses of New York and Washington and the University of Notre Dame—to file 12 different lawsuits against the Obama administration last Monday alleging the administration is violating the religious freedom of Catholics, the Catholic bishops of the United States are now preparing Catholics for what may be the most massive campaign of civil disobedience in this country since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and early 1960s.
“Some unjust laws impose such injustices on individuals and organizations that disobeying the laws may be justified,” the bishops state in a document developed to be inserted into church bulletins in Catholic parishes around the country in June…
The bulletin insert reminds Catholic parishioners that the bishops have called for “A Fortnight of Freedom”—which they have described as “a special period of prayer, study, catechesis, and public action”—to take place from June 21 to July 4.
In case you’re wondering, Sarah Posner at Religion Dispatches has been covering the “Fortnight for Freedom” for a while. (I’m still wondering if anyone in America will understand what a fortnight is…) They may be disappointed in the turn out, however. While I’m sure there are plenty of conservative Catholics who will join the cause, it’s not a majority opinion among the flock:
Catholics overall are generally more supportive than the general public of the contraception coverage requirements. Nearly two-thirds (65%) say that publicly held corporations should be held to this requirement. Roughly 6-in-10 report that religiously affiliated social service agencies, colleges, hospitals, and privately owned small businesses should be required to provide health care plans that cover contraception. Less than half (47%) say churches and other places of worship should be required to provide this coverage.
White Catholics make few distinctions between churches and other religiously affiliated employers. Less than half of white Catholics believe that churches (43%), religiously affiliated colleges (43%), social service agencies (44%), and hospitals (48%) should be required to include contraception coverage in their insurance plans. However, a majority of white Catholics believe that non-religiously affiliated employers, including privately owned small businesses (55%) and public corporations (61%), should be required to provide employees with contraception coverage.
They may be able to muster a campaign of civil disobedience with the help of evangelical protestants but the problem is that the Catholic Church is the church that employs large numbers of people in non-church institutions. On the other hand, they signaled some time back that they were going to enlist like-minded private employers in their fight (a signal that Roy Blunt heard loud and clear when he filed his Amendment allowing a “conscience” opt-out in the name of religious freedom.)
It remains to be seen if this will turn into massive civil disobedience. And it’s hard to know exactly how they define such a thing. But it certainly sounds as if it’s something beyond employers refusing to comply with the Obamacare rules. I can hardly wait to see what they have in mind.
Heather Digby Parton is guest blogging this week while Kevin Drum is on vacation.
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Residents Displaced by Massive Sinkhole Reach $48 Million Settlement With Mining Company
The 30-acre Bayou Corne sinkhole.Jeffrey Dubinsky for Leanweb.org/LMRK.org
Twenty months after a 30-acre sinkhole opened up in the swamp behind their community, Bayou Corne, Louisiana, residents reached a $48 million settlement with the salt-mining company Texas Brine. Geologists say the company’s collapsed storage caverns likely triggered the environmental catastrophe and the series of small earthquakes that accompanied it. The class-action lawsuit, filed by the 90 homeowners who hadn’t taken buyout offers from the company, was scheduled to go to trial next week. Residents of the community of 300 have been under a mandatory evacuation order since August of 2012 over fears that explosive-level gases might collect under their homes—although some residents have installed air monitors in an effort to wait it out.
Per the Baton Rouge Advocate:
“We firmly believe the $48 million is a really good settlement number,” said Larry Centola, one of the attorney’s representing the owners and residents of about 90 homes and camps in the Bayou Corne area.
The settlement comes a few weeks after Texas Brine closed on the last of the 66 direct, out-of-court property buyouts and appears to provide a path toward conclusion for another wave of Bayou Corne residents displaced by the sinkhole disaster now more than 20 months old.
As I reported in a story for the magazine last year, the sinkhole has confounded geologists and state regulators, who previously believed that it was impossible for an underground salt cavern like the one underneath Bayou Corne—and used for natural gas storage by energy companies all over the Gulf Coast—to collapse from the side. But that’s what happened. In the meantime, residents have been left to wonder if their community will meet the same fate as the town next door, Grand Bayou, which was evacuated and reduced to empty slabs after a natural gas leak a decade earlier.
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Alaska’s Stranded Walruses Face a New Threat: Oil Drillers
Tim McDonnell
Yellow lines show the movement of radio-tracked walruses in 2013; the green highlighted section is where offshore drilling leases are available. USGS
Remember that jaw-dropping photo from last week that showed 35,000 walruses crammed onto a narrow strip of land because they couldn’t find enough space on the disappearing Arctic sea ice? Turns out melting ice isn’t the only thing the walruses have to worry about.
Last month, the energy blog Fuel Fix reported on details of Shell’s newest plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. The company has a history of failure in the Arctic since it first got a federal green-light to explore there in 2012. Now they’ll be heading back out next summer for another try, with up to six new wells in the Chukchi Sea.
The ocean expanse north of Alaska where Shell wants to drill is the most popular hangout for Alaskan walruses, as the map above, from a US Geological Survey study of walruses last year, shows. The yellow lines show the movements of a group of walruses over a two-week period in July 2013; red X’s mark where researchers deployed radio tags on the walruses. The green outline indicates the cluster of Arctic oil drilling lease locations administered by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, including those Shell is eyeing. The wells would be upstream of Hanna Shoals, a biologically rich shallow shelf that tends to hold sea ice longer than other areas.
The Shoals are vital walrus habitat, especially as climate change diminishes sea ice throughout the Arctic, said Margaret Williams, Arctic programs director for the World Wildlife Fund. Risks to the walruses (and other marine life, for that matter) include disturbance by ship traffic and the fallout from oil spills. Spill cleanup is particularly challenging in icy waters, and the nearest Coast Guard station is across the state in Kodiak.
“It’s an amazing place that is full of life, with a very rich food chain,” Willaims said. If oil and gas drilling goes forward, “you have a huge potential mess.”
If These 35,000 Walruses Can’t Convince You Climate Change Is Real, I Don’t Know What to Tell You
TIMELINE: Shell’s Year of Arctic Screwups
Shell Gets Massive, Involuntary Aid Package from Alaska, the US Coast Guard, and You
Philip Bump
Walrus Without Ice
Julia Whitty
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The Lawyer Who Handled Dylann Roof’s Drug Case Says He Seemed Like “Just a Normal Kid”
Roof was previously arrested in March. Here’s what else we know.
AJ Vicens
Broadleak News
After Dylann Storm Roof was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly shooting nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Ken Mathews, an attorney who has been representing Roof in an ongoing drug-possession case, was, he says, “very shocked” to hear about what Roof had allegedly done. He tells Mother Jones, “The dealings I had with him, he was just a normal kid.”
Mathews, a Columbia, South Carolina, attorney, notes that so far in the drug case he has had “very limited dealings” with Roof. He says he saw “nothing that would indicate that [Roof] would take this type of action.”
The local police have called the shooting a hate crime. Mathews says he has seen no signs that Roof harbored any racial animus: “I had no inkling of anything like that in the dealings I had with him.”
Mathews has known the Roof family for years, dating back to a custody dispute between Dylann’s father Ben and mother Amy over visitation rights concerning Dylann. Mathews says he spoke to Dylann’s father this morning, and “it’s very, very difficult.”
Mathews became Roof’s lawyer after Roof was arrested in March at the Columbiana Centre, a mall in Columbia, and charged with possession of suboxone, a drug used to treat opiate withdrawals. Mathews says Roof had gone into some stores and “asked people some questions, which made some people uncomfortable,” including what time the stores closed. Someone at one of the stores contacted the authorities. Roof was stopped and searched, according to Mathews, and the police found he was carrying suboxone and arrested him. Roof was also given a trespassing warning, which he violated a couple of weeks later, Mathews notes, and Roof was subsequently cited for trespassing.
Here’s what else we know about Roof:
Roof, 21, was arrested midday Thursday in Shelby, North Carolina, about a three and a half-hour drive from the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The shooting of nine black churchgoers happened at about 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Charleston police chief Greg Mullen said he believed the shooting to be a “hate crime.”
Roof’s uncle told Reuters that Roof was introverted and soft-spoken.
The uncle also said Roof’s father had recently given him a .45-caliber handgun as a birthday present. “I don’t have any words for it. Nobody in my family had seen anything like this coming,” he said.
Roof is from Lexington, South Carolina, and attended White Knoll High School, which a high school friend said had a mix of black and white students.
An ornamental license plate on the front of Roof’s car had a Confederate flag on it.
Roof’s roommate told ABC News that Roof was a “bit into segregation and other stuff,” and “said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
Dylann Roof Had Confederate Plates. Here’s Why the Rebel Flag Still Flies in South Carolina.
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Madison Pauly
When Falling Behind on Rent Leads to Jail Time
Maya Miller and Ellis Simani
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Marco Rubio Gets a Big Boost From Two Loyal Billionaires
Larry Ellison and Norman Braman put their money where their mouths are.
Pema Levy
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Two billionaires—one an eccentric ex-CEO with a striking resemblance to Tony Stark, the other a car dealer with a low public profile—have led the way in bankrolling the super-PAC backing Marco Rubio’s presidential bid. Conservative Solutions PAC brought in a total of nearly $16 million in the first half of the year, putting Rubio’s unlimited-donations group in third among super-PACs backing Republican presidential candidates, behind just Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise PAC, which raised a towering $103 million, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Unintimidated PAC, which brought in $20 million.
Larry Ellison, the Iron Man-esque founder of Oracle, gave $3 million to Conservative Solutions PAC in the first six months of 2015, according to the group’s first filing with the Federal Election Commission, released Friday. Ellison hosted a fundraiser for Rubio in June, sparking speculation about how dedicated he was to the Florida senator. A few million might not mean much to Ellison, the world’s fifth-richest man with a net worth of $54 billion, but the fact that he is indeed backing up his support with cash is significant to Rubio.
Rubio’s super-PAC also took in $5 million from Norman Braman, a billionaire car dealer in Miami and a close ally of Rubio’s for years. A relative unknown outside of Florida, Braman is a die-hard Rubio fan willing to give significantly more than the $5 million he has already put into the super-PAC.
Until he threw his hat into the ring in April, political observers in Washington and Florida were skeptical that Rubio would ultimately challenge his friend and mentor, Jeb Bush, for the Republican nomination. Many believed Rubio would ultimately bow out to Bush and hope for a vice-presidential bid or a chance to run for governor of Florida in 2018. Even after he entered the race, that belief persisted, with some speculation that that Rubio’s bid was unserious—an attempt to make a name for himself for a future run, or maybe a VP spot—and that Rubio knew he couldn’t beat Bush.
His significant haul in the race could change that perception. Sure, Rubio’s $16 million is puny compared to Bush’s $103 million—but so is everyone else’s fundraising. And yes, Bush has 23 donors who gave $1 million or more to his super-PAC—after he specifically urged donors to keep their contributions to six figures or fewer—while Rubio has four. But Rubio has two very rich men behind him. And they, at least, don’t appear to be messing around.
Meet the Megadonors Bankrolling Jeb Bush’s Campaign
Russ Choma
Is Marco Rubio This Eccentric Billionaire’s New Pet Project?
Marco Rubio’s 2016 Campaign Could Depend on This Billionaire Car Dealer
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Question: Can A Narcissist And A Borderline Stay Together?
What happens when you leave a borderline?
Can someone with BPD ever be happy?
Why are borderlines so angry?
What it’s like dating someone with BPD?
Why do therapists hate borderlines?
Are Narcissists intelligent?
What does narcissistic abuse feel like?
Are bpd aware of their behavior?
Can someone be both borderline and narcissistic?
Can two narcissists have a successful relationship?
Are Narcissists happy?
Are borderlines attracted to narcissists?
How do you end a relationship with a borderline personality disorder?
Why do borderlines leave suddenly?
What can be confused with narcissism?
People with BPD may simultaneously fear abandonment and have symptoms that create conflicts with others.
For instance, they may display volatile moods, distress intolerance, extremes of anger and withdrawal, and impulsivity..
This person says it exactly right — people with BPD have very intense emotions that can last from a few hours to even a few days, and can change very quickly. For example, we can go from feeling very happy to suddenly feeling very low and sad.
Many people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) experience anger so intense it is often referred to as “borderline rage.” This anger sometimes comes in response to a perceived interpersonal slight — for example, feeling criticized by a loved one.
A romantic relationship with someone with BPD can be, in a word, stormy. It’s not uncommon to experience a great deal of turmoil and dysfunction. However, people with BPD can be exceptionally caring, compassionate, and affectionate. In fact, some people find this level of devotion from a partner pleasant.
Many therapists share the general stigma that surrounds patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Some even avoid working with such patients because of the perception that they are difficult to treat.
The researchers found that while many narcissists may perceive themselves as highly intelligent, critical thinkers, they are less likely to use important reflective thinking strategies when solving problems, Therefore, the high levels of confidence they have in their intellectual abilities are often misplaced.
They say that they feel insane and often question themselves. They lose trust in those close to them, such as family or friends. They feel that the narcissistic person is the only person who deems them worthy. They’re often feeling insecure or ashamed of their work or creativity.
Results revealed altered reactions to self-awareness cues in BPD. While BPD patients avoided such a cue slightly more often, they were more often aware of their behavior than healthy participants.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality. Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder that frequently co-occurs with borderline personality disorder (BPD). The addition of NPD into the diagnostic picture may complicate the treatment and course of BPD.
As difficult as it might be to imagine two of the more self-aggrandizing type of narcissists together, it may seem even more improbable that two deeply insecure, or vulnerable, narcissists would be able to form and then maintain a relationship.
Narcissists might have “grandiose” delusions about their own importance and an absence of “shame” – but psychologists say they are also likely to be happier than most people.
The reason why these personality types are attracted to one another is they magnetise. Each one helps the other play out their individual drama by fulfilling their needs. In the case of the borderline sufferer, when they first encounter the narcissist, they see everything they are not and cannot do.
Do not become unkind to them by yelling at them. … Do not abandon your partner with BPD—if possible—rather, slowly disengage and detach with love and compassion. … Be clear with the person you are breaking away from. … If your partner threatens suicide or to harm you must take these threats seriously.
In essence, people with BPD are often terrified that others will leave them. However, they can also shift suddenly to feeling smothered and fearful of intimacy, which leads them to withdraw from relationships.
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is 1 of the 4 cluster B personality disorders, which also include antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and histrionic personality disorder (HPD).
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Can chewing on one side cause bad posture?
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What promotes nerve healing? Typically, damaged nerve
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An overview of regular dialysis treatment in Japan as of 31 December 2003
Shigeru Nakai, Takahiro Shinzato, Yuji Nagura, Ikuto Masakane, Tateki Kitaoka, Toshio Shinoda, Chikao Yamazaki, Rumi Sakai, Osamu Morita, Kunitoshi Iseki, Kenjiro Kikuchi, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Kaoru Tabei, Kiyohide Fushimi, Naoko Miwa, Atsushi Wada, Mitsuru Yauchi, Seiji Marubayashi, Naoki Kimata, Takeshi Usami
Kenji Wakai, Takashi Akiba
Faculty of Clinical Engineering
A statistical survey of 3750 nationwide dialysis facilities was carried out by the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) at the end of 2003, with answers to the questionnaires received from 3717 facilities (99.12%). The population of dialysis patients in Japan at the end of 2003 was 237,710, and the number of dialysis patients per million people was 1862.7. The crude death rate during a 1-year period from the end of 2002 to the end of 2003 was 9.3%. The mean age of patients newly introduced to dialysis was 65.4 years, and the mean age of the entire dialysis population was 62.3 years. The primary diseases in the patients newly introduced to dialysis in 2003 included diabetic nephropathy (41.0% of patients) and chronic glomerulonephritis (29.1% of patients). The mean serum neutral fat concentration for all the dialysis patients was 113.9 ± 71.7 mg/dL (± SD). The mean serum low density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol concentration was 90.8 ± 30.9 mg/dL. Dialysate calcium concentrations ranging from 3.0 mEq/L to less than 3.5 mEq/L were used for majority of the dialysis patients (55.4%). Among anticoagulants given to the dialysis patients, heparins were the most commonly used in 79.3% of the dialysis patients. The relationship between blood pressure during dialysis and life expectancy for 1 year was analyzed for 43 465 patients who had undergone dialysis three times per week at the end of 2001. Results showed a significantly high mortality risk for patients who had systolic blood pressure of less than 100 mm Hg at the start of dialysis, systolic blood pressure of less than 100 mm Hg at the end of dialysis, and the greatest decrease (lowest) in systolic blood pressure of less than 120 mm Hg during dialysis. Patients who received vasopressor therapy during dialysis had a higher mortality risk than those who received no vasopressor therapy.
Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis
Published - 12-2005
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Nakai, S., Shinzato, T., Nagura, Y., Masakane, I., Kitaoka, T., Shinoda, T., Yamazaki, C., Sakai, R., Morita, O., Iseki, K., Kikuchi, K., Suzuki, K., Tabei, K., Fushimi, K., Miwa, N., Wada, A., Yauchi, M., Marubayashi, S., Kimata, N., ... Akiba, T. (2005). An overview of regular dialysis treatment in Japan as of 31 December 2003. Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, 9(6), 431-458. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-9987.2005.00328.x
Nakai, Shigeru ; Shinzato, Takahiro ; Nagura, Yuji ; Masakane, Ikuto ; Kitaoka, Tateki ; Shinoda, Toshio ; Yamazaki, Chikao ; Sakai, Rumi ; Morita, Osamu ; Iseki, Kunitoshi ; Kikuchi, Kenjiro ; Suzuki, Kazuyuki ; Tabei, Kaoru ; Fushimi, Kiyohide ; Miwa, Naoko ; Wada, Atsushi ; Yauchi, Mitsuru ; Marubayashi, Seiji ; Kimata, Naoki ; Usami, Takeshi ; Wakai, Kenji ; Akiba, Takashi. / An overview of regular dialysis treatment in Japan as of 31 December 2003. In: Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis. 2005 ; Vol. 9, No. 6. pp. 431-458.
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13 Kuwaitis Announced Missing in 1990 Found
Written by q8daily in News
According to the Middleast Monitor, Kuwait authorities were able to identify the remains of 13 individuals who were reported missing after the Iraqi invasion in 1990.
After the Iraqi invasion back in 1990, 13 Kuwaiti individuals were announced missing. After examining the remains of 13 bodies brought back from Iraq, Kuwait was able to identify them as follow: Badr Al-Kandari, Suleiman Taher, Tariq Al-Yaqout, Abdul Rahman Al-Shwaimani, Abdul-Mahdi Behbehani, Issa Muhammad Zaman, Abdul Rahman Al-Fayez, Muhammad Saad Al-Ahmad, Mohammed Al-Muhaini, Musfer Al-Dossary, Mahdi Al-Balushi, Mustafa Al-Qattan, and Yusef Al-Zamil.
SOURCE: Middleast Monitor
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Videogames and Loneliness: Jeweller in the Taj
1st Feb 2018 In Video Games
Tags: Jessica Sequeira, Russell Bennetts, Videogames, Videogames and Loneliness
by Jessica Sequeira
Jeweller in the Taj
Welcome to Jeweller in the Taj! You are the jeweller, and the objective is to install the sapphires, rubies, amethysts and other precious stones in the Taj Mahal as your Mughal emperor Shah Jahan has ordered. At the same time, you must avoid a number of characters, including:
— the emperor’s son Aurangzeb (whose ambition to seize the throne will make him stab anyone in his way)
— the ghost of queen Mumtaz (whose weeping and wailing have the power to drown those she meets)
— the insufferably declaiming court poet (whose fawning sycophantic verses suffocate with their excess honey)
— a Rajput ruler from the enemy kingdom (whose resentment over your emperor’s annexation of territory has him draw his scimitar without hesitation)
— a thief (whose greed leads him to go about with dagger seeking rich carpets, enameled lamps and Punjabi jasper).
If you come into contact with these characters, your strength will be depleted and your number of jewels will decrease. Your goal is to move over as much territory of the Taj Mahal as possible, with its 17 hectares of mausoleum, mosque and gardens, before your jeweller expires. Evoking the lush visuals and poetic atmosphere of games like Legend of Zelda and Dear Esther, Jeweller in the Taj meets the standard of the best offerings on GameRankings and Metacritic.
I had never played a video game before, not out of contempt or lack of interest, but simply from some ingrained habit that made me read rather than seek electronics. Books are cheaper and easier to get hold of; also, I had no gaming system installed.
All this changed when I won the contest. In front of the mall, some locals inspired by India had set up camp, laying out a big sheet of green tarp covered with sequined fabrics; one held a sitar, all wore imported outfits and comfortable shoes, and the hair of the girls was tied into double braids. The group was passing out slips of paper advertising a contest with unspecified prize.
I took the slip unthinkingly but did not consider entering. Later, however, in the queue to buy wine glasses — they break so easily — and bored because I’d forgotten a book, I filled in the slip with my name and address. Exiting the mall, I passed it to one of the girls in braids. The man with the sitar was still plucking away with no sign of flagging.
Months later, having forgotten about this entirely, the prize showed up at my door — a game. Along with it there was a console, controllers, instructions, everything I needed. I didn’t set up the system right away; it took a week. But at last there they were, the elegant inky letters of Jeweller in the Taj flashing across the screen in emerald.
What’s the catch? I kept wondering as I wandered through the rooms. Nothing comes free, and clearly I was doing something wrong. Despite what the instructions that came with the game said — I was jeweller, I had to avoid certain characters, etc — I hadn’t come across any of those mentioned, though I’d been wandering half an hour. Alone in that vast landscape of marble and gold light, I put up jewel after jewel, advancing into room after room, setting my stones into the inlay with precision and delicacy.
At last I came to the tomb of Mumtaz. When I attempted to move, the screen froze and went emerald. A glitch — for a few minutes it flickered there, silent. Then a face appeared. ‘Greetings, user,’ it said. ‘I am the help desk.’ I recognized the face of the man who held the sitar. Things I hadn’t understood began to slot into place. The group at the mall likely consisted of amateur programmers, who had built characters into their own likeness. The give-away was probably intended to provide publicity for a game with limited distribution.
Reading between the lines, the phrase in the description, ‘meets the standard of the best offerings’ on famous gaming websites, was really a euphemism to say this game had not been reviewed in such places. I myself was a sort of guinea pig, free labour to test if the game really worked. Surely my movements were somehow relayed back to the programmers themselves. I really should read the fine print before participating in contests.
‘This is copy number 100,’ the beaming face proclaimed, in a firm yet warm voice. ‘Our games are pacifist and promote calming repetitive activity, such as placing jewels on a wall; they do not contain any sniper guns or similarly aggressive components. We never expected to sell many copies for just this reason. Thus we have great cause to celebrate this hundredth copy. You have acquired a very special edition of Jeweller in the Taj, along with the system we sent you; in fact, in this game you have the chance to be not jeweller but emperor. You need not avoid anyone; everyone will hide from you. There are still conspiracies and plots, of course, most notably that led by your own son; but for all intents and purposes your life is calm. All you want is to mourn your dead wife and build a monument to Mughal glory. May you wander in splendour and peace.’ The beaming face disappeared.
A mirror in one of the many rooms reflected my face: I was old and had a great sadness in my expression. My eyes gleamed softly like onyxes. Exquisitely dressed, my bearing was majestic. And? How lonely, this existence wandering the halls of the mausoleum. Power rippled through my being, as if with the click of a button the world would be shaped to my will, yet I felt empty. I could program fate in this place, but there was nothing to program.
Although I was emperor, I would prefer to be jeweller. The real jeweller, I knew, was somewhere in the Taj avoiding me. With the stones left in my pockets I continued to move along the walls, setting the gems in place, living within my memory of a parallel version where as jeweller I possessed a liberty now lost. This was fate, maybe — but the ‘prize’ did not please me.
I did not want to occupy this role assigned me; the fundamental concept behind the game, the quest, an almost spiritual task I had been given, was gone. Now as emperor, there was nothing left to do; my orders to build and decorate had already been executed, and the peons were in charge. What I most desired was to exit the constraints of the game.
Still inhabiting that reality, for a brief time when I went back to trade the game for its normal version, the mall too seemed a rendering of the Taj — there were the jewellers, the sad women, the poetic advertisements, the competitors scoping out neighbors’ shops, the robbers. But the amateur programmers were no longer there. Perhaps they had achieved their vision of paradise in which every wish is fulfilled, but now that I had known this kind of everlasting bliss, I did not envy them. My next game, I hope, will be a garden of more varied delights.
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Art in the Community
The Art department are always keen to support local community initiatives where our talented pupils can contribute. Putting your work out for public scrutiny is a big step for an artist and we see real benefits in facilitating this as early as possible. Since we started our Art in the Community programme we’ve not only seen our pupils become more confident about their abilities but we’ve been delighted by the response of our community partners.
Helmsley Swimmming Pool
Year 8 and 9 pupils designed and created four mosaics for the outdoor swimming pool in Helmsley. These designs are all based on a water theme including two under the sea, one a moonlit seascape and one is an abstract sea with jellyfish.
The Art department organised and led weekly workshops to support the girls and so they could learn and practise mosaic techniques. These were an extra-curricular opportunity to give specialist art skills to Year 8 and 9 pupils.
The pupils have spent several sessions working with mosaic artist Sue Kershaw who gave inspiration and shared her knowledge and experience of this skilled area. The pupils have used a range of stones, shells, glass tiles, glitter tiles, porcelain tiles and glass beads to develop textures and movement within their work.
Val Travis, manager of the Helmsley Open Air Swimming Pool originally approached school in 2014. Val mentioned a water idea working with bright colours to enhance the existing environment. The funding was provided by the Helmsley Pre-School Committee. Anne Lishman and Tracy Carpenter who originally helped to raise funds were able to join the pupils to celebrate the Mosaic Installation.
Claire Marwood, Art Teacher, explains:
It has been an exciting time watching the mosaics evolve. The girls have shown creativity,
dedication and superb teamwork throughout each stage of the project. Installing the mosaics at the pool together was a rewarding finish to our year. Also hearing feedback from members of the public on seeing the mosaics was wonderful and a credit to all of the pupils involved.
It certainly has given the pool a stunning new look and is worth a visit. I have found it very difficult to choose a favourite as each of the mosaics are so individual and so well designed. I can see favourite details across all of the four mosaics. The girls have been amazing, a pleasure to work with and can be proud to have such stunning work on permanent display at the pool.”
Some quotes from the pupils:
Mosaicing has been a lot of fun and I have made new friends. Not only have I learnt new skills and techniques but I have also learnt to be patient and how to work really hard!”
Ellie Pickering, year 9.
I really enjoyed taking part in the mosaics project because it helped me to develop my artistic skills. It also helped me to work well in a team which is an important life skill to have. I am really proud of how the mosaics turned out.”
Amy Richardson, year 9.
YUMI – Ryedale School Artists in Residence initiative
YUMI connects Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people who have come to live in York with the local community.
Their aim is to work towards community cohesion in York by bringing together people from all cultures, helping them to develop a sense of belonging by offering support and helping them develop friendships.
What does YUMI do?
They support and train people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds in a range of activities and projects, including gardening, cooking, photography, delivering public events and activities such as film shows, conversation cafes (where people can practice their English).
Opportunities for Ryedale School
YUMI is delighted to work in partnership with Ryedale School art students and looks forward to supporting them in the role of YUMI’s very first Artists in Residence. We have identified the following areas where the Artists in Residence will help us:
• Documenting the garden through the different seasons through a variety of artforms to develop a selection of images that could be used to create a calendar for 2018, as well as notecards and illustrations for international recipe cards – all of which can be sold to raise funds to help YUMI become more sustainable.
• Designing promotional materials for YUMI events/activities (using images and illustrations of the garden).
• Creating the artwork for items for sale (e.g. packets of seeds, recipe cards, calendar, notecards (using images and illustrations of the garden).
• Creating artworks to be exhibited in the YUMI International Community Garden (e.g. the corrugated iron shed, sculpture in the beds/on the walls of the allotment plot) taking the following into consideration: environmental conditions, location in the garden and the growing cycle (i.e. limited access to certain areas due to coverage by plants), weather, risks of vandalism, our environmental policy and budgetary limitations.
YUMI will be able to support Ryedale School art students by providing:
• Access to the allotment plot on Mondays, Thursday afternoons and weekends. Access to the walled garden is only available at the weekend.
• Access to images and resources to use for inspiration
• Opportunities to exhibit work in the YUMI International Community Garden as well public events organised by city wide partners including City Screen, York Explore and York City Council (Millennium Fields Summer Fair, Westbank Park Summer Fair, Rowntree Park Birthday Party)
• Reciprocal support from our gardener to grow international plants in Ryedale School’s Community Garden
Further updates on our YUMI project will be added here over the year ahead.
Exhibition at Bridge Street Frames & Gallery
Students celebrated their GCSE Art success with an exciting exhibition at Bridge Street Frames and Gallery in Helmsley.
The exhibition featured stunning pieces of work produced by students from Ryedale School as part of their GCSE coursework and examination. The work included a wide range of styles and demonstrates the use of a range of media including acrylic paint, pastels, mixed media, watercolours and pencil drawings. This was a fantastic opportunity to see work from young local artists inspired by a range of topics.
The work included pieces based on ‘Identity’, ‘Close Up’, ‘Disguise’, ‘Openings’ and ‘Atmospheres’. Pupils were required to research their topic and select artists to inspire the final exhibition pieces.
“There are a lot of talented individuals who should be encouraged to exhibit their artwork. This was a fantastic opportunity to bring to light some of the talent we have at Ryedale School.”
Mr Hopkins, Head of Art
Exhibition at Nunnington Hall
Our exhibition of pupil’s work was a great success – James Etherington, visitor experience manager at Nunnington Hall, said:
At the National Trust we always find it a pleasure to see young artistic talent emerging; to see the development of their style and the pushing of creative boundaries. The talent on display in this exhibition is breath-taking and I the work inspired debate and delight in equal measure.”
James said they were delighted to be hosting work from Ryedale School.
Developing partnerships with local schools and colleges is high on our agenda at Nunnington and we look forward to working with Ryedale again in the future.
The standard of work produced for the GCSE course is consistently high and the exhibition fittted seamlessly into our exhibition programme alongside the more established artists and photographers we host across the year.”
GCSE art student Airlie Mason, from Ryedale School, who had her work on display in the exhibition, said:
Art at Ryedale School is a thought-provoking and creative subject. There are no boundaries and it truly broadens your perception of what art actually is.”
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“I can only see the world as it should be.” Murder On The Orient Express (2017) AND Daddy’s Home 2
Hollywood gets a lot of flak, much of it deserved, but the crime perpetrated by Tinseltown that may bother me the most is when a talented cast is completely squandered in servitude to a lame script and lousy direction.
The Thanksgiving movie offerings this year all have left something to be desired, but we were misfortunate enough to see two of the worst offenders back to back last night. Murder on the Orient Express and Daddy’s Home 2. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. We paid money to see these two movies in sequence. Maybe the problem is with us.
The first is an unnecessary remake of a far superior Sydney Lumet film, based on the original Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie. It is yet another self-serious, self-satisfied confectionery indulgence from director/star Kenneth Branagh, who fancies himself the poor man’s Laurence Olivier, when he, in reality, may be the poor man’s Benny Hill.
The second is an unnecessary sequel to an unnecessary broad farce, holding a far too indulgent and yuppified mirror to the mixed up sociopolitical and familial dynamics in modern middle-class America. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell as an ex-husband/father and new husband/stepfather, respectively, whose own fathers John Lithgow and Mel Gibson, also respectively, crash Christmas and demonstrate that they are as boneheaded and as consumed with unflattering male ego as their sires.
NOTE: the movie isn’t smart enough to actually do anything with that premise, and it’s too frightened of its Trump-triggered audience demographic to actually skewer these idiotic men.
Both films favor set decoration and bleak whimsy over script and character development. Orient Express pursues arch tedium over anything resembling flesh and blood characterization, fetishizing starched linens and glistening martini glasses and anthropomorphizing its titular train to the point one wonders if Branagh is simply trying to capture the imaginations of too many young adults weened on the also creepy and tedious Polar Express.
Daddy’s Home conversely, is the kind of film that seems to hold National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation as a kind of high art that could only be improved if the “Nancy Meyers’ school of filmmaking” (middle-class characters living amidst-Better Homes and Gardens residential-porn they couldn’t actually afford in real life) had installed a Sub Zero fridge in Randy Quaid’s “the-sh*tter’s-full” Winnebago. Daddy’s Home is the kind of movie where a character cuts down a cell phone tower, thinking it is a Christmas tree, and gets charged $20,000, and everyone just laughs and shrugs and says, “Now, who is going to pay for that?” This inane, unrelatable incident occurs after the cast has engaged in an interminable sequence where they decorate – top-to-bottom, inside-and-out – a vacation home they are RENTING for the holidays. Who does that? In real life, this family would be trying to figure out how to pay the credit card bills they ran up to buy presents nobody actually wants and would end up in both divorce and bankruptcy courts when slapped with a $20,000 bill for destruction of public property. Or maybe they would be in jail. Fa la la la.
Orient Express is the kind of film where all of the characters have less depth than those found in a Clue board game, but lounge around all casual-cool-dramatic in beautifully appointed train cars (which seem much larger than humanly possible) as if they are posing for a Vanity Fair cover. It is the kind of film where people spout portentous philosophy (“I can only see the world as it should be.” – Poirot) and glower at each other across petits fours. Whodunnit? Who cares?
When one film (Orient Express) offers the best Johnny Depp performance in years (not saying much … and, by the way, spoiler alert, he is the titular murder) and the other (Daddy’s Home) makes John Cena as its final act complication seem practically Oscar-worthy, something ain’t right in the mix.
NOTE: Kenneth, a mustache that covers half your face and renders your speech incomprehensible is not character development. You are no Wes Anderson. And I don’t like Wes Anderson.
NOTE: Mel, swaggering around like an aging muscle man whose tummy has become a beach ball and who believes FOXNews offers great lessons in parenting and social graces is not character development. That is just you. And we don’t like you.
To the rest of the luminaries who collected a paycheck to appear in these movies – John Lithgow, Linda Cardellini, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Willem DaFoe, Daisy Ridley, Leslie Odom, Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, I’m looking at you – you all know better. Next time an easy payday comes along, please just say no.
Finally, I want to correct the statement with which I began this piece. The worst crime Hollywood commits is hypocrisy. Women are not disposable commodities. Violence is not comedy. Respect for each other, for our individuality, for our unique spirit is essential.
Daddy’s Home 2 is by far the bigger offender because jokes about kissing/spanking little girls or about men “just being men” in Las Vegas or about fathers hitting on the mothers of their sons’ classmates are not funny. They are gross.
Hollywood, if you want us to buy the rhetoric that you are rejecting the worst offenders in your midst, make better movies. More responsible movies. Movies that don’t joke out of both sides of their mouths where animal rights or gun control or human equality are concerned. Stop trying to cater to every demographic. That lack of moral compass is the antithesis of what these holidays are truly about.
Rant over.
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“Let me guess. We’re going to the swirling ring of trash in the sky now. When does this end?” Suicide Squad
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I think I’m supposed to hate Suicide Squad, at least according to Rotten Tomatoes. Maybe I’m just a contrarian or I truly do have lousy taste, but I was entertained by David Ayer’s scruffy take on DC Comics’ classic Dirty Dozen-homage. Could it have been better? Um, yeah. Is it some cosmic train wreck that has destroyed cinema forevermore? Nope.
In full disclosure, my objectivity may be clouded. A bit. I still have the sense memory of holding the first issue of John Ostrander/Kim Yale’s 1987-comic-reimagining in my grubby eighth grade hands. (See cover below.) Suicide Squad had been around since the 60s, but, under the watch of husband/wife team Ostrander and Yale and inspired by the then-recent DC Universe-rebooting one-two punch of Crisis on Infinite Earths and Legends, the Squad went from being a dull paramilitary outfit (a cut-rate Mission: Impossible) to a gonzo bucket of colorfully costumed sociopathic misfits who agreed to take on covert missions in order to commute time from their lengthy prison sentences.
Ostrander and Yale galvanized the team around new character Amanda Waller, the Squad’s tough-as-nails government handler for whom Machiavelli and Mussolini were likely matinee idols, and the Squad’s adventures became a bruise-black satire on the endemic overreach and inhumanity inherent in America’s military-industrial complex and criminal justice system.
Funny how little things change in 30-some years.
As Warner Brothers’ DC Entertainment continues to play catch up with the brighter, more engaging, critically acclaimed work of direct competitor Disney’s Marvel Studios, DC’s latest cinematic adaptation Suicide Squad plays well to the insiders (geeks like yours truly) but may stumble a bit with the casual moviegoer. That’s a shame. This material is rife with opportunity for timely and pithy allegory in a world where terror is combated with more terror and where politicians distinguish themselves through schoolyard taunts. Ostrander and Yale were pretty damn prescient.
Regardless, Suicide Squad is a pip, particularly in its first hour; Ayer, via narrator Waller (played with crisp gravitas by the ever-dependable Viola Davis [Prisoners]), fires off a visceral roll call of the scuzziest villains this side of Roger Ailes. Margot Robbie (The Big Short) as Harley Quinn, Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness) as Deadshot, and Jai Courtney (Divergent) as Captain Boomerang have the most arresting (pun intended) moments throughout, popping off their glib one-liners with an undercurrent of soulful pathos. Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights) as the tragic El Diablo and Joel Kinnaman (Robocop) as the Squad’s field lieutenant Rick Flag are compelling and pleasantly understated, given that, respectively, one shoots fire from his hands and the other is dating a sorceress. You know, just a typical Tuesday.
Other cast members get a bit lost in the movie’s manic shuffle of CGI zombies and its “Now, THAT’S What I Call Hip-Hop” soundtrack. Cara Delevingne (Paper Towns) as Enchantress, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (The Bourne Identity) as Killer Croc eke out a memorable moment or two in this overstuffed flick, which is more credit to their talents than to Ayer’s screenplay.
Oh, yeah, and then there’s Jared Leto. The Joker. I may be in the minority, but I find Leto exhausting and a bit desperate. Always have. I believe his revelatory and nuanced and humane turn in Dallas Buyers Club may have been the exception and not the rule for his particular filmography.
Leto’s work in Suicide Squad as The Joker makes Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter look like Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski. Leto has expressed some crabbiness that so many of his scenes in Suicide Squad ended up on the cutting room floor. The powers-that-be (and whatever ADHD-addled focus group edited this thing) should have cut them all.
Yet, the narrative is stubbornly beholden to shackling Robbie’s much superior Harley Quinn to her comic book beau onscreen. To be honest, Harley would have been just fine without her “Mistah J.” And so would we.
After the first hour, alas, Suicide Squad devolves into the kind of muddy, mundane comic book movie that typically inflicted cinemas in the 90s. An ill-defined villain stands on a rooftop somewhere waving his/her arms around and speaking in an ominously metallic voice borrowed from the witness protection program. A sea of computer-generated minions construct a death-ray/cloud-thing that will annihilate humanity and demolish a number of stop-motion-photographed international landmarks along the way. Consequently, Suicide Squad isn’t a movie about which you should give much thought after viewing … but it could have been.
Ayer (End of Watch) is sharp enough to assign Smith’s Deadshot a quip about how silly and cliched that apocalyptic denouement can be (yet somehow the filmmaker is too lazy to actually devise a fresh third act). Smith intones, “Let me guess. We’re going to the swirling ring of trash in the sky now. When does this end?” Indeed, that is the question. I’m guessing Marvel’s acerbic Deadpool would have had an answer. And an inventive one. Maybe Will Smith and Ryan Reynolds can plot a cross-studios team-up for their next outing.
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“What’s good for Detroit is good for America.” The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys. Imagine Boogie Nights as a frothy Abbott and Costello cinematic confection with a healthy sprinkling of The Rockford Files on top. Served with a side of Starsky & Hutch … or Bugs & Daffy.
Set in a smoggy/syphilitic 1977 Los Angeles, director/screenwriter Shane Black’s comic noir caper flick revels in just how damned ugly the Me Decade was. Film has a tendency to romanticize an era or to toy cutely with a period’s quirky extremes. Black time travels without commentary. The characters in this film aren’t living in a Smithsonian exhibit. They are simply living. Or attempting to live.
Beyond the flawless set decoration and precise costume design, Black is aided and abetted by the sparks that fly when you throw the unlikeliest of co-stars together: Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Glowering gravitas meets wicked whimsy.
That said, the awkwardly delicious alchemy these two titans demonstrated on the talk show circuit promoting the film isn’t as evident onscreen as one might expect. Perhaps surprisingly, Crowe ends up garnering more laughs because he is always so. darn. grounded. He’s funny simply because he’s not trying to be. Gosling indulges cartoonish impulses a few too many times, not trusting the comedy of situational contrast to do the heavy lifting. (Gosling has yet to outgrow the “isn’t it just a riot to see a handsome adult man let loose an ear-piercing community theatre shriek when he’s scared?” tic. Be careful, Ryan, for that way rests Johnny Depp’s sputtering career.)
Regardless, Crowe and Gosling are pretty freaking adorable together, and the whole enterprise plays like a pilot episode of a vintage TV-series that never got picked up. The plot is, well, kind of a meandering mess … just like a grainy 1970s TV crime drama. I kept waiting for Jaclyn Smith or Gavin MacLeod to show up as a “very special guest star.” (We do get a Lynda Carter shout out, though.) There are double- and triple-crosses aplenty as a porn actress (literally) crashes through a family’s living room, and her death starts a spiraling series of murders and other sordid shenanigans. Oh, and there is intrigue about the auto industry and catalytic converters and how in the world Kim Basinger’s character managed to have Botox before the procedure was ever invented.
Gosling, as private eye Holland March, and Crowe, as hired muscle Jackson Healy, initially find themselves at cross purposes (with Gosling’s pretty mug on the receiving end of Crowe’s brass knuckles). Grudgingly, the duo partner up as the violence mounts and their befuddlement grows. A big part of the movie’s charm is that Crowe and Gosling gleefully portray characters whose detective skills are as suspect as their collective intelligence, with Holland’s precocious daughter Holly March (portrayed by a captivating Angourie Rice) serving as a wise-beyond-her-years Nancy Drew to Gosling/Crowe’s dim bulb Hardy Boys.
Rice’s performance is dynamite with a sharp feminist subtext. As the “grown up” characters find themselves derailed by patriarchy run amuck (porn, corrupt manufacturing, prostitution, the Oil Crisis … the 70s at its worst), Rice’s Holly is clear-eyed, vigilant, incisive, defying the limitations and stereotypes society seeks to impose. “Don’t say, ‘And stuff.’ Just say there are whores here,” Gosling intones at one point, attempting to correct his daughter’s grammar and missing the misogynist irony in his declaration. The look in Rice’s eye reveals that her character does not lose the irony.
Holly is always ten steps ahead of her father and, without Holly’s continual intervention, the titular Nice Guys would still be attempting to solve the film’s mystery well into the late 1980s. Or they’d be dead.
I’m hoping this feminist dynamic is intentional on Black’s part, a storyteller whose filmography (from Lethal Weapon to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang through Iron Man 3) typically co-opts and reinvents B-movie formula, inverting its clichés as satiric critique of our baser instincts. I suspect this is by design, the film’s random (gratuitous?) naked porn stars notwithstanding.
With The Nice Guys, Black is trying to have his cake and eat it too. And he succeeds. Mostly. In a larger sense, Black is using the indulgent myopia of the 1970s as a reflection of how little we have changed as a nation. Basinger, plays a Department of Justice operative (in a bit of meta-casting, referencing her earlier – better – work in both L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile) whose definition of “justice” is protecting the (then) fat cats in the Detroit auto industry. In the final act, she delivers the film’s punch line: “What’s good for Detroit is good for America.” Even as today’s Detroit reinvents itself as a hipster paradise of urban farming, artisanal soaps, and craft cocktails, the lesson in Basinger’s remark remains prescient. An America that lives for itself and only itself will quickly find itself trapped in yesteryear’s polyester leisure suit.
Reel Roy Reviews is now TWO books! You can purchase your copies by clicking here (print and digital). In addition to online ordering at Amazon or from the publisher Open Books, the first book is currently is being carried by Bookbound, Common Language Bookstore, and Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room in Ann Arbor, Michigan and by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan. My mom Susie Duncan Sexton’s Secrets of an Old Typewriter series is also available on Amazon and at Bookbound and Common Language.
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“I don’t like stupid.” A weekend of iconoclasts: Johnny Depp (Black Mass), Lily Tomlin (Grandma), and An Evening with Bill Maher
It was a weekend of iconoclasts in Indiana as I spent the past two days in the Hoosier state with Johnny Depp, Lily Tomlin, and Bill Maher.
Well, I actually spent the past two days with my equally free-thinking parents who defy geographic boundaries, and we all took in movies and a show that featured these three performers.
Namely, Black Mass, Grandma, and An Evening with Bill Maher.
Bill Maher, explaining how he got into some controversy in a debate last fall with Ben Affleck (of all people), noted that he “just doesn’t like stupid things.”
And in his worldview, that idea encompasses any government or faith or group of self-important, judgmental blowhards who want to diminish the rights and freedoms of others, particularly those who chronically find themselves on the short end of every stick.
Susie and Bill
Fair enough. In fact, this notion of raging against stupid things defined all of this weekend’s entertainment.
Our first rule breaker of the weekend was Black Mass‘ Johnny Depp, so immersed in the look and feel of notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, one might suspect he forgot to pay much mind to character development along the way. You know Johnny – he loves those colored contacts, that pancake makeup, and disarmingly fake-ass teeth. At least in this film, we didn’t have to suffer through any zany chapeaus.
Regardless, it is an impressive if uneven performance in an impressive if uneven film. Bulger, not unlike cinematic forebear Hannibal Lecter, definitely doesn’t like stupid. The film, directed with a more-or-less sure hand by Scott Cooper, marries the gruesome and the sparkling in surprising and inventive ways, and Bulger, at least in Depp’s portrayal, exacts a delightfully cracked code of punishing the moronic. Early in the film, Depp as Bulger tells a meddling police officer, “Do you think I’d warn you when I’m going to hurt you? No, you won’t see it coming.” Throughout the film, anyone who breaches Bulger’s plainspoken code, right and wrong, inevitably finds themselves two or three scenes down the road on the wrong end of a gun or more likely bare-fisted death blows.
Black Mass details the rise and fall and disappearance of real-life Boston “Southie” gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. Alas, familiarity breeds contempt, and we’ve seen too many fictionalized versions of this and similar stories over the past decade: The Departed, The Town … heck, American Hustle. While Depp gives the role his all, it’s just not quite enough to take the film to fresh levels. He may have had too much reverence for the character (or for his prosthetics), and Bulger sometimes seems like a ghost in his own film.
However, Benedict Cumberbatch turns in some of his best work as Bulger’s starched straight-arrow politico brother, a successful senator from Boston. Benedict must have seen Depp’s cosmetic indulgence and headed 180 degrees in the other direction. Smart move. Cumberbatch resists the urge to play any predictable notes of sturm und drang. Cumberbatch gives us the consummate politician – likable, gracious, but with the kind of studied ethical ambivalence that makes looking the other way seem like moral high ground.
Joel Edgerton, as the brothers’ childhood friend, also does a fine job in a pivotal role as an FBI agent who may fancy himself the long arm of the law but, in the end, enjoys frequenting Miami discotheques with mobster buddies a bit too much. The point/counterpoint of the film comes from the devil’s gambit Edgerton plays, cutting a deal with Whitey to provide what ultimately proves to be specious intel to the FBI regarding his fellow crooks. By the time anyone realizes, the die is cast and decades have passed wherein Whitey Bulger builds an empire with his FBI buddy indeterminately complicit in the act.
Don and Roy and Susie between flicks
Other standouts include Dakota Johnson, Julianne Nicholson, Corey Stoll, Rory Cochrane, David Harbour, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, and W. Earl Brown. In fact, that is a big part of the film’s problem – too many characters, all well cast, but with not nearly enough time to develop fully. It is a testament to the performances and to the director that they stand out as they do.
As visceral and immersive as the film is, it just isn’t quite the gut punch I’d hoped. The narrative gets lost in a thicket of Scorsese-light subplots focusing on Bulger’s many “business ventures” (hailai! vending machines! sending weapons to the Irish Republican Army!), when what we most needed to see and explore were the serpentine interpersonal relationships of the two brothers, their family and their friends.
Giving us a much richer portrayal of an original gangster is Lily Tomlin in Chris Weitz’ charming ball of familial toxins Grandma. Tomlin plays a writer and academic whose longtime partner recently died, whose daughter has stopped speaking to her, and whose granddaughter turns to her in a moment of crisis. The film takes the form of an inter-generational road trip (which we’ve seen too many times before – and as recently as, say, Tammy or The Guilt Trip), but in this case sharp writing, smart feminist sub (and super) text, and flesh and blood authenticity transform cliché into revelation.
There will be a host of boneheads out there who will stubbornly refuse to see this film because Tomlin’s granddaughter has turned to her grandmother to help her pay for an abortion. Damn, I’m tired of knee-jerk closed-mindedness. Honestly, it’s not a film about abortion. It’s a film about humanity – those of us living in the here and now, faced with darkly comic daily tragedies that only the mundane can bring.
We have become a country of squawkers who so viciously judge everyone else’s choices in the abstract that we’ve completely forgotten the real people behind those choices, people struggling to get lives back on track or to fulfill their deepest potential. You know what? The path any of us take to get there is no one’s damn business. This film celebrates that notion, warts and all.
The film suffers from some clunky transitions, endemic of the low-budget indie, but, on the whole, Tomlin and the film really zing, heightened by the deft help of a supporting cast that includes … genius, heartfelt Marcia Gay Harden as Tomlin’s loopy, jagged little pill of a careerist daughter; Judy Greer earnest and raw as Tomlin’s frustrated girlfriend; Julie Garner, a saucy millennial dandelion as Tomlin’s suffering, sputtering, spiraling granddaughter; firecrackers Laverne Cox and Elizabeth Pena (in her last role) as a couple of Tomlin’s cronies; and Sam Elliott as an open wound of an ex-husband, all swagger, self-righteousness, and melancholy.
But ultimately this is Tomlin’s show. This film is the perfect synthesis of the platform she has championed for decades: we are all outsiders on this planet, and no one more so than women. Why define and limit opportunity based on rudimentary biological constructs? Why is every choice women make questioned and challenged, and emotional, financial, clinical, occupational resources are funneled away in those moments when they are most needed, out of some kind of institutionalized patriarchal spite.
A quiet storm of misanthropic joy, Tomlin wages a postmodern Sherman’s March, across Los Angeles, in pursuit of the meager dollars needed to fund her granddaughter’s procedure. She suffers no fools gladly – from a standoff with John Cho in a pretentious coffee shop that displaced a women’s clinic (you haven’t lived until you see Tomlin write “f*ckhead” in spilled coffee on a snooty barista’s floor) to a heart-wrenching (and crazy funny) defense of her granddaughter when they finally arrive at the actual clinic where the procedure will be performed. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but what a pro-life little princess does to express her “love of humanity” (with Tomlin on the receiving end) is as telling as it is hysterical.
Roy and Susie waiting for Bill
Tomlin’s character is a broken heart in bullet-proof armor, fed up with a society that undervalues humanity, especially anyone who lives on the margins, pigeonholed by age, gender, sexuality, or, hell, hairstyle.
Bill Maher, may walk a similar path through life, at least as evidenced by his stand-up routine. As the host of Politically Incorrect and Real Time, Maher has always wielded snark like a machete, cutting down rigid, conservative political idiocy at every turn. Whereas a Jon Stewart or a Stephen Colbert are a bit more equal opportunity, taking as many digs at Democrats as Republicans, Maher saves most of his ire for Republicans, championing any underdog he sees persecuted by increasingly shrill right-wing pundits and blowhards.
Much like Tomlin’s Grandma, Maher’s routine Saturday night at the Fort Wayne Embassy took no prisoners. With an impish and childlike glee, Maher swung for the fences, excoriating the pompous asses currently running for president. I’ll let you figure out who his chief targets were. One hint: all of them.
I had, perhaps unfairly, found Maher a bit misogynistic in the past. I love that he comes to the aid of all creatures great and small – he is a longtime board member for PETA. However when it came to women, it has often felt like he left his conscience and consciousness in some back hallway of the Playboy Mansion.
Saturday night’s show went a long way toward correcting that perception, as 90 to 95% of his routine actively subverted conventional concepts of gender and sexuality. He nailed a bit on how different cultures define and imprison women via the sartorial choices dictated by fashion or religion.
However, in the show’s final minutes, Maher took a strange left turn that seemed to be an ill-advised concession to menopausal chauvinists – which is too bad cause there weren’t any that I could spy in the beautifully diverse sold out crowd. He went down a strange path of wondering when “his group” – apparently men who date women half their age – would be “celebrated,” going on to re-enact Cialis and Viagra advertisements. It was as unconvincing as it was odd and overreaching – “Look at me! I may be a liberal, but I’m a baby boomer man, and I dig the ladiiiiieeesss.” Whatever. I’m not buyin’ what you’re sellin’, Maher.
I will admit that embedded in his concluding riff was a keen observation that a certain group of men are still driven entirely by preoccupation with their nether regions and not with their brains. Yet, unlike any other era, they have access to a medical industry and clinical research to make their pubescent dream$ reality.
However, it was, to say the least, murky, as to whether Maher saw himself with pride as part of the crumbling Casanova club or as their court jester. It was a strange note of ambivalence to end an otherwise scorchingly consistent evening of social insight and tolerance.
To watch any comedian for two hours is a bit of a marathon. It’s a lot to ask of them, and it’s a lot to ask of the audience, but Maher rose to the occasion, and, with the assistance of a handy notebook full of laminated pages, he kept the momentum coursing through a wide array of topics, chiefly political though not exclusively.
We were also offered brief glimmers of what his upbringing was like in a Catholic home raised by two liberals who always championed the poor and the downtrodden. He didn’t open his veins for the audience – he’s anything but a memoirist. Yey, by showing us a peek into what sounded like an idyllic and inclusive home, he revealed that underneath whatever emotional Kevlar he has strapped on, there is a sweet and wounded heart beating inside.
His relentless barbs take on a different tone in that context. The marginalized kid is Maher, and this is his ultimate revenge fantasy on all the dopes who bullied him in life. It’s like Death Wish with jokes as his weapons and idiot politicians as his prey.
Maher opened with some well-deserved digs at Indiana in 2015, much to the delight of the capacity crowd. About Hoosier leaders like Governor Mike Pence, Maher crowed, “Why, they don’t have the book learning to get into a tractor pull!” To be among thousands of like-minded liberals from across Northeast Indiana (I mean, I’ve never seen the Embassy so packed) was a revelation for my parents who often feel isolated and sad for holding such progressive beliefs in the community – a place that seems to buy (and spread) the thick, sticky, divisive, fear-mongering balm Fox and Friends slops across the land every A.M.
Maher’s words electrified a big room of open brains, thirsting for a different kind of dialogue, one where we could talk, laugh, commiserate, re: the significance of global warming or to deride and dismiss hypocritical ravings of multiple-married conservatives who fail to see how their behavior undermines their beloved institution of wedded bliss.
Sitting in that huge performance space of the Embassy, encrusted as it is in gilt and cherubs and velvet – an artifact of another time; being part of a crowd of raving regular folks who happened to dig tolerance and laughter; having been informed by two films the night before that questioned how we see ourselves and how we measure the success of a life fulfilled, I thought, “Hey, am I at a kind of big tent revival? Evangelism for the Anti-Elmer Gantry age? Well, sign me up for another round.”
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“But just because they think differently, that doesn’t mean that they do not think.” Exodus: Gods and Kings, Into the Woods, Annie, Big Eyes, and The Imitation Game
“But just because they think differently, that doesn’t mean that they do not think.”
So says British wartime mathematician (and accidental spy) Alan Turing (as portrayed in The Imitation Game with comic grace and heartbreaking nuance by Benedict Cumberbatch) to a police detective investigating Turing on indecency charges during the post-war years.
Turing offers this hypothesis in revelation, not over his sexuality per se, but to this even deeper secret: that he, through his divination of modern computing, broke Nazi codes that provided crucial intelligence for the allies to win the war. His theorem on diversity of thought processes is offered when he is asked, “Do machines think?” Yet, his conclusion above applies to his life, or for that matter to any life, lived on the margins.
My parents with Buddha
The film’s central hypothesis is that those who are most overlooked (if not reviled) become those who bring the change we most need. And this mantra applies in some part to every film I saw this holiday break, from Ridley Scott’s sword-and-sandals-and-Bible-verse epic Exodus: Gods and Kings to Rob Marshall’s long-gestating adaptation of Stephen Sondheim tuner Into the Woods to Tim Burton’s almost-but-not-quite-there kitsch docudrama Big Eyes to, yes, even Will Gluck’s unnecessary yet surprisingly pleasant reinvention of that cloying chestnut Annie. (In the thirty years it took us to get one cinematic Into the Woods, we’ve had three versions of Annie … but I digress.)
“Is it always ‘or’? Is it never ‘and’?”
My parents with Ben Stiller
So sings The Baker’s Wife (portrayed with lilting restraint by an ever-impressive Emily Blunt) at a penultimate moment in the swirling, spiky postmodern fairy tale pastiche that is Into the Woods. Her character, literally defined by name as a possession (Baker’s Wife) finally claims one moment in life for herself, and the exhilaration and the horror of this gender-fried crossroads quite literally leads her off a cliff.
Me and Paddington
“Is it always ‘or’? Is it never ‘and’?” Amen. Each successive Christmas holiday reminds me of this in no uncertain terms. This festive season arrives faster and faster every year, in a sh*t-storm of commercialized mania and accelerated/accumulated guilt. Like Dickens’ Scrooge, I feel the calendar pages ripping away as I age mercilessly with each card I write or present I wrap in mindless tradition. Quite literally, in fact. My birthday and my parents’ wedding anniversary are plunked smack in the middle of Christmas and New Year’s – the special, silly times of card games and Old Saint Nick seem to recede ever more into the rear-view mirror, as gray hairs dot my scalp, my waist ever expands, and my knees crackle and creak.
The cast of Annie … and my folks!
One of the seasonal traditions that still holds charm for me and for my family is going to the movies, escaping into the darkness of the cineplex, our faces lit only by the glow of a movie screen, as we lose ourselves in the fictional lives of twenty foot people, exploring their cinematic metaphors for the pain of our real lives, as they are indifferent to the din of our popcorn chomping.
(Someone in cyberspace just looked up from their computer/iPad/iPhone/whatever and said, “This isn’t a review? What is this??” Nope, it’s a blog – my blog – and I’m writing about the films I saw this week through the present state of my heart. Get over it. I would argue that’s how most of us view movies – not through clever analyses of cinematography or semiotics but by how films make us feel.)
We were blessed with a banquet of great choices at the movie house this year, and these flicks made up, in part, for the inexorable sadness of seeing another year slip past.
If time and temperament allow, I might write in more detail someday about one or all of these, but, for the nonce, I’m going to just jot out quick thumbnail reviews of each. These were the kinds of Leonard Maltin-esque blurbs I posted on Facebook a few years ago that prompted people to ask me to start a blog in the first place. It feels right to exercise (exorcise?) those muscles again …
Exodus: Gods and Kings is a return to triumphant form for director Ridley Scott. People have dismissed the film as ponderous and pedantic, but, they are missing the point. Biblical stories are richest and at their most compelling when told from a humanistic/historical perspective. That’s not blasphemy, you ring-dings – that’s inspiration. Christian Bale’s everyman-Moses is a believable portrait of a man at odds with himself and with a society he has outgrown. The narrative of Moses’ uncertain certainty that a new future and a new legacy must be paved for his children and his children’s children is subtly, deliberately told (or as subtle as a CGI-filled spectacle with skies that rain frogs can be). Joel Edgerton (his unfortunate resemblance to Nancy‘s Sluggo notwithstanding) as Ramesses is a fine match for Bale, telegraphing beautifully the earnest indignation of a king whose kingdom evaporates beneath his spray-tanned feet. The film’s key misstep is casting John Turturro and Sigourney Weaver as the Pharaoh and his Queen. WTF?!? I giggled every time the duo popped a kohl-rimmed eye onscreen. I’m a fan of color-blind casting – and that goes both ways – so I don’t buy into any of the controversy surrounding this film … but those two just stuck out like sore, overpaid Hollywood thumbs in an otherwise entertaining epic.
Into the Woods is a perfectly manicured Hollywood treatment of the beloved Stephen Sondheim musical. It isn’t as hermetically sealed as the wonderful yet claustrophobic Sweeney Todd, but it does suffer from a similar staginess. Director Rob Marshall can’t quite shake the stiffness of his TV-movie origins as he takes his spectacular cast from live locales to sound stages and back again. Fortunately, he has stacked the deck with a cast to die for. Nearly everyone (with the exception of a wan Johnny Depp as the wolf) rocks it – notably the aforementioned Blunt as well as Chris Pine as Prince Charming, Tracey Ullman as Jack’s Mother, Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, and, of course (!), Meryl Streep as feminist-whirlwind-in-blue-haired-mischief as The Witch. Go for the spectacle but stay for her climactic number “Last Midnight,” which she delivers as a kind of last word tour de force on the B.S. that is Freudian mother-bashing.
Annie is getting a lot of venom it doesn’t deserve. Folks, it’s not a very good musical to begin with. The 1982 John Huston movie is a bloated, abysmal mess. The 1999 Disney TV movie sequel (yes, directed by Rob Marshall – go figure) is an improvement because, like Into the Woods, they cast the darned thing correctly…but the show is just clunky in its bones. So I, unlike many of my Gen X peers, didn’t sweat it that Jay-Z and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith decided to produce a reinvented “modern” Annie. (Jay-Z scored a genius hip-hop hit over a decade ago when he sampled the treacly “Hard Knock Life” and turned that song on its square head.) With that said, I enjoyed this latest take on the trice-told tale (not counting the various direct-to-video sequels). Yes, the movie suffers from a kiddie-movie dumbing down of its game stars Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne, and Quvenzhane Wallis. If I saw one more spit-take with a mouthful of food from one of them I was going to scream – not funny … never funny … no one in real life ever. does. that. Stop it, Hollywood. Regardless, the Sia-produced remixes on the classic tunes offer a fun refresh (at least to my Tomorrow-beleaguered ear), and I, for one, enjoyed Diaz’ albeit-hammy-but-grounded Miss Hannigan. (Sorry, I am not a fan of Carol Burnett’s sloppy slurring take on the character in the original film. Another note to Hollywood: fake, floppy drunkenness? Stop it. Not funny.)
Big Eyes? I think we all can agree those forlorn waifs with the saucer eyes are a pop culture trend best forgotten. However, the idea of mining America’s en masse lemming-like attraction to bad taste as a metaphor for cultural atrophy? THAT I can support. Alas, Tim Burton only gets us part of the way. Amy Adams does a credible job as the questionably talented but unquestionably victimized artist Margaret Keane. Unfortunately, the script imports some shallow truisms of Atomic Age misogyny from a very special episode of Mad Men, and Burton lets Christoph Waltz as Margaret’s megalomaniacal hubby Walter chew the scenery into balsa wood splinters. (Waltz becomes more of a Looney Tunes character every day.) Always delightful Terence Stamp gets all the film’s best lines as a New York Times art critic simultaneously horrified, bemused, and validated by America’s collective tackiness. The film has a chance to say some powerful things about creativity and gender and the crush of patriarchal economics … but it just implies them.
And back to The Imitation Game, in some respects the strongest of this overall decent pack of films. Cumberbatch, like those saucer-eyed waifs, lets his peepers do most of the talking. His Alan Turing is insufferably arrogant yet heartbreakingly winsome. The ache of his difference, his left-field intelligence, his sheer other-ness is conveyed through those haunted, limpid orbs of his. Keira Knightly (who usually makes me want to throw myself through a plate-glass window) is full of restrained charm. She is the counterpoint to Turing’s existence: another outsider – this time for her gender – whose outsized intelligence is marginalized and pooh-poohed, until these two spectacular oddballs find one another … and save the world. The script is thin at times (confusing at others), but Cumberbatch and Knightly make a crackerjack pair. Their final scene together is both tender and shattering.
Any of my snark aside, all of these films are worth visiting and revisiting. The holidays are always a time of reflection, and the movies can be an important and therapeutic part of that process. We’ve got a week until we ring in 2015, so go spend some time in far off lands or heightened realities and see what they open in your own heart. More from Into the Woods …
“Someone is on your side. Someone else is not. While we’re seeing our side, maybe we forgot. They are not alone. No one is alone.”
Reel Roy Reviews is now a book! Thanks to BroadwayWorld for this coverage – click here to view. In addition to online ordering at Amazon or from the publisher Open Books, the book currently is being carried by Bookbound, Common Language Bookstore, and Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room in Ann Arbor, Michigan and by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan. My mom Susie Duncan Sexton’s Secrets of an Old Typewriter series is also available on Amazon and at Bookbound and Common Language.
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Countdown: Bangerz
From my wonderful publisher Open Books…
Just 10 days left until the official launch of ReelRoyReviews, a book of film, music, and theatre reviews, by Roy Sexton!
Some nice early reviews from Roy’s readers…
Zach London: “I thoroughly enjoy your reviews. They are short, well-written, and insightful. For movies I have already seen, your reviews articulate things that my subconscious brain recognized but my conscious brain did not. Congratulations on this accomplishment!”
Michael Lesich: “I’ve been a fan of Roy’s movie reviews for some time. Armed with a sharp tongue, a quick wit, and an absolute love of movies and theater, Roy brings a passionate and independent voice to movie reviews. Whether you love-em-or-hate-em, Roy’s reviews are never dull. I’m just an average guy, but when I see a new movie, I often check out Roy’s review to get a sense of whether they are worth spending my hard-earned money and scarce time to see them. Grab the popcorn, a giant soda, and a pair of 3D glasses, and get ready to enjoy this book!”
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Here’s a snippet of Roy’s review of Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz: “Lord, I’m tired of all the Miley-hatin’. She’s a cute gremlin of a girl trying to distance herself from a smothering Disney-funded-life, for which she should probably feel very grateful. But who can blame her for trying to express her own personality outside the pervasive marketing bubble of the Mouse House?”
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Twerking, tongue all a-twangle: Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz
Lord, I’m tired of all the Miley-hatin’. She’s a cute gremlin of a girl trying to distance herself from a smothering Disney-funded-life, for which she should probably feel very grateful. But who can blame her for trying to express her own personality outside the pervasive marketing bubble of the Mouse House?
The last time I felt this over-protective of a pampered, overpaid pop princess was was when Britney shaved her noggin and started hitting people over the head with umbrellas (ellas, ellas, ellas, ay!). Wow, I LOVED that period of Britney’s career!
And the first time I felt this way was when Madonna released the underrated Erotica album and overrated Sex book (and completely bat-sh*t movie Body of Evidence) to much over-heated media alarm during my sophomore year of college. Yeah, Britney and Madonna survived quite well (thank you very much) without my nerdish big brotherly over-worry…and I suspect Miley will too.
I don’t typically review music albums here (though I buy a lot of them). However, I have zero interest in the current slate of Oscar-bait Fall films. I do not want to watch Gravity‘s Sandra Bullock moon around, quite literally, as an astronaut divorced from her George Clooney-piloted shuttle (really?!?! who cast that one?!!?). Nor do I want to suffer through Captain Phillip‘s Tom Hanks besieged by nautical pirates straight from central casting. (Now, if Johnny Depp’s fey, bejeweled Jack Sparrow made an appearance in either film, I might check them out, but no…)
SO, with that said, you, dear reader, are getting a micro-review of Miley Cyrus’ unfortunately titled CD (or whatever the download generation calls them) Bangerz. And, you know what? It’s freaking fantastic.
Why did Miley feel the need to twerk, tongue all a-twangle, in nude-colored underwear on MTV last month? ‘Cause no states, neither red nor blue, would set her free of her godawfully tangled Hannah Montana wig and the Disney-fied alter ego that it represented.
But you know what (again)? Ain’t nobody talkin’ ’bout Hannah now… so good on ya’, Miley!
How about the album? Hey, it’s a pop album, so it’s going to be a catch-all-of-crazy … and a darn infectious one. There are beautifully melodic offerings like album opener “Adore You” and monster hit “Wrecking Ball” (naked Miley video notwithstanding).
However, the real winners are when Miley lets her freak flag FLY – nothing like a liberal progressive redneck who doesn’t give one rat’s a$$ what any of us think, putting together an album on sale at both Target and Wal-Mart … with varying bonus tracks for retail!
What the heck does that preceding sentence mean? Check out “4X4,” Miley’s ode to monster trucks, with a special appearance by singer/rapper Nelly, that sounds like the track Jessica Simpson should have contributed to The Dukes of Hazzard soundtrack. Or “FU” (title self-explanatory) that sounds like a bizarro mash-up of The Scissor Sisters and The Sherman Brothers and that pretty much tells ex-fiance Liam Hemsworth that (without question) Cyrus is over him … and, for that matter, over all swaggering dudes by the sound of it.
Of course “We Can’t Stop” (which alongside fellow Hollywood-progeny Robin Thicke’s “Parallel Lines” was an inescapable 2013 summer anthem) is zanily fantastic. But the album standout is (unfortunately) a bonus track “On My Own.” This is Miley’s big pop anthem, a hybrid of the best stripper-pole-Britney-Spears and persecuted-dance-pop-Michael-Jackson. I can’t get enough of that song.
There are many other great tracks: the Pharrell Williams-produced “#getitright” (I hate that hashtag gimmick and I hate boudoir come-on songs, but darn if this one isn’t catchy) or uber-pissed-off stomper “Do My Thang” or delightfully subversive “Someone Else” (which has Madonna-esque fun interpolating 1 Corinthians 13:4 … you know, that whole “Love is patient, love is kind” claptrap).
It’s a fun album and possibly a great one. Who cares what Miley had to do to get our attention! It worked. It made me buy the CD, and I’ve been listening to it all week.
And one more thing… As much as I love Annie Lennox, Sinead O’Connnor, Kelly Clarkson, and all the other pop divas who have thrown acid in Miley’s face, all of their critiques come off as sour grapes. This next generation-post-feminist-icon-in-the-making is “doing her own thang” and telling all of us to go take a flying leap … as we line up eagerly in the check-out line to buy her special edition CD … with bonus tracks!
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The Great Virtuoso Violinists/Composers of the 19th Century: Vieuxtemps
April 20, 2017 April 21, 2017 / ginnyburges
“Vieuxtemps’ art – expressive, human, romantic and distinctive – belongs not only to history, but to the contemporary world as well”. ~ Prof. Lev Ginsburg
To my shame and consternation I have never played a piece of music by Vieuxtemps on my violin. I honestly wasn’t that familiar with his repertoire before reading up about him. I knew of him, but I had no idea just how beautiful and virtuosic his music really is.
Henri Vieuxtemps by Marie Alexandre Alophe
An outstanding virtuoso violinist of the romantic era, he mastered his performance craft and was completely in tune with what was and wasn’t possible on the violin; pushing soloists to their technical limits in his violin concertos.
He had almost certainly been influenced by the brilliance of the famous violinist Paganini. The two met in London in 1834 when Paganini was in the twilight of his career and Vieuxtemps had given his debut in the city. Both were said to be mutually impressed with each other’s talents, but differed in their musical philosophy.
Vieuxtemps eschewed excessive showmanship, and although his compositions were undoubtedly rhapsodic and extremely technically challenging, he never sacrificed unbridled virtuosity at the expense of the music. This philosophy was impressed upon his renowned Belgian pupil, Eugène Ysaÿe, who quoted his teacher: “Not runs for the sake of runs – sing, sing!”
If one could know a person through his creative output I would say that Vieuxtemps possessed a great love for the violin and wanted to explore what it was capable of within the parameters of aesthetic enjoyment. It seems that the virtuosity in his music is the epitome of his flair and improvisational skills, but it is never misplaced or garish.
A man of taste, passion and emotional intelligence, his numerous qualities translated into his solo career and romantic concertos, an enduring legacy for the most poignant and expressive instrument of all…
Henri Vieuxtemps (17 February 1820 – 6 June 1881)
Although Henri Vieuxtemps, (literally translated as Henry ‘old times’) was incredibly popular during his lifetime his work has slipped into comparative obscurity today.
The young Henri Vieuxtemps – Portrait of a Violinist by Barthelemy c. 1820s
His early development seems to follow a similar path to that of others I have written about in the violin virtuoso/composer series, in that he was a child prodigy from the age of four. Oh what it must be like to be gifted from the get-go! Henri was initially tutored by his father, a weaver by trade, but also an amateur violinist and luthier.
Vieuxtemps the virtuoso
Vieuxtemps made his first public debut playing a violin concerto by Pierre Rode aged six, and later came to the attention of illustrious violinist/composer Charles Auguste de Bériot at one of a series of concerts in Brussels and Liege. De Bériot became his private tutor and took the young Henri to Paris in 1829, where he made his debut with another Rode violin violin concerto.
The July Revolution of 1830 in Paris and de Bériot’s marriage to Maria Malibran forced his return to Brussels where he continued to perform for a time with Pauline Garcia, de Bériot’s sister-in-law.
During a tour of Germany in 1833 Henri met and became friends with Louis Spohr and Robert Schumann. He also garnered the attention and admiration of Hector Berlioz during his touring of various European cities.
Now established on the European classical circuit Vieuxtemps also made three concert tours of the USA, firstly in 1843 – 44, in 1853 and again 1857 – 58.
Henri Vieuxtemps standing (with his Guarneri violin), alongside noted musicians and composers who performed in John Ella’s 1853 season of the Musical Union. Louis Spohr is seated with his score, with Berlioz next to him.
Perhaps it was the influence of traditional American folk music that inspired his composition of the ‘Yankee Doodle’ Souvenir d’Amérique.
A brilliant encore by Joshua bell:
Vieuxtemps in Vienna
Not content with performance alone he studied composition with Simon Sechter in Vienna, after having performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major as his debut in the composer’s home city. A mature work indeed for a tender teenager of fourteen, and a concerto he would champion throughout his career. He also became a pupil of Antonin Reicha in Paris.
Franco-Belgian School
Vieuxtemps was an influential performer, composer and teacher, especially in the history of the Franco-Belgian School of violin during the mid nineteenth century. The school dates back to the evolution of the modern violin bow such as those made by François Tourte, often referred to as the Stradivari of the bow.
Qualities favoured by the Franco-Belgian School (and most likely epitomised by Vieuxtemps) included elegance, a full tone with a sense of drawing a ‘long’ bow with no jerks, precise left hand techniques, and bowing using the whole forearm while keeping both the wrist and upper arm quiet, (as opposed to Joseph Joachim’s German school of wrist bowing and Leopold Auer’s Russian concept of using the whole arm.)
Vieuxtemps the composer
What stood out for me listening to and discovering his violin music and overall oeuvre was the singing, ‘bel canto’ quality of the violin, especially in the higher registers. This is a quality that Tartini also embodied. The works aren’t overly violin dominated but encompass the entire orchestra in partnership with the violin and are richer for it.
Whilst he may not be on par with Beethoven in terms of composition, (whom he admired and performed), alongside Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn, he certainly used his intimate knowledge as a player to bring out the emotion, rising above the obstacles of technical difficulty.
His violin music has a freedom to express emotion that is most endearing and attractive for a soloist; enabling a player to impart their own style and personality on the music.
Vieuxtemps’ violin concertos
Henri Vieuxtemps wrote seven violin concertos, the first being completed in 1836, but published as number 2 in F sharp minor, opus 19. Hrachya Avanesyan does the honurs:
Violin Concerto No.1 in E-major, Op. 10 (actually his 2nd), performed by Misha Keylin with Dennis Burkh and the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra:
Violin concerto No. 3 in A Major, Op. 25 composed in 1844, performed by Misha Keylin:
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 31
The most famous of his violin concertos was number 4 in D minor, composed while he was in Saint Petersburg as the court violinist to Tzar Nicholas 1 of Russia in 1846. Unusually for a violin concerto it has four movements, which Vieuxtemps (rather astutely in his experience as a performer), advised that the challenging ‘off-beat’ third movement was optional for programming purposes.
The orchestra’s opening few bars of the concerto are gentle, lush and romantic, with a dramatic, if slightly melancholy melody that soon reaches a crescendo infused with a dark edge, hinting at unknown depths…
When the violin makes its expressive and singing entrance, free and interpretive, forward moving with increasing tempo and power in the higher notes, a certain forcefulness in the chords, virtuosity in the runs and harmonics – a drifting and energetic solo using the whole range of the instrument – you have a concerto worthy of immortality!
I love this fantastic performance by Hilary Hahn and the Berlin Philharmonic. Hilary has been playing this concerto since the age of ten, and rightly knows it inside and out! She brings a certain ‘je ne sais quois’ to it:
To my mind it’s better and more complete with the 3rd movement included; said to be difficult even for professional violinists with its the tricky rhythm between soloist and orchestra, but at the same time lilting and lyrical with a rather playful quality, especially in Hahn’s gorgeous interpretation.
The final runs in the 4th movement indicate a March like theme with impressive motifs and changing melodies. It’s what Hilary Hahn refers to as a ‘finger twister’!
I am in awe of anyone who can play this concerto, especially the section in the finale that requires the fingers of left hand to move in alternating small and large increments whilst the right, bow arm and hand keep the pressure in the sweet spot so that 3 strings are simultaneously depressed; a violin multi-tasking mind bender!!
Another performance of this beautiful concerto I really like is by the late Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux:
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, Op. 37 ‘Grétry’ written in 1861, played by Shlomo Mintz:
Violin Concerto No. 7 in A minor, ‘À Jenő Hubay’, Op. 49 c. 1870 (Op. 3 posthumous) with Misha Keylin:
Salon, concert and chamber works
I adore this rather operatic style composition for violin and orchestra, the Fantasia Appassionata in G minor, Op. 35 in this wonderful 1980 recording performed by Gidon Kremer and the London Symphony Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly:
Ballade et Polonaise Op. 38 with Heifetz:
Romance sans paroles Op. 7 Nos 2 & 3 with David Oistrakh:
Vieuxtemps ‘Reverie’ with Lola Bobesco:
David Nadien plays Vieuxtemps’s Regrets:
Duo Brilliante in A Major, Op 39 for violin, cello and orchestra with Aaron Rosand:
Elegie for Viola and Piano Op. 30 with Robert Diaz and Robert Koenig:
Capriccio in C minor for Solo viola ‘Hommage à Paganini’ played with heart and soul by Anna Serova on the Amati 1615 ‘La Stauffer’ Viola:
The ‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri del Gesù Violin – the most expensive violin in the world
Famed violin maker Guarneri del Gesù made the violin in 1741, three years before his death, and it was used extensively by Henri Vieuxtemps in his performances as a virtuoso violinist.
Later musicians who played the Vieuxtemps Guarneri included Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Joshua Bell.
The violin’s excellent condition and undisputed provenance led to a steady increase in price and the instrument was sold to an anonymous buyer in 2012 by J & A Beares in London in conjunction with Paolo Alberghini and master violin restorer, Julie Reed-Yeboah. The final record-breaking price was said to be somewhere in the region of $16 million, with the purchaser gifting lifetime use of the ‘Viuextemps’ to the ecstatic virtuoso violinist, Anne Akiko Meyers.
As Anne says, with other legendary violins owned and played by Paganini, Kreisler and Heiftez now resting largely unheard in museums, it is a precious gift to have the ‘Viuextemps’ being played on!
The 12 most expensive violins of all-time
Anne gave this moving interview after receiving the violin – ‘Art and Soul’ of World’s Most Expensive Violin:
Anne Akiko Meyers History of ex-Vieuxtemps Guarneri Del Gesu:
‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri Del Gesu Returns To The Concert Stage…
News coverage of the sale by npr.
Henri Vieuxtemps achieved great success and popularity in Russia. He made two concert tours there in 1837 and 1840 as well as his later 5 year stint at the Imperial Court. Perhaps his lasting legacy from his most revered time in Saint Petersburg (1846 – 1851), was his founding of the Violin School of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and his early guidance of the ‘Russian School’.
The teachers that followed him in Saint Petersburg were violin luminaries Henryk Wieniawski and Leopold Auer, whose students inlcuded some of the greatest violinists of the twentieth century, such as Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, Efrem Zimbalist, Georges Boulanger, and Oscar Shumsky.
An excerpt from Robert Cummings’s Biography sums up Vieuxtemps’ final years:
“He took a teaching post at the Brussels Conservatory in 1871, where his students included Eugène Ysaÿe, and two years later suffered a stroke resulting in paralysis of his right arm. This episode effectively ended his career as a soloist, though he eventually regained enough ability to perform chamber music in private concerts. He was also able to compose in his last decade. In 1879, he moved to Algeria where his daughter lived. His inability to play with proficiency in his final years was a source of great frustration for him.”
I feel strongly that Henri Vieuxtemps deserves more recognition and to be heard regularly on stage and in recordings.
Memorial to Henri Vieuxtemps in Verviers
I hope you have enjoyed his music as much as I have during my venerative Vieuxtemps interlude!
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29 Mar Study Exposes Health Struggles for ‘Hidden Poor’ California Elders
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A new report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that one in four Californians age 65 or older, who live alone or with only their spouse or partner, “had income in 2013 in the limbo of unofficial poverty.”
“Hidden Health Problems Among California’s Hidden Poor” is the center’s new Health Policy Fact Sheet showing a more accurate picture of how much people actually need to make financial ends meet. The report looks at older adults whose income falls above the outdated federal poverty level (FPL) but below a newer, more accurate measure of poverty called the Elder Index.
African American, Latino and Asian seniors particularly have to struggle, according to the findings.
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“These older adults—the ‘hidden poor’—have substantially more health problems and less access to care than those with higher incomes, but they cannot afford to pay privately for assistance and often do not qualify for public programs that could help them manage their health problems. Planners and policymakers need to pay more attention to this hidden poor population,” the report says.
Not only was the health status “substantially worse among the hidden poor than among those with higher incomes,” those with lower incomes were about twice as likely to rate their health as only fair or poor.
Not only do these seniors suffer disproportionately from ill health, but they face barriers to care. They were almost twice as likely as better off elders living above the Elder Index to report “they never or only sometimes got timely appointments when needed,” the study found.
In addition, says the report, “Mental health problems are also higher among those living below the Elder Index.”
As a result, the research team found, “Older adults with higher health care needs are also more likely to face barriers to meeting their health care needs.”
The analysis compares the FPL to the alternative Elder Economic Security Standard Index (the Elder Index), which the State of California now uses as an official planning tool for programs serving seniors.
Rather than try to update the FPL, which was created in the early 1960s using 1955 data, the Elder Index pinpoints what seniors actually need to make “decent minimum standard of living,” say the report’s authors.
For each of California’s 58 counties, UCLA used the index to calculate the cost of such necessities as housing, food, health care and transportation. The new measure shows that the national average is about double the official poverty level of $11,770 in 2016–and triple that sum in many urban areas.
UCLA’s analysis found California has 655,000 “hidden poor” elders living alone or residing only with a spouse or partner. Seniors in the Golden State who fall between the official poverty line and the higher Elder Index threshold are almost twice as likely to identify as being in poor or fair health, feel depressed, and say they cannot get timely health care compared to more affluent seniors, says the study.
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Furthermore, the researchers report, “Latino, African American and Asian older adults who lived alone or with only their spouse/partner had the highest rates of being among the hidden poor (35.4, 30.6 and 29.2 percent, respectively).
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A related study by the UCLA Center published last fall found, “In terms of sheer numbers, whites make up more than half of elders in the financially pinched group (482,000). Proportionately, grandparents raising grandchildren, older adults who rent, Latinos, women, and the oldest age group (75 and over) were the groups most affected.”Imelda Padilla-Frausto, a researcher for both studies, wrote, “Many of our older adults are forced to choose between eating, taking their medications or paying rent,” said. “The state might be emerging from a recession, but for many of our elder households, the downturn seems permanent.”
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, a researcher for both studies, wrote, “Many of our older adults are forced to choose between eating, taking their medications or paying rent,” said. “The state might be emerging from a recession, but for many of our elder households, the downturn seems permanent.”
The 2015 study revealed the three-quarter million of California’s elderly heads of households were among the hidden poor–or about one-fifth of seniors in the Golden State. That’s more than double the number (342,000) counted by using the FPL. Unlike the “official” poor, those in unseen poverty often do not qualify for public assistance.
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Moonbat Denounces Intelligence as “Cognitive Privilege”
31 Jul, 2017 by Dave Blount
The liberal goal is to eradicate inequality. The enemy of equality is success. That is why Caucasians and wealthy people are demonized as “privileged”; both are associated with success. Since liberals are always concerned with root causes, they have begun to move beyond race and class hatred to get at the sources of success. Among them is intelligence — which now stands officially denounced as a privilege:
The University of Iowa’s student newspaper has announced the discovery of a special privilege which intelligent people acquire as an accident of birth. This new privilege — called “cognitive privilege” — functions in essentially the same way as white privilege.
The Daily Iowan revealed the discovery of this new privilege earlier this week.
Garden-variety white privilege “is an important topic that deserves a public discussion,” the op-ed on “cognitive privilege” explains, but it is also “prudent to at least mention the wider concept contained therein: that of privilege itself.”
Privilege in general is “the receipt of certain benefits wholly through accident of birth” …
“Thus, the accident of having been born smart enough to be able to be successful is a great benefit that you did absolutely nothing to earn. Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for being smart.”
Yet being a pervert warrants ostentatious pride according to liberals, who also hold that we have no influence over our own sexual behavior because we are “born that way.”
Once again, we see that liberal ideology is depraved, pernicious, and a steaming load of crap. If its proponents continue to accumulate power, we will soon have Affirmative Action explicitly for mental defectives. Why should only people privileged to have high IQs get to be brain surgeons?
In utopia, there will be no more cognitive privilege.
On a tip from Dan F. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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7:30 PM Easterm Time
Dumplings are common across many cultures, but few are as imposing as the Swedish versions: whether klimp, kroppkakor or palt, Swedish potato dumplings are not for the faint of heart. Patrice Johnson will lighten up the foreboding kroppkakor to suite modern tastes, preparing students to tackle this hearty winter meal on their own.
Register here for this virtual demo, which is available to members and non-members of ASI.
Virtual Book Talk (presented by the American Swedish Institute): Marcus Samuelsson
7 PM Eastern Time
Acclaimed chef Marcus Samuelsson will discuss his newest book, The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food, with former Minneapolis Star Tribune Taste Editor Lee Dean.
Register here for this virtual book talk, which is available to members and non-members of ASI.
Nordic Table Demo (presented by the American Swedish Institute): Learn how to make semlor
Semlor are cardamom-infused, almond paste-filled, and whipped cream-topped treats originally indulged only on Fat Tuesday, before the Lenten fast until Easter. These days, Swedes eat semlor in many forms, from New Years until Easter. In this one-hour class, Erin Swenson-Klatt will share a recipe that even novice bakers can tackle at home, along with lots of baking tips and some history and cultural context for these classic baked goods. After watching this one-hour demo, students will be prepared to tackle semlor on their own at home, any time!
Swedish Reading Club: To Cook a Bear (Koka björn)
by Mikael Niemi
A fantastic tale set in the far north of Sweden in 1852 following a runaway Sami boy and his mentor, the famous pastor Laestadius, as they investigate a murder in their village along with the mysteries of life.
“There is much more to this wonderfully idiosyncratic novel from Sweden; it is not only a riveting, psychologically astute mystery but also a work of history, natural history (the pastor is a gifted botanist), and religion… superb. It is not to be missed.”
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SAHS is a 501(c)3 organization.
© 2021 Swedish American Heritage Society of West Michigan
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Devices Orthopaedic Product Launch
News Release - March 20, 2013
Zimmer Launches a New Era in Knee Replacement with Persona(TM) The Personalized Knee System
Persona Knee Replacement Replicates the Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Knee for a Better Fit, More Natural Feel and More Normal Function
CHICAGO, March 20, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZMH), a global leader in musculoskeletal health, today introduced Persona The Personalized Knee System, at the 2013 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting. The Persona System ushers in a new era in total knee replacement, combining personalized implants with intelligent instrumentation to provide surgeons with a new level of intraoperative precision to customize the best fit for their patients.
More than 600,000 total knee replacements are performed each year in the United States. While total knee replacement is among the most clinically successful procedures in modern medicine, patient expectations are increasing, leaving some patients less than fully satisfied. Despite the success of total knee replacement, current knee systems lack the fidelity to precisely match the anatomy and biomechanics of the natural knee for a global patient population.
As the market leader and a pioneer in total knee replacement, Zimmer committed to engineer the highest fidelity knee system ever. Building upon the clinical legacy of Zimmer's NexGen® and Natural-Knee® systems, two of the world's most clinically-proven and widely used knee systems, Zimmer employed cutting-edge scientific tools to design Persona The Personalized Knee System, which aims to deliver unprecedented fit, natural feel, and normal function.
"The Persona System is the most comprehensive, anatomically accurate and highest fidelity knee replacement system ever designed," said Jeff McCaulley, President, Zimmer Global Reconstructive. "Zimmer scientists and engineers and their designing surgeon partners pushed the boundaries of implant design, drawing upon advanced morphology, physiology, kinesiology and material sciences to develop a truly revolutionary system that allows surgeons to provide each patient with a personalized fit."
A number of breakthrough technologies went into the design of Persona The Personalized Knee System:
- Zimmer's Bone Resection Atlas (ZiBRA) is an advanced bone atlas with virtual resection and component placement capabilities. This tool allowed the Persona System's surgeon designers and engineers to study the morphology of hundreds of bones, representing a diverse global population, to precisely define anatomically accurate implant shapes and sizes.
- Zimmer's Virtual Biomechanical Knee (VBK) is a kinematic computational analysis program that allows rapid testing of hundreds of different design options to virtually assess their impact on soft tissues, motion and overall performance to optimize designs that more closely replicate natural feel and normal function.
- Zimmer's Robotic Simulator uses a six-axis, high-precision robot to replicate the kinematic patterns and biomechanical forces for a range of patient daily activities, validating the fidelity, precision and robustness of the implant designs.
Building upon this revolutionary design, the Persona System incorporates Zimmer's most advanced material technologies. Vivacit-E® advanced bearing surface material, incorporating Vitamin E, offers improved strength, ultra-low wear and exceptional oxidative stability for long-term performance. Trabecular MetalTM Technology porous metal is available on every compartment of the new knee system, facilitating biologic fixation of the knee replacement.
Complementing the most personalized and precise knee implant system, Zimmer is introducing a range of intelligent instrumentation to perform more precise and efficient procedures.
"The instrumentation for the Persona System was specifically designed to provide surgeons with a new level of precision in order to take full advantage of the fidelity of the Persona implants," said Steve White, General Manager and Vice President, Knees at Zimmer. "Surgeons told us that to create a more natural feeling, normal functioning knee for patients, we needed to develop implants and instruments that enable a more precise intraoperative fit and feel."
Zimmer's intelligent instrument technologies for Persona The Personalized Knee System include: Zimmer® Patient Specific Instruments, which utilize pre-operative MRI images of a patient's knee to create customized surgical instruments in order to improve implant placement; iASSISTTM Knee, The Personalized Guidance SystemTM, a revolutionary surgical guidance technology that provides simple, intuitive and accurate intraoperative feedback and alignment verification at the surgical site without the need for bulky capital equipment; and the eLibra® Dynamic Knee Balancing System, which enables precise rotation of the femoral components to facilitate efficient and reliable soft tissue balancing.
Persona The Personalized Knee System represents a significant advance in personalization and precision for surgeons and their patients. The system also represents a breakthrough for healthcare systems, providing a premium implant, while reducing total costs and increasing efficiencies in and around the procedure. Leveraging the latest advances in surgery scheduling, pre-operative planning, digital templating, and contemporary logistics, the Persona System's innovative modular trays allow surgeons to select only the instruments and sizes needed to successfully complete the surgery, minimizing the total number of trays for each case. When used in conjunction with intelligent instruments, Persona Knee procedures can be executed with only two to three trays.
"We designed the Persona System to meet the demands of today's patients and provide unmatched surgical precision for surgeons, all in the context of concerns about the total cost of care. The Persona System was designed to help hospitals deliver high quality, consistent outcomes while reducing total costs," said Jeff McCaulley. "Zimmer has long been the global leader in knee replacement technology, but with the Persona System and our new intelligent instrument offerings, we are revolutionizing the standard of care for patients for the next decade and beyond."
For more information about Persona The Personalized Knee System, visit Zimmer at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting, or go to http://persona.Zimmer.com.
Founded in 1927 and headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana, Zimmer designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopaedic reconstructive, spinal and trauma devices, dental implants, and related surgical products. Zimmer has operations in more than 25 countries around the world and sells products in more than 100 countries. Zimmer's 2012 sales were approximately $4.5 billion. The Company is supported by the efforts of more than 8,500 employees worldwide.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the orthopaedics industry, management's beliefs and assumptions made by management. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terms such as "may," "will," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "estimates," "projects," "assumes," "guides," "targets," "forecasts," and "seeks" or the negative of such terms or other variations on such terms or comparable terminology. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially. For a list and description of such risks and uncertainties, see our periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be set forth in our periodic reports. Readers of this document are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, since, while we believe the assumptions on which the forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, there can be no assurance that these forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate. This cautionary statement is applicable to all forward-looking statements contained in this document.
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LA or Hell-eh?
My first trip to LA was in 2005. Wait, I should qualify that. My first trip as an adult to LA was in 2005. I’d been to la-la land and area when I was a kid visiting Disneyland, as that is a rite of passage for most middle class children across North America.
As an adult I visited LA for two reasons a) my friends were down there doing pilot season and I wanted to see what that was about and b) someone was doing a similar show to Teen Angst, we’d been in contact and I wanted to check it out.
Those turned out to be two very awful reasons for visiting LA. First off my actor friends were living at the Highland Gardens in this Canadian Camp Hollywood of dreamers. Most of the people there were nice but there were a few girls there, 20 year olds with no acting training, pretty faces and 20 inch waists that made me hate the entertainment business like I have never before. That 2005 trip to LA made me feel repulsive, fat and ugly. That’s what hanging around with anorexics will do to you. The most memorable moment was when one girl cried when we were out for lunch. She’d ordered the fruit plate and when it came and was humongous she went into a panic attack.
Then there was the comedy show. The first words the LA-based-kind-of-like-Teen-Angst-show producer said to me were, ‘You’re Sara? I thought you were a blonde.” Ugh. The show went fine but I didn’t get any preferential treatment or casual pleasantries I would have expected being from out of town. Yet another blow to my ego and confirmation that LA wanted me to be a skinny blonde girl.
I did a pay to play 5 minute comedy set at the Rainbow Room. It’s a tiny upstairs venue filled entirely of comedians and musicians who are just waiting for their turn on stage. Someone came up to me after my set and said ‘That was great, you really took control of the stage. You have great presence.” I’d just finished Studio 58 and was almost insulted by this comment, as in, of course I know how to stand on stage, I just went through three years of people yelling at me everyday if I wasn’t comfortable in front of an audience. But I guess most comics don’t have that training.
I also I think I got roofied while I was in LA. I’d had three drinks over the course of three hours then got to a club with my LA actor friends and all I remember from that night is being on the dance floor, then I woke up in my clothes back in my friend’s plce. Luckily, my LA actor friends too care of me, at least the non-anorexic ones did. In the morning, with a terrible hangover, I did feel rejected that even when roofied I was too fat/ ugly to be taken advantage of. (Although now, I realize this is a pretty shitty joke to make.)
This weekend I’m going to LA again. I know some awesome people there and I’m going with no shows booked or expectations. I want to people watch and enjoy the sun. Hopefully, I’ll come back from this trip with better stories that these ones for an upcoming Story Time Tuesday.
Feedback time!
Have you been to LA? Have any suggestions of places I should visit or things I should do? Leave them in the comments.
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Awesome things in L.A.: Museum of Jurassic Technology, La Brea Tarpits, L.A. County Museum of Art and Abbot Kinney Blvd (check out the iced coffees at Intelligentsia Coffee), tacos at the Farmer’s Market.
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The big giant end of the year New Year’s Eve battle
Last year we had Valentine’s Day, this year it’s New Year’s Eve, which is released this week. A dozens-strong all-star cast turn up, shoot a couple of scenes, get paid, movie execs make millions, audiences have one potentially crap film broken down into lots of nice, easy-to-manage little pieces – everybody wins. Be warned though: Christmas Day, All Hallow’s Eve, St Patrick’s Day, St Swithin’s Day, A Random Person’s Birthday will all follow. Here, Ross McD and Ross McG from pit the cast against each other.
ROSS MCG:
New Year’s Eve wish: that he would quit propping up crummy festive flicks and get back to some acting.
Happy new year: Raging Bull. No one punches a wall or accuses his brother of doing something nasty with his wife like Bobby.
Crappy new year: Righteous Kill. A bit like Heat in that it stars De Niro and Pacino. Also a bit like Heated dog poo. It stinks.
New year’s Eve wish: that she would return to the role of Catwoman instead of Anne Hathaway for The Dark Knight Rises
Happy new year: Wolf. Anyone who can convincingly pretend to be attracted to a hairy Jack Nicholson deserves some respect. See also The Witches Of Eastwick.
Crappy new year: Dangerous Minds. So unCoolio it’s bloody freezing.
New Year’s Eve wish: that I could have his startlingly brilliant hair
Happy new year: 17 Again. Matthew Perry wishes he looked like Zac Efron when he was 17.
Crappy new year: High School Musical. In my school, singing and dancing would have landed you in detention.
New Year’s Eve wish: that she won’t be in any more Spy Kids movies. That there won’t be any more Spy Kids movies.
Happy new year: Sin City. Hard to get distracted from a CGI-ed Mickey Rourke. Except by a CGI-ed almost naked lady.
Crappy new year: Sucker Punch. About as much fun as being punched in the crotch for two hours.
New Year’s Eve wish: that he will be the lead man in Fast And The Furious 6
Happy new year: Fast And The Furious 5. The Godfather: Part II of Paul Walker car flicks.
Crappy new year: Crash. He does steal a car, but there’s no Paul Walker.
New Year’s Eve wish: that she would play the lead in a Commando reboot.
Happy new year: Commando. She’s John Matrix’s daughter. Which makes her infinitely cooler than Neo from The Matrix. Or The Matrix that Optimus Prime hides in his belly.
Crappy new year: She gets a free pass. She was in frickin’ Commando, man!
New Year’s Eve wish: that she doesn’t go off the rails like every other child actress.
Happy new year: She’ll always be Little Miss Sunshine. Although Zombieland runs it a close second.
Crappy new year: No Reservations. Catherine Zeta-Jones is a chef who tried to hook up with Harvey Dent. As awful as it sounds.
New Year’s Eve wish: that she burns every copy of PS I Love You. DVD and the book.
Happy new year: The Next Karate Kid. Probably the third best Karate Kid film ever.
Crappy new year: PS I Haven’t Forgotten How Shite That Film Was
ROSS MCD:
New Year’s Eve wish: that people would stop confusing him with Johnny Knoxville
Happy new year: Transformers. More than meets the eye
Crappy new year: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. A big steaming pile of crap in disguise.
New Year’s Eve wish: to regain the number one spot on the ‘Hottest Jessicas’ list, ahead of Alba and Rabbit
Happy new year: Blade Trinity. Manages to make a ‘music to kill vampires by’ iPod playlist without cringing once. Bravo.
Crappy new year: I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry. An abusive relationship for anyone that watched it.
New Year’s Eve wish: to still look 30 when he’s 50. Only three months to go…
Happy new year: Livin on a Prayer. Everyone thinks they can sing it, no-one can
Crappy new year: Have a Nice Day. Try singing in you head without giving up and going back to Livin On A Prayer
New Year’s Eve wish: to make a successful leap to film. Will this be it?
Happy new year: Glee Season 1. Showtunes! Silly Storylines! Slushis! Sue Sylvester!
Crappy new year: Glee Season 3. Showtunes… silly storylines…slushies… Sue Sylvester…
New Year’s Eve wish: to play the lead in the Under Siege reboot, reprising her role as Casey Ryback’s daughter. Maybe she could team up with John Matrix’s daughter?
Happy new year: Knocked Up. Made us believe she could sleep with Seth Rogan – now that is acting.
Crappy new year: The Ugly Truth. Couldn’t even upstage co-star Gerard Butler – now that is an ugly truth
New Year’s Eve wish: not to become Charlie Sheen II
Happy new year: The Butterfly Effect. It’s actually quite good! No, seriously!
Crappy new year: What Happens In Vegas. It didn’t stay there unfortunately
New Year’s Eve wish: to star in the inbetween series linking Sex and the City to The Golden Girls.
Happy new year: Hocus Pocus. Saved the production team a bomb in make-up by playing a witch
Crappy new year: Failure to Launch. If only there had been
Happy new year: Monster’s Ball. Not to be confused with Pokéballs, which are used for catching Pokémon in Japanese
Crappy new year: Catwoman. Not to be confused with a DVD you should actually insert into a DVD player
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LukeMiller Says:
Haha, omg. This was pretty funny. Still don’t know how they pay these people to be in these movies.
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MDH Spices owner Dharampal Gulati dies at 98
He suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday morning.
Dec 03, 2020 · 11:07 am
A file photo of MDH Spices owner Dharampal Gulati. | Rajiv Shukla/Twitter
MDH Spices owner Dharampal Gulati, fondly known as “Mahashayji”, died on Thursday, ANI reported. He was 98.
Gulati suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday morning, according to News18. He had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Delhi for the past three weeks.
The 98-year-old was the face of the MDH brand. He was also referred to as the “grand old man of spices”. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian honour, in 2019.
Twitter was flooded with tributes for Gulati. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia remembered him as India’s “most inspiring entrepreneur”. “I have never met such an inspiring and lively soul,” Sisodia tweeted. “May his soul rest in peace.”
India's most inspiring entrepreneur,
MDH owner Dharm Pal Mahashay passed away this morning.
I have never met such an inspiring and lively soul. May his soul rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/SOdiqFyJvX
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) December 3, 2020
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also paid tributes to Gulati. “Dharm Pal ji was [a] very inspiring personality,” he tweeted. “He dedicated his life for the society. God bless his soul.”
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed his grief over Gulati’s death. “I am saddened by the passing away of one of India’s most respected businessmen, Mahashri Dharmapalji,” he tweeted in Hindi. “He started a small business and made a mark for himself. He was actively involved in social work till the last moment. I express my condolences to his family.”
भारत के प्रतिष्ठित कारोबारियों में से एक महाशय धर्मपालजी के निधन से मुझे दुःख की अनुभूति हुई है।छोटे व्यवसाय से शुरू करने बावजूद उन्होंने अपनी एक पहचान बनाई। वे सामाजिक कार्यों में काफ़ी सक्रिय थे और अंतिम समय तक सक्रिय रहे। मैं उनके परिवार के प्रति अपनी संवेदना व्यक्त करता हूँ।
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) December 3, 2020
Here are some other tributes:
Heartfelt condolences on the demise of Dharampal Gulati ji. Masala King and #MDH owner Gulati ji was loved in millions of homes across the world.
From a lane in Chandni Chowk he spread his wings to every corner of the world. Superb ad-man. He will always be missed.
RIP! 🙏 pic.twitter.com/3znno5jj2Y
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv) December 3, 2020
The man who stopped aging after a time. ॐ शांति #DharampalGulati pic.twitter.com/P13LDIaDbc
— Punit Agarwal (@Punitspeaks) December 3, 2020
Deeply saddened to know the passing away of King of spices Padma Shri #DharampalGulati Ji.
He will always be remembered for his extraordinary contribution.🙏 pic.twitter.com/u4UOll7RuQ
— Amar Prasad Reddy🇮🇳 (@amarprasadreddy) December 3, 2020
My tributes to one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs of India Padma Bhushan Mahashay Dharampal Gulati Ji on his passing away. He will be always remember for spreading the fragrance of spices of India to all over the world. May his soul rest in peace. Om Shanti!#DharampalGulati pic.twitter.com/qt9Spaowzk
— Som Parkash (@SomParkashBJP) December 3, 2020
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Dharampal Gulati
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MDH Masala company
Congress leader and four-time Gujarat CM Madhavsinh Solanki dies at 93
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Topic Containers and virtualization
SubTopic Server virtualization
Container technology
Hyper-converged infrastructure
Advantages and disadvantages of server virtualization
Server virtualization is still very much a crucial aspect of today’s solution provider business. Read through advantages and disadvantages of server virtualization, and how the top vendors' products compare.
SearchSystemsChannel.com Staff
While it’s important to stay up to date with cloud computing technologies, the underlying virtualization layer is still very much a crucial aspect of today’s solution provider business.
Virtualization started out as a technology used mostly in testing and development environments, but in recent years has become mainstream in production servers and major vendors are tying together virtualization and cloud offerings.
It may be a slow process, but customers are starting to build cloud infrastructures and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS) products largely rely on a virtualized environment. From saving customers on physical server costs and improving performance to being used for building out private cloud computing environments, server virtualization has matured greatly. It is quickly becoming a staple of many customers’ long-term IT strategy.
Numbers from a SearchDataCenter.com IT professional survey show that first-time virtualization deployments, are down from 9% in 2010 to 6% in 2011, but 59% of those IT pros are already using server virtualization. Just because there aren't as many first-time deployments, that doesn't mean there are fewer opportunities for VARs. Most organizations aren't even close to 100% virtualized, so VARs can still help them virtualize more workloads and improve monitoring, management, backup, security, etc.
Server virtualization considerations
The biggest advantage to virtualizing your customers’ servers is the ability to consolidate several physical servers onto one machine. Servers frequently run with idling CPUs and plenty of memory to spare -- meaning your customers are paying for computing and resources that they don't need. Running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a server lets your customer use more of its capacity.
A few of the main virtualization challenges are security, storage and VM sprawl. Besides using resources more efficiently, virtualization can also be risky because it puts more of your customers’ eggs in one basket. If the host machine breaks or needs to be taken offline, several virtual servers will go down. You can solve this by setting up a redundant server; if the primary server goes down, the secondary server will run the VMs until the primary one is fixed.
A robust virtualization project should include at least two physical servers that both have access to the same storage device, said Scott Gordon, sales engineer at ActivSupport, a San Bruno, Calif., networking consultancy. Because VMs are just data files, a shared storage system lets both physical servers, or hosts, access the same VMs, making it much quicker to recover if one server fails. A storage area network (SAN) is best for this, since it allows for nearly instantaneous recovery, but a network-attached storage (NAS) device or even backups can bring your disaster recovery plan's recovery time objective (RTO) down to minutes instead of days, Gordon said.
In fact, disaster recovery is one of the common reasons customers cite for adopting server virtualization, said Ty Schwab, founder and senior consultant of Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC, a Eugene, Ore., IT consultancy. He worked with the Alaska Railroad to set up a virtualized server with an alternate site at a building across the tracks. The system could fail over within an hour, he said.
Performance is an important factor in server virtualization, especially for applications such as databases that require a lot of disk activity. The prevailing wisdom three years ago was that databases should still run on dedicated physical servers, But this line of thinking is changing rapidly and it’s becoming much easier for VARs to virtualize databases without performance concerns
The “Big three” virtualization products
The three major server virtualization technologies are VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. Each offering has a free version and live migration, but it’s up to you to help customers determine which fits best in their environment. Hyper-V R2 tools, for example may be a better match (and price) than vSphere or XenServer tools. Other virtualization options include open source Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) with KVM virtualization.
VMware is still the server virtualization market leader, but the gap isn’t nearly what it was three years ago because Microsoft and Citrix are putting out free, competitive offerings. VMware vSphere 5, which offers new Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS features, is relatively expensive and likely to entice your larger customers. VMware also offers the free vSphere hypervisor based on the ESXi architecture.
Microsoft was late to the virtualization game with Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V that debuted in 2008 and its Quick Migration technology was not a big hit with customers. But Hyper-V R2’s Live Migration technology, features such as Cluster Shared Volumes, and its (technically) free pricing makes it an enticing option for some of your customers.
Citrix XenServer 6 , now out in beta, will be geared toward public cloud service customers and offers customers the distributed virtual switch (DVS) as the default option for networking within XenServer. XenServer is based on the Xen open source project, which was owned by XenSource until that company was bought out by Citrix in 2007.
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HBO’s Powerful Adaptation Of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart”
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“Love Is The Message” Is A New Film That Loves The Nightlife
LOVE IS THE MESSAGE: A NIGHT AT THE GALLERY PARTY 1977 is a new documentary film that I’ve been desperately trying to find the time to promote because it’s obviously a film that Loves The Nightlife! It’s a new documentary from filmmaker Nicky Siano that takes a look at a famed NYC dance club, The Gallery, and its role as a founding leader in the “disco” dance music boom. It’s also a poignant look at that magic moment in New York’s club scene before the arrival of AIDS and the grim devastation and commercialization of the 80s.
DJ Derek Pavone and the Bottom Forty music collective have been instrumental in bringing this film to Seattle for TWO special screenings, both at 7pm, on June 6 & 7 at the Northwest Film Forum. It’s also a benefit for Gay City Health Project and here’s a lot more info on the event, and this terrific film.
Derek Pavone and Bottom Forty Present:
Love Is The Message – A Night at the Gallery 1977
A Film by Nicky Siano
Two Nights Only
June 6 & 7, 2014
A special benefit screening with all proceeds going to Gay City Health Project
Seattle, WA – Derek Pavone and Bottom Forty proudly present a limited engagement screening of an important snapshot of American dance music history. Love Is The Message – A Night At The Gallery 1977, directed by Nicky Siano, takes the viewer back to the heyday of dance music for one night at New York’s famed club, The Gallery.
Opened in 1972 by Siano and his brother, The Gallery had such an effect on the dance music scene that it is still felt today in clubs around the world. Before Studio 54, Paradise Garage, and The Warehouse, there was The Gallery, where Nicky Siano could be found in the DJ booth every Saturday night. Grace Jones and Loleatta Holloway both made their first appearances at The Gallery, and Frankie Knuckles used to blow up balloons for the club. Frankie would also often bring DJ Larry Levan around to check out the music. This was a time before disco was disco, and before the imposing velvet ropes of the high-society discoteques.
To honor Siano’s work with HIV/AIDS prevention and alternative treatments all proceeds of this screening will benefit Gay City Health Project. Additionally, a contribution of $5.00 will enter the donor into a drawing for a signed copy of the DVD. A total of eight (8) copies will be given away during a random drawing of all qualified donors. A Paypal account is required to donate online. Donations can also be made at each screening which are cash only. Drawing to be conducted Sunday June 8th 2014 and winners will be contacted.
Love Is The Message: A Night at the Gallery 1977
In 1972 The Gallery opened and for 6 years it ruled as New York City’s hottest dance club.. Now, for the first time in film history, you will go inside one of the hottest clubs ever, actually filmed at the club during its heyday. Sequences filmed inside The Gallery were directed by Jim Bidgood, who directed the classic Pink Narcissus. It has been called “The First Disco.” The innovative lighting, environment, and sound design was the inspiration for Paradise Garage and Studio 54. Heralded by New York Magazine and many other publications as the impetus for the disco scene. Now, for the first time ever, you will spend a night at The Gallery circa 1976-77. You will be transported into the past, and you will never want to return!
“Arguably, the first commercial club to bring everything together was the Gallery.”
~Bill Brewster Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (The History of the Disc Jockey)
“Nicky Siano was dancing in Manhattan clubs at fifteen and by the age of 17 he was resident and co-owner of the hottest club in New York: The Gallery. He mentored Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan, worked in the studio with Arthur Russell and was set to become another high-profile drug casualty until he got his life back on track with campaigning work for people with AIDS.”
~DJHistory.com
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ONLY TWO SCREENINGS! June 6 & 7 at 7 pm.
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Spinning tracks from that legendary night…
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Eastside Mayors Criticize Bus Restructure Proposal
Posted on July 15, 2017 July 16, 2017 by Lizz Giordano
University Of Washington Link Light Rail Station Image: Lizz Giordano
Eastside mayors want Metro and Sound Transit to relocate bus stops to improve bus-rail transfers before implementing service changes. The proposed restructuring would funnel Eastside bus commuters heading downtown to light rail at the University of Washington Station. That transfer requires riders to cross the busy streets of Montlake Boulevard and/or Pacific Street or use an out of the way walkway to switch between modes of transportation.
“Increasing commute times by 20 minutes while creating more mobility downtown will only incentivize single occupancy vehicles to drive to downtown Seattle rather than stick with public transportation,” wrote the seven Eastside Mayors in a letter to Metro and Sound Transit.
The Mayors want bus stops relocated to be adjacent to the light rail station and mobility improvements through the Montlake Hub. STB’s own Adam Parast showed one way to accomplish this in 2015 (pictured below).
“Sound Transit is supportive of improvements to the transfer environment at UW. King County Metro owns the bus shelters, and they are in active conversations about this with the City of Seattle and UW,” wrote Rachelle Cunningham, a spokesperson for Sound Transit in an email.
Metro estimates transfers currently take anywhere from 6-11 minutes, depending on direction and time of travel.
“The service concepts we’ve introduced would increase frequency on many Eastside routes, which would help reduce the time that riders would have to wait at the stop,” wrote Scott Gutierrez, a spokesperson for Metro in an email.
He said Metro is considering a range of changes, including relocation of stops, extending bus shelters, providing off-board payment and improving signage.
Adam’s Montlake Bus Concept
The restructure is partially intended to prepare for the closure of the Downtown Transit Tunnel to buses, now scheduled for sometime in 2019. The current proposed service change includes requiring downtown-bound Eastside bus riders to transfer to light rail at the UW Station, which would then free up buses allowing for expanded services to new areas and an increase the frequency of buses.
Disagreement on the public benefits package has delayed construction on the $1.6 billion Washington State Convention Center Addition project. This allows buses to continue using the Downtown Transit Tunnel a little longer, giving the advisory group, One Center City, more time to development and implement short term projects to improve mobility downtown during the period of “maximum constraint.”
Several participating advisory group members echoed the Eastside Mayors’ concern with the proposed restructuring urging Metro and Sound Transit to use the additional time to improve the transfer experience.
During the July 13 meeting of the One Center City advisory group, the Seattle Department of Transportation told participants more work is needed on the near-term strategies to deal with congestion and mobility as a multitude of redevelopment and transit projects begin.
“This work that is underway now, taking some feedback from the advisory group and elsewhere, really looking at if are there additional transit speed and reliability interventions, that we looked at earlier and want to bring back on the table. Maybe some things we haven’t yet looked at,” said Tom Brennan of Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates.
He said the goal is to have concrete near-term recommendations by the end of August, but the city did present a list of near-term pedestrian improvements, which the Seattle Department of Transportation said can be implemented in the next six years.
Susan McLaughlin, an Urban Design Manager with the Seattle Department of Transportation, said the agency looked at planned capital projects and channeling existing funding to projects in the center city.
Projects include reducing pedestrian crossing distances at angled intersection along Denny Way, improving the pedestrian experience at mobility hubs, developing an age-friendly toolkit and enhancing wayfinding in the center city.
Senior Transportation Planner Eric Tweit said one goal is to have a protected bike lane couplet using paint and posts, along Pike and Pine between First Street and 8th Street, done this year. The bike lane would extend on to Capitol Hill in the next few years.
The next One Center City meeting is scheduled for September.
CategoriesUncategorized TagsBus Routes, Eastside, Metro, One Center City, Seattle, Sound Transit, SR 520
57 Replies to “Eastside Mayors Criticize Bus Restructure Proposal”
Lack Thereof says:
Where does this 20 min number come from? Is that maximum headway plus transfer walk time?
Because I know the transfer at UW station is bad, but so is Stewart St and the Mercer weave. There is no way a bus driving downtown has a 20 min advantage at rush hour.
5 minutes to walk to the station, 5 minutes to get to the platform, 10 minute wait for a train, and you get to 20 minutes. However, these are overestimates. It takes two minutes to get from the Pacific Street bus stops to the entrance, and we can throw in an extra minute just in case. Then it takes two minutes to get to the platform. A typical train wait is 3-5 minutes; 10 minutes is a worst-case scenario. I think the Eastside mayors were just making a vague estimate, exaggerated for effect and worst-case scenarios. But we haven’t considered traffic, yet, and traffic causes delays at least once a week. So there’s five or ten minutes right there. And don’t underestimate those worst-case scenarios. I have several ways to get to work, but the ones that involve Link take a minimum of 25 minutes walking and waiting (24 minutes riding Link and 1-2 buses), and a maximum of 40 minutes walking and waiting, depending on how long I have to wait for Link and the bus(es). That’s a huge spread that can make the slow milk-run bus look good by comparison.
The extra time to travel out of your way in heavy traffic. It is literally possible to get off at the freeway station and literally beat the bus to the station (takes me 8 minutes to walk). Then there are additional off-ramp delays. I wonder whether Metro has actually timed this in test runs. Also, to get somewhere reliably on time, you really have to leave early. How much early? At least the two headways of what you’re taking plus the transfer walk + pedestrian walk signal + elevator/escalator time. And you really do need to account for the “bad traffic” days because you don’t know which days those will be. And it’s not like traffic congestion is getting better.
From the UW station to the bus stop near my office is a 5 minute bus ride with frequent service and little traffic. But I’m lucky if I get there 20 minutes after stepping off the train at UW station. It’s a wash whether walking is faster. If there’s any kind of traffic delay, walking is faster. Transfer penalty is real!
-Brandon
I don’t see how to get to 20 minutes for the transfer time. The walk from the station to the bus bays, either direction is just a couple minutes, plus wait time at the light. Getting down to the platform is not 5 minutes. The maximum wait time may be 10 minutes, but for peak commuters, the max is 6 minutes, and average is 3 minutes. Metro’s 6-11 covers most of the spread, and errs on the side of over-counting off-peak riders.
The 20 minutes described in the letter must be something other than transfer time. If they really think it could take 20 minutes, someone needs to give them the hint not to take the pedestrian bridge.
The 20 minute figure is possible if the bus has to wait a long time at the Montlake exit ramp. But, even rush hour, most days, it isn’t that bad. Best case, I was once on a 271 heading down the Montlake exit ramp one moment, and actually on a Link train, moving, just 8 minutes later.
Of course, this best case was not during rush hour. Rush hour, things will take long. But, a bus going downtown will also take longer. In terms of deciding when to leave, the amount of padding time you need to add to your schedule for the Montlake exit ramp vs. I-5/Stewart St. congestion is basically the same.
“Metro’s 6-11 covers most of the spread, and errs on the side of over-counting off-peak riders.”
Metro’s what?
Metro’s estimate of 6-11 minutes to do the transfer at UW Station, which I’m sure is more scientifically valid that the alarmist napkin figure in the letter.
Bernie says:
There is no way a bus driving downtown has a 20 min advantage at rush hour.
That exactly is what the time clock should be measured against. So you have to add the time it takes from when the bus exits 520 until the rider steps off onto the curb. Sailboat, add 5 minutes, event at Hec Ed add 10-30 minutes just to get from 520; at which point you might as well walk. Given the billions spent and knowing all the while that it was going to make transit from most of the eastside worse, it’s inexcusable how bad this transfer situation is. Metro/ST/et al. didn’t help the situation with there insane investments on low ridership eastside flyer stops while trying to abandon Montlake. Add in City of Seattle sitting on there hands when it came to planning and funding a west side solution which is why it’s currently so bad for buses trying to get to DT. And after all the money spent on the Mercer Mess it’s just as bad as it was before. And now they want to bring a BB team to the Seattle Center???
Julie B. says:
Oh, don’t worry. There won’t be a basketball team at Seattle Center.
Lisa McConnell says:
There already is a championship team at Seattle Center
The Mayors want bus stops relocated to be adjacent to the light rail station and mobility improvements through the Montlake Hub.
Horray; good for them! I’m glad they’re not clinging to direct buses to downtown, but instead pushing for more changes to make the restructure better. Hopefully WSDOT (for the 520 ramp) and UW (for the station environment) will listen to them.
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Joe "AvgeekJoe" Kunzler says:
What William C said.
Reading the letter it kinda sounds like they’re pushing for direct downtown buses. Sad trombone.
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Richard Bullington says:
Until Jay Inslee calls the Chancellor of the University of Washington into his office and says “Your tenure at this University is on the line here. MAKE THIS WORK or start shopping your resume around.” nothing will happen.
The same thing could be said to WSDOT as well. If a forced transfer in this terrible, hard to get to location is mandated, SDOT and WSDOT need to ensure that the buses can get to UW station promptly and reliably in the morning. The block between Hamlin and Shelby should be made 24/7 bus-only immediately, with a queue jump signal at Shelby giving the buses priority to the bridgehead.
Montlake should be re-striped somewhat between the off-ramp and Hamlin so that the current long merge between is shortened so that the buses can get into their lane more quickly. I realize this has to be a “BAT” style lane because the only way into the blocks east of Montlake Blvd from the south is a right turn at Hamlin.
To get buses off the freeway in a reasonable time, there is very serendipitous opportunity for a bus jump into the queue waiting for Montlake. There is some unused pavement just east of the current Flyer stop which was to have been the westbound on-ramp from the R.H. Thompson (?) freeway that was supposed to have gone through the Arboretum. However, with a little concrete poured up the hill behind the flyer stop, this could be a bus-only exit to jump ahead of all the cars queued in the super-long off-ramp to Montlake.
The buses would exit from the main lanes into the Flyer stop just as they do now, but the Jersey barrier would be removed and they’d simply veer right up the hill. There is a bridge abutment for 24th East just about the place that they’d start up the hill, so from that point the off-ramp should be widened five or six feet to the north — there certainly must be time to do that in the next ten months. The general purpose lane would be moved into the current shoulder and the narrow “widening” would become the new shoulder. Sure, it’s definitely sub-optimal, but that whole section of the roadway is going to be rebuilt in a few years so it’s a cheap improvement for a short while.
The Jersey barrier at the left side of the off-ramp can also be removed since there will no longer be pedestrians walking down to the flyer stop. That would gain a couple of feet for the bus lane. I imagine that the sidewalk would have to be replaced with genuine paving…..
Again, that can be done in ten months. Get on it, WSDOT.
Grant, the buses would have to merge through the general purpose traffic, but it’s moving so slowly in the AM peak that it really shouldn’t be a huge problem.
There’s not much which can be done to greatly improve the outbound commute, but for most people a five to fifteen minute delay is not as critical as one occurring on the inbound commute. Yes, people have to get their kids from child care locations, but that is a small minority of bus riders. Most such parents drive.
So, with this package you have increased the reliability of and decreased the time required to negotiate the exit from SR520 to Montlake and forwarded the buses to Shelby with little further delay. Add that demand from Governor Inslee that UW accommodate the buses at HSS, dramatically reducing the walking required to transfer, and you have upgraded a lousy bus intercept into a tolerable-to-good one.
This could be a very good development or a very bad development. I’ve long said ST listens to the cities first, and here are the cities speaking, asking for the same enhancements we’ve asked for. This could be a catalyst to make it happen. However, if the agencies go to UW and ask again for permission to put the bus stops next to the station and UW again says no, then the net result may be calling off the restructure, because the cities said the stops should be moved before the restructure occurs. And to the extent that the cities knew it was impossible to move the stops or they be moved already, then this is obstructionism on the part of the cities. What the cities could do is go to Olympia and get the legislature to pressure UW to consider the greater good of the region, since the same principal applies: legislators listen to elected officials more than they listen to us. Then if Dow chimes in, and Snohomish County speaks up as a sympathetic friend since the station is a regional transfer point, that would have the maximum effect. They should not only move the bus stops, but revive the idea of adding stops and layovers in the parking lots east of Montlake Blvd.
Frankly, half of me is inclined to agree on calling off the restructure unless the transfer environment is improved. I don’t want to wait ten minutes at PM rush hour to struggle up the Montlake ramp, only to spend another five minutes waiting for the left-turn light, waiting for the light to change for the crosswalk, and then rushing down escalators. (Yes, that’s a worst-case scenario. But not really exaggerated.)
Wild and crazy idea: Have the buses drop passengers off at Montlake Freeway Station, exit on Roanoke, take the University Bridge, and then loop back on Pacific to pick up passengers by UW Medical Center.
But the Montlake Freeway is likely to close in a couple of years, as the Montlake lid construction heats up. What, then?
By then, hopefully, we’ll have a bus lane on the Montlake exit ramp. Even if not, things getting worse in a couple years is no reason to make them worse now in advance.
Al Dimond says:
Maybe to get UW cooperation there needs to be a vision for a transfer environment that UW is part of. UW Station would be an amazing place to have a Portland Aerial Tram-style bike valet, which would be just as useful for UW students/staff as people passing through (a lot of people arrive to campus by bike, a lot of the bike parking on campus is uncovered and has theft issues).
The harder thing is to think of is a transit amenity that benefits UW. Maybe the additional UW-eastside service is the amenity. UW students/staff that live over there have pretty adequate service today, and they’d have excellent service following a restructure. But making that service more frequent and consistent throughout the day and week would be a big win for people with business in both places. Making UW-eastside transit easy to use, accessible from one obvious, visible place, would really encourage use. If someone asks me, “Where do I get the bus,” and I have to go look up the schedule because every route picks up some place different and the best thing to do depends on what day and time it is, they know how to use transit for one trip but maybe not for every trip. If I can instantly say, “Oh, all the eastside buses pick up next to the light rail station by the stadium,” now they know how to use transit for that trip every time.
It’s notable that seven mayors are being so succinct and direct about having a major-crosswalk-free connection! It will be interesting to see if this push does any good, or if the unmotivated powers at UW or the timid local leaders who could be more publicly demanding will make something actually happen.
I’m particularly disappointed that Dow Constantine has not been more emphatic about this, since this is a fairly safe issue for him to pursue. It makes me question his commitment to good transit.
Frank D says:
All you transit nerds need to get off your haunches and write some letters! Dow Constantine, Jay Inslee, Ana Mari Cauce, UW DOT, SDOT, WSDOT, all of these folks’ offices are awaiting your comments on how terrible the transfer is and how much it’d benefit both the UW and the region if there were better connections here. Push for the STB suggested transfer! Push for Transit Signal Priority at the intersections! Write, or you lose all right to complain!
I’d suggest that — as chair of an agency that lists drivers’ salaries as their biggest expense — Dow should be eager to save money on driver salaries by reducing the round trip time required by 520 buses ending at UW Station. Do other signal priority projects require letters? Nope!
I’m also not convinced that UW cares about letters. That is part of the bigger structural issue, which is that each entity is out for their own specific interests and no one is charged with taking responsibility for a great connection. Dow is probably in the strongest position since he sits on multiple boards, so his commitment on this could be the major force that could get changes.
A second force would be the City of Seattle, since they operate the signals and stripe the roadway. The City could easily give UW an ultimatum to give over the parking spaces and access for buses or face new sanctions for non-cooperation. Being nice to UW appears to not be working.
Can Seattle give UW sanctions? What would they be?
The city can’t do much to UW. I think there’s some dumb lawsuit going on about this now. AFAICT UW wants to remove a small, ugly, useless building on its campus to make room for something more useful, and Seattle wants to protect it as a historical landmark. So instead of just arguing against the landmark designation like most land owners would do, UW is going with the full, “You’re not my dad,” defense, claiming Seattle can’t regulate UW, period. I wish they could both lose.
Anyway, as dumb as that parking lot is, if we want something better we’ll have to come up with something that benefits UW… and convince them that they came up with it.
Possible sanctions:
1. Turn off pedestrian push buttons and run signals on old-fashioned fixed cycles all day and night — and respond to UW complaints in a snarky, condescending way like they do to everyone else.
2. Reduce the green time allowed from signals that control going into or out parking garages in the name of through traffic flow.
3. Take away on-street parking and add space for buses and drop-off vehicles.
4. Add bus-only lanes to streets around campus.
5. Prohibit turns at the intersections that access garages and lots used by the administration.
UW can’t be touched by cities, but students (such as myself) can probably put some modicum of pressure on the administration. They can however be touched by the state, so email your legislators.
“Disagreement on the public benefits package has delayed construction on the $1.6 billion Washington State Convention Center Addition project.”
This is not why the project is being delayed. The King County land sale imposed restrictions on when buses can come out of the tunnel and House Bill 2015 did not pass this year to add extra funding for construction.
Dan Ryan says:
The King County land sale is not delaying the Convention Center. It’s recognizing that the Convention Center is already delayed and pushing out the tunnel closure correspondingly.
Depending on when the Convention Center is ready to move forward, the tunnel will close in March or September 2019. The broadly-voiced expectation is that it will be the latter date because they won’t even be ready to meet the criteria for a March closure.
How much of this is up to the prolonged benefits package debate? Maybe the delays are over-determined. But the delays with the Convention Center are driving the tunnel closure restrictions, not the other way around.
Considering passenger demand since UW Station opened, it’s time that trains have the DSTT to themselves. I think loading time for the two vehicle types tell the story.
Even with most skilled loaders and best securement equipment, a bus will always take minimum of a minute to load. Trains, half that. Schedules even give buses and trains different amount of time to run the Tunnel.
Wish MLK LINK service had only that problem. Trains late out of the Tunnel put four miles of signals out of synch. In addition to SDOT demands that don’t put train speed first. Need to catch an international flight does ride quality no good.
Bus air conditioning doesn’t work in hush mode. So standing load stopped between stations have all the dignity and comfort of dog food in a warm can. Joint ops were meant to be temporary. Temp’s up.
I do think we could make joint use fit to carry living creatures is we keep our two massively heaviest routes the 41 and the 550 until rail can cover. Provided King County Metro decides it’s worth minimal supervisory effort to get training and control worthy of either word.
So here’s my plan. Massive campaign with above paragraph for agenda. Most routes to the street, but two heavy routes stay in DSTT, brought to max performance. Believe me, make that decision Monday noon, and rush hour all wheels will run on steel.
Metro, and all the signatory cities in the letter, were all no-shows when Sound Transit was doing charrettes around station and street design. UW was represented, at least listening.
Metro is slowly, but surely, learning to get involved in street design.
But even with good street design, Metro is still in love with loop-de-loop detour stops that ruin whole bus routes, such as the South Kirkland Park & Ride and its Transit-Ruining Development. But at least in that case, riders could walk to a street stop, or something not at the far wrong end of the parking lot. Serving the front door of the apartments was somehow deemed worth losing gobs of ridership north of the park & ride.
And so, I can see Metro pushing to add several minutes to SR 520 – UW commuters’ rides in order to shave a minute of transfer time for those transferring at UW Station. After all, the UW commuters aren’t complaining about possible bay shifts in the surveys, so they must be okay with it. Right?
Metro’s line during the UW Station street design was that it was too early then to start thinking about bus paths, and that that would happen in 2014-15. For SR 520 connections, it got punted from 2015 to 2017, and maybe even later. UW would be right to throw up its hands and say “Where were you when we were redesigning the streets for UW Station?”
Does anyone here have the inside scoop on the loop-de-debacles that seem to afflict so many routes? Why waste minutes of all the through riders time to shave off a mere 30′?
Presumably, it happens because riders headed to that one particular destination are considered more important than everybody else, and deserve preferential treatment.
I’ll comment about the loop-de-loops on the Sunday Open Thread, since it is the topic of a Jarrett Walker rant there.
So it’s Metro’s fault that the stations are in such a horrible location for a bus transfer. Fair enough. I wonder if the head of Metro can talk to the head of Sound Transit. Oh wait, they are the same guy! Oh, and who was in charge of the convention center expansion, which suddenly made the situation a lot more urgent? Again, the same guy.
Ultimately, the buck stops with Dow Constantine — it’s your mess Dow — go ahead and fix it.
“It would take several pages to list all of Constantine’s accomplishments, and we would still have missed most of them. But just to be brief: ST3, ORCA LIFT, the multi-agency U-Link restructure, the end of Metro’s 40/40/20 rule that kept it from rolling out new service in Seattle, getting ST into the transit-oriented development and affordable housing business, … and the list goes on. Constantine has no serious opposition, but we would be remiss in not honoring one of the most effective public servants King County has ever had.”
There’s an optimistic way, and a pessimistic way, to interpret this letter.
The optimistic take assumes a discussion at the staff and political level to remake the Montlake transfer environment in important ways. This letter, maybe, is just the public manifestation of the technical process.
The pessimistic take is that UW and the agencies are working on incremental changes at Montlake and the mayors are just venting. When they don’t get what they want, they might blow up the restructure.
How can we figure which is correct? One clue would be if we saw Eastsiders engaged in the details of transit in the Montlake corridor. As Brett points out, that has never been the case before.
There is nothing in the letter about what improvements the cities want to see, beyond how they don’t like crossing the street.
The agencies are speaking publicly about improved bus shelters and real-time information. Good for them, but that’s not the problem the cities are pointing at.
The repetition, several times in the letter, of “increasing commute times by 20 minutes” is unjustifiable. If the cities were sweating the details, they wouldn’t get basic facts wrong.
Kevin22 says:
Have you ever sat on a bus exiting 520 to head to Pacific during rush hour? Do you know how long that takes?? I ride my bike through the Montlake Exchange during rush hour twice a week. It is a complete mess – a typical example of the incompetence of this region’s transportation agencies.
If you know for a fact that the 20 minutes estimate is wrong, provide the evidence.
My guess, Kevin, is that it’s comparable to riding the same bus into Seattle CBD. Though if the traffic between top of the ramp and UW Station runs even a couple mph faster than walking, problem could be solving itself as we speak. Especially if we put back the 43.
Also, maybe transit could provide a large number of free bikes at both ends. Wouldn’t mention scooters (not the Vespa ones unless SIFF is showing a 1950’s Italian movie) if I hadn’t seen people dressed for the office of same period scooting along on the ones you can put in your briefcase.
But just to get the concept under discussion so it’s ready by 2019: Have UW move morning classes up to, say, five am, or whatever is two hours before rush hour. Same for pm last class departure, maybe starting after seven.
And for those hours, close the ramps to everything except buses, emergency vehicles, and if we have room, some trucks. It’d make us some powerful allies.
For three hundred years or so, New York City has been proving that anyplace World Enough Class enough to deserve rapid transit finds a lot of different eight-hours work or school slots in the twenty four available. Would definitely be “a bit of a giggle” to hear the translake mayors’ response to that one. Especially if the truckers like it.
Whole UW community should take those hours in stride because whether you’re an actual doctor or studying to be one or doing anything else requiring the UW stop, you’ve been working those hours since you were five. Oh, yeah, also if you’re driving what’ll be allowed on the ramps.
Meantime, good way to make UW cooperate on bus stop placing: tell them their other choice is we turn trains back at Broadway ’till Northgate is done. And tell the public the decision is UW’s alone. One institution’s terrorism is another’s fight for freedom.
Thank God for the Mayors to send this letter.
This restructure is a horrible idea that would decimate ridership on the SR-520 corridor.
It’s especially horrible off-peak when the 20 minute number is dead accurate. Off-peak it’s usually less than 10 minutes between the Montlake Freeway station and 5th&Pine/Westlake. There is no way that the diversion to UW plus transfer time is in any possible way a saving. It’s a 20 minute penalty when all is said and done. Worse if there is a bridge opening, event at UW etc. Horrible if you are leaving downtown in the evenings and there is no time-coordination, which is almost impossible given the length of time to get out of the UW station and zero visible interface between train and bus.
It might theoretically be better at peak periods, but then the Montlake exit and entire Montlake Bridge/Pacific St/Montlake Blvd area are often gridlocked.
There is no benefit to the Eastside from these changes, and instead it will make transit unattractive and make the transit infrastructure investment on the SR-520 corridor worthless. And assuredly increase taxpayer and legislator hostility toward Sound Transit and Metro on the Eastside. There are other buses that could be truncated with less negative repercussions… near the top of the list would be buses from Kent and Tacoma which could have good Sounder connections that actually meaningfully increase reliability. And if it causes our agencies to have modal fare equality, that would be a net positive, too, as there is no good reason to use fare policies to discourage using certain modes or buses.
There is another side of this too. The restructure does improve off-peak frequency. If you want cross-lake buses running more than once an hour on a Saturday night, this is how it’s going to happen. Also, the amount of time if takes buses to get from one end of downtown to the other end is wildly unpredictable. In the eastbound direction, this translates into wildly unpredictable waits at the bus stop for people getting on at the north end of downtown. And, then the downtown buses move from tunnel to surface streets, it’s only going to get worse.
And that’s not even getting into what it’s like trying to ride the 545 or 255 to destinations in Seattle outside of downtown. Typically, it means either long, unpredictable waits at Montlake Freeway Station, or long backtracks to downtown and slogs through downtown.
Today, it may appear as through the ridership to non-downtown destinations is insignificant, but that’s because they’re all driving because the quality of service is so terrible. And, when Montlake Freeway Station closes for lid construction, not doing the restructure basically forces all off-peak U-district->Eastside travelers to backtrack all the way to downtown Seattle, which would add as much as 45-minute to every trip.
I find that alighting at the first stop downtown (Stewart/Denny) brings most of SLU into acceptable walking distance, as well as making Seattle Center accessible via the 8. That all goes away with the UW deviation.
The evening frequency increases are counteracted by the fact that you first have to wait for Link, then do the Montlake triangle street crossings… and then finally whether the schedules are coordinated? Evenings downtown isn’t clogged so the bus arrival times are reasonably predictable – and it takes only around 15-20 minutes from downtown to S. Kirkland or Overlake. It’s unlikely you’d even be on board the bus at UW in 15-20 minutes once you add up all the steps (wait for Link, Link travel time, 3 escalators or elevators, 2 signalized street crossings, wait for next bus.)
The only feasible time the deviation isn’t a huge penalty is weekday peak commute period.
“Today, it may appear as through the ridership to non-downtown destinations is insignificant, but that’s because they’re all driving because the quality of service is so terrible.”
+1. These routes are the only transit between most of the Eastside and Seattle. How many of these riders are going downtown specifically, vs how many are going to north Seattle or Capitol Hill or elsewhere? Yes, I know there are a lot of people who work downtown, and a lot of people who won’t take transit except to go downtown because downtown parking is so expensive. But are we really designing all-day transit routes for these people, or are we designing them for people who make most of their trips on transit, and who therefore go to places all over Seattle at all times, not just to downtown peak hours?
many of these riders are going downtown specifically, vs how many are going to north Seattle or Capitol Hill or elsewhere?
I’d say it’s in the +90-95% of eastside riders going either DT or to the UW. More crucial to eastside based riders are connections on the eastside. However, I’d venture a guess that ridership originating from the left side to Bellevue/Redmond/Kirkland is likely less than 50%, perhaps much less, from DT or the U Dist.
– I have anecdotally observed evening eastbound 545 trips to complete their tour of downtown anywhere from 2 minutes early to 15 minutes late. Most of the variability isn’t even caused by car traffic, but by crowding and change fumbling at bus stops. A good portion of the time, the delta between when the 545 is supposed to get to 4th and Pine and when it actually does is enough time to ride Link all the way to the UW Station.
– If there’s any kind of parade or protest going on downtown, you have absolutely no idea when the bus is going to show up. Such delays propagate throughout the system so that even people who aren’t going downtown and have no idea what’s going on downtown are affected.
– Some people (e.g. those going to the airport) end up needing to transfer to Link anyway to reach their final destination. This number is only going to increase as Link gets built out.
– Most of the U-district buses don’t even go to Montlake Freeway Station, but turn around at the Montlake Triangle, thereby requiring either an additional connection on the 48 or a 1/3-mile walk to reach the freeway station.
– There is no reason why bus schedules cannot be coordinated with train schedules, especially in the late evenings when Link frequency is down to every 15 minutes.
eddiew says:
Brent, all the governments were involved in the Pacific Triangle design (e.g., WSDOT, SDOT, ST, Metro, and UW).
The 20-minute transfer seems made up.
Compare with the slow and worsening status quo on the I-5 general purpose lanes and downtown surface streets. the WSCC may impact Olive Way soon. The CCC streetcar utility relocation will cause diversion to 2nd and 4th avenues. The tolled deep bore will divert traffic to 2nd and 4th avenues. If SDOT added PBL, that may narrow lanes.
Jonathan Dubman says:
What a great letter. It’s encouraging to see this kind of vision and leadership from mayors of all these cities that aren’t Seattle. I doubt those cities would be happy with the alternative of declining access to Seattle on the existing buses stuck in more traffic, so that pretty much leaves improving the UW transit hub as the biggest thing that needs doing. As Seattle has long supported the same goal, in principle, a consensus seems to be building (at least among all the entities that aren’t UW) that we need to move forward with this.
Someone will then have to figure out:
– what kind of project will achieve the desired results (such as those described in this letter) for the transfer experience at UW Station and how could it be constructed?
– cost, potential for phasing, funding sources
– benefits / impacts and any potential mitigation to UW
My gut feeling is that there does exist a way to modify the surface realm to get bus stops adjacent to the rail station, without causing significant general traffic or transit delays for people passing through. Maybe it’s a variation of an idea we’ve seen, or maybe something new. It may well involve a bit more real estate for bus circulation and a few minor sacrifices here and there; it might mean some surface parking spaces are impacted. This seems like a small sacrifice but to the extent it’s a real one, it’s one that can be fully mitigated.
This kind of stuff takes time and the clock is ticking in the countdown to some kind of restructure, so I hope that work is already underway on this, somewhere.
In the diagram, why does the southbound through route not go directly adjacent to the station? People looking to transfer would still have to cross a street
Probably because of the left turn at Montlake and Pacific. That would complicate the southside walk signaling
Nope, that’s not correct. The 520 terminating buses turn left, so that’s already happening.
Maybe to avoid overloading the westside stop?
There’s plenty of space. I wouldn’t think overloading the stop is a real issue. I mean where the stop is right now, there’s an elevator, so I guess it’s a little better than the current location, but not by much.
Nathanael says:
Adam’s concept is so obviously the way to do things. I’m glad the mayors support it.
Of course, I expect UW to claim that a few spaces of stadium parking are more valuable than many busloads of passengers. Because parking.
Jay Inslee needs to break some heads at UW to get this done. That’s the bottom line, really, for the bus reroute proposal
Now, how to convince Jay Inslee. 2/3 of his constituents don’t care about this issue, and he’ll instinctively prioritize what an “essential” state institution wants over what mere cities want. The logical way is to replace him with a more urban-friendly governor, but how do you get the voters to agree when 2/3 of them are suburban/rural and think he’s deferring to much to urban/liberal preferences?
You’re right that his general preferences would be to listen more to UW. The thing is that UW is being obtuse. Except during home football games when the loop behind the station would become a big pedestrian flow problem, the “cost” to the University is almost non-existent, maybe five or ten parking spots at most. How cravenly selfish is that?
I’ll grant that Inslee is not the world’s most daring politician, but even he can see the cost-benefit of the loop proposal if it’s pointed out to him.
I should have said, “The thing is that UW is being obtuse in this particular instance. If it’s pitched that way, he might listen and agree.
Scott Stidell says:
It’s in effect medical center parking except for 7 Saturdays a year, not stadium parking.
Let’s be honest from the UW’s perspective. The state provides a whopping 5% of the UW’s annual budget, for all of you that think your tax money is paying for that – or that the Legislature holds some sort of giant hammer over the school’s head. The medical center provides nearly half. Guess who the UW President’s office is going to listen to? The state has almost wholly abrogated its responsibility to higher education, at least at the UW, where the level of funding nearly makes the school a de facto private institution. The thought of Jay Inslee (or any governor) removing the extremely popular and respected Dr. Cauce over this issue is laughable. I’m not even sure he can without convincing or replacing the Board of Regents.
That said, I intend to contact Dr. Cauce and Jen Cohen (the athletic director, although she has nothing to do with it as the parking’s not under her remit) because these excellent fixes that Adam came up with should be of little impact to the school and great impact to commuters. Improving the situation at the station will be of some use to the UW community as well, and I hope that they’ll see that.
To be honest, ST not even designing the line with a level area in the tunnel at 520 for a potential future station at what even then should have been seen as a major transit interchange point is the root cause of this – but of course the horse is long out of that barn.
BB says:
So they basically are complaining to what we all complained about. The Bus transfers are too dam far. I guess we will see if suburbs get a better bus stop of the Seattlites.
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UC Berkeley Professor & SPAWN to Study Dam Releases to Determine Best Flow for Salmon
Read Marin Independent Journal report.
Olema, CA May 18, 2017 – SPAWN has been awarded $158,000 from the Wildlife Conservation Board to determine the most effective schedule and amount of water releases from Kent Lake that will benefit growth and survival of juvenile coho salmon and steelhead trout in Lagunitas Creek. The entire cost of the study is $223,000, with the $65,000 difference provided by SPAWN members and volunteers.
The study will concentrate on understanding the best conditions for salmon during the winter and spring and will be conducted by SPAWN’s Watershed Conservation Director, Preston Brown with input and oversight from University of California, Berkeley adjunct professor Ted Grantham, Ph.D., who has conducted similar studies on dams in California, and with the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management.
Current water releases from Peters Dam were set in 1995 under Water Board Order: WR 95-17, making them 22 years old. A lot has changed since then and much of the new knowledge of habitat needs, limiting factors analysis, and instream flow requirements for salmonids were not accounted for in developing the current flow regime that is now almost a quarter century old.
“This study is intended to provide recommendations to water managers who can maximize the benefit of stream releases by fine tuning the amounts, magnitude, frequency, and seasonality needed to best activate floodplains downstream that allow juvenile salmon to grow and flourish,” said SPAWN’s Preston Brown. “We know a lot more now than we did almost a quarter century ago when water releases were mandated, and we will incorporate this vastly increased knowledge with new modeling to determine the best floodplain flows for salmon.”
This project aims to understand if modified water releases to optimize stream flows and encourage overbank flows can benefit endangered salmon survival by providing additional habitat to feed, grow, and find refuge during important life stages.
“We believe modified water releases may improve important ecological processes that benefit salmon survival, such as food-web production, vegetation succession, and streamwood recruitment,” said Brown. “We are eager to provide that information to water managers, regulators, biological practitioners, and the public in order to make the best decisions to protect our stream ecosystems.”
The floodplain activation flow will identify the magnitude, frequency, duration, and seasonality of stream discharges needed for a flood event to facilitate critical ecological benefits for salmonids as needed for rearing and other ecological processes, which are not accounted for in the current release regime.
“I am delighted to lend my expertise in order to provide the best available science to help manage this critically important population of Central California coast coho salmon,” said Ted Grantham of UC Berkeley.
Specifically, SPAWN and UC Berkeley’s Grantham will determine the floodplain activation flow through topographic mapping, 2D hydraulic modeling, real-time hydrologic measurements, salmonid habitat suitability determination, and comparisons to the floodplain activation flow to the historic flow regime.
“SPAWN is committed to doing everything we can to prevent the extinction of Marin’s critically endangered coho salmon, said Todd Steiner, biologist and executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network (SPAWN is a program of Turtle Island), and this research is an important piece of the puzzle. Once we have the data, we will work with water managers and the public to develop a plan to help salmon survive and thrive in Marin.”
About SPAWN:
TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK’S SALMON PROTECTION AND WATERSHED NETWORK (SPAWN) program works to protect endangered coho salmon and steelhead trout, and the environment on which we all depend. The protection of these keystone species leads to the protection of all the wildlife of our community, and indeed the protection of our land and us.
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Fantastic Frankie & the Brain-Drain Machine
Author(s): Anna Kemp; Alex T. Smith (Illustrator)
The first in a fantastically funny series from award-winning author of Dogs Don't Do Ballet, Anna Kemp, with illustrations from the creator of the bestselling Claude series Alex T Smith! When Frankie Blewitt brings home yet another F-for-failure school report it's the last straw for his overachieving parents and they decide to send him to the Crammar Grammar boarding school. At first he is just relieved to be away from home, but he soon realises that there's something really weird going on at Crammer Grammar... As Frankie tries to find out the secrets of the school he discovers that the headmaster, Dr Gore, has plans to turn all the students into robot-like super-brains using his Brain-drain machine! With the help of his new friends Neet and Wes, Alphonsine his crazy French nanny and a poodle named Colette, can Frankie save the day before it's too late and change the F-for- failure to F-for-fantastic? '...vigorously comic, and the plot's twists and turns are expertly judged...a bonkers treat' The Financial Times '[Anna Kemp] is a name to watch out for' Caroline Horn in The Bookseller 'An action-packed story full of humour, and illustrated with quirky black-and-white line drawings - the perfect combination for newly confident readers and a brilliant, boisterous book to share' Close Up Magazine
Imprint : Simon & Schuster Children's
Publication date : November 2018
Author : Anna Kemp; Alex T. Smith (Illustrator)
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Posted on 12 April 2019 3 September 2020 by Snazzytrips
REALLY COOL SITES TO VISIT
Walking distance from the city centre of Melbourne is the iconic suburb of Carlton. This historic area is one of the oldest parts of the city, dating from the beginning of the Victorian gold rush era in 1851. It is definitely one of my favourite parts of Melbourne, as there is so much to love here for locals like myself, as well as tourists. I recommend visiting 4 really cool sites in Carlton that are very popular.
1. Melbourne Museum
The first site is this fabulous modern, architecturally designed museum, located near the central business district. Built in 1998, this is a perfect start to any site-seeing itinerary in Melbourne. Here you can learn all about Australian and Aboriginal culture, and history of the city.
Great for all ages, the Museum has many different sections and exhibitions to see, including a forest gallery with live animals and plants, areas on science, bugs, history, the mind, a children’s gallery, Imax Cinema and heaps more. There’s always something new to learn here. The huge rubik’s cube you see on the outside is a main attraction. I know what you’re thinking, and no, you can’t twist the squares.
View of the city from Museum
Main entrance of the Museum
Rubik’s cube part of the Museum
The Museum is open almost every day of the year. Cost is A$15 per adult.
By the way, if you’re looking for a wedding venue, how about here? Yep, they even host functions and social events at the Museum for gatherings of up to 2000 of your closest friends! The place is massive and has lots of glass and high ceilings.
Interesting fact: This is the largest museum in the southern hemisphere.
2. Royal Exhibition Building
Located right next to the Museum is the beautiful Royal Exhibition Building. This monument is an important Melbourne landmark and much loved by locals. A very cool and historic site to see in Carlton.
The building dates from 1879 and is a UNESCO World Heritage listed site. It’s one of the oldest remaining exhibition buildings in the world. Also known as the “Palace of Industry”, it was designed primarily for international exhibitions and trade fares and was a symbol of industrialisation in the 19th century worldwide. Many purpose built pavilions of this type were only temporary and have since been demolished. This one came close on many occasions, but luckily was saved and renovated.
An important moment in history was held here – Australia’s first Parliament in 1901 after the country became part of the Commonwealth. The building has also been used for Olympic Games events in 1956, exam hall for universities and high schools, dances and shows. However, it is no longer Melbourne’s main exhibition centre. New, much larger and more modern exhibition and convention facilities are located at Southbank.
Entrance to Exhibition Building
Inside the dome of the Exhibition Building
The architectural style of this building is an interesting blend of Byzantine, Romanesque, Lombardic and Italian Renaissance architecture. In fact the huge dome was inspired by the Cathedral in Florence, Italy. Inside, murals adorn the walls and ceiling which have been lovingly restored and maintained.
You can take a tour, on days when it’s not being used for events, where you can learn about the history and the people that have shaped this much-loved Melbourne icon. Cost is A$10 per adult.
Hosting many cultural and lifestyle events, fairs and festivals throughout the year, there is always something here to see. Such as, the annual Motorclassica, Baby & Toddler Show, Dog Lovers Show, and one of my personal favourites, the fabulous Flower and Garden Show in March.
I went along to check it out and what a treat! The beautiful displays at the Flower and Garden Show this year didn’t disappoint.
2019 Melbourne Flower and Garden Show
Have a look at these stunning floral and garden creations.
There is also plenty of eating and refreshment options available at the show. You can choose from formal High Tea indoors, to a variety of casual takeaway outdoors.
I thoroughly recommend attending if you’re in Melbourne in late March.
Cost is A$30 per adult.
3. Carlton Gardens
Aerial view of City and Carlton Gardens By: Andrew Lukaris
Carlton is full of gardens. It has 5 gardens within its precinct in fact. But the Victorian style Carlton Gardens are a delightful sanctuary on the edge of the central business district. They provide a lovely break from the hustle and bustle of the city to stroll, relax and admire local trees and wildlife. There are 2 lakes and 3 fountains on an area of 64 acres. The gardens are also Heritage listed for some of the rare plantings located here.
Hochgurtel Fountain
There are numerous gardens and parks around the city of Melbourne, but this is one of the most lovely, with treed avenues, shaded walking paths, lots of grass, water features and a children’s playground and maze.
Located right next to the Museum and the Exhibition building, it is open to the public and is free.
4. Lygon Street
My fourth cool site in Carlton you have to visit is Lygon Street.
Lygon Street, Carlton has been known as ‘Little Italy’. People have always flocked here for authentic Italian meals and village style atmosphere. There is plenty of ‘al-fresco’ dining, cafes, gelati shops, and continental delicatessens selling all manor of yummy Italian produce.
Many Italian migrants first settled in Carlton when they arrived in Melbourne in the 50’s and 60’s. They brought Italian cuisine to the country and of course it became popular and flourished. Many restaurants opened up all along Lygon Street, including the first Pizzeria in Australia, called Toto’s Pizza House, in 1961, which still exists.
Apparently, Australia’s very first coffee machines were right here in Lygon Street at the University Cafe, which has been going for 60 years. This is where Australia’s famous coffee culture began and is still going strong, or weak, depending on how you like it. Haha, sorry.
Nowadays, there are still many Italian establishments in Lygon Street and neighbouring streets of Carlton, like DOC Pizza Bar, Donnini’s, Il Cantuccio, La Spaghettata, Il Gambero, Criniti’s and heaps more. But there is a definite change happening, and we are now seeing quite a lot of Asian restaurants and other international cuisines becoming more and more prevalent. In fact, one of my favourite Thai Restaurants is here, called Lemon Grass.
If it’s gelato you love (who doesn’t?), a great Italian ice cream shop you must try is Pidapipo Gelateria. Here they serve homemade gelato, where people queue out the door. It’s absolutely to die for.
Pidapipo Gelateria
If you’re after cake, do I have the place for you! My all time favourite pasticceria/cake shop, in the whole of Melbourne, is Brunetti. It is iconic to Carlton, and a veritable mecca for authentic Italian cakes and sweets. The biggest problem is making a choice from the massive selection tempting you, in the biggest cake display you are likely to ever see.
Brunetti cake display
It has been around for decades and has now become a chain, with stores even in Dubai and Singapore. If you love Italian desserts – cannoli, tiramisu, sfoglia, biscotti, amaretti – you will think you have died and gone to dessert heaven!
So, please don’t miss out on Carlton when visiting Melbourne.
Some Melbourne Tours On Offer
Thanks for reading about the cool sites to see in Melbourne’s iconic suburb of Carlton.
Perfect day trips from Melbourne that you may enjoy are:
Dromana Beach,
Daylesford,
Yarra Valley Wineries and
Healesville Sanctuary.
Have you been to these sites in Melbourne’s iconic Carlton? Please leave me a comment below.
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Wow! The paintings on the inside done of the exhibition hall are gorgeous!
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By Land and Sea says:
A trip to Australia has long been on my bucket list! I’ve never heard of Carlton before, but am glad to learn about what it has to offer as a destination. Seems like a cool place to check out!
The Globetrotter GuysBen says:
I know where I would be heading in Carlton – Little Italy immediately! Cake, gelato and pizza – Sign me up now!
zrznaceste says:
Carlton looks like such a cool place to visit! I’m a plant maniac so I think I would have to see the garden show, but the parks looks very nice as well 🙂
mindy silva says:
My daughter would absolutely love the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show. Whenever we travel we try to find a garden to visit. This woukd be perfect!
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Corporations Team Up With The Global Solar Council
The Global Solar Council (GSC) has announced its founding corporate members and the launch of the Global Solar Council Leadership Forum. Founded in 2015 by national and regional solar associations, GSC is an international organization to coordinate global solar efforts.
According to the GSC, founding corporate members include ABB, Canadian Solar, E.ON, Enel Green Power, Flex, GCL, JinkoSolar, REC Group, RWE, SkyPower Global, SolarEdge, SolarWorld, Unilever, Waaree and Wacker Chemie AG.
“Leading corporations from around the world have joined hands to help the Global Solar Council accelerate the deployment of clean, reliable emissions-free solar energy,” comments John Smirnow, GSC secretary general. “This diverse group of companies will provide advice and counsel to the GSC on opening markets and building solar capacity.”
“We’re delighted to have the support of such a distinguished group of solar leaders,” adds Bruce Douglas, GSC chairman and chief operating officer of Solar Power Europe.
“In response to these companies’ commitment to ensuring the wide-scale adoption of solar energy around the world, we are launching the Global Solar Council Leadership Forum, which will host its first in-person meeting on June 23 at InterSolar Europe in Munich,” says Eitan Parnass, GSC secretary and board member and executive director of the Green Energy Association of Israel. The forum will provide dedicated space within the GSC for corporations to develop recommendations and engage with association members and national and international decision-makers.
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A Piece of Mars is Going Home
By Andrew Good
Rohit Bhartia of NASA's Mars 2020 mission holds a slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for NASA's Mars 2020 rover; a separate slice will go to Mars on the rover. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A chunk of Mars will soon be returning home.
A piece of a meteorite called Sayh al Uhaymir 008 (SaU008) will be carried on board NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, now being built at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. This chunk will serve as target practice for a high-precision laser on the rover's arm.
Mars 2020's goal is ambitious: collect samples from the Red Planet's surface that a future mission could potentially return to Earth. One of the rover's many tools will be a laser designed to illuminate rock features as fine as a human hair.
That level of precision requires a calibration target to help tweak the laser's settings. Previous NASA rovers have included calibration targets as well. Depending on the instrument, the target material can include things like rock, metal or glass, and can often look like a painter's palette.
Close-up of a slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for NASA's Mars 2020 rover; a separate slice will go to Mars on the rover. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
But working on this particular instrument sparked an idea among JPL scientists: why not use an actual piece of Mars? Earth has a limited supply of Martian meteorites, which scientists determined were blasted off Mars' surface millions of years ago.
These meteorites aren't as unique as the geologically diverse samples 2020 will collect. But they're still scientifically interesting -- and perfect for target practice.
"We're studying things on such a fine scale that slight misalignments, caused by changes in temperature or even the rover settling into sand, can require us to correct our aim," said Luther Beegle of JPL. Beegle is principal investigator for a laser instrument called SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals). "By studying how the instrument sees a fixed target, we can understand how it will see a piece of the Martian surface."
SHERLOC will be the first instrument on Mars to use Raman and fluorescence spectroscopies, scientific techniques familiar to forensics experts. Whenever an ultraviolet light shines over certain carbon-based chemicals, they give off the same characteristic glow that you see under a black light.
"This is a first for us: sending one of our samples back home for the benefit of science."
- Caroline Smith, principal curator of meteorites at London’s Natural History Museum
Scientists can use this glow to detect chemicals that form in the presence of life. SHERLOC will photograph the rocks it studies, then map the chemicals it detects across those images. That adds a spatial context to the layers of data Mars 2020 will collect.
"This kind of science requires texture and organic chemicals -- two things that our target meteorite will provide," said Rohit Bhartia of JPL, SHERLOC's deputy principal investigator.
No Flaky Meteorites
Martian meteorites are precious in their rarity. Only about 200 have been confirmed by The Meteoritical Society, which has a database listing these vetted meteorites.
To select the right one for SHERLOC, JPL turned to contacts at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, as well as the Natural History Museum of London. Not just any Martian meteorite would do: its condition would need to be solid enough that it would not flake apart during the intensity of launch and landing.
It also needed to possess certain chemical features to test SHERLOC's sensitivity. These had to be reasonably easy to detect repeatedly for the calibration target to be useful.
Experts tried several samples, cutting off thin bits to test whether they would crumble. Using a "flaky" sample could damage the entire meteorite in the process.
A slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars placed inside an oxygen plasma cleaner, which removes organics from the outside of surfaces. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for NASA's Mars 2020 rover; a separate slice will go to Mars on the rover. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The SHERLOC team ultimately agreed on using SaU008, a meteorite found in Oman in 1999. Besides being more rugged than other samples, a piece of it was available courtesy of Caroline Smith, principal curator of meteorites at London’s Natural History Museum.
"Every year, we provide hundreds of meteorite specimens to scientists all over the world for study," Smith said. "This is a first for us: sending one of our samples back home for the benefit of science."
SaU008 will be the first Martian meteorite to have a fragment return to the planet's surface -- though not the first on a return trip to Mars.
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor included a chunk of a meteorite known as Zagami. It's still floating around the Red Planet onboard the now-defunct orbiter.
Additionally, the team behind Mars2020's SuperCam instrument will be adding a Martian meteorite to their own calibration target.
Preparing for Humans on Mars
Along with its own Martian meteorite, SHERLOC's calibration target will include several interesting scientific samples for human spaceflight. These include materials that could be used to make spacesuit fabric, gloves and a helmet's visor.
By watching how they hold up under Martian weather, including radiation, NASA will be able to test these materials for future Mars missions.
"The SHERLOC instrument is a valuable opportunity to prepare for human spaceflight as well as to perform fundamental scientific investigations of the Martian surface," said Marc Fries, a SHERLOC co-investigator and curator of extraterrestrial materials at Johnson Space Center. "It gives us a convenient way to test material that will keep future astronauts safe when they get to Mars."
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
andrew.c.good@jpl.nasa.gov
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Featured here in a new image from Hubble, NGC 613 is a lovely example of a barred spiral galaxy.
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Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star.
Rewinding the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast
The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on with its other science.
NASA InSight's ‘Mole' Ends Its Journey on Mars
NASA and Poland have agreed to cooperate on a NASA heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP).
NASA, Poland to Cooperate on Interplanetary Space Mission
Audio gathered by Perseverance may not sound quite the same on Mars as it would to our ears on Earth.
Perseverance Rover to Capture Sounds From Mars
How dark does space get? NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is helping answer that question.
New Horizons Spacecraft Answers Question: How Dark Is Space?
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Sevilla beats Man United to reach Europa League final | Inquirer Sports
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Sevilla beats Man United to reach Europa League final
Associated Press / 06:50 PM August 17, 2020
Sevilla’s Luuk de Jong, left celebrates after scoring his sides 2nd goal of the game, with teammate Sevilla’s Sergio Reguilon during the Europa League semifinal soccer match between Sevilla and Manchester United in Cologne, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. (Ina Fassbender/Pool Via AP)
COLOGNE, Germany — Manchester United made it an unwanted hat trick of semifinal defeats this season after losing 2-1 in the Europa League to Sevilla on Sunday.
After losing in the last four of the FA Cup and EFL Cup, United failed to convert a string of chances before Luuk de Jong scored the winning goal for Europa League experts Sevilla.
The Spanish club has won all five of the finals it’s reached in Europe’s second-level cup competition. Sevilla has the chance to win a record-extending sixth title on Friday in Cologne when its opposition will be either Inter Milan or Shakhtar Donetsk, who play Monday.
United will look to the new English Premier League season next month after a marathon coronavirus-extended campaign which saw defender Harry Maguire play 55 games.
“We deserved to go through but ultimately we fell short at the semifinal stage, for the third time this season,” Maguire told BT Sport. “It means a lot to us, the boys are devastated. We have a good group of lads who know what it means to play for this club and losing isn’t acceptable. Getting to semifinals isn’t acceptable and we now have to look at taking it another step.”
United was beaten 3-2 on aggregate by Manchester City in January in a two-leg EFL Cup semifinal and 3-1 by Chelsea in the FA Cup semifinals in July.
Sevilla goalkeeper Yassine Bounou kept his team in the semifinal at 1-1 with crucial saves either side of halftime, before de Jong won it.
With the game at 1-1 and heading for extra time, Sevilla substitute de Jong made the breakthrough in the 78th minute. A cross by Jesus Navas fell kindly for the tall Dutch forward to score his first European goal of the season from close range.
United had taken the lead in the ninth minute with yet another penalty in a season packed with them. Diego Carlos tangled with Marcus Rashford as the United forward had his shot saved, and then Bruno Fernandes stepped up to send the penalty into the top-left corner.
United has been awarded 22 spot kicks in all competitions this season, more than any other club in the five biggest European leagues. Since Fernandes arrived at the club in January, he’s scored eight from the spot.
Fernandes put a hop back into his run-up after omitting it for the extra-time penalty which decided the quarterfinal against Copenhagen. It was enough to beat Sevilla ’keeper Bounou, who had saved a spot kick from Wolverhampton’s Raul Jimenez in the previous round.
Sevilla equalized 17 minutes later with a lightning team move which exposed both of United’s full-backs. Lucas Ocampos’ pass put attacking left-back Sergio Reguilon, on loan from Real Madrid, in space to send a perfectly calculated low cross for onrushing forward Suso to knock into the net on the right flank.
That goal jolted United back into life. Anthony Martial curled a promising shot over the bar before Bounou was forced to parry powerful shots from outside the box by Rashford and Fernandes.
United started the second half in similarly exuberant style, with Bounou forced to save from Martial and other efforts blocked by an increasingly desperate Sevilla defense. After seeing those chances stopped, United lost some of its intensity, allowing Sevilla to get back in the game and score the winning goal.
No exit talks between Barca and Messi – club source
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6 reasons why Snapchat Discover has so much viral sameness
Snapchat Discover was pitched as a highly curated collection of media, an antidote to the anything-goes-approach of an open platform like Facebook that ends up devolving into a viral sameness as publishers chase clicks. Surprise, Snapchat Discover has slowly been infected by the same viral-sameness bug.
Barstool Sports Is Making a Snapchat Show About Campus Life During College Football Season
Barstool Sports’ lewd content may not work for everyone, but for a core group of self-described “stoolies,” the site brings back droves of sports fans. Now it’s hoping its crass but funny videos can find an audience on Snapchat.
BuzzFeed’s Tasty and Nifty Brands Are Finally Joining Snapchat Discover
Tasty, where viewers can see trendy recipes presented in a short amount of time, has averaged a total of 2.3 billion views every month on every platform since its launch in 2015, and Nifty, which provides helpful how-to guides and DIY tips, has reached nearly 32 million people every month since its launch. With the success of those two brands, it makes sense for them to join BuzzFeed in the Discover section of Snapchat as their own channels.
E! News plans more original content for Snapchat Discover
After launching a weekly show on Snapchat Discover last September, NBCUniversal’s E! News unit plans to do more original programming there in 2017 — including one-off specials centering on major awards shows.
How Elisabeth Murdoch is trying to crack Snapchat
One of Snapchat’s most prominent original series partners is a Venice, California-based media startup founded by a scion of the Murdoch media empire.
Earlier this week, Snap greenlit an eight-episode unscripted comedy series from Vertical Networks, a mobile-focused media startup from Elisabeth Murdoch, and production studio Avalon.
I Studied 8,383 Snapchat Discover Stories
Peter Hamby, the former CNN reporter turned Snapchat’s head of news, told NiemanLab, “The most effective journalists on Snapchat are the one’s that treat it as its own distinct platform.” After six weeks looking at 8,383 Discover stories, attempting to cross-reference about a quarter of those with outlet websites, the author agrees with Hamby.
Snapchat expands Discover in France with Vogue, MTV, L’Express and Society
This weekend, four more publishers in France — Vogue, MTV, L’Express and Society — are joining Snapchat Discover, increasing the number of media partners there from eight to 12.
Until now, all eight French Discover partners have published daily stories. Of the new slate, MTV will publish daily editions, L’Express will publish a weekly edition covering news and current affairs every Friday, and Society will publish an edition featuring several long-form articles every Sunday. Vogue will publish editions every Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday.
Snapchat wants to make sure Discover stays PG-13
Yet both moves may be solutions in want of a problem. While a small number of Snapchat’s Discover publishers lean heavily on titillating or sexually oriented content, few have made it a staple. Instead, the chief issues advertisers have with Snapchat remain the high cost of its inventory and a lack of audience data.
Two years in: What Bleacher Report has learned from Snapchat Discover
Bleacher Report U.K. has experimented with hundreds of different formats on Snapchat Discover over the last two years. The upshot: Don’t get too comfortable.
Football is the main focus for the publisher’s U.K. and international Discovers (the U.S. now has a separate channel), meaning there is an infinite stream of updates either relating to matches or football culture, around which the team can create content. Here’s what Bleacher Report has learned.
Vice Media Joins the Snapchat Original Series Fray With a Dating Show
Hungry Hearts with Action Bronson will debut later this year
Does Snapchat Discover want to be TV or magazines? Maybe both
A Snap spokesperson said that Snap’s focus is to work with TV networks and studios on video shows while working with print and digital publishers on publisher stories. Both are vital formats, as Snap has also grown the number of Discover channel partners to more than 70 globally.
What National Geographic Did to Earn 3 Million Snapchat Discover Subscribers in Just 3 Months
In addition to the growth of subscribers, the reset has doubled to quadrupled the number of daily unique users and completion rates that track how many consumers flip through all of an edition’s content has doubled. All told, the new strategy has increased Nat Geo’s revenue from Snapchat by 58 percent through a revenue-share program that splits ad money between Snapchat and Nat Geo.
How Snapchat’s pitching original shows to advertisers
Snap has been talking up its “Snapchat Shows Initiative” to ad agencies as the company looks to bring more exclusive programming to its Snapchat Discover media section, according to multiple ad sources.
Most Snapchat Discover Ads Are Either Interactive or Direct Response
For three weeks, Adweek tracked 53 campaigns within Discover, the section of the app where marketers run short video ads alongside content from publishers, and we found that 36 of them (or 68 percent) prompted users to take an action by swiping up on the screen. The other 32 percent were Snapchat’s standard 10-second video ads.
How Brands, Publishers Are Tailoring Their Ads for Snapchat Discover
Since late July, Snapchat has added a number of publishers like BuzzFeed, Mashable, Refinery29 and Tastemade that not only sell ads but also make them, spurring brands like Coca-Cola, Dunkin’ Donuts and TV network Pivot to opt for ads that are more native to the mobile app’s vertically oriented environment.
Snapchat Discover And News
Condé Nast Is Hiring a Snapchat Team to Crank Out More Discover Content
Starting this month, GQ, Wired and Self will begin publishing weekly editions to Discover, the section of the app where 20-something publishers crank out mobile content.
Forbes launches a Snapchat popup channel on Discover
Forbes is using Snapchat to reveal part of its “30 under 30” list of 600 influential entrepreneurs, marking the first time the publisher is releasing one of its major franchises on a social network ahead of its own property.
How Snaphat Discover’s only Norwegian publisher uses the platform
Since launching on Snapchat Discover in January, the publisher has connected with the platform’s much-coveted younger audience.
VG has a team of six dedicated to creating the Snapchat daily editions, which go out at 7 a.m. local time and cover sports, entertainment, celebrities and news. While many English-language partners jostle for space on Discover, VG’s clear differentiator is its local coverage.
The New York Times Is the Latest Publisher to Join Snapchat Discover
The New York Times is the latest publisher to join Snapchat Discover—the section of the app where media brands including the Daily Mail, CNN and Bleacher Report crank out daily editions of articles and videos that disappear after 24 hours.
Led by deputy managing editor Cliff Levy, The New York Times will publish five times a week—from Monday to Friday—with content from Morning Briefings, its daily roundup of stories that is published at 6 a.m.
How The New York Times plans to build a daily habit on Snapchat
The Times is keen on building the publication as a daily habit and sees a parallel with Snapchat, which is also habit-forming with its users. The Snapchat edition also checks other boxes the Times has identified in its recent internal report, “Journalism That Stands Apart,” as important goals: being more relevant to younger readers, doing more visual journalism, being less stodgy.
How The Washington Post plans to break news on Snapchat
Unlike other Discover partners, The Washington Post plans to be a source of breaking news content on the platform, which means posting new editions multiple times a day, every day. The number of times The Post publishes to Snapchat Discover will depend on the news cycle, but it’s expected to roll out new content at least twice a day within its daily edition
In France, Snapchat takes the lead in producing political content
Snapchat Discover is notorious for its Kardashian content in the U.S., but in France, Snapchat Discover has become a tool for French voters seeking clarity and information on the fast-approaching national elections. Interestingly, Snapchat is taking a lead role in creating political content.
Le Monde is using Snapchat Discover to teach fake-news spotting
With France’s national elections around the corner, Le Monde is turning to Snapchat Discover for its battle against fake news. On Snapchat, their approach is more educational, with Le Monde’s Discover team doing explainers and guides on how not to be fooled by fake news.
Normally celeb-heavy, The Sun’s using Snapchat Discover for election content
Since the election was announced on April 18, The Sun has created up to three snaps a week on the election. These include the top things to know about the main political parties, how to register to vote, a poll asking if people plan to vote, content about whether millennials will decide the election (featuring influencers like Zoella who have been tweeting about it) and Brexit’s impact on summer holidays. The publisher plans to go deeper on election content when each political party publishes its manifesto.
Scoop: NBC’s daily Snapchat show posts monster numbers
In less than a month, over 29 million unique viewers have already watched “Stay Tuned,” NBC News’ daily Snapchat Discover show, Axios has learned.Here, they explore why it matters.
Snapchat inks Discover deal with student newspapers
Snapchat this morning announced a deal with a select group of student newspapers across the United States in a bid to continue reaching young audiences and distinguish itself from other platforms.
Snapchat’s new Discover feature could be a significant moment in the evolution of mobile news
By putting mobile-native news adjacent to messages from friends, Snapchat could be helping create part of the low-friction news experience many want and need.
Vulture is Coming to Snapchat’s Discover Platform
The entertainment news site will release a weekly Publisher Story on the platform
What Copa90 learned from its ‘Saturdays are Lit’ Snapchat Discover series
Last week marked the end of the Premier League football season, and, with it, the end of “Saturdays are Lit,” the weekly Snapchat Discover show from youth-focused football publisher Copa90 and Bleacher Report.
Copa90 started the show in September, distributing it on Bleacher Report’s Discover channel. Across the 36 episodes, “Saturdays are Lit” attracted 49 million views globally, with each episode notching views in the millions and some interactive tiles prompting half a million screenshots.
Vogue takes ‘hub and spoke’ approach to Snapchat editions in Europe
Every publisher is figuring out what to centralize. Condé Nast is breaking down some of the walls that previously existed between its international editorial teams in order to better create content for Vogue Paris and British Vogue, publications that traditionally have operated very autonomously.
That’s meant a centralized six-person Snapchat Discover team in London, with producers and interactive designers creating Snapchat content for Vogue Paris, which launched a month ago, and British Vogue, which debuts today. The team is led by Vogue International Snapchat editor Sarah Schijen.
Snapchat Discover and TV
After Dominating YouTube, James Corden Is Setting His Sights on Snapchat, With a New Original Series
James Corden has spent the past two years dominating YouTube with his Carpool Karaoke segments. Now the late-night host is ready to tackle another digital platform: Snapchat.
The Late Late Show host is partnering with Snap Inc. to create a new digital series for Snapchat’s Discover platform, which will debut this fall.
BBC Planet Earth II Mini-Episodes Are Coming to Snapchat
Fans of popular BBC travel documentary Planet Earth II will be able to watch mini-episodes of the series via Snapchat’s Discover section the day before they air on television, starting Feb. 17.
E!’s newest Snapchat show stars Kylie Jenner
On Aug. 12, the NBCUniversal-owned E! will debut a new show on Discover called “Ask Kylie.” “Ask Kylie” will have the Kardashian sister answering fan questions on topics ranging from online bullying to family drama to her cosmetics empire. The show will be a companion to the “Life of Kylie” reality TV series, which was set to debut on E!’s cable channel on Aug. 6. “Ask Kylie” will have six episodes lasting three to five minutes and will air weekly on Saturdays leading into new episodes of Jenner’s TV show on Sundays.
NBC News Will Produce the First Daily News Show For Snapchat
Social media juggernaut Snapchat announced new original content that will be available for viewing on its Discover platform this fall. One of the upcoming entries will be the platform’s first daily news show, which will be produced by NBC News. Like other Snapchat shows, the daily news program will be 4-5 minutes in length
Snapchat Discover publishers face tough challenge as platform chases TV
Snap wants Snapchat Discover to be more like TV — and longtime media partners, as always, will be expected to adapt.
Snapchat’s Latest Moves Are Making It Look More Like a TV Disrupter Than a Social App
The next-generation television company may be in your pocket. Snapchat, once pegged by the public as a social-messaging app and recently self-declared camera-based platform, is actually starting to look more and more like TV for young viewers who prefer smartphones over flat screens, industry players say.
What’s different about Snapchat’s next new original series
A&E has became the latest network to partner up with Snap Inc. to produce original content for Snapchat.
Second Chance is the first unscripted show produced by a network for Snapchat that is not based on an existing television brand or franchise. It’s set to premiere on the platform in April.
Why Snapchat’s first batch of original shows favor reality TV and news genres
Snapchat Discover has quickly become the newest home for reality TV and other nonfiction video series.
Of the 22 Snapchat shows that have premiered since last fall — when Snap ramped up its shows initiative in earnest — almost all of them have fallen within the unscripted, reality TV or news genres.
MGM Television Is the First Big Entertainment Studio to Create Original Shows for Snapchat
After spending the past year making deals with almost every major TV media company to produce original series for Snapchat, Snap Inc. is now getting into business with entertainment studios as well.
MGM Television will be the first major entertainment studio to develop and produce original series for Snapchat’s Discover platform, the companies announced today.
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Curate is now open
Home/News/Comings & Goings/Curate is now open
Curate, a small plate restaurant and wine bar offering various ethnic cuisines, has opened at 2930 Plaza Drive in The Gables shopping center. Curate is located in the building formerly occupied by McCormick’s Smokehouse, which closed at the end of 2018. Owners Dan and Nickey Sperry, along with co-owner and executive chef Justin Richardson, also own VELE, a modern Italian restaurant in downtown Springfield.
In a February interview with SBJ, Nickey Sperry explained that although VELE was still fairly new, the group had decided to pursue a new venture as well.
“We were approached by Jim Wilson with The Gables; after McCormick’s left he wanted to bring in another tenant. He was willing to help us out on updating the space, and when you’re presented with good opportunities you want to capitalize on them,” said Sperry.
While the owners had originally hoped to open Curate over the summer, Sperry said there were several delays related to permitting and construction. She served as the general contractor for the last few months of the project and also handled the interior design. The space has been extensively renovated with an art deco theme and now features a serpentine bar as a centerpiece, courtesy of Woodhaven Woodworks. While the location has only been open since Nov. 29, the construction and interior design has been chronicled on social media for months.
Bask Properties, which had done work on the VELE remodel, also assisted with the new space. The owners worked with many other local businesses on the remodel, including Springfield Electric, Staff Carpet, Fehring Ornamental Iron Works and Pratt Woodworks. Evan Lloyd served as the project architect.
Sperry said, “Curate will offer a very different menu than VELE. It will be small plates, various ethnic cuisines that offer a diverse range for your palate. We want to create a great place to eat and drink and share with family and friends.”
Curate offers cocktails and an abbreviated menu from 3-5 p.m., with full menu service beginning at 5 p.m.
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Shakespeare’s Kings and Queens: A Timeline
Datas Chaves>
Monarchs from the Houses of Normandy, Angevin, Plantagenet, and Lancaster
HOUSE OF NORMANDY
Reigned:1066-1087
Born: Falaise, Normandy, France (1027)
Died: Hermentrube, France (1087)
Father: Robert II, 6th Duke of Normandy
Mother: Herleva (Arletta)
Buried: Caen, France
Alias: William the Conqueror
Born: Normandy, France (1056)
Died: New Forest, Hampshire, England (1100)
Father: William I (The Conqueror)
Mother: Matilda of Flanders
Buried: Winchester Cathedral, London, England
Alias: William Rufus
Born:Selby, Yorkshire, England (1068)
Died: St Denis-le-Fermont, Near Gisors, France (1135)
Buried: Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England
Alias: Henry Beauclerc
Born:Blois, France (1096)
Died: Dover Castle, Kent (1154)
Father: Stephen II Henry de Blois, Count of Blois
Mother: Adela, Countess of Blois, daughter of William the Conqueror
Buried: Faversham Abbey, Kent, England
HOUSE OF ANGEVIN (LATER PLANTAGENET)
Born:Le Mans, Anjou, France (1133)
Died: Chinon Castle, France (1189)
Father: Plantagenet, Geoffrey V the Fair, Count of Anjou
Mother: Matilda, Queen of England, daughter of Henry I
Buried: Henry Curtmantle
Alias: Fontevrault Abbey, France
Born:Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England (1157)
Died: Limousin, France (1199)
Father: Henry II, King of England
Mother: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine
Buried: Fontevrault Abbey, France
Alias: Richard the Lionheart
Died: Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England (1216)
Buried: Worcester Cathedral
Alias: John Lackland
HOUSE OF PLANTAGENET
Born:Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England (1207)
Died: Westminster Palace, London, England (1272)
Father: John, King of England
Mother: Taillefer, Isabella of Angouleme, Queen of England
Buried: Westminster Abbey, London, England
Reigned: 1272-1307
Born: Westminster Palace, London, England (1239)
Died: Burgh-On-Sands, Cumberland, England (1307)
Father: Henry III, King of England
Mother: Berenger, Eleanor of Provence
Alias: Edward Longshanks
Born: Caernarvon Castle, Wales (1284)
Died: Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England (1327)
Father: Edward I, King of England
Mother: Eleanor of Castile
Alias: Edward Caernarvon
Buried: Gloucester Cathedral
Born: Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (1312)
Died: Sheen Palace, Surrey (1377)
Father: Edward II, King of England
Mother: Isabella of France
Son: John of Gaunt
Reigned: 1377-1399 (deposed)
Born: Bordeaux, Gascony, France (1367)
Executed: Pontefract Castle, Yorkshire, England (1400)
Father: Edward (the Black Prince), Prince of Wales
Mother: Plantagenet, Joan, Countess of Kent
Buried: Westminster Abbey, London, England (1413)
HOUSE OF LANCASTER
Born: Bolingbrooke Castle, Lincolnshire, England (1366)
Died: Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster Abbey, London, England (1413)
Father: Plantagenet, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Mother: Plantagenet, Blanche of Lancaster, Countess of Derby
Alias: Henry Bolingbroke
Buried: Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England
Born: Monmouth Castle, Wales (1387)
Died: Bois de Vincennes, France (1422)
Father: Plantagenet, Henry IV, King of England
Mother: Mary de Bohun
Born: Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England (1421)
Murdered: Tower of London, London, England (1471)
Father: Plantegenet, Henry V, King of England
Mother: Catherine de Valois of France
Buried: St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England (1485)
HOUSE OF YORK
Reigned: 1461-70, 1471-1483
Born: Rouen, France (1442)
Father: Plantagenet, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York
Mother: Lady Cicely Neville
Buried: St George’s Chapel, Windsor England
Reigned: 1483-1483 (deposed after reigning seventy-seven days)
Born: Westminster Abbey, England (1470)
Father: Plantagenet, Edward IV, King of England
Mother: Elizabeth Woodville
Born: Fotheringhay Castle, Northants, England (1452)
Died: Battle of Bosworth, Leicestershire (1485)
Buried:Grey Friars Abbey, Leicester
Born: Pembroke Castle, Wales (1457)
Died: Richmond Palace, Richmond, Surrey, England (1509)
Father: Tudor, Edmund, Earl of Richmond
Mother: Margaret Beaufort of Richmond, Countess of Richmond
Buried: Westminster Abbey, London
Born: Greenwich Palace, London, England (1457)
Died: Whitehall Palace, London, England (1547)
Father: Tudor, Henry VII, King of England
Mother: Plantagenet, Elizabeth of York
Buried: St.George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England
Born: Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, England (1537)
Died: Greenwich Palace, London, England (1553)
Father: Tudor, Henry VIII, King of England
Mother: Jane Seymour
JANE (LADY JANE GREY)
Born: Bradgate, Leicestershire (1537)
Died: Tower of London, London, England (1553)
Father: Grey, Henry, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Mother: Brandon, Frances
Buried: Tower of London, Chapel Royal, London, England
Died: St. James Palace, London, England (1558)
Mother: Catherine of Aragon
Alias: Bloody Mary
Died: Richmond Palace, London, England (1603)
Mother: Anne Boleyn, Marchioness of Pembroke
Alias: The Virgin Queen; Queen Bess
Born: Edinburgh Castle, Scotland (1566)
Died: Hertfordshire, Herts, England (1625)
Father: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
Mother: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Alias: James VI of Scotland
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Sudden Jihad Syndrome: Muslim policemen shouting "Allahu akbar" open fire on Jews praying at Joseph's Tomb
April 24, 2011 sheikyermami 5 Comments
Looks like a prelude to something bigger.
In any case, those who left the protection of Jews to a bunch of Koranimals should be held responsible for their folly.
“It was crazy, they were shooting to kill.”
And yet the world will continue to condemn Israel and portray the Palestinians as victims. “Witness: Shooters yell Allahu Akbar,” by Yair Altman for Ynet News, April 24 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Pali Christian good will: “Jews, Jews! Your holiday [Passover] is the Holiday of Apes”
A group of Breslov Hassidim’s regular twilight visit to Palestinian controlled Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus came to a tragically violent end Sunday: According to one of the Breslovers, Palestinian police officers fired at the convoy as they were on their way in to the Tomb.The fire continued as they drove out, killing Ben-Yosef Livnat, a 24 year-old father of four from Jerusalem and the nephew of Minister Limor Livnat, and injuring five others.
Military, Palestinians investigating shooting of Israelis near Joseph’s Tomb. Initial details suggest event was security incident….
One of the Breslovers who was in the second car in the convoy and was lightly wounded told Ynet: “We arrived at the tomb like on many occasions in the past. Near the tomb we saw a spikes chain. One of the guys jumped out of the car and moved it aside.
“At this point a uniformed Palestinian police officer with a Kalashnikov in a jeep woke his colleagues up and they started firing into the air…I was in the front seat. We started driving fast in the direction of the tomb; we got out of the vehicles and kissed the tomb.
“When we got back to the vehicles the police shot at the vehicles, they were screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’. It was crazy, they were shooting to kill. I screamed at the driver to drive out of there quickly. When we got to Har Bracha we attended to the wounded.”…
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5 thoughts on “Sudden Jihad Syndrome: Muslim policemen shouting "Allahu akbar" open fire on Jews praying at Joseph's Tomb”
eib says:
They’re good goddamn Muslims.
What else were you expecting– Easter eggs?
Canadian Heeb says:
An Iranian ship loaded with poison gas was seized at Port of Sinai. Perhaps turning Iran into a glass parking lot will remind them – and all comers – that we Jews aren’t going to be gassed by anyone.
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=217760
Iranian ship loaded with poison gas – It’s a good thing it was seized.
meme says:
shame on u Allahuakbar Allahuakbar
Muslim 4 lyf
Rossco says:
That’d have to be a rather short & useless “lyf”, meme…
Do something meaningful with your life before it’s too late…abandoning islam and the paedophile mohammed would be a good start.
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Mueller Report Part II – Trump Guilty of Obstruction of Justice – F
F. The Inexplicable Treatment of Trump’s Personal Attorneys & Other Enablers
Another unexplained aspect of the Report relates to Trump’s use of his personal attorneys (never identified) to communicate with Flynn and his attorneys. Trump’s personal counsel appear a number of times in the report. II MR 121-122. A fair interpretation of this evidence is that Trump used his personal attorney to try to influence Flynn’s cooperation with the SCO, first with cajoling about how Trump cared about him, then with implied threats about Trump’s presumed anger. A further fair argument can be made that Trump’s personal counsel was a knowing participant in an obstruction effort. Why is this not at least mentioned in the Report?
The Report relegates to II MR-122, n. 839 the extraordinary decision not to try to interview Trump’s personal attorneys “because of attorney-client privilege issues.” Given the active role those lawyers played in some of Trump’s obstructive acts, it is hard to understand a decision not to try to learn something from them. Attorney-client privilege does not protect an attorney who is participating in a criminal enterprise. This is known as the crime-fraud exception to the general privilege rule. If Trump’s personal counsel were actively and knowingly participating in an attempt to obstruct justice by, for example, influencing Gen. Flynn’s testimony or by attempting to unlawfully procure the firing of the Special Counsel, the privilege likely does not apply. It is, moreover, inconceivable that Trump’s attorneys acted on their own without consulting their client. We are left to speculate as to why Mueller did not pursue this seemingly fruitful source of information.
We can’t be sure, of course, whether to credit Rick Gates assertion that Paul Manafort had talked with Trump’s personal counsel and been assured that they would be “taken care of” if they did not talk to the SCO. Mueller, however, clearly believed Gates’ account of these conversations with Manafort. II MR-123 & n. 848, 850. This is a subject that could have been pursued directly with Trump’s counsel if Mueller had been more aggressive in seeking the full body of evidence rather than simply assuming that the privilege would be upheld.
One of Trump’s personal attorneys during this period was Rudy Giuliani who gave multiple interviews in which he suggested Trump might pardon Manafort, then, following the classic Trump playbook, claimed he was misunderstood and not signaling anyone. II MR-124. This was fertile ground to discover whether Trump and Giuliani had mapped out this strategy to obtain Manafort’s silence or other forms of cooperation. A good argument could be made that Trump-Giuliani had waived the attorney-client privilege when Giuliani told the Washington Post that Trump had consulted his attorneys about granting pardons to Manafort. II MR-127. Manafort had some kind of joint defense agreement with Trump and was coordinating his Mueller interviews with Trump’s attorneys. II MR-127. That fact alone warranted taking Giuliani’s testimony under oath. It is all the more compelling because Trump publicly contradicting Giuliani’s statements. II MR-128. Instead, Mueller concludes that the evidence on Trump’s personal participation in all this was inconclusive (II MR-132), an amazing conclusion in light of his decision not to press for an interview of Giuliani and/or Trump.
Mueller digs deep to find alternative explanations for Trump’s comments about the treatment of Manafort. II MR-133. In the totality of circumstances regarding Trump’s repeated litany of claims that he and others were being treated unfairly, this is astonishing, especially considering that at times Trump claimed he knew very little about what these people did for him and the campaign. Normally you can’t have it both ways but Mueller lets Trump get away with it.
Note that there are substantial redactions in this part of the Report for Harm to an Ongoing Matter, suggesting that additional investigations have been farmed out to the US Attorneys’ offices. II MR 128-130.
Trump’s personal attorneys played a further role in Cohen’s false testimony to Congress. II MR-139. A joint defense agreement existed between Cohen and Trump plus other unnamed individuals involved in the Russia investigation. II MR-139. The identity of all the other individuals is not revealed in the Report. Why is this not addressed? The president’s personal attorney played an active role in assuring Cohen that his loyalty to Trump would be rewarded. II MR-140.
Despite the fact that drafts of Cohen’s false testimony to Congress were discussed with members of the Joint Defense Agreement and that false testimony to Congress under oath is a crime, Mueller did not see the drafts because of concerns about the common interest privilege. But it is not clear who raised those concerns. This is another example of Mueller seeming to act as counsel for the defense.
Perhaps because Cohen was in almost daily contact with Trump’s personal attorney about Cohen’s Congressional testimony, Mueller, in this one case, indicates an attempt was made to interview counsel. But the counsel declined, citing “potential privilege concerns.” II MR-143. What precisely those concerns were is not explained. Nor is there any indication that the SCO aggressively pursued this obviously important testimony about an agreement to suppress truthful information being sought by Congress. Who exactly is the “President’s personal counsel” that is referred here? Is it the same person throughout? Trump hired and replaced many attorneys during this time. Why does the SCO not identify these people by name?
This is not the normal or effective way to handle privilege disputes. The privilege-claiming party should be presented with the questions and compelled to explain with specificity why each question cannot be answered even in part because of privilege. Mueller may have gone through this exercise but there is no evidence of that anywhere in the Report.
Further puzzling issues arise from Mueller’s failure to pursue Robert Costello who, in the period following the raid on Cohen’s home and office, was used as a go-between connecting Giuliani and Cohen and assuring Cohen of Trump’s continued favor. II MR-146. Costello’s offering to support secret communications between the White House and Cohen appears to have been of no concern at the SCO. One question is which personal counsel to the President was assuring Cohen that if he continued lying, Trump would protect him? Why does Mueller protect the identity of President’s personal attorney engaged in a cover-up and overt acts of witness tampering/obstruction of justice?
Beyond that, Mueller accepts that Trump’s personal counsel was working with Cohen on false testimony to Congress but does not attribute that conduct to Trump and never goes after the counsel for aiding & abetting false testimony or giving message to Cohen that he would be protected if he stuck to the party line. Why was Mueller so reticent about these compelling facts that do not appear to be disputed? Faced with an apparent conspiracy to submit false testimony to Congress, resistance by Trump & by his personal attorney (who refused to provide his version of his conversations with Cohen who was not his client and thus not covered by any plausible claim of privilege), Mueller simply assumed he couldn’t get evidence about Trump’s discussions with his personal counsel and didn’t even try to pursue this line. II MR-154. No presumption of privilege should attach to conspiracy to commit a crime. Mueller’s unwillingness to tangle with Trump’s personal attorneys is inexplicable and unconscionable malpractice. Why was Trump’s personal attorney not charged with suborning perjury in connection with Cohen’s false testimony that Trump’s personal attorney helped facilitate?
Mueller’s approach is particularly disturbing because Trump refused to answer the written questions posed to him about the Trump Tower meeting. II MR-149. What Trump did say was that he couldn’t remember his conversations with Cohen. After Cohen pled guilty to lying to Congress about the Trump Tower meeting, Trump refused to provide any more information about his role and turned sharply against Cohen. II MR-151. Thereafter, Giuliani made public statements that conflicted with what Trump was now saying, then “walked those back.” II MR-152. Mueller seems completely bamboozled by all this, unable to make the obvious conclusions.
Trump refused to clarify what Mueller calls the “seeming discrepancy” between his statements about the Trump Tower project in Russia made before and after Cohen’s guilty plea. Mueller engages repeatedly in speculation about what Trump might have meant rather than concluding that, having declined the opportunity to set the record straight, Trump should be estopped to deny the discrepancy and to deny what Cohen said was the truth eventually.
I have asked repeatedly in these evaluations of the Mueller Report why Trump’s enablers were not indicted. Mueller addresses very briefly at II MR-158 where he leaps a giant chasm of evidence to conclude that because a few of Trump’s aides refused to carry out his blatantly obstructive orders, virtually all of them were allowed to walk away unscathed, including Trump’s personal attorneys and others who, according to undisputed evidence, did carry out Trump’s orders to try to intimidate witnesses, terminate the SCO investigation and other forms of interference detailed throughout the Report. Mueller calls the “pattern” one in which Trump’s enablers resisted his obstruction directives, but the evidence adduced shows that in most cases the White House staff did exactly what Trump wanted them to do. The “pattern” is the exact opposite of Mueller’s conclusion.
The Mueller Report ends with a lengthy, lawyerly analysis of the statutory and constitutional defenses asserted by Trump’s attorneys. The analysis is unobjectionable and supports not only the conclusions Mueller did reach but re-emphasizes the lingering questions about the conclusions he declined to reach. In particular, we are left to wonder why so few of the obvious enablers of Trump’s overt obstructive acts were not held accountable. Mueller’s treatment of “presumption of privilege” issues is inexplicable, given that much of the enabling activity was in support of federal crimes. We can only hope, though likely in vain, that Congressional hearings will flesh out the hanging questions.
This entry was posted in Commentary, Politics and tagged Cohen, Giuliani, Manafort, Mueller, privilege, SCO. Costello, Trump on July 23, 2019 by shiningseausa.
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What is Tideways? Good question. To help answer that question, in this video, you’re going to get a 30,000 ft view of what Tideways is.
With a product as sophisticated as Tideways, that’s not an easy thing to do - at least not quickly. So, we’re going to focus on its three essential concepts; those being:
Profiling; and
Exception Tracking.
Let’s start with monitoring. Often referred to as Application Performance Monitoring or Application Performance Management (APM for short), monitoring is
The monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex application performance problems to maintain an expected level of service.
— Application performance management
So, why would you use monitoring in your application? The monitoring section is where you get a broad overview of your application, including:
How long a spike took
Maximum memory usage
Response rate averages (such as SQL queries and file I/O)
The total number of requests
What you need to investigate; and
Where you see when outliers happen
In short, you’re able to gauge the health of your application rapidly and know if and where something is going wrong.
The Application Performance Overview, which you can see in the screenshot above, shows your application’s performance, with response times measured in 95% percentiles. Hovering over each minute, you can see the exact response-time and the number of requests that were measured.
Blue bars represent the response time with the y-axis on the left of the chart, red bars represent the number of errors and the dashed grey line the number of requests with the y-axis on the right side of the chart. The main performance screen also shows the aggregated 95% response time, number of requests, and error-rate of the currently selected time period.
Below the main response time chart is a smaller chart that shows downstream layer performance from SQL, HTTP, Redis, Memcache, MongoDB, and other supported databases. Hover over the graph with the mouse, and you see the exact response times and request count, errors, and averages for the selected time.
The graph with response times is the entry point to every application. You can select different periods to look at with the time-selector. By default, it shows the last 60 minutes; other durations are 3 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours. However, you can switch to the history view to view the previous 1 day, 7 days (one week), or one month.
To view the performance at different points in time, you can select different periods via drag-and-drop in the time explorer at the top of the screen, or switch between services (like CLI, Web, Admin or anything you want to group by) and environments (like production, staging, testing).
Special events such as new exceptions, new releases, or alert triggers are displayed as little flags in the application performance chart. You can click them to get more details about what was happening in your application.
Next, what is profiling? To again quote Wikipedia:
Profiling ("program profiling", "software profiling") is a form of dynamic program analysis that measures, for example, the space (memory) or time complexity of a program, the usage of particular instructions, or the frequency and duration of function calls. Most commonly, profiling information serves to aid program optimization.
— Profiling (computer programming)
Sounds intense, right? So why should we profile our applications and scripts? Well, often, though not always, when something goes wrong, or our applications aren’t performing as we expect that they should, we dive right in and attempt to guess where their performance bottlenecks are.
We use intuition and educated guesses. While doing so can work, it’s not the most efficient approach. Intuition and educated guesses aren’t based on facts.
That’s why we should profile our applications so that we know for a fact what our applications are doing. Then, we can base our choices about what to change and where based on clear and unbiased facts.
For example, here’s a little of what profiling can tell us:
By how much did a function increase peak PHP memory usage during its execution?
How long did a specific SQL database query or HTTP request take?
How many times was each method called?
What path did a request take through an application (from the first to the last function)?
What was the average execution time of each method?
What was the maximum execution time of each method?
Tideways supports two profiler types, these are:
The Timeline / Tracing Profiler
This profiler collects information about a range of operations performed by your application, such as SQL statements, framework controller calls, and rendering of templates.
The Callgraph Profiler
This profiler provides a visual representation of an application’s callgraph, which is more detailed than the timeline profiler.
We’re not going into further detail about them in this video, as I don’t want to dive too deep too soon. But, we cover the Timeline profiler in video four and the Callgraph profiler in video 5.
Profiler Summary
By drilling down into a profiler’s results, you can often be pleasantly surprised — though more likely shocked to find that your application is executing code paths and classes that you never expected. However, based on the information which the profilers report, you and your team can then begin to understand better what your application is doing and perform informed refactorings to change it, as and where required.
Exception Tracking
Finally, let’s look at exception tracking. Exception tracking tracks the low-level details for failed requests with errors and exceptions, including stack traces. Tideways automatically detects PHP fatal errors and exceptions and aggregates them. The available error details include the message, stack trace, and context information to help you fix your customers' bugs as fast as possible.
Exception tracking provides several benefits, but two are essential; these are:
Knowing about errors as soon as users encounter them. This allows you to respond quickly and proactively rather than after users contact you in when they’re feeling frustrated.
They avoid the "one email per error" flooding problem. While it’s great to know about errors, the last thing that you want is to be overwhelmed by notifications about them, preventing you from doing meaningful work.
And that’s a rapid overview of what Tideways is, focusing on its three core concepts: profiling, monitoring, and exception tracking. By using these three tools in combination, you can quickly go from a high-level right down to the low-level getting a thorough understanding of where the problems in your application lie.
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2014 Kenda Tires Title Sponsor for Desert 100
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The Stumpjumpers MC is proud to announce Kenda Tires has signed as the title sponsor of the 2014 Desert 100. See the press release below and linked here: Press Release Kenda Tire
Kenda Tire to support the historic Desert 100 as title sponsor
Lynnwood, WA, December 10th 2013: Kenda Tire brings its strong brand recognition for off-road competition and puts its stamp on the Desert 100, the premier off-road motorcycle race for the NW. The Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club (SJMC) welcomes Kenda Tires to the NW to bring new exposure to both the event and the Kenda brand.
Desert 100 Race Chairman Mike Decker: “Kenda’s support to the off-road community sets them apart as a true ambassador of the sport we love the most. We are proud to have Kenda Tires as our title sponsor of the Desert 100 and look forward to Kenda’s continued involvement in the off-road industry”.
On the weekend of April 5 – 6, 2014 SJMC will host the 44th annual Desert 100 race and dual sport weekend event in Odessa, WA. With the new event title of “Kenda Stumpjumpers Desert 100” one can be assured the race will be more exciting than ever! With a LeMans style start stretching as far as half mile long with bikes lined up handle bar to handle bar. 1000 plus racers run to their bikes with the sound of the cannon all vying for the top position through the 20’ wide course entrance almost a mile away across the most rugged unforgiving terrain any desert can put out, and that’s just the start! With a racing heritage almost as long as the Baja 1000 this event attracts both local and national pros such as Ricky Russell, David Kamo, and Bobby Prochnau.
Kenda Tire’s Gus Niewenhous: “Racing with the top Pro’s will always be part of what drives Kenda, but supporting the grass roots events that people look forward to all year long is a major priority as well because those events support the whole industry. The family-oriented culture of the D100 is something special and we want to encourage the passion that draws these folks to come participate year after year as a continuing tradition with their friends and family”.
Over the race weekend the SJMC club and volunteers put on a family poker run, ironman poker run, dual sport ride, a kids race for racers 12 and under and of course the 100 mile desert race. Out of the 5,500 attendees, almost 4,000 of them participate in a motorcycle event over the weekend. The race is held on a 10,000 plus acre cattle ranch and includes every kind of terrain and obstacle a racer could encounter. Participants come from all over the country every year to prove something; some to win, some to beat their buddy, and others to finish. This race is all about bragging rights!
About the Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club. Based in Lynnwood, Washington, the SJMC has provided family events for the off-road motorcycle community since 1967 and has hosted the Desert 100 for 44 years. The Desert 100 event is held in Odessa, Washington with over 5,000 attendees and 3,500 riders.
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OnePlus Nord revealed ahead of July 21 launch event, buds in teal colour also revealed
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OnePlus Nord will be made available in two colourways: Grey and Teal. (Image: MKBHD)
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei in an interview with YouTuber Marques Brownlee has revealed the design along with a few key features of the upcoming OnePlus Nord smartphone. During the interview, he was wearing the company’s upcoming truly wireless earphones, in a teal colour. Now, with this design reveal the company only has a few key specifications that have to be revealed about the upcoming device along with the price.
Pei revealed that the company is “ready now [to launch a mid-range phone] because the technology is ready.” He said that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G 5G chipset can deliver the experience that people expect from OnePlus smartphones.
Initially, the company was going forward with a different design, that looked like a Pixel, iPhone Frankenstein from the back. However, Pete said that OnePlus changed the design later in the stage, causing a one month delay so that the device could look a lot more like the flagship OnePlus 8 series of smartphones. He added, that a phone should be ready nine months in advance to launch to be ready to go to market, any slight change can cause huge delays.
The device was showcased in two colourways: Grey and Teal. The company might launch other colour options at the launch event. The truly wireless earphones are also expected to be made available in two colour options: Black and Teal.
From the reveal, we can see that the device features a curved back with the vertically aligned quad camera setup on the top right corner, and OnePlus branding on the middle and the bottom half. On the front, it features a dual hole punch cutout on the top left corner. The alert slider has been shifted to the right edge right on top of the power button. On the bottom edge, we get to see the USB Type-C port along with the speakers.
Pei revealed that the company is “ready now [to launch a mid-range phone] because the technology is ready.” (Image: MKBHD)During the interview, Pei explained that the Nord will not come with an official IP rating as the testing takes approximately $15 (approximately Rs 1,100) per phone for the company to get the rating, due to the cost of the machinery involved. The device will also not come with an NFC chip or a 3.5mm headphone jack. An NFC chip costs around $4 (approximately Rs 300) per phone. Whereas, the 3.5mm headphone jack does not cost that much, however, the space it takes, is at the cost of other components like a bigger battery.
Another reason Pei said for the Nord not having a 3.5mm headphone jack is that truly wireless earphones are coming down in price and are being widely accepted. Hinting at the company’s own truly wireless earphones launching alongside the OnePlus Nord.
Also Read: OnePlus Buds will launch alongside OnePlus Nord; here are the details
Even though the OnePlus Nord does not come with an IP certification, Pei said that the device does feature seals to make it water-resistant to a point. It is just that the company has forgone the $15 cost to get it an official IP rating.
Coming to the battery, Pei said that the Nord will come with support for the company’s own Warp charging technology, which is more costly when compared to the conventional charging technology as it requires more components.
Also Read: OnePlus Nord specifications are out – take a look
OnePlus Nord will feature an AMOLED display along with a 90Hz refresh rate. Pei said that AMOLED displays are more expensive than the LCD displays, which takes up the price of the device and adding a 90Hz refresh rate is also an additional cost.
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Harry Redknapp spills on ‘special times’ as he enjoys holiday with son Jamie and grandsons
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Harry Redknapp, 72, has been soaking up the sun with his wife, Sandra, son Jamie Redknapp, 46, and two of his grandchildren, Charley, 15, and Beau, 10.
The ex football manager shared a glimpse into the holiday in Portugal with his 1.1 million Instagram followers.
The family looked sun-kissed and relaxed as they all beamed to the camera with their arms around each other.
Harry captioned the snap: “Special times.”
Many of Harry’s followers shared compliments on his post, with one person writing: “Lovely photo, the eldest is a spitting image of Louise & the little one like Jamie xx.”
Another said: “Beautiful family photo. Harry your Sandra is an attractive lady !! Beautiful family x.”
A third wrote: “Each and everyone of you are wonderful. Would be an absolute pleasure to meet you…. one day x.”
Harry’s ex daughter-in-law, Louise Redknapp, whose divorce from Jamie was finalised in 2017, is also believed to have joined the family on holiday but wasn’t in the group snap.
The 44-year-old singer is still sunning herself in Portugal with her two boys, after Jamie and Harry jetted home for work commitments.
At the weekend, the former Eternal band member shared a stunning selfie where she said she was “happy”.
Louise captioned the shot: “Being away and having the time with my boys is everything #happy.”
Yesterday, the former Strictly Come Dancing contestant uploaded a photo with her youngest son as they spent time together outside.
“True love,” she captioned the snap.
Jamie had also posted pictures from their getaway, with one of him and their sons at the beach.
Showing off his toned dad bod, the former footballer couldn’t have looked happier as he posed with Beau in one picture then Charley in another.
Meanwhile, Jamie recently opened up about his dad’s win on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, saying he is now more known for that than his football manager career.
In an interview with Sky News, the father-of-two said: “Obviously, I’ve always looked at my dad as the Premier League fantastic football manager but now people look at him as the King of the Jungle and that’s what everyone talks about.
“‘Your dad was amazing on I’m A Celebrity… ‘, and I’m like well, he was an amazing manager. People have almost forgotten that bit! But it’s all good fun.”
Despite his dad’s success in the jungle, the Sky News pundit said he won’t be following in his footsteps.
“You can’t follow that,” he said. “I think you’ve got to know what you’re good at and he was so good, so funny.”
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