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Phoenix Group Tries To Lure California CEOs
By Amy Quinton
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A Phoenix business group wants to attract California companies to Arizona’s business friendly climate. The group is offering California executives big incentives
The Greater Phoenix Economic Council says it will provide CEOs free airfare and accommodations to check out Arizona.
The group sites the tax increase from Proposition 30, the cap and trade program and cost of living in California as reasons companies should relocate or expand in Arizona.
Barry Broome, President of the Council, says they've had several California CEOs already express interest.
BROOME: "Our goal is get a dialogue with the CEO, bring the CEO into the Greater Phoenix market, and show them the value proposition of our market. And the conversation is going to start with the cost of doing business and tax policy."
Broome says they originally were making the offer to the first 50 interested executives, but they're expanded the offer to the first 100.
Broome says he's heard from CEOs who are beginning to question the value of operating in California.
The California Chamber of Commerce did not respond to the issue.
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Alessia Cara - Scars To Your Beautiful Lyrics:
She just wants to be beautiful
She goes unnoticed, she knows no limits
She craves attention, she praises an image
She prays to be sculpted by the sculptor
Oh, she don't see the light that's shining
Deeper than the eyes can find it
Maybe we have made her blind
So she tries to cover up her pain and cut her woes away
Cause covergirls don't cry after their face is made
But there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark
You should know you're beautiful just the way you are
And you don't have to change a thing
The world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful
She has dreams to be an envy, so she's starving
You know, covergirls eat nothing
She says "beauty is pain and there's beauty in everything"
"What's a little bit of hunger?"
"I could go a little while longer," she fades away
She don't see her perfect, she don't understand she's worth it
Or that beauty goes deeper than the surface
So to all the girls that's hurting
Let me be your mirror, help you see a little bit clearer
The light that shines within
There's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark
No better you than the you that you are
No better life than the life we're living
No better time for your shine, you're a star
Oh, you're beautiful, oh, you're beautiful
And there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark
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If your company makes printers but general trends are leaning toward using less paper and moving digital content to e-readers and smartphones, what can you do? Hewlett-Packard’s solution is to find new ways to get people to print more.
The $399 H-P Photosmart Premium All-in-One with Touch-Smart Web (hp.com/go/touchprinting) will print, copy, fax and scan like other all-in-ones. But it connects to the Internet using built-in Wi-Fi and displays customized Web applications on its 4.33-inch touch screen. These apps are designed to promote printing in any way possible, including photos from Snapfish, Sudoku puzzles, movie tickets from Fandango, coupons, maps from Google (GOOG) Maps, coloring-book pages and news articles—all without using a computer.
The print apps are part of the new H-P App Studio, H-P’s (HPQ) answer to the flurry of app stores—Apple’s (AAPL) App Store, RIM’s (RIMM) BlackBerry World, Android Marketplace, Palm’s (PALM) App Catalog and Microsoft’s (MSFT) Zune Marketplace—that ease the process of downloading onto mobile devices. A “Get More” icon on the printer’s touch screen presents descriptions of available apps. There are currently 15 available for download onto your printer, and more will be added in coming months.
The Photosmart All-in-One connects to Web apps that promote printing of everything from photos to tickets.
This printer is designed to work with more than just the H-P App Studio. A downloadable tool called the H-P Photo Print Gadget installs on computers running Windows 7 or Vista (not Windows XP) so people can drag and drop photos to it for printing. PlayStation 3 owners can capture and print screen shots as evidence of their game success. And a long-available free app in Apple’s App Store called H-P iPrint Photo lets iPhone and iPod Touch owners send photos to this and other H-P printers.
The goal of this product is obviously to get people to print more, and in my case, it worked. I used more paper in a week of testing the Photosmart Premium All-in-One than I normally print out in three weeks at my office. The printer quickly churned out dual-sided pages with photos in rich colors.
But the concept of adding apps to a printer while also asking people to become more paper-reliant seems like one step forward, two steps back. I could see this concept working on a thin, stylish printer that could fit neatly on an entryway table, making it a cinch for people to grab maps, movie tickets and coupons on their way out the door. But this is a large, all-in-one machine that takes up some serious space.
And if this all-in-one is truly meant to work without a PC, it should do a better job of letting you interact with pages, like zooming in on a document to preview before printing. In the current document preview screen, the text is too small to read. Likewise, the Google Calendar app printed a nice one-page calendar month view, but I couldn’t zoom in on the print preview to see specific appointments. This forced me to print the page to see its contents, using more ink and more paper.
Other apps are shamelessly begging users to press Print. A Toys and Crafts app made by H-P itself includes paper dolls with cut-out clothes that can be snipped and folded to stay on the doll’s form. For the doll’s face, kids are encouraged to use a photo of themselves that–surprise, surprise—they can print using their all-in-one.
Coupons.com supplies two apps—one for coupons and one for recipes. I browsed through 87 product coupons in my ZIP Code and marked those that I wanted to print using a small check-box on the touch screen. Pressing “Print” compiled three coupons on one piece of paper. Recipes from Coupons.com printed with brightly colored photos of the end result; I’m looking forward to following one for Curried Chicken Salad.
For now, the Google Maps app isn’t ready for prime time: It prints only maps, not directions. H-P says it’s planning to add directions but wouldn’t say when. And a Nickelodeon app couldn’t load on my printer. Some apps took from 10 to 30 seconds to load—precious time when you’re running out the door.
One of the smartest apps, Tabbloid, lets people assemble a personalized tabloid-style print-out of news from a variety of sources like Daily Kos for politics and FanHouse for sports. But this assembling must be done on a computer, thus negating this printer’s no-PC approach. I chose from a list of 10 topics including automotive, celebrity, politics and sports and created a printable Tabbloid that, with one click, was sent wirelessly to the corresponding app on my printer. I printed it out to read during my commute.
I liked using the Photosmart Premium All-in-One’s generous screen for touch gestures like flicking left-to-right through a carousel of icons that represent apps. An on-screen keyboard appeared when I had to type in passwords for things like my Snapfish account.
H-P says it will introduce other products with TouchSmart Web capability and access to the HP App Studio, and one hopes these products will include low-end printers rather than expensive all-in-ones. The apps on the H-P Photosmart Premium All-in-One with TouchSmart Web are user-friendly, but I’m not convinced they’ll incite people to print more things more often.
Edited by Walter S. Mossberg.
Write to Katherine Boehret at mossbergsolution@wsj.com
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three Techniques To Download Streaming Videos - 20 Jul 2018 14:39
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Once items have constructed up, you can begin twisting the drum beat and switching tempos and rhythms, in order to produce an ear-catching track. Get your continue reading this MC to freestyle in the booth and listen as they attempt to hold up with the changing rhythm. Also, I suspect this is the explanation nurseries and pre-schools use a tidy up time" song. Instruction the brain to particular (speedy, hopefully!) activity to particular music.8) Select a effectively-connected and respected individual manager. Great artist managers are becoming a point of the past. Self-management is usually a valid alternative in the creating stages of establishing your career as a musician. Much can be learned by taking on the jobs of securing gigs, receiving some publicity, preparing tours, dealing with individual troubles that arise inside the band, and schmoozing with A&R Reps and different other label and publishing personnel. Even so, there comes a time, typically when the day-to-day tasks of doing the business of becoming a band takes up as well much time, and it is at this time that the services of a good manager can be extremely valuable. I have always felt that if any musician or band has worked difficult to establish their career, and accomplished a modicum of success, they will have a greater likelihood to "attract" the services of a skilled, nicely-connected and respected manager.Seriously, ever given that that post dropped last week, I've thought about all the things I did not say. It is also prompted me to listen to a lot of Eminem continue reading this previous few days. Writing lyrics can be believed of as a mastery of skills and creativity. 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The chance that a song can be changed haphazardly is extremely low, since any unintentional alteration in the text of lyrics violates the guidelines, in accordance with which any distinct song has been written.What do you do if you have far more than a single piece of operate to register? People such as artists, poets, musicians and photographers have to feel about this when they apply for a copyright. Normally they all have a lot more than one particular piece of function to copyright. The query they have to answer is whether or not they ought to copyright every single individual piece of work.I also appreciate his non-work into hyper self ego promotion, that I lot of rappers do, which can operate occasionally, but often is type of a turn off for me. That aspect reminds me also of Tupac, exactly where I would say, ‘they are the real deal'. Brainstorm. Choose your topic and let your imagination run wild. 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Only Luger's tag" — a laser-gun synthesizer noise he functions into almost every mix, like a watermark, normally just just before the beat drops and the rhymes kick in — gives away who produced it. - Comments: 0
How To Write Rap - 19 Jul 2018 14:50
Before social media, musicians spent a lot of time producing demos to woo record firms. Or they had to play dozens of gigs to attract a following. Whilst these routes are still important, social media has given new acts an less complicated route to music stardom. So, just play the beat and begin writing your thoughts on a piece of paper. Never put a filter on them, whatever comes-jot it down. Then appear at it, evaluate your arguments, order them so they stick to a structured train of thought and then begin writing your bars, based on that argument draft.7. Do not all of a sudden grow allergic to other girls. If you push oneself as well challenging, there's every chance that the girl you are courting will begin to really feel queasy about being with you. She should know that her options are open till she is ready to commit.Join the 7 day mini e mail course that will revitalize your sessions with little ones! Get a lesson every single day with fresh music strategies and ideas for running groups that you can use appropriate away. When I 1st study this goal, no song in my repertoire quickly stood out as one particular that I could use so it was time to get inventive.It motivated me when I felt like not instruction - sometimes in the gym prepared for a session, but feeling a little tired. It picks me up and indeed helps to invigorate me, constantly. He lately revealed that when director Peter Jackson texted him, asking him to create a song for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (he contributed the ethereal I See Fire), the singer was in Ibiza and had just taken ecstasy for the very first time.Studying how to write a rap song is in itself not hard but writing a excellent rap song takes years of practice. You never want to get FL Studio to get started. There's plenty of free audio editors (such as Audacity) that offer a free way to make music. If you come about to have a Mac laptop, those come with Garageband, which will let you to record proper out of Simply Click The Following Website Page the box! There are also cheap packages that can assist with your quest, such as FL Studio, MTV Music Generator, Tightbeatz, Soundclick, and Hip Hop Ejay. Even so, the greatest beats you can get are a reside band, so if you have friends who play guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and even brass give them a contact and attempt to hook some thing up.Even those rappers who pride themselves on writing their personal rap songs, sometimes collaborate with other writers. Whether or not that implies bouncing ideas off 1 one more or obtaining a rapper write a verse or even the entire song, there is absolutely nothing incorrect with collaboration. Numerous rappers even use ghostwriters to create complete albums, but the ghostwriters are not acknowledged and the rapper performs the rap.McGowan writes in Brave that she had an appointment Weinstein on the day of her assault, arriving at the designated hotel to find out her breakfast meeting had been moved to his hotel suite. I see so numerous people generating the error of not paying the required interest at the start of their song.Howard's vision is in harmony with Dundee City Council's Financial Development Plan even though in the Council's Corporate Program 1996 to 1999 it says that a new City Arts Centre "will be a important focus for the improvement of Dundee's cultural industries which is a sector of the economy the City would want to accomplish development in." A single-person and little companies operated by artists and craftspeople, musicians and writers did not count as "cultural industries," for the partnership that drove forward the improvement of the City Arts Centre did not consist of them. The partnership consisted of state subsidised "cultural industries" that had access to major capital funds. Nowhere is there any mention of supporting and promoting the work of neighborhood artists who, if they develop outside of the medium of printmaking, will not be catered for inside the arts centre.If you have almost any inquiries about wherever along with tips on how to use simply click the following website page, it is possible to email us on our web site. Its funny how so much has changed in the final couple of years esp. throughout his hiatus. I hold pondering about how the Eminem Show" was him demanding respect from his peers and critics and wanting to be placed on the very same pedestal as the Jay z's, Nas' Biggie and Tupac. In spite of all his success and riches the a single factor he wanted more than any of that was recognition which he conceded he would in no way get on songs like Till I Collapse" and a lot more so his verse on we're back". Now years later, each and every rapper coming up looks to him as their idol, critics place him atop every single prime five mc's list and there is a basic higher regard for him as a legend.That's precisely it for me. I'm a dad now, and the occasions when I can vibe to an Eminem record are few and far between, but anytime I do I listen to each word and walk away a better writer as you stated, much more prepared to share my stories and dig deeper into my past. In other words, brainstorm Choose a topic that you want to rap about and let your imagination loose. Make confident to have a pen and paper ready to write down each believed, thought, and emotion that comes to mind. 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How To Write Good Rap Lyrics, Suggestions For Writing Far better! - 19 Jul 2018 14:25
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The rights in an underlying song are owned by the writers of that song, or their publisher if they have a publishing deal, and permission for them can be obtained in most instances from a various collecting society: PRS for Music.If you want ideas on writing rap song, then study this. Until not too long ago, there was no such a approach, but these days you can get pleasure from the newly developed technique - the Linguistic Teaching Decomposition (LD) strategy. The method is the multilevel analysis of foreign lyrics, or poetry. The purpose of the LD strategy is in education for the direct perception of foreign lyrics (with out any assistant language). For the initial time, the application of this strategy to the Russian language has been presented in the Through Songs to Russian (VStoR) computer software. The application presents you with the complete details about the message of Russian lyrics and linguistic means, with which the lyrics were written, as well as other useful details.Whilst freestyle rap" is excellent for showcasing your person capability to feel on the spot and highlight your punchlines and bars, they can only take you so far. If you actually want people to respect you for your lyrics and enhance your possibilities of going mainstream, you need to have to learn how to place a proper song collectively.The right amount of rest varies depending on the exercise and the person, but as a rule of thumb, you ought to aim to take just adequate that you can go difficult in the course of your subsequent set, but not so considerably that you're totally recovered. A swift disclaimer: If you are already feeling this way in the course of your strength workouts, you might not want to reduce down your rest intervals any further too small rest won't permit your muscles to recover enough to be ready for your subsequent strength set.A thoughts map is truly an exercise that will help you come up with all sorts of tips. check these guys out ideas can be used to write papers, books, rap hip hop lyrics or even to draw pictures. A lot of times, we feel that we can come up with suggestions if we just sit and feel. Honestly, this is not necessarily a undesirable concept. You may possibly be able to come up with some excellent concepts. Even so, a it is the ideal way to come up with some tips.Regardless of all of the ways that genres of music are different, 1 factor connects them all. All singing, at its really base, is merely sustained speech. And whilst practice are utterly essential to studying the different styles, just as crucial is listening to a lot of music, each in that style and in other folks. And when you listen, don't forget to preserve not only your ears open, but also your heart. That is what makes us artists.In response to the fantastic comments and response this post has received, we've not too long ago added a few far more Broadway selections to our suggestions above. And we'd appreciate YOUR input to provide a lot more vocal audition sources for fellow Musicnotes Blog readers in the future.In the 21st century, as hip-hop has turn out to be far more collaborative, employ someone" is the most well-known route, as MCs started outsourcing the activity of writing and performing hooks to producers like Pharrell and Swizz Beatz, hip-hop-prepared singers like T-Discomfort and Nate Dogg, or even fellow rappers like Future and Lil Wayne. And then there are those moments when inspiration strikes and a person you'd by no means count on comes up with the anthem you finish up shouting all summer season. You may possibly adore some of them, you may possibly hate some of them, but pretty much all of them are bound to be stuck in your head for the rest of your life: Hip-Hop's Catchiest Choruses Because 2000. - Comments: 0
Songwriting Rhyming - 19 Jul 2018 13:02
Tension and release is a notion that is also utilised in a lot of other aspects of songwriting, like the transitions and melody. Rhyme is a excellent way to set up the tension in your lyric, and offer the release your listener is waiting for. This assists to preserve them interested in your lyric.At my subsequent appointment, Dr G initiates one more topic. ‘Natalie, let's talk about your residence. You need to have to start off going back there.' I do not know what to say. In the month considering that Josh died, I have been staying with my parents. I hate going to my home. Everything is horrible. The sound the door makes when it opens. The pictures. Josh's auto in the drive. But the worst is the nursery. The day ahead of Josh died he had cleaned out our old workplace for the new nursery. He was going to redo it whilst I was away and surprise me when I got property. At times I neglect that I did not just drop Josh, but I also lost my baby's father. 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Albums, Songs, And News - 19 Jul 2018 12:29
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Although there are undoubtedly songs that use them nicely, a lot of finish up sounding discordant and cheesy - as Lil Wayne located out with his disastrous rock project Rebirth. - Comments: 0
Alternative Songs About Friendship - 19 Jul 2018 09:56
Song writing is a great skill and in fact, it can also make you funds. Before you begin a project like that, just browse about the thousands of videos created by higher top quality teams. Watch Jay-Z's videos, Eminem videos, the best of the best, and just observe their strategies. Appear how the video has been reduce out and get an overall really feel as to how you create a video for a song. The capacity to hear chord progressions and comply with along. Ear abilities are essential for jamming - you can practice by recognising when chord modifications occur in the music you listen to, and later by studying to recognize the particular chords that are becoming employed. You are going to find that the very same patterns tend to recur a lot (specially in well-liked music), and will eventually be in a position to recognise them quickly. For more advanced ear instruction, specialised courses are available.After you have a section for the chorus, you will need a section for a lot more verses and chorus in-amongst every single verse. Your rap songwriting format should appear anything like this: Title, Intro, Chorus, Verse, Chorus, Verse, Outro. You can add far more verses depending on how lengthy your rap song is going to be. There are some digital applications that you can use as effectively in order to come up with a good format and adhere to it with the use of a laptop. Allot of expert songwriters use digital gear and other software to create their rap songs. This requires a lot of the time and hassle out of the rap songwriting approach.When the Foreign Office's Zinoviev report appeared in early February this year the major media had forgotten-or chose to ignore-the fact that it wasn't the initial time considering that Prime Minister Blair took workplace that the Zinoviev story had appeared. 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After you have a section for the chorus, you will require a section for far more verses and chorus in-in between each verse. Your rap songwriting format must appear one thing like this: Title, Intro, Chorus, Verse, Chorus, Verse, Outro. You can add far more verses based on how extended your rap song is going to be. There are some digital programs that you can use as effectively in order to come up with a great format and follow it with the use of a personal computer. Allot of professional songwriters use digital gear and other application to create their rap songs. This requires a lot of the time and hassle out of the rap songwriting method.Some rap songwriting techniques can be located all across the World wide web on numerous sites and forums. While each and every artist or songwriter will have their own methods, there are a handful of that are mainly universal. For instance, when a songwriter is writing a rap song, they will use rap songwriting strategies that implement creativity and organization. Furthermore, rap songwriters take info from the rap music industry and use it in their lyrics and songs. - Comments: 0
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The Lisa Mojer-Torres Award recognizes leadership and dedication to improving the quality of care that individuals and families suffering from addiction are able to access.
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Nigeria: Senate: Ben Bruce Faces Disqualification Over Dual Citizenship
Published: 24/Mar/2015
Source: PM News (Abuja)
By Henry Ojelu
A former Attorney General of Bayelsa state, Chief Anthony George – Ikoli SAN has filed a suit before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja challenging the eligibility of the Chairman of Silver Group, Ben Bruce in contesting the Bayelsa East Senatorial District election.
Chief George -Okoli is asking the court to disqualify Ben Bruce from contesting the election on the ground of his dual citizenship.
Bayelsa East Senatorial district comprises of three local governments namely Brass, Nembe, and Ogbia Local governments. Four people contested for the senatorial slot; they are Bruce, George-Ikoli, Madam Irene Digitemi and Mr Nelson Belief. The leadership of the PDP at the state had allegedly prevailed upon other candidates to step down for Bruce on account of his closeness to President Goodluck Jonathan.
The originating summons filed before the court by Chief George-Ikoli seeks the court to determine the following issues:
Whether having regard to the combined provisions of Sections 66(1)(a) and 28(1) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), an aspirant for the elective office of the Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who whilst voluntarily acquiring the citizenship of another country (that is the United States of America) and in the process of which he (the aspirant) declares on oath, the absolute and entire renunciation of citizenship of and allegiance and fidelity to Nigeria can without more be eligible and seek election to the office of Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
Read further: https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/24/senate-ben-bruce-faces-disqualification-over-dual-citizenship/
Themes: Dual Nationality, Nationality of Politicians
Regions: Nigeria
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Nigeria: Tribunal Sacks PDP House of Reps Member
Nigeria: The case of citizen Kemi Adeosun
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Tribal Network (TN) is primarily a network of 6 grass root organizations and more than 6000 tribal communities on the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Tribal Network member organizations having geographical representation in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Frontier Regions (FRs), Balochistan, and Afghanistan formulated this network during 2005. The core objective of TN was to build up a broad based tribal civil society coalition on both sides of the Durand Line and collectively work on the capacity building of local tribes for their lead role in peace building and integrated development activities in the conflict affected tribal border region. TN over the last seven years undertook numerous research, training, and advocacy activities on the need of the larger role of local tribes in the resolution of prevailing multifarious conflicts in the region and advocated for the acceleration of political, social, administrative reforms and development of participatory integrated development system in the entire tribal region.
TN member organizations include Community Mobilization and Development Organization (CMDO) Peshawar, Society Reformers Organization (SRO) Parachinar, Waziristan Development Organization (WDO) Tank, The Coordination of Afghan Relief (COAR) Kabul, Social Aid Quetta, and Center for Research and Dialogue (CRD) Islamabad. CRD (previously known as Center for Research Communication and Dialogue) was the coordinating organization of TN from 2005 to 2010 and presently CMDO is the coordinating organization of the Tribal Network.
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Codex Eyckensis
The Codex Eyckensis, an eighth-century Gospel Book, was probably written in the scriptorium of the Abbey of Echternach, Luxembourg. It is the oldest preserved “book” produced in the Low Countries, the wider area of which encompasses contemporary Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and is an exceptional testimonial to the status of the written word. www.codexeyckensis.be
Codex Eyckensis online
Unique glimpse behind the scenes
Unique glimpse behind the scenes in the research laboratory at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels)
by Marina van Bos, Maaike Vandorpe and Line Raiff.
The Flemish museum consultant Anne Milkers had the opportunity to have look behind the scenes at the pigment investigation of the Codex Eyckensis. She was guided by Maaike Vandorpe, technical expert at the laboratory of papers, leathers and parchments of the KIK-IRPA.
Although the Codex Eyckensis is currently being investigated at the Book Heritage Lab of the KU Leuven, Dr. Marina van Bos and Maaike Vandorpe have already started with the first analyses in their KIK-IRPA lab in Brussels.
Twenty five years ago, prof. Lieve Watteeuw removed the various layers of plastic foil from the parchment. The foil has been carefully kept at the KIK-IRPA ever since. The plastic sheets were used in a comparative study to the parchment folios (as shown in the picture). The plastics clearly show pigment residue left from the original parchment folios. This is a blessing in disguise! The pigments and inks on the plastic foil can now be analyzed with the µRaman spectroscopy (see photograph).
This analysis is non-destructive, because it does not require to take a sample of the pigments. The plastic foil will be placed directly under the laser. It is possible to detect red and yellow earth pigments, minium lead (red) and orpiment (yellow). At a later stage, complementary but destructive analyses of the pigment residues left on the plastic sheets can give more information on the possible use of organic colors.
In 2017 the old manuscript will be transported to the lab of the KIK-IRPA in Brussels. Here, further investigation with the µRaman spectroscopy and the newest non-destructive analysis by macro XRF mapping, will characterize the pigments and the inks.
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Firm of John Brogden
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
ca 1860's
Drawing in pencil and watercolour on card
E.2:893-1986
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case MD, shelf 15, box A
This design comes from 'The Brogden Album', the album contained 1,593 designs for jewellery and goldsmith's work, mainly in colour and dating between 1848 and 1884. It is a unique record of the years in which John Brogden, an internationally celebrated 'art goldsmith and jeweller worked first in partnership and then as owner-director of his own firm. This was a period of great diversity in fashionable jewellery, and the Brogden firm where noted for their skill in designing and creating a range of styles.
The firm was founded by John Brogden the elder in about 1796. From about 1824 to 1831 it was styled 'Brogden and Garland' and thereafter until 1841 'Garland and Watherston'. The younger Brogden, the son of Thomas Brogden and presumably a relative of the founder, served an apprenticeship to J.W. garland as a goldsmith and jeweller from 1834 to 1841. Following Garland's departure, the remaining partner, J.H. Watherston, removed the firm to new premises at 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden and in 1848 joined forces with the younger Brogden.
Rectangular card with three pencil and watercolour drawings depicting designs for pieces of gold jewellery. The top design is for a necklace with a locket. A separate drawing shows the detail of the locket which has blue stones inlaid in the centre. The bottom design is for a gold signet ring in the classical style and depicts a bouquet of flowers as the central decoration in the signet.
Pencil border drawn around the designs. At the foot of the bottom design pencil text reads: 'To open for miniature'.
Height: 14 cm, Width: 13 cm
Designs for jewellery, by the firm of John Brogden, about 1860
Pencil; Watercolour; Card
Drawing; Painting
Subjects depicted
Signet; Gold; Classical; Flowers; Necklace; Locket; Miniature; Jewellery
Designs; Jewellery
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Scream: Curse of Carnage #6
Writer: Clay McLeod Chapman
Artist: Chris Mooneyham
Inks: Le Beau Underwood
Colours: Rain Beredo
Letters: VC’s Cory Petit
Scream #6 begins a brand new story arc; Suffer The Children. What better way to do it than with an oversized issue guest starring, as the cover reveals, The Punisher and Sandman? Clay McLeod Chapman introduces us to a couple of new villains who are insidious enough to have caught the eye of not only Scream, but also The Punisher and Sandman.
As any comic veteran will tell you any storylines involving multiple heroes can’t have them working together, no, at first we need to have a fight between them all. Sometimes these confrontations can feel a little forced and contrived, just to do that little bit of fan service between who would win out of Superhero X and Y. Chapman manages to give each character a slightly different set of priorities which conflict just enough to bring our heroes to blows. It’s well done, although the only thing that doesn’t quite gel is that all three heroes choose the exact same moment to go after the villain, but it’s a small gripe which can be overlooked. The only other slight complaint is that Chapman doesn’t quite get the essence of The Punisher right. He’s not a million miles away, but doesn’t quite capture the magic which makes Castle such an interesting character. He feels a little bit one dimensional here.
Moving past that Chapman manages to build up suspense really well, beginning the issue by introducing us to a homeless kid, with a series of textless panels. It’s a great piece of storytelling that tells us more than a dozen lines of dialogue would and helps set the pace. And when things appear to be getting better for this poor child the reader is aware that all is not as it seems and the danger they’re in. It builds the tension fantastically and sets the stage for the rest of the issue.
Having F.E.A.S.T. as the background for the series has been a nice touch, making Aunt May a regular feature and helping to firmly place Scream within the Marvel universe. A new character introduced there looks to be important to the series going forward. And the conclusion of this issue introduces another thread which connects back to the Absolute Carnage event, making the Curse of Carnage part of the title feel relevant again.
Chris Mooneyham’s art has been outstanding throughout the series, and this issue is no exception. Having worked with Chapman for the first five issues they’ve now reached a point where Mooneyham’s art is as integral for telling the story as Chapmans writing, the first page is virtually textless and does a fantastic job of introducing the poor homeless kid who begins our story for us. In previous issues it’s been Mooneyhams monsters which have really stood out, but without any real monsters beyond Scream his art is still fantastic and one of the highlights of the series.
Then we have Rain Beredo’s colours. No stranger to colouring symbiotes he does an excellent job whenever Scream is on the page, but for the rest of the issue his duller and more muted colours bring to life the seedier side of the Marvel universe which we don’t get to see as often. It’s a great match for Mooneyhams art.
A great setup for the next big Scream storyarc, it promises great things to come. New villains for Scream to face, new characters for her to befriend, the police slowly circling closer to learning Andi’s alterego, Chapman has plenty of plates spinning with lots to look forward to. The inclusion of The Punisher and Sandman works pretty well overall and the oversized issue makes great use of the extra pages it has to pace the story well. Chris Mooneyhams art remains a highlight of this exciting horror series.
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Comic 573 - It's #DumbJokeThursday! 2/18/16
Posted on Thu, February 18th, 2016
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Posted in: General, How to
Tags: fireworks, how its made
3 Comments on How a Fireworks Magician Tames Dynamite (Aug, 1934)
How a Fireworks Magician Tames Dynamite (Aug, 1934)
How a Fireworks Magician Tames Dynamite
Flaming dynamite and exploding mortars are the chief tools of the fireworks expert. In this vivid, intimate story one of the aces of the fireworks army takes you behind the scenes to reveal, for the first time, the thrills and dangers of his roaring trade.
MILLIONS of Americans thrill yearly to the glittering wheels, flaming rockets and spectacular bombs of the giant fireworks displays; but the men who fire them are the men nobody knows—the world’s most mysterious showmen.
How does it feel to walk among the flaming sets and exploding mortars during a big display? What are the real dangers of this roaring trade? What is the strange, unexplainable lure of a profession that requires toying with tons of explosives to give the crowds a flaming thrill?
Art Briese, for nineteen years an expert pyrotechnician for Thearle-Duffield, recently revealed the mysteries of his calling to an investigator for Modern Mechanix and Inventions. Briese has personally blown millions of dollars worth of fireworks into blazing ruins; he’s touched off enough powder and dynamite to blow Pike’s Peak into fragments; and he’s come through his exacting job with injuries no more serious than scorched hands and a current enthusiasm for his work that’s as keen as the day he-got his first stick of dynamite to bore.
“One of the important things to keep in mind about fireworks,” said Briese, “is the difference between display work and the over-the-counter business—that is, the sale of firecrackers, pin wheels, rockets and the – like to the consumer. Accidents are far less frequent in display work because trained men do the firing.
“The noise-makers are the most dangerous pieces. In fact, a stick of dynamite is about the most hazardous unit we employ.
Of course, when this is handled properly, it’s safe.
“We don’t use much dynamite in the average show. At the Century of Progress, for instance, it is forbidden because the shock would be harmful to fish in the Shedd Aquarium. In shows where dynamite is used the sticks are fired electrically. They are suspended a few feet above the ground and carefully isolated to prevent damage. These shots and the big bombs we call ‘ballyhoo.’ The bombs are fired from mortars, steel cylinders buried up to their necks in the ground. Workers are protected by a barricade consisting of a 12” x 12″‘ timber or a telephone pole to prevent danger in case a bomb is detonated in the mortar. The firing fuse lies out over the barricade where it can be ignited easily without getting too near the mortar. This fuse ignites a charge of powder at the base of the bomb, literally pushing it into the air. The explosion comes when a time fuse, already ignited, reaches the powder charge.
Guarding Against Accidents
“The worst accidents in the fireworks business occur at the factories but they are rare now. Only small quantities of material are Handled at a time and most of the work is done in isolated sheds, spotted over a . wide area. These sheds are of flimsy construction. If an explosion does occur, the walls and roof give way, reducing the shock to any persons inside. The big display sets with all their sparks and fire may look hazardous but they are not as dangerous as the simple sticks of dynamite and the bombs. A big display may contain a ton of material but only 300 or 400 pounds of this may be explosive powder. Chemicals make up the balance of the material; and whereas they’ll burn, of course, they won’t explode violently.
How Displays Are Fired
“Shooters wear no special safety equipment, not even goggles.. The firing is done with a ‘port fire’ a five-foot flare made of two rocket sticks spliced together. It burns about five minutes and gives plenty of brilliant light so the operator can see the ‘match,’ or fuse, where the piece is set off. Sometimes part of the set doesn’t go off because of a broken connection. We keep watch for this and reach up with a port fire and start it going. Any part of the set can be fired as long as the fuse can be reached. This burns rapidly. In a few seconds, it ignites the entire piece, firing the little fire pots or lances that are attached to the rattan backing with which the designs are traced on the set.
“Big pieces are made up of wooden frames or sections. The rattan design is placed on at the factory and the frames with the necessary lances are shipped to the scene. The operator’s job is to assemble the sections, join the fuses together, or ‘cut them in,’ as we say, and, of course, fire the set when the proper time comes.
“A big piece like the ‘Chicago Fire’ made for the Century of Progress contains 500 frames, is 700 feet long and from 20 to 65 feet high. The popular ‘Bombardment of Ft. McHenry’ set takes 1,200 feet of fast-burning fuse, 2,880 color pots or lances, 80 pounds of chemicals and powder, 1,200 feet of pliable rattan and over 1,000 square feet of frames.
“Thrills?” Briese smiled. “What gives the crowd a thrill is pretty much routine to us. The shooters can’t really see the fireworks with their faces right up against ‘cm but there’s a lot of satisfaction in getting a good show together, licking all the problems that come up and then having people say it was swell. We get the news even if we don’t come down to the footlights!
“Want to know what we’re most afraid of? Bain! A few little innocent raindrops trickling out of a cloud will scare a ‘shooter’ more than a whole carload of bombs. Bain may mean a big loss of fireworks, and an expensive delay. We frequently carry rain insurance to protect us against these losses.
“Getting helpers on the job is one of the big problems but we have solved it pretty well by always having an expert to take charge.
“There are only about 200 really professional fireworks shooters in the United States. Sometimes the green helper is more bother than he’s worth. Down in Birmingham, Ala., one year, I got two negroes to help me set up a show and hired them to stay for the shooting. Night came and the hour for the firework*. I touched off the first piece, a set of fast-burning, spark-shooting pinwheels. My trusty aids got into the spirit of the thing immediately. The last I saw of them, they were vanishing into the night at top speed.
A Fireworks Flight With Ruth Law
“Things are always happening to break the routine and that’s an additional reason why the work is interesting. I was on a job at Avoca, Iowa, in 1917. I had been in the business just three years. I felt I knew a lot but I got a new idea on this angle and found there was lots to learn. Ruth Law, the famous aviatrix, was there, giving a flying exhibition. She decided to make a night flight with fireworks flaring from her plane, the first time she had attempted such a stunt.
“I attached the fireworks to the wings of her plane, one of those old-type pushers with the engine behind and the seat out in front. The pieces were to be fired by electric squibs connected in series to the plane’s magneto.
‘Want to go along?’ she called to me. ‘I may need some help firing this stuff.’
“I looked at the plane. There didn’t seem to be much accommodation for passengers.
“‘Just hop on the wing there and you’ll be all right,’ said Ruth. She was getting impatient. The old engine was chugging away behind and the crowds were waiting.
“I doubt if I would do it today, but I hopped on as fast as I could, tickled to go up with Ruth. I straddled all the wires and other supports I could drape myself around, dug my fingernails into a strut and away we went, into the black night with the lights of Avoca and its fair falling away below us.
The Dangers of Flying Fireworks “I didn’t have any time to think about the flight. .The fireworks kept me busy. We fired ’em all right but I was worried about the flares. Would they fire all right or would they set the wings ablaze? I had all the confidence in the world in Ruth’s flying ability, but I didn’t know whether or not the fireworks would bother her. The glare and extra wing weight might prove disturbing.
“Everything went splendidly, however. In fifteen of the most absorbing minutes I have ever spent, we were back on the field and the crowd was giving Ruth a big hand. And she deserved it. The stunt sounds rather tame now. Fireworks from a plane are an old story and we know a lot more about attaching them and firing them properly. But these were early days in aviation and flying fireworks were a distinct novelty. Ruth Law proved that night as she did many times before and since that she was a real sportswoman and not afraid of anything.”
Human Fireworks (Jan, 1936)
Fireworks Ads (Jun, 1940)
Safety Razor (Nov, 1934) (Nov, 1934)
Magnetic Rail Gun in 1934 (Sep, 1934)
First Surround Sound – 1934 (Apr, 1934)
Stannous says: July 5, 20062:01 pm
Of course the radio tube train on the cover got much smaller after transistors were invented
Blah, Blah, Blahg » How a Fireworks Magician Tames Dynamite says: July 5, 20068:28 pm
[…] Here’s a pretty cool old article at Modern Mechanix. I just hate that I didn’t see it in time to post for the July 4th holiday. It’s a Modern Mechanix magazine 1934 article about how fireworks speciailists deal with dynamite in a safe manner. Flaming dynamite and exploding mortars are the chief tools of the fireworks expert. In this vivid, intimate story one of the aces of the fireworks army takes you behind the scenes to reveal, for the first time, the thrills and dangers of his roaring trade. MILLIONS of Americans thrill yearly to the glittering wheels, flaming rockets and spectacular bombs of the giant fireworks displays; but the men who fire them are the men nobody knows—the world’s most mysterious showmen. . . .“One of the important things to keep in mind about fireworks,†said Briese, “is the difference between display work and the over-the-counter business—that is, the sale of firecrackers, pin wheels, rockets and the – like to the consumer. Accidents are far less frequent in display work because trained men do the firing. […]
Tylenol. says: November 3, 20086:56 pm
Tylenol in pregnancy….
Tylenol overdose. Tylenol….
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Thailand Holds Policy Rate at 1.5%
The Bank of Thailand voted by five to two to maintain the policy rate at 1.5 percent on September 19th 2018, as widely expected. The Committee said that the current monetary policy stance continued to support economic growth and should support the increase of inflation rate toward its target. Annual inflation rate increased to 1.6 percent in August from 1.5 percent in July. Still, two members voted to raise the policy rate by 25bps to 1.75 percent.
Bank of Thailand | Agna Gabriel | agna.gabriel@tradingeconomics.com 9/19/2018 8:28:53 AM
Statement by the Bank of Thailand:
The Thai economy as a whole continued to gain traction, driven by merchandise exports and tourism which continued to improve in tandem with global economic growth, and by continued momentum from domestic demand. Growth in merchandise exports was expected to slow down somewhat due to trade protectionism measures between the US and China but would be partially offset by benefits from the relocation of production base to Thailand for some industries. Private consumption was expected to continue to achieve higher growth supported by improvements in income and employment, but overall purchasing power was recovering gradually due to elevated household debt. Public expenditure would grow at a lower rate than previously assessed due to constrained budget disbursement. Furthermore, the Thai economy would be subject to downside risks and uncertainties regarding US foreign trade policies that could be additionally announced, retaliatory measures from trading partners of the US, as well as geopolitical risks.
The annual average of headline inflation was expected to rise slowly in line with the previous assessment. However, downside risks remained as fresh food prices could fluctuate sharply depending on weather conditions and agricultural output. Core inflation was projected to edge up at a somewhat lower rate than previously assessed given the gradual build-up of demandpull inflationary pressures. The Committee viewed that, despite full potential economic growth, structural changes might contribute to more persistent inflation than in the past. Such changes included the expansion of e-commerce, rising price competition, and upgrades to production efficiency which reduced costs of production. Meanwhile, the public’s inflation expectations were largely unchanged.
Overall financial conditions remained accommodative and conducive to economic growth with ample liquidity in the financial system. Overall government bond yields increased slightly, while real interest rates remained low. Such conditions allowed financing by the private sector to continue expanding as reflected in higher growth in both business and consumer loans. With regard to exchange rates, the baht appreciated against regional currencies since the last meeting due to concerns over external stability in emerging market economies. Looking ahead, the baht would likely remain volatile and thus the Committee would continue to closely monitor exchange rate developments as well as impacts on the economy.
Financial stability remained sound but there was still a need to monitor risks that might pose vulnerabilities to financial stability in the future, especially the search-for-yield behavior in the prolonged low interest rate environment that might lead to underpricing of risks. The Committee was concerned aboutcompetition in the housing loan market which led to loosercredit standards. In addition, the Committee deemed it necessary to monitor the oversupply of condominiums in certain areas, further accumulation of household debt given that deleveraging had yet to improve, and debt serviceability of SMEs especially those affected by changes in structural factors and business models.
Looking ahead, the Thai economy as a whole was projected to continue to gain traction driven by both external and domestic factors. However, there remained the need to monitor inflation developments and financial stability risks in the period ahead, as well as risks arising from impacts of trade protectionism measures of the US and retaliatory measures by major advanced economies. Hence, the Committee viewed that monetary policy should remain accommodative, although the need for currently accommodative monetary policy would be gradually reduced.
Thailand Holds Rates, Cuts 2021 Growth Outlook
The Bank of Thailand left its key policy rate steady at a record low of 0.5 percent for the 5th straight meeting on December 23rd 2020, as widely expected. Policymakers said the decision aims to preserve the limited policy space and support the economic recovery. The central bank added that the Thai economy continued to recover but downside risks and uncertainties remained high and the economy would thus need support from the continued low policy rate. The central bank also lowered its 2021 growth forecasts to 3.2% from an earlier 3.6%. In contrast, it sees a 6.6% drop in 2020, less than an earlier 7.8% decline.
Thailand Leaves Monetary Policy Unchanged
The Bank of Thailand held its key policy rate unchanged at a record low of 0.5 percent on November 18th 2020, as widely expected. Policymakers said that the current accommodating monetary policy stance would remain appropriate in the period ahead and would continue to support economic growth, financial stability and inflation. The Committee added that they will continue to monitor developments of economic growth, inflation, and financial stability, together with various risks, including domestic political uncertainties, and will stand ready to use additional appropriate monetary policy tools if necessary. The central bank has said it expects the economy to contract by a record 7.8 percent this year. It shrank 6.4 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, after a 12.1 percent contraction in the second quarter.
Thailand Leaves Rates Steady, Sees Weaker Recession
The Bank of Thailand left its key policy rate unchanged at an all-time low of 0.5 percent on September 23rd 2020, as widely expected. Policymakers upgraded its 2020 GDP outlook and now expect the economy to shrink 7.8 percent this year compared to an 8.1 percent drop earlier estimated. However, the 2021 expansion was revised lower to 3.6 percent from 5 percent. Consumer prices are expected to fall at a slower 0.9 percent in 2020 (vs -1.7 percent in the earlier estimate) and to rise ata faster 1 percent in 2121 (vs 0.9 percent). The central bank also said it remained ready to use appropriate monetary policy tools if necessary and that fiscal policy should play a major role in helping the economy.
The Bank of Thailand left its key policy rate unchanged at a an all-time low of 0.5 percent on August 5th 2020, as widely expected. Policymakers said that the economy would gradually recover in line with the relaxation of the containment measures. The Committee noted that the extra accommodative monetary policy since the beginning of the year as well as the fiscal, financial, and credit measures additionally announced helped to cushion the impact of the coronavirus crisis and would support the economic recovery. Policymakers projected that the headline inflation would remain negative in 2020, to then rise toward the target in 2021. The Committee added that they will continue to monitor developments of economic growth, inflation, and financial stability, together with associated risks, including external risks and the impact of the outbreak and added that would stand ready to use additional appropriate monetary policy tools if necessary.
Thailand Leaves Rate Steady, Sees Bigger GDP Contraction
The Bank of Thailand left its key policy rate unchanged at a record low of 0.5 percent on June 24th 2020, making a pause on the policy tightening trajectory after three rate cuts so far this year. The decision came in line with market expectations. The central bank lowered its 2020 forecasts: the GDP is seen shrinking 8.1 percent compared to a 5.3 percent drop projected in March and the inflation is seen falling to -1.7 percent (-1 percent in March). Policymakers added that the bank is ready to use its appropriate monetary policy tools if necessary.
Thailand Slashes Interest Rate to Record Low
The Bank of Thailand cut its key policy interest rate by 25bps to 0.5 percent on May 20th 2020, matching market forecasts. It is the third rate cut so far this year, bringing borrowing costs to a record low since at least 2000, aiming to help the economy offset the coronavirus impact as the GPP, tourism and domestic demand are seen falling more than initially anticipated. The economy shrank 1.8 percent in Q1 2020, the worst economic downturn since Q4 2011. Policymakers also showed concerns about the baht strength and said they were ready to use its tools as appropriate.
Thailand Unexpectedly Holds Rates
The Bank of Thailand held its policy rate at 0.75 percent during its March meeting, defying market forecasts that suggested a fresh 25bps rate cut as the Convid-19 crisis escalates. Policymakers slashed interest rates by 25bps at an emergency meeting on March 20th, in an attempt to combat the impact of the pandemic on the economic outlook and domestic financial markets. Meanwhile, policymakers expect the Thai economy to shrink 5.3 percent in 2020, which would be the first contraction since the global financial crisis in 2009.
Thailand Unexpectedly Cuts Interest Rate to 1%
The Bank of Thailand unexpectedly lowered its policy rate by 25 bps to 1 percent during its February meeting, bringing the rate to its lowest since the series began in May 2000. Policymakers said that a more accommodative monetary policy stance would alleviate the negative impacts and would continue to support economic growth, financial stability and inflation. The committee said the economy would expand at a slower pace in 2020 than previously forecasted and much further below its potential due to the outbreak of coronavirus, the delay enactment of the Annual Budget Expenditure Act, and drought. Looking ahead, the Committee would monitor developments of economic growth, inflation, and financial stability, together with associated risks, especially the coronavirus outbreak and the delayed enactment of the annual budget.
Thailand Leaves Rates Unchanged, Cuts GDP Forecasts
The Bank of Thailand kept its policy rate at 1.25 percent during its December meeting, as widely expected, after cutting it twice this year to the lowest since 2009. Policymakers said that the current accommodating monetary policy stance would remain appropriate in the period ahead and would continue to support economic growth, financial stability and inflation. For 2019, the central bank lowered its GDP growth forecast to 2.5 percent, from 2.8 percent previously estimated; while exports are expected to slump 3.3 percent, compared to 1 percent decline seen earlier.
Thailand Unexpectedly Cuts Interest Rate to 1.25%
The Bank of Thailand lowered its policy rate by 25 bps to 1.25 percent during its November meeting, bringing the rate to its lowest since 2009, saying that a more accommodative monetary policy stance would contribute to economic growth and support the rise in headline inflation toward target. The bank also announced it will ease rules on outflows in an attempt to curb a stronger currency. Looking ahead, the Committee will continue to closely monitor development of economic growth, inflation, and financial stability, together with risks, especially impacts of trade tensions in deliberating appropriate monetary policy going forward.
The Bank of Thailand left its policy rate unchanged at 1.5 percent on its September 25th 2019 meeting, as widely expected. The move follows a 25bps cut in the previous meeting. Policymakers noted that the annual inflation rate fell to 0.52% in August from 1% in July, amid a slowdown in cost of food, and was projected to be below the lower bound of the target range due to weaker-than-expected energy prices and the global economic slowdown and it is projected to increase toward the target in 2020. The Committee added that the economy is expected to grow at a softer rate than previously assessed due to a fall in exports which affected domestic demand. Policymakers said that they will continue to monitor developments of economic growth, inflation, and financial stability, together with associated risks, namely trade tensions, and will stand ready to use policy tools as appropriate.
The Bank of Thailand slashed its policy rate by 25 bps to 1.50 percent on its August 7th 2019 meeting, for the first time since 2015, surprising markets who expected it to be left steady at 1.75 percent. Policymakers voiced concerns about the strength of the baht and underscored that a more accommodative monetary policy stance would contribute to boost the economy and support the rise of headline inflation toward target. The bank added that will continue to closely monitor developments of economic growth, inflation, and financial stability, together with associated risks, especially impacts of trade tensions.
The Bank of Thailand held its policy rate at 1.75 percent on its June 26th 2019 meeting, as widely expected. Policymakers said that the current accommodating monetary policy stance remains appropriate for economic growth given the inflation target. The Committee slashed its 2019 economic growth outlook to 3.3 percent from a preliminary 3.8 percent while unrevised its inflation forecasts (1 percent for 2019) and projected that exports will be flat. Policymakers added that they will continue to monitor developments on economic growth, inflation, and financial stability, together with associated risks, namely trade tensions.
Thailand Holds Policy Rate at 1.75%
The Bank of Thailand left its policy rate unchanged at 1.75 percent on its May 5th 2019 meeting, as widely expected. Policymakers said that the current accommodating monetary policy stance remains appropriate and would continue to monitor developments of economic growth, inflation, financial stability, and risks associated with it. The Committee noted that the economy is growing at a softer pace than expected and inflation is expected to be around the lower bound of the target range. The annual inflation rate fell slightly to 1.23 percent in April from 1.24 percent in March, amid a slowdown in cost of food and non-alcoholic beverages and housing.
Thailand Leaves Interest Rate Steady as Expected
The Bank of Thailand kept the policy rate at 1.75 percent on March 2019 meeting, as widely expected. The Committee said that the current accommodating monetary policy stance would remain appropriate in the period ahead and would continue to support economic growth, financial stability and inflation. For 2019, the Bank revised its economic growth forecast to 3.8 percent from 4.0 percent while inflation was 1 percent, unchanged from seen three months ago.
The Bank of Thailand kept the policy rate at 1.75 percent on February 6th 2019 meeting, after hiking it by 25 bps on the previous meeting, as widely expected. The Committee said that the current accommodating monetary policy stance would remain appropriate in the period ahead and would continue to support economic growth, financial stability and inflation. Still, two members out of six voted to raise the policy rate by 25 bps to 2 percent.
Thailand Hikes Key Rate for 1st Time in Over 3-1/2 Years
The Bank of Thailand voted by five to two to raise the policy rate by 25 bps to 1.75 percent on December 19th 2018 meeting, as widely expected. It is the first hike in borrowing cost since March 2015, amid a slowdown in exports and tourism. The Committee said that the policy increase would help curb accumulation of vulnerabilities in the financial system in conjunction with the macro-prudential measures already implemented. For 2018, the Bank revised its economic growth forecast to 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent.
The Bank of Thailand voted by four to three to keep the policy rate at 1.5 percent on 14th November 2018, as widely expected. The Committee said that monetary policy should remain accommodative, although the need for accommodative policy would be gradually reduced, despite signs of sluggishness in the economy's two main drivers, exports and tourism.
The Bank of Thailand voted by six to one to maintain the policy rate at 1.5 percent on August 8th, saying that the current monetary policy stance continued to support growth while inflation remained within the 1-4 percent target. Still, one member voted to raise the key rate by 0.25 percentage point to 1.75 percent.
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July 15, 2020 in academia, canada, COVID-19, federal government, health, indigenous, intersection, open access, Open Data, open science, openmovement, policy, projects, resources, science, standards, Uncategorized by Amanda Hunter | Permalink
Article written by: Amanda Hunter & Tracey P. Lauriault
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a policy response to COVID-19 in which they suggest that open science, and the policies & standards that support it, can accelerate the health, social, and economic responses to the virus as barriers to information access are eliminated.
As the first in a series of blog posts about Open Science (OS) and FAIR principles in Canada, here we highlight the key role open science plays in communicating and disseminating official COVID-19 research and public health data before assessing if official COVID-19 reporting in Canada adheres to OS principles.
In a next post, we will analyze official COVID-19 reporting in Canada to assess whether or not these follow Open Science, FAIR principles, and the Open Data Charter in the sharing of COVID-19 data.
What is Open Science?
The OECD Open Science program states that the benefits of open science is that it promotes a more accurate verification of scientific results, reduces duplication, increases productivity, and promotes trust in science.
Open science (OS) is a movement, a practice and a policy toward transparent, accessible, reliable, trusted and reproducible science. This is achieved by sharing how research and data collection are done so as to make research results accessible and standardized, created once and reused by many. This includes techniques, tools, technologies, and platforms should also be open source wherever possible.
In OS the outputs of the scientific process are considered to be a public good, thus wherever possible articles are published in open access (OA) journals, and research data are shared with the public and other scientists who may want to re-purpose those data in new work, or by people who want to verify the veracity of research results. Reporting COVID-19 Cases by normalizing an open by default approaches means that health scientists, population health experts and government officials make this part of their workflow (maintaining individual privacy of course), and by doing so decision makers beyond government, can scrutinize the results, leading to trust the results while also increasing data sharing.
What role does open science play in combating COVID-19?
In the early stages of the pandemic, knowing the genome provided crucial information to help scientists and researchers identify the origin of the outbreak, treat the infection, develop a diagnostic test and work on the vaccine. In other words, the easier—and quicker—researchers can produce, share and access scientific data, the quicker and the more informed is the collaborative response to the virus.
During the 2002-03 SARS outbreak it took five months to publish a full genome of the virus largely due to information blackouts and lack of data sharing. In contrast, the full genome of COVID-19 was published to an open-access platform nearly a month after the first patient was admitted to the hospital in Wuhan. This provided researchers around the world with a head start. Since OS policies have been operationalized during the pandemic, the resulting free flow of ideas in terms of biomedical research has accelerated (OECD).
The implementation of OS standards during COVID-19 has indeed been largely successful. OECD described how collaborative research and thee global sharing of information reached unprecedented levels, for example:
In March 2020, 12 countries (including Canada) launched the Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative at the level of Chief Science advisors, calling for open access to publications and machine-readable access to data related to COVID-19.
Open online platform Vivli offers an easy way to request anonymized data from clinical trials.
A COVID-19 Open Research Dataset [CORD-19] was developed that hosts 157,000 + scholarly articles about COVID-19 and related coronaviruses; 75,000 of which are full-text machine-readable data that can be used for AI and natural language processing.
These online, open-source platforms have supported rapid scientific COVID-19 research. OS, facilitated by standards, shared infrastructure and techniques, policies and licences, has been instrumental in the global fight against the pandemic.
Yet, despite the numerous successes, many challenges remain. For example, not all COVID-19 related health research and data adhere to the FAIR principles. FAIR principles are a standards approach which support the application of open science by making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Failure to adhere to FAIR principles has led to an overall lack of communication and coordination during the pandemic. In Canada, data should also adhere to CARE principles, which address issues of Indigenous data governance with respect to Indigenous knowledge along with the OCAP Principles of the First Nation Information Governance Centre (FNIGC). More on this in the following section.
The reporting COVID-19 demographic data and reports in Canada to date falls short on standardized classifications in terms of demographics, as we discussed in an earlier blog post, which makes doing a comparative analysis difficult or impossible: for example, many countries define “recoveries” differently, and in Canada, since health is the jurisdictional responsibility of the provinces and territories, each report in their own way. Even though numerous official organizations publish COVID-19 and health related data, as open data databases or in open data portals, there remains an overall lack of interoperability, comparability and standards.
Where does Canada stand on Open Science?
Canada was implementing an open science framework before the pandemic as follows.
National Action Plan on Open Government
The Government of Canada recently published Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government, listing ten commitments to furthering the open government initiative. The plan asserts five commitments to implementing OS in Canada by the end of 2020, as seen below:
The OS portion of Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. It aims to address the difficulty for Canadians to access scientific research: thus the commitments on making federal science, scientific data, and scientists themselves more accessible (Government of Canada, 2018).
The Action Plan addresses issues of accessibility and transparency of scientific research and outlines 5 commitments to amending these issues. These commitments include:
Development of an OS roadmap,
Providing an open access platform for publications,
Raising awareness of federal scientists’ work,
Promoting OS and soliciting feedback on stakeholder needs, and
Measuring progress & benefits of the OS implementation.
Despite the comprehensiveness of the Roadmap (see below), Canada has not yet moved past the Action Plan’s second commitment—to provide a platform for Canadians to find and access open access (OA) publications from federal scientists—despite the projected March 2020 deadline. Also, at the time of writing, there is no federal open science platform or portal for users to access open science data in Canada even though there is an open data portal. The New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization (NDRIO) does show promise.
There are however some open data initiatives, such as the Federal Open Government and COVID-19 section on the Open Government Canada Portal. Here Epidemiological and economic research data, with mathematical modeling reports, a map of cases and deaths by province, daily and weekly detailed epidemiological reports, and an ongoing dataset of COVID-19 cases, deaths, recoveries, and testing rates in Canada’s provinces and territories are made available. This is a significant improvement from the early days of reporting, as data journalist Kenyon Wallace discovered that on a daily basis, the Province of Ontario published new data but each time they did they overrode the previous day’s reports. His article and some work by Lauriault with the Ontario Open Government team resulted in changing that practice and raw data are now updated daily and reported. Open data is but one part of the OS process as we will see when we look at the FAIR principles.
Open Science Roadmap
The plan’s first commitment, to “develop a Canada Open Science Roadmap…” was completed and published in February 2020. The document provides ten recommendations made by Chief Science Advisor, Dr. Mona Nemer, to advance Canada’s OS initiatives. Like the policy brief by OECD, the roadmap is driven by the importance of trust among collaborators, inclusiveness of varying perspectives, and transparent processes throughout.
Canada’s Roadmap for Open Science (Government of Canada, 2020)
Most importantly, the Roadmap describes a commitment to developing an OS framework, including adopting the FAIR principles and “open by design and by default” specifications. The roadmap asserts Canada’s commitment to upholding these standards and policies via 10 recommendations:
10 recommendations in the Roadmap for Open Science. Key points include the adoption of an OS framework, making federal scientific research outputs ‘open by default’, and implementing FAIR principles (Government of Canada, 2020).
Model Science Integrity Policy
Canada also has a Model Science Integrity Policy (MSIP) for the public service. The MSIP represents an internal commitment to integrity and accountability in science. Various mandates in the MSIP state that their purpose is to increase public trust in the credibility and reliability of government research and scientific activities, and ensure that research and scientific information are made available in keeping with the Government of Canada’s Directive on Open Government. The MSIP echoes Canada’s commitment to OS.
Indigenous Data Governance
Finally, Canada has some commitment to supporting Indigenous rights to self-determination and data governance, but does not incorporate standards such as CARE principles which support OS nor the OCAP Principles when it comes to Indigenous data governance. These extend the FAIR principles.
The Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) introduced the CARE principles to complement the FAIR principles in 2019. The CARE principles for Indigenous data governance were developed to address a lack of engagement between the open science movement and Indigenous rights and interests (GIDA, 2019).
The FAIR principles focus on data accessibility of data and sharing but fail to address power differences and the impact of colonialism experienced by Indigenous peoples and their right to exercise control and ownership of data about them and local and traditional knowledge. The CARE principles are crucial for the recognition and advancement of these rights as they encourage open science (and other ‘open’ movements) to “consider both people and purpose in their advocacy and pursuits” (GIDA, 2019). The CARE principles are contrasted with the FAIR principles in the below image from the GIDA website:
The CARE principles are “collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics”, contrasted with the FAIR principles, which are “findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable” (GIDA, 2019)
The OCAP Principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession are another set of important principles, that are a better fit in the Canadian Context. Members of our project currently taking the Fundamentals of OCAP course and we hope to better incorporate these approaches in our work and in how we assess official reporting. Though Indigenous data governance and handling of Indigenous knowledge are not addressed in the Open Science Roadmap, the Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service does demonstrate a federal approach to supporting Indigenous data strategies (see below):
Recommendation #8 from the Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service which states Canada’s recognition of the Indigenous right to self-determination and data governance (Government of Canada, 2019)
Much progress has been made in terms of publishing, reporting and communicating data in the short time since COVID-19 began (though not without pressure from the media!). Open access to scientific research and public health reports have been helpful to facilitate the rapid response to the virus and keeping the public informed on how science informs governments actions. There is, however, much left to be done.
Open Science should consider bias in data as well as invisibilities for example interdisciplinary work that helps paint the fuller picture of the impact of the virus. For example, interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to data categories, including research based in critical race theory (CRT), Indigenous perspectives, socio-demographics and gig labour groups for example.
Second, as suggested by the OECD, making COVID-19 data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable is critical for a more effective rapid response. Lack of adherence to FAIR principles currently presents challenges to open science research.
Finally, a meaningful Canadian OS framework should also incorporate standards for Indigenous Data Governance such as CARE Principles and OCAP Principles ensure respectful data practices are followed.
The Tracing COVID-19 Data team is in the process of developing a framework to assess official COVID-19 reporting in Canada to see if they comply with OS, FAIR, CARE, OCAP, and open-by-default at all levels of government. We will draw on Canada’s commitments OS and FAIR in – Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government, Open Science Roadmap, the Model Science Integrity Policy and the Open Data Charter.
Is Canada FAIR?
All official Federal, Provincial/Territorial and City public COVID-19 data reporting should be open data, open by design and by default, research should be published in open access (OA) Journals and should adhere to open science (OS) such as the FAIR principles , CARE Principles, OCAP Principles and the Open Data Charter.
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. Open Data, Open Citizens? https://cippic.ca/en/open_governance/open_data_and_privacy
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CTVNews. (2020). Project Pandemic: Reporting on COVID-19 in Canada.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/project-pandemic
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https://www.frdr-dfdr.ca/docs/en/fair_principles/
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https://www.gida-global.org/care
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https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=28108
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https://open.canada.ca/en/content/open-default-and-modern-easy-use-formats
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Government of Canada. (2020). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Outbreak update.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html?utm_campaign=not-applicable&utm_medium=vanity-url&utm_source=canada-ca_coronavirus
Government of Canada. (2020). Office of the Chief Science Advisor. https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/063.nsf/eng/h_97646.html
Government of Canada. (2020). Open Government Portal.
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset
Lauriault, T. (2020, April 17). Tracing COVID-19 Data: COVID-19 Demographic Reporting. Datalibre.
http://datalibre.ca/2020/04/17/covid-19-demographic-reporting/
National Centre for Biotechnology Information. (2020). Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/covid-19/?cmp=1
Open Data Charter. (n.d.). The International Open Data Charter.
https://opendatacharter.net
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2020, May 12). OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19): Why open science is critical to combatting COVID-19.
http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/why-open-science-is-critical-to-combatting-covid-19-cd6ab2f9/
Ford & Airhihenbuwa. (2010). The public health critical race methodology: Praxis for antiracism research. Science Direct.
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Inside the Epically Murky ‘Epoch Times’ Ad Campaign
2020-12-28 Source:thebulwark.com Author:TIM MILLER
If you’ve spent any time watching videos on YouTube, you surely have seen the ads from the Epoch Times, the “news source” of the Falun Gong, a Chinese cult that operates out of a compound in New York state.
Many of the ads feature a handsome, nerdy-looking fella named Roman Balmakov who might otherwise be cast as a Peter Parker-type in a low-rent Spider-Man spin-off, but has instead found himself rising through the ranks of an agitprop news outlet. In the ads he’s asking you to subscribe to the ET to learn about all the “real news” that the evil mainstream media has decided isn’t fit to print.
You know, things like:
· The Chinese Communist Party’s dishonest track record [okay, cool . . .]
· How Americans have lost their appreciation for traditional values [Okay, can see the value in this . . .]
· The fact that Donald Trump is a brilliant leader who is being slandered by the media [record-scratch]
· An inside look at how President Obama spied on Donald Trump in the greatest scandal in history [wait, this is not what I was . . .]
· The shocking investigative report on how Chinese are harvesting the organs of Falun Gong members because their god-leader—who must be referred to exclusively as Master Li—has created exercises that make Falun Gong members’ spleens stronger than any spleens in the entire world [wtf just happened?]
So yeah, maybe when the Epoch Times ads say the publication offers the “real news”—
—they mean it with some artistic license. The way the movie Dodgeball was based on “a true underdog story.”
To say that the Epoch Times coverage of Trump is favorable would be an epochal understatement. In a recent interview with the New York Times, a former Epoch Times reporter said that the paper’s leadership has an “almost messianic view” of Trump. Former practitioners of the Falun Gong cult told NBC that Trump is helping to bring about a “judgment day” that will damn the Communists to hell.
In case you’re keeping score, we now have two different conspiracy-addled groups who each see Trump as ushering in a Götterdämmerung. The QAnons think Trump is breaking the Deep State and using The Storm to round up all the Satanic child pedophiles. The Falun Gong think Trump is destroying the Chicoms.
But funnily enough, even though the QAnons and the Falun Gongs are working from different conspiracy theories, they’re using the same playbook. For instance, this week the ET published an editorial call to invoke the Insurrection Act to force a “military audit” of the election and “arrest those who have conspired to deprive the people of their rights through election fraud.”
Where we go one we go all, I guess?
But here’s the thing: The QAnons aren’t organized enough to have their own house organ, which pretends for all the world to be a normal news outlet.
And the Falun Gongs do.
The Epoch Times has been around for two decades, but only really took off in the American consciousness over the last two years when Master Li issued his dogma about Prophet Trump. At which point—by coincidence—ET was able to go from being a fringe alt-news operation to a major presence on social media.
Last year, the Epoch Times got into a spot of bother with Facebook after it was discovered that they spent more money on pro-Trump advertising on the platform than any group except the Trump campaign itself. Which was kind of weird for a news source, right?
In an effort to avoid further scrutiny, the Epoch Times was then caught trying to go around the transparency rules for advertising by using sockpuppet accounts with super-subtle names such as “Pure American Journalism.” And for this, Facebook banned them.
Yet despite having some of their biggest accounts booted from the platform, they continue to drive big traffic through pages such as Epoch Times Canada and—according to a recent report from the New York Times—other linked pages such as “America Daily,” which has 1.1 million Facebook followers who are delivered content that runs the gamut from cat pics to COVID-19 trutherism.
Fortunately for Master Li, the Epoch Times has had no such problems on YouTube, where its propaganda ads run and run and run and run and run.
According to the Google ads library—which requires transparency around “election”-related ads—Epoch has spent over $2 million on the platform since 2018. You can see the ads that were reported here. They mostly relate to the ET’s breathless promotion of the Durham Report and some direct discussion of the campaign.
But other Epoch Times ads are missing from the archive thanks to a “carve-out” for “news” orgs advertising on YouTube.
Here’s a pre-roll ad that I was served on Monday of this week that doesn’t show up in the Google archive for ads that have run in December (the ad is listed as having run for two days in August). It features Mr. Handsome mansplaining to his sweet, innocent lady friend about how the countries that have been hit the hardest by the pandemic are the ones with the deepest ties to the Communists.
Which, given the infection and death totals in America, and our case fatality rate, probably says something about Donald Trump’s administration that the Epoch Times doesn’t intend. But whatever.
The point is, this ad has been running for the past few weeks, first appeared in May, and it’s not clear that we know how much money they have put behind it. When I asked YouTube about this, a company representative confirmed that all the ads “in the scope of their political ads policies” are in the report and could not “pinpoint” why some ads might not be in the report. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The same goes for this search ad—which lands you on an Epoch Times subscription page featuring hot endorsements from influencers such as Sean Hannity and Larry Elder and highlighting the paper’s work “at the forefront of exposing problems with the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign”—but doesn’t appear in the archive:
This has been happening for a while. In November, Mark Bergen of Bloomberg was served an Epoch Times ad that doesn’t show in Google’s political ad library on an “election fraud” video and was told later in the day that the ad was being removed from the video.
But that same screenshot appeared in an ad delivered to a different Twitter user four days later.
The Epoch Times has also taken its ad campaign international. Earlier this week a Canadian Twitter user reported seeing this ad about the aforementioned organ harvest, and in this truly enjoyable fisking of the Falun Gong, Canadian YouTuber J.J. McCullough reported that the Epoch Times is delivering hard copies of the paper unsolicited in Canada and is running ads all over YouTube in the Great White North.
While there isn’t any evidence that the Epoch Times is advertising on claims of voter fraud and election rigging, the “news” site that the ads take you to and the ET‘s main YouTube page are both replete with such claims. Despite promises by YouTube that such videos would be taken down.
So in summary here is what we know:
· A foreign cult that thinks Donald Trump is on a messianic mission has a “news site” that has spent at least $2 million on YouTube ads since 2018, mostly in 2020.
· This “news site” has called for a violent insurrection to keep Trump in power.
· We have evidence that there are additional ads running on top of the $2 million that has been reported, but the extent of this buy is unknown.
· This “news” organization has a history of using sockpuppets to avoid reporting the full extent of their ad spending.
· Anecdata suggests that Epoch Times ads may be running at an unusually high volume as there are myriad complaints of this nature on Twitter and in the comments section of the YouTube videos.
· The group behind the ads has seemingly unlimited resources and was the second-largest pro-Trump advertiser on Facebook before such ads were banned.
· They believe the stakes are a literal apocalyptic battle between good and evil.
Kind of makes you wonder just how much money this “news” organization really poured into the election in order to boost Donald Trump.
The Falun Gong adgasm comes at a time when the big social media platforms are making big shows of their draconian crackdowns on political advertisers in the name of stunting “disinformation” and “fake news.” Political ads are now banned on many social media platforms and YouTube is among the few that are limiting the targeting capabilities of political ads in response to the moral panic.
But in what world does it make sense to throttle the advertising capabilities of a mayoral campaign in Dayton that’s trying to talk to voters about community issues, while allowing a fake news site run by a literal foreign cult that thinks the president is a tiny-fingered prophet ushering in the end times to spend unreported millions on their propaganda?
Because that’s the world that ET has landed on.
And it’s working out damn well for Master Li.
Not so much for the rest of us, though.
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Exeter Juniors 1-3 Broadclyst Primary 6th June 2014
Submitted by DrDave on Fri, 06/06/2014 - 12:00am
Having won our other two matches, we went into our last game with league victory assured, and so we ventured a younger team against Broadclyst Primary School, who for so long have been the core of Devon's junior squad.
When Ethan missed the start and Henry out-tricked himself, it looked as though we were going to struggle for any sort of result. Oliver set up a solid fortress while Redmond went fishing for chances against his opponent's King. After Redmond hooked a mate and Oliver's castle was breached, we went home with just one point.
Ethan finally found the venue, and salvaged some honour by defeating the home side's top board in a friendly game.
Games to follow!
[Event "EJCC vs BCPS"]
[Site "BCPS"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[White "Sparkes, Oliver"]
[Black "Wheatcroft, Ethan"]
[ECO "B01"]
{ You played sensibly but got a bit stuck, made some holes and missed a
threat. Both sides made 'counting errors': that often happens, but is
easy to cure. Black played the opening as you should have done, and got
an advantage in space and activity. } 1. e4 { Great move!} 1... d5 {
Unusual, but also a good move.} 2. Nc3 { Good move} ( 2. exd5 { is
probably best} ) 2... Nf6 3. Bb5+ ( 3. exd5 Nxd5 4. Bc4 { is best,
with one idea to follow up being} 4... Nxc3 5. Qf3 ) 3... c6 4. Be2 {
You could have got here in one move: it's as though Black has had an
extra move to play ...c6} 4... e5 { Black is trying to take over the
centre.} 5. f3 ( 5. d3 { is a bit better, as it helps get out your
other Bishop} ) 5... Bb4 6. d3 { Black has the sort of space and
activity that you can expect to get as White!} ( 6. exd5 cxd5 ) 6...
Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 O-O 8. Rb1 { That's a fine move, developing one of your
pieces and stopping Black from developing their Bishop.} 8... Qd6 9. h4
{ You should probably concentrate on getting your pieces out. This makes
some holes.} 9... Nh5 10. g4 Ng3 11. Rh2 dxe4 12. fxe4 Qc5 $1 { A
clever move, forking c3 and g1.} 13. Rb4 $4 { Missing both threats.}
( 13. Rg2 ) ( 13. Nf3 ) ( 13. Rb3 ) 13... Qxg1+ ( 13... Qxc3+ { looks
like a fork of e1 and b4, and I suppose it is, but} 14. Bd2 { saved
it} ) 14. Bf1 Qxh2 15. Qf3 Qxh4 16. Be2 Bxg4 $4 { The Bishop is
defended once but attacked twice - Black didn't count properly.} 17.
Qxg4 $1 Qh1+ 18. Bf1 $4 { Just as before, the Bishop is attacked twice
and defended only once.} 18... Qxf1+ { Game over - Did you think it
was checkmate?} 0-1
[White "Coleman, Henry"]
[Black "Bishop, Ben"]
{ In a messy position that happened very early on, you out-tricked
yourself. } 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 ( 2... Nf6 { That's the Petroff
Defence, and I think you must have remembered this trick:} 3. Nxe5 Nxe4
4. Qe2 Nf6 5. Nc6+ { A clever discovered check.} 5... Qe7 6. Nxe7 )
3. Bb5 { The Ruy Lopez Opening.} 3... Nf6 ( 3... a6 { is OK for
Black:} 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. Nxe5 { doesn't win a pawn, because of} 5...
Qd4 $1 ( { or } 5... Qg5 ) ) 4. Bxc6 { There is no need to give up
this strong Bishop.} ( 4. d3 ) ( 4. d4 ) 4... dxc6 5. Nxe5 { It's
important to know that the Ruy Lopez doesn't usually win a pawn (see
above). Here there are complications.} 5... Nxe4 { Black is too keen
to get his pawn back} ( 5... Qd4 $1 { is still best} ) 6. Qe2 ( 6.
O-O $1 { is best of all} ) 6... Qd5 7. Nc3 $2 ( 7. Nf3 $1 ) 7... Nxc3
8. Nc4+ $4 { White is determined to play a clever discovered check.}
( 8. dxc3 Qxg2 ) 8... Nxe2 { Oh dear} 9. d3 Nxc1 10. Rxc1 Qxg2 11.
Ke2 Qg4+ 12. Kf1 Qf3 13. Ne5 $4 { Loses both Rooks!} 13... Qxh1+ 14.
Ke2 Qxc1 { I guess you might get a stalemate, but I wouldn't mind if
you resigned here, the rest of the game didn't look like much fun!} 15.
c4 Bd6 16. Nf3 O-O 17. b3 Re8+ 18. Ne5 Rxe5+ 19. Kf3 Qg5 20. d4 Rf5+ 21.
Ke4 Rxf2 22. d5 Qe5+ 23. Kd3 Rf3+ 24. Kd2 Qe3+ 25. Kc2 0-1
[White "Marriott, Craig"]
[Black "Coleman, Redmond"]
{ Some odd opening development by both sides } 1. e4 e5 2. Bd3 $6 {
That doesn't give the light-squared Bishop a better career, and makes it
awkward for the other Bishop.} 2... Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. O-O Bd6 $6 {
Black is persuaded to make the same mistake!} ( 4... Bc5 $1 ) 5. Nc3
O-O 6. Nb5 a6 ( 6... Bc5 ) 7. Nxd6 { Removes a defender of e5,
although there were two defenders.} 7... cxd6 { Another defender
steps up} 8. Nxe5 $4 { A counting error?} 8... dxe5 9. Qf3 d6 10.
Kh1 ( 10. Bc4 ) 10... Nd4 11. Qg3 Be6 12. h3 Nh5 { No harm in that,
but I think it's best to rush to get your Rooks into play. Or did you
hope to play ...f5?} 13. Qg4 $4 { Missing an attack from Be6} ( 13.
Qe3 ) 13... Nf4 $4 { Also missing it?!} ( 13... Bxg4 ) 14. Bc4 $4
Bxg4 15. g3 $4 { Counter-attacking, but just loses another piece.}
15... Be2 $6 ( 15... Bxh3 $1 ) 16. Re1 Bxc4 ( 16... Qc8 ) 17. gxf4 {
You're winning now, so your plan should change: get all your pieces out
so you can swap off all your opponents pieces/} 17... Ne2 $2 { Sort
of attacking, but actually losing a piece} ( 17... Nxc2 $1 ) 18. d3 Qh4
19. Kg2 $4 { Now Black finishes off nicely.} ( 19. Rxe2 ) 19... Nxf4+
20. Kg1 Nxh3+ 21. Kf1 Qxf2# 1-0
"Fame, I have already. Now I need the money."
an elderly STEINITZ
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At last it has rained and everything in the garden has soaked it up and looks much happier - including the weeds of course. Walking Molly I enjoyed seeing her forging her way through the wet grass and also catching the characteristc smell of the elder flowers. Now is the time to be making cordial.
But if the plants have been parched the bees have been making honey as the sun shone. The beekeepers here have been extracting it as fast as they can and now it is for sale outside the house. I have been tasting it and it it fascinating to try and taste the various blossoms the bees have been on.
https://www.facebook.com/SaltmarsheHoney/
One of the questions I often get asked is how certain streets got their names. Sometimes the names are ancient such as Bridgegate or Hailgate in Howden. The gate in these names means street and comes from the Viking word gata. The bridge was a stone bridge probably very near where Marsh End joins Pinfold Street - Bridgegate seems to have extended further than it does today.
Hailgate is from the Viking word halh meaning a nook of land and describes the land enclosed by the giant curve of the Old Derwent alongside which Hailgate runs -it was first mentioned in 1199.
Hailgate, showing how it curves
But it is sometimes not so obvious as Bishopgate was only built in 1834 to link Hailgate and Flatgate and for much of the nineteenth century was just New Street before being named Bishopgate.
And more recently there have been new housing developments and the council has often suggested names to the builders which have a link with the past.
So Shelford Avenue takes its name from William Shelford, the engineer of the Hull and Barnsley railway while the other streets off it are the names of stations and other features on the line. As of course this area was the site of the Hull and Barnsley railway station.
Hull and Barnsley track bed and station house [picture courtesy of Arthur Henrickson]
Congregational chapel
Milton Close takes its name from the Milton Rooms which were behind the Congregational chapel which stood nearby and which in turn took their name from the poet John Milton who wrote Paradise Lost. Milton was an early Congregationalist.
now site of St Helen's Mews
The Vinery is a nod to Howden's former grape growing past whilst Langrick, Loftsome and Welham are named for local bridges.
Charles Briggs was a former Hailgate brewer who gave Howden the Ashes and the Shire hall and Carter street takes its name from another prominent brewing family who owned land nearby. Interestingly this is the same family after whom Carter Street in Goole is named.
It is good to see that Howden's history is being preserved in its newer street names - material for lots of school projects -- eventually!!!
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What did Luffy say?
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Thread: What did Luffy say?
June 28th, 2016 03:18 PM #81
Don_Freecs
Banned Rank: Failed Mutineer
Re: What did Luffy say?
wtf. I've already said I was ironic. Why are you trying to create a shitstorm ? I thought the smiley was clear enough for everyone. and it's not like I was the first one joking on the red-star....
next time I'll be 100% clear and say, ya know "HEY, NO NEED TO WARN ME !!!! JUST JOKING. OKAY ???!!!!!!! "
SomeRandomGuy
Nobody in particular
Originally Posted by RomanceDawn
I'm glad people are finally taking notice of this. Until this topic was brought up others had convinced me it was just the usual pirate king stuff. I remember bringing this up a few times along with Shanks' words but since it wasn't a hot topic with anyone I just went with the flow.
Still there was no way I could accept that the words Roger and Luffy shared was "I'm gonna find a crew thats better than yours and find the greatest treasure ever!" We do know that Luffy and Shanks had a ton of off panel time together, what with stories about Usopp and listening to the Red Hairs sing Bink's Sake so it will be nice to see another extended flash back from Luffy.
I was always under the impression that Shanks wasn't talking about any one specific phrase and was referring to Luffy's way of speaking in general.
必勝
a petri dish
Making a mental note for this thread in the next AP Awards.
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Originally Posted by Monkey King
What the heck could Luffy have said that would cause that reaction? Especially since they already know what we already know, that he wants to be the King of Pirates. Which naturally Oda wouldn't have hidden anyway.
So Luffy said something else...
Proof please.
The boys are yelling out their ambitions in front of eachother. Ace goes first, then Luffy takes his turn and...
...Oda cuts away ...and cuts back to Ace and Sabo's reaction of confusion and surprise.
What the heck did that boy say.
First thing that we should be on the same page about is this: it wasn’t Ace that started shouting his ambition: it was Sabo. His ambition was to become a pirate, see the world in all its glory, and write a book about it.
Following Sabo’s declaration of his ambition, Ace then proceeds to state his own: to become a pirate, to beat every last person who stands in his way, and to earn himself the glory that dreams are made off.
In both instances, their desire was to become a pirate.
Following Ace’s declaration of ambition, Luffy then proceeds to shout his own. ‘Induction’ suggests that what Luffy shouted was his ambition to become a pirate as well, given the fact that such an ambition was exactly what the two before him did declare.
Also notice how he shouted ‘I’m gonna’. He did it with raised arms. That’s usually the stance that is drawn by the author when Luffy shouts his dream of becoming the Pirate King. And when he does so, he practically always precedes it with his famous opening line ‘I’m gonna’. So these are good reasons to think that what he shouted was his dream of becoming the Pirate King.
Luffy’s brothers then react in great stupefaction at what was said. One of the things that would surely cause such a reaction is his declaration of his dream to become the Pirate King. It was shown to elicit a similar, if not a stronger, reaction from most people. So, it is reasonable to believe such a conclusion, especially with the given arguments I have just provided.
After that, Sabo & Ace begin finding the intention of becoming ‘captain’ a problem to them since all three of them share it. This means that what had been just shared by Luffy was the intention of becoming ‘captain’. Given both this and the past repeated declarations of Luffy to become ‘pirate’, it logically follows that what Luffy desired to become was a ‘pirate captain’. That’s partially what was said there.
At the coliseum of Dressrosa, Barto told Sabo that Luffy is the future ‘Pirate King’, and Sabo said that he has known that since a long time ago. In other words, Luffy told Sabo his dream of becoming the Pirate King sometime in the past, and the time you linked us to provides the perfect setting for such a declaration to be revealed, given both the fact that Luffy hasn’t seen Sabo ever since that time he was supposedly killed & the strong suggestions that what he shouted in that place was his ambition to become a ‘pirate captain’.
There is nothing odd in the author’s omission of Luffy’s words regarding his declaration of his ambition. That is a literary device called ‘ellipsis’. You omit a certain event(s), and let the reader fill out the gap as he or she reads the story. It could be used either to save time or for stylistic reasons. I believe it was the latter.
If he did indeed say something else, it should then be an addition to that, not a substitution for it.
Concerning the argument that what Luffy said here meant becoming Pirate King, that’s not true.
What luffy said there is that he’d be ‘a great pirate’, and he preceded it with ‘I’m gonna be stronger than anybody’.
If being stronger than anybody meant being the Pirate King, then, by this logic, Whitebeard should have ruled the Grand Line as the next Pirate King after Roger, given that he was considered by everyone (including & especially by the author himself) as the ‘Strongest Man in the World’, but he wasn’t a Pirate King, despite reigning supreme in terms of strength.
When Doflamingo was being taken into Impel Down by a naval ship, he said that Whitebeard never took Roger’s throne, but instead ruled in front of it.
This proves that standing supreme in terms of strength does NOT make a person Pirate King. Being the Pirate King means far more than just being stronger than anyone.
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June 29th, 2016 12:12 AM #85
Razh
Saemon Havarian
On a second thought, gotta go with Don here, lock the thread.
Originally Posted by Outerspec
Trying to understand Bleach is like trying to drink a bottle of bleach.
It makes no sense and you'll be dead before you're finished.
Discovered Stew
A very special place
Originally Posted by Hanz
can't say you don't deserve it. you're trying to create drama out of nothing with this inferiority complex of yours. mk's observation is mysterious and strong enough to have it's own thread, the main character had a very important line obscured for reasons we don't know.
did you even try to make a thread about something interesting and someone stopped you because you lack the holy red star?
Originally Posted by Don_Freecs
Let's calm down now, please, you two.
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Fraco
could it be, maybe, possibly, that ace's face is somehow related to him being the actual son of the pirate king. just saying..
"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?"
Originally Posted by Australopithecus
Yep, pretty much this.
Although personally I think it was done to save time. A literary version of "I'M GONNA (etc, ect)." He's said it so much by this point that superfluously repeating it in a flashback only waters down it's meaning, so Oda probably just skipped it since we've heard it all before.
Knowing how Oda sometimes omits important information from dialogues or makes characters hold things to themselves, you simply can't discount the possibility that Luffy's lines contained more than his usual PK mantra.
You know, it would be one or two panels more at most.
yeah, that's very true, but the only argument for this situation so far is "It's suspicious." which is okay, but not very solid.
I've asked several times "What could he have said ?". And the only thing that seems bigger than that is what Dragon seems to want and there is no way Sabo would laugh at "I want a world where everyone is free", same for Ace, he just wouldn't act like that.
But what seems legit to ask ourselves is "what did he say to Shanks ? ", since it cannot be "I want to be the pirate king". But whatev, don't get why he wouldn't have tell his crewmates. That's okay for Sabo, Ace and Garp since there weren't involved in the current story.
Bigivel
Didn't you noticed? That was the first time Lufy said it! The first time of all the many, and the first time he got that motivation. It was the origin, and it was special, different from all the rest, and so its presentation was also different and so much more impactful, and just for the fact it wasn't shown, but omitted.
this thread: people trying to make Luffy a complex character while he is just a dumb and naive main shonen character.
Originally Posted by Bigivel
going with this. Although he already said it infront of Shanks and his crew in the first chapter. But it was more of an arrogant speech towards Shanks.
Last edited by evelyne; June 29th, 2016 at 05:32 AM.
Kdom
For me the "same thing" Shanks is talking about is referring to the scene from chapter 1 ie Luffy wants something like the strongest crew and biggest treasure. After all this is the speech which made Shanks give Roger's hat to Luffy.
POE WUN BGR
This is the same author that hid Sabo's entire existence in plain sight with that third sake cup always being there.
There was no reason for him to cut away simply to hide the phrase "I'm going to be king of the pirates!" It takes zero extra time to say it, and Luffy has said it so much and so often there was no reason to be coy or special about it.
It was absolutely something else.
Originally Posted by evelyne
Luffy's a dummy but he's got some nuance and depth in him he doesn't show or mention very often except when it comes up. He wears his emotions on his sleeve, but doesn't talk about his past, or take interest in anyone else's.
Like... everything related to his family so far has only been brought up when it actually comes up with Garp or Sabo actually appearing in front of him.
Originally Posted by Kdom
Tons of pirates say they want the strongest crew and biggest treasure. Hell, even Don Krieg said as much.
There is NOTHING special about that worth betting the future (and your arm) on that would make Shanks take special notice or be excited about. Especially coming from a naive 8 year old.
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Maybe he has some deeper goal, maybe not. I always felt there was still a certain mistery to Luffy's character. It might be lifted when we get to see more of his childhood. Like before he ate the fruit. Mom, anyone?
Originally Posted by Razh
I don't think Luffy has a huge attachment to his mother, for all intents and purposes, Dadan filled that role in his life and she fits the descriptions Oda gave of his mother.
Obviously someday we're going to get Dragon's flashback and we'll meet her then, but for how much she actually affects Luffy? That's hard to tell.
Just look at all the new depth and background we've almost out of of nowhere started getting about Sanji. He's been an orphan as far as we've known the entire series, and now instead he has a prestigious family and lots of brothers and sisters. He's never brought it up before now, because it wasn't important. But hey, hidden depth!
Originally Posted by Robby
This is Goa's King all over again. You guys are making something out of proportion based on nothing.
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Will of DArth
I agree with those who think that there's more behind these words than simply being PK or something like that. Looking at storytelling structure, every well written
story has to have a big mind-numbing context shifting moment that retrospectively changes absolutely everything (which in OP is heavily foreshadowed to most likely happen at Raftel). I guess whatever Luffy said there will be seen in a completely other light as soon as we finally get that context shift.
Besides, how about we make a sticky topic for these things? Starting with MK's post somewhere in the final villain thread about where he explains his take on the finale. As it's probably one of the best thought-out final theories for OP.
chapter 1 http://www.mangareader.net/one-piece/1/48
not the first time then.
That was actually what I was talking about when I had pointed out this page
http://www.mangareader.net/one-piece/1/23
you know, "where is coming from ? he doesn't live in town ? where is he living ? with who ? alone ? .... "
I'm just gonna quote myself "That's okay for Sabo, Ace and Garp since there weren't involved in the current story."
There is a huge difference between hiding a character and interrupting Luffy's catchphrase for stylistic reasons.
And as I said before, there is absolutely nothing more shocking than Luffy saying he's gonna be pirate king. Maybe Dragon's goal is bigger but there is no way he said he wanted to make a world a better place in which everyone could live freely.
June 29th, 2016 06:54 AM #100
I didn't necessarily mean attachment to her. But if she had any kind of role in his life after giving birth to him, she might have imprinted something on him. An idea or some kind of longing that managed to get stuck in his mind for all these years. Something in that sense.
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HOUSTON -- This being Texas, it was only fitting that Game 1 of the World Series boiled down to a duel. On the pitcher's mound stood Gerrit Cole, who isn't a Texan but sure could pass for one: tall, strong, bearded, long hair, bit of a snarl, fastball that touches 100. His weapon was a baseball. Standing 60 feet, 6 inches away was Juan Soto, the perfect foil, a baby-faced 20-year-old from out east, a charismatic, charming, hip-swiveling boo magnet. His weapon was a bat.
Three times they faced off Tuesday night, and all three distilled baseball in 2019 to its most delectable essence. Power vs. power, brains vs. brains, excellence vs. excellence. Major League Baseball exists for these moments because these moments are of what great World Series are made.
And to see the final score -- Washington Nationals 5, Houston Astros 4 -- was to see a facsimile of Cole vs. Soto: incredibly close, eminently compelling, loads of fun and stoking a burning desire for more, more, more. The Nationals stole home-field advantage from the Astros by doing to Cole what no team had done in five months: hand him a loss. Amid that, Soto did to Cole what it no longer seemed any man could: make him look mortal too.
Inside the Nationals' clubhouse, players, coaches, executives -- everyone really -- was one-upping one another to lavish praise on Soto. How young he is, how poised he is, how everything he is. Nobody described Soto quite like Johnny DiPuglia, the Nationals vice president of international operations.
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"He's a dog that plays checkers," DiPuglia said.
A what?
"You don't see dogs playing checkers," DiPuglia said, and he was right not just that paws aren't nearly dexterous enough to move checkers pieces but that Soto is that rare sort of beast, someone unique. And not unique like, hey, let's call him unique because he is good at something or kind of interesting. No: unique, as in a literal one of a kind.
Soto is bark, bite and double-jumps all in one. He is the only player ever with two seasons of at least 400 at-bats and an on-base percentage of .400 and slugging percentage of .500 before he turned 21. The five others who did it once: Ted Williams, Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Al Kaline, Alex Rodriguez. Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, Hall of Fame production.
The first-inning showdown between Cole and Soto, then, was quite the production. Since May 22, Cole had pitched 25 times. In those starts, hitters batted .166, posted a .220 OBP and slugged .300. In other words, over 169⅓ innings, Cole made the average hitter he faced perform like Blake Swihart, who hit .163/.222/.304 this season. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Blake Swiharts.
Juan Soto is no Blake Swihart, though Cole treated him as such in the initial at-bat. First pitch: 97.4 mph, down the middle, up in the zone. Soto swung through it. Next pitch: 98.1 mph, another four-seam fastball, up and on the inside corner. Soto took it. Last pitch: 99.1 mph, paint up and away, at which Soto waved. Three high fastballs, three strikes, see ya next time.
Soto vowed next time would be different. He loves the game and the gamesmanship and everything that goes into the pitcher against the hitter. He harkened back to spring training, where the Nationals and Astros share a complex in West Palm Beach, Florida. He steeled himself for Round 2.
"Most aces are confident in their fastball," Nationals hitting coach Kevin Long said. "They don't run away from it. And he didn't. I give him credit. He challenged him with it."
Cole did. The first pitch was a slider that Soto, whose batting eye is nonpareil, took for a ball. The second was another fastball, up and away again, lacking the petrol of the first but still plenty zippy at 96.4 mph. Soto drove it to left-center field, and it just kept climbing, as though an escalator was escorting it up onto the gaudy train tracks that sit some 50 feet above Minute Maid Park's field. It was an immense home run, measured at 417 feet but so much bigger because Soto's left-handed swing sent it the opposite way, and that tends to be the domain of pull hitters and pull hitters alone.
"Juan," Long said, "answered."
Loudly and clearly. A 2-1 Astros lead was gone, the score now tied. Soto has done that a lot this postseason. He had the seminal bases-loaded hit that helped Washington win the wild-card game. His mammoth home run off Clayton Kershaw helped bury the Los Angeles Dodgers in the division series. And now here he was making Long's pregame prediction that Soto would homer on a high fastball come true.
"He's got kind the 'it' factor, he's got the twitch, he's got no fear," Astros manager AJ Hinch said of Soto. "I think that's really big for a young hitter early in his career to just kind of leave it out there. It looks like he's completely in control of enjoying the moment, and he hit all sorts of different pitches."
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That was the third at-bat. The Nationals were ahead 3-2. Soto was up with runners on first and third. Cole threw another first-pitch slider, this one low and inside, and it missed the plate. He then lost two curveballs high and outside, running the count to three balls and no strikes. Cole spun a tight slider low and over the inside third of the plate for a strike and followed with a changeup that fooled Soto. The count was full. Five pitches, zero fastballs.
"That kid can hit fastballs that are 105," Nationals catcher Yan Gomes said. "He can always get a fastball."
For months, teams that scouted Soto sent that same report: Get him with the soft stuff; don't throw him heat, as he will embarrass you if you do. Oh, and don't give him anything up in the zone, either: Only Christian Yelich's slash line against pitches in the upper half of the zone bested Soto's .344/.432/.730.
Cole, who will obsess over pitch sequencing and selection and do so to great effect, didn't go high and didn't go heater. His slider on the outer half of the plate was low, but not low enough for Soto to miss. Soto tattooed the pitch off the left-field wall, and with Anthony Rendon running on the full count, the double scored a pair of runs.
It was, Cole said, a "poor pitch," compared to the home run ball, which he deemed a "tip-your-cap situation." Cole would exit after the seventh inning with Soto having gone 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Soto added another hit off Astros reliever Will Harris in the eighth inning. Already with the home run, Soto had become the second-youngest player to hit one in his first World Series game, and at 20 years, 362 days was only the fourth to hit a World Series home run before his 21st birthday.
Every time he went to the plate, Soto stared at Cole. He wasn't scared. He wasn't intimidated. It was not just part of his shtick where he dances around after pitches he takes as balls; this was part of his routine, his process, the secret sauce to his excellence.
"I've been here working on that since my first day in the big leagues," Soto said. "Sometimes, I just put gum in my mouth and try biting it, but most of the times just take a deep breath and just focus on the picture of me. Everybody around I forget about; it's just you and me. And that's how everything comes down, try to enjoy it."
By the "picture of me," Soto meant the space between him and the pitcher, the 60 feet, 6 inches, and how the rest of the world doesn't exist when he is in that space with a pitcher. Even Cole, who is arguably the finest pitcher on the planet, something about which Soto truly could not care less.
"Maybe," DiPuglia said, "he thinks he's better than the guy who's best in the world."
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After Tuesday, who could blame him?
The Cole vs. Soto at-bats accounted for only 11 of the 104 pitches Cole threw. That they were the decisive ones in Soto's first World Series game wasn't altogether surprising. Because this is Juan Soto. And Juan Soto does special things.
Just look, Long said, at what he did earlier this week. In addition to being brilliant at baseball, Soto is exceedingly bright -- he learned English in a year as a teenager after signing with the Nationals in 2015 for $1.5 million -- and unfailingly polite. When they were at a team hotel earlier this week, Long said, his wife was having difficulty with a package. Soto noticed it, went up to her and said: "Are you OK, Mrs. Long?"
Long laughed. Not just at the earnestness but a little bit at how he still used the honorific in front of her name. Long was asked if Soto called him Mr. Long, and the answer was no. But when asked what he calls Soto, Long did not hesitate. It's the perfect name for a kid who turns 21 on Friday, who is scheduled to celebrate his birthday with the first home World Series game in Washington in 86 years and who celebrated his first World Series game by standing 60 feet, 6 inches from arguably the best pitcher in the world and outdueled him.
What does Kevin Long call Juan Soto?
"Mr. Soto," he said.
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Sparking Female Entrepreneurship – towards a utopia of empowerment
By Dinushi Galagama Mudalige
The development of a business from the ground up; starting from its basic idea to forming a profitable business out of that idea is ‘Entrepreneurship’. It has been long past since women has been recognized as key drivers of national Economies. In Sri Lanka this refers to the FDI brought out by housekeepers working in Middle East to the export contributors in the garment factories to the tea pluckers and the hundreds of small business owners. Their contribution however is undervalued, especially in Asian nations, which has led to women facing a number of barriers with relation to economic participation and productivity.
As we think Women and business we normally think of Arianna Huffington, Beyonce or closer to home we have Otara, founder of Odel. However Entrepreneurship that we need to look into is more on the scale of small to medium sized businesses. More than half a million small and medium enterprises in Indonesia and over 300,000 in South Korea are headed by women. Since women also tend to reinvest more of their income in their family units than men, it is undoubtedly increasing financial stability along with the increase of GDP per Capita.
The timely increase in discussion on how to get more women engaged in the labor market is mainly based on changing women’s lives to fit into the already existing system as opposed to restructuring the society to engage women better. Thus women today are expected to take on the roles of a businesswoman and a mother simultaneously. This has ultimately resulted in women having to take on multiple roles in order to survive in the harsh capitalistic world thus threatening the mental, physical and emotional well being of the female community. It is due to this status quo that proper investments have to be made and the correct incentives have to be placed to ease the burden on a modern woman and thus step towards gender based entrepreneurship.
So how can we effectively promote female entrepreneurship in the short term?
Foremost, women centered investments should done by working side by side with women instead of ‘for women’. This enables women to easily initiate their entrepreneurship ideas, as they feel more passionate about and also has the capability to maintain their businesses. Use the tool ‘quotas’ to fearlessly advocate the presence of women within corporate businesses and administration.
Women not only disproportionately spend more of their earned income on food, healthcare, home improvement, and schooling, which has a multiplier effect in local communities but research also shows a positive correlation between the number of women on boards and higher corporate profits[i].
Lets now look more in line with training our thought processes. Regardless of gender we have been brought up in an already conditioned society; a society which derives its customs and traditions from a patriarchal society. Thus it is an inherent necessity to cultivate tolerance and resilience amongst women to cope with bias existing in society. Resilience is not an innate ability and thus has to be taught; through workshop programs, mentorships, education or even as a vocational training skill in business internship programs.
Next, people should always assume bias until deemed otherwise. We live in a pre-conditioned society. Thus, no one can deny that unconscious bias will never take place whether it may be in school, workplace or even a restaurant or government institution.
Looking more in the long term however we have even more to reconsider. Let’s start with how we perceive gender. Traditionally, focusing on women induces a fear of appearing ‘too pink’ providing a notion of being backward and weakly founded. However, it is time we seek a new economic image that advocates the market logic of financial returns with the feminist sense of women’s equality simultaneously. The idea is to subtly shift what we value as potential investments.
So how can we transcend to changing our image of valued assets?
Firstly by broadening and deepening access to capital. This can be done by getting women involved as investors and investees, from New York City and its liberal Art Advancements to Bangladesh’s agrarian community developments.
Secondly, it is by reducing inequity found in the workplace. To achieve this there should be a promotion of using investment to value gender diversity in leadership and promote equal rights in a Top down approach by incorporating company value chains.
Thirdly, it is a necessity to create products and services that affect the lives of women and girls; from clean cook stoves in India to education in Middle East to medicines and drugs adjusted solely for women in more developed nations.
Ultimately all the above-mentioned opens a pathway to increase gender based entrepreneurship. However it is not in anyway an easy transition. Practically there is not enough sufficient existing mechanisms to support a transition of this caliber. There is also a lack of data when studying women and thus drawn out trends will not properly fir the society as a whole. Also as of this moment there is a mismatch in skills women seek through education and where true development in a nation occur. For example the lack of female engineers will decrease female participation in construction of infrastructure as well as mechanical and electrical based research advancements.
On a final note however, this transition is necessary and will benefit the global economy. Thus, however slow, the initiation of transitioning on this front should be undertaken.
[i] http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/09/172599.html
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