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Glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) therapy in management of type 2 diabetes: choosing the right agent for individualised care
Zin Zin Htike,1,2 Francesco Zaccardi,1,2 Sudesna Chatterjee,1,2 Kamlesh Khunti,1,2 Melanie J Davies1,2
1 Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
2 Leicester Diabetes Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK
Address for correspondence: Dr Zin Zin Htike
Leicester Diabetes Centre, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, UK.
E-mail: zzhtike@gmail.com
http://dx.doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2016.091
Glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) are a new class of injectable agent used in the management of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). In the UK, NICE approved the use of GLP-1RAs in combination with metformin and sulphonylurea in people with T2DM whose glycaemic control is above target (≥7.5%, 58 mmol/mol) and body mass index (BMI) ≥35 kg/m2 with other medical problems associated with obesity or for whom insulin therapy would have significant occupational implications or weight loss would benefit other significant obesity- related comorbidities in people with BMI <35 kg/m2. Unlike many other classes of glucose lowering agents, GLP-1RAs not only improve glycaemic control but also promote weight loss with a low risk of hypoglycaemia. In randomised controlled trials, treatment with GLP-1RAs either as monotherapy or in combination with oral hypoglycaemic agents or insulin, has demonstrated significant improvement in glycaemic control by 1–2% with weight loss of approximately 1–5 kg. In addition, they exert a positive effect on cardio-metabolic risk factors by reducing body weight, lowering blood pressure and improving the lipid profile. Gastrointestinal side effects are the most common adverse events with GLP-1RA therapy. Since the first GLP-1RA was approved in 2005, a number of other GLP-1RAs are now available. However, their glycaemic efficacy, safety profiles and mode of delivery differ, and this review article aims to give an overview of differences among GLP-1RAs and to provide decision makers with an overview of the evidence when choosing a particular GLP-1RA for individualised therapy.
Br J Diabetes 2016;16:128-137
Key words: diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonist, glycaemic control, cardiovascular risk factor, efficacy, safety
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a metabolic disorder characterised by chronic hyperglycaemia due to complex pathophysiological mechanisms recently described as the “ominous octet”.1 This includes reduced insulin secretion from β-cells, increased glucagon production from α-cells, increased hepatic glucose output, increased lipolysis, increased renal glucose reabsorption, insulin resistance (in the periphery, where it reduces glucose uptake, and in the brain, where it promotes greater food intake), neurotransmitter dysfunction, and a reduced incretin effect.1,2 Incretins are gut hormones produced from intestinal cells in response to oral glucose ingestion, which in turn stimulates insulin secretion. In people without diabetes, an oral glucose load elicits a greater insulin response than intravenous glucose administration, known as the “incretin effect”.3 However, this effect is blunted in people with T2DM.4 With a better understanding of the incretin effect in people with T2DM and specifically targeting the incretin system, a novel class of therapeutic agents, called glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) has been developed. In addition to glucose-dependent insulin secretion, GLP-1RAs suppress glucagon production, reduce hepatic glucose output, inhibit satiety centre and delay gastric emptying, resulting in improved glucose control and promoting weight loss.5
The first GLP-1RA, exenatide, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2005. Although structured education and life-style modifications are the basic pillars in managing T2DM, achieving and maintaining glycaemic control becomes a challenge as the condition progresses despite the availability and use of multiple glucose lowering therapies.2 Moreover, the conventional therapies used in the management of T2DM can be associated with undesirable side effects such as hypoglycaemia and weight gain. However, treatment with GLP-1RAs has the added benefit of weight loss and a low risk of hypoglycaemia in addition to improving glycaemic control. They have been shown to improve cardiovascular risk factors in many studies.
All GLP-1RAs available to date are administered subcutaneously either daily or once weekly. Exenatide (Byetta®), liraglutide (Victoza®) and lixisenatide (Lyxumia®) are daily preparations whereas once-weekly exenatide (Bydureon®), albiglutide (Eperzan® or Tanzeum®), dulaglutide (Trulicity®), semaglutide (in development) and taspoglutide (discontinued) are once-weekly preparations. In order to retain the mode of action for an extended period, they have been formulated either as microspheres (once-weekly exenatide), combined with recombinant human albumin (albiglutide), bound to modified human IgG4 (dulaglutide), increased albumin affinity and secured full stability against metabolic degradation (semaglutide) or modified amino acid sequence (taspoglutide). To date, once-weekly, exenatide (2 mg), albiglutide (30 or 50 mg) and dulaglutide (0.75 or 1.5 mg) are licensed by the FDA and European Medicine Agency (EMA) to be used in the management of T2DM. Development of taspo-glutide (10 or 20 mg) was discontinued in 2010 due to undue side-effects and therefore it is not clinically available while semaglutide is being studied in phase 3 trials.6
The American Diabetes Association (ADA)/European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) guidelines recommend the use of GLP-1RAs as an adjunctive therapy to life style modification and metformin.7 In the UK, the use of GLP-1RAs is advocated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in patients with T2DM who have a body mass index (BMI) ≥35 kg/m2 and HbA1c ≥7.5% (58 mmol/mol) unless comorbidities such as obstructive apnoea or occupational issues precluding insulin use are present. This article aims to review the clinically relevant cardio-metabolic efficacy and safety of currently licensed GLP-1RAs including twice-daily (10 µg) exenatide (EBID),8-19 liraglutide (1.2 or 1.8 mg, LEAD studies),20-26 once-weekly exenatide (2 mg, DURATION studies),27-32 lixisenatide (20 µg, GetGoal studies),33-42 albiglutide (30 mg, HARMONY studies)43-49 and dulaglutide (1.5 mg, AWARD studies) (Tables 1–2).50-55
Efficacy of GLP-1RAs on cardio-metabolic parameters
Effect on glycaemic control and body weight
The glycaemic efficacy and changes in body weight are summarised in Supplementary Tables S1–6 (see Appendix 1, available online at bjd-abcd.com). Therapy with GLP-1RAs, either as monotherapy or in combination with oral hypoglycaemic agents including metformin, sulphonylurea (SU) or thiazolidinediones (TZD), has demonstrated improvement in glycaemic control. Compared to placebo, significant HbA1c reductions were observed with both daily and once-weekly GLP-1RAs; 0.5–1.0% with EBID, 0.6–1.1% with liraglutide, 0.3–1.1% with lixisenatide, 0.8–1.0% with albiglutide, 1.0–1.2% with dulaglutide (Tables S1–6). Marginally greater difference was noted when compared to metformin.30,52 However, GLP-1RAs have shown significantly better glycaemic control compared with SU and TZD. HbA1c reductions were 0.4–0.6% with liraglutide (vs SU),21,22 0.6–0.7% with liraglutide (vs TZD),20 and 0.3% with once-weekly exenatide (vs TZD),28 respectively. Likewise, a significantly greater reduction in HbA1c of 0.4–0.6% was observed with liraglutide, once-weekly exenatide and albiglutide compared with sitagliptin.26,28,49 Short acting GLP-1RAs (EBID) are equivalent in glycaemic efficacy to basal insulin whereas long acting GLP-1RAs (once-weekly exenatide, liraglutide, albiglutide and dulaglutide) are superior to basal insulin by 0.2–0.6%.14,15,17,19,24,29,46,48,51,53 Addition of GLP-1RAs exenatide and lixisenatide to insulin resulted in further HbA1c reduction of 0.5–0.7% in both randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies.18,34,41,42,56,57
In head to head comparisons (Table 1), once-weekly exenatide, dulaglutide and liraglutide 1.8 mg were associated with better glycaemic control compared to EBID; HbA1c reductions were 0.5–0.7% (p<0.0001),27,31 0.7% (p<0.001)50 and 0.3% (p<0.0001) respectively.25 Compared with liraglutide 1.8 mg, dulaglutide and once-weekly exenatide showed marginally better HbA1c reductions of 0.1% (p<0.0001)55 and 0.2% (p=0.02),32 suggesting that these GLP-1RAs may have similar glycaemic efficacy clinically. Among daily GLP-1RAs, liraglutide was more efficacious in achieving glycaemic control than lixisenatide and EBID by 0.6% and 0.3% respectively (p<0.0001).25,58 However, no significant difference was found between lixisenatide and EBID.36
GLP-1RAs also improved fasting plasma glucose (FPG) compared with placebo in a similar pattern to HbA1c reductions, ranging from 0.7–2.8 mmol/L, contributing to overall improvements in glycaemic control (Tables S1–6). However, basal insulin glargine was superior to GLP-1RAs, EBID, once-weekly exenatide, albiglutide and dulaglutide.14,16,17,46,53 GLP-1RAs also attenuate postprandial glucose (PPG) excursion and reductions were greater with daily GLP-1RAs, EBID,59 liraglutide (LEAD 1-5)60 and lixisenatide (GetGoal studies).33-42 Compared with a longer acting liraglutide, EBID and lixisenatide (short acting GLP-1RAs) yielded greater PPG reduction with a treatment difference of 1.4–2.5 mmol/L (p<0.001).25,58,61
In RCTs, treatment with GLP-1RAs has consistently shown a beneficial effect on weight loss. Compared with placebo, weight reductions were -1.6 to -2.8 kg with EBID, -1.4 to -2.6 kg with liraglutide, -0.5 to -1.3 kg with lixisenatide, and -2.5 to -3.5 kg with exenatide once-weekly and dulaglutide. This is in line with the findings in a mixed treatment analysis.62 However, no significant change in weight was observed with albiglutide compared to placebo in HARMONY studies.47,63 Unlike weight gain with other conventional therapies such as SU, TZD or insulin, treatment with both daily and once-weekly GLP-1RAs resulted in significant weight loss; -2.8 kg (p<0.0001), -5.1 kg (p<0.0001), -5.7 kg (p<0.001) compared to SU22, TZD28 and insulin glargine17 respectively. Weight loss was also significantly greater with GLP-1RAs (1.9–2.3 kg, p<0.001) when compared to the weight neutral agent sitagliptin.26,28,30 In a head to head comparison of GLP-1RAs, the greatest difference in weight was observed with liraglutide 1.8 mg vs albiglutide (-1.5 kg, p<0.0001).49
In addition, a dose related weight loss effect was observed with liraglutide 1.2 mg and 1.8 mg in the LEAD studies.60 In the recently published SCALE Diabetes study, a higher dose of liraglutide (3 mg) promoted greater weight loss with 6% reduction of initial body weight when compared to lower doses, 4.7% (1.8 mg) and 2% (placebo) in people with diabetes.64 Similarly, weight loss was maintained at 56 weeks with liraglutide 3 mg in people without diabetes when compared to placebo (-8.0% vs -2.6%, <0.001).65
Effect on cardiovascular risk factors
Treatment with GLP-1RAs is associated with a modest reduction in systolic blood pressure (SBP), -2.2 to -7.5 mmHg with EBID (Table S1), -0.9 to -5.6 mmHg with liraglutide (Table S2) and -2.0 to -4.0 mmHg with once-weekly exenatide (Table S4). In a meta-analysis, once-daily GLP-1RAs (exenatide and liraglutide) decreased SBP by -1.8 mmHg and -2.4 mm Hg (p<0.001) compared to placebo and active control, respectively. However, reduction in diastolic blood pressure failed to reach statistical significance; -0.5 mmHg vs placebo and -0.5 mm Hg vs active control.66 In addition, a meta-analysis of 35 RCTs showed that GLP-1RAs were associated with modest reductions in total cholesterol, LDL-C, and triglycerides but no significant improvement in HDL-C.67 Exenatide and liraglutide 1.8 mg decreased total cholesterol by -0.16 to -0.27 mmol/L (p<0.001) versus placebo and TZD. The decrease was more evident with once-weekly exenatide and liraglutide 1.8 mg once daily. A significant reduction in LDL-C was detected for all GLP-1RAs versus placebo, insulin and TZD. A significant reduction in triglyceride levels was observed with liraglutide 1.8 mg (-0.30 mmol/L, p<0.0001) versus placebo.67
Although GLP-1RAs showed improvements in SBP and lipid profile, there was an increase in heart rate of 0.9, 2.1, 2.7 and 2.2 bpm with EBID, once-weekly exenatide, liraglutide and dulaglutide, respectively, when compared with placebo.66 In head to head comparisons, longer acting GLP-1RAs raised the pulse rate significantly more than short acting ones; 3.6 bpm (p=0.0001)58 with liraglutide vs lixisenatide and 1.6 bpm (p<0.05) with dulaglutide vs EBID (AWARD 1). No significant difference in heart rate was noted between liraglutide and dulaglutide (AWARD 6) or between lixisenatide and EBID (GetGoal-X). The impact of increased heart rate remains unclear. Further evidence is needed to determine if improvements in SBP and lipid profiles might translate into reductions in cardiovascular outcomes.
Safety and tolerability of GLP-1RAs
Gastrointestinal effects
Treatment associated gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms (nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea) are well recognised adverse effects of GLP-1RAs and are demonstrated to be higher than with other glucose lowering therapies.68 Longer-acting GLP-1RAs were associated with a lower risk of GI side effects (with an exception of albiglutide and once-weekly exenatide) compared to short acting GLP-1RAs (EBID, lixisenatide).25,27,50 Of the two short acting GLP-1RAs, lixisenatide demonstrated a lower rate of GI side effects than EBID.36 The risk is also dose related and was found to be greater with the higher dose of liraglutide (3 mg vs 1.8 mg vs 1.2 mg) in the LEAD studies and the SCALE Diabetes study.60,64
Hypoglycaemia
In all RCTs, the risk of total and severe hypoglycaemia was significantly lower with GLP-1RAs compared to placebo or other glucose lowering therapies. Concomitant use of SU or insulin increased the risk of hypoglycaemia. In a head to head comparison, albiglutide and lixisenatide were shown to have a slightly lower risk than other GLP-1RAs.36,49
Pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
Based on a small number of case reports and animal studies, there was growing concern about the association between incretin-based therapies and pancreatitis in late 2000.69 Most safety data have been acquired through the FDA adverse event reporting system. A meta-analysis conducted from pooled data of 27 RCTs of GLP-1RAs did not suggest an increased risk of pancreatitis among patients using incretin therapies compared to placebo.70 Recently, a large population-based study involving over 12,000 patients hospitalised for acute pancreatitis in Denmark reported that the risk of pancreatitis in people treated with GLP-1RAs remained low and comparable to that of other glucose lowering therapies.71 Nauck also argued that there is no firm evidence to suggest that GLP-1RA therapy is associated with an increased risk of malignancy including pancreatic cancer from available pre-clinical and clinical studies.72,73 The evaluation of lixisenatide in acute coronary syndrome (ELIXA) study and the Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of Cardiovascular Outcome Results—A Long Term Evaluation (LEADER) study both reported no increased risk of pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer with lixisenatide and liraglutide.74,75 The conclusion was that cardio-metabolic benefits of GLP-1RAs therapy outweigh the risk of pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer. To date, no definite causal relationship has been established between pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer and GLP-1RA therapy but caution needs to be exercised.
Injection site reactions
Injection site reactions are commonly reported with both daily and once-weekly injections. However, more injection site reactions such as nodules and pruritus are observed with once-weekly exenatide due to the formulation and delivery technology (microspheres) than with dulaglutide or liraglutide.76
Cardiovascular safety
All new drugs for T2DM are required by the FDA to demonstrate cardiovascular safety and currently several GLP-1RAs are undergoing large-scale, long-term trials specifically designed for cardiovascular outcomes. In a meta-analysis, treatment with GLP-1RAs was not associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events compared to active comparators.77 In fact, a significant reduction in the incidence of cardiovascular events was observed in comparison with placebo and pioglitazone.77 The first cardiovascular safety study (ELIXA) completed among all GLP-1RAs reported non-inferiority versus placebo for the composite cardiovascular endpoint, thus satisfying the FDA requirements of cardiovascular safety.74 However, more recently, the LEADER trial demonstrated the cardiovascular benefit of liraglutide in high-risk cardiovascular patients with T2DM.75 In fact, liraglutide has demonstrated superiority to placebo with a 13% relative risk reduction in the first occurrence of cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction or non-fatal stroke and a 22% reduction in mortality due to cardiovascular causes. This is the first cardiovascular safety trial among incretin-based therapies that has demonstrated a positive outcome on cardiovascular effect. Other ongoing international RCTs examining cardiovascular safety of GLP-1RAs are once-weekly exenatide (EXSCEL), dulaglutide (REWIND), and semaglutide (SUSTAIN 6).
Combination therapy of insulin and GLP-1RA
Recently, a fixed-ratio combination of basal insulin degludec and liraglutide (IDegLira) was developed based on complementary therapeutic effects of these agents on FPG and PPG. IDegLira was superior in glycaemic efficacy to liraglutide with lower GI adverse events and non-inferior to degludec with no increased hypoglycaemic events (DUAL I).78 Moreover, treatment with IDegLira demonstrated significantly greater HbA1c reduction with fewer hypoglycaemic episodes, lower insulin requirement and weight loss compared to insulin glargine (DUAL V).79 Another fixed-ratio combination of basal insulin glargine and lixisenatide (LixiLan) is in development. The proof of concept trial of 24 weeks’ duration revealed that adding LixiLan to metformin in insulin naïve patients improved glycaemic control by 1.8%, more than 80% of the participants achieving HbA1c <7%.80 This combination is being evaluated in phase 3 trials, which are due to report soon. GLP-1RAs and insulin combinations are therefore particularly advantageous for obese patients with long standing T2DM for mitigating the weight gain associated with insulin therapy, improving glycaemic control and possibly reducing insulin requirement. This advantage may lead to greater adherence and patient satisfaction.
Real life clinical experience of GLP-1 use in the UK
The Association of British Clinical Diabetologists undertook nationwide audits on the use of EBID and liraglutide in real clinical practice to determine their effects on HbA1c, weight, blood pressure and lipids. Data were collected from centres around the UK involving over 6,700 patients for EBID in 2009 and 2,300 for liraglutide in 2011 over 6 months. The baseline HbA1c and BMI were 9.5% and 39.8 kg/m2 for EBID and 9.3% and 39.1 kg/m2 for liraglutide. Both baseline HbA1c and BMI were significantly higher in the audits compared to that in RCTs. By 6 months there were significant reductions in HbA1c and weight of 0.75% and 6.6 kg with EBID and 0.93% and 3.7 kg with liraglutide. It may appear that treatment with liraglutide resulted in greater HbA1c reduction but less weight loss compared to EBID. However, the authors commented that a major contributing factor was less insulin and TZD discontinuation observed in the liraglutide audit.81
At the time of the audit it was recommended by NICE that GLP-1RAs were not to be used with insulin. In both audits, 35–40% of patients were on combination therapy with insulin and stopping insulin was associated with greater weight reduction but lesser improvement in HbA1c. There was a reduction in insulin dose of 42±2 units from baseline of 120±99 units with EBID and 16.6% discontinued insulin.57 It was found that GLP-1RA treatments were more effective in non-insulin treated patients than in insulin treated patients.82 Although approximately 60% of the patients in both audits achieved reductions in both HbA1c and weight, only 25% in the liraglutide audit and 29% in the EBID audit met the NICE criteria of HbA1c reduction ≥1% and weight reduction >3% to continue GLP-1 treatment.82 GI side effects were reported to be higher with EBID (24%) than with liraglutide (16%).81 Both EBID and liraglutide treatment were associated with a reduction in SBP, total cholesterol and triglycerides.82
The cost of GLP-1 RAs is significantly higher than other agents such as SU, pioglitazone, DPP-4 inhibitors or insulin glargine. Literature on the cost-effectiveness of the use of GLP-1RAs is limited. In a retrospective cohort study of real world data (US), diabetes-related pharmacy costs were greater with liraglutide than with EBID. However, a higher proportion of patients on liraglutide achieved HbA1c <7%, resulting in a lower per-patient cost of HbA1c goal achievement with liraglutide compared to EBID.83 In the UK, Evan and colleagues conducted a retrospective audit in Wales. Over 1000 patients taking liraglutide, EBID or DPP-4 inhibitors were followed up for a median of 48 weeks. Costs per quality-adjusted life-year were £16,505, £16,648 and £20,661 for liraglutide, exenatide and DPP-4 inhibitors, respectively.84 The authors concluded that, when prescribed according to NICE recommendations, incretin-based therapies were cost-effective options, with liraglutide providing greatest HbA1c reductions.84
Generally, studies that have examined the cost implications of improving glucose management have reported that the glycaemic control costs were modest compared to total diabetes-related health expenditures.85,86 Although some studies reported the acquisition cost, they did not evaluate or relate these findings to outcomes in HbA1c or other compilations due to poor glycaemic control. Consequently, it is very hard to put the cost- effectiveness of these new drugs into perspective in the short term and therefore real world evidence has become increasingly important as a decision-making tool for policymakers and health care providers.
GLP-1RAs are a novel class of therapeutic agent used in the management of T2DM. In comparison with other available glucose lowering therapies, GLP-1RAs demonstrate either superiority or non-inferiority in glycaemic efficacy with a favourable effect on body weight and a low risk of hypoglycaemia compared with SU, TZD or insulin. In addition, they appear to have beneficial effects on cardiovascular risk factors with a modest reduction in body weight, blood pressure and lipid profile, although there is an associated small risk of increased heart rate. Although ADA/EASD and NICE guidelines advocate the use of GLP-1RAs as an adjunct therapy to metformin and life style modification, there is no specific guidance as to which GLP-1RAs should be chosen.
It must be acknowledged that there are differences in cardio-metabolic and safety parameters among GLP-1RAs. In addition, other practical aspects such as the frequency of administration (twice daily vs once daily vs once weekly) and the ease with which the device can be used need to be considered from the patient’s perspective in choosing a particular agent. Generally, long acting GLP-1RAs are more efficacious in reducing HbA1c, have greater effect on FPG, and potentially offer better compliance than short acting GLP-1RAs. Hypoglycaemia risk is low and comparable within the class of agents. All GLP-1RAs have moderate effects in lowering SBP and lipid profile. Of all licensed clinically available GLP-1RAs, dulaglutide, once-weekly exenatide and liraglutide were associated with a greater reduction in HbA1c and FPG compared with EBID; liraglutide having greater weight loss and once-weekly exenatide being better tolerated among the three.87
In clinical practice, after initiation of lifestyle modification and metformin therapy, a stepwise approach is adopted in advancing glucose lowering therapies before insulin initiation and intensification. Availability of GLP-1RAs offers an alternative to insulin in appropriate patients. When the glycaemic target is not achieved/maintained with a combination of oral therapies, either basal or prandial insulin is added. According to treat-to-target protocols, therapeutic agents are chosen to address both FPG and PPG. GLP-1RAs are either comparable or superior in efficacy to basal insulin in improving HbA1c with an added benefit of weight loss and lower risk of hypoglycaemia, and therefore offer an alternative option to basal insulin in appropriate circumstances. In addition, short acting GLP-1RAs may have a role when glycaemic control is not adequately achieved with basal insulin.34 Although the absolute reduction in HbA1c with the short acting GLP-1RA lixisenatide (0.5–0.8%) is less than 1% as recommended by the NICE, it may be particularly applicable in cases where additional postprandial glucose lowering effect and weight loss is desirable after introduction of basal insulin.
GLP-1RAs are effective glucose lowering agents in managing T2DM with a favourable effect on weight reduction and a low risk of hypoglycaemia. Due to limited availability of studies directly comparing these agents, the choice among GLP-1RAs remains uncertain. A definite answer as to which GLP-1RA would suit a particular patient should be assessed on an individual basis. Of all the GLP-1RAs available to date in the UK, evidence suggests that treatment with once daily liraglutide provides a greater HbA1c and weight reduction and, from the limited evidence available, it is more cost effective than EBID. Moreover, liraglutide is the very first GLP-1RA to demonstrate a positive cardiovascular benefit according to the LEADER study recently published. Currently, the choice is left to clinical judgment based on patient factors, preferences and experience of the clinician. Taking all the safety and efficacy factors into account, the choice should be individualised according to patient factors such as weight gain, hypoglycaemic risk, associated comorbidities, frequency of injection, and tolerability of the medication. All in all, the question should not be whether one GLP-1RA is superior but instead whether individual GLP-1RA therapy is superior in a particular patient. Personalising GLP-1RA therapy to particular patients will allow effective glycaemic control while avoiding or minimising adverse effects with potentially better adherence to therapy.
Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge support from the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care – East Midlands (NIHR CLAHRC – EM), the Leicester Clinical Trials Unit and the NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit, which is a partnership between University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Loughborough University and the University of Leicester. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.
Conflicts of interest MD has acted as consultant, advisory board member and speaker for Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis, Lilly, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca and Janssen and as a speaker for Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation. She has received grants in support of investigator and investigator initiated trials from Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis and Lilly.
KK has acted as a consultant and speaker for AstraZeneca, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis, Lilly, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Janssen and Boehringer Ingelheim. He has received grants in support of investigator and investigator initiated trials from AstraZeneca, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis, Lilly, Boehringer Ingelheim and Merck Sharp & Dohme and Roche. KK has served on advisory boards for AstraZeneca, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-Aventis, Lilly, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Janssen and Boehringer Ingelheim.
SC has received speaker fees and educational funding from Janssen, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi-Aventis.
FZ has no conflict of interest.
ZZH has received speaker honorary fee and educational funding from Janssen, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Boehringer Ingelheim.
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Exhale Chapter 1
The Sweetest Ache
Remi struggled to sit up straight in her chair in the coffee shop. The heat and jetlag made it impossible for her to keep her eyes open. She was more hungry than tired, and irritable from no food or sleep for the last few hours. Her flight to Zimbabwe had been sketchy, to say the least. The dubious pilot had insisted on flying through a minor storm and landing in lush green fields just outside Harare. She’d had to endure a hot taxi ride into the city, as well as a delay with checking in to the hotel she’d booked the week before. As a hard-working activist and reporter, this wasn’t the first time Remi wondered whether taking her mother’s advice – to get a ‘real’ degree – would have been a better idea than ‘following her heart’.
As the trendy and obviously popular little cafe started to fill up with more tourists and local patrons, Remi gave herself a few slaps to the cheeks, blinked several times, and used her dirty boots to pull her luggage closer underneath the table. Her legs were stiff and moving her left prosthetic made the stump just under her knee tingle. She suppressed the urge to stretch the leg and lift up her pants to give it air.
‘Weell you be ordering anything ma’am?’ The voice was surprisingly raspy for a girl with such a sweet face.
Remi looked up with interest at the young waitress standing beside her table. She was a dark and tall girl, with the kind of striking features any modelling agency worth their salt would lap up. Wide almond-shaped eyes; a small rounded nose and plump lips a shade or two darker than the rest of her face. She didn’t seem to have any airs and pretences about her though; rare for a conventionally beautiful girl. Her face was kind; the tap of her pen against her notepad was more habit than impatience or boredom.
Remi ordered the club special: a burger with fries. She knew she wouldn’t touch the meal but it bought her more time with the beautiful waitress, even if it was in this hellhole. Lord knew when she’d be cleared to finally go to her hotel room. At least in this place, she could sit for long periods of time and not seem weird. She ran a hand through her matted black curls and pressed the back of the other on her soaking forehead. How the hell did anyone survive this heat? Her eyelids fluttered slightly as the heat began to make her dizzy. She didn’t know how long she’d last in there, but she had no intention of going anywhere any time soon.
It was only when she heard, rather than saw, the sound of the glass being placed on her table that she realised she’d allowed her eyes to close, dozing off. The waitress was back and she’d put a glass of ice cold beer that she hadn’t ordered on the table in front of her. Remi tried to mumble a protest, but it was lost in the parched gulp in her throat as she eyed the sweating glass of cool bliss. The waitress winked at her and quickly turned to serve a table adjacent to Remi’s.
Remi couldn’t remember the last time she’d hit on a woman, let alone allowed herself to flirt with her. She felt rusty and wasn’t sure she could still read any of the signs. She looked around for the beautiful waitress and noticed that no one else seemed to have received any complimentary beers from her. A moment more of this speculation and Remi would pass out from overthinking, exhaustion and starvation. She grabbed at the glass on the table and tipped her head back, taking huge gulps of the heavenly, impossibly cold beverage. A few rivulets of beer streamed out the sides of her mouth and down her chin, catching the attention of a group of Germans sitting at the next table.
Again she was surprised by the waitress’ hands, gently brushing the offending liquid from her chin. The gesture was so subtle that Remi wondered if she hadn’t imagined the whole thing. Walking away once again, the waitress turned around and shared a secret smile with the hot and bothered activist. Remi felt her hard, aggressive face spread into a grin in spite of itself, felt warmth rise into her cheeks and an involuntary brightness seep into her eyes.
She had no idea what was going on here but she liked the feeling of being carried along on something so golden and warm. Eventually everyone else in the café faded into nothingness and there was no one else left but Remi and the enchanting waitress. She watched the girl flirt and smile at customers wearilessly. She watched her deftly handle drunk and disorderly patrons with a stern but patient smile. She made them feel like she remained their friend, even when they were in trouble. Remi could understand why this girl was made to work so many tables. She had the kind of personality that would keep people coming back to a place – on the off chance that she’d send a glance their way.
Remi was so enthralled by this woman that she didn’t even notice that the meal she’d ordered still hadn’t been delivered to her table. Her beer glass was long since emptied, but her thirst was secondary to her admiration and study of this beautiful woman who had so obviously singled her out in a café filled with attractive people, from all over the world. She couldn’t help but notice the very feminine structure of the waitress’s body beneath her flattering uniform.
Her body seemed like that of a goddess underneath the plain black shirt dress she, and all the other waitresses wore to serve everyone. Her legs radiated a rich dark brown goodness and seemed to go on for an eternity. Her breasts pressed against the buttons of her shirt dress and her clavicles stood guard against the longest and most graceful neck Remi had ever seen. Remi watched the girl’s hands and wondered what it would feel like to study them up close, to taste them. She wondered what it would feel like to have that tall, perfect body pressed against her own big imperfections. Hard, sturdy arms, experienced, veined hands, a large belly softened by years of beer-jugging, hardened by bad travel food and occasional beatings from police officers and homophobic thugs.
Remi found herself taking inventory of her body. This battlefield of exhaustion and dried-up excitement. This graveyard of broken hearts and shattered loves, this broken down machine rusty from lack of use, slow and cranky from too much use. She wondered if the waitress would ever be able to accept her. Could she accept the hard arms and broad shoulders, the big belly and thickening thighs, the landscape of tattoos collected from traumatic and beautiful travels across the globe? The leg – which wasn’t really a part of her but was very much a part of her. The result of a freak accident in a place she once called home.
She thought of her face, covered in holes from when the night’s nerves and heartache drove her to dig her nails into her flesh, digging out craters until she resembled the moon. She thought of her hair − looking like the bad aftermath of a good haircut. The thick black curls, locks of which hung low over her hooded brown eyes and large nose. She thought of her complexion, once a caramel yellow but now a golden bronze thanks so very much to the African sun. You’ll have to take me as I am baby, I’ve lived, she found herself muttering as her eyelids once again began a speedy descent onto her cheeks.
This time, she awoke from a deep sleep. Someone was sitting across from her and there was silence all around them. Remi started and sat right up, instantly alert. Her eyes met the eyes of the waitress, and they were swimming with kind mirth.
‘You’ve been asleep for a long time now. I even finished cleaning up the kitchen and putting up all the chairs.’
Remi thought she could listen to the complicated music of her voice forever. A rough smoker’s voice, yet laden with a breaking timbre, as though it was arguing with itself about which octave to settle on. She looked at her face and felt a surprisingly immediate endearment towards her; too many years of heartbreak had made Remi wary of falling too quickly. The waitress looked a lot older up close and in the fluorescent lighting of the now closed and virtually empty cafe. Her eyes were a light honey brown and the laughing lines underneath them didn’t take away from the stark beauty of the large almond-shaped eyes, in any way. Her complexion reminded Remi of late evening skies in countries whose names she couldn’t remember. A wealth of dark brown and midnight black magic.
The waitress had a head covered in the neatest cornrows Remi had ever seen. She smelled of a sweet citrusy perfume and strawberry cupcakes. Remi felt something deep inside of her begin to stir; she felt an urgency right beneath her belly for this lovely woman before her. She wanted nothing more than to take this woman away and make love to her. Preposterous, given that she didn’t exactly have a place to stay herself. And yet she could barely resist the feeling being with this woman created in her.
The sweetest ache.
The waitress seemed to read the look in Remi’s eyes clearly. She dropped her own eyes and smiled a smile so sad it instantly broke Remi’s emerging heart. A heart that had been hidden for the longest time, buried and protected under callousness, holding an inability to be moved. The inability to give any fucks. Well, that heart was beginning to thaw under the shy gaze of this stranger who felt so much like home. Remi allowed her own black eyes to show the miraculous opening happening inside of her. She wanted to show the waitress that she wasn’t alone in her vulnerability, that whatever she had to offer would be matched eagerly. Remi was willing to rise to the highest crescents with her, and descend to the darkest depths. She didn’t even care if they never resurfaced.
Neither woman had ever known a pull this irresistible. The waitress had no idea why she had withheld Remi’s food from her like that. She had known only that she hungered for this tough woman’s attention, that even if all she received was anger and indignation, something deep inside of her would finally breathe. Remi couldn’t imagine ever feeling anything for this woman but adoration.
She leaned across the table and whispered, ‘What is your name?’
‘Vi — Vi,’ the waitress began, but her voice trailed off and she choked slightly. Remi stood up instantly, placing a hand on the other woman’s shoulders, noticing how large her hands were, how tall she actually was. The waitress gasped at the point of contact and looked up at Remi, imploringly. The activist understood that look immediately.
They walked swiftly in the humid Harare night air. The streets were well-lit near the café and along the way, they passed many party-goers and clubbers, people who generally seemed a lot happier than either woman could imagine. The happiness of all these strangers buoyed their own giddiness about the mad thing they were about to do together.
They reached Vi’s apartment in under ten minutes. She threw Remi’s bags onto the floor of her living room, which was cast in darkness. Vi didn’t wait to turn the lights on, but instead reached out for Remi’s hand. Remi latched onto the hand held out to her and entered the apartment after its beautiful owner.
They closed the door behind them hurriedly and instantly began to remove their clothing. In the dark, Remi was certain the waitress wouldn’t be able to make out that one of her legs wasn’t made of flesh. Under the cloak of night, Vi knew Remi would have no way of seeing her entire body in one go. Each woman had her secrets and both hoped that this leap of faith would yield something special for them. Safety. Acceptance. The promise of fulfilment. They both understood that love was an ache – one that two people allowed themselves to feel for each other because of the sweetness hidden inside that ache. The sweetness of whispered words and trembling orgasms. The sweetness of completion and unison.
They kissed. Softly at first, then desperately. Things fell all around them, loudly. It sounded as though a few things broke as well. Neither of them could ignore their need for long enough to care, or to check the extent of the damage they were causing. Remi couldn’t remember the last time she was so completely present with another woman. She was so absorbed by her and into her and so oblivious to anything else but her body, her sounds and her smell.
The waitress struggled to contain herself. She felt her dick growing lush and wanted nothing more than to press it against Remi’s thighs. The feel of Remi’s arms around her back and hands holding onto her thighs was driving the middle-aged waitress absolutely insane. She had not known such sweetness could be found in the arms of another woman. Remi was hard and soft all at once. She was tough and vulnerable, rough and gentle, all at the same time. It drove Vi wild with desire. Eventually, Remi felt as though she would burst – she needed to release the pent up urgency they’d built up between themselves. Feeling herself being pushed against a wall, she reached out for Vi’s underwear, between her legs, clutching, pulling.
There was a pause as Remi gasped. The fullness of the waitress’s cock inside of her was wonderfully shocking. Remi knew she loved the lushness of the waitress and allowed it to fill her up and carry her on waves of ecstasy. The waitress held Remi’s large pale thighs up on either side of her rock hard hips, pushing all of her goodness deep into this strong, beautifully broken woman, she’d picked up in a coffee shop. Remi’s moans blended with her own until neither woman knew which sounds emanated from whose throat.
They rose together, tears of relief spilling down each of their cheeks, pleasure radiating from them with the sweetest ache. Remi started to feel the pressure build up in her pelvis. It spread in delicious contractions to her belly and then shortness of breath in her chest. She cried out as the first orgasm rippled through her body and warm light exploded behind her closed eyes. Vicky slowed her thrusts to allow Remi time to recuperate from cumming. When she was sure the other woman could take it she reverted to her previous speed; felt her own body start to tighten in preparation for her orgasm. Her dick swelled inside Remi and the other woman’s vaginal walls clamped around it. She clutched Remi’s solid thighs as she flooded the inside of the condom; as her body froze and then trembled in climax. Remi’s second orgasm followed a few seconds later and her thighs tightened around Vicky’s waist when she came. They clung to each other, sinking to the floor in a crumpled heap.
Remi’s leg stuck out at an odd angle, because she hadn’t been able to adjust it to bend the right way ’round on her way down. The waitress untangled one of her own beautiful legs from Remi’s and gently moved the prosthetic leg into a position that she instinctively knew would be most comfortable for her. Remi took a hold of one of her hands and brought it up close to her face. The light spilled over them in slivers where they lay, through the blinds in the kitchen window. I get to study these hands up close, to taste them, Remi thought.
But to her sweet waitress she only said, ‘I’m starving.’
The other woman laughed long, deep and hard, until tears streamed down her face and a bemused Remi shook her head, smiling wryly at the woman with whom she knew she wanted to spend the rest of her days.
Mercy Thokozane Minah, who also goes by the moniker X; is a Swati, queer and non-binary multi-disciplinary artist developing skills in theatre and performance, music and literature. They live in South Africa.
No Be From Hia Chapter 1
MAGGIE OLUWASEUN AYOMIDE
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA, 1991
I wake with a start to the sound of adult voices in the corridor of our little flat. My father’s familiar bass voice and my mother’s defiant responses reverberate through the thin walls. A third voice, my mother’s friend from next door, Chonta, is pleading with my father. The commotion cannot be ignored. I remember where I am, and a heavy, sinking feeling opens in my heart, like an anchor dropping through deep water, farther and farther, until it plops at the bottom of a murky floor.
I have not seen my father since we left London, and that was a long time ago. I was still in grade one. After a long ride in a black cab behind red lights that blurred into snaky lines and a foggy smokescreen from exhaust pipes, mum and I burst through the airport’s doors and winded our way through the luminous jungle of Heathrow.
It was the middle of the night, and it seemed we ran and ran for miles. We were the last ones to get on the plane after mum shouted at the red faced man who had hair plastered to his forehead. She shouted, and then she cried, and then she begged, and finally they opened the gate for us. I dropped my soft doll Eleanor because we had to hurry, and I’ve never seen her again.
I’m now in grade three, and I’ve almost forgotten the rhythmic thump-thump of dad’s heartbeat through his freshly pressed button-down shirts and the croon of his voice as he read to me before bedtime. His chin was always prickly after a shave, and I’d push my finger into the dimple at its centre when he came back from the barber.
I float out of my room, still hoping that this is an extension of my dream, that I will wake again to realise it’s not happening. The hem of my floral nightdress shakes violently. I stand still, trembling, unable to take in what I see. Our once perfect world is upside down.
My mother stands at an angle, her neck in the forceful crook of my father’s left arm, like the innocent person in the movies whose body is being used as a bullet shield. My father holds a knife to her neck. To be more accurate, a sand knife, the one Ba Mailesi uses to prepare thickly buttered bread in the mornings, to cut through chicken thighs and backs as she makes us stew, nshima, and impwa. The sand knife which she so carefully rubs against the dry rock outside the kitchen door to ensure it is sharp enough to slice through bone. Its tip now pierces the soft skin of my mother’s neck, drawing a thin line of blood.
Father is crying; mother is crying. Chonta, the neighbour is pleading, her voice shaky but steady – one moment she is begging, the next chastising. Finally, she settles on a convincing tone, the kind you use on a child when you want them to do something for you but are not sure what the power of their own volition will ultimately reveal.
My father is not listening. ‘Stella, you are still my wife. Maggie is our only child. You will do as I say and come with me to Nigeria!’ His eyes are wild with fury, and without his spectacles, they look unhinged from their sockets. His once smooth chin is a knotted mass of curls. He smells different, like a man who will do anything in this moment. He reeks of desperation.
‘Oh, so today I’m your wife? Where have you been, Abs? It’s been over a year since we last saw you. Look around; we’ve moved on! We’ve survived without you! Kill me if you must! The only person going to Nigeria is you!’ my mother spits through clenched teeth.
‘Please, Mr Abisola, put the knife down,’ Chonta says.
The scene carries on like this for what feels like many hours, but it is probably over in five minutes. Warm lines of urine slide down my thighs, and my nightdress clings to my legs. My eyes tear. My nose burns, and it is moist. I say nothing. I stand there.
Finally, he sinks to his knees. My father releases his weapon, and it clinks on the floor tile. He cries softly into his palms. ‘Let’s go home, Stella. We are a family.’
Weeks in darkness ensue. My existence dwindles to endless days that turn into nights, to faraway voices and whispering shadows. I am being kept ‘safe’ at homes of family friends. The custody case is in court. Every time they say it, in muted tones, it sounds like a bad disease. Custody. They look at me like I’m the man in my little Bible who Jesus healed from leprosy. Custody doesn’t sound so bad to me – in fact, it makes me smile.
I imagine mum and dad in a courtroom full of yummy custard, the pair of them before a judge explaining what happened. In my imagination, dad is leaning back in a chair with his hands steepled while he adjusts his round spectacles with his forefingers. I imagine he is wearing a tie, even though he loathes them and has never owned one. Mum must be perched upright. Her face, brown, and bony, cold and composed like the wooden carving in our living room. Her hands, one over the other, resting against the colourful stripes of her chitenge skirt.
I picture the judge with the face of my Zambian grandfather – Grandpa Charles – big, dark, and round. I have only seen him in photographs and history textbooks.
The judge of my imagination has a curly, white wig like the ones everyone wears in ‘My Book of Nursery Rhymes’. He listens to them while he scoops gooey yellow custard out of a large wooden bowl. He wipes his brow because the air is hot. I know he will understand that grownups fight sometimes, and then he will give them sage advice. He will let them go, and then they can both come and get me. Maybe we can go back to London. Or maybe mum will say yes, and we can all go to Nigeria. Or maybe daddy will nod his head and join us here in Lusaka.
Mummy finally comes to pick me up one day in a gleaming white Cressida. She comes right in between the day and the night, when the sky is a mix of watermelon and tangerine, when the sun is about to give way to the moon, when the birds flock and flap their way to their nests.
She’s smiling and happy. She glows bright, and I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t seen her in a long time, but she looks golden, like she’s been scrubbed and polished and scrubbed again. She looks like an Egyptian goddess. Like an angel. She puts my bag in the back of her new car, and she thanks the people I have been staying with. She says to me, ‘Let’s go home’.
I agree, even though I don’t know any more what that is.
Home is fleeting, beautiful, and fragile. It flutters away like the orange and black butterflies in the garden that I try to catch with my open palms.
After that, I do not see daddy again. Not for many, many years. My parents’ lives continue, each of them finding new lovers and new lives, fresh starts – playing the game of divide and multiply, leaving me in no man’s land. A remnant of dreams gone wrong, of pain and despair. A family that will never again be. Or was it ever? Maybe it is all in my imagination.
This I do know, though: it is the beginning, even though it feels like the end.
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BEYOND FOOD WASTE CITIES
Parma’s journey to world-class food waste recycling levels
Kat Heinrich
Parma is a Northern Italian city home to nearly 200,000 people. Over four years (from 2012 to 2016) the city revolutionised its waste and recycling services. They replaced street containers with kerbside collections. They also introduced a pay-as-you-throw scheme for residual waste. Food waste recycling levels have since doubled.
The average person in Parma now sorts about 100 kg of food waste per year. Contamination rates are low at 3-4%. Overall, the city diverts about 90% of food waste for recycling, making it amongst the world’s best.
I met with Gabriele Folli, they city’s former Deputy Mayor for the Environment, to hear about Parma’s journey. In this interview, Gabriele describes how they introduced the new system. He shares insights into their successes, some of the challenges they faced and how they overcame them.
Gabriele Folli, Deputy Mayor for the Environment (2012-2017), Municipality of Parma (Italy)
Can you start off by telling us a little bit about Parma?
The city is home to about 200,000 people. 15% of population comes from abroad, and there’s an important presence of university students from outside Parma. The city is made up of three areas. The historic centre, the urban area and the rural area. Most people live in the urban area, which is high density. We have some buildings with up to 100 families.
What were the key drivers for changing the waste and recycling system?
Only 48.5% of waste was separately collected for recycling. The rest of the waste (residual stream) was sent to landfill or incineration. This was very costly (at 170 euro per tonne for incineration). We wanted to increase recycling levels and reduce costs. So we set ourselves a goal to achieve 80% separate collection by 2017.
Can you describe the major changes to the system?
In 2012, most households and businesses disposed of their waste and recycling using road containers. Only one third of the city received kerbside (door-to-door) collection of waste and recyclables. We replaced road containers with kerbside collections across the whole city. This was done slowly, one area at a time.
Each family received a kitchen caddy and a free supply of compostable liners to separately sort food waste in their kitchen. Buildings were given a bio-waste bin where residents could dispose of their separated food waste. The bio-waste bin is collected twice a week (or three times for families living in the historic centre). Families were also provided:
Special bags for plastic, metals and tetra-pak collected once per week
A paper and cardboard box (to be emptied into a building container collected once a week)
Residual bin collected once a once a week (or twice for select areas)
Residents were able to select the size of the residual bin (from 40 litres up to 240 litres).
We kept roadside containers for people to drop off their glass and green waste.
Following full roll-out of the kerbside system, we introduced a pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) scheme for residual waste.
Waste and recycling services for families in Parma
Can you describe how the PAYT system works?
Each residual waste bag or bin has an RFID chip that identifies the owner (household or business). They are charged a fixed and variable component for collection of the waste. Included in the fixed component is a minimum volume of residual waste. This minimum volume is set based the number of persons in the family. For example, a 3 person family has 960 litres of residual waste included in the fixed component of their bill. If they use a 40 litre bin, then this equates to 24 collections per year. If they need to, they can put their bin out more often (up to once a week). But every time they do this they’re charged an extra 1.40 euros. Most residents (80%) and businesses (70%) are able to stick to the minimum volume of residual waste included in the fixed component of their bill.
Entitlement for minimum volume of residual waste included in the waste bill based on number of persons per family.
Are people with nappy waste charged the same?
No. We only charge the fixed component of the bill to families with babies 30 months or younger, the disabled and elderly people. We also offer them double the collection frequency for residual waste.
How do the total costs of waste and recycling services compare to previous costs?
In the first three years the cost of waste and recycling services increased. This was due to additional costs for communication campaigns and equipment associated with rolling out the new system. Over time the cost has come down. In 2016 it returned to 2010 levels.
Waste bill for 3 persons in 100 square meter. For 2016 considered maximium discount possible.
Did you face any complaints with the new system?
At the beginning we held public meetings explaining the new system. People were afraid that a once a week collection of residual waste was not enough. To help manage this, we rolled out 8 eco stations where people could drop off extra waste and recyclables if they needed to. People could access these stations 24/7 using access cards (their health care card that had dual use). We used cameras to avoid illegal dumping. The bins at the eco station were fitted with sensors to send alerts when they were nearly full and needing collection. The batteries were powered by solar panels. These eco stations are hardly used, but helped to alleviate public concerns. They also help manage additional waste volumes during high-generation periods (like holiday season). Most people found that once a week kerbside collection of residual waste worked fine for them.
“There was a percieved issue that the new system would lead to increased illegal dumping. However, in reality this was not a big problem.”
– Gabriele Folli, Deputy Mayor for the Environment (2012-2017), Muncipality of Parma
Has illegal dumping become a bigger issue since introducing the new system?
There was a perceived issue that the new system would lead to increased illegal dumping. However, in reality this was not a big problem. On average, illegal dumping volumes were 0.5 kg per person per year. To disincentive dumping, we designed the PAYT system with a minimum volume of residual waste included in the fixed component of the waste bill. We also monitor and manage any dumping that occurs. We developed an app where people can report any sightings of dumping.
What messaging did you give to the public when rolling out the new system?
There were a few messages, including:
We have to do this because we need to change our behavior. We are wasting so many resources paper, plastic and it’s causing environmental problems.
If we recycle, the material has value. We can save the city money and return it to people who are doing the right thing (are sorting their waste). You can choose not to sort your waste, but you’ll have to pay more than a family who sorts their waste.
If you used a commercial contractor to collect your waste, you’d pay a lot more
On average, our waste services costs 100 euros less than other cities
What is the biggest challenge you faced through this whole process?
An incineration facility was being built before the start of our political mandate. It was hard to tell the former administration that it was unuseful to build an incinerator before introducing separate kerbside collections. The plant is now running. It was forecast that the facility would run at 130,000 tonnes per annum (tpa). This included 70,000 tpa from Parma and the remaining volumes from other cities in the region. After two years of running the plant, waste volumes received from Parma have reduced to 20,000 tpa. At the same time, other cities in the region are introducing separate collections and reducing their waste volumes. Building the facility was very costly and unuseful.
How could Parma’s system be further improved in the future?
The frequency of residual waste collections is still too high compared to generation. It would be good to reduce it to further drive down costs.
To conclude, what were the key factors behind Parma’s success?
Strong information system: We ensured we had a strong information system to support the PAYT scheme. This included RFIDs on bins/bags and truck readers integrated with billing systems.
Trialling: We started testing the technology for the PAYT scheme in January 2015. We spent 6 months checking that the RFID reading system worked before we started billing.
Invest in media and communications: We invested heavily in providing information to the community about the new system. This included information on why we were introducing it, as well as, how it works.
Political will: People will always complain at the beginning when services change. It’s important to listen to them and to be accomodating where practical. But at the end of the day, it’s important to stick with your decision to introduce it.
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UK diaspora to honour uncelebrated Nigerians and unsung heroes on September 24
NIGERIANS in the UK intend to hold a special awards ceremony for the those uncelebrated diasporans who work tirelessly but get no recognition as part of an ambitious plan to highlight the good work the teeming numbers of hardworking do for society.
Due to take place on September 24 at the Mayfair Banqueting Suite in east London, the event has been tagged the Uncelebrated Nigerians Awards UK. It will be a classy gala dinner that will attract community leaders, guests from Nigeria and high commission officials.
Organised to honour ordinary Nigerians in the UK who are excelling in numerous fields, the awards ceremony is being put together by the same committee that organised the Nigerian Centenary Awards UK in 2014. At a recent meeting, the committee elected several officials to run its affairs and organise the event including journalist Ayo Akinfe as coordinator, former Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) treasurer June Douglas as vice coordinator, healthy eating medical campaigner Dr Nkem Ezeilo as secretary, Agatha Ewruje as assistant secretary and accountant Ayo Oyebade as treasurer.
Other prominent community members on the 40-man committee include former Canuk chairman Chief Bimbo Afolayan, current Canuk first vice chairman Chief Alex Achebe and its assistant publicity secretary Theodora Ibekwe-Oyebade. Also on board is the current mayor of Hackney Sade Etti, her predecessor Susan Fajana-Thomas, former mayor of Lambeth Adedamola Aminu and the former mayor of Enfield Kate Anolue.
Mr Akinfe said: “Over recent years, there has been an explosion of awards but unfortunately, what we have seen is that the same people are getting them every week. Consequently, we have decided to reach out to ordinary hardworking Nigerians in the UK, who get very little recognition and honour them.
“This event will be different in that we will be handing out awards to traffic wardens, chefs, care workers, civil servants, mini cab drivers, cleaners, hotel porters, school keepers, security guards, nurses, ambulance drivers, firemen, etc. We will be honouring 56 people as Nigeria will be 56 this year and for most of our awardees, this will be the first time they come to an event.”
Chief Achebe added that the idea behind the event is to reach out to those members of the community who Canuk has not been able to reach so far. He pointed out that the venue can take 800 people and it is expected that a majority of those who attend will be first timers, who will from henceforth be absorbed in community activities.
Dr Ezeilo said that the process will be highly transparent as a website will be set up at http://www.uncelebratednigeriansawards.com, with members of the public asked to nominate people. She added that a sub-committee would ensure that all nominees met the criteria established by the committee, which included that relatives of members cannot be nominated and that everyone suggested is of outstanding character.
According to Mrs Ibekwe-Oyebade, the event will be highly publicised within the Nigerian media in the UK like Trumpet, Nigerian Watch, Ben Television and African Voice. She added that there will also be a concerted effort to reach out to every nook and cranny of the UK as Nigerians are everywhere.
Mrs Douglas added that the event will start at 6pm prompt and will involve Nigerian cuisine, entertainment and stand-up comedy. Among the guests that will attend will be the acting high commissioner Mr Simon Ogah and several prominent dignitaries are also expected from Nigeria.
Chief Afolayan said: “The beauty of this event is that for the first time, it is recognising people who have been ignored in the past. Once they have received their awards, the list will then be forwarded to those who organise the Queens Honours List, so they can consider them for further recognition too.
“When I was Canuk chairman, we worked tirelessly to reach out to as many Nigerians in the UK, so I see this as a continuation of that process. We will be asking other community bodies like Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, the Nigerian Committee of Elders and the Nigerian Women in Diaspora Leadership Forum to get their members involved too.”
Mrs Ewruje stressed that some of the proceeds from the sale of tickets will be donated to charities that support and help Nigerians in the UK or those back home in Nigeria. She pointed out that the rationale behind this is to be able to encourage more unsung heroes, especially those just toiling in fields that are not theirs, to realise their potential by being able to realise their dreams.
Malcolm Benson, a prominent movie director and producer and the chair of the publicity and marketing sub-committee added that the committee would ensure that all parts and segments of the UK and Nigerian community is made aware of this event through a series of media campaigns. He also pointed out that as there is a need to avoid the event appearing elitist or London-based, hence, most Nigerians who perhaps feel marginalised would actively be encouraged to engage and participate in this event as well as other community activities.
Henrietta Abraham, the chairperson of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (Nido) UK South said: “This is a great initiative aimed at recognising all those silent stars. We at Nido will be giving it our full support as we believe that all those honest, hardworking and unsung Nigerians deserve some recognition too.”
Cultural icon and entertainer Ayan De First, who is the chairman of the sub-committee of sponsorship and partnership, will be responsible for attracting sponsors. He said he will approach all the companies that serve the Nigerian diaspora market and are looking to break into it, offering to provide them with a platform to sell their products.
Dr Nkem Ezeilo Ronke Udofia
Secretary Chair, awards sub-committee
Uncelebrated Nigerian Awards UK Uncelebrated Nigerian Awards UK
kemthompson@gmail.com ronkealliudofia@hotmail.com
Dayo Olomu Malcolm Benson
Chair, event management sub-committee Chair, publicity & marketing sub-committee
07957 581 703 07930 202250
ekundayoolomu@yahoo.com mabenson@benalexmedia.com
The Uncelebrated Nigerian Awards UK gala dinner will take place at Mayfair Banqueting Suite in Chadwell Heath in east London on September 24 2016, starting at 7pm. It will involve the handing out of awards to 56 Nigerian heroes who have excelled in numerous fields of endeavour.
For the first time ever, Nigerian diasporans in the UK who have never had anything to do with awards ceremonies before will be honoured and recognised. It is a way of reaching out to them and getting them involved in the community
After the list is compiled, we will forward it to Buckingham Palace to be considered in the Queens Honours List. These awards were unique with regards to how credible and transparent they are.
UK diaspora to honour uncelebrated Nigerians and unsung heroes on September 24 was originally published on Theodora Ibekwe-Oyebade Blog
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Thousands of fans have begun to prepare for Oscars parties to find out which actors, actresses, and movies of the 88th Academy Awards will win a gold statue. As part of the celebration, Shutterstock’s company designers have worked again this year to create fascinating pop art-inspired posters for popular films nominated by the Academy.
Like the many of the different types of movies nominated for the Best Picture award, Shutterstock says its posters share a theme of endurance and testing how far you can stretch the lengths of human nature.
“On the surface his work simply looks cool, but this shallow analysis misses the irony behind his cultural representations”
When you think of many of this year’s Best Picture nominees, movies like The Revenant, The Martian, and Mad Max share a common theme of strength, resilience, determination, and power. These themes are stunningly carried over into Shutterstock’s pop-art posters this year. Posters featured include Jordan Roland’s Warhol-inspired Mad Max: Fury Road, which offer a take on Warhol’s “subversive dictator portraits to shape this poster of Immortan Joe,” says the artist. In Cristin Burton’s Flirst-inspired Oscar Pop 2016 The Revenant, the poster includes assembled pieces the artist used to “create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape.”
People Happily Await the Begining of the Show
The pop-art posters include a fun view of movies but also of topics that aren’t so fun. In Flo Lau’s The Big Short, inspired by Keith Haring, the artist chose a comedic approach to the dark subject of the bursting of the 2008 housing bubble.
Flirst is a collage artist who assembles disparate pieces to explore how he can change the harmony of the whole. For my poster, a homage to The Revenant, I assembled pieces to create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape. The poster features a figure with very few people on his side; this represents the film’s main character, Hugh Glass, who was brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead in the winter wilderness.
“I wanted to portray the same witty chaotic vibe in my poster”
In his “Barcelona” series, Mario Corea Aiello forms a grungy collage of newspaper and magazine cutouts and heavy paint strokes. I felt this style would parallel the vicious storm that left Mark Watney for dead on Mars in The Martian. For the color scheme, I deferred to Eric White’s cover art from the original novel by Andy Weir to capture the characteristics of an otherworldly storm.
On Set with the Crew
My inspiration for this poster is one part Roy Lichtenstein and one part Stefan Sagmeister. Spotlight is about journalists uncovering a massive scandal in one of Boston’s oldest institutions, and I found that the perfectly contradictory homophone “pray/prey” encapsulates the shock and horror felt by the community when this scandal was made public.
To illustrate this, I pixelated an image of a priest, then tore off his head and replaced it with an image of a wolf. I looked to Warhol’s subversive dictator portraits to shape this poster of Immortan Joe.Warhol had a remarkable ability to distract from the meaning of his art. On the surface his work simply looks “cool”.
Mad Max: Fury Road has the same effect: The stylized nature of the film gets more attention than the meaning behind it.
I chose to feature Immortan Joe because he is a terrible person, but his iconic look makes him instantly recognizable. When I first read the plot summary for Room, I envisioned lonely, sterile characters, who had been institutionalized by their secluded environment.
Of course, when I saw the movie that perception quickly changed; the characters are full of life, love, and joy, and the audience instantly empathizes with them on a raw, human level. KAWS’ statues play on a similar deceit. Initially they have a sterile, robotic feel, but when you view them in their human-scale sizes and see their playful aesthetic, you experience an unexpected sense of connection.
“Welcome to the Oscars, Or as some people like to call it, the white people’s choice awards”
The Big Short takes a comedic approach to a dark subject, and I wanted to portray the same witty, chaotic vibe in my poster. Keith Haring was my inspiration because his high-contrast, brightly colored political work, which touches on grim subjects like rape, death, and war, hinges on the same contrast as the film. The poster is based on the film’s alligator-in-an-abandoned-pool scene; the alligator represents the main characters in the movie, who took advantage of the 2008 housing bubble and left the world in desperation when it burst.
Getting Ready for the Big Night
I chose to focus on the muddy gray areas and loopholes within Bridge of Spies. The Cold War was fueled by each side’s increasingly dire hypotheticals, causing mass paranoia among citizens and governments alike.
A large part of the film’s narrative focuses on the extent of protection under the law, especially for a Soviet spy. I reimagined Lady Justice, mixing her blindfold with the American and Soviet flags to represent how both countries were tied to their individuals’ principles of justice even while locked in an unending battle for the upper hand. Set in the eponymous 1950s borough, Brooklyn features then-contemporary imagery that now exemplifies the commodification of Brooklyn as a global brand.
Just as the Pop Art movement utilized mass advertising and irony to re-contextualize commercial art, I drew from today’s vintage, artisanal design trends, which are inspired by that era and setting.
Telephone Booth Shooting
In that vein, I applied the animated footage and vector elements to illustrate how the contrasting settings of Brooklyn and Ireland re-contextualized the protagonist’s identity through a fluctuating sense of “home.”
The 88th annual Academy Awards are underway, and viewers are anxiously awaiting the ceremony to find out if their favorite flicks and actors win, which categories will see big “upsets,” and which speeches and performances will stand out. Not to mention how host Chris Rock will approach the “Oscars So White” controversy, and who he will target during the opening monologue. Did Leo finally take home a golden statue? The buzz began during the red carpet events prior to the official event.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Hateful Eight, seemed slightly out of it during her interview with Ryan Seacrest on E!’s special. But arguably the biggest surprise was Best Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominee Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) playing to their nostalgic fans by walking the red carpet together. Can you believe it’s been nearly two decades since they starred together in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic (which took home Best Picture)?
“If hosts were nominated, I wouldn’t be here; instead, you’d have Neil Patrick Harris.”
Rock, who addressed the issues with ease and expected humor, added that he did seriously consider quitting after so many people spoke out and pressured him to do so. “But the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart,” he said, as the crowd erupted in laughter (including Hart himself, who was in the audience).
Arguably, the best part of Rock’s monologue was his blatant dig at Jada Pinkett-Smith and her vocal “boycott” of the Oscars. “Isn’t she on a TV show? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties,” he said.
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Google issues statement on MSFT's hostile Yahoo bid
Xeni Jardin 1:35 pm Sun Feb 3, 2008
Google SVP David Drummond published a post titled "Yahoo! and the future of the Internet" a couple of hours ago on the official Google blog. It's the first official statement I'm aware of on the matter from Google. Snip:
The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's what makes the Internet such an exciting place.
So Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies — and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.
Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses — to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions — and consumers deserve satisfying answers.
Link. NYT analysis piece by Miguel Helft here.
Image ganked from jgolson's contribution to this Fark photoshop contest (produced with Valleywag), which is full of LOL.
UPDATE: Redmond responds. Statement from Brad Smith, General Counsel, Microsoft.
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The Workload is The Striking Point
The union that represents registered nurses at both Tufts Medical Center in Boston and Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester notified both health care providers that it plans a one-day strike on May 6th to emphasize the nurses’ demand for higher staffing levels. The nurses threatening to strike at Tufts Medical Center and Saint Vincent Hospital are not the only ones. They join fellow nurses at an increasing number of hospitals nationwide where disputes are erupting over how many patients are assigned to each nurse. While the ratios vary by hospital and by shift, an increasing number of hospitals have reduced staff levels in an effort to cut costs. Many tasks once handled by full-time nurses are now being handled by technicians.
The nurses at Tufts say that by forcing them to care for too many patients, the hospital’s quality of care is being jeopardized. Hospital officials dispute that assertion. The patient to nurse ratios varies depending on the type of unit and the time of day. For example, a pediatric Tufts nurse cares for at least 1.4 critical care patients while a nurse at Mass General takes care of 1.03 patients. The nurses at both hospitals are represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
Tufts chief executive Ellen Zane said she believes that the union’s parent organization, the National Nurses United is pushing its national agenda of mandatory patient-to-nurse ratios by encouraging the 24 hour walkouts which will force hospitals to spend millions on replacement workers. “It is hypocritical for the MNA/NNU to claim it cares about patient safety while it authorizes a potential walkout that would cause undue stress on patients and their families,” Zane said in a statement recently. If the Tufts nurses strike, it would be the first nurses strike at a Boston hospital in 25 years, since the Carney Hospital nurses walked off in 1986. The union must give management 10 days notice before a one day strike. If they take such action, Zane will not allow them to return to work for five days because it doesn’t make sense to hire and train hundreds of temporary nurses for one day. The strike could cost the hospital as much as $4.2million dollars.
Chuck Idelson, a spokesman for the national union, denies that state and national union leaders have had a role in the Massachusetts disputes. Idelson points out those nurses’ workloads are a preeminent issue for nurses throughout the US. More hospitals are being run by firms whose focus is on the bottom line rather than the service they are supposed to be providing to patients.
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July 29, 2018 Family & RelationshipsTeri
For as far back as I can remember I always thought my middle name was spelled Dawne.
I first saw the spelling of it in my teens, on my Social Security Card, and took it for granted that my mother for some reason or another chose to spell it that way.
And over the years I’ve joked with my friends about the “e” at the end.
Dawn with an e. A typo? A misspelling? A careless mistake?
Why the e?
But the sad truth is that every time I asked myself the why-the-e question, I always came back with the same follow-up:
Why the me?
The me was the harder of the two questions.
And the e? Well, that mystery has recently been solved.
Last month, while combing through ancestry.com I came upon myself, and I discovered that my middle name is Dawn. No e.
I was sure that ancestry.com had made an error, so I ordered an original birth certificate, and upon its receipt, I discovered that there was, in fact, no e.
Sixty-five years later, I guess it’s good to know.
But I’m still in the dark about the me.
On a recent Saturday, while listening to my favorite songs on my iPod, I passed a mirror and caught my image.
I intently checked out my reflection. I critically scrutinized myself.
Mirror mirror on the wall.
I looked old, and most definitely not the fairest of them all.
I was eyeing myself up and down, not in a critical way like I need to lose weight—but with an eye for WTF happened to me.
Not just this week, or last week, or last month, or last year, but five, ten, twenty, forty, fifty years ago.
All the way back to fifty long years ago.
And that memorable day back in high school when I received my Social Security Card in the mail.
There it was. Three names.
My first name had been completely obliterated. Theresa had been replaced with Teri.
For my first few months in a new school and town, I had been viciously bullied and called “Theresa the greasah,” so a family decision had been made long before the Social Security Card arrived that my first name had to go.
And I was okay with that.
Terry with a “y” was deemed too masculine. Teri with an “i,” now that was an excellent Westport Connecticut name according to the fam.
One might read this and think “How awful.”
I didn’t feel awful about it. But I was praying that “Teri” didn’t rhyme with anything hurtful.
So I was mentally prepared for the first name, but as I fingered the Social Security Card, the middle name struck me as odd.
D-a-w-n-e.
I immediately thought that the e at the end was weird, but I wasn’t about to ask my mother any questions. That was back in the old days when children were seen and never heard.
So I begrudgingly accepted Dawne, although I would have much preferred Dawn.
And then there was my new last name.
It had been changed to something else because I had been recently adopted by my step-father.
Now, I was upset about that.
Actually, I was devastated by that.
I didn’t want to be adopted, and I certainly didn’t want to change my last name.
Because that meant that my father, whoever and wherever he was, let me go.
He gave me up to some other man.
My father gave me up. He gave up on me.
Turns out I was wrong about that.
Turns out I was wrong about a lot of things back then.
I would come to find out almost ten years after my Social Security Card arrival that my last name was illegal, and then of course last month, that Dawn-with-an-e was a typo.
Illegal and typo.
Just like my first, middle, and last name on that Social Security Card, I was all scrambled up and nothing was left of the original me. No security at all.
Back to the mirror, mirror on the wall.
There was no one to ask. No one to reassure or reaffirm who I was seeing, staring back at me.
Me with illegal-typo me.
No makeup, just plain-faced, with frizzed up hair, and haphazardly dressed in my daughter’s hand-me-down clothes.
Most people tell me I look like an entirely different person with vs. without makeup.
And many of them think they are being brutally honest when they confide to me that yes, I look better all dolled up.
“You don’t think I know that?” I always respond to them.
“Then why go out bare faced?” they ask.
Because I don’t care.
And because I feel the full force of me with a naked face.
And anyway, with the war paint, I feel fake, unnatural, itchy, unreal. Illegal.
In the old days, it was all about:
Mascaraed eyes black to the max. Check.
Fake smile. Check.
Every strand of hair in place. Check.
My fancy clothes, my fancy shoes. Check. Check.
Now it’s about:
No makeup, naturally dried hair, dressed in hand-me-downs. That’s me. The authentic and real me.
Broken blood vessels, dark circles under my eyes, my disappearing eyebrows, and those despised sun dots and spots. I no longer call them beauty marks. I know full well what they are.
I feel the plain me is my best me.
The free, fresh faced me, able to run outdoors any time, and anywhere and immerse my whole self in a torrential down pouring of rain. No worries that my makeup will streak or smudge.
And it is so helpful when the tears come streaming down. No worries that black mascara will run down my face like one of those scary clowns.
The sensitive me, immersed in the unforgettable scent of a fresh storm, the mesmerizing pitter-patter sounds the wet stuff makes, and the hypnotic effect that each drip and drop have on my psyche as they gently or ferociously land on my makeup-free face.
Or the poetic me that adores the clean taste of rainfall as I gaze upwards with arms outstretched and imbibe in a wondrous drink from the clouds.
And when I sometimes wash my hair in the tumultuous downpour, I wonder if anyone who loves or loved me is looking out at the same tempest, at the same time, and dreaming about what ifs.
Because those who have been nearest and dearest to me, know I adore the rain and the dark, dreary days, the squalls, the windstorms, the whirlwind gales, all of them.
But gazing at my rainless, unpoetic, and makeup free mirror image, I studied the sad eyes sadly studying me back.
Who the hell am I and who the hell else is out there?
So many of us feel connected to our ancestral roots. We dream of tracing our familial trees. We dream of finding long lost family members or experiencing the Aha moment.
I have always believed that it was fundamental and essential to my self healing that I figure out my who and where.
I spent a lifetime trying to fit the pieces together, convinced that I couldn’t move forward until I stepped backwards in the hopes of figuring out where I had been. Who I was to people.
Some fifty years ago and way before the internet, I would drive around Bridgeport, trying to find streets, houses, and tenements, in a desperate search for answers, and something—anything that might spark a memory or two. Good or bad. Something solid to hang on to.
And then after the internet, and with the same driving courage, I was able to find out more about me and my mysterious roots.
My years of familial searching and then finding, taught me to be careful about what one wishes for.
And to be mindful that in the looking, one might actually find something, and that something might be worse than the not knowing.
As an example, I tried to find out who my father was for years. And once I was successful in my pursuit, I discovered that there was a massive divide between who I dreamed my father was, and who he turned out to actually be.
In my search for the truth about my father, the truth was indeed stranger, and much more personal and painful than fiction.
But I’ll save that story for another time.
Growing up, I was never sure about who I was. And sixty-five years later, I’m still partially in the dark.
And even though I’ve already unearthed some painful stuff, I’m not afraid of finding out more.
In the end, I am who I am, no matter what I find out.
I was in the seek-and-you-shall-find mode, no matter what the outcome.
Call it a late-in-life crisis. But to be honest, this crisis has been a lifetime in the making.
I decided to treat myself to a tell-all for my 65th birthday.
I threw fearful to the wind and decided to research the two most sought-after companies who collect DNA information—Ancestry and 23andMe—before making my final decision about which one to go with.
Ancestry has sold over three million DNA kits and counting. It has user-generated content that has made it possible to produce more than 70 million family trees and offers access to over 16 billion online records.
I know, I sound like a commercial.
And then there’s 23andMe.
More than 1 million people have been genotyped through 23andMe.com.
If you’re curious about why the company is called 23andMe: It’s named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in each human cell. They also offer estimates of predisposition for more than 90 traits and conditions ranging from baldness to blindness.
I wasn’t interested in predisposition. That would be way too much information for my liking.
I wanted to find stuff out, but I’m not that curious.
I’m interested in family stuff, not health stuff.
It would be my luck to rummage around and find some unintended and wholly unwanted predispositions. Baldness? Blindness? No thank you.
I love rainstorms. Healthstorms, are a whole other ball of wax, and I prefer to stay as in the dark about them as possible.
So I decided to go with Ancestry.com.
For $99, I was sent a vial in which to deposit my saliva. I mailed it back, and three weeks later I received the written details of me.
Within minutes I discovered the new Dawn, no e.
When I finished reading the Teri report, I looked around my desk at all the fading black and white photographs of me as a baby, with my grandmother, great grandmother, and mother.
I thought about the patchwork quilts and crocheted afghan blankets, the nursery rhymes sung in French, the recipes for rhubarb pie and macaroni with hamburger casserole.
Try as I can, the words to the French ditty have long been forgotten, but I see in those photos that I was someone special to somebody.
And I finally realize that I don’t need the photographs to recall the love. I can unearth the adoration any old time I want to, in the deepest caverns of my mind.
I can ensconce myself in my grandmother’s afghan and quilts, amidst the quiet memory of the why and who I was at least to her.
The rest I guess be damned.
Because I finally feel at peace with me. With or without the e.
The Secret Sits
July 14, 2018 PoetryTeri
Robert Frost’s poem “The Secret Sits” is one of my all-time favorites.
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Secret, with a capital S.
It’s a simple couplet; just two lines of poetry that rhyme, but brilliantly speaks volumes to me.
I’m sure it speaks volumes to you as well.
And I’m equally sure that how and why it touches you is entirely different from what Frost’s poem means to me.
Its poetic rhythm is in anapestic trimeter; a rhythmical combination of anapest: (A foot of poetic verse consisting of three syllables) and trimeter: (Three iambic feet within a single line of poetry).
In the middle.
July 6, 2018 Blog FictionTeri
It was a destination wedding, and Evangeline was an invited guest and close friend of the bride’s father.
Evangeline expected the event to be somewhat melancholy because the bride’s mother had suddenly and unexpectedly died several years earlier.
Upon her arrival at the hotel, Evangeline quickly ascertained that the family of five was in a profoundly ruptured state.
The lobby was her first indication of trouble.
The father was sitting in the far corner with his girlfriend, and Evangeline immediately felt the negative aura in the room.
The four siblings were scattered here and there, marking their separate corners.
The two daughters were as far away from their father as was possible and it was apparent that they were not on speaking terms with his girlfriend.
The eldest son sat in a club chair not far from his dad, his young daughter on his lap, while his wife stood protectively next to them in mama bear mode.
The youngest son/child had no seat, and he moved awkwardly back and forth between his father, brother, and sisters, while the father’s girlfriend intently scrolled through her phone pretending to be busy.
The bride’s mother, gone for almost nine years had been a beautiful but fragile soul, and Evangeline could see that time had not been healing.
At the rehearsal dinner, there were additional signs of unnervingly silent pain and animosity as Evangeline continued to observe and assess the situation.
The youngest brother was clearly loved by all and again drifted from brother to sisters to father. The oldest brother, his wife, and child were purposefully avoided by the sisters who were attached at the hip. And neither daughter approached their father at all.
Evangeline felt sadness for the eldest who was visibly distressed, and so she made a point of going up to him with the hope of eliciting some information. But they only briefly spoke about insignificant nothings while he occasionally and warily eyed his sisters.
The next day, Evangeline could not fathom why the youngest brother was in the wedding party but not the oldest.
And the child of the oldest brother was in the wedding, but completely ignored by everyone else in the party except the younger brother who went out of his way to mollify her.
After the nuptials, there was the usual eating, drinking, and dancing. But Evangeline was obsessed with the sub plots playing out before her.
The family of five sat at four separate tables and four corners apart: Daughters, father, eldest son, youngest son.
Four heartbreaking scenarios: Daughters. Daughters vs. father/girlfriend. Daughters vs. eldest brother/child/wife. Youngest brother floating uncomfortably in and out of all three camps. Appeasing and floating from corner to corner. From camp to camp.
Then came the unforgettable finale.
It started with the deejay who switched it up from Motown to Madonna.
Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone. I hear you call my name. And it feels like home.
Evangeline, who was sitting closest to the eldest brother, witnessed the simultaneous familial eruption.
The eldest brother shot out of his seat while yelling out: “Mom’s song!” as he pulled his wife and child to the dance floor.
When you call my name, it’s like a little prayer. I’m down on my knees, I wanna take you there.
The youngest brother bounded up to the oldest, and the two hugged tightly.
In the midnight hour, I can feel your power. Just like a prayer you know I’ll take you there.
The bride grabbed her sister’s hand, and they ran toward the others.
I hear your voice. It’s like an angel sighing.
Evangeline gaped in shock as they all bounced and danced while bellowing out the words to the song, holding their hands close to their mouths as if they were microphones.
I close my eyes, oh God I think I’m falling.
The dance floor remained solely for them. No one dared to intrude in their powerful moment.
I have no choice, I hear your voice. Feels like flying.
Jumping and gyrating to the music, the youngest of the siblings loosened his tie, while the oldest embraced his sisters, who lovingly embraced him back.
Out of the sky, I close my eyes. Heaven help me.
Many of the guests, including Evangeline, were choking up and quickly wiping away tears lest anyone should see. The father was visibly moved, and every person in the room sat quietly mesmerized.
Like a child, you whisper softly to me. You’re in control just like a child. Now I’m dancing.
The sisters clutched the hands of the child and the wife. The wife appeared stunned. The child confused. But their expressions quickly changed to delight.
It’s like a dream, no end, and no beginning. You’re here with me, it’s like a dream.
The six of them formed a circle, and while tightly holding hands they moved inward and outward, laughing and singing and smiling. Inward and outward.
Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there. Just like a muse to me, you are a mystery.
The bride put her head on her older brother’s shoulder. Was she weeping? It was hard for Evangeline to say because her own tears made it impossible to see.
Just like a dream, you are not what you seem. Just like a prayer, no choice your voice can take me there.
Then the song ended and the crowd sat silently, visibly overcome by what they had just seen, and waiting for what would come next.
The family circle broke apart and back to their separate corners they all went.
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Honest and Enduring Flavors of Appalachia
by Jill Sauceman, Fred Sauceman
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When a Midtown-Manhattan chef adds ramps to the dish she is cooking for Pope Benedict XVI, you can be sure that Appalachian cuisine has arrived. But of course the restaurants for the genuine, original taste of Appalachia are in places like Virginia and North Carolina. We celebrate two of them.
Within the same week, New York City celebrity chefs Lidia Bastianich and Mario Batali send out tweets heralding the springtime arrival of ramps in Manhattan. Within a few days, I get a call from a Brooklyn, New York, radio station asking me to explain the appeal of these wild mountain leeks and to discuss the philosophy of redeye gravy. The host remains enthralled as we move to sorghum syrup, soup beans, and chow-chow.
A radio station in Seattle follows suit, in need of information about the cushaw, the large, crooked-neck, striped squash that has been grown in America since long before Europeans came to these shores.
A few months earlier, an email arrived from the Smithsonian and the Zócalo Public Square project, asking me to write about the foodways of Appalachia in the context of “what it means to be an American.” The topic is a profound one, for the argument could easily be made that Appalachian cuisine is our country’s oldest.
Call it resurgence, renaissance, or long overdue respect, for whatever reason, Appalachian food now finds itself in the national spotlight. A decade ago, even seeing the word “Appalachian” on a restaurant menu was a rarity. Now, chefs use it liberally.
At his New York City restaurants, chef Mario Batali serves up ramp ravioli and spaghetti with ramps. He says ramps are the “perfect zing for spring.”
Chef Lidia Bastianich calls them “one of the fleeting pleasures of early spring.” Among her favorite ways to use them is in a spring risotto with ramps, asparagus and morel mushrooms, another Appalachian treasure. She buys ramps as soon as they appear in Manhattan markets and serves them on the elegant tables of her Midtown restaurant, Felidia. When Bastianich was asked to cook for Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to New York City, she prepared a spring pesto for the risotto, and it included a cup of ramp leaves.
From subsistence fare to the plate of the Pope, ramps have traveled an unusual path. Cherokees celebrated the coming of ramps because they were one of the first green plants to appear on the forest floor in the early spring. They believed that the pungency of the plants thinned down the blood and got it moving again, after a winter of relative inactivity.
In white cultures in the mountains, ramps were often viewed as a mark of shame. Coming to school with reeking ramp breath resulted in many children being sent home from school.
Today’s prestige and accompanying high prices for ramps are ironic indeed. I still recall the invitation I received to a $500-a-plate black tie dinner that took place in Chicago. At the top of the menu were ramps and morel mushrooms.
“Farm-to-table,” “sustainable,” “organic,” “locavore”—the hot-button food words of the day—describe practices that have been going on in Appalachia for generations. We just hadn’t labeled them.
Of the many restaurants that now celebrate Appalachian cuisine, two especially stand out. One is rural, the other urban. One is country-store architecture, the other big-city bistro. The Harvest Table is only a few steps from the railroad tracks in the tiny hamlet of Meadowview, Virginia. There’s not much else around it. The Market Place occupies a spot on Wall Street in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, surrounded by restaurants offering the foods of Syria, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and Ethiopia.
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The cultural scene of the s was infused by a spirit -- part relief, part jubilation -- in which entertainment could be enjoyed guilt free, unfettered by the sobriety, austerity, and destruction that had attended the recent Great War. Dance and theater enjoyed a creative explosion, and composers of every musical persuasion participated, producing perhaps more incidental and theater music and ballet scores than at any other time since; scarcely any composer of note escaped the decade without having produced his or her share of such works. Ibert 's Divertissement is drawn from the incidental score the composer produced for the farcical nineteenth century Labiche play The Italian Straw Hat. Labiche's comedy, a classic of its type, recounts the adventures of a nervous bridegroom on his wedding day as he attempts to save a woman's honor by searching for a replacement for a hat he inadvertently ruined, all the while concealing his frantic mission from his intended bride, her suspicious father, and the entire wedding party. Along the way, disguises, unlikely deceptions, misunderstandings, and mistaken identities propel the action to ever greater frenzy before a tidy resolution.
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“Like Burning Man Gone Wrong”
That’s what Vulture has to say about the trailer for the new movie Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth film in the Mad Max franchise by Australian director George Miller. The series has been a big inspiration behind the costumes, art cars, and overall post-apocalyptic steampunk anarchist vibe of Burning Man.
Vulture:
The New Trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road Is Like Burning Man Gone Wrong
As Lindsey Buckingham never said, “It’s a long way down Fury Road.” The new Mad Max reboot has been described as “practically a feature-length chase scene,” and that’s certainly the case for the film’s newest trailer, which is basically 100 percent crazy guys driving crazy convoys around a crazy desert. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron are the main actors, but we can all agree that the real star is whoever was in charge of making all those cars explode.
WIRED was effusive in its praise and excitement:
After watching this clip we wanted to file this under “Greatest Movie Ever Made” even though it’s probably a little too soon to make that call. That said, we’ve got a feeling, deep in our bones, that this movie will be spectacular. George Miller looks like he’s out for bloody vengeance, seeking to rain down hate on anyone who’s dared make an “action” movie since he left the post-apocalypse behind. The Godfather of the original Mad Max trilogy has had a weirdly touchy feely resume since going beyond the Thunderdome 30 years ago. His last four projects have been:Lorenzo’s Oil, Babe: Pig in the City, and two Happy Feet movies. Apparently, handling such sentimental fare has built a swirling tempest of rage inside Miller, because Fury Road looks like it’s not just here to build on the steampunk hellfire deathrace legacy of the first three Max movies. The new Tom Hardy edition of Earth-gone-wrong wants to double down, take eight shots of Absinthe, and inhale a dozen rails of meth before plunging an adrenaline needle into its own heart. Considering we have computers now and they do everything, Fury Road and its very real explosions don’t even feel possible. Who let this happen? Did Miller film on Mars? How many undisclosed on-set deaths will we hear about 10 years from now? This is horrible to say, but if the feature film is even half as good as these first two trailers, it might be worth whatever price was paid—in blood or treasure—to get it made. The only thing left to do between now and May 15th is build a screen big enough with definition high enough to do it justice. We’ll be waiting.
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George Miller went on from Mad Max to make such Hollywood classics as Happy Feet and Babe: Pig In The City.
Burners of a certain age will remember Tina Turner’s epic role in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, part 3 of the series, which was released in 1985 – the year before Burning Man was born. That’s right, when the last Mad Max movie was made, there was no such thing as Burning Man. Will there be any references to the event in this new installment? It seems like the special effects might have improved, and Tina has been upgraded to Charlize Theron, but otherwise, it’s more of the same good stuff that has made the franchise a cult classic, and inspired generations of Burners to go mad in the desert.
Check out a still youthful Mel Gibson:
If you don’t remember the movie, you probably know the song:
Personally, for my post-apocalyptic, cavemen in rags driving dune buggies soundtrack, I prefer 2-Pac and alleged Burning Man mastermind Dr Dre:
Although there’s something to be said for the Zion rave scene in Matrix 2: Reloaded
Art cars galore!
Is this the Mad Max version of Robot Heart?
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Happy Feet gone wrong maybe. The trailers for Mad Max: Fury Road just look like Mad Max 2 and 3 to me. Most people here would agree that Burning Man has already gone wrong- not by road rage or explosions, but by exploitation, skulduggery, defecation on the Ten Principles, and general douchebaggotry. But then again, prior to this millenium, people were already saying Burning Man had gone wrong. The idea of Burning Man Gone Wrong has been a Burner meme since seemingly the beginning; it’s a tired-ass statement, yet to me, it rings truer than ever!
Maybe when the approved vendors stop trucking in fuel and water and stop trucking out greywater and blackwater, THEN Burning Man will start looking like a Mad Max film, Because, BRC is still unsustainable as fuck. But, since it’s already Gone Wrong, maybe one way to help save it would be to shut down the Airport to all but Evac, and maybe limit the size of, and/or tax RVs, but not other vehicles. And no more goddamned escort services/catering companies/private chefs/slavery/art slavery.
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I agree with all of it except RV tax. if anything NO more ticket $. Everyone bring their own shit like how Burning Man started. No land rental either. Whoever came up with the concept land rental deserves your douchebaggotry award!
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The influence of the Mad Max movies on the Burning Man look and feel is impossible to overstate. I too am interested to see how/if BM will influence this reboot.
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Love Fiction (Movie - 2011)
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러브픽션 (Leo-beu-pik-syeon)
Directed by Jeon Gye-soo (전계수)
Screenplay by Jeon Gye-soo (전계수)
•Melodrama •Romance
121min | Release date in South Korea : 2012/02/29
Many male audiences who saw 500 Days
of Summer must have felt that Summer, who was the dominant figure in the relationship, as a cold-hearted woman. Love Fiction is the opposite, a romantic comedy sticking strictly to the man's view of the relationship. An unknown novelist Ju-wol (Ha Jeong-woo) falls in love at first sight with Hee-jin (Kong Hyo-jin) who works at a film importing company when the two meet at a book expo. After a series of dates, they become lovers. Yet unlike Hee-jin, who is looking for a down-to- earth relationship, Ju-wol is unhappy with everything Hee-jin does and the two begin to drift apart. The film is seen only from Ju-wol’s perspective, regarding the course of how a couple’s relationship begins and ends. This film was uniquely constructed by adding the fantasy where complex inner side of Ju-wol is displayed through conversation shared with an imaginary character ' M '. It is Jeon Gye-soo's third film following his musical film "The Ghost Theater" and the realistic love story in the style of director HONG Sang-soo with "Lost and Found - 2010". Encounter of Ha Jeong-woo from "The Yellow Sea" and "The Chaser", with Kong Hyo-jin, who's enjoying her big popularity from her TV romantic character will surely be interesting enough.
Love Fiction | Cast
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Ha Jung-woo
하정우
Joo-wol/Detective Ma
(주월/마형사)
Gong Hyo-jin
공효진
Hee-jin/Hye-yeong
(희진/혜영)
Jo Hee-bong
조희봉
Director Kwak/Detective squad chiefKwak
(곽대표/곽반장)
Lee Byung-joon
이병준
Ji Jin-hee
지진희
Joo-ro
(주로)
유인나
Soo-jeong/Kyeong-sook
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Ha Jung-woo and Ha Ji-won have been voted the most popular actor and actress in Korea in an email poll by the Chosun Ilbo and the nation's largest film ticketing site MaxMovie. Some 25,784 people voted from April 18 to May 5. The two drew 10.1 and 13.7 percent of the votes respectively. But Song Kang-ho and Jeon Do-yeon were chosen as the best -- as opposed to most popular -- actor and actress, with 18 and 23.3 percent. Since the poll targeted online users of MaxMovie who had been to the cinema at least once last year, it probably reflects moviegoers' preferences more accurately than other surveys,...More
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Isabelle Huppert, left, and Jung Yu-mi in "In Another Country", a film by Hong Sang-soo. It is one of 22 entires for the competion category at the Cannes Film Festival. It opens in theaters nationawide on May 31. / Courtesy of Jeonwonsa Cannes publicity ignores chronic lack of interesting roles for actresses By Kwaak Je-yup No one can dispute that the Korean film industry is flourishing. Investment and return are both on the upside. The sheer number of productions is rising, spawning hits and, of course, misses. This year, the local press is abuzz about two homegrown works vying for awards at the world's most prestigious cinema showcase, the Cannes Film Festival, namely "In Another Country" by Hong Sang-soo and "The Taste of Money" by Im Sang-soo,...More
Baek Sang Awards 1 : "Punch" and "The Sun and The Moon"
Is it "Punch" and or "The Sun and the Moon"? While the 48th Baek Sang Arts Awards is about to commence, on the 26th, the question is who will receive the Grand Prize. The 48th Baek Sang Arts Awards will be held on the 26th at 6:30 PM at the Seoul Olympic Hall with hosts Lee Hwi-jae and Kim Ah-joong. This ceremony divides into movie and TV categories. Movie, TV, Entertainment and Refinement are announced by category. Movie and TV are given Grand Prizes and Lee Byung-hun from "I Saw the Devil" and Hyun Bin from "Secret Garden" won them last year,...More
Updated cast for the Korean movie "Love Fiction"
Updated cast for the Korean movie "Love Fiction",...More
Moviegoers Surpass 10 Million in March, Despite Slow Season
Domestic movies dominated local box office sales in March, according to the latest tally revealed on Thursday. They drew a total of 6.79 million viewers last month, marking a 2.5-fold increase from the same period a year ago. Domestic movies seized a 60 percent share of box office receipts last month -- the first time in five years that audiences for Korean movies surpassed those watching foreign films in March. In the corresponding month last year, Hollywood productions and other overseas movies gobbled up a 66 percent share of the market,...More
Actresses in their 30s relay woman power
There is a common factor in all the recent hit movies. That is the performances of actresses in their 30s. Gong Hyo-jin from "Love Fiction", Kim Min-hee from "Helpless", Han Ga-in from "Architecture 101" and Park Si-yeon from "The Scent" are the few that captured the hearts of viewers,...More
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The number one movie this week is "Architecture 101" (건축학개론),...More
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The number one movie this week is "Helpless" (화차),...More
Gong Hyo-jin, Kim Min-hee, Han Ga-in... they are back
Clockwise from the upper left; Kim Min-hee, Gong Hyo-jin, Kim So-yeon, Bae Suzy, Kwak Ji-min and Han Ga-in. The ladies are back on screens. Actresses are making endless appearances in movies in the Korean movie industry currently swarming with male stories. The mark of these actresses in the movies "Helpless", "Love Fiction" and "Gabi" which are currently heating up the box office, are significant. "Helpless" is about a man who looks for his fiancé when she goes missing and discovers that everything about her was a lie. Kim Min-hee's performance in this movie was great enough to say that her potential exploded out,...More
"Gabi" rates 2nd place after "Helpless"
"Gabi" by director Jang Yoon-hyeon hinted a smooth sail by coming in 2nd in the box office. According to the Korean Films Commission on the 15th, "Gabi" recorded a ticket sales of 7237 until 8:30PM and made 2nd place,...More
Added new music video for the Korean movie "Love Fiction"
Added new music video for the Korean movie "Love Fiction",...More
It's that time of day when you might be wondering what there is to do around the country. Our arts and culture reporter Michelle Kim is here to satisfy that curiosity. Hello Michelle. [Reporter : Michelle Kim] Hello Conn-young and hello to you all. What exciting updates do you have for us today [Reporter : ] Well, as you know Conn-young, 2012 has been a great year for Korean movies, with movies like "Dancing Queen", and "Love Fiction" being hits at the Korean box office,...More
HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2011.03.09 ~ 2012.03.11) Claiming almost 36% of the ticket sales is Byeon Yeong-joo's "Helpless" which slots itself right into the top spot this week with 607 080. This is Byeon's first film since her 2004 effort "Flying Boys", and her 2001 debut film "Ardor". "Helpless" stars Lee Sun-kyun ("The Apprehenders") and Kim Min-hee ("Moby Dick") in a mystery film adapted from one of Miyabe Miyuki's (dubbed the 'queen of crime' in Japan) crime novels,...More
"Helpless" beats "Love Fiction" and goes up 1st place
Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Min-hee and Jo Sung-ha's "Helpless" rose to the first place of the box office on its first day of release. According to the Korean Films Commission on the 9th, "Helpless" that was released on the 8th gathered an audience number of 73,895 in 453 screens. The accumulated number being 78,465,...More
"Love Fiction" hits the break-even point in only 8 days
Romantic comedy "Love Fiction", with actor Ha Jung-woo and actress Gong Hyo-jin, managed to break even just 8 days after its release. "Love Fiction", which was released on February 29th, started off with the best opening box office numbers among all comedies and gathered a million viewers in just 5 days. This is the best any romantic comedy has ever done,...More
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An exhibition at an abandoned train station sounds very artistic. [Reporter : Michelle Kim] I completely agree. And it is also interesting to see how things that have been left at the train station could be re-used and mixed with new artworks to portray the emptiness and loneliness of an abandoned train station For instance you can see sculptures of stray cats looking down at the deserted railroad. This just shows us again that nothing goes to waste. Well, Michelle, I'm excited to hear about the next exhibition. What will it be about,...More
HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2011.03.02 ~ 2012.03.04) Chung Ji-young's "Nameless Gangster" once again is forced to surrender the top spot as the new Korean romance film "Love Fiction" steels the show. Directed by Jeon Gye-soo and starring Ha Jeaong-woo and Gong Hyo-jin, "Love Fiction" outshined all this past weekend with 567 533 admissions and just under 40% of the ticket sales. With the expectation of "Love Fiction", this week's top ten is largely dominated by foreign entries, including Martin Scorsese's awarding winning "Hugo",...More
[WE+Movie] March, actresses compete in Chungmuro
Spring in March, the activities of actresses with strong ticket power is coming to attention. These actresses are Gong Hyo-jin, Han Ga-in, Kim Min-hee and Kim So-yeon who are all about the same age in their early thirties but withhold different appeals. Gong Hyo-jin (32) starts off first. She took on the role of career woman Lee Hee-jin in the comedy movie "Love Fiction" that was released on the 29th of February. She is also the perfect woman Koo Joo-wol (Ha Jung-woo) has been looking for all throughout his thirty something years of life. With the 'armpit hair' episode an issue about the movie, Gong Hyo-jin doesn't seem to mind the image of an actress when it comes to acting and was cool about it, making people say, "Gong Hyo-jin indeed!". "Love Fiction" is currently ranking top 1 of the box office,...More
The number one movie this week is "Love Fiction" (러브픽션),...More
'Love Fiction' rises above all hype
Ha Jung-woo, left photo, shines as the lovesick writer Goo Joo-wol. Best-known for his ruthless killer roles, Ha proves his versatility in Jeon Gye-soo's genre-bending film "Love Fiction", currently in theaters nationwide. The marketing drive for "Love Fiction" was systematic and fierce. Backed by four of today's hottest stars in the credits and inflating for more than a month, the hype was ripe. And it was effective, attracting more than 450,000 moviegoers in two days, since its release Wednesday,...More
"Love Fiction" Gong Hyo-jin says "Ha Jung-woo is hard to know"
Gong Hyo-jin spoke about her impression of Ha Jung-woo whom she just made movie "Love Fiction" with. She started off by saying, "Sometimes I think I know him but then again I don't". She continued, "I think he thinks comfortably of me. He says he wants to be friends until we become old but sometimes he's very bad tempered too",...More
Ha Jung-woo and Gong Hyo-jin's "Love Fiction" a hit on opening day, climbing to the top of the box office
Co-starring Ha Jung-woo and Gong Hyo-jin, "Love Fiction" has a good showing on opening night, taking in many admissions. According to the admission records of the Korean Film Council, "Love Fiction" (directed by Jeon Gye-soo), which premiered February 29th, took in 163,850 admissions on opening night, making it a likely box office hit,...More
Korean movies opening today 2012/02/29 in Korea
Korean movies opening today 2012/02/29 in Korea "Love Fiction" and "Comic Book Store 3D",...More
Gong Hyo-jin: 'I Am Trying to Break My Limits'
Actress Gong Hyo-jin plays female protagonist Lee Hee Jin in the movie entitled "Love Fiction". Gong Hyo-jin is not an extremely beautiful actress. She has a tall height, slender body, and small and cute face, which are definitely merits for an actress, but she approaches the public with a completely different strategy. She presented pure and intense emotion in the movie "Crush and Blush" (2006) and the psychology of a straightforward woman with an understated personality in the movie "Rolling Home with a Bull" (2010). Gong Hyo-jin received huge popularity with the drama "The Greatest Love" last year, and she has made a comeback to movies after a two year-break with her appearance with actor Ha Jung-woo in "Love Fiction", which was directed by Jeon Gye-soo. Gong Hyo-jin will play a provocative woman named Hee Jin who works in a movie production company. She will fall in love with an unknown novelist named Joo Wol (Ha Jung-woo) in the movie,...More
HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2011.02.24 ~ 2012.02.26) It was a close finish this weekend but Yoon Jong-bin's "Nameless Gangster" has reclaimed number one with 353,688 admissions. That's just 23,145 admissions over last week's top performer "Howling" which came in second. "Nameless Gangster" is now just short of 4 million admissions as it moves up to be Korea's most successful film of the year so far,...More
Korean Box Office for the Week-end 2012.02.24 ~ 2012.02.26
The number one movie this week is "Nameless Gangster" (범죄와의 전쟁 : 나쁜놈들 전성시대),...More
Gong Hyo-jin's armpit hair "I wanted to grow it out but work got in the way…"
Gong Hyo-jin is known as the armpit hair girl in the movie "Love Fiction". Gong Hyo-jin showed her armpit hair for the first time in the romantic comedy movie "Love Fiction", released for the first time on February 15th in Seoul,...More
Gong Hyo-jin Flashes Her Unique Charms in New Movie
Actress Gong Hyo-jin plays the role of a woman who does not care much for social conventions, but is nonetheless a charming, laid-back and unpredictable character in the romantic comedy "Love Fiction", which will be released next week. This marks a continuation from her previous acting choices in movies like "The Birth of a Family" and "Crush and Blush", which also saw her take on unconventional roles and turn unpleasant characters into lovable ones,...More
South Korean actress Son Ye-Jin
South Korean actress Son Ye-jin appeares in front of the camera in a movie preview of "Love Fiction" held at Mega Box theater in Seoul's Samsung-dong on Feb. 20, 2012. Son Ye-jin has taken on a variety of roles in her career to date, propelling her to fame both in Korea and in other Asian countries. She first appeared in a supporting role in Park Ki-hyung's film "Secret Tears" in 2000, and then went on to take the lead in TV dramas such as "A Delicious Proposal", "Sun-hee and Jin-hee", and "Daemang". Her first high-profile role in cinema was in Im Kwon-taek's "Chihwaseon", which screened at Cannes and took home a Best Director award in 2002,...More
Added new stills and video for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction"
Added new stills and video for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction",...More
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Introducing the greatest love story of our time If you're expecting a typical lovey-dovey story between Ha Jung-woo and Gong Hyo-jin, you're in for a real surprise. This is no ordinary love story! "Love Fiction" presents the audience with the good and bad of love and relationships in the real world,...More
Finecut announces new KIM Ki-duk film
Seoul-based sales company Finecut has announced the well-known Korean director Kim Ki-duk's next film, tentatively titled "Pieta", is set to start shooting this month. The film is about a brutal man who works for a cruel loan shark. Without any family or loved ones to worry about, he has no fear or hesitation when it comes to carrying out his evil deeds. One day, a mysterious woman shows up in his life, saying she is his mother. At first, he doesn't believe her, having no memories of a mother. But as his attachment to her grows, he discovers her gruesome yet sad secret,...More
Added music video, new stills and updated cast for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction"
Added music video, new stills and updated cast for the upcoming Ko,...More
Today's Photo: January 31, 2012
Actress Gong Hyo-jin poses at a press event for her new movie "Love Fiction" in Seoul on Monday,...More
Trailer released for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction"
Trailer released for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction",...More
Added new poster for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction"
Added new poster for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction",...More
Dilemma: shooting two movies at the same time?
Some actors and actresses are feeling stressed about movies they star in that are released at the same time or just a few weeks apart. "Pacemaker", with Ahn Sung-ki, Kim Myung-min and Go Ara and "Unbowed" are being released at the same time on January 19th,...More
Who's the busiest actor of 2012?
Who is going to be the busiest actress or actor in 2012? Looking at the movies that are being released or are planning to go into production this year, we can see several names that appear often,...More
Added characters posters and new stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction"
Added characters posters and new stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction",...More
Added Ha Jung-woo's girlfriend trailer and first stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction"
Added Ha Jung-woo's girlfriend trailer and first stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Love Fiction",...More
Yunjeong KIM, Director of International Sales, Finecut
It's been 11 years since Yunjeong KIM at Finecut, a Seoul-based film company specializing in overseas sales and financing, has joined the Korean film industry. From her earlier days at Cineclick Asia to her current title as the Director of International Sales, Kim still enjoys every bit of her job discovering new films. KOBIZ caught up with Kim after her recent trip to the American Film Market (AFM),...More
Finecut sells Leafie to Italy, launches new films at AFM
Major South Korean sales company Finecut has sold hit animation "Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild" to Mediterranea Productions for Italian-speaking territories at the Rome Film Festival's Business Street market. Mediterranea Productions plans to release the film in Italy on 50 screens with Italian dubbing. South Korea's highest-grossing theatrical animation, "Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild" took in over 2.2 million admissions on release this summer in Korea. The film previously sold to Ex-USSR excluding Baltic States (CP Digital), Portugal (Lanterna De Pedra Filmes), Turkey (Horizon), Middle East (TDH), and Indonesia (Pratama). Finecut expects more sales to France and Germany during the American Film Market (AFM) which started yesterday,...More
Ha Jung-woo on the verge of entering America
Discussing main role for film noir. Actor Ha Jung-woo is on the countdown to advancing into the United States. He has now joined the recent group of Chungmuro actors and directors who have been advancing into America.,...More
Lee Byung-joon is a judge for diet survival, "Victory"
Actor Lee Byung-joon has been cast as a judge for the SBS TV program "Victory". It is a follow up of Kim Yu-na's "Kiss and Cry" which ended on the 21st about 20 people who want to go on a diet and choose the final winner through 5 months of living together,...More
Gong Hyo-jin to act couple with Ha Jung-woo and not Ryoo Seung-beom
Actor and actress Ha Jung-woo and Gong Hyo-jin will act as a couple. Management N.O.A Entertainment revealed, "Ha Jung-woo and Gong Hyo-jin have been cast as lead character in movie "Love Fiction" (directed by Jeon Gye-soo/ produced by Samgeori Pictures and N.O.A Entertainment)".,...More
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Flow XS is an urban dance duo from Canada with a unique advantage; they are brothers who have danced together for over ten years. Michael (23) AKA “Hydroflow” and Kevin (19) AKA “Kid XS” are brothers of Filipino and German descent who have trained in various dance styles and have been recipients of numerous awards and scholarships in their already impressive career. Breakaway Daily spoke with Michael “Hydroflow” and Kevin “Kid XS” about their achievements so far, what’s next, and why being a sibling dance team is so special in our exclusive interview.
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Flow XS have appeared in music videos, commercials and have performed live with Avril Lavigne, Austin Mahone and Julius Wilson. The duo even have a number of film and TV dance credits to their name including Disney’s Zombies, The Next Step, Make it Pop, Backstage, Rookie Blue, and RocKids TV. They have performed across Canada and the US at various cultural and charity events as well as at World of Dance Toronto, We Day, Youth Day, Toronto Choreographer’s Ball, Fever After Dark, Carnival New York and Carnival Los Angeles. Spreading their love of dance, Flow XS are members of The Vibe Xclusive, E3 Montreal, R2D Faculty, the 8th Union Crew, Industry Elite, immaBEAST and Monsters of Hip Hop. Currently, Michael and Kevin teach classes at the Underground Dance Centre and Millennium Dance Complex in Toronto.
BREAKAWAY DAILY: What inspired you to start dancing?
MICHAEL: Growing up in a household surrounded by music, I was always one to be dancing and moving around, be it to the Weather Network’s Local Forecast or my dad playing around on his turntables. I was also very fond of watching music videos and live performances with dancing in it and I would try mimicking some of the steps. At around age eight, my mom enrolled me in a recreational dance class and I’ve been in love with it ever since.
KEVIN: Watching my brother dance made me want to be just like him. I wanted to do what he did too because I look up to him.
Kevin “Kid XS”
Flow XS
Michael “Hydroflow”
BD: Did you both learn dancing at the same time?
M: I started dancing a few years before Kevin in a recreational program that he would come watch. Kevin would imitate the routines and the instructor thought that was cool, so she asked if he could just keep coming to classes. After that, we both joined competitive and performance studios and learned a lot about the foundation of dance from the instructors. Both of us also went to the same high school, St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, and are graduates of their art program majoring in dance.
BD: When did you decide to become a dance duo?
K: We hang out together a lot so we have sort of always been one, especially when we started performing and teaching. But really the idea of Flow XS started in 2014. It was my first year of high school and Michael’s last year. We were both in the dance program and wanted to do a performance duet together, so we choreographed our own routine and performed it. We also performed separately because we have different styles that we both do well in, but mostly when we teach and choreograph, it is as Flow XS.
BD: Sibling dance duos are rare. Why do you think that is?
K: I feel like it’s because siblings go in different directions as they get older; not necessarily that they’re not close, but life takes them in different directions. And also, because when siblings start dancing, they are in different groups because of their ages, so one will finish dancing before the other one is done and may move on to something else in their lives.
M: I agree with Kevin. I also think it’s rare for siblings to pursue the same profession in a non-competitive manner. In the dance competition scene, you get competitive and form a friendly rivalry between each other because you want to be seen as an individual with your own skills and abilities. And then on the professional level, you realize that you are auditioning against so many more people and then it feels good to have your sibling in your corner. It is a great support system.
BD: What’s one of your accomplishments you are most proud of so far?
M & K: Monsters of Hip Hop Show 2016. It’s hard to get selected for the show by these well known choreographers, and the fact that both of us got nominated and then selected together is a big accomplishment in itself. The experience was great because we were working with the best choreographers in the business, getting our faces in front of agents, industry professionals and making so many friends all while learning what the dance industry is really about. It just made us want to pursue this profession more.
Watch the duo perform to “Do Better” by Chris Brown featuring Brandy
BD: How do you think the Canadian dance scene is different from other countries?
M & K: The Canadian dance scene has so many different aspects within itself: competitive studios, post-secondary teams, street dance crews and industry dancers. On top of this, each major city has their own communities that focus on some or all of these different outlooks. For example, Vancouver gets a lot of commercial jobs (movies, TV, etc), Montreal has a lot of competition TV shows, and Toronto seems to be more performance based and has a lot of drop in classes. But in comparison to the US, there is varied opportunity for professional work. In cities such as New York and Los Angeles, there is always work such as Broadway, commercial, live stage, etc, and people can audition and be hired on a consistent basis. Whereas in Toronto, work may often be scattered throughout the year. We’re not sure about other countries, but dancing in Europe and Asia is somewhere we hope to experience very soon.
BD: What’s one or a few of your favourite choreography and/or dance pieces you have done so far?
M & K: Uproar Toronto Choreographer’s Ball is our favourite piece because it brought together our friends and our mentors in one performance and it was incredible to share the stage with people who inspire us. It was the fifteenth anniversary of Toronto Choreographer’s Ball and our idea was to create a video montage of iconic past performances, then perform our routine with current dancers along with some of our most inspirational mentors to dance with us and showcase who has influenced us.
BD: You also know another famous Brampton, Ontario dance duo, Luka & Jenalyn! You worked with them for NBC’s World of Dance season 2, can you tell our readers about that?
K: We’ve known Jenalyn for a long time. World of Dance Toronto had a competition that we entered in as Flow XS and Luka & Jenalyn showcased one of their routines from Season 1. After we did World of Dance Toronto, they reached out to us and asked if we could help choreograph something for them for World of Dance season 2 because they liked our performance. They also helped us with partner and balancing tricks.
M: We met with them for a few rehearsals. They were fun, patient and extremely hard working. They didn’t stop practicing until they got it. Really cool to see their drive and determination. Our choreography was seen in part of their “Down” routine which was their qualifier piece in NBC’sWorld of Dance season 2. And they made it through to the next round!
BD: Are there any plans for you to compete in NBC’s World of Dance?
M&K: We won the Toronto competition – first place in the upper division but we haven’t made it out to the World of Dance audition in the States. Hopefully in the future we will.
Watch Flow XS’s winning World of Dance Toronto performance
BD: Who are some of your favourite dancers?
M: Marty Kudelka, Rich and Tone Talauega, Tony Tzar, Lyle Beniga, Ian Eastwood, George Jones Jr, Ivan Koumaev.
K: Derick Robinson, Rich and Tone Talauega, Rhapsody James, Caetlyn Watson, Lyle Beniga, George Jones Jr, Luther Brown.
BD: Who are some choreographers would you love to work with?
M: Marty Kudelka, Rich and Tone, Jamal Sims, Tanisha Scott, Luther Brown, Jabbawockeez, Nika Kljun, Chonique Sneed, Rhapsody James, Lyle Beniga, Chris Scott.
K: Luther Brown, Rich and Tone, Marty Kudelka, Rhapsody James, Jaquel Knight, Jamal Sims, Brian Friedman, Miguel Zarate, Nika Kljun, Kevin Frey, Dean Lee.
BD: If you could give advice to aspiring young dancers, what would it be?
M: Remember to always remain a student and know that there is someone out there who is always working harder than you. Stay humble and remember your roots. Know your foundation and history. Remember that it’s meant to be fun.
K: Take every class, every style. Just take it so you can have the basics in every style and then from there you can specialize. Class is a safe place for making mistakes and remember why you started dancing. Dance full out.
BD: What would you like to accomplish in the future?
M & K: We had always said that we’d want to live out our dancing dreams first before teaching and choreographing. As of right now, we would love to go on a world tour with an artist, or work in movies and TV shows; to really get those incredible experiences. In the future, we would love to travel around the world to teach and share what we bring to the table with everyone else. And then eventually bridge into choreography and creative direction.
BD: What are you currently working on?
M & K: We are continuing our performance training with George Jones Jr.’s The Vibe Xclusive program. We also teach at Millennium Dance Complex in Toronto and the Underground Dance Centre in Toronto as well as workshops across Canada. We’re also going to be auditioning and travelling for dance this summer for some shows and performances.
For more information, bookings and merchandise visit Flow XS on their official website. Follow their journey on Instagram @OfficialFlowxs, @MikeHydroFlow, @Kevin_Kid_XS
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all photos: Jeff Martin, unless otherwise noted
How to live and sustain a creative life has always been one of those million dollar questions. And while the answer is that there truly is no ONE answer, this week, a book comes out that shares 40 individual artist essays, told in their own words about what that journey looked like for them. The book, edited by Sharon Louden, is called The Artist As A Culture Producer, and it is being released as we speak, just in time for Armory Week (check out events at Strand in NY, and Hirshhorn and Hillyer in DC to engage more).
One of the essays in the collection is by Jayme McLellan, founder of Civilian Art Projects (which is showing work by Jason Gubbiotti at the VOLTA NY, if you are stopping by the fairs this week, and if not the show will open in DC on March 11th) and her story is a two decade long journey that took her all over the world, but always kept her rooted in DC, the place she was born and raised around, and can serve as inspiration to us all about never stopping working on what you love, with people you believe in.
After college, and a brief stint in New Orleans where she pursued her photography, she made her way back to DC in 1996, and she has not left since. In her essay she describes that time:
My first paying jobs in DC were at bars, until I started working at the café at a Borders bookstore downtown. It was through one of these jobs that I met the director of DC Arts Center (DCAC), B. Stanley. He really took me under his wing as a mentor. Trained in theater and a disciple of Alfred Jarry and Antonin Artaud, he taught me much about avant garde theater And what it means to have a dedicated practice to one’s craft.
DCAC is both a theater and a gallery. While volunteering and, later, creating a fundraising position for myself there, I was exposed to multiple genres of art including contemporary visual art, theater, poetry, and more. I also witnessed rehearsals and exhibition installations. I learned about the challenges of working with artists, funding an arts organization, and the physical maintenance needed to keep an old building functioning. The first time I set foot in DCAC, I told B. that I wanted to raise money for the arts center. He said, “great,” and handed me a broom to sweep the floor. But I was persistent and consistent. I showed up when I said I would.
image: Jason Gubbiotti, MEGA TOUCH, 2016 – 2017, Acrylic on wood panel, 27 ¼ x 17 ¼ in
After eventually curating shows at DCAC, Jayme’s next stepping stone was The Tandem Project, was the a huge idea where I’d go to the countries of the former Yugoslavia to meet with artists and curators and bring some of them to DC for a residency and exhibition. It was through this that she met Victoria Reis, then an independent curator herself, and her future partner in co-founding Transformer in 2002. She shares about that time:
“…finding a partner who shared my desire to create a more permanent support system for artists led Victoria and I to create Transformer, a nonprofit arts organization that continues to thrive as an anchor of support for artists. I didn’t know at the time that starting this organization was basically going to put my art career on pause for ten years. I learned that the hard way, but when I look back now, it was worth it. I learned so much about leadership and discipline and navigating personalities.
The story of how we got the space goes something like this: Sarah called me one day, three times, until I picked up the phone. She urged me to call this guy, Mike Benson, who was starting a restaurant, called Café St. Ex, and was giving up his small studio space around the corner from Fusebox. I called him, and Victoria and I immediately met with him to talk about the cost of rent and the nature of the landlord. Rent was only $800 and, after some convincing, Victoria and I both felt comfortable with taking on the responsibility. Worst case scenario, we could wait tables to pay the rent.”
Transformer is still in that space. As time passed Jayme however, felt the need to do something a little different:
“… We worked together until May 2006, when I felt a pull to create my own gallery—one that would exhibit the same group of artists again and again and allow them to grow and experiment. I wanted to help artists create a more stable support base than our programming at Transformer, alone, could do. I felt that developing artists’ careers through solo exhibitions and the many other benefits of commercial gallery representation was the way to do that. And although I never stopped photographing, I was not actively working on growing my career as an artist at this time. I had a lot of energy for the curatorial work, and as long as I was still carrying my camera around, I felt okay about not pushing my own career. It felt right to push that of others. “
Without wasting any time, within six months of leaving Transformer ….
“…I opened Civilian Art Projects as a spaceless and roving gallery project representing ten artists, many of whom are still with the gallery. I had been making my own work, and showing it some, but for the next four years, I would primarily focus on building this nextt- level step for the community of artists around me. I launched the gallery with a small group of painters, photographers, a sculptor, and two very conceptual artists working in a variety of media. Some of the artists I knew well. The others I found by word of mouth or suggestion.
With a line of credit, a credit card, and no business plan, Civilian was born with a group show at the Warehouse Gallery run by the Ruppert Family in December 2006. The exhibition was a huge success, but no artwork sold. I began to see the importance of space to identity. No one knew this was an exhibition designed to encourage Washingtonians to buy the artwork of the artists living and working around them.”
Since then, Civilian Art Projects has occupied three different spaces, including the current location of Hill Country in Penn Quarter, and Jayme speaks candidly about the things one does to “make it work”:…
“The artists I have selected for representation, two of which were represented by Fusebox, each push his or her practice conceptually, or through innovation, or expertise in process. As a fine art photographer, I may have subconsciously selected photographers who are the best at their craft, so that I can learn from them.
Whether it is through painting, photography, experimental technologies, or ideas about activism and challenging power structures realized in a variety of media, the artists I gravitate toward all work incredibly hard. They are articulate and compassionate. I work with nice people, and that is by design. Life is too short to work with jerks.
Civilian has and will always be about doing things for the community. The gallery has supported emerging and established artists through group exhibitions and solo shows. We’ve hosted dozens of talks, poetry readings, dinners, dances, private parties, and more—so much, it’s a blur. I just counted, and I have organized 120 some exhibitions alone! (Plus scores of art happenings, parties, and band nights.) Once, I hosted a 1 am Red Bull and vodka party—bad idea. The gallery was graffiti-ed, and we finally had to throw everyone out at around 4 am.”
BYT Civilian Art Projects assorted after party photos
“…Despite all of the action, early on, I realized that I should not count on the gallery to sustain me financially. I focused on paying the artists, the bills, and the taxes. If there was anything left over, and there rarely was, that was my paycheck. I needed to take on other projects to make ends meet, including waiting tables at a local restaurant and hosting events in the space in between exhibitions. The events turned out to be decent money-makers and excellent tools to create community, because they brought together diverse audiences and made it look as if the gallery was super dynamic by doing all sorts of things all the time. But they were a lot of work and tore up the space, and I was working way too many hours. Yet, I said yes to all curatorial gigs and anything to do with supporting artists— partly because I wanted to do the work, and partly because I needed the cash.”
BYT photos of Civilian Art Projects happenings
In 2007 though, a defining project happened:
“…I teamed up with Lucian Perkins, Lely Constantinople, and Alec MacKaye to put together an exhibition and, eventually, a book about the birth of the DC punk scene. The project, called HARD ART DC 1979, is a labor of love and does not result in high sales or big revenue. But it has allowed me to curate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, and Agnes B in Paris.
HARD ART also allowed me to dust off my fundraising cap. We have raised money through a very successful Kickstarter campaign, where we met our goal in 48 hours. We asked and received support from an individual donor. I wrote and secured a Sister Cities grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for $12,000 to take the project to Paris. We sell some of the work sometimes. And we all receive royalties from our amazing publisher, Akashic Books. While we don’t get paid, the funds raised have been enough to keep the project going, and we have been able to travel to some great places. And we have a gorgeous, airtight book. HARD ART and the gallery itself have been my best teachers. Literally, art is hard. No one is going to step in your shoes and do the work for you. Intention and perseverance are key.”
That same year, Civilian Art Projects showed at its first art fairs. When we visited Jayme at the sunny new location in 14th street Heights that Civilian shares with G Fine Art, the preparations for VOLTA are in full swing. In her essay she admits to some lessons learned back then:
“… Super excited, yet way too green, I brought the work of too many artists, and they all wanted to come down and hang out in the booth. I also tried to rehang the booth every day, which was stupid. I didn’t account for the climate change of Florida, and our mounted photography started to bubble at the vernissage. I remember taking a nap in my rented car outside of the fair, wondering why I had punished myself in this way.”
Today, she is much more confident about making it work. More than anything, the confidence in Jason’s work shines through. “It is work that deserves to be seen”.
The past few years were tough on things McLellan loved. Aside from some personal losses and shifts, she was on the forefront of the Save Corcoran movement which despite the passion involved was a battle lost:
“We fought very hard but lost the battle to save the Corcoran. In August 2014, a judge voted to dissolve the institution into the sum of its parts, with the National Gallery taking the majority of the collection and George Washington University taking over the school. Losing that battle was another death. In the years since, I find myself still processing the implications of losing one of the oldest museums in the nation. And as I’m still working there, I feel the transition from an independent institution to a large, research university acutely.”
Simultaneously, the art journey never ended. She was “was aching for a show of her own work. For over ten years, I had been giving all I had to support the work of others, happily doing so most of the time, but I was ready to be as much of a full-time artist as possible. I put together a photographic series and video of primarily new work and called it Jealousy of Clouds. I pitched it to Margaret Heiner of Heiner Contemporary, and she agreed to exhibit the work at her gallery in Georgetown.
That exhibition was where I realized I had to make myself and my work more of a priority. I had been letting the gallery, students, and other artists drive everything.”
Jayme McLellan, Jealousy of Clouds, shown at Heiner Contemporary
And while her essay drops off on a positive note, with her teaching at MICA, showing more work and finding renewed energy in the artists she works with in the gallery, we felt the need to ask some follow up questions that pick up where the book story left off.
BYT: 20+ years in, what keeps you going / keeps you inspired every day?
JM: I probably feel like most people right now. What is happening with the current administration is very alarming and at some points it really threatens my ability to enjoy my life. But we are all alive together, right here, and now. This is a gift. There’s much work to do but part of that work is taking care of yourself. I’m interested in how we take care of ourselves and how we are there for our neighbors. I’m also really interested in better understanding cycles and systems, including swaying of public opinion and the fomenting of fascist tendencies from elected leaders. It’s terrifying, yet very interesting. And artists have a key role to play in resisting the agenda.
Art is political. Supporting, showing artists, trying to sell their work – it is all a political act. And better still, asking others of diverse backgrounds to come together around art in an exhibition, it can get people to think outside of the box which I very much eventually leads to an expanded ability to think critically about the world. Thinking for oneself and not accepting anything handed to you as dogma, happens to most thinking/feeling humans, if properly encouraged.
If I can manage to not get too weighted down in the suffering of the world, the newness of every day keeps me inspired. And of course artwork, what artists are making and doing, folds into this. Although I’ve organized too many exhibitions to count, the next one is always new. It’s the “can’t stand in the same river twice thing.” The day is new, the work is new, the artist’s approach has evolved or I’m working with someone I’ve not yet worked with and that is new.
BYT: who/what are you excited about in the art world right now?
Sam Gilliam – I’m excited about what is happening for his career now – the Venice Biennale, etc. Well and richly deserved. He’s the life partner of my gallery partner, Annie Gawlak. It is both of their success.
Protesting – I’m excited that so many people are becoming active and speaking up against oppression and the weird state of the world right now. I encourage breaks, self-care, and a long-term game plan.
Hirshhorn – I’m excited about what is happening at the Hirshhorn. I adored the Ragnar Knartanson show and now Kusama. I can’t wait to see what they will do next.
Local scene – When I started to work in the DC art community, there were far fewer venues then now. Far fewer people. It was close knit and supportive then, but now it has a wider reach. It used to be you couldn’t have two great events on the same night. There were not enough people to go to both. Now that is not the case and it is great. I strongly encourage anyone reading this to find a few art spaces and artists that you love or connect with and start investing in them. We need you.
Civilian’s programming – I’m super excited about what is coming up: Gubbiotti’s show, our summer show, a fall solo show with Bridget Sue Lambert. And I’m working on two independent curatorial projects: 1) Living On The Land at Salisbury University – a group show featuring DC and NY artists; and 2) a retrospective of veteran photographer Frank DiPerna at the Katzen. And there’s more. There’s always more. That’s what I’m excited about. That one thing leads to another.
BYT: why do this in D.C. and not somewhere else?
DC is a great base. From here one can travel anywhere. There’s someone from every field working here so if you want to reach out in one direction, it’s easy. For example, if I wanted to put together a group exhibition about climate change I could reach out to ten NGOs doing work on the subject internationally.
And, I was born here. My family has been based in DC or the nearby suburbs since the turn of the 20th Century on one side. And on the McLellan side I believe they settled in Baltimore in the 17th Century. I’m from here. My roots are here. My family’s bones are here.
Sure I’ve thought of living elsewhere but even if I do I will still have strong attachments here. My fantasy life in 5-10 years includes my having a place in DC, and perhaps Paris, Venice. But of course I don’t need to own these places. I’m realizing that it is not that important to own physical things. Everything’s going to be undone. Strengthen, nurture, and perfect relationships with those who are mutually minded. That’s what is important.
I’m lucky to find myself in a strong, supportive community. I can reach out in any direction and find someone knowledgeable, helpful, supportive. This is the result of spending a long time in the same place, investing. It is truly like planting seeds because the fruits of labor bear more fruit. I didn’t believe this at first and in fact there’s been many times when I have thought of leaving, but the longer I stay the deeper the roots go. And the happier I am I stuck it out.
Jason Gubbiotti, Problems with Infinity, 2015 & 2016, acrylic on canvas, 12 ⅝” x 15 ⅝
BYT: Where do you see Civilian and yourself 5 or 10 years from now?
Doing the same thing – exhibitions, exchanges, traveling, teaching, writing, learning, taking care of myself, helping others when and where I can, hopefully aging gracefully. I guess you could say that my career is a bunch of ideas, strung together, turned into a physical form. This is not an emergency room but I know what I do is important. I’m incredibly lucky to be able to think of something, an idea, a way to educate or perhaps change minds, and then make it a reality through art. That’s a gift.
Read more at: The Artist As A Culture Producer, + check out events at Strand in NY, and Hirshhorn and Hillyer in DC.
Next up for Jayme McLellan: Civilian Art Projects is showing work by Jason Gubbiotti at the VOLTA NY, if you are stopping by the fairs this week, and if not the show will open in DC on March 11th
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“Eat Out to Help Out” extensions in Stirling
by Isla Glen
The month of August saw diners across the United Kingdom enjoying a discount of 50 per cent off their food bills, with a maximum of £10 per person, in certain restaurants. The “Eat Out to Help Out” scheme was designed to help the hospitality industry recover from the impact of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.
Although the Government-funded initiative drew to a close in August, many eateries in Stirling have extended or adapted the discount into September.
Green Gates
Specialising in “Home Style” regional cuisine from the North and South of India, Green Gates is offering a 30 per cent discount on food. The deal is available at dinner time Sunday to Thursday and only applies if you reserve a table in advance.
The Kilted Kangaroo
Travel across the world with the food served at Australian-themed pub, Kilted Kangaroo. From Monday to Wednesday they are offering a 50 per cent discount, with up to £10 per person, on their food menu.
Part of the Cawley Hotel and Restaurant group, River House has beautiful views and a range of dishes. Throughout September you can get up to £10 off per person on food and non-alcoholic drinks, Monday to Wednesday. However, the offer does exclude the dine out for less menu.
Fletcher’s
Fletcher’s is a family run restaurant, with a large menu that uses locally sourced produce. As long as you book in advance, you can get 50 per cent off – with a maximum of £10 per person – on food and soft drinks throughout September.
The Allan Park
The Allan park has a bar, restaurant and coffee house in one. With a terrific breakfast and lunch menu, you can enjoy a 25 per cent discount on food between 8am and 3pm, Monday to Wednesday.
Cronies Bar & Restaurant
The Golden Lion Hotel’s restaurant, Cronies, is offering a Super September deal on their food menu, containing local and Scottish produce. From Sunday to Thursday – with a maximum of eight people – you can enjoy a 20 per cent discount on your food bill.
The Meadowpark Pub and Kitchen (Bridge of Allan)
Be served hearty meals with locally sourced and seasonal produce at The Meadowpark Pub and Kitchen. Every Wednesday and Thursday, during the month of September, you can enjoy up to 50 per cent off your food bill, with a maximum of £10 per person. The deal does not apply to soft drinks or coffees, and cannot be used with other offers.
Spice Garden
Spice Garden specialises in Indian food with a Nepalese twist. From Monday to Wednesday, if you sit in, you can enjoy £10 off per person on food for all of September. Their lunch menu is also discounted by 20 per cent.
Nawab
Experience Mughali cusine at Nawab and until September 30, get 50 per cent off with up to £10 per person. The offer is valid on: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Westerton Arms (Bridge of Allan)
In this traditional dog-friendly Socttish pub, you can enjoy 50 per cent off or up to £10 off per person, Monday to Thursday. They boast a wide range of foods, and use locally sourced produce and Scottish meats.
The Crossed Peels
Wetherspoon has launched a “Stay Out to Help Out” scheme which will run from September 1 until November 11, Monday to Wednesday. Certain items on the menu are reduced, with up to 48 per cent off.
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Christopher Ross BSC / Cats
The musical fantasy Cats follows a tribe of felines, called the Jellicles, who must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer before coming back to a new Jellicle life.
The vivid, dance-filled film is based on the stage musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn was based on the poetry collection Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats (1939) by TS Eliot.
The movie was directed by Tom Hooper – his second musical feature following Les Misérables (2012) – from a screenplay by Lee Hall, and features an ensemble cast, including James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson and Francesca Hayward.
Cinematography on the production came under the auspices of Christopher Ross BSC, whose previous credits include Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010), Top Boy (2011), Blackout (2012), Oasis (2017), the BBC/HBO/FX TV series Trust (2018) and Yesterday (2019). He is currently working on Sally El Hosaini’s The Swimmers.
Credit: Giles Keyte (Universal Pictures)
Principal photography took place entirely at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, beginning on 12 December 2018, before wrapping 66 production days later on 2 April 2019. Vast sets, conceived by production designer Eve Stewart, were built to scale in order to set the cats themselves in the world of human beings – the 2.5:1 scaling ratio being based around a cat standing on its hind legs. This meant a skirting board might be two-feet high, and a doorway well over 20ft. It was also a formula that Ross used to help plan the lighting requirements, camera equipment and camera moves.
Ross says his initial discussions with Hooper about the movie were based around concept art developed by production designer Eve Stewart.
“The story is set in Soho’s theatreland in the late 1920s, where the cats command the dingy, decaying, smoggy backstreets and wasteland. Although there were going to be a lot of VFX elements – such as adding digital fur to the actors, set extensions and CG backdrops – Tom wanted do shoot as much as possible in-camera with our performers on physical sets.”
Ross had 15 weeks of prep, during which time he and his camera crew attended and shot the evolving choreography in the dance rehearsals. “This really helped us embed the camera into the film, especially the visceral, first person perspectives of Victoria, our lead character,” he says.
The DP also undertook extensive research into a sweep of feature films that would inform ways to reinforce the sense of scale and depth – such as Toy Story and Wall-E – as well as Hollywood musicals to inspire the filming of the movie’s many song and dance routines.
“Almost every frame of our film had choreographed moves, and we had all sorts of geometric and free-form dance routines – containing everything from graceful and poised to sharp and fast movements – and I wanted to see how we could make those flow best with the storyline,” he says.
References included elaborate Busby Berkeley productions from the 1930s, through to Singin’ In Rain, An American In Paris, West Side Story, Cabaret, Grease, Chicago and La La Land. Music videos were a visual inspiration too, including Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Smooth Criminal, and Madonna’s Vogue. Ross also considered colour archive shots of Soho during the 1920s and 1930s to help set the decrepit mood.
"Tom [Hooper] has a love of keeping the camera moving, and it was a great deal of fun working out ways of moving the camera. The final film has some huge transformations in operating style from furtive, long-lens handheld, to the sweeping wide angle grandeur on a crane."
- Christopher Ross BSC
After extensive testing, Ross went with large format ARRI Alexa 65 cameras, fitted chiefly with ARRI Prime DNA lenses, which he says, “gave me the best balance of low contrast and fast T-stop to deliver the soft and painterly feel Tom likes. Being spherical, they don’t have the rectilinear issues you get with Anamorphics, and they have fewer aberrations, which would help the VFX vendors. Additionally, I could compose shots with less separation, retaining background details whilst the cameras were focussed on the performers in foreground.”
Cats utilised four Alexa 65s – three for daily production, and the fourth ready for Steadicam sequences – rated at 800ASA, shooting Open Gate ARRIRAW at 6560 x 3100 resolution, with an aspect ratio of 2:1:1, but framing for a 2.39:1 extraction. Ross operated A-camera during production, with Ian MacKay as B-camera/Steadicam, and Oliver Loncraine on C-camera. The production gaffer was Mark Clayton.
“Tom has a love of keeping the camera moving, and it was a great deal of fun working out ways of moving the camera. The final film has some huge transformations in operating style from furtive, long-lens handheld, to the sweeping wide angle grandeur on a crane,” he remarks.
The camera-to-post workflow was established and supervised by a team from Mission – DIT Thomas Patrick, head of colour Pablo Garcia Soriano, technical director Tom Mitchell and digital lab operators Alec Garner and Patrick King. The camera original negative was recorded onto high-performance drives that have a bandwidth of up to 20GB/sec, and use high density encoding to substantially reduce the data footprint.
Patrick used Pomfort Livegrade to perform on-set colour timing for Ross, as part of an ACES colour pipeline that would ensure colour consistency both on-set and downstream in post production. Mission’s near-set digital lab at Leavesden, supplied files for the main editorial team and online cloud dailies, and also managed the VFX pulls. The set-up meant that Hooper and Ross were able to visit editorial at lunchtime to review footage that had been shot in the morning.
Cats required extensive VFX throughout almost all of its 1,887 shots to convert the live-action actors into cat-like characters. Companies that worked on the film included Industrial Light & Magic, together with Technicolor SA subsidiaries Mill Film and MPC. On-set the actors typically performed in Xsens motion capture suits with tracking dots on their costumes and faces. Using the on-set motion data, the bodies of the cat characters were then rendered in post with digital fur which was blended with the actors' actual faces.
Ross concludes: “I am very proud of my work, and that of my crew, on Cats and consider myself very lucky to have been in a team of people who did extraordinary work in bringing an imaginary world to life. Indeed, all of the crafts done on behalf of the film and its storytelling were seriously impressive.”
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Gyaltsen, Khenpo Könchog, trans. "The Story of Angulimala." In The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings, 381–84. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). Edited by Ani K. Chodron. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1998.
Chapter 9 [of the Jewel Ornament of Liberation] discusses purifying evil deeds through the power of remorse. In old times Angulimala, the evil-doer who killed 999 persons, achieved the Arhat state by purifying all his evil deeds with the power of full remorse. Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend says:
One who lacks self guidance
And later possesses mindfulness
Is like a radiant moon being freed from clouds.
For example, Nanda, Angulimala, Ajatashatru, and Udayana.
Angulimala's story goes this way:
While Buddha resided at Shravasti, the ruler there was called King Segyal. He had a special minister who was expert in all different arts and knowledge, and who was very wealthy and powerful. His wife was rather aggressive, not smooth or gentle. But as soon as their child was conceived, she became very gentle, compassionate, and loving. The great sign reader said that this change was caused by the power of the child in her body. So, when the child was born, he was given the name "Ahimsa " (Nonviolence). As he was growing up, Ahimsa was naturally very intelligent, very talented physically, and expert at all different skills. Hi s strength was equal to a thousand people. He was so fast that he could even catch a bird in the sky by jumping.
At that time, there was a Brahmin teacher who was very highly educated in many subjects and who had about 500 disciples. The minister took his son to that teacher so he could teach him all the subjects. Ahimsa's intelligence was so powerful that he could study and understand in one day what it took others a year to learn. It didn't take Ahimsa long to become very highly educated. Hi s teacher was pleased and Ahimsa always stayed with him. The teacher's wife, unfortunately, was very much attracted to Ahimsa's beauty and physical talent, but she had no opportunity to talk to or form a relationship with him.
One time, a sponsor requested the teacher, the Brahmin, to come to his place for three months with all his disciples. The teacher said to his wife, "We have many things to do in our house. Lots of work needs to be done. Who should stay at the house and help you while I'm gone?" The wife said that it should be someone with great knowledge and skill in a lot of areas, and suggested that Ahimsa would be the best. So, the Brahmin teacher told Ahimsa, "You stay at my home and help my wife. Do whatever she advises you to do." Then the Brahmin and the rest of his disciples went off.
The wife thought, "Now I can fulfill my wishes." Soon afterward, she talked to Ahimsa and suggested that he should have an affair with her. But Ahimsa had great reverence for his teacher. Thinking to himself, "This is my teacher's wife, and not only that, this would be against the Brahmin tradition. It would be better to die than have a relationship with her," he did not accept her request. She was very embarrassed and completely upset by this. When the Brahmin teacher and all his students returned, the wife tore off her clothes, scratched her own face with her fingernails, and lay on the floor crying. When the teacher came in the house and saw her in such a state, he asked what had happened. She said, "After you left, Ahimsa was driven by a powerful desire. He wanted to stay here and have an affair with me. Of course, I did not accept his request. Then with his great strength, he did this to me."
At that moment, the Brahmin teacher was very angry, and thought, "Now this Ahimsa is the son of a very important minister. He is very educated and powerful. Not only that, but I could not challenge his power because he has the strength of a thousand men. But I will try a special method to get rid of him." So he went to Ahimsa and discussed things with very polite and pleasant words. He said, "You are one of my closest disciples. M y heart is with you and you are so kind to me. I have a special teaching that I have not given to anybody else that I want to show to you. If you can practice this properly, then without doubt you will be reborn as a god of the Brahma realm."
Ahimsa was so pleased by hearing these words. He knelt down with his two knees on the ground, joined his hands at the heart, and requested, "Master, please give me this special teaching."
The teacher replied, "If, within a week, you can cut the heads off 1,000 people and take a finger from each one and use them as mala beads to wear around your neck, then in this life you will see the face of Brahma directly. Right after that you will be born in the Brahma realm."
After hearing this instruction, Ahimsa had some doubt. He replied to the master this way, "It is not right to be born in the Brahma realm by taking the lives of these people."
The master replied, "You are my disciple. If you don't listen and carry out my instructions, if you don't have trust in my teachings, then you are not a proper disciple. Just get out of here." At that moment, the master stuck a sword in the ground and Ahimsa's mind was completely overcome with great anger. The master put the sword, which he had blessed with a black magic mantra, in his hand. Ahimsa wielded it so wrathfully that he killed whoever he met on the road. From each, he cut one finger and made beads for the mala around his neck. And so, he has been called "Angulimala" (Finger Mala) ever since.
He ran here and there, and within a week he had killed 999 people. Everyone ran away in order to protect themselves, so he could not find one last person in order to make 1,000. During these seven days, Angulimala did not take any food or drink. His mother was overwhelmed with great compassion at the thought that her son hadn't eaten anything, so she started to take him some food and drink. He saw her coming from a distance and thought, "There isn't anyone else around, so maybe I should kill my mother." So he ran toward his mother.
She said, "Son, you should serve and honor your mother. It is not right to kill your mother. It is a heinous crime which will cause you to be reborn in the hell realm. Isn't that right?"
"But, I have instructions from my master to kill 1,000 people within a week. That will create the cause for me to be reborn in the Brahma realm. Now I am missing one finger, so for that I must kill you."
The mother responded this way, "Instead of killing me, just take one of my fingers. Is that possible?"
During this negotiation, the Buddha, omniscient, the embodiment of compassion, all-presence, became aware that this was the time to help liberate this person. In a moment, Buddha emanated as a monk just walking near Angulimala.
Immediately when Angulimala saw this monk and he thought, "Instead of killing my mother I should kill him." So he rushed after the monk, who was walking gently and smoothly. No matter how fast Angulimala ran, he could not catch up with him. Rather, the monk kept going farther away. Noticing that, Angulimala said, " O you monk! Please wait for me."
From a distance the monk replied, "I was waiting for you but you kept running."
Angulimala yelled back, "What do you mean—that you waited and I kept running?"
The monk replied this way, "All my sense organs are fully overpowered by meditative concentration. I always abide in peaceful states. Due to your master's evil instructions, your mind is completely confused and deceived and, so, it isn't stable. Day and night, you are rushing to take life and create inconceivable nonvirtue." The moment he heard those words, Angulimala realized their meaning. He threw the sword down on the ground and did prostrations from a distance, saying, "I take refuge in you."
The monk came forward and remanifested as the Buddha, marked by the all the magnificent signs—radiating light, full of dignity. So Angulimala had the chance to see Buddha directly. At that moment, he developed such confidence and devotion that he regretted his deeds from the bottom of his heart. He confessed all his nonvirtuous deeds. Buddha took him to the temple and gave vast and profound teachings, according to his mental capacity. Angulimala received special insight into these vast and profound teachings and, by gaining confidence in the teachings, the Dharma, he requested to become a monk. Buddha said, "Yes, you are welcome."
Angulimala had his hair cut, became a monk, and went to Shravasti to do a retreat. By receiving those different teachings and because of his great remorse, and his confidence in the Buddha and the teachings, he fully purified all the negative karma he had created by killing 999 people. Eventually, he achieved Arhatship.
This completes the story of Angulimala.
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The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is a masterwork of Tibetan Buddhism. For more than eight centuries, this text has provided a complete foundation for Buddhist study and practice–covering the initial entry into the path and continuing through to the achievement of Buddhahood. It includes teachings on Buddha-nature, finding a spiritual master, impermanence, karma, the cultivation of bodhicitta, the development of the six perfections, the ten Bodhisattva bhumis, Buddhahood, and the activities of a buddha. (Source: back cover)
Gyaltsen, Khenpo Könchog, trans. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). Edited by Ani K. Chodron. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1998.
Gyaltsen, Khenpo Könchog, trans. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). Edited by Ani K. Chodron. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1998.;The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Könchog Gyaltsen);Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan;Kagyu;Sgam po pa;The Path;gotra;Gampopa;སྒམ་པོ་པ་;sgam po pa;dwags po lha rje;bsod nams rin chen;dwags po rin po che;rje dwags po rin po che;sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen;dwags po lha rje bsod nams rin chen;sgam po pa dar ma grags;zla 'od gzhon nu;Candraprabhakumara;དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་;བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་;Jé Gampopa;Dakpo Rinpoche;Takpo Rinpoche;Je Dakpo Rinpoche;Je Takpo Rinpoche;Da'od Zhonnu;Dagpo Lhaje;The Physician from Dagpo;Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche;The Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo;Ü-pa Tönpa; Khenchen Konchog Gyaltsen;མཁན་ཆེན་དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;mkhan chen dkon mchog rgyal mtshan;Ani K. Trinlay Chödron;The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings;sgam po pa
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arhat - A person who has reached nirvāṇa by eliminating the three poisons of attachment, hatred and ignorance having followed the path of seeking individual liberation as a Śrāvaka or a Pratyekabuddha. An arhat, thus, is a person who has overcome the cause of rebirth in the cycle of existence and will not take an ordinary birth again. Skt. अर्हत् Tib. དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། Ch. 阿羅漢
śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to reach arhathood, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt. श्रावक Tib. ཉན་ཐོས། Ch. 聲聞
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Commentary Media
Will newsgathering survive the proliferation of online media?
Supriya Sharma
DURING THIS SUMMER’S NATIONAL ELECTIONS, I spent a month travelling from Guwahati to Srinagar. Journeying by train through seven states, I filed regular dispatches for Scroll, the digital news outlet where I work. The reports used conversations with locals to explore the junctions between politics, everyday life, and people’s hopes and anxieties. The work seemed to strike a chord with readers. It was also noticed abroad; after the series, the American radio broadcaster NPR interviewed me for its popular “Weekend Edition.” But this modest success underscored a more measurable failure. In all, my 25 reports generated fewer page views than about three hundred words of hastily written opinion that I filed soon afterwards. That piece—about some controversially leaked photographs of a male politician and a female news anchor—was published in the early morning, and had clocked more than one lakh page views by afternoon. The final tally was much higher.
Writ large, this is the story of journalism today. Across media, opinion—often highly popular and relatively cheap to produce—is ascendant. Digital media executives understandably favour pieces—humour, photo features, listicles and provocative commentary—that garner page views and court advertising revenues at little cost. Opinion’s financial advantages over reportage have already driven television news channels to reduce reporting staffs and convert primetime news shows into the sort of tamashas that pass for debate. Something similar is happening in print. Newspapers, which once confined opinion to the edit pages, now carry snippets of comment next to news reports (“Times View” in the Times of India) or get reporters to produce commentary (“Semi Column” in the Indian Express). Whatever one thinks about the desegregation of shoe-leather reporting from armchair commentating, the rise of opinion has consequences that go beyond concerns over objectivity or neutrality. The real danger now is the devaluation of newsgathering—the process of acquiring information from primary sources—which remains the foundation on which other kinds of journalism, including commentary, can be built.
Critiques of the Indian media have often focused on the general inadequacy of our newspapers and news channels: reporters rarely look beyond official sources for information; and coverage leaves out vital areas of our national life, both geographic (the North East, rural hinterlands, the tribal belt) and socioeconomic (the lives of the poor and working-class get far less attention than the lifestyles of the rich and famous). Valid as such criticisms may be, they prevent us from recognising the institutional strength of the traditional media—particularly newspapers, the biggest of which have vast information-gathering networks. The Times of India, for instance, might not offer much depth—most of its stories are no longer than three hundred words—but on any single day it publishes roughly a thousand new reports in fifty editions across the country.
Supriya Sharma is a reporter and editor with Scroll. She has earlier worked with NDTV and the Times of India.
Keywords: election journalism digital media newsgathering Indian media
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We’ve Joined Smartgroup’s National Vehicle Offset Program
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NATIONAL VEHICLE CARBON OFFSET PROGRAM
Becoming an environmentally sustainable business is an increasingly important priority for organisations as the reality of climate change sets in. Helping businesses address the climate crisis is not-for-profit business, Carbon Positive Australia. They have just been chosen by Smartgroup – a leading national provider of novated car leasing, to be the Western Australian arm of their national vehicle carbon offset program.
Smartgroup customers who choose to offset the carbon emissions of their novated leased vehicles are now contributing to planting native trees at Eurardy Reserve, which is located on one of only 34 biodiversity hotspots recognised globally. On average, offsetting the carbon emissions of a small car will equate to 27 trees being planted, for a medium sized car, it’s 32 trees and for a larger car, 36 trees will be planted. Annually the new partnership will aim to see over a quarter of a million trees planted at Eurardy.
Louise-Marlena Tarrier, CEO, Carbon Positive Australia says, “We are delighted to be a Smartgroup partner and through our revegetation projects, help their novated car leasing customers offset their vehicle emissions. Our projects not only provide carbon sinks but also much needed protection to threatened species and ecosystems.
“Last year’s fire season was unprecedented, and the loss of natural habitat, flora and fauna was almost unbearable to witness. We are heartened this year to see organisations like Smartgroup expanding their environmental programs and setting goals and targets around their journey. We believe that nature-based solutions, such as tree planting, are fundamental for a carbon neutral future.”
Tim Looi, Chief Executive Officer Smartgoup says, “Offsetting carbon emissions is something that matters to our novated leasing customers. By partnering with Carbon Positive Australia in Western Australia, we’re giving customers the opportunity to offset their emission by contributing to vital local restoration projects like Eurardy Reserve. This is such important work, and we hope it’s the first of many projects we support through Carbon Positive Australia.”
Eurardy Reserve is a WA property owned by Bush Heritage. The planting at Eurardy will contribute towards restoring 1,350ha of previously cleared bushland. Eurardy is part of the South West Australia Ecoregion, which stretches from Shark Bay in the northwest down to Israelite Bay on the south coast.
Louise adds, “This ecoregion is a big deal because it’s internationally recognised as one of the world’s global biodiversity hotspots. These 36 exceptional areas of biodiversity are the Earth’s most biologically rich ‘threatened’ land and make up just 2.4% of the landmass.”
Carbon Positive Australia has worked on some of the largest native tree planting projects in Australia including the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor Project and the Gondwana Link. Since 2006 they have planted almost 6 million native trees across 5,000 hectares.
For more information, access to images or interviews contact:
Jenny Coyle C/O Devahasdin – 0403 904 157 jenny@devahasdinpr.com.au
MORE ABOUT CARBON POSITIVE AUSTRALIA
Your Footprint. Australia’s Trees. Our Future
Carbon Positive Australia was formed in 2001 as Carbon Neutral Charitable Fund. It is a not for profit whose mission is to restore degraded land with ecologically sensitive projects that sequester carbon.
Carbon Positive Australia wants to inspire everyone to understand their carbon footprint, to encourage everyone to plant more trees here in Australia, and to ensure a sustainable future for all by regenerating our land.
You can find out more about Carbon Positive Australia and their work here; Carbon Positive Australia
More about Eurardy
Eurardy Reserve forms a crucial ecological linkage between the Kalbarri National Park to the west, and the Toolong Nature Reserve to the northeast, in Western Australia. This area only occupies 0.23% of the Earth’s land surface, but it contains at least 12.6% of its rare flora and fauna, and it is of great cultural and biological significance.
Eurardy is also located within what is known as the South Western Botanical Province (a province about the size of England). Provincial plants are special because they are limited to living in specific ecosystems determined by climate and vegetation type. For example, on Eurardy’s more difficult to plant yellow soils (the soils that are harder to restore), you’ll find Kwongan Heathland, which is recognised globally as a significant threatened ecosystem.
Eurardy protects more than 500 plant species, including five nationally endangered or vulnerable species. In fact, in 2005, a plant called the ‘Small-petalled Beyeria’ was rediscovered after being thought to be extinct!
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http://www.news24.com/City_Press/Cit...0662%2C00.html. They use their human-like hands to find food in the open grasslands. Baboons do not starve. Other people in the Karoo used pet baboons as watch dogs. “Baboon Matters would like to clarify what we know regarding the male baboon now famous for sitting down to eat a bowl of Spaghetti Carbonaro at a well-known Cape winelands restaurant recently. Baboons are undeterred by buffalo and elephants in a space. Baboons are often intentionally poisoned and killed because they tend to be considered as a pest species. Baboons that are habituated to human food are more likely to come into conflict with humans and more likely to … They are also hunted for their skins—this is more common with the sacred baboon. Baboons are often intentionally poisoned and killed because they tend to be considered as a pest species. Everyone likes to eat a monkey: leopards, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas, eagles, even lions do not disdain on occasion. 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The Yellow baboon can be found in light forests and savannas of eastern Africa, but it has later moved closer to human settlements because of habitat loss. These groups usually consist of seven or eight males and about twice as many females plus their young. But in times of danger, they can take to the trees...and use them to their advantage. The family unit of females and juveniles forms the core of the troop. While warthogs may seem like innocent, herbivorous pigs, at times they can be savage. They also eat other meat products. The yellow baboon typically forages in extended, well-spaced troops, which have been recorded to consist of up to 300 animals. They are opportunistic and can go after food or other objects that attract them. In Tanzania, we rebuilt Manyara Ranch Primary School and equipped it with a full technology lab and a conservation curriculum. DAN DHLAMINI. Baboon snatches ducklings from mum and eats them alive in front of shocked kids at Dutch zoo GOT a story? The Guinea baboon grows up to 20 inches and weighs more than 10 kg. They eat mainly plants and fruits, but they also sometimes eat hares, birds, small monkeys, and antelope. Population Four baboon species (i.e., chacma, olive, yellow, and Guinea) are known as the savanna baboons. The Baboon Monitoring Team, established in Greyton in August of 2017, is an effort to prevent significant human-baboon conflict before it became a real problem for both the Greyton residents and the baboons. The mother of the dead child, Lettie Goitsimang Tukane (34), … Click Here Now To Register and Always Have Something New Worth Reading. Modern Theropithecus gelada baboons live in Ethiopia’s highlands, where they eat only C3 cool-season grasses. Baboons can be quite dangerous to humans, as I recall from my undergrad Primate Behavior class. By Bernard Dupont from France – Common Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) male. The Chacma is generally dark brown to gray in color, with a patch of rough hair on the nape of its neck. That is because they just about eat everything. Grass makes up a large part of their diet, along with berries, seeds, pods, blossoms, leaves, roots, bark, and sap from a variety of plants. Their main concern is not to be someone’s lunch. Cerling notes that primate tropical grass-eaters – Theropithecus baboons and Paranthropus human relatives – went extinct while human ancestors ate … The baboon, like other Old World monkeys, does not have a prehensile (gripping) tail — meaning their tails are not used as a hand — but they are still able to climb when necessary. We also provide training on agricultural best practices, ensuring that communities’ agriculture activities are sustainable and more productive, thereby protecting more space for baboons. Baboons have 5 existing and surviving baboon species. Diet: Baboons are not very selfish in their diet. 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Contracting the Commanders: Transition and the Political Economy of Afghanistan's Private Security Industry
Over the past decade the United States and the international community have funded an unprecedented private security industry in Afghanistan. As a result, this industry has become entangled with the Afghan political economy, as international spending has been implicated in funding informal armed groups and commanders. Considerable uncertainty remains as Afghanistan approaches the 2014 deadline for assuming national security responsibilities.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Matthieu Aikins
Topic(s): Afghanistan, Fragile States, International Security, Transnational Threats
The International Role in Libya's Transition
The International Role in Libya's Transition tracks international efforts to assist the peacebuilding process in Libya, from August 2011 when the Libyan war entered its final stages to the year-long renewal of the mandate for the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in March 2012, drawing attention to the deep level of international engagement there.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Emily O'Brien, Richard Gowan
Region/Country: Middle East, Libya
Topic(s): Fragile States
The Use of Force, Crisis Diplomacy and the Responsibilities of States
The Libyan and Syrian crises have caused major international rifts over the use of force and crisis management. In February CIC convened a conference with the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute and the Brookings Institution to address how the U.S., its allies and emerging powers can rebuild trust around crisis diplomacy. The event involved scholars and officials from the U.S., Europe, China, India and Brazil.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan, Emily O'Brien
Region/Country: Libya, Syria
Topic(s): Arab Awakening, Fragile States
Ensuring Stable and Peaceful Societies: Memo to H.E. John W. Ashe, President of the General Assembly
Peacekeeping in Africa : The evolving security architecture
Why Would Peace Be Controversial at the United Nations? Negotiations Toward a Post-2015 Development Framework
Congo's fractious opposition struggles to mobilise against Kabila
In Congo, peacekeepers at war
Former senior U.S. official Barnett Rubin will speak at SFU Woodward's on future of Afghanistan
U.N. Trapped on Front Lines of New Struggle With Violent Islamists
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2017 Asialink Arts Residencies announced
A range of exciting projects by Victorian artists, or by artists based in Victoria, are among the 33 to be supported through the 2017 Asialink Arts Residency program.
Since 1991 Asialink's Arts Residency Program has provided opportunities for international exchange, creative projects and professional development for arts professionals throughout the Asian region. Encompassing all art forms and practices, Asialink Arts residencies focus on the sharing of skills, knowledge and networks with local host communities.
Announced today, the 2017 program will send 28 Australian arts professionals to 11 countries in the region while welcoming five arts professionals from Japan, India, Korea and Taiwan to residencies in Australia.
Each year, Creative Victoria partners with Asialink to support projects either by Victorian artists or those that bring international artists to our state. The following projects will be realised with the support of Creative Victoria:
Rui Mizuki (Japan), RMIT, VIC
Rui Mizuki is a Kyoto based artist who interprets the urban environment through drawing and sculptural photography. Mizuki will spend three months at RMIT , making use of RMITs extensive facilities and presenting new work. This residency is part of a new Creative Industries Exchange between Tokyo Wonder Site – a contemporary art and cultural centre in the heart of Tokyo - and RMIT.
Hugh Davies (VIC), Tokyo Wonder Site, Toyko, Japan
Interdisciplinary arts worker, educator and artist Hugh Davies will present an exhibition of Australian independent games at Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan. Part of Asialink's inaugural Creative Industries exchange, he will develop a reciprocal exhibition of Japanese independent games to exhibit in Australia, with the intention of furthering opportunities for game artists and curators on both sides of the Asia Pacific.
Shian Law (VIC), Q-Space, Beijing, China
Shian Law will be based at Q-Space in Beijing, a new grassroots collective space dedicated to the empowerment of LGBTQ+ and women through arts and intercultural exchange. The Melbourne based performance artist will undertake research for a new performance and conduct training at the Academy of Chinese Traditional Opera.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano (VIC), BankART1929, Yokohama, Japan
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano are Melbourne based video artists. At BankART1929 the duo will work with local experts and performers to develop a body of work informed by the Japanese avant-garde dance Butoh, exploring the representation of gestures and the gender in different social and political contexts.
Halfsound – artists Alex Fyffe and Matt Hinchliffe (VIC), Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila, the Philippines
Halfsound is a contemporary and experimental saxophone duo formed by Ali Fyffe and Matt Hinchliffe. The pair will return to Green Papaya Art Projects and work with local artists to develop a project exploring the sonic possibilities of deconstructed instruments, while building upon their existing ties to the arts scene in Manila.
Rosie Cook (VIC), Taiyuan Asian Puppet Theatre Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Arts conservator Rosie Cook will be based at Taiyuan Asian Puppet Theatre Museum, working on Chinese glove puppets drawn from the museum's collections in the lead up to a new international exhibition. The residency will be an opportunity for Rosie to share Australian expertise in heritage conservation and community collaboration, while developing her own materials conservation skills.
Other Victorians who will take up 2017 Asialiank Arts Residencies include Kane Forbes (The Art Space for Kids Shanghai), Laura Woollett (Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta) and Christy Collins (Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo).
Visit the Asialink website for a full list of 2017 residencies and projects
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Co-Founder and President, Google
The Beginning of Google
TechAir Date 07/26/2001
A conversation with the co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, about their success.
Daniel Schacter; Gail Buckley; The Beginning of Google
Science, History, TechAir Date 07/26/2001
Harvard's Daniel Schacter talks about memory; Gail Buckley on "American Patriots"; Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Jerry Yang
John Hennessy
John Seely Brown
'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot'; Joe Nocera; Tim...
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"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" with Tina Fey et al. Joe Nocera exposes the NCAA. Apple C.E.O Tim Cook on the future. 53:54
Business, Health, Science
Elizabeth Holmes, C.E.O. and founder of the blood diagnostics company, Theranos. 26:54
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Jacob Weisberg
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Jacob Weisberg, chairman of the Slate group, introduces his biography of Ronald Reagan. 31:54
Ron Brownstein; Johnnie Cochran; Rob Glaser
Entertainment, Politics, Law, Tech
Brownstein on the presidential race; Johnnie Cochran discusses his cases; C.E.O. of RealNetworks, Inc. Rob Glaser. 53:40
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Rosey saved his best for last with his support of Swedish Hospital’s women’s center
By George Castle, CBM Historian
Jack Rosenberg with a typical pose in the old WGN-TV broadcast booth, ready to work with his trusty manual typewriter.
Jack Rosenberg had to be the ultimate people person with the persuasive touch to book sitting presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan for WGN-TV baseball broadcasts.
But as adept as “Rosey” was for the station for whom he served as the “glue” for sports programming for more than three decades, he was even better when it came to dedicating his good works in memory of beloved wife Mayora Rosenberg.
Rather than simply mourning his beloved Mayora through his 80s, Rosey ensured her social-work career in tough inner-city circumstances would be remembered. Using the phone and pressing the flesh, two of his sublime attributes, the gravel-voiced native of downstate Pekin, Ill. helped spearhead a multi-millions fund-raising campaign for a women’s center at Swedish Hospital (formerly Swedish Covenant) in Chicago.
The value of a women’s center was not taken lightly. For religious or other reasons, many women felt uncomfortable seeing a male physician. At the new center, they could visit a female doctor in welcoming surroundings. Rosey’s involvement and work ethic ensured the project would get done.
Unfortunately, the next time Rosenberg’s name came up in connection with Swedish Hospital was the kind of bad news that 2020 — rivaling 1932 and 1861 as the worst years in U.S. history — has trademarked. Media accounts on Monday, Dec. 28, reported Rosey had died at 94 at the hospital.
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Category Chicago Baseball History Feature Tags Arne Harris, baseball broadcasting, Cardinals, Chicago Baseball, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Continental Baseball Network, Durocher, Griffith Stadium, Harry Caray, Irv Kupcinet, Jack Brickhouse, Jack Rosenberg, jewish wedding, Jim West, John F. Kennedy, Lou Boudreau, Mayora Rosenberg, Pekin, Peoria Journal-Star, Robert R. McCormick, Ronald Reagan, Rosey, Swedish Hospital, Tom Hanks, Vince Lloyd, vintage manual typewriters, WGN, WGN Sports, WGN-TV, WGN-TV baseball, White House, White Sox, Wrigley Field
“Better late than never” Dick Allen 1942-2020
By George Castle CBM Historian
and David Fletcher, CBM President
“Better late than never” truly defined Dick Allen’s baseball life.
“Late,” but properly credited, can sum up Allen’s epitaph. The man who likely saved the White Sox for Chicago with his Most Valuable Player season in 1972 died at 78 on Monday, Dec. 7, after a long illness in Wampum, Pa., Allen’s hometown. And now the statistical perspectives will come forth to show Allen is Hall of Fame worthy — unfortunately, posthumously.
Allen was the controversial slugger recognized as one of the game’s best all-around players — a seven-time All-Star, an MVP winner (1972), and a Rookie of the Year winner (1964 — in his 15-year career spanning an era of pitching dominance. Yet decades later the clearer eye of history could put his performance and his impact on baseball in a more proper perspective. He was a man ahead of his times who overcame racism with dignity and grace.
When Allen was on top of his game, he was one of the most feared sluggers in baseball. During the 10 seasons between 1964 and 1973, Allen had an Adjusted OPS (OPS+) of 165, which was the highest-ranking OPS+ in the majors during that decade. That figure was greater than 11 Hall of Famers who played during that era, including No. 2 Hank Aaron (161), No. 3 Willie McCovey (161), No. 5 Harmon Killebrew (152), No. 6 Willie Stargell (152), No. 7 Roberto Clemente (151), No. 8 Mays (148) and No. 10 Al Kaline (140.)
During that decade-long span, Allen averaged 29 homers and 89 RBIs while hitting .299 with a .940 OPS (on base Percentage + slugging percentage.) Only Aaron’s .941 OPS was better over that span.
Dick Allen holds 1972 MVP award at the June 2012 tribute to Allen at US Cellular Field
Allen should have been honored continually on the South Side for his 1972 Most Valuable Player season that teamed with broadcaster Harry Caray to save the White Sox for Chicago. But not until 40 years later was Allen properly recognized for his heroic one-man show in a special tribute and retrospective press conference at US Cellular Field set up by the Chicago Baseball Museum in June 2012.
The man tagged with the nickname “Richie,” after Phillies demigod Richie Ashburn, and not his preferred Dick, was Philadelphia’s first star African-American baseball player in 1964, almost a decade after top players of color broke through in many other big-league cities. He produced, but had clashes aplenty and was booed. Both the Phillies fans and front office did not really know what they had. Time travel to pandemic-upended 2020 before the Phillies franchise properly honored Allen and retired his No. 15 with the Phillies on Sept. 3 at Citizens Bank Ballpark. Allen finally got the apology and redemption from the City of Philadelphia he had deserved for a half-century.
Category Chicago Baseball History Feature, For Review Tags Chicago Baseball, Dick Allen, Hall of Fame, obituary
Trade of base burglar Brock swiped the Cubs’ future, made Cards champs
Lou Brock in the Polo Grounds, where in 1962 he slugged a 460-foot homer to center.
The true measure of Louis Clark Brock goes far beyond his Hall of Fame status, 938 stolen bases — including 14 in the World Series and an NL record 118 in 1974 – along with 3,023 hits.
The complete tally is Brock’s baseball intellect. He was a true student of the game whose bottom line was striving to improve. And those “smarts,” as baseball second-sight was once called, radically affected the fortunes of the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, the two teams to which Brock will always be tethered now that he has passed into the ages at 81, less than a week after worthy foe Tom Seaver.
Ever since June 15, 1964, one of the most infamous days in Cubs history, Brock has been the biggest ghost in the franchise timeline, the all-encompassing “What if?” that took away MVP-style production along with heart and soul from sports’ most star-crossed team.
The Cubs were a slow, ponderous team, and not just on the basepaths. A substandard baseball organization starved for both financial and intellectual capital by Phil Wrigley, likely baseball’s most affluent owner in his time, and then for decades by the Tribune Company could not nearly put together a championship-caliber team for an impossibly long time. All the while when the Cubs could advance just one base at a time, they had squandered away base burglar Brock and Bill North, two-time American League stolen-base king.
Three-hundred miles down Route 66/I-55 and in a more tropical climate, the Cardinals quenched their own 18-year pennant drought by stealing Brock from the Cubs in exchange for aching right-hander Ernie Broglio. Both team and man were simultaneously freed from shackles. Brock stole 33 bases and batted .348 in two-thirds of the remaining 1964 season, as if afterburners were suddenly affixed to Gussie Busch’s franchise. Busch paid decently, for the time, and Brock well-earned his pay leading the Cards to two World Series triumphs and three pennants to round out the Sixties.
Category Chicago Baseball History Feature Tags Baseball Hall of Fame, Chicago Cubs, Lou Brock, St. Louis Cardinals
Injuries, not alcoholism, shortened the career of Dick Allen
By David J. Fletcher, MD, President, Chicago Baseball Museum
Last week, noted baseball writer and Hall of Fame prognosticator Jay Jaffe, author of The Cooperstown Casebook wrote a column for ESPN entitled “Every NL team’s best player not in the Hall of Fame — and should he get in?” [1]
That story ignited a firestorm from Dick Allen supporters who are trying to get him elected this December to the Baseball Hall of Fame when the Golden Days Era Veteran’s committee meets in Dallas at the Baseball Winter meetings.
“Dick retired because he had a bad Achilles tendon suffered in 1974 while playing with the White Sox. In fact he told the Phillies that before they made the trade for him in 1975. They didn’t care, they didn’t let the media know he was injured nor the opposing teams. They wanted him to bat 5th to protect Schmidt and Luzinski. Ultimately it worked in 1976 when the Phillies won their first Championship of any kind since the 1950 Whiz Kids,” stated former Philadelphia Phillies groundskeeper named Mark “Froggy” Carfagno, who has since 2013 run a nonstop crusade to get Dick Allen elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Reading that Allen’s alcohol issues shortened his career was another gut punch to Froggy, who had endured the pain in San Diego when Allen in December 2014 received 11 of 16 votes — or one short of the number required for election to the class of 2015 via the Golden Era committee.
Since that painful day in December 2014, Froggy has continuously campaigned for Dick Allen, now 78 years old and failing health, to get elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame the next time the Golden Days era committee met.
Category Chicago Baseball History Feature Tags baseball alcoholism, Baseball Hall of Fame, Baseball HOF, baseball injuries, Dick Allen
One-time White Sox ‘Mr. Smoke’ Bart Johnson dies at 70 after long career as scout
By Dr. David J. Fletcher, CBM President
Bart Johnson as a teen-age hard thrower who soon got his “Mr. Smoke” nickname.
Bart Johnson, the free-spirited White Sox right-hander from Torrance, Calif. nicknamed “Mr. Smoke” for his 95 mph fastball, died April 22 in Palos Hills, Ill. He suffered from complications from Parkinson’s disease, with which he was afflicted for a number of years.
The Sox’s No. 1 draft pick in 1968, Johnson, 70, spent 30 years with the organization – 12 as a player and 18 as a scout. He became a lifelong Chicago-area resident, making his home in southwest suburban Oak Lawn with his wife Nora.
The 6-foot-5 Johnson, whose birth name was Clair Barth Johnson, played his entire eight-year MLB career (1969-74, 1976-77) as a Sox, then scouted from 1980 to 1997, discovering future White Sox GM Kenny Williams, among others. He flirted briefly with coming out of retirement in 1985 at age 35 at the urging of Roland Hemond, then Sox GM.
For Sox fans, who had seen the franchise go from narrowly missing the pennant in 1967 to utter free-fall in 1969-70 with talk of a franchise relocation, the arrival of Johnson on the scene in late’69 as a 19 year-old provided hope. Johnson was followed to the majors by fellow home-grown hard throwers in future Hall of Famer Goose Gossage and Terry Forester.
Johnson was touted as a future Nolan Ryan. For two seasons, (1971 and 1974) he was a budding star, but injuries shortened his promising career.
Before he had signed with the Sox after being scouted by George Norga and Doc Bennet, Johnson had considered a career in basketball as he was named to several high school All-America teams.
Category Chicago Baseball History Feature Tags Bart Johnson, Mr. Smoke, White Sox
Making Cubs into champs a bridge too far for manager, GM Jim Frey
Jim Frey
Jim Frey’s reputation for bluntness (sometimes to a fault) preceded him as Cubs manager. And it was enhanced to the last day he worked at Wrigley Field.
The man now locked into historic honors as the first manager to take the post-1945 Cubs to the playoffs – 39 endless years later — recalled the Stadium Club press conference that introduced Larry Himes, Frey’s successor as general manager, and ending his third and final Cubs job. And his play-by-play revealed the byzantine nature of Tribune Co. politics — “very secretive…a CIA mentality” was his description — from which Frey was extricating himself.
“(Then-Cubs chairman Stan) Cook said to (team president Don) Grenesko,’ Don’t let Frey talk today. Don’t let Frey grab that microphone,’” Frey recalled in 2004. The suits really feared Frey might reveal some of the inner machinations that weighed down the Cubs for too long.
“Despite that, I grabbed the mike. I thanked everyone for eight great years. (Cook and Grenesko) were greatly relieved.”
I can second Frey’s notion. One day Grenesko saw me in the upstairs press box lunchroom and proclaimed me “Inspector Clouseau.” The corporate crowd did not like any undue attention. No problem. I outlasted Grenesko by 20 years at Wrigley Field.
Peeking at the men behind the Cubs’ curtains was not a theme in the initial wave of broadcast and published obituaries for Frey, who died the other day at 88. The narratives rightfully focused on Frey, nicknamed “Preacher Man” by some of his players, leading the Cubs out of the wilderness to a surprise 1984 National League East title and falling one game short of a clash-of-the-titans World Series against the Detroit Tigers. His true calling being a savvy hitting coach, Frey’s counseling of Ryne Sandberg to evolve from a slap hitter to pulling the ball with power in run-producing situations also got proper credit. Later, as the 1989 NL East champion Cubs’ GM, he ranked as the only man in team history to serve as a manager and top exec for a pair of first-place teams.
However, when the history of the Cubs is written at some future date, beyond the Twilight Zone-style coronavirus pandemic in which we’re caught, Frey’s name will be entered at the next level below that of Phil Wrigley and John Holland. The latter two gents rank one-two as the top characters needlessly delaying a resource-rich franchise’s possession of a World Series title for a sports-record 108 years.
Category Chicago Baseball History Feature, Chicago Baseball History News Tags Bob Ibach, Chicago Cubs, Dallas Green, Don Grenesko, Don Zimmer, Gordon Goldsberry, Greg Maddux, Jim Frey, Larry Himes, National League, National League East, Rafael Palmeiro, Rick Sutcliffe, Ryne Sandberg, Shawon Dunston, Stan Cook, Vera Ibach, Wrigley Field
Serious as a player, Glenn Beckert provoked smiles in his on- and off-the-field Cubs exploits
Glenn Beckert in his prime.
Even when the news of Glenn Beckert’s passing at 79 came your way on a lazy, housebound Easter afternoon, the reaction was not sorrow, but a knowing smile.
An all-time Cubs second baseman, Beckert enjoyed the light side of life amid a serious career as a contact hitter and key member of the fabled 1969 Cubs.
The stories about Beckert, who was in declining health for years, evoke laughs. About his alleged thriftiness. About his night-time wanderings with roomie Ron Santo. About given a nickname after a wrassler. About his apparent nervousness fielding the final out of Ken Holtzman’s strikeout-free no-hitter in Wrigley Field in 1969.
Beckert, Billy Williams talk to Woody English, witness to Babe Ruth’s “Called Shot.”
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I didn’t meet Beckert during his playing days. But after he settled into his second career as a broker working the pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, I was fortunate to cross paths many times doing stories on his present and past timelines. The man who generated so much good feeling from his nine years as a Cub simply accumulated even more.
Such as the time I took Beckert to his first game in the bleachers on Sept. 4, 1983 to surprise friend Jerrle Miller Gericke on her 28th birthday. We walked up to the still-empty center-field section before meeting Gericke in the last row in right field. Glenn spread his arms to exclaim, “I can’t believe the view you get from here.” Yep, the views of his crouched batting stance and his No. 18 pivoting to combine with Don Kessinger for another double play are never purged from memory.
Category Chicago Baseball History Feature, Chicago Baseball History News Tags 1969 Cubs, Billy Williams, Chicago Cubs, Cubs, Diamond Gems, Don Kessinger, Durocher, Ernie Banks, Glenn Beckert, Jerrle Miller Gericke, Ken Holtzman, Ken Rudolph, Kenny Hubbs, Lloyd Pettit, Ron Santo, Woody English, Wrigley Field
Tributes pour in after White Sox play-by-play man Ed Farmer’s death
Ed Farmer
By George Castle, CBM Historian, April 3, 2020
You always treasure a native Chicagoan rising high in media as sometimes such a status seems a detriment to hiring in a “destination market” like the Second City.
Non-natives hiring non-natives gets expressed in the TV newsperson pronouncing Devon Avenue as “DEE-VON” or the baseball beat writer from Seattle having to spend his entire first season on the job educating himself about Cubs 101.
No worries about Ed Farmer, though. Tributes are pouring in after White Sox play-by-play man Farmer’s death the other day at 70, having fought the good fight against kidney disease for decades.
WGN may brand itself “Chicago’s Very Own” (“Chicago’s Own Television Station” back in the 1960s), but Farmio surely was our “Very Own.” I’d rather have someone not a classic, dulcet-toned announcer work at the top of the food chain if he can talk the city’s language, customs and history.
Farmio may have received brickbats from baseball-broadcast purists for a near-laconic, conversational on-air style, yet status as an authentic Chicagoan overrides these picky details. More specifically, a St. Rita man. The Southwest Side Catholic high school, home to so much athletic success this past century, is such a quintessential representation of the city, an amalgamation of neighborhoods and parishes from which residents drew their identities.
In remembering Farmio, Cubs color analyst Ron Coomer provided a glimpse into the academic and athletic culture of St. Rita that helped shape the former. Coomer, whose early years were spent living near Midway Airport, attended St. Rita his first two years before the family moved to southwest suburban Lockport.
Category Chicago Baseball History Feature, Chicago Baseball History News Tags Chicago, Comiskey Park, Ed Farmer, Ed Smith Stadium, Farmio, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, Jason Benetti, organ donations, Ron Coomer, Ron Kittle, White Sox
Buckner plowed through pain of ankle, vitriol over World Series gaffe
By George Castle, CBM Historian, May 27, 2019
Baseball’s an inherently cruel game, the ultimate sport of failure, grinding down the toughest of men. By those standards, Bill Buckner was made of cast iron, as if he had an impenetrable barrier against the hurricane winds that could have blown him apart.
Bill Buckner (in left) photo joins Fergie Jenkins at his autograph table at Sloan Park in Mesa, Ariz. on March 6 of this season. Buckner (right) was one of the most telegenic and productive Cubs of his era despite a gimpy left ankle.
One of the most popular and enduring Cubs of the last quarter of the 20th century, Buckner could have been crippled by a bad, surgically-repaired left ankle that required extensive treatment before and after games. Yet after missing chunks of the season in his first two years (1977-78) with the Cubs, Buckner rarely missed games, winning the 1980 NL batting title, until he was traded to the Boston Red Sox two months into the fateful 1984 season.
Then, after re-establishing himself at Fenway Park, Buckner was pilloried like few others in baseball history for allowing a potential game-ending Mookie Wilson grounder to go through his legs and allow the New York Mets to pull out Game 6 of the World Series. Raised from the dead , the Mets went on to snare Game 7 and extend Boston’s baseball neurosis another 18 years.
Amazingly, Leon Durham – the man who replaced Buckner at first for the Cubs – let a similar ball through the wicket in the deciding Game 5 of the 1984 NLCS against the Padres in San Diego. But Bull never got the guff from title-starved Cubs fans going forward. Buckner vitriol went to an unprecedented level. The man bent. He was human. But true to his form, he did not break.
Memories of Buckner’s steadfastness flowed on Memorial Day when his death at 69 from Lewy Body Dementia was announced. The debilitating disease that slowed body and mind still did not stop Billy Buck from enjoying the baseball life. As recently as spring training, he joined Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins, his Cubs teammate in 1982-83, and other ex-Cubs in greeting fans at Sloan Park in Mesa, Ariz.
“He was moving around very slowly,” Jenkins said. “His hands shook from time to time. But he took photos and signed autographs. Bill still wanted to be a part of the baseball family and scene. Pete LaCock went and picked him up every day.”
Category Chicago Baseball History Feature, Chicago Baseball History News Tags Bill Buckner, Chicago Cubs, Dallas Green, Dave Kingman, Fergie Jenkins, Jack Brickhouse, Larry Biittner, Leon Durham, Rick Monday, Tony Garofalo, Wrigley Field
Pat Anderson, niece who crusaded to lift ‘Black Sox’ ban on Buck Weaver, dies
By David Fletcher on April 16, 2019
By Maureen O’Donnell
Originally posted in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 16, 2019
Pat Anderson, who crusaded unsuccessfully to get her “Uncle Buck” Weaver of the Chicago White Sox reinstated by Major League Baseball, has died almost a century after the “Black Sox” bribery scandal tarnished his legacy.
“She was the last person living who lived with him, knew him well,” said David J. Fletcher, who heads the petition drive www.clearbuck.com, which he launched with Mrs. Anderson and her cousin Marjorie Follett, who died in 2003.
“He was a surrogate father to her,” her daughter Debbie Ebert said of Weaver.
Mrs. Anderson, 92, died Sunday at Tablerock HealthCare Center in Kimberling City, Missouri, according to her family. She had renal failure, Fletcher said.
Mrs. Anderson pushed for years to clear her uncle’s name. She, Fletcher and baseball historians have argued his lifetime ban was too harsh.
Read the full obituary at Chicago.SunTimes.com…
“He didn’t take any money. He was not in on the fix. He played flawlessly through the series,” Ebert said. “But he went to the meeting and heard what the plan was and said he wanted no part of it, and he left.”
“He was very truthful,” Mrs. Anderson said in 2013 when she appeared on a Society for American Baseball Research panel in Philadelphia. “I know people say, ‘Oh, well, everybody lies sometimes.’ Baseball was Buck’s life. He could not lie about that.”
Many agreed with Mrs. Anderson’s crusade, which her daughter said the family will continue.
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Chloe Dobinson / May 30, 2015
Can a digital democracy save the democratic decline?
Legal Voting Age of 18 in EU
Electronic voting to be introduced in the UK by 2020, as voters’ numbers diminishes. Can online voting encourage citizen’s engagement with politics? Chloe Dobinson investigates.
Only 56% of 18-24 year olds registered to vote in the 2010 general election with political activist Russell Brand recently admitting to having ‘never voted’ believing most people are ‘disenchanted’ by politics.
Open Up, a report submitted by Speaker Jon Bercow, plans to encourage young adults into the political system through online voting, following the 80% turnout of 18-24 year olds in the Scottish referendum.
We can shop, bank and socialize online so why is e-voting not in place?
Saying goodbye to polling stations, by voting through the click of a mouse, can boost the youth turnout to 1.8 million, up to 70%. (Viral Voting)
Campaign group WebRoots Democracy believes accessibility, to those with disabilities and visual impairments will boost the turnout to 79%.
Online voting has the potential to enfranchise voters who are ‘currently locked out the current voting methods’, helping to connect with an audience who are becoming an ‘increasingly digital’ population in the UK.
But it is not only convenience. According to the think tank Viral Voting, an organisation offering advice on political issues, removing the paper ballot by a third of the cost involved. Paper saving and the decline in voting numbers could save up to £12.8 million.
Piloted in countries such as Estonia, Belgium and the US; why is the UK not keeping up in a digitally literate world?
The democratic decline, of fewer voters going to the polls and introduction of online voting, would ensure convenience with 65% of the public in favour of the new voting process. (Viral Voting)
Banishing polls cards and moving online ‘isn’t the battle’ in why electorate’s should vote, as founder of WebRoots Democracy Areeq Chowdhury believes ‘taking the time’ to voice the public’s citizenship can make a difference.
There is still resistance in e-voting as Professor Bob Watt, who gave evidence at the Open Up Commission, believes there are still flaws in security.
He continues, online voting will not ‘permit’ with the public, with the influence of others in their political decision.
Despite widespread public support, Watt believes revolutionising the voting process cannot deliver a ‘secret and secure’ system, with electronic devices leading electorates to ‘making unconsidered decisions’.
Left or right wing? Voters are still undecided as polling firm Iposos MORI suggests 50% of voters are open to changing their minds.
Columnist for The Guardian Polly Toynbee, suggests the government have ‘gone out of their way’ to make it difficult for 18-24 year olds to vote.
She continues, by registering young adults to cast their ballot ‘automatically’, through debates at colleges and universities can get them into the ‘habit’ of voting.
A system of where 18-24 year olds could vote and register on the same day would dismiss the democratic decline.
The work and pensions benefit, taxation and winter fuel allowance are policies swaying the over 65’s in a voting turnout of 76% in the 2010 general election; with growing concerns over young adult’s disengagement to politics.
A manifesto for technology, from Labour Digital, favours an online democracy with party leader Ed Miliband planning to trial digital voting in 2020, if elected May 7.
Writing the foreword to the document, Labour’s policy co-ordinator Jon Cruddas, sees young people invited through sixth forms and colleges into the political conversation through creating ‘consultations digitally’ about the right to vote.
The youth manifesto, which will be released in time for the 2015 General Election on May 7, sees the online voting process aligned with how digitally literate the public live.
He continues, the transformation of politics through online voting would be more ‘accountable and demanding’ for politicians, by insuring young adult’s voices are heard across the nation.
May 30, 2015 in Articles, Multimedia. Tags: 2015 General Election, General Election, multimedia, multimedia package, UK, UK politics
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Style Marmalade
by Selise McLaggan
Victoria Villasana needs to be on your radar
Photo: Hugo Nogueira
Her site’s got the glossies all in a tizzy, touting Style Marmalade, ‘one of the best new fashion blogs’, so we pulled up a chair and had a chat with the bright young thing.
Growing up in a big family in Mexico, Victoria Villasana spent most weekends playing outdoors with her cousins and enjoying generous meals with her extended family. And these days, though she’s nearly 9000 kilometres away in London, she’s still surrounded by the things that make her happy.
“I try to keep my desk as tidy as possible but sometimes it’s impossible,” says the woman Vogue, Elle, and the New York Times, have all named a ‘blogger to watch’. “I have paintings, pieces of fabric, notebooks, collages, photos, magazines, books…”
For the innovator behind collaborative website Style Marmalade, it’s the perfect environment to dream up the next offering.
“Since I can remember I enjoyed drawing or making anything crafty. These days I make a mixture of things; collages, paintings, photography, and mix them with fashion.”
“I love collaborating with all sorts of creative filmmakers, photographers, journalist, artists, illustrators, musicians. As long as they have passion,” she says.
Photo: Victoria Villasana
The end result is a site rich with style, stories and magazine-worthy shots. And there’s more to it than click-magnet images. Between the stunningly shot Diesel SS15 Collection preview and a cheeky little winter cape DIY project featuring a tablecloth and a cold London street, is a post on the hijab and why some women choose to wear it.
“Style Marmalade is about personal style and creativity, it’s about expressing yourself through clothes and having fun with it. It’s not about following trends to the rule, posing and fake business,” asserts Victoria, adding sustainability is a clear focus for her and the team.
“We all need to spread sustainability awareness and evolve by creating better methods that will benefit our planet. Today [it’s] not enough to think only in profit, it is mandatory to do things right, fair trade and without pollution, for us and the future generations. Sustainability can go hand in hand with fashion as we’ve seen a lot of great designers making more eco-friendly clothing.”
Before turning back to the creative cornucopia on her desk, Victoria has a last word of advice for budding style bloggers. “Know yourself and be yourself. I know it sounds like a cliché but it’s actually one of the hardest things to do when we have so much influence and distractions around us.”
Photo: Sara Reverberi
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What the first french lockdown taught us to prepare the second.
The impact of lockdown on trade
At first glance, the equation seems simple, as physical shops are closed, consumers go online to do their shopping. But observations of shopping behaviour from the confinement are actually more complex and certain trends have impacted e-commerce in the long term.
Internet users were initially looking for new product categories. To limit their outings, they preferred to order online products that they were used to finding in shops, such as groceries, baby products or children's games.
Other categories also grew significantly as consumers had to find ways to keep busy at home. This new trend has therefore increased the appeal of board games, video games, books and also sports equipment.
The standardisation of home office has increased sales of computer and office equipment.
The post-lockdown period for French retailers
Some of these trends continue after the lockdown because new habits have taken hold: sporting goods are keeping a certain breadth. Consumers are reluctant to go back to the gym and prefer to equip themselves at home. Moreover, some gyms are closed again. They continue to equip themselves for home office because the return to the office is still partial and a new way of working is being adopted.
These new trends on the consumer side also create new challenges for the companies that market these products.
First of all, there is a challenge for brands that market their products both in physical shops and on an online shop: converting "physical" customers into Internet customers.
What difficulties have e-merchants had to face?
Slower logistics for some structures due to lack of staff or difficult to comply with sanitary measures in warehouses.
Overloading of transporters and therefore delays in deliveries, which can cause customer dissatisfaction.
Stock shortages and difficulties in restocking goods imported from abroad.
What happened to Cdiscount?
On the Cdiscount site, these trends were reflected and new categories were researched and purchased by customers. New Internet users discovered and bought on Cdiscount to compensate for the unavailability of physical shops.
Cdiscount also supported VSEs and SMEs in difficulty during this period. A facilitated procedure for registering and opening a shop on the Marketplace was put in place.
60 million masks were delivered by Cdiscount to French companies.
Sanitary measures were introduced in the warehouses and the logistics department managed to maintain an optimal delivery time with the possibility of next-day delivery for a large part of the products.
Cdiscount.com has become, during the confinement, a real alternative to the physical supermarket for certain first and second necessity goods. Consumers delivered quickly and satisfied with their experience have therefore maintained certain consumption habits, even after the reopening of the physical shops.
Second lock down and shopping season
Everything we experienced during the first phase has allowed us to be better prepared to face this second phase of french lock down. We know what consumers might need and we know how to optimise our response to demand.
However, this time there is an additional parameter, as we are entering the most intense period of the year for e-commerce with the end of the year commercial operations. Cdiscount has therefore put in place a system to best support French VSEs and SMEs who wish to join the marketplace, with notably the reimbursement of commission fees for orders collected in shop (click and collect).
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Have you ever been in the company of the old? I’m sure we all have. At one point or the other we’ve had the privilege of being with our grannies. For most of the middle aged today, it’s with our now aging parents. You may have at one time or the other wondered why most of those in their 70s appear frail. If you are fortunate, you might have heard accounts that clear any doubts as to their once youthful energy and ebullient drive in the prime of life. But today these senior citizens appear as shadows of themselves and yes, black does crack.
The men and women of the last century lived strong even till their advanced years but then you may argue that they didn’t enjoy the hall marks of wealth and accomplishment available in these present days. These badges of development and urbanization have subtly improved our quality of life but at the same time, so subtly steals years from right under our noses.
While the World Health Organization recommends we achieve 10,000 steps daily (other recommendations exist such as 30 minutes of moderate exercise 5 times a week), most people hardly want to park their cars anywhere more 10 steps from the entrance of the office or mall. We glorify the life of air-conditioned offices, cars and homes. Some folks flick on the car AC switch even on cool mornings as though the outdoor air was toxic.
The irony is that our senior citizens would not really make the cut of the senior category in some of the developed nations, where some 70 year olds compete in walk events and 80 year olds drive freely.
According to World Bank stats in 2014 (PS America is 79), Nigeria has a lower life expectancy of 53. We need to appreciate like I have, that 30 in Nigeria is the new 50. Young men are developing the chronic non communicable diseases (NCD) earlier than expected. Chaps are popping anti-hypertensive pills more than you know. If you’re 35 and above you need to get the basic tests done – weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, lipid profile, BMI, the works. You also have to consider making positive lifestyle changes that will ensure that you still remain healthy as the clock of life winds down. Adopt better dietary choices and exercise regularly to bring down your waistline and body mass index (BMI) to safer levels.
Do so while you can before it becomes mandatory doctor’s orders. Moderation in everything should be the new mantra. Believe me, God on our sides, there is going to be a tomorrow, don’t use up your quota before your golden years.
“Everyone must chose between 2 pains, the pain of discipline today or the pain of regret tomorrow, do chose your pain wisely”. – Jim Rohn
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After two consecutive weeks of falling versus the US dollar, the pound rallied higher in the previous week. The pound US dollar jumped over 1% higher, pulling itself back above $1.30 after touching a low of US$1.2696, its lowest level since August.
What do these figures mean?
When measuring the value of a pair of currencies, one set equals 1 unit and the other shows the current equivalent. As the market moves, the amount will vary from minute to minute.For example, it could be written:1 GBP = 1.28934 USDHere, £1 is equivalent to approximately $1.29. This specifically measures the pound’s worth against the dollar. If the US dollar amount increases in this pairing, it’s positive for the pound. Or, if you were looking at it the other way around:1 USD = 0.77786 GBPIn this example, $1 is equivalent to approximately £0.78. This measures the US dollar’s worth versus the British pound. If the sterling number gets larger, it’s good news for the dollar.
Brexit optimism and encouraging words from the Bank of England sent the pound rallying northwards in the previous week. Reports surfaced that the UK and Brussels had agreed a Brexit deal for the UK financial services, a crucial contributor to the UK economy. The report claimed that UK financial services companies could continue to operate in the EU as they do now, even in the case of a no deal Brexit. This would be a huge support for the UK economy, and as a result the pound rallied. It even managed to retain some of the gains, even as Theresa May’s office deny the reports.
The Bank of England (BoE) also offered support to the pound. BoE Governor Mark Carney lifted economic forecasts for the UK. Additionally, he said that interest rates may need to be raised faster than initially planned in the case of an orderly, softer Brexit.
Why do raised interest rates boost a currency’s value?
Interest rates are key to understanding exchange rate movements. Those who have large sums of money to invest want the highest return on their investments. Higher interest rate environments tend to offer higher yields. So, if the interest rate or at least the interest rate expectation of a country is relatively higher compared to another, then it attracts more foreign capital investment. Large corporations and investors need local currency to invest. More local currency used then boosts the demand of that currency, pushing the value higher.
Brexit will remain in focus as trading for the new week begins. 70 top business leaders signed a letter requesting a people’s vote for the Brexit deal that Theresa May has negotiated. They also warned that a disorderly Brexit would cause severe economic damage.
Investors will also glance across to the release of UK service sector activity data. Should service sector pmi read weaker than analysts expect, the pound could give up some of last week’s gains.
Non-Farm Payrolls Send Dollar Higher
The dollar was in demand across the month of October as investors sought its safe haven status amid rising geopolitical tensions. Geopolitical tensions have eased slightly in November, however, the dollar was still in favour as investors cheered a strong US jobs report.
The US non-farm payroll showed that 250,000 jobs were created in October in the US. This was ahead of the 190,000 analysts had been expecting, Furthermore, US earnings rose to the highest level since 2009, increasing 3.1% year on year in October. Overall these figures show that the US jobs market is extremely healthy offering a huge support to the US economy.
How does the non-farm payroll (NFP) affect the US dollar?
It works like this, when there is low unemployment and high job creation, the demand for workers increases. As demand for workers goes up, wages for those workers also go up. Which means the workers are now taking home more money to spend on cars, houses or in the shops. As a result, demand for goods and services also increase, pushing the prices of the good and services higher. That’s also known as inflation. When inflation moves higher, central banks are more likely to raise interest rates, which then pushes up the currency’s worth.
Today investors will focus on US non manufacturing data. Another strong reading from the US will cement a December rate rise, lifting the dollar higher.
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This week, the Connecticut Senate Labor Committee voted on and passed a bill spearheaded by CWA members to protect Connecticut's call center workers! The vote in support of H.B. 5273 is an important first step towards ensuring that companies that offshore call center and customer service jobs are not rewarded with taxpayer dollars. State Senator Julie Kushner and State Representative Robyn Porter have been leading the efforts to pass the bill.
"For too long, our state has turned a blind eye to corporations that take millions of dollars in state contracts, tax breaks, and subsidies while outsourcing jobs overseas," said Dave Weidlich, CWA Local 1298 President. "This vote sends a powerful message: Connecticut will now keep those that send jobs overseas accountable and will stop rewarding companies that send call center jobs overseas."
The fight isn't over yet – if you live in Connecticut, take two minutes right now to send emails to your Connecticut State Representative and Senator to tell them to protect call center jobs.
CWA members in Connecticut are mobilizing to pass a state bill to protect call center jobs.
Last week, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed H.B. 364 into law. The labor law reform bill strengthens collective bargaining rights for New Mexican public sector workers by reducing delays in union elections, protecting concerted activities like circulating petitions and talking to coworkers about wages, and more.
"CWA members are grateful to Governor Lujan Grisham and all the state elected officials who got this bill passed to modernize and strengthen collective bargaining rights for New Mexico's public sector workers," said CWA District 7 Vice President Brenda Roberts. "All workers should have the right to join a union without intimidation, and this bill is an important step in achieving that goal for New Mexicans."
CWA members nationwide are mobilizing to pass the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, which addresses the unique challenges that public service workers face when they want to join a union. This bill, introduced by Congressional Democrats, establishes a right to join a union for public service workers and sets a minimum nationwide standard of public service worker collective bargaining rights that all governmental bodies including states, counties, and cities must provide.
Don't miss the April 30 deadline! The CWA Joe Beirne Foundation is awarding 16 partial college scholarships of $4,000 each for two years for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Eligible for the scholarships are CWA members, their spouses, children, and grandchildren, including the dependents of retired, laid-off, or deceased members.
Applications are available only online at the Foundation's website. The final deadline for the 2020-2021 school year is April 30, 2020. CWAers, please share this information with students who might be eligible.
The NewsGuild-CWA is calling on the country's major corporate newspaper chains to commit to a set of ground rules that will ensure free and fair union elections for their employees.
Journalists at 10 news publications around the country, owned by national chains, including Gannett, McClatchy, and Tribune Publishing, recently announced union drives. Employees at each publication requested voluntary recognition. In each of the campaigns, the employer refused to offer voluntary recognition, forcing a four-week waiting period for an election.
During these waiting periods, employers typically retain high-priced consultants to conduct campaigns of intimidation, disinformation, and emotional manipulation. The purpose of these anti-union campaigns is to convince employees to vote against joining a union and prevent them from securing collective bargaining rights.
A December 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute found that American employers spend an estimated $340 million annually on "union avoidance" firms to attempt to crush union elections. Consultants often report being paid $350 per hour or more, with some earning as much as $2,500 per day.
Alex Driehaus, a photojournalist for the Naples Daily News, said, "We want our members to be able to make an informed decision without fear of retribution, and we expect our management to maintain an environment where that is possible."
Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released guidelines for healthcare workers working with patients affected by the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). These guidelines apply to all healthcare settings in the U.S.
In their guidelines, the CDC made several recommendations that can endanger healthcare workers, including allowing the use of facemasks instead of respirators and not requiring Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms for COVID-19 patients.
CWA strongly opposes the rollbacks in protections in the new CDC recommendations.
The new CDC recommendations are a downgrading of protections for healthcare personnel (HCP) on the front line of the fight against the pandemic. Simply put, facemasks cannot provide the level of protection afforded by respirators and employers will be more likely to use this downgraded level of personal protective equipment (PPE) based on the CDC's guidelines.
CWA's Health and Safety Department has provided Districts and Healthcare Locals with a list of items that they should address with employers to ensure that this recommendation does not increase the risk for healthcare workers, their families, patients, and the community.
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proceedings of an International Symposium on the Impacts of Radionuclide Releases into the Marine Environment
by International Symposium on the Impacts of Radionuclide Releases into the Marine Environment (1980 Vienna, Austria)
Published 1981 by International Atomic Energy Agency, UNIPUB, distributor] in Vienna, [New York, NY .
Radioactive pollution of the sea -- Congresses.
Statement jointly organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and held in Vienna, 6-10 October 1980.
Series Proceedings series, Proceedings series (International Atomic Energy Agency)
Contributions International Atomic Energy Agency., OECD Nuclear Energy Agency.
LC Classifications GC1081 .I57 1980
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) If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Impact of the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station on environmental radioactivity is shortly reviewed. Pre-Fukushima sources of anthropogenic radionuclides and their levels in the terrestrial and marine environments are briefly discussed.
Radionuclides of main interest are Cs, Cs, I, 90 Sr, I, and 3 H. Aarkrog Radioactive contamination of the marine environment 68 Discussion 70 F. Whicker Impacts on plant and animal populations 74 Discussion 84 General discussion 11 89 G. Gadd Roles of micro-organisms in the environmental fate of radionuclides 94 Discussion The book combines the expertise of professionals from the radionuclear and climate-change sciences.
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China to run human coronavirus vaccine trial in UAE
BEIJING: China National Biotec Group (CNBG) has won approval to run a large-scale “Phase 3” clinical trial of its novel coronavirus vaccine candidate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the company said on Tuesday (Jun 23).
China is seeking to trial potential vaccines overseas because of a lack of new patients at home.
Over a dozen experimental vaccines are being trialled around the world. None of them has yet successfully completed a late-stage “Phase 3” test to determine efficacy in shielding healthy people from the virus, which has killed over 470,000 people around the world.
Such trials involve thousands of participants and normally take place in countries where the virus is widespread, so that the vaccine can be observed in a real-life environment.
However, China, the origin of the global pandemic, reported fewer than 10 new local cases a day on average last month, and its researchers are now looking abroad.
CNBG announced the move in a Weibo social media post, without naming the vaccine to be tested in the UAE.
Units of CNBG, an affiliate of the state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm), have developed two potential vaccines, which have together been given to over 2,000 people in previous tests in China.
Other Chinese companies seeking to trial vaccines overseas include Clover Biopharmaceuticals, whose shots have been given to participants in Australia in an early study, and Sinovac Biotech , which is expected to begin a Phase 3 trial in Brazil with 9,000 volunteers.
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Thursday Roundup: Grebes Crash in Walmart Parking Lot
by dyadmin December 15, 2011 December 15, 2011
Hey, it’s not every day you hear a song about center pivot irrigation systems. But Agriculture.com pointed us to this ditty (above) by New Jersey indie singer Sarah Donner — The Center Pivot Irrigation Song.
It comes with illustration. What we can’t figure out is why Sarah is wearing her seat belt.
• The Pennsylvania legislature is considering laws that “would in their current form sharply limit a community’s right to control where gas companies can operate on private property,” reports Sabrina Tavernise in the New York Times.
Tavernise reports on widespread conflicts between local governments and gas and oil drillers. She describes the problem:
Local governments argue that drilling is an industrial activity, just like that of a gas station or a cement factory, that should be subject to zoning. Dozens of towns, cities and counties across the country have enacted rules on drilling noise, lighting and the distance from homes and, in some cases, outright bans. In New York State alone, there have been at least 70 such actions.
Companies say the rush to regulate has produced an overly burdensome set of demands that is denting their potential when the economy desperately needs a lift.
“It’s like having to get a different driver’s license in every town,” said Matt Pitzarella, a spokesman for Range Resources, a Texas drilling company that is active here (in Pennsylvania).
• The Washington Post catches us up on the latest on the Keystone pipeline, the plan to pipe oil sands oil 1,700 miles from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
Republicans are saying the Obama administration should allow the Keystone pipeline to continue while Nebraska reviews the route through that state. The pipeline is now tied up with a proposal to extend a payroll tax cut.
• Another reason to worry about Walmart stores: Thousands of migratory birds flying south to Mexico mistook a Walmart parking lot for water and crashed into the pavement, killing 1,500 birds.
The flock of eared grebes, an aquatic bird, was flying over Utah when they tried to land on the dark parking lot. Some 3,000 birds were rescued — the grebe is not built to walk on land and can’t take off from pavement — and taken to a lake.
• California is trying to convince drivers that you don’t have to change oil every 3,000 miles. Manufacturers say 7,500 to 10,000 miles is plenty.
• A developer wants to build a wind farm in North Carolina, but no utility will buy the power. The utilities are more enamored with natural gas.
Iberdrola Renewables has been planning a 31-square mile wind farm off the Carolina coast for the last three years, reports the Charlotte Observer. It would cost $600 million and have 150 turbines. But the company says it won’t start construction until it has contracts to sell the power. Right now, utilities are building new generators that use natural gas.
• An annual survey finds that Iowa farmland has increased 32.5 percent in value over the last year, to an average of $6,708 an acre. Home prices in Iowa in the same period fell slightly.
• West Virginia is seeing an increase in deer poaching. “Right now, there’s so much activity we’re having trouble keeping up with it,” said DNR Police officer D.W. Hylton, who is stationed in trophy-rich Wyoming County. http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201112140200
• House lawmakers are preparing legislation that would cut funding for the EPA and the Energy Department. The bill would block funding for implementing new light bulb standards.
• Protests in rural China continue. The government says it will investigate land grabs from local farmers, but residents are buying it. Here’s a flavor of what’s going on, from an AP story:
“It’s all a pretense. That’s only a small part of the problem,” said Huang Hancan, a fisherman who is one of the village’s representatives in the land dispute, referring to the mayor’s promises of an investigation and a freeze of the development deal.
“The bigger problem is that we want to get our land back. We want to re-elect our village officials because the current corrupt officials were not elected … and we want those detained to be released,” Huang said by phone.
Locals like Huang have essentially taken over the village after officials either fled from earlier protests, absconded with the money from land sales or were fired, according to various accounts from villagers and Chinese media.
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Fear is a primal emotion, and to pretend that the medical staff are any less susceptible than the general public is folly. I sometimes feel as though we need to negotiate an armistice of sorts with our fears. There is a certain amount of salutary fear we need to accept, the kind that keeps us respectful of the high stakes in caring for patients. But we also have to recognize that there are irrational fears, the kinds that are not necessarily allayed by data. More
A passed-out photographer, a hellish round of flight delays, a Fisher-Price stethoscope–what a series of out-of-hospital emergencies taught me about medicine as a team sport. More
The Yemenite Giant and the Death of Stalin
I only knew my father, Zacharia Ofri, as an unassuming high-school math teacher. As a young man, though, he was basketball star in his native Israel. But the 1950s was a turbulent time. His story weaves in Cold War intrigue, Russian Embassy bombs, the death of Stalin, Ben Gurion’s hairdo, Iron Curtain railroad trips, Nasser’s miscalculations, the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and of course a New York City cab driver. (Plus lots of great photos!) More
Burnout among doctors appears to be at epidemic proportions these days, with concomitant gushing prescriptions for wellness and resilience. But in reality, most doctors are not burned out: most love taking care of patients and want nothing more than to be able to do just that. The source of the agony is the profession—or rather the corporatization of the profession… More
EMR Ménage-à-Trois
EMRs have both breathtaking assets and snarling annoyances. But what started out as a tool — a database to store information more efficiently than the paper chart — has inserted itself as a member of the medical team. What used to be a tango between the doctor and patient is now a troika. More
Doctor-Writers: What Are the Ethics?
There is a veritable epidemic of doctor-writers out there. What is going on? Are doctors suddenly in the kiss-and-tell mode? What about confidentiality? Professionalism? HIPAA? As one of the aforementioned doctor-writers, I look upon this trend with both awe and trepidation. More
A True Role Model: Dr. Lisa Schwartz
Lisa was my very first resident. She taught us medical students how to aspirate ascites fluid from the abdomen of a cirrhotic patient, how to diagnose granulomatosis with polyangiitis, how to wrangle a CT scan from an obdurate radiologist, how to handle a hallucinating patient who spoke only Igbo, and where to get a cheese Danish once the coffee shop closed. More
Mothers in Medicine
We in medicine are inculcated in the culture of deferred enjoyment, of sacrificing our lives now for some distant rose-colored, board-certified future. But here’s the breaking news: No chapter with unlimited time and resources is ever going to magically open up in our lives. No fairy godmother will miraculously graft 8 hours onto your day or stock your house with groceries or impress the 16 kinds of vasculitis into your cingulate gyrus. More
Medical Humanities: The Rx for Uncertainty?
A large part of our medical maturation is facing uncertainty and then accepting it into our fold. This is far harder than memorizing all those rare diseases. The humanities can offer doctors a paradigm for living with ambiguity and even for relishing it. More
Nothing Glamorous about Opioid Addiction
Pain stands nearly alone as a medical condition that not only can’t be measured but that patients might also have an ulterior motive to lie about. I never wonder if a patient is lying when she says she is constipated or has a vaginal itch. But the reality is that there’s not much street value for Metamucil, and there aren’t any rehabs filled with recovering Monistat addicts. More
The Day I Zipped My Lips and Let My Patients Talk
“We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak,” said Epictetus. It’s clear that the Greek philosopher wasn’t a physician in 21st century America. How long, I’ve sometimes wondered, would my patients actually talk if I didn’t say anything at all? More
Globe & Mail review of “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear”
Ofri argues in her new book “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear” that the conversations doctors have with their patients are the most important part of a medical visit, far surpassing blood tests, X-rays or various scans. And she believes it’s time both doctors and patients give these conversations their due. More
Washington Post Review of “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear.”
“If you’ve switched physicians in search of someone more caring, or left an exam feeling unseen and unheard, you will find much to appreciate in Danielle Ofri’s perceptive book. ” More
A Bellevue Doctor on Trump, Exam Room Conversations and Her New Book
Ofri draws on anecdotes and evidence in her new book, “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear,” to argue that, even as technology advances, conversation between patients and doctors remains the “most potent diagnostic—and therapeutic—tool in medicine.” More
Are We Missing the Most Important Aspect of Health Care?
As the medical industry strives for a virtual world in which diagnoses are made and prescriptions rendered on a smartphone app, Ofri argues that successful conversation is the primary driver of healing. Sadly dialectics remain a longstanding elephant in the office: doctors enter with opinions, patients their own, the ticking clock on the wall in plain view of both parties. More
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Sad News – Bureau Direct
A sad piece of news emerged yesterday. As many of you will already know, Bureau Direct have now ceased trading. Always a good source for stationary, inks, and to a lesser extent, pens, they will be missed. Here is the news in their own words from their final Wednesday newsletter. From Dominic:
“As of now we have ceased trading. Sadly the difficulties of surviving in these turbulent times has claimed another retail victim, one that will never hit the headlines or be discussed on Newsnight, but maybe should because so many similar stories will occur and affect so many people but never get heard.
So that’s 23 years of Bureau, almost to the day, 15 of them spent online. That’s a lifetime for many. As always the ride has had its ups and downs, but what I would like to say is a personal goodbye to all Stationery Wednesday readers. Over the years I have had so many nice replies that it has eased the stress of writing an original email each week. Stationery Wednesday often came after Stressful Tuesday!
The other great pleasure over the years has been the staff who have worked here. It really has been like an extended family and it was especially sad saying goodbye to Des, Monica and Faisal at the end. Days you hope you won’t repeat. But despite everything there has been an overwhelming sense of warmth towards us, the business and what we tried to do from the staff, customers and suppliers. So thank you. I’m sorry it didn’t work out in the end.”
and from Jo:
“It is hard to put into writing how it feels after 23 years to have to walk away from Bureau: It has been our life after all. But, along with all the other retail casualties of recent times, we have been sunk by the uncertainty and the discounting that seems to stalk the high street – online is not immune either.
We have tried so hard this year to hang on, hoping it would get better, but despite the support of so many of you it just got harder. I can only say it leaves me quite broken and I am in tears as I write but I really do want to thank you all.
Some of you we talked to on the phone, some we chatted to on email, some we only knew by the names that popped up so regularly on the orders. But we felt we knew you all. In the end the real pleasure of Bureau was not really the stationery but the fantastic staff team, both past and present and all of you – ever loyal, often funny and always with an eye for a nice pen or notepad.”
I know we all wish them and their staff well.
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By John Hanley
Last week, an LSU crowd favorite officially geared up for its 2015 return. The popular public concert, Groovin’ On The Grounds, will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. on April 17. Redubbed this year as simply “Groovin’,” the concert announced its lineup at a release party in Free Speech Alley. Opening with last year’s Battle of the Bands winner, The Dulac Smack, this year’s concert includes alternative rock bands COIN, Parachute, and Young The Giant.
“I knew from the beginning of my appointment to Director of Programming that I wanted Groovin’ to have a more alternative rock headliner this year,” said Students on Target Director of Programming Taylor Stewart. “In recent years, we had rock, hip-hop, and rap featured in the line-up. I made the executive decision to take the concert in a more Alternative direction, hoping to appeal to the largest number of people as possible.”
Groovin’s headliner, Young The Giant, is a big name in Alternative Rock. Their most recent project, Mind Over Matter, peaked at #7 in the U.S., and several singles have reached Top 10 and Top 20 positions in U.S. Alternative charts. The group is currently nearing the end of its tour for Mind Over Matter.
“I worked hard to bring in artists that are still on the radio, tour frequently, and have a genre that appeals to a great variety of people,” said Stewart. Although this year’s budget was fairly limited, Stewart and her team obviously succeeded in this respect, and Stewart says she is excited to see how the concert turns out.
“My hope is that we have a great turnout and continue to promote the importance of music and the arts at LSU,” she said. “I expect the event to be an amazing, rewarding success both for Students on Target and the LSU community.”
The concert is definitely gearing up to be a success, as it has proved to be in the past. Stewart estimates that last year’s Groovin’ concert with Weezer was one of the biggest they’ve had, and hopes they can keep up the trend. This year, like last year, Groovin’ will be held in the River Center instead of on the Parade Ground (this led to the omission of “On The Grounds”). The River Center, Stewart says, offers some special benefits that the Parade Grounds didn’t necessarily have.
“With the direction we intended for the event this year, the River Center was the most economical and logical decision,” she said. “The River Center truly offers a real arena-concert experience, and I hope to create the same energetic and positive atmosphere that Groovin’ had last year in the same location.”
Stewart also says that the River Center has advantages like better safety measures, better equipment for performers and concerts, and even helped Students on Target book the artists.
“The River Center ultimately offers us a great venue for nearly the same cost of hosting Groovin’ on the Parade Ground,” she said.
She says that LSU students shouldn’t worry about the venue change – they’ve kept students in mind throughout the process. LSU students will scan their Tiger Cards when entering, which will allow them priority standing room, which can get them closer to the stage. The concert also remains free, as many college students are likely happy to hear. Lastly, Stewart says they are working out logistics to make sure everyone can get to the River Center.
“We plan to have busses running from campus to the River Center, and we are meeting with the River Center over Spring Break to further discuss logistics such as parking so everyone has the best experience possible,” said Stewart. “We are going to work to make the transition to the River Center this year as easy for students as possible.”
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Religious Motifs in Chekhov's "Muzhiki" George Pahomov* The acceptance or denial of the concept, suggested by some anthropologists and psychologists, that art is rooted in mankind's attempt to commune with the sacred becomes of no consequence if the work of art at hand contains explicit religious themes. Thus; in Chekhov's "Muzhiki," without any a priori commitment to its meaning or evaluation, one notes, as pure recurring phenomena, the rich resonance of Easte
Perceptions of the Trinity: Bakhtin and Co-being in Russian Literary Culture George Pahomov* It may be asserted that an implicit task of Orthodoxy is to keep human beings from becoming isolated. Isolation, to the Orthodox mind, is the road that leads to self-absorption and solipsism, to self-idolatry, the creation of an absolutely sovereign self, and has a pernicious effect on human behavior. In his writings Dostoevsky was keenly aware of this tendency. His demonic characters do not have the wil
Valentine Tfcchebotarioff-Bill. Chekhov: The Silent Voice of Freedom. New York: Philosophical Library, 1987. 277 pp. The book is presented in the essayistic tradition of Isaiah Berlin and George Steiner, and its contemplative approach is meant to engage the educated reader as well as the specialist. It succeeds rather well in the task it sets for itself. The author recapitulates the moral/didactic tradition of Russian literature exemplified by Dostoevslcy and Tblstoy, by die various ideological
Nature and the Use of Paradox in Hirgenev George Pahomov* Hirgenev has been traditionally cited for his placid and languid, if not torpid, style. Nowhere has this been more true than in his set-piece descriptions of nature. It is here that the absence of dynamic elements which energize the prose of other writers is most keenly felt. Time, plot, character development, action and counter-action, climax and resolution are suspended as the dynamic is eschewed in favor of the static. Yet the need to
Chekhov: Beyond Determinism George Pahomov* Though Chekhov's middle and later works seem to take an increasingly somber and pessimistic view of life, most critics agree that his early writings are the vibrant, even frolicsome, product of a happy sensibility.1 The years 1888-1889 have been widely accepted as a period of spiritual crisis for Chekhov and pointed to as a watershed, the downward slope of which, though marked by occasional rises, ineluctably banks into a darkening valley.3 Yet th
ZHUKOVSKY AND PUSHKIN: TRUE BELIEVER AND SKEPTIC by George Pahomov * The present paper will mark some of the similarities and differences in the treatment of love by Zhukovsky and Pushkin as found in their lyrics. On the basis of the theme of love it will attempt to evaluate the nature of Pushkin's contribution to Russian literature on this 175th anniversary of his birth. The two poets' conception of love cannot be understood without understanding something of the nature of romanticism
Bunin: Loss and Remembrance George Pahomov* The significance of memory and nostalgia in shaping Bunin's art has been acknowledged by critics through time and across ideological gulfs. Soviet critics tended to see emigration as the prime cause of Bunin's nostalgia and the wellspring of his art. Thus, typically for his school, Afanas'ev asserts that Bunin's "lyrical prose" which is the direct expression of the author's feelings is determined by «тоска писателя...
George (Юрий Григорьевич) Krugovoy 1924-2012 George Krugovoy died in Springfield, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, on December 22, 2012. He was born in 1924 in Kharkov, then in the Soviet Union, and grew up in a time of famine and political terror to which his father fell victim. Toward the end of World War II he made his way westward, part of an enormous stream of displaced persons. He found refuge in Austria where he lived for some twelve years, working and studying at the University of
CHEKHOV: CATEGORIES OF TIME AND ENTROPY GEORGE PAHOMOV Bryn Mawr College In the nineteenth century, as perhaps in no other era, science provided models to be borrowed for the understanding and assessment of individual human beings and of human society. Darwin's theorizing on evolution was readily applied by social critics and theoreticians to their realms. The physical sciences were similarly reverenced. Entropy, a concept engendered in the study of the dissipation of heat in steam engines
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Characters, Pixar characters, Males,
Reformed characters
A Bug's Life characters
Video game bosses
Characters who break the Fourth Wall
Anti-villains
Neutral characters
Circus performers
Happy-go-lucky, crazy, silly, funny, laid-back, loud, gullible, good-hearted, thoughtful, independent, clever, nice, polite, truthful, industrious, nurturing, shrewd, mild, gentle
Obese gold grasshopper
Member of the grasshoppers and Hopper's younger brother, later P.T. Flea's employee
Neutral, later good
To help his brother take over Ant Island (formerly)
Hopper's Hideout (formerly)
Bug City at P.T. Flea's Circus
Unnamed mother †
Hopper † (older brother)
Circus Bugs, P.T. Flea, Flik
Flik, Atta, Dot, the Queen, Circus Bugs, the ant colony (all formerly)
Food, telling the story of how Hopper was almost eaten, the circus
Hopper mistreating him, the ants rebelling
Reforms, moves to Bug City, and joins the circus
"Shutting up!"
"Oh, this was such a bad idea."
"Where's the food?!"
"The circus, the circus. I love the Circus."
Molt is the tertiary antagonist of Disney•Pixar's 1998 film, A Bug's Life. He is Hopper's younger brother and a member of the grasshoppers.
2.1 A Bug's Life
Molt is Hopper's younger brother and the self-proclaimed Vice President of the grasshopper gang - although nobody believes that but him. Fat, gullible, and loud-mouthed, but essentially good-hearted and honest, Molt got his name due to the fact that his chitlin armor molts off in flakes. He regularly infuriates Hopper to the point that Hopper told Molt early in the film that if he hadn't promised their Mother on her deathbed that he wouldn't kill Molt, he would do so.
Molt often tries to be scary, but he's never taken seriously, partly because he is so submissive to the genuinely terrifying Hopper.
When the grasshoppers first invade Ant Island, Molt interrupts Hopper's threatening speech to Atta, loudly telling everybody about a blue jay that once nearly ate Hopper. Infuriated, Hopper memorably tells Molt that if their mother hadn't made him promise on her deathbed never to kill Molt, he would kill him. He then forbids Molt to talk for the remainder of their visit and vents his rage by decking another grasshopper. Shortly afterward, the grasshoppers leave.
Later back at the grasshopper headquarters, Molt's "friends" Axel and Loco tell him that it's pointless going back to Ant Island. When Molt agrees, they convince him to put the idea to Hopper as his own, in the hope that if Hopper doesn't like it, then at least Molt will be the one who suffers his wrath. When the idea infuriates Hopper, Molt frantically admits it wasn't his idea, and that Axel and Loco suggested it. Realizing there is dissent in his gang, Hopper buries Axel and Loco in a pile of grains to point out the possible danger of the ants before heading with the rest of the gang back to Ant Island.
Near the end of the film, Molt is seen eating, enjoying, and encouraging the circus. As Thumper is beating up Flik because he was responsible for the model bird, Molt is horrified, unlike the other grasshoppers. When the ants charge at the grasshoppers, Molt sheds his peeling skin all at once in fright at the mass of ants, charging at his fellow grasshoppers, but rather than fleeing the island and abandoning Hopper like the others, he runs and hides in the grass.
Molt survives the ants' rebellion, and in the end, he joins P.T. Flea's circus as a strongman, with a new nickname: "Tiny." When he climbs into the circus wagon, Molt expresses his thankfulness towards Flik for giving him a fresh start, until Manny and Gypsy close the wagon with Molt saying, "Shutting up," one last time.
Molt was created for the film to provide some comic relief out of the more uncomfortable moments with Hopper, but it was decided to make him Hopper's brother when it was realized that Hopper would never allow somebody as witless and annoying as Molt to stay with the gang otherwise.
In one blooper, during the credits of the film, when Hopper gains closer on him, Molt accidentally backs into the camera and messes up the crew's equipment. Additional bloopers show Molt acting foolishly when Hopper shakes him angrily.
Despite Molt being Hopper's younger brother, Richard Kind (Molt's voice actor) is actually three years older than Kevin Spacey (who voiced Hopper).
Molt is named after the process of insects shedding their old skin to make way for a new one.
Molt is not truly evil since he is more of a neutral character, as he doesn't involve himself in attacking Flik and his friends.
Despite not truly evil, Molt is one of the bosses of Bug's Life.
concept art of Molt
"This blue jay--he has him halfway down his throat. And Hopper's kickin' and screamin' okay..."
Hopper threatening Molt.
"Why go back to Ant Island at all? I mean, you don't even like grain."
"You're right! I didn't think it was such good idea myself!"
"Actually, it wasn't even my idea! It was Axel and Loco's!"
"They talked fancy to me! I GOT CONFUSED!"
"He's quite the motivational speaker, isn't he?"
"Do what he says! You don't wanna make him mad! Believe me!"
"The circus! The circus! I love the circus!"
Even Molt cringes as Thumper mercilessly beats Flik up.
"Uh, Hopper? I hate to interrupt, but, um..."
"Oh, this was such a bad idea!"
Molt leaps out of his skin--literally!
"I just wanted to thank you for giving me a chance, 'cause it's an honor to work with creative giants such as yourself!"
"Shutting up."
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Colorado Supreme Court rules police need probable cause before using pot-sniffing dogs to search for drugs
Colorado Supreme Court rules police need probable cause before exploitation pot-sniffing dogs to search for drugs
The Colorado Supreme Court greatly diminished the role of police dogs trained to observe marijuana with a ruling Monday that created some other divide between how state and federal law social control can investigate pot.
In a 4-3 ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court subordinate that, under the state constitution, a dog trained to alert to marijuana cannot be used before an officer establishes probable cause that a crime had been committed.
For decades, police dogs were trained to alert their handlers to the presence of pot. But since Coloradans voted in 2012 to legalize recreational possession of small amounts of the drug, the dogs’ sniff tests have been arguable because they can alert even if a person has a legal amount of marijuana.
Monday’s ruling effectively renders the dogs trained to observe pot futile in most situations, aforementioned Sam Kamin, a law professor at the University of Denver who studies marijuana law and policy. antecedently , the dogs’ sniff tests were used to create probable cause for a search. Now, there has to be enough evidence to authorize a search before a marijuana-trained dog can be used, making the dogs’ sniff tests redundant.
“The dog’s sniff arguably intrudes on a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy in lawful activity,” Supreme Court Justice William Hood wrote in the majority’s decision. “If so, that intrusion must be even by some degree of particularized suspicion of criminal activity.”
Officers exploitation so much K-9s are now subject to the same standards used for other searches of property. Law social control exploitation pot-trained dogs either have to have a warrant before the sniff test or be in one of a handful of situations defined by state law that allows police to complete a search without a warrant.
Even before the court’s decision Monday, Colorado law social control agencies had begun retiring and phasing out marijuana-trained dogs in favor of K-9s not trained to observe that drug. Less than 20 percentage of the about 120 police dogs in Colorado are still trained to observe marijuana.
Brian Laas, an Arvada police officer and president of the Colorado Police K-9 Association, aforementioned Monday morning that he was regular to meet with the Colorado attorney General’s Office that afternoon to discuss the repercussions of the decision. He did not return calls Monday evening.
The Colorado attorney General’s Office was reviewing the decision Monday afternoon.
“We will work with our law social control partners in understanding this decision’s possible implications,” attorney General Phil Weiser aforementioned in a statement.
The decision doesn’t seem out of line with how other state courts treat drug-dog sniff tests, aforementioned David Ferland, executive director of the United States Police Canine Association.
“What Colorado is doing does not surprise me,” Ferland aforementioned. “That’s not going to be earth-shattering.”
There would have been significant repercussions if the court subordinate that all tests conducted by marijuana-trained dogs were constitutional, he aforementioned.
The decision does not apply to federal law social control agencies working in Colorado, like the Drug social control Administration, aforementioned Kamin, the law professor. The decision states that the justices considered the issues only as they apply to the state constitution, meaning the ruling cannot be appealed to the federal courts, he aforementioned.
Three of the court’s seven Judges disin agreement with the majority’s collection and questioned how the decision meshed with the U.S. Constitution and federal law, which still prohibits marijuana in any amount.
The decision is some other example of the complications created by the conflict between state and federal marijuana Torah, Chief Justice Nathan Coats wrote in his dissent, which called the majority’s opinion “deeply flawed.” The ruling creates a system in which a sniff test by a marijuana-trained dog is a search under the state constitution, but not under the federal constitution.
But Hood, the justice who wrote the majority opinion, aforementioned the court had to consider Colorado’s specific Torah.
“To the extent we end up alone on a philosophy island, it is an island on which Colorado voters have deposited us,” he wrote. “Our role is not to question their decision. Rather, it is to apply the logic of existing law to a changing world. Though we are the first court to opine on whether the sniff of a dog trained to observe marijuana in addition to other substances is a search under a state constitution in a state that has legalized marijuana, we probably won’t be the last.”
Kamin aforementioned states often have rules about evidence that differ from federal standards, even outside of marijuana cases.
“I just don’t see the conflict (the dissentient justices) are so worried about,” he aforementioned.
The Colorado Supreme Court case stems from a 2015 incident in Moffat County during which a Craig police officer stopped-up a suspicious truck. The officer then unasked that a K-9 conduct a sniff test of the truck. The Moffat County Sheriff’s Office responded with a dog, kg, that alerted that drugs were inside.
Deputies searched the truck and found a methamphetamine complex complex pipe with some residue. They in remission the driver, Kevin McKnight, who was later condemned of two drug-possession charges.
But kg was trained to alert to marijuana as well as cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and methamphetamine complex complexamphetamine. Police dogs are not trained to give different signals for different drugs.
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McKnight’s attorneys appealed the sentence and argued that the deputies’ search was illegal because kg could have been alerting to the presence of a legal amount of marijuana and the officers didn’t have enough evidence to search the truck otherwise.
The Colorado Supreme Court in agreement, comparison the sniff to technologies so much as thermal-imaging inclination that could show some private, legal activity on with illegal Acts of the Apostles of the Apostles. The court reversed McKnight’s convictions.
“Because there was no way to know whether kg was alerting to lawful marijuana or unlawful contraband, kg’s sniff professoraned McKnight’s reasonable expectation of privacy,” the court’s majority opinion states.
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Chapter 182: Bites and Stings of Terrestrial and Aquatic Life
Camila K. Janniger; Robert A. Schwartz; Jennifer S. Daly; Mark Jordan Scharf
Janniger CK, Schwartz RA, Daly JS, Scharf M. Janniger C.K., & Schwartz R.A., & Daly J.S., & Scharf M Janniger, Camila K., et al.Bites and Stings of Terrestrial and Aquatic Life. In: Kang S, Amagai M, Bruckner AL, Enk AH, Margolis DJ, McMichael AJ, Orringer JS. Kang S, & Amagai M, & Bruckner A.L., & Enk A.H., & Margolis D.J., & McMichael A.J., & Orringer J.S.(Eds.),Eds. Sewon Kang, et al.eds. Fitzpatrick's Dermatology, 9e. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 17, 2021. https://dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2570§ionid=210442028
Janniger CK, Schwartz RA, Daly JS, Scharf M. Janniger C.K., & Schwartz R.A., & Daly J.S., & Scharf M Janniger, Camila K., et al. (2019). Bites and stings of terrestrial and aquatic life. Kang S, Amagai M, Bruckner AL, Enk AH, Margolis DJ, McMichael AJ, Orringer JS. Kang S, & Amagai M, & Bruckner A.L., & Enk A.H., & Margolis D.J., & McMichael A.J., & Orringer J.S.(Eds.),Eds. Sewon Kang, et al. Fitzpatrick's Dermatology, 9e. McGraw-Hill. https://dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2570§ionid=210442028
Janniger CK, Schwartz RA, Daly JS, Scharf M. Janniger C.K., & Schwartz R.A., & Daly J.S., & Scharf M Janniger, Camila K., et al. "Bites and Stings of Terrestrial and Aquatic Life." Fitzpatrick's Dermatology, 9e Kang S, Amagai M, Bruckner AL, Enk AH, Margolis DJ, McMichael AJ, Orringer JS. Kang S, & Amagai M, & Bruckner A.L., & Enk A.H., & Margolis D.J., & McMichael A.J., & Orringer J.S.(Eds.),Eds. Sewon Kang, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2019, https://dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2570§ionid=210442028.
BITES OF LAND ANIMALS
CLINICAL APPROACH (PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT)
SPECIFIC BACTERIAL INFECTIONS CAUSED BY ANIMAL BITES
SPECIFIC VIRAL INFECTIONS CAUSED BY ANIMAL BITES
SNAKEBITES
BITES AND STINGS OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS
SEAL BITE
INJURIES CAUSED BY JELLYFISH, PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR, SEA ANEMONES, AND CORALS
DERMATITIS FROM SPONGES
INJURIES CAUSED BY ECHINODERMS: SEA URCHINS, STARFISH, AND SEA CUCUMBERS
DERMATITIS AND BITES FROM MARINE WORMS
INJURIES CAUSED BY MOLLUSKS
INJURIES CAUSED BY VENOMOUS FISH SPINES
FISH BITES
WATERBORNE INFECTIONS
CUTANEOUS MANIFESTATIONS OF SEAFOOD INGESTION AND SEAFOOD POISONING
Dog bites account for 80% to 90% of all mammalian bites involving humans, but cat bites are more likely to become infected.
Whether or not postexposure prophylaxis with rabies immunoglobulin and human diploid cell rabies vaccine is needed depends on the circumstances surrounding the bite.
In the United States, there are approximately 5 to 6 deaths from snakebites and probably 6000 to 7000 snakebite envenomations each year.
Most stingray injuries occur when bathers, waders, or fishermen accidentally step on rays as they lie partially covered with sand in shallow waters. The extreme pain caused by the venom may be relieved by soaking the affected body part in very warm water.
Cnidarian envenomations cause more annual deaths than do shark attacks.
Humans are a part of the environment and ideally live peacefully with other animals and plants. However, sometimes the interactions between man and the environment prove harmful to one or the other. The first 2 sections of this chapter consider the harmful effects of land-borne animal bites, as well as the bacterial and viral infections they may transmit. The last section reviews bites and stings and other forms of injury that may be inflicted by marine life.
Dog bites account for 80% to 90% of all mammalian bites involving humans. Four to 5 million dog bites are estimated to occur each year in the United States. In 2001, it was estimated that 368,245 persons were treated for dog bite–related injuries.1 The human victim is often a 5- to 9-year-old boy who may have been teasing or playing with a dog. Sometimes the bite occurs when a person is trying to break up a pair of fighting dogs or trying to aid an animal. In the United States, 4% to 5% of dog bites are work related and include bites sustained by postal carriers. Overseas, a higher percentage are produced by untamed animals.2-4 Most dog bite injuries involve the upper extremities, especially the hands. Cat bites are the second most common type of mammalian bite after dog bites, but the wounds following a cat’s bite are nearly twice as likely to become infected as wounds from dog bites.5 In addition, millions of exotic pets are transported legally and illegally into the United States and Europe annually. The approximately 1 million iguanas in America today may bite.6
The evaluation and treatment of all bite wounds should include taking a careful history of the incident, the type of animal, the site of the bite, and the geographic setting. Hand wounds, puncture wounds, and crush injuries are likely to become infected. Specimens from infected bites should be cultured and a Gram-stained smear prepared; the wound should then be washed, well irrigated, and left open. Most patients with bites on the ...
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Everything You Need to Know from the 2017 Press Conference for Nintendo Switch
by Liana Ruppert
The time is here – the highly anticipated second conference showcasing the more technical side of the latest Nintendo console, the Nintendo Switch, has finally arrived and it came with a lot of amazing announcements for the system. There have been so many rumours regarding the Switch and the community responded with speculation and fan-made tributes. Now we have a lot more clarity on the latest console and we’ve got the highlights here just for you.
The show started off on a very ambient and aesthetically exciting stage as Tasumi Kimishima appeared to kick off the event. He referenced the original reveal of the Nintendo Switch introducing a “brand new kind of gaming system.” So let’s hit three points people were itching to know the answers to: Launch Date, Price, and Online Services:
Launch Date – March 3rd, the same date for ALL regions
Price Point: 29,980 Yen for Japan, 299.99 USD for North America, and Europe’s price “varies by retailer”
Online Services: Online Multiplayer will be available from the start. A smart device can connect to play against opponents and chat with friends on the go. There will be a free trial period for this service, but it will not be a free offer permanently. A paid service, much like Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus, will be expected for the Switch. No price point as of yet
Another exciting point made during the presentation is that region locking will be a thing of the past! This is huge news, as that was a huge issue gamers of previous Nintendo systems had and it looks like they really took in community opinions when preparing to launch the next generation of consoles.
Director Shinya Takahashi took to the stage to talk a little bit about the hardware. Starting off with a video timeline of every console and handheld that hit the market with Nintendo, he then said that the evolution we’ve witnessed is the inspiration behind the Switch, it “inherited all of Nintendo’s DNA”.
The system includes:
The console (Two colour variations, one all grey, one with neon blue and red coloured controllers)
Left and Right Joy-Cons (the small controllers on the side)
Switch Doc
Pro Controller is sold separately
There are three modes of playability for the console, as well, to transform it from at home platform, to a device to take with you on the go:
TV Mode: “at home”
Tabletop Mode: Kickstand and Joy-Con support
Handheld Mode: Attaching the Joy Cons to the sides, like any other handheld, to make it 100% portable
The battery life is expected to last anywhere between 2 1/2 to 6 1/2 hours long, depending on usage, with portable charging capabilities. The screen itself is also WI-FI capable, which makes gaming on the go even easier. Up to 8 systems can be connected locally for a more friend-friendly gaming experience.
The Joy Cons can also be split up to play with friends locally. They look similar to the Wii controllers when separated but smaller and sleeker. The size of it, both in the grip and separate, is fantastically portable, not too big and not too small. They can also read and write Amiibo data, which is fantastic for those that play games with Amiibo support (like Smash Brothers). The controllers will also have video sharing and capturing capabilities to share with friends on social media, though that feature will be released at a later, undisclosed date.
Individual motion control is available with the Joy Cons dubbed “Sharing the joy” – this makes the 2 person localized sharing experience with your player 2 even more enjoyable.
With the use of the HD Rumble, the Joy Con controllers utilizes the technology that makes you feel like you are holding a glass with ice cubes in it. You can even increase, or decrease, the number of cubes felt and whether or not the sensation includes the feel of water. This technology can be compared to the rumble felt in the PlayStation 4 Dual Shock controllers, which had nothing but positive community feedback.
So what are just a few of the titles we can look forward to with the Switch? Let’s take a look:
Games Directly Made for Joy Con Controllers:
1, 2 Switch (Available at launch)
A variety of games, much like the Wii Sports bundle, designed for this specific system. Old western style shoot outs, table tennis, regular tennis, cooking, and more are all featured. “It isn’t a game to face the screen,” instead meant to make the player look at their opponent to make the experience even more immersive. The ability to play against AI is also available.
Arms (Spring 2017)
2 vs 2 fighting style game with gigantic, spring-like, boxing gloves. A 3D environment provides maximum maneuverability. “When you punch, your character also punches. When you twist your wrist, your punch curves.” The game also rewards the player with new techniques the more they p lay.
Other Games (Including the highly anticipated Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild):
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Confirmed for March 3rd
Splatoon 2, Summer 2017
Super Mario Odyssey, Holiday 2017 (Seriously, this game was like if Assassin’s Creed and Mirror’s Edge had a wild night with Super Mario … an amazing looking sandbox game)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, April 28
NBA2K 18
Dragon Ball Z Xenoverse 2
SnipperClips: Cut It Out Together
Dragon Quest 10 and 11 for Japan, Dragon Quest 1 and 2
Project Octopath Traveler, a side-scrolling RPG
A new Shin Megami Tensei title
Has Been Heroes
Arcade Archives
Disgaea 5 Complete
Fast RMX
Minecraft Story Mode – All Episodes
Project Sonic
I am Setsuna
Over 50 third party developers confirmed their contribution to Nintendo Switch. Sega’s Toshihiro Nagoshi took the stage to promise “many” Sega titles coming to the Switch. Todd Howard, from Bethesda, also declared their contribution with a heartfelt thanks to Nintendo. He also mentioned that Skyrim will finally be able to be played “on the go” with the Switch’s Handheld Mode.
Suda51, CEO of Grasshopper also said to expect a new Travis Touchdown title, though an official title and time frame has not been decided yet.
Preordering the system will be available in Japan January 21st. Preordering for North America is open for select retailers such as Walmart and Best Buy, though currently still marked as “unavailable” at others such as GameStop at the time this article was written.
Reggie, from Nintendo of America, also took to the stage to announce that the Nintendo Switch will be live and available to demo prior to launch in 6 different cities on different dates. Here is the line up of live preview events so far (click here for full info):
New York on Sunday, January 15
Toronto on Sunday January 29
Washington DC on Sunday February 12
Chicago on Sunday February 19
San Francisco on Sunday February 26
Los Angeles on Sunday March 5
Overall, the entire presentation was a smashing success. Not a whole lot of titles at launch, at least not announced here, but the sky is the limit it seems with the new system. Is it enough to bring back Nintendo’s good name? They are the godfathers of gaming, it would be great to see them rise alongside their platform compatriots. Sound off with what you liked about the announcement in the comment section below and let us know what games you are hoping to see come to Nintendo’s latest platform. You can also watch the entire event again (or for the first time) in the video below:
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Operating The Brain By Remote Control
Dr. William J. Tyler is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, is a co-founder and the CSO of SynSonix, Inc., and a member of the 2010 DARPA Young Faculty Award class. Operating The Brain By Remote Control
Every single aspect of human sensation, perception, emotion, and behavior is regulated by brain activity. Thus, having the ability to stimulate brain function is a powerful technology.
Recent advances in neurotechnology have shown that brain stimulation is capable of treating neurological diseases and brain injury, as well as serving platforms around which brain-computer interfaces can be built for various purposes. Several limitations however still pose significant challenges to implementing traditional brain stimulation methods for treating diseases and controlling information processing in brain circuits.
For example, deep-brain stimulating (DBS) electrodes used to treat movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease require neurosurgery in order to implant electrodes and batteries into patients.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) used to treat drug-resistant depression and other disorders do not require surgery, but have a low spatial resolution of approximately one centimeter and cannot stimulate deep brain circuits where many diseased circuits reside.
These illustrations show the surgical invasiveness of deep-brain stimulating electrodes (left) and depict the low spatial resolutions conferred by transcranial magnetic stimulation (right). (Image: Tyler Lab)
To overcome the above limitations, my laboratory has engineered a novel technology which implements transcranial pulsed ultrasound to remotely and directly stimulate brain circuits without requiring surgery. Further, we have shown this ultrasonic neuromodulation approach confers a spatial resolution approximately five times greater than TMS and can exert its effects upon subcortical brain circuits deep within the brain.
A portion of our initial work has been supported by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) where we have been working to develop methods for encoding sensory data onto the cortex using pulsed ultrasound.
Through a recent grant made by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award Program , our research will begin undergoing the next phases of research and development aimed towards engineering future applications using this neurotechnology for our country’s warfighters. Here, we will continue exploring the influence of ultrasound on brain function and begin using transducer phased arrays to
examine the influence of focused ultrasound on intact brain circuits. We will also be investigating the use of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) for use in brain stimulation. Finally, to improve upon spatial resolution, we will examine the use of acoustic metamaterials and hyperlenses to study how subdiffraction limited ultrasound influences brain wave activity patterns.
How can this technology be used to provide our nation’s Warfighters with strategic advantages? We have developed working and conceptual prototypes in which ballistic helmets can be fitted with ultrasound transducers and microcontroller devices to illustrate potential applications as shown below. We look forward to developing a close working relationship with DARPA and other Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Communities to bring some of these applications to fruition over the coming years depending on the most pressing needs of our country’s defense industries.
Brain-To-Brain Interfaces Have Arrived, And They Are Absolutely Mindblowing
We already have brain-computer interface systems that allow people to control cursors on a screen using the power of thought. But what about sharing thoughts between two minds? A group of neuroscientists at Harvard have found a way to do it – with a human and a rat.
Neuroscientist Seung-Schik Yoo and colleagues wanted to show that a computer could actually send information from one brain to another. And they wanted to do it non-invasively, without sticking electrodes into anybody’s brain. Plus, they wanted to go beyond a previous experiment where one rat sent brain signals to another rat . So they developed a device that would read signals from a human brain, and feed those signals to a rat’s brain. In the end, their human subjects were able to make a rat move its tail just by thinking about it.
Here’s How They Did It:
First, they put an EEG device on a human. EEG measures the brain’s electrical signals through the skull. To boost that signal strength, they had the humans look at computer monitor that was flickering at a very specific frequency. Every time the humans looked at the flickering monitor, that frequency was sent to the EEG monitor. So when the humans wanted to signal “move your tail” to the rat, they would look at the monitor and their brains would send the signal.
To control the rat, Yoo and his colleagues used focused ultrasound (FUS), which can harmlessly beam an ultrasound signal into a specific spot in the brain, exciting the neurons around it. So the rat, who was under anesthesia at the time, had its head under a FUS beam, which excited its motor cortex and caused it to twitch its tail while it slept.
The setup worked nicely. In a paper published earlier this year in PLoS One, the researchers report that the humans looked at the flickering monitor, the EEG picked up the signal, and then a computer translated it into a command sent to the rat’s brain via FUS.
Obviously this was a fairly simple experiment. The human couldn’t send compex commands to the rat, like “stand up, walk left, and open the treasure chest.” More importantly, communication was one-way. The rat couldn’t send signals to the human. But the proof of concept now exists, and the researchers believe it could lead to human-to-human brain interfaces.
They offer one example of how such a brain-to-brain interface might work. It’s known that people sometimes experience “neural coupling,” where “the neural processes of one brain are coupled to the neural processes of another brain through various environmental routes, including indirect sensory/somatomotor communication.” Experiments have shown that when people understand each other while talking, they exhibit similar patterns of activation in their brains. Yoo and colleagues wonder if their system might “augment this mutual coupling of the brains,” and “have a positive impact on human social behavior.” In other words, you might put on a device like this during couples counseling so that you can sympathize more with your spouse during arguments.
Using this device might also help you train your dog. Or, you know, it might be something you’ll be forced to wear when your boss or political leader wants you to sympathize with their agendas.
Yoo and his colleagues are well-aware of this possible dystopian application of their brain-to-brain interface, and admit as much in the final paragraph of their paper:
It is reasonable to assume that further advancements and establishment of BBI between human subjects, as well as within or across species, have the potential to trigger breaking ethical questions that cannot be satisfied by applying contemporary ethical concepts. However, it is beyond the scope of this paper to address the particular moral and philosophical issues and complex challenges, possibly even undesirable consequences that may arise with the future application of this emerging technology .
What they are saying here is that we may not even have the ethical concepts to encompass the possible uses of this technology, which sounds like something out of Ramez Naam’s novel Nexus. It also sounds incredibly disturbing. Are we opening the door to new vistas in human cruelty, or new avenues of communication between species? Hopefully our ethical development will outpace the development of this technology.
In another stunning first for neuroscience, researchers have created an electronic link between the brains of two rats, and demonstrated that signals from the mind of one can help the second solve basic puzzles in real time – even when those animals are separated by thousands of miles.
Here’s how it works. An “encoder” rat in Natal, Brazil, trained in a specific behavioral task, presses a lever in its cage it knows will earn it a reward. A brain implant records activity from the rat’s motor cortex and converts it into an electrical signal that is delivered via neural link to the brain implant of a second “decoder” rat.
Still with us? This is where things get interesting. Rat number two is in an entirely different cage. In fact, it’s in North Carolina. The second rat’s motor cortex processes the signal from rat number one and – despite being unfamiliar with the behavioral task the first rat has been conditioned to perform – uses that information to press the same lever.
The experiment, the results of which are published free of charge in today’s issue of Scientific Reports , was led by Duke neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, a pioneer in the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). Back in 2011, Nicolelis and his colleagues unveiled the first such interface capable of a bi-directional link between a brain and a virtual body , allowing a monkey to not only mentally control a simulated arm, but receive and process sensory feedback about tactile properties like texture. Earlier this month, his team unveiled a BMI that enables rats to detect normally invisible infrared light via their sense of touch.
But an intercontinental mind-meld represents something new: a brain-to-brain interface between two live rats – one that enables realtime sharing of sensorimotor information. It’s a scientific first, and while it’s not telepathy, per se, it’s certainly something close. Neither rat was necessarily aware of the other’s existence, for example, but it’s clear that their minds were, in fact, communicating. “It’s not the Borg,” Nicolelis tells Nature’s Ed Yong. What he has created, he says, is “a new central nervous system made of two brains.”
Said nervous system is far from perfect. Untrained decoder rats receiving input from a trained encoder partner only chose the correct lever around two-thirds of the time. That’s definitely better than random odds, but still a far cry from the 95% accuracy of the encoder rats.
What this two-brain system does do, Nicolelis argues, is enable the rats to work with one another in unprecedented ways. And while neural communication between two animals on entirely separate continents is impressive in its own right*, Nicolelis says the most groundbreaking application of this technology – a 3-, 4-, or n-mind “brain net” – is still to come.
“These experiments demonstrated the ability to establish a sophisticated, direct communication linkage between rat brains,” he said in a statement, “so basically, we are creating an organic computer that solves a puzzle.”
“We cannot predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net,” he continues. “In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.”
The study is published in the latest issue of Scientific Reports . (No subscription required!)
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Picture post: Hundreds gather at fracking site for climate rally
By Ruth Hayhurst on October 20, 2018 • ( 80 Comments )
National Climate Rally, near Cuadrilla site at Preston New Road, 20 October 2018. Photo: Refracktion
A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 shouted “Cuadrilla go home” at a climate rally outside the company’s fracking site near Blackpool today.
Anti-fracking and climate change action groups, trades unions and political parties from across the UK took part in a march from Maple Farm along Preston New Road to the site entrance.
They were joined by the three climate protesters who were freed from prison on Wednesday (17 October 2018) by the appeal court.
Richard Roberts, Rich Loizou and Simon Roscoe Blevins, had been imprisoned last month after being found guilty of causing a public nuisance when they climbing onto lorries delivering to Cuadrilla’s site.
Richard Roberts at National Climate Rally, near Cuadrilla site at Preston New Road, 20 October 2018. Photo: Rutuply
Piano restorer, Richard Roberts, called for a war-time effort to scale up renewables and insulation. He said:
“We want Britain to be not just frack-free but gas free. It is totally possible.”
He encouraged opponents of fracking to shut down Cuadrilla’s site, where fracking began on Monday (15 October 2018). He told the crowd:
“You are taking direct action and you are shutting down a fracking site right now. That’s how easy it is.”
Rich Loizou at National Climate Rally, at Cuadrilla site, Preston New Road, 20 October 2018. Photo: Rutuply
Teacher, Rich Loizou, thanked people for supporting him and fellow protesters when they took part in their action in July 2017. He said:
“I got up on that lorry with no food, no water and no idea frankly.”
He said people had offered blankets, hot food and drinks, enabling him to carry on with his action. He called for support for local protesters across the country.
Simon Roscoe Blevins
Simon Roscoe Blevins thanked Lancashire for showing the country how to fight fracking.
Photo:RodHarbinson.com
Demonstration outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, 20 October 2018. Photo: RodHarbinson.com
Tina Rothery at National Climate Rally, near Cuadrilla site at Preston New Road, 20 October 2018. Photo: Refracktion
National Climate Rally, near Cuadrilla site at Preston New Road, 20 October 2018. Photo: Tina Rothery
National Climate Rally, near Cuadrilla site at Preston New Road, 20 October 2018. Photo: Katrina Lawrie
National Climate Rally, near Cuadrilla site at Preston New Road, 20 October 2018. Photo: Eddie Thornton
The former climate diplomat, John Ashton, said the three freed men “deserved a medal, not a criminal record”:
“I never thought my country would take its finest young people and make political prisoners of them because that’s what you were for three weeks.
John Ashton. Photo: Rutuply
Mr Ashton said the government and oil and gas industry had thought campaigners would become tired, scared and would go home. He said:
“I bet they thought they’d won. We’ve got news for them. We’re not going any where today, tomorrow or as long as Cuadrilla are in that field.”
“You cannot fix the climate and frack for shale gas at the same and you have to choose. The people of Lancashire have already chosen to fix the climate.”
Tim Farron. Photo: Rutuply
The former Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, said he had chosen to come to the rally, rather than the march in London for a people’s vote on leaving the EU. He said:
“Leaving the EU is nothing to the existential threat to humanity of climate change
“The most important reason to oppose fracking at this site is that fossil fuels must stay in the ground.”
Amelia Womack. Photo: Rutuply
The deputy head of the Green Party, Amelia Womack, said:
“It’s rank hypocrisy that politicians who supported the suffragettes are currently criminalising peaceful protest.
From the draconian use of injunctions to the wrongful imprisonment of three anti-fracking activists, a sustained attack on the right to protest is making it harder and harder for people to stand up for what is right.”
Estelle Dehon. Photo: Tina Rothery
Lawyer Estelle Dehon, who has represented campaigners opposed to fracking in legal challenges, said:
“I know there have been deep disappointments and there may be more with the law.
“But I firmly believe that the law realises that climate change is an existential threat. There will come a day when the law says no to fossil fuels.”
Lancashire campaigner, Tina Rothery, said however many people were arrested, fined or imprisoned the opponents of Cuadrilla would not go away:
“Not only will we not go, we will keep on inviting all these lovely friends of ours. Get used to us because we will be here until you go.”
David Kesteven. Photo: Rutuply
David Kesteven, chair of Eckington Against Fracking, said Ineos may have won a public inquiry to secure permission to explore for shale gas at Marsh Lane in Derbyshire.
But he said:
“They are going to have walk through us and they have absolutely no chance.”
Categories: Opposition
Tagged as: appeal court, climate, climate change, Cuadrilla, Fracking, freed, Lancashire, march, Opposition, Preston New Road, prison, protest, rally, shale gas, site, support
Updated: 0.3M tremor recorded near Cuadrilla’s fracking site
What’s happening this week? 22-28 October 2018
KatT says:
The people that support fracking have never managed any form of mass assembly. Yet every time those opposed hold a rally they resort to playground arguments about numbers, whether the participants were local or whether those participating travelled by a fossil fuelled vehicle. Shall we stick with the science and deal with the very real issue of climate chang instead? Climate change is global so it is irrelevant whether people are local to PNR. The CCC is critical of the government’s Clean Growth Strategy, in short the government is not taking sufficient action to mitigate climate change. The IPCC has stated we have to reduce our use of fossil fuels far more quickly than anticipated a mere 12 years from now is the key date if we are to avoid horrendous worldwide impacts from climate change. Just last week a group of MPs reported the government is not doing enough to green transport, they concluded all transport needs to be carbon zero by 2030 that is ten years sooner than government plans. So the science is clear, absolutely clear and our government is failing to take sufficient action to combat climate change. The changes are coming and those content to sit on the wrong side of science and history are running out of both excuses and time.
Kisheny says:
Why is it the Government are always to blame?
If everybody chose not to use Gas there would be no demand for it…
If the protesters are serious about their own ethics they should draw up a plan for life which would involve all those who sign up to stop using oil and Gas.
The Green Party must have a sound viable energy plan???
It starts with one person
KatT you go first…
crembrule says:
Yeah what a load of baloney, Governments role is to set policy, implement change and encourage participation, until it does this seriously significant change cannot occur.
When the incumbent Government is so intertwined with the O&G industry there is no impetuson them to affect radical change on a national scale. On this basis they should very much be held to account.
Talk to sher they seem to be doing O.K off grid!
Simple all antis please go off grid and encourage more and more until the point arrives where there are no customers for Gas…
It real is that simple, ask sher. Sher says that their energy is free also
I’m confused by your reluctance to ditch fossil fuel…
You truly are an absolute clown Kishney. Your views are either full of child like naivety or you are being deliberately belligerent. I would hazard d a guess at the second.
To bring about change on a national and international scale requires Government intervention, unfortunately whilst fossil fuel dinosaurs like you and your paymasters have the ear of government change will continue to be deliberately delayed. This is done for the purely selfish reason of ensuring yours and your friends pockets are lined and to maintain the stays quo not for global/national good or the well being of others.
The problem isn’t with me or other people making the switch away from fossil fuels, people do what they can, the problem lies with the reluctance of Government, Markets and companies ( including their drones like you) to drive the that change instead of putting up barriers to protect your way of life and livelihood.
The only bit of your post where you are correct is that Sher should be seen as an example to us all and that despite the retarded policies promoted by FF slaves such as your self there is light at the end of the tunnel and that light is not generated by fossil fuel.
I think you’re angry with yourself…
Are all your household lights led?
Probably fall at the first hurdle crem… mine are…
Is your house fully insulated with solar on the roof and an electric car on the drive?
If you are so militant about your cause you would have explained how you the individual crem had got the full FIT that the Government made available to you which was very reasonable for solar.
The Government don’t charge road tax on electric cars or fuel duty on the electric you use and only 5% vat on the car in question. Pretty sure you’ll have a petrol or diesel on your drive.
9% of our energy bills go towards intermittent renewables.
So crem the choice is there to make a difference yourself.
If you feel you can dumb down fossil fuels even though you rely heavily on them and won’t change yourself how do you expect everyone else to take you seriously or follow your lead.
Come on crem you can do so much more than just wash your jam jars out and recycle them…
Don’t blame the Government, blame yourself…
Pure and utter deflection Kishney.
I don’t have to justify myself to you or any one with regard to what I do in terms of carbon reduction or use in terms of fossil fuel or what I think in terms government strategy Kishney because ultimately who are you to question what I do personally do or believe? . But I am fully entitled to question what the elected Government in my country do in terms of its policy or do you seek to deny me the right?
Use your democratic right to vote for your Government of choice just like everybody else.
As for your personal commitment to climate change, because you won’t describe your lifestyle speaks volumes. If the individual won’t commit stop blaming the Government for your own misgivings…
Huge thanks for explaining how parliamentary democracy works in the UK. I didn’t actually realise I could choose who to vote for on the basis of my political beliefs. What a huge relief.
With regard to the rest of your poorly attempted ad-hominem it is interesting that with absolutely non actual information as to my personal commitment to climate change you draw completely unfounded conclusions. That speaks volumes about you Kish.
Furthermore even though you actually have no information to the contrary you make a statement that my right to voice my concerns about our current Government level of commitment to CC is some null and void. Sorry chap I am afraid doesn’t work like that, the U.K. is not quite the totalitarian dictatorship you dream of when reading the neo-con websites that you are so keen on linking too ad nauseum.
LED light bulbs crem?
Come on it starts with one bulb…
You’re worse than sher. At least sher tries by importing plastic panels from China and then telling the World that they have free never ending energy.
It must really grate on you answering these posts with your Gas central heating on…
You do know what an ad hominem is don’t you Kishney?
The subject being people moving away from fossil fuels
You’re argument is the Government is not doing enough to promote this course of action…
My argument is you are not following your own mantra…
What will it take for you to take the required action to fulfill your ambition???
I take it you are familiar with the phrase living in denial or do as I say not what I do…
Why don’t you want to address the actual point Kishney?
You asked why Government get blamed, I gave you my reasoning why. But instead of addressed that you seek to discredit my view not with counter argument but with ad hominem based on pure speculation.
What you fail to comprehend as you do do is that I don’t need to validate my view point with a personal d!ck waving contest about LED lamps (bulbs are for planting), ASHP, GSHP, CHP, PV, Solar thermal, Voltage Optimisation, EVs, Plug in hybrids, diesel, bio diesel, petrol , car sharing, public transport, bicycles, etc etc as non of it is relevant to the discussion Government is failing in its CC responsibilities.
I explained the Government has given you incentives and options.
If you choose not to use these options that is your personal choice. [Edited by moderator]
What a great day it was yesterday, we met some lovely people who actually care about the future and say so, a vast difference to the recidivists we see here spouting nonsense about numbers, clearly they werent there.
Well folks its Sunday again and on this first frack desecrated Sunday, it just had to be only one song didn’t it?
You guessed it!
This is of course:-
The Beatles: “A Day In The Life”
Very slightly altered, with the greatest apologies to the memory of John Lennon and George Harrison, and to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, still alive and kicking, who I am sure will understand.
I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed…
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords….
I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I’d love to turn you on……
Woke up, shook out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up I noticed I was late
Hah Hah hah,
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Ahhh ahh ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahhhh
Four thousand holes in Blackpool, Lancashire…
And though the holes were rather small
They had to frack them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to frack the Albert Hall……
I’d love to turn you off……..
And this is another Beatles song that springs to mind, appropriate for those who refuse to see….
I look at you all, see the love there that’s sleeping
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you
I look at the world and I notice it’s turning
With every mistake we must surely be learning
I don’t know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don’t know how you were inverted
No one alerted you
I look from the wings at the play you are staging.
Look at you all
As I’m sitting here seeing nothing but raging
Have a great Sunday with family and friends and maybe remember the days when “shake rattle and roll” was just a dance, not the result of a deliberately imposed industrialisation process. And it’ll be “A Hard Days Night”, when “All Things Must Pass”, and then we can “Act Naturally”, and “Come Together” and then when we can be “All Together Now”, because “All You Need Is Love”.
Then “Your Bird Can Sing”, “Any time At All”. “Don’t Ask Me Why”.
Dont tell me “Money (That’s What I Want)” because it “Cant Buy Me Love” and you will have to “Carry That Weight a Long Time”.
In this world you can’t just be a “Day Tripper” to “Dig A Pony”, so “Dont Let Me Down”, don’t you “Dig It”?
I say “Don’t Pass Me By,” I will use solar power to “Drive My Car”, just because of some “Fool On The Hill”, who cares “For No One”, so they can “Get Back” so they can be “Glad All Over,” “Eight Days A Week”.
We know that “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey”
We might as well live in a “Glass Onion”, so when you say “Happiness Is A Warm Gun”, and “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road”!
I say “Hello, Goodbye”, “Help!” Its “Helter Skelter” “Hey Prudence”, “Here Comes The Sun”, its always “Here, There And Everywhere”.
So, “Hey Bulldog”, and “Hey Jude”, we got “The Hippy Hippy Shake”, I say you better go tell “Eleanor Rigby” about “Every Little Thing”, because “I Saw Her Standing There”, “I Should Have Known Better” than to trust you, because “You Never Give Me Your Money”,
So I say “Hey Mr Postman”, “With A Little Help From My Friends” “We Can Work It Out.even on “The Long And Winding Road” and we can forget “The March Of The Meanies”.
TW says:
Phil C. Nice poem (songs?). Great collection from the Beatle.
But still a disappointing turn out considering many had to be bus in from all over the country and with the great star attraction of the jailed 3 heroines for breaking the public law.
KatT. Many of the frackers may have a job to do or work on Sat to support their family.
Sherwulfe says:
Are you suggesting anti-frackers only work Monday- Friday TW? It seems that Cuadrilla’s henchmen were happy to work Saturday 🙂
Hi KatT – stick with reality. Cuadrilla are executing their fracking program at PNR. IPCC reports are not relevant to this. Cuadrilla are testing two wells, not going into production / development. That requires a whole new round of approvals. And the test results may be negative, poor productivity and or poor economics, particualrly as John Powney is telling us this every other day. All the protesting / gatherings (I see Phil C even made it to PNR) in the world won’t make any difference to the ongoing approved program which has zero impact on the IPCC doom and gloom forecasts.
By the way, do you agree that the IPCC should now be disbanded as they have achieved what they set out to do? We accept there findings and use the redeploy the Scientists to do something useful going forward to help meet the 1.5degC target instead of just alerting us to it?
Please send your ideas how to make transport in the UK carbon zero by 20130 on a post card to the Government. And also tell them how you propose to do this globally at the same time to meet the 1.5degC target…..
“Just last week a group of MPs reported the government is not doing enough to green transport, they concluded all transport needs to be carbon zero by 2030 that is ten years sooner than government plans. So the science is clear,” – a group of MPs, please you don’t seriously believe this do you?
Vern Walk says:
Its big on sensational news but very short on support. There are 65,000,000 living in the UK a couple hundred unemployed and unemployable is hardly representative of the nation
ScowieMark says:
Kisheny, The government is always to blame as they are the government. They are meant to be there to lead for the good of the country but when they are making decisions for the good of businesses and not the whole of the country then yes, the government are to blame.
People use Gas at the moment as there are no major initiatives coming from the government for renewable energy alternatives in home.
The government have cut subsidies on electric cars,
They are expanding Heathrow
Promoting fracking
Freezing fuel duty
They scrapped solar power subsidies and
Have cancelled zero carbon emission homes,,!
Come on then, you give us a reason to use Gas….
You just have…
Tapping on plastic and using electricity generated by burning Gas to send your reply…
The question once again is are you going to turn your back on fossil fuel. It can be easily done by the sounds of your argument…
So do it and take all the other anti fossil fuel people with you.
If you want a start up omission so you can have plastic solar panels shipped from China, we’ll let that one slide…
GottaBKidding says:
Might start taking interest if it was min 100k protestors.
Only opposition forces rally, supporters just sit back and watch the progress.
yes; all three of you……
john Powney says:
‘supporters just sit back and watch the progress’……………..while investors pace up and down, Preese Hall report grasped tightly in one hand, with a growing realisation that every frack could trigger earthquakes, well bores could clog up with sand, and hyped gas returns are exactly that. Every single frack could shut the industry down. That risk would never go away. Hardly ‘progress’
Peter Roberts says:
Wonder what tomorrow will bring?
More fracking and tremors?
Maybe heavy rain and strong winds?
Maybe protests against the filthy frackers?
Certainly more tales of Government and Judicial corruption!
That’s a given in England nowadays!
More rubbish propaganda from local and national media?
That’s also a given! Apparently the Sun newspaper is maintaining it’s readership by offering tokens towards days out at Alton Towers! Most people still prefer Andrex!
Tomorrow will bring another frack at PNR Peter. And the next day another, and so on….
The weather tomorrow (do you not have internet / TV?):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/0/2655459
Protests? Who knows. But one thing is clear, the Cuadrilla site looks a lot tidier than the area where Saturday’s protest took place. What a mess:
Was Ian R Crane at the rally. He normally speaks for the antis in Court?
Ian R Crane has posted his latest work…
@YouTube playlist https://t.co/8lAQBiABqC AV8.1 – Trans-Humanism & the Rise of Inter-dimensional Artificial
Yes, SM, the government make decisions for the good of business. You know, those nasty people who pay most of the tax to fund public services, and employ people who then pay their tax for the same end. But, let’s not support business and you can fill that gap. Very generous of you, but do not expect the majority to help you out with it when they have clearly identified they are NOT against fracking.
First snow of the winter forecast for this week, trouble in the M.East. Russia being further isolated.
Budget next week. £20 Billion to be found for NHS. Wonder where the bill will fall? What would be the extra tax income be for the Government if UK replaced energy imports with home grown energy? No need to do the maths., just look at Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund. That’s the way to fund alternative energy projects, and many other items as well.
Chris600uk says:
People who understand what fracking does only support it if it’s kept away from populated areas.
They also know that we don’t need fracked gas – there’s loads of gas in the world and we’re using less and less of it each year.
Loads of gas in the world???!!!
Trouble is, demand is increasing dramatically. $200 billion required to invest in new plants to export the stuff. So, primary school economics-supply/demand/price. In other words, high demand, price rises whilst supply is tight. Checked some UK domestic gas bills recently? People understand that when supply is tight those without security of their own supply and a weak currency pay a high price.
zzzzzzzzz, thump!; sorry just fell off me chair with that Conny lullaby……………….
Nothing to say as usual sher…
Wasting electricity…
No waste kishy, all free and renewable from the wind; go on, convert, you know you want to…….
Some stats : the energy generated from wind and solar power from the 28 countries of the EU is only sufficient to meet the equivalent of 28% of UK oil and gas consumption.
By the way Sher if it is free and never ending please tell everybody…
We’re waiting…
I already have kishy;plonker!
Why isn’t everybody listening to you sher.
Anybody else living totally free???
85% are listening; where’ave you been? Oh yes, other side of the world facilitating the deadly spawn….gotta love the irony!
I will take my opportunity to use a little philosophy here . Has any thought been given to the environmental effect of wind farms ? I would suggest that they ought to be investigated to see if they do have any affect upon the climate and perhaps have already started to do so. The philosophy is that the jet streams are the result of established pathways taking into account, over the years, surface resistance. Could it not be that if you dump
1000 wind turbines and consistently increase upon that number that you are in fact creating resistance at ground level to the natural progression of the East West flow of air over the UK. In effect causing a high pressure bubble on the windward side of the turbines. Would not the jet stream then seek out the path of less resistance and divert around an area of higher resistance ? If thats South of its normal track that would result in cooler times and if it is North it would result in warmer air over the UK.Might be what caused the hot summer this year !
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A few carpsuckers are marketed by commercial fishers along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Fishes live in water, breathe with gills, and have fins instead of legs. Prep time: 10 min Generally not as abundant as the river carpsucker. The river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio) is silvery, with a deep, thick body, a long, sickle-shaped dorsal fin and whitish lower fins. Lower temperature is safer , the higher temperatures could fail but produce more reagants. They have good vision, a hyper-sensitive lateral line, and excellent senses of taste and smell. Total time: 30 min Quillback Carpsucker Fishing in the Wisconsin River with Worms - Duration: 7:42. tiefsa 987 views. *The information displayed is our analysis of the recipe based on its ingredients and preparation, and should not be considered a substitute for professional nutrition advice. quillback carpsucker ežerinÄ karpinÄ ÄiulpikÄ statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rÅ«Å¡is atitikmenys: lot. The quillback shown above was collected in Gulf County, Florida in 2015. The highfin carpsucker is also a more slender, but deeper-bodied fish. unbound alchemist stone recipe drop, Go to Alchemist's Mixing Urn in the basement of Ivory Tower in front of Magic Trade Wesley. Highfin Carpsucker The highfin carpsucker is distinguished by the length of the first ray of its dorsal fin, which reaches to or beyond the back of the dorsal fin. Call 1-800-392-1111 to report poaching and arson. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. The quillback is a carpsucker with a deep, rather thick body, with a large snout and a long, sickle-shaped dorsal fin. It is also called "white carp," "silver carp" and "quillback." Missouri has more than 200 kinds of fish, more than are found in most neighboring states. Adapted and refined by our very own Nic Mink, itâs become one of our favorite recipes here at Sitka Salmon Shares! An analysis of age, growth, and fecundity was carried out on 208 quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus) and 32 highfin (C. velifer) carpsuckers collected from Four Mile Creek, Ohio, MayâOctober, 1972. Scientific name: carpiodes velifer rafinesque (Latin), cyprinus (Greek) Size: Most adult quillbacks fall into the 12 to 15-inch class and weigh 3 pounds or so. In two separate excursions, new records have been set for the quillback carpsucker and bigmouth buffalo. We protect and manage the fish, forest, and wildlife of the state. Here's what they're saying about us! Small suckers, including the eggs and young of the quillback, are an important food source for other animals, including game fishes. Owen Seay of Big Rapids caught a record-breaking quillback carpsucker while baitcasting in the Muskegon River in Mecosta County on April 28. Bring to simmer and reduce by half. Find local MDC conservation agents, consultants, education specialists, and regional offices. It is deeper-bodied than most suckers, leading to a carplike appearance. Wild in the Galley and Wild at Home are trademarks of Sitka Salmon Shares, Nic's Sticky Quillback | Sitka Salmon Shares, Seared Sablefish (Black Cod) in Tomato and Saffron Broth with Pan Softened Mushrooms and Tomatoes, Halibut with Braised Lentils and Lemon Butter Sauce, Spot Shrimp (Spot Prawn) and Sausage Sauté, Captain Stu's Teriyaki Sablefish (Black Cod). > Brandon Hollaway landed a 5-pound, 8-ounce quillback carpsucker on Boone Lake Saturday evening. Add fish to my catch list: Quillback Carpsucker, Carp, Muskellunge Earn PFBC Fishing Citation (Catch & Release-Channel Catfish, and Senior Angler Award-Carp) Successfully shoot a fox when calling (Rifle) â The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports that Timothy Keene of Ozark became the most recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he hooked a quillback on Bull Shoals Lake in Taney County using a rod and reel. In addition to the lake sturgeon, redhorse of five different species (silver, golden, river, greater, and shorthead) are abundant. backs, (esp. The eyes are moderately large and closer to the tip of the snout than to the rear margin of the gill cover. Fairly common in the upper Mississippi River and in large reservoirs of the Ozark Uplands. dylanvater my name is dylan i am 21 years old and an avid fishermen. Widely distributed. Quillback carpsuckers have a deeply forked caudal fin. It is the most abundant and widely distributed carpsucker ⦠Also known as: quillback carpsucker. White sucker, redhorse, long-nose sucker, and quillback carpsucker...all smoked or smoked and made into sausage. True, lampreys and eels have snakelike bodies â but they also have fins and smooth, slimy skin, which snakes do not. It can be distinguished from carp by the lack of barbels around the mouth. Dates: Jan 01 2020 to Dec 31 2020. This kosher food list offers a brief glimpse into kosher food rules, as well … The highfin carpsucker is also a more slender, but deeper-bodied fish. Add green onions. Length: Range from 12 to 17 inches with ⦠The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus), also known as the quillback carpsucker, is a type of freshwater fish of the sucker family widely distributed throughout North America. Like other carpsuckers, the quillback inhabits quiet water except when spawning. It is fairly uncommon i n Michigan and at risk for extinction here. Diet: Feeds on insects . Hunter Education. The Quillback carpsucker is a large, heavy-bodied fish with large, close-knit scales and a long, pointed dorsal fin that has a quill which extends to the base of dorsal. Scientific Name: Carpiodes cyprinus . Order before time runs out â the holiday seafood sale ends December 9. ... here is a recipe fun enough that the kids will want to help. Highfin carpsuckers are found in large to moderate sized rivers. ACS is owned and operated by Jerry Darkes a fly fishing product sales representative, guide, instructor, and writer. Our member-customers are our best advocates. We facilitate and provide opportunity for all citizens to use, enjoy, and learn about these resources. The night before this featured recipe I grilled backstrap medium-rare and diced up for her. Adult length: commonly 12â17 inches; weight: commonly 0.8â2.3 pounds. Jun 27, 2017 - Fishing events that recognize veterans from every war are popular across the country. We found a version of this recipe a few years back in an old Alaskan cookbook purchased at a garage sale in Sitka. Species Weight Location Caught By Date Caught; Coosa (Redeye) 1 lb. It broke the previous state record, a 8.52-pound catch on Hardy Dam Pond in … Sexing fish can be a very difficult task. Adults migrate from deeper, quiet waters to areas of gravelly riffles for spawning. 15 oz. It can be distinguished from carp by the lack of barbels around the mouth. Quillback Click for Available Cuts & More! Remove fish and place onto a paper towel to drain. He is usually seen on the water with his yellow lab Aspen - the REAL fish dog. Serves: 4. Add honey, soy sauce, and lemon juice. The first record of the quillback carpsucker (Carpiodes cyprinus) in Illinois waters of Lake Michigan. Animal type: FISH Family: Sucker open cycle and closed cycle gas turbine difference, The Brayton cycle is a thermodynamic cycle named after George Brayton that describes the workings of a constant-pressure heat engine. Permits. ("PA Chapter 12 Suckers", 2005; Etnier and Starnes, 1993) The largest recorded quillback carpsucker was caught in Nebraska on the Missouri River by Patrick Fox Jr. on June 3, 2001, weighing 6.18 kg (13 lbs. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently confirmed another new state-record fish, this time a quillback carpsucker. The Division of Wildlifeâs mission is to conserve and improve fish and wildlife resources and their habitats for sustainable use and appreciation by all. She ate, zero issue, and enjoyed it. Serve over white rice. ("PA Chapter 12 Suckers", 2005; Etnier and Starnes, 1993) The largest recorded quillback carpsucker was caught in Nebraska on the Missouri River by Patrick Fox Jr. on June 3, 2001. Jul 17, 2019 - Fishing Boat Blog is a media information about fish, fishing, fishing boats, and tools for fishing Other Common Names: Carpsucker, white carp, silver carp, plains carpsucker, lake quillback, coldwater carp, quillback sucker, mullet, long-finned sucker . It is deeper-bodied than most suckers, leading to a carplike appearance. Bottom-feeder, consumes larval aquatic insects, snails, small clams, algae, and debris. I’ve also found bucktails are excellent for fishing the top few feet of the water column in lakes and ponds to fool bass, sunfish, pike, walleye, rainbows and brookies. Each kind of sucker has its own particular habitat preference. Some of my favorite books out there are cooking related. Pour any extra sauce over fish. Most fish in Missouri âlookâ like fish and could never be confused with anything else. The highfin carpsucker is distinguished by the length of the first ray of its dorsal fin, which reaches to or beyond the back of the dorsal fin. The Quillback is found in both medium to large rivers, as well as some lakes. This species has a slightly arched back and is somewhat stout and compressed. The catch weighing in at 9 pounds, 15 ounces measured 24.75 inches. Owen Seay of Big Rapids caught a record-breaking quillback carpsucker while baitcasting in the Muskegon River in Mecosta County on April 28. Mike Tyson - The Hardest Puncher in Boxing Ever! Fish are an amazingly diverse group of animals on planet Earth. It isn’t often that an offer to taste a wild game recipe gets turned down. The central quillback carpsucker is found throughout inland Ohio in most streams and rivers. The eyes are moderately large and closer to the tip of the snout than to the rear margin of the gill cover. While some fishes can be easily sexed, others are nearly impossible to distinguish between without cutting them open and examining their reproductive organs. One event in Ludington is about to kick off for the third year. Wildflowers, Grasses and Other Nonwoody Plants. The new âpole and lineâ record quillback caught by Keene on June 26 weighed 5 ⦠Whether you are keeping kosher or preparing meals for someone else who follows a kosher diet, you’ll want to be sure to follow all dietary rules concerning food and its preparation. ("Hotspot Fishing", ⦠Common names: carpsucker, American carp, silver carp, eastern carpsucker, plains, highfin carp sucker, shad, white carp, white buffalo. Add quillback to pan with reduced sauce. Huge shout-outs to the MeatEater podcast and Steven Rinella’s books Vol. They differ from the quillback carpsucker by having a fleshy knob on the front edge of the lower lip (right photo) and are much taller bodied than the river carpsucker. The quillback ⦠Northern quillback carpsuckers are found only in Lake Erie and the first mile or two of some of its larger tributaries. Dredge quillback in flour, then sauté in pan until nicely browned, flipping halfway through cooking (about 4 minutes each side). Quillback and river carpsuckers are very abundant, often seen feeding in the side channels and connected backwaters in large, tight schools. All three species are rarely caught by anglers due to their feeding habits, but they have been caught occasionally on worms, minnows, and ⦠Adapted and refined by our very own Nic Mink, itâs become one of our favorite recipes here at Sitka Salmon Shares! Carpsuckers are rarely taken on hook and line and are little valued as food. Habitat and Habits. The bigmouth buffalo is a dark-colored sucker with a deep, rather thick body and a long, sickle-shaped dorsal fin. It weighed 6.18 kg (13 lbs. In the Muslim tradition, these fish are halal because they possess the appropriate characteristic of having true fish scales.. Diseases. 7:42. Quillback . The eyes are small and closer to the tip of the snout than to the rear margin of the gill cover. Clear lake hardy dam pond rogue river sga martiny lake sga haymarsh lake sga muskegon sga 3 3 3 3 3 3 320 3 19 196 194 312 19 19 19 19 19 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 big rapids . They can be found throughout the lake but are most common in depths of 15-25 feet. This recipe works great with any whitefish, so feel free to make it with halibut, lingcod, yelloweye, or pacific cod. The quillback is a member of the sucker family, and has a deep and highly arched body. A quillback carpsucker weighing in at 9 pounds, 15 ounces and measuring 24.75 inches is the new state record. Florida Museum photo by Zachary Randall. 1989b. This is the site for Angling Consulting Services (ACS). This is the site for Angling Consulting Services (ACS). Lower lip lacks nipple when mouth is closed. Believe it or not, Nic started cooking at age 9, was invited to apprentice with Emeril Lagasse as a teenager, and offered a position at the Culinary Institute of America (which he turned down to start Sitka Salmon Shares!). The quillback is a carpsucker with a deep, rather thick body, with a large snout and a long, sickle-shaped dorsal fin. Bardygula, and L. Scoma. It is most abundant in moderately large streams but also occurs in creeks if large, permanent pools are present. It was present in 1 rapid bioassessment session and 1 presence-only session. ive always been into fishing but species fishing is a whole different experience and im blown away from the amount of knowledge ive gained from it. Including: Buffalo fish (Ictiobus species); Suckers (Catostomus species, Moxostoma species); Quillback or carpsucker (Carpiodes species) – Sunfish: (Family Centrarchidae). 10 oz.) Savitz, J., L.G. There are a Fishing. Choose which ingredients you want to mix and at what temperature. The overall color is silvery, sometimes with yellowish fins (much like the river carpsucker), but with the sides often having a tinge of golden yellow. Recipes. My biggest shock came on one of my very first fishing … Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device, Nic Mink, co-founder and Chief Fishmonger, 1 squeeze of lemon juice (about 1 teaspoon), choosing a selection results in a full page refresh. Spawning apparently occurs from early April to late May, which is earlier than for other carpsuckers. Seasons. The body is not as deep and is thicker than the highfin carpsucker, its width usually going 2 times or less into its depth. Quillback are typically 15-20 inches on average, weighing between 1 and 4 pounds. The original Brayton engines used a piston compressor and piston expander, but more modern gas turbine engines and airbreathing jet engines also follow the Brayton cycle. www.jewishrecipes.org/jewish-foods/kosher-fish/freshwater-buffalo-fish.html ... Best Bait Recipe: Cured Corn - Duration: 9:03. River Carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio River Carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio.Fish caught in the St. Francis River in Wappapello, Missouri, July 2017. The Quillback Carpsucker was collected in 296 bioassessment sampling sessions and 164 fisheries assessment sessions. The first ray of the dorsal fin reaches beyond the middle of the fin. While the fins are usually opaque, in older fish they may be dark yellow. Other river species include white bass, yellow bass, green sunfish, carp, big mouth buffalo, yellow perch and quillback carpsucker. Regulations. By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive communications from Sitka Salmon Shares. River Carpsucker The river carpsucker has a silvery, deep, rather thick body, a long, sickle-shaped ⦠Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science 82(3&4):191-192. This helps the fish locate predators and prey. Fishing Reports and Discussions for Wisconsin River = Portage To LAKE., Columbia County - Wisconsin To my immense surprise, I even once caught a quillback carpsucker on a bucktail. quillâ¢back [[t]ËkwɪlËbæk[/t]] n. pl. Add remaining butter to another skillet and heat over medium. Round whitefish/Menominee, rocky mountain whitefish, which are cousins. The lower fins are whitish (unlike buffalofishes, which have the lower fins dark). The state record for quillback carpsucker was broken by a fish caught by Garrett Reid of Nashville, Michigan, on Hardy Dam Pond in ⦠The fleshy, protrusile lips of suckers make them perfectly equipped for sucking up aquatic invertebrates from the bottom. Longnose Gar Common Names - gar, garfish Description - They are olive-brown or deep green along the back and upper sides, with silver-white bellies. and measuring 71.2 cm (28 inches) in length. The fish has been certified as a new state record. For more on state-record fish, visit mdc.mo.gov/fishing/state- record-fish . Growth averages up to 3- to 4-inches per year in the younger ages to about 1- to 1 1/2-inches each year for older fish. We found a version of this recipe a few years back in an old Alaskan cookbook purchased at a garage sale in Sitka. A six year old quillback would be about 12-inches long and weigh slightly over one pound. Once hot, add ginger and sauté for about 1 minute. The Quillback Carpsucker has a nearly straight, hyper-sensitive lateral line, composed of at least 37 lateral line scales. The study of fish is called ichthyology. 10 oz.) It is now part of the Florida Museum ichthyology collection, UF 238188. However, they can grow up to 26 inches and weigh 10 pounds. Call 1-800-392-1111 to report poaching and arson, Catostomidae (suckers) in the order Cypriniformes (carps, minnows, and loaches). This is a list of fish considered halal according to the Muslim as well as being kosher according to Jews as per the kashrut dietary laws in the halakha of rabbinic Judaism.. OZARK, Mo. It has been reported to hybridize with Highfin Carpsucker. During the first few months of the coronavirus emergency in Michigan, a lot of people turned to the outdoors for exercise, fresh air and a little peace of mind. Quillback carpsuckers have a deeply forked tail fin. They prefer clear water and gravel or sand bottom, and feed on ins ects, mollusks, and plants, making them rarely caught by normal fishing methods (although he surely smacked a #400 ⦠Michigan recently recognized its fourth record fish of 2015 when Garret Reid of Nashville arrowed a massive quillback carpsucker on June 20. Quillback Carpsucker Fishing in the Wisconsin River with Worms - Duration: 7:42. tiefsa 872 views. There is no nipple-like projection at the middle of the lower lip. Quillback definition, a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the ⦠Photo from Michigan DNR. Most are covered with scales. Parksville Reservoir: Harry E. Parker: August 18, 1991: Smallmouth* 11 lbs. Nongame Fish - Bow Fishing on Mississippi, Missouri, St Francis Rivers. Deer Hunting Guide. In many streams, their total poundage may exceed that of all other fishes combined. Cisco, lake whitefish, bloater, kiyi, and siscowet at a fish boil (another don't bother). ACS is owned and operated by Jerry Darkes a fly fishing product sales representative, guide, instructor, and writer. The quillback is characteristic of moderately clear, highly productive streams having large, permanent pools and stable bottoms composed of gravel and other coarse material. Most common in the clearer prairie streams of central and northeastern Missouri. The river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio) is a freshwater fish found in the inland United States and northern Mexico. Heat 3 Tbsp butter in heavy skillet over medium-high heat. The quillback carpsucker is closely related to the highfin carpsucker and the river carpsucker. > While cranking a Bill Norman DD-22 over a rock pile in 35 feet, Holloway felt the fish hit. Rarely caught by anglers. The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus), also known as the quillback carpsucker, is a type of freshwater fish of the sucker family widely distributed throughout North America. The quillback ⦠Angling for Carpsuckers Back in the 80's, when I was 16, I received the book Fishing for Buffalo, by Tom Dickson and Rob Buffler, as a gift from a good friend. ("Hotspot ⦠This will take 2-4 minutes depending on heat of pan. Quillbacks may live to be at least 10 years old. QUILLBACK CARPSUCKER The fish in question was a Quillback Carpsucker. Also, the snout is larger, its length about equal to the distance from the rear margin of the eye to the upper end of the gill opening, and the mouth is farther forward, the upper jaw not extending past the front of the eye. ive been species fishing for a little over 2 years now and my lifelist has grown quite a bit since it started out. Owen Seay of Big Rapids was baitcasting in the Muskegon River in Mecosta County on April 28 when he hooked a 9 pound, 15-ounce quillback that measured 24.75 inches, the department said. Species A-Z. Length: 60 cm (2 feet 0 inches). Description: Silvery, thick-bodied fish with a long, sickle-shaped dorsal fin with first dorsal ray reaching back beyond middle of fin. Hours: 24 hours. and measured 71.2 cm (28 inches) in length. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link found at the bottom of every email. Similar species: The quillback is similar to the river and highfin carpsuckers but it lacks a nipple-like extension on the lower lip, and it has 36â38 (rarely 35) scales in its lateral line (not 23â30). Maximum size in Missouri is about 12.2 inches and 3.7 pounds. Counting the lampreys, sharks, and their relatives, plus all the bony fish, there are some 28,000 species of fishes alive today. In addition to their importance as food, fishes intrigue us in home and public aquariums, and many human cultures have viewed fishes as religious symbols, as deities, and as subjects in myth, art, literature, and films. Smallmouth buffalo and carp are common. Habitat: Prefers rivers with sand or gravel bottom . This quillback carpsucker was caught by Owen Seay of Big Rapids, and set a new state record at 9 pounds, 15 ounces.
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Bodoni was a director of printing house of Duke of Parma in Italy. LTC Bodoni 175 is modern typeface originally created by Giambattista Bodoni in 1790, which served as the structural model for this faithful rendition by Sol Hess. Download GFS Bodoni tpeface, a contrast serif font family in four styles, based on the classic design by Giambattista Bodoni. Indeed, Giambattista Bodoni meant for his typefaces to be seen as well as read, and his efforts were meant to be looked upon and appreciated as works of art rather than simply communication. He … Today's font of choice, Bodoni Sans, was created by Canadian type designer Jason Vandenberg. 002;Core 1. American Type Founders came out with a variant designed by Morris Fuller in 1909, followed by an italic and book version in 1910, italic and bold+italic in 1911, a bold shaded version in 1912 and shaded initials in 1914. Moreover, you can embed it to your website with @font … The late 1980s collaboration of Massimo Vignelli and Tom Carnase on WTC Our Bodoni⢠for World Typeface Corporation is a good example of one of the hundreds of modern versions of Bodoni. Bodoni è un tipo di carattere con grazie disegnato da Giovanni Battista Bodoni (1740-1813), caratterizzato da un alto contrasto tra le linee spesse e quelle sottili. His early types were based on those of Fournier and Didot, but he developed the designs to become what are now considered to be the first modern typefaces. Font Meme is a fonts & typography resource. However, Bodoni was a prolific type designer, completing hundreds of typefaces; the Museo Bodoniano in Parma, houses more than 25,000 of his punches! Platform Encoding. In addition Elle magazine ahs used it for logo and titles. Monotype came out with two italic variations in 1911 and 1930 and two bold versions in the mid-1930s. Units per Em 1000. At the same time, Firminâs brother Pierre used the types they created in printing, such as the copy he printed of La Henriad by Voltaire, which is a beautiful study in the Didot font. Some characteristics of Bodoni include the square dot over the letter “i”, and a double storey “a”. Microsoft Unicode BMP only. Its medium-large x-height makes it ideal for headlines and brand identity design. Perhaps the indicator of success would be the fact that during the age of metal type and the years forward, every serious foundry has its own adaptation of Bodoni. Bodoni is a Serif typeface font designed by Giambattista Bodoni in the late eighteenth century. Family class Modern serifs. The capital “Q’s” tail is centered under the figure, and the uppercase “J” has a slight hook. Bodoni Z37âs cute, curly italics have loose spacing for clarity and emphasis. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Giambattista Bodoni created this font in a time when loads of designers were experimenting with a dramatic contrast between thick and thin lines. Bodoni MT is a classic version of the modern style serif first produced by Monotype. Moreover, you can embed it to your website with @font … Bodoni is the name of a series of serif typefaces that you often see used on posters. The Bodoni-Bold font contains 399 beautifully designed characters. Designed by Ray Larabie, Bodoni Z37 is a serif font family. These include Adobe, ITC, Bauer and FontFont. Besides being the logotype for high-end fashion labels, Bodoni is also used in fashion magazine spreads, magazine covers and posters, due to its pleasant aesthetics when set in bigger sizes. Released in 2004 by Casady & Greene and licensed for personal-use only It brings elegance and sparkle to any graphic image, including headlines, text, and logos. The font, with its highly recognizable centered âQâ tail and slight hook in the âJâ, was widely accepted by printers and can be seen in a broad variety of publications and uses since the late 1700s. Bodoni Std Book font viewed 4430 times and downloaded 2519 times. 5. Free download of BodoniFLF Font Family with 4 styles. Stylistically, what really sets it apart from other typefaces in its category are flat sides and a geometric Deco style. This made poor old Baskerville essentially obsolete until 1917, when Bruce Rogers gave it life again for the Harvard University Press. Extended information. Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) was called the King of Printers and the Bodoni font owes its creation in 1767 to his masterful cutting techniques. Bodoni was also part of the modern 18th century fashion that grew for faces with a stronger contrast between the thick and thins, unbracketed serifs, and strong vertical stress, whereas all the older type faces became to be known as old style. Libre Bodoni is fairly new on the scene and is an open font created for the web, which I will compare to Bodoni 72, an older font that was designed as a display and headline font. Subsequent to Bodoniâs recuperation from malaria, the Duke Ferdinando of Bourbon-Parma sought his skills to mount a printing house in Parma, in 1768. Lange adapted this Bodoni to meet the demands of current technology. Firmin Didot created most of the original Didot typefaces between 1784 and 1811 by cutting out the letters and developing the type. LTC Bodoni 175 is modern typeface originally created by Giambattista Bodoni in 1790, which served as the structural model for this faithful rendition by Sol Hess.
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Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android's user interface is mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely correspond to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching, to manipulate on-screen objects, along with a virtual keyboard for text input. In addition to touchscreen devices, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Android Wear for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used on notebooks, game consoles, digital cameras, and other electronics.
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Free-agent right-hander Adam Wainwright is looking forward to playing in his 16th MLB season in 2021 but is uncertain about where he'll wind up.
He and longtime St. Louis Cardinals batterymate Yadier Molina are on the open market, and Wainwright isn't sure he'll be given the opportunity to return.
"They're going to put a winning team on the field," Wainwright said, according to Jesse Rogers of ESPN. "It's going to be interesting to see what they do, though. Yadier is a free agent, too. We just don't know what they're going to be offering - or if they will offer."
Wainwright, 36, has spent his entire big-league career with the Cardinals after being acquired from the Atlanta Braves as a prospect in the J.D. Drew trade. The Braves were previously reported as being interested in signing the veteran hurler, but recently inked Charlie Morton to a one-year, $15-million deal to shore up the rotation.
The three-time All-Star said he'd be willing to accept a deal similar to Morton's, according to Rogers.
Even if the Cardinals don't try to bring him back into the fold, he says there are no hard feelings.
"Every player has an expiration date," Wainwright said. "It's just the nature of the game. You will never hear me say a bad word about the city of St. Louis or the Cardinals organization. They've done so much for me. They're amazing people from top to bottom. I've been so blessed."
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I wonder if the Sushant Singh Rajput (SSR) death case would have been such a multi-pronged fact finding investigation – carried out by honchos of CBI +NCB+ED – if Shiv Sena had decided to partner with BJP to form the government in Maharashtra in 2019. Or, would Republic TV and the other news channels that emulate Arnab for his irrational and politically motivated ideological position, create so much of noise against the Mumbai Police if Arnab was not harassed for bad mouthing Sonia Gandhi on TV. Or would the self-appointed spokesperson of BJP, Kangana Ranaut ,compare Mumbai with POK if Fadnavis had retained power. Certainly not. SSR is a political opportunity that has fallen into the lap of the party in power at the Centre and given its unabashed political shrewdness, it is naive to expect them to not exploit it to embarrass the Maharashtra Government.
The Supreme Court acted swiftly and directed the CBI to investigate the allegations made by the actor’s family. The primary question is whether SSR was killed or did he commit suicide? The findings would go a long way in assuaging the feelings of his family and fans. The way this case has been handled, despite the national preoccupation with Corona, it has ignited a new hope with families of around 30,000 people who are reportedly murdered in India every year. The supreme leader of the current political dispensation in power at the Centre has so eloquently explained the constitutional provisions of equality in his ‘Sab Ka Saath, Sab Ka Vikas’ commitment. It is time for the Modi government to show that it has the same concern about everyone and the criminal investigation and justice system would be overhauled and institutions would not discriminate between the stars and the starving..
Prashant Bhushan has been found guilty of contempt of court and fined Rupee one. In this bar vs bench face-off, it is the Supreme Court that has emerged as the winner in public perception by pronouncing Prashant guilty and, at the same time, taking a magnanimous approach and letting him off on payment of a token fine. Prashant has done monumental clean-up work and a lot of it has been pro bono. He is a legend in his own right and is a role model for young lawyers who want to spice up their legal profession with activism. His image is that of a committed and well meaning lawyer who is a pious do-gooder. His claim to fame are the issues that he has been able to raise through PILs that he has filed and the judgments that he has been able to get from the Supreme Court. Ironically, his seemingly inflated self perception made him believe that taking the legal recourse for seeking relief had placed him on a higher pedestal than the institution from which he was seeking the relief. He did not see a dichotomy in finding faults and running down the institution that has been his raison d’ etre.
While the objective for Prashant was retaining the dignity of the Apex Court, he adopted a rather noisy and malicious approach. As a renowned senior lawyer who later confessed that he ”had the highest respect for the institution of the Supreme Court” and added that he “believed it to be the last bastion of hope, particularly for the weak and the oppressed who knock at its door for the protection of their rights, often against a powerful executive”, he could have raised his observations and concerns with the CJI and his brother Judges in private rather than taking the Twitter route to run down the institution. The leaders of the bar have a lot to do within their fraternity and, also, in collaboration with the judiciary to restore and build institutional credibility of the Apex Court. Fault finding is desired but once that is done, a solution has to be found and that, for sure, does not come from broadcasting the fault.
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A 50 percent 'renewable' energy milestone?
Thursday Jan. 7th, 2021
Linda Herron
Congratulations to Minnesota Power upon reaching its “50 percent renewable energy milestone.”
Though admirable, the truth is that most of the clean energy adoptions made by Minnesota Power have been mandated through legislation, previous Integrated Resource Plans, or demanded through community-led initiatives such as the new Lincoln Park Solar Garden in Duluth, spearheaded by Ecolibrium3, and the solar garden planned for Grand Rapids, MN, supported by the Itasca Clean Energy Team, a citizens group promoting renewable energy. Congratulations, indeed, to the people behind this work over the course of many years to move Minnesota Power to use more renewables in its energy portfolio.
How does Minnesota Power define “renewable”? Wind, solar, and hydropower, lots of hydropower, amounting to approximately 20 percent of its “renewable” portfolio. According to Minnesota’s Next Generation Clean Energy Act, enacted in 2007, hydropower producing above 100 megawatts of energy, doesn’t count as renewable. Furthermore, boasting about 11 megawatts (MW) of solar seems inappropriate in light of Xcel Energy’s current 1100 MW. And wind power? Minnesota Power plans to add 250 MW, which appears insignificant compared to Xcel Energy’s plan to add 1970 MW.
The other 50 percent of Minnesota Power’s energy portfolio, however, still includes fossil fuels, such as the Boswell 3 & 4 coal burning power plants in Cohasset, MN. Additionally, Minnesota Power plans to add a fracked gas power plant in Superior, WI, the Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC), the cost of which ($700 million) would be passed on to Minnesota Power and Dairyland Power Cooperative customers. Higher rates for more fossil fuel carbon pollution that would amount to an extra 1 million tons of carbon annually?
In light of the climate crisis which has impacted our local economy and infrastructure through several rain storms of massive proportion, causing flooding, destruction of the lakewalk, homes and roads, the imperative to act immediately to do our part to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is clear. Minnesotans are already experiencing rapid increases in average temperatures, fewer below 0 degree days and the western basin of Lake Superior is already warming faster than most U.S. bodies of water.
As the price of renewable energy continues to drop relative to fossil fuels, it seems as if Minnesota Power would want to move forward with increased speed to an even greater percentage of renewable energy at a lower price, instead of the snail’s pace it has taken. And then, adding more fossil fuel in the form of fracked gas, seems like moving backwards rather than forward to a cleaner, healthier supply of electricity for its customers. The UN International Panel on Climate Change has determined that delaying emissions reductions may have irreversible damaging impacts on our natural systems.
This “milestone” begs the question, then: What is Minnesota Power’s vision for the next 15 years which will inform its next Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), to be submitted to the Public Utilities Commission in February? While the details haven’t been finalized as yet, the public has a voice and is urged to tell Minnesota Power what are fair, just, and effective measures that will benefit all its customers and the wider Minnesota community.
Specifically, the goal must be a transition to 100 percent clean energy, recognizing that natural gas is fracked gas, another fossil fuel, emitting carbon dioxide and methane, not to mention the toxic chemicals used to extract it. Minnesota Power’s NTEC is unnecessary, expensive, and this project needs to be shelved. Renewable energy includes more community solar gardens to support accessibility and affordability as well as increased investment in wind, storage and efficiency measures. Plans must be laid to retire Boswell 3 & 4 coal burning power plants.
A just transition means support for workers and diversification of economic development in the communities most affected by the change from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Support for workers includes preserving pensions and healthcare, engaging workers in discussions of transition support such as offering rights of first employment for remediation and training for careers in clean energy.
Minnesota Power continues to depend upon large industrial customers at the expense of its residential customers: these industrial customers use 70 percent of Minnesota Power’s energy, but pay less than 50 percent of the revenue. The next IRP should include setting rates that are fairly distributed across customer classes, including support of low-income residential customers.
Clean energy growth should be designed to ensure equitable access to all of clean energy’s benefits. Transitioning to a 100 percent clean energy economy shouldn’t leave anyone behind- it’s an opportunity to address disparities caused by systems of oppression. Communities historically impacted by pollution should have fair access to jobs and economic development opportunities.
Finally, the next IRP needs to include a plan for clean, smart electrification of transportation and buildings. Developing a plan for investing in the expansion of electric buses for public transit and schools, while prioritizing under-resourced communities and those with the highest air pollution, makes sense and will greatly improve the health of these communities. Building out vehicle charging infrastructure across northern Minnesota will stimulate the spread of clean vehicles. Working with local communities to install solar arrays wherever possible is essential
Minnesota Power customers envision a future of 100% renewable energy that addresses the climate crisis, keeps energy bills affordable, and benefits all Minnesotans. To make that future a reality, let’s call upon Minnesota Power to dedicate itself to a just transition away from fossil fuels in the utility’s energy resource plan, rate structure, and community engagement programs, and to commit to this vision in its 2021 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP).
Minnesota Power, lead the way.
As a resident of northern Minnesota and/or a customer of Minnesota Power, here are some ways to take action and lend your voice to its plan for the next 15 years which will define its 2021 IRP:
• Sign the petition to Minnesota Power asking them to transition to 100 percent clean energy.
• Write or call your Minnesota legislators to urge them to support a 100 percent clean energy future for Minnesota.
• Contact the Duluth City Council and Mayor Larson to voice your support for 100 percent clean energy for Duluth.
• Take action locally by engaging with the Citizens Climate Action Plan, a citizen-led campaign to reduce Duluth’s greenhouse gas emissions and move toward a sustainable and equitable future for Duluth.
• Join the Duluth Clean Energy Team with Sierra Club to help build the climate justice movement in the Northland.
Linda Herron is a member of the Sierra Club Northstar Chapter and the Duluth Climate and Energy Network.
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Bears Throttle the Vikings 20-10 on MNF!
I don’t know if I’d call it “shocking the world” but I will say the Chicago Bears indeed “surprised” NFL fans by beating the Minnesota Vikings 20-10 on Monday Night Football. The Bears moved to 2-6 as they head into their midseason bye week while the Vikings dropped to 5-2 after losing two in a row.
Soldier Field was in a festive mood on Halloween as the crowd was all dressed up in crazy costumes and cheering wildly for their beloved Bears. The general mood seemed to be hopeful, with Chicago’s 1-6 record “out-of-mind” for the time being. Last week I predicted the Vikings would win 19-12 in a low scoring game in which each team would record a safety. Well, I was wrong about the safeties and the final score being in favor of Minnesota. However, I was right about some other predictions. Let’s recap what I wrote last Thursday in (http://www.footballnation.com/articles/can-the-bears-shock-the-vikings-on-monday-night-football) “Can the Bears Shock the Vikings on Monday Night Football?!?”:
PREDICTION #1: “Expect the Bears improving pass rush to record at least a couple of sacks from either #97 Willie Young, #94 Leonard Floyd, or maybe even #92 Pernell McPhee, who will be playing in his 2nd game back from a knee injury. I’ll go on record and say the Bears will record a minimum of 3 sacks.”
RESULT: Inspired by playing in front of Bears Hall of Fame Legends Dick Butkus, Dan Hampton, and Richard Dent who were being honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame at Halftime, Chicago slammed Minnesota’s Offensive Line all night long! The Bears recorded 5 sacks of Vikings QB Sam Bradford. #96 Akiem Hicks led the way with 2 sacks while Floyd, McPhee, and #90 Cornelius Washington each had 1 sack. DC Vic Fangio’s 3-4 defense is really starting to work! The Bears have made infinite progress over the last season and a half. Way to go Front Seven!
PREDICTION #2: “Cutler will be gunslinging in this one, trying to get the ball to #17 Alshon Jeffery, something that Hoyer and Barkley couldn’t do. Having said that, I expect Vikings star FS #22 Harrison Smith to intercept Cutler.”
RESULT #2: #6 Jay Cutler played an excellent game. He was 20-31 for 252 yards with 1 TD and 0 Interceptions or turnovers. His rating was 100.5. He was only sacked once and looked as comfortable as a vampire in Transylvania. A couple of his early throws weren’t great spirals, making us wonder if his thumb was fully healed but after a while I didn’t notice any more wounded duck passes so he seemingly settled in and gained confidence in his arm and thumb once again. He indeed targeted #17 Alshon Jeffery 8 times, second only to #86 TE Zach Miller’s 10 targets. Jeffery caught 4 balls for 63 yards and a TOUCHDOWN, his first of the season! That’s hard to believe. Now in his fifth season, Jeffery has scored 3, 7, 10, and 4 TD’s in his first four seasons. The fact that he finally scored in ’16 shows how inept the Bears red zone offense has been in the first half of this schedule, mainly with #2 Brian Hoyer leading the team for the majority of games so far. Now that Cutler is back, look for Jeffery to start being a bigger part of the offense, especially in the red zone. Ohhh, and I’m happy to say I was wrong about Vikings S #22 Harrison Smith intercepting Cutler.
PREDICTION #3: “Expect the Vikings to be focused and take advantage of a young Bears team. However, it wouldn’t shock me if the Bears give the Vikes a run for their money……This matchup is closer than people may think if they just look at the standings. I almost want to predict an upset but I just can’t pull the trigger. I’ll pick Minnesota, by a strange score. Vikings are favored by 5.5 points. Take them with the points. Vikes win by 7.”
RESULT #3: The Bears not only gave “the Vikes a run for their money”, they dominated this game! The final score was Bears 20 Vikings 10 but it was almost 20-3 as Minnesota didn’t punch one into the end zone until there was just 5:41 left in the game. If needed, Chicago’s offense could have put up more points than 20 but they didn’t need to on this night. The second half was mainly dominated by both Bears lines. The running game produced 158 yards on 29 carries for a 5.4 yards per rush average. The Bears won in Total Yards 403-258. Meanwhile, the Vikings offense could only rush for 57 yards on 18 carries. They could only pass for 201 yards on 37 attempts (4.8 avg). This was surprising domination for a 1-6 team against the NFC North leading Vikings who looked like a physically, and mentally, beaten up squad. I wish I had gone with my gut and predicted a Bears victory but the numbers just couldn’t back up my strange feeling of a Bears upset. Next time, go with your gut!
Game Balls
#96 Akiem Hicks
Hicks is huge, and so were his stats on Halloween. He had 4 tackles, 2 sacks, and 1 pass deflection. He used his size to bull rush Vikings C #61 Joe Berger and it worked, resulting in a tight pocket for Bradford. This allowed other Bears pass rushers to crush Bradford when he had nowhere to go….but down! PS: Open Letter to Akiem……you gotta lose that sack dance…..it’s horrible!
#92 Pernell McPhee
McPhee’s stats weren’t gigantic but often with Defensive Linemen they won’t be. However, his return to the lineup starting last week has re-invigorated Chicago’s pass rush. In this game, we could see McPhee making a difference right away. He had 1 sack and 4 QB hits. There’s something about McPhee. He seems to make an impact when he’s in the lineup. He did last year and he’s doing it again now. If he can stay healthy, “Katie bar the door!”
#94 Leonard Floyd
It is starting to become obvious that Floyd is going to be a star!!! This rookie shows athleticism each and every week, resulting in a fierce pass rush. He had 2 tackles and 1 sack. Not only can Floyd rush the passer but I’m sure DC Vic Fangio has fun moving Floyd around because his skills are such that he can cover receivers and even defend against the run. There was a play last night that made me smile. Floyd jumped high to bat down a pass. He missed it, but then he had the athleticism to recover and chase down the receiver, making the tackle. It was simply impressive. Watch out for Floyd! He is a beast already and will be a Pro Bowler someday with more strength and experience.
QB Jay Cutler & OC Dowell Loggains
Loggains called a good game on Monday night. He seemed to do extra homework on the Vikings with the longer than normal prep time and it worked. The offense seemed to run smoother than at any time this season. You could see the difference between Cutler and the backups in his arm strength and his command of the offense. He pushed it downfield more than Hoyer did. For example, he hit Jeffery deep on the right sideline for a 34 yard gain. I don’t think Hoyer threw it 34 yards downfield all season.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000731973/Jeffery-pulls-in-34-yard-reception-over-defender
Loggains, together along with Cutler’s execution, kept the #1 defense in the NFL on its heels with screen passes, downhill running plays, and even draws. Has Minnesota given up 158 rushing yards in a game this season? Not even close. Their previous high rushing yards allowed was 105 to Carolina. In fact, this is only the third time in 7 games that the Vikings have allowed 100 team rushing yards. The Bears blew this record out of the water, and they did it while missing both starting OG’s Josh Sitton and Chris Long. Surprising and crazy! Cutler even seemed to acknowledge Loggains’ play calls by giving the “thumbs up” signal toward the press box where Loggains sat.
Player of the Game:
#24 Jordan Howard – Howard rushed for 153 yards on 26 carries, both career highs. He also caught 4 passes (on 4 targets) for 49 yards. His 202 total yards are eye-opening in what has been called a Running Back position competition between Howard, #33 Jeremy Langford, and #25 Ka’Deem Carey. We can call that competition over, at least for now.
Overall, the Bears proved a lot to themselves, the fans, and even the rest of the NFL. They have not given up. Their talent level doesn’t look so bad now that a few injured starters have returned. Also, the depth provided by young players getting more experience in Coach John Fox’s system has improved the overall team psyche as well. And you can’t discount the confidence earned by having your starting QB returning and winning a big home game on national TV.
The Bears head into the midseason bye week at 2-6. It might be too late to make the playoffs, as the Bears would most likely have to win all 8 remaining games to finish at 10-6. However, the building blocks are starting to come into focus. The rest of the 2016 season should be interesting if nothing else. The next game is Sunday, November 13 at Tampa Bay. Can the Bears continue what they started on Monday night? Look for my preview of that game on Thursday, November 10.
Tagged with:Akiem Hicks, Alshon Jeffery, Bears, Chicago, Dowell Loggains, Halloween, Jay Cutler, John Fox, Jordan Howard, Leonard Floyd, Minnesota, Monday Night Football, NFL, Pernell McPhee, Vic Fangio, Vikings, Willie Young
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Chief Minister Briefs Punjab Assembly on Power Generation
ISLAMABAD, February 11, 2014: The Chief Minister attended third sitting of the ongoing 6th session of Punjab Assembly on Tuesday and briefed the legislators on the projects relating to power generation in the province, says the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its Daily Factsheet.
The Chief Minister attended the proceedings after a gap of more than seven months. He gave a 37-minute long policy statement on the steps being taken by the provincial government to deal with the prevailing power crisis.
The House adopted a resolution, sponsored by a female lawmaker of PML-N, urging the government to legislate on cybercrimes. Two other resolutions were deferred on the request of law minister. Moreover, two resolutions were withdrawn by the movers after the opposition from the law minister.
Thirteen of the 35 starred questions (requiring oral as well as written replies) were replied to by the parliamentary secretary of health while 29 supplementary questions were also asked by the lawmakers. Moreover, three of the starred questions were deferred on the request of the movers while 19 others were disposed of due to the absence of the movers.
Members spoke on seven points of order consuming ten minutes of the proceedings to discuss the issues of local government elections, law and order situation and holding of an all-parties conference on health.
The House disposed of two adjournment motions submitted by a PML-N lawmaker while two others were deferred till next week on the request of the relevant minister. The House also disposed of four pending adjournment motions.
Members’ Participation in House Proceedings:
The Punjab Assembly met for three hours and 12 minutes.
The sitting started at 1030 hours against the scheduled time of 1000 hours, witnessing a delay of half an hour.
Thirty-five members were present at the start while a maximum of 203 at the time of adjournment of the sitting.
The Speaker chaired the entire sitting while the Deputy Speaker was also present.
The Chief Minister attended the sitting for an hour and ten minutes while the Leader of the Opposition for two hours and 24 minutes.
Only the parliamentary leader of JI attended the sitting.
Five minority members were present.
No member applied for the leave.
The House adopted a resolution, sponsored by a female lawmaker belonging to PML-N, urging the government to legislate on cybercrimes.
Two resolutions seeking legislation on rights of home-based workers and provision of free graves in the graveyards across the province were deferred on the request of law minister.
Moreover, two resolutions relating to relaxation in retirement of government employees and substandard medicines were withdrawn by movers after the law minister opposed them.
The Chief Minister gave a 37-minute long policy statement on the steps being taken to tackle power crisis.
Thirteen of the 35 starred questions (requiring oral as well as written replies) were replied to by parliamentary secretary of health while 29 supplementary questions were also asked by the legislators. Moreover, three of the starred questions were deferred on the request of the movers while 19 others were disposed of due to the absence of the movers.
The House disposed of two adjournment motions submitted by a PML-N lawmaker while two others by the same member were deferred till next week on the request of the government. The House also disposed of four pending adjournment motions.
‘Orders of the day’ was available to the legislators, observers and others.
Information on members’ attendance was unavailable to observers and the public.
The Daily Factsheet is based on direct observation of Punjab Assembly proceedings conducted by PATTAN Development Organization, a member organization of FAFEN
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Now Accepting Entries for the Statewide Poetry Contest!
Published on January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021 by fairbanksartsassociation
Entry Period: January 15, 2021 – March 15, 2021
The Statewide Poetry Contest is a celebration of poetry writing and literary artistry and invites participation from writers of all ages—elementary school and up. The contest aims to encourage, publicize, and reward the writing of high-quality poetry in Alaska.
Winners of the contest will receive monetary prizes as well as an invitation to share their poetry during a virtual event in April.
Class Entries (minimum 10 poems) – $1 per poem
Open to Alaska residents only
Submission are limited to 4 poems per writer
Poems must be original, unpublished work
Poems must be typed and submitted as separate 8.5”x11” pdf documents
May not exceed 100 lines in length (to exclude title and spaces)
Include the poem’s title on the first line of the document
Writer’s name must not appear on any poems
File name for poems must include poem title and submitter’s division, i.e. “poemtitle_division.pdf” (examples: “bluevase_adult” or “pony_elementary”)
Writer’s name must not appear on document title
click here to download a PDF of the 2021 Poetry contest Flyer!
Any poems not adhering to the above instructions will be disqualified. For questions, call 907.251.8386 ext. 3 or email literary@fairbanksarts.org.
Individual submissions: You can submit your poetry for any division (Adult, High School, Middle School, Elementary School) HERE!
Bulk student submissions: If you are an elementary, middle, or high school teacher wishing to make a bulk submission for student poetry (minimum of 10 poems), click here.
Judge: Emily Wall
Emily Wall is a Professor of English at the University of Alaska. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry and her poems have been published in journals across the US and Canada, most recently in Prairie Schooner and Alaska Quarterly Review. She has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and her most recent book, Flame, won the Minerva Rising chapbook prize. She has two books published with Salmon Poetry: Liveaboard and Freshly Rooted. Her next book, Breaking Into Air: Birth Poems is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. Emily lives and writes in Douglas, Alaska. She can be found online at www.emily-wall.com.
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More C++ Idioms/Const auto ptr
1 Const auto_ptr
1.2 Also Known As
1.5 Consequences
Const auto_ptrEdit
To prevent transfer of ownership of a held resource. Note: auto_ptr has been deprecated and is replaced by shared_ptr, unique_ptr and weak_ptr in C++11, thereby this idiom is no longer suggested.
Also Known AsEdit
Often it is desirable to enforce a design decision of non-transferable ownership in code and enforce it with the help of compiler. Ownership in consideration here is of any resource such as memory, database connections and so on. const auto_ptr idiom can be used if we don't want ownership of the acquired resource to be transfered outside the scope or from one object to the another.
auto_ptr without any cv-qualifier (fancy name for const and volatile) has move semantics as described in the Move Constructor idiom. It basically means that ownership of memory is unconditionally transferred from right hand side object to the left hand side object of an assignment, but it ensures that there is always a single owner of the resource. const auto_ptr can prevent the transfer.
Declare the auto_ptr holding memory resource as const.
const auto_ptr <X> xptr (new X());
auto_ptr <X> yptr (xptr); // Not allowed, compilation error.
xptr.release(); // Not allowed, compilation error.
xptr.reset( new X() ); // Not allowed, compilation error.
Compiler issues a warning here because the copy-constructor of yptr is not really a copy-constructor but in fact it is a move constructor, which takes a non-const reference to an auto_ptr, as given in Move Constructor idiom. A non-const reference can't bind with a const variable and therefore, compiler flags an error.
ConsequencesEdit
An undesirable consequence of const auto_ptr idiom is that compiler can't provide a default copy-constructor to a class that has a const auto_ptr member in it. This is because the compiler generated copy-constructor always takes a const RHS as a parameter, which can't bind with a non-const move constructor of auto_ptr. The solution is to use Virtual Constructor idiom or use boost::scoped_ptr, which explicitly prohibits copying by denying access to assignment and copy-constructor.
Move Constructor
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/using_auto_ptr_effectively.htm
http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/scoped_ptr.htm
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Government to announce several decisions related to Friday total lockdown, reopening sectors: source
Tuesday, an informed source told Roya that the government is set to announce several governmental decisions related to the Friday total lockdown and the reopening of sectors during the government’s response to members of Parliament which is set to take place Wednesday.
The source added that a government press conference will be held in this regard soon.
Earlier Tuesday, His Majesty the King directed the government to open schools and sectors in a manner that protects both citizens and the national economy.
His Majesty, during a National Policy Council meeting Tuesday, in the presence of His Highness Prince Hussein bin Abdullah II, stressed that the priority since the beginning of the crisis has always been protecting the health of the citizen, pointing to the tangible improvement in the health situation in the Kingdom.
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PROTOHISTORY OF SARDINIA
Master's Degree Programme in ARCHAEOLOGY
Pre- and Proto-History
DEPALMAS Anna
Final oral exam
Acquisition of knowledge related to the cultural aspects of the Sardinian Protohistory also related to the Mediterranean world. Ability to recognition and classification of archaeological sources relating to the Bronze and Iron Age in Sardinia. Acquisition of an adequate terminology functional to a analytical study of the documentation about the Sardinian protohistoric periods and phases.
Development of the Sardinian cultural aspects from the full phase of the Early Bronze Age until the Iron Age. Settlements, the architectural features, and the production of material culture. The chronology and characterization of some archaeological relevant contexts in order to understanding of protohistorical cultural sequences of Sardinia. Parallels with other cultural aspects of the Mediterranean area. An in-depth course on the topic "aspects of funerary ritual during the Bronze Age".
AA.VV., La Preistoria e la Protostoria della Sardegna, Atti della XLIV Riunione Scientifica (Cagliari, Barumini, Sassari 23-28 novembre 2009), Vol. I. Relazioni generali, Firenze 2009, pp. 113-282.
M. Minoja, G. Salis, L. Usai, a cura di, L'isola delle torri. Giovanni Lilliu e la Sardegna nuragica, Sassari-Soveria Mannelli 2015 (detailed parts will be specify during the lessons).
T. Cossu, M. Perra, A. Usai, a cura di, Il tempo dei nuraghi. La Sardegna dal XVIII allVIII sec. a.C., Nuoro 2018, pp. 189-227; 249-325.
A. Depalmas, L.I. Cossu, La frontiera del pettine. Facies nella Protostoria della Sardegna, in J. Danckers, C. Cavazzuti, M. Cattani, eds, Facies e culture nell’età del bronzo italiana?, Institut Historique Belge de Rome Artes, XI, Bruxelles 2019: IHBR – BHIR, pp. 271-281.
A. Depalmas, From collective tombs to individual burials: changes and transformations in Sardinian society over the second and first millennia BC, in press.
Further texts will be added during the lessons.
The lectures will concern the topics listed in the program using multimedia tools. The lessons could also be delivered remotely through Microsoft Teams platform or equivalent and/or video uploaded on Moodle platform. Within the limits imposed by the health emergency restrictions, will be planned also seminars, lessons on the field, fieldwork, laboratory exercises, archaeological excavations.
Readiness to offer individual assistence also in a foreign language (English, French and Spanish) piegazioni in aula;
Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language (English, French, Spanish);
Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language (English, French, Spanish)
HISTORY OF CLASSICAL CULTURE AND TRADITION
HISTORY OF LATIN LANGUAGE
NEAR EASTERN HISTORY
AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS
EUROPEAN PROTOHISTORY
ETRUSCOLOGY AND ITALIC ANTIQUITIES
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Posted on February 26, 2015 February 26, 2015 by Brown Lady Art Collective
The truth about the Japanese doll festival
Looking back to the late 90’s, “Girl Power” created a great sensation in the UK pop music industry. These pop idols are grown up now and no longer proudly shout their catchphrase “Girl Power”. Their time in the 90’s has become a rather nostalgic topic to reminisce about. On the other hand, there is a long surviving tradition in Japan for girls to celebrate being girls. Nowadays, 3rd March is a day to celebrate a girl’s well-being and happiness by setting out a special dolls display with peach blossoms. This festival is called the Hina festival (雛祭りHina matsuri).
Example of a modern Hina-doll display. Photo by © Y.Ohtsuka
Women, both young and old, enjoy everything related to the celebration of the Hina festival, from opening boxes, unpacking the dolls and placing them in position to offering them peach blossoms. They also prepare treats such as dainty sweets and special drinks, and hold parties while taking pleasure in viewing the dolls. Basically it is a relaxing “Girly” day.
Sakura mochi (桜餅), a modern example of seasonal sweets for Hinamatsuri. Ashinari Photo Material
Hina (literally ʻprettyʼ or ʻlittleʼ) dolls are dressed like courtiers of the Heian period (794-1185). They are treated with great respect and are dearly loved throughout their graceful existence by all generations of women. In the display the top level is reserved for the master (男雛 Obina) and his mistress (女雛 Mebina). The next level below that is for their servants such as the Three Ladies-in-waiting (三人宮女 Sannin kannyo), the Five musicians (五人囃子Gonin bayashi), the Two ministers (随身 Zuijin), the Three guards (衛士 Eji), and beneath the mistress’s trousseau is also on display.
Yōshu Nobuchika 楊洲周延 (1838-1912). ‘Hina-doll viewing’ (雛拝見 Hina haiken), which is a part of ‘The Great Interior of the Chiyoda Castle’ (千代田の大奥 Chiyoda no Ōoku), Tokyo : Fukuda Hatsujirō, 1896. Nishikie (錦絵) wood block print. Photo National Diet Library
The custom of displaying the Hina-dolls on different levels, looking as if they were placed on a kind of stand, became popular in the Edo period (1600-1867). This display format still lives on today. A number of educational books were published throughout the Edo period, which targeted girls for the purpose of teaching women’s morals, appropriate manners and accomplishments. It wasn’t however, until the later Edo period that publications dealt with the etiquette of the Hina festival on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month which we consider to be the foundation of the modern version of Hina matsuri.
An example of early Edo era educational text books for girls with a page showing the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month on the right. Based on a publication by Namura Jōhaku (苗村常伯 1674-1748), edited and revised by Takai Ranzan (高井蘭山 1838-1912). ‘A record of collected treasures for woman’ (女重寶記 Onna chōhōki), 1847. Woodblock printed (British Library 16124.d.23)
In the early Edo era, instead of celebrating with Hina-dolls, ceremonial poetry competitions were held on the date of Jōshi (上巳), which falls on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month. This traces its origins back to the Heian period when one of the absolutely essential skills for courtiers was the ability to compose elegant poetry spontaneously. There were many opportunities for poets to compete against each other. Perhaps the most challenging was the highly refined event held by the bank of a meandering river. The contestants sat along the river bank and had to complete their compositions before the cup, which was floating downstream, passed them by. This was called the river bank poetry competition (曲水の宴Kyokusui no en).
Some abstract illustrations of Heian courtiers. The figures on the left page are represented as if they were sitting along the meandering river. ‘Practical design book’ (応用漫画 Ōyō manga), illustrated by Ogino Issui (荻野一水), 1903 (British Library ORB.30/6167)
Hina-dolls certainly existed in the Heian period, but not as display objects. In fact, they were children’s toys for playing with. In chapter 5 of ‘The Tale of Genji’ (源氏物語 Genji Monogatari), the hero, Prince Genji, discovers a young girl who reminds him of Lady Fujitsubo, whom he has been secretly admiring as his true love. He is eager to approach the girl, who does not have enough family members to support her upbringing, by offering his noble guardianship. However, her ill grandmother politely rejects his offer saying her granddaughter is just a child happily playing with her Hina-dolls, therefore not of suitable age to accept his overtures.
Chapter 5 of ‘The Tale of the Genji’ (源氏物語繪詞, Genji monogatari ekotoba), Naraehon manuscript, mid-17th century (British Library, Or.1278, f.18)
There are no episodes describing the river bank poetry competition in the Tale of the Genji, but in chapter 12, Genji undergoes a purification ceremony on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month (上巳の祓え Jōshi no harae). The dolls had a key role during the ceremony since they absorbed the supplicants’ bad fortune. Then the supplicants threw the dolls into water in order to remove all of the negative energy from their lives. Both events were rooted in trusting in the natural power of flowing water, which was able to carry things away.
Chapter 12 of ‘The Tale of the Genji’ (源氏物語繪詞, Genji monogatari ekotoba), Naraehon manuscript, mid-17th century (British Library, Or.1278, f.18)
The 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month was also the time of peach blossom. In fact, peaches were believed to have divine power to protect people from evil. Most famously in Japanese legend, the god Izanagi, who formed the landmass of Japan with his partner, defeated demons by throwing peaches on his way back to earth from hell. Peaches might be part of the reason why the purification ceremony was carried out on Jōshi. People could expect extra protection from peach blossom as good spirits.
Peach blossom. Ashinari Photo Material
Peach blossom is still one of key elements in the modern day celebration of the Hina dolls Festival. In fact the day is also known as the Peach festival (桃の節句 Momo no sekku). It is not only pretty, but also quietly ensure a safe and successful happy “Girly” day.
Takeda, Kyoko 武田京子. Hinamatsuri in home education 家庭教育からみた雛祭. Iwate Daigaku Kyōiku gakubu nenpō 岩手大学教育学部研究年報 [The annual report of the Faculty of Education, University of Iwate] 54.2 (1994): 79-87. (in Japanese)
With special thanks to Alessandro Bianchi, Asian and African Studies and PhD student, University of Cambridge
Yasuyo Ohtsuka, Curator Japanese
– See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2015/02/the-truth-about-the-japanese-doll-festival.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29#sthash.sderaoFX.dpuf
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Mug German Champions 2020
Up the pitchers: FC Bayern Munich celebrates its 8th consecutive German championship title with a masterful design for its loyal fans.
Up the pitchers: FC Bayern Munich celebrates its 8th consecutive German championship title with a masterful design for its loyal fans. The FC Bayern Munich logo and the inscription "Deutscher Meister 2020" on the front and the illustration of the "8" on the back as a symbol of the eighth championship in a row adorns the drinking vessel of FC Bayern Munich. The jug is dishwasher safe and holds 0.3 litres.
Cup of the German Champion 2020
With exclusive imprint of the "8"
With the words "German Champion 2020" and the FC Bayern logo
Capacity 0.3 litres
Colour: grey/red
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Court approves DT V pact; two share small-biz portion
After a year-long legal dispute the Air Force opened the small-business Desktop V contract held by International Data Products Corp. but also awarded a contract to Dynamic Decisions Inc.
The Air Force originally awarded the contract to IDP only but DDI filed a protest that started at the Small Business Administration and ended in the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. before the deal was announced last week. An SBA ruling last month limited the value of their awards to $100 million.
IDP which opened its contract up for business on Sept. 10 and DDI will compete with Hughes Data Systems for the Air Force's PC and notebook business. DDI needs to refresh its contract and go through acceptance testing. DDI anticipates taking orders by mid-October.
Robert Frye director of the Air Force's Standard Systems Group which manages the Desktop V program warmly welcomed the addition of DDI and IDP to the Desktop V contract. "This has been a tough hurdle " Frye said. "Our customers will reap the benefits. Healthy competition means our customers [will] expeditiously get the best product at the best price."
George Fuster president of IDP said the company plans to quickly upgrade the chipsets in its Desktop V offerings to provide Air Force users better value at the same price as well as adding the top-of-the-line Intel Corp. 300 MHz chip as an option to its high-end desktop line.
Bob Hesser director of new business for DDI said his company plans to offer only four products on its Desktop V line-up: a 166 MHz notebook and three desktops ranging in power from 200 MHz to 266 MHz. Hesser declined to provide pricing details but he said he anticipated having an ordering guide available in mid-October.
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Petrol could hit $1.55 per litre
Motorists can kiss goodbye to cheap petrol from Tuesday, with prices set to hit $1.55 as world oil prices surge due to supply concerns in the Middle East.
The average price at the bowser is expected to rise by about four cents a litre in the next two weeks following a two cent hike in the national wholesale price.
Consumer and motoring groups fear the latest price hikes could remain until at least the Easter holidays and add $300 a year to the fuel bills of long-distance commuters.
CommSec economist Craig James said roadside signs advertising fuel at $1.50 per litre would become more commonplace, as the national average price moved from $1.42 per litre to about $1.46.
"Over the next fortnight or so you could see upwards of four cents a litre added on," Mr James told AAP.
"So the price could be anywhere between $1.35 and $1.55."
Australia's highest average monthly petrol price was $1.61 a litre in July 2008.
Analysts said recent price rises have been driven by tighter oil supply due to escalating tensions between the West and Iran.
The price of oil hit a nine-month high at the weekend at almost $US110 ($A103.11) a barrel.
The rise came as top oil producer Saudi Arabia indicated it could increase its oil supply while the United States considers tapping its oil reserves to prevent the global economy suffering.
Mr James said Singapore oil prices had edged higher to about $US150 ($A140.61) per barrel and would probably be sustained at that level for another week, while the terminal gate national wholesale price hovered at $A1.37 a litre.
He said petrol prices in Australian capital cities now varied by as much as 15 to 20 cents during the discounting cycle, but those cheaper periods were becoming harder to identify.
"It used to be that you could bet on it rising each week on a Tuesday, then the day kept on changing and then we had a 10-day cycle that came into place and it seems as though that's been shifting as well," he said.
Melbourne was experiencing a longer discounting cycle than some other capital cities.
Consumer group Choice fears motorists will be slugged with higher petrol prices until at least the busy Easter holidays and urged motorists to fill up while prices were under $1.40 a litre.
"The favoured times of the week vary between states and it depends what individual service station owners decide to do on any given day," a Choice magazine spokeswoman said.
Motoring groups NRMA said for every 10 cents a litre increase in petrol a family in outer western Sydney would spend an extra $300 a year commuting to the CBD for work.
"Our dependency on fuel, mostly from unstable parts of the world, only adds to uncertainty," NRMA president Wendy Machin said.
High oil price boosting energy profits
Gunns losses continue to worsen
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The Edge - Spring 2016
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Conscious Business Declaration Defines New Standard for Business for the 21st Century
A global movement of leaders and change agents dedicated to establishing a new standard for business have launched the Conscious Business Declaration. Created by a global consortium of NGOs, which include Humanity’s Team, The Club of Budapest (headed by Evolutionary Leader Ervin Laszlo), The Goi Peace Foundation, and the Fowler Center for Business out of Case Western Reserve University, the Conscious Business Declaration articulates the essential principles for a new business model that will dramatically increase economic prosperity while healing the environment and improving human well-being.
Among those who have agreed to be founding signatories are the following Evolutionary Leaders: Gregg Braden, Rinaldo Brutoco, Duane Elgin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bruce Lipton, Jennifer McLean, Deborah Moldow, Lynne Twist, and Neale Donald Walsch, founder of Humanity’s Team. Over 1,000 have signed the Declaration to date. On May 9, the Conscious Business Curriculum launched with 71 enrollments, each of whom has the potential to become a Certified Conscious Business Agent (CCBA). And this is only the beginning!
While businesses are a major source of many of our world’s most challenging problems, they also offer great hope and potential to help solve these problems. Therein lies an amazing opportunity to upend the status quo by adopting a new, conscious business model that creates prosperity and flourishing for all. Consumers want to buy from brands that stand for something greater than just quarterly earnings.
A new business model, as outlined in the Conscious Business Declaration, is needed and emerging that:
1. Recognizes that all of its actions are interconnected and affect global ecosystems – social, financial, environmental and political.
2. Strives to create profits as well as healthy and nurturing environments for employees, suppliers, partners and local communities.
3. Goes beyond sustainability, and “do no harm” by focusing on restoring the earth’s health.
4. Operates with economic, social and ecological transparency.
5. Acts as good global citizens and respects human dignity and fairness.
More than 100,000 people have signed the Fuji Declaration (created by The Goi Peace Foundation and The Club of Budapest) and the Oneness Declaration (produced by Humanity’s Team), pledging their support “for a civilization of Oneness with diversity on planet Earth.” The Conscious Business Declaration was developed in the spirit of these earlier declarations, but with a particular focus on business.
And the Declaration is just the beginning. A Conscious Business Training and Certification for change agents will put the Declaration into action by teaching people how to institute a conscious business model. In addition, in August 2016, a vibrant community of business transformation practitioners will launch, called the Community of Practice. Together, the Declaration, the Curriculum and the Community of Practice provide the basis for a structured methodology to help companies develop both the awareness and skills needed to consciously evolve their organizations.
The Conscious Business Declaration strives to unite conscious business leaders who are dedicated to establishing a new global standard of business and evolving our organizations and ourselves toward the highest good for companies, the world's citizens and the planet. You are invited to sign the Declaration at http://www.consciousbusinessdeclaration.org/ and add your organization’s name to the list of endorsing organizations.
SIGN THE CONSCIOUS BUSINESS DECLARATION
New Books and Videos by Evolutionary Leaders
More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief by Bernardo Kastrup
This book is a 3-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth and belief,respectively. With each turn, the book seeks to convey a more nuanced and complete understanding of the many facets of transcendence.
Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart by Doc Childre, Howard Martin and Deborah Rozman
Heart Intelligence links the physical heart to the spiritual (energetic) heart. Through its extensive communication with the brain and body, the heart is intimately involved in how we think, feel, and respond to the world. The authors offer heart-based techniques and guidelines for living from the heart, which connects the puzzle pieces of our purpose and fulfillment.
A Conscious Cosmos - 8-minute animated video by Peter Russell
The current scientific worldview assumes that the brain not only generates the picture of the world that we experience, but it also creates awareness itself. An alternative assumption is that awareness goes all the way down the evolutionary tree. This leads to the conclusion that the cosmos is a vast field of information that is also aware -- a field of knowing knowing itself.
A Life in Balance, 2-1/2-minute video by Pedram Shojai
Taoist philosophy teaches us to balance our lives and fully enjoy the present moment. Here, Pedram Shojai gives personal stories from the book Rise and Shine: Awaken Your Energy Body with Taoist Alchemy and Qi Gong.
News from the Source features updates from The Source of Synergy Foundation (SOSF), home of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle.
Tribal Link Foundation was founded in 1993 by SOSF board member Pamela Kraft to match the urgent needs of the world’s indigenous populations with the people and resources which can help them.
As an NGO associated with the United Nations, Tribal Link will bring representatives of first nations to the U.N. for the 15th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues from May 9-20, 2016.
Rod McGrew, board member of SOSF, plays an integral role in Operation Hope, a financial literacy and economic empowerment organization that birthed the new Silver Rights Movement, which focuses on educating underserved communities worldwide.
Operation Hope is the leading global provider of financial dignity education and economic empowerment programs for low-income or moderate-income youth, individuals and families in underserved communities. See more at www.operationhope.org.
Rod was the first volunteer dating back to 1992 and remained a volunteer for 16 years until 2008, when he was asked to become Operation HOPE's Global Chief of Branding, Marketing and Communications. He says, "It is truly a labor of love positively changing peoples lives on a daily basis!"
Petition to declare a global warming State of Emergency
Job One for Humanity is a non-profit organization promoting a comprehensive new plan to end escalating global warming.
We are already in an undeclared global warming State of Emergency. It is now vital to have the world publicly and formally declare this emergency.
When the required or effective number of petition signatures for each nation is reached, Job One for Humanity will submit the petition with all signatures to the members of the governing bodies of nations whose citizens have signed on demanding that they declare a global warming state of emergency.
Sign the petition at www.joboneforhumanity.org
EVOLUTIONARY EVENTS - COMING UP!
The Soul of WoMen Global Campaign
May 15, 2016 - Mount Fuji, Japan
Join Evolutionary Leaders Yuka Saionji, Gary Zukav, Linda Francis, Jude Currivan, and Deborah Moldow to celebrate the Divine Feminine. Peace Troubadour James Twyman will lead a global meditation on May 14th at 8:00pm Pacific/11:00pm Eastern to coincide with the live prayers at Mount Fuji.
Support the restoration of balance from the love of power to the power of love at fujideclaration.org/soulofwomen.
Watch a May 7 webinar with James Twyman and Dr. Maki Kawamura joining Evolutionary Leaders Gary Zukav and Jude Currivan HERE!
UFOs & Culture: From Media to the Transformation of Consciousness with Alan Steinfeld
May 19, 2016, 8:00-10:00 pm (EDT) - Online
Alan Steinfeld will lead an online audio-visual discussion with two of the most respected researchers and historians on UFOs in the world: researcher Richard Dolan and Grant Cameron, winner of the UFO Congress Researcher of the Year.
They will take live questions from attendees. Participants can attend via computer, tablet, smartphone or telephone. Register HERE.
Intention Master Class - with Lynne McTaggart
May 21, 2016 - first session
Lynne McTaggart, internationally best-selling author of The Field, The Bond, and The Intention Experiment, is offering a year-long Intention Master Class that has already taught thousands how to harness the power of intention to heal themselves and the world. Lynne shares methods to create your life through your relationships at home and the workplace, giving life more meaning and joy. Galvanize your life purpose working with Lynne and a select group over an entire year. See www.intention.lynnemctaggart.com.
FemmQ - Pioneering the Possible
June 6-7, 2016 - Berlin
FemmeQ is a 2-day conference to cultivate cultivating feminine intelligence and wisdom equally in both women and men, we restore the balance of these qualities that are essential to transform the current crises we face: the brilliance of INTUITION, the potency of COMPASSION, the gift of LISTENING and the warmth of INCLUSIVITY. Evolutionary Leaders Dr. Jean Houston and Prof. Elisabeth Sahtouris will be joining via video. See http://femmeq.org.
The Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution
August 26-28, 2016 - London
The Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution is an annual event, presenting some of the greatest teachers alive, each bringing a new understanding of human potential, possibilities for the development of human consciousness and the future for global humanity. Each talk will help weave together the whole three days into a view of a greater paradigm of being. Like minded people will travel through the latest scientific discoveries, the humanities, human potential and metaphysics and on the third day explore the future of humanity, the mystical experience and human connection beyond the five senses. Among the distinguished guest speakers will be Gregg Braden and Drs. Desiree and J.J. Hurtak. See www.tcche.org/event.html
Home With God - Spiritual Renewal Retreat with Neale Donald Walsch
September 23-25, 2016 - Medford, Oregon
This 3-day retreat is based on the final book in the Conversations with God series, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends. Neale will work with a small group to examine end-of-life questions that everyone longs to have answered. The insights from his conversation with God wipe away fears and invite us to celebrate, not mourn, every person's "Continuation Day."
Be careful! This offering from Neale could change your ideas about death forever. See www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/doc/srr
Evolutionary Authors Win 2015 Nautilus Awards
Speaking with Nature by Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts Wins Gold
Speaking with Nature: Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earthis about connecting with nature and nature beings to help heal us and the Earth. Shamanic teachers Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts were awarded a Nautilus Gold Award for offering a wealth of experiential practices that allow the reader to connect with the creative power of nature.
The 2015 Nautilus Book Awards, announced in April 2016, are the latest in a unique awards program that celebrates books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, green values, and positive social change.
Nautilus Silver Awards were given to two other excellent books by Evolutionary Leaders, The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation: The Promise Will Be Kept, by Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being, by Deepak Chopra and Rudoph Tanzi.
See all the Nautilus Awards HERE. Congratulations to the winners!
Water is Sacred
The Shift Network, under the leadership of Stephen Dinan, joined with UPLIFT and Unify to invite everyone worldwide to take part in a Global Synchronized Meditation and Water Blessing on Saturday, March 19th building to World Water Day.
The #BlessTheWater campaign culminated in a global event anchored on the the banks of the Ganges River in Rishikesh, India and the free online premiere of the new UPLIFT film, Water is Sacred. The film features world famous biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief, travelling to the Ganges in India to explore how water is sacred.
Watch the film at www.blessthewater.com
As part of this project, Stephen and his wife, Devaa Haley Mitchell, led a team of pilgrims to distribute high-tech, longterm water filters to schools, medical camps and villages in India that do not have access to clean water. For more information on the Waterbearers project, see www.thewaterbearers.org or make a donation at www.fundraise.thewaterbearers.org.
What It Really Takes to Create the Best Year of Your Life
Podcast by Derek Rydall
“Paint your masterpiece on the canvas of time and space.”
Derek Rydall writes:
This episode is about what it really takes to create the best year of your life. First of all, what it really takes? Not what you think it takes, not what they tell you it takes, but what it really takes.
From the world standard, the best year would be a year free of pain, free of most challenges, free of lack and limitation and struggle. For most human consciousness, the best year would be greater wealth, greater success, greater health, greater relationships, improvement of our human experience. That’s what most people—and then again, it’s relative if you’re living in Syria and trying to get out the best year of your life would be to find a country that would be willing to take you in, so finding a safe place to live. If you’re on the street, it’ll be finding shelter.
So it’s always relative to where we are.
Katherine Woodward Thomas Interviewed
Video by Dr. Michael Wayne, "Interviews with the Leading Edge"
Katherine Woodward Thomas speaks about her own life path and then about her work and dedication to the evolution and advancement of loving and harmonious relations between all living beings.
There’s a new paradigm in relationships that Katherine is helping to pioneer, one that encompasses new and emergent possibilities on the vast frontier of human relatedness, particularly as they relate to greater levels of connection and care between people. With “Conscious Uncoupling,” Katherine’s desire is to steer people away from a bitter end and toward a new life that’s empowered and flourishing.
In that regard, Katherine considers herself a “Love-olutionary” and devotes much of her time to thinking about what capacities and skills people might need to collectively cultivate in order to have happier, healthier and more loving relationships with one another.
To learn more about Katherine’s work, you can go to www.consciousuncoupling.com
Carolyn Lukensmeyer on Civility in Politics
Can Civility in Politics Be Restored?
Watch this video from C-Span's Washington Journal to hear Carolyn Lukensmeyer, the Executive Director of the University of Arizona's National Institute for Civil Discourse, which was created in 2011 after the assassination attempt on Gabby Gifford’s life in Tucson. Gifford was an official who worked in a completely bipartisan way.
The Institute was founded in order to have an impact on the political dysfunction that now dominates our country.
RESILIENCE FROM THE HEART: The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes, by Gregg Braden
"What would it mean to discover that the purpose of the human heart--your heart--is about more than simply pumping blood through your body?
While our hearts obviously do pump the blood that nourishes our organs and each of the trillions or so cells that make up our bodies, recent discoveries suggest that the purpose of the heart may reach far beyond the function of a pump. The benefits of harmonizing our hearts with our brains to empower us with deep intuition, precognition (knowledge of future events), and the direct wisdom of heart intelligence can immediately catapult us beyond traditional thinking when it comes to the way we live and solve our problems. It's these capabilities, as well, that provide the resilience to embrace big change in our lives and to do so in a healthy way."
Terry Patten and Michael Dowd on "Apocaloptimism"
Beyond Awakening Audio Broadcast
Terry Patten interviewed Michael Dowd on March 27 for his dialogue series, Beyond Awakening. The topic of their conversation was “The New Ten Commandments and the Coming Apocaloptimism.”
When Terry asked about the term “apocaloptimism,” Michael explained, “I am a short-term pessimist and long-term optimist.” He thinks we are facing a great crash but that humanity will survive and find a way to live within the bottom line of a mutually enhancing relationship to the earth.
We must ask of everything — is it pro-future of anti-future? Listen to this provactive interaction between two Evolutionary Leaders.
Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith - "Adventure in Paradise"
Take an "Adventure in Paradise" with Dr. Beckwith and enjoy the first of nine tracks on TranscenDance, Michael's musical album which may be downloaded HERE. ENJOY!
Are You Accepting or Tolerating?
By Gary Zukav
Originally seen in the March 2016 Soul Connections newsletter
Dear Spiritual Partner,
The difference between acceptance and tolerance is the difference between authentic power and pursuing external power. Acceptance is open heartedness. What you accept moves through your life without resistance. You do not withhold your love. You live free in a beautiful open meadow, and what you accept is in the meadow with you, close, cherished, and welcome.
Tolerance is judgment. It is a defensive stance. You think that you will not be able to change someone, and you decide to tolerate him rather than to try to change him. When you decide to be polite in order to preserve peace in your family, for example, you are tolerating a family member. You would prefer not to interact with her, but interactions are unavoidable.
Acceptance comes from loving parts of your personality. Tolerance comes from frightened parts of your personality. Your judgments remain. They are the reasons for your tolerance. When you tolerate others, you tolerate yourself and your life at the same time. When you accept others, you accept yourself yourself and others at the same time. Moving from tolerance of your life to acceptance of it, from judgment of your life to gratitude for it, requires recognizing when frightened parts of your personality are tolerating in fear and when loving parts of your personality are accepting in love, and choosing love.
Acceptance does not mean becoming passive, or living a vanilla flavored life without initiative or creativity. You cannot challenge a frightened part of your personality without experiencing its pain - for example, the pain of not having the last word in a power struggle. Acceptance allows you to experience where you are in the moment, but it does not require you to stay there when you are in fear. It enables you to experience the painful emotions of frightened parts of your personality so that you can challenge them and the blissful emotions of loving parts of your personality so that you can cultivate them.
This creates authentic power.
Liminal Consciousness: Threshold of Miracles
By Patricia Albere
Reprinted from the Evolutionary Collective blog, March 7, 2016
A while ago, I found myself using the word liminal when describing the practices and perspectives of the Evolutionary Collective. Given the emergent nature of this work, it often happens that the living logos of this consciousness chooses words and images that I come to understand more fully after they are spoken and worked with. The consciousness of the new paradigm is an expression of the power of the ‘space between’ or the liminal.
The concept of liminality was first developed in the early 20th century by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep and then later expanded upon by Victor Turner. It comes from the Latin word limen, which means ‘a threshold’. It is used to describe the transition phase in a ritual – the ambiguous and disorienting space that occurs when our sense of identity before the ritual is no more and the new sense of self hasn’t arisen. We stand at the ‘threshold’ between our previous reality and way of structuring our experience and the new reality we are moving into.
You may have heard the word used in Tibetan Buddhism for the bardo state – the “transitional state” or “in-between state” or “liminal state”. Used loosely, the term “bardo” refers to the intermediate state of existence between lives on earth. The liminal space lies between the known and the unknown – the space is a transitional space of heightened intensity. When we are in the midst of true creativity we are in a liminal space.
If you feel into your sense of the ‘liminal’ right now – the subtle space between any sense of identity you’ll find there is something there that is neither and both and more. There is a dimensionalization of consciousness that allows us to exist in a kind of quantum reality where both ‘the particle and the wave’ co-exist. The practice of mutual awakening allows people to focus on this liminal space. Some people think it’s a simple practice that allows two people to be in the present moment with one another and go into a deeper space of relationship. Of course, that happens but there is a much deeper invitation to develop, over time, a capacity to reside in this liminal consciousness. I feel this is the consciousness we are being invited to move into as a species.
In the current paradigm our self-reflective consciousness gives rise to linear thinking, deep interiority, rationality, witnessing, mindfulness and the awareness of choice. The consciousness of the new paradigm arises in the space between – it’s both the wave and the particle simultaneously – it’s the sense of unity that includes a clear experience of individuation that doesn’t depend on being fixed in any way. It doesn’t depend on groundedness and embodiment. It effortlessly includes those elements but the locus of consciousness is elsewhere. In extreme sports, athletes sometimes defy the laws of time and space – they move into what I am calling the liminal, a powerful flow state where new potentials are possible. They become the whole, while functioning individually from a place of pure spontaneity and choicelessness and a portal opens that allows for the impossible to occur.
As we learn to release our identification with being fixed entities (the particle) and allow ourselves to exist in a kind of multidimensional freedom we may discover openings that allow us to ‘pop-through’ into new worlds, with new solutions. Could it be that that is the new paradigm? A consciousness that allows for new realities to display themselves without the painful linear struggle as a fixed identity in a fixed reality with laws of cause and effect? Our normal sense of identity (egoic structure) is more or less fixed – in the current paradigm we work to heal that sense of identity, we learn to ground ourselves deeply within and heal and grow. Maybe in the new paradigm – we discover that the origination point of Being is always there – so unique and so profound is our experience of being ‘home’ that we no longer need to be so solid and fixed. New paradigms really are ‘new’ paradigms.
Wormholes are bridges through space-time that create a shortcut from one reality to another. The consciousness we are exploring in the Evolutionary Collective is liminal in nature – a consciousness that is wormhole friendly. The ‘space-between’ is a 24/7 consciousness that we are living in and giving to that is dissolving the need for a solid sense of self. As we practice together, our unique point of existence (the point) is alive, vibrant and scintillatingly awake and the ‘wave’ or flow of existence simultaneously arises. Liminality, the space between, the both/and, spontaneity and multidimensionality are all characteristics of the consciousness.
One of the definitions of liminal is ‘barely perceptible’ and of or relating to a sensory threshold. The subtle and causal dimensions are invisible. We need to develop soft eyes and highly sensitized inner senses to remain available to occupy this liminal world and develop a tolerance for being more invisible. It’s a place where more people will not be able to see or understand you and the results that are occurring around you. A liminal persona is a different category of existence. The more power you are able to access in this dimension, the more invisible and the more effective you become. It helps to remember that as human beings, we can never see beyond our own level of development. So even though the consciousness and the power of it may not be recognized easily – those who are sharing the space of this consciousness of awakened mutuality have the joy of discovering what its potentials are together.
The dissolution of order during liminality creates a fluid, malleable situation that enables new forms to arise. We speak of emergence – but it’s usually inside the unexamined current perspective of thinking emergence is an action that happens between solid realities – rather than an ongoingness – a quality of consciousness that exists ‘as emergence’.
This is a note from one of the EC Core members in New York that gives a sense of the liminal:
I don’t know what it is about this work you’ve created that is allowing for this delicious and fascinating flow. This “I” experiences a broader arch of “we” brought into focus as this singular “I” and then traipses out in curiosity and delight again to collect more of the “we” among the local fields in which it plays.
There seems a felt, but unlanguaged, commitment underlying the interplay, which appears to be sourcing it and that is quite perfect. I no longer need to “know” its/our intent as I trust the we/I. The farther afield the “I” goes the more difficult it may be to describe but there is more of a sense of being “at home”. I am welcomed by the “we” and “they” quite happily merge into one……dancing into a multitude of musical collections, each with its own distinct loveliness.
I’m loving it. Justin
One of the ways I like to stay in touch with our global community is to do FREE Virtual Events every few months. RADICAL MUTUALITY CALLS are when I share what I’m discovering in the crucible of the Evolutionary Collective. On May 25th, please join me and our global tribe as we spend an hour diving into more about LET'S TURN THE CONCEPT OF ONENESS INTO A LIVED MUTUALITY.
You can register here: LINK
In evolutionary love, Patricia
A liminal moment :)
Does the Next President Matter?
By John Perkins
Reprinted from www.johnperkins.org March 7, 2016
As I travel around the country discussing my new book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and meeting with people from all walks of life, I hear a great deal of discouragement over the U.S. presidential election. So I try to encourage people to look at the positive side and see what we can affect. Here are a couple of key points:
1) The extreme divergence between the left and the right indicates that a huge segment of our population is very dissatisfied with the current system. I call this the Death Economy, one based on wars, fear, debt and the destruction of our Earth’s resources. This unsustainable economy is failing us on a global level.
2) Although the next president will be important symbolically, it’s essential to recognize that his or her powers are very limited. For example, we used to think that one of the most influential things the president could do was to appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices. Even that is in serious question now as many Republicans say they will not even consider an Obama nominee.
All of us must understand that we the people have the real power.
Governmental systems, including most of our elected officials, are controlled by the global corporations who finance their campaigns and offer them lucrative consulting jobs if they lose or decide not to run for office. However, these global corporations are dependent on us, you and me, to buy their goods and services, invest in them, and support them through our tax dollars and government policies. So, during this election year, please commit to taking action, regardless of who is elected.
For more on our government systems and specific ideas on how you can act now, read my recent blog posts “Vote and Then Act in Favor of Democracy”and “Take Action in the New Year.”
What you and I do every single day counts. There is a perceived reality that this Death Economy is the only reality. The truth is that revolutions have always occurred when people alter their perceived reality. In the 1770s, there was a perceived reality that the British army was invincible. When people changed that reality and understood that the British could be defeated by American farmers and hunters who stood behind trees and fired at the ridged lines of British troops, everything changed.
We are at one of those moments today. We are faced with a serious crisis as the rhetoric gets worse and political parties seem irrelevant. You and I need to understand the power that we have—each of us as individuals and as a community. So yes, vote in this next election but also realize that no matter who is elected, we must do our part every single day. We must convince the corporations that depend on us to move from a Death Economy based on fear, doubt, and the destruction of resources to a Life Economy based on regenerating destroyed environments, cleaning up pollution, and alleviating the causes of desperation and terrorism.
It isn’t so much about who next sits in the Oval Office or even changing the mechanics of economics. It is about changing the ideas, the dogmas that currently drive politics and economics: debt and fear, insufficiency, divide and conquer. It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about We the People taking control. It is about a revolution in consciousness and actions. It is about making the transition from a Death Economy to a Life Economy.
A turning point in the American revolution occurred when Thomas Paine helped change the perceived reality by writing, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child may have peace.” This is another time of crisis, a time to follow Paine’s advice. It is a time to own up to our power and not expect the president or any other politician to change the world for us. It is a time for us to act in ways that will assure peace for our children.
What steps will you take to act in ways that will assure peace for our children?
About John Perkins
John is a founder and board member of Dream Change & The Pachamama Alliance, non-profit organizations devoted to establishing a world future generations will want to inherit & the author of the NY Times bestseller, Confessions Of An Economic Hitman.
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Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film
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Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film contains all of Deren\'s essays on her own films as well as more general essays on film theory, the relation of film to dance, various technical aspects of film production, the distinction between amateur and prUntil now, Maya Deren's essays on the art and craft of filmmaking have not been available in a comprehensive volume equally handy for students, film enthusiasts, and scholars. Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film contains all of Deren's essays on her own films as well as more general essays on film theory, the relation of film to dance, various technical aspects of film production, the distinction between amateur and professional filmmaking, and the famous 1946 chapbook titled "An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film," which has been reset here for the first time. There are hard-to-find articles written for magazines and art journals, as well as lectures, Q&A sessions, program notes, and manifestoes. This book will be particularly welcomed by the large audience that saw Martina Kudlacek's documentary, "In the Mirror of Maya Deren," during its theatrical release in the U.S. and Europe in 2002. The importance of Maya Deren's films and writings is further evidenced by the American Film Institute having named its highest award for independent filmmaking the "Maya Deren."
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The Complete Works Of Joyce Wieland 1963-86
Sarah Pucill - Stages of Mourning
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
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New Zealand Government - Public Service
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Scientists use Google searches, HealthLine and truancy to detect disease outbreaks
Source: ESR
A new ESR study has found that internet searches, Healthline calls and school absenteeism data could alert health officials to a disease outbreak days ahead of other systems.
The ESR researchers used the 2016 Havelock North Campylobacter outbreak to investigate whether these alternative data sources could have provided an earlier indication of the campylobacter cases in the community – and the results were conclusive.
The 2016 campylobacter outbreak began on August 8, but the full extent of the outbreak was not known until August 14. Researchers’ modelling found that they could have detected an increase in cases up to five days before the outbreak was detected via traditional pathways.
Lead author, ESR’s Dr Mehnaz Adnan says the data may have allowed for an earlier intervention to curb transmission in the community.
“Early outbreak detection and magnitude prediction is critical to outbreak control, but with any disease surveillance system, there are unavoidable delays before an outbreak can be detected and the community protected. It can take a number of days between someone becoming infected, developing symptoms, seeking healthcare and a case being diagnosed and notified to health authorities. During this time people might use Google searches of their symptoms or call Healthline – and we can use that information.
“As previous studies have suggested, we wanted to see if we could utilise this data as an early signal to alert health officials earlier, enabling them to investigate potential outbreak sources ahead of traditional methods.”
Dr Adnan says they are not advocating to replace traditional methods, but rather to complement them.
“These model predictions could fill a critical time-gap in existing surveillance based on notification of cases of disease. ESR are stewards of the national notifiable disease surveillance system, EpiSurv, so we are best placed to investigate how we could support and enhance this system in the future. In this case we have done this by investigating alternative data sources and evaluated their potential for recognising 2016 Havelock North Campylobacter outbreak at an earlier time.”
The researchers warn that further work is required to assess the place of such surveillance data sources and methods in routine public health practice.
“A number of key questions will need to be systematically investigated to establish the practical role of these methods and how they could be most effectively integrated into routine public health practice,” Dr Adnan says. “There are a number of hurdles, this type of non-traditional surveillance carries with it the workload required to interpret and respond to signals, which can be extensive.”
The paper, Potential Early Identification of a Large Campylobacter Outbreak Using Alternative Surveillance Data Sources: Autoregressive Modelling and Spatiotemporal Clustering(external link),was published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance.
The Health Research Council funded study included authors from Victoria University of Wellington, the Hawkes Bay District Health Board and the University of Otago.
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Heritage funds denied
Published 1:57 pm Tuesday, March 27, 2001
By By Sheila Blackmon/The Meridian Star
A project to emphasize Meridian and Lauderdale County's African-American historical sites has been turned down for state funding.
Allison Beasley, director of the Lauderdale County Tourism Bureau, said she learned Monday the project will not be funded by a state grant.
Tourism officials applied last month to the African-American Heritage Preservation Grant Program under the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for a grant to fund an African-American Heritage Trail. She applied for matching funds through The Riley Foundation. The trail was projected to cost about $48,000.
The grant was to complement Main Street Meridian efforts in the Master Redevelopment Plan of the African-American Historic District and the Wechsler Renovation Project, which was awarded a $385,000 state Archives and History grant this month.
Beasley said she still hopes to get funding from the Riley Foundation and should know the application's status next month. If the Riley Foundation provides funding, Beasley said Tourism officials could "scale the project back" this year and reapply next year.
She said Tourism officials are developing an African-American promotional brochure and can probably still use the proposed trail's maps created by local students.
Sheila Blackmon is a staff writer for The Meridian Star. E-mail her at sblackmon@themeridianstar.com.
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East Central knocks off nationally ranked JCJC
CHARGING AHEAD – ECCC's Ramon Williams looks to cut up field against Jones' Demarcus Moody in Thursday night's game at Decatur. Photo by Paula Merritt/The Meridian Star
By Marty Stamper / EMG sports assistant
DECATUR The 2002 football season hasn't been a kind one for the East Central Community College Warriors with injuries and close losses mounting week by week.
You can bet Thursday's 6-3 triple overtime win over second-ranked Jones will go a long way toward soothing many of those frustrations.
The teams were knotted at 3-3 at the end of regulation with both missing field goals in the first two overtime periods.
Travares Osley kicked a 23-yard field goal to put the Warriors up 6-3 in the third overtime and the ECCC defense then allowed the Bobcats just three yards on three plays. Nicholas Terracina, who entered the game as the leading kick scorer in the MACJC, misfired well to the left from 38 yards as the defending state champion Bobcats saw a 15-game winning string end.
Jones threatened early, but lost three fumbles in the first 23 minutes.
Jones took a 3-0 lead on a 27-yard field goal by Terracina with 7:02 left in the second quarter. The score was set up by a 61-yard interception return by Quinten Sullivan to the ECCC 28.
The Warriors pulled even with 3.4 seconds left in the first half on a 27-yard field goal by Osley. The drive's big play was a 17-yard pass from Kevin Stephens to Ronald Smith to the Jones 24.
Through three quarters, ECCC had just 104 yards and Jones only 92 after losing 34 on a high snap on a punt. The two entered the contest as the state's top two offensive teams.
The Bobcats had two chances at field goals in the fourth quarter. With 4:30 remaining, a bobbled snap led to Osley and Stacey Lewis sacking holder Seth Thompson for a loss of eight yards.
On their last possession in regulation, the Bobcats started from the ECCC 40 and had first-and-goal at the 7 following a 28-yard pass from Aaron Leak to Enos Hamilton. Terracina's 20-yard field goal try slammed into the right upright and ricocheted harmlessly to the waterlogged turf.
In the first overtime, ECCC's Ken Triplett barely clearly the line of scrimmage with a 49-yard field goal bid. Terracina was wide left from 26 yards.
In the second overtime, Terracina misfired from 36 yards with Osley coming up well short from 32.
In the third overtime, a 10-yard pass from Stephens to Smith and an 8-yard run by Ramon Williams set up Osley's game-winner from 23 yards out.
An incomplete third-and-7 pass from the 22 forced the Bobcats to try a possible tying kick from 38 yards out, but Terracina's effort was wide left.
It was another costly Warrior game as Adrian Eiland (ankle) and Horace Glenn (head) both left the stadium on stretchers.
ECCC (2-4 overall, 2-2 South) hosts Hinds a week from Saturday, while Jones (5-1, 2-1) hosts Pearl River that same day.
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Meder declines to attend closed session
Sep 9, 2020 | News |
The Gardner City Council held three executive sessions totaling 50 minutes at their Sept. 8 meeting. All three sessions were called to discuss personnel matters related to non-elected personnel, but they failed to describe the substance of the executive session in general terms as required in Attorney General Opinion No. 2018-1.
Randy Gregorcyk, council member, requested the published executive session be struck from the agenda. Council members voted 3 to 2 to hold the executive session with council members Gregorcyk and Tory Roberts, members, dissenting.
Prior to the executive sessions Adriana Meder, planning commission member, addressed the council during the public comments segment of the regular meeting. Her complete statement appears below. She declined to attend the executive session behind closed doors regarding an accusation of misconduct during an April 28 commission meeting.
The accusation was made at the Aug. 3 meeting when Rich Melton, vice president, had called for Meder to be removed from the planning commission because he said she was involved in personnel matters and also due to comments on her Facebook page.
The planning commission has undergone change with the departure of three employees: Kelly Woodward, chief planner, and Michelle Leininger, principal planner, ended employment with Gardner June 1, 2020, and Larry Powell, director economic development left July 2, 2020. Kiva Simmons-Lee also resigned from the commission July 22, 2020 saying in a statement it was due to action by council members Rich Melton and Mark Baldwin and also due to lack of communication regarding personnel change.
Meder read her statement Sept. 8 and said she spoke to Steve Shute, mayor, on July 30 and refused to resign from her position and also said she received an e mail from Jim Pruetting, city administrator, inviting her to the closed door session.
“My citizen opinion has nothing to do with my job,” she said Sept. 8. Meder said she refuted claims about shutting down a developer during a meeting as inaccurate.
During her statement Meder said, “I respectfully decline to participate in this evening’s executive session. I believe the city is organized in that the employees work for the city administrator, who works for the mayor, so why is the council wanting to call me into a closed meeting? There is no apparent reason for it.”
“Again, I am here to answer questions in the open public session,” Meder said. “ I will not attend an executive session behind closed doors.”
The council did not respond to Meder during public session.
The council did recess into three closed sessions. According to the city clerk:
Recessed into executive session pursuant to K.S.A. 75-4319 (b) (2), to discuss personnel matters related t o non-elected personnel for fifteen(15) minutes. (Passed unanimously)
Recessed into executive session pursuant to K.S.A. 75-4319 (b) (1), to discuss personnel matters related to non-elected personnel for twenty(20) minutes.(Passed 3-2)
Recessed into executive session pursuant to K.S.A. 75-4319 (b) (1), to discuss personnel matters related to non-elected personnel for fifteen(15) minutes.(Passed 4-0, 1 absent
No action was taken following the sessions.
In its entirety: Sept. 8 statement as read by Adrianna Meder, planning commissioner, regarding the Gardner city administrator’s invitation to an executive session:
Good evening Mayor and City Council. My name is Adrianna Meder, Gardner KS 66030.
I would like to start off with some background timeframe and other information to bring us to present.
* On July 30th, I spoke with the mayor via phone and among the discussion topics was that he would accept my resignation from Planning Commission, I told him I would not resign.
* At the August 3rd City Council meeting during council updates, Councilmember Melton expressed his concern regarding 3 things and wanted to review having me removed from my position on Planning Commission. To summarize:
o #1 Postings I made via my personal Facebook page (which has been deemed my right to do so as freedom of speech and nothing affecting my role on Planning Commission
o #2 That I shut down a developer during the April 28th Planning Commission meeting, which is an inaccurate accusation. The meeting minutes and video reflect none of that
o #3 That I interfered with City of Gardner personnel decisions, which again, is a 100% fact less and inaccurate accusation. My citizen opinion has nothing to do with who gets hired or fired with the City of Gardner
* On August 28th I had a face to face conversation with the City Administrator, who indicated that I would be invited to an upcoming executive session during a city council meeting for me to air my side of the allegations. I told him I would decline the participation of an executive session, however any questions that I needed to answer on this topic could be done during the public session of the city council meeting
* On August 30th I received the following email from the City Administrator, with the verbiage provided below that I will read for the record. I have also distributed copies to be included with tonight’s meeting minutes.
o Email states:
* “Adrianna,
The Gardner City Council is inviting you to participate in an executive session during the September 8th city council meeting to provide you the opportunity to respond to allegations of misconduct that may result in a vote by the council to remove you from the Planning Commission for cause. This matter is being conducted in an executive session due to the nature of the discussion being directly related to a personnel matter. If you have any questions or concerns about your participation in this matter, please don’t hesitate to contact me. JP
Jim Pruetting
City Administrator”
* I did not respond to this email.
o I respectfully decline to participate in this evening’s executive session. I believe the city is organized in that the employees work for the city administrator, who works for the mayor, so why is the council wanting to call me into a closed meeting? There is no apparent reason for it.
* Again, I am here to answer questions in the open public session. I will not attend an executive session behind closed doors.
Adrianna Meder
Complete information on the planning commission change appears here: https://gardnernews.com/city-of-gardner-planning-staff-commission-undergoes-change/
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Archive your lonely or unfavourited caches
By barefootjeff, December 1, 2020 in Geocaching Topics
+barefootjeff 3827
barefootjeff 3827
From today's blog article that was linked from the newsletter:
The cache owner dashboard may also help you decide if it’s time to make room for a new cache on the geocaching gameboard.
Sort by “Last found” date to see which caches haven’t been found in awhile. If the cache isn’t found as much as it used to be, maybe it’s time to consider archival so something new can be placed.
Sort by “Favorites” to learn which of your hides are most popular. Is there something about your most Favorited cache(s) that could be incorporated into a new cache? Do you own some caches that have never received Favorite points? Maybe it’s time to consider retiring those caches.
So caching is now a popularity competition with no room in the game for losers. I'm curious, though, if all the unfavourited caches should be archived, how are you supposed to find those other 9 caches in order to give the 10th one an FP? Don't there have to be unfavourited caches for the favourite point system to work?
Thoughts anyone?
+Lynx Humble 434
Lynx Humble 434
Just did a quick search and 58% of caches in my province have 0 FP (was expecting more around 75%).
Groundspeak are you seriously suggesting to archive 58% of geocache in my province? 32% Worldwide 1M geocaches????
Also if people are archiving lonely cache like you are suggesting it's highly unlikely that someone would be a new one there.
Edited December 1, 2020 by Lynx Humble
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Blue Square Thing 194
2 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
The problem isn't the cache owners who are looking at the cache owner dashboard.
2 hours ago, Lynx Humble said:
It looks like FPs are a bit more spread around in my region, with only about 12% of caches not getting any. Amongst those is one of mine, GC8RTKC published in May this year. It's had 10 finds, the most recent nearly two months ago, but so far it's been no-one's favourite. The cache is a short bushwalk of a few hundred metres from the road to a hill-top vantage point looking across the valley to Mount Wondabyne in the south-west around to the sea in the south-east.
The container is a 380ml Sistema tucked under a rock ledge.
Sure, this is a fairly mundane cache for this region, but is it really so terrible that it needs to be archived? And what would go in its place that would be any better?
Likewise for the T4.5 cache I visited for my 1000th find in May 2019. Prior to that trip, it's most recent find had been in 2017 and no-one has gone there since my visit, so yes, it's a pretty lonely cache. But how would its archival benefit the community? No-one else is going to put a more popular cache there because the reason for its loneliness is the full-day rugged hike to get to its location and back.
It's not somewhere you can put a P&G or an LPC (HQ's preferred cache types it seems) and I don't understand why caches like these need to be removed from the gameboard.
+Goldenwattle 1654
Goldenwattle 1654
When those lonely caches are archived, there will be litter left behind, with little chance it will be removed, as now no-one knows of its existence. At least if it still existed it might eventually get visitors who could remove the cache if it broke down. Such as a cache I visited recently. (Although in this case -GC351R8 , it wasn't lonely, as people had been visiting and finding nothing more than plastic shards, but still logging it. In fact someone logged it after I removed the plastic shards and their wasn't even that to find.) Archiving caches leaves litter in place. That's bad.
23 minutes ago, barefootjeff said:
2 minutes ago, Goldenwattle said:
Just because a cache is lonely doesn't mean it has an inactive CO or one who won't do the right thing if they decide to archive it. Six of my caches haven't been found for over a year (that will increase to 7 in about four weeks) but if I decided to archive any of them I'd go out and retrieve them (if there's anything to retrieve as most archivals happen because a cache has gone missing), just as I've done for my other caches I've archived. The only exception is if the cache is in a spot that's no longer accessible and there are still a lot of those in the aftermath of last summer's fires.
1 hour ago, barefootjeff said:
I never said they all don't have an active CO, and I don't want lonely caches to be archived. They're the best caches, and give the most joy, to find. The example I gave does not appear to have an active CO, or at least one who is willing to maintain a cache once placed. Many though don't have an active CO, or one willing to go pick up the remains of their active caches. Some COs are very actively placing caches, but once a cache is archived, they won't go and pick up the remains. Instead they publish another cache. The only hope for some caches left in disrepair is that another cacher will come along and do the right thing and remove the shards. If the cache is archived, that won't happen and the rubbish will be left there to rot and the plastic to break down into microplastic. Not good for the environment, and not good for geocaching's reputation.
mysterion604 10
Popularity? I'm just part of the Basic member proleteriat, not the Premium bourgeoisie, so I cannot favourite anything yet, and haven't placed any caches myself, but...
Is there some automatic timetable of maintenance /checking in that must be done (like once a year minimum) by an owner? Or is it only based on receiving a "needs maintenance" or other notice which red-flags it?
In terms of "cache health" & potential archiving, I hope that the bosses are taking into account that the wilderness caches might not be visited for a long time, even by their owners.
I imagine they understand this, but yeah I have often wondered what happens to as cache with very sparse activity and whose owner has not been active for several years. (I also expect that part of Archiving etiquette would be to physically remove your cache, assuming it isn't already missing.) The local urban cache space is pretty much saturated, so I guess something needs to create a bit of turnover, so new members can have some placement fun too, but in the wilderness is another matter.
Like I said, I have not placed any caches yet, but I am hoping to one day. And part of my plan is to not place it somewhere I would have trouble going back to if I needed to freshen it up.
Edited December 2, 2020 by mysterion604
+lee737 441
lee737 441
Don't there have to be unfavourited caches for the favourite point system to work?
No - but there does need to be plenty with less than 10% FPs....
1 hour ago, mysterion604 said:
The local urban cache space is pretty much saturated, so I guess something needs to create a bit of turnover, so new members can have some placement fun too, but in the wilderness is another matter.
^ Encouraging some turnover in the crowded urban areas is probably good for the game.
5 minutes ago, lee737 said:
There was an old cache at a fairly remote waterfall that was archived by its owner a few weeks back. Normally around here that would be that, as it's rare for a new cache to spring up anywhere near an old archived one, but in this instance it was a spot I thought I should add to my Chasing Waterfalls series so I created a new one to go there. It was published a couple of weeks ago and so far the only finders have been a group of three Sydney cachers who were doing other caches in the region and grabbed a joint FTF on it. It's still very early days, but I doubt if many of those who found the original cache would really want to drive all the way out there again just to pick up another smiley. They've already seen the waterfall once and probably have photos of it, and it's not going to look much different the second time around.
+cerberus1 3315
cerberus1 3315
The "maybes" in that blog shows it might be a "helpful suggestion", but does come off as kinda haughty.
Couldn't this end some "pioneer" or "legacy" hides ?
Maybe wiping out every low D/T piece of carp in my area, and replace them with new wouldn't be bad for numbers folks, but there's one heck-of-a-lot of distant, "lonely" hides that have few or no FPs.
We have two caches that are rarely visited. We get numerous emails from folks saying they're on their list.
There's a lot in other countries that I'd like to visit too. Distance hides that, because they're distant... get few FPs as well as visits.
- Guess I don't understand why a "lonely" hide that folks are willing to spend their vacation on is somehow now dull...
Edited December 2, 2020 by cerberus1
+dprovan 1559
dprovan 1559
10 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
Meh. They're just suggesting one metric by which you might determine that one of your caches is a failure. No big deal: you see no favorites, so you consider whether that's because it's really as good as you thought. If you decide that, no, it is good, but there's some other reason it has no favorites, then you keep it. If you reject favorite points outright, then this measure might make no sense. But GS implemented and encourages the use of favorites, so it makes sense for them to point out it is, in their opinion, a valid metric of how much people like you cache which may or may not make you think of reevaluating it.
1 hour ago, dprovan said:
So how does archiving a cache which is still perfectly servicable but just hasn't got any FPs benefit the community? The result is there's just one less cache to find which in turn makes it harder for people to get their 9 non-FP caches in order to give an FP to the tenth one.
+Harry Dolphin 1164
Harry Dolphin 1164
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7 hours ago, lee737 said:
My brother-in-law dared me to put out a GeoArt series. And I took the dare! Twenty-four caches along the Hudson River Walkway in Hudson and Bergen Counties, NJ. Great views across the Hudson River to NYC. They all had favorite points. Geocachers loved the series! Unfortunately, I had to archive the series five years ago. Since then, one new cache was placed along the Walkway. (And that did not last very long.)
+GeoElmo6000 249
GeoElmo6000 249
They're just suggesting cache owners take a look at their caches and think about why they haven't been found in a while or why they haven't gotten favorite points. They're not telling anyone to do anything. I have been doing just what the blog post says, I take a look at my caches occasionally and consider whether or not to keep them going.
1 hour ago, Harry Dolphin said:
My brother-in-law dared me to put out a GeoArt series. And I took the dare!
Dolphin in the river! Great series!
+JL_HSTRE 581
JL_HSTRE 581
So caching is now a popularity competition with no room in the game for losers.
At least a popularity contest involves a focus on quality rather than quantity.
The Venn Diagram of good caches and popular caches is not a circle, but there is a lot of overlap.
+schmittfamily 47
schmittfamily 47
10 hours ago, dprovan said:
Meh. They're just suggesting one metric by which you might determine that one of your caches is a failure.
This seems backwards to me.
I view a hide as successful if the person that hid it gets enjoyment out of it.
We have a hide with 0 favorite points after 73 finds, but it was the puzzle and hide my daughter did when she was 13.
That's her cache, she has an attachment to it, she gets enjoyment when people find it, and it's her favorite hide.
Is it worthy of favorite points? Probably not but that's not really the point of the hide.
+L0ne.R 1848
L0ne.R 1848
Sweet fancy Moses, don't do that!
Caches I like generally don't get favourite points. I like good quality, swag-size containers, hidden in pleasant locations (like forests), that are in relatively good shape.
In my experience the caches that tend to get the most favourite points are guideline breakers (example: hole drilled into a tree or pole, something attached by nails/screws):
And dollar store toys with a bison/pill bottle attached to it (often listed as small, not micro).
Edited December 2, 2020 by L0ne.R
+terratin 343
terratin 343
Oh well, I guess it's time to archive my cache from 2011 on a nice footpath between an old church and a nice country estate. Found nearly 500 times, not a micro in a corner, something to see. Just an old-school cache of the type that I'd be happy to find. It just doesn't have fps because it doesn't have a pound shop toy attached to it, or a hole drilled into a tree, or some electronic toys.
+fbingha 100
fbingha 100
Why all this ruckus? For Groundspeak, the need for profit is paramount to maintain the operation. They need more users to purchase premium membership which they feel is increased by new hides and caches that attract favorites.
It's entirely possible that Groundspeak continues to move in this direction by encouraging cache turnover in a more proactive manner. I'm certain they have lot of discussion about how encourage new hides that result in more premium membership sales. It's not the lonely cache hikers, of which I participate in as well, that make Groundspeak their money.
+Viajero Perdido 873
Viajero Perdido 873
Edmonton, Alberta (±6m)
Some caches are extremely rewarding, yet by their nature, don't have favorite points as bait. And also by their nature, are destined to remain lonely even after that first visit and well-earned fave point. This one: 2 finds in 13 years.
Surprisingly also, I've found mountaintop caches to be in excellent shape, on average. Snow doesn't seep in like rain does, they're rarely opened so wear-and-tear is minimal, and I've yet to see one blasted apart by lightning. (Yet occasionally a reviewer sends a CO up a mountain after one DNF, which gets me steamed...)
17 minutes ago, fbingha said:
encouraging cache turnover
Actually, I do think this is a good idea. But I worry that they've come at it from the wrong direction. We'll get more caches with little thought or care -- attach a bison to a dollar store toy, toss it roadside and forget about it - get lots of FPs.
Personally, I think they could encourage cache turnover by writing a blog about how voluntary turnover helps the game stay interesting. In addition, they should strongly encourage retrieval of caches that are voluntarily archived (ask COs to post a note before archival that they've retrieved the cache container). They could also encourage reviewers to do more sweeps and remove the abandoned cache listings that fill the database.
21 minutes ago, L0ne.R said:
If the CO who placed the T4.5 cache I did for my 1000th find archived it and created a new one at or near the same location, I'd pass on it. Likewise the T4.5 down the south coast I did a few weeks ago. For me, most of the enjoyment I get from these sorts of caches is from the journey, going somewhere new and experiencing unexpected things. Putting a different box at GZ and writing up a new cache page doesn't make it a new experience. Yet it's caches like these that make up the bulk of the lonely caches, around here at least, the ones that take a lot of time and effort to get to. Those cachers who just want a quick smiley won't be any more likely to attempt the new cache as they were the old one.
I don't understand why everyone is acting so offended by Groundspeak; the blog said that "maybe it’s time to consider" archiving the caches.
So you consider each cache. Hey, this one has no favorites, but I really love it because it takes people to this wonderful destination. So don't archive it! Easy peasy.
When I look at each cache of mine I consider whether it, in the translated words of Marie Kando, "sparks joy". If it doesn't, I consider archiving it. If it does, I don't consider archiving it.
Just now, GeoElmo6000 said:
I'm not concerned about my own caches, it's others in the community who might take the blog to heart and start reducing the already small cache pool here that I see as bad for the game. Maybe mass archivals are a good thing in places with caches packed as tightly as the saturation rule allows, but there are a lot of places in the world where that's not the case and every archival is a loss to the community. Even worse is the criterion they're suggesting for archivals - insufficient FPs or insufficient finds - because I don't think either of these is a sign of a poor cache. The caches that really are in need of archiving, those with cracked containers, mouldy logs and ignored NMs, in general won't be owned by COs who read the blog or take suggestions like these to heart.
1 hour ago, L0ne.R said:
I know - I don't get the fascination with FP's on those! We have one ourself even - a rubber snake with a bison - it got a lot more than others of ours that I think are much better....
Ha ha, I probably would have given that one an FP too if I'd had one to spare at the time. More for the way it was set up than the thing itself, as it was a nice surprise that made me chuckle when I saw it.
Presumably the assumption is that a CO has a relatively fixed number of caches, so what GS is thinking is that you'll try harder with another cache. After all, the first point in the paragraph is that you should put out a cache with the characteristics of your caches that had favorite points. I see the second point as a supporting comment, suggesting a way to "make room" in your maintenance schedule for a new cache that's better.
I'm not concerned about my own caches, it's others in the community who might take the blog to heart and start reducing the already small cache pool here that I see as bad for the game.
I don't like the idea that cache quality can be so bad as to make a cache's value negative, but there are so many other factors pushing in that direction, both from GS and from the community at large, that I think this one phrase is a negligible contribution. After all, it's merely suggesting favorite points as a point of reference. It's nothing like CHS and reviewer driven archival, the very foundation of which is that geocachers must be prevented from running into "bad caches". Those things are *actually* reducing the cache pool, not merely suggesting in an offhand way that a CO might do so.
+SwineFlew 77
SwineFlew 77
GS knows this hobby is dying and they want people to archived caches so people can place new ones. Most new cachers give up once they cleaned out their area.
1 hour ago, fbingha said:
This! I have new cachers telling me it isn't worth the cost once you cleaned out an area. I do see from GS point of view of telling people to archive their caches so it free up the area for new hides. New hides means more finds for local cachers that don't want to drive out of their way. Old timers were telling me there was dozens of new caches weekly during the heyday of geocaching. What happens? Pretty simple, too many caches that are hogging the location that most local cachers found years ago. Most new caches go missing because they aren't good locations to start with. I see new cachers placing hide in area where it will disappear within a few months.
18 minutes ago, SwineFlew said:
Old timers were telling me there was dozens of new caches weekly during the heyday of geocaching.
What happens? Pretty simple, too many caches that are hogging the location that most local cachers found years ago.
Please... Of course there were new caches weekly, the hobby was just starting.
The reason why benchmarking was created was because there were so few caches in the beginning. Sheesh...
The few caches that are still here (from the heyday...) folks travel, even taking vacation to get to them.
That'll only work in places totally saturated with caches where new hides are mostly blocked by existing ones, in which case there should be thousands of caches for newcomers to find before they've cleaned out their area. Anywhere else and existing caches aren't blocking new caches. In my local area there are now far less caches than when I started in 2013. A lot of the urban hides have been archived by natural attrition, usually because the cache got muggled, and that just becomes another empty hole on the map. On the left are all the caches I've found within 5km of home over those nearly eight years and on the right is what's currently there.
A lot of the bushland ones in the green parts of the map are still there, but they're the ones that get few finds which we're told ought to be archived. Encouraging owners to archive more of their hides will just kill off the game even faster here.
This! I have new cachers telling me it isn't worth the cost once you cleaned out an area.
I do see from GS point of view of telling people to archive their caches so it free up the area for new hides.
New hides means more finds for local cachers that don't want to drive out of their way.
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Most new caches go missing because they aren't good locations to start with. I see new cachers placing hide in area where it will disappear within a few months.
Okay... so the way to create more finds for locals that won't travel are to re-create the same caches that aren't good locations to start with.
I see the post as Groundspeak simply looking to cause a bump in new hides, nothing more, nothing less. Whether or not one archives their mountaintop cache, that's not going to have any material effect on their coffers. The urban hides must surely be what drives the majority of new registrations. They know they already have the sort like us, we continue to pay each year, but we've been at this a long time now and our numbers dwindle.
It could be said that our numbers dwindle as a direct result of the type of caching that Groundspeak continues to promote. It's a catch-22, keep the hiker happy vs bringing in more and more and more urban families. The people are in the cities, that's where the money is.
Geocaching Groundspeak style is a very odd business model. It relies entirely on volunteers to set the product that it sells the tools to locate and track. Perhaps the continuing decline reaches the point where Groundspeak has to incentivize hiders to place caches. Recognition beyond just favorite points: rewards, special privileges, shiny geocoins, tags, etc. Why should paid Lackeys get all the tags and names on a coin when it is the Reviewers and the Hiders that make the company product? Groundspeak needs to get really creative in ways to encourage hiders to be better and be reliable.
I will continue to hide caches in my area because the only way I can foster the game is to hide worthwhile caches. I will not archive any caches because Groundspeak suggests that I do. I make the decision based on muggle history / cost to replace / effort to check up on / balance of having too many active caches.
Edited December 2, 2020 by fbingha
Yep, agreed. This virus probably isn't helping too much either.
The "catch-22" I see is the desire for new caches that urban cachers can head to vs. the areas that would allow it at this time.
Luckily we're still seeing new caches published each week, even with this virus going on, but mostly in large parks and wooded areas.
Our Reviewers have been really good about safety and this virus. Guess one of the few times that safety is a consideration in this hobby.
We usually see an influx of new cachers after Christmas, why we put Hallmark ornaments in reg/large woods hides.
Leaving the house a short time for fresh air is supposed to be a good thing too, so maybe a bunch more will experience a benefit to woods trails.
Had to get the bird feeders (bears) :D
4 hours ago, fbingha said:
Groundspeak needs to get really creative in ways to encourage hiders to be better and be reliable.
The database needs a good ratio of new caches. In some areas the cache owner culture is--hide lots and don't worry about maintenance, and community prop-up. After about a year these types of caches are often in rough shape. This may be off-putting to people trying the game. New caches tend to be in good shape (admittedly some are in rough shape from day one).
It looks like GCHQ is hoping to increase the number of caches that are more appealing. If current hiders won't maintain their caches, encourage them to archive them for some much needed refreshening turnover. I'm in favour but not by encouraging FPs.
With regards to "Last Found" caches, I don't think GCHQ is saying archive them. Instead I read it as 'check your lonely caches'. Caches that rarely get found are great, as long as they are there and in reasonably good shape. Many haven't-been-found-in-a-long-time caches aren't so difficult to get to. They are often not found much because all the locals have found them, and/or they are more than 500m from the road, and/or they have gone missing and no one wants to log a DNF.
2 hours ago, SwineFlew said:
Not dozens weekly, but here in Canberra there are still lots of new caches being published. I can't keep up with them.
9 minutes ago, L0ne.R said:
With regards to "Last Found" caches, I don't think GCHQ is saying archive them. Instead I read it as 'check your lonely caches'. Caches that rarely get found are great, as long as they are there and in reasonably good shape. Many haven't-been-found-in-a-long-time caches aren't so difficult to get to. They are often not found much because all the locals have found them, they are more than 500m from the road, they have gone missing and no one wants to log a DNF.
What they said is "If the cache isn’t found as much as it used to be, maybe it’s time to consider archival so something new can be placed." If that isn't suggesting archival, I don't know what is. These are my six caches that haven't been found in over a year:
GC6E1W2 (Chasing Waterfalls 1 - Coorumbine Creek), a 2.5/4 multi last found in May 2019
GC6WPQ5 (Chasing Waterfalls 5 - Waterfall Bay), a 2/5 multi last found in May 2019
GC8DQXK (The Nemophilist Challenge), a 3/4 challenge cache last found in October 2019
GC6FQN8 (Chasing Waterfalls 2 - Fletcher's Glen), a 2/3.5 multi last found in October 2019
GC5YP8E (Plodfoot's Revenge), a 3.5/3 mystery last found in October 2019
GC62WZJ (Quest for the Middle Sea Diamond), a 3/5 mustery last found in November 2019
This is some of the scenery that awaits the finders of each of those:
which is pretty typical of the lonely caches in this region. Archiving those and either putting something new there myself or letting someone else do that (which is pretty unlikely) won't make the views or the hikes any better, and if someone who's previously found them just wants another smiley there are much easier ways of getting that. I doubt new caches in those locations would get any more finds than the current ones are getting.
+IceColdUK 1040
IceColdUK 1040
What they said is "If the cache isn’t found as much as it used to be, maybe it’s time to consider archival so something new can be placed." If that isn't suggesting archival, I don't know what is.
Jeff, I think “maybe” and “consider” leave plenty of wiggle room. No one wants you to archive your caches.
That said, it doesn’t seem a terrible idea for a CO to step back once a while and consider how ‘successful’ their cache has been - by whatever measure they choose - and ask themselves whether a new, maybe improved cache would benefit the community.
Where I live (SE England), it’s hard to find nice new spots for caches. I have archived a few, and reused a couple of the locations. If I want to hide more, within easy reach of home, maybe I’ll consider archiving others.
Edited December 3, 2020 by IceColdUK
+riverrock19 7
riverrock19 7
What they said is "If the cache isn’t found as much as it used to be, maybe it’s time to consider archival so something new can be placed." If that isn't suggesting archival, I don't know what is. These are my six caches that haven't been found in over a year
Just skimming this thread -- they aren't talking about rarely-found caches. They are talking about the rate of finds ("if it isn't found as much as it used to be" =/= "if it's been a while since it was found"). They are saying if it was found 10x/month consistently and is now found 2x/year, and it's not an amazing cache (with favorite points as a metric for that), maybe it's time to rotate the cache out and see if another player has a better idea. This is not the same as a cache that has been found 1x/year consistently for the past 10 years.
They are targeting stagnant areas -- dense urban and suburban parks where there is no turnover and no places to hide new caches without placing LPCs, and established members (those more likely to be paying premium, going to events, buying trackables and gear) are getting bored because there's nothing new to find within a reasonable distance. This is the picture in a lot of cities and suburbs. There are areas I have cached in that had very active communities, but it didn't take long to "clear the area" -- and then the hobby isn't quite as fun when you're driving an hour and a half to make a find and can only do it once every other week or so, so the community dies down. The rate of finds on caches in those areas goes down as locals have found everything convenient to them (which is the signal they are trying to highlight). In those settings, they might attract new members, but are losing established members who will spend more money. New members don't care if a cache is brand new -- but established members like fresh things to find.
All this aside, though -- as others have said, the language is pretty clearly not targeting lonely caches.
55 minutes ago, riverrock19 said:
ust skimming this thread -- they aren't talking about rarely-found caches. They are talking about the rate of finds ("if it isn't found as much as it used to be" =/= "if it's been a while since it was found"). They are saying if it was found 10x/month consistently and is now found 2x/year, and it's not an amazing cache (with favorite points as a metric for that), maybe it's time to rotate the cache out and see if another player has a better idea. This is not the same as a cache that has been found 1x/year consistently for the past 10 years.
All of those caches I listed are getting fewer finds now (i.e. zero) than they used to get. The same is probably true of any cache as there'll be a flurry of finds initially from the FTF hounds and locals, after which it'll just be visitors to the area and newcomers. About the only caches I've seen that get a fairly constant stream of finds are those placed in tourist hotspots where almost all their finders are visitors.
If the purpose of a cache is just to give finders a +1 to their statistics, then sure, regularly archive the old and put new ones in their place. But if the purpose is to bring people to new and interesting places they might have otherwise never discovered, archival and replacement in the same place won't achieve that. A place can only be new and undiscovered once. Sorry, but if caching was just about amassing lots of finds with minimal effort I'd have given it up long ago, but it seems I'm very much in the minority here.
8 hours ago, L0ne.R said:
They could also encourage reviewers to do more sweeps and remove the abandoned cache listings that fill the database.
Abandoned cache listings that are still in play in good condition shouldn't be archived.
Most new cachers give up once they cleaned out their area.
In most areas, if you're going to be in this hobby for more than a few years then you need to travel, unless you cache very sparsely.
If someone wants to keep visiting the same places over and over again there are other GPS games that are predominantly about that. Or just go to those places without getting another plus one. Once geocaching has led you to "discover" an area it's either worth revisiting or it isn't, and some cache churn shouldn't usually change your answer.
3 hours ago, riverrock19 said:
Just skimming this thread -- they aren't talking about rarely-found caches. They are talking about the rate of finds ("if it isn't found as much as it used to be" =/= "if it's been a while since it was found").
They are saying if it was found 10x/month consistently and is now found 2x/year, and it's not an amazing cache (with favorite points as a metric for that), maybe it's time to rotate the cache out and see if another player has a better idea. This is not the same as a cache that has been found 1x/year consistently for the past 10 years.
Wow. Wouldn't that be most caches published ? Once the locals get them, any hide awaits travelers.
+funkymunkyzone 532
funkymunkyzone 532
This! I have new cachers telling me it isn't worth the cost once you cleaned out an area. I do see from GS point of view of telling people to archive their caches so it free up the area for new hides. New hides means more finds for local cachers that don't want to drive out of their way.
Interesting. I doubt anyone who doesn't think geocaching is worth the cost once they have cleaned out their area would think it's worth the cost of hiding a cache for others to enjoy.
And looking at it from another point of view, cachers who have cleaned out their area, meaning they had an area of geocaches, and they cleaned it out, I believe would be far more likely to continue despite it costing more to travel a bit further. The ones that give up, from my observation, only find a few and have many many more available in their area when they give up - saturation and lack of new hides is not the issue for them.
I think the example you're giving, if it indeed exists at all, is rare - rare as hen's teeth!
On 12/2/2020 at 9:39 AM, barefootjeff said:
I'm with you on this...
People can argue the literal meanings of words (out of context) like "maybe" and "consider" but the context of the blog post it is a suggestion that you "should" archive caches. "Maybe it's time to consider..." is a polite turn of phrase suggesting that something should be done. When your friend turns up to take you out geocaching and their car is filthy and full of rubbish: "Mate, maybe it's time to consider you clean your car"...
Now, ok, there are caches out there that maybe the CO's should consider archiving. But certainly not based on the useless metric that is the FP popularity contest.
+fizzymagic 727
fizzymagic 727
+Charter Members
Like so much other "advice" in the geocaching blog, I am quite content to ignore it.
It's a continuation of a long-running pattern, common in the tech industry, that the only thing that matters is growth in customer numbers. Personally, I think a business model based on building from a committed and loyal customer base would be superior, but what do I know?
Here's another of my caches, GC831AR, a 2/3 traditional in Brisbane Water National Park that was published in February 2019. The initial permission from the National Parks and Wildlife Service was for two years so it expires in a couple of months and I'm now at the point of having to decide whether to apply for an extension or archive it. In 2019 the cache had eight finds but this year it's only had one (back in July), so it certainly comes under it isn't found as much as it used to be, and from those 9 finds it's only received 2 FPs so it's not scoring very well on that front either. Clearly not a popular cache no matter how you look at it, but it's in a spot I thought was interesting, particularly as there's some unexpected old telecommunications infrastructure out there.
The cache is a steel cashbox hidden in a wind-eroded cavity just below the end of a ridge overlooking the tidal Patonga Creek:
Getting there is a moderately steep 1.5km hike from the road. This is the view down over the creek from above GZ:
But now, in light of the blog's recommendations for caches like this, I'm left wondering whether it's worth bothering the ranger and her boss to get the permission extension or if it's just one to put down to experience and try to come up with something and somewhere better for next time. Maybe a bison tube on one of Lee's rubber snakes at the parking coordinates would better fit today's expections.
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Army CIO says the service needs more bandwidth
By Bill Murray
GCN Staff
Lt. Gen. William Campbell has simple needs: bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth. Paying for those needs, he is finding, is not so simple.
The Army's director of information systems for command, control, communications and computers wants to improve the service's deployed communications infrastructure, he said in a recent speech at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's Military Communications International Symposium 1999 conference in Atlantic City, N.J.
Specifically, Campbell wants to increase the 16-Kbps shared bandwidth available to the service on the battlefield. Deployed communications lag behind what's available to the garrisoned Army, which generally has 10/100-Mbps connectivity. When home users can buy digital subscriber line service for $64 a month, Campbell said, it irks him that Pentagon bureaucrats are arguing about increasing deployed connectivity.
Campbell urged the Army senior officers to take on the roadblocks and obstacles to increasing bandwidth.
'We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us,' said Campbell, who drew laughter from the audience when he derided higher-ups who seem to not understand the need for increased bandwidth.
The service does not have bandwidth for anything more than battlefield voice communications using radios, he said.
He expressed frustration at driving from Fort McNair in Washington to anywhere else in the city and seeing people digging ditches to hold cables for OC-3, OC-12, OC-48 and OC-92 networking for civilians, while the deployed Army can't get what it needs.
Anthony Valletta, a former acting assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, heard Campbell speak in Atlantic City. He said Campbell has to convince Army leaders that it's worthwhile to fund communication technology rather than missiles and tanks.
'Campbell's in a position to do that'the right doors are open before him,' said Valletta, now vice president and director of command, control, communications and intelligence at SRA International Inc. of Arlington, Va. Valletta is a former program executive officer for Standard Army Management Information Systems.
'Unfortunately, the Army has to compete with other services' for funding, so even if Campbell can get Army officials to sign on to his plan, his requests might not succeed up the chain of command or in Congress, he said.
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Get down to business with an architecture
By Richard W. Walker
Management agenda drives the challenges
Success starts with sweet talk
Wireless security is critical
Put outsourcing in context
How to bet on the right technologies
Survey: Top challenges are funding and security
The dividends are in the details
Best-made plans draw bucks
District of Columbia and feds build high-level trust
State objectives, but let vendors measure results
Commerce gets off paper trail
It's not an IT thing. You need it, yes, and you will use it. But it's a business tool that exists mostly for business and strategic planning.
Because an EA shows the current environment and a targeted environment, it's important to have a software visualization tool, preferably making use of XML, that graphs the links between a strategic plan, mission and business processes.
Such a tool can be very helpful in getting perhaps the most important ingredient in an enterprise architecture: buy-in by stakeholders from the top down.
Visualization tools show 'the linkage between the strategic plan, the mission and the business processes of the department,' NOAA's Ira Grossman says.
J. Adam Fenster
The message from the Office of Management and Budget to agency managers is loud and clear: No enterprise architecture, no funding.
'We're going to make real budget decisions based on analysis using the enterprise architecture,' said Norman Lorentz, OMB's chief technology officer. 'That's what makes [EA] relevant. In the past, these things have been shelfware. But trust me, that's not what the intention is now.'
EA is an organizational blueprint that depicts how an agency's various IT and management elements work together as a whole. It shows the current environment and a targeted environment'and provides a road map for getting to the targeted environment. EAs inherently require constant examination and updating.
Agencies are making headway on EAs, OMB said in its 2004 budget analysis. But most of them have a long way to go.
In a report last year, the General Accounting Office found that only 13 percent of agencies surveyed had reached Stage 3 of EA maturity'actually developing architecture products.
But the biggest problem is that many agency EAs lack focus on business process and results, OMB says.
An enterprise architecture is 'not just an IT thing anymore,' said Lorentz. 'You've got to do the business-process work first. That's the key. You've got to figure out what the expected outcomes are and then line up the technology.'
For strategy and business as well as IT
At the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, IT architect Ira Grossman couldn't agree more.
EAs 'really aren't for the IT community,' said Grossman, chairman of the Commerce Department's enterprise-architecture affinity group. 'The real users are on the business and strategic planning end. Yes, IT does use it but if it stops at IT, it has not been totally successful.'
Building an architecture for an agency as large and multifarious as Commerce is no mean feat. Grossman knows all about that.
The department formally embarked on its EA effort in late 1999 when it formed an agencywide architecture affinity group.
For the most part, the group's EA representations have used a cumbersome text-document format in Corel WordPerfect that makes labyrinthine architectures largely impenetrable for most users, Grossman said.
It's no wonder, then, that 'people don't understand enterprise architectures,' he added.
The department is looking to migrate to visual modeling software for its enterprise architecture.
NOAA and the Census Bureau have been piloting such a tool, Metis from Computas Inc. of Sammamish, Wash. Grossman used Metis to integrate NOAA's 118 different observing systems into a single architecture.
An EA visualization tool 'graphically shows the linkage between the strategic plan, the mission and the business processes of the department,' Grossman said. 'Going from the serial text documents to very graphically depicted architectures is a world of difference.'
A visualization tool using XML will provide four different views of the department's architecture'business process, data/information, applications and technology infrastructure.
And it can graphically depict the relationships among those elements.
'It provides an enterprise business model that the budgeting shop, the strategic planners and the executive managers can use,' he said. 'Everybody in the department [can access the model] for the level of knowledge that they need to make decisions.'
Using a graphically rich visualization format also will make it easier to engage stakeholders across the department in the enterprise architecture process.
'The buy-in has to be there,' Grossman said. 'You have to bring in your chief financial officers and your strategic planners. Right now they don't get it because they don't understand it. It's just too difficult for them. That's why graphical representation is so exciting.'
Getting agency CFOs on board is especially crucial to shifting the focal point of EAs to business processes.
For OMB's Lorentz, there's one thing for managers to keep foremost in mind when developing an enterprise architecture: 'It's a business tool.'
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Fostering Hope wins $50,000 Gen2Gen Encore Prize
Young people growing up in foster care face tremendous challenges, but a Colorado nonprofit is proving that older adult volunteers can provide the web of support that kids need to heal and that foster families need to keep going.
For its groundbreaking work tapping the talents of people over 50 to help young people thrive, Fostering Hope won the Judge’s Prize at the 2018 Gen2Gen Encore Prize finals — and $50,000.
With the help of older volunteers “who stick with the kids” and show a “quiet endurance,” Fostering Hope has seen impressive results for the young people they work with, said Angela Carron, the group’s executive director — higher high school graduation rates, higher rates of adoption, and dramatically lower rates of homelessness after aging out of foster care.
“I’m surprised by the return on investment of unconditional love,” Carron said.
Read to Me International’s Haku Mo’olelo program — which engages older volunteers in Honolulu to help incarcerated women write, illustrate and publish stories for their children — won the Audience Prize and $20,000.
Lois Kim, a program graduate, offered her own story as proof of the program’s impact. “I was homeless, selfish and hopeless,” she said, and spent time behind bars. “Today,” she said, her voice breaking, “I am a proud mother deeply involved in my child’s life. I’m a published author. I’m clean and sober and self-sufficient.”
The program’s older volunteers “referred to us by name,” Kim said, “and treated us like family. The high quality art supplies they brought gave us immense pride in our artwork. I felt human again, hopeful. Through the book I created, I was able to offer my apology to my deceased mother and to my daughter. I got my hopefully ever after.”
Three other organizations won $10,000 each for their ideas to bring the generations together.
Common Unity pairs high school students in Topeka, Kansas with older mentors to help them prepare for life after high school.
Nuns & Nones connects Sisters and spiritually diverse millennials to build a more just world.
Seeing-i2i.com builds intergenerational bonds by engaging teens to tutor older adults in nonviolent Esports, like NBA2k.
“Hundreds of people have been involved with the 2018 Gen2Gen Encore Prize,” said Janet Oh, the program’s director, who offered thanks to all 110 applicants, 105 volunteer readers, 24 semi-finalists, 16 judges, 10,037 voters, and two funders — the John Templeton Foundation and the MetLife Foundation.
Photos by S. Smith Patrick
For media inquiries, contact: Stefanie Weiss
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Stop Ryancare so we can get real health care reform
March 20, 2017 by press
March 20, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting unnamed sources in a Politico story for suggesting that the health care legislation under consideration cannot be changed in any meaningful way despite ongoing negotiations between Congressional conservatives and the White House:
“Unnamed sources in a Politico story state that ongoing White House negotiations with conservative legislators on the health care bill are coming to a close with only a few minor concessions. The reporter concludes that the White House realizes that the bill cannot pass the Senate if conservative concerns are met. Ironically, at this juncture, the Ryan bill does not have the support of at least four GOP Senators and possibly more, due to concerns that it fails to meet the basic promise of repealing Obamacare. This means that in the unlikely event that the House were to gather the votes to pass Speaker Ryan’s slightly modified bill, it would still fail in the Senate without Democrat votes.
“Given the current impasse, Americans for Limited Government urges the House to scrap the current proposal and to keep their word and pass a repeal bill that respects the states and voters who elected a GOP majority, ensuring that the people aren’t still forced into costly federal government mandated health plans. Then, the Senate will be free to pass that, or modify it.
“The current iteration of Ryancare fails to meet this basic criteria and should be voted down if brought up for a vote. For those who confuse insurance coverage with health care, it needs to be made clear that health care is a relationship between a patient and doctor, not one between a patient and an insurer.”
Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 106 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview with ALG experts.
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Asian shares close in on two and half-year peak as U.S. stimulus hopes return
by GTI Research · October 9, 2020
Asian shares inched close to 2-1/2-year highs on Friday as revived hopes for a U.S. stimulus deal eclipsed weaker-than-expected jobs data, while mainland Chinese markets jumped after a week-long holiday.
Investors are also increasingly expecting the Democrats to take back the White House, and possibly the Senate as well, in the Nov. 3 U.S. election, analysts said.
A widening lead for Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden is seen as reducing the risk of a contested election and opening the way for a big economic stimulus, helping to counter investors’ wariness about a Democrat pledge to hike corporate tax rates.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.15%, inching closer to its Aug. 31 peak, which was its highest level since March 2018. China’s CSI300 index .CSI300 gained 1.68% after the Golden Week holidays.
Japan’s Nikkei .N225 dipped 0.1% after hitting a 7 1/2-month high, while futures for the S&P 500 EScv1 gained 0.47%.
“Markets are starting to assume a Biden victory,” said Osamu Takashima, chief FX strategist at Citigroup Global Markets Japan.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said talks with Congress had restarted on targeted fiscal relief, after calling off negotiations earlier this week.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed confidence about reaching an agreement on the amount of aid in new legislation.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 0.80% and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 0.5%.
The S&P 500 energy index .SPNY led sector percentage gains, rising 3.8% on the day, after a jump in oil prices due to production shutdowns ahead of a storm in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and the possibility of supply cuts from Saudi Arabia and Norway.
Still, in a sign markets are pricing in a victory by Biden, clean energy-related shares have outperformed in recent weeks.
The iShares Global Clean Energy ETF ICLN.O has gained 14% so far this month, compared to 4% gains in the S&P 500 energy index.
“Biden seems to have a clear lead following the TV debate and a coronavirus cluster in the White House, which has raised questions about Trump’s crisis management capabilities,” said Mutsumi Kagawa, chief global strategist at Rakuten Securities.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found Americans are steadily losing confidence in Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with his net approval on the issue that has dominated the U.S. election hitting a record low.
The November contract of Volatility Index futures VXX0 dropped to 30.25, its lowest level in three weeks, another sign of reduced worries about a contested election.
The 10-year U.S. Treasuries yield was up 8.5 basis points so far this week to stand at 0.779% US10YT=RR. It hit a four-month high of 0.797% on Wednesday, but has slipped in part due to weak economic data.
The number of jobless claims in the U.S. came in 20,000 higher than economists expected at 840,000, showing unemployment in the world’s largest economy remains historically high and a recovery in the labor market is losing momentum.
Additionally, the World Health Organization reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Thursday, led by a surge of infections in Europe.
In the currency market, the dollar was on defensive against most other currencies.
The euro firmed slightly to $1.1771 EUR= while the dollar slipped 0.17% to 105.85 yen JPY=.
The biggest mover was the yuan, which gained more than 1% in its first onshore trade in a week, hitting a 1 1/2-year high of 6.7165 per dollar CNY=CFXS.
Oil prices were little changed on Friday after gains the previous day on output shutdowns and possible supply cuts.
Brent crude LCOc1 stood flat at $43.34 per barrel, following Thursday’s 3.2% gains. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 was little changed at $41.21 after having added $1.24 cents, or 3.1% on Thursday.
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FG meets NASS, raises debt service by N225bn
by GTI Research · May 15, 2020
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Thursday presented a revised 2020 Appropriation Act to the National Assembly and explained why the downward review of the national budget.
At the meeting were presiding and principal officers of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, including President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; and Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila.
The minister stated that “the $57 (per barrel) crude oil price benchmark approved in the 2020 budget is no longer sustainable.”
According to her, the upfront fiscal deductions by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for mandated oil and gas sector expenditures was reduced by 65 per cent, from N1.22tn to N424bn.
The minister further explained that the Federal Government’s aggregate expenditure budget was slashed by N88.412bn; statutory transfers from N560.47bn to N397.87bn; and overhead costs of ministries, departments and agencies from N302.43bn to N240.91bn.
However, debt service provision was increased by N225bn, from N2.453tn to N2.678tn.
On provision of N500bn for COVID-19 Intervention Fund, the minister explained that N263.63bn would be sourced from the Federal Government’s special accounts; N186.37bn from the Federation Special Accounts and the balance of N50bn expected as grants and donations.
Lawan, in his welcome address, expressed the willingness of the federal lawmakers to expeditiously consider the proposed amendments to the budget, which the minister said would be presented to the National Assembly by next week.
In his remarks, Gbajabiamila called on the Federal Government to adopt a feasible benchmark in the proposed amendment to the 2020 budget.
He said, “The benchmark is so critical and so important, because once you passed the law, it becomes difficult to adjust that benchmark, and then what happens to the excess?
“We have always had problems with the Excess Crude Account, potentially an account which has no backing of the law.”
The Speaker also raised concerns about Nigeria’s debts.
Source: PUNCH.
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FG assures of completion of projects in Benue State
By NAN
06 November 2020 | 3:57 pm
The Federal Government has assured the Benue State indigent of completion of ongoing projects to boost socio-economic, and political development in the state.
Sen. George Akume, Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs gave the assurance on Friday, when he received Benue South zone C All Progressive Congress (APC) party Stakeholders in his office in Abuja.
Akume listed some of the ongoing key projects to include, Oju-Otukpo-Oweto road construction, Oju-yaha road construction, Federal University of Medical Sciences Otukpo and Federal Collage of Education among others.
“The University of Medical Sciences sited in Otukpo has appointed the principal officers and it is ready to kick start, and it is the first of its kinds in Nigeria and this is a very huge investment in the state,’’ Akume said.
He noted that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has embarked on lots of viable projects across the country, adding that Benue people would not be left out from benefiting in those projects.
While appreciating the delegation, Akume used the forum to applaud the Benue South youths who did not participate in the recent EndSARS protests across the country.
Earlier, Alhaji Mohammed Hassan, Leader of the delegation in his speech said the mission of their visit was to commend Akume for his fatherly role in the state in particular the Benue South region.
“Your Excellency, the party executive and all the critical stakeholders from the nine local governments which forms the Benue South Senatorial District are here to thank you for granting us this audience, we appreciate you.
“Your Excellency, in the political journey so far, your leadership has made impact within the region and the people found it worthy to come to say thank you,’’ he said.
Hassan, who is also the Zonal Chairman, APC Benue South Senatorial District, used the occasion to appeal to Akume to use his office to influence more government presence and appointment of people from the region into government’s positions.
Also in his remark, Mr Ajoma Success, State financial Secretary, who spoke on behalf of youths commended Akume for his numerous services in the state.
“Your Excellency, very particular is your role of intervention by stopping the youths from the region to take part in the recent EndSARS saga across the country.
“For your very proactive intervention which was also very timely, the Benue people, the youths themselves and other stakeholders were very happy for your action, we appreciate you sir,’’ he said.
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Gunmen kill clergyman in Rivers
By Kelvin Ebiri, Port Harcourt
04 August 2018 | 3:42 am
Unknown gunmen have shot dead a clergyman, popularly called Prophet ThankGod Abam, at his residence in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Abam was the general overseer of Intercessory Prayer Ministry in Abuja.
The Guardian gathered from sources that he was in Port Harcourt for his son’s dedication tomorrow. It was also learnt that the assailants shot him at close range.
The late clergyman’s friend, Christopher Ugbogu, lamenting his murder, prayed to God to avenge his murder.
“Prophet ThankGod Abam Ubi was my bestman during my wedding and his wife was my wife’s chief bridesmaid…. A man with the heart of a lion.
“The news of your sudden death has destabilised me…. ThankGod Abam Ubi, nothing has the capacity to cage the spirit of a warrior. Your spirit must avenge your life from those involved.
“Rest in peace my brother,” he said.
The Rivers State Police Command spokesperson, Nnamdi Omoni, who confirmed the death, said efforts were on to unravel the killers.
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Senate moves to domesticate Child Rights Act in 13 states
By George Opara, Abuja
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According to the lawmakers, the violation of this Act is responsible for the high rate of child labour, cultism and illiteracy that is prevalent among a sizeable population of the children.
The Senate yesterday moved to domesticate the Child Rights Act in 13 states, where the law had not been implemented. This was consequent upon the adoption of a motion on “2017 Children’s Day Celebration” sponsored by nine senators, who included the Deputy Minority Whip, Biodun Olujimi.
The Senate mandated the committee on Women Affairs to liaise with the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development to ensure that there is total compliance with the unnamed defaulting states.
In the lead debate, Olujimi stated the significant role that the Nigerian child is playing in national development and the need to lay the right foundation to secure their future through a proper domestication.
But the lawmakers regretted that the Child Rights Act, 2003, which clearly defined a new child protective system and permits for opportunities, was only implemented in 23 states and Abuja
They also noted that some states had ignored the Universal Basic Education Act, 2004, adding that this legislation was made to make the education of the Nigerian child free, compulsory and enforceable right.
It spelt out penalties for parents and guardians who fail or neglect the obligation. The Senate acknowledged that a proper system of education and good health was indispensable in making a child relevant in the global scheme of things.
The lawmakers expressed worry about the growing rate of infant mortality, which has risen to one million per annum in the country, due largely to poor nutrition and inadequate medical facilities.
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Sunday Adelaja: between truth and outright lies
By Levi Godsown Ekwe
12 December 2018 | 10:51 am
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Teach us to guard our tongue oh Lord.
This is a prayer every believer should say as regularly as we eat and drink. There is a saying that a falling man pulls down everything his hand can touch.
It is a great concern to me and should be for a every Christian, the activities of a certain Ukrainian based Nigerian pastor named Sunday Adelaja. The preacher is famed simply for deriding, criticizing, demonizing and tarnishing the images of some of Nigeria’s most prominent Christian leaders.
His videos are littered all over YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms where his followers, mostly Non-Christians, gather to make mockery of the move of God’s power in Nigeria through his prophets.
A few weeks ago I came across a video on YouTube by a certain lady named Mayowa. I will describe the video and its content as a heart wrenching display of crass ignorance and a devilish conspiracy against the body of Christ in Nigeria.
In this video, the said Mayowa girl, went to town with the name of Dr D.K Olukoya of MFM, calling the man of God a conman, demented devil worshiper, a destroyer etc.. at a point in that video she said referring to Dr D. K Olukoya “this man should be killed, this man should be jailed for deceiving people”.
Her vituperations were so horrible that even YouTube had to pull the video down for being of a violent nature and containing defamatory comments. But surprisingly such a hateful, violent and demonic video has found its way back on YouTube but this time around it was uploaded on the platform of no other than “Pastor” Sunday Adelaja.
In a moment of disappointment and despair I asked myself, why will a so called man of God make himself a channel through which the enemies of God and the church pass their message of discouragement in this end time, why will a pastor dedicate his time and efforts towards destroying other pastors and ministries, can God Call a preacher to the duty of sowing the seed of discord amongst believers?
As I pondered on these things, it dawned on me that perhaps Sunday Adelaja isn’t what he says he is. Looking at the many travails of the Ukrainian based Nigerian Pastor; one may wonder why a man of God should get himself engulfed in so many controversies. Too many scandals ranging from adultery to extortion and to misappropriation of church funds. Pastor Sunday Adelaja has been at the center of many unpalatable and unchristian activities leaving one to wonder if truly this man is of God.
A couple years ago, the Ukrainian Government placed a travel ban on Pastor Sunday Adelaja sighting that the allegations of embezzlement of church funds leveled against him by the leaders of the church had merits and therefore he was not allowed to travel out of the country because he was considered a flight risk.
It was a humiliating experience for the preacher who at one time confessed to having multiple adulterous sexual partners. Mr Sunday Adelaja has been everything but a true representative of Christ.
His utterances and his sold out goal of destroying every singular prominent pastor in Nigeria is very unbecoming of a man called by God.
Sunday Adelaja is leading a perfidious culture in Christendom. There is a verbal diarrhoea that has hit the body of Christ in recent times and this is traceable to the precedence set by Pastor Adelaja.
His unrighteous and unruly off springs are littered all over social media taking swipes at men of God, criticizing every word, every step and actions they take. We have seen half baked, over excited ignoramuses take to social media to teach on tithes, marriage and sundry topics and in the process releasing some of the most controversial teachings that has rocked Christianity the world over, and all these are precedents set by Sunday Adelaja and His “bring him down teachings”.
We must be vigilant and awake to the devices of the enemies of the Church of the living God in these end times and we must pray and work harder to arrest their efforts, If someone as reputable as Dr Dk Olukoya an amiable man of God with a track record of such a ministry as MFM that has brought men out of misery through proper deep teachings and deliverance be spoken about by the agent of SUNDAY ADELAJA, I can categorically say that the man has nothing to do with the KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST.
May God help his Church and his true Ministers?
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Vanessa Hudgens Serves a Whole Lot of Look Post-Breakup
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Vanessa Hudgens attended the Bad Boys for Life premiere in Hollywood wearing a white dress by Georges Hobeika.
The event marked one of her first public appearances since the news of her spit with longtime boyfriend Austin Butler.
Breakups are never easy. No matter who initiates the split, going through the motions—sulking on the couch, eating pints and pints of ice cream, and listening to Adele albums—is inevitable. Then, as Vanessa Hudgens showed last night at the Bad Boys for Life Hollywood premiere, there’s the reverse.
It’s been only a day since the news of Hudgens’s split with her actor boyfriend, Austin Butler, hit the media waves, but she is sparing no time in showing the world that she is living her best life. Evidence: The 31-year-old stepped out in an attention-grabbing, asymmetrical white dress from Georges Hobeika’s fall 2019 couture collection. It featured a gauzy, flowing skirt; a feathered sleeve that starts on the collar; more feathers on the waistline; and, for good measure, a crystal-adorned bodice. To say it was a whole lot of look is putting it lightly. Factor in her over-the-top poses, and Hudgens had a full-blown showgirl moment.
How the ensemble fits in at a screening for the third installment of the Bad Boys film franchise is unclear—especially since the rest of the cast arrived in rather tame outfits. What is seemingly apparent is the tremendous effort she is exerting to show that she has moved on. And we don’t blame her. She’s been with the guy for nearly a decade after all.
If anything, going the route of revenge dressing trumps being a couch potato.
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Richmond, VA - HCA Virginia's hospitals have earned multiple recognitions for quality achievements across various specialties according to a national report by Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.
Chippenham, Henrico Doctors', Johnston-Willis, John Randolph Medical Center, Parham Doctors' and Retreat Doctors' Hospitals were recognized for quality achievements in areas such as bariatrics, cardiac care, critical care, neurosciences, orthopedics, patient safety, pulmonary care, women's services, urology, and several other specialties.
The achievements are part of the Healthgrades 2020 Report to the Nation, which underscores the importance of hospital quality to both consumers and hospital leaders. Every year, Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance at nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for 32 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions using Medicare data, and additionally analyzes outcomes in appendectomy and bariatric surgery using all-payer data provided by 15 states.
"The latest achievements by HCA Virginia hospitals are a testament to our ongoing commitment to quality and excellence in patient care," said Elizabeth Mikula, R.N., vice president of quality, HCA Capital Division. "I commend our hospitals and all staff members whose contributions make these designations possible."
In the latest fall ratings, the 895-bed CJW Medical Center, made up of Chippenham & Johnston-Willis Hospitals, and Swift Creek Emergency Center, received the following recognitions for 2020:
Five-Star recipient for coronary bypass surgery in 2020
Five-Star recipient for treatment of heart failure in 2020
Five-Star recipient for defibrillator procedures in 2020
Recipient of Healthgrades 2020 Joint Replacement Excellence Award
Named among the Top 10 percent in the nation for joint replacement in 2020
Five-Star recipient for total knee replacement in 2020
Five-Star recipient for total hip replacement in 2020
Five-Star recipient for treatment of pneumonia for two years in a row in (2019- 2020)
Five-Star recipient for colorectal surgeries in 2020
Five-Star recipient for treatment of sepsis for three years in a row (2018-2020)
Five-Star recipient for treatment of respiratory failure for 10 years in a row in (2011-2020)
Henrico Doctors' Hospitals, a 767 licensed bed facility that consists of five community campuses, Henrico, Parham and Retreat Doctors' Hospitals, West Creek Emergency Center and Hanover Emergency Center earned the following clinical achievements for 2020:
One of Healthgrades America's 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery™ for four years in a row (2017-2020)
One of Healthgrades America's 100 Best Hospitals for Joint Replacement™ for four years in a row (2017-2020)
One of Healthgrades America's 100 Best Hospitals for Prostate Surgeries™ for three years in a row (2018-2020)
Recipient of the Healthgrades 2020 Coronary Intervention Excellence Award™
Named Among the Top 10 percent in the Nation for Cardiology Services in 2020
Named Among the Top 10 percent in the Nation for Coronary Interventional Procedures in 2020
Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Attack in 2020
Five-Star Recipient for Coronary Interventional Procedures in 2020
Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Failure for three years in a row (2018-2020)
Recipient of the Healthgrades Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award™ for four years in a Row (2017-2020)
Recipient of the Healthgrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award™ for nine years in a row (2012-2020)
Named Among the Top 5 percent in the Nation for Joint Replacement for four years in a row (2017-2020)
Named Among the Top percent in the Nation for Overall Orthopedic Services in 2020
Named Among the Top 10 percent in the Nation for Overall Orthopedic Services for four years in a row (2017-2020)
Named Among the Top 10 percent in the Nation for Joint Replacement for nine years in a row (2012-2020)
Five-Star Recipient for Total Knee Replacement for nine years in a row (2012-2020)
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Five-Star Recipient for Hip Fracture Treatment in 2020
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Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Pneumonia for four years in a row (2017-2020)
Recipient of the Healthgrades Prostate Surgery Excellence Award™ for three years in a row (2018-2020)
Named Among the Top 5 percent in the Nation for Prostate Surgery for three years in a row (2018-2020)
Named Among the Top 10 percent in the Nation for Prostate Surgery for three years in a row (2018-2020)
Five-Star Recipient for Prostate Removal Surgery for four years in a row (2017-2020)
Five-Star Recipient for Esophageal/Stomach Surgeries in 2020
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Five-Star Recipient for Appendectomy for two years in a row (2019-2020)
Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Sepsis for seven years in a row (2014-2020)
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These achievements are part of findings recently released by Healthgrades and are featured in their 2020 Report to the Nation. The new report demonstrates how clinical performance continues to differ dramatically between hospitals regionally and nationally. Each year, Healthgrades evaluates nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for the most common inpatient procedures and conditions.
For its analysis, Healthgrades evaluated approximately 45 million Medicare inpatient records for nearly 4,500 short-term acute care hospitals nationwide to assess hospital performance in 32 common conditions and procedures, and evaluated comparative outcomes in appendectomy and bariatric surgery using all-payer data provided by 15 states.
Healthgrades recognizes a hospital's quality achievements for cohort-specific performance, specialty area performance, and overall clinical quality. Individual procedure or condition cohorts are designated as 5-star (statistically significantly better than expected), 3-star (not statistically different from expected) and 1-star (statistically significantly worse than expected) categories. View the full list of Specialty Excellence AwardTM recipients here. Read the complete Healthgrades 2020 Report to the Nation and detailed study methodology.
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February 22, 2017 February 21, 2017 HealthyNappyNerdyMommy Nerdom comics, Luke Cage, marvel, netflix, reviews, TV series
I know its been ages since the rest of the world saw and talked about Luke Cage. But its hard to see all the shows and movies I’d like to see. Between watching our current anime and Nick Jr for my son, there’s so much I miss. I actually started it a while ago, but stopped right at the last episode of the season, finally I finished it. I will do it in the form of a layered compliment sandwich; starting and ending with positive aspects, with some negatives in between. So here are my 2 cents, even if it is ridiculously late.
1. African American Representation
As an African American, thirsting for fantasy and sci-fi characters to identify with, it was a breath of fresh air. I know there was outrage over the “lack of diversity”, meaning lack of white people, but this is the same way people of color feel watching TV and other media outlets most of the time. This was not something that was created out of the blue “just for black people”. The comic was created like this. It was created to reflect the blaxploitation films that were popular during the 70s, like Foxy Brown and Shaft. This version is a modern day interpretation of that. There some variations from the original comic, like characters and settings, but that is pretty much to be expected. It especially liked the idea of the bulletproof black man wearing a black hoodie. It was a direct homage to Travon Martina and the other countless, murders at the hands of police. There were major white people in the show, most of them just happened to be the bad guys. This show and the comic is set in Harlem, where there are mostly Blacks and Latinos, so once again it all makes sense.
2. Bad Acting
Some of the acting is just bad. Particularly from the leading man, Mike Colter. Its just too corny and unauthentic sometimes. Maybe the corniness stemmed from his use of the phrase “Sweet Christmas”. I know his character had a lot of integrity and didn’t like cursing or use of “the n-word”, but I think it could have been accomplished without being as corny as it was. The scenes that were particularly painful to watch were to romantic moments between Cage and Claire.
3. The Love Triangle
It was however spicy, to see the somewhat of a love triangle between Misty Knight, and Claire as the former and Cage’s relationship started to bloom. The scenes with Misty and Clair together in the restaurant basement gave some comedic relief to the drama that was going on around them. Their continuous use of the analogy of coffee was a bit overdone throughout the series though.
4. Mariah
She starts as kind of a victim; a politician who can’t let go and stop helping her crooked cousin. We later see that it is much more than that. She is the real manipulator, blinded by her lust for power. It saddened me so, to learn that Mariah was referenced to being in my sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. The “oo-whoop” (spelled this way on Netflix’s subtitles) which is actually typically spelled “oo-oop” (maybe they changed it on purpose), is a greeting for fellow sorors. Misty kept referring to a “skee-wee™” which is the call of our rival sorority, I was hoping she was “one of them”, but she was corrected by her superior Priscilla. You’re probably confused if you are unfamiliar with Pan Hellenic council Fraternities and Sororities, but that’s neither here, nor there. I can’t decide who’s running who in the Mariah-Shades relationship. What made me really cringe was seeing Mariah kiss Shades at the end of the last episode. Dear God, I hope that doesn’t become a thing.
5. Character Backstories
I’m a sucker for back story, so seeing the story of his relationship with Diamondback was good, but it still seems unrealistic that everybody knew he was he brother but him. I almost can’t stand it when villains just get obsessed with something like this. Ok, you were an illegitimate child, it happens. But it wasn’t Cages fault. At least be mad at the right person. But I guess if that happened there would be no villains. I also enjoyed the story of Luke Cages time at Seagate, it gave some real insight to his character and the thing he has gone through to make him who he is. This dang Super-Soldier serum keeps messing peoples lives up in Marvel. The flashbacks to Mariah and Cottonmouth’s youth were also good. Seeing how Mother Mabel influenced and molded them into who they turned out to be was interesting. Cottonmouth was the classic villian, that could’ve been a hero, or at least a law abiding citizen, had he been given a chance. The real villain in this is Mariah, who ended up getting away, for now.
6. Lackluster Action Scenes
I understand that he doesn’t have Incredible Hulk strength, and that this wasn’t one of the blockbuster Avengers movies, but I think the audience deserved a little bit more than what we got. In one of the first action scenes, we see Cage punch and completely crush one of Cottonmouth’s men’s fist. They set it up so good, but almost nothing else lived up to this action. The story of each episode also, dragged a bit. I’m used to dealing with things being dragged on and on with anime, but not with a regular action television series.
8. Misty Knight
My favorite character of the series, was of course the smart, beautiful, and natural haired, Misty Knight. She had more of an emotional roller coaster in this series than anybody else. She went from being the super confident cop, with all the right answers, to a confused woman trying to figure out who or what to trust. The ending of the series brought it all together for me seeing her in the quintessential big afto, hoops, and strapped red garb. I hope she’s found herself, and becomes the Misty Knight of the comics.
Even with the downfalls, Luke Cage was a win for me overall. I have to catch up on January Jones and Daredevil now, so I can prepare for the upcoming Defenders in the future. I hope any future seasons are able to rectify some of the issues, so it can be as great a show as it has the potential to be. What did you all thinkabout Luke Cage? Was it a hit for you? Or did it fall flat?
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Examine the growth of civil society and its impact on demonstration in Nigeria Civil Society refers to non-state organizations that chiefly seek to advance the interest of the people. It is generally understood in Hegelian terms as the distinct sphere of public space, separate from the state which manages the social relations and communication between the state and the citizens.
CICS action across sub-Sahara Africa became dense and widespread in the 1 sass as a result of influx of foreign aid from western government and monetary forces such as the Breton Woods Institutions who shifted the main recipients of donor aid from overspent to civil societies; hence a growth stimulant leading to widespread CSS action across the African continent.
Naomi Chain has written about the prominent role of these organizations in the political liberalizing in the early asses that was seen as the resurgence of civil society in Africa.
She states that “[t]he urban protests of the late asses and early asses that triggered the process of reform were initiated either by civil servants, students, professional organizations, trade unions, or churches, and carried out by a combination of these and other groups in over 20 countries”.
Civil society in Nigeria has had a touchable impact and has played a contributory role to the demonstration process albeit often faced with problems of corruption among the higher echelons of the CSS movement.
Civil society tradition has existed in Nigeria preceding the colonial era and evidenced in the era of imperial colonialism and subsequent authoritarian military regimes. Generally orchestrated Trade union strikes in 1964 and 1981 are evidence of this, bringing the nation to a standstill and forcing the governments of the time to negotiate civil society groups. Civic society activity in Nigeria has been dominated since independence by the older, argue organizations like the trade unions, professional associations like the Nigerian Bar Association, religious institutions, and traditional institutions, all of which have large memberships capable of filling the streets during protest actions. Since the 1 sass, however, a growing number of small groups?the MONGO movement?have risen on the back of the new technologies of the information revolution to play an important role in the public discourse on democracy and, to some extent, organization of public action.
In addition, the MONGO movement has built strong relationships with international donors and won a large portion of heir funds available in Nigeria (Eke forthcoming 2013). As in Ghana and Uganda among other African countries, Insignia’s military government implemented saps in the late asses that sparked extensive public protests led by the trade unions (Lewis 1996). Two glaring aspects of Nigerian military rule, however, reduced the impact of civil society political activities of the period.
The first was the military regime of Abraham Bandaged which implemented a gradual demagnification program shortly after taking office in 1985, and deflected civil society criticism by channeling it toward improving the transition program ether than removing the military from office (Drained et al. 1993). Secondly, the Nigerian military sat atop the nation’s vast oil wealth, which was gutted by generally low oil prices in the asses and asses, but was still sizeable and sufficiently concentrated in government hands as to provide important leverage over political and civil actors.
As Nigerian per capita incomes dropped from roughly $ 1,000 in 1980 to $ 250 in the early asses, and as structural adjustment gutted the nation’s public infrastructure and social safety net, government largesse proved increasingly irresistible to political leaders and some civil society actors, and corruption boomed, allowing the military to lengthen its rule (Lookouts 1993). The confrontation between the state and civil society was more intense during Bandaged and Bach’s regimes than any other rulers in Nigerian history.
Civil society was seen as a threat to their existence. As a result, they created and entrenched a culture of timidity and fear towards the military. This was perhaps best illustrated by the action of some politicians who dared to confront the military and demand that it relinquish power. Political maneuvering, co-vitiation, giving political appointments to key civil society leaders, rent seeking, patronage, nepotism, corruption, and factorization were General Bandage’s favored instruments for consolidating his grips on political power.
Rule by beach proved no more favorable to civil society organizations. By 2002, as the president and the PDP looked to retain office in the 2003 elections, relations between the government and civil society began to shift. President Bassoon turned to the PDP machinery, which used its access to vast public resources and control over the election system to deliver itself a lock hold on federal, state, and local offices in 2003?a pattern it repeated in 2007 and 2011.
Civil society, now vastly larger and more diverse than in the asses, split in many directions over the growing oligarchic nature of PDP governance. Nags from many sectors with government funding found protest difficult, or actively joined the PDP coalition (Eke forthcoming 2013). Nags with foreign donor funds have had greater freedom to criticize PDP corruption and election malfeasance, but have been unable to sustain reform coalitions in between election cycles, as occasional government reform policies have attracted support and participation from both the donors and reform Nags.
Consequently, Nigerian civil society as had no proactive demagnification coalitions since 1 999, when it had the clear threat of the military as a rallying point. Instead, multiple issue-specific coalitions have dominated civic life: election-reform coalitions, interruption coalitions, one for the passage of a Freedom of Information Bill, and others. Some organizations belong to multiple coalitions, but no central, sustained alliance exists as in the asses.
Doubtless, the complicated relationships between the large civil society groups?the unions, professional associations, religious institutions, and the like?and the government has sapped their ability to organize a sustained political reform agenda. As vast, complex organizations, these groups have seen some local and national affiliates deeply compromised by government largesse, while others remain deeply committed to the public interest.
Post 1999, opposition parties grew feeble providing, civil society groups few alternatives to back. However, January 2012 saw a new movement arise. Dubbed Occupy Nigeria, these protests sought to seek redress for the New Year day fuel increment by president Gastrointestinal, apparently caused by the removal of a long standing fuel subsidy. A week later, labor leaders denuded called off the demonstrations after reaching a compromise with the government that reinstated half of the subsidy.
Non labor activists howled with anger that labor leaders had again been “settled” (i. E. , bribed) into a deal that squandered a golden opportunity for fundamental democracy-building concessions, but without the Nil’s massive organizing potential?and its 5 million members?the protests soon died out, and OCCUPY Nigeria became primarily an online phenomenon. These events illustrate both the potential and the limitations implicit in the growth of civil societies in Nigeria and their impact on demonstration.
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Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the big data analytics and marketing applications company, today announced student winners from the third Teradata Aster and Northwestern University Hackathon at the school’s McCormick Education Center. The winning graduate students receive trip packages to the upcoming Teradata PARTNERS conference to present their findings to a global audience of data-driven professionals.
Thirty-eight students in the Northwestern Master of Science in Analytics (MSiA) Program put their data science skills to the test while learning to solve big analytics problems. With only a few hours of training, the students used Teradata Aster Analytics to compete, utilizing multi-genre analytical techniques such as pattern, text, prediction and graph analytics problem-solving.
James Green and Kapil Vinay Bhatt won the Hackathon analyzing an in-patient discharge data set in order to reduce healthcare costs while also improving patient healthcare quality. The team leveraged a variety of Teradata Aster analytic approaches in order to predict diagnosis errors and outcomes. The team mashed-up external data sources with the data provided and were able to leverage the Teradata® Aster® AppCenter, a framework that allows data scientists and business analysts to easily build, share and deploy big data applications.
The second place team was Mengshan Jin and Balamurali Natarajan, who leveraged an airline’s dataset to predict and articulate the many factors contributing to airline flight delays. They also ranked contributing features such as airports, aircraft age, and aircraft makers.
The Hackathon was led by Northwestern University Professor and MSiA program director Diego Klabjan, John Thuma, Teradata Aster Big Data evangelist, and Mary Gros, director of the academic influencer program at Teradata. Teradata Aster data scientists Troy Baker, Greg Bethardy, Brian Kreeger and Roger Fried also provided hands-on training and mentoring.
“The skills the students are learning will accelerate their careers because the job demand is explosive. With the Teradata Aster platform’s ease of use, the practice of data science is simplified so that students can dive right in with a few hours of prep,” said Professor Klabjan.
A hackathon is a data mining competition in which new or existing data scientists use analytics to resolve hypothetical problems. Hackathons have become popular as demand for practitioners in big data analytics continues to rise. The Teradata Aster Hackathon is featured on the Teradata ASTER Community web page.
“It’s significant and exciting that the students learned how to use the Teradata Aster platform in just half a day,” said Teradata’s John Thuma. “We all know that big data costs money. However, big data analytics on Teradata Aster make money. More than a hundred companies are already using Aster to uncover and unleash the power of detailed business insight. In just hours, the students demonstrated how big data analytics insights can make money for organizations.”
The course of study in the MSiA program has evolved. “In the past year, the program has added Deep Learning coursework, included Python in the core course requirements, and expanded data visualization instruction,” said Klabjan. As the field continues to evolve, the program will continue to modify and add to our robust analytics curriculum, ensuring our graduates will be exceptionally well equipped to communicate the full value of data to the organizations they serve. Teaming with Teradata has been a very important part of our program.”
In addition to sponsoring the Hackathon at Northwestern University, Teradata is preparing the next generation of data scientists in multiple ways. The company also offers support in its Teradata University Network program, a web-based portal for faculty and students in data warehousing, which offers business intelligence, decision support and a database that is provided at no cost to participating universities. The Teradata University Network (TUN) is Teradata’s academic outreach program that hosts annual student competitions, faculty workshops and contests, and a web-based portal for faculty and students. Through the website, TUN offers analytics, big data, database, and sports analytics resources as well as hands on tools, all at no cost to universities. Teradata University Network has over 2,500 registered faculty members and thousands of students, from over 2,400 universities, in 115 countries.
In addition to Teradata University Network, there is a free companion site for students, the Teradata Student Network.
“This was a fun and fascinating event,” said Szabolcs Paldy, vice president, Digital Marketing at Discover Financial Services, a judge and mentor at the Hackathon. “Yet on another level it was serious analytic insight discovery, and these bright students were using complex analytical techniques such as pattern recognition, text analysis, graph analytics and predictive computation. At Discover, we have a highly data-driven organization, with a team of data scientists who analyze a variety of data across many dimensions of our business to formulate insights.”
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Grab all the details on the weight loss of American professional basketball player Dwight Howard.
Dwight Howard is a well-known basketball player who plays in the National Basketball Association(NBA) for the Los Angeles Lakers. He's one of the most important players in the league, as an eight-time All-Star, eight-time All-NBA Team honoree, five-time All-Defensive Team member, and three-time Defensive Player of the Year.
In late 2019, Dwight Howard surprised everyone with his incredible weight loss and was almost unrecognizable due to his transformation. The change in his body weight also had an impact on his game. For a player who was sold by the Washington Wizards the previous season as he played only eight games and was sidelined due to back injury, his recent change can help him in keeping his career alive. Below, we delve deeper into his weight loss details and learn how he managed to pull off weight loss even at the age of 33.
Dwight Howard Managed to Undergo 40-Pound Weight Loss Last Year
Dwight Howard underwent an incredible 40-pound weight loss last year. The NBA superstar, who was widely known as 'Superman' during his successful years with Orlando Magic, made his fans and the commentators surprised with his transformation after pre-season with the Washington Wizards. He was 265 pounds when he joined the Wizards in 2018, but upon joining the Los Angeles Lakers, he seems to have dropped to about 225 pounds.
Dwight Howard underwent an incredible 40-pound weight loss last year.
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Dwight Howard managed to lose weight thanks to his 30-day fasting, which he adopted in addition to a running program he joined last year. 'It was really good, it was something that really just tested my mind and my body,' he told Steve Mason and John Ireland of ESPN. 'Fasting is not easy, and when you only have one meal a day — especially how I was training — it's like, 'Man, what am I doing?'
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'But it really just helped me get over a lot of mental barriers that were in the way of me getting to where I needed to get to as a person,' Dwight added. Through his weight loss, he underwent not only a physical transformation but also a mental transformation, which made a positive impact on his life.
Dwight Howard Adopted a Healthy and Strict Diet Plan
Dwight Howard' s fasting was one of the main contributors to his weight loss, and for 30 days, he limited himself to consume only one meal per day. And following such a eating habit, along with burning off calories by running and working out, helped him conveniently drop pounds.
Dwight Howard underwent 30-day fasting and limited his diet to one meal per day.
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Before he embarked upon the weight loss journey, Dwight Howard was not engaged in healthy eating habits. 'My routine one season was McDonald's before every game,' he said, according to Sport Casting. 'I would get two double cheeseburgers, a large fry, a small fry, a strawberry-chocolate milkshake, and a large coke.' He also revealed that he used to eat 12 candy bars per day and used to keep a pantry full of candy. 'I used to have a big pantry full of candy from Sam's Club,' he said. 'We would get tootsie rolls, lollypops, Skittles, Starbursts, Twix, Snickers, every candy you could think of. It was like a gas station at my house.'
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But nowadays, with changes in diet, Dwight Howard is involved in healthy eating habits. Instead of consuming packaged and junk food items, he prefers eating organic vegetables and fruit products. And he avoids food items high in carbohydrate and sugar content as much as possible. Such changes in his lifestyle and diet helped him lose weight and is also going to help him maintain his fitness for his future games in the NBA.
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Shakey returns to Hot Box for the 3rd time in 2 weeks with a local band Kill Bosco. The 4 piece is comprised of Dean (Vocals), Aaron (Lead guitar), Matt (Bass) & Chris (Drums). The band Played their first gig at Hot Box a year ago, this was very early days for the band. There was a definite buzz around them. The last year has been spent honing their sound. Their debut single was released in the first lock down and has received a fair bit of attention and some shining reviews. Tune in at 7 to hear the guys live on Facebook, Youtube, vimeo and right here on our website.
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