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Sources of Financing for Small Business Units
Small Business Financing Sources
By Owen E. Richason IV
How to Calculate Ending Inventory for a Manufacturer
Business Financing Options for the Global Market
Inground Monetization Funding Procedures
Grants to Start a Bakery Business
Attracting Capital in a Sole Proprietorship
Small businesses that are considering expanding current inventory levels or opening a new location, or new business owners starting a company typically have financing needs to fulfill the expansion or development. A number of funding sources for small business are available; some of which are traditional, such as small business loans and others are alternative sources, such as using a 401k.
The Small Business Administration maintains a directory of approved commercial lenders that cater to small businesses. Commercial loans are the most traditional source of funding new business units or establishing a new company startup. The Small Business Administration does not directly issue loans to businesses but does provide a portal to lenders and has a guarantee program for borrowers in which the SBA guarantees a commercial lender a percentage of the loan repayment should the applicant default. In addition, the SBA oversees a micro loan program that provides funds ranging from a few thousand dollars up to $35,000.
Venture Capital And Angels
Venture capitalists are a funding source that typically put up all startup or expansion monies for a qualifying business. Typically, venture capital is awarded on a short-term basis and is usually restricted to companies with a proven track record and in possession of enough asset collateral to essentially guarantee the loan.
Investor angels or simply, angels, are wealthy business owners and/or private individuals that team together to gift business funds to small businesses needing capital to cover startup costs or expand inventory or open a new location and can be found through "angel groups" or "angel clubs."
Savings And Retirement Plans
An alternative for financing small business units and startups is to use savings and retirement plan money. Rather than incur debt from a third-party provider, business owners and entrepreneurs can access savings and retirement plans, such as 401ks and IRA to fund startup companies and new business units such as equipment or inventory. An advantage to using 401k or IRA loans is the interest is being paid back to the borrower.
Small business owners and emerging business owners can access a number of alternative funding sources, including but not limited to a home equity loan, home equity line of credit, credit cards, small business grants and bringing on a partner. The first two sources are ideal for business owners not wishing to go through a lengthy commercial loan process. Credit cards are a suitable source for small and medium size business unit financing. Grants provide funds but are difficult to qualify for and often take a long time to actualization. Partners can provide fresh capital and new prospective into new business units and can enter a prearranged agreement to allow the business owner to buy back the sold percentage over a period of time.
Entrepreneur: The New New Alternatives
Street Directory: Source of Financing for Your Small Business
FindLaw: Sources of Small Business Financing
SBA: Finance Start-Up
Owen Richason grew up working in his family's small contracting business. He later became an outplacement consultant, then a retail business consultant. Richason is a former personal finance and business writer for "Tampa Bay Business and Financier." He now writes for various publications, websites and blogs.
Grants and Loans for a Small Business
Company Owned Vs. Franchised Chains
Ways of Financing a Small Business
The Advantages of Short-Term Debt
Debt As a Source of Financing a Small Business
How to Get Financing for a Small Business
Sources of Startup Funds for Small Business
Sources of Debt Financing
Types of Funding for a Business
1 Grants and Loans for a Small Business
2 Company Owned Vs. Franchised Chains
3 Ways of Financing a Small Business
4 The Advantages of Short-Term Debt
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Mossy Oak Golf Club
One Mossy Oak Drive
West Point, MS 39773, United States
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Mossy Oak is "Nature's Golf". The goal is to deliver a full-sensory experience that immerses players into the outdoors, while adhering to a mindful and sustainable approach to golf course development and management.
Each design element of Mossy Oak Golf Club was carefully considered to heighten the golfer’s awareness of the outdoors and accentuate the area’s natural resources. The goal is to provide a natural purity in how the golfer travels through the course and interacts with nature from start to finish.
George Bryan, co-founder of Mossy Oak Golf Club says, “Once off the first tee, nature is a highlight of the playing experience, with native grasses, wildlife and creeks interacting with fairways and bunker complexes to blend a sense of place on every hole.”
Caddies are available and forecaddies are required if using a cart. These fees are in addition to the green/cart fees.
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Mossy Oak Golf Club– Golf the Way Mother Nature Intended It
Nature's Golf - A truly memorable, world-class experience designed to bring golfers closer to nature.
The Mossy Oak Golf Club in West Point, MS is the result of a golf course working in harmony with its natural surroundings. Not only is this incredible layout a work that is quite beholding to the eyes, it’s a delight to all of those who accept the challenge to play it. Mossy Oak sits on what once was an old dairy farm for about 100 years; complete with two cow ponds and a number of hills, which explains the elevation changes. Those two cow ponds are now stocked with Tiger bass; something else to do if the golf thing isn’t working out for you!
Mossy Oak Golf Club sits across the street from its sister course, Old Waverly, one of the classiest clubs in the South you can play. Old Waverly is a private club but allows outside play for Lodge Guests. Accommodations at the clubs create what is arguably the best golf experience in Mississippi.
Located on the Mossy Oak property is the official practice facility of the Mississippi State University men’s and women’s golf teams. The facility is separate from Mossy Oak Golf Club and includes five target greens on the range, short-game training areas with bunkers and a 16,000 square foot putting green cut in the shape of the State of Mississippi. Inside the 6,400-square foot MSU team clubhouse, you’ll find men’s and women’s locker rooms, players’ lounges, coaches’ offices, an indoor putting center complete with a SAM PuttLab training system, as well as exercise and conference rooms. There’s also 2,400-square feet of indoor hitting bays equipped with two Trackman swing and ball flight analysis systems.
The Bryan family partnered with Toxey Haas, founder and CEO of the outdoor lifestyle brand Mossy Oak to create the golf club. To design the course, the two hired Gil Hanse, the world's leading minimalist golf course architect and mastermind behind the 2016 Olympic Course in Rio de Janeiro.
In true minimalist fashion, Hanse didn’t move much dirt in creating Mossy Oak; the truth is, he didn’t need to. In fact the majority of the dirt that was moved was done so to create a 7.5-acre irrigation lake. All of the bunkers you encounter as you make your way around the layout use sand that was taken from local riverbeds. One look at the bunker that fronts the 4th green, and you’ll realize that filling these bunkers took a lot of work!
Hanse has done a phenomenal job of creating a world-class golf experience at Mossy Oak. He has created a course that showcases the local Mississippi Black Prairie surroundings and follows the natural contours of the rolling terrain, all the while preserving the local habitat. A lot of the water used in irrigating Mossy Oak is reclaimed through gravity. Native areas are outside the scope of maintenance and are not irrigated and the fertilizers used are all organic, slow-release. The club is committed to not overwatering.
Depending on your game, Mossy Oak can play anywhere between 7,212 and 5,530 yards; ladies will have an enjoyable round from the Red Tees at 5,089 yards. Choose the yardage that best fists you game, and you’re sure to enjoy yourself.
Memorable Holes
Hanse’s bunkers take center stage on the par 3, 4th hole. From the Blue Tees the hole plays 173 yards; slightly longer when you factor in the fact that it’s uphill. The green is large and features a lot of slope and undulation. The front left bunker sits about 8 ft. below the putting surface making up and down that much tougher. As you look around from the 4th tee box, you get a great panoramic few of the course.
Many players will find favor with the par 4, 10th hole. Although the scorecards states 282 yards from the Blue Tees, it plays closer to 250 yards, making it a true risk/reward opportunity for many golfers. Carry the trees on the right if you want to have a chance of making the green off the tee. You’ll find after playing the hole a few times that the necessary line off the tee is a lot further left than you think. And don’t be fooled by the false front on the green. Better yet, hit something less than driver off the tee, leave a makeable chip shot and walk away with birdie.
Water is a lot more prevalent on the back nine and comes into play on no less than five holes. Two water holes immediately come to mind; the monster par 3, 11th and the demanding 18th.
From the Blue tees, Number 11 plays 224 yards, most of which is carry over a lake. However there is a bailout area short and left. There’s a lot of undulation in the green, and the three bunkers left of the green see a lot of play. Walk away with a par (or better) and consider it a success.
Of the two lakes on Number 18, the first one really shouldn’t come into play; it’s less than a 150-yard carry from the Blue Tees. If possible, play down the right side of the fairway to have the best look into the green. Should you leave yourself a shot at the green, you’ll have about 160 yards to a long, angled green protected on the left by a lake and a bunker. The putting surface slopes back to front, so leave yourself below the hole if possible.
Last Word:
Mossy Oak is a course you will never get tired of playing. The Mossy Oak experience is best done walking the course with a caddie; forecaddies are required if you choose to take a cart. Trust me, caddies are well worth the investment at Mossy Oak.
Although many of the tee shots at Mossy Oak are played to wide open fairways, don’t let this lull you into a false sense of security. You still need to be in the proper position in the fairway in order to hit and hold the green. You’ll face a number of blind shots both off the tee and on your approach and several false fronted greens can leave you scratching your head. But what sets Mossy Oak apart from other Mississippi golf courses are the green complexes. The majority of greens are elevated; several require knowledge of where to hit it on the green in order to not have it roll off and past you. All greens putt true and fast with subtle undulations.
Mossy Oak is not exactly a course that you are going to stumble across by accident. The best way to attract golfers to a destination that is off the beaten path is to offer the best golf opportunities money can buy. Old Waverly and Mossy Oak do just that, and although the golf courses are completely opposite in style and feel, they complement each other to no end. This could very well be the answer to putting West Point, MS on the map as a golf destination.
Lodging is now available on property at Mossy Oak. These brand new, luxurious cottages are located on the tenth fairway and offer spectacular panoramic views of the golf course. Each cottage has a spacious common area with a giant flat screen TV, mini fridge, microwave, wet bar area, coffee station and complimentary wireless Internet. Off of the common area are four separately keyed bedrooms, each with two queen beds. Guests have the option of renting either the entire cottage or individual bedrooms. Lodging is also available at Old Waverly. More cottages and a permanent clubhouse are part of the long-range plan at Mossy Oak, in fact construction of the clubhouse has already begun.
Old Waverly and Mossy Oak Golf Club are set in the tranquil Mississippi Black Prairie and are staffed with some of the nicest people you will ever meet, anywhere! For more information on Mossy Oak Golf Club and Old Waverly Golf Club, visit their websites: mossyoakgolf.com & oldwaverly.com
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Anna-Maja Nylén
Ethnologist, costume- and textile historian
Anna-Maja Nylén was an ethnologist whose focus lay on the history of clothing and textiles.
Anna-Maja Nylén was born in Dalby parish in northern Värmland in 1912. Her father, Theodor Nylén, was a veterinarian. Her mother’s name was Johanna Theresia Nylén. After a number of years the family moved to Kalmar. Anna-Maja Nylén gained her school-leaving certificate there in 1932 and then enrolled at Stockholm högskola (college) to continue her studies. She gained her licentiate degree in art history, for which she wrote an unpublished dissertation on medieval book paintings, in the autumn of 1937.
Anna-Maja Nylén was employed by the Nordic museum (Nordiska museet) in September 1938 and, in 1942, she was given a permanent position there as an amanuensis. She was the first female employee at the museum to be academically qualified. Her licentiate gave her additional expertise in medieval clothing and so her work was focused on the clothing and textile sections. Throughout her almost twenty years of employment folk costumes were her main specialty.
Anna-Maja Nylén’s first published work was a review of E. Nienholt’s Die deutsche Tracht im Wandel der Jahrhunderte, written for Rig in 1938. One of her criticisms of the book was that it only considered what the clothes looked like while ignoring their practical applications. This view reflected ethnological influences, which is perhaps unsurprising given that the Nordic museum had since 1918 been involved in a professorship in ethnology.
Anna-Maja Nylén presented her research into Nordic and comparative folklife studies (ethnology) in her 1947 thesis entitled Folkligt dräktskick i Västra Vingåker och Österåker. Her technical and historical clothing analysis was based on her licentiate work. She combined that material with information on the functionality of clothing and its use in various contexts and within various socio-economic levels of society. By collating archival material on the social standing of individual wearers of items of clothing with a summary of societal changes she was able to depict changes in clothing during the second half of the 1800s.
It was whilst doing a bit of fieldwork in Härjedalen in 1947 that Anna-Maja Nylén became aware of how heavily the local economy depended on traditional animal husbandry and hill farming practises, in which the scythe was a family’s most important tool despite the prevalence of machinery in other parts of Sweden. She quickly initiated extensive investigations in Bruksvallarna. Colleagues from the rural section were sometimes also involved in her work, which she did not complete until 1973. Her work increasingly came to entail the compilation of a contemporary record of the changes and streamlining that occurred within Swedish agriculture following the Second World War.
In 1961 the Nordic museum was reorganised, at which point Anna-Maja Norlén was appointed head of the museum’s Etnologiska undersökningen (EU) (ethnological investigation section). As such she made changes to the composition of questionnaires, the most common tool of ethnological studies, which came to deal with the current situation and not “how it was before”. They also came to include a wider range of social classes in addition to the most populous one. For example, a questionnaire was sent to the Swedish nobility on the subject of birth certificates.
From 1963–1964 EU, in collaboration with Norrbottens museum, documented the changes within mining and the societal upheaval which occurred in Svappavara as a result of LKAB’s decision to begin mining there in 1961. The study was summarised at a symposium in Stockholm in 1967 and in an article published in 1965 in Fataburen. Anna-Maja Nylén particularly emphasised that the study of radical social structural change can highlight how social groups and individuals respond to new practises and values. Studying these adaptations was of fundamental importance as a complement to the sociology of industry.
Anna-Maja Nylén also transformed how exhibitions were put together. Her biggest project was Folkdräkter (folk costumes), which opened on the ground floor of the Nordic museum in 1957. She was also in charge of updating the Dräktgalleri (costume gallery), where costumes were presented within the context of their backgrounds, materials, method of production, etc, and was completed by a display of Swedish traditional dress that spanned the length and breadth of the country. An even more thorough re-thinking of the exhibition medium was employed in 1960 for the section called Tradition och nutid (tradition and the present day), in which ancient implements and items were displayed with their modern counterparts. For example, ancient wooden milk- and beer jugs are placed next to present-day tetrapacks made of cardboard and metal beer-cans.
The transmission of knowledge and teaching also played an important role in Anna-Maja Nylén’s activities. In 1957 she was appointed docent in ethnology at Uppsala university. She was heavily involved in the Swedish handicrafts movement at both a private level and within her work at the Nordic museum. For many years she served as a member of the board partly on behalf of the Hemslöjdsförbundet för Sverige (Swedish handicrafts association) and partly on behalf of the Svenska Hemslöjdsföreningarnas Riksförbund (national federation of Swedish handicrafts’ associations). She also championed the idea that Handarbetets Vänner's (friends of handicrafts) weaving school should include training for handicrafts association staff, managers and consultants. She became an instructor at the weaving school in 1963, teaching the history of handicrafts and producing the textbook Hemslöjd, published in 1969, which provides a good introduction to the field of ethnology.
In 1965 Anna-Maja Nylén became head of a newly-established section for textiles and costumes at the Nordic museum. Over the ensuing years she ran that section’s practical museum-related work in terms of acquisitions, exhibitions, and storage. She remained in post until her retirement in 1975.
Anna-Maja Nylén was the first professionally-engaged woman to be elected into the Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur (The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture) in 1973. Her first lecture at the academy dealt with the Bruksvallarna investigations, “En fjällby möter nutiden”, and was published in Saga och sed in 1975. In it she depicts the failings in the authorities’ understanding of the important role of coherent extended families in the particular sustenance method which hill-farming entailed. She also confirmed how successfully the extended family could adapt to diverse forms of enterprise such as the modern hotel- and tourist industries.
Anna-Maja Nylén died in Lidingö in 1976.
Sofia Danielsson
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Mother: Johanna Theresia Nylén, född Hägglund
Mother: Johanna Theresia Nylén, född Hägglund (1878 – 1961)
Father: Jakob Theodor Nylén
Father: Jakob Theodor Nylén (1879 – 1959)
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Brother: Matts Otto Nylén
Brother: Matts Otto Nylén (1905 – 1926)
Brother: Jan Klas Nylén
Brother: Jan Klas Nylén (1907 – 1999)
Sister: Karin Laura Nylén
Sister: Karin Laura Nylén (1909 – 1995)
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Läroverk, Kalmar: Studentexamen
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Högskola, Stockholm: Fil.kand.examen, Stockholms högskola
Högskola, Stockholm: Fil.kand.examen, Stockholms högskola (1932 – 1934)
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Högskola, Stockholm: Fil.dr.examen, nordisk och jämförande folklivsforskning, Stockholms högskola
Högskola, Stockholm: Fil.dr.examen, nordisk och jämförande folklivsforskning, Stockholms högskola (? – 1947)
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Profession: Museitjänsteman, fr o m 1942 amanuens, Nordiska museet , Stockholm (1938 – 1961)
Profession: Chef, Etnologiska undersökningen, fr o m 1965 chef för avdelningen för dräkt och textil, Nordiska museet
Profession: Chef, Etnologiska undersökningen, fr o m 1965 chef för avdelningen för dräkt och textil, Nordiska museet , Stockholm (1961 – 1975)
Profession: Lärare, slöjdhistoria, Handarbetets Vänners vävskola
Profession: Lärare, slöjdhistoria, Handarbetets Vänners vävskola , Stockholm (1963 – ?)
Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur
Ledamot (1973 – 1976)
Hemslöjdsförbundet för Sverige
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“IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH: Women and HIV in 2009”
Posted on October 4, 2009 by Sophia Forum
Hosted jointly with the TARGETS Consortium at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
With many thanks to Durex for kindly supporting the event
Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to access the content of the information packs handed to our guests. The flyer of the event can be downloaded by clicking here
Held on Thursday 1st October 2009, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, this latest event in the Sophia Forum series looked specifically at the Health Sector response to Women and HIV, both in the UK and internationally. For more background on the event, please read the event announcement published on OpenDemocracy and the after event press release also published on OpenDemocracy.
“I really enjoyed my evening at the Sophia event, ‘In sickness and in health’. I felt inspired to be in the company of such knowledgeable yet approachable group, who were all so committed to making positive change for women affected by HIV. The presentations were very interesting, and really shed new light on the issue for me. I was particularly encouraged and excited by the way in which biomedical and social aspects were explored together, presenting a more holistic view of the situation for women. I went away with new ideas and energy for how I could contribute to improving the situation for women around the world, in my own small way. I’ll be back, and will bring friends next time!”
Rowan Boase, Youth Team Assistant, UNICEF UK
The evening was a success. It was fantastic to see three great speakers, expert moderation by Sue MacGregor and excellent questions from the floor. Each speaker brought a different perspective to women and HIV. All our events include at least one openly positive woman speaker. We also have positive women in the audience, whom guests can talk to afterwards, in order to learn more about the many and complex human rights issues faced by women living with HIV in the UK – and internationally.
Dr Jane Anderson, Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV at Homerton University Hospital,
gave empirically backed insight into the reality of women with HIV in the UK, with an emphasis on the unique challenges they face.
Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma, responsible for HIV Mainstreaming at Christian Aid highlighted the need to tackle gender based violence.
Winnie spoke of some of the successes in providing treatment and support for women, and highlighted the ongoing challenges.
Winnie dedicated her talk to Catherine Nyirenda
Professor Peter Piot, Director of Institute for Global Health at Imperial College London and former Executive Director of UNAIDS, asked if the global HIV response passed the test for women. While he highlighted some key successes around treatment and preventing mother to child transmission of HIV he also spoke of ongoing issues, especially the continuing stigma and discrimination around HIV. Please click here to access Peter Piot’s presentation.
The panel of speakers and the Q&A session were moderated by Sue MacGregor CBE
(UNICEF UK trustee and BBC Radio 4 broadcaster)
Hearing from not only activists for HIV and AIDS but also healthcare professionals who are leaders in their field was really interesting – bringing the debate to a much more urgent level. So often when hearing about the problems in Sub-Saharan Africa, the urgency feels slightly displaced, but when shocking accounts of practicising doctors in the UK who still face obstacles and ignorance when diagnosing and treating HIV and AIDS are told with such stark honesty such as Prof Jane Anderson’s lively presentation, it sparked her audience into sitting up a little straighter and most definitely piqued the investigative curiosity of Sue MacGregor which culminated in a really enjoyable interactive debate. Highly recommended, and looking forward to the next Sophia event!
Zaynin-Nissa Kanji
Photos by Matthew Gonzalez-Noda, courtesy of Christian Aid
Information pack (produced by Aimee Latta and Dr Rupa Zaman, both former students from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine):
Bios of our speakers
Event’s evaluation form
Sophia’s achievements and relevant web links to the event
Sophia’s newsletter No. 3
Cochrane SRH HIV evidence
Summary of presentation at the House of Commons for international Women’s Day, 2009: “Women, HIV and Human Rights – the crisis of criminalisation” by Alice Welbourn
“HIV-positive African women surviving in London: Report of a qualitative study“, by Lesley Doyal and Jane Anderson, 2003
Testing and the Rights of HIV-positive women, ICW (international Community of Women living with HIV and AIDS), 2006
“HIV and Pregnancy: Tough choices … and the right to choose“, by Dawn Averitt, JANAC, 13 (3), 11-12
“African women with HIV coerced into sterilisation“, Guardian article, June 2009
“HIV: daring to share” – Lifeboat films
Pozfem report
Silent Voices, ICW report
Introduction Presentation (to be played as a slide show)
Our Thanks (to be played as a slide show)
With many thanks to the Female Health Company for providing us with Female Condoms
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Concussion: Information for Parents and Players.
Concussion in sport is a topic that has received a lot of media attention of late. This month Dr Stephen Freeman, team Doctor with Northern Suburbs Rugby and the Australian Junior Wallabies discusses some practical tips for players and parents to help identify and manage concussion injuries safely. If you are a rugby player or your children play rugby then this article is a must-read.
Concussion injury is a disturbance in brain function caused by a direct or transmitted force to the head. This means that it affects how our brain operates and processes information. It is fairly common in contact sport and is diagnosed clinically i.e. does not require special investigations. Concussion injuries usually settle with simple conservative management. When clinical assessment is equivocal and signs are present which create concern that there is a structural brain injury then imaging is required (usually CT or MRI scanning).
A direct injury is self-explanatory – the player sustains a blow to the head from another player, or impact with the ground. A transmitted injury is when the force to the brain is not from a direct blow such as a player who sustains a ‘whiplash-type’ injury or a twisting force which causes rotational effects on the head/brain, or a fall where the player may not strike their head directly but land on their knees or buttocks with enough force to jolt the brain inside the skull. While direct impacts are more common, transmitted injuries must not be missed. Younger players are more susceptible to concussion from both sorts of impact due to their increased relative head size and weight. A concussion injury should be suspected in the presence of any symptoms (eg. head ache, dizziness, irritability, drowsiness), physical signs (eg. reduced balance function), impaired brain function (eg. confusion, memory loss) or abnormal behaviour. Any athlete that has had a loss of consciousness or a suspected concussion must be removed from the field of play, be medically assessed and not return until cleared.
In the absence of clinical evidence of a structural injury, imaging is not required. Management consists of observation, rest from physical and cognitive activity, simple analgesia for headache if necessary (paracetamol, NOT aspirin or ibuprofen – in case of associated structural injury), and then a graduated return to play once COMPLETELY symptom-free. If symptoms are not settling as expected, or additional symptoms or complications develop, then further assessment is required – which will usually require imaging. Players who have had a concussion injury should rest and avoid strenuous exercise for 24hours, not drink alcohol or take sleeping tablets and not drive. If symptoms deteriorate or a change in behaviour is noticed then the player should go to the nearest hospital emergency department immediately.
At present, the Australian Rugby Union policy is that every player with suspected concussion should be assessed by a Doctor, preferably one familiar with identifying and managing concussion and also familiar with the current management guidelines. If the diagnosis is confirmed, a medical clearance is required to commence the graduated return to play protocol (GRTP), and a final clearance required prior to return to match play. In an ideal situation, the doctor would review prior to each phase of the GRTP. The minimum amount of time that a player can progress through the GRTP following a concussion injury is 6 days.
The current guidelines are in line with best practice internationally and are reviewed every 2-3 years by an international multisport and multidisciplinary committee. The sports administrators and medical specialists involved are all at the coalface of concussion research through data collection, laboratory research and clinical management. Australian sporting codes and doctors are well-represented.
To assist with player safety, it would be sensible for all involved players, coaches and parents to be familiar with the POCKET CONCUSSION RECOGNITION TOOL (which has superseded the Pocket SCAT2) – http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/5/267.full.pdf – which will help recognise some of the subtle signs of concussion. Further education is available from the ARU and International Rugby Board (see below). Every player with suspected concussion should be given a copy of the ARU Concussion Fact Sheet – http://www.rugby.com.au/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=r2FM8EIt3E0%3d&tabid=1951 – which will help with diagnosis and management, and guide medical personnel, coaches, parents and players through the GRTP.
For further information, see the following:-
ARU Concussion Guidelines
IRB Concussion Guidelines
IRB Concussion Education
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Big surprises and bigger hearts prevailed at this year’s annual NYC poker tournament
By LRG Staff|2019-12-26T15:46:08-05:00December 1st, 2009|Fundraising, News|
The Sixth Annual New York City Poker Tournament, held on November 19 at the Midtown Loft and hosted by Board President Jerry Cudzil, was a tremendous success thanks to all of our supporters who came out to play for a cure.
The tournament has been a significant fundraiser for the Life Raft Group since 2004, when Jerry first began hosting the event, this year raising over $70,000!
Jerry’s continued commitment to the LRG carries on Bill’s legacy— to find a cure for GIST.
Despite the overall decline in charitable giving and general uneasiness felt by most during these tough economic times, droves of people came out to support Jerry and the LRG. Well, there was also the poker.
Chips and cards were flying as round after round of elimination left us with one final table. Last year’s first place winner, Joe Bonavita, was once again one of the last men sitting. With over one hundred competitive players this year, the intensity could be felt by all who were present. Poker faces began to fade quickly as some of the best players lost all their chips.
With only five players left, Kurt Lichtman was not only the first to gracefully bow out, but he also donated his prize of two Yankee tickets back to the LRG.
Allen Oppici was next to fold, and walked away with dinner for four at The Palm, which was donated by LRG supporter Nick Chiara.
Now, only three players remained, including Bonavita. Could he win two years in a row? The hands on the clock were ticking and the hands at the table were getting tougher. Stephen Czick was the next to go broke, but won an impressive tailored suit and tailored shirts from Shaban Alam.
The final two remained, Bonavita and Derek Smith, neither of whom were strangers to the final table. Smith was definitely a good match, but Bonavita’s chips were piled high and there was no defeating him. All was not lost, Smith also walked away with a tailored suit and shirts to match.
Against all odds, Bonavita took the grand prize for the second year in a row—a $10,000 seat at the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas, Nev.
On another note, we held a 50/50 raffle again this year (50/50 is a raffle in which people buy tickets and the proceeds from the ticket sales are split up with one half of the sum being awarded to the winner) and raised an impressive $1,100! This year’s winner, Tim Turpin, donated his half of the winnings back to the LRG. Thanks Tim!
As always, a thank you must go to Long Island Poker & Casino for their help year after year.
A very special thank you must also go to Cricket Hill Brewery for donating delicious micro-brews for our players to enjoy and Kim Tallau of Innovative Images, for her talent and time photographing the event.
Although there could only be five winners that night, we believe that everyone who supported the event that night went all-in for a cure for GIST.
We can’t wait to see you all next year!
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The Frenzy of Queen Maeve (Live Lobster Theatre) 2012 SummerWorks Review
August 11, 2012 Samantha Wu
A love triangle in Ireland at the height “The Troubles“, a woman caught in the fold struggling with the choice between a life of safety and the love of her country is the focal point in this intensely entertaining SummerWorks play, The Frenzy of Queen Maeve. Playing at the Lower Ossington Theatre, this production takes a poignant look at political and personal struggles fit for a youth audience.
The story is told by Asling (Ewa Wolniczek), an Irish 20-something who has fallen in love with two men, William (James Aaron), the son of a wealthy English landowner, and Fionn (Giacomo Gianiotti), a member of the IRA. As the love blooms between Asling and her two suitors, the decision she is forced to make spirals rapidly away from her resulting in a disastrous finale.
Being Asling’s story, the production is played out in her monologue accented by flashbacks with the other actors. Through her eyes we see the racial backlash between English and Irish conflicts, the often misplaced pride often found in the heat of revolution, and a young woman, confused with the magnitude of her decision, with the direction of her life, with the follies of being in love and the life of the unborn child she carries.
I was compelled by the performance of Wolniczek who carried the show, never once leaving the stage. The pain in her eyes resonated and captured the audience, locking us to her and her dilemma. Her issue is one that many can find themselves, in some way, relating, too. I also admired the performances of Aaron and Gianiotti but found their accents slightly lacking. A tip of the hat to the use of the stage that remained static but managed to pull multiple duties as a pub, cobbled streets, seaside, and residence.
The performance comes with the obligatory warning of mature language, cigarette smoking, and sexual discussion which lends this performance to a mature audience.
The Frenzy of Queen Maeve is a story that will capture and lead, taking the audience on a tragic yet darkly humorous ride touching on a range of emotions, and a definite one to consider during your SummerWorks wanderings.
The Frenzy of Queen Maeve plays at the Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington Ave.)
Performances are Monday the 13th at 10 pm, Wednesday the 15 at 7:30 pm, Friday the 17 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday the 19th at 12 pm.
All individual SummerWorks tickets are $15 at the door (cash only). Tickets are available online at ticketwise.ca, by phone by calling the Lower Ossington Box Office at 416-915-6747, in person at the Lower Ossington Box Office (located at 100A Ossington Avenue) Mon. – Sun. 12 pm – 7 pm (Advance tickets are $15 + service fee)
Several money-saving passes are available if you plan to see at least 3 shows.
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Review: Persée (Opera Atelier)
May 5, 2014 Keira Grant 2 Comments
Opera Atelier recreates the story of Perseus with opera and ballet in Persée playing at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto
The head of Medusa, crawling with snakes and dripping with blood glared down at us during the opening strains of Persée by Lully in Opera Atelier’s 2014 production. In characteristic adherence to period convention there was no action during the overture, only this striking image from classical mythology that reappeared at the opening of each act.
Classical mythology was standard fodder for early operas and this French work that premiered in 1682 is in keeping with that tradition. It tells the story of Perseus, a pre-Olympian hero of Greek legend known for slaying Medusa and rescuing Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus.
There were several Atelier regulars in the cast, as well as performers making their Opera Atelier debut. It was clear that cast members were all so comfortable with period conventions of stance and gesture that the stylized poses and movements were second nature. The 17th Century approach to stage movement has the potential to seem forced and pretentious to modern day standards. In this performance baroque movements were infused with so much dramatic intensity that they seemed completely natural and full of emotional credibility.
The costumes were lavish – colourful and dazzling. Ballet is an integral component of all Atelier shows and the choreography in this production was riveting. The use of ballet is undoubtedly my favourite thing about historically informed productions. Baroque operas typically contain long instrumental passages that were intended as the accompaniment to a ballet scene. In modernized productions, the ballets are usually eliminated. If no other action is added to these passages, it has the potential to break apart the story and make the show somewhat dry. In this production, the ballet scenes cleverly illustrated the story and added to the narrative. The dancing was also beautiful enough to be its own reward.
Despite its happy ending, Persée is still considered a tragedy because the overall tone of the music and story is dramatic rather than comedic. Atelier took full advantage of opportunities for comic relief, especially during Medusa’s big scene. It is not always easy to make jokes that are over 300 years old read for modern day audiences. The comedic moments in this production were laugh-out-loud funny.
Atelier also managed to design a set that was captivating and innovative without abandoning the period conventions it is so committed to. Several painted backdrops were used to change the scene and each backdrop was rich with colour and charm. Simple effects, like thunder and lightning were used very effectively and were still engaging for audiences accustomed to seeing much more technologically advanced effects.
Lully’s music is sublime and a wonderful introduction to early music for the uninitiated. Combined with gorgeous singing and orchestral playing, beautiful dancing, striking costumes and an amazing set, Persée was a sumptuous feast for the eyes and ears.
Persée is playing until November 2, 2013 at The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre (189 Yonge Street)
Show times are 7:30 PM on April 29 & 30 and May 2 & 3
Ticket prices range from $45 – $189. Patrons under 30 can purchase tickets from $24.
Tickets are available online, or through the box office at 416.314.2884
Photo of the company of Opera Atelier’s Persée by Bruce Zinger.
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Jeremy Nasmith says:
Dear Kiera,
Thank you so much for your wonderful review. I’m glad you enjoyed our hard work. I just wanted to point out that the photo-credit is incorrect: it refers to the “Abduction” photo, instead of the “Persee” photo: still Bruce Zinger is the photographer, but it should read something like: “Photo of Opera Atelier’s Persee, final tableau, full cast by Bruce Zinger”
Jeremy Nasmith
Dancer/Assistant Fight Director at Opera Atelier
Wayne Leung says:
Thanks for the note Jeremy. I’ve changed the photo credit.
Wayne Leung
Managing Editor, Mooney on Theatre
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[Funding Roundup] Indian Startup Funding of the Week [23rd to 29th April 2018]
SW Staff
We bring you the latest edition of Funding Roundup: Indian Startup Funding of the Week. The dates range from 23rd April 2018 to 29th April 2018.
This week the startup economy raised around 33 percent fewer funds compared to last week investments and fundings. You can read the know more about the fundings between 8th April 2015 and 15th April 2015 by reading this.
This week 13 startups raised funds from various investors like Nexus Venture Partners, Amazon, Sunil Munjal, Michael Carlos, Dalip Pathak, Oppo, Neoplux, Shashank Sharma, Pramod Singhal, YourNest Angel Fund, IDG Ventures India, Unitus Seed Funds, C Cube Angels, Info Edge, Blume Ventures, Goldbell Group, Vidal Healthcare and GEMS Advisory.
The startup economy raised around $50 million in three seed funding rounds, one Series A round, two Series C rounds while the rest being unknown rounds. The amount $50 million is equal to almost ₹331 crores in Indian currency.
One of the biggest Indian startup funding this week was Capital Float, a fin-tech startup raising $22 million in a Series C funding.
Mihuru raised the lowest amount of all the 13 funding deals that occurred in that period. It raised not more than INR 99,00,000 (Ninety-Nine Lakh Rupees).
In Details: Indian Startup Funding of the Week
So let us discuss each funding one by one in details. We are sorting the funding in descending order of amount raised by the startup.
Capital Float – Unsecured lending service Capital Float raises $22M in Series C funding led by Amazon. The Bengaluru-based firm will use the funds to bolster its end-to-end digital loan system and design innovative credit solutions. With the funding round, the total equity funding in the company reaches $107 million.
Nykaa – At a valuation of $453 million, the Mumbai-based beauty marketplace raises $11.3 million in a funding round led by Sunil Munjal, Marico Mariwala, Dalip Pathak and Michael Carlos. Nykaa will use the funds to enhance retail distribution and boost its private label.
POPxo – The Delhi-based digital media startup around women raises $5.5 million in Series C round led by Neoplux (Korea) and OPPO (China). POPxo aims to use the funds to consolidate commerce as a strong revenue stream by strengthening its vernacular offerings, boost its Hindi edition and enhance video creation.
PayMe India – PayMe India, a Noida-based online lending startup raises $2 million in angel funding from investors like Shashank Sharma, Pramod Singhal and other Singapore-based investors. The fintech startup plans to use the funds to increase its lending capacity and capture new markets.
Emotix – Robotics startup Emotix raises $2 million in fresh funds led by investors like IDG Ventures India and YourNest Angel Fund. The Mumbai-based startup that identifies emotional intelligence will use the funds for product development and R&D in areas like consumer robotics.
Hasura – Hasura, a SaaS startup offering various developer tools raises $1.6 million in a seed round of funding led by Nexus Venture Partners and GREE Ventures. The Bengaluru and San Fransisco based startup aims to utilize the funds to accelerate product development and strengthen marketing and developer relations teams.
Pitstop – Existing investors Blume Ventures and Singapore-based Goldbell Group put $1.6 million in Pre-Series A funding round in car repair and servicing startup Pitstop. The Bengaluru-based startup plans to use the funds to scale up “Doorstep Service” across the cities like Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR and improve technology to support the infrastructure.
Doxper – Healthcare startup Doxper raises $1.1 million in Pre-Series A funding led by existing investor Vidal Healthcare. The Mumbai-based startup plans to utilize the funds to expand its presence and enter global market into the UK, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Brazil and South Africa by early next year.
Utter – Pune-based edtech startup Utter raises $824,000 from Unitus Seed Fund. The chatbot-based firm plans to target 1 million learners by December 2020 and expand internationally in USA, Southeast Asia and Europe by infusing the fresh funds into its operations.
Hyperdata.io – Big data market research startup Hyperdata.io raises $750,000 angel investor CCube Angels Network. The Hyderabad-based startup aims to use the funds to improve its product offering, enhance quality, add new signals and increase data coverage.
ShoeKonnect – B2B marketplace startup for leather products ShoeKonnect raises $460,000 from Info Edge (India) Ltd, the company behind Naukri.com. The Agra-based startup aims to use the funds to start new lines of business and increase customer base.
Career Anna – Video-driven edtech startup Career Anna raises $450,000 from a group of angel investors. Subinder Khanna represented the angel investors in the funding round. The Gurugram-based startup plans to use the funds to launch online learning programs on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and other new tech fields.
Tripshelf – Online travel marketplace firm Tripshelf raises $240,000 in Pre-Series A funding round led by GEMS Advisory, Alok Mittal, Sachin Bhatia and several others. The New-Delhi headquartered startup plans to use the funds to strengthen its business operations and achieve hyper growth.
Mihuru – Travel fintech startup providing loans for flight tickets raises $150,000 from undisclosed investors in the seed round. The Mumbai-based lending startup aims to use the funds to hire new talents and enrich their current products and offerings. Mihuru also looks to expand into credits for other travel verticals in addition to current flights vertical.
Earlier This Month
Tala, the leading global technology company committed to financial inclusion announced to bring its popular consumer lending app to India. The expansion was announced along with a new $50 million Series C investment led by Revolution Growth to scale up the success already in progress.
IndigoLearn, Hyderabad based Finance & Accounting focused Ed Tech Startup announces raising of $150K in its seed round. Angel investors based out of India, US & Europe participated in this round. IndigoLearn provides e-learning solutions to students and professionals in Accounting & Finance domains.
Chai Point, the largest organized Chai Company in India raised $20 million Series C funding round, led by Paragon Partners. All existing investors – Eight Roads (Fidelity’s India PE arm), Saama Capital and DSG – participated in this round, with some of them investing super pro rata.
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ABUSE & VIOLENCE IN THE CHURCH, Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence and Churches, Paige Patterson, Sexual Abuse/Assault and Churches, Southern Baptist Convention
Paige Patterson called an abuse advocacy group “as reprehensible as sex criminals”
May 7, 2018 December 3, 2018 Julie Anne
Paige Patterson, Sex Abuse, Southern Baptist Convention
Admin note: This blog was written and submitted to Spiritual Sounding Board. The author wishes to remain anonymous. ~ja
Did you hear about the movie Spotlight? It won Best Picture in 2015.
It’s a true story about an investigative reporting team from the Boston Globe who uncovered systematic hiding of sexual abuse and abusers in the Catholic Church. The Spotlight team accomplished their exposé, published in 2002, with the help of the organization Survivor Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).
When the movie aired in 2015, many who had never before heard of SNAP now found out the heartbreaking and heroic work they’d been doing for decades.
But there’s a SNAP outreach for Baptists too, and Christa Brown, the author of the outstanding book This Little Light, was in 2008 the leader of that outreach, having recorded in that book and at www.stopbaptistpredators.com her work of many years in calling for the Southern Baptist Convention to deal with abuse seriously and establish a database of predators so that churches would better be able to avoid filling their pulpits with them.
These efforts failed.
But this does bring us around to Paige Patterson.
This article, from The Nashville Scene in February of 2000, gives a graphic account of abuse at the beginning of the article, and then focuses on the arguable need for a database of verifiable predators in the SBC. It highlights two confirmed SBC preacher abusers, one of whom is Darrell Gilyard, whom Paige Patterson admired and promoted in the 1980s. When Gilyard’s victims went to Paige Patterson for help, to quote the Nashville Scene article:
They say Patterson refused to help them, at times refusing their phone calls or telling them that unless they had proof, he would not see them. Some women said he asked them to refrain from talking about the abuse. In press accounts at the time, Patterson said he was “dealing with a man of special gifts and talents” [Gilyard] and that he was “unwilling to call anyone guilty until I had demonstrable evidence that these allegations were true.”
That “demonstrable evidence” wouldn’t come until 1991, when, as the Dallas news account detailed, Gilyard admitted to Patterson that he had committed adultery—even though many of the women’s allegations seemed much more akin to rape than consensual sex. It was then that Patterson finally cut ties with his protégé—but not before he personally prepared the goodbye speech for Gilyard to deliver to Victory Baptist.
A few years later Gilyard resigned from the pastorate of yet another church, a 7000-member church of devoted admirers, just before being arrested for having sent lewd messages to a 14-year-old girl.
This is where SNAP got involved with Paige Patterson.
This article by Bob Allen of Ethics Daily shows that SNAP called for a temporary suspension of Patterson from the presidency of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary so an investigation could be conducted in his failure to warn church after church that there was a predator in their pulpits in the form of Darrell Gilyard.
One childhood clergy sexual abuse survivor from the SBC, Debbie Vasquez (the subject of the graphic account at the beginning of the Nashville Scene article), after reading the account of Darrell Gilyard, wrote emails to various SBC heads for help in her own case. She was rebuffed at every turn.
One man she wrote to was Paige Patterson. Another Ethics Daily article from that time quotes what Patterson said to her in his email reply, regarding SNAP (the organization that only six years earlier had helped the Spotlight investigative reporting team expose the huge problem with sexual abuse and its covering in the Catholic Church):
SNAP is just as reprehensible as sex criminals. To make false accusations against a person in an effort to tarnish his reputation, as they regularly do and have most recently done to me, is just as reprehensible and involves just as little integrity. My little granddaughters, 10 and 8, were here the other day and heard on TV that their grandpa harbored sex criminals! I suppose that this is somehow OK since I am a pastor?
And in another email to her, also quoted in the Ethics Daily article:
You continue to suggest that I am not doing enough, without any facts whatsoever. You also protect evil doers who have slandered others. Is the slander of SNAP somehow not a hideous sin also? I am sorry Debbie, but I cannot help anyone whose mind is made up to do wrong even when I regret deeply what has happened to them. I will pray that God meets your every need.
To recap, SNAP had asked for Patterson to be temporarily suspended so he could be investigated for the protection and promotion of an abuser in the pulpit.
Patterson responded by calling them—not to their faces, and not to the public at large, but to a childhood sexual abuse survivor—a “reprehensible” organization, “just as reprehensible as sex criminals.” According to Patterson, this organization bent on exposing abusers and protecting victims was just as reprehensible as the abusers.
He accused Vasquez of “also protecting evil doers,” equating a childhood sexual abuse survivor seeking help from SNAP with the promotion and protection of a sexual predator he had been credibly accused of.
He called out SNAP as “evil doers” whose sin of “slander” was also a “hideous sin,” and by the use of the word also, he implied again that their sin was comparable to the sin of childhood sexual abusers. He said their minds were “made up to do wrong.”
SNAP sent Patterson a letter, which you can read here, expressing their dismay that he would speak to a childhood sexual abuse survivor in such a way, asking him to apologize for his hateful speech, but adding that they would like to have a dialogue with him even if he didn’t want to apologize.
It appears Patterson never responded to that letter.
That was ten years ago. Would Paige Patterson now be willing to acknowledge that this was wrong for him to do? Would he be willing to issue an apology for speaking in such a way about the organization and the people who worked to help expose abusers and protect victims?
Their hearts were to protect the vulnerable and oppressed.
Is his?
Tagged Christa Brown, Paige Patterson, sex abuse, SNAP, spotlight movie, StopBaptistPredators.com
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Patterson has said so many things, ya’ll…
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Barbara Roberts says:
Roman Catholic clergy could not be prosecuted by the state in era before the Protestant Reformation. The Roman church deemed its clergy to be exempt from prosecution for crimes.
The Roman church would intentionally ordain criminals to protect the criminals from being prosecuted. That’s how bad the Roman church was. (See “The Story of the New Matthew Bible” — an excellent book that has just come out.)
The way many so-called Protestant denominations behave today is similar. These days the state does at least have the power to prosecute clergy, but a denomination’s leaders can keep the crimes from being reported for decades — by bullying the victims into silence and by firing any lower-level clergy / staff / PhD students who oppose the cover-up.
It seems pretty common for the Evangelical institutions (I’m most familiar with colleges) to buy off the local government entities so that they can use those entities for their purposes. So, some students get off when they’ve committed crimes and others get threatened with jail even when there is no evidence anything was done.
Thanks Mark. 🙂
When you throw a rock into a feral dog pack (wolves have more class than that), the one who yelps the loudest is the one who got hit.
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Curious Thinker says:
After reading this, I feel that Pastor Patterson is a close-minded man, arrogant who doesn’t seem like he has real compassion or empathy for those who claim to have been abused by the clergy and a bit too unfairly bias in favor of Pastor Gilyard. If could have been decent enough to hear out the women who made the accusations and listen to their sides of things even if he didn’t want to believe it’s true but to ignore and dismiss them was a jerk move. Also him calling the SNAP organization evil doers and using that as an excuse to shun a possibly sexual abuse survivor seems almost vindictive and why does he assume they slander clergy members? Sounds like he was in denial about a man he admired and let that affect his judgment and only turned his back on this Pastor Gilyard only when he confessed to adultery rather than offer forgiveness and encouragement of repentance although I don’t know the full story in that situation. Anyway, I feel sad for the victims and glad these predatory clergymen are exposed. God Bless.
As a lawyer, I’m wondering what the man’s talking about. No evidence? What of those dozens of women who approached the Patterson? That’s not evidence that he sheltered an abuser, cynically looking the other way? He’s either an imbecile, insane, or evil. Based on his stilted, high school-level writing, I don’t care about his education, he shows signs of the first quality; based on his unhinged demeanor and his bizarre speaking patterns, he shows signs of the second, and based on the fact that the man just digs his heels in and refuses to acknowledge his errors or the pain and abuse he may well have caused dozens of women to suffer, he shows earmarks of the third.
I cannot judge the man all-in-all, don’t know what I’d have become had I been given his nature and nurture (perhaps an axe murderer), but I can look at his fruits and opine, and to me, the man seems absolutely corrupt.
I’m not a lawyer but other than that I second what Truth Detector said.
Sam Powell says:
Truth Detector, guys like Patterson incorrectly use Matthew 18 as an excuse to never believe the victim. Unless there are 2 or 3 eye witnesses of each event, the victim is always disbelieved. It is horrible. They dismiss forensics, profiles, psychology, and modern investigative techniques as “worldly” and “of the devil”. I was once appealing to a minister to listen to a victim and used a study done by Anna Salter to try to explain how predators work. He rebuked me for being “too worldly”.
the irony is that even if there were 3 eyewitnesses to an event, they still wouldn’t believe it. I am convinced that the ones who steadfastly refuse to see abuse right in front of them are abusers themselves. I wonder how many pastors abuse their wives, are addicted to porn, and are child predators themselves.Ugh. The battle is far, far deeper than Patterson. As an aside, I am a pastor and a Christian. I also believe that no good will come from simply closing a blind eye to the obvious abuses in the church. Clean the mess up!
Barbara, you are right. The similarities between these guys and Rome in the 16th century are astounding. And that is simply a repeat of the 1st century. The devil doesn’t have new weapons.
When I listen to PP I find his demeanor to be arrogant. He comes across as knowing he’s untouchable. I think PP has enjoyed too many years of no accountability. The tables have turned. There will be some who will support him until the day they die, but I have a feeling that the voices will be stronger from those who want to see change.
Wartburg Watch today was wondering why all this dirt on PP is surfacing all of a sudden. There is speculation this could be a propaganda blitz of leaks setting up for a coup in the SBC.
Curious Thinker said “and a bit too unfairly biased in favor of Pastor Gilyard”
Yes, he pushed Gilyard as hard as he could, and when confronted with the increasing stories about Gilyard’s misdeeds he had two choices, accept the truth that he was pushing a wolf on unsuspecting churches, or double down on the lie that Gilyard was the man he thought he was.
It’s obvious what he chose, and even now, he continues to double down on saving face even though it’s brutally obvious that he was further abusing Gilyard’s victims.
Bike Bubba says:
What strikes me here is that the context appears to be a suggestion from SNAP that the SBC put together a list of former pastors/staffers who have been shown the door due to varying degrees of sexual misconduct. In response, you’ve got some fairly sharp attacks on SNAP by Patterson that I don’t believe are accurate. Yes, SNAP has, rightly or wrongly, been criticized on certain fronts, but I don’t believe they’ve been credibly attacked for spreading false allegations. I’m pretty close to suggesting Patterson is guilty of slander there.
And that response is troubling to me. Either the request/suggestion is good or bad, and you evaluate it on its merits, right? Apparently not in Patterson’s world. Moreover, another part of the response is that doing so would violate something of local church autonomy. Now I’ve held a position of church autonomy for about 30 years, can explain why I hold it, all that, but if it indeed is an essential of autonomy that you can’t keep a list in your association about who’s a pervert, sign me up for bishops.
Regarding the notion itself, you’d definitely want a good lawyer to look over how it’s done so you don’t get sued for putting people out of work, but I like it. Specify who was shown the door, why, whether it was a criminal issue or not, and make it available to the association and for that matter churches outside the association. Done right, it expands the information available to churches far beyond the standard background and reference checks.
The thing I’d guess a lot of people might object to is the likely consequences of not using the list when it’s available, or if someone “nudges” a name off the list and a disaster occurs. Put gently, if the list exists, I don’t want to be on the witness stand before a hostile plaintiff’s lawyer asking why I either didn’t consult the list, or I ignored it, in hiring someone. “here’s the keys to the facility, sir, it’s yours now”
HUG – that certainly could be. Think of how the Neo-Calvinists take over churches with Calvinist theology without letting congregants know they are Calvinist. We know there has been a long-time Calvinist conflict in the SBC.
Kathi – yes, his demeanor is definitely untouchable . . . and when he talks about the “built” teen, I found it creepy, that he was getting sexual enjoyment over looking sexually at a minor. Disgusting!
Good comment, Sam (sorry, it got stuck in moderation. I’ve been “stuck” at school!)
roscuro says:
I second the notion that there needs to be inter-church, perhaps even interdenominational, accountability for pastors and other church officials, so we can know who has done well and who has disqualified themselves. This was clearly practiced the New Testament church, as Paul repeatedly either commends or condemns church leaders and officials by name to the churches to whom he is writing, and speaks of sending letters of recommendation more than once.
Probably ought to modify what I wrote above just a touch, per Roscuro’s comment. (thx) There are a couple of reasons that you might not want to have a church directory of those shown the door for sexual misconduct. First of all, you could have church discipline getting it dead wrong–a number of people who comment here can speak to that. Second, you might cause false confidence among the users, and then find out that your real bad actors had chosen not to enter relevant actions into the database.
For a good example of that, think of the Eric Schneiderman case in New York. Yes, politics and not religion, sure, but notice in the writing that people urged his victims not to report because he was valuable for the Democrats there. You get the same thing in church circles, too–I’m not just pointing my finger at the left here!
So to make the database work–and I encourage doing just that–you’ve got to really start a culture of dealing properly with sexual abuse/etc.. in SBC churches first. And in that case, I would guess that your list would be nowhere near as long as it otherwise would be. Good things all, but it takes some doing.
I am convinced that the ones who steadfastly refuse to see abuse right in front of them are abusers themselves.
I am beginning to come around to this way of thinking, Sam. Not all, some may need education in the way predators work. But the ones who refuse such education, who look someone dead in the face, hear their tears, see their bruises, and send them home with some sort of ‘submit harder/this is your cross to bear’ advice? Those guys I would not trust for a second.
Twitter is a fascinating insight into these mens minds too. Get them talking about abuse, and before long they are lamenting that if they shove their wives in anger, or hit her once, or XYZ then the wives should not get a ‘pass” or a get out jail free card. There is NO way those homes are happy if their chief worry here is that a wife will hear that she has freedom and chose to use it.
Thanks Sam Powell, and thanks especially for saying this:
“I am convinced that the ones who steadfastly refuse to see abuse right in front of them are abusers themselves. I wonder how many pastors abuse their wives, are addicted to porn, and are child predators themselves.Ugh. The battle is far, far deeper than Patterson.”
@TruthDetector, here is a post by Jeff Crippen. It talks about how abusers use Matthew 18 and the ‘two or three witnesses’ thing to resist being held accountable.
https://cryingoutforjustice.com/2015/08/05/gods-rules-of-evidence-are-often-misapplied-to-the-harm-of-abuse-victims/
Carolyn G. says:
“I am convinced that the ones who steadfastly refuse to see abuse right in front of them are abusers themselves.” I, too, agree with this quote. I’ve seen it happen.
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Shy1 says:
Paige Patterson complains, “My little granddaughters, 10 and 8, were here the other day and heard on TV that their grandpa harbored sex criminals! I suppose that this is somehow OK since I am a pastor?” No, Mr. Patterson it is OK because YOU DID IT. OWN IT. How would you like your little granddaughters to be treated the way you treated Gilyard’s victims? SHEESH. Narcissistic, bull-headed man, cannot even see himself for what he is. Is being a grandpa supposed to confer some kind of immunity in his mind?
Paige Patterson complains, “My little granddaughters, 10 and 8, were here the other day and heard on TV that their grandpa harbored sex criminals!
Shy1, these men are constantly using women or in this girls as shields for themselves. Does my wife deserve this? Do my kids deserve this? Do my grandkids? When this=hearing about stuff this man has done. Don’t do it then, bub. I’m not hear for it.
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Adventures in Odyssey Video #7: Electric Christmas (Digital)
It's Christmastime and all Dylan Taylor wants is an XR-7 limited edition speedster. But all of his hopes are zapped when he discovers that it's too expensive for his family to buy. That is, until he hears that the two-wheeled titanium turbo bike is the grand prize of Odyssey's Christmas yard decorating contest! But Dylan's scheming neighbor Doug has other plans---and when Dylan sees Doug's elaborate yard, Dylan switches his design from a simple manger scene to a super-charged, mega-watt wonderland. What follows is a powerful reminder that grounds them all in the true meaning of Christmas.
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Flaurie & Finch is an exciting new lifestyle brand inspired from the vivid colorations and alluring textures of nature. A spin off of flaura and fauna, the name conveys the brand’s true intent, which is to create sophisticated and timeless fabric collections inspired by all things nature, connecting florals and wildlife with structured textures. Colorful, refined, classic and beautiful, the fabrics are designed to appeal to modern traditionalists in search of something distinct and fresh for their home.
The creative women behind the brand, Linda Fitch and Vanessa Laurie Stevens, pull from their classic training in fine arts, surface design, illustration and figure painting. They design in a collaborative spirit, building on each other’s artistic strengths. “We take a fine art approach to fabric design, gaining inspiration from the colors and textures in nature that surround us. We like to embrace current trends in fashion and home décor, and create designs that attract those who want to dive into quilting in a fresh new way,” shares Vanessa. Adds Linda, “We hope to inspire quilters to push the envelope to create a new dimensional perspective, and original pieces of art.”
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J Pritchett Uncategorized December 21, 2020 December 21, 2020 1 Minute
Washed up, shut up: Actress and outspoken Republican Party critic Debra Messing suggested last week that she hopes President Donald Trump is sexually assaulted in prison after he leaves office. Last week, the Will & Grace star raised eyebrows with a tweet attacking Mr. Trump while praising the leadership of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.“@realDonaldTrump you are a weak, scared, stupid, inept, negligent, vindictive, narcissistic, criminal,” Messing wrote. “I hope you live a long life in prison where you become the most popular boyfriend to … all inmates.” But you know, unity.
Scotland Forever: At the Scottish National Party’s recent annual conference, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said she had “never been so certain” that Scotland would become an independent nation. As regional parliamentary elections loom in May, Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party is running on a platform of holding a second independence referendum. Scotland and England have a long and bitter history, and they’ve fought dozens of battles over the centuries. Many in Scotland feel betrayed by British P.M. Boris Johnson, the country’s Brexiteer in chief, and his Conservative Party. A revolution is an ugly thing, but maybe it’s time to have one.
Oh please, no: Information points that Netflix is thinking about a “Firefly” reboot. Please dear gods, don’t let it be true.
Just asking: If the fbi interviewed Swalwell in 2015, why did they not say anything until now?
Sorry, not funny:Let’s see how many “comedians” make fun of “Dr. Biden”, Jim Biden, or, well, Hunter is already a joke but they won’t say anything anyway. I’d really like to see a picture of Jimmy Kimmel holding the bloody head of Kathy Griffin because let’s face it, she isn’t funny.
It’s all for “your safety”: After months of being closed, a popular visitor attraction on Oahu is slated to reopen this week with COVID-19 protocols in place. Diamond Head State Monument will reopen to the public on Thursday, exactly nine months after state officials closed it due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And since the 300 bars, restaurants, and small stores are closed forever, you’ll have plenty of time to go for that nice healthy walk. Following protocols of course.
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As the Future of Work Arrives, HR Pros Need to Rethink Benefits Strategies
By Joe Boone | August 2, 2020
As the fallout from the pandemic forces HR professionals to rethink what the future of work will look like — both in the short and long term — they’ll also need to examine their benefits offerings to ensure they meet the demands of a constantly changing workforce and environment.
The catch: No one can predict which workplace responses to the pandemic will be temporary and which will become permanent changes. It’s possible that by the end of the year, some offices will be back to business as usual. The other, seemingly more likely, option is that we see a permanent shift in how and where people perform their jobs, with more of our workforces operating remotely on a routine or even full-time basis. This scenario will fundamentally change the future of HR professionals’ jobs — and in turn, benefits offerings and employees’ insurance needs.
Disability Offerings Remain as Valuable as Ever
While disability insurance has been a longstanding product available in the group marketplace, many employees and employers alike are not entirely sure what disability insurance does, and they don’t recognize a personal need for this coverage.
As the workforce changes and becomes more distributed and home-based, employers and employees have new things to consider when it comes to disability coverage. Most policies provide “return-to-work” incentives, which allow employees to work part-time while recovering from a sickness or injury. For an employee now working permanently from home, the transition to part-time and eventually full-time work may happen earlier and more effectively, without the added challenge of commuting or transportation logistics. And accommodations that they would need in an office in order to return from an illness or injury may be more easily accessible in a home-based work environment. These types of provisions allow the employee to begin earning an income again, while also supported by insurance income. For the employer, these provisions facilitate an earlier return for productive employees.
The need for disability insurance isn’t going anywhere, but employers will need to think through how the offerings can best support their industries and their employees, given these anticipated changes to the meaning of “workplace.”
Managing a Remote — or Absent — Workforce
Another consideration for employers are absence-management programs, which are often available in conjunction with a disability product. But the considerations HR professionals need to take are changing: What does absence management look like when a significant number of your employees are working remotely? How does an employer effectively track productivity? As an HR professional, how do you ensure policies are applied consistently across your workforce?
Outsourcing absence oversight and monitoring federal and state paid leave regulations may be a new or more significant consideration for employers who find that in a virtual environment, recruiting efforts become more “nationally-based” — not limited to a specific geographic area.
While this evolution benefits talent acquisition initiatives, it also drives more complex employment-related regulatory activity. Managing leave and compensation requirements across state lines gets tricky, and as we see more states implement their own programs, this will continue to be a challenge.
Open Enrollment Season — a Focus on Communication
It’s not only the benefits offerings that will look different in the future; the way employees enroll in them will change, as will the way that employers communicate with their organizations. This year, HR pros face new challenges with effective communication for two reasons. Workforces in some industries and some regions may remain predominately remote through 2020, and many employers, especially small businesses, have been significantly impacted by the pandemic and may be forced to push more of the cost of benefits products to employees.
With this in mind, it’s imperative that HR professionals think through how they can most effectively use digital tools to disseminate information to employees to both educate and inform them about options for coverage and the enrollment process.
In addition to electronic communications, it’s also important to think through the personal support employers can provide through annual enrollment activity. In the absence of face-to-face meetings, they can ensure they have the tools and resources in place to answer questions and provide individual guidance to employees.
Going Forward: The Future of Benefits
The pandemic also has employees thinking more than ever about how they can protect their families. Even if employees aren’t directly impacted by COVID-19, many are thinking about protection for the first time and want to ensure they have a plan in place to ensure they and their families are safe, no matter what happens. Given this, it’s likely employers will see more of an interest in employee-paid products such as supplemental life insurance and critical illness coverages.
As all HR professionals already know, 2020 will be a year that forces employers to rethink many aspects of the workforce as we know it. While change is always daunting, HR professionals also have a unique opportunity to reshape their organizations and bring them into the future. When it comes to benefits, trends that have already emerged or accelerated this year — such as a shift towards all-online enrollment, and the growth of employee-paid products — will likely be here to stay.
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Careerist narcissists: The new political elite – By George J. Marlin
The following appears in the July 1-7, 2011 issue of the Long Island Business News:
For most of our nation’s history, public officials governed part time and then returned to their day jobs outside of politics. In towns, villages and neighborhoods, storefront entrepreneurs served as mayors, legislators or on boards because they believed it was their civic responsibility to do so.
Local residents, working hard to raise families and to make ends meet, and without the time to stay on top of community issues, were grateful they had neighbors willing to take on these low-paying or volunteer positions and act for the common good.
In the early 1970s, however, there appeared a new careerist political class whose members pushed out part-timers from the public arena. Seeking and holding public office meant everything to them. Their career, livelihood and self-identity depended on it.
These “me generation” narcissists craving political power believe they are the only ones fit to govern, not because they are lovers of the downtrodden or have experience, but because they are measurably smarter than the public at large and that society will benefit from their counsel.
They also possess grandiose views of their talents, excessive interests in themselves, a craving for attention and admiration, and a consciousness of superiority. This type of narcissist, according to the noted social philosopher Christopher Lasch, “depends on others to validate his self-esteem. He cannot live without an admiring audience.
“For the narcissist, the world is a mirror, whereas the rugged individual saw it as an empty wilderness to be shaped to his own design.”
Success for these narcissists “consists of nothing more substantial than a wish to be vastly admired, not for one’s accomplishments, but simply for oneself, uncritically and without reservation.”
The poster boy for this new class of political narcissism is recently deminted Congressman Anthony Weiner – although there are numerous other examples in New York.
Weiner, for example, has never had a real job in the private sector. Straight out of SUNY Plattsburgh, he went to work as an aide to then-U.S. Rep. Charles Schumer. In 1991, at age 27, he was elected to the New York City Council and in 1998 was elected to Congress.
Weiner is a political narcissist who has excelled at self-promotion, campaigning, fundraising and self-exaltation. “Please understand I am a very important man,” he lectured an Internet groupie. All that mattered was his political ambitions and sexual prowess, not sound judgment, duty or character.
Shameless, he was willing to do whatever it took to cling to his office. His handling of Tweetergate proves it: When lying didn’t work, he tried public flagellation, and when that failed, he declared himself a victim, an expectant father and then checked into a treatment center. He held out as long as he could because he has had no existence apart from his role in public life. Weiner will never adjust to civilian life. He will be a lost soul forever living off of past glories and attempting political comebacks.
Weiner and fellow political narcissists – New York Power Authority chief executive Richie Kessel springs to mind – have in common an inflated sense of themselves. For them the world is an extension of their wills and emotions. Because they are the anointed ones, the people should be submissive to their exercise of power. Any who challenge their vision are unworthy, insensitive, evil and intellectually and morally bankrupt.
Since they venerate only their egos, they are willing to disregard law and shame in pursuit of accolades and power.
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BreakingNews Says:
Reliable sources in WPO say Richie was summoned to Albany Tues, met with a senior Cuomo person for 10 minutes, was dismissed after 10 minutes and is soon headed out the door to Palookaville. The long Kessel nightmare at PASNY is drawing to a close. Goodbye Richie. Goodbye Fran. Goodbye Tom. Goodbye Rocco. Goodbye Frank. Goodbye Libby. Goodbye and Goodnight.
No Fan Of Kessel Says:
Rumor mill says that Kessel will be staying on until December and then allowed to retire. Hopefully, his team of hacks will be departing with him.
Wherearetheadults? Says:
Richie doesnt come to work, makes illegal contrbutions, is being investigated more than Roger Clemens, has staff drive his deli sandwiches and Chinese food from the city and LI, is ruining a once fine authority but where are the adults? aren’t Townsend, Dyson, Foster, the Judge and others supposed to do something to control the big lug and fix this mess? why are they enabling this buffoon? if they dont do something, aren’t they responsible too?
SleeplessinWhitePlains Says:
Richie going around telling one and all that he’s going to survive, that Larry Schwartz, the Gov’s new secretary,is Richi’s very good friend and that no one can touch him and that he meets with the Governor all the time and is in the inner circle. he’s also saying that the Gov’s office gave him ok to go upstate on a speaking tour and that if he were on the way out they wouldnt let him do this. If this is all true, I cant stay here much longer and I suspect I wont be alone. How does this guy get away with this?
I'llTakeasideofslawwiththat Says:
Today’s Newsday reports that “Kessel’s days at LIPA also under investigation”. Article says that Kessel uncharacteristically was “unavailable for comment.” So, Richie is being investigated by the State IG on NYPA matters, the State IG on LIPA matters and the NYPA board on NYPA matters (temporarily suspended). No wonder the guy has to eat.
BringmeaSandwichandaBlintz Says:
I passed Frank Ryan and Tom Dejesu on the way back from the City brining Richie’s lunch to him from Katz’s on one of the few days he’s in WPO. How does he get away with all this? I hear he’s telling people that he’s taking the summer off (who would notice the difference) and going to come back strong in September. he may even work two days a week. Marlin why dont you FOIL his schedule and diary.
HungryforMoreKesselInfo Says:
good to see Kessel reference here. Thanks. We’re starved for more info about Kessel.
Gov'tMule Says:
maybe the people who voted them into office don’t like themselves very much and figure they deserve leaders such as what we have. Maybe some who voted and or hired these folks were somehow connected and thought they would end up getting a kickback. Dumbed-down and monsterous. De-evolution.
Hey George, thanks for trying, keep up the good work.
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Map Monday: Noise Maps of Minnesota and the Twin Cities
Eric Anondson • April 3, 2017
A while ago I came across an interactive noise map of the globe. Punch in a location and it pops up a map. Zooming out to a state-level seems to remove the noise data, this is a large as I could screen grab.
Interesting to see this above noise map rates industrial zoned for consideration for noise but it doesn’t look like it includes sites like gravel pits.
I’d also come across this map published by the National Park Service for noise in the United States. Bordering on being not more than a population map, you can see some areas of oil extraction show up in North Dakota and Texas. Continental noise maps aren’t as useful when looking for noise by neighborhoods.
Click to enlarge. (Source: National Park Service)
MPR published an article from “NPR Staff” that highlighted a noise map from Bureau of Transportation Statistics. This differed from the two above maps in that it includes the airport noise maps lacking in the others.
Click to enlarge. Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
I’ve zoomed in to this map and it appears there are some graphical glitches in the data. There are some interesting strange noise lines happening up by the Crystal Airport that don’t seem to fit a pattern of airplane use, a strange noisy elbow around Ramsey and another one by Buffalo. Just south of Lake Minnetonka there are single sources that top the charts with noise along TH 7. Glitches? Or maybe there is something noisy happening there?
Still, I found this map among the more useful noise maps simply for the inclusion of airport noise.
About Eric Anondson
Born in St. Louis Park and lived there nearly 28 years but has been living in Hopkins since 2008. Eric's hopped around two years or so at a time in Loring Park, Laurel Village, Snellby, Whittier, and Golden Valley. He works in downtown Minneapolis. On Twitter as @xeoth.
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3 thoughts on “Map Monday: Noise Maps of Minnesota and the Twin Cities”
Bill LindekeModerator April 3, 2017 at 8:46 am
I am most curious about the “pockets” of noise-free areas including near Mendota Heights/Saint Paul border, in Northeast, and a tiny donut hole in Richfield.
I also feel like this map doesn’t really capture the effect of freeway noise. See also: http://tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-silent-sanity-of-freeway-free.html
Eric Anondson April 3, 2017 at 10:17 am
I thought the Bloomington gap was a glitch, but I’m not sure anymore. The airport noise profiles seem rather straight, a bit of widening towards the ends where planes begin turning, but what’s with the sharp hook into western Richfield.
I agree with you about highway noise. I live in a part of Hopkins where that’s outside the highway noise map colors. However 169 passes through on a very long viaduct, with no walls, over Excelsior, rails, a local street, a skate park and a couple commercial properties. It’s high enough to be above the SuperValu distribution warehouse that separates the highway from the residential. The warehouse is as effective of a noise barrier as a lake because of the height of the bridge. I would wager there are competing algorithms for how far highway noise “counts”, and all of them run into real world strange effects unique to those places.
Justin Doescher April 3, 2017 at 11:04 am
We should be capping freeways at every opportunity. That would really cut down on the noise.
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HomeFrom the Estate Of Nick Meglin
From the Estate Of Nick Meglin
Nick Meglin (July 30, 1935 – June 2, 2018) spent 48 years at Mad, from 1956 through his retirement in 2004, holding the position of Editor for 20 years. Bill Gaines called Meglin “the heart of Mad” and “the soul and conscience of Mad,” and he was responsible for recruiting many of the artists and writers.
Meglin earned a certificate from the School of Visual Arts (where he met lifelong friend and colleague Angelo Torres), He was a member the legendary Fleagle Gang, a group that included Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel, Angelo Torres and George Woodbridge. He was later an art instructor at SVA. His books include The Art of Humorous Illustration and Drawing from Within.
Each of the books from the collection of Nick Meglin include a Certificate of Authenticity from the family, stating "Madly Yours, From The Estate Collection of Nick Meglin" and numbered and signed by his daughter Diane Meglin. The icing on the cake is the COA features a portrait of Meglin by Legendary Mad artist Mort Drucker!
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James Bama: American Realist - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
James Bama, Bama, James, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, San Jose, Flesk, 2006, 1st, 9780972375887, 11.25 inches, 8.75 inches, 160 pages, over 300 color illustrations, hardcover, boards, English
From the collection of longtime Mad Magazine editor Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity "Madly Yours, From The Estate Collection of Nick Meglin"...
Icon: A Retrospective by Frank Frazetta - Hardcover 1st - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Frank Frazetta, Frazetta, Frank, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket (tail of the spine bumped, moderate wear to dustjacket edges), Grass Valley, Underwood, 1998, 1st, 1887424415, 12.25 inches, 9.5 inches, xii, 164 pages, 100 color and 40 black & white illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, English
This copy belonged to Frank Frazetta's lifelong friend and longtime Mad Magazine editor Nick Meglin. With a Certificate of Authenticity "Madly Yours, From...
Private Lives of Public Figures - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Drew Friedman, Friedman, Drew, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light wear to lower corner), New York, St. Martin's Press, 1993, 1st, 978-0312093662, 7.5 inches, 7.5 inches, 80 pages, 70 black & white illustrations, Softcover, color wraps, English
This copy is from the collection of longtime Mad Magazine editor Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity "Madly Yours, From The Estate Collection of...
Warts and All - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Josh Alan Friedman, Drew Friedman, Friedman, Josh Alan, Friedman, Drew, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Good+ (moderate wear to rear corners, light wear to covers, interior sound), Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1994, 1st thus, 978-1560971436, 7.4 inches, 7.8 inches, 88 pages, black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English
Lynn Johnston
Never Wink at a Worried Woman: A For Better Or For Worse Collection - Inscribed with a Drawing - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Lynn Johnston, Johnston, Lynn, Inscribed with a drawing by Lynn Johnsto, Very Good+ (mild wear to the corners and edges, two small indentations to front cover, interior Fine), Kansas City, Andrews & McMeel, 2005, 1st, 9780740754449, 9 inches, 8.5 inches, 128 pages, black & white, softcover, wraps, English
Inscribed by Lynn Johnston "For Nick!" (Meglin) with a drawing of Elly with three hearts. This copy is from the collection of longtime Mad Magazine...
The Illustrations of Rockwell Kent: 231 Examples from Books, Magazines and Advertising Art - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Fridolf Johnson, Rockwell Kent, Johnson, Fridolf, Kent, Rockwell, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Good+ (light shelfwear and rubbing to the lower front corner of the cover, interior Fine, flat, tight, clean), Dover, New York, 1976, 1st, 11.2 inches, 8.4 inches, xiv, 130 pages, 231 illustrations, softcover, wraps, English
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Everett Raymond Kinstler: The Artist's Journey Through Popular Culture, 1942-1962 - Signed - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Everett Raymond Kinstler, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Everett Raymond Kinstler, Jim, Kinstler, Everett Raymond, Signed by the author Jim Vadeboncoeur to Nick Meglin, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (lower corners bumped otherwise Fine, clean, bright, tight), Nevada City, CA, JVJ Publishing, 2005, 1st, 978-0972469722, 11.25 inches, 8.75 inches, 240 pages, 380 illustrations and photographs, over 150 in color, Hardcover, boards, English
Simon and Kirby Classics #1 - Stuntman - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Simon, Joe, Kirby, Jack, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Fine, Pure Imagination, New York, 1987, 1st, 10.75 inches, 8.3 inches, 56 pages, black & white illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English
The Drawings of Heinrich Kley - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Heinrich Kley, Kley, Heinrich, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Good+ (mild wear), Dover, New York, 1961, 1st, 10.7 inches, 7.9 inches, viii, 128 pages, 200 illustrations, softcover, wraps, English
Bernard Krigstein
B. Krigstein Vol. 1 - Inscribed First - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Greg Sadowski, Bernard Krigstein, Sadowski, Greg, Krigstein, Bernard, Inscribed by the author. From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (upper corners lightly bumped, mild sagging to the text block), Fantagraphics, Seattle, 2002, 1st, 12.3 inches, 9.4 inches, xxii, 250 pages, over 500 color and black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English
Inscribed by the author: "To Nick Meglin - Thanks for the help. Greg Sadowski" This copy is from the collection of longtime Mad Magazine editor Nick...
The Art of Drawing with Pencil, Pen and Brush - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
David Stone Martin, Martin, David Stone, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (very light wear), New York, Grumbacher, 1973, 13 inches, 10.5 inches, 28 pages, 61 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps
The Paperback Covers of Robert McGinnis - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Art Scott, Robert McGinnis, Scott, Art, McGinnis, Robert, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light creases to the front cover, along the spine and the fore edge, light shelfwear, tight, flat, and unread), Boston, Pond, 2001, 2nd, 0966677641, 9.75 inches, 8.25 inches, 144 pages, over 370 color illustrations, softcover, French wraps, English
Charles Reid
Charles Reid's Watercolor Secrets - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Charles Reid, Reid, Charles, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine, issued without dustjacket (light cover wear), Cincinnati, North Light Books, 2004, 1st, 9781581804232, 8.8 inches, 11.3 inches, 128 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, cloth spine, pictorial boards, English
Charles Reid's Watercolor Solutions - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Charles Reid, Reid, Charles, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (light wear), Cincinnati, North Light Books, 2008, 1st, 9781581809916, 11.25 inches, 8.5 inches, 128 pages, color, Hardcover, cloth, English
Figure Painting in Watercolor - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Charles Reid, Reid, Charles, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket (tear to the back cover and three small tears along the top edge), Watson Guptill, New York, 1972, 1st, 8.25 inches, 11 inches, 160 pages, 56 full color reproductions and more than 115 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English
Painting What You Want to See - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Charles Reid, Reid, Charles, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine in Fine dustjacket (previous owner's blindstamp and hand-written name and address on the front free endpaper), New York, Watson Guptill, 1983, 2nd, 0823038785, 11.3 inches, 8.5 inches, 144 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 112 color pages, Hardcover, cloth, English
Pulling Your Paintings Together - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Charles Reid, Reid, Charles, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Fine in Fine dustjacket, New York, Watson Guptill, 1985, 1st, 0823044475, 11 inches, 8.25 inches, 160 pages, 140 color illustrations, 60 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English
Noel Sickles
Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Noel Sickles, Sickles, Noel, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (moderate wear to the top edge of the dustjacket), San Diego, IDW, 2008, 1st, 9781600102066, 11.3 inches, 11.25 inches, 394 pages, color and black & white, hardcover, cloth, English
Burton Silverman
Sight & Insight: The Art of Burton Silverman - Hardcover 1st - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Burton Silverman, Silverman, Burton, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Good+ in Near Fine dustjacket (upper corners badly bumped, lower corner lightly bent, interior Fine), Madison Square Press, New York, 1998, 1st, 12 inches, 9.25 inches, 157 pages, color and black & white, hardcover, cloth, English
The Steranko History of Comics 2 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Steranko, Steranko, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Good+ (1/2" tear to top of back cover, light crease to top of the first dozen pages, mild wear to covers, binding sound, pages flat), Reading, PA, Supergraphics, 1972, 14 inches, 11 inches, 128 pages, 29 full-page black & white illustrations and over 370 comic covers, softcover, color wraps, English
The Art of Alex Toth - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Alex Toth, Toth, Alex, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light bump to tail of the spine, flat, tight, clean and sharp), San Francisco, Feature Associates, 1977, 10.7 inches, 8.25 inches, 64 pages, black & white, softcover, wraps, English
From the collection of longtime Mad Magazine editor Nick Meglin, a friend of Toth's since the early 1950s. With a Certificate of Authenticity "Madly Yours,...
The Art of Al Williamson - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
James Van Hise, Al Williamson, Van Hise, James, Williamson, Al, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Good+ (moderate horizontal crease along the spine, mild cover wear, no thumbdents, interior flat, tight, clean), San Diego, CA, Blue Dolphin, 1983, 1st, 0943128048, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 144 pages, black & white illustrations, softcover, color wraps, English
From the collection of longtime Mad Magazine editor Nick Meglin, a lifelong friend of Al Williamson. With a Certificate of Authenticity "Madly Yours, From...
Third Rail #1 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Al Williamson, Williamson, Al, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (upper corner coffee stained, binding tight), Ken Feduniewicz, Lyndhurst, 1981, 1st, 11 inches, 8.25 inches, 48 pages, black & white, softcover, wraps, English
From the collection of longtime Mad Magazine editor Nick Meglin, a lifelong friend of Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel. With a Certificate of Authenticity...
Black & White Images 5 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (bump to the head of the spine causing a crease one half inch from the top, light wear to the top right corner, otherwise flat, tight, clean), Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. / JVJ Publishing, Palo Alto, CA, 2010, 1st, 12 inches, 9 inches, 106 pages, over 200 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps, English
Buried Treasure #1 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Fine, Pure Imagination, New York, 1986, 1st, 10.7 inches, 8.25 inches, 52 pages, black & white illustrations, Softcover, color wraps, English
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine, Pure Imagination, New York, 1986, 1st, 10.7 inches, 8.25 inches, 52 pages, black & white, Softcover, color wraps, English
Caniffites Journal 85 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Fine, SPEC Productions, Manitou Springs, CO, 1995, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 16 pages, black & white illustrations, softcover, color wraps, English
Comics about Cartoonists: Stories About the World's Oddest Profession - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Craig Yoe, Yoe, Craig, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine, issued without dustjacket (light wear), San Diego, IDW Books, 2013, 1st, 978-1613773468, 11.25 inches, 8.75 inches, 192 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English
Funnyworld #14 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light wear), Little Rock, AR, 1972, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 48 pages, black & white illustrations throughout and 10 pages in color, softcover, wraps, English
Graphic Gallery 1 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Fine, Russ Cochran, Adel, IA, 1973, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 60 pages, over 100 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps, English
The very first issue of Russ Cochran's seminal 1970s original comic art catalog and gallery. Sharp reproduction on slick stock. Frank Frazetta: 25 ink...
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light shelfwear, flat, tight), Russ Cochran, Adel, IA, 1973, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 60 pages, over 100 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps, English
Graphic Gallery 10 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light shelfwear, flat, tight), Russ Cochran, West Plains, MO, 1977, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 64 pages, over 100 black & white illustrations, softcover, color wraps, English
Russ Cochran's seminal 1970s original comic art catalog and gallery. Sharp reproduction on slick stock. Alex Raymond is the featured artist with four...
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light bend at one corner otherwise Fine, flat, tight), Russ Cochran, Adel, IA, 1973, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 64 pages, over 100 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps, English
Russ Cochran's seminal 1970s original comic art catalog and gallery. Sharp reproduction on slick stock. Originals by Frank Frazetta, Carl Barks, Harold...
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light bend at one corner otherwise Fine, flat, tight), Russ Cochran, Adel, IA, c1974, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 64 pages, over 100 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps, English
Russ Cochran's seminal 1970s original comic art catalog and gallery. Sharp reproduction on slick stock. An early issue. Featuring over 100 works...
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light bump at one corner otherwise Fine), Russ Cochran, Adel, IA, 1974, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 72 pages, 19 color and over 100 black & white illustrations, softcover, color wraps, English
Russ Cochran's seminal 1970s original comic art catalog and gallery. Sharp reproduction on slick stock. In color: Harvey Kurtzman & Will Elder's...
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light bump at one corner otherwise Fine), Russ Cochran, West Plains, MO, 1975, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 68 pages, 4 full-page color and over 100 black & white illustrations, softcover, color wraps, English
Russ Cochran's seminal 1970s original comic art catalog and gallery. Sharp reproduction on slick stock. The color centerspread is Richard Corben's Tarzan...
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine (light bump at one corner otherwise Fine), Russ Cochran, West Plains, MO, 1976, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 64 pages, 5 color and over 100 black & white illustrations, softcover, color wraps, English
Russ Cochran's seminal 1970s original comic art catalog and gallery. Sharp reproduction on slick stock. Four Ken Barr paintings in color. Alex Raymond,...
Graphic Story Magazine #15 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Good+ (mild bump to the tail of the spine, mild rubbing to the corner), Bill Spicer, Los Angeles, 1973, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 32 pages, black & white illustrations, softcover, color wraps, English
Graphic Story World #1-4 - Set - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Fine, Richard Kyle, Long Beach, CA, 1971, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 40 pages, black & white, softcover, wraps, English
The first four issues of Richard Kyle's "Newsletter of the Graphic Story Arts" "Kyle's twelve page newsletter packed a lot into its first issue. Along...
Graphic Story World #5 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
Hogan's Alley #13 - From the Estate of Nick Meglin
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Fine, Bull Moose, Atlanta, GA, 2005, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 152 pages, black & white, softcover, wraps, English
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Light bump to lower corner otherwise Very Fine, Bull Moose, Atlanta, GA, 2005, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 152 pages, black & white, softcover, wraps, English
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Bump to lower corner otherwise Very Fine, Bull Moose, Atlanta, GA, 2009, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 144 pages, black & white, softcover, color wraps, English
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Very Fine, Bull Moose, Atlanta, GA, 2010, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 144 pages, black & white, softcover, color wraps, English
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine, Bull Moose, Atlanta, GA, 2013, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 144 pages, black & white, softcover, color wraps, English
From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Fine, Bull Moose, Atlanta, GA, 2015, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 144 pages, black & white, softcover, color wraps, English
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Innovation Park – Build Partnership
Innovation Park hosts a number of state-of-the-art labs demonstrating low carbon technology, low impact development stormwater management, green infrastructure, and renewable and smart energy systems.
Serviced building plots will be connected to an innovative stormwater management system including a bioretention swale, underground storage chambers, and low impact development strategies. Each building plot will have the opportunity to tie into the onsite renewable energy smart grid and district heating and cooling system.
The individual building plots will either rotate or be updated every five years, during which time they will provide opportunities for undertaking performance verification and in-use research.
Each plot will be developed by a single entity known as a “build partner.” A build partner may be a single organization or a consortium of organizations. Each build partner will be required to agree to the aims and objectives of the project and specific requirements of the individual plot theme, such as performance benchmarks and metrics for the following areas:
Reduced energy consumption (minimum 15% reduction in energy consumption over 2017 Building Code)
Low / Renewable energy
Airtightness
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Biodiversity targets
Additional consultation will further outline opportunities and objectives for research and monitoring, technical performance verification, and overall collaboration. By agreeing to develop a plot, build partners receive the following benefits:
Sponsorship of the plot for a period of five years (including construction period)
Serviced building plot
Ability to test new construction techniques, products and services in a safe environment with reduced risk versus implementation in an inhabited environment
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Use of the building for the duration of the agreement on a shared basis
Access to the international BRE Innovation Parks Network
Networking and partnership opportunities with STEP’s stakeholder network
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Ben Whittaker: Helping to get Birmingham active
Team England boxer Ben Whittaker today supported The National Lottery with increasing activity in Birmingham ahead of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The National Lottery’s Get Active Brum campaign is designed to raise awareness of the £761 million in National Lottery funding to Birmingham and promote the incredible sporting opportunities in the run up to the Commonwealth Games 2022.
2019 marks the 25th birthday of the National Lottery who are helping to raise awareness of the life-changing difference National Lottery funding makes to communities like Birmingham.
Whittaker, who represented Team England at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games visitedSmall Heath Boxing Club to offer tips to young people at the club and to find out what drew them to boxing in the first place.
The Midlands-born athlete was given a tour of the boxing club and the opportunity to hear about the history and ethos of the club from the manager Paddy Benson ahead of conducting a boxing class with local participants.
The 21-year-old boxer from West Bromwich said: “Today I came down to offer a bit of guidance and technique to members of the club and it was great to see everyone smiling and enjoying themselves.”
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FedEx Acquires Competitor TNT Express
in Business, Tech
FedEx Corporation, the parent firm of FedEx has acquired TNT Express for €4.4 billion giving it the world’s largest air express network and an unparalleled road network, which will expand the existing FedEx portfolio and reshape the global transportation and logistics industry.
The deal will also see FedEx take on competitor DHL globally and might even dwarf its efforts in some markets.
“This acquisition is a significant accomplishment and marks the beginning of a new era, filled with promise for our people, customers and shareowners,” said Frederick W. Smith, Chairman and CEO of FedEx.
TNT Express team will join FedEx. The joining of two iconic companies will give FedEx approximately 400,000 team members around the world.
“The timing of this historic event is important, particularly in the current market environment where global e-commerce is growing at double-digit rates,” Smith added. “Adding TNT’s capabilities to our existing world-class suite of services, including GENCO and the recently relaunched FedEx CrossBorder, will further expand the ability of FedEx to support business connections around the world.
With an over 43 year history, FedEx has repeatedly reinvented and revolutionized the industry, from the first overnight express service backed by a money-back guarantee to the invention of internet shipping. The firm is now growing its the U.S. domestic parcel business through ths acquisition and development of what is now FedEx Ground.
“We believe that this strategic acquisition will add significant value for FedEx shareowners, team members and customers around the globe, particularly in Europe where we will establish a strong new competitor,” said Alan B. Graf, Jr., FedEx Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. “The TNT team members bring 70 years of diverse experience, which combined with that of FedEx team members, will make this integration a success.”
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The integration process will begin immediately and TNT Express will be renamed FedEx Ground in the U.S. and globally.
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Africoin wants to be Africa’s answer to bitcoin
Launched by a John Mensah from Ghana, Africoin aims to be Africa’s decentralized digital currency allowing for instantaneous transactions and borderless transfer-of-ownership virtually.
Like bitcoin, Africoin is an internet-based digital currency acting as a medium of exchange and measure of value for goods and services even though it is not a legal tender of any country; replacing or complementing physical bank notes or coins in the near future.
Whether this is another scam or not, Africoin is promising to be a real digital currency which users can use to pay for major Airline tickets, book hotels, pay for Cable TVs (DSTV, GOTV, MyTV Africa etc) after its official launch in February 2017.
The team is also saying that you can also use it to pay for movie tickets, shop online for items like mobile phones, computers, clothing, furniture etc. Though there is not such deal, Africoin says major tech vendors like Microsoft, Dell, Amazon etc will be accepting Africoin as a payment option for their goods and services after its February launch.
Africoin AFC says it started few months ago with an opening price of $0.001 and is now trading at $0.02 compared to the bitcoin price of $0.01 in February 2010 and today’s $750+ price. Africoin is now calling Africans to buy and hold thousand units of Africoin AFC as a sure way to get out of poverty and become a multi-millionaire over a period of 6months or a year.
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“To create wealth, buy at least 1,000 AFC and hold for a while (6-12months), for none traders,” the firm announced. “For speculators or investors, buy hundreds of thousands of AFC and sell step-wisely as the price increases. At the pre-launch stage, you can purchase AFC blocks at almost the opening price. AFC blocks are in multiple of 100,000 coins (units).”
Africoin says its currently traded in several exchanges including Africoin Exchange and there is a growing interest in it. If its a scam, it will come to its knees soon and users would soon demand to know the ownership structure of the organization behind the currency.
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About The Edge
Covid-19 is affecting MLB
Nolan Pomeroy, Staff Reporter
The MLB has continued playing through Covid-19 since July 23rd with some extra safety rules to help prevent it from spreading. The safety rules have been both effective and ineffective in ways keeping some players from catching it while there have also been huge team outbreaks.
Multiple players on the Cardinals have gotten Covid-19 but almost all are asymptomatic according to CBS Sports. This was worrisome to the MLB, so they had postponed their series with the Pirates hoping to stop the number of cases in the MLB. Another team that has had a fear some outbreak was the Marlins with about 18 players and two coaches testing positive, postponing their season too according to CBS Sports. This was a high concern to the MLB so they postponed their game as well.
The MLB has implemented safety rules for the players such as no spitting, no seeds, no licking fingers for grip on the ball, and players must remain 6ft apart from each other at all times in the dugout. Some of these rules may seem crazy to normal people but all these things are what some players do at least twenty-five times a game.
The league has made the decision to let players choose whether players are comfortable enough to play. The ones that are at high risk will receive full salary, while at low risk will not. With this option, many players have decided to opt out. According to Sporting News, One of the players who decided to opt out was the Diamond backs starter pitcher Mike Leake who left, stating that he “took countless factors into consideration many of which are personal to him and his family.” Sporting News says another player that has opted out is Isan Diaz. The second baseman for the Marlins decided that after most of his team had gotten it, he the best decision was to leave for the rest of the year.
Even some coaches have decided to leave for the year because they are old and at risk of dying. Sporting News announced , Busty Posey, coach for the Giants, believes that since he is adopting twins it wouldn’t be right for him to put them at risk.
While the league has taken precautions and is maintaining some semblance of a season, Covid-19 had a big impact on the season putting teams at disadvantages losing key parts of their team while others are at full strength. So, some would say this season doesn’t really count for the world series winner.
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Russian Foreign Ministry on Syria, Iraq, Venezuela and Julian Assange
Escalated Trump Regime Economic Terrorism on Iran
Trump Regime Threatens Iran – Again
Published by Stephen Lendman at December 15, 2019
Russian Foreign Ministry on Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, and Julian Assange
by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman)
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (MZ below) explained that areas of Syria not controlled by government forces comprise the main hot spots — mainly locations east of the Euphrates River in the country’s north.
The US, NATO, Turkey, Israel, and the Saudis comprise the main enemies of restoration of peace and stability to the country.
MZ: “The situation in Idlib remains difficult. Terrorists continue to shell nearby areas, endangering the civilians inside and outside the de-escalation zone.”
“Every day, we record about 40 attacks,” using heavy and other weapons supplied by the West and regional countries.
As long as US-supported terrorists infest Idlib province while Pentagon and Turkish troops illegally occupy Syrian territory, restoration of peace and stability to the country remains unattainable.
Separately, Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria head General Yury Borenkov said he “received information that (US-supported al-Nusra) terrorists, together with members of the White Helmets pseudo-humanitarian organization, plan to stage the use of poisonous substances and destruction of civilian infrastructure facilities in settlements in the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone.”
Turkey increased its force strength in Syria, supporting terrorists, not combatting them.
Southfront reported that hundreds of Jaysh al-Izza jihadists joined up with Turkish forces for regime change in Syria. Endless conflict rages in the country.
Commenting on continuing protests in Iraq since early October, MZ stressed that they’re driven by socioeconomic injustice.
Clashes left around 400 dead, over 15,000 injured, efforts to stabilize things by Iraqi authorities unable to calm social and political tensions.
On December 1, Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi announced his resignation, the country’s president “engaged in proactive consultations with the main parliamentary groups to agree on a new cabinet head,” MZ reported.
Iraqi suffering has been ongoing without letup since the US orchestrated war with Iran in the 1980s, greatly exacerbated by two US wars of aggression and occupation, no end of their misery in prospect.
The struggle to preserve and protect the Western hemisphere’s model social democracy in Venezuela continues despite all-out Trump regime efforts to control the country short of war so far.
On Saturday at the 17th Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America summit, President Nicolas Maduro said “(a)t such a complex time for Latin America and the Caribbean, this ALBA summit brings a message of hope,” adding:
The alliance is a vital “wave of anti-neoliberal changes, which will allow us to face the ‘great struggle’ for the future path of Latin America.”
ALBA’s progressive agenda follows principles of complementarity, not competition; solidarity, not domination; cooperation, not exploitation; and respect for each participating nation’s sovereignty to be free from imperial and Western corporate predator control.
MZ stressed that the US “has no intention of giving up on its policy to remove the legitimate government of Venezuela from power.”
Its war by other means on the country and its people rages.
“It is obvious that the unilateral restrictions imposed by the White House have not brought the anti-government forces any closer to power, while seriously worsening the economic and humanitarian situation in the country,” MZ explained.
She reported updated information on political prisoner Julian Assange, noting his deteriorating health since imprisoned in London last April for the “high crime” of truth-telling journalism.
“Human rights activists regularly cite facts that show that being severely ill, partly due to the conditions of incarceration which was provoked with political resources, Julian Assange has no access to medical aid, he is not given proper nutrition and is constantly subjected to cruel psychological torture,” she explained.
In cahoots with the Trump regime, Britain is killing him slowly.
On Friday by videolink for a Westminister Magistrates Court proceeding, he appeared in worse shape health-wise than weeks earlier.
Bridges for Freedom’s Naomi Colvin said he was “visibly depressed,” his shoulders “slumped.”
He’s been denied due process and judicial fairness since forcibly dragged from Ecuador’s London embassy last spring.
MZ: His appalling mistreatment “is clearly a violation of the applicable laws, regulations and standards that govern and guarantee freedom of the media and journalist safety by the Western world” — further proof that the US and Britain are police states, trashing the rule of law.
“(T)he question is how far (are their ruling regimes willing) to go in their desire to not just take revenge on (Assange) but in fact to do away with him.”
“And all this for the mere fact that he was professionally pursuing his job as a journalist.”
Their message is that journalists and others involved in revealing hard truths about US imperial high crimes risk similar slow-motion crucifixion Assange is enduring.
His extrajudicial mistreatment by Britain in cahoots with the Trump regime is how all fascist police states operate.
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Signpost Winter
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The European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open finished the ninth year. Despite the current situation with coronavirus, almost 300 participants arrived in Brno. Those who could not come cheered from their homes. Now, the organizers are planning the jubilee 10th year! Which will hopefully come back to the heart of the Brno city to Svoboda Square.
European Youth Games for the Disabled finished, al...
Brno had its ninth year of the European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open. Despite the current situation with coronavirus, almost 300 participants arrived at Brno Sports Fields. They measured their strengths in summer sports. The jubilee 10th year is awaiting them and it will be held between 23rd and 27th June 2021.
The Sports part of Emil Open 2020 is over, the acc...
The Sports part of this year’s European Youth Games for the Disabled finished yesterday, there were almost 300 excited athletes between the age 10 to 26. Over 100 participants took home their well deserved medals. Children from abroad who could not come due to coronavirus will have the “emil” T-shirt and a commemorative accreditation card sent to their homes. There is a set of medals coming to every single team.
How are the children enjoying Emil Open 2020?
The Emil Open 2020 participants have already finished one day of competitions but today they keep going! There is also an evening closing ceremony awaiting them. They are also looking forward to the rich accompanying program in Brno. We interviewed a few athletes for you!
Emil Open is like my child, says Veronika Kuchtová...
The ninth year of the European Youth Games for the Disabled is coming. One of the people involved in renewing their tradition in 2017 was also Veronika Kuchtová. Today, she is the only Czech in the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee. We are bringing you an interview with her.
Jan Kraus was entertaining the spectators in Brno,...
To have fun and help at the same time. That is what several spectators of the Eye to eye Jan Kraus show were able to try. He moved from the red sofa to the Brno theater Radost. Thanks to the beneficial event, every visitor supported the Emil Endowment Fund that helps children and youth with disabilities to do sports. The total earnings from the entrance fee is 55,900 Czech crowns. The Comdata company also handed over a check worth 71,000 Czech crowns.
The Festive Opening Ceremony Emil Open 2020 in the...
The ninth European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open were officially started by the festive ceremony in the sports ground of the Technical University in Brno Pod Palackým vrchem (Under the Palacky hill). The atmosphere was underlined by the flag bearers who also represented foreign countries who could not come due to the current situation. Their trainers were also part of the festive parade. The drummers also arrived at the stadium and rapper Lukáš..
A parade with drummers walked through Brno. Emil O...
Yesterday, an hour before noon, everything came to life in the streets of Brno - thanks to the parade that included a live drum show. The joyous parade walked through the heart of Brno thanks to the opening of the ninth European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open. One of the stops was the courtyard of the New Town Hall. The participants were also greeted by the mayor Markéta Vaňková. She will also visit the Brno sports grounds to support the participants...
Life does not end with an injury, says Aleš Kisý, ...
As a boy he played at the swimming pool. And that was it - a damage to the cervical spine, paralysis of his legs and arms. Despite this, goblets and medals from the European Championships and the World Championships proudly shine at his home. As he says, he is still waiting for the Paralympic one. When he doesn’t train himself, he trains the wheelchair team of rugby players. And he will not be missing the Emil Open 2020 either. He is the ambassador of athletics.
We are already looking forward to Brno, say Natálk...
Ten-year old Natálka and Štěpánek at the same age are friends who do sports together. They do athletics but not just the basic one. Štěpán Kaloč trains to ride a wheelchair at 50 meters and throw a ball. Natálie Hlavinková was born with cerebral palsy and limited mobility of her left hand. And this is her first time to take part in the European Youth Games for the Disabled. Both friends from the athletics field answered 10 questions...
News from Emil Open 2020 will be provided by child...
The European Youth Games for the Disabled start on Wednesday 16th September. A team of future journalists will also take care of the media coverage of the event - these are children who create videos or written news under the auspices of experts. These are also children with disabilities.
Memorandum of Cooperation with the Czech Special O...
The European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open 2020 start on 16 September. More than 600 participants from 13 countries will arrive in Brno to measure their performances in five summer sports. Before the start of the four-day “marathon”, one of the key milestones of the Games is the start of the cooperation with the Czech Special Olympic Movement. The organizing association of Emil Sports Association signed a Memorandum with this movement. The goal is to..
8 tips, what to visit during Emil Open 2020
The European Youth Games for the Disabled are not only about sports but also about fun, friendship and about exploring new places. And Brno offers countless of them! This year, the Emil Open participants can count stars or exotic butterflies, the more active ones will appreciate laser “hiding game” or jumping on special trampolines and other attractions. We bring you 8 tips where to go for free thanks to the accreditation card! Just register yourself by September 14th on..
"I have always done everything to the fullest, no ...
Lukáš Polčák was born without part of his leg and arm. Nevertheless, he swam for the Paralympic team and he was the second best swimmer in the Czech Republic. Today, he focuses on fitness, raps his own lyrics and he tries to motivate other people with various disabilities to do sports. One of the most common questions he receives is how to handle “the looks of others.” He experienced bullying at primary school himself. However, he has always done..
No disability can stop us from living to the fulle...
Jiří Ježek lost his leg due to an accident at the age of eleven. Nevertheless, he became the six-time Paralympic winner and also the six-time world champion in cycling. In August, the Spanish journal Marco placed him in the ranking of the best athletes of the 21st century, that's as the only Czech.
We appreciate all volunteers. The key is the empat...
The European Youth Games for the Disabled is also based on volunteers. During the 9th year, 120 of them will take turns on the sports ground. The vast majority of them come to help from the Faculty of Sports Studies of Masaryk University. We are bringing you an interview with their coordinator - Sylva Hřebíčková.
We do maximum for the safety, says the coordinator...
Due to the world pandemic, the ninth year of the Emil Open European Youth Games for the Disables will take place in September. The organizers are currently dealing with all the regulations and recommendations from the institutions and experts. This is why there is a new position in the team, the so-called “COVID coordinator”. “As a part of ‘fair play’ towards our surroundings, friends and teams, we must follow individual precautions, “says Michal..
Help and have fun at the same time! That is the Br...
Jan Kraus arrives in Brno on 16 September and moves from the red couch to the Radost Theatre in Brno. Thanks to the benefit show Face to Face with Jan Kraus, Brno residents can help children and young disabled people play sports. The money collected from the entrance fee goes in its entirety to the Emil Endowment Fund. Admission is 350 crowns and is available online.
In September, Brno hosts the European Games for di...
Brno will host the Emil Open European games for disabled youth for the ninth time. More than 600 participants from 13 countries will come to the Moravian metropolis. They will measure their strength in five sports. The four-day summer games start on Wednesday, September 16th. And this year there is also an engaging accompanying program.
"Brno has had our back," says the president of the...
The global pandemic has affected many events. The Emil Open Summer European Games for Handicapped Youth is one of them. For the first time, they will take place instead of June to September. In the following interview, the president of Emil Open, Pavel Zbožínek, describes what other organizational "hitches " the current situation has brought. It was he who resumed the Games in Brno in 2017.
Inflated accompanying program at the Emil Open 2020
Painting on the wall, a steamboat ride on the Brno dam or scientific experiments. The Emil Open European Youth Games for the Disabled will traditionally bring a varied accompanying program. The Wheelchair Association cooperates on this and its fundraiser Lenka Uldrijanova reveals, in an interview, what the participants or interested parties from the public should not miss.
The Mayor of the City of Brno, Markéta Vaňková: Wh...
She is very well aware of how complicated not only sports can be for the disabled, but also the movement and orientation around the city itself. The fact that she is no stranger to the sport proves that she runs herself, supports Brno clubs and athletes and is personally involved in the preparation of the multifunctional hall at the Brno Exhibition Center.
I will come and support participants of Emil Open...
The Hetman of the South Moravian Region Bohumil Šimek granted the patronage of the 9th European Youth Games for the Disabled, Emil Open. According to Bohumil Šimek, the region has one of the best public transport systems in the Czech Republic. It is the accessibility that is constantly being improved. Bohumil Šimek is going to come to personally support the participants of Emil Open 2020.
Performance strikes are decisive, says concept cre...
Hana Válková is one of the key creators of the concept of the European Games for the handicapped youth Emil Open. She has been teaching at the Faculty of Sports Studies of the Masaryk University, which is a partner of the event, for more than 5 years.
České Railways support Emil Open 2020
Also this year, Czech Railways became a partner of the Emil Open. Read how they will support the 9th European Youth Games for Disabled.
More than 600 participants!
How many participants and which sports will Emil Open host? Read for more
Entries by name are open!
Read more about the details and apply for the Emil Open Summer European Games for Handicapped Youth!
Emil Open 2020 - Preliminary Entries Open!
Preliminary Entries are open till 12th June!
Emil Open launches applications!
From June 1st athletes can register for the 9th Summer European Games!
Emil Open moved to September!
Statement by President of the Emil Open on the date of the 9th Summer European Youth Games for the Disabled
Emil Open President´s statement
President's statement about the current situation of 9th European Youth Games for disabled preparations during the pandemic with coronavirus.
The Association of Regions of the CR supported Emi...
At the meetings of the governors there was accepted a decree of support for Summer European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open
You only have a week!
You only have a week! Preliminary entries are open till 3rd March so don´t wait and send us your application
Today we open the Preliminary Entries for the Emil Open 2020. Until 3rd March 2020 you can express your interest and tell us how many participants you would like to bring and in which sports they are interested to compete.
Vojtěch Kocůrek - New vicepresident of EO 2020
To introduce you to our new vicepresident of the 9th European Open Youth Games for the Disabled, we asked him few questions.
Emil Open 2020 date announced!
Here we go again! The date of the Summer Emil Open 2020 is here! Take you diares, smartphones and write down 24th-28th June 2020! You just can´t miss this event :)
Eva Kacanů was the athletics ambassador
The athletics ambassador Eva Kacanů enjoyed the genuine joy of all competitors that one can see all around at the Emil Open.
Jan Kraus Talk Show
As a part of the accompanying programme, you had a chance to see popular Czech talk show with actor and host Jan Kraus.
Notes from attendants
“I came from Austria on Wednesday together with my team. We compete in Boccia. This is our first time here and I hope to come back next year. The atmosphere is great and I think that my results are not bad either,” Laura, Austria.
Michaela Balcová - Boccia ambassador
Meet this year´s Boccia ambassador Michaela Balcová. She did swimming before she took to Boccia, and she fell in love with the sport instantly during her very first training session.
Batala Boom drummers started the 8th Emil Open in ...
Drummers from Austria went parading in the city centre of Brno and the Emil Open began.
Swimming Schedule
Parapaddleboarding in a world premiere !
Together with companies Ultina back to active, 2Wsports and LODNÍ SPORTY BRNO, the Emil Endowment Fund will introduce a brand-new sport called ParaPaddleboarding designed for sportsmen and sportswomen with a disability.
Final entries open!
There are more than 800 attendants interested in our 8th Europian Youth Games for the Disabled after the preliminary registration. From today, all of them are able to fill in their entry by name and register their athletes and their disciplines.
Move your wing for a good cause and become an assistant to referee or help organizers with production.
Emil Open 2019 - First Entries Open!
Today we open the First Entries for the Emil Open 2019. Until 3rd March 2019 you can express your interest and tell us how many participants you would like to bring and in which sports they are interested to compete.
Emil Open 2019 date announced
Here we go! The date of the Summer Emil Open 2019 is here! Get your diaries and write down 12th -16th June 2019. Also this time you can be looking forward to many days of competitions, fun and experiences Do not forget to share this news with your friends and bring them with you
All Emil Open 2018 photos to download here
A tip for summer evenings- feast your eyes. You all looked and were great!
Emil Open means sport for everyone
Today we bring you an interview with Professor Hana Válková, who works at the Faculty of Sports Studies. She focuses mainly on the sport psychology and is in charge of athletes’ coordination and the philosophy “open”.
What is it like to be a volunteer at Emil Open?
Emil Open could not happen without volunteers, and there were more than a hundred this year. People helping the teams from abroad were wearing orange T-shirts. „We do some interpreting and make sure that everything is clear to the athletes, and we also help with transport in the city,“ said volunteer Lucie, who took care of Lithuanian team.
Jana Procházková: Emil Open is a successful inclusion
She is the head of Emil foundation which title was held in the 7th European Games of Handicapped Youth in Brno. At the end of the whole event, Jana Procházková evaluated the Games.
Golf: a modest start
It was a bit difficult way for golf within European Games of Handicapped Youth. Gold has become a part of Emil’s programme last year. “We had only two golfers. The one was a British successful golfer Ashley Harris,” says Veronika Kuchtová.
Pavel Zbožínek: Joyful event with a slightly bad a...
Pavel Zbožínek is stated as the organisation committee president at the website of Emil Open. During the 7th European Youth Games for the Disabled he was referred to as a sports director on many occasions by the hosts.
Complete Emil Open 2018 results
All sporting events at Emil Open 2018 are over. See the complete results of all sports and categories. You are all the winners for us.
Emil is saying goodbye to Brno. See you next year!
This is the end of sports at Emil Open 2018. The sporting part of the 7th European Youth Games for the Disabled in Brno has ended on Friday evening. The five sites were closed and more than a hundred sets of medals were given to more than four hundreds of athletes from 16 European countries.
Boccia or bocce? Both!
These two sports are very similar, the main difference is that bocce is played outside on grass surface, and boccia is played inside. On Emil Open, bocce is divided to two categories – open and mixed. The players compete on the groups of three. Boccia has only open category with subgroups B1 – B4.
Ashley Harris was looking forward to going to Brno...
Last year he was a participant, this year he came to Brno as an ambassador. British talented golf player Ashley Harris is one of the faces of European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open. He took a liking to Brno and he could not wait to come back to the South Moravia metropolis.
Atlhetics: He has never seen Bolt, but he knows ho...
Patrik Kaleja came to Brno from Eastern Slovakia. He is from Sabinov and is attending a special school in Levoča. The fourteen years old boy has been blind since he was born. It does not make him to have less vigour, quite the opposite.
Swimming: Everything goes better with Arnošt
You can see Brno as at your fingertips from the areal on Kraví hora. The first thing to catch your attention is ancient Špilberk castle, to the right there is contemporary landmark – M Palace. „What a view, look,“ one of the participants of Emil Open was amazed.
Pejchalová: They fight where we resign
Regional councillor Jana Pejchalová wasn’t missing at opening ceremony within 7th European Youth Games for the Disabled and she talked about respect and esteem for all the participants of Emil Open 2018.
Paralympic legend Jiří Ježek says: Emil Open is er...
One of the most famous disabled athletes in the world is cyclist Jiří Ježek. He won the Paralympic Games six times, and he was allowed to start at the time trial at Tour de France. Few people know that he was at the birth of Emil Open. He is a passionate promoter of the event taking place in Brno in these days.
Mayor of Brno: It is an extraordinary and inspirat...
Petr Vokřál, the mayor of Brno, attended opening ceremony and press conference of 7th European Youth Games for the Disabled. As a former athlete and skier he has a strong relation with sport and he supports Emil Open very much.
The Youth Games for the Disabled were opened!
The parade of sixteen European teams was the part of Opening Ceremony of the European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open 2018 this afternoon. The participants met in the sporting areal of BUT in Brno Pod Palackého vrchem. Each team with the flag bearer in the front presented their athletes in the parade.
Emil Open is starting tomorrow!
The European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open 2018 will be ceremoniály opened on Wednesday, June 6. Participants from 16 European countries are coming to Brno so they can compete at selected sports and enjoy the atmosphere of an exeptional international sporting event.
Greetings for the participants of 7. European Yout...
Dear friends, European Youth Games for the Disabled are returning to the south of Moravia and its capital Brno regularly. I believe that all participants of the Games will enjoy the stay in our region. Disabled athletes and their will and enthusiasm are a great inspiration for us.
Where will the athletes be accommodated?
As well as last year, Emil Open cooperates with universities and canteens to provide accommodation and meals for athletes and volunteers.
We are going to Brno for Emil Open. How? By train!
There are only few days left until the seventh year of Emil Open. We are looking forward to meeting all the teams and sport fans in Brno. But there is a question, how to get here? One of the options is by the Czech Railways, which are a partner of Emil Open.
You have done your best
The cuts in budget made it impossible to let all 917 interested athletes from 18 countries participate in this year’s Emil Open. Limit of athletes from abroad is 10 from each country, limits for the Czech athletes are set with regard to representation of each region and number of athletes in each sport.
Zbožínek: Disabled athletes deserve the support
Pavel Zbožínek has started his collaboration with the Emil Foundation in 2016, when he was the head of the team organising the IWAS U23 World Games Prague 2016. Shortly before the 7th year of the Games, we asked Pavel about how the preparations are going.
The programme of this year of Emil Open is already...
The organisers of the 7th year of the European Youth Games for the Disabled announced detailed programme of the Games. Not only the participants, but other visitors can be looking forward to coming to Brno now!
Jan Kraus: Emil Open is a show of will and efforts
Emil Open is supported also by famous Czech personalities. Jan Kraus is traditionally one of them. He has been supporting the Emil Open Games since their beginning, and last year he came to Brno to support them in person. „There is no doubt that the Games have good and useful purpose,“ said Jan Kraus about the Games.
Emil Open is ready, reducing the number of partici...
BRNO – According to the number of registered athletes, this year´s Emil Open was supposed to be record-breaking. Despite the fact that 917 athletes from 18 countries registered, the organisers had to cut the number of athletes less than a month before the Games start. Due to a budget shortfall (in comparison to previous years), it was impossible to ensure sufficient amount of finances for such a big number of participants and games of this extent.
Ježek: Cycling brought me the most important in life
Jiří Ježek is one of the most successful handicapped athletes in the world history. He is six times the Paralympics winner and also the worl champion. He competed with intact athletes on a regular basis and in 2013 attended the famous Tour de France race.
Petr Hladík invites people to help during Emil Open
For the 7th time, the city of Brno will welcome young disabled athletes from all around Europe. Except for taking the event under its auspices, the city invites students of primary schools in Brno to take part in the event.
Půlpán and Špalek: About training and motivation
Table tennis will not be missing as one of the official-programme sports at this year´s Emil Open. The table tennis players Vít Špalek and David Půlpán has achieved big successes in this sport.
Volunteers recruitment still opened
The volunteer are the spirit of all sporting events and without their help it would be difficult to organise anything. The organisers of this year’s European Youth Games for the Disabled launch the volunteers registration in the second week of April.
Accommodation registration open now!
Starting today, you can book accommodation! Do not hesitate to book one of the lodgings at Brno universities. You have time till 7th May. Games are coming, are you excited? :)
Arnošt Petráček: Participation already is a victory
He was the biggest star at the last year’s Emil Open, this year he will be present as an ambassador. World record holder and Paralympic swimming winner, Arnošt Petráček, speaks well of his participation at the European Youth Games for the Disabled.
We are glad that paragolf will appear at the Para...
Former Czech police officer and retired lieutenant. He spent 2007 in Afghanistan and suffered a severe leg injury during an action against Taliban. Now he is the president of the Czech Disabled Golf Association and Czech national representative in both paragolf and Alpine skiing. Miroslav Lidinský.
Volunteers for Emil Open 2018 needed
Do you like sports and are you glad to be helpful? Do you want to experience unique atmosphere of an international event similar to Paralympics? We are looking for you!
The three ambassadors are looking forward to the E...
7th year of the European Youth Games for the Disabled, Emil Open 2018 is extending the number of sports as well as the collaboration with Slovakia.
Six sports in the official programme
The organisers received more than 230 binding registrations (out of more than 900 received during pre-registration) within the first week of registration for Emil Open 2018. The European Youth Games for the Disabled will take place in Brno, from June 6 to June 10. It will be one of the biggest sporting events in the region.
Mathematician, who will compete at Emil Open
They could be role models for many people who have no health problems. It is admirable that despite their handicaps, they are fighting like real heros. The life stories of Emil Open 2018 participants are touching. We will introduce you the first one – the story of 13-years-old Tomáš from Bratislava.
The second round of registration is opened
Brno is already preparing to welcome the participants of Emil Open 2018. On Tuesday, March 20, the organizers have opened the second round of registration. This registration is binding.
Preliminary Sport Schedule is here!
Are you curious about in what sports, categories, events and on what venues the competitions will take place? Now you can find all the necessary information in the Entry System in the Preliminary Sport Schedule.
This year‘s Emil Open is already breaking records
969 participants from 18 European countries. Record number of athletes and crew members are already registered for the 7th year of Emil Open, which is starting on June 6 to Sunday, June 10, 2018.
The 7th year of Emil Open already knocks on the door
It is less than three months until the launch of the 7th Emil Open. Around nine hundred young talented athletes from 21 European countries will head to Brno. Emil Open will begin at June 6 and will run until June 10, 2018.
Emil Foundation at the Olympic Festival in Brno
More than 100 000 visited the Olympic Festival in Brno so far. On Wednesday, February 21, the organisers prepared so-called Paralympics Day, during which the Emil Foundation was presented.
Preliminary Entries Open!
Today the Preliminary Entries for the Emil Open 2018 have been open! Until 8th March you can express your intention to compete.
We are happy to announce to all the Emil Open fans that they can start looking forward to another edition that will begin in 205 days!
Video: Last day of Emil Open in video summary
The Saturday´s sunny weather attracted many participants to visit the local zoo and cruise on the Brno dam. Part of the expeditions was attracted by the VIDA park, where almost 170 interactive components of a unique permanent exhibition could be tested on an area of nearly 5000 square meters.
Disabled athletes enjoyed Brno also out of the sta...
During the four days of the Emil Open 2017, young disabled people enjoyed the Moravian metropolis not only on sports grounds but also as part of the accompanying program. A special tour of the city, a visit to the Brno Zoo or a steamboat cruise was prepared for those interested.
There would be no Emil Open without partners
It would be very hard to organise such a huge event like Emil Open without strong partners. How the city of Brno supports this event and which institutions helped with the organisation of the Games? How difficult is the preparation of the Games? Check out who supported us this year?
Miroslav Lidinský: Golf erases all barriers
One of the main events of this year´s European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open was the golf competition. Despite the fact that it is not very usual event among the disabled, it was one of the highlights of the Games in brno. It attracted many visitors and fans. Both competitions won British player Ashley Harris.
Emil Open 2017 - Friday, summary od the Day 3
The last competition day brought the final matches and medal ceremonies. The accompanying program showed interesting roping down of the wheelchair brace participants from the Hotel Voroněž, as well as the sitting volleyball and boccia with paragolf.
Representation in U21 minifootball learned from th...
Thursday culminated with the training and exhibition match of the Czech U21 minifootball representation together with the blind football players of AVOY Brno. It was also a good invitation for the starting European minifootball championships. The match had a clear scenario – AVOY Brno won 8:0.
Wheelchair users pulled their comfort zone
The Brno view, the 30m height and a lot of adrenaline. The Emil Open 2017 organisers prepared a non-traditional activity which will stay in the memory of the participants for a very long time.
Universities in Brno support Emil Open 2017
The Moravian metropolis changed this week into the place of the European Youth games for the Disabled Emil Open 2017. It welcomed more than 700 participants from 16 European countries. Also the Brno universities participated in preparation works of the event. They offered the help with the sport facilities and accommodation but also they managed to find volunteers among their students.
Emil Open 2017 – Thursday, Day 2
The second competition day of the European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open started in the morning at particular sports areas, where the participants competed in their events. The afternoon program at the Svobody Square was rich again with Jiří ježek, Jiří Suchánek, wheelchair floorball players, blind football players or the U21 minifootball representation.
TOP SPEED with Jirka Jezek attracted hundreds of fans
On Saturday June 8th, crowds on the Svobody Square welcomed the Paralympic champion and Emil Open 2017 ambassador, Jiri Jezek, who prepared TOP SPEED event for cycling enthusiasts.
Jan Kraus: If you feel depressed, come and see the...
A popular Jan Kraus Show was held in an unusual way on Wednesday, June 7th on Svoboda Square. Four secret guests were seated into the red sofa – leader from the popular band “The Tap Tap”, Simon Ornest, athlete Katerina Novakova, swimmer Arnost Petracek altogether with the program and music director of Radio Krokodyl, Jiri Wiener.
Vaclav Krasa: Disabled people have the same joy of...
Among the guests of the European Youth Games for the Disabled was also the chairman of the National Council of Disabled in Czech Republic, Václav Krása. This event, organized by the Emil Foundation, he considers to be extremely important.
Emil Open 2017 - Wednesday, 1st day
On Wednesday 7 June, the European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open started with the rich accompanying program. The Tap Tap band heated up the fans on Svobody Square and the showman Jan Kraus invited his guests.
European Games are a benefit to Brno, agreed city ...
For the sixth time, young disabled athletes will meet in Brno for the European Youth Games for the Disabled, with more than 440 athletes taking part in five sporting events. "It is definitely a benefit for South Moravia that the European Youth Games for the Disabled are held in Brno," said Bohumil Simek, Governor of the South Moravian Region.
European Youth Games for the Disabled are ready
Brno is becoming the sport center of disabled Youth these days. European Youth Games for the Disabled “Emil Open” are starting on Wednesday. The Moravia metropolis will welcome altogether 714 participants, of which are 449 amaterous and profesional athletes and 265 team members from 16 countries.
By train without barriers to Emil Open
To transport more than a thousand of people to such a big even as Emil Open, it is not easy. Lucie Stárková, the transport coordinator of Emil Open 2017 appreciates the cooperation with the Czech Railways and she described in the interview how does such transport of the disabled sportsmen works.
Emil Open is not only about sport
Emil Open is not only about sport but also about the rich accompanying cultural and sports program. Check out what you can expect on the Svobody Square from Wednesday till Friday.
Table tennis player Půlpán: Third victory?
Gold medal in the singles and the Two-members Teams at the IWAS U23 World Games for the Disabled in 2016 - these are the greatest achievements of table tennis player David Půlpán, who will not miss even this year's Emil Open. The native of Třibich in Chrudimsko has to cope with the congenital defect of the right lower limb, it is about 20 centimeters shorter.
Jiri Jezek: Disabled athletes give you energy
The six time paralympic champion and the world champion in cycling Jiri Jezek plans to end up his racing career in the end of this year. However, even after the long 23 years of his fruitful career, he is still able to enjoy the sport.
Concerts, autograph sessions, and much more
It will be a celebration of sports and life, fun and arts. The European Youth Games for the Disabled will not be only about sports but also about the rich accompanying program. From Wednesday 7 June, there will be many events prepared in Brno. Do not miss it!
Video: Check out the sport facilities in Brno
Watch the video and check out the beautiful sport facilities ready to welcome the Emil Open 2017 in Brno. Veronika will show you the stadiums and places where you will fight for the victory in June.
BUT is a proud partner of Emil Open
Radana Kolčavová, the press attaché of the Brno University of Technology speaks about the cooperation with Emil Open and about the need of the major sport events for the kids and students.
Ashley Harris: Don't make someone else stop you
The 25-year-old disabled British golfer will be one of the major stars at the Emil open 2017. Ashley Harris, 4th in British open, 3rd UK Golf Trust Open thinks Emil Open is a great place to compete against athletes from other countries.
Athlete Kateřina Nováková will fight for London
One of the famous athletes who will start at Emil Open in Brno in June will be the thrower Kateřina Nováková. Last year, she had the unique chance to train with the javelin throw world record holder Jan Železný.
New videos on the way
No chance to get bored in Brno! You can find out yourself soon in our new Emil Open 2017 videos.
One month to the 6th Emil Open - press release
Only one month remains to the start of the 6th European Youth Games for the Disabled Emil Open and the preparation goes in full speed.
Less than a month to Emil Open
It is already less than 30 days until we all meet at the European Youth games for Disabled Emil Open 2017.
TRANSPORT registration OPEN!
You can enter all details about your team´s transport to and from Emil Open. Deadline is 18.5.2017.
Emil Foundation and Czech Minifootball football As...
The organisers of the Emil Open and European Minifootball Championship had decided to cooperate and on April 26th signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.
Emil Open 2017 on hithit.cz
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Dedicated to the League of Ireland
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Cork v Dundalk Preview
By Gerard Mulreaney
The clash of Cork City and Dundalk would normally whet the appetite of most League of Ireland supporters, however last weekend’s 4-2 victory by Bohemians over Cork has taken some of the gloss off Friday night’s fixture at Turners Cross.
The defeat in Dalymount was arguably City’s worst performance in many years, which even drew apologies from Manager John Caulfield and some of his players.
John Caulfield said after the defeat, “First off, I want to apologise to the fans that travelled and the fans at home, it was probably the worst 45 minutes we’ve had.”
Following his defensive horror-show against Bohs it will be interesting to see if Damian Delaney features, or if Caulfield will bring back youngster Seán McLoughlin, as Alan Bennett is a doubt for the game. McLoughlin missed the game in Dalymount due to an injury picked up on International duty. City will be without Colm Horgan, Johnny Dunleavy and Barry McNamee, while there are also doubts over the availability of Josh O’Hanlon and Karl Sheppard. Kieran Sadlier hopes to return having missed the Bohemians game through injury.
With Dundalk holding a six point (seven if you take their considerably better goal-difference into account) advantage, whilst also having a game in hand, surely winning the title is an impossible task for City!
Caulfield said, “Obviously, the guys were disappointed after last Friday. We were really poor and made a lot of mistakes. The most important thing is that you have to bounce back and, all week, we have been working on that and giving a proper performance.”
“We have the team that has been up there with us for the last four or five years coming to Turner’s Cross. The games are always hectic, big crowd, great atmosphere and we need to put a huge performance in. We just have to concentrate on putting a performance in and getting the three points in front of our own supporters.”
“Our supporters have been fantastic over the last four or five years and have given fantastic support to the team and, likewise, the team have given the supporters fantastic value as well. They expect a committed, passionate City performance, because that is what we are all about, and that is what I think we will do on Friday.”
“We are at home and I hope our supporters will come out in big numbers. With a bouncing Turner’s Cross I believe the team will give a big performance. We lost one game a couple of weeks ago but, up to that, our home record was phenomenal.”
Dundalk will travel South with a more or less fit squad, bar long-term absentee Stephen O’Donnell and Karolis Chvedukas, who underwent an ankle operation earlier in the week and has been ruled out for the remainder of the campaign.
The Lilywhites haven’t lost an away League game since a 2-1 defeat to Waterford in May, and will look to continue that that on Friday night.
Stephen Kenny is quietly confident that his team will do the business saying, “The players have shown a real high level of consistency over the past few months. They have performed very well and the challenge is to take that into the game tomorrow night with Cork City. We are well prepared for the game and our ambition is to take our current form to Turner’s Cross. ”
Defender Sean Hoare is looking forward to playing on the good Turners Park pitch, which he says will suit them, “We’ve had a lot of time to prepare for this game so everybody is raring to go. Turners Cross always a tough place to go with a big home support but it’s usually a nice surface down there which suits us. They’re always tight battles and we expect the same on Friday.”
“We all know we need to keep going now at such an important time of the season. Everyone bar one or two is fit and ready so there’s healthy competition for places all over the pitch which is keeping everyone on their toes.”
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Agriculture, Community
Monday, June 20th, 2011 By Catherine Cluett
Feathers of the Rainbow
Photo by Catherine Buchanan
There’s no place like home – especially if you’re a pigeon. Molokai Rainbows, Clay Adachi’s business of releasing multi-colored pigeons for events around Molokai, brings smiles to awed onlookers as the birds swirl in unison overhead before heading straight home to their roomy pens in Adachi’s backyard.
“Ninety-nine point nine percent of the time, they all come home,” he said.
Referred to as homing pigeons, racing pigeons (a sport practiced around the world) and carrier pigeons, the species have been used for thousands of years to carry messages hundreds of miles before mail service or the Internet. While the navigation methods pigeons use are highly debated, many scientists believe the birds use the earth’s magnetic field to find their way. Adachi’s birds can fly home all the way from Maui, where he occasionally releases them for training.
Raising birds has been a lifelong passion for Adachi. He developed a special fondness for white pigeons after he was given a pair when he was young. Now, he owns about 150 birds, something he got back into, he said, more than 15 years ago. After that, “I figured I’d rent them out to pay for their own feed,” Adachi explained.
Clay Adachi. Photo by Catherine Cluett
Cooing and fluttering, Adachi’s flock of pastel-colored pigeons enjoys personal care and daily flights from their pens in Manila Camp. Every day, he releases the birds in rotations: some early in the morning and the others at five in the evening to get exercise and maintain their conditioning.
“Our neighbors know what time to come home from work when they see the birds fly home,” chuckled Adachi’s wife, Diane, who helps raise the birds and finance their expenses.
With high cost of feed and supplies, Adachi’s side business doesn’t bring in much income. So why does he do it?
“The love of it,” the Adachis reply in unison.
In addition to their daily flights around town, Adachi releases the birds from the island’s east and west ends to build their stamina. The birds are usually home before nightfall.
“They get lazy flying around here,” he said.
Adachi also flies his pigeons from Maui. While the homing instinct is intrinsic to pigeons, Adachi does help strengthen it by challenging his birds. About 80 percent of the birds he takes to Maui come home, he said, which both proves their worth and weeds out the flock. He uses more experienced birds to train the young ones.
Maureen Nakashima owns a similar business on Oahu called the White Doves of Koolau. Nakashima and Adachi have exchanged birds over the years to help in the selective breeding process. She said her birds fly home from anywhere on Oahu, though she doesn’t take them off-island. Her voice hinted at respect when she mentioned Adachi flies his birds from Maui.
“His birds are good birds,” she said.
Adachi uses color-coded tags to mark all his birds according to the year they were born. He also tags the birds specifically when they fly to Maui, in order to track their return rates. Tags identify the owner and the year, as well as contact in case the birds are found, Adachi explained in the pigeon house, as he expertly wrangled a bird in one fluid motion and smoothed its pearly white feathers in his hand. He keeps tagging notations in pencil markings covering the shed walls.
Pigeons can live up to 35 years, according to Adachi, and he said he still has some of his original birds.
Adachi said the biggest challenge of his business is the health of the birds.
“They have to be in top shape to fly,” he explained, and keeps an individual home to treat it if it’s sick. It’s their weight that indicates sickness. He gives the birds electrolytes for energy before and after a long flight. He said feral chickens and untagged regular pigeons can spread disease.
Colors of the Rainbow
Adachi’s birds are known for their beautiful colors. He dyes the naturally white birds using food coloring to achieve a variety of bright colors. The dye does fade, and Adachi freshens up the colors before they fly for an event. It’s a technique he has gotten down to a science.
He keeps the food coloring mixtures in mayonnaise jars in the fridge, and warms it up before pouring the liquid into a small pan.
“I dip the birds right in and throw them up on the roof to dry,” he chuckled.
Photo by Catherine Cluett
It’s important that the dye can dry completely before Adachi puts the pigeons in their boxes to transport for release. If the food coloring is still wet, it will rub onto other birds for some unplanned rainbow colors.
The food coloring is harmless to the health of the birds, though it does pose one challenge: they can’t fly in the rain. The dye, Adachi explained, absorbs water so it inhibits the birds’ ability to fly under wet conditions because their feathers don’t repel water as well.
He began dying the birds’ wings years ago as a way to identify them. That’s how he got the idea to color some of the birds for various occasions – like using red, white and blue birds for veterans’ events.
Larry Helm, commander of Veterans Caring for Veterans, said releasing the patriotic-themed pigeons at veterans’ events is a way of “respecting the veterans to the max.”
“Veterans feel special that they can light up sky with all these colored pigeons in honor of those who have served,” said Helm. “The response has always been ‘wow.’”
Adachi, an Air Force veteran himself, said he’s been releasing birds for the veterans for years, free of charge.
Normally, his rates vary with location, from $75 around Kaunakakai, up to $200 on the island’s east and west ends, according to Adachi.
He flies the Molokai Rainbows at birthdays, weddings, funerals – “anything and everything.” He said he gets a lot of inquiries, and one comes through every couple of months. Since the birds can’t fly in the rain, Adachi said he has to play it by ear, and can offer refunds if the weather falls through.
“We’d love to grow this into more of a business,” Diane Adachi said.
If you’d like to book Molokai Rainbows to add a special touch to your next event, call Adachi at 553-5580 or email dcmolokai@hotmail.com.
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Google reopens EtherPad, takes it Open Source
by Martin Bryant —
Annoyed that EtherPad is closing following its acquisition by Google? Worry not – EtherPad’s developers AppJet and Google have come to an arrangement.
In a post on the EtherPad blog AppJet’s CEO Aaron Iba has declared that the service is to reopen to the public and be taken open source.
When it was announced that Google was buying AppJet and that the EtherPad team would be transferred to Google Wave development, we praised AppJet’s move to release a clear roadmap to the shutdown of the service. All to often existing users of bought-out web services are left in confusion, not knowing exactly what the future holds.
EtherPad’s users weren’t so keen on the plans, which would have seen the service shut down in March 2010. The sweeteners of a Google Wave invite and free EtherPad use until March weren’t enough to cool the tempers of users who didn’t want to lose their document collaboration service of choice.
So, the new plan is that EtherPad will remain fully usable to all until it has been made entirely open source. While that sounds like great news for EtherPad addicts, there’s no guarantee that any developers will take up the mantle of running their own EtherPad-style service. Once the code is out in the open and the official EtherPad closes down, users may be left in the same position they were before.
The ideal solution would be for someone to create an EtherPad plugin for Google Wave. Give the interest the service has gained over the past couple of days, that wouldn’t be too surprising to see.
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written by the partae August 5, 2019
The Music Victoria Awards is excited to be returning to the Melbourne Recital Centre in November 2019 for its 14th year. The Awards is one of the most anticipated music industry events on the Melbourne Music Week calendar, and has been a long-running feature ofMelbourne Music Week, which is this year enjoying its 10th anniversary.
The 2018 edition and the final year of The Age Music Victoria Awards was certainly one to remember. With a red-carpet entrance and seated event, the Victorian music industry celebrated the state’s outstanding achievements and best new releases, performers, venues, festivals and Hall Of Fame Inductees Molly Meldrum and Chrissy Amphlett.
After starting the awards 13 years ago, and being a partner with Music Victoria since 2013,The Age has stepped away as a partner of the event. Music Victoria thanks The Age for its vision and support for the event and the music industry.
Co-presented by Triple R 102.7FM and PBS 106.7FM, the big event will continue in 2019 as the Music Victoria Awards.
Now down to business with some exciting new changes for the 2019 Awards. After each awards, Music Victoria surveys the industry and judges to make sure the categories best reflect what its representative within the ever-evolving Victorian industry. After consultation with the industry, it has decided to rename the Global category Best Intercultural Act.Those interested can learn more about awards criteria and definitions here.
“Last year, we introduced a few changes to the awards categories, judging processes and the format of the event itself, which resulted in a more diverse and representative list of nominees. I’m very proud to be producing the event again, and look forward to celebrating the wealth of great music made in Victoria, “ says Awards event producer Laura Imbruglia.
The Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent will continue to provide one lucky artist with a cash grant and mentorship as part of the Award.
“Once again on behalf of the Foundation I am proud to have this award presented to the next up and coming First Nations artist to support them and their music.”
– Archie Roach.
This year, a small number of tickets will be available to the public and industry to attend the ceremony and the live performances, allowing the music fans to mingle with their favourite local artists. Tickets will be available to purchase in October.
And, one last change to the nominations submissions process, self-submissions are FREE but only open to Music Victoria members. So if you’re Music Victoria Member, you may nominate yourself (or those you love) in the artists, venues and festivals categories until5pm Saturday 31 August.
The categories open for self-submission are:
Best Regional and Outer Suburban Venue (under 50 gigs per year), Best Regional and Outer Suburban Venue (over 50 gigs per year), Best Venue (under 500 capacity), Best Venue (over 500 capacity) and Best Festival.
Best Blues Album, Best Country Album, Best Soul, Funk, R’n’B or Gospel Album, Best Jazz Album, Best Heavy Album, Best Rock/Punk Album, Best Folk or Roots Album, Best Emerging First Peoples Act, Best Intercultural Act, Best Hip Hop Act, Best Electronic Act, Best Reggae and Dancehall Act, Best Experimental or Avant-Garde Act and Best Regional and Outer Suburban Act.
The remaining categories will be voted for by an expert industry panel and revealed at the Awards in November.
– At least 50% of the act has been living in Victoria for the last two years
– Released an EP or album (category dependent) between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019
– All Victorian venues or festivals
Submissions are now open until 5pm Saturday 31 August.
All nominees will be announced Thursday 10 October.
Not a member, sign up here musicvictoria.com.au
Members submit your entry or nomination via
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“Free Syrian Army” Terrorists Threaten Alawites and Government Supporters with Genocide Using Chemical Weapons
By The Red Phoenix on December 8, 2012 • ( 0 )
This video footage from December 5, 2012 shows what looks like a hardline Islamist member of al-Qaeda fighting alongside the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) terrorists in Syria in a chemical laboratory performing an experiment using two rabbits whom he manages to kill in less than a minute via inhalation of a gas emanating from a chemical compound. He then threatens Alawites and government supporters with genocide using the same type of chemicals. The whole video has al-Qaeda Jihadist music playing in the background, music that calls for killing of infidels and oppressors.
The video starts by showing quite large amounts of industrial size packages of various chemicals such as Potassium Permanganate, Potassium Nitrate, Potassium Chlorate, Sodium Nitrite, Acetone, and others. According to the labels, most of the chemicals are sourced from the Turkish company Tekkim (http://www.tekkim.com.tr).
Some basic chemical lab apparatus is shown, and a masked man is preparing a chemical compound in a glass beaker heated by a Bunsen burner.
More chemicals, Hydrochloric Acid is one of them, with several dozen bottles of each kind are shown. A poster on the wall, mostly in Arabic, says “Chemical Brigade of ‘al-Reeh al-Sarsar’. Also in Arabic, what looks like a Quranic verse is displayed at the bottom. The poster also says “Danger” and “Wind Isber Chemical Inscription”.
Two rabbits in a large glass cage are then shown. There is a glass flask with some chemical in the cage. The masked man pours the prepared chemical compound from a graduated cylinder into the flask and closes the top of the cage. A reaction appears to create some white and heavy smoke. After two minutes and some convulsions, the rabbits die from inhalation of the lethal gas.
The masked man then manages to state that the fate of these rabbits is the same as that of “Nusayris (Alawites), the enemies of Allah”. He also says that this will be the fate of the Syrian government supporters.
As Obama and Clinton have threatened to attack Syria should chemical weapons be used by Assad, it might very well be possible that the al-Qaeda terrorists fighting the Syrian government are preparing for a “false flag” attack using chemical weapons to draw the U.S. into their fight.
This could also be psychological warfare by the FSA/al-Qaeda terrorists to force Syrians to welcome them as their new masters via scare tactics by threatening with genocide.
Warning: For the faint-hearted and animal rights activists, this video might not appropriate for you as it shows two rabbits suffocating and dying. This video is aimed at documenting crimes of the FSA/al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria.
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Review: The Road to Fluffer by Dan Schell
Posted: March 28, 2014 in Reviews
Tags: Dan Schell, journalist, mishaps, road trip story, West of Mars recommended read
This review was originally posted at West of Mars. It is being posted here, at its new permanent home.
Author Dan Schell found me and asked if I’d be willing to review his novel, The Road to Fluffer. It’s about a journalist, he said, a rock journalist, who is assigned to go on the road with this band, Numb Skull, and follow their adventures as they try to gain enough exposure and experience to gain a sponsorship from an adult energy drink.
Sounds perfect. It got better, too, once I started reading and realized that the Fluffer of the title is, indeed, the adult energy drink. Fluffer. As in the slang term used in the adult movie industry.
The sly laughs don’t stop there. The band is named Numb Skull. Its lead singer is named Chester Drawers, and he can’t say anything without tacking on an “All right!” at the end.
Slam dunk. This is one fun read.
But it’s not without its flaws. Lead character and music journalist Darrell is a nice guy. Maybe too nice. He sort of floats through the novel as his marriage crumbles. He’s not fighting for it, nor is he fighting for his job with the sort of passion one would expect when faced with losing one’s marriage AND one’s job. You gotta salvage one or the other so that, at the end of the day, you’ve got SOMEthing, right? Maybe not, but it’d have been nice to see a bit more fight out of our lead character.
The band bumbles along in a very real way. They’re inept, but also a bit too passive. They say they want this, but their passion isn’t shown. And there’s not much at stake, overall: the band either will or won’t get the sponsorship, but nothing bad will happen if it doesn’t happen.
That said, this is a greatly fun read for anyone who loves the Rock Fiction genre. Schell’s got the chops and the details to bring life on the road to vivid life and give the reader a taste for what it feels like to be out there, a struggling band who can’t make it from Point A to Point B on what they’re earning each show.
There aren’t a lot of glimpses of this part of the road. It’s like writers: most people assume that if you’re in a band that’s touring, you’re raking in the bucks. The truth is far from the dream, and at the end of the day, that dream is what fuels so many of us to keep going. Schell’s managed to let us empathize with the members of Numb Skull while educating us, all at the same time.
A West of Mars Recommended Read, simply because it’s a fun one, even though it stopped short of being great.
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Critically Acclaimed Drama/Romance Film Seven Lovers Now Available for Rent or Purchase on Multiple Digital Platforms
Jun 16, 2017 | Entertainment
Seven Lovers, an independent film written and directed by Keith Boynton, is now available for rent or purchase on multiple digital platforms including Amazon, iTunes, Microsoft, VUDU, Vubiquity, Dish, Google and Comcast.
NEW YORK, NY, June 16, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Seven Lovers, starring Erin Darke and Fran Kranz, follows the story of Laura, a young librarian/nightclub singer trying to navigate the endless complexities of love, lust, and dating in contemporary New York. In a fractured kaleidoscope of genre and emotion, we watch seven of Laura’s romances play out in a series of interwoven vignettes – with each of her lovers laying claim to a very specific cinematic style. From glamorous black-and-white musical to gritty documentary, from crude animation to rapid-cutting montage, Laura’s lovers take her on a journey of joy, pain, and self-discovery – and it all builds up to one defining choice.
R / 1 hr 48 min
Cast: Erin Darke, Fran Kranz, Peter Mark Kendall, Gia Crovatin, Max von Essen
Director: Keith Boynton
Producer: Melisa Breiner-Sanders
Production Companies: Breiner-Sanders Productions & Crazy Lake Pictures
Distributor: Premiere Digital Services
Genres: Drama/Romance
Filmmaker Statement:
“Seven Lovers began life as a pure stylistic conceit. I wondered what it would be like to tell a story in a wide variety of genres – and I wondered what kind of story could possibly lend itself to such a scattershot approach. I knew I wanted the narrative and the genre-switching to complement each other, instead of seeming awkwardly grafted together. And the idea of a woman changing her persona as she moved from lover to lover struck me as the most natural fit.
I hope Seven Lovers resonates with people’s own pain and hopes and disappointments. I hope it reminds people of their friends and their sisters and their exes and themselves. I hope people come out of it feeling a little more hopeful, a little more joyful, and maybe a little more understood. Above all, I hope people enjoy it. After all, a movie is a movie – and if it’s not fun, then what on Earth is the point?” – Keith Boynton
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The month just keeps getting better for Kidambi Srikanth. Fresh from an Indonesia Open win, Kidambi Srikanth now finds himself in the semi finals of the Australian Open. And he has now been greeted with a steep rise in his…
BAI announces a huge cash reward for Kidambi Srikant
Kidambi Srikant pulled off an incredible Indonesia Super Series final win, completely dismantling his opponent Kazumasa Sakai in the final, romping to a 21-11, 21-17 victory in 39 minutes. BAI President, Himant Biswa Sharma, announced a Rs 5 Lakh cash…
Sai Praneeth to receive Rs 3 Lakh Cash Award from BAI
Sai Praneeth is having a wonderful last few weeks. He won the Singapore Super Series and the Thailand Open and is now set to receive a huge cash prize from BAI, for his services towards Indian badminton. The Badminton Association…
Sai Praneeth reveals his improved diet as the secret to his new found success
Indian badminton star, Sai Praneeth is riding on a wave of momentum after his superb victory in the Thailand Grand Prix Gold. This victory comes soon after his Singapore Open Super Series triumph just a couple of months ago. And…
What did Pullela Gopichand say about the Indian Badminton scene ?
P. V. Sindhu and Sai Praneeth were recently felicitated at the Pullela Gopichand Academy for their victorious performances in Indian Open Super Series and Singapore Open respectively. Present in the felicitation ceremony was Chief National Badminton Coach, Pullela Gopichand, who…
Sai Praneeth is all praises for Indian badminton after his historic Superseries win
Newly crowned Singapore Open Super series champion, Sai Praneeth is extremely delighted with the way Indian badminton is progressing. The historic All India badminton final was a testament to that very fact which is why Sai Praneeth is all praises for…
Twittersphere explodes as Sai Praneeth wins the Singapore Open
Huge news coming in from Singapore as Sai Praneeth wins the Singapore Open after he beat compatriot K Srikanth. In what a thrilling victory, Sai Praneeth lost the first game to K Srikanth 17-21. But Praneeth bounced in the second…
Sai Praneeth upsets Kidambi Srikanth to win the Singapore Open Super Series
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Sai Praneeth emerged winner of Singapore Open Super Series by beating Srikanth Kidambi 17-21,21-17,21 in the All-India men’s final. This is the first time in the history of badminton, two Indians clashed in a Super Series final. The former world…
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THE FAMILY ROOM
A Joke A Day
By ShiningKnight,
January 3, 2005 in Joke Of The Day
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Location:Lueneburg (Lower Saxony), Germany
Interests:Computers, Swimming, Diving, ... (too much to list)
April 9/10, 2005
Abe goes to see his Rabbi.
"Rabbi, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it."
The Rabbi askes, "What's wrong, Abe?"
Abe replies, "My wife is poisoning me."
The Rabbi is very surprised by this and asks, "How can that be?"
Abe then pleads, "I'm telling you, I'm certain she's poisoning me. What should I do?"
The Rabbi then offers, "Tell you what. Let me talk to her. I'll see what I can find out and I'll let you know."
A week later the Rabbi calls Abe and says, "Well, I spoke to your wife. I spoke to her on the phone for three hours. You want my advice?"
Abe anxiously says, "Yes."
"Take the poison."
ShiningKnight 211 posts
TalonRider 13 posts
movieguy 7 posts
The mother turkey said to her son, "If your father saw you now, he'd turn over in his gravy!"
"I have some bad news and some worse news," said the doctor.
"Well, might as well give me the bad news first, then the worse news," replied the patient.
"The lab called with your test results," the doctor said. "They show that you have 24 hours to live."
"24 hours! That's terrible! What could be worse than that?"
"I've been trying to reach you since yesterday," replied the doctor.
A mild-mannered man once wandered into a restarant and ordered roast chicken. The waiter said, "Take my advice and have the boiled beef today."
"No, thank you. I want the roast chicken."
"Listen to me. The roast chicken is not for you. Have the boiled beef."
"What is this? Don't you suppose I know what I want? Bring me the roast chicken at once!"
"I will not do that. I know better than you what you want."
"Listen," said the diner, striking the table with a resounding blow, "get me the manager!"
The manager, drawn by the noise, came bustling over. "What the hell is going on here?"
The waiter turned to him and said, "This guy didn't come here to eat. He came here to start an argument with me."
Geez! You're right! "OBEY" isn't even in here!
Goldblatt was showing off. "I bought a hearing aid yesterday. It cost me two thousand bucks, but it is state of the art."
"What kind is it?" his friend asked.
"A quarter of twelve," was the answer.
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Three crocodiles lie on the river bank. One says: "We were green once."
Another one says: "Yes, and we could swim."
The third one says, indignantly: "Enough of your nonsense. Stop wasting your time. Let's fly around and gather some honey!"
"Mary, where's the tea? I can't find it."
"Right where it should be, dummy - in the silverware drawer, inside the empty coffee can labeled 'Salt'."
"Know how to avoid getting pregnant? - Drink soda."
"Before or after?"
"Instead of."
Hubert notices yet another effect from the latest round
of cut-backs in medical insurance service coverage.
Edited April 29, 2005 by ShiningKnight
Mark Twain was once asked the difference between a mistake and a blunder. He explained it this way:
"If you walk into a restaurant and walk out with someone's silk umbrella and leave your own cotton one, that is a mistake.
But if you pick up someone's cotton umbrella and leave your own silk one, that's a blunder."
There are three kinds of mathematicians: those who can count and those who can't.
April 23/24, 2005
A big executive boarded a New York-to-Chicago train. He explained to the porter, "I'm a heavy sleeper, and I want you to be sure and wake me at 3:00 a.m. to get off in Buffalo. Regardless of what I say, get me up, for I have some important business there."
The next morning he awakened in Chicago. He found the porter and really poured it on with abusive language.
After he had left, someone said, "How could you stand there and take that kind of talk from that man?"
To which the porter responded, "That ain't nothing. You should have heard what the man said that I put off in Buffalo."
A little boy asks a driver: "Could you give me a ride, please? I'm late for school."
"But I'm heading in the opposite direction, son."
"Even better!"
An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a casket containing a mummy. After examining it, he called the curator of the Israel museum in Jerusalem.
"I've just discovered a 3,000 year old mummy of a man who died at heart failure!" the excited scientist exclaimed.
The curator replied, "Bring him in. We'll check it out."
A week later, the amazed curator called the archaeologist, "You were right about both the mummy's age and cause of death. How in the world did you know?"
"Easy. There was a piece of paper in his hand that said, '10,000 Shekels on Goliath'."
Woman says to her husband who is going fishing, "If eel is too expensive, buy trout or carp."
"Hey, mister! This is a public phone. You've been on it for half an hour and haven't said a word."
"Leave me alone - I'm speaking with my wife."
"Honey, what do you like better - my perfect body or my beautiful face?"
"Your sense of humor."
April 30/May 1, 2005
Maurice and Sarah were getting old and Maurice felt his wife was losing her hearing. He decided to stage a test. One day, as Sarah was reading the paper, he stood a distance behind her chair and asked, in a conversational voice, "Sarah, can you hear me?" Silence. He moved towards her. "Can you hear me?" Still silence. Finally, he moved directly behind her chair and bent over, just inches from her ear, "Can you hear me?" Sarah replied, "For the third time, Maurice, yes I can!"
"Why did you escape from prison?" a policeman asks the fugitive.
"I wanted to get married."
"Heh. You have quite a strange view of freedom."
"No, no ... Money does not bring happiness. Rich people are also unhappy."
"True. But I'd rather cry in a limo than a bus."
A customer to butcher: "I'd like 5 grams of sausage, please."
"Are you mocking me?" the butcher asks.
"Not a bit! If I were mocking you, I'd ask you to slice it."
Little did Fluffy realize that Spidey's Spider instincts were not superficial.
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US election: My victory was stolen – Trump shades Biden
United States President, Donald Trump has claimed that his victory was stolen.
On Tuesday, Trump retweeted a publication which says 79 percent of his voters “believe election was stolen”.
The American leader said he totally agrees, adding that instances of irregularities have been detailed in his team’s legal action.
“They are 100% correct, but we are fighting hard. Our big lawsuit, which spells out in great detail all of the ballot fraud and more, will soon be filled. RIGGED ELECTION!”, he tweeted.
Joe Biden has won more than 80 million popular votes and 306 electoral votes.
The President has nearly 74 million popular votes and 232 electoral votes.
The former Vice President made history with the election win.
Biden has become the first presidential candidate to garner over 80 million votes.
The General Services Administration (GSA) acknowledged his victory on Monday, three weeks after the poll.
Source https://dailypost.ng/2020/11/25/us-election-my-victory-was-stolen-trump-shades-biden/
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Specialities Shrines & Temples - Competing with Mount Fuji as Japan's most iconic sight, the floating torii gate at Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima island is the ultimate spectacular J...
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Ryoanji Temple
Specialities Shrines & Temples - Although it’s certainly not the only rock garden of its kind, Ryoanji Temple has been drawing daily visitors in their hundreds to its contemplative gr...
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Specialities Museums - Modeled after a traditional Edo raised storehouse, from the outside the Edo-Tokyo Museum looks like an enormous spaceship crossed with a luxury cruise...
Specialities Shrines & Temples - Known for its thousands of blazing vermillion torii gates, the Fushimi Inari Shrine draws visitors up and around its winding trail to worship the Shin...
Nagasaki Peace Park
Specialities Museums - On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was struck by the atomic bomb “Fat Man,” killing thousands and decimating the city to rubble. Ten years later, the...
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Specialities Museums - Split over two buildings and five floors in a quiet corner of Ueno Park, the National Museum of Nature and Science houses a range of...
Otoyo Shrine
Specialities Shrines & Temples - Otoyo Shrine is easy to walk past but that would be a big mistake. With an unassuming entrance at the south end of the Philosopher’s...
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Home Featured ArticlesVideo We All Need A White Knight!
We All Need A White Knight!
by Jason Lorch September 17, 2016
Cancer. It’s a real shit! Sorry but there’s no other word for it.
It’s so prevalent these days that it effects nearly all of us in one form or another. Be it close friends and family or through friends of friends. So when we hear of people doing daring and dangerous deeds, things above and beyond what’s deemed as normal, to attract attention and to raise funds towards valuable research…our ears are pricked and ready to listen.
West-Face of the UK’s Highest Mountain, Ben Nevis. Pic:©The White Knight
12 months ago, a team of two brit guys and a sheila from Melbourne set off with their kit to film an Epic Cancer Research -Extreme Action Mountain Bike Video, which has now been finished and finally ready after twelve months in production.
The ride, is a World First decent of the steep and treacherous West-Face of the UK’s Highest Mountain, Ben Nevis. It was shot on multiple cameras/angles including rider mounted, static and aerial.
The rider’s identity is unknown and named only as ‘The White Knight’ which in the dictionary describes “a person or thing that comes to someone’s aid” His Dad had incurable Cancer, and now he rides towards a day when ALL Cancer is curable.
The White Knight has chosen to fight the battle and support CRUK Cancer Research UK, the Worlds biggest Cancer Research facilitator, to help raise much needed research funds.
The End.?
Well, no if only things in life were that easy. This is just the beginning of the White Knight’s story and yes, the video may come across as a bit whacky at times but in all seriousness, it’s a seriously risky undertaking. But in life, some things are worth risking for and we all owe it to ourselves to read on and find out what we can do to support this worthy cause.
The White Knight Mission
The two primary idea’s behind the event and short film is to try to create as many donations as possible using the link on the end of the Video on ‘The White Knight’ You Tube channel.
The second main aim is to try to create maximum awareness for the time critical need for increased research, especially within a younger generation. By showing them Cancer Research presented in an exciting and cool format they can hopefully relate to, we aim to connect more naturally with youth in general.
Our rider Aka The White Knight said; “When we were told Dad’s got incurable Cancer we all felt helpless. I wanted to do something amazing to help raise awareness for Cancer Research UK, so I looked to my roots, the thing I’m most passionate about, bikes! and planned something I thought people would really enjoy watching, would appreciate the effort made and something that had never been done before.”
I looked to my roots, the thing I’m most passionate about, bikes! Pic:©The White Knight
“I was keen to connect a younger generation to the need for interest in Cancer Research, by showing it to them in a cool image that engages them. After all, they are our future researchers, scientists, marketers and fund raisers…”
After one bad crash I thought I’d broken my hip at first, it made riding extremely difficult. Pic:©The White Knight
…”I was scared, and to be honest it was unknown territory anything could have happened. After one bad crash I thought I’d broken my hip at first, it made riding extremely difficult. I have never seen any footage or ridden anything as brutal, in places it’s so steep stopping was impossible, some of the rocks were as big as cars!
I was scared, and to be honest it was unknown territory anything could have happened. Pic:©The White Knight
I had to put my fear aside because I was determined to succeed for the greater good and knew the risk was worth the exposure we could bring for the amazing work by people at Cancer Research UK.
The White Knight’s squire preparing the trusty steed for the battle of Ben Nevis.
I have to admit, if I had been aware of all the pain and hard work involved in riding and then producing the video it would have shocked me into thinking of a lesser, more easy task! I’ve personally shed blood, sweat and tears in the making of this, over 2,000 hours of personal time and as much financing as I could personally obtain to help get it to where we have. Our small team have all given what they can spare in time, skills etc and it’s only finance that’s paralysing the project from progressing to its full potential.”
It’s just a case of jump on and hang on! Pic:©The White Knight
“The natural terrain on the top 3/4 was harsh, there’s no soft grass or soil up there and the barren, isolated landscape can’t be built up favourably, practised or rehearsed as with normal bike tracks. It’s just a case of jump on and hang on!”
‘I want to do Dad, my Gran (two times breast cancer survivor) my cousin Suzi (battling cancer) our team, CRUK and myself proud. Pic:©The White Knight
”I want to do Dad, my Gran (two times breast cancer survivor) my cousin Suzi (battling cancer) our team, CRUK and myself proud by producing the best video and helping to raise as much viewing exposure for Cancer Research as possible. Please give generously as much as you are able, you are appreciated beyond words and directly contributing to the success of the product that’s currently almost stopped in it’s tracks.”
Well, as far as stories go, that’s a good one but you know what. This is not just a story, this is real life! A story that has or will effect us all in one way or another in our lives.
The riding filmed is probably as authentic/organic as Mountain Bike riding gets. So go forth and share the buzz with friends, family, clients or customers and be the strong arm and help the White Knight go global in this truly stunning & amazing, ‘one of a kind’ ride for CRUK!
If you haven’t already seen it, watch the VIDEO now!
For more information about us, what we’re doing, please visit our website.
Cancer… ”we’re coming for you”!
The White Knight Team.
1 Day Guided Tour Hiking Queenstown
Could This Be The Best MTB Trip In The World?
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Posted on May 31, 2020 by topo5813
, Uxbridge, UK) with 5.0 kV voltage and 10.0 μA current, on top and side views. After each heating stage, the specimens were scanned by home-made XPS. Core level and valance band photoelectron spectra were excited by monochromatic Al K radiation (1,487 eV) and collected, at take-off angle of 35°,
by a hemispherical analyzer with adjustable overall resolution between 0.8 and 1.2 eV. The surveys were conducted in various ranges of electron energies including the overall binding energy survey (0 to 1,000 eV) besides individual spectra for Si 2p (95.0 to this website 110.0 eV), C 1 s (282.0 to 287.0 eV) and O 1 s (520 to 550 eV) which were monitored more accurately in a discrete number of scans. All spectra were taken at room temperature in a UHV chamber of about 10−10 Torr pressure. The resulting XPS spectra were analyzed by spectral decomposition using the XPS peak software and their oxide levels were determined. Results and discussion The VLS-grown Si NWs used in this study https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Belinostat.html were randomly oriented with average diameter and length of 84.96 nm and 3.508 μm, respectively. The pristine Si NWs are covered by a native oxide layer of 1 to 4 nm. SEM and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrographs of the pristine Si NWs are depicted in Figure 1. Residual gold nanoparticles
were removed by rinsing the Si NWs into HNO3 solution preventing its catalytic effect on oxidation. Figure 1 SEM and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrographs of the pristine Si NWs. (a) Top-view SEM micrograph of the Si NWs grown by VLS mechanism showing their random orientation. (b) TEM image of an individual Si NW cross-section representing the continuous native oxide layer of 3 to 4 nm in diameter atop. Regarding the micrographs, the Si core diameter can be estimated as 50 ± 10 nm. The red dotted line
insists on the fact that TEM micrograph is taken for a SYN-117 single Si NW among the large ensemble observed through SEM. As an illustrative Si 2p spectrum of oxidized Si NWs, the Si 2p spectrum of the H-terminated Si NWs annealed at 500°C for 60 min is depicted in Figure 2. By formation of even very thin silicon dioxide layers, the Si 2p XPS survey of Si NWs changes, showing a peak between the binding energies of 102 to 104 eV. To quantitatively evaluate Succinyl-CoA the oxidation process, Si 2p spectral decomposition was conducted on the spectra after Shirley background subtraction, through a curve-fitting procedure using Gaussian-Lorentzian functions [16]. Consequently, the Si 2p spectra can be divided into six different sub-peaks including two silicon spin-splitting peaks as Si 2p 1/2 and Si 2p 3/2, three silicon sub-stoichiometric oxides (known as suboxides) peaks as Si2O, SiO and Si2O3, and the silicon dioxide (SiO2) peak. The chemical shifts (Δ) of the sub-peaks obtained in Figure 2 relative to the Si 2p 3/2 (at 99.60 ± 0.02 eV) are as follows: Si 2p 1/2 (Δ = 0.60 eV), Si2O (Δ = 0.97 eV), SiO (Δ = 1.77 eV), Si2O3 (Δ = 2.50 eV), and SiO2 (Δ = 3.87 eV).
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Carl's Jr. The Six Dollar Burger
In 2001 this West Coast chain came up with a great idea: clone the type of burger you'd get at a casual restaurant chain such as Chili's or T.G.I. Friday's for around six bucks, but sell it for just $3.95. It's 1/3 pound of ground beef stacked on top of plenty of fixings, including red onion and those sweet-tasting bread-and-butter pickle slices. And the cost of a Six Dollar Burger gets even lower when you make your own version at home. How does less than two bucks grab ya?
Craving more famous sandwiches from Carl's Jr? Find your favorites here.
1/3 pound ground beef
1 large sesame seed bun
3 teaspoons mayonnaise
2 teaspoons ketchup
2 slices American cheese
3 or 4 bread-and-butter pickle slices
Leaf of iceburg lettuce
2 large tomato slices
4 or 5 red onion rings
Restaurant/Brand
1. Preheat a barbecue or indoor grill to medium heat.
2. Form the ground beef into a patty with a slightly larger diameter than the sesame seed bun.
3. Grill the burger for 3 to 4 minutes per side, or until done. Be sure to lightly salt and pepper each side of the patty.
4. While the patty grills, brown the faces of the bun in a hot skillet over medium heat.
5. After the buns have browned, spread about 1 1/2 teaspoons of mayonnaise on the face of the top bun half, as well as on the bottom bun half.
6. Spread 1 teaspoon of mustard on the face of the top bun half, followed by 2 teaspoons of ketchup.
7. Arrange 3 or 4 bread-and-butter pickle slices on the bottom bun half.
8. Arrange the lettuce leaf on the pickles, followed by the tomato slices and red onion.
9. When the beef is cooked, arrange 2 slices of American cheese on the patty, let it melt a bit, then place the top bun half on the cheese and scoop up the whole thing with a spatula and place it on the bottom half of the burger.
Makes 1 hamburger.
Amy Martinez
Very juicy hamburger. Made this at home and brought it for lunch for work, also made Cracker Barrel cole slaw. Would make both again, very good recipes.
Chili's Boneless Buffalo Wings
Menu Description: "Breaded chicken breast tossed in spicy wing sauce. Served with cool bleu cheese dressing."
This clone re-creates the piquant flavor of traditional Buffalo chicken wings, but the bones and skin are left back in Buffalo. That's because these "wings" are actually nuggets sliced from chicken breast fillets, then breaded and fried, and smothered with the same type of spicy wing sauce used on traditional wings. If you like the flavor of Buffalo wings, but wish you could use a fork, your spicy dreams have come true. Serve these up with some celery sticks and bleu cheese dressing on the side for dipping.
Try more of my Chili's copycat recipes here.
Buffalo Wild Wings Buffalo Wings and Sauces
Menu Description: "Here they are in all their lip-smacking, award-winning glory: Buffalo, New York-style chicken wings spun in your favorite signature sauce."
Since Buffalo, New York was too far away, Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowery satisfied their overwhelming craving in 1981 by opening a spicy chicken wing restaurant close to home in Kent, Ohio. With signature sauces and a festive atmosphere, the chain has now evolved from a college campus sports bar with wings to a family restaurant with over 300 units. While frying chicken wings is no real secret—simply drop them in hot shortening for about 10 minutes—the delicious spicy sauces make the wings special. There are 12 varieties of sauce available to coat your crispy chicken parts at the chain, and I'm presenting clones for the more traditional flavors. These sauces are very thick, almost like dressing or dip, so we'll use an emulsifying technique that will ensure a creamy final product where the oil won't separate from the other ingredients. Here is the chicken wing cooking and coating technique, followed by clones for the most popular sauces: Spicy Garlic, Medium and Hot. The sauce recipes might look the same at first, but each has slight variations make your sauce hotter or milder by adjusting the level of cayenne pepper. You can find Frank's pepper sauce by the other hot sauces in your market. If you can't find that brand, you can also use Crystal Louisiana hot sauce.
Famous Dave's Smoked Salmon Spread
Menu Description: "Our own hickory-smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers and chipotle peppers makes this a spread worth swimming upstream for. Served with fire-grilled flatbread."
Famous Dave's is famous for making pork ribs so good you forget you're wearing the embarrassing bib. But before you get your face smeared with BBQ sauce, you may want to kick off your meal with this popular choice from the chain's appetizer column. Start with 4 ounces of the best smoked salmon you can find—it should be very smoky if you want to duplicate the same taste of the original. If you can't find salmon that's smoky enough, I found that adding a little hickory liquid smoke to the mix works perfectly to flavor the spread so that it tastes like Dave's version. You'll end up with twice the amount of spread as the original which makes this a great appetizer for a small party. You can even prepare the flatbread ahead of time, then wrap it up in foil and reheat it in the oven before serving.
If you're craving some ribs, try my clone recipes for Chili's Baby Back Ribs, Roadhouse Grill Baby Back Ribs, or Tony Roma's World Famous Ribs.
Hard Rock Cafe Pig Sandwich
Menu Description: "Select pork, hickory-smoked then hand-pulled, so it's tender and juicy. 'An old Southern delicacy' with our famous vinegar-based bar-b-que sauce. Served with fries, ranch beans and homemade coleslaw."
Take a big honkin' bite out of one of these and you'll soon know why it's the Hard Rock Cafe's most popular sandwich. The pork is hickory smoked for 10 hours, but since we're impatient hungry people here, we'll cut that cooking time down to under 4 hours using a covered grill and carefully arranged charcoal. Just sprinkle wet hickory chips over the hot charcoal arranged around the inside edge of a grill (such as a round Weber), and let the smoking begin. You can certainly use an actual smoker if you've got one, and go the full 10 hours. You should try to make your cabbage a day ahead of time so it has time to marinate.
Sabra Classic Hummus
Every brand of hummus I've tried over the years has been just so-so in taste and texture, until I discovered Sabra. Now this ultra-smooth hummus—which has been rated number one in a blind taste test—is the only hummus in my fridge, unless I've made this clone. Hummus is an awesome snack as a dip for vegetables or pita chips, since it's rich in protein, soluble fiber, potassium, and Vitamin E. The secret to duplicating Sabra's smooth and creamy quality is to let your food processor work the stuff over for a solid 10 minutes. Also, when getting your Sabra hummus ingredients ready, don't use all of the liquid from the can of garbanzo beans or the hummus will end up too runny. Strain off the liquid first, then measure only 1/2 cup back into the food processor. Sabra uses canola and/or soybean oil, but you may think olive oil tastes better. Look for a jar of sesame tahini in the aisle where all the international foods are parked, and while you're there find the citric acid, which may also go by the name "sour salt." The clone below will not have the proper acidic bite without this secret ingredient, and citric acid also works as a preservative to help the leftover hummus stay fresh and tasty.
Chick-fil-A Honey Roasted BBQ Sauce
It's sweet, it's tangy, it's smoky, it's delicious; and it's only available in blister packs by request at one of the 1,237 U.S. Chick-fil-A locations that dot the country. I guess that's why so many of you asked for a clone—those blister packs are small! But alas, with this top secret formula, you'll have a heaping one cup of a taste-alike version of the delicious sauce to use as you wish: as a spread on your favorite sandwiches or as a dressing on a grilled chicken salad.
Wendy's Hot Chili Seasoning
The little red packets of viscous hot sauce at the fast food giant have a cult following of rabid fans who will do whatever it takes to get their hands on large quantities. One such fan of the sauce commented online, "Are there any Wendy's employees or managers out there who will mail me an entire case of Hot Chili Seasoning? I swear this is not a joke. I love the stuff. I tip extra cash to Wendy's workers to get big handfuls of the stuff." Well, there's really no need to tip any Wendy's employees, because now you can clone as much of the spicy sauce as you want in your own kitchen with this Top Secret Recipe.
The ingredients listed on the real Hot Chili Seasoning are water, corn syrup, salt, distilled vinegar, natural flavors, xanthan gum, and extractives of paprika. We'll use many of those same ingredients for our clone, but we'll substitute gelatin for the xanthan gum (a thickener) to get the slightly gooey consistency right. For the natural flavor and color we'll use cayenne pepper, cumin, paprika, and garlic powder, then filter the particles out with a fine wire-mesh strainer after they've contributed what the sauce needs.
This recipe makes 5 ounces of sauce— just the right amount to fit nicely into a used hot sauce bottle—and costs just pennies to make.
Bonefish Grill Bang Bang Shrimp
Menu Description: "Tender, crispy wild gulf shrimp tossed in a creamy, spicy sauce."
Bonefish Grill proudly refers to this appetizer as the "house specialty." And why not, it's an attractive dish with bang-up flavor, especially if you like your food on the spicy side. The heat in this Bang Bang Shrimp recipe comes from the secret sauce blend that's flavored with chili garlic sauce, also known as sambal. You can find this bright red sauce where the Asian foods in your market—and while you're there, pick up some rice vinegar. Once the sauce is made, you coat the shrimp in a simple seasoned breading, fry them to a nice golden brown, toss them gently in the sauce, and then serve them up on a bed of mixed greens to hungry folks who, hopefully, have a cool drink nearby to mellow the sting.
Cheesecake Factory Bang-Bang Chicken and Shrimp
Menu Description: "A spicy Thai dish with the flavors of curry, peanut, chili, and coconut. Sauteed with vegetables and served over rice."
This dish ranks very high among the most frequent entree clone requests from this growing chain's huge menu, and anyone who is a fan of Thai dishes falls in love with it. I dig recipes that include scratch sauces that can be used with other dishes. The curry and peanut sauces here are good like that. They can, for example, be used to sauce up grilled skewers of chicken or other meats, or as a flavorful drizzle onto lettuce wraps. But even though I've included the peanut sauce recipe from scratch here, you can take the quick route and save a little prep time by picking up a pre-made sauce found near the other Asian foods in the market. Since the sauce is used sparingly in a drizzle over the top of this dish it won't make a big difference which way you go. This recipe produces two Cheesecake Factory-size servings—which is another way of saying "huge." If your diners aren't prepared to process the gargantuan gastronomy and you're all out of doggie bags, you can easily split this recipe into four more sensible portions.
Chipotle Mexican Grill Barbacoa Burrito
Menu Description: "Spicy, shredded beef, braised with our own chipotle adobo, cumin, cloves, garlic and oregano."
The original Mexican dish barbacoa was traditionally prepared by cooking almost any kind of meat goat, fish, chicken, or cow cheek meat, to name just a few, in a pit covered with leaves over low heat for many hours, until tender. When the dish made its way into the United States via Texas the word transformed into "barbecue" and the preparation changed to incorporate above-ground techniques such as smoking and grilling. The good news is that we can recreate the beef barbacoa that Chipotle has made popular on its ginormous burritos without digging any holes in our backyard or tracking down a local source for fresh cow faces. After braising about 30 pounds of chuck roasts, I finally discovered the perfect Chipotle Mexican Grill barbacoa burrito copycat recipe with a taste-alike adobo sauce that fills your roast with flavor as it slowly cooks to a fork-tender delicacy on your stovetop over 5 to 6 hours. Part of the secret for great adobo sauce is toasting whole cumin seeds and cloves and then grinding them in a coffee grinder (measure the spices after grinding them). Since the braising process takes so long, start early in the day and get ready for a big dinner, because I've also included clones here for Chipotle's pico de gallo, pinto beans, and delicious cilantro-lime rice to make your burritos complete. You can add your choice of cheese, plus guacamole and sour cream for a super-deluxe clone version. If you prefer chicken burritos, head on over to my clone recipe for Qdoba Grilled Adobo Chicken.
Popeyes Red Beans and Rice
I first created the clone for this Cajun-style recipe back in 1994 for the second TSR book, More Top Secret Recipes, but I've never been overjoyed with the results. After convincing a Popeyes manager to show me the ingredients written on the box of red bean mixture, I determined the only way to accurately clone this one is to include an important ingredient omitted from the first version: pork fat. Emeril Lagasse—a Cajun food master—says, "pork fat rules," and it does. We could get the delicious smoky fat from rendering smoked ham hocks, but that takes too long. The easiest way is to cook 4 or 5 pieces of bacon, save the cooked bacon for another recipe (or eat it!), then use 1/4 cup of the fat for this hack. As for the beans, find red beans (they're smaller than kidney beans) in two 15-ounce cans. If you're having trouble tracking down red beans, red kidney beans will be a fine substitute.
Islands Tortilla Soup
The entire process for making this soup which Islands serves in "bottomless bowls" takes as long as 3 hours, but don't let that discourage you. Most of that time is spent waiting for the chicken to roast (up to 90 minutes -- although you can save time by using a precooked chicken, see Tidbits) and letting the soup simmer (1 hour). The actual work involved is minimal -- most of your time is spent chopping the vegetable ingredients. This recipe produces soup with an awesome flavor and texture since you'll be making fresh chicken stock from the carcass of the roasted chicken. As for the fried tortilla strip garnish that tops the soup, you can go the hard way or the easy way on that step. The hard way makes the very best Islands tortilla soup recipe and it's really not that hard: Simply slice corn tortillas into strips, fry the strips real quick, then toss the fried strips with a custom seasoning blend. The easy way is to grab a bag of the new habanero-flavored Doritos, which happen to be similar in spiciness to the strips used at the restaurant. Simply crumble a few of these chips over the top of your bowl of soup, and dive in.
Soup Nazi's Mexican Chicken Chili
In Zagat's 1995 New York City Restaurant Survey, Le Cirque 2000, one of the city's most upscale restaurants, received a 25 rating out of a possible 30. In the same guide, Al "The Soup Nazi" Yeganeh's Soup Kitchen International scored an impressive 27. That put the Soup Nazi's eatery in 14th place among the city's best restaurants for that year.
It was common to see lines stretching around the corner and down the block as hungry patrons waited for their cup of one of five daily hot soup selections. Most of the selections changed every day, but of the three days that I was there, the Mexican Chicken Chili recipe was always on the menu. The first two days it was sold out before I got to the front of the line. But on the last day I got lucky: "One extra-large Mexican Chicken Chili, please." Hand over money, move to the extreme left.
Here is a hack for what has become one of the Soup Nazi's most popular culinary masterpieces. If you like, you can substitute turkey breast for the chicken to make turkey chili, which was the soup George Costanza ordered on the show.
Update 1/9/17: Replace the 10 cups of water with 8 cups of chicken broth for a shorter simmer time and better flavor. I also like using El Pato tomato sauce (recipe calls for 1/2 cup) for a bit more heat.
Red Robin Red's Homemade Chili
Menu Description: "Lots of fresh ground beef and red kidney beans with a perfect blend of fresh Poblano & Chipotle peppers and plenty of seasoning. Topped with Cheddar cheese, diced red onions and tortilla strips. Not too hot, but enough flavor to know you ate it."
Ah yes, nothing like a hot bowl of homemade chili on a cool day. Red Robin serves hot, chunky chili topped with cheddar cheese, onions and crunchy tortilla strips that'll warm your soul. The Top Secret Recipes hack here can be served up the same fashion, or you can use this chili as they do in the restaurant to top homemade nachos or an open-faced chili cheeseburger. If you're one of those who prefer a higher-octane, spicier chili, just use more canned chipotles, or add some of the delicious adobo sauce that's in the can with the chilies.
Do you love Red Robin? Find more cool copycats here.
Cheesecake Factory Famous Factory Meatloaf
Filled with carrots, onions, garlic, bell peppers, and herbs—this is definitely one of the tastiest meatloaves I've cloned so far, and it's one of Cheesecake Factory's signature dishes. While most meatloaf creations are coated with a tomato-based sauce, such as ketchup or barbecue sauce, this one is doused with rich mushroom gravy, and then topped with a pile of caramelized onions (those secret formulas are included here as well). This recipe will yield exactly three ginormous dinner-size portions—that's three thick slices of meatloaf at the restaurant. But you could easily fill the bellies of four or more famished folks with more reasonable serving sizes.
Crunch 'N Munch Buttery Toffee Popcorn with Peanuts
Look at what F. W. Rueckheim started. He was the guy who, back in the late 1800s, made candy-coated popcorn a national treasure with the invention of Cracker Jack. Now we've got Fiddle-Faddle, Screaming Yellow Zonkers, Crunch 'n Munch so many other candy-coated popcorns. Sure, these other varieties don't have the traditional prize inside the box, but let's face it, those prizes are pretty weak compared to what used to be found at the bottom of a box of Cracker Jack when I was a kid. And the old-fashioned molasses formula used on Cracker Jack just doesn't have the appeal of some of the other tantalizing candy coatings on popcorn today. Butter toffee is a good example, so that's what I've reverse-engineered for you here. It's a simple recipe that makes a finished product so tasty you'll have to beg someone to take it away from you before you finish the whole bowl by yourself. All you need is a candy thermometer, some microwave popcorn, and a few other basic ingredients to re-create a home version of popcorn heaven.
Chili's Crispy Honey-Chipotle Chicken Crispers
Menu Description: "Tossed in our honey-chipotle sauce."
After cloning the plain version of these breaded chicken fingers in Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2, I received requests to knockoff this more flavorful sweet-and-spicy version. If you like big flavor and some heat, this is the clone for you. The breading technique is the big secret: first use a wet batter and then toss the tenders in a dry breading. When the chicken tenders are fried to a golden brown they are gently tossed in the honey-chipotle sauce and served either as an appetizer, or with corn on the cob and French fries as an entree.
Original Tommy's World Famous Hamburger
This clone recipe may be for the whole hamburger, but anybody who knows about Tommy's goes there because they love the chili that's on the burger—and that's the part of this clone they seek. Turns out it's an old chili con carne recipe created back in 1946 by Tommy's founder, Tommy Koulax, for his first hamburger stand on the corner of Beverly and Rampart Boulevards in Los Angeles. By adding the right combination of water and flour and broth and spices to the meat we can create a thick, tomato-less chili sauce worthy of the gajillions of southern California college students that make late-night Tommy's runs a four-year habit. And if you don't live near one of the two dozen Tommy's outlets, you can still get a gallon of Tommy's famous chili shipped to you. But I hope you really like the stuff, because you'll shell out around 70 bucks for the dry ice packaging and overnight shipping. And don't expect to see the ingredients on the label (drat!) since the chili comes packed in a gallon-size mustard jug.
Pace Picante Sauce Medium
Texan David Pace had been selling 58 different varieties of jam, jellies, and sauces from the back of his liquor store in the 1940s when he came up with a recipe for a thick and spicy tomato-based sauce he dubbed "Picante." When sales of David's new sauce took off, he concentrated all his efforts on marketing his all-natural, preservative-free product, and designed the sauces famous hourglass-shaped jar (to keep it from tipping over). Now America's number one Mexican hot sauce brand, Pace Foods, makes it known that it still uses only fresh jalapeno peppers in the sauces, rather than the brined, less flavorful jalapenos—like those canned nacho slices. Each year all the fresh jalapenos used by the company weigh in at around 30 million pounds, and the nation gobbles up around 120 million pounds of the spicy sauces. Here's a simple recipe to make a kitchen copy of the medium heat-level Pace Picante Sauce, which was the first variety David created. The mild and hot versions were added in 1981, and you'll find clones for those at the bottom of the recipe in Tidbits.
Take a look at all the other famous sauces you can make at home here.
Max & Erma's Tortilla Soup
After years of fielding requests to clone the delicious signature soup from this 100-unit chain, I was finally able to secure a couple carry-out samples from Max & Erma's at the Cleveland airport while I was there on biz trip. Wrapped in a bundle of napkins and tucked into a carry-on bag, my samples arrived home in Vegas still warm and ready for analysis. For this one you'll need some white and dark fillets of chicken and a half pound hunk of cheese to shred. It's all that Cheddar cheese that makes this tortilla soup so good. And you'll definitely want to shred your own, since the pre-shredded stuff—while also more expensive—just doesn't melt as well in the chicken broth as cheese that's been shredded just before it goes into the pot.
Update 2/8/17: This recipe may work better if you first make a sauce with the cheese before adding it to the soup. After step #2, combine 2 tablespoons of butter with 2 tablespoons of flour in a medium saucepan. Whisk in 1 cup of milk until thickened, about 3 minutes. Remove it from the heat and stir in the cheese until it's melted. Keep the cheese sauce warm over low heat until you need it. Reduce the cornstarch to 1 tablespoon and dissolve it into the chicken broth in a large saucepan. Add the chicken, sauteed vegetables, and remaining ingredients for the soup (except the cheese sauce) and bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer 10 minutes. Stir in the cheese sauce and simmer the soup for another 10 minutes while you bounce to step #4.
GrandMa's Peanut Butter Big Cookies
When these cookies are cool, be sure to seal them up real tight in something like Tupperware or a Ziploc bag. That's the way to keep them moist and chewy like the original GrandMa's Big Cookies. In fact, he real product claims to be the only national cookie brand that guarantees the freshness of the product or double your money back. That confident guarantee comes from the current manufacturer, Frito-Lay, which purchased the GrandMa's Cookies brand from General Mills back in 1980.
You might also like my copycat for GrandMa's Big Raising Cookies.
Update 1/13/17: For an improved recipe, replace the 1/2 cup shortening with 3/4 cup softened unsalted butter. Also, reduce the baking soda to 1 1/2 teaspoons. 2 teaspoons is too much. Also, raising the oven temperature a little—to 300 degrees F—will help with browning and still keep the cookies chewy. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes.
Starbucks Vanilla Almond Biscotti
"Biscotti" is Italian for "twice baked." The dough is first baked as one giant rectangular cookie loaf, then the loaf is removed from the oven while it's still soft, and it's sliced. These slices are arranged on a baking sheet and cooked once again until crispy. That's how the cookies get their thin profile and crunchiness that makes them the perfect coffee-dunking pastry. These homemade biscotti cookies are actually best the next day after they completely dry out, as long as you live in a dry climate. If your weather is more humid, be sure to seal up the cookies in a tight container after they cool so that they stay crunchy.
Find more cool Starbucks copycat recipes here.
Ruby Tuesday Queso Dip
Menu Description: "Smooth and spicy cheese dip. Served with unlimited crisp tortilla chips."
Many who have tried the original say it's the best queso dip they've ever had, so I had to get on the case. Talking to a store manager I found out that the dip is made with American cheese and a little Parmesan, but the rest of the ingredients were going to have to be determined in the underground lab. When I got down there—using the elevator hidden in a fake outhouse in the corner of a vacant lot—I immediately rinsed the dip in a strainer and discovered bits of spinach, onion and two kinds of peppers. The red pepper, which is responsible for the kick, appeared to be rehydrated dry peppers. It looks like they're red jalapenos, but since the red ones can be hard to find I chopped up some red Fresno peppers and the dip tasted great—full of flavor with a nice spicy kick. Just be sure to remove the inner membranes and seeds from the peppers before you mince them up, or your cool dip may end up packing a lot of heat.
For those who like some chili in your cheese dip, check out my copycat Chili's Chili Queso recipe here.
Papa John's Dipping Sauces
John Shnatter was only 23 years old when he used $1600 in start-up money to buy a pizza oven and have it installed in the broom closet of an Indiana tavern. John started delivering his hot, fresh pizzas, and in 1984, the first year of his business, he was selling 300 to 400 pizzas a week.
John keeps the Papa John's menu simple. You won't find salad or subs or chicken wings on his menu. The company just sells pizza, with side orders of breadsticks and cheeseticks made from the same pizza dough recipe. With each order of breadsticks or cheesesticks comes your choice of dipping sauces. I've got clones for all three of those tasty sauces—Special Garlic, Cheese, and Pizza. You can make your own breaksticks by making your favorite pizza dough, and slicing it into sticks. If you want cheesesticks, brush some of the Garlic Sauce on the dough, then sprinkle it with mozzarella cheese and bake. Slice the baked dough into sticks and use the dipping sauce of your choice.
Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger
In 1989, Carl's Jr. became the first fast-food chain to allow customers to use their ATM cards to make purchases. Not only can customers buy a Western Bacon Cheeseburger and fries to go without using cash, they can get cash back out of their account.
Onion rings, bacon, American cheese and tasty barbecue sauce combine to make a manly gut-grinder that can be thoroughly enjoyed during the grilling season, or any time of the year if you use an indoor grill. The sandwich was introduced in 1983, and has since become so successful that it has spawned variations, from a junior version to the monstrous double, both of which are included here. While any barbecue sauce you use for this recipe will work just fine, track down some Bulls-Eye Hickory Smoke flavor barbecue sauce if you want the closest cloned results. This recipe makes one sandwich. Double, triple, and quadruple it as needed based on current hunger requirements.
This recipe also includes clones for the Junior Western Bacon Cheeseburger and the Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger.
Source: "More Top Secret Recipes" by Todd Wilbur.
Shoney's Country Fried Steak Reduced-Fat
Despite the name this TSR reduced-fat version of one of Shoney's most popular country-style items is not fried. If it were, it surely wouldn't have nearly one-fourth the fat of the original, which you can order at any of the 900 restaurants in this mostly Southern U.S. chain. But you'll swear this version tastes like the original, because we still bread the steak, and then spray it with a light coating of cooking spray. Once it's baked, then broiled to a golden brown, the steak is smothered with low-fat gravy. Use these low-fat cooking tricks to make a country steak that's just as good as the fried version.
Serving size–1 steak
Total servings–4
Calories per serving–260 (Original–563)
Fat per serving–10g (Original–37g)
Source: Top Secret Recipes Lite by Todd Wilbur.
Burger King Onion Rings
Since McDonald's doesn't sell onion rings, these crunchy, golden hoops from the world's number two restaurant chain are the most popular onion rings in the world. There are more than 12,000 Burger Kings in 61 countries these days, and after French fries, onion rings are the second-most popular companion to the chain's signature Whopper sandwich. Check out how simple it is to clone a whopping four dozen onion rings from one onion, using this triple-breading process. When frying, trans fat-free vegetable shortening makes for the best clone, but you can get by fine using vegetable oil if that's the way you want to go. (For a great dipping sauce—similar to Outback's Bloomin' Onion sauce—check out my clone recipe for Burger King's Zesty Onion Ring Dipping Sauce.)
Panda Express Mandarin Chicken
This dish from the rapidly growing Chinese food chain satisfies anyone who loves the famous marinated bourbon chicken found in food courts across America. The sauce is the secret, and it's quick to make right on your own stovetop. Fire up the barbecue or indoor grill for the chicken and cook up a little white rice to serve on the side. Panda Express—now over 700 restaurants strong—is the fastest-growing Asian food chain in the world.
Update: Recently, Panda Express took this item off their menu and replaced it with Grilled Teriyaki Chicken. The only way to enjoy this now Dead Food is to clone it.
Red Lobster Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Shrimp
It's shrimp, it's bacon, it's cheese; what's not to like about this Red Lobster bacon-wrapped shrimp recipe? It's one of the groovy appetizers on the Red Lobster menu, and now you can re-create it at your crib. Find some large shrimp, a wooden skewer or toothpicks, and cook the bacon about halfway to done before you begin. Mix up clones of Red Lobster's top secret seasoning and cilantro-ranch dipping sauce, and you're minutes away from a great appetizer or party finger food dish. For other bacon-inspired dishes, try making Red Lobster's bacon-wrapped scallops recipe!
KFC Cajun Honey Wings
These "Limited-Time Only" wings from KFC may be gone now, but since this clone duplicates the sweet-and-spicy sauce on this amazing finger food, the great taste of this Dead Food lives on. In each store wings are coated with a KFC-style breading before they get fried up and tossed in delicious Cajun sauce. The sauce is da bomb on wings, but you can also put it to work on ribs or other chicken parts like breaded tenders or baked nuggets. This recipe calls for Emeril's Bayou Blast Cajun Seasoning, but it will also work with any other Cajun seasoning blend you find in your local market.
Soup Nazi's Indian Mulligatawny Soup
Elaine: "Do you need anything?"
Kramer: "Oh, a hot bowl of Mulligatawny would hit the spot."
Elaine: "Mulligatawny?"
Kramer: "Yeah, it's an Indian soup. Simmered to perfection by one of the great soup artisans in the modern era."
Elaine: "Oh. Who, the Soup Nazi?"
Kramer: "He's not a Nazi. He just happens to be a little eccentric. You know, most geniuses are."
Kramer was right. Al Yeganeh—otherwise known as The Soup Nazi from the Seinfeld episode that aired in 1995—is a master at the soup kettle. His popular soup creations have inspired many inferior copycats in the Big Apple, including The Soup Nutsy, which was only ten blocks away from Al's original location on 55th Street. Yeganeh's mastery shows when he combines unusual ingredients to create unique and delicious flavors in his much-raved-about soups. In this one, you might be surprised to discover pistachios and cashews among the many vegetables. It's a combination that works.
I took a trip to New York and tasted about a dozen of the Soup Nazi's original creations. This one, the Indian Mulligatawny, was high on my list of favorites. After each daily trip to Soup Nazi headquarters (Soup Kitchen International), I immediately headed back to the hotel and poured samples of the soups into labeled, sealed containers, which were then chilled for the trip back home. Back in the lab, portions of the soup were rinsed through a sieve so that ingredients could be identified. I recreated four of Al's best-selling soups after that trip, including this one, which will need to simmer for 3 to 4 hours, or until the soup reduces. The soup will darken as the flavors intensify, the potatoes will begin to fall apart to thicken the soup, and the nuts will soften. If you follow these directions, you should end up with a clone that would fool even Cosmo Kramer himself.
Update 2/6/18: The recipe can be improved by doubling the curry (to 2 teaspoons) and reducing the water by half (to 8 cups). Cook the soup for half the recommended time or until it's your desired thickness.
Ragu Pasta Sauces
It's America's most popular pasta sauce, and now you can whip up clones of two varieties at home at a fraction of the cost. Add a few ingredients to a large can of tomato sauce and get on with the simmering. These recipes duplicate the traditional "Meat" variety of the sauce and the newer "Chunky Garden Style" version with tomato, basil, and Italian cheese. Feel free to doctor these sauces up with your own creative additions (sliced mushrooms, fresh garlic, etc.) just as many do with the real Ragu.
Fans of Rao's marinara sauce can try my copycat recipe here.
Red Robin Campfire Sauce
Red Robin is known for great gourmet hamburgers and tasty cocktail concoctions, but the 400-plus-unit chain also serves a huge tower of onion rings that comes with a side of this creamy, sweet-and-smoky dipping sauce. An Internet search revealed a few clues about what might be mixed into this mystery sauce, but the complete culinary conundrum was yet to be solved. A mixture of mayonnaise and barbecue sauce was a good starting point, but with so many varieties of barbecue sauce on the market I had to figure out which came closest to the flavor of the original Campfire Sauce. So, I went back to Red Robin, obtained a sample of the barbecue sauce they use, and conducted a side-by-side taste test of all the major brands on the market. After more spoonfuls of straight barbecue sauce than any human should consume at one sitting, I finally concluded that Bull's Eye Brown Sugar and Hickory comes the closest to the sauce used at the restaurant. A little more experimentation with this sauce, some mayonnaise and a couple of other ingredients, and I eventually had an awesome re-creation of the delicious dipping sauce that can be served with home-baked onion rings, poppers, French fries, or as a really great hamburger spread. Mission accomplished.
Buffalo Wild Wings Parmesan Garlic Sauce
Menu Description: "Roasted garlic and Parmesan sauce with Italian herbs."
Buffalo Wild Wings had a record day on Super Bowl Sunday 2007 when the chain sold 3.4 million wings! One year later the chain announced the opening of its 500th store. As the biggest buffalo wing chain in the country continues to grow, so does its selection of delicious sauces. Creamy, and slightly spicy, this Parmesan Garlic Sauce is one of several new sauces BWW added to its menu. Our Top Secret clone starts by roasting a few peeled garlic cloves in your oven. Add mayo and Parmesan cheese to the soft, roasted garlic, plus some corn syrup, lemon juice, red pepper flakes and an assortment of dried herbs and you've got yourself an addictive sauce that's as good on finger food as it is on a salad. Bake up some breaded chicken nuggets or fry up some wings, then simply toss 'em in some of this delicious sauce and serve.
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3
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For more than 20 years, Todd Wilbur has been obsessed with reverse-engineering famous foods. Using every day ingredients to replicate signature restaurant dishes at home, Todd shares his delectable discoveries with readers everywhere.
Now, his super-sleuthing taste buds are back to work in the third installment of his mega-bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes series, with 150 sensational new recipes that unlock the delicious formulas for re-creating your favorite dishes from America's most popular restaurant chains. Todd's top secret blueprints and simple step-by-step instructions guarantee great success for even novice cooks. And when preparing these amazing taste-alike dishes at home, you'll be paying up to 75 percent less than eating out!
Find out how to make your own home versions of: Pizza Hut Pan Pizza, T.G.I. Friday's Crispy Green Bean Fries, Buca di Beppo Chicken Limone, Serendipity 3 Frrrozen Hot Chocolate, P.F. Chang's Kung Pao Chicken, Max & Erma's Tortilla Soup, Cracker Barrel Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake, Olive Garden Breadsticks, Cheesecake Factory Fresh Banana Cream Cheesecake, Carrabba's Chicken Bryan, Famous Dave's Corn Muffins, Outback Steakhouse Chocolate Thunder from Down Under, T.G.I. Friday's Jack Daniel's Glazed Ribs, and much, much more...
Simple. Foolproof. Easy to Prepare. And so delicious you'll swear it's the real thing!
Click on the "Table of Contents" link, underneath the book graphic on the left to see the full list of recipes included in this cookbook.
You may also like: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2, and Top Secret Recipes Step-by-Step.
Islands Yaki Soft Tacos
Menu Description: "Three flour tortillas stuffed w/marinated chicken, teriyaki sauce, Jack cheese, pineapple, lettuce, tomatoes & scallions."
If you love the sweet taste of teriyaki marinated chicken, you'll dig the Yaki Soft tacos at this Hawaiian-themed burger chain. Sure, Islands is famous for its burgers, but many also go for the several choices of soft tacos -- and the one I've cloned here is the top-seller. After testing all popular brands of teriyaki sauce on the market, I found that none have the heavy ginger notes of the chain's version, so you'll want to make the sauce from scratch. Which is really no big deal, since it's an easy process and you'll end up with a teriyaki sauce/marinade that's better than any store version, and you can use it in all sorts of recipes. When you buy the canned pineapple, go for the 20-ounce can or get two 8-ounces cans. You'll need that much since you'll use the pineapple chunks in both the sauce and on the tacos (and you'll even use some of the juice from the can in your teriyaki sauce). When chopping the chunks, take the time to slice each chunk into quarters (lengthwise, with the grain) so you get thin pineapple pieces that are the exact size of the stuff they use in the restaurant. Or you can find smaller Del Monte PINEAPPLE TIDBITS in 100% Pineapple Juice 20oz (2 Pack) onclick="window.open(this.href, '', 'resizable=yes,status=no,location=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,fullscreen=no,scrollbars=yes,dependent=no,width=700,height=700'); return false;"> pineapple chunks in some stores (see Tidbits).
Source: "Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2" by Todd Wilbur.
Carnegie Deli Classic New York Cheesecake
Carnegie Deli's huge pastrami sandwiches were selected as the best in New York by New York Magazine in 1975, but it's the cheesecakes, which can be shipped anywhere in the country, that really put this famous deli on the map. The secret to accurately cloning a traditional New York cheesecake is in creating the perfect not-too-sweet sugar cookie crust and varying the baking temperature so that you get a nicely browned top before cooking the cheesecake through. Get ready for the best deli-style cheesecake to ever come out of your oven.
Olive Garden Minestrone Soup
Menu Description: "Fresh vegetables, beans and pasta in a light tomato broth—a vegetarian classic."
This copycat Olive Garden minestrone soup recipe is jam-packed with beans, zucchini, onion, tomatoes, carrots, pasta, and spices; but O.G.'s secret formula doesn't include chicken broth. Canned vegetable broth found in the soup aisle of most markets works as a base here in this secret formula that bursts with flavor as a purely vegetarian dish.
Check out my other Olive Garden copycat recipes here.
With spice grinder in hand, Gustav Brunn traveled to America from Germany, and settled down in Baltimore on the Chesapeake Bay, where steamed crabs are a staple. Gustav began grinding. In 1939, after trying many different combinations, Gustav found just the right mix for a top secret blend of spices that would be the most-used seasoning on steamed crabs, shrimp, lobster, and other tasty seafood dishes for generations to come. But McCormick & Co., which purchased Old Bay in 1990, insists that the celery salt based blend is not just for seafood. You can also use the seasoning on chicken, French fries, popcorn, baked potatoes, deviled eggs, hamburgers, and even pizza.
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HomeLifestyleSportsFive Non-Baseball Reasons to Check Out a Jays Game
Five Non-Baseball Reasons to Check Out a Jays Game
July 29, 2012 Joel Levy Sports
This year began like any other for the Toronto Blue Jays. Heaps of Toronto’s finest (over 50, 000) marched into the Rogers Centre on April 9th for the home opener, fresh from having once again talked themselves into believing in a young Blue Jays roster.
Yes, they were young, which in sports is a euphemism for inexperienced, but they didn’t lack promise. Jose Bautista was one year removed from a near-MVP season, while Ricky Romero was finally establishing himself as the reliable “ace” in the Jays rotation. There was buzz about Brett Lawrie, who was coming off of a promising 2 month end of the season stretch, and about the 2nd Wild Card spot, which meant the Jays could conceivably make the playoffs by finishing 3rd in the AL East.
Expectations within the organization were so high that the Jays even decided to splurge on new uniforms – throwbacks to the pre-lockout days of glory.
Photo courtesy of Peter J. Thompson-National Post.
Nothing gets the city of Toronto to buy into sports figures faster than a little nostalgic fashion (see Terrence Ross’ draft night bowtie), so the seats were set to be packed.
I could tell you that Toronto is now only 3 games back of that Wild Card spot, but that would be misleading, because even though they’re so close to the playoffs, everybody else is too. The Angels, A’s, Orioles, White Sox, and Rays are all ahead of Toronto, and the Red Sox and Indians aren’t far off.
Since the Jays playoffs hopes are looking dimmer than the lighting on this season of Breaking Bad, and because the declining health of Toronto’s young roster seems to be perpetually holding them back, nearly all baseball incentives for going to a game have vanished. For that reason, I’m here to offer you 5 NON-Baseball related perks that make heading down to the Rogers Centre for a Jays game an awesome idea:
1. Eating and Drinking
A baseball game is like an outdoor BBQ, which is why most of the fun comes from extra-baseball activities. There’s music in the air, vendors selling cotton candy in the aisles, and action all around. The downside of it being just like a fair is that the Rogers Centre charges about 4 times as much as they should for refreshments. The upside of this is that everything tastes 4 times better. You’ve never had a juicier Shopsy’s hot dog with all the fixings, or tasted a Keith’s that was quite as cold. Is it because you were stuck in the middle of your aisle in between 20 Jays fans that seemed unwilling to budge until the 7th inning stretch? Is it because you’re dehydrated from a lack of shade, and the food that you tried to sneak in was taken away at the entrance? Yes. Yes it is. But look how much fun this fan is having on his birthday!
So go ahead and drink some icees and high five each other when Ricky Romero strikes out the 7th batter of the day, securing you and every other fan in the building a free slice of pizza. Seriously, have you ever chanted “Pizza! Pizza!” with hundreds of other people? There is nothing more altruistic.
The game doesn’t only provide you with an opportunity to cheer for food, but also to listen to old Black Eyed Peas hits from 2004. It takes about 5-6 years for a popular song to make it into the rotation of the Rogers Centre, and this awkward phenomenon has led to fans and players alike being pumped up by “Let’s Get It Started” again. Personally, I can’t wait for the release of the Rogers Centre’s greatest hits of 2012, featuring new releases such as “1, 2 Step” and “Everytime We Touch”, whose top YouTube comment states: “I love this song because of its fast pace”. Us too, “CV1797“, us too.
I’ve always thought that given the chance to pick my own walk-up music, I would go with something ridiculous like a Hilary Duff song, but these guys seem to take it pretty seriously. Did Lyle Overbay once get pumped up by “Jeremy”? I guess so.
3. Unruly fans
Baseball fans can be pretty awesome, mainly because they can be pretty drunk. I remember going to a game when I was 14 years old and hearing someone hurl insults at Melvin Mora of the Orioles for being friends with Rafael Palmeiro during his steroid scandal. The exchange would go something like this:
FAN: “Hey Mora, where’s your best friend, Rafael Palmeiro?”
MORA: Looking downtrodden and frustrated.
(the same fan also belted out the classic: “Hey Ump, get off your knees, you’re blowing the game”, which at the time I thought was one of the funniest things I had ever heard.)
Palmeiro actually wore EAR PLUGS that night because the Toronto fans were booing so loudly! A big part of going to a baseball game is being able to yell things at the umpire while being heard by hundreds of people – or listening to the disgruntled screams of others. These are the people who argue balls and strikes from their 500 level, left-field sideline seats. There could not be a worse vantage point from which to debate the legitimacy of a strike, and that’s what makes baseball fans so fantastic.
4. Jumbotron
In high school, some friends of mine would repeatedly make getting on the jumbotron the only goal of their Blue Jays game experience. This phenomenon seems to be the end-game for a large portion of attending fans these days, and the validation that they receive when their unsuspecting faces are plastered all over a giant screen in front of thousands of people is indescribable. With that one moment, they’ve had enough fun to last them an entire seasons worth of games.
They are the storm chasers of the baseball world, spending the rest of their fan existence searching for that one rush of adrenaline. Granted, instead of high-tech meteorological instruments, they carry signs that used to read awesome things like: “Dios Mios, Rios” or “Hit It Far, Millar”. This year, however, has mainly featured sexual innuendos made towards Brett Lawrie or JP Arencibia, the best of which being:
5. Baseball players
Baseball players are not the super-serious athletes that you may find in the NBA or NFL. Since they’re sitting for a large part of the game, they spend a lot of time having fun with each other. It isn’t hard to notice Jose Bautista subtly distracting the 1st baseman with his Latin charms, or JP exchanging some quick thoughts with the batter.
A more than honourable mention for his in between play behaviour is our very own Brett Lawrie, whose terrifying passion is displayed pretty much as often as you’re willing to look at him. Specifically watch out for him tossing his gloves all over the field after a disappointing at bat and then sulking by the 3rd base waiting for Kelly Johnson to deliver his glove. Here is a precious moment of passion from Brett Lawrie earlier this season – Brett Lawrie – Phonies (Threw It On The Ground)
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – What does it actually mean?
January 6, 2020 Meghashree Das Economics, News
Corporate social responsibility, which is known as CSR, is a type of mechanical business model that can help a company to be socially accountable and responsible to all the stakeholders and the public related to the interests of the company. With the help of corporate social responsibility, a company can be socially accountable to the people, and it means that it owes something to them. It is a type of corporate citizenship that a company has over time.
First of all, CSR helps in image building formation.
With the help of the corporate social responsibility, a company can be conscious of the type of image that it creates to the society and impacts on the well-being of the people, directly and indirectly. There is a lot of impacts that the company can source out to the public. This can be done with the help of the economic, social, and environmental kind of ways.
If your company wants to engage in the work of corporate social responsibility, then they have to socially responsible for the well-being of the public whose interest lies in the company. It has to operate in such a way that it can be good and enhance the presence of the company, socially or culturally.
Corporate social responsibility in India
When it comes to India, then it is the leading source of business from all around the world. It is the first country that has made corporate social responsibility CSR mandatory, which the help of passing a law in the amendment in April 2014. With the help of these companies act passed onto by India, now businesses can directly invest their profit into the area of the society, they can help the community to have a better formation for the further source, and in the best way, CSR becomes a hunger for every company out there in the market.
Company’s Act passed for maintaining CSR by Indian Companies
According to the whole of the company’s act, which was passed onto by India, it was sourced that the net worth of any business will now be a part of the CSR here. To the net profit of about 5 crores made by any company, around 2% of the same target is to be spend around for the well-being and management of the society as a whole so that the community can profit from the revenue which is managed by these companies.
Before the same, India made it mandatory for the companies to disclose all their corporate social responsibility reports to the stakeholders and the shareholders of the company.
They should be liable and should be a part of the company’s profit-earning capacity as well. These were included for the projects related to the company’s activities and the projects that were related to the activities taken by the company on-board.
It was recommended all by the CSR committee as a whole to cover all the items listed in the source of the Companies Act, which was stated during the time of amendment.
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What is the whole methodology of the CSR Technique?
With the help and including CSR for companies out there, it can help them to profit and earn them for the scope of the long run. It is the procedure of assessing all the impact of the organization on society and then slowly evaluating all their responsibilities. These responsibilities, which are managed by the group of organizations that uses CSR is to help the community become a better place by distributing the part of the revenue which is made and even sourcing out the following aspects which are presented below.
1. Channeling the needs of the customers
The customers are the central part of it. With the help of the customers, an organization can run smoothly. With the use of corporate social responsibility, a business can go in for the long drive of run with the source of the customer that they have. It can help them to the pan and rule out the odds.
2. Helping the suppliers to earn
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Another one which comes on the second lot is the suppliers of the business. A business can only profit when the suppliers are pleased. These are done with the help of corporate social responsibility. When the part revenue is distributed, the suppliers can be happy and supply more for the business and include their service for a longer time.
3. Creating a proper work environment
The environment where the business is incorporating should be steady, as well. If the climate is not stable, then a company cannot lead its growth and go towards the best. This is why corporate social responsibility can help to enhance the working environment, inside and out of the organization.
4. Helping the communities
The communities are a huge part of society. These are the forums and groups through which the whole nation is based. If the business has to go for a longer duration, then they have to please the community members. This is done with the source of CSR and maintaining a cordial relationship with the communities of the society for a better outcome of results from altogether. The cities are the prime, and any organization should know it.
5. Providing comfort to the employees
The last one who lies here is the employees of the organization. If the working members of the organization are pleased, then only a business can run. Labor is what every organization needs out there and especially if they are skilled enough to do the job. CSR helps to have a proper relationship between the business and the labor.
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Legislation management for CSR
The most effective plan of corporate social responsibility for any business is to create legislation and to comply with it. Their investment for the source of the company should be a part of the whole society, and every decision that a company takes, the community should be a wholesome concern. The investments are a part of growth for any type of business out there, and only when the growth helps the community to lean towards the work of a company, the organization can have a more profitable revenue for the working years.
Organizations in India always thrives for corporate social responsibility
There are a lot of organizations located in India which thrives on the source of corporate social responsibility and have benefitted from the whole idea. They have to take special CSR initiatives altogether, which can help them to integrate the cause and to work on the entire business process on the run. With the upcoming years in the market, all these have become an endless source of income for the business as a whole, and it has helped them to gain revenue.
Besides growing your business, you should respect the culture and the beliefs of the people who are around you. With the help of respect, it creates a massive value of the business in the eyes of the public. It can help them to shape the business, which can be sourced out to a higher chance of collecting more revenue.
Businesses tend to profit more
With the help of CSR, an industry can source out their impending management and shape their responsibilities altogether. It can help them to understand the community at a large and also tend, adhere to the needs of the city. Companies do have a specific source and type of demand, which can help the department and the teamwork towards the development of particular purposes.
CSR management in Indian companies
CSR programs help the whole business to work for separate budgets and then support them in a wholesome way. It can improve the business to scope out the primary source of profit by looking after the well-being of society. When it comes to managing the source of work, then companies do have a specific source of the department which handles the work of corporate social responsibility. These are the departments that set up the policies of the CSR and then come up with freshly integrated ideas.
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Weekly Wrap-up: 112 Single Emergency No., Tesla in India, ECommerce Robbery & More…
By Editorial Staff On Apr 4, 2016
It’s Monday morning and time to do a quick wrap-up of all the posts published on trak.in last week. If you were offline for any reason, this is a great way to catch up with all the tech buzz!
Railway Ministry is all set to introduce a quick calling service to 139 to cancel train reservation, irrespective of the existing stipulated time frame. The service is set to be unveiled in April for passengers.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has introduced a strict and practical ‘E-Waste Management Rules, 2016’, which will take over from the previous ‘E-waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2011’ which wasn’t enough to manage this massive problem of e-waste.
In a decision which can have far reaching consequences, Government is all set to brutally execute a special ‘ecommerce levy’ which will tax simple online activities such as sending and receiving emails, downloading content and even blogging.
While some entrepreneurs are born ‘people’s persons’ and are able to connect well with others and exercise a certain degree of influence over them, which can prove to be a huge advantage, others may need to make a special effort to get to that point.
Researchers studied and observed users of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine and LinkedIn networks; and found that those who are rigorous users of these social networks are 2.7 times more likely to become depressed, compared to those who don’t use these websites.
Power Minister has said that they are working on a scheme to sell electric cars on zero down payment which in turn will help reduce the consumption of petroleum. The Government also feels this will help them to reach a vision of having all vehicles as electric vehicles on road in India by 2030.
Soon, all these different set of emergency numbers would be phased out, and replaced with 112, which would be the default emergency response number for any situation in India.
Making normal calls to landlines and mobile phones will soon be possible through WhatsApp, Skype, Viber & other such services.TRAI is in full support of the service and wants interconnection of ISPs and Telecom Operators.
As per latest data from RBI, the value of mobile banking transactions increased by 46% in December, 2015 to reach Rs 49,029 crore compared to November, 2015. If we compare year on year growth, then in December 2014, only Rs 11,323 crore of mobile banking transactions happened in India.
In a step which we would call revolutionary, results from Public Sector Unit employment tests would be now applicable while applying for private sector jobs as well.
Government of India has issued new notifications related with FDI in ecommerce, under their circular titled ‘Consolidated FDI Policy Circular 2015’ (FDI Policy); and the news is both good and bad for the digital sector.
The Reliance Jio sim cards will be available at a cost of Rs 200 and will offer humongous 75GB of 4G data and 4500 minutes of call time. And yes, it will some freebies as well!
Zoom Auto is a first-of-its-kind service in India where in you will be able to hire an auto-rickshaw completely to yourself for the time chosen. Of course, you will be the ‘auto-rickshaw’ driver for the journey and you will not have to worry about excessive rentals and fares.
The Telecom Commission of India has recently given the green signal to the long pending issue involving the recommendations of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) about Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs).
If we go by definition of ‘food tech’, then an intelligent oven called ‘June’ is a perfect fit. Never before in the history of food appliances, an innovation of such degree has been accomplished.
The new year started on a good note as far as new mobile subscriber additions is concerned. According to Jan-2016 telecom report by TRAI, 7.08 million new mobile subscribers were added in January, taking the total mobile subscriber base to 1017.97 million.
An Indian security firm has made scintillating revelation about a possible heist of credit card details of those customers who have actively used services from some of the most popular Indian startups like Snapdeal, Uber, Ola, MakeMyTrip and Others.
Xiaomi’s latest flagship phone- Mi 5 was launched last week. If you have been dying to buy a high-end value-for-money phone offering the best possible hardware at a competitive price, then you shouldn’t look any further than Xiaomi Mi 5.
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Smartron, the startup which claims to have spent $10 million in the last two years to develop a strong ‘IoT Ecosystem’ has roped in none other than master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar as a ‘Strategic Investor’ and Brand Ambassador for their products.
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Want To Carry On Martin Luther King Jr.’s Work? Join A Union
Lindell Lawrence on Wednesday, April 11 2018 - 10:57am
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Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to march with the city’s striking black sanitation workers. Wages were bad, and conditions were so unsafe that workers were seriously injured or even killed while using the trash compactors of their trucks. The city of Memphis, their employer, refused to do better; city officials refused to act to improve their wages or safety.
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The Gay Union Organizer Who Helped MLK Change the World
Kenneth Quinnell on Wednesday, April 4 2018 - 12:03pm
As America prepares to observe the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination today, there is one name you may not hear: Bayard Rustin. A close confidante and mentor of King, Rustin was a key leader of the civil rights movement and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He proved to be a transformative figure in the fight for racial justice, even introducing King to the Gandhian principles of nonviolence that would come to define the struggle. He also happened to be gay.
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Democrats Better Remember: Unions Carried Pennsylvania’s 18th District
Richard Trumka & Rick Bloomingdale on Tuesday, April 3 2018 - 4:59pm
Rep.-elect Conor Lamb made national waves with his improbable win in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. He faced down $10 million in outside money funneled to his opponent by corporate and right-wing interests. He fought through a barrage of incessant, hyperpartisan attacks blanketing the airwaves. He was abandoned by his own party’s national infrastructure in a district that hadn’t elected a Democrat in nearly 15 years. And he still came out on top.
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The Janus-Faced War on Unions
Richard Trumka on Tuesday, March 27 2018 - 1:02pm
In their quest for even bigger profit margins, the rich and powerful have always tried to divide and suppress working people. Whether they’re seeking to quash worker protections, lower wages, cut benefits or weasel out of pension obligations, they know their biggest roadblock to unchecked power has always been a strong union.
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The One Thing Democrats Should Learn From Conor Lamb
John Nichols on Tuesday, March 27 2018 - 12:56pm
Paul Ryan and Donald Trump are running scared. After the Republican candidate who ran with the ardent backing of the Republican Speaker of the House and the Republican president lost a special election for a Pennsylvania congressional seat in a district that was so Republican-friendly that Donald Trump won it by 20 points and the former GOP congressman regularly ran without opposition, the men who define the Republican Party as it now exists had to explain their loss.
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How Unions Carried Pennsylvania’s 18th District — and Why the DNC Should Be Paying Attention
Kenneth Quinnell on Tuesday, March 27 2018 - 12:45pm
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Rep.-elect Conor Lamb made national waves with an improbable win last week in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. He faced down $10 million in outside money funneled to his opponent by corporate and right-wing interests. He fought through a barrage of incessant, hyperpartisan attacks blanketing the airwaves. He was abandoned by his own party’s national infrastructure in a district that hadn’t elected a Democrat in nearly 15 years. And he still came out on top.
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Today's Working Women Honor Their Courageous Foremothers
Liz Shuler on Monday, March 19 2018 - 10:37am
Nearly two centuries ago, a group of women and girls—some as young as 12—decided they'd had enough. Laboring in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, they faced exhausting 14-hour days, abusive supervisors and dangerous working conditions. When threatened with a pay cut, they finally put their foot down.
The mill workers organized, went on strike and formed America's first union of working women. They shocked their bosses, captured the attention of a young nation and blazed a trail for the nascent labor movement that would follow.
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Unions, Hotel Workers Discuss Sex Harassment: ‘A Lot of Ladies Go Through This’
Sam Charles on Tuesday, March 13 2018 - 10:59am
Members and leaders of the union that represents hotel and hospitality workers gathered Monday evening to discuss the workers’ experiences with sexual harassment by guests and what the union is doing to create safer workplaces for its members.
The meeting of national and local leaders of the AFL-CIO, Chicago Federation of Labor and employees that the union represents — which includes hotel and hospitality workers — came less than a month after an alderman sponsored a loophole into the city’s sexual harassment ordinance that would weaken the legislation.
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Heathrow boss clinches corona rogue crown
Unite GS Len McCluskey: Heathrow chief John Holland-Kaye ‘pushing thousands of British families into poverty’
It’s been a bumper year for bad bosses but the corona rogue crown has to go to the CEO of Heathrow airport.
John Holland-Kaye enjoys an eye-wateringly huge salary and benefits. He’s never going to be kept awake at night worrying how he is going to pay the mortgage. But he doesn’t care for those who do, demanding that thousands of workers employed at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) hand over a quarter of their salary.
For some, such as Baljit, that means losing £8000 a year. That’s right, a year. They’ll go from earning a salary that they can just about get by on in one of the most expensive cities in the world to earning below the national average wage. For Baljit, she won’t be able to pay her mortgage. She’ll have to uproot her kids and move miles away from her workplace.
She’s not alone. Nearly five thousand HAL workers have been told to sign away their salaries – or be sacked.
John Holland-Kaye is holding a huge gun to their heads. He should be ashamed of himself, especially as when this crisis took hold he boasted that HAL’s cash mountain was so vast that the airport could happily function for 15 months without a single passenger.
And who gets rich on the backs of workers like Baljit? The Qatari royal family, some of the wealthiest people on the planet.
Mr Holland-Kaye, you are pushing thousands of British families into poverty. Why, so that some billionaires can buy another gold-plated yacht?
Tomorrow (December 1), these workers take a stand, going on strike to keep a roof over their heads. But in doing so, they’re standing up for workers everywhere.
Gangsters must not prosper. For all our sakes’, the brave Davids who keep this airport functioning must defeat these greedy Goliaths.
By Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary
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‘Firefall’ is dead, though a mobile version could happen
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Red 5 Studios’ ambitious but troubled MMO is shutting down, but will continue on in a different form.
by Arianne Gift (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
July 7, 2017 at 7:07 AM July 7, 2017 at 7:07 AM
Developer Red 5 Studios announced yesterday that it will suspend work on the free-to-play sci-fi MMO “Firefall,” effective today, July 7. The studio announced the unfortunate news on its official website but refused to detail the reason behind the closure.
News of the game officially shutting down is kind of a big deal, given “Firefall” is actually Red 5’s first and seemingly only project to date. The announcement of the game’s closure had been abrupt, leaving some fans crestfallen, but the studio made up for it by announcing a mobile version of the game. Red 5 says it’s currently being developed.
“With heavy hearts, we regret to inform you that after much review and analysis, Red 5 Studios have decided to suspend the Firefall efforts on 7th, July 2017,” the dev team wrote. “Thank you for being an important part of the experience and for your loyalty and dedication to the online community.”
The tumultuous ‘Firefall’ development
Anyone who’s been playing the game knows that it had been rocky from the very start, ever since it was announced back in 2010. When it launched, it looked quite promising, and gamers loved piloting the game’s Battleframes through tropical backdrops.
It’s no secret that a huge amount of cash was shelled out to market before the beta launch, but somewhere along the lines, it lost its way. The MMO had undergone major changes as well, and in 2013, Red 5’s CEO Mark Kern got sacked.
Kern co-founded Red 5 in 2006 after spending more than seven years at Blizzard Entertainment working on games such as “StarCraft,” “StarCraft 64” and “World of Warcraft.”
By the end of 2015, the company had undergone significant layoffs and later proved unable to pay its staffers on Christmas Day. In August 2016, players really thought it was the end of it all, as “Firefall” servers mysteriously went offline.
Gaming websites and forums were quick to assume that the devs had quietly shut the game down, but it went back up, with Red 5 issuing an apology, saying it was all a technical glitch.
‘Firefall’ the mobile game
As news of the game’s closure is fairly new, Red 5 hasn’t dropped details concerning the mobile version of the game yet. It did, however, promise to update fans soon and that those who will continue to play the game on their devices will be “rewarded greatly.”
Released in 2014, “Firefall” is a free-to-play MMO shooter set in a dynamic, living, open world.
Players can combat enemies in a skill based shooter in either first or third person view or engage dynamic Missions and Events, including epic Titan Battles.
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'Forza Motorsport 7': Microsoft to bring a new racing experience
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Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios announced Forza 7's first 167 cars, and its pretty awesome.
by Erwin Castro (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
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It the buzz of the motorsports world, Microsoft Studio and Turn 10 Studios have finally revealed to the gaming world the first batch of cars that will be made available in the upcoming racing video game “Forza Motorsport 7.” The two made the big announcement this week.
According to the auto-focused website Autoblog, the first batch of the big car reveal will feature a massive roster of cars, which reportedly at around 167cars. These will also include race cars, supercars and track machines. The manufacturer with the high number of cars is reportedly the Italian auto giant Ferrari, which has around 46 cars on the big list.
These include Ferrari-built classics such as the 1962 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso and the 1948 Ferrari Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta, and also Ferrari’s supercars like the 2014 Ferrari FXX-K.
Forza Motorsports 7: The gaming’s new car craze
For starter, “Forza Motorsport 7” is an upcoming racing video game developed by the Redmond-based Turn 10 Studios and published by Microsoft Studios, the software giant’s video game production wing. The upcoming game is slated for release on PC and Xbox One this coming October 2017.
The game was first announced at the recent Microsoft’s press conference during the E3 2017 event. And like the other Xbox One games, the upcoming racing title will also play on the company’s newest gaming console Xbox One X (formerly known as Xbox Project Scorpio).
Originally, the game was developed alongside the development of Xbox One X console. The game developer Turn 10 Studios has provided the Xbox team with good feedback. By January of 2017, the Xbox team has finally got a prototype console for the game. Fortunately, Turn 10 and has managed to get their first Forza demo running smoothly on the prototype console within two days only.
The new "Forza" game will run at a native 4K resolution and 60 FPS ( frames per second).
As for the gameplay, “Forza Motorsport 7” will reportedly feature over 700 cars and more than 200 different configurations at 30 different locations. Additionally, there’s also a plan for additional new racing circuits. These include the new Dubai Autodrome and the one returning from the “Forza 4,” the impressive Mugello Circuit.
These two newly added race circuits will also include customizable drivers and dynamic drivers.
In addition to the recently added race circuits, Microsoft has also revealed the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS as a part of a six-year licensing deal between the software giant and the UK-based luxury carmaker Porsche. “Forza Motorsports 7” will be launched on Windows and existing Xbox One console. Followed by the released on the new Xbox One X console.
What to expect from the upcoming racing game
It’s not just the Ferrari cars, the new game will also feature Porsche, with its 29 models. These include the widely popular 2014 Porsche 918 Spyder and the iconic 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS, which was introduced during the Microsoft’s E3 2017 briefing last June.
Joining Porsche will be another Italian car giant, Lamborghini. Microsoft said the new game would feature 18 Lambo cars, including the cover car of “Forza Horizon 3, ” the 2016 Lamborghini Centenario. Additionally, the 2011 Lamborghini Sesto Elemento and the 2016 Lamborghini Aventador will also be made available on the game.
England’s Aston Martin will also have a strong presence in the new game with its 14 cars. These include the hugely popular 2017 Aston Martin DB11 along with the 2016 Aston Martin Vulcan.
Finally, Microsoft is also bringing the Swedish racing beasts on the lists. These include the famous 2016 Koenigsegg Regera and 2015 Koenigsegg One:1. For more about the complete list of the game’s first 167 cars, check out the Autoblog website.
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Disneyland to Sunset Annual Pass Program, Issue Refunds
Oli Coleman January 15, 2021, 12:22 AM
Disneyland is officially calling off 2021.
Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock announced in a statement on Thursday that annual passes will be refunded for “eligible” annual passholders. Rates for pro-rated refunds can be found here.
“We want to thank our Annual Passholders for their understanding during this closure period,” he wrote in a statement published on Disney Parks’ Twitter. “Due to the continued uncertainty of the pandemic and limitations around the reopening of our California theme parks, we will be issuing appropriate refunds for eligible Disneyland Resort annual passports and sunsetting the current program. We are currently developing new membership offerings that will utilize consumer insights to deliver choice, flexibility and value for our biggest fans.”
Disneyland will be emailing annual passholders with an email from Potrock, outlining plans for designing a new program to replace the passports in place. Meanwhile, Disney is extending discount benefits at Downtown Disney shopping district to guests who had active annual passports as of March 14, 2020, when the parks closed down. These passholders will receive a 30% discount on merchandise at select stores, from Jan. 18 to Feb. 25.
The L.A.-based theme park has also been announced as Orange Country’s first massive COVID-19 vaccination site. The resort will serve as the first of five regional POD, or point-of-dispensing, sites in the region, which will have the capacity to vaccinate thousands of residents per day. It will be operational later in January.
Both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure have been shut down for 10 months, since the early days of the ongoing pandemic. With Orange County, and the entire Southern California region, currently under an extended state-mandated stay-at-home order that started in December, it is unclear when theme parks will be allowed to reopen.
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With a machete, Gildardo Ramirez lops twelve pods off one of his cacao trees, letting them fall to its base. The long, brown pods look like twisted and deflated footballs. Each cacao pod usually encases about 40 beans — the source of cocoa powder and chocolate. The beans are the main commodity that Ramirez produces on his farm in San Francisco, Colombia, some 70 miles southeast of the city of Medellín. On Ramirez’s land, cacao’s red and green leaves fill the sloping hillside, overlooked by lush green mountains. But these twelve pods will never make chocolate. The healthy white, sweet pulp that normally encases the beans has turned dank and discolored. The pods are diseased — infected, he suspects, with a mold-like attacker called black pod rot. It’s just one of many threats that plague the region’s chocolate farms.
For Ramirez, who works with Colombia’s newly energized tourism industry to teach visitors about growing cacao, it’s a heavy workload to keep such diseases at bay. At least three pathogens frequent his farm, and each requires dedicated management. When it comes to black pod rot and the similar frosty pod — a fungus whose spores turn a pod’s surface velvety white — removing infected pods early can help prevent the spread of disease. Pods infected by another fungus, called mal de machete, stay on the tree, but require treatment with a blue fungicidal paste. Even with his diligent attention, Ramirez guesses that these diseases destroy a quarter of his annual crop.
Worldwide, 30 percent or more of cacao crops is lost to diseases each year, a persistent threat for the world’s $100-billion chocolate industry and a source of insecurity for the 40 million to 50 million people whose livelihoods depend on cacao. As Ramirez has found, any effort to boost cacao production means confronting the pathogens that so often afflict it. But much remains unknown about the diseases that target cacao. At least in Colombia, work to breed more resistant varietals or to study how cacao plants in the wild fend off pathogens has been limited. Now, as Colombia embraces a newfound stability after years of civil war, cacao science is getting a much-needed reboot.
Native to Colombia and its neighbors, cacao (scientific name Theobroma cacao) has long played a role in the country’s history and culture. Unlike most other countries that grow cacao, Colombia’s production has mostly been aimed at meeting demands within its own borders — not so much for chocolate bars, but for traditional drinking chocolate. But as worldwide demand for chocolate grows, some see an opportunity to help Colombia’s farmers by increasing cacao exports. Over the last decade, Colombia’s farmers have gradually upped their cacao production. In 2016, it reached a longtime high of almost 57,000 metric tons. But that’s still short of 1991 levels (58,000 metric tons), the peak of Colombian cacao production. An overall decline followed, in parallel with growing civil unrest and other challenges.
Decades of internal conflict, fueled in part by the illicit cocaine industry, wreaked havoc on the nation. But recent changes, including a peace treaty signed with the rebel group FARC in 2016, have brought a chance to rebuild. The government and its allies are eager to eradicate the many farms that still grow coca, the source of cocaine, once and for all. Since cacao and coca thrive in similar conditions, cacao has been promoted as one ideal replacement crop. Programs such as Cacao for Peace, which is backed by the US Agency for International Development, aim to help farmers make the shift. By focusing on making cacao farming more efficient, scientists may also be able to help.
For scientists, the newfound peace offers opportunity for discovery, with regions long too dangerous to explore opening again to study. Now, researchers from both inside the country and abroad are ramping up sampling of cacao and its diseases from farms and wilderness areas. With visits to remote, largely unstudied areas scientists hope to find untapped strains of cacao that may hold the keys to protect chocolate farms from some of their most damaging enemies.
A fungus, witches’ broom forms a rosy, fan-shaped mushroom. The spores released from the mushroom aren’t so pretty: They can infect and devastate cacao trees. Witches’ broom is blamed for ravaging Brazil’s cacao exports 30 years ago, and played a role in historic losses in Ecuador early last century. (Credit: Scott Bauer/ARS/USDA)
Cacao’s Killers
Although now grown around the world as a cash crop, cacao traces its origins to the Northern Amazon, including regions within present-day Colombia. Scientists studying cacao’s evolution say that 13 million years ago, the genus Theobroma split from its sister genus, a group of flowering plants called Herrania that today consists of about 20 species with pods and seeds similar to cacao’s. About 10 million years ago, Theobroma gave rise to cacao, a mid-sized tree with small, pinkish flowers and long tapered leaves that change from red to green as they mature. Since then, cacao and its enemies — funguses, viruses, insects and others — have evolved together, developing molecular weapons and defenses in a continuing arms race.
No crops are safe from disease, but cacao poses particular challenges for those who would try to protect it. Being a tree, cacao has a long life cycle that makes breeding and research more challenging. Unlike wheat and rice, which are sown anew each season, cacao trees are perennials that may be harvested for 40 to 50 years, live even longer and sometimes don’t produce their first pods for five years. Cacao’s microbial attackers, on the other hand, are much more nimble — common fungal and fungus-like pathogens of cacao can produce spores in a matter of days. In general, tropical crops also see losses almost double those of crops in temperate zones, due to pests, diseases, soil issues and resource limitations. Relatively little research money is invested in disease prevention for tropical tree crops. And most cacao that’s grown today is genetically similar, having been propagated from a narrow selection of clones.
These challenges fall hard on the shoulders of the subsistence farmers around the globe who still grow most of the world’s cacao but have limited resources and training to deal with diseases. The fallout is seen in the low production from most farms. While cacao plants can produce more than eight metric tons per hectare under ideal conditions, growers more commonly see yields that are only a twentieth of that.
Boosting the world’s cacao supply has required expanding the space where cacao is planted, rather than increasing output on existing land. It’s not a new pattern in cacao’s history, which has been marked by boom-and-bust cycles and shifting production centers since the earliest efforts to cultivate the plant on a wide scale. First domesticated for its sweet, soft pulp at least 3,000 years ago, the cacao plant spread to many parts of Central America and Mexico, where ancient civilizations used its beans as money and to brew a bitter ceremonial drink. When Europeans adopted the drink, they started to grow cacao on a larger scale, moving the crop to various colonies. But diseases found cacao no matter where it went.
These attackers have punctuated cacao’s history in Latin America with periodic disasters. A fungus called witches’ broom decimated Brazil’s chocolate empire in the late 1980s and early ’90s. Once the largest producer of the world’s cacao crop, Brazil became a cacao importer over the course of just a few years. Between 1917 and 1925, overlapping outbreaks of witches’ broom and frosty pod rot cut Ecuador’s cacao exports in half. In the 1970s, frosty pod rot slashed Costa Rica’s industry. By 1983, exports of dry cacao beans had declined by 96 percent. Four decades later, Costa Rica’s production has yet to bounce back.
Far from cacao’s native diseases and home to inexpensive labor, countries such as Ivory Coast, Ghana and Indonesia are now the focus of the world’s chocolate production, dominating Central and South American nations. Despite its Amazonian origins, 70 percent of the today’s chocolate crop is grown in Africa. Even the largest producer of cacao in South America, Brazil, grows only about 6 percent of the world’s supply. Colombia weighs in at just over 1 percent.
The chocolate industry worldwide fears that cacao’s enemies, fungal and otherwise, might jump continents or find new modes of attack. Previously unknown pathogens also could assail the crop. Frosty pod, for example, only began targeting cacao in the 1800s, likely hopping to the plant from one of cacao’s close relatives. The fungus, believed to have originated in Colombia, can produce billions of spores easily spread by wind or rain. In extreme cases, frosty pod rot can knock out a plantation’s entire harvest, so farmers must scramble to dispose of infected pods before spores spread.
And frosty pod is just one example. In the 1960s cacao plants in Papua New Guinea began to shrivel from vascular streak dieback, and in the 1970s a fungus-like disease called Phytophthora megakarya was found to have jumped from native African trees to transplanted cacao.
“It doesn’t matter how long I do this,” says Siela Maximova, a Penn State plant scientist who has traveled the world studying cacao. “Every time I go to a new plantation, I find a new disease.”
Cacao grows in a narrow band straddling the equator. While cacao originated in the Northern Amazon, 70 percent of today’s cacao crop is produced in Western Africa.
The Hunt for Resistance
Cacao isn’t totally defenseless against its attackers — over eons it has built up some weapons. The cacao genome was sequenced in 2010, but many of the details of cacao’s defense systems still remain unclear, as do some intricacies of exactly how diseases infiltrate and harm the plant.
Most plants protect themselves with two waves of defense. The first detects the presence of a threat. But microbial diseases that coevolved with plants are prepared for that. And they’ve designed their own tools to outwit the plant’s defenses. One tactic is blocking programmed cell death, which plants use to stop the spread of infection by killing tainted cells. Pathogens secrete immunity-suppressing proteins, called effectors, into the plant’s cells. Plants, in turn, can switch on a second-wave immune response that’s triggered by these effectors.
In a study published last March, scientists used the gene editing tool CRISPR to manipulate the immune systems of detached cacao leaves, upping resistance to a strain of Phytophthora by knocking out a plant gene that regulates cacao’s defense response. The gene ramps down surveillance when threats are low, saving the plant energy in the long term, but leaving it, at times, open to attack. Manipulating the plant’s immune responses in this way, the scientists hope, may open the door to more use of high-producing, high-quality cacao varieties that are currently difficult to grow because of their disease susceptibility.
Other scientists are looking to the wild as a source of more disease-resistant cacao that could be used in breeding programs. The first effort to seek new resistance from wild cacao plants came in the 1930s after witches’ broom made its way to the Caribbean island of Trinidad. The fungus dots cacao trees with delicate whorls that resemble tiny pink umbrellas and suck the life from their hosts, leaving once healthy branches twisted into gnarled brambles. Scientist Frederick J. Pound led an expedition to find new strains of cacao in the Amazon Basin, carefully collecting pods from trees with no symptoms of the disease.
Much of today’s cultivated cacao is descended from this collection. But as pathogens have evolved around cacao, even the most resistant of Pound’s strains have gradually begun to lose their immunity. More recently, South American cacao producers have been on the hunt again.
But Colombia is behind. Marauding guerrilla and paramilitary groups long made field research risky in much of the nation’s wilderness and countryside. So Colombia — one of the most biodiverse countries in the world — has been largely unmonitored by biologists over the past half-century. “Colombia,” says plant pathologist Silvia Restrepo of Bogotá’s University of the Andes, “is like a blind spot in the diversity landscape of the world.”
Valuable cacao plants may be thriving, undiscovered, somewhere within the country’s borders. As Colombia has slowly made strides toward peace, scientists there have started building up their collections, coordinating with various agricultural agencies to stockpile samples of cacao from farms. When researchers find diseases, they’re collecting those too — storing them for testing that will help them understand how the pathogens attack and whether new cacao varieties can deal with the wide range of diseases they might encounter in the field. But it’s wild cacao that scientists are most excited about collecting. And it wasn’t until recently that researchers finally got access the places those plants grow.
Colombian cacao researchers have jumped at the opportunity. A group of scientists from the national agricultural research agency Agrosavia and Colombian universities teamed up under a project called Expedición Cacao Colombia BIO to collect samples of cacao from remote regions. CacaoBIO’s leader, Carlos Eduardo González-Orozco, says that there’s a sense of urgency to the work. Even as they began planning expeditions, they heard of new dangers near their target sites. The guerilla group FARC had once restricted logging in the areas, but once the group loosened its hold, clear cutting for wood and for planting crops, like coca, took off. For Colombian researchers who had waited their whole lives to study the region’s natural bounty, there was no time to lose.
“We need to collect those species before they are gone,” says González-Orozco, a biogeographer with Agrosavia. “They are like treasures.”
As part of cacao’s center of origin (a title shared with neighbors in the Amazon Basin), Colombia is likely to be a hot spot of genetic diversity for wild forms of cacao and its close relatives.
For all crops, “the first thing you want to know is where is the center of genetic diversity,” says plant pathologist Bryan Bailey, noting that a plant species usually develops the most genetic diversity in a region where it’s been growing the longest. Harnessing that diversity through breeding programs can add new tools to the crop’s ability to combat disease — whether ancient or emerging.
“It would be terrible,” says Bailey, who studies cacao and its pathogens at the United States Department of Agriculture in Maryland, to fight a disease for decades with no success “when you have the five trees sitting right there that would have given you control.”
With the help of tropical botanist James Richardson of the University of Rosario in Bogotá, the CacaoBIO team selected sites for two sampling expeditions within the heart of cacao’s center of origin — one on each side of the Andes. A geological event like a mountain-range uplifting should speed species diversification, says Richardson, and it’s likely the wild cacao would have differing characteristics on its western and eastern flanks. In July the group set out for an area east of the mountains, straddling the states of Caquetá and Putumayo. Soon they will explore the humid and rainy state of Chocó to the west.
The search remains challenging, given Colombia’s nascent peace and untamed wilderness. Some locations are reachable only by hours of boat travel. And while scouting out collection sites earlier this year, researchers found themselves wading through floodlands and meeting suspicious locals who pushed them to leave. At one point, the team encountered an eight-meter-long boa strangling a wild pig. But González-Orozco feels the challenges were worth it. (González-Orozco is no stranger to challenging conditions — in the 1990s, he was kidnapped twice while doing field work.) Near the remote village of Puerto Camelia, the team found people harvesting wild cacao. There were signs of witches’ broom, but to the naked eye, these plants were surprisingly free of other disease. The scientists can’t say for sure without further testing, but González-Orozco is hopeful that the plants might harbor some enhanced resistance. Nearby the team found cacao trees that were thriving despite spending months half submerged on flooded riverbanks, suggesting the trees may be especially resistant to flooding.
The researchers also collected a number of plants closely related to cacao that might prove useful in studying disease resistance and other valuable traits. “It was unbelievable,” says González-Orozco. “We found so many different species.”
From Rotten Potatoes to Rotten Chocolate
Standing in Restrepo’s lab at the University of the Andes, surrounded by tubs holding leaves and potato slices in various stages of decay, biologist Julie Ramirez holds a culture dish up to the light streaming through the window.
“I believe this one is palmivora,” she says, examining the fuzz of a black pod rot strain that has spread out from the center of the dish in an almost star-like pattern. The pattern of growth contrasts with the uniform spread of palmivora’sbetter-studied cousin, Phytophthora infestans, the infamous perpetrator of the Irish Potato Famine.
Restrepo’s team is trying to understand how diseases like P. infestans develop resistance to fungicides over time and how the diseases attack their hosts. One project looks at how gene expression and the production of metabolites change as the disease progresses through two phases of assault. Understanding how Phytophthora transitions from its first phase (in which it invades and nests within its host but causes little apparent damage) to its necrotizing phase (when the pathogen begins killing host cells to keep thriving) could someday help develop ways to thwart its attack, Restrepo hopes.
Recently the lab has begun expanding its collections to include strains of Phytophthora that attack cacao, with samples coming in from Colombia’s national organization of cacao farmers. Ramirez, a graduate student who, like many of her colleagues, grew up in a household where drinking chocolate was a daily staple, is heading the new project.
Researchers think palmivora is the main strain of Phytophthora attacking cacao in Colombia, but no one has ever done the work to make sure, Ramirez says. Genetic analyses will identify the specific fungal strains. That work will map the breadth of Phytophthora strains facing Colombian farmers, allowing agriculture officials to be better prepared for outbreaks and enabling more precise disease-management training for farmers.
Back from the first expedition of CacaoBIO, González-Orozco is hopeful that someday chocolate can become an important export for Colombia, but he knows there is a long process ahead. Even the job of characterizing and cataloging the samples that come out of his expedition is predicted to take about five years.
And there are obstacles other than disease. For one, farms set up to grow illicit crops tend to be away from major transportation routes — an ideal scenario for producing cocaine, but a huge disadvantage for cacao farmers trying to ship their product for legal sale. Another issue: Some Colombian soils are naturally high in the toxic metal cadmium, and new European restrictions on the element in cacao could pose a trade barrier.
Education is another challenge. No matter how good the genetics of a crop, proper planning and management will always be part of successful yields, says Roxana Yockteng, a plant geneticist with Agrosavia.
In the long term, though, the scientists hope their work can someday provide farmers such as Gildardo Ramirez with high-quality, disease-resistant cacao varietals and improved tools to combat diseases that will help reduce losses. There will never be a crop that doesn’t require regular monitoring, and there will always be new diseases to tackle. But scientists hope to provide a crop that makes a farmer’s efforts a bit less risky.
“It’s a very big investment for small producers to have a farm,” says Yockteng. “They have to have very good management to have good production. If not, they can lose everything.”
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Anthrax Exposure, Belief in Exposure, and Postanthrax Symptoms among Survivors of a Bioterrorist Attack on Capitol Hill
Stephanie Chiao, Howard Kipen, William K. Hallman, David E. Pollio, Carol S North
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Following chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear disasters, medically unexplained symptoms have been observed among unexposed persons.Objectives This study examined belief in exposure in relation to postdisaster symptoms in a volunteer sample of 137 congressional workers after the 2001 anthrax attacks on Capitol Hill.Methods Postdisaster symptoms, belief in exposure, and actual exposure status were obtained through structured diagnostic interviews and self-reported presence in offices officially designated as exposed through environmental sampling. Multivariate models were tested for associations of number of postdisaster symptoms with exposure and belief in exposure, controlling for sex and use of antibiotics.Results The sample was divided into 3 main subgroups: exposed, 41%; unexposed but believed they were exposed, 17%; and unexposed and did not believe that they were exposed, 42%. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of the volunteers reported experiencing symptoms after the anthrax attacks. Belief in anthrax exposure was significantly associated with the number of ear/nose/throat, musculoskeletal, and all physical symptoms. No significant associations were found between anthrax exposure and the number of postdisaster symptoms.Conclusions Given the high incidence of these symptoms, these data suggest that even in the absence of physical injury or illness, there may be surges in health care utilization.
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Chiao, S., Kipen, H., Hallman, W. K., Pollio, D. E., & North, C. S. (2019). Anthrax Exposure, Belief in Exposure, and Postanthrax Symptoms among Survivors of a Bioterrorist Attack on Capitol Hill. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 13(3), 555-560. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2018.115
Anthrax Exposure, Belief in Exposure, and Postanthrax Symptoms among Survivors of a Bioterrorist Attack on Capitol Hill. / Chiao, Stephanie; Kipen, Howard; Hallman, William K.; Pollio, David E.; North, Carol S.
In: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Vol. 13, No. 3, 01.06.2019, p. 555-560.
Chiao, S, Kipen, H, Hallman, WK, Pollio, DE & North, CS 2019, 'Anthrax Exposure, Belief in Exposure, and Postanthrax Symptoms among Survivors of a Bioterrorist Attack on Capitol Hill', Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 555-560. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2018.115
Chiao S, Kipen H, Hallman WK, Pollio DE, North CS. Anthrax Exposure, Belief in Exposure, and Postanthrax Symptoms among Survivors of a Bioterrorist Attack on Capitol Hill. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2019 Jun 1;13(3):555-560. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2018.115
Chiao, Stephanie ; Kipen, Howard ; Hallman, William K. ; Pollio, David E. ; North, Carol S. / Anthrax Exposure, Belief in Exposure, and Postanthrax Symptoms among Survivors of a Bioterrorist Attack on Capitol Hill. In: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2019 ; Vol. 13, No. 3. pp. 555-560.
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Nearly half of ICU staff 'meet threshold' for PTSD, severe depression or problem drinking amid pandemic, study suggests
Alexandra Thompson
There is a 'substantial burden of mental health symptoms' among intensive care unit staff, an expert has warned. (Posed by a model, Getty Images)
The mental health impact the coronavirus outbreak is having on intensive care unit (ICU) staff has been unveiled in “stark” new research.
Since the start of the pandemic, doctors, nurses and other hospital employees have spoken of the emotional burden of treating critically-ill patients, with many enduring exhaustion and sores from their personal protective equipment (PPE).
To better understand the ordeal ICU staff face, scientists from King’s College London had more than 700 workers from nine English hospitals complete an anonymous survey between June and July, when infection rates were relatively low.
Results reveal nearly half (45%) “met the threshold” for severe depression or anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or problem drinking.
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Perhaps most concerning of all, around one in eight (13%) reported frequently having thoughts of self-harm or even that they would be better off dead in the two weeks before the survey.
Staff have reported being exhausted and enduring sores from their personal protective equipment. (Posed by a model, Getty Images)
“Our results show a substantial burden of mental health symptoms being reported by ICU staff towards the end of the first wave in July and July 2020,” said lead author Professor Neil Greenberg.
“The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staffs ability to provide high-quality care, as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.
“The high rate of mortality amongst COVID-19 [the disease caused by the coronavirus] patients admitted to ICU, coupled with difficulty in communication and providing adequate end-of-life support to patients, and their next of kin because of visiting restrictions, are very likely to have been highly challenging stressors for all staff working in ICUs.”
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In September, a Minnesota doctor spoke of the “bone-deep weariness” he endured while working amid the pandemic, adding he was “running on fumes”.
The following month, nurses described how they “absorb the emotions” when a coronavirus victim dies without a loved one present.
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The King’s study was made up of 291 doctors, 344 nurses and 74 healthcare workers in other roles.
The results, published in the journal Occupational Medicine, reveal more than half (59%) reported having good wellbeing.
Of the 45% who were struggling, 40% showed signs of PTSD that “met the threshold for probable clinical significance”.
Just over one in 10 (11%) had symptoms fitting severe anxiety, while 7% reported problem drinking and 6% severe depression.
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“Whilst these results are in some ways not surprising, they should serve as a stark reminder to NHS managers of the pressing need to protect the mental health of ICU workers now in order to ensure they can deliver vital care to those in need,” said Professor Greenberg.
The study was carried out during the UK’s summer, with the pandemic later taking a dramatic turn for the worse.
More than 46,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus on 11 January alone, while just over 4,100 patients were admitted to hospital – a 34% increase on the previous week.
With the NHS under its usual winter pressures, England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has warned the next few weeks will be “the worst” for the health service since the pandemic began.
“Evidence-based mechanisms should be in place so all healthcare workers, including ICU staff, can promptly access treatment for mental health issues,” said Professor Greenberg.
“If we protect the mental health of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, staff will be better able to sustainably deliver high quality care to the large numbers of patients seriously unwell with COVID-19.”
The scientists acknowledged further research is required, with self-reported questionnaires potentially overestimating the prevalence of mental health symptoms.
Nevertheless, Professor Greenberg concluded: “Our results highlight the potential profound impact COVID-19 has had on the mental health of frontline UK staff and indicate an urgent need for a national strategy to protect staff mental health, and decrease the risk of functional impairment of ICU staff while they carry out their essential work during COVID-19 and beyond.”
For confidential emotional support at times of distress, contact The Samaritans at any time by calling 116 123 or emailing jo@samaritans.org.
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The Mighty Oak
Jeff W. Bens
Tim O’Connor is paid to be violent. He plays for the El Paso Storm in the West Texas Hockey League. People call him Oak. He’s been an enforcer for longer than his hip or shoulder or back have been able to hold together. He is a broken machine of gristle and rage. And he has been away from home for too long.
He’s called back to Boston by his mother’s death. There he confronts a life he failed to live, a daughter he doesn’t know, and a body that is quickly breaking down. Still, he can’t conceive of a future without hockey, even as he chews oxycodone and Adderall to numb his injuries and steady his brain. When a brutal encounter with the police places him in the path of Joan Linney, a haunted public defender, and Kip, a boy with a brave face, Oak and his chance companions roam cold streets from Castle Island to Quincy Point, struggling to believe in a different future.
In spare, potent language, Jeff W. Bens builds a remarkable character from the skates up. The Mighty Oak is a visceral and emotional experience. The fact of Oak’s physical existence is powerfully rendered, and the bone-deep transformation of his character is one you will not soon forget.
Jeff W. Bens:
Jeff W. Bens is the author of the novel Albert, Himself. He teaches at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.
Publisher Name Blackstone Publishing
Imprint Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date Sep 15, 2020
Fiction & Literature » Sports fiction
Fiction & Literature » Adventure fiction
Fiction & Literature » Family life fiction
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The Common Place
Romantic Women Writers Collection
Brief Creator & Editor Biography
Who: The Authors
What: The Texts
Non-Fiction Prose
Dorothy Wordsworth, “The Grasmere Journal April – June 1802”
Fictional Prose
Jane Austen, “The History of England”
Anna Letitia Barbauld, “Letter from Grimalkin to Selima”
Felicia Hemans, “The Image in Lava”
Why & How: The Appendices
Contextual History
Concept: Cat Poetry
Concept: Images and Impressions
Genre: Female Conduct Literature
Genre: Histories of England
Place: Lake District
Place: Pompeii and Herculaneum
Discourses of Criticism
Affect Theory: Aura of Manuscripts
Paratext: Portraits
Publication: Editions
Publication: Periodical v. Monograph Press
Reception: Wollstonecraft & Barbauld
Reception: W. Wordsworth’s Poetry
More: The Resources
In her article “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Mary Louise Pratt defines the contact zone as the “social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power” (34). Pratt’s conception of the contact zone stands in opposition to the utopian characterization of community set forth in such foundational works as Walter Benjamin’s Imagined Communities. For Pratt, the contact zone is a physical space that facilitates fraught collisions between cultures. Pratt’s definition of the contact zone closely aligns it with a heterogeneous community where different groups of people – different in terms of race, socio-economic status, language, or cultural customs – exist in the same space and engage in some type of power struggle or relationship defined by tension.
Pratt’s definition of the contact zone takes a narrow and specific approach to the term. For Pratt, the contact zone is a physical place that facilitates oppressive human relationships. While I certainly agree with Pratt’s use of the term, I argue throughout this introduction that the contact zone can been thought of metaphorically and applied to alternative– not necessarily negative – scenarios in order to explain the relationships between opposing ideals, materials, or social practices. In employing a broad definition that still relies on binaries relationships but moves beyond the physicality of human interaction, Felicia Hemans’ poem “The Image in Lava” can been considered a contact zone. “The Image in Lava” – as a poetic space and an arena for ideas – facilitates the collision of past and present historical moments; the collision of natural phenomena and human intervention; and the collision of a site that acts both as a place spiritual burial and as a historic monument.
Published first in 1827 in the New Monthly Magazine and republished in 1828 in Hemans’ poetic collections the Records of Woman, “The Image in Lava” unites the historical and geographical communities of nineteenth-century Britain and ancient, southern Italy. In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, breaking “its centuries long silence,” and unleashing devastating results on the surrounding cities and their inhabitants (Roberts 272). The explosive nature of the eruption covered the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash effectively burying the civilizations for centuries (Roberts 282). Now, fast-forward nearly two thousand years. In 1823, after centuries of being hidden underneath Mount Vesuvius’ debris, British archaeologists set out to uncover the remains of these lost cities (Harding 143). As scholar Mary Beard recounts, “an old archaeological joke” told in response to the excavations is that “Pompeii has died twice: first, the sudden death caused by the eruption; second the slow death that the city has suffered since it began to be uncovered in the mid eighteenth century” (19).
The incredible discoveries that followed from the excavations in Italy made their way back to Britain through the newspapers. The communication between the excavations in Italy and the news reports in Britain directly connects to the poem through the Hemans’ footnote – included in both publications: “The impression of a woman’s form, with an infant clasped to the bosom, found at the uncovering of Herculaneum”. As scholar Isobel Armstrong notes, in the summer previous to the publication of “The Image in Lava,” The Times newspaper carried several reports of new findings at Pompeii – many of them related to the discoveries of human remains (218-219). While it is impossible to prove it was through this channel that Hemans’ first viewed “the image,” it is a likely prospect given that Hemans’ was an avid reader and the excavations in Italy were a popular subject amongst the masses.
The collision of ancient Italy and nineteenth-century Britain in Hemans’ text constructs it as a contact zone of history and culture. Hemans’ intriguing footnote creates an explicit connection between two – very distant – historical moments: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the uncovering of the remains. Additionally, Hemans’ employment of the word “immortal” emphasizes the poems’ ability to unite history in a manner beyond human experience. Like the newspapers that publicized the excavation with voracious detail, Hemans’ poem transports its contemporary British audience to a foreign space. In traversing thousands of years and thousands of miles, “The Image in Lava” manifests itself as a contact zone through the facilitation of an interaction between two distant cultures.
“The Image in Lava” also creates a contact zone between nature and humanity by drawing attention to the shocking preservation and archaeological innovation surrounding the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum. With a surge temperature estimated by vulcanologists to have been between 400-450°C, the populations of Pompeii and Herculaneum were essentially scorched into preservation (Roberts 285). The incredible temperature of the explosion accompanied by the rapid accumulation of “pumice, ash, lapilli, and other volcanic materials” buried the residents of the ancient civilizations before their bodies could begin to decay (Roberts 282). The incredibly nature of this phenomenon is reflected in the language of Hemans’ poem as she describes the child’s image as “enshrin’d” in the lava or “impress’d” in the ashes. In “The Image in Lava,” nature is given an active role in both the annihilation and preservation of the population of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum.
But, Hemans’ work also acknowledges the necessity of human intervention in the recovery of these “images”. Even characterizing the monument as an “image” in the works’ title gestures towards the active role of human technology. An image often refers to a photograph or work of art – both of which present nature mediated through man. In this same sense, the recovery of human forms from the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum demanded human innovation. In studying the cities’ fossilized remains “archaeologists working in Pompeii realized that plaster of Paris, poured into voids in the ash, created detailed impressions of long-vanished organic objects, such as door and furniture” (Roberts 296). Soon after the technique had proved successful in extracting moulds of inanimate objects, prominent archaeologist and lead investigator Giuseppe Fiorelli “decided to use the same technique on voids left by people” (Roberts 296). This blending of artistic technique and archaeological process resulted in shocking casts of human forms that took nineteenth-century society by storm.
In “The Image in Lava,” Hemans describes the impression as a “trace.” This word signifies the symbiotic relationship between humanity and the environment in the text: the female form is pressed into the volcanic debris, leaving a decipherable mark of humanity on nature. Armstrong goes as far as to argue that this impression is the “nearest thing to a ‘natural’ monument, a ‘pure’ unmediated aesthetic, a poesis of earth itself” because it collides and unites natural forces with human ones (214). Recalling the disastrous event that catalyzed the creation of this “rude monument” shows the relationship to be in line with Pratt’s original definition of the contact zone as a collision defined by oppression. The language utilized by Hemans emphasizes and constructs the poem as a contact zone between a natural phenomenon and human innovation.
Finally, the liminal position of the impression referenced in this poem – between characterizing itself as spiritual burial site or a historic monument – facilitates a final contact zone. Scholars in the past have been quick to compare Hemans’ “The Image in Lava” to Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” because both of the poems discuss powerful civilizations that have since fallen into ruin. “The Image in Lava” and “Ozymandias” both elude the tumultuous relationship between nature and humanity: “Ozymandias” depicts the destruction of a human monument by the eternal force or nature and “The Image in Lava” shows a human impression forced upon the natural landscape. In the end, both poems “talk about monuments belonging to dust and sand” (Armstrong 214). In creating a dialogue between “The Image in Lava” and “Ozymandias,” the image in Hemans’ poem becomes a representation of history. The same way Ozymandias’ statue was erected to commemorate a great civilization; the impression in Hemans’ poem can be conceptualized as a stand in for the immortality of Pompeii and Herculaneum – despite their destruction the population lives in on the construction of these casts.
However, the intensely personal and intimate qualities of the impression in Hemans’ poem balk against understanding it as a historical monument like that of the statue of Ozymandias. The “rude monument” preserves an image of a woman clasping her child to her chest. Hemans writes about the incredible affection leaping forth from the static image through its “impassion’d grasp.” In fact, Hemans’ sets the impression in opposition to the relics of a city or “pomps of old.” Taking these details into account, “The Image in Lava” is may be more accurately understood as gravesite remembering the woman and child than a commemorative artefact – a gravesite that Hemans’ visits as an imaginary necro-tourist.
In his book Necroromanticism, Paul Westover discusses the burgeoning of necro-tourism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (3). Necro-tourism was the activity of traveling to and visiting burial locations as a form of tourism. Westover argues that necro-tourism grew out of a population obsessed with “antiquitarian revival” and accessing the dead (3). Necro-tourism also fosters the “interplay between geographical and imaginary terrains” (Westover 5). In “The Image in Lava,” Hemans’ virtually transports herself to the site of the impression or gravesite. This imaginary transportation to a real, geographical location manifests Westover’s definition of necro-tourism. Uniting the similarities between “The Image and Lava” and “Ozymadias” with the characteristics of Hemans’ work that figure it as a site necro-tourism, “The Image in Lava” can be understood a material artifact that hangs in the balance. As a commemorative, historical monument and an individual, spiritual gravesite, the “image” in “The Image in Lava” constructs a third and final contact zone between different types of memorials.
Often described as a poetess – in the worst sense of word – Felicia Hemans’ poetry has the tendency to been unrightfully dismissed and discounted as the musings of an overly emotional woman. However, as this introduction has demonstrated, in “The Image in Lava” Hemans constructs an space of collision between the past and the present; the natural and the manmade; and the spiritual and the historic –making the poem an incredible and innovative witness to Pratt’s theory of the contact zone.
“The Image in Lava” was published both in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1827) and Hemans’ poetry collection Records of Woman (1828). The version duplicated below is a reproduction of the poem as it appeared in the edition of Records of Woman. However, the differences between the serial and monograph publications are noted in the annotations.
The Image in Lava.*
THOU thing of years departed!
What ages have gone by,
Since here the mournful seal was set
By love and agony! (1)
Temple and tower have moulder’d,
Empires from earth have pass’d,– (2)
And woman’s heart hath left a trace
Those glories to outlast!
And childhood’s fragile image
Thus fearfully enshrin’d,
Survives the proud memorials rear’d
By conquerors of mankind. (3)
Babe! wert thou brightly slumbering (4)
Upon thy mother’s breast,
When suddenly the fiery tomb
Shut round each gentle guest?
A strange, dark fate o’ertook you, (5)
Fair babe and loving heart!
One moment of a thousand pangs–
Yet better than to part!
Haply of that fond bosom
On ashes here impress’d,
Thou wert the only treasure, child!
Whereon a hope might rest.
Perchance all vainly lavish’d
Its other love had been,
And where it trusted, nought remain’d
But thorns on which to lean. (6)
Far better then to perish,
Thy form within its clasp,
Than live and lose thee, precious one!
From that impassion’d grasp.
Oh! I could pass all relics
Left by the pomps of old,
To gaze on this rude monument,
Cast in affection’s mould. (7)
Love, human love! what art thou?
Thy print upon the dust (8)
Outlives the cities of renown
Wherein the mighty trust!
Immortal, oh! immortal
Thou art, whose earthly glow
Hath given these ashes holiness–
It must, it must be so!
*The impression of a woman’s form, with an infant clasped to the bosom, found at the uncovering of Herculaneum.
[This footnote was included by Hemans to accompany the poem’s publication. For more information on the artistic and cultural phenomenon of these “impressions,” click here]
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Once your UTI is officially diagnosed, your healthcare provider will prescribe a course of oral antibiotics to kill the bacteria causing your UTI. Generally, these UTI treatments lasts about seven days. You should start feeling better within two days, but don't stop taking those antibiotics.
How long do hives last from an allergic reaction?
Usually, eruptions may last for a few minutes, sometimes several hours, and even several weeks to months. Most individual hives last no more than 24 hours. What are the different types of urticaria? Acute episodes of urticaria last for six weeks or less.
How long do symptoms of an allergic reaction last?
Even with treatment, symptoms can last 2 to 4 weeks. Hives. These are raised, itchy red welts or bumps. Contact dermatitis can trigger them, but allergic reactions to insect bites, medications, and foods can also bring on a reaction.
How long can an allergic reaction last in a dog?
Can an allergic reaction last for days?
How long does it take to clear up ringworm in dogs?
Infected pets remain contagious for about three weeks if aggressive treatment is used. The ringworm will last longer and remain contagious for an extended period of time if only minimal measures are taken or if you are not faithful with the prescribed approach.
How long does it take to clear up a urinary tract infection?
For an uncomplicated UTI that occurs when you're otherwise healthy, your doctor may recommend a shorter course of treatment, such as taking an antibiotic for one to three days. But whether this short course of treatment is enough to treat your infection depends on your particular symptoms and medical history.
How long does it take for villagers to grow up?
Villagers will breed autonomously, but need doors [until BE 1.11.0] or beds [upcoming: BE 1.11.0] and need to be willing in order to spawn baby villagers. After exactly 20 minutes, the baby villager will grow up to an adult.
How long does it take for ringworm to show up?
How soon do symptoms appear? The incubation period is unknown for most of these agents, however ringworm of the scalp is usually seen 10 to 14 days after contact and ringworm of the body is seen 4 to 10 days after initial contact.
How long does it take for dog to grow up?
Giant dog breeds (Great Danes, Mastiffs) may take up to three years to reach their full weight, though they should be fully grown into their paws by about 18 months.
Can you take Zyrtec for allergic reaction?
Cetirizine does not prevent hives or prevent/treat a serious allergic reaction (such as anaphylaxis). Therefore, if your doctor has prescribed epinephrine to treat allergic reactions, always carry your epinephrine injector with you.
How long does it take for a dog to have a reaction to chocolate?
Signs of chocolate poisoning usually appear within 6 to 12 hours after your dog has eaten it, may last up to 72 hours, and include the following: Vomiting. Diarrhea. Restlessness.
How long does prostatitis take to clear?
For acute prostatitis, antibiotics are taken for 2 to 6 weeks. Chronic prostatitis is treated with antibiotics for 4 to 12 weeks or longer. Finish all the antibiotics, even if you start feeling better. It is harder for antibiotics to get into prostate tissue to treat the infection.
How long does wine take to clear?
How long before I can drink it? Wineworks Superior wines: These usually take 10-15 days to ferment, and a further week to clear. Again the wine can be drunk immediately but we recommend ageing it 4 weeks but you can leave it up to 12 months.
How long does it take for an eye to heal?
Superficial corneal abrasions tend to heal quickly, usually within two or three days. But other corneal abrasions may require an antibiotic ointment that stays on the eye longer, a steroid to decrease inflammation and scarring, and something to relieve pain and light sensitivity.
How do you calm an allergic reaction?
You can do some things to make it more comfortable in the meantime. Avoid contact. It might sound obvious, but it's worth a reminder. Chill out. A cool compress or shower can help calm a fiery rash. Soak it. Add anti-itch cream. Go baggy. For severe symptoms, try a damp dressing.
How long does a dog's allergic reaction last?
How long do allergic reactions last?
How long does it take for a bleed in the eye to clear?
Your symptoms may worry you. But a subconjunctival hemorrhage is usually a harmless condition that disappears within two weeks or so.
How long does it take for vision to clear after cataract surgery?
After cataract surgery, expect your vision to begin improving within a few days. Your vision may be blurry at first as your eye heals and adjusts. Colors may seem brighter after your surgery because you are looking through a new, clear lens.
How long does it take for blood in the vitreous to clear?
Vitrectomy: Eyes with attached retina, good PVD and non-clearing vitreous haemorrhage over 2-3 months are best managed by vitreous surgery. Eyes with advanced proliferative retinopathy where the vitreous haemorrhage does not clear in 6-8 weeks after adequate laser therapy also need early vitrectomy.
Can you give a dog Benadryl for an allergic reaction?
Yes, many veterinarians and pet owners find Benadryl to be an effective antihistamine for mild to moderative allergic reactions. However, if your pup is having an acute allergic reaction with facial swelling or difficulty breathing, it is imperative that you go straight to the vet.
Can I give my dog Benadryl for an allergic reaction?
What can I give my dog for an allergic reaction?
In dogs, signs of an allergic reaction include: Puffy face (e.g., swelling of the face and body) Treatment for an allergic reaction typically includes: Antihistamines (like Benadryl or diphenhydramine) Corticosteroids (like dexamethasone or prednisone) And rarely, epinephrine (for severe life-threatening reactions)
Can you die from an allergic reaction?
Anaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and may cause death. It typically causes more than one of the following: an itchy rash, throat or tongue swelling, shortness of breath, vomiting, lightheadedness, and low blood pressure. These symptoms typically come on over minutes to hours.
What does an allergic reaction on the face look like?
Red spots on the skin, swollen lips, itchy eyes, and puffy skin may be symptoms of an allergic reaction. The symptoms of an allergic reaction differ, depending on the trigger substance, otherwise known as an allergen. Symptoms of an allergic reaction on the face can include: a rash or hives.
What can you give a dog for an allergic reaction?
Can an allergic reaction kill a dog?
Skin Allergies In Dogs. The last reaction is allergic dermatitis, and it is rampant in dogs. Three things cause allergic dermatitis: fleas, food allergies, and atopic—or environmental—allergies. We treat these cases by applying a product that kills fleas before they bite.
How long does it take to wake up after surgery?
It usually takes about 45 minutes to an hour to recover completely from general anesthesia. In some cases, this period may be a bit longer depending on medications given during or after surgery.
How long does it take poison ivy to show up?
The symptoms vary in severity from person to person. The plant oil can begin to penetrate the skin within 5-10 minutes of contact. Poison ivy rash can appear in as little as 4 hours or as long as 2-3 weeks after exposure. Generally, the first blisters appear within 1-14 days.
How long does it take to put up a fence?
It depends on the size of the job, but most fences can be installed in one to three days. There is no reason to have to wait days or weeks between when the fence posts are installed, and when the rails, gates, and the rest of the job is completed. This is the sign of an over-extended contractor.
Is my dog having an allergic reaction?
If your dog shows signs of a more advanced reaction, including facial swelling, itchiness, vomiting and/or hives or bumps all over the body, see your veterinarian immediately. In rare cases, dogs can experience a severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis.
How long does it take the runt to catch up?
In most cases, if the runt of a litter makes it to six to eight weeks, it will probably survive and likely grow close to full size, experts said.
Can you die from an allergic reaction to cats?
People with cat allergies react to specific substances that cats produce, such as saliva, skin flakes called dander, or urine. A cat allergy can cause symptoms ranging from mild respiratory problems to a life-threatening syndrome called anaphylaxis. Cat allergies are among the most common allergies.
How do you treat an allergic reaction in a dog?
Treatment for an allergic reaction typically includes: Antihistamines (like Benadryl or diphenhydramine) Corticosteroids (like dexamethasone or prednisone) And rarely, epinephrine (for severe life-threatening reactions)
How do I know if Im having an allergic reaction?
The most common food allergy signs and symptoms include: Tingling or itching in the mouth. Hives, itching or eczema. Swelling of the lips, face, tongue and throat or other parts of the body. Wheezing, nasal congestion or trouble breathing. Abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting. Dizziness, lightheadedness or fainting.
How do you know if an allergic reaction is serious?
You may not know you're allergic to something until anaphylaxis happens. Signs include trouble breathing, pale or blue skin, hives, itching, vomiting, or anxiety. Symptoms can start within just a few minutes after you come in contact with the cause.
How long will it take for an enema to work?
What should I do if I administer an enema and it does not work? If there is no bowel movement after 5 minutes of using, try to empty bowel. Call a doctor promptly after using a saline enema and no liquid comes out of the rectum after 30 minutes, because dehydration could occur.
How do you calm an allergic reaction on your face?
How to immediately treat a reaction Wash the product off your face with cold water or use a cold compress to soothe some of that stinging feeling. Apply an over-the-counter 1 percent hydrocortisone cream to help manage the itchiness. Take an oral antihistamine to help treat the itchiness. Stop using the product!
How long does it take an elephant to give birth?
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How long does it take to correct an underbite?
The length of time it takes for braces to correct an underbite varies between patients and is heavily dependent on the severity of the underbite, but patients typically wear the braces for 1 to 3 years or more, as stated by Dental Associates. Refer to a licensed orthodontist for an accurate prognosis.
How long does it take to fix an underbite?
How long does it take to get an ESA letter?
Obtaining a 100% legal emotional support animal letter takes less than 48 hours if you qualify. Start the process by taking the free ESA Assessment below, and have your certified ESA letter sent to you in the mail within 48 hours time. The letter can be used for both Housing & Flying!
How long does it take to become an animal behaviorist?
Educational and experiential requirements include a doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in a biological or behavioral science with an emphasis on animal behavior, including five years of professional experience, or a doctorate from an accredited college or university in veterinary medicine plus two
How long does it take to become an exotic vet?
Becoming a Zoo Vet. Before qualifying for a job in this field, veterinarians study for years. Most of us spend at least a year and sometimes as many as five training in zoological medicine (abbreviated zoo med). And that's after four years of college and four years of veterinary school.
How do I know if I'm having an allergic reaction?
The most common signs and symptoms of an allergic reaction include: Cough, difficulty or irregular breathing, wheezing, itchy throat or mouth, and difficulty swallowing. Nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Itchiness, red bumps or welts on the skin (hives), and skin redness.
How do you get rid of an allergic reaction fast?
Treatments for plant or bite allergies Avoid touching other areas of your body, especially your face. Clean the area with soap and water for at least 10 minutes. Take a cool bath. Apply calamine or another anti-itching lotion three to four times a day to relieve itching.
How do you get rid of an allergic reaction rash?
Treatment Antihistamines. Antihistamines can reduce the swelling, redness, and itchiness of rashes and hives on the face. Corticosteroids. Creams, sprays, and eye drops that contain corticosterone can help to reduce inflammation. Moisturizers. Cold compress. Immunotherapy.
How do you get rid of an allergic reaction?
Apply hydrocortisone cream or calamine lotion. Cover the area with a bandage. If there's swelling, apply a cold compress to the area. Take an antihistamine to reduce itching, swelling, and hives.
How long do allergic reactions last in dogs?
How long does it take for tramadol to take effect?
You will feel less pain 30 to 60 minutes after taking fast-acting tramadol. The pain relief wears off after 4 to 6 hours. Slow-acting tramadol tablets and capsules can take a day or two to start working but the pain relief will last for longer.
How long does it take for Dewormer to take effect?
Your puppy will begin passing worms approximately 12 hours following the administration of the dewormer, and he'll continue to poop worms for several days. In some cases, it may take up as long as 2 weeks to completely expel them from his body.
How long does it take for mirtazapine to take effect?
Sleep, energy, or appetite may show some improvement within the first 1-2 weeks. Improvement in these physical symptoms can be an important early signal that the medication is working. Depressed mood and lack of interest in activities may need up to 6-8 weeks to fully improve.
How long does it take for frontline to take effect?
Frontline Plus can get rid of all fleas within 12 hours along with all lice and ticks within 48 hours.
How long does it take for Trilostane to take effect?
Clinical improvement is usually seen within 2 weeks of starting trilostane and in those dogs that respond to trilostane, adequate control is invariably achieved within 30 d of starting medication.
How long does it take for Metacam to take effect?
Maximum effect is seen approximately 8 hours after administration. When beginning a trial course of meloxicam, a response may take 3 or 4 days to show. If no response has been seen in 10 days, meloxicam has failed and a different pain medication should be tried. If one NSAID fails, another may well work.
How long does it take for an adopted dog to adjust to a new home?
How Long Does it take a Rescue Dog to Adjust? The common milestones your new dog or puppy will go through will be the first 3 days after bringing your dog home from the shelter, then 3 weeks, then 3 months. If you've ever started a new job or moved to a new school, you should know this feeling.
How long do allergic reactions in dogs last?
You and your veterinarian may never be able to identify what caused your dog's allergic reaction. But regardless of the underlying cause, the treatment generally depends on the severity of the reaction. A very mild allergic reaction can be treated with an oral antihistamine for 48 to 72 hours.
How long does it take for a Yorkie puppy ears to stand up?
Yorkie puppies are born with floppy ears. They do not have the proper muscle strength at the base of the ear in order to hold them erect. These muscles will grow and become stronger with time (in most cases). Usually between the age of 3 months to 6 months, the ears will gradually raise up and the stand on their own.
How long does it take for dogs milk to dry up after weaning?
Answer: If it's three days and the mother dog hasn't been feeding (and the pups are in the process of weaning), the mother dog should start gradually producing less milk and may dry up within a week.
How long does it take for a mother dogs milk to dry up?
How long does it take for mother cats milk to dry up?
After that, mother cats begin eating less, start becoming aggressive toward kittens that continue to try to nurse on them, and stop producing milk. After about two weeks of this, most cat's breasts run dry. That means a healthy mother cat's milk supply usually doesn't dry up until her kittens are 10 weeks old.
How long does it take for puppies ears to stand up?
The cartilage at the base of a standing ear will begin to start feeling firm by 4-to-6 weeks old. However, My New German says it can take as long as six months for your dog's ear cartilage to harden sufficiently for his ears to stand up.
How long does it take for a nursing dogs milk to dry up?
How long does it take for toddlers to age up in Sims 4?
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How long does it take for a black eye to show up?
Within 1 or 2 days, the hemoglobin (an iron-containing substance that carries oxygen) in the blood changes and your bruise turns bluish-purple or even blackish. After 5 to 10 days, the bruise turns greenish or yellowish. Then, after 10 or 14 days, it turns yellowish-brown or light brown.
How long does it take for parvo to show up in a puppy?
Parvo was discovered in the 1970's, and in two years, the virus spread worldwide. Dogs that develop parvo will show symptoms 3-10 days after being exposed. Symptoms include: vomiting, lethargy, diarrhea (usually bloody), and fever.
How long does it take for a Yorkie's ears to stand up?
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How long does it take for HPV to show up after exposure?
Most people with the genital wart virus (HPV) have no signs or symptoms of infection. When someone does have signs of infection, the warts: Usually appear 1 to 3 months after someone is exposed, but it may take longer.
How long does it take for a puppy to age up in Sims 4?
If you set the lifespan to normal you can expect the puppies and kittens to grow up in 3 days. The adult life stage last for 25 days and elder pets don't have an exact number of days.
How long does it take for a child to age up in Sims 4?
If you wish to let nature take its course, babies will generally age up to toddlers after about three days. You'll be alerted before it happens. Unlike The Sims 3, you cannot throw birthday parties for babies.
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Trump Administration Proposal Allows Federally Contracted Businesses to Discriminate against LGBTQ Employees
Katie Burkholder
The Trump administration has proposed a new rule to allow federally contracted businesses to discriminate against employees based on religious beliefs, something LGBTQ activists are saying will ensure discrimination against LGBTQ employees, according to Politico.
The Labor Department proposed the rule on Wednesday (August 14), saying it was created to “ensure that conscience and religious freedom are given the broadest protection permitted by law” for government contractors.
“Conscience and religious freedom rights have been given second-class treatment for too long,” a senior Labor Department official said. “This fulfills the president’s promise to promote and protect our fundamental and inalienable rights of conscience and religious liberty, the first freedom protected in the Bill of Rights in the First Amendment itself.”
A Labor Department official added that religious institutions like Christian colleges weren’t seeking government contracts because of fear that they wouldn’t meet discrimination prohibitions.
“When we talked to stakeholders, we were informed that many religious organizations were not participating in the procurement process because of concerns that the [Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs] would not fairly or correctly enforce the law related to the religious employer exemption.”
According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nearly 25 percent of all employees in the U.S. work for an employer with a contract with the federal government – meaning the proposal could have a broad impact if approved.
“Once again, the Trump administration is shamefully working to license taxpayer-funded discrimination in the name of religion,” the ACLU said in a statement. “We will work to stop this rule that seeks to undermine our civil rights protections and encourages discrimination in the workplace.”
The Human Rights Campaign also responded to the rule proposal, calling out President Donald Trump for breaking his 2017 promise to keep Obama-era LGBTQ workplace protections “intact.”
“With this proposed regulation, the Trump administration is seeking to gut existing protections for LGBTQ people, women, and religious minorities, and we cannot stand idly by,” said HRC President Alphonso David. “This regulation, which directly contradict Trump’s earlier promise, is a broad and sweeping effort to implement a license to discriminate against people on the basis of their gender identity and sexual orientation. Everyone deserves a workplace free from discrimination. The Trump administration needs to withdraw this proposed regulation and stop these attacks on LGBTQ people.”
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in October related to whether discrimination against LGBTQ employees, even under the guise of religious freedom, violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Type-1 Diabetes Treatment Market Sparkling Growth Worldwide Forecasts By 2023
1 month ago Deepak Gaikwad
Market Research Future with their unique quality of simplifying the market research study, announces a deep study report on “Type-1 Diabetes Treatment Market Research Report – Forecast to 2023” Gives industry size, top players and worldwide demand
Type-1 Diabetes Treatment Market: Synopsis
The Global Type-1 Diabetes Treatment Market is projected to grow from USD 5.6 Billion in 2018 to USD 9.6 Billion by 2025, registering a CAGR of 7.9%.
Type-1 diabetes is a chronic condition that requires lifelong medication. The onset of this condition usually occurs in childhood; it also affects obese and aged individuals.This condition has been directly linked to a sedentary lifestyle, the adoption of which is widespread globally due to various societal, cultural, and economic factors. The rising prevalence of type-1 diabetes is driving the growth of the market.
Strict approvals processes are expected to hamper the growth of this market. However, this may be offset by the growing number of cases per year and increased government assistance for the management of the condition.
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Market USP
The enhanced efficacy of rapid-acting insulin and rising number of specialty treatment centers for type-1 diabetes are aggressively driving the growth of the market.
Key Players: Type-1 Diabetes Treatment Market
Astellas Pharma (Japan)
Eli Lilly (US)
Merck (US)
Novo Nordisk (Denmark)
Sanofi (France)
AstraZeneca (UK)
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (Germany)
Novartis (Switzerland)
Pfizer Inc. (US)
Abbott Laboratories (US)
Mannkind Corporation (US)
Braun Melsungen AG (Germany)
Macrogenics, Inc. (US)
DiaVacs, Inc. (US)
Biodel, Inc. (US)
Segments: Type-1 Diabetes Treatment Market
Rapid-Acting Insulin: The rapid-acting insulin segment is expected to be the largest and fastest-growing during the review period. Usually taken before the ingestion of food or drink, rapid-action insulin is easy to introduce into the bloodstream and starts acting within 15 minutes of injection. The segment has been further classified as Admelog, Humalog, Novolog, and others.
Short-Acting Insulin: Also known as regular insulin, it is included in the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines.
Medium-Acting Insulin: This growth of this segment is directly proportional to the growth of the short-acting insulin segment as these insulin types are usually taken concurrently.
Long-Acting Insulin: This is a growing segment as this type of insulin does not have a peak performance time and is equally effective for the entire duration. It is preferred by healthcare agencies due to its low side effects and gradual action. The segment has been further categorized as Lantus, Levemir, and others.
Others: Ultra long-term insulin and other experimental insulins are covered in this niche market segment. Though currently the smallest segment, it shows tremendous growth potential due to the numerous beneficial effects and limited side effects of these types of insulin. However, the growth of the segment is limited by stringent regulations, a rigorous testing process, and high costs.
Hospitals & Clinics: This is the largest and fastest-growing market segment and is projected to grow well beyond the forecast period. Hospitals and clinics are the primary care centers for individuals afflicted with type-1 diabetes; they are also cost-effective. Moreover, in countries with government-funded healthcare and a high prevalence of type-1 diabetes, hospitals and clinics are the main treatment centers, which is driving the growth of the segment.
Specialty Centers: A more specialized treatment option, specialty centers have mushroomed across the US and are being opened in India and China. This segment is growing due to the increased number of individuals afflicted with the condition and the higher returns on investment from specialty centers as compared to hospitals and clinics.
Others: The ease of availability and delivery of diabetes medication has led to patients opting for home treatment. The segment also covers old age homes as the geriatric population is highly susceptible to type-1 diabetes. A niche segment, it is expected to grow as awareness regarding the condition increases along with ease of treatment.
Regional Analysis: Type-1 Diabetes Treatment Market
Americas: The largest market
Asia-Pacific: The fastest-growing regional market.
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Misconduct To Dubinsky Was The Wrong Call
By Tim Kolupanowich April 14th, 2012
Brandon Dubinsky was kicked out of Game 2 for defending a fallen Brian Boyle. (Icon SMI)
New York Rangers center Brandon Dubinsky was given a game misconduct and kicked out of Game 2 of the Rangers-Senators series just 2:15 into the first period. He was given the penalty for being the third man in a fight between Brian Boyle of the Rangers and Matt Carkner of the Senators.
Rule 46.16: Third Man In states “A game misconduct penalty, at the discretion of the Referee, shall be imposed on any player who is the first to intervine (third man in) in an altercation already in progress.”
The key phrase here is “at the discretion of the Referee,” which makes it a judgement call. This is a good rule the majority of the time as it keeps teams from ganging up on one player, but it was a bad call this time. There’s no doubt Dubinsky came into the altercation late, but it was only in an attempt to help his teammate who was getting mugged in the corner. The problem comes from “altercation” being so loosely defined in Rule 46.3 as “a situation involving two players, with at least one being penalized.”
Check out the video above. Carkner comes across the entire ice surface, checks Boyle with his elbow up high then immediately sucker-punches him twice bringing him to the ice where Carkner procedes to throw at least four haymakers at a vulnerable player completely unable to defend himself. Boyle didn’t get so much as a roughing minor on the play, making the call of third man in during an altercation laughable.
Dubinsky wasn’t trying to join Boyle in a beat down of Carkner, he was protecting a teammate, plain and simple. He doesn’t throw a punch, just tries to stop an ambush the referee was standing around allowing to happen. It was the referee’s decision whether or not to give him the game misconduct and by doing so, means he felt Dubinsky was giving Boyle an advantage in a fair fight.
Boyle is no saint himself, he threw a few punches at Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson in Game 1 to start what is becoming the nastiest series of the playoffs so far. But could he really be expected to just lay there and take it? Boyle only threw a few soft ones while Carkner was actively beating a fallen player, breaking one of the more sensible unwritten rules in hockey.
The dirty play wasn’t done there, however, as the Rangers got even in the cheapshot department as rookie Carl Hagelin hit Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson with an elbow, receiving a major penalty. Alfredsson did not return to the game.
Dubinsky’s presence was clearly missed as the Blueshirts blew two leads and lost in overtime on a goal by Chris Neil. The series will head back to Canada’s capital tied at one game apiece and Game 3 is Monday at 7:30.
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Don't judge children by PSLE score: Heng
In his Facebook post, Mr Heng wrote: “I understand it feels like a big day for many parents. Do remember, though, that it has been a six-year learning journey and there are many more days ahead.
“When the results are out, please do remember not to judge your own child, or others’ children, by a number. Give them a hug for the good work they’ve put in all year (and to yourselves too, parents, because I know you’ve walked this journey with the children) and continue to motivate them to learn and to develop their confidence.”
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How to stay sane if Trump is driving you insane: Advice from a therapist.
By Robin Chancer
[ 8 min read ]
Individual psychology is hugely influenced by political realities. A national trauma, just like a personal one, is as disorienting as it is terrifying. It makes us question everything we thought we knew, Robin Chancer writes.
First published in April 2017. | Updated in December 2019.
“I feel like I’ve lost faith in humanity, in our country, in myself,” a client told me recently. “Is this depression, or is this the election?”
“Good question,” I replied. The truth is, individual psychology is hugely influenced by political realities. Many of us feel insane right now because our world is not sane. Current events are very much at odds with our natural optimism, and our belief in human goodness and progress.
What made us so optimistic in the first place? Our nation was founded on idealistic, positive principles: human worth and dignity, the inevitability of progress, and the goodness of the human collective. Alex de Tocqueville in the early 19th century described Americans’ remarkable optimism with interest. As an article in The Atlantic described in 2015, Americans have maintained our unusually sunny outlook even through our darkest hours. If we have a national ideology, it could be encapsulated in Obama’s farewell address, with the assertion, “I truly believe we are going to be okay.”
From such elevated hope has come a long, hard fall. We find ourselves in a darkening political climate in which corruption, hatred, exclusion, and paranoia are prominent. Many are experiencing despair and anxiety like never before, judging by the increase in calls to suicide and crisis hotlines, and anecdotal reports from therapists. A national trauma, just like a personal one, is as disorienting as it is terrifying. It makes us question everything we thought we knew. Two questions must be answered in order to heal:
1. How can we integrate this crisis into our understanding of the world?
2. What do we do now?
Our anxious minds are caught in the dissonance between our belief in progress and our current political hellscape. We must understand that the belief in human progress is a myth, with historical and religious context, and it is no longer serving us. Its roots trace back to Enlightenment philosophy, whose major thinkers believed civilization would progress toward perfection if humans were free to use their reason.
Optimism is also a coping mechanism. It can buoy us from the dark waters of suffering. When harsh reality is too much to take, clinging to a better future can help us carry on.
Our American brand of Christianity has adopted this narrative as well. Many grow up hearing statements like, “People are inherently good.” “Everything happens for a reason.” “Do the right thing, and everything will work out.” “God has a plan. I can leave everything in God’s hands.”
Such statements are offered as a salve for life’s inevitable pain, but they have downsides. How many of us have wanted to punch a wall after a statement like, “He’s in a better place”? Positive thinking, when misplaced, is infuriating and unhelpful. Believing that “everything will be okay” sets us up for despair, because each new time things are not okay, we feel beaten down again. Optimism is not always healthy. It can make us complacent, fatigued, and detached from whole of our psyches.
There are times when optimism is not appropriate or possible, and this is one of those times. Our President is delusional, lying, or ignorant; disastrous climate change and war with North Korea loom; marginalized people in our society are suffering. Faced with these calamities, catastrophic thinking is a rational response. History teaches us that many arcs of history did not “bend toward justice.” The 65 million people currently displaced worldwide are tragic examples. We need only speak to a Native American to understand that collapse is entirely possible.
Instead of blind faith in progress, I offer a specific, practical system useful for maintaining mental health in a paranoid, post-positive world.
STEP 1: RADICAL ACCEPTANCE AND DIALECTICAL THINKING
“The path out of hell is through misery. By refusing to accept the misery that is part of climbing out of hell, you fall back into hell.”
— Marsha Linehan, founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Radical acceptance, as understood in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), distinguishes between pain and suffering. Pain cannot be avoided. Fighting against pain, however, is what drives the majority of our suffering. Painful reality can be fully (i.e. “radically”), non-judgmentally accepted. When something terrible happens, our natural reaction is to fight against it: “This should not have happened! I can’t believe it! I would do anything to go back in time.” Fighting our agony won’t change it, however. We are better served by accepting what happened, allowing it to change us, and working with what is left.
In response to our current nightmare, we can wish it were different and stay miserable, or we can accept our new world. To be clear, this does not mean condoning what happened. It simply means coming to terms with what is, and with what we cannot control.
Of course, some circumstances can be changed with the right tools. There is much we cannot change, however. We cannot change that Donald Trump was elected. We cannot change that he is (very likely) pathologically narcissistic. We cannot change that many Americans are loyal to him in spite of his hatred, or even because of it. We see more clearly the greed rampant in the GOP establishment. We do well to accept these truths so that we can move forward, rather than paralyzing ourselves with shock and outrage.
You might be wondering, “How can I just accept these things? They are not okay!” Remember that acceptance is not condoning. To accept is not to say, “This is okay.” It is to say, “This is what is.” Notably, radical acceptance often drops us into a state of grief, as we come to terms with hard realities. We may find ourselves in a place of deep sadness. If so, allow time to feel and honor it.
We do well to accept that Trump is as bad as we think. He consistently demonstrates mental instability, greed, and aggression. I continue to hear responses to his policies such as, “How could he do this? I can’t believe it.” Interviewers continue their efforts to get him to say rational things. His tweets are re-tweeted with rebuttals and indignation. This is energy wasted.
Don’t allow his tweets to play over and over in your mind. If you read them, register them as insane, and move on to the next moment. Even better, pay little attention to his stunts. Don’t waste your energy getting riled up. Once we fully accept that Trump does evil, unhinged things (strategic lying, degrading/exploiting people) because he is evil and unhinged, we can get beyond his antics, anticipate them, and have a clear mind to plan our next move.
Acknowledge that greed and racism are part of our nation’s fabric. We cannot wish them away. We cannot choose blindness disguised as positive bias; giving Republican politicians the “benefit of the doubt” has allowed them to get away with murder. Expect to find white rage in any discussion about immigration or discrimination, for example. Anticipating it will help us stay calm and focused. Once we accept that, we sharpen our focus to guard against their insidious infections. We focus on the work of fighting for human rights and accountability.
How do we do this, practically? The “dialectic” piece of DBT can help us get there.
Three truths of dialectical thinking:
1. People are complex webs of goodness, love, selfishness, and aggression. Allowing the co-existence of opposites is the essence of dialectic. Individuals are not selfless or selfish; they are selfless and selfish. Our political terrain includes progression and regression. DBT maintains that mental health requires a paradox of acceptance and change. We accept what is and we work toward change, in a dynamic, continually evolving process. Embracing ambivalence, paradox, and shades of gray promotes a sense of wholeness and flexibility. We become less outraged when circumstances don’t fit within our rigid expectations.
2. We do good things because they are good, but results are not guaranteed. Sometimes circumstances work out as we hope, sometimes they do not; most often they are too complicated to understand fully. This mindset lets go of cause-effect thinking: “If I do x, then y should happen,” which sets us up for frustration when results don’t turn out as planned.
3. We are responsible for our world. Believing in some mysterious force called “progress” absolves individuals of responsibility. Similarly, faith that “God has a plan” can promote complacency. Compassion, love, and affirming values exist because people intentionally work toward them. Claiming responsibility focuses our attention on what we can do to improve our world.
STEP 2: ATTENTION IS EVERYTHING
Mindfulness — essentially, the art of shifting attention — is revolutionizing mental health care. Current research in mental health demonstrates enormous benefits to mindfulness practice. In order to promote well being, we can learn to practice mindful attention both to the present moment and to the good as we understand it. Faced with a frequently depressing, maddening world, this can mean focusing intently on the inspiring work going on around us in a multitude of spheres. Each time you feel hopelessness creep in, focus your attention on the kindness, generosity, and good will around you. We are witnessing an unprecedented blossoming of activism. If our eyes are tuned to the light, we will find the light — in the surge of donations to ACLU, in churches offering sanctuary to immigrants, in town hall meetings packed with civically engaged citizens — everywhere.
Each time the tapes of despair and anger play in your mind, doggedly shift your focus. The mind will wander, again and again. Each time it happens, we notice the anxious thoughts, and shift our focus back. The anxious mind will scream, “How could our President cut Meals on Wheels? What a monster! Those poor people!” Then, shift focus back to the good, “The program has seen a 500% increase in volunteers since the cuts were proposed. Maybe I could get involved!”
You may object, “But I can’t just forget all the terrible things going on!” You are right. Mindfulness is not about forgetting. It is about shifting focus to what is most immediate and most helpful. We help no one by staying in our anguish for long. Bernie Sanders said it best: “Despair is not an option.”
THE SYSTEM AT WORK
Here is how this could play out in our minds, using an example from my life recently.
Anxious mind: (reads news about the travel ban) No! Our leaders are disgusting! (imagines crying children separated from their mothers) I can’t believe this. (pit in stomach)
Radical acceptance: Yes. This is our reality now. Our nation is rife with corruption and people are hurting. My heart goes out to all those in pain. (pit in stomach softens, feels heavier)
Grief that follows: I need to grieve this. The pain is real. (deep breath, moment of silence)
Mindful attention to the good: How can I support Muslim people in my community? (searches online) There is an Islamic Society nearby. I will contact them. (calls and emails)
I received an email in response, indicating that many others had reached out as well. “Greetings of peace to all of you. I have been overwhelmed with your kindness in my reading of each of your emails and letters. … In an effort to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart, I would love to extend a humble invitation to each of you on behalf of the Islamic Society.” The Society hosted an event to bring us together in dialogue, and it was one of the most heart-warming, inspiring experiences I have had all year. I learned more about Islam and visited a mosque for the first time. I looked in people’s eyes and asked them questions and felt something sacred among us.
Despair shouts back: But this is a drop in the bucket compared to what our government is doing! What if it’s all useless?
Pessimism is not helpful either. Both optimism and pessimism require future-oriented thinking. They exist in the hypothetical, the imaginary. Mindfulness involves shifting our attention — repeatedly, resolutely — back to the present moment. We do not know the future. We cannot fully know the impact of any particular action. We must focus on what we can do, right here and right now. Bring the mind back from its runaway worries and future predictions. Focus that energy on concrete action, and the rewards will feed your soul.
We are traveling a long road toward change. At times, the pain will be so intense that these skills may not serve us fully. In those moments, allow yourself breaks. Care for yourself. If you find you are struggling to function normally, you may be experiencing more serious depression, anxiety, or trauma symptoms. Reaching out to a professional can help. When I need strength, I re-read the note from the Islamic Society: “Many thanks for your support, encouragement, and efforts done to assist our community during this difficult time.” I remember the humility and kindness in that room.
No one, not even Donald Trump, can take that away.🔷
[This piece was originally published on the PMP Blog! and re-published in PMP Magazine on 26 April 2017. | The author writes in a personal capacity.]
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DeKalb County police Wednesday were investigating a bizarre wreck where a woman lost control of her Honda Accord station wagon, leaving a wide path of destruction as she struck two cars and two houses near Lithonia.
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Christine Vitale
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Christine Vitale, of West Townsend, Massachusetts: Born and grew up in Winthrop, and always called Winthrop home.
Christine put up the good fight for a long time; being the warrior she always was.
She was the loving daughter of, Mary Vitale (and the late Anthony Vitale), cherished wife of Peter Venezia; proud grandparent of Eli Piso and beloved mother to Anthony Motta (Kiara) and Doriana Motta (John). The loved sister of Lawrence Vitale (late Normand Bolduc) and James Vitale (Donna and Alicia).
Special step-parent to Karen Venezia, Lisa Venezia Holt (Bob, Luke and Molly), Jacqueline Motta (Mark and Nico) and the late Cheryl Venezia. She leaves behind many close cousins, friends, family and broken hearts.
Visiting Hours will be held at the Maurice W. Kirby Funeral Home on Friday from 4:00 – 8:00 PM to which relatives and friends are invited to attend. Graveside Services will be held Saturday at 11:00 AM at Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden. For guest book please visit our website at mauricekirbyfh.com
Nellie Wall
Retired Winthrop Town Hall Bookkeeper
Nellie E. Wall, age 99, of Winthrop died peacefully on Sunday, July 14 at Winthrop Neighborhood PACE after a brief illness.
She was pre-deceased by her beloved husband, James J. Wall, Jr. and four sisters and five brothers.
Born in Dorchester, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary (Dort) Perrin.
Nellie moved to Winthrop in 1953 and resided in Winthrop for most of her life. She was a bookkeeper in the Tax Department at Winthrop Town Hall for over 30 years and an active member of St. John the Evangelist Church. Nellie enjoyed bowling, walking with her friends, activities at the senior center and knitting quilts for Children’s Hospital.
She is survived by four loving children: two sons, James J. Wall, III and his wife, Jane Degregorio of Winthrop, Robert and his wife, Carolyn Wall of Georgia and two daughters, Joan Wall and her husband, Jeff Glanville of Wellfleet and Janice Wall and her husband, Neal Klein of Cambridge, seven grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and many caring and supportive nieces and nephews.
Her Funeral will be held from the Maurice W. Kirby Funeral Home, 210 Winthrop St. Winthrop on Friday at 9 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church, Winthrop at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends are invited to the burial which will follow in Winthrop Cemetery (Cross St. Section). Visiting hours will be held at the funeral home today, Thursday, from 4 to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please make checks payable to Mass Audubon Society: Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, P.O. Box 236, South Wellfleet, MA 02663.
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Salvatore Internicola, Sr. of Winthrop passed away on June 28.
Salvatore was a longtime janitor at St. John’s. He was a devoted father, grandfather and uncle who loved spending time with all of his children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He enjoyed taking them out to do things together.
He was the beloved husband of Elaine (Hurley) Internicola, devoted father of Salvatore Internicola Jr. and his fiancé, Carrie Rak, Daniel Internicola and his wife, Liza, Lori-Ann Anderson and her husband, Kevin, Lisa-Ann Internicola and Anthony Internicola, all of Winthrop; dear brother of Joseph Internicola and wife, Maureen of Florida and the late Elizabeth Bacon, Ann Cafarella and Anthony Internicola and his surviving wife, Diane; cherished grandfather of Kevin, Brianna Anderson and Lola Internicola and he is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews.
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Ann M. (Nolan) McGrath of Winthrop, formerly of East Boston, died on July 14.
Ann was a devoted and caring wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. She truly dedicated her life to making others happy. Her love for her family and friends was beyond measure. She would do anything in her power to make sure her family was well taken care of, happy and loved. She adored her children but she truly enjoyed her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Holidays were always made special because of her and her door was always open to anyone who wanted to come by or who may need a kind heart to talk to. She will truly be missed.
She was born and raised in East Boston, before moving to Winthrop with her husband, George to raise their family. They were married for 67 years until her husband’s death in 2017.
She worked for over 25 years as a secretary at Don Bosco Technical High School in Boston alongside her mother and sister.
She was the beloved wife of the late George E. McGrath Sr., loving mother of Annie McGrath Cheney, Patricia J. McGrath, Mary E. Hogan and her husband, David, all of Winthrop, the late Douglas McGrath and his surviving wife, Cheryl of Saugus, George E. McGrath Jr. and his surviving wife, Jane of Winthrop; mother-in-law of Lois McGrath of Revere; devoted grandmother of Joshua Carpenter, Kim McGrath Johnson, George McGrath III, Jason McGrath, Nikki McGrath, Ryan Cheney, Makayla McGrath, Dougie McGrath, Jr., Shane McGrath and Mackenzie McGrath, Kaitlyn Mahoney and Eddie Mahoney; sister of Elizabeth McNabb of Florida, Francis P. Nolan of Peabody and the late Rev. William Nolan, Helen Salsman, Raymond J. Nolan, Mary McArdle and Aaron J. “Spike” Nolan Jr. Ann is also lovingly survived by eight great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral from the Magrath Funeral Home, 325 Chelsea St. [at Day Square] East Boston, on Thursday morning, July 25, at 8:45 a.m., followed by a Funeral Mass in St. John the Evangelist Church, Winthrop at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends are invited. Visiting hours will be on Wednesday, July 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. Interment will be in Massachusetts National Cemetery at 1:15 p.m.
In lieu of flowers donations in Ann’s memory to the Alzheimer’s Association would be appreciated.
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Mark D. “Marty” Surette of Billows St., Winthrop passed away at home on July 11. He was 60 years old. Born in Malden, the beloved son of Rose E. and the late Sylvane G. Surette, he was a resident of Winthrop since 1972, a 1978 graduate of Winthrop High School and a member of the 1976 Division 1 State Hockey Championship Team. He was employed as a carpenter for Cataldo Contracting and was a former member of the Winthrop Yacht Club.
He was the devoted husband of Martina (Quilty) and the dear brother of Kevin Surette of Ipswich and Preston Robichaud of Nova Scotia. He was also the loving uncle of April and Nicole.
Family and friends are cordially invited to attend the visitation from the Caggiano-O’Maley-Frazier Funeral Home 147 Winthrop St., Winthrop today, Thursday, July 18 from 3 to 7 p.m. A funeral service will held in the funeral home immediately following the visitation at 7 p..m. Committal will be private.
Memorial donations may be made to Care Dimensions 75 Sylvan St., Danvers MA 01923 or to the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in support of Lung Cancer Research at www.massgeneral.org/cancer/support/. For directions or to sign the online guestbook go to www.caggianofuneralhome.com.
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Published on the July 27, 2012, DiagnosticImaging.com website
By Whitney L.J. Howell
Last October, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a meeting to examine the biggest MRI safety concerns and outline best practices to reduce injuries associated with the scans. So far, however, the industry has received no national guidance on how to accomplish this goal.
But the lack of official instruction at the federal level doesn’t mean the push toward greater MRI safety — being recognized this week during MRI Safety Week — has stalled. Advancements are underway at the state level and in the accreditation process to prevent another tragedy, such as the 2001 Colombini case when a 6-year-old boy died when an oxygen tank flew across the room and struck him during the imaging process.
“Any protection that is implemented will benefit the 30 million Americans who get MRIs on an annual basis,” said Tobias Gilk, president and MRI safety director at Mednovus and senior vice president at the design and architecture firm Rad-Planning. “People are beginning to look harder at MRI risk factors as the power of our magnets continue to increase.”
Many states and the Joint Commission have implemented new regulations that strictly govern the design and construction of new MRI suites. These requirements do not mandate retrofitting existing installations.
“There are a growing number of states that are adopting this building code,” Gilk said. “Anyone who does MRI suite work — renovation, upgrade, equipment replacements, anything with a building permit — in virtually every jurisdiction must follow these state standards.”
To conform to the building regulations, health care engineers must meet eight standards, Gilk said. They must follow the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) 4-Zone Principles that addresse integrated access controls and screening practices. There must also be a clear line-of-sight between the operator’s console and patient inside the MRI machine, and designers must include demarcation lines to keep individuals with implantable medical devices far enough away. The presence of ferromagnetic-only detectors is required, and new MRI suites must also have exhaust fans and other protective measures to eliminate any cryogen that escapes into the imaging area.They must include an always-illuminated sign to remind staff that the MRI magnetic field is always active even without a patient.
These new design codes also require a clearly marked safe zone in which staff can use MR conditional equipment. Most importantly, Gilk said, designers and engineers must remember there is no cookie-cutter model for MRI suites. Each site is different and requires individual planning.
In a switch from years past, Gilk said, the Joint Commission is requiring far more documentation to prove you are making your MRI suite as safe as possible for patients. As part of the ACR’s 4-Zone Principles, the Commission now requires proof that you have established access control and provide proper staff supervision. You must also produce documentation that you have adequately trained your MRI personnel in safety procedures and protocols, he said.
“The Joint Commission wants to see evidence of screening protocols for implants and devices, clinical contraindications, and physical screenings,” Gilk said. “They want to see what you’re doing to make sure visitors aren’t carrying objects that will become dangers in the magnet room and what processes or tools are in place that accidents don’t occur.”
Requiring these measures — from an accreditation standpoint — is a giant step forward, he said.
To read the remainder of the story at its original location: http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/mri/content/article/113619/2092918
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Dating George Washington’s Receipt of a Samuel Culper Letter to Benjamin Tallmadge
Katie Blizzard September 28, 2018
TOPICS: Documentary Editing, Espionage, Featured Document(s), George Washington, Revolutionary War
by Jeffrey L. Zvengrowski, Assistant Editor
Abraham Woodhull (alias Samuel Culper), a farmer and Patriot spy on British-controlled Long Island, wrote Maj. Benjamin Tallmadge (alias John Bolton) a letter from Setauket, N.Y., on August 16, 1780 that is in the Papers of George Washington at the Library of Congress (hereafter denoted by the MARC Code DLC:GW). Although the editors at The Papers of George Washington do not know precisely when George Washington received that letter, we can make a reasoned guess.
A transcription of Woodhull’s letter with modernized grammar and spelling has previously been published.1 Our preliminary transcription that replicates the original text of the manuscript follows:
Samuel Culper to John Bolton
729 <Setauket>—29 <Augt>—em <16>—1780
I have this day returnd from 727 [New York City]. And am happy to informe you, that C. Jur hath engaged to Serve as heretofore.2 I have nothing to inclose from him to you. as thers not a word of Intelligence worthy of notice in 727. I have the Satisfaction to assure you that the Judicious Torys in 727 are more dejected now than ever I knew before—On account of the neutrality enterd into by the Powers of Urope3 A few victualling Ships were to Sail yesterday to the Fleet now laying in Gardiners Bay.4 Clinton with about 7000 Thousand men are cantoned from White Stone to Jamaica for this ten days Past have bene orderd to hold themselvs in readiness to gather with the Fleet—that Still lays at White Stone. Common reports Say they are about to Proceed to Rhode island but it is very uncertain no Person can tell, but by all meanes be upon your Guard thers in this County the Qeens Rangers three Compe. of Qeens County Militia Troop Coll Fannings Regt the 17 Dragons German Huzzars all Marching to the Eastward, also three Regt More were orderd to March reports Say they are to imbark at the east end of this Island. We have a report that the Second division of French hath arived hope it may be true5—Tryon—Patterson & Mathews are about to Sail immediately in the Packet for Urope6—The Person I depended on to Procue a very accurate account of L. Neck7 is taken very ill and hath Put it out of my Power to forward it now I have orderd 725 [Lt. Caleb Brewster] to returne here again on the fi. [24] Instant and intend to Send you as frequent dispaches as Possible as long as things are in Such motion. In the interim wishing you health and Prosperity, I am &C.
S. Culper
N.B. Next opportunity you’ll have the Papers regular as heretofore Should have Sent them now but lost them out of my Pocket on the road.
I forgot to mention in the run of my letter that Genl Clinton in Person was escortd through the Town yesterd. by the Mounted Rangers 17 Dragons & German Huzzars in All about two Hundred & forty Horse. I Am &C.
DLC:GW. Washington’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman penned decryptions above the line that are included in angle brackets. Additional decryptions are included in square brackets. For the code employed in Culper’s letter, see Tallmadge to GW, 25 July, 1779, in volume 21 of the Revolutionary War Series.
Maj. Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835). Courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Tallmadge wrote Washington from North Castle, N.Y., on Aug. 12 and 20. He does not appear to have enclosed Woodhull’s letter in the latter (see Tallmadge to Washington, 20 Aug., in DLC:GW; see also Founders Online). He next wrote Washington from Round Hill, Conn., on Aug. 21 at 1:00 A.M. with “enclosed Dispatches” (DLC:GW; see also Founders Online). Two letters Brewster wrote Tallmadge from Fairfield, Conn., on August 18 and 21, however, indicate that he had not conveyed Tallmadge Woodhull’s letter by August 21 (see Brewster to Tallmadge, same dates, in DLC:GW).
In a letter he wrote Maj. Gen. William Heath from headquarters at Orangetown, N.Y., on 21 Aug., Washington noted about British general Henry Clinton: “I can hardly suppose that he will, considering the present position of this Army, venture to carry a force from New York sufficient to make an attempt upon Rhode Island; but that you may have the earliest intelligence of any movements, I have desired Genl Arnold and Major Tallmadge to transmit immediately to you, any well grounded information they may receive” (Massachusetts Historical Society: Heath Papers; see Founders Online). Washington also noted in a letter he wrote Tallmadge on the same date: “I have information from another quarter, that Sir Henry Clinton had gone towards the East end of Long Island, and that the troops at Whitestone were again embarking. Should the last peice of intelligence reach you, well authenticated, you will be pleased to transmit it immediately to Genl Heath at Newport, as well as to me, as you will always do any thing which seems to interest the French Army and Navy” (New York Public Library: U.S. Presidents; see Founders Online).
Given the contents of a letter Tallmadge wrote Heath from North Castle on Aug. 22, the intelligence mentioned in Washington’s letter to Tallmadge probably resembles that found in Woodhull’s letter:
I have this moment recd a letter from His Excellency Genl Washington, in which I am directed to transmit any intelligence which I may obtain of the Movements of the Enemy, which may affect the French Army at New–Port, to Major Genl Heath.
Last night I recd Private intelligence from N.y. that Sir Henry Clinton had gone to the E. End of Long-Island escorted by about 200 Horse. A Body of Infantry supposed about 1600 or 2000 Men, were also on the March the same way. All the Troops lying from White Stone to Flushing were ordered to be in readiness to move about 5 Days ago, & Report now says they are again embarking at White Stone. On Long Island some conjecture they are going to N. Port, others to N. London [New London, Conn.]. I shall shortly have more particular intelligence when will further inform (Massachusetts Historical Society: Heath Papers).
Tallmadge does not seem to have enclosed Woodhull’s letter in his next letter to Washington written from the Middle Patent area of Westchester County, N.Y., on Aug. 26 (see Tallmadge to GW, same date, in DLC:GW; see also Founders Online). Instead, Tallmadge probably enclosed Woodhull’s letter when he next wrote Washington from Bedford, N.Y., on Aug. 28, by which point Woodhull’s intelligence from Aug. 16 had become obsolete (see Tallmadge to GW, same date, in DLC:GW; see also Founders Online).
A transcription of Woodhull’s letter to Tallmadge will be included in volume 28 of The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series as part of the annotation for Tallmadge’s letter to Washington dated Aug. 28. The latter letter contains new intelligence about the British in New York similar to that found in a mutilated letter to Heath written in Tallmadge’s hand and dated Aug. 28 (see [Tallmadge] to Heath, same date, in Massachusetts Historical Society: Heath Papers).
1. See Morton Pennypacker, The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and Robert Townsend (Boston and New York, 1930), 49–50.
2. For the efforts in August of Tallmadge and Woodhull to retain Robert Townsend (alias Samuel Culper, Jr.) as a Patriot spy operating in British-controlled New York City, see Alexander Rose, Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring (New York, 2006), 192–94.
3. Woodhull is referring to the League of Armed Neutrality, which Catherine II (Catherine the Great) of Russia formed in August to protect neutral shipping from depredations by warring powers. The pro-British New York Gazette, and Weekly Mercury (New York City) for October 30 printed a report: “LONDON, August 19. . . . Russia has been the first to set on foot a plan for an armed neutrality, calculated entirely for the assistance of France and Spain, and the destruction of Great-Britain.”
4. Woodhull is referring to British vice admiral Marriot Arbuthnot’s fleet, which sailed on Aug. 18 from eastern Long Island for the vicinity of Rhode Island (see The American Rebellion: Sir Henry Clinton’s Narrative of His Campaigns, 1775–1782, with an Appendix of Original Documents, ed. William B. Willcox [New Haven, 1954], 207). Arbuthnot departed hoping to intercept French warships (see Arbuthnot to George B. Rodney, 20 Sept., in Letter-books and Order-Book of George, Lord Rodney, Admiral of the White Squadron, 1780-1782 [New York, 1932, in Collections of the New-York Historical Society, vols. 65–66], 1:13–14). The abrupt departure of Arbuthnot’s fleet ruined British general Henry Clinton’s plan to embark troops from Long Island against the French and Patriot forces at Rhode Island (see American Rebellion, ed. Willcox, 204–8).
5. These army and naval reinforcements for the French forces at Rhode Island had actually been confined to Brest in France by a British fleet (see Rochambeau to Washington, Aug. 21, in DLC:GW; see also Founders Online).
6. British officers Edward Mathew, James Pattison, and William Tryon sailed from Sandy Hook, N.J., for Europe in early September with a British fleet that consisted mostly of transports (see Historical Memoirs from 26 August 1778 to 12 November 1783 of William Smith, ed. William H. W. Sabine [New York, 1971], 2:329, and The Journals of Hugh Gaine, Printer, ed. Paul Leicester Ford [1902; reprint, [New York] 1970], 98).
7. Woodhull presumably is referring to Lloyd Neck, New York. He described the British fortifications and garrison there in a letter he wrote Tallmadge from Setauket on Nov. 5 that is in DLC:GW (see also Founders Online).
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Varanasi and the Ganges River
This is the continuation of my first travel to India in 1990. I had booked a night train from Agra but one of the train cars wasn’t available and all of the passengers with reservations for the missing car crowded into ours. It was a long overnight ride and I had a sleeper but ended up with 3 or 4 people sitting on my space and witnessed a number of fights break out. Normally the Indian conductors strictly enforce the rules but they didn’t feel they could eject people with valid tickets even though they were not supposed to be in that carriage.
So I arrived in Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, in less than great a condition. Unlike many Indian cities, which seemed to have changed their name since I visited, Varanasi was, and is, also known as Banares and to add to any confusion, the core of the old city as Kashi. It is not only one of the holiest cities for Hindus but a spiritual center for many beliefs according to a Catholic priest I met there. Just arriving at a train or bus station and one already would notice the groups of Sadhus on their pilgrimages. Quite a few of the local holy men had a ceremonial cow. Unlike anywhere else I experienced, the cows running around Varanasi seemed almost arrogant and were very aggressive.
Varanasi parade
One of the early things I saw was a parade through the street. There were vehicles with people dressed up and it seemed to be something religious rather than another wedding or funeral. At first glance there seems to be some sadhus sitting on a float. But they are actually young boys wearing fake beards to look like adults. One of the more interesting floats had life-sized wooden horses “pulling a cart and driver”. So a parade float made to look – like a parade float.
Banks of the Ganges River
Many Hindus come to bath on the banks of the Ganges, which should wash away their bad karma. People not only bath here but also brush their teeth and drink the water. Nearby, corpses are cremated; the ashes and any unburned leftovers are dumped into the water, as is raw sewage.
Ganges boat tours
One can take rowboat tours in Varanasi to get another perspective of the ceremonies. One shouldn’t get too close to a funeral pyre with a camera out of respect and I was told that the police would likely try to extort 300 rupees out of any tourist they saw photographing a cremation. Best is to have a good telephoto lens and take such a boat ride.
One sees stacks of wood and corpses lined up for cremation on the banks or “ghats” of the Ganges. It used to be that a wife would be expected to jump onto the funeral pyre of her husband. Those days are gone but still many women die from horrible burning “accidents” in the kitchen from husbands not satisfied with the marriage dowries paid. It’s hard to imagine how Indian women will ever reach real equality when Hinduism treats women as being inherently lesser than men.
Cremations by the ghats
I spent a lot of time just watching the cremations and spoke to one guy whose father in law was being burned. He said a cremation needs to be done within 24 hours of death and that few women come to such ceremonies because they cry too much. I saw many variables of how much wood or how elaborate the ceremony was used in the process, which seemed to depend on how much one paid.
Wood would be stacked, the body in a shroud would be dunked in the holy Ganges, put on the pyre and more wood would be stacked on top. For some, there were many witnesses who stayed the whole time and a holy man would occasionally sprinkle more water or say some prayers. For others, the fire was set and the people all disappeared except for a worker or two to attend the flames. Eventually a limb or two would generally tend to stick out, which would be folded back into the fire.
Corpse transport without hearse
Here’s a corpse being transported to Ganges for cremation on the roof of a 3-wheel motorcycle taxi, which I imagine was one of the more budget options. There is also a large gas crematorium by the Ghats which I was told would burn a body for just 50 rupees compared to 1000 rupees for a proper wood fired traditional ceremony.
Corpses thrown into Ganges
Yeah, a corpse being eaten by dogs – and a vulture waits its turn after being chased off. The bodies of babies and Sadhus are often dumped straight into the Ganges. Supposedly they are pure enough that they don’t need the spiritual purification of cremation but obviously it’s the cheapest way of body disposal when nobody is willing to pay for it. It was a gruesome sight but I felt I had to see it with my own eyes although I am rather relieved not to have seen any babies floating around. And the dogs were not passive as I more than once saw them being chased from the pyres where they would try to snatch body parts right out of the fire.
Women laborers
I took this picture close to where I spotted the corpse in the water. These women didn’t seem to be crying too much, they were too busy working like pack animals. But hey, life goes on.
Sadhus hanging out by the Ganges
Sadhus – who are supposed to be holy men – on the banks of the Ganges. The idea is that one gives up all earthly possessions to concentrate on a search for spirituality. Some start as young men, others may start at an older age after having been successful in business and having already fulfilled their obligation to raise their children. It’s a hard life but then I saw some who were rather aggressive and it seemed maybe a way to legitimize begging and smoking dope all day.
Yet the Sadhus had to do their own laundry, which couldn’t be too much work when you don’t own more than a second set of clothing.
Sadhus’ robes & decoration
The Sadhus’ robes were mostly orange to red and this guy’s yellow hues almost stood out like a fashion statement. Red or white markings are also often painted on the face and body. Yet some extreme adherents are said to cover their bodies in ash and go naked.
Sadhus burning ring of fire
Sadhus also do religious ceremonies to give blessings or good luck. Then they get donations. Here one is burning a ring of cow dung. I guess elements of fire, the holy water of the Ganges and anything connected with a holy cow pretty much covers most of the clichés of Hindu ritual.
Daytrip to Ramnagar Fort
I did a day trip to the Ramnagar Fort about 14 kilometers from Varanasi. It is the ancestral home of the Maharaja of Banares, contains a temple or two and an extensive museum. The museum was worthwhile although with a lot of armaments, vintage cars and an elaborate clock that also told the date and the phases of the moon. It was noon when I arrived at the museum and I had to wait a couple of hours for it to re-open.
Daytrip to Sarnath
I did a day trip from Varanasi to Sarnath where the Buddha is said to have done his first preaching. The site was nothing spectacular, the main attraction being a Bo tree, which is said to have been sprouted from a seed from the tree, under which the Buddha found enlightenment.
I took these photos on my last day in Varanasi, which was very unusual. There was to be an eclipse of the moon at midnight, which was seen as a very ominous sign and hundreds of thousands of people came to camp out on the banks of the Ganges. During the eclipse they would all rushed into the river believing the holy Ganges water would give them protection. I scoffed at this superstitious belief and thought it safer to stay away from the risk of being stampeded at the water. I had spent most of the day trying to send off a bunch of stone carvings I had bought as gifts. I had to have a box made and it had to sew in cloth and all seams covered with sealing wax and when I finally got to the post office they said it was too late. I pleaded and then slipped them some Baksheesh, which did the trick.
Later that night, I not only broke the frames of my glasses but also suffered from bad nasal congestion. When I tried to blow my nose, some slime went into my inner ear. I had extreme pain for a week and lost my hearing for the next month. Coincidence or what? Maybe I would have gone to the river if this hadn’t happened but I also heard lots of blood curdling screaming during the night so maybe it was a blessing in disguise.
I had wanted to go on to Jaipur but could only reserve a ticket as far as Lucknow. My train was at some ungodly hour of the morning and I was crazy with pain by the time I arrived. I jumped into the first rickshaw and had him take me to a couple of hotels recommended in my guidebook but they were all full. In desperation, I told the driver to take me to the next cheap place, which was such a dump that it was laughable except I was in too much pain to even think straight.
I went to bed early and managed to visit the Bada Imambara mosque, seen here, in the morning but was still in such pain that I went back to the hotel and then went to a clinic. It only cost a rupee but there was no reception or signs in anything but Hindi and I had to wait for hours not knowing if I was even in the right line. Got the sage advice that “one should not blow their nose – very risky” They gave me a painkiller, an antihistamine for the congestion and antibiotics in case of infection.
All the medication was taken from huge jars and wrapped up in a piece of paper without any instructions. I got advice at a pharmacy about the dosages but have to think of other people who go so far as to see a doctor and get medication but without knowing how it should be used. I didn’t want to end up at some swanky private place that would blow my whole budget but would have been happy to have spent say 10 dollars to get a better level of care. Found an optician that fixed my glasses for 10 rupees so I guess I shouldn’t complain.
I had a night train from Lucknow headed west from the region of Uttar Pradesh to Rajasthan. I booked an upper berth but the train was a local that stopped every place possible. I resigned myself to spending most of the following day in the train but then I missed getting out in Jaipur. 90 minutes later, I had to get out in a small town and backtrack arriving at 8 p.m. instead of the planned 3 p.m. The popular backpacker place there had no single rooms and I ended up in a dorm where someone stole the book about oriental carpet weaving that I was reading off of my bed while I was checking in. Only thing stolen in India and it was a tourist that did it.
Wedding processions
Here there was a wedding ceremony parading through the street. Big traditional weddings in India are probably the most extravagant private parties held anywhere in the world. And from my experience, they are nowhere fancier than in Rajasthan. Once I saw 2 such groups arrive at an intersection at the same time and it was mayhem as they marched through the other, neither one wanting to concede the right of way.
Jaipur architecture
In Jaipur the architecture is distinguished by the use of dark red sandstone. The long distance through the desert separating the cities in Rajasthan gave rise to a unique style of architecture in each town. And as there was an important flow of commerce between Asia and Europe along this “spice trail”. Despite the harshness of the environment these cities were very well off which is reflected in their wonderful buildings. This picture is from the Hawa Mahal or “Palace of the Winds” which was very intricate but similar in style to most of the buildings in the old town as seen by the next photo.
My second full day in Jaipur was mostly spent at the museum where I observed that most Indians seemed to rush through with hardly a glance at the exhibitions. But then, what was on display: a room of poorly done Moghul miniature paintings, a room full of rocks – mostly from Austria, a few stuffed crocodiles and some mummies, a small replica of a train engine, a large but sad looking stuffed fish with the explanation “fish” below it.
A room with armaments had some picturesque weapons but also some dime store plastic models of tanks. Pretty typical Indian museum in that despite some valuable objects, the majority looked like they had been picked up at a garage sale and randomly thrown in. From Jaipur I got a bus to Ajmer, passing numerous wrecked and over turned vehicles. In Ajmer I had to go to the train station to get a bus connection on to Pushkar.
Pushkar is a small quiet town in the desert but there are some small mountains around and a lake, which makes it green. The overall architectural style was the same as I would soon see in Udaipur. The “tourist bungalows” where I stayed was actually an old palace. Despite the laid back atmosphere, there were signs everywhere stating that holding hands or kissing in public was forbidden. One shouldn’t get within 30 meters of the “holy” lake with shoes on.
Once a guy ran up to me shouting but backed off when he realized that I was barefoot which should have been readily evident by my pale white feet. One was not allowed to take photos at the Ghats and not only alcohol but also meat was strictly forbidden in the whole town! What was allowed were souvenir shops, which were abundant if you were looking for jewelry or hippyish clothing.
There was a bit of a sand storm my second day in Pushkar. It got cloudy and cold and the electricity went out for the whole day and there was no running water at the hotel, so I just hung out and relaxed. Next day I went to take bus back to Ajmer in the early evening but it never arrived. Someone said there would be a bus at another station and me and 10 other tourists fell for this. When it didn’t arrive, we all hired a van to drive us and we had to wait there till midnight to catch the train on to Udaipur. Was not a lot of fun but better than the Air India flight which had just crashed somewhere that day with the loss of all on board, as reported in the Indian newspapers.
The train ride to Udaipur went without problems and I found a small but adequate hotel room, which interestingly had a mosquito net. Although the region is basically a desert, the city is full of lakes with a number of major palaces including one that covers an entire island in one of the lakes. Overnight there were lots of political banners strung up for upcoming elections and the newspapers were full of killings in Punjab and Kashmir, which had become almost daily events. Some years later a Sikh guy I met in South America would tell me that the Punjab had been pacified. I asked how it was done since the carnage had been so horrendous there. He said, “simple – troops were brought in that openly killed 2 of the enemy every time of their own were killed”.
Udaipur palace
Udaipur is over looked by the massive Udaipur palace. One can take an extensive tour in this palace’s museum, which takes a couple of hours yet this only includes a small section of the complex. One such courtyard as shown here surprised me by having a large full sized tree yet it wasn’t even on the ground floor. The interior decor was heavy on the bling but there were also many nice paintings showing historical battles.
Udaipur Island palace
I don’t remember if tours were available of the island palace, which is a luxury hotel now, but I did go to the restaurant there for dinner with a couple of other tourists. One got a buffet for 180 rupees which was the cost of my room for at least 5 days and the food was not better than average but the setting and decor was definitely majestic.
Udaipur random scenes
These were just shots round the town. Don’t know if they were part of a palace or temple as most of the old town had a similar architecture.
I saw a few French girls in Udaipur that were with Indians boys who happened to speak French as well. Saw a number of places where things were written in French, something I saw nowhere else so I wonder if there is some special cultural link between Udaipur and France. I also noticed that every request was responded to with “one?” I asked for a meal, “one?” Then I rented a bike and the guy asked “one?” and I slowly looked around to make it clear that I was alone and responded, “yes, just one, although I usually ride two bikes at a time!” Don’t think he got the joke.
As my ear pain was milder but still present and I still couldn’t hear out of the affected ear, I went to a private clinic. Doctor prescribed more antibiotics, antihistamine and said to try to pinch the nose and blow slightly like when in an airplane but he couldn’t guess when or definitely if my hearing would return. When it finally did – after a month – I was thankful but realized all the more how extremely noisy Indian cities are.
I caught a night train to Jodhpur arriving about 5 a.m. Took a rickshaw to hotel recommended by Lonely Planet but was not impressed and wondered if it was really the right place. Seemed to be a set strategy that when a hotel got a good recommendation that lots of dives would suddenly rename themselves the same or a very similar name to try to trick people into staying there. It didn’t help that the map I had of Jodhpur didn’t seem to match up with anything.
Had spent a lot of money lately on doctors and palace restaurants and such, so I had to change money. I wanted to go on to Jaisalmer in a couple of days and supposedly there was no place to change money there. Was worried if the banks would be opened after someone told me the schools were closed for the celebration of the snake god. Occurred to me that with its multitudes of gods, that if each one was celebrated – things would never be open. In the end I was too late anyway but was told the “next day between 10 and 12” even though it was a Saturday.
Jodhpur Palace
The top of Jodhpur is dominated by (surprise) a fort/palace. Here’s views from the fort over the old part of Jodhpur as well as from below.
Jodhpur city guides
This was the entrance to a museum or palace I don’t remember exactly. What I do remember are the 2 boys who insisted that they should be my guide to the old city. Such touts where not so annoying as in other countries but in principle I avoid them unless necessary. In most places it is like a creative way to beg. Most often they don’t speak much English or actually know much of interest about a place. Where they can be useful is to find things that are hard to find since in many countries maps are rather poor and streets often have no names. I did have an interesting conversation with these kids however. Their English was good and I think I made them laugh so it was OK between us. In mid 2018 I got a email from India claiming to be from one of these boys. He wrote that they were not touts at all – they just liked practicing their English. I have to give them the benefit of the doubt – but say that I had many such experiences and the people nearly always turned out to want money one way or another. Even some adults who said one should not encourage kids who do such things – also assuming they try it for money.
Brahman blue houses, green door & shutters
Most of the houses are painted a distinct blue and the doors and window shutters green indicating that they belong to Brahman, which is the priest class of Hindus. Although I usually avoided touts and guides, I let 2 boys show me the short cuts through the winding streets from the town to and from the fort. They spoke good English and didn’t try to get me into a carpet shop or anything so I gave them a good tip. For me, the quaint uniqueness of the Brahmans’ houses was more appealing than one more fort/palace.
Here I was in the city when a sudden downpour of rain came for about 30 minutes. Quickly it was a virtual flash flood with nearly a meter of water rushing down the street and people scrambling to find shelter. 30 minutes after it ended, the water had receded enough that people shown here could return to their daily routines. And yes, some buildings in Jodhpur are yellow or other colors as not everyone is a Brahman.
I went to another rather fancy restaurant in Jodhpur, which had excellent food. But I noticed that the silverware and tablecloths were filthy. Then a local guy sat across from me very poorly dressed. I was used to people eating with their hands but he made such disgusting sounds and when finished not only washed his hands over his plate but gargled and spit the water on his plate as well.
Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
I took a night train to Jaisalmer, which is the most incredible town. It’s beautiful, elaborate architectural style makes one thing of fables like 1001 nights. There were a lot of touts at the station trying to hard sell their hotels. When I got to a hotel, they also tried to pressure me into booking a desert camel tour before they would show me a room. When I said I would have to think about it, the room price suddenly went from 20 to 40 rupees.
I stayed one night and when I got more pressure and overcharged for the breakfast, I went and found a much better place for cheaper. The old town has the most intricate architecture I saw in India and is built around the palace/fort on the hill, which costed 5 rupees to visit. There were a couple of great temples especially the Jain temple, which was free but would have costed 20 rupees to take pictures in but I was too cheap to bother.
Rajasthan tapestries
These tapestries were displayed out back of the fort. Fancy antique clothing usually used for weddings in Rajasthan are cut up and the pieces sown onto another layer of material to make these beautiful creations. I bought 2 very small ones for myself and at the end of my trip a large one as a special present.
Back of Jaisalmer Fort
This house was at the very backside of the fort. Made a crazy contrast to the palace and elaborate houses in most of the old city. I took some photos of the people living by here and had them write me their supposed address. Unlike many people, I keep my promise to send them photos but they came back as undeliverable after some months.
Thar Desert camel tour
From my hotel in Jaisalmer I booked a tour in the Thar Desert. The first day we drove in a jeep to some small villages and through some sand dunes. The next day continued on by camel. Rather than a real saddle on my camel, a folded blanket was roped on for padding. We rode about 3 hours, stopped for lunch and then another 3 hours. By the end of this, my rear was so sore that I was counting the seconds until it would be over. This tour was cheaper than the standard 3-day camel ride ones, which I seriously don’t think I could have managed.
This was 1990 and India and Pakistan were seriously threatening to have another war. A number of times fighter jets went screaming across the desert at low levels making us wonder if the expected conflict had started. The headline on the front of the major Indian news magazine at the time was “war”. I think domestic political problems in both countries preoccupied the politicians and in effect thankfully sidelined them from another conflict. At least back then they didn’t have nuclear weapons pointed at each other.
Thar Desert oasis
We stopped for a break at a small oasis where there was a well. A number of shepherds with their goats and sheep showed up, as did this camel pulled cart. A family herding sheep also showed up at a hand-pump well to draw water.
Desert “hotel”
Our camel drivers stopped here for tea. The sign says it is a hotel but that often means they sell some drinks and maybe something to eat. You sure wouldn’t find a bed to sleep in but I guess some locals on the way through might give something to sleep on the floor. I would be so afraid of bedbugs and worse that I was glad I didn’t even have to enter the place. The inhabitants ran out to us though, pleading that we buy biscuits and soft drinks from them.
One time we stopped to take a leak in the bushes and suddenly a couple of locals popped out of the shrubs wanting to chat and most likely sell something. That really typifies India, never any personal space so that even in the middle of the desert you can’t take a leak without being disturbed.
Dismal living conditions
But as it is said, no matter how bad things look, they could always be worse. Not sure if this was a home or just a shelter occasionally used by shepherds and camel drivers. We slept our one night out in a small snack bar in a village, which was absolute basic, but a palace compared to this place. There was even a man with his son who came to make music and beg for donations and I played along and juggled while they played. When we got back to Jaisalmer, there were also some musicians playing at the restaurants but the tourists tended to ignore them. I didn’t want to be confronted with beggars all of the time but as a performer myself I had to feel sympathy for them.
Temple in desert
We visited this oasis, which must have been an important place at some point in time, but it seemed to be uninhabited although there were some great shady trees and fields of ripe wheat.
Bus in desert village
Here a bus was leaving a small village we passed by. From the looks of it, the occasion was the big excitement of the day but maybe such a bus might only show up once a week or so.
Osian
I returned from the desert tour to Jaisalmer and stayed another 2 days before taking a train back to Jodhpur intending to go on to Bikaner. The results of elections were coming in and it seemed that the radical Hindu Janta party had won a lot of regions. Seemed that democracy was improving in that the Congress party was no longer a shoe in but the danger of increasing religious tensions in the region was all too highlighted by the war jets flying over the city.
Colorful inhabitants’ clothing
There were victory parades of shouting people and lots of police in the street and I had some fear things might get out of hand and block my way back to the hotel to get my things to go to the station. It turned out that I would have a whole day in Jodhpur before I could get a train to Bikaner so I made a day trip by bus to the town of Osian where I took the following pictures. Seemed to me that the drier and more desolate the landscape, the more colorful the peoples’ clothing was. Was a big temple in Osian which rather than swastikas, had many symbols like the Jewish Star of David.
Men in streets of Orian
This photo of men talking on the street of Orian is one of my favorites, which I used for the poster to a big exhibition I did some years ago. I think the advertisement on the wall is for laundry detergent.
A schoolteacher in Orian saw me and invited me into his classroom. He could hardly speak a word of English but the kids and I ended up using the blackboard to draw pictures. I returned back to Jodhpur and relaxed at hotel where I had stayed before the desert tour and was happy to find a towel, which I had left behind. Got the night train to Bikaner, which was full of confusion as the conductor kept switching people around. I ended up with an upper bunk, which is the most protective and in this case padded unlike the 2 lower bunks, which were a hard slat of wood.
Bikaner, Deshnoke Rat Temple
I got a room in Bikaner and went to the Maharaja’s fort/palace, which was now basically a museum. Luckily it was opened since museums were closed then on Fridays in Rajasthan but forts were opened. It had the first elevator in Rajasthan – imported from England. Were some good paintings by a German artist and photos of performers dancing on swords and laying on nail beds. Were rifles with 3 meter long barrels and a machine gun that the Maharaja had gotten from Germans during W.W I to fight the British with. One of his descendants was an Anglophile however and there were photos and souvenirs of his tennis and polo playing years in England
The main attraction was however a temple 33 kilometers away in Deshnoke devoted to Karni Mata – a reincarnation of the Hindu goddess Durga. It’s believed that rats are holy since they are the reincarnation of Karni Mata’s followers. So this place was amazingly built and maintained for thousands of rats! Tunnels were made so they could scamper about wherever they wanted. There was even chicken wire over the roof to keep any birds from stealing from the abundant piles of grain and pans of milk.
Rats treated better than beggars
I saw wealthy people there pass crippled beggars, without so much as a glance, on their way to feed good food and sweets to the rats. Any human’s level of reincarnation should still be above any animals in my understanding of Hinduism but India’s a land of paradoxes! But India was also one of the only countries where people didn’t question my vegetarianism. I’m no strict vegan but to all the people who claim it “isn’t possible”, I say, go to India where at least half a billion people can tell you otherwise! Like most Hindu temples, one had to remove their shoes and any leather objects before entering here. Having rats scampering over my bare feet and squealing as they fought was a bit unnerving. Once I rested my arm on a banister to take a photo and immediately there were a couple of rats running towards it.
Corbett National Park attempted visit
From Bikaner I got a night train to Delhi. Had to search the length of the train to find the right coach but was able to trade my lower berth for an upper one. It was very dusty and the tracks were horrible and the suspension so bad that the cars would bounce up and down with a slam. Arriving in Delhi I walked to the main bus station to find a bus to Ramnagar, which lies in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand and not to be confused with the Ramnagar that I had visited near Varanasi.
This trip was difficult because I kept getting sent from one platform to the next and half of the seats in the station were covered with an inch of bird shit. The bus ride was grueling but beautiful. The landscape went from being absolutely flat to the first green foothills of the Himalaya. Also read a book by Timothy Leary on the trip. I agreed with many of his skepticisms of religious and political leaders and that one needs to think for themselves. Then he concluded that population control and ecology weren’t really important since we were headed to populating the universe anyway. Guess he hadn’t seen the condition of a third world city with 15 million residents that day like I had.
Once I got to Ramnagar I almost freaked out. Seems that there is only one bus a day to go to the Corbett Park but one first has to go to the nearby park office to (hopefully) get a permit. But everything should be closed the next day because it was a Sunday and when it opened Monday it would be too late to get the bus. The tourist bungalows looked okay despite a lot of mosquitoes but then one had to order dinner in the afternoon and it wasn’t served until late evening.
Accommodation fiasco
The dorm was nearly empty but suddenly a bunch of Indians stormed in. They were noisy and nosy and one kept farting the whole time. I tried to switch to a single room but in the meantime someone else had taken the last one. A Finnish guy coming from the park told me he hadn’t seen anything bigger than a deer although it was touted not only that tigers were still present but also as if other animals there were seen as merely tiger food. The park was named after an English Colonel who had written books about his adventures hunting “man-eating” tigers and leopards in the area.
The Indians got so deliberately annoying that I seriously thought of catching a night bus back to Delhi but it would be another grueling ride arriving at 4 a.m. I ignored it all the best I could and everyone went to bed surprisingly early. But they all snored, the loudest one in the bed next to me facing my direction the whole night. Was like having a herd of elephants in the room. They also got up very early and made as much noise as possible. Then the management said the only way to get around in the park would be to hire a taxi for about 400 rupees.
Back to Delhi
At this point I gave up and went to take bus back to Delhi. Had already missed two earlier ones and now had to wait a couple of hours. Hung out in a restaurant but then the bus started to leave 10 minutes early although it was only half full and I had to run to catch it. Despite all the aggravation, I enjoyed the scenery on the way back to Delhi. Saw that locals lived in simple huts, which were square rather than round as in Rajasthan and the walls and roof seemed to be grass – not a construction that would keep a hungry tiger at bay.
Back in Delhi I had 2 days to look for some gifts and hang out before ending my Indian adventure and getting my flight on to the Philippines.
So, those were just a few tales from my many travels over the last thirty and something years. I hope you've enjoyed another side of a traveling clown! If you want, write me an email or better yet, book my show or set a link to this website or just state me as the beneficiary of your will!
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Dems Say Jeb's Out Of Touch On Medicare
WFSU | By Nick Evans
Published July 23, 2015 at 6:09 PM EDT
Democrats and Republicans are trading potshots over perennial third rail of politics: Medicare.
Credit Judy van der Velden via Flickr
Democrats are up in arms over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush’s recent comments about Medicare. The former Florida Governor suggests Medicare be phased out.
At an Americans for Prosperity event Wednesday in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush argued Medicare—the program responsible for providing health benefits to senior citizens—needs to be replaced.
“I think a lot of people recognize that we need to make sure we fulfill the commitment to people that have already received the benefits, that are receiving the benefits, but that we need to figure out a way to phase out this program for others,” Bush said, “and move to a new system that allows them to have something—because they’re not going to have anything—and that argument I think is going to be a winning argument if we take it directly to people,”
Needless to say, Democrats were not pleased.
“Now once again, Jeb Bush has shown that he just doesn’t get it on the issues that matter to middle class families and not surprisingly to seniors,” Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz says. “Maybe Jeb Bush can afford to get by without Medicare. I’m sure the Koch brothers would be fine, too. But millions of Americans count on Medicare when they retire for access to high quality affordable healthcare.”
And Rich Fiesta of the Alliance for Retired Americans suggests Jeb Bush must be living in the pages of Oliver Twist.
“I don’t know if retirees and seniors need to now ask Jeb Bush for their bowl of porridge in his Dickensian world,” Fiesta says, “but calling him out is what we at the Alliance for Retired American and seniors will do for the rest of this campaign.”
Ironically, at the New Hampshire event Bush leveled a criticism often hurled at Republicans. The Democratic Party regularly harps on conservative obstinance to the affordable care act. But Bush argued it’s the left that is stonewalling when it comes to proposed revisions for Medicare.
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Nick Evans came to Tallahassee to pursue a masters in communications at Florida State University. He graduated in 2014, but not before picking up an internship at WFSU. While he worked on his degree Nick moved from intern, to part-timer, to full-time reporter. Before moving to Tallahassee, Nick lived in and around the San Francisco Bay Area for 15 years. He listens to far too many podcasts and is a die-hard 49ers football fan. When Nick’s not at work he likes to cook, play music and read.
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Suncoast Parkway Expansion Bill Advances
WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 | By Mark Schreiner
Published March 19, 2019 at 7:35 PM EDT
A bill advancing in the Florida Senate would extend the Suncoast Parkway from the Tampa Bay area to the Georgia border.
Florida Senate President Bill Galvano's plan to extend the Suncoast Parkway from the Tampa Bay area to the Georgia border is moving forward.
The Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development approved an amended bill (SB 7068) Tuesday that takes the environmental effects of the idea into greater consideration.
That pleases Amy Datz of the Environmental Caucus of Florida, who said she worked on air quality and transportation issues for more than a decade. She said expanding the Suncoast will take traffic off of nearby U.S. 19.
"I invented a model that looked at and evaluated air pollution and I can tell you from my meager experience that this will definitely reduce air pollution on U.S. 19," Datz told the subcommittee.
The expansion could also aid in hurricane evacuations, with Datz citing congested roads in the run-up to Hurricanes Charley in 2004 and Irma in 2017.
"Having this route to get people out, I know some people spent a normal one hour trip could take eight hours in a hurricane, so I think that this is a vital thoroughfare that will really mean life and death to a lot of people," she said.
The bill also extends the Florida Turnpike from Interstate 75 to the Suncoast Parkway and creates a new Southwest-Central Florida Connector that would link Polk County to Collier County.
The News Service of Florida reported in January that Galvano, R-Bradenton, said the new roads would aid rural communities.
“We need to have this infrastructure, but we also need to have access to our rural communities and provide multi-purpose rights-of-ways so that prosperity can return there,” Galvano said during an appearance at an annual Associated Press pre-session gathering.
But Dave Cullen with the Sierra Club of Florida disagreed. He told senators that taking traffic off of the roads that run through the smaller towns in Florida's Big Bend section from north of Tampa to Tallahassee actually hurts them.
"So that could affect Crystal River, Chiefland, Cross City and Perry, and they would be cut off from the current benefits that they are receiving from the traffic that is going through their communities," he said.
Cullen added that expanding these parkways would have environmental effects as well.
The amended bill would mandate the creation of task forces that would study both the economic and environmental impacts of the new roads, as well as hold public meetings into them.
The bill calls for spending $45 million in fiscal 2019-2020 to study the projects, $90 million the following fiscal year, and $135 million in fiscal 2021-2022. That funding would switch to a recurring $140 million starting the following fiscal year.
The bill still faces challenges: as WFSU reported this week, Gov. Ron DeSantis isn't a fan of adding toll roads, and there’s no House companion.
But Galvano remains optimistic, saying he thinks Speaker Jose Oliva supports a plan for infrastructure expansion.
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Mark Schreiner
Mark Schreiner has been the producer and reporter for "University Beat" on WUSF 89.7 FM since 2001 and on WUSF TV from 2007-2017. In addition to serving as a producer, reporter, host and assistant news director, he serves as intern coordinator for WUSF News.
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A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.
Director: Todd Douglas Miller
Actors: Buzz Aldrin, Charles Duke, Clifford E. Charlesworth, Jack Benny, Janet Armstrong, Joan Ann Archer, Johnny Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, Walter Cronkite
Keywords:Apollo 11
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground,…
Genre: Documentary, History, War
A One World Agenda: The Illuminati
There is an elite group that controls the world. They run governments, companies and religions – This is the story of the world’s most powerful secret and sacred order.
Resonance: Beings of Frequency
Resonance: Beings of Frequency uncovers for the very first time, the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. A deeper look at how every single one of…
Follows Rob Lehr after a deadly plane crash as he confronts PTSD and digital escapism by transforming his backyard into a real-life video game, The Thunderdome Nerf Arena. The community…
Neurons to Nirvana
Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of four powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA and Ayahuasca) and their previously established medicinal potential. Strictly…
World of Warcraft: Looking for Group
An all-new documentary celebrating 10 years of adventure, camaraderie, and /dancing on mailboxes all around Azeroth. Explore the history of WoW with its creators, and journey into corners of Blizzard…
Call Me Lucky
An inspiring, triumphant and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy’s most enigmatic and important figures, CALL ME LUCKY tells the story of Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken and…
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Documentary
What Lies Upstream
In this detective story, filmmaker Cullen Hoback investigates the largest chemical drinking water contamination in a generation. But something is rotten in state and federal regulatory agencies, and through years…
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
The True Cost
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Drama, News
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
A documentary detailing the epic Rogues’ Gallery of DC Comics from The Joker and Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Darkseid and more, this documentary will explore the Super Villains of DC Comics.
Genre: Action, Crime, Documentary
The cameras of Jacques Perrin fly with migratory birds: geese, storks, cranes. The film begins with spring in North America and the migration to the Arctic; the flight is a…
CT Fletcher: My Magnificent Obsession
The life and career of the power lifter.
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Sport
Trailer: Apollo 11
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A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.
Director: Bruno Barreto
Actors: Candice Bergen, Christina Applegate, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jon Polito, Joshua Malina, Kelly Preston, Marc Blucas, Mark Ruffalo, Mike Myers, Rob Lowe, Stacey Dash
Keywords:View from the Top
Tower of Terror
A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach’s position becomes vacant, she applies for…
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Sam Whiskey
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura’s dead husband stole recently, from…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the…
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Western
Yeonae-ui mokjeok
Lee Yoo-rim is a high school English teacher. He’s cute, clever… and shameless. Choi Hong is a student teacher, even though she is one year older than Yu-rim. She’s cynical…
Nobody’s Fool
Sully is a rascally ne’er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker’s compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with…
An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia’s top war criminal quickly spiraling out of…
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Cuisine et dépendances
Jacques et Martine, couple de bourgeois ordinaires, ont invité à dîner un ami perdu de vue depuis dix ans et devenu depuis une vedette des médias.
Read It and Weep
A young girl turns into an A-List celebrity over night when her private journal is accidently published and becomes a best-seller.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, TV Movie
Trailer: View from the Top
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Man's death sparks calls for jet ski hoon laws
By Anna MacDonald
Posted MonMonday 27 FebFebruary 2012 at 11:18amMonMonday 27 FebFebruary 2012 at 11:18am , updated MonMonday 27 FebFebruary 2012 at 8:34pmMonMonday 27 FebFebruary 2012 at 8:34pm
The death of a swimmer who was struck by a jet ski in Melbourne last week has sparked calls for tougher rules.
Two people on a jet ski struck a man who was swimming with his daughter at the popular Port Melbourne Beach on Friday afternoon.
With temperatures hovering in the high 30s in Melbourne, scores of people took to the beach.
One of them was a 51-year-old man who, along with his family, spent Friday afternoon at the beach in Port Melbourne.
The man was hit by a jet ski late in the day and died in hospital from serious head injuries two days later.
Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron general manager Peter Dawson says he often witnesses people using their jet skis irresponsibly on the bay.
"On Friday I was out on the marina looking at our boats and they were zooming though doing probably 20-25 [kilometres] where it's a five knot area exclusively. So they just don't comply," he said.
Mr Dawson, along with police, has noticed a spike in the number of jet-skiers in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay.
"We often see, particularly on good weather days, inexperienced and irresponsible people using PWCs (personal water crafts) in areas where they simply shouldn't," he said.
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"There are clearly visible areas where you can go and where you can't go, but these people just don't comply to the normal rules or commonsense."
The issue was popular amongst talkback callers on ABC Local Radio in Melbourne on Monday morning.
Some want hoon laws for jet skiers, while others want them banned altogether.
"We've certainly had instances where they've come closer, much closer than we consider comfortable. There are certainly some that are reckless," one swimmer said.
Currently, jet ski safety is the responsibility of states and territories.
New South Wales has some of the strictest regulations, with jet-skiers banned from Sydney Harbour and designated areas for swimmers and jet-skiers at beaches.
Mr Dawson wants Victoria to follow their lead in having the whole foreshore area inaccessible to jet skis.
The laws for jet-skiers differ greatly from state to state. For example, in the Northern Territory you do not need a licence to operate one.
Maritime New South Wales spokesman Neil Patchett says the tougher laws were a response to the issue of public safety.
"At the heart of that is encouraging the responsible use of these craft and that includes keeping a safe distance from swimmers," he said.
Mr Patchett believes the Melbourne man's death could have been avoided, saying there is no reason why jet skis should be anywhere near swimmers.
"These craft are extremely manoeuvrable. The riders can go offshore, well away from people, very quickly to do whatever they would like to do in perfect safety," he said.
"That's where they need to be used - at speed and doing those turns and so on, not anywhere near people in the water."
Parks Victoria, which regulates jet ski safety in the state, could not be contacted for comment.
A 21-year-old man was interviewed by police over the Port Melbourne accident, but no charges have been laid.
Posted 27 FebFebruary 2012MonMonday 27 FebFebruary 2012 at 11:18am , updated 27 FebFebruary 2012MonMonday 27 FebFebruary 2012 at 8:34pm
Man hit by jet ski dies in hospital
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Reply To: Frustrated, sad, depressed
Home › Welcome to the ADDitude Forums › For Parents › The Emotions of ADHD › Frustrated, sad, depressed › Reply To: Frustrated, sad, depressed
Allison Russo
This reply was originally posted by user Pump2Duncan in ADDitude’s now-retired community.
I completely understand!! It becomes increasingly frustrating when we try literally EVERYTHING and nothing seems to work. Your son has a terrific advocate in you and you’re doing a great job!
Have you talked to the school about an IEP or a 504? My son was on an IEP for many years and a Behavior Intervention Plan. The IEP really gave my son some nontraditional accommodations that helped a lot. A lot of his outbursts were due to feeling overwhelmed or “stupid” – so an accommodation was that he could go to the Resource Room (special ed room) whenever he felt that way. He normally would ask the Special Ed teacher to tell him the directions again (and again and again). He spent a couple hours each day in the Resource Room to give him a change in scenery, which also seemed to help. The Special Ed teacher always seemed to have a better grasp on how to handle my son than the General Education teacher.
The Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) laid out actions and consequences and rewards. My son was a vital part of its development. He got to pick his rewards. And every person at the school who interacted with my son had to follow the BIP, which provided structure. Teacher A’s expectations were the same as Teacher B’s, and so on.
He also went to weekly therapy sessions to help with social interactions. This helped some, he learned how to emphasize a lot with others but still has major issues making friends. He’s still that kid that no one shows up to his birthday party.
In the beginning, the structure, IEP and BIP were INTENSE and strictly followed. In the beginning there were biweekly tweaks to the plans. And there were a lot of good days and bad days. Over time (a few school years), we were able to bring down a lot of it. The actual IEP and BIP are gone, but the intense structure is still there. There is no deviations in his consequences, rewards or schedule.
My son has figured out that he needs visual reminders of his behavior. His school works on a demerit system. 4 demerits in a day and he gets detention. He asked if he could keep a post it on his desk to mark when he got a demerit. He says this acts like a reminder of the consequence to him.
I know you probably heard it before, but hang in there.
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Home » Lunch ladies question commitment to healthier food for kids
Lunch ladies question commitment to healthier food for kids
07/08/13 9:29 PM By Sara Wyant
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD – The School Nutrition Association (SNA)’s decision to hire a new firm for advocacy and legislative services prompted some members and outside observers to question whether the association is so fed up with new school lunch requirements that they are backing away from being advocates for children’s nutritional needs.
SNA announced last week that it has retained the services of Barnes & Thornburg LLP for its advocacy and legislative services, breaking off a long-standing relationship with Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz PC and principal Marshall Matz.
“School Nutrition Association extends our deepest thanks and appreciation to Marshall Matz for more than 30 years of dedicated service to SNA and its members,” said SNA President Sandra Ford, SNS. “Marshall’s work on behalf of SNA has strengthened school nutrition programs for the millions of children who rely on healthy school meals.”
In a press release, Ford said it was an “ideal time for SNA to reflect on its advocacy strategies,” especially “in light of the historic regulatory challenges facing school nutrition professionals and with Child Nutrition Reauthorization on the horizon. Last year, USDA issued the first update to school meal pattern regulations in more than 15 years, and last month, the department released the first-ever regulations for competitive foods sold in school vending machines and a la carte lines.
However, SNA’s decision to hire a new firm prompted a variety of criticisms from nutrition advocates who fear that the move indicates that school districts want to “dig in their hills” and work to stop healthier meals from being served in schools, according to one nutrition advocate. The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act requires USDA to issue 15 new regulations for food served in schools and many school districts have complained about the requirements to serve more fruits and vegetables and limit total calorie intake.
Past SNA president Jane Wynn circulated a letter entitled “My View” on July 7, which is highly critical of SNA’s move and what she believes to be the broader implications of the decision.
“Marshall and OFW Law’s bipartisan team has now been replaced as legislative counsel by the law firm that serves as our General Counsel. I am sure there are efficiencies in combining these services in one law firm but Barnes & Thornburg has little expertise or credibility on nutrition programs,” Wynn wrote.
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“I am not concerned about Marshall, who is in high demand. I am very worried about the future of SNA and the millions of children we serve each day,” she added. “We were out front and a leader when we were expanding our programs, but we are on defense when it comes to obesity and health. When obesity started to gain national attention, SNA rejected Marshall’s idea to focus our foundation on obesity and jump to the front of the issue. The White House, USDA and allied organizations now see us as a barrier to improving the quality of CN (child nutrition) programs. That is just terrible.”
Wynn said that “SNA must be a leader on children’s health just as we were on fighting hunger. To be effective for our own members and have political power in Washington we must be about the children we serve. “ “Dr. Josephine Martin, former Director of Child Nutrition for the State of Georgia, and another past president of SNA, echoed Wynn’s comments. She called Matz a “strategic thinker that helped moved the program forward in good times, and protect it from devastation in the down times.”
The controversy over the future of advocacy efforts at SNA comes just as the association prepares to host their annual meeting in Kansas City from July 14-17 with over 6,500 participants. The group also has a new CEO at the helm – its third in three years.
SNA spokesperson Diane Pratt-Heavner downplayed the controversy, saying it had been a long time since the organization issued a request for proposals for legislative services. They considered proposals from six firms and interviewed four of those.
“A selection committee comprised of SNA Board members, SNA’s CEO and Staff Vice President of Child Nutrition and Policy reviewed each proposal, conducted interviews with prospective firms, and determined that Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s vision offers the best match for SNA’s advocacy goals at this time.”
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But exactly how complex and fragile?
by KatjaGraceMeteuphoric3 min read3rd Nov 201930 comments
Value LearningComplexity of ValueAI Risk
This post has been nominated for the 2019 Review
This is a post about my own confusions. It seems likely that other people have discussed these issues at length somewhere, and that I am not up with current thoughts on them, because I don’t keep good track of even everything great that everyone writes. I welcome anyone kindly directing me to the most relevant things, or if such things are sufficiently well thought through that people can at this point just correct me in a small number of sentences, I’d appreciate that even more.
The traditional argument for AI alignment being hard is that human value is ‘complex’ and ‘fragile’. That is, it is hard to write down what kind of future we want, and if we get it even a little bit wrong, most futures that fit our description will be worthless.
The illustrations I have seen of this involve a person trying to write a description of value conceptual analysis style, and failing to put in things like ‘boredom’ or ‘consciousness’, and so getting a universe that is highly repetitive, or unconscious.
I’m not yet convinced that this is world-destroyingly hard.
Firstly, it seems like you could do better than imagined in these hypotheticals:
These thoughts are from a while ago. If instead you used ML to learn what ‘human flourishing’ looked like in a bunch of scenarios, I expect you would get something much closer than if you try to specify it manually. Compare manually specifying what a face looks like, then generating examples from your description to using modern ML to learn it and generate them.
Even in the manually describing it case, if you had like a hundred people spend a hundred years writing a very detailed description of what went wrong, instead of a writer spending an hour imagining ways that a more ignorant person may mess up if they spent no time on it, I could imagine it actually being pretty close. I don’t have a good sense of how far away it is.
I agree that neither of these would likely get you to exactly human values.
But secondly, I’m not sure about the fragility argument: that if there is basically any distance between your description and what is truly good, you will lose everything.
This seems to be a) based on a few examples of discrepancies between written-down values and real values where the written down values entirely exclude something, and b) assuming that there is a fast takeoff so that the relevant AI has its values forever, and takes over the world.
My guess is that values that are got using ML but still somewhat off from human values are much closer in terms of not destroying all value of the universe, than ones that a person tries to write down. Like, the kinds of errors people have used to illustrate this problem (forget to put in, ‘consciousness is good’) are like forgetting to say faces have nostrils in trying to specify what a face is like, whereas a modern ML system’s imperfect impression of a face seems more likely to meet my standards for ‘very facelike’ (most of the time).
Perhaps a bigger thing for me though is the issue of whether an AI takes over the world suddenly. I agree that if that happens, lack of perfect alignment is a big problem, though not obviously an all value nullifying one (see above). But if it doesn’t abruptly take over the world, and merely becomes a large part of the world’s systems, with ongoing ability for us to modify it and modify its roles in things and make new AI systems, then the question seems to be how forcefully the non-alignment is pushing us away from good futures relative to how forcefully we can correct this. And in the longer run, how well we can correct it in a deep way before AI does come to be in control of most decisions. So something like the speed of correction vs. the speed of AI influence growing.
These are empirical questions about the scales of different effects, rather than questions about whether a thing is analytically perfect. And I haven’t seen much analysis of them. To my own quick judgment, it’s not obvious to me that they look bad.
For one thing, these dynamics are already in place: the world is full of agents and more basic optimizing processes that are not aligned with broad human values—most individuals to a small degree, some strange individuals to a large degree, corporations, competitions, the dynamics of political processes. It is also full of forces for aligning them individually and stopping the whole show from running off the rails: law, social pressures, adjustment processes for the implicit rules of both of these, individual crusades. The adjustment processes themselves are not necessarily perfectly aligned, they are just overall forces for redirecting toward alignment. And in fairness, this is already pretty alarming. It’s not obvious to me that imperfectly aligned AI is likely to be worse than the currently misaligned processes, and even that it won’t be a net boon for the side of alignment.
So then the largest remaining worry is that it will still gain power fast and correction processes will be slow enough that its somewhat misaligned values will be set in forever. But it isn’t obvious to me that by that point it isn’t sufficiently well aligned that we would recognize its future as a wondrous utopia, just not the very best wondrous utopia that we would have imagined if we had really carefully sat down and imagined utopias for thousands of years. This again seems like an empirical question of the scale of different effects, unless there is a an argument that some effect will be totally overwhelming.
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[-]Alex Turner11d
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(I reviewed this in a top-level post: Review of 'But exactly how complex and fragile?'.)
I've thought about (concepts related to) the fragility of value quite a bit over the last year, and so I returned to Katja Grace's But exactly how complex and fragile? with renewed appreciation (I'd previously commented only a very brief microcosm of this review). I'm glad that Katja wrote this post and I'm glad that everyone commented. I often see private Google docs full of nuanced discussion which will never see the light of day, and that makes me sad, and I'm happy that people discussed this publicly.
I'll split this review into two parts, since the nominations called for review of both the post and the comments:
I think this post should be reviewed for its excellent comment section at least as much as for the original post, and also think that this post is a pretty central example of the kind of post I would like to see more of.
~ habryka
I think this was a good post. I think Katja shared an interesting perspective with valuable insights and that she was correct in highlighting a confused debate in the community.
That said, I think the post and the discussion are reasonably confused. The post sparked valuable lower-level discussion of AI risk, but I don't think that the discussion clarified AI risk models in a meaningful way.
The problem is that people are debating "is value fragile?" without realizing that value fragility is a sensitivity measure: given some initial state and some dynamics, how sensitive is the human-desirability of the final outcomes to certain kinds of perturbations of the initial state?
Left unremarked by Katja and the commenters, value fragility isn't intrinsically about AI alignment. What matters most is the extent to which the future is controlled by systems whose purposes are sufficiently entangled with human values. This question reaches beyond just AI alignment.
They also seem to be debating an under-specified proposition. Different perturbation sets and different dynamics will exhibit different fragility properties, even though we're measuring with respect to human value in all cases. For example, perturbing the training of an RL agent learning a representation of human value, is different from perturbing the utility function of an expected utility maximizer.
Setting loose a superintelligent expected utility maximizer is different from setting loose a mild optimizer (e.g. a quantilizer), even if they're both optimizing the same flawed representation of human value; the dynamics differ. As another illustration of how dynamics are important for value fragility, imagine if recommender systems had been deployed within a society which already adequately managed the impact of ML systems on its populace. In that world, we may have ceded less of our agency and attention to social media, and would therefore have firmer control over the future and value would be less fragile with respect to the training process of these recommender systems.
But exactly how complex and fragile? and its comments debate whether "value is fragile." I think this is a bad framing because it hides background assumptions about the dynamics of the system being considered. This section motivates a more literal interpretation of the value fragility thesis, demonstrating its coherence and its ability to meaningfully decompose AI alignment disagreements. The next section will use this interpretation to reveal how the comments largely failed to explore key modelling assumptions. This, I claim, helped prevent discussion from addressing the cruxes of disagreements.
The post and discussion both seem to slip past (what I view as) the heart of 'value fragility', and it seems like many people are secretly arguing for and against different propositions. Katja says:
it is hard to write down what kind of future we want, and if we get it even a little bit wrong, most futures that fit our description will be worthless.
But this leaves hidden a key step:
it is hard to write down the future we want, feed the utility function punchcard into the utility maximizer and then press 'play', and if we get it even a little bit wrong, most futures that fit our description will be worthless.
Here is the original 'value is fragile' claim:
Any Future not shaped by a goal system with detailed reliable inheritance from human morals and metamorals, will contain almost nothing of worth.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, Value is Fragile
Eliezer claims that if the future is not shaped by a goal system, there's not much worth. He does not explicitly claim, in that original essay, that we have to/will probably build an X-maximizer AGI, where X is an extremely good (or perfect) formalization of human values (whatever that would mean!). He does not explicitly claim that we will mold a mind from shape Y and that that probably goes wrong, too. He's talking about goal systems chartering a course through the future, and how sensitive the outcomes are to that process.
Let's ground this out. Imagine you're acting, but you aren't quite sure what is right. For a trivial example, you can eat bananas or apples at any given moment, but you aren't sure which is better. There are a few strategies you could follow: preserve attainable utility for lots of different goals (preserve the fruits as best you can); retain option value where your normative uncertainty lies (don't toss out all the bananas or all of the apples); etc.
But what if you have to commit to an object-level policy now, a way-of-steering-the-future now, without being able to reflect more on your values? What kind of guarantees can you get?
In Markov decision processes, if you're maximally uncertain, you can't guarantee you won't lose at least half of the value you could have achieved for the unknown true goal (I recently proved this for an upcoming paper). Relatedly, perfectly optimizing an ϵ-incorrect reward function only bounds regret to 2ϵ per time step (see also Goodhart's Curse). The main point is that you can't pursue every goal at once. It doesn't matter whether you use reinforcement learning to train a policy, or whether you act randomly, or whether you ask Mechanical Turk volunteers what you should do in each situation. Whenever your choices mean anything at all, no sequence of actions can optimize all goals at the same time.
So there has to be something which differentially pushes the future towards "good" things and away from "bad" things. That something could be 'humanity', or 'aligned AGI', or 'augmented humans wielding tool AIs', or 'magically benevolent aliens' - whatever. But it has to be something, some 'goal system' (as Eliezer put it), and it has to be entangled with the thing we want it to optimize for (human morals and metamorals). Otherwise, there's no reason to think that the universe weaves a "good" trajectory through time.
Hence, one might then conclude
Any Future not shaped by a goal system with detailed reliable inheritance from human morals and metamorals, will not be optimized for human morals and metamorals.
But how do we get from "will not be optimized for" to "will contain almost nothing of worth"? There are probably a few ways of arguing this; the simplest may be:
our universe has 'resources'; making the universe decently OK-by-human-standards requires resources which can be used for many other purposes; most purposes are best accomplished by not using resources in this way.
This is not an argument that we will deploy utility maximizers with a misspecified utility function, and that that will be how our fragile value is shattered and our universe is extinguished. The thesis holds merely that
As Katja notes, this argument is secretly about how the "forces of optimization" shape the future, and not necessarily about AIs or anything. The key point is to understand how the future is shaped, and then discuss how different kinds of AI systems might shape that future.
Concretely, I can claim 'value is fragile' and then say 'for example, if we deployed a utility-maximizer in our society but we forgot to have it optimize for variety, people might loop a single desirable experience forever.' But on its own, the value fragility claim doesn't center on AI.
[Human] values do not emerge in all possible minds. They will not appear from nowhere to rebuke and revoke the utility function of an expected paperclip maximizer.
Touch too hard in the wrong dimension, and the physical representation of those values will shatter - and not come back, for there will be nothing left to want to bring it back.
And the referent of those values - a worthwhile universe - would no longer have any physical reason to come into being.
Let go of the steering wheel, and the Future crashes.
Value is Fragile
Katja (correctly) implies that concluding that AI alignment is difficult requires extra arguments beyond value fragility:
... But if [the AI] doesn’t abruptly take over the world, and merely becomes a large part of the world’s systems, with ongoing ability for us to modify it and modify its roles in things and make new AI systems, then the question seems to be how forcefully the non-alignment is pushing us away from good futures relative to how forcefully we can correct this. And in the longer run, how well we can correct it in a deep way before AI does come to be in control of most decisions. So something like the speed of correction vs. the speed of AI influence growing.
As I see it, Katja and the commenters mostly discuss their conclusions about how AI+humanity might steer the future, how hard it will be to achieve the requisite entanglement with human values, instead of debating the truth value of the 'value fragility' claim which Eliezer made. Katja and the commenters discuss points which are relevant to AI alignment, but which are distinct from the value fragility claim. No one remarks that this claim has truth value independent of how we go about AI alignment, or how hard it is for AI to further our values.
Value fragility quantifies the robustness of outcome value to perturbation of the "motivations" of key actors within a system, given certain dynamics. This may become clearer as we examine the comments. This insight allows us to decompose debates about "value fragility" into e.g.
In what ways is human value fragile, given a fixed optimization scheme?
In other words: given fixed dynamics, to what classes of perturbations is outcome value fragile?
What kinds of multi-agent systems tend to veer towards goodness and beauty and value?
In other words: given a fixed set of perturbations, what kinds of dynamics are unusually robust against these perturbations?
What kinds of systems will humanity end up building, should we act no further? This explores our beliefs about how probable alignment pressures will interact with value fragility.
I think this is much more enlightening than debating
VALUE_FRAGILE_TO_AI == True?
If no such decomposition takes place, I think debate is just too hard and opaque and messy, and I think some of this messiness spilled over into the comments. Locally, each comment is well thought-out, but it seems (to me) that cruxes were largely left untackled.
To concretely point out something I consider somewhat confused, johnwentsworth authored the top-rated comment:
I think [Katja's summary] is an oversimplification of the fragility argument, which people tend to use in discussion because there's some nontrivial conceptual distance on the way to a more rigorous fragility argument.
The main conceptual gap is the idea that "distance" is not a pre-defined concept. Two points which are close together in human-concept-space may be far apart in a neural network's learned representation space or in an AGI's world-representation-space. It may be that value is not very fragile in human-concept-space; points close together in human-concept-space may usually have similar value. But that will definitely not be true in all possible representations of the world, and we don't know how to reliably formalize/automate human-concept-space.
The key point is not "if there is any distance between your description and what is truly good, you will lose everything", but rather, "we don't even know what the relevant distance metric is or how to formalize it". And it is definitely the case, at least, that many mathematically simple distance metrics do display value fragility.
This is a good point. But what exactly happens between "we write down something too distant from the 'truth'" and the result? The AI happens. But this part, the dynamics, it's kept invisible.
So if you think that there will be fast takeoff via utility maximizers (a la AIXI), you might say "yes, value is fragile", but if I think it'll be more like slow CAIS with semi-aligned incentives making sure nothing goes too wrong, I reply "value isn't fragile." Even if we agree on a distance metric! This is how people talk past each other.
Crucially, you have to realize that your mind can hold separate the value fragility considerations, the considerations as to how vulnerable the outcomes are to the aforementioned perturbations, you have to know you can hold these separate from your parameter values for e.g. AI timelines.
Many other comments seem off-the-mark in a similar way. That said, I think that Steve Byrnes left an underrated comment:
Corrigibility is another reason to think that the fragility argument is not an impossibility proof: If we can make an agent that sufficiently understands and respects the human desire for autonomy and control, then it would presumably ask for permission before doing anything crazy and irreversible, so we would presumably be able to course-correct later on (even with fast/hard takeoff).
The reason that corrigibility-like properties are so nice is that they let us continue to steer the future through the AI itself; its power becomes ours, and so we remain the "goal system with detailed reliable inheritance from human morals and metamorals" shaping the future.
I'm glad Katja said "Hey, I'm not convinced by this key argument", but I don't think it makes sense to include But exactly how complex and fragile? in the review.
Thanks to Rohin Shah for feedback on this review.
[-]johnswentworth11d
I read through the first part of this review, and generally thought "yep, this is basically right, except it should factor out the distance metric explicitly rather than dragging in all this stuff about dynamics". I had completely forgotten that I said the same thing a year ago, so I was pretty amused when I reached the quote.
Anyway, I'll defend the distance metric thing a bit here.
But what exactly happens between "we write down something too distant from the 'truth'" and the result? The AI happens. But this part, the dynamics, it's kept invisible.
I claim that "keeping the dynamics invisible" is desirable here.
The reason that "fragility of human values" is a useful concept/hypothesis in the first place is that it cuts reality at the joints. What does that mean? Roughly speaking, it means that there's a broad class of different questions for which "are human values fragile?" is an interesting and useful subquestion, without needing a lot of additional context. We can factor out the "are human values fragile?" question, and send someone off to go think about that question, without a bunch of context about why exactly we want to answer the question. Conversely, because the answer isn't highly context-dependent, we can think about the question once and then re-use the answer when thinking about many different scenarios - e.g. foom or CAIS or multipolar takeoff or .... Fragility of human values is a gear in our models, and once we've made the investment to understand that gear, we can re-use it over and over again as the rest of the model varies.
Of course, that only works to the extent that fragility of human values actually doesn't depend on a bunch of extra context. Which it obviously does, as this review points out. Distance metrics allow us to "factor out" that context-dependence, to wrap it in a clean API.
Rather than asking "are human values fragile?", we ask "under what distance metric(s) are human values fragile?" - that's the new "API" of the value-fragility question. Then, when someone comes along with a specific scenario (like foom or CAIS or ...), we ask what distance metric is relevant to the dynamics of that scenario. For instance, in a foom scenario, the relevant distance metric is probably determined by the AI's ontology - i.e. what things the AI thinks are "similar". In a corporate-flavored multipolar takeoff scenario, the relevant distance metric might be driven by economic/game-theoretic considerations: outcomes with similar economic results (e.g. profitability of AI-run companies) will be "similar".
The point is that these distance metrics tell us what particular aspects/properties of each scenario are relevant to value fragility.
Rather than asking "are human values fragile?", we ask "under what distance metric(s) are human values fragile?" - that's the new "API" of the value-fragility question.
In other words: "against which compact ways of generating perturbations is human value fragile?". But don't you still need to consider some dynamics for this question to be well-defined? So it doesn't seem like it captures all of the regularities implied by:
Distance metrics allow us to "factor out" that context-dependence, to wrap it in a clean API.
But I do presently agree that it's a good conceptual handle for exploring robustness against different sets of perturbations.
In other words: "against which compact ways of generating perturbations is human value fragile?". But don't you still need to consider some dynamics for this question to be well-defined?
Not quite. If we frame the question as "which compact ways of generating perturbations", then that's implicitly talking about dynamics, since we're asking how the perturbations were generated. But if we know what perturbations are generated, then we can say whether human value is fragile against those perturbations, regardless of how they're generated. So, rather than framing the question as "which compact ways of generating perturbations", we frame it as "which sets of perturbations" or "densities of perturbations" or a distance function on perturbations.
Ideally, we come up with a compact criterion for when human values are fragile against such sets/densities/distance functions.
(I meant to say 'perturbations', not 'permutations')
Not quite. If we frame the question as "which compact ways of generating permutations", then that's implicitly talking about dynamics, since we're asking how the permutations were generated.
Hm, maybe we have two different conceptions. I've been imagining singling out a variable (e.g. the utility function) and perturbing it in different ways, and then filing everything else under the 'dynamics.'
So one example would be, fix an EU maximizer. To compute value sensitivity, we consider the sensitivity of outcome value with respect to a range of feasible perturbations to the agent's utility function. The perturbations only affect the utility function, and so everything else is considered to be part of the dynamics of the situation. You might swap out the EU maximizer for a quantilizer, or change the broader society in which the agent is deployed, but these wouldn't classify as 'perturbations' in the original ontology.
Point is, these perturbations aren't actually generated within the imagined scenarios, but we generate them outside of the scenarios in order to estimate outcome sensitivity.
Perhaps this isn't clean, and perhaps I should rewrite parts of the review with a clearer decomposition.
Let me know if this is what you're saying:
we have an agent which chooses X to maximize E[u(X)] (maybe with a do() operator in there)
we perturb the utility function to u'(X)
we then ask whether max E[u(X)] is approximately E[u(X')], where X' is the decision maximizing E[u'(X')]
... so basically it's a Goodhart model, where we have some proxy utility function and want to check whether the proxy achieves similar value to the original.
Then the value-fragility question asks: under which perturbation distributions are the two values approximately the same? Or, the distance function version: if we assume that u' is "close to" u, then under what distance functions does that imply the values are close together?
Then your argument would be: the answer to that question depends on the dynamics, specifically on how X influences u. Is that right?
Assuming all that is what you're saying... I'm imagining another variable, which is roughly a world-state W. When we write utility as a function of X directly (i.e. u(X)), we're implicitly integrating over world states. Really, the utility function is u(W(X)): X influences the world-state, and then the utility is over (estimated) world-states. When I talk about "factoring out the dynamics", I mean that we think about the function u(W), ignoring X. The sensitivity question is then something like: under what perturbations is u'(W) a good approximation of u(W), and in particular when are maxima of u'(W) near-maximal for u(W), including when the maximization is subject to fairly general constraints. The maximization is no longer over X, but instead over world-states W directly - we're asking which world-states (compatible with the constraints) maximize each utility. (For specific scenarios, the constraints would encode the world-states reachable by the dynamics.) Ideally, we'd find some compact criterion for which perturbations preserve value under which constraints.
(Meta: this was useful, I understand this better for having written it out.)
Yes, this is basically what I had in mind! I really like this grounding; thanks for writing it out. If there were a value fragility research agenda, this might be a good start; I haven't yet decided whether I think there are good theorems to be found here, though.
Can you expand on
including when the maximization is subject to fairly general constraints... Ideally, we'd find some compact criterion for which perturbations preserve value under which constraints.
This is maxw∈Wu(w), right? And then you might just constrain the subset of W which the agent can search over? Or did you have something else in mind?
This is maxw∈Wu(w), right? And then you might just constrain the subset of W which the agent can search over?
One toy model to conceptualize what a "compact criterion" might look like: imagine we take a second-order expansion of u around some u-maximal world-state w∗. Then, the eigendecomposition of the Hessian of u around w∗ tells us which directions-of-change in the world state u cares about a little or a lot. If the constraints lock the accessible world-states into the directions which u doesn't care about much (i.e. eigenvalues near 0), then any accessible world-state near w∗ compatible with the constraints will have near-maximal u. On the other hand, if the constraints allow variation in directions which u does care about a lot (i.e. large eigenvalues), then u will be fragile to perturbations to u' which move the u'-optimal world-state along those directions.
That toy model has a very long list of problems with it, but I think it conveys roughly what kind of things are involved in modelling value fragility.
[-]johnswentworth1y
I think this is an oversimplification of the fragility argument, which people tend to use in discussion because there's some nontrivial conceptual distance on the way to a more rigorous fragility argument.
[-]Daniel Kokotajlo1y
I found this very helpful, thanks! I think this is maybe what Yudkowsky was getting at when he brought up adversarial examples here.
Adversarial examples are like adversarial goodhart. But an AI optimizing the universe for its imperfect understanding of the good is instead like extremal goodhart. So, while adversarial examples show that cases of dramatic non-overlap between human and ML concepts exist, it may be that you need an adversarial process to find them with nonnegligible probability. In which case we are fine.
This optimistic conjecture could be tested by looking to see what image *maximally* triggers a ML classifier. Does the perfect cat, the most cat-like cat according to ML actually look like a cat to us humans? If so, then by analogy the perfect utopia according to ML would also be pretty good. If not...
Perhaps this paper answers my question in the negative; I dont know enough ML to be sure. Thoughts?
If you want to visualize features, you might just optimize an image to make neurons fire. Unfortunately, this doesn’t really work. Instead, you end up with a kind of neural network optical illusion — an image full of noise and nonsensical high-frequency patterns that the network responds strongly to.
[-]Rohin Shah1y
The natural response to this is "ML seems really good at learning good distance metrics".
And it is definitely the case, at least, that many mathematically simple distance metrics do display value fragility.
Which is why you learn the distance metric. "Mathematically simple" rules for vision, speech recognition, etc. would all be very fragile, but ML seems to solve those tasks just fine.
One obvious response is "but what about adversarial examples"; my position is that image datasets are not rich enough for ML to learn the human-desired concepts; the concepts they do learn are predictive, just not about things we care about.
Another response is "but there are lots of rewards / utilities that are compatible with observed behavior, so you might learn the wrong thing, e.g. you might learn influence-seeking behavior". This is the worry behind inner alignment concerns as well. This seems like a real worry to me, but it's only tangentially related to the complexity / fragility of value.
No, no they absolutely do not seem...
my position is that image datasets are not rich enough for ML to learn the human-desired concepts; the concepts they do learn are predictive, just not about things we care about.
... right, yes, that is exactly the issue here. They do not learn the things we care about. Whether ML is good at learning predictive distance metrics is irrelevant here; what matters is whether they are good at learning human distance metrics. Maybe throwing more data at the problem will make learned metrics converge to human metrics, but even if it did, would we reliably be able to tell?
The key point is that we don't even know what the relevant distance metric is. Even in human terms, we don't know what the relevant metric is. We cannot expect to be able to distinguish an ML system which has learned the "correct" metric from one which has not.
This seems true, and also seems true for the images case, yet I (and I think most researchers) predict that image understanding will get very good / superhuman. What distinguishes the images case from the human values case? My guess at your response is that we aren't applying optimization pressure on the learned distance function for images.
In that case, my response would be that yes, if you froze in place the learned distance metric / "human value representation" at any given point, and then ratcheted up the "capabilities" of the agent, that's reasonably likely to go badly (though I'm not sure, and it depends how much the current agent has already been trained). But presumably the agent is going to continue learning over time.
Even in the case where we freeze the values and ratchet up the capabilities: you're presumably not aligned with me, but it doesn't seem like ratcheting up your capabilities obviously leads to doom for me. (It doesn't obviously not lead to doom either though.)
(and I think most researchers) predict that image understanding will get very good / superhuman. What distinguishes the images case from the human values case? My guess at your response is that we aren't applying optimization pressure on the learned distance function for images.
Good guess, but no. My response is that "image understanding will get very good" is completely different from "neural nets will understand images the same way humans do" or "neural nets will understand images such that images the net considers similar will also seem similar to humans". I agree that ML systems will get very good at "understanding" images in the sense of predicting motion or hidden pixels or whatever. But while different humans seem to have pretty similar concepts of what a tree is, it is not at all clear that ML systems have the same tree-concept as a human... and even if they did, how could we verify that, in a manner robust to both distribution shifts and Goodhart?
For friendliness purposes, it does not matter how well a neural net "understands" images/values, what matters is that their "understanding" be compatible with human understanding - in the sense that, if the human considers two things similar, the net should also consider them similar, and vice versa. Otherwise the fragility problem comes into play: two human-value-estimates which seem close together in the AI's representation may be disastrously different for a human.
I agree that ML systems will get very good at "understanding" images in the sense of predicting motion or hidden pixels or whatever.
... So why can't ML systems get very good at predicting what humans value, if they can predict motion / pixels? Or perhaps you can think they can predict motion / pixels, but they can't e.g. caption images, because that relies on higher-level concepts? If so, I predict that ML systems will also be good at that, and maybe that's the crux.
But while different humans seem to have pretty similar concepts of what a tree is, it is not at all clear that ML systems have the same tree-concept as a human.
I'm also predicting that vision-models-trained-with-richer-data will have approximately the same tree-concept as humans. (Not exactly the same, e.g. they won't have a notion of a "Christmas tree", presumably.)
and even if they did, how could we verify that, in a manner robust to both distribution shifts and Goodhart?
I'm not claiming we can verify it. I'm trying to make an empirical prediction about what happens. That's very different from what I can guarantee / verify. I'd argue the OP is also speaking in this frame.
I'm trying to make an empirical prediction about what happens. That's very different from what I can guarantee / verify. I'd argue the OP is also speaking in this frame.
That may be the crux. I'm generally of the mindset that "can't guarantee/verify" implies "completely useless for AI safety". Verifying that's it's safe is the whole point of AI safety research. If we were hoping to make something that just happened to be safe even though we couldn't guarantee it beforehand or double-check afterwards, that would just be called "AI".
I'm not saying we need proof-level guarantees for everything. Reasoning from strong enough priors would be ok, but saying "well, it seems like it'll probably be safe, but we can't actually verify our assumptions or reasoning" really doesn't cut it. Especially when we do not understand what the things-of-interest (values) even are, or how to formalize them.
I'm also predicting that vision-models-trained-with-richer-data will have approximately the same tree-concept as humans.
If we're saying that tree-concepts of vision-models-trained-with-richer-data will be similar to the human tree-concept according to humans, then I actually do agree with that. I do not expect it to generalize to values. (Although if we had a way to verify that the concepts match, I would expect the concept-match-verification method to generalize.) Here's a few different views on why I wouldn't expect it to generalize, which feel to me like they're all working around the edges of the same central idea:
In game/decision-theoretic terms, values depend on off-equilibrium behavior. They depend on counterfactual situations which will never actually happen.
In reductive terms, things in images can mostly be expressed as complicated clusters in atom-configuration space. Those clusters are directly relevant to predictive models, and they have predictive power. Values, and agency, aren't like that - we could model and predict the world just fine without assigning agency to any processes in it. (I suspect that a formalization of this distinction drops naturally out of a theory of abstraction, but that's still under construction.)
Humans can generally agree on what a tree is. Disagreements over values - or over what values even are - feel qualitatively different. From a human perspective, it feels like values and trees are defined in qualitatively different ways.
Again, if we had ways to guarantee/verify that a human and an ML system were using the same concepts, or had similar notions of "distance" and "approximation", then I do expect that would generalize from images to values. But I don't expect that methods which find human-similar concepts in images will also generally find human-similar concepts in values.
[-]Evan Hubinger1y
That may be the crux. I'm generally of the mindset that "can't guarantee/verify" implies "completely useless for AI safety". Verifying that's it's safe is the whole point of AI safety research. If we were hoping to make something that just happened to be safe even though we couldn't guarantee it beforehand or double-check afterwards, that would just be called "AI"
Surely "the whole point of AI safety research" is just to save the world, no? If the world ends up being saved, does it matter whether we were able to "verify" that or not? From my perspective, as a utilitarian, it seems to me that the only relevant question is how some particular intervention/research/etc. affects the probability of AI being good for humanity (or the EV, to be precise). It certainly seems quite useful to be able to verify lots of stuff to achieve that goal, but I think it's worth being clear that verification is an instrumental goal not a terminal one—and that there might be other possible ways to achieve that terminal goal (understanding empirical questions, for example, as Rohin wanted to do in this thread). At the very least, I certainly wouldn't go around saying that verification is "the whole point of AI safety research."
Surely "the whole point of AI safety research" is just to save the world, no?
Suppose you're an engineer working on a project to construct the world's largest bridge (by a wide margin). You've been tasked with safety: designing the bridge so that it does not fall down.
One assistant comes along and says "I have reviewed the data on millions of previously-built bridges as well as record-breaking bridges specifically. Extrapolating the data forward, it is unlikely that our bridge will fall down if we just scale-up a standard, traditional design."
Now, that may be comforting, but I'm still not going to move forward with that bridge design until we've actually run some simulations. Indeed, I'd consider the simulations the core part of the bridge-safety-engineer's job; trying to extrapolate from existing bridges would be at most an interesting side-project.
But if the bridge ends up standing, does it matter whether we were able to guarantee/verify the design or not?
The problem is model uncertainty. Simulations of a bridge have very little model uncertainty - if the simulation stands, then we can be pretty darn confident the bridge will stand. Extrapolating from existing data to a record-breaking new system has a lot of model uncertainty. There's just no way one can ever achieve sufficient levels of confidence with that kind of outside-view reasoning - we need the levels of certainty which come with a detailed, inside-view understanding of the system.
If the world ends up being saved, does it matter whether we were able to "verify" that or not?
Go find an engineer who designs bridges, or buildings, or something. Ask them: if they were designing the world's largest bridge, would it matter whether they had verified the design was safe, so long as the bridge stood up?
It would be nice if you said this in comments in the future. This post seems pretty explicitly about the empirical question to me, and even if you don't think the empirical question counts as AI safety research (a tenable position, though I don't agree with it), the empirical questions are still pretty important for prioritization research, and I would like people to be able to have discussions about that.
(Partly I'm a bit frustrated at having had another long comment conversation that bottomed out in a crux that I already knew about, and I don't know how I could have known this ahead of time, because it really sounded to me like you were attempting to answer the empirical question.)
Although it occurs to me that you might be claiming that empirically, if we fail to verify, then we're near-definitely doomed. If so, I want to know the reasons for that belief, and how they contradict my arguments, rather than whatever it is we're currently debating. (And also, I retract both of the paragraphs above.)
Re: the rest of your comment: I don't in fact want to have AI systems that try to guess human "values" and then optimize that -- as you said we don't even know what "values" are. I more want AI systems that are trying to help us, in the same way that a personal assistant might help you, despite not knowing your "values".
Sorry we wound up deep in a thread on a known crux. Mostly I just avoid timeline/prioritization/etc conversations altogether (on the margin I think it's a bikeshed). But in this case I read the OP as wondering why safety researchers were interested in the fragility argument, more than arguing over fragility itself.
As for AIs trying to help us rather than guessing human values... I don't really see how that circumvents the central problem? It sort-of splits off some of the nebulous, unformalized ideas which seem relevant into their own component, but we still end up with a bunch of nebulous, unformalized ideas which do not seem like the same kind of conceptual objects as "trees". We still need notions of wanting things, of agency, etc.
[-]Wei Dai1y
One obvious response is “but what about adversarial examples”; my position is that image datasets are not rich enough for ML to learn the human-desired concepts; the concepts they do learn are predictive, just not about things we care about.
To clarify, are you saying that if we had a rich enough dataset, the concepts they learn would be things we care about? If so, what is this based on, and how rich of a dataset do you think we would need? If not, can you explain more what you mean?
In the images case, I meant that if you had a richer dataset with more images in more conditions, accompanied with touch-based information, perhaps even audio, and the agent were allowed to interact with the world and see through these input mechanisms what the world did in response, then it would learn concepts that allow it to understand the world the way we do -- it wouldn't be fooled by occlusions, or by putting picture of a baseball on top of an ocean picture, etc. (This also requires a sufficiently large dataset; I don't know how large.)
I'm not saying that such a dataset would lead it to learn what we value. I don't know what that dataset would look like, partly because it's not clear to me what exactly we value.
[-]Alex Turner1y
There's a distinction worth mentioning between the fragility of human value in concept space, and the fragility induced by a hard maximizer running after its proxy as fast as possible.
Like, we could have a distance metric whereby human value is discontinuously sensitive to nudges in concept space, while still being OK practically (if we figure out eg mild optimization). Likewise, if we have a really hard maximizer pursuing a mostly-robust proxy of human values, and human value is pretty robust itself, bad things might still happen due to implementation errors (the AI is incorrigibly trying to accrue human value for itself, instead of helping us do it).
I think this argument mostly holds in the case of proxy alignment, but fails in the case of deceptive alignment. If a model is deceptively aligned, then I don't think there is any reason we should expect it to be only "somewhat misaligned"—once a mesa-optimizer becomes deceptive, there's no longer optimization pressure acting to keep its mesa-objective in line with the base, which means it could be totally off, not just slightly wrong. Additionally, a deceptively aligned mesa-optimizer might be able to do things like gradient hacking to significantly hinder our correction processes.
Also, I think it's worth pointing out that deception doesn't just happen during training: it's also possible for a non-deceptive proxy aligned mesa-optimizer to become deceptive during deployment, which could throw a huge wrench in your correction processes story. In particular, non-myopic proxy aligned mesa-optimizers "want to be deceptive" in the sense that, if presented with the strategy of deceptive alignment, they will choose to take it (this is a form of suboptimality alignment). This could be especially concerning in the presence of an adversary in the environment (a competitor AI, for example) that is choosing its output to cause other AIs to behave deceptively.
This Facebook post has the best discussion of this I know of; in particular check out Dario's comment and the replies to it.
I wonder if Paul Christiano ever wrote down his take on this, because he seems to agree with Eliezer that using ML to directly learn and optimize for human values will be disastrous, and I'm guessing that his reasons/arguments would probably be especially relevant to people like Katja Grace, Joshua Achiam, and Dario Amodei.
I myself am somewhat fuzzy/confused/not entirely convinced about the "complex/fragile" argument and even wrote kind of a counter-argument a while ago. I think my current worries about value learning or specification has less to do with the "complex/fragile" argument and more to do with what might be called "ignorance of values" (to give it an equally pithy name) which is that humans just don't know what our real values are (especially when applied to unfamiliar situations that will come up in the future) so how can AI designers specify them or how can AIs learn them?
People try to get around this by talking about learning meta-preferences, e.g., preferences for how to deliberate about values, but that's not some "values" that we already have and the AI can just learn, but instead a big (and I think very hard) philosophical and social science/engineering project to try to figure out what kinds of deliberation would be better than other kinds or would be good enough to eventually lead to good outcomes. (ETA: See also this comment.)
It’s not obvious to me that imperfectly aligned AI is likely to be worse than the currently misaligned processes, and even that it won’t be a net boon for the side of alignment.
My own worry is less that "imperfectly aligned AI is likely to be worse than the currently misaligned processes" but more that the advent of AGI might be the last good chance for humanity to get alignment right (including addressing "human safety problem"), and if we don't do a good enough job (even if we improve on the current situation in some sense) we'll be largely stuck with the remaining misalignment because there won't be another opportunity like it. ETA: A good slogan for this might be "AI risk as the risk of missed opportunity".
This again seems like an empirical question of the scale of different effects, unless there is a an argument that some effect will be totally overwhelming.
I'm not entirely sure I understand this sentence, but this post might be relevant here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Qz6w4GYZpgeDp6ATB/beyond-astronomical-waste.
[-]Isnasene1y
When I think of the fragility argument, I usually think in terms of Goodhart's Taxonomy. In particular, we might deal with--
Extremal Goodhart -- Human values are already unusually well-satisfied relative to what is normal for this universe and pushing proxies of our values to the extremes might inadvertently move the universe away from that in some way we didn't consider
Adversial Goodhart -- The thing that matters which is absent from our proxy is absolutely critical for satsifying our values and requires the same kinds of resources that our proxy relies on
My impression is that our values are complex enough that they have a lot of distinct absolutely critical pieces that hard to pin down even if you try really hard. I mainly think this because I once tried imagining how to make an AGI that optimizes for 'fulfilling human requests' and realized that fulfill, human and request all had such complicated and fragile definitions that it would take me an extremely long time to pin-down what I meant. And I wouldn't be confident in the result I made after pinning things down.
While I don't find this kind of argument fully convincing, I think it's more powerful than ' a) based on a few examples of discrepancies between written-down values and real values where the written down values entirely exclude something'.
That being said, I agree with b). I also lean toward the view that Slow Take-Off plus Machine-Learning may allow a non-catastrophic "good enough" solutions to human value problems.
I agree that Machine-Learning will probably give us better estimations of human-flourishing than trying to write-down our values themselves. However, I'm still very apprehensive about it unless we're also being very careful about slow take-off. The main reasons for this apprehensiveness comes from Rohin Shah's work sequence on Value Learning (particularly ambitious value-learning). My main take-away from this was: Learning human values from examples of humans is hard without writing down some extra assumptions about human values (which may leave something important out).
Here's a practical example of this: If you create an AI that learns human values from a lot of examples of humans, what do you think its stance will be on Person-Affecting Views? What will its stance be on value-lexicality responses to Torture vs. Dust-Specks? My impression is that you'll have to write down something to tell the AI how to decide these cases (when should we categorize human behaviors as irrational vs when should we not). And a lot of people may regard the ultimate decision as catastrophic.
There are other complications too. If the AI can interact with the world in ways that change human values and then updates to care about those changed values, strange things might happen. For instance, the AI might pressure humanity to adopt simpler, easier to learn values if it's agential. This might not be so bad but I suspect there are things the AI might do that could potentially be very bad.
So, because I'm not that confident in ML value-learning and because I'm not that confident in human values in general, I'm pretty skeptical of the idea that machine-learning will avert extreme risks associated with value mispecification.
[-]Ben Pace1mo
Nomination for 2019 Review
Seconding Habryka.
[-]Oliver Habryka1mo
In talking to many people about AI Alignment over the years, I've repeatedly found that a surprisingly large generator of disagreement about risk scenarios was disagreement about the fragility of human values.
I think this post should be reviewed for it's excellent comment section at least as much as for the original post, and also think that this post is a pretty central example of the kind of post I would like to see more of.
[-]G Gordon Worley III1y
For one thing, these dynamics are already in place: the world is full of agents and more basic optimizing processes that are not aligned with broad human values—most individuals to a small degree, some strange individuals to a large degree, corporations, competitions, the dynamics of political processes.
I don't think of this as evidence that unaligned AI is not dangerous. Arguable we're already seeing bad effects from unaligned AI, such as effects on public discourse as a result of newsfeed algorithms. Further, anything that limits the impact of unaligned action now seems largely the result of existing agents being of relatively low or similar power. Even the most powerful actors in the world right now can't effectively control much of the world (e.g. no government has figured out how to eliminate dissent, no military how to stop terrorists, etc.). I expect thing to look quite different if we develop an actor that is more powerful than a majority of all other actors combined, even if it develops into that power slowly because the steps along the way to that seem individually worth the tradeoff.
But it isn’t obvious to me that by that point it isn’t sufficiently well aligned that we would recognize its future as a wondrous utopia, just not the very best wondrous utopia that we would have imagined if we had really carefully sat down and imagined utopias for thousands of years.
To our ancestors we would appear to live in a wondrous utopia (bountiful food, clean water, low disease, etc.), yet we still want to do better. I think there will be suffering so long as we are not at the global maximum and anyone realizes this.
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By VIJAY ANDERSON
Label: Self Produced
Track listing: 1. East Coasting by Charles Mingus 2. Spooning by Butch Morris 3. Gallop's Gallop by Thelonious Monk 4. OC's Humpty Dumpty in retrograde, played rubato with bass solo 5. Nouroog by Charles Mingus 6. Hornin' In by Thelonious Monk 7. I'm Afraid by Duke Ellington 8. La Placita by Marion Brown 9. We Diddit by Mal Waldron 10. In Walked Buckner by Roscoe Mitchell
MUSICIAN Active since: 2016
The Spice Cabinet
The answer to Beijing’s party-cum-creative music scene, the Spice Cabinet, let by keyboardist Terry Hsieh blends Funk, Bebop, R&B, and even Spaghetti Westerns to form a worldview that is epic and playful in its explorations, known as "Deathbop". Born from the mind of veteran session musician and jazz trombonist Terry Hsieh during the beginning of his 8-year voyage to Beijing, The Spice Cabinet represents the handshake of cultures when people of vastly different backgrounds bond together over the shared love of jazz and pop music. Their style combines the cinematic orchestration, multiculturalism, rambunctious energy and production value of a pop concert, with the intense focus and virtuosity of their shared background in jazz improvisation
MUSICIAN Born: October 9, 1959
Anthony K Wright
Tony began playing brass at school, before moving to Clarinet at the age of 12, and Saxophone a bit later. He turned professional in the early ‘80s, playing sax as a session musician in London, and running various rock bands in night clubs and on the gig circuit in London and South Wales. He maintained his interest in the Clarinet, and in the early ‘90s began playing jazz on the circuit in the West Country, whilst teaching on the Performing Arts syllabus at North Devon College. Moving to Surrey in ‘98, he is now widely known as a Reeds teacher, with students ranging from adult beginners to advanced Grade 8 and Diploma-level specialists
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Myrans Orkester
Myrans Orkester is a liveact that now finally has recorded their jazzy and up- beat covers. From years of traveling through Sweden and getting parties started, they know how to get everyone up on the dancefloor. This was the feeling they brought with them into the studio when they set out to record their second stu- dioalbum. The new album is filled with energy! With the new album, Myrans Orkester has transformed modern hits into jazzy party music. The band has chosen their favorite songs and with their own uni- que sound made them into modern classics. They cover great artists such as Beyoncé, Rolling Stones, Dua Lipa, The Weeknd and Britney Spears and make the songs come to new life with an even more upbeat sound and energy
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Track listing: Beat It; Redemption Song; Martha; Requiem pour un con/Je t'aime moi non plus; Halleluyah; Hunting High and Low; Children's Play Song; Natural Mystic.
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By JEFF DAYTON-JOHNSON
Is Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige, 1956) a “covers" album? Not a single Davis-penned original on the record. But, of course, performing other composers' material is the jazz musician's stock in trade. No, the notion of “covers" is more recent, and its use in jazz today evokes the ironic rock-weaned hipster, exemplified by The ...
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Cerverii Circus Collective: A Satie Souvenir
Saturday, April 28, 2018 @ 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Free RSVP 2018-04-28 8 p.m. 2018-04-28 10 p.m. America/New_York Cerverii Circus Collective: A Satie Souvenir 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15212 Alphabet City
(2 hrs. approximate run time)
The Cerverii Circus Collective, a newly formed group for interdisciplinary performance, presents A SATIE SOUVENIR.
This cabaret performance focuses on the music and writings of eccentric French composer, Erik Satie (1866-1925) who energized and stimulated Parisian cultural life of the early 20th C. as a precursor to modernism.
The program includes several of Satie’s cabaret songs as well as art songs, selections of texted piano works and works accompanied by visual projections. Several of Satie’s ironic musings and Dada-rich thoughts are also a part of the performance.
This presentation anticipates a larger, full-length theater work, “LOOKING FOR ERIK” now in development and planned for next season. “LOOKING FOR ERIK” takes a cue from Satie’s own creative output. This multi-arts performance piece examines the artist’s life and works the way Satie himself examined his own world – selectively, mischievously, emotionally, out of chronological order, and according to the timeline of the heart. Referred to by some as the most important footnote in music history because of his profound influence yet lack of popular recognition, Satie cultivated a potent mix of brash irreverence, subdued revolution, and naïve genius in setting culture on the path towards modernism.
“A SATIE SOUVENIR” will feature a glimpse into that upcoming work. Performers for the evening include Daphne Alderson (vocalist and well-known cabaret singer internationally, nationally, and locally, acclaimed as an artist of ‘dignified passion’ by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Jeff Howell (an actor recently seen in Citizens Market at City Theatre), projection designer Joe Spinogatti and Michael Cerveris (pianist and designer of interdisciplinary works).
April 28, 2018 @ 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
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Washington passes consumer protection laws for homeowners
Washington has passed two new consumer protection laws aimed at protecting homeowners.
Washington has passed two new consumer protection laws aimed at protecting homeowners. One requires licensure of loan servicers and creates prohibited practices, and the other places new regulations on escrow agents, according to the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI).
DFI proposed the loan servicer bill after receiving complaints from homeowners about questionable third-party loan servicing practices, DFI Director of Consumer Services Deborah Bortner said in a statement. “Throughout the foreclosure crisis, homeowners desperately hoping to avoid losing their home have fallen victim to companies offering to help — for a substantial fee,” Bortner said. “In many cases, the homeowner pays several thousand dollars, receives no loan modification and loses their home to foreclosure anyway.”
The new law requires loan servicers to be licensed and to maintain a surety bond. The servicers also must explain all fees, credit all payments within one business day of receipt, make reasonable attempts to comply with requests for information from the borrower, and promptly correct errors and refund erroneous fees. It also makes modification service providers subject to the Mortgage Fraud Act and sets requirements for loan modification services, including a $750 cap on up-front fees.
The escrow bill is a response to instances of escrow company owners absconding with consumers’ funds with no bonding to cover the loss, Bortner said. Under the new law, escrow applicants must provide information about officers and directors, and are subject to fingerprinting. Escrow agents are restricted from employing people in specific positions who have been convicted of crimes involving dishonesty, and their bond must cover malfeasance of the owner, a director or an officer (the current bond only covers employees).
Read more information on Washington’s new consumer protection laws.
How the City of Fullerton navigated adding candidates to ballots remotely
This time last year, we were all looking forward to 2020: the start of a new decade and big elections (federally and locally) were just a few of the things we were excited about as we closed out the year. Little did we know, the beginning of the end of “normal” would happen two month […]
Colorado county’s value-based health care strategy produces savings
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Alt title: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko
Movie (1 ep x 115 min)
3.784 out of 5 from 6,708 votes
In modern Japan, Tokyo is expanding and considerably reducing animals' habitats, including those of the tanuki (raccoon-like creatures). What humanity doesn't know, though, is that tanuki are intelligent creatures, that can talk and even walk on two legs with the power of transformations! To secure their survival, the two combating tanuki clans join forces against mankind in a war they dub 'Pom Poko'! Humans are a difficult adversary, though... can the tanuki open mankind's eyes to the beauty of nature, before their homes are replaced by yet another suburb?
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StoryWhen most people think of Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki’s films tend to jump out and thwack you round the face in all their gorgeously animated glory, but what many may not realise is that Isao Takahata brings an equally impressive portfolio or work to the table. Part of the reason for my adoration of both the company’s founders comes from Takahata’s preference of placing greater focus on the Japanese way of life, its history, and mythology – and never has this been more prevalent than in his 1994 feature presentation, Pom Poko. In creating a solid, comprehensive, and ultimately entertaining narrative, Takahata makes excellent use of Japan’s rich and often wacky folklore by weaving so many legends, spirits, and monsters together that it’s like a mythologist’s wet dream. Of course the film’s central focus is the tanuki (Japanese raccoon dogs), a particularly popular and mischievous youkai (monster). These furry critters possess the power of transformation and various folktales document their impish antics – some of which the film incorporates into its plot, such as one who would trick humans by changing leaves into money. Throughout the film, stories such as the tale of ‘The Noppera-bo of Akasaka Road’ (a terrifying faceless monster) appear as one of the tanuki’s many pranks. However, the culmination of their hard work comes in what is easily the most impressive scene of the entire movie. In order to scare the construction workers threatening to destroy their habitat, the tanuki decide to stage their own version of the ‘Hyakki Yako’ – or ‘Night Parade of a Hundred Demons’ – which is an old belief that during summer nights, various supernatural beings will take to the streets in a large parade leaving anyone who witnesses this spectacle to die. Naturally this scene lends itself beautifully to showcasing various youkai, from the Karakasa (a cyclopic umbrella demon) to the long-necked Rokuro-kubi, as well as a nice nod towards a Japanese children’s literary classic – ‘Night on the Galactic Railroad’ by Kenji Miyazawa. While a veritable ‘Where’s Wally’ of Japanese culture, any casual viewer is unlikely to fully appreciate the intricate details, in the same way that a non-anime fan would miss half the references that Lucky Star hurls at its audience. As much as I adore Miyazaki’s fantastical films that whisk you away on a magical adventure, I do love the versatility of Takahata’s direction. He prods, pokes and yanks at all the right tear ducts in the tragically spectacular Grave of the Fireflies, brandishes a totally different visual style in My Neighbours the Yamadas, and in the case of Pom Poko, transforms the plot into a mockumentary. With narration, interview-esque sound bites from the cast, and the use of a real life location (Tama Hills actually exists to the south west of Tokyo), Pom Poko’s faux-journalistic approach successfully relays the underlying message that humans should care more about nature and its inhabitants. While this technique of storytelling is a refreshing difference, it can make the movie that much more difficult to immerse yourself in. With commentary inserted into the narrative, each section of plot seems to come to a stop instead naturally flowing into the next, which creates an almost jarring sensation – much like the slight pause that occurs when a DVD switches layers.AnimationFor over twenty years Studio Ghibli has been consistently producing animation of an extraordinarily high quality, and Pom Poko is no different, with fluid movement displayed by each character or item feeling entirely natural – well as normal as shape-changing raccoon-balls can be anyway. Boasting lush green backgrounds juxtaposed with the barren construction zone and harsh machinery, the film creates a beautifully believable backdrop for the boisterous tanuki. Pom Poko’s character designs particularly impress. That each individual has their own distinct appearance is remarkable when considering the sheer size of the cast. On top of that, the film represents our furry protagonists in four different ways throughout, depending on the nature of the scene. Primarily they take on a delightful, family-friendly manifestation complete with items of clothing and various visual quirks to easily distinguish between them. Secondly it adopts a more simplistic, cutesy visage, in order to mirror the tanuki’s carefree nature, which often emerges during party sequences to enhance the merriment. Thirdly, they appear as ordinary and realistic raccoons to enhance the film’s documentary feel and depicts how they look to regular people. Finally, some take on the form of a person during the movie; this is particularly striking as each humanoid tanuki bears similar facial features to its more adorable counterpart and makes it relatively easy to differentiate who each character is.SoundThe voice acting in Pom Poko is top-notch, both in the original Japanese and the English dub. The suitable difference between the natural voicing of storyline sections and the sombre narration enhances the film’s overall execution and plays nicely alongside the animation to provide a pleasing all-round experience. Pom Poko scatters appropriate incidental music throughout with a score ranging from upbeat, whimsical tunes for the tanuki’s many parties, to more traditional melodies with a slight spiritual edge to reinforce the film’s mythical elements.CharactersBoasting a large cast, Pom Poko manages to successfully accord each individual tanuki their own personality, from the aggressive, war-mongering Gonta to the more passive and rational Shokichi. That being said, with so many protagonists running around, none really receive much exploration, nor do they really evolve – in fact if you’re not paying enough attention, many of the characters simply meld into one big, furry, testicle-stretching mass. As the credits roll, Gonta is just as quick to attack, and Shokichi continues to stand firm on his beliefs that they shouldn’t harm humans. While this isn’t a deficit per se, it would be nice to see more of a change, especially since the rest of the narrative develops so well. One particular trait that all the tanuki share is their laid-back and comical nature, which frequently shines through even during the most serious of times. Their inclination towards partying after each minor success, mischievous nature, and the tendency of steering near-on every conversation in the direction of food, provides Pom Poko with the majority of its humorous content. This carefree attitude makes the cast far more amiable and adds to the overall entertainment value, thus allowing everyone to enjoy it whether laughing at the tanuki’s pranks or guiltily sniggering at their little… err… ‘Raccoon Pouches’.OverallAs an environmentally based film that is little more serious than the likes of Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro, yet more light-hearted than Princess Mononoke or Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Takahata’s Pom Poko is one of Studio Ghibli’s hidden gems. With a rich foundation of Japanese mythology and ecological issues, this film is one of the more intelligent movies out there, but the presence of cute, fun and fluffy tanuki also makes this an entertaining movie for the whole family.
Ebonyslayer Jan 26, 2019
Honestly, this has to be one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen from studio Ghibli. Not to say that its a bad thing, its more like others will react very strongly to the movie if they aren't familiar with some of the Japanese mythology that is focused on tanuki in general. And now I will explain what I think the film succeeded in and what it failed in. Story- The group of tanuki are rebelling against a surburban development project that is destroying the forest. There are many different arcs of narrative that take place in the movie, but I think the story didn't flow as well as it could have been. Even with the story reaching new parts like finding the old masters, it goes at a sluggish pace. Animation- The animation is actually one of the better parts of the film. The way the tanuki characters transform into objects, animals, people and monsters is fun to watch. Sound- From the sounds of battle to how the characters move and such is done well. Characters- This is probably one of the weaker parts of the movie. There are no lead characters to connect with or relate to, making them as bad as the humans they fight against. Overall- I think its easy to imagine why this Ghibli film is one of the more forgotten ones. It has its themes of war and preserving nature, but its rather done in a clumsy and obvious way compared to the smoothness of Princess Mononoke. It has its production value, but that alone isn't enough. Aside from the scrotum jokes and its weird sense of humor, it seems decent enough for kids to watch. But for older and wiser fans of Ghibli movies, there are much better films to be invested in compared to this one honestly.
bedheadred Nov 14, 2013
The forests of Tama Hills are being rapidly destroyed due to urbanization. The raccoon dogs of the forest battle to protect their home using their long-forgotten transformation talents. The once silly and lazy raccoon dogs, or tanuki, determinedly disrupted construction with hauntings and pranks. The introduction to the story is told by a narrator, giving it a National Geographic documentary feel. You learn about the plight of the Tama tanuki through the narrator, and then as the story progresses, by the following the dialogue of the tanuki themselves. The tanuki are at first animated like realistic wildlife and transform into cuddly creatures who stand upright and speak. They are identifiable by the articles of clothing they wear. Pom Poko may appear to be family friendly, but at close to two hours with some serious pacing issues, I doubt a child would last 20 minutes. It is unfortunate--with a good editor to trim about 45 minutes off the top, the film would have been more widely accepted, in my opinion. Secondly, the anime features tanuki. You might be familiar with the tanuki statue--a raccoon dog wearing a straw hat, sporting an enlarged scrotum. The scrotum symbolizes good financial luck. In the film on several occasions, the tanuki enlarge their scrotums to be used as blankets, parachutes and a boat. This might lead to awkward conversations with children. My favorite part of movie was the Monster parade. The imaginative animation featuring yokai of Japanese folk lore was a delight to behold. At one hour six minutes, look for guest appearances from Kiki and Tombo and Totoro hidden within the parade. The film presents a theme of wildlife conservation. In fact, the tanuki break the fourth wall and talk about the fate of forest animals in the last scene. Upon deeper reflection, the movie is an analogy for the adaptation of the Japanese people. Traditional ideas battle modernization and only those who are willing to adapt or transform will persevere?.If you can sit still for two hours (maybe by watching one half of the movie at a time,) you will be rewarded with a magical glimpse at Japanese folk lore. Any fan of Ghibli will enjoy the studio's familiar man vs. nature plot with a tanuki twist.
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CERADA Center for Educational Research and Academic Development in the Arts
University of the Arts Helsinki P.O. Box 30
00097 Uniarts
tuula.jaaskelainen@uniarts.fi
Democracy and community development
International/Cultural relations
http://www.uniarts.fi/en/cerada CERADA steering group includes 6 members and a coordinator. CERADA is funded by the University of the Arts Helsinki and it has projects which are funded by the Academy of Finland. CERADA has a visiting professor Helena Gaunt from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Examples of CERADA projects: ArtsEqual http://www.artsequal.fi/ Global Visions http://sites.uniarts.fi/web/globalvisions Learning in and through the Arts in higher education: Developing shared leadership http://www.uniarts.fi/learning-and-through-arts-higher-education-develop... Academic Development in the Arts http://www.uniarts.fi/academic-development-arts-0 CERADA is a member and coordinator in Finland in ENO The European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education https://www.eno-net.eu/
CERADA aims at developing the quality of research-based arts pedagogy within the University of the Arts Helsinki and in other institutions and contexts. It is a network of teachers, researchers and units within the University of the Arts Helsinki that are interested in developing arts pedagogy through international collaboration.
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How can you contribute to the Network in your country?
CERADA can contribute by enhancing and coordinating research based inter-cultural arts pedagogy through international collaboration.
Why do you want to join the ALF Network?
Anna Lindh Foundation's interest are in the field of CERADA's aims. CERADA has artistic and educational networks which can be utilised in the ALF Network. CERADA is actively searching for possibilities and fundings for broadening inter-cultural collaboration.
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Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar: A passion for teaching
The 66th president of the American Nuclear Society takes the helm at a time of great change, both internally and externally.
July 15, 2020, 7:03AM|Tim Gregoire
Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar said she feels very fortunate to be taking on the role of president of the American Nuclear Society at this moment in history. “By that, I don’t mean at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic,” she quickly clarified. “I mean at a time when we are making exciting and transformational changes to the Society.”
These changes are described in the aptly named Change Plan 2020, which was developed by a group that included ANS past presidents Andy Klein, Gene Grecheck, and Bob Coward, with input from members, including Dunzik-Gougar, and was approved by the ANS Board of Directors at the November 2019 ANS Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C. Already, Change Plan 2020 has reshaped the way the Society interacts with its members, including a new, greatly improved website and an updated, more vibrant and informative Nuclear News magazine. The plan has also reorganized the Society to create, in the words of ANS’s new executive director and chief executive officer, Craig Piercy, a “more streamlined, less siloed organization that is better equipped to meet our members’ needs going forward.”
Producing packages for radioactive materials takes time, attention to detail, and a thorough commitment to quality assurance.
Radwaste SolutionsWaste Management
May 22, 2020, 3:42PM|Tim Gregoire
The Optimus-H transport cask on display at the 2020 Waste Management Conference in Phoenix, Ariz.
Jeff England, director of transportation projects for NAC International, pointed to the large stainless steel canister, which looked like a giant-sized silver dumbbell, perched on the flatbed of a semitrailer truck parked in the middle of the expansive exhibit hall in the Phoenix Convention Center. NAC, a provider of nuclear storage, transportation, and consulting services, was using the 2020 Waste Management Conference, held March 8–12 in Phoenix, Ariz., to unveil its newest transport casks, the Optimus-H and Optimus-L.
“These are a different niche,” England said of the casks, which were designed to transport radioactive materials, including remote-handled transuranic waste, high-activity intermediate-level waste, low-enriched uranium, and fissile materials. “You have a lot of [small] drum-sized packages, and you also have a lot of big packages that will hold around 10 55-gallon drums. But there’s not anything in between. We hold a 110-gallon drum capacity.”
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Calling all Casks
As demands for a comprehensive U.S. waste management plan increase, private vendors are certifying new SNF/HLW transportation cask designs.
Radwaste SolutionsTransportation
March 7, 2020, 8:32AM|Tim Gregoire
A large-scale campaign to move spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States to a central repository or interim storage site does not appear to be coming anytime soon. External pressures, however, including a growing number of nuclear power plant closures and increased stakeholder demand to remove stranded spent fuel and HLW, are shifting focus to building the infrastructure needed to move large volumes of waste. This includes the design and manufacture of shielded transportation casks for shipping the waste by truck or rail.
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The Young Members Group works to encourage and enable all young professional members to be actively involved in the efforts and endeavors of the Society at all levels (Professional Divisions, ANS Governance, Local Sections, etc.) as they transition from the role of a student to the role of a professional. It sponsors non-technical workshops and meetings that provide professional development and networking opportunities for young professionals, collaborates with other Divisions and Groups in developing technical and non-technical content for topical and national meetings, encourages its members to participate in the activities of the Groups and Divisions that are closely related to their professional interests as well as in their local sections, introduces young members to the rules and governance structure of the Society, and nominates young professionals for awards and leadership opportunities available to members.
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Congress set to pass year-end funding bill
December 22, 2020, 12:08PM|Nuclear News Staff
The final text of the approximately 5,600-page Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 was released on December 22. While the timing of final passage is still fluid, the Senate was expected to approve it and send it on to President Trump to sign into law, according to John Starkey, American Nuclear Society government relations director.
Below are some key funding highlights from the legislation pertaining to nuclear energy.
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Nuclear champions make another push for NELA
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October 22, 2020, 3:00PM|Nuclear News Staff
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Elaine Luria (D., Va.), along with 29 of their colleagues, sent a letter last week to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, urging them to include the text of the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA) in the final fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Murkowski joined Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and 18 other lawmakers in a similar letter to the Senate Armed Service Committee earlier this year. Murkowski and Booker introduced NELA on September 6, 2018 (NN, Oct. 2018, p. 39).
The House and Senate passed their respective versions of the NDAA in July, by votes of 295–125 and 86–14, respectively. (NELA provisions have been included in the Senate’s NDAA and in the House’s Clean Economy and Jobs Innovation Act.) Last month, speaking at the 2020 Defense News Conference, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R., Texas), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, said that the final House and Senate conference report on the NDAA should be coming out soon after the November election.
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HALEU investment is key part of TerraPower’s demo proposal
September 17, 2020, 2:58PM|Nuclear News Staff
TerraPower announced on September 15 that it plans to work with Centrus Energy to establish commercial-scale production facilities for the high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) needed to fuel many advanced reactor designs.
The proposed investment in HALEU fuel fabrication is tied to a TerraPower-led submittal to the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP), which was created to support the deployment of two first-of-a-kind advanced reactor designs within five to seven years. TerraPower would like one of those designs to be Natrium, the 345-MWe sodium fast reactor that it has developed with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.
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Senate passes defense bill with advanced nuclear provisions
July 27, 2020, 7:07AM|Nuclear News Staff
In an 86 to 14 vote, the Senate on July 23 passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, incorporating by amendment S. 903, the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA). The House of Representatives passed its version of the NDAA, which supports $740 billion in funding for national defense, earlier in the week in a less bipartisan manner, 295 to 125. Members of both chambers will now begin negotiations to hammer out a final bill to send to the president—a process that could take months.
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NRC accepts Centrus Energy’s application for HALEU license expansion
June 24, 2020, 3:06PM|Nuclear News Staff
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review Centrus Energy Corporation’s application to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium at its facility in Piketon, Ohio, the company announced on June 23. HALEU-based fuels will be required for most of the advanced reactor designs currently under development and may also be utilized in next-generation fuels for the existing fleet of reactors in the United States and around the world.
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ARC signs on as potential Centrus HALEU customer
May 1, 2020, 1:32PM|Nuclear News Staff
High-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) is the fuel of choice for many advanced reactor developers, including Advanced Reactor Concepts, which is designing the ARC-100, a sodium-cooled fast reactor. Developers face a potential supply problem, however: The United States has no clear path to build the commercial HALEU production facilities that would be needed to fuel a fleet of advanced reactors. A letter of intent signed by ARC and Centrus Energy, announced on April 28, calls for cooperation on the deployment of a commercial supply of HALEU and could lead to a HALEU purchase agreement for ARC-100 deployments in the late 2020s.
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C H Spurgeon – “The People’s Preacher”
An innocent country lad from the Fens goes to London where he earns the love and respect of a nation as one of its most influential figures. But his strong principles run against the grain of the culture and, in standing up for them, he becomes isolated, ridiculed by the media and broken hearted.
This powerful, inspirational drama documentary faithfully recreates the times of C. H. Spurgeon and brings the ‘people’s preacher’ to life as it follows his trials and triumphs with historical accuracy.
Filmed on location in England, Scotland, France and Germany, this film vividly captures the spirit and message of a man whose eventful – and sometimes controversial – life is highly relevant to the twenty-first century.
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News & Media People: Wheelie record
People: Wheelie recordPeople: Wheelie record
Talk about landing long…
August 1, 2020 By David Tulis
Flight instructor Christopher Freeze kept the nosewheel of a Cessna 172 off the ground after landing for 14,319 feet (4.364 kilometers) at Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville to set a Guinness World Record.
Photography by Ken Freeze
Guinness World Records acknowledged in February that Freeze had set the “longest airplane wheelie (distance)” record.
Freeze said the wheelie idea came about when he realized “there’s not a lot there” for the average pilot seeking recognition without a large support staff or a big budget. The Virginia-based CFI said he learned the previous wheelie record was two kilometers, and he felt it was within his shoestring budget—if he could find the right airport and conditions—to satisfy Guinness World Records requirements.
“I don’t want to just break the record—I want to knock it to the moon,” he said.
Finding a suitable airfield was a challenge. Freeze said the longest runway in the United States is at Denver International Airport, but disrupting passenger traffic for “a couple of hours” was out of the question. Victorville’s 15,050-foot-long Runway 17/35 “was the right combination of everything,” he said.
The secret to Freeze’s success was modifying his soft-field technique to extend the main-wheels-down, nosewheel-up attitude for a few miles. During practice he identified the rollout’s correct feel and angle as being on the “razor’s edge” of flight without becoming airborne. “You get the airflow going and you kind of keep the power in, [add] a little bit of trim, just hold the back-pressure in,” and “look for the sweet spot” where “you just keep the nose up, don’t let it come down, don’t put in so much power that you’re popping back up” off the ground.
A belly camera documented the early morning wheelie attempt before winds or traffic became a factor.
After chirping the mains, he “added that power in and kept the flaps at 20 degrees and kept on rolling”—for 2.71 miles. With about 500 feet of runway remaining, Freeze raised the flaps, reduced power to idle, gently lowered the nose, and came to a stop within about 50 feet of the overrun area.
Freeze is a professional aviation writer and an airline transport pilot with more than 3,000 hours. In 2018, he won the California-based Hayward Air Rally proficiency challenge. “Aviation has so many things to offer, it’s impossible to do it all,” Freeze said, “but that doesn’t mean you can’t try.”
David Tulis
Associate Editor Web/ePilot
AOPA Associate Editor Web/ePilot David Tulis joined AOPA in 2015 and is a private pilot with single-engine land and sea ratings and a tailwheel endorsement. He is also a certificated remote pilot and co-host of the award-winning AOPA Hangar Talk podcast. David enjoys vintage aircraft and photography.
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The Rising Tide of Change Across UK Payments
The UK is venturing on the largest change programme for UK domestic payment processing it has seen since the Cruickshank Report in 2000 announced the need for speed & mandated the industry to deliver a Faster Payments service in the UK.
We explore what this means for corporates.
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AI Payments Revolution
Transaction banking is an area that provides a perfect number of conditions for AI to flourish. Find out how this could impact your business in our report.
From cash point to cashless
From the first cash point to the growth of a cashless society, Barclays has always been at the forefront of innovation in the payment landscape.
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New coronavirus restrictions: Here's what your state is doing to combat rising cases and deaths
Grace Hauck Chris Woodyard
As COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise nationwide, some states are halting phased reopening plans or imposing new coronavirus-related restrictions.
Several are putting limits on social gatherings, adding states to travel quarantine lists, mandating face masks and encouraging residents to stay home, as many did in the spring. Others are restricting business hours of operation and limiting restaurant capacity.
Thirty-eight states – plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico – require people to wear face coverings in public statewide, according to a list maintained by AARP. Iowa, Utah, North Dakota, New Hampshire and Wyoming joined the list in recent weeks.
Is your state reimplementing COVID-19 restrictions? See the list below.
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Republican Gov. Kay Ivey on Nov. 5 extended the state's face mask order until Dec. 11.
"I'm willing to keep the mask order in place while acknowledging that sooner rather than later it will be up to each of us to do the right thing, regardless of a government mandate or not," Ivey said.
The governor also announced two changes to occupancy rates and business social distancing rules beginning Nov. 8.
Read more: Alabama mask order extended to December amid COVID-19 spread
Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced Nov. 15 that local communities in Alaska can enact travel restrictions. Some other travel requirements, some involving recommendations on testing, went into effect Nov. 16.
Dunleavy issued a statewide emergency alert Nov. 12 and implored Alaskans to take steps to slow the spread for the next three weeks, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
On Dec. 1, a modified stay-at-home order began in Anchorage and is scheduled to go until Jan. 1, 2021.
Alaska does not have a statewide mask order.
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey on Dec. 2 unveiled a series of new mitigation measures. Saying Arizona's numbers were "heading in the wrong direction," he announced expanded health and safety requirements for public events approved by cities and counties. He relaxed regulations on restaurants to encourage a shift from indoor to outdoor dining. And he declared that businesses that repeatedly disregard safety guidelines would face closure.
But the strategies stopped short of what health leaders had asked for. The governor did not implement a statewide curfew or a shutdown or put a stop to athletic events – all measures recommended by public health researchers and medical providers within the past week. He also did not put in place a statewide mask mandate, which critics including Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman had called for.
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Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Dec. 3 that he’s looking at requiring state approval for smaller indoor events.
Hutchinson issued new guidance for Arkansas churches Nov. 10 that said masks should be worn at all times except those exempted under existing Arkansas Department of Health guidelines.
Arkansas has had a statewide mask order since July.
Read more:Arkansas virus hospitalizations hit new high as cases surge
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Dec. 3 announced plans for a regional stay-at-home order based on hospital capacity. The new approach divides the state into five broad regions and closes businesses and curbs travel in those with intensive care unit bed capacity below 15%. Previous stay-at-home rules were based on infection rates. A day later, five San Francisco Bay Area counties said the new stay-at-home orders would take effect Dec. 6 and last for at least three weeks.
Meanwhile, a 10 p.m. curfew started Nov. 21 and will last for a month in California counties that are in the strictest level of the state's pandemic restrictions. Nonessential work and gatherings must shut down from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in the 41 counties in California's purple tier, which includes 94% of the state's nearly 40 million residents. The order will be in effect until Dec. 21 but could be extended.
Indoor restaurant dining and indoor church services remain prohibited in those counties. Los Angeles County, on its own, also ordered the closing Nov. 22 of outdoor restaurant dining for three weeks. A three-week stay-at-home order in the county took effect Nov. 30.
California has had a statewide mask order since June.
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Democratic Gov. Jared Polis announced Nov. 17 that that indoor dining at restaurants will be banned in counties that have the most severe risk when it comes to the coronavirus. Gyms were limited to 10% of capacity.
The state held a three-day special legislative session that ended Dec. 2 with lawmakers extending millions in relief to businesses in cities that adhere to the state regulations even if the cities are in a county that refuses to follow the regulations.
Colorado extended its face mask order Nov. 9 for 30 days. Polis urged Coloradans to buckle down in the coming few weeks by avoiding social interactions outside of their households, washing their hands and wearing a mask.
On Nov. 18, school officials announced that public schools in Denver were temporarily pausing in-person learning.
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Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont on Nov. 24 signed an executive order, effective Nov. 26 that increased the amount that businesses can be fined for violations of the state’s COVID-19 rules and capacity limits to $10,000.
Lamont rolled back Connecticut's reopening plans on Nov. 6, meaning a 10 p.m. closing time for restaurants, entertainment venues like movie theaters or bowling alleys, and indoor and outdoor events. At restaurants, last service for in-person dining is 9:30 p.m., though they can stay open for takeout and delivery. Diners that operate 24 hours normally can reopen for indoor dining at 5 a.m.
Connecticut has had a statewide mask mandate since April.
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Starting Dec. 14, the state is advising Delawareans to stay at home to slow the spread of COVID-19 as the weather cools and more people gather indoors. Delaware will also require people who are indoors with anyone outside their immediate household to wear a mask.
This is in addition to the state's current mask order, which requires everyone out in public to wear a mask. Delaware has had a face mask order since April.
Democratic Gov. John Carney is also recommending that schools pause in-person learning from Dec. 14 to Jan. 8, with plans to return to hybrid learning on Jan. 11. However, school districts that wish to remain in hybrid learning may do so.
The state has also banned winter sports competitions from Dec.14 to Jan. 11, but athletes can still practice under strict masking and social distancing guidelines.
Carney announced an earlier round of restrictions that went into effect Nov. 23. The restrictions limit indoor gatherings to 10 people and limit indoor dining at restaurants to no more than 30% capacity. The state is also restricting event venues, including weddings, places of worship, performances, political meetings and funerals.
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Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a new set of restrictions on Nov. 23, limiting outdoor gatherings to 25 people and indoor gatherings to 10 people.
Restaurants will continue to be allowed to stay open until midnight, but alcohol sales must stop at 10 p.m. Houses of worship can continue at 50% capacity, but the maximum allowed inside will be reduced from 100 to 50.
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Florida has not implemented any new restrictions. On Oct. 22, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis loosened restrictions on visits to nursing homes, saying higher risk of infection is outweighed by positive mental health benefits of increased social interaction.
Florida does not have a statewide mask mandate.
On Nov. 25, DeSantis extended a September executive order aimed at preventing business shutdowns during the pandemic. The order barred local emergency ordinances that could "prevent an individual from working or from operating a business."
It also prevented local governments from requiring restaurants to operate below 50% indoor capacity and required local governments to quantify the economic impact and the public-health need for limits on indoor capacity below 100%. The order suspended the collection of penalties and fines for violations of such things as local mask ordinances, though it did not outright ban the ordinances.
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Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Nov. 30 announced that he was extending the state's existing coronavirus restrictions through Jan. 8.
Kemp extended existing social distancing and sanitization restrictions for businesses, gatherings and long-term elderly care facilities in mid-November. The order keeps in place a ban on gatherings larger than 50 people in Georgia and continues to make wearing a mask voluntary at the statewide level rather than mandatory. Cities and counties have been allowed to impose their own mask mandates since August so long as their local requirements do not apply to businesses and residences.
More:Gov. Brian Kemp extends COVID-19 restrictions in Georgia
Democratic Gov. David Ige signed an emergency order on Nov. 16 to clarify the state's mask mandate by creating identical requirements across all islands. While Hawaii has had a statewide mask order in place since April, the rules varied by county, leading to confusion, Hawaii News Now reported.
"All persons in the State shall wear a face covering over their nose and mouth when in public" except children under the age of 5 and individuals with disabilities or a medical condition, according to the new order.
The new order also says businesses "shall" refuse service to people who refuse to wear a face covering. All hotel operators are now required to "adopt a COVID-19 Health and Safety Plan for each property."
As of Nov. 24, anyone flying to Hawaii is required to have a negative COVID-19 test result prior to their departure for the state. Previously, passengers flying to the islands using a pre-travel testing program were permitted to arrive and then upload their negative test results to a state database, allowing them to skip two weeks of quarantine.
Read more:Hawaii to let travelers who test negative to bypass quarantine
Republican Gov. Brad Little announced Nov. 13 that he was moving the state back to Stage 2 of its reopening plan, but he resisted any stricter measures, such as a mask mandate.
The big impact of the move is on private and public gatherings, which were limited to 10 people. Bars, nightclubs and some other businesses had to be closed in the original Stage 2, but that is not the case this time. They may remain open as long as they operate under coronavirus guidelines. At bars, for instance, there can be only table seating, just like in restaurants.
The gathering limits do not apply to religious or political events, according to the governor’s office. Little said his new executive order does not close any business.
More:Little rolls Idaho back to modified Stage 2
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced new statewide mitigation measures on Nov. 17. The new measures, effective Nov. 20, affect retail, gyms, hotels, bars, restaurants, manufacturing, offices and more.
Gyms can remain open if patrons wear masks and schedule appointments. Retail and personal care services can operate at no more than 25% capacity. Casinos, museums and theaters will be closed. Indoor recreation activities will pause, and outdoor activities will limited to 10 people or less, with participants wearing face coverings at all times.
"This is not a stay-at-home order, but the best way for us to avoid a stay-at-home order is to stay at home," Pritzker said.
Illinois has had a statewide mask order since April.
On Nov. 17, Chicago Public Schools announced plans to welcome some students back into classrooms in January.
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Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb on Dec. 1 extended the public health emergency first declared in March through at least Dec. 31. That order has now been extended nine times.
On Nov. 11, Holcomb moved the state out of its Stage 5 of reopening after seven weeks of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soaring beyond the spring rates. Holcomb placed limits on social gatherings and school events for most of the state, and he also made available $20 million to local officials to help ensure businesses adhere to the state’s mask and social distancing requirements.
"Unfortunately, too many of us and around the country have let our guards down," Holcomb said. "Stage 5 was being lost on people or it was being misinterpreted. … Stage 5 to many was translated to or received as, 'We’re past it, we’re at the final stage, there’s nothing more we need to do.'"
Indiana has had a statewide mask order since July.
Read more:Holcomb announces new approach to restrictions to curb coronavirus surge
Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds announced an order Nov. 16 that requires everyone age 2 and older to wear a face covering when in any indoor public area if they will be within 6 feet of people who are not members of their household for 15 minutes or longer.
The order excludes eating at a table in a restaurant or bar or attending a religious service. Mask requirements do not apply to in-classroom education, Reynolds' staff clarified after she delivered a live, televised address about the new rules.
On Nov. 24, Reynolds said she will continue to monitor changes in the data and work to target her mitigation efforts to the places she feels they will have the most impact.
More on this:Iowans must wear masks at large gatherings
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly ordered Nov. 18 that everyone wear face coverings when inside public spaces, or in situations where physical distancing of 6 feet cannot be maintained.
The order came after she said Nov. 10 she was not yet considering any sort of statewide mitigation efforts, instead choosing to work with local governments and Republican legislators.
Kansas has had a statewide mask order since July.
Read more:Kansas reports over 5,000 new COVID-19 cases
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Nov. 18 announced multiple new restrictions. Starting Nov. 23, all public and private K-12 schools must stop in-person learning for the rest of the semester. Elementary schools in counties outside of the state's red zone will be allowed to reopen Dec. 7 if the school follows all guidelines.
From Nov. 20-Dec. 13, restaurants and bars must close indoor dining. Outdoor dining will be allowed with some limitations. Indoor gatherings will be limited to two families with no more than eight people. Gyms are limited to 33% capacity and weddings and funerals are limited to 25 people.
Kentucky has had a statewide mask mandate since July and, in early November, Beshear extended the order through Dec. 4.
The state Supreme Court on Nov. 12 upheld Beshear's authority to issue executive orders in an emergency following a challenge to those he has issued since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Kentucky.
Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards announced more COVID-19 restrictions on Nov. 24 as infections spike for the third time in the state, reducing capacity at most businesses and restaurants to 50% with even more limitations for bars.
Gathering limits will be rolled back to 25% with a cap of 75 people for indoor events and 150 for outdoor events. But Louisiana won't close schools or suspend fan attendance at high school, college or pro sports and will keep the current 75% occupancy limit for churches and other places of worship.
The new order will go into effect Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving.
More on this:Gov. Edwards Extends Phase 3 until December 4
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills issued an order Nov. 19 requiring all outdoor and indoor amusement venues, movie theaters, performing arts venues, casinos, and businesses that provide seated food and drink service to close by 9 p.m.
"As we enter the colder months and a holiday season when we customarily gather with friends and family, we are also entering a new and dangerous phase of the pandemic,” Mills said in a statement. "This targeted and temporary step will reduce extended gatherings while keeping the businesses open. Other steps may be necessary in the coming weeks if we do not get this virus under control."
Mills also issued an executive order Nov. 5 requiring people to wear a face covering regardless of whether they can physically distance from others as. The order strengthened a previously issued mask mandate that required face masks only if physically distancing was difficult to maintain.
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Republican Gov. Larry Hogan announced Nov. 23 that state police would launch a COVID-19 enforcement initiative with an added presence in several Maryland cities to halt large gatherings that violate the state's health restrictions.
Hogan also set new restrictions Nov. 20 aimed at slowing the spread of the virus, including ordering restaurants and bars to close by 10 p.m. and limiting capacity at retail businesses, religious institutions and other venues to 50%.
The state has had a mask mandate since April.
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Republican Gov. Charlie Baker instituted a partial stay-at-home order effective Nov. 6. The revised order seeks to restrict late-night congregating, telling residents to stay home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. ET. But it allows trips to work, running "critical errands," such as going for groceries or for health reasons, and allows people to take walks.
Restaurants, liquor stores, gyms, hair salons, theaters and some other recreational businesses and attractions must close from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. as well. Restaurants, however, may be allowed to stay later for takeout food. Private gatherings at people's homes, limited to 10 people inside and 25 outdoors, must end by 9:30 p.m.
Massachusetts is also planning to open a field hospital in Worcester to prepare for a possible overflow of COVID-19 patients as the disease continues to surge again in the state.
All residents also must wear face masks even when they can maintain 6 feet of distance from others under the order. The state has had a mask mandate since May.
Read more:Massachusetts is calling for a curfew to curb rising COVID-19 infections
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Nov. 16 that in-person classes at high schools and colleges statewide will be suspended for three weeks starting Nov. 18, along with eat-in dining at restaurants and bars.
The new public health order includes the cancellation of organized sports and group exercise classes, though gyms may remain open for individual exercise with strict safety measures, and professional and college athletics may continue. Casinos and movie theaters will be closed temporarily and gatherings inside homes will be limited to two households
Whitmer also said she has the authority to issue a new stay-at-home order if one is needed.
Read more: Whitmer extends mitigation measures as coronavirus cases spiral.
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced Nov. 18 that in-person social gatherings with people outside your household are prohibited, and bars and restaurants will only be allowed to do take-out and delivery service.
Gyms, fitness centers, entertainment and event spaces will close, and adult and youth sports will be paused. But retail businesses, salons and places of worship may continue to operate with proper precautions in place.
Adult and youth sports are paused, according to the order. Organizations and programs must stop all in-person activities — including practices, group workouts, games and tournaments, including outdoor sports like football and soccer.
The restrictions took effected Nov. 20 and go until Dec. 18.
Minnesota has had a statewide mask order since July.
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Republican Gov. Tate Reeves announced a new executive order Dec. 1 that put 54 of the state's 82 counties under stringent COVID-19 requirements, including mask mandates and a 10-person limit on indoor gatherings when social distancing isn't possible and a 50-person limit at outdoor events.
A statewide mask mandate was in place from early August until the end of September.
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Republican Gov. Mike Parson said Nov. 12 that individuals who properly wear masks in the school setting may not have to quarantine if they are in close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19. This is a major change aimed at keeping exposed, but otherwise healthy, students and teachers in the classrooms.
"We know that COVID-19 is not going away soon, so it is important that we continue to evaluate the guidance we’re issuing at the state level to make sure our procedures are sustainable for the next several months," he said.
The state does not have a mask mandate, and Parson reiterated on Nov. 12 that he does not support one.
Read more:Missouri relaxes mandatory quarantine rules for masked students, teachers
In an effort to "turn things around over the next few months," Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock on Nov. 17 ordered bars, restaurants and casinos to close at 10 p.m. and announced a round of directives to limit indoor crowd sizes and public gatherings.
The new measures go into effect at 5 a.m. Nov. 20. They require restaurants, bars, breweries, distilleries and casinos to operate at 50% of capacity, with tables limited to six people and with 6 feet of physical distance between groups. Public gatherings and events must be limited to 25 people where it is not possible to practice social distancing or where social distancing is not being practiced.
"The situation is serious in Montana, and it is serious across the nation," Bullock said.
Republican Gov.-elect Greg Gianforte on Nov. 10 announced a 21-member COVID-19 Task Force, which he said would be "indispensable" in helping him create a plan for the Treasure State to deal with the pandemic.
Montana has had a statewide mask mandate since July.
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Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts warned Nov. 20 that Nebraska was approaching renewed COVID-19 restrictions, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. If the state hits a threshold of 1,170 people hospitalized due to COVID-19, he said he will impose the restrictions. They would limit indoor gatherings in 10 people and outdoor gatherings to 20 people.
Ricketts announced new health measures Nov. 11. The measures require people to maintain 6 feet of separation "in all instances" in various public spaces, requires masks for staff and patrons at indoor businesses, limits fan attendance for all indoor youth extracurricular activities to household members of participants only,and temporarily halts elective surgeries that can wait four weeks or longer without substantially changing a patient’s outcome.
Nebraska does not have a statewide mask mandate.
Read more:Ricketts announces new statewide measures against COVID-19
Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 13, announced a "statewide pause" with new restrictions on Nov. 22. The new restrictions will go into effect on Nov. 24 and last three weeks.
Sisolak strengthened Nevada's mask mandate by requiring people to wear a face covering during private gatherings indoors and outdoors, and when around people who are not part of the immediate household. Restaurants, bars, gyms, fitness and dance studios, casinos, public gatherings, museums, zoos, churches, libraries and other businesses are limited to a 25% capacity.
There were no restrictions announced for in-person learning at schools.
The first-term Democrat has practically begged residents to follow Nevada’s mask-wearing and social distancing orders during recent virus-related press events. Nevada has had a statewide mask order since June.
Read more:Sisolak warns of tougher restrictions if COVID-19 numbers don't improve
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu on Nov. 19 announced a statewide face mask order, requiring people over five years old to wear a mask in public spaces — indoors or outdoors — if they can't maintain social distancing. The order was effective Nov. 20.
Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Nov. 30 lowered the threshold for the number of people allowed at outdoor gatherings from 150 to 25, as of Dec. 7. All indoor youth and adult sports – with exceptions for collegiate and professional teams – will be paused Dec. 5 through Jan. 2, Murphy said.
Murphy said Nov. 16 that indoor gatherings would be limited to 10 people. Towns and counties have the discretion to close bars, restaurants and other businesses by 8 p.m. under an executive order.-
In Newark, a 10-day stay-at-home advisory took effect Nov. 25.
New Jersey has had a statewide mask order since July.
Read more:NJ towns, counties allowed to close nonessential businesses early
A "Red to Green" system took effect on Dec. 2, allowing New Mexico counties with lower test positivity and per-capita infections to operate under fewer restrictions. The same criteria have already been in use for decisions about reopening public schools and nursing home visits.
Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Nov. 13 announced a two-week "reset" of heightened public health restrictions from late March and early April. Citizens were ordered to shelter in place, leaving home only for essential trips for health, safety and welfare. All nonessential businesses and nonprofits were to cease in-person activities, per the order. Essential businesses were to operate under reduced operations and occupancy to the "greatest possible extent."
New Mexico has had a statewide mask order since May.
More:New Mexico to implement COVID-19 'Red to Green' system for counties
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio reversed himself by announcing Nov. 29 that in-person learning would resume at public schools, and the weekly number of days when many children would attend class would even increase. Elementary and pre-kindergarten students will be the first ones to return to schools, some as early as Dec. 7.
On Nov. 18, de Blasio had said the nation's largest public school system would temporarily halt in-person learning again. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Nov. 26 said New York is hoping to expand COVID-19 testing in schools to keep open in-person kindergarten through eighth-grade classes through the winter.
Cuomo, a Democrat, announced Nov. 11 that bars and restaurants with a liquor license would have to close by 10 p.m. and indoor gatherings at private homes would be limited to no more than 10 people under new statewide rules. Gyms also have to close by 10 p.m.
The restrictions, which took effect Nov. 13, came in response to increasing COVID-19 numbers in the state and growing concerns about a second wave of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
The limit on social activities at home, down from the current 50, is sure to draw some backlash, but Cuomo, a Democrat, said on Twitter, "We know indoor gatherings and parties are a major source of COVID spread.''
New York has had a statewide mask order since April.
Read more:New York bars, restaurants must close at 10 p.m. each night
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Nov. 23 unveiled a new executive order strengthening the state's existing mask mandate and adding provisions for law enforcement to cite people who aren't wearing face coverings as the order requires as well as businesses or organizations failing to enforce the requirement.
On Nov. 17, Cooper said that 10 "critical" counties, mainly in rural areas, and 44 others with "substantial" spread are being asked to consider cutting off alcohol sales earlier than the current 11 p.m. deadline statewide. And churches in those counties are advised not to hold any indoor in-person gatherings of more than 10 people.
Cooper on Nov. 10 announced the state would remain paused in Phase 3 of its reopening plan for at least three more weeks. He also announced the limit on indoor gatherings will be lowered from 25 to 10 people.
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Republican Gov. Doug Burgum on Nov. 13 mandated the wearing of masks in businesses and indoor spaces in their states, following increased pressure from doctors, nurses and other health care professionals.
The directive goes into effect Nov. 14 and will last until Dec. 13. Burgum said in a statement that doctors and nurses "need our help, and they need it now." Burgum also directed all bars and restaurants to limit capacity to 50%, and closed all in-person service between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. Large-scale venues are limited to 25% capacity.
Meanwhile, Burgum recently supported a move to allow health care workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus but don’t have symptoms to remain on the job, in an effort to ease stress both on hospitals and medical personnel. Burgum says hospital administrators asked for the action and interim State Health Officer Dirk Wilke amended an order to allow it to take effect.
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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced a three-week, overnight stay-at-home order for Ohioans starting Nov. 19. The order, aimed at getting people to stay home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly, comes as COVID-19 infections as daily cases have tripled in the last three weeks.
DeWine also said most retail businesses will be closed during those hours. "Basically, we want people home by 10 o'clock," DeWine said, adding people who have to work late nights and early mornings are permitted to do so.
Ohio has had a mask mandate since July.
Read more:DeWine says restaurants, bars could close; businesses must enforce mask wearing
Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt on Nov. 16 announced new restrictions on bars and restaurants and a requirement that all state employees must wear masks while at work. The restrictions mark the first the governor has implemented as Oklahoma has seen an explosion of new COVID-19 cases and hospitals filling up with with COVID-19 patients.
Effective Nov. 19, bars and restaurants must adhere to a nightly 11 p.m. curfew, except for to-go and drive-thru orders. Bars and restaurants will be required to close by 11 p.m., with no in-person food or alcohol served afterwards.
Stitt, who was the first governor in the nation to test positive for the coronavirus in July, is frequently seen in public without a mask. Oklahoma does not have a statewide mask order.
More:Gov. Stitt announces limits on bars, restaurants due to COVID outbreak
Democratic Gov. Kate Brown announced new guidelines on Nov. 25 – less than two weeks after announcing a two-week "freeze" for the state that started Nov. 18. The new orders went into effect Dec. 3.
Twenty-one Oregon counties continue to be under strict restrictions. For all counties, the state is introducing a data-driven framework that will set four levels of restrictions depending on a county's risk for the disease.
In the extreme-risk counties, restaurants and bars will be able to reopen for outdoor dining, although the state is still encouraging takeout instead. Capacity limits in stores and malls are capped at 50%, down from 75%. Church activities are limited to 25% of capacity or 100 people, whichever is smaller.
Oregon has had a statewide mask order since July.
Oregon:Restaurants, gyms to close to public; new capacity limits at stores, churches
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Nov. 23 issued a stay-at-home health advisory advising residents to only leave home to go to work or school, or for essential needs, like seeking medical care, going to the grocery store or pharmacy, picking up food or exercising. The advisory will remain in place through Jan. 4, unless an additional advisory is issued.
That same day, Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine tightened restrictions on the number of people who can gather indoors and outdoors.
The state also plans to enforce some its rules, including mask wearing and travel restrictions, with fines.
Earlier this month, Levine issued an order that requires anyone who enters Pennsylvania to be tested within 72 hours of arriving. If someone cannot or does not get a negative test, they must quarantine for 14 days upon arrival. The order took effect Nov. 20, and the only exception to that rule will be those who commute to neighboring states for work or health care.
Pennsylvania's universal masking order has also been updated to requiring mask-wearing indoors, as well as outdoors if physical distance is not able to be kept. The state also has a 25% indoor occupancy limit for restaurants.
Pennsylvania:Updates mask order, imposes new testing and quarantine requirements for travelers
A "Rhode Island on Pause" initiative began Nov. 30 and lasts through at least Dec. 13. Under the restrictions, bars, casinos, gyms and more are to be closed. Indoor dining will be reduced to 33% capacity, with one household allowed per table, and houses of worship will be reduced to 25% capacity.
Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo ordered Nov. 19 that indoor gatherings be limited to single families. Outdoor events can be attended by no more than 75 persons.
Rhode Island has had a statewide mask order since May.
More:What is 'Rhode Island on Pause?' Here's what you need to know
Republican Gov. Henry McMaster's office said Nov. 7 it has no plans to enact any new statewide restrictions.
South Carolina does not have a statewide mask mandate.
Read more:South Carolina governor plans no new statewide restrictions
Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has repeatedly said she won't issue a statewide mask requirement and has voiced doubts about health experts who say face coverings prevent infections from spreading.
On Nov. 13, Noem's office said she has no intention of using state resources to enforce any federal COVID-19 orders on masks that might come from a Biden administration and that she doesn't have the power to enact one statewide.
Read more:South Dakota hits new record high in COVID-19 cases
Tennessee does not have a statewide mask mandate, but some local officials voted on Nov. 10 to support pushing Republican Gov. Bill Lee to implement a mandate.
On Nov. 18, Lee reiterated his opposition to a statewide mask mandate or simple restrictions for bars, stores or other businesses. Lee recommends county mayors enact mask mandates.
More:Coronavirus is getting much worse. Tennessee's strategy remains the same.
Texas does not have any new statewide restrictions.
Seven hospital regions in the state have hit the hospitalization threshold that triggers tighter limits set by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. In those areas, restaurants and private businesses have been required to reduce capacity from 75% to 50%, and any bars that were allowed to open under previous guidance from Abbott were required to close.
In mid-September, Abbott relaxed capacity limits for businesses in much of the state, including restaurants, retail stores and gyms, citing declining hospitalizations.
Texas, the first state to top 1 million cases of COVID-19, has had a face mask order since July.
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Republican Gov. Gary Herbert on Nov. 23 lifted restrictions on social gatherings despite continued high rates of COVID-19 transmission and hospitalizations. He also said that all participants in high school extracurricular activities must be tested every other week.
Additionally, businesses can allow quarantined employees to return to work earlier than was previously allowed. For instance, if an employee is exposed to COVID-19 but tests negative on day seven of their quarantine, they can return to work at the business owner's discretion.
After weeks of surging coronavirus cases and deaths, Herbert introduced a new tiered "Transmission Index" that will be used to place each county into one of three levels of alert — high, moderate and low. Based on the index, which calculates each county's level of transmission using metrics like cases per capita, transmission rates and hospital capacity, each county will need to follow new requirements regarding masks, social distancing, and rules for going out in public.
Herbert declared a state of emergency and issued a statewide mask mandate Nov. 8. Local government officials and hospital leaders who had been calling on Herbert to impose a statewide mask order lauded his decision, but some sheriffs have said they refuse to enforce it.
Read more:Herbert issues statewide mask mandate, other COVID-19 orders
Republican Gov. Phil Scott announced Nov. 10 that all travelers going in or out of Vermont for nonessential reasons are required to quarantine. The state has also revised its guidance for recreational sports and college athletics, and it has issued some of the most stringent restrictions to ski resorts.
On Nov. 13, Scott announced new restrictions on social gatherings, with early closing for bars and a ban on multiple household gatherings. The restrictions take effect at 10 p.m. on Nov. 14, when bars and social clubs will be closed to in-person service but may offer take-out. Restaurants must close to in-person service by 10 p.m. each night. The state is requiring restaurants, gyms, museums, and other establishments to keep a daily log of visitors.
In Burlington, the city council unanimously voted Monday to extend its gathering size limits until the first week of March.
Vermont has had a statewide mask mandate since August.
Read more:Vermont sets record for COVID-19 cases in a single day
Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam on Nov. 13 said in a news release that the state’s cap on gatherings will be reduced from 250 to 25, the state’s mask requirement will be applied to younger children, and alcohol sales will be prohibited at dining establishments, breweries and wineries after 10 p.m. Those and other new restrictions took effect at midnight Nov. 15.
The gathering ban will apply to events such as weddings, but won’t impact schools or restaurants. Restaurants were already subject to capacity limits due to rules requiring that patrons remain socially distanced.
Virginia has had a statewide mask mandate since May.
Northam asks Virginians to celebrate Thanksgiving safely: 'There's no genetic immunity'
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee on Nov. 15 announced new restrictions on businesses and social gatherings for the next four weeks as the state continues to combat a rising number of coronavirus cases.
Starting Nov. 17, a host of businesses must close their indoor services, including fitness facilities and gyms, bowling centers, movie theaters, museums, zoos and aquariums. Retail stores — including grocery stores — must limit their indoor capacity to 25%. Indoor social gatherings with people from more than one household are also prohibited unless attendees have either quarantined for 14 days before the gathering or tested negative for COVID-19 and have quarantined for seven days.
Starting Nov. 18, restaurants and bars will be limited to to-go service and outdoor dining with tables seating no more than five people.
Washington has had a statewide mask mandate since June.
Washington:New COVID-19 restrictions on dining, gyms
Gov. Jim Justice on Nov. 13 ordered the wearing of masks at all times in businesses and other indoor spaces starting at midnight. Justice's first indoor mask order in July did not require masks if social distancing was possible. The new order requires masks at all times except when eating or drinking.
The Republican governor said businesses will need to post signs notifying entrants of the mask requirement under his executive order. Justice urged businesses that encounter patrons not wearing a mask to call the police.
"It’s just silly to be in a public building with strangers walking around without a mask on," Justice said at a press conference Friday. "Even if you have this macho belief or whatever it may be, it’s silly."
Justice said public and private schools must use remote instruction from Thanksgiving through Dec. 3. All winter high school sports are postponed until Jan. 11.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Nov. 10 delivered a statewide address and issued an executive order to make his case to the public: please stay home. It was the first time the governor has used a prime-time platform to ask the public to begin to take the pandemic seriously, nine months into the outbreak.
"Wisconsin, this is serious. This crisis is urgent," Evers said in a speech from the state Capitol. "It's not safe to go out, it’s not safe to have others over — it's just not safe. And it might not be safe for a while yet."
Evers' order recommends Wisconsin residents to stay home as much as possible and to limit gatherings to households only. It also asks business owners to require masks in the workplace and allow employees to work from home. The order suggests restrictions required in Evers' stay-at-home order that was struck down earlier this year.
Wisconsin has had a statewide mask mandate since August.
Read more:Tony Evers urges Wisconsin to stay home on day of record cases, deaths
Republican Gov. Mark Gordon on Dec.7 announced that the state will require people to wear masks in indoor public spaces starting Dec. 9.
Previously, Gordon had left decisions on mask mandates to county governments and 16 of the state's 23 counties had local orders.
"These new orders are meant to support local leadership and we should all know that in Wyoming these mandates are not about citations, but about caring for others,” Gordon said.
Also announced: indoor and outdoor gatherings without distancing will be limited to 10or fewer, and bars, restaurants and cafes will be prohibited from serving in house between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Contributing: Jorge L. Ortiz, Lindsay Schnell and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY; The Associated Press; USA TODAY Network
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Clapton Moor
Important moor for its breeding waders, wintering wildfowl, and dragonflies, set in Gordano Valley.
Clevedon Ln, Bristol, UK
Clapton-in-Gordano
The Clapton Circuit provides a walk alongside the upper hay meadows and there is a bird hide overlooking the wet meadows. Access is restricted to the path that leads to the hide, which gives excellent views over the moor.
Flat ground except for ditches/ryhnes. Access to hide along path. The remainder of the site is not open to the public without a permit.
Clapton Circuit and the path to the bird hide are open at all times.
April to July, October to February
Set within the Gordano Valley, Clapton Moor is characteristic of the North Somerset Levels landscape.
Networked with species-rich rhynes (watery ditches), the moor is important for its breeding waders and wintering wildfowl.
Buzzard, peregrine and hobby have been recorded over the reserve, the latter often chasing some of the many swallows, martins and swifts that feed over the grassland.
The Trust and Natural England have created a raised water level on this reserve to encourage winter splash flooding to attract wintering wildfowl and wading birds and to safeguard the wetland wildlife.
The rhynes are full of many rare plants such as frogbit, greater spearwort and fen pondweed. Look out for hairy dragonfly and ruddy darter.
This site was purchased and managed through support from Heritage Lottery Fund, YANSEC, Countryside Agency, Alan Evans Memorial Trust, Ritchie Charitable Trust and public donation.
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Armenia Calls For Wider Ban On Drone Technology Sales To Turkey
Հոկտեմբեր 20, 2020
Nagorno-Karabakh -- An Armenian Defense Ministry photo that purportedly shows a fragment of a Turkish-manufactured combat drone shot down in Nagorno-Karabakh, October 20, 2020.
Armenia on Tuesday urged more Western nations to suspend the export of drone technology to Turkey as it publicized purported evidence of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used by Azerbaijan in the ongoing war over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian Defense Ministry released photographs of what it described as fragments of a Turkish-made combat drone Bayraktar TB2 allegedly shot down by Karabakh Armenian forces on Monday.
The ministry spokeswoman, Shushan Stepanian, said one of the photos depicts the drone’s largely intact imaging and targeting system manufactured by a Canadian-based firm, L3Harris Wescam.
“It was manufactured by the Canadian company Wescam in June 2020 and installed on Bayraktar TB2 in September 2020,” she said.
The Canadian government temporarily banned the sale of such equipment to Turkey October 5 just over a week after the outbreak of the worst hostilities in the Karabakh conflict zone since the early 1990s.
The move was hailed by Yerevan but criticized by Ankara. It followed a statement by Canadian arms control group Project Ploughshares saying that video of air strikes carried out by Azerbaijani army drones indicates that they are equipped with imaging and targeting systems manufactured by L3Harris Wescam.
A Turkish company manufacturing Bayraktar reportedly also buys components from other Western countries.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed that Karabakh’s Armenian-backed Defense Army has shot down about a dozen such UAVs so far.
“None of the destroyed drones fell on territory controlled by the Defense Army [until Monday.] We now seem to finally possess fragments of Bayraktar,” he wrote on Facebook.
UKRAINE – A Turkish-made Bayraktar combat drone purchased for Ukraine's Armed Forces, March 20, 2019
Pashinian described the publicized photos as further proof of Turkey’s “direct involvement” in the war. “Based on this fact, those countries that supply Turkey with necessary parts of Bayraktar should follow Canada’s example and suspend further supplies,” he said.
Armenia has also accused Turkey of deploying Turkish military personnel and Syrian mercenaries to Azerbaijan ahead of the war. The Turkish and Azerbaijani governments deny that.
Baku has admitted heavily using Turkish as well as Israeli drones against Armenian targets. But it insists that they belong to and are operated by the Azerbaijani army.
According to exports data cited by the Reuters news agency, Turkey’s military exports to Azerbaijan have risen six-fold this year, with sales of drones and other military equipment rising to $77 million last month alone. Most of the purchased drones, rocket launchers, ammunition and other weapons were delivered after July.
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Artist’s Portrait: L.C.Tiffany, the Master of Stained Glass
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The word “Tiffany glass” is used casually by many English speakers as just another way of saying “stained glass”, but do you know why it’s called that way? It’s not because Tiffany was the inventor of stained glass, as it was invented much earlier in the Middle Ages, but one could definitely say that Tiffany reinvented it.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and entrepreneur, and definitely the greatest master of stained glass of the past century. His works are like paintings, but often better, because paint lacks the translucence, texture and dimension that can be achieved with glass.
Synonymous with luxury and fame, his works are scattered everywhere in the United States: from the White House to, quite possibly, your nightstand. Now let’s examine some of his works and dive deeper into his life story.
Right: Lida Mitchell Fenton Memorial Window (1900)
Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in New York City on February 18, 1848. And if his last name rings a bell, it’s because his father, Charles Lewis Tiffany was the founder of Tiffany and Company, the world-famous American jewelry brand.
Madonna of the Flowers, Sarah Guild Memorial Window (1899) Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts
Louis was an exceptionally talented child, he began painting very early on, and after getting an education in the United States, he continued studying art in Europe, which is where he gained his individual style and continuously drew inspiration from.
Garden Landscape, Mural and Mosaic (1905–15)
In 1879, after working at several stained glass workshops in Brooklyn, Louis decides to open his own business. With so much talent and his father’s connections, his business thrives, and very soon, Tiffany started taking orders for many New York churches and private clients.
From the Collection of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
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In 1881, Tiffany designed the interior of Mark Twain’s home in Hartford, Connecticut, and only a year later, he was commissioned to redesign the interior of the White House.
Tiffany’s artistic reach was not limited to stained glass windows and large interior decorations, he is also known for his impeccable lamp designs, vases and glasses, and other small decor items.
A Close-Up View
The decision to produce small and more affordable items for the home wasn’t only a very wise business decision, but also the artist’s conviction that everyone deserves to have beautiful, inspiring things in their home.
As for the artist’s style, it is quite obviously inspired by the art deco movement in Europe, and one can easily draw a similarity between Tiffany, Gustav Klimt and Alphonse Mucha (the link will take you to an article about the artist).
In his works, Tiffany tried to emulate nature, as can be seen from the beautiful window design below.
Autumn Landscape (1923-24)
In fact, he had a sizeable garden in his own home and catalogued entire books full of flower and plant samples, from which he and his co-workers drew inspiration. Tiffany believed that nature has the most perfect and aesthetically-pleasing shapes and colors, and he transferred that natural beauty into his own works.
Stained Glass at the Chicago Cultural Center (1893)
Even his lamp designs and home decor items repeat many natural forms, especially plants and flowers, both in shape and ornamentation.
Left: Leaded Favrile Glass & Bronze Lamp (1904-15); Right: Favrile Glass Vase (1899)
As we've mentioned, many of his works are very reminiscent of art deco paintings, but the addition of pearl and translucent elements add a very light and elegant feel to the masterpiece, which can be lacking in murals and paintings.
Feeding the Flamingoes Leaded-Glass Window (1892)
Below you can see a part of the enormous stained glass window Tiffany executed for the Chittenden Hall at Yale University. This is considered one of the masterpieces of the author.
Today, Tiffany is remembered as a distinguished artist, whose works contributed to a countless extent to the art of stained-glass making and elevated its status once more.
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The Sexton Disguised Stood Still as Stone
David Hockney, (b. 1937)
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A stunning Etching and aquatint from ‘Six Fairey Tales from the Brothers Grimm’. This copy is SIGNED,
David Hockney had always loved Grimm’s Fairy Tales and had read all 220 of them. He also admired earlier illustrations to them by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. In 1969 he decided to make his own images. He especially enjoyed the elements of magic in the tales, and his images focus on his imaginative response to the descriptions in the text rather than attempting to concentrate on the most important events in the narrative. They are therefore more than simply illustrations: they stand on their own as images, independent of the stories.
For instance, Hockney chose Old Rinkrank because it starts with the words ‘A King built a glass mountain’, and he was fascinated by the problem of drawing a glass mountain. He made various attempts, even smashing a sheet of glass and drawing the ragged pieces piled up in a big heap, before finding the solution: he depicted a tree and a house with a glass mountain in front which distorts their reflection. For other images, he turned to earlier artists for inspiration: Uccello for the Prince on horseback in Rapunzel, Bosch for the Enchantress with the baby Rapunzel and Magritte’s surrealist games for the room full of straw in Rumpelstilzchen, as well as Dürer and Leonardo.
Hockney’s images are exuberant, inventive and memorable, and he now considers them to be one of his major successes.
Peter Webb, author of Portrait of David Hockney (Chatto, 1988)
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Lady Bombers, Heide take 2nd at state
Bulletin Staff
The Mountain Home Lady Bomber tennis team posted a runner-up finish, and Emily Heide placed second in girls' singles at the Class 5A State Tournament on Tuesday at Hot Springs.
The Lady Bombers, who were state champions two years ago, finished runner-up to Jonesboro for the second straight season.
Heide, the defending two-time singles champion, defeated Greenwood's Olivia Gaston in the semifinals, 6-0, 6-4. Heide had defeated Gaston the previous two seasons in the state championship match.
Jonesboro's Jenna Payne defeated Heide, however, in the finals to also clinch the team championship for the Lady Hurricane. Payne had defeated Heide a week earlier in the conference tournament final.
The Lady Bombers received valuable points from Meagan Beck, who placed fourth in singles action, falling to Payne in the semifinals.
Mountain Home's doubles team of Sarah Godfrey and Micaela McLean fell in the semifinals, 3-6, 0-6, to Jonesboro's Cameron Hafner and Clara Parker, who went on to three-peat as state doubles champs.
Jonesboro also coasted to the boys' state title with 16 points. The Bombers ended up with 3 team points as the doubles team of Sam Arp and Anakin Osgood fell in the semifinals to Jonesboro's Evan Hurt and Jonathan Barber, 0-6, 6-7 (4-7).
Arp and Osgood faced Benton's Henry Bethel and Wes Guerra in the third-place match. Beck faced Gaston in her third-place match. Scores of the third-place matches were not reported.
Mountain Home loses only one of the six who competed at state to graduation this year.
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Related Expertise: Post-Merger Integration
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Despite the economic downturn and ongoing financial uncertainties, about one-third of European companies expect to make an acquisition in 2009, according to a recent BCG survey.1 Notes: 1 See M&A: Down but Not Out: A Survey of European Companies’ Merger and Acquisition Plans for 2009, BCG White Paper, December 2008. This is not surprising. As previous BCG research has demonstrated, downturn deals tend to generate significantly higher returns than transactions executed in periods of above-average economic growth.2 Notes: 2 See Winning Through Mergers in Lean Times: The Hidden Power of Mergers and Acquisitions in Periods of Below-Average Economic Growth, BCG report, July 2003. However, the big difference in today’s environment is that investors expect returns to be delivered much more rapidly, making postmerger integration (PMI) more critical than ever before.
In our previous three Focus reports on PMI, we discussed the key ingredients for success—including the need to handle the integration from a strategic, rather than a mechanical, perspective and to think laterally when integrating different functions. This report, the fourth in our series, brings many of these points to life using real-world examples of companies that have successfully risen to the challenges of a PMI. Our goal is not to provide a comprehensive picture of the integration issues that acquirers face, but to offer insight into the realities of PMI and, in particular, the importance of approaching each integration with an open, creative mind. Rigorous processes are essential, but it is the strategic thinking and planning, while treating each PMI individually, that ultimately determine whether a PMI will deliver maximum value rapidly.
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Muideen Owolabi Bakare: Living with Sickle Cell Anaemia is Like Fighting a War
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Once upon a time, genotype tests before weddings were not a norm. Because these tests were not taken, it was more common to find two people—usually carriers of the sickle cell gene—getting married and birthing children with full blown sickle cell anaemia (SCA). Our world has changed a bit as more people know their genotypes even as children; however, this knowledge still hasn’t stopped these kinds of union.
For Muideen Owolabi Bakare, born 1972, at a time when there was little awareness about sickle cell anaemia, the journey was not easy. Currently, as a psychiatry and mental health doctor, he actively seeks to educate the populace about the sickle cell disease. In his memoir titled, Aro’mo L’ėegun” (Harbinger of Bone Pains), he chronicles his experience as a sickler while simplifying scientific aspects of this disease.
Bakare’s parents first noticed his condition when he was nine months, shortly after he started walking. His joints would swell, causing him so much pain that he spent huge chunks of time in hospitals. This trend continued throughout his primary and secondary education, causing his overprotective parents to watch over him like hawks.
His distended belly—from an enlarged spleen—and a limp from avascular necrosis in his left femur caused him to be ridiculed. The other children called him O-minikun meaning: water-filled abdomen. That, coupled with the fact that he was exempted from a lot of physically exerting tasks, made him feel less of a human. He soon developed an inferiority complex. Luckily, Bakare had a flair for academics so he threw himself into that. He also excelled in extra-curricular activities.
All the time spent in hospitals exposed him to the world of doctors. He was fascinated, told himself he would become a doctor so he could find a cure for his ailment.
Those of us who didn’t study medicine have heard about the course’s intensive workload. I remember someone telling me the clinic in his university was always filled with sick medical students in the weeks leading up to exams. However, as difficult as these periods were for Bakare, he graduated in time.
A memorable (and sad) part of his university experience involves a school doctor asking why he had chosen to study medicine. Didn’t Bakare know that the course was too stressful for a sickler? Why was Bakare wasting funds when he knew he would soon die? Another bout of discouragement came when he tried getting an internship position at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital. Apparently, there was an unwritten rule against taking sickle cell patients for housemanship.
Living with sickle cell disease is like fighting a war, a war you fight psychically and a war you fight in the arena of your mind — Muideen Bakare
I’m ashamed to say I had no idea this kind of stigmatization happened to people living with SCA. I’ve interacted with numerous SCA patients, but the only thing I can say I knew about some of these people was the feeling of being inadequate. Why in heaven’s name is their situation grounds for being disallowed to practice certain careers?
Bakare is one of many SCA patients determined to live despite a lifetime of acquainting himself with hospital staff and native doctors. His foray into psychiatry and mental health was originally a result of being disallowed to study Haematology because it would be too demanding for him. As luck would have it, things worked well and led him to a field which he now believes is the best place for him. He presently pioneers research in neurodevelopmental disability among Sub-Saharan African children with a special focus on Autism spectrum disorder in Africa.
This book helps break down complex terms, giving insight into the most technical details surrounding sickle cell anaemia. I believe many people fail to understand the basics about this disease, so reading this book can help provide a relatable perspective. Bakare also advises SCA patients on better living via good nutrition, psychical exercise, self-education, building a veritable inner-man, and determination.
Muideen Owolabi Bakare has promised that the proceeds generated from the sales of this memoir would be used to provide free medical treatment for indigent children with Sickle Cell disease. To support him you can get a copy of Aro’mo L’ėegun” (Harbinger of Bone Pains) here on the OkadaBooks store.
Chiamaka Onu-Okpara is an editor with experience editing fiction, creative non-fiction, and academic documents (Social Sciences and Humanities). She also writes fiction and poetry and has been published in Ake Review, Apex Magazine, and Kalahari Review amongst other places. Her first poem is forthcoming in Strange Horizons.
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The stigmatization part is really touching. Yet, that seems to be the unspoken norm. Everyone deserves a chance in life, regardless. I admire his courage, and I’m getting my copy of the book soon.
Muideen Owolabi Bakare
Thank you Funmi!
Chiamaka, There’s no such thing as ‘full blown” sickle cell anaemia. There’s only sickle cell anaemia. And :sickler’ is a degrading term, please say ‘people who live with sickle cell disease’ BN, please train your writers to write with nuance and not sensationalise issues that affect other people. It’s hurtful to be subjected to such expressions frequently over the course of one’s lifetime. We need to show more tact and sensitivity when talking about these things.
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The Important Role of the Whistleblower
Blowing the whistle can be rewarding. Since 1986 False Claims Act (“FCA”) recoveries (both federal and state) total more than $28 billion whistleblowers have been awarded millions of dollars for reporting fraud against the government.
Whistleblowers recovered over $300 million for reporting fraud in 2018, with $39 million being awarded to a single whistleblower.
The False Claims Act (“FCA”) provides that private individuals, or whistleblowers, can file civil lawsuits on behalf of the government against an individual, company, or other organization that commits fraud on the government. If the defendant is found to have violated the FCA, it will be ordered to pay three times the amount of monetary damages sustained by the government, plus a penalty of up to $11,000 per false claim submitted by the defendant.
Whistleblowers may receive between 10-30% for bringing the qui tam action.
The FCA provides a significant monetary recovery to private persons who bring qui tam actions. The whistleblower who initiates a successful qui tam lawsuit receives a percentage of the penalty and damages. Generally, the whistleblower may receive a reward of between 15-30% of the government’s total recovery. Thus, if the government recovers $1 million, the whistleblower may receive a reward of between $150,000 and $300,000. The exact amount depends on the circumstances of the case. For example, a whistleblower may receive:
25-30% if the government did not intervene in the action
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The percentage the whistleblower receives is determined by the court handling the case after it considers the overall situation, including the whistleblower’s contribution to the action. The whistleblower may also be awarded reasonable expenses and attorney’s fees.
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Day 1 begins with a leisurely visit to Rosslyn Chapel, made famous by Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code, before we head to the Scottish borders for a relaxing wander around the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey and take in the panorama at “Scott’s View”. Overnight Edinburgh.
Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park
Day 2 is a fabulous introduction to the Scottish west coast landscape, exploring the mountains, glens, lochs and rivers of the Trossachs National Park and the village of Luss on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. Later we head into the rugged Argyll Forest Park. Overnight Colintraive
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Day 3 takes in the wonderful lochside village of Inveraray and its famous Castle, a visit to Oban, Gateway to the Isles, and an incredible archaeological treat to see Kilmartin Glen, often referred to as the birthplace of Scotland. Overnight Glencoe
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Day 4 takes us aboard the Jacobite steam train, now famous as the Harry Potter Hogwarts Express. The train journey provides wonderful views across the Sound of Arisaig to the Small Isles of Eigg and Rhum. After lunch in the fishing port of Mallaig we take the ferry “Over the Sea to Skye”. Overnight nr Skye
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The Daily Express has launched an anti-congestion campaign called “Let’s Get Britain Moving” but instead of pointing out that cycling is one of the solutions to gridlock it suggests cyclists ought to “pay their way and be charged ROAD TAX to use UK’s shoddy roads.”
The newspaper, not renowned for its accuracy, quoted motoring campaigner Mike Rutherford who complained that cyclists should “pay for access to roads” even though motorists do not. Rutherford doesn’t appear to understand that roads are paid for from general and local taxation, not “road tax”. All tax payers pay for roads, not just motorists. Motorists have not paid for roads since 1937.
The Express also allowed Rutherford to claim that cyclists were “oiks” and “complete losers”. The motoring campaigner made these hate comments when referring to Lord Sugar who has been complaining about delays on his chauffeur-driven commute due to cycle superhighway construction in London. (Lord Sugar is also a road cyclist who owns a fleet of extremely expensive Pinarello road bikes.)
Rutherford said: “How does some oik, a complete loser on a bike, go faster than Lord Alan Sugar, who employs a lot of people in this country and is a contributor to Britain."
London’s cycle superhighways will attract more people to ride bikes, reducing the number of cars on the roads, but Rutherford and The Express use the short-term delays due to construction of these congestion-busting schemes to complain about congestion: “it is not fair that drivers are forced to suffer the woes of traffic as workers build a superhighway for cyclists to enjoy.”
Rutherford said: “If cyclists want their dedicated lanes and cycle lanes surely they like drivers, plane users and boat users, should pay for the access. £50 is not a lot and it would help.
Compounding his ignorance of how roads are paid for, he added: “I don’t know why cyclists are the only ones who are let off from the charges.”
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Daddy Long Neck – Age, Wiki, Net Worth, Bio, Weight, Wikipedia
Daddy Long Neck is a famous American social media personality and blogger. Daddy Long Neck is popular for Her Instagram pics and videos. She has more than 2.1 million followers on her Instagram account. Let us find out some more interesting information about Daddy Long Neck Biography, Age, Wiki, Family, Photo, Profile Info…
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Real Name Amrinderpal Singh Virk
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Daddy Long Neck is a David Samuelson From United States. Daddy Long Neck Knows as a David Samuelson Jr. He is an American social media personality Daddy Long Neck has become the “Neckst Big Thing”. He is also known as Long Neck Kids and Demon Long Neck.
The real name of this Daddy Long Neck is David Samuelson Jr. He was raised in Flint, Michigan. In an interview, he explained that Flint is a small town that looks at a lot of conflict, murder and gangster activities. When Samuelson was young, he had a difficult time gaining weight. To help with this condition, doctors are preparing to drain a tube and provide extra food to her body. Unfortunately, that option couldn’t help the problem. They resorted to putting a straight tube in his stomach, which he wore for 5 years. He grew up with both parents, though they are now separated. Daddy Long Neck lives with his mom.
Date of Birth/Birthday (DOB) Not Known
Hometown United States
Educational Qualifications Not Known
Hobbies Bike Riding, Sleeping, Reading
Daddy Long Neck was already popular on Instagram and YouTube before joining other media figures, especially Wide Neck. He first started with live videos on Facebook and later transitioned to the Instagram star. His accounts featured numerous footage of him, sometimes with friends and family members, committing stupid acts and posing challenges. That alone was enough to attract hundreds of thousands of followers. However, meeting Wide-Neck elevated his position to a new level.
In December 2018, he put together his first music video, Next Up With Wide Neck. The visual was featured on WorldstarHipHop. In less than 2 months, the video has seen 8 million streams. Some fans gave him a seal of approval while others mocked him. Within weeks, they released another music video, Next Big Thing. Like the first one, it also receives millions of streams and receives mixing reviews. Uploaded on January 8, 2019, YouTube view count is up +4.2 million. It continues to receive constant attention.
David Samuelson was born and raised in a United State. He doesn’t know about his mother and father’s name. Ammy has one sister and brother but I don’t know about Name.
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Daddy Long Neck Net Worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He is all source of income includes Comedian and Other. He lives life in the United States and a standard and amazing lifestyle. David has a huge car collection. Check out the list of the cars of David, which includes Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class and Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class.
Net Worth (approx.) $1 million
David has a Handsome. He looks very cool and attractive in his appearance. He weighs around 45 kg and his tallness is 5 ft 03 in. His eyes are black colored and the hair is Black colored. Ammy’s Chest 32, Waist 22, and Biceps 10.
Weight in Pounds- 99.2 lb
Meter – 1.6 m
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Favorite Actor Cole Sprouse
Favorite TV shows America’s Got Talent
Favorite Food Biscuit, Taco
Favorite Cars Collection Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class and Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class
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David has an account on Instagram. In its 2.1m (2019) followers. He posts his videos or pictures on Instagram. To tail him visit this connection given above.
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He has an official channel on YouTube in which He has acquired more than 22,527 subscribers (2019). He joined YouTube on Jul 25, 2013. If you want to watch his videos then you can visit this link.
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Levin on fire over voting rule-changes: 'We have a constitutional crisis that nobody wants to talk about'
Levin on fire over voting rule-changes: ‘We have a constitutional crisis that nobody wants to talk about’
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Fellow Fox News host Mark Levin told network colleague Sean Hannity Tuesday that Democrats relied on “non-legislature officers” in key battleground states, going around GOP-controlled legislatures to implement unconstitutional voting rule changes ahead of the November elections.
Levin began by saying he believes the 2020 election, which is being contested by several states who sent competing slates of electors, is “worse than” the 1876 election, which was also highly contested before Rutherford B. Hayes was named president by a panel consisting of lawmakers and Supreme Court justices.
He explained that only state legislatures, per the Constitution’s Article II, are authorized to make and change election laws, but that Democratic Party operatives and attorneys circumvented that requirement in key battleground states in the weeks and months ahead of the Nov. 3 election by appealing to state courts and executive-branch officials to get certain voting rules changed.
“So what they did is they went into these states, all four of which have Republican legislatures, and they had to figure out how to get around those legislatures because of the Constitution,” said Levin, host of Life, Liberty, and Levin on Fox.
“In … Pennsylvania, which has [a] Democrat governor, Democrat secretary of state, Democrat majorities of justices on the state Supreme Court, they used all of these non-legislature officers to change the laws in Pennsylvania to assist the Democrats,” he said. “So the legislature was cut out.”
He went on to say that “similar things” happened in additional battleground states including Georgia, which is completely controlled by Republicans. In the case of the Peach State, however, Levin said Democrats “went after the signature requirements” for mailing ballots.
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Via a consent decree issued by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in response to a lawsuit, “They watered…down [the requirement] to the point where they really don’t work anymore.”
That decree, along with additional changes made in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, among other states, were all unconstitutional, Levin maintained.
Holding up a copy of a book containing notes James Madison made during the constitutional convention debates of 1787, Levin said the founders explicitly gave authority to state legislatures rather than executives or courts to choose presidential electors.
“Yet in all four of those states,” he explained, “the executives and the judiciary had more impact and more input into the election laws leading up to this election than the state legislatures did.
“They were utterly cut out, so here we have a problem. We have a constitutional crisis that nobody wants to talk about,” Levin continued, adding that elections in at least those four states were unconstitutional because of the pre-election changes made by unauthorized entities.
That, he said, led to the eventual certification of tainted and “unconstitutional” sets of electors — in this case, for Democrat Joe Biden.
“So now, what do we do? So these electors have been certified…who certified them? The very…officials who changed the laws in the first place,” Levin said. “Now we get to the joint session of Congress, which is also provided for in the Constitution, and we have, other than Ted Cruz and his group, Josh Hawley, gutless, feckless Republicans who are telling you, ‘Under the 12th Amendment we shall count the votes, I have no choice, I have to count the votes.’
“Really?” Levin asked. “Let me be utterly clear about this. The framers of the Constitution weren’t stupid. The framers of the 12th Amendment weren’t stupid. Do you think for a minute they would say that Congress should count votes that are unconstitutional? They assumed that the votes would be lawful. They assumed that the states would follow the legislative process that they put in the Constitution.”
Levin went on to predict that Republicans will be unable to compete in future elections because laws will be changed, likely at the federal level, to solidify those made during the current cycle.
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Jon is a staff writer for BizPac Review with 30 years' worth of reporting experience, as well as an author and U.S. Army veteran. He has a BA in political science from Ashford University and an MA in national security studies/intelligence analysis from American Military University.
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NY Times editor blasted for out of touch tweet questioning if ‘regular humans’ own zip ties - January 17, 2021
Nancy Pelosi’s daughter rips San Fran Giants owner for donating to GOP Rep who ‘outed’ her mom - January 17, 2021
‘Unprecedented’: White House releases exhaustive list of achievements for Trump presidency - January 17, 2021
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