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The 13 best karaoke songs to sing when you're drunk, because that *will* happen this weekend
Alyssa Thorne
Updated Nov 22, 2017 @ 1:35 pm
Credit: Miramax
Drunk karaoke is a time-honored tradition amongst pretty much everyone on Earth, ‘cause let’s be real, it’s the best. It’s cheap, there’s drinking, there’s music, and everybody is at their absolute silly best. The hardest part about karaoke, though, is picking the best karaoke songs to bring down the house with.
Do you go top 40? Do you bring out a show tune? Do you throw it back to the ’90s? The answer is ALL OF IT. And because the answer is all of it and that’s a little overwhelming, we’ve put together a quick list of the 13 best karaoke songs to make your drunk game time decision-making process a little easier.
1“I Dreamed a Dream” — Les Misérables soundtrack
BELT IT OUT, GIRL. This isn’t one of the best karaoke songs, it is the best karaoke song. Listen, it’s a downer, but it’s a downer that gives you the opportunity to explore your entire vocal range, while drunk, which means you definitely have a wider range than you thought you did — or at least, you’ll convince yourself of that while pretending to be Anne Hathaway only to find out the next day when you check your friend’s Snap story that you, uh…definitely don’t have that range.
2“Baby Got Back” — Sir Mix-a-Lot
Is there anything that immediately gets everybody in the room hype like “Baby Got Back”? Absolutely not. On top of that, you definitely know every single word to that song. ADMIT IT. So you don’t even need to watch the lyrics on the screen, which gives you more time to bust some sick dance moves.
3“I’ll Make a Man Out of You” — Mulan soundtrack
Yeah, we know. You’re already picturing yourself standing on a table leveling your steely (read: drunk) gaze at the unsuspecting weekend warriors around you as you authoritatively belt out “LET’S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.” You’re so welcome.
4“Rolling in the Deep” — Adele
Like “Baby Got Back,” you definitely know every single word to this song. As with “I Dreamed a Dream,” you’ll also get the opportunity to really belt it out. Like all of these songs, it’ll feel AMAZING in the moment while you’re making dramatic faces and hand gestures a la Adele, until you see the video the next morning.
5“Wannabe” — Spice Girls
No karaoke night is complete without a Spice Girls sing-along. Bonus points if you low key still know the whole dance from the music video and whip it out at opportune moments (that move at zig-a-zig-ah, for example, kills. Not that we’re speaking from experience. Ahem.)
6“Wonderwall” — Oasis
Less upbeat, but still great to belt out? Look no further than “Wonderwall.”
7“Uptown Funk” — Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
Throwing something a little more modern in the mix: “Uptown Funk” is guaranteed to please because it’s been long enough since it was on the radio 24/7 that people will be happy to hear it, but not so long that everybody in the room won’t know it. Everyone will be thrilled to have it back in their lives. Funk it up.
8“Barbie Girl” – Aqua
If you are having the most, ehem, fun, this song is an instant winner. Everybody knows the words, it’s vaguely inappropriate which drunk people love (not that we’re speaking from experience…), and it has multiple parts to. So if you’re uncomfortable being on stage alone, you can have your bestie support you as Ken. Win-win.
9“Bye Bye Bye” – NSYNC
Can’t have a karaoke night without some boy bands. And nothing is more rousing than this classic NSYNC banger in a room full of what’s most likely millennials. Do the lord’s work, people — and say hello to NSYNC.
10“Defying Gravity” — Wicked soundtrack
We’re all for pop songs and uncomfortably sexual songs from the ’90s and early 2000s, but show tunes are sometimes where it’s at. Since probably every girl who was between the ages of eight and 28 in 2003 had a Wicked phase, this one will kill — and make you feel incredibly badass.
11“Guns and Ships” — Hamilton soundtrack
Sticking with the showtunes for a minute, you really can’t go wrong with Hamilton. However, if you really wanna make your karaoke outing the room where it happens, you’ve got to nail Lafayette’s rap from “Guns and Ships.” It’s necessary.
12“Love Shack” — The B52s
Obviously. No explanation needed.
12“I Will Always Love You” — Whitney Houston
Bonus points if you sing it to your baseball cap wearing ex boyfriend/future husband/soulmate while totally hammered and reveal your true feelings for him through song. We’re not referencing any particular Gilmore Girls character…what???
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Slavery, Resistance, Freedom
Edited by Gabor S. Boritt and Scott Hancock
Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books
A short collection of 6 essays and historical narratives by eminent scholars on slavery and the civil war. More specifically, it conveys the reality (not the myths) of actual slave experiences and broader African American experiences during the Civil War period. These essays address how to reconcile the memory of slavery with the history of slavery; the widespread phenomenon of runaway slaves; black intellectuals from the North and their efforts to create a free African American identity; the black experience on the Union/Confederate border and white conceptions of black Union soldiers; the tragic story of the black division of the Army of the Potomac; and, the experience of black politicians during Reconstruction.
Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our democracy.
This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we discuss race today. The remaining essays offer a richly textured examination of all aspects of slavery in America. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger recount actual cases of runaway slaves, their motivations for escape and the strains this widespread phenomenon put on white slave-owners. Scott Hancock explores how free black Northerners created a proud African American identity out of the oral history of slavery in the south. Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin draw upon their remarkable Valley of the Shadow website to describe the wartime experiences of African Americans living on both borders of the Mason-Dixon line. Noah Andre Trudeau turns our attention to the war itself, examining the military experience of the only all-black division in the Army of the Potomac. And Eric Foner gives us a new look at how black leaders performed during the Reconstruction, revealing that they were far more successful than is commonly acknowledged--indeed, they represented, for a time, the fulfillment of the American ideal that all people could aspire to political office.
Wide-ranging, authoritative, and filled with invaluable historical insight, Slavery, Resistance, Freedom brings a host of powerful voices to America's evolving conversation about race.
Acknowledgements Gabor S. Boritt
Introduction Scott Hancock
Ch 1: American Slavery in History and Memory, Ira Berlin
Ch 2: The Quest for Freedom: Runaway Slaves and the Plantation South, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger
Ch 3: "Tradition Informs Us": African Americans' Construction of memory in the Antebellum North, Scott Hancock
Ch 4: Black and on the Border, Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin
Ch 5: A Stranger in the Club: The Army of the Potomac's Black Division, Noah Andre Trudeau
Ch 6: "The Tocsin of Freedom": The Black Leadership of Radical Reconstruction, Eric Foner
Gabor S. Boritt is Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. His books include Why the Civil War Came and The Gettysburg Nobody Knows.
"[This book] helps to sharpen our attention on the collective and individual ways that the non-celebrated have perceived and definied the intraracial and interracial dynamics of the antebellum era...Each chapter stimulates readers and forces them to think carefully about the ways Americans have defined themselves and their freedom relative to issues of slavery and race...Most useful in this collection are the methods employed by contributors to explore the wors and activities of the bottom-rail, those ordinary working-class men and women."--Journal of African American History
"Highly recommended for readers who favor a scholarly approach over narative drama and are seeking a deeper understanding of slavery and its effects."--The Civil War Times
"Concise, compelling, and highly readable, this essay collection will be of interest to a general audience and to graduate and undergraduate students alike."--Journal of Southern History
Why the Confederacy Lost
Gabor S. Boritt
Jeffrey C. Stewart
The Causes of the Civil War
Joel M. Sipress
War Comes Again
Gabor Boritt
University, Court, and Slave
Alfred L. Brophy
Emancipation and the End of Slavery
Lincoln, the War President
They Knew Lincoln
John E. Washington and Kate Masur
Eminent Victorians on American Democracy
Frank Prochaska
Why the Civil War Came
Karen J. Johnson
Redemption Songs
Lea VanderVelde
Jefferson Davis's Generals
Out of Left Field
Rebecca T. Alpert
The Siege of Washington
John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood
The Gettysburg Nobody Knows
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How Continuous Publishing Speeds Regulatory Submissions
John Lawrie
Vice President, Vault RIM
Veeva Systems
cross the life sciences industry, companies are increasingly focused on how they can improve the speed and efficiency of their operations. This is especially true now with greater attention being paid to drug prices. From the clinical through the commercial phases, companies are seeking unique ways to reduce costs to maintain their margins; regulatory operations is no exception.
One new approach being explored is “continuous publishing,” which reduces steps in a traditionally lengthy process. Continuous publishing replaces serial publishing with a parallel process where regulatory teams identify issues in real time rather than waiting until the end. This allows regulatory teams to resolve validation errors faster and eliminate cumbersome manual hand-offs to significantly reduce time from planning to submission.
Continuous publishing is similar to continuous manufacturing, another promising model that’s widespread in other industries and is starting to replace traditional batch manufacturing in the life sciences. Vertex, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli Lilly are a few of the earliest adopters of continuous manufacturing, which is essentially an end-to-end assembly line where raw ingredients are seamlessly processed in a single production line that ends with the finished product. As is the case with continuous publishing, the aim is to improve efficiency, quality, and speed.
The Move from Serial to Seamless
Currently, submitting information to regulators is a disjointed process that can involve multiple systems, contributors, and tracking spreadsheets. It’s a step-by-step approach similar to batch manufacturing instead of being, more desirably, one seamless process.
When an event such as a manufacturing change triggers a new submission, companies must go through as many as four steps to publish that submission. The first step is to create a submission plan. Next, the regulatory team authors and reviews individual documents in the submission. The approved documents are either transferred or linked to a publishing tool, where publishers add PDF navigation. Finally, publishers compile and validate the submission so it is ready for subsequent staging and delivery. If the agency has an electronic submissions gateway, the submission is then transferred to the gateway via another tool.
At least five systems or tools are involved in this process, including a document management system, a publishing tool, a file share system, a viewing tool, and one or more spreadsheets for planning and tracking. Each gap between systems introduces inefficiencies, delays, and potential for errors as documents move in and out of these systems.
A biopharmaceutical firm focused on the design and development of novel broad-spectrum antibiotics for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infection, managed the submission process using various tools, spreadsheets, and Gantt charts across a dozen different users. Each person or team contributed their part to the submission, such as a New Drug Application (NDA), one at a time and spent additional time emailing documents back and forth to get answers to questions or find missing information. The process was long and required careful coordination across teams.
When it came time to publish, the firm needed to take the extra step of transferring all of the necessary documents from their systems into a publishing tool to process the submission. The process grew even longer because, as with many traditional publishing models, this firm could only see issues after running the published output through a separate submission validation tool. Then, after correcting errors, this lengthy validation process needed to be repeated until all issues were resolved. For a large filing like an NDA, this could require several rounds.
“One of the biggest challenges with this approach is that you don’t know if there are issues with your submission until after you publish. Then, you get a validation report, make all the corrections, and re-submit to the publishing tool. It’s a tedious process and wastes valuable time,” explained the firm’s director of regulatory operations.
“This is a very common issue across the industry. Publishing documents must always go through this QC (quality control) process, which may happen multiple times and always at the end of the line,” she continued. “With a continuous model, regulatory teams can identify any errors and address broken links to source data as the submission is being built so teams don’t have to go through the lengthy re-publishing process over and over. By the time you are ready to publish, the submission is already quality checked and correct.”
Continuous publishing is now possible at the firm because most of the submission-readying processes are carried out in a single, unified system. Every submission is tracked and tagged with planning information that specifies which country it’s connected to, the submission type, the expected submission dates, and more. Within the same system, the firm can also develop a submission content plan that outlines required content and includes links to existing documents and those that still need to be created.
Traditional publishing activities such as adding bookmarks and navigation are moved upstream with content creation, while other activities such as hyperlink testing, XML compilation, and validation are automated and running behind the scenes as documents become ready for publishing. This workflow-driven process moves documents and the plan itself through various lifecycle stages and allows the submission plan to become an automatically publishable structure. With every step connected, there is real-time tracking for clear visibility across the entire process, up to and beyond submission.
Benefits of Continuous Publishing
Continuous publishing makes the submission process significantly faster, easier, and more efficient. It can turn a week of effort into just hours while dramatically reducing time spent on tracking or searching. In addition, continuous publishing automatically matches documents to the submission structure, eliminating redundant effort otherwise required in a traditional publishing model.
“Continuous publishing allows us to cut out hours of tedious rework by not having to recreate the submission in an external publishing tool. Using this system, we have cut submission time by at least half,” said the director of regulatory operations.
Continuous publishing also improves the quality of submissions because validations are performed behind the scenes and from the start, so any issues are identified earlier in the process when they are easier to fix. “In the traditional serial publishing process, you review documents in the system, arrange them into a submission structure, and rebuild that in the publishing tool,” she explained.
“You must take documents out of a secure system to move them into a publishing tool and then they often go out to an unsecure file share. However, with a continuous publishing approach in one unified system, there’s less compliance risk because there’s total visibility from beginning to end. The result is a higher quality submission created faster.”
Unify Regulatory to Enable New Model
Traditional publishing has been evolving – in fact, companies have been using electronic formats for decades, even considering that eCTD submissions were not required by the FDA until just last year. However, progress has been slow, and the process remains inefficient, causing delays during crunch time when timelines are tightest. These delays are as impactful on clinical-stage pharmaceutical companies–such as with investigational product reporting and compliance, managing protocol amendments, and safety reporting–as they are on commercial organizations, managing global complexities like labelling and manufacturing changes that impact multiple markets.
The number of disparate systems commonly used by regulatory teams has created the current disjointed nature of submission publishing and contributed to a slower, serial process. Even with all these systems in place, current processes and systems require publishers to spend a lot of time keeping everything in sync instead of focusing on publishing.
The answer is not more technology, but less. One unified system in the cloud brings together the end-to-end regulatory process, providing transparency and consolidating steps to make continuous publishing possible. This also enables new, more collaborative ways of working by bringing authors, reviewers and publishers closer together and enabling them to work on the same documents in the same submission at the same time. It eliminates versioning issues and improves quality while ultimately reducing overall time spent preparing submissions.
With continuous publishing, life sciences companies can explore a new model. As in manufacturing, switching to a continuous model in regulatory operations provides the industry with a new opportunity to deliver high-quality submissions to health authorities faster than ever before.
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Gujarat’s unique Jewish heritage to get facelift
Prashant Rupers, The Times of India, March 22, 2012
Gujarat’s unique Jewish heritage – the Israeli Kabrastan at Nizampura – is expected to get some permanent face-lift after years of yearning. Israel’s consul general in India Orna Sagiv will be visiting the Jewish cemetery on Thursday.
This is the fist visit by an Israeli official at the Jewish cemetery which has some of its graves dating back to 1850 AD.
TOI has been consistently highlighting the fact that this unique heritage of the Bene Israeli community of Gujarat is facing threat of commercialization and encroachment.
After TOI in December last, highlighted that the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) had given permission to put up a hoarding on the graveyard to a private advertising agency, further exploitation has stopped.
Young volunteers of the ‘Friends of Israel’ and Sheth Faramji Cavasji Contractor Community College have also taken up a beautification project to provide a face-lift to the cemetery by putting up solar light, resurrecting the graves and planting saplings.
“We hope that during her visit we will be able to find out a long term sustainable solution to protect this heritage,” general secretary of the Friends of Israel Nikitan Contractor told TOI, adding that it has been proved beyond doubt that the Gaekwads who had Benne Israeli families in their court had given the land to the community for burial.
Contractor added that during Sagiv’s visit, the members of the community will push forward a proposal to get the cemetery declared an Archaeological Survey of India protected site.
“If ASI isn’t ready to take over and maintain this site, local authorities or a group should be allowed to maintain the cemetery so this 30,000 square feet land is put to good use,” he said.
This unique heritage had first faced threat when a builder – Suresh Shinde – who has cordoned off 5,000 square feet of the land – wanted to construct a row of shops for ‘development’ reasons. Shinde had argued that he had purchased the land from one member of the community.
Later citizens had embarked on a signature campaign to save the heritage from being sold off to builders in 2004 and two district collectors – Bhagyesh Jha and Vijay Nehra had constituted inquiries on ownership of the land. It was on Nehra’s instructions that former resident deputy collector Kamal Shah had issued order on July 2009 that the land which was gifted to the community during the Gaekwadi state era cannot be considered as a private land and hence be brought under government control.
The Jewish cemetery is a unique feature of Baroda which shows traces of the community’s existence since the era of the Gaekwads dating back to almost 160 years. The graves of earliest German Jews lie here.
What is interesting about each of them are the writings on the tomb stones. The epitaphs are engraved in three different languages – Marathi, Hebrew and English. And it is not incidental as each of these languages speak forth a history of the Bene Israeli community. History has it that a boat landed in Maharashtra centuries ago. They soon adopted the names of Maharashtra villages as their surnames. Slowly, they adopted the customs as well, while retaining some original traits. The epitaphs hence have Hebrew (their local language), Marathi (the language they adopted) and English which they eventually learnt.
Originally published here: https://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-22/vadodara/31224429_1_jewish-cemetery-heritage-bene-israeli-communi
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Improved Glycemic Control in the Hospital Using Computer-Driven eGlycemic Management System® Plus High-Reliability Strategies for Basal Bolus Subcutaneous Insulin Therapy
Diabetes Technology Society (DTS) Virtual Poster Meeting
H. Courtenay Harrison, Jr., MD, Susan DeAbate, RN, MSN/ED, CDE, Tim Pike, MD, Peggy Braun, RN, BSN, MHA, CENP, Angel Harper-Clarke, BSN, RN, CMSRN, Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM
Improve standardization of glycemic management for hospitalized patients requiring subcutaneous insulin therapy and increase utilization of basal bolus versus sliding scale regimens. Secondarily, reduce incidence of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.
Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, a 276-bed community hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia, sought to further capitalize on the computer-driven eGlycemic Management System® (eGMS®)* concurrent to other high-reliability strategies. A multidisciplinary Glycemic Management Committee and Glycemic Collaboration Committee were formed to provide overarching governance and facilitate change management. Representatives from administration, medical staff, nursing, diabetes education, pharmacy and information technology participated.
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The number of hospitalized patients treated using eGMS® for basal bolus insulin therapy increased 366%, from an average of 44 per month before the high-reliability interventions were initiated to an average of 205 per month after the interventions were initiated.
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A Little Meditation Goes a Long Way
A new study offers the strongest evidence to date that meditation can change the structure of your brain.
By Jason Marsh | February 9, 2011
I consider myself something of a prospective meditator—meaning that a serious meditation practice is always something I’m about to start… next week.
So for years, I’ve been making a mental note of new studies showing that meditation can literally change our brain structure in ways that might boost concentration, memory, and positive emotions.
© Jacob Wackerhausen
The results seem enticing enough to make anyone drop into the full lotus position—until you read the fine print: Much of this research involves people who have meditated for thousands of hours over many years; some of it zeroes in on Olympic-level meditators who have clocked 10,000 hours or more. Pretty daunting.
Well, a new study offers some hope—and makes the benefits of meditation seem within reach even for a novice like me.
The study, published last month in the journal Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, suggests that meditating for just 30 minutes a day for eight weeks can increase the density of gray matter in brain regions associated with memory, stress, and empathy.
The researchers tracked 16 people who were participating in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, the training program developed more than 30 years ago by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Over eight weekly meetings, the program leads participants through meditation exercises meant to build the skills of mindfulness—a moment-by-moment awareness of one’s thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment. Participants are supposed to try these practices on their own between classes.
For decades, people who’ve completed the MBSR training have reported feeling less stress and more positive emotions; participants suffering from chronic illnesses say they experience less pain afterward.
But in this study, the researchers weren’t just asking the participants how they felt. They were examining their brains, two weeks before and right after the eight-week program. Over the same period, they also scanned the brains of people who didn’t receive the MBSR training.
The MBSR participants, none of whom were experienced meditators, reported spending just under half an hour per day on their meditation “homework.” Yet when their brains were scanned at the end of the program, their gray matter was significantly thicker in several regions than it was before.
Brain scans of the hippocampus, showing the regions the researchers determined were affected by meditation. © Image adapted from B. Hölzel, et al., Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging Vol. 191 (1), January 30, 2011, pp. 36-43.
One of those regions was the hippocampus, which prior research has found to be involved in learning, memory, and the regulation of our emotions. The gray matter of the hippocampus is often reduced in people who suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The researchers also found denser gray matter in the temporo-perietal junction and the posterior cingulated cortex of the meditators’ brains—regions involved in empathy and taking the perspective of someone else—and in the cerebellum, which has been linked to emotion regulation.
These brain changes may suggest that meditation improves people’s ability to regulate their emotions, control their stress levels, and feel empathy for others, says Britta Hölzel, the study’s lead author and a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Geissen in Germany. However, she stresses that these conclusions are still very speculative.
The group that didn’t receive the MBSR training didn’t show any of these positive changes in brain structure.
Previous research has shown that the structure of very experienced meditators’ brains is different from non-meditators in certain regions, but it couldn’t prove that the meditators didn’t have exceptional brains to begin with. This is the first study to document a difference in brain structure from before someone starts a meditation practice to after they’ve gotten underway—and after only eight weeks, at that.
While other research, notably a 2003 study led by Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has shown that people’s brain activity changes after the eight-week MBSR course, there hadn’t been evidence that the effects of meditation can go so deep as to change the structure of the brain.
The results of this new study offer further evidence for the “plasticity” of the brain, meaning it can change its shape over time. That suggests we’re not simply stuck with the neural cards we’re dealt; we can fundamentally improve our cognitive and emotional capacities.
“I think what’s really positive and promising about this study is that it suggests our well-being is in our hands,” says Hölzel. “What I find fascinating is that just paying attention in a different way and being more aware can have such an impact that it even changes the structure of our brain.”
It’s important to note that meditation isn’t the only research-tested way to produce these changes in the brain. A study published last week, in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the hippocampus of people in their 60s increased in volume after they’d walked around a track three times per week for a year; in peers who did less aerobic exercises, the hippocampus actually got smaller.
The upshot of all this research seems to be: Small steps matter. Many of us can bring about positive effects on our brains and overall well-being—without an Olympic effort.
It’s enough to turn a prospective meditator like me into an actual one.
Jason Marsh
Jason Marsh is the editor in chief of Greater Good.
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It is good to know that just a little meditation is better than none at all. As an attorney I try to use meditation to stay centered and calm. However, some days are more hectic than others and I can’t find the time to fit it in.
David | 2:59 pm, February 17, 2011 | Link
I am doing a neurological program that my 10 year old did for increasing attention - based on timing interval training. It measures how far off time you are from a beat. I was far off! Then I did just one 15 min meditation and shaved 15 milliseconds off my time. Just goes to show how much stress and too many beta waves interfere with our focus.
I’m meditating daily now - so much good stuff out there to pick from and low cost.
Beth Foster | 10:15 am, February 18, 2011 | Link
Thank you for this report! This is the first time I’m hearing that exercise can produce similar results. I always thought that the added patience and calm I gained from running, was due to temporary endorphins (and I had to fit it in 3 times a week, even in the dead of winter. Bleh). So I wonder, does this mean that yoga is a form of meditation? I have heard that it produces similar results.
Emmy | 5:23 pm, February 18, 2011 | Link
what a delight it is
to discover daily…
stillness in the mundane,
silliness in the profound!
the heartfelt feelings
of the sensuous body-mind!
the child deep down in the adult,
wisdom in a child’s expression!
life marching towards death,
life emerging from death!
-shankar
Shankar Hemmady | 9:52 pm, February 20, 2011 | Link
Thank you for highlighting this topic…....
اصالة | 6:23 am, September 23, 2011 | Link
I am going to recommend this article to my patients.
Over the years I found meditation very helpful when trying to conceive.
Dr. Daven | 2:40 am, October 1, 2011 | Link
I love seeing material like this, and your final summation was right on the money: small steps matter. Too often people are chased away from some healthy path because they believe they need to change their entire life. Perhaps give up a ton of work or family time to pursue a meditative practice. But the truth is that just small changes to our habits or schedule, made with some tenacity, can produce an outsized gain.
Good work on covering this. Vigilate,
Chris Boozell
Christopher | 8:08 pm, October 7, 2011 | Link
We tried this at work on Friday and it was amazing how much effect it had on productivity!
Wedding Venues | 3:43 pm, October 15, 2011 | Link
I meditate in mornings. Surely advise all of the readers to take this article siriously - Would appreciate more sources and even some references to some meditation music sites.
Daria Mantis | 5:17 am, October 18, 2011 | Link
I’ve not been a fan of meditation. It seems the opposite of exercise and there’s a lot more science that tells us to get up and move than to sit down and do nothing. We do enough of that already. I bet there are thousands of people who play mind games on themselves saying that they are meditating their way to health when they really need to take a brisk walk each day and start lifting some weights.
Mr. Fitness | 7:06 pm, November 6, 2011 | Link
Earth day is about celebrating and doing something great to save our earth. It can be started from small actions such as turn the electricity off for the whole city in 1 hour.
Sunlighten | 12:33 am, November 21, 2011 | Link
Over the same period, they also scanned the brains
of people who didn’t receive the MBSR training
menopausetreatmentguide.org | 2:02 pm, November 24, 2011 | Link
. This is the first study to document a difference in
brain structure from before someone starts a
meditation practice to after they’ve gotten underway
—and after only eight weeks, at that.
Patrik | 5:23 am, November 26, 2011 | Link
That suggests we’re not simply stuck with the neural
cards we’re dealt; we can fundamentally improve our
cognitive and emotional capacities.
Glutathione | 6:20 am, November 26, 2011 | Link
Meditation is an interesting practice for me. I learn how to watch my thoughts, and I find out many interesting facts about meditating.
preschool work sheets | 5:35 am, January 13, 2012 | Link
This makes a ton of sense. The entire faculty at my school just spent all day yesterday learning about brain development and I was interested (and gratified) to learn of the positive effects of exercise and meditation on the brain.
Trina | 5:58 pm, February 21, 2012 | Link
Excellent findings. Many people know from
experience that meditation is beneficial, but it’s
always nice to have science confirm it.
Buddhist Books | 7:27 am, March 8, 2012 | Link
It is good to know that just a little meditation is
better than none at all. As an attorney I try to use
meditation to stay centered and calm. However,
some days are more hectic than others and I can’t
find the time to fit it in.
range cookers | 11:41 am, April 19, 2012 | Link
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Hyper-Casual Games: Earning a High Score for Advertisers
Posted on May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 by admin
From the end of 2019, around 44.5% of the US population (147 million) is expected to play mobile games on their devices. This figure has been rising year over year because the first gaming apps were downloaded from the app shop in 2008. Mobile games are now the most popular app category and accounts for 35% of all downloads. Growth isn’t anticipated to slow down any time soon either, with 158.9 million US consumers (46.8% of the population) expected to enjoy games on their mobile devices by 2023.
The array of gaming apps is extensive, with categories like casual, mid-core, and hardcore available to players. Another genre called hyper-casual games has grown to take the spotlight throughout the marketplace. With an estimated annual revenue of $2-2.5 billion and substantial investment in hyper-casual app developers, this market area is continuing to level up.
In this blog article, we explore the ascendance of hyper-casual games and how they can be leveraged for highly successful in-app advertising campaigns.
Hyper-casual games are lightweight mobile games that allow users to take part in an easy, easy-to-understand gaming experience that gives an immediate emotional response and immediate satisfaction for the player. They’ve global mass appeal and surpass audiences of different ages, genders, and cultures. Simplicity is key for hyper-casual games; intuitive UI and basic game mechanics allow users to start the game and play almost instantaneously, often without a tutorial.
Hyper-casual games are specifically designed and built for the contemporary in-app advertising ecosystem and monetization strategies. Compared to other mid-core or casual gaming apps, which generally operate on an in-app purchase version, hyper-casual games mainly rely on advertising to generate revenue, through a Combination of banners, interstitials, and rewarded videos
Hyper-casual format games are by no means a new concept. But a combination of factors has allowed this genre to control the app stores’ top downloaded charts in recent years.
The worldwide expansion of smartphones and internet-connected mobile devices has been crucial in attaining user groups of all demographics across the world. The casual nature of hyper-casual games has found a gap in this marketplace, supplying users with a platform to dip in and out of gameplay with minimal commitment, when waiting for an appointment, traveling, or just relaxing at home.
Since the mobile gaming market has grown, so has its monetization model and this has been key in facilitating the success of hyper-casual. Mobile games originally relied on superior, up-front payments for the user to download the app. The in-app advertising ecosystem has developed, coinciding with users getting more accustomed to obtaining free apps and games. This technique of monetization has turned out to be the most lucrative way for publishers to generate revenue. The sheer scale of downloads and mass appeal of hyper-casual games ensures they have become among the best platforms for in-app advertising.
Why Advertise in Hyper-Casual Games?
With media usage progressively changing to apps, mobile games are big winners with customers, and offer advertisers with varied audiences and high engagement rates. Let’s take a look at a number of the key benefits for advertisers investing in hyper-casual games.
Audience Scale and Market Growth
Approximately 660 million4 users played hyper-casual games across the planet in 2018 with the genre generating around 22 million app installs each day, so the possible reach for advertising campaigns is enormous. Not only is that the audience already massive, hyper-casual games are among the fastest-growing media verticals out there.
Gambling is now a mainstream activity, with 86% of all internet users confirming they’ve played games on at least one apparatus.5 Mobile is the most popular channel for gambling across all ages, genders, and income groups, with 66% of both male and female consumers playing games in their telephones.6 The stereotypical image of the teenage male gamer is now a thing of the past.
Just like other types of mobile games, hyper-casual provides a wide variety of display and video ad placements:
One of the very best monetization strategies used for hyper-casual games is rewarded video ads. Playable for at least three seconds and up to 30 seconds, these highly engaging ad formats are preferred by users over other kinds of ads. Smaato data shows that click-through rates are 18X higher for rewarded videos versus standard banner placements in hyper-casual games, yet their eCPM is simply 8X higher. Not only do they deliver higher conversions for advertising campaigns, rewarded videos also help gambling apps hold on to their audience. If a player reaches a tricky stage in the game and is trying hard to continue, voluntarily watching a rewarded video ad can help them out with a bonus item or hint.
Interstitial Video and Display
Usually placed during natural breaks in gameplay, interstitial ads are highly observable and can be delivered in both video or display formats. They give brands an opportunity to take advantage of a highly engaged audience during breaks in their amusement. Interstitial video ads can generate click-through rates 24X that of banners, with an eCPM just 3X higher.
Traditional in-app banners are also an effective ad format for hyper-casual games. Easily implemented into a game’s interface, banner placements can be exhibited on-screen and during gameplay. They could cost-effectively reach a great number of users with limited risk to brands testing out hyper-casual game advertising.
Exactly as with other genres of gaming apps, hyper-casual games offer a brand-safe environment for advertisers to reach consumers with their campaigns. Advertising on a website can often put a brand’s messaging at risk of appearing next to inappropriate, user-generated content. Mobile gaming apps will need to be approved before they are available to consumers, so this risk is minimized, providing a safe platform for brand integrity.
What’s Next for Hyper-Casual Games?
More and more hyper-casual titles are launched each week, making sure that the landscape is fiercely competitive and ever-changing. With so many apps on the market, programmers and publishers may have to add new features to stand out from the crowd. One thing for sure is that hyper-casual games have gained a high score in the marketplace, providing consumers with apps they regularly enjoy and advertisers a platform to deliver successful campaigns.
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Building your own state
When my father decided to buy a farm in the suburbs of Cairo and live there a few years ago, his justification was that if you decide to live in Egypt, you should be ready to
Friday, September 26,2008 06:23
by Ibrahim Al-Houdaiby Daily Star
When my father decided to buy a farm in the suburbs of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Cairo and live there a few years ago, his justification was that if you decide to live in Egypt, you should be ready to build your own state. I must admit it took me years to understand what he meant. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
To secure a decent, respectable life in Egypt, one should never depend on the state. The state’s revenue mainly made up of taxes, tariffs and foreign aid, and the state’s different apparatuses do not function to serve Egyptians, but rather a few hundred influential politicians and businessmen. The state’s role starts by providing security for its citizens, residents and visitors. Mubarak’s regime increasingly fails to do so. Not only is the police unable to prevent the mounting number of crimes, but it also participates in threatening people’s safety through torture and corruption.
The last thing an Egyptian citizen is willing to do is going to a police station. Egyptians therefore choose to settle their disputes without any police intervention; starting with car accidents, all the way to murder crimes. Spending on security eats up to 40 percent of the government’s budget, but the money does not contribute to the peace and security of the country. Rather, it is used to reward the loyalty of high ranking officers who crack down on the regime’s political opponents.
Those who do not illustrate equivalent levels of political loyalty and are not willing to resort to extralegal measures with political opposition easily find their way to early retirement.
Egypt’s regime also fails to provide for necessary health care. Admission into state-run hospitals is likely to cost one his life. Lack of facilities as well as pathetic management have a lethal effect on the performance of medical institutions. The contaminated blood bags scandal (in which a ruling party’s MP was involved, but finally acquitted and found not guilty following the sudden death of the judge one month before the verdict was to be announced) has only mounted to additional worries to average Egyptians unable to resort to private hospitals.
Public educational institutions are no better. Not a single Egyptian university made it to the top 500 universities worldwide, and over 40 percent of Egyptians are still illiterate. University professors are threatening to go on strike, protesting an extremely low monthly pay ranging between $40 and $150. New enrollments have at least quadrupled over the past couple of decades, while facilities remained the same, leading to an acute deterioration in the quality of education.
Even the food and water provided by the state can kill you. Fruits and vegetables imported by the state are reported to be carcinogenic. Drinking water is insufficient in several places, including different districts of Cairo. It is also mixed with the sewage system in some places.
Egyptians who have been patient for so long have started moving against this regime. The past few months witnessed a series of strikes of workers, professionals and university graduates protesting unemployment, increasing prices and low wages, and several calls for general strikes.
The regime has used various measures to silence these protests; sometimes using its security forces to crack down on protestors, and at other times complying to protestors’ demands. Yet no structural measures of reform have been taken. The regime is still pursuing an aggressive economic neoliberal capitalist approach but still upholds an absolute absence of the necessary political liberalization and democratization that provides for the necessary checks and balances, transparency and accountability.
The outcome is nothing but expected: monopolies for business cronies and an unhealthy investment climate for others.
My father decided to move into a small farm where we can breathe some fresh air, plant some fruits and vegetables for home consumption, build a fence and hire a guard to protect us. He is still a good law-abiding citizen, despite knowing he will never get his rights. But one should not expect that all Egyptians will do the same. The vast majority will find it justifiable that as long as the state does not fulfill its responsibility they won’t fulfill theirs.
The state’s inability to fulfill its responsibilities due to the regime’s focus on securing its leaders’ survival might lead to anarchy, while leading official figures in the West still insist on supporting the regime against its own people.
Ibrahim Al-Houdaibyis board member of ikhwanweb.com, the English website of the Muslim Brotherhood group.
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Lil Yachty & YK Osiris Get Into Heated Exchange Following Trolling Over Gucci Jacket
January 9, 2021 admin Featured 0
After sharing memes of one another all day, Yachty questioned Osiris’s bank account while the singer poked fun at the rapper’s hair.
We’re just eight days into the new year and the continued chaos of 2020 has rolled into 2021. Aside from the political mayhem, trolling may have sparked a real beef between Lil Yachty and YK Osiris. The R&B singer became the target of a little teasing from some of his fellow artists including Yachty, DJ Mustard, Yella Beezy, 21 Savage, Meek Mill, and others, all over a Gucci jacket that he had says he had altered. It’s been days of poking the bear and things escalated on Friday (January 8) when Yachty and Osiris appeared on Instagram Live together.
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Just yesterday, Osiris was seen laughing as 21 Savage roasted him on Live, but throughout the day today, the trolling between Yachty and the singer intensified after Osiris rolled out an all-out attack on his trolls. There have been memes shared and personal jabs made, and on Live, the pair engaged in a heated exchange. In a clip, Osiris asks Yachty why he has “bebes” in his head, referring to the rapper’s signature beads he wears with his braids.
“It’s been four years already, man,” said Osiris. Yachty calmly replied, “I know,” before adding, “This what I’m saying. Explain to us why you sold your Rolls Royce for a Camry, a Nissan or whatever.” The rapper was referencing a video that Osiris recently shared where he claimed he downgraded his luxury vehicles. Osiris said he was planning on purchasing a $3 million home “so it’s priorities, I gotta get my priorities straight.”
Yachty quickly asked, “Why you buying cars you can’t afford and houses you can’t afford?” The singer swiftly responded that he could “afford [his] cars for sure,” but “they sit.” Yachty wasn’t on ball with that answer. “That’s what you sayin’ and you expect us all to believe that.” Osiris doubled-down on his multi-million dollar purchase of a new residence, but his passion didn’t make Yachty a believer.
“Don’t be Lil Bow Wow, man. Don’t start cappin’,” said Yachty. Osiris proceeded to divert away from the conversation about his bank account and went back to attacking Yachty about his hair. Check out the memes below.
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Former Patriots QB Shines in Playoff Loss, Stirs Talk About 2021 Return
January 10, 2021 admin Uncategorized 0
Getty Taylor Heinicke
The Washington Football Team came close to pulling off the upset over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday, and their ability to hang tough had a lot to do with the play of Taylor Heinicke.
The 27-year-old who played in the XFL in 2019 after bouncing around from several teams–including the New England Patriots’ practice squad–settled in for WFT in emergency-relief duty and nearly led his team to an improbable win.
WFT fell short 31-23, but Heinicke completed 26 of 44 passes for 306 yards with a TD and an interception. He ran for 46 yards and another score as well. Queue the Heinicke to the Patriots talk for 2021.
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Prisoners of the Moment or on to Something?
During and after Heinicke’s performance on Saturday night, members of the media and Patriots Nation took to Twitter to discuss the what-ifs and if-we-hads that were destined to come if the former New England practice squad QB played well.
I cannot believe Taylor Heinicke. This passing attack is more functional than what the Patriots had over the second half of the season
— Ben Volin (@BenVolin) January 10, 2021
@Patriots Taylor Heinicke’s contract is up after the season. Just saying.
— Dylan Fisher (@DTFisher4) January 10, 2021
Are the @Patriots in the playoffs with #TaylorHeinicke at QB?! For sure no? #NFL
— Taylor Twellman (@TaylorTwellman) January 10, 2021
Taylor Heinicke is a franchise quarterback
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) January 10, 2021
There is no question, Heinicke put on a heroic and inspired performance. Is it too early for most of the speculation and adulation he received–at least as it pertains to forward-looking success–absolutely.
That said, Heinicke did make some throws on Saturday that were unquestionable, big-boy, NFL-QB tosses, and that is noteworthy no matter what the situation. It’s also important to note, the Buccaneers had no time to develop a defensive gameplan tailored to Heinicke because they didn’t even know he’d be playing until at the earliest Friday.
Even if they had known he was playing, there isn’t a ton of relevant tape on him. I don’t mean to take away the shine of what was a great performance, but there is a lot to consider before we go down a road that leads us to compare him to Cam Newton or any other quarterback who played regularly this season.
Shackles-Off Playcalling
Since it is inevitable and Ben Volin already indirectly made the comparison to Newton with his mention of the Patriots’ passing game this season, let’s talk about playcalling. It seems hard to believe that the WFT trusted a guy they had to bring up from the practice squad to throw the ball 44 times on Saturday in a playoff game when Josh McDaniels and Co. seemingly had Newton on a pitch count all season.
Newton attempted 44 passes one time in 2020. In that game, a Week 2 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, Newton threw for a season-high 397 yards, a touchdown, and an interception and he also ran for 2 more scores. That sounds a lot like Heinicke’s line from Saturday, only a little bit better.
Funny things can happen when offensive coordinators take the shackles off of their playcalling and trust guys to play football. It’s funny if Newton does leave New England in the offseason, one of his potential landing spots figures to be Washington where he would reunite with his former head coach Ron Rivera. Maybe there he would get a chance to show if his shoulder is truly shot, as many would have you to believe, or if he just needed to be trusted to play quarterback.
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AI-based Tech Firm CronJ Completes Security Project for Saudi Arabia Coast Guard
Bangalore, Karnataka, India(NewsVoir) A next-generation global leading technology firm ‘CronJ’ which offers products related to security, surveillance and safety using the latest digitization and machine vision technologies recently completed an AI-based digitization project for Saudi Arabia Coast Guard.
Sharing about the project, CEO, CronJ, Mr. Monu Kumar said, “Coast guard was looking for advanced automatic cognitive decision-making solutions for any kind of threat or intrusion in the sea 24x7 through multiple media like email, WhatsApp message and hooter/buzzer. Meanwhile, CronJ’s AI solution was able to fulfill their expectations, which further led to the award of the new projects.' 'We invested in UAE to cater AI initiative of Government in the GCC region, especially UAE strategy for Artificial Intelligence, a major initiative in the UAE Centennial 2071 objectives and Saudi Arabia’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy, which is expected to contribute an estimated 500 billion riyals (US$133 billion) to gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030,' Mr Monu said.
The CEO further stated, “The real challenge while working on the project was to understand the ocean waves behavioral with respect to the full moon, day-night and season. The team has done Meteorological study of ocean historic data for the last 20 years. Then we have done the ocean behavioralmodeling mapped with our machine learning model. It was one of the unique intrusion use case where the environment was changing with respect to time.” CronJ is working for a number of leading enterprises across various verticals by offering various services and products, including, IT solutions, ML services, and IP products built around Digital, IoT, data science, Cyber security, Analytics, and Data Services, amongst others, to improve startups reimagining their industries for the digital era.
It is pertinent to mention that in a very limited span of time, CronJ gained the trust of government bodies and fortune 500 companies, including Nokia Networks, Linde, Unilever, Verizon etc.
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Amid bird flu scare, 11 crows found dead in Mumbai
Crow found dead in Mumbai's Chembur area on Sunday.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 11 (ANI): Amid the bird flu scare, as many as 11 crows were found dead in Mumbai's Chembur area on Sunday, said police.
The samples of dead crows have been sent for examination.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying on Sunday said that the central teams formed for monitoring the spread of bird flu are visiting the affected sites in seven states across the country.
The department has issued advisories to the affected States so as to avoid further spread of disease. So far, the disease has been confirmed in Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh.
Test reports of the samples sent to the designated laboratory from Delhi, Maharashtra are still awaited. Further, no samples have been confirmed positive in wild birds from Balod district, Chhattisgarh which were tested earlier.
Control and containment have been completed in both the affected districts of Kerala and Post Operational Surveillance Programme guidelines have been issued to the State of Kerala. (ANI)
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Bus falls into a 50 feet gorge in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri
31 December 2020, 4:41 am
Bus falls into a 50 feet gorge in Kashedi Ghat
Ratnagiri (Maharashtra) [India], December 31 (ANI): At least one person was killed and 15 others were injured after a bus fell into a 50-feet gorge in Ratnagiri district's Kashedi ghat in the wee hours on Thursday.
The bus belonging to Chintamani Travels was heading to Kankavli with 31 people on board.
The injured have been rushed to the nearby hospital. The rescue operation is underway.
More details are awaited. (ANI)
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How To Do That
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Podcast Episode 26: How To Do The Future
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How to prepare for your future
In the Season 1 finale, Ryan, Bart, Lulu, and JenJen discuss where we’re all headed in the future, and how to prepare to get there. In comedic fashion, the foursome discusses their personal predictions and goals for their own futures, as well as where the planet is headed with major issues such as global warming.
Ryan and Bart discuss both hoping to one day own their own small town bars. JenJen can see herself remaining at her job as a high-risk pregnancy specialist. Lulu wants to settle down and be a mom and work with dogs in some way.
How to make and complete a bucket list
The gang also runs down items on their personal bucket lists. Bart yearns to travel to Japan and ride the bullet train while drawing a bullet riding on the bullet train, and one day shake hands with Elon Musk. Ryan said he would like to one day meet a non-Trump president, and take on the Appalachian Trail. Lulu pines to travel to the real Oktoberfest celebration in Munich and meet the Beach Boys. JenJen wants to be best buds with Taylor Swift.
How to plan for the future
Where do we see ourselves in 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 years?
What job do we see ourselves having down the road?
What is our living situation?
What obstacles do we see ourselves having to overcome?
How to visit all the places you want to go?
How to make a bucket list
What are a few items on our current bucket lists?
What do we think the world will be like when we’re super old?
What things will be invented
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Digital Activism: Go Beyond The Clout
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The impact (and effectiveness) of digital activism in modern times is palpable, a simple hashtag (like #BlackLivesMatter or #MeToo) can turn into a massive movement IRL, translating tweets and digital posts into a real action that can change the course of history. Digital activism shines when social media tools are combined with street-level organization, according to a research from the University of Washington.
The same research shows that digital activism campaigns have a tendency to be more effective when they’re targeted against government rather than business authorities – but this doesn’t mean that corporations are off the hook when it comes to being the target of massive protests. Governments still tend to lag behind activist movements in the use and mastery of new social media tools, giving protestors the upper hand.
There’s not a perfect formula for your digital movement to get traction and attention, but there’s certainly a few factors you can take into consideration when it comes to get some hype behind your causes:
Use The Momentum: When you’re not the only one thinking there’s social injustice happening around you and other’s get behind you, it’s time to act and take advantage of the situation to raise awareness.
Storytelling Is Key: A moving, real story and solid communication skills (and the proper outlets for it) is what’s going to get your message across, serving as inspiration for others to advocate as well. Emotion and empathy go a long way.
Choose Your Platform: Visual elements for Instagram, the right hashtags for Twitter with short but powerful messages, connecting with the right groups on Facebook… build a proper strategy for each social media community and reach (and mobilize) more people.
Digital Activism remains as a fuzzy term for some people (who refer to it as “clicktivism” as well), and it needs to be separated completely from Performative Activism, which lacks the depth and meaning of true activism, whether is done online or offline.
The true success of a movement comes from its soul. You have it or you don’t. So the next time you want to make your favorite causes a trend, ask yourself: what’s your purpose for doing so?
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Bridge Over Murky Waters: The 2012 Korean Presidential Election
When I worked for Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential primaries, our camp truly thought she would clinch the Democratic nomination, and go on to win the presidency to become our first female president. That didn’t work out, but we did elect our first black president. Great ordeal and I’m mighty proud of it.
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South Korea just elected its first female president, surprisingly before we did. This feat is to be congratulated on its face. Park Geun-hye – whether or not people actually think of her as a woman – is indeed a woman. Many take issue with the fact that she is the daughter of former dictator (yes, not president, not strongman, but dictator, say it loud and clear) Park Jung-hee. I, too, take some issue with that fact, although not as extremely as others. Although the former dictator did arguably lay the groundwork for Korea’s exponential economic growth, he did so by maintaining his power using undemocratic and illegal means, to say the least. I hardheartedly disagree with the notion of focusing on the past and on a candidate’s lineage (which she had minimal control over) instead of focusing strictly on policy issues moving forward. However, this point, in my view, was overlooked to a great extent.
What I do take serious issue with is the way in which this election cycle was conducted. I will not (yet) use the term “rigged”. I will, however, discuss one of many fishy incidents that has already thrown this election into murky waters.
Let’s coin this incident as “The Online Crusaders”. The Cliffnotes version of the story is this. Saenuri, the ruling party of president-elect Park, allegedly hired a protestant pastor and a number of part-time workers, with the sole mission of “rigging” the social media arena. The pastor and his minions allegedly posted tweets and replies under fake aliases, intentionally (and allegedly falsely) accusing candidate Moon Jae-in of various wrongdoings. In addition, Korea’s National Intelligence Service (counterpart to our FBI) allegedly had an entire office dedicated to fabricating social media messages in favor of Park and against Moon. And what the hell was that about the NIS employee locking herself in her Gangnam condominium for days while she was suspected of participating in these acts? NIS agents, supposedly the cream of the crop of Korea’s intelligence community, allegedly hired to sit in front of computer monitors to tweet. Simply embarrassing.
I use the term “allegedly” for all of this, as none of it have been proven in a court of law. But as a lawyer who has looked over Korean election laws, the work of the Online Crusaders – both the pastor and his minions, and the NIS – is a clear violation of the law, if proven to be true.
I take issue with this because these alleged illegal acts were discovered and reported just days before the election, leaving no time to dive into the facts and fully inform the voting public. Whether or not that would have affected the outcome is another question, to which I would personally answer in the negative. Now it seems that the NIS, the police, and even the federal prosecutor’s office is on merry terms with the Saenuri party, forcing an even darker cloud over the prospects of a clean investigation into the cold, hard facts.
In all honesty, I could care less about who is elected as Korea’s next president. None of this affects me personally. And I must say that I am not, and never was, impressed with either candidate, and that I am not Park-bashing in any sense.
But I am pissed that the rule of law has, once again, fallen flat on its face in my home country. I am pissed that the majority of Koreans don’t seem to give a shit about the rule of law. I am pissed that we may never know what really happened during and after the election. I am pissed that regional feelings still dominate the political dialogue of my home country. I am pissed that, throughout the election cycle, the focus has been on finger-pointing and on the past, not educated debates on policy issues to bring about genuine change (don’t get me started on the presidential debates).
The election is over and Korea has a new president-elect. Whining and pissing about the outcome does no good, so I hope Korea finds a way to mend broken bonds and move forward, for God knows the country has a mountain of problems. It may take years, decades for true democratic values (like clean elections) to take root in Korea. It takes more than a system, more than oversight committees and government bureaucrats. It takes a democratic “mindset” that values fair dealing and ethical procedures. It takes a democratic “mindset” that values the well-being of others as much as one’s own. It takes a democratic “mindset” that values the courage to do what’s right.
Democracy is still young in Korea.
1212121212: Time
It doesn’t mean anything. Just another tick on the second hand on a watch, another minute in a day full of minutes, another Wednesday like the ones before. Just another speck in an endless spectrum we call time.
But it does mean something, for this tick, this minute, this Wednesday, shall not return. That tick of the hand is forever engrained, immortalized somewhere in our distant memories as a speck in a finite spectrum we call time.
I once had two hamsters. When we bought them, my mom and I were told that one was male and the other was female, and that they would start reproducing mini-hamsters within weeks. Turns out the bastard lied to us; both were male, and instead of making hamster love, they ended up biting the life out of each other. Tragic story, really, but my point rests elsewhere: the hamsters’ plastic turn wheel. Turning turning turning, that constant, annoying squeak and rattle, day and night. Their beady little eyes either darting side to side or staring into infinity, as their twig-like legs peddled with no purpose or methodology to speak of.
Working life, a lawyer’s life, seems no different than two male hamsters trotting away on a plastic turn wheel. We are lost in the constant churn, deprived of all alertness as to what truly ignites our true purpose. Objectivity is lost, and subjective amusements paint our palette, defined as the willing ability to justify whatever the hell we’re doing. The abnormal becomes the new norm. Questions cease to be asked, as justification becomes acceptance, the lame way of comforting oneself from one’s inability to break the mold.
In some respect, this is truly a #firstworldproblem. Monotonous labor, be it physical or mental, pays the bills, and hoards of individuals would be more than ecstatic to have such paying jobs. Hamster wheel or no hamster wheel.
But dammit, let us not give up our given rights to question what we do, that endless stream of consciousness, poking and prying at the very purpose of life, what we are meant to do, what we were born to accomplish. This tick, this 1212121212 tick, has already passed into the past. History it is. 1111111111 ticked away last year, and in no speck of my mind do I recall what the hell I was doing at that moment in time. We assume the next tick will always be there, unfaltering, guaranteed. We live as if each tick is nothing more than the one before. We live as if time regenerates itself; immortality is ordained upon our own time.
I once read an essay comparing writing to a woman spreading her legs at the OB/GYN, or a man getting a prostate exam (I’m sure it was stated much more elegantly by the author). In short, she defined good writing as bare, open, uncloaked. Embarrassing and exposed, yes, but true. Genuine. No hiding, no holding back. Just you, just as you are.
Life should be no different.
As this one special tick approaches, I will remember the moment as the time when I mused about time. That moment my mind perused through fields and dreams of shattering the earthen pot grasping my very existence. There will be no 1313131313.
My toes are tapping.
I can’t get that melody out of my head. Correction. I can’t get that thumping piano out of my head. That rhythmic, steady, constant thumping. In 5/8 time. Now enters the alto sax with the melody. I can’t get either out of my head. Dave Brubeck, this is all your fault.
On the “About” page of this blog, I nonchalantly wrote down that I am a “musician at times”. Nowadays, that means I grab my banged up acoustic and belch a few songs here and there. But back in the day, zero-period jazz band was the real deal (band nerd, yes).
I’d heard “Take Five” before, on NPR’s nightly jazz sessions. It was catchy, addictive, toe-tapping even then. I never thought I’d get a chance to play it, so when I first got the sheet music for the solo sax part, the word “exhilarated” does not serve justice to my ecstatic state of mind. Sure, a self-taught saxophonist (I was a clarinetist by trade) cannot paint this piece with the masterful loftiness it deserves. But I tried mightily. I listened to that track over and over again, first to immerse myself in the breathy tone of the soloist, then to be afloat on the rhythm of 5/8 time. My toes were tapping. Non-stop.
It’s hypnotic, that 5/8. In fashion, the highest compliment on styling is “looking effortless”, or trying without looking like you tried. 5/8 is like that. The underlying rhythm needs to be a constant, steady churn, like an undercurrent, supporting – but not blanketing – whatever that’s going on above. The melody needs to glide, float. Effortlessly, tugging ever so slightly at the end of the phrases. A never-ending push and pull with time. Elastic but not gooey. Elegant but not fluffy like damn cotton candy. Indeed, this is a hard trick. But fear not, that was Brubeck and his crew.
Not witnessing Brubeck, in person, in the midst of doing what he did best, is one regret I will carry for quite some time. No LP, no CD will do justice to the true magic he produced. But he lives on – his rhythms are immortal, his notes are timeless. My toes are still tapping, playing witness to the chunk of life he left behind.
5/8. Wholesome.
RIP Dave Brubeck.
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Limited Submission Funding Opportunities Feb 11
Posted by: Crystal Williams on: February 11, 2019 | Print This Page
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (VPR) is pleased to announce the following Limited Submission opportunities available to the Johns Hopkins University community.
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR FEBRUARY 11, 2019
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Internal Application Due Date
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
New Innovator Research Award
2 $300,000 2/19/2019
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education (IUSE: CUE)
Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Not limited $600,000 (direct costs only) 4/4/2019
High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Not limited $2,000,000 (direct costs only) 4/4/2019
Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research (SIFAR) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
1 $750,000 (direct costs only) 4/4/2019
HEAL Initiative: Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program Data Integration, Algorithm Development and Operations Management Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
1 See RFA 2/12/2019 Due Tomorrow!
Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)
1 (SOM) $2,800,000 2/14/2019
Breast Cancer Alliance
Exceptional Project Grants
Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
New Access Points (NAP) 1 $1,300,000 2/21/2019
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship
Early Career Faculty!
1 (SOM) $25,000 2/26/2019
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Accelerating Local Potential Addendum to the Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships in Higher Education Program Annual Program Statement
1 $1,000,000 2/26/2019
Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) NSF INCLUDES Alliances
1 $12,500,000 2/28/2019
BMEidea Competition
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3 (1 per dept) $10,000 2/28/2019
Network of Forecasting Centers to Improve Forecast Accuracy and Communication for Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza
1 $3,500,000 3/5/2019
Data Coordinating Center for the Advanced Clinical Trials Consortium to Test Artificial Pancreas Device Systems (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
1 $3,500,000 (direct costs only) 3/7/2019
U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays—Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
N/A- all applications must be submitted to ED centrally
$60,000 3/12/2019
Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Centers (BDSRC) (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)
Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHSCC) (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
1 Up to $6,500,000 (direct costs only) 3/12/2019
Limited Submissions are funding opportunities in which federal and private sponsors limit the number of proposals from an institution. An internal competition is held in order to select the most competitive proposal on behalf of the University.
Please click on each program name for additional information regarding the listed opportunity. Applications are due no later than 4:00 p.m. on the date specified. For more information, please contact us at resapp@jhu.edu.
To see the most updated information on all current and archived limited submission opportunities, please visit our website.
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advice to this pothole.
Posted on April 2, 2018 by beth
advice to this pothole from a pretty good writer:
“have a heart that never hardens,
and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts.”
-charles dickens
Filed under Life and tagged advice, dickens, driving, heart, pothole, road | 26 Comments
Chatter Master on April 2, 2018 at 6:07 am said:
If only all potholes would take heed….
ksbeth on April 2, 2018 at 6:24 am said:
indeed – and this one tried to have a heart, but…
Chatter Master on April 2, 2018 at 7:42 pm said:
But still indeed! One nearly ate me and my car on Sunday.
ksbeth on April 2, 2018 at 8:18 pm said:
i’m so sorry, obviously it was not aware of the dickens quote!
I’ll share it if I come across it again! 😉
renegade4god on April 2, 2018 at 7:13 am said:
better than a tale of two potholes
so funny, and I happen to be reading dickens right now – ‘great expectations.’
manyofus1980 on April 2, 2018 at 7:28 am said:
what an awesome quote! xo
I love it, too –
markbialczak on April 2, 2018 at 7:36 am said:
It was the best of roads, it was the worst of roads. Thanks for finding the romance in a pothole, Beth.
ha, perfect )
Liz on April 2, 2018 at 9:13 am said:
Nice! Funnily enough, I saw the exact same heart in a jar of peanut butter I opened recently. Not sure if all of that brand (Jif maybe?) have that special touch or if it was a fluke. Crazy stuff. But fun to see 🙂
I love discovering these)
Jodi on April 2, 2018 at 10:51 am said:
Infinite Living on April 2, 2018 at 4:56 pm said:
reocochran on April 2, 2018 at 8:15 pm said:
You see amazing views everywhere!! Wow, Beth! I liked your special quote from Charles Dickens.
i love discovering finds like this, and thanks!
reocochran on April 4, 2018 at 10:28 pm said:
These are “golden nuggets” (💛’s) found in the everyday paths of life!
George on April 4, 2018 at 2:51 pm said:
That’s pretty cool..:)
I thought so, too –
Bruna Branco on April 12, 2018 at 7:05 am said:
My favorite writer!
ksbeth on April 12, 2018 at 7:16 am said:
I love him too)
kirizar on July 10, 2018 at 7:57 pm said:
Love your quirky pairing. Did you think of this quotation when you saw the heart-shaped pothole or did Google/cheat your way to a lovely companion quotation?
ksbeth on July 10, 2018 at 8:19 pm said:
i took the picture and found what i wanted to complete the post. my style is always a collage/patchwork approach of sorts. i love combining things that are not normally put together to create a new feel.
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Outdoor Plants That Cause Hives
By Laura Reynolds
Are Peace Lily Plants Safe for Dogs?
Can Nicotine Be a Pesticide?
Are Shamrocks Poisonous to Cats?
Bayer Bug Insecticide & Pets
The Dangers of Chokecherry
Hives, or urticaria, billow up under, not on the surface of, the skin, spreading in impressive red bumps and patches. The condition results not from an allergy, but from the presence of certain chemicals that urge the body to release histamines and breach blood vessels to liberate white cells -- all with the goal of fighting a perceived infection. Some plants excel at triggering contact hives.
Uticaria Basics
Plant-related hives typically result from contact with a plant that manufactures an irritant such as histamine, acetylcholine or urushiol -- or simply has spines, or glochids, that pierce the skin. Contact uticaria typically lasts just a day or two -- until the body starts producing enough antihistamines to counteract the inflammation. Simple contact uticaria responds readily to antihistamines in over-the-counter allergy preparations. Chronic conditions such as eczema, immunodeficiencies and certain stressors can prolong the condition into acute or chronic uticaria, requiring medical attention.
Unpleasant Urushiol Villians
Stinging nettle and Toxicodendron species are proven hive-producers. Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is actually a group of highly adaptable plants that grows across North America from Alaska to Mexico in riparian, forest and alpine areas. In addition to its high nutrive values and role in traditional medicine, stinging nettle grows a coat of urushiol-laden hairs. Poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum), hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 9, grows along the west coast of North America from British Columbia to Baja Mexico. It has no hair but ooze potent urushiol in an oil that has spoiled many campers' and hikers' summer vacations.
Sometime Salicylate Irritants
Salicylate in plants can cause hives and swelling, known as angiodema. Some fruits, including strawberries (Fragara spp.), hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 8, contain high percentages of salicylates. Members of the lily (Lillium spp.) family including onions (Allium spp., hardy in USDA zones 5 through 10), garlic (Allium sativum, hardy in USDA zones 4 through 9), daffodils (Narcissus spp., hardy in USDA zones 4 through 8) and tulips (Tulipa spp. hardy in USDA zones 3 through 8) all contain salicylate in their sap, which might raise hives in sensitive individuals.
Calcium Oxalate Ouches
Some plants lack the chemical punch of uroshiol or salicylates but still contain a chemical that might force a fast flush of hives. Some palms and all aroids, such as calla lilies (Zantedeschia spp.), invasive in some locations and caladiums (Caladium spp.), both grown as garden plants throughout USDA zones 8 through 10, contain the sharp crystals of calcium oxalate, called raphides. Century plant (Agave americana, hardy in USDA zones 8 through 10), compounds the aggravation of the raphides with steroidal glycosides -- saponins -- especially for a gloveless gardener who's careless enough to get nicked by a sharp spine.
National Library of Medicine: Contact Urticaria Due to The Common Stinging Nettle (Urtica Dioica)-- Histological, Ultrastructural and Pharmacological Studies
American Academy of Dermatology: Dermatologists Warn That Plants Can Cause a Garden Variety of Pesky Skin Problems
National Health Service Wales: Nettle Rash
Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology And Allergy
State of Washington: Phytodermatitis: Skin Reactions Caused by Plants
The Feingold Association: Salicylate List
U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention: Poisonous Plants
Dermnet New Zealand: Plants That Cause Skin Problems
Missouri Botanical Garden: Toxicodendron Diversilobum
An avid perennial gardener and old house owner, Laura Reynolds has had careers in teaching and juvenile justice. A retired municipal judgem Reynolds holds a degree in communications from Northern Illinois University. Her six children and stepchildren served as subjects of editorials during her tenure as a local newspaper editor.
Indoor Harmful Plants
Do Stinging Nettles Affect Dogs?
The Effects Calla Lilies Have on a Cat
Is Agave Toxic to Dogs?
Are Wandering Jew Plants Dangerous to Dogs?
Nicotine and Bugs in Plants
Is Night-Blooming Cereus Poisonous to Cats?
Are Asparagus Plants Poisonous or Not?
1 Indoor Harmful Plants
2 Do Stinging Nettles Affect Dogs?
3 The Effects Calla Lilies Have on a Cat
4 Dangers of Pyrethrum
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NIA delaying trial in Malegaon blast case, not us: Sadhvi Pragya's lawyers
Advocate JP Mishra, lawyer of BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, speaking to reporters in Delhi on Saturday. Photo/ANI
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 19 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is delaying the trial in the 2008 Malegaon blast case and not us, advocate JP Mishra, lawyer of BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, said on Saturday.
This comes after a special NIA court in Mumbai, earlier today, expressed unhappiness over the absence of all the accused during the hearing and again directed all the accused persons to physically appear before the court on the next hearing on January 4.
"It is the NIA which is delaying the trial and not us. if they allege that case is delayed due to the absence of the accused, then let them show examples when we have sought adjournment on basis of absence," Mishra told reporters here.
Mishra was responding to the allegations of Sameer Kulkarni, who is another accused in the case. Earlier, Kulkarni had reportedly said that it is sad that other accused in the case including Sadhvi Pragya are delaying the trial by seeking exemptions.
Notably, four out of the seven accused were present before the court. Three accused persons, including Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Sudhakar Chaturvedi did not appear before the special NIA court today. Applications for exemption from today's hearing were filed before the court by their lawyers.
Mishra, during the hearing, appraised the court that all arrangements were made for Pragya's travel to Mumbai including her stay at a government guest house in order to attend the hearing, however, she was admitted to AIIMS, Delhi for treatment after the advice from her doctors, and could not come to Mumbai.
Speaking to ANI, he said, "It is the NIA, which only brings one witness in every hearing, whose statement and cross-questioning gets over in an hour or less than that. Let the NIA bring four to five witnesses a day. Then, we can expect expedited proceedings. Who has stopped NIA from bringing more witnesses so that the court can function for longer?"
Apart from Thakur, LT Col Purohit, Chaturvedi and Kulkarni, Ajay Rahirkar, retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay and Sudhakar Dwivedi are also accused in the case.
They have been charged under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the Explosive Substances Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The charges include Sections 16 (committing terrorist act) and 18 (conspiring to commit terrorist act) of the UAPA and Sections 120(b) (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 153(a) (promoting enmity between two religious groups) of the IPC.
Six people were killed and over 100 injured when an explosive device strapped to a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon, a town in north Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008. (ANI)
Australian Open Arrivals Hit by Two Positive COVID-19 Tests, Players to Quarantine
Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka was reported by local media to be among a group of players set to be under the strictest quarantine for two weeks.
America's Tibet law represents direct challenge to China's continuing repression of Tibetans: European think tank
Amsterdam, [Netherlands], January 17 (ANI): The Tibetan Policy and Support Act (TPSA), which was recently adopted by the United States, is a major upgrade to American policy on Tibet and represents a direct challenge to China's continuing repression of people of the region, a European think tank said.
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Latestly
Night Curfew Imposed in Karnataka Till January 2, 2021 Amid New Coronavirus Strain Fears
Team Latestly
Bengaluru, December 23: The Karnataka government has decided to impose night curfew in the state starting today, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Wednesday. The night curfew, from 10 pm to 6 am, will remain imposed till January 2, 2021. The decision was taken amidst the huge global scare over a new strain of coronavirus detected in the United Kingdom. Yediyurappa had yesterday said that there is no proposal before the government to impose night curfew in the state. New Coronavirus Strain Not Seen in India So Far, Unlikely to Impact COVID-19 Vaccines' Efficacy, Says Government.
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"This (night curfew) has been done to prevent and contain the coronavirus strain found in the UK. We are also monitoring international passengers arriving in the state," Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar said. "Between December 23 and January 2, no function or festive celebration is allowed to take place after 10 pm. It applies to every kind of functions," he added. Besides night curfew, the Karnataka government has made 14-day quarantine mandatory for those who have come from the United Kingdom irrespective of RT-PCR test results. No Evidence That New Variant of Coronavirus More Deadly, Says WHO Official.
"Those who test positive will have to be quarantined in government facilities while those who test negative will have to undergo home quarantine," Sudhakar said. He has ruled out the possibility of a lockdown. Earlier, the Maharashtra government announced a night curfew in Mumbai and 26 others corporations' jurisdictions for the next 15 days till January 5.
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The new strain of coronavirus, which is up to 70 percent more transmissible than the original version, has emerged in the UK sparking panic across the world, including India. India has announced the suspension of all flights to and from the UK till December 31 in the wake of the new mutant strain of novel coronavirus.
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Schools reopen in Nashik; 62 teachers contract COVID-19
4 January 2021, 1:29 pm ·1-min read
Nashik, Jan 4 (PTI) After a gap of more than nine months, schools for students studying in classes 9 to 12 reopened in Nashik district of Maharashtra on Monday even as 62 teachers tested positive for COVID-19 before resuming duties, officials said.
Out of the 1,324 schools in rural Nashik and city limits, as many as 846 started classes for students of standards 9 to 12, said a release from the district administration.
As many as 1,21,579 students attended schools which were shut since March-end last year due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown, it said.
Prior to reopening the schools, RT-PCR tests of 7,063 headmasters/teachers and 2,500 non-teaching staff members were conducted, the release said.
Out of these, 62 headmasters/teachers and 10 non- teaching staffers tested positive for COVID-19, it said.
As per the new norms, 50 per cent of the students will attend the school on one day and the remaining will come the next day, the release said.
Observing measures to prevent the COVID-19 spread such as sanitisation of schools, thermal scanning, use of masks and hand sanitisers and maintaining social distance have been made compulsory for teachers, non-teaching staff and students. PTI COR RSY RSY
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Croatia: Vukovar – A Place Of Special Piety
November 5, 2013 by inavukic 32 Comments
This is truly amazing! Vukovar makes history again! This time with firm determination and assertion of its rights as a maimed, tortured, murdered, raped victim of Serb aggression during early 1990’s!
At it’s Council meeting the city of Vukovar has yesterday 4 November voted to amend its Constitution/Statute and declare the city a place of special piety for its suffering and being a victim of the Homeland War and declare the Croatian language and its Latin script as its official language.
All the protests and all the deeply painful cries against introducing the Cyrillic script (Serbian language) in the past year, led by the Committee for the defense of Croatian Vukovar (about which I have written several posts) have not fallen on deaf ears when it comes to Local government authorities. The Local government decision will now need to be presented to the State government for further deliberation/ratification by the Parliament and, hence, Vukovar’s special piety status remains only a declaration at this stage.
Whether the imminent deliberations by the State Parliament on this matter of Local Council declaration will evolve into a “David and Goliath” battle remains to be seen. Certainly, the Social Democrat led government has not shown much inclination towards listening to reasoning and the plights of victims of war and their need to heal in peace without being exposed to the language of their executioner on daily bases. However, miracles have been known to happen and we can only trust at this stage that the government will make an effort into assessing how this historic move by Vukovar’s council could be fitted into the country’s relevant constitutional laws.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way! I truly believe in the veracity of that old saying – no matter what issue is at stake.
The immediate meaning of Vukovar city declaration is that there will be no bilingual signs on buildings and places under Local Government control. The bilingual signage will however, for the time being, apply to buildings under State government jurisdiction.
According to Croatian HRT TV, president Ivo Josipovic, commented that it is justified for Vukovar to declare itself a place of special piety, but of course not in the parts where that would be in opposition with constitutional law and that this needs to be clear to everyone.
Regretfully, this looks like a signal of appallingly low or non-existent creativity. On the other hand, his comment could have well been strategically placed in order to embolden the government to keep digging its heels in against what Croats of Vukovar (the victims) want. After all, the president of the country should be the first to encourage innovative ways of appeasing unrest among the people and embracing initiatives that have at their root respect for victims’ needs to heal without harsh irritants such as Cyrillic script presents at this stage.
The largest parliamentary opposition party (Croatian Democratic Union/HDZ) led by Tomislav Karamarko have stood their ground all the while, considering that erecting bilingual signs in Vukovar has been illegal, i.e. that not all relevant parts of the constitutional law on ethnic minority rights have been considered by the government.
But even if Vukovar’s declaration and amendment of its Statute does not pass in Parliament one thing is set in stone, it seems: Croats of Vukovar will not give up their fight against Cyrillic in Vukovar. Their other trump card is in their claim that the 2011 census, which showed 34% Serbs living in Vukovar, is not a true reflection of Vukovar’s population. E.g. Vukovar has a population of 27,000 and yet 42,000 are registered with local police authority as living in Vukovar! Hence, along with the Committee for the defense of Croatian Vukovar the HDZ is seeking urgent implementation of the so-called Residency Act, by which anyone not found to be living in the place registered would be struck off the register. Of course, the Independent Democratic Serb Party/SDSS in Vukovar has issues with this!
If it turns out to resemble a sort of “David and Goliath” battle then “David” – the Vukovar Croats, the victims – will win this battle in the end. This is a most respectful prospect for all victims everywhere for, to my knowledge, there has not yet been a whole town, a whole city or a whole village declared a place of special piety, a mass monument honouring mass suffering. How wonderful for humanity this prospect is! Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A.Ps. (Syd)
And if anyone doubts the righteousness of installing Vukovar as a place of special piety here are some images that tell us: surely, no one can deny such respect for the victims!
march through Vukovar singing:
Alleyway of massacres of Croats
Vukovar, Croatia
Morgue with remains of murdered Croats
Croats forced to leave their homes
Serbs ethnically cleansed Croats
Serb Chetnik forces and Serb-led
Yugoslav Army drive Croats to
A battered city
Devastation from Serb aggression
A horrid price was paid for
wanting democracy and
rejecting communism
Cemetery for victims of Serb aggression
New cemetery, Vukovar
Monument to victims of Serb aggression
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Wonderful post! These images are the reason Vukovar should be a place of special piety!
Thanks Did. I agree and these photos are just the tip of that horrible iceberg of terror
sachemspeaks says:
Just when we, the native Americans where thinking that we are the only people suffering, along comes your postings. I think yes, amazing and each and every one of the people of Vukovar are also HERO’s. Thank you for your posting.
Thank you sachemspeaks on comment, it’s a sad reality that suffering has been and still is widespread and it’s a sad reality that many resist taking the responsibility for their actions and others let them – for political reasons
As I stated several times Vukovar is to Croatia what the Vatican is to Rome. This is firmly understood by many and it will always be understood that Vukovar is and always will be a sacred holy place not only in our country but in our hearts and mind.While the local government had the courage to do what is right I firmly believe that the state government will take a different position. None the less we will prevail in one of two ways and that is to install a new government that respects the will of the people either through elections or overthrowing of the government as a whole. The power and will of the Croatian people have been tested before and we need to make this loud and clear to our government. There is nothing anywhere in Croatia that belongs to the Serbs and never will be ….Za Dom Spremni!
Yes Michael I fear the same regarding State government deliberations but the good signals are that much of the opposition is on the same wagon as victims in this case so future does actually seem brighter if people act
Ina, I would just have to point out that not a single foreign news agency translated the Slobo salad song the day of the fall or the days after.
Not a single one – not one video report, not a single print report about the “Serbian forces singing patriotic songs in celebration of Vukovar’s (“)liberation(“).”
Its quite fascinating how the inspectors comb through every single Croatian majority hamlet, village and town in Dalmatia, Lika, Banovina, Kordun and southern Slavonia, but not in say Vukovar, to check for illegally registered and or absentee voters who live in RS and or Serbia full time.
Yes, therealamericro, I shall never ever forget the horror I felt in 1991 watching BBC news that showed Serbs chanting and singing “Slobo, Slobo, send us some salad, there will be meat we’ll slaughter the Croats” and hearing the BBC journalist comment how Serbs were singing patriotic song!!! Then there was immediate complaint to BBC, the next day BBC apologised for mistake “in translation” but never ever commented on that again, hoping that the memory of that Serb horror would simply die away!? And as far as counting the people properly in Vukovar, there is no doubt in my mind and minds of all fact loving people I’m sure, that Vukovar’s numbers don’t bother the political elite as they are on a path that clashes with any real and meaningful human decency towards victims. Vukovar is symbol of Croatian independence and they aim to interfere with that at every chance they get or create.
Ina the BBC has always mostly been incorrect when it comes down to news in the balkans especially with us, heck they even said that we agreed and wanted to be part of the first Serb-dominated Yugoslavia and that we wanted to be part of the communist/Serb dominated second one to.
Yes Jure, BBC was/is so biased against Croatia, but then it used to be a nest for communist secret police UDBA agents and all sorts of unsavoury propaganda blowing from Serbia I’m sure
Chasing the Donkey says:
No matter how many times I see these types of images, I simply feel numb. I can not imagine how the people of Vukovar feel. May God Bless them.
Thanks Chasing the Donkey, bless Vukovar
annathrax says:
We should never forget vukovar! Thanks for an amazing post!
I agree Annatrax, thanks for feedback too
Ako sa vjetrom neki zvuk vas budi, to kuca srce hrabrih ljudi, i reći ću vam samo, još jednu stvar: zapamtite Vukovar!
Translation of comment by Kat: If a sound in the wind awkws you, it’s the beating of the heart of courageous people, and one more thing: remember Vukovar!
Ruben Demirjian says:
Muy bueno .Además muy buenas imágenes
Thank you Ruben on you “very good” feedback! A kiss to you too – across the oceans that divide and unite us in pursuits for truth and justice
Lucian Bureriu says:
Srpski horror
It’s even worse Lucian Bureriu when perpetrators express no remorse, do nothing to reveal where missing bodies are buried… Hopefully this too will come
Wow. Again those photos are heartbreaking. Seems there is still a ways to go for healing but that there is movement.
Healing slow by many accounts psychologistmimi; hard to shift such horrible events to a place in the heart and mind that allows more peace, but bit by bit it will come I hope & pray
Lex Justitia says:
It is important to keep truth live and never forget all victims that fall, on any side, especially in Vukovar. Still, I read some of reply with a phrase “za dom spremni”, that is, I think, Nazi statment… I think you should ban this, for many Jews, Gypsies (and Serbs) died because of it during WWII.
Thank you, Lex Justitia, it is unfortunate that the greeting ‘For home ready” (Za dom spremni) has been associated by many with WWII but in fact it is a greeting that has existed in Croatia much longer and represents patriotic love rather than a regime. Croats too were victims of the WWII Nazi collaboration in both Croatia and Serbia and that fact has been dealt with both through courts of justice and condemnation of other kind. Not everyone who uses that greeting is associated with what went on in WWII where there were different sides …
So terribly sad!
Yes Kelly, thank you
I just shake my head with such heartfelt
Know what you mean, Kelley – been there and still am, too
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Farmers Union Announces New Climate Change Policy Advisory Panel
December 9, 2020Press Releases
Contact: Hannah Packman, 303-819-8737
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WASHINGTON – To strengthen its ongoing efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, National Farmers Union (NFU) today announced its new Climate Change Policy Advisory Panel (CCPAP). The panel’s 16 family farmer and rancher members will inform the organization’s climate-related legislative work, educational programming, outreach, and communications.
“There is a lot of work being done in the media, nonprofits, research institutions, the private sector, and across local, state, and national governments to help farmers implement climate-smart practices and build resilience to weather extremes,” said NFU President Rob Larew. “But ultimately, no one understands what’s necessary better than farmers and ranchers themselves. By establishing this panel and really listening to our members’ experiences and ideas, we can ensure that our actions are truly supporting them and providing them with the tools and knowledge they need to confront this crisis.”
With operations ranging significantly in size, type, and production method, the panel members reflect the diversity of American agriculture. Both organic and conventional operations are included, as are growers of specialty crops, row crops, and livestock. Additionally, several members produce renewable fuels and energy, while others are involved with their local farmer cooperatives.
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Street Art in Wales
A street artist is using art to help the homeless in Cardiff, Wales
A street artist is using art to help the homeless in Cardiff
Award-winning Kyle Legall is working with a centre for the homeless
ABBIE WIGHTWICK
WalesOnline NEWS
Award-winning Butetown street artist Kyle Legall is using art to help homeless people in Cardiff get new skills to help them find jobs.
Street artist Kyle Legall
Kyle, who has been artist-in-residence for National Theatre Wales and produced street performance project The Butetown Rats, hopes he can pass on a love of creativity that will help homeless people develop skills to find employment.
Future projects will include turning external walls of the centre into works of art.
The Huggard Centre has more than 25,000 visits a year from homeless and vulnerable people and aims to provide help for training as well as immediate emergency help.
The 20-bed hostel has an emergency overnight stay unit and 14 shared houses with 53 tenants getting personal support from the centre.
As well as providing support, subsidised meals and substance misuse help, the centre also works to provide training and volunteering opportunities and it is hoped the new art initiative will eventually help people into work, Huggard chief executive Richard Edwards said.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/street-artist-using-art-help-12168592
The Huggard Centre
Cafe H is open to the public.
Meet the man behind some of Cardiff’s most eye-catching street art
It is not long since graffiti was seen as uniquely the preserve of vandals and miscreants but street artist Bryce Davies is changing that, one wall at a time
RUTH MOSALSKI
WalesOnline: NEWS
‘You can explain it’
Social media is one of the factors Bryce cites as helping change attitudes to graffiti.
That has helped break down barriers and anabled people to understand the work that
There is now such a thing as
It is not long since graffiti was seen as uniquely the preserve of vandals and miscreants, a kind of harbinger of social disorder that had to be kept at bay.
In the US, a theory of crime dubbed
It led to graffiti being treated as a social evil, something to be battled by authorities fighting for safer, happier cities.
As a result, those who wanted to celebrate the counter-cultural, creative origins of modern graffiti, which emerged in the late
Mural of Gareth Bale by artist Bryce Davies on the changing rooms at Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff (Image:
Yet, whether it is to do with the commercial and cultural appeal of global stars like Banksy or just a more sympathetic understanding of how such work can make rundown areas more attractive, as well as contributing to a city
Authorities in cities like Cardiff and across the world now work with artists, both actively commissioning their work and providing tolerated
Unauthorised work, of whatever quality, on public and private buildings may still be taboo
As you walk around Cardiff, whether the city centre or suburbs, you can
Some of Bryce’s work
A work he painted on a boys
The Spy Booth work appeared overnight in April 2014 on the wall of a house in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, about three miles from the headquarters of Britain
From walls to vans
On Saturday, pictures were shared on social media showing the wall stripped back to its brickwork.
Alex Chalk, the Conservative MP for the town, described the possible loss of the work as
A stunning image of an owl by Bryce on the corner of Park Street in Cardiff city centre was painted over by a charity advert that was crude in comparison.
“It’s a warehouse where we have a graffiti exhibition every few months and people from different crews and communities come to exhibit. Legal walls are a really important thing to me. That’s where we can spend all day painting without having to look over our shoulders.”
As well as a safe place to paint, it’s also a way to learn from your peers and share ideas and tips.
“It’s one of the great things about graffiti – it’s the collaborative side of it,” he says.
“Social media means people can not only put their work out there but also explain it,” he says.
That has helped break down barriers and anabled people to understand the work that’s gone into street art and the reasons behind it. Social media also means that work done on street corners can now travel the world digitally – turning graffiti into much more of a global medium.
There is now such a thing as “graffiti tourism”, in which artists travel and paint across the world.
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It’s not just walls
Bryce said the work had been inspired by the Mabinogion tale of Blodeuwedd, who gets turned into an owl. He has since painted an entirely new bit of street art on the wall, depicting a fire-breathing red dragon.
Croeso i
On the wall on Park Street, it
When it came to creating the dragon, the background was the first step. He then sketched an outline in spray paint, and built up the image using layers and detailed techniques.
‘Shine or a pop’
An epic demonstration of his skills
Bryce started experimenting with graffiti as a teenager. He admits he wasn
‘I try to be original’
For that, he worked with a local primary school to come up with ideas for an old railway bridge which spanned the tracks of the old line that used to carry coal from the Universal pit.
An image of a piece of street art by Bryce Davies, who works under the name Peaceful Progress
Instead, this art is his life and income
Bryce says there is a distinction between street art, like Banksy
‘There’s a lot of styles’
There are murals in Cardiff of everything from dragons to footballers, as well as an entire boardwalk covered in colourful, luminous graffiti.
And the age of those taking part is hugely varied.
As a rule, anything older should be painted over first. Or anything of a lower quality such as random tags or markings.
But when they walk away from a piece they
But what next?
An artist collective lived inside, and it was a draw not just for artists, but tourists too. Nearer to home, in Bristol, Nelson Street has become a mecca for street art. The street spawned See No Evil, which became Europe
It is still listed as one of the places tourists should go to get a feel for the city
In Berlin, the Kunsthaus Tacheles was a huge building which was covered inside and out with graffiti-style murals.
One of the city
As well as commercial deals with shops or councils, he is involved in projects such as the legal wall in Llandaff North
The Boilerhouse, a graffiti and street art gallery, started in Llandaff North but has now moved to Sanatorium Road.
Street art on Croft Street, Roath, Cardiff, by Kera
Sam said the mixed reaction to street art was interesting but that some people
Sam, who started this particular project on Monday, said larger wall murals tend to take less time than a smaller painting as they require less detail and more freedom.
Lucy, 19, a resident of Roath, said she liked and supported the work of street artists.
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All it takes is a stroll around Cardiff to see it
And this mural on Inverness Place in Roath is the latest in a long line which is being designed by Cardiff-based artist Sam, who goes by the artist alias Colour Doomed.
The artist and curator, who is one of the organisers of street art festival Empty Walls, has been decorating the streets of Cardiff with his art for nine years.
His latest wall mural covers the side wall of his friend
Musician Gwenno Saunders at the unveiling of a giant street art mural inspired by and featuring the Welsh Music Prize Winner at Clwb Ifor Bach in Womanby Street Cardiff
MILLIE THWAITES
UPDATED18:08, 10 MAR 2016
The Dogs Trust launched a new street art campaign on Wood Street in Cardiff
A colourful example of street art, spotted near the Millennium Stadium
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/brilliant-new-street-art-appeared-11022554st piece of street art in Cardiff?
The Gareth Bale mural in Whitchurch, Cardiff
This brilliant new street art has appeared on the side of a house in Cardiff
This new work of street art has appeared on a house in Cardiff but not everyone is happy about it
Sam, who goes by his artist alias of Colour Doomed, started this wall mural on the side of a house in Roath
Brunei Graffiti Crew posted in Peaceful Progress
Brunei Graffiti trip..
Posted on January 18, 2018 by Bryce
During my recent stint in Asia I headed over to Brunei to visit some friends and paint some walls. Brunei has a fairly young but very talented and humble graffiti scene with a great ethos behind it. There are some great writers and artists out there, and hospitality was through the roof! If you ever find yourself there, head over to Stain, the Graffiti store and gallery, which incidentally was inspired by our own Graffiti gallery space here in Cardiff, The Boiler House. Various walls painted alongside Budi one, Nerd ink, and Nycer. Big shout out to Tag one and the other guys I met and hung out with!
https://www.peacefulprogress.org/
Brunei Graffiti Angle 2 posted in Peaceful Progress
“Posted in Peaceful Progress
Bangkok – Common Ground
I was stoked to do a weeks guest spot in Common Ground in Bangkok in December. A great shop in the Silom area run by great people. Common Gound host a large number of guest artists form all over the world all throughout the year.. if your ever in Bangkok and looking for quality work, make sure you check them out!Â
Big thanks to Dillon, Jordi and co for having me. I’ll be seeing you again soon!”
Brunei Graffiti posted in Peaceful Progress
Sabah Graffiti
I had the opportunity to squeeze in a little bit of Graffiti in Sabah after the convention before heading to Brunei. This was alongside Cracko from Sabah, and my buddy from NZ.”
NZ – Wales
Posted on November 16, 2017 by Bryce
Ok, you’d be forgiven for thinking this post is about Rugby… especially as these pieces were painted literally right by one the gates into the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. However, this is more about a reunion between 2 friends who live at the opposite ends of the earth. My buddy Tepid was on a tour of the UK and of course had to come pay a visit. The last time we painted together was in NZ back in 2012 in Wellington, and then Christchurch. It as my turn to repay the favour and show some hospitality. Hopefully see you again in another 5 years…Â
Go Compare approached me to create a mural in their offices to co-incide with the launch of their new 5 values. It was all a bit hush hush at the time, and I wasn’t allowed to post anything until they had launched the campaign. They even covered up the mural from their employees until the time was ready. This meant a long weekend in a corridor complete with fans, extraction fans and masks, working to complete the mural while the employees were off for the weekend. Only the security guard knew what was going on. It was a fun project to work on with good people, watch this space for more.Â
Garden mural
A bit of classic Peaceful Progress garden muralism going down in Splott… landscapes to soften the urban environment.Â
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As an IFP report noted, Iowa could put up signs: “Welcome, Multistate Corporations: Cheat on Your Taxes Here.”
Sunday’s New York Times asks a poignant question: What’s the record for shutting a loophole?
What caught the Times’ attention was about as brazen a move as we could expect from the shady-deal wings of corporate America: The tobacco industry, facing a 20-fold tax increase on roll-your-own cigarettes to help support the Children’s Health Insurance Program, just changed the label of a product to avoid the tax. Noted the Times:
Companies simply remarketed roll-your-own as “pipe tobacco,” which is taxed at one-tenth the rate and is not subject to any definitive distinction under the law. The result is that roll-your-own companies, while a small part of the cigarette industry, quintupled their output of pipe tobacco in just five months to 1.7 million pounds — enough to roll 42 million packs of cigarettes.
The evasion could cost the government more than $30 million a month in revenues, according to the Associated Press. But the potential cost to the public is far greater, since studies show higher cigarette taxes have proved to be an effective way to discourage children from smoking.
The new fear is that the gimmickry of rolling your own and using flavored (“pipe”) tobacco — now banned in packaged cigarettes — could prove irresistible for youngsters experimenting with life. And with death.
So, in one fell swoop, the industry effectively rewrote tax law on its own, without the help of Congress or the President, and not only defied the intent of Congress in finding a way to pay for better health for kids but found its own way to worsen kids’ health and drive up costs of health care.
There are lessons here for Iowa, not in terms of health policy so much as tax policy. Not that the Hawkeye State has ever been in any danger of setting records in the closing of tax loopholes. At this point, just shutting loopholes on the books for a generation would be nice, and beneficial to Iowa residents and small businesses.
For years, Iowa has allowed multistate corporations that do business here to effectively set their own tax rates. At the same time businesses complain about their income tax rate, most don’t pay it — because of legal but excessive tax breaks on the one hand and apparently legal shenanigans on the other, many businesses find ways to avoid taxes the law was designed to collect. As the cuts we’re seeing to critical public services attest, there is a cost to our generosity to big corporations.
As IPP’s Peter Fisher noted in the 2007 Iowa Fiscal Partnership report “Leveling the Playing Field,” we could just as easily put up signs at the borders: “Welcome, Multistate Corporations: Cheat on Your Taxes Here.”
By Mike Owen, Assistant Director
Author iowapolicypointsPosted on November 24, 2009 November 24, 2009 Categories Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, OrganizationTags budget, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, revenue stability, tax credit, tax fairness
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By the Editorial Comitee IVI Blog
You may have heard about frozen embryo transfers and may be confused or concerned, but there is no need to be. This process simply means that instead of the female patient going through ovarian stimulation at the start of each cycle of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), embryos from a previous cycle are thawed ready for implant instead. This cuts down on the amount of time that is needed for each cycle, and more importantly it offers the patient the chance to use the freshest possible eggs. The quality of eggs deteriorates with age, leading to the possibility of having a more difficult time conceiving. The fresher the eggs, the better the chance that they will be of high enough quality to result in pregnancy. A patient will have enough eggs collected during her first cycle to produce multiple embryos, the eggs that are fertilised and ready to be transferred back into the uterus. IVI offers single embryo transfer during IVF, meaning that the remaining embryos can be vitrified, ready to be used in future cycles.
Who can opt for frozen embryo transfers?
IVI works with women between the ages of 18 and 50, offering the fertility treatment that is most appropriate for each patient’s individual circumstances. In general, younger women have higher quality eggs, though of course this is not true in every case. Those who have suffered through multiple miscarriages, endometriosis, or early miscarriage may have different success rates to those who have other infertility issues, and this may be down to the quality of the eggs. However, the earlier a patient visits IVI and begins the fertility treatment, the higher the likelihood that her eggs will result in embryos and ultimately result in pregnancy. Any of IVI’s female patients who go through ovarian stimulation are welcome to opt to freeze resulting embryos for future use.
Frozen embryo transfer terminology
Fertility specialists use various terms at each stage of the process. An egg is also known as an oocyte, and the egg can be collected from the female patient or from an egg donor. Once the egg has been fertilised, it is known as a zygote. When the fertilised egg has developed and reached the second stage of development, usually beginning at day 5 after fertilisation, it becomes a blastocyst. Technically, this is the correct term to use until the tenth day after fertilisation, when the blastocyst enters the third stage of development and is then referred to as an embryo. The embryo does not enter the foetal stage until week ten of the pregnancy.
While many medical professional bodies refer to embryo transfer, this is a catch-all term that generally refers to the transfer of blastocysts. Blastocysts are given between three and five days to develop before being transferred into the uterus, with later-stage blastocysts having a higher chance of resulting in pregnancy in general.
How are eggs collected, fertilised and frozen?
Female patients go through hormone treatment at the start of their first cycle of IVF. This stimulates egg production, allowing the clinic to collect multiple eggs, rather than just the single one that would be released during a natural, unstimulated cycle. Collecting multiple eggs means that the clinic is able to produce as many embryos as possible. If the patient has opted for Preimplantation Genetic Screening or Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, one of the blastocysts may be subject to a biopsy to investigate genetic structure and possible genetic anomalies such as Down’s Syndrome. A blastocyst will then be transferred back into the patient’s uterus. The remaining embryos can, and should, be frozen. Fertilised eggs can be frozen at any stage of the process, including from day one, but it is much more common to allow the blastocyst to develop beforehand. Research shows that there is a better chance of a successful pregnancy from a blastocyst that has been allowed to develop for five days than from a fertilised egg that is transferred earlier.
How does the frozen embryo transfer process differ from IVF with fresh eggs?
The only differences between using fresh and frozen eggs in a cycle of IVF is that the female patient will not have to go through ovarian stimulation at the beginning of the frozen embryo transfer process, and that the male patient will not need to deliver his sperm. The male patient (or indeed, sperm donor) has already played his part and his genetic material is not needed again. This is also true of the female patient (or egg donor), but she will still need to go through hormone treatment to encourage thickening of the endometrial lining. This is the part of the cycle that prepares the womb for embryo implantation. The frozen blastocyst is thawed carefully and, when ready, transferred. The rest of the cycle is exactly the same as when fresh eggs are used, and rates of success remain stable, regardless of whether a fresh or frozen embryo is transferred.
What happens after Frozen Embryo Transfer?
The remaining steps of the cycle of IVF are exactly the same. As this cannot be the patient’s first attempt at conceiving via IVF, she will be familiar with what happens over the next few days. It can be tempting to take a pregnancy test at ten days after frozen embryo transfer, but the recommended advice from IVI is to continue to wait and to take a test from fourteen days post transfer. Testing too early may result in a false negative, which can cause upset. It should be borne in mind that the waiting time between transfer and taking a pregnancy test can seem long and frustrating. The patient may have questions about what to do after a frozen embryo transfer, but the answer is really that the best thing to do is to go on with life as normal.
Chances of success with Frozen Embryo Transfer
Frozen embryo transfer success rates do not differ in any significant way from those of fresh embryo transfers. Because of the advances in modern fertility treatment, 95% of thawed blastocysts are suitable for transfer. Of course, IVI carefully thaws each frozen embryo transfer blastocyst before continuing with the next stage of the IVF cycle, meaning that only viable, high quality blastocysts are transferred. The biggest benefit to using frozen embryo blastocysts is that fresher eggs are used, improving the success rate of a second attempt overall. In Spain, where IVI has 31 clinics, waiting times are very short, but this is not the case in every country. Being able to begin another cycle of IVF immediately after a failed one, or, on the other hand, being able to give yourself time to recover and possibly grieve between IVF cycles is an important aspect that should not be overlooked. It is unfortunate when couples or single women feel forced to attempt another cycle of IVF when they may not be emotionally ready, because time is ticking by. Opting for frozen embryo transfer may be the best way to buy a little breathing space without sacrificing chances of success.
Frozen eggs and frozen embryo transfer
Frozen embryo transfer is different from using frozen eggs. Using frozen eggs in IVF means that only one or two eggs are thawed ready for fertilisation, only being prepared directly before they are needed. This means that a previously frozen egg, once fertilised, is unlikely to be re-frozen. IVI maintains that single embryo transfer is best practice, and the likelihood of blastocysts from previously frozen eggs being wasted is incredibly low. Frozen eggs have many of the same benefits of frozen embryo transfer, such as shorter waiting times for ovary stimulation, but apart from this the two procedures are very different. Women are likely to freeze their eggs so that they have the option of attempting IVF at a date in the future, even if they are not ready to start a family at that point in their lives; frozen embryo transfer comes about where patients have more than one viable blastocyst available during a cycle of IVF, where it would be prudent to freeze one to use at a later date. Using frozen eggs and frozen embryo transfer are not interchangeable, but rather mutually exclusive choices to be made when opting for IVF.
In some cases frozen embryo transfer of blastocysts may be the best possible option, especially for a couple or single woman who has been through one or two cycles of IVF previously. Success rates remain at the same level as with fresh embryo transfer, and slightly higher for some women. This is because the egg used was from an earlier time in her life, before any decline in the quality of her eggs. It is certainly an option to consider when discussing your own circumstances with the professionals at your IVI clinic.
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I had a failed IVF.
I still have some frozen embryos.
How much does a frozen embryo transfer cost after a failed fresh transfer please?
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I just had a failed IVF treatment this month in your clinic and I’m so devastated and afraid of another failure.
I’m opting for a frozen transfer soon but my doctor is hesitant about transfer of 2 blastocysts and I really want your clinic to transfer 2 of my frozen embryos in my next transfer.
Dear Ozoagu, we’re sure your doctor explained the risks attached to multiple pregnancies, which is the main reason why we don’t recommend transfering two embryos at a time, especially if those are of good quality. We recommend you discuss this with your doctor, who will be able to provide you with more information.
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Hot Issue — Revolutionary Roadshow: Libyan Arms and Fighters Bring Instability to North and West Africa: Part Two
By: Andrew McGregor
February 9, 2012 09:31 PM Age: 9 years
A year after the eruption of Libya’s spontaneous revolution, there are few signs of progress towards establishing internal security or a democratic government. Real power lies in the hands of well-armed militias with little inclination to disarm or demobilize and the ruling Transitional National Council (TNC) has been reduced to holding its meetings in secret to avoid bottle-throwing, grenade-hurling demonstrators. Amidst this turmoil come increasingly louder demands for a Shari’a regime as the old regime’s looted armories and former soldiers fuel new insurrections in the Sahel/Sahara region. Even as neighboring Mali descends into a new round of rebellion that threatens to become an all-out civil war, Niger and Algeria are struggling to find ways to break the wave of violence at their borders.
The alarming developments on the Libyan periphery inspired a special two-day meeting of foreign ministers and intelligence chiefs from Mali, Algeria Mauritania and Niger in Nouakchott in late January. These officials also invited their counterparts from Nigeria and Burkina Faso to discuss the rising “terrorist threat” in the Sahel/Sahara region and the possibility of ties between AQIM and Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants (AFP, January 23; PANA, January 24; Nouvel Horizon [Bamako], January 24).
*Part One: The Libyan Pandemonium can be found here.
Part Two: Libyan Arms Enable New Tactics and Strategies
Some observers have noted a change in Tuareg tactics in the current rebellion in a switch from their usual adherence to guerrilla methods to attacks in strength and attempts to seize and hold settlements in northern Mali. The effort to carve out a new Azawad nation may well be fuelled by the rebels’ possession of superior weaponry obtained during the Libyan collapse (Le Republicain [Bamako], January 30). The assaults on small towns in the north may be a means of testing the strength of the Malian army before the Tuareg rebels mount attacks on larger centers like Gao and Timbuktu.
However, not all Mali’s Tuareg fighters have joined the insurrection. Malian military operations in the north are currently under the command of Colonel al-Hajj Gamou, a loyal Tuareg officer who has served in the Malian army since 1992. A loyalist unit of Tuareg in Kidal Region led by Muhammad ag Bachir has also backed government security forces by arresting a number of individuals suspected of supporting the MNLA, including Colonel Hassan ag Fagaga, a veteran Tuareg rebel leader who had threatened to restart the Tuareg insurgency if Bamako did not fulfill the conditions laid out in the 2008 Algiers Accord (Jeune Afrique, January 24; El Khabar [Algiers], July 15, 2010; see also Terrorism Monitor, September 2, 2010). Other former Tuareg members of the Libyan military resettled at Menaka were reported to have joined in efforts to repulse the MNLA attack of January 17 (Jeune Afrique, January 24).
The rekindling of the Tuareg insurrection in Mali appears to be provoking a resurrection of the notorious Ganda Koy and Ganda Iso militias, loosely organized self-defense units formed from the black African communities (primarily Songhai and Fulani) in the largely Tuareg and Arab northern provinces of Mali, a development that threatens to turn the northern conflict into a more general civil war. The Bérabiche Arabs of northern Mali are also reforming their militias, which have cooperated with government offensives against Tuareg rebels in the past (Le Combat [Bamako], January 31).
The Response from Algiers
Algeria responded to the Tuareg attacks in Mali by raising its security alert to the highest level. Algiers has long been unhappy with Mali’s failure to secure its northern regions, which now provide bases for the Saharan offshoot of the Algerian-based al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Ilaf.com, January 20; al-Quds al-Arabi, January 20). Le Pouvoir, the Algerian political/military/business elite that controls most aspects of Algerian life, fears instability above all else and has tried to shut down any effort within Algeria to emulate the revolutionary unrest in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. A series of so-far uncoordinated riots in Algerian cities has no doubt alarmed Algeria’s elite. Algiers fears that this wave of unrest is intended to pave the way for foreign intervention in North Africa, but many Algerians worry that the government’s inability to extinguish AQIM’s low-level insurgency is a means of justifying Le Pouvoir’s tight grip on Algerian politics and maintaining high levels of spending in the military and security services.
Unable to rein in AQIM, Algiers has chosen to fight AQIM’s shadow, sentencing the commander of AQIM”s Sahara/Sahel branch, Abd al-Hamid Abu Zeid (a.k.a. Muhammad Ghidr) to life in prison, a sentence applied in absentia. Abu Zeid is the leader of the Tariq Ibn Ziyad unit of AQIM, which uses kidnappings and murder as their main tactics. Another Algerian court is still hearing the in absentia case against AQIM commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar for the deaths of two Algerian soldiers (NOW Lebanon, January 22).
Algeria, which played an important part in resolving previous Tuareg insurrections in Mali, has indicated that it views AQIM and the MNLA rebellion as “two different issues” and has undertaken mediation efforts between the rebels and Bamako. Prior to the outbreak of the latest Tuareg rebellion, Algeria attempted to aid Malian counterterrorism efforts by sending a small group of military trainers to provide instruction in anti-terrorist techniques (L’Aube [Bamako], December 22). However, the recent withdrawal of Algerian military trainers from Mali and a freeze on further shipments of military equipment was intended by Algiers to force a political settlement to the current conflict (El Khabar [Algiers], January 28). An MNLA spokesman said that the Tuareg attack on Tessalit came only after Algerian military personnel were withdrawn as the attackers did not wish to involve Algeria in the fighting (Reuters, January 27). Algeria is also aware of other less obvious threats to Mali’s security and recently shipped 3,100 metric tonnes of food to address Mali’s increasing difficulty in feeding its population (L’Independant [Bamako], January 31).
Algeria is facing parliamentary elections in May in which Algerian Islamists are expected to do well as an alternative to the existing power structure under which unemployment and housing shortages have flourished (Reuters, January 31).
The Response from Bamako
With presidential elections on their way in April, President Amadou Toumani Touré appears to be ready to apply the military option to the Tuareg problem, particularly since he must now deal with the Tuareg insurgents without recourse to the mediation of the late Colonel Qaddafi. Bamako also appears prepared to take extraordinary measures to save the situation in the north. Mohamed Ould Awainatt, a member of northern Mali’s Arab community and one of the main suspects on trial in the notorious 2009 Boeing 727 shipment of cocaine to northern Mali that ended with the traffickers torching the aircraft, was suddenly and quietly released from detention on January 19. His release in a case that severely embarrassed Mali was reportedly obtained as the result of a demand from a group of young Arabs the government of Mali was trying to enlist in the fight against their Tuareg neighbors (22 Septembre [Bamako], January 23; AFP, January 23).
In Timbuktu there are constant rumors of an imminent attack on the city and widespread fear of a Tuareg attack on the city’s Arab community (L’Independent [Bamako], January 24; Le Pretoire [Bamako], January 30). In the capital of Bamako there is talk of Western conspiracies, French “hatred” of independent Mali, malicious plots devised by Mauritanian generals and the alleged operations of foreign spies working hand-in-hand with al-Qaeda to divide Mali. Some Malian media sources have suggested that France and possibly other Western nations had persuaded many Tuareg fighters to abandon Qaddafi’s forces during the Libyan uprising with promises of support for an independent Azawad (Nouvelle Liberation [Bamako], January 24; L’Aube [Bamako], December 22, 2011). Local media is almost unanimous in its calls for a hardline approach to the latest Tuareg rebellion, with one columnist even advocating the use of nuclear weapons in Mali’s barren north (Le Pretoire [Bamako], January 30; L’Aube [Bamako], January 30; Le Potentiel [Bamako], January 31).
Libyan Arms Flow in All Directions
The availability of looted Libyan arms may allow new armed groups to form in West Africa with greater ease than usual. One such group may be the Jamaat Tawhid wa’l-Jihad fi Garbi Afriqqiya (Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa – MOJWA), led by Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou (a.k.a. Abu Qumqum) and dedicated to the spread of Shari’a throughout West Africa. According to a video released by the movement, MOJWA broke away from AQIM due to the domination of the movement’s leadership by Arab militants from Mauritania and Mali. MOJWA appears to be a black African Muslim reaction to the traditional domination of all al-Qaeda branches by Arab Muslims, and their video has a specifically African character by using Hausa and English as well as Arabic to praise a number of important West African Muslim empire builders of the 19th century (AFP, December 22). In a video released in early January, Kheirou said his movement had declared “war on France, which is hostile to the interests of Islam” (AFP/NOW Lebanon, January 3). Though the group has only carried out one kidnapping operation so far, the spread of Salafi-Jihadist militancy into relatively unaffected West African Muslim communities would be an alarming development. Just by kidnapping European aid workers from a Polisario camp of West Saharan refugees in Algeria, MOJWA has helped inflame the difficult security situation in the region. Polisario operatives are now searching for Kheirou and his three European hostages.
In light of the tense political situation in Egypt, news that Egyptian border guards had prevented smugglers from bringing a shipment of machine guns, sniper rifles and ammunition into Egypt through the Libyan Desert was an disturbing development in Egypt’s unfinished revolution (MENA [Cairo], January 24; January 18).
The West’s poorly considered support of a spontaneous Libyan rebellion lacking common aims, ideology or even basic organization has secured the present reality. Clearly, the restoration of security in Libya is an essential first step in stabilizing the region. Unfortunately, the ability of Libya’s Transitional National Council to either project force or promote conciliation seems to be diminishing rather than increasing. If Libya is unable to make progress on disarmament and unification issues, the stage may be set for the emergence of a strongman ready to enforce his will on Libya, perhaps in the form of an ambitious young colonel with fresh ideas about remaking the Libyan state…but then we’ve already been down that road. Nonetheless, both the West and Africa must now confront the security fallout from the rash decisions made a year ago.
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I first met Yang Cheng at the 5th China Independent Film Festival in Nanjing, where we both were volunteers. It was the age of MSN, Olympics and global financial crisis. Over the years, Yang wrote film reviews, organized screenings, took film projects to pitches like HAF and Golden Horse and then attended a train of festivals with his steady productions. This time, he brings Berlinale an animation feature HAVE A NICE DAY directed by Liu Jian. This film won appreciation from critics and programmers. On the SCREEN JURY GRID, it ranks No.2, next to Aki Kaurismaki’s THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE.
In this interview, Yang expresses his profound affection with the Berlinale and his opinion about filmmaking, about the Chinese society and an ambitious plan for his newly founded production company Nezha Brothers. I believe he is one of the young filmmakers who are reshaping the Chinese film industry.
Note: This interview was conducted in Chinese, I then translated it into English.
What is your impression about Berlinale?
I like Berlinale quite a lot and it is my third time here. I first came to Berlinale in 2013 as the producer of DON’T EXPECT PRAISES. In 2014, I came to watch films as a guest reporter of a Chinese film magazine. This year, I am back with director Liu Jian’s film HAVE A NICE DAY. The festival is special: First because the city of Berlin has both a rich history and young vibe; it is not so crowded and there is a lot to explore. The festival’s wide selection of programs and films mean you have plenty options. And the cinemas are generally huge, so seeing a movie here is like attending a ritual, especially in the Berlinale Palast. Watching films like PARADIES: HOFFNUNG, NYMPHOMANIAC and BOYHOOD at the Berlinale is really unforgettable. To sit in the Palast and hear the audience’s laughter and applause when watching HAVE A NICE DAY feels special.
What is your take about the Chinese society?
It is chaotic but vigorous. A lot is going on. (So will you emigrate?) At the moment, no. I don’t have such a plan, but I would love to go explore another culture, for example, to live in New York for half a year. There are cultural exchange programs that offer such opportunities. My friends like Pema Tseden and Liu Jian have taken the offer and went there, but at present, it’s a pity that I don’t have that much free time to go.
Back to the society question, China still has social mobility. It is still possible to change one’s social status.
So what would you say to younger filmmakers in such an environment?
Try your best. Try your best till the end. But I think one has to be able to change his tracks at any time and don’t be exhausted by filmmaking, because filmmaking itself is not important. I think watching films is important, but making them is not. Many people say that the reason they make films is because they love films, but why? If you love movies, you go and watch it: I mean, you don’t have to make a film just because of that. What a joy to watch films! If you love movies, you can keep watching them, unless you find a direct and genuine connection between your life and moviemaking.
When I first fell for film, I decided that I would like to be a director, so I wanted to make it to the Beijing Film Academy. I chose to apply for the Screenwriting Department instead of the Directing Department because I thought that was a more approachable goal, but of course there are a number of directors who read screenwriting at the BFA. When I arrived at BFA, I found people around me were merely talking about films and felt good about themselves just because they were BFA students. I didn’t want to be like them and I thought it to myself: Did I want to make movies out of my heartfelt passion, or out of blindness and vanity? I also thought about whether I had something to say. And whether I needed to express what I wanted to say via filmmaking, a long and arduous process. What if I just write an article to express myself, or use Weibo (Chinese Twitter). These are all ways of expression. Why make films when you can use other much easier ways to express yourself? So I thought about what I could do with film and what I wanted to do. I then met a few directors and found film production is what I am capable of and interested in, since I love films. More importantly, I thought to be a producer could help my character building, because at the time I was quite introverted and a bit depressed. I found a need to open up and interact with people and that is what is required of a producer. It would be difficult to me, but it should be helpful for my personality, I thought to myself. This decision was based on “a more genuine connection between life and film”, not vanity, so I think it is grounded and generates determination. All in all, I don’t think one needs to make a movie just because he likes watching movies.
I detest the slogan hanging on BFA during freshmen recruitment: “This is where your dream begins.” I think as an education institution, BFA should encourage people to lead a true life with reason. Filmmaking is just a job, a thing. Don’t glorify it so much. To younger filmmakers, I’d say, beware of those who always talk about DREAM: They probably just want you to be a cheap laborer so they glorify a distant business plan. I’ve seen too many big bosses in this business who’d sugarcoat their manipulation and exploitation with the so-called dreams: “Don’t only think about your salary. We are fighting for our dreams and you are the future of the Chinese cinema.”
So do you have a dream?
Sure. My dream is that everybody can live a happy life.
You sound like Jesus Christ!
(Chuckles) The word dream is so grand that it should be something much bigger than daily pursuits. It should not be so trivial like to make more money or to make a better movie – these are just too small undertakings.
It doesn’t have to be filmmaking or watching films. Besides film, there are so many beautiful and touching things to appreciate. Besides, you can always go back to reading (books).
Could you talk about the directors that you are working with?
I am open to any possible collaboration, and I don’t sign directors. I think lasting cooperation is based on similar ideals and beliefs, agreeable profit sharing and complementary proficiency.
My current collaborators like director Liu Jian: He is a quite a pure creator with one goal only – to make quality films. Also, his films always have originality. His films are not only special in China, but also look special in a global context. His film amazes festival audiences: “Oh, it is from China!” So different from regular festival movies from China.
A director’s originality is what I value the most. I say to my collaborators that we have to make artistic contribution to China’s cinema, find new possibilities in the art form and style of cinema. Originality is quite high standard.
Director Yang Heng’s films (GHOST IN THE MOUNTAINS: Berlinale Panorama 2017) are also original both in storytelling and art form. On one hand, his films are about the reality; on the other hand, they have surreal moments and very stylistic. He finds a good proportion between reality and what’s beyond.
So what I find most valuable in a director is not his or her theme or genre, but originality. Also, continuous creativity is vital.
Do you watch lots of movies nowadays?
Not so much. I now actually watch much more bad movies than good ones, you know, the commercial films at the cinema. I haven’t found time to watch the much talked-about films like MANCHESTER BY THE SEA and MOONLIGHT yet. I will watch them for sure. But I’ve always had this idea that one doesn’t have to watch too many movies, because the depth and perspective of thinking about a movie matters more. If a movie arouses a resonance for you, it is much better than you watch 100 movies without feeling anything.
So what are the movies you enjoy watching?
I actually love COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY and those made by Stephen Chow. In daily life, I often unconsciously think of PARADIES: HOFFNUNG. Films made by Michael Haneke. HOOLY BIBLE II made by Li Hongqi. ARRIVAL, not a sci-fi film routine. I think it feels like THE BOURNE IDENTITY’s innovation in spy/agent movies. Larry Charles’s films never fail to make me laugh.
So what is your plan for your company Nezha Brothers?
I plan to make small budget films based on fun original scripts in the next two or three years. After all, a company needs to make profit to ensure the creative flow.
this interview was first published on FESTIVALISTS.COM
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Capital’s Air Quality Readings Improve As Smoke Clears
04/04/2020 04/04/2020 J&C Admin 674 Views Air Quality Laos, Air Quality Vientiane, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's Meteorology and Hydrology Department
Source: Vientiane Time
Air quality tests in Vientiane are returning safer readings as recorded levels of particulate matter (PM) 2.5 pollution begin to reduce toward acceptable standards in the capital, environment experts reported on April 3.
Meanwhile, areas of Luang Prabang province remain on alert as PM2.5 pollution continues to exceed safe levels outlined in environmental standards.
The burning of stalks in rice fields and the clearing of bushland is believed to be the primary cause of the smoky haze over the city. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Natural Resource and Environment Research Institute reported on air quality tests on April 3.
PM2.5 refers to atmospheric particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometres, which is about 3 percent of the width of a human hair.
In Luang Prabang, air quality tests conducted by the institute showed PM2.5 at 190.2µg/m3, which exceeded the set national standard PM2.5 = 50 µg/m3) over 24 hours.
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Air quality was average, and the levels of particulate pollution met the set safety standards in Vientiane on April 3, according to a Natural Resource and Environment Research Institute official.
In the capital, air quality tests of PM2.5 recorded between 31.9µg/m3 to 43.1µg/m3 across districts, which passed the national standard.
However, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will continue to keep a close eye on the air quality in Vientiane and other provinces amid the widespread illegal burning of garden and household wastes, rice fields and scrubland, which has created a thick haze over the city.
People in many areas of the country are setting fire to clear rice fields and bush, sending the resulting smoke into the air, which also mingles with vehicle exhaust gases and other matter to create a toxic atmosphere.
Officials are working with the Natural Resource and Environment Research Institute to continually check the proportion of particulates in the air at the Meteorology and Hydrology Department in Vientiane with reference to set national standards.
Last year, wildfires in Laos and neighbouring countries caused dangerous levels of air pollution, especially in Vientiane.
The pollution occurred in many parts of the country and PM2.5 levels in the capital exceeded the safety level.
These can lodge in the lungs and enter blood vessels, leading to higher risks of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
In 2019, an announcement was made on the stationing of a mobile air quality monitoring truck based at the capital’s Chao Anouvong Park.
The government’s policy is to maintain air quality at safe levels, with the Natural Resource and Environment Research Institute assigned to monitor particulates and consider measures to ensure air quality is maximised.
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Abstracts of the 11th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions – 2008
2006 Effects of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting on early and late right ventricular function
Tammy J Pegg1,
Theodoros D Karamitsos1,
Ranjit J Arnold1,
Jane M Francis1,
Stefan Neubauer1,
David P Taggart1 &
Joseph B Selvanayagam1
Off pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG) results in better preservation of left ventricular function in the peri-operative period than conventional on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (ONCABG). However there is conflicting evidence as to the effect of OPCABG and ONCABG on right ventricular (RV) function, possibly because of the complexity in measuring this. cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is rapidly becoming established as the gold standard for the assessment of right and left ventricular function.
In a single-centre randomized trial, 60 patients with normal left ventricular function undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) were randomly assigned to OPCABG or ONCABG. Patients underwent CMR for the assessment of RV function pre-operatively, early post-operatively and at 6 months. All CMR examinations were performed using a 1.5 Tesla MR scanner (Sonata, Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany), using prospective electrocardiographic gating. After localisers, steady-state free precession cine images (TE/TR 1.5/3.0 ms, flip angle 60°) were acquired in the short axis plane parallel to the AV groove (slice thickness 7 mm, inter-slice gap 3 mm) covering the entire left and right ventricle. RV function was analysed using Argus software by a single experienced cardiologist blinded to the surgical randomisation and scan order.
Fifty one patients completed the first two scans, and 47 patients completed all three scans. Pre-operative characteristics and RV function did not differ significantly between the two groups, mean ± SD RV stroke volume index: OPCABG 49 ± 9 ml.m-2, ONCABG 50 ± 15 ml.m-2, p = 0.7. After surgery RV stroke volume index fell to 36 ± 7 ml.m-2 in the OPCABG group and 40 ± 12 ml.m-2 in the ONCABG group, but this did not differ significantly between the two groups, p = 0.2. This effect was predominantly due to a fall in RV end-diastolic volume index (RVEDVI) in both groups, with a relative reduction of 27% in the OPCABG group and 20% in the ONCABG group, again without significant inter-group difference (p = 0.2). In contrast to RVEDVI, RV end-systolic volume index (RVESVI) remained constant in both surgical cohorts at all the three time points. All markers of RV function recovered to pre-operative levels by 6 months, with no long term difference between the surgical techniques. Multivariate analysis of pre-operative factors likely to predict early RV ejection fraction (EF) indicated that only pre-operative RVEF and LVEF predicted outcome. Body mass index, gender, age pre-operative coronary artery anatomy or circumflex/right coronary artery grafting did not predict RV function following surgery. See Figure 1 and Tables 1 and 2.
Table 1 Right ventricular functional parameters following coronary artery bypass surgery.
Table 2 Multi-variate model examining predictors of post-operative right ventricular ejection fraction.
Mean right ventricular stroke volume index (RVSU) and 95% confidence intervals measure preoperatively, at 6 days post-operatively and at 6 months. *Denotes result using ANOVA for repeated measures with Post Hoc analysis to make overall comparisons between the 2 surgical techniques. † denotes one way ANOVA used to make within group comparisons, indicating a significant effect of surgery (both types) on early right ventricular function. OPCABG, off-pump coronary artery bypass; ONCABG, on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery.
Right ventricular function is impaired early after surgery but recovers by six months. The changes were similar in both the OPCABG and ONCABG groups. This effect was produced by changes in RVEDVI, the precise mechanism for which remains unclear, but which may relate to pericardial fluid, inflammation or haematoma altering the filling conditions of the right ventricle. Our results indicate that the right ventricle is significantly impaired as a result of the general trauma of surgery, but this is not compounded by aortic cross clamp or cardiopulmonary bypass.
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Tammy J Pegg, Theodoros D Karamitsos, Ranjit J Arnold, Jane M Francis, Stefan Neubauer, David P Taggart & Joseph B Selvanayagam
Tammy J Pegg
Theodoros D Karamitsos
Ranjit J Arnold
Jane M Francis
David P Taggart
Joseph B Selvanayagam
Correspondence to Tammy J Pegg.
Pegg, T.J., Karamitsos, T.D., Arnold, R.J. et al. 2006 Effects of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting on early and late right ventricular function. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 10, A275 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-10-S1-A275
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Posted byJessica Braun Gervais April 8, 2020 Posted inUncategorized
Listen Live and Local was a Chicago-based webzine covering the Chicago music scene from 2015-2018. I focused on highlighting local acts through live reviews, band profiles, features and Q&As.
Profiles/Q&As
Every month, I choose one band to feature through on the site. Bands were chosen based on if they had an upcoming show or music release. For each profile, I scheduled an in-person interview with the band. I always encouraged band members to pick an interview spot of importance to them, somewhere they felt comfortable. After the interviews, I’d transcribe the conversation and begin piecing together the story. It typically wasn’t until after an interview when I’d decided if the piece would be a profile or Q&A. I made the decision based on how well bandmates told their story. Some artists had great back-and-forth banter that lent itself to a Q&A article while other bands spoke better through their music and body language which I could describe to readers more thoroughly through a profile.
Profile: Mykele Deville
The sound of Chicago. That’s how vocalist and poet Mykele Deville describes his music. It’s the voices of protesters. The cries of outrage. The tunes of the streets. It’s everything that the city stands for, music and all.
Q&A: Sunjacket
For a band who thrives on the dark and heavy synth sounds found on their debut album Mantra, the men behind Sunjacket are surprisingly upbeat and goofy. Through malicious giggles, they successfully shared their journey along with their plans for new music and shows.
Listen Live and Local did monthly reviews of shows and albums (generally one of each per month). Live reviews followed a standard writing format. The start of the article gave an overview of the show while each following paragraph was dedicated to highlighting an act from the night. I kept a strict policy that live reviews would be posted within 24 hours of the show, so having a writing format made it easy to stick to the deadline. Album reviews were asked to be submitted prior to their release date and were made live the same day the album became available to the public. Quick turnaround on reviews made sure the articles were published at their most newsworthy time.
Album Review: Ratboys – GN
Ratboys’ sophomore album is the result of an instrumental rock band mastering the art of storytelling. Their 10-song compilation encompasses a special mix of personal anecdotes and memories from vocalist Julia Steiner and guitarist David Sagan.
Live Review: Double Door
Like any great Americanized genre, there is no right way to rock. Thanks to its various styles, rock has grown to include elements of punk, folk, metal, pop and so much more. This genre blend brought five local bands together and treated audiences to the many facets of the legendary sound.
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What is your personal philosophy in life and work?
I live life as an experimentalist. Whether it be in the lab, in the dance studio or on the street, I have to test out theories myself. In everyday life, people are often given advice/instruction and it is taken as law. Unfortunately with that mentality, a lot of opportunities and possibilities are missed. In contrast with my experience as a physicist, I am constantly starting from scratch and trying totally new ideas. It has helped me be resistant against prejudices and preconceived beliefs and given me strength to march to the beat of my own drum.
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As a ballerina and quantum physicist, how do you balance these two worlds?
With a lot of persistence and patience. It hasn’t been easy especially since I started ballet at 13 and have had to constantly play catch up. Therefore I have sneakily done abs and feet exercises during seminars, I fall asleep on foam rollers, bring lacrosse balls to massage out my back during dinners and do a floor bar at the back of the bus during my 2 hour commute between Oxford and London. My roommates are surprised if I am sitting at my desk rather than studying in the splits on the floor or leg up in a doorway. And same for physics, I bring reading with me backstage and frantically finish problems in the changing room.
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What advice would you give to women who want to get into these fields?
For advice to anyone pursuing their passions, I would give Newton's 3rd law of motion: “For every action, there is equal and opposite reaction” because I view it as a great motto for life. Everything you do inevitably circles back. All the work and intention you put into a dream will pay off (not always in the way you think but in a just as exciting and rewarding way).
What's your favorite performance so far?
I love every performance as thought it's my last one. My favorite will be if I ever get a chance to dance on the moon.
Tell us about your partnership with Harvard.
The ArtLab is an incredibly special place! I had the opportunity to be one of the first test artist-in-residence. What makes it so cool is that it provided the opportunity to research without the pressure to deliver by the end of the residency. It meant I could explore the frontier of science and tech without worrying about its immediate dependability for a performance.
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What's your favorite KOVASKY outfit, and how do you wear it?
The hoodie jacket! I wear it everyday for casual business meetings, dance, lab, airports, date nights. It’s so light weight, elegant and easy to wash. I also love the pants. I just gave a TEDx talk last week in them because I need something business casual but flexible enough dance in. They were perfect.
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Taxidermy Law: Is It Legal to Stuff Your Pet?
Odds are, when you see a mounted animal, the first thing you think of isn’t, “Do you have a permit for that?” But perhaps it should be. Taxidermy requires both a federal and state license, and sometimes even special permits, such as the case with migratory birds. Who knew?! So before you decide to stuff your recently deceased pet so that your toddler child doesn’t have an emotional breakdown, think twice and consider these laws.
Boxed Birds Are a Challenge
Migratory birds pose the biggest legal challenge for taxidermists. They need a federal permit to mount all migratory birds that belonged to other people. There’s a law that prohibits people from possessing migratory birds without a permit, and that includes both dead and live birds. Here’s an interesting twist on that law: because you need a permit to possess the dead migratory bird, you can’t even throw the stuffed bird out if the customer never comes to pick it up because the garbage service doesn’t have one of those permits. If you do discard of it through the garbage, you will be hit with a federal felony. The federal government expects you to either mount it proudly for the rest of your life, or find it another home.
In addition, if the migratory bird is a non-game bird, then then customer that sent the bird to the taxidermist must have a federal permit authorizing the lawful possession of that bird. Keep in mind that migratory game birds are only allowed to be mounted for personal or display use only. Selling one, once mounted, results in a federal felony, except for some captive-bred birds. Of course, it is totally fine to stuff your captive-bred bird. Just make sure you can prove that you raised it as a pet.
Stuffed Mammals — Did It Come With Papers?
But what about the stuffed stuff we normally see, like bears and bobcats. Are those legal? The answer is, it depends. Although a federal permit is not required to mount lawfully acquired mammals, taxidermists are responsible for making sure that the customer had the proper hunting tags, animal permits, or other documents to determine that the animal they’re handling was lawfully acquired. Just as it’s a crime to be in possession of stolen property, so to is it a crime to be in possession of unlawfully obtained animal carcasses. Add to that, it is unlawful to transport, ship, or receive an unlawful carcass.
As you can imagine, crimes can really start to mount up for a taxidermist, no pun intended. Violations of these laws vary, but can reach up to $500,000 and two years in jail, depending on the crime, the person or group committing the crime, and the number and frequency of the criminal violations. State laws and permits are also requiring, making the burden to stuff something illegally obtained almost insurmountable. So before you go stuffing that funky road kill you found as a joke to your boss, you may want to consider buying a kitschy coffee cup instead.
What About Fido?
So what about this new craze of people stuffing their own pets, even going so far as to have the body pliable, like a stuffed animal. Is this legal? So long as the pet was legally obtained and doesn’t fall into any of the above categories, yes it is legal to stuff your pet. Note to taxidermists out there — be careful stuffing pets belonging to celebrities, like Chris Brown!
You may, however, have a hard time finding a taxidermist that will mount your pet. As one professional so aptly put it when he was asked to stuff someone’s pet fox, a wild animal is a stranger, but a pet is familiar. According to one expert taxidermist, “When it was done, I called the customer and explained, ‘It’s not going to look the same.’ Then he walked in the door and said, ‘That’s not my fox.’ It just made me mad. He walked out of my shop totally hating me. I will never touch a pet again.”
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Governor Larry Hogan met with the Maryland Power Electronics Lab PhD students Peiwen, Michael, and Ayan at Maryland Manufacturing Day 2017 in Baltimore, MD.
Congratulations to Ayan Mallik, who is the 2017 winner of ISR’s George Harhalakis Outstanding Systems Engineering Graduate Student Award.
The Maryland Power Electronics Lab designed a 400V to 12V, 750W, GaN Based DC-DC converter for Data Center, with 15W/cm3 power density and over 97% maximum efficiency, which is pictured on the front page of ECE’s Alumni Magazine.
A student team led by Prof. Khaligh(ECE/ISR) won the Best Presentation Award at the 2017 IEEE International Future Energy Challenge(link is external) (IFEC), July 24-25 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.
The NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Transportation Electrification is held at the University of Maryland. Undergraduates Alex and Jimmy spent full summer with the Maryland Power Electronics Lab.
Congratulations to Ayan Mallik, who is one of the 4 winners of the university-wide Kulkarni Foundation Summer Research Fellowship (2017), which supports UMD doctoral students who are graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Prof. Khaligh leads grad student team and takes third place in Allegheny Region Cleantech University Prize collegiate competition, which was held at the Carnegie Mellon University. The student team members include graduate students Michael D’Antonio, Jiangheng Lu, Ayan Mallik, Bin Wu, Weisheng Ding, Shenli Zou, and Chuan Shi.
Congratulations to Junyi Shen, who is awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self- financed Students Abroad from the China Scholarship Council.
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Hatching + Mating
Your cocoons arrive sound asleep in leafcutter bee boxes. This stage of their life cycle is called Dormancy and it takes approximately 50 days. The warmer the weather, the faster your bees will appear. Leafcutters hatch out of their cocoons, right inside the cocoon box in the bee home, As soon as they hatch, they mate. This only takes a few seconds, then they get to work on your flowers and plants.
The female is on a mission to prepare for her babies! Her life’s work is to build cocoons for the next generation. She flies around your yard, cutting leaves into half moon shapes with her mouth and carrying them back home under her belly. She lines each nesting tube with them, pasting the leaves together with her saliva. Then she lays an egg inside, packs pollen and nectar around it, and caps it to make sure the egg is protected, as a mama does. All this right in your yard, don’t miss out on seeing it first hand!
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Finally, Mama starts gathering food for her eggs. This is where the super pollination happens! She’s on the hunt for food to take back to her cocoons, so as she visits each flower and plant, her little dusted-with-pollen belly is spraying pollen to every flower and plant she gets near. Can you believe it takes her up to 15 trips to make one complete cocoon? With all that flying around she’s got plenty of time to help make sure that your plants and flowers flourish!
Some Fun Facts About Leaf Cutter Bees
Bees drop things too! Half moon leaves on the ground show you where a “whoops” took place!
Bee babies inbound! Capped off nesting tubes signal the completion of a new cocoon.
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We call them Kind Bees because they are non-aggressive! They are solitary, so there is no need to defend a colony. They keep to themselves, focusing on their work: preparing to lay eggs and spreading pollen. You can visit their little bee hotel without worry. If you squeeze one or handle it roughly, it will let you know. Be kind to them and they will be kind to you!
Leaf cutters are the best pollinator! They are safe, easy, and particularly great at pollinating because they have dry fuzzy bellies. The pollen rubs off their fuzzy bellies onto the flower easily, not sticky bellies like honey bees. Honey bees have sticky bellies and keep more of the pollen to themselves (sorry, honey bees!). This is the main reason we use leaf cutter bees in our pollinator boxes. Our leafcutters are faster than honey bees too, so they can get around to more plants and flowers every day.
The male and the female have very different life spans.
FEMALE: She is the one that does all the work, then after her life’s work of creating the perfect environment for her cocoons – which takes about 2 months – she passes on.
MALE: He buzzes about in your yard looking for food until he parts ways with us about 10 days after mating.
WELCOME TO YOUR NEW GENERATION! This next-generation picks up right back at… you guessed it, dormancy. Your bee family will continue to regenerate, with each new generation hatching about 70% of the last generation.
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Dave Marshall August 20th, 2010 7:15 pm ET
Hi from Roatan Hunduras. My boys and I watch u every night .Please please Please have on Bob Robert Zimmerman Dylyn before you retire and my live will be complete Cap Dave Ps Keep up the good work
Jim lopez August 20th, 2010 8:08 pm ET
Just as Republican minority leaders McConnell and Boehner told the public if Republicans were in power, 'States would be on their Own', that is what is being practiced by Pakistan's Military Government now, like what you see with the Pakistani flood victim photos?
It's time for American family's to Loudly and Openly demand Israel act with haste and honesty to craft a lasting Middle East treaty between Israel and it's Arabic neighbors saving many additional American lives in the future.
America finally pulls it's combat troops out of Iraq.
1 Trillion American taxpayer dollars, thousands of American lives, blood sweat and tears from hundreds of thousands of American family's AND Bush jr. GAVE China Iraq's multi-Trillion dollar Oil field leases for pennies which Saddam had repeatedly refused to do himself.
American tourists are NOW in much greater risk of being kidnapped and murdered traveling around the world than at anytime before the depraved and horrific Bush Family ever moved into the White House. And that is touted as 'success' ?
Making China enormously wealthy is 'Mission Accomplished' ?
Giving Iraq's Government over to Iran's Shi'ite Muslims is 'success' ?
Israel should stop bulldozing ancient Islamic cemetery's to quit further angering it's neighbors in Jerusalem and begin making the tough and courageous decisions to sign a lasting Middle East Peace treaty next year beginning next month in the Washington DC. meeting.
char August 20th, 2010 9:19 pm ET
Bruce why dont your other kids from the previuos marriage ever come on the show?
Mary B August 20th, 2010 9:23 pm ET
Kris – What happened to your hair – you had a rockin short hair style before??????
Republican politicians and their spin misters are accusing States and Americans of not being able to take care of ourselves because of the 'socialist Obama'? That's simply Faux Psycho babble spewed by Glen Beck out of the Murdock network.
State's and Americans give Trillions of taxpayer dollars to the US Federal Government each year. GDP 13 Trillion dollars.
The previous Republican administrations gutted the amounts the US Federal Government returned to the States. Funneling those funds instead into the gigantic military complex and defense spending corporations.
Bush's war time economy strategy utterly failed.
Bush's tax cut economy strategy utterly failed.
Reagan's trickle down economy strategy also failed.
That is each and every Republican economic strategy which have each been used and each were proven as absolute failures.
Many State's National Guardsmen did 4 tours in Bush's Oil and Gas Wars in the Middle East, the Republican Potty'ticians tried to avoid treating their PTSD, avoid raising the archaic GI Bill, avoid improving Veterans medical plans, avoid improving military salarys, avoid upgrading armored vests, avoid adding mrap vehicles and avoid helping homeless Veterans with children in America.
I am a big fan of the show "Keeping up with the Kardashians." I have a question for Kris and Bruce Jenner and their thoughts and opinion on the recent Playboy shoot and expose of Kim Kardashian.
Richard August 20th, 2010 9:35 pm ET
Hello, I like Kim and her sister. I like Kim though it depends on what type of men she would like to date. Ask Kim if she likes hispanic men specifically Dominican men? I wouldn't mind if a tv crew filmed my life. It would be interesting.
Stephanie August 20th, 2010 9:55 pm ET
I love the Kardashians! I have a question for Kim, How did you start modeling? A question for the family, how do you stay so close together? It seems like you all have a great family bond. Kardashians you are amazing! You are such role models!
john doe August 20th, 2010 10:04 pm ET
BRUCE And "GIRL'S", LOOKY HERE, BOTH ARE "VERY CUTE" and both of you have your own good point's keep living and "LIFE" will happen!!! JOHN DOE CNN BLOGGER!!!
nancy burns August 20th, 2010 10:23 pm ET
And this is about the interview that never happened on the Larry King Show. The 272 page book never got published. The book was always there nervously awaiting its debut into baseball's legendary history. Maybe Ken Burns can use it. Now Larry is relinquishing his "King-"dom to spend more time with his boys. God knows how important time with sons is. The wonderful family baseball story proves it but hope for publishing the story is "vaporizing" along with her life and his life. Everytime she watches Larry now,sees his face growing older, his hair more faded, her dream fades too.
And she goes to her computer and Googles up "Britt Burns, left handed pitcher."
SJ August 20th, 2010 11:06 pm ET
WAKE UP AMERICA AND GET OVER THE USE OF THE N-WORD! It is a hurtful word. Yes. It is not nice to say it. Yes. BUT- THIS IS AMERICA– IS IT NOT? What happened to the 1st amendment? -– and what happened to the ability to engage in dialogue? I just watched CNN and everyone is so damn scared to use the N-word even for no purpose than to state that it is not appropriate to be used- that it defeats the whole purpose of attempting to have a discussion. The only person who made any sense was the comedian, D.L. Hughley...... Do the headlines hear about it when someone says a derogatory term about an Asian or a Middle Eastern or a Hispanic person or a gay person...no we dont. The caller was upset because her white husband and his friends asked about her black point of view on different issues.....seriously???? If I got upset everytime someone asked me what my female/minority point of view was, I should be in the headlines everyday!!!!!! There is obviously much more behind this story....however, all we hear in the headlines is that Schlessinger used the N-word 11 times!
Elizabeth August 20th, 2010 11:13 pm ET
Regarding Dr. Laura, I am stunned that a person with her education, like many other people act like kinder garden children, but try to hurt others like adults. For "Jade": If we know what we are, we should not be offended by anything... we all need to grow up and most of all, we should literally understand what respect means and practice it.
Donna August 20th, 2010 11:32 pm ET
Why are they famous, I really don't see any talent, they definitely are not good role models for kids, so I don't get the attraction. Parents seem to be willing to have them do anything for money & publicity!!
bimbogal August 21st, 2010 12:03 am ET
Scott just seems to care about his needs. Kourt, u are too good to hang on to this loser. How many chances are u going to give him?
jane walter August 21st, 2010 12:26 am ET
if the Kartrashians are considered reality "royalty" we're all in trouble. They are a horrible example of what tv reality is. There is nothing real about this family except their foul mouths.
Why as Americans we put people like this on a pedistal is beyond me. Kourtney is a tragic train wreck and is a HORRIBLE example for every young girl out there dating in the world. This family has alot of self esteem issues that will never be fixed with money or fame. The Jenners and the Kartrashians are the trash of the American tv world!
Andrea August 21st, 2010 12:30 am ET
Kourtney! your baby is beautiful!! leave Scott! He's nothing and never will be!!! The only reason he's in the spotlight is because of you!! You don't need him for anything...especially financially! You have a wonderful loving mother and stepfather, sisters, and a brother that will do more for you for the rest of your life....... Scott can't amount to what you deserve......yeah..... okay.. he became a father but........you on the other hand will make this little guy be more respectful and appreciative of women/people than any man in your life.........
jm August 21st, 2010 12:32 am ET
The kardashians are the default guests on shows these days. Having them on yur show is a sign that your in trouble.
The trash of america!!!!!!!!!!
lmaylor August 21st, 2010 12:32 am ET
This family is tragic. Get them off tv.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves. You have never done one thing that proves that you have any real talent. It's like Spike Lee says...... Reality TV is the worst thing that has ever happened to the American people.
Ask any real actor that has spent time and money perfecting their trade they hate reality tv.
Who is the worst monther Kris Jenner or Kate Gosselin??
Toss up.
bill kee August 21st, 2010 12:38 am ET
I agree Jane,
Borning little losers...I bet they wish they had a real life!
Evan Caleb Yearsley August 21st, 2010 1:12 am ET
I dig the family vibe! I know how it is! I play Blues music for a living and played along with Jimmie Vaughn tonight, love hoe close your family is and thats something that can't be bothered, or Asked!!!! Would love to spend some time! Keep rocking!
Nancy Ogums August 21st, 2010 5:49 am ET
Interesting family.Kourtney Scott doesn't deserve u.not one bit.focus on d li'l guy uv got.he's so adorable!!
Dr.Hermon Mihranian August 21st, 2010 6:20 am ET
the Kardashians are a real familly. I enjoyed the show.
Dr,Hermon Mihranian
Gerald Jolly August 21st, 2010 8:59 am ET
Question: Is Kris Jenner (KARDASHIAN) the new Heidi Fleiss??
The difference between her and Hiedi is that she uses her own daughters while Heidi used other peoples daughters.
It is unimaginable to believe a once honored Olympian would stoop to such a low in order to get publicity.
Shame on both of the scoundrels for exploiting there own daughters.
Any mother that would exploit her own daughters in the way Kris Jenner (Kardashian) has does not deserve to be called a mother, and as for Bruce Jenner "SHAME ON YOU"
LadyLascassas August 21st, 2010 11:20 am ET
Why we even talk about the "Kardashions" is beyond me. This family has done nothing to be famous. Maybe we have found another word we should"t be using, the 'K'word. Just a thought.
IKHAN August 21st, 2010 12:50 pm ET
Good morning folks.
Enough is enough havn't we had a belly full already of Kardashians.
@Smith in Oregon
so right. Robert Fisk the famous Middle East Correspondent of the Independant
said today:
Torture, Corruption,Civil War. America certainly left its mark behind.
As for your suggestion to Israel. This is like asking the Romans to spare the slaves in Flavian Amphitheatre.
coni linda August 21st, 2010 9:53 pm ET
I think the people in California spoke through voting and they said NO to homosexual marriage. Now a liberal judge wants to overturn it. The people spoke and to a liberal progressive they don't give a crap; they will rule as they
terry August 21st, 2010 10:16 pm ET
It's time reality shows like the Kardashians come off the networks. So what they are making Ryan Seacreat rich. It is deplorable what this family will let the cameras catch and air on tv. Can you imagine whaat ends up on the cutting room floor. The whole family should be ashamed and embrassed letting the world see them "whore" themselves out like they do. Keep your dirty laundry to yourselves and stop trying putting the wrong ideas in others heads as to what is reality. This is PATHEDIC!!!!!
GypsyGirl August 22nd, 2010 12:47 am ET
Role models? You are kidding, right? Kloe swears like a sailor; Kourtney makes out with a girl while dating Scott; they show them waxing vajay-jays; they drink too much; constantly fight with each other; the mother puts a sex stimulant in Bruce's tea and accidently gets her son aroused, and Bruce constantly plays the fool. Role models for what? Dysfunction?
Gerald Jolly August 22nd, 2010 4:26 pm ET
I just cant understand why folks think the Kardashian girl are beautiful.
Botox lips, medically enhanced breasts, colored hair, and capped teeth.
WHAT'S TO GET SO EXCITED ABOUT????
Ellen August 22nd, 2010 9:21 pm ET
The emphasis for season 5 is being very real according to Kim, I am wondering if the girls will be more natural on camera as far as hair and make up is concerned. They are always in night time full hair and make up for every shot. Its very un-natural and fake.
Tess August 22nd, 2010 9:22 pm ET
SOOOOOOOOO excited to see George Lopez sitting in for LK!! So proud of you George, and if you ever need a female sidekick (with smarts- I've taken a Harvard History course by Nial Ferguson -he was on Fareed today!) but I come from the same background as YOU!! Orale!! No seas gacho....just kidding, congratulations on your success GEORGE!!!
Leonardo August 23rd, 2010 12:13 am ET
Bruce Jenner will always be remembered as one of the all-time greatest athletes, for this I have tremendous respect (as a former athlete/coach) for him. However, as a man, I have no respect for him or his "family." He obviously is in need of money and has put his/their personal lives on television. I feel sorry for him. Those girls are stupid and have no self respect. Any woman who publicly and talks about her sister's vagina, etc obviously has no self respect. This is another example and part of the cause of our country's delince. Finally, who cares about those sluts?
adriana barna August 23rd, 2010 12:25 am ET
I would expect a talk show about a more intelligent subject than that of a reality show family feuds. Really. It's CNN...
Lisa Pearson August 23rd, 2010 12:49 am ET
They have a beautiful family..I admire they family ..What's so amazing 2 me is that they are so close net and there are not 2 many families around like that.. And they have stuck 2gather all these years and still make great money! I wish I could be in there shoes!But anyway I think beening in public they should be more friendly 2 people ..not just the people they know .. But 2 the public! That's been my experience with them.. But I still think they are good people, funny and out going! I thing it great what they are doing..I love there shows...
Rebecca Jones August 23rd, 2010 3:52 am ET
Would Kim ever date someone who has already had kids?
Bill August 23rd, 2010 9:22 am ET
Who are the Ks? Never heard of them. Do they have any talent? Do they sing, act, or play a musical instrament? Are they athletes?
Who are they, and why the interest?
Tim Rice August 24th, 2010 9:48 pm ET
I own a small business in Lexington, KY and employee around 50 folks. My Health Care Insurance rates for our company increased 53% this year.We provide Health Care, Prescripton Coverage, Long-term Disability, Life Insurance and a matching 401K. I am told these increases are in advance of ObamaCare. The really sickening thing is that I am also told when ObamaCare kicks in our share (as a small business) will increase even more.
This is killing our company. We won't survive these sorts of increases. Can someone get a grip on the reality of what it takes to employee people in this country and come to the realization that a some point this must stop?
Sapulpa August 24th, 2010 10:05 pm ET
The people you were interviewing along with Ben Stein said no one knows what to do and no one want to go back, as VP Biden said, and nothing could be further from the truth!
Working People do want to go back, and the common man knows what to do, but would never be elected because they can't spend the millions on campaign that the rich people can. It's a shame that a cap of $1,000.00 can't be put on campaign's because the common man would win hands down, and we would have, once again, a nation that is "By the People, and For the People".
As long as the rich people are in office, the common people will never have anything again.
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Met Museum of Art Is Sued Because Jesus Is Portrayed Too White In Paintings
by Jeff Dunetz | Dec 6, 2015 | Faith/Morality
This one gets filed in the political correctness gone mad category. New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is facing a law suit from Manhattan resident Justin Renel Joseph because he feels their paintings of Jesus show him as being too white. Mr. Joseph feels the paintings are racist and sacrilegious.
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The masterpieces are “offensive aesthetic whitewashing” of the reality that the Savior, as a native of the Middle Eastern region, had “black hair like wool and skin of bronze color,” says Joseph, 33, who is acting as his own lawyer
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He says he suffered “personal stress” after viewing “The Holy Family with Angels” by Sebastiano Ricci; “The Resurrection” by Perugino [displayed below]; “The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes” by Tintoretto; and “The Crucifixion” by Francesco Granacci.
They are especially offensive to him, he claims, because he himself has “black hair like wool and skin of bronze color.”
‘They completely changed his race to make him more aesthetically pleasing for white people’
“The implication that someone who possesses physical features like the plaintiff could not be the important historical and public figure of Jesus Christ . . . caused the plaintiff to feel, among other things, rejected and unaccepted by society,” court papers say.
The Resurrection By Perugino Circa 1502
On one hand Justin Renel Joseph has a point, if Jesus looked like a typical Jew during the second temple period, he would have looked like this (according to the BBC), but does that really matter? Come on Mr Joseph! This is art!!
According to the BBC this is how a typical Jew looked like during the time of Jesus
Humans tend to portray their deity in a way they can relate to. It’s why the Greeks portrayed their gods as scheming, jealous beings who have sex with anything that moves and is also why 500 years ago in Italy Perugino saw Jesus as blonde— because that related to him.
Unless he was around two millennia ago, Justin Renel Joseph has absolutely no idea what Jesus looked like, so his lawsuit is nothing more than the idiotic political correctness which has infected our society in recent years.
As most readers know I am Jewish, not Christian but I guarantee my take is not that much different. You see, when closing my eyes and trying to connect with God, I get perfect picture of what the creator of the world feels looks like. Actually it’s not a picutre is more of a feeling in my heart which helps me connect to my maker.
Should I sue because when my eyes are closed God looks nothing like the famous Michelangelo Sistine Chapel painting of God telling Adam to pull his finger?
Most Christians I know do not take artistic paintings of Jesus so literally. They realize that paintings of Jesus by artists like Perugino are simply a visual representation of the what artist saw when closing his eyes and searched for Jesus in his heart.
I would suggest that if he truly believed in Jesus, Mr. Joseph shouldn’t waste time with a lawsuit. Instead he should close his eyes and try to find Jesus in his heart instead of on a wall in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is guaranteed that if he spent the time searching his heart, 500 year-old paintings of what Jesus looked like wouldn’t cause him, “personal stress.”
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The Six Million Dollar Man: Twins sign reliever Taylor Rogers
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The Twins and Taylor Rogers didn’t quite get a contract done by Wednesday night’s non-tender deadline, but eventually the lefthanded closer agreed to a one-year, $6 million deal.
The news comes the morning after the team parted ways with Eddie Rosario and Matt Wisler by non-tendering them contracts. Twins President of Baseball Operations Derek Falvey didn’t close the door on re-signing those two as free agents.
Rogers turns 30 on Dec. 17 and will be eligible for free agency in 2023. In five seasons with the Twins, he is 15-14 with a 3.12 ERA over 279 games and 274 innings. In 2019, Rogers had 30 saves with 90 strikeouts in 69 innings, but his 2020 numbers weren’t as strong. His ERA ballooned to a career-high 4.05 and his WHIP was an inflated 1.500; eventually, he shared closing duties with Sergio Romo.
In a rarity, the Twins reached one-year deals with all the players who were tendered, meaning no arbitration battles. All-Star pitcher Jose Berrios got $6.1 million, center fielder Byron Buxton got $5.125 million, reliever Tyler Duffey got $2.2 million, catcher Mitch Garver got $1.875 million and lefty Caleb Thielbar got $650,000.
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Takeaways – Admiral (Retd.) Travis Sinniah and Dr. Harinda Vidanage on ‘The Asian Arms Race, Geopolitics and Possible Implications for Sri Lanka’
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States will continue to use military capacity to increase their influence, and arms races are an outcome of such behaviour linked to advances in warfare and industrial innovation.
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Revolution in Military Affairs
Early to mid twentieth-century warfare was notable for the use of sea power and air power on the battlefield that culminated in the use of the atomic bomb in 1945.
The Cold War period contributed to a new bilateral arms race between the US and the Soviet Union and introduced concepts such as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
States with the most powerful militaries in the world are moving away from notable arms control agreements such as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), and are in a race to develop other weapons systems such as Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS).
Complexities in the South Asian Arms Race
Unresolved border issues and lack of bilateral policies in the use or limitation of nuclear weapons can lead to conflicts and crises that could move up the nuclear escalation ladder.
The disparity in comparative conventional military strength prevented some actors from giving up their nuclear option, particularly on the first use of a nuclear weapon.
The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) as potential battlefield weapons with their small size, vulnerability to theft, and perceived usability make the existence of TNWs in national arsenals a risk to regional and global security.
Challenge for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s socio-economic and military ties with the regional nuclear weapons states, and Sri Lanka’s geostrategic position in the Indian Ocean could challenge Sri Lanka’s existing norms on neutrality.
Being an island gives Sri Lanka a natural defensive boundary that shields its territorial integrity. Nonetheless, the state must consider contingencies to deal with any nuclear mishaps such as from an India-Pakistan conflict or an accident involving a submarine or naval ship in Sri Lankan waters.
Takeaways from Dr. Harinda Vidanage and Mr. Malinda Meegoda’s Presentations:
Militarisation and its Effects on State Behavior
Militarisation, due to an arms race, often results in the loss of credibility in the states’ ability to engage in cooperative diplomatic efforts.
As militarisation promotes a state of permanent adversarial posturing, smaller states can become trapped between regional powers and may be compelled to choose sides.
The militarised Indian Ocean is an opportunity for Sri Lanka to increase its political neutrality and promote dialogue, particularly within South Asia. To do this successfully, Sri Lanka must aim to resolve its internal political challenges.
Sri Lanka’s Security and Resource Reallocation Strategy
Sri Lanka, as a small state, operating in a tight fiscal environment needs to come up with strategies to increase the optimum use of its military resources.
Sri Lanka could look at reducing the number of active duty troops and increasing its reservists.
Investing in a long-term strategic transformational plan includes; periodic defence reviews, and greater integration of research institutes to develop Sri Lanka’s military capabilities.
Takeaways from the Discussion:
A concentration of India’s strike capabilities in South India poses a threat to Sri Lanka, which highlights the need to implement a contingency strategy in case of nuclear fallout.
The Sri Lankan Navy lacks adequate surveillance capabilities to monitor Sri Lanka’s underwater dimensions and could look to invest in anti-submarine vessels that can detect potential threats underwater.
Smaller states like Sri Lanka can be vulnerable to third country interferences in the cyber realm, and the weaponisation of social media in Sri Lanka could undermine public opinion on the local political system.
Sri Lanka could invest more in human capital and develop its cyber capabilities.
Suggested Readings:
Meegoda, M. (2018). How can Sri Lanka Navigate the Asian Arms Race Conundrum? Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute. [Online] Available at: https://lki.lk/publication/how-can-sri-lanka-navigate-the-asian-arms-race-conundrum/ [Accessed 20 March 2019].
Hoodbhoy, P. and Mian, Z. (2018). Managing Pakistan’s Bomb: Learning on the Job. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. [Online] Available at: https://thebulletin.org/2018/08/managing-pakistans-bomb-learning-on-the-job/ [Accessed 20 March 2019].
Waidyatilake, B. (2018). Sri Lanka’s Strategy for Regional Security. [Online] The Diplomat. Available at: https://thediplomat.com/2018/07/sri-lankas-strategy-for-regional-security [Accessed 20 March 2019].
Meegoda, M. (2018). Revisiting Nuclear Weapon Free Zones in South Asia: Evaluating Policy Options for Smaller States. Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute. [Online] Available at: https://lki.lk/blog/revisiting-nuclear-weapon-free-zones-in-south-asia-evaluating-policy-options-for-smaller-states/ [Accessed 20 March 2019].
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1 Live turkeys, weighing more than 185 g, that are classified under tariff item No. 0105.99.11 or heading No. 98.04 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
2 Meat and edible offal of turkeys, fresh, chilled or frozen, not cut in pieces, that are classified under tariff item No. 0207.24.11, 0207.24.91, 0207.25.11 or 0207.25.91 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
3 Cuts of meat and edible offal, including livers, of turkeys, fresh, chilled or frozen, that are classified under tariff item No. 0207.26.10, 0207.27.11 or 0207.27.91 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
4 Turkey fat (not rendered or otherwise extracted), fresh, chilled or frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked, that is classified under tariff item No. 0209.90.30 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
5 Meat of turkeys, salted, in brine, dried or smoked, that is classified under tariff item No. 0210.99.14 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
6 Sausages and similar products, made from meat, meat offal or blood of turkeys, and food preparation based on those products (other than in cans or glass jars), that are classified under tariff item No. 1601.00.31 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
7 Prepared or preserved liver paste, made from turkeys (other than in cans or glass jars), that is classified under tariff item No. 1602.20.31 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
8 Prepared meals, made from turkeys (other than specially defined mixtures), that are classified under tariff item No. 1602.31.12 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
9 Prepared or preserved meat or meat offal of turkeys (other than prepared meals and specially defined mixtures and other than in cans or glass jars) that is classified under tariff item No. 1602.31.93 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff .
10 Goods that are classified under heading No. 98.04 or 98.26 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff and that are otherwise classifiable under a tariff item referred to in any of items 2 to 9 of this schedule.
SOR/95-399, s. 1
SOR/96-53, ss. 2, 3
SOR/2002-91, s. 1
SOR/2011-308, s. 1
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Venezuela soon again - the class A destination of the World.
Venezuela is located on the northern coast of South America where it meets the Caribbean Sea. Stretching over a surface of 916050 Km2 with over 45 national parks, Venezuela offers any kind of landscapes from white sandy beaches to desert like zones and ancient table top Mountains (The Lost World), the Los Andes mountain chain and extensive virgin jungles. Venezuela shares 3000 kilometers of its northern coastline with the Caribbean having the longest Caribbean coast line and more Islands than any other destination in the Caribbean.
When Christopher Columbus arrived on his third trip to the new world in 1498 he found a virgin and fertile country. He called it Little Venice when seeing the sophisticated lake settlements of Indian huts on stilts, reminding him of Venice. Christopher wrote in his diary that he had found the garden of eden (The paradise).
In 1898, when oil was discovered near Lake Maracaibo and today Venezuela is the third largest producer and exporter of crude oil in the world. This development has led to the opening up of an extensive infrastructure of transport and communications systems, making some of the most distant territories easily accessible for visitors, and lately Venezuela has become a very rich country.
Around 176 kilometers north of Caracas, lies the atoll of Los Roques which offers more than 350 virgin islands and reefs, constituting of the number one National Park in Venezuela with crystal clear, warm waters and 30 kilometers of coral reef making it a paradise for divers and snorkelers. These Virgin Islands were declared a National Park in 1972 and its 221,120 kilometers of pure virgin nature with a central lagoon of mangrove and coral has developed very little since then.
Diving in Los Roques archipelago is the essence of a diving adventure. It is a paradise of secluded and little known reefs with huge amounts of marine life, soft corals and a kaleidoscope of tropical fish. Diving is spectacular with a great variety of coral fauna and flora where there are 200-foot vertical walls, pinnacles and fabulous underwater caves filled with forest of multi colored sponges and black coral formations. Along the flanks of submerged mountains, snappers, groupers, jacks, Creole wrasse, barracudas and shark can be observed cruising along, whilst rays gently glide over the sandy bottoms. There are also a few shipwrecks to explore and a biological research station which shelters a turtle breeding centre.
There are two ways of diving Los Roques, either land-based or live aboard. Land-based accommodation is on the main island of Gran Roque where the population consists of about 150 fishing families and the main road is a sandy dirt-track trail! Accommodation is an informal affair of a few quaint guesthouses, all with fans and en-suite facilities. Rooms are small but clean and comfortable and lie within 50 meters. from the sea.
Diving is run through Reef Divers which is a professionally equipped and well-run operation with 2 dive boats of 30 and 35 feet. Boat runs range from 10 to 90 minutes and there are 2 dives daily with the occasional night dive. For non-diving partners exploration of nearby islands by catamarans can be arranged on request. Prices start from $800 for 4 days including accommodation, full board, weights and weight belts, 2 dives daily and 1 night dive every other day and return flights between Caracas and Los Roques.
For those who prefer to be on a live aboard, the Sailboat Turpial provides the ideal alternative. This classic yacht is a 49 feet. Sailboat with 2 double cabins all with en-suite facilities. She also houses an ample dining room, sitting room with television and a solarium on the upper deck. She is equipped with the most modern of navigational aids and communication equipment. Once on board, you will receive 2 dives daily including night dives almost every night. Although some sites allow diving directly from the boat, on most dives there is a support boat and boat runs are approximately 10-20 minutes. Prices start from $2000, which includes 8 days on Turpial with full board, all diving, tanks, weights, and weight belts. All trips, whether land based or live aboard provide services of a dive master and English-speaking guide. Weather is tropical and warm, and temperatures vary from 30º to 35º throughout the year. Water temperatures vary from 28º to 30ºF and visibility ranges from 50 to 100 meters. There are dives for every level of diver from beginner to advanced, PADI certification courses are offered, and diving gear rental is available on the land based operation.
Los Roques is secluded and complete unspoilt, it is only 35 minutes by plane from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. KLM, British Airways, Iberia and a variety of other airlines fly from Europe to Caracas on almost daily basis with flights connecting daily to Los Roques. If you would like to see other islands, the nearest alternative - just one hour away - is Margarita Island, which in complete contrast to Los Roques, has plenty of nightlife, luxurious hotels, and duty free shopping. All trips can be tailor made to extend your cruise or stay on the islands or combine your holiday with a trip to the mainland. Venezuela offers fabulous national Parks such as Canaima Park which includes the highest waterfall in the world: The Angel Falls, Lake Maracaibo, the Orinoco river, the longest river in the world, and the most ancient rocks on earth: the highland of Guayana.
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Fiction | April 2007
The Four Questions
By Kathy Leonard Czepiel
On Easter afternoon, just before Passover began, Caroline ironed her mother-in-law’s French linen tablecloth on the highest steam setting. She polished her silver with a chamois cloth, and Rose, her five-year-old, rinsed and dried some of it. She cut a thick handful of daffodils from beside the back stoop and put them in a cut glass vase, though Miriam later rearranged them, and she tasted the garlic and potato soup and pronounced it delicious. Miriam was only asking to be polite. Still, Caroline noted the gesture. She set the table for seven, with plastic for Rose and blue-rimmed Limoges china for the adults, and Miriam herself added the crystal wine goblets that were the only heirlooms to survive her family’s exodus from Paris before the war.
As the last chilly streaks of spring sunlight spilled into the icy Hudson River, a train whistled — G with several undertones — and suddenly it was dark. “She’ll be here when she’s here,” Henry said to Miriam and began the Kiddush.
After nine years in this family, Caroline knew much of the Seder’s Hebrew text, but tonight she allowed herself simply to float with the rising and falling intonation of Dan’s father’s voice, the melodic line of words that for her became not a line of language at all, but a universal hum of convergence and separation, like the hum of the strings of her cello beneath her bow.
The first drink of wine, the washing of hands, the dipping of the parsley. Henry broke the matzoh, then began the Passover story in English. “This is the bread of affliction that our fathers ate in the land of Egypt. All who hunger, let them come and eat: All who are in need, let them come and celebrate the Passover. . .”
“Okay,” Dan whispered to Rose, and she tucked her legs under her and stood atop an anatomy textbook while Dan held the hem of her taffeta dress. With his other hand, he reached under the table to touch Caroline’s leg. In her clear, sweet voice, Rose recited, “How is this night different from all the nights? Why do we — on all other nights we eat bread or matzoh, but why do we eat — on this night we only eat matzoh?” She paused, then looked down at Dan for help.
“Herbs,” he prompted, but she was stumped. “Why is it that on all other nights,” he said, “we eat all kinds of herbs, but on this night…”
“…only those that are bitter,” Rose said, and smiled. Then she looked to her father again.
“Why is it that on all other nights, we do not dip our herbs even once…” and she joined him for the rest of the question, then recited the fourth herself. As Rose wobbled her way through the questions, Caroline found herself transfixed by the color of Rose’s hair beneath the chandelier, which drew beautiful reddish streaks in the brown curls, their wispy tips nearly blond. Just this morning this grown-up child had walked to the altar of Caroline’s church and sung “Jesus Loves Me” louder than any of the other children, if not perfectly in tune.
When Caroline and Dan had married, it had been so easy to imagine raising their hypothetical children in two faiths, or even in one. While they were engaged and into the first years of their marriage, Caroline had at times considered converting. It was Dan’s father, Henry, who had introduced them — he and Caroline played together in the Philharmonic — and it was Henry who had patiently sat with her on the screened porch that first summer answering all her questions about Judaism. Newly married into this family, Caroline had seen only possibility and promise. Then, a few years later, they’d had Rose. The winter of Rose’s birth, still half-pregnant with the milk of a nursing mother, Caroline had begun to stop in at the neighborhood Methodist church, at first just to sit in the back in the silence and muster up the energy to go home from her demanding job to her demanding baby. One afternoon the minister had found her napping in the last pew, her face pressed into the velveteen cushion. They’d sat and talked for a long time. “Next time bring your cello,” he’d said at last. “The acoustics in here are excellent.” So she had. Two, sometimes three times a week. The heat would be turned down–it was the middle of the week — but the vaulted ceiling would catch the warm sound and toss it from beam to beam like a peal of laughter.
Later she’d gone to a service or two, and she’d been surprised at the visceral pull of it. The hymns with their simple 4/4 time and major chords sang of her mostly effortless childhood, and the Lord’s Prayer, which she hadn’t spoken in twenty years, came back in one unbroken piece. The questions that were prodding her with greater insistence now that she had a child weren’t exactly answered. But sitting there on a Sunday morning with a familiar community surrounding her gave her a new way of asking them, a new way of seeing herself in the world that she’d found at once startling and reassuring.
Dan held both Rose’s hands as she struggled to sit down again, Henry and Miriam’s proud smiles directed at the two of them. Over dinner they talked about real estate and summer plans and preschool and politics, ignoring the two empty places — one for Dan’s sister Sarah, who still had not arrived, and one for the prophet Elijah. After dinner, Rose had the thrilling job of finding the hidden afikomon and opening the door for Elijah to come in. The crispy squares of matzoh were in the piano bench with the sheet music, right where Henry always hid them, but Rose shrieked when she found them as if it were a complete surprise, then gathered them up in her small hands and distributed them around the table. “One for Mama” — Caroline couldn’t help feeling proud to be first — “One for Daddy. One for Grandma.” There were three squares left, and Rose paused at Henry’s chair to think. “Grandpa, I think you get three!” she announced, dropping them on his plate. “You’re the specialest one!”
“This one’s for you, Rosie,” Henry laughed, holding one out to her, but Rose had already turned toward the front hall to execute the next portion of her assignment.
“Just a crack, sweetheart. It’s cold outside,” Miriam said.
From her chair, Caroline could see Rose pondering this advice as she stood in front of the hall closet. She opened the closet and disappeared inside, burrowing through Miriam’s neatly arranged crates of hats, gloves, scarves, and umbrellas and emerging with one of Henry’s winter boots, which she used to prop the front door open “just a crack” as Miriam had suggested. Only Caroline heard the tentative knock at the door. The others were too busy praising Rose for her work.
“Sorry we’re late,” Sarah said, peeking around the door, and their praise swelled into relief as they stood and made a show of welcoming her as if they’d never complained of her lateness or debated whether she was doing it on purpose.
Sarah looked beautiful in a muted green cashmere turtleneck, her hair curly around her face from the rain. Her cheeks were rosy and cool as Caroline pressed her face to Sarah’s in a hug. And then she saw him–a strange man standing in the orange glow of the porch light. He had a dark beard, and his hands were plunged deep in the pockets of a navy blue pea coat. Sarah reached back and took him by the arm and led him through the door. “This is my friend Ravi,” she said with an anxious smile, and he held out his hand to shake Henry’s.
Caroline could see Miriam had never met Ravi before, and probably had never even heard of him. It was Sarah’s way — the surprise attack. Caroline eyed Elijah’s place at the table and knew both that Miriam would pretend it had been set for Ravi and that Sarah would hear about it later.
Henry took Ravi’s coat, and Caroline and Dan pressed their backs against the wall of the narrow entryway to give the others room to pass. “Come, join us,” Miriam said, guiding Ravi by the elbow into the dining room. “We’ve eaten, but I’ve saved some warm food for you both.” She indicated Elijah’s chair, next to Sarah’s, and as they sat, Miriam opened the drawer of the dining room sideboard and pulled out an extra kipa, which she handed to Ravi without explanation.
“Do you work at IBM as well?” she asked as she watched him fumble with it. He glanced at Henry and Dan for help, but maintained his poise enough to answer her question. “I do. I transferred up from Raleigh in December.” Dan and Henry both seemed oblivious to his discomfort, but he managed to turn the kipa right side out and set it precariously on top of his head.
“That’s too bad,” Miriam said. “You must have preferred the weather down there.”
“Oh, I like being close to New York City. I have cousins here.”
“The rest of his family is in Paris,” Sarah said, glancing at Miriam, but getting no response. “My mother is from Paris originally,” she said to Ravi as she shook out her napkin and spread it across her lap.
“I left when I was five years old,” Miriam said. “I don’t remember it.”
“Do you have family there still?” Ravi asked.
“None,” Miriam said.
“I’m playing a concert in Paris this summer, ” Caroline offered. “We’re looking forward to the trip.” Ravi nodded politely, but his attention was still on Henry and Dan. He clearly didn’t want to misstep.
“We’re going to see the Ivory Tower,” Rose said.
“The Eiffel Tower,” Dan corrected her, holding back a grin.
Rose leaned across the table toward Ravi, and the napkin tucked into her collar flopped on his hand. “I’m going to kindergarten soon,” she said.
He leaned toward her to reply in a half whisper, “That’s wonderful,” and Caroline’s heart opened to him.
Miriam set warm plates of food in front of Sarah and Ravi, and Henry resumed the Seder as they ate. “Pour out Thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known Thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon Thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste His dwelling place,” Henry read.
“Jeez,” Sarah muttered through a mouthful of food. Miriam put her hand on the base of her wine glass as if to steady herself, and Sarah swallowed and studied Ravi for a moment. “Look, you don’t have to wear this,” she said, plucking the kipa off his head. “It looks silly on you.”
“I’d like to wear it,” Ravi said, putting it back on. “I would like to show respect for your family.”
Henry, with his back to the hall, shivered and said, “Did anybody close the door?”
“Did Elijah come in?” Rose whispered to Dan. Then, without waiting for an answer, she climbed down from her chair and ran back to check the door. Caroline poured herself another glass of wine and half listened to the talk of car finance rates and bait-and-switch salesmen. She could get down on the floor with Rose and color Easter eggs and yellow chicks and pink bunnies through the nice little fog that was rising in her head. In fact, there was nothing she’d rather do at this moment. But she felt an obligation to stay and help Ravi through this meal. Sarah, on the other hand, tossed her napkin over her unfinished dinner as soon as the conversation shifted from her new car to an argument over the cost of health insurance and crawled over to Rose, who was sprawled out on the living room carpet, leaving Ravi to fend for himself.
“Is there more charoset?” Dan asked, cutting off Henry’s familiar complaints about malpractice insurance.
“Of course,” Miriam said, waving him into the kitchen. Then she leaned toward Ravi as if in confidence, her onyx beads clinking against her plate. “Charoset is a traditional Jewish food made of apples and nuts. Would you like to try some?”
“Oh, yes,” Ravi said, nodding. Dan set the baking pan in the middle of the table, and Miriam shot him a look, which he missed; she would have served it up on a nice dessert plate in the kitchen.
Ravi picked up his fork. Caroline could tell he was waiting for someone else to say something. Always the best strategy.
“So, what do you do at IBM?” she asked him.
“I’m a programmer,” Ravi said. “Do you know much about computers?”
“Not a thing. I’m a high school music teacher and a cellist.” She nodded toward her cello, which stood in the corner of the living room. A hinge on her case needed repair, so she’d taken the cello to church in the morning wrapped in a quilt. With the temperature dropping, she’d brought it into Henry and Miriam’s house to keep it warm, and now, with the quilt spilled around its end pin, it looked awkward and out of place. She longed to leave the table and pick up her bow and play. “I played in church this morning,” she added, and saw the flicker of interest in Ravi’s eyes as he realized she was an outsider of faith too.
“It’s a beautiful instrument,” he said, craning his neck to see it better.
“It has a tone like the night sky,” Henry said. “I’ve never heard another one quite like it.”
Henry had said this before, but Caroline was pleased nonetheless.
“My brother plays the cello,” Ravi said. “He’s a teacher at Hunter College.”
“I thought your family was in Paris?” Dan asked.
“All but this brother and some cousins. But we’re from India, of course, originally.”
Sarah came up behind Ravi and put her hands on his shoulders. “I thought we could go for a walk,” she said. The relief in Ravi’s face was unmistakable.
“If you don’t mind…” he said to Henry, who raised his hand and shook his head no. As Ravi stood to join Sarah, she lifted the kipa off his head again, and this time he tucked it neatly into the pocket of his khakis.
The front door shut just shy of a slam, and Henry sighed.
“I have some dishes to do,” Miriam said, standing, and she added, to Caroline, “You sit and rest a minute.”
Henry took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. “Holidays are meant to bring families together,” he said, glancing toward the front door.
“They’ll be back,” Caroline said, and Dan humphed as if he hoped they wouldn’t be.
Henry put his glasses on again as if to examine Caroline’s face. After a long career as a neurologist, he often said he could read people’s faces. Not just for telltale droops and twitches, but for signs of stress or pain or confusion. He said treating a patient meant being able to see more than test results. That was what had made him a good doctor, but Caroline imagined it was also what had made him introduce his son to a gentile woman ten years ago. Never mind what was on the surface. He’d seen something in her that he’d understood to be right for his son.
“You look tired,” he said now.
“Church, brunch, an egg hunt, and a Seder,” Caroline said. “I am tired.”
“Your holidays don’t usually collide like this,” Henry said, glancing at Dan, who was leaning back in his chair and staring absently at the ceiling. “Miss Rosalita seems to be weathering it all quite nicely,” Henry added, nodding to the corner where Rose sat, tongue stuck out of the corner of her mouth as she vigorously colored something deep purple.
“She’ll fall apart soon,” Caroline said. What she meant was that Rose would suddenly collapse in exhaustion, probably cry over something insignificant, and have to be put to bed in her party dress unless someone moved soon to get her in her pajamas. But Caroline couldn’t help wondering: how will she fall apart later? Into one Jewish piece? One Christian piece? Or into two pieces of nothing?
“How about some music,” Dan said, sitting up suddenly, and Caroline wondered what he’d been thinking about.
“A nice bit of Brahms for the lady,” Henry said. Dan’s chair scraped on the floor as he stood — a sound that Caroline knew would make Miriam cringe in the kitchen — and wordlessly he disappeared into the living room to survey Henry’s vast LP collection. In a moment, the agitated first movement of Brahms’ string quartet in C minor slunk into the room. Henry cocked his head to the left, and Caroline could see it wasn’t what he’d had in mind either. But she knew Dan hadn’t done it on purpose; he’d just pulled the first Brahms record off the shelf.
“Music is my faith,” Caroline said, to herself more than to Henry. It was the music this morning in church that had lifted her spirit to celebration. It was always the music that spoke to her most deeply.
“No,” Henry said. “Music is merely an expression of something greater.”
“Isn’t it funny that we can’t agree on what that something greater is?”
“Oh, I think we mostly do agree,” Henry said. “We simply get bogged down in the details.”
Caroline wasn’t sure she’d classify Christ as a detail, but she understood what Henry meant. “We can agree on the beauty of a Brahms quartet,” she said.
“We can.” Henry leaned back, clasped his hands behind his head and closed his eyes, as if inviting her to do the same. And for a moment she did. She closed her eyes and relaxed into her chair, until she felt a wave of sadness about to crest over her, and she jerked her eyes open and stood up, saying, “I think I’ll help Miriam with the dishes.”
What she really wanted was some time alone; when she pulled down the spare apron that hung on the back of the pantry door and offered to take over so Miriam could sit down with Henry, Miriam looked at her with a funny little smile as if she were about to say something. Then she stepped aside, and all she said was, “Thank you.”
The dishwater in the sink was already gray and flat. Caroline drained it out to start fresh. She turned on the hot water full blast and passed her hand through, then drew it back sharply.
“Let me get those,” Dan said behind her, and though she had hoped for some quiet time to herself, she complied so she could wrap her hand in a cold towel. She leaned against the oven and watched Dan’s shoulder blades rock under his shirt as he attacked the first pot.
“There’s a story in the Bible where two women are fighting over the same child,” she said at last.
Dan looked up. “One of them wants to cut it in half and the other one would rather let it go.”
“Right,” she said. “And King Solomon says the one who will let it go is the real mother.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” He grinned at her with that dimple in his right cheek, and she remembered the thrill that smile had given her the first time she’d seen it.
“That’s just what we agreed to do,” she said. “Cut Rose in half.”
“Hmm. I wonder who her real parents are.”
“In our version of the story, we’re assuming she’ll eventually decide which faith, which parent, to go with. We’re asking her to make a terrible choice.”
Through the kitchen doorway, Caroline saw Rose had climbed into Henry’s lap. She was examining the gilded picture of Jerusalem in the center of her haggadah while Henry and Miriam continued the Seder on their own. Suddenly Caroline wanted her all to herself. It was bedtime; she could brush Rose’s hair and watch her hop on one foot and then the other as she put on her pajamas. She could snuggle with her under the comforter on the twin bed in the guest room and read her a story and stroke her head as she fell asleep.
“We’re asking her to be her own person,” Dan said. “Maybe she’ll choose neither.”
“I remember one time, before we were engaged, your mother took me to the mall to pick out some curtains,” Caroline said. Dan placed one pot on the wooden drying rack and started in on another. “In the car, she told me how her family escaped from France.” Miriam had been told to stop speaking to the neighbors, to repeat nothing that had been said at home, so she’d stopped speaking altogether. She and her parents had fled in the middle of the night. Her father had taken her from the bed where she slept with her cousin, Lorraine. The girls had cried out for each other, and Miriam’s father had clapped his hand over her mouth so hard she couldn’t breathe.
She still had nightmares, Miriam had told Caroline in a rare moment of intimacy. Suffocating nightmares of being trapped in a strange bed and frantically searching for Lorraine, whose family had stayed behind too long. Sometimes in her dreams Miriam found her cousine alive and well, only to awaken to the reality that she was indeed gone, not even a grave to visit.
“She asked me what my intentions were,” Caroline continued, “and I said I hoped we’d get married. And she told me she thought I was a ‘lovely girl,’ but that I should know that she would fight to make her grandchildren Jews.”
“That’s my mother for you,” Dan said.
“You’ve never had the balls to say it that bluntly.”
He withdrew his hands from the water and shook them once, hard, then turned to face her. “I don’t know what it is you want from me,” he said, folding his arms across his chest. “Maybe you’re upset because tonight Rose asked the four questions for the first time, and you can’t bear to see her becoming Jewish.”
“I don’t think you can bear to see her become a Christian. It would be about as hard for you as reciting the Apostle’s Creed.”
Dan plunged his hands back into the sink and scrubbed more furiously.
“You don’t even know what the Apostle’s Creed is, do you.”
He turned and looked at her. “No.”
“I can recite the Kiddush in Hebrew.”
“You have to try a little harder,” Caroline whispered through the lump in her throat.
“Look, I’m holding up my end of the bargain,” Dan said. “I’m teaching her how to be a good Jew.”
“The bargain was that we’d teach her both faiths together. But I practically have to blackmail you to get you into church with me. I’ve been to temple ten times more than you’ve been to church this year.”
“No one asked you to come to temple.”
“That’s my job.”
“It’s all our job. Together.”
“I don’t get any of this. Because I’ll tell you something. The woman I married was talking about converting, for Christ’s sake.” Caroline smirked at the slur, but Dan plowed forward. “Now all of a sudden you’re some kind of altar girl.”
She’d been angry with him many times before, but now the accumulation of this same argument over the years drove a stake of fury into her. Because he watched ESPN during her mother’s Easter brunch, though Caroline was at his mother’s side throughout the Seder. Because he refused to hang a Christmas stocking for himself no matter how hard Rose begged. Because of every little slight he’d given her religion, saying, “The Christians are your department, honey,” when her understanding of raising Rose in two faiths had always meant raising her in two faiths together. She saw now that that assumption was the very root of the problem. He intended merely to keep up his end of their awful plan.
“You both look like you’re about to spit,” Sarah said, barging into the kitchen.
“It’s just our annual Passover argument,” Dan said.
“This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.” Sarah pulled the pot out of the coffee maker and poured herself an oversized mug. “I’m going to marry a leftover hippie and have little agnostic children.”
“Ah, then I guess I should go home,” Ravi said behind her. He was wearing the kipa again. Sarah reached around his waist and gave him a squeeze.
“They’re fighting over religion,” Sarah said. Then, to Caroline and Dan, “You guys need a vacation.”
“Well, I’m so glad you’ve solved all our problems, Sarah,” said Dan. “What a relief.” He yanked the plug out of the drain.
“Please! Look at what religion is doing to you!” Sarah protested. “John Lennon was right. Imagine no religion. Your little family would be perfectly happy.”
Ravi laughed then, a laugh from his belly. He threw his head back, and the kipa landed on the floor behind him. “My dear Sarah,” he said. In his look was both amusement and adoration, and Caroline realized with a start that he was in love with Sarah. “Do you think one’s religion is disposable, like a paper cup? This is so American, if you’ll forgive me for saying so.”
“You’ve disposed of your religion,” she said.
“That’s not true,” he said, shaking his head. “What I said was I have chosen not to practice my family’s faith. I was raised Hindu,” he said, looking up at Caroline and at Dan. “But there’s not much of a Hindu community here, so I’ve given up practicing my faith, at least for now. My family was not strictly religious, anyway. But,” he looked at Sarah again, “I would never say that I’ve abandoned it completely. It was the way I was raised. It’s part of who I am. How could I give it up?”
Sarah shrugged, but without her former confidence.
“You might think you’ve given up Judaism too, but I know that’s not true,” he continued. “All you’ve given up is the formalities. And if someone were to try to take it from you, or try to tell you your child must be something else, you would stand up.”
“So stupid old Sarah is trying to make everything look simpler than it is again,” Sarah said.
“No,” Ravi said quietly and touched his nose to her hair in such a way that Caroline felt she should look away.
“You’re a Christian?” Ravi asked Caroline. “Forgive me if I’m being too forward.”
“I am,” Caroline said.
“Is it customary for Jews and Christians to marry here?”
“It’s more and more common,” Dan said. “But not everyone is happy about it.”
“Like your mother,” Ravi said, and Sarah nodded. “And maybe your father too.”
“He introduced us,” Dan said. “Maybe he was too optimistic.”
Another wave of anger rolled over Caroline, though Dan had merely said what she was already feeling.
“No,” Ravi said. “My grandmother was Christian, and she and my grandfather had a good, long life together. Because he loved and respected her for all of who she was, and she him.”
The truth of this pricked Caroline between the eyes. In fairness, Dan was right. She had spoken of converting. How seriously it was now hard to remember. She had been drawn in by the stories and traditions and language that, to her, were both new and ancient, both fresh and entirely proven. Judaism had touched her like a song, a psalm of praise and sincere faith, while the familiarity of Christianity had plodded along for her like a responsive reading she’d spoken automatically, one voice in a crowd. Then she’d realized that many of those same things that belonged to Judaism were already hers as a Christian. She just hadn’t claimed them before. And stepping off the bedrock of what she already knew onto the raft of what she did not, and leaving behind much of what had shaped her as a child, had suddenly seemed foolish. And perhaps even impossible. But the woman Dan had fallen in love with had already set one foot on that raft. Perhaps she had failed him by stepping back. And then by standing firm on her own shore, firmer than either of them could have imagined she someday would. She clutched the cold towel to her chest, twisting it tighter around her scalded hand. And then, perhaps he had failed her by making his love conditional. Perhaps they weren’t raising Rose in faith together because he wanted nothing Christian in his life.
So, how did I end up here? she thought.
And what am I doing here now?
In the living room, the forgotten stereo was still working its way through the Brahms, the cello line droning ominously toward the conclusion of the final movement.
What will happen to Dan if Rose chooses to be Christian?
What will happen to me if she chooses to be Jewish?
“But your grandparents must have chosen a faith for their children,” Caroline said now to Ravi, as if their choice might somehow provide her an answer.
“They raised them as neither. My father spent his life trying to get back to his religious roots because they were never watered for him. It left a terrible void in his life. And then he met my mother, who was Hindu, and so we, my brothers and sisters and I, were raised Hindu. But not strictly religious, partly because my father was never comfortable that way. So, you see,” he said, turning back to Sarah, “even when you have no faith at all to begin with, even that is a part of who you are. It defines you in a way that can never be changed.”
“Come, Rose,” Miriam said in the living room. “No more bouncing around. Let’s read this story together.” Caroline knew she should be out there paying attention to her daughter instead of in here arguing over her. Dan’s head was bowed in thought, though it looked a little like prayer, and Caroline wondered whether he would be willing to talk when they were alone again.
“Careful, Rosie. . .” came Henry’s voice, then a dissonant crash. Caroline ran.
On the living room floor, Rose and the cello were tangled together. And then Caroline saw the instrument’s broken neck. It had separated from the body not cleanly, but like a twig snapped over someone’s leg, with sharp wooden fingers thrusting out of its ribs
“Oh, Rose!” Miriam cried out, and Rose screwed up her face, took a deep breath, and wailed.
“What happened?” Caroline shouted above Rose’s cries as she lifted the cello’s neck and Dan lifted Rose.
“She was dancing,” Henry said as he knelt beside Caroline and gently held up one end of a broken string.
“Wildly,” Miriam added.
“Rose! I heard Grandpa ask you to be careful,” Dan scolded, and Rose, still clutching a purple crayon, wailed even louder.
Struggling to her feet, Caroline left the cello in Henry’s care and reached toward Rose, whose arms and legs were wrapped around Dan. “Give her to me,” she said. Dan hesitated, and Caroline’s face flushed hot. She choked out the words, “She needs to know I’m not angry with her,” and Dan released his daughter and passed her to Caroline. Together she and Rose sank into the living room couch as if into a pile of sand. Sarah and Ravi stood watching, their arms around each other, as Henry tried to slip the cello’s bridge back under its three intact strings.
Miriam mumbled something in French that Caroline didn’t understand, but she saw Ravi open his mouth as if to reply, then close it.
Caroline pressed her hand against Rose’s wet face and breathed deeply the smell of her clean hair. “It’s all right, baby,” she said. “I know you didn’t mean to. We can fix it.” But the uncertainty of her own words broke her. She bowed her head against Rose’s to hide her own tears and stroked Rose’s wet cheeks and kissed her forehead.
“I’m sorry, Mama,” came Rose’s little voice from inside their cocoon. And with one small hand on Caroline’s neck, the other tucked between their bodies, Rose rhythmically cried herself to sleep.
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HomeCultureVilnius: Inside cinematic city where Netflix’s Young Wallander was filmed
September 9, 2020 Lithuania Tribune Culture, Top 0
Šeškinė, a district of Vilnius Photo by Andrius Pavelko and Saulius Žiūra
The Lithuanian capital of Vilnius has just collected another significant film title under its belt. Young Wallander, a new Netflix original series based on Henning Mankell’s best-selling novels about detective Kurt Wallander, came to life in, among other locations, Šeškinė—a residential neighborhood turned into the Swedish city of Malmö.
According to the producers, Vilnius has already built a strong reputation as a film-friendly city and is especially valued for its huge cinematic potential, exceptional local crews and diversity of settings and landscapes. Offering an abundance of compelling locations, from moody dark alleys and disused prisons to shining trendy restaurants, it provides the wide-ranging look and feel the creators were after.
While Vilnius is usually celebrated for its UNESCO-listed Old Town and the surrounding natural landscapes, the producers wanted to film somewhere with a certain appearance and unique history. The suburban neighborhood of Šeškinė proved to be the best choice—the buildings are historically diverse and incredibly cinematic, with numerous shooting angles and creative options.
“When trying to find Malmö in Vilnius, we scouted and debated several Vilnius’ districts,” said Jonas Špokas, the CEO of Baltic Locations and the supervising location manager for the series. “The director decided to go for Šeškinė based on how strong of an impression the surroundings made on the screen. To make it as immersive as possible, the scenes inside Wallander’s flat have been filmed in one of the flats in the district. A peek through the window provides the same view that the audience will witness in the crucial scenes happening outside, which adds layers of realism.”
Šeškinė was first mentioned in written historical records in the 14th century. From the 16th to the 19th century, the area, then a settlement with dispersed wooden houses, belonged to the Radzwills, or Radvilos—a well-known noble family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Šeškinė has always been known for its surrounding hills, which at one point in history were used as natural barriers to defend the territory of Vilnius. The mounds have witnessed many events, including battles between the crusaders, Russians, Swedes, French and others, as well as the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794.
In 1955, Šeškinė joined the Vilnius City Municipality and in 1977 the Soviets began building multi-storey apartment blocks. Now Šeškinė is an expanding residential neighborhood—with over 36000 residents it is one of the most populous and vibrant districts in Vilnius. The neighborhood is celebrated for its diverse architectural choices—Soviet-style apartment blocks, red-brick buildings, a modern-style church, contemporary offices, one of the largest shopping malls in Eastern Europe, Akropolis, a water park, as well as a hidden gem in a nearby forest—a sculpture park developed by a well-known Lithuanian artist Mykolas Sauka.
“Shooting in such a densely populated neighborhood is rather difficult—it requires a lot of understanding, goodwill and patience both from the residents and the filming crew,” said Jūratė Pazikaitė, the director of the Vilnius Film Office. “In the end, the collaboration proved to be successful—we even managed to cast a few hundred locals as extras, while the creators, in return for the community’s support, improved the surroundings. We are truly glad that Young Wallander found its home in Šeškinė.”
The new show joins HBO and Sky’s Chernobyl (2019) as another significant title choosing Vilnius as its backdrop. For Chernobyl, it was Šeškinė’s neighbor Fabijoniškės, also a Soviet-built suburban neighborhood. Other shows filmed in Vilnius include HBO and Sky’s Catherine the Great (2019), Netflix’s Tokyo Trial (2016) and The Last Czars (2019), as well as some parts of the fourth season of Stranger Things (2016).
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MOVIE NEWS: Is George Miller Done with Max?
Sarah C. / January 13, 2016
In a recent interview, Director George Miller told Page Six that he will no longer make the Mad Max films. “I’ve shot in Australia in a field of wild flowers and flat red earth when it rained heavily forever. We had to wait 18 months and every return to the US was 27 hours. Those ‘Mad Maxes’ take forever. I won’t do those anymore.”
This statement comes as a shock, because soon after the release of Mad Max: Fury Road, Miller spoke about possible sequels. Initially the sequel was to be called Mad Max: Furiosa, thus taking advantage of Charlize Theron’s successful character. But only a few months later, Miller stated that the working title for the sequel was to now be called Mad Max: Wasteland. Even going onto say that Furiosa would not be present in the sequel, but there would be a connection between her and Max in the second film.
However, after recent news of Miller’s departure from the Mad Max franchise, we may never see the future of Tom Hardy’s version of Mad Max. No other reason has been said about the end of the franchise other than Miller’s recent comments. It does come as a surprise though, considering Hardy signed on for at least two more films. The franchise may get passed onto a different director, but Miller has stated in the past that he would never let anyone carry on the director duties of Mad Max.
Does this come as a surprise to you? Are you relieved that there won’t be anymore Mad Max films, or are you disappointed? Let me know!
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I hope not. It won’t be the same, it’s his baby
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Having faced great danger, 12-year-old Manuel finally succeeds in hopping a train out of Mexico. When he finally arrives in Los Angeles and is reunited with his brother, he is elated. But the longer he's there, the more he realizes that something isn't right. Read Less
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This year is certainly shaping up to be a big one for the history books, with the tests on the rocket engine for a 1000mph car only a week ago, not to mention the actual attempt at the land speed record to come soon enough too. Then we have the launch of the commercial SpaceX program, the commercial replacement for the NASA shuttle and to top that off Joe Kittingers 108,800ft parachute jump from the edge of space, a world record that has stood unchallenged in 52 years! is set to be taken head on.
Now while this isn't normally the sort of news we cover here on CCLTech, it's something has to be stood back and appreciated, not just because of the man who will be taking that leap, but because of the people who are making such a thing possible and of course the technology required to pull of such an amazing stunt.
Given that this record was last set 52 years ago, we can safely say that technology has come a long way since the last jump. But when you're taking into account that the last jump was taken by the former Air Force Colonel Joe Kittinger as he leapt quite literally from the edge of space, with a slight nip in his glove costing him the use of his hand due to the extreme low temperatures, the things that can go wrong on this new attempt are countless.
Attempting to break the record, the new man in town Mr Baumgartner will be leaping from 120,000ft from an air balloon, where he will then freefall (for a long time), will approach speeds near 700mph and will be the first human being to travel at supersonic speed without some kind of propulsion (other than gravity). The numbers are just mind boggling.
So today is going to be a big day in history and of course we wish him and his team all the best in this endeavour. Naturally we would like to see him succeed as there is literally no room for error after he has made the jump. But the advancements in technology, the level of engineering and progress that has been made to make this possible is simply staggering.
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Relive the year in film with these double features
By Becca James
As 2020 comes to a close, it brings with it the gift of hindsight, which I have decided to use to play cinematic matchmaker—instead of recommending merely ten movies, here are 20. Pairing some of the best releases of the year together via a list of double-features allows us to reflect on how 2020 left its mark on the medium. It's admittedly heavy on the horror—that's fitting, though, in a year that saw its own share of scares, but also saw the genre strive as streaming replaced a trip to the theaters. And while we would have loved to see these on the big screen, as movies found their way into our homes it's nice to think it made for not an isolating experience, but an intimate one.
The Assistant (Dir. Kitty Green) +
Sound of Metal (Dir. Darius Marder)
The Assistant, released in January, and Sound of Metal, released in December, act as interesting bookends to a year that began like any other before quickly resembling none other. Pushed inside because of the pandemic, life became more insular. Or did it? Take The Assistant, which sees Jane (Julia Garner), who, while not confined to her home, spends nearly all her time in one place: the office. Sound familiar? Her job is her entire world save a single phone call to her family. Quiet anger hums through the sonically subdued film as Jane struggles in a toxic work environment. Similarly, Sound of Metal, another purposely quiet film, follows Ruben's (Riz Ahmed) initially isolating journey from a tight-knit metal scene to a rural community for recovering addicts who are deaf, after he loses his hearing. What he longs for most is for things to return to normal (again, sound familiar?), but in the film, as in life, that's not possible. Fittingly, both characters are left in a state of authentic ambiguity. Watch these as a meditation on the passing of time, the many faces of staying in place, and the pursuit of happier and healthier endeavors in the new year.
Gretel & Hansel (Dir. Oz Perkins) +
Shirley (Dir. Josephine Decker)
This is a fever-dream double feature, as both films freshly stylize familiar tales of terror. Gretel & Hansel is a female-first title because it fleshes out Gretel's (Sophia Lillis) character by making her a natural witch. She has to reconcile this innate gift in this visually gruesome and beautiful bildungsroman that gives the classic story new life. Meanwhile, Shirley is a look at the very morose Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss), presented in a way that mimics the famed fiction author's horror writing. Covered in the same heady haze, watch these when you want to take a trip without leaving your couch.
Come to Daddy (Dir. Ant Timpson) +
Blow the Man Down (Dir. Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy)
Brutal violence abounds in these coastal mysteries, but they're not all show. While Come to Daddy leans more toward horror and Blow the Man Down toward drama, both have a dark comedic undertow that pulls viewers into their provocative talking points. In the former, Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood) travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father before an abrupt mid-plot twist. In the latter, the Connolly sisters, Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor) and Priscilla (Sophie Lowe), uncover their small town's darkest secrets after their mother dies. Watch these when you're in the mood for a couple of murder movies with momentum.
The Lodge (Dir. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala) +
Vivarium (Dir. Lorcan Finnegan)
In The Lodge and Vivarium, there's no escape. Perfectly paced, each film places viewers in purgatory along with the protagonists. As time stretches into a never-ending and eerily repetitive pattern in The Lodge, prospective stepmother Grace's (Riley Keough) limits are tested during a solo retreat with her boyfriend's children. Little does she know things are not what they seem. Vivarium's purgatory is more clear-cut, though that somehow doesn't make it any less mysterious as couple Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) are tasked with raising a random child. While these surrogate parents struggle, their respective wards strive or suffer based on the distinct dystopia they inhabit. Watch these when things seem stale and you feel stuck, to remind you it could be much, much worse.
Straight Up (Dir. James Sweeney) +
Buffaloed (Dir. Tanya Wexler)
Looking for fantastical yet authentic characters? These films have them. Straight Up is admittedly a more substantial movie than Buffaloed, but they work wonders as companion pieces. A dialogue-driven film that invites viewers to question the elastic definitions of love and sexuality as Rory (Katie Findlay) and Todd (James Sweeney) navigate "a love story without the thrill of copulation," Straight Up is a relevant and resonant rom-com. This is the impressive result of writer-director Sweeney's clear vision as carried out by competent actors. But Buffaloed isn't far behind. More silly than soul-searching, it retains the same high energy as Straight Up. Together, they provide the sort of boost usually reserved for in-real-life experiences (remember those?). Buffaloed is also proof that Zoey Deutch can carry a film, especially when the lead role calls for a smartass slacker turned schemer (see also 2017's Flower). Following Peg Dahl (Deutch) as she hatches a plan to escape her hometown of Buffalo, New York, by becoming a debt collector and waging war on the city's debt-collecting kingpin, the movie is a fun "fuck you" to capitalism to boot. Watch these when you need a pick-me-up courtesy of challenging society's most suffocating structures.
Spree (Dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko) +
Freaky (Dir. Christopher Landon)
In a year that saw numerous vacation horror movies (The Lodge, The Rental, The Beach House, and so on), Spree and Freaky, two teen horror-comedies of the slasher variety, stuck to the inescapable horrors of high school. Spree is a joyride through the sinister side effects of social media as Kurt (Joe Keery), an amateur streamer looking to go viral, becomes a rideshare driver for the content. Freaky is The Hot Chick as horror and sees Millie (Kathryn Newton) and The Butcher (Vince Vaughn) swap bodies. Watch these when you want to relive your glory days with much more gore.
The Half of It (Dir. Alice Wu) +
Castle In The Ground (Dir. Joey Klein)
This next double-feature delves even further into the teenage experience. Castle in the Ground is a somber, if not sober, look at the bleak reality of the opioid epidemic that sees Henry's (Alex Wolff) drug-fueled demise after his mother's untimely death. While The Half of It might feel tame in comparison, it is just as genuine. It follows Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis), a smart but cash-strapped teen who agrees to write a love letter for a jock, only to end up becoming his friend and falling for his crush in the process. Watch these films when you need to feel something.
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (Dir. Abner Pastoll) +
I'm Your Woman (Dir. Julia Hart)
The titles alone point to the sort of call and response structure of this double feature. In each, the titular women snap out of submission, undergoing a powerful transformation after the misdeeds of men have fucked up their lives. A Good Woman Is Hard To Find follows the murder of Sarah's (Sarah Bolger) husband in front of their son, pushing her into the role of the protagonist and protector, where she absolutely shines. That this multi-dimensional performance exists in a genre where the lead roles are usually reserved for men is a victory for the viewers as much as it is for the creators. And as if to say it's getting easier to find a good woman (or more like good roles for women), in comes another slow burn with an ending that's worth the wait. Set in the 1970s, I'm Your Woman sees Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) forced to go on the run with her infant son after her husband betrays his partners. Revitalizing the genre by expanding on a recognizable format to include a new perspective, these female-driven films have made a smart choice placing the women behind the wheel. Watch these when you're up for a wild ride.
Becky (Dir. Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion) +
Alone (Dir. John Hyams)
It's exciting to see the titular Becky (Lulu Wilson) channel teen angst into exceedingly creative and increasingly cruel ways to fight back against a group of home invaders intent on fucking up her family vacation. Watching Wilson, a force to be reckoned with, play her character strong from the start and with a bit of a smirk is wholly compelling. Alone is like if Becky grew up to be Jessica (Jules Willcox), who has the same will to survive and ability to outsmart and outrun her tormentor in this fast-paced survival thriller. Watch these when you want to feel like a badass.
Possessor (Dir. Brandon Cronenberg) +
Black Bear (Dir. Lawrence Michael Levine)
Both Possessor and Black Bear want to know what people are willing to sacrifice for the perfect performance. The first film follows elite agent Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough), who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's consciousnesses. The second film follows Allison (Aubrey Plaza), a filmmaker and actor seeking solace from her tumultuous past at a cabin in the woods. Both are smart and ambitious cultural commentaries that run on a relentless tension as these women struggle to decide how far they'll go for their jobs. Watch these when you want to grapple with your existence. v
Movie Feature The Assistant Sound of Metal Gretel & Hansel Shirley Come to Daddy Blow the Man Down The Lodge Vivarium Straight Up Buffaloed Spree Freaky The Half of It Castle in the Ground A Good Woman is Hard to Find I'm Your Woman Becky Alone Possessor Black Bear Year in Review 2020
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Disney’s Art of Animation resort grand opens with character-filled ceremony as the newest Walt Disney World hotel
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Posted on May 31, 2012 by Ricky Brigante
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This morning Disney held the grand opening ceremony for Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, the newest in the more than 20 hotels throughout Walt Disney World. In addition to the hotel’s common areas, including a colorful lobby, gift shop, and Landscape of Flavor food court, the Finding Nemo wing is now open, featuring one of Disney’s largest hotel pools.
On hand to commemorate the event were Walt Disney World president Meg Crofton along with a group of singers, dancers, and plenty of characters including Ariel, Flounder, Sebastian, Nemo, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck, and plenty more.
Video: Disney’s Art of Animation Resort grand opening ceremony
In traditional Disney fashion, it all ended with a giant confetti burst, filling the sky with color as characters waved to guests and press in attendance.
We previously offered an extensive inside look at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, including the Finding Nemo rooms and pool, lobby, arcade, and a peek into the Cars wing. But there’s more to share, including several interviews and Imagineer-led tours throughout the new hotel, so come back soon for even more from Walt Disney World’s newest hotel.
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iHeartRadio and KEYPR Join Forces to Deliver Custom Music in Hospitality
Collaboration Brings iHeartRadio-Curated Music to Hotel Guests via the KEYPR Hospitality Platform
KEYPR®, the leading hospitality technology company whose cloud-based platform integrates an end-to-end hospitality experience for guests, staff, and management through embedded and mobile devices, announced today it has joined forces with iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s all-in-one digital music, podcasting and live streaming radio service, to seamlessly bring a new custom music experience into hotel rooms across the country.
iHeartRadio offers guests thousands of Live Radio stations from across the U.S., personalized custom Artist Radio stations, and the top podcasts and on-air personalities available everywhere listeners are. Plus, iHeartRadio features easy-to-use, on-demand functionality which makes radio truly interactive and connects listeners directly to their music collections. On-demand subscription features include personal music libraries and playlists; the ability to search and play any song instantly; and the option to save and replay songs directly from live and custom radio listening.
“Offering an easy-to-use seamless music experience everywhere listeners are, is paramount to iHeartRadio,” said Jessica Jerrick, Executive Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships for iHeartMedia. “We are excited to work with KEYPR on our first hospitality space integration. Together, we further enhance the guest experience by bringing iHeartRadio’s world-class music content and top personalities directly into their hotel room through KEYPR’s innovative platform.”
This partnership also opens up the opportunity for hotels on the KEYPR platform to curate custom playlists. From a guest perspective, iHeartRadio is easily accessible directly via in-room tablets where hoteliers can decide which custom music experiences to highlight. On the back end, hotels receive reports with usage and behavior data which they can use to improve service and further enhance the guest experience.
“Guest engagement on the KEYPR platform is consistently above 90 percent across our entire property mix. Our rich data shows that hotel guests are using our enabled devices to manage their stay, order services, make reservations and access entertainment,” said KEYPR CEO Robert Stevenson. “Continuing to grow our content library and working first-ever integrations with great partners like iHeartRadio only helps to increase that engagement and further our commitment to delight our hotel customers and their guests.”
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Welcome to Race Equality at Royal Holloway
The Race Equality Charter (RECM)
‘Improving the representation, progression and success of minority ethnic staff and students within higher education’ (Equality Challenge Unit)
Royal Holloway was one of the first 8 institutions to have been successfully awarded a bronze level RECM award in the 2015 pilot round of the RECM and in February 2019 the College successfully renewed its Bronze award. Our engagement with this Charter demonstrates our commitment to establishing an inclusive culture within which all individuals, irrespective of their race or ethnicity, feel supported and can thrive. It shows our commitment to improving the representation and progression of British Minority Ethnic (BME) staff and students at our College and beyond. You can read Royal Holloway's February 2019 RECM submission here:
Royal Holloway Race Equality Charter February 2019 submission redacted
The Race Equality Charter was established by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU, now Advance HE).
The Charter provides institutions with a framework which they can use to undergo a process of self-reflection, and identify institutional and cultural barriers which may hinder the representation and success of minority ethnic staff and students. Institutions can apply for awards and are required to submit an action plan as part of their submission.
The RECM is underpinned by five guiding principles and covers:
professional and support staff
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diversity of the curriculum
Institutions can progress from the Bronze to the Silver Award.
Royal Holloway is currently actively working on a range of projects to remove barriers for BAME staff and students, including targeted coaching and mentoring schemes, and a project to further diversify the curriculum and pedagogy.
During Black History Month 2017, the College carried out a Race Equality Survey to explore experiences of staff and students from different ethnic background at Royal Holloway. The survey was designed by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) which manages the Race Equality Charter, a framework designed to help institutions improve the representation, progression and success of minority ethnic staff and students within higher education.
All staff and students were invited to participate, with 360 students and 236 staff completing the survey, a 356% increase in response rate since the last survey in 2014. We are extremely grateful to all participants who took time out of their busy schedules to complete the survey.
Findings have fed into our new Royal Holloway Equality Objectives 2018-2021, which we are finalising following a series of consultations with staff and students throughout February and March.
Survey findings will also informed our 2019 Bronze Race Equality Charter renewal application. This submission included a 4-year action plan, the progress of which will be monitored by our dedicated College Race Equality self-assessment team.
Race Equality Survey responses were analysed by ethnicity to identify and understand differences in experiences and perceptions, and where possible, compared to responses in the 2014 survey.
We identified a number of positive developments. For example:
80.9% of staff overall agreed that they would recommend the institution to a prospective staff member (an increase from 69% agreeing in 2014), with 74.4% of staff who consider themselves to be from an ethnic minority background agreeing;
63.6% of Black/British Black agreed that work-related opportunities for development, such as temporary promotions or profile-raising opportunities, are allocated fairly and transparently. This has increased from 50% in 2014.
88.3% of students overall agreed that they would recommend the College to a prospective student (an increase from 81% in 2014), with 78.7% of students who consider themselves to be from an ethnic minority background agreeing;
50% of Black/British Black students agreed that the content of their course reflects opinions of a wide variety of people, an increase from 45% in 2014;
61.1% of Black/British Black students agreed that, when relevant, issues of ethnicity and race are included in academic discussions, an increase from 55% in 2014;
51.6% of Asian/Asian British students agreed that In their experience, students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds are included equally at all students’ union events and societies, an increase from 38% in 2014.
While some of these findings indicate that the College is progressing in the right direction, we are aware that they also highlight the need for more targeted work and commitment. Some of the further issues identified include low confidence that the College would take action following a race-related incident, occurrences of racial discrimination on campus, and low confidence in the fairness of the selection and recruitment process.A consideration of wider data sources relating to race and ethnicity has also revealed an ethnicity student attainment gap in some departments and an under-representation of leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds.
We are addressing these issues through carefully designed actions. In 2018 we launched the MANDALA programme, a BAME career development programme which focuses on supporting colleagues to understand and get round systemic barriers as well as build resilience. However, our ultimate focus as an institution is on deconstructing these precise barriers. As part of this, we have now made unconscious bias training mandatory for line managers, revised appraisal and promotion processes to ensure they have greater transparency and accountability built in to them and have embedded a greater focus on unconscious bias in recruitment and selection training. The launch of our Student Success project in 2018 has resulted in the development of a suite of ‘diversifying the curriculum’ activities. Further planned action around race equality includes ensuring new policies and practices undergo our new Equality Impact Assessment process and promoting awareness of covert racism through our upcoming Guide to Microaggressions at Work, part of a new suite of Royal Holloway E&D Top Tips guides which complement existing policies and which will be disseminated across the College.The College has formed a staff Cultural Diversity Network and works very closely with the Student Union BAME REP.
We understand that we have a challenge to remove barriers for staff and students from ethnic minority backgrounds at Royal Holloway and are committed to taking action to ensure we promote equality of opportunity for all.
If you would like further information on the survey, or equality and diversity activities in general (including support networks), please email Equality@rhul.ac.uk
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More information about the Vanguard Variable Annuity changes
On Monday, December 7 client service and account administration for the Vanguard Variable Annuity transitioned to Transamerica1, the issuer of the annuity.
Transamerica is now handling all annuity servicing, communications, and account access.
Why we made this change
Annuity administration isn't central to Vanguard's long-term product and service plans. We're deepening our focus on our core priorities: delivering industry-leading funds and ETFs, enhancing the client experience, and expanding our advice capabilities.
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How do I access my account and perform transactions or maintenance?
You can reach Transamerica at 800-462-2391, Monday – Thursday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, or by email at annuities.customerservice@transamerica.com. You can also access you annuity policy at secure.transamerica.com to review balances, place trades and generally manage your account.
Where can I find information about Vanguard Variable Annuity Portfolios?
Vanguard Variable Annuity portfolio pricing and performance is available at secure.transamerica.com. You can also get more information on the annuity portfolios by contacting Transamerica directly at 800-462-2391, Monday – Thursday from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Friday 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Eastern time.
How will this change affect my existing Vanguard Variable Annuity?
Transmerica is handling all client service, communications, statements, confirmations, and account access for your annuity.
All existing third-party access, recurring withdrawals, purchases, and periodic portfolio rebalancing previously established for your annuity through Vanguard stayed the same when the account transitioned to Transamerica.
Will the terms of my Vanguard Variable Annuity change?
As the owner of a Vanguard Variable Annuity, you have a contract with Transamerica, which won't change because of this transition. All rights and provisions of your contract will remain in place.
Will this change affect the Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds (VVIFs)?
The Vanguard Group, Inc. will continue to serve as the investment advisor of the Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds, and Transamerica has committed to continuing to offer these underlying investments in the Vanguard Variable Annuity.
Who will send confirmations, statements, and tax forms?
Transamerica will generate and send all transaction confirmations, account statements, including your 2020 year-end report, and tax forms.
Will this change affect my fees?
Three components comprise Vanguard Variable Annuity fees: investment portfolio expense ratios, a mortality & expense (M&E) fee (insurance costs), and an administrative fee.
We'll continue to manage the Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds in accordance with our time-tested core investing philosophy of low costs, a long-term orientation, and a focus on goals.
Transamerica has also historically endeavored to maintain consistent fees and isn't planning to make any changes to the current M&E or administrative fees. Companies evaluate their fee structures regularly and can only adjust fees after obtaining the proper regulatory approvals.
How do I contact Transamerica?
You can reach Transamerica at 800-462-2391, Monday – Thursday from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, or via email at annuities.customerservice@transamerica.com. Policy information is also available at secure.transamerica.com.
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The Vanguard Variable Annuity is a flexible-premium variable annuity issued by Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (NAIC No. 86231), and in New York State only, by Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company, Harrison, New York (NAIC No. 70688). Form No. VVAP U 1101 (in Florida, Form No. VVAP U 1101 (FL), in Oregon, Form No. VVAP U 1101 (OR) (R), VVA ME 0508 (OR 2015), and in New York, VVA NY 0208(R13)). GLWB Rider Form No. RGMB 43 0811 (in Florida, RGMB 43 0811 (SI)(FL), RGMB 43 0811 (JT)(FL), in Oregon, RGMB 43 0811 (SI)(OR), RGMB 43 0811 (JT)(OR), and in New York, RGMB 43 0811 (SI)(NY) (REV), RGMB 43 0811 (JT)(NY) (REV)). Return of Premium Death Benefit Rider Form No. VVA RP 0811 (in Florida, VVA RP 0811 (FL), in Oregon, VVA RP 0811 (OR), and in New York, VVA RP 0811 (NY) (REV)), without agent representation. Policy and rider form numbers may vary by state and may not be available in all states. The Vanguard Group administers the Vanguard Variable Annuity for the issuer.
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Dear friends of the department,
Winter arrived early in Michigan this year, surprising even the heating system of the Modern Languages Building, which took a few days to assume its duties and envelop us in warm air—not that the idiosyncrasies of our building have slowed us down. As the fall term draws to a close, I invite you to peruse our newsletter for a look back at a busy start to the academic year.
This is my first newsletter to you as the new chair of the department. After four years of outstanding leadership, our previous chair, Johannes von Moltke, is on a well-deserved sabbatical. Johannes joins my dear colleague Kerstin Barndt in Freiburg, where she serves as the 2018-19 Academic Director of our year-long study-abroad program (read Barndt's letter from Freiburg). In fact, ever the hosts, Kerstin and Johannes just organized a Thanksgiving dinner for all 30 students in the program! Our Freiburg program received another big boost this summer: thanks to a large gift from our most generous donors, Mr. and Mrs. Sturm, we will now be able to offer a full scholarship to at least one of our students each year.
Meanwhile, we continue to add new events and projects to our curriculum here in Ann Arbor. In September, we piloted a film series that showed rarely seen German movies selected and introduced by a graduate student or faculty member; and in October, we organized a panel featuring five recent undergraduate alumni of our department who have used their degrees in German Studies to launch professional careers in a variety of industries. On the graduate level, we continue to host nationally and internationally recognized scholars and artists, from Katrin Sieg (Georgetown University) and Claudia Breger (Columbia University) to prize-winning Austrian author and playwright Ferdinand Schmalz, who, in conjunction with students from the U-M School of Theatre, Music and Dance, offered a bilingual reading of his recent play dosenfleisch (canned meat).
Research continues to be central to our activities. Within the last six months, Kerstin Barndt co-edited a fascinating volume of essays, Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge; Elizabeth McNeill, a Ph.D. student in her third year, was awarded the Best Student Essay Award from The German Quarterly; and the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany, hosted a day-long symposium in honor of Andy Markovits’ 70th birthday. Add to this recent talks given by members of our department in France, Spain, Germany, Austria and the U.S., as well as forthcoming books by Tyler Whitney, Julia Hell and myself, all of which are scheduled for publication within the next twelve months, and you get a sense of the vitality of our program.
And there is much more happening in our department. Have a look at the following pages for updates about our flourishing Dutch and Scandinavian programs and get to know our new graduate students (article). And please follow our department website (lsa.umich.edu/german) to read about upcoming events. There is much to look forward to in the coming year, and I invite you to stop by and see us. In the meantime, I wish you peaceful holidays and a guten Rutsch (“a good slide”) into the new year.
Andreas Gailus
GermanChair@umich.edu
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All the weird things people have thrown at politicians
U.S. President George W. Bush was the victim of a flying shoe.
Image: SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
By Sasha Lekach 2017-05-24 21:46:02 UTC
The age-old tradition of throwing things at public figures is still alive and well. Just this month the CEO of airline Qantas was hit with pie at a business conference in Australia.
As politicians and businesspeople everywhere are well aware, there's always the risk of an angry member of the public taking advantage of appearances to get in a good shot.
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Over the years — and across the globe — a diverse collection of objects have flown through the air with political leaders as the target.
Here's a look at some of the creative projectiles unleashed at elected leaders across the globe, starting with America: land of the free, home of the flying pies and glitter.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Clinton got what appeared to be a shoe thrown at her in Las Vegas during a speaking tour in 2014.
The former secretary of state and presidential candidate was speaking at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries when a woman chucked her footwear at the stage. The woman missed, but she was still taken into custody.
Duck!
Image: Isaac Brekken/Getty Images
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
Now that's a glitter bomb. In 2012, a University of Colorado, Boulder, student threw glitter at the then GOP presidential candidate after a speech in Denver, Colorado.
Glitter bombing is often used on politicians who are against LGBT rights and same-sex marriage. The "bomber" was cited on misdemeanor charges.
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum
Protesters also threw glitter on the GOP candidate after the South Carolina primary in 2012. Two people yelled "Occupy!" when they threw the glitter at him.
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
So much glitter rained down on Gingrich at a book signing in Minnesota in 2011 with his wife, Callista. It was reported the man who dumped the glitter said, "Feel the rainbow, Newt! Stop the hate! Stop anti-gay politics!"
GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin
The former Alaska Gov. Palin was almost hit by two tomatoes while at a book signing at the Mall of America in Minnesota in 2009.
U.S. President George W. Bush
The famous shoe incident of 2008 didn't take place on American soil, but rather in Iraq. Journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi lobbed the shoe during a press conference.
Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi threw a shoe at U.S. President George W. Bush during what became a very memorable press conference.
Image: Evan Vucci/AP/REX/Shutterstock
Vermont governor Jim Douglas
The governor was hit with cream pie thrown by a man dressed in a Santa Claus costume at a Fourth of July parade in Montpelier, Vermont, in 2008.
Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan
Here's a new one: salad dressing. That's what Buchanan was covered in after speaking at Western Michigan University in 2005.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
It's raining eggs. The "governator" took an egging in Long Beach, California, before a gubernatorial debate during his governor campaign in 2003.
The thrower was part of a group of young people on campus at California State University Long Beach. The Austrian actor took the egging in his stride and chalked it up to free speech.
Eggs are part of the campaign.
Image: Francis Specker/EPA/REX/Shutterstock
Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader
Pie in the face — it seems inevitable during a political campaign. Nader got his turn in San Francisco in 2003 while endorsing a Green Party candidate for state governor.
U.S. President Bill Clinton
During a trip to Poland the former president was hit with a raw egg during a speaking tour in Warsaw in 2000. A 19-year-old man was arrested in the incident.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman
The moment Glickman was attacked with pie became Jon Stewart's "Moment of Zen" on Comedy Central's The Daily Show back in 2000.
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown
Activists hit the San Francisco mayor with three different pies filled with cherry, tofu and pumpkin while he spoke at street-cleaning kickoff event in 1998.
The trio of assailants said they targeted the mayor for his policies on homelessness. Part of the Biotic Baking Brigade movement, they were found guilty of battery after the case went to trial.
The UK, meanwhile, has a real fondness for eggs.
Former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage
In a spectacular hit earlier in 2017, Farage took an egg to what would have been his face. Luckily he had his gaudy purple and yellow umbrella on hand.
UKIP leader Paul Nuttall and former Leader Nigel Farage get egged.
Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
UK Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott
A protester successfully egged Prescott, with yolk and shell running down his shoulder. The deputy PM then took a couple punches to the thrower's face back in 2001.
Other countries also throw plenty of things at their elected officials
Canada — Fisheries Minister Gail Shea
She got pie right in the face in 2010.
Italy — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
The PM was hit with a toy statue of a duomo (perhaps the one in Milan, since that's where he was) in 2009.
Guatemala — Vice President Roxana Baldetti
The veep was covered in flour after giving the state of the nation speech in Guatemala City in 2014.
Venezuela — President Nicolas Maduro
The president was hit in the head with a mango with a message written on it when he visited Anzoategui in 2015.
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Christchurch offenders help to keep local groups afloat
Mar 20, 2018, 9:15 AM News
Abbey Wakefield
Canterbury offenders completed over 100,000 hours of community service last year, giving their services to not-for-profit groups and local organisations.
In Canterbury, over 1000 offenders were sentenced to complete community work hours, contributing a total of 137,207 hours to organisations across the region.
Corrections' Canterbury District Manager Lisa Joseph said offender labour is greatly valued by a wide range of the community, especially groups and organisations that rely on volunteers to keep going.
"The contribution of offender labour is greatly appreciated and can be the difference between these local projects being completed quickly, on a budget, or even being done at all."
An offender undertakes detagging in Christchurch. Department of Corrections
Projects undertaken by community work include the ongoing development, maintenance, and beautification of public walkways, bikeways, parks and schools and other community facilities and spaces.
Nationally, over 1.6 million hours of community work was provided by over 20,000 offenders last year.
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Honda Hotness Is Coming Back?
Posted on 08/02/2011 by Michael Adhi
2008 was a great year for Honda fans and maybe even for automotive scene in general. Just imagine this, Honda, a conservative company who swears on sensibility and quality is throwing those notions away for a V8 rear wheel luxury sedan and a V10 powered super car. The automotive scene roars with high expectations. Spy photos of the rear wheel sedan test car is everywhere and the super car already making runs on a race track. Alas, comes 2009 and demand for automotive products dwindles as most sought after cars are econoboxes. Honda new President, Takanobu Ito back then changed his tune about the new cars and tells the fans and the scene to go “enjoy yourself” (there’s a new profanity filter in effect). So everything was scrapped, and all hopes out the window.
Denied luxury: The canceled mule of the FR Luxury Sedan
Rumors from inside automotive industry said that the V8 rear wheel luxury sedan which was destined to go to Acura division was a great car one that should put Honda luxury division on par with tier 1 luxury marque. While the super car lives on as a special fielded race car on Japan’s most prestigious racing event, the Super GT and won it. So as you can read, it’s very unfortunate for Honda to cancels both of these cars altogether.
Denied performance: Reportedly, this car doesn’t even consider GT-R and LF-A as competition
But this morning, birds are chirping beautifully on my front porch, the wind blows softly and the sun rose with a hint of blue and orange altogether. While I browsed Autoblog and Temple of VTEC the next minute, I was shocked out of my pants that Takanobu Ito in a way hints a little hope of a super car comeback after Honda discontinued the NSX. Apparently, Takanobu Ito was interviewed in Japan and some reporters asked if Honda would make a road going version of the super car that won the Super GT.
Ito’s answer for the question was “I have something in mind”. Now for those who don’t know Takanobu Ito, this guy is all straight as an arrow kind of leader. He always answers question in a definite way, yes or no and that’s that. For Ito to answer “having something in mind” well, it’s still ambiguous but having something is better than nothing right?
Such a tease: “I have something in mind”
Okay, so the news came from a French auto news site, which might make some little mistranslation (from Japanese to French to English). However, according to Temple of VTEC news section;Yahoo Japan and Asahi Shimbun also confirms and clearly stated that Takanobu Ito greenlight the project once again. Asahi Shimbun which post the news in English also mentions that Ito hints at making two sports car, the affordable and high performance… *faints*…
For those who don’t know, this is actually earth shattering news. Honda currently has no true performance sports car in its lineup, well, sure there’s the Civic Type R, but it’s more of a pedestrian car with souped up engine. Honda Prelude ends its production in 2001, Honda NSX ended in 2005, Honda Integra ended in 2007 and finally Honda S2000 ended in 2009. What came from the demise of those cars? Hybrids and lots of it. Civic Hybrid, Insight 2.0, CR-Z, and Fit Hybrid, not to mention Freed Hybrid and next generation Accord with Honda next generation hybrid system.
The shift from hardcore to green for some was considered too rough as there are no transition product in between. It’s quite understandable actually, as technology to produce performance with fuel economy wasn’t available yet. The 2010 CR-Z was Honda answer to this and although the blend of performance and fuel economy is good enough, as usual, some consumers demand more… Well, to be fair… This particular consumer is too accustomed to huge ass performance gas guzzler 2 door sports car that’s bigger than a Honda Fit. Still, the CR-Z receives acclaims and accolades in a place where sensibility is praised.
But remember folks, Honda has set its sight straight in the green line and we’re not talking about money. Ever since the green revolution in the late 00′ Honda has been making fuel sipper as priority. So when you think about Takanobu Ito statement, don’t forget to add the green juice. Honda has fielded NSX with KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System, a form of hardcore hybrid system for racing) as a test bed for SuperGT 2012 rule change that mandates smaller engine and a hybrid system. It’s unclear whether this will be applied to Honda super car but you can be sure Honda will put every single piece of technology in its super car.
Front engine – KERS NSX test car: notice the exhaust tip on the side skirt?
Whatever it is Honda… We are awaiting with arms wide open, but until this car shows up in the real world, I’m putting a question mark on the title. We’ve been burned before Ito-san, and I won’t let my heart be broken the fourth time.
Temple of VTEC: Ito san changing his tune about NSX/HSV
Yahoo Japan: NSX development to resume (Japanese)
Asahi Shimbun: Honda to develop high performance sports car
SuperGT: 2012 KERS rule
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How to Make Sure You Don't Gain Back the Weight You Lose
How to Keep Off Weight You've Lost
18 May, 2018 by Christina Stiehl
Most people who lose weight will gain it back, thanks to a combination of a slower metabolism, a change in hormones, and reverting back to the old lifestyle that made them gain weight in the first place.
But even though keeping off the weight you lost is hard, it is possible. Eduardo Grunvald, MD, program director at UC San Diego's Weight Management Program, told POPSUGAR the biggest indicator of weight-loss success: having a supportive environment.
This support system could be from a weight-loss program, dietitian, health educator, or obesity medicine doctor or clinic. It's also important to have a supportive environment at home. If you made an effort to eat healthy and work out regularly but your spouse still keeps junk food in the house and never exercises, you're setting yourself up for failure.
Other ways to make sure you don't gain the weight back include continuously monitoring your food intake through journaling or tracking apps, weighing yourself at home, controlling all your environments (including your home and your office) as much as possible, planning your meals ahead, and limited eating out.
You also may have to exercise even more than you did to lose the weight in the first place. Researchers who assessed the National Weight Control Registry, a database of people who have lost 30 or more pounds and kept it off for at least a year, found that people exercised more during the maintenance phase than they did during weight loss. "It doesn't mean that you have to go to the gym for two hours or you have to run a marathon," Dr. Grunvald said. "It just means that you walk an extra half hour, an extra hour a day just to maintain the weight."
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El Eslabon Prendido on a Tuesday night
In an effort to be more proactive about learning salsa, I posted a message to the local Couchsurfing group to rally some people for a night of salsa dancing in Medellin at El Eslabon Prendido in the city center.
I suggested last Thursday night, but Ellen (Holland) and others responded that Tuesday nights were best, as a live band played music to a packed bar.
I met Martin in Parque Periodista a half block from the bar, and we also bumped into a few couchsurfers hanging out after attending a show at Teatro Lido, in addition to a few heading for the bar.
Arriving around 9 pm, and paying a 4,000 peso cover (about $1.60), we were there early enough to occupy a group of tables near the front of the bar where the band would be playing.
Slowly, people began to file in and the bar filled up as the band began to set up around 10 pm. Wax candles were lit along the walls, providing an intimate ambience.
Tuesday night at El Eslabon Prendido
Guiomar (red shirt) asked me to dance while everyone else was still sitting down and chatting.
I quickly found out she was an amazing dancer – one of the two best I’ve had the pleasure to learn from. Unfortunately, she didn’t speak much English, which added some humor to her attempts to instruct me verbally.
As the band began to play, more and more people got up to dance. I was really enjoying the whole atmosphere.
I danced with several people including Ellen, Jesusa, and an Australian girl. The three and a half hours I was there went by too quick.
By 12:30 am, I was relegated to the sidelines, too tired to keep dancing but not quite ready to leave the bar as the band had begun a second set.
It was fun to watch the most skilled dancers go at it. It only motivated me to want to get better, faster. My plan was to ask for Guiomar’s help in that respect.
I hope to find a few people wanting to go out to El Eslabon Prendido every Tuesday, which would give me the chance to immediately practice the new moves I learn in my dance classes.
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:) May 26, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Salsaaaaaaaaaa que rica!!!Que grupo tan bueno el de ese día.
What a great band!!!
Roland March 20, 2010 at 6:10 am
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.
juan October 10, 2010 at 10:27 pm
The Eslabon Prendido is one the best places to go to dance, to listen to music and watch the match of your favorite team. in my opinion i recommend you to go the Eslabon Prendido on Thursday because the party is crossover and you can dance until 4pm. in conclusion i think that is difficult take a decision to go to Medellin because it has some places wonderful,magic and its women are beautiful.
48 Hours in…Medellin | The Looptail, The Travel Blog Powered By G Adventures June 20, 2014 at 11:10 am
[…] can be fun to go out, grab a beer, and watch the locals. Tuesday nights feature live salsa bands at El Eslabon Prendido (Calle 53 #42-55 in Centro), while Son Havana (Carrera 73 #44-56 in Laureles) features live music […]
Jason October 28, 2015 at 12:01 pm
It seems that I’m the oddball here but I definitely was not impressed with the quality of dancers here. You have the gringo newbies working on what they learned in class, and the Colombians dancing to their own beat that may or may not resemble the actual beat of the music.
I went on a Tuesday night when it was very crowded, cramped, and muggy. No real space to dance and no more tables left to put your stuff. Sorry but not my cup of tea.
If you enjoy the crowded bar scene, listening to music w/some drinking & dancing on the side, sure it’s great. But imho I can’t see “real dancers” taking this place too seriously.
Dave October 29, 2015 at 10:40 am
Hey Jason, I still refer people to El Eslabon for the scene itself, though I tend to preface it with the fact that it’s a very small bar and gets crowded. I enjoyed my nights there, some of the first nights out salsa dancing in Medellin, but I quickly found it was too small to feel comfortable going on a regular basis.
For the non-dancers, I think they’d get a hoot out of the general vibe and live music.
Son Havana is one of my favorites for actually dancing, but it isn’t especially spacious once it fills up either.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: going, going gone?
The only Chitty Chitty Bang Bang capable of getting you to the shops is to be sold by a Holywood memorabilia company. Unlike the vehicle from the film it won’t let you fly to Tesco in style for your groceries, and the amount of room in the eccentric interior is questionable, but you could, in theory, chug along slowly to anywhere you like in a piece of cinematic history.
Of all the cars associated with the fictional creations of Ian Fleming, James Bond’s Bentleys or Aston Martins, or even Goldfinger’s gold plated Rolls Royce, are more likely to tempt your casual film fan. But for some who love Chitty as if she were a childhood friend or those who swoon over Dick Van Dyke in Diagnosis Murder, there might be no better slice of the past than this unique auction piece. A reporter for the BBC’s Breakfast programme got the chance to take the Chitty for a test drive and was quick to praise Van Dyke for making it all look so easy, whilst simultaneously singing along to that catchy and memorable theme tune.
The version up for sale was assembled in England prior to production of the 1968 film, but it has a Ford V6 engine and automatic gearbox. Various salvaged parts and splashes of colour adorn the car and its wood panelling, helping to create its famously happy image. Van Dyke’s portrayal of the slightly bonkers inventor and the other performances did the rest.
The charismatic producer behind the Bond films, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, was responsible for bringing Fleming’s children book to life on the big screen. Roald Dahl, the architect of so many characters in the collective conscience of childhood, wrote the script, with the Sherman Brothers supplying the songs.
In an interview with the New York Times, Pierre Picton, who doubled for Van Dyke during shooting and owner of the available Chitty ever since, admitted that the car suffered from heavy steering now and again. But he had faith that this wouldn’t damage his hopes for a “retirement nest egg”. He said he was missing her already.
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Did Giants select wrong Duke player?
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— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 8, 2019
Monologue: How the playoffs separate superstars
The NBA’s regular season can make a man very rich. It could turn him into a household name. It could even win him an MVP award
But it’s never going to make him the kind of guy that kids imitate on the blacktop. It’s only the playoffs that can make you a legend. And players know this
Kawhi Leonard has taken this concept all the way to it’s logical conclusion just simply skipping about a quarter of his team’s regular season games as he’s told reporters things like: “There’s 82 games and for me, those are just practices. The playoffs is when it’s time to lace them up”
As for the stars on the other team, little bit more of a mix bag. The playoffs have proved over and over why Jimmy Butler is so valuable. He’s been both Philadelphia’s closer and glue guy. But the playoffs have only magnified the offensive weaknesses of Ben Simmons
Kyrie Irving or Playoff Kyrie, a man who has definitely made his reputation in postseason’s past, has definitely been a thing for a while now with Cleveland
Kyrie is now the big star on the Celtics. And yet for at least the last three games now, playoff Kyrie hasn’t been anywhere to be seen shooting just 31% from the floor, while also telling reporters that he needs to take more shots
As for his decisions on defense:
Not a Batman of course would imply that he’s just a Robin. A number 2 to a number 1 player like LeBron. And Kendrick is hardly the only voice here. Boston sports radio right now is pretty much equating Kyrie to Bill Buckner
If Playoff Kyrie is still in there, this is his moment. Where at the time of year when it matters and find out which players really matter too
How should Kyrie approach Game 5?
“It’s definitely on him to approach the game the same way he approached the Game 1. You have to be a leader. He has to be the same Kyrie. He has to be aggressive whether they win or lose because he’s the best player on their team” – Jackson
“If it wasn’t for the Lakers this year, we would have focused more on Boston and their locker room and their chemistry. The world was enamored by LeBron and the collapse of the Lakers. But out in the east, Boston has been a train wreck all year” – Barnes
“Everything rides on Kyrie. If it’s taking 30 shots to help them win, you got to roll with your best player. He’s someone that needs to lead by example” – Barnes
More concerned about Embiid or Simmons?
“Simmons. He just needs to impose his will. He’s in charge of getting JJ Redick going” – Barnes
“Embiid. He’s the only guy that gets doubled. He gets this team going. Marc Gasol is in his head” – Jackson
What’s gotten into Kawhi this postseason?
“People forgot how good Kawhi was when he had to take the whole year off. And I’m glad he took the year off because too often, guys rush back and re-injure stuff. When healthy, top three in the world and hands down the best. two-way player in the game. He doesn’t get his due cause because he’s not flashy” – Barnes
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May 8, 2001 – Ray Allen (Bucks) with the facial dunk on the Hornets!
Jokic’s mic problems continue:
Like the trolling from Raptors fans?
How many finishes does Jamal Murray have in his bag?
Where does this rank on the Shimmy scale?
Nuggets Game 5 blowout win demoralizing for Blazers?
Lillard on Blazers mindset entering Game 6:
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“The one thing I like is that he didn’t start it when they got back. He started it during the end of the game when they knew the game was over. ‘Ok. We know were not going to win this game. Let’s focus on getting home and defending home court.’ That’s the mindset you got to have. They know they can play great at home. Dame knows he hasn’t played his best series. He’s due for a big game” – Jackson
“It’s barbecue or mildew. They got to do it now or they’re going home. At the end of the day, people don’t realize in the playoffs, losing by 30 or losing by 1, you still lost” – Barnes
“I’m sitting back and watching Dame and wondering did he emotionally drain himself last series. Really emotional because he really proved that he jumped ahead of Russell Westbrook as far as elite point guards” – Barnes
Why the Warriors aren’t sweating Klay’s free agency by Nick Friedell
Friedell:
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“Klay is different. He is really reserved. The Warriors can offer him 5 years/$190M and keep KD. They’ll keep him” – Jackson
“People underestimate how important he is to this team because he’s always guarding the best PG or two-guard so Steph doesn’t have to. You lose him, you lose a lot” – Barnes
Nichols:
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Should Warriors start “Hamptons Five” in Game 5?
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“You got to go with your best five. And this is their best five” – Barnes
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PG-13 to miss start of training camp
On Tuesday, Paul George under went rotator cuff surgery. It is to repair that partially torn tendon in his right shoulder, per Woj and Royce Young
Friedell: Nothing
“The injury is something. But the reality is this isn’t really going to mean anything at all in the grand scheme of things. I don’t think the Thunder are good enough. This group, collectively, is not what we thought they were going to be as far as a potential push to the Warriors in the West”
Jackson: Nothing
“He has enough time to get in shape. Going into a season healthy is the best feeling. This is not a big deal”
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Embiid checking stat sheet midgame
Sixers down 34 points with 4:30 left in the game
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“It’s not a big deal. It happens constantly. It’s just with Embiid, it’s always bad optics”
JA Morant’s staged dunkface
Ja Morant casually baptizing this dude….Can’t wait to see him in the league 💯💯💯 pic.twitter.com/lY1rA4VPbO
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) May 7, 2019
Bradley Beal’s response:
“Definitely staged” – Jackson
“It makes all NBA players, executives drool at what could be for their team” – Friedell
May 8, 1991 – Tim Hardaway Sr. with the Texas two-step and finishing the tough reverse layup vs the Lakers!
Dream advice
Kanter texts Hakeem Olajuwon for advice on playing during Ramadan
“I think it’s smart. I commend him for doing it” – Jackson
Central Perk Bound?
Bad timing to drop Kyrie’s “Friends” sneaker pack?
“The timing is awful. We don’t know where his friends are” – Friedell
“Best thing about it: They’re not green. You can wear them on any team” – Jackson
Brogdon Back!
Bucks expect Malcolm Brogdon back in Game 5 vs Celtics
Been out since March 15; Will come off the bench
“You want to bring him in easy. He’s only going to make them better” – Jackson
“It’s an emotional jolt. That’s what’s going to help them” – Friedell
Expectations for Celtics in Game 5?
“I hope Brad Stevens plays Jaylen Brown more in order to get this win. He’s been the best player on this team in this series” – Jackson
Nichols and Jackson:
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How much pressure is on Warriors in Game 5?
“There’s a ton. This group knows that they need to take care of business. We’ve talked all season about them being emotionally drained, trying to get to the Finals for the fifth straight year, trying to win a title for the third straight year, they’re now physically drained” – Friedell
“I’m not worried. I would worry if it was the series deciding game. There’s no pressure. The sense of urgency is higher than normal in Oakland” – Jackson
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Tyler Brûlé introduces our Japan special – and chalks up essential dates for your festive diary.
We report from an idiosyncratic nation that has won us over with its quirky kerbside totems, drinks-filled vending machines, mascots and of course, shower toilets.
Piggy in the middle
After footage of a boar attacking a man in Fukuoka emerged, the city felt compelled to respond. Monocle’s Kenji Hall joins a patrol.
Short and sharp
It started in Tokyo but 1,200 cities now host PechaKucha events, where you give brief talks governed by strict rules. Monocle’s culture editor Chiara Rimella takes the stage.
Japan’s sure-footed team of scientists and engineers head out into the cold to monitor our atmosphere.
Expat baker Morihide Yoshida believes the success of his Paris patisserie reflects the common culinary bond shared by Japan and France.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Monocle’s Soft Power Awards. This year we’re celebrating those who are persuading the world in a subtler way.
We visit the Japanese diasporas that are leaving a distinct mark on the world stage.
Follow the bear
Fluffy, furry mascots are everywhere in Japan but Kumamon has captured the nation’s imagination like no other. We explore his ‘very’ soft-power potential.
In Japan, communism is not a dirty word. A top-selling newspaper and donation at the municipal level herald a decisive moment for this leftist, pacifist party.
Impeccable service, responsible citizenship and warm hospitality are just some of the practices that make society tick in Japan. Here are 10 things the country can teach the world.
Future leaders of Japan, the Lisbon Treaty anniversary and how spooks are coming out of the shadows.
Japanese soft power in Washington, a Lithuanian war hero and Australia's soft power revival.
Island disputes troubling Japan and the US nuclear command finally retires its floppy disks.
Finding quality of life in Japan, Bogotá gets a metro and a suburb of Vancouver finally has a city centre.
Japan is getting ready to take to the skies as Mitsubishi finishes off its first airplane: the slick and efficient SpaceJet M90.
Kiyoshi Kimura splashes out to buy the first tuna of the year but the larger-than-life methods of Japan’s King of Tuna rely on getting the small details right.
One man is pushing for a rural return with a business-minded mix of hospitality and agricultural innovation.
Modern niches
Whether it’s door-to-door delivery services, cutesy telegrams or ear salons, Japan is home to a host of unique businesses.
Showing their colours
Tokyo’s contemporary-art scene (and collector base) is growing, thanks in part to a group of energetic gallerists with a passion for their country’s creativity. We put four of them – and their key artists – in the frame.
Changing the picture
When three friends opened a small cinema in the coastal town of Zushi, it was the spark for the city’s cultural transformation.
Tokyo tea party
The world of J-pop is meticulously controlled but latest sensation Chai are embracing a DIY spirit and dancing to their own beat.
From fantastical anime to upbeat electronica and art shows that interrogate the relationship between man and machine, Japan has much to offer those looking to jump-start their imaginations.
Impressive mileage
The diminutive but hardy Suzuki Jimny, a nippy SUV, has maintained cult status for years. We find out what’s driving the owners’ obsession.
Put it down on paper
Digital developments have transformed graphic design but Tokyo’s ‘Idea’ magazine remains a global champion of print.
The world’s best timber is forged in northern Japan’s freezing winters. Furniture maker Time & Style does it justice; its mission is to keep the craft alive.
On its game?
As preparations for the Tokyo Olympics enter the home straight, we assess whether the city has the infrastructure in place to deliver a world-class tournament.
Kagawa is a prefecture so enamoured with Sanuki udon noodles that the delicacy is both tourist attraction and TV star. We tuck in.
Getting a taste for it
Dining out in Japan’s capital never ceases to raise the culinary bar. We’ve picked out three venues that serve to highlight the city’s eclectic mix.
Must-visit venues, including an Italian-Japanese restaurant in east London, a canny vineyard close to Tokyo and a kitchen with French-Japanese flair in New York.
Japan is known for its wealth of high-quality fashion brands but which is leading the pack? Here are three Tokyo standouts.
Process power
The Japanese fashion industry’s dedication to perfecting production techniques has set the bar for manufacturing excellence. How did this celebration of the specifics come to define the country’s exacting output?
The great outdoors is having a moment and Snow Peak hopes its fashionable pitch can turn this into a movement.
Cold comfort
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Politics / Tokyo
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Kazuo Shii is railing against injustices. Standing on top of a truck outside Tokyo’s busiest train station, his voice booming from speakers, the Japanese politician predicts that the sales tax hike will break the economy and ruin lives. He blames the gap between rich and poor on tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. He worries about the rickety finances of public social welfare programmes and the basic needs of middle-class families.
A crowd of about 150 people listening from the pavement applauds. Shii’s populist message has struck a chord here. It amounts to a full assault on the prime minister Shinzo Abe from an opposition politician who has a great deal of support from mainstream voters, despite his political organisation’s name: the Japan Communist party.
Mention communism and people assume you’re talking about China, Vietnam or Cuba – not Japan. Since the Japan Communist party was formed in 1922, its members have built an impressive organisation. While rooted in Marxist beliefs, the Jcp focuses on pacifism and social welfare. The party’s criticism of the Soviet Union and China decades ago, and rejection of violent revolution, saved it from being seen as a radical fringe. “There’s not much of a stigma associated with communism in Japan,” says Megumi Naoi, a political science professor at the University of California San Diego. In fact, she says, Japan’s intellectuals have historically been sympathetic to Marxism.
Yoji Kogiso, editor in chief of JCP newspaper ‘Shimbun Akahata’
Stumping for votes
Communist branding
JCP spokesman Toshio Ueki
Making posters in the ad department
Pushing pacifism
Flying the party’s red flag
The Jcp benefits from being a left-wing protest vote. It seems to relish being in permanent opposition and is consistent in taking a stand against war, the US-Japan security alliance, nuclear energy, the imperial system and free trade. But the rise of nationalist parties has eroded its working-class base.
With 12 of 465 seats in the lower house of parliament and 14 of 242 in the upper house, it’s not about to oust Abe’s Liberal Democratic party. Yet at a local level the Jcp has a solid base, with the third-most assembly seats at prefectural level and second-most seats in city, town and village assemblies. Its percentage of elected female officials, 38 per cent, is the highest of any party.
If there’s an issue that irks Jcp loyalists it’s the Abe administration’s efforts to write Japan’s Self-Defense Forces into the constitution. The Sdf exist in a grey zone: the constitution’s Article 9 prevents the possession of “land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential”. Eventually, the party hopes to phase out the Sdf – an oddly impractical view given China’s military build-up and North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons.
One of the keys to the party’s longevity is Shimbun Akahata (Red Flag), theJcp’s newspaper. “Akahata spreads the Jcp’s perspective on daily events as they happen,” says the paper’s editor in chief Yoji Kogiso.
Disseminating the party line isn’t the paper’s only mission: it chases scoops too. Akahata won the coveted Japan Congress of Journalists award last year for revealing that a senior Japanese diplomat had asked the US not to reduce its nuclear arsenal. Without Akahata the Jcp would be less effective – and poorer. The paper’s annual revenue of ¥18bn (€150m) make up 80 per cent of the Jcp’s earnings. To reduce costs, volunteers help with distribution. “I deliver the Sunday paper at an apartment complex near my house,” says Kogiso. What worries him is a declining readership, from three million in the 1980s to fewer than one million today. “Akahata’s crisis is the party’s crisis,” says Kogiso.
Former party members wonder whether the Jcp can turn things around. Some have suggested changing the name to widen its appeal. Toshio Ueki, the party’s top spokesman, brushes aside the idea. “We need to fully explain the communist and socialist society that we are striving for. Given the world’s problems, it’s easier than ever to make a case,” he says. Voters will have to decide whether the Jcp’s uncompromising view is worth saving.
The parties, places and personalities that shape contemporary Japanese politics.
Before you think the Communist party is the only player in Japanese politics, here’s a look at the more interesting people, institutions, buildings and locations at the heart of the nation’s democracy.
Chosen by the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) in late 2012, Abe has become the country’s longest-serving prime minister. He has dismissed speculation that he will run for a fourth term when his current tenure ends in September 2021.
The new emperor was enthroned this year and the Reiwa era began. The emperor presides over the opening ceremony at the beginning of a Diet (parliament) session but he has no real political power.
Diet building
The parliament building, also known as kokkai-gijido, was completed in 1936 and houses two legislative chambers: the 242-seat House of Councillors (upper house) and 465-seat House of Representatives (lower house).
There are nine national parties. The ldp and the Komeito party form the ruling block. The ldp has led the country for much of the post-Second World War period. The largest of the ineffective opposition efforts is the Constitutional Democratic party of Japan, led by Yukio Edano.
Komeito party
Part of the ldp’s ruling block, Komeito was started by the religious group Soka Gakkai.
Kantei
The prime minister’s office and residence. The new Kantei was built in 2002 and is next door to the old official residence, which dates back to 1929.
Kasumigaseki
The district in Tokyo where most of the government ministry offices are located.
Campaign cars
Minivans and trucks fitted with loudspeakers are used by candidates during elections. You often see the politicians waving from the backseat of a moving car or giving speeches from atop a parked vehicle.
Ultra-nationalist organisations
These uyoku-dantai drive around in trucks and vans that are emblazoned with slogans and Japan’s wartime flag. They equip the vehicles with loudspeakers blaring songs and rhetoric from the era.
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Ashley Gora, Lake Oswego, OR, USA, has participated in several internships since 2012, including translating material related to Traveler's Philanthropy, conducting data analysis for ASADA Monteverde to create a digital database of water consumption and supply, assisting as a camp leader for Campamento Las Hormiguitas, and creating a base for a formal communications program and carrying out a baseline survey about sustainability of touristic businesses for the Monteverde Community Fund. Currently, due to her experience with the internship program, she is working on the improvement and coordination of the internship program. Check out her blog: www.catharsiscr.tumblr.com
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Dates: May 21 – July 24, 2015
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Project title: “Density and spatial distribution of tropical tree genera Ocotea and Cinnamomum in secondary growth pine and cypress forests”, where she continued intern Luis Carlos Beltrán’s work about spatial density of Lauraceae trees in primary and secondary forest in order to help collect baseline data that may be used in future studies related to niches, climate change, and reforestation.
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Project title: “Greywater treatment systems, water conservation, and community outreach”, where she investigated and created interpretive materials for the MVI’s biogarden system, developed educational materials about greywater for community use, and gave informative lectures about greywater consumption to various students and community groups.
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Victoria Egedus, Chicago, Illinois, USA BA-Lake Forest College
Community Health Program Assistant. In a year long internship, she helped with food security and physical activity projects. This included evaluating the project Monteverde in Motion, which aims to improve the health of community members through increased physical activity. She also aided in a comparative gardens study to bring sustainable gardening practices to Monteverde families, and distributed vegetables from the Institute's gardens to families in need.
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TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Great North Distributors, Inc. (Great North)—Canada’s first national sales broker for legalized adult-use cannabis—today announced that Aurora Cannabis Inc. (the “Company” or “Aurora”) (NYSE | TSX: ACB), the Canadian company defining the future of cannabinoids worldwide, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Great North Distributors Inc. (“Great North”), Canada’s first national sales broker for legalized adult-use cannabis. Under the agreement, Great North will be the exclusive representative for Aurora’s leading portfolio of brands across the Canadian cannabis retail environment.
“The agreement is designed to significantly bolster Aurora’s market position in Canada. Great North brings deep experience across the spectrum of sales capabilities that will further differentiate Aurora as a leader in the growing cannabis space,” said Miguel Martin, CEO, Aurora Cannabis. “We have selected Great North for their outstanding execution across regulated businesses. Combining their executional strength with Aurora’s leading portfolio of brands is a recipe for success.”
Great North has reach across every province in Canada, including established relationships and expertise in working with provincially-owned and operated retailers and private retailers in Canada’s cannabis industry. Great North applies industry-leading data analytics capabilities to the sector, providing suppliers with a powerful data-driven approach to cannabis sales.
“Adding Aurora to our portfolio of companies we proudly represent is a signal of our market leadership,” said Doug Wieland, President, Canada – Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits and Great North Distributors. “Great North has executed in the Canadian cannabis market since day one and will immediately bring value in sales execution to Aurora. Aurora has entrusted their family of brands in our team and we look forward to delivering exceptional results.”
Great North will assume responsibility for Aurora’s sales execution on January 25, 2021.
About Great North Distributors
Great North Distributors Inc. is Canada’s first national sales broker for legalized adult-use cannabis. Established by the owners of Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, the world’s preeminent distributor for beverage alcohol, Great North Distributors has reach across every province in Canada, including established relationships and expertise in working with provincially owned and operated retailers and private retailers alike. Great North applies industry-leading data analytics capabilities from the wine and spirits industry to the new cannabis industry, providing suppliers with a powerful data-driven approach to cannabis sales.
About Aurora
Aurora is a global leader in the cannabis industry serving both the medical and consumer markets. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Aurora is a pioneer in global cannabis dedicated to helping people improve their lives. The Company’s brand portfolio includes Aurora, Aurora Drift, San Rafael ‘71, Daily Special, AltaVie, MedReleaf, CanniMed, Whistler, and Reliva CBD. Providing customers with innovative, high-quality cannabis products, Aurora’s brands continue to break through as industry leaders in the medical, performance, wellness and recreational markets wherever they are launched. For more information, please visit our website at www.auroramj.com.
Aurora’s common shares trade on the TSX and NYSE under the symbol “ACB”, and is a constituent of the S&P/TSX Composite Index.
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Entitlement to Information What Can Residents Access?
By Mike Odenthal 2019 July Board Operations
Living in a community association can sometimes be – or at least feel – complicated. For most people, their home is their biggest single investment, and the value of that individual investment depends a lot on the cooperation of neighbors, management, and board to make competent, informed decisions that maintain or increase the value of the larger property. Given the stakes, more active, involved residents may want not only to attend open meetings, but to occasionally review association documents – both to stay informed and to make sure everything is on the up-and-up. If you happen to be one of those engaged unit owners – or are a trustee yourself – it pays to know what information non-board residents are entitled to access, and what’s for board members’ eyes only.
New England Condominium spoke with several legal and management professionals throughout the region about what documents and information residents can request to review in different types of multifamily communities, as well as what boards and managers must keep confidential.
Scott J. Sandler, Managing Partner at law firm Sandler, Hansen & Alexander, LLC, in Middletown, Connecticut
“Connecticut’s version of the Common Interest Ownership Act (CIOA) contains an extensive provision that addresses the ability of owners to inspect and copy association records,” says Sandler. “Most association records must be open to the owners for inspection. The association is not required to synthesize or compile any information just because an owner wishes to see it, but to the extent a record exists, it would generally be available for the owners to inspect.
“The association may not permit owners to inspect personnel, salary, and medical records relating to specific individuals, unless waived by the persons to whom such records relate; or information the disclosure of which would violate any law.
“Additionally,” says Sandler, “the association may choose to withhold the following records:
a. Contracts, leases, and other commercial transactions to purchase or provide goods or services currently being negotiated;
b. Existing or potential litigation or mediation, arbitration or administrative proceedings;
c. Existing or potential matters involving federal, state or local administrative or other formal proceedings before a governmental tribunal for enforcement of the declaration, bylaws or rules;
d. Communications with the association’s attorney which are otherwise protected by the attorney-client privilege or the attorney work-product doctrine;
e. Records of an executive session of the executive board; or
f. Individual unit files other than those of the requesting owner.
“The association may charge a reasonable fee for supervising an owner’s inspection of its records and for supplying copies to the owner,” adds Sandler.
Matthew W. Gaines, a partner at the Condominium Practice Group and Real Estate Department of law firm Marcus, Emmer, Errico & Brooks, which has offices in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
According to Gaines: “Pursuant to Massachusetts General Law c. 183A, Section 10(c), an association is required to keep a complete copy of the following items:
a. The master deed and any amendments;
b. The bylaws and any amendments;
c. The minute book, to the extent such minutes are kept
d. Financial records, including the following:
Records of all receipts and expenditures, invoices and vouchers authorizing payments, receivable and bank statements relating thereto;
Records regarding the replacement reserve fund or any other funds of the association and bank statements;
Audits, reviews, accounting statements, and financial reports relating to the finances of the association; contracts for work to be performed for or services to be provided to the condominium; and
All current insurance policies of the association
“As for documents that owners are prohibited from seeing,” Gaines continues, “that would include matters regarding personnel (i.e. employees of the condominium), personal information (such as which accounts are delinquent in paying), and matters involving attorney/client privilege.
“The records listed above must be available for the reasonable inspection by a unit-owner during regular business hours, and at such other times as may be provided by the property manager. Access to said records includes the right to photocopy the records at the unit owner’s expense. The records should be retained for a period of at least seven years.”
Finally, says Gaines, “the Massachusetts Condominium Act is silent as to consequences if a board fails to provide access to these records. While legislation has been filed in the past to add some teeth to the statute in the event a board refuses to provide access, that legislation did not pass.”
Joseph G. Carleton, Jr., Of Counsel with Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry in Portland, Maine
“Maine has extensive disclosure requirements benefiting unit owners, taken from the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act and incorporated into Maine law,” says Carleton. “I think it’s fair to say that the broad reach of this law has made boards and managers uncomfortable at times. I think that simply quoting the statute will answer most people’s questions.
“According to §1603-118 of the Maine Condominium Act on Association Records, an association must retain the following:
Records of receipts and expenditures affecting the operation and administration of the association and other appropriate accounting records for the past 6 years;
Minutes of all meetings of its unit owners and executive board other than executive sessions, a record of all actions taken by the unit owners or executive board without a meeting and a record of all actions taken by a committee in place of the executive board on behalf of the association;
The names of current unit owners in a form that permits preparation of a list of the names of all unit owners and the addresses at which the association communicates with them, in alphabetical order and showing the number of votes each unit owner is entitled to cast;
Copies of its original or restated organizational documents and bylaws and all amendments to them and all rules currently in effect;
All financial statements and tax returns of the association for the past 3 years;
A list of the names and addresses of its current executive board members and officers; [2011, c. 368, §8 (NEW).]
Its most recent annual report delivered to the Secretary of State;
Financial and other records sufficiently detailed to enable the association to comply with section 1604-108;
Copies of current contracts to which it is a party;
Records of executive board or committee actions to approve or deny any requests for design or architectural approval from unit owners; and
Ballots, proxies and other records related to voting by unit owners for one year after the election, action or vote to which they relate.
Carleton goes on to say that “(b) Subject to subsections (c) and (d), all records retained by an association must be available for examination and copying by a unit owner or the unit owner’s authorized agent during reasonable business hours or at a mutually convenient time and location; and upon 10 days’ notice in writing reasonably identifying the specific records of the association requested. Records retained by an association may be withheld from inspection and copying to the extent that they concern:
Personnel, salary and medical records relating to specific individuals;
Contracts, leases and other commercial transactions to purchase or provide goods or services currently being negotiated;
Existing or potential litigation or mediation, arbitration or administrative proceedings;
Existing or potential matters involving federal, state or local administrative or other formal proceedings before a governmental tribunal for enforcement of the declaration, bylaws or rules;
Communications with the association’s attorney that are otherwise protected by the attorney-client privilege or the attorney work-product doctrine;
Information the disclosure of which would violate law other than this Act;
Records of an executive session of the executive board; or
Individual unit files other than those of the requesting unit owner.
“An association may charge a reasonable fee for providing copies of any records under this section and for supervising the unit owner’s inspection,” Carleton continues. “A ‘right to copy records’ under this section includes the right to receive copies by photocopying or other means, including copies through an electronic transmission if available upon request by the unit owner.
“An association is not obligated to compile or synthesize information, and information provided pursuant to this section may not be used for commercial purposes or any other purpose not reasonably related to the management of the association or the duties, rights or responsibilities of unit owners, officers or executive board members under this Act or the association’s governing documents.
“The Maine Nonprofit Corporation Act, Title 13-B,” Carleton adds, “also provides for penalties in case of failure to provide records, but the application of this requirement to the above requirements of the Maine Condominium Act is uncertain.”
The takeaway from these various experts is – whether you live in a co-op, condo, or HOA – know your own rights, as well as the rights of the residents you govern when it comes to accessing documents and information about your community. Keeping things transparent not only keeps you on the right side of the law, but also fosters faith in and respect for all the work the board does to keep the building or association running smoothly.
Mike Odenthal is a staff writer/reporter for New England Condominium.
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Founder of Russian Artist Collective Voina Praises Crimean Annexation
Sarah Cascone, June 13, 2014
A St. Petersburg bridge received phallic graffiti from art-group Voina in 2010. Photo: via Animal New York.
Russian artist Oleg Vorotnikov is known for his outspoken criticism of the Russian government as founder of dissident artist collective Voina, which helped spawn Pussy Riot. In a surprising turn of events, Vorotnikov, who is currently wanted by Russian police, has come out in favor of his country’s recent annexation of the Crimean region of Ukraine, reports the Art Newspaper.
Openborder, a recent cultural festival in Amsterdam, asked Voina to participate in the event. A statement for the festival posted on the Openborder website condemned Russia’s “armed intervention in Crimea, Ukraine.” Not only did Vorotnikov reject the invitation, he accused the Dutch group of attempting to disseminate anti-Russian propaganda and wanting “to display us before the international community as traitors to Russia.”
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Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and her husband, Pyotr Verzilo, are both former members of Voina. The female group has been outspoken in its criticism of Russia’s interference in Ukraine, but other formerly radical Russian artists have also voiced their support of a Russian Crimea.
Prague-based artist Avdei Ter-Oganyan, forced to leave Russia in 1998 and seek asylum in the Czech Republic, has consistently referred to Ukrainian protesters against the Russian government as fascists. He described the annexation as “the only good thing that Putin has done,” and posted a photo of his great-grandfather, a Crimean War hero. A further 150 Russian artists and cultural figures, including major museum officials, publicly endorsed Putin’s actions in the region back in March (see artnet News report).
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put extraordinary pressure on almost every sector across Britain. The manufacturing industry has suffered particularly, with many manufacturers still operating at between 25% and 50% of normal levels. As the industry starts to get back on its feet, it is time to focus our attention on how we can use this as an opportunity to rebuild even stronger.
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Private mobile networks present one of the most exciting opportunities for UK industry. They deliver highly secure, ultra-reliable connectivity that allows for the automation of a number of business processes.
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Douglas Baird
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Douglas Baird’s research and teaching interests focus on bankruptcy and corporate reorganizations.
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On Wednesday evening, The Supreme Court granted interim bail to Republic TV Chief Editor Arnab Goswami. Arnab was sent to 14-day judicial custody in the 2018 abetment-to-suicide case by the Bombay High Court. Along with Goswami, the other two accused Nitesh Sarda and Feroz Shaikh in the Anvay Naik and his mother’s suicide case were also sent to judicial custody by the Bombay High Court. They were also granted interim bail by the Supreme Court. Hearing the petition filed by Arnab Goswami through video conference, the Supreme Court’s two-judge bench…
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On Wednesday morning, Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami was arrested by the Raigad Police from his residence in Mumbai. The Raigad Police reported that the arrest of Arnab Goswami is a part of an ‘ongoing’ investigation of the 2018 Suicide case of an architect. On 5th May 2018, 53-year-old Architect & Interior Designer Anvay Naik and his 83-year-old mother Kumud allegedly committed suicide. As per reports, in 2017, Anvay Naik had previously worked as an architect for the development of the Republic TV Office and Studio. Before committing suicide, Anvay…
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A Boy and His Horse, and the HOA Too
Simmons Buntin January 15, 2008
A few weeks before Christmas, Alexander Gonzalez, who lives in the Skyline Bel Air Estates subdivision north of Tucson — in the lush and often posh foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains — learned that the miniature horse he purchased from the proceeds of running the cash register at his grandfather’s service station wasn’t allowed. Livestock? Sure. But no horses, big or small.
Then the eleven-year-old spent more than $1,000 of his own money for a special election to change the rules. He needed 288 votes, but in the end only 203 were cast, and half of those were against the HOA bylaw amendment. That’s a tough lesson for a fifth-grader, a kid who before his brush with the quasi-governmental board hadn’t even heard the acronyms HOA or CC&R.
A girl and her miniature horse. Is it actually allowed by her HOA?
Photo courtesy Miniature Dream Parties, Inc.
HOA special elections are a funny thing. In my neighborhood of Civano, we recently held a special meeting to determine the need for a special election to throw out the full HOA board of directors. Why? I’m not sure. Certainly some of those who initiated the recall had personal vendettas against board members, and some felt snubbed or mistreated or angry at the larger “establishment.” Fortunately, our community did have a strong turnout and the recall was defeated 316 to 77. The next officially scheduled election is only eight weeks away, after all.
I am troubled that a group of anonymous homeowners was able to get 100 signatures on a petition, an action that then triggers the special meeting. I’m just as troubled that, by Arizona statute and our Civano HOA bylaws, a recall special meeting can be called, assuming enough signatures, without cause. In effect, anyone for any reason can initiate a petition that, as in this case, is deceptively worded. Once a hundred people sign it, the special meeting must be held, and at the cost of the HOA and its members.
The political science undergraduate student I once was says, “Yes, that’s an appropriate balance, ensuring the HOA board does not have too much power.” The 38-year-old homeowner I am now says, “No, show me real cause, in writing and available for review before a petition can be circulated. Show me the harm, or at least the intention of harm.”
If I sound cynical, that’s because the group behind the failed recall has a long and prickly history of trying to take community governance in its own hands. Rather than working within the system, it is trying to undermine it.
Mixed-use homes in Civano’s neighborhood center district.
Photo by Simmons Buntin.
And because of that I now find myself a member of a committee evaluating Civano’s CC&Rs and bylaws. My primary goal is to ensure that the unique, New Urbanist components of our community regulations — the allowance of mixed uses, for example — are not removed.
My secondary goal: to work in a clause that allows miniature horses. Just imagine the good deeds this community could accomplish if we had the energy of entrepreneurial eleven-year-olds like Alexander Gonzalez!
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Nonprofit hospital buys neighboring properties for $7M
By Brian Bandell - Jan 8, 2018 Jupiter Medical Center made two property acquisitions near its hospital to host construction of new facilities. The nonprofit hospital paid $5.3 million to Toney Penna Drive Partners for 4.91 acres at 960 and 964 S. Old Dixie Highway and 150 Toney Penna Drive in Jupiter. It also...
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Liv Vesely, MA, MPH — Jupiter Medical Center Foundation January 10, 2018 [caption id="attachment_1178" align="aligncenter" width="507"] Photography by Jason Nuttle[/caption] Jupiter Medical Center Foundation is led by president Liv Vesely, MA, MHP. Since her arrival, Veseley has built and directed a dynamic and growing, first-rate development operation, achieving the highest philanthropic revenue levels in...
Mastroianni family donates $3M to Jupiter Medical Center
BY: Bill DiPaolo | Nov. 21 Nick Mastroianni II, the developer of Harbourside Place, and the Mastroianni Foundation donated $3 million to the Jupiter Medical Center to establish a pediatric emergency department. [caption id="attachment_1152" align="aligncenter" width="653"] From left to right: Audrey Mastroianni, Sara and Anthony Mastroianni, Jessica and Nicholas Mastroianni III along with their three daughters. (Photo/JMC)[/caption] “As a father of three young girls, the well-being of my children is always on my mind. If your child is sick or injured and needs emergency services, I want them to get the best treatment possible. With this donation, we hope we can make the emergency room experience less intimidating for parents and their young children by separating them from the adult emergency room, and having dedicated, pediatric physicians available 24/7,” said Nicholas Mastroianni III, Nick Mastroianni’s son. Nicholas Mastroianni III and his brother Anthony work with their father at Allied Capital & Development of South Florida, a Jupiter-based real estate development and capital-raising firm. The 6,300-square-foot Mastroianni Family Pediatric Emergency Department will be located next to the hospital’s current emergency room. Plans call for eight pediatric treatment rooms, a dedicated family waiting area, pediatric triage rooms and indoor play areas. The unit is expected to open in late 2018. “I’m humbled to be a part of this new era at Jupiter Medical Center. My family wants to make sure other families feel more comfortable and at ease when making a visit to the ER with young children,” said Nick Mastroianni II. Founded in 1979, JMC is a not-for-profit, 327-bed, regional medical center, consisting of 207 private acute-care hospital beds, and 120 long-term care, sub-acute rehabilitation and hospice beds. The town’s largest employer, JMC has about 1,600 team members, 615 physicians and 640 volunteers.
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Leadership Palm Beach County (LPBC), a group which aims to identify and unite diverse leaders in order to increase understanding of countywide issues and improve participants’ ability to lead effectively, recently announced participants in their 2016 Leadership Engage Program. Among the 50 LPBC participants is Nicholas Mastroianni III, Vice President of...
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by Caitlin Ostroff Jul 13, 2015 03:33 PM, Originally posted by Jupiter Magazine If you want to work for a golfing legend, look no further. The Woods Jupiter Sports and Dining Club is currently hiring for hosts, line cooks, prep cooks, servers, bartenders and dishwashers. Those interested can apply for...
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This Is Why OnePlus Nord Will Be The Phone Worthy Of Your Money
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Whenever a smartphone is about to hit the market, the forces of the internet join their hands together and do their best to tell us everything we can possibly understand about the device before the official release. OnePlus Nord is a smartphone that hasnt been kept under the covers by any means.
We know almost everything about the device. We know what is going to be under the hood, we have seen what the phone looks like, Carl Pei has even gone on the WVFRM podcast by MKBHD and talked about the phone, he has shows us the phone and has also shown us what other designs were under consideration for the design.
OnePlus started out with providing excellent phones at a very pocket friendly price tag. The OnePlus line of devices were some of the most value for many devices you could buy. Now, that was before the time when they went and increased the prices with each new generation of devices. One might argue that increasing the prices of the phone was a good and necessary business decision. However, as and when the prices increased, the company began to recieve a whole lot of “it isnt as pocket friendly as it used to be” and is by no means a budget device.
The OnePlus Nord is the company’s return to its roots. The OnePlus Nord will be a budget/pocket friendly device which will pack a punch and give you the flagship feel. The device will house a powerful and capable Snapdragon 765G processor which will be good enough to give you the powerful experience you deserve. The leaks suggest a 6.55-inch OLED display, 6GB RAM, 128GB storage and a 4,300mAH battery capacity.
All of this sounds incredibly promising. You get an OLED display, big battery, and a very capable processor. According to the photos shared by the @oneplus.nord instagram page and @getpied – the device will have a decent camera which will you good results and wont in any way be dissapointing.
There is only question that needs to be answered here. How much will the phone cost? With everything the OnePlus Nord has going on for it, and considering all the marketing done by OnePlus and announcing its return to the roots, it will be incredibly dissapointing to see the device above the $300 price tag.
But, if the device is launched for below $300 – it will be an incredible value for money. Not only will it be pocket friendly, buying the Nord will be the logical thing to do as it will be better than its direct competitors.
The few good choices in this category are the Poco X2, the Realme 6 Pro, the Samsung A31, the Redmi Note 9 etc. While all of these phones are incredibly promising and deliver good results, the OnePlus Nord will be providing more value for your money. You’ll be getting the best skinned version of Android that is OxygenOS and a device capable of delivering flagship like performance at a very decent price tag.
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Harsh Punjabi AKA Technolobe On Making It As A Tech Content Creator
We have a really interesting guest who was kind enough to join us and share his story on how he made it as a Content Creator making tech videos on YouTube. Harsh has over 80k subscribers on YouTube (Technolobe) and does a fine job of producing high quality content and makes videos that help you in one or the other way! Check out the conversation we had below!
1. Who is Harsh in real life?
I am a 23 year old software engineer who aspires to be a successful entrepreneur someday. Apart from this Harsh Punjabi is a very fun person in real life. I love to hang out with friends and have a long chat over chai or coffee.
2. How did you find your interest in Tech?
If I think about it, I’ve always been interested in tech. Thanks to my parents, I always had a lot of
tech stuff in my house and my passion for tech only grow because of this. Technology has and
will always be a very big part of my life.
3. Why did you decide to start Technolobe?
I wanted to start something of my own and the best industry was tech because of my immense
passion. Now at first I tried writing blogs, making websites and all but that wasn’t for me. So one
fine day I decided to give youtube a try. Almost 4 years later, I am glad that I gave this a try. Making videos about tech products is a pretty cool job.
4. You have successfully grown your YouTube channel (Technolobe) to 80k plus subscribers, what was the one thing that gave you a sense of accomplishment in your career?
Being able to help someone make a good tech purchase is the thing that gives me a sense of
accomplishment. After I have suggested a product and then people actually buy it an enjoy it,
that feeling is incredible and makes me feel that I have made it in the tech industry.
5. Do you think it is viable to start a YouTube channel in 2020? (Tech YouTube Channel)
Yeah definitely. As a matter of fact, more people that ever are on the internet right now and makes 100% sense to start a YouTube channel in 2020. If you have a story to tell in a video format, then starting a youtube channel should be the way to go.
6. Do you think an educational qualification is necessary to succeed in life?
Yes. I strongly believe that education plays a big part in your life. A well educated person will always have a lot of career options and paths. Education shapes a person in an excellent way. Also, going to college is an incredible experience. The people you meet, new things you learn, friendships that you make, etc. make it all worth it.
7. What would you say to someone who is just starting out?
Be patient. Patience is the number 1 thing that you need to have. Things are not going to happen overnight. Take you time, do it right and have fun with it.
8. Is there something you would like to say to our readers?
Hope that you guys find my answers helpful in some way. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to my channel for some awesome tech content. Technolobe
9. Is there something you would like to say to Nwsppr?
You guys are doing a great job. More power to you.
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Windows Apps Coming to Chrome OS – Is It Enough?
Umang Mittal
Google has partnered with Parallels to bring windows apps to Chrome OS. Later this year, retailers will be able to bundle Parallels Desktop with Chromebook Enterprise devices. At first, Parallels Desktop will boot a full copy of Windows, running side by side. Later, Chrome OS will redirect certain windows files directly over to Parallels.
This means your Chromebooks will be able to run some windows apps natively, making the experience seamless. Chromebooks were first announced in 2011 and their selling point was a lightweight operating system, Chrome OS. It is a minimalist operating system based on android applications with support for the desktop version Chrome browser.
People have a hard time choosing a Chromebook over another laptop because of Chrome OS’ inability to run windows applications. The OS has always prioritized security, one of the key reasons Google won’t allow dual boot. Dual boot options compromise the verified boot process of Chrome OS.
Up until now, Google was working with Parallels and streaming windows applications over a cloud service. This move allowed Google to lure US schools to mainstream Chromebooks, and now they are looking to expand. Google is targeting businesses that rely on certain windows applications.
In order to utilize Parallels desktop, user will need a comparatively high spec Chromebook. Though, they are still considerably cheaper and more portable than their windows counterparts. This service will not come for free though. After all, Parallels will be required to use Windows license to run the apps. Google and Parallels haven’t commented on the subscription price and the release date yet.
On the other hand, Microsoft is working on Windows 10X, a Chrome OS competitor scheduled to release in 2021. While Microsoft is trying to simplify windows, Google is leveraging users with its security benefits. Chrome OS offers a desktop-class browser experience, android application ecosystem and now ability to run windows applications.
Any user who spends most of their time using a browser, or generic applications should consider buying a Chromebook. Most generic apps like a media player, have similar android counterparts with no function compromises. The apps not available on android will be accessible offline using Parallels desktop very soon. Chromebooks can be a better option for you because they are cheaper, lighter and Chrome OS is comparatively a much simpler operating system.
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The World’s Smallest Phone “Launch” – Google Pixel 4a
Earlier this week, Thursday, Google released a puzzle which teased the date 3rd August and the phrase, ” The Google Just What You’ve Been Waiting For Phone”. Everyone immediately thought about the Google Pixel 4a, the next budget smartphone to look out for.
The Launch “Event”
The Pixel 4a had been heavily leaked throughout the year. The design, renders, specifications and even the price was already out there. Incontestably, everyone was wondering how Google would reveal a phone that we know everything about already. They went for the smallest phone launch, i.e. no reveal event.
Google shipped special reviewers kit to select people, which is the weirdest smartphone related unboxing one could imagine. Immediately, Google presents you with a DIY cardboard stand for the Pixel 4a. The box also has weirdly named eatables like the mini mouthful, the bittersweet treat and a non-alcoholic drink, “The No-Groni Aperitif”. Then there is the retail smartphone box, one of the smallest we have ever seen.
Pixel 4a – First Impressions
Last year, the Google Pixel 3a was an immediate hit in the market because there was almost no competition. This time around, the Pixel 4a has to beat the likes of OnePlus Nord and the iPhone SE. The Pixel 4a is the first pixel device that keeps up with the present smartphone designs, and it is exciting.
Similar to last year, the Pixel 4a is minimalistic smartphone. Plastic body, a single camera that beats almost every flagship primary camera and the cleanest android experience for just $349. Unfortunately, Google is not offering any customization whatsoever. There is only one size, one specification and only one color, Just Black.
Thanks to the updated design, the Pixel 4a has a 5.81″ 1080p 60Hz OLED in a smaller form factor than last year. It has the snapdragon 730G, 6GB RAM, 128GB storage, 3140 mAh battery, the same 12.2MP camera and a headphone jack.
Google has never really paid much attention to camera hardware, yet has the best images, thanks to its computational photography. Even though the rear camera is one of the best, at first glance, it leaves you wanting for more. Every smartphone offers more than one camera perspective, at least an ultra-wide sensor alongside the primary wide-angle lens.
The pictures taken from the Pixel 4a have even less noise in them, improved details and handles color even better. Nightsight and astrophotography has also improved. The smartphone leaves you thinking, like every year that what could Google do with flagship camera sensors and their computational photography combined.
The Pixel 4a comes with the pixel exclusive software features as well, like live captions, now playing and call screening. The phone also ships with 3 month access to YouTube Premium, 100GB drive storage and Play Pass, a subscription service similar to Apple Arcade. Google has also confirmed the existence of Pixel 4a 5G for $499 and the upcoming Pixel 5.
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Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Armoured fighting vehicles of Greece, Tracked armoured personnel carriers, Hellenic Army
ELVO Leonidas-2
Leonidas-2
ΛΕΩΝΙΔΑΣ-2
Leonidas APCs of the Hellenic Force in Cyprus (ELDYK)
Greece\ Austria
Greece 1981-today
5.87 m (19 ft 3 in)
2.50 m (8 ft 2 in)
1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
26-32 mm front
15 mm sides and rear
1 x 12.7 mm MG
1,500 rounds
1 x 7.62 mm MG3
Steyr 7FA inline 6-cylinder water-cooled diesel
320 hp (745 kW) at 2,300 rpm
Power/weight
21.62 hp/t
ZF Synchronized, 6 gears forward and 1 reverse
torsion bar
vertical obstacle: 0.8 m
trench: 2.1 m
520 km (320 mi)
63 km/h (39 mph)
The Leonidas-2 represented an effort made by the Greek vehicle manufacturer ELVO to produce an advanced armoured personnel carrier (APC) of its own. It is named after Leonidas, king of the ancient city-state of Sparta. The first version of the Leonidas was the Austrian Saurer 4K 4FA armoured personnel carrier built with minor modifications by the Greek company (then known as Steyr Hellas S.A.) from 1981 until 1987. Initial production was essentially assembly, however Greek content progressively increased. The APC had a 320 hp engine and a weight of 14.8 tons.
1 Design and development
2 Leonidas production
Design and development[edit | edit source]
The 'Leonidas-2' development involved extensive modification of the previous model. This was done by ELVO in 1987 with the aim to essentially develop it as an armoured infantry fighting vehicle (AIFV). The new version had a weight of 18.8 tons and it used a 450 hp engine; maximum speed was 70 km/h. The construction of the turret became a matter of debates involving interested companies (three versions with different types of turrets were proposed, while there were "demands" that the turret should constructed by EBO), but the vehicle was finally produced without a turret. About 700 were produced, including a number exported to Cyprus. Plans to develop the vehicle further as 'Leonidas-3' for different roles were abandoned in 2002, as the vehicle was considered outdated. ELVO continued efforts for a modern AIFV development, starting cooperation in 1988 with Steyr-Daimler-Puch of Austria on a joint development, but soon pulled out due to the high cost of the vehicle compared to the Greek Army specifications (Santa Bárbara Sistemas of Spain continued development with the Austrian company, resulting in the ASCOD Ulan/Pizarro AIFV). Eventually ELVO worked on its own, developing a completely new armoured infantry fighting vehicle, the Kentaurus in 1998.
Leonidas production[edit | edit source]
The table below shows the production run based on the history of publicly known orders, as published in the press.[1] The total appears as 700 vehicles, yet the company ELVO in its internet site mentions a total production of "about 800 vehicles"[2]
Production history[3]
Origin of order
1981 Greece 2 Leonidas 1 version.
2 prototypes delivered from Austria for testing
1981 Greece 100 Leonidas 1 version.
Delivered between 1982 and 1983, originally only assembled in Greece, progressively Greek participation increased (including manufacture of certain parts)
1986 Cyprus 56 Leonidas 2 version.
16 built in Austria, 40 in Greece.
Built in Greece.
1998 Greece 57 Leonidas 2 version.
2001 Republic of Macedonia (donation from Greece) 10 Leonidas 2 version with new automatic transmission.
Total 700 503 vehicles delivered to Greece.
197 vehicles delivered to Cyprus.
ELVO Kentaurus
Saurer 4K 4FA
↑ "ΤΟΜΠ Λεωνίδας Ι/ΙΙ" in "Ελληνική Άμυνα & Ασφάλεια" journal, issue 27, May 2008 (Greek)
↑ http://www.elvo.gr/el/content/%CE%A4%CE%B5%CE%B8%CF%89%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1.44/
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Retrieved from "https://military.wikia.org/wiki/ELVO_Leonidas-2?oldid=2583647"
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Brazil records more than 1,000 Covid deaths in 24 hours: official
By Farhan Younas On Dec 18, 2020
RIO DE JANEIRO, December 18 (Online): Brazil on Thursday recorded more than 1,000 deaths from Covid-19 over a 24-hour period for the first time since September, according to a government tally.
The 1,092 new fatalities took Brazil s total from the coronavirus pandemic to almost 185,000 deaths — a number surpassed only by the United States.
The South American country also registered almost 70,000 new infections, for a total of more than 7.1 million cases.
New cases and deaths have been surging since November in the country of 212 million and things have been getting worse with the holiday season approaching.
The numbers had fallen after a long period from June to August with daily deaths over 1,000.
There are worries too about Brazil s national immunization plan which has been widely criticized.
The health ministry expects to vaccinate 70 percent of the population — some 150 million people — within 16 months.
Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was widely criticized for downplaying the pandemic, even though he caught Covid-19.
And a day before announcing Brazil s immunization plan, he caused controversy by claiming he wouldn t get vaccinated.
He also discredited the CoronaVac vaccine produced by Chinese laboratory Sinovac, which is produced locally by the Butantan Institute with support from Sao Paulo state governor Joao Doria, who is expected to challenge Bolsonaro for the presidency in 2022.
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The COVID Pandemic, Women’s Health
Violence in the Home and Contagion Outside: Emphasizing Agility at all Times
May 8, 2020; Austin Chronicle
Shelter in place. Stay at home. Self-isolation. Quarantine. Important measures for slowing and overcoming the spread of COVID-19. But for survivors living with violence, abuse, and assault, these terms mean something else: trapped.
Before the pandemic, the Texas Council on Family Violence reported that over 40 percent of those seeking emergency shelter in the state were turned away due to capacity issues. But now, nationwide capacity is limited further by shelters’ social distancing requirements, which reduce physical capacity to shelter just as it may have become harder to find a window of opportunity to leave and seek help. Luckily, these programs for have always emphasized a continuum of services that goes beyond shelter, depending upon the choices and safety requirements of the person experiencing abuse.
Foster care agencies are facing similar challenges for children living in unsafe homes. Foster systems were already strained as they responded to the fallout of the opioid epidemic. With COVID-19, courts are shut down, family visits have been suspended, and mandated reporters with intimate knowledge of a child’s well-being such as teachers or coaches have been removed from daily life. Foster families and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), volunteers who advocate on behalf of neglected and abused children in court, are in short supply as social distancing strains the usual recruitment processes.
Organizations are doing their best to adapt. The Survive2Thrive Foundation is partnering with hotels throughout Austin to shelter those who’ve been displaced from a violent home. Ann Arbor, Michigan’s SafeHouse Center is distributing informational fliers through food deliveries, using social media to educate family and friends on how to help, and using ridesharing services to transport survivors to its shelter. Regarding foster care, the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services is distributing resources on coping with the pandemic along with tips on spotting abuse to families while “encouraging virtual connections to support children.”
Yet even as they adapt to the here-and-now, many organizations are already focusing on what comes next as shelter in place orders begin to lift. Shelters are anticipating a rapid increase in service demand that will tax tight resources and staffing shortages, especially as facilities continue mitigating the spread of the virus with strict safety protocols. Foster care organizations, too, are working to build foster family pipelines now before being inundated with referrals.
This need isn’t unique. Nonprofits everywhere are weathering similar challenges and will require city, state, and federal support, preferably in a more robust economic stimulus bill with stronger concessions for the sector and a complete overhaul of the disastrous Paycheck Protection Program. For now, efforts like Austin’s Relief in a State of Emergency Fund are filling the gap with $5.6 million already distributed to local nonprofits.
But the sector itself holds some responsibility. Moving beyond the pandemic, nonprofits, regardless of field of service, must collaborate more intentionally within a shifting landscape to effectively advocate with rather than for those they serve, emphasizing choice, adapting to culture and circumstance, and rejecting the “one right way” service models that do not do these things in consultation or with respect.
“This is a time where we could start to build a more comprehensive solution for survivors,” said Courtney Santana, CEO of Survive2Thrive. “I look at it as an opportunity for us to say, ‘All right, now we have a different scenario to answer. How are we going to work together to do so?’ Because no one organization is going to be able to do it.”—Drew Adams
Drew Adams is a progressive nonprofit change advocate who believes in the power of collaboration for positive, sustainable outcomes in social justice, systems reform, and equitable futures. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Phoenix chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network. Previously, he worked as the marketing and public relations manager at FEI Behavioral Health, a social enterprise of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities. He holds a bachelor’s in English and a master’s in education from Middle Tennessee State University. Drew lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife Claudia and daughter Ellie. He is an avid comic book reader.
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The Interpretation of Dreams quotes
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“Dreams . . . are often most profound when they seem most crazy.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them—especially as against the rivals, other children, and first and foremost as against their brothers and sisters.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Even if a dream of different content had the significance of this offence against majesty, it would still have been in place to remember the words of Plato, that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Dreams are never concerned with trivialities; we do not allow our sleep to be disturbed by trifles.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we are in duty bound to demonstrate that we are thereby bringing the dream into a relationship which...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Psychoanalysis is justly suspicious. One of its rules reads: Whatever disturbs the continuation of the work is a resistance.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“We are thus presented with a new task which had no previous existence: the task, that is, of investigating the relations between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing out the processes by which the latter...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Being in love with the one parent and hating the other are among the essential constituents of the stock of psychical impulses which is formed at that time and which is of such importance in determining the symptoms of the later neurosis.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with the infantile now unconscious and suppressed wish, which then allowed it, though already properly prepared, to “originate” for...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
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HomeTopicsCommunity MeetingsPassyunk: Community Group GRASP Hosts Bar Association at Monthly Meeting
Passyunk: Community Group GRASP Hosts Bar Association at Monthly Meeting
March 26, 2019 Meghan Costa and Lila McDermott Community Meetings, Politics, South Philadelphia 0
Two representatives from the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Judicial Commission attended the Grassroots Advocacy for South Philadelphia (GRASP) monthly meeting to discuss the commission’s process for evaluating and recommending judicial candidates. The meeting, held on Feb. 7, was hosted at GRASP’s regular venue, Adobe Cafe on East Passyunk Avenue near Broad Street.
GRASP is a local nonpartisan advocacy group focused on connecting South Philadelphia residents with their local representatives and political candidates through events, monthly meetings and endorsement of political candidates. At the meeting, the bar association first outlined their evaluation process for recommending judicial candidates before opening up the floor to take questions from community members.
Karen DiLossi, co-founder of GRASP and committee person for the 39th Ward in East Passyunk, said that before and during the 2016 presidential election she would often canvas for political candidates and volunteer on Election Day. She said she would also frequently check the bar association’s website for judicial candidate recommendations.
“People don’t understand what the judges are, or why it’s even elected,” DiLossi said. “Maybe they don’t even know that the bar association provides recommendations for those running.”
Chris Nevin (above), also a GRASP co-founder and committee person for the 39th Ward, said he and DiLossi felt compelled to start an advocacy group following the 2016 presidential election. The decision to host the Philadelphia Bar Association at a GRASP general meeting was inspired by complaints DiLossi heard from residents living in the ward about the lack of available information regarding judicial elections.
Since its founding, GRASP has held several public events at the Adobe Cafe to introduce local political candidates and community members. In January of 2018, GRASP held a meet and greet for Elizabeth Fiedler, Tom Wyatt and Billy Ciancaglini, three of the candidates running for state representative in Pennsylvania’s 184th District.
The following April, GRASP endorsed and canvassed for Elizabeth Fiedler, who went on to win the general election.
“Instead of worrying about candidates running on the federal level, we decided to get in on some local political candidate endorsements to see what weight that could carry,” Nevin said. “It is much easier to manage endorsements for candidates running at the local level.”
Matt Olesh, assistant treasurer for the Philadelphia Bar Association, and Teresa “Terry” Sachs, chair of the bar’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, said the commission takes a non-partisan, holistic approach to evaluating and recommending judicial candidates.
The commission has a set of ten criteria that candidates must meet in order to be recommended by the commission, Sachs said. Criteria include a record of community involvement, financial responsibility, judicial temperament, and a record and reputation for excellent character and integrity. If candidates do not meet all ten standards for recommendation, they will not be recommended and the reason or reasons will not be disclosed to the public. The rationale for keeping the decision confidential is to encourage more candidates to elect to take part in the vetting process.
Those in attendance at GRASP’s event included judicial candidates Michele Hangley, James Berardinelli, and Anthony Kyriakakis as well as candidates Beth Finn for city council member at-large and Larry King for Philadelphia County sheriff.
Mary Doyle (below), a community member who attended the event, said she often looks to the commission when researching judicial candidates.
“As a voter, I have, on multiple occasions, gone to [the commission’s] website and asked, ‘Is this person recommended or not recommended?’ And I trust that [the commision] will do that,” Doyle said. “I trust that more now, but I wish that for the Not Recommended that we would know why. I feel like that’s very importan
However, she expressed concern about the commission’s decision to keep the reasons for not recommending certain candidates confidential. Doyle said she thinks voters prioritize the criteria differently and could make better informed decisions if they knew the reasons for candidates not being recommended.
In response to Doyle, Sachs said the bar association does not disclose their reasoning for not recommending candidates because they do not want to discourage other people from submitting to their vetting process.
“The meeting was really informative about the bar association’s process,” Doyle said. “I think I would still prefer to know why someone was not recommended, but I understand their reasoning. No process is ever perfect or completely without bias, but they have worked hard to eliminate bias and their recommendations are helpful to those of us who are not lawyer.”
Doyle said she first became involved in GRASP when she attended its 184th District candidate meet and greet event in January of 2018. She said GRASP’s mission of providing the South Philadelphia community with election information made her want to attend more of the organization’s events.
The bar association holds a lot of influence, Doyle said. She said it can be hard to find information on judicial candidates from other sources.
“Having a better understanding of their process allows me to make a more informed decision about which judicial candidates to support,” she added.
Sachs described the Philadelphia Bar Association’s recommendation process as non-partisan. She said the organization aims to inform voters about qualified judicial candidates, and no political appointees are part of their recommendation committee.
“I think voters would like to have more information and will be receptive to it, and I think they will be more receptive when they understand our process,” Sachs said. “So, we’re ready to get the word out that we represent a broad range of everybody in the community, and we try to do a really unbiased, thorough, respectful investigation that gives a really valid recommendation.”
Olesh said he wants the commission to reach as many voters as possible.
“We want this to matter more than it currently does,” Olesh said. “There are a lot of people in the city who don’t even know that we do this.”
Although Sachs believes Philadelphia has some wonderful judges, she feels the city still needs more of them.
“Judges touch everybody’s lives and it’s in everybody’s interests to have qualified judges,” she added.
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Animals for the Kids, Tectons for Dad – the Concrete Architecture of Dudley Zoological Gardens
Architecture Destinations March 5, 2017 March 4, 2019
If you exclude actual buildings, I’d wager that there are few 1930’s structures in England more famous than the Penguin Pool at London Zoo. Even those with a mere cursory knowledge of the UK’s key tourist attractions will be familiar with it. Famous in period, thanks to its innovative construction and wondrous sweeping lines, it has been celebrated as an ‘art deco’ masterpiece ever since. Poirot has been there, Bekonscot model village has a miniature recreation of it, and now, at long last, amorous starry-eyed couples can get married there; it’s nothing short of iconic.
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Photo: Avanti Architects
This pioneering slice of inter-war design, featuring two unsupported intersecting spiral-ramps, descending into an azure pool, was designed by Tecton, an influential architectural firm headed up by Russian émigré Berthold Lubetkin. Unveiled in 1934, it was Tecton’s second structure in the Zoo, following the previous year’s Gorilla House. Their pioneering early use of reinforced concrete (concrete set over a metal framework) allowed the construction of curvaceous adventurous designs not previously achievable through traditional methods.
Both structures are now justifiably Grade I listed and admired globally, but what of the firms follow up projects? If the Penguin Pool represented Tecton’s “Strawberry Fields Forever”, are you familiar with their “Sgt. Pepper”?
The success at London Zoo led to commissions for various projects, including, most notably, one from The Earl of Dudley, wishing to realise his dream of creating ‘The Most Up to Date Zoo in the World’. Built on a 40 acre site between ‘35 and ’37, and centred on the remains of Dudley’s C11th Castle, Tecton created thirteen innovative structures in a similar vein to those at London. This winning combination of exotic concrete experiments paired with exotic live animals proved a roaring success, with over 1 million visitors attending within the first 18 months. It is worth noting that in addition to the five key members of the Tecton Group, the celebrated structural engineer Ove Arup was also involved in the project (later famous for his work on Sydney Opera House).
Twelve of the original thirteen structures (now referred to simply as Tectons) survive, and somewhat ironically, it’s the penguin pool that is no more. Following the onslaught of forty years worth of corrosive salt water containment, it was condemned and demolished in 1979. The others all remain, seven with grade II listed status, and five granted the coveted grade II*. The site was collectively given World Monument Status in 2009, and a £1.15 million heritage lottery fund grant followed in 2011, allowing the zoo to begin restoration of the Tectons one-by-one, a process that continues presently.
DZG Penguin Pool, 1937-1979
My eldest daughter had been petitioning for a trip to a zoo for quite some time, so in January, on a bleak and near freezing morning, I obliged by treating the family to a maiden visit to DZG: Animals for the kids, Tectons for dad!
Most of the structures original purposes have changed over the years, and many of the walkways and steps have been cordoned off in the interest health & safety. Kiosks once used to serve refreshments, now act as unusual huts for informative displays, and generally, the Tectons remain more as monuments than functional buildings. Never the less, it is fascinating to get up close and personal with these impressive chunks of concrete. One has to keep reminding oneself that they are from the ‘30s, when this type of Brutalist construction is more typically associated with the flyovers and multi-story car parks of post-war redevelopments, some twenty to thirty years later.
In the winter, the place is virtually empty with most attractions closed for the down season. Great for unobstructed photos, less so for family enjoyment! Here follows a series of photographs from our adventure.
Spoiler alert, if you’re hoping to see exciting shots of the residents, please click away, as they were all sensibly hiding inside. This is purely about the architecture.
The Grand Entrance
This rather dilapidated brick hut greets the public as they approach from the car park.
Polar Bear Complex – now home to an Asiatic Black Bear
Kiosk 1 – originally for confectionery and ice cream
The Discovery Centre, it was closed, we discovered nothing.
Sea Lion Pool
Bear Ravine – now home to a goat of some sort
Castle Restaurant, inspired by the Queen Mary apparently
Tropical Bird House – Now home to Asiatic Lions
Find out more: www.dudleyzoo.org.uk
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6 thoughts on “ Animals for the Kids, Tectons for Dad – the Concrete Architecture of Dudley Zoological Gardens ”
poshbirdy says:
Some lovely structures here. I particularly love that wonderful entrance, the kiosks, the aviary/lions den…
Thanks for sharing. Your family are very understanding!
Art Deco Magpie says:
Yeah they’re top, although we didn’t realise how little was actually going on in January. We’ll return in the summer with more of a focus on family fun!
Gwyn says:
Unfortunately they were pretty rubbish for the animals!
Philip Wilkinson says:
What a great post. Thank you. I was only reminded the other day about the Dudley Penguin pool when looking through some old Architectural Reviews for something else. The point about the Tecton buildings not being great for the animals is a good one, but it wasn’t for want of trying. The architects did quite a bit of work on talking to zoologists and keepers about what would be good for the animals, and their zoo buildings were designed with this in mind. But things didn’t always work out so well in practice, and now views are very different on what kinds of surroundings different species can thrive in. It’s good to see the buildings being used for something, though.
Hi Philip, thanks for your informative comment. I was somewhat wary, writing about a C20th zoo 80 years on, given the changes in animal welfare since design. It’s great to hear about the consultations in period, and given the subsequent changes in use, and more ornamental nature these days, there should be little worry about. It’s a fascinating place!
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Philip’s harassment claim
Liverpool businessman Philip Kerr, who now lives in Thailand
Sir Andrew Parker, Director General of The Security Service (MI5)
On 3rd October 2014, after three years of preparation for this moment, Philip Kerr issued his claim in the High Court of Justice against MI5, under the Protection From Harassment Act 1997. Mr Kerr seeks an injunction restraining MI5 from harassing him.
Philip has evidence that MI5 has harassed him more-or-less continuously, in many different ways, for more than twelve years. He understands that he has been harassed because of his past associations with various underworld figures, including the late Colin Smith and the convicted drug-trafficker Curtis Warren. Philip is being punished extra-judicially for having been unwilling to work for MI5 as an informer when pressured to do so, in 2003 and subsequently. He has been directly approached by agents representing MI5 on several occasions.
Is Philip making all this up?
Absolutely not! There are witnesses additional to Philip, of incidents of each type of harassment that Philip has observed himself.
What forms has the harassment of Philip taken?
This is a classic case of alleged systematic, organised stalking/harassment, of a targeted individual, by a public sector perpetrator. Here is a brief list of the main types of harassment that Mr Kerr has suffered.
Harassment peculiar to Philip:
Actual and attempted entrapment
Overt and cryptic attempts to recruit Philip as an informer
Abduction, false imprisonment and drugging (in 2003 only)
Independently witnessed deployment of a trained bird or birds to inflict noise/sleep deprivation/intimidation (in 2003-6 in the UK, in 2009-12 in Thailand, and again in the UK in 2016, at the new address at which Mr Kerr and his team were preparing the evidence for the IPT and the court)
Harassment common to Philip and other harassment victims:
Overt surveillance (typically intrusive)
Literal stalking (i.e. being followed etc, including three incidents involving low-flying helicopters)
“Theatre” – for example many contrived conversations calculated to deliver cryptic messages, displays of props (e.g. dead rats)
Sabotage (especially of trees in Philip’s gardens)
Entry to Philip’s homes and private vehicles, evidenced by the moving or removal of contents, or the leaving of items as “calling cards”, switching on or off of lights, opening and closing of curtains or windows, etc
Installation of foreign electrical equipment (photographed) in Philip’s home in Wirral
Noise, including incongruous sound effects (heard by witnesses in addition to Philip and even captured on sound recordings)
Interference with the output of radio and television receivers
Interference with email, telephony etc, including carefully timed imitation spam, silent, threatening or abusive phone calls, and so on
Interference with domestic and in-vehicle appliances, especially lighting
Why isn’t this case being heard in secret?
Because it is being brought under The Protection From Harassment Act, rather than the Human Rights Act. The appropriate court is therefore the High Court, not the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. MI5 have already tried unsuccessfully to strike out Philip’s claim without a public hearing. This case is going to be heard in open court, at least as regards the legal arguments in the initial stages.
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Tag Archives: Kolkata
Recent Incidents of Persecution
Posted on October 3, 2010 by particularkev
Tamil Nadu, India, September 30 (CDN) — Police detained evangelist V.K. Williams and seven other Christians after Hindu extremists disrupted their evangelistic meeting on Sept. 29 in Theni, according to the Global Council of Indian Christians. The extremists filed a complaint against the Christians of “forceful conversion” and pressured police to arrest them, and officers took the eight Christians to the station for questioning. At press time, area Christian leaders were trying to free them.
West Bengal – On Sept. 26 in Purulia, Hindu extremists stopped a worship service and dragged Christians out, saying no more prayer or worship should take place in the village. A source in Kolkata reported that the extremists were threatening to kill the Christians if they did not convert to Hinduism. The Christians reported the matter to the Kenda Police Station. Officers summoned both parties to the police station, but the extremists threatened to kill the Christians if they went.
Karnataka – Hindu extremists belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Bajrang Dal attacked Gnanodya Church at Yellapura, Karwar district, on Sept. 26. The All India Christian Council reported that the assailants broke into a church worship service after having filed a complaint against Pastor Shiva Ram of “forcible conversions.” In the presence of the police, the attackers started to vandalize the church, pulling down calendars and breaking furniture. Church members said their pastor was targeted because of his social service works. Police took the pastor into custody and jailed him.
Karnataka – Karnataka police on Sept. 26 arrested a Pentecostal pastor, Shivanda Siddi, on false charges of “forceful conversions” in Mundgod. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that at about 11 a.m. five Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal stormed the church building while Christians were praying and began arguing with the pastor. They beat him, stripped him of his clothes and took Bibles from those present. The extremists later telephoned police in Yellapur, about three kilometers away (less than two miles), and an inspector arrived and took the pastor, seven women and two young children to the police station. The extremists continued to threaten the Christians in front of police, who watched in silence. With GCIC intervention, police released the women and children without charges, but Pastor Siddi was charged with “defiling a place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class.” He was put in Uttar Kananda’s Sirsi prison.
Karnataka – On Sept. 19 in Santhemarnalli, police led by Inspector Madhava Swamy threatened a pastor with harm if he did not stop alleged “forceful conversion” activities. The All India Christian Council reported that police threatened Pastor Mhades of Good Shepherd Community Church after Hindu extremists filed the complaint against him. Police barged into his church, questioned him and told him that they would take action against him if he did not stop trying to convert people. Area Christian leaders claimed that there was no case of forceful conversion, and that Christians were only conducting their regular worship services.
Andhra Pradesh – Police on Sept. 17 arrested a Christian convert from Islam, Sheik Magbool, after Muslim extremists filed a complaint against him of uttering derogatory remarks against the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, in Kurnool. A source reported that Maqbool organized a three-day, open air Christian meeting and distributed some tracts that allegedly contained comparisons between the teachings of Jesus Christ and those of Muhammad. The Muslim extremists accused Maqbool of making derogatory remarks against Muhammad, threatened to kill him and filed a police complaint against him. Area Christian leaders maintained that the tracts did not contain any hateful remarks against Muhammad; they asserted that the Muslim extremists reprinted the tracts after adding some lines insulting to Muhammad in order to fabricate a case against the Christians. Maqbool was put in a jail cell, with the Down Court rejecting his petition for bail on Sept. 21.
Chhattisgarh – On Sept. 15 in Raipur, Hindu extremists misrepresenting themselves as journalists barged into a prayer meeting led by Pastor Kamlakarrao Bokada and accused him of “forceful conversion,” verbally abused him and falsely accused him of dishonoring their idols. They ordered the pastor to video-record the prayer meeting, but he refused. The pastor, who visits Christian homes in the Khorpi area, was ordered not to do so again. Police refused to register a complaint by Christians.
Andhra Pradesh – Hindu extremists in Vizianagaram on Sept. 13 attacked a pastor’s wife, injuring her head, and told the church leader to leave the area, according to the All India Christian Council. The attack came after Pastor Y. Caleb Raj of Good Shepherd Community Church requested that youths playing loud music before the idol of Ganesh near his church not disturb the Sept. 12 worship service. As the pastor was speaking to organizers of the Ganesh event, Hindu extremists gathered and some tried to manhandle him. They told him to close down the church and leave the village. When Pastor Raj was out on ministry work the next day, the same group of Hindu extremists came and struck his wife with a wooden club. Pastor Raj filed a police complaint, but no arrests had been made at press time.
Chhattisgarh – Hindu extremists in Raigarh on Sept. 12 beat evangelist Robinson Roat and ordered him to stop all Christian activities. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that about 25 extremists barged into the worship meeting in Roat’s home. They told him he would face further harm if he left his house. The Christian did not venture out for two days.
Madhya Pradesh – Hindu extremists in Satna on Sept. 12 accused Pastor V.A. Anthony of “forceful conversion” and of carrying out the funeral of a non-Christian in a local Christian cemetery. Based on the complaint of the Hindu extremists, the inspector general of police summoned Pastor Anthony and a high-level inquiry is pending, reported the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC). The son of a local church member had died under mysterious circumstances earlier this year, and the pastor and church members had buried him in the Christian cemetery according to the wishes of his parents and other relatives, according to the GCIC.
Uttar Pradesh – Hindu nationalists from the extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Sept. 5 beat a pastor in Sarva village in Babina, Jhansi district. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that three Hindu extremists led by Surendra Yadav and armed with wooden clubs barged into the church building after Sunday classes and beat Pastor Anil Masih on his back and legs, kicked him and verbally abused him. The assault went on for about 30 minutes. The next day, Masih’s father informed Babina police. Masih received hospital treatment for a broken left leg. GCIC sources told Compass that after Masih’s discharge from the hospital on Sept. 10, he filed a complaint against the extremists at the Babina police station on Sept. 13. At press time, no arrests had been made.
Karnataka – Police on Sept. 1 stopped a pastors’ meeting in Mysore, claiming that they were being trained to “convert people,” though conversion and persuading to convert is legal in India. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that the Mysore Pastors Association organized a two-week pastoral training program with about 50 local church leaders and evangelists in attendance. Police arrived and ordered the organizers to vacate the premises by the next day. Even though such trainings are legally permitted in India, the Christians called off the meeting.
Rajasthan – Hindu extremists attacked two Christian workers, damaged their vehicles and seized evangelistic literature from them on Aug. 26 in Udaipur. The All India Christian Council reported that evangelists Charlie John and V.M. George were distributing gospel tracts when a group of Hindu extremists suddenly came and began objecting. The extremists blocked their vehicle and beat the two Christians, leaving them with serious injuries. Police came to their rescue and suggested they file a complaint against the extremists, but the Christians said they chose to forgive their attackers.
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INDIA: DEATHS MOUNT AS VIOLENCE SPREADS IN ORISSA
Posted on August 28, 2008 by particularkev
Rampaging Hindu extremists kill four more Christians today.
NEW DELHI, August 26 (Compass Direct News) – At least 18 people are confirmed dead in 92 incidents of violence against Christians since suspected Maoists murdered Hindu leader Swamiji Laxmanananda Saraswati and four others on Saturday (Aug. 23) in Orissa state.
With Hindu extremists inciting hatred by heated accusations that Christians killed Saraswati, the national newspaper Hindu reported today that nine people had been killed in Orissa violence, and a Compass source near the state capital of Bhubaneswar confirmed an additional nine people slain.
The death count by the Hindu included four people killed in the Barakhama area. News agencies had earlier confirmed three dead in Raikia and two others, including a woman, killed in Bargarh, where a missionary-run orphanage was set on fire yesterday. The figure of 92 incidents thus far comes from the Global Council of Indian Christians.
Additionally, the Compass source said that Hindu extremists today killed pastor Samuel Naik of the Bakingia Seventh-Day Adventist Church at Kandhamal, and Jacob Digal and Gopan Naik of Damba village were slain this morning. Also killed today was Golok Naik of Pidinanju village (under Mondakia police station), and yesterday pastor Mukunda Bardhan from Mukundapur, Gajapati was burned to death.
Three other people whose names have not yet been verified, said the source, were killed in Katingia village of G. Udaygiri, along with a pastor belonging to Operation Mobilization from the same area. In Badimunda, about 12 kilometers (seven miles) from G. Udaygiri, nearly 25 Christian homes were burned down.
There were many reports of Christians being pulled from their homes and killed or beaten, with many homes of Christians torched in Baliguda. According to reports by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), the East India office of Compassion International in Bhubaneswar was ransacked.
Saraswati and four others were killed by suspected Maoists in the swami’s ashram, or religious center, in the Jalespata area of Kandhamal district’s Tumudiband Block in Orissa state. A warning letter found at the Saraswati religious center and use of expensive arms suggested Maoists were behind the attack.
In a state with a strong Maoist presence, police reportedly said they have evidence to link the communist rebels to the murders of Saraswati and his four associates. One police theory is that Maoists would attack Hindu leaders in a misguided effort to gain support among area tribal people, many of whom have converted to Christianity.
On Sunday (Aug. 24) the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a partner in the state’s ruling coalition, and the Hindu extremist Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP) called for 12-hour a shut-down in which inflammatory speeches were made accusing Christians of killing Saraswati.
Authorities in Denial
Orissa Police Chief Gopal Chandra Nanda downplayed the violence, telling Reuters that incidents were only “sporadic” and that “some prayer houses have been attacked and vehicles have been burnt.”
Likewise, local authorities and media have painted the shutdown as “peaceful,” denying that organized attacks took place. The state is ruled by a coalition of the BJP and the Biju Janata Dal party.
At the same time, Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) extremists have continued to incite hatred against Christians and criticized the local government. VHP Secretary General Pravin Tagodia accused the state government of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of acting like a “eunuch” and demanded his apology for the killing of Saraswati and his companions.
“Christians murdered Swamiji, but the government is lying and giving it a Maoist color,” Tagodia said. “Naveen as an individual and police, in particular, are responsible for this attack orchestrated by the church on Hindu dharma.’’
At the same time, a senior leader from Christian relief and development organization World Vision told Compass that a news report about the arrest of their staff members in connection with Saraswati’s killing was false. The police had merely kept two of their employees for protection, he said.
“No complaint had been lodged against them,” he said. “The employees have safely reached their homes.”
Widespread Violence
Sources from Kandhamal district said hundreds of Christians along with their families have fled to the nearby forests to save their lives in the rainy climate and are without shelter, food and clothing.
“Three adults and one child were reportedly killed in fresh violence in Barakhama, Kandhamal,” EFI News reported.
At least 14 Christians have been killed in Kandhamal, according to the news agency: Hacked to death by a rampaging mob of Hindu extremists were two Christians in Mutungia village, one in Petaponga village, one in Borimunda village, three in Katinga village, three in Tianga village, three in Adikuppa village and one in Bakingia village.
According to reports received from Kalahandi district, many incidents of violence and house burning have taken place even though it is more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the place where Saraswati was killed.
Christian sources said pastor Sikandar Singh of the Pentecostal Mission was beaten and his house was burned in Bhawanipatna. In Kharihar, three Christian shops were looted and burned. Pastor Alok Das was beaten at Kharihar, as was pastor I.M. Senapati. In Aampani, pastor David Diamond Pahar was beaten by more than 200 people. They chased him away from Aampani, and he is hiding in nearby villages.
Pastor Pravin Ship and two other area pastor identified only as Pradhan and Barik were beaten and chased away with their families. In Naktikani, an angry mob surrounded the village to attack Christians. The government sent forces to try to control the mob but without success.
Christian Pleas
A delegation of Christian leaders in New Delhi met with Home Minister Shivraj Patil to brief him of the situation and to register their concern. Patil assured the Christian delegation, including the Rev. Dr. Richard Howell, general secretary of EFI, and Father Babu Joseph, spokesperson of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India of the central government’s support in curbing violence against Christians in the state.
Another delegation led by Orissa state Christian leaders met Gov. Rameshwar Thakur with the same objectives. The Rt. Rev. Samson Das and attorney Bibhu Dutta Das were also among those who met with the Orissa governor today.
In Kolkata, the All-India Minority Forum today condemned the attack on churches in Orissa and demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Patnaik for his “failure” to protect religious minorities in his state.
“We condemn in unequivocal terms the incident of burning alive people who belong to the Christian community by Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists, and armed attacks on churches in Orissa,” Forum President Idris Ali said.
‘Kill Christians’
The violence has spread even though church leaders across the country condemned the Hindu priest’s killing and appealed for peace.
The VHP and its allies had called for a 12-hour shutdown to protest the killing of the swami, and Christian leaders expected Hindu mobs would use it to mobilize strikes at the Christian community.
“But what has taken place has even surpassed what we expected,” said one pastor who wished to remain anonymous.
Hindu extremists paraded the body of Saraswati throughout nearby villages, whipping up anger and mobilizing crowds against Christians, in uncontested defiance of a Kandhamal district administration prohibition against the gathering of four or more people. Among the slogans shouted was, “Kill Christians and destroy their institutions.”
In spite of an Orissa state-imposed curfew, crowds violated restrictions and proceeded to attack Christian communities throughout the state. Compass has received reports that the violence has spread to the districts of Gajapati, Phulbani, Nuaparha, Kalahandi, Rayagada and Koraput.
The Orissa Legislative Assembly was disturbed for the second consecutive day at the various calls for the resignation of Chief Minister Patnaik.
Christians make up 2.4 percent of Orissa’s population, or 897,861 of the total 36.7 million people.
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A letter to those calling for a total lockdown and an advice to the president
I have noted with shock the number of Ghanaians calling for a TOTAL LOCKDOWN within the country like a couple of Western countries have done. In as much as their emotions most likely may be driving this call, I’d like to avert their minds to some statistics of the reality in our country. And this should also serve as a guide to our President.
All my statistics are coming from the Ghana Living Standards Survey compiled by the Ghana Statistical Service, the mandated body for collection of statistics for our country.
According to AMA (Accra Metropolitan Assembly), 91% of homes in Accra the Capital City of Ghana are without places of convenience. Over 114,521 residences in Accra are without places of convenience. 315 houses use the outlawed pan latrines and 79 houses use pit latrines.
35.7% of households across the country use a public toilet. 19% of households across the country resort to open defecation. 81% of Ghanaians lack access to improved sanitation or are entirely without toilet facilities. And we are talking of NATURE’S CALL oo! All these staggering statistics tell you how a very large number of our population both in the Capital City and the country at large resorts to the public toilet so where and how would all these people ease themselves during a total lockdown where they can’t even step out of their houses?
In Ghana, more than 5 million people constituting over 18% of the population rely on surface water to meet their daily water needs. 32.3% of households across the country have their main source of drinking water from a well. 12.5% of households use a public tap. 73.9% of households in rural areas use either a well or natural sources.
Those living in poverty often pay up to 10 times more per litre for water service from private vendors than their middle-class counterparts connected to piped water services. How would these huge percentage of our population get access to water during a total lockdown in the country?
6.8 million Ghanaians totalling almost 25% of our entire population live on less than $1 a day! 2.4 million of our population are in ABJECT POVERTY meaning they can’t even afford to spend up to 50 Cent a day on food!
How do all these people afford to engage in ‘panic buying’ so as to buy and stock up foods that should last them for as long as the total lockdown would take if it would take weeks or even months?
40% of those within the ‘national poverty’ bracket are in the 3, now 5 Northern Regions. We all know how volatile that Region is so are we not calling for national security threat if we are to lock these people down and there’s no means for them to cater for themselves and their families?
According to Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Ghana Office) about 88% of the workforce in Ghana are employed in the Informal Sector and therefore “earns less money, has irregular income and does not have access to basic protections and services of the State.” In the event of a total lockdown they would be hit the hardest! Have we thought of its implications on the threat to our national security?
The Western countries such as Italy, France etc that are implementing this total lockdown are paying for the rents, foods and other basic social amenities among others for their population during this total lockdown. Their dynamics and ours are totally different! The question is can we afford same? So before we copy blindly let’s look at our statistics, facts and figures before creating a bigger problem whilst trying to solve one. Thank you
In the interest of the Nation
Source: Jones Klutse
originally published on myjoyonline.com
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FLT3 is a receptor tyrosine kinase important in hematopoietic cell proliferation and differentiation. In-frame, FLT3 internal tandem duplications (ITD), which show a wide range of number of nucleotides duplicated and/or inserted (eg, 18-204 bp), affect exons 14 and 15 in the FLT3 juxtamembrane/tyrosine kinase domain and have been reported in 20-30% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia. FLT3 ITDs usually occur in cases of AML with a normal karyotype and but may also occur in cases with chromosome abnormalities including t(15;17) or other cytogenetic groups. Individuals with FLT3 mutations are more likely to have AML than MDS and FLT3 mutations in MDS are associated with a poor prognosis. Functional studies have shown that FLT3 ITDs are ligand-independent, gain-of-function mutations. In addition, activating mutations at codon D835 in exon 20 (A-loop of the tyrosine kinase domain, TKD) of FLT3 have been reported in approximately 7-10% of AML. The FLT3 D835 mutations are also ligand-independent, gain-of-function mutations. FLT3 ITD and D835 mutations tend to occur in a mutually exclusive manner; however, the FLT3 D835 mutation or other mutations in the A-loop(eg, D839, Y842) may occur as an acquired resistance mutation in the setting of patients with FLT3 ITD mutations being treated with targeted therapy. In addition, variants at codon N676 and in exon 17 F691, G697 have been associated with resistance to FLT3 targeted therapy. The presence of FLT3 ITD mutation in young patients with AML and normal cytogenetics is thought to be associated with a poor prognosis. On the other hand, the prognostic significance of the FLT3 D835 and TKD mutations appears less clear. More recently, therapeutic targeting of FLT3 in combination with other chemotherapy is available in certain settings for acute myeloid leukemia with FLT3 ITD or TKD mutations. Lastly, in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, up to 20% of cases have been reported to show a FLT3 mutation (TKD or ITD) and are often associated with an ETP(early T cell precursor) phenotype. In addition, FLT3 mutations have also been reported in up to 15% of B-ALL cases ("Ph-like phenotype") and may also be associated with hyperdiploidy and MLL rearrangement. Targetting FLT3 in acute lymphoblastic leukemia therapy may also be possible in some settings.
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Spotlight On: Joyce P. Miller, DNP, RN
by Matthew Skoufalos | May 1, 2014 | Magazine, Spotlight On
A Passion for Caring: Nurse shares lessons on communication,technology and trust
by Matt Skoufalos
Even after 40-plus years, Joyce P. Miller, DNP, RN, couldn’t see herself in any other profession than nursing.
“I have always wanted to be a nurse,” she said, “even when I was in high school. I’m not sure where it came from, but there was always this passion to care for people.”
Since Miller attended nursing school in the 1970s, her career included a 38-year turn at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., with more than 25 years in the operating room. She then transferred into a teaching role at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn.
“I remember not knowing much about the operating room when I first applied,” she said. “I just knew that I needed a change … and I remember thinking ‘What a tremendous opportunity and what a tremendous learning curve.’ ”
One of the things Miller observed during her time working in the hospital was the need for families to get a greater degree of clarity about what happens in the operating room.
She recalls hearing family members of surgical patients say that the OR is “kind of like this mystery place” for them. Comments like that prompted her to began a pilot program with five orthopedists on staff to become a nurse communicator.
“That was a really unique piece of perioperative nursing that most people don’t think about,” Miller said. “We provided updates when the patients went into the operating room. For a couple years I continued to grow the program and now it’s a thriving program, and very, very well-received. Families love it.”
Providing that depth of communication to families of patients is important, Miller said, not only because the complexity of their cases is ever-increasing, but also because of the speed with which they are admitted to and released from the hospital.
“I think a big piece of nursing is really caring for the patient and understanding the patient well enough to say, ‘What makes you heal, what makes you feel better?’ ” Miller said. “The complexity of their illnesses; their acuity level is so much higher, and nurses really need to be educated to know that it’s more than the disease.”
“You really have to take a look at the person as a holistic human being,” she said. “We can’t do a cookie-cutter approach to care; every patient isn’t the same; every person needs something different. To really help them and provide care that’s unique to that individual is really tough to do when you’re taking care of multiple patients.”
In addition to offering differentiated care, Miller said, nurses should be approaching the delivery of care with an eye toward global health and wellness, “because it’s not just the illness” that providers should be treating.
At Augsburg College, where Miller is an assistant professor, students can attend master’s and doctorate-level courses in trans-cultural nursing, where environmental issues weigh more heavily on professionals’ decision-making than in the hospital setting.
“How do you discharge a patient who’s homeless?” Miller said. “It’s great to think about [how] you need this medication, but realistically, how can you afford this medication? And then the doctors wonder why they’re noncompliant.”
Miller emphasizes that nurses should work foremost on developing a rapport of trust with their patients rather than speaking to them from a position of authority. Without trust and an open dialogue, she said, nurses might not have an accurate concept of how likely a patient is to succeed with a given course of care.
“Physicians will see a patient, and they’ll get out their little book and say, ‘Yep, this is the best diagnosis, the best treatment for this,’ and say, ‘This is what you need to do,’ ” Miller said. “But until you talk to the patient and understand what else do they do, how does that complement or not complement what the physician is recommending for them?”
“I say to the nurses: your patients are the lessons you need to learn from, and they know what helps them.” Miller added. “Is this something that they realistically can do, and if not, what is it that would help?”
For an example, Miller cites a pair of health commons projects in which she participates. One serves the homeless community, and the other caters to the needs of the significant Somali population in her area.
She tells the story of a Somali woman who came to the commons looking for some clarity on her prescriptions — she had been issued 18 bottles of blood pressure medication from various trips to the clinic. Together with a Somali physician volunteer, Miller said, they worked out the best course of action for her care.
“When I talk about healthcare and the complexity of care, it’s really understanding and making sure that that patient understands, and is going to do the follow-up,” she said. “Language barriers make it even more complex because people don’t want to be rude, and they want to be polite; ‘The physician knows so I’m just going to nod and say yes.’ ”
Technology and patient care can clash just as easily as any language barrier, Miller added. Although electronic medical records are convenient, portable (and federally mandated), she says they can threaten to remove nurses from “the caring aspect” of patient interaction.
“Sometimes the hospitals design the computer so that the physician is facing the computer instead of looking at you,” Miller said. “So, as a nurse, you need to really focus on that care and that relationship with the patient. But I think it’s so easy and people get into that little routine of click, click, click, task, task, task, that they sometimes forget how important it is to build that relationship with that patient.”
“Some of those healing practices, we’ve got to make sure we still do them,” she said; “that we take them back; that we don’t give them away because of technology or the task versus the care.”
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Metamucil
Going to see Paul Simon tonight (at the newly open for business Forest Hills Stadium) who, it occurs to me somewhat surprisingly, I have never seen in concert in all my years in showbiz.
It also occurs to me that the very first record I ever bought with my own lunch money, back in 1957, was this Everly Brothers-derived piece of teen dreck...
...by Paul and the other guy doing business as Tom and Jerry.
Man, I feel old today.
Your Wednesday Moment of Words Fail Me: Special And Speaking of Gorgeous Edition
From 2016, and The Art of McCartney tribute album, please enjoy Jeff Lynne and his absolutely exquisite version of Paul's unfortunately monikered classic "Junk."
The album itself is as uneven (and frankly unnecessary) as those sorts of things usually are, but there are a couple of high points, and this is one of them. "Junk" is actually my favorite lesser known McCartney song of all time, and listening to Lynne's take on it recently reminded me, as I need to be reminded every now and then, of just what a fantastic songwriter Paul was at his peak.
Well, once again, 'll be guesting on my pal Capt. Al's intertube radio show LOST AT SEA today at fabulous AREA 24 RADIO. And there's nothing any of you bastards can do to stop me!!!
Beginning at 5pm east coast time and continuing for two glorious hours, I'll be playing some genuinely wacky shit -- yes, there's going to be a theme of sorts -- and I am also informed that Capt. Al has discovered the Rosetta Stone of The Kinks' great version of "Milkcow Blues." So there'll be some surprises even for me.
And speaking of surprises, our extra special guest The Long Distance Comedian© will be calling up from who knows where toward the end of the first hour -- hilarity, no doubt, will ensue.
You can listen to it stream at the link HERE.
And we'll be giving out my e-mail addy throughout the show; feel free to make requests, threats, or just say hi -- we get lonely in the studio.
Tales That Witness Madness
From 1963, and his second(!) solo album, please enjoy the great Morey Amsterdam...
...and a song (much beloved of my youth) whose title perhaps best encapsulates my current worldview -- the immortal "Yuk-a-Puk."
I've actually been trying to track down that one, whose provenance I had completely forgotten, for ages; finding it the other day, of course, only reinforced my long-held belief that YouTube is the greatest contribution to human scholarship since the Library at Alexandria.
In any case, don't give me any grief about it posting it, or else I may decide to devote the remainder of this week solely to borscht-belt humor and novelty songs from the '60s.
Weekend Listomania (Special The Name of the [Axl] Rose Edition)
Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental manual catharsis engineer campaign strategist Fah Lo Suee and I will be off to Trump Tower in Manhattan, where we plan to ring Donald Tiny Hands' doorbell and run, as often as we can get away with it.
That being the case, posting will obviously be out of the question for a couple of days. So to wile away the hours until we return (or raise bail, which ever comes first) here's a fun little project for us all:
Best (Never Actually Used By Anybody Before in Real Life) Band Name That You Would Use Now If You Were Actually to Start a Band!!!
Given the inherent ridiculousness of the premise, there will be no arbitrary rules enforced this week. So just go for it!
And my totally Top of My Head Top Three are:
3. Ziggy Simels and the Gay Guys From Outer Space
As you can see from the above photo, I was actually considering using that one back in the 70s. It still has a ring to it, I think.
2. Les Poseurs
For the obvious reason that the above photo would make a great album cover.
And the number one best band name of all time that's never been used (to our knowledge), it's no contest so don't even try to top it, indisputably is...
1. Lynyrd Byrnstyn
(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd...oh well, you know.)
Alrighty then -- what would your candidates be?
An Early Clue to the New Direction: Special Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth Edition
From sometime in the early '80s, please enjoy -- if at all possible -- irrepressible downtown No Wave avant-garde faves Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and their totally wiggy ode to whatever the hell it is "I Woke Up Dreaming."
A coveted PowerPop No-Prize© will be awarded to the first reader who gleans the song's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania. Although I'm not holding my breath.
And also to anybody who gets the reference in today's sub-title, which seems more likely.
Okay, Perhaps Not One of My Most Popular Theories
From 1968: Here's singer/songwriter Joey Levine -- with uncredited studio musicians, their identities lost in the mists of time and history, doing business as The Ohio Express -- and the breakthrough bubblegum hit "Yummy Yummy Yummy."
And now perhaps you're wondering -- why did I post that?
Well, as you may have noticed, the above is a sort-of mono version, re-jiggered (at great personal expense) by my friend Steve Schwartz from the commercially available stereo album cut. With as much of the information on the right stereo channel removed as is technologically feasible.
Which is to say that most of the vocals are gone. So you that can hear, pretty much anyway, just the band. Whoever they were.
And as I've been telling people for decades now, to my ears, without the goofy singing, what's left is as tough a rock instrumental track as anybody has ever made. I'm talking Rolling Stones or Velvet Underground tough here.
I should add that I originally posted about this back in 2009, but obviously the DivShare link has vanished, so I thought it might be nice to annoy people over this issue again.
In any case -- you're welcome. And turn it up!!!
You don't want to know.
But seriously, folks, normal posting -- and yes, there's gonna be a brand new Weekend Listomania on Friday, and you'll just plotz -- resumes on the morrow.
White Boys Getting Down to the Heart of Hep (An Occasional Series)
From 1966, please enjoy eclectic singer/songwriter Tom Rush and his sprightly cover of Buddy Holly's wonderful "Love's Made a Fool of You."
Rush has always been my favorite of the first generation of 60s folkies, in part because, as you can hear, he was the least doctrinaire. In any case, after seeing Al Kooper live last week, I remembered that he had produced the above album for Rush, and that it was one of the first examples of one of the aforementioned folkies treating the Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs of their youth as, essentially, folk music. I'd had the album on LP back in the day, but hadn't thought about it (or listened to it) in years. So I snagged a CD reissue and was pleasantly surprised to find that it holds up pretty well. The thing isn't exactly what you'd call a classic, but as period pieces go it's highly listenable (and the version of Bo's "Who Do You Love" kicks a surprising amount of ass).
Incidentally, on the Holly song, that's producer Kooper on celesta, an instrument that, of course, figures prominently on the actual Buddy's classic hit "Everyday."
Your Friday Moment of Words Fail Me: Special Pretty Fly for a White Chick Edition
From 1987, please enjoy the incomparable Clive Gregson and Christine Collister and an absolutely astounding unplugged version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."
Apart from just being gorgeously sung, I gotta say -- I hadn't realized that Gregson had picked up so many great guitar licks while he was working with Richard Thompson.
In any case, have a great weekend everybody!!!
And Speaking of the Unreleased Beatles Solo Albums...
...I'd forgotten how hilarious these are.
From EMI's press release:
"Mainly inspired by John, who happened to be on acid while watching the Paris students riots in the summer of '68, this collection was recorded on one night between dusk and dawn, in a "very collective" session (John speaking). Its release was blocked by Yoko Ono, who, being a Jap, doesn't like Chinks."
Love Mao Do
(Won't You) Please Police Me
The Long and Winding Capitalist Roaders
Happiness Proceeds Out of the Barrel of a Warm Gun
Rice Paddies Forever
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, So I'll Criticize Myself
Paperback Tiger
EMI again:
"Not to be outdone by his colleagues, Paul sought to make a statement about his musical roots. The result was Paul McCartney and Friend, a lavish, saccharine overorchestrated Nelson Riddle production. McCartney blocked release of the LP when Sinatra dedicated "That's Why the Lady is a Tramp" to his wife Linda."
I Did It My Way
Theme from The Man With the Golden Arm
John Lennon's primal screamer Fuck Me? Fuck You! (1970) [cover not shown]
EMI, once more (and this one is my favorite):
"The big break-up brought a number of albums by John in its wake, of which this was the only not released. It consists entirely of John screaming at people."
Fuck Your Mother
Fuck Your Wife
Get Fucked
Fuck You Where You Breathe
Ah, Fuck
Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuckfuck Fuckfuck
Okay, yeah, none of those are real; they're from the classic Beatles issue of the old National Lampoon. But they were believable, no?
Great Composers Steal -- Mediocre Composers Borrow
Somebody asked me yesterday what I felt about the whole Did Led Zep Rip Off Spirit for "Stairway to Heaven"? legal controversy.
Well, this (frequently hilarious) clip sort of speaks for me.
So in other words, my answer is -- it depends. How's that for weaseling?
BTW, that compilation is great, obviously, but I find it particularly droll that they didn't even bother with "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine."
And speaking of which, here's one of the greatest of all unreleased albums by a member of The Beatles.
From the official EMI press release:
"This album brings out a rather curious side of George Harrison's personality, which is perhaps related to his obsession with money. George recorded this album in disguise, didn't tell any of the rest of the group about it, tried nonetheless to get it released through Apple, and then lied about everything it involved when the whole sordid business came out."
My Sweet He's So Fine
My Sweet White Christmas
My Sweet Fair Lady
My Sweet Michelle
My Sweet Bobby McGee
My Sweet Lullaby of Birdland
My Sweet Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
My Sweet Greensleeves
My Sweet Ave Maria
Real world mishegass today. Regular impeccably groomed posting resumes on the morrow.
My New Favorite Band (An Occasional Series) : Special Baby, That is Rock 'n' Roll! Edition
From late 2015, please enjoy the pride of Denton, TX -- The Speedlights -- and the lead-off track from their quite fabulous eponymous EP "I'm Still Waiting."
The Speedlights EP by the Speedlights
As you can hear, these guys are mining the vein that includes Raspberries-style power pop, early New Wave and punk, and -- most specifically, I think -- the Mod Revival bands of the late '70s. However you describe it, however, their music is just infectious as hell, and what I really like about the band is that -- to paraphrase Waylon Jennings -- these guys couldn't be slick if you poured a can of motor oil down their throat.
Great stuff, in other words.
You can -- and should -- stream/download/buy a physical copy of the CD over at the link HERE.
We're Back (And There Was Much Rejoicing!!!)
Yeah, the computer stuff has been resolved.
Meanwhile, saw the genuinely legendary Al Kooper last night, and I am pleased to report that he has still got it.
Coincidentally, I just got an above ground copy of the often bootlegged Blues Project Live at the Matrix album, and I am also pleased to report that it's as terrific as I remembered. And from it,here's my favorite Blues Project song in perpetuity.
Kooper did a terrific Staples Singers'-inspired version of that at the show last night, but alas I lacked the wit to tape it.
In any case, with our technical issues dealt with, we will resume our usual vivacious postings on Monday, starting with that long promised plugola for a certain young band from Texas. Trust me, it'll have been worth the wait.
Annals of Techno Illiteracy
The new computer is up and running...
...but I'm still shaking out some bugs and stuff.
Regular snazzily dressed and peppy posting resumes on Friday, or Monday at the latest.
Mr. Computer, He Dead!
Literally...my laptop gave up the ghost over the weekend. Apparently, it was the will of Landru.
So no technically complicated posting today (and possibly tomorrow).
Buying a new machine this afternoon, and hopefully I'll have it up and running and synched with all my stuff before too long.
And my apologies to a certain band from Texas -- plugola for you guys is the first thing on my agenda when we're back in business.
Weekend Listomania: Special Son of Four Legs Good! Edition
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental manual catharsis specialist girl Friday FAH LOH SUEE and I are off to...Oh, the hell with it. I had some major computer problems today and frankly I'm too tired to do my normal political jokes.
As a result, posting by moi will be sporadic for a couple of days at least.
But in the meantime, here's a fun little project for us all:
Most Memorable Post-Elvis Song Referencing Members of the Animal Kingdom in the Title or Lyrics!!!
No arbitrary rules, you're welcome very much, and yes, I did more or less the same Listomania back in 2009. But since then I've lost countless brain cells and I'm reasonably sure my choices this time are totally different.
[Okay, if truth be told, I've only actually changed two entries. Are you happy now? Also, if you try to sneak a band named after an animal into the list I will come to your house and kill you. I'm serious about this. I mean obviously, this was inspired by Monkees Week. But just don't even try it.]
And with that out of the way -- my totally top of my head Top Seven is/are:
7. The Youngbloods -- Grizzly Bear
The most underrated American band of the 60s. And what I wouldn't give for a high quality live tape of these guys with the original personnel.
6. Al Wilson -- The Snake
"You knew I was a snake before you brought me in." You gals know the feeling, I'm sure.
5. The Fools -- Psycho Chicken
When this came out in 1980, I remember thinking it was a long-overdue skewering of David Byrne's pretentious anxiety attacks. In retrospect, it's basically just a sort of sophomoric Weird Al record, which is to say only moderately amusing or smart, and I'm somewhat more forgiving of Byrne's neuroses.
4. Bruce Springsteen -- Pretty Flamingo
A great song, obviously, but I've been looking for an excuse to post this particularly gorgeous 1975 live version (from the Roxy bootleg) again for ages. You're welcome.
3. Soupy Sales -- The Mouse
Rodent Mania. 'Nuff said.
2. The Hollies and Peter Sellers-- After the Fox
Even Burt Bacharach's joke songs are gorgeous. Seriously, that piano-riff-with-the-vocal-hisses is just a killer hook, isn't it?
And the numero uno musical ode to those below us on the food chain obviously is --
1. Gilda Radner -- Let's Talk Dirty to the Animals
Written by the late great comic genius Michael O'Donoghue. Since last I posted this, the concert film it derives from -- Gilda Live -- finally became available on home video. Act now
Alrighty, then -- what would your choices be?
Okay, kids -- had massive Google and computer problems today, so the fourth installment of Monkees Week had to be scrapped.
However, here's a clue to tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
From 1999, please enjoy the astounding Wondermints covering the Monkees masterpiece "Porpoise Song." Absolutely live.
And as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize© will be awarded the first reader to glean any connection to blah blah blah.
Fuck Jann Wenner -- It's Monkees Week Part III!!!
Ahem. As attentive readers obviously already know, The Monkees have a delightful new album out, produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne (and have I mentioned that Adam Schlesinger is a goddamn genius?).
That being the case, we continue our week-long celebration of all-things Monkees with one of my fave tracks from the CD, a Peter Tork-sung cover of Goffin and King's perennially gorgeous "Wasn't Born to Follow."
The track for the above was recorded in 1968 with a lot of Wrecking Crew stalwarts, including Earl Palmer on drums; Peter's lead vocal was added earlier this year, and I think he really sings it quite beautifully. BTW, Carole King herself (doing business with her band The City) also recorded the song in 1968; as you'll hear, the arrangement on her version...
...is more or the less the template for the one the Monkees' backing musicians cut.
The song itself, of course, is, deservedly best known in the more psychedelically pop-country version by The Byrds; getting incredibly meta, here's a less familiar, but fabulous, 1996 cover of the Byrds' cover by the wonderful Canadian band The Sadies.
Bottom line: Another great song, and yes, two of my old bands used to do great versions of it, but no, I won't make you listen to them until a more appropriate time.
Oh, by the way -- have I mentioned fuck Jann Wenner?
Tomorrow: Listen to the band live (yes, another Mike Nesmith song, but not the one you might think).
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How to find your target audience, with Tim Fargo
Our special encore guest today is Tim Fargo. He is a successful entrepreneur, speaker, and investor and founded investigative business firm Omega Insurance Services in 1996 with a credit card, grew it to over 300 employees, and sold it in 2003 for $20 million. He is now the President and CEO of socialjukebox.com — a social media content management system he developed and designed. Tim is also the author of Alphabet Success — Keeping it Simple. My Secrets to Success. Now…you may remember Tim and the wisdom he shared back in Episode 63 of Onward Nation. If you haven’t listened to, studied, and applied all he shared during our first interview…I highly encourage you to add Episode 63 to your list of vital priorities.
How the freemium model works well for some business models and service offerings, but doesn’t work as well for others
How to determine whether the freemium model will work for your own business model
How paying customers tend to be the easiest work with while “free” customers have a tendency to ask lazy questions
Why many companies invest a lot of resources into creating a free product only to not receive much in terms of returns from the free product
The differences between the freemium model and offering a free trial, and how to transition from the former to the latter
How very few people tend to convert from the freemium model to the paid version of the product
The importance of focusing on the needs of your business and not paying attention to what others believe you need to do or have to be successful
How moving away from the freemium model can reduce operating costs without impacting the top line revenue of a business
The importance of recognizing that it is largely a waste of time to try and please everyone, particularly individuals who cannot be pleased under any reasonable circumstances
How not every customer or client is an individual that your company should have a relationship and that it is okay to let some customers or clients go
The importance of choosing the freemium model for the right reasons and not because someone told you that you should
Ways to contact Tim:
Website: www.socialjukebox.com (Use code “Onward20” for a special Onward Nation listener discount)
Email: tim@socialjukebox.com
Book: “Alphabet Success: Keeping It Simple – My Secrets to Success”
Twitter: @tim_fargo
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/timothyfargo
How to create a contagious culture, with Anese Cavanaugh
How to build relationships through thought leadership, with Bill Troy
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Frost hardiness in Scots pine (Pinus silvestris L.). 1, Conditions for test on hardy plant tissues and for evaluation of injuries by conductivity measurements
Aronsson, Aron and Eliasson, Lennart (1970). Frost hardiness in Scots pine (Pinus silvestris L.). 1, Conditions for test on hardy plant tissues and for evaluation of injuries by conductivity measurements. Technical Report. Stockholm: Predecessors to SLU > Royal School of Forestry, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet. Studia forestalia Suecica ; 77
A simple routine procedure for testing frost hardiness of woody species has been worked out, using Pinus silvestris (L.) as the experimental plant. Shoots or twigs are placed in deep-freezes maintained at different temperatures. The rate of cooling of the plant tissues depends on the temperature of the deep-freeze. It is more rapid than the rates usually employed in freezing tests. The merits and disadvantages of this freezing method are discussed. The degree of injury is determined by a modification of the conductivity method. The procedure has been used for determining changes in frost hardiness of Scots pine from October to May. The values obtained are reproducible, and even small changes in degree of hardiness of very hardy plant tissues may be determined by the method.
Aronsson, Aron and Eliasson, Lennart
Studia forestalia Suecica (0039-3150)
Skogshögskolan
Obsolete subject words > FORESTRY, AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES and LANDSCAPE PLANNING > Plant production > Plant breeding
frost hardiness, Scots pine, Pinus silvestris, plant tissues
urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-9-121
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-9-121
Predecessors to SLU > Royal School of Forestry
Skogsbiblioteket Umeå
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The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations
University of Maryland, College Park;
Donath, A.
Eggenstein, H.
Leaci, P.
Stellar Astrophysics, MPI for Astrophysics, Max Planck Society;
Milde, S.
AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;
Pöld, J.
Rüdiger, A.
Schreiber, Emil
Hinder, I.
Mösta, P.
Mundim, B. C.
(Preprint), 2MB
CQG_31_11_115004.pdf
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., et al. (2014). The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations. Classical and quantum gravity, 31: 115004. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/31/11/115004.
Cite as: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0019-FC01-1
The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astrophysics communities. The purpose of NINJA is to study the ability to detect gravitational waves emitted from merging binary black holes and recover their parameters with next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. We report here on the results of the second NINJA project, NINJA-2, which employs 60 complete binary black hole hybrid waveforms consisting of a numerical portion modelling the late inspiral, merger, and ringdown stitched to a post-Newtonian portion modelling the early inspiral. In a "blind injection challenge" similar to that conducted in recent LIGO and Virgo science runs, we added 7 hybrid waveforms to two months of data recolored to predictions of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo sensitivity curves during their first observing runs. The resulting data was analyzed by gravitational-wave detection algorithms and 6 of the waveforms were recovered with false alarm rates smaller than 1 in a thousand years. Parameter estimation algorithms were run on each of these waveforms to explore the ability to constrain the masses, component angular momenta and sky position of these waveforms. We also perform a large-scale monte-carlo study to assess the ability to recover each of the 60 hybrid waveforms with early Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo sensitivity curves. Our results predict that early Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo will have a volume-weighted average sensitive distance of 300Mpc (1Gpc) for $10M_{\odot}+10M_{\odot}$ ($50M_{\odot}+50M_{\odot}$) binary black hole coalescences. We demonstrate that neglecting the component angular momenta in the waveform models used in matched-filtering will result in a reduction in sensitivity for systems with large component angular momenta. [Abstract abridged for ArXiv, full version in PDF]
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Source Redshifts from Gravitational-Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Takami , Kentaro
Rezzolla, Luciano
PhysRevX.4.pdf
Messenger, C., Takami, K., Gossan, S., Rezzolla, L., & Sathyaprakash, B. (2014). Source Redshifts from Gravitational-Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers. Physical Review X, 4: 041004. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041004.
Cite as: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-5118-A
Inspiraling compact binaries as standard sirens will become an invaluable tool for cosmology when we enter the gravitational-wave detection era. However, a degeneracy in the information carried by gravitational waves between the total rest-frame mass M and the redshift z of the source implies that neither can be directly extracted from the signal; only the combination M(1+z), the redshifted mass, can be directly extracted from the signal. Recent work has shown that for third-generation detectors, a tidal correction to the gravitational-wave phase in the late-inspiral signal of binary neutron star systems can be used to break the mass-redshift degeneracy. Here, we propose to use the signature encoded in the postmerger signal allowing the accurate extraction of the intrinsic rest-frame mass of the source, in turn permitting the determination of source redshift and luminosity distance. The entirety of this analysis method and any subsequent cosmological inference derived from it would be obtained solely from gravitational-wave observations and, hence, would be independent of the cosmological distance ladder. Using numerical simulations of binary neutron star mergers of different mass, we model gravitational-wave signals at different redshifts and use a Bayesian parameter estimation to determine the accuracy with which the redshift and mass can be extracted. We find that for a known illustrative neutron star equation of state and using the Einstein telescope, the median of the 1σ confidence regions in redshift corresponds to ∼10%–20% uncertainties at redshifts of z<0.04.
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