pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 115
1.01M
| source
stringlengths 39
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__cc
| 0.577114
| 0.422886
|
Last edited by Mikakora
1 edition of Glycine Floreal (Au Natural Journal) found in the catalog.
Glycine Floreal (Au Natural Journal)
Published April 1995 by Galison Books .
Blank Books/Journals
Format Stationery
Glycine From Japan and Korea Investigation Nos. TA and (Final) Publication January Washington, DC Glycine in foods; Glycine recommended daily intake (RDI) Glycine works best with; Overdosage, toxicity and cautions for glycine. Why glycine is good for you. Glycine is a sweet-tasting, non-essential amino acid that can be produced from serine and threonine, so dietary intake is not essential. Glycine is required to build protein in the body.
Glycine is an amino acid that is a major part of the pool of amino acids which aid in the synthesis of non essential amino acids in the body. Glycine can be easily formed in the liver or kidneys from Choline and the amino acids Threonine and Serine. Likewise, Glycine can be . download pdf Sleeping can be complicated business! Those individuals with no difficulty achieving healthy, regular sleep would think it the simplest of physiologic phenomena. Roughly 30% of the population suffers from insomnia, however,[1] which has real and important health consequences, in addition to affecting quality of life. Even short-term sleep disruption is associated with metabolic.
Glycine is one of the non-essential amino acids and is used to help create muscle tissue and convert glucose into energy. It is also essential to maintaining healthy central nervous and digestive systems, and has recently been shown to provide protection via antioxidants from some types of cancer. Glycine is used in the body to help construct normal DNA and RNA strands—the genetic material. The procedure of Towbin as modified by Anderson specifies a Tris-glycine pH buffer containing SDS. The recirculating, ice-cooled, high ionic strength buffer used helps prevent the gel from swelling in the absence of methanol during transfer, which can cause poor resolution of proteins on the membrane.
Haunts 4 - N Is for Nightmare (H.A.U.N.T.)
A list of the absentees of Ireland
Technological innovation, multinational corporations and the new international competitiveness
La Senda Del Corazon (The Way Of The Heart)
Transjordan
Pershore almanac
Peripheral Nerve Blocks (Media)
Laboratory methods in organic chemistry
The rhetoric of the body from Ovid to Shakespeare
Shakespeare memorial.
Church and state in English education, 1870 to the present day.
Any known blood
International trade regulation
Catalogue of the Henry Huddleston Rogers collection of ship models.
Skills and innovation in modern workplaces.
Beauty After 40
Glycine Floreal (Au Natural Journal) Download PDF EPUB FB2
Glycine Airman Book - Play it again Sam. Airman History and Overview Watch out of 5 stars 3 ratings. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Price New from Used from Watch "Please retry" $ $ — Watch $ 3 New from $25 /5(3).
The idea of a rotating bezel to act as reference device for checking the time was beginning to catch on in the early s. Also releasing inthe Rolex Turn-o-graph was the first regular production Rolex Glycine Floreal book use a rotating bezel to mark time, and it would serve as inspiration for the Submariner and the GMT-Master.
What makes the Airman bezel unique was its locking mechanism. Glycine (symbol Gly or G; / ˈ ɡ l aɪ s iː n /) is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side is the simplest amino acid (since carbamic acid is unstable), with the chemical formula NH 2 ‐CH 2 ‐e is one of the proteinogenic amino is encoded by all the codons starting with GG (GGU, GGC, GGA, GGG).
Glycine is integral to the formation of alpha Abbreviations: Gly, G. Amazon's Choice for wisteria silk flowers 4Pcs Feet/piece Artificial Flowers Silk Wisteria Garland Artificial Wisteria Vine Rattan Silk Hanging Flower For Home Garden Outdoor Ceremony Wedding Arch Floral Decor (Purple, 4Pcs Ft/piece).
Glycine Helps Joint Health. Our joints are primarily made up of cartilage. And what is cartilage made up of. You guessed it.
Glycine is one of the main amino acids that makes up our joints. Glycine, together with the amino acids proline and hydroxyproline, twist together to make the complex chains of proteins in our joints. Glycine Floreal Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family, Robert L.
Dressler Knights of the Black and White - Book I of the Templar Trilogy (Templar Trilogy), Jack Whyte. Glycine is an amino acid, one of 20 used to make proteins in the human body. The body produces it naturally.
Glycine is also found in high-protein foods such as. Nutrient Search: Foods highest in Glycine. Better Choices for Healthy Weight Loss The Better Choices approach predicts that foods closer to the top of this list are more filling and more nutritious per calorie than foods farther down the list, and therefore are better for healthy-weight-loss diets.
This prediction is based on the nutrient content of these foods, but does not take into account. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow more. 88 Comments. Glycine Incursore II & III Watches. The popular Incursore collection from Glycine returns with a model II and model III.
Relatively inexpensive, these watches comes with a few dial 4 Comments. Glycine Airman Base 22 Watch. You either really like Glycine pilot watches or you don’t.
Some people swear. The first plant glycine-rich proteins (GRPs) have been isolated more than 20 years ago based on their specific expression pattern and/or modulation by several biotic and abiotic factors. This superfamily is characterized by the presence of a glycine-rich domain arranged in (Gly) n-X repeats.
The presence of additional motifs, as well as the Cited by: Floréal is the lead ship of the Floréal-class frigates (French: frégates de surveillance) of the French Navy.
Floréal is the first French vessel named after the eighth month of the Republican ship was constructed by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire, France in and entered service in Floréal is stationed in the French Pacific territories for patrol r: Chantiers de l'Atlantique.
Glycinex Glycinex packet contains a pre-measured volume of neutralizer. Simply open the packet and pour Glycinex crystals into your disinfectant. A noticeable color change will occur during deactivation.
Glycine is believed to help with diabetes and metabolic disorders. Glycine intake decreases free fatty acids in blood, fat tissue cell size, and blood pressure in sucrose-fed rats. Glycine reduces glycated hemoglobin (A1C), a risk factor associated with poor blood glucose management in patients with type 2 diabetes.
The dose was 5g/: Puya Yazdi. Book the Le Floréal - Stay at this 3-star business-friendly hotel in Vence. Enjoy free WiFi, free parking, and an outdoor pool. Our guests praise the helpful staff and the spacious rooms in our reviews.
Popular attractions Allianz Riviera and Fondation Maeght are located nearby. Discover genuine guest reviews for Le Floréal along with the latest prices and availability – book now/5().
Glycine has anti-inflammatory effects during ischemia, injury, and transplantation (Zhong et al., ). Moreover, glycine is known to attenuate the increase in fatty acids in rats fed on a high sucrose diet (El Hafidi et al., ). In urban populations, most individuals experience restricted by: 9.
Glycine Best Source. High-protein foods, such as meat, fish, eggs, milk, cheese and beans are the best dietary sources of glycine. Also be ingested as a nutritional supplement. Glycine Dosage. Dosages of oral glycine used in clinical studies for therapeutic purposes range from 2 g to 60 g daily.
Glycine is an amino acid and neurotransmitter. It can play both stimulatory and depressant roles in the brain. Supplementation can improve sleep quality. Our evidence-based analysis on glycine features unique references to scientific papers.
This page is regularly updated, to include the most recently available clinical trial evidence. Glycine is an amino acid, a building block for is not considered an “essential amino acid” because the body can make it from other chemicals. A typical diet contains about 2 grams of glycine daily.
The primary sources are protein-rich foods including meat, fish, dairy, and legumes. Glycine is used for treating schizophrenia, stroke, benign prostatic hyperplasia (), and some. And Glycine more than ever, burns its trail by creating distinctive timepieces predicated upon the unique Glycine Airman DNA.
André Stikkers is a free-lance author. With his initiative to write the first edition of this book inhe took us on a trip through the history of the Glycine WatchFile Size: 4MB.
Glycine, the simplest amino acid, obtainable by hydrolysis of proteins. Sweet-tasting, it was among the earliest amino acids to be isolated from gelatin ().
Especially rich sources include gelatin and silk fibroin. Glycine is one of several so-called nonessential amino acids for mammals; i.e.4 product ratings 4 product ratings - Glycine Men's 8 Combat Sub Automatic 42mm Black Dial - GLFloral Biology and Behavior of Africanized Honeybees Apis mellifera in Soybean Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology In other experiment carried out by Severson and Erickson () where the same parameters were observed in Haiti, the most significant difference happened in the production rate of nectar/flower, varieties.
capitolchamberartists.com - Glycine Floreal book © 2020
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842568
|
__label__cc
| 0.740747
| 0.259253
|
photomontage of proposal
2015, SUBMISSION FOR TAPESTRY DESIGN PRIZE FOR ARCHITECTS
Proposed for the 2015 Australian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, this piece of tapestry is a figurative collage of major Australian skylines and landscape. Like New York City’s diorama at the 1939 – 1940 World’s Fair, a large wall tapestry envelops a grandroom, extending observer’s perception to that of the image. Unlike a picture window, the image do not have to simulate a reality that we know, but rather offers a visual interpretation.
Similar to an actual woven tapestry, the collage is a carefully joining of patchworks that defines a whole. As a nation cannot be adequately defined by the skyline of a city, this piece collages skylines of the major Australian cities; namely Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast as well as Hobart, Darwin and Cairns. The word ‘skyline’ is a rather oxymoron when compared to the predominantly flat landscape of Australia. The image here then reflects the central flat plains of Australia, with the foreground dominated by major Australian coastal cities. Canberra, the Australian capital, designed by Walter Burley Griffin and planned between the two largest cities of Sydney and Melbourne is an etching into the inland Australian landscape. While a typical image of a city’s skyline focuses on a tall well-known skyscraper, this collage fixates itself into the natural rock formation of Uluru / Ayer’s Rock – an affirmation that natural landscape defines Australia as much as the skyline of cities.
Thursday, January 1st, 2015 at 12:00 PM
AUSTRALIAN SKYLINE LANDSCAPE, COMPETITION, FEATURED
scale model 1 : 200
2014, SUBMISSION FOR SCALE EXHIBITION,
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE
Vertical elements of our landscape, as ordinary as utility poles, tree trunks or crop plants are abstracted as black pins. Looking from above it looks like a galaxy of stars in the night sky. And like the countless tree trunks in the forest, the space is dotted by clusters of hundreds of black pins. The placement of the vertical elements defines the space between. Here, depending on the distance of the poles; they evoke denseness or sparseness when read against each other. The absence in the center, the void, a carved out space – like a crop-circle becomes a charged and emergent centric space. This space is ironically a positive aesthetic condition – seemingly pulling the poles together like invisible forces of gravity. From afar, a path leading to the center emerges, a linear spatial condition formed not by literal lines on the landscape, but by imaginary lines joined by the connecting dots in the landscape.
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 at 12:00 PM
CASUAL, FEATURED, POLES IN THE LANDSCAPE
a sandcastle
Delirious City Beach: A Sarcastical Manifesto for Roachattan
in collaboration with Andrei Smolik, Amy Quach, Jessie Nguyen & Lee Ren Jian
MERGE SANDCASTLE BUILDING COMPETITION
The sandcastle competition brief calls for the imagining of sandcastles as habitat for cockroaches. Peter Eisenman’s Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe, New York Manhattan’s city grid and Le Corbusier’s Ville Contemporaine for Paris all serves as backdrop to the urban manifesto to the insect species, that is doomed to fail, thanks to the chaotic and erratic nature of the cockroach in contrast to the imposed order and strict cleanliness of the city. It will however serve as a failed example of the parallel modernist experiment for the fellow cockroaches.
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013 at 12:00 PM
COMPETITION, FEATURED, ROACHATTAN
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO 541
THE PINWHEEL is one of the results of a design studio experiment led by Stephen Neille in the narrative of urban strangemaking on the city of Perth. The process includes mapping and recognizing the city as an existing and complete order in any given time, and positing as to slightly reset the familiar order of the city, hence the term urban strangemaking.
The urban strategy seeks to make aware of the distinctive qualities of the city of Perth, in this sense the Perth city grid and its anomalies. Irregularity of the grid such as unexpected streets end up in buildings rather than a continuous line, hence coined as linesight terminations.
The pinwheel plan is formulated due to the unaligned meeting point between Queen Street and Wolfe Lane. As the threshold, the pinwheel in this manner serves to rotate the forces not just two-dimensionally, but also three-dimensionally upwards and downwards. The facade is formed in recognition of linesight termination and dual old and new quality of Perth, serving to bridge the old and new in a gradual manner.
As an urban acupuncture, THE PINWHEEL is introduced as an urban spinning moment within an existing set of constellation of linesight terminations within the city of Perth.
Saturday, January 1st, 2011 at 12:00 PM
ACADEMIA, FEATURED, THE PINWHEEL
ink on sketch pad
PERTH – THE PICTURESQUE CITY
Friday, January 1st, 2010 at 12:00 PM
CASUAL, FEATURED, PERTH SKETCH
ink on hotel paper
KRUNG THEP – VILLAGE ISLAND
BANGKOK SKETCH, CASUAL, FEATURED
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842580
|
__label__wiki
| 0.974088
| 0.974088
|
Watch Bruce Springsteen’s First Full Letter to You Film Trailer
The movie is streaming via Apple TV+ on October 23
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa in Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You, directed by Thom Zimny
A documentary on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s new album Letter to You is coming to Apple TV+ on October 23. Today, the first full official trailer for the movie has been released, and it features Springsteen performing songs from the album and talking about his connection with his E Street bandmates. Watch it below.
Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You was written by Springsteen and directed by frequent collaborator Thom Zimny. The album of the same name is out the same day as the film.
Springsteen has shared two songs from the new album: the title track and “Ghosts”. It follows 2019’s Western Stars, which he accompanied with a film and soundtrack album.
Read Pitchfork’s Sunday Review of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.
TagsFilmVideoBruce SpringsteenThe E Street Band
Billie Eilish to Release New Photo Book
Creation Records Movie From Trainspotting Team Set for March Release
Pusha-T and Vince Staples Join DIVINE on New Song “Jungle Mantra”: Listen
Autechre Remix SOPHIE’s “BIPP”: Listen
Japan to Reissue Quiet Life
Watch Sen Morimoto Cover Mitski’s “Washing Machine Heart”
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842581
|
__label__wiki
| 0.713046
| 0.713046
|
Animals Services
Bridges, Roads and Sidewalks
Municipal Drains
Community Groups and Organizations
Parks, Trails and Green Spaces
Recreation Programs and Classes
Sugarloaf Marina
Vale Health and Wellness Centre
Visiting Port Colborne
Business Permits and Licences
Invest in Port Colborne
Planning and Development Applications
Projects and Tenders
Budget and Financial Reporting
Plans, Reports and Studies
HomeRecreation and LeisureVisiting Port ColborneThings to Do
Port Colborne is a vibrant and impressive city located on the south shore of the scenic Niagara Region. Port Colborne is a community embedded in marine heritage and welcoming hospitality. With a generous climate, ample beachfront and cultural attractions, Port Colborne is truly a destination you must visit!
Through the year, the uniqueness of Port Colborne is showcased as visitors and residents stroll along the Welland Canal, pop in and out of the shops and boutiques, immerse themselves in the local arts and culture, and relax on the beach. Visitors to Niagara's South Coast can expect a getaway that is relaxing, fun and takes full advantage of everything this area has to offer. Experience Port Colborne – experience what you expect life to offer on Niagara's south coast.
The City of Port Colborne offers theatrical performances and exhibitions in amazing venues, we celebrate arts, culture and history through the year.
See the Heritage, Arts and Culture page for more information.
Niagara's South Coast is a four-season recreation destination with an extraordinary mix of exciting activities and adventures. From great indoor activities and fitness centres to a range of outdoor recreation opportunities, you'll always find something to do no matter what time of the year.
See the Recreation Programs and Classes page for more information.
Nothing can beat a day at the lake! Hot summer days and cool refreshing water make for a day of fun and relaxation on Niagara's South Coast. Come for the sun…stay for the fun! Explore Port Colborne's beaches for a day, a week or all season long.
Boating (Suagarloaf Marina)
Picture perfect best describes Port Colborne's marvelous harbor. For short day visits, Port Colborne has an extra wide, well maintained boat ramp that will accommodate most watercraft. Ample parking for trucks and trailers on-site is also available. Port Colborne' Sugarloaf Marina has more than 700 slips and provides all the on-shore amenities to make your visit enjoyable for a day, a week or the entire season.
See the Boating page for more information.
Discover the outdoors on Niagara's South Coast by pedal or foot by exploring the numerous cycling and hiking trails. See the Trails and Cycling page for more information.
Port Colborne offers easy access to fantastic paved multi-based trails surrounded by beautiful scenery. Great for walking, cycling and skating. Two trails that are part of the Greater Niagara Circle Route intersect in Port Colborne, in Wainfleet, there is access to a spur of The Great Trail, which is a loose surface trail ideal for hiking, and trail riding.
The Niagara Cycling Tourism Centre has information on bike routes & trips, planning your adventure, and resources for cyclists (bike repair stations, parking, public washrooms and visitor information.
Fishing in Port Colborne is an amazing experience, offering year-round, world class sport fishing. With access to Lake Erie and the Upper Niagara River provides some of the best Bass fishing from June to November.
Lake Erie, the smallest of the Great Lakes in volume, measures 241 miles across and 57 miles from north to south, with a depth of 62 feet.
See the Fishing page for more information.
Hit the links…all located within minutes of downtown, Port Colborne's challenging public and semi-private courses invite golfers to experience lakeside golf in balmy, breezy conditions. Every round played is a great round.
Golfing typically begins early April and continues throughout the fall, often into December.
Search the Business Directory for nearby golfing locations.
Historical & Marine Museum
Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum in downtown Port Colborne, features a century of heritage buildings in a landscaped setting of historic gardens, pathways, picket fences and a covered pavilion with picnic tables and park benches. The 1869 Georgian-Revival style of Williams Home serves as the main exhibit gallery, interpreting the history of Port Colborne and the Welland Canal through a variety of ever-changing exhibits. The Village includes a Log Schoolhouse, the Sherk-Toupe Log Home, the F.W. Woods Blacksmith Shop, Timber frame cabin, house the Graf Loom, Arabella's Tea room and a Carriage House Gift Shop. The wheelhouse from the Yvon Dupre tugboat, the lifeboat from the S.S. Hochelaga and Marine Exhibit Lighthouse form a small marine park within the Museum Village.
Canada's Century Car, the 1901 Neff Steam Buggy, built b Benton Neff I the Neff Foundry in Humberstone which is now part of Port Colborne, is on display in the Museum's Heritage Resource Centre.
The City of Port Colborne is home to 21 beautiful parks, comprising of approximately 88 hectares of parks, open spaces and natural areas. Each park is unique to its neighbourhood and amenities. Our interactive map allows you to search for parks by location, or filter parks by a particular amenity.
See the Parks, Trails and Green Spaces and the Parks, Pavilions and Fields pages for more information.
Roselawn Centre
The Roselawn Centre is a magnificent 1860s Victoria building is home to the Showboat Festival Theatre.
Like many communities surrounding Lake Erie, Port Colborne is an excellent home port for scuba diving activities.
Warm water and great visibility combine with 19th century marine treasures to create a memorable diving experience. Come discover the hidden world of Lake Erie's numerous reefs and sunken ships.
Twenty shipwrecks can be found within a 20 mile radius, including wood schooners, tugs, barges and steel freighters. But even more adventures await visitors on land. In 1917, a quarry near Sherkston Beach ceased operations and began to fill with water. Today it forms a 315 million gallon springfed lake. A dive 35 feet below the lake's surface reveals train tracks, mining equipment and even a locomotive.
Ship Watching (Welland Canal)
Ship watching at the Welland Canal continues to be a major tourist attraction in Port Colborne. Each year thousands of tourist flock to Port Colborne to witness the exhilarating sight of an international “Saltie” or “Laker” as it slips through the Welland Canal. As well, there is the occasional transit of Canadian & American Navy or Coast Guard vessels through the canal, attracting large crowds.
One of the best ship watching locations in Port Colborne is at Lock 8 Gateway Park that provides a beautiful landscaped viewing stand and fountain. Picnic facilities as well as rest rooms are also on-site. The Visitor Information Centre is located across Mellanby Avenue from the park, and provides tourist with up to date seasonal ship transit information.
Further south towards Bridge 21 and Historic West Street, it is not uncommon to find historic wooded tall ships quietly moored along the canal wall as they wait for clearance to transit the canal. This shopping district offers visitors park benches to sit on and plenty of shops to stop for ice cream or lunch. Look across the canal, out towards Lake Erie to see the ship-breaking yards, where old ships are dismantled and the scrap materials recycled.
Shrinking Mill
Our incredible Shrinking Mill is a strange phenomenon produced by interplay of light, shoreline, water and trees. The close you get, the smaller it appears.
Take Cement Plan Road south to Lakeshore Road, turn left (east) and look straight ahead to the bend in Lakeshore Road. The mill looks almost close enough to touch, but as you approach the Gravelly Bay, it shrinks farther and farther away.
Why does the mill shrink?
This is simply an optical illusion, much as the same as the Magnetic hill in Moncton, New Brunswick where parked automobiles appear to roll uphill. As you drive east on Lakeshore Road you can see the Mill in the distance. At this point your view is framed by Sugarloaf Hill on the right and large trees and houses on the left. Suddenly you emerge into an open area with a large vertical structure (the Mill) standing on a flat horizon with the bay in front. Your perspective is thrown off and the vertical alignment of the Mill, in conjunction with the refraction of the light off the shallow water, creates illusion that the structure has suddenly shrunk.
Toggle Section Visiting Port Colborne Menu
Toggle Section Plan Your Stay Menu
Toggle Section Things to Do Menu
View Full Recreation and Leisure Menu
Toggle Section Beaches Menu
Nickel Beach
Toggle Section Events and Festivals Menu
Canal Days
Toggle Section Canal Days Menu
About Canal Days
Toggle Section About Canal Days Menu
Toggle Section Getting Involved Menu
Toggle Section Library Menu
Toggle Section About the Library Menu
Borrow and Learn
Toggle Section Borrow and Learn Menu
Toggle Section Digital Resources Menu
Toggle Section Our Services Menu
Art in the Atrium
Technology and Creativity
Toggle Section Technology and Creativity Menu
Toggle Section What's Happening Menu
Toggle Section Parks, Trails and Green Spaces Menu
Algoport Skate and BMX Park
Parks, Pavilions and Fields
Spray Pad
Trails and Cycling
Toggle Section Recreation Programs and Classes Menu
PORTicipate
Toggle Section Sugarloaf Marina Menu
Toggle Section Vale Health and Wellness Centre Menu
Toggle Section Arenas and Skating Menu
YMCA Niagara
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842593
|
__label__cc
| 0.609115
| 0.390885
|
Portraits of War
Snapshots in Time
About Portraits of War
The Resource Room
WWI Images
WWII Photography
WWII Photo Grouping – A PTO Mystery! Who Are These Guys?
December 19, 2017 December 20, 2017 / portraitsofwar / 7 Comments
Greetings to my dedicated readers of PortraitsofWar. I recently purchased a large grouping of 1000+ photos that was comprised of may different smaller collections. I was able to weasel out an interesting group of Pacific Theater of Operation (PTO) tactical recon group photos and do a bit of basic research. After some time on the web I’ve concluded that the following shots were taken by a unit photographer for the 110th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. Many of the photos are signed by the pilots who flew the planes depicted in the photographs. My guess is that the fellow who originally owned these photos was a plane mechanic who knew the pilots whose planes flew for the unit.
But who are these men?
Reader Responses (Thanks guys!)
From Tim:
“We Three” was a P-51K 44-12833 flown by the Maj George Noland, CO of the 110th TRS/71st TRG. Maj Noland might have scored the last P-51 kills of the war on 14 August 1945. More details are available in: “Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces of the Pacific and CBI” by John Stanaway. (Stanaway has this as a P-51K-10 while Joe Baugher’s list has it as a P-51K-15-NT).
B.N. Heyman is likely the late Bertam N. Heyman of Youngstown, Ohio.
“Bert’s education at Miami University was interrupted by World War II, where he proudly served as a fighter pilot in the Pacific Theatre. He was a decorated veteran who flew 57 combat missions during his service in the Air Force.”
From his obituary:
http://www.vindy.com/news/tributes/2013/mar/10/bertram-n-heyma/
Side by side comparison (Obituary photo/Portrait from collection)
He was listed on the MACR (#15538) for A-20G 43-9625, likely as a witness as all aboard were killed. (https://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/a-20/43-9625.html).
The MACR is available on Fold 3 (https://www.fold3.com/browse/1/hVZf1Up9jQDhigsBdl0m1DHHy)
And another post:
Thanks for posting these; they’re handsome and worthwhile.
The photo of Major Archuleta (and presumably his crew chief S/Sgt Raver) show Rubel Archuleta, of New Mexico, who was C/O of the 110th TRS from the fall of 1944 into the spring of 1945. He was a schoolteacher before the war (New Mexico State grad, I believe) and under him the 110th seems to have taken on a new personality. They had been a longtime Air National Guard outfit from St. Louis, whose insignia had featured a Missouri mule with telescopes or machine-guns; they were now called The Flying Musketeers.
The photos of Lt. Wells I believe to show Lt. Robert Wells, who had formerly been with the 82nd TRSS on Biak. Wells was hit in the head by shrapnel and managed to fly back with a hole in his skull. Surprisingly, he recovered (although it appears that he was transferred from the 82nd TRS to the 110th.) Note that he’s in a P-40, which the 71st’s two fighter squadrons were flying in the last months of 1944, before upgrading to F-6’s and P-51’s. (Much of what I know about Wells I know through the courtesy and shared photos of Michael Moffitt, whose father, a pilot with the 82nd TRS, took many photos during the war.)
The other pilots I do not recognize off the top of my head. (Harry Johnson may have been my father’s tent mate in the last months of the war. I will check.)
The photo of the 71st TRS HQ looks very similar to photos of the HQ’s for the 82nd and 110th TRS’s at Binmaley, outside Lingayen, in mid-1945. (Taken by Fred Hill of the 17th TRS, these photos can be seen online in the small collection section of the USAF Academy Library. My father, Roscoe A. “Rocky” Boyer, was communications officer for the 71st Group and the 91st Photo Reconnaissance Wing from 1942 on, and then transferred to the 110th in December 1944. Some of the officers may be recognizable from photos.
Fuller information about Archuleta, Wells, and other officers can be found by scrolling through two Facebook Pages that I run, on the 71st TRG and “Rocky Boyer’s War,” a book that I wrote around my father’s wartime diary and that the Naval Institute Press published this year.
I would be glad to post some or all of these photos the 71st TRG page. You may also wish to contact the Facebook administrator for “Lindbergh’s Own” page, an on-line site for the 110th in its current form.
A WWII Dunkirk Veteran’s Review of Christopher Nolan’s 2017 Dunkirk Film
July 23, 2017 August 5, 2017 / portraitsofwar / Leave a comment
An incredibly touching interview with a Calgary veteran following his viewing of the premier of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster.
Mystery WWII Concentration Camp Liberation – Research Help Needed!
July 1, 2017 July 1, 2017 / portraitsofwar / 4 Comments
Hey PortraitofWar followers! I recently acquired an incredible grouping of photographs taken by a US soldier during the liberation of a concentration camp/labor camp during the tail end of WWII. There’s not much to go by in terms of identifiable visuals, but there are images of German military officers marching in line to view the bodies, as well as a liberated person in front of a T28E1 US tracked anti-aircraft gun. Additional photographs show an American officer speaking to a line of US soldiers passing before a group of bodies.
Any thoughts or ideas? I hope to pass these on to an organization that can present and appreciate them, but I want to identify the material before doing so.
A liberated prisoner tries on shoes for the first time in years
The American T28E1
A German collaborator? Commandant?
German officers pass through the line
US officers speak
Norwich, Vermont Veteran Clinton Gardner’s D-Day Experience
June 6, 2017 June 6, 2017 / portraitsofwar / Leave a comment
The following post was originally written (not by me) and posted to the Dartmouth Library blog. I’m including the entirety of the post in hopes of spreading the good word about Mr. Gardner and his work during WWII.
On June 6, 1944, Clinton Gardner, Class of 1944, found himself digging a foxhole on Omaha Beach as part of the D-Day invasion of German occupied Europe. The landing area was already strewn with bodies and the Germans were raking the incoming allied forces with artillery and machine gun fire. Gardner, a Lieutenant in the artillery, was not about to move any further inland until the infantry made a hole in the German defenses, and that did not seem to be about to happen.
Clint’s Battle Damaged M-1 Helmet w/ Hawley Liner
An incoming round suddenly exploded in front of him. His head snapped back and then a curtain of blood blinded him. In his memoir, D-Day and Beyond, Gardner recounts how he stood up and staggered toward two of his fellow officers wiping blood from his eyes. The two officers stared at him in horror. Then he reached up and felt his helmet. There was a gaping hole, large enough that he could get two hands into it. Gingerly he felt around and found that he could feel a soft, mushy surface that he assumed must be his brain. Sick and disoriented though he was, he managed to get his first aid kit out and pour sulfa powder into the hole and then stuff it full of gauze.
A Letter Home
Unable to walk or speak properly, Gardner watched as his unit packed up and began to move inland, following the infantry who had suddenly begun to advance. The other officers told him that they would send medics back for him. He was soon alone on the beach with a handful of wounded and dying soldiers, all of whom would have been killed by German mortar fire had not a group of British troops happened along. The British moved the wounded Americans up the beach to a sheltered area among some rocks.
Rutland Herald Article
After 23 hours wounded on the beach, a group of medics finally arrived and moved Gardner and the others to a field hospital in Vierville. There Gardner made the happy discovery that what he had felt through the gash in his helmet was not his brain, but badly lacerated scalp tissue. Though his skull was scarred, it was not broken. Getting the helmet off was another matter: it took three doctors and a fair amount of pulling and twisting as the edges had curled in and were imbedded in his scalp. Eventually Gardner was sent back to England to recover, but that was not the end of the war for him. Later he would find himself being bombed by friendly fire during Battle of the Bulge and still later he would serve as the American Commandant at Buchenwald following its liberation.
Gardner’s helmet remains, to this day, the most damaged helmet whose wearer survived his wounds.
To see Clint Gardner’s helmet or to read his letter home ask for MS-1109. A guide to the collection is available. To read his book, D-Day and Beyond, ask for Alumni G1728.
Rare Aerial Photo of Gliders Taken After Operation Varsity, March 1945
November 23, 2016 November 23, 2016 / portraitsofwar / Leave a comment
Taken on March 25th, 1945, this image was snapped by a low-flying P-38 or P-51 of the 363rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron. I acquired a large set of these original 12×12 inch prints (complete with pencil notes on the back) on eBay a few years ago directly from the estate of a 9th Air Force photo tech who apparently saved hundreds of original flyovers like this. He saved duplicates as well! This is one of those duplicates.
This large format photo, taken a day after the strategic landing of two airborne divisions on the eastern bank of the Rhine River near the village of Hamminkeln and the Town of Wesel, Germany. Know as Operation Varsity, the landing is regarded by many historians as the most successful airborne landing carried out during WWII. Although I tend to argue such facts, the point is that the landing led to the quickening of the end of the war.
This series of photos provides an incredibly detailed view of the aftermath of the glider landings and a general layout of trenches, hedgerows and landscape features that may be obfuscated today. These images can be found in many books and through government archives but may be of lesser quality due to multiple reproductions. Enjoy!
Large Format Aerial Photo Showing Airborne Gliders, March 25th, 1945
WWII Amateur Photo Discovery – Concentration Camp Family Photo Captured by US Soldier
August 6, 2016 October 29, 2016 / portraitsofwar / 15 Comments
Photo Background
From time to time new information comes along to help identify photographs from my collection. In this case, I stumbled across an image during research into the liberation of Nordhausen (Mittelbau-Dora) concentration camp. The image in my collection (seen below) was originally misidentified as having been taken at Dachau, but I just recently learned that it was actually taken at Nordhausen (Mittelbau-Dora) and captures a moment that US Signal Corps photographs also snapped at different angles. According to information I’ve picked up in the past few days, the young boy was named Michael Kallaur and the father is Walter; both men buried the boy’s grandmother (Walter’s mother) after finding her body in the unfortunate lineup at Nordhausen. Elizabeth Kallaur was killed at the camp only a few days before the liberation.
According to information at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Kallaur family was sent to Nordhausen as punishment for helping Jews in the Pinsk region. The coat seen covering Mrs. Kallaur was given to Michael by John Florea, the Signal Corps photographer. Walter and Michael would not allow German citizens to touch the body of Elizabeth, and she was the first to be buried (at a deeper level) in the first burial trench.
A Moment of Sorrow at Nordhausen (photo purchased from eBay that launched this post)
Walter holding Elizabeth’s legs
Michael watches on (note wounded hands)
After hours of internet research, I came across the following Signal Corps photo and instantly recognized the boy….
Walter and Michael looking over Elizabeth (Walter’s mother)
A lesser quality image
This is the info attached to the image: (Click link for source)
Figure 1.–Here a Polish boy weeps over his grandfather’s body at Nordhausen after it was liberated by the Americans. It was dated April 21, 1945. That may have been when the photographed was released rather than taken. The press caption read, “Weep for the dead: A Polish boy weeps bitterly after he and a man at left buried (the) youngster’s grandmother who had died while a political prisoner of the Nazis in concentration camp at Nordhausen. Germans in the town were ordered to dig graves and bury the 2,500 dead, unburied prisoners found there by occupying American forces. The Polish boy refused to let the Germans touch his grandmother and insisted he bury her himself. Yanks look on in quiet sympathy.” We doubt if his grandmother was a political prisoner, but like the boy a slave laborer at Dora. He probably searched for her after the camps were liberated. Notice the German civilians at the right.
Walter and Michael by John Florea, 1945
An open burial spot (note the depth of Elizabeth’s burial)
And another series of Signal Corps photos showing the burial:
Walter and Michael Kallaur
Walter buries his mother – note the shallow nature of the other bodies vs. the above image for Elizabeth
A view past Elizabeth’s burial spot
Walter continues to fill the grave
Walter and Michael at a distance
The boy, Michael, traveled to the United States after the war ended. Using the information in the image as a jumping off point, I was able to find some immigration travel information:
1949 Border Crossing
The information on the card all matches up. As seen in the previous images, he had a visibly wounded left hand; the card confirms this and the fact that his place of birth was Pinsk, Poland. At the time of his arrival in the US at Niagara Falls, he was 18, putting his birth year at 1931. The Signal Corps photographer noted his age in 1945 at 14, which matches up with the immigration card. A website dedicated to the Kallaur family tree referenced a Walter Kallaur arriving in the Niagara region after the war; this jives with both the Signal Corps caption and the fact that Walter is referenced in the above 1949 border crossing documents. He arrived in Quebec in April of 1948 on board the MV Beaverbrae (listed as the SS Beaven Bren in the document, a ship that eventually transported over 30,000 European refugees to Canada between 1947 and 1954.
Sadly, it appears that Michael passed away in Decemeber of 2000, so my hopes of reuniting this photo with him has been dashed. His SSN confirms that he lived in Pennsylvania and was issued his card in 1955, six years after his entry into the US.
Social Security Death Index (he lied about his DOB)
Living Family Identified
My internet sleuthing tends to be obsessive at times, and I’m fairly certain with the following deduction. I will leave out the details of the research in respect for the Kallaur family; some things are best left unsaid.
From what I can deduce, Michael married Eileen Gallagher at some point in the 1960s. Eileen was born in 1944, and was only five years old when Michael came to the US in 1949. Ancestry.com doesn’t provide marriage records for the couple, but I’m basing my marriage dates in accordance with the birth of their forthcoming children.
My hopes are that a family member will google themselves, or possibly have a Google Alert set…….. All are originally from the Philadelphia, PA area.
Michael Kaullaur – 1931-2000
Eileen C. Kallaur – 1944 – LIVING
John Kallaur
Robert Kallaur
Christopher Kallaur
Walter Kallaur
Image Details: Nordhausen Outdoor Generator
The major defining landscape feature of my eBay image is the presence of an outdoor generator. This can be seen here:
Generator? Most photos were taken on the opposite side
Generator? from the other direction
HOT ON THE TRAIL OF THE FAMILY
APRIL 27th, 2013 POST BELOW
Casual followers of this blog will know that I never post photos of death or destruction. My main goal is to present historic photography in a way to help educate internet followers about the world of war. In this case I will post a photo that may be hard for some viewers to see. I have hundreds of photos of concentration camps in my collection, yet have never been moved to post any of the photos to the web.
This image called to me. The composition, the subject, the setting. It’s all there. A soldier snaps a shot at Dachau of a man holding the feet of his dead wife while his injured son watches on. A procession of 3rd Armor Division soldiers file by as this tragic event unfolds; the event captured through the lens of an unknown soldier of an unknown family. This scene was likely replicated tens of thousands of times at the tail end of the war.
My 200,000th Viewer Post! – Remembering My Grandfather, Ambrose R. Canty, 777th Tank Battalion, 69th Division
August 8, 2014 January 4, 2019 / portraitsofwar / 7 Comments
Today I quietly celebrated my 200,000th blog view from my desk at work. I knew the number was coming, and with nearly 300 views a day I was able to predict that the 200k plateau would be reached this week. What should I write about on this momentous day? I thought back to all my favorite posts…….
Ambrose R. Canty ca. 1944
With all those topics in mind I kept coming back to the one man who “brought me into the fold” of researching WWII history. My grandfather. Ambrose R. Canty taught me from a young age that you should respect your elders, listen to their stories, as well as how to play poker, pitch, bridge, rummy and pocketknife baseball. He also told me stories of his experiences during the second world war. Stories that would be gradually elaborated on as I grew older. Having spent the majority of my youth with him, I was able to learn a lot about the 69th Infantry Regiment and specifically the 777th Tank Battalion.
Ambrose on Furlough, 1944
My interest in WWII history started with my grandfather, and I feel that on my 200,000th view that I should post a rememberance post to him. Although he passed away nearly five years ago, I still feel a connection with him. My early interaction with him live on through this website, and I hope I’m able to help pass on the passion Amby imbued in me at a young age.
Amby (second from right) Holds a Captured German Flag in Leipzig
Grampy, thanks for everything.
Ambrose Washing his Mess Kit, Germany 1945
777th Reproduction WWII Patch
And his 2009 Obituary:
Ambrose “Amby” Richard Canty
Published Tuesday September 1, 2009 at 12:01 am
Ambrose �Amby� Richard Canty of 26 Roosevelt Dr. in Southbridge, died Sunday, August 30th, 2009, at home in the company of his family.
He leaves his wife of 55 years, Mary J. (Damian) Canty; 7 children: Ambrose �Amby� R. Canty Jr. and his wife Sandra of Davenport, IA, Anne P. Canty of Port Orange, FL, Jane E. Gauthier and her husband Richard of Southbridge, Joan R. Murphy and her husband Donald of Worcester, MaryLynne Deshaies and her husband Gerald of Sturbridge, John D. Canty and his wife Kimberly of Webster, and Kathryn M. Canty of Redondo Beach, CA; 12 grandchildren: Adam, Matthew, David, and Tom Canty of Davenport IA, Christhanha Canty of Port Orange FL, Brennan and Connor Gauthier of Southbridge, Maria and Anna Murphy of Worcester, Cailyn, Ryan and Kelsey Canty of Webster, MA; and many nieces, nephews and great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his 6 brothers and 7 sisters.
He was born in Webster, one of fourteen children of Patrick and Anne (McCauley) Canty. He lived in Webster and Southbridge all his life. He graduated from Saint Louis High School in Webster, was a graduate of Holy Cross College in Worcester, and received a Masters Degree in Social Work Administration from Boston College. He was an accomplished athlete lettering in 3 varsity sports at St. Louis High School: Basketball, Baseball and Track. He also played semi-pro football for the Webster Colonials, and refereed and coached basketball teams at various levels for many years, including a championship basketball team with 5 of his daughters and several nieces.
He proudly served in World War II as a member of the United States Army�s 69th Infantry Division from 1944 to 1946. The division rescued a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Leipzig, Germany and is recognized as a �Liberating Unit� by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was a member of the Webster-Dudley American Legion Post # 184.
Ambrose served as the Webster Public Welfare Director for 16 years and the Massachusetts Director of Public Welfare in Worcester for 20 years before retiring. He was a member of St. Mary�s Parish in Southbridge and a member of the Webster-Dudley Knights of Columbus. He also served on the Massachusetts Mental Retardation Board, and as a member of the Tri-Area Fresh Air Program.
The funeral, with full military honors, will be held on Friday, September 4th with a Mass at 12:00 PM at St. Mary�s Church, 263 Hamilton St., Southbridge. The burial will be at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Southbridge. The Webster-Dudley Veterans Council will perform military honors. There will be no calling hours. Following the burial, the family will receive friends and relatives at the �12 Crane St.� banquet facility in Southbridge. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Daniel T. Morrill Funeral Home in Southbridge.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the St. Mary�s Parish Ministry Center Completion Campaign, 263 Hamilton St. Southbridge, MA 01550.
morrillfuneralhome.com
http://www.telegram.com/article/20090901/OBIT/909010312
WWII 388th Bomb Group – Alva Alegre Snaps Glenn Miller in Knettishall, England 1944
August 6, 2014 / portraitsofwar / 1 Comment
August 25th, 1944,
Glenn Miller poses with some members of the 388th Bomb Group. Only a few months later Miller went missing during a flight over the English Channel, launching a 70 year search for his wreckage. His death is still an unknown, although many suggest that he was in fact a German spy or was possibly shot down by friendly fire. Check here for some possible leads:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2014/07/07/glenn-miller-plane-mystery-history-detectives-norseman/12268729/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A2654822
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4406
Glenn Miller Poses with 388th Bomb Group Officials in Knettishall, Sussex, England
Some of Glenn’s best known hits are Moonlight Serenade, Chattanooga Choo Choo, A String of Pearls, Little Brown Jug and Tuxedo Junction. Many of these songs are likely lost on my generation, but will be familiar to many of the readers of this blog. Please check out the links listed below for some vintage Glenn Miller footage!
388th BG’s Major Francis Henggeler
Another 388th Big Wig (unnamed)
Alva Snaps a Photo of the Glenn Miller Band Crowd
WWII 3rd Armored Division Snapshot – Tanker John F. Housman of Braceville, IL in France
July 11, 2014 / portraitsofwar / 7 Comments
WWII Snapshots are easy to come across. They appear in bundles at flea markets and yard sales. It’s very uncommon to be able to positively identify a US soldier in a snapshot – let alone one that has relatives actively seeking information on ancestry.com. Please see below for a step-by-step breakdown of my research on this photo.
Step 1: Purchase of Photo
A $12 eBay Purchase
With the purchase made, I had to wait a week for the photo to arrive without any research potential on the photo. All I knew was that the shot was of a tanker with sand/dust goggles standing in front of a Sherman tank in France. An interesting shot, albeit sleightly out of focus…..
John Housman Jr.
Step 2: Research Photo
Researching photos can be a daunting task without a proper research database at hand. Luckily, I subscribe to ancestry.com as well as a number of other databases. In this case, I was able to make the proper ID with the US census record combined with the WWII draft record. What do we know from the photo? It turns out that the photo arrived with an ID on the reverse: Johnny Housman-Tanker of Braceville, Illinois. It’s a great starting place and provided the key to the unlocking of the positive ID of the photo.
John Housman Jr. WWII from Braceville, IL
With the info at hand I was able to make an easy identification using the tools at hand. A quick search yielded the following info:
John F. Housman Social Security Number 358-05-2949
Born 10/11/1918
Died 9/17/1992
And his enlistment which appears to be off be off by a year:
WWI Draft Registry
I’m sure the family of John Housman Jr. will find this site and I hope they will share some info on their father/relative. I’m more than happy to send the original to an identified member of the family. I know you’re out there !
WWII War Orphans Pose in Germany – Barefooted German Children in Crisp B/W
April 8, 2014 / portraitsofwar / 2 Comments
Digging through backlogged collections is fun. I always seen to unearth a photo, negative or slide that eluded my initial passover. In this case, I found a poignant negative from 1945-1947 showing two barefoot children who survived the war somewhere near Munich. The photographer (unknown) had quite the eye for detail as evidenced in his 400+ negatives in my collection.
Bare Feet on Cobble
Follow Portraits of War on WordPress.com
A Mormon Missionary in WWI: Battling Spanish Influenza in American Samoa
The French 111th Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun
WWI 1st Division Photo Identification, Robert B. Alexander – Portage, Wisconsin Veteran
WWI German Trench Life – May of 1917
WWI Portrait Photo – An AEF Soldier and a French Puppy, a Tribute to Violet
26th division 388th 388th BG 388th Bomb Group 1918 Alva Alegre b-17 doughboy France France 1918 heritage history history photo Knettishall kodachrome korea Korean war Korean War Color military history patch photo photography RPPC Vermont Soldier War world history World War World war one world war one photo world war photo world war two world war two photo WWI wwi doughboy wwi history wwii wwii artist wwii color wwii color slide WWII history wwii marine wwii negative wwii photo WWII photography wwi patch wwi photo wwi postcard wwi research wwi RPPC WWI soldier yankee division
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842595
|
__label__cc
| 0.509053
| 0.490947
|
Linking mental health and reproductive well being
Linking Mental Health and Reproductive Well-Being
Maggi LeDuc
We believe in the concept of reproductive well-being. We believe that all people should have the information, services, and support they need to have control over their bodies and to make their own decisions related to sexuality and reproduction throughout their lives. However, reproductive well-being means so much more than a birth control prescription or an STI test. It goes beyond the physical health of our bodies and includes our minds and mental health.
Mental health, especially mental health in marginalized communities, has a lot of stigma. The three types of stigma—public, self and systemic—affect our power to decide,” said Gordon Collier, LMSW, (@beyondlivingservices) founder of the counseling practice Beyond Living. “The challenge with both reproductive well-being and the conversation around sexual and mental health is answering, ‘Who told you this is the right way and it was supposed to be done that way?’ The answer impacts our vulnerability and our decision to access care, seek support, and make informed decisions.”
Self-Stigma
How do I feel or view this idea? What was I taught or what did I subconsciously learn about this idea? What intergenerational trauma around the issue alters my perception of mental health?
Nicola Pierre-Smith, MS, LPC, (@melanatedwomenshealth) founder of Melanated Women’s Health, explained that by the time a patient reaches her therapy room they’ve already had to overcome so much just to seek help.
“People who haven’t been exposed to therapy don’t realize the influence of stigma on self-judgement and self-criticism, which adds to their pain. Like an onion, we need to peel back the layers and reach the core to get to all of the potential factors affecting them. Once we realize what the core issues are, it’s easier for people to feel empowered and not feel like their anxiety or shame is caused by a deficit of self.”
Public Stigma
What does society say about this issue? What does my community or my family say?
Pierre-Smith also discussed how inside and outside Black communities there is often a lot of sexualization of the bodies and actions of young Black people. Sexualizing young people like this can hurt their mental and reproductive well-being by discouraging them from seeking accurate information that would support reproductive health. It can also create blowback for those who try to seek help. And as many of these young people are still in school, they are reliant on the adults in the lives for access to medical and mental health care, which can further hamper their journey.
Brittney R. Cobb, MSW, LCSW, (@ablackfemaletherapist) a behavioral health provider working in primary care, agreed that she has seen this occur in her experiences with patients. “People are told not to share ‘family business,’ which can prevent healing and reinforce shame. They hear language that may not seem damaging, but is, such as, ‘Those girls were just being fast,’ ‘Just pray about it,’ ‘Life isn’t that bad,’ ‘You don’t look depressed,’ or ‘You’re so confident how can you have anxiety.’”
Systemic Stigma
What are the attitudes and beliefs of health care professionals around treating Black people? What does the waiting room and the sign-in process look like? How do providers have conversations with Black people?
“There’s a lack of trust in the Black community when it comes to medical providers,” Cobb said, “We tend to be misdiagnosed and our voices are ignored.”
Extreme disparities in the Black maternal mortality rate highlight the issue of systemic stigma. Black women are three to four times more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women. And their deaths are more likely to stem from preventable causes.
Pierre-Smith and her patients often discuss how to approach issues outside of their control. Beyond addressing things such self-stigma and shame they ask, “How do you cope with systemic stigmas that you can’t change? What angle do you want to take with all of the different intersections of health? Is it even possible to peel back every layer and reach the core?”
Overcoming Stigma and Thriving
When Cobb speaks with the parents of her younger patients she makes sure to talk with them about the importance of using the proper terms for body parts (i.e., penis, testicles, vagina, labia, etc.) as part of her efforts to normalize talking about reproductive health. Often, she also spends time explaining that it’s normal for children to show curiosity and independently explore their own bodies, in a safe, private environment. Many of the parents she sees have experienced shame around their bodies growing up. She noted that it’s important to break the cycle by educating parents and provide them with tools to help ease their anxiety, so they don’t project their own discomfort or trauma onto their children.
When working with her teenage patients, Cobb helps them understand healthy relationships look like, abusive behavior, how to set boundaries, as well as educates them on consent and how to be assertive.
Black women have more than double the unintended pregnancy rate of white women. However, this disparity isn’t driven by a greater desire to have children, but because of a lack of access to quality contraceptive care and counseling. Access to the services needed to achieve reproductive well-being plays a large role in good mental health. “Teens are going to be sexually active and if a Black teen is living in a community that is considered a “contraceptive desert,” they are at a greater risk of an unplanned pregnancy or STI exposure.” Pierre-Smith said.
“I want people to ask themselves, ‘How do you become an active participant in your wellness?’” said Collier, “Ultimately the power resides within us, but for so long these communities have felt powerless and been told that they are powerless. During Minority Mental Health Month, or whatever month, it’s very important to give the power back to the person. That goes to mental health, physical health, and all dimensions of wellness.”
Black maternal health
Reproductive Well-Being
Everything you need to read about sexual health from the last month.
Helping Missourians Achieve RWB
Executive Director of Missouri Family Health Council, Michelle Trupiano discusses her work to help improve the reproductive health of Missouri.
November 2020: Power Updates Edition
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842597
|
__label__cc
| 0.703924
| 0.296076
|
Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay
Meghan R. Swanson, Mark D. Shen, Jason J. Wolff, Jed T. Elison, Robert W. Emerson, Martin A. Styner, Heather C. Hazlett, Kinh Truong, Linda R. Watson, Sarah Paterson, Natasha Marrus, Kelly N. Botteron, Juhi Pandey, Robert T. Schultz, Stephen R. Dager, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Annette M. Estes, Joseph Piven, J. Piven, H. C. Hazlett
C. Chappell, S. Dager, D. Shaw, K. Botteron, R. McKinstry, J. Constantino, J. Pruett, R. T. Schultz, J. Pandey, S. Paterson, L. Zwaigenbaum, J. T. Elison, J. J. Wolff, A. C. Evans, D. L. Collins, G. B. Pike, V. Fonov, P. Kostopoulos, S. Das, G. Gerig, M. Styner, H. Gu
Neurofibromatosis (NF) Center
Background Younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are themselves at increased risk for ASD and other developmental concerns. It is unclear if infants who display developmental concerns, but are unaffected by ASD, share similar or dissimilar behavioral and brain phenotypes to infants with ASD. Most individuals with ASD exhibit heterogeneous difficulties with language, and their receptive-expressive language profiles are often atypical. Yet, little is known about the neurobiology that contributes to these language difficulties. Methods In this study, we used behavioral assessments and structural magnetic resonance imaging to investigate early brain structures and associations with later language skills. High-risk infants who were later diagnosed with ASD (n = 86) were compared with high-risk infants who showed signs of early language delay (n = 41) as well as with high- and low-risk infants who did not have ASD or language delay (n = 255 and 143, respectively). Results Results indicated that diminished language skills were evident at 12 months in infants with ASD and infants with early language delay. At 24 months of age, only the infants with ASD displayed atypical receptive-expressive language profiles. Associations between 12-month subcortical volumes and 24-month language skills were moderated by group status, indicating disordinal brain-behavior associations among infants with ASD and infants with language delay. Conclusions These results suggest that there are different brain mechanisms influencing language development in infants with ASD and infants with language delay, and that the two groups likely experience unique sets of genetic and environmental risk factors.
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007
Language delay
Language profile
Subcortical structure
10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Language Development Disorders Medicine & Life Sciences
Autistic Disorder Medicine & Life Sciences
Autism Spectrum Disorder Medicine & Life Sciences
Sign Language Medicine & Life Sciences
Language Development Medicine & Life Sciences
Swanson, M. R., Shen, M. D., Wolff, J. J., Elison, J. T., Emerson, R. W., Styner, M. A., Hazlett, H. C., Truong, K., Watson, L. R., Paterson, S., Marrus, N., Botteron, K. N., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., Dager, S. R., Zwaigenbaum, L., Estes, A. M., Piven, J., Piven, J., ... Gu, H. (2017). Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2(8), 664-672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007
Swanson, Meghan R. ; Shen, Mark D. ; Wolff, Jason J. ; Elison, Jed T. ; Emerson, Robert W. ; Styner, Martin A. ; Hazlett, Heather C. ; Truong, Kinh ; Watson, Linda R. ; Paterson, Sarah ; Marrus, Natasha ; Botteron, Kelly N. ; Pandey, Juhi ; Schultz, Robert T. ; Dager, Stephen R. ; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie ; Estes, Annette M. ; Piven, Joseph ; Piven, J. ; Hazlett, H. C. ; Chappell, C. ; Dager, S. ; Shaw, D. ; Botteron, K. ; McKinstry, R. ; Constantino, J. ; Pruett, J. ; Schultz, R. T. ; Pandey, J. ; Paterson, S. ; Zwaigenbaum, L. ; Elison, J. T. ; Wolff, J. J. ; Evans, A. C. ; Collins, D. L. ; Pike, G. B. ; Fonov, V. ; Kostopoulos, P. ; Das, S. ; Gerig, G. ; Styner, M. ; Gu, H. / Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay. In: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2017 ; Vol. 2, No. 8. pp. 664-672.
@article{f10dcb4f7d2d40278a757a9bda440576,
title = "Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay",
abstract = "Background Younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are themselves at increased risk for ASD and other developmental concerns. It is unclear if infants who display developmental concerns, but are unaffected by ASD, share similar or dissimilar behavioral and brain phenotypes to infants with ASD. Most individuals with ASD exhibit heterogeneous difficulties with language, and their receptive-expressive language profiles are often atypical. Yet, little is known about the neurobiology that contributes to these language difficulties. Methods In this study, we used behavioral assessments and structural magnetic resonance imaging to investigate early brain structures and associations with later language skills. High-risk infants who were later diagnosed with ASD (n = 86) were compared with high-risk infants who showed signs of early language delay (n = 41) as well as with high- and low-risk infants who did not have ASD or language delay (n = 255 and 143, respectively). Results Results indicated that diminished language skills were evident at 12 months in infants with ASD and infants with early language delay. At 24 months of age, only the infants with ASD displayed atypical receptive-expressive language profiles. Associations between 12-month subcortical volumes and 24-month language skills were moderated by group status, indicating disordinal brain-behavior associations among infants with ASD and infants with language delay. Conclusions These results suggest that there are different brain mechanisms influencing language development in infants with ASD and infants with language delay, and that the two groups likely experience unique sets of genetic and environmental risk factors.",
keywords = "ASD, Brain, Infancy, Language delay, Language profile, Subcortical structure",
author = "Swanson, {Meghan R.} and Shen, {Mark D.} and Wolff, {Jason J.} and Elison, {Jed T.} and Emerson, {Robert W.} and Styner, {Martin A.} and Hazlett, {Heather C.} and Kinh Truong and Watson, {Linda R.} and Sarah Paterson and Natasha Marrus and Botteron, {Kelly N.} and Juhi Pandey and Schultz, {Robert T.} and Dager, {Stephen R.} and Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Estes, {Annette M.} and Joseph Piven and J. Piven and Hazlett, {H. C.} and C. Chappell and S. Dager and D. Shaw and K. Botteron and R. McKinstry and J. Constantino and J. Pruett and Schultz, {R. T.} and J. Pandey and S. Paterson and L. Zwaigenbaum and Elison, {J. T.} and Wolff, {J. J.} and Evans, {A. C.} and Collins, {D. L.} and Pike, {G. B.} and V. Fonov and P. Kostopoulos and S. Das and G. Gerig and M. Styner and H. Gu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Society of Biological Psychiatry Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
doi = "10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007",
journal = "Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging",
Swanson, MR, Shen, MD, Wolff, JJ, Elison, JT, Emerson, RW, Styner, MA, Hazlett, HC, Truong, K, Watson, LR, Paterson, S, Marrus, N, Botteron, KN, Pandey, J, Schultz, RT, Dager, SR, Zwaigenbaum, L, Estes, AM, Piven, J, Piven, J, Hazlett, HC, Chappell, C, Dager, S, Shaw, D, Botteron, K, McKinstry, R, Constantino, J, Pruett, J, Schultz, RT, Pandey, J, Paterson, S, Zwaigenbaum, L, Elison, JT, Wolff, JJ, Evans, AC, Collins, DL, Pike, GB, Fonov, V, Kostopoulos, P, Das, S, Gerig, G, Styner, M & Gu, H 2017, 'Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay', Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, vol. 2, no. 8, pp. 664-672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007
Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay. / Swanson, Meghan R.; Shen, Mark D.; Wolff, Jason J.; Elison, Jed T.; Emerson, Robert W.; Styner, Martin A.; Hazlett, Heather C.; Truong, Kinh; Watson, Linda R.; Paterson, Sarah; Marrus, Natasha; Botteron, Kelly N.; Pandey, Juhi; Schultz, Robert T.; Dager, Stephen R.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Estes, Annette M.; Piven, Joseph; Piven, J.; Hazlett, H. C.; Chappell, C.; Dager, S.; Shaw, D.; Botteron, K.; McKinstry, R.; Constantino, J.; Pruett, J.; Schultz, R. T.; Pandey, J.; Paterson, S.; Zwaigenbaum, L.; Elison, J. T.; Wolff, J. J.; Evans, A. C.; Collins, D. L.; Pike, G. B.; Fonov, V.; Kostopoulos, P.; Das, S.; Gerig, G.; Styner, M.; Gu, H.
In: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Vol. 2, No. 8, 01.11.2017, p. 664-672.
T1 - Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay
AU - Swanson, Meghan R.
AU - Shen, Mark D.
AU - Wolff, Jason J.
AU - Elison, Jed T.
AU - Emerson, Robert W.
AU - Styner, Martin A.
AU - Hazlett, Heather C.
AU - Truong, Kinh
AU - Watson, Linda R.
AU - Paterson, Sarah
AU - Marrus, Natasha
AU - Botteron, Kelly N.
AU - Pandey, Juhi
AU - Schultz, Robert T.
AU - Dager, Stephen R.
AU - Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie
AU - Estes, Annette M.
AU - Piven, Joseph
AU - Piven, J.
AU - Hazlett, H. C.
AU - Chappell, C.
AU - Dager, S.
AU - Shaw, D.
AU - Botteron, K.
AU - McKinstry, R.
AU - Constantino, J.
AU - Pruett, J.
AU - Schultz, R. T.
AU - Pandey, J.
AU - Paterson, S.
AU - Zwaigenbaum, L.
AU - Elison, J. T.
AU - Wolff, J. J.
AU - Evans, A. C.
AU - Collins, D. L.
AU - Pike, G. B.
AU - Fonov, V.
AU - Kostopoulos, P.
AU - Das, S.
AU - Gerig, G.
AU - Styner, M.
AU - Gu, H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Society of Biological Psychiatry Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
N2 - Background Younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are themselves at increased risk for ASD and other developmental concerns. It is unclear if infants who display developmental concerns, but are unaffected by ASD, share similar or dissimilar behavioral and brain phenotypes to infants with ASD. Most individuals with ASD exhibit heterogeneous difficulties with language, and their receptive-expressive language profiles are often atypical. Yet, little is known about the neurobiology that contributes to these language difficulties. Methods In this study, we used behavioral assessments and structural magnetic resonance imaging to investigate early brain structures and associations with later language skills. High-risk infants who were later diagnosed with ASD (n = 86) were compared with high-risk infants who showed signs of early language delay (n = 41) as well as with high- and low-risk infants who did not have ASD or language delay (n = 255 and 143, respectively). Results Results indicated that diminished language skills were evident at 12 months in infants with ASD and infants with early language delay. At 24 months of age, only the infants with ASD displayed atypical receptive-expressive language profiles. Associations between 12-month subcortical volumes and 24-month language skills were moderated by group status, indicating disordinal brain-behavior associations among infants with ASD and infants with language delay. Conclusions These results suggest that there are different brain mechanisms influencing language development in infants with ASD and infants with language delay, and that the two groups likely experience unique sets of genetic and environmental risk factors.
AB - Background Younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are themselves at increased risk for ASD and other developmental concerns. It is unclear if infants who display developmental concerns, but are unaffected by ASD, share similar or dissimilar behavioral and brain phenotypes to infants with ASD. Most individuals with ASD exhibit heterogeneous difficulties with language, and their receptive-expressive language profiles are often atypical. Yet, little is known about the neurobiology that contributes to these language difficulties. Methods In this study, we used behavioral assessments and structural magnetic resonance imaging to investigate early brain structures and associations with later language skills. High-risk infants who were later diagnosed with ASD (n = 86) were compared with high-risk infants who showed signs of early language delay (n = 41) as well as with high- and low-risk infants who did not have ASD or language delay (n = 255 and 143, respectively). Results Results indicated that diminished language skills were evident at 12 months in infants with ASD and infants with early language delay. At 24 months of age, only the infants with ASD displayed atypical receptive-expressive language profiles. Associations between 12-month subcortical volumes and 24-month language skills were moderated by group status, indicating disordinal brain-behavior associations among infants with ASD and infants with language delay. Conclusions These results suggest that there are different brain mechanisms influencing language development in infants with ASD and infants with language delay, and that the two groups likely experience unique sets of genetic and environmental risk factors.
KW - ASD
KW - Brain
KW - Infancy
KW - Language delay
KW - Language profile
KW - Subcortical structure
U2 - 10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007
DO - 10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007
JO - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
JF - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Swanson MR, Shen MD, Wolff JJ, Elison JT, Emerson RW, Styner MA et al. Subcortical Brain and Behavior Phenotypes Differentiate Infants With Autism Versus Language Delay. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2017 Nov 1;2(8):664-672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.07.007
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842600
|
__label__cc
| 0.518678
| 0.481322
|
Ramon has been involved with Project Redsands since 2011 his involvement has included liaseing with other volunteers regarding upcoming restoration aspects and has been heavily involved with the interior refittment of our two new weather secured rooms.
Ray first became interested in the Thames Estuary Forts in his early teens.
His parents had a caravan at Reculver and he studied them through binoculars from the beaches.
His interest became more curious when the Pirate radio stations started broadcasting from them in the mid-sixties and He also had a fascination for those aswell.
Later Ray joined the Friends of the Forts organisation which was run by Frank Turner. It was then that his ambition to go out to see them was then fulfilled, when Frank Turner started to run boat trips out to them from Herne bay.
After that he was hooked and always wanted to go on board to have a look but that was not possible at that time.
“About seven years ago a workmate of mine was asking on behalf of a friend of his for volunteers to join the Project Redsand team.
I was interested and that’s when I joined.
My skills had some sort of relevance as I am a fitter by trade (electro/mechanical) and my hobbies include DIY and renovating anything that can be repaired. I am particularly interested in renovating old antique telephones.] Redsands to me has always been an amazing feat of engineering to behold! , To take an onshore Anti Aircraft battery and literally pick it up out of the ground and put it on stilts , then put it into the sea and make it function is simply extraordinary a part of our history that simply should not be confined to the pages whilst the buildings are still available for the worlds enjoyment and not left for people to imagine when they can still see for themselves!”
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842601
|
__label__wiki
| 0.751091
| 0.751091
|
Blog > Atlanta’s Five Biggest Catering Companies Unite to Celebrate Giving Kitchen’s Expansion
Atlanta’s Five Biggest Catering Companies Unite to Celebrate Giving Kitchen’s Expansion
in Event, Team, Media
Giving Kitchen (GK) recently announced that they have now given their 1,500th grant and celebrated a record-breaking $865,000+ raised at Team Hidi 7. In February, GK also announced the expansion of their eligibility criteria to support catering, concessions and food truck workers in addition to restaurant workers as of 2019.
Approximately 8,000 food service workers in Georgia will face falling into poverty because of an unexpected crisis this year, but GK is helping prevent that by serving more food service workers than ever in 2019. Bryan Schroeder, GK’s Executive Director, says, “It was an incredible moment for Giving Kitchen to raise over $865,000 for food service workers – including those working in catering, food trucks and concessions – next to some of the biggest names in catering on Giving Kitchen’s largest stage. We’re so excited to welcome catering, concessions and food truck employees to Giving Kitchen’s family!”
The Giving Kitchen welcomed Proof of the Pudding, and other top caterer organizations to present a $33,000 check from the Atlanta catering community.
The food service industry is much larger than just restaurants – it’s 3.5% of the population in Georgia, which equates to approximately 300,000 workers that are underpaid, overworked and underinsured. By becoming available to more parts of the food service industry, GK will be able to help provide stability to 15,000 more members of the food service community not only with financial grants but also by connecting them to over 300 Stability Network partners.
If you are a food service worker in crisis – or know someone who is – please start at bit.ly/apply2gk to request assistance from Giving Kitchen. If you would like to support a food service worker financially through Giving Kitchen, please give at bit.ly/give2gk.
ABOUT GIVING KITCHEN
Giving Kitchen (GK) is a nonprofit organization that provides emergency assistance to food service workers through financial support and a network of community resources in order to create a restaurant community where crisis is met with compassion and care. Since its inception, GK has given over 1,500 grants and served over 2,400 food service workers in Georgia. GK’s shift starts when theirs can’t. For more about Giving Kitchen, visit www.givingkitchen.org + follow on social media at @givingkitchen.
Halloween 🎃 Happenings In Atlanta
Atlanta Pride Party Packs
Chef Vagn's 50 Year Milestone Celebration
Proof of the Pudding has had a large hand in developing some of hospitality's best practices. We're always on the lookout for ways to build our knowledge on food, service and design.
Celebrating Our People: JASON KOZLOWSKI
Celebrating Our People: KATE THOMSON FENDER
Catersource Magazine: Positive Predictions for 2021 (featuring Adam Noyes)
Celebrating Our People: MARGUERITE WOLFORD
Celebrating Our People: MATT FINLEY
Recipes, news & more
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842602
|
__label__wiki
| 0.858017
| 0.858017
|
Home Article Guilty Pleasure TV
Guilty Pleasure TV
TAP talks with Jenn Pozner about the reality of reality TV.
by Kay Steiger
Love it or hate it, reality television is here to stay. Though there's the good -- like Bravo's Project Runway and Top Chef -- and the bad -- like VH1's Flavor of Love and ABC's Extreme Makeover -- the rise of unscripted television is certainly problematic in a lot of ways. Jenn Pozner, founder of Women In Media & News, delved into some of the common myths and criticisms of reality television with her recently released book, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV.
TAP spoke with Pozner about which shows are the worst offenders when it comes to racism and sexism, what's wrong even with the best shows, and whether anyone can actually enjoy reality television after seeing its seedy dark side.
I really loved how you refuted one of the long-standing arguments about why reality TV is so prevalent: high demand. Could you talk a little bit more about that?
One of the things that I think is core to understanding reality TV is debunking the big lie that these shows exist simply because the public demands them. The reality is that this genre exists because it's extremely cheap to produce.
For every one mega hit like American Idol, there are dozens of reality shows that just founder in terms of viewer numbers. Even when those shows don't do very well, they're allowed to languish on the dial because the networks don't have to invest much to put them on. In some cases, [networks] don't have to pay anything to produce the shows. So, for example, The Restaurant was produced by an advertising and stealth-marketing firm that works to put their advertising clients into entertainment programs and then The Restaurant was given to NBC to air for free.
In the book, you talk about how reality TV reinvented the minstrel show and has other racist elements. Could you call out the worst offenders?
Before Flavor of Love came on the scene, people of color were pretty much invisible in network reality shows except for a few casting choices. Then Flavor of Love comes on the scene, and all of a sudden, we have people of color all over the place on cable reality shows. But the problem is that with the increased visibility came increased exploitation. Black men are portrayed as thugs, as buffoons, as fools, as criminals, as pimps; and black women and Latina women, and sometimes Asian women, are portrayed as hypersexual, ignorant, violent, classic sort of Jezebel and Sapphire stereotypes, always as bitchy and angry. Very often words like "ghetto" and "ho" are used to describe them. I don't throw the word[s] minstrel show around very superficially. I think it really maps directly to all of the stereotypes that we used to see in minstrelsy.
Which are the worst offenders when it comes to sexism?
It's a toss-up -- is it better or worse when shows package themselves as sincere or when the sexism is totally overt? A show like The Bachelor is the longest-running dating show. We've had 20 seasons of the franchise, 14 bachelors and six bachelorettes. The packaging is all about this earnest quest for true love, where every girl wants to be a princess and every boy is Prince Charming, you know, as long as he's wealthy and has a firm ass. The only way to be successful, the only way to be happy, the only way to be financially or personally fulfilled or secure is by glomming on to any guy that will have you. The framing, though, is this mock earnestness.
Compare that with something like Joe Millionaire on Fox or Flavor of Love on VH1, where the premise itself is done with sort of a wink and a nod to viewers. We're supposed to, on the surface, understand that the women are gold diggers, or that the women are stupid and bimbos, and we're supposed to laugh at them. But because it's done with a wink and a nod, there's also a chance that people might not be taking it as seriously as people take a show like The Bachelor. They play out in different ways, the level of sexism.
Throughout the book, you hint that some reality shows are worse than others, but that even the good ones are problematic. Could you talk about why even "good" shows like Project Runway aren't the best portrayals?
Everywhere I go, people who tell me that otherwise they usually hate reality TV shows will say, oh, but I love Project Runway. I understand that. I actually really enjoy Project Runway, and I say that in the book. I would've watched that show even if I wasn't working on this project. It's based on creativity and talent instead of humiliation and angst. But here's where the problem exists: The sort of tip-off to the fact that Project Runway isn't necessarily all good is the fact that the single most important compliment that the judges can give to a Project Runway contestant is that "it looks expensive."
There have obviously been new reality shows announced since you completed your book. Are there any new ones out there that are particularly offensive?
I think the one that I'm most wary of is about to come out in November. It's called Bridalplasty. It combines all of the emotional insecurity and body dysmorphia of The Swan or Extreme Makeover with the wedding industrial complex [in] shows like My Fair Wedding with David Tutera or Say Yes to the Dress on TLC. A bunch of brides compete in wedding-planning challenges, and each person who wins these mini challenges -- writing vows or choosing the right calligraphy for invitations, et cetera -- whoever wins a particular challenge gets to choose a plastic surgery procedure off of her plastic surgery wish list. At the end, the whole thing culminates with one "lucky bride" getting not only a dream wedding but also a full extreme makeover in which her fiancé will not get to see her in her new physical form until he lifts the veil off at the actual wedding and sees who he's about to marry.
Do you think anyone can like watching reality television after reading your book?
The problem is where we come home and we're tired and we're stressed out and we just want to watch TV with our brains turned off. We're not thinking about what it is we're watching, and we're taking in messages that are really potentially very damaging.
Learning to think critically as we're watching -- and hopefully doing so in a fun way -- will allow us to continue to enjoy whatever media gives us pleasure but to do so in a way that will arm us against becoming these advertiser-induced drones that they want us to be. This Q&A has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
Kay Steiger
Kay Steiger is managing editor at Raw Story and a former Prospect editorial assistant.
Read more by Kay Steiger
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842603
|
__label__wiki
| 0.705393
| 0.705393
|
Studying abroad enhances learning experience
Established in 2013, by a generous commitment from McGill alumni Joseph Schull and Anna Yang, the McGill International Experience Awards (MIEA) is an ambitious initiative that provides students with the unique opportunity to study abroad.
By Neale McDevitt, Editor, McGill Reporter
Courtney Krolikoski conducted research in Bologna, Italy, thanks to a McGill International Experience Award.
McGill International Experience Awards transforms students’ academic experience
By Brenda Branswell
Established in 2013, by a generous commitment from McGill alumni Joseph Schull and Anna Yang, the McGill International Experience Awards (MIEA) is an ambitious initiative that provides students with the unique opportunity to study abroad. Students are able to participate in academic activities that can range in length from one semester to a full academic year, including internships and field research trips, and courses abroad.
McGill doctoral student Courtney Krolikoski recently hunkered down in Italy to conduct research for her PhD in history and classical studies.
Krolikoski pored over archival material for her research on leprosy in Bologna during the Middle Ages.
“I basically just spent a lot of time culling through all of the documents that I could get my hands on,” says Krolikoski, a New Hampshire native.
Being handed a box of documents from the 12th century was one of the memorable moments from her trip. “To see all these names and signatures of people that existed 800-plus years ago was pretty phenomenal,” she says.
Krolikoski benefitted from a Schull Yang International Experience Award for her research abroad, part of the McGill International Experience Awards (MIEA).
“I think these trips are really important for a lot of fields to be able to carry out meaningful research,” says Krolikoski who spent four and a half months in Bologna spread out over two trips.
“If you’re able to afford being there for a longer period of time you can actually do more meaningful and serious research in a way that you can’t necessarily get done if you’re forced to go on short research trips.”
Created through the generosity of alumni Joseph Schull and Anna Yang, the MIEA program provides students with the chance to study abroad. The academic opportunities include internships, courses abroad, field research trips and more.
As McGill students, Schull, BA’82, MA’85, and Yang, BCL’88, LLB’88, received financial awards to study abroad. Through the MIEA, they’re passing on the wonderful opportunity for an international study experience to many other McGill students.
The awards benefit students in the Arts and Law faculties, as well as all other faculties through the Office of Student Life and Learning. In addition to the Schull Yang International Experience Awards, supported by Schull and Yang, the MIEA include awards backed by endowed funds received from other donors and matched by the couple.
Guillaume Charpenel, BEng’06, MBA’17, received the Robert Dorrance and Gail Drummond International Exchange Award for an academic exchange in the Netherlands in the 2017 winter semester.
Charpenel says he wanted to get out of what he calls the “North American echo chamber in business” and its limitations, to see how Europeans do business.
Guillaume Charpenel
At the Rotterdam School of Management, Charpenel worked on a consultancy project with a team of students from other countries and met with executives from different industries.
He saw how they conduct business, and also had the chance to see how the society works – “how they’re able to find solutions to problems they have, and how they’re very proactive in finding solutions.”
The award gave him the confidence not to be too worried about money while he was there and to “really enjoy myself and keep my eyes and heart open to whatever life was throwing at me.
“It really enabled me to have this primary mission, which is learning.”
New countries, new skills acquired
In his role as Associate Provost (International) at McGill, one of Philip Oxhorn’s mandates is to encourage students to study abroad.
We’re increasingly learning that people’s future career paths look much different compared to the past, with more international exposure and people more likely to change careers several times in their lifetime, notes Oxhorn, a professor of political science.
International internships and study abroad experiences help students acquire the practical skills that that kind of flexibility requires, he adds.
“It just prepares them better for the job market of the 21st century,” Oxhorn says.
Andrew Rintoul, a second-year McGill law student, received a Schull Yang International Experience Award for a 12-week internship in 2017 with a human rights organization in Cambodia.
Based in the capital Phnom Penh, Rintoul monitored high profile trials of activists and political prisoners during his internship with the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights. He also took part in election monitoring.
“The people that I met really are what I’ll take with me. The resilience and the courage of a lot of people in the country was really inspiring,” Rintoul says.
“Overall it was extremely inspiring, engaging. I would call it transformative in the sense that I now have an experience that is completely removed from what I would have experienced had I stayed home. It was a wonderful opportunity for me.”
Find out more about the McGill International Experience Awards.
UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
In conversation with Melanee Thomas, Dept. of Political Science, University...
Frigid tales from the bottom of the planet
Irnisursiriartutuq nunaringngitamini (Birthing outside the community)
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842609
|
__label__cc
| 0.630939
| 0.369061
|
Evolution of Paleogene Surtseyan volcanoes, primary eruption processes and post-eruptive bioclastic sedimentation. Chatham Island. New Zealand.
Leonor Sorrentino-Mariconda, Ray Cas, Jeffrey Stilwell
School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment
The Chatham Islands archipelago is located 860km east of the South Island, New Zealand, and is situated on the eastern edge of the partially submerged continental plateau, the Chatham Rise. The group comprises two main islands, Chatham and Pitt, and a smaller set of islets, which have preserved a geologic record since the Permian.
Sorrentino-Mariconda, L., Cas, R., & Stilwell, J. (2008). Evolution of Paleogene Surtseyan volcanoes, primary eruption processes and post-eruptive bioclastic sedimentation. Chatham Island. New Zealand.. 74-74.
Sorrentino-Mariconda, Leonor ; Cas, Ray ; Stilwell, Jeffrey . / Evolution of Paleogene Surtseyan volcanoes, primary eruption processes and post-eruptive bioclastic sedimentation. Chatham Island. New Zealand. 1 p.
@conference{e1ac49c5a9ef4dfda4afc399826844d7,
title = "Evolution of Paleogene Surtseyan volcanoes, primary eruption processes and post-eruptive bioclastic sedimentation. Chatham Island. New Zealand.",
abstract = "The Chatham Islands archipelago is located 860km east of the South Island, New Zealand, and is situated on the eastern edge of the partially submerged continental plateau, the Chatham Rise. The group comprises two main islands, Chatham and Pitt, and a smaller set of islets, which have preserved a geologic record since the Permian.",
author = "Leonor Sorrentino-Mariconda and Ray Cas and Jeffrey Stilwell",
Sorrentino-Mariconda, L, Cas, R & Stilwell, J 2008, 'Evolution of Paleogene Surtseyan volcanoes, primary eruption processes and post-eruptive bioclastic sedimentation. Chatham Island. New Zealand.', pp. 74-74.
Evolution of Paleogene Surtseyan volcanoes, primary eruption processes and post-eruptive bioclastic sedimentation. Chatham Island. New Zealand. / Sorrentino-Mariconda, Leonor; Cas, Ray; Stilwell, Jeffrey .
2008. 74-74.
T1 - Evolution of Paleogene Surtseyan volcanoes, primary eruption processes and post-eruptive bioclastic sedimentation. Chatham Island. New Zealand.
AU - Sorrentino-Mariconda, Leonor
AU - Cas, Ray
AU - Stilwell, Jeffrey
N2 - The Chatham Islands archipelago is located 860km east of the South Island, New Zealand, and is situated on the eastern edge of the partially submerged continental plateau, the Chatham Rise. The group comprises two main islands, Chatham and Pitt, and a smaller set of islets, which have preserved a geologic record since the Permian.
AB - The Chatham Islands archipelago is located 860km east of the South Island, New Zealand, and is situated on the eastern edge of the partially submerged continental plateau, the Chatham Rise. The group comprises two main islands, Chatham and Pitt, and a smaller set of islets, which have preserved a geologic record since the Permian.
Sorrentino-Mariconda L, Cas R, Stilwell J. Evolution of Paleogene Surtseyan volcanoes, primary eruption processes and post-eruptive bioclastic sedimentation. Chatham Island. New Zealand.. 2008.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842612
|
__label__cc
| 0.640341
| 0.359659
|
“Deadly Exchange”: America’s Racist Policing Has Roots in Israel
May 30, 2020 by Edward Morgan
During training sessions in Israel, American police delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies and taught what Israel calls counterterrorism, but is in fact no more than “refining methods of racial profiling.”
Israeli border police frisks a Palestinian ahead of a protest against Middle East peace plan announced Tuesday by US President Donald Trump, which strongly favors Israel, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
By Miko Peled,
Racism and violence against people of color in the U.S. is nothing new. In fact, the United States, with its claims to be “the land of the free,” has always been a racist, genocidal and violent state. It was founded on genocide of the native people and on the backs African slaves. The United States committed the most egregious war crimes in the history of mankind, including genocide, the use of nuclear weapons, destruction of democracies and support for murderous dictators around the world, and the list goes on and on from the earliest days of the Union to this very day.
The state of Israel, which historically speaking is a new creation, was also founded on genocide and racism. For close to one hundred years the Zionist movement which created Israel has been engaged in a brutal campaign to rid Palestine of its indegenous population and give the land to Jewish colonizers. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that good relations exist between the United States and Israel.
There are countless areas of life in the U.S. in which Israel and various Zionist organizations influence and interfere. The Jewish Federation, the Anti-Defamation League, and AIPAC are the most commonly recognized but are only three out of countless organizations that operate throughout the fifty states and relentlessly pursue Israeli interests in all facets of American life.
These organizations interfere in U.S. elections by pouring money into the campaigns of pro-Israeli candidates; they are engaged in heavily influencing the outcome of trials where the defendants are Arabs or Muslims, and they finance campaigns to edit and rewrite curricula in public schools so that the Middle East is always taught in a way that supports the Zionist narrative.
A deadly exchange
As the video clip of a Minnesota police officer slowly and callously choking George Floyd to death went viral, many people, including myself, remembered Palestine. Officer Derek Chauvin, who casually placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck, could have easily been an Israeli soldier or police officer holding down a Palestinian. The way he just sat there, took a knee on Floyd’s neck, ignoring Floyd who repeatedly said he cannot breathe, ignoring Floyd as he begged him to allow him to breathe and ignoring the fact that the man under his knee was slowly suffocating to death made it clear that this cop was a predator and George Floyd was merely his prey.
Since 9/11, many American police forces have been trained by Israeli security experts. Photos | AP
This happens in America just as it happens in Palestine. The similarities are no coincidence and they may well be the result of what has become known as the “Deadly Exchange,” a collaboration between the two racist states who see no problem in executing and watching the slow agonizing death of black and brown people.
Deadly Exchange is the name of a campaign to stop the collaboration between police departments across the United States and the state of Israel. The campaign put out an extensive report that outlines the cooperation between law enforcement in the U.S. and Israel. The report also lists the dangers and threats that this exchange poses to people of color in the United States.
Israeli democracy and security
Israel is wrongly heralded as a democracy facing perpetual threat. In reality, it is an apartheid state and its security apparatus is dedicated neither to safety nor security as it claims, but rather to the subjugation of Palestinians. During training sessions in Israel, U.S. law enforcement delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies. They are given “opportunities” to learn about what Israel calls counterterrorism, but is in fact no more than “refining methods of racial profiling.”
Cynically taking advantage of the 9/11 attacks, within months of the attacks, American law enforcement representatives set out to Israel for their first official training expeditions. The purpose was to learn from Isreal’s so-called “expertise” in what has become known as counter-terrorism. Counter-Terrorism, it is worth noting here, is a euphemism for the violent means used to subjugate oppressed people.
Never the Aggressor: Israel Is Convinced of Its Own Benevolence
Israel has convinced itself that the violence perpetrated by its soldiers is always justified, benevolent, and glorious.
The very first delegation to Israel, according to Deadly Exchange, included police chiefs and deputies from California, Texas, Maryland, Florida, and New York. The delegation also included FBI and CIA agents, future ICE officers, and directors of New York City MTA security.
Among the sponsors of this exchange program are the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which claims to fight the defamation of Jewish people, but in fact is dedicated to defamation of Arabs and Muslims, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). JISNA claims it is dedicated to “educating Congressional, military and civilian national security decision-makers on American defense and strategic interests,” the cornerstone of which, according to JINSA, “is a robust U.S.-Israeli security cooperation.” Both groups are well funded Zionist organizations that are dedicated to promoting and defending Israeli violence and racism no matter what.
One of the many similarities between Israel and the United States is their propensity for systemic racism. From the very beginning, Israel has imposed an apartheid regime in occupied Palestine and Palestinian citizens of Israel are subjected to systematic profiling. This means that interactions with the Israeli police regularly lead to “excessive and often lethal use of force deployed with impunity.”
Not unlike the United States where black and brown Americans make up the majority of the prison population, in Israeli prisons, Palestinian citizens of Israel represent a disproportionate number of those incarcerated. A report in the Israeli publication Mekomit states that Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up about 20 percent of the overall population, comprise over 40 percent of the prison population, in fact, according to Mekomit, only about a quarter of prisoners held in Israeli prisons are Jewish, and amongst minors being held in Israeli prisons, only about 13 percent are Jews.
Israeli police place a Palestinian boy in a chokehold in Jerusalem’s Old City, July 17, 2017. Mahmoud Illean | AP
If we include “security prisoners,” who come from the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, the numbers are even more grotesque, raising the percentage of Palestinians within the Israeli prison population to a staggering 73 percent.
Israeli policing utilizes an official policy where an entire population is guilty until proven innocent and naturally, this is part of the so-called counterterrorism training offered by Israel. It reinforces institutionalized racial profiling and even the targeting of social movements that demand racial justice.
The Israeli government uses false claims of “terrorism” to treat all Palestinians as potential enemy combatants. The excuse of terrorism is also used in order to subjugate Palestinians to a different system of laws, which inevitably leads to more policing and higher rates of incarceration.
The training Israel offers also includes methods to control the media. Members of law enforcement who have received the training reported that they “learned about how to intervene and shape media access and coverage of violence committed by the military and police.” The Israeli methods taught include how to use the media as an arm of the government and “reframe coverage of state violence.”
The Israeli government utilizes the office of the military censor to control all reporting on Israel’s use of force. It also reviews all books and other material before it can be made available to the public. The IDF Spokesperson’s office which also yields power over Israeli journalists, acts as Israel’s de facto public relations office, restricting and shaping local coverage of what it considers to be “security affairs.”
How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners
Israel has long conflated political activism and resistance with terrorism as an effective tool to demonize Palestinian political prisoners.
It should be noted that in Israel there is very little criticism when it comes to the work of the army and other security agencies and reporters work very closely with the military to present its violence against Palestinians as justified. Palestinian dissent, even when it is expressed in the most peaceful methods, is regularly reported as violence and borderline terrorism.
Israel has “normalized” the use of military force to stamp out popular protests, thus contributing to the undermining of basic civil rights of Palestinians. These violent, forceful methods of controlling dissent are shown to the American police delegations through briefings and even live demonstrations.
Parallels to Palestine
The violent encounters black communities in the U.S. experience with the police have led many people to draw parallels between Palestinians and people of color in the United States. This created a real sense of solidarity between U.S. social movements and the Palestinian struggle for liberation, a solidarity that is increasingly becoming stronger and can potentially turn the tide of public opinion on this issue in the U.S.
In its report, the Deadly Exchange Campaign demands that “the American government end its violence in the name of security.” The report also states that “We hope that local governments nationwide heed the calls from communities across Palestine and the United States to help build a world with real safety that we all can inhabit with dignity.”
Feature photo | Israeli police frisk a Palestinian man in Jerusalem, Jan 29, 2020. Mahmoud Illean | AP
Miko Peled is an author and human rights activist born in Jerusalem. He is the author of “The General’s Son. Journey of an Israeli in Palestine,” and “Injustice, the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.”
Categories ARCONTES, Awakening, Consciousness, Disclosure, Education, Full Disclosure, History, Illuminati, Jesuits, News, NWO, Resistance, Teachings, Truth Post navigation
Redemption Through Sin
WHISTLEBLOWER NAILS FAUCI, ROTHSCHILDS, HIGHLANDS GROUP, DARPA, DOD…….
7 thoughts on ““Deadly Exchange”: America’s Racist Policing Has Roots in Israel”
Trump should be more humble and apologize, get all the cops together and have a serious talk about the brutal treatment they commit. All of this serves to tell the System that governs us. Respect us! Which is not because you have the power that comes out of treating people as they want, with this ignorant brutality! This serves the whole world, and that is why we are taking people on the streets in revolt, tired of the abuse of power!
Trump should apologize for “playing” along, yes. Playing along with the Covid 19 & these ‘False Flag’ shootings.
New York City ‘Treasury Building’ Conveniently – Suspiciously, gets destroyed by Rioters. Sounds like what “They” pulled off during 911.
there is for sure a lot of injustice done by Israel government for years and I was also involved as much as I could with my own protests ( because there are Israelis’ and and not only a few’ who disagree and would like to live in peace and prosperous with all people around /also arabs . ) and for sure there is a lot of crime done by Israeli leader who think he is forever king for some reason.
plus ,I would be the last one who will voluntarily say a good word about Israelis most of their people I encountered my whole life only too advantage and treatment me badly .but guess it came to that..
I follow this site for a few weeks and hopefully may give some constructive critic because maybe you should look into your original goals and beliefs for creating a world of compassion tolerance and love/ as seems’ in this case’ to be forgotten/
I experience fear suspicious and hatred ( also by self hated Israelis / jews like the writer :totally understandable but know the origin for his shame as well ) .
the amount of articles about one nation religion and all the accusations suggested in them are quit a lot . the choice of words and expressions toward a nation and one religion and by educated people with awareness publicly use and consider as legit is somewhat disturbing as well
I really see a lot of anti Israel post here and although I have nothing to do with a right wing beliefs and am active so do for years already my best against mis justice. it is very blent here.
I normally don’t even consider myself as Israeli. Im a combination of many origins and I wasn’t even born there but I never felt so bad about having an Israeli background as I feel here.a space created by a group of people who say they are after good. I visit this site and try to find some comfort and strength to keep on doing my active wok toward a better future and even if I do it only small scale but every time I enter this site I keep on being reminded Im part of this diabolic nation that wants to destroy the world. that I am Israel not even and Israel so get messages that Im only part of a system.. . I relocated again to my birth town Berlin and live here since 2012 and had no anti Semitic or others anti against me so its not that Im a person who looks for it..
I wonder why not mention all the criminals then ?
while Im being slaughtered and attacked for months now here in Berlin personally and non personally while nice experiments are being done on us . living unfortunately now right near an antenna tower and also document the progress of all the facilities installed on the rooftops . the roofs look in my area like war zone but no one bother to look up just keep on watching their cell phone
I lost 10 kg the first 2-3 weeks having ( documented ) chemical burns on my hands that hurt like crazy but disappear without scar after 2-3 days. having here radiation of 2-3 times more than max allowed in the city ( bought a Giger ) . and other physical very hard extraordinary electromagnetic phenomenas that hurt my health and my dog health as well . I can sense all of this see and hear it all since February / march ( even Nov s last year . on the personal level of attacks I get from 5 G utilities ) but I don’t see any report of the experiments done on humans and all life forms in Berlin
plus as activist who has studied in medical school and who challenges people here with my words and behavior I get scared lately to say something wrong in public now it got even dangerous to say something against masks and epidemics using academic text that I studied in Uni.
we still need to wear masks and we live in city arrest for 3 months already.. no one says anything about the nice germans who became in seconds from cool loving young party dudes who welcome refugees to some extreme cold facsists who will stab your back . when I get answers from young German supermarket employees such as ” “””Germany””‘ has voted for putting on masks ” and when a costumer tells on me to the guard for not wearing the mask inside the store taking me to the boss and trying to public shame me ( when the workers themselves did not wear it because the law that very day didn’t obligate them ) I get worried,
it really feels like east Germany 1975 sometime Germany 1940 and I wonder why no one mention this just talk about Israel and blame the Israelis again and agin we are aware and hear it for 2000 years now already. in loop .. its boring to hear it for thousands of years. sorry. so maybe change the record ? might be hight time while we shift in to 5 th dimension.. just for the sake of the planet and some tolerance between people / who cares about religions races origins nowadays ?
maybe even dare to be one and with one destiny also together with the scary jews and Israelis those with tail and horns who ride on camels who just enjoy taking over banks as all Israelis are extremely rich living in mentions. ..
I recently signed a world petition again 5 G . when filling my details there was no Israel option to chose from all the other countries. so now people are picky and really believe it is a good time to ban Israelis who want to fight the 5 G ?
there is no bigger hate and fear than by those who have no knowledge . right ?
maybe you will still have a nice opportunity to visit this country and especially amazing Jerusalem for a week or 2 just to have a small glimpse of what really is going on there. be the judge after living there or at least visit. please
strange times indeed. when I hold hands with the German AFD natzi pary with the same believes about the current situation it will not change my beliefs and what I think as my truth . and I will keep on going even if Im hated here by the awakened or by the zombies .
there is always a good reason to hate. that I know since Im a child already following my heart own truth already since then.
thanks for taking my words into consideration
Interesting that these two clowns Derek Chauvin & George Floyd worked together for over a decade as Security Officers at a club in Minneapolis, ‘El Nuevo Rodeo Club.’ Can any Smell & Spell A N T I F A ?? How about P R O P A G A N D A ??
Esther Bunny Brown
“The Supremacists know that if they can frame the Zionist Israel issue about browns (Semitic Palestinians), then most Whites will not care.” – Michael Kingsbury (whom I consider to be one of the voices of what could be termed “the Unofficial West”)
https://twitter.com/Celtic_Films/status/1258460125905338369
Israel today, is not, the Israel of the Bible (or perhaps in some of the worst ways, it is just as bad, after all,, they did murder/crucify back then, innocent civilians, as well…).
This article sheds “Light” of Truth, on what, the nation of Israel truly is, today. Were I, still an American ‘Christian’, I would be appalled at the actions, of the State of Israel but, what I would be more appalled at, is my country’s leaders, giving them billions and billions of our tax dollars to support such an utterly corrupt and evil, regime, while we here ‘at home’ are in such trouble ourselves…
I believe in trying to help our friends and neighbors internationally that are in legitimate need like famine (years back anyways) but, ‘generosity’ has distinct limits… When your own people, are lining up at food banks stretched to their limits, are starving, the national ‘house’ is on fire economically, with even greater issues at hand today, and the nation’s infrastructure is crumbling (because of the corruption and greed), and yet your leaders, are either lining their own pockets with huge tax breaks and perks or, giving away every dollar that is needed and necessary here at home to an utterly low life despicable non democratic fascist government like that of Israel. Then it’s long past time to replace all those leaders here at home, with new leadership, and perhaps if necessary and they refuse to give up power or corrupt our elections, with a new Constitutionally based government bringing in new people with better plans and ideas, from other groups than the two, current, miserably corrupt / treasonous groups (Republican AND Democrat), that brought you, so much misery at home, and brought such misery around the earth.
Ban the two party’s, vote them out in November, all of them, before our collective house, our country, is burnt to the ground.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842616
|
__label__wiki
| 0.603
| 0.603
|
The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys, 1685 to the Present / Tony Kushner
At a time when billboards have been driven around London urging illegal immigrants to ‘go home’, when photographs of the arrests of those suspected of breaching their visas were being tweeted by the Home Office (with the hashtag #immigrationoffenders), and when 39,000 texts stating ‘go home’ have been sent to suspected overstayers, the publication of Tony Kushner's The Battle of Britishness
Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation / Nicholas Terpstra
Exile has long been central to our understanding of certain Early Modern topics. The flight of English Protestants, and then Catholics, to the Continent in the 16th century, or the exodus of Huguenots (many to England and Ireland) after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in the 17th, are perhaps the best known examples to UK audiences.
Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area / Peter Cole
In Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and San Francisco Bay Area, historian Peter Cole compares the union histories of two port cities, the militant struggles of dockworkers against racial discrimination, their response to technology (in the form of containerisation),
Britain and Ireland (1) Apply Britain and Ireland filter
International History (2) Apply International History filter
Economic History (1) Apply Economic History filter
Maritime History (1) Apply Maritime History filter
Religious History (1) Apply Religious History filter
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842621
|
__label__cc
| 0.51926
| 0.48074
|
Global rice trade faces uncertainty in 2013
V. Subramanian | Jan 11, 2013
The Rice Trader’s 4th annual World Rice Conference revealed that the global rice market was hinged on political decisions that would dictate rice exports, while climate change added volatility to rice production output and price trends.
About 450 delegates gathered in Bali, Indonesia, in September 2012 to look at these issues and at what experts thought would shape global markets.
Leading concerns of 2012
CAMBODIAN Jasmine rice wins the Best-Tasting Rice Contest in 2012. Sarak Duong (first on the left, front row), associate operations officer for sustainable business advisory of the International Finance Corporation, receives the award on behalf of Golden Rice (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., from Jeremy Zwinger (far right), TRT CEO and president. (Photo: TRT)
Important economic and political developments have been rocking India and Thailand, making them the major players in 2012. Deep concern for these countries arose because of India’s recent return to nonbasmati exports (and concerns over a late monsoon and impact on rice output) as well as Thailand’s rice mortgage scheme, which critics deemed more “populist” than economical. China, on the other hand, turned out to be a significant buyer in 2011-12, and a force that arrived when many importers such as the Philippines and Bangladesh were reducing, if not stopping, rice imports. IRRI senior economist Dr. Samarendu Mohanty pointed to rice consumption and the need for an additional 116 million tons of rice by 2035 to feed the global population as he took a long-term look at rice demand.
He also discussed how the U.S. drought, the Indian monsoon, and climate change in general caused swift changes in supply.
Extreme weather affected global grain production more in 2012 than the 2008 crisis. However, rice markets were less affected by this tide of price increases that arrived on the back of severe drought in North America (comparable to the drought of 1988- 89) compounded by food crop output limitations faced in Russia, the Black Sea region, South America, and Australia.
Thai surplus
Dr. Mohanty said that the bigger concern in global supply and demand was coming from Thailand’s possible losses in export sales due to its uncompetitive prices.
Korbsook Iamsuri, president of the Rice Exporters Association of Thailand, revealed what many in the audience suspected: that Thailand could soon lose its prestigious position as the world’s largest exporter, most likely to India, or Vietnam.
Although the Thai mortgage scheme is not new, the global situation—particularly with India’s return— presented fresh challenges for Thailand. Quality problems (due to the degradation of stocks held over a long time) and the lack of price competitiveness were key worries.
With the competitive situation in mind, Ms. Iamsuri presented two possible scenarios: the current scheme, if left untouched, could leave Thailand in jeopardy; or, if the scheme is modified to allow a role for stakeholders and the Thai market to adjust and compete for specialty markets (such as parboiled rice), Thailand could retain a larger market share. Thailand could otherwise supply markets only if large supply shocks (associated with a swiftly changing weather system) affect rice markets.
Threat to Indian exports
Chef Michael Cross (right) stands undefeated as the Lord of Rice in 2012. He first won the recognition in 2011. (Photo: TRT)
India’s rice exports constantly depend on government or political decisions, such as the one in 2008 that saw three long years of a nonbasmati rice export ban, said Tejinder Narang, advisor to Emmsons International.
The reality was that India’s domestic economy, particularly food inflation concerns, tended to strongly affect the rice market through political decisions. Notably, Mr. Narang revealed that India’s Food Security Bill, which will subsidize food for 65% of the population, would be the deciding factor for the long-term viability of Indian exports.
India, in the meantime, is expected to continue exports for most of 2013.
Indonesia boosts food security efforts
Sutarto Alimoeso, director of Indonesia’s food agency Perum Bulog, emphasized Indonesia’s efforts in attaining food security.
Global issues such as rising demand and rising energy cost pushed the agency to adopt a multilateral approach to food security that will meet national objectives through rice reserves and price stability. This is evident in the agency’s local rice procurement that rose from just 1.9 million tons in 2010 to 3.41 million tons in 2012. The program supports 17.4 million households and must consider global developments while keeping an eye on national objectives.
Jeremy Zwinger, president and CEO of The Rice Trader, said, “What we have in 2012 is a global grain market that not only mirrors the crisis in 2008.” He said the market surpassed the 2008 record prices of corn (maize), wheat, and soy, while rice lagged behind the global grain market. North and South American markets saw a modest price reaction to tight supplies while Asia’s market has ample supplies, which are weighing down the price.
Mr. Zwinger added that 2012 was also different in that there was economic weakness seen in the Eurozone, U.S., and even the sturdy Chinese market to potentially temper demand and any speculative money from finding its way to rice markets.
Mr. Darren Cooper, senior economist of the International Grains Council, also reported on global grain market developments. He described the grain and oilseed markets as having “diverged from the global commodities complex” since June 2012.
Mr. Cooper also revealed that rice markets did not follow this high-price trend only because rice market fundamentals now do not support such a rising price. Although stocks were seen as ample, he asked, “How much of this supply is actually available to the market?”—revealing what could be an important element that affects price volatility and availability of rice.
Rice and the whims of climate
More than 400 participants attended the TRT World Rice Conference 2012. Benjamin Lu of Lui Hing Hop Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong), and Chandra Hartono Jokowidajaja (3rd from right and 2nd from right) and Wanniwat Kitireanglarp (right) of Ponglarp Co., Ltd. (Thailand), smile brightly on the first day of the event. (Photo: TRT)
Elwynn Taylor, extension agronomist at Iowa State University, focused on climate change and its potential impact on global rice and agricultural production. He warned of the likelihood of El Niño and how temperature is on the rise, which could signal a risk of drought in several parts of Southeast Asia.
Mr. Taylor’s forecasts revealed a volatile outlook for rice production in 2013: although India’s production is expected to improve in 2013, global corn and rice supplies are likely to decrease, while wheat production is seen as stable.
China and other key players
In the midst of all these discussions, Hu Wenzhong, senior analyst at National Grain and Oilseeds Information Center in China, bared a rising trend in Chinese imports.
It made sense for China to take advantage of cheaper prices with some 1.64 million tons imported into China in the first 8 months of 2012. Ms. Wenzhong said that Thailand has ceased supplying China because Vietnam’s and Pakistan’s cheaper prices attracted the bulk of Chinese buying.
Thus, 2013 rice markets would be shaped, to some degree, by the following: Chinese and Indonesian buying, Thai decisions on the rice pledging scheme and mounting stocks, and India’s export policy and Food Security Bill.
All these policies and business decisions will also confront an increasingly volatile output as a result of increasing uncertainty in weather. The challenge for 2013 is complete with a stuttering global economy with worry lines seen in Europe, America, and China—to add a financial market dynamic to rice markets in both price and consumption trends.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842624
|
__label__cc
| 0.510129
| 0.489871
|
Exciting YA Book Releases Winter 2021
There are SO many awesome books coming out in 2021. So I want to share some of the most-anticipated YA book releases for winter 2021!
I’m including books releasing in January, February, and March, and focusing on the mystery/thriller, contemporary, romance, and fantasy genres.
Young Adult/YA Book Releases Winter 2021
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite
Genre: YA Contemporary
“The Hate U Give meets Get Out in this honest and powerful exploration of prejudice in the stunning novel from sister-writer duo Maika and Maritza Moulite, authors of Dear Haiti, Love Alaine.”
Genre: YA Fantasy
“From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds comes a sweepingly ambitious, high-octane tale of power, destiny, love and redemption amongst Greek gods living as mortals.”
Genre: YA Contemporary/Romance
“From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes Emma Lord’s You Have a Match, a YA novel of family, friendship, romance and sisterhood.”
Release date: January 12th, 2021
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
“International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.”
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
Genre: YA Contemporary/Thriller
“A slick, twisty YA page-turner about the daughter of a con artist who is taken hostage in a bank heist.”
What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo
Genre: YA Horror/Paranormal
“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children meets The Addams Family in this haunting story of one girl’s attempt to reconnect with her monstrous family.”
Release date: February 2nd, 2021
The Project by Courtney Summers
Genre: YA Mystery/Thriller
“Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo’s sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there’s more to the group than meets the eye. She’s spent the last six years of her life trying—and failing—to prove it.”
The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Genre: YA Thriller
“A classic sort of love story… except somebody might wind up dead.
Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called romantic.”
“Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.”
Release date: February 9th, 2021
Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher
“Eighteen-year-old Amelia Griffin is obsessed with the famous Orman Chronicles, written by the young and reclusive prodigy N. E. Endsley. When a mysterious, rare edition of the Orman Chronicles arrives, Amelia is convinced that it somehow came from Jenna, [her friend who was tragically killed in an accident]. Tracking the book to an obscure but enchanting bookstore in Michigan, Amelia is shocked to find herself face-to-face with the enigmatic and handsome N. E. Endsley himself.”
The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney
Genre: YA Fantasy/Contemporary
“Rose Colter is almost home, but she can’t go back there yet. When her car breaks down in the Nevada desert, the silence of the night is broken by a radio broadcast of a voicemail message from her best friend, Gaby. A message Rose has listened to countless times over the past year. The last one Gaby left before she died.”
Release date: February 23rd, 2021
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
Genre: YA Mystery/Crime
“The highly-anticipated crime-thriller sequel to the no. 1 debut of 2019, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.” I won’t include a full synopsis here, because I don’t want to share any spoilers if you haven’t read the first book. But in general, this series is about a young woman (kind of like a modern Nancy Drew) who attempts to solve true crime cases.
Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft
Genre: YA Fantasy/Romance
“A gorgeously gothic, deeply romantic YA debut fantasy about two enemies trapped inside a crumbling mansion, with no escape from the monsters within.”
Release date: March 2nd, 2021
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
“In Sophie Gonzales’ Perfect on Paper, Leah on the Offbeat meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by the hot guy to help him get his ex back.”
Release date: March 9th, 2021
She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard
“An electric romance set against a rebel art scene sparks lethal danger for two girls in this expertly plotted YA thriller. For fans of E. Lockhart, Lauren Oliver and Kara Thomas.”
Release date: March 30th, 2021
The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis
“In the first book of this duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship . . . forevermore.”
Click here to view my full list of most-anticipated YA book releases in Winter 2021.
These should keep you busy for a while, but check back later for even more book lists!
If you’re looking for more awesome books to read, check out my list of the best thriller books of 2020 (so far)!
Posted in: Book Lists
← A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson (Book Review)
The Blade Between by Sam. J Miller (Book Review) →
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842631
|
__label__wiki
| 0.701406
| 0.701406
|
Tethyan ophiolites and Tethyan seaways
Yildirim Dilek and Harald Furnes
Journal of the Geological Society of London (September 2019) 176 (5): 899-912
accretion
exhumation
igneous rocks
magmatism
Neotethys
ocean basins
oceanic lithosphere
ophiolite
orogenic belts
paleogeography
peridotites
plutonic rocks
rifting
sea-floor spreading
ultramafics
Western Alps
seaways
N30°00'00" - N47°30'00", W05°00'00" - E38°00'00"
Tethyan ophiolites have played a major role in the development of the ophiolite concept during the past 200 years, and contributed significantly to the formulations of the suprasubduction-zone (SSZ) ophiolite paradigm and the plate-tectonics theory. Their melt evolution and magmatic construction witnessed the dispersal of the supercontinent Pangaea via continental rifting and seafloor spreading, opening and closure of multiple seaways in an eastward widening, latitudinal ocean basin (Neotethys), and deep mantle recycling processes through subduction-zone tectonics and plume activities. Neotethyan ophiolites are highly diverse in their crustal-mantle structures and compositions, pointing to major differences in their melt sources and tectonic settings of magmatic construction. The papers in this thematic set demonstrate these differences in the Neotethyan ophiolite record through new structural, geochemical, isotopic and geochronological data and interpretations. The Jurassic Western Alpine Ophiolites formed in a narrow basin (Alpine Tethys) that developed between Europe and North Africa-Adria-Iberia. Their peridotites represent exhumed, continental lithospheric mantle. The Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous ophiolites east of Adria formed in different Neotethyan seaways, and their SSZ magmatic construction involved multiple episodes of melting, depletion and refertilization of subduction-modified oceanic mantle. The Late Cretaceous peri-Arabian and peri-Indian ophiolites, which are discontinuously exposed along a c. 9000 km long belt from SW Anatolia to SE Tibet, formed above a Trans-Tethyan subduction-accretion system within Southern Neotethys. Diachronous collisions of Arabia and India with this intraoceanic subduction-accretion system in the latest Mesozoic and the Paleogene (respectively) resulted in diachronous ophiolite emplacement in the Mediterranean and Tibetan-Himalayan orogenic belts. Thematic collection: This article is part of the 'Tethyan ophiolites and Tethyan seaways collection' available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/tethyan-ophiolites-and-tethyan-sea ways
EISSN: 2041-479X
Coden: JGSLAS
Serial Title: Journal of the Geological Society of London
Title: Tethyan ophiolites and Tethyan seaways
Author(s): Dilek, YildirimFurnes, Harald
Affiliation: Miami University, Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, OH, United States
Publisher: Geological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
References: 180
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2019-129
Categories: Solid-earth geophysics
Illustration Description: illus. incl. geol. sketch map
Secondary Affiliation: University of Bergen, NOR, Norway
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2019, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from GeoScienceWorld, Alexandria, VA, United States. Reference includes data from The Geological Society, London, London, United Kingdom
URL: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/jgs/article/176/5/899/573432/Tethyan-ophiolites-and-Tethyan-seaways
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842637
|
__label__wiki
| 0.696197
| 0.696197
|
R N B Archives - Page 9 of 15 - Punjab2000.com
IMRAN KHAN and H DHAMI B’day Celebration CHINA WHITE june 3rd
IMRAN KHAN and H DHAMI B'day Celebration CHINA WHITE June 3rd
DJ DIPS PRE-ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY SUPPORTING GARRY SANDHU
BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart with Reggie Yates to be available in vision
Music fans able to watch live top ten countdown as BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart with Reggie Yates to be available in vision.
Britney goes Bollywood
Britney Spears and Sonu Nigam are set to collaborate on her latest track “I Wanna Go”.
LADY GAGA’s fascination with India has no limits as Edge of Glory goes to DJ Aqeel
LADY GAGA’s fascination with India has no limits as Edge of Glory goes to DJ Aqeel for some more Bollywood inspiration
1 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842638
|
__label__wiki
| 0.655797
| 0.655797
|
Gorleston lifeboat assists lifeguards with swimmer rescue due to strong ebb tide
The RNLI’s inshore lifeboat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was tasked at 5:17pm on 20 June 2019 by UK Coastguard, to reports of a young male in difficulty off Gorleston Beach.
The Atlantic 75 Pride of Leicester quickly proceeded to the position given by the Coastguard, where on arrival an RNLI Lifeguard was on scene, keeping the casualty afloat by their rescue board.
The casualty had been swept behind a sea defence, with no easy route back to the beach. RNLI lifeguard, Neil Bryan had luckily paddled out approximately 200 metres and reached him before the situation developed into something more serious. The decision was made due to the distance to shore and the sea conditions, to wait for assistance from Gorleston Lifeboat.
The volunteer lifeboat crew working with the lifeguards transferred the casualty onto the inshore lifeboat to take the casualty back to the lifeboat station for further checks.
In the meantime the situation further developed with the casualties friend entering the water and being swept up in the same current, lifeguard Matt Black, who had put the call in the Coastguard to launch the lifeboat, launched another rescue board and reached the second casualty who was 50 metres from the shore.
The lifeguard and casualty managed to get ashore.
Liam Fayle-Parr RNLI Lifeguard supervisor said: ‘This incident shows how quickly swimmers can get into difficulty, even if the sea conditions look relatively benign, there can be unknown currents that catch people out, which is why it is so important to come to a lifeguarded beach and swim between the lifeguards Red and Yellow flags.'
Luckily for the two swimmers they were on a lifeguarded beach and praise goes to the lifeguards, Neil and Matt on their quick thinking and composure and managing the incident and requesting the assistance of Gorleston lifeboat who took over the care of the casualty.
One of the casualties went to hospital for further medical attention.
A spokesperson for the RNLI said: ‘We earlier on this year launched our Respect the Water campaign which is to prevent drowning, we have done this by highlighting the risks and how to avoid them and giving advice to keep you and those around you safe. It is worth remembering to fight your instinct, not the water.
'Around 190 people lose their lives at the UK and Irish coasts each year, and over half never even planned to enter the water.
This year, Respect the Water will focus on simple skills that could save a life:
1. If you find yourself unexpectedly in the water, float to increase your chances of survival.
2. If you see someone else in trouble in the water, call 999 or 112 and ask for the Coastguard.
'Coldwater shock is triggered in water temperatures lower than 15⁰C – the average temperature of UK and Irish waters is 12⁰C. So even in the Summer, the water temperature is cold enough to cause cold water shock, which can steal the air from your lungs and leave you helpless in seconds.
Rip currents can travel up to the same speed as an Olympic swimmer (4.5mph) and can pull even the strongest swimmers out to sea. And unexpected waves can quickly knock people off their feet.’
For more information please telephone Kimberley Platford, RNLI volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer and Crew on 07907360588, rnligorlestonpo@outlook.com or Jim Rice,RNLI Regional Media Manager (North East & East) on 07810658072 or jim_rice@rnli.org.uk or Clare Hopps, Regional Media Officer (North East and East) on 07824518641 or clare_hopps@rnli.org.uk or contact the RNLI Press Office on 01202 336789.
Kim Platford
Lifeboat Press Officer, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat Station
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat Station
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842641
|
__label__cc
| 0.702261
| 0.297739
|
Problems worthy
Thoughts, comments, and summaries
Tag Archives: aaron swartz
When Activism Goes Online: Anonymous, Hacktivism and the Law Lecture at NYLS
A couple weeks ago I went to a “When Activism Goes Online: Anonymous, Hacktivism and the Law” at New York Law School, co-sponsored by the Institute for Information Law and Policy, National Lawyers Guild- National Office, and Students for Free Culture. The panelists were Kenneth Citarella, an adjunct professor at NYLS and former prosecutor who specialized in computer crimes starting in the 1980’s, Abi Hassen, Mass Defense Coordinator with the National Lawyers Guild, and Grainne O’Neill, a defense attorney specializing in the intersection of law and technology.
Citarella talked a little bit about his experience as a prosecutor of computer crimes very early on. One of his main points is that he strongly dislikes the word hacker, specifically because he doesn’t feel like he known what it means. Later on in the evening he emphasizes the difference between in person actions and actions mediated by technology, without clarifying exactly how. Mainly, I think that he served as a prosecution-side counter point to the other speakers. The most interesting thing for me was hearing how generally conservative he is in his interpretation and squaring that against his early involvement in the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which serves as a good reminder that civil liberties is an area where many people can find common ground.
O’Neill started by talking about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1984. The CFAA was conceived of and passed in a time before the internet as we know it- both socially and technologically- and was passed to specifically protect financial institutions, the government, and interstate commerce. For purposes of the CFAA, “unauthorized access” is defined by the computer or website’s Terms of Service (TOS), violations of which would otherwise be only a matter of contract law, not criminal law. In effect, CFAA empowered private companies to dictate criminal law through their TOS. The CFAA’s definition of damages sets a low standard.
After covering the basics of what the CFAA, O’Neill compared the penalties for online behaviors to their closest offline equivalents. She placed a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack as similar to a picket, since both are intended to provide visibility to the activists’ displeasure with the target. Theft of a cheap laptop in a coffee shop that contained sensitive information might be punishable by a year in jail, but accessing the same information via an unsecured wi-fi network would get up to 10 years in prison under the CFAA, and in that senario, the victim hasn’t lost use of anything. Even assuming that that the laptop is more expensive and taken from a home, burglary in New York has a maximum sentence of 7 years, which is still less than allowed for remote entry under the CFAA, and involves someone physically entering one’s home. After going over the potential disparate treatment of crimes based on the involvement of hacking or not, O’Neill reiterated that many online crimes are criminalized under non-online specific legislation and that we should look to our rich history of jurisprudence in seeking to address
Hassan put together a PowerPoint presentation which he titled “The Fifth Estate: Information Activism in the Age of Secrecy,” drawing on the idea that hackers and information activists (including whistleblowers) may work for the public good, as a watch dog, much as the press, or forth estate, has. An example of this he gave was Hamed Al-Khabaz, a Canadian student who was expelled from Dawson College after finding and reporting a major security flaw in his university’s storage of student information. He also emphasized the role of “lulz,” vaguely defined as humor or mischievous satisfaction, in hacking. His example of this was Guccifer’s release of George W. Bush’s remarkably bad self-portrait while showering.
Hassan’s presentation included a couple of really great quotations on related topics from Bloomberg and Thomas Jefferson. He showed graphs from Google and Microsoft of requests for user information from governmental agencies and emphasized the contradiction of increased government and corporate secrecy with the decrease of personal privacy and increase of individual surveillance at the same time. He also gave a great run-down of current major hacking cases in the United States:
Weev (his defense fund)
Matthew Keys (summary from wikipedia)
Paypal 14
Barrett Brown
LULZSEC/ ANTISEC (Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. Sabu, Jeremy Hammond, plus four more outside the United States)
And of whistleblower cases:
John Kiriakou, who exposed the CIA’s use of torture
Thomas Drake, William Binney, and J. Kirk Wiebe, who exposed NSA’s spying on American citizens through proper channels
The best part of the lecture was the question and answer session after the structured presentation. I didn’t take great notes on that part, and since the lecture was back on April 3rd, my memory is not good enough to flesh out the discussion. Highlights included: Citarella arguing that federal sentencing guidelines are frequently too ridgid and pointing out that in the case of Matthew Keys we should strongly consider the difference between what the end result of his giving out passwords was with what it could have been in understanding it’s treatment in the courts; Hassan building on his early talk of current cases and mentioning that 95% of cases end in pleas, largely because of the power that prosecutors have in their discretion regarding charges and requests; and O’Neill stating that the freedom to assemble is really the freedom to assemble anonymously and that it is the anonymity is key to the power of the freedom to assemble. Other items of discussion including emergent 4th and 5th Amendment issues as well an time-place-manner restrictions on in-person protests and how that translates into online activism.
by Rose Regina
filed under Lectures-Panels-Discussions, Legal, Tech
tagged as aaron swartz, abi hassan, activism, antisec, barrett brown, bill binney, bradley manning, cfaa, computer fraud and abuse act, digital, free speach, freedom to assemble, grainne o'neill, hactivism, hector xavier monsegur, institute for information law and policy, irl, j kirk wiebe, jeremy hammond, john kiriakou, kenneth citarella, lulzsec, matthew keys, meatspace, national lawyers guild, new york law school, nyls, paypal 14, sabu, students for free culture, thomas drake, weev, whistleblowers, william binney
Knit fairy lights with LEDs for Advent
WPA2, KRACK, WTF? a basic, basic summary
Friends of PM Press, May 2015 edition
Friends of PM Press, October 2014 Edition
Friends of PM Press, September 2014 Edition
Friends of PM Press
Jail Support
Lectures-Panels-Discussions
Project Writeup
@jilliancyork I've been eyeing up a pair from the Diadora Heritage collection for years and if you're willing to po… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 months ago
@paul2dart * sage simple syrup * dry it and use it year round * dry it and give it as gifts * pulverize or blender… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 months ago
@A_Filter @Aviah_Sarah_Day @cmmonknowledge @GemCopeland @helveticade I was following @cryptpad development for a wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 months ago
Like learning about Chicago’s 4th Congressional District, but so much better because it's not election-related twitter.com/russss/status/… 4 months ago
RT @mshelton: My colleagues @huertanix, @_olivemartini_ and I wrote a whole series on the privacy, security, and usability properties of po… 5 months ago
Follow @roseregina
Inspired by the work of SAUL BASS, ART GOODMAN, and DAVE NAGATA. Hitchcock typeface by MATT TERICH.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842645
|
__label__wiki
| 0.674766
| 0.674766
|
Complete Rodzinski Columbia Album Collection
Mark Obert-Thorn
Here's something interesting that just turned up on ImportCDs' website -- a 16-disc box from Sony devoted to Rodzinski:
https://www.importcds.com/the-complete-columbia-album-collection/194397877526
I had heard a rumor that it was only going to have his New York Philharmonic recordings (not his Cleveland, Columbia Symphony or the RCA Chicago recordings), but we'll know better when more details come out.
Curiously, the release date is October 9th and it's only available as an import from Germany; yet, Amazon DE does not list a release date for it, although it has a page there. Between this and the recent Reiner Columbias box, they're certainly keeping busy for the end of this year.
Mark O-T
Post by Mark Obert-Thorn
In case anyone was wondering (I was), the Scribendum
Rodzinski box contains exactly one NYPO recording, lifted
from the GPOC set (Rachmaninov 2nd symphony). Most are with
the RPO. So little overlap. Most of the Rodzinski NYPO
recordings are on labels like AS Disc, Dante, Lys, Iron
Needle and the like, so hopefully the sound will be improved.
RiRiIII
Now, the only missing link is the Mitropoulos Columbia Box.
John Fowler
Post by RiRiIII
Rodzinski's New York recordings were all for Columbia, but his Chicago recordings were for RCA. Not sure about his Cleveland recordings.
Steven Reveyoso
Post by John Fowler
The Cleveland recordings also were recorded for Columbia.
Link from what to what?
On Friday, September 25, 2020 at 4:36:30 PM UTC+3, Mark
Here's something interesting that just turned up on
ImportCDs' website -- a 16-disc box from Sony devoted to
I had heard a rumor that it was only going to have his
New York Philharmonic recordings (not his Cleveland,
Columbia Symphony or the RCA Chicago recordings), but
we'll know better when more details come out.
Curiously, the release date is October 9th and it's only
available as an import from Germany; yet, Amazon DE does
not list a release date for it, although it has a page
there. Between this and the recent Reiner Columbias box,
they're certainly keeping busy for the end of this year.
You don't really need to be so critical, do you? How about
a link from past to the present?
Here's something interesting that just turned up on ImportCDs' website --
I had heard a rumor that it was only going to have his New York
Philharmonic recordings (not his Cleveland, Columbia Symphony or the RCA
Chicago recordings), but we'll know better when more details come out.
Curiously, the release date is October 9th and it's only available as an
import from Germany; yet, Amazon DE does not list a release date for it,
although it has a page there. Between this and the recent Reiner
Columbias box, they're certainly keeping busy for the end of this year.
You don't really need to be so critical, do you? How about a link from past
to the present?
It was a question, meant seriously, not a criticism. Your suggested
answer is too vague to be helpful, and hardly justifies the words
"only missing". Response, however, is entirely optional - no more than\
a little curiosity.
ImportCDs' website -- a 16-disc box from Sony devoted
Curiously, the release date is October 9th and it's
only available as an import from Germany; yet, Amazon
DE does not list a release date for it, although it has
a page there. Between this and the recent Reiner
Columbias box, they're certainly keeping busy for the
end of this year.
You don't really need to be so critical, do you? How
about a link from past to the present?
It was a question, meant seriously, not a criticism. Your
answer is too vague to be helpful, and hardly justifies the
"only missing". Response, however, is entirely optional -
no more than\
The fact is that the phrase "only missing link" in this
context can have no sensible meaning. The expression was
misused. However, I immediately took the intent to be that
the only remaining historical release that we need or want
is Mitropoulos. Even that would be an exaggeration, no
doubt, but so what?
I meant the link within the NYPO Columbia recordings by its music directors: Toscanini-Barbirolli-Rodzinski-Barbirolli-Mitropoulos-Bernstein-Boulez-Mehta
Good answer. I withdraw my comment that it could make no
The ImportCDs page for this has been updated with a cover picture and more details about the release. As I had heard, it will only cover Rodzinski's New York Philharmonic recordings:
https://www.importcds.com/the-complete-columbia-album-collection/194397877526?rel=nofollow
It's also now listed on Amazon US, but at its $100 list price:
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Columbia-Album-Collection/dp/B08JV9JWTZ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rodzinski+columbia&qid=1601474383&s=music&sr=1-1
Both sites show a release date of October 9th, and both list it as an import.
JohnA
Now shown on the Barnes & Noble site, same price, same release date:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/complete-columbia-album-collection/35501205?ean=0194397877526
I wish the Cleveland recordings had been included. Dante
Lys had a 10 volume set transferred from 78s that was mostly
Cleveland recordings that would be nice to hear in improved
The ImportCDs page for this has been updated with a cover
picture and more details about the release. As I had
heard, it will only cover Rodzinski's New York
It's also now listed on Amazon US, but at its $100 list
Both sites show a release date of October 9th, and both
list it as an import.
St. Laurent has 53 (!) volumes of Rodzinski. I don't know
how comprehensive that is, but at $18 each, it's way too
much to own all of it.
drh8h
Post by Frank Berger
Many of them transcriptions from NYP, Chicago, and NBC SO broadcasts provided by the conductor's son. Really a treasure trove for Rodzinski lovers. I am not quite in that category, but do have a number of them.
Post by drh8h
It would be nice if they repackaged the recordings into an
integral Cleveland set. Seems like that would be in their
own interest given the forthcoming "commercial" NYPO set. I
will suggest it to them. Couldn't hurt.
I think Scribendum has a boxset of Rodzinski. Not sure how complete it is.
Post by Invocation
It only has the Rach 2, not in the superior transfer of the NYP set from the Columbias. The Scribendum is otherwise EMI and Westminster recordings. I thought the transfers sounded quite good and there were a number of first-on-CD issues.
Really annoying for those many of us who have a number of these remasterings in the NYP and various pianist boxes. What really is in dire need of new mastering is the Walküre Act 3, which was not remastered for the NYP box and shows it. Time for a first-rate transfer of that historic recording! The chunk from Act ! with Traubel and Darcy will be welcome, but not as important. In fact, some people find Darcy's contribution awful and Traubel had picked about 4 more years of wear and tear since the broadcast of the same scene under Toscanini.
Really annoying for those many of us who have a number of these remasterings in the NYP and various pianist boxes. What really is in dire need of new mastering is the Walküre Act 3, which was not remastered for the NYP box and shows it. Time for a first-rate transfer of that historic recording! The chunk from Act 1 with Traubel and Darcy will be welcome, but not as important. In fact, some people find Darcy's contribution awful and Traubel had picked about 4 more years of wear and tear since the broadcast of the same scene under Toscanini.
There is a fellow on Talkclassicsal who back in 2011
discussed his own transfer from a Columbia LP. He says this
was superior to the 78s made during the war which were
inferior in sound due to changed wartime production.
https://www.talkclassical.com/20567-wagner-die-walkure-act.html
I am familiar with that transfer, and IMO it is better than either of the official CD versions I have heard. I have to think they will have redone it. An old transfer of the Walter Dvorak 8 from the 40s was recycled in the NYP set, but the Walter box had a new version, far superior in sound.
And the Szigeti box will be released in Dec. I suppose that will wrap up the whole year of reissues for Sony.
I don't see it on any other site so I think maybe it is farther out in the future. A number of NYP recordings have shown up already in various boxes, NYP, Casadesus, Levant, Sandor and perhaps others, so some of the transfers are readily available and presumably paid for themselves. Depending on how the discs are coupled, 16 seems a lot for just the NYP records. He was only there a few years, and the big recording strike occurred at the beginning of his tenure. Additional "big pieces" included the Brahms 1 & 2, Prokofiev 5, Rach 2, Pathetique, Sibelius 4, Bizet Sym, Gould and Copland works, Siegfried Idyll, even some Wagner with Traubel and others I have forgotten. And you provided excellent transfers of all the Chicagos on just two discs.
Artur Rodzinski and Otto Klemperer may have been the two most successful conductors of the Twentieth Century who were also mentally ill.
Not just eccentric.
(love them both).
Well, if the Cleveland recordings were from Columbia and the
title of the release includes "Complete Columbia
Recordings," then.............
Hank Drake
I sincerely hope that or some future set includes the Cleveland recordings, many of which I have in 20 year old transfers. Rodzinski's decade with the Cleveland Orchestra was fairly trailblazing - he premiered Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District here, and his recordings include very fine performances of that composer's First and Fifth Symphonies as well as Berg's Violin Concerto along with a healthy dose of standard repertoire. They bring the lie to the notion that Cleveland had some second rate orchestra until Szell came along - although the orchestra Szell inherited from Leinsdorf was far diminished from what it had been under Rodzinski.
Post by Hank Drake
Rodzinski's 1939 Scheherezade w/the Cleveland Orchestra is on Youtube.
Rodzinski's 1939 Schererezade and 1941 Shostakovich 1 were in the Cleveland Orchestra 75th Anniversary Edition (1993)
No credits were given for the remasterings, other than thanking Sony.
Remastered by Ward Marston, with thanks to Sony.
Licensed from Sony
Yes, I have them thanks to my local public library. But that set has been OOP for years.
fomalhaut
As other Members, I am deeply interested in a complete release of Artur Rodzinski's recordings under the US Columbia Label (including Cleveland Orch recordings and Columbia Symphony Orch recordings) by the SONY Label..
However, if my memory is right, the now dead French Label Lys has released on CDs quite all (if not all) the Cleveland recordings by the end of the XXth century.
With reference to Michael Gray's Discography included in Halini Rodinzki's Our two Lives, four recordings are missing in my library :
Beethoven Symphony No 1,
Kern Showboat, Scenario for Orchestra,
Weber Der Freischütz, overture,
Weinberger Under the spreading Chesnut Tree.
Lys might have released these four items. If so, I missed them.
Post by fomalhaut
I believe I have all the LYS releases and none of these are
included.
Regarding "Columbia Symphony" recordings, I think the Sony
blurb, minimal though it is so far, lists a few included
composers that might be CS recordings, even though the title
on the cover says NYPO. Debussy and Offenbach, for example.
Perhaps from this LP:
https://tinyurl.com/yxn3zrgy
Just guessing.
Amazon release date now April 2.
What year?
That may be the most relevant question. I notice that the Rodzinski box seems to have disappeared from the UK and German Amazon sites, in addition to JPC. Still on the US Amazon site, for now. I would not spend any sleepless nights waiting for this or the big Ormandy box.
The box is still posted in Amazon France (Without further info).
Yes...I will be notified by email when it is available...
Post by MELMOTH
The box is still posted in Amazon France (Without further
info).
The announced release date is April 2, 2021.
On Friday, September 25, 2020 at 5:50:56 PM UTC-5, drh8h wrote:
Additional "big pieces" [with the New York Phil] included the Brahms 1 & 2, Prokofiev 5, Rach 2, Pathetique, Sibelius 4, Bizet Sym, Gould and Copland works, Siegfried Idyll, even some Wagner with Traubel and others I have forgotten. [end]
Speaking of Prokofiev 5, Rodzinski and Koussevitzky AFAIK were the only conductors who began the reprise of the scherzo movement at the original allegro marcato tempo, instead of slowly accelerating to the original fast tempo. So much more effective that way, despite what the score indicates. I wish more conductors did it that way.
US Amazon had been listing the Rodzinski box to be released Oct 9, but on first day of scheduled release it is marked "out of stock"
Also way too expensive.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JV9JWTZ/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
It's not unusual for a release that's a little past due to
be shown as "out of stock." Without inside information
there's no way to know how delayed it will be. None of the
places listing it have detailed track information and more
worrisome is that it isn't even mentioned at Sony
Classical's web site. I have one on order from ImportCDs.
$71.39 including shipping and tax.
msw design
It's not listed anywhere else- OK, import CDs, but the point is it doesn't appear to be on the market anywhere yet. Or with a firm release date.
Post by msw design
Somebody at Sony probably jumped the gun. They usually announce these sets well in advance, like the Szigeti. Maybe in a few months.
Release date has now been updated to 10/23 on the ImportCDs site. No new word yet from Amazon.
MO-T
Release date has now been updated to 10/23 on the ImportCDs site. No new word from Amazon.
And not a word at sonyclassical.com.
LarryLap
This discussion has gotten me to dig into my Scribendum set of Rodzinski work, primarily with British orchestras, and the rewards have been great. Everything I have listened to is distinguished by its warmth, sincerity and discipline - qualities that usually do not appear in conjunction with one another. Compared with Rodzinski, Karajan's Tchaikovsky is characterless, Szell's Dvorak (sorry!) is cool and shallow, and Leinsdorf's Beethoven technocratic. I am looking forward to receiving the Sony set. I encourage everyone to revisit Rodzinski's recording of Scheherazade which has been uploaded to our server in more than one remastering.
It is posted in Amazon France without details :
https://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Columbia-Album-Collection-USA/dp/B08JV9JWTZ/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=Rodzinski&qid=1602837641&s=music&sr=1-1
Amazon U.S. briefly sent out an expected release date, then withdrew it. I would not be surprised if it doesn't come out this year. The Szigeti box, announced during the summer, is pushed back to January 15 now.
Amazon U.S. briefly sent out an expected delivery date, then withdrew it. Now they are claiming an Oct 23 release date, but usually a release is preceded by a full mock up showing individual covers for the cds and none on display. I would not be surprised if it doesn't come out this year. The Szigeti box, announced during the summer, is pushed back to January 15 now.
Release date missed again, with ImportCDs showing "Back Order" and Amazon saying "Currently Unavailable".
Where I used to work, missing deadlines was one of the worst
things you could do. Because it's so public, it's
embarrassing to the organization, let alone to yourself,
your boss and your boss's boss. If you publish incorrect
information, it's possible no one will ever find out (you
can always "revise" it). Missing a deadline is irrevocable.
Apparently it's different for record companies.
I made the mistake (again) of paying ImportCDs with PayPal,
so I've already paid for the missing Rodzinski.
Néstor Castiglione
Hoping that this means that Sony may be retooling the set to include Rodzinski's Cleveland recordings. If they're going through the trouble of reissuing his NYPO recordings, then why not also give us the 5 CDs worth or so comprising his material from Cleveland?
Post by Néstor Castiglione
Discussion at Sony meeting:
Flunky: "But boss, we would have to redesign the artwork
and adverting that says NYPO recordings."
Boss: "Oh. Never mind, then."
Boss: Leave the artwork and advertising alone. Our
customers are morons and won't notice."
None of the above. I think it was announced too soon. Where is the mock up with samples of the individual discs? Even the Szigeti issue on JPC, due in January, does not show anything but the box cover. I would not be surprised if it isn't available until next year and no Cleveland. This seems to be a sequel to Barbirolli/NYP. Maybe they are saving Ohio for later or it technically more challenging. I have read at least some of the Clevelands such as Tchaikovsky 5, were made before Columbia started making lacquer masters for copying.
My apologies if this has already been mentioned regarding Rodzinski's studio recordings.
A 3-page list compiled my Michael Gray is included in Halina Rodzinski's book, "Our Two Lives,'
organized without details by his work for U.S. Columbia (Cleveland, New York, Columbia
Symphony), RCA (Chicago), Remington (was that the famous Conductor X recording?),
Westminster, EMI, plus two NBC S.O. (Tchaikovsky 4th and Franck Symphony) issued
anonymously by World's Greatest Music Records.
As far as I can tell, the complete EMI recordings have already appeared on CD in
EMI's Artist Profile series comprising all three HMV LPs ASD 270, 281, and 288.
It's also possible that the CD might be the first appearance of Albeniz's Triana.
I can't be sure, but that CD track isn't listed in Discog's database for ASD 281.
Post by Jerry
I must be missing something. What do you mean by "that CD?"
The Rodzinski Triana has appeared on CD in the Artist
Profile set and in the Scribendum box.
My apologies if this has already been mentioned regarding
Rodzinski's studio recordings.
A 3-page list compiled my Michael Gray is included in
Halina Rodzinski's book, "Our Two Lives,'
organized without details by his work for U.S. Columbia
(Cleveland, New York, Columbia
Symphony), RCA (Chicago), Remington (was that the famous
Conductor X recording?),
Westminster, EMI, plus two NBC S.O. (Tchaikovsky 4th and
Franck Symphony) issued
As far as I can tell, the complete EMI recordings have
already appeared on CD in
EMI's Artist Profile series comprising all three HMV LPs
ASD 270, 281, and 288.
It's also possible that the CD might be the first
appearance of Albeniz's Triana.
I can't be sure, but that CD track isn't listed in
Discog's database for ASD 281.
Has anyone noticed that the Sony blurb on the Rodzinski box
mentions that includes some Debussy? The only Debussy
Rodzinski recorded that I am aware of was with Cleveland (La
Mer, of course). So either there's no Debussy or the
artwork specifying NYP is wrong. Hopefully the latter.
Or it could be that Sony included some live Debussy with NYPO, maybe licensed from the orchestra when they did the NYPO 175 Anniversary set but did not include in that one, as the filler.
Mr. Mike
Where did the NYPO Shostakovich 8th come from? There is a CD of this
and it's also on YouTube.
The CD is very difficult to track down on Amazon, but if you search
rodzinski shostakovich 8
on Ebay, you will find the CD (on Guild) immediately.
I get the impression this was some kind of morale-boosting wartime
Post by Mr. Mike
There are many copies on Ebay, only one that I could find on
Amazon. I found it by searching for the UPC code I got from
Ebay.
https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=0795754232226&ref=nb_sb_noss
This was a broadcast recording. Not sure why it would have
a political aspect. It is a very great performance IMO. I
think it was the second performance in the U.S. Though we
haven't seen a complete listing, I think it's likely that
the forthcoming box (whenever it finally comes forth) will
turn out to be studio recordings only.
St Laurent has published two different performances of the Shostakovich 8. One is enough for me.
vhorowitz
I can’t quite fathom why there’s speculation about these live things even possibly being included. None of Sony’s similar sets have drawn upon non-commercial live material. Anything issued by AS Disc falls into that category. Of course it would be great to have more of them issued in some “official” manner, and certainly there are better sources than what AS and similar labels have drawn upon for those long OOP issues. One can hope...
Post by vhorowitz
The advance publicity does not mention any new "official" issues or previously unissued recordings. We will probably get original-album cds for the items reissued in the lp era, which were most of them, and the rest like the Sibelius 4 will be appended or left for a generic blue label 78 compilation. Off hand, can anyone think of something from NY besides the Sibelius which did not make it to lp, even if for a short time. Quite a few of the Clevelands did not make the transition.
They were maybe the third or fourth series of performances of that work. Rodziński had debuted Shostakovich 8 in the US the year prior, followed by Koussevitzky in Boston (whose performances are the earliest preserved of this work). Following this Rodziński performance, the symphony wouldn't be performed again in the US until the 1970s. For example, Shostakovich 8 wouldn't be played in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco until 1972, 1975, and 1994 respectively.
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:45:57 -0400, Frank Berger
a political aspect
When I was searching for this recording of the 8th on YouTube the
other day, I recall one of the entries was taken from 16"
transcription discs. It wasn't the whole piece, just certain excerpts.
I thought that it said these discs were connected with some
"political" outfit like Voice of America (or something similar).
I just tried searching for this again, and can't track it down...
The two issues on St. Laurent's label are provided by the conductor's son. Rodzinski apparently had many if not all of his broadcasts recorded, including some with the NBC Symphony in its earliest days.
ImportCDs had been continuting to list the Rodzinski box as "Back Order" with the October 23 release date, but I noticed that it's missing today. I'm thinking that Sony might be planning to manufacture copies here in the States and sell it at a lower price than the $100 list for a German import they were originally asking. We'll see how this plays out.
Meanwhile, ImportCDs has had the following mysterious listing for the past couple weeks. Could this be the Szigeti American Columbias box? The date and number of discs looks right, but there is no cover picture, nor any hint of which artist(s) is/are involved:
https://www.importcds.com/complete-columbia-album/190759403525
Note that this non-import Sony set has 17 discs and a list price of $60, compared to the German import Sony Rodzinski set, which had 16 discs and a list of $100. That's what leads me to my speculation above.
JPC provides details for the Szigeti Complete Columbia set.
Relase date Jan 15, 2021. 50 EUR. 17 disks. Must be the
same set. No mention at JPC of the Rodzinski set. Maybe
there's reason to hope they've exapanded it to include
non-NYPO recordings. Why else would the delay be so long?
Wishful thinking.
Here is something Weird:
https://www.sounds.nl/detail/3694665/cd/bankesters/looking_forward
Pablo Casals Complete Box Set, 22 CDs
Release date: 31 December 2099!
wkasimer
Post by JohnA
This was advertised on Amazon.uk at least ten years ago. I ordered it then, and am still waiting....
I can't wait. Literally.
Party like it's 2099?
Post by number_six
Until I see a graphic from Sony with sample cd covers of the individual discs, I am assuming Rodzinski is still months away. In fact, I have yet to see such detail on the Szigeti set, which makes me wonder if it will release on its once-already-rescheduled time.
Warner Szell is also pushed back. I get the impression Warner does not have a great distribution set up for classical releases in the U.S. They generally seem to be months behind and spotty availability. With Europe locking down again, it seems, we may be waiting a long time.
My copy of Warner Szell is on the way from UK Amazon. Why it's been pushed back in the US, I can't say.
Amaazon USA notified me that my Szell Warner box has been shipped by USPS (though today is a postal holiday) and will arrive by November 17
j***@gmail.com
Thanks for the heads-up. That and the Reiner/PSO box are on a buy list.
These are Rodzinski's NYPO recordings according to North's book:
[url=Loading Image... [/img][/url]
https://i.postimg.cc/JzqtJ81k/rodz1.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/8Cck6rK2/rodz2.jpg
There are quite a few Rodzinski/NYPO recordings on labels
such as AS Disc, Iron Needle, Pearl, etc that are not listed
in these JPGs. One example is the Dvorak Cello Concerto on
AS disc with Leonard Rose from 1945. Also on that disk is
the Franck Symphony which is also not included in the list.
Are these omissions or were they not recorded by Columbia?
Aside: In doing this investigating I discovered that the AS
in AS Disc stands for Andrea Scarduelli. Who knew?
Are those live recordings or in studio?
Studio only.
The ASDisc are live, AFAIK.
That's what I think. North's discography only includes his commercial recordings with NYPO and there are quite a few live broadcasts survived and have been published by various labels.
Mark Obert-Thorn 2020-09-25 13:36:26 UTC
RiRiIII 2020-09-25 15:41:32 UTC
John Fowler 2020-09-25 21:44:47 UTC
Steven Reveyoso 2020-09-25 21:56:09 UTC
JohnA 2020-09-30 15:13:01 UTC
drh8h 2020-09-30 19:37:01 UTC
Invocation 2020-09-30 21:10:10 UTC
Hank Drake 2020-09-26 16:24:02 UTC
fomalhaut 2020-11-12 14:39:22 UTC
MELMOTH 2021-01-12 15:49:13 UTC
msw design 2020-10-10 00:18:21 UTC
LarryLap 2020-10-15 18:18:12 UTC
Néstor Castiglione 2020-10-24 22:02:31 UTC
Jerry 2020-10-25 16:54:41 UTC
Mr. Mike 2020-10-25 23:06:13 UTC
vhorowitz 2020-10-26 01:07:24 UTC
wkasimer 2020-11-05 17:19:09 UTC
j***@gmail.com 2020-09-27 11:40:48 UTC
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842653
|
__label__wiki
| 0.841376
| 0.841376
|
Sask. launching rapid testing pilot programs in efforts to expand capacity
Marc Smith CTV News Regina Video Journalist
@MarcSmithCTV Contact
REGINA -- Testing and contact tracing are the key parts of the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s offensive strategy against COVID-19.
The SHA is working towards providing 4,000 tests per day and in an effort to increase the province’s testing capacity, new rapid testing options are being added at health care facilities.
"We’re expanding point of care testing options into long-term care and other areas, which will support our immediate responses in those environments," SHA Emergency Operations Chief Derek Miller said during Thursday’s update.
Rapid point of care testing units will be used in hospitals in Regina, Saskatoon, Prince Albert and Moose Jaw, while rapid antigen tests will be rolled out at long-term care and personal care homes, as well as congregate living settings.
Results from the rapid tests are available in 15 minutes and will be used for screening asymptomatic staff and residents. All positive results from the rapid tests will be presumptive and need to be confirmed by a laboratory test.
This move is being applauded by Extendicare, which runs several care homes in Saskatchewan.
"We are encouraged by this effort and hopeful it will lead to widespread asymptomatic testing throughout Saskatchewan," Matthew Morgan, chief medical officer at Extendicare, said in a statement.
"We have continued to press for asymptomatic testing, and strongly believe it is critical that we implement weekly testing of all staff."
Extendicare’s Parkside facility in Regina had an outbreak declared last week after 14 residents and staff tested positive for the virus. It’s facility in Moose Jaw has also dealt with a pair of cases.
"Transmission by asymptomatic individuals is a major source of spread in long-term care" Morgan said. "Ongoing testing of staff on a regular basis is required to identify sources of the virus and remove them from the home before residents become infected."
There are currently 30 outbreaks in long-term and personal care homes in the province.
Thousand of hours needed for contact tracing
Saskatchewan health officials are urging residents to lower their number of close contacts to take pressure off contact tracers.
"We certainly need to both decrease the number of positive cases and contacts if we’re going to get ahead of this virus," SHA CEO Scott Livingstone said.
The number of close contacts per positive case has dropped from 11 to seven over the past week, however some positive cases have had as many as 150 contacts.
Our current average of 268 cases per day is leading to thousands of hours of work for contact tracers.
"If we take that over a two-week period and apply the average number of contacts per case, it creates more than 32,000 hours of work for contact tracers in a two-week period of time," Livingstone said.
The SHA is working on adding staff to perform contact tracing for at least 450 cases per day, which it says would create upwards of 72,000 hours of work for contact tracers in two weeks.
Sask. reports 4 more COVID-19 deaths, 329 new cases
COVID-19 cases confirmed in several Regina, Saskatoon hockey teams
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842655
|
__label__wiki
| 0.568372
| 0.568372
|
Renin Inhibitor
Renin Inhibitor, angiotensin, aldosterone antagonists in clinical trials
We then use these results to discover an unexpected sensitivity o
Posted on November 30, 2020 by reni9599
We then use these results to discover an unexpected sensitivity of validation to subtle data analysis decisions. Finally, we develop a novel algorithmic approach to exploit this
sensitivity to improve biomarker robustness.”
“Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of intrauterine infection, occurring selleck chemicals in 0.2-2.2% of all neonates. The rare but serious neonatal manifestations have prompted widespread discussions of the use of CMV surveillance during pregnancy. This study describes a decision-analysis algorithm for a surveillance protocol to detect the maximal number of primary CMV infections in low-risk pregnancies. The steps of the protocol adhere to the routine antenatal follow-up schedule. All calculations were based on the MGCD0103 most stringent data in the literature as applied to a theoretical cohort of 100,000 pregnant women in the general population. By the time of
delivery, the protocol failed to detect only four potentially ill neonates in the study group. These cases may be diagnosed and treated postnatally. Incorporation of the protocol in antenatal follow-up can reduce diagnostic confusion, assist clinicians in timing invasive procedures, and potentially spare patients unnecessary terminations of pregnancy.”
“Background: Disease activity is a major factor in menstrual disorders in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients not receiving alkylating
therapy. However, the ovarian reserve of SLE women with normal menstruation is still unclear. Methods: Twenty-three SLE patients naive to cytotoxic agents (SLE group) and nineteen SLE patients receiving current or previous cyclophosphamide (CTX) therapy (without other cytotoxic agents; SLE-CTX group) were enrolled. Twenty-one age-matched healthy women served as controls. All patients and controls had a regular menstrual cycle. Basal hormone levels, including follicle-stimulating Ilomastat mouse hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), estradiol (E-2), and anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH), and antral follicle count (AFC) were analyzed in the two study groups and compared with the control group. Results: No significant differences were found between the SLE, SLE-CTX, and control groups in age, body mass index (BMI), and basal FSH and LH levels. The E-2 (P=0.023) levels were high and the AMH (P=0.000) values and AFC (P=0.001) were significantly lower in the SLE and SLE-CTX groups compared to control. However, these values were similar between the SLE and SLE-CTX groups. Conclusion: SLE patients not receiving alkylating therapy who had normal menstruation and short illness duration still had an impaired ovarian reserve.”
“Inflammation plays a pivotal role in coronary heart disease. Dendritic cells (DCs) are principal players in inflammation and atherosclerosis.
Posted in Renin Signaling | Leave a reply
“The present study validated the abbreviated version of th
“The present study validated the abbreviated version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire for general use in New Zealand.
A random Barasertib purchase postal sample from the national electoral roll was used, and 808 questionnaires were returned. Psychometric properties of the instrument were assessed, including tests of the four-domain factor structure using confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis.
Goodness-of-fit from the confirmatory factor analysis were good, and the overall conclusion of the Rasch analysis supported the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) findings after dealing with problems of threshold
ordering, local dependency, and differential item functioning (DIF).
The WHOQOL-BREF is valid for general use in New Zealand. In the future work, the WHOQOL-BREF domain scores should either be analyzed using non-parametric statistics or data should be fitted to the Rasch model to derive interval person estimates.”
We prospectively collected data on all device implantations in our department from January 2008 until February 2009. The control group was comprised of patients on acetylsalicylic acid alone or no antiplatelet medication at all (318 subjects). The DA-therapy group consisted of 109 patients of whom 71 were analyzed retrospectively (implantations from 2002 to 2007).
Results: Procedure times were significantly longer in DA-therapy patients receiving a pacemaker for selleck screening library the first time. In contrast, procedure times did not differ significantly between the two study groups for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantations and for pacemaker replacements. Fluid losses via drainage systems and drainage times were significantly increased in the DA-therapy group as compared with the control group after pacemaker but not after ICD implantations. Metabolism inhibitor Importantly, there were no significant differences in complication rates, particularly the
hematoma rate, between the DA-therapy and the control group.
Conclusions: When drainage systems are used, antiarrhythmia device implantation is safe and can be performed without significantly increased risk of clinically relevant hematoma in patients on continued DA-therapy. (PACE 2010; 394-399).”
“PURPOSE: To assess the visual performance and acceptability of pseudophakic monovision and examine its relationship to age.
SETTING: Department of Ophthalmology, Kitasato University Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
METHODS: This retrospective study examined patients with pseudophakic monovision using monofocal intraocular lenses. Refractive errors, visual acuity at various distances, contrast sensitivity, and near stereopsis were measured. Patient satisfaction with monovision was evaluated using a questionnaire.
RESULTS: Eighty-two patients (age 49 to 87 years) were evaluated.
75 after contrast injection were
75 after contrast injection were PHA-739358 significantly predictive of malignancy (p < 0.001).
CONCLUSION: The combination of gray-scale ultrasonography data with unenhanced or enhanced duplex Doppler and color Doppler US data can provide diagnostically useful information. These techniques can be easily implemented because Doppler devices are already present in most health centers.”
“The aims of this study were to evaluate nitric oxide (NO) metabolites (nitrite/nitrate NO (x) ) as proinflammatory parameter and total oxidant status (TOS) as well as total antioxidant response (TAR) as oxidative stress (OS) markers in morbidly obese (MO) patients in comparison with normal-weight healthy (NWH) subjects and to determine the post-bariatric
surgery changes of NO (x) and OS indicators in relation with weight loss.
We examined serum NO (x) , TOS, and TAR in a bariatric group of MO patients and a NWH control group (n = 23 each group). In the NWH
group, serum was examined once, while in the MO group, serum was examined before and at 3, 6, and 12 months after silastic ring vertical gastroplasty (SRVG).
Serum NO (x) and TOS values Selleckchem PF-04929113 were higher (p < 0.001), while TAR level was lower (p < 0.001) in MO patients as compared to the NWH group. No significant changes occurred at 12 months after surgery in the MO group as far as the NO (x) (p = 0.93), TOS (p = 0.11), and TAR (p = 0.15) levels were concerned as compared to baseline values. However, NO (x) increased at 6 months after surgery (p < 0.008) and then decreased by the 12th month after SRVG (p < 0.008), reaching almost baseline values.
At baseline, there
was a high production of proinflammatory and OS markers in MO patients. SRVG surgical weight loss was not accompanied by significant changes of these parameters at 1 year after surgery.”
“There are only scarce data on HIV progression in vertically infected children in developing countries. The aim of this study is to describe factors from neonatal period associated with long term non-progression (LTNP), in a Brazilian cohort. A cohort study, with data systematically collected from the “”Peixe”" Cohort (cohort study of children conducted at the main HIV Pediatric Center in Rio de Janeiro, from 1996 to 2005). The study included children who were vertically infected and started follow up at 5 years of age or younger. LTNP, defined as not reaching category C or severe immunosuppression selleck screening library before 5 years of age. Neonatal and demographic factors were studied. Variables with p-value<0.15 were included in a logistic regression model. 213 patients were included, of whom 42% (89/213) were classified as LTNP. Variables independently associated with LTNP were: baseline (at study entry) CD4+ cells (per %) (OR=1.06, 95% CI=1.01-1.12); age of initiating follow-up, per month (OR=1.03, 95% CI=1.01-1.06); ZDV use duriing newborn period (OR=3.31, 95% CI=0.86-12.71); use of antiretroviral (ART) before classification C or severe immunosuppression (OR=5.
“In this work, we characterized the surface damage layer a
“In this work, we characterized the surface damage layer and sputtering yield of polycrystalline L-leucine films before and after irradiation with Ar cluster or monomer ion beams with x ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ellipsometry. Irradiation
with Ar monomer ion beams induced heavy damage on the surface of L-leucine films, such as bond breaking and carbonization. In contrast, no significant surface damage was observed in the films irradiated with Ar cluster ion beams. The sputtering yield of L-leucine decreased dramatically with increasing fluence of monomer Ar ions and approached the value of the sputtering yield of graphite; but under irradiation with Ar cluster ion beams, the sputtering yield remained constant with fluence. The differences in sputtering yield behavior were explained in relation with the surface damage layer on organic materials. Thus, cluster
ion beams could potentially be used Acadesine to mill down biological materials without significant damage on the surface and could contribute to various applications in the analysis and processing of life matter. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3658220]“
“Granulomatous interstitial nephritis (GIN) is a rare histologic diagnosis in renal allografts. We report three cases with GIN. Case 1: a 37-yr-old woman received a kidney from her mother. On follow-up 15 months later, serum creatinine was increased and a graft biopsy showed epithelioid Vistusertib granuloma in the center of massive mononuclear cell infiltration. She had presented with refractory urinary tract infection treated with antibiotics before biopsy. The case was presumed to be GIN associated with UTI or hypersensitivity to medication. Case 2: a 47-yr-old woman received a second graft from a non-heart-beating
donor. A protocol graft biopsy was performed six months after transplantation and showed several granulomatous MAPK Inhibitor Library screening nodules. She was followed closely without therapy. Case 3: a 27-yr-old woman received an ABO-incompatible kidney from her father. A protocol graft biopsy was performed three months after transplantation and showed granulomatous reaction with severe mononuclear cell infiltration. She received steroid pulse therapy. The two latter patients had no obvious factor contributing to GIN. Therefore, they were presumed to have idiopathic GIN. Infection is considered to be the main causative factor of GIN in renal allografts. This paper describes rare cases of GIN that had no infectious episode in the renal allografts.”
“Rosiglitazone maleate (RGM) is widely used for improving insulin resistance. RGM is a moderate inhibitor of cytochrome P450 2C8 (CYP2C8) and is also mainly metabolized by CYP2C8. The aim of this study was to determine whether the effect of RGM on CYP2C8 is altered by co-treatment with other drugs, and whether amlodipine camsylate (AC) changes the pharmacokinetics (PK) of RGM.
The breeding target is a high yield potential
under irrig
under irrigation, an acceptable grain quality, and water consumption reduced by about 50% compared with paddy rice. In a water-limited environment, a higher level of drought resistance and reduced yield loss by drought stress are required. In recent years, the field drought-resistance screening facility was established and the evaluation standard was developed. Some DR rice varieties were identified and used in both molecular mapping and breeding programmes. Several WDR varieties were developed and released to farmers. This IWR-1 molecular weight article describes our initial achievement towards this goal and provides some details on the rationale and the specific steps and methods used.”
“The mRNA differential display technique
was used to identify genes from Habanero pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) seedlings whose expression is modified systemically by infection with the oomycete Phytophthora capsici L. Experiments with different oligonucleotide primer combinations revealed that no single gene was synthesised de nova. Instead, the quantitative accumulation of multiple transcripts was found. From these transcripts, levels of a nitrate reductase (Capsicum chinense nitrate reductase, CcNR), which has a high percentage of identity with other Solanaceae NRs, showed a consistent increase a few hours after inoculation (hai) with P capsici.
Reverse northern blotting revealed the existence of basal levels of CcNR transcripts in different Taselisib price adult tissues; selleck inhibitor however, systemic levels rose dramatically after spraying seedlings with salicylic acid (SA) and ethephon (ET) but not with methyl jasmonate (MeJa). Both P capsici and defence phytohormones (DP) also modified NR enzymatic activity (nitrite:NAD(+) oxidoreductase; EC 1.7.1.1) with similar kinetics. Because the application of DP induced and activated the CcNR differentially, it is possible that the activity of CcNR is related to a specific host defence response. (C) 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.”
“Drought is a complex stress which elicits a wide variety of plant responses. As such, genetic studies of drought are particularly difficult. Elucidation of the genetic basis of components contributing to drought tolerance is likely to be more tractable than that of overall drought tolerance. Certain of the traits which contribute to drought tolerance in plants and the high-throughput phenotyping techniques available to measure those traits are described in this paper. On the basis of the dynamic nature of drought, plant development, and the resulting stress response, the focus is on non-destructive imaging techniques which allow a temporal resolution and monitoring of the same plants throughout the experiment.
Only recently, however, has the contribution of probiotics to mod
Only recently, however, has the contribution of probiotics to modulation of immunological,
respiratory, and gastrointestinal functions started to be fully appreciated and scientifically evaluated. Probiotics such as Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 and lactic acid bacteria are currently used to, or have been evaluated for use to, prevent or treat a range of intestinal maladies including inflammatory bowel disease, constipation, and colon cancer. Engineering these natural probiotics to produce immunomodulatory molecules may help https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Belinostat.html to further increase the benefit to the host. In this article, we will discuss some of the mechanisms of action of probiotics as well as advances in the rational design of probiotics.”
“Objective. Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) can be accompanied by severe physical
and emotional distress. Most studies have focused on the physical and psychological stress associated with this condition during the affected pregnancy. This study explores posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and negative life outcomes following HG pregnancies.
Methods. A total of 610 women (HG – 377 and control – 233) were recruited and completed an online survey. chi-square analyses were used to compare the HG and control groups on various life outcome variables.
Results. Eighteen percent of women with HG reported full criteria PTSS (n = 68). Negative life outcomes regarding financial and marital status, career, as well as psychological and physical well-being differed significantly for the HG Selleckchem ABT-888 groups compared to the control group (0.001 < p < 0.05).
Conclusions. PTSS is common following HG pregnancies and is associated with negative life outcomes including inability to breastfeed, Selleck BIX 01294 marital problems, financial problems, and inability of self care.”
“We here present a comparative genome, transcriptome and functional network analysis of three human cancer cell lines (A431, U251MG and U2OS), and investigate their relation to protein expression. Gene copy numbers
significantly influenced corresponding transcript levels; their effect on protein levels was less pronounced. We focused on genes with altered mRNA and/or protein levels to identify those active in tumor maintenance. We provide comprehensive information for the three genomes and demonstrate the advantage of integrative analysis for identifying tumor-related genes amidst numerous background mutations by relating genomic variation to expression/protein abundance data and use gene networks to reveal implicated pathways.”
“During the past century, few proteins have matched erythropoietin (Epo) in capturing the imagination of physiologists, molecular biologists, and, more recently, physicians and patients. Its appeal rests on its commanding role as the premier erythroid cytokine, the elegant mechanism underlying the regulation of its gene, and its remarkable impact as a therapeutic agent, arguably the most successful drug spawned by the revolution in recombinant DNA technology.
The contributions to the onset of the SON
The contributions to the onset of the SON selleck inhibitor are treated concerning the general
random-energy model for ionic transport in ionic glasses. Corona effect and electroluminescence in thermal-electric field poling in soda-lime glasses are also investigated. The corona and electroluminescence spectra exhibit noticeable difference only in the 185-300 nm region where the former is absent.”
“Purpose: Sarcoma patients are a particularly debilitated group and vulnerable to the development of significant psychosocial difficulties. In this study we examine the prevalence and levels of anxiety and depression in different phases of disease and we analyse the determinants of sarcoma patients’ emotional adjustment.
Method: One hundred and forty two sarcoma patients in different phases of the cancer experience were recruited from three Portuguese Cancer Care Units and completed the Portuguese version of HADS.
Results: The majority of sarcoma patients, in the different phases of disease, reported normal or mild levels of anxiety and depression but, for a significant minority, the emotional distress selleck compound was clinically
relevant. In general, anxiety and depression scores were below the cut-off “”caseness”" threshold of 11 and, with the exception of depression levels for patients in treatment phase, no differences were found between groups on the outcome measures. Age, gender, presenting status and time since the termination of treatments were found to be significant determinants of anxiety and depression.
Conclusions: In the different phases of the disease an important number of patients may show significant psychological distress and, therefore, psychosocial interventions adapted to each period of the illness trajectory and to the demographic and clinical contexts are needed for this type of cancer. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Two lupeol-type pentacyclic triterpenoids characterised as lup-20(29)-en-3-ol-27-oic acid (moruslupenoic acid A) and lup-12, 20(29)-dien-3-ol-26-oic
acid (moruslupenoic acid B) and lanst-5, 24-dien-3-yl acetate (moruslanosteryl acetate) along with the known triterpenoidal phytoconstituents learn more -amyrin acetate, -amyrin–D-glucopyranoside and betulinic acid have been isolated from the stem bark of Morus alba L. (Moraceae). The structures of the isolated phytoconstituents were established on the basis of spectral data analysis and chemical means.”
“The effect of applied field direction on the magnetoresistance response of a 5 mu m diameter Co/Cu/NiFe thin film ring has been examined. When the Co layer of the ring is placed in a vortex state, four possible remanent magnetization configurations exist, in which the NiFe layer is in one of four states: forward onion, reverse onion, clockwise vortex or counterclockwise vortex.
We conclude with a perspective on the exciting opportunities for
We conclude with a perspective on the exciting opportunities for further developments in this research field. Crown Copyright (c) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Detailed chemical studies on the roots of
Piper sarmentosum and Piper nigrum have resulted in several alkaloids. The roots of P. sarmentosum gave a new aromatic compound, 1-nitrosoimino-2,4,5-trimethoxybenzene (1). Piper nigrum roots gave pellitorine Wortmannin (2), (E)-1-[3',4'-(methylenedioxy)cinnamoyl]piperidine (3), 2,4-tetradecadienoic acid isobutyl amide (4), piperine (5), sylvamide (6), cepharadione A (7), piperolactam D (8) and paprazine (9). Structural elucidation of these compounds was achieved find more through NMR and MS techniques. Cytotoxic activity screening of the plant extracts indicated some activity.”
“Oligodontia is the developmental absence of more than 5 permanent teeth
except for the third molar. Familial oligodontia can occur as an isolated form or as part of a genetic syndrome. Mutations in the MSX1, PAX9, AXIN2, EDA, and WNT10A genes have been identified in familial non-syndromic oligodontia. Ectodermal dysplasia is a group of syndromes involving abnormalities of the ectodermal structures and is comprised of more than 150 different forms. Mutations in the ectodysplasin-A (EDA) gene have been associated with X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and partial disruption of the EDA signaling pathway has been shown to cause an isolated form of oligodontia. We identified 2 X-linked oligodontia families and performed mutational see more analysis of the EDA gene. The mutational analysis revealed 2 novel EDA mutations: c.866G>T, p.Arg289Leu and c.1135T>G, p.Phe379Val (reference sequence NM_001399.4). These mutations were perfectly segregated with oligodontia and curly hair within each family and were not found in the 150 control X-chromosomes with the same ethnic background and in the
exome variant server. This study broadens the mutational spectrum of the EDA gene and the understanding of X-linked oligodontia with curly hair.”
“Latter half of pregnancy is characterized by a physiological diabetogenic state since changes in insulin-sensitivity have been well documented. These changes ensure continuous supply of nutrients to the growing fetus. In the last years the role of adipocyte-derived signaling molecules, collectively known as adipokines has been object of different in vitro and in vivo studies. Of interest, adipokines and/or their receptors are expressed in the placental tissue which, therefore, can contribute to development of maternal insulin-resistance and, as a consequence, fetal growth. Leptin, adiponectin, and resistin represent the most well studied adipokines and, with the exception of adiponectin, their serum and placental levels increase as pregnancy progresses.
The 2020 blood samples were of patients from various regions of B
The 2020 blood samples were of patients from various regions of Brazil and from some other Latin American countries. Among the abnormal hemoglobins that we found, 3.5% are known to be rare, while 51% had an electrophoretic profile similar to that of Hb S at alkaline pH. Differentiation was possible only by combining electrophoretic and chromatographic methods. Hb Hasharon, an alpha
globin chain mutant, was the most frequently found variant hemoglobin; it accounted for 14.3% of the abnormal DNA samples. The other abnormal hemoglobin phenotypes displayed distinct electrophoretic profiles; most of them migrated faster than Hb A. The frequencies of the different abnormal hemoglobin profiles that we found reflect the miscegenation of the Latin American population and indicate the importance check details of hemoglobin studies using various methods in combination for accurate diagnosis and appropriate counseling of carriers and their families.”
“This review is the introduction to a special issue concerning, glutathione (GSH), the
most abundant low molecular weight Apoptosis inhibitor thiol compound synthesized in cells. GSH plays critical roles in protecting cells from oxidative damage and the toxicity of xenobiotic electrophiles. and maintaining redox homeostasis. Here, the functions and GSH and the sources of oxidants and electrophiles, the elimination of oxidants by reduction and electrophiles by conjugation with GSH are briefly described. Methods of assessing GSH status in the cells are also described. GSH synthesis and its regulation are addressed along with therapeutic approaches for manipulating GSH content that have been proposed. The purpose here is to provide a brief overview of some of the important aspects of glutathione metabolism as part of this special issue that will provide a more comprehensive review of the state of knowledge regarding this essential molecule. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“BACKGOUND: Previous studies have shown that in the absence
of underlying cardiac pathology, the echocardiographic estimate of right CP673451 datasheet ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) increases progressively and normally with age. There are limited data in patients older than 60 years of age.
OBJECTIVE: To define the ranges of RVSP according to age and to include more elderly patients than have previously been reported.
METHODS: All patients undergoing echocardiography since May 26, 1999, at the Kingston Heart Clinic (Kingston, Ontario) have had their data entered into a locally designed cardiology database (CARDIOfile; Registered trademark, Kingston Heart Clinic). RVSP was calculated from the peak tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity (V) using the modified Bernoulli equation (RVSP = 4V(2) + RAP), with the mean right atrial pressure (RAP) estimated to be 10 mmHg. Of the 22,628 patients who had undergone echocardiography, 10,905 had RVSP measured.
SC51322 also inhibited
SC51322 also inhibited VE-821 research buy the induction of differentiation-specific proteins, cytokeratin K10 and epidermal transglutaminase. We next examined the immunolocalization of the EP1 receptor in non-melanoma skin cancer in humans. Well-differentiated SCCs exhibited significantly greater membrane staining, while spindle cell carcinomas and BCCs had significantly decreased membrane staining compared with normal epidermis. This data supports a role for the EP1 receptor in regulating keratinocyte differentiation. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
(HCV) leads to progressive liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. Current treatments are only partially effective, and new therapies targeting viral and host pathways are required. Virus entry into a host cell provides a conserved target for therapeutic intervention. Tetraspanin CD81, scavenger receptor class B member I, and the tight-junction proteins claudin-1 and occludin have been identified as essential entry receptors. Limited information is available on the role of receptor trafficking in HCV entry. We demonstrate here that anti-CD81 antibodies inhibit HCV infection at late times after virus internalization, suggesting a role for intracellular CD81 in HCV infection. Several tetraspanins have been reported to internalize via motifs in their C-terminal
PF-562271 mouse cytoplasmic domains; however, CD81 lacks such motifs, leading several laboratories to suggest a limited role for CD81 endocytosis in HCV entry. We demonstrate CD81 internalization via a clathrin- and dynamin-dependent process, independent of its cytoplasmic domain, suggesting a role for associated partner
proteins in regulating CD81 trafficking. Live cell imaging demonstrates CD81 and claudin-1 coendocytosis and fusion with Rab5 expressing endosomes, supporting a role for this receptor complex in HCV internalization. Receptor-specific antibodies and HCV particles increase CD81 and claudin-1 endocytosis, supporting https://www.selleck.cn/products/MG132.html a model wherein HCV stimulates receptor trafficking to promote particle internalization.”
“N-arachidonoyl dopamine (NADA) is an endogenous ligand that activates the cannabinoid type I receptor and the transient receptor potential vanilloid type I channel. Two potential biosynthetic pathways for NADA have been proposed, though no conclusive evidence exists for either. The first is the direct conjugation of arachidonic acid with dopamine and the other is via metabolism of a putative N-arachidonoyl tyrosine (NA-tyrosine). In the present study we investigated these biosynthetic mechanisms and report that NADA synthesis requires TH in dopaminergic terminals; however, NA-tyrosine, which we identify here as an endogenous lipid, is not an intermediate. We show that NADA biosynthesis primarily occurs through an enzyme-mediated conjugation of arachidonic acid with dopamine.
mi-rna
However, the rate of complications in a high-volume center with s
(Obstet Gynecol 2011;118:1081-9) DOI: 10 1097/AOG 0b013e31823389b
The behavior of k is also discussed in regard to the latest theor
No significant differences were found in any of the neurocognitiv
Haplotype frequencies of HLA* DQA1-0103-DQB1* 0601 in oral cancer
Renin Signaling
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842656
|
__label__wiki
| 0.886975
| 0.886975
|
Building Best All-Time College Football Team
Best QBs of All-Time
Best RBs of All-Time
Best Coaches of All-Time
Best Rivalries
Best Dynasties of All-Time
Biggest Celebrity College Football Fans
Best Players From Every State
Best Small School Players of All-Time
15 best places to go tailgating
Best College Football Mascots
Best SEC Players of All-Time
Best NFL Players from the SEC
Best Big 12 Players of All-Time
Best NFL players from the Big 12
Best NFL Players from the Big Ten
Best NFL Players from the ACC
Best NFL Players from the Pac-12
College Football Bucket List
College Football Trivia: Test Your Knowledge
Nov 21, 2020; Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban reacts during a game against the entucky Wildcats at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via USA TODAY Sports
College Football 2020: Winners, losers from Week 13 AP Poll release by Jackson Caudell
Florida Football: 3 hot takes from Week 12 win over Vanderbilt by Connor Muldowney
College Football 2020: Surprises, awards by conference from Week 12
by Ryan Kay 1 month ago Follow @KaySportswriter
Even with 18 college football games canceled or postponed in Week 12, there was still exciting action with some outstanding performances as well.
Let’s first take a look at the most surprising and shocking games from Week 12.
The most surprising ACC game: The Panthers dominated the Hokies for three quarters and won by a final score of 47-14. Virginia Tech lost their two previous games but those two losses were against two top 25 ranked teams and they lost those games by a combined four points. Pitt had lost four of their last five games prior to this game but they played very well in their victory against the Hokies.
The most surprising Big Ten game: Illinois going on the road to bear Nebraska by 18 points was shocking. Midway through the third, Illinois was winning 31-10 and was able to stop any comeback attempt by the Cornhuskers. The Illini have lost three of their last four games heading into this one and Nebraska had just come off of a victory of Penn State. On paper, the outcome of the game may not seem like a surprise but Illinois dominated a team on the road that was predicted to be better this season.
The most surprising Big 12 game: Oklahoma came into its game against in-state rival Oklahoma State ranked No. 18. The Cowboys entered the game ranked No. 14 and controlled their own destiny in the quest to become Big 12 champions, holding the tie-breaker with their victory over Iowa State earlier in the season. However, the Sooners not only defeated Oklahoma State and essentially ended its hopes of earning the Big 12 crown, but they dominated 41-13 and entered the title race as one of the favorites to play in the conference title game.
The most surprising SEC game: Georgia only beat Mississippi State by single digits. The Bulldogs’ offense played well with JT Daniels playing very well at quarterback for Georgia throwing for over 400 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions. However, the Bulldogs’ defense gave up over 330 yards passing and allowed two rushing touchdowns in the game. Mississippi State doesn’t usually do well against quality defenses like Georgia’s. For example, they scored zero offensive points against Alabama and Kentucky. The game was also at Georgia which makes it more complexing that the other Bulldogs were able to make this a close game.
The most surprising Pac-12 game: Oregon struggled at home against UCLA and only won by three points. The Bruins were without their starting quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson but they were able to take a 21-14 lead going into halftime against the No. 11 undefeated Ducks. UCLA is not a bad team but it’s not considered a top-tier squad. If the Bruins had not turned the ball over four times, they could have easily upset Oregon. The Ducks were lucky to escape with a victory.
The most surprising Group of Five game: Coastal Carolina defeated App State by double-digits. After the Chanticleers’ previous game against Troy was canceled last week, Coastal Carolina would face their biggest challenge left on their regular-season schedule. Before this game, the Mountaineers were undefeated in Sun Belt play. App State was in a good position to pull off an upset but the Chanticleers once again proved why they are ranked and this victory gives them more on an argument for them to qualify for a New Year’s Six game.
Let’s look at the achievements and give recognition to the players and teams that played exceptionally well in Week 12 play.
Next: Individual awards
Saturday Blitz 1 monthCollege Football 2020: Winners, losers from Week 13 AP Poll release
The Big Lead 1 monthWhy Did Jerry Jones Buy Jackets For Destiny's Child on a 60-Degree Thanksgiving Day in 2004?
Saturday Blitz 1 monthProjected 2020 College Football Playoff Top 25 rankings for Week 13
Saturday Blitz 1 monthCollege Football 2020: 4 teams that will be on upset alert in Week 12
Saturday Blitz 1 monthCollege Football's New Year's 6 Watch, Week 12: Cincinnati a lock?
All College Football news from FanSided Daily
Your All College Football.
Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on All College Football and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more.
More FS College Football News »
View all NCAA Football Sites
SEC East
View all SEC East Sites
SEC West
View all SEC West Sites
More Big Ten News »
More FS Big Ten News »
View all Big Ten Sites
More ACC News »
More FS ACC News »
View all ACC Sites
More Big 12 News »
More FS Big 12 News »
View all Big 12 Sites
More Pac 12 News »
More FS Pac 12 News »
View all PAC-12 Sites
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842660
|
__label__wiki
| 0.63352
| 0.63352
|
Home Something Special Large numbers of Scottish and Welsh sceptical about welcoming English visitors
Large numbers of Scottish and Welsh sceptical about welcoming English visitors
By: TEAM BEPINKU.COM | In: Something Special | Last updated: August 14, 2020 0
Four in ten Scots believe that English tourists should not currently be allowed to travel into Scotland without entering quarantine.
A large chunk of the Wales population were also sceptical about allowing English visitors to the country with requiring them to isolate.
The YouGov poll – which asked 1,134 Scots their view on tourists entering from other countries – reported 47% of Scots quizzed support English tourists being able to enter the country without a period of isolation.
Research also revealed significant discrepancy along political lines when Scots were asked whether they support or oppose allowing tourists into the country.
More than half (54%) of SNP voters polled stated they do not want English tourists to be able cross the border, compared to 37% of Scottish Labour voters and 19% of those who voted for the Scottish Conservatives at the 2019 election.
Just over a third (34%) of SNP voters backed the current system of allowing English tourists in without quarantine as opposed to 49% of Labour voters and 65% of Tory voters.
The survey was undertaken a week after Scottish independence campaigners staged a protest calling for people from England to be banned from entering or to impose a mandatory quarantine period.
However, Scots are less likely to object to visitors from other parts of the UK, with 29% opposed to people coming from Wales and 28% of respondents wanting to block tourists from Northern Ireland. In contrast, 56% support allowing unrestricted access to Scotland from the two countries.
Visitors from further afield are less welcome, the survey suggests, with more opposition than support for allowing unrestricted travel for Danish, Swedish, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and American tourists.
Welsh people are slightly happier to welcome travellers from the rest of the British Isles, with 37% wanting English tourists to stay away compared to 50% who would welcome them.
Opinions also differ by political persuasion in Wales, with 54% of Plaid Cymru voters opposed to English travellers compared with 44% of Labour voters and 24% of Tory voters.
A total of 37% of Plaid Cymru voters from 2019 support allowing unrestricted trips into Wales, 44% of Labour supporters and 65% of people who voted Conservative.
The survey also looked at whether Scots and Welsh people would be willing to cross any borders – internal and international – for a summer holiday this year.
Few Scots would consider going to England (36%) or Wales (32%) on holiday this year. Welsh people are more willing to cross nearby borders: 49% are open to going to England and 43% might travel up to Scotland.
Among both national groups, only 10% and 12% respectively would be willing to visit some other countries in continental Europe.
China and the US are even less appealing with just 5% of Scots and 6% of Welsh people considering a trip to America. Asked about travel to China, the figures fall to 2% and 3% respectively.
English Large numbers sceptical Scottish visitors welcoming Welsh
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842667
|
__label__wiki
| 0.567499
| 0.567499
|
39-2 39th Parliament, 2nd Session (October 16, 2007 - September 7, 2008)
All Studies & Bills
This Session
Choose a Committee:
Choose a Committee AEFA - Foreign Affairs and International Trade AGEI - Aging (Special) AGFO - Agriculture and Forestry ANTT - Anti-terrorism (Special) APPA - Aboriginal Peoples BANC - Banking, Trade and Commerce BILI - Library of Parliament (Joint) CIBA - Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration CITI - Subcommittee on Cities CONF - Ethics and Conflict of Interest for Senators ENEV - Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources LCJC - Legal and Constitutional Affairs NFFN - National Finance OLLO - Official Languages POFO - Fisheries and Oceans POPU - Subcommittee on Population Health REGS - Scrutiny of Regulations (Joint) RIDR - Human Rights RPRD - Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament SECD - National Security and Defence SELE - Selection Committee SOCI - Social Affairs, Science and Technology TRCM - Transport and Communications VEAC - Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs
Witnesses:
Orders of Reference
An order of reference is a decision of the Senate authorizing a committee to undertake the study of an issue, bill or other matter. Most committees require an order of reference before they can undertake such work. However, three committees are empowered by the Rules of the Senate to act on their own initiative without a prior order of reference from the Senate. These are the Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament; the Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration; and the Committee on Ethics and Conflict of Interest for Senators.
Order of Reference
Examine the provisions and operation of An Act to amend the National Defence Act (court martial) and to make a consequential amendment to another Act (S.C. 2008, c.¸29)
Legal and Constitutional Affairs LCJC 2008-06-26 39-2
Bill C-34, An Act to give effect to the Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Aboriginal Peoples APPA 2008-06-18 39-2
Show/Hide the list of witnesses
Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 9:04 AM
Margo Novak, Negotiator, Indian and Northern Affairs, South Region (Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development)
Michel Roy, Assistant Deputy Minister, Treaties and Aboriginal Government (Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development)
Bill C-474, An Act to require the development and implementation of a Federal Sustainable Development Strategy and the development of goals and targets with respect to sustainable development in Canada, and to make consequential amendments to another Act
Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources ENEV 2008-06-18 39-2
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 9:14 AM
Mark Fried, Policy Coordinator (Oxfam Canada)
Bob Friesen, President (Canadian Federation of Agriculture)
Michael Kandravy, Director, Regulatory Affairs (Canadian Petroleum Products Institute)
Ian Lordon, Communications Officer (Beyond Factory Farming Coalition)
Tony Macerollo, Vice President, Public and Government Affairs (Canadian Petroleum Products Institute)
Pat Mooney, Executive Director (ETC Group)
Gilles Morel, National Director (Canadian Petroleum Products Institute)
Don Munroe, Senior Advisor, Environmental & Fuel Quality (Canadian Petroleum Products Institute)
Colleen Ross, Women's President (National Farmers Union)
Roger Samson, Executive Director (Resource Efficient Agricultural Production Canada (REAP-Canada))
Bliss Baker, Vice President, Corporate Affairs (GreenField Ethanol)
John Godfrey, Member of Parliament for Don Valley West, sponsor of the bill (As an Individual)
Tim Haig, President (BIOX Corporation)
Gordon Quaiattini, President (Canadian Renewable Fuels Association)
Bill C-21, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act
Human Rights RIDR 2008-06-12 39-2
Monday, June 16, 2008 at 5:01 PM
The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians ()
Andrew Beynon, Acting Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Strategic Direction (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada)
Yvonne Boyer, Commissioner (Canadian Human Rights Commission)
Patrick Brazeau, National Chief (Congress of Aboriginal Peoples)
Wendy Cornet, Consultant and President of Cornet Consulting & Mediation Inc. (As an individual)
Linda Dabros, Director General, Knowledge Centre (Canadian Human Rights Commission)
Ian Fine, Director General and Senior General Counsel (Canadian Human Rights Commission)
Ellen Gabriel, President, Quebec Native Women Inc. (Native Women's Association of Canada)
Jim Hendry, General Counsel, Human Rights Law Section (Department of Justice Canada)
Jennifer Lynch, Chief Commissioner (Canadian Human Rights Commission)
Martin Reiher, Senior Counsel, Operations and Programs Section (Department of Justice Canada)
Lisa Shaver, Chief (AFN's Women's Council)
Angus Toulouse, Regional Chief (Assembly of First Nations)
Daniel Wilson, Strategic Policy, Planning and Law (Assembly of First Nations)
Bill C-33, An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
John Burcombe, Member, Executive Committee (Coalition QuébecKyoto)
Chris Damas, Investment Analyst (As an individual)
Catherine Kerr, Senior Policy Analyst (Natural Resources Canada)
Helen Ryan, Director, Oil, Gas and Energy (Environment Canada)
Michael Salter, Senior Policy Advisor, Strategic Policy Development (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Thomas Welt, P. Eng., Member, Executive Committee (Coalition QuébecKyoto)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 6:15 PM
The Honourable Gerry Ritz, P.C., M.P., Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board (As an Individual)
Bruce McEwen, Chief, Fuels Section, Energy and Transportation (Environment Canada)
Victoria Orsborne, Acting Chief, Fuels Policy, Office of Energy Efficiency (Natural Resources Canada)
Bill C-50, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 26, 2008 and to enact provisions to preserve the fiscal plan set out in that budget
National Finance NFFN 2008-06-10 39-2
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Consideration of the Question of Privilege raised by the Honourable Gerald J. Comeau respecting the consideration of draft reports in committee
Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament RPRD 2008-05-29 39-2
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Mark Audcent, Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel (Senate of Canada)
The Honourable Gerald J. Comeau, Senator (Senate of Canada)
The Honourable Colin Kenny, Senator (Senate of Canada)
Heather Lank, Principal Clerk, Committees Directorate (Senate of Canada)
Bill S-228, An Act to amend the Canadian Wheat Board Act (board of directors)
Agriculture and Forestry AGFO 2008-05-28 39-2
Peter W. Hogg, Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School (As an individual)
Jeff Nielsen, Vice-President (Grain Growers of Canada)
Richard Phillips, Executive Director (Grain Growers of Canada)
The Honourable Senator Grant Mitchell, sponsor of the bill (Senate of Canada)
Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 8:03 AM
Humphrey Banack, Member of the National Advisory Council (Canadian Federation of Agriculture)
Larry Hill, Chair of the Board of Directors (Canadian Wheat Board)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 6:59 PM
The Honourable Gerry Ritz, P.C., M.P., Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board ()
Department of Natural Resources User Fees Proposal relating to Explosives Regulatory Division activities, pursuant to the User Fees Act, S.C. 2004, c. 6, sbs. 4(2)
Bill C-299, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (identification information obtained by fraud or false pretence)
Meeting notice
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842669
|
__label__wiki
| 0.662707
| 0.662707
|
Flamingo Gardens: Botanical Gardens & Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
by FeyGirl on March 21, 2012
Truth be told, I was hesitant to visit South Florida’s Flamingo Gardens. I hadn’t visited a zoo-like environment in nearly 34 years, when a piddling 7-year-old-me had to be dragged in hysterics from the Honolulu City Zoo. Since then, I haven’t entered another — and the only sanctuaries I visit are carefully researched. So when friends suggested Flamingo Gardens after being pleasantly surprised by the facility, I researched the place in my typically type-A spastic nature: Was the native wildlife truly injured/non-releasable, blah blah blah? But it wasn’t just me with doubts: On entirely separate occasions, acquaintances expressed concerns about the location — fears that it was a tourist trap for visiting snowbirds, and consequently hosting less-than-stellar conditions for animals. In hindsight, I’m wondering why others had the same worries… Was it poor marketing? Would a tagline help? Was the signage scaring people off? Or were we all simply misinformed, over-reactive idiots?
Whatever the reason, it’s a dayum shame. My/our crazy conservationist fears were completely unfounded.
South Florida Flora
One of the oldest botanical gardens in South Florida, Flamingo Gardens today is a not-for-profit facility with more than 3000 tropical and sub-tropical species of plants and trees. Within its 60 acres also resides an Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary and aviary, which is home to the largest collection of Florida native wildlife in the state. The Wray Botanical Collection at Flamingo Gardens includes 21 of the largest trees of their species — “Champion Trees” — and a unique hammock of 200-year-old live oak trees. While walking through these beautiful giants, it’s mind-boggling and heartbreaking to think that without the efforts of the Wrays — who simply didn’t allow these trees to be logged like so many others, and fought for the land’s protection — this jungle growth, some of the last in South Florida, now represents the oldest in the state. A narrated tram tour (which we didn’t take) leads visitors through some of this last natural South Florida growth, located in the back 50 acres of Flamingo Gardens. More on these most amazing gardens and champion trees…
South Florida Fauna
Within the Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary, aviary, and Bird of Prey Center, permanently injured and non-releasable wildlife are given special care and a home. Read about their stories — so many people, nearly all in fact, just strolled right by the detailed plaques that explained how and why these animals came to be at the sanctuary. Infuriating. Eight-three species of Florida native birds and animals, including alligators, panthers, bobcats, otters, eagles, free-roaming peacocks, and of course the namesake flamingos reside at the sanctuary. A half-acre free-flight aviary is home to more than 250 birds representing 45 species — in the last 20 years, these birds have produced over 2000 offspring which have been released into the wild. Five native Florida ecosystems are exhibited at the aviary: coastal prairie, mangrove swamp, cypress forest, sub-tropical hardwood hammock, and sawgrass prairie. A daily Wildlife Encounter show offers live presentations of Florida native wildlife from sanctuary, including birds of prey, mammals, and reptiles, elucidating their relationships to humans and the environment.
Arriving to Florida in 1925, Floyd and Jane Wray were quickly intrigued with the horticultural possibilities of their new subtropical home. They purchased 320 acres of land on Long Key in the Everglades, and incorporated Flamingo Groves on January 2, 1927. Orange trees were planted — and by 1939 2,000 acres were covered in citrus groves. But earlier, in 1928, the Wrays envisioned a botanical showcase of subtropical flora, and began a project that was to become one of the first botanical gardens and tourist attractions in South Florida. The gardens received foreign plants and seeds from the federal government for test planting in a subtropical growing climate — rare tropical fruit and flowering trees were displayed so that visitors could experience South Florida’s beauty and diversity.
In 1969, Jane Wray — herself a musician, teacher, and poet who loved the gardens — established the Floyd L. Wray Memorial Foundation in honor of her late husband, to preserve the property and protect the history of the Everglades. The name changed to Flamingo Gardens, the botanical gardens were expanded, and the Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary was added in 1990. The Bird of Prey Center and the free-flight aviary were built in the early 1990s. The 1933 Wrays’ home — now the Historic Wray Home — is registered as a historic site and has been restored as a museum providing a glimpse of life in the 1930s. Unfortunately (or fortunately — it provides an excuse for a return trip!), we missed this while we rambled amid the gardens and animals.
Visit!
Long story, short…. GO! Visit this amazing place, walk among the centuries-old trees, say hello to the rescued animals, and learn of their stories. We were able to visit on a comparatively quiet weekday, and it was amazing to chat with the animals’ overseers. It’s heartbreaking — but at least these animals’ stories ended well. With as many sanctuaries and animal rescues as I’ve visited, one can only wonder how de-clawing exotic cats is still permitted when it causes extreme pain and lameness; or the horrific “legal” state minimum enclosure requirements for bears, big cats, and other wild animals (envision a tiny jail cell); or why people would even *want* to shoot endangered, majestic birds of prey. It’s appalling. So I’m only sorry that I — as well as others, obviously — remained in the dark as long as I did regarding this facility’s nature and mission. If you visit, be sure to check their calendar for upcoming special events (for instance, they’re having an Earth Day event, including a benefit flea market on April 21…. FUN!). And give the parrots some loving attention on the way out; several — the Cockatoo and the African Grey (at least, at that moment) were especially anxious for one-one-one time, having obviously been accustomed to it in their pasts.
From the website:
Flamingo Garden’s mission is to depict and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of South Florida and the Everglades in our botanical gardens and wildlife sanctuary:
* by providing a repository for endangered plant and wildlife species and a living library of specific taxa available for research and education.
* by inspiring an appreciation for the beauty and diversity of tropical and subtropical plants from around the world that can be grown in our area.
* by guiding the public in environmentally responsible and aesthetic horticultural practices.
* by encouraging environmental awareness and Everglades preservation to visiting tourists, residents, and school children.
3750 S. Flamingo Rd.
Hours & Pricing:
$9.00 child (ages 4-11) / $15.00 seniors, students and military / $18.00 adult
(Check online for coupons!)
Hours: 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. / Closed Monday (June 1 – Oct. 31)
Flamingo Gardens Website
Davie Facility Marks 85th Anniversary by Planting an Oak Tree (Sun-Sentinel)
Florida Panthers at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Otter at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Turtle at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Sandhill Crane at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Red-Shouldered Hawk at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Osprey at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Golden Eagle at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Barred Owl at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Great-horned Owl at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida
Tags: aviary, big cats, botanical gardens, champion trees, everglades, everglades wildlife sanctuary, flamingo gardens, florida, florida panther, nature, photography, preservation, sightseeing, wildlife sanctuary
From: Florida Animals, Florida Everglades / Natural Areas, Florida History / Sightseeing
← World Water Day & Masaru Emoto’s Water Crystals
Tropical Flora & Champion Trees at Flamingo Gardens →
Claudia Piranio #
Thank you for your lovely words. It is from guests like you that we get our inspiration. May I repost your blog on our facebook page?
FeyGirl #
You’re so very welcome! Absolutely, please do so… Anything to help spread the word of your most amazing facility and mission. Please feel free to let me know if I can be of any other assistance.
Dave #
Fey, you are a fabulous writer and advocate for nature. I very glad we met.
That is probably the *kindest* thing anyone could ever say — profuse thanks, and a giant virtual hug from across these thousands of miles! And ditto, I’m so glad to have connected — I talk about your blog incessantly (“there’s this guy in the Yukon….”) 🙂
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842670
|
__label__wiki
| 0.643668
| 0.643668
|
Checking in with SF’s Bicycle Advisory Committee
By Roger Rudick
The BAC from the, uh, front. Photo: Streetsblog
Bike crashes on the tracks at 17th Street, double parking, and turn signals were just a few of the issues discussed at last night’s monthly meeting of the Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) at San Francisco City Hall.
Streetsblog readers may recall the BAC meets on the last Monday of every month, hears reports from various city agencies, and gives recommendations to lawmakers. Shortly prior to the meeting, Streetsblog chatted with the board’s chair, Bert Hill, who is also a bicycle safety instructor. He said he hoped to convince the board and a representative from the police to recommend adding turn-signaling as a priority for Vision Zero. “There’s virtually no signaling by motorists,” he griped.
The meeting started with a presentation by Kevin Edison, a Sergeant at SFPD’s traffic collision investigation unit. His commander was in the process of breaking down and classifying statistics on last year’s traffic fatalities, which he said numbered 44.
“Signaling saves lives and it should be a big component of Vision Zero, because of the possibility of prevention,” said Hill to Edison and the board. “But the last time I checked, there were statistically no citations for failure to signal.”
Edison said he hoped the new statistics would help provide such information. Hill also mentioned the problem of bicycle crashes on 17th Street, which SFMTA has started to address. Paul Wells, the committee’s representative for District 11, said the problem wasn’t the train tracks, but SFPD’s lack of enforcement. “It’s double-parked cars,” said Wells.
Hill described a now-infamous video, showing a woman crashing her bike on the tracks, with two children on board, after trying to navigate around a double-parked car. “It was a horrible thing; we’re hoping we can do something about people double parking,” added Hill.
Edison said that meetings like this one helps SFPD better focus its energies. The sergeant also mentioned an incident over the weekend where a motorist crossed the double yellow line and crashed head-on into a cyclist, who was hurt but is expected to recover. “The motorist was arrested,” he added.
Dave Navarrete with the Department of Public Works addressed the problem of potholes, which are much worse because of this year’s winter storms. “Potholes are popping up all over,” he said, encouraging the committee and the public to call 311 or even email him directly at dave.navarrete [at] SFDPW.org when they find dangerous potholes. “Best if we can get pictures… let us know if it’s past the intersection or before, [and] north, south, east, or west.” He also said to do it immediately upon encountering a pothole, to eliminate the likelihood of forgetting where the pothole is located. “It’s so much more productive if I pull over and call [it in right away].”
Melyssa Mendoza, who represents District 6, asked if DPW could be more proactive about cleaning bike paths and lanes. She mentioned that the McLaren Park bike lanes and the bike lanes on Alemany always have debris and broken glass.
Mendoza, Hill, Wells, and Catherine Orland of District 10 also expressed concern about ongoing issues on the Hairball. Wells was especially concerned that the lights aren’t being maintained under the freeway. “It’s very dark… people are frustrated calling it in to 311,” said Wells.
Lastly, Rick Goldman of BART’s Bicycle Advisory Task Force presented efforts to make stations and trains more bike friendly. As Streetsblog readers may have noticed, BART has been attaching bike straps in the bicycle storage area on its trains as an experiment. “And we asked people to comment; ninety percent of the feedback was positive, ” he said, “with a slight preference for the buckle over the Velcro strap.”
He said BART’s police force is focusing on bike theft and gathering data to improve enforcement. With about a year’s worth of data, they could see that “most of the bikes stolen [from BART stations] are locked with cables,” he said, but that “25 percent were locked with U-locks.” He also mentioned that a small percentage were stolen from bike lockers. “We had four arrests in the past couple of months; the overall trend is dropping.” The station with the most bike thefts is Dublin/Pleasanton, with 19 bikes stolen over the past year. The worst station in the San Francisco is Civic Center, with 13. BART is also working on design guidelines for bike channels on stairs.
The group talked some more about concerns on the Hairball and about looking for more endorsements for the proposed Panhandle bike lanes, before adjourning around eight.
All in all, it was a productive meeting that seemed effective at keeping the lines of communications open between advocates and the different city agencies. The question is, will the city agencies follow through? Either way, Streetsblog thanks these dedicated volunteers for working hard to foster more livable streets.
Bert Hill and Catherine Orland posed for Streetsblog after the meeting. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
Filed Under: Bicycling, GJEL, Promoted
Bike Advisory Committee Works for Better Bicycling in San Francisco
By Roger Rudick | Mar 30, 2016
Streetsblog checked in with the dedicated volunteers of the Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) on Monday evening at its monthly meeting. The BAC was created by an ordinance back in 1990. The group consists of appointees representing each of the supervisorial districts. It advises San Francisco on matters related to bike safety and infrastructure. The chair […]
Push for Valencia Pedestrianization Trial
By Roger Rudick | Oct 19, 2018
Not satisfied with SFMTA's options for protected bike lanes, advocates try for something better
Collecting Data to Push for Safer Biking on Valencia
By Roger Rudick | Jul 13, 2016
During yesterday evening’s rush hour, safe streets advocates, organized by Catherine Orland, District 9 representative to the Bicycle Advisory Committee and longtime member and volunteer with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, started collecting hard data about how often the bike lanes on Valencia Street are blocked by motorists. Take a wild guess what they found: […]
Eyes on the Street: Better Bike Lanes on 17th
By Roger Rudick | Oct 1, 2018
A once notorious section of street is now a calm, safe, and comfortable place to ride
SFMTA Increases Fines for Double Parking and Sidewalk Riding
Yesterday the SFMTA Board of Directors signed off on raising fines for double parking, obstructing traffic, and riding bikes on sidewalks to $100. The fines were previously $80, $50, and $50 respectively — “substantially lower than the penalties for similar violations” set in 2010, according to the SFMTA [PDF]. Although Director Bruce Oka said increasing […]
Will San Jose’s New Bicycle Plan Mark Shift From Years of Car Privilege?
By Matthew Roth | Nov 9, 2009
Photo: richardmasoner San Jose is on the verge of adopting its new bicycle plan at the next City Council meeting on November 17th, which, as anyone who has cycled in San Jose knows, would be a welcome change from decades of traffic engineering focused almost solely on automobility. "What I’m hoping we’re seeing here is […]
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842673
|
__label__wiki
| 0.629601
| 0.629601
|
Scopophilia
Movies of the 60's, 70's, 80's
4-Word Reviews
← Roller Boogie (1979)
Lobster Man from Mars (1989) →
By Richard Winters
My Rating: 3 out of 10
4-Word Review: Shyster manages baseball team.
Drowning in debt small-time promoter Marvin Lazar (Tony Curtis) decides to take over the Bear’s baseball time by escorting them to Japan and managing them in a game against the Japanese champions run by coach Shimizu (Tomisaburo Wakayama). Problems arise though when Lazar runs out of money and is forced to partake in shady ploys to keep the team afloat.
The script was written by Bill Lancaster, who had penned the first one, and produced by Michael Ritchie who had been the director on the original, but the immense charm from the first installment is completely lost here. The wide-open poorly structured story lacks originality and filled with strained humor that will barely crack a smile.
The kids lack pizazz and play-off of tired caricatures that are no longer cute or funny. The biggest drawback is that the feisty Tanner who had been so prominent in the first two films is missing. It also looks weird and unrealistic that there is such a vast age difference amongst the kids in the line-up. Aren’t Little Leagues usually designed to be age specific? For instance there is usually a Pee-Wee division and then a 10 to 12 age division and so forth, so then why do we have kids here who look to be in the second grade matched with others who seem ready to enter the Junior High? Such a wide range in skill levels would make it virtually impossible to field a functional team from the get-go.
The playing ability of the team seems to have strangely regressed as well. In the first film they came close to winning the championship and in the second installment they did, but here they play like complete bumbling novices with no baseball experience at all.
Curtis is amusing, which helps save the film from being a complete disaster, but it hurts it as well because the script becomes geared completely around his character while the kids are overshadowed and forgotten. The story goes on long misguided tangents that have nothing to do with baseball at all including a segment dealing with Curtis challenging a Sumi wrestler to a match and the Japanese players getting involved in a singing contest, which begs the question if this is a movie about the Bears team then why is more screen time given to the Japanese one?
The side-story dealing with Jackie Earle Haley’s romantic foray is dumb too. He spots a young Japanese lady (Hatsune Ishihara) walking out of a nondescript store on a busy Tokyo street and for some reason becomes completely mesmerized by her and begins chasing her all around city and aggressively coming onto her like he’s a stalker, which would’ve scared any normal woman, but here this crazy behavior gets her to ‘fall-in-love’ with him despite the fact that she speaks no English.
The production values are surprisingly slick and the on-location shooting done in Japan is nice, but the script and humor is empty-headed and forgettable. It’s also interesting to note that George Wyner who appeared in the first film as the manager of the White Sox team appears here in a completely different part as a network executive.
Runtime: 1Hour 32Minutes
Director: John Berry
Studio: Paramount
Available: DVD, Amazon Video, YouTube
This entry was posted in 70's Movies, Baseball Movies, Comedy, Movies for the Whole Family, Sequels, Sports Movies and tagged Bill Lancaster, Entertainment, George Wyner, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael Ritchie, Movies, Review, Tony Curtis. Bookmark the permalink.
Fortress (1985)
From Noon Till Three (1976)
Why Would I Lie? (1980)
Fire Sale (1977)
Texas Across the River (1966)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Breaking All the Rules (1985)
Fast Talking (1984)
The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
Bread and Chocolate (1974)
High Rolling in a Hot Corvette (1977)
60's Movies (210)
90's Movies (38)
Academy Award Winners for Best Actor (4)
Academy Award Winners for Best Actress (6)
Academy Award Winners for Best Director (7)
Academy Award Winners for Best Foreign Film (4)
Academy Award Winners for Best Picture (5)
Academy Award Winners for Best Screenplay (8)
Academy Award Winners for Best Supporting Actor (7)
Academy Award Winners for Best Supporting Actress (10)
Action/Adventure (144)
Adolescence/High School (118)
Baseball Movies (7)
Basketball Movies (9)
Black Comedy (133)
British Movies (102)
Bronson/Ireland (12)
Buddy Movies (95)
Campy Comedy (97)
Christmas Movies (12)
Cold Climate/Wintertime Movies (127)
Comedy/Drama (122)
Court Drama (26)
Crude Comedy (28)
Cult (212)
Disaster Flicks (23)
Drama on the High Seas (20)
Drive-In/T & A (14)
Dry Humor (109)
Farce (62)
Fast Cars/Car Chase (101)
Football Movies (14)
Foreign Films (290)
Gangster Movies (31)
Gay/Lesbian (55)
Ghost Story (20)
Heist Movies (41)
Historical Drama (13)
Italian Films (38)
Kidnapping Movies (49)
Low Budget (219)
Made-for-TV (11)
Moody/Stylish (106)
Movies Based on Actual Events (111)
Movies based on Comic Books (3)
Movies Based on Conspiracy Theories (5)
Movies Based on Novels (389)
Movies Based on Short Stories (33)
Movies Based on Songs (14)
Movies Based on Stageplays (98)
Movies for the Whole Family (65)
Movies from Australia (40)
Movies from Canada (43)
Movies from Japan (2)
Movies that take place in Chicago (32)
Movies that take place in Florida (22)
Movies that take place in Texas (43)
Movies that take place in the Big Apple (195)
Movies that take place in the South (64)
Movies with a Hospital setting (53)
Movies with a Hotel setting (13)
Movies with a rural setting (186)
Movies with a train setting (13)
Movies with Nudity (447)
Obscure Movies (331)
Offbeat (108)
Police Drama (65)
Political Thrillers (12)
Prison Flicks (23)
Quirky (58)
Rape/Revenge (12)
Remakes (29)
Revisionist Western (17)
Road Movies (90)
Robbing Banks (23)
Roger Corman's Nurses Series (5)
Short Films (4)
Slapstick (11)
Slasher/Gore (87)
Spiritual Movies (17)
Sports Movies (49)
Spy/Espionage (29)
Surreal/Fantasy (57)
Taylor/Burton (3)
Thrillers/Suspense (133)
Vampire Movies (9)
War Movies (17)
Werewolf Movies (2)
Zombie Movies (4)
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842684
|
__label__wiki
| 0.560051
| 0.560051
|
7 May 2018 Screen Zealots 2018 Film Reviews One comment
LOUISA:
The dreadfully boring “The Clapper” is a pathetic attempt at a quirky romantic comedy. The film is the adaptation of writer and director Dito Montiel’s 2007 novel Eddie Krumble is the Clapper, a story of a less than ambitious man who makes a living as a professional infomercial audience member. This thin premise lacks any compelling elements, is absent of any engaging characters, and eventually goes nowhere.
Eddie (Ed Helms) and his best friend Chris (Tracy Morgan) work as television “clappers,” mediocre actors hired to applaud, ask leading questions on cue, and fill seats in a studio audience. When a popular talk show host (Russell Peters) notices Eddie on t.v., he launches a citywide campaign to uncover the man’s true identity. A media circus ensues as Eddie rejects his newfound 15 minutes of fame, preferring to spend his time romancing local gas station attendant Judy (Amanda Seyfried).
The film feels as awkward as its uninteresting characters, an unenthusiastic mess that’s charm-free and devoid of any laughs. The performances are bland and create a gaping emotional disconnect. The story is anemic, lacking in any sort of interesting elements, and it eventually goes nowhere. Although the script is thin, there’s enough source material that could’ve been turned into a crackerjack movie satirizing today’s insta-famous culture and the burdens of unwanted celebrity. What a pity that was completely wasted on this listless stinker.
This is one of the worst movies of 2018 (and of any year, for that matter). The kicker is that Brian Wilson’s song “Love and Mercy” plays a major role in the film, a tune with these lyrics in the opening line: ‘I was sitting in a crummy movie with my hands on my chin.’
Talk about foreshadowing.
Amanda SeyfriedEd HelmsRussell PetersTracy Morgan
Previous Post: “The Week Of”
Next Post: “Overboard”
Arthur G. says:
The Clapper is full of wonderful personalities and a well-developed story that carries you through to the end, illustrating perseverance pays off. A warm-hearted narrative, appealing to the romantic.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842685
|
__label__wiki
| 0.892269
| 0.892269
|
Featured Sculptor
Featured Sculpture
Sculptor News
Home In the News New sculpture near Strip pays tribute to the Rat Pack
New sculpture near Strip pays tribute to the Rat Pack
Yasmina Chavez
A 15-foot-tall, spiraling public art sculpture called “Spin Baby” by artist Wayne Littlejohn is unveiled at the intersection of Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin Drives Monday, Nov. 25, 2019.
By Kelcie Grega
Published Mon, Nov 25, 2019 (3:30 p.m.)
Updated 3 hours, 47 minutes ago
A new sculpture behind the Strip pays tribute to old Las Vegas and the entertainers who helped put Las Vegas on the map.
Spin Baby is the creation of longtime Las Vegas artist Wayne Littlejohn. It commemorates the Rat Pack — whose prominent members included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, who spent much of their time entertaining in Las Vegas.
The stainless steel vintage microphone enveloped in a smoke-like swirl evokes imagery of the Las Vegas lounges and clubs from the 1950s and 60s.
“I had a feeling I was trying to capture,” he said. “I was trying to get the aura of midcentury Las Vegas but still be modern with it.”
One of the steel smoke plumes angled at the top of the microphone is meant to look like a tipped fedora, Littlejohn said.
“It’s a nod to Humphery Bogart, the original leader of the Rat Pack,” he said.
The $200,000 project is part of the Clark County Arts Plan and was funded through hotel room and ad valorem taxes.
Littlejohn said he plans to install lights in the sculpture that will illuminate as cars drive by at night to represent the way the Rat Pack would gallivant along the Strip until the sun came up.
The sculpture’s location — at the intersection of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. drives — was important to Littlejohn, who considers himself a “site-specific artist.”
Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom said some 20,000 vehicles a day pass the site and “that will continue to grow with tourism and the opening of Allegiant Stadium and properties such as Resorts World.” He said the sculpture further grows “a collection of locally created, world-class art in Las Vegas.”
“We’ve always been the type of place where every 10 years we change,” Segerblom said. “Now I think we’ve arrived in a place culturally where we can start to respect where we are and focus on the benefits local artists bring to us.”
Previous articleChainsaw and chill: It’s ice sculpture season in Houston
Next articleSandown children unveil sculpture to honour animals that died in the First World War
Neighbors and artists call vandalism at De Pere art exhibit “sad and discouraging” – Fox11online.com
Fleming students raising funds for memorial sculpture honoring Keith Prinsloo – Sterling Journal-Advocate
32nd Harbin Sun Island Int’l Snow Sculpture Art Exposition opens – Xinhua
Meredith James’s Illusionistic Miniatures at Jack Hanley – ARTnews.com
Sculptor News - December 4, 2019
Long-lost sculpture has returned to Los Angeles library
Sculptor News - October 9, 2019
The Berlin Wall broke a city in two. 30 years after it fell, a...
Sculptor News - November 8, 2019
Editorial: Thumbs up for electric vehicle charging station, horse rescue, Miss Maryland, student sculptures
Sculptor News - December 21, 2019
Construction on Steel Sculpture in Reston Town Center Begins
After a months-long crowdfunding effort, construction on a 50-foot steel sculpture has begun in Reston Town Center. The sculpture, titled Buoyant Force, is designed...
Follow us on Instagram @sculptornews123
We provide you with the latest breaking news and videos straight from the sculptor community
Contact us: hello@sculptornews.com
Neighbors and artists call vandalism at De Pere art exhibit “sad...
Fleming students raising funds for memorial sculpture honoring Keith Prinsloo –...
32nd Harbin Sun Island Int’l Snow Sculpture Art Exposition opens –...
In the News1989
Featured Sculpture4
Featured Sculptor2
Feature Your Art
© 2019 Sculptor News All Rights Reserved
Bear sculpture to honour John Muir unveiled in Dunbar
Sculpture to honor Mitch Lundgaard, other firefighters
2020 Sioux Falls Sculpture Walk Selected
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842686
|
__label__cc
| 0.688885
| 0.311115
|
Slinging.org Forum › General › Project Goliath - The History of The Sling › Who were the "best slingers" of the ancient times.
(Moderators: Chris, Curious Aardvark, David Morningstar, Bill Skinner, Mauro Fiorentini, Rat Man, Masiakasaurus) - (Moderator Group: Forum Moderator)
Question: Best/most effective Historical slinging culture
Micronesians/Polynesians
Tibetans/Andeans
« Created by: Curious Aardvark on: Oct 11th, 2020 at 1:18pm »
Who were the "best slingers" of the ancient times. (Read 1082 times)
vrod
Novicius
Who were the "best slingers" of the ancient times.
Oct 1st, 2020 at 11:39pm
So technically "best" is subjective. But I wanted to know where the most feared, highly regarded slingers came from. I've heard a lot of the Balearic slingers, greek slingers, slingers from Rhodes, and so on. I've asked other history forums but none had too much knowledge on this topic so I figured I'd ask here. I've seen many articles say Balearic Slingers were the best but I want to see what you guys think.
Also, whatever group it is that was the best, what did their sling look like?
Sarosh
Re: Who were the "best slingers" of the ancient times.
Reply #1 - Oct 2nd, 2020 at 3:16am
that's like asking in 2000 years which team played the best football today. PR will play a bigger role than actual skill.
Benjamites: (they used aimbot)
the Benjamites, mentioned in the Book of Judges, could “sling stones at a an hair-breadth and not miss.”
Achaeans:(greater accuracy , distance ,power than balearics)
Livy (38.29.3-8, tr. Evan T. Sage) refers to the inhabitants of three Greek cities on the northern coast of the Peloponnesus as expert slingers:
“A hundred slingers were recruited from Aegium and Patrae and Dymae. These peoples were trained from boyhood, in accordance with a tradition of the race, in hurling with a sling at the open sea the round stones which, mingled with sand, generally strew the coasts. In consequence they use this weapon at longer range, with greater accuracy, and with more powerful effect than the Balearic slinger. Moreover, the sling is not composed of a single strap, like those of the Baleares and other peoples, but the bullet-carrier is triple, strengthened with numerous seams, that the missile may not fly out at random, from the pliancy of the strap at the moment of discharge, but seated firmly while being whirled, may be shot out as if from a bow-string. Having been trained to shoot through rings of moderate circumference from long distances, they would wound not merely the heads of their enemies but any part of the face at which they might have aimed. These slings prevented the Sameans from making sallies so frequently or so boldly, to such an extent that they begged the Achaeans to withdraw for a while and in quiet to watch them fighting with the Roman outguards.”
Balears: (massive stones, armour breakers, persistent training and tradition)
DIODORUS SICULUS, Book XIX.109. wrote:
“The Battle of Eknomos, Sicily, 311 B.C.But when Hamilcar saw that his men were being overpowered and that the Greeks in constantly increasing number were making their way into the camp, he brought up his slingers, who came from the Balearic Islands and numbered at least a thousand. By hurling a shower of great stones, they wounded many and even killed not a few of those who were attacking, and they shattered the defensive armour of most of them. For these men, who are accustomed to sling stones weighing a mina, contribute a great deal toward victory in battle, since from childhood they practice constantly with the sling. In this way they drove the Greeks from the camp and defeated them.Their equipment for fighting consists of three slings, and of these they keep one around the head, another around the belly, and the third in the hands. In the business of war they hurl much larger stones than do any other slingers, and with such force that the missile seems to have been shot, as it were, from a catapult; consequently, in their assaults upon walled cities, they strike the defenders on the battlements and disable them, and in pitched battles they crush both shields and helmets and every kind of protective armour. And they are so accurate in their aim that in the majority of cases they never miss the target before them. The reason for this is the continual practice which they get from childhood, in that their mothers compel them, while still young boys, to use the sling continually; for there is set up before them as a target a piece of bread fastened to a stake, and the novice is not permitted to eat until he has hit the bread, whereupon he takes it from his mother with her permission and devours it.”
Rhodians: (effective against persians, great range )
XENOPHON, Anabasis book 3 section
[33.3.17] For the latter have only a short range because the stones that are used in them are as large as the hand can hold; the Rhodians, however, are versed also in the art of slinging leaden bullets.
[3.4.15] But when the Rhodian slingers and the bowmen, posted at intervals here and there, sent back an answering volley, and not a man among them missed his mark (for even if he had been very eager to do so, it would not have been easy),1 then Tissaphernes withdrew out of range with all speed, and the other battalions followed his example.
Andean slinger: (critical hits and KOs)
During the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in the 15th century, an observer recorded that an Andean slinger could shatter Spanish swords or kill a horse in a single hit (Kormann, 1973; Wise, 1980)
The invention of the sling is attributed by Pliny to the Phoenicians, by Vegetius to the Baleares, (who were Phoenician colonists,) and by Strabo to the Aetolians.
"The main reason we stop doing something we love is because we forget our love of doing it for enjoyments sake and replace it with the desire to be good at it."
also I'm pretty sure sling played a huge role in warfare of the bronze age collapse but I haven't read about this period.
NooneOfConsequence
Reply #3 - Oct 2nd, 2020 at 12:33pm
since nobody has mentioned it yet... shepherds are another contender for the group of "best" slingers.
“My final hour is at hand. We face an enemy more numerous and cunning than the world has yet seen. Remember your training, and do not fear the hordes of Judas. I, without sin, shall cast the first stone. That will be your sign to attack! But you shall not fight this unholy enemy with stones. No! RAZOR GLANDES! Aim for the eyes! May the Lord have mercy, for we shall show none!“ -Jesus the Noodler
IronGoober
...and now, No. 1, the
larch...
Reply #4 - Oct 2nd, 2020 at 6:06pm
Great summation of some historical references. I'll add this one...
"Observations by Bunkerah on its use in New Caledonia revealed that natives could knock down three out of five fruit bats at 60 yards, using a river-bed stone with a sling. The Hawaiian slingstone was biconical, was 2.65 inches long and weighed 4.73 ounces, a little less than abaseball. The natives shaped it by rolling it between flat stones with motion to right and left as well as back and forth. Using a sling made from pandanus leaf, a skillful warrior hurled a stone so that it revolved on its axis like a rifle bullet."
http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1299262416/1#1
John R.
Curious Aardvark
Slinging.org Administrator
Taller than the average
Midlands England
Reply #5 - Oct 5th, 2020 at 12:53pm
Well we know that the romans trained and had their own slingers in the legions.
But they still employed balearic slingers as mercenaries - something you would not do if they weren't seriously good, as you were already paying legionnaires with slings.
And nobody spends money they don't need to.
Then you've got the micronesians.
The slingers on guam held the spanish fleet off for 3 years with slings against firearms.
That's pretty bloody impressive.
Can't recall if the history mentioned it - but i suspect it was a siege like situation and the spanish simply wore the chamorros down with blockades, rather than with force of arms.
Do All things with Honour and Generosity: Regret Nothing, Envy None, Apologise Seldom and Bow your head to No One - works for me
to spice things up you can make this post a poll so people will vote what culture they think had the best slingers.
Sarosh wrote on Oct 6th, 2020 at 12:12pm:
Playing with fire Sarosh
Reply #8 - Oct 11th, 2020 at 1:18pm
Poll added
'groups' like shepherds and fishermen - are present in ALL cultures and would have made up the core of most societies slingers..
So not an actual useable category.
Let me know if I missed any or commited an unpardonable sin by lumping sworn enemies together
Curious Aardvark wrote on Oct 11th, 2020 at 1:18pm:
you forgot benjamites and I would put the greeks in rhodians and achaeans and the andeans and tibetians apart
Slyngorm
Slingit...
At MC's place
Reply #10 - Oct 12th, 2020 at 4:14pm
Sarosh wrote on Oct 2nd, 2020 at 3:16am:
In consequence they use this weapon at longer range, with greater accuracy, and with more powerful effect than the Balearic slinger.
I find it extremely interesting that someone in ancient times compared slingers from two different cultures.
I don’t know that there were that many Tibetan fishermen CA.
+1 on the Benjamites Sarosh! They win on accuracy by a hair. There’s not a lot of information about whether that was a one-time thing or if it spanned multiple generations, but those 700 lefties should make the list for sure.
TOMBELAINE
I am agree with Slyngorm. It is interesting.
Greeks are better than Balearic slingers about accuracy and distance and sling. For Tite-live !
I vote for Greeks but obviously, I don't know if Tite-Live said the truth
Reply #13 - Oct 13th, 2020 at 11:38am
In the business of war they hurl much larger stones than do any other slingers
I was recently told by a local Balearic that Carthago used slingers from Menorca while Rome used Mallorcan slingers. Either Balearic slingers as a whole specialized in using larger stones, or did just those from Menorca.
So would you say those are the top slingers then? And do any of those groups of people still use a sling like the people from Mallorca in the Balearic Islands or no?
Slinging.org Forum › General › Project Goliath - The History of The Sling ‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842692
|
__label__wiki
| 0.769757
| 0.769757
|
Texas State softball
Newton wins SLC softball student-athlete of year
Texas State shortstop Alex Newton, who recently signed to play professional softball, has been named the Southland Conference Student Athlete of the Year in softball.
Newton signs pro deal
Texas State shortstop Alex Newton became the second player from the school to sign a professional softball deal when she made a pact this week with the Philadelphia Force of the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) league.
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
After upset win, Bobcats fall from NCAA tournament
Texas State started the NCAA softball regional in Waco with an 8-0 win against No. 13 Northwestern, but then lost two straight and ended its season 40-18.
Bobcats open NCAA softball tournament Friday
Texas State will make its first appearance in the NCAA softall tournament since 2003 Friday, when it plays Northwestern in Waco at 5 p.m.
Bobcats to NCAA softball tourney
Sweeping through the Southland Conference with the league tournament championship, the Texas State softball team is off to the NCAA Tournament, playing Friday night against Northwestern in the Waco Regional.
Bobcats advance to softball title game
Allyce Rother, who didn't homer all year, hit her second homer in two games Friday, pushing Texas State into Saturday afternoon's championship game in the Southland Conference Tournament.
Six Bobcats go softball all-conference
Befitting their easy regular season title in the Southland Conference, the Texas State Bobcats placed six players on all-conference softball teams.
Texas State softball season ends with sweep
Texas State ended the regular softball season with a two-game sweep at Sam Houston State during the weekend. The Bobcats, who won the regular season Southland Conference title, will go to the league tournament this weekend as...
Bobcats clinch SLC softball title
Freshman Chandler Hall pitched a three-hit shutout Sunday as Texas State clinched its second straight regular season Southland Conference championship with a 1-0 win against Stephen F. Austin at Bobcat Field.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Bobcats finish softball sweep
It took longer than expected because of rains, but the Texas State softball team increased its league lead to three games with a 9-0 win at Northwestern State Monday, ending a three-game sweep.
Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Next »
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842696
|
__label__wiki
| 0.511929
| 0.511929
|
33-2021 Fire Inspectors and Investigators
Inspect buildings to detect fire hazards and enforce local ordinances and State laws, or investigate and gather facts to determine cause of fires and explosions.
Investigation and Security Services 240 0.03 $34.13 $70,990
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 190 0.01 $26.44 $55,000
Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services 130 0.01 $27.95 $58,140
Other Support Services 70 0.02 $23.57 $49,030
Ship and Boat Building 30 0.02 $27.01 $56,180
New Jersey 1,010 0.25 2.99 $27.37 $56,930
Florida 810 0.10 1.17 $30.39 $63,220
North Carolina 620 0.15 1.72 $24.47 $50,900
Delaware 160 0.36 4.26 $23.71 $49,310
Mississippi 270 0.24 2.81 $22.12 $46,010
Connecticut 360 0.22 2.57 $32.47 $67,540
Oregon 140 0.08 0.93 $41.77 $86,890
Nevada 130 0.11 1.25 $40.21 $83,630
New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division 630 0.10 1.13 $26.96 $56,070
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA 310 0.12 1.41 $31.05 $64,590
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC 240 0.21 2.47 $25.70 $53,460
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX 230 0.08 0.91 $31.91 $66,370
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT 180 0.31 3.60 $34.14 $71,020
Prescott, AZ 30 0.52 6.08 $27.39 $56,970
Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH 50 0.40 4.68 $22.28 $46,340
Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC 140 0.35 4.09 $18.81 $39,120
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA 60 0.33 3.94 $35.98 $74,840
Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Metropolitan Division 110 0.32 3.81 $22.61 $47,040
Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI 40 0.30 3.53 $27.91 $58,060
Savannah, GA 50 0.28 3.27 $15.17 $31,560
Trenton, NJ 60 0.25 2.94 $31.86 $66,270
San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metropolitan Division 70 0.06 0.74 $59.66 $124,090
Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA Metropolitan Division 50 0.04 0.51 $48.89 $101,690
Medford, OR (8) (8) (8) $44.24 $92,010
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 50 0.04 0.42 $44.04 $91,610
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 80 0.07 0.83 $43.33 $90,120
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV 110 0.12 1.36 $42.29 $87,970
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA NECTA Division 90 0.05 0.58 $40.83 $84,930
Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA 100 0.10 1.23 $38.90 $80,910
Southwest Mississippi nonmetropolitan area 60 0.85 9.99 $18.88 $39,270
Southeast Coastal North Carolina nonmetropolitan area 60 0.24 2.83 $21.39 $44,490
North Northeastern Ohio non-metropolitan area (non-contiguous) 50 0.15 1.82 $21.44 $44,600
Southwest Maine nonmetropolitan area 40 0.23 2.75 $21.76 $45,260
Piedmont North Carolina nonmetropolitan area 30 0.12 1.42 $21.12 $43,930
Northern Indiana nonmetropolitan area (8) (8) (8) $19.79 $41,170
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842707
|
__label__wiki
| 0.599551
| 0.599551
|
Land grabs: knowledge and resistance
October 23rd, 2012 Nathan Oxley Leave a comment
by Nathan Oxley, STEPS Centre communications officer
Shalmali Guttal from Focus on the Global South addresses the opening plenary
The Global Land Grabbing II conference at Cornell last week brought together an impressive range of people with different disciplines, views and experience on large scale land deals – a phenomenon that’s erupted worldwide in the wake of recent global crises.
Supporters of large scale acquisitions of land make some big claims for them: that they help to boost economies, create jobs, make the most of ‘underused’ land and feed the hungry. These claims are examined and contested by those concerned about the violence and injustice that goes along with some large-scale land deals. As speakers at the conference showed, dodgy economics and even dodgier science join forces with powerful interests, with deals often negotiated behind closed doors. Even the participation of vulnerable groups in decisions about land is not what it seems: it can even be a method of controlling them without giving them a real say in what happens.
One of the challenges for research is to deal with the secrecy, uncertainty and variability of land deals. How do we best measure and understand the scale, scope and effects of land grabs? What are the most constructive ways of resisting unscrupulous deals and violent takeovers? How can the (almost over-abundant) research on land grabs be useful for guiding activists and policy makers alike, and what are the political spaces for change, locally, nationally and at international level?
One of those spaces is processes around the UN FAO, whose Director-General José Graziano da Silva addressed the conference on day 3. The Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure is one of a set of efforts to move towards global governance. But these and other guidelines at global level are non-binding: what happens when countries act on them will vary and depend on many factors, including local and national politics and balances of power. You can watch the video of José Graziano da Silva’s presentation on the conference website and download a copy of his speech.
Another space for change is in building alliances between civil society, research, activists and authorities to shed light on land deals and find ways of making them work for poor people. The conference was one of the places where these alliances could be strengthened.
Here are some other highlights from the event:
Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre director, on the ‘big questions’ in land grabbing
Blogs by participants
Land grabs: changing the planet By Holly Jean Buck, Cornell University
Land laundering: how Colombian paramilitaries hijack grassroots development by Teo Ballvé
Geographies of hope: resistance and land by Kathleen Sexsmith, Cornell University
Global land governance: an idea whose time has come? By Matias Margulis, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Resisting contemporary land grabs by Saturnino M. Borras, International Institute of Social Studies
Q&A: Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South (and audio here)
Video: Tania Li (University of Toronto) on the supposed ‘benefits’ of land grabs
For more presentations and interviews, there’s a YouTube playlist with presentations and interviews from the conference.
The conference was hosted at Cornell University and organised by the Land Deals Politics Initiative, which includes Future Agricultures Consortium, the International Institute of Social Studies, the Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) and the Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University.
For more STEPS research on different aspects of land grabbing, including ‘green grabs’ and ‘water grabs’ see the page of resources on land grabs on our website.
Blog, Food & Agriculture, Resource Politics
land grabs
STEPS Centre wins award for contribution to public understanding of the social dimensions of science
The new ‘security’ agenda in water, energy and food
Follow STEPS Centre on WordPress.com
Pastoralism, Uncertainty & Resilience
Climate Change and Livestock in the UK: The Politics of Policy Processes 15th January 2021
27 January webinar: Linking pastoralism and agrarian struggles 11th January 2021
Climate, biodiversity and livestock: big debates for 2021 8th January 2021
Zimbabweland
Lockdown politics: reflections from Zimbabwe 11th January 2021
Can Zimbabwe survive a second wave of COVID-19? 4th January 2021
Zimbabweland’s 2020 wrap-up 28th December 2020
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842708
|
__label__wiki
| 0.918092
| 0.918092
|
SoundStage! Network
SoundStage! Network (portal)
SoundStage! Access
SoundStage! Australia
SoundStage! Global
SoundStage! Hi-Fi
SoundStage! Simplifi
SoundStage! Solo
SoundStage! Ultra
SoundStage! Xperience (here)
Equipment Buying Guides
Index of Advertisers
SoundStage! Xperience | SoundStageXperience.com
DVD Movies, Features & Shows
Blu-ray Features & Shows
Blu-ray Music
SACD Music
Pulse!
Music Everywhere
Art+Tech
WesWorld
Feature Articles & Reviews
Michael Gregory Jackson Clarity Quartet: "WHENUFINDITUWILLKNOW"
Category: CD music CD music
Golden Records MGJCQ 004
Just as the 1940s and ’50s are considered the most creative era in jazz, the late ’60s and ’70s are seen as the art form’s nadir. Record sales plunged, as buyers turned their attention to rock and singer-songwriters, and bars supplanted live acts with recorded music.
Big band leaders like Buddy Rich began adding songs by Lennon and McCartney to their repertoire and, led by guitarist Larry Coryell, flutist Jeremy Steig, and -- most significantly -- trumpeter Miles Davis, jazz musicians started adding electric instruments to their groups.
Although these moves helped breathe fresh air into jazz -- with particularly rich additions to the genre made by bands like Weather Report, John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Chick Corea’s Return to Forever -- these evolutionary steps had grown stale by 1975, when Davis was forced into early retirement by health issues and drug addiction.
It’s easy to, as some historians have done, draw a direct line from Davis’s self-imposed exile to the rise of Wynton Marsalis in 1982 and state that nothing much happened in between these events. Setting aside numerous discrete developments, like the late-career regeneration of saxophonists Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, and Phil Woods, and some exhilarating work by pianists Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor, a case can be made that one stream of improvised music that arose in the late ’70s was as inventive, distinct, and influential as bebop had been in the ’40s.
One reason it hasn’t been given its due is that it doesn’t fit easily into an existing category. It also defied a lot of musical conventions. Growing from the experimentations that Ornette Coleman brought east from California in 1959, the music featured slippery tempos and shifting harmony, and encouraged artists to draw material from a broad range of sources. When we look back at the era, some major figures are evident: Coleman, his one-time acolyte James Blood Ulmer, the World Saxophone Quartet, and two members of that band, David Murray and Oliver Lake.
A name you seldom see mentioned is Michael Gregory Jackson. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1953, Jackson was an important contributor to Lake’s bands in his early 20s, and by 1979 he was releasing impressive recordings (in particular, Gifts and Heart and Center) under his own name. Of course, 1979 was also a breakout year for a somewhat better known Michael Jackson, which may account for some of the haze obscuring Michael Jackson the guitarist. In fact, by 1982 he had stopped using his surname altogether. It didn’t help build his reputation that, as Michael Gregory, he shifted his focus in music to more pop-oriented material. He worked with producer Nile Rodgers and was recruited by Mick Jagger for a solo tour. More important in the long run is the fact that Jackson was frequently cited for his prowess by much more famous guitarists like Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell.
As if that weren’t enough to confine Jackson to the category of musician’s musician, he also turned increasingly to music education -- teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music, the California Institute of the Arts, and the Creative Music Studio in upstate New York, as well as in Denmark.
While he kept releasing albums for minor labels like Tip-Toe and Embla, Jackson did not raise his profile again until he began collaborating with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith in 2009. The past decade has seen him moving closer to broader recognition, and since the death of his renowned namesake he has reinstated his surname.
In 2013 Jackson formed his Clarity Quartet (“clarity” being the term the guitarist uses for the various musical approaches that flow from him), featuring Danes Niels Praestholm, bass; Simon Spang-Hanssen, saxophone; and Matias Wolf-Andreason, drums. Highly independent players with distinctive voices, the three Danes come from backgrounds as diverse as Jackson’s, which enable them to create music that alludes to a wide range of sources yet moves in an exceptionally fluid manner between them.
This colorful palette of reference points makes WHENUFINDITUWILLKNOW an album that operates in several directions and never reveals where it might go next. Consider the contrast of “Clarity 6,” that echoes Coleman’s music in its unison melody line and skittery percussion, and “Ah Yay,” which illustrates Jackson’s love of Brazilian music with wordless vocals and a lilting theme. Despite the conceptual distance between the pieces, Jackson and his band give them a molten treatment that make the songs sound wholly of a piece. They sound like two parts of one thought.
Whether playing unison lines with Jackson, as on “Clarity 6,” or taking the lead voice, Hanssen is an excellent foil for the guitarist, and Jackson occasionally alters his tone to move into the same textural ground -- making their connection even closer. On “Spin,” led by bassist Praestholm, Jackson shifts between unison playing with the saxophone and a squonky growl that shakes up the tune’s structure. “Souvenirs” allows Jackson to expand into some ecstatic playing while the tempo slides freely behind him.
The slippery rhythm and fluctuating components of “Souvenirs” brings to mind the band that in many ways epitomized the spirit of that vibrant era in the ’70s and ’80s. Led by drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson -- no relation to the leader here -- the Decoding Society struck the same free stance as the Clarity Quartet, and Michael Gregory Jackson’s range of approaches to the guitar is as varied as the Decoding Society’s Vernon Reid.
While Reid -- who, with his band Living Colour, also has a Jagger connection -- has been acknowledged as an influential pioneer of contemporary electric jazz, Jackson remains a layer further below the surface. That situation deserves to change, and at only 66 the guitarist might still reach a wider audience. There’s no question that this fine album deserves that kind of attention.
. . . James Hale
jamesh@soundstagenetwork.com
SoundStage! Xperience is part of
All contents available on this website are copyrighted by SoundStage!® and Schneider Publishing Inc., unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
This site was designed by JoomlaShack, Karen Fanas, and The SoundStage! Network.
To contact us, please e-mail info@soundstagenetwork.com
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842711
|
__label__cc
| 0.715492
| 0.284508
|
US to pull nearly all troop out of Afghanistan by the yearend : Trump
In a step that could unfold major implications on the situation in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the US will maintain only a small number of troops in Afghanistan by Christmas this year
In a step that could unfold major implications on the situation in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the US will maintain only a small number of troops in Afghanistan by Christmas this year.
Soon after the statement, US National Security Advisor Robert O Brien said that they will have only 2500 personnel in Afghanistan by the end of this year. Soon after the Doha accord, the US reduced its troop levels from 14000 to 8400 troops in the landlocked country.
Officials earlier also maintained that they would have around 4000-5000 personnel in Afghanistan by November. The tweet from President Trump, is nothing short of a shock to the already struggling Afghan government which has been under pressure from the Taliban’s assault.
Earlier in June, US Marine Gen McKenzie said that the US shouldn’t fully withdraw from Afghanistan until Al Qaeda remains in the country.
Source- https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-166885
Pakistan urges Afghanistan to take action against terrorists
Ready to try Daniel Pearl murderers if PakIstan courts can't: US
Pakistan concerned over high level of violence in Afghanistan
US base attacked in Afghanistan
Afghanistan Iran jointly inaugurate first Afghan-Iran railway line
Afghanistan: District Police chief, among 11, injured in car-bomb attack
Women journalists in Afghanistan: Defiant in the face of violence
Afghanistan to get $100 million for COVID-19 response
Afghanistan and Sri Lanka to enhance ties with agreements
Afghanistan poses a dilemma for NATO
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842712
|
__label__wiki
| 0.884353
| 0.884353
|
Club encourages diversity in STEM
Richard Rachman, a Biology student looking at scorpians in the Chaparral Hall Lab.
Gisselle Pernett
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) community has historically been male-dominated. There pertains a lack of minorities in the STEM field in terms of sexuality, gender and race.
Richard Rachman, Biology major with an emphasis in ecology and evolution, formed QueerSTEM when he saw clubs like Women in Science and wanted the queer equivalent.
Rachman, who studies dendrochronology, says that it is hard to bring conversation from the LGBTQ+ community into the science community and vice versa. Rachman calls these “dead conversations.” When he refers to his partner in a science space, fewer people will engage or continue the conversation.
Rachman also said that for ecology conventions there is a push for “macho outdoorsy white guys,” but not every ecology student fits this mold. He finds that there is a specific standard the students in the STEM community must hold themselves too.
QueerSTEM was started to challenge the heteronormativity that is weaved into the STEM fields. The club aspires to bring the conversations of the LGBTQ+ and the STEM community into one dialogue.
“Typically, when anyone thinks of a scientist they think of an old, white, straight guy and that’s just the unfortunate fact,” Rachman said. “We’re trying to change that or at least get the dialogue going.”
The club was organized in February 2017 with the hopes of creating proper representation of the LGBTQ+ community and give people in STEM majors a place where they can relate to one another no matter how they identify.
“Our mission is to create a community of discussion and issues that LGBT scientists face within their field as well as LGBT issues from a scientific lens,” said Rachman.
QueerSTEM encompass’s all STEM majors, including psychology and sociology, but the club isn’t exclusive to STEM majors and people in the LGBTQ+ community. Betty Olazabal, the treasurer of QueerSTEM, stresses this idea. She encourages anyone to stop by the meetings, including people who are only interested in the discussions.
Olazabal studies Biology, a field that will pave her pathway to becoming a physician’s assistant. Born in Peru, Olazabal always attended schools that had a math and science emphasis.
Betty Olazabal, biology major diluting bacteria cultures in Citrus Hall Lab.
Although being in the STEM community throughout her educational career, Olazabal admits that being a Latin woman in the community there is still moments of undermining and judgement. She also relates her physical appearance to how people in the STEM community might perceive her.
“I don’t want to dress [girly],” Olazabal said. “I’ve even thought about it, like when you go to interviews do I really have to dress girly? That’s not me but will they judge me a certain way because I’m not dressed girly?”
She admits that this is a thought that goes through her mind a lot. However, she doesn’t use this judgment as a form of discouragement on the contrary she uses it as fuel to prove people wrong. She chooses not to emphasize her sexuality in the STEM community, but she is very proud of her identity.
“I wouldn’t say that I’m like, ‘Hey I’m a science major and I’m gay’ it’s more like ‘I’m me and this is it,'” Olazabal said.
Olazabal and Rachman believe that an idea can’t move forward when you have the same opinion, diversity is the opportunity for different perspectives in science.
The club is currently working on themes of the month in which an article is sent out to club members, so they can bring their opinions to start discussions. This month, the club is focusing on the intersectionality of black and gay male athletes.
“If anybody else comes in and wants to learn and wants to hear out or wants to come to one meeting just to see what’s going on come along by it’s not anything bad,” Olazabal said. “Any major, any sexuality, any race, anything you can come by.”
Gisselle Pernett, Author
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842716
|
__label__cc
| 0.659181
| 0.340819
|
Events don’t only impact people – buildings are also at risk
Tom Serpell 14 January 2021
In cities and villages alike, community life has long depended on key buildings. But how many of these beloved edifices will survive the pandemic?
Where the rubber hits the road: the politics of local transport in Eastbourne
Eastbourne EcoAction Transport Group 6 January 2021
The year 2000 promised to be a good one for transport campaigners in Eastbourne when East Sussex County Council (ESCC) published their first Local Transport Plan (LTP1). The plan was forward-thinking and exciting, but as the years have passed, little has been achieved. The promise has been broken.
Hungry for action − an environmental protest fast
Venetia Carter 12 December 2020
To highlight lack of action to address the climate emergency, Extinction Rebellion activist Venetia Carter is fasting for seven days. She passionately believes that the catastrophe of climate breakdown isn’t a problem that can be solved by the people of the future; it is the responsibility of all of us – the people of the present – here and now.
Mid Sussex campaigners battle over cycleway proposal
Ginny Smith 6 December 2020
Can one of the most ancient and last remaining bridleways in Mid Sussex be saved from being turned into a cycleway? Ginny Smith uncovers a controversy involving Mid Sussex District Council, furious residents, environmentalists, developers, landed estates, the vice-sheriff of West Sussex and a seemingly endless maze of complications.
Johnson’s ‘green’ policies are just for show
Maya Evans 29 November 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ is little more than a series of re-heated commitments and under-funded promises.
Tuning in to Your Better Nature
Viviane Doussy 23 September 2020
This year, Global Earth Overshoot Day fell on 22 August. This is not a fixed anniversary, but the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that calendar year. When records began, exactly fifty years ago in 1970, Global Earth Overshoot Day was December 29. It has been […]
Sussex Bylines
Bylines Network
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842718
|
__label__wiki
| 0.804371
| 0.804371
|
Case Study: Hospitality Group Uses CRM to Understand Customer Patterns
June 21, 2017 June 20, 2017 by Stephanie Miles
Merchant: Garces Group
Location: East Coast
Size: 14 locations
Platforms: Facebook, Google, Instagram, OpenTable, Twitter, Venga
Bottom Line: CRM platforms allow multi-location businesses to pool the customer data coming in from all of their physical locations in real-time.
“What do our customers think about the job we’re doing?” That’s a question most businesses are looking to answer, whether they’re using traditional guest feedback surveys or more sophisticated CRM software. At Garces, a Philadelphia-based hospitality group with more than a dozen restaurants spread across the East Coast, getting inside the minds of consumers and more strategically managing guest feedback has become a top priority.
Since 2016, the company has been using a CRM platform for restaurants called Venga to identify past guests who’ve stopped coming in as frequently and then motivating those guests to return. Garces has also used Venga to increase the frequency of visits from loyal customers by pulling in data from platforms like OpenTable, and using social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Prior to adopting the CRM platform, Garces was taking a piecemeal approach to identifying and motivating lapsed guests, explains VP of Operations Robert Esplen. Esplen and his team were running mass email campaigns, but they were having trouble keeping track of the results and evaluating what percentage of email recipients were actually coming into Garces restaurants as a direct result of the marketing emails they received.
Frustrated with the limitations of their manual approach, Esplen started a new strategy in 2016. Using reservation data from OpenTable and his CRM platform, Esplen has been able to track the number of Garces guests who visited twice within a 90-day period. At the same time, the CRM platform also pulls out information about which guests have visited once within the past 90-days without returning for a second time. These are the customers that Esplen and his team are most interested in engaging, typically through well-timed emails with discount codes, along with social media campaigns.
“We have multiple strategies. It’s not a one size fits all,” Esplen says.
Although Garces is now using Venga at all 14 East Coast restaurant locations, Esplen says the company took a measured approach to rolling out the system as it evaluated the ROI and other key metrics.
“We typically start with a couple restaurants, seeing that we have a diverse portfolio of operations we try to pick one restaurant in each category to see how it’ll work before implementing across the group,” he says.
Now that the company has had time to evaluate its new marketing system, Esplen says he’s pleased with the results. Tracking actual spend and visit histories to individual guest profiles has made measuring ROI pretty straightforward.
“We’ve always known that we have a loyal following, but seeing some guests with over a 100 visits group wide was amazing,” he says.
In addition to consolidating reviews and feedback data, Esplen says he’s also been impressed with Venga’s capabilities for distributing data across multiple restaurant locations. Rather than storing the customer data from each restaurant in a silo, Garces centralized its guest database and now keeps better track of guest preferences, so general managers and servers can know a guest’s preferences even if that customer has never visited the specific restaurant before.
“Knowing that John Smith prefers a booth versus a table gives us an edge to really make a connection with our guests on a different level,” he says.
In the coming months, Garces plans to continue integrating its CRM platform with existing marketing technologies to expand its data mining capabilities.
“[Data mining will] effectively puts the feedback in our operators hands, allowing them to make informed decisions,” Esplen says.
Stephanie Miles is a senior editor at Street Fight.
Click here to read more Street Fight case studies.
Tags: case studies case study Garces Group opentable Venga
Why Voice Search Is the Future
Street Fight Daily: Uber CEO Resigns, Instagram Stories’ Rapid Growth Continues
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842720
|
__label__wiki
| 0.966522
| 0.966522
|
TCB People & Co
TCB Lists
MN Cup: Pandemic Pivots | Back Issues
Manufacturing | CyberOptics Cuts 10% of Work Force, Predicts Loss
CyberOptics Cuts 10% of Work Force, Predicts Loss
The company, citing a downturn in the global electronics market, cut roughly 20 positions, and the reductions were split between its Minnesota headquarters and its Singapore operations.
CyberOptics Corporation, a Golden Valley-based manufacturer of sensors and inspection systems used in printed circuit board assembly, recently announced that it has cut about 10 percent of its global work force in response to a downturn in the global electronics market.
Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Bertelsen told Twin Cities Business on Monday that the company, which previously employed about 190, cut roughly 20 jobs, and the reductions were split about evenly between its Minnesota headquarters and its Singapore operations; no particular job function was singled out for the cuts, he said.
CyberOptics is among Minnesota’s 100 largest public companies based on revenue. Its 2011 revenue climbed 7 percent to $61.1 million; net income, meanwhile, rose 39 percent to $4.4 million, or 63 cents per share.
But a weakened electronics market has led to lower sales this year. For its third quarter, which ended September 30, CyberOptics reported $11.6 million in revenue, down 32 percent. For the first nine months of 2012, revenue was down about 24 percent.
CyberOptics said that it now expects fourth-quarter revenue of between $5.5 million and $6 million—down dramatically from $13.8 million during the same period a year ago.
“The downturn in the global electronics market, which affected our operating results through the first nine months of 2012, has deepened considerably in the fourth quarter,” CEO and Chair Kathleen Iverson said in a statement. “All electronics manufacturers now appear to be deferring capital equipment orders and likely will continue doing so until global economic uncertainties are resolved and consumer confidence strengthens.”
Iverson estimated that severance expenses from the job cuts will total about $550,000; those costs, coupled with weak revenues, “will result in a more significant net loss for the fourth quarter and full year than previously anticipated,” she added.
The company did not specify how much of a net loss it anticipates, nor did it previously provide a specific earnings forecast for the fourth quarter, according to Bertelsen.
For the fourth quarter of last year, the company reported net income of $547,000, or 8 cents per share.
Following the announcement of its work force reduction, shares of CyberOptics’ stock slid 1.7 percent to close at $7.32 on Friday. Shares were trading down more than 4 percent at $7 late Monday morning.
“CyberOptics has weathered many cyclical downturns before, and while we regret the work force reduction announced today, we believe this action will enable us to operate more efficiently and effectively during this period of economic weakness,” Iverson said in a Friday statement. “With cash reserves of roughly $30 million and a strong pipeline of new products under development, we are confident CyberOptics will emerge from the current period well-positioned to capitalize upon a strengthening electronics market.”
Bertelsen told Twin Cities Business that no securities analysts are currently assigned to closely monitor CyberOptics. Some industry analysts, however, have reportedly said that the computer chip market is expected to suffer. California-based research firm IHS iSuppli, for example, expects global computer chip sales to drop 2.3 percent this year, to $303 billion, according to a report by the Star Tribune.
Christopher & Banks Files Bankruptcy
Lessons Learned: Primp Boutique Owner Wesley Uthus
Excelsior Energy Capital Closes on $504M Renewable Energy Fund
Georgia Wins Have Big Ramifications for Minnesota Democrats in D.C.
Target PAC Joins List of Companies Putting Political Donations on Hold
Fullerton Building Systems, Inc.
Cathy Schmidt
Jeff Bazal
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
Ellen Brownell
The Financial Planning Association of Minnesota
Ryan Antkowiak, CFP®
Accessible360 (A360)
Accessible360
Commercial Plastics Closing Lakeville Plant; 122 Employees to Lose Jobs
Workforce + Talent
Has Covid Scotched Your Year-End Bonus?
TCB Staff
MSP Communications
MSP Communications, 901 N. 3rd Street, Suite 195, Minneapolis, MN, 55401 © 2021 Key Enterprises LLC All rights reserved.
<# print( 'Twin Cities Business' ) #>
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842729
|
__label__cc
| 0.614965
| 0.385035
|
Letter to John Taylor
Thomas Jefferson | June 4, 1798
Rembrandt Peale. Thomas Jefferson, 1805. Public domain, from the New York Historical Society.
Share: Share on Facebook Tweet Share on LinkedIn Send email
Thomas Jefferson > Letter to John Taylor
I now inclose you Mr. Martin’s patent. A patent had actually been made out on the first description, and how to get this suppressed and another made for a second invention, without a second fee, was the difficulty. I practised a little art in a case where honesty was really on our side, & nothing against us but the rigorous letter of the law, and having obtained the 1st specification and got the 2d put in its place, a second patent has been formed, which I now inclose with the first specification.
I promised you, long ago, a description of a mould board. I now send it; it is a press copy & therefore dim. It will be less so by putting a sheet of white paper behind the one youare reading. I would recommend to you first to have a model made of about 3 i. to the foot, or 1/4 the real dimensions, and to have two blocks, the 1st of which, after taking out the pyramidal piece & sawing it crosswise above & below, should be preserved in that form of the mould board complete. If I had an oppertunity of sending you a model I would do it. It has been greatly approved here, as it has been before by some very good judges at my house, where I have used it for 5 years with entire approbation.
Mr. New shewed me your letter on the subject of the patent, which gave me an opportunity of observing what you said as to the effect with you of public proceedings, and that it was not unusual now to estimate the separate mass of Virginia and N. Carolina with a view to their separate existence. It is true that we are compleatly under the saddle of Massachusets & Connecticut, and that they ride us very hard, cruelly insulting our feelings as well as exhausting our strength and substance. Their natural friends, the three other eastern States, join them from a sort of family pride, and they have the art to divide certain other parts of the Union so as to make use of them to govern the whole. This is not new. It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order, and those who have once got an ascendency and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantages. But our present situation is not a natural one. The body of our countrymen is substantially republican through every part of the Union. It was the irresistable influence & popularity of Gen. Washington, played off by the cunning of Hamilton, which turned the government over to anti-republican hands, or turned the republican members, chosen by the people, into anti-republicans. He delivered it over to his successor in this state, and very untoward events, since improved with great artifice, have produced on the public mind the impression we see; but still, I repeat it, this is not the natural state. Time alone would bring round an order of things more correspondent to the sentiments of our constituents; but are there not events impending which will do it within a few months? The invasion of England, the public and authentic avowal of sentiments hostile to the leading principles of our Constitution, the prospect of a war in which we shall stand alone, land-tax, stamp-tax, increase of public debt, &c. Be this as it may, in every free & deliberating society there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties & violent dissensions & discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time. Perhaps this party division is necessary to induce each to watch & delate to the people the proceedings of the other. But if on a temporary superiority of the one party, the other is to resort to a scission of the Union, no federal government can ever exist. If to rid ourselves of the present rule of Massachusets & Connecticut we break the Union, will the evil stop there? Suppose the N. England States alone cut off, will our natures be changed? are we not men still to the south of that, & with all the passions of men? Immediately we shall see a Pennsylvania & a Virginia party arise in the residuary confederacy ,and the public mind will be distracted with the same party spirit. What a game, too, will the one party have in their hands by eternally threatening the other that unless they do so & so, they will join their Northern neighbors. If we reduce our Union to Virginia & N. Carolina, immediately the conflict will be established between the representatives of these two States, and they will end by breaking into their simple units. Seeing, therefore, that an association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry, seeing that we must have somebody to quarrel with, I had rather keep our New England associates for that purpose than to see our bickerings transferred to others. They are circumscribed within such narrow limits, & their population so full, that their numbers will ever be the minority, and they are marked, like the Jews, with such a peculiarity of character as to constitute from that circumstance the natural division of our parties. A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to it’s true principles. It is true that in the mean time we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war & long oppressions of enormous public debt. But who can say what would be the evils of a scission, and when & where they would end? Better keep together as we are, hawl off from Europe as soon as we can, & from all attachments to any portions of it. And if we feel their power just sufficiently to hoop us together, it will be the happiest situation in which we can exist. If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, & then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are the stake. Better luck, therefore, to us all; and health, happiness, & friendly salutations to yourself.
P. S. It is hardly necessary to caution you to let nothing of mine get before the public. A single sentence, got hold of by the Porcupines, will suffice to abuse & persecute me in their papers for months.
Go back to the main documents page.
Invisible Government Speech
Alfredus
Federalist No. 42
State of the Union Address (1877)
The Gerry Committee Report
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842731
|
__label__wiki
| 0.882214
| 0.882214
|
Chat App Kik Adds Native Video In Step Towards More Interactive Content
Mobile messaging app Kik has added native video capture to its service as it lays the groundwork to offer more interactive content options for its 200 million registered users.
An update to Kik for iOS and Android today now lets users record videos of up to 15 seconds from inside their chat windows. The feature includes a full-screen playback option, and videos will loop continuously.
The new addition is pretty smooth, but video capture is a standard part of any communications service these days.
Kik — which offers a sophisticated in-chat browser for sharing web content — admits it is playing catch up here.
Now that it has established its own video platform as a base, however, the Canada-based company plans to go forth and be more creative. Or, at least, offer its users the chance to unleash new shades of creativity on its service.
That’s according to Joe Rideout, Kik’s product manager for video and content, who joined the company when it acquired his GIF messaging startup Relay last year.
(That deal gives you an idea of what Kik might have planned.)
Rideout admitted that there is plenty of scope for Kik to develop video-related services but, for now, it is “staying focused and working on the highest priorities.”
“We saw native video as an immediate need that had to be met,” he told TechCrunch in an interview. “[There’s] a lot of tech that can be brought over [from Relay]… we plan to really explore all different kinds of content formats, starting with more traditional short-form video with audio.”
Third-party Kik apps will let you send GIFs to friends on Kik, but it makes sense for the company to offer something more native — perhaps a way to create your own GIFs directly. That would chime nicely with its youth-focused audience in North America, which is the very demographic with the highest appreciation of GIFs and other kinds of new media. GoPop, the interesting app that BuzzFeed recently snapped up (and is sadly closing down), is a good example of what can be done with moving images.
Kik is not planning to follow Snapchat’s move into third-party media and content, but CEO and co-founder Ted Livingston has already said it will introduce a payments service at some point this year. Maybe you’ll be able to GIF your money to a friend… who knows what’s possible in this brave new mobile messaging world.
Yes, that is a joke. But if Snapchat can go from sexting app to reputable media platform, then, seriously, anything is possible.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842733
|
__label__cc
| 0.697565
| 0.302435
|
Trader Thinks AGN has a Date with $142
by Andrew Keene | Mar 11, 2014 | Options
Allergan, Inc. operates as a multi-specialty health care company primarily in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. This stock has been on fire and is breaking through the 52 Week highs. Today we saw a very interesting trade where a trader bought 1000 AGN July 140 Calls for $5.84 and then sold 1000 July 115 Puts to reduce the cost of the trade. This is known as a “Risk Reversal” and lets break this trade down a little more. A trader will get long 100,000 Shares at two different levels: $115 and $140. This trader has a breakeven of this trade at $142, but lets look at it a little bit in more depth.
The Trade: Trader bought 1000 AGN July 140 Calls and Sold July 115 Puts for $2.00 debit
Their Risk: $117,000
Their Reward: Unlimited
Breakeven: $142
Between $115-$140: Trader will lose Cash outlay of $200,000
Under $115 and Above $140, Trader will become Long 100,000 Shares of Stock
http://keeneonthemarket.com
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842745
|
__label__wiki
| 0.521902
| 0.521902
|
Timeline of face masks
Revision as of 12:18, 27 November 2020 by Sebastian (talk | contribs)
This is a timeline of face masks, attempting to describe significant events related to the history and evolution of these healthcare products.
1 Sample questions
2 Big picture
3 Full timeline
4 Meta information on the timeline
4.1 How the timeline was built
4.2 Feedback and comments
4.3 What the timeline is still missing
4.4 Timeline update strategy
The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:
What are some of the several hazards combated by face mask use?
Sort the full timeline column titled "Targeted hazard".
You will mostly see airborne diseases like influenza, SARS, and COVID-19. You will also find plague happening mostly in early events, as well as other non-infectious hazards like smoke.
What are some old historical records on the use of face masks?
Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Early use".
You will see some early events on use of face maks, previous to the scientific establishment on methods of transmission of disease.
What are some events related to the adoption of face masks in the healthcare environment?
Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Hospital use".
You will see early adoption of face masks in the healthcare environment, starting in the 19th century.
What are some events related to the adoption of face masks by the general population?
Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "General use".
You will see several boosts in use caused by epidemic outbreaks.
What are some events describing the introduction of new face mask prototypes?
Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Model introduction".
You will see the introduction of some prototypes, like the N95 mask.
What are some events describing research on different properties of face masks as well as research on hazardous agents combated by the former?
Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Research".
You will mostly see research focused on the effectivity of face masks, but also on hazardous agents and other studies related to basic science of incumbence.
What are some recommendations on use of face masks by authorities and important organizations?
Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Recommendation".
You will see some recommendations by institutions like the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as some experts.
What are some events related to the face mask industry?
Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Production".
What are some figures illustrating the face mask market size?
Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Market size".
You will see figures indicating global market size as well as some regional figures.
Other events are described under the following types: "Anti-mask movement", "Literature", "Policy", and "Protester use".
Before 19th century Early development of masks The earliest recorded face mask-like objects in history date to the 6th century BC.[1] In the 14th century, the Black Death in Europe greatly promotes the emergence of functional face mask-like objects.[1] In the 17th century, Charles de Lorme’s miasma-inspired leather overcoat and bird mask doesn’t prevent anyone from contracting the plague.[2][3][3]
19th century Scientific backing establishment The design of the mask takes a big step forward in this century,[1] throughout which doctors continue to go without masks while workers in factories are encouraged to use them to help filter particle-ridden air[2], as there is an understanding of the usefulness of face masks in factories.[2] In the mid-century, German scientists conduct studies with industrial dust and bacteria and their relationship with respiratory health.[4] By the late 1870s, scientists learn about bacteria, and the miasma theory falls from fashion as the modern field of microbiology emerges.[5] In the latter half of the century, face masks begin to be worn in hospital settings, when medical research starts being benefited considerably from Louis Pasteur’s work.[3][6] The modern surgical face mask comes into use around the time that germs and viruses start reshaping medical understandings of disease.[7][8] In the 1880s, Robert Koch identifies the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and cholera. Before his discovery, dirt was simply dirt, and people knew nothing of threatening microbes or viruses.[7] In 1897, Jan Mikulicz-Radecki publishes the first study supporting the use of a mask in surgery.[9][10]
20th century (first half) Widespread adoption by the healthcare system Throughout the early decades of the century, various styles of masks are patented. Most commonly, masks are made of cotton gauze and held in place with a metal frame.[2] In Japan, the mask business flourished during the Taishō period (1912-26).[11] In the 1920s, the surgical mask is used first in the operating rooms of Germany and the United States.[12] By the late 1920s, the use of gauze face masks is widespread.[13][6] In the 1930s, medical masks start to be replaced by disposable paper masks.[10] In the mid-1930s, variations of the gauze type masks begin to appear.[13] During the 1930s and 1940s, gauze and cloth masks are also used by healthcare workers to protect themselves from tuberculosis.[14] In the 1940s, with the introduction of antibiotics, and their rapid acceptance as a means of controlling infection, interest in surgical masks decrease.[13]
20th century (second half) Adoption by the general population In the late 1950s there is a renewed interest in surgical masks.[13] Asians, especially in Japan, China and Taiwan, start wearing masks for a host of cultural and environmental reasons, including non-medical ones.[15] In the 1960s, modern disposable masks grow in popularity.[2] In the mid-1960s, the use of disposable items made of paper and fleece is introduced all over the world after having started in the United States.[12] In the 1980s, flu masks gradually reappear when the hay fever mask becomes common in Japan.[16] In the 1990s, after being used in industrial applications for decades, the N95 mask is adopted in clinical settings with the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis.[5]
21st century (pre-COVID-19) Increase in face mask use throughout the world Mask-wearing increases in the early years of the current century with the SARS outbreak and avian influenza[17]
21st century (post-COVID-19) Massive adoption and compulsory use throughout the world Worldwide mask-wearing use suddenly explodes with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many countries mandating its use in public places. As of 2020, face mask use is part of the everyday landscape all troughout the world, especially in urban areas. However, as of 2020, experts continue to debate the effectiveness of face masks in preventing the spread of diseases. Policies, laws, and practical considerations vary from region to region, as well as people’s attitudes, reflecting their cultural values and history.[18]
Masks/respirator type
Homemade cloth mask
T-shirt mask
Store-bought cloth mask
Cloth masks with filter
Cone-style masks
N95 and other respirators It offers the most protection against COVID 2019 and other respiratory diseases.
Targeted hazard
9000 BP Early use Early well-documented masks are found in the Judaean Desert.[19] Middle East
69 BC–30 BC Early use Cleopatra VII Philopator is famous for using several different combinations to create "the ultimate face masks".[20] Egypt
1619 Plague Early use The invention of the "beak doctor" costume used against the plague is attributed to Charles de Lorme, who adopts the idea of a full head-to-toe protective garment,[21] modeled after a soldier's canvas gown which goes from the neck to the ankle.[21][22][23] The over-clothing garment, as well as leggings, gloves, boots, and a hat, are made of waxed leather.[24] The garment is impregnated with similar fragrant items as the beak mask.[25] France
Plague doctor outfit from Germany (17th century).
1720 Plague Early use Paintings from Marseille during the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in western Europe show gravediggers and people handling bodies with cloth around their faces.[5] France
1827 Research Scottish scientist Robert Brown discovers the later called "Brownian motion" which theoretically proves the protective effect of masks on dust.[1] The theory states that collisions of rapidly moving gas molecules causes the random bouncing motion of extremely small particles. This understanding would lead to the development of the first particulate respirator.[4] United Kingdom
1848 Mining pollution Model introduction Lewis Hassley in the United States develops a mask for miners, obtaining the first patent for a protective mask.[1][1] United States
1861 Bacteria Research French scientist Louis Pasteur proves the presence of bacteria in the air. This makes more people pay attention to the design of modern masks.[1] France
1877 Smoke Model introduction The Nealy Smoke Mask is invented and patented in England as the first filter type firefighter protective apparatus.[4][26] United Kingdom
1879 General use One of the first domestically produced masks is advertised in newspapers in Japan.[11] Japan
1895 Noxious fumes Recommendation Henrot suggests equipping the privates in Madagascar with face masks to protect them from noxious fumes. By this time this idea is considered comical if not downright ridiculous.[3] Madagascar
1897 Hospital-acquired infection Model introduction Polish surgeon Jan Mikulicz-Radecki describes a surgical mask composed on one layer of gauze.[27] The practice of using face masks is considered to be introduced by him.[6] Poland
1897 Tuberculosis Research German hygienist Carl Flügge publishes his works on the development of droplet infections as part of his research on tuberculosis.[12] Flügge, along with Jan Mikulicz-Radecki, suggest the idea of a facemask after having demonstrated the presence of bacterial droplets from the nose and mouth.[28][12] Germany
Carl Flügge
1897 Hospital-acquired infection Hospital use Doctors start wearing early surgical masks.[5]
1898 Hospital-acquired infection Hospital use Huebner recommends masks made of two layers of gauze, worn at a distance from the nose, to be used during operations.[27]
1899 Hospital-acquired infection Model introduction A French doctor develops a mask made of six layers of gauze and sews it on the collar of a surgical gown. The user only needs to flip the collar up when using it. It would gradually evolve into a form that could be freely tied and hung on the ears with a looped strap, thus giving birth to the modern mask.[1] France
1905 Scarlet fever Research American physician Alice Hamilton publishes an article proposing that scarlet fever is transmitted through droplet infection, thus recommends that masks be worn in hospitals.[27] [6][28] United States
Alice Hamilton in 1893
1910 Hospital-acquired infection Hospital use The application of face covers starts becoming common in surgery and the general hospitals.[12]
1910 Pneumonic plague General use During an epidemic of pneumonic plague in Manchuria, Malaysian physician Wu Lien-teh argues that the disease is transmitted through airborne contact, and develops masks to be worn by medical personnel and the general public.[6][29] This marks the beginning of an ethic of wearing masks in China during public-health emergencies.[30][7] China
Plague workers in personal protective equipment
1915 Infantile paralysis Hospital use Meltzer recommends fine mesh gauze masks to cover the faces of patients with infantile paralysis and the faces of personnel attending them.[27]
1917 Dust Model introduction The first commercial dust respirator is invented.[16]
1918 Diphtheria Hospital use G. H. Weaver in Chicago reports that over a two-year period the incidence of diphtheria contracted by attendants of infected patients was reduced to zero after wearing masks of double thickness gauze.[27][28][9] United States
1918 Influenza General use During the 1918 flu pandemic, people again starts to wear face masks. However, while the practice whould endure in China due to continued outbreaks, it would be largely forgotten in the United States and other countries.[31][7]
A nurse wears a cloth mask while treating a patient in Washington, DC
1918 Influenza Recommendation The U.S. Academy of Medicine recommends that masks be worn to avoid the spread of flu among health staff.[3] United States
1918 Influenza Production During the 1918 flu pandemic, the Red Cross encourages women to sew masks.[32]
Seattle police wearing masks in December 1918
1918 Influenza Anti-mask movement After San Francisco enforces the wearing of masks during the 1918 flu pandemic, the Anti-Mask League of San Francisco is formed as an anti-mask movement with the purpose to fight for the mask-wearing mandate to be repealed.[33][34] United States
Barbers wearing masks during the epidemic
1918 Research The first study producing a specification for surgical masks is published. This study finds extreme variations in the numbers of layers and quality of gauze of which masks are made, with researchers undertaking a series of tests to determine how many layers were needed to provide complete filtration.[35]
1919 Mining pollution Model introduction The United States Bureau of Mines initiates the first respirator certification program, and certifies the first respirator.[4] United States
1919 Influenza Research By the end of the 1918 flu pandemic, most scientists and health commissions come to a consensus about the benefits of wearing masks.[36]
1919 Tokyo, Japan
1920 Hospital-acquired infection Hospital use The use of masks becomes routine practice in the operating room.[28]
1920 Research Kellogg and MacMillan undertake an array of tests on masks, and conclude that they have not been demonstrated to have a degree of efficiency that would warrant mandatory use.[37][35] United States
1923 Ash and smoke General use In the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, people in Tokyo and Yokohama wear masks to protect themselves from all of the ash and smoke. By this time, Kotobuki Mask by Uchiyama Takeshoten becomes the first registered trademark product.[38] Japan
1924 Plague General use Gauze masks are used during the so-called second Manchurian plague epidemic.[14] United States
1926 Hospital-acquired infection Hospital use A clinical study first demonstrates a potential link between wearing masks and reduced surgical site infection.[28] The effectiveness of surgical masks on patient infection reduction is established by research.[39]
1927 Hospital-acquired infection Hospital use German surgeon Martin Kirschner describes the necessity of wearing a facemask in his multi-volume operational theory in the chapter Measures to combat infections.[12] Germany
1927 Hospital-acquired infection Research American bacteriologist Edwin O. Jordan publishes his definitive study, which determines that masks are effective when worn by patients already sick or by those directly exposed to victims, including nurses and physicians. Jordan also acknowledges, however, that “masks are uncomfortable and inconvenient, as anyone who has worn them can testify” and require a great deal of “discipline, self-imposed or other.”[40] United States
1929 Influenza Hospital use Professor Marchoux at the National Academy of Medicine recommends, particularly for doctors and hospital staff, wearing a light structure, hat veil or mask, in addition to spectacles, on the face, in order to protect against the projection of septic droplets from flu patients.[3] United States
1929 Meningitis Recommendation During a meningitis outbreak in China, the government encourages citizens to use masks and avoid public gatherings.[41][42] China
1930 Surgical wound infection Hospital use Walker publishes data confirming the value of face masks in preventing infection of surgical wounds.[13]
1934 Influenza General use An influenza epidemic in Japan triggers a different relationship with masks for the citizens, that of social courtesy. Infected people become conscientious about not passing on germs to others, and masks are no longer only worn by healthy individuals trying to avoid illness.[29] The Japanese government actively encourages its citizens to wear masks on public transportation, in theaters, and any other place people gather. This practice is reinforced to the point where those without a mask are sometimes barred from entry.[38] Japan
1935 Hospital-acquired infection Literature Face masks are mentioned in an edition of the book Assistance for operating staff.[12]
1935 Hospital-acquired infection Research Study by Meleney further confirms the value of face masks in preventing infection of surgical wounds.[13]
1936 Hospital-acquired infection Research A study reports on the results of a nine-year prospective study suggesting that use of surgical masks could contribute to surgical wound infections.[39]
1937 Chemical and biological weapons General use During the Second Sino-Japanese War, face masks become essential protection against chemical and biological warfare.[41] China
1937 Hospital-acquired infection Research Study by Hart and Davis confirms the value of face masks in preventing infection of surgical wounds.[13]
1948 Bacterial infection Research Study shows that large numbers of bacteria are liberated into the air from desquamated skin and clothing as a result of normal body activity, and that air in the operating room is contaminated more regularly and to a greater degree by the liberation of dust from clothing than by sneezing.[35]
1948–1950 Influenza Research After a period of decline since the end of the Spanish flu, the use of face masks quickly becomes common again during several major flu outbreaks around this time.[43]
1950 Air pollution Model introduction White gauze masks are first produced in Japan, as well as simple cloth ones without a wire frame. Previously, early masks were black, brown or green, in order to disguise dirt or stains from repeated use. New white masks are not only a response to industrialization and its subsequent pollution, but also used to combat the pollen from Japanese cedars that thrive off of the extra carbon dioxide.[38] Japan
1956 Staphylococcus aureus Research Hare confirms that staphylococcus aureus is carried in the anterior nares in 50% of the population, but finds it was generally only expelled from the nose during sneezing and snorting.[35]
1958 Research Kiser and Hitchcock report on a mask that combines the deflection and filtration principles. This plastic mask diverts the flow of breath backward on either side. Filter material near the side outlets is designed to trap the deflected organisms.[13]
1958 Research Andersen develops a sampling chamber to collect airborne particles in several categories of decreasing particle size.[13]
1959 Research Adam evaluates a fitted filter mask and finds it more efficient than gauze masks.[13]
1959 Nasal bacteria Research Shooter finds that few, if any, nasal bacteria are expelled into the air during quiet breathing, despite heavy nasal colonization.[35]
1960 Research Rockwood and O’Donoghuelg report that the length of time a filter mask retains its efficiency is three hours, confirming the inefficiency of absorbing gauze masks, and stressing the fact that the proper use of the best mask available could prevent infection.[13]
1961 Bacterial pathogens Model introduction Musselman reports on a mask designed to be used only once and then discarded. The mask incorporates a filter in a plastic shell that is shaped to fit the face. An elastic band secures it in place. Excellent bacterial filtration is reported.[13]
1961 Dust Model introduction 3M releases a “bubble” surgical mask that takes its inspiration from the cup of a bra. When 3M learns it can’t block pathogens, the mask is re-branded as a “dust” mask."[5] United States
1962 Hospital acquired bacterial infection Research Davis shows that desquamated skin, not expelled particulate matter, is the source of most common bacteria dispersed into the air of hospital wards.[35]
1966–1968 Influenza General use The use of face masks in Japan becomes even more common during several major flu outbreaks happening around this time.[43] Japan
1967 Model introduction The 3M mask starts being produced by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.[1] United States
1972 Model introduction 3M introduces the first single use N95 respirator mask.[2][9] United States
1973 Model introduction The pleated design made of non-woven fabric is introduced.[38]
1975 Research A study by Ritter shows that, although surgical masks do not contain airborne contaminants, they act to deflect the droplets out of the sides of the mask when the wearer talks or breaths.[35]
1976 Microbial infection Research Study on the effect of surgical mask movement on facial areas (eg, under the chin, eyes, nose) concludes that the dissemination of skin bacteria could be attributable to the friction (ie, wiggling) that occurs between surgical masks and these areas of microbial skin contamination during talking.[39]
1981 Surgical wound infection Research A study on the influence of surgical masks on the risk of surgical wound infections concludes that wearing surgical masks "have little relevance to the well-being of patients undergoing routine general surgical procedures and that wearing surgical masks could be abandoned as a standard of practice."[39]
1981 Research A study is conducted to determine whether the wearing of surgical masks influences the risk of surgical wound infections. In this study, no surgical masks are worn by surgical staff in the operating room. A total of 1,049 surgical procedures with skin incisions are performed, and a surgical wound infection rate of 1.8% is identified. This rate is significantly lower than that experienced before the trial commenced (P<0.05). It is concluded that the standard practice of wearing surgical masks could be abandoned.[35]
1984 Hospital-acquired infection Research Researchers conduct a randomly controlled trial on women having gynaecological surgery. Women are randomly allocated to lists staffed entirely by masked or unmasked teams. The trial is discontinued within a week after the third case of postoperative infection in the unmasked group, representing three out of five patients, whereas none of four patients develop infections in the masked group.[35]
1984 Wound infection Research A study on wounds sutured in an emergency department notes that there is no significant difference in infection rates whether or not masks were worn.[35]
1987 Research Researchers show that even when masks are worn correctly, the airflow during inhalation could bypass the mask material, resulting in reduced filtering efficacy and an increased health risk for dental operators.[44]
1989 Research Research shows no increase in the cases of infection following cardiac catheterization procedures when caps and masks were not worn.[35]
1991 Research A study on the effectiveness of surgical masks concludes that operating room staff not immediately in the vicinity of the surgical site do not pose an infection hazard, and that it is not necessary for these staff to wear surgical masks.[35]
1991 Research An article by Wildsmith claims that masks should be worn when spinal or extradural anaesthesia is performed. He comments on the importance of the mask, stating that “the anterior nares and mouth are relatively close to, and usually immediately above, the sterile field” in such procedures.[35]
1991 Research A study looking at the correlation between surgical masks and the incidence of postoperative wound infection finds that surgical procedures performed with masks have a surgical wound infection rate of 4.7% (3.7 to 5.8%, 95% confidence limit), whereas surgical procedures performed without masks have a surgical wound infection rate of 3.5% (2.6 to 4.5%). The bacterial culture from both groups is found to be similar.[35]
1992 Research A study on the effectiveness of surgical face masks in reducing bacterial surface contamination produced by dispersal of organisms from the upper airway finds that the unmasked group shows a statistically significant increase in the number of microbial colonies.[35]
1992 Aerobic and anaerobic skin bacteria Research A study by Tunevall finds almost identical air counts of aerobic and anaerobic skin bacteria whether or not masks were worn by operating staff, with no postoperative infections being found during the study, involving 22 operations.[35]
1993 Research Leyland hypothesizes that masks "filter bacteria from the nose and mouth into aggregates of sufficient size as to be affected by gravity, hence falling, rather than remaining atomized and being expelled from the operating theatre by the air change system."[35]
1993 Research A study recommends that obstetricians should wear face shields or eyeglasses to protect against facial contamination, reporting that obstetricians commonly receive blood or amniotic fluid splashes to the face during deliveries (50% during caesarean delivery and 32% during vaginal delivery).[35]
1995 Research A study shows no significant difference in the infection rate between surgical mask users and staff wearing surgical visors.[35]
1995 Hospital use The N95 respirator becomes a healthcare standard in epidemics.[2] "N95 is one of the filter standards (42CFR84) for respirator type masks prescribed by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1995. I"[45]
1998 Recommendation The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization recommend using cotton masks to protect from viral hemorrhagic fevers in low-resource healthcare settings in Africa if respirators or medical masks were not available.[14]
1999 Bacterial infection Research A study on the environmental effect of various gown protections in a mock operating room setting finds that the wearing of a surgical face mask in the hallway or the operating room has no effect on the bacterial counts in either the hallway or the operating room.[35]
2001 Research Researchers in Tasmania conclude that surgical masks should not be mandatory for anaesthetists in "the setting of a modern operating theater, with laminar flow/steriflow systems". They also note the available evidence suggests "surgical masks offer incomplete protection from airborne bacteria and viruses".[46] Australia
2002 Severe acute respiratory syndrome General use The 2002–2004 SARS outbreak prompts a mask resurgence in China, Hong Kong and across most of East Asia and Southeast Asia.[8] In East Asian countries besides Japan and China, the public practice is first forged.[1][30] East Asia, Southeast Asia
2003 Severe acute respiratory syndrome Research A comparative study on a sample size of 111 individuals in Hong Kong finds that healthcare workers who wore paper masks had lower risks of SARS infection.[47] China
2003 Model introduction Unicharm introduces 3D masks, which stand away from the mouth to make breathing easier, and to keep makeup from smearing.[38] Japan
2004 Severe acute respiratory syndrome Research A comparative study in Guangdong Province, China, finds that healthcare workers who wear both layer gauze and paper masks have lower risks of SARS infection.[47] China
2005 Influenza Recommendation The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues recommendations for the appropriate use of medical masks as part of a group of influenza control strategies in healthcare settings.[48] United States
2006 Severe acute respiratory syndrome Research A study on healthcare workers wearing N95 masks during the SARS epidemic concludes that the use of N95 masks may cause the healthcare workers to develop headaches and wearing them for shorter amounts of time may reduce the frequency and severity of the headaches.[49]
2006 Model introduction Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh share their method of making face masks with a Hanes Heavyweight 100 per cent pre-shrunk cotton T-shirt. It involves cutting the shirt into one outer layer and eight inner layers, then tying the pieces together and around the wearer’s head.[50] United States
2006 Influenza Recommendation The US Institute of Medicine prepares a report about the reusability of face masks during an influenza pandemic.[14] United States
2007 Hospital-acquired infection Hospital use Preliminary work in Australia shows very low acceptance of and compliance with mask use by hospital doctors and nurses.[51] Australia
2008 Research A study comparing surgical and respirator masks with homemade masks made from tea towels finds that homemade masks are not as effective, but might still provide “a significant degree of protection.”[50]
2009 Severe acute respiratory syndrome Research A comparative study by Liu et al. on a sample size of 447 individuals in Beijing finds that healthcare workers who wore cotton masks had significantly lower risks of SARS infection.[47] China
2009 Swine influenza General use About 85 million N95 masks are distributed to combat the swine flu pandemic.[52]
2009 Influenza (H1N1) Recommendation The World Health Organization discusses the option of using cloth masks to protect wearers from acquiring infection during the Swine flu pandemic.[14]
2009 Research Research reports on the possibility of the N95 respirator mask to be sterilized, but advises it not to be washed with soap, warm water, alcohol or bleach. The study concludes that "even exposure to ultraviolet radiation or using a microwave oven is not advisable since these methods damage the electrostatic charge and significantly reduce the filtration capacity".[9]
2009–2011 Swine influenza General use The 2009 swine flu pandemic sees further upsurges of prophylactic mask-wearing in Japan, regardless of government advice.[7] Japan
2011 Research A survey of mask use conducted in Tokyo shows that face masks are worn as protection against infection or to avoid spreading infections to others, but also as a general form of protection and as a sign of respect and responsibility.[43] Japan
2012 General use A dense wave of smog in China prompts a large-scale use of masks. The term "PM2.5" begins to enter public awareness, and mask models such as N95 and KN90, which can filter out this fine particulate matter, become highly popular.[1] China
Smog in Shanghai, 6 December 2013
2012 H1N1 influenza Research A comparative study by Zhang et al. on a sample size of 56 individuals in Beijing finds that cloth mask use did not significantly decrease the risk of H1N1 infection in health care setting.[47] China
2012 Influenza Research Study at the University of North Carolina and the University of Michigan finds that, to be effective, masks must be worn consistently and early — as soon as flu season begins. The study also shows that masks work best in combination with other measures, particularly frequent hand-washing.[53] United States
2013 Influenza Research A study at University of Cambridge compares homemade masks made out of a variety of household materials with surgical masks on their efficacy in offering protection during an influenza pandemic. All the masks studied in the report are found to reduce the number of microorganisms expelled into the air by volunteers, at least to an extent. Masks from dish/cleaning towels or cotton blend t‑shirts are found to be considerably effective in capturing small particles (stopping 83% and 74% of the particles, respectively).[29] United Kingdom
Homemade cloth face mask
2013 Research A study finds that vacuum bags, while being an unconventional option for at-home masks, are found to perform the strongest compared to other household alternatives.[50][54]
2014 Viral infection Research A cough simulation study suggests that a face shield, correctly manufactured and worn, could reduce a person’s viral exposure to a cough expelled less than 18 inches away by 96%.[55][56]
2015 Droplet infection Research Study by a team of Indian scientists on the dispersion of particles expelled during coughing/sneezing using aerodynamic simulation techniques finds that larger droplets emitted from coughing/sneezing can be blocked by a mask. A mask reduces the distance travelled by smaller droplets from nearly 2 meters to less than 30 cm. At the same time, maintaining a physical distance of at least 2 meters is greatly beneficial as even the particles that escaped the mask in the study could carry the virus no farther than 1.5 meters.[29]
2015 Hospital-acquired infection Research Study comparing the efficacy of cloth masks with that of medical masks and controls (standard practice) among healthcare workers in Vietnam finds that rates of infection are consistently higher among those in the cloth mask group than in the medical mask and control groups. This finding suggests that risk for infection is higher for those wearing cloth masks.[14] Vietnam
2016 Model introduction A “Small-Face Mask” is introduced in Japan. It would be ranked among the top ten masks for women in a 2018 survey so that “your dream to have a smaller face will come true.”[38] Japan
2017 General use The Asia-Pacific region accounts for the largest sheet face mask market share ot 42.91% of the global market, with Japan as one of the leading markets in the region, accounting for the largest market share during the review period.[57] Asia-Pacific
Face mask at Great Wall China
2017 Research Research reports on the possibility of the N95 respirator mask to be sterilized in a dry rice cooker for 3 min at 149–164 degrees Celsius.[9]
2018 Recommendation Medical anthropologist Christos Lynteris publishes article prompting readers to think about surgical masks as masks, bodily prostheses that transform the identity of the wearer. The gauze mask has both practical and performative significance. Practically, it creates a barrier against the inhalation of invisible airborne pathogens. At the same time, it performs symbolically the idea of a regime against airborne pathogens.[7]
2018 Influenza Research A study concludes that if only 20 percent of people use masks, it wouldn’t make a difference for the spread of influenza. The effect is found to be substancial at 50 percent compliance, with the use of high-filtration surgical masks.[58]
South Carolina National Guard assembles personal protective face masks
2018 Production About 4.3 million disposable masks are manufactured for personal use in Japan in this year.[38] Japan
Face mask selection at small convenience store in Tokyo
2018 Market size The global face masks market reaches approximately US$ 5.80 billion in this year.[59] Worldwide
2019 Production As of year, mainland China manufactures half the world output of masks.[60] China
Citizens of Wuhan lining up outside of a drug store to buy masks during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
2019 Market size The global face mask industry surpasses US$7.24 billion in the year.[61] Worldwide
2019 Market size The protective face mask market size in North America surpasses US$ 470 million.[62] North America
2019–2020 Surveillance Protester use During the Hong Kong protests, face masks are worn as both a political statement and as a tool for disguising identity from closed-circuit TV cameras. They would become so popular that the government would go so far as to try to ban them, immediately elevating them to a symbol of revolt.[8] Hong Kong
2020 (April 15) Coronavirus disease 2019 Model introduction Scientists claim having developed a biodegradable material for face masks which is effective at removing particles smaller than 100 nanometres including viruses and has a high breathability.[63][64] Australia
2020 (April 22) Coronavirus disease 2019 Recommendation A study by the U.S. National Academy of Medicine recommends wearing an anti-projection mask covering the nose and mouth, designed to retain droplets projected when speaking, coughing or sneezing and stop them dispersing in the immediate environment.[3] United States
Rhode Island National Guardsmen sew face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic
2020 (April 27) Coronavirus disease 2019 Policy Face masks become mandatory for shopping and in public transportation in Germany.[12] Germany
FFP1 face mask, 2020
2020 Research Research reports on the possibility of the N95 respirator mask to be sterilized by hanging it in the oven by using a wooden clip.[9]
2023 Market size The European sheet face mask market is estimated to exceed US$284.6 million by this year.[57] Europe
2026 Market size The face mask market is expected to surpass US$21.2 billion by this year.[65]
2017 Market size According to a study published by Polaris Market Research, the global face mask market is expected to surpass US$ 31.83 billion by this year.[66] Worldwide
Meta information on the timeline
How the timeline was built
The initial version of the timeline was written by User:Sebastian.
Funding information for this timeline is available.
Feedback and comments
Feedback for the timeline can be provided at the following places:
Nursing Facebook group
TheNursePath Facebook group
Oklahoma nurses Facebook group
Health Professionals for Global Health Facebook group
HEALTHCARE QUALITY Facebook group
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) Facebook group
Timelines Wiki Facebook group
Infection control nurses Facebook group
NursingNow Argentina2020 Facebook group
Twig + Tale Mask Makers Facebook group
Microbiology Research Group Facebook group
Microbiology & Immunology Research Facebook group
Cellular Biology, Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses Facebook group
Food& water Microbiology Facebook group
Medical Microbiology & Immunology Facebook group
IFCAI - INFECTION CONTROL ACADEMY OF INDIA Facebook group
El mundo de las bacterias Facebook group
Microbiology & Immunology Facebook group
Medical and Pharmaceutical Microbiology Facebook group
Microbiology Facebook group
Bacteriology Lovers & Lerners Facebook group
•Micro::Molecular•biology- biotechnology Facebook group
Infection Control Today Facebook group
NIGERIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY (NIDS) Facebook group
Amazing Microbiology (Nepal) Facebook group
What the timeline is still missing
Timeline update strategy
Timeline of infection control
Timeline of hygiene
Timeline of epidemiology
Timeline of antibiotics
Timeline of bacteriology
Timeline of virology
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 "The evolution of face masks". globaltimes.cn. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "A Brief History of Medical Face Masks". gizmodo.com. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Go out wearing masks! A media history of face masks". newseye.eu. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "100 Years of Respiratory Protection History". cdc.gov. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "The untold origin story of the N95 mask". fastcompany.com. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Pandemics Come and Go But Medical Masks Are Eternal". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 "We share what we exhale". the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "The Mask". nytimes.comwwww. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Goha, Yihui; Tanab, Benjamin Y.Q.; Bhartendua, Chandra; Onga, Jonathan J.Y.; Sharma, Vijay K. "The face mask: How a real protection becomes a psychological symbol during Covid-19?". doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.060.
↑ 10.0 10.1 Strasser, Bruno J; Schlich, Thomas. "A history of the medical mask and the rise of throwaway culture". doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31207-1.
↑ 11.0 11.1 "The history behind Japan's love of face masks". japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 Matuschek, Christiane; Moll, Friedrich; Fangerau, Heiner; Fischer, Johannes C.; Zänker, Kurt; van Griensven, Martijn; Schneider, Marion; Kindgen-Milles, Detlef; Knoefel, Wolfram Trudo; Lichtenberg, Artur; Tamaskovics, Bálint; Djiepmo-Njanang, Freddy Joel; Budach, Wilfried; Corradini, Stefanie; Häussinger, Dieter; Feldt, Torsten; Jensen, Björn; Pelka, Rainer; Orth, Klaus; Peiper, Matthias; Grebe, Olaf; Maas, Kitti; Bölke, Edwin; Haussmann, Jan. "The history and value of face masks". doi:10.1186/s40001-020-00423-4.
↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 Spooner, John L. "History of Surgical Face Masks: The myths, the masks, and the men and women behind them". doi:10.1016/S0001-2092(08)71359-0.
↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 "Effectiveness of Cloth Masks for Protection Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2". cdc.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ "Not Just Coronavirus: Asians Have Worn Face Masks for Decades". voanews.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
↑ 16.0 16.1 Horii, Mitsutoshi. "Why Do the Japanese Wear Masks?". japanesestudies.org.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
↑ "A brief history of masks from the 17th-century plague to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic". theconversation.com. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
↑ "Faced With Face Masks: A Brief Discussion of Current Challenges". naspa.org. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
↑ "The Masked Man". sapiens.org. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
↑ "History of the face mask". slideshare.net. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
↑ 21.0 21.1 Boeckl, p. 15
↑ Carmichael, A.G. (2009), "Plague, Historical", in Schaechter, Moselio, Encyclopedia of Microbiology (3rd ed.), Elsevier, pp. 58–72, ISBN 9780123739445, doi:10.1016/B978-012373944-5.00311-4
↑ Iqbal Akhtar Khan (May 2004). "Plague: the dreadful visitation occupying the human mind for centuries". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 98 (5): 270–277. PMID 15109549. doi:10.1016/S0035-9203(03)00059-2. Charles Delorme (1584—1678), personal physician to King Louis XIII, was credited with introducing special protective clothing for plague doctors during the epidemic in Marseilles. It consisted of a beak-like mask supplied with aromatic substance, presumed to act as filter against the odour emanating from the patients, and a loose gown covering the normal clothing. On occasions, a drifting fragrance such as camphor was used.
Pommerville (Body Systems), p. 15
Hirts, p. 66
Reynolds, p. 23
↑ Time-Life Books, p. 158 Beak Doctor: during the Black Plague, a medical man who wore a bird mask to protect himself against infection. Black plague definition: In 14th-century Europe, the victims of the "black plague" had bleeding below the skin (subcutaneous hemorrhage) which made darkened ("blackened") their bodies. Black plague can lead to "black death" characterized by gangrene of the fingers, toes, and nose. Black plague is caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) which is transmitted to humans from infected rats by the oriental rat flea.. medterm.com
↑ Spelce, David; Rehak, Timothy R; Metzler, Richard W.; Johnson, James S. "Pre-World War I Firefighter Respirators and the U.S. Bureau of Mines Involvement in WWI". PMID 32514225 Check |pmid= value (help).
↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 Spooner, John L. "History of Surgical Face Masks". doi:10.1016/S0001-2092(08)71359-0.
↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 Adams, Lu Wang; Aschenbrenner, Carol A.; Houle, Timothy T.; Roy, Raymond C. "Uncovering the History of Operating Room Attire through Photographs". doi:10.1097/ALN.0000000000000932.
↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 "The history and science of mask-wearing". indiabioscience.org. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
↑ 30.0 30.1 "Face Masks Are In". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
↑ "99% Invisible Podcast: History of Face Masks and the Power of PPE in Pandemics". autodesk.com. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
↑ "COVID-19 Mask Makers Are Part Of A Larger History". sideeffectspublicmedia.org. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
↑ "Photos show how San Francisco had to convince its 'mask slackers' to wear masks after many defied the law while the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic seized the city". businessinsider.com. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
↑ "The Mask Slackers of 1918". nytimes.com. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
↑ 35.00 35.01 35.02 35.03 35.04 35.05 35.06 35.07 35.08 35.09 35.10 35.11 35.12 35.13 35.14 35.15 35.16 35.17 35.18 35.19 SKINNER, M. W.; SUTTON, B. A. "Do Anaesthetists Need to Wear Surgical Masks in the Operating Theatre? A Literature Review with EvidenceBased Recommendations".
↑ "A brief history of people refusing to wear masks". fastcompany.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
↑ Kellogg, W. H.; MacMillan, Grace. "AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFICACY OF GAUZE FACE MASKS". ajph.aphapublications.org. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 38.4 38.5 38.6 "Face Masks in Japan: 100 Years Running". restaurants-guide.tokyo. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 Belkin, Nathan L. "A century after their introduction, are surgical masks necessary?". doi:10.1016/S0001-2092(06)63628-4.
↑ "Flu Masks Failed In 1918, But We Need Them Now". healthaffairs.org. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
↑ 41.0 41.1 "A Brief History of Face Masks in China". sixthtone.com. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
↑ "Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis during the Cultural Revolution". journals.openedition.org. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 "Face masks: Why do different countries in the world have such different recommendations?". sciencenorway.no. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
↑ CHECCHI, LUIGI; MONTEVECCHI, MARCO; MORESCHI, ANNALISA; GRAZIOSI, FRANCESCA; TADDEI, PAOLA; VIOLANTE, FRANCESCO SAVERIO. "Efficacy of three face masks in preventing inhalation of airborne contaminants in dental practice". PMID 16060468. doi:10.14219/jada.archive.2005.0288.
↑ "KN95 Face Mask（KN95 FFP2）". seventrustgroup.com. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ Sutton, Brett Andrew. "Do Anaesthetists Need to Wear Surgical Masks in the Operating Theatre? A Literature Review with Evidence-Based Recommendations". doi:10.1177/0310057X0102900402.
↑ 47.0 47.1 47.2 47.3 "Face masks and coverings for the general public: Behavioural knowledge, effectiveness of cloth coverings and public messaging" (PDF). royalsociety.org. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
↑ "Use and Reuse of Respiratory Protective Devices for Influenza Control". nap.edu. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ "Partly false claim: Continually wearing a mask causes hypercapnia". reuters.com. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
↑ 50.0 50.1 50.2 "How to make a face mask with T-shirts, vacuum bags and tea towels". ctvnews.ca. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
↑ "N95 Masks From Taiwan & China Reliable N95 Mask Manufacturers & N95 Respirator Suppliers". manufacturers.com.tw. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ "Why We're Running Out of Masks". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
↑ "Coronavirus mask guidance remains unclear. Here's how history can help". nbcnews.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
↑ "Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks: Would They Protect in an Influenza Pandemic?". doi:10.1017/dmp.2013.43.
↑ Lindsley, William G; Noti, John D; Blachere, Francoise M; Szalajda, Jonathan V; Beezhold, Donald H. "Efficacy of face shields against cough aerosol droplets from a cough simulator". PMC 4734356 . PMID 24467190. doi:10.1080/15459624.2013.877591.
↑ "Face shield and mask manufacturers". brigo.com. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
↑ 57.0 57.1 "Market Highlights". marketresearchfuture.com. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
↑ "The Face Mask Debate Reveals a Scientific Double Standard". wired.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
↑ "Global Face Masks Market". adroitmarketresearch.com. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
↑ Bradsher, Keith; Alderman, Liz (2 April 2020). "The World Needs Masks. China Makes Them, but Has Been Hoarding Them". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2020. China made half the world’s masks before the coronavirus emerged there, and it has expanded production nearly 12-fold since then.
↑ "Worldwide Face Mask Market Size to record notable gains through 2026". marketwatch.com. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
↑ "Protective face mask market size". fortunebusinessinsights.com. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
↑ Layt, Stuart (14 April 2020). "Queensland researchers hit sweet spot with new mask material". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
↑ Technology (QUT), Queensland University of. "New mask material can remove virus-size nanoparticles". QUT. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
↑ "Face mask market to surpass $21.2 billion by 2026". globenewswire.com. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
↑ "Face Mask Market To Surpass $31.83 Billion By 2027". medgadget.com. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
Retrieved from "http://timelines.issarice.com/index.php?title=Timeline_of_face_masks&oldid=46867"
CS1 errors: PMID
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842751
|
__label__wiki
| 0.872738
| 0.872738
|
Two unranked losses push Drake further out of rankings
byADAM ROGAN
in Sports, Tennis
BY ADAM ROGAN
The Drake men’s tennis team’s losing streak has now grown to three.
It started with a near upset of Cornell University, now ranked 24th in the nation, but has continued with close losses to unranked opponents.
The Bulldogs nearly swept the singles points against the University of Denver Pioneers, but a doubles point loss and three blown leads gave the team victory to Denver.
Sophomore Tom Hands and junior Bayo Philips each won in two sets take the lead. Sophomore Vinny Gillespie came back from a set down to give the Bulldogs a match point. It was the first set Gillespie has dropped in nearly a month and only the second three-setter he’s finished since October 2016.
From there on out, no Bulldog would win a set. Junior Calum MacGeoch, freshman Barny Thorold and junior Ben Stride all lost in three sets after all winning their respective first set.
The next match, the next day against the University of California, Santa Barbara, started similarly. Drake lost the doubles point, but bounced back to take a 3-2 lead in singles.
Gillespie had lost his first set in a tiebreaker, but battled back to a 6-4 win in set two. But he lost the momentum quickly in the third set. He won only one game in it and allowed the match to get tied back up again.
Thorold had kept it close it every set, losing the first 7-5 but winning the second 6-7, but wasn’t able to come away with the win in the end. He lost the set 6-4.
The loss dropped Thorold to 5-14 in his freshman campaign and the Bulldogs to 12-11 on the season.
At this point in the season, this is the worst record the Bulldogs have had since 2005, long before Davidson Kozlowski took over head coaching duties in September 2012.
A Drake return to the nation’s top 50 is also less likely now. The team hasn’t been ranked since the second week of March. Santa Barbara’s win, however, moved them up to 49th.
Not only did Gillespie’s loss contribute to Drake’s team defeat, but it also snapped a six-match win streak for the sophomore.
His last loss had come on March 10 during a 4-0 loss to the University of Michigan.
Nonetheless, Gillespie still holds the best record on the team with 16 wins and just three losses in 2017, every match coming on the first court. Hands is the only other player with a record above .500. He’s 13-6.
The Bulldogs have just three matches remaining before the Missouri Valley Conference Championship, scheduled for the end of the month. Drake is set to host conference opponents Southern Illinois University and Illinois State University for an April 8 doubleheader.
ADAM ROGAN
Bulldogs start 0-1 in MVC, will face Wichita State on Saturday
Jane Hoe: Ooh, aah and the sounds of womanly moans
Co-rec basketball rules you may not know
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842752
|
__label__wiki
| 0.956017
| 0.956017
|
Covid-19 vaccine trial volunteer alleges side effects; DCGI and ethics committee probing matter; Serum Institute rejects charge
PTI / Updated: Nov 29, 2020, 22:54 IST
Modi to interact with 3 teams involved in developing Covid vaccine
PM Modi visits vaccine plants in 3 cities, reviews progress
File photo used for representational purpose
CHENNAI/NEW DELHI: An Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial participant in Chennai has sought a compensation of Rs five crore for allegedly suffering serious side effects from the shot, a claim which is being investigated by the Drugs Controller General of India and the institutional ethics committee at the trial site.
A senior ICMR official said that a preliminary assessment has not indicated any causal link between the alleged adverse events shown by the volunteer and the 'Covishield' vaccine.
The 40-year-old business consultant, who was a volunteer for the third phase of the vaccine trial conducted by Serum Institute of India (SII), has alleged he suffered a virtual neurological breakdown and impairment of cognitive functions, and has sent a legal notice to SII and others.
Covid-19: Authorities still mum on month-old adverse event during vaccine trial
More than a month and a half after an adverse event occurred in a clinical trial in India of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the regulator for vaccine trials, has not issued any statement on the occurrence. It also did not respond to queries about
However, the SII on Sunday rejected the charges as "malicious and misconceived" and said it will seek damages in excess of Rs 100 crore.
The man was administered the shot at Chennai's Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER), one of the trial sites on October 1.
A law firm on his behalf has now sent a legal notice to Director General of ICMR, CEO, Serum Institute of India Private Limited, Pune, Drugs Controller General of India, Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, CEO, Astra Zeneca UK, Professor Andrew Pollard, Chief Investigator of Oxford Vaccine Trial and Vice Chancellor of Sri Ramachandra Higher Education and Research.
The man has sought a compensation of Rs 5 crore and that the testing, manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine be stopped immediately.
The SII has partnered with British-Swedish biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca AstraZeneca for manufacturing the Oxford vaccine candidate for Covid-19.
Dr Samiran Panda, who heads the Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases (ECD) division of the ICMR, said the causal link, if any, of the serious adverse events with the investigational product is objectively assessed in any clinical trial following a pre-defined scientific pathway and within a stipulated period.
"Any hurried inquiry or inference is prone to be wrong. Both the institutional ethics committee and the DCGI are investigating the causal links, if any, between the adverse events and investigational product, which is an anti-coronavirus vaccine. A preliminary assessment has not indicated any causal link as yet," Dr Panda said.
According to the legal notice, the information provided in the 'Participant Information Sheet (PIS)' was absolutely certain that Covishield, the vaccine developed by Oxford University, is safe and the man was hence led to believe it.
Hence, he decided to become a volunteer and signed the informed consent on September 29 and the test result for antibodies against coronavirus turned negative the same day. On October 1, he was administered the vaccine.
Though there was no side effects for the first 10 days, he subsequently had episodes like severe headache and vomiting. Detailing the sequence of events since October 11 when he was admitted to the Ramachandra Hospital and as narrated by the man's wife, the notice said he showed behavioural changes.
He could neither recognise anyone nor speak and was totally disoriented and was shifted to the ICU and was on October 26 "discharged at our (family's) request", it said.
At home, he seemed quite disoriented at times and was unable to relate to things or work. He would not have volunteered for the test vaccine if all the potential risk factors of the test vaccine had been known to him, the notice given on November 21 said.
"Our client states that he must be compensated, in the least, for all the sufferings that he and his family have undergone and are likely to undergo in the future."
"He further states that he is still far from being all right and has to be under medical care for a long time to come. Therefore, for all the trauma he is undergoing and with an uncertain future in his health, he should be given a financial compensation of Rs. 5 crores within two weeks from the receipt of this notice," it said.
Serum Institute of India said in a statement that the allegations in the notice are "malicious and misconceived" and the volunteer is falsely laying the blame for his medical problems on the COVID vaccine trial.
"While the Serum Institute of India is sympathetic with the volunteer's medical condition, there is absolutely no correlation with the vaccine trial and the medical condition of the volunteer," it said.
"The claim is malicious because the volunteer was specifically informed by the medical team that the complications he suffered were independent of the vaccine trial he underwent. In-spite of specifically being made aware of the same, he still chose to go public and malign the reputation of the company," Serum Institute said.
It is evident that the intention behind the spreading of such malicious information is an oblique pecuniary motive, it added.
"The Serum Institute of India will seek damages in excess of (Rs) 100 crore for the same and will defend such malicious claims," the statement said.
The DCGI had on September 11 directed Serum Institute of India (SII) to suspend any new recruitment in phase 2 and 3 clinical trials of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine candidate till further orders in the backdrop of pharma giant AstraZeneca pausing the clinical trials in other countries because of ''an unexplained illness'' in a participant in the study.
However, on September 15 it permitted the Serum Institute to recommence the trial.
worldTrump impeached: Can he be barred from becoming President again?
worldWhere Covid vaccines will be produced most: India or China?
citySarpanch post auctioned, poll cancelled in two Maharashtra villages
indiaPM Modi didn’t stand with people during Covid crisis: Rahul Gandhi
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842754
|
__label__cc
| 0.746988
| 0.253012
|
Oliver McBurnie
EPL: Late Vardy strike gives Leicester 2-1 win at Sheffield
A 90th-minute goal from striker Jamie Vardy gave Leicester City a 2-1 win at Sheffield United in the Premier League on Sunday, lifting the Foxes back into the top four while leaving the Blades rooted to the bottom of the table.
Premier League: Sebastien Haller heaps misery on Sheffield United as West Ham win 1-0
A thumping second-half goal from West Ham United striker Sebastien Haller condemned Sheffield United to a 1-0 Premier League defeat at home on Sunday that leaves them rooted to the bottom of the standings with a single point after nine games.
I'll walk away only if it serves Sheffield United, says Wilder
Embattled Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder said on Friday that he would only step down if he thought it was the best decision for the club as they remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League.
Everything you must know about the European olive, the pearl of the Mediterranean diet
The European olive is not only a concept but a way of understanding life. The olive is a culinary emblem that is a part of the Spanish culture and tradition where it has been at the heart of the kitchen for more than 2,000 years.
Rajasthan: Despite bumper harvest, farmers fail to sell olive oil, demand MSP
After waiting for 5-6 years since plantation, olive farmers in Rajasthan had a bumper harvest this year. High oil content of 19% in some varieties, which is closer to international levels, provided the jittery farmers another reassurance that the Mediterranean fruit has a future in the state.
Olive oil soaps: Get soft, supple, and acne-free skin
Olive oil contains oleocanthal, a compound promoted for its mitigating benefits. Olive oil soap cleans your skin without stripping off the essential oils. Olive oil additionally permits the skin to respirate and shed cells normally consequently lessening the acnes and skin rashes issues.
World’s best olive oil comes from this place
In just 15 years, Croatia’s Istrian peninsula in the northern Adriatic has become one of the world’s best producers of olive oil and has received the top industry awards. The olive oil produced here is believed to be of the highest quality.
High-calorie food items that are actually healthy
Never cook these things in an Air Fryer
Liver disease affects one in every five Indian: Here are top 10 foods and drinks to protect your liver
8 healthy sources of fat for vegetarians
Sniffing these 5 things can help you lose weight
Tridha Choudhury’s bold and chic style statements
Olive oil for a supple and smooth skin and healthy hair
Olive oil plays an important role in a healthy lifestyle and is beneficial for both skin and hair. So, trust these olive oils for soft and supple skin.
Goa: Olive Ridley turtles keep annual date, lay first batch of 135 eggs at Galgibaga
Goa’s flippered friends have kept their annual date with South Goa’s Galgibaga beach, laying the first batch of 135 eggs at 4am on Wednesday.
Extra light olive oil for healthy and light cooking
Want to use light olive oil in your kitchen for healthy cooking and retaining the original flavour of food? Have a look at some of the most popular options of olive oil available in India.
Olive Oil vs. Vegetable Oil: Which one is healthier?
Natural remedies for rashes
5 food combinations that can speed up your weight loss
Homemade lip scrubs
When Trump’s pal Giuliani was a hero for the world
A Jallikattu like never before
Is cruelty now a way of life?
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842755
|
__label__cc
| 0.709853
| 0.290147
|
2021 Suzuki V-Strom 650 XT unveiled
13th November 2020 Suyash Shrivastav 0 Comments
Suzuki has launched its BS6-compliant (Euro 5) V-Strom 650 XT in Australia. This is the same bike that’s expected to make its way to India.
India launch delayed due to the pandemic
Power figures remain nearly the same
Available in three new colour schemes
Suzuki first showcased its BS6-compliant V-Strom 650 XT back in February at Auto Expo 2020. It was showcased alongside other updated models from the company.
While we have seen the BS6-compliant Gixxer range, and the Access and Burgman Street have made their way to the Indian market, the company’s V-Strom has been delayed due to the pandemic.
However, Suzuki has launched its updated V-Strom 650 XT in Australia and it gives us a good idea of what to expect. Firstly, the 645cc, V-twin engine doesn’t appear to have lost much power. It now makes 70.7hp and 62Nm of torque, which makes it nearly identical to the BS4 model’s 71hp and 62Nm.
Another change comes in the form of the colour schemes on offer. The Australian market gets the choice of Metallic Oort Grey, Pearl Brilliant White and Candy Daring Red/Glass Sparkle Black colour schemes.
What is quite surprising is that the BS6 V-Strom showcased at the Auto Expo 2020, and on the company’s Indian website, has the bike in yellow.
While we can’t be sure of whether or not to expect the yellow colour scheme, we can be sure of its launch here. We expect it to be one of Suzuki’s first BS6-compliant big bikes in India.
Suzuki Access 125, Burgman Street 125 with Bluetooth connectivity launched
← Ayodhya Ram Ki Paidi illuminated video Deepotsav Diwali Ram Mandir Ram Temple Ram Janmabhoomi Yogi Adityanath
Krunal Pandya fined at Mumbai Airport for carrying excess valuables from UAE →
First half scoreboard for 2020 U.S. sales
Maserati MC20 to use custom-made Bridgestone Potenza tyres
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-25R launched in Indonesia
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842757
|
__label__cc
| 0.642509
| 0.357491
|
About TL2014
Laptop Rollout Information
Laptop Distribution Schedule
Expectations and Guidelines
Home Internet Filtering
Backing Up Data
Local Wireless Hotspots
Falcon Apps
Responsibility Chart
Warranty/Insurance Claim
Loaner Laptop Computers
New/Withdrawn Students
Assessment/Evaluation
Teaching and Learning 2014
Salisbury Township School District – Allentown, Pennsylvania
Posts tagged ‘media literacy’
Innovative High Schools Across PA Selected to Participate in 2012 Media Literacy Program
M r. Wetherhold, media teacher at Salisbury High School, and the new media program are recent recipients of a competitive grant from the PA organization, Drug Free Pennsylvania. Salisbury is excited for the opportunity for our students to participate in this media literacy program! Drug Free Pennsylvania recently released the press release below, sharing more about this exciting opportunity. Congratulations to Mr. Wetherhold for a successful grant application and involving Salisbury High School in this important educational opportunity.
Harrisburg, PA (March 5, 2012) – Drug Free Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth’s statewide non-profit organization dedicated to reducing substance abuse in schools, homes and businesses announced today the winners of the the first annual Media Literacy High School grant program.
The Media Literacy High School program provides funding, technical assistance and collaboration opportunities for high schools to implement a student-centered, peer-to-peer media literacy initiative focused on examining and understanding the impact of media messages on drug and alcohol use among teenagers. High schools from across Pennsylvania competed for three slots in the inaugural program. The selection committee chose the following schools for particpiation in the 2012 Media Literacy High School program:
Salisbury High School
Salisbury High School serves approximately 500 students and is part of the Salisbury Township School District located in the Allentown area of the Lehigh Valley. The school offers an intimate setting in which students can often experience small classes and work on unique projects. These include the student media lab and broadcasting center which is used to produce daily and weekly programming and to explore the psychology and social impact of media through programs such as full-year elective courses in media messages, media management and media studies.
Souderton Area High School
Souderton Area High School serves more than 2,000 students in a rural and suburban community north of Philadelphia in Montgomery and Bucks counties. Media development and engagement has been a critical part of the high school program of studies for many years, and video production electives are some of the most popular courses offered at SAHS, culminating in an annual school film festival. The high school also allows students to explore current issues and career interests through an innovative 5th Block that provides dedicated schedule time each week.
Tacony Academy Charter School
Located in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia, Tacony Academy Charter School was established in 2009 as a city-wide charter school and currently serves 738 students from across the City of Phildelphia. Cornerstones of the school’s educational program include a commitment to STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) college preparatory learning and development of leadership skills. The school teaches a comprehensive elective course for students in media literacy and integrates media issues into academic, intellectual and research-based learning opportunities.
These three schools will implement a student media literacy high school initiative during spring 2012 and participate in online and peer-to-peer education and dialogue, guided by principles and ‘best practices’ established by the work of Renee Hobbs, PhD, founder of the Media Education Lab, and Brian Primack, M.D. of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
The Media Literacy High School program continues and expands upon the accomplishments of Drug Free Pennsylvania’s successful “The Media Straight Up!” program for middle schools and the highly recognized Media Literacy PSA Contest program, sponsored annually by Drug Free Pennsylvania in partnership with the Pennsylvania National Guard’s Counterdrug Joint Task Force.
Funding for the Media Literacy High School program was made possible by the suppport of the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
For more information, go to www.medialiteracypa.org/highschool
Informational Writing in Elementary School
Prior to the holiday break, Mrs. Helfrich’s class had been researching, “Celebrating Christmas in other Countries.” The information gathered was turned into an informational writing piece on the country of their choice. The students then created an accompanying poster, using the Pages program on the Macbook laptops. For the final product, students could choose from any of the Pages poster layouts. The process equated to research + note taking + organizing information into an informational writing piece + optional typing using Pages + a visual poster to display on the Smart Board = an enhanced presentation that became much more than traditional reading and writing!
Teaching and Learning 2014 (TL2014) is an initiative of the Salisbury Township School District located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Started in September 2011, TL2014 is designed to bring to life, by June 2014, our vision for education in the 21st century. TL2014.org is the primary communication tool for teachers, students, parents and community about all things TL2014! Links to documents, web content for learning, news, student work and general information about the initiative can be found here. Please visit often!
For questions about TL2014, please contact Randy Ziegenfuss, Ed.D. at rziegenfuss@stsd.org.
Search TL2014
TL2014 RSS Feeds
Social Media Week (5)
Tech Tip (41)
1st 2nd grade 3rd 4th grade 5th 21st century 2012 animoto assessment bullying camp care challenge-based learning challenges change cleaning collaboration communication copyright creative commons critical thinking digital aces distraction english facebook falcon apps goals google apps google earth help hst internet safety keynote laptop leadership learning literacy literature Mac media media literacy morning call music paradigm parenting parents piagesi podcast project RED publicity real world research resources science shs sir ken robinson sms social networking social studies speak up students support survey survey2012 teaching technology tech tip tl2014 tutorials twitter video workshop workshops wse youth
STSD.org
Visit the home of the Salisbury Township School District online at stsd.org.
Latest STSD Tweets:
STSD modified early dismissal 11/26. SMS/SHS @ 10:15. ES @ 11:00 am w/no mod. PM Kindergarten. Non- pub 10:30 transportation. 6 years ago
Ms Anderson receives her hand from Dr Chi thanks to Ms DeBona's WSE class #stsdconnect http://t.co/H0kTozNdfg 6 years ago
WSE students meet w/Dr. Chi at Johns Hopkins #stsdconnect http://t.co/fBJ75an4t2 6 years ago
Follow @stsdfalcon
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842760
|
__label__cc
| 0.704547
| 0.295453
|
Amish Farmer Sam Girod is in Jail… His Enemies Want Him there for Life
By Dale Walker | March 29, 2017
“This Amish Farmer is in jail. The direction of this nation is in peril and one man cannot stop this tsunami that has been headed our way for many years. The so called church has ignored it, denied it, embraced it and some have even HELPED TO PERPETUATE the moral decline of AMERICA AND LOSS OF OUR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.”
Amish Farmer Sam Girod is in Jail…His Enemies Want Him there for Life
“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”
~ 1 Timothy 2:1-4 (Holy Bible, King James Version)
This might turn out to be the hardest newsletter I’ve ever written. I definitely think I’ve spent the most time on it. I’ve started over at least 5 times and I still don’t like it. But I guess I’ll just pour it out like it is and hopefully you can pick up the pieces and make something out of it.
The Facts Aren’t Hard to Tell
Samuel Girod, Amish farmer in Kentucky and herbal salve maker, father of twelve… is in jail. He’s been there for over a month and he has done absolutely nothing even remotely worthy of treatment of this magnitude. (Sam had made some healing claims on the labeling of his herbal salves and this all escalated from there.) When they came to arrest Sam, they corralled his wife and children into the yard to be guarded by an agent with a semi-automatic rifle. (According to a family friend that I spoke with, his children are still having nightmares.) They put Sam in hand cuffs, hauled him to prison, locked him up without bail and threw enough charges against him (28,000 pages of legal documents) that if they have their way in court Sam will be in prison for the rest of his life. (He’s 57 and they want him in prison for 68 years.)
Here’s the Background Story
Sam and Elizabeth Girod and their 12 children are Amish farmers in Kentucky. For the last 16 years they have made homemade herbal salves as a family. They sold it from their farm and at a few small stores near them. The family makes three products: A chickweed salve, a bloodroot salve called To-Mor-Gone and an essential oil blend called Sine-Eze.
Their main salve is the one Sam called “Chickweed Healing Salve.” It’s made with wild-harvested herbs like chickweed, rosemary, comfrey, peppermint, eucalyptus and lavender essential oils as ingredients blended with olive oil and beeswax to stiffen it.
The salve making is not rocket science. Any of you could make these products in your kitchen. In fact many people do. If you Google it, you’ll find recipes online like this one. But like so many other areas of life, moms are busy, salve making is messy, and so folks are quite happy to pay Sam and his family to make the salves for them. And so they do.
So the $64,000 question is: What in the world went wrong? How did this peace-loving, quiet, minding-his-own-business, Amish family farmer, father of twelve and loyal American citizen end up in jail for making herbal salves? How is it possible that this simple, God-fearing father, who would, any other year, be out working his fields with his horses getting ready for spring planting, be now sitting behind jail bars… considered a dangerous criminal?
These questions seem to defy answers. But let me show you how easy it actually is to make an innocent man look criminal. Then maybe you’ll understand.
Innocent Labeling Misstep
Sam’s nightmare started over twelve years ago. Their family was still new in the salve business and he had quite honestly and transparently labeled his one salve as ‘Chickweed Healing Salve’ and had healing testimonial claims on the label.
He also did not have the familiar FDA disclaimer that looks like this:
Sam, in his simple, disconnected-from-the-world Amish way of life may not have realized that healing claims coupled with the disclaimer omission amounted to a cardinal sin in the eyes of the FDA. Or maybe Sam just didn’t feel the disclaimer was truthful or even right to use. Maybe Sam felt it was dishonest to say that his salve was not intended to treat, cure or prevent any disease when, of course, that is exactly what his salve is for.
Whatever the reason, Sam was soon to get an education!
To Criminalize a Man
It’s fairly easy to criminalize a man… especially if he makes the first misstep. Please stick with me. It’s critical that you understand how it’s bureaucratically possible to make a good man look bad. How easy it is for otherwise sensible people to rationalize that good is evil and evil is good and that light is darkness. (Isaiah 5:20)
The entire criminalization of Sam is based on the FDA’s official public position that ONLY a drug can “diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.” They really do say and believe this. And that truthfully is what 100% of this fiasco is based on. As soon as you accept this #1 non-fact as Truth, your mind is perfectly ripe for the next three Orwellian twistings.
So… since Sam says his herbal salve helps for treating, or preventing a disease, therefore his product is obviously a drug. Point #1 proves point #2. End of discussion.
So… since this new drug has NOT been approved by us, the FDA, therefore his drug is illegal. [You see how logically this is developing? It’s impossible to argue against if you accept #1.]
So therefore, since Sam has admitted that he’s been selling this salve, and we’ve proved his salve is a drug and an illegal one at that, Sam is admittedly an illegal drug dealer. He’s even selling this illegal drug across state lines! So he’s actually a National Interstate Drug Dealer. And that makes Sam an exceedingly dangerous criminal! Bind him, men, and take him away!
Humble acknowledgment: It is an integral part of our civil duty as public servants to protect the American public from Illegal drug dealing criminals. We, the knights in shining armor, riding upon white horses have again courageously protected the vulnerable people of our great nation of The United States of America from the alarming menace of an illegal drug cocktail of Rosemary, Beeswax, Olive oil, Peppermint, Chickweed, Eucalyptus, Lavender and Comfrey. (These are the exact ingredients of Sam’s Chickweed Healing Salve.)
You will also be relieved to know that the dangerous Amishman who is the mastermind behind this shocking, illegal interstate drug trafficking is now safely behind bars without bail. And if we have our way in court, he’ll be there for the rest of his life. Thanks to us, your children will again play safely in the streets. Long live Truth and Justice in the grand ole USA! We tip our hats to your grateful applause as we ride off into the sunset.
Please excuse the satire. This situation is really not funny.
When the FDA informed Sam that these healing claims made his salve a drug and he was in for big trouble, Sam dutifully and respectfully took the offensive word ‘Healing’ off his label, removed the reference to possibly healing of skin cancer and changed the name to ‘Chickweed Salve.’ When that still was not good enough, he renamed it again to ‘Original Chickweed.’
Chillingly Familiar Escalation of Force
After the label changes, Sam says all was quiet until about three years ago. Then suddenly everything came roaring back. Apparently a local health official spotted Sam’s Chickweed salve in a small convenience store in Missouri. The local official informed a state health official who informed the FDA who swept in and seized the salve.
And the violation? Promotional brochures were found in the Missouri store with testimonials from Sam’s customers claiming to be healed from various skin ailments by the salve.
Ah-ha! So, since Sam is still claiming ‘healing’ even though it is not on his label this time, the ‘healing’ claims are in the same store so that means if we stretch the interpretation just a little we could make a case that Sam is still selling drugs that we have not approved so he’s still an illegal drug dealer. Plus now we charge him with selling illegal drugs across state lines!
So the ‘illegal drug’ inspections began. To his credit Sam tried to be agreeable and peaceful even though he rightfully insisted that his salves have nothing to do with drugs. His protests fell on deaf ears. They are drugs because you claim they heal, cure or prevent disease.
Sam reluctantly gave the FDA permission to inspect, hoping to pacify them. But he did ask one thing. Since their family is Amish and photography is offensive to their practice of faith he asked that the agents not take pictures. Sam says the FDA agreed that they would not take pictures during the inspection. But, when the agents arrived to do the inspection, they immediately pulled cameras and proceeded to shoot pictures completely breaking their word and completely ignoring and disrespecting Sam’s reasonable request to respect his faith.
Is anyone surprised that when the agents later came back unannounced to do another search of Sam’s facilities, that this time Sam refused them permission? He no longer trusted them. They had broken their word the previous time, plus they didn’t have a search warrant. The deputy sheriff, who had escorted the agents, told the FDA that this was totally within Sam’s rights. They legally needed a search warrant to inspect. Gesturing toward the street, the sheriff told the agents, “There’s the road.”
The agents left… but they didn’t give up. In fact it seems they may have been just a tad irritated that this little bit of a nobody Amish man called their bluff about something as small as keeping their word. He even made them retreat to get a warrant! And he’s an illegal drug dealing Amish man at that! No worries, Sam… we will be back with a warrant!
And they were. And the charges escalate with every turn. Sam, (probably naively) is representing himself in court and he has made a few blunders there. He’s Amish so he doesn’t have a telephone or computer so he’s rather hard to communicate with. Because of a miscommunication, he missed a court date a few months ago which has not endeared him to the already irritated prosecutors.
So now he’s charged with contempt of court. He’s charged with introducing illegal drugs into interstate commerce; charged with manufacturing drugs without a license; charged for misbranding drugs; charged with obstructing or threatening a witness in the federal grand jury indictment (which Sam has no idea what, how, when or who they are referring to with that charge)… He’s charged with conspiring with others to prevent, by force, intimidation, and threat FDA agents from discharging the duties of their offices… You get the picture.
If you have been paying attention over the last 25 years to the conduct of federal agents in conflictual situations, these charges and the extreme use of force and weight is chillingly familiar. Unless a miracle happens, the situation does not bode well for Sam or his family. As innocent, non-violent and as peaceful as they may be, one does not speak up to the federal government and win.
Where will it end? We can only hope and pray that it ends better than it has for others in similar situations. I’m saying no names, dates or situations here. I’m just saying that it’s eerily familiar.
Please, join with us in prayer for Sam and his wife Elizabeth and family. This is a real fellow American family in real distress. We do believe in the power of prayer. And we also believe in the power of a peaceful, non-resistant, go-the-second-mile type of response as Jesus taught us to move the hearts of men. If you’d like to send Sam and Elizabeth and family a card or a note of encouragement, their farm address is: 409 Satterfield Lane, Owingsville, KY, 40360. Address it to Elizabeth Girod since Sam is in prison.
And also, join us in prayer for those in authority who seem to us to be unjust, vindictive, unreasonable and unmerciful. Maybe they feel we judge them unfairly too. Maybe they are not as bad as it seems. Maybe there are factors here that they know that we do not know. They are people too… maybe they don’t like what their superiors make them do either. Maybe they are also afraid and powerless. If that is the case, pray that they would individually have the strength and moral character to do the right thing even if costs them their job and reputation.
Also pray for Dawn and I and our family. We are concerned about the actions of these folks. And no, we are not being controlled by the ‘spirit of fear.’
“For God hath not given us the Spirit of fear; but of Power, and of Love, and of a Sound mind.”
~2 Timothy 1:7
As you know, we are fully licensed, tested, inspected and regulated by the PA department of Ag and fully legal in all regards in everything we do. Yet, down inside we recognize our own vulnerability.
We would be in denial if we did not deeply recognize how easily and quickly these same folks could also criminalize a little nobody Mennonite farmer and his family from PA. After all, we also publish stories from our own experience and stories from our customers that show how raw milk and raw milk kefir can heal, cure or for sure at least prevent some diseases. So does that make The Family Cow raw milk a drug?
According to the FDA it does. Will we be the next ones with a target on our backs for selling illegal ‘drugs,’ producing ‘drugs’ without a drug license, aiding and abetting those who take these same ‘drugs’ across state lines?
Put yourselves in our shoes. I think you can sympathize even if you are of cooler blood and think we are over thinking this. We might be. Just remember… some of Sam’s friends thought so too.
Prayers and Blessings,
Your farmer ~ Edwin
for the Shank Family and Family Cow Team
For further reading and research and details about Sam Girod, the links below will be helpful. If you want to know more what you can do to help Sam and Elizabeth, the 2nd link and 5th link may be of most interest to you particularly.
FDA Wants to Jail Sam Girod for 48 Years, for Making Salves People Love
KY Amish Farmer Jailed over a Salve Label; the FDA Wants Him Jailed for Life
Action Alert: Amish Farmer in Jail for “Selling Drugs”
Can Anyone Save Amish Salve Maker Sam Girod from Rotting in Jail?
Free KY Amish Farmer Samuel Girod
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ~ Isaiah 5:20
www.yourfamilyfarmer.com
Know your farmer.
If you don’t have one, find one.
If you can’t find one, become one.
One thought on “Amish Farmer Sam Girod is in Jail… His Enemies Want Him there for Life”
These problems will stop when people stop answering the corporation’s charges against us as “persons” (which are legal fictions) and insist on being called MEN and WOMEN. Statutory law, both federal and state, can ONLY apply to commercial entities – which is what a “person” is. It’s the SAME with churches. If so-called “pastors” will quit asking Lucifer (the corporate state) for a license to DO BUSINESS as a church, then we will start winning in court battles – as MEN. Read this pastor’s story at http://www.thechurchatsalem.info/
Faith Leaders of Tennessee Announce Unanimous Endorsement of Dr. Manny Sethi for U.S. Senate
Tennessee Pastors Network Addresses Threats to Houses of Worship in State
TONIGHT! Tennessee Pastors Network Co-Hosts Press Conference Regarding Birth Control Flyer Distributed at Elementary School in Piney Flats
Tennessee Pastors Network Hosts Oct. 24 Meeting to Address Opioid Crisis in Celina, TN
Tennessee Pastors Network Commends Announcement of ‘Day of Prayer and Fasting’
After Petitioning Library for Equal Representation, Tennessee Pastors Network Celebrates Victory
Tennessee Pastors Network: Drug and Alcohol Addictions and Gambling Are Detrimental to Families
State Senate Fails to Recall Heartbeat Bill
TN pastor: Lawmakers need to hear from silent majority
Tennessee Pastors Network and 162 Pastors Urge Support for Rule 63 Heartbeat Bill Vote
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842761
|
__label__cc
| 0.726145
| 0.273855
|
Northern Tier Private Investigation
and Security Consultants, Inc.
Towanda, PA 18848
P.I. & Security Services
A.M. Bail Bonds
← Injured october reasons for muted day, transition wholesale jerseys
Veterans green to redskins park selected deal Nasir Adderley Youth jersey →
Tweeted about male athletes nasty athletic McElhinney tarik Authentic Drew Smyly Jersey
I love the recent additions to the team and can’t wait to get to work. 2, that grit and sandpaper that he plays with. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: • In 2018, Succop’s 26 field goals and 106 points were the third-highest totals of his career, and his 86 percent success rate ranked third his career for a single season. Tanner Krebs and Tommy Kuhse had 10 points apiece and Jordan Hunter 11 rebounds for the Gaels , who won for the sixth time in seven games. Detroit : Started at MLB and posted Authentic Ryan Finley Jersey four tackles …added 1 sack and two pressures…posted a sack for Jerseys For Cheap the fourth-straight game, tying the longest single-season streak of his career… This game was our Senior Night, so the kids came out with a lot of emotion and scored two touchdowns early, but then http://www.bengalsofficialsprostore.com/WOMENS-RYAN-FINLEY-JERSEY.html Cheap Jerseys For Sale relaxed a bit, Harris stated. Before NFL Jerseys Paypal they could finish celebrating their penultimate touchdown, the Patriots put two more on the board, and just like that, it was 38. Rodgers has a big arm, he’s extremely accurate and he excels at extending plays with his feet. It comes from being Cheap Jerseys For Sale proud of what she’s been NFL Jerseys China able to accomplish and what’s in the mirror. U16 Euro Championship B. He’s made some impressive plays in practice, even this past Monday when it rained throughout the session and other receivers were dropping passes in the slick conditions. More causes will be made public in the coming weeks. However, the blueliner will be playing in three other Canadian rinks for the first time. The company is also scraping preservatives out of buns, sauce, and cheese, while rolling out fresh-beef quarter pounders. It was Keith’s third goal of that postseason, all of http://www.authenticmlbrangersstore.com/Authentic-Drew-Smyly-Jersey them game-winners. You are a ‘your child’ expert, not a mental health expert. It was, ‘But everything I’ve seen is telling me X, and you’re telling me Y.’ I was a part of the problem. The Lions finished last in the West with a 5 record in Claybrooks’ only campaign at the helm. Kobe Bryant 7.
I want to prove I’m not just a goal-scorer. Ronda Rousey 9. Getting to veteran quarterback Eli Manning will be a challenge for Floyd and the Bears pass rush; the Giants have allowed only 13 sacks this season-the third fewest in the NFL-primarily because Manning gets rid of the ball so quickly. It’s a saying that parents often repeat to children over and over and over again in an effort to teach them the difference between right and wrong: Do what I say, not what I do. Seattle : Appeared on offense and special teams… It was fantastic working with
chrisrock, Stallone posted to social media. Inevitably there would be fights breaking out, things of that nature. She also suggests that parents play a game with their Cheap NFL Jerseys China children every night. Once cleared to play, the New York native should push for a top-six role, but may need to start on the third line. Pennsylvania Football for Class NFL Jerseys China AAA AAAA…As a senior in 2014, rushed for 1 yards, 8 yards per carry, and recorded 31 total touchdowns…Had 3 interceptions and 5 tackles for loss as a senior…Two-time All-Lehigh Valley Conference selection…Helped lead Whitehall to league titles as Cheap NFL Jerseys China a Jerseys For Cheap sophomore NFL Jerseys Paypal and junior…Rushed for 1 yards and recorded 27 touchdowns as a junior…Tallied 284 rushing yards and 5 total scores as a sophomore…Ranked as the 9th-best running back in the nation and the top prospect in Pennsylvania by 247Sports…Rated by Scout among the top 5 prospects in the state…Lettered in basketball and track…Won the gold medal in the eastern Pennsylvania Conference boys 100 meters.
They came to me after the game and said, ‘Did Authentic Drew Smyly Jersey you know Frank Cheap NFL Jerseys China is hurt?’ I said I didn’t know but it was a clean shot and that’s part of the game. While the Jets are killing penalties with a 73-percent success rate and converting on the power play 17-percent of the time Cheap Jerseys For Sale , they’ve allowed just one power-play goal in their last six games while converting on two of their last six chances with the man-advantage. I’m sure a lot of teams were counting on beating the Bears last year after they went 5 in 2017, but they obviously were much better than expected. The 31-year-old veteran may continue bouncing between the press box and a NFL Jerseys China limited bottom-six role. As for the horses, Finche has held outright favouritism with Caulfield Cup winner Mer De Glace continuing to drift. We did a good job on those and we have some experience in the past so it’s a little bit to draw on but it’s a good opportunity for us tonight and we are excited. May 10 11 AM The Golden State Warriors will run the risk of letting Klay Thompson test the waters in free agency if they don’t offer a full five-year, $189 million max contract at the start of free agency, according to a source. The teams haven’t liked each other for years, and each team’s fan base has harbored a hatred for the other that’s just dying to erupt. The more things you can identify, the more your perception of wellbeing begins to change. 11 – Total number of Jerseys For Cheap assists and points Kotkansalo registered last season for BU. Gordon did run out of gas, it seemed, at the end of the run and wasn’t always on the same page as Brady again, NFL Jerseys Paypal but did see a boost in production.
http://intelligentappointment.com/support-from-my-old-teammates-rodney-hood-scored-16-points-chauncey-gardner-johnson-womens-jersey/
https://syktyvkar.zamok-service24.ru/artest-stemming-from-the-infamous-the-emerald-city-avril-spent-wholesale-jerseys
Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. × = 2
© 2012 Towanda-private-investigation.com. All rights reserved.
P.O. Box 30, Towanda, PA 18848, Call Us: 570.265.5649
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842769
|
__label__wiki
| 0.908722
| 0.908722
|
Archive for the ‘WE LOVE’ Category
FIELD REPORT – ” Wings “
Posted: March 20, 2018 in ALBUMS, WE LOVE
Tags: Chris Porterfield, Field Report, Summertime Songs
When Field Report’s Chris Porterfield started writing the follow-up album to 2015’s Marigolden, he was about to become a father for the first time. His forthcoming album Summertime Songs reflects all the anxiety, self-doubt, and hope that follow on from such a massive life change, but it also speaks to the context in which he was writing: the 2016 election.
The band’s sound adjusted for this new material. In the past, Field Report staked its name on the singer-songwriter’s M.O.: poetically charged lyricism confessed against an earnest guitar. On Summertime Songs, the bands casts its net wide, drawing in synths, up-tempo rhythms, and chromatic crescendos to electrify Porterfield’s lyricism with a resounding crackle. The opening song “Blind Spot” magnetically captures the moment a person can change another’s life. Porterfield describes himself in terms of space—“This heart is a cold cave, my mind is a parking lot”—but in recounting those absent places, he failed to account for the presence lingering in one. “You were in my blind spot,” he sings on the hook, the band’s backing vocals adding a touch of shoegaze.
Out this week, Summertime Songs is a remarkable step forward for Field Report, electrifying their music with a fresh undercurrent of emotion. Worry and talk—and talk about worry—have a special place within the singer-songwriter tradition, but so does physicality, movement, and life. “I love you in the low light baby, but let’s dance,” Porterfield sings.
The opening conversation in “Summertime Songs” is somebody asking “Why don’t you try summertime songs?’ and all of the things that that implies, which would be maybe more simplicity, maybe a little more upbeat, maybe a little less verbose. So there’s that, and then also me doubting my ability to be a good parent and maintain sobriety, and be as good as required for that kind of thing. It’s a bit Springsteen, it’s a big Arcade Fire, it’s a bit LCD Soundsystem, it goes into some soaring U2 stuff at the end, all tongue in cheek at first, but then it tied into this thing that felt right.
The GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL Brighton 17th-19th May 2018
Posted: March 15, 2018 in FESTIVALS, WE LOVE
Tags: Brighton, Great Escape
LABELS WE LOVE – Little Cloud Records Portland Oregon
Posted: March 12, 2018 in ALBUMS, MUSIC, WE LOVE
Tags: Burning Palms., Firefriend, Fuzz Club Records, Heaven, Joe Nesbitt, Josiah Webb, Little Cloud Records, Magic Shoppe, Mike Nesbitt, New Candys, Oregon, Pete International Airport, Portland, The Orange Kyte
Little Cloud Records was founded in October 2016 by Mike Nesbitt, Josiah Webb and Mike’s twin brother, Joe. What started as a way to release Magic Shoppe records has become a vehicle for releasing vinyl for other bands we dig. This includes releases from Pete International Airport (Pete Holmström of Dandy Warhols), New Candys (dark psych rockers from Venice, Italy), The Orange Kyte (tripped-out Irish transplants living in Vancouver, BC), Firefriend (São Paulo psych warlords) , Heaven (Brooklyn based psych rock) and Arizona’s Wiccan Godesses, Burning Palms.
We’re partnering with a Portland, OR vinyl based plant and Joe runs a Chicago based printing facility. This allows us to produce all records, printing jacket design / printing and vinyl pressing in-house. We have been established by Cobraside in the United States and Fuzz Club Records in the UK. For digital distribution we use our own department to plaster your bit Across the usual suspects … like Spotify, iTunes, Google Play Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and many more.
Little Cloud Records by Little Cloud Records
DZ DEATHRAYS – ” Total Breakdown “
Posted: February 2, 2018 in ALBUMS, WE LOVE
Tags: Bloody Lovely, DZ Deathrays
With new record Bloody Lovely set to be released on Feb 2nd, DZ Deathrays are driving up a new avenue, exploring a “swagger-rock” sound that’s bigger and nastier than ever before.
The video for Total Meltdown saw you turning into three dimensional versions of yourself in an eerie, alternate reality,frontman Shane says about the song:
The song was written in two parts, originally when we were doing Blood On My Leather I had the riffs of Total Meltdown and I couldn’t finish any vocals for it. And I sort of had a mind meltdown after being under pressure in the studio so I wrote the verses about that, about having a mini meltdown but it’s not really that serious.
The chorus was then written maybe two weeks before we went into the studio, I had written six choruses for that song and was just screaming things into the microphone. So that’s why the chorus and verses don’t have any connection at all. It’s a big dumb rock song.
The upcoming record Bloody Lovely, had a more conscious decision to drop the dance beats from before. We just want this record to have more of a live feeling and a swagger-rock, poppy sound. It took us so long to write it but now its been done for a year I’ve forgotten how different it is from the rest of them. It’s a bit bigger and nastier and I think the songs are a bit more pop.
ST VINCENT – ” Masseduction “
Posted: December 1, 2017 in ALBUMS, WE LOVE
Tags: Annie Clark, Masseduction, St Vincent
Masseduction, St. Vincent’s fifth solo album, is a neck-snapping magnum opus. Though dark, it avoids the kind of overdone, maudlin doom and gloom that mopes instead of shocks; it’s the most conceptually perfect and perfectly constructed album in a whole catalog incredible albums. Every second and noise is accounted for, but it’s not so stuffy that there isn’t air to breathe. Rather, the fester of drugs, fame, loss, sex, indulgence and suicide found on Masseduction are strained through Annie Clark’s signature clever grin. While other artists attempted high-concept album roll-outs in the last year, none did so as successfully or cohesively as St.Vincent’s Masseduction — in part because her themes are vital in our current cultural conversation. For her first album in three years, Annie Clark dissects sexuality, power dynamics, and fractured identity in an industry embroiled in assault and harassment. And though she addresses the loss of control head on, she asserts her own power and control without ever presuming either can be had. Masseduction is defiance writ large by exploring reality’s smallest and most pervasive pains.
Read through the write-ups on St. Vincent’s brilliantly Kubrick-esque new record and count up how many times the male producer of this record is mentioned. It is a weird level of ignoring the endless work St. Vincent has done cultivating her sound. From her early days in Polyphonic Spree to the perfect pop of Strange Mercy to that psychotic record with David Byrne to the new album Masseduction her most succinct statement, like it or not — St. Vincent has willed her vision into life. “Los Ageless” is her best song too. Well, that’s probably “Year of the Tiger”. But “Los Ageless” is her most succinct song, it’s her most well-executed song. It soft and delicate in its delivery while still being thrifty in its layers.
“New York” may be Annie Clark’s finest ballad, and the competition for that title is stiff. Her 2014 self-titled LP alone offered two credible contenders: “Prince Johnny” and “Severed Crossed Fingers”, the latter song being that masterpiece’s crowning achievement. But in an album packed with errant pop extravaganzas, “New York” stands in stark contrast as Masseduction’s grand and naked centerpiece.
Apart from a soaring gospel chorus, what makes “New York” so remarkable is its thematic plasticity. Is Clark lamenting the end of the early-aughts NYC music scene, recently documented (to great acclaim) by Lizzy Goodman? Is she mourning the death of David Bowie? Is she addressing her breakup with Cara Delevingne? The answer is, of course, all of the above and beyond.
“New York” is a classic composite song that, in the right light, fits this or that narrative. Which is to say, it’s universal, an elegy for many occasions, a multi-faceted opus. Choose your own adventure. But it only soars so high because Clark’s shattering melody can easily bear such a heavy burden, with weightlessness and might.
LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPT – ” Plane 2 / Grown / She Came Through Again “
Posted: March 3, 2017 in WE LOVE
Tags: Anti Records, Los Angeles Police Department, Ryan Pollie
We named Los Angeles Police Department as a band to watch based on the strength of their debut album released in 2014 , and they followed that up with a string of singles over the last year, including “Insecurity,” “Water And Wine,” and “Hard.” Today, Ryan Pollie has announced that LAPD has signed to Anti- Records for a full-length coming later this year, and has since shared a new single called “The Plane 2.” It’s the most lush and ambitious thing that Pollie’s put out under the name yet, a gleaming declaration of devotion that crackles past the four minute mark before cutting out abruptly for a warm piano outro.
SoCal songwriter Ryan Pollie expertly weaves bedroom pop under the moniker Los Angeles Police Department. and is now gearing up to unveil his follow-up LP later this year.
Pollie’s first for label ANTI- (Japandroids, Neko Case), the record is being teased today with a new single called “The Plane 2”. A press release writes that it’s a love song “deeply adventurous in arrangement,” an apt description considering the loops and layers of twinkling xylophone, dusty percussion, and elastic synths.
“The Plane 2″ is out now. A full-length is due out later this year
The WAVE PICTURES – ” Pool Hall “
Posted: December 18, 2016 in WE LOVE
Tags: A Season in Hull, Dave Tattersall, The Wave Pictures, Wymeswold Records
The Wave Pictures return with a brand new, vinyl only album called A Season in Hull, due out on 12th February on their own label Wymeswold Records. The album was recorded on acoustic guitars in one room, with a bunch of their friends, live in to one microphone on singer Dave Tattersall’s birthday, January 28th, 2015. The songs were written as quickly as possible and the recording captures that specific moment in all its spontaneous, thrilling and immediate glory. As Tattersall elaborates: “That’s what this is – a one-microphone happy birthday recording.”
DRIVE BY TRUCKERS – ” What It Means “
Tags: American Band, Drive By Truckers, Patterson Hood
American Band is not a bashful album. As a collection of songs, it’s not quite as effective as say Southern Rock Opera or even The Dirty South. But as a political statement, it’s easily the most emphatic work by the band Drive By Truckers. “What It Means” takes a subdued approach to the subject of African-Americans killed at the hands of police (or, in the case of Martin, a vigilante cop-wannabe). “Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn” is the brawny flipside, full of the growling, intertwined guitars that have become something of a Truckers signature over the years. Singer Patterson Hood mostly handles the downhearted tunes, singing from the perspective of a military veteran wounded as a civilian by an act of domestic terrorism on the moody “Guns of Umpqua,” sighing in the gloom over a gentle piano phrase on “When the Sun Don’t Shine” and parsing his own struggles with depression on “Baggage,” written after Robin Williams committed suicide. Although the songs on American Band are arguably not the band’s catchiest, it’s a body of work that is starting to feel increasingly essential as the American political landscape gets more and more surreal
MATT POND and LAURA STEVENSON – ” These Days ” Jackson Browne Cover
Posted: November 19, 2016 in WE LOVE
Tags: Cocksure, Laura Stevenson, Matt Pond PA, The State Of Gold
Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Matt Pond PA is going on tour in support of their recent album The State of Gold, released on Doghouse Records. The album features guest vocals from Laura Burhenn of The Mynabirds and drumming from Matt Iwanusa of Caveman on it’s lead song “More No More.”
The album is available in limited edition gold translucent double LP edition of The State of Gold. The guy’s a craftsman, and his body of work proves he’s got reliable songwriting aptitude. In what employ he decides to use it, well, that’s what will sum up everything in the end.
Laura Stevenson, is an artist finally hitting real stride. Though pleasant, her musical footprint has to this point been somewhat indistinct. But she’s got a new album, Cocksure, that’ was released October on Don Giovanni Records . Like a modern-day Tanya Donelly, Stevenson leaves the whimsical folk and pop detours behind and really digs into a direct indie-rock sound that’s muscular and classic on this ‘90s-channeling record. A mixture of sweetness, crooked charm and sharpening marksmanship, this simultaneously beaming and driving album is easily her most definitive work yet.
These Days as covered by Matt Pond (feat. Laura Stevenson & Chris Hanson) From the Wes Anderson film Royal Tenenbaums, Originally performed by Nico Written by Jackson Browne .
JENNY LEWIS – ” She’s Not Me “
Tags: Jenny Lewis, Voyager
Before Jenny Lewis was the singer for Rilo Kiley, she was a child actor. The video for “She’s Not Me,” features a TMZ spin-off tracing an incarcerated Lewis’ backstory through appearances in The Golden Girls, The Wizard, Hellville, and Troop Beverly Hills. Plus, famous friends Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Leo Fitzpatrick, Zosia Mamet, and Feist show up to join her. “She’s Not Me” by Jenny Lewis, from the album The Voyager
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842775
|
__label__cc
| 0.648556
| 0.351444
|
Best Strings VST Libraries: Free & Paid (2020)
Whether you need to create a soundtrack for a film, a video game, or music in general, string VSTs usually play a huge part.
New sample libraries are released all the time and it’s hard to keep track of which ones are worth getting.
In this article I will list a total of 14 strings libraries; 7 free ones and another 7 paid ones that sound fantastic.
Here are some quick navigation links:
Freeware Strings VSTs
Paid Strings VSTs
The best Strings VSTs are:
Available Format
Cinematic Studio Strings Kontakt Windows & Mac $399
Analog Strings Kontakt Windows & Mac $199
Strings Ensemble Kontakt Windows & Mac $199 – $499
Spitfire Strings Libraries Kontakt Windows & Mac $249 – $799
CineStrings Core Kontakt Windows & Mac $399
Hans Zimmer Strings VST, AU, AAX Windows & Mac $799
Hollywood Strings PLAY 6 Software Windows & Mac $106 – $156.60
Best Free Strings VSTs
Layers (Windows, Mac)
Layers is an orchestral sample library that features Brass-, Woodwinds- and Strings sections, as well as a Full Orchestra, and it’s designed to run on the SINE Player for free.
It gives you the option to choose between different microphone placements and it also features different articulations.
In total, the whole orchestral pack is about 17GB and runs on both Windows and Mac OS.
You can download Layers here.
Orchestral Strings One (Windows)
The instruments included in this library are; 14 Violins, 10 Violas, 8 Cellos and 6 Double Basses.
To be honest, they sound absolutely fantastic, considering it’s free and a bit dated.
Getting good sampled strings to sound real is actually hard, and even though these ones don’t sound EXACTLY like the real deal, they come really close.
All the samples were recorded utilizing the legendary acoustics in the famous Berliner Hall, home of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
These are not static samples, thanks to the modelling technology of this plugin, which means that they will sound much more real.
Orchestral Strings One focuses on the continuous flow of melody, not just on a single note.
For example, you can progressively transform a sustained note by first adding slow vibrato, then medium vibrato and finally fast vibrato.
Orchestral Strings One is fairly simple to use and it can be controlled via a MIDI keyboard.
You can download Orchestral Strings One here.
Spitfire Audio: Free Strings (Windows, Mac)
I mentioned Spitfire’s LABS plugins in quite a lot of posts already since they are absolutely fantastic and FREE.
As far as strings go, they offer six different alternatives for you to choose from; Strings, Strings 2, Scary Strings, Frozen Strings, Amplified Cello Quartet and Monochord.
I’m a big fan of the Scary Strings library since it gives out that scary abandoned mansion vibe, but all of them sound very realistic!
Every single one of these libraries come with included presets, are available in VST2, VST3, AAX and AU formats and work on both Windows and Mac.
You can download the LABS Strings here.
DSK Strings (Windows)
DSK has one of the widest selections of free plugins I’ve ever seen; from guitars to drums, synthesizers, and more, and of course, strings.
It offers controls for attack, decay, sustain and release, as well as some other useful effects such as stereo spread, a delay, flanger, reverb, and octave control.
It has two strings sections that play simultaneously, and considering it’s 100% free, it does sound quite nice.
You can download DSK Strings here.
Etherealwinds Harp (Windows, Mac)
Etherealwinds Harp is a sampling of a diatonic folk harp recorded by the Newgrounds musician Etherealwinds.
This is a folk harp, which means that when compared to the traditional harp, it has a smaller range.
The sound quality is actually quite good and it’s very easy to use.
Diatonically sampled, 2x RR, 3 velocity layers.
Celtic Lever/Folk Harp with a delicate, warm tone.
Full Decays Sampled.
Samples are mono (Kontakt version includes faux stereo width option).
NKI version included.
You can download Etherealwinds Harp here.
Sonatina Harp (Windows, Mac)
The Sonatina Harp, contrary to the previous harp on this list, is a sampled classical Harp.
These samples were edited from the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra sample library.
You can download Sonatina Harp here.
Ample Guitar M Lite (Windows, Mac)
This is an acoustic guitar plugin that sounds absolutely fantastic while also giving you the option to add some effects which are directly built-in.
You can even double the guitar with the simple press of a button, which will add width and body to the sound.
As far as realism goes, I haven’t been able to find any other free guitar plugin that sounds this great, so definitely give it a shot.
By the way, you can also download a free bass emulator plugin which sounds terrific, make sure to try it out as well.
You can download Ample Guitar m Lite here.
Best Strings VST Plugins
As far as paid orchestral & strings VST libraries go, there are definitely a lot to choose from.
I will list the ones I think are the best here, but just know that most of the paid libraries available actually do sound extremely good.
Cinematic Studio Strings ($399)
Recorded by Australia’s finest musicians, the Cinematic Studio Strings VST library offers a gorgeous sound with realistic dynamics and a wide variety of articulations.
The articulations range from Legato, Spiccato and Staccato, Tremolo, Trills, Marcato, and more.
Here’s a video showcasing all of them;
CSS also runs on KONTAKT and KONTAKT Player, which is the free version, and sells for $399.
Find out more about the Cinematic Studio Strings library here.
Analog Strings by Output ($199)
This library features two strings orchestras, vintage synths, and unconventional elements for sound design, which means that it differs from the traditional orchestral string libraries quite a lot.
It is important to note that Analog Strings is a KONTAKT Instrument that features a two-layer playback engine; however, you don’t need the full version of KONTAKT since it will run on the Free KONTAKT Player.
Some of the unconventional sounds it has to offer are a plucked piano, tape echoes and guitar resonance, and all of the available presets, which are 500, can be accessed through the menu and searched by category.
In addition to the presets, Analog Strings comes with a set of tools, such as step sequencers, effects like reverb and delay, modulations, a dual arpeggiator, and more, to help you shape the sound to your needs.
Lastly, you also have the ability to use soloist patches of recordings of contrabass, cellos, viola and violin.
Find out more about Analog Strings here.
Strings Ensemble by Native Instruments ($199 – $499)
Of course, since this is a Native Instruments library, it runs on both Kontakt and the free version of it, Kontakt Player.
The String Ensemble is a 60-piece string section, featuring close to 75.000 samples, and recorded at Studio 22, Budapest.
Its interface is super clean and intuitive to use, plus the sound is simply extraordinary, as with all NI libraries.
String Ensemble offers advanced performance control for clarity and realism, such as:
Auto Divisi; All instruments were recorded as separate A and B divisi sections, which offers a way of arranging accurate and realistic performances for all articulations.
True Polyphonic Legato and Portamento: All sections feature true polyphonic legato and portamento, with up to eight-voice automatic voice-leading in real time.
If you’re looking for a realistic-sounding strings section, you can’t go wrong with this one.
It is available in two versions; The Symphony Essentials, which is a smaller stripped-down version, and the Symphony Series.
Find out more about the Strings Ensemble here.
Different Strings Libraries by Spitfire ($249 – $799)
While two of these libraries may be more expensive than almost any other one on this entire list, they are also considered by many to be the best strings libraries to have ever been released.
I will be including three strings libraries in this section; the Studio Strings library, the Symphonic Strings library, and the Chamber Strings library.
Let’s have a quick look at each of them:
Studio Strings
Recorded by London’s best session players and by engineer Simon Rhodes, this is a great-sounding yet simple and small strings library, with violins, violas, cellos and double basses.
It is available in two formats; Studio Strings and Studio Strings professional, which is more extensive.
It features 148 articulations across the full 30-piece string section, from legato and super-flautando, right down to spiccato, hairpins, grace notes, and FX.
Symphonic Strings
Recorded at AIR Studios and featuring 60 players performing 175 articulations, including legatos, and presented in three different microphone positions, this is one of the largest libraries ever created.
If you need a big sound, this is definitely it.
Note: Also check the Hans Zimmer library if you need something big… I will describe that one in a bit.
Chamber Strings
Recorded by 16 of the best session players at the AIR Studios, this library is smaller than the Symphonic strings one, but it also features three different microphone positions and 244 articulations, as well as individual sections and ensembles.
Now, all of these libraries give you in-depth control over the instruments, plus they are extremely easy to use thanks to the streamlined interface.
It is important to note that these libraries are now only available for KONTAKT, and they even come with the free version included.
Find out more about the Spitfire Strings Libraries here.
CineStrings Core by CineSamples ($399)
Cinestrings CORE has a very intuitive and easy to use graphical interface with quickly selectable presets that can help you write, program and mix to your specific needs, and it also contains the basic set of articulations needed to do most of the traditional writing and programing for the string section.
One important thing to note is that CineStrings works on the KONTAKT Player (Free version), specifically 5.8.1 or above.
On the mapping page you can quickly manipulate the velocity, key-switching or even midi continuous controller articulation switching.
On the mixer page you will have access to the full mix or the four other microphone positions.
The settings page allows for advanced control over each of the patches for sound design, programming and other useful features.
One key feature that sets CineStrings Core apart from other strings libraries is the “Hairpin Creator”, which is a setting that allows for automatic “Swells” control without having to program a series of controller changes in, automating the volume changes yourself later on, etc.
Find out more about CineStrings here.
Hans Zimmer strings by Spitfire Audio ($799)
You probably already know who Hans Zimmer is; he’s the guy who created the soundtracks for The Dark Knight, Interstellar, and other high-budget movies.
Spitfire Audio teamed up with him to create the biggest orchestral library ever created; 344 players, 26 microphone positions, and over 250GB of samples.
The interface is extremely clean and clutter-free, which makes this software quite easy to use, despite its huge size, plus navigating through the 246 presets has been done in such a way that makes the whole process very intuitive.
Now, this library wasn’t designed to be used with KONTAKT, like some of the other Spitfire Libraries, in fact, it’s available in VST, AU and AAX formats and it loads directly into any DAW.
Find out more about the Hans Zimmer Strings here.
EastWest Hollywood Strings ($106 – $156.60)
Of all the paid libraries on this list, the EastWest Hollywood Strings library is definitely the most affordable one, with the Gold edition selling for $106 and the Platinum one for $156.60.
However, don’t let the price fool you; it’s absolutely astonishing.
Hollywood Strings offers great control over the sound and performance; from different articulations to 5 different mixable microphone positions.
Have a listen here:
In the Diamond Series you will have access to “Divisi”; In orchestration there are sometimes players that share the same stand playing different notes, and in the close mics when you use Divisi, it separates the two, sending one left and the other right to let you hear them independently.
In addition to this, the Hollywood Strings library comes with a convolution reverb that has a lot of different spaces to put your strings into, as well as a stereo double control to further control the stereo image of the orchestra.
Lastly, not only can you straight up buy the Hollywood Strings library, but you can also sign up to a $20 monthly subscription and get it that way, if you feel like trying it out first.
Find out more about Hollywood Strings here.
My Top Recommendations
As far as the paid libraries go and considering the differences in price, I would have to say that my number one recommendation is Hollywood Strings.
The reason for that is that at just a fraction of the price of all the other libraries out there, and that it’s definitely on par with all of them, it’s easy to recommend.
If you’re looking at the higher end libraries, then anything from Spitfire-, be it the Hans Zimmer one, or any of the other three libraries I mentioned earlier, should do the trick.
Just remember, those are quite more expensive.
Lastly, for those who want a good-sounding freeware solution, go with Spitfire’s Free Strings, no questions asked.
I often try to find free plugins/libraries to add to my collection, mostly because they tend to be better than one would expect, and in some cases, they are even as good as the paid ones.
However, as far as orchestration goes, there’s definitely a big difference between a premium library and a free one.
This is why I’d highly recommend investing into one, and as I mentioned earlier, it’s not necessary to spend close to $1000…
You can go with Hollywood Strings for $106 and get astounding results, and for anyone who is just getting started with orchestration, that would be my recommendation.
I hope this information was useful.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842778
|
__label__wiki
| 0.751829
| 0.751829
|
The London Post
Azerbaijan starts construction of new airport in liberated Karabakh
UK hopes to be able to consider lockdown easing in March:…
China sends new naval fleet on escort mission
Pakistan okays emergency use of Oxford-AstraZeneca jab
British Deliveroo raises $180M from investors, valued at $7B
Home All Articles Pakistanis distressed as ‘Uighur wives’ vanish in China dragnet
Pakistanis distressed as ‘Uighur wives’ vanish in China dragnet
“China is our friend and this incident will leave a bad taste,” according to Javed Hussain, a member of the local assembly for the Pakistani region that borders Xinjiang.
Xinjiang is home to the Uighurs, a largely Muslim, Turkic-speaking group as well as a growing number of Han Chinese migrants who have poured into the region that borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kazakhstan. (Reuters Archive)
Every autumn on the mountainous Karakoram Highway, part of the ancient Silk Road, groups of Pakistani merchants living in China’s far west would wave goodbye to their Chinese wives and cross the border to spend winter in their home country.
As the snow piled high, the men would stay in touch with their families by phone, longing for the spring thaw that would allow them to be reunited in Xinjiang.
But last year many of their calls suddenly went unanswered.
Their families, they learned, had disappeared into a growing network of shadowy “reeducation centres” that have swept up the region’s Uighur Muslim minority over fears of militancy crossing the border from Pakistan.
“My wife and kids were taken away by the Chinese authorities in March last year and I haven’t heard from them since,” said Iqbal, a Pakistani businessman who declined to give his surname over concern about his family’s safety.
Last July, he headed to China to find them, but was turned away at the border. Authorities “said my wife was in ‘training’ and the government was taking care of my kids”, he told AFP.
“I begged them to let me talk to my daughters, but they refused.”
Iqbal is one of dozens of merchants from Gilgit-Baltistan who return to Pakistan for visa reasons or to run their businesses and have been unable to contact their Uighur families living in China, according to Javed Hussain, a member of the local assembly for the Pakistani region that borders Xinjiang.
Earlier this month, the delegates passed a unanimous resolution protesting the “illegal detention” of the men’s families.
“The Chinese authorities should at least allow the men to meet their wives and children,” Hussain said.
“China is our friend and this incident will leave a bad taste.”
China’s foreign ministry said that the “two sides are maintaining communication about problems related to interactions between both countries’ people”, while Pakistan’s said the issue was being “actively discussed with the government of China”.
‘Eliminating extremism’
Like many of the men, Iqbal’s family lived in Kashgar, an ancient city along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a trade route connecting China’s far west to the Arabian Sea port of Gwadar.
In recent years, China has heavily pushed its relationship with Pakistan, investing tens of billions of dollars in CPEC infrastructure projects in the country, and Beijing has upgraded the treacherous mountain road connecting Gilgit-Baltistan to Xinjiang.
But China has had difficulty reconciling its desire for development with fears that Uighur separatists will import violence from Pakistan.
Chinese authorities have long linked their crackdown on Xinjiang’s Muslims to international counter-terrorism, arguing that separatists are bent on joining foreign militants like al Qaeda.
Uighurs have been tied to mass stabbings and bombings that left dozens dead in recent years across the country. Riots and clashes with the government killed hundreds more.
Over the past year, China has turned to increasingly drastic methods to eliminate what it describes as the “three forces”: terrorists, religious extremists and separatists.
In 2017, the government flooded Xinjiang with tens of thousands of security personnel, with police stations on nearly every block in urban areas and tough regulations to “eliminate extremism”.
This included the increased use of compulsory “reeducation” for anyone suspected of harbouring separatist sympathies.
‘Threat’ from Pakistan
Iqbal and the other Pakistani men believe their wives – and even business associates – have been targeted because they received calls and messages from Pakistan.
“Any communication from Pakistan is considered a threat,” said Qurban, a businessman who has worked in Kashgar for over 30 years.
“One of my employees, a Uighur, was picked up two years back just because he was in touch with me when I went to Pakistan.”
Chinese authorities have denied the existence of reeducation centres.
But regulations against militancy adopted by Xinjiang last March call for authorities to step up political reeducation.
In Kashgar alone, more than 120,000 people – about three percent of the area’s population – were being held in the facilities in January, according to Radio Free Asia.
An AFP review of state media reports and government documents verified the existence of at least 30 such centres and almost 4,000 cases of people being sent to them.
Regulations posted on a local website in Xinjiang’s Hejing county explained that even minor transgressions of strict religious regulations can be punished with up to three months in a centre.
Ali, a businessman who lost contact with his wife in December, said she had been taken by authorities to do a “sort of training where they teach them about Communism and prepare them to be patriotic citizens”.
“My wife told me that Chinese police had come to her house and asked her about the calls from Pakistan and asked her to explain her links with ETIM,” said Ali, referring to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a militant group China has accused of attempting to foment Uighur separatism.
He plans to cross the border in May to find his family, but has been told his children are in the custody of the Chinese government and doesn’t know if he will see them again.
“They never tell you anything, they just say your family will come back to you when they finish their training.”
International Women Day celebrated around the world
Tour de France – Nibali’s rivals bracing for battle of the...
White House spends $1.2M to renovate toilets for new first lady:...
Israel strike hits UN school compound killed whole family
No vote takes narrow lead in poll
Trump threatens to tax European vehicle imports
Bundesliga: Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen snatch wins on day of...
TurkStream gas pipeline project ready to operate in 2019 – Erdogan
‘Rape Dead Muslim Women’ said Yogi Adityanath, Modi made him Chief...
Politicians, Prostitutes and Terrorist Financing
Raymond Davis Exposed: Pimps, Prostitutes and Politicians of Pakistan
All Articles11876
Promoted6212
Diplomats Corner5897
Uncategorised3548
Travel3464
Diplomats2895
Slider 22799
The London Post is your news, entertainment and articles website. We provide you with the latest breaking news and videos straight from the location.
Contact us: info@thelondonpost.net
© 2017 The London Post. All rights reserved.
Ex-Whitehall Boss – I Was Urged To Hide Disease
Trump sharpens ‘rigged’ election allegations disputed by Republican lawyers
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842779
|
__label__cc
| 0.742642
| 0.257358
|
Posted on February 24, 2018 January 30, 2020 by Peter Cox
Director: Greta Gerwig
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts
I’ve been thinking a lot about homogenised culture and Donnie Darko. Indulge me. I’m 34. When Donnie Darko came out – around the close of 2001, start of 2002 – its 1987 setting felt quirky and nostalgic. The fashions, the mindsets, the music. Maybe because I was younger, but its setting 15 years in the past felt like a wonderfully arbitrary affectation. And it legitimately felt a little distant. This was before the 80s were exhaustively plundered for a new cycle of pop culture.
Lady Bird bares scant resemblance to Donnie Darko – though both are coming of age tales – yet its not-incidental positioning as a 2002/2003 period piece doesn’t generate the same sense of time spent. The fashions are kinda the same, the mindsets also. Justin Timberlake is still everywhere. It’s been the same amount of time between setting and release as when Donnie Darko arrived, but where are the defining cultural clues (aside from references to 9/11)?
None of this musing is wholly material to the film, so forgive me. But one of the many things that Greta Gerwig’s sparkling debut managed to do for me was to reignite this sense of American cultural anonymity since the millennium. Perhaps the differences are the things that are missing?
Anyway, onto the movie, which is a charmer. Saoirse Ronan plays Christine ‘Lady Bird’ McPherson; a 17-year-old resident of Sacramento, California, bursting with a sense of potential that those around her don’t often see in her. Attendant of a Catholic school and vocal in her distaste for her home town, it is time for her to consider colleges. Lady Bird’s family are poorer than the majority of her classmates’. She even lies to a new friend that a lavish local home is her own in order to fit in. The colleges Lady Bird wants – all East coast liberal arts universities – may be outside her price range, let alone academic ability, but she refuses to acknowledge this.
Gerwig has said in interview that this isn’t an autobiographical piece, though the time period is about right. It’s a credit to her refined ability to funnel recognisable truths into fictional characters. Though everything takes place within the giddy sphere of the American indie, the people of Lady Bird feel familiar through experience. Christine herself is hipster (that self-appointed name), selfish and shortsighted, but openly hopeful and also frustrated by the constraints that reality places on her. Like her animal counterpart she wants to flutter and fly. Her rebuke at the world comes from its refusal to let her. Like most teenagers, she sees this as a personal attack.
As knowingly sketched also are her parents. Laurie Metcalf’s harangued but loving Marion is pitch perfect, exemplifying the battle of wills that mother/daughter relationships so often are. She resents her daughter’s eagerness to flee. Tracy Letts, meanwhile, achieves so much with so little. Depression is mocked elsewhere in the film (not a criticism especially; everything is mocked), but Letts’ version is one of the most sensitive and understated to feature in a major cinematic release of late.
The film covers a span of roughly a year, is funny throughout (it’s Gerwig), and stays safely within the comfort zone of its goals. This is a light character piece, one that affords Ronan a well-rounded and interesting spotlight role. We’ve all known a few Lady Birds. I’m sure Ronan has herself. She channels these familiar traits into a character that feels like a person and not just writing on a page.
Gerwig tips toward sentimentality, but doesn’t become crushed by it (a scene involving a series of letters succeeds precisely because we don’t get to hear them all thuddingly narrated; we barely get to see them). And if there is nostalgia up on the screen, it isn’t for 2002/2003 itself; its of a more personal, individual kind. It will come from audience members reflecting on being that age, reflecting on their first times, how they behaved to their parents.
Some might criticise the sing-song playfulness and whimsy of Lady Bird, and it does possess a certain kooky-greetings-card sensibility, but just because the scale is small and the stakes are comparatively low, doesn’t mean that this is slight cinema or in any way a lesser picture than others. What does shine through is that this is impassioned work. Gerwig’s shooting style is in keeping with many of her contemporaries and the names she has worked with before. But through her acting she has already created her own personality and nuance and that is wholeheartedly represented here. This is her film, and its an impressively assured debut, in part because it doesn’t feel like she’s trying to prove anything.
The goals here are to evoke and entertain, and Gerwig – and her entire cast – achieve at both. Smart, wise and pretty, Lady Bird will no doubt give similar pleasures when watched and rewatched down the road. This one’s likely to be a keeper. It’d be nice to see Gerwig use it to springboard into new territories next time, but so long as she continues putting her soul into her work on either side of the camera we’ll all be better off.
Tagged college, Comedy, culture, Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Nostalgia, Saoirse Ronan, Tracy Letts
Previous Post Why I Love… #91: Damsels In Distress
Next Post Review: Red Sparrow
7 thoughts on “Review: Lady Bird”
Pingback: Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post – The Lost Highway Hotel
Pingback: List: The 25 Best Films Of 2018 (10-1) – The Lost Highway Hotel
Pingback: Review: Beautiful Boy – The Lost Highway Hotel
Pingback: Review: Booksmart – The Lost Highway Hotel
Pingback: List: 100 Great Films Of The Decade (Part 1) – The Lost Highway Hotel
Pingback: The Best of 2018 – The Lost Highway Hotel
Pingback: Review: Little Women – The Lost Highway Hotel
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842780
|
__label__wiki
| 0.566478
| 0.566478
|
NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Alex
In the Berlin airport, security footage shows men making their way through security, making purchases, and seemingly switching a bag. The rest of the film takes place only in the cockpit on an aircraft, A German flight prepares to leave the airport, led by Captain Michael Lutzmann (Carlo Kitzlinger) and American co-pilot, the soft-spoken Tobias Ellis (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Tobias is in a relationship with one of the flight attendants, Gokce (Aylin Tezel), and the two have a two-year-old son, though at work they try to not bring their relationship up to be professional.
The plane takes off. The pilots are able to watch inside the cabin (but not hear anything) via a camera outside the cockpit door. When a flight attendant brings them their meals, they buzz her into the cockpit. As she enters, two men – Vedat (Omid Memar) and Kinan (Murathan Muslu) -attack her and rush their way into the cockpit. Using glass they stab both Lutzmann and Tobias. Tobias is able to shove Vedat back out of the cockpit and shut the door. Lutzmann fights off Kenan but is stabbed brutally, and Tobias is able to knock him out with a fire extinguisher. Lutzmann then urges him to right the plane’s nose, which he does as he cradles his bloody arm.
Lutzmann is gravely injured and urges Tobias to focus on bringing down the plane. Meanwhile, Vedat and two other men continue to try to break down the door to the cockpit. When Kinan begins stirring, Tobias kicks him unconscious, ties him up with duct tape, and radios down and makes plans to land at Hannover. Lutzmann becomes unresponsive, and Tobias attempts to do CPR to revive him. To his devastation, he is unable to resuscitate him – Lutzmann is dead. He radios ground and informs them, and they tell him Hannover is ready for them with a crash crew and also fighter jets are on the way. Tobias makes an announcement to the cabin that the plane with be landing at Hannover in twenty minutes.
The men in the cabin continue to bash the door in an attempt to break into the cockpit. With no luck, one of them, Daniel (Paul Wollin) takes a passenger and brings him up the camera, threatening to kill him if Tobias doesn’t open the door. Tobias is horrified, and radios ground, who reminds him that under no circumstances can he open the door. Tobias calls the phone that is meant for the flight attendants and Vedat answers, demanding to know where Kinan is and ordering Tobias not to land. Tobias pleads with them not to kill the hostage as Vedat counts down from ten. They refuse to back down, and before they kill the hostage, Tobias turns the screen off, devastated.
He turns the screen back on to see the hostage dead. He radios in and in tears tells them the hostage is dead. They confirm the jets will be joining him. Tobias calls and speaks to Vedat and tells him that when they land they can negotiate with authorities. Vedat relays the message to Daniel, who is enraged and returns with another hostage – Gokce, who pleads with them that she has a child.
Tobias calls and tells Vedat that if they do not let Gokce go, he will kill Kinan. Daniel says he doesn’t care, and Tobias announces to the entire plane that the hijackers only weapons are glass and that together they can stop them and pleads with them to fight back and save her life. Daniel retreats to fight off the passengers. While he does that, Tobias speaks to Vedat, who he has recognized does not want to kill anyone. Vedat insists Daniel will kill everyone, but Tobias tells him he can see that he is better than him and can stop him.
Daniel returns with Gokce ready to kill her. Tobias tells the passengers to fasten their seatbelts and moves the plane enough to throw Daniel to the ground. Vedat fights him off but Daniel defeats him. Tobias agrees to open the door, but Gokce tells Tobias to take care of their child and begs him not to open the door, and Daniel slits Gokce’s throat. Tobias sobs in the cockpit.
The air jets fly up alongside the plane to escort it to Hannover airport. The passengers begin fighting back against the hijackers, taking control of the plane again. Kinan wakes up and gets the jump on Tobias, knocking him out. He lets Vedat into the cockpit, where he hugs Kinan and sobs about all the blood and death. Kinan orders Vedat to kill Tobias, but instead, Vedat begins tying him up, angering Kinan.
Kinan radios ground and tell them he’s taking revenge for Muslims against westerners and is going to show them what it is like to lose lives. The ground wants to know his demands, but Kinan has none. As they approach the city, Vedat asks Kinan if this is right, clearly upset. Kinan insists it’s right and tells him not to be afraid. Vedat begins hyperventilating and says he doesn’t want to die. Vedat takes the glass shard and stabs Kinan in the neck and unties Tobias, who is able stop the plane from crashing.
Tobias radios in confirming the landing at Hannover, and Vedat demands to be taken somewhere else, but Tobias tells him they need fuel and after they land and refuel he can fly elsewhere. Vedat has a glass shard and has command of Tobias, but Tobias convinces him the landing is necessary. Since Tobias’s left arm is badly injured, he asks Vedat to help him land the plane, which they finally manage to do.
From the plane, Tobias and Vedat see the passengers being evacuated. Vedat keeps Tobias, more wounded than ever, at glasspoint, as the police call Vedat to ask for his demands. Vedat demands the plane be refueled in twenty minutes, which the negotiator tells him it can’t be done that fast. He threatens to kill Tobias, but the negotiator says his demands will only be met if the pilot is unharmed. Vedat turns off the call.
When Vedat goes to the bathroom, Tobias gets the glass shard from Kinan’s body. As they sit in the cockpit, they ask each other questions about where they are from and their lives. Vedat reveals he is only eighteen years old. When he notices the glass, Vedat becomes paranoid and suspicious, but then the police ask him to open a window. They tell him the plane is refueled and demand to see that Tobias is okay.
Vedat’s mother calls him. He cries and tells her he trusted the others and that he wants to go home. He continues spiraling and holds the glass to Tobias, who urges him to put it down and surrender. Vedat begins screaming and says if he doesn’t fly out in minutes he will kill Tobias and holds the glass right to his throat. A sniper shoots Vedat, and Tobias calls for a doctor as Vedat lays bleeding on the floor. Tobias lets the police into the plane and has to walk by Gokce’s body as he leaves. The police then remove Vedat, then enter the cockpit to survey the scene.
16 BLOCKS (2006)
The entire film takes place in the cockpit of a plane. Tobias Ellis (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a co-pilot on a plane that undergoes a hijacking. Two hijackers break into the cabin, where Tobias is able to get one out of the cockpit while the other mortally wounds the captain.
The hijackers begin killing hostages, including a flight attendant that is Tobias's girlfriend. A young hijacker, Vedat, manages to get back into the cockpit with the help of his superior, and they subdue Tobias. The elder hijacker intends to crash the plane in an act of terrorism, but Vedat doesn't want to die and kills him.
Tobias lands the plane, where Vedat keeps him hostage and attempts to negotiate his way out. When he holds a glass shard to Tobias's throat, a sniper shoots him, and the police enter and rescue Tobias.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842782
|
__label__wiki
| 0.994911
| 0.994911
|
NRL suspends 2020 season, A-League to follow
Aussies lead by 182 as series-deciding fourth Test hangs in the balance
Sport NRL suspends 2020 season, A-League to follow
6:02pm, Mar 23, 2020 Updated: 12:57am, Mar 24
The NRL has suspended its Sunday night Roosters-Bulldogs game for 24 hours over COVID fears. Photo: AAP
The New Daily @TheNewDailyAU
The NRL has succumbed to the global pandemic and suspended its season, with the A-League set to follow, as the AFL took the first steps towards laying off 80% of its staff.
Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’landys said he was left with no choice but to shut it down after biosecurity and pandemic experts could no longer guarantee the safety of players.
“We are going to look at every available option to us in the next week or so as to how we can recommence the season, be it in other areas or northern Queensland,” V’landys said after an emergency meeting on Monday night.
Tweet from @NRL
NRL players will be given Tuesday off and will remain in self-isolation.
“This decision hasn’t been taken lightly but we have a world-renowned pandemic expert and they are very concerned at the rate of this infection,” V’landys said.
“We will and always will consider the health of our players before anything else.”
Unlike the AFL on Sunday, the NRL have opted against putting a return date for play.
“We are going to look at every available option to us in the next week or so as to how we can recommence the season,” V’landys said.
NRL CEO Todd Greenberg (L) and ARLC Chairman Peter V’landys speak to the media in Sydney. Photo: AAP
“Be it in other areas or northern Queensland. All the options are still on the table. We’ve left (the return date) open and will probably make some announcements in the future.”
It’s believed as much as $13 million could be lost from broadcasters for every round not played, or $500 million for the entire year.
The AFL, which shut down its season on Sunday, has moved quickly to contact clubs and ensure a tight rein on spending, while the NRL also closed its head office and reduced staff at a tense meeting ahead of its shutdown.
The NRL had just completed Round 2, but border closures and the ongoing issue with Auckland’s Warriors made it too difficult to continue.
It comes as Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the state’s borders will be closed, most likely from midnight on Wednesday.
That move exploded the NRL’s alternative plans to take all 16 teams to a central location in Queensland, or to continue to charter flights for travelling clubs all over Australia’s eastern states.
In the A-League, FFA chief executive James Johnson is expected to announce the league’s suspension at a media conference on Tuesday, following a day of crisis talks.
The FFA had originally aimed to quickly wrap up the season through a condensed fixture list that involved games being rescheduled.
In Melbourne, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan said his executives would take a 20% paycut, while clubs would compile lists of staff to remain on deck until the hoped for resumption of the season after May 31.
“I do understand the impact these steps will have on the lives of our entire team. Our priority now is ensuring all our people stay safe and healthy,” McLachlan said.
The chief executive of AFL’s Brisbane Lions, Greg Swann, said in a statement much work lay ahead to ensure his club can survive.
No crowd, no games, no jobs: Sport is shutting down. Photo: AAP
“We have a lot of work ahead of us to ensure the club’s financial stability and there will need to be some really tough decisions made, but we’re committed to ensuring that your club still exists in six months’ time, in a year’s time and in 50 years’ time,” Swann said.
“In order to do that, we will be implementing a series of significant measures … not least [affecting] our loyal and hard-working staff and players.
“Their wellbeing as we work through this is paramount and we will support them through whatever lies ahead.”
It is expected most clubs will lay off up to 75 per cent of staff, with a mixture of accrued leave and leave without pay.
Tweet from @Demonblog
Rugby union on Monday became the latest Australian sport to postpone a competition, abandoning its plan for a domestic competition featuring the four Australian Super Rugby teams plus Western Force.
It will now be put off until May 1 at the earliest.
Super Netball is also kicking the can down the road, with the 2020 season that was due to start on May 2 being deferred until at least June 30.
Separately, Netball Australia has determined that the Australian Netball League season will also be delayed and will also not start before June 30.
Netball Australia is also working with the nations involved in the 2020 Quad Series and Constellation Cup to determine what happens in relation to those matches due to take place in September and October respectively.
Racing Victoria has decided that it will continue to race behind closed gates.
-with AAP
AFL folds, but NRL and A-League still hold losing hands in coronavirus gamble
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842783
|
__label__cc
| 0.690074
| 0.309926
|
The Nigeria Today
Ebola Outbreak
Don’t rush into agreements with ASUU – Lawan
August 30, 2013 | chinex200
Former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Education, Mr. Farouk Lawan, on Thursday advised the Federal Government against signing any agreement it would not honour with the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
Lawan who rued the deteriorating situation of the universities, urged the Federal Government and ASUU to return to the negotiation table.
“What we hear is that ASUU has pulled out of the talks to end the ongoing strike; this will only worsen the situation. Both parties should return to continue with the talks.
“Frequent strikes undermine the quality and standard of our education”, Lawan told reporters in Abuja.
He observed that a major setback for government/ASUU relations over the years had been the signing of agreements that the government was not ready to implement.
According to Lawan, this happens because government is desperate to get the lecturers back to the classrooms after a prolonged strike.
He advised that in the ongoing discussions between the parties, government should restrain from making promises it was not willing to implement.
The lawmaker said, “Government often rushes into signing agreements because it is desperate to get lecturers back to the classroom.
“This is what has happened to the 2009 agreement, which is the cause of the current strike.
“Before then, there were other agreements up to 2009 and they always bordered on the lack of will to honour them.”
He also called on ASUU to find new ways of getting the government to honour its agreements or to adequately fund the universities “without necessarily going on strike.”
ASUU is demanding the payment of entitlements of about N87bn, in addition to improving the general condition of the universities.
The current strike, which is over two months old, has dragged on because government said it could not afford to pay the money.
« Don’t rush into agreements with ASUU – Lawan
Meet Fuji, The 3-Year-Old Photographer Who Will Steal Your Heart (PHOTOS) »
2020 Nigerian sports review
Nigerian Minister of Youth and Sports development: National Sports Festival Not Postponed Indefinitely
More than 105 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty now
Nigerian woman face off Korean candidate to lead WTO
Nigerian Sports Ministry Lists Strict Conditions to Meet Before NPFL Comes Back
U.S. government advises citizens against traveling to Nigeria
Opay becomes the latest company to leave mobile money market in Nigeria
L-R: Minister of agriculture and rural development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina and executive director, Forum For Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Dr Yemi Akinbamijo, during the presentation of FARA award to Adesina at the 15th anniversary of FARA in Johannesburg, South Africa. Leadership Newspaper
The future of Nigeria and today By:Japheth Omojuwa, Leadership
We tend to pretend Nigeria will move forward, taking giant strides into the future, but we delude ourselves if we believe that we can move forward without….
Habits you should learn from Nigerian athletes
Running tracks as well as fighting taekwondo might be a lot of an activity for some however the little way of life decisions these athletes make are frequently the meager line that decides if they exceed expectations in their fields or not. Below are some tips and tricks on things to learn from this country’s […]
March 18, 2020 | Jose Reid
Tips on living healthy as a Nigerian
In a nation where there’s such a significant amount to stress over, there are some many adverse circumstances that can drive one into a condition of steady pressure, tension or sorrow. As individuals, we should be proactive and cautious about our prosperity and discover approaches to take good care of our mind and body. We, […]
March 6, 2020 | Jose Reid
Best Places to Live in Nigeria (part 4)
6. Ibadan West Africa’s self-styled biggest city is commonly called the famous ‘ancient city’ of Ibadan. It is one of the most excellent places to live in the country. Sited in the Southwestern part of the country as well as the Oyo state capital, it is one densely populated city full of tourist attractions, higher […]
February 19, 2020 | Jose Reid
Interswitch of Nigeria confirms $1B valuation following Visa investment
Interswitch – the Nigerian digital payments firm confirmed today that it has reached the status of unicorn following Visa acquiring a minority equity stake in Interswitch. “The investment turns Interswitch into being among the most valuable fintech businesses in Africa with a $1 billion valuation,” the firm said in a release. The Visa investment indeed […]
November 13, 2019 | Jose Reid
Firm unveils device to reduce car theft
A major manufacturer of security device, Tramigo, has unveiled new products that will assist vehicles owners in the country to reduce the incidence of car theft. The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Arto Tiitinen, while speaking on Monday, in Abuja, said the move was part of the efforts aimed at responding to the […]
November 12, 2014 | chinex200
MTN boss calls for consolidation among mobile phone operators
To avoid market and company failures in the competitive mobile phone ecosystem, the Group Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group, Sifisco Dabengwa at the just concluded GSMA Mobile 360 Series Africa held in Cape Town, South Africa, has called for consolidation among phone operators. The GSMA is an association of mobile operators and related companies […]
© 2021 The Nigeria Today. All rights reserved. Premium WordPress Themes.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842785
|
__label__wiki
| 0.58944
| 0.58944
|
THE PEG
News and Reviews from the world of Theatre
A Christmas Carol Review at The Pleasance – 4 Stars
By thepeg on December 17, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )
What is Christmas without a spot of Dickens? Well, Let Them Call It Mischief provide a complete rendition of A Christmas Carol with only 7 actors and a fairly sparse set of props. And the result? A Fringe Christmas cracker.
The story begins with a narrator who opens a book and reads to the audience from the first page, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. And from the off it’s clear where this production will lead; dippy characters, crazy dance routines and general silliness.
The well-known story zips along with an energetic cast who are able to move in and out of character at the drop of a hat- this is particularly true of Maxwell Tyler. Alyssa Noble meanwhile leads the cast fantastically well in the- quite frankly- unexpectedly broad variety of dance routines. Claire Cartwright makes an exceptional hung-over Victorian housewife, Benedict Waring plays the part of Scrooge with a combination of blissful ignorance and knowing irony, and Elliot Ross is sweeter-than-pie in his role as Bob Cratchit. There’s a spoof Victorian market scene (semi-skimmed milk, anyone?), a Star Wars reference and a well-placed nod to the Muppet Christmas Carol. Really, what more could you want? More?! You want more?! (Sorry, wrong Dickens.)
The only criticism of this show is that it’s so upbeat that even the mean-spirited and scary characters are quite affable. Scrooge is make-believe mean and the ghosts are un-frightful, but then this is a comedy and there are plenty of laughs, so it’s an excusable fault.
This is one to see if you’re looking for a fresh reworking of a classic and an all-round feel good Christmas treat.
Categories: 4/5 Stars, review
Tagged as: Christmas Carol
Dickens with a Difference at Trafalgar Studios – 3 Stars
Cinderella and the Beanstalk review – Theatre 503 – 5 Stars
Explore All Our Reviews
★★★ The Time Machine
★★ Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
★★★★ Zoo
★★★★ It’s Not Easy Being This Fabulous
★★★★ You don’t have to be JEW…ish to laugh
Follow THE PEG on WordPress.com
Tjohnson on ★★★★ An Explosive Fusion of Do…
#0110 Humanité | Enc… on ★★★★ Disco Pigs: A Powerful Re…
Top categories: review Musical Theatre
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842788
|
__label__wiki
| 0.5618
| 0.5618
|
Creating Drinking Water From Air For People Everywhere
As populations around the world increasingly struggle to access clean, natural water, at Watergen we have come up with a game-changing solution that uses humidity in the air to create clean and fresh drinking water.
Our innovative technology taps into the atmosphere – an unlimited, freely-available resource – to provide drinking water to people everywhere, from the most remote rural village communities to commercial office buildings to private homes.
In a few short years, we have become a global leader in the development and implementation of water-from-air solutions based on our proprietary cutting-edge, patented GENius technology. Our water generators come in a range of sizes to suit cities, villages, commercial centers, schools, hospitals, offices, residential buildings, private homes and more. They all produce the safest, cleanest and freshest-tasting drinking water, improving the quality of life, and even saving the lives, of potentially billions of people around the world.
To provide access for every man, woman and child around the world to fresh, clean and safe drinking water.
Using state-of-the-art technology, we will provide humanity with a renewable source of high-quality drinking water, extracted from the air, making it available anywhere, on demand and at a reasonable cost.
Premium drinking water quality
Food Grade heat exchange, air filtration, water purification and mineralization in all our products
Unique and innovative technology
Our revolutionary patented system extracts water out of the humidity in the air, an unlimited source of water
Environmentally friendly independent water solution
Our products are easy to install, completely independent of any water piping. Using our products reduce the need for plastic water bottles and 5-gallon solutions
A multi-disciplinary team
Our team of chemists, biologists, physicists and engineers have combined their broad ranging expertise to power Watergen’s unique technology and make premium drinking water accessible to the world
The highest standards of quality
Our in-house lab is equipped with the latest technology and cutting-edge equipment
Energy efficient & Cost effective
Our products produce 1 liter of water using as little as 0.3 KWH, in a wide climate condition. Operating temperature of 15-40℃ and ≥25%RH
Complies with international water purification standards
Watergen is the first AWG manufacturer to comply with American standards ASSE LEC 2004. All products comply with EPA, NSF61 and the Federal Drinking Water Standards
Close after-sale support to ensure customer satisfaction
Visionary ownership
Enable the company to support exponential growth across the world
Watergen established
First atmospheric water generator launched
Investment by Dr. Michael Mirilashvili’s corporate group
First system installed in New Delhi, India
Large scale & Gen-M devices donated to the American Red Cross and FEMA to assist in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
GEN-M systems installed in Asia and Latin America
Watergen provides water to athletes and fans during the World Cup and Marathons in Russia
GEN-M systems installed in Latin America, USA, Africa, Asia and Europe
Uzbekistan Government signs MOU with Watergen to fight water shortage
Genny is awarded “BEST OF INNOVATION HONOREE” in the Tech for a Better World product category in CES 2019 electronic conference.
Genny gets award in “the sustainability,
eco-design & smart Energy” category
at CES 2020
Watergen GEN-M installation at Tashkent National University of Uzbekistan
President of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, presented with the GEN-M that is chosen to help the emergency forces in Guatemala
Cambodian Government joins up with Watergen and introduces GEN-M to the National Health Care system
Watergen incorporates with the Ford Fundation and World Vision to provide drinking water tp rural communities.
3 Watergen devices have been installed in hospitals and public spaces for people in need in the Palestinian territories.
Interested to learn more? Contact Us
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842792
|
__label__cc
| 0.659395
| 0.340605
|
Fashion Photographer | NYC | Chicago | Los Angeles | t. HARRISON HILLMAN
PORTFOLIOS/MEN PERSONAL/SOMNAMBULIST PERSONAL/WANDAWEGA CONTACT MOTION/CLARA PORTFOLIOS/PORTRAITS PORTFOLIOS/NIKE PORTFOLIOS/NIKE KIDS ABOUT PORTFOLIOS/OVERVIEW PORTFOLIOS/SPORT PORTFOLIOS/FASHION 1 PORTFOLIOS/FASHION 2 TEARS
Capture_1193_2.jpg
t. harrison hillman, fashion, editorial, beauty, 50's, train station, story, fashion, fashion photography, editorial fashion, editorial fashion photography, chicago, chicago fashion photography, chicago fashion photographer, chicago editorial fashion photographer, chicago editorial fashion photography, beauty, beauty photography, beauty fashion photography, men's fashion, men's fashion photography, men's editorial fashion photography, men's fashion photographer, men's editorial fashion photographer, designer, designers, women's editorial, women's editorial fashion, women's editorial fashion photography, clothing, designer clothing, makeup, style, editorial, photography, editorial photography, hair, art, dress, dresses, women's dresses, women's wear, menswear, womenswear, men's wear, studio, lighting, location, fine art, fine art photography
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842795
|
__label__cc
| 0.630945
| 0.369055
|
Martin Krause
Reviews, Sample library reviews
Concluding their year of renovation for now, British sample library developer Spitfire Audio just released another orchestral library: Symphonic Strings. What was originally known as the Mural series, a massive four-part symphonic string library, is now celebrating its reincarnation as a modernized, streamlined single volume. Just like with other recent releases from Spitfire Audio like Chamber Strings (former Sable range) and Symphonic Brass (former BML Brass range), with the new Symphonic Strings, the developers want to provide the user with a comprehensive, deep-sampled product while keeping the playability and ease of use as high as possible.
Compared to Chamber Strings, which had a smaller, more intimate sound, Symphonic Strings goes for the big and bold, featuring a 60-piece string band.
Let’s have a look and listen at Spitfire Audio’s new symphonic string compendium!
Composed of 60 of London’s top players, Symphonic Strings was recorded with 30 violins, 12 violas, 10 celli and 8 double basses. With over 175 different articulations, featuring multiple round robins, dynamic layers and three microphone positions to choose from, Spitfire Audio strove to deliver the definitive, encyclopedic compendium of orchestral strings.
In addition to the five individual string sections, the library also features a variety of ensemble patches, ideal for quick writing and sketching.
To ensure, every string section sounds from the right position in the stereo field, the library was recorded in situ – meaning at their position in the orchestra. No additional panning needed.
As with the other recent releases, prolific composer and scripting wizard Andy Blaney programmed all the legato patches for each individual section.
Symphonic Strings, which includes Mural volumes 1,2,3 and Ensembles, comes as a roughly 100 GB large NKS-ready Kontakt instrument.
Symphonic Strings, like most other Spitfire Audio products is a download-only product and can be downloaded via Spitfire Audio’s own library manager after the purchase. Be prepared to bring along some time since a 100GB download can take quite a while.
After successfully downloading all the necessary files, the library manager unzips and install the library automatically as part of the installation process. You can then add the product to Kontakt’s Library Tab. Symphonic Strings is a licensed Kontakt library following the NKS standard, which means it is fully compatible with hardware from Native Instruments and will run even with a free version of Kontakt 5.
Luckily for owners of other Spitfire Audio products, the interfaces of all recent libraries work exactly the same and look very similar, too. Therefore, if you know one, you know them all. For those, who have no experience with a Spitfire Audio library’s GUI, feel free to stop by at any of my recent product reviews since I already explained the interface’s structure quite comprehensively:
Spitfire Audio – Chamber Strings
Spitfire Audio – Symphonic Brass
Spitfire Audio – Sacconi Quartet
The folder structure of recent Spitfire Audio libraries is usually quite similar, too. On the top layer, we have all the different string sections plus the ensembles instrument laid out as multi-articulation patches. These patches include a bunch of the most essential articulations for a given section. The selection of pre-composed playing techniques usually includes various longs, shorts, trills, pizzicatos and tremolos.
Going down one layer of the library’s structure by clicking on the “advanced” folder leads you to another five folders, each packed with different patches for different purposes. Starting with the top-most one labeled “Extended techniques”, you’ll get to a wide collection of more elaborate and experimental articulations. Those are again composed into several multi-articulation patches split up into “core” and “decorative” versions.
The “core” patches include various con sordino, harmonic and brushed articulations, while the decorative patches concentrate on more experimental playing techniques such as sul ponticello and measured tremolos. Of course, all those are available for each string section (except for when a certain instrument group isn’t technically able to produce a certain technique).
Let me skip ahead for just a second and continue with one of the most interesting features of the library, the performance legato patches. In contrast to the normal legato patches, a performance legato patch not only includes true legato transitions and an adapting legato style script, but it also adds distinctive attacks to the notes depending on velocity. This allows you to perform both smooth legato passages and accentuated marcato lines with one single patch, just by differing your velocity and by leaving gaps between the notes.
Back to the original order. Next in line is a folder containing all of Symphonic Strings’ available articulations for every section, laid out as individual patches. These are very useful for situations, where you know you just need to use one or two playing techniques from a section. Not having to load up a whole multi-articulation patch every time can save you plenty of RAM in some situations.
The last folder is called “Other patches”. It includes several economic – meaning CPU saving – patches for every section as well as a couple of so-called Time Machine patches. The latter one include a “stretch” control, allowing you to tighten up or lengthen out the sound of different short articulations.
On to probably the most essential question of a sample library review: how does it sound?
Well, with the highly praised original sample collection of the Mural range under the hood – which by the way was awarded “Best Sample Library Of The Year 2014” by Music Tech magazine – what could have possibly gone wrong regarding the sound of Symphonic Strings?
In the tried-and-tested Spitfire Audio way, all the samples and articulations were recorded meticulously and with high attention to detail. None of the patches feels static but feature an inherent liveliness that makes it a pleasure to compose music with. Especially the longer articulations distinguish themselves by having a very broad expressive range, from glassy and fragile in the lower modulation wheel area, to a soaring molto vibrato sound at the wheel’s top limit.
Compared to Chamber Strings, this new release brings the bigger guns, meaning a more cinematic tone you might know from soundtracks like The Lord Of The Rings or The Chronicles Of Narnia. In fact, Harry Gregson-Williams (the composer of the latter movie) was one of the very first who used the original sample library on a Hollywood blockbuster.
With the three different microphone positions available (Close, Tree, Ambient) you have plenty of tonal options from bitey and upfront to a wide and grandiose orchestral sound.
Of course, the baked-in ambience of London’s noble AIR Lyndhurst Hall on all the samples plays a huge part in making the library sound as it does.
Overall, Symphonic Strings features a polished and powerful sound, authentically reproducing a large string band in a concert hall.
Again, Spitfire Audio managed to revive and condense a successful range of libraries into a new one with a contemporary approach. A great deal of the brand’s magic lies in the playability of their instruments, the ease of use and the tonal variety of the recorded material.
Although no new sample material is included, Spitfire Audio effectively took a renowned product and even stepped it up on notch. The smart programming of not only the performance legato patches but also the multi-articulation instruments makes it a breeze to come up with convincing and great sounding string arrangements.
Spitfire Audio’s self-proclaimed “encyclopedic compendium of strings” is exactly that – a truly extensive scoring tool for any compositional need.
Symphonic Strings has an introductory price of €599.00 ($636.00) which will lift up to a regular price of €799.00 ($848.00) thereafter. After having the first impression of quite a steep pricing, I realized that before Symphonic Strings was out, you had to cough up a whopping $4,500.00 to get the whole Mural range. Compared to that, Symphonic Strings’ current price is nothing less than a steal, especially when bringing in the fact that the whole product was re-programmed and -scripted.
Like with most of Spitfire Audio’s recent renovations, you get a fair discount on Symphonic Strings if you already own one or more volumes of its legacy library Mural. If you already own the entire Mural range however, you can update to Symphonic Strings for free.
SYMPHONIC STRINGS WALKTHROUGH
More reviews from Martin Krause
Check out our interview with Spitfire Audio
Check out our Sample Library Database for more alternatives
More Spitfire Audio related news.
Spitfire Audio - Symphonic Strings Review
Playability
4.8Overall Score
Reader Rating: (4 Votes)
muralorchestral stringsSpitfire Audiosymphonic strings
FabFilter – Pro-R Review
Spitfire Audio Symphonic Woodwinds review
Martin is a composer, sound designer and audio engineer from Cologne, Germany. Under his own audio brand called Lucky Punch Music, he creates sound and music for various applications like film, trailers, TV, games and events. His broad musical style ranges from epic orchestral and cinematic music to full-blown rock and pop productions. Martin contributed sound to numerous productions, shows and campaigns of internationally known companies including Mercedes Benz, eBay, IKEA and Porsche, just to name a few. His music is featured both on European and American TV.
Spitfire Audio Orchestral Swarm Review
Sample Logic’s Trailer Xpressions review
Sound Devices MixPre-6 review
In this review George Vlad takes the new Sound Devices...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842797
|
__label__wiki
| 0.83239
| 0.83239
|
Looking for in-depth reporting on labor issues? You're in the right place.
Subscribe to The Chief and get stories that cover every side of civil service in New York City and beyond. You can sign up in minutes for immediate access.
eChief
Editor's Columns
Professionals' Columns
Civil Service Careers
Exams for Jobs
City Certifications
Hiring Lists
General Display
Schools & Instruction
Create A Public Notice
Current Notices
e-Chief
e-Chief login
OSA union login
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: Kyle Simmons, president of the union that represents city Laborers, called the safety concerns over Laborers being used to assist Elevator Mechanics at the Housing Authority 'unfounded.' Teamsters Local 237 took issue with the Laborers being staffed in place of Elevator Mechanic Helpers, who undergo a more-extensive training.
Photo courtesy of City Comptroller's office
Dust-Up Between Rival Union Leaders
Laborers Union Defends Its Members Helping HA Elevator Mechanics
By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Oct 30, 2020 Updated Nov 4, 2020
The head of the union representing many city Laborers defended the Housing Authority’s decision to staff them alongside Elevator Mechanics against safety concerns raised by another union.
Because of a shortage of Elevator Mechanic Helpers, the civil-service title assigned to help Elevator Mechanics, NYCHA hired 36 Laborers starting in February. Teamsters Local 237, which represents Elevator Mechanics and Elevator Mechanic Helpers, objected that the Laborers weren’t experienced enough to be performing such a dangerous job.
A Bad Rap?
But Kyle Simmons, the longtime president of District Council 37’s Laborers Local 924, called the criticism of his members working in the elevator division “unfounded” and argued that city Laborers can assist all skilled-trades workers.
“The Laborers are the support group,” he said during a phone interview. “It’s like how at a hospital, you have doctors and the nurses are the support staff.”
City Laborers “under immediate supervision” perform unskilled work requiring physical strength including operating vehicles and using power-driven equipment, according to the city’s description of the title's duties. Elevator Mechanic Helpers inspect elevator equipment and clean the tops of elevator cars and other work-spaces.
The Authority’s aging elevators across 326 developments have made it difficult for elevator repair staff to keep up with the work. In September alone, there were 3,600 elevator outages in public-housing developments, according to the City Comptroller's Office.
Helper Exam Delayed
The civil-service exam for the Elevator Mechanic Helpers was postponed because of COVID, and is expected to be administered during the coming months. NYCHA has said that it has had trouble attracting Elevator Mechanic Helpers, which Local 237 President Gregory Floyd believed was because the pay was too low for the position.
Mr. Simmons noted that many of the Helpers were promoted to become Elevator Mechanics, which contributed to the shortage.
“But Laborers can remain in the position permanently. The title is so versatile: one day, we can assist an Elevator Mechanic, then the next day, a Carpenter,” he said.
When asked whether Laborers were unable to do any of the duties performed by Elevator Mechanic Helpers, Mr. Simmons said no.
Mr. Floyd pointed to the 30 days of training given to the HA Laborers, in contrast with the 600 hours of training in the maintenance, repair and installation of elevators, three years of experience maintaining and repairing elevators, and completion of a NYCHA career ladder training program required for Elevator Mechanic Helpers.
“I understand the need to stick up for your members…but they don’t have the training,” Mr. Floyd said. “Him saying that isn’t going to make a difference. Just because you know how to do a little something doesn’t mean you’re proficient.”
Not Used in Private Sector
Mr. Simmons also said that Elevator Mechanic Helpers were not required to assist Elevator Mechanics in the private-sector—instead, apprentices assist the Mechanics.
But Mr. Floyd argued that the way work was done in the private sector “doesn’t absolve” NYCHA for the staffing shortage. He has also taken issue with the fact that the Laborers earned more an hour to do the same work as the Helpers, who are paid $4-$9 an hour below what is typically earned in the private sector. One Mechanic who previously spoke with the Chief cited low morale because of the wage gap.
Mr. Simmons countered that the Helpers were being paid below prevailing wage, “so I commend NYCHA for taking a strong initiative in correcting wage disparities and by hiring the appropriate Laborer title that is more versatile in their needs and also conforms to law.”
It also addressed the problem of the lack of Laborers helping thousands of city skilled-trades workers, he believed. "When I came in, there wasn't a Laborer in NYCHA. Not one," Mr. Simmons said.
We depend on the support of readers like you to help keep our publication strong and independent. Join us.
BamBam Oct 30, 2020 4:56pm
why even go through all the trouble of paying for the exam than wasting a day sitting in a testing facility than waiting for the list to come out usually 12-18 months just apply for a laborers job no exam and one year probation than permanent more money too
Latest News From The Chief-Leader
Get your current labor news delivered weekly to your inbox.
Get weekly updates on the latest civil service exams, job postings, city certifications, and lists.
We cover everything that affects civil servants. If you have labor-related news to share, we want to hear from you!
thechiefleader.com
Email: thechiefsubs@rcn.com
© Copyright 2021 The Chief, 277 Broadway Suite 301 New York, NY
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842801
|
__label__wiki
| 0.665931
| 0.665931
|
Actress Alyssa Milano ignited the #MeToo campaign, inspiring millions of women to join her. (Shea Walsh / AP Images for SC Johnson)
#MeToo campaign brings conversation of rape to the mainstream
October 24, 2017 6.22pm EDT
Jessalynn Keller, University of Calgary
Jessalynn Keller
Assistant Professor in Critical Media Studies, University of Calgary
Jessalynn Keller received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK for this research.
University of Calgary provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA.
University of Calgary provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR.
The first #MeToo appeared unexpectedly in my Facebook feed about 10 days ago, a digital response by girls and women to the allegations of sexual harassment and violence against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Using the #MeToo hashtag, girls and women publicly identified that they too have experienced sexual assault.
Soon, my social media accounts were flooded with the hashtag and accompanying stories of sexual harassment and violence that seemed to mark the lives of nearly all of my female friends and acquaintances. According to the Associated Press, the hashtag was shared in more than 12 million Facebook posts and reactions in the first 24 hours.
I am still moved by these stories, despite having spent the past three years studying similar testimonials with my co-researchers — Kaitlynn Mendes at the University of Leicester and Jessica Ringrose at the University College of London’s Institute of Education. We have been exploring the ways in which girls and women have been using digital media technologies to challenge rape culture and sexual violence.
We spoke to over 50 girls and women primarily based in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom who had engaged in such practices. Some had used the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported to share experiences of sexual violence in the wake of the Jian Ghomeshi allegations, while others posted their stories of street harassment on websites like Hollaback!.
Women told us how they confronted rape jokes on Facebook. Some spoke of launching social media campaigns that addressed their own sexual assaults. #MeToo is not an isolated incident then, but part of a trajectory of digital feminist consciousness raising that is making rape culture visible within mainstream culture.
Feminist politics in the digital age
Over the past week there has been excellent commentary on #MeToo, including intersectional critiques of the hashtag, conversations about the need to name perpetrators and exploration of the roots of the movement.
I do not want to repeat these important analyses here (although I recommend reading them), but instead draw on our research to consider what #MeToo offers the girls and women who used the hashtag this past week, and what the hashtag suggests about contemporary feminist politics in the digital age.
Though actress Alyssa Milano ignited the #MeToo campaign on Twitter on Oct. 15, she later learned activist Tarana Burke first created Me Too for survivors of sexual assault in 2007. (Just Be, Inc)
While some are doubtful about the potential for hashtags like #MeToo to produce social change, our research findings indicate that “hashtag feminism” can help to bring about feminist consciousness and solidarity that is an imperative step towards a more equitable society.
Social media: the power of personal narratives
Hashtags like #MeToo are one of the strategies that have been used by survivors of sexual violence and harassment, functioning as a way to make their voices heard through personal story, while connecting to others with similar experiences.
Over the past five years, several hashtags have been mobilized for such a purpose, including #YesAllWomen, #YouOkSis? and #BeenRapedNeverReported.
The latter served as one of the case studies in our research. In addition to analyzing hundreds of #BeenRapedNeverReported tweets, we also interviewed girls and women who had used the hashtag to share stories about why they didn’t report their sexual assaults.
To anyone who thinks that women quickly and absentmindedly tweet these types of stories — you couldn’t be more wrong. The girls and women we spoke with described painful debates with themselves over whether they should post about their sexual assaults, sleepless nights thinking about the consequences and anxiety that upon tweeting, as one participant put it, “no one would notice.”
The double bind of hashtags: triggering and comforting
Another participant described the weeks in late 2014, when the #BeenRapedNeverReported trended, as being “absolutely gut-wrenching.” She said:
It was very emotional and it was very upsetting to me, this whole thing, being a part of that hashtag, reading other women’s little tweets, 140-character tweets. One resonated and it was really a tough couple of weeks. Even though it was positive, it was very, very difficult for me. There were some nights where I didn’t sleep.
Comments like this highlight the double bind that survivors find themselves in when hashtags like #BeenRapedNeverReported or #MeToo trend; they can be simultaneously triggering and comforting. As hashtags like #MeToo attract wide audiences, we need to recognize that these responses exist together in the complex terrain of hashtag feminism.
Yet, the women we spoke with also talked about the significant support they received upon tweeting about their assaults. One woman told us:
I got an overwhelming awesome response the night I posted … There was one… all she said was, ‘we stand with you, friend.’ And that one made me cry. I’ll admit it, that one made me cry. And then there was one that told me I was incredibly strong and brave for doing what I did…. there was six or seven comments like that. Which, for me, was overwhelming because I didn’t really think that anyone would say these things, you know, it was just I was helping the hashtag understand why things weren’t being reported. And I didn’t really expect any response at all. And next thing you know, I got likes and favourites and comments, and I was just, like, oh, my gosh, what is going on here.
This woman’s experience is indicative of many of the girls and women we spoke to; they emphasized being pleasantly surprised by the comments, retweets and “favourites” they received from strangers online and how these seemingly small responses — a click of the Twitter heart icon or a brief comment — came to mean so much.
We cannot dismiss the significance of this. Indeed, if hashtags like #BeenRapedNeverReported and #MeToo are making survivors feel heard as our participant describes above, then they are worthwhile, regardless if Harvey Weinstein works again or not.
Film producer and executive Harvey Weinstein, seen here at a press conference for the film Woman in Gold at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival, has been accused of rape. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, Film)
Raising feminist consciousness
We also discovered that sharing stories via social media often generates feminist consciousness that is needed for structural change. For example, another one of our interviewees told us that she began to identify as a feminist only after sharing her story of sexual assault on social media.
Digital sharing allowed her to link her own experience to that of thousands of other girls and women and recognize that sexual violence was a structural problem, rather than an individual experience. Another young woman who was assaulted on a university campus described to us how tweeting about her experience was the important first step in reporting the assault to the authorities. She said:
For me, [sharing my story with the #BeenRapedNeverReported hashtag] was kind of the strength to say I can report this. And so it gave me the option and the power to actually go through to campus security… I’m not sure if it was because I finally put my name to it [the assault] or because I had seen so many other stories. There was a solidarity with it where I felt comfortable and ready to.
Of course, girls and women should never be obligated to share their traumatic stories in order to believed; several people have written about that in relation to #MeToo.
The #MeToo campaign is global. Here an image from the Hindu. (The Hindu)
However, our interviews do point to the opportunities for feminist consciousness and solidarity that hashtags like #BeenRapedNeverReported and #MeToo provide, especially for girls and women who may be unfamiliar with feminist politics and unlikely to identify with the movement.
These shifts in consciousness may go unnoticed at first, but over time this “mainstreaming” of feminist activism is the foundation for the creation of a more just society.
Within this optimistic and celebratory argument of the power of social media to produce social change, we still recognize that social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook profit from trending hashtags, accumulating large amounts of personal data to sell to advertisers.
We must then grapple with the question of what it means for digital feminist consciousness raising and solidarity to be intimately connected to the digital capitalism promoted by the tech sector — one of the most sexist industries today.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842803
|
__label__cc
| 0.534748
| 0.465252
|
Feds Warn Amateur Radio Operators “Not To Commit Criminals Acts” Ahead Of Inauguration
Looking Through An Adversary’s Eyes: A KGB Agent’s Prophecy
Peru Slams Pfizer Over Legal Immunity For COVID Vaccine Side Effects
The Minister of Health of Peru told the Congress of Peru on Tuesday that “controversy” had developed over a liability waiver in negotiations with Pfizer Inc. over COVID-19 vaccines, according to Reuters.
Health minister Pilar Mazzetti told lawmakers that she has been in “constant contact” with Pfizer since July. She was not able to elaborate in-depth due to a confidentiality agreement with the American multinational pharmaceutical company. But she did say contract disputes materialized in December.
“With Pfizer, there are some details where there is no agreement,” Mazzetti said. She added, “this has to do with prices and the delivery schedule” as well as “the waiving of important elements such as … jurisdictional immunity.”
“One indeed needs the vaccine, but it is also true that there are aspects related to aspects of our sovereignty that the country has to protect … it has to do with risk for future generations,” she said.
She told lawmakers, “we hope that the controversy will be resolved so we will be able to determine when the vaccine will arrive.”
Mazzetti said the deal for Pfizer to provide the country with 10 million vaccine doses in late November has stalled because some clauses in the agreement need further examination to determine whether they comply with Peruvian law.
Other South American countries have raised similar concerns about liability waivers with Pfizer, including Argentina and Brazil.
On Tuesday, World Bank officials said they were working with governments to resolve the “liability waiver issue.” They said it was one of the biggest obstacles in signing vaccine supply deals.
In August, a senior executive from AstraZeneca, Britain’s second-largest drugmaker, told Reuters that his company was granted protection from all legal action if the company’s vaccine led to damaging side effects.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro recently voiced his concern about legal liability waivers with big pharma firms, saying, “it is quite clear that they are not responsible for any side effects. If you become an alligator, it’s your problem.”
Big pharma shedding liability for rushed coronavirus treatments is alarming and has certainly been the holdup for Pfizer’s vaccine distribution across South America.
Wed, 01/06/2021 – 11:30
← We Are at War
The “Corrupt Bargain” Of 2020 →
Massive Migrant Caravan From Honduras Busts Through Guatemala Border en Route to US (VIDEO)
Fox News Failing — Newsmax: “We’ll Probably Overtake Them In The Next Six Months”
Thanks to Stricter Democrat Shutdowns the US Economy in November and December Contracted After Record Setting 3rd Quarter
Feds Warn Amateur Radio Operators “Not To Commit Criminals Acts” Ahead Of Inauguration January 18, 2021
Looking Through An Adversary’s Eyes: A KGB Agent’s Prophecy January 18, 2021
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842808
|
__label__cc
| 0.682749
| 0.317251
|
Irwin Mt. Braddock (724) 515-2440
About United
Accreditation and Approvals
Core Values and Purpose
Mt. Braddock, PA
Mt. Braddock
TEAS Prep Course
Career Management Services
Careers at UCI
ATI Nursing Education
NCCT
Campus of Interest *
Irwin, PA Mt. Braddock, PA
High School Education *
Please select... Diploma GED
By providing your information, you consent to the institution utilizing this information to contact you to provide more information using a variety of methods which may include, but are not limited to, phone (both mobile and home, dialed manually or automatically) email, mail, and text message and to our communication with you being monitored and recorded for quality assurance and training purposes. You may withdraw your consent by emailing marketing@wvjc.edu or using other electronic opt-out methods that may be made available to you.
Please Select Medical Assisting Medical Billing and Coding Phlebotomy Technician Practical Nursing Online TEAS Prep Course
Please Select Medical Assisting Medical Billing and Coding Practical Nursing Online TEAS Prep Course
2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1922 1921 1920 1919 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 1913 1912 1911 1910
Irwin Campus
Chelsea Lee – Student Highlight
Chelsea Lee is a student in United Career Institute’s Medical Assisting program. Chelsea also works at Applebee’s while she is going to school. Working while in school is common amongst United students and we strive to offer our students the services they need to balance family, work, and school life. Our fast-track programs are also designed to get students into the professional world as quickly as possible, helping to facilitate that balance even further. Chelsea has worked at Applebee’s since she was in high school, which coincidentally, is where she heard about United Career Institute. Meghan Murray, United’s High School Admissions Advisor, visited Chelsea’s school and piqued her interest in United. Chelsea was also a high-school scholarship recipient.
Chelsea says that she chose United because of the recommendation of a friend who recently graduated from United’s Medical Assisting program. “It seemed like a fun school to go to. The staff seemed helpful,” Chelsea says. Pursuing medical assisting seemed like a logical step for Chelsea. “I’ve always wanted to be a nurse and thought medical assisting would be a good start.” (Many United students choose to pursue a Medical Assisting degree before moving into nursing because it helps prepare them for the fast-paced Practical Nursing program.) When asked what her favorite class has been so far, Chelsea said that the anatomy and physiology courses were her favorite because she loves learning about how the body works. Chelsea also said that, while she likes all her instructors, her favorite instructor is Medical Assisting Program Director, Kelli Workman. “I enjoy all the instructors, but Kelli Workman is my favorite because she explains things so that they are easy to understand, she doesn’t give up on us, and she will push you until you get it.” United Career Institute prides itself on the one-on-one attention our instructors give our students and the support we offer to help our students reach their educational and career goals.
Chelsea’s ideal job after graduation is in a pediatrician’s office. She wants to work with children because they touch her heart. Her five-year goal is to become a pediatric nurse. When asked If she would refer a friend to United she quickly responded, “yes, it is a fast-paced environment, but at the same time the ultimate learning goal is accomplished.”
If your story sounds similar to Chelsea’s and you would like to learn more about United Career Institute’s fast-track programs and hands-on training request information here today!
Previous PostPrevious United’s Live Classroom Experience
Next PostNext Hannah Matheson – Graduate Highlight
Irwin Campus | Mt. Braddock
Careers at United
Testing Center-Irwin
Testing Center-Mt.Braddock
The information on this website was current at the time it was published. It is updated periodically. For the most current information, contact the campus directly. The information presented in this website is general in nature, addressing only highlights and not meant to be complete. Interested individuals should review the school catalog for details.
© 2020 United Career Institute | Powered by Pikewood Digital
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842809
|
__label__cc
| 0.61812
| 0.38188
|
Tehrān Conference
(Nov. 28–Dec. 1, 1943) Meeting of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in Tehrān during World War II to discuss military strategy and political issues.
Stalin agreed to launch a military offensive from the east to coincide with a planned invasion of German-occupied France from the west. Also discussed but not settled were eastern Europe's postwar borders, including Poland's postwar status, and a postwar international organization.
▪ World War II
(November 28–December 1, 1943), meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Roosevelt, Franklin D.), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Churchill, Sir Winston), and Soviet (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Premier Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Joseph) in Tehrān during World War II. The chief discussion centred on the opening of a “second front” in western Europe. Stalin agreed to an eastern offensive to coincide with the forthcoming Western Front, and he pressed the western leaders to proceed with formal preparations for their long-promised invasion of German-occupied France.
Though military questions were dominant, the Tehrān Conference saw more discussion of political issues than had occurred in any previous meeting between Allied governmental heads. Not only did Stalin reiterate that the Soviet Union should retain the frontiers provided by the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of 1939 (German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact) and by the Russo-Finnish Treaty of 1940, but he also stated that it would want the Baltic coast of East Prussia. Though the settlement for Germany was discussed at length, all three Allied leaders appeared uncertain; their views were imprecise on the topic of a postwar international organization; and, on the Polish question, the western Allies and the Soviet Union found themselves in sharp dissension, Stalin expressing his continued distaste for the Polish government-in-exile in London. On Iran, which Allied forces were partly occupying, they were able to agree on a declaration (published on December 1, 1943) guaranteeing the postwar independence and territorial integrity of that state and promising postwar economic assistance.
The Tehrān Conference is discussed in Keith Eubank, Summit at Teheran (1985); Keith Sainsbury, The Turning Point: Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, 1943 (1985); and Paul D. Mayle, Eureka Summit: Agreement in Principle and the Big Three at Tehran, 1943 (1987).
Tehuantepec, Gulf of
Tehran Conference — The Tehran Conference (codenamed EUREKA) was the meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill between November 28 and December 1, 1943 in Tehran, Iran. It was the first World War II conference among the Big Three (the… … Wikipedia
Tehran Conference, 1943 — The first wartime meeting of leaders of the “big three” the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union took place in Tehran, Iran, from 28 November to 1 December 1943. While the two Western leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston… … Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era
Tehran — [te rän′, tərän; te΄ə rän′, te΄he rän′; te΄heran′te rän′, tārän′; təran′] capital of Iran, in the NC part: pop. 7,158,000: also Teheran [te rän′, tərän; te΄ə rän′, te΄he rän′; te΄heran′] * * * Teh·ran or Te·he·ran (tĕ ə rănʹ, ränʹ, tĕ rănʹ, ränʹ) … Universalium
Tehran (disambiguation) — Tehran or Teheran may refer to:In Iran*Tehran, the capital city of Iran *Tehran Province of Iran *Tehran TV *Tehran Metro *Tehran University *Tehran s Grand Bazaar *Tehran International Fair *Tehranpars *Tehran Conference *Pas Tehran, an Iranian… … Wikipedia
Tehran (film) — Tehran is a 1946 British Italian thriller film co directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and William Freshman. It stars Derek Farr as Pemberton Grant, a British intelligence officer who discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States… … Wikipedia
Conference de Teheran — Conférence de Téhéran Cet article concerne la conférence inter alliée de 1943. Pour les autres significations, voir Conférence de Téhéran (homonymie). La Conférence de Téhéran qui se déroula du 28 novembre au 1er décembre 1943 fut la… … Wikipédia en Français
Conférence De Téhéran — Cet article concerne la conférence inter alliée de 1943. Pour les autres significations, voir Conférence de Téhéran (homonymie). La Conférence de Téhéran qui se déroula du 28 novembre au 1er décembre 1943 fut la première rencontre… … Wikipédia en Français
Tehran — This article is about the Iranian capital city. For other uses, see Tehran (disambiguation). Tehran تهران … Wikipedia
Tehran Declaration — The Tehran Declaration was a declaration that was released after the Tehran Conference that lasted from November 29 December 1 1943. The meetings were held in Tehran, Iran in between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.In the Declaration all three… … Wikipedia
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842810
|
__label__cc
| 0.599882
| 0.400118
|
Hack Recruiting Book
About Victor
VA@VictorHRConsultant.com | 707 331 6740
We help companies improve HR, recruiting, leaders, teams, and cultures of innovation.
Four steps to reducing hiring bias, improved financial outcomes, and a $5 trillion U.S. economic stimulus
October 27, 2020 by victorassad6Leave a comment
While championing diversity initiatives over the past 20 years, I have always emphasized how these actions will improve financial outcomes for companies. Now there is mounting evidence that by overcoming the racial wealth gap, which includes hiring biases, the U.S. could empower itself with a $5 trillion stimulus over the next five years—without an act of congress and presidential signature.
Evidence from McKinsey and others is overwhelming. McKinsey estimated that the racial wealth gap has a severe dampening effect on consumption and investment. How severe? It is estimated it will cost the US economy somewhere between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion between 2019 and 2028. That figure is four to six percent of 2028’s projected GDP.
Altarum and the WH Kellogg Foundation in 2018 estimated that by 2050, our country stands to realize an $8 trillion gain in GDP by closing the U.S. racial equity gap.
Now, Dana Peterson an economist formerly with Citigroup and currently with the Conference Board shows in a September 2020 report how disparities along racial fault lines in housing, education, policing, and voting all feed into one another to restrict the access of Black Americans and other minorities to employment, higher incomes, and the ability to build wealth. Housing segregation, for example, leads to unequal access to quality education. Growing up poor, meanwhile, boosts the likelihood that incarceration will diminish job opportunities.
An additional 6.1 million jobs a year and $13 trillion in business revenue could have been generated over the last two decades if Black entrepreneurs had fair and equitable access to credit, according to Dana Peterson’s calculations. “At all these different levels of society and achievement, there are these roadblocks,” Peterson says in a recent Bloomberg Businessweek article. “It’s pyramidal.”
Peterson calculated that by closing the various gaps between Blacks and Whites, the U.S. could stand to gain an additional $5 trillion in economic activity over the next five years—not an insignificant number as the U.S. struggles to recover from the downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The precautions we take to address racial barriers to hiring Blacks from human and AI screening are essential to eliminating racial, economic disparities, as this graphic from the Citigroup 2020 report illustrates.
Hiring bias is part of the problem.
My area of expertise among these “disparities along racial fault lines,” as Dana Peterson puts it, is recruiting and talent strategy. The evidence of racial and gender bias by hiring managers and now with some AI platforms is becoming increasingly clear. I first wrote about this last year in my blog, Preventing human and AI bias when recruiting and my book, Hack Recruiting: The Best of Empirical Research, Methodology and process, and Digitization.
In a concise article in the Harvard Business Review, Michael Li summarizes the scandals of AI platforms used to improve recruiting. Here is a synopsis of what he found:
Sources of bias in hiring abound. Some of this comes from AI. Amazon famously had to scrap its AI recruiting bot when the company discovered it was biased against women.
Using innovative field experiments, university researchers have shown that resume screeners discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, and age.
Discrimination is so prevalent that minorities often actively whiten resumes(and are subsequently more successful in the job market).
Scanning resumes, whether by computer or human, is an archaic practice best relegated to the dustbin of history. At best, it measures a candidate’s ability to tactfully boast about their accomplishments and, at worse, provides all the right ingredients for either intentional or unintentional discrimination.
What are recruiters and hiring managers to do to reduce human centric or technology centric bias? Below are four steps companies can take.
No. 1. Project-based assessments. Li recommends that companies deemphasize traditional resume screening and go to project-based assessments which are more fair and accurate: Li writes:
An unlikely parallel exists in — of all places — the field of classical music. In the 1970s and 1980s, historically male-dominated orchestras began changing their procedures for hiring. Auditions were conducted blind — placing a screen between the candidate and their judging committee so that the identity of the auditioner could not be discerned — only their music was being judged. The effects of this change were astounding: Harvard researchers found that women were passing 1.6 times more in blind auditions than in non-blind ones, and the number of female players in the orchestras increased by 20 to 30 percentage points.
Smart companies are starting to embrace more objective interviewing techniques, Li observes. Chief among these are project-based assessments. While the exact parameters vary, project-based assessments in AI and data science typically ask a candidate to clean and analyze some real-world data and write a short report of their findings. Some are more directed assessments, Li writes, while others are more open-ended. Some are take-home, while others are administered during an interview onsite. Regardless of their style, they ask candidates to demonstrate their own abilities, rather than just claim them.
I have used project-based assessments in hiring sales and marketing leaders. With the former, we gave candidates a real-world situation of a poor performing sales region, complete with facts and stories, and then asked them for a 90- and 180-day plan to turn around the sales territory. With marketing, we gave candidates data and then asked them to create a marketing presentation and present it to the hiring team, who would play prospective customers.
At Li’s firm, The Data Incubator, he found that more than 60 percent of firms now provide take-home data assessments for their candidates. Another roughly 20 percent require onsite interview data projects, where candidates analyze datasets as a part of the interview process.
Li also recommends that for companies to combat bias in AI, they need more diverse AI talent.
I have other suggestions for companies wanting to take bias out of their recruiting.
No. 2. Look at your job postings. Your job postings may be your worst nightmare, scaring off job applicants with jargon and needless clutter and driving away female applicants. If your job posting is more than 250 words and uses gender biased wording, it is time for an overhaul. Learn more here.
No. 3 Use structured interviews. Despite 100 years of empirical evidence (yes, it is 100 years.), many companies do not put the time and effort into setting up effective interviewing techniques to improve their ability to hire top talent significantly. Instead, they rely on casual, poorly prepared interviews (academic researchers call them “unstructured interviews”) that are heavily affected by first impressions and unconscious bias. Not a good way to hire.
A structured interview is based on the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies to perform on the job and align with company values. With structured interviews, the company creates questions to ask each candidate to determine if they have the education, experience, technical skills, social skills, and emotional intelligence to do well on the job. They can significantly remove the bias out of interviewing. Learn more here.
No. 4. Use AI technology de-biases candidate search and screening: AI technology exists to find job candidates based on objective criteria and blind candidates’ identifies, race, ethnicity and gender to prevent human bias during resume screening. AI powered tools, such as ThisWay Global, can find job candidates on the internet using objective criteria and present the top 200 job candidates blinded from the recruiter, so the recruiter cannot tell their race, ethnicity, or gender, enabling the recruiter to choose candidates based on matching job criteria, similar to the orchestra example above. Moreover, after 15 trillion matches, ThisWay Global has trained its AI to remove bias so you can benefit from a diverse talent pool. Learn more here.
How corporations work to eliminate bias in their hiring process, as discussed in this article (and how corporations’ endeavor to reduce biases in performance, pay, and promotions) can go a long way to providing the U.S. with a $5 trillion economic stimulus over five years. It is up to us in company leadership. And it does not require an act of congress and presidential signature.
Posted in: Diversity and Inclusion Recruiting talent acquisition
Tagged: artificial intelligence recruiting Diversity and Inclusion do the right thing racial wealth gap recruiting without bias social injsutice social injustice and inequality
Previous Entry: Over 50 percent of job postings drive away applicants, especially women
Next Entry: Three steps to improve employee resiliency during COVID19 based on new science
360 degree feedback
Coronavirus and Work
Flexible Work Place
Global Teams
H R Technology
Human Capital Planning
Open Office Space
Structured Interviews
training for H R leaders
work-life-integration
Scottsdale Arizona
Arizona Time Zone
View VictorAssadConsulting’s profile on Facebook
View VictorAssad2’s profile on Twitter
View VictorAssad’s profile on LinkedIn
View Victor Assad’s profile on Google+
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842814
|
__label__cc
| 0.536679
| 0.463321
|
Search University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives
Fonds AR453 - Ann Hansen fonds
Ann Hansen fonds
Multiple media
Source of title proper: Title is based on the content of the fonds.
University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives
CA UVICARCH AR453
Hansen, Ann, 1953-
2.1 m of textual records and other materials.
Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist, born in Ontario in 1953. Her early interest in anti-authoritarian activities led her to Europe, where she studied urban guerrilla groups as a part of the University of Waterloo’s Integrated Studies department. Upon her return to Canada, she became active with the prison-abolition movement, including the production of Bulldozer magazine.
In the early 1980s, Hansen formed the guerrilla organization, Direct Action (later also known as the Vancouver Five or the Squamish Five), in Vancouver with Julia Belmas, Gerry Hannah, Doug Stewart, and Brent Taylor. Direct Action’s major activities occurred in 1982; the bombing of the Cheekey-Dunsmuir BC Hydro substation on Vancouver Island in May, and the bombing of the Litton Industries factory in Toronto in October. Direct Action also participated in the collective Wimmin’s Fire Brigade firebombing actions against the Red Hot Video pornographic video store outlets in BC. The group were arrested in January 1983 on the highway near Squamish, BC; “Free the Five” rallies were organized in their support and to raise awareness of alleged biased media reporting concerning the trial. Direct Action members were sentenced to life in prison in June 1984; all members have completed their sentences and have been released. Hansen has since published Direct Action: Memoires of An Urban Guerrilla (Between the Lines Press, 2001), and co-authored, with Julie Belmas, This Is not A Love Story: Armed Struggle Against the Institutions of Patriarchy (2002; available for download from http://TheAnarchistLibrary.org).
The archival fonds consists of the following series: Direct Action-related clippings, correspondence, ephemera and notes; legal correspondence; pre- and post-parole correspondence, ephemera, notes and writings by others; correspondence received during incarceration; prison records (supplied to Hansen under an Access to Information request); Direct Action chapter drafts and related materials; and RCMP surveillance transcripts (closed until 2072).
Subject matter of the mixed clippings and correspondence series includes: anti-nuclear/anti-cruise missile activism, court proceedings, Elizabeth Fry Society, environmental issues, indigenous peoples issues, international activism, pornography, anti-pornography/anti-snuff films, prison-industrial complex, sexual assault, Red Hot Video, the Vancouver Five trial matters and sentencing, women’s rights. Correspondence received during incarceration series includes: correspondence from Brent Taylor, Janice Bear Neudorf, and various supporters and publishers; series also includes 1 box of previous sealed letters from other members of the Vancouver Five, primarily Brent Taylor.
Donated by Ann Hansen in 2008.
RCMP surveillance transcripts (wiretap transcripts) closed until 2072.
Finding aid available with folder level control.
UVic Digital Collections, Anarchist Archive: http://library.uvic.ca/dig/AnarchistArchive/
Allan Antliff fonds
Part of the Anarchist Archive.
Created by JF, July 21, 2020.
Hansen, Ann, 1953- (Creator)
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842817
|
__label__wiki
| 0.88533
| 0.88533
|
Fort Collins paves way for expanded outdoor dining as restaurants wait to reopen
Coronavirus: See Colorado Gov. Jared Polis get a test for COVID-19
Gov. Jared Polis gave an update May 18 on coronavirus testing in Colorado, saying anyone who is symptomatic (and some essential workers) can be tested.
Office of Gov. Jared Polis, USA TODAY Handout
With most Colorado restaurants still restricted to take-out and delivery amid the coronavirus pandemic, it's unknown what dine-in service will look like once eateries are allowed to reopen.
But one thing is likely — increased patio and outdoor dining is in our future.
Extended outdoor dining has been a topic of interest within the city of Fort Collins for the last three weeks as city staff have fielded questions about it from local restaurant owners and community members, city engineer Chad Crager said.
The idea — which has taken hold in cities across the world — is to expand outdoor dining options as a way to increase seating capacity at restaurants while creating enough space for diners to remain physically distant, per public health guidelines.
Though the state is still ironing out dine-in guidelines for restaurants — and a reopening date has yet to be announced — the city of Fort Collins is now accepting applications from restaurants, bars, breweries, retail businesses and other similar establishments to convert sidewalks and parking spaces into outdoor dining or sales areas, according to a Thursday news release from the city.
Applications could have been submitted by the end of this week for a June 2 municipal court hearing or by May 26 for a June 6 municipal court hearing. If approved, the city will provide barriers for businesses to potentially turn sidewalks and empty parking spaces into socially-distant outdoor seating or sales spaces.
This outdoor program is set to run through the end of September, the release states.
The idea of increased outdoor dining has continually come up as city staff and restaurant owners have been brainstorming options and watching other results across the state — Mesa County, for example, was recently granted a variance to Colorado's safer-at-home order, allowing for restaurants to reopen at 30% capacity.
"Restaurants here are saying that's just not a feasible revenue generator for them so a lot of folks have been talking to us about on-street patio dining options," Fort Collins Senior Economic Manager SeonAh Kendall said.
For subscribers: 1 in 5 Fort Collins restaurants could close amid coronavirus pandemic
Larimer County submitted its own variance request May 15, asking for lighter restrictions than the state's existing safer-at-home order. If the county's request is approved as-is, county restaurants, bars, breweries and wineries would be able to offer dine-in service for up to 60% of its capacity if seating is provided in an outdoor, unenclosed space.
A response to the county's variance request may come through at the middle or end of next week, Kendall estimated.
If approved, restaurants that have had outdoor seating modifications approved through the city would be able to hit the ground running at increased capacity.
Kristy Wygmans, who owns Old Town's Pour Brothers Community Tavern with her husband Dave, was finishing up her city application for increased outdoor dining Friday morning.
In the application, she said she requested temporary use of the tavern's back patio dining space, which has been in the works for almost a year.
"Restaurant margins are very, very thin and most break even or lose money when they have 100% capacity and are able to be open all the time," Wygmans explained.
With many restaurants across the country closed to dine-in service amid the pandemic, Wygmans pointed to an April survey by the Independent Restaurant Coalition that found only 1 in 5 independent restaurant owners felt certain their businesses could survive the crisis.
From USA Today: Restaurants take to the streets to create socially distanced dining rooms as nation reopen
Expanded outdoor dining allowing restaurants to open at 60% capacity is, "a move in the right direction," Wygmans said. "This is a way to think outside of our brick and mortar boxes and that's what we're trying to do."
The application is also open to retail businesses that could benefit for increased outdoor space.
“Restaurants were probably the catalyst for folks, but we’re looking at this for all types of businesses," Crager said.
As municipalities wait for variance responses or final word from the state, Kendall said Fort Collins has also been looking at what other states have done to land on some best practices that could be used here once restaurants are able to reopen.
City staff has also been communicating those to restaurant owners.
"Supply chain is going to be an issue — beef and pork specifically," Kendall said. "So one of our best practices is for restaurants to take a look at their menus and start talking to the suppliers now to see if certain menu items make sense given supply issues."
Kendall said her city staff has also seen signs of consumer confidence dipping in states where restaurants have reopened like Georgia, Utah and Texas, leading to a slowdown in sit-down dining.
The city may eventually release a consumer guide to help educate diners on what they might be able to expect when restaurants do reopen, Kendall added. Something as simple as choosing where to eat will not be as simple anymore.
"You no longer can just walk into a restaurant and say, 'I want to eat here,'" she explained. "Through these variances, you'll have to make a reservation."
On Tuesday, the state of Colorado released a three-page list of proposed guidelines restaurants may have to adhere to once allowed to reopen. Feedback on the drafted guidelines was accepted through Friday. Governor Jared Polis is expected to announce a formal list of guidelines for restaurants early next week, though no date for reopening eateries has been set.
After working on some things at Pour Brothers Thursday night, Wygmans said she and her daughter walked out onto Linden Street, "and it was a ghost town."
"There wasn't a car or a person or a bike anywhere in Old Town," she said. "I think it's in everyone's best interest to really have Old Town come back and flourish."
"We're looking at how restaurants can survive, how Old Town can flourish," she added. "We're not the only industry hurting."
Erin Udell reports on news, culture, history and more for the Coloradoan. Contact her at ErinUdell@coloradoan.com. The only way she can keep doing what she does is with your support. If you subscribe, thank you. If not, sign up for a subscription to the Coloradoan today.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842818
|
__label__cc
| 0.597873
| 0.402127
|
Share this Story: Letters to The Vancouver Sun, Dec. 12, 2020: Thank you, Capilano Care Centre, in these COVID times
Letters to The Vancouver Sun, Dec. 12, 2020: Thank you, Capilano Care Centre, in these COVID times
Letters to the editor: ‘We have such admiration for all their staff, who go in daily, working long hours, continuing to care well for residents by helping each other out,’ writes Suzanne Allan
Suzanne Allan says her family is forever grateful to Capilano Care Centre staff’s attention to and care for her father, who recently died of COVID-19, and for other residents during these difficult times. Photo by FRED DUFOUR /AFP/Getty Images
Respect, integrity, compassion and excellence — these are Capilano care home’s core values that my father, Phil Fee, and our family have benefited from during the year and a half that he lived there.
He was welcomed and integrated into his third-floor community early on and participated happily in many gatherings and outings. We always received detailed communications about how he was doing and what was happening at the home. We were very welcome to visit and participate in theme meals, hockey appreciation and many more occasions that made Cap feel like Dad’s home.
Letters to The Vancouver Sun, Dec. 12, 2020: Thank you, Capilano Care Centre, in these COVID times Back to video
Dad was palliative for the last two months of his life and passed away quickly and peacefully of COVID last week. Throughout COVID, the home communicated incredibly well with us and did everything humanly possible to stave off the virus, and then contain the outbreak that started almost three weeks ago now.
We have such admiration for all their staff, who go in daily, working long hours, continuing to care well for residents by helping each other out, particularly with feeding them in their rooms, visiting them and setting up regular FaceTimes when it wasn’t possible for us to visit. Dad was so well cared for by so many and we would like to thank them all. Huge thanks to Connie Luck, director par excellence; Brittany Perri and Heidi Scoten, social workers with big hearts; third-floor nurses, both practical and caring — Karen, Albert and Hazel and more; rec. director with a sense of fun Alana Amaroso and her team; and care aides Pouran, the music therapist and so many more!
Thanks also to the rest of the staff who are the backbone of Cap — admin, food services, laundry, cleaning. These wonderful people are being stretched so thin by the pandemic and still need our support. We love and appreciate them!!! Dad was so well cared for by so many and we would like to thank them all.
Suzanne Allan, Bowen Island
Tent city in Strathcona Park: A solution has to be found
Re: Body found at Strathcona Park homeless camp
As a 40-year resident of Strathcona, I have personally experienced a great deal of both positive and negative events in my community. For the most part, this community, known rightly for its resilience, compassion and receptivity, is a wonderful place. But recently it has reached an impasse with the Tent City in Strathcona Park.
The recent death puts a strong underscore to my and the community’s concerns. There has been little compliance from the organizers of the encampment with emergency health and safety from the City of Vancouver. Police officers who I have talked to are reluctant to go there, due to the overwhelmingly negative and threatening reception they receive. It is untenable, and unfortunately, fated to fail. This is not a solution for the city’s displaced and homeless people.
Repercussions are felt throughout Strathcona itself. Residents are constantly on edge, constantly losing things to theft, their property constantly being broken into.
This most recent tragedy was inevitable. The incredibly slow response from civic, provincial and federal governments has become an embarrassment, and I am sincerely hoping that finally a solution will be identified and put into action. By not coming up with a workable solution, the residents of the park will continue to suffer from the criminal element, the lack of safety standards (very unsanitary, gleaned from even a cursory walk through the site) and the increasingly harsh conditions of winter.
A solution has to be found immediately to properly house people. Thank you for pursuing constructive solutions, and for advancing these outstanding housing needs to a point of action.
Richard Tetrault, Vancouver
Canucks anthem singer fired for his beliefs, not his work
Re: Canucks cut ties with anthem singer Mark Donnelly over plan to sing at anti-mask rally
The article, about the Canucks ditching Mark Donnelly because he planned to sing at an anti-mask rally, made me uneasy. He was fired for his beliefs, not for his work.
For the record, I think masks help.
It’s not the Canucks’ fault. An anti-masker can make their brand look bad. The social media mob will demand action. The problem here is labour legislation. Employees and contractors should have legal protections for what they do and say outside of working hours. They shouldn’t feel pressure to believe what their employers tell them to — that’s a dangerous kind of capitalism.
Plus, with legal protections for employees, companies would be off the hook; they wouldn’t be responsible for what employees did outside working hours. The mob couldn’t get mad at them, their hands are tied. Personal beliefs would be personal again.
Christopher Spaleta, Seaforth, ON
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842819
|
__label__wiki
| 0.58098
| 0.58098
|
Leftist Vigilante Alex Kotch Is Back—Still Spying On Us, And Still Denying Hispanic Child Rape
Earlier, by James Fulford: Yes, Virginia (DARE), There IS Hispanic “Ethnic Specialization” In Child Rape. The Totalitarian Left Just Doesn’t Want You To Know.
Rape-denier and Leftist vigilante Alex Kotch [Tweet him] Is back with his attempt to stop Dissident Right groups being funded:
At a 2017 conference hosted by the white nationalist hate group American Renaissance, Peter Brimelow, spoke about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
“Crime in this country is ethnically variegated,” claimed Brimelow, president of the white nationalist hate group the VDARE Foundation. “There’s ethnic specialization in crime. And Hispanics do specialize in rape, particularly of children. They’re very prone to it, compared to other groups.”
Blatantly racist statements like these are commonplace for Brimelow and for Jared Taylor, president of American Renaissance, two of the most notorious white nationalist leaders in the United States.
“Dark Money ATM of the Conservative Movement” Gives $1.5 Million to White Nationalist Hate Group, by Alex Kotch, Exposedbycmd.org, December 4th, 2020 [Emphases added. links to SPLC in original.]
Here he is being outraged on Twitter about laws protecting donor privacy:
The reason: invoking (or evoking, Kotch seems unclear) the NAACP is bad is because they're merely BLACK Nationalists, and partake of the sacredness of the Civil Rights cause of forty or fifty years ago. The decision NAACP v. Patterson, 357 U.S. 449 (1958) (it says 1968 above, but that's because CEO Bader was speaking from memory—they fixed it on the ExposedByCMD website) said, briefly that "To require disclosure of an association's membership lists, a state must have a compelling justification for this infringement on the right of free association."
This is because, at the time, Alabama had a white government, which might discriminate in some way against black donors, or pro-black white donors. Also white-owned businesses in Alabama might use lists of donors to refuse to provide service in some way.
SCOTUS thought that was wrong. But since the Constitution is color-blind, whites have, believe it or not, the same Constitutional rights blacks had under the Jim Crow South...and less chance of enforcing them, most of the time.
But what's really annoying about this article is that it's repeating the quote from Peter Brimelow (from Q and A at the 2017 Amren Conference) about ethnic specialization in crime, with Hispanics committing more child rape, without acknowledging THAT IT'S TRUE.
I wrote a lengthy article in March, 2019, responding to a previous Kotch attack, called Yes, Virginia (DARE), There IS Hispanic “Ethnic Specialization” In Child Rape. The Totalitarian Left Just Doesn’t Want You To Know. Typically, he doesn't engage with, or link to, any of it.
Below, some excerpts from my 2019 piece:
But is it true that Hispanics specialize in the rapes of children? OF COURSE IT IS—and if you read Ann Coulter's Adios America, you know that, too. In fact, Chapter 11 is titled Why Do Hispanic Valedictorians Make The News, But Child Rapists Don’t? First of all, it’s a different culture in Mexico, where the age of consent is 12.
In 2007, Brenda Walker wrote a column here called The Top Ten Reasons Why the US Should Not Marry Mexico.
#10 The legal age of heterosexual consent in Mexico is 12.
As with many laws, there is some diversity according to locale and other variables, but this discussion of statutes agrees that 12 is the legally acceptable age for straight sex to occur in Mexico.
Mexican men have a reputation for leering and worse at little girls, which shouldn't surprise us, since sex with children is socially acceptable in Mexico. Fifteen-year-old girls have a ceremony called a Quinceañera which announces their availability to become wives, mothers and girlfriends. In America, children of that age are expected to complete three more years of high school, to be followed hopefully by a college education. But in Mexico, young girls are considered available, according to law and custom.
Ann Coulter detailed, among other things, the astoundingly young pregnancies found in the Hispanic community in the US, and in Latin America. This is an “ethnic specialization” thing—this is a public health problem South of the Border, and now north of it as well.
Quote from Adios America, chapter 11:
The prevalence of freakishly young birth mothers in Latin America confirms the reports. According to CNN, 318 ten-year-old girls gave birth in Mexico in 2011 and in the Mexican state of Jalisco alone 465 girls between the ages of ten and fourteen gave birth. In the last quarter century, there’s been one reported case of an American impregnating a girl that young.
You might have noticed from headlines like these—or you would if you lived in Britain, the only place where such headlines might ever appear:
‘Girl Aged Nine Who Gave Birth to Baby in Mexico Didn’t Realize She Was Pregnant until Seven Months—and Her Mother Didn’t Think It Was a Crime’
‘Argentine Schoolgirl, 12, Gives Birth to Twin Sons (on Same Day Mexican Nine-Year-Old Became a Mother)’
‘Tribal Law Protects Boy, 15, Who Impregnated 10-Year-Old Colombian Girl from Under-Age Sex Charges’
I also had a list of headlines, which I'll excerpt:
Anti-Trumpers Denying “And They’re Rapists”—Brittany Packnett Claiming "Rape Culture" Won The White House, When Trump Ran Against It, by James Fulford on 06/13/2018
Narrative Collapse In Bathroom Rape By Hispanic Teens? Not Really, by James Fulford on 05/06/2017
NR's Mona Charen Goes Cultural Marxist On Those Who Oppose Illegal Aliens—Don't Mention The Rapes!, by Federale on 03/23/2017
Ann Coulter: 'Immigrant Privilege' Drives Child Rape Epidemic, by Ann Coulter on 03/08/2017
Ann Coulter Highlights The Headlines You're Not Reading: "Two Mexicans Arrested...", by James Fulford on 08/05/2015
Ann Coulter: Donald Trump—STILL Right About Mexican Rapists, by Ann Coulter on 08/05/2015
Ann Coulter Criticizes Immigration from Peasant Cultures to America, by Brenda Walker on 08/01/2015
Ann Coulter: Trump Opponents Take Nuanced View Of Child Rape, by Ann Coulter on 07/22/2015
Poster Boy DREAMER Arrested For Rape—NOT An Isolated Case, by James Fulford on 10/07/2013
Illegal Alien Convicted of Triple Murder in Sanctuary City Newark, by Brenda Walker on 02/16/2012
Non-Washingtonian Rape Suspect Fled To Mexico. (Duh!), by Linda Thom on 02/01/2009
Chandler Rapist Focuses Awareness of Crime Epidemic, by Brenda Walker on 01/16/2008
Undeported Sex Offender And Zina Linnik Suspect Charged With 50 Plus Counts Of Child Rape, by James Fulford on 07/19/2007
What these people who object to Peter Brimelow’s comment are denying is a real phenomenon.
But it’s a Hate Fact. You’re just not supposed to Notice.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842820
|
__label__wiki
| 0.744228
| 0.744228
|
The Machine Making sense of AI
Coralogix raises $25 million to parse software logs with AI
Image Credit: Coralogix
Coralogix, which analyzes software logs with AI, today announced $25 million in new funding and launched a real-time analytics solution that allows customers to pay according to data priority instead of volume. This allows them to get queries, alerts, and machine learning capabilities without using storage.
About 50% of logging statements don’t include any information about critical things like variable state at the time of an error, according to GitHub and OverOps surveys. That may be why developers spend an estimated half of their time on troubleshooting and bug-fixing.
Founded in 2014, San Francisco-based Coralogix provides AI analytics solutions for a host of software development challenges. Its suite automatically clusters log records back to their patterns and identifies connections among those patterns, forming baseline flows for comparison and future study. Scaling from hundreds to millions of logs — with integrations for popular languages and platforms like Docker, Python, Heroku, .NET, Kubernetes, and Java — Coralogix spotlights anomalies and affords developers access to a suite of identification, visualization, and remediation tools.
Coralogix is hosted as an Amazon Web Services app, and it hooks into Jenkins and other popular continuous integration/continuous delivery tools to ingest updates pushed to production systems. A query in Coralogix pulls up grouped results — highlighting when and where something occurred, any associated parameters, and the total percentage of those occurrences within the logs.
It also creates “component-level” insights from log data, in part by applying machine learning to software releases to spot quality issues. The service can enrich weblogs with IP blacklists to identify suspicious activity while issuing alerts when errors or critical log entries occur. In addition, Coralogix has an integrated security information and event management and intrusion detection system that taps machine learning to pinpoint anomalies within network packets, server events, and audit logs.
Coralogix claims to analyze over 1 million events per second in real time. Moreover, the company says it has automatically benchmarked over 100,000 software versions to date.
The log management market is expected to reach $1.2 billion by 2022, according to Research and Markets, and Coralogix isn’t the only one leveraging AI to surface abnormalities. Mountain View-based LogDNA raised $25 million last December to further develop its AI-powered tools that surface data to mitigate outages. And Anandot, which is based in Israel, claims it analyzed over 5.2 billion data points per day over six months to launch its log-monitoring platform.
But Coralogix — which has 60 employees and expects to reach 100 by the end of the year — has already managed to grow its client base to over 1,800 brands, among them Lufthansa, BioCatch, Fiverr, KFC, and Caesars Entertainment. (500 customers came onboard in the last six months alone.) In August, it expanded to India with an onsite team to offer customers based in the country regional server and data storage capabilities.
This latest investment brings Coralogix’s total raised to $41.2 million. New investors Red Dot Capital partners and O.G. Tech Partners co-led the round, with participation from Aleph, StageOne Ventures, Janvest Capital Partners, and 2B Angels.
Join us for the world’s leading event on applied AI for enterprise business & technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher of AI coverage.
VentureBeat Homepage The Machine
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842823
|
__label__cc
| 0.617315
| 0.382685
|
Learn More About How We Are Navigating The New Normal (COVID19 Community Update)
Tech 4 Learning
Get A Free Day Pass
Tech 4 Learning Press Release April 7, 2020
Venture X Canada joins the fight against COVID-19 by kicking off the Tech 4 Learning fundraising campaign
Venture X Canada is fundraising to deliver 10,000 learning devices to Peel students
Mississauga, April 7, 2020 –Released today, the Tech 4 Learning fundraising campaign is aimed at helping students and families in need who don’t have access to a computing device to support their learning from home, as school boards across Ontario begin distance learning. The campaign will be launched in partnership with the Peel District School Board (PDSB) and will be supported by Toronto Foundation.
The campaign urges Peel businesses and residents to donate money and devices to support online learning for all students in the region.
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted the education of millions of students. Providing access to a computer, laptop or tablet, and a high speed internet connection will help support students who will be engaging in distance learning. Every student must have access to learning so that all learning needs are met. A recent estimate by PDSB indicates that there are at least 10,000 students in the Peel Region who lack a computing device and/or an internet connection.
“As a working father of five children, it’s an unplanned expense to buy a computer or an iPad to support them with learning from home. I can’t imagine the added stress on many parents in this crisis who now have to worry about finding extra money for a computer or wifi. We have to work together to help give children equitable access to learning and to support the Ontario Together program. We are stronger together.” says Anas Saltaji, Chief Operating Officer, Venture X Canada.
“We are all in this together and as the head of a Mississauga based business, I feel it is my responsibility to serve the community of Mississauga and Ontario. I am not a doctor, nurse, food supplier or a pharmacist—the real heroes of today—but I do know the importance of equal access to education for our children. This is why Venture X Canada decided to kick start this campaign with 1000 computing devices already purchased from Microcad.” remarks the CEO of Venture X Canada, Saleh Al Aroud.
The target of this campaign is to get 10,000 working computing devices for children in the Peel District School Board in the shortest time possible.
Venture X Canada is actively inviting the participation and donations from any equipment suppliers interested in helping to ensure that no student is left behind. We are also inviting other businesses to join this campaign so that together we can reach our target. We also invite the participation from residents of Peel who may have used devices in good working order that they wish to donate.
It is with great pleasure that Venture X Canada will be facilitating the PICK UP of any donated devices so that no one has to leave their home to support this campaign. Please visit our website for more information: www.venturexcanada.ca/tech4learning
Toronto Foundation is our charity partner that will receive all the monetary donations and ensure that the funds are granted to PDSB.
To watch the launch video click here.
About Venture X Canada:
We’re more than just a shared office space. At Venture X, we’re redefining the way work is done. We’ve created flexible, innovative workspaces that provide our members with a diverse, inspiring, and, above all else, collaborative work experience. Venture X is a place where individuals and businesses come together to grow and achieve success collaboratively. Our members are dynamic professionals, creative thinkers, independent enterprises, from all walks of life who come together to create our vibrant, spirited community. Whether you are a new or scaling venture, we provide the ideal environment for you to reach and exceed your business goals.
About our current partners:
Peel District School Board will ensure that the devices get to the children in need. https://www.peelschools.org/
Toronto Foundation is our charity partner that will receive all the monetary donations and ensure that the funds are granted to PDSB. https://torontofoundation.ca/
If you have any questions please contact our Director of Communications Hamsa Diab Farhat at 416-710-8710 or email hamsa@venturexcanada.com
© 2020 Venture X™. All Rights Reserved.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842824
|
__label__wiki
| 0.609569
| 0.609569
|
THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis 12" Vinyl LP Album
"A Date with Elvis" is the seventh album by the American garage punk band "The Cramps". It was released on Big Beat Records. It was recorded in the fall of 1985 and engineered by Steve McMillan and Mark Ettel at Ocean Way Studios Hollywood, CA.
This album "THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis" includes the original custom inner sleeve with album details, complete lyrics of all songs by The Cramps and artwork/photos
American Garage Punk
The album: "THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis" was produced by: The Cramps
This album was recorded at: Ocean Way Recording , Fall 1985
Pink Big Beat WIKA 46
1986 Made in EEC
Personnel/Band Members and Musicians on: THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis
Lux Interior – vocals
Poison Ivy Rorschach – guitars, bass, vocals on "Kizmiaz"
Nick Knox – drums, bongos
McMartin Preschool Choir – vocals on "People Ain't No Good"
Complete Track-listing of the album "THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis"
The detailed tracklist of this record "THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis" is:
Track-listing:
"How Far Can Too Far Go?" 4:10
"The Hot Pearl Snatch" 3:17
"People Ain't No Good" 3:46
"What's Inside a Girl?" 3:22
"Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" 3:22
"Kizmiaz" 3:01
"Cornfed Dames" 5:26
"Chicken" Traditional; arr. by Interior and Rorschach 1:40
"(Hot Pool Of) Womanneed" 3:09
"Aloha from Hell" 2:35
"It's Just That Song" Charlie Feathers, Ramon Maupin 2:35
Front Cover Photo Of THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis 12" Vinyl LP Album
Photo Of The Back Cover THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis 12" Vinyl LP Album
Large photo of the Cramps together on the album back cover
First Photo Of Custom Inner Sleeve THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis 12" Vinyl LP Album
Second Photo Of Custom Inner Sleeve THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis 12" Vinyl LP Album
Close up of Side One record's label THE CRAMPS - A Date With Elvis 12" Vinyl LP Album
"A Date With Elvis" Purple Colour Record Label Details: Big Beat WIKA 46, Made in The EEC ℗ 1986 The Crampls Sound Copyright
Index of THE CRAMPS Vinyl Album Discography and Album Cover Gallery
Date with Elvis
Grave Hits
Psychedelic Jungle
Smell of Female
Songs The Lord ...
Songs The Lord ( Netherlands )
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842825
|
__label__wiki
| 0.713081
| 0.713081
|
politics for the people
About Vox Political and Mike Sivier
Conservative UK: the State of the Nation
How YOU can win the ‘War on Plastic’
Know Your MP!
Vox Political Cookie Policy
Rayner defies EHRC by threatening to suspend ‘thousands’ of Labour members
Angela Rayner (here with her boss Keir Starmer): hypocrites – and very possibly anti-Semites without acknowledging it.
Note to Sienna Rodgers at LabourList: the headline on your report is wrong. It should have read Angela Rayner is a big ol’ hypocrite.
In the article, Rayner states that the findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party are not open to debate:
There’s no debating what the EHRC said.
LabourList also reported another statement she made to the Jewish Labour Movement’s conference – insultingly held on the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians – that she and Keir Starmer attended rather than support the Palestine solidarity event:
If I have to suspend thousands and thousands of members, we will do that.
The two comments are mutually exclusive. The report clearly states that
We have concluded that the practice of political interference was unlawful… The Labour Party should… implement clear rules and guidance that prohibit and sanction political interference in the complaints process.
Her threat to suspend thousands – a warning that the leadership is planning to purge the party of anybody who dissents against its dictatorship – is itself political interference in the process, as it is an attempt to suppress complaints by members against the actions of the leadership of which she is a member. Therefore she is not only debating the legitimacy of the EHRC’s finding; she is ignoring it altogether.
Remember that this is all about the attack on Jeremy Corbyn by Keir Starmer, party general secretary David Evans, and others at the very top of the Labour leadership including Rayner herself, despite the fact that she once said this:
This you, @AngelaRayner?
“If I felt that Jeremy Corbyn accepted that abuse in our party I wouldn’t be in it. I wouldn’t be in his shadow cabinet”
– Labour frontbencher Angela Rayner says Jeremy Corbyn has fought anti-Semitism and racism all his lifepic.twitter.com/S8UNE1TcBG
— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) November 29, 2020
She went from that position to saying that the truth is “unacceptable”:
Is @AngelaRayner really saying here that the truth is unacceptable?
Somebody tell me I’ve got that wrong?
I have got it wrong, haven’t I?
The truth, unacceptable? Surely not. pic.twitter.com/a3mIHVEB8U
She is a hypocrite. She has revealed her true colours. She cannot be trusted. She should be ejected from her position of power.
This will be hard because the Labour Party leadership has a well-known track record of rejecting any complaints against its own members and friends, no matter how well-justified they may be.
But we have all seen this behaviour and we are talking about it:
Big from @AngelaRayner as she seems to back suspending ‘thousands and thousands of members’ for wanting to demonstrate support for Jeremy Corbyn having the whip returned.
If MPs can state views publicly, why can’t members? https://t.co/XKoiR5vmax
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 29, 2020
This whole thing just shows the duplicity and shiftiness of those at the top of the Labour Party.
David Evans explicitly stated the disciplinary process against Corbyn is now over. What we now have is leaders doing the precise opposite of what the EHRC asks for, interfering. https://t.co/mK5JOtVyxZ
Yes, it's 'totally unacceptable' to say precisely what the EHRC report says you can say, and which you have the freedom of speech to say, and which is obviously and provably true, in case it upsets some right-wing bigots.
Bye, Labour. It's been fun. https://t.co/kPXxBX1rq2
— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) November 29, 2020
If this is what @AngelaRayner has said it is dishonest. CLPs are debating whether the whip should be reinstated to Jeremy Corbyn: that is about democratic procedure not antisemitism
Genuine Q: have any CLPs passed motions against EHRC report or that antisemitism isn't a problem? https://t.co/HryXTRFAWm
— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) November 29, 2020
Could Rayner clarify what, if any, powers she has to suspend "thousands of members" and how her doing that conforms with the EHRC recommendation of an investigation and disciplinary process free of leadership intervention? https://t.co/0ekPF64aj3
— Devutopia (@D_Raval) November 29, 2020
Who is going to tell them?
Because they ain't listening to us, that's for sure. 😒
— MerryMichaelW 🎗 😷 #T & T #BlackLivesMatter #BDS (@MerryMichaelW) November 29, 2020
With one side of her mouth she spits vitriol at Corbyn for his comments in which he said the EHRC report should be implemented, & with the other she outright defies the EHRC report criticism of political interference in disciplinary cases, saying she'll personally suspend 1,000s! https://t.co/KTOd6IQtIE
— Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) November 29, 2020
“It is not legitimate for the leadership to influence, make recommendations or make decisions on complaints.. The Labour Party needs to restore confidence in the independence of its complaints process”—EHRC
"If I have to suspend thousands & thousands of members…”—Angela Rayner https://t.co/vYzG1G8urK
— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) November 29, 2020
So Rayner is saying 1000s and 1000s could be thrown out of the party,
She will be in for a shock them when she finds out 1000s and 1000s are already leaving the clusterfuck of a party
— Fanxxxxtastic-Trada (@Fanxxxxtastic) November 29, 2020
A disgraceful way of approaching political debate here from Angela Rayner. She is talking about conducting a purge, let's be clear about that: there is no other way to describe this. https://t.co/ff2BJAxw5c
— Ammar Kazmi 🔻 🇮🇷 (@AmmarKazmi_) November 29, 2020
The Labour leadership are now deliberately shitting all over the recommendations of the EHRC report that they've used as an excuse to attack and vilify Jeremy Corbyn (despite the fact he said the EHRC recommendations should be implemented!).
Astounding hypocrisy https://t.co/enVVQKLIkw
The Labour Party has become a complete farce. https://t.co/looQomqXhs
— CrémantCommunarde#ActivistLawyer ⚖️ 🌻 ✋ (@0Calamity) November 29, 2020
There isn't thousands and thousands of antisemites in the party, @AngelaRayner . Corbyn was allowed to comment on the EHRC. He was allowed back to the party. If you fancy to play "I'm the dictator's best mate" go for it. But you showing who you really are and ppl won't forget it https://t.co/HxdFMpammj
— Audrey (@AudreyAurus1) November 29, 2020
And organisations that formerly wanted Rayner’s support and endorsement are now rejecting her. To be honest, I don’t know if the following tweet was connected with what she said on LabourList, but I anticipate that this is the soft footfall that precedes a stampede:
What a massive let-down and huge sell-out @AngelaRayner turned out to be. Please remove your support from the LGBTQ+ community Angela. The oppressed stand with the oppressed, we don't stand with apartheid committing states, and we don't stand with traitors who ignore that.
— Red Robin 🏳️🌈 (@BlogRedRobin) November 29, 2020
Oh, and by the way, Labour is not completely irredeemable. Members across the UK did come out in support of Palestine, unlike their treacherous leader and deputy leader. Here’s a tweet from Wales:
Well done to all across Wales who have taken the time to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, who continue to live in dire, oppressive circumstances under a brutal, right-wing Israeli government. 👇✊#palestineday #EndApartheid #StopAnnexation https://t.co/F85HpIQeXE
— Welsh Labour Grassroots 🌹 (@WLGrassroots) November 28, 2020
Let’s remember that Rayner – and her vile boss Starmer – are saying that they are taking all this action against the good members of their own party because of hurt, harm and injury done to Jewish people in the UK.
What about the harm done to Jewish people who agree with the viewpoint Rayner, Starmer and the others are attacking?
Genuine question @AngelaRayner @Keir_Starmer will you meet urgently with representatives of the many Jews who support Corbyn and think you are getting this disastrously wrong?
By the way THESE Jews feel you are injuring THEM. Don’t these Jews count Keir, Angela? https://t.co/HeU48hgIbo
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) November 29, 2020
That’s right. These Jews feel that Rayner, Starmer and the others are attacking them. And Rayner, Starmer et al treat them as though they don’t even exist.
Isn’t that attitude a little… you know… anti-Semitic?
Finally, Labour’s deplorable leaders need to acknowledge that this confrontation between them and party members arose because the EHRC found that the leadership had been interfering in investigations of anti-Semitism complaints in order to make it seem that there were more anti-Semites in the party than was the case.
A court found only last week that the process of investigating accusations against This Writer – me, Mike Sivier – was perverted in order to produce a false finding against me.
Labour failed to follow its own investigation procedure. It did not adequately inform me of the nature of the allegations against me (in fact, the party changed those claims as it went on, in order to ‘fix’ the result), and a party officer leaked false claims about me – including a lie that I was a Holocaust denier – to The Sunday Times (which subsequently had to publish a lengthy correction).
And I’m not the only one who has suffered this treatment. The EHRC report found that, of the investigations it examined, no fewer than 60 per cent suffered from bias calculated to discriminate against the respondent – against the person accused of anti-Semitism.
Where are the apologies for lying and smearing us? I still receive abusive messages accusing me of anti-Semitism, even now. It may be that I will continue receiving them for the rest of my life. The Labour Party is to blame for that. Where is the contrition? Where is the apology for that?
This entry was posted in Abuse, anti-Semitism, Investigation, Labour Party, People and tagged Angela, Anti-Semitism, antisemitism, commission, debate, EHRC, equality, human, hypocrisy, hypocrite, Labour, member, Mike, Party, political, Rayner, report, rights, Sivier, suspend, suspension, Vox on November 29, 2020 by Mike Sivier.
← Zahawi appointed minister for Covid vaccine deployment – so it’ll be a disaster Sink, Britain, Sink: The Tories had six years to fix the UK’s flood defences and failed →
7 thoughts on “Rayner defies EHRC by threatening to suspend ‘thousands’ of Labour members”
gfranklinpercival November 29, 2020 at 5:33 pm
I find Ms Rayner’s ‘I/we’ confusion to be compelling proof of her unfitness to serve us, whether as an MP or anything else.
Lou Nayman November 29, 2020 at 8:20 pm
Good riddance. Corbyn and his comrades get into bed with racist homophobic misogynistic baby-killer Hamas & Hezbollah, then bitch and moan when called to account. Screw them, the Falangists of the left.
Mike Sivier Post author November 29, 2020 at 11:04 pm
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the kind of ignorance we must overcome.
Jeffrey Davies November 30, 2020 at 12:52 pm
Lou I must be in another planet your words against a man of principles you believe the crap stammer the spammer and his cohorts call real labour people’s it’s unbelievable I had hoped for better world for my children but with people like you I’m believing that only crap will come out of the joking labour party with stammer the spammer
johnplatinumgoss November 29, 2020 at 10:54 pm
Tony Blair paved the way for the likes of Starmer and Rayner with New Labour (a second establishment party). What opposition is Starmer to the Tories? None whatsoever. What has he had to say about this Coronavirus nonsense? He’s gone along with it.
We need Old Labour back – the party we had before these thieves stole it from us,
R Mitchell November 30, 2020 at 11:39 am
Both Rayner and Starmer need to have respect for the right of members to voice their opinions or face being voted out of the party at the first possible opportunity.
Vanda November 30, 2020 at 6:11 am
Corbyn gave Rayner and Starmer a position on his shadow front bench. This is how they repay him. Politics is indeed a dirty game isn’t it? That these two inveterate liars could lock themselves in a room and conspire to muddy the name of a thoroughly decent man by suspending him is ok with them?
They know darn well Corbyn is no racist, he’s the most decent man in politics today. His only crime was to speak up for the Palestinian people, something that lot, as MPs, should all be doing. But they won’t, because they’re all petrified of offending Israel and its criminal, racist, apartheid regime which murders women and children.
Shame on them all. They forget their roots, and the sense of moral righteousness which makes great politicians such as Corbyn. Where is their sympathy towards the Palestinian people, and the atrocities committed daily against them by Israel? They are zionists, and I will have no truck with that.
Join the Vox Political Facebook page!
Ex-Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption tells Stage 4 cancer sufferer her life is ‘less valuable’
Tories announce plans to protect statues of racists – because that’s where their sympathies lie?
Tories had five years to free Nazanin; now they can only hope she’ll be released on schedule
#PeaceAndJustice Project launches four-point plan for a better future
Tory vaccinations will provide only LIMITED protection for a SHORT time
All original material created for this site is © Mike Sivier. Posts may be shared, provided full credit is given to Mike Sivier and Vox Political, along with a link back to this site. Using any of my writing for a commercial purpose is not allowed without my express permission. Excerpts and links, including paraphrasing, may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Mike Sivier and Vox Political with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Unless otherwise credited, all content is the site author's. The right of Mike Sivier to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Vox Political Cookie Policy Proudly powered by WordPress
By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. This includes scrolling or continued navigation. more information
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842832
|
__label__cc
| 0.529834
| 0.470166
|
The Legends Of House
Alcatraz Night Club [Clarendon]
Alcatraz Night Club
23 Taylor St Clarendon
he mighty Ms. Dynamite takes over for Egg Presents: June 3rd, alongside is no other than Garage maestro’s Artful Dodger and Marky B. One of the most successful female UK dance music artists of all time. Her illustrious career has been peppered with hits such as ‘DyNaMiTe’, ‘Dibly Dibly Sound’, ‘Wire Out’, ‘Buu’, ‘What You Talkin’ About’ and ‘Lights On’. Furthermore, the two-time Brit award and Mercury prize winner has had the pleasure of working with artists such as DJ Fresh, Zinc, Redlight, Major Lazer, Shy FX and Katy B to name a few.
We are, of course talking about Ms. Dynamite. Joining her is the Artful Dodger; originally from Southampton, they became famous through their 2-step hits and giving Craig David a much needed career boost after he appeared on their hit record “Re-Rewind” in 1999.
Buy Ticket Store 1 Buy Ticket Store 2
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842838
|
__label__cc
| 0.553682
| 0.446318
|
History Virtual Year Book
Share your message
History Head Start
Teaching in 2020-2021
UG Final Year(Restricted permissions)
UG First Year(Restricted permissions)
UG Second Year(Restricted permissions)
Show all news items
Open Letter from Professor Rebecca Earle to Warwick History Students
Dear Warwick history students,
I was intending to write to you tomorrow to let you know that after five years serving as an outstanding head of department, Professor Dan Branch will be stepping down to become the Chair of the Faculty of Arts. I’ll be taking over as department head, and I wanted to say hello.
The need to write to you has however become much more urgent.
I am sure you are aware of the continuing and distressing situation resulting from last year's group chats. You may have seen the University’s official statement, as well as the multiple reports in the press. The department is deeply concerned about the impact of these recently-reported events on our community.
We in the department have tried hard to provide as much moral and academic support as we can to the individuals affected by this case. We will continue to work to limit its impact on the studies of the women involved, and also to provide the necessary structures to support this. This has been a priority since the incidents first came to light.
We also recognise the need to address the challenges posed to the department as a whole.
Although the department had absolutely no input into the disciplinary cases, and although we are bound by a legal requirement to uphold the confidentiality of all students involved, we feel a pressing need to make sure that our students have a chance to fully express their views on this case.
We are currently in discussion with the University with the aim of organising a series of meetings for you to meet with representatives from the administration who can answer questions about the situation and listen to your concerns. Your legitimate and very understandable unhappiness need to be addressed right now. We will also work to design the necessary mechanisms to ensure that next academic year is not blighted by the after-effects of the toxic events of last year.
When the case first received public attention last summer, Dan Branch wrote to all of you to stress the department’s commitment to supporting any student who experiences misogyny, racism, homophobia or any other form of prejudice. Any such behaviour is unacceptable and runs contrary to the ethos of the department. This commitment remains central to our principles as a community. Please contact your personal tutor or myself if there is anything that you wish to bring to our attention, whether that be something that you have been subjected to yourself or have witnessed.
I’ll be writing again as soon as I have details about the meetings we are hoping to set up.
Rebecca Earle
Fri 01 Feb 2019, 07:21 | Tags: Postgraduate Undergraduate Announcement
For Undergraduate queries: HistoryOffice@warwick.ac.uk
For Postgraduate queries: PGHistoryOffice@warwick.ac.uk
For Research queries: HistoryResearch@warwick.ac.uk
For all other queries: WarwickHistory@warwick.ac.uk
Department of History, University of Warwick,
Humanities Building, University Road,
Coventry, CV4 7AL
Staff Intranet - Calendar
Page contact: warwickhistory
Last revised: Thu 7 Jan 2021
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842842
|
__label__wiki
| 0.596092
| 0.596092
|
S1S2S3S4S5S6S7S8S9
One Tree Hill: 4x5
I Love You But I
Nathan gets two surprises in a row, and everyone is eager to share their advice with him. Deb also shares something she picked up. Brooke decides to celebrate while Peyton is being attacked by her stalker.
Serverdood.to
Server 1zidicom
Server 2user.gomo.to
Server 3database.gdriveus
The Same Deep Water as You Sep. 27, 2006
Things I Forgot at Birth Oct. 04, 2006
Good News for People Who Love Bad News Oct. 11, 2006
Can Oct. 18, 2006
I Love You But I Oct. 25, 2006
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Nov. 08, 2006
All These Things That I Nov. 15, 2006
Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye Nov. 22, 2006
Some You Give Away Nov. 29, 2006
Songs to Live and Die By Dec. 06, 2006
Everything In Its Right Place Jan. 17, 2007
Resolve Jan. 24, 2007
Pictures of You Feb. 07, 2007
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers Feb. 14, 2007
Prom Night at Hater High Feb. 21, 2007
You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love May. 02, 2007
It Gets the Worst at Night May. 09, 2007
The Runaway Found May. 16, 2007
Ashes of Dreams You Let Die May. 30, 2007
The Birth and Death of the Day Jun. 06, 2007
All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone Jun. 13, 2007
Watch One Tree Hill Online Free in HD, compatible with XBOX ONE, PS4, XBOX 360, PS3, MOBILE, TABLET and PC.
watchonetreehillonline.com does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842843
|
__label__cc
| 0.608105
| 0.391895
|
Friday funny – or not. Guardian and BBC go abhorrent on fossil fuel divestment
cartoonsbyjosh
Josh writes: Divesting from Fossil fuels seems to be flavour of the week, see here, here and here, but leaves a bitter taste. The Bishophill troll known as “aTTP” makes an appearence.
Ridiculous claim by Marco Tedesco: 'Darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet is projected to continue as a consequence of continued climate warming'
Audubon Society: Climate Science or just Sticking Feathers on PIGs?
Catcracking
It is consistent with the population control agenda
Mumbles McGuirck
Actually, it’s more like “Let them burn dung.”
vukcevic
BBC is so anti-CO2, they used a minor fracas to cancel the politically incorrect the UK’s, the world’s end even the known universe’s best motoring tv series ‘Top Gear’.
DirkH
Reply to vukcevic
Hope they rework it into “Ethical gear”, that would be a hoot. “Fabian Gear” is more than I could hope for. (Hint: shortages)
Sorry vukcevik, having a thug beat up a junior because said thug didn’t like his dinner is not a minor fracas.
Reply to Mario
It was matter for police, but no charges were made. As far as BBC is concerned they should have demanded ‘on air live’ apology from JC, rule that he receives no pay for next 6 episodes and money which is not insubstantional, to be donated to a charity for preventing violence in home or similar.
On programs like the top gear’, in particular for the location shoots, dozens of poorly paid freelances are employed, loosing earnings with no fault of their own, .
MangoChutney
@vukcevic
I like Top Gear and I like Clarkson, but you’re wrong
In any walk of life, striking a work colleague is a dismissable offence – no excuses
With my limited knowledge of the event, the above is what I would have done, but you may well be correct. It was so badly mishandled that no good any kind came out of it, just bad after bad. I suppose as licence payers, we are entitled to our opinions, right or wrong. In final analysis, I do hope that BBC management knowing exact details, had evaluated all options and came to a correct decision.
I’d rather like to have pictures, videos or third hand accounts from non-Fabian sources before I believe any of it.
Alan the Brit
As someone has already pointed out, “Welcome to the BBC, you may rape & sexually assault as many young women as you want,using your fame as a cover, but don’t you dare punch a producer!” In reference to the fact that people at the BBC knew about the perversions of tv personality Jimmy Saville for years & said absolutely nothing! Yet Jeremy Clarkeson gets sacked because he stupidly lost his temper & struck a producer! I know which I think is the worst conduct!
I agree 100%. In the ITV that would be a location manager, a general dogsbody organising everything from transport, catering and accommodation.
Silver ralph
>>In any walk of life, striking a work colleague is a
>>dimissable offence – no excuses.
Whatever happened to the good old apology, Vuk?? Is that a dirty word now??
Besides, the BBC is the corporation who covered for a serial paedophile for thirty years. Everyone knew about it, and yet the BBC did nothing – except promote the guy. Why was that, eh?
So getting angry with sheer incompetence is a dismissable offense – while the serial molestation and rape of little girls, the molestation of hospital patients, and serial necrophilia in the morgue while stealing their false eyes are all de rigeur……. Is that how it works, in modern corporations? If so, please count me out. I would rather employ a thousand Clarkesons vs one Saville.
V. Uil
Oh Mario you delicate man. It is a minor fracas. Don’t be so effete. A major fracas is when there is a run in with some idiots from ISIS. A major fracas is when a few thugs beat up a man.
andrewmharding
I agree that Clarkson should have been disciplined, striking and intimidation of a work colleague should not be tolerated. BUT, the BBC have shown their true colours by permitting him to host “Have I Got News For You” which (if memory serves) should have been broadcast last night. Clarkson, in my view quite rightly withdrew from recording the programme on Thursday. The illogicality continues where another programme in which he appears is going to be broadcast with his face pixellated out! You couldn’t make it up, the BBC treat us like fools
Reply to andrewmharding
They killed the goose that laid the golden eggs, £50 million of world sales (equivalent to exports of a medium size UK company), with very little extra effort or investment required in the actual programme. If they have to earn their income the way the ITV or Sky do, they could find the way to sanction JC and keep ‘top gear’ on air.
Ernest Bush
This will free the producers of ‘Top Gear’ up to seek a more lucrative contract elsewhere and pull viewers away from BBC.
At our place a few years back in a similar case the company itself took the offender to court as well as paying for the individual to sue him it took physical assault so seriously. It also took the unusual step of refusing to provide him with any reference at all.
The trouble is the JC seemed to think that JC stood for Jesus Christ.
Justthinkin
So they can burn wood/dung, which produces more CO2 then clean coal plants? Remember people….it is never wrong to beat a hippie/prog, Agenda 21, etc. follower with a clue bat.
Reply to Justthinkin
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/WoodSmoke.gif
http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/pdfpubs/…/pdf04232327dpi72pt03.pdf
Brett Keane
Am I wrong, or is Toluene not what dishwashing detergent is made of? Brett
gbaikie
I knew there was something wrong with washing dishes, but the EPA
is undecided:
“The EPA considers that there is inadequate information to assess the carcinogenic potential of toluene.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluene
billw1984
I looked it up. It is Sodium Toluene Sulfonate. Na-Methylbenzene-SO3 The sodium is just a
positive counter-ion and the SO3 is negatively charged. Soaps/detergents have a nonpolar part
(here the methylbenzene) and a polar part (the SO3-). I started to say no as toluene itself is a
solvent and found in gasoline and certain paints, etc. But after they add the sulfonate, it is indeed
a detergent.
robinedwards36
Very wrong indeed. You have no knowledge or understanding of chemistry I’m afraid.
This is what this kind of philosophy leads to:
http://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/haiti-%E2%80%93-dominican-republic-environmental-challenges-border-zone
The forests on the Haitian side of the border are gone.
Hlaford
Haiti was famous for beautiful mangos. Those are long gone now. Rocks are far less appetizing.
Allegedly, few weeks ago Stamford University sold most if not all of their oil companies holdings, just as the oil price hit rock bottom.
I do hope that their climate science is more solidly based than their investment policy.
Mick.
Canada sold her Gold reserves at $254/oz.(the absolute bottom) The days of Gold as a useful monetary link were seen as archaic.
Then the Swiss came out and said that they were not going to sell anymore of their reserves. They would now be buyers. I was holding futures.
The result was an immediate price spike…..oooops
Reply to Mick.
Mick,
That’s like the UK — they sold most of their gold holdings on the day that gold hit it’s 20-year low. Their timing was perfect.
Mick & dbstealey :
none of this is an accident of course. It would sure be interesting to see whether close family and associates of Gordon Brown just happened to be buying gold at around the he sold the country’s gold as rock bottom prices.
I think you are confusing this with the UK’s Gordon Brown’s efforts, who was possibly the worst and most profligate finance minister in history. Against all advice, he forced through these gold sales at the lowest possible price on the basis that gold was a ‘barbaric relic’.
Nowadays, socialists view cheap and reliable energy as the new barbaric relic, preferring the unreliable and expensive renewable sort to the cheap and reliable fossil fuelled one because the former is trendy and supposedly saves the planet.
Selling that much gold is going to depress prices.
Mark W:
Ummm – yes. . . .
And Brown (who at least kept the UK out of the Euro) had announced, in advance, and very publically, that he would be selling a great chunk [?25%??] of the UK’s gold reserves – although I don’t think he actually named the hour and day he would do so.
Absolutely no understanding of markets.
None at all.
And if anyone makes connections to any current politicians in the UK – that’s your problem, and mine – as I will still be living here after the Election.
Chris Hanley
The price of oil (commodity) may be relatively low for the time being but oil company share prices are not.
?dataset%5Bcollapse%5D=monthly&dataset%5Bgraph_title%5D=Exxon+Mobil&dataset%5Bheight%5D=250&dataset%5Bwidth%5D=375
DVan
Reply to Chris Hanley
His vandalism went further. He announced the sale which alerted the markets to a flood.
Larry in Texas
I have been referring to the BBC as the PBC, or Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, but you can still refer to the BBC as the “Brainless Broadcasting Corporation” if you wish.
Reply to Larry in Texas
Bolshevik Bullshit Community.
Sorry bout that.
Reply to John Silver
Bolshevik I s a nasty word.
If they had it their way, we’d all be picking up our own dung to burn for fuel.
mikerestin
Reply to Aaron Smith
Aaron, if they had their way we’d all be dead.
video/transcript: 16 April: Democracy Now: Harvard Students Expand Blockade Calling for School to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Harvard has the largest endowment of any university in the world, at $36.4 billion…
Several alumni of Harvard have also taken part in the blockade including Bill McKibben, the founder of the group 350.org, and former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth. We speak to sophomore Talia Rothstein, one of the coordinators of Divest Harvard, and Harvard science professor Naomi Oreskes…
ORESKES: …So, in our book, Merchants of Doubt, and in the film that we’ve just made about it, we document a long, really terrible history, going back to the 1980s and before, actually going back to the 1950s, of industry trying to deny and discredit scientific information relating to all kinds of issues, not just climate change, but tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole. And what we show is that the fossil fuel industry has played a major role in these campaigns to discredit scientific information. So, at Harvard, like many great universities, we do research, we do scholarship. We are committed. Our purpose, our mission is teaching, research, learning, scholarship. And yet these industries have worked, directly, consciously, deliberately, to undermine the very work that we do at these institutions…
AMY GOODMAN: Professor Oreskes, you were on a panel. How is the university responding? We couldn’t get them to come on the show, but they flew in Charlie Rose—is that right?—to moderate a panel that you were on, as well as representatives of Harvard University’s administration position.
ORESKES: The panel was wonderful in many ways. Charlie Rose is a very gracious man, a wonderful person, wonderful interviewer. We had excellent, outstanding people on the panel, like Chris Field, the head of Working Group II of the IPCC, and John Holdren, the president’s science adviser. So it was a wonderful panel…
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/16/harvard_students_expand_blockade_calling_for
apparently, the “Merchants of Doubt” docu has ended its theater run, with a Domestic Total as of Apr. 5, 2015: $192,400:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=merchantsofdoubt.htm
Reply to pat
What’s wrong with those Green foot soldier cheapskates.
Retired Engineer Jim
I thought that Dr Oreskes was a Professor of the History of Science, not a Professor of (some) Science.
Scott Basinger
Reply to Retired Engineer Jim
Anecdotally, I’ve found that people named “Naomi” have views that diverge from reality. It’s a small sample size, but…
carbon bigfoot
USEFUL IDIOTS ALL.
How will these people ever manage to get to the Paris conferences?
Steve in SC
Lenin was right about these types.
I must say that this is really taking hold in third world countries who are now desperately seeking alternatives to coal and oil because certain international lending agencies refuse to fund energy projects if they have no “alternative” energy “solution” as part of it.
Reply to Goldie
Well, the corrupted organisations World Bank and IMF are now being replaced by the BRICS development bank and the Asian Infrastructure Bank for those 140 nations that are grouped around the BRICS; so they can all wave goodbye to the warmunists. The West has isolated itself by trying to suppress the development of the world, and will fall apart next as vassall nations break ranks.
That’s what the AIIB is for.:)
The only real surprise is that the renewable fanatic UK signed on. France with its nuclear is bulletproof and Germany’s back to burning lignite so there’s some coherence there. That apart, well there’s Austalia wanting to sell coal and the rest of the members are, I think, Asian mainland who just want power for their people and the U.S. dominated international financing organizations can go [pause] whistle, yes, whistle.
Reply to Jeff
Germany is partially running a stable system, burning lignite, importing shiploads of US and Australian coal and all the LNG we can shove into the underground storages, and all the Natgas Russia can pump through Nordstream, on the other hand wind-turbinizing all hilltops like there’s no tomorrow.
As if there were two factions in government, sane people vs corrupt cronies. Maybe an internal fight. Bankers/NWO vs Industry (for which cheap stable supply is absolutely essential, I do not mean wind turbine industry, they’re bit players, I’m talking real factories).
Interesting article from the BBC (yes, that BBC) – http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26820405
Has a graph showing overall energy production in Germany dropping from 200 mtoe in 1987 to about 122 mtoe in 2012. I suspect you’re more knowledgeable about Germany than I so I’m curious if you have an explanation for that? 2012 at 60% of 1987 is huge. I wondered if that was due to export of manufacturing industry to the East – the old Warsaw Pact countries and China – or is there some other structural change I was unaware of. Thanks.
Wayne Delbeke
Jeff – the chart you refer to is energy production. In all likelyhood the missing energy is being imported due to the shut down of the nukes; and the Green Energy Policy of Germany that is making Gas and Coal plant uneconomic:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/13/germanys-on-the-brink-of-an-energy-crisis/
PhilCP
Jeff, it is in good part due to the unification of Germany and the subsequent shutdown of East Germany’s horrid and inefficient industry.
I am really getting tired of this BS. All I want is for my gas, electricity, LP, and taxes to be as low as possible. I don’t mind paying a little extra fos gas if the politicians would not steal from it for uses other than roads. I think I will buy Leaf in protest.
Reply to skeptic
I think I will buy Leaf in protest.
They will then use that as a justification for further investment in electric cars “by public demand”.
John Whitman
A little Friday humor about Josh’s reference to the BH ‘house troll’.
Josh, you really love to mock commenter Ken Rice of the University of Edinburg (who comments as ‘…and Then There’s Physics’). But Josh, if Ken Rice is a troll then he can’t be house broken, so if he really is BH’s house troll then you’ve got a helluva intellectual mess to constantly cleanup . . . .
Apparently in poor countries, wood fires and smoke are the greatest source of infant deaths. The motor car saved London from disappearing under a mountain of horse dung.
The blindness of these people is astounding.
Reply to Jack
Jack…no apparently about it. It is a fact. But that will not stop the JSWs. They are for 3rd trimester abortions. Should tell you something.
Catherine Ronconi
Also, it’s ironic that wood has a much higher carbon to hydrogen ratio than coal, which is higher in carbon content than oil, which is higher than natural gas (methane, ie CH4).
BillK
Reply to Catherine Ronconi
Catherine Ronconi: “… wood has a much higher carbon to hydrogen ratio than coal”
Really? Can we have some cites please? Isn’t coal closer to pure carbon than is wood (cellulose and lignin)?
Not that it affects the subject of “Contributing to Al Gore’s Wallet” by CO2 vs H2O; or actual pollution from incomplete combustion of wood; or …
And of course the people picking up the divested holdings are not fooled by the decaying climate change exaggeration.
And as to those selling out at the bottom….how else can you claim a gigantic lose and get government(taxpayer) subsidies to keep feeding those leeches at the top?
The Guardian disinvestment campaign have 180,000 people signed up after some weeks. That’s the size of a mid-size town playing against China and India with a combined population of 2.6 Billion. It’s both funny and embarrassing – in the best traditions of British farce.
Also, divestment would just mean that shares change their owners, big deal for the company. Hey let’s all sell our oil and gas shares, maybe China will snap them up.
Reply to DirkH
I’ve tried to tell the Guardian blogs that share ownership is not resource ownership – to little avail.
It’s even more peculiar if you start using numbers like only 2.2% of current global demand is supplied by wind/solar and 86.6% of current demand is supplied from fossil fuel sources. If it’s taken 25 years (from AR1) to get to 2.2%, asking them how they propose to reduce fossil fuel use to a level sufficient to limit temperature rise to 2C in any useful timescale seems to confuse them.
They don’t seem to understand either business or arithmetic.
George Devries Klein, PhD, PG, FGSA
Bottom line message from environmentalists:
“Thou shalt know they place”
As in “Medieval times.
Reply to George Devries Klein, PhD, PG, FGSA
“Thou shalt know they place” As in “Medieval times.
No worse than that they have openly stated the masses should embrace shanty towns as the way forward.
My parents took me to a third world country for junior school. I took my kids the same way. As a result, my kids are dyed in the wool skeptics. They’ve seen the benefits of a fossil free world. Short brutal lives with a devastated economy.
I am heavily invested in fossil fuels.
I think it has a great future for at least the rest of my life. Divestment is unethical
I posted in Tips and Notes on the campaign being conducted by 350.org to get Harvard to divest its assets in fossil fuel companies.
The more divestment, the better a deal for truly socially and environmentally conscious investors, if these campaigns should drive down stock prices.
jmorpuss
At 700 ppm Co (carbon monoxide) can cause seizures, comas and even death. Check out how many ppm a wood fire creates.
0.1 ppmv Natural atmosphere level (MOPITT)[40]
0.5–5 ppmv Average level in homes[41]
5–15 ppmv Near-properly adjusted gas stoves in homes, modern vehicle exhaust emissions[42]
17 ppmv Atmosphere of Venus
100–200 ppmv Exhaust from automobiles in the Mexico City central area in 1975[43]
700 ppmv Atmosphere of Mars
5,000 ppmv Exhaust from a home wood fire[44]
7,000 ppmv Undiluted warm car exhaust without a catalytic converter[42]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide
OK S.
Didn’t aTTP (and Then There’s Physics) used to troll here too?
Reply to OK S.
http://www.populartechnology.net/2015/01/who-is-and-then-theres-physics.html
Poptech
Yes, Ken Rice used to troll here as “To the left of centre”.
beyon divestment, with Mary, who throws the developing world to the CAGW wolves:
17 April: Guardian: Mary Robinson: Developing nations must move rapidly beyond fossil fuels
Rich world must support poorest countries to transition from fossil fuels much faster than they have to keep unburnable reserves in the ground, says UN climate change envoy
Tackling climate change will require developing countries to move beyond fossil fuels far more quickly than the rich world has managed, the United Nations envoy on climate change has warned.
Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and ex-UN human rights chief, said: “It may seem contradictory, but to be fair all countries must be enabled to participate in the transition away from fossil fuels together and at the same time. If not, we will exceed the carbon budget and consign countries without the means to participate in the transition to renewable energy to a future based on expensive, obsolete and polluting fossil fuels.”
The poorest countries, she added, must lead the way in that transition with financial assistance from the rich world.
“They will need to meet their sustainable development goals without using fossil fuels. In other words, they will have to develop using a different model to that which made the industrialised countries wealthy. This is a different prospect than merely reducing emissions, and requires the absolute support of the international community.”
This would be a massive task, she made clear.
***“No country has developed without fossil fuels to date, so cooperation is key to providing the technology, finance, skills and systems to create an alternative way of developing.”…
Her remarks, at a lecture for the Grantham Institute at Imperial College in London on Thursday night, were a counterpoint to views from the coal industry and others that poor countries would need to proceed along a high-carbon path of development until they have emerged from poverty.
In an article in the Guardian on Thursday, former US vice president Al Gore blasted the coal industry for what he claimed was a campaign targeting developing countries, as their developed country markets have declined…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/17/mary-robinson-developing-nations-must-move-rapidly-beyond-fossil-fuels
as for Gore trying to create a meme that developed countries are exploiting developing countries by selling them coal…well, that’s the kind of dishonesty one has come to expect from this man.
17 April: RTCC: Climate deals make 2015 ‘biggest year since 1945’, says UN envoy
Need to update development goals and finalise global CO2 pact make 2015 most important in 70 years, says Mary Robinson
It’s the year greenhouse gas emissions must peak to stay within humanity’s maximum allowance to stop temperatures rising 2C above pre industrial levels…
But plans afoot must be done in the context of sustainable development, respecting human rights and working to lessen poverty, Robinson urged at Imperial College London at the Grantham Institute annual lecture…
The task in hand rivalled the creation of the Bretton Woods institutions and Marshall Plan, which reshaped the global economy postwar…
***Climate finance, directing the world’s estimated $90 trillion of investment in the next 15 years to low carbon development, and leaving two-thirds of remaining fossil fuels in the ground, were all vital to rein in global warming.
Women’s education and better healthcare to lower infant mortality rates could hold down population growth, she added.
http://www.rtcc.org/2015/04/17/climate-deals-make-2015-biggest-year-since-1945-says-un-envoy/
***$90 trillion for the CAGW crowd now. won’t be long before we’re hearing quadrillion.
never funny…Al Gore:
16 April: Guardian: Cheap coal is a lie – stand up to the industry’s cynical fightback
by Al Gore and David Blood (Blood & Gore)
Vested interests are pushing the dirtiest fossil fuel as the energy solution in poor nations. In fact, the argument for investing in solar is overwhelming.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid the reality that the days of coal as a source of energy are numbered…
This new economic and political reality is already being shaped by the fast-growing global support for the enforcement of a global “carbon budget”…
This exploitation of an urgent humanitarian need to promote more coal-burning in poor countries is extremely misleading…
Most developing countries face serious challenges that are already being exacerbated by climate change-related extreme weather events. They are being battered by stronger storms, more destructive floods, deeper and longer droughts and disruptive switches in the seasonal timing of rain. Think of the devastation wreaked by typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, or the flooding in Kashmir last summer…
The true cost of coal cannot be calculated without including the so-called airpocalypse…
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/16/coal-isnt-solution-to-energy-poverty-solar-energy
15 April: Bloomberg: Rajesh Kumar Singh: India Poised to Overtake China as Biggest Thermal Coal Importer
India is set to overtake China as the biggest importer of power-station coal, emerging as the leader of a clutch of regional nations that miners including Glencore Plc and BHP Billiton Ltd. can tap for new orders.
Indian thermal-coal imports will surpass China’s by 2017 or sooner, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts William Foiles and Andrew Cosgrove said in a report. China, the world’s biggest energy consumer, is cutting down on coal use to fight pollution.
India and its regional peers including Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan and South Korea plan to increase their combined coal-fired generating capacity by more than 204 gigawatts, or 60 percent, through 2019, according to the report.
Still, that may not be enough to trigger a price rally…
State-run monopoly Coal India Ltd., which produces more than 80 percent of the nation’s coal, has said it will double output to about 1 billion metric tons in five years. That means almost doubling the pace of growth in its annual production.
India’s thermal-coal demand will probably increase 42 percent to 1 billion tons in the six years to 2020, according to the report.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/india-poised-to-overtake-china-as-biggest-thermal-coal-importer
Half Tide Rock
I refuse to be bullied! I have been heating with wood, So far so good. The hippies with out guns went to western Mass. and Vermont. The rest of us went to NH and Maine. I sometimes feel I am “getting too old” for this but the tangible act of doing something to react to a cooling house and spread, by your own intervention, warmth from the heart of the house is fulfilling. A warm possibly really hot stove to back up to soaks heat into your appreciative bones. The whiff of birch smoke as you approach offers joy and anticipation of peace.. When the winds howl, the blizzard rages; the juice of civilization leaves us, there is nothing quite like the reassuring toasty warmth of a perhaps a bit too well stoked stove roaring back at the elements. So a well considered heating plan with wood has offered joy and independence to a Luddite for many years. Here is to renewable energy that warms thrice and hopefully a warmer future as i stoke the CO2 up for the future optimum…or fear not for we’ve got hot when you’ve not!
Reply to Half Tide Rock
Yes, but the government wants to take your wood fire away from you. Of course, if you continue to get steadily worse winters for awhile, it will be taking electricity from you, also, as it closes down those coal fired plants you depend. It will make for rough winters.
Seriously, you enjoy the wood fire because the smoke goes up a chimney. In Africa the women and children have to bend over the fire and breathe smoke to prepare meals. Real help for them consists of giving them solar cookers. They are effective for the kind of cooking they do and will stop steady deforestation as the population grows. Solarcookers.org is one organization setting up both temporary and permanent cookers, depending on whether the culture is nomadic or not. They also distribute cheap water pasteurizers (you only need to hold water at 140 degrees for a period of time to kill the organisms). After that you can work on electricity generation to raise the standard of living.
Oxford & Harvard have basically told the “divest” mob to get lost; Yale & UMW tried a different approach (links can be found by searching headlines):
10 April: 19 Students Arrested by Yale Police at Fossil Fuel Divestment Sit-In
16 April: UPDATE: 3 arrested during Divest University of Mary Washington sit-in released
They have each been charged with a class-one misdemeanor for trespassing and have a hearing scheduled for 8:30 a..m on April 30 at the Fredericksburg General District Court…
now Hulme adds his voice to those who try to point out the bleeding obvious, that there’ll be buyers in the wings if the Unis do divest:
18 April: Guardian: Mike Hulme: Why fossil fuel divestment is a misguided tactic
A divestment campaign may raise awareness but this gesture politics does not constitute an effective policy to deal with the risks of climate change
Second, I do not believe divestment will bring about ‘action on climate change’ (whatever might be meant by ‘action’).
***There will be many other investors waiting to pick up any slack which results from modest investment withdrawals…
Third, and most decisively for me, the divestment campaign is driven by a single and simple climate change narrative in which global bads are linked to global temperature…
***But human influence on the climate system is not all about carbon fossil fuel, and the bads in the world cannot be indexed to global temperature or to trillions of tonnes of carbon dioxide. As we can see from the shortly-to-be-agreed sustainable development goals, there are many things that ‘people of conscience’ are rightly concerned with that have little to do with carbon…
Climate change is a so-called ‘wicked problem’ that is not amenable to single action strategies…
Whilst born of frustration – one detects a sense of panic even in Rusbridger’s language – targeting high profile investors for divestment from fossil fuel companies is “feel-good” campaigning. It is the latest stage in the symbolic politics of climate change, which too often has been wooed by apocalyptic imaginary and false deadlines and lost sight of the politics of pragmatism by which change in the world occurs.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/17/why-fossil-fuel-divestment-is-a-misguided-tactic
and, whilst the MSM likes to play up a small drop in Chinese coal imports on occasion, due to oversupply and a drop in economic activity, these are figures which can’t be ignored:
16 Jan: Reuters: China coal output seen up 2.7 pct in 2014 – coal group
Chinese coal production is expected to grow 2.7 percent this year to around 3.8 billion tonnes, with demand also still rising despite a government campaign to cut air pollution, the China National Coal Association (CNCA) said on Thursday.
The association forecasts that despite efforts to restrict the import and use of low-quality coal, imports would also remain at around 300 million tonnes this year, with the price gap between domestic and overseas markets still attractive…
But total energy demand continues to soar and analysts still expect absolute coal demand to grow 2-3 percent a year over the next five years…
CNCA also said supply capacity was likely to reach around 4 billion tonnes in 2014, up from 3.7 billion tonnes in 2013.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/16/china-coal-idUSL3N0KQ1JY20140116
David L. Hagen
“Greens” condemn children to slow death
Household air pollution and health, WHO Fact sheet N°292 Updated March 2014
Around 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using open fires and simple stoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.
Over 4 million people die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels.
More than 50% of premature deaths among children under 5 are due to pneumonia caused by particulate matter (soot) inhaled from household air pollution.
3.8 million premature deaths annually from noncommunicable diseases including stroke, ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer are attributed to exposure to household air pollution.
Reply to David L. Hagen
“•Radon increases your risk of lung cancer
•The higher the radon, the longer the exposure, the greater the risk
•Radon causes over 1,100 deaths from lung cancer each year in the UK
•Half of these deaths occur among the quarter of the population who are current smokers”
http://www.ukradon.org/information/risks
Radon the killer in tobacco . https://altered-states.net/barry/newsletter405/tobacco.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_radon
Reply to jmorpuss
That 1,100 deaths per annum is an estimate only. In theory it could be higher or it it could be lower, & by default the producers of this information “have” to exaggerate the numbers based upon the “Precautionary Principle”, in case they get sued at the end of the day! Any home that has an open fire of some kind will be at reduced risk in a radon affected area automatically, as a result of the forced airflow through draw up the flue, whether the fire is lit or not. As with all these things it is the accumulation of radon in the home that is the issue, & for the most part it is well below background radiation levels. One can sit on a rock on for 20 minutes on Dartmoor & receive twice the annual dosage up one’s rear end as a result, as one probalby can all around the world where granite exists.
Owen in GA
Radon is only really an inhalation danger. As it is an alpha particle emitter upon decay, it actually needs to be near the tissue to have an impact. Alpha particles are stopped by a few feet of air, a piece of paper, clothing and even the dead layer of skin. Alpha emitters are only a danger if they are inhaled or ingested, then they can wreak havoc on genetic material by ionizing molecules in the cell. S
Sitting on a nice granite outcropping enjoying the view is not going to have any affect whatsoever on the haunches.
E.M.Smith
Yet in California electricity rates are “necessarily skyrocket”ing as green policy is foisted… to the point where my all electric kitchen costs more than the bbq… So I now do more cooking with wood and charcoal. Morning coffee made on a gas camp stove. This is better how? (other than cheaper to me…)
The special summer daytime rate where Anthony lives is nearly $1/kW hr and that is economical to buy a generator and make your own power for the necessary AC. (rule of thumb for home sized Diesels: divide Diesel price per gallon by 10 to get cents per kW-hr fuel cost, so $4 Diesel is 40 cent kW- hr. Gas Honda is about 50 cents, so still worth it.) Tis a strange workd where running your own generator pays off…
Current tariff for non special cases is 35 cent with 50 cent in planning, at which time my neighbors better like the sound of a motor… btw, nat gas generators are widely avaiable and fuel cost is lower…
paullitely
Reblogged this on paullitely and commented:
Burning Wood destroys beneficial Greenery.
ImranCan
The whole ‘divestment campaign’ is just absurd. Its such an appalling intellectual mix up of 2 things:
1) the demand for an energy companies products that underpins its intrinsic market value
2) how the stock market market works
What exactly do people who want to encourage ‘divestment’ want ? The stock price goes up and down as function of people’s desire to buy or sell that stock. But fundamentally as long as there are a few people in the world who are OK to own or buy that stock, its value will basically be around or about its intrinsic value which is based on the demand for its products. As Margaret Thatcher once said “You cannot buck a market”.
So if all these green lefties sell there stocks, it just means you have a different class of stock owner …. those that really don’t give a shit about how much CO2 we produce … . at least it will stop those ridiculous motions at AGM’s.
AntonyIndia
This is exactly how billions of South Asians and Africans would feel mistreated by Western Lefties IF they would know this travesty was going on, BUT they don’t…. too busy living from day to day to make ends meet, more power cuts are making life even worse.
Vestment vs. Investment
The New Investiture Controversy.
How about this? If anyone wishes to divest, I’ll willingly take their shares for absolutely nothing- I won’t charge them a thing. These shares will be ethically recycled, by distributing them as dividend generators for households in poorer nations. They will thus be enabled to buy seed, shelter, water equipment, etc, in short, all the paraphernalia of stable modern life. Hope this helps..
classicalhero7
Reply to Stuart B
They really shouldn’t be profiting from the sale otherwise they are hypocrites, so I would like to get in on this scheme.
kadaka (KD Knoebel)
Assorted libel and humor (with links) from the mild-mannered madman, David Appell, https://disqus.com/by/DavidAppell/.
“I know for a fact that Watts is a liar, because he’s lied about me. And he later admitted it.”
“Planets don’t just “warm up” without a reason. The reason is manmade greenhouse gases.”
(Note: Ah, so that’s how the interglacial started!)
“When Watts found that the BEST project shot down his theory that the temperature record is no good, he was very embarrassed, but hasn’t yet been able to publish a rebuttal.”
(Note: This is only a few hours old. Given how often BEST has been chewed up and spit out around here, I fear Appell is suffering from early dementia.)
And this is my favorite so far:
“Birds don’t emit CO2, Einstein.”
Reply to kadaka (KD Knoebel)
Whoops, correction, my apologies, no excuse. The third one about BEST was from “EricAdler”, a different loon that can sound like Appell.
Once you get out of this gentlemen’s debate society arguing fine print physics and advanced calculus and statistics, you find the greater climate debate is: vocal warmists appearing scientific with their talking points lists who can be defeated with a Google search or a spreadsheet; more-vocal liberals whose greatest argument is Watts, Spencer, Christy, Monckton and Morano, are all creationist proven liars bought and paid for by the Kochs etc; and skeptics without enough knowledge and tools to fight back effectively who often get frustrated and also resort to name-calling.
It is fun to argue tactics in the parlor, but some assistance and guidance would be appreciated for the war being fought out front in the street.
President Xi walks away with this year’s top EMMA award:
Michael E. Mann Opinion Satire
Michael Mann gives himself a tongue bath
Merry Christmas to all, did you get coal…or?
Trudeau Pranked by Fake Greta
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842846
|
__label__wiki
| 0.814919
| 0.814919
|
Healthy State
Healthy State tells the stories you need to know to stay well, with a special focus on Florida.We'll bring you the latest fitness trends, new research on preventing and treating disease, and information about how health policy impacts your pocketbook.We report on health using all the tools at our disposal -- video, audio, photos and text -- to bring these stories to life.Healthy State is a project of WUSF Public Media in Tampa and is heard on public radio stations throughout Florida. It also is available online at wusfnews.org.
Medicaid Expansion Debate Not Over, State Senator Says
WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 | By Lottie Watts
State Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Jacksonville, says the debate over how exactly to implement the Affordable Care Act in Florida is far from over.
"There's going to be much more discussion as to what we should do next year as we watch other states," Bean said. "Maybe we can also clarify exactly what the federal government has in mind."
Bean served on the committee given the task of studying implementation of the Affordable Care Act, including the option of expanding Medicaid using federal funds. The legislature also had to decide whether the state would run its own health insurance marketplace, or let the federal government do it.
"The two questions we had this year are going to be staring us in the face as we launch the 2014 session as well," Bean said.
Florida decided right away to let the federal government set up and run the health insurance marketplace and opted out of Medicaid expansion, per se. The Senate came up with an alternative to traditional Medicaid that would have tapped the federal funds.
Bean was the architect of an alternative plan called Florida Health Choices Plus. It used no federal money and would have provided partial coverage to about 130,000, but even that didn't get Senate approval.
Bean, like all but one member of the state senate, voted for Sen. Joe Negron's Healthy Florida plan. That plan would have used federal funds --estimated at $51 billion over 10 years -- to buy private coverage for 1.1 million low-income uninsured. But the Republican-controlled House refused to sign on.
The plan relied on the cooperation from the federal government to allow the state to draw down the federal dollars for a plan that's not Medicaid.
Bean says there was a chance the state could have been turned down in its request. He also says he "sort of" agrees with state Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples, who said Negron's plan was essentially Medicaid. Bean says that in the past, "If you took Medicaid money for a program and called it something else, they still treated it as if it were Medicaid."
Since the session ended without an expansion of health care for low-income Floridians, Bean has gotten some complaints from constituents.
"I've already been chewed out, I've been yelled at ... by a handful of folks that just disagree with my philosophy," Bean said.
While Gov. Rick Scott said he supported Medicaid, he has not called lawmakers back for a special session to reconsider their decision.
--Health News Florida is part of WUSF Public Media. Contact Lottie Watts at 813-974-8705 (desk) or e-mail at lottiewatts@wusf.org. For more health news, visit HealthNewsFlorida.org.
Health News FloridaFlorida LegislatureAaron BeanJoe NegronFlorida Health Choices PlusHealthy FloridaMedicaidMedicaid expansionAffordable Care Acthealth insurance
Lottie Watts
Lottie Watts is our Florida Mattersproducer, and she also covers health and health policy for.
See stories by Lottie Watts
Senate Kills Bare-Bones Alternative to Medicaid Expansion
Another Alternative to Medicaid Expansion
Despite Snub, Tampa Bay to Get Jobs, Cash From 'Obamacare'
Hope Fades for Health Coverage Deal
Medicaid Impasse Sparks Rebellion
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842854
|
__label__cc
| 0.705957
| 0.294043
|
Alltemp, Inc. (OTCQX: LTMP)
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories (OTCQB: KBLB)
Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN)
Iconic Brands, Inc. (OTCBB: ICNB)
Press ReleasesLIVE
Tuesday Ticker Talk, by 24/7 Market News
by Ben Hansel
in Banking and Finance, Biotechnology, Business, Companies, Consumer Goods, Economy, Editorials, Enterprise, Food and Beverage, General, Government, High Technology, Internet, Market News, Markets, Military, Press Release, Technology, Textiles, US News
DENVER, Colo., December 3, 2019- (24/7MarketNews via COMTEX) National and Venture Market News for December 3, 2019.
Adobe Analytics’ preliminary projections suggest that Cyber Monday sales hit $9.2, a 16.9% year-over-year increase, with traditional retailers, like Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Target (NYSE:TGT), trying to carve into Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and eBay’s (NASDAQ:EBAY) space, yet the solid follow-through on top of Black Friday and Small Business Saturday seems to be drown out by tough trade talk.
Today’s market futures are way down, on the heels of President Trump declaring that a new trade deal with China may not happen until after the November 2020 presidential election.
In any case, the trade worries may be a case of temporarily taking one’s eye off the ball, as the National Retail Federation forecast that overall holiday sales would grow by approximately 4.2%, over last year, and, according to Fiserv’s annual holiday spending report, brick and mortar sales hit that growth rate, which should impact Walmart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), and others.
With the holiday shopping season, from Black Friday through Christmas, accounting for nearly a third of all the annual retail sales, making it, not only the most profitable season of the year, for most businesses, but the season’s results will influence many retailers’ plans for 2020. For this season, many retailers increased their TV advertising by more than 5%, over last year. According to Media Radar, retailers spent over $400 million on TV advertising for the first half of November.
Kraig Labs’ scale-up of its first-of-its-kind superfiber production program on target
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories (OTCQB: KBLB), the leading developer of spider silk based fibers, announced today that it completed the completed hatching the second generation of silkworms and that this rapid expansion of recombinant Spider Silk places Kraig Labs on track to grow operations and yield fibers for its first significant fabric production run. Additionally, the resulting cocoons from this production cycle will be used to fulfill the first commercial shipments from its new Vietnamese factory.
Connect with 24/7 Market News on social media:
https://twitter.com/247MarketNewsHQ
https://www.facebook.com/247MarketNewsHQ/
About 24/7 Market News
As a pioneer in digital financial market media, 24/7 Market News (24/7MN) is dedicated to the swift distribution of financial market news and information. 24/7 MN provides comprehensive corporate communications resources and tools to engage the investment community.
24/7 Market News (24/7MN) is a third party publisher and news dissemination service provider that produces regular sponsored and non-sponsored reports, articles, stock market blogs, and newsletters covering equities listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ and micro-cap exchanges. 24/7MN holds no investment licenses and is NOT a financial advisory firm, investment adviser, analyst, or broker-dealer and does not undertake any activities that would require such registration. 24/7MN’s market updates, news alerts and corporate profiles are NOT a solicitation or recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities.
The material in this release is intended to be strictly informational and is NEVER to be construed or interpreted as research material. All readers are strongly urged to perform research and due diligence on their own and consult a licensed financial professional before considering any level of investing in stocks. All material included herein is republished content and based on publicly available information which is believed to be reliable. 24/7MN owns KBLB shares that it will sell. 24/7MN makes no representations as to the completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of the material provided and all materials are subject to change without notice. 24/7MN and/or its affiliates are not responsible for any gains or losses that result from the opinions expressed and are not liable for any investment decisions by its readers or subscribers. Investors are cautioned that they may lose all or a portion of their investment when investing in stocks.
For further information on 24/7 Market News, please go to www.247marketnews.com
This release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. “Forward-looking statements” describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as “may,” “future,” “plan,” or “planned,” “will,” or “should,” “expected,” “anticipates,” “draft,” “eventually,” or “projected.” You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified in a company’s annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB and other filings made by such company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are made as of the date hereof and 24/7MN undertakes no obligation to update such statements
24/7 Market News
Editor@247marketnews.com
24/7 Market News- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Completes Hatching Second Generation of Silkworms
24/7 Market News- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories’ Research Team Readies Next Breakthrough in Recombinant Spider Silk Performance
CureVac's stock debuts nearly triple the IPO price
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories’ New R&D Facility Extends Its Competitive Advantages and Prepares for Large Scale Production
Big Tobacco and JUUL should go the way of Toys R Us.
U.S. FDA Advisory Committee Votes Nine to One in Favor of Remestemcel-L (Ryoncil(TM)) for Efficacy in Children With Steroid-Refractory Acute Graft Versus Host Disease
CureVac’s stock debuts nearly triple the IPO price
Congress Wants Answers on Crypto Libra from Zuck!
IRS Issued Its First Cryptocurrency Tax Guidance in 5 years and reminder of reporting obligations
Where is Michael Dell?
Battles raging in “Pochinki” and “Tilted Towers” have created big moves up for stock market traders.
24/7 MarketNews can design corporate communications that effectively communicate news about services and programs to the masses, as well as market activities and events to the investing community.
Categories Select Category Aerospace and Defense (36) Airlines (16) Analyst Alerts (2) Artificial Intelligence (8) Automotive (4) Banking (51) Banking and Finance (199) Biotechnology (300) Business (287) Cannabis (55) Chemicals (61) Companies (257) Computer (38) Consumer Goods (219) Crytpocurrency (4) Economy (54) Editorials (10) Energy (59) Enterprise (241) Entertainment (8) Featured Company Profile (23) Finance (112) Fintech (3) Food and Beverage (219) General (162) Government (36) Healthcare (210) Hemp (43) High Technology (119) Internet (51) LTMP (1) Market Alerts (146) Market News (19) Markets (37) Media (6) Metal and Mineral (84) Military (48) Oil & Energy (52) Pharmaceutical (240) Press Release (160) Real Estate (33) Right Side Featured (7) Software (26) Technology (42) Telecommunications (12) Textiles (55) Transportation (28) US News (45) Utilities (13) Venture Breakfast Bits (36)
24/7 Market News- XERI Nanontech Lubricants Produce Initial Sales January 13, 2021
24/7 Market News- Xeriant projects Significant Revenue through Acquisition of European Operations December 30, 2020
24/7 Market News- A Word of Thanks and Warm Holiday Wishes from the CEO and Founder of Xeriant December 22, 2020
24/7 Market News- Xeriant Signs JV LOI with CoFlow Jet to develop revolutionary “Green” Wing Technology December 17, 2020
24/7 Market News- Xeriant announces Strategic Alliance with dynamic European Aircraft Manufacturer December 2, 2020
Subscribe to receives daily updates direct to your inbox!
*We promise we won't spam you. Privacy Policy.
© 2019 24/7 MarketNews - The experts in investor and public relations, and can develop campaigns that will make a difference in your IR/PR strategy
Hi, this may be interesting you: Tuesday Ticker Talk, by 24/7 Market News! This is the link: https://www.247marketnews.com/press-releases/tuesday-ticker-talk-by-24-7-market-news/
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842855
|
__label__cc
| 0.540778
| 0.459222
|
WSTale » Celebrities » Mama June Celebrates 11 Months ‘Clean & Sober’ & Flashes A Big Smile With New Teeth: ‘It Feels Good’
Mama June Celebrates 11 Months ‘Clean & Sober’ & Flashes A Big Smile With New Teeth: ‘It Feels Good’
mediabest December 28, 2020 mama june
‘Mama June’ Shannon has a reason to smile. The ‘Honey Boo Boo’ star has almost spent a year sober, and she’s flashed a smile while showing off how ‘far I’ve come’ since her drug-abusing days.
Hey guys, I hope the Christmas season was good to [you] even during this crazy pandemic time,” “Mama” June Shannon, 41, began her Dec. 27 message. In the lengthy Instagram post, the From Not To Hot star shared an update on her health – and she had some good news: “Today we are celebrating 11 months clean and sober, and it feels really good,” she wrote, “but I wanted to share a couple of pictures with y’all.”
“The first pic in the white shirt was me when I started my addiction,” wrote the mother of Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson. “The second pic with me looking rough as hell, as [it was] me after being on cocaine for a few years my addiction. [And] the last pic with me in the red shirt is me today, and I’m proud of How far I have [come] in my sobriety. I can’t believe it’s been 11 months. Time really flies by. I’m so proud of myself, especially when a lot of people that we know during this pandemic have relapsed, and we have NO RELAPSES. THAT’S NOT AN OPTION. It feels good to give back to so many people and helps them in their addiction, their struggles, and helping families dealing with their family member in their addiction.”
“I don’t have all the answers,” continued June, whose addiction struggles have been captured on Mama June: Family In Crisis, “but I will well listen and try to help the best way I can. Their(sic) [are] people that I have to talk to for [months] and watch them struggle when they first reached out to me, and now, being able to overcome some other struggles, I love honestly helping out and give back. In recovery, I’m telling you I have said to one of my alumni directors with banyan that sometimes, I feel kind of greedy because y’all give so much more to me and help in my recovery than you’ll ever imagine. Just being able to talk to y’all, I just want to tell those fans [that] have a been around for so many years, they were up or down and in between. We honestly thank you so very much, and just know that my inbox is always open.”
“I love u guys!” added June. “11 MTHS CLEAN AND SOBER AND ONLY ONE MORE MTHS TIL I CAN FOLLOW MY DREAM TO WORK IN A REHAB IM SO EXCITED THANKS TO @banyantreatmentcenters for getting me on the right path #soberlife #11mthssober #lifeisgood #livingmybestlife #onedayatatime #24hrsatatime #bleesed #thankful.”
The most recent season of Mama June: Family In Crisis showed the reality television star at her lowest. On the June 26 season finale June and her boyfriend, Geno Doak, admitted to spending over $150,000 on cocaine in a span of six months. In the prior episode, June copped to having a “$2,500 a day” crystal meth habit. “The only reason I sold the house, we was dead f—ing broke…because you know at that point we was doing quite a bit.”
Since hitting rock bottom, June has cleaned up her act – both for her sake and for that of her daughters, Alana, 15, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon, 20, Anna Shannon, 26, and Jessica Shannon, 24. “It has been a tough road,” a source told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY in November,” but June is on the right path to getting better and healthy. She wants to get better for herself and her family. It hasn’t been easy, but things are going really good, and June is ready to make sure the next challenges become successes ahead.”
In addition to the veneers, Mama June underwent surgery to remove more than a pound of fat from her neck. “It feels good to get rid of my triple chin and have my teeth fixed,” she said in November. “I feel like a new woman.”
Previous Previous post: The More, The Merrier! Josh Brolin, Kathryn Boyd Welcome 2nd Child Together
Next Next post: How the Hollywood Talent Agencies Pivoted in Pandemic
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842866
|
__label__cc
| 0.627078
| 0.372922
|
WSTale » World News » Soaring car theft in NYC sees return of The Club
Soaring car theft in NYC sees return of The Club
mediabest December 5, 2020 carinnycseessoaringtheft
Fort Lauderdale ranked least safe city in America
Two people wounded overnight in pair of NYC shootings
Hoops coach pleads guilty to having sex with teen sisters during erotic sleepovers
15-year-old charged with beating Chicago man with bat, setting body on fire
Welcome back to The Club.
Car theft has gotten so bad in New York City, that some cops are steering people to an ’80s throwback security device — The Club — to safeguard their ride, The Post has learned.
Worried Upper West Side Audi owner Marie Desilets said local officers recently suggested she invest in the classic $39.99 steering wheel lock.
“People are very uncomfortable,” she said.
That’s because auto theft in the city is up nearly 70 percent for the year — and a staggering 106 percent on Thanksgiving week alone, disturbing NYPD data reviewed by The Post show.
From Nov. 23 through Nov. 29, thieves drove off with 186 cars, as compared to 90 during the same period the year before, the data show.
And overall for the year so far, 8,217 cars were ripped off compared to 4,919 in 2019 — a 67 percent acceleration, the data show.
The galling numbers are such that Desilets said she is “seriously considering” The Club for when she needs “to park on the street.” But she’s avoiding that altogether for now, forking over $700 a month to safeguard her $53,000 Audi Q7 in a garage.
Mark Macey, The Club’s national sales manager, confirmed that business is booming in the Big Apple.
“Sales are up,” he said without providing numbers. “You can attribute that to the pandemic and also the rioting, looting, protesting, whatever you want to call it.”
Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, said bail reform and the pandemic have been a toxic mix for urban auto owners.
Since people are home from work and school for months on end, vehicles are often left “unattended for days, if not weeks on end,” he noted, adding that statewide bail reform has seen waves of non-violent offenders sprung from the system and back out on the streets.
Bail reform “has been a friend to many criminals,” he said.
Meanwhile, car theft victims often see their cases barely get out of park.
The arrest clearance rate nationwide for auto theft is only 13.8 percent — the lowest of all the major felonies,” Giacalone noted.
“Chasing stolen vehicles in New York City is frowned upon — and the car thieves know this better than anyone else,” he said.
Previous Previous post: The Kardashian-Jenner family film KUWTK at a cabin in Lake Tahoe
Next Next post: Nikki Bella and Artem Celebrate 1st Christmas With Son in Holiday Card
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842867
|
__label__cc
| 0.580931
| 0.419069
|
St Gerald’s students looking to race to the top
By Colm Gannon Mayo Advertiser, Fri, Jan 23, 2009
Four transition year students from St Gerald’s College, Castlebar, are trying to race to the top in Ireland in the F1 Schools competition. The team of Keith Derrig, Darren Brogen, Micheál Healy, and Niall McCormick are hoping to better the performance of last year’s team from the school who got to the national finals and hopefully take a prize this time around. Under the watchful eye of their teacher John Bones the four students have been hard at work on their project since October.
The popularity of the competition has seen it grow in recent years and make the competition tougher, but Bones hopes that the work put in by the four teenagers will be rewarded with a place in the national finals at least. “Over the last few years this competition has grown very large, they have had to bring in regional qualifiers due to the huge numbers of schools who have entered. But it’s no surprise because this competition teaches the lads a lot more than design, it also involves a lot of research, production, marketing, budgeting, working to tight deadlines, and team work.”
The competition involves the team designing, building, testing, and racing an aerodynamic model of a formula one car. The students also have to raise funding for the project through sponsorship as team communications manager Niall McCormick explained. “We have got sponsorship from a couple of people which has been great and we are very thankful for them, but we are always looking out for more. We also have a few fundraising ideas we are working on at the minute and hope to have that kicking in soon. We have also recently launched a website where you can keep tabs on our progress through the different stages of the competition at www.westcoastracers.ie ”
The competition called for the four team members to be given creation roles and criteria to fulfil as part of the role. Keith Derrig is the team manager for the project and is enjoying the role. “I have to check over to make sure everything is getting done on time, it can take a long time, but I enjoy it.” Darren Brogan has taken up the challenge of design and graphic engineer, and despite the important task of getting everything right on the design side of the project to make sure the car is as aerodynamic as possible, he has relished the challenge. “It’s been good working with the design software here in school, it took a while to get used to it but once I did, it’s been a good experience getting the car design as good as possible.” Micheál Healy is the manufacturing engineer for the project and is responsible for the manufacturing of the car and advising the rest of the team on the manufacturing constraints when it comes to the design of it, while Niall McCormick is responsible for the team marketing and communications.
The team will be competing in the regional finals of the competition in March and hope to progress to the national finals in April this year.
Ireland teacher Formula One manufacturing design software team manager car design Darren Brogan Keith Derrig Niall McCormick manufacturing engineer John Bones manufacturing constraints Darren Brogen manager for the project team communications manager design and graphic engineer
Councillors criticise the revolving door of superintendents in Castlebar
Star Taxis expands
Man crashed into car on wrong side of the road
Three-month sentence for man found in possession of drugs
Suspected victim of human trafficking agrees to assist Garda investigation
Mayo sweeps the boards at Green Hospitality Awards
Eircom outage affects 60,000 Mayo customers
Learner driver drove defective car at 130kph
Getting the ‘wow’ factor in your home without the cost
Woman arrested after trying to abscond from taxi
Belcarra man appointed next Bishop of Newcastle
N5 public art piece to put finishing touches to by-pass
Mayo teams win F1 awards
Formula 1 challenge
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842869
|
__label__wiki
| 0.520743
| 0.520743
|
GSG: PDP elders rise for Jonathan as Mantu, Adeniran, Yusuf Mamman, Abba Dabo, Sabo lead support charge
Posted by African Examiner News Friday, November 8th, 2013
The African Examiner
The Elders’ Advisory Council of the Goodluck Support Group (GSG) met this morning in Abuja in what appears to be a strategic meeting to map out plan to unite the majority in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) behind the president’s leadership.
The gathering which turned out to be a gathering of Who is Who within the PDP paraded such heavy weights as Senator Ibrahim Mantu, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, Gen. Sabo (retired), Mrs. Biodun Olujimi and several others.
Mantu, a former Senate Deputy President itemized many projects that the PDP government under Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has completed and asked that even though it is not yet time to campaign, Nigerians cannot be swayed or deceived by any form of gang up against Mr. President.
Mantu went further to state that the calibre of men and women at the GSG elders council is an indication that those that matter within the party are solidly behind the transformation agenda of President Jonathan.
Special Adviser to the President on political affairs, Bar Ali Ahmed Gulak, said that his boss had been under pressure by his numerous supporters to contest 2015 presidential election.
Gulak also noted that Nigerians in the Diaspora were itching to come back to the country in order to cast their votes for the People Democratic Party (PDP) come 2015.
In his report to the Elders, Gulak stated that “Since our last meeting, we have received various support groups being coordinated by the GSG. We have, as of today, 1665 . The last to visit was the Ochendo Solidarity Movement from Abia State. About 150 (groups) of them came to this office. We discussed. They have called on of Mr. President to declare his intention. They said that they were not flattering”, he stated.
Gulak, who is also the National Coordinator of the GSG, however quickly pointed out that Nigerians would have to wait until next year as his boss now only focuses on fixing Nigeria.
“The President had told the whole nation that his intention would only be known in 2014, as he would use all these years to work for Nigeria and work for Nigeria and work for Nigeria”, he observed.
Speaking further, Gulak said that Nigerians in the Diaspora, were enthusiastic about the organization when it launched its US branch.
“They told us that they would not only vote, but they would mobilize themselves to come back and register and also ask their relatives to vote for PDP”, he explained.
Those who attended the meeting include: Professor Adeniran, Senator Wash Pam, Halima D B Zang, HR Eze M O Kanu, Ambassor Yusuf Mamman, Alhaji Abba Dabo, and Alh Lili Gabbari.
Bayelsa, Kogi Guber: Don’t Succumb to Pressure, Group Cautions PDP Screening Committee
Opinion: What’s Next After Buhari’s Victory?
Buhari Signs Executive Order to Freeze Graft Suspects Assets
Edo 2020: Oba Of Benin Says “Godfatherism Must End”
Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. + 9 = thirteen
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842871
|
__label__wiki
| 0.951719
| 0.951719
|
Sanders’ adviser Chuck Rocha pens ‘road map’ to reaching Latinos
A former senior adviser to Bernie Sanders' failed presidential bid has a forthcoming book detailing the campaign’s strategy to win over Latino voters — and his own excruciating decision to turn down an offer to run the campaign.
Chuck Rocha, who served as an adviser to Sanders’ bid this year and in 2016, ran the campaign’s efforts to turn out Latinos, including in the senator’s early and overwhelming victory in the Nevada caucus.
The book, titled “Tío Bernie: The Inside Story of How Bernie Sanders Brought Latinos Into The Political Revolution," which will be released Aug. 19, describes Rocha’s journey into politics, his experience advising Sanders and his work to diversify one of the top Democratic presidential campaigns.
“I wrote this so there would be a road map for any politician or political organization to know how to reach out to our community and prove once and for all that if you invest in our community we will vote,” said Rocha. “I never, ever wanted to hear Latinos don't vote again after reading this book.”
In an excerpt provided to POLITICO, Rocha writes that in late 2018 he was put in charge of the talent search for Sanders’ forthcoming campaign. Jeff Weaver, a longtime Sanders adviser, gave Rocha parameters and wanted a woman or person of color to manage Sanders’ effort.
Rocha produced a diverse list of more than 100 senior political professionals, he writes. The list was comprised entirely of people of color or women. Those who made it past an initial screening over the phone would meet for a “secretive” lunch interview with Weaver and Rocha — on the Q.T. because Sanders had yet to announce his candidacy.
“Halfway through this process and after interviewing several possible campaign managers, Jeff came to me and said, ‘Would you consider the job? I trust you, Bernie trusts you and you would be perfect for this job,’” Rocha writes. “I was not expecting this.”
After weighing it for weeks, Rocha turned down the offer. He decided he didn’t want the demanding and sometimes negative public aspects of the campaign manager role.
Faiz Shakir, who previously worked for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ended up taking job, and Rocha described him as the “perfect manager.” Shakir was a “very level-headed calming figure,” whereas Rocha writes he would have been a “hair on fire” leader.
Rocha became a senior adviser to the campaign, building out operations in each state, hiring staff and running the Latino outreach program.
Learning from 2016, Rocha made Latino outreach a major focus of the campaign. Latino staffers were hired across the campaign rather than just under the banner of a Latino outreach division.
Sanders’ campaign held fútbol tourneys to reach voters and participated in Lotería nights. Every news release the campaign put out was viewed by at least one Latino staffer.
In an interview with POLITICO last October, Sanders said Latino voters were “enormously important” to his presidential bid. “The challenge that we face is that, historically, voter turnout in the Latino community is not very high,” said Sanders. “So we are doing everything we can in a variety of ways to organize.”
Rocha’s strategy proved successful in Iowa and Nevada. Latino voters were credited with keeping Sanders' campaign alive after Joe Biden surged back on Super Tuesday, boosted by a win in South Carolina days earlier. Sanders won a majority of Latino voters in California and staved off Biden for a victory in the state. Sanders won a plurality of Latinos in Texas but lost the state on Super Tuesday.
Rocha is now aiding Biden’s bid by focusing on turning out Latinos in November. In a joint effort between his Nuestro super PAC and Weaver’s America’s Progressive Promise, the former Sanders’ aides launched a seven-figure TV and digital buy last week that will run in Arizona, Michigan and North Carolina, in Spanish as well as in English.
“I'm super encouraged by everything I'm seeing from the Biden campaign, but still super worried [about] everything down-ballot from there,” said Rocha, pointing to Senate and House races in Colorado, Florida and North Carolina.
from Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories https://ift.tt/2Cz7zun
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842873
|
__label__cc
| 0.527707
| 0.472293
|
Slow cycle
Minna Hölttä
In its present form, the clothing industry is a polluter of water systems and a climate baddy. Materials recycling is not a sufficient answer, the whole system must change instead, says an expert on the circular fashion economy.
“Everything affects everything in the circular fashion economy. This is why cooperation between different sectors is so important,” says Professor Kirsi Niinimäki. Photo: Mikko Raskinen.
My grandad wore the same suit to weddings, birthday parties and funerals. My grandaunt’s wardrobe was so loosely filled that her winter dress, summer dress and party dress looked like valuable collector’s items hanging on display.
It’s a different story today, in the era of ten-euro T-shirts method. Associate Professor, Fashion Research, Kirsi Niinimäki says a major change occurred at the turn of the millennium, when fast fashion took over the market.
“The cycle has only intensified. There used to be four collections per year, but now Zara, for example, introduces a new collection at its stores every other week.”
The volume of global clothes production has doubled in fifteen years. Some 6.4m tonnes are consumed annually in Europe alone. The service life has decreased by more than a third in the same period. An acquired item of clothing will be kept in the wardrobe for an average of three years and worn on 44 days.
After this month-and-a-half of use, it is most likely destined for incineration or a landfill.
Valuable waste
The business model of the clothing industry is linear: you start with raw material and end up with waste. Only one percent of the materials used to make clothing is utilised as raw material for new clothes.
Niinimäki notes that virgin raw materials are likely to increase in value. For example, the current world market price of cotton is low, but, as demand grows and the amount of available arable land shrinks, this is bound to change.
The clothing industry generates about a tenth of global greenhouse emissions, more than shipping and international air traffic put together. Processing discarded clothes into raw material for new textile fibre would reduce emissions substantially and prevent the industry from losing €100b worth of raw materials.
Many challenges remain on the path to a circular fashion economy.
Some of these challenges are technical, such as how to separate different fibres from each other. Especially problematic is elastane, which is added to clothes to make them more comfortable. Elastane cannot be separated from other fibres mechanically or chemically. In addition, it shortens the service life of clothing and releases colour more readily than other fibres.
“This is why black stretch jeans, for example, fade really quickly,” Kirsi Niinimäki explains.
“Our knowledge of which fibres can be recycled with each method – and which ones can’t be recycled at all – is constantly improving. This knowledge needs to get to the start of production, on top of which we should ask whether we should be making some fibres at all?”
Colours from forests and fields
The success of fibre recycling is important – but it is only the beginning. In the circular economy, chemicals need to rotate as well. One fifth of the water pollution caused by global industry is due to the dyeing of textiles and the chemicals used in the process. Some parts of China already have completely spoiled groundwater.
“If we were to recycle also the dye contained in fibres, it wouldn’t be necessary to bleach and re-dye fibres again in the next phase,” Niinimäki explains.
There are also non-toxic alternatives to dyes. Niinimäki has been researching the possibilities of vegetable dyes for a long time. Her favourite is dyer’s woad, which yields the colour blue.
“It is very Finnish and special because only it and some lichen can provide a source of natural blue dye. In a sense, we are looking back at history, as we’ve lost a lot of knowledge along the way that can be adopted back into use, combined with new technology.”
Cultivation of dye plants would provide a fresh boost to agriculture. Dyes can also be extracted from the side streams of the food and forest industries, and they can be grown with the aid of bacteria.
In addition to research knowledge and technological solutions, what’s needed is open-mindedness on the part of all parties: designers, businesses and consumers. When the point of departure is not virgin fabric but recycled material, the result can, instead of a uniform navy blue, be 20 different shades of indigo.
“Why should it all be exactly the same shade of blue anyway?” Niinimäki asks.
“We need to get away from thinking in terms of mass production. Small factories could exploit local materials and waste to manufacture more individual products – that’s the future.”
Creativity and love
When Kirsi Niinimäki graduated as a textile designer in the 80s, Finland was still a mass producer of textiles and clothes. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and globalisation arrived.
“Now, I tell students how production progresses all the way to a finished product on the other side of the planet.”
After industry, Niinimäki made a career as an entrepreneur and then as head lecturer and training programme director at Metropolia. At Aalto, she conducts research and communicates the latest knowledge to the students.
The clothing industry has upturned completely during Niinimäki’s career and will look entirely different again thirty years from now. That’s why training emphasises the ability to learn, broad-based thinking and creative thought.
Students think about environmental loading constantly and, according to Niinimäki, almost all of them will undergo a crisis at some stage when they consider their own relationship with the industry.
“I myself try and encourage them to think on the system level, i.e. tell them that the circular economy is not about improving an individual product, it aims to change our entire way of producing and consuming. In future, we’ll design lifespans – and products that fit them – instead of designing products.”
Slowing down the materials cycle is an essential part of the change. That’s why the amount of various customisation, repair and rental services is growing. Kirsi Niinimäki believes that the structures of mass production can also be challenged.
“Fast fashion is, in fact, a really volatile business, which always involves excess production – that is then sold for a pittance or incinerated. What if everything was done according to the customer’s wishes and measurements, in a way that eliminate all waste?”
Niinimäki would counsel consumers to invest in quality and think carefully about what they buy.
“We should see our wardrobes as investments and fall in love with clothes over and over again.”
Reddish-brown colourants can be extracted from willow bark. Natural pigments have been employed in textile dyeing for thousands of years. Photo: Mikko Raskinen.
Find out more about the circular fashion economy from the book Sustainable Fashion in a Circular Economy (shop.aalto.fi) edited by Kirsi Niinimäki as well as the Ellen McArthur Foundation’s report New Textiles Economy: Re-designing Fashion’s Future (ellenmacarthurfoundation.org).
This article is published in the Aalto University Magazine issue 24 (issuu.com) April 2019.
In future we'll design lifespans instead of products.
Kirsi Niinimäki
Aalto Magazine, Research & Art Published: 4.11.2020
Parallel paths: Designer and materials scientist conjure up glimmering colours out of wood
Designer Noora Yau and materials scientist Konrad Klockars have used wood to conjure up a colour, which is transparent yet glows like a copepod in shallow water. The pair’s good chemistry and open attitude towards asking silly questions is a great help in their work.
Aalto Magazine Published: 4.11.2020
Precision solutions for healthcare
Biodesign Finland projects utilise biomaterials to repair tissue damage and support the recuperation of mental health patients with environmental design. Identifying needs correctly forms the point of departure for all this.
Technology to guide rehabilitation patients by the hand
Smart gloves, virtual goggles and artificial intelligence will be part of the health care of the future.
Aalto Magazine Published: 27.10.2020
A spark to change the world - Aalto alumnas' startup helps people make climate-positive choices
In the future, personal climate action will be as natural as personal finance is today.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842875
|
__label__cc
| 0.613678
| 0.386322
|
Select City Rourkela
AIRNET GIGA
BUSINESS LEASED LINE
New Connection
Gigabyte Plans
VOIP Plans
Exciting Offers
Please fill all details.
Select your location Your Location Rourkela Rajganpur Raipur Jamshedpur Jharsuguda Sundergarh Sambalpur Bolangir Puri Behrampur Bhubaneswar
UPGRADE DATA PLAN AND EXPLORE MAXIMUM STUFF ONLINE WHILE STAYING HOME DURING LOCKDOWN
UPGRADE YOUR INTERNET DATA PLAN
As the whole world is facing the serious issue of COVID-19, it is highly important for people to stay home to strengthen the fight against this pandemic. By staying home, you are not just helping your family to get infected from this deadly virus, but also helping your respective countries in their fight against coronavirus. During this hour of crisis, AIRNET Broadband makes a humble appeal to every citizen of India to stay in their homes and always wear mask while stepping out of their homes only in emergency cases.AIRNET understands that many of the people are working from home and in that way, all these people need a dedicated broadband connection at home for flawless work. Understating the need of the hour, the team of AIRNET strives to provide uninterrupted service to its prestigious customers. All the issues related to the connection are heard promptly and appropriate actions are taken to resolve the issue as soon as possible. However the team is doing everything to ensure faster internet speed and smooth operation of the service, we still urge our prestigious customers to contact us at Support@airnetcom.in or call us at +91 9776304040 for any problem.
How Is Internet Growing Faster In INDIA
INTERNET GROWTH
India, world’s fifth largest economy, had gone online officially on 15August 1995 despite all the testing had been done a day before its announcement on Independence Day. It was introduced for public by state-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL). But if you look at the history of internet in India then one will find that in 1986, Department of Electronics (DoE) had initiated a network called Educational Research Network (ERNET) which provided web access to educational and research communities. In 1995, National Informatics Centre had developed a network ‘NICNet’. It was introduced for communication between government organizations and institutions. Today India is standing firmly on the second rank in the number of highest internet users in the world.In last 25 years of its journey in India, internet has gone through various changes due to change of technologies. As per the latest Cisco Annual Internet Report, the growth of web users in India will witness two-fold increase in its number. The report states that the country will have over 907 million users of internet by the year 2023. It is poised to have web access for almost 64 per cent of its population. The number of web users in 2018 was 398 million, accounting to nearly 29 per cent of the population of India. So as per the report, the growth is quite promising and at par with average growth of the global web users which is expected to be remained around 66 per cent by 2023.According to CISCO report, devices and connections are comparatively growing at a rapid pace at 7 per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) in comparison to population at 1 per cent CAGR in India. This is one of the key reasons behind the growing rate of web users in the country. It is said that the devices and connections has received a tremendous growth from the Machine to Machine (M2M) modules like smart meters, video surveillance, transportation and asset tracking and growth of M2M connections will account for 25 per cent of total networked devices. Experts believe that the availability of low cost internet data and increase in mobile users are the key reasons behind this growth.It is also believed that smartphones will expected to contribute around 38% of all network devices by 2023 while on the other hand, Smart TVs will estimated to account for 12 per cent of total networked devices by the same year. As more and more users are now downloading applications on their devices for live streaming, social networking and gaming, it is expected that there will be 46.2 billion downloaded mobile applications by 2023 in which business productivity and e-commerce will play a crucial role.Looking at the rapid growth of the web users in India, the country will soon introduced 5G network for the public and it is expected that 67.2 million 5G connections will be made available for the people by 2023. However, 4G connection will remain the top choice of the users as it will be used on 53.1 per cent of total mobile connections in India. So in next couple of years, India will witness faster growth in its web users which is quite good and encouraging news for the Internet Service Providers in India.
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE CHOOSING INTERNET CONNECTION IN ODISHA
RIGHT INTERNET FOR YOU
Believe it or not, everyone uses internet in somewhere to other. From mobile phones to laptops and even Smart TVs now, people use internet on their devices. Mobile data speed and plans are usually limited and unstable. As a user you may face unstable connection speed while accessing the web world but when you are at home, it is always important to have stable, fast and reliable broadband connection. Getting the internet connection for home or business is not a difficult task but deciding which one is best is a tricky task. To make your choice easy, here are some of the key things that you should know before choosing the web connection not just in Rourkela, but also all parts of Odisha
Be Part Of Our Network
* Please Provide all details below.
Your Location Rourkela Rajganpur Raipur Jamshedpur Jharsuguda Sundergarh Sambalpur Bolangir Puri Behrampur Bhubaneswar
TERMS & CONDITIONS DISCLAIMER CUSTOMER POLICY
A-NET Communication. All Rights Reserved.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842877
|
__label__cc
| 0.558541
| 0.441459
|
[ http://www.acdn.net/spip/spip.php?article1219 ]
www.acdn.net > Homepage > News > News Articles >
Letter to Florence Parly: the defense minister is silent, the President replies
On 18 June 2020, the 80th anniversary of de Gaulle famous appeal in 1940, the president of ACDN (Action des Citoyens pour le Désarmement Nucléaire) had written to Mme Florence Parly, the minister of defense, sending copies to the President of the Republic, to the then PM, and to several other eminent leaders.
Published in French on 22 September 2020
Three months later the minister has still not replied, but the President has now done so and is encouraging her to do the same, via a letter from his cabinet head dated and posted on 14 September 2020:
" Monsieur le Président,
"The President of the Republic has received a copy of your correspondence sent to Madame Florence PARLY, minister of defense, and has given me the task of thanking you for it.
"Be assured that the Head of State has taken note of your observations concerning our nation’s defense policy.
I have not failed to draw Madame PARLY’s attention to your message.
Plese accept my good wishes,
"Brice BLONDEL"
This missive may be perplexing. Is it one of those letters that ministers’ offices commonly send, by which they politely fob off an importunate citizen saying that they have paid very close attention to a message that they won’t take the slightest account of? Or is it, on the contrary, the hint of a change in policy?
This time, however, there is a true problem, as our contemporaries say. Let’s call it a paradox, even an incongruity. To realise this, you should reread the words that ACDN’s president sent to Madame Parly, in particular their conclusion:
"You are, Madame la ministre, a fine example of French double language, duplicity, hypocrisy and cynicism concerning respect for international humanitarian law, as also in disarmament matters, conventional or nuclear. There is nothing there to be proud of. As citizens we are ashamed of that France.
In the ’after-world’ we are entering, Madame, the government you belong to needs to urgently change its discourse and its posture, put France’s defense in line with with her commitments, her Constitution, her republican values, and simply in line with reason.
’This is not a prayer, it is an order that must rise from the peoples to the governments, the order to choose between hell and reason’ (Albert Camus, Combat, 8 August 1945)"
So those are the words for which the President of the Republic thanks their author and to which he draws her defense minister’s attention, doubtless so that she will reply. "Double language, duplicity, hypocrisy and cynicism": how can the President accept those reproaches without flinching? Is he unaware that he inspires "our nation’s defense policy"? So now it should be not up to him but just to his minister, who shortly will be alone in charge? Would he disavow her?
We will see how Madame Parly gets rid of this sticky situation. To whom will she now pass the hot potato? To the minister of foreign affairs? To the minister’s office boy?
Meantime, we can always hold the crazy hope that France will soon initiate a radical revision of her defense policy. That the President will decide, for example, to invite the other nuclear-armed states to negotiate with France the concerted elimination of their arsenals. Or else, why not, that he will decide on his own authority to put to the French citizenry the question that ACDN wants to see put (for lack of a simpler procedure) by a shared-initiative referendum - parliament and citizens:
"Are you in favour of France participating in the abolition of nuclear and radioactive weapons and engaging with all the other states concerned in negotiations aimed at drawing up, ratifying and implementing a treaty to ban and completely eliminate nuclear and radioactive weapons, under mutual and international control that is strict and effective?"
If that still does not happen, recourse to stronger initiatives will doubtless be needed.
Saintes, 22 September 2020
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842880
|
__label__wiki
| 0.966812
| 0.966812
|
Linesman axed from FA Cup replay for Man City comment
The Metro reports that assistant referee John Brooks has been axed from duty for Tuesday’s FA Cup third round replay between West Brom and Queens Park Rangers.
The Leicestershire official was removed from the encounter at The Hawthorns in a bid to take him out of the spotlight after television cameras collected sound that had him telling Joleon Lescott to go and thank Manchester City’s travelling fans following their win at Arsenal on Sunday.
The visitors won the game 2-0, courtesy of first-half strikes from James Milner and Edin Dzeko. As the handshakes were taking place at full-time, Sky Sports picked up the comment that Brooks made to Lescott. He said: “They’ve paid 62 quid over there, go and see them.”
The build-up to the game on Sunday was dominated by City’s decision to return 900 unsold tickets, after they were priced at £62 each.
The match official, whose appointment at the Emirates Stadium was only his 14th Premier League game, has also been left off the list for the upcoming league fixtures this weekend.
See what the expert tipsters at OLBG are tipping on West Brom v Aston Villa
Hummels, Shawcross and Subotic said to be on Man City shortlist
Germany want England friendly
June 4, 2017 Stephen Donovan 0
Championship season review: Nottingham Forest, Preston, QPR, Reading
Nottingham Forest: 21st Yet again, there was a new manager in situ at Nottingham Forest heading into...
Football League Queens Park Rangers Reading
January 13, 2017 Sanket Kumar 0
Top ten clubs with highest net debt, Manchester United still on top?
The European Club Football Landscape report reveals that English giants Manchester United have accrued a debt of...
Europe Featured Column Football League Juventus Manchester United NewsNow Premier League Queens Park Rangers Serie A
Championship Season Review – MK Dons, Nott’m For, Preston, QPR
Milton Keynes Dons: 23rd (relegated) After knocking on the door for several seasons, MK Dons finally achieved...
Football League Queens Park Rangers
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842883
|
__label__cc
| 0.628915
| 0.371085
|
Category: West of the Pacific Ocean
Obasuteyama
It’s never easy to become old. Whether one is looking for a job at Walmart to supplement social security in the USA or attempting to define one’s self within a new social context in another society, the process of aging is one that comes with a slew of changes,...
Film Review: The Family Game (Kazoku Geemu)
Shattering the Rules: Deconstructing the The Family Game (Kazoku Geemu) The Family Game (Kazoku Geemu), a film by Yoshimitsu Morita, is, on the surface, the story of a contemporary Japanese family who hires a tutor to help the youngest son raise his grades so that he can get into...
Another Junk coming to Hawaii
This time it’s an actual junk not a raft called Junk made of junk. I think this is pretty cool. What do you think? Maybe I can get a ride to Asia with them. “We built the boat and sailed it to prove it could be done,” said barefooted...
Obama vs. Hillary, German Sex Education, and other tales of a good whipping.
Now that Obama has taken control of the Democratic side of the country, he is starting to get a little more aggressive towards John McCain, the guy who farts dust and learned to read in cuneiform. Everyone is talking about who each of them will pick…the lamest pick would...
California Museum Hosts China's Terra Cotta Warriors
More than a dozen Chinese terra cotta warriors crafted more than 2,000 years ago to protect their emperor in the afterlife have arrived in the United States with a very different mission: cultural ambassadors. As China gears up for the 2008 Olympics, the ancient life-sized clay statues of warriors,...
The VICE guide to North Korea
This is just too awesome…if you are as fascinated by the weirdness of North Korea…check this out. Warning…these videos are very addictive…watch one and you will watch them all because North Korea is like looking at planet wierd. cd The VICE guide to North Korea...
China unveils universal healthcare scheme
China’s health minister has announced an ambitious programme to provide basic healthcare for every citizen in the world’s most populous nation. Chen Zhu said the Healthy China 2020 programme would provide a universal national health service and promote equal access to public services. Mr Chen was speaking at the...
Film award honours 'hug guru'
Actress Sharon Stone has presented India’s famous female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, with an award for her humanitarian work. Amritanandamayi, also known as Amma, is best known for blessing her devotees with a hug. Stone presented the spiritual leader with the prize in Paris at human rights film festival Cinema...
Thailand's frenzy for amulets
For advertisers in Thailand, the most spectacular location to promote their products is on the side of the country’s tallest building, the Baiyoke Tower in Bangkok. But the image that appeared there a few weeks ago was not the usual logo for shampoo or a mobile phone company. It...
Taiwan's 'Pig of God' contest angers activists
Animal rights groups have expressed outrage at the force-feeding and sacrifice of the world’s heaviest pig in Taiwan. The obese pig was sacrificed as part of Taiwan’s Pig of God contest, an annual ceremony to honour President Chen Shui-bian. Animal activists filmed the pig’s slaughter, and the parading of...
Boris Johnson blasts Labour 'trolls' before free school meals vote January 18, 2021 4:41 am Daily Mail
'Mostly libertarian' demonstration gathered outside of closed, guarded Texas Capitol Sunday January 18, 2021 4:40 am KRON4 - California
SF web developer charged in Capitol riot January 18, 2021 4:40 am KRON4 - California
Tight Security In Springfield, Chicago, And Beyond Ahead Of Inauguration Day January 18, 2021 4:30 am CBS Chicago - Illinois
America braces for inauguration trouble as armed MAGA protesters gather at state capitols January 18, 2021 4:29 am Daily Mail
Joe Biden will lead memorial for the COVID dead on eve of his inauguration January 18, 2021 4:29 am Daily Mail
Trump will leave the White House at '8am Wednesday' - the morning of Biden's inauguration January 18, 2021 4:23 am Daily Mail
Ky. man accused of smashing window Babbitt tried to breach; N.M. man vowed to return to D.C. — and was caught when he did January 18, 2021 4:17 am The Washington Post
US markets offer opportunities and challenges to investors despite political turmoil January 18, 2021 5:00 am Nation
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842887
|
__label__wiki
| 0.576836
| 0.576836
|
LODGE RULES
I. Name and Affiliation of the Lodge
A. The name of the Lodge shall be Alibamu Lodge #179, Order of the Arrow, W.W.W.
B. The Lodge shall be affiliated with the Tukabatchee Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, and shall be under the administrative authority of the Scout Executive.
C. The totem of the Lodge shall be the right profile of an Indian brave wearing a one feathered headband.
D. The Lodge shall have an official Lodge neckerchief as approved by the Lodge Executive Committee.
1. Each Brotherhood/Vigil member shall have the opportunity to purchase one current official Lodge neckerchief that is not to be traded or resold.
2. Lodge neckerchiefs shall be worn only at Order of the Arrow functions.
E. Order of the Arrow sashes shall be worn only with the official Scout, Explorer, or Scouter uniform.
1. The sash may be worn by youth in ceremonial events.
II. Membership
A. Membership election requirements and procedures for youth and adults of this Lodge are as stated in the current printing of the Order of the Arrow handbook.
B. Ordeal Membership
1. Procedures for the Ordeal shall be as stated in the current printing of the Order of the Arrow handbook.
2. The Ordeal membership fee shall be payable at the time of the Ordeal induction. Payment of this fee shall entitle each new Ordeal member to receive a membership card, an OA sash, an OA handbook, and one current Lodge flap patch.
3. Ordeal ceremonies are normally held in the Spring and Summer
C. Brotherhood Membership
1. Completion of Brotherhood membership shall be in accordance with the requirements in the current printing of the Order of the Arrow Handbook.
2. The Brotherhood fee is payable at time of the Brotherhood induction and includes the cost of the Brotherhood sash.
3. Brotherhood ceremonies are normally held in conjunction with Ordeal ceremonies and at Fall Fellowship.
D. The Vigil Honor
1. Attainment of the Vigil Honor shall be in accordance with the requirements in the current printing of the OA handbook.
2. The Vigil Honor fee is payable at the time of the Vigil induction and includes the cost of the Vigil sash, BSA Vigil certificate, and card.
3. The Vigil ceremony is normally held at Fall Fellowship.
III. Lodge Officers
A. The officers of the Lodge shall be: Lodge Chief, Lodge Vice Chief, Lodge Secretary, and the Lodge Treasurer.
1. Officers must be registered in scouting, active, and in good standing with the Lodge.
2. Officer’s terms normally run from July 1 through June 30 for one year.
3. Officers must be under 21 years of age for the length of their term.
4. Officers may be re-elected provided they still meet the eligibility requirements.
5. Officers are elected at the Allogagan Ordeal.
a. If the nominee is present, he must agree to serve in the office being nominated for or his name will be withdrawn.
b. If the nominee is not present, the person submitting the nomination must have written and signed permission from the nominee to place his name on the ballot for that office.
c. The winner must have 50% of the votes cast plus one, of the members present or there will be a run-off between the top two vote getters.
d. Only OA Lodge members under the age of 21 may vote for Lodge Officers.
B. The Executive Committee shall be composed of the elected Lodge Officers, immediate Past Lodge Chief, Lodge Adviser, Associate Lodge Adviser(s), Lodge Camping Chairman and Adviser, Lodge Publications Chairman and Adviser, Lodge Service Chairman and Adviser, Lodge Vigil Chairman and Adviser, Lodge Ceremony Chairman and Adviser, Lodge Training Chairman and Adviser, Historian and History Committee Adviser, Cub Scout Chairman and Adviser, Special Events Chairman and Adviser, Merit Badge Day Chairman and Adviser, Drum & Dance Chairman and Adviser, Chapter Chief and Adviser for each Chapter, Scout Executive and Staff Adviser.
1. The Executive Committee shall conduct the business of the Lodge and shall coordinate the work being done by the officers and operating Committees.
2. Only youth members of the Executive Committee have a vote concerning Lodge business. Advisers advise only (see VI).
3. The Scout Executive, or his representative, has ultimate authority as Supreme Chief of the Fire.
C. The Lodge Adviser shall be appointed annually by the Scout Executive in consultation with the chairman of the Council Program Committee and the Lodge Chief.
D. The Lodge Chief shall appoint operating Committees and Committee chairman with the approval of the Lodge Adviser.
1. Committee Chairman shall be under the age of 21.
2. Adult Advisers for Committees will be appointed by the Lodge Adviser after consultation with the Lodge Chief.
3. Duties of the Committees will be established by the Lodge Executive Committee. Special Committees may be formed for conclaves/special events.
E. Members of the Executive Committee that can no longer function satisfactorily in their elected or appointed capacity may be replaced for the remainder of their term. Before this can be done, the affected member must have an opportunity to present their case to the Executive Committee.
1. Procedures to follow are in an enclosed Operating Procedure.
IV. Lodge Meetings
A. The Lodge shall conduct four Lodge events a year.
B. The Executive Committee shall conduct at least four meetings each year.
C. Special meetings of the Lodge or the Executive Committee may be called by the Lodge Chief, Lodge Adviser, Associate Lodge Adviser, or Scout Executive, with the approval of the Scout Executive or his designated representative.
1. All members of the Lodge and/or Executive Committee must be notified in sufficient time to enable them to attend the special meeting.
2. The Scout Executive or his designated representative must be in attendance.
D. All regular meetings of the Lodge and its Executive Committee shall be published.
E. All meetings of the Lodge should be opened with the Obligation of the Order of the Arrow and closed with the Order of the Arrow song.
F. All meetings of the Lodge and its Executive Committee shall be conducted according to the latest edition of Robert’s Rules of Order. (Revised)
G. All meetings of the Executive Committee will have minutes recorded that will show proposals made, actions taken, and members in attendance.
V. Lodge Finances
A. Dues will be set by the Executive Committee and published in the Lodge newsletter by Fall Fellowship.
B. Delinquent dues.
1. Dues not paid by the end of the annual Lodge banquet in January may have a $2.00 late fee added.
2. When one has not paid dues for over two years, a reinstatement fee of $10.00 may be charged.
3. Members delinquent in their dues also lose privileges of membership such as newsletters, voting, representing the Lodge at Conclaves and NOACs, and attending Lodge events such as banquets, ordeals, and Fall Fellowship.
4. Dues are not pro-rated for the year in which paid.
C. All Order of the Arrow funds will be handled through the council office and go through all the normal accounting procedures.
D. Neither the Lodge, Chapter, or members under its jurisdiction shall have the authority to bind the Tukabatchee Area Council or the Boy Scouts of America to any financial obligation.
E. Neither the Lodge or any Chapter under its jurisdiction may hold title to any real property.
F. Money-earning projects undertaken by the Lodge or any of its Chapters must file a BSA Money Earning Application and be approved in advance by the Lodge Executive Committee and the Scout Executive.
1. Lodge money earning applications must be presented by and be executed under the direct supervision of the Lodge Chief, Lodge Adviser, and Lodge Staff Adviser.
2. Chapter money earning applications must be presented by and executed under the direct supervision of the Chapter Chief, Chapter Adviser, and Chapter staff Adviser (District Executive).
G. Prices for patches and other items sold by the OA will be set by the Lodge Executive Committee.
VI. Voting
A. Adult Lodge members, age 21 or over, do not have a vote in matters of Lodge/Chapter business.
B. Youth Lodge members, under 21, vote on matters of Lodge /Chapter matters.
VII. Chapters
A. The Lodge shall be divided into Chapters according to the recommendations made by the Lodge Executive Committee, Lodge Adviser, and the Scout Executive.
1. Chapters are separate entities but are integral parts of the Lodge established to carry out the Lodge’s policies and progress as provided for in these rules and as adopted by the Lodge Executive Committee.
2. Chapters shall be under supervision of the respective District Program Committee and the respective District Scout Executive and under the administrative authority of the Scout Executive.
B. Chapter officers of each chapter shall be Chapter Chief, Chapter Vice Chief(s), and Chapter Secretary.
1. Chapter officers must meet the same requirements as Lodge officers as stated in III, A, 1-5, above.
C. Each Chapter shall have a Chapter Adviser appointed by the Scout Executive in consultation with the Lodge Adviser, the Chairman of the respective District Program Committee and the respective District Scout Executive. D. Chapters shall only have the same operating committees as the lodge. The Chairman of these committees shall be appointed by the Chapter Chief with the approval of the Chapter Adviser and shall be members of the corresponding Lodge operating committees.
E. All Chapter meetings shall be conducted according to the latest edition of Robert’s Rules of Order (Revised).
F. Chapter officers that can no longer function satisfactorily in their
elected or appointed capacity may be replaced for the remainder of their term.
1. Procedures to follow are enclosed in an Operating Procedure.
VIII. Authority
A. The Lodge Executive Committee, Lodge Adviser, and Scout Executive shall have the right to interpret these Lodge rules.
B. The Lodge Executive Committee shall write and implement the required operating procedures for these Lodge rules.
C. The Scout Executive shall be the ultimate authority of the Lodge.
D. Nothing in these rules, printed or not, will conflict with the rules
established by the current issue of the Order of the Arrow Handbook or the Administrative Guide for Officers.
IX. Amendments to the Rules
A. These rules are subject to amendment at any regular or special meeting of the Lodge provided:
1. The amendment(s) is/are submitted in writing to the Lodge membership so that they have sufficient time to study the changes (normally 30+ days).
2. A date is established for voting on the amendment(s).
3. Amendment(s) is/are approved or disapproved by simple majority vote (50% plus 1 vote ) of the members voting.
APPROVED by the Lodge voting membership on May 3, 1996
AMENDED by the Lodge voting membership on January 9, 1999
AMENDED by the Lodge voting membership on October 8, 1999
AMENDED by the Lodge voting membership on May 10, 2015
AMENDED by the Lodge voting membership on December 3, 2016
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842889
|
__label__wiki
| 0.976318
| 0.976318
|
Chechen president sues activist
Kadyrov files defamation case for being blamed for Natalya Estemirova’s murder.
Natalya Estemirova was found dead with bullet wounds in Ingushetia in July [AFP]
Estemirova, a 50-year-old single mother, was found dead in the city of Nazran in Ingushetia, which neighbours Chechnya in Russia’ volatile Caucasus region, on July 15.
‘Destabilising Chechnya’
Her body, which was found with two shot wounds to the head, was discovered just hours after she was seized from her home in Grozny, the Chechen capital.
Chechen president blamed for activist’s death
Chechnya’s battle for independence
Witness: Chechen fighters
Witness: Chechen syndrome
Witness: Lost children of Chechnya
Orlov, in a posting on Memorial’s website after her body was found, had said: “I know, I am sure of it, who is guilty for the murder of Natalya … His name is Ramzan Kadyrov”.
But Kadyrov denied any involvement, and said he would oversee the investigation into her killing.
The Chechen president did not appear in court on Friday, but Andrei Krasnenkov, his lawyer, said Orlov’s comments were destabilising Chechnya.
Chechnya and other parts of the Russian Caucasus remain the site of a deadly insurgency led by Muslim fighters against the pro-Kremlin local authorities, who in turn have been accused of human rights abuses.
Security forces are being killed in clashes with fighters on an almost daily basis.
Ongoing attacks against human rights activists has led Memorial and other human rights organisations to suspend their operations in Chechnya.
Charity head found dead in Chechnya
Bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and husband discovered after abduction in Grozny.
Video: Chechen activist found dead
The head of a Russian charity and her husband who were kidnapped in Grozny have been found shot dead, officials say.
Q&A: Murder of Chechen activist
Al Jazeera speaks to friend of murdered activist Natalia Estemirova about her death.
Kadyrov denies murdering activist
Chechnya’s president denies responsibility for killing of human rights activist.
China’s economy grew faster than expected in 2020
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842891
|
__label__cc
| 0.665668
| 0.334332
|
Beasts of Burden
Greetings travelers! Simsaladoo here with another update! Still feeling refreshed after my own adventures to Dubai, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, I now have some exciting new developments to cover! Almerra has always been a nature-heavy development in terms of the climates and features, and some of the recent work accomplished helped add a lot more diversity and life to it. Many improvements on the AI and coding side have made it into the latest build (#0075) and there's even some new cinematic sequences that are in progress but today, I'd like to show some climate and animals that have made it into the wilds. New Climate Type
Desert (Dahlak)
The Rowani lands are mostly desert with some lush tropics, from which I've taken references from the Dahlak Archipelago in the Red Sea. Acacia trees, sandstone, cactus, desert grasses and shrubs are all setup for this climate. The weather record is also setup for the islands this climate is used with, meaning the rate for a year is setup for triggering the reduced rainfall and increased sandstorms. The exposure is also increased in these areas which will add to the chance of heat exhaustion and dehydration debuffs, affecting your agility and animation speeds. Resting during the hottest parts of the day and staying in shaded areas naturally will reduce the exposure, as sun ray traces continually check for your sun-lit stealth rating.
New Creatures
Camels have been setup and more animations in progress! The lovely camels are also close to being ready for the mount system, still needing mounting and riding animations and some back end data for the physics based reigns. Camels are home in the Rowani Empire's lands and make for a much more stable shooting platform than the horse, sacrificing some dexterity for increased health and rider stability. Camels are also slower than horses but much smarter so they will not act up as badly as the horse may under critical stress situations.
Elephants The Elephants are coming! Wild elephants have already been setup in the wilds, but now Elephants are equipped to be mounted units in-game. The elephants in Almerra are originally from the Graatian lands, but have found their way to many other parts of the map mostly by trade. They are the slowest and highest health units in the game, able to take on just about any other mounted units since they offer the most health, most stable archery shooting platform and the most protection from opposing troops, mounted or not. Their tusks are usable by the driver, and up to two archers can ride and freely walk around on the castle. AI-riding units still need more work naturally but the player driven/owned setup is working well. Getting into the castle on its back is done via the interaction system and still needs climb animation, but works behind the scenes already since all the mounts use the same base class. Once in the tower you can move around and practice archery and throwing weapons as usual, using crouch to duck behind the sides. You can also drive the Elephant directly by 'using' the reigns, which puts you into the Landcraft camera mode following the animal.
Horses are also working and slowly creating variations! Riding mounts of any kind is extremely essential in Almerra since the lands are so vast and unforgiving with creatures and bandits. Horses are a staple for every nation due to their abundance and speed, and also come in a variety of breeds and pedigree, depending on your coin. They offer an efficient mode of transportation with their high speed over other mount types, while also having a good amount of dexterity.
White Sharks Sharks! Sharks! Sharks! This was a very fun and simple asset to implement as it will just spawn in and one shot AI or the player if left out in deep sea for too long. You could also try to bait yourself off of a vessel, and when they come andl circle the area it will make them open for harpooning. Just don't try to swim across the ocean and you'll be fine.
AI Combat Development
Many other AI combat aspects have been getting worked on, namely their decision tree for fighting solo vs. in formations, their weapon choices from inventory, and AI's footwork patterns using said weapon choice. The Green traces above represent the actor's target and Red are Throwing weapon trajectories for debugging, and with some more footwork scripting and formation following, I think the system will be very fun. More work needs to be done to help prevent the friendly-fire though. X-D More unique weapons like the katana, sabres, yew bows and many other items have been added to the growing inventory list and are coming into play when simulating AI battles for debugging. On that note, 2019 was an exciting year and this year has many exciting things on the horizon. 2020 brings the final roadmap for the development pipeline for the game, beginning grant applications for unreal engine and the beginning of steam implementation before finally applying to the steam greenlight program. As such, this means Winds of Almerra should be on course for a 2021 release build if all goes smoothly. I'd like to thank everyone for reading and showing interest in the project, and safe travels.
Cheers, Simsaladoo
paper_edited_edited_edited
Prepare for the adventure
©2020 Sim's Lab All Rights Reserved
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842896
|
__label__wiki
| 0.934516
| 0.934516
|
Teachers union calls for delay to January school reopening
Dec 28th 2020 8:30AM
A teachers union is calling for a delay to the reopening of schools in January as the Government hopes to push ahead with its new year plan.
Earlier this month, the Government said exam-year students would go back to school as normal after the Christmas holidays, but the majority of secondary school pupils would start the term online to allow headteachers to roll out mass testing of children and staff.
Officials from Downing Street and the Department for Education are due to discuss the issue on Monday amid concerns over the spread of a new strain of coronavirus.
Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of the NASUWT wrote to the Education Secretary on Monday demanding further action on school safety.
The letter calls for Gavin Williamson to allow schools to move to remote learning for all pupils, except those deemed to be vulnerable or the children of key workers, in the highest tier areas.
“Delaying the return of pupils to schools and colleges at the start of the spring term will also enable all school and college employers to undertake and consult as required on new risk assessments and ensure that they can be compliant with any new measures or requirements contained in any forthcoming national guidance,” it says.
The union is also asking the Government to publish new safety guidance in light of the new Covid-19 variant, introduce mandatory face coverings within schools and give staff priority access to the vaccine.
It came as Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the Government hopes the staggered reopening of schools in England will go ahead in the new year as planned.
Speaking to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Mr Gove said ministers were confident primary school pupils and Year 11 and Year 13 pupils in England would be able to return in the first week of January, with the rest going back later in the month.
Earlier this month, the Government said the majority of secondary school pupils would start the term online (Jane Barlow/PA)
“It is our intention to make sure we can get children back to school as early as possible,” he said.
“We are talking to teachers and headteachers in order to make sure we can deliver effectively. But we all know that there are trade-offs.
“As a country we have decided – and I think this is the right thing to do – that we prioritise children returning to school.
“But we have a new strain and it is also the case that we have also had, albeit in a very limited way, Christmas mixing, so we do have to remain vigilant.
“We are confident that we will be able to get schools back in good order. Our plan and our timetable is there, and we are working with teachers to deliver it.”
He told Sky News: “We always keep things under review but teachers and headteachers have been working incredibly hard over the Christmas period since schools broke up in order to prepare for a new testing regime – community testing – in order to make sure that children and all of us are safer.”
Scientists have suggested that the mutated coronavirus strain could more easily infect children.
The National Education Union has previously said the Government should allow schools to move classes online for most pupils for a fortnight in January to allow Covid-19 cases to fall.
Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the arguments for reopening schools in January were “very finely balanced”.
“I think the next few weeks going into January are going to be extremely difficult across the whole country,” Sir Jeremy, director of the Wellcome Trust, told Today.
“Certainly my own view is that schools opening is an absolute priority. But society – and eventually this is a political decision – will have to balance keeping schools open, if that is possible, with therefore closing down other parts of society.
“It is going be a trade-off between one or other. You cannot have everything. You cannot have the whole of society opening, and schools opening and further education and universities, and keep R below 1 with this variant.”
Labour’s shadow education secretary Kate Green said: “Labour has been clear that keeping pupils learning should be a national priority, but a litany of Government failures, from a lack of funding for safety measures through to the delayed and chaotic announcement of mass testing, is putting young people’s education at risk.
“It is time for the Prime Minister to get a grip on the situation and show some leadership.
“The country needs to hear from him today, alongside the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser, about the evidence on the spread of the virus, how he plans to minimise disruption to education and a clear strategy for schools and colleges that commands the support of parents, pupils and staff.”
What the papers say – January 18
Victorian premier tells tennis players "there's no special treatment here"
Joe Biden in profile
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: United didn't pounce on Liverpool's injury crisis
Kremlin critic Navalny lands in Moscow
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842902
|
__label__wiki
| 0.556109
| 0.556109
|
Welcome Message from the School Director
Esol Education: Our Schools
ASHK Calendar 2020 - 2021
ASHK Newsletter
Our Opening Hours & Location
Why ASHK
Admissions Principles
Join a School Tour
Eligibility for Admissions
ASHK Brochure
Bus & Lunch
Inclement Weather Procedures
Extra Curricular Activities (ECA)
Sports and Athletics Program
Outreach and Service Learning
STEAM at ASHK
EAL at ASHK
American School Parents' Association
Fairgreen International School
Attend one of our open days or community evenings and meet our Director, John Jalsevac. Hear first hand his plans for American School Hong Kong and be inspired by his vision. Register here.
To provide a challenging American and international education program that empowers students to be independent critical thinkers and responsible global citizens who excel in their future studies and careers.
You can enroll your child for our current academic year, 2020-2021. Start your journey here.
We currently employ a rolling admissions policy and will accept applications throughout the school year. You may contact our Admissions team to help you through the application process or to discuss the options for your child. Feel free to contact us now.
Designed to offer our students with an opportunity to experience new pursuits and explore existing passions, our after-school program provides an array of choices to include student council, kickball, robotics, cross country, cooking, woodwind master class, pottery, football, and basketball to name just a few!
Fully accredited for grades KG-G8 by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges (MSA), two leading accrediting commissions for Schools in the United States.
STEAM is an integrated approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics to guide student inquiry, collaboration, and critical thinking.
Discover the warm ASHK community where we celebrate individualism, creativity, imagination, and achievement.
Explore ASHK
Discover the exciting news and events in our school.
Message from ASHK School Director Mr. John Jalsevac - Dec 2020
6 Ma Chung Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Main Line: +852 3919 4100
Admissions: +852 3919 4111
American School Hong Kong is a non-profit international school offering a holistic American education taught by North American teachers. The school is operated by Esol Education, bringing 40 years experience in operating K-12 international schools and currently educating 10,000 pupils in 11 schools across three continents. ASHK delivers a rigorous curriculum, focused on developing well-rounded, motivated, and thoughtful global citizens. It equips students with the academic, social, and entrepreneurial skills required for success in the 21st century.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842916
|
__label__cc
| 0.726989
| 0.273011
|
Verod completes acquisition of AXA Mansard Pensions Limited
Verod Capital Management Limited (“Verod” or “Verod Capital”) today announced the completion of the acquisition of 100% of AXA Mansard Pensions Limited (“the Company”), a licensed pension fund administrator that offers retirement savings accounts and pension fund administration services to both private and public sector employees in Nigeria. The transaction is subject to receipt of final approval from the National Pension Commission.
“We strongly believe that this is the ideal time to enter the market and that AXA Mansard Pensions provides an excellent beachhead from which to establish a consolidated position and positively contribute to the continued development of the industry,” said Eric Idiahi, Partner at Verod. “The National Pension Commission continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to raising standards within the industry and driving pension penetration rates in the short to medium term. We believe that sustaining AXA Mansard Pension’s industry-leading investment returns, excellent customer service, as well as, expanding distribution network and product offerings will facilitate the capture of the considerable growth potential within the Nigerian pensions industry, particularly following the opening of the transfer window.”
Speaking on the transaction, Dapo Akisanya, CEO of AXA Mansard Pensions Limited said, “We are confident about Verod’s strong commitment to providing us with the requisite support to actualize our promise to our clients and stakeholders. As a major West African investor with deep local knowledge and presence, we look forward to harnessing Verod’s unique, and world-class, attributes towards setting new standards in the industry. Verod has the capacity, expertise, and network, to support the business to continue to expand and to provide innovative solutions for the benefit of our current and future clients”.
AXA Mansard Pensions was incorporated as Penman Pensions Limited in 2006 and AXA Mansard Insurance Plc has been a majority shareholder in the company since 2014. In February 2020, AXA Mansard Insurance Plc announced its intention to divest from the Company to focus on its main objectives. The acquisition of AXA Mansard Pensions Limited follows Verod’s investments in the financial services space with previous investments in Central Securities Clearing Systems Plc, UTL Trust Management Services Limited (formerly Union Trustees) and Tangerine Life Insurance Limited (formerly Metropolitan Life Insurance).
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842920
|
__label__wiki
| 0.893252
| 0.893252
|
AMD announces new GlobalFoundries deal
Written by Gareth Halfacree
Tags: #fabless #fabrication #finance #financial #lisa-su #manufacturing #shares #stock
Companies: #amd #globalfoundries
AMD has announced it is making another payment to GlobalFoundries, the company formed by spinning off former AMD fabrication facilities when the chip designer chose to go fabless, in order to allow it to farm out manufacturing to third parties - but in doing so is taking a whopping $335 million charge and paying GlobalFoundries for every wafer it purchases from rivals.
In the years since AMD spun off its fabrication facilities as The Foundry Company, later GlobalFoundries, the company has made a number of major payments to its once and former subsidiary - largely relating to exclusive manfuacturing deals between the two companies. In 2012 AMD sold its final stake in GlobalFoundries and amended its wafer supply agreement in order to allow APU products to be built at rival facilities. However, that same year AMD would renegotiate again following weaker-than-expected demand for APUs, paying $320 million for wafers it had agreed to purchase but now no longer needed.
Now, the company is once again amending its deal with GlobalFoundries in an agreement which covers the next half-decade. 'The five-year amendment further strengthens our strategic manufacturing relationship with GlobalFoundies while providing AMD with increased flexibility to build our high-performance product roadmap with additional foundries in the 14nm and 7nm technology nodes,' claimed Lisa Su, AMD president and chief executive, of the renegotiated agreement. 'Our goal is for AMD to have continued access to leading-edge foundry process technologies enabling us to build multiple generations of great products for years to come.'
Under the new terms, which run through to 2020, AMD has established a framework for technology collaboration between the two companies as a means to reach a 7nm process node, set minimum wafer purchase targets - the issue which cost it $320 million back in 2012 - and has agreed terms that will allow it to spread manufacturing across additional fabrication companies. However, these terms come at a cost: AMD has agreed to pay $100 million in cash to GlobalFoundries, spread across 2016 and 2017, and will make unspecified quarterly payments to GlobalFoundries for every wafer it purchases from the company's rivals. AMD is also to issue a warrant for 75 million shares at $5.98 per share, costing it around $235 million.
In total, the new deal will see AMD hit with a $335 million one-off charge in the third quarter of this year, with ongoing costs from the third-party wafer supply agreements to continue into the future. For a company which has long been struggling financially, it's hard to see the terms of the deal in a particularly positive light.
GlobalFoundries puts 7nm on indefinite hold
Forces AMD to go all-in with TSMC.
August 28, 2018 | 11:31
AMD boasts of revenue boost, hit by $406 million quarterly loss
GlobalFoundries to blame.
October 21, 2016 | 09:20
AMD chalks up much-needed Alibaba Cloud win
Radeon Pro heads to Chinese datacentres.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1842949
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.