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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose addressing the media
UPDATED: EkitiDecides2018: Fayose votes, speaks on security, PDP’s performance
byKemi Busari
The outgoing Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused security agencies of hijacking the ongoing Ekiti State governorship election.
Mr Fayose accused Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress of using security apparatus for party gains. PREMIUM TIMES has, as at the time of this report, not witnessed any large scale manipulations or harassment by security officials at the different polling units visited.
The governor said this after casting his vote at polling unit 1, St. David Primary School, Afao.
He arrived the unit at about 1:15 p.m.
While describing them as “enemy of Nigeria,” he accused the security officers of making several arrests of PDP members.
He said his party, PDP, will win the election to matter what.
Mr Fayose’s deputy, Olusola Eleka, is the candidate of the PDP. His main challenger is ex-governor Kayode Fayemi of the APC.
“This is a national disgrace…national disaster and there is danger ahead. Remember we raised all these issues. As I speak to you, thugs are snatching ballot boxes everywhere under the cover of the police. And what they call see and buy money politics is thriving everywhere with the police and civil defence giving sides to the people who are paying so that they can buy the voters.
“This is a national disaster and I raised all these alarms that this election may be marred by violence and that is exactly what is happening. In almost all local government, PDP chieftains are being arrested – council chairmen, House of Representative members… majority of my people are being arrested. My Chief of Staff is in detention. He was arrested about an hour ago,” the governor said.
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PREMIUM TIMES was not able to verify most the arrests mentioned by Mr Fayose as at the time of this report.
Mr Fayose said that such situation could thrive because the “wicked” are in authority.
For their role in the ongoing election, he described security operatives as enemies of Nigeria.
“We fight corruption but wrong people in authority is the worst thing that can happen. When the wicked are in authority this is what you see.
“If this is the sample of what will happen in 2019, I think it’s a lost ground and a hopeless expectation.
“I want to say very expressly that the security agencies are the enemies of this nation. They have taken over the election from INEC. They are not picking calls.
Asked how is health is, he said, “it is getting better. It is my duty to vote”
“Ekiti people were prepared for this election; but Ekiti people were contesting with the security operatives.”
On card reader, he said there have been complaints in over half of the polling units in the state.
“Do you want to believe that card readers are not functioning in more than 50 per cent of the polling units,” he questioned.
Despite the challenges, Mr Fayose said he is confident his party will win the election.
“I’m winning this election. There is a difference between what I’m seeing and what’s happening. On top of what they are doing, in this state, I’m in charge by 80 per cent. I won the last election by 82,000 votes. How would they recover from 82, 000 votes even if you cut off 82,000 heads? They can’t get far.
“Life or death that they are carrying around I’ll still winning this election. But beyond my winning this election, this country is in serious crisis.
I wonder if a government that came to power through popular votes and defeated an incumbent that conceded; all the security agencies are totally working for APC. They gave 64 pickups to APC candidate to make arrests. When you ask senior police officers, they tell you they are not aware.”
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CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF, LT.-GEN. YUSUF BURATAI (R), WELCOMING THE COMPTROLLER- GENERAL, NGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE, RETIRED COL. HAMEED ALI, TO THE ARMY HEADQUATERS IN ABUJA
Customs considers reopening Borno border posts to fight arms influx
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Hameed Ali, said the organisation would consider reopening the customs posts at Gamboru Ngala and Banki border posts in Borno State to fight arms influx and curtail insurgency.
Mr. Ali said this during his visit to defence formations, including the Defence Intelligence Agency and Nigerian Air Force and Nigeria Police on Thursday in Abuja.
The comptroller-general said for customs to achieve its target, it needed the support of the military, police and intelligence agencies.
Mr. Ali, a retired colonel, said smuggling of small arms and ammunition had to be prevented in view of the current insurgency in the country.
He said the essence of the visit was to further strengthen synergy between the police, intelligent agencies, service chiefs and customs, to have a safer country and a viable economy.
Mr. Ali said customs would consider reopening the border posts due to the request by the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai.
“Why not, we will consider the post. We are here to know what their (military) challenges are, what they want us to do as much as we want them to do certain things for us.
“If the post will provide the enabling environment for people to operate, we will consider that.
“Small arms importation or smuggling is endemic; it is a problem to all of us and the military. We are doing everything to make sure we stop this thing.
“Our biggest problem is insurgence and this thing has gone beyond small arms; now people import big arms, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers through the ports and water side.
“So we have responsibility to stop these people from coming in; if we can reduce the number of arms that gets into the country, we can assure Nigerians that there will be safety by the security,” Ali said.
The customs boss called for the cooperation of the service chiefs to curb the influx of small fire arms and explosives across the over 4,000-kilometre borders of the country.
Mr. Ali requested for training of customs officers on aircraft surveillance piloting, security intelligence, maritime logistics and army cooperation from the service.
In his remark, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, requested for the reopening of the border posts at Gamboru Ngala and Banki to clear the activities of insurgents.
Mr. Buratai, a lieutenant general, urged Mr. Ali to return Customs post to other places that had been cleared of insurgents in Borno, to boost soldiers’ morale and support the fight.
“We will work together to ensure this smuggling is curbed and eliminated in the long run.
“The Customs is the gateway to the Nigerian economy and the gateway to Nigeria because their role around the border is crucial.
“Let me request for the return of our Customs border posts around some of these areas, which have been captured from insurgents, especially Gamboru-Ngala and Banki.
“Though economic activities have not fully returned to those areas, our troops are there and we will appreciate it if the customs returns to those areas so that you will also support our fight against insurgency.
“The fight against insurgency is not strictly for the Nigerian military alone; it is for all Nigerians.
“The earlier we establish this fact, the better for all of us. Our troops on the field have been doing well; they require the continued support of all Nigerians both morally and otherwise,” Mr. Buratai said.
On his part, the Chief of Air Staff, Sadiq Abubakar, urged Customs to enlist its men into the international air training school in Enugu.
Mr. Abubakar, an air marshal, said its officers were being trained in Portugal to perfect the building of local operational Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (drone) and make them available for customs and other paramilitaries.
The Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok-Ete Ibas, commended Custom’s anti-corruption posture, saying, “I share in your vision of sanitising the system to enhance the nation’s economic survival.”
Mr. Ibas, a vice admiral, said that the Navy would assist in training customs’ marine command officers to curb imports diversion in the over 3,000 creeks and estuaries in the nation.
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WASHINGTON – (RealEstateRama) — About 10.5 million American households, or roughly 8.9 percent, reported that in the past month their access to adequate food was limited by a lack of money and other resources, according to new 2015 American Housing Survey data released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau.
For the first time in its 42-year history, the American Housing Survey included questions on food security status, which allowed HUD to assign households a “food security status” score. Using these categories, about 10.5 million occupied households were classified as having “low” or “very low” food security, which is commonly known as being “food insecure.”
The survey also looked at homeownership, race, and having a disability in relation to food security. Results showed that 4.9 percent of homeowners and 15.5 percent of renters were food insecure, meaning they had “low” or “very low” food security.
“For over 40 years, the American Housing Survey has been America’s premier source of data on housing costs and quality,” said Katherine O’ Regan, HUD’s Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research. “Working closely with experts at the Department of Agriculture, we added food insecurity to this survey to better understand the balance many lower income households face between the cost and quality of their housing and putting food on the table.”
The Department of Housing and Urban Development in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture included the questions to determine whether the dietary quality or food consumption of household members was reduced or normal eating patterns were disrupted because the household lacked money for food any time during the last month. One adult respondent per household was asked questions about experiences and behaviors that indicate food insecurity, such as being unable to afford balanced meals, cutting the size of meals because of too little money for food, or being hungry because of too little money for food.
The American Housing Survey is collected every other year by the Census Bureau and is the most comprehensive housing survey in the United States. It covers topics such as housing characteristics, housing costs, home improvements and neighborhood characteristics. In addition to food insecurity, the 2015 American Housing Survey includes three other new topics: the health and safety of homes, use of housing counseling, and importance of arts and culture. In addition to these topics, new questions explore the opinions of Americans on petty and major crime, satisfaction with schools, satisfaction with public transportation and risk for flooding or disasters.
Results showed that 16.9 percent of black householders, 19.5 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native householders, and 21.4 percent of Pacific Islander householders were food insecure, all significantly higher than that of white householders, at 7.5 percent.
About 16.6 percent of households with a person with a disability were food insecure, reporting “low” or “very low” food security, as opposed to 6.9 percent of households without a person with a disability.
In addition to the new survey topics, the American Housing Survey covers topics such as physical housing characteristics and financial characteristics. Below are highlights from the 2015 national and metropolitan statistical area level findings among the 118,290,000 occupied units. More information on 25 selected metropolitan areas will be available later this year.
The median cost for electricity was $104 per month (renters $82, owners $117), $53 per month for piped gas (renters $42, owners $58), and $133 per month for fuel oil (renters $100, owners $150).
Median rent was $790 per month. This ranged from $250 for “other units,” such as boats, RVs or vans to $833 for single-unit, attached homes.
The median monthly cost paid for water was $46 per month.
Of the 70.4 million households that purchased or built their homes, 13.2 percent had no down payment; 12.6 percent put 5 percent or less down; 12.9 percent had a down payment of 6 to 10 percent; 18.0 percent put 11 to 20 percent down, 15.2 percent put 21 percent or more down; and 8.4 percent bought the home outright. The rest did not report.
Of owner-occupied units, 40.9 percent were owned free and clear, 53.6 percent had at least one regular or home-equity lump-sum mortgage only, and 5.0 percent had at least one home equity line of credit. The remainder had reverse mortgages.
Most homeowners with a regular and/or home-equity mortgage had only one mortgage (95.0 percent), 5.0 percent had two mortgages and less than 1.0 percent had three or more.
Well over a third, or 38.4 percent, of homeowners with a primary mortgage refinanced. While most refinanced for a lower interest rate, 71.2 percent (11.5 million homeowners), others did so to receive cash, 11.7 percent. The median amount of cash received from refinance was $28,000. The median percent of that spent on home additions, improvements and repairs was 10.0.
Owner Home Improvement
In a typical year, owners spent a median of $500 on routine maintenance or regular maintenance activities necessary for the preventive care of the structure, property and equipment. Such activities included painting, fixing leaks, repairing fences, cleaning gutters and removing dangerous trees.
There were 43.9 million households, or 59.0 percent, that performed more than 123.5 million home improvement projects, other than routine maintenance, in the last two years, spending more than $431.1 billion, with a median of $1,200 per job.
Around one third, or 33.6 percent, of owner-occupied units had at least one home improvement project in the last two years completed for energy efficiency purposes, 6.8 percent did at least one project to improve accessibility for an elderly person or a person with a disability, and 3.5 percent did at least one project to prepare the home for sale.
Householders of about 18.1 percent of all occupied housing units reported living near a body of water, and 14.4 percent of those reported that the unit was actually on waterfront property. In contrast, nearly 46.0 percent of all seasonal units were near a body of water, 53.5 percent of which were located on waterfront property.
Of the 59.8 million housing units in subdivisions (including multiunits and groups of mobile homes), 15.1 percent were located in secured communities with walls or fences, comprising 7.6 percent of all occupied units.
Of the 21.8 percent of all occupied housing units with a person age 55 or over, 11.3 percent were located in age-restricted communities. Of the remaining 88.7 percent, 24.4 percent said the majority of their neighbors are age 55 or over.
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Let’s be honest about school choice
Chris Stewart November 20, 2020
Editor’s note: This commentary from Chris Stewart, executive officer of Brightbeam and redefinED guest blogger, published earlier this week on Education Post.
School choice strawmen are a formidable army that thinking people have yet to defeat.
Nevertheless, we must keep trying.
As a reader who casually consumes education debate in mass media, I understand if you see school choice as a stealth scheme, devised by racist wealthy people to destroy wonderfully performing public schools that produce annual bumper crops of democratic fruit in the form of well-adjusted citizens.
Our teachers work so hard, and our schools get so little funding. Fix those two things, and there is no need for choice. Or, so we’re told.
Add to the mix a towering voice like the American Federation of Teachers’ Randi Weingarten, who tells you that charter schools—which are one primary form of school choice—are the “polite cousin of segregation,” what else would you believe?
On that point, I’d ask you to consider the fact that Weingarten started two New York charter schools herself, which, perhaps it logically follows, makes her the gentle aunt of segregation. If nothing else, it makes her a good symbol for the duplicitous nature of education politics and debate.
The truth is that school choice theory predates the convenient points in time that its critics use to bludgeon it. Long before the racist “segregation academies” school choice opponents rightfully say were erected in the south to publicly fund white private havens from desegregation, there were full-blown choice programs that provided vouchers for families to use at public or private schools. The oldest of these programs dates back to 1869 in Vermont.
And, to broaden the scope, we should call in Ashley Berner’s excellent research that explains school choice as a global norm in advanced countries. In fact, the United States is an educational outlier for not publicly supporting private education.
In a report she wrote for the Manhattan Institute (“The Case for Educational Pluralism in the U.S.”) she says:
A majority of the world’s democracies support school systems in which the state funds and regulates but does not necessarily operate, a mosaic of schools. The Netherlands, for example, supports 36 different types of schools—including Catholic, Muslim, and Montessori—on an equal footing. The U.K., Belgium, Sweden, and Hong Kong help students of all income levels attend philosophically and pedagogically diverse schools. So do most Canadian provinces. Funded schools in these pluralist systems are also subject to robust regulations and, in some cases, to a common academic curriculum. Educational pluralism does not guarantee high academic performance and strong civic behaviors, but when this system is well-executed, it makes such outcomes more likely. Importantly, educationally plural countries also provide for what the U.S. calls “district schools”; a third of Dutch students attend them. The difference is that, in educationally plural systems, many types of schools are considered to be part of the public education system.
Realizing that most of the world disagrees with us on how much opportunity governments should afford citizens when it comes to learning environments for children, we have to question the politically stubborn antipathy for private schooling and the prevailing parochialism of one-size-fits-some government schools.
Some traditional schools do amazing things for their students while others fail spectacularly to provide even a basic level of education. The same can be said for all other forms of schooling. A great option for one family may be an outstandingly bad one for another. From that view, choice is not about defining any school as good or bad as much as defining it a school as good or bad for a specific child.
I write about choice frequently because, having been a parent for three decades, I know kids have different needs. My little mathematician may need a different school than my baby artist or my special needs student. Sending them through one all-purpose schoolhouse door may not only be suboptimal, but it might also be inhumane knowing what I know about their needs.
Does it help to tell families like mine that we should concern ourselves more with the impact our school choices have on the system than how the system impacts our children?
Further, what good is an education system that prioritizes its welfare over the welfare of the vulnerable populations it supposes itself to serve?
I don’t ask these questions to be a heretic to America’s public education precious little temples as much as to be a realistic and ruthless guardian of my children’s’ intellectual development. Still, I know my voice alone isn’t enough to conquer the tower of oppositional rhetoric generated by public employees or their unions. Especially when they count ideologically intoxicated journalists, servile politicians, overly-lettered academics, and posh parents who benefit from the existing system that privileges some families to the detriment of other families as their adherents.
So, to rescue school choice and its history from the dull thinkers so dominant in our country’s facile discussion about education, it’s essential to consistently broaden the conversation with the voices of thoughtful people of note from past and present.
To that end, I raise a quote from famed sociologist James S. Coleman. In a 1977 U.S. News & World Report article, he prescribed school choice to remedy deteriorating conditions in public schools.
There are three key problems [that] face the schools right now :
One is the dissatisfaction of parents and students—because of the feeling that the schools are not working well. Secondly, there is the extreme loss of the schools’ authority, particularly with regard to maintaining discipline. Third is the reduced levels of academic achievement at schools everywhere—in small towns; big cities and suburbs.
If there were one change that I would make to resolve these problems, it would be to introduce vouchers, or entitlements, for parents to use in educating their children.
Under that system, each family would be given a voucher that would permit it to send children to any school—public or private—in any school district regardless of where the family lived. The value of the entitlement would be roughly equivalent to the per-pupil expenditure in the public school.
The school that received the voucher would then cash it for operating funds. It would work very much like food stamps, except it would benefit all persons instead of just low-income persons, and people wouldn’t have to pay for it as they do in differing degrees for food stamps.
The advantages of such a plan?
To begin with, it would allow more authority for teachers and principals because the students would not be compelled to go to a particular school, but rather to one of their choice. This allows the school to demand more of those who choose wide range of schools, including those that have very different educational philosophies and curricula.
Furthermore, competition between schools—particularly public and private—would be raised because there would truly be a mixed economy in education, with State-run and privately run institutions serving as models for each other.
In addition, I believe a voucher system would help resolve the problems of segregation and white flight. It’s not going to wholly solve those problems, but it will help prevent segregation which currently occurs on the basis of residence. It would especially aid lower-class and Black families because it is they who are most restricted in their schooling on the basis of their residence. It would also reduce the fears of parents—Black and white—whose children are, under some current desegregation plans, transferred to schools, not of their choice far than their homes.
Finally, it can restore a sense of control over their children’s education on the part of parents who feel they have been pre-empted by professional educators, administrators, and organizations.
Agree or disagree with this analysis of family-based school choice; you would be wrong to argue that it is the ignorant pulp of an ill-willed plutocrat. That type of demagogic shorthand is a go-to weapon for school choice opponents. It is also a dishonest one. I prefer fair people to debate urgent and critical issues like educational inequality or poor educational outcomes more productively.
While not a cure-all to educational failure, research shows promising signs that school choice stokes improvements beyond test scores: it improves political and economic freedom; increases graduation rates; and even reduces crime and unplanned pregnancies.
Those favorable results, while not an answer to all the critics, add context to school choice. Properly understood through its actual proposals and its documented history, choice has always been rooted in improvement, parental power, opportunity, hope and social fairness. It is more characterized by its earliest start in Vermont’s tuitioning program, and in its best modern example, in Milwaukee where Black leaders and families fought for and won America’s first modern choice program.
Let’s put the strawmen in the barn and have a worthy debate.
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Presidential candidates do not think all children are created equal
Chris Stewart February 28, 2020
Editor’s note: This column from redefinED guest blogger Chris Stewart first appeared Feb. 25 on Education Post.
I’m starting to notice a trend among the presidential candidates. I don’t think they’re vying to be a president who represents all Americans, just some. It sounds crazy but hear me out.
When Democratic frontrunners lavish attention on traditional public schools to the exclusion of charters, privates, and homeschoolers, it’s as if the worth of a child instantly plummets the moment they are enrolled in a disfavored school. As if their families don’t pay taxes and aren’t worthy as voters. Never mind the fact that many of the candidates have taken advantage of these same options.
Not to be outdone, President Trump got in on the action when he released a budget that cut funding for charter schools but increased funding for privates. Some of his supporters have told me not to worry because one, a president’s budget is a fictional thing, and two, the funding for charter schools is just being bundled together with other programs. It’s called “block granting” and that’s a good thing because it can give states the flexibility to use the money in a way that makes sense for their local context.
That sounds great in theory until you consider the fact that flexibility in a state like California, the largest charter system in America, could easily fall victim to union politics. Handing over charter school money would be a financial love letter to a fickle governor, one that would give him Thanos-like powers to snap his fingers and freeze charters startups.
But maybe I’m making too much of this.
The candidates would respond to me by saying they aren’t proposing the elimination of charter schools. They just want to slow their growth. And, the block-granting of federal funds isn’t the end-all of charter funding. And, after all, maybe there is more to life than charters. Most of the candidates are proposing enormous new investments that will grow school staff and provide more services to kids.
Who can complain about that? I can.
Yes, research shows that money matters in public education, but some of the nation’s biggest spenders are still hot zones of poor achievement and unacceptable results. Teachers unions and their allies have cleverly called for things like “community schools” as a main investment. It sounds good until you consider the fact that many of the existing community schools need help. Lots of it.
And no matter how much you wrap kids in services, it will still be a problem that our nation’s teachers aren’t recruited from the top of the class, their preparation is trash, and the support of many of those who teach in the toughest schools is nonexistent. To cover this with “I-stand-with-teachers” happy talk is to prove oneself incapable of true leadership.
We need a leader who will stand up for all families. We need someone who will fight for every American child equally. Today, parents from around the country are headed to South Carolina in hopes of meeting with presidential candidates to urge them to bring about “big, bold changes.” Because the fact is, every child deserves a better education, and our current system isn’t offering that.
We need people who can bring us together rather than continuing the bad practice of pitting parents against each other, then siding with the groups that want one form of schooling to be the only form of schooling.
Which leader is that?
I’m looking.
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The system is winning. For now.
More than 100 mainly black and Latino parents and education advocates from around the country attended an Elizabeth Warren event in Atlanta Nov. 21 to share how Warren’s recently unveiled education plan shortchanges children of color.
Editor’s note: In this commentary, originally published Nov. 26 on Education Post, Chris Stewart shares his thoughts on Elizabeth Warren’s recent encounter with charter school supporters and expresses gratitude for those individuals who had the courage “to take their grievances directly to the source of political power that seeks to deny them agency and a fair shot at finding options for their youth.”
It must have been mortifying for Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren to have a loud group of Black parents—mostly mothers and grandmothers—shout her down at a campaign stop that was meant to highlight the importance of valuing Black women. As they chanted “our child, our choice,” a mantra in support of school choice (and against Warren’s proposed curb to federal charter school funding) she stood immobilized. Ayanna Pressley had to step in with a wagging finger to sternly lecture the protestors.
In that moment the Democrats’ battle over public education was on full display.
This reminds me of Fannie Lou Hamer who in the 1960s brought plain talk to the Democratic party that was ignoring the needs of southern, poor Black folks. The establishment worked all of its angles to silence her. They sent Roy Wilkins, the educated negro from the NAACP, to tell Hamer that she was ignorant and she should leave politics to the people who know best—people like him.
That encounter caused her to cancel her NAACP membership and say, “There ain’t nothing I respect less than the NAACP.” The Southern, poor and country Hamer would not be turned back, belittled, or silenced, even against crazy odds and the most powerful people.
I can’t help but think history repeats itself until we learn from it.
Today, Warren, a wealthy, White woman candidate who once supported and used school choice to her advantage—but now takes her cues from the unions representing America’s Whitest, most female profession—can’t handle the Black folks, so she turns to a surrogate.
That’s where Pressley, a college-educated, middle-class Black woman, whose hard-working mother living on the South Side of Chicago sent her to a prestigious private school that today costs $37,000 a year, eagerly volunteered to play the role of Wilkins.
And these mothers, fathers, grandmothers and guardians, who live in some of the poorest, most incarcerated zip codes in the country, traveled long distances to Atlanta, only to be told they are ignorant, like Hamer.
Those who wish to be president on the Democratic side want the most economically insecure families to wait for better schools. A fix is coming, they promise, like they promised for years. More money, more services, more staff in the same system of miseducation will make it all better. No need for expanding school choices, or for improving and diversifying the teaching profession, or for improving and modernizing our standards and curricula to better serve the needs of each and every child.
Be patient.
But how patient would middle-class people be if their kids were falling years behind in school? What do they do when the system isn’t working for their kids? Warren’s case is instructive. When the public system didn’t work for her son she put him in a private school. Ambitions for higher office have recast her as a champion of public schools who gets her education policy wholesale from unions and Diane Ravitch, the ranking leader of the unreform movement (and another private school parent turned public school zealot).
The education establishment, its unions and the politicians it controls are working to dismantle two decades of progressive education policy that offered families options beyond bureaucratized, politicized and unionized district schools. The public’s sympathy for striking teachers, the universal belief that the biggest problem with schools is lack of money and a general disregard for the experience of marginalized parents makes it an opportune moment to roll back education reforms.
The system is winning.
In the past few days, I’ve seen too many messages online scandalously demoting the protestors to ignorant nobodies who are being used by White, wealthy people in an attempt to destroy our perfectly amazing district schools. These claims come without the slightest realization of how much they expose many Democrats for being the elitist, racist people they accuse others of being.
While they constantly profess their love for the little guy, leading Democratic candidates constantly throw that little guy under the union bus if it helps their career prospects.
Families like those who make up the Powerful Parent Network—who are purposely redlined into the school districts where the only people who think the status quo is worthy of loyalty are the adults who draw their pensions from those schools—can’t be bamboozled by the system. They can’t sacrifice their children to some sketchy promise of a “public good.”
To be Black in America is a constant struggle for full humanity. Nobody knows that more than the guardians of the faces at the bottom of the well. Nobody knows that more than the mothers of the poor, the grandmothers of the children left behind, the caregivers to those who are Black, Brown, under-resourced, dyslexic, exceptional, medically fragile and academically thirsty in classrooms built on the lowest of expectations.
This week, I’m grateful for those mothers and guardians who boarded buses or planes, made signs and planned chants, and headed out for Atlanta to take their grievances directly to the source of political power that seeks to deny them agency and a fair shot finding options for their youth. I’m grateful that they spoke plainly, in their own vernacular, and made the leaders hear them—because ignoring them before the cameras and bright lights would have shown them for the classist hypocrites they are.
Hamer wanted a fundamental change in the power structure that made sure the underclass has a direct role in the system governing their lives. We can learn from that. Rather than discounting the parents who demand better school options, fair school systems and more resources, leaders should make sure they are seated in the power rooms when agendas are formed.
Warren isn’t alone in ignoring voices in the underclass about public schooling. Her competitors should be called out too. If Democratic candidates for president—indeed, candidates from all parties—wish to be true representatives of all Americans, they will stop taking sides in the education wars, stop pitting parents against each other, and stop acting as if children are less important the moment they enter a charter or non-traditional schools.
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Guest commentary: While we get lost in the wrong arguments, too many of our kids aren’t ready for the future
Editor’s note: This commentary, first published Nov. 11 on Education Post, reminds us that the best way to prepare students for a rapidly changing world is to empower educators to create more diverse learning options and to enable all parents to access those learning options that best meet their children’s needs.
As a Generation Xer, I was sold the dream in the 1990s that one day we would all telecommute to work, execute our daily duties in our pajamas and never wear business suits again.
Work as we knew it was going to change forever.
For a while, it seemed employers were upping their perk game to compete in a national war for top talent. Boomers had to change their ways if we were going to work for them. Then, reality beat us silly. An economic recession deflated our pipe dreams, a talent surplus ended the talent wars and we were back to the boomer-era job expectations.
With that lens, I’m interested in Matt Barnum’s new piece that rips into Emerson Collective—a philanthropic effort of Laurene Powell Jobs—for its XQ project, which he says is reheating and overcooking the “future of work” story. We need to prepare kids for jobs that don’t yet exist they say. “Humbug,” he replies.
Barnum concedes the job economy is changing (as it always does), but says the “rate” of that change is too slow to warrant the narrative about a “fast-changing future of work” that requires us to remake the education and workforce development systems that prepare students for careers and life.
While this is classic Barnum—a piece intended to take down a prevailing education reform premise that will certainly draw praise for his bravery—I think it misses the point. Yes, it’s true that the public can be too easily seduced by broad arguments for education reform (e.g., we’ll all be gig workers in the future), but the better question to ask is whether our system of education prepares students for gainful and personally meaningful positions in the American economic mainstream.
According to a report by the World Economic Forum, the problem of not preparing young people for the future is a global problem. They make exactly the type of claim Barnum’s experts discount: “On average, by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.”
Further, as we argue about whether or not the future of work is fast-changing, what do we do about the 3 million workers who were displaced between 2015 and 2017 because their employer closed its doors or “abolished” their jobs? About a third of them were not reemployed, and of those that were, almost half were not at the same pay level of their previous jobs.
That’s a shift in the economy. The kind that repeats itself often and leaves entire segments of society unable to earn enough to live.
Most of us are not experts in economics, but many of us have seen parents, friends and family laid off, dislocated, outsourced or repurposed at a lower cost. In fact, some of us have seen so much of this that as parents we are more sensitive to the reality that the way we consider work today may not be how it turns out tomorrow for our children.
When we hear “the robots are coming” we know it’s plausible that automation could boot many families out of the middle class. As middle-skilled jobs are replaced with high-skilled, better paying jobs for those who qualify—or lower paying for those who don’t—it doesn’t really matter if the rate of change isn’t as fast as XQ says. Working families and their children can’t pay their rent with split hairs in arguments between employed people.
Even if the promoters of “future work” orthodoxy embellish their story, does that overshadow the empirical fact that emerging markets and the churn of economic change create opportunities that rarely give America’s most marginalized children and families a fair shot at benefiting?
You want irony? I give it to you. The thing Barnum and I have in common is that we’ve been on the vanguard of employment opportunity created by shifts in the world of work. The changing nature of advocacy, activism, journalism, media, social media, blogging, scholarship and education commentary have created jobs, organizations and networks that employ an army of daily workers.
The difference between Barnum and me is that he represents a demographic group that is often a great beneficiary of emerging jobs and economies. I’m grateful representation of the group often left behind. So excuse me if I dismiss Barnum’s piece as the luxury of a leisure class.
I’ll stand alone on this. Others will cheer him on. Reformers can be a rueful, spiteful and juvenile group who love to privately celebrate the failures of philanthropies who have passed them by for grants or failed to recognize the brilliance of their ideas. For this group, Barnum is a contrarian Iron Man. (Barnum’s organization, Chalkbeat, is actually a current grantee of Emerson. Education Post once was but is no longer.)
In this moment of neo-socialist billionaire hatred, takedowns are the skinny jeans of journalism. Education philanthropies that take risks with their investments as a way of spurring change are an easy target. A tougher topic is how our system to prepare youth for life in the American economic mainstream is poorly suited to the task.
Instead of smugly debunking overstatements and lofty predictions about the future of work, our time would be better spent asking how well our children are being prepared for gainful work in the future.
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Bon Iver will host an all-inclusive Mexican concert vacation from January 21st to 25th, 2018 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico. The band will perform three full sets across the four-night event, dubbed Days Have No Numbers and named after a lyric from their most recent LP, 2016’s 22, A Million.
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January 24, 2019 12:16PM ET
‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Stays Surreal and Heartfelt to the End
In its final season, the off-kilter comedy remains true to its roots as an always absurd, often poignant show that survived, like its title character, against the odds
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“God, Kimmy, ” Jacqueline White scolds the title character of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. “As stupid as this is, there are real feelings at stake here.”
In the moment, Jacquline (Jane Krakowski) is describing the emotional affair Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) is having with the parents of her new boyfriend, whom she otherwise can’t stand. But she could just as easily be summing up the ethos of the entire series, which releases its final batch of episodes on Friday. (I’ve seen the whole thing.) On the one hand, Kimmy Schmidt takes place in a cartoonish version of New York City where Kimmy, Jacqueline, Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) and Lillian Kaushtupper (Carol Kane) operate according to a logic only tangentially connected to how our world works. (One of Kimmy’s co-workers is a gossipy robot named C.H.E.R.Y.L., and that’s one of the less weird things the show has done.) For four seasons, it’s been an epically stupid show about epically stupid people.
But there are, as Jacqueline points out, real feelings here. And that’s what’s made Kimmy Schmidt at its best so special. It’s a ridiculous series with an extremely serious and painful subject at its core. It’s a show about surviving trauma, overcoming it and figuring out a way to build a life that is informed but not defined by it. And like Kimmy herself — who began the series being rescued from an underground bunker where she and three fellow kidnap victims had been held since she was a teenager — it has endured and even thrived in the most improbable of circumstances.
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Remember, NBC ordered the series as co-creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s big follow-up to 30 Rock. Then, after an entire season had been produced, the executives at NBC decided this weird, dark little show was not at all a fit for whatever the heck they imagined their comedy brand to be in those fallow years immediately after 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, The Office, etc. At the time, Netflix had developed a reputation for picking up other networks’ canceled shows, but Kimmy Schmidt became the first series they rescued that had never actually aired elsewhere. It was the right decision for all involved. NBC would’ve killed Kimmy dead in less than a season, just like the other new sitcoms they aired that year, including Bad Judge, Marry Me, A to Z and One Big Happy. Instead, it’s lasted four seasons on Netflix and gets a proper ending to its story. Carlock and Fey (the latter of whom had once joked that 30 Rock was “the highest-rated cable show on broadcast television”) got to indulge all their quirkiest impulses — including frequent song parodies by Fey’s composer husband Jeff Richmond, like a fake 1938 musical called Daddy’s Boy — without having to worry about appealing to Nielsen families or network suits. Netflix got a bunch of Emmy nominations and critical acclaim. NBC still got to make money on a show its sister studio produced. The rare cancellation where everybody was somehow a winner.
Still, even in the more forgiving air of the streaming entertainment giant, Kimmy could have been a tough sell with that premise. A friend who adored 30 Rock and Fey’s writing style in general told me she gave up a few episodes in because every flashback to life in the bunker made her too depressed to laugh. But for those of us who stuck around, that combination of sad and silly proved startlingly potent. 30 Rock was interested in the interior lives of Liz, Jack and friends, but to a very limited degree, and usually on the way to a joke. (Tracy dealt with his feelings of paternal abandonment in a therapy session where Jack ended up imitating Jimmie Walker from Good Times.) Kimmy Schmidt somehow managed to be utterly absurd while also doing sharp, heartfelt material about Kimmy learning to overcome the tragedies in her life. The closing stretches of the first two seasons — one involving the trial of her kidnapper, the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm at his most outrageous and least vain), the other where a therapist (Fey as a Jekyll-and-Hyde blackout drunk) helped Kimmy confront her feelings about her flaky mother (Lisa Kudrow) — felt particularly deep and resonant. Especially for a show whose heroine lives in a closet with an accordion door and still gets cassette tapes from Columbia House.
For that matter, the series has taken Kimmy’s sidekicks more seriously than might have seemed possible when we met them. Titus is a flamboyant caricature, but he’s also been the subject of a lot of smart material about growing up black and closeted in the Deep South, and about dating a guy (Mike Carlsen as construction worker Mikey) who’s both newly out himself and much more stereotypically macho in his presentation and interests. And as delightful as Burgess is when Titus is at his most oblivious and/or theatrical, the on-off relationship with Mikey has effectively become the show’s most compelling romantic hook. (Kimmy has dated, but the show has understandably been much more focused on seeing her learn to stand up for herself.) Jacqueline is a bit sketchier, background-wise — her history as a Lakota woman passing for white is one of many examples of Fey and Carlock having blinders on about racial humor — but Krakowski has gotten to play some nuanced material, both about this once-vapid trophy wife developing a social conscience post-divorce, and about Jacqueline pushing up against what’s expected for and from a woman of a certain age in her circles.
(Lillian has mostly stayed an extreme and wonderful send-up of a certain breed of New Yorker who misses the filthier Deuce-era days. And rightfully so. Though she could surely play more serious beats, who wouldn’t want to let Carol Kane be as big and loud as only she can, for as long as possible?)
On 30 Rock, the demands of putting together the show-within-the-show and the gradual evolution of Jack and Liz’s friendship provided just enough grounding to the off-kilter punchlines. Kimmy Schmidt was both more preposterous and more heartfelt, particularly over its first two seasons, and those two extremes held each other in check. Season Three and this about-to-conclude Season Four have cast about for new stakes for Kimmy to equal her confrontations with the Reverend and her mom; but they’ve never really found them. (She’s spent much of this final season writing and attempting to market a children’s book designed to prevent impressionable boys from growing up into toxic men.) This home stretch of episodes touches on the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, showing how Kimmy’s story, macabre and ridiculous as it is, sadly has a lot in common with what’s happening in the real world. But she’s mostly on the fringes of that, while Titus and Jacqueline each deal with different aspects of it (including an unsettlingly on-the-nose cameo by Ronan Farrow as himself).
Tituss Burgess as Titus Andromedon<br />Photo: Eric Liebowitz/Netflix
Without significant stakes for Kimmy these last few years, the series has devolved somewhat into an efficient-bordering-on-exhausting punchline delivery system. After seven seasons of 30 Rock plus four of this show, the familiar density of the Fey/Carlock joke style — Lillian: “Are you talking menopause or werewolves? Because one of them is a legend made up to scare children, and the other one is werewolves.” — has turned me into that Seinfeld girlfriend who never laughed(*) but always said, “That’s funny.”
(*) I did laugh very loudly now and then, particularly at a gag about the pet ferret of Titus’ longtime rival Coriolanus (James Monroe Iglehart) that I wouldn’t want to give away here. I’m not made of stone, people.
But while Fey and Carlock could have drastically reshaped the series once they started producing it directly for Netflix, the later seasons are stylistically and tonally in line with how things began. They didn’t even start super-sizing the episodes; there’s an hour-long Sliding Doors homage in this final half-season, but it’s technically two episodes airing consecutively, which is something of a moot point when you’re bingeing. Kimmy Schmidt, like its beaming title character, managed to make it this far by staying true to its goofy, sincere instincts. True, it may be a show out of time and place, but it’s still alive, dammit. It’s a miracle.
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Met Eireann reveals some parts of the country will experience 'relatively mild day' temperatures in the double digits
Ireland is set to experience a freezing winter - but there is some good news
Temperatures are dropping
If you're wrapping yourself up these days like you're walking out into the Arctic, there is some good news.
Met Eireann have reported that some parts of the country will experience a "relatively mild day."
They said: “Any remaining overnight patchy drizzle will soon clear this morning from the south and it will be a mostly dry day with a few bright or sunny spells.
“However, cloud will build again from the west with rain and drizzle along Atlantic coastal counties by evening.
Weather forecasters predict Ireland to be hit by coldest winter of the decade
“A relatively mild day with mid-day temperatures of 9 to 13C in a mainly moderate west to northwest breezes at first which will back southwest during the afternoon and freshen along Atlantic coasts.
“Tonight will become cloudy and breezy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle.”
They added: “The rain will become persistent for a time in the northern half of the country before clearing southeastwards to just isolated showers by morning.
“Lowest temperatures will stay around 5 to 10C, coolest in the north.
"West to southwesterly winds will increase fresh and gusty, but veer west to northwest and decrease moderate to fresh by morning."
Heavy rain is predicted to hit the country this weekend and temperatures dropping as low as 4C.
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March 3, 2017 at 5:47 a.m. EST
Elizabeth Man ID'd as Clark Car Burglary Suspect
Clark police announced the arrest of an Elizabeth man who they say may be responsible for a string of car burglaries.
February 13, 2017 at 5:52 pm EST
5:52 a.m. One person was placed in custody for burglarizing several vehicles in the area of Malvern Drive early this morning. About 4 cars.
February 12, 2017 at 5:59 a.m. EST
Elizabeth, Clark Residents Admit Roles in Fatal Overdose of Linden Man
Two Union County residents who provided a Linden man with the drugs that killed him in 2015 have admitted to the crime, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Wednesday.
February 8, 2017 at 2:04 pm EST
Evening Bomb Threat Against Clark Schools Unfounded
A bomb threat against Clark schools turned out to be a hoax after schools were searched, police said.
February 7, 2017 at 10:51 a.m. EST
Clark Police Warn Residents of Increase in Vehicle Theft, Burglary
Locking vehicles and keeping valuables out of sight are simple alternatives to prevent theft.
Clark Teens Lead Police on Foot Chase
Police arrested three teens earlier today after they led them on a foot chase.
January 21, 2017 at 8:04 pm EST
Clark Police Use of Deadly Force Against Knife Wielding Man is Justified
Image Credit: Tapinto Clark
January 6, 2017 at 3:28 pm EST
Roselle Park, Clark Teens Accused of Vandalizing Kenilworth School
An 18-year-old Roselle Park teen and two other juveniles were taken into custody after they reportedly vandalized the Kenilworth High School football field.
Fire Engulfs Home in Clark
A fast moving fire is under investigation after it destroyed a Clark home this afternoon.
December 27, 2016 at 4:22 pm EST
Update: Retired Elizabeth Fire Chief Killed in Line of Duty
The retired Elizabeth Fire Chief who was serving as an Union County Mutual Aid Coordinator, died after suffering a medical emergency while operating at a multiple alarm fire in Clark last week, according to officials.
December 16, 2016 at 9:06 a.m. EST
BREAKING CLARK NJ: Firefighter Injured in 2-Alarm House Fire in Clark
A raging two-alarm fire that ignited inside a house in Clark sent a firefighter to the hospital this afternoon according to authorities.
December 8, 2016 at 2:49 pm EST
Clark Police Release Surveillance Photos of Shoplifting Suspect
The Clark Police department is requested the help of the public to identify the individual pictured below.
November 16, 2016 at 11:27 a.m. EST
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Governor announces COVID-19 relief fund and emergency childcare.
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Governor Polis on Wednesday announced the Help Colorado Now effort. People in Colorado can donate money to the fund or volunteer services. www.HelpColoradoNow.org.
The fund has already raised close to 3-milliion dollars to help people impacted by COVI-19.
“My top priority is to ensure the health and safety of all Coloradans during this difficult time,” said Governor Jared Polis. “It’s times like these that truly show our state’s resiliency and the strength of our spirit. Our state is better when we come together to overcome unique challenges - it’s just how we do things in Colorado. We will continue doing everything we can to ensure we protect our state’s most vulnerable.”
The money raised will be used for response and recovery. This will include things like medical and cleaning supplies, food services, early childhood education, small business support, behavioral health services, and more.
People who can't donate money are encourged to donate time if possible. There's a particular need for former health care workers who could return to the workforce and help.
The Governor is all asking heathy donor to give blood to prevent a shortage in Colorado. Blood drives have been canceled and there has been a big drop in donations. Check.Vitalant.org for more information.
The crisis is now putting an unprecedentd strain on health care an emergency workers. The Governor is working with Mike Johnston and the Gary Community Foundation, early childhood providers, schools districts and the Colorado Department of Human Services to establish a system of emergency child care for our most essential workers. Health care providers and staff, public safety workers and staff supporting at-risk populations will qualify for the program. For more information, visit www.covidchildcarecolorado.com.
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Uncle John's Fast-Acting Long-Lasting Bathroom Reader
Publisher: Ashland, OR, Bathroom Reader's Institute: 2005
The dedicated researchers at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute return with some fast-acting, long-lasting relief for fans who have been suffering without a new infusion of trademark trivia and obscure facts. Flush with all the usual useless (and occasionally useful) information readers have come to expect, the book eliminates boredom from the daily routine. Ever wonder what to do with Preparation H besides the obvious? Want to learn more about celebrity jailbirds or the history of the RV? Then it’s time to take the plunge! Other topics include the worst general of World War II, the origin of...
How do you Sing a Pore?
By: Anne Lynes Pebworth
Publisher: Bryn Mawr, PA, Anne Pebworth: 1988
HOW DO YOU SING A PORE? Is dedicated to expatriates of any Nationality. This is a compilation of rollicking adventures in the world's most unusual Republic.
Stories From the Hallway II: The Light From Beneath the Door
By: B. D. Couch
Publisher: B. D. Couch: 2009
"Stories From the Hallway 2: The Light From Beneath the Door" even more deeply mines stories from the author's childhood in Southeastearn Kentucky. He unflinchingly tackles the topics of God, religion, death and dying, friendship, failure, and even politics with wit and compassion.
So, Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy! Pain is Inevitable but Misery is Optional
By: Barbara Johnson
Has the previous owners name on the first page. This is the book that started it all for the Geranium Lady! Sharing her own difficult experiences, Johnson proves that while pain is inevitable, misery is optional. If you need a fresh breath of joy in your life, this book is just the prescription for you. Barbara Johnson can help you look for "life's little sparkles," even in the midst of life's most crippling sorrows. This powerful book has sold more than three million copies and made Barbara Johnson a perennially best-selling author.
Pack Up Your Gloomees in a Great Big Box, Then Sit on the Lid and Laugh: What You Can Do When Life Falls Apart
So, Stick A Geranium In Your Hat And Be Happy!
Publisher: Dallas,TX, Word Publishing: 1990
This is the book that started it all for the Geranium Lady! Sharing her own difficult experiences, Johnson proves that while pain is inevitable, misery is optional. If you need a fresh breath of joy in your life, this book is just the prescription for you. Barbara Johnson can help you look for "life's little sparkles," even in the midst of life's most crippling sorrows. This powerful book has sold more than three million copies and made Barbara Johnson a perennially best-selling author.
He's Gonna Toot And I'm Gonna Scoot
Publisher: Nashville,TN, Word Publishing: 1989
Previous owner's name is on the first blank page. Sharing outrageous humor, rib-tickling insights and inspiring, real-life examples, Barbara Johnson shows readers how to put life's trails into heavenly perspective. While we wait on Gabriel's horn to sound, Barbara gives women an external telescope with which to view their often difficult world.
Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death
Publisher: Nashville, TN, Word Publishing: 1997
Barbara Johnson reveals her hilarious anti-aging remedy. "They say the best way to grow old is not to be in a hurry about it―and Lord knows, I've put it off for as long as I could," says Barbara. But old age happens without any effort on our part. If you're alive, you're getting older. So what happens when you find yourself between menopause and LARGE PRINT? This best-selling author offers a delightful recipe for living life to the fullest in your later years and spices it with loads of laughter. She shows how she came to her own decision to age ferociously instead of gracefully. L...
Laughter From Heaven
Publisher: Nashville, TN, W Publishing Group: 2004
Laughter from Heaven is a joyful reminder of the wonderful life awaiting us in heaven. With her humorous approach to all life's circumstances, Barbara wants her readers to catch a light-hearted look at the hereafter. Filled with hope and encouragement, this book is sure to become a favorite of many women who long for a sense of joy in the midst of everyday struggles. In classic Barbara Johnson style, these hilarious pages will show you how to put life's trials into heavenly perspective. She hopes you will find encouragement through your difficulties, renewal for your spiritual doldrums, and...
Laugh with Me: Living Somewhere Between Estrogen And Death, Leaki ng Laffs Between Pampers and Depends and Boomerang Joy [3 in One]
Publisher: Carmel, NY, Guideposts: 2000
Two strips of clear tape are on the first blank page that had had held the price tag. Guideposts Book edition of three of Barbara Johnson's books. Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death/Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends/Boomerang Joy.
Splashes Of Joy In The Cesspool Of Life
Sturdy. No underlines. Previous owner's name is inside the front cover. Very light wear. Offers an optimistic outlook for coping with poor relationships, low self-esteem, illness, lack of patience, stress and guilt of everyday life, and more
By: Barbera Johnson
Publisher: Dallas, TX, Word Publishing : 1993
Sturdy. No underlines. Light wear. Barbara Johnson reveals her hilarious anti-aging remedy. Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death is your wise and witty guide to the joys and challenges of aging gleefully. "They say the best way to grow old is not to be in a hurry about it and Lord knows, I've put it off for as long as I could," says Barbara. But old age happens without any effort on our part. If you're alive, you're getting older. So what happens when you find yourself between menopause and LARGE PRINT? This best-selling author offers a delightful recipe for living life to the fulles...
Coffee Cup Friendship & Cheesecake Fun: Stories and Adventures Between Girlfriends
By: Becky Freeman
Publisher: Eugene, OR, Harvest House: 2001
Has a note written on the inside of front cover. Clean and sturdy. No underlines.
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes (A Calvin And Hobbes Treasury)
By: Bill Watterson
Publisher: Kansas City, New York, Andrews And Mcmeel: 1990
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, is a large-format treasury of the cartoons from Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet! (including full-color Sunday cartoons) plus a full-color original story unique to this collection. Millions of readers have enjoyed the tremendous talent of Bill Watterson. His skill as both artist and writer brings to life a boy, his tiger, and the imagination and memories of his ardent readers. The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes picks up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off. Bill Watterson"s Calvin and Hobbes remains the authority on humor.
Holy Humor: Inspirational Wit & Cartoons
By: Cal & Rose Samra
No underlining, clean and sturdy. Laughter is a gift worth sharing. Makes a great resource on inspirational humor that will bring your augience to hours of laughter
Isaac Air Freight: The Works : Sketches from the Premier Christian Comedy Group
By: Dan Rupple & Dave Toole
Publisher: Colorado Springs, CO, Meriwether Publishing:
No underlining, clean and sturdy. Any drama ministry will benefit from these crowd-pleasing sketches. Isaac Air Freight pioneered the use of sketch comedy from a Christian perspective in the late '70s/early '80s. Their eclectic blend of satirically humorous sketches are still relevant, still hilarious, still imbued with deep spiritual truths. This book contains material from their fourteen years of concert tours and five of their best-selling comedy albums, as well as numerous radio and TV appearances. It features a collection of zany characters, including a hapless private eye, a hippie lefto...
The Road Back Home: Tales of Appalachia
By: Denvil Mullins
Publisher: Johnson City, TN, The Overmountain Press: 1995
With more cut up, back talk, and dander raising than you can wag a dog at, Teed Cornfield and the rest of the Coaley Creek crowd are once more dashing full tilt into all sorts of mischief and adventure. This fourth in a series about life in the Appalachian Mountains will tickle you funny till your ears turn red.
Isaac Air Freight: The Works 2
By: Dn Rupple And Dave Toole
Publisher: Colorado Springs, Colorado , Meriwether Publishing : 1997
Clean, sturdy and unmarked. 51 royalty-free scripts from Christian comedy duo Issac Air Freight's comedy albums and live performances.
Led By Horses: Why Me's and Horse Laughs
By: Eunice Rush
Publisher: Bloomington, IN, Author House: 2014
Starting out in the early 50's with a not so common childhood, Eunice Rush seemed destined from the very beginning to write a book. Living on a small island with no running water, electricity or indoor plumbing may seem odd but - it was a very important time of her life without which her future destiny may be been very different. In fact, the book will cover many events (most of them WHY ME LORD! type) that shape her destiny. Little did she know that it would take over 50 years and tons of God's wonderful creatures to help transform her life in preparation for her future line of service! Start...
The Unofficial United Methodist Handbook
By: F. Belton Joyner, Jr.
Publisher: Nashville, TN, Abingdon: 2007
Following Jesus is hard to do – but even harder if we take ourselves too seriously. The Unofficial United Methodist Handbook is the indispensable companion for anyone trying to live a committed Christian life, with a healthy dose of humor. Timeless biblical truths stand alongside everyday life situations that everyone meets, with step-by-step instructions that make the going easy: How to Stay Alert in Church How to Identify an Angel (with diagram) How to Survive for One Hour in an Un-Air-Conditioned Church How to Share Your Faith with Someone How to Identify and Av...
Whistling at Snakes
By: Horace Sims
Publisher: Greenville, SC, The Baptist Courier: 1999
There is a note on the first blank page. It is next to impossible not to pick up and thumb through a book with the title of "Whistling At Snakes," and difficult to put it down after sampling the wit and wisdom of The Baptist Courier's late columnist, Horace Sims. The Courier published the first batch of his short essays, "Horace Sims At Large," in 1997, followed by a second compilation of his columns, "Horace Sims Still At Large," in 1998. These books, like his "At Large" pieces, achieved immediate and lasting popularity with the Courier's readers. Sims always managed to take life seriously wh...
Standing in a River Waving a Stick
By: John Gierach
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1999
"The solution to any problem -- work, love, money, whatever -- is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." In Standing in a River Waving a Stick, John Gierach visits his favorite trout-filled waters, from the Colorado foothills to British Columbia and points between, recounting both memorable fishing spots and memorable fish. With his trademark combination of wit and wisdom, he discusses such topics as the differences between fishing in ponds and fishing in streams; what makes a good fly pattern; the ethics of writing about undiscovered trout waters; and the...
The Bathroom Sports Quiz Book: Bowl Games For The Sports Buff
By: John Murphy
Publisher: Saddle River, NJ, Red Letter Press: 1986
Somebody's Got My Robe: A Lighthearted Look at Choir Directing
By: John Yarrington
Publisher: Nashville, TN, Abingdon Press: 1997
Seller ID: 9999020330
Clean and sturdy. No underlines. As John Yarrington tells it, one Wednesday he put the agenda for the choir rehearsal on the board as was his custom, and about halfway on the list he wrote, "Go to the sanctuary." A few minutes into the rehearsal, one of his tenors boldly stated, "I don't have 'Go to the Sanctuary.'" Choir rehearsals are full of such humorous and lighthearted moments. Somebody's Got My Robe takes a seriously humorous look at the music ministry and its people: choir members, pastors, and, yes, other musicians who serve in it. The book contains a series of anecdotes and illustrat...
Somebody's Got My Hymnal: Another Lighthearted Look At Choir Directing
Publisher: Nashville, TN, Abingdon:
Clean, sturdy and unmarked. You have just completed the choir warm-up prior to the worship service when you hear these dreaded words from a choir member, "Somebody's got my hymnal!" John Yarrington has experienced this and more in his years of experience as a church musician. This informative and entertaining book will intrigue you with chapters such as "I've Got the Blue jeans Blues", "I Come to the Garden... Alone", and "I Dance...They Play." Throughout Somebody's Got My Hymnal John Yarrington shares the importance of taking the art of church music and leading a choir very seriously. He tack...
Help, Lord! I'm Having a Senior Moment: Notes to God on Growing Older
By: Karen O'Connor
Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI, Servant Publications: 2002
Like it or not, senior moments happen. We might as well laugh about them and thank God for the way they add interest to our lives. After all, what would life be without the cordless phone ringing faintly from where you left it in the fridge? Some senior moments are more heartbreaking or embarrassing than funny. But in every case, we can take them to the Lord who cares for us. This book brings encouragement to people in their golden years. Each of the 90 short pieces contains a note to God about a topic of special interest to seniors, a word from God in Scripture, a prayer and a place for the r...
Help, Lord! I'm Having a Senior Moment: Note to God on Growing Older
Publisher: Ventura, CA, Regal: 2003
Publisher: Waterville, ME, Thorndike Press: 2002
Previous owner's name is written on the first blank page. Like it or not, senior moments happen. We might as well laugh about them and thank God for the way they add interest to our lives. After all, what would life be without the cordless phone ringing faintly from where you left it in the fridge? Some senior moments are more heartbreaking or embarrassing than funny. But in every case, we can take them to the Lord who cares for us.
Gettin' Old Ain't For Wimps: Inspirations And Stories To Warm Your Heart And Tickle Your Funny Bone
Publisher: Eugene, OR , Harvest House Publishers: 2004
Sturdy. No underlines. Light wear on page edges. Speaker and author Karen O'Connor urges her post-fifty friends to "laugh and love all the way home to the Father's house." With humor and wisdom, Karen shares personal and gathered stories about the blessings of surviving and surpassing middle-age. Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps overflows with candor and helps the boomin' baby boomer market celebrate with: funny stories of the antics and adventures of getting older "conversations with God" for a deeper prayer life hopeful words for the tough times For those who have already traded in their...
I'm Not Suffering From Insanity: I'm Enjoying Every Minute Of It!
By: Karen Scale Linamen
Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI, Fleming H. Revell: 2002
If there's anything Karen Linamen knows, it's that sometimes life can feel crazy. She also knows that hope, healing, and humor go hand in hand. This new book offers plenty of each. I'm Not Suffering from Insanity...I'm Enjoying Every Minute of It! follows on the heels of her best-selling Sometimes I Wake Up Grumpy...and Sometimes I Let Him Sleep and, like her other books, is crammed with laugh-out-loud observations, intimate confessions, sound advice, and heartfelt encouragement. With suggestions ranging from the side-splitting to the sublime, Linamen shows women who feel they're "going crazy"...
Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt
By: Karen Scalf Linamen
She was the "Love Doctor" in Pillow Talk and the family guru in Happily Ever After. Now Karen Linamen is mixing up a brew of joy potions in Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt. People everywhere understand the importance of chocolate in a womans life. Like chocolate, these stress busters, hope builders, and joy boosters will have women feeling better in no time. Hand Over the Chocolate deals with a womans emotional, physical, and spiritual needs, offering the same combination of humor and practical wisdom Linamens fans have come to love. The author also openly shares her str...
No underlining, clean and sturdy. Very light wear. A small marker mark in on the bottom edge of the pages. "Less stress, more fun!" Like chocolate, these 14 sure-fire stress-busters, hope-builders, and joy boosters get women feeling better fast.
Ida Clair, That's Funny
By: Kay Strickland Heath
Publisher: Columbus, GA, Brentwood Academic Press: 2005
I'd Do It All Over Again: Celebrating 45 Years Of Ministry
By: Kirk A. Hudson
Publisher: Utica, NY,
"I've lived my whole life in the presence of ministers. Some have been outstanding. Others have left much to be desired. Kirk Hudson rises to the top of the list. Here is a man who lives his faith without the slightest hint of insincerity or ego, a man in whose presence people from every walk of life can feel at ease, a pastor who can lead and inspire without ever forgetting the miracle of grace or the challenges of his own humanity. So it was with a happy heart that I agreed to help prepare this remarkable little book of vignettes from a lifetime of ministry. You will laugh with Kirk as he re...
Only Angels Can Wing It The Rest Of Us Have To Practice
By: Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher: Nashville, TN, Thomas Nelson: 1995
Only Angels can Wing it is a book not about how to do more, do it better or do it faster. Full of laughter, stories, and insights offered via surveys completed by eight hundred women from all over the country, Only Angels Can Wing it is best read when at the end of a had-to-do-it-all day.
The Preacher Joke Book: Religious Anecdotes from the Oral Tradition
By: Loyal Jones
Publisher: Little Rock, August House: 1989
Light fading. This surprisingly reverent collection of religious humor pokes less at the message than at the messenger. Gentle enough to give your preacher, clean enough to use in the pulpit, this volume is nonetheless sharp enough to drive home its point that the clergyman does well to serve rather than be served.
A Time To Laugh: Humor In The Bible
By: Mark E. Biddle
Publisher: Macon, GA, Smyth & Helwys Publishing : 2013
Clean, sturdy and unmarked. An extension of his well-loved seminary course on humor in the Bible, A Time to Laugh draws on Mark Biddle’s command of Hebrew language and cultural subtleties to explore the ways humor was intentionally incorporated into Scripture. With characteristic liveliness, Biddle guides the reader through the stories of six biblical characters who did rather unexpected things. Biddle offers the reverence due the Scriptures and provides a fresh focus on their depth in such a way that readers can learn to “get the joke” on their own. A Time to Laugh is a winning, scholar...
Growing Your Own Turtleneck...and Other Benefits of Aging
By: Martha Bolton
Publisher: Bloomington, Minnesota, Bethany House: 2005
Whether Martha Bolton is contemplating whether or not there will be carbs in heaven or why she's growing her own turtle neck, she'll leave readers laughing out loud as they recognize the truth in her hilarious take on aging. Her fans crave each chapter just as they crave one more piece of chocolate. This veteran comedy writer adds occasional touching and poignant stories that remind readers what life is all about.
Didn't My Skin Used T Fit?
Publisher: MN, Bethany House: 2000
A lively, entertaining book about middle-age that will prove that laughter and longevity go hand-in-hand.
If the Pasta Wiggles, Don't Eat It...And Other Good Advice
Publisher: Anne Arbor, MI, Vine Books: 1995
"This devotional book has the entire package for any Christian who likes to laugh and learn with their Lord. Martha Bolton has done it again.-----Greg Johnson Author of Keeping Your Cool While Sharing Your Faith, and Getting Ready for the Guy.
If The Pasta Wiggles, Don't Eat It: Wise Words TO Tickle Your Funny Bone And Make You Think
Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI, Vine Books: 1995
No underlining, clean and sturdy. "This devotional book has the entire package for any Christian who likes to laugh and learn with their Lord. Martha Bolton has done it again.-----Greg Johnson Author of Keeping Your Cool While Sharing Your Faith, and Getting Ready for the Guy.
Save Me, I Fell in the Carpool: Help, Hope and Humor for Drowning Moms
By: Nancy Moser
Sturdy. No underlines. Light wear. Kids are the greatest! They are - aren't they? One has to wonder after just having been offered a drink of water fresh from the toilet bowl, or getting up for the fifth time to deal with someone's bad dream. Nancy Moser knows all about kids, and has written a most delightful book that is hysterically funny in some places, and tenderly poignant in others. As a mother, she's felt up to her neck in the flood waters of not knowing how to parent. She's learned that God doesn't expect her to be an expert. It's ok with him if she only wades cautiously into her paren...
I'm Too Young to Be This Old
By: Patrica "Poppy" Smith
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, Bethany: 1997
Smith touches women's mid-life years with humor and grace, providing inspiration for spiritual growth.
Sportin' a 'Tude
By: Patsy Claimont
Readers will be smiling in agreement as Patsy Clairmont takes an honest look at our attitudes and what they communicate to others. Honest, lighthearted, and typically Patsy, this book reveals the many ways our attitudes speak volumes--especially when we're not looking!
By: Patsy Clairmont
Publisher: Wheaton,IL, Tyndale House Publishers: 1996
A note is written inside the front cover. Light wear. No underlines. Readers will be smiling in agreement as Patsy Clairmont takes an honest look at our attitudes and what they communicate to others. Honest, lighthearted, and typically Patsy, this book reveals the many ways our attitudes speak volumes--especially when we're not looking!
Sportin' a 'Tude: What Your Attitude Says When You're Not Looking
Publisher: Colorado Springs,CO, Focus O The Family: 1996
Light discoloration on the top edge of the pages. No underlines. She's back-and this time with an attitude! Her honest, light-hearted look at our attitudes and what they communicate to others-especially when we're not looking-will have you laughing in agreement. Also available on audio cassette, featuring Patsy's unforgettable voice...and attitude!.
Publisher: Wheaton, IL, Tyndale House Publishers: 1996
No underlining, clean and sturdy. Readers will be smiling in agreement as Patsy Clairmont takes an honest look at our attitudes and what they communicate to others. Honest, lighthearted, and typically Patsy, this book reveals the many ways our attitudes speak volumes?especially when we're not looking!
A Stand-Up Comic Sits Down with Jesus: A Devotional?
By: Rich Praytor
What would happen if comedy were combined with growing deeper in your faith? You would have a fun devotional for learning more about God. One of America’s top comedians brings his unique style to an unlikely venue—a devotional? Laugh out loud with Rich Praytor as he looks at the humorous side of everyday aspects of life, such as marriage, money or work while discovering something about God and His plan for us. Made up of 31 chapters (representing a full month), A Stand-Up Comic Sits Down with Jesus starts each entry with a clean, funny joke followed by a Scripture reference and some though...
Laugh Out Loud Jokes For Kids
By: Rob Elliot
Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI, Spire: 2010
Clean, sturdy and unmarked. What happens to race car drivers when they eat too much? They get indy-gestion. Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids provides children ages 7-10 many hours of fun and laughter. Young readers will have a blast sharing this collection of hundreds of one-liners, knock knock jokes, tongue twisters, and more with their friends and family! This mega-bestselling book will have children rolling on the floor with laughter and is sure to be a great gift idea for any child.
The Faith of Barak Obama
By: Stephen Mansfield
Get inside the mind and soul of Barack Obama In The Faith of Barack Obama, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield takes readers inside the mind, heart, and soul of presidential hopeful Barack Obama—as a person of faith, as a man, as an American, and possibly as our future commander in chief. America faces looming inflation, climate change, a national credit crisis, war in the Middle East, threats to security and liberty at home, and skyrocketing oil and gas prices. With all of these threats to our security, prosperity and freedom on the horizon, it has never been more imp...
From India With Humor
By: TG
Publisher: Glen Allen, VA, Radish, Inc.: 2003
Publisher: Richmond, VA, Radish, Inc: 2003
Clean and sturdy. No markings. There is creasing on the bottom corner of the back cover.
A Comedian's Guide to Theology: Featured Comedian on the Best-Selling DVD Thou Shalt Laugh
By: Thor Ramsey
Publisher: Ventura, CA, Regall: 2008
Thor Ramsey (hereafter known as the Jon Stewart of the theological world) defends the essentials of the Christian faith in this volume of comedy for the thinking person. Armed with only a laptop and a rapier wit, he defends the inspiration of the Bible ("all Scripture is inspired by God"—in other words, when you tell someone off, quote the Bible), the doctrine of total depravity (calling someone out for their sins is a tricky business, especially if you don't know how to operate a bullhorn), and the supremacy of Christ (or why Thor's God is bigger than your god), along with a host of other e...
They Popped My Hood an Found Garvey on the Dipstick
By: Todd Starnes
Publisher: Cleveland, TN, Pathway Press: 2008
News anchor and reporter for Fox News Radio, Todd Starnes takes a humorous but serious look at life and faith. He shares stories from his journey to better health, and along the way loses over 100 pounds, runs the New York City marathon and survives open-heart surgery. Filled with humor and honesty They Popped my Hood and Found Gravy will entertain and challenge you too.
Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader
By: Uncle John
Publisher: Ashland, OR, Bathroom Readers' Press: 2004
Light wear. Where else can people find out about celebrity museums, where Hitler's nephew lived in New York, or how to do an authentic rain dance? In Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader, of course! Aimed at the legions of literate bathroom lingerers, this toilet tome is filled with pop culture, forgotten history, strange lawsuits, weird news, and unknown origins of all sorts of things from voodoo to anime. Savvy, edifying, intriguing, and irregular trivia — bathroom brains are now occupied. From reality TV shows that almost were (contestants run a cross-country relay race, only t...
Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader
Publisher: Ashland, OR, Bathroom Reader's Press: 2006
With Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader, the dedicated folks at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute offer fast-acting, long-lasting relief for their legions of fans who have been suffering without a new infusion of the series’ trademark trivia and obscure and fascinating facts. Number 18 in the series, this book is divided into short, medium, and long sections for any duration of stay. Readers can plunge into such pressing topics as the origin of Punk Rock, the true story behind all those celebrity jailbirds, whether dragons actually exist, strange diets of the rich and famous, ...
Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader
Publisher: Ashland,OR, Bathroom Reader Press: 2007
Happy birthday, Uncle John! This 20th anniversary edition proves that some things do get better with age. Since 1987, the Bathroom Readers’ Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom (and everywhere else for that matter). Uncle John’s Triumphant 20th Bathroom Reader is jam-packed with 600 pages of all-new articles (as usual, divided by length for your sitting convenience). In what other single book could you find such a lively mix of surprising trivia, strange lawsuits, dumb crooks, origins of everyday things, forgotten history, quirky quotat...
Uncle John's Fully Loaded 25th Anniversary Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual)
Publisher: Ashland, OR, Bathroom Readers Press :
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Macron campaign was target of cyber attacks by spy-linked group
By Eric Auchard
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The campaign of Emmanuel Macron, the favorite to win France’s presidential election, has been targeted by a cyber espionage group linked by some experts to the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.
Emmanuel Macron (C), head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, next to Mourad Franck Papazian (L), co-president of France's Armenian Organizations Coordination Council (CCAF, Conseil de Coordination des organisations Armenienne de France), speaks to the press after a ceremony at a monument in memory of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces in 1915, in Paris, France, April 24, 2017 . REUTERS/Lionel Bonaventure/Pool
Feike Hacquebord, a researcher with security firm Trend Micro said he had found evidence that the spy group, dubbed “Pawn Storm”, targeted the Macron campaign with email phishing tricks and attempts to install malware on the campaign site.
He said telltale digital fingerprints linked the Macron attacks with those last year on the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) the campaign of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and that similar techniques were used to target German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in April and May of 2016.
“We have seen that phishing sites were set up and the fingerprints were really the same actors as in the DNC breach,” Hacquebord told Reuters.
Russia denied any involvement in the attacks on Macron’s campaign.
Security experts say Pawn Storm is known to let time pass before leaking stolen documents and that any hacking of Macron’s campaign in recent months is unlikely to influence the run-up to the May 7 second round. But, if documents have been stolen, they could be used to undermine Macron’s presidency should he win.
A spokesman for French government cyber security agency ANSSI confirmed the attacks on the Macron campaign, but declined to say whether the Russian-linked group was to blame.
“What we can establish is that it’s the classic operation procedure of Pawn Storm,” the spokesman said. “However, we will not attribute the attack because we can very easily be manipulated and the attacker could pass themselves off as somebody else.”
The Macron campaign was not immediately available to comment.
In the run-off vote, Macron, a liberal internationalist who has been critical of Russian foreign policy, will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen who has taken loans from Russian banks and advocated pro-Kremlin policies.
Hacquebord said the Pawn Storm group set up four fake email phishing accounts to mount attacks against Macron’s “En Marche!”, or “Onwards”, using a fake server located at onedrive-en-marche.fr and similar site names in March and April.
The attack was mounted using computers based in France, Britain and other countries, he said.
“These kinds of attacks are quite dangerous,” Hacquebord said. “Credential phishing is probably a very good way to try and compromise a political party.”
Pawn Storm, one of the world’s oldest cyber espionage groups, has also been called APT 28, Fancy Bear, Sofancy and Strontium by a range of security firms and government officials.
Security firm CrowdStrike has said the group may be associated with the Russian military intelligence agency GRU. Other U.S.-based firms Dell SecureWorks, FireEye FEYE.O and ThreatConnect have also found ties to the Russian government.
Hacquebord’s Tokyo-based Trend Micro has consistently said conclusive proof of Russian involvement is hard given the difficulty of attributing cyber attacks.
“What (hacking) groups? From where? Why Russia? This slightly reminds me of accusations from Washington, which have been left hanging in mid-air until now and do not do their authors any credit,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
Hacquebord, author of a dozen reports over the past two years detailing the group’s methods, said the attacks he uncovered appear to differ from ones described by Macron’s campaign in February.
Richard Ferrand, secretary-general of En Marche!, made the first direct accusation by a French political party that Russia was trying influence the outcome of the elections. (reut.rs/2pshZEF).
Ferrand told a Feb 13 news conference that the En Marche campaign was being hit by “hundreds if not thousands” of attacks on its networks, databases and sites from locations inside Russia.
Pawn Storm has become widely known since 2014 for its increasingly brazen attacks against Western leaders, governments, militaries and industrial and media organizations.
Its origins date back a decade earlier to attacks on opposition activists in Russia and governments in neighboring countries such as Ukraine.
Additional reporting by Marine Pennetier in Paris and Peter Maushagen in Frankfurt; editing by Richard Lough
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Which M1 MacBook should I buy? MacBook Air vs MacBook Pro
The two new MacBooks are closer in specs than any MacBook Air or Pro before. This is mainly thanks to the M1 chip inside these two laptops.
But there are many other similarities too – the screen, battery, keyboard, webcam, storage options are all nearly identical – making the decision to spend and extra NZ$480 on the Pro, or not, tricky.
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1. The Pro has an internal Fan (…and the Air doesn’t)
This is the biggest difference between the two new Apple laptops. Both devices have the excellent new M1 chip, but only the MacBook Pro has an internal fan.
This means that the MacBook Pro is able to carry out heavy-duty tasks for longer because its fan will literally keep the M1 chip cool and at an optimum temperature. The MacBook Air, however, is fanless. Which means it will slow down when it gets hot.
This is, of course, only a problem if you’re going to be pushing your MacBook (Air or Pro). Anecdotally, I’ve been using both the Air and the Pro for the past couple of weeks, and I haven’t noticed the fan kicking in or the Air slowing down once. The only time I’ve managed to engage the fan on the M1 MacBook Pro is by running Benchmarking software on a loop – which isn’t a real-life environment, I know.
Here’s the deal, and it’s the same as previous Air vs Pro debates, if you’re a “pro” you already know that you’re a “pro” – you’ll likely need a MacBook that can sustain its performance for long periods of time. So get the MacBook Pro. If you’re not sure if you’re going to push the MacBook to its limits, and you’re not sure if the work you do is intensive or not, get the Air.
By the way, having multiple tabs open in Chrome doesn’t make you a Pro. Both of the new M1 MacBooks can handle this sort of load without any trouble, or slow down, at all – another example of how and why these new MacBook are so good.
2. The Pro comes with a Touch Bar (…and the Air doesn’t)
And like I said in the intro, there really aren’t that many. The biggest difference you’ll notice from an aesthetic perspective – other than the classic wedge shape of the Air – is that the Pro has the Touch Bar, whereas the Air has physical function keys.
Personally, I think this is a good thing as I love the Touch Bar. However, I know there are a lot fo passionate opinions out there about the Touch Bar and how customers wish they could configure their MacBook Pros to come with Function Keys instead. Alas, we’re not there yet.
3. There’s a slightly bigger battery inside the MacBook Pro
Slightly. The MacBook Pro has an integrated 58.2-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery, and the Air has a 49.9-watt-hour.
In reality, the battery life of both of these laptops is insanely good. Expect between 12-15 hours of battery life from the Air, and 14-17 hours from the Pro – while doing normal (non-crazy computing things).
The Pro comes with a 61W USB-C Power Adapter too, whereas the Air only has a 30W USB-C charger.
4. You can get the MacBook Air in Gold
The MacBook Pro is only available in two colours: Space Grey and Silver. You can get the MacBook Air in Space Grey, Silver and Gold.
5. The speakers and mics on the MacBook Pro are better
Apple made a leap with its laptop speakers back in 2019 when it gave the 16-inch MacBook Pro a high-fidelity six-speaker system with force-cancelling woofers.
Unfortunately, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro’s stereo speakers with high dynamic range speakers aren’t in the same league. They sound fine, and warm, but not as good at the 16-inch laptop. The MacBook Air is a step down again, with speakers that aren’t special at all.
The new Pro has “studio-quality” three-mic array with directional beamforming, while the Air just has regular mics inside. In the real-world, this won’t make much of a difference to users unless they’re looking to record podcasts or professional-quality audio on their MacBooks.
6. The MacBook Pro has a brighter screen
Both MacBooks have 13.3-inch LED-backlit display with IPS technology. They’re both Retina displays with 2560 by 1600 pixels and True Tone technology. But the Air can only reach 400 nits of brightness while the Pro can hit 500.
7. Actually, the M1 chips are a bit different…
This is slightly confusing here. The MacBook Air and Pro have the M1 System on Chips (SoC). Both devices have the “big/little” 8-core CPU with four performance cores and four efficiency cores. And both devices have a 16-core Neural Engine. BUT, the entry-level MacBook Air only comes with a 7-core GPU, while the entry-level MacBook Air comes with an 8-core GPU.
It’s a bit of a niche point though because you can configure the Air to have an 8-core GPU too.
8. They’re different sizes
MacBook Air MacBook Pro
Height 0.41–1.61 cm (0.16–0.63 inch) 1.56 cm (0.61 inch)
Width 30.41 cm (11.97 inches) 30.41 cm (11.97 inches)
Depth 21.24 cm (8.36 inches) 21.24 cm (8.36 inches)
Weight 1.29 kg (2.8 pounds) 1.4 kg (3.0 pounds)
The rest is the same
Storage options (256GB, 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB SSD)
8GB or 16GB RAM
Touch ID sensor
Two Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports
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How Jellyfish Helped A Marine Biologist Find Her Calling
Juli Berwald recounts not the not-so-straight path that led to her work as a marine biologist.
by Juli Berwald, on January 25, 2018
The following is an excerpt from Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald.
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Hiroshima’s downtown is a garden of modern architecture interspersed with swaths of lovely green parks. In the center, there is a single structure, in ruins, capped by a skeleton of curved iron. This is the Atomic Bomb Dome, located at the destruction’s epicenter, the sole building that managed to remain standing amid the massive force that flattened everything else for miles in all directions. It is an astonishing memorial to both our capacity for horrifying devastation and our awesome resilience. The dome sits along the side of one of six tidal streams that flow through Hiroshima. In the murky, green water, I watched thousands—maybe hundreds of thousands—of pale pink disks parade by, a flood of jellyfish. Juxtaposed with the dome, the endless stream of jellyfish seemed to square off nature’s power against our own, a battle as old as civilization that continues to play out in the decisions we make today. They were the first wild jellyfish I saw in years of chasing jellyfish. The milky creatures pulsed slowly, slower than my heartbeat, which dropped as I watched. The movements of their bells trailing gossamer tentacles were like millions of eyelashes blinking open and closed and open again, giving me a feeling that these alien animals could peer deep into the soul of the sea. I found it impossible to fathom the source of this endless river of life. The jellies continued to flow by for as long as I stood and watched.
Maybe you remember the first time you saw a jellyfish. Maybe you were lucky enough to stick your head under the ocean’s surface, wearing a mask, and watch the primal undulations of a jellyfish dancing to some internal rhythm. Maybe you felt a biting sting in the water and turned to see a gelatinous blob disappear like sinking mucus. Maybe you stood against the glass and watched the elegant clover on the back of a moon jellyfish or the graceful train of a sea nettle in an aquarium. Or maybe it was footage of jellyfish hawking a cure for memory loss.
I don’t remember the very first jellyfish I saw. I grew up in a time before aquaria were full of jellyfish tanks, in a very landlocked in St. Louis. I never spent an extended period near the ocean until I was in college. In my junior year, 1987, I attended an English-speaking study abroad program in Tel Aviv. From a New England school where getting ready to go to a party meant putting on tattered jeans, a flannel shirt, and duck boots, I was a misfit among the other American students, who were a lot less style-challenged. I found the Israelis my age no easier to get along with. At nineteen, they were required to serve in the army, while I had the freedom to jaunt off to college unencumbered.
[The guests at the WorMotel each get a private, cozy room. But the catch? They can never leave.]
I stuffed my loneliness down with the hummus and baba ghanoush sold from a cart on the street corner near my cinder block dorm. At about the same rate that my weight increased, my spirits sank. One day, I opened the door to the building where my class on Middle Eastern politics was held and spotted a sign out of the corner of my eye. It advertised a marine biology course: a week in Eilat, at the southern tip of Israel, studying the ecology of the Red Sea. Knowing next to nothing about biology or Eilat, not to mention the fact that I was hardly able to squeeze into my swimsuit anymore, I scrawled my name at the bottom of the list. It was clear I needed to put some distance between me and the pita cart.
A few days later, with about twenty other students, I boarded a bus headed south at dawn. After a five hour ride through the desert, we were offloaded and handed snorkels, masks, and fins. I think there was a quick instruction on keeping hands away from urchin spines and fire coral. I shuffled down the beach backward, the only way to walk in fins. When I slipped my face below the water’s surface, it was as if I were Dorothy stepping into Oz. My dull, sad world erupted in a kaleidoscope of colors, shapes, and textures. I glided over creatures that I could never have imagined existed in my mostly landlocked life. Pink, purple, and yellow coral that branched, encrusted, and mounded. Blotchy lavender anemones, creeping crimson shrimp, twirling buff-colored worms, filigreed fans, spiked black urchins. A day-glo orange sponge with a violet slug curled around it. Bowls of lemon-, lime-, and watermelon-hued clams. Here, astonishingly, was paradise.
That evening, the professor gave a lecture detailing twenty different species of coral living on the reef. He told us to memorize them all. Walking to the dorms after class, gazing at the moon’s reflection on the Red Sea, I felt, for the first time in a long time, happy.
Within days, I learned not only to recognize and identify the twenty different coral species, but to understand how they got along on the reef. I laid out thirty-foot lengths of rope and measured the space each colony occupied along the line. I watched coral engage in territorial feuds when their delicate tissues grew too close together. I learned to recognize the winner as the one whose threadlike stinging cells outnumbered those of its foe. It was a contrast to the battles that destabilized the Middle East: I found truth and beauty in these miniature clashes, which brought balance to the ecosystem.
By the time I climbed back on the bus to Tel Aviv, marine biology had sunk its hooks deep into me. I felt that the intricate dynamics of the ocean were more deeply authentic than anything humans could create. Seven days of snorkeling and studying coral all day and then peering into microscopes at constellations of plankton deep into the night taught me that biology is the foundation of our world, the stuff that is not changed with the whims of humans. Its heritage, so much more ancient than our own, gave it the gravitas I’d been searching for. Studying this scaffolding on which we hang our existence was what I wanted to do with my life.
A compass jellfish. Credit: Shutterstock
After that first mind-blowing dive in Israel, I did go on to study ocean science in graduate school. And that’s probably the first time I saw a jellyfish. A few years after my work on jellyfish started, I dug out my old box of grad-school memorabilia. And in a cardboard clamshell of old slides, the kind you have to stick into a projector, I found a hazy picture of what I now know was a compass jellyfish, taken in Puget Sound. I don’t remember taking it. In grad school, I didn’t work on jellyfish or any other marine animal. I worked on the equations satellites use to tell us how much carbon dioxide the ocean can inhale. That was the big picture, anyway, the kind of thing I told my parents so they could repeat it to their friends. The reality was much more obscure. I studied a single variable in those equations, one that only about a dozen people in the world recognized.
After moving to landlocked Austin, Texas, with my husband, I glumly slipped off the academic path and found my way into writing textbooks. It worked well when my two kids were young and I was always sleep deprived. But state-mandated academic standards soon quashed any sense of passion about the work. I had written and rewritten the same chapters on the physics of tossing balls into the air and dropping rocks off cliffs, on the bending and reflecting of waves, for nearly a decade when a friend gave my name to an editor at National Geographic. They needed a writer to pen three paragraphs on the physics of water bugs skating up a meniscus. After it was done, I spotted the magazine on a grocery store rack. Flipping to my tiny byline to show the cashier, I crowed, “That’s me!”
Despite my small successes in the print media and my semi-stable textbook gigs, when I slowed down enough to think, I felt lost. Although I looked good on paper, and maybe Facebook too, I knew I was actually adrift, aimlessly riding currents over which I had no control.
The technical name for the stage of a jellyfish’s life when it swims freely in the seas is medusa, a moniker shared with the ancient Greek mythological monster. Medusa is famous for her horrible face, which could turn a man to stone, and her wild locks of hissing snakes. It’s not hard to see the similarities. A swimming medusa could look like a floating head with a wayward mane of terrifying stinging tentacles.
[Let’s put to bed some rumors about all those sleep-tracking gadgets.]
But dig a little deeper into the story of Medusa, and what you find is not at all a monster, but a victim whose story has been misunderstood. Medusa was born to two ancient marine deities and, according to Ovid, was stunningly gorgeous. She served the goddess Athena in her temple. Some say she was a temptress and lured Poseidon into Athena’s temple. Others say Poseidon couldn’t control himself. As in too many cases like this, it depends who’s telling the story. Since I am: He raped her, right there in Athena’s temple.
Because it was ancient Greece, Medusa had little recourse. Athena went into a rage that her temple had been defiled, turned Medusa into a hideous monster, and kicked her out. Medusa—who deserved at least a shoulder to cry on, if not justice in a court—instead banished herself to a remote island, frightened and deformed. Imagine her disgust, shock, and horror to find that she was also pregnant with her assailant’s offspring. To complete the tragedy, the man always regarded as a hero, Perseus, arrived. Using the tricks of the gods—an invisibility cloak, winged sandals, and a mirrored shield—he snuck up on Medusa. She never had a chance. He murdered her.
From her severed neck, twin newborns emerged. The first was Pegasus, the winged horse, who flew up to the heavens. The other was Chrysaor, a giant who carried a golden sword. Today, a group of golden-brown jellyfish species known as sea nettles, some of which can grow to three feet across, is among the more common jellyfish groups in the oceans. Their name honors poor Medusa’s child. The genus is called Chrysaora.
Like their mythical namesake, jellyfish are also awash in misunderstanding. They have no centralized brain, but they see and feel and react to their environment in complex ways. Their body form looks simple, yet their swimming ability is the most economical in the animal kingdom. We know them in their swimming medusa form, but they live as much or more of their lives as a mysterious tiny tube planted on the underside of a rock. They wash ashore in hordes, and they dominate the deepest depths of our planet, supporting entire ecosystems. And still, scientists are unable to predict where and when to find them. To some, jellyfish symbolize the monster—not only in their potentially lethal sting, but also in a more global sense, as a symptom of ecosystem demise. At the same time, jellyfish are utterly, breathtakingly beautiful. As we watch the primal undulations of a medusa, they harmonize with the beats of our own hearts. Perhaps the extraordinary creativity of this balance, this surprising ability to exist in the space between monster and goddess, is why jellyfish resonate so deeply within all of us. Perhaps the story of jellyfish is really about our own possibilities.
Excerpted from Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald. Published by arrangement with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2017 by Juli Berwald.
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About Juli Berwald
Juli Berwald is the author of Spineless (Riverhead Books, 2017). She’s based in Austin, Texas.
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UEFA A and Pro Licence groups attend Under-21 EUROs
This week marked the start of the Under-21 European Championships in Prague and although Scotland won’t be there, our UEFA Pro & A Licence teams will be.
Scottish FA Director of Football Development Jim Fleeting is in the Czech capital along with some of Largs’ most promising coaches as they analyse the tournament’s group stages.
Participants include some of Scottish football’s biggest names and a number of current managers and coaches. English Championship play-off winner Alex Neil is with the group along with Hearts coach Robbie Neilson – who won the Scottish Championship – and our very own Performance Director Brian McClair.
The team will attend five group stage games before heading back to base to compare notes and coaching techniques.
Speaking ahead of the trip Fleeting told the Scottish FA: “Hopefully these guys will gain ideas from watching matches and benefit from other people’s contributions.
“I hope we can learn from one-another through analysing other games especially at this high level -that’s very important to us. The idea of sharing ideas and thoughts is so important. I’m delighted to bring such a big group to the finals with the support of UEFA.
“I’m personally looking forward to the competition as a whole and the chance to compare some very talented players.”
The European Championships kicked-off off on Wednesday with wins for Portugal, Sweden and Denmark in the openers. The tournament will culminate in the showpiece final at Prague’s Eden Arena on June 30th.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Signing A Celebration of Mediocrity
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And an act of quiet desperation from the music industry.
On Tuesday it was reported that Academy Award winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow was fielding offers for a record deal to record a “country pop” album, and later that she had signed a $900,000 deal with Atlantic Records.
I am quite astonished with this in so many different ways I don’t even know where to start. Actually I do. How about with the fact that Gwyneth, across multiple platforms, including movie, radio, and performance, and from a critical and commercial standpoint, has already failed in country music.
The movie “Country Strong”, which is the impetus for this whole country music career, was a colossal critical and commercial failure. Though the soundtrack of the movie made it all the way to #2 on Billboard’s country charts, the sountrack’s lead “Country Strong” single recorded by Paltrow charted a paltry #30. The latest single “Me and Tennessee”, a duet with Tim McGraw, is being universally panned by critics, and sits at #41 on the charts, while the “Country Strong” movie can’t be found in a theater near you.
The Gwyneth signing is like a “go down gambling” move from a dying industry that is incapable of developing real talent, but they’re laying their bet on a table they know is rigged. And when will this album come out at the best estimate? 6 months? Christmas? 2012? Will there even be a music industry left to release this when the release date comes? Is there any chance that unless this is a top 5 country album that Atlantic would come even close to recouping their investment? I would have given her 20 grand and some singing lessons.
One surprising thing about all this is that Nashville has little to do with it. I’m sure they’ll use Nashville studios, songwriters, and session players, but Atlantic is not a top Music Row label. The closest thing they have to a country superstar is Kid Rock. Though maybe this is a symptom of another problem, that being the creation of a mono-genre.
And I don’t mean this to be a knock on Gwyneth, I will get her album when it comes out, and do my best to listen it it honestly and fairly, but the model right now for new country stars is to find, well, models, and push them out on stage with fingers crossed they can hold a tune. As much as I hate that mold, at 38 and rising, Gwyneth doesn’t fit that at all. By today’s pop standards, she’s tore up and irrelevant. It doesn’t make sense from pop country’s own perspective.
How about giving $100,000 respectively to Ruby Jane, Rachel Brooke, and Caitlin Rose, three young, beautiful, and talented singers that could actually offer a sustainable future for the industry instead of “the fat get fatter” focus that has put the industry in this position. $100 Grand a piece is fine. Gwyneth can keep the rest. Oh, and those girls can also write their own songs, though another alarming thing about this story is that some are reporting that Gwyneth will be doing her own writing. This smacks of a celebrity coming in to offer a “third for a word”, as I highlighted in this article, robbing more deserving songwriters of revenue.
I know what the thought is here though: take a name that is already a international franchise, and attach music to it, and cross market it through movies and television. Ironically though, after Gwyneth’s last performance on Glee earlier this week, I was flooded with comments and emails about how her Glee character “insulted” Tennessee:
I just read in the newspaper that 90 high school girls in a Memphis school district got pregnant within three months. I mean, it is Tennessee, but still!” said Paltrow’s character, subbing as a sex-ed teacher.
As pliable and gullible as the country music consumer is, they rejected Jessica Simpson, they rejected Trace Adkins’ awful “Brown Chicken, Brown Cow”, and they rejected the Dixie Chicks after making what in the end were very very innocuous political statements. Oh, and they rejected “Country Strong” as well. I don’t think a passing comment on Glee could affect her, but the Hollywood persona most certainly will. Taylor Swift has more country cred than Gwyneth Paltrow.
And then there is Gwyneth’s performance at The Oscars. She was introduced as a “Singing sensation” and “Country music’s newest star”, but then came out, and by the look on her own face, which showed frustration, and by the end absolute embarrassment, she delivered a performance that was somewhere between flat and flat-out awful. By the end she looked like she had swallowed a razor blade. How many times have we replayed this scenario out over and over from these recent, stupid award shows and Super Bowl performances, and Star Spangled Banner renditions. She can’t sing. Gwyneth Paltrow can’t sing.
Taylor Swift is about to release her song “Mean” as her next single. It is about an unnamed music critic, that some think might be me. The leading candidate though is a cat named Bob Lefsetz, a music industry writer, who famously said after Taylor bombed her performance at The Grammy’s with Stevie Nicks, that, “Now the whole world knows that Taylor Swift can’t sing,” and that it was over for her. Well Bob Lefsetz was wrong. Just like Taylor’s CMA for Entertainer of the Year proved that a pop star could make it in country, and spurned acts like Sugarland and Lady Antebellum to follow that mold, Taylor Swift’s recovery after her Grammy performance proves that you don’t even have to be able to sing to be a massive star in music.
Our singers can’t sing. No wonder our leaders can’t lead, your food gives you Cancer, the shit you buy at Wal-Mart breaks after a week, and oil is $100/barrel even though we’ve got so much of it glutting the system, they can’t build silos in Cushing, OK quick enough to deal with how quickly it is piling up.
I know you may think this is grandstanding, but read the quote at the top of the page, and every Saving Country Music page. When you take mediocrity, put it up on a marble pedestal, shine a hot spotlight on it, shower it with money, and command the masses to come worship in it’s shadow, this is the kind of shit you get.
Congratulations America, a new country music idol is born!
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March 10, 2011 @ 1:48 pm
I’m surprised that this didn’t happen sooner. I thought she would have had album ready to go around the time of the release of Country Strong.
We all know it’ll be watered down, over-tuned, ultra-glammed, spit-shined, ported and polished dogshit country … cuz that’s what the people want. And unfortunately, the people WILL buy it. Like you said Trigger, mediocrity on a marble ped…estal will always be mediocrity, but the masses LOVE mediocrity. They can’t get enough of it. They eat, sleep and breathe mediocrity. They swallow it whole with a side of fries and a Diet Coke. If I were a prayin’ man, I’d pray for a revolution, but instead I HOPE — and I hope till my fucking nose bleeds — that the more the medicority machine churns out Paltrows, Antebellums and Swifts, the closer we get to them making such a mockery of themselves that the masses stop caring, stop paying attention, stop blindly consuming and start digging, clawing, straining for something better. And eventually they’ll dig themselves down to the muddy roots and walk home with saved souls and dirty feet. Can I get an amen?
The Triggerman
Selma Harlow
I’ve been waiting for this article for awhile. The day i saw the commercial for country strong I imagined this kind of post. nashville will probobly keep dishing “stars” out in a desperate attempt to make more money. I just dont know why people havent gotten the clue yet.. look at paris hilton and her attempt at a music career.. kim kardashian.. heidi montague… they all have failed and WILL fail just like gwyneth… no wonder i hear so many people say “country music.. i hate that shit” i dont blame people.. this is the shit they turn on the radio these days. I really dont have much more to say im sure my bitching doesent get me far.. at the end of the day gwenyth paltrow just got paid 900,000 grand.. im still broke.. and country music still sucks on the radio. WWHD? What would hank do?!
I was going to write a review for “Country Strong”, but they yanked that filth out of the theaters before I could make it there.
I will say that Gwyneth Paltrow is an excellent actor. She should stick to it. But I think what Atlantic is banking on is that she will break the Jessica Simpson/Kim Kardashian/Paris Hilton mold with substance. They were ditz nookie girls, she’s an Oscar winner. I just don’t think the mainstream country music consumer will buy into her enough for it to be successful. This is a million dollar deal. That means you need a Top Five album and a couple of hit singles to make the money work. Her track record says she won’t.
“On today”™s “Rachael Ray Show”, GWYNETH PALTROW reveals the secret to playing an alcoholic in “Country Strong”. She says, “You just get really drunk all the time. Which is awesome!” She adds, “At least I did anyway. It”™s not very professional. There”™s a Bloody Mary at 10:00 A.M. and keep it going all day.”
http://khmx.radio.com/2011/01/07/hollywood-dirt-1711-gwyneth-paltrow-gets-drunk-ryan-takes-a-shot-at-simon/
I wonder if they’ll induct her into the Grand Ole Opry even before the new album comes out. Trace Adkins can do the honors.
Stephanie Schultze
I said it before, I will say it again, “What’s in the box? What’s in the box?” Where is Kevin Spacey when you need him?
Stephanie: GENIUS!
Still don’t get the reference.
The movie Se7en, staring GP, Kevin Spacey and Brad Pitt. At the end Gwennie ends up with her severed head in a box.
I saw that movie. Really liked it. I think I remember Gwyneth in it now, in the apartment by the subway that rattled, ah, now I’m remembering the head in the box.
Yeah, she played Brad Pitt’s wife. They got engaged in real life after that movie.
Go Gwennie! lmagine how many more pairs of $1,500 Stella McCartney boots she she buy with that $900,000? Weeeeeeeeeeeee!
I actually think this an emerging trend we are seeing: signing pop-culture actors to record labels. I guess the labels figure half their job is done as these actors already have an established fan base who are sure to buy any album these celebrities record. It’s been happening for a while now with lesser known actors such as Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester and Taylor Momsen, Glee’s Matthew Morrison, and bigger names such as Scarlett Johanssen, Russell Crowe and Jared Leto. People who are established as ‘actors’ then move into music. I predict the record co’s will be lining up to sign up more actors and bidding wars will ensue! A final act of desperation perhaps?
What has triggered this line of thought for me was this: I was watching Portia de Rossi on Oprah the other day and she was talking about a book she’s just written about dealing with anorexia and bullemia. She was one of the main cast on Ally McBeal back in the early ’90s and all of the actresses became ‘scary skinny’ whilst working on the show. Portia said it was because it co-incided with the ‘supermodel’ craze dying out and cosmetic companies were instead offering ‘spokesmodel’ contracts to actresses. Thus they all felt the pressure to be ‘model skinny’ to conform to fashion’s unrealistic ideals. I actually remember this happening, seeing billboards and ads of all these beautiful actresses endorsing this stuff.
I think just as models were dumped for actresses in the 90’s, musicians are now being dumped for them in this new millennium.
As for Gwenyth being “tore up and irrelevant. It doesn”™t make sense from pop country”™s own perspective”. I hate to say it but I think it makes perfect sense. Seriously, check out Gwennie’s godawful site ‘goop’, it has a massive following of middle aged household shoppers (ie women), who are like disciples. They worship her. THAT will be her target market. Mark my words.
http://www.goop.com
As for the ‘Memphis pregnancy’ quip – I really don’t think anybody should be getting their knickers in a knot over ‘Glee’ humour. It is very dark and very sarcastic. One of the head writers is Ryan Murphy who used to write for Nip/Tuck. If you have seen that show you’ll understand his humour. That series was probably the most delightfully sick and twisted thing to ever make it to the small screen.
Lindsay Lohan’s mum wanted to sue the writers of Glee over a very funny quip Gwenyth made about her on the show:
http://www.gossipcop.com/dina-lohan-glee-gwyneth-paltrow-defamation-legal/
This is what I don’t understand. Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t need $900,000, or a music career. She is an Oscar-winning actress, not Oscar nominated. She is a leading lady. So why go do something she’s going to be mediocre and when she can be great at something else. Isn’t this just a rock n’ roll fantasy run amuck? Somebody needs to sit her down and tell her that she can’t sing.
I hadn’t thought of the housewife demographic, that may be a good point, but Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum have made their hay with the housewives, obsessed with youth, wanting to hold on to their past, living vicariously through the teenage world.
And make no mistake cross marketing has a lot to do with this.
Stubblejumper
Cross marketing has everything to do with it.
If you took a talented, but relatively unknown artist (one of the three you listed, for example), and tried to break them into the mainstream, at the level these labels work at, it costs a huge amount of money.
If you sign Gwyneth Paltrow, you don’t have to put up nearly the money, as everybody’s already aware of who she is. People want familiarity – nobody likes to waste time or money on something they don’t like – so they immediately gravitate towards names they know.
What about the $900,000? Up and coming artists gets no guaranteed money up front. Many times if their album flops they end up owing money.
I completely agree with what you’re saying, I know how the system works, or more aptly, doesn’t work. This mentality is one of the reasons the music industry is in the shape its in. Country music must develop talent. You can’t field a ball club with all top salary free agents. You need a draft. You need a farm system. Especially when your revenue has been slashed by 75% in the last ten years. Atlantic doesn’t have $900,000. They’re gonna borrow it from a bank and pray to God Gwyneth has a #1 song so they can pay it off and maybe make a little money to help pay on their other debts. And if she has a #11 song? They all take a bath in red ink.
Forgot to say this in my last comment, but why the hell does she need to be on Glee anyway, participating in that bullshit donkey humor? She’s got a damn Academy Award. Have more respect for yourself. You don’t see Julia Roberts on Two and a Half Men sitting on whoopee cushions. Gwyneth Paltrow is diminishing herself by appearing on Glee spewing canned one-liners, and hanging out with Tim McGraw. She’s better than that.
I think Gwennie probably has more in common with her ‘goop’ fans (goobers?) these days than anyone realises. She’s doesn’t seem to do many movies so is probably just a bored housewife. She doesn’t need the money but is probably flattered beyond belief that somebody wants to give her 72 more pairs of Manolo Blahniks (ie $900,000).
Glee is one of those random surprise TV hits, that happen from time to time. It has a cast of unknowns, I don’t think anyone expected it to be so successful. Huge stars are queuing up to be on that show. Once again, I just suspect Gwennie got bored of sitting at home knitting and was flattered by an offer to appear on the show which is “hip and cool” and has a huge following.
Man who knows, maybe she took up the offer of the record contract to get on her husband’s tits? I’m can’t stand Coldplay however acknowledge they are proper “musicians”. I wonder what Chris Martin quietly thinks about it?
March 10, 2011 @ 10:08 pm
Her husband has tits? 🙂
I think something got lost in the translation there, but if this is all about a bored housewife who doesn’t have the time to make movies, but wants to get out of the house a little for this and that, then when is she going to make this album, and is she going to be able to tour in support of it? That’s where all the money in music is now, in touring. Is she going to sleep in the back of a Prevost bus for six weeks straight during the Gwennie Gone Country tour? Probably not, so where does Atlantic recoup their investment?
I’d imagine they are banking on a little golden statue and the next American Idol judge.
Now, we are talking about a girl who’s father was a studio head, mother a lovely actress, niether as commercially successful as G. She went to school at Dalton in the upper east side of NYC. Won an Oscar. Im saying she has always been the succesful one. Now she can show up her husband, who is more succesful than her in the music industry. They are about to split anyway because she is having a hard time living in his shadow in london. Look now! No more shadow!! AND Trigger, you are sooooo right! Atlantic barely can afford the paper that check is written on, no less actually pay her that amount. I would love to see the writing on that contract. I don’t think they are gonna pay her anything near that in real life. It just makes them look uber sucessful, a PR dream!!!!! Nice fat writting so everyone thinks everything is ok in the music industry. Because if it was, they wouldn’t have to try so hard.
“Getting on someone’s tits” is to annoy someone. I was proposing maybe she took the record contract just to piss off the husband or some such nonsense. Who knows? I don’t think for a second Gwen will be touring to support her album in the traditional sense. I think she will do a few big city stadium type gigs, maybe supporting Tim McGraw or similar. I think she’ll be touted as a “special guest” or something. By the way, I couldn’t see that Estee Lauder fragrance ad earlier, I didn’t know she was a spokesmodel for them as well. Wow, she sure does get around doesn’t she?
She won’t tour for us but she’ll do the corporate circut. Private parties for Apple investors and the like.
It makes me sad. She’s been the Audrey of my generation to me. It’s tough to watch her style and grace get drowned in a bloody mary.
IceColdCountry
This doesn’t change the game one way or the other. How many times are we going to discuss the fact we know this is shitty music and not country music?
This is all that is going on in the world of SCM? Gwen and Trace? We know, you told us so.
Agreed. Country radio has been dead to me for years. I care about what paltrow and adkins do exactley the same as i care about lady gaga’s meat dress. Does not interest me at all. Let them have country radio. It is a rotting format. Hell they dont even play Jamey Johnson because he is too country. When does being country disqualify you from being on country radio? Only when Nashville suits dont want country, they want pop. Switch from country radio to top 40 format and see if it sounds any different to you.
Anyway let her have pop country because I don’t want it.
I didn’t mention radio at all in this article. In fact:
“Let them have country radio. It is a rotting format.”
Triggerman said:
” The problem is, is that there are many problems with XXX. The main one, and the one that is the deal killer for me, is that this focuses on radio. Why do we give a shit if radio is playing this music or not? I mean yes, it would be great if the “too country” and “too rock” crowd got more radio play, but radio is a dying industry that is fighting massive contraction while hemorrhaging money. Why are we coveting what they have? Why would we moor ourselves to that sinking ship?”
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/this-new-shooter-jennings-xxx-genre
And I don’t want to hear crying about Jamey Johnson not getting any radio play. He gets radio play. Many other artists don’t. Does he deserve more? Yes, but do you care about radio or not? Jamey has won big awards, been given opportunities to perform at huge award shows. Could he have more exposure? Sure, but let’s keeps things in perspective.
Trig, I also didnt mention XXX. I used Jamey Johnson only as an example as why I personally dont care about what pop country does. If Pop-Country (that is what i call country radio) can say that a mainstream artist is too country for their format, what is the reason to care about the powers that be and the decisions they make? Truly in my mind I think country radio should play country music. I only bring up radio when you didnt because at a $900,000 price tag I’m sure she will be placed on said format.
I am not saying you are wrong for posting this article. I do see its value. Again I think you do great work, and I am not criticizing you in anyway, shape and or form.
I wasn’t meaning to brig XXX up here. I just wanted to establish from a quote from myself from the past that we are both in total agreement about the significance of radio.
Are you kidding me? Even if you think the game is lost, to say it doesn’t change the game is ridiculous. These big money record deals are supposed to be dead. That’s 9 $100,000 record deals that could have gone to more deserving artists, including the three I listed in this article and six more. This is a MASSIVE story into regards to the shape and direction of the music industry to come, and if it doesn’t interest you or you think it’s irrelevant, don’t read it.
And how many frikking times are you going to bust my nuts for the same goddamn thing? No, this is not everything going on in the SCM world. Lone Wolf is going on in the SCM World, SXSW is, and I’ve been reporting on that as well. Quit using your myopic reading approach to my site against me.
Trig I appreciate what you do for the REAL music scene, but cant we just admit that this pop country fight was lost long before any of us, You, me and all of us ever voiced a concern. With all do respect, you have a very important throne, lets use youre voice and our ideas to promote what we like, and not get muddied by this pop-country b.s.
I see why you wrote this article, and I know that Im free to not read it, but I did anyway so those are my opinions on it.
This issue has come up numerous times with IceCold, and I don’t know how to explain it any better. When I started this site, I made a vow that for every negative article about pop country I write, I must write at least two positive ones. The actual ratio is more like 1 negative for every 7 positive. It may seem like this is a focus right now, because there were two stories right after each other. That’s the news cycle that’s out of my control. For over a month before the last few articles, I wrote only 1 negative blog. Was anybody giving me credit for that? No.
Another example is last week I wrote 5 articles, none of them about pop country, This week I will write 8: 5 supporting the music, 3 about the pop country stuff. It’s not that music is not not being supported to write these articles, I just work harder.
And the funny thing is, as much as people clamor for album reviews, your average album review will get 1/3 of the traffic as this article will. Everybody wants them, but nobody reads them, even though they also take me twice as long to write. I still do it, because I think it’s important. And believe it or not, a simple link about Ruby Jane for example will actually create more traffic for her here than it will writing an exclusive article about her, guaranteed. Because an article like this will draw lots of outside traffic. Most of my core readers already know who she is. So I am actually promoting the music through this article as well.
We all agree what the focus should be. Recently my focus has been Lone Wolf, and promoting SXSW. But I also think that that this Gwyneth Paltrow story is interesting and germane to what I cover, and so I am going to cover it. Nobody is bogging down with anything. It is all about the music, always has been, always will be.
Agreed brother. Keep fighting the good fight. Like I said before I am not antagonizing you in any way. I do read the album reviews, i just dont post on them. I am a new comer to the site. I dont know many of the artist that you guys take for granted as common knowledge. I enjoy soaking them in. I can say that I’m open to most anything musically but not this. Not her. Not anything that pop-country will promote as it’s next big thing. IceCold and I may agree on alot of things, but just know that I voice my opinion in a different way. Not saying he is wrong, but just dont lump us together as the same voice.
Yeah Nathan, and I don’t mean to jump down your throat. I know you’re new here, I just get so tired of hearing that argument that it kind of twists me off, though I ma glad in other ways people are making it. I want people to disagree with me, I want people to question my motives and be critical of me, and criticize what I do like I criticize the artists. I think this makes for a healthy environment. I I want people who disagree with my musical taste and can back that up with good thoughts. I think you do that well, and I think IceCold can too, though sometimes he gets hung up on things.
Like I always say, the best thing that happens on this site happens in the comments sections.
That's right . . .Denise
Just like the limelight in Hollyweird, the limelight in Nashville burns bright for only so long then they all start to get bored. I’m bored too. With POP Country. The wonderful world of autotune is running on short attention spans. Gwyneth Paltrow is no different than all the singers going to Hollyweird. They can’t cut the mustard in Nashville so they turn to movies. Hell, if you can sing you should sure as shit be able to act right? And vice versa, right? She has already run the gamut of Oscar winner. The next stop is on stage with a microphone playing the part of a bonafide country singer who already has disrespected country folks with remarks about Tennessee. Watch this turn into a new Grand ole Opry member.
And why not? The Grand ole Opry is boring now too. Since they showed what they are really about. Let’s see: we got puppet porn and fixed award shows. We got Hollywood starlets and crossover singers. We got crooked music executives and double standards. We got TMZ and cologne ads. We got manufactured superstars who can’t hold a tune. We got highlighted hair and designer clothes. We got liars and cheats. We got lipsyching and payoffs. Yep. That about sums it up . . . Nashville has evolved into a fucking circus.
Good thoughts. P.S. Like the new name.
I can’t see all of your new name Denise. I can only see ‘That’s right … Denise”. Let me guess, you’ve gone and changed your name to Denise Sheen? Well I am a little disgusted girl. You leave an articulate comment about Hollyweird and how much you deplore what is being spewed from it these days … then you run off and marry Charlie Sheen behind my back. Are you one of “The Goddesses”? SHAME ON YOU 😉
That’s right . . .Denise is her new name.
Would’nt expect her to acknowledge us though. She has gone hollywood and forgotten about us by now.
Now look here you two! Charlie would want me to speak my mind as he has enough on his plate at the moment. No, I’m not one of those “goddesses” !! Charlie has lost his ever lovin’ mind when it comes to that . . . That’s right.
Hollyweird can’t handle me. See, all these ideas floating in my head, all these creative manifestations and they cannot see the forest from the trees. I see the trees. I love the trees. I used to climb trees when I was little. Ever climb a tree Carla and Nathan? Ever just kick off your shoes and look up that bark lined mammoth and say . . . That’s right. I’m climbing you!!! Yeah. Well. hmmm. Hollyweird just doesn’t understand Charlie. But I understand him. What I can’t understand is Trashville and Hollyweird and goddesses and puppet porn. I just can’t get my mind around it. It makes me all heeby jeeby. And furthermore, what’s this about Bloody Mary’s Gwynie? Being an alcoholic is fun? I really really am starting to get upset now. If you really wanted to research your role, miss Country singer, you should spend some time in an AA meeting. See how fun it is then you crazy money grubber. I have lost all respect for you with that comment. I think some alcoholics should get a cut of that 900 K for pain and sufffering and such. Then we’ll see how badly you want to be a country singer when you’re broke and down on your luck.
Don’t even get me started, Hollyweird.
Signin’ off.
Ouch Pete. It sounds like you are having a very bad day indeed. I hope it gets better for you 🙂 I don’t know if Gwenyth is as immoral as you might think. Damn, I’m a woman and I wish I could rock a pair of big black nana-knickers and a pair of fishnets like that! I’m not a fan of hers at all, however as Trigger has pointed out the woman does have an Academy Award sitting in her dunny.
I do understand your frustration though. The amount of money she’s being paid is pretty obscene. I just keep on imagining what Triggerman could do with $900K. Seriously right? He could start a record label and sign all these amazing acts he champions. It gets even better as the next part of my fantasy is him employing me as his label’s publicity and promotions manager. Hint hint.
Do you need a personal assistant Miss Carla? 😉
Well, seeing Charlie has now lost his job you probably will have to help out with the household expenses on the mansion Denise.
Pete Berwick
Carla, truth is, when I see an “artist” posing as a whore, they lose any and all credibility with me. If I want to wank off I’ll grab my wife’s Frederick’s Of Hollywood catalog.
Wow Pete. Was that comment even necessary? When a woman decides to look sexy, it is only because they know that men will bite. Whore is a strong word and should not be used for a woman unless there is proof that she actually sells her body for sex.
Nathan…..if you were my kid I’d wash yer mouth out for that statement….and have yer father kick yer ass.
Cathy, you can not be serious. As a woman, you are offended by the fact I respect women? Not possible.
First of all I am ragging you as I assume you are fairly young. Your comment to Peter was right on and made me smile. You are not afraid to call someone out.
But….it really is not respecting women to make comments re: any woman for what they do with their bodies, selling, giving, trading, whatever.
“When a woman decides to look sexy, it is only because they know that men will bite.”
Some woman don’t have to “decide” to look sexy and some women get sexy for themselves….not all women are sexy to get a man to “bite”. That’s conniving.
and lastly…it’s not on topic. 🙂
Cathy, I’m not all that young. 32. And if i took youre comment the wrong way, all apologies. Maybe I just dont get youre sense of humor yet.
I used the word as my choice of word for a sellout. When I see someone using their tits and ass to promote their music, I can only assume the music is secondary and not worth the look. This pic sais one thing and one thing only. “Don’t ya wanna do me?” That to me is whorish.
Why can’t she just go fully into pop, if she really must sing? She can do duets with artists like the CeeLo person, or Gaga or whoever.
She’s also said she wants to work with Jay-Z. I don’t think Gwyneth has any clue what country music even is. Every name that she’s said she wants to collaborate with has been outside the genre. We all know this music is going to have nothing to do with country. It’s the super-genre theory in action. Her music is not going to be rap, and she’s white, so you call it country.
TGIF Tiddy Bits!
[…] If Jesus really loved me he’d make Paltrow go away. […]
Jesus would most likely want corporate greed to go away, right? I mean, since you love Jesus, you’d have to know how he hates this kind of stuff.
You could make a list two pages long of people who deserve this before here. In fact, you could make a list 10 pages long of people who deserve it more than the current poster children of country music.
The only way to get any attention as a singer/songwriter now is to get yourself on a damn reality show. That is disgusting.
There are so many amazingly talented people who could literally change music if one major label had the balls to let them do what they do.
Look at the talent on some of the smaller labels. And usually it isn’t the one big name on their roster. it is the 4 guys behind that one named artists who are kicking it in the ass ever day writing/performing killer shit.
There are at least 10 acts out there right now who would be overnight Zach Brown Band’s if given the support. Hell, I don’t even think anyone does A&R anymore, and if they are, they suck at it. A&R has been replaced by Simon Cowell and the other 900 reality bullshit shows.
Country music has gone to shit. They ought to have Soccer Mom Pop Country, and a REAL music/talent genre. Oh, wait, they do. It is called Americana. But no one listens to any of that ho-hum, blah, boring old FREAKING GREATNESS!
I don’t support pop country, but I don’t support sensationalised journalism either.
Do you have confirmation she signed a $900K deal? Doesn’t sound like you do. Information off E news and re-posting is kind of weak.
Secondly, $900K. Is that really a huge deal? really? What are the specifics of the deal? Oh you don’t know, 1. there is no deal, yet, if ever and 2. you don’t know.
You put a picture up of Gwyneth that is obviously calculated. You got a guy like Pete who has no idea who she is, now with an opinion that is complete bullshit about her based off one photo you put up.
Is it news to you that Gwyneth maybe getting a record deal? Hmmm. She has been in a recent movie about country music, on the hottest show (glee) singing, and now a possible deal??? Shocker. The big record labels are in it to make money, not improve music. If she gets $900K, they will make that back easy even if she flops.
Your trying to lead a fight against the pop country machine, but I dare say you are picking the wrong front to fight on and not leading. Same old story about pop-country. Yeah, it sucks, they can’t sing, others deserve a shot. Now what? Wait for the next pop country disaster to come up?
And with respects to what you do, I am more confused as ever. XXX is a problem for you because radio doesn’t matter cause radio is dying? Then where are you trying to go with this fight? If radio is dying, who cares who is getting the deals to be on radio? Ruby Jane still records her music and we can find it other places. Do you want her on radio that is dying? Do you want these artists to win awards at the shows you make fun of? So what is the fight?
And you claiming to be trying to save country music and then blowing off Jamey Johnson because he gets “enough exposure” is a joke. More people know HankIII than Jamey Johnson I promise you that. There are many fighting behind the scenes, but he is fighting out front. And he is winning.
I read most all the articles you put up. I don’t comment on them all and I don’t always pick things apart. It doesn’t take much in your articles to find accusations/allegations/claims, etc. that are far fetched or simply inaccurate, yet you lead your readers down a road with it. But, its your site. It entertains me, and like you said, you welcome the critics.
Carla- “I just keep on imagining what Triggerman could do with $900K. Seriously right? He could start a record label and sign all these amazing acts he champions. It gets even better as the next part of my fantasy is him employing me as his label”™s publicity and promotions manager. Hint hint.”
What does it take to cut a good record? $50K? Maybe $100K? So Trigger is going to start a record label and sign a bunch of artists and cut records, market them, put them out on tour… all with this huge amount of $900K.
March 11, 2011 @ 10:10 am
Jeez man.
I think it is pretty well established at this point that Gwyneth has signed to Atlantic records. Nobody is refuting that. It is also pretty well established that her deal is worth $900,000. Now how is that cut up, how many albums that is for, what are the provisions, if it is incentive laden or not, that is what we don’t know, but this in no way speculation. And re-posting of information is not in any way uncommon or unethical. People quote me are repost my stuff all the time. That’s how it works. In fact someone just reposted my stuff today, and you can follow the link above to see where.
I can’t speak for Pete, but you seem to love to take the one person making the extreme of an argument, and either A) attribute it to me B) make it seem like that is the majority view of the readers of this website. You have done this numerous times. The picture was not calculated, I used it because it was a fair use image I didn’t need permission to use, and it is from the same shoot as the picture of Gwyneth in a cowboy hat that I have used in her articles before. I don’t see anything “sensational” here. I do see lots of my heavy-handed opinions, but that’s what I do man. That’s who I am, and I make no apologies for that.
As for the XXX and radio stuff, I took that quote from the very first XXX article I wrote to establish that my views on radio have been consistent. Since then my take on XXX itself has changed, and I would assume that we can all appreciate this. But my views of radio haven’t. Yeah, I would NOT recommend to Ruby Jane that she covet radio, because it IS dying, and I honestly believe that. Can Ruby Jane and XXX use radio in the interim to get the word out, sure, why not? But my views have not changed on radio.
More people know Hank III than Jamey Johnson? Are you fucking kidding me? Really? Then I really need to stop arguing with you because you clearly don’t have your finger on the pulse whatsoever.
And as far as me starting record labels or whatever you’re implying there, those were just hypotheticals to prove a point. C’mon man, quit trying to find excuses to bust my balls at every turn, and try to contribute to the conversation.
Pete, I wasn’t explaining myself to you, I was explaining myself to IceCold. He seems to think I posted it to be sensational. Honestly i just found the first public use photo I could of her and posted it. I can’t help if he has a propensity to hang out in body suits while people take her picture.
I know you were explaining to him Triggerman, but from what I percieved of his rant, and he seems to have many, was that he was using my earlier rant to rail against you. It wasn’t my wish to have my post used that way. And for somone like him to call my opinion “bullshit” is pretty ballsy considering the trail of it he leaves all over your blogs. Always the ones who go around pissing and busting balls the most are the ones who remain anonymous. Tell me who you are icecold. Since you know it all why don’t you have a link so we can go read about all your achievements. Who are you? Hell, I have no idea.
Pete, you want to know me so you can what? Why do people need to know who I am? Would that make the facts I state more factual?
Also, you may want to learn who Ms. Paltrow is(or any of the women you bash) before you say stuff like this:
I have absolutely no idea who this broad is and I have no interest in finding out. One look at her photo and it”™s over for me. I am so sick and tired and bored of these cunt woman like her and lady ga ga and madona before and all these gaping wholes using their tits and ass to become stars. When you write about these hacks here you are only giving them notoriety. Her picture tells her story. Another talentless hack whore slutting her way to fame using pornography as her means. Just stopped in for a taste, and now I think I”™ll go rinse my mouth out out and get back to the new Keith Richards bio I”™ve been reading.
And I hope this slut bitch reads this and sues me. I”™ll post a pic of me waving my raging hard on and thanking her for the publicity. Sorry if this offends anyone. I”™m just in one of those moods these days..Waylon ain”™t got shit on me these days far as “ornery & mean.”
Your classy. Waylon was ornery and mean for a song, he wasn’t a fucking asshole to women.
I am not busting your balls.
Somebody drew an opinion based on a photo you put up of Gwyneth. That is their problem for drawing the wrong opinion, but how many fair play pictures are out there of Gwyneth that don’t have her in that pose? Who exactly is using images of women to get attention? Your smart enough to know why you used that photo.
Your sources on the deal are tabloids. Gwyneth’s reps have said no deal is done yet. But your off and running with it, to save country music, right?
More folks know HankIII than Jamey Johnson. You need to realize that. More might know the song “In Color” or “High Cost of Living”, but they don’t know who sings them, or they didn’t just a year ago.
You haven’t signed on to the XXX petition, which is your choice. But when it comes to leading, you stay on the fence about two major lighting rod topics. XXX and Jamey Johnson.
You have not indorsed nor divorced either, and I wonder why that is? Rather you beat the drum of pop country sucks, which no one will argue, and your “mono-genre” idea so you can say I told you so. How about taking a stand on tougher issues… do you support and sign on for XXX? Do you support and believe Jamey Johnson is the real deal?
IceCold,
At this point it is established all across the news world that Gwyneth Paltrow has signed a deal with Atlantic, and that in one way or another $900,000 is involved. Yes, the news originated from tabloids, and that is why when I first reported the story, I mentioned that she was “planning” to sign a deal, because she confirmed that on the red carpet at the Oscars to non-tabloid news sources. Go back and read the article. I did not cite a tabloid in this article. I don’t think I need to site anyone because reporting that Gwyneth signed with Atlantic is being a master of the obvious, not a sensationalist.
I’m not going to rehash with you once again my feelings on Jamey Johnson or XXX, but it has nothing to do with “taking a stand”. It has to do with being a realist.
Your feeling on XXX and Jamey are vanilla. That is fine, but that is kind of weak given the level of the two topics to country music. Your write worth while reviews of albums, and spread the word on underground events/artists, and take shots at the easy to take shots at music industry, but when it comes to tough topics… no where to be found?
What the hell are you talking about man?
Vanilla? Not willing to take a tough stance?
My stance on Jamey Johnson has not changed at all. I don’t think blindly saying he’s great when I don’t believe that or blindly saying he’s a pop country sellout when I don’t believe that either is being “vanilla”, it means being honest. Here’s my thoughts on Jamey Johnson, that have not changed:
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/to-the-jamey-johnson-lovers-haters
And XXX, I have said, twenty frikking times to you man, love the idea, hate the name, and understand why people do not like Shooter’s involvement.
Now you are busting my balls.
Actually scrap all that. I hate Jamey Johnson. I think his music sucks and that he’s a sellout asshole. I also think he has a small penis and is a closet homosexual that has a cabal of Muslim terrorists living in his beard! BOOO BOOO Jamey Johnson!!!
Is that what you want from me? Well there you go. Quote me on that shit!
Your stance on Jamey hasn’t changed? Didn’t you call him Country’s Black Firend too? Didn’t you do an album review of his with little to know research on him but listening to the album first time through?
And you like the XXX idea but hate the name. “and understand why people do not like Shooter”™s involvement.” Do you like Shooter’s involvement?
Your hardcore on somethings, and that is great. But you tip toe on others things when they are edgy.
Hey Trigger, I just realised how I can demonstrate how “getting on ones tits” is used in everyday english: IcecoldCountry, you’re getting on my tits here 😉
I also feel the need to weigh in on this photo controversy. I personally don’t find Gwenyth attractive, she’s not my idea of beauty. However I think that photo of her at the top of the article is gorgeous. She looks absolutely beautiful and sorry, I don’t think it’s dirty/slutty. It’s definitely a sexy look for her, and I would anticipate this shoot was done by a high end fashion magazine, a Vogue or similar. The only other photo Trigger posted was the ad for the Lauder fragrance, once again she looks beautiful in that photo. Considering the tone of this article I actually think both photo choices were incredibly generous and respectful. Trigger could have chosen to put up a photo of her looking horrific, with no makeup, or some crappy paparazzi shot. I think he took the high road by chosing the photos he did. Just my opinion however as a woman I thought it might offer a different perspective. Hmmm, unless IceColdCountry is a chick? Icecold, can you please confirm your gender?
Whoever said Jamey Johnson was a lightening rod topic? It’s not a battle between Jamey and Hank III. Please. It’s not a battle between XXX and public radio. It’s a battle of good versus evil. Of right versus wrong. Of pop country versus real country.
Sorry but Jamey Johnson is a dime a dozen when it comes to Nashville. But Hank III ain’t. Why do you think Mike Curb about drowned in his salivating pockets? He wanted to cash in. Why do you think Jamey Johnson wrote(ahem) Badonka whatever? To cash in. Why do you think Hank III has FOUGHT the Nashville wheel? It wasn’t to cash in, my friend.
Denise, again, your points are pointless.
Lets break it down for fun:
Denise- “Whoever said Jamey Johnson was a lightening rod topic?”
He is a lighting rod. You mention him and there are replies both ways for days.
Denise- “It”™s not a battle between Jamey and Hank III. Please. It”™s not a battle between XXX and public radio.”
No it is not. That was never insinuated.
Denise- “It”™s a battle of good versus evil. Of right versus wrong. Of pop country versus real country.”
Good vs. evil, right vs. wrong? It is music dipshit, not good vs. evil or right and wrong. It is music.
Denise- “Sorry but Jamey Johnson is a dime a dozen when it comes to Nashville.”
Really, name the other dimes like him?
Denise- “But Hank III ain”™t. Why do you think Mike Curb about drowned in his salivating pockets? He wanted to cash in.” Record labels are around to make money.
Denise- “Why do you think Jamey Johnson wrote(ahem) Badonka whatever? To cash in.”
Or maybe if you knew anything about the song it was as a joke. Somebody picked it up and recorded it. Not his fault. And get over that song. You have had more than ample chances to support you dislike for Jamey Johnson, and this is all you keep coming back too.
Denise- “Why do you think Hank III has FOUGHT the Nashville wheel? It wasn”™t to cash in, my friend.”
Yea, and HankIII has really changed that wheel hasn’t he? Good job Hank. His passion lies with metal. Not country. He is great at country, but clearly not is passion.
I can’t believe you still write what you write.
Also, I like HankIII, but can one HankIII fan tell me exactly what he fought and beat down?
He had a contract with Curb. He did his obligation to that contract. What exactly did he fight? He signed the contract, and played it out. He has brought some concerns to the table, but … ? What has he really fought and won. He was stuck to do his contract with Curb.
and now we wait for the great “post Curb” era to save the world.
I think I hear crickets. Hank III has made some awesome music, But in the realm of saving country music he has no interest in stepping into it.
one of the “fights” Hank III took on was the venues who are ripping off the bands by taking a % of the merch money…..boycott them!!!
Add Nicki Bluhm to the Caitlin Rose, Rachel Brooke more deserving female singers to invest in list.
I think it is a bit extreme for us to look at the pop country industry/music and say that is ALL executives sell, ALL people buy, etc…
Many use blanket statements like that to blame American Idol or big labels ruined music, etc… But your fighting the fight from the wrong front.
I will take shit for this, but, did anyone see Kid Rock on CNN’s Peirs Morgan last night? Peirs asked him about American Idol and Steven Tyler doing the show. Asked him about Justin Beiber too. Kid explained that some people have approached him and ask him to do things like Idol that he doesn’t agree with. He said “people come up to me and are like ‘that show gets 30million viewers, how can you ignore it?’ I say to them, I am not great at math but there are 300M people in the country, I would rather speak to and try and reach the other 270M.”
When I heard that, I kind of thought about some of the talk I hear on here. Not EVERYONE watches Idol. Not EVERYONE that has success comes through Idol or reality shows. Not EVERYONE loves pop-country blondies. It is a small piece of the puzzle. Granted the piece that gets the media attention, but rather than focus on “the 30million” what about the 270M still out there?
The Kid interview was very good. If you have opinons on Kid, good or bad, I suggest catching the interview. He is as real, honest, patriotic, and unslefish as they get. You don’t have to like his music, but the way he does it, you gotta respect.
Why is he where he is on the music totem pole? He works his fucking ass off and doesn’t bitch about the 30 million that like other kinds of music. He tries to reach the other 270M.
I got the chance to speak with Kid Rock at Tootsies in Nashville a few weeks back. No matter what anyone thinks of his music, I will tell you his is a great, good hearted guy. I think that is what shows through in his music.
Also Denise.
Jamey Johnson is not one of the dime a dozen acts in Nashville. He is the real deal if you are a fan of more traditional or outlaw country. He blends the two. From youre opinion of him, I can tell you have never heard an album, but only know that he has been played on the radio, and that hes not Hank III.
Oh she’s heard bodonkadonk, and she has heard the couple songs they play on the radio. I know they play Jamey on her precious KOOK 93.5.
I don’t listen to Kid Rock because he’s a thief.
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/kid-rock-accused-of-stealing-old-ladies-hats
Trig, That post was funny as hell.
Does Jamey Johnson support XXX? Does he know about it? Does XXX support him? just innocent questions, figured you might know.
I dont want to bring XXX to this topic, This topic isnt about that at all.
But Shooter and Jamey have a relationship on some level, possible that Jamey might know about XXX. Dont know though.
But XXX isnt about Jamey at all. It is a tool focused more on bringing unheard but talented artist to more people.
I agree with Nathan. word for word.
icecoldcountry brought up the two topics together, just wondered(honestly)if there was a connection as i aint an expert on either. seems the XXX website lists plenty of big time names though, perhaps as a gateway to the underground or “unheard but talented artists”, thought if there are so many out there who love and support JJ,as that is how it seems to me from personal experiences, he might fuction in a similar capacity for them.
Kid is where he is on the pole simply because he sucks….real bad.
Wow. I haven’t been online much Trig due to the place I am now living has crappy internet service but who the hell is this IceCold character? If he wants to blog he needs to get his own venue and stay the hell off of yours! As for me, you know I prefer my cd’s and personal play lists to the radio. I will take suggestions of who to listen to and if I like them, I will keep listening. If I don’t, I won’t. I have been reading some of your articles on my breaks at work but by the time I’m done, I have no time to respond.
As for Gwenyth, since I don’t pay attention anymore to the ‘mainstream’ music scene, I could really care less if she goes country, R & B, Rap or to hell. I’ve liked some of her movies but I probably would have liked them if someone else was in the role too.
Jamey Johnson. Hmmm. No opinion. Haven’t listened to him and don’t really care to. I listen to a range of music from Hank III (of course) to Flogging Molly to Reverend Horton Heat to Jack Johnson. I also listen to Jazz, showtunes and I am a huge ABBA fan. I can’t listen to him if I don’t turn on the radio and I’m not a music critic so I can’t justify spending money on a cd to see if I enjoy his music. Yes, I know. I can probably hear it on the internet but once again, with all the scripts running on some pages my internet slows down and it gets frustrating with all the buffering.
There are a lot of people out there who support you Trig. I will keep reading and I will even comment a little more if I can.
As for IceCold. Stop stealing his forum and get your own. Or are you afraid no one will read it?
IceCold is a good guy. He is not trying to steal Trig’s site. Trig has stated, and it should be obvious, that the posts are the best part of the site. We are allowed to post and give opinions. Different opinions don’t mean leave and start you own site. Debate from opposing points of view can be healthy.
While that is true, so far what I have read of his posts (and after reading this one, I went looking for more) it is MY opinion that he isn’t really trying to debate so much as he is attempting to put down and devalue Trig’s opinions. He is rude to some of the other posters (Denise and Carla as an example) and comes across as egocentric and ‘my opinion matters most’. You can state your opinions without tearing down others and being rude. It’s called discretion.
Nathan, I may seem a little protective of Trig, but I am not a newcomer to this site. I’ve been reading his blogs since I think 2007? Does that sound right Trig? We met up on Myspace and I was reading you then. Once you started up SCM, I have been here too. Not a lot of comments here from me lately but like I said, I live in the black hole of the internet world. Our access depends on the weather and how many people are on the damn thing. I got lucky today and I am using it while I can!
He does seem to wear the black hat, and i have defended denise when he went after her, but I do think that he has solid opinions. So I defend him just like I did her ( Neither one ever asked me too). Opinions and thoughts, right or wrong, are fair to type as long as you believe them.
@Nathan…
yer buddy IceCold is not contributing to “healthy” debate that you speak of when he sinks to personal attacks and name calling on another poster…..unprovoked I might add. Denise did not call names, they disagree and he snipes at her every chance he gets. The comments are very rude.
“It is music dipshit, not good vs. evil or right and wrong. It is music. ”
Sounds like a hater of people or women who have minds of their own….that’ my opinion of his behavior, and I’ve been watching for awhile. Condescending, bombastic comments denigrate the conversation and only show small mindedness in the end.
Nikki is exactly right….Denise is one of the original readers of SCM.
The SCM site notes: “occasional off-color pop country bashing”
Now SCM is set up so you see the title of the blog and you can also note the CATEGORY that it is placed in….there are 8 of them.
If the title or the category is not of your or IceCold’s liking, don’t friggin click it.
….simple as that.
A bully resorts to name calling and
Now hold on cathy, I have not, as of yet, shown my ass on this site ( Keith and I had a thing, over and dead now). I choose to be nothing but respectful. And that will not change. I have the same rights to share my opinions as you do and I welcome and want to read yours. I dont agree with Ice Colds attacks, but I do understand his frustration. I choose to walk into the conversation and join, rather than dismiss others who disagree with me. That in this case would mean you and not Ice Cold. But with all do respect i’d rather continue this talk by talking about music instead of talking about us.
I’m telling you Nathan, all of us who have been reading Trig through the last 4 years have very firm opinions on things. Cathy and her husband Wayne are awesome people! We are really very nice though. You haven’t offended me. I welcome opinions as long as they aren’t deliberately mean and rude.
As to music. If you haven’t already checked them out Bob Wayne, Scott Biram, Hillstomp, Those Poor Bastards, Reverend Horton Heat, .357 String Band, Joey Alcorn (and I’ll probably get shit for this one) Kyle Turley are definately worth listening to. I’ve seen most of them live (TPB 5 times, Bob Wayne 3 and Kyle turley 2). There are quite a few more but not off the top of my head. Cathy can give a lot more!
I totally agree you did not show your ass at all. However you did “agree” with IceCold up above when he was bitching about the topic of this blog and getting on Trigger for doing it. There’s more to SCM than XXX and Jamey Johnson…and by the way since we are bashing in this blog, Kid Rock sucks….always has, always will. 🙂
As I mentioned, pop country bashing has always been part of SCM…..from the beginning. Should it change because a few people don’t like it or don’t think it has anything to do with what SCM does? It all relates.
I have bashed pop-country in this post. I hate the fact that radio tries to sell me country when there is no country involved. Just so you know where i stand, I do like Hank III (straight to hell was so good I bought 2 copies vinyl and cd), I do like Shooter, I like Jamey and the doubts I had on kid rock entering country left me when i spoke to him, So i’m with him also. What I want is real music, nothing more, nothing less.
DeaconBlues1103
How about including Eilen Jewell in with Ruby Jane, Rachel Brooke and Caitlin Rose? I think EJ could go into a recording booth with strep throat, sing the telephone book and STILL be 10 times better than any “country” artist today. ‘Nuff said.
PS – I’m checking out Nicki Bluhm that another reader tipped us off to.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have heard some stuff from Eilen Jewell before but need to check her out more. The three names I listen were just ones that came to me on the top of my head, it’s no offense to Eilen or anyone else. There were probably 100 names I could have listed there, and I guess that was my underlying point.
Just a suggestion Trig,
As i’ve stated before I’m a new comer and love soaking all the new to me names of artist in. Any chance for a post maybe about who we should check out and why? Just to give us noobs a place to start from. Im sure youre opinions will be debated by others, but that just means more names of artist to try and find.
I used to just refer to my top friends on MySpace, but can’t do that anymore. I do try to do lists of artists for people to check out, but I will do it in creative ways, like what I am doing with my SXSW previews. I know most people will not be able to go to SXSW, but by pointing out who I will see, who’s playing, hopefully people will recognize the names, search around for more info, etc. There are so many artists right now and I am getting tugged into so many different directions that it is hard to know where to be. Lists can get political (as we found out with XXX) so I just try to stick to finding excuses to talk about bands and hope people catch on. Like with this article. One of my main points was to point out 3 beautiful women that I think deserve more attention.
catfish carrie
As I said on Facebook, no offense to people with learning disabilities, alcoholics, or primates, but I’m pretty sure a drunk, retarded chimp could make something more worthwhile.
whaaaa Carrie, where is my “like” button???
I’m afraid they’ll continue to give Gwynnie performance spots on the coming award shows, spots that should be given to more deserving artists who’ll surely benefit from performing on such shows. Ugh.
Thanks to Nikki and Cathy, good people, but I really ain’t sweating IceCold. He targets me because I don’t care for Jamey Johnson or the name XXX. He targets me because he thinks I’m a dipshit. He targets me because I have opinions and must feel threatened by them and me. It’s kind of flattering . . . all this attention! Ha!
Someone like him who considers me a dipshit is really a compliment. He doesn’t realize that as he spouts off at his mouth about me and my opinions, all the while I STILL know what good music is and that’s the end of it. My opinon is mine and that’s the end of it. Proof is in the puddin’ Ice Cold.
He cannot start a blog of his own and have the caliber that Triggerman draws. He only comes here to defend his personal interests and spout off at the mouth. This is a blog IceCold and I’ll have my opinion, say what I want, think what I want and like what I want and owe you nothing. I do not have to defend my opinion. It is mine, belongs to me and I will continue to share it whether Ice cold likes it or not. Fuck with me, please.
Jamey Johnson is a dime a dozen. “Third for a word” says it all. I demand the writers of that song to come here and tell me where they got that idea. Who are the writiers of that song? The song that was a joke? You know so much about Jamey Johnson, Icecold, bring him here for an explaination. Him and his friends. Bring them and let them fight their own battle. I’ve had enough of the personal attack, IceCold. You want to lay it down let’s do it. I know what the evil is in the music industry, and you want to call me names?
The music industry is out to make money. Wow you’re so smart. Really? Didn’t have the first inkling of that notion. Are they out to misrepresent their clients? Are they out to allow creative control? Are they out for the best interests of their clients, i.e. Mike Curb and Shelton? Sounds evil to me. Wrong too. Yeah, say what you want about Hank III’s battle, but at least he did something. What is Jamey Johnson doing? The great white outlaw hero you adore? Has he even went through one injustice like Shelton has? Oh. He doesn’t get played like Taylor Swift? Oh. You don’t say? He can’t get airplay like Sugarland? Oh. Really? Welcome to the world of pop country. That doesn’t make him any different than Eric Church. Jason Aldean. Aaron Lewis.
Shooter is more outlaw than Jamey Johnson. Hank III is more outlaw than Shooter. That just burns your balls doesn’t it, IceCold?
Come on! Dipshit?! That the best you can do? Wanna dance Icecold? Cause I do. Get on those shit kickers cause it’s getting real fucking deep.
That said, I think POP Country really sucks and so does Jamey Johnson.
Denise, I have wanted to dance with you for some time.
Do you know the difference between opinions and claims/accusations? Do you know the difference between opinions and facts?
“He targets me because I have opinions and must feel threatened by them and me. It”™s kind of flattering . . . all this attention! Ha! ”
No I don’t target you for your opinions. Show me one writing of mine where I have said your opinons is wrong or you should agree with me? Just one.
I target you and those like you that state things as fact, however have no proof. The questions/comments I make on here are 99% based on fact or challenging fact that someone else claims. There is a big difference between opinions and facts.
I have let my frustrations get the best of me and dropped some bad words, but when your dealing with folks that ignore facts, won’t address facts then sometimes I get frustrated.
I don’t care that you don’t care about Jamey Johnson or XXX or how big a HankIII fan you are. Those are your opinons. You have that right.
But when you say Jamey Johnson is a dime a dozen and you have proof??? Do tell. Did you know what the phrase “third for a word” meant before the blog was up on here a month ago? Do you know that it really doesn’t apply to Jamey Johnson? It doesn’t. You seem to think because an artists name is on a song, and that artist on a major label, they must have contributed only one word to the song to get the praise for it. Not true in Johnson’s case, so don’t make that CLAIM. If you made that claim as a real journalist, you would be sued and lose.
Please tell me what HankIII did with his battle with Curb besides bitch about it? He played out his contract, Curb won.
Jamey Johnson- trashed by his label from his first release, went and cut his own record with his own money. Put the record out through the internet on his own. And a major label picked it up. Sounds a lot like the work ethic of an artist you would support. That’s what Jamey did and continues to control his music with a major label. No buddy else is doing that.
Jamey has never claimed to be an outlaw, but he sure is making music in the mold of Waylon.
Because I make statements, and have facts to back it, doesn’t mean I am a Jamey Johnson whore. I can tell you facts about other artists too. Facts, not opinions. My opinion is I like Jamey Johnson based on the facts of him. I respect him, just as I respect HankIII for cutting his own road, but when I look at the Curb deal, I don’t try and pretend he won anything. He bitched, really loud.
And to others that want to know how long I have been on here, or who I am…that is encouraging. Generally when folks have no answer or facts to refute a chanllenging statement they will say one of two things…”fuck off” or “who are you?” I dont’ take it as encouraging for my ego, but that maybe you are thinking a bit outside the box of simply “everything outside this underground world is negative to our movement”.
What if I have been following SCM since day one? What if I do/did work in the music industry? Would that make the facts I express any more factual?
I am in this fight with you. I want to win as you do. But I am telling you, sometimes your fighting the wrong front with the wrong ideas.
There are 3 major topics on SCM that get attention:
Pop country, XXX, Jamey Johnson (who/what is he?)
Pop country is easy to agree on.
XXX is beyond a fest, small market label, or website. It is a boundary breaking (geographical, genre, radio and label boundaries) movement. It’s identified name is the son of the biggest ground breaker in the country music industry. That is a good thing. If you don’t like the name but believe in the idea… you gotta fight the right front. Not the name, but support the idea against the big machine.
Jamey Johnson, learn a bit about him and who/how he operates before you make the call on him because he wrote bodonk or because he grew his hair out or because he broke the code and has busted through. Again, your fighting the wrong front against him. Fight with him. Pretend his name is Hank4. He is doing it the way it should be done.
Nathan, I appreciate the support and the challenges you provide to me and this movement.
I don’t want people to get on Nathan simply because he might agree with me and you dont’ like me. I don’t know Nathan, and as he said I have never asked him to defend me.
I am certain he is smarter than I when it comes to anything about music.
But Nathan is fighting the right front. Not because it is the same as me, but it is the right front. He has talked with artists such as Kid Rock, and when someone like Cathy says Kid sucks… why? You don’t like his music? fine. But Kid Rock doesn’t suck for the way he makes his music and the life he lives. Nathan would have a better basis for if Kid sucks or not.
Just open your minds people to facts. You don’t have change your belief system, but you can’t ignore facts just cause they dont’ work for you.
(also, in my above blog I spelt “nobody” No buddy. Jesus, I am bad at grammar but that is really awful. oops.)
the first 8 seconds says it all…..my opinions of the Kid & “that shit they call pop country music” are all expressed within…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdi2KpDCI24
I enjoy this song. I can enjoy it and still enjoy and respect Kid Rock.
So your response to me citing some facts and challenging others ideas is “not everybody likes us.” That will help the fight.
When “Not Everybody Likes Us” came out, Hank was speaking to the notion, in that one line, that some folks thought Kid Rock was Hank Jr.’s son. Kid didn’t start that, nor ever claim it, neither did Hank Jr. It was some dumb rumor, and if you thought that, you didn’t do your research and as III says “god damn your fucking dumb.”
I don’t think HankIII or Kid have ever met or talked. So I am not going to try and guess as to what HankIII thinks of Kid, except he knows where he is from.
Cathy, you appear to think Kid Rock sucks, because HankIII said his name in this song? Do you not like Shooter either because there was the idea that HankIII and Shooter had a fued. So, Shooter gets on your shitlist for what is conjured up.
Kid Rock, and again, I am a Hank III fan, but Kid has had a similar road as III musically. You might not like Kid’s music, but what he does, his talent, is similar to III. Scary similar. It is just nice that III has a name to use. Again, you don’t have like Kid or III. But don’t make up “facts”.
I’d say this is where the rumor come from….it made me ill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MLTsTrQ_4Q
I mostly don’t like watching Kid……..yuck.
As far as Shooter goes, I don’t like his music at all, however other people do and I don’t care or try to change their minds. I think that picture of him that Trigger used makes him look goofy as hell.
My thoughts on him are not related to anything re: Hank III.
I do like any project that helps artists get their work out there in addition to touring, and if Shooter heads it up that don’t bother me. I’m not an artist either. That being said, I don’t like the label “XXX” and twice heard reference made to trying to attract the younger generations. I work w/teens everyday I say it’s wrong to directly market to them using “XXX” as a curiosity tool.
Cathy In that video link you posted, go back and listen to kids voice. It is golden.
On all his albums he puts something in the liner notes.
“If it Looks Good, You’ll See It.
If It Sounds Good, You’ll Hear It
If It’s Marketed Right, You’ll Buy It
But… If It’s Real, You’ll Feel It”
I think that to me is a motto of how I judge music.
mmm…..III & Kid have “talked”
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
icecoldcountry, with regards to “i dont think Hank III or Kid have ever met or talked” Hank III and Hank Jr. have had a well documented rocky relationship. Hank Jr. and Kid Rock recorded together a couple times in the early 00’s. According to Hank III as was read in an interview back in the day Kid Rock came to a Hank III show,came onto Hank III’s bus and said something like he should have more respect for his father and he’s a living legend etc. please dont call me out on not having word for word transcription, this is old shit we’re talkin bout here. i wasnt on the bus, i dont know what was said, this is just speakin to the statement of those two not having met. as to hank III and Kid Rock bein of similar talent, fuck man, to each his own i guess. i dont hear anything remotely comparable. remember that III is a fantastic drummer in some of his metal projects as well as bein a country legend to many. they might be similar in your opinion but you dont qualify your statement as bein opinion, ie.” to me they are similar” ,you put it out there as truth, similar to what you consistently call others out on.
Your are right, I do recall that story about the bus. Not going to say it isn’t true, so they have met. That type of conversation would lead me to not like a guy either. I don’t think Kid should be getting the way of the relationship III and Jr. have.
Have you ever seen Kid lay it down on every instrument he has on stage in a live show? Very good stuff. Very good. Hank III is very good as well. I truely think they could go toe to toe. My opinion. I don’t know that ever could be fact, but you can’t discount Kid’s talent. Christ, he was a white kid in Detroit making rap music. That takes some balls and talent to survive that, and in my opinion, a lot more than rolling the dice in country music with a name of Hank Williams.
ive seen you and others make that arguement about Hank III before, bout how he only signed the deal to pay child support and otherwise he woulda played punk and metal his whole life, that that’s where his passion is. the record deal portion is true enough, well known, but the rest is speculation at best. i personally dont think that you can sing country like he does, like he did on disc 2 of STH for example, in my opinion the most country recordings in my lifetime(33 years), and not have tremendous passion for it. as for ridin the name type allegations, i strongly disagree. i think he has established his own musical path in such a way as to honor the family. i’d listen to him if his name was Jamey Johnson and he sounded like he sounds cuz he appeals to my personal taste. i also think coattail accusations will keep him from doin somethings, like recording an album of Hank Williams songs. i understand why but think its too bad cuz i’d listen to that nonstop. watch him on youtube on the marty stuart show, fuckin unreal.
no doubt Hank III can hammer out the country music. I agree, there is no one better in my life time when he does do country. And it is an opinion, but I think his passion is with metal. Perhaps it is living witht he shadow of the Williams name he wants to carve out something in another genre, which is fine, but with his name and talent, if country was is passion, he could do a lot more than he has. But maybe he will now free of Curb.
I don’t know that you could argue if his name wasn’t “Hank Williams” he would have had the opportunity to sign that record deal to pay for what he had to handle. Not all are that lucky. Maybe that is why some have to do somethings they would rather not, to get that deal because they don’t have a name to walk in with.
Doesn’t excuse people for “selling out” but you can’t just ignore it.
This ain’t a dime a dozen…and not everybody likes this either, but he is laying it down and trying to make a difference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFmlZhGhEY
To be fair and honest….I watched & listened with headphones on. Jamey Johnson just doesn’t do anything for me. My thoughts are that Jamey Johnson is like the “vanilla” you got on Trigger about….really that is the best way for me to describe. To me, he’s not bad but he’s not good. I would never purchase it or want to go to a show….even if I had a backstage pass.
See Denise, this is an opinion that Cathy has given.
Cathy, I have no problem at all with your feelings. Not everyone is for everyone.
Kid isn’t great to look at, and Jamey isn’t exactly either. Your opinion. I will never rip an opinion.
I watched to 1:29 and what you think is vanilla Cathy, I describe as mashed potatoes with no salt.
Weren’t you the one Ice Cold who said I was a joke? Something about offering a blowjob to Jamey Johnson and he turned me down? Correct me if I’m wrong. Where’s your facts with that?
Where’s your facts that I’m a dipshit?
OPINIONS are protected by the First Amendment. It is my opinion Jamey Johnson is a mediocre singer. I know he sold out in regards to Honkey Bolonkey and that is my heartfelt opinion.
Now. You offered the best live video link for Jamey Johnson and it was subpar. Fact. I do give him cred for participating in Farm Aid though. God Bless the farmers.
You ripped me for giving that same opinion though IceCold, calling me “vanilla.” Unwilling to take a hard stand. HA!
Carla doesn’t hold herself out as a leader in the fight to save country music.
Carla didn’t write blogs about Jamey being the real deal or a patsy. Country’s black friend.
You have had plenty of exposure to Johnson since those articles, and given the tone you took in those, you should be able to answer those questions now.
Denise, i said you were a joke when you claimed to have some dirt on Jamey Johnson being a sellout, so I asked what it was and you replied with a bogus website.
I have no idea about you blowing Jamey, sorry if it didn’t work out.
You can think he is a mediocre singer, but you don’t just end it there. You have held yourself out as having some behind the scenes facts, that you don’t. You have opinons, that is all, that is fine. When you go beyond that is the problem.
I was in an 18,000 seat arena where Jamey did this live. From a baptist upbringing, and the life i have led since, no chance in hell I’ll ever walk back into a church, But my god it felt good to see the entire crowd as far as I could see on their feet and singing so loud you could not even hear Jamey or the band. Cathy I wish you could have been there.
I only bring that up as a point that music should make you feel something. Laugh, cry, get pissed off, Whatever. If you are only into music music to pick a side, you are missing out on alot. So why even bother if you are so jaded and one sided. Sometime people outgrow love of music. It happens.
Nathan, thank you for the kind thought but I would not go to a show in a stadium setting anymore. Last time was The Eagles and probably Aerosmith in early 1990’s in Trashville.
My music heroes these days live on the road, working bars mostly. They believe in what they are doing…..it’s not someone putting it all together for them in a stadium setting…It’s up close and personal. Heck I’ve seen Bob Wayne burn cds inside the venue….works out of his car, lives in his car, with the Outlaw Carnies. That’s hardcore….and that’s what I like and have respect for.
Cathy, clearly you know little about Jamey.
1. FarmAid isn’t exactly an arena show, but draws so many it has to be in a huge stadium.
2. Besides the tour with Kid Rock, Jamey plays small venues. Bars, county fairs….still. He lives on the road. tour bus sure, but still the road.
I just saw him in a 300 capacity bar in Minneapolis. He was nearly late for the gig because he was across town before it watching Merle and Kristofferson put on a show at a casino. He is fan too. Doesn’t get much more real than that.
3. Jamey has no one “setting up” his shows. The band and he know the first and last song they are going to do. Everything between is random as the show develops.
So, you can have your opinions, but your missing a damn good artist develop right before us.
IceCold….you are correct I do not know much about JJ because he is mediocre to me so I am not interested. But since you’ve informed me that he toured with the Kid, he now has a negative strike against him.
so if you don’t know anything about Jamey Johnson, why would you insinuate that he does big pre-produced arena shows? That he doesn’t believe in what he is doing?
@ Cathy
Jamey Johnson is the real deal when it comes to country. He is far more country than any artist I’ve learned of on this site. And believe me I’ve tried to find and hear as much as I can.
I thought the motto hear was “Saving Country Music”. Hell that phrase is even the name of the site. Why in the hell would you not support JJ for what he is doing and the music he makes? Oh yea, you’re mind is closed and you refuse to hear anything he has done. He is not Hank III. This site started out as a Hank III fan site. Trig moved on for the cause. Why cant you?
because Nathan said, “I was in an 18,000 seat arena where Jamey did this live.”
He was the opening act. Why fault the man for taking the opportunity to be heard and making some money for doing so?
So Nathan, are you now implying that if we don’t support Jamey Johnson we don’t support the saving country music cause? Are you serious? We have the right to like who we want to. And yes, I did lump myself into that comment with Cathy because I feel the same way she does. We both prefer the smaller venues and we like who we like. There are some bands I prefer that she doesn’t and I’m sure there are some she likes that I don’t but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t support country music.
IceCold, question for you, Nathan too since he seems to be trying to become you. Does your precious JJ stick around after a show to sign autographs, talk to fans and take pictures with them until the last fan leaves? Just askin.
@ Nikki
By youre definition of a artist you would have to abandon them when they gain any fame. No Jamey cant sign for everyone when he opens in big arenas. Impossible to do that. One thing I was impressed with that night was in the beer lines there were military people who all had their picture taken with him before the show and were showing them off. I didnt meet him but all that I spoke to that did had the same comment. “The guy is cool as hell”.
@ Nathan
“Support” is going to live shows, spreading the word on the social network sites, purchasing the music and merch, turning your friends on to it, or whatever else a person is willing to do to support their favorite artists. I would not spend $1 to see or hear or meet JJ, so therefore I do not “support” him.
We drive hundreds of miles for shows of our favorites, spend our money on the music and the merch. I’ve had a few all access passes for Hank III shows but we always purchase tickets too. I support what I like, not what anyone here thinks I need to support “for the cause”. That is bullshit.
Yes this site started as a Hank III fan site. As far as your comment, “Trig moved on for the cause. Why cant you?”
“Trig” really should speak for himself on this one. I, on the other hand, am a die hard Hank III fan and I am loyal….loyalty does not include people who “move on” as you suggest.
No, Nathan. I would still be a fan even they played big venues. I do not like large crowds and do not go to large concerts because of that. I have supported III by a 2 week long tour of 5 of his shows starting in Arizona, two in California, then home to Washington state and finishing up in Idaho. Last year my husband and I drove 5 hours to a III show and 3 days later another 1 1/2 hours for another one. I went to a show in Richland,WA when there was a blizzard to see Bob Wayne. His band couldn’t make it across the pass so he stood on stage for 4 hours singing with just his guitar so he wouldn’t disappoint those of us who showed up. It was amazing. I do like bands that play in big arenas. I just don’t go to those. I will search for the smaller venues and go. That is my preference and there is nothing wrong with it.
I did not “move on” from the Free Hank III cause. We fought for Hank III to be free of Curb Records, and for Curb to release his music in a timely manner. And we won. That fight is over, and I moved on. But I still love Hank III’s music, I still look forward to what he has coming up in the future, and if need be, I will fight for him again. In fact Curb is still doing some weird things, but I have specifically not brought up that cause because his people have asked me not to do so.
But this isn’t about Hank III, this is about the principle that every artist should not be handcuffed by their label. I fought for Clay Walker, Leanne Rimes, and even Tim McGraw on that exact same principle. Hell, I fought for Toby Keith when The Rolling Stone printed a bunch of lies about him.
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/toby-keith-vs-keith-kristofferson-or-not
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/curb-imitates-art-with-incessant-greatest-hits-releases
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/clay-walker-clashes-with-curb-records
The thing that IceBob and Nathan need to appreciate is that we’re spinning our tires with Jamey Johnson to the point where it is an embarrassment to me. People are not wanting to participate in comments on Saving Country Music any more, because all they think it is a big Jamey Johnson flamewar, and many times they are right. Let’s agree to disagree, and move on.
You dont have to move on from youre Hank III support. I already told you I am a Fan also. But there is more out there.
And to Nikki’s comment earlier that I did not address. I am Not trying to Be IceCold. By the fact you said that means you didnt even bother to read all the comments on these post. True I do agree with most of his ideas. I have on this post and a few others said that he could do it a different way. But look at the discussion he has brought on, by attacking denise, she became one of the best commentors on these pages.
Right now looking in, it seems like he and denise are the best posters on these topics. Different point of views also, which makes it even better.
I didn’t realize this site started as a Hank III fan site. That explains A LOT.
For Nikki- I have been to 3 Jamey shows. Met him twice. Very nice guy, a bit shy and reserved which might come off as abrasive to some, but I he is just a very gaurded guy. Took photos with him and got a signature.
Although I don’t judge an artist on whether they stick around to sign stuff and meet people, because there can be a huge variety of reasons that one might not.
It is interesting all the questions that some of you have trying to justiy that Jamey is a joke or not worthy of being in the same conversation as underground artists and they all are dead ends.
Anyone realized that he grew up just minutes from Hank Sr.’s birthplace and was heavily influenced by Hank from day one. Obviously is influenced by Waylon.
I think most of you that say he is a joke or a dime a dozen are jealous that he broke through and Hank III is still wondering around somewhere between metal and country.
And I love how now Nathan is trying to be like me simply because he has an open mind and made an effort to learn about artists before judging them. Like that is a bad thing.
I have also been to Hank III and Bob Wayne shows. Hank is something to see when he does the country stuff, Bob I can pass on. But the first time I saw Jamey it was a lesson in country music. 3hours of non-stop music. non-stop. he didn’t say hi or bye. He played, period. (did the same at the other two shows as well)
Trigger, I got no problem agreeing to disagree on an artist like Jamey. But when people flat out make stuff up about him that is where things need to be cleared up. If I said something about Hank III that was cleary a fabrication or not valid, you would and a shit load of others would speak up.
When people post inaccurate information about an artist, any artist, but in this case Jamey Johnson, where are you to call them out and say they are wrong. That woudl be leadership and germane to your cause of saving country music. Whether you like him or not. Otherwise this is just a tabloid site.
IceCold, I have repeatedly stated throughout all of this that you are welcome to your opinions. Just as everyone is welcome to their opinions. You like Jamey Johnson. Big deal. I like a lot of things but I don’t put other people down if they don’t like them too. I like watching musicals from the 60’s and 70’s. My husband doesn’t but I still love him. I love Christmas movies and music and will haul them out in October. People roll their eyes and laugh but I really don’t care. Why is it so important for you to get everyone to give Jamey Johnson a chance? I am forced to listen to the radio sometimes at work because the other girls in the office turn it on. I ignore it as much as possible. I will admit to enjoying the Zac Brown Band. There are a few songs on the so-called country music station that are ok. I don’t consider them country. They are closer to the pop genre which I do not care for. I may have heard some of Jamey Johnson and not realized it. I may have even thought that it wasn’t half bad. Frankly, you guys trying to shove him down my throat is making me stubborn enough now that I won’t listen to him. It back fired on you. This has been like the church people who knock on your door and no matter how many times you tell them you are not interested, they won’t shut up until you slam the door! Then they still leave pamphlets in your mailbox! Stop pushing so hard. Let his talent speak for itself. To someone else now because you guys have made me sick of even hearing his name.
ummmm. Your the ones asking questions and making claims about him. So should we just let that go?
Hank III has never experienced much heartache/heartbreak in his life so him singing about it is a joke. He does a bunch of drugs and is a jerk unless you agree with everything about him.
… just let that go.
thank you Nikki….well said….I don’t do Christmas decorations/music.
This discussion went from Gwyneth to Jamie….at least the category of the blog fit both. 🙂
VERY well said and articulate Nikki. It distresses to see that some might not want to comment becasue of IceCold and such. This is a comment blog and as such, EVERYONE should feel free to comment. The thing I guess I don’t get is the double standard hypocrisy/reverse pscyhology stance IceCold takes. One minute he says everyone is entitled to their opinion and the next he says that we have no facts for our opinion. Opinions don’t have facts. They are a conclusion.
There’s many ways to come to a conclusion. Usually it is from the environment in which you are raised and continue to be involved in and the experiences you encounter.. My opinion after doing my own searching is that the live shows, small venues, more personal experience is way better. Of course that is a whole ‘nother ball of yarn.
I can pretty much say though that I admire to a degree the tenacity. Jamey Johnson should give em free tickets to his shows.
I’m coming into this post way late but I can’t keep my mouth shut. I can’t remember if I found this blog pre or post myspace, but it’s been that long. I stand firmly with Denise and Cathy and Nikki and Carla and the like.
Saying things like “Curb won” make me wonder if the newbies are label interns in charge of “social media”.
explain to me how Curb didn’t win that battle? Since I have given my view and why I think they did win.
dang what a thought…..makes sense though
haha. Challenging some thoughts/ideas/claims made in this group and you get accused of being part of the big machine. Really? you rip my comment and simply say “he might be working for the big labels.” Come on man, you gotta do more than just name calling and baseless accusations.
Right after I hit post comment I realised it was a cheap shot. I just can’t believe we read the same articles. We see things so differently, I have to wonder why you’re here.
Because we sees things different….you wonder why I am here? why shouldn’t I be here? I don’t wonder why you are here because we see things different.
That’s not what I mean. I don’t get why you think this is worth your time if all you do is argue about it.
I do this I guess, because if someone first comes to this site, like when I did, you get excited about what is being talked about and promoted. Then, you start to see some accusations and allegations being made that simply are not true. Now, if you don’t take the time to look into things, or someone doesn’t speak up and set somethings straight, someone may form an opinion based on bull shit.
I don’t want someone reading stuff on hear about artists I enjoy, and taking it as fact, if it is not.
I am trying to help the fight to save country music too, and some of the artists poeple don’t like or believe in or know about, doesn’t mean they aren’t helping country music. This “click” that gets going on here is exactly why some of the underground stays underground. More closed minded than the labels they hate.
IceCold:
“Come on man, you gotta do more than just name calling and baseless accusations.” Really? I believe in an earlier post to Denise, you are the one who resorted to name calling. You do have the right to your opinions. You do NOT have the right to put other people down for theirs. That is the major problem I have with your posts. Whether you believe they are facts or not it does not change the fact that we are also entitled to our opinions. Our opinions may or may not be based in printed fact but they are still valid opinions regardless. Fact: I have listened to and did not care for Kid Rock long before I was introduced to Hank III (notice the space between Hank and III). Fact: I stopped listening to the radio long before I knew about Hank III. That is why I started reading Trig’s blogs. So I could be introduced to music that is not recycled by mediocre ‘artists’. Fact: I do not need to and will not ever resort to name calling to try to make my opinions sound better than anyone else’s. Yes, I did state that your posts come off as being written by someone egocentric with an ‘I’m right, you’re wrong’ attitude. That is my opinion as to how your posts are written. Whether or not that is how you really are does not matter if that is how they come across. My own daughter has stated opinions on Facebook that came across as mean-spirited and I took her to task for it.
You believe your opinions are based on facts. If you are trying to convince people of these facts, present some evidence with them. Honestly, no matter what facts you produce I will still have my personal opinions based on my experience. You can quote facts all day long. That isn’t going to make me a Kid Rock, Jamey Johnson or Shooter fan. I have listened to Shooter. My oldest daughter loves him. She also loves The Black Eyed Peas but that doesn’t mean I need to like them. You listen to whatever you want to and we will listen to who we want to.
Seriously though, it is Hank III, not HankIII. That is driving me nuts and probably prejudiced me against you from the beginning. Grammar, people. Please.
Nikki, I admit the name calling was frustration and was a mistake.
Opinions are fine. But some on here pass of things as fact or claims as true. Thus, they might influence someones opinion. Why is it wrong for me to challenge someones “facts”? Or present facts that are accurate? I don’t expect to change anyones opinion, but I do expect people to know about some facts.
I am not tyring to be right or wrong… facts are facts. They aren’t meant to make you a fan or not. They are simply facts.
I know that those on here that speak about Kid Rock and Jamey Johnson and Shooter in a negative light, can have that opinion, but when you say it is because of….”they sold out” or “they suck” or “they are only in it for the money” …. that tells me that they dont’ know the first, second or third thing about any of those people. They haven’t bothered to learn anything about them, yet those that make those comments hold themself out as such conisours of country music.
You can not like my posts, that’s fine, but I am yet to run into someone that has disproven some facts I have stated, or given me a straight answer when I challenge their “facts”.
You said, “You believe your opinions are based on facts. If you are trying to convince people of these facts, present some evidence with them.” I do, some people don’t care to acknowledge the facts. I can’t help them with that.
So far I have seen no evidence of your facts. Where are you getting your information? Maybe it’s the intellectual part of me (I would be a lifetime college student taking any and every class I could if I could afford it) but I like facts given to me with supporting documentation so I can follow up on it and research it myself. Every fact you have given here has been with a ‘trust me on this, you don’t need to know where I got the info from’. That doesn’t work for me.
Want to add to this, also..Tammy Wynette came to Nashville at a time in the sixties when the good old boy chauvinist casting couch law and order was high in play. She stood up to all that and fought it down. She was a true pioneer. Country isn’t winning American Idol and selling a gazillion records with no dues paid. I don’t care how good Carre Underwood sings or how big an erection I get looking at someone slutting around in fishnets. If you haven’t lived the life, the pain, the hurt..if you don’t know what it’s like to sleep in your car and live on beans and fought abuse and perservered through the trials and storms to sing about it, then you aren’t and never will be country, no matter how good you can stay in pitch or how many records you sell. The great country artists of way back in the day were the true punk rockers, in that this was all they knew. They weren’t selling image or trying to sell a million records. Hell, that was unheard of back in the day. If a country artist sold 10,000 albums they were thrilled. They were who they were and they lived the life. Who is really living the life anymore? Upload some songs and wait for fame. Get some high paid publicist and overnight your on all the glossies and the media is dictating to you that this is what you should be liking.
ahhh….it’s the “fishnets”
Cathy you made me smile!
That is so on point Pete it is scary. What these pop country singers don’t get, you nailed to a T. I look halfway decent. With auto tune I would sound pretty good. Give me a publicist, some fancey duds and the opportunity and I just might give them a run for their money.
But I ain’t sellin’ out.
Pete, I’m glad to see you’re a lover of biographies too! I will definitely check out Tammy’s. She has an amazing story to tell.
Thankyou for the insight!
Sure does Cathy and Gillian. Things might be adding up.
IceCold as far as your CLAIM that Curb records won the battle, yes, Shelton fulfilled his contract. Curb Records will never win the WAR and who’s side you on anyway?
I wish those mother fletchers would try to sue me. It would make my day.
And I get it about the fight. I’ve been getting it for a long time. My CLAIMS, OPINIONS and FACTS will all come out in the END. I don’t give a flyin’ fajita about Jamey Johnson’s battle when you have a bonafide country legacy fighting for creative rights and somone like you so quickly chalks that up to a loss. Where’s your facts on that one? Where’s your fact that Hank III isn’t gonna make you eat those words?
I heard NO SLEEP BLUES today on KOOK. That voice! It’s pure country gold. NO other like it ‘cept his granddaddy. Have you signed the petition for Reinstating Hank IceCold? If not, why not?
Hope you like to dance, sweetheart.
Let me lead the dance dear.
IceCold as far as your CLAIM that Curb records won the battle, yes, Shelton fulfilled his contract. Curb Records will never win the WAR and who”™s side you on anyway?
I am fighting for an artist like HankIII. He may win the war, but you were claiming victory against Curb. Not so.
And I get it about the fight. I”™ve been getting it for a long time. My CLAIMS, OPINIONS and FACTS will all come out in the END. Your opinions might come out in the end and they are fine as they are right now, but facts don’t change over time. New facts are created, but those that are here today, will be here tomorrow. So when you state something as fact today, and it is wrong, it will be wrong tomorrow.
I don”™t give a flyin”™ fajita about Jamey Johnson”™s battle when you have a bonafide country legacy fighting for creative rights and somone like you so quickly chalks that up to a loss.
HankIII has made some strides, but you can’t discount what Jamey Johnson has done as well. You may not know what he has done because you care not to research it, but you can’t discount it as not happening or say he is like all the others in Nashville. Simply not true, today or tomorrow, or in the end.
Where”™s your facts on that one? Where”™s your fact that Hank III isn”™t gonna make you eat those words? What words am I going to eat? I hope HankIII makes a difference. I may have my opinion changed his passion lies in metal, but for now, that opinion isn’t changing.
I heard NO SLEEP BLUES today on KOOK. That voice! It”™s pure country gold. NO other like it ”˜cept his granddaddy. Have you signed the petition for Reinstating Hank IceCold? If not, why not? Yes I have. Many years ago.
Turn the record over, please.
Ok. I am so pleased you signed the petition! Has Jamey? What about Shooter? Hank III’s fight is not over, just his contract. Mike Curb lost because anyone who has a shred of decency in their body and know’s the details and the journey of the battle knows that Shelton was right, Curb was wrong and Shelton walked away with his dignity and THAT is a battle won.
Don’t step on real country’s toes IceCold.
I don’t know if Jamey or Shooter have signed the petition. Wouldn’t matter to me if they did or didn’t. I believe in the cause, so I signed it.
Hank III may have walked away with his dignity, but he also was the one that signed the contract. It was a mistake and a mess. But don’t act like Hank III turned the country big label world upside down. He filled out a shitty contract. Now he has a new start. Lets see what he does with it. At the same time, I am not going to wait, hoping. There are others that are taking up the fight. Hank III can join back up when he is ready.
“Hank III can join back up when he is ready.”
IceCold….first of all that is silly.
Secondly you are assuming he quit something…..that is not a “fact” is it?
You should care if they signed it. How are you going to uphold their fight against Nashville if they don’t support the fact that Hank Williams was wronged so many years ago? You can’t see that that is an important element to the issue of saving country music?
Wow. That makes me confused. Jamey Johnson wants to fight the record labels but it doesn’t matter to you if he supports Hank Williams getting reinstated? Wasn’t that I Saw the Light up there he was signing?
Denise, if you want to search the petition names of “Johnson” be my guest.
I feel that through interviews and actions of guys like Jamey Johnson and Shooter that I know where they stand on their respect for Hank Williams.
Has Merle or Willie signed it? Has Tim McGraw signed it? Does it make a difference to you if they did?
You know what Icecold, it does make a difference to me. I think anyone who has a love for music should sign it . . . I think people should protest the Opry, boycott it, demand it. It’s wrong and goes with the line of thinking that wrong is wrong and doing the right thing is one step closer to winning the country music fight against good and evil.
I don’t think the Opry should profit from someone who they fired. I don’t think they have that right. So yes. All musicians, singers, songwriters, Americans . . .
President Obama should sign it. If you knew anything about me, yo’d already know how I feel about it. I’ve been vocal about it before.
So have Merle and Willie signed it? Kris Kristofferson? Scott Biram?
Please tell, we are dancing honey.
Don’t try to butter me up now, darlin’. My shoes ain’t on too tight. I’ll be seein’ Willie soon. Reckon I’ll ask him.
“…Hank Williams was wronged so many years ago”
True….and is bad enough but I am pissed because it continues to this day by the disrespectful Opry.
Ain’t that the truth Miss Cathy.
Just real quick, back to the subject at hand. Did anybody else see that it was stated “Ms. Paltrow has signed no contract with Atlantic or any other label” it’s just all smoke and mirrors. I heard Farmageddon turned her down also!
Thank you Andra.
Though I don’t know that it is all smoke and mirrors. I’d say where there’s smoke there’s fire. The $900,000 number has been a bit of a PR headache for the Gwyneth camp, and so they are doing what they can to refute it all. I think eventually we’ll hear something official about Gwyneth signing to a label, likely that label will be Atlantic, and no specific dollar numbers will be disclosed, which is the norm.
Here is a really good story from Billboard on how a $900,000 record deal would break down. I think it illustrates why Camp Paltrow would have no choice but refute it, whether it’s true or not.
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/how-would-a-900-000-gwyneth-paltrow-record-1005069222.story
I’m no expert in the music business, but isn’t a $900,000-record deal a bit too much? Based on that Billboard article the album better hit it big, at least gold, before record company can break even. Ms. Paltrow better be churning out hit after hit for this to happen. I think her single from that darn movie soundtrack which started all this hoopla did not fare well in the charts, so just what is their basis for coming up with this big-time record deal?
Ice Cold Carla
Steve G
This all nothing, my mum refused to listen to kenny chesney because he’s too country
Pete please give it a rest. You say IceCold targets women, thats were I stopped reading. Sir please revisit a comment you made on this post and reread his. You target women, call them whores, he has not.
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This just sucks! Here in Kansas City the scene is absolutely overflowing with female talent! Abigail Henderson of Atlantic Fadeout, Lauren Krum of The Grisly Hand, Elaine McMillain of Brannock Device…and many others are strong, vocally talented, songwriting machines. They blow up small stages nightly here. They do receive good exposure thru our local media, but all deserve a much larger stage to perform from. Meanwhile talentless hacks like Taylor Swift are selling out 80, 000 seat venues like Arrowhead Stadium here this summer. I could puke!
@ trig
I can see Icecolds point and I’m suprised you cant.
If you wanna change the name of the site back to freeing Hank III or whatever it was called before, fine. The debate would be different. The close minded drones on this site could just preach to the chior. But the title is “SAVING COUNTRY MUSIC”. Lets just be honest here. are we advancing country music or holding it back until III catches up?
I see your slant and it’s understandable what you are thinking. It’s not called Saving Jamey Johnson either. He is the only artist you and IceCold are up in arms over. I have come here for awhile now and believe me . . . The Triggerman is doing what it takes to uphold the fight.
Taking digs on Hank III ain’t the way you should be going.
It isn’t called Saving Jamey Johnson, but isn’t there some degree of integrity to uphold when people say things about any artist that is not true or lacks any proof because the people making the statement don’t know what they are speaking on.
@Denise
I am not taking a shot at Shelton at all. Right now i’m listening to the vinyl of straight to hell. Sounds like he is in the room, cd was retired awhile ago. You seem to be one of the more open minded people here. All I’m asking is are we really saving country music here or are we simply holding it back but untill III decides whether he wants it or not..
While we wait there is more
via Pete’s first post….”Triggerman, I didn”™t even read the article. I have absolutely no idea who this broad is and I have no interest in finding out. One look at her photo and it”™s over for me. I am so sick and tired and bored of these cunt woman like her and lady ga ga and madona before and all these gaping wholes using their tits and ass to become stars. When you write about these hacks here you are only giving them notoriety. Her picture tells her story. Another talentless hack whore slutting her way to fame using pornography as her means. Just stopped in for a taste, and now I think I”™ll go rinse my mouth out out and get back to the new Keith Richards bio I”™ve been reading.
And I hope this slut bitch reads this and sues me. I”™ll post a pic of me waving my raging hard on and thanking her for the publicity. Sorry if this offends anyone. I”™m just in one of those moods these days..Waylon ain”™t got shit on me these days far as “ornery & mean.” ”
…asshole to women.
My guess is with this perspective, your not only ornery & mean, but also lonesome.
why would I give any contact info. to a nut like you that posts something like the above based on a photo.
I just had to close a comments section on an article for the first time ever, AND I AM FUCKING PISSED OFF ABOUT IT!!! How fucking DARE y’all make me do this!!!
Y’all have made me have to be like a damn babysitter instead of doing what I want to do, which is write articles and support the music.
What the fuck does any of this even fucking mean? I’ve written two articles about Hank III in the last 5 months. TWO ARTICLES! I’ve got dozens of Hank III fans that swear they’ll never read this site again because I’m a traitor and a Hank III hater.
As for the “closed-minded drones” who are you talking about? I have 1,500 people read this site each day, and I can only think of five you are referring to. The rest have stayed the fuck away, not only from this fight, but from this article and this website because it is an embarrassment to be a part of such a ridiculously stupid generic internet flamewar of no fucking outside consequence.
Icebob, I blame you for all of this. I have had some major eruptions in my comment sections before, but you have taken it to another level, and have created an unhealthy environment. If you’re going to take one article out of 10 about pop country, and say that all this website is, is “tabloid”, THEN GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY WEBSITE, NEVER COME BACK, AND NEVER LET THE WORDS “SAVING COUNTRY MUSIC” COME OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!
I have ruined my life to keep this site going, and if you can’t understand the principles and themes from which I work from, I don’t want you on here! FUCK OFF!!
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Ancient Egyptian Boats and Transportation
What was the main highway of Ancient Egypt? The answer may surprise you. It was the Nile River!
Most of Ancient Egypt’s major cities were located along the Nile River. So, the Ancient Egyptians didn’t need to build roads or find other forms of transportation.
They became experts at building boats and traveling the river. The Ancient Egyptians used the Nile to ship all kinds of goods, even cattle.
They also traveled the Nile with stone for Ancient Egypt’s many building projects. Merchants could reach every corner of Egypt using the Nile, and they also sailed to ports in the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
Early Ancient Egyptian Boats
The earliest boats were made from bundles of papyrus reeds tied tightly together. Papyrus was the same material Ancient Egyptians used to make paper.
These early boats were moved using oars or poles. They were called skiffs.
The skiffs were used mostly to travel short distances, hunt, or fish. They were long, thin, and crescent-shaped.
By 3000 BC, the Ancient Egyptians were using boats made of wood. In addition to oars, these boats had square sails to help them move.
The wooden boats were made of acacia wood from Egypt or cedar from Lebanon. Wooden planks were held together with ropes instead of nails.
Ceremonial Purposes for Boats
Another use of boats in Ancient Egyptian was for ceremonial purposes. They were often used to move images of gods from one temple to another.
Boats also transported the mummified bodies of royals and other important nobles to their tombs at burial sites and holy places.
The Ancient Egyptians believed a boat was needed to travel to the afterlife. Many people were buried with small models of boats.
Important people, like pharaohs, were often buried with full-size boats. The famous tomb of Tutankhamen (“King Tut”), for example, contained 35 different types of boats.
What about traveling by land?
Travel by land was not as common as travel by water. Until the nineteenth century, travel by land was virtually unknown. Of course, the Ancient Egyptians did travel by land occasionally.
Still, Ancient Egypt had paths instead of major roads. People traveled these paths by walking, riding donkeys, or riding in wagons.
People carried smaller goods on their heads, but the donkeys and wagons carried heavier loads.
Camels were almost unknown in Egypt until after the pharaonic period (the years when pharaohs ruled).
The wheel was probably introduced to Ancient Egypt by invaders known as the Hyksos. It is believed that the Hyksos had horse-drawn chariots that they used in battle.
Later, pharaohs and nobles adopted chariots to use during hunting expeditions. However, this was not a method of transportation used by the common people of Ancient Egypt.
Other Interesting Facts About Ancient Egyptian Boats and Transportation
The Ancient Egyptians believed the Sun traveled across the sky in a boat. The Sun’s boat was made from papyrus reeds.
When boats traveled North through the Nile River, they were able to go with the current. When boats traveled South, the Ancient Egyptians usually had the wind blowing in their direction and could use a sail. Oars were used to gain additional speed in either direction.
Man-made canals often connected temples and palaces to the Nile River.
Pharaohs had especially fancy boats decorated with fancy carvings and gold.
Ancient Egyptian warcraft had a high stern and boat. During the New Kingdom dynasty, they were also equipped with cabins at both ends.
The Ancient Egyptians used chisels to cut boats from wood. Making a boat took a very long time.
The world’s oldest boat was found in the pyramid of Khufu. It was found in 1200 unassembled pieces with written directions. Conservators were able to reconstruct the 144-foot boat, which is now housed in a museum.
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73. DeMarre Carroll, SF, Raptors
DeMarre Carroll’s future spot on the top 100 hinges on his ability to move past his injury issues and a statistical drop-off in 2015–16.
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Let’s go ahead and give DeMarre Carroll a mulligan. Last season was the nightmare after the dream: The good vibes from his 2014–15 career year in Atlanta and the expectations that built with his cash-out contract with Toronto came crashing down thanks to a season-altering knee injury. The 30-year-old Carroll (11 PPG, 4.7 RPG) appeared in just 26 games and missed three solid months before rushing back for the playoffs. That was no way to build chemistry and trust with the Raptors’ existing core. While Carroll was gone, however, his basic skill-set only got more valuable. A complementary offensive option who plays to his strengths (outside shooting, cutting) and knows his role, Carroll can handle multiple positions on the defensive end and relishes the dirty work. Assuming he’s back to full health, Carroll should have every opportunity to reestablish himself with the Raptors.(Last year: No. 81)
+ Still grades out as an “Excellent” spot-up shooter (per Synergy Sports)
+ Although he wasn't 100% healthy, he helped Toronto make the East finals for the first time in franchise history
– Toronto’s best playoff-ready lineup might feature Carroll, Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan, Cory Joseph and Valanciunas. That group logged just 36 minutes together last year.
– After a career year in 2014–15, he placed outside the top 100 in Player Efficiency Rating, Win Shares and Real Plus Minus last season
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The Back Story On 'Curated By Intel' - Experimental 'iQ' News Magazine
(Bryan Rhoads, Editor-in-Chief of iQ at Intel's offices in the Presidio, San Francisco.)
Earlier today, I met the team responsible for this morning's launch of 'iQ by Intel', an online magazine featuring daily news and feature articles from around the globe plus original content from Intel.
The magazine is curated by Intel employees, choosing and sharing articles from a river of media content surfaced by special tools developed by Intel.
I was pleased to hear Bryan Rhoads, the mastermind behind the project, and its Editor-in-Chief, say that I was one of the people that inspired the venture with my writings about how every company is a media company.
Here are some of my notes from the meeting:
- The project began about a year ago and has about 160 Intel employees curating news and feature articles but the goal is to have more than 5,000 staff-those that have had social media training — take part in the daily selection process.
- 'iQ' is aimed at consumers. It is not about technology but what technology enables. The team liked my recent rant against "product journalism" in which I criticized the tech press for trying to scoop each other over leaked spec sheets for mass-produced products.
- The focus of 'iQ' is on tomorrow, on the 'how', on the types of things people can and will do with technology. The content of 'iQ' is not about the technology, it's about the context of that technology. Technology plays the role of a character in the story.
- There is a river of content surfaced in real-time by an algorithm, using a set of online sources vetted by Intel. From that river, content is chosen by Intel staff. There is also original content from Intel sources, such as Ken Kaplan's Intel Free Press, and The Creators Project, a joint venture with Vice Media.
- There are three sections: Media, Life, and Planet. Each story is color coded to identify its section.
- About 50% of the content is original. The size of the tiles shows how much social media support each article has received.
- There are plans to make the curation fun, and to introduce some game aspects to encourage more Intel staff to take part.
-'iQ' shares some back-end infrastructure with Intel's 'Cockpit' a social media monitoring tool it developed to track the flow of social media around key areas of focus for Intel.
- The interface is designed for touch screens. It looks much better on the iPad than on the desktop but it's a web app and not an app.
- There will be stories about rivals in the 'river' of content but because Intel staff don't like rivals those stories are unlikely to reach the front page.
- Most readers are expected to see individual story items, which will consist of a snippet of the original story and a link back to that source.
- Traffic, and engagement by Intel staff, will be among the factors used to judge the success of the project.
- Readers will authenticate through Twitter. Readers can also share with their networks directly from the 'river.'
- 'iQ' has been well received by focus groups in Southern California.
- The project is about making best use of Intel capital -- its global workforce -- and engaging the social graph of Intel's staff. Intel employs the smartest people it can find, and 'iQ' will represent that collective intelligence.
(Some of the iQ team...)
Exract from: iQ by Intel - iQ – A New Social Publishing Model
We have been inspired by writers and thought leaders such as Brian Solis(exploration of brand journalism), Tom Foremski (“Every Company is a Media Company) andJohn Battelle (writing on brand publishing), and by the AMEX Open Forum experience among other brands. Who better to help find and tell these stories than the engineers, scientists and visionaries who are helping design tomorrow’s technologies?
Our simple mission: Share and source content that inspires, educates, entertains and helps all of us to better understand our modern world.
Technology is only as important as what people do with it. We hope iQ becomes a place where people get inspired to connect and collaborate with others interested in improving life and our planet through the benefits of Moore’s Law.
We’re pleased to have you with us on this journey.
Bryan Rhoads - iQ Editor-in-Chief
Intel Social Media Center of Excellence
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Luke Kintigh – iQ Managing Editor
Becky Brown – Global Director of Media
Renee Edwards – Social Community Management
Jennifer Lashua – Consumer Social Media
Ekaterina Walter – Global Social Network Strategy
Kathleen Malone – Social Engagement & Media
Regis Crawford – Social Programs
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SQN1: Rethinking EU foreign policy in Israel and the oPt
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The Gaza Strip is currently facing a drastic water and sanitation crisis which is closely linked with an energy crisis that it also endures. This latter is caused by the Israeli-imposed blockade on the Strip as well as its dependence on both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This paper aims to advocate for European policies that support Palestinians’ energy independence and sovereignity over their natural resources, beyond short-term and ineffective interventions.
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NBA Trade Rumors: 3 teams that could complete a trade for Victor Oladipo
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Modified 15 Jan 2021, 01:07 IST
Shockwaves were sent throughout the NBA on Wednesday when James Harden left the Houston Rockets to be replaced by Pacers star Victor Oladipo and a lot of the Brooklyn Nets' future draft picks.
The reverberations of the blockbuster deal are still being felt as NBA Trade Rumors have begun to circulate suggesting that Oladipo could be immediately flipped by the Rockets before the trade deadline.
The Indiana Pacers have had a solid start to the season with a 7-4 record, partly down to Oladipo's return to form. In the previous two seasons, the former All-Star had struggled through injuries, starting only 52 games for the Pacers. In the opening 9 games of this year, however, the shooting guard appears to be back to his very best, averaging 20 points and 4 assists.
Having acquired the 28-year-old on an expiring contract though, the Houston Rockets may not want to risk losing Victor Oladipo come the offseason for nothing. Therefore, this has triggered NBA Trade Rumors that the franchise may look to move their new player on immediately before the trade deadline.
In this article, we will analyze three teams who could prove to be a better fit for one of the league's elite two-way players.
NBA Trade Rumors: 3 teams that should target Houston Rockets latest pickup Victor Oladipo
In this list, we have suggested 3 sides that would both benefit from Victor Oladipo's All-Star talent, and more importantly, are teams the shooting guard would prefer to play for over the Rockets.
#1 Miami Heat
Victor Oladipo against the Miami Heat in last season's playoffs
An unlikely move for Victor Oladipo would be to play for the Miami Heat. Kevin O'Connor of 'The Ringer' reported that sources have said the guard has not given up hope of playing in Florida despite it not being a great fit.
That's not to say it couldn't happen, however. Both sides could see potential in a trade involving Oladipo for Tyler Herro, the Miami Heat's current shooting guard.
Given that the Rockets player has expressed interest to play in Miami, the organization could be sure that he would sign a contract with them when he becomes a free agent at the end of the season.
Putting Oladipo alongside Jimmy Butler would form an extremely potent offensive force and would improve the Heat's defense should they make another return to the NBA Finals.
#2 Boston Celtics
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Another one of the Eastern Conference's giants, the Boston Celtics, could also be in the market for Victor Oladipo, per NBA Trade Rumors. With their trade exception as well as some of their younger talent, the Celtics front office could put together a deal worthy of Houston's attention should they wish to ship out Oladipo before the deadline.
Boston have one of the league's elite defensive units where Victor Oladipo would perfectly fit in. In the 2017-18 season, Oladipo led the league in steals, earning him a place in the Defensive Team of the Year and is currently averaging 1.7 steals this term.
How will the Celtics respond to the Nets adding James Harden?@Scalabrine breaks down how the C's could trade for Victor Oladipo 🍀👀 pic.twitter.com/Wu0aubqhWW
— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) January 14, 2021
Bringing in Victor Oladipo would force coach Stevens into some tactical changes given Jaylen Brown is averaging a career-high 26.3 points so far this year. Undoubtedly, Oladipo would not want to settle for being a bench player, meaning Brown would have to drop out. If the Celtics could make this happen, they would be a prolific rotation pairing and would thus increase their chances for success in the playoffs.
#3 Dallas Mavericks
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A third option for Victor Oladipo, though less reported on in NBA Trade Rumors, are Western Conference hopefuls Dallas Mavericks. Dallas currently have two of the most exciting young talents in the league in Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis and could use Oladipo as their third big star.
Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks is your Western Conference Player of the Week for Week 3 in the NBA! 💫 pic.twitter.com/eHsAE1nFwI
— NBA UK (@NBAUK) January 12, 2021
Out with their European superstars, the Mavericks could benefit from additional scoring with them currently sitting at 14th for offensive efficiency. Furthermore, if Dallas are to make a serious challenge in the playoffs this season, as many have tipped them to, bringing in Oladipo's talent will aid the Mavs on both ends of the floor and take pressure off Doncic.
The shooting guard's defensive awareness would undoubtedly benefit the Mavs, even if it were only a short-term transition. Were Dallas to face either of the LA sides as they did last season, Victor Oladipo could be the addition to help them overcome a deeper roster.
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Are the Chicago Bears Worth Your Super Bowl Bets?
Do the Chicago Bears have what it takes to be worthy of your Super Bowl bets? Read on below to find out!
Thu 17th December 2020
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The Chicago Bears started the 2020 season with a 5-1 record, but it didn’t take long for the Bears to fall to earth. The team lost six straight games before snapping their streak to the Houston Texans. The Bears also entered a substantial quarterback controversy, making their Super Bowl odds worse. The Bears have a +25000 line to win Super Bowl LV.
The Chicago Bears aren’t worthy of your Super Bowl bets for multiple reasons. The top concern entails what the Bears will do at the quarterback position. The team also has a poor running game, but it does have a talented defense featuring one of the league’s most dynamic linebackers.
Who Will be the Quarterback?
The Bears can’t seem to go a week without being reminded that they drafted Mitch Trubisky in 2017 while Deshawn Watson and Patrick Mahomes were on the board.
The former North Carolina star and second-overall pick has never managed to show consistency on the field. He often struggles to complete more than half his passes, and his movement on the field is too slow. Trubisky isn’t willing to attempt long passes as often.
The Bears resorted to Nick Foles as the team’s new quarterback midway through the season. They have since switched back to Trubisky, but there’s no telling what will happen next.
North Dakota State’s Trey Lance will be available midway through the first round of the upcoming draft, which is around where the Bears will appear. Trubisky will be a free agent after the 2020 season, so the Bears might be willing to move on from him.
The Bears do have plenty of talented receiving options like Allen Robinson and Anthony Miller. Tight end Jimmy Graham has also shown some skill, although no one knows how long he will keep playing. The team might consider a new quarterback who can work alongside those receivers.
The Defense Is a Positive
The Bears have historically been known for having talented defensive squads, and this current roster is no exception. The Bears average close to two sacks a game, with Khalil Mack and Akiem Hicks leading the way.
Playin’ with something to prove.
Our defense was ᴜɴꜱᴛᴏᴘᴘᴀʙʟᴇ yesterday. 😤 pic.twitter.com/OEEM2KFgj3
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) December 15, 2020
Mack is an outstanding all-around linebacker who can complete interceptions, pass deflections, forced fumbles, and even the occasional safety. The team’s defense will be worth watching as Mack continues to anchor the unit.
How Will the Rushing Change?
The Bears have the league’s weakest running game, as they average less than ninety yards the game. The running game is the league’s least productive, although David Montgomery does show flashes of brilliance on occasion. Building the team’s offensive line would be critical for giving Montgomery and whoever the team’s next quarterback will be some extra help.
Solving the Kicking Issue
The Bears do at least have the kicking position in hand. Cairo Santos has secured his spot as the team’s kicker, as he shows consistency in kicking from all distances. He has gone 19-21 in field goals this season, helping the Bears forget about the playoff double-doink from a few years ago.
Should You Bet on the Bears?
The Chicago Bears have been unsuccessful in winning their second Super Bowl. It would be tough to place Super Bowl bets on the Bears right now, although possible roster changes could make a difference. Don’t be surprised if the Bears move on from Mitch Trubisky and go after another quarterback this offseason.
*Odds correct at time of writing.
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LoginRadius simplifies Customer Identity Management
Posted By: smechannelson: August 08, 2019 In: Interview
Today, with the increasing market size of Customer Identity management, the number of players in the CIAM has also grown exponentially. CIAM market provides mature data management solutions with standard and deluxe features to support millions of users across every industrial sector : LoginRadius
From an interaction with Rakesh Soni, CEO & Co-Founder, LoginRadius and Deepak Gupta, CTO & Co-Founder, LoginRadius.
What is LoginRadius’ position in the CIAM market space in India and overseas?
Customer identity startup, LoginRadius is an industry leader in the CIAM space. The company has been highly recognized by organizations like Gartner, Forrester, KuppingerCole and Computer Weekly.
Today, with the increasing market size of Customer Identity management, the number of players in the CIAM has also grown exponentially. CIAM market provides mature data management solutions with standard and deluxe features to support millions of users across every industrial sector.
LoginRadius, a world-leading platform in this space serves more than 3,000 businesses with a monthly reach of 1.17 billion users worldwide and over 7.6 billion API calls per month. To mention a few esteemed clients working on their platform are Conde Nast, Viacom, Vogue India, Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC), Weather Network, 21st Century Fox, Hydro Ottawa and more.
The company has a strong presence in the US and Europe with multiple data support centres.
What are the key CIAM solutions and products that LoginRadius offers? How do they set you apart from the competitors?
LoginRadius’ key platform features are registration services, adaptive security, integration with third-party applications and customer insights. LoginRadius supports OIDC and thus allows social logins from any conformant provider.
Other authentication mechanisms support includes Google Authenticator, mobile apps, mobile biometrics, mobile push, and SMS OTP. LoginRadius features IoT device linking through a REST API, which allows user-to-device permission mapping. The service also supports OAuth2 Device Flow.
LoginRadius’ target customers are in industries with low authentication assurance requirements. Supporting additional authentication methods would make the service stronger. LoginRadius’ service is highly scalable. Overall, the LoginRadius offering is up-and-coming in the CIAM market and deserves evaluation in CIAM RFPs, particularly for those organizations without high-security requirements, such as apparel, fashion, retail, and media.
How does LoginRadius deal with the Storage and Security concerns of CIOs?
Cybersecurity is no longer just a technical issue, but an existential threat, and organizations want CIOs to manage this major category of business risk.
Today, as global cyberattacks increase, Indian companies are aware of the damage that a data breach can do. But India still has a long way to go, especially as it is at the forefront of digital transformation. The challenge is to better inform and balance long-term security and current long-term investments.
As digital transformation rapidly transforms the business landscape, customers demand a more personalized experience without increasing the security risks to personal information. This requires more transparency in the data collected, how it is used, and how it is protected.
LoginRadius’s CIAM solution currently hosts and approves all of the most commonly used compliance. Our CIAM platform has built-in security features that protect end-user data, accounts, and digital identities. These security features include encryption in transit, encryption at rest, brute force prevention, multi-factor authentication, risk-based authentication, fraud prevention, and threat detection.
What are your plans to expand LoginRadius’ market presence in India?
LoginRadius has planned to set up its India operations by hiring over 200 technocrats for their Jaipur office by 2020 to capture a $20 billion global market opportunity. Having an ambitious long-term vision to secure the identity of every person on the internet, which is 4.2 billion users and counting, with increasing cybersecurity threats and the need to deliver a modern customer experience, the demand for a cloud-based customer identity platform is growing, to keep up with that growth the brand plan to double headcount in the next 12 months.
What challenges has LoginRadius faced in the market as a young startup?
Rakesh Soni describes his initial days of the startup as “just an idea and a couple of guys”. LoginRadius soon became a full-fledged Indian project based out of Canada “Once we realized that login is a big problem on the internet we needed to develop a proper product. We developed it, coded and went through multiple rounds of testing which included family and friends as subjects”.
In the initial time period, it was very hard for the company to get to consumers because it required massive amounts of trust since it was, in the end, a security management company. They started off by developing plugins for content management systems like Joomla and WordPress. These micro websites are where they started getting onto businesses. Once 7 to 8 thousand micro websites had started using the LoginRadius service they decided to directly approach consumers. This is when they knew that their idea was going to be something with massive potential.
How did LoginRadius overcome those challenges?
Today, with an increase in cyber-attacks globally, Indian enterprises have become aware of the damages data leaks can cause. But India still has a long way to go, especially as the country is on the cusp of digital transformation. The challenge lies in making customers more aware and balancing long term security with present term investment. There is immense potential and LoginRadius is keen to be a part of the journey.
With the advanced tools and mechanisms, we are ensuring that we are always on the top of our competitions. As a provider of a fully managed cloud CIAM solution, LoginRadius prioritizes guaranteed system performance. Most of our clients are growing, especially those in the media and publications, retail and consumer, and travel and hospitality sectors, and LoginRadius recognizes the need for a highly scalable and adaptable platform that can grow with them. The LoginRadius CIAM platform is designed with security as the highest priority, ensuring that customer data and identity are protected without sacrificing performance, availability, or scalability. With digital transformation rapidly changing the business landscape, customers are demanding more personalized experiences without increasing security risks to their personal information. This requires CIAM platforms to be more transparent about the data they collect, how it is being used, and how it is being protected. LoginRadius’ CIAM solution currently holds hosting and data security approval for all of the most commonly used compliances.
What is the roadmap for the next year?
A few years ago, companies were hesitant towards moving to the cloud, experimenting with smaller applications at first. But in the last few years, it has witnessed a dramatic change. Today, as part of digital transformation, companies are moving most of their IT workload to the cloud. This will create a need for effective customer management platforms that are available on the cloud such as LoginRadius.
Awareness about data security and privacy among the general public will also pave the way for companies to adopt state of the art CIAM solutions that not only provides them a competitive edge but is also provides the best in class security and privacy features.
We plan to strengthen our research and development (R&D) and business operations team in India by hiring around 200 people in the country by 2020. We are primarily focusing on companies that have demonstrated the adoption of enterprise cloud technologies and care of customer experience and security.
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Beyonce cancels Aussie gigs
By Damien Murphy and Emily Dunn
July 23, 2009 — 8.16pm
AN "unforeseen change in her international schedule" was the old chestnut excuse given yesterday by the promoters for American R'n'B diva Beyonce, pictured, pushing back the start date of her Australian tour.
The singer was due to start the tour in Brisbane on September 12 but will now play her first show in Australia in Melbourne on September 15. The date changes mean her original opening concert in Brisbane will now be on September 20 and a second show on September 13 has been cancelled.
For Sydney fans, the singer will now perform two shows instead of three at Acer Arena, on September 18 and 19. The September 20 show has been cancelled and holders of tickets to that show will be contacted by promoters this week about refunds. No further explanation was given for the change, but with the MTV Video Music Awards on September 13 in New York, an opportunity for the singer to perform or present may have won out over her Australian shows.
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Nike KD 9 "Home II"
Halfway into the NBA season it's safe to say that Kevin Durant's transition to the Golden State Warriors has been rather smooth. The Warriors currently hold the best record in the NBA, and Durant's numbers are off the charts. Not only has Durant's play been getting noticed, but his kicks have definitely been turning heads too. Durant's next release, the Nike KD 9 "Home II," will surely join his previously released sneakers as a fan favorite. Inspired by the Golden State's "home" team uniforms, they feature a blue and white color scheme. Plus, they're also equipped with Flyknit, Zoom Air, and intersecting lace loops that create a lockdown fit. Look for this KD9 model dropping soon.
Halfway into the NBA season it's safe to say that Kevin Durant's transition to the Golden State Warriors has been rather smooth. The Warriors currently hold the best record in the NBA, and Durant's numbers are off the charts. Not only has Durant's play been getting noticed, but his kicks have definitely been turning...
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Things To Do In Basingstoke
We have a compiled a useful list of local attractions near our Basingstoke sofa store. Why not pop in browse our huge collection of sofas and fabrics then see if you can visit all these fantastic places on our ready made list.
Discover the craftmanship and heritage that are infused into every drop of Bombay Sapphire at this beautiful distillery in rural Hampshire.
Fleet Pond
The 'pond,' 52 acres is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. It provides sanctuary for a rich and diverse community of animal and plant life.
The Fur & Feathers
A real ale Free house pub serving stunning homemade food, freshly prepared with daily chancing menu.
Gertrude Jekyll - The Manor House
The 15th century house was altered by Ernest Newton in 1903 - 1905 for Charles Holme, founder of the Arts and Crafts magazine The Studio. The garden was designed and plantaed in 1908 and 1909 by Gertrude Jekyll.
Gilbert White's House & Garden and The Oates Collection
Located in the picturesque Hampshire village of Selbourne. Rev. Gilbert White, the pioneering naturalist 'the man who started us all birdwatching'.
Watercress Line
The Watercress Line is the marketing name of the Mid-Hants Railway, a heritage railway in Hampshire, England, running 10 miles (16 km) from New Alresford to Alton.
Hindhead Commons
Hindhead Commons and the Devil's Punch Bowl are great places to explore south west Surrey. There's some lovely walking country and fine views.
Hoddington Arms
Log fires and slate floors in a rustic, homely pub with its own exclusive ale and contemporary food.
Jane Austen's House Museum is a small private museum in the village of Chawton near Alton in Hampshire.
Lasham Gliding Herriard
Lasham Airfield is an aerodrome located 3.6 miles north-west of Alton in Hampshire, England, in the village of Lasham.
Micheldever Wood
Micheldever Wood is a large maturing beech wood with some areas of mature conifer and a stunning bluebell display in the spring.
Ruins of Odiham Castle
Odiham Castle was originally an early 13th century stone fortified hunting lodge, founded by King John.
The Sun Inn
The Sun Inn Bentworth - Serving great pub food, and seven real ales on tap. Hearty home-cooked dishes that make a trip to this pub well worth the visit.
The Vyne National Trust
The Vyne is a 16th-century country house outside Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
West Green House Garden
A delightful series of walled gardens surrounds the charming 18th-century house.
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Israeli Cornell Student Told to ‘Quit Complaining’ by Pro-Palestinian Campus Group
Aaron Bandler
A pro-Palestinian group at Cornell University mocked an Israeli student whose home was struck by a rocket from the Gaza Strip by telling her in a Facebook comment to “quit complaining about how it ruined your brunch plans.”
The student, Shir Kidron, wrote in an April 7 op-ed for the Cornell Daily Sun that in 2009, her Gedera home was struck by a rocket, killing her dog Rosie.
“The story of my home in Gedera is not unique,” Kidron wrote. “It resonates with tens of thousands of Israelis who have been under a constant threat of rockets from Gaza over the past 18 years. According to the Israeli Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, 40 percent of the children in the Israeli border town of Sderot suffer from PTSD. This is what happens when, at any moment, you could be given only 15 seconds to run for shelter.”
A Facebook page titled “Reject Radicals at Cornell” posted Kidron’s op-ed on April 9 and tagged Cornell Collective for Justice in Palestine (CCJP). CCJP commented on the post by stating, “Palestinians have a moral and legal right to use armed struggle to shake of the yoke of occupation. If you want the rockets to stop, end the occupation. Otherwise quit complaining about how it ruined your brunch plans in Ashdod.”
The Reject Radicals at Cornell page then highlighted CCJP’s aforementioned comment in a subsequent post.
CCJP responded by commenting, “I don’t know what kind of astroturf operation you all are running here, but if you tag our group in another post I’m reporting you for harassment.”
CCJP was one of the groups that signed onto Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine’s February 20 letter to Cornell President Martha Pollack calling on the university to divest from companies that conduct business with Israel, accusing Israel of engaging in “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing.”
Rena Nasar, StandWithUs’ Tri-State campus director and managing director of campus affairs, said in a statement to the Journal, “It is inhumane to minimize the rockets Hamas shoots into Israeli civilian homes and nursery schools. There is no justification for such barbaric terrorism and Israel has a right to defend its citizens.”
“It is shameful that CCJP would skirt the issue of the need for negotiations, and blame only Israel for the lack of peace,” Nasar said. “This is yet another example of how boycott campaigns on campus descend into outright hate speech. We urge university leaders to take a clear moral stand by condemning this rhetoric.”
The university did not respond to the Journal’s request for comment.
Kidron was arguing against a divestment resolution that could come up for a vote in the Student Assembly on April 11, writing that those in favor of it are promulgating a “one-sided and violent attempt at delegitimizing me and my country.”
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars // MARCH 2, 2020
Clone Wars Declassified: 5 Highlights from “A Distant Echo”
A chilling discovery propels the animated series’ final season on Disney+.
Kristin Baver Kristin Baver is a journalist who loved science fiction before she could even write her own name. (Seriously, she was a card-carrying member of the Star Wars Fan Club when she had no other real reason to own a wallet.) Now she gets paid to pen stories and book reviews, interview fellow fans, writers, and other interesting people, and aspires to one day craft a Boushh disguise and join the ranks of the 501st Legion.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars is back for its final season on Disney+! In Clone Wars Declassified, StarWars.com looks at each episode’s biggest moments and surprises. Fall in, soldier.
The Bad Batch really live up to its reputation during this week’s infiltration of Skako Minor. As they work to free General Skywalker from his brief captivity and gain access to the base, it takes all of their specialized skills to make their way to the chamber where they’ve traced Echo’s signal. Here are five highlights from the latest episode in the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, “A Distant Echo,” streaming now on Disney+!
1. Anakin’s clandestine call.
Padmé cuts to Anakin’s core in a way no one else can, seeing through him more adeptly than even Obi-Wan could. And with Amidala’s firm hand, she’s able to draw out what’s troubling her secret husband as he watches his friend Rex struggle with his own attachments to Echo. Extra points for Obi-Wan’s sassy quip, “I hope you at least told Padmé I said hello.” Maybe the Master knows more than he’s letting on about his apprentice’s personal life?
2. Hunter on the hunt.
In quick succession, we see the Bad Batch’s unique skill set in play. Hunter courageously follows Anakin when he’s in the clutches of the keeradak. And once reunited, Clone Force 99 works together to create a diversion and gain the upper hand, with Wrecker causing a rockslide and Crosshair freeing Anakin with a well-placed dart. Then it’s Tech’s translation that allows them to complete the conversation without shooting their way out of the situation.
3. Unrest in the ranks.
But just because the Bad Batch is effective doesn’t mean they don’t have their flaws. The members of the elite squad aren’t shy about sharing their disdain for the “regs,” including Echo, and they have no qualms about making some digs at Rex for leaving his comrade behind. Anakin manages to break up the fight before things get really ugly, but then he has to deliver some tough love to his friend.
4. “Your friend is dead. His mind is ours.”
The team’s stealth mission quickly goes awry, and from a viewscreen Wat Tambor appears to gloat. The squad has been betrayed by the algorithm, it seems. But Rex never stops believing that Echo is a prisoner of war being forced to help the other side against his will. And he’s about to discover there are worse things than death.
5. Echo emerges.
From a coffin-like vault, what’s left of Echo lurches forth, a gaunt and pale shadow of his former self plugged into the Separatist system. It’s heartbreaking to see him this way, especially as he regains consciousness and can be heard still muttering as if he’s at the Citadel trying to get to the shuttle. Poor Echo. What have they done to you?
Discover more in StarWars.com’s official episode guide for the “A Distant Echo.”
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Associate Editor Kristin Baver is a writer, host of This Week! In Star Wars, and all-around sci-fi nerd who always has just one more question in an inexhaustible list of curiosities. Sometimes she blurts out “It’s a trap!” even when it’s not. Do you know a fan who’s most impressive? Hop on Twitter and tell @KristinBaver all about them.
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Home Blog MSP Business Security Kerberos Authentication Process Explained
Kerberos Authentication Process Explained
By SolarWinds MSP
In Greek mythology, Kerberos (or Cerberus) is a frightening-looking dog with multiple heads and fangs capable of slicing through human bone. Kerberos is famous for guarding the gates of the underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. Until Kerberos’ capture by the divine hero Heracles, the dog’s tenacious patrol let no soul pass into the world of the living.
The internet is very similar to the underworld—an insecure place full of actors who would seek to compromise our security and steal our data. Like the underworld, it needs powerful gatekeepers to guard and patrol its boundaries, lest vulnerable users are harmed. Thus, when MIT computer scientists were searching for a name for a new computer network authentication protocol that they developed, they turned to the mythical creature Kerberos.
This eponymously named protocol uses top-secret key cryptology to provide powerful authentication for client-server applications. Keberos authentication was first developed in the 1980s and has since become the most commonly used cryptology-based authentication method. The ubiquity of Kerberos makes it critical for managed services providers (MSPs) to know about it—where it came from, what it is, how it works, and how it can benefit their end users.
Why Was Kerberos Authentication Developed?
MIT computer scientists developed Kerberos authentication as one potential solution to pervasive network security problems that grew in tandem with the expansion of the internet in the 1980s.
These security problems were rampant among many of the applications that send unencrypted passwords over the network—passwords that were highly vulnerable to a range of tactics and tools used by malicious actors intent on stealing them. Moreover, some client-server applications automatically assumed a user really was who they said they were, or relied on the client to restrict a user’s activities to those deemed “safe.” Naturally, these applications faced serious security vulnerabilities and would likely fail to meet stringent mandates to protect users’ personal data today.
In response to this internet insecurity, many sites started using firewalls, thinking these would resolve the problem. But firewalls have two limitations that hinder their efficacy. One, they assume the security threat is coming from “outside,” when in fact it’s often insiders who are responsible for the most egregious internet crimes. Two, firewalls limit users from accessing areas of the internet that they may need to access for their work. Other strategies were needed for more effective cybersecurity.
What Is Kerberos Authentication?
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This is where the aforementioned MIT scientists came into the picture. The product of their collective efforts was Kerberos, a network authentication protocol that’s based on secret-key cryptology or “tickets.” By enabling users or services to communicate securely over a non-secure network through a trusted third-party arbiter, Kerberos eliminates the need to transmit vulnerable plaintext passwords.
The designers of Kerberos based it on a client-server model, meaning it provides resources or services to one or more clients. It also features multi-factor authentication (MFA), meaning that a system requires at least two distinct terms to grant a user access to a certain account. This strengthens password management to keep up with cybersecurity threats and heightens the level of security for all parties involved.
A free implementation of Kerberos authentication is available from MIT, though by now it’s embedded within a range of operating systems and other products available on the market. Kerberos authentication has become the default authorization tool used by Microsoft Windows. Apple OS, UNIX, and Linux also use it. This means most of us have encountered it in one place or another, even if we weren’t aware of it.
How Does Kerberos Authentication Work?
We’ve already established that Kerberos securely connects users and servers. It does so within what’s called a realm-—or a defined domain that contains a set of users and servers who would connect (though cross-realm connection is also possible). Each user or server has their own identity—referred to as a principal in Kerberos. Through their individual principal, users or servers can identify themselves to a trusted third-party arbiter responsible for authentication.
That trusted third-party arbiter is the Key Distribution Center (KDC), located on the Kerberos server. The KDC has three main parts that are important to understand.
Authentication server (AS): This server is responsible for performing initial authentication. Say a user seeks to authenticate their identity for a system or service. The AS receives that request and issues what is called a ticket-granting ticket (TGT), or a small encrypted user authentication ticket, and sends it back to the user. The TGT contains a session key that—provided the user’s insertion of a correct password—presents the ticket to the ticket granting service.
Ticket granting server (TGS): This is a user authentication server that is responsible for validating TGTs and granting subsequent tickets called service tickets. Service tickets permit an authenticated user to access the service that they are trying to use on the application server.
Kerberos database: Housed within the KDC, this is a database that contains all principal IDs, their passwords, and a host of information about them. It’s essential to the fluid functioning of the overall Kerberos authentication process.
Through the mediation of the KDC, different principals that share the same Kerberos realm can communicate safely and securely.
What Are the Benefits of Kerberos Authentication?
Now we have a firm grasp of what Kerberos authentication is and how it works, let’s turn to how it can benefit your company and end users.
Kerberos authentication carries a range of advantages, especially compared to some of its predecessors. Some of these end user benefits include:
Powerful encryption
Open standard
Mutual authentication
Fast authentication processing
Authentication delegation
Integrated and renewable sessions
Centralized username and password data storage
Improved network security
For MSPs, it’s important to know about Keberos because it’s integral to so many of the operating systems and applications we use on a daily basis. But this authentication protocol also holds distinct advantages that can help MSPs better serve their customers and drive their business forward.
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7 ways the people of Somerset are helping each other out
The crisis is bringing the community together
(Image: Somerset Live)
Coronavirus is dominating our lives at the moment, almost all of our conversations and news is focused on the topic.
However, while things feel increasingly uncertain and we continue to hear about people fighting over toilet roll and tea bags, it’s important to remember that it’s not all doom and gloom.
Living in a global pandemic means unprecedented times, no matter where in the world we live and Somerset is no different.
Up and down the county friends, relatives, neighbours and business owners are coming together to help those most vulnerable and at need.
It’s in these moments of crisis that people come together and put the kind in humankind.
As the coronavirus crisis continues, we’re seeing resilient moves from the general public, whether that’s offering to do a neighbours’ shopping, donating taxi rides or helping parents attempting to home school.
Below is a list of 7 ways the people of Somerset are helping each other out.
1. Charity
There seems to be a real charitable spirit here in Somerset, across the county people are donating all manner of things, most often their time, skills and in some cases money.
The Somerset Community Foundation based in Shepton Mallet have launched a Somerset Coronavirus Appeal to raise funds for local charitable groups that are supporting the most vulnerable people in our communities.
Chief Executive, Justin Sargent, said: “We are working closely with partners in the voluntary sector, NHS and local authorities, and contacting frontline organisations to see what is needed.
“We have been funding the local voluntary sector in Somerset for 18 years and we know a lot of these organisations very well.
“Never have our communities needed these organisations’ backing more, and we will act swiftly to support their efforts by using our local knowledge to reach the organisations helping vulnerable people on the ground.”
“It’s important that the money gets to groups helping vulnerable people now and in the coming weeks. But we must also look ahead; our area’s brilliant charities and community organisations will need support to get back on their feet after the outbreak eases so they can keep up their vital work.”
More information about the Somerset Coronavirus Appeal can be found here: www.somersetcf.org.uk/appeal
2. Independent businesses shine
Businesses are being hit hard by coronavirus as self isolation and social distancing means less customers and a reduction in staff.
From bakeries to butchers, many local businesses have rallied together and adapted their way of working amid COVID19 concerns.
One example is fruit and vegetable merchants, Arthur David’s Food with Service who are providing people across the South West with fresh local produce.
The Somerset business has been running for more than five decades and are now working with other local businesses to run pop up supermarkets out of their vans.
A Facebook post reads: “We still have plenty of stock at our Pop Up Vans!
“Please pop down and see our teams to get your goods - We will be closing shop approx 4pm.”
Their pop up supermarkets have appeared at The Nut Tree pub in Worle, outside Waterhouse financial advisers in Midsomer Norton and have run a collection service from their Bridgwater Depot.
3. Local information sharing
Living in an unprecedented time means that things can feel fairly uncertain - one unhelpful outcome of this appears to be panic buying.
Social media has been littered with pictures showing empty shelves and massive queues as people stock up.
This has meant massive implications for supermarkets, deliveries and the most vulnerable in our society.
However, while there are still pictures of empty shelves, people are now coming together and posting information and updates about what stock is still available where.
There has also been an increase in people using smaller, independent greengrocers, corner shops and delis.
4. Communication and support
The coronavirus crisis has appeared to open the channels of communication within our communities.
As many of us implement social distancing measures and some of us face self isolation, there is an awareness that vulnerable and older members of our society could become increasingly lonely.
In a bid to combat loneliness there has been an increase in neighbours offering friendly phone calls and some people have taken to social media to host things like a “chat hour,” where people can talk, ask questions and have a general chin wag.
A number of groups have been set up online to provide a place for discussion and support.
5. Neighbourly behaviour
Neighbours who are not self isolating have been reaching out to those who are by posting notices through doors.
A number of notices and notes have been created to be popped through letterboxes to let people know help is at hand.
One example of this is in Taunton, where thousands of people in the community are working together to help those in need.
'Hello! If you're self isolating I can help'
The note reads: “Hello! If you are self-isolating, I can help.”
It then allows residents to write their contact details and lists services they can provide, the options include:
Picking up shopping
Posting mail
Chat through a closed window
Friendly phone call
Urgent supplies
6. Expertise sharing
A lot of people are offering to do shopping and errands for those in need, but there are also a number of professionals offering their skills and expertise.
Since the majority of children are at home, teachers who are unable to attend school are offering tips and tricks to parents on how to homeschool during this time.
It’s also a time when key workers and health and social care professionals are needed on the front line.
The skills needed to combat the coronavirus crisis can be shared across sectors.
One Facebook post reads: “If any health and social care students or people previously working in the catering and hospitality business are out of education and work and looking for employment, please contact your local care home.
“We are facing unprecedented demand in our homes and although the media makes mention of the NHS, we too in social care are at the front line of this virus.”
7. Digital entertainment
The hospitality and entertainment industry is suffering as the coronavirus forces more and more events and businesses to close.
However, as schools and libraries close to the general public, if you do need to stay inside, councils and library staff are putting assets and resources online to keep children entertained.
A statement from North Somerset Council said: “While we recognise that libraries are important hubs of the communities which hundreds of people visit every day, our priority is to protect the health and wellbeing of our visitors and staff.
“Libraries are more than just a physical space and we aim to continue to deliver a range of services, including access to eBooks, eMagazines and eResources.
“The libraries service will be working hard to develop additional digital outreach.”
For the most up to date information check with your local council.
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KEVIN HARVICK – 2018 Daytona II Race Report
Event: Coke Zero Sugar 400 (Round 18 of 36)
Series: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
Location: Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway (2.5-mile superspeedway)
Format: 160 laps, broken into three stages (40 laps/40 laps/80 laps)
Start/Finish: 5th/19th (Accident, completed 162 of 168 laps)
Point Standing: 2nd(692points, 57out of first)
Race Winner: Erik Jones of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota) in overtime
Stage 1 Winner:Ricky Stenhouse Jr. of Roush-Fenway Racing (Ford)
Stage 1 Recap (Laps 1-40):
Kevin Harvick started fifth, finished 22nd.
The Jimmy John’s Ford ran as high as third but dropped to midpack as Harvick raced on the bottom and the top line advanced.
Harvick opted to drop back with three laps to go in the stage to avoid any potential incidents.
The Jimmy John’s team came to pit road at the end of the stage for four tires and fuel and to reattach two vent hoses on the passenger side of the car.
The team made a second pit stop to fix a “massive vibration” and make sure the tires were properly secured.
Stage 2 Recap (Laps 41-80):
Started 31st, finished 25th.
Harvick was collected in a multicar wreck on lap 53 to bring out the second caution of the stage. The Jimmy John’s Ford was damaged, but the team crew went to work making repairs to the left side of the car. The team lost a lap during the repairs but was able to continue.
The No. 4 made a second trip to pit road under caution to top off fuel on lap 61.
The Jimmy John’s team raced to the free pass position at the conclusion of Stage 2 to return to the lead lap.
Harvick came to pit road for four tires, fuel and adjustments at the conclusion of Stage 2.
Final Stage Recap (Laps 81-160):
Started 25th and finished 19th.
The No. 4 Jimmy John’s Ford raced from 25thto the third position early in the final stage.
Harvick surrendered the lead under green-flag conditions on lap 123 for right-side tires, fuel and adjustments.
The Jimmy John’s team came to pit road under caution on lap 125 for four tires and fuel from the 12thposition. Harvick noted he had a piece of debris lodged in the nose of the car, and the team made quick work of the repairs.
Harvick restarted sixth on lap 136 following a caution and immediately raced his way up to the second position.
He restarted second with six laps remaining and raced to the lead before a caution flag flew on lap 156.
Harvick led the field to green on lap 161 with teammate Clint Bowyer lined up right behind him as the race entered overtime.
The Jimmy John’s Ford was collected in a multicar wreck during the first overtime attempt and was unable to continue.
Harvick led twice for eight laps to increase his total at Daytona to 244.
Erik Jones won the Coke Zero Sugar 400 to score his first career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory. His margin of victory over second-place Martin Truex Jr. was .125 of a second.
There were 10 caution periods for a total of 46 laps.
Only 13 of the 40 drivers in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 finished on the lead lap, with 20 drivers unable to finish after being collected in accidents.
Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Jimmy John’s Kickin’ Ranch Ford Fusion for Stewart-Haas Racing:
“The night was crazy. The restart was really poorly executed, and then teammates wound up side by side again trying to get everything situated, and we crashed into each other. I just hate it for all my Jimmy John’s guys. I don’t really know what I could have done any different on the last restart.”
The next event on the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series schedule is the Kentucky 400 on Saturday, July 14 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta. Coverage of the race begins at 7:30 p.m. EDT on NBCSN.
Author Kellye ArningPosted on July 8, 2018 Categories Post-Race Reports
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Google Pixel 5 Pro breaks cover and the Samsung Galaxy S21 should be worried
Images of a Google Pixel 5 Pro with under display camera have leaked, and they spell bad news for the Samsung Galaxy S21
(Image credit: Slashleaks)
By Robert Jones 2020-12-11T11:13:21Z
Just as the competition already had started to look dauntingly strong for the Samsung Galaxy S21 next year, with the OnePlus 9 Pro and Xiaomi Mii 11 Pro already looking like lethal opponents, comes word of a Google Pixel 5 Pro.
And, what's even worse for the Galaxy S21 is that if this Pixel 5 Pro leak proves accurate then the Samsung device is going to have to fend off a handset with a state-of-the-art under display camera system installed. Sheesh!
Apple Watch Series 7: Tim Cook hints at “mind-blowing” future features
The juice comes from the below images, which hit the web yesterday, and show a device that looks like the Google Pixel 5 without a selfie camera and sensor array installation at the top of the screen. One picture shows the device with the 'About phone' menu open and under device name it reads 'Pixel 5 Pro'.
There is no visible camera or sensor installation on the leaked Google Pixel 5 Pro images.
The device's name is listed as 'Pixel 5 Pro' and these are its leaked specs.
In addition to the name and, what looks like, under display camera, the leaked images also reveal much about the phone's internal hardware spec, which includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage space. This is an improvement in both storage and processor over the Pixel 5, which came with only a mid-tier Snapdragon 765G and 128GB of space.
Naturally, though, the most exciting aspect of the leak is the phone's under display camera installation, which will be a game-changer if accurate. Phone's have been chasing the under display front-facing camera dream now for a couple of years, but to date nothing of note has hit the mainstream market.
Chinese smartphone company Oppo has made the most noise about under display camera tech over the past few years, and its prototype device leaked again a week ago, while ZTE Axon 20 5G (which advertises itself as the world's first under display camera smartphone) has still to hit the market anywhere other than China.
As such, if Google does release a Pixel 5 Pro device in 2021 (and specifically early next year) then we could be looking at one of the first mass-produced mainstream devices to hit the market in the USA and Europe with an actual working under display camera.
Of course, the images shown here are 100 per cent unofficial and, right now, their validity has not been proved. As such and as ever, we advise people to take this Pixel 5 Pro leak with a healthy pinch of salt.
Via: wccftech
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“Tania made the impossible possible in this crazy time. We organised our #MOI2020 Insurance Innovation Day as a digital event instead of our planned live event in beautiful Vienna. Tania created a digital, creative Opening Keynote for us. It was amazing and everybody was so inspired by Tania’s spirit and important messages about creativity, innovation and leadership in a rapidly changing world. Thank you for this experience!” Insurance Factory
“Tania brings her own special magic to an event. She combines valuable insights with a fantastic singing voice – a truly unique experience. She electrified the 2018 European Business Forum.” Thinkers 50
“It was a fantastic experience to hear your speech at Thinkers 50 in Odense in 2018. You really made it crystal clear to all of us what “purpose” means and how important it is if you want to make a difference. Very impressive.” European Business Forum
“Tania was a brilliant addition to the 2019 International Consciousness Forum, held in Madison in May 2019. Her presence brought a new dimension of light and sound to this event with her amazing voice and ability to connect personally with so many of the attendees and presenters. Her philanthropic work is truly impactful in making a positive difference in the lives of many.” USONA
“It is truly inspiring to be in the presence of someone as passionate, creative and confident as Tania de Jong. It’s her passion and outside of the box thinking that is most impressive as she takes those around her on her incredible life journey. Most importantly, it’s her incredible being that made her keynote at our conference exceptional and that’s very hard to find. It was highly interactive, engaging, and pushed people’s boundaries which was great to observe. You are an amazing person Tania so thank you for sharing your greatness with us.” Blackbaud
“Once again Tania demonstrated how well she can adjust to the needs of different audiences. For our staff conference she successfully focused on our conference themes of innovation, managing change and the importance of effective teams. As usual she managed to fully engage our group and achieved a high level of participation by all. In our post conference feedback sessions the group unanimously scored her segment as outstanding.” David Edwards, ASCA
“Tania’s keynote address was an inspiring call to action on our individual and collective creative capacity. And I never thought I would witness our national team in full and rapturous song together. The experience left us all with a sense of unexpected elation!” Mathew Browning, General Manager, Myer Family Company
“Tania was a wonderfully inspiring presenter at our signature Manifest series. Her flair, energy, humility and thorough understanding of her subject of the contemporary medicinal use of psychedelics for treatment of mental conditions was awe-inspiring. Tania is a very worthy ambassador for a cutting edge approach to the problems that assail the human condition of today. She is amazingly creative and loving of humanity. I am so glad we met.” Rabbi Dr Laibl Wolf, Dean of Spiritgrow HolisticCentre, Australia
“As a connector and creator, seeking ways to educate, empower and inspire healthier more joyful living, it’s exciting co-creating with Tania. I acknowledge her for her ability to surprise and delight the audience, and vulnerable sharing her kind heart and wisdom, to make a positive impact on people and their lives.” Carly Farragher, Get Hacked Get Hi
“Tania has proactively cooperated with the CPA Aus #ForPurpose discussion group event on future innovation and leadership. She delivered a powerful and provocative presentation to inspire CPAs in leadership positions to develop agile, creative mindsets and embrace social inclusion and caring in an accelerating technological environment. The Future Predictions video was a powerful opening, her content and storytelling was outstanding and her song at the end was the icing on the cake. The audience was truly touched by the information she shared and what Tania does to make such a profound difference in society!” CPA
“The keynote and ONE TEAM, ONE VOICE Workshop was truly a binding experience, inspirational to a group in need of self-belief and confidence. In an engaging and memorable way, the team was able to perform as a unit like never before. Something to refer to for a long time!” Mondelez
“All the TED and TEDx talks I’ve watched have been amazing, but this one was the most amazing yet! Seeing how the spark of wonder that is so often hidden in people can bloom with love, connection, encouragement and friends is one of the best of feelings. Earlier tonight I was talking with friends about a group we want to set up for people who are living alone or feeling alone. We want to make it fun and caring and useful and to help each other give inspiration and meaning to the people in our small rural town. Tania, you and the awesome people you work and sing with, are an inspiration to everyone whose lives you touch, and will make a big difference to the success of our little group. I might even try to overcome one of my fears and reach one of my goals – to learn to sing and one day sing in public. To you and all those in one voice – THANK YOU so much – you rock!!!.” Heidi Freeman
“You make the world a much better place. This city and country are blessed by your talents, generosity and immense vision.” Louise Karch
“The session was very well received and will always be a memorable one. The energy was great and we had excellent feedback.” AGL Senior Leadership Team
“It was a personal and professional honour to have Tania speak at Creative Mornings Melbourne. Her presence and skill in commanding a large group is second to none, and the very fact that she got over one hundred people standing up and singing at 8:30am on a Friday is a testament to her unique abilities. Her ongoing commitment to entrepreneurship and innovation made for a very powerful talk and left our audience visibly inspired. I would strongly recommend Tania as a speaker or facilitator for any like-minded communities looking to expand their horizons.” Jeremy Wortsman, Director, Jacky Winter Group
“You truly are an amazing human being! I believe you were put on this earth to create ‘radical shifts’ and move individuals from unable to able. And … you do that so effortlessly, tapping into every part of our human existence.” Catherine, I AM WOMAN podcast
“Tania is an amazing person. She has used her incredible success as an opportunity to promote the plight of those who are socially isolated and is actually doing something about it. That takes courage.” Rotary International Womens Day Committee
“On behalf of ANZ and the ANZ Diversity Council, I would again like to thank you for your fantastic participation and contribution to our International Womens Day celebrations at ANZ this morning. Your passion and insights into the issues and opportunities women are exposed to on a daily basis, ensured every time you spoke, the audience were thoroughly engaged. You are not only an incredible entrepreneur and talented soprano, but a terrific public speaker and importantly, a very authentic ambassador for the advancement of women. It has been an honour and a privilege to spend time with you.” ANZ
“You are indeed a hard act to follow. I say again that your workshop was amongst the highest energy level shown by participants in the 10’s of dozen of workshops that I have been to. It was most enlightening and enjoyable.” Defence Science and Technology Group
“From the beginning of Tania’s presentation I was struck by her authenticity, her boldness, her family’s incredible journey and her achievements throughout her life. Following a ‘reality check’ about the changes the world is facing, it was inspiring to hear how Tania has given her time and energy to make a difference to people’s lives through the power of singing. It was a timely reminder of how we, as human beings from all walks of life, can harness our capabilities for a positive future. Tania is a very talented singer too, which is a treat!” Fran Reddan, Principal, Mentone Girls’ Grammar
“Thanks for your contribution to the Thinkers50 European Business Forum event in Odense. You raised the Energy in the room!” Focus Advokater, Denmark
“Tania’s keynote at our conference was very well received, and we have received great feedback. Many of our delegates came away inspired, and enjoyed the insight into her life and family. Tania was professional and even attended our welcome event, networking with attendees, which we very much appreciate. Thank you Tania!” Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
“Thank you so much for the engaging and interesting lecture you gave at our Rex J Lipman Fellows Program. We received excellent feedback about your address and the time you spent with students and teachers. We hope to welcome you back to St Peter’s College in the future.” Matthew White PhD, St Peter’s College
“Session was great. A terrific buzz after it. Freedom is coming…truly first rate!” McKinsey & Company
“Thank you for your presence, energy and songs. It was an honour to have you at the conference!” Beyond Psychedelics Prague 2018
“A big thank you for participating in the book launch as both as a panellist and singer. Your contribution, both the reading of the letter of your mother and your performances were beautiful and an important part of the event.” Australian Embassy Vienna
“Creative Brainstorming plays a critical role in developing campaigns for the release of Universal’s films but it’s important for us to create new stimulus in order to get the best out of these sessions. For this reason we engaged Tania and her team at Creative Universe to help fuel the brainstorming by using the technique of singing to unlock our creativity. It really worked and we saw a difference in the quality of ideas generated by each individual. In addition the experience of singing as group also served as a great team building exercise and was loads of fun.” Universal Pictures
“Overall, one of the most impressive workshops I have ever been to (note: 30 years in Defence = 100s seminars/workshops etc). My judgement is based on the fact that despite a very humid working area (Melb Indian summer) the energy levels of all participants was at maximum right up to the final minute. Overall, highly informative, motivational and fun” Defence Science and Technology Group
“Tania’s presentation was one of the most insightful and entertaining talks we had in recent months. The students and the professors thoroughly enjoyed the engaging talk and learnt about the power of creativity, innovation and collaboration. The importance of creativity in large corporations, the need for innovation specially in Australia and the real power of diversity are some of our key learnings we will remember and use. It was our privilege to hear her beautiful voice in the end , a perfect finish to the event. The event was a great success. A big thank you to Tania, on behalf of the students at Melbourne Business School.” Melbourne Business School
“The feedback we received from the session indicated that many thought it a highlight of the conference. By the conclusion of the session, the room was abuzz with energy, the faces of participants were bright and there was a really positive vibe.” Brown Brothers
“A big thank you for your contribution to the Unleashing our Potential workshop. The excitement and energy you created was amazing – what a buzz! We are very optimistic about the ideas that were generated and have already commenced the next steps to implementation. Again, thank you all for your commitment and professionalism and giving 150 of our top people a thought provoking and fun day.” David Jones
“A joyous finale for our annual national conference. Hundreds of people on their feet, united in song.” Family Business Australia
“Tania’s talk to the cohort of students studying the Master of Entrepreneurship was a fantastic finale to our first semester. Tania’s personal story of entrepreneurship told with energy, passion and feeling inspired the cohort who were literally sitting on the edge of their seats. A memorable session indeed!” Wade Institute
“In the true spirit of volunteering, Tania de Jong gave generously and freely of her time and amazing talent at our 2016 National Volunteer Week forum, Follow My Lead – Exploring Successful Leadership for Volunteer Managers. Tania had the audience hanging-off her every word during her keynote presentation and her infectious energy ensured audience members were highly engaged in the panel session that followed. Our forum ended on a high when Tania led the audience in song.” Volunteering Victoria
“It was an absolute pleasure working with you and everyone present was truly inspired by your address. The evening was full of women power and energy and your concluding note was no less than a cherry on top!” Women Lead Australia
“A fabulous immersion in innovation and disruption – I’d thoroughly recommend for organisations and people wanting to assess how they approach innovation and those looking to understand the risks of disruption and how to convert that to opportunity.” Chris Collett, Managing Director, Greenhill
“An engaging presentation, inspired stories and high impact messages. Tania delivers a unique in-the-room experience.” Kerryn Gamble, Managing Director, CORE Potential
“We spent a fabulous evening being entertained by Tania. Her presentation was well tailored to her audience. We were touched that she would share a private family story of her history, it was very inspiring to hear. Her work with fund raising and the choirs is truly amazing and all left impressed!
Then we wrapped with a finale of Tania singing La Vie en Rose which held everyone spellbound not only from the beauty of her singing but from the emotions it evoked in the wake of the attacks on Paris. Excellent evening, thank you.” Business in Heels
“Tania has an ability to push people out of their comfort zones, something which is useful in facilitating creativity – just one of the subjects she is passionate about. Well networked and with a strong point of difference to most speakers and entrepreneurs, Tania’s presentation at Florence Guild was one of the more spontaneous and unusual that we’ve hosted here at Work Club Sydney.” Work Club
“Tania’s presentation at Creative Fuel 2015 was incredibly inspirational and a true highlight of the day. Tania provided relevant and thought provoking ideas to the audience around ‘Locking into your personal creativity’ and ended the day with a lovely and entertaining singing performance which delighted the audience. Tania picked up the mood in the room and truly lifted everyone’s spirits. I would highly recommend Tania for future presentations.” ADMA – Creative Fuel
“Tania – thank you for being our guest presenter. Inspiring, moving and so entertaining! The group has told me it’s one of the best MS Angels events we’ve had and we appreciate you giving your time to come and speak to us.” MS Angels
“Thank you so much for an inspiring and fun evening. The team absolutely loved you and your guidance through the concept of innovation and creativity. We loved it!” Viking Cruises
“Beautiful, personal model of making a difference – inspiring and genuine.” Participant, Thought Dynamics “21st Century Leadership Summit
“Tania’s presentation was very moving and sensitive. I admit I got a little teary.” Participant, Thought Dynamics “21st Century Leadership Summit
“Extremely valuable content of great importance – the power of creativity.” Participant, Thought Dynamics “21st Century Leadership Summit
“I gained extensive knowledge that I can apply to my business now as well as knowledge that has altered my thinking on leadership.” Participant, Thought Dynamics “21st Century Leadership Summit
“Tania de Jong presented at our Victorian Speakers Association Event. Not only did her ability to engage the audience keep our members involved throughout the evening, but Tania’s style enhanced the energy of the room and the mood of the event. I would highly recommend her as a speaker and performer and believe she would be an asset to any conference or convention program.” Russell Pearson, State President (SA, VIC, TAS) National Speakers Association of Australia
“Tania, thank you so much for being part of BCG’s 50th birthday Celebration Day. The feedback from our staff on your session has been tremendous – it was a real standout for many of us. One of the teams told me that before your workshop, they were struggling to get the rest of their team to engage and be creative and that afterwards they all wanted to be involved and participate. Thank you for being flexible and accommodating with our event. Your energy, passion, enthusiasm and joie de vivre are a real inspiration. Keep it up!” Miguel Carrasco, Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
“Thank you for being one of main drawcards at our Florey Innovation Symposium and giving the opening address. You set the scene beautifully for what was to follow with presentations from a broad array of neuroscientists and related disciplines. There is no doubt that the link between innovation, creativity and practical outcomes is beautifully enhanced by creative minds.” Geoffrey Donnan AO, The Florey Institute
“Tania de Jong is an inspiration, motivator and successful business women whom the Copia Club had the privilege of working with recently. Tania’s combination of creativity and professionalism to include and work the whole room whilst still personalising her presentation around the Copia Club was fantastic. I look forward to having the opportunity of working with Tania again.” Scott Davies, CEO & Director Copia Club
“Your speech and song were real masterpieces! YOU REALLY WOWED THEM!”
Sir Gus Nossal AC, The Florey Institute
“Tania presented recently to over 80 people at DeakinPrime lunch. Tania presented on ‘How to unleash more creativity and innovation in an era of disruption’. The session was dynamic and extremely well received.” DeakinPrime
“Tania de Jong spoke at our business luncheon at four CPA Australia Not-for-profit events held around Australia. Her talk was inspirational and highly engaging. Tania has a beautiful voice and her performance was well received at all four conferences. Tania and her team are highly professional, Tania works very hard to understand the audience and tailor her presentation accordingly.” CPA Australia
“I would like to take this opportunity to let you know that I thought your speech during the graduation ceremony at CQ University, Melbourne was extremely impressive. It was an extraordinarily creative and inspiring address, and quite possibly the most memorable I have witnessed in my three and a half years in Melbourne.” Yasufumi Kotake, Consul-General of Japan, Melbourne
“You were wonderful. You engaged with over 700 of our consultants in a powerful way and reinforced our own potential. The standing ovation was a testament to the way you moved us into a different headspace. Many people have mentioned it was the best session they have attended at a conference anywhere!” Price Waterhouse Coopers
“The event last night was a great success, and on a number of different levels. It was fun, built trust and shared experience amongst our group, and helped advance the leadership program we are workshopping. Your contribution was wonderful and you obviously have a winning set of products that are refreshingly different. Thank you for sharing the experience with us last night. BHP
“Your presentation “Creative Leadership – The Key to Success in Uncertain Times” was excellent, evidenced by the number and calibre of questions from the audience. You provided cutting edge public policy thinking for our Trustees. Feedback from the event has been excellent.” CEDA
“This golden-voiced diva gave us all goose bumps. Her message was powerful and her never give up attitude was so inspiring. She has clearly earned her success through hard work and extraordinary talent. Entertaining and brilliant!” Ernst & Young – Entrepreneur of the Year
“We really enjoyed your presentation and it was energising and inspiring. There is always an uplift in the room, once people realise that it’s okay for them to speak and contribute. The final music piece was gorgeous – even the wait staff were captivated!” ANZ Private Bank
“A great activity that really brought together our 250 HR leaders as one team. We started with 70% saying they couldn’t sing and finished with an amazing four-part harmony song that they really were proud of. Highly recommended!” Andrea Grant, Telstra
“Your One Team, One Voice presentation and workshop was the perfect fit for our conference which brought together over 100 of our management and leadership team. You, Shaun and the entire team at Creative Universe were the ultimate professionals in the lead up to the event, and made my job as the event organiser so much easier. At the dinner event where you presented your personal and uplifting life-story, followed by some memorable performances set the perfect tone for engaging with the crowd to demonstrate the power of an individual and then that of the group! I have received nothing but positive feedback from attendees about how invigorating the workshop was and how in a very lively and active way, we could indeed sing with one voice! The general make up of our delegates was very “blokey” and I was fearful that they would not give 100% when they found out we were all going to be singing – but how wrong I was… I can still see them all stamping their feet and singing with gusto!” Veolia
“We were delighted with the impact and outcome of your session. Many people have made positive comments on the session and the energy and passion that it produced. Brilliant!” AON Top 200 Conference
“Tania de Jong recently gave an inspiring keynote address at the ISPIM Innovation Symposium in Melbourne. Tania engaged the audience with her insights into innovation in Australia and even managed to get them to participate in some group singing activities. However, the best was left to last as she treated the audience to a great anecdote about her innovative grandmother and finished with a wonderful song. The feedback I personally received from our delegates was excellent and I would be happy to recommend Tania as a keynote speaker at any innovation event.” The International Society for Professional Innovation Management
“Tania has the lovely and unusual ability to share the narrative of her amazing life and talent with a room full of people and connect and engage with warmth and ease. We worked together recently and she glides gracefully and poignantly through her sessions; beautifully merging her worldliness and her sense of theatre with the serious business of motivating human beings to do more, to explore their sense of self and look at their world through different lenses. To top it off she is charming and warm and has a glorious captivating voice. She has an abundant world view and gives back way more than she takes. Tania is a very special person.” Jim Grant, Dattner Grant
“Tania is an inspiring speaker who is evidently committed to uniting people from all walks of life through ‘voice’. She connects with people on a deep level through her engaging story telling. Tania has a vitality about her that is contagious and motivational and she is an outstanding role model for leaders who want to create positive change. Her voice is something not to be missed – and neither is she. She is truly memorable.” Associate Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick (PhD), Director, Master of Applied Positive Psychology program, University of Melbourne
“Just a short note to thank you for sharing in our 15th birthday celebration! Your contribution to the panel, discussing your journey and lessons learned, provided invaluable insight to our audience. Your easy-going style, willingness to share and wisdom added an extra dimension to the event. I thank you most sincerely for allowing other women in management to learn from you and for your generosity in participating. We all enjoyed your beautiful operatic close to the event and a number of us, myself included, had a tear in our eyes! You are certainly one very talented lady.” Kim McGuiness, Managing Director, Network Central
“Thank you so much for your presentation. The feedback from delegates has been very positive with responses focussing on your theme of unlocking the creativity of those in the workforce. Several indicated they intend going back to their organisations with a mission to harness the creativity of their staff more effectively . You certainly touched a nerve with many of them signalling the risk-averse culture that has been steadily built up over the years standing as a barrier to their organisation’s going forward and have been inspired by you to reverse the trend.” National Local Government Human Resource Conference
“We were excited to have Tania speak as part of our Excellence Seminar Series. The postgraduate students and staff who attended the talk only had wonderful things to say about her. They found her presentation inspiring, creative, engaging and very personal. Tania’s personality shone through her style and everyone responded to her beautiful heart. We would like to thank Tania for her amazing gifts and sharing them with us.” Monash Postgraduate Association
“We were delighted with your ability to deliver a very personal story that young people could engage with, relate to and contextualise. Fun, relevant, aspirational and real – your story and ideas tick so many of the reflective boxes yet left us all feeling positive and knowing we have much to do and look forward to both personally and collectively.” Northcote High School Graduation Oration
“Your insightful, and highly entertaining presentation certainly provided our audience with a detailed perspective and greater understanding into why creativity is more important now than ever before, and some of the key benefits to nurturing creativity which you identified such as: improved well being, leadership, and increased productivity, further highlighted how creativity ultimately leads to innovation.
Your in-depth knowledge into why diversity is also critical to unlocking creative potential and thus enabling innovation to flourish, was of great interest to our attendees, and was further demonstrated in the example you provided through your highly successful ‘One Voice’ program.”
Innovation Series, Brisbane
“Very energising and inspirational session… excellent and very empowering! Gave us lots to think about. We enjoyed the intimate, conversational atmosphere too! ” Australian Institute of Management, session presented by Tania de Jong AM on “Finding your passion and purpose”
“We would like to thank Tania de Jong for her motivational speech at our NSW/ACT conference. The work Tania delivers on a day to day basis has inspired the whole NSW/ACT organisation to think outside the square and to be creative. In today’s market the usual job search techniques are not enough to get our disadvantaged job seekers into employment and listening to her inspirational talk and video showed everyone that there is more than one way to motivate and help our clients into sustainable employment. Listening to real life success stories was the true success along with her amazing voice. Our employees were engaged and participated and got NSW/ACT to ‘ONE VOICE’. Inspirational!” Max Employment
“Innovator, entrepreneur, entertainer – Tania has it all and delivers it all! Tania gave our CEO members so much more than we expected – highly recommended for your next event.” The CEO Institute
“Tania de Jong presented at the 2011 Australian Regional Women Leaders Convention in Melbourne. She was a keynote presenter at the fundraising dinner and performed songs to accompany her presentation . The session was warmly received by the two hundred women attending from all over Australia. Not only was Tania responsive to the needs of regional living, she related to the struggles and everyday challenges of work when it isn’t aligned to your passion. She entertained the audience and contributed a warm and relaxing tone to the evening. Women were inspired by her journey, humour and talent.” Suzi Finkelstein, Executive Convenor Women and Leadership Australia
“The final session of Day I when you transformed 850+ people into the Mind & Its Potential choir was simply brilliant – inspirational, moving and a lot of fun! The performance at the Gala Dinner was also superlative and I know the speakers involved loved playing their part.” Mind & Its Potential 2010
“Tania presented a keynote to our 450 delegates from Catholic Care programs across Sydney. Her powerful keynote inspired and moved all of us to unlock more of our creative potential and find our passion and purpose. To top it all off her beautiful voice enchanted us all. It was a very life-affirming session and we have received great feedback from our staff.” Catholic Care Total Staff Day
“The team workshop led by Tania de Jong and Shaun Islip for our 450 delegates created an enormous sense of belonging and trust amongst our diverse group. We were absolutely delighted with the final outcome of “one team, one voice, one heart”. If you had told us at the start that we would all be singing an African gospel song in 4 part harmony with actions we would never have believed you! It was a very life-affirming session and we have received great feedback from our staff.” Catholic Care Total Staff Day
“One of the most memorable participative workshops many of us have ever experienced. The “One Team, One Voice” workshop highlighted our key aims of creativity and innovation as tools for great leadership, and team work. The workshop brought these to life and proved that working as one team aligned to one outcome, can achieve amazing results.” Mark Goddard, Spotlight
“We had great feedback about your session – in fact, I was sitting next to someone at the dinner who had been in your session and they said that you had them all singing and she was amazed that everyone participated! She said she gained some ideas that she would not have thought about to help with her teaching.” Girls Education National Conference
“Fabulous, amazing & joyful – Aha moments! Wonderfully inspirational, uplifting & refreshing. Thought provoking & emotional. Great story telling. Great concept & initiatives – gave me lots to think about at a personal level and a business/learning and development level Lovely message – those who feel included, valued & supported achieve great outcomes. Very relevant. Best session so far.” Comments from Australian Institute of Training and Development National Conference
“The National Board and others really enjoyed having you with us for the two days and thoroughly enjoyed your presentation and your enchanting performance at the dinner. Your keynote was powerful, engaging and inspiring. I heard nothing but glowing reports from the Board about your performance, so you really made an impact!” Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
“I have attended many ‘motivational’ sessions during my time in the telecommunications industry and I can honestly say that this was the first time that I had been ‘touched’ during such sessions.” “Tania de Jong is a great story-teller and her presentation on creativity was wonderful!” Australian Positive Psychology Conference
“It is a rarity to meet a person like yourself, and the world becomes a better and brighter place in your infectious presence and for what you stand and do. A spellbinding presentation. Keep up the great work.” The Indus Entrepreneur (TIE)
“Tania provided us with an evening of entertainment and personal challenge. Her own history and achievements make for some captivating listening and the group exercise was challenging but was also a fun thing to participate in.” Coates
“Thank you for a truly inspiring session yesterday. The engagement of staff was absolutely fabulous and there has been much positive feedback.” Helen Drennen, Principal Wesley College
“Your workshop at the Mind & Its Potential conference was inspiring and exceptionally joyful…My head was still buzzing with the harmony chord for a good hour after the workshop.” Irene Tj, Thursday Island Primary Health Care Centre
“Swinburne University was honoured that Tania agreed to speak to our graduates at two of our recent Graduation ceremonies. Tania was just terrific. She gave an inspiring Occasional Dress to the Graduates. Her speech was encouraging, uplifting, appropriately challenging, and of course, beautifully finished off with a song. Our Graduates were simply captivated. Well done Tania.” Bill Scales AO, Chancellor, Swinburne University of Technology
“Your story of how the ‘Melbourne Sings Choir’ came about and the people involved was inspirational. It is wonderful to see so many corporate organisations supporting this amazing group. You are definitely someone who is making a difference. You also captivated the audience with your amazing voice. So many people commented that they couldn’t believe such a powerful sound came from such a petite person. The atmosphere in the room was amazing as you and Jonathan sang for us. You have a wonderful gift, and we thank you for sharing that with us.” Yvette Jean, Australian Institute of Office Professionals
“Mark Twain said: ’Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth’. This philosophy epitomizes Tania de Jong!” Professor John Seybolt, Dean of Melbourne Business School
“Tania de Jong brought warmth, enthusiasm and inspiration to our launch of Constellation Professional Women’s Speaker Series. We were overwhelmed with the positive feedback on our selection of speaker. Tania managed to transcend our business world with her background as a lawyer, evoked compassion and understanding with her family history and encouraged us to be resilient when our dreams are shattered. She inspired us all to look for the music in our lives, let our dreams soar and our voices sing.” Deirdre Hosking, Founding Patron, Constellation, NAB
“Tania de Jong recently delivered a very engaging breakfast presentation to over 80 of my clients at the Melbourne Hilton. Bridgeworks Leadership breakfasts have been running for over 8 years now with over 2,500 people attending during this period. Tania’s presentation was the most engaging speaker we have had – never in my dreams did I believe I would have over 80 of my clients holding hands and singing all in tune! A great testament to the ability of Tania to not only get a critical message across but getting people to take immediate action. Leadership is about taking action – there’s no doubt Tania, that is what you delivered. Great presentation, great fun and most important, a message that people won’t forget. Thanks again for ‘bringing to life’ creativity in leadership. Others are good at the talk, you walk the talk!” Wayne Dyson, Director, Bridgeworks
“Your work is really inspirational and your presentation was a huge hit!” 2nd Australian Positive Psychology and Well-Being Conference
“I was the facilitator for the annual planning workshop for a consulting firm. Everybody was contributing, and all were involved in the discussions. Then Tania came in for her session with the team. She took them to a higher level; she got people in touch with deeper places inside themselves, and released the energy…something special was radiated within the room – it was joyous to see everyone finding their potential, being creative and expressing themselves in ways that they never would have imagined possible. It took them beyond their previous limitations.” Geoff Hopkins, Director, Holistique for Jo Fisher Recruitment
“Tania de Jong managed to challenge and inspire us to think beyond the usual bounds of leadership style by taking us on a journey of breath, chant and song. It affirmed for many that if allowed, creativity can and will ‘create’ great leaders.” Committee for Melbourne participant
“It was refreshing to do something completely different and to listen to Tania’s magnificent voice. Tania was also a very engaging speaker who clearly demonstrated that encouraging creativity in the workplace results in benefits for both the organisation and employees.”Committee for Melbourne Future Focus Group
“Your presentation on the Creative Australia Charity’s With One Voice Program for Monash University Diversity and Inclusion Week was inspirational. It was a great opportunity to learn how the With One Voice Program engages people of diverse backgrounds, assisting those in need and breaking down social barriers. It was wonderful to meet you and your speech was highly engaging.” Monash University
“Can you pass on appreciation to Tania for demonstrating that creativity in business can actually work? Although a short session, it was apparent to me that Tania’s passion, energy and initiative can flow through and bring out the creative side in everyone and can assist in improving all aspects of a business, irrespective of its field of expertise. Interactive leadership workshops are always more productive and enjoyable, and this one was a belter.” Committee for Melbourne Future Focus Group
“Thank you for your presentation ‘Creative City in uncertain times’ and Panel organising and facilitation for the recent Business Event/Lunch as part of the Melbourne Awards series. The Creativity theme was excellently presented and well received by the audience – it was very engaging.” Wayne Kayler-Thomson, CEO VECCI
“Tania entertained staff after a day long workshop and uplifted us all. The staff were primarily telecommunications and project management staff, and predominantly male. For any post workshop activity after a long day and dinner, to energize and entertain would be a challenge. Tania managed to totally engage and take her audience to a place where I don’t think we ever expected to go. To get her audience harmonizing as a group activity was a fantastic experience, and I can say from my perspective, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and would recommend her without reservation.”Michael Bruce, Chief Technology Officer, Visionstream
A most unique and inspiring bonding experience that simulated and confronted our norms. We initially found ourselves entirely out of our comfort zone to then be transcended as a team through harmony as one voice! Ric Oldham, General Manager, Visionstream Leighton Contractors Telecommunications Division
“Most inspiring, innovative and refreshing. The program was very interactive and required all present to participate. It empowered us as individuals and as a group. It was challenging and also helped to release some tension and frustrations in a constructive manner. I would strongly recommend this program as a team building exercise, to assist in improving self esteem and enhanced communications between groups that need to work together more closely. The program is most useful in transforming and building a stronger and more cohesive team.”Steve Karistianis, Senior National Project Manager, Visionstream
Tania is one of those rare people who change the world for the better and who positively influence and create opportunities for the community. At a recent presentation to BPW Geelong Tania inspired our members to rediscover their inner creativity, to aim high and to persevere toward achieving their goals. Her passion and enthusiasm for singing and music is infectious. Jenny Gretgrix Vice-President BPW Geelong
“All the TED and TEDx talks I’ve watched have been amazing, but Tania de Jong’s was the most amazing yet! Seeing how the spark of wonder that is so often hidden in people can bloom with love, connection, encouragement and friends is one of the best of feelings. Earlier tonight I was talking with friends about a group we want to set up for people who are living alone or feeling alone. We want to make it fun and caring and useful and to help each other give inspiration and meaning to the people in our small rural town. Tania, you and the awesome people you work and sing with, are an inspiration to everyone whose lives you touch, and will make a big difference to the success of our little group. I might even try to overcome one of my fears and reach one of my goals – to learn to sing and one day sing in public. To you and all those in one voice – THANK YOU so much – you rock!!!” Heidi Freeman
“Your personal commitment and charity work is inspiring. Your vision and drive is inspiring. You are an inspiration. You have touched so many people and last night you touched me. I wanted you to know the impact you are making on so many people, including me. You are outstanding.”Peter
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Walton Acquires 245-acre Lee Farms Property in Loveland, Colo.
7.1.2020 17:00:00 EET | Business Wire
Walton Global Holdings Ltd. and its affiliates (collectively Walton), a real estate investment and land asset company with US$3.8 billion under management and administration, has acquired the 245-acre Lee Farms property located at 4300 Wilson Ave. in Loveland, Colo.
The 245-acre Lee Farms property in Loveland, Colo. is slated for a single-family residential master planned community of approximately 900 units. (Graphic: Business Wire)
The pre-developed land is slated for a single-family residential master planned community of approximately 900 units, offering a variety of sizes and types of homesites. The parcel is located within close proximity to existing and actively selling new-home communities of Meadowbrook Ridge, Mariana Butte and The Lakes at Centerra.
The property was acquired from The True Life Companies and the Lee Family.
Located 14 minutes from Fort Collins, Colo., home to Colorado State University, the Loveland region boasts a strong economy featuring dozens of innovative businesses from tech start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, low unemployment, and a steady population growth that is driving demand for residential construction.
Brett Limbaugh, Director of Development Services for the City of Loveland believes this is a good time to take advantage of the current market conditions stating, “We are excited to work with Walton on moving the Lee Farms development forward and seeing additional growth in the market area.”
Concurrent to the purchase of the Lee Farms property, Walton has secured interest from a top publicly-traded homebuilder with plans to begin development of the land in 2020. Negotiations are underway with an Exit Focused Letter of Intent that affords the builder a first right of refusal for a phased procurement of the property. It is anticipated the land will be developed in multiple phases, providing distributions to investors as the builder sells homes.
The Loveland, Colo. land acquisition adds to Walton’s 85,000-acre portfolio located across the United States, providing a scalable land acquisition platform to support homebuilders with just-in-time inventory management. Walton’s approach is an innovative response to secular shifts in the land development industry, which is increasingly challenged to finance acquisition with debt.
Walton recently announced its first Builder Option Land Development fund (the BOLD Fund), that provides homebuilders with a land acquisition opportunity to work alongside an international real estate investment and asset management company for securing a land pipeline with minor upfront capital contribution.
“The benefits of working with national builders through these Exit Focused Agreements by holding land for future development, is opening up tremendous opportunities for Walton in all markets where we research and acquire land,” said Barry Dluzen, Senior Vice President - Land of Walton Global Holdings.
For over 40 years, Walton has researched, planned, and structured pre-development land investments located in the major growth corridors throughout the U.S. and Canada. The evolution of Walton has opened the door to offering new products, like the BOLD Fund, creating new opportunities for investors and homebuilders.
About Walton Global Holdings
Walton Global Holdings is a privately owned, leading global real estate investment, land asset management and administration company that has focused on strategically located land in major growth corridors for over 40 years. The company manages and administers US$3.8 billion of real estate assets in North America, on behalf of its investors and business partners. Walton has more than 106,000 acres of land under ownership, management and administration in the United States and Canada. For more information visit Walton.com.
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Tigo Energy, Inc., the worldwide leader in Flex-MLPE (Module Level Power Electronics) today announced a $20 million round of investment, led by Energy Growth Momentum. “2020 has been a breakout year for Tigo and 2021 has the potential for even greater success,” stated Zvi Alon, Chairman and CEO of Tigo. “We are excited to have the EG Momentum team’s support and their working capital will enable us to better serve our current customer base and invest in the future expansion with new customers, new partners and new projects.” The investment will be used to improve upon existing products and develop next generation solutions that maximize returns for PV customers. A portion of the new funds will be used to efficiently and effectively scale. Tigo’s growth has accelerated significantly recently as the company’s products have reached more customer segments and countries throughout the world. With over 40,000 installations in over 100 countries on all 7 continents, Tigo systems generate more
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Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible
- Jacob‘s Marriage
6. רחל rāchēl Rachel, “a ewe.”
16. לאה lê'âh Leah, “wearied.”
24. זלפה zı̂lpâh Zilpah, “drop?”
29. בלהה bı̂lhâh Bilhah, “timidity.”
32. ראוּבן re'uvbēn Reuben, “behold a son.” A paronomasia in allusion to the phrase בעניי ראה be‛ānyı̂y rā'âh Derivatives and compounds, being formed by the common speaker, are sometimes founded upon resemblance in sound, and not always on precise forms of the original sentence which prompted them.
33. שׁמעין shı̂m‛ôn Shim‹on, “hearing, answer.”
34. לוי lêvı̂y Levi, “junction, union.”
35. יחוּדה yehûdâh Jehudah, “praised.”
In this chapter and the following, Jacob grows from a solitary fugitive with a staff in his hand Genesis 32:10 to be the father of a large family and the owner of great wealth. He proves himself to be a man of patience and perseverance, and the Lord according to promise is with him.
Jacob arrives at the well of Haran. “The land of the sons of the east.” The points of the heavens were defined by the usage of practical life, and not by the standard of a science yet unknown. Hence, the east means any quarter toward the sunrising. Haran was about four degrees east of Beer-sheba, and five and a half degrees north. The distance was about four hundred and fifty miles, and therefore it would take Jacob fifteen days to perform the journey at thirty miles a day. If he reached Bethel the first night, he must have travelled about fifty miles the first day. After this he proceeds on his journey without any memorable incident. In the neighborhood of Haran he comes upon a well, by which lay three flocks. This is not the well near Haran where Abraham‘s servant met Rebekah. It is in the pasture grounds at some distance from the town. On its mouth was a large stone, indicating that water was precious, and that the well was the common property of the surrounding natives. The custom was to gather the flocks, roll away the stone, which was too great to be moved by a boy or a female, water the flocks, and replace the stone. Jacob, on making inquiry, learns that Haran is at hand, that Laban is well, and that Rachel is drawing nigh with her father‘s flocks. Laban is called by Jacob the son of Nahor, that is, his grandson, with the usual latitude of relative names in Scripture Genesis 28:13. “The day is great.” A great part of it yet remains. It is not yet the time to shut up the cattle for the night; “water the sheep and go feed them.” Jacob may have wished to meet with Rachel without presence of the shepherds. “We cannot.” There was a rule or custom that the flocks must be all assembled before the stone was rolled away for the purpose of watering the cattle. This may have been required to insure a fair distribution of the water to all parties, and especially to those who were too weak to roll away the stone.
Jacob‘s interview with Rachel, and hospitable reception by Laban. Rachel‘s approach awakens all Jacob‘s warmth of feeling. He rolls away the stone, waters the sheep, kisses Rachel, and bursts into tears. The remembrance of home and of the relationship of his mother to Rachel overpowers him. He informs Rachel who he is, and she runs to acquaint her father. Laban hastens to welcome his relative to his house. “Surely my bone and my flesh art thou.” This is a description of kinsmanship probably derived from the formation of the woman out of the man Genesis 2:23. A month here means the period from new moon to new moon, and consists of twenty-nine or thirty days.
Jacob serves seven years for Rachel. “What shall thy wages be?” An active, industrious man like Jacob was of great value to Laban. “Two daughters.” Daughters in those countries and times were also objects of value, for which their parents were accustomed to receive considerable presents Genesis 24:53. Jacob at present, however, is merely worth his labor. He has apparently nothing else to offer. As he loves Rachel, he offers to serve seven years for her, and is accepted. Isaac loved Rebekah after she was sought and won as a bride for him. Jacob loves Rachel before he makes a proposal of marriage. His attachment is pure and constant, and hence the years of his service seem but days to him. The pleasure of her society both in the business and leisure of life makes the hours pass unnoticed. It is obvious that in those early days the contact of the sexes before marriage was more unrestrained than it afterward became.
Jacob is betrayed into marrying Leah, and on consenting to serve other seven years obtains Rachel also. He claims his expected reward when due. “Made a feast.” The feast in the house of the bride‘s father seems to have lasted seven days, at the close of which the marriage was completed. But the custom seems to have varied according to the circumstances of the bridegroom. Jacob had no house of his own to which to conduct the bride. In the evening: when it was dark. The bride was also closely veiled, so that it was easy for Laban to practise this piece of deceit. “A handmaid.” It was customary to give the bride a handmaid, who became her confidential servant Genesis 24:59, Genesis 24:61. In the morning Jacob discovers that Laban had overreached him. This is the first retribution Jacob experiences for the deceitful practices of his former days. He expostulates with Laban, who pleads the custom of the country.
It is still the custom not to give the younger in marriage before the older, unless the latter be deformed or in some way defective. It is also not unusual to practise the very same trick that Laban now employed, if the suitor is so simple as to be off his guard. Jacob, however, did not expect this at his relative‘s hands, though he had himself taken part in proceedings equally questionable. “Fulfill the week of this.” If this was the second day of the feast celebrating the nuptials of Leah, Laban requests him to Complete the week, and then he will give him Rachel also. If, however, Leah was fraudulently put upon him at the close of the week of feasting, then Laban in these words proposes to give Rachel to Jacob on fulfilling another week of nuptial rejoicing. The latter is in the present instance more likely. In either case the marriage of Rachel is only a week after that of Leah. Rather than lose Rachel altogether, Jacob consents to comply with Laban‘s terms.
Rachel was the wife of Jacob‘s affections and intentions. The taking of a second wife in the lifetime of the first was contrary to the law of nature, which designed one man for one woman Genesis 2:21-25. But the marrying of a sister-in-law was not yet incestuous, because no law had yet been made on the subject. Laban gives a handmaid to each of his daughters. To Rebekah his sister had been given more than one Genesis 24:61. Bondslaves had been in existence long before Laban‘s time Genesis 16:1. “And loved also Rachel more than Leah.” This proves that even Leah was not unloved. At the time of his marriage Jacob was eighty-four years of age; which corresponds to half that age according to the present average of human life.
Leah bears four sons to Jacob. “The Lord saw.” The eye of the Lord is upon the sufferer. It is remarkable that both the narrator and Leah employ the proper name of God, which makes the performance of promise a prominent feature of his character. This is appropriate in the mouth of Leah, who is the mother of the promised seed. “That Leah was hated” - less loved than Rachel. He therefore recompenses her for the lack of her husband‘s affections by giving her children, while Rachel was barren. “Reuben” - behold a son. “The Lord hath looked on my affliction.” Leah had qualities of heart, if not of outward appearance, which commanded esteem. She had learned to acknowledge the Lord in all her ways. “Simon” - answer. She had prayed to the Lord, and this was her answer. “Levi” - union, the reconciler. Her husband could not, according to the prevailing sentiments of those days, fail to be attached to the mother of three sons. “Judah” - praised. Well may she praise the Lord; for this is the ancestor of the promised seed. It is remarkable that the wife of priority, but not of preference, is the mother of the seed in whom all nations are to be blessed. Levi the reconciler is the father of the priestly tribe. Simon is attached to Judah. Reuben retires into the background.
Reuben may have been born when Jacob was still only eighty-four, and consequently Judah was born when Jacob was eighty-seven.
Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on Genesis 29". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/bnb/genesis-29.html. 1870.
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Home » Capacity challenges will continue in 2021
Capacity challenges will continue in 2021
Logistics companies urge planning and a focus on relationships as complexity continues across the supply chain.
Victoria Kickham
This year’s hyper-accelerated holiday shipping volume will have lingering effects in 2021 and force shippers to focus on strategic planning and relationship-building as a way to manage the crunch for transportation and warehouse space, according to some year-end predictions from logistics-industry leaders.
“With fewer trucks, warehousing space, pallets, and containers available to transport goods, rates are rising and shippers are forced to compete not only for customers’ attention online, but also the means to make good on those orders once they have been placed,” Glenn Koepke, a senior vice president at supply chain visibility solutions provider FourKites wrote earlier this month in a report detailing the booming holiday shipping activity and its effects on the supply chain. “Amidst this complicated landscape, the companies that come out ahead will be those agile enough to adjust to changing dynamics both quickly and efficiently.”
December data from FourKites showed accelerated activity through the Christmas holiday followed by a return to more historic averages as we inched toward the New Year. FourKites reported an 89% increase in retail shipping volume in the first three weeks of the month, along with 21% growth in CPG tracked shipping volumes, and a 6% jump in shipping volume in the food and beverage industry. As of December 30, those numbers had begun to slow, with volume down more than 11% in retail, 3% in CPG, and 4% in food and beverage.
Many industry watchers say volatility is likely to continue as pandemic-related issues continue to shape consumer buying habits and the global economy.
“We will see ongoing capacity challenges—and a seller’s market for those that control the capacity—throughout 2021, as most passenger flights remain grounded and sustained peaks around e-commerce, Chinese New Year, and the [Covid-19] vaccines mean that demand remains high for domestic ground carriers and international capacity across multiple modes,” according to Jim Monkmeyer, president of transportation, DHL Supply Chain North America. “The capacity situation will likely normalize over the mid-term—at least, it will revert to its ‘normal’ cycles of supply and demand swings as the vaccine becomes widely available—but securing capacity, managing price volatility, and strengthening relationships with carriers will remain a priority throughout 2021.”
Rick Ehrensaft, chief commercial officer for Grand Worldwide Logistics, a division of logistics service provider Odyssey Logistics, agrees. He said many of the firm’s larger customers were working to refill depleted inventory late in the year to get ahead of anticipated headaches in 2021, essentially “trying to get their floor stocks back where they used to be.”
“This is all good business for us,” Ehrensaft said. “But at the end of the day, you can see this is not business as usual. [Customers] are trying to get ahead of what they see to be a continuing constraint.”
He emphasized the importance of shippers, “getting inventory in place and locking down your carrier.”
An expected reverse logistics boom and efforts to roll out Covid-19 vaccines will further complicate the landscape. But overall, the complexity supply chain companies are experiencing will also lead to innovation, some industry-watchers say.
“We expect them [logisitcs challenges] to continue as the global effort to roll out vaccines puts pressure on already strained logistics resources. Pandemic-related trade will continue to crowd out trade in other types of goods,” said Christopher Hale, CEO at Kountable, a global trade and technology platform provider. “On the other hand, a lot of very smart people and groups are working hard to find innovative ways to adapt and create better solutions that will have impacts on how supply chains are run far beyond this pandemic, so we expect to see some innovation and progress starting to appear too.”
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Features Hub Opinion
In the era of big data how can we safeguard data integrity?
Fri 15 Mar 2019 | Neil Barton
With the right data lineage tools, ensuring data integrity in a big data environment becomes far easier
Multi-dimensional is something of an understatement when it comes to describing the beast of big data. However, the dimension that outweighs all others – so much so that it’s even in the name – is volume.
With the enormous potential that this data could possibly hold, the challenge becomes applying all of the usual methodologies and technologies at scale. This is particularly important in a world where about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single day, and the rate of data growth is only increasing. In addition, an increasingly large portion of this data is unstructured data, which is harder to categorise and sort than its structured counterpart; IDC has estimated that as much as 90 percent of all big data is unstructured.
Cutting through the noise
Compounding the problem, most businesses expect that decisions made based on data will be more effective and successful in the long run. However, with big data often comes big noise – after all, the more information you have, the more chance that some of that information might be incorrect, duplicated, outdated or otherwise flawed. This is a challenge that most data analysts are prepared for, but one that IT teams need to consider and factor into their downstream processing and decision making to ensure that any bad data does not skew the resulting insights.
This is why overarching big data analytics solutions alone are not enough to ensure data integrity in the era of big data. In addition, while new technologies like AI and machine learning can help make sense of the data en masse, often these rely on a certain amount of cleaning and condensing going on behind the scenes to be effective and able to run at scale.
One of the best solutions for managing the beast of big data overall is also one that builds in a way to ensure data integrity
While accounting for some errors in the data is fine, being able to find and eliminate mistakes where possible is a valuable capability – particularly if there is a configuration error or problem with a single data source creating a stream of bad data which can have a catastrophic effect in terms of derailing effective analysis and delaying the time to value.
Without the right tools, these kinds of errors can create unexpected results and leave data professionals with an unwieldy mass of data to sort through to try and find the culprit.
This problem is compounded when data is ingested from multiple different sources and systems, each of which may have treated the data in a different way. The sheer complexity of big data architecture can turn the challenge from finding a single needle in a haystack to one more akin to finding a single needle in a whole barn.
Meanwhile, this problem has become one that doesn’t just affect the IT function and business decision making, but is becoming a legal requirement to overcome. Legislation like the GDPR mandates that businesses find a way to manage and track all of their personal data, no matter how complicated the infrastructure or unstructured the information. In addition, upon receiving a valid request, organisations need to be able to delete information pertaining to an individual, or collect and share it as part of an individual’s right to data portability.
Safeguarding data integrity
So, what’s the solution? One of the best solutions for managing the beast of big data overall is also one that builds in a way to ensure data integrity – ensuring a full data lineage by automating data ingestion. This creates a clear path showing how data has been used over time, as well as its origins.
In addition, this process is done automatically, making it much easier and more reliable. However, it is important to ensure that lineage is done at down to the fine detail level. WhereScape automation software, for example, can retrospectively go out and catalogue data sources and easily enable complex data extraction while ensuring compliance with GDPR requirements.
With the right data lineage tools, ensuring data integrity in a big data environment becomes far easier. The right tracking means that data scientists can track data back through the process to explain what data was used, from where, and why.
Meanwhile, businesses can track down the data of a single individual, sorting through all the noise to fulfil subject access requests without disrupting the big data pipeline as a whole, or diverting significant business resource. As a result, analysis of big data can deliver more insight, and thus more value, faster – despite its multidimensional complexity.
Neil Barton is the Chief Technology Officer for WhereScape
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"Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. And its better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. And when it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, I'm already better than them."
Down syndrome is the most common name. Other names used to say Down syndrome are trisomy 21, trisomy G, 47 XX + 21, 47 XY + 21 and use to be known as mongolism. Most common signs of Down syndrome are a shorter height since the body grows slower, weak muscles, a shorter fatter neck, stocky arms and stocky legs. They also are known for slanted eyes, irregular shape mouth and tongue and crooked teeth. The affected chromosome in Down syndrome patients is chromosome 21. Most of the time Down syndrome comes from the mom’s egg and not the father’s sperm (changes in structure or count). One out six hundred ninety one babies are born with Down syndrome and it is estimated that about 250,000,400,000 people in America have down syndrome.
Down syndrome is neither a dominant nor recessive gene for Down syndrome occurs when an egg does not go through meiosis properly and leaves an extra 21 chromosome. While a normal person should only have two, one from mom and one from dad, a person with Down syndrome have three. The chromosome that Down syndrome is located on is chromosome 21. Down syndrome shows up at birth since it is a birth defect. Even though Down syndrome is a hard disorder to deal with, it is not fatal and many people have that have it live just as long and happy as someone without it.
One interesting thing about Down syndrome is that the cause of the extra chromosome is unknown. Another interesting fact is that roughly twenty five percent of families in America have someone in their family with Down syndrome. One thing I would really like to know would be what the chromosome is that makes it happen because if it was known something could possibly be done about it.
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An Essay on Magic
By Spellbinder BRONZE
Spellbinder BRONZE, Tucson, Arizona
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
By Ellawind PLATINUM
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What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Dream like you will live forever, live like you will die today.
The "Unsinkable" Ship
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Huntington, Indiana
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"Faith is taking another step without seeing the entire staircase."
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Failures help one grow as a person.
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Samsung Galaxy S10 Cameras: What You Need To Know
By Marc Chacksfield 20 February 2019
The Samsung Galaxy S10 range brings with it some impressive camera specs.
The Samsung Galaxy S10 is here and, as we’ve all come to expect from Samsung’s flagship range, it packs an impressive set of camera specs.
In all there are four variants of the S10, each with their own slightly different camera spec list. Here are the five new camera features common to all the phones, as well as a comparison of what each phone offers..
Standout Galaxy S10 camera features
1. ToF sensor
Time of Flight is one of the most interesting features in phone cameras at the moment. The sensor detects the depth of field in an image and this, in turn, bolsters the quality of the phone’s other features like AR and face detection. Samsung has put this technology in its Galaxy S10 5G range, which is set to be out sometime this summer.
2. Ultra wide-angle setup
This was one of the standout features on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro and now it has come to the Galaxy S10 range. The benefit of an ultra wide-angle lens (in this case, a 16-MP variant) is two-fold: It offers the ability to create brilliant wide landscape shots, where much more scenery is captured by the camera, and it helps with super close-ups, too.The 16-MP sensor—found on the entire S10 range—uses 0.5x zoom technology and has a 123-degree viewing angle, akin to the human eye.
3. Super Steady Video
Similar to the GoPro Hero7, Super Steady Video on the Samsung Galaxy S10 makes use of the ultra-wide lens and trims footage in post processing to keep the subject stable. The demonstration we saw was of two mountain bikers on a trail and the new Super Steady Video footage was, well, super steady.
4. Best Shot
This is a feature that will choose your best shot for you, thanks to some nifty AI that has learned what the best shot of a place or scene by analyzing 100 million odd images. It works by notifying you when you have composed the best shot of a scene by turning the circle in the middle of the screen yellow.
5. Scene Optimization
Yes, the S9 had a similar feature but Samsung has added 10 new scenes to its scene optimization technology, which adapt the color and tone of your shots to make them look more professional.. Some of the new scenes include pets and babies.
Camera Spec breakdown
These are the camera specs coming to the new Galaxy S10 family
Rear Cameras Front Camera(s)
Samsung Galaxy S10e 16-MP Ultra Wide, 12-MP telephoto Dual Pixel 10-MP
Samsung Galaxy S10 16-MP Ultra Wide, 12-MP wide-angle, 12-MP telephoto Dual Pixel 10-MP
Samsung Galaxy S10+ 16-MP Ultra Wide, 12-MP wide-angle, 12-MP telephoto Dual Pixel 10-MP, 8-MP (Depth/f2.2)
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G 16-MP Ultra Wide, 12-MP wide-angle, 12-MP telephoto, hQVGA 3D Depth sensing camera Dual Pixel 10-MP, 8-MP (Depth/f2.2), hQVGA 3D Depth sensing camera
The Samsung Galaxy S10e is Samsung’s funky iPhone XR contender, offering up a number of full-fat S10 smarts but has a slightly reduced camera setup. While it doesn’t have the same cameras array as the rest of the range (see below), it does one-up the Galaxy S9 by offering a dual camera setup on the back, comprising a 16-MP Ultra Wide lens, and a 12-MP telephoto lens.
On the front there’s a solitary Dual Pixel 10-MP selfie punch-hole camera that’s primed for selfie shots.
On the rear of the S10 are three cameras: a rear dual pixel 12-MP wide-angle lens and a 12-MP telephoto zoom lens, both of which are the same megapixel count that was found on the Samsung Galaxy S9+.
The biggest addition here is the ultra-wide angle shooting mode, which comes in the form of a 16-MP Ultra Wide lens.This is a mode that’s already appeared on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro; it means that you can shoot at 0.5x to get super up-close to your subjects or take a lovely nice wide landscape shot of an image.
Flip the handset over and there’s one dual-pixel 10-MP camera on the front. This is the same front-facing camera that can be found on the Samsung Galaxy S10e.
Now this is where things get really interesting. The Samsung Galaxy S10+ has all the cameras of the S10, so it’s the same triple-lens setup on the rear. But its front-facing camera has been given a massive upgrade, thanks to an additional 8-MP (Depth/f2.2) lens. This should add in much more depth to the images you take and help with things like bokeh.
Although not out until the summer, the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G is shaping up to be the camera phone to beat. It comes with all the rear cameras that can be found on the Samsung Galaxy S10+, as well as a new hQVGA 3D Depth sensing camera. This (ToF) Time of Flight camera allows better spatial perception so it means that things like AR and VR should be improved thanks to this sensor.
Samsung is really serious about this technology and has added this sensor both to the front and the back of the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G. Phones such as the Oppo R17 Pro and the Honor View 20 already use a ToF sensor, so it’s good to see Samsung using this technology in the device.
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Home Life Style Enrico Macias must pay 30 million euros to an icelandic bank
Enrico Macias must pay 30 million euros to an icelandic bank
The French singer Enrico Macias will have to pay 30 million euros to the liquidator of the bank Landsbanki Luxembourg, confirmed on Thursday the justice of luxembourg.
The interpreter is the Farewell, my country had been convicted in first instance in 2014 to repay this sum, a decision confirmed on appeal in 2017. “This morning there has been a rejection of the appeal before the court of cassation,” said to AFP Me Yvette Hamilius, liquidator of the icelandic bank Landsbanki Luxembourg. “This decision is a disaster for our client,” responded his side the luxembourg lawyer of the singer, Pierre Hurt, on the airwaves of radio luxembourg RTL.
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Enrico Macias, whose real name is Gaston Ghrenassia, was borrowed in 2007 in the amount of 35 million euros from Landsbanki Luxembourg. But the bank went bankrupt a year later, on the background of the financial crisis and the nationalisation of its parent company.
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A hundred of customers of the bank, including Enrico Macias, had filed a legal action in France for fraud. They were accusing the institution of having to mortgage their assets from a credit paid in part in cash, part in the form of financial investments. But in August 2017, the correctional court of Paris considered that”it is not clear from the record that the borrowers were victims of fraudulent practices.
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The appeal judgment is expected in Paris for the month of may. “If the appeal court decides to reform the judgment, it remains to be seen what impact this could have on the decision of luxembourg” has explained to Me Rosario Grasso, lawyer for the liquidator of luxembourg. Landsbanki Luxembourg has been placed in liquidation in 2008 and now tries to collect the receivables. Me Yvette Hamilius has already recovered € 2.2 billion on total liabilities of 2.5 billion euros.
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Fringe group protests outside Rajinikanth's house
Updated May 22, 2017 | 19:05 IST | Mirror Now
The Chennai city police on Monday detained 30 members of the Thamizhar Munetra Padai (TMP) who took out a rally towards the Poes Garden residence of actor Rajinikanth condemning his alleged move to enter politics.
TMP members, headed by their leader Veeralakshmi, raised slogans against the actor claiming that there were millions of Tamils in Tamil Nadu who can rule the state and that they did not want an actor, who came to Tamil Nadu from a neighbouring state to earn his livelihood, to rule them.
The police stopped them on the Cathedral Road, less than a kilometer from the actor's residence. The protesters were going to lay siege to the actor's residence.
The protesters burnt the effigy of the actor when they were stopped by the police on the Cathedral Road.
The police beefed up security at Rajinikanth's house.
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RTW Highlighting Range of Products at Prolight + Sound 2016
By D. Pagan Communications, INC. 03 March 2016
FRANKFURT, GERMANY, MARCH 3, 2016 – RTW, a leading vendor of visual audio meters and monitoring devices for professional broadcast, production, post production and quality control, will be featuring its coveted software and hardware devices at Prolight + Sound 2016 (Hall 4, Level 0, Booth B56). The products being showcased include the company’s new ContinuousLoudness Control Software, updated Version 3.0 of Masterclass Plug-ins and TM3-Primus with new USB Connect Tool.
“We are excited to put our products on display at Prolight + Sound 2016,” says Andreas Tweitmann, CEO, RTW. “With constant developments surrounding the audio industry, we are consistently updating our products and software to meet the ever-changing standards and focus on bringing sought-after efficiency to our customer’s workflows. Prolight + Sound is a great place to engage with our customers and gain inspiration for future developments.”
RTW will show its Continuous Loudness Control software (CLC) developed in cooperation with the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT). This signal processing software allows users to constantly control and regulate to a given program-loudness value, along with a definable loudness range with minimal obstacles. The major asset of the complex adaptive morphing algorithm is its realtime capability. The CLC algorithm “learns” during processing about the dynamic structure and intention of the sound signal, and continuously adapts to predict what comes next. CLC software is able to handle most common DAW software, audio and files, and meets EBU-R128 and all other major global loudness standard specifications.
RTW’s updated version 3.0 of Masterclass Plug-ins (Mastering and Loudness tools) provide RTW meters, audio signal analysis and visualization as standard-format plug-ins for all major DAW software tools. With this update, the software now adheres to SAWA and TASA cinema loudness standards, and its window and instruments are modified to be freely scalable. Additionally, Mastering Tools now supports a 12th octave RTA.
The TM3-Primus is a highly-compact and innovative addition to the company’s TouchMonitor range of audio meters. This model is ideal for a variety of entry-level applications across multiple markets and is equipped with everything needed for loudness and audio metering, including frequently used standard instruments. The new USB Connect Tool enables a direct connection between a TM3-Primus as a plug-in within a DAW environment. It also offers a remote control within the DAW for start, stop and reset on the device, without needing to define the TM3-Primus as an output device.
RTW is also pleased to announce that the company is celebrating its 50-year anniversary. The company was founded as a specialist service provider for audio equipment. Throughout the following years, it has become a leading vendor and manufacturer of professional broadcast and audio-metering equipment. Andreas Tweitmann, the current CEO of RTW, took command of the company in 2007.
“RTW is devoted to providing its customers with the very best in visual audio meters and monitoring devices,” says Tweitmann. “As a company, we are always looking to stay at the top of the industry by providing our clients with user friendly, practical products and first class customer service.”
About RTW
RTW, based in Cologne (Germany), has more than 50 years of experience designing, producing and marketing advanced recording-studio equipment, leading and innovating the market for high quality audio metering and monitoring tools. RTW operates a worldwide distribution and service network. For more information on RTW, visit www.rtw.com, www.facebook.com/rtw.de or call +49 221 709130.
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Roland Professional A/V Introduces the XS-62S Six-Channel Video Switcher and Audio Mixer
By PR Staff 21 November 2017
Los Angeles, CA — Roland Professional A/V is introducing the XS-62S, an integrated six-channel video switcher and audio mixer with PTZ camera control capabilities in a space-saving design, optimized for installed or portable live event, recording, broadcast and streaming productions. This latest addition to Roland’s comprehensive line of video production solutions delivers a powerful feature set in a compact 1RU form factor and can be operated by a single user from easy-to-use front panel controls, or remotely from a Mac or PC or programmable interface.
The Roland XS-62S supports seamless six-channel switching between four SDI inputs, featuring de-lacer along with scaled HDMI and RGB inputs from computer, tablet and other video sources, plus two still images stored in internal memory. Two SDI and two HDMI outputs may be assigned to program (PGM), preview (PVW) or auxiliary (AUX) buses. The multiview output displays all six video input sources, two still images and PGM and PVW outputs with audio meters. Three video switching modes are available, enabling the XS-62S to handle a wide range of applications, including presentations, performances and special events, corporate AV conferences and distance learning.
In PGM/PST Mode, the XS-62S operates as a traditional video switcher, enabling the grouping of multiple images on a single screen, with independent assignment to the AUX bus supporting confidence, downstage monitor or additional presentation screens. Downstream keyer (DSK), which supports both luminance (black/white) and chroma (blue/green) keying, plus PinP (picture-in-picture) functionality, enables compositing of titles, graphics and inset video. PinP may be selected in circle, heart or diamond shapes in addition to the typical square or rectangle.
Dissolve Mode offers video switching and composition with cross-dissolve to the PGM bus and is suitable for a system where the user directly operates the main unit in a meeting space or event. The separate AUX bus is also available in Dissolve Mode.
In Matrix Mode, the XS-62S allows individual video input signals to be assigned to three different destinations on three buses with fade-to-black seamless switching. This mode is effective for routing signals in applications using multiple screens while simultaneously mixing program audio and controlling PTZ remote cameras.
The XS-62S features an 18-channel audio mixer with four TRS jacks and an RCA stereo pair, plus audio de-embed from the six video inputs. Roland’s innovative discreet eight-channel analog audio embedding enables the operator to select which audio source to embed separately to SDI outputs 1 and 2, for example, to fix audio issues or separate multi-language audio sources when editing after an event.
In addition to the high-quality preamps, powerful on-board audio processing includes a high-pass filter, gate, compressor, three-band EQ and delay, plus the ability to select audio-follows-video channels. Processing may be controlled from the front panel screen menus or using Roland’s powerful Remote Control Software (RCS). Integrated auto-mixing automatically adjusts the audio inputs based on weighting, ensuring even levels for the room mix, recording and web streaming even from hard-to-manage sources as multi-microphone discussion panels.
The XS-62S is designed for direct control and intuitive operation by a single user in any AV application, with a dedicated menu screen and audio volume knobs easily accessible on the front panel. Programmable PTZ camera control eliminates the need for individual camera operators through one-touch recall of preset camera positions and angles, combined with the audio auto-mixer, allows the operator to focus on switching video. Professional broadcast-quality crosspoint buttons are back-lit with brightness control for use in bright daylight or dark performance spaces.
XS-62S RCS, an easy-to-use software application (Mac/PC), provides setup and control through a network port, plus copy, store and recall memory (backup) and preset settings. An RS-422 port provides PTZ control (VISCA) along with an RS-232 connector for remote control from a touch panel or other programmable interface device. A USB port is included for still image uploads and for saving program files.
To learn more, please visit http://proav.roland.com/.
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MS Dhoni The Untold Story Movie Review: Should You Watch Or Skip?
March 15, 2017 March 15, 2017 Dev Tyagi
Sports flicks, rather biopics have plenty of power to move, to sway hearts and underline a success story of an individual that borders on a hagiographic inspiration. After a couple of emotionally draining yet uplifting weeks of cinema as metamorphosed by the rise of ‘Pink’ and ‘Parched’, comes M.S. Dhoni: the untold story, a respite from the emotional drain its predecessors left on fans.
It entertains you, going as far as showing Dhoni, swaying to a couple of romantic melodies, looking sharp with Sakshi (Kiara Advani). There are moments where you feel the ‘golden boy’ from that small town who came to paint headlines from Durban to Melbourne, Jamaica to Ranchi all ‘bleed blue’ in India’s glory may just not make it far enough.
There are the usual trials and tribulations, beginning with Dhoni’s own fondness for all things un-cricket such as Tennis and Soccer. And just when he seems to have made his mark as a clever customer behind the wickets who can do more than just hold the bat well, comes the aching concern of father, Pan Singh (played with downright earnestness by Anupam Kher) who would insist that Dhoni be the studious kinds; head tucked into the books and cricket, well that can happen in leisure time.
The movie entertains, but at snail’s pace
But Dhoni jogs, runs and walks the painful long mile holding the audience’s anticipation for his success close to his heart, leaving nothing to imagination. The journey of a dissatisfied ticket-collector into a big stroke maker who rose as the captain of inarguably the world’s most loved team is a sensational triumph of M.S. Dhoni the untold story. And must it thank the understated brilliance of Sushant Singh Rajput for punching well above its weight. But the film lacks the panic, nerve-wrecking drama and the nail-biting finish that the man himself has mastered on many occasions to take India home.
One reckons Dhoni himself may have perhaps wanted the movie to hit a long, hefty six instead of the flat hit over the ropes it serves despite all the drama and cricketing action! But then even in being a dramatic tell-all that speaks of the unique triumph of an unlikely hero from Ranchi, Jharkhand, not your usual subject of producing awe-inspiring heroes- the movie leaves you with a feel of glee and contentment, feelings we often derive from Dhoni’s free-flowing batting. Where M.S. Dhoni leaves you slightly baffled since failure won’t be a term to dub its shortcoming would be the lack of dressing room- drama and the often opaquely shaped verbatim Mahi has believably shared with greats of the game, including Tendulkar, Kumble, Ganguly and those guys. Save for the quick banter-exchange with Yuvraj Singh (Harry Tangri) and an awkward scene here or there with Suresh Raina, there’s a dramatic lapse of the tense action that went on to make Mahi’s story all the more convincing in its offering of refreshing inspiration and unadulterated excitement.
Well here’s what TrendMantra really felt made watching this arduously long journey durable:
The dramatic recreation of the scenes from 2011’s tantalizing world cup victory over the Sri Lankans is gaudy albeit triumphant, sensational albeit it being known what the outcome was going to be. Lacking all the form he would have wanted, you don’t feel that Sushant walks into the Wankhede with India reeling 111 for 3, rather you see Dhoni re-emerging from the shadowy loss of form only to carry India home. That tension is real; even the sound of crackling fire-crackers in the sky is a prelude to the glory that followed, the dancing on the streets, the celebrations across India and the manic scenes underlining India’s recapture of its glory is beautifully done. Sushant has done majestically well to re-live the Dhoni charisma; his minute but brilliant mimicking of Dhoni’s gait and that wielding of the willow that’s akin to a sword being hurled at opponents is done with acute but incisive detail. It shows the length to which this fine actor went to retell Dhoni’s saga but to expect Singh to exude the enigma that we are so accustomed to seeing from Dhoni would be a big ask! Only Dhoni can convey what Dhoni is.
In the end M.S. Dhoni is a brave attempt to convey the meteoric rise of a man responsible for India’s greatest triumphs in the last decade and a half, even if it fails to subdue its own hero in front of overwhelming odds, against which he arose time and again to conquer his critics, his poor form and in turn, those who lament his rise. The Dhoni on screen seems a larger than life victor who’s seized everything life has thrown him without there being the missed chances. It is often in the lows and falls that one get to experience life’s greatest highs. And that is where the movie fails to hit the bull’s eye even if it comes close to hitting it. But it is an effort worth lauding, a movie worth watching and a success story forth revisiting for its beautiful impact on the collective imagination of fans and that of the state of cricket in general.
TrendMantra gives M.S. Dhoni the untold story 3.5 on 5.
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Weekly Featured Profile – Pamela Costain
Pamela Costain assumed leadership of AchieveMpls in 2010, after four years as an elected member of the Minneapolis Board of Education.
In this role, she will work closely with the leadership of the Minneapolis Public Schools, the Board of Directors of AchieveMpls and business and community leaders to help ensure that Minneapolis students excel academically and are prepared for school, work and life.
Costain served on the Executive Committee of the successful Strong Schools Strong City referendum campaign in 2008 and was the first State Director for Parents United for Public Schools.
For 14 years, Costain was also Executive Director of the radical left Resource Center of the Americas, an “international human rights organization.”
In 2003, she helped found Wellstone Action, an organization dedicated to the legacy of Minnesota’s late Democratic Socialists of America aligned Senator Paul Wellstone, where she served as Director of Education and Training.
Pamela Costain traveled to Colombia with Paul Wellstone in November 2000 as part of the Senator’s attempt to stop U.S. support of that country’s anti-communist guerrilla war effort.
As late as 2008, Costain served on the the Advisory Board of the pro-communist, Madison Wisconsin-based Colombia Support Network, alongside Marxist academics Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Robert McChesney; radical activists Medea Benjamin, Larry Birns, Blase Bonpane, Fr. Roy Bourgeois and Mark Pocan – elected to Congress this last election cycle from Wisconsin.
In 1976, Pam Costain, Twin Cities Women’s Union, attended the Weather Underground and Prairie Fire Organizing Committee-organized Hard Times Conference on Jan. 30 – Feb. 1 at the University of Chicago.
Bernardine Dohrn, one of the Weather Underground terrorist leaders of that time, has, in recent years, been an active supporter of Pam Costain’s Colombia Support Network.
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Pro Farmer Estimates National Corn and Soybeans Yields Below USDA Forecasts
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Pro Farmer, a division of Farm Journal, shared its much-anticipated production estimates today…
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Pro Farmer, a division of Farm Journal, shared its much-anticipated production estimates today for the 2020 U.S. corn and soybean crops after analyzing information from the 28th annual Pro Farmer Crop Tour and other sources. The estimates are informed by Crop Tour data and observations collected this week by Crop Tour scouts across seven key Midwestern states. Wind damage caused by August Derecho impacted millions of acres of crops and contributes this year to the challenge of forecasting the U.S. crop.
Corn: Pro Farmer estimates the 2020 U.S. corn crop at 14.820 billion bu. based on an average yield of 177.5 bu. per acre. That would be down from the United State Department of Agriculture’s August estimate of 181.8 bu. per acre.
«Even before reaching Iowa, we had some suspicions about the corn crop’s ability to hit a record. There is simply too much variability in the corn crop across most of the seven Crop Tour states,» said Pro Farmer’s Brian Grete. «It’s difficult to determine how much yield and production Iowa has lost, but the state’s crop has gone backward since Aug. 1, and it’s still sliding.»
Soybeans: Pro Farmer estimates the 2020 U.S. soybean crop at 4.362 billion bu. with a national average yield of 52.5 bu. per acre, down from the 53.3 bu. per acre USDA estimated August 12.
«On Crop Tour, we’ve never seen a bean crop with so much potential and so much to lose,» stated Pro Farmer’s Jeff Wilson. «Plant health is great, but fields are dry and need rain to finish strong.»
The Pro Farmer Crop Tour, a Farm Journal event that informs the Pro Farmer National Yield Estimates, concluded successfully Thursday. The Tour was carried out by an extraordinary group of crop scouts and sponsored by Pioneer, Pivot Bio, RCIS, Farm Credit Services of America, Smart Nutrition, Farmobile and Compeer Financial. For additional information on the 2020 Crop Tour go to www.profarmer.com and www.agweb.com.
Founded in 1973, Pro Farmer is the leading subscription-based market advisory organization in agriculture and serves members across the United States and globally.
Media Contact: Joe May, 319-268-4361 or jmay@farmjournal.com
About Farm Journal
Farm Journal is the nation’s leading business information and media company serving the agricultural market. Started 144 years ago with the preeminent Farm Journal magazine, the company serves the crop, livestock, produce and retail sectors through branded websites, enewsletters and phone apps; business magazines; conferences, seminars and trade shows; nationally broadcasted television and radio programs; a robust mobile-text-marketing business; and an array of data-driven, paid information products. Farm Journal also is the majority shareholder of the online equipment marketplace, Machinery Pete LLC. In 2010, the company established the non-profit, public charity, Farm Journal Foundation, dedicated to sustaining agriculture’s ability to meet the vital needs of a growing population through education and empowerment.
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2020 Pro Farmer Crop Tour
Crop scouts walked fields in 7 Midwestern states this week to estimate yields for the country’s 2020 corn and soybean crops. This year marks the 28th annual crop tour, which is a Farm Journal event.
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Psychiatrist says Schoenborn’s angry outbursts have dropped in past six months
Allan Schoenborn killed his daughter Kaitlynne and sons Max and Cordon in their Merritt home in 2008
A psychiatrist says a B.C. man found not criminally responsible for killing his three children still struggles with anger-management issues but his outbursts have dropped in frequency and intensity.
Dr. Marcel Hediger told a B.C. Review Board hearing today that Allan Schoenborn still struggles to put his anger management techniques into practice but has better insight afterwards into what caused him to react.
Hediger says while Schoenborn has improved in the last six months, it’s unlikely he would recommend the man be cleared for escorted outings into the community within the next year.
Schoenborn stabbed his 10-year-old daughter Kaitlynne and smothered his sons Max and Cordon, who were eight and five, in their home in Merritt in April 2008.
A judge ruled the man was not criminally responsible for the deaths because he was experiencing psychosis at the time he killed the children in the belief he was saving them from a life of physical and sexual abuse.
READ MORE: Review underway for mentally ill B.C. man who killed his three children
Schoenborn sat slumped in a chair during parts of the hearing, wearing a blue sweater, torn jeans and slippers.
A 2015 review board decision says Schoenborn was diagnosed as having a delusional disorder, a substance abuse disorder and paranoid personality traits, but his symptoms had been in remission for many years.
The review board sits in panels of three and can order someone to remain in custody or grant them either a conditional or absolute discharge. Custody orders can be tailored to individual cases.
Schoenborn consented to forego a hearing in 2016 while the B.C. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether he should be designated a high-risk accused.
A judge rejected the Crown’s application in August, ruling Schoenborn didn’t fit the criteria for the high-risk label, and while the killings were brutal, they were committed because of his delusional state.
Geordon Omand, The Canadian Press
B.C. launches new drug-checking program, expands fentanyl testing
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This Coach is Ready to Tackle Rebuilding a Texas Football Team from Scratch
The Wesleyan Rams haven’t played a game since 1941.
By Laura RiceAugust 5, 2016 10:22 amSports
Courtesy Texas Wesleyan University
Coach Joe Prud'Homme will be the first Rams coach in decades.
Texas Wesleyan University’s football team has been undefeated since 1941. Of course, the team hasn’t played a game since shortly after Pearl Harbor, when most of its players went off to fight in World War II. The Fort Worth team never rebuilt after that. But coach Joe Prud’homme is rebuilding the team that once was.
Prud’homme won seven state championships with Nolan Catholic High, a school right down the road from Texas Wesleyan. He says he couldn’t stay away from an opportunity to build his own team.
“Just the lure of building a program from scratch and from the ground up, and be able to (build) your own culture… have your fingerprints all over it,” he says. “I couldn’t turn that down.”
– What Prud’homme is looking for in players he’d like to sign onto the team
– The challenges he’s encountered in building the team from the ground up
– What it costs to get Wesleyan football up and running
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Detention Centers for Immigrants Illegally Crossing the Border Could Change in the Near Future
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Austin Séance Has Got You Covered This Spooky Summer
Here’s How Student Olympians Can Cash In on Their Medals
Typewriter Rodeo: Texas Caves
El Paso’s Historic Plaza Hotel is About to Get a Makeover
Ted Cruz Reorganizes Staff, Dallas GOP Scrambles to Find New Chairman
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Why Are Private-School Teachers Paid Less Than Public-School Teachers?
One explanation: The working conditions are better in private schools, so instructors are willing to take a salary cut.
Ben Orlin
Sigrid Gombert / Corbis
Private school teachers make way less than public school teachers. Average salaries are nearly $50,000 for public, and barely $36,000 for private. That’s not just a gap. It’s a chasm.
Teacher compensation has become a key part of the public debate over American schools. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has sounded the war-horns for higher salaries. New Jersey governor Chris Christie wrestles with unions over benefits. When she was chancellor of the D.C. public school system, Michelle Rhee fought to remake teacher pay scales, en route to becoming the most divisive figure in American education. And whatever your agenda, the salary gap between public and private threatens to rewrite the storyline. If public schools pay too little, why do privates pay even less? On the other hand, with better-paying public-school jobs available, why do so many teachers accept lower salaries in order to go private?
Some conclude that public-school teachers must be overpaid. Teachers’ unions, they contend, possess an unfair advantage. Through lobbying and campaign contributions, they get to pick who sits across the bargaining table from them. No private union has that power. This perverse scenario, they claim, allows teachers to negotiate lavish pensions and above-market wages. (Never mind that teachers earn 30 percent less per year than other college graduates.)
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The opposite interpretation is that private-school teachers must be underpaid. Private schools, some point out, suffer higher teacher turnover among early-career teachers: 24 percent of private-school teachers are in their first three years of teaching, compared with 13 percent of public-school teachers. And on their way out the door, two-thirds cite low salary as a reason for leaving. So private schools’ stingy wages must be failing to draw and retain good teachers. (Never mind that their students seem to do just fine.)
Both of these positions overlook the simplest explanation. The labor markets are just plain different—and those differences may hold meaningful lessons.
The first main difference is licensure. Public education has more jobs to fill (87 percent of all teaching jobs nationwide) and fewer people to fill them. That’s because whereas private schools hire whomever they want, state laws require public schools to hire only licensed teachers.
That means public schools have greater demand for workers, and smaller supply. Any economist—really, anyone who’s slept through an Econ 101 lecture—can tell you what comes next. In order to fill their staffs, public schools will need to offer a more attractive wage. They aren’t splurging, any more than private schools are scrimping. It’s just the market—two different markets, in fact—at work.
This brings us to the second main difference between publics and privates, and to the crux of the paradox. How can private schools pay their teachers less, yet offer an education for which parents gladly spend tens of thousands per year? The answer is right there in the question.
Private schools can pay less precisely because they’re better. Not necessarily for students, but for teachers.
Class sizes are smaller—a 12:1 student-to-teacher ratio, compared with 16:1 at public schools. There’s also less red tape—private teachers answer to principals and parents, rather than to principals, parents, and three meddling levels of government. And the families at private schools are, quite literally, invested in education. A national survey of teachers, asking them about the problems their schools face, paints a vivid contrast:
Whereas many public school teachers spend their days leaping over hurdles, private school teachers actually get to—just imagine!—teach. This explains why they’re twice as likely to hold Ph.D.s, despite earning $6,500 less per year than Ph.D.s at public schools. It also explains why 21 percent of private school teachers have two decades or more of experience—virtually the same ratio as in public schools. They stay because they enjoy the work.
Obviously, teachers care about what they’re paid. But they also care about what they’re paid to do. Some will even take a lower salary if it means a chance to do their jobs right.
The biggest lesson public education can draw from the salary gap isn’t to cut wages, or quash unions, or hold open auditions for unlicensed teachers. The lesson, in fact, has little to do with salaries at all. The moral is that not all teaching jobs are alike. Different school environments make for radically different work, and many teachers find private schools offer a more rewarding experience. Attracting and retaining teachers, then, means more than just raising salaries. It means taking disciplinary obstacles and bureaucratic nonsense out of teachers’ paths.
The lesson, in short, is that you’ll attract more teachers by letting them teach.
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Would You Give Job Interviewers Your Facebook Password? Because They Might Ask
Solid handshake! But will she share her Facebook password? Via Goodluz/Shutterstock
Say you're at a job interview. You're chatting with an HR rep, and all's going well when your interviewer asks you for ... your Facebook password.
Assuming you've misheard, you ask, "My Facebook username?"
Nono, your interviewer replies, breezily. Your password. Your Facebook password.
Yes. Apparently, for the 95 percent of employers who use social media sites to glean information about job candidates, the intelligence available for public perusal is no longer enough. Prospective employers now want to see inside your profiles. They want to see into your very soul.
Take the case of Robert Collins, the Maryland man who was forced to reveal his Facebook password during an interview with the state's Department of Corrections -- and who, as Alexis Madrigal reported, has the ACLU arguing on his behalf. Or take the tale of Justin Bassett, a New York statistician who ended a job interview after he was asked to provide his Facebook password during its proceedings. These cases, the AP notes, aren't mere anomalies. These are not rogue or clueless HR reps. "In their efforts to vet applicants," reporters Manuel Valdes and Shannon McFarland put it, "some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person's social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around."
The whole thing is, on the one hand, comical. "It's akin to requiring someone's house keys," law professor Orin Kerr notes. (More specifically, I'd add, it's akin to requiring the keys to a house where everyone you know and care about is permanently gathered.) But the whole thing is also, more importantly, worrying. It's striking how deep the divide can be between our conceptions of online privacy: To me, an interviewer asking for my password -- Facebook or any other -- would be a fairly shocking imposition. To Justin Bassett's interviewer, though, it was a question like any other. Common standards about what's acceptable and what's not when it comes to online privacy have yet to solidify in the social environment that Facebook and other networks provide. Which leads to confusions ... and to violations.
And also, in this case, to ironies. Employers are asking for applicant passwords -- in part -- because those applicants have availed themselves of social media sites' privacy features. Savvy interviewees have made their profiles viewable only to friends and family; employers, on the other hand -- who have gotten used to social media recon as an integral aspect of the hiring process -- are looking for ways to reclaim the insights those profiles can provide. The Awkward Password Ask is their way of doing that.
The problem has become widespread enough that lawmakers are proposing legislation to fight against it. In Maryland, House Bill 364 (pdf), proposed in January, would prevent employers from discriminating against job applicants who refuse to provide access to their social media profiles. Illinois House Bill 3782, introduced in early March, would do the same. Protections like these, if they're passed into law, will likely prove important -- not just for job-seekers and their online connections, but for the everyday privacy standards that are solidifying as Facebook and its fellow networks make their way from an innovation to a way of life.
Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers culture.
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Toirneach of the Bloodcrow Clan
27 Drakonis, 9:13 Dragon
Apostate, Chasind Wilder/Shaman, Shopkeep assistant – sort of.
Companion(s):
Thick, long, and so black it appears to have a blue sheen to it, these tresses are usually piled on top of his head in a messy bun. Long bangs fall into his face most of the time, though can be hastily swept to the side of his face. Occasionally he will tie a feather into the mess, should he happen to come across one on his travels. On the rare occasion that his hair is let down, it falls to just above his butt and in this state it is obvious to see some curl definition to his tresses. There are also five small and tight braids woven just behind his right ear, each one ending with a small round bone bead and holding a carving of intricate design - accomplishments that to this day he refuses to unbraid. These too can be put up into the mess of hair piled on his head, and he has never once undone these.
Pale green rimmed by darker green for iris’, these eyes are surrounded by thick dark eyelashes and occasionally outlined in kohl for a more dramatic look.
Torin is darker skinned than most townsfolk in Ferelden, his complexion a bit fairer than his brethren but brown nonetheless. His face is probably his most well kept feature which is blemish and mark free save for a small beauty mark under his left eye. This he has a ritual of washing daily, and using a mixture of moss, elfroot and a few other ingredients mashed together to create a moisturizer. He also has created his own exfoliant and uses a small knife to keep his face clean shaven.
Various bite marks and scratches dot his flesh here and there below his neck, though the most prominent of these would be the large gash on the left side of his torso. The mark of a duel between him and another wilder folk. Teeth marks mar his skin just at the slope of his neck on the left side as well, a tangle with a wolf earning him that trophy. Scratches and other such marks are common simply from his travels and he has a story for every one of them, even when he can’t remember how he got it.
Feminine is a word that could describe him easily; a prominent adam’s apple marks him as male but the rest of him has a petite look to it despite his height, giving him a sort of slender dainty “pretty” appeal with larger eyes, long lashes and fuller lips than most men. He wears what muscle he has well, his arms toned from wielding a staff while the rest of him is fit from a rather constant state of travel. Most of this is usually hidden under clothing however, his muscle tone visible pretty much only when his garments are removed.
Hidden from view most of the time, he also has a bite mark on his right hip, though this one can be half spotted if he’s just wearing pants. He also has a beauty mark/birthmark on the upper right of his buttcheek.
Should he ever make it into a planned battle, Torin would more than likely make a point of re-creating his clan’s war paint; thick smudges of black that surround the eyes and paints across the bridge of his nose, with two fat lines of red running down his cheeks. His lips would also be stained red, though it was encouraged to let this smear a bit to give the illusion of blood; “killing” with the teeth much like a wild animal would.
Specialization:
Weapons & Armor:
A Yew staff that has been stripped of it's bark save for the knots in the wood. The top of the staff has been formed in a way that holds a rather large smoothed and clear peridot colored stone. Leather cord has been wrapped around the upper part of the staff as well, holding a few feathers and stones that have caught his fancy. A thicker and darker leather has also been wrapped around the part he holds most. The bottom of the staff has been carved lovingly into a small shape of a crow’s head, a tiny red gem glittering for it’s eye; an honor he won from proving himself as a “warrior”. If anyone asks, he calls it his glorified walking stick, or comes up with an even more amusing tale on the spot as the situation calls for it.
He also carries a small iron dagger on him at all times, the bone handle shaped to that of a wolf. More of a keepsake than an actual weapon, though he does keep it sharp. It belonged to his mother.
Usual Garments/Armor:
Chasind “robes” are the usual garments of choice, dark bits of leather sewn together to form pants, the bottoms of which tuck into a pair of boots that were also patched together. Around his neck a leather string has been looped twice and on it hangs a wolf’s tooth as the main pendant; supporting it with animal talons on either side. On his left upper arm two pieces of dark leather have been thickly stitched together and are tied there while his right forearm sports a leather bracer decorated in white owl feathers. He has a set of pauldrons that match said bracer and his chest is kept usually bare. Going into places of population however, he quickly learned to don a “trenchcoat” of sorts; more robe-like than what he usually sports and hangs down to just above his ankles and also a leather patchwork mess. His color choices are usually dark browns to blacks with the occasional red should he find it.
Torin has been known to crossdress from time to time to get out of trouble, or in more trouble depending on how you look at it. Put him in a pretty enough dress and it’s difficult to distinguish him from a rather flat chested female, especially when he lets down his hair, his androgynous looks aiding him in this. Also, give him enough time and stuffed socks or other off hand items can easily fill in for an acceptable “rack”. Should he speak however, the ruse would be over rather quickly, his voice on the deeper side.
Common (fluent in spoken, limited writing) Fluent in his clan's dialect.
Non-Combat Skills:
Novice: Cooking(fish), Crafting(bone and wood beads and rudementary shaped figures), Swimming
Intermediate: Brewing(wildwine), Drinking, Coercion, Fishing, Natural Lore, Running, Wilderness Survival
Expert: Alchemy, Acrobatics, Climbing
Master: Arcane Lore - Chasind
Combat Skills:
Novice: Barrier, Mana Drain, Mind Blast, Drain Life, Shock
Intermediate: Lightning Bolt, Horror, Paralyze
Expert: Telekinetic Weapons
Master: Animate Dead
He has always been a bit of a scamp, doing things more in the moment or for shock value, however, he has only just recently discovered his rather natural ability to flirt, an ability that surfaced more prominently after fleeing the wilds.
Women seemed to respond to his face and his lack of knowledge with personal boundaries/social norms more in the villages he first frequented than anything he had encountered within his tribe life. It was a surprising and confusing response that he quickly adapted to however. Torin rather enjoys charming both men and women, and while he’s learned that most people have a personal bubble they would rather not have intruded upon, he takes a quite a bit of joy at pushing the envelope.
Underneath his casual and playful nature however there can be a more calculating and darker side to the man. One does not grow up in the wilds simply by frolicking, and the tribe within he originated from demanded a much more combat reaction to things. For as friendly and carefree as he tends to act, most people are kept at a distance emotionally wise and he’s not afraid to “bare his fangs” so to speak.
9:13 Dragon - 9:19 The beginning (Age 0-6)
Toirneach was born the youngest out of seven siblings, four other brothers and two sisters, all offspring of the Shaman of the Bloodcrow Clan. His namesake was created from the stormy weather that had happened most of that week, his name basically meaning ‘thunder’. Development for him was normal for a chasind lad; learning how to help around with little things the tribe needed when he was old enough to understand.
It was around the age of five that he met and befriended another wilder boy within their same tribe, by the name of Taias and the two became inseparable from that point on. Even a year later, when Toirneach started to show signs of magic, much to his father’s delight, Taias did not shy away.
Taias’ parents even delighted in having the boy play with their son, so much so that they took it upon themselves to pass on what knowledge they knew of reading and writing, something he picked up rather easily, though his abilities in such tasks remain far from refined.
9:19 Dragon - 9:25 Dragon Hand Me Down Magic(Age 6-12)
Training with his father and two older brothers,(Dúbhshláine and Vercingetorix) began the moment he showed any sort of talent for any magic. It was hard and strenuous work, coupled with the fact that their father not only passed down the generational family teachings of spirit spells, -different from the primal spells most clans learn and a secret that has been guarded rather jealously, born long ago in relation to their worship of the bloodcrow and their mistake in regarding it as more of a spirit rather than the actual ghoul it is- but physical training as well, such as how to dodge or actually get into a physical fight. Their father did not show favoritism in any sense of the word and often he and his siblings were chosen to spar one another. There was no stopping until the man said so and on more than one occasion there had been the thought that today was the day he was going to die.
They were allowed one day a week to rest completely, training taking up the other part of their time from dawn until about midday when other chores would have to be completed. While his siblings often took this day to actually rest; Toirneach found other means of amusement and trouble, sometimes putting his spells into practice when he and Taias went off on their own. One such incident resulted in Taias not speaking with him for a whole month however, after Toirneach rather cruelly blew up a bird. It would anger the gods was all Taias had said. He has been a little more careful of random displays of magic ever since.
At age eleven Toirneach was allowed to go on his first raid, his face painted up in red paint and his long hair tied up on his head for the first time. It was then too that he first actually sought out his reflection, wanting to see if he looked as fierce as the rest of his tribe. It sparked a vanity in the boy that still lingers within him to this day and from then on, he cared for his face far better than many of his clan. Later he would also practice in secret some of the “wise woman’s” herbology, creating his own facial moisturizer as well as the more “feminine” recipes like incense. It was on this trip however that he earned his first braid, showing courage beyond his years despite not actually taking a life.
9:25 Dragon - 9:29 Dragon(early) Blood of my Blood - Execution(Age 12-16)
These four years growing into manhood proved difficult for Toirneach, the training grew harder and intensified. Drawing a little bit of blood no longer always meant the end of their sparring and when he was of fourteen years, the eldest brother in training, Vercingetorix, slew Dúbhshláine. This moment changed the rules, their father praising Vercingetorix for a job well done rather than showing signs of remorse. That he left up to their mother. His brother earned himself three braids for such a feat, though the fight clearly ended up haunting the boy.
One more year passed before it came to be his turn, a sparring match turned into an actual fight that lasted the better part of a day and some of the night. Stormy and wet, it was here that Toirneach discovered a bit of magic on his own - a bit of a hedge mage at heart - and the ability to cast lightning was ultimately what ended up saving him. Pitted against his brother, he earned the gash that is visible on the left side of his torso, and ended up slaying his brother, shocking him with a bolt of lightning before driving a blade through his heart, the first life Toirneach ever took.
It put his status just below that of his father as an official apprentice, his age just fifteen. Four more braids were earned along with the crafted staff he still uses to this day. And, if he thought the training before was hard and trying, he was sorely mistaken. Herbology on a bigger scale was drilled into him along with more deadly spells of draining magic as well as raising the dead. And just when it seemed as though there was nothing left to learn, his father tied him to a rather large and ominous looking ritual rock, stuffed his mouth full of drakestongue and waited with absolutely no explanation.
9:29 Dragon(later) Test of the Spirits (Age 16)
It took all of about thirty seconds for all hell to break loose, Toirneach “awakening” to find himself in an illusion of what he envisioned at the time to be ideal. His brothers both still alive and at his side as he assumed the title of Shaman, having slain their own father for the title. There was little love for the man that sacrificed his own offspring for the “greater good.” The dream sat ill in his stomach however, the urge to move out and explore twisting the illusion to the point of disbelief. If he were truly Shaman, then there were certain things he should be doing and would be doing. Also, being himself, natural instincts were to get up and move about. And yet here his brothers and other siblings continued to insist that he should rest. Relax. Everything was just fine.
In the end, Toirneach ended up having to “kill” his “siblings” all over again, their faces eventually shattering into those of demons. He passed said “test” with flying colors, though upon awakening, there was a new goal to his life.
9:30 Dragon - 9:32 Father no Longer and the Blight(Age 17-19)
No sooner had he calmed down from the drug induced hallucination and thus fade entry of his test, did he challenge his father for position of Shaman. The man was already weary and withered more than most, considering his years, and Toirneach’s age contrasted greatly in comparison. It was almost too easy of a battle, as if it was exactly what the old codger had been waiting for, and was over within a matter of minutes. The implications of such a feat did not register until a few hours later when those of the clan began to beseech him for information and guidance.
His experience with such a title did not last long however, the blight erupting and tearing their world apart in the span of a day and only a month after he had taken up his father’s title. Where yesterday’s problems had been only who would go with him on a raid and who would go fishing where, suddenly it was how to get everyone out and safely through other clan’s territories.
Fleeing did not bode well for their tribe, most wiped off the map completely by either darkspawn or other tribes who were also fleeing, and in the end it was only Taias and himself who remained. Taias made it to the outskirts of Lothering before succumbing to the darkspawn taint, taking his own life rather than having Toirneach do it for him. He parted with some flowery words that were for Toirneach’s ears alone and will probably never be repeated, which was as close to any sort of romance the man had encountered up until this point.
Taias’ death put some urgency on Toirneach to move out of this particular city, feeling far more comfortable in the wilderness rather than mingling with people. He avoided the blight hitting Lothering and headed, unknown to him, in the direction of Redcliffe.
9:32 Dragon - 9:35 Dragon Redcliffe - A whole New World(Age 19-22)
Traveling to Redcliffe opened up his eyes in many different ways; some from studying various people he encountered to the open idea of flirtatious encounters, though he has yet to actually “Lick a Lamppost in winter” so to speak. Still, out here, no one knew him to be the son of a shaman, though he quickly learned to not put his magic on display when he encountered his first templar. Lucky for him the man was intoxicated and just about as disoriented as the rest of the people fleeing; though he only needed to feel his mana drain once to know that he didn’t want to encounter it again. He grieved on his own time, creating tribute statues to those faces in the village he did not want to forget; simple carvings on bits of wood, stone or bone.
His first encounter with attractions in the outside word came in the form of pouty lips, long dark hair and brown eyes, her actions far more aggressive than those of the women in his tribe. There, women were to do women things. Tend to cleaning and clothing along with food. Men were the warriors and they provided. It didn’t take him long to figure out that out here, the tables were sometimes flipped. He offended the girl with said suggestions that she might be better off cooking him a meal, to the point of her leaving - after giving him a good hard slap across the face. From then on, it was a simple matter of study and practice.
Flirting and casual conversation quickly came easily to him, making a game out of getting a woman to laugh or how long it would take to make the ears of a man burn red while he stuttered over flustered words. Falling into the populated world was downright entertaining and while he had managed a hut just outside of Redcliffe, it was soon very easy to convince a local shop-keep woman(Nadia) at a rebuilt general store, to allow him to stay in the room above, paying her in lotions, scrubs and incense he would create as well as his overall charm, even sometimes helping around the store. Money however is still something that escapes him and he is not allowed to handle such affairs. Nadia is also whom Torin will borrow his womanly clothing from, sometimes to her displeasure, fitting in them better than she can.
In recent months, Nadia was able to open a second shop in Kirkwall, and has convinced Torin to travel with her while she sets things up. It is here that he currently resides, content with the simple life he has created for himself, unwilling to forget the past but not willing to allow it to keep him held prisoner when there is so much world to explore and get to know.
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The Gazette Podcasts Gazette News Podcast
Gazette Daily News Podcast, the Weekend of November 21 and November 22
Sat., November 21, 2020
Medical workers talk to people Thursday lined up for a COVID-19 test at the Test Iowa site at 5755 Willow Creek Dr. SW in Cedar Rapids. This week, Linn County supervisors instituted a mask mandate, which includes all the cities in the county. Johnson County has had a similar mandate in place since August. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
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Your weekend weather will be a sneak preview for the predicted weather pattern for the week to come: colder than the week before, but perhaps a bit calmer on the wind end of things. According to the National Weather Service it will be mostly sunny in the Cedar Rapids area on Saturday with a high near 45 degrees and a calm wind of 5 mph. Saturday night there will be a low of 31 degrees with mostly cloudy skies and a calm wind. On Sunday, it will be partly sunny with a high near 46 degrees, with the wind getting a little bit more excited at 5 to 10 mph. Sunday night it should be mostly clear with a low of about 26 degrees.
Iowa ended the work week with another day with more than 30 deaths from COVID-19, with the state reporting 32 more people died from the disease. With the week not yet over, this already puts it on pace as by far the deadliest week since the pandemic began. 2,159 people have died so far from the novel coronavirus, with more than 500 of those deaths coming in the last 30 days.
Iowa also passed 200,000 positive cases of COVID-19 this week, with more than 50,000 of those cases coming in the past two weeks. Iowa at 11 a.m. Friday reported 4,346 new COVID-19 cases in the previous 24 hours, with a positivity rate of 40.40 percent. It was the 17th day in a row the state’s positivity rate has been 40 percent or above, according to Iowa Department of Public Health data analyzed by The Gazette.
The state on Friday also announced new outbreaks — defined as three or more cases — at 21 more long-term care facilities. Outbreaks are now reported at 117 such facilities in Iowa.
Hospitalizations for the virus continue to hover above 1,400, dropping down to 1,447 as of Friday night. 275 people are currently in intensive care for the virus.
Given ongoing First Amendment issues across Iowa’s public universities — including controversial syllabi, spurned student groups, and contentious social media posts — the Iowa Board of Regents has created a new committee to review its free speech policy and evaluate its campuses’ compliance. Additionally, board President Mike Richards this week tasked the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and University of Northern Iowa presidents to provide an update at the board’s February meeting “on exactly how each institution is protecting free speech on campus and in the classroom.”
Disputes have flared up recently, often between conservative groups seeking recognition and the student body and faculty at the universities who critique the groups’ views as creating an unwelcome campus environment and being out of step with their core values.
A Clive man was found dead in a burning vehicle near Lake Macbride State Park last Sunday.
Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called at 11:23 p.m. that night to a vehicle crash near the entrance to Lake Macbride. Deputies found a vehicle that had crashed and was on fire.
The lone occupant of the vehicle — later identified as 21-year-old Connor Moll — died at the scene.
The crash is under investigation by the sheriff’s office, Solon Fire Department, Johnson County Ambulance Service and Johnson County Medical Examiner’s Department.
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News from August 2018
Sign up for Learning LIVE 2018 educational sessions
Date: 31st August 2018
SALTEX event organisers have revealed exciting details about this year’s all-encompassing education programme – Learning LIVE.
GMA commissions new research project into diversity in groundscare
Date: 30th August 2018
The GMA has commissioned Olympic hammer thrower hopeful Jess Mayho to undertake a research project into how the GMA can progress its engagement with women and extend diversity within the grounds ma
Positive shift in parents' attitudes sees more girls take up football
There has been an increase in the number of girls participating in football, thanks to a "positive shift in attitude among parents", according to new research by energy provider SSE.
Work on £5m National Football Development Centre in North Wales gets underway
A multi-million pound development, which will help shape the future of football in North Wales, has got underway.
Finalists announced for GMA Industry Awards 2018
“Quality of entries has been exceptional”
The finalists have been announced for this year’s prestigious Grounds Management Association (GMA) Industry Awards 2018.
Forest Green Rovers named 'world's first carbon neutral football club...
Revealed on the Rover's website, the League Two outfit has signed up to the Climate Neutral Now initiative for the upcoming 2018/19 season.
Tim Hollingsworth appointed Sport England CEO
British Paralympic Association (BPA) chief executive Tim Hollingsworth has been named as the new CEO of Sport England.
The GMA Annual General Meeting 2018
Date: 23rd August 2018
Members are invited to the GMA's Annual General Meeting, which this year takes place at Weetwood Hall Hotel, Otley Road, Leeds at 12:00noon on Wednesday 19 September 2018.
Take a first look around the new Emerald Stand at Emerald Headingley Stadium
The redevelopment of Emerald Headingley Stadium is the most exciting and highly anticipated improvement in over a century.
Works begin on new Parklife Football Hub in Gunnersbury Park which will create...
Community sport in Middlesex has been given a major boost as construction works have now started on a new multi-million pound Parklife Football Hub in Gunnersbury Park.
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Farmers’ protest: Many leaders placed under house arrest, says Yogendra Yadav
GURUGRAM , November 26, 2020 11:01 IST
Groups marching towards Delhi being stopped across Haryana, according to Swaraj India chief
Farmers stage a protest against the farm reform bills, in Hisar district in Haryana on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. | Photo Credit: PTI
Swaraj India national president Yogendra Yadav, in a tweet on Thursday, said that many farmer leaders in Haryana had been placed under house arrest and vehicles carrying farmers were being stopped.
He alleged that there were reports of farmer batches being stopped from marching towards Delhi across the State.
Meanwhile, the group led by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Charuni) leaders that started from Ambala on Wednesday has reached Karnal on its way to Delhi.
Agitating farmers are scheduled to assemble at four points — Sampla (Rohtak), Bilaspur (Gurugram), Faridabad Sector 12 and Kundli border (Delhi-Sonipat border) — in Haryana on four national highways around noon before marching towards Delhi.
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Whitesburg KY
Clips from Mountain Eagle front pages over the past 50 years
By Mountain Eagle Staff | on June 03, 2009
Progress in the work of an extensive renovation of Doermann Memorial Presbyterian Church at Blackey is underway under the auspices of home mission agencies of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. The church roof is being replaced. The building is being painted. Sunday school rooms are to be constructed in the basement to accommodate mission Sunday schools from the areas served by the church.
Members of the senior class at Jenkins High School visited Luray Caverns, Luray, Va., during their senior trip en route to Washington, D.C. and New York recently.
Strawberries are 39 cents a quart at the A&P Food Store. Spare ribs are 49 cents a pound.
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” starring James Stewart and Kim Novak is playing at the Alene Theater in Whitesburg.
Beth-Elkhorn Corporation expects to launch a major new surface mining operation in Letcher County within the next few weeks. The project will involve timbering more than a thousand acres of heavily wooded terrain, much of it owned by Beth-Elkhorn, and is expected to yield 7,000,000 tons of coal from three seams, according to Beth-Elkhorn division superintendent David A. Zegeer.
The planning committee for Letcher County Day — scheduled for July 4 — has announced the events that are currently being planned. They include a horse show, airplane rides, moonshine still display, carnival booths, dancing, firearms display, horse-drawn wagons rides, mule racing, pony racing, fireworks, and an old car display.
Jimmy Brown, a senior at Eastern Kentucky University, has been chosen for the “Frankfort Semester” program at Eastern. Brown, a political science major, will work in Frankfort with Lt. Governor Wendell Ford.
Roger Collins, a senior at Whitesburg High School, has been chosen to play with the Kentucky All-Stars against the West Virginia All-Stars in the Kiwanis Senior Bowl football game at Williamson, W.Va., August 16.
A sluggish national coal market hit home with Letcher County miners last week as 99 South East Coal Co. employees were taken off the job. Calling the worker cutback “the first (South East) layoff in seven or eight years,” South East Personnel Director Raymond Smith blamed the action on lagging coal sales.
The Letcher County Board of Education is expected to hire a superintendent of schools, replacing Kendall Boggs who resigned last month, at its meeting next Tuesday. Ray Back, chairman of the Board of Education, said he has received applications from four local men, Beckham Caudill, Billy K. Banks, Goebel Ritter, and Jack Burkich.
Round steak is $1.89 a pound at the A&P Food Store. White bass is $1.59 a pound.
“The Big Fix” starring Richard Dreyfuss is playing at the Alene Theater in Whitesburg.
A Letcher County coal company has been charged with violating the National Labor Relations Act in dealing with its employees’ attempts to unionize. Seven employees of Big Elk Creek Mining have filed complaints against the Isom-based firm, claiming their employer tried to stop them from talking with other workers about organizing a labor union.
Not a single voting result changed as a result of a recanvass of Letcher County voting machines used in the May 23 primary election.
A Linefork couple will appeal Letcher Circuit Judge F. Byrd Hogg’s decision that they cannot sue the state. Dock and Eula Mae Cornett sued Eastern Kentucky University and Dr. William H. Martin, its director of natural areas, the Kentucky Cabinet for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, and Natural Resources Secretary Carl Bradley, saying they have not properly administered Lilley Cornett Woods. Hogg ruled last month that the state has sovereign immunity from the suit.
The financially strapped Jenkins Independent School District is racing probate court to catch a tax debt that could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. District officials are planning to put in a claim against the estate of Stuart H. Adams for the debt — if they can get tax officials to tell them how much is owed and who really owes it.
Volunteers began knocking on doors last week to complete surveys to prove income levels at Jeremiah and Isom are low enough for the areas to qualify for federal grants for a proposed water line extension.
“It just seems like this job is perfect for me,” says Letcher County native Philip Craft, who is now the state of Kentucky’s official beekeeper. Since June 1, Craft’s title has been “state apiarist.” An apiarist is someone who keeps bees, and Craft has seven hives of his own at his home at Wilmore.
The Appalshop Gallery will present work by Angelyn DeBord and Pam Meade during the Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival and throughout the month of June. This shared exhibition features watercolors, ceramics and mixed-media by the two longtime friends.
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The Young Peoples Early Intervention Team (yPEIT) is a clinical mental health service for young people aged 15 - 24 who live in the Townsville Hospital and Health Service catchment area. The program has a particular focus on reducing the duration and impact of psychological disturbance by enhancing early recognition and timely appropriate treatment for young people experiencing early psychosis and other emerging severe and complex non-psychotic disorders. These young people typically have been unable or have difficulty accessing primary and enhanced primary health care options. Their symptoms will likely have persisted for several weeks or months and may have caused major disruption functionally to their lives.
The aim of yPEIT is to restore the normal developmental and functional trajectory of young people who are at risk of, or have experienced, a first episode of psychosis as early as possible.
Flexible access for age-appropriate youth assessment and treatment
Mental health service delivery via mobile community outreach
Flexible treatment options offered via clinic, home visits, community or at headspace
yPEIT offers evidence-based therapeutic interventions to young people to optimise their health, mental health, interpersonal, recreational, educational and vocational outcomes
Functional recovery groups
Provision of Youth-friendly mental health information, psycho-education, support and care.
Ages 15 - 18 telephone the Community Child and Youth Mental Health Service 07 4433 9004
Ages 18 - 24 telephone the Acute Care Team 1300 MH CALL (1300 64 2255).
Telephone the intake officer at headspace on 07 4799 1799
If you would like to discuss a possible referral call yPEIT on 07 4799 9480
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ATOM WORKS – THE LIFE OF SPICE (Mauste Records)
VELVET THUNDER > Reviews > ATOM WORKS – THE LIFE OF SPICE (Mauste Records)
This is ‘concept’ writ large, deep, wide and imposing.
Straight away when looking at this album we had better get one word introduced into the mix : ‘concept’. You’ll be hearing that a lot over the course of this review. The album is not only a concept album in and of itself, but it also forms the first installment in a greater overall conceptual arc of which this is only the first chapter. The first chapter in terms of recording that is, but not necessarily the first chapter in the story itself, which we are told may yet involve sequels, prequels and side stories. So you can pretty much gather straight away that we’re not really talking about Ramones territory here. This is ‘concept’ writ large, deep, wide and imposing.
Let’s look at the band first, however. Atom Works are based in Helsinki, Finland, though only four of the five members are actually Finnish. The fifth, frontman Steve Baker, is actually English and, as such, is responsible for all of the lyrics and the conceptual ‘heavy lifting’. This is the band’s debut release, and musically if falls roughly under the ‘progressive metal’ tag which has been used widely to describe the band, although this is much more towards the ‘progressive’ end than the ‘metal’. In terms of Dream Theater, this is much more Scenes From A Memory than Train Of Thought, to use a comparative example.
Now, back to that pesky concept – and bear with me here because this is just a very brief overview of a rather complex construction. The overall arc concerns Atom Works themselves – no, not the band members in reality, but their alter egos in this universe if you like, which are a shadowy cabal of people seeking to gain the secrets of a number of people born with extraordinary special abilities, and to ultimately harness them against an aggressive force which should be further explained later on in proceedings. The first ‘super human’ we meet is the central character of this story, ‘Spice’, a father to three sons in India who has lived much longer than one would expect an ordinary man’s lifespan to be. His wife, the boys’ mother, has disappeared presumed dead, and the sons are travelling on the train from Bombay to Pashwar, her home, in 1934. While on the train they learn of a mysterious pendant which seems to be the source of their father’s abilities, and thus begins a murder mystery/ sci-fi/ adventure yarn, mostly set on the train, as they begin to scheme about ways to gain these powers for themselves. The Atom Works characters are in the background here, and the plan is for us to learn more about their identities and role in proceedings later.
The crowning achievement of the album is the climactic fifteen minute epic Beyond The Old
So far, so ambitious for sure. Fascinating too, without doubt, as there are certainly a large number of prog fans who absolutely love a good old-fashioned concept album. Your humble scribe included, it has to be said. The main problem is that it is pretty hard to get a full grasp as to what precisely is going on. The vocals, while sounding very upfront and clear in the mix, somehow manage to be very tricky to decipher when you actually start trying to listen to exactly what is being related. The bits one gets are intriguing, but much is frustratingly elusive. This leads on to checking the booklet, which helpfully includes the full lyrics to this pretty wordy album, but again one becomes frustrated as the words are printed against a somewhat dark grey background and are not easy to read unless under extremely favourable light. Mind you, those younger than myself and not yet given to the use of reading glasses may have more luck there!
What of the music though? Well, on that score the news is good, as this is a pretty expansive and varied record. As previously stated, prog-metal elements are in the mix, of the Dream Theater and Rush persuasions, but there are also great dollops of neo-prog, symphonic and more angular compositional styles. One of the standout tracks, Perennial’s Prince, begins in a very ‘difficult’ Van Der Graaf sort of way, before unfolding into a more accessible mode, all within the course of seven superb minutes, and other fairly lengthy pieces such as the title track and the excellent Puppet Of The Three do likewise. If there is one track to hang one’s hat on in a commercial sense it would probably be The Atom Dance, which sounds as if it might be instrumental yet is far from it, being a key part of the story; however, it does possess what is at something of a premium on the album, namely a memorable chorus. Atom Works don’t really ‘do’ choruses. It’s probably part of their super-powers, although then again that may be the ability to read their own CD booklet!
The crowning achievement of the album is the climactic fifteen minute epic Beyond The Old, which goes through a number of sections, all of which are extremely cohesive and effective, before building to a truly anthemic ‘big’ ending. It sends the album out on a high, for sure.
Overall, this is an impressive debut. The greatest worry is probably over whether the band are over-reaching themselves with the ‘career concept’ meta-story angle, as that could become a trap to find themselves painted into a niche corner and alienate the wider audience. It can work of course – Magma got away with it and even invented their own language into the bargain – but on the other end of the scale Coheed And Cambria could be argued to have drastically limited themselves with their own complex over-arching interplanetary sci-fi epic which saw some people reluctant to dive in midway through, so to speak.
I really hope things work out for Atom Works, because when all is said and done one of the great joys of progressive music is the ability to be expansive enough to tell a story and fire the imagination. If a second installment is to follow – and I will be waiting with enthusiasm for sure – the only advice I would give would be to give more thought to the packaging design and tying it into the grand scheme of things in a slightly more symbiotic way. This sort of thing is what physical CDs or vinyl albums were made for, and I hope they grasp that opportunity.
Now, where’s that darned pendant of mine??
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A New Technique for Measuring the Chemical Potential of Magnons Confined in Nanostructures
Chidubem A. Nwokoye1,2, Edward Della Torre1*, Lawrence H. Bennett1, Abid Siddique1 and Frank A. Narducci2
Chemical Potential of Magnons
Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect
Figure 1: Polarization of incident...
Polarization of incident and reflected light depicting Kerr rotation effect in magnetic materials. The p-axis represents polarization in the plane of scattering and s-axis represents polarization perpendicular to the plane of scattering.
Figure 2: SQUID measurement of...
SQUID measurement of Co/Pd multilayered film temperature response for saturation magnetization. With permission from Nwokoye, et al. [24].
Figure 3: Co/Pd thin film temperature...
Co/Pd thin film temperature response of normalized Kerr rotation angle θ k at saturation field. The triangles represent the measured data normalized to approximately 0.31°. The dash line is from a curve fit employing Equation (16). Inset shows plot of measured data and curves of Equation 16 with a range of constant values for A 0 . With permission from Nwokoye, et al. [24].
Figure 4: Temperature variation of chemical...
Temperature variation of chemical potential of magnons, in units of 10-19 J (extracted from Kerr rotation θ k plot in figure 3 using Equation (17)). The dash line is a linear fit above T BEC .
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1Institute for Magnetic Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
2Naval Air Systems Command, Avionics, Sensors and E*Warfare Department, Patuxent River, MD 20670, USA
Edward Della Torre, Institute for Magnetic Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA, E-mail: edt@gwu.edu
Accepted: September 12, 2015 | Published Online: September 14, 2015
Citation: Nwokoye CA, Torre ED, Bennett LH, Siddique A, Narducci FA (2015) A New Technique for Measuring the Chemical Potential of Magnons Confined in Nanostructures. Int J Magnetics Electromagnetism 1:001.
Copyright: © 2015 Nwokoye CA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The chemical potential provides an in-depth insight into the temperature variation of magnons and other quantum mechanical features. Here we present a novel magneto-optical technique to measure the chemical potential of magnons influenced by photon-magnon interactions. Our result shows the required negative chemical potential of magnons of Co/Pd in quasi-equilibrium above the observed Bose-Einstein condensation phase-transition temperature. The technique generates a single curve, contrasting with multiple curves obtained in a non-magneto-optical technique.
Magnons confined in nanostructures display a variety of interesting phenomena, including a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) at a critical temperature, non-Arrhenius behavior of the magnetic aftereffect decay rate, and the shape of the magnetization behavior as a function of temperature.
Magnons are known to be the dominant factor to the magnetization dynamics in nanostructures. The thermal magnetic aftereffect provides a valuable measurement tool to probe specific relaxation processes caused by various mechanisms such as the crystallographic phase transition caused by distortion in the crystal lattice structure, defects, interstitials, and pinning. The energy barrier and chemical potential of magnons are known to be vital parameters that control this non-equilibrium process [1]. The barrier energy, also a function of applied magnetic field, increases greatly from the demagnetized state to the saturated state, while the chemical potential determines how many magnons are available; it is a function of the magnetic state and temperature and plays an important role in magnetic aftereffect predominantly in the demagnetized state. Variation in the magnon chemical potential produces anon-Arrhenius behavior of the temperature dependence of the magnetic aftereffect decay rate coefficient.
Recent research advances show a high potential for the development of novel micro and nano magnetic devices for sensor [2-5] memory [6-8] and optical applications [9]. The physics of magnons and their interaction with various external stimuli (photons and temperature) will lead to the development and realization of novel sensors, and quantum computing processors.
In this paper, we present a novel technique for measuring the chemical potential of confined magnons in a ferromagnetic nanostructured material. Below, we first describe the dependency between magnon population, chemical potential, and magnetization along with the theory and experiment of the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE). We conclude with explanations of magnetization and MOKE experimental results and their relationship with chemical potential.
Magnonsat temperatures below the temperature of magnetic ordering can be considered as a gas of weakly interacting bosons, having an integer spin value. When confined in a small nanoparticle e.g., an iron sphere with a diameter on the order of 1-10 nm, the allowed magnon wave vectors ki are quantized, giving a discrete spectrum E i =J k i 2 a 2 with an energy gap E gap = E 1 − E 0 between the lowest and next to lowest allowed states [10]. If the magnons are in equilibrium at temperature T, then the number in a state 'i' is given by the Bose-Einstein distribution function.
The electronic spin in this model reverses by creating or annihilating magnons. When the rate of creation of magnons is the almost the same as the annihilation rate, the magnetization of the system is almost constant with time. This static magnetization behavior of the system is in quasi-equilibrium since the population density of the various states is essentially constant in the measurement time window, and thus can be determined using thermodynamic methods.
To find the most probable state, one has to add to the energy state a constant (Lagrange multiplier), namely the chemical potential ζ . Since magnons are bosons, the Bose-Einstein distribution [11] in Equation (1-2) can be used to describe the population of magnons
N i =1/ e ( E i −ζ)/ k B T −1 (1)
Defining B= e −ζ/ k B T , equation (1) becomes
N i =1/B e E i / k B T −1 (2)
Where k B is the Boltzmann's constant, N is the total number of magnons, and B is the fugacity. The chemical potential ζ is zero below Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) temperature and negative above [12]. Since the energies E i are usually taken to be positive, then as the temperature T increases, the statistics approach the classical statistics described by the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution due to the fugacity component. In terms of magnon wavelengths, the classical limit arises when the typical wavelength is far smaller than the average distance between magnons, such that there is negligible overlap of their wave functions.
The low energy effective Hamiltonian for describing magnons in the presence of a magnetic field H 0 is given by [13]
H ˜ =−J ∑ n,m S n ¯ . S m ¯ −g μ B H 0 ∑ n S n,z
S n ¯ = x ^ S n,x + y ^ S n,y + z ^ S n,z
Where J is the exchange energy The spin components, S n,x , S n,y , S n,z , are not independent, but are connected by the identity S n . S n =S(S+1), where S is the magnitude of spin projection vector. After applying Holstein-Primakoff transformation [14] to spin-wave variables, the Hamiltonian becomes
H ˜ =−JNz S 2 −2 μ 0 H 0 NS+ H ˜ bilinear + H ˜ high−order
H ˜ bilinear = ∑ k n ^ k ω k
ω k =2JS k 2 a 2 +2 μ 0 H 0 = D 0 k 2 +2 μ 0 H 0
Where the bilinear term relates to the internal energy of unit volume of the magnon in thermal equilibrium at temperature T. The dispersion relation is expressed in ω k . The higher-order term describes the magnon-magnon interactions and it may be neglected when the excitation is low.
Magnetization measurement is one of many ways to test whether the number of magnons is conserved at a given temperature. The saturation magnetization, M S (T), at temperature T is defined by the magnetization in a field strong enough to align all the spins in the material at a given temperature T, but not so large as to suppress the generation of magnons by raising the energy barrier to the creation of a magnon greater than k B T . It is assumed that the decrease in magnetization with increasing temperature is due to an increase in the number of magnons. Kittel [13] has shown that the total spin S for the whole system containing N spins is given in by the relation
S ˜ z =NS− ∑ k n ^ k =NS− ∑ k b k + b k
Where S ˜ z is the z-component of the spin operator and b k + b k is the occupation number operator for the magnon state k Therefore, the saturation magnetization per unit volume is given as the
M S (T)=2 μ 0 S ˜ z = M S (0)−2 μ 0 ∑ k b k + b k
Using the relation ∑ i =1/8 π 3 ∫ d 3 k and 1/x−1= ∑ n=1 ∞ x −n , the fractional decrease in magnetization, ΔM/ M S at temperature T is derived [15] to be
ΔM( T ) M S ( 0 ) = M S ( 0 )− M S ( T ) M S ( 0 ) ={ 2.612 8 π 3/2 S ( k B T 2SJ ) 3/2 , T< T BEC 1 8 π 3/2 S ( k B T 2SJ ) 3/2 ∑ n=1 ∞ ( e nζ/ k B T n 3/2 ) , T> T BEC
Where T BEC the BEC threshold temperature and S is is the magnons spin value. As discussed in [15], the summation term is a correction to the T 3/2 law and accounts for BEC of magnons and negative chemical potential of magnons observed in some metallic ferromagnets.
Magnetization is known to be proportional to magneto-optical parameters of magnetic materials. The next section in this letter provides background and experimental investigation of this relationship.
The magneto-optical Kerr effect, MOKE, describes a rotation change in the polarization plane of linearly polarized incident light reflected from the surface of a magnetic material. The rotation is directly related to the surface magnetization of the material [16]. Figure 1 depicts the context-level diagram of the Kerr effect.
As a linearly polarized light reflects from the surface of a magnetic material, it experiences the following [17]: (1) Rotation of the polarization plane, described by Kerr rotation angle θ k (2) Phase difference between the electric field components perpendicular and parallel to the plane of the incident light as described by the Kerr ellipticity ε k .
These quantities make up the complex Kerr angle, ϕ k given as
ϕ k = θ k +j ε k
The MOKE effect can be observed in three configuration modes namely: polar, longitudinal, and transverse modes [18,19]. In polar and longitudinal Kerr effects, the reflected light experiences both Kerr rotation and Kerr ellipticity, while in transverse Kerr effect, the reflected light only experiences change in intensity. Recently, the two common experimental design setups for MOKE systems that measure the complex Kerr angle are the standard differential intensity and photoelastic modulation (PEM) designs [20,21]. Experiments reported in this letter utilized the PEM-based MOKE design.
A multilayer film with nominal composition (0.3 nm Co/1 nm Pd) [15] was grown (molecular beam epitaxy) on silicon dioxide substrate using electron beam evaporation and designed to exhibit large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Polar Kerr rotation θ k was examined on the sample at 632.8 nm with a low-temperature MOKE experimental system. The experimental system consists of an automated photoelastic modulator (PEM) based MOKE system and a closed cycle refrigeration system. Details of the experimental setup and procedures are described in [22].The MOKE system measures the Kerr rotation θ k and Kerr ellipticity ε K from the detected I f and I 2f laser intensities which correspond to the fundamental frequency, 1f and 2f of the PEM modulation frequency. The Kerr rotation θ k and Kerr ellipticity ε K are directly proportional to the detected I f and I 2f laser intensities respectively (as shown in Equations (14,15)). The data processing software on the computer computes the intensity ratios. The magneto-optical properties ( θ k and ε K ) are directly proportional to the intensity and the coefficients in Equations (14,15) can be determined by calibration procedure in [21].
I f / I dc ≈2A J 1 ( δ 0 ) ε K
I 2f / I dc ≈4B J 2 ( δ 0 ) θ K
The polar Kerr rotation angle θ k of the Co/Pd sample was measured while sweeping the magnetic field (4.3 kOe to -4.3 kOe) from positive to negative saturation and back again to produce a hysteresis loop of θ k versus applied magnetic field. The hysteresis loops at different sample temperatures (9 K to room temperature) were measured and recorded for data processing.
Measuring the chemical potential of magnons in a ferromagnetic material is important and aids to reflect the growth of the magnon density in the material. Objections that have been raised about the idea that an open system could have a nonzero chemical potential has been addressed in [1]. Work by Della Torre, et al. [23], addresses that there is a negative chemical potential of magnons, and that it can be determined from magnetic aftereffect experiments. A result discussed here presents an alternate method for determining the chemical potential.
Magnetization curves of a ferromagnetic nanostructured Co/Pd multilayered film from the work by Nwokoye, et al. [24] shows a subtle upturn in magnetization around the vicinity of 35 ± 4 K. The measurement was performed with a low-temperature SQUID magnetometer. As shown in Figure 2, the data points fit two T 3/2 curves with different slopes (S1 and S2) that intersect at the upturn point that is attributed to the magnon BEC temperature. It is noticeable that S1 is lesser than S2 due to the contribution of the chemical potential of magnons at temperatures above the BEC temperature and agrees with the model prediction in Equation (12) (The physical explanation is presented in [15]). Also, Bennett, et al. [1] discusses that BEC is always in an open system and exhibits metastability that can be treated as a thermodynamic equilibrium for a finite time window. The observed upturn signature has also been recorded in some metallic ferromagnetic nanomaterials within the 10 to 50 K [25] and in some ladder compounds [1,26]. This observation reinforces the presence of a phase transition attributed to magnons BEC.
Thereafter, the recorded data from a MOKE experiment of the same sample exhibited a plateauing of the Kerr rotation angle θ k (at sample saturation) below 35 ± 3 K and decreases with higher temperatures. The Kerr rotation angle θ k temperature response is depicted in Figure 3 [24]. This observation provides insight into the temperature variation of magnon-photon interactions in the Co/Pd material below and above the magnon BEC temperature.
After an in-depth review of the normalized Kerr rotation angle θ k temperature response, we noticed that the shape of the measured data best fits the response produced by the exponential function model
F=1− A 0 e −ζ/ k B T
Where A 0 is a constant, k B is the Boltzmann's constant, T is the temperature, and ζ is the chemical potential. The exponential function sharply approaches unity below the magnon BEC temperature T BEC at approximately 35 K. We iteratively adjusted constant values for A 0 and ζ to obtain a curve that best fits the measured data. The function describes how the measured normalized Kerr rotation angle depends on temperature, thus θ K can be approximated by Equation (16) (i.e. θ K ≈F ). In order to investigate the temperature variation of the chemical potential, we performed a one-step transformation of Equation (16) to solve for ζ to be
ζ={ 0,T< T BEC k B Tln( A 0 /1− θ K ),T> T BEC
After plugging the θ K measured data values for F (Equation (17), assuming A 0 <1− θ K and θ K <1 ), we find that the ζ sharply approaches zero below the T BEC and varies linearly with temperature above T BEC temperature.
The extracted chemical potential of confined magnons (shown in Figure 4) in the Co/Pd sample has a negative value with temperature above the identified magnon BEC temperature. After obtaining the chemical potential variation with temperature, a clearer picture of the magnon-photon interactions is feasible. As the temperature decreases from room temperature, the increase in Kerr rotation angle (which is directly proportional to reflected laser intensity in Equation (15)) arises from an increase in magnetization (from Figure 2) and a decrease in absorption of incident laser. Hence, less population of excited magnons (high energy magnons) interacts with photons from incident laser. After the temperature drops below the magnon BEC temperature (35 ± 4 K), large amounts of the confined magnons begin to populate the lowest energy state and this causes the observe plateauing of the Kerr rotation angle as a result of less population of excited magnons.
Our findings provide analternative experimental technique, using Equation (17), for measuring the chemical potential of confined magnons in a ferromagnetic film via Kerr rotation angle measurement.
A new technique to measure the chemical potential of confined magnons in Co/Pd is reported. The Kerr rotation angle fits the response produced by an exponential function in Equation (16). The technique utilizes a one-step transformation process in Equation (17) of the Kerr rotation angle temperature response measurement from a MOKE system to extract the chemical potential. This produces a single curve which contrasts with the multiple curves obtained in the previous technique [23]. Results in Figure 4 shows the required negative chemical potential of magnons of Co/Pd in quasi-equilibrium for temperatures above the BEC temperature and a constant zero value for temperatures below the BEC temperature. Our finding is in agreement with the temperature variation of the negative chemical potential of magnons reported in previous research [1,28].
The research at The George Washington University was supported in part by the Naval Air Systems Command's NISE Section 219 funds. The author will like to thank members of the IMR group for their valuable discussion during the course of the research.
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upfronts 2013 May 15, 2013
TNT, TBS Want Cops, Diablo Cody, Monopoly Shows
TBS and TNT announced their upcoming series at the tag-teamed upfront this morning, and as you might expect, there are a lot of cop shows. A lot! TNT loves a cop show, friends, so much so that even TBS is getting a (comedic) one, too.
The new TNT shows:
Portal House, about a group of young scientists who discover a portal. (Unrelated to the game Portal, sadly.)
Peter Gunn, an update of the fifties-era private-eye series.
The Last Cop, an adaptation of a German show about a police officer who wakes up after twenty years in a coma. (Man, remember Life on Mars?)
A Bend in the Road, based on the Nicholas Sparks book about a sheriff who discovers a small town’s murderous secrets.
Guilty by Association, based on O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark’s debut novel about two lawyers and a cop — who are all ladies!
Lew Archer, about a private detective.
Crushed, about a man and his young step-mother vying for control of a vineyard. Get it? “Crushed”?
Burn, an unscripted show from Denis Leary about Detroit firefighters.
Cop Swap, a reality show from Dick Wolf that’s like Wife Swap, but with police forces.
Monopoly, a game show where “eight two-person teams will play a game of real-world Monopoly with a huge cash prize at stake.” Presumably episodes will be nine hours long, and eventually Grandma will come in and demand you be a little bit nicer to your younger cousin, because he is trying his best.
The Big Deal, a scavenger-hunt reality contest show.
Over on TBS, the comedies are marginally less cop-focused:
Bad Parents, about four sets of parents who are … bad.
Tribeca, from Steve and Nancy Carell, a cop-show parody set in the Really Heinous Crimes Unit
Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me, a sitcom developed by Jaime Foxx, based on his relationship with his teen daughter.
Dream House, about a young guy who lives with an old guy.
Clipsters, from David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, a sitcom about a Boston-area barbershop.
Me Time with Diablo Cody, an unscripted show with Cody “reveal[ing] a side of Hollywood and celebs that the public very rarely gets to see.”
Cheeseheads, a reality show about fans of the Green Bay Packers.
So that’s seven cop shows, one vineyard soap opera, one Diablo Cody series, and one Monopoly show. Get excited.
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Richmond couple livestreams 'nightmare' Uber ride: 'He didn’t stop'
“That was the scariest moment of my life."
A couple livestreamed their “nightmare” Uber ride on Facebook as their driver was seen speeding through the streets of Richmond.
By: Brendan King
Posted at 5:39 PM, Feb 11, 2020
RICHMOND, Va. -- A couple livestreamed their “nightmare” Uber ride on Facebook as their driver was seen speeding through the streets of Richmond.
John Murray and Tameka Swann said they were picked up from their home on the city’s Northside just before 8 p.m. Monday for a night out on the town.
But, shortly after pulling away, they said someone rear-ended their Uber on Chamberlayne Avenue.
“Our Uber attempted to pull over so that they exchange information, but the car didn’t stop behind us. They went around us and sped off and that’s when our Uber sped off behind him,” Swann recalled.
Murray began to stream their trip on Facebook Live from the backseat.
“Nobody would’ve known that would’ve happened if I didn’t get that on camera,” he explained.
The video showed the Uber driver call 911 and hand his cell phone to Swann. The couple pleads for the driver to stop as he speeds through stop lights and stop signs.
The dispatcher can be heard demanding the driver to stop.
“The driver won’t let us out. He’s trying to catch the guy because he hit us,” Swann told the dispatcher.
The Uber driver then pulls onto West Broad Street and races through several more red lights, according to the video.
The couple said an SUV then crashes into the side of their car at West Broad Street and Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The video showed the driver continuing to speed away narrowly missing a bicyclist.
“I feel like he had tunnel vision. I feel like he didn’t focus on anything else,” Swann stated.
The driver eventually stopped at West Marshall Street and Hermitage Road where they met an officer.
“That was the scariest moment of my life,” Swann said. “I have never been that scared in my life. It was a nightmare.”
“Richmond Police detectives are investigating a hit and run incident that happened around 8:15 p.m. last night near Arthur Ashe Boulevard and West Broad Street,” a Richmond Police spokesperson said. “We ask that anyone with information about the incident to call Hit and Run Detective G. Drago at 804-646-1369.”
The couple says they suffered minor bruises and were checked out at the hospital.
A spokesperson with Uber said they are also investigating the ride.
“This driver’s behavior is concerning, and we have removed his access to the app pending investigation,” said an Uber spokeswoman.
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Lawsuit: Teen screamed ‘I can’t breathe’ during restraint
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by: COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press
Posted: Jun 22, 2020 / 03:00 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 22, 2020 / 04:05 PM EDT
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A civil lawsuit filed Monday following the death of a 16-year-old in a Michigan youth facility says he screamed “I can’t breathe” as at least one staff member placed their weight on the Black teen’s chest for nearly 10 minutes.
The lawsuit filed in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court names Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo and Sequel Youth and Family Services as defendants.
Cornelius Fredericks died May 1 after going into cardiac arrest April 29. At the time, authorities said he was being restrained by staff after throwing a sandwich.
His death came nearly a month before George Floyd died May 25 in Minneapolis with a white police officer’s knee pressing his neck to the ground.
Floyd’s dying words, “I can’t breathe,” have become a rallying call for people protesting police violence against Black people and racial injustice during demonstrations across the U.S.
“The excessive use of restraints and the lack of concern for Cornelius’s life draw an eerily similar comparison to that of George Floyd’s death,” according to the lawsuit, which alleges negligence and says Lakeside staff improperly and wrongfully used restraints on Fredericks.
Authorities have not provided details of the race of the staff member or members involved.
“Video from Lakeside Academy even shows a staff member placing his/her weight directly on Cornelius’s chest for nearly ten minutes as Cornelius lost consciousness,” the lawsuit states. “Cornelius’s scream of ‘I can’t breathe’ was not enough to get the staff members to stop the excessive restraint.”
Detroit attorney Jon Marko, who filed the civil rights lawsuit, said he has yet to view the video, but that he spoke with the mother of another child in the facility.
That child “claims to have heard Cornelius scream ‘I can’t breathe,’” Marko said, adding that a state Health and Human Services department report confirmed that account.
The lawsuit seeks damages allowed under the Michigan Wrongful Death Act. No financial amount was specified.
The Associated Press left a message Monday seeking comment from Lakeside Academy.
Sequel Youth and Family Services told The AP in an email that it cannot comment on pending legal matters, but that it has terminated all staff involved and removed the former executive director of Lakeside.
“We have been in regular contact with law enforcement and state officials to help ensure justice is served and have accelerated the work that was already underway across our organization to move to a restraint-free model of care,” the company said. “We take our obligation to meet the significant behavioral health needs of all our students incredibly seriously and remain focused on our mission of providing the absolute best care and treatment possible.”
The foster care system or parents placed youths in Lakeside Academy, a residential treatment facility about 140 miles (225 kilometers) west of Detroit, to receive behavioral health services after being abused or neglected.
Fredericks was a ward of the state, Marko told reporters Monday.
His aunt, Tenia Goshay, is named in the lawsuit as the representative of Fredericks’ estate. The teen’s mother is dead. His father and rest of the family were not in a position to care for him, Marko said.
Fredericks had been at Lakeside Academy about two years, Goshay told reporters.
“I want to know what happened to my nephew,” she said.
The state last week terminated its contracts with Lakeside for youth in Michigan’s foster care and juvenile justice systems and said all 125 youth at Lakeside were placed in other “settings based on their individual needs.”
The facility also had its license to operate suspended.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has told the department to cut ties with Sequel Youth and Family Services, which provided staffing to Lakeside Academy.
After Fredericks’ death, Lakeside Academy officials said what happened didn’t reflect the institution’s mission to “serve and care for our clients with excellence.”
But Michigan’s Health and Human Services department has conducted more than 30 investigations since 2016 on maintenance, staff qualifications, discipline, behavior management, resident restraint and staff sufficiency at Lakeside Academy, the lawsuit said.
Six months prior to Fredericks’ death there were six separate violations pertaining to improper use by staff of deescalation techniques, including improper restraints, according to the lawsuit, and at least eight employees had been fired since 2016 due to improper use of restraints, failure to use proper deescalation techniques or improperly supervising youth.
Michigan Health and Human Services officials have said an investigation of the for-profit academy found 10 licensing violations, including a failure to follow rules related to resident restraint and discipline.
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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts teenager suspected of setting fire to a Boston police cruiser and inciting a riot was caught trying to board an international flight to leave the country, law enforcement officials said.
The teen faced charges stemming from a May 31 demonstration in Boston following George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police.
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Bloons Monkey City Review: Monkeying with Free to Play
The Bloons TD series has a long history of cute and challenging tower defense on mobile platforms. The latest entry in the series takes a new direction, though. The team at Ninja Kiwi have added the standard “free to play” trappings to their previously paid-for game mechanics. This has a history of being a terrible idea for most franchises. Does Bloons Monkey City break the mold, or is it another forgettable free-to-play entry in an otherwise stellar game series? Time for a Bloons Monkey City review!
The Best Defense is a Sharp Monkey
Bloons Monkey City borrows heavily from the Bloons TD series, so if you’re not familiar with the way the series plays, we’ll start there. The genre is definitely tower defense – that’s what the “TD” in the title stands for. The titular “bloons” (or “balloons” for those of you who can actually spell) are trying to… invade? or something? I guess?
At any rate, they are heading through your territory, and you’ve got to stop them. At your disposal is a wide variety of monkey-based technology. At the lowest tiers are just monkeys with darts, although we quickly get to ninja monkeys, wizard monkeys, monkey cannons, and even superhero monkeys.
Popping bloons earns you cash that can be spent on more monkeys and monkey upgrades. Survive enough rounds and you win! This is typically where Bloons TD games end – they’re just a series of levels, with more monkeys and upgrades unlocking the more you play. The levels can get progressively more tricky in their course designs, the bloons have some devious tricks, and there are a limited set of unlocks, but that’s the gist of these games. Monkeys, “bloons,” upgrades, popping.
So What’s New?
Bloons Monkey City takes the solid core gameplay of the Bloons TD series and layers a city building metagame and player-vs-player elements on top of it. The Bloons TD game mechanics translate into these new systems pretty seamlessly.
For instance, instead of just unlocking new upgrades and monkeys by playing, you’ve got to build new buildings and research upgrades in order to get those unlocks. Playing levels can unlock more land to build on, or it can be part of an event that gets you some new loot. Some upgrades require you to complete specific challenges that bend the rules of Bloons to give the game some much-needed diversity.
Unlike most free-to-play games, though, Bloons Monkey City makes some important and much needed improvements. For one, there’s no arbitrary amount you can play before you have to wait to play any more. There’s no stamina system whatsoever. If you want to attempt to capture a new piece of land or conquer a multiplayer challenge, you can play these courses over and over again with no penalties and no restrictions.
Basically, the game doesn’t punish you for wanting to play it, and it rewards your skill by giving you bonuses. This is something I feel like has been lacking in so many free-to-play games. There’s so much to play at any one given time, and no punishment for experimenting and trying to conquer some seemingly impossible challenge. It’s honestly… refreshing.
Mating the Meta
The core tower defense elements of Bloons TD have always been solid, but they tended to get repetitive at times. In Bloons TD 5, for instance, the bloons always come in the same order every time you play. The only change between games is how many rounds you have to survive and what the shape of the course is. In Monkey City, however, there are a much wider array of attack patterns and a more diverse set of courses.
There are a couple of different player vs player modes that keep the game interesting and competitive. In Events, you compete against other players to survive the highest wave of a particular course. Whoever is “king of the hill” earns bonuses and can collect cash. The other mode is called “Monkey vs Monkey,” where you periodically attack other players, and if they can’t survive the bloons you send their way, you get rewards.
Bloon Burnout?
I don’t really have much criticism to level at Bloons Monkey City. I will say that if you don’t like Bloons TD, or you’ve burned yourself completely out on it, Monkey City is probably going to feel all too similar.
There’s an occasional glitch in the game, usually around the multiplayer events. There have been times I’ve captured the highest round but the event told me I hadn’t, and sometimes I had difficulty collecting my rewards. Usually closing the app and then opening it again fixed these issues.
Perhaps the highest praise I can give for Monkey City is that I’m willing to pay money to support it – I dropped $3 to have the ads removed. I’ve never paid for a free-to-play game before. Ever.
Bloons Monkey City
Links: Homepage, Google Play, iTunes
Release: (Varies by Platform)
Rating: - UNBELIEVABLE!
Bloons Monkey City is ridiculously good. It’s creative, it’s smart, it’s damn fun to play. It doesn’t rely on the standard free-to-play gimmickry that usually drives me so crazy. Instead, it takes a compelling set of game mechanics and wraps them in an interesting metagame that has me completely addicted.
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Karaski: What Goes Up… Review: Oh, the Humanity
Karaski: What Goes Up… is a story-driven “whodunnit” adventure game created by Unbound Creations. Karaski tells the story of a fictional Eastern European nation’s first blimp’s ill-fated maiden voyage. When everything starts to go catastrophically wrong, it’s up to you to solve the mystery and uncover the saboteur. Should you punch your tickets and take this cruise? Let’s find out in my Karaski: What Goes Up review.
We met with the Unbound Creations team at PAX South back in January. We visited the booth and checked out the game at the con, and then Jakub from Unbound hooked us up with a review code.
Karaski’s story centers around the titular blimp, the A. A. Karaski. Invented and designed in the aforementioned fictional Dunabe Commonwealth, it is the first of its kind. Invitations to several VIPs are sent out, including you. However, a few days after takeoff, the ship is sabotaged and begins to rise uncontrollably. You awaken on one of the lower decks with no memory of the start of the journey, with a strange voice guiding you. Who sabotaged the ship, and why? Can it be fixed? Can anyone be saved?
Karaski is told from a first-person perspective, and the details of your character are left for you to decide. Most of the game takes place on the various decks of the A. A. Karaski, with you chatting with other guests, exploring, avoiding being detected by the crew, and trying to find clues.
There are a set of tools that Karaski doles out to you which make it possible to traverse the various challenges of the ship. For instance, one tool allows you to open vent covers, while another gives you the ability to pick locks. These are considered suspicious actions, though, so you will need to be out of sight while “conducting your investigation” to avoid arousing suspicion.
The exploration part of the game ends up feeling like playing Deus Ex. When encountering a locked door, do you go try to find a keycard, do you bribe someone to let you in, do you try to pick the lock, or do you look for a vent to crawl through to bypass the door altogether? Compounding this are the various “crew only” areas that have patrolling guards who will accost you if they catch you.
Stealth in games where stealth isn’t really a focus can (and often does) end badly. Karaski’s stealth sections are relatively short, not particularly difficult, and the punishment for failure is pretty low. I felt like these sections added a bit of tension to the game that wouldn’t have otherwise been there, without being annoying.
That leaves us with the character interaction portions of the game. This is the most “adventure game”-y part of Karaski. Each of the major characters is aligned with some faction that, in some way, opposes the A. A. Karaski’s launch. Uncovering their motivations involves convincing them to reveal their stories to you.
Spoiler Warning I don’t want to spoil too much of the story, but I do want to talk about its structure. You might want to go into the game without knowing anything, and if so I suggest you skip this section. There will be an “end spoiler warning” block when I’m done talking about the story structure.
It’s probably a bit extreme to call this even a mild spoiler, seeing as there’s a character inside the game that basically says what I’m about to reveal. Still, better safe than sorry.
Many games give their players choices, but most are only the illusion of choice. Fallout 4 is one recent example of this illusion in action. Even Telltale’s adventure games present you with choices that they claim impact the story, but by and large the broader, overall arc of the story is determined the moment you start the game.
Karaski’s story is largely dependent on the actions of the player. How you react to various bits of evidence and the things you learn can fundamentally change the story. Do you believe other passengers’ excuses or explanations for the things you find? Do you suspect yourself?
Who you trust and what you believe fundamentally changes the story, which leads to different outcomes. I don’t know of many games that treat player choice with this level of flexibility.
End Spoiler Warning OK, all safe from here on out :)
If you take your time in Karaski, it can take three or four hours to clear. Chances are decent that if you enjoy it, you’ll want to replay it, which ought to take an hour or two if you’re moving quickly.
Karaski’s got a few rough edges. Art-wise, the game looks like a Half-Life 2 mod. The textures especially are quite low-res. I found it a bit distracting, especially in long vents where it looked like the vent texture had been stretched all the way down the length of the vent. Some of the “vent parkour” is a bit troublesome as well. I found myself stuck trying to jump on top of bookcases and climbing up from there into small passageways.
Karaski: What Goes Up…
Links: Homepage, Store Page
Release: 3/2/2016
Rating: - Awesome!
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Three more cases were reported in Mehsana, a total of 4104 positive patients in the state, the death toll reached 198
The state may get relief in three-phase lockdown from May 4
More than 300 new corona patients were registered in the state for the second time in a single day
19 new cases were reported in Vadodara, one patient died
So far 59488 tests have been done, 4104 positive and 55046 negative reports
Gandhinagar. 19 new cases have been reported in Vadodara while three more positive cases have been reported in Mehsana. At the same time, the total number of positive patients in the state has increased to 4104. Three cases have been reported at Molipur in Vadnagar in Mehsana district. With one more patient dying in Vadodara, the state's total death toll has reached 198. As many as 527 patients have been discharged. Announcing an important announcement in the Gujarat government's lockdown, CMO Secretary Ashchini Kumar said that guidelines were issued by the Center yesterday to repatriate people trapped in various states. It will be followed by the Government of Gujarat. 8 senior IAS and 8 IPS officers of Gujarat have been assigned responsibility for those who are trapped in Gujarat by students and businessmen from other states. Responsibility has been assigned to different officials for different states. He will help the traders, students, pilgrims and others trapped in Gujarat by coordinating with the state administration.
Corona Positive, a young man from a family making bamboo baskets
Korona, a young man from a family making bamboo baskets near Balapir Dargah near Adalaj Annapurna Circle, has tested positive. According to the information received, the youth was already addicted to alcohol. He had also vomited blood earlier. He was admitted to Gandhinagar Civil Hospital last Saturday for treatment. As his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to Ahmedabad Civil Hospital for further treatment. He is believed to have been infected from the hospital. The health team in Adalaj is searching for the family history of the bamboo basket and the young man from the infected hospital felt that he was being searched from the hut.
As the cases of corona are increasing, access to Gandhinagar city will be available only from "Ch" road
Roads to the city have been closed due to increasing cases of corona in the state capital Gandhinagar. Entrance is being given only from "Ch" Road. There was a traffic jam on Lai "Ch" road. Drivers coming to government offices were annoyed as all other roads were closed. The district police chief issued a notification and announced the closure of roads. Koba - The road from Adalaj to Gandhinagar is on.
The second phase of the lockdown is coming to an end on May 3rd. However, if the central government does not announce an extension of the lockdown, the state may get relief in three phases from May 4. In which all green zones can be fully opened. The Orange Zone will be given some concessions while the Red Zone can be kept completely closed.
Out of the total positive cases in the country, 12.72% cases are in Gujarat
Maharashtra has the largest share of total cases. Maharashtra accounts for 15.85%, Gujarat 12.72% and Delhi 12.62% of the total cases in the country. The highest number of cases is in 3 cities. Mumbai has 11.62%, Ahmedabad 9.43% and Delhi 12.62%. Madhya Pradesh accounts for 5.87% and Rajasthan for 5.07%.
After a long struggle, the Gujarat government finally stopped testing with the Rapid Kit
After a long struggle, the Gujarat government has finally stopped testing with the Rapid Kit. The use of Rapid Test Kit has been discontinued after testing 8900 in the state. Most of the patients tested negative from the kit ordered from China. The central government had decided to stop the testing due to inconclusive results. It is to be noted that in many districts of Gujarat, tests have been done with Rapid Kit and those districts were declared Corona Free. This has left the government and the health department in a quandary
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Mother Nature’s talent as an artist is in evidence everywhere at Montana’s Glacier National Park, from the verdant glacier-carved valleys to the effervescent waterfalls and razor-edged peaks. Stretched across the massive back of the Continental Divide, Glacier manages to be spectacularly wild yet eminently accessible at the same time. Blessed with excellent roads and well-maintained attractions, visitors can roam the park as easily as the grizzly bears and rivers that comprise its pristine ecosystem.
Most park visitors spend their time on the east-west Going-to-the-Sun Road, which cuts a scenic 80 kilometer path through dramatic mountains, past shimmering lakes and around hairpin bends. But there’s lots more to see and do if you go off the beaten path and explore the 4,000 square kilometers of mountains, lakes and meadows. Head out on the 1,127 kilometers of hiking trails that wind through the backcountry from North Fork to Goat Lick. Make a stop in the Many Glacier region and get a close-up glimpse of the receding glaciers, or take a horseback ride through Logan Pass and watch mountain goats and bighorn sheep gallop through flower-filled meadows in spring.
In summer, water-lovers can cruise on Lake McDonald or raft down the Flathead River. Waterfalls are at their peak in spring, though some, like Banting Falls, are glacier-fed and flow year-round. In winter, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing are possible even though much of the park is inaccessible due to weather. Winter is a great time to get warm and cozy in one of the distinctive lodges and chalets, which were built in Swiss mountain style in the early 20th century. And due to Glacier’s position in the far north of the United States, it’s a great place to see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) or the Milky Way on a moonless night.
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Decoding Fashionspeak
By Nancy Friedman
"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous," the Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli famously said. But come hard times or good times, you can always count on fashion writing to be an excessive, outrageous genre unto itself. Where else but in fashion copy would destructed be an acceptable — indeed, comprehensible — adjective? Who but a fashion editor would bully her readers with imperatives such as must-have? And what on earth is one supposed to make of cryptic abbreviations like cardi, bodycon, and MOTG?
Luckily for you, I am an experienced translator of Fashionspeak. I'm neither fashion forward — an oddly constructed adjective, in use since at least 1948 (according to the OED), that means "on the cutting edge" — nor a complete naïf; I've worked with fashion and retail clients for years, consumed steady doses of fashion media since I was a teenager, and managed to maintain both an appetite for and a robust skepticism about the subject. With no additional fanfare, here's my slightly biased guide for the fashion-perplexed.
The Grammar. To master Fashionspeak, you'll need to learn two new constructions, the Fashion Singular and the Fashion Imperative. In the Fashion Singular, nouns gain by subtraction: It's the skinny pant; a smoky eye (achieved with cosmetics, by the way, not cigarettes); the essential cami. (For cami, see Abbreviations, below.) Singular items are, presumably, more special than their lumpen cousins; they're given their own articles, a or the, almost as honorifics. "To demonstrate your true mastery of this lingo," advises fashion writer Hadley Freeman in her Guardian (U.K.) column, "deploy it only in positive circumstances, e.g., 'Ooh, I do love a kitten heel.'" (For kitten, see The Peculiar Adjectives, below.) Bryan A. Garner, author of the authoritative Garner's Modern American Usage, observes, a bit peevishly, that "clothing retailers lack standardization when referring to trousers" and that "[t]his inconsistency has been around for a long time" — at least since the late 19th century, when both pants and pant emerged as abbreviations of the older pantaloons.
As for the Fashion Imperative, it's the grammatical case fashion editors use to instill fear and desire in their readers. "Must-Have Shoes, Bags & More!" blares InStyle in an all-caps cover headline. "Get in on the season's best ideas with these major must-haves," commands Harper's Bazaar next to photos of a $2,468 clutch purse and a $930 high-heeled sandal. (Major indeed!) The Fashion Imperative also entitles editors to declare that the current season "is all about" pink, or crotch-high mini-skirts, or see-through blouses; to label a particular clothing choice a "Do" or a "Don't" (as Glamour magazine has done for decades, complete with black bars over the eyes of the offending Don'ts); to exalt a T-shirt or a bangle bracelet as Important or Essential; and to give readers monthly marching orders — as Harper's Bazaar does — about what to buy, keep, and store. (Those beaded earrings we ordered you to purchase a few months ago? You're not wearing them now, are you?)
The best and funniest explanation I've found for the Fashion Imperative comes from Hadley Freeman. "Fashion people love a good imperative," she writes in The Meaning of Sunglasses a brisk, hilarious antidote to fashion hyperbole, "maybe because this kind of fearsomely brook-no-argument tone helps to trample over any bleating objections or queries as to why a $3,000 handbag with a handle made from the bone of a woolly mammoth and stitching from the hair of an albino virgin is apparently as necessary to someone's life as water. But there is some literal truth in the phrase, as it is usually used in connection to this season's most expensive accessory by a company which has spent a particularly large wad on advertising, the sort of advertising a magazine must, ahem, have."
The Peculiar Adjectives. Anthimeria — the use of a word as a different part of speech — is an essential element of Fashionspeak. Boyfriend, for example, is not merely that unshaven fellow who plays video games on the couch while you clean the apartment; it's also a descriptor for an item of apparel with a characteristically masculine cut. Thus, a boyfriend jacket looks like you borrowed it from your beau — that is, it's sloppily large. In a similar vein, statement is a modifier that translates to "humongous": a statement necklace is so big and gaudy it practically shouts. (It may also have an impact on your bank statement, but that's another matter.)
Then there's It — always capitalized, and usually preceding "bag." The term has been used this way since the 1990s, when the market for easily identifiable designer handbags (the Hermès Birkin, the Chanel 2.55) exploded. But capital-I It goes back to the 1920s, when silent-screen actress Clara Bow was dubbed "the It girl" after she starred in the movie It, adapted from Elinor Glyn's sensational novel of the same name. ("It" was, tacitly, sex appeal.) Eachseason brings a new It accessory that's "of the moment" (another favored bit of Fashionspeak) and may require refinancing the mortgage.
As for kitten, I admit it's hard to fathom how this word became a descriptor, first seen in print in the late 1950s, for a certain style of low heel, slender yet curvaceous. Other than Puss in Boots, I'm not aware of any felines with a penchant for footwear. However, the OED informs us that kitten has been used since at least 1870 as a synonym for a young, playful woman — someone who might choose to wear slightly frivolous low-heeled shoes.
The Abbreviations. Nicknames and acronyms are shorthand that conveys an in-group familiarity essential to all jargon. Fashionspeak is no exception. Thus, a cami is a camisole — originally an undergarment, now any lightweight, skinny-strapped top; a cardi is a cardigan; a pony is a pony-tail hairstyle; bodycon is not a bodybuilders' convention but rather the short form of body-conscious (i.e., uncomfortably tight); and boho means bohemian, which in Fashionspeak may signify beaded, fringed, earthy, frayed, or mismatched. (Boho is often seen in a combination form known as "yet-but," as lexicographer Erin McKean points out in last weekend's "The Word" column for the Boston Globe. "'Boho yet' has been completed with: classy, uptown, sophisticated, 'very '80s,' elegant, glittery ... 'casual and stylish,' and modern," writes McKean. "Sometimes the yet-but is double-stacked: 'gypsy-boho-yet-modern-and-crisp.'") And memorize these acronyms if you're planning to dive into style blogs: MOTG, short for "mom on the go," refers both to a person (often an SAHM, or stay-at-home mom) and her breezy/perky/not-overtly-sexy wardrobe choices; an MOTB is the mother of the bride; and MDAL means "mutton dressed as lamb" — the reproving label for, par exemple, a lady of a certain age wearing latex short-shorts.
The Overreachers. In recent years, Fashionspeak has ventured beyond Important and Essential into the lofty realms of fine art and high finance. Whereas, for example, a fashion neophyte might stuff an outmoded dress into the back of her closet, a fashion maven will archive it. An alarmingly expensive coat isn't an indulgence; it's investment dressing. (Note the Peculiar Adjective.) And store owners don't simply sell a collection of items, they curate their wares — code, as the New York Times explained last fall, for "I have a discerning eye and great taste." A sign the trend may have crested: The mid-market retail chain J. Crew has gotten in on the act with its Curator Pant (note the Fashion Singular), a pair of droopy jersey trousers that are "part of the J. Crew Collection."
The Desperate Synonyms. Blue jeans — can't live without 'em, can't keep up with their infinite variety. The experiments began in the 1970s with acid-wash and stonewash; "distressed" finishes began to appear in the 1980s. Language lovers may be even more distressed by the newer coinages, which describe a recent spate of torn, patched, and re-torn styles: busted, destroyed, damaged (for a pair of $255 jeans), and, yes, destructed are a few of the creative synonyms for what our grandparents might have dismissed as hobo wear. And one can only wonder what Elsa Schiaparelli might have said about a women's shirt — J. Crew again — in a fabric traditionally called seersucker, from Persian words meaning "milk and sugar." (The poetic term describes the textile's bumpy texture.) J. Crew calls it Suckered. Which is how you and I might feel if we shelled out $69.50 for it.
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Nancy Friedman is the chief wordworker at verbal-branding consultancy Wordworking, and the author of a fine blog on naming, branding and more called Fritinancy. Nancy has named a venture-capital firm, a laser hair-removal device, a mobile-money service, and many other companies and products. A former journalist, she still writes or ghostwrites articles, speeches, white papers, and books. Click here to read more articles by Nancy Friedman.
Comments from our users:
Monday April 5th 2010, 6:10 AM
Comment by: Donna R. (Johnstown, NY)
What I was wondering is why a certain form of shirt is called a "wife-beater?" Also, I have destructed jeans which I paid alot less for-they didn't come that way, I wore them out..
Comment by: Michael H. (Buffalo, NY)
Ah, "The Beater" . . . perhaps it's just an urban myth, but I always understood we can thank Marlon Brando's portrayal of Stanley Kowalski for this one.
Comment by: Don H. (Brentwood, CA)
Thanks for the entertaining column: My FB friend recently posted the following:
"I totally admit it. I like Old Navy because of the names of the clothes. 'Cardi-Coat' and 'Whirly Skirt' just make me smile. We don't even fast forward through the commercials. I love those mannequins! Kudos to you Crispin Porter + Bogusky!"
And later: "I bought myself a whirly skirt the other day because it looked so cute on the mannequin. That's the way I shop - by looking at outfits already put together. I'm hopeless otherwise. I always wanted a cardi-coat because I like to say it, but never bought one..."
Finally: "Uh oh! Just saw a new Old Navy commercial - now I feel the need for an arty cardi to go with my whirly skirt! I am every ad agency's dream!"
Makes me laugh!
Monday April 5th 2010, 11:13 AM
Comment by: Jane B. (Winnipeg Canada)
Would the abuse of destroyed as 'destruct' come from 'self-destruct'? As far as I'm concerned, the fashion experts have harmed far more than the language. Remember all those foot doctors' kids that went to college because of the stiletto heels?
Monday April 5th 2010, 12:39 PM
Comment by: Valerie P.
Although I wear "gently reused" clothes most of the time, I like to keep up with the lingo. Reading about it takes less time than watching TV commercials and less money than buying fashion magazines:)))
Thursday April 8th 2010, 4:22 PM
Comment by: Jimmy M. (Kansas City, MO)
Regarding the "wife-beater" shirt- I think this one explains itself through imagination. If you picture any of the men portrayed in movies or television (I am hoping you do not have the misfortune of knowing any men of this quality) who beat their lady friend- wife or girlfriend. Personally, when I imagine this, I do imagine an un-showered, unshaven man between 29 and 40, sitting on a tattered, floral-print couch with his dirty feet on the coffee table, drinking loudly from a can of cheap beer, while he sweats oily sweat beads from his forehead and armpits, yelling at his woman to do something. That man I imagine is ALWAYS wearing his stained, used-to-be-white tank-top which he wore under his dirty work shirt that day in the heat, and the day before...
The fact that the term caught on as a universal descriptor of the thick-strapped tank-top for both boys and girls to wear is still perplexing to me. The term, however, seems to have lost its negative connotation, and its connection to the low-class dirt-bag who made it popular.
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The newly acquired area in Bremerhaven lies in direct proximity to the container port © Wolfhard Scheer/BIS mbH
The special vehicle manufacturer MAFI & TREPEL Technology GmbH is purchasing a 13.7 hectare site in Bremerhaven. On the property, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the container terminal, the company intends to build a logistics centre before the end of this year after all preparatory work has been completed. It will be put it into operation by the end of next year.
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Overall, the company intends to invest a high double-digit million euro amount in the site in the coming years. "Heavy-duty transports are costly over long distances and involve long detours. In Bremerhaven we have direct access to heavy-duty quays and experienced local logisticians in the immediate vicinity," says MAFI & TREPEL Technology Managing Director Werner Berger.
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The MAFI company is located in Tauberbischofsheim in southern Germany. Its vehicles are used in numerous sectors: for example in ports, where MAFI builds tractors and trailers for container transport and heavy haul. The special vehicles are also used for transport tasks in steelworks, foundries and heavy industry.
TREPEL Airport Equipment GmbH, which manufactures vehicles for airport use, also belongs to the group. Its vehicles will also be shipped via the new Bremerhaven location. In the medium term, around 200 new jobs are to be created here. MAFI and TREPEL are among the leading companies in this market worldwide.
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Ports in Bremen are the region's engine for trade and industry
The area is located in the 306-hectare LogInPort industrial estate in the north of Bremerhaven. It is a centre for logistics and port-related businesses. The area is attractive for contract logistics, container and co-packing, procurement, storage and distribution logistics.
The Bremerhaven container terminal is located in the direct proximity. It is the fourth-largest container port in Europe and handles 5.5 million standard container equivalents (TEUs) per year. The biggest ships that travel the world's oceans dock here regularly. And just around the corner lies the Bremerhaven car terminal. It is effectively Europe's largest car park, and up to 95,000 cars can be held here before being dispatched worldwide as exports or transported elsewhere in Germany as imports. International logistics provider BLG LOGISTICS handles a total of 2.2 million vehicles here every year.
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d'Arenberg d'Arry's Original Shiraz/Grenache 2015
Rhone Red Blends from McLaren Vale, South Australia, Australia
750ML / 14.3% ABV
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A winemaker's favorite. Year in, year out this traditional Shiraz Grenache blend continues to deliver beyond expectation. 2015 is no exception. Dark, earthy Shiraz notes, complemented perfectly by fruit-driven, pure Grenache. The palate is equally rewarding. Rich and powerful, but not in an overbearing way. This wine will definitely benefit from decanting whilst young, but don't be afraid to let it age a few years yet in a well-conditioned cellar.
Blend: 50% Shiraz, 50% Grenache
Lots of brambles and spices to this blend of shiraz and grenache. Peppers, blackberry compote, dark chocolate and dried herbs too. Full body, structured and chewy tannins, a fine line of acidity and a juicy finish. Drink in 2021.
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Chester Osborn continues to hit home runs with this classic blend of shiraz and grenache, which he grows at his estate vineyards that date to the 19th century. Those old vines offer a traditional wine with red-and-black-fruit depths infused with the green stemminess of roses. This needs time to integrate, but it’s the kind of Australian red that harks back to the days long before critters and ripeness, with an authenticity to its flavors that grounds it in McLaren Vale.
Deep purple in hue, the nose of this wine is as dense as the color. Aromas of dark berries, black pepper and wood spice are backed by a meaty character. The palate is lush and fruity, with a damp earthy core. While the fruit is plump, it's not fat or syrupy thanks in large part to powerful, sinewy tannins. Drink now–2027.
d'Arenberg is one of the undisputed kings of Australian Shiraz and other Rhone varieties that have historically defined the region. A century on, their vineyards have grown to some 450 acres in McLaren Vale, including Shiraz dating back to d'Arenberg's first plantings in 1912, and nearly one-third of McLaren Vale's old bush-vine Grenache. Fourth generation winemaker, Chester Osborn, recently converted all of the family's vineyards to organics and biodynamics and moved to solar energy in the winery. All the while, in terms of winemaking, not much has changed--all the wines are basket-pressed, the reds foot-trodden during fermentation; everything is done in small batches, leading to an impressive array of bottlings every year, each showing a different facet of McLaren Vale terroir. Having been inducted into Wine & Spirits Magazine's Hall of Fame for earning a place on its Top 100 Wineries nine times, this accolade is a reflection of d'Arenberg's revered reputation worldwide.
McLaren Vale Wine
Known for opulent red wines with intense power and concentration, McLaren Vale is home to perhaps the most “classic” style of Australian Shiraz. Vinified on its own or in Rhône Blends, these hot-climate wines are deeply colored and high in extract with signature hints of dark chocolate and licorice. Cabernet Sauvignon is also produced in a similar style.
Whites, often made from Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc tend to be opulent and full of tropical, stone and citrus fruit.
With bold fruit flavors and accents of sweet spice, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre form the base of the classic Rhône Red Blend, while Carignan, Cinsault and Counoise often come in to play. Though they originated from France’s southern Rhône Valley, with some creative interpretation, Rhône blends have also become popular in other countries. Somm Secret—Putting their own local spin on the Rhône Red Blend, those from Priorat often include Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. In California, it is not uncommon to see Petite Sirah make an appearance.
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Joe Louis Hard Times Man Randy Roberts
328 pages: 235 x 156mm
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Joe Louis defended his heavyweight boxing title an astonishing twenty-five times and reigned as world champion for more than eleven years. He got more column inches of newspaper coverage in the 1930s than FDR did. His racially and politically charged defeat of Max Schmeling in 1938 made Louis a national hero. But as important as his record is what he meant to African-Americans: at a time when the boxing ring was the only venue where black and white could meet on equal terms, Louis embodied all their hopes for dignity and equality.
Through meticulous research and first-hand interviews, acclaimed historian and biographer Randy Roberts presents Louis, and his impact on sport and country, in a way never before accomplished. Roberts reveals an athlete who carefully managed his public image, and whose relationships with both the black and white communities - including his relationships with mobsters - were far more complex than the simplistic accounts of heroism and victimization that have dominated previous biographies. Richly researched and utterly captivating, this extraordinary biography presents the full range of Joe Louis' power in and out of the boxing ring.
Read an extract from Joe Louis: Hard Times Man by Randy Roberts on Yale's blog
Randy Roberts is Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University. His previous books include biographies of Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, and John Wayne (all nominated for Pulitzer Prizes); a history of American sports since 1945; and books on Charles Lindbergh, the Mike Tyson trial, and the Vietnam War. He lives in Lafayette, Indiana.
'Roberts takes you ringside as one of the greatest practitioners of 'the Sweet Science' makes history, but he doesn't stop there. He explains the race relations and international politics of the 1930's that, along with his hard punches and no-nonsense style, made Joe Louis immortal.' - Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.
'The author of superb studies of the boxers Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey, Mr. Roberts spins a graceful and reliable narrative of Louis's life. He also gets into the ring with the question: Why did Joe Louis matter so much to so many?' - Wall Street Journal
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Enjoy a meal at Koha Community Cafe
Noelene Davidson October 30, 2019 Community, Food & Wine Leave a comment 722 Views
The much loved Koha Community Cafe has recently moved to the old senior citizens building at 25A Dammans road Warburton. We went along to the new space to enjoy a yummy and nutritious meal and to chat to the founder Suyin about how the project started and its journey to where it is today.
Getting Koha off the ground
In 2008 Suyin was studying Community Development and in one of the classes they had a guest speaker Shanaka Fernando founder of Lentil As Anything who shared his story of what he had achieved which blew Suyin away. This made her think why couldn’t Shanaka’s model also be used in an area such as Warburton. Over the next few years Suyin kept her vision alive and in the process she found a core group of people that believed in the project and stayed with her to make it happen.
The name for the project Koha came about when Suyin was describing her idea to a friend and she said that sounds like ‘Koha’ which is a maori word that translates to gift or donation which resonated with Suyin’s vision. She worked with council during the initial stages to secure a building to house Koha.
Finally in 2010 with funding from the local Community bank who took a risk with Koha and provided seed funding, Koha opened. The project was only planned to run for 6 months but is still going strong today over 9 years later. Suyin believes it is the core group of people who initially got behind her project that was the driving force behind its success today.
The initial funding paid for the building and the food but Koha was struggling to stay a float until the General Manager of Second Bite who has a connection to Warburton read about their struggle in the local paper. He contacted Suyin and offered help, which allowed them to continue to provide meals to those in the community who need them most. Still today Second Bite are the main suppliers of food to Koha which they are so grateful for.
The people of Koha
Koha has many from the local community helping out even teenagers from the local high school. Suyin was proud to tell us that Koha has even helped some of the volunteers get paid jobs from their work experience at Koha.
Koha is a charity and so they rely on volunteers, like Nina Hellicar, for help to run the place. They have one chef and 40 or so volunteers that help each week. Food donations from the community are always welcomed.
How you can support Koha
Thursday night dinner is served between 6-8pm and on Monday lunch is between 12-2pm. All meals are vegetarian. It is a three course meal with soup, main, dessert and tea and coffee provided. Payment is by donation and every cent donated towards the meals is used for the running of Koha. Food donations can also be dropped off every Wednesday between 10-12. Staples such as pasta, rice, lentil, chickpeas, tinned tomato’s and fresh vegetables are always appreciated.
The main way you can support Koha is to come down, enjoy a meal, have a chat and make a donation. They are a beautiful charity that help many people and families have a healthy meal when they could not afford it themselves. Koha provides a friendly and welcoming space and is a wonderful place to meet your friends and also make some new connections.
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Fantastic Battles
NLWright
Average Rating (1 rating)
Fantastic Battles is a fast-play, mass-battle, wargaming system for any fantasy setting. The rules emphasise the tactical concerns of command friction and the fog of war through randomised initiative, tabletop mishap rolls and the impetuous decisions of unsupervised unit commanders.
An all-in-one volume, this book contains the rules for stand-alone pitched battles as well as campaigns.
Twenty-four example army lists are provided; however, army building is designed to be flexible. A toolkit of base profiles and unit traits allow players to build customised armies to suit their own vision of their fantasy faction.
Scale agnostic, with multi-based figures and no individual figure removal, the game can be played using any fantasy figures, or historical armies from the ancient to the early modern period.
Jonathan S November 20, 2020 2:54 am UTC
Quick question. If you choose a base width of, say, 50mm does that mean everything needs to fit on that size such as a chariot, monster, dragon etc. Just wondering how my troops would fit for this as they are on a mix of base sizes.
I am guessing that a base size of 100mm would probably mean you need a very large table?
Nicholas W November 22, 2020 3:02 pm UTC
All units (including monsters and artillery, but not individual charachters) need to be on the same width bases; the depth of the base is less important. If you have a mix of larger and smaller bases, you could always use a sabot base to bring them all up to the same width.
To give an idea of table size, an 'average' sized game is between armies of 1,000 points. The recomended table size for this size of battle is 30x20 base widths. So using 40mm bases, the table should measure 120x80cm; if using 60mm bases, the table would be 180x120cm (6'x4').
Charles A November 04, 2020 6:25 pm UTC
Does the Goblin Army List include Orcs? Do you have any idea when Amazon will carry the physical copy of these rules?
I believe that the rules are somewhat based on Second Edition of "Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World's End," and I have always enjoyed playing the somewhat obscure battles provided by that treatment. Since "Irregular Wars" allowed competitive battles between outnumbered, but generally higher quality 15th, 16th and 17th Century European Armies and Eastern and Native Forces, I always thought that those rules would nicely cover fantasy battles. Unlike 19th Century Colonial battles, however, the Europeans cannot general expect a victory by sitting back and relying on firepower. For example, the Conquistador horse had better route lots of Aztec units, or those Spanish foot units will likely be overwhelmed after a while. Consequently. combined arms tactics work in those rules, and should allow stalwart Empires of Men to hold off Goblin Tribes hordes if played...See more correctly in "Fantastic Battles."
Thanks for an early Christmas present.
Ms S November 04, 2020 7:12 pm UTC
The Goblin list doesn't include Orcs. However, all the lists are examples built using the system, and part of it is the traits. Units can have up to three traits (at various costs) plus a racial trait (which is mechanically a normal trait). Elves, for instance, are Fast. Goblins are Unreliable. Just pick a trait you think epitomises Orcishness, pick some units you think are appropriate from the various examples and swap out their racial trait for it. Adjust points, etc. ,
For a very quick and no-effort Orc list, the Free Men one (covering your barbarian types who run around in the ice and snow only wearing a loincloth and their nipples don't even get hard) covers a lot of the same thematic ground?
Maybe bring in a goblin unit or two but swap out unreliable for expendable, 'cos they've got a big orc standing behind them yelling at them to get stuck in and the other orcs won't worry too much if they run off.
Charles A November 05, 2020 12:58 pm UTC
Those suggestions for defining an Orc Army list seem very practical. Have you actually played these rules, yet? I am wondering how the inclusion of Characters and Groups will affect the underlying “Irregular Wars” framework.
Afraid not - just saw an opportunity to answer a basic factual question by looking it up for you, and then saw an opportunity to promote my philosophy of being lazy and using refluffed existing examples wherever possible.
I've read a few battle reports and am hoping to give it a shot in a fortnight.
Love the honesty!
Thanks for the kind words about Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World's End. You'll find many similarities between that set and Fantastic Battles, but many differences as well.
Ms S has answered your question pretty accurately. We did not include orcs in the goblin lists, but the lists are only intended to be examples of how armies can be put together using the army building mechanisms. The suggestion the use the Free Men list as a foundation is a good one, perhaps taking Berserk as a racial trope?
Play around, have some fun, and let us know how you get on!
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Could latest COVID scares stop the AFLW season?
AFL sweating on state governments to ease border restrictions ahead of AFLW season
by Liz Walsh
The AFL will play its first women's practice matches in closed stadiums this weekend as it continues to grapple with ongoing COVID restrictions.
With the season starting in little more than two weeks, the league has been sweating on state governments to ease border restrictions.
The AFL has confirmed that a series of all-important practice matches will go ahead this weekend to give the players their first proper hit-outs.
But details of which club is playing which - and more importantly, where - are still being finalised.
This weekend's schedule is expected to be announced in the coming days.
The AFL did confirm that practice matches would be closed sessions to ensure the safety of both players and the community.
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It comes as the Victorian government reopened its border to regional New South Wales, which would have been music to the ears of Greater Western Sydney, with their players currently camped in regional Albury, near the border with Victoria.
The Giants relocated out of Sydney on New Year's Day at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Northern Beaches, hoping to satisfy then-in-place government requirements to enter Victoria and then travel onto to Perth for their Round 1 clash against Fremantle, but that initial plan was complicated by a series of border closures, including WA imposing a hard border with Victoria.
The Giants, who have spent almost two weeks in Albury training as per a usual pre-season schedule, will hold a final training session in the regional town on Thursday and are then planning to travel to their next location on Friday.
But they are still awaiting advice from the AFL as to where that will be and it will be dependant on which team they will play on the weekend.
They could potentially head to either the Gold Coast or Melbourne, but Canberra is also on the cards.
The AFL has reiterated its absolute commitment to playing the 2021 AFLW season in full and is following all government advice to ensure that happens.
WHY I'D PAY $10 TO GO TO AN AFLW GAME
In 2021, for the first time in AFLW history, all games will be ticketed for women's AFL matches.
Previously, only select games - usually double-headers played as curtain-raisers to AFL games - charged entry fees.
Otherwise, the games were free to attend, including the 2019 AFLW Grand Final when 53,034 spectators crammed into the Adelaide Oval to watch the Crows beat Carlton by 45 points and in the process set a new Australian record for the highest attendance at a stand-alone women's sporting event. (That record has since been broken when 86,174 fans attended the T20 World Cup final between Australia and India at the MCG on March 8, 2020).
In 2021, entry to all AFLW games will be $10 for adults, with those under 18 allowed into matches for free.
Fans will pay to watch the AFLW in 2021. Picture: Michael Klein
The AFL says the introduction of ticketing will allow crowds to attend in a COVID-safe environment.
"We are proud the 2021 season will see all matches ticketed, we have listened to supporters of women's football who continue to indicate a willingness to pay to attend AFLW matches and support the growth of the competition," women's footy boss Nicole Livingstone said about the move.
So ahead of the season scheduled to start on January 28 with Carlton taking on Collingwood at Ikon Park, we ask well-known Australians: Why would you pay $10 to go to an AFLW game?:
MEGAN SCHUTT
Australian cricketer, No. 2 bowler in the world:
"I'm happy to pay the equivalent of two coffees to watch entertaining, passionate football. These talented athletes are paid next to nothing, so if putting a small price on tickets helps the game continue to grow, we should all support that."
ISABEL HUNTINGTON
Western Bulldogs player, 2020 AFLW Rising Star:
"I'd pay more than $10 because there's such an incredible atmosphere at games, and it's only going to get better and that is worthy of it being ticketed in my eyes. Also, I think paying and having ticketed games helps support the athletes and the women of the AFLW who sacrifice so much and put so much on the line to go out there and play, it's the least that can happen from a ticketing standpoint, to contribute back to the game. A lot of fans have been asking for many years now to actually be able to financially contribute, so I think it's really great in that sense and it's a great step forward to an equitable competition and reflecting what leagues around the world do."
MEG LANNING
Australian Women's Cricket Team captain:
"I would pay $10 to go and see an AFLW game so that I can watch a former teammate of mine, Emma Kearney, dominate in the midfield for North Melbourne. A tough competitor on the field who goes hard at the ball and that's something all sports fans should see live!"
AFL premiership winner, SEN breakfast radio presenter, media commentator:
"I'd pay $10 to watch an AFLW game to witness the fierce contests and elite tackling that has fast become a cornerstone of the young league. These athletes play with a passion and enthusiasm that is infectious to watch live."
Adelaide Oval was packed out for the 2019 AFLW Grand Final. Picture: AFC Media
ERIK THOMSON
"Absolutely. It's a small price to pay to widen the reach and resources of the sport and acknowledge excellence."
BEC GODDARD
Hawthorn VFLW head coach, 2017's inaugural AFLW premiership-winning coach:
"Because $10 is bigger than football. That $10 gives me the opportunity to make our female athletes feel valued and show the broader community that gender is no reason for "free".
"As long as we allow businesses, including sport, to treat our mothers, sisters or daughters as lower value for doing exactly the same job as men, then we're encouraging a culture where women are more likely to be ignored or overlooked - $10 is just the beginning and an absolute steal to watch superstars like Erin Phillips, Chelsea Randall and Eb Marinoff in action."
RORY SLOANE
Crows AFL captain:
"Because I love footy. And I love watching the women play. The AFLW is so good for our game and for women's sport in general. My sister, Shae, played footy when she was younger but had to stop because there was no competition for her to play in anymore. She's now converted from volleyball to football (and plays for Melbourne). I just love watching footy, so that's why I'd pay $10. Or $15. Or $20!"
Rory and Shae Sloane are a footy family. Picture: Michael Klein
SAM MAC
Weather presenter on Chanel 7's Sunrise:
"I'd be happy to pay a minimum of $10 to see a game of AFLW. Firstly, because the games are top notch. Secondly, because I think they deserve to be paid far more than they currently are given the training and commitment involved. Ps: Go Crows!"
LISA ALEXANDER
Former Australian Diamonds coach:
"To watch our elite women Australian Rules footballers in action up close and personal is worth every cent of a $10 ticket. This ensures we are seriously valuing the game, its competitiveness and the skill and efforts of the athletes and coaches."
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Home Breaking News Robbie Williams: shock diagnosis for his father
Robbie Williams: shock diagnosis for his father
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In an interview with “mirror.co.uk”, singer Robbie Williams (46) announced that he is currently very concerned about his Father Pete Conway (70) do. Parkinson was diagnosed with the 70-year-old. A diagnosis that puts the singer in “fear and panic”. Because Robbie is now stuck in isolation in Los Angeles due to the blockage of contacts, while his dad is in the UK. But it is not only the serious illness that causes the 46-year-old father a lot of trouble.
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In March the singer had to experience what it means to be separated from your own family. All the more touching was the reunion with wife Ayda and his children, as you can see in the video below.
Robbie Williams: It’s that bad about his family
“We have a lot of family problems right now,” the singer revealed in an interview. “My father has Parkinson’s, my mother-in-law, who I love very much, has a very serious illness. We cannot reach it. My father is thousands of miles away.” Even with his wife’s mother Ayda Field (41) was released last year Parkinson’s detected. But Robbie is also very worried about his own mom. “My mother is only a year before 80 and she is isolated and I can understand how things are spinning in her head,” added the singer.
Is Robbie catching up with the past?
Robbie was concerned in the interview and admitted that the current situation reminded him of difficult past times when he was suffering from depression, alcohol and drug problems. “I noticed at the beginning of the ban that I was scared,” continues Robbie. “But the difference between me now and the person I used to be … I saw it and thought, ‘This is interesting – and tomorrow it will be different.’ And so it was.”
Nevertheless, the singer is aware that he would think too much in the past. He can now deal better with his negative emotions. “I used to think I would feel that way for a decade,” recalls the singer. The former “Take That“Star had a particularly intimate connection with his father. Pete had accompanied him on his tours several times – most recently even in January. A little consolation: Sources from Pete’s environment want to confirm that Robbie’s father is currently diagnosed with shock despite the shock good health.
The family is currently the most important stop in the life of the entertainer. You can see what zest for life Baby Beau gives him in the video below.
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Hero Book 1 – The Assignment
Author: M. S. Parker
Special Forces soldier, Haze Welch, is military born and raised. Serving the country is what the Welch men do, and all Haze has ever wanted.
But during a 18-month tour overseas, his world shatters in an instant. Haze gets injured and is not able to return to active duty. Unable to face the thought of spending the rest of his life behind a desk, he accepts a job offer as a personal bodyguard in Los Angeles for the flighty heiress Leighton Machus.
After all, one spoiled little girl would be a piece of cake compared to everything else I’ve been through, right?
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What’s a birthday without cake or a Thanksgiving dinner without pie? Desserts have always brought people together to celebrate, indulge, and enjoy each other’s company. This year, Atria Books is ready to help you celebrate your most memorable occasions with a free baking sampler ebook featuring the most decadent, delicious, and delectable treats around.
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CJ Sheridan had a plan. A martial artist who can handle a gun, CJ thought he’d follow in the footsteps of his FBI veteran father. When he’s handed a camera that teases potential future tragedies, CJ takes on a new path: saving lives by changing the outcomes.
CJ knows the power of the camera and the horrific price Mark Taylor, the previous owner, paid for its use. He assumes that with an experienced team behind him, there’s no way tragedy can strike twice.
He hops on the chance to save the life of a murder victim, only to find himself accused of planning the very crime he hoped to stop! As he tries to clear his name, another tragic picture appears. One that could tear his city apart. One that could test the very limits of CJ’s wit, courage, and life…
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There is something dynamic that happens when women genuinely show up for each other. When we lose the facades, when we cut the bullsh*t, and when we truly have each others backs. When we stop pretending everything is perfect, and we show the messy, beautiful parts of ourselves and our work that all look awfully similar. When we talk about our fears, our missteps, and our breakdowns. And most importantly, when we share our celebrations, our breakthroughs, and dish on what works.
Romance > Contemporary
Author: Pamela Ann
Bass Cole was devastated when the woman he truly wanted chose her ex-boyfriend over him. Forgetting Emma Anderson wasn’t easy, but he got through it. Months later, he was convinced that he was done and over her… until he found her standing, in shock, inside his cottage in Greece.
He was never more challenged when it came to wanting a woman before. But when he heard that she was single again, all bets were on.
When he finally had Emma, things spiraled out of control when he found out that she was keeping crucial secrets from him. Their separation brought a lot of heartache, but the worse was yet to come.
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To Catch a Bad Guy (Janet Maple Series Book 1)
Romance > Mystery & Suspense
Author: Marie Astor
Janet Maple’s stellar career ended with a lay off and her boyfriend of almost five years told her that he wants to be just friends. When she lands a job at one of New York’s premier boutique investment firms, Janet begins to hope that her luck is finally turning for the better. Not only is she happy with her new paycheck, but things also seem to be looking up on the personal front, as the company’s handsome attorney expresses keen interest in Janet. However, her euphoria is short-lived, as Janet soon discovers alarming facts about her new employer’s business tactics. When her boss dismisses her suspicions as groundless, Janet finds herself confiding to a cute IT engineer, Dean Snider. The closer she gets to Dean, the more Janet is tempted to break her rule of not dating co-workers, but what she doesn’t realize is that everything she knows about Dean, including his occupation and even his name, is a lie.
Casanova Killer, An SSCD Crime Thriller
Author: Tallulah Grace
Catching the eye of a delusional serial killer known as Casanova Killer signals the end for certain beautiful young women of San Francisco. True to his name, Casanova offers the women a taste of romance and unparalleled adoration before sending them to a bloody death.
The FBI Special Serial Crimes Division, SSCD, sets a trap for the killer with one of their own as bait. Agent Jerry Forbes pairs with Interpol’s Ethan Barnes to capture Casanova before another woman falls prey to his charms.
Jerry and Ethan soon discover that pretending to be lovers may be more dangerous than catching a killer. Follow their story from the moment they set up house to the abrupt end that Jerry does not see coming. Is it love or certain death?
Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain
Biographies & Memoirs > Composers & Musicians > Rock
Author: Alan Light
Alan Light, former writer for Rolling Stone, editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin magazines, and author of The Holy or the Broken, “gets inside Prince’s mind palace in Let’s Go Crazy—a history of the making of his historic, semi-autobiographical musical masterwork, Purple Rain”.
Purple Rain is a song, an album, and a film—widely considered to be among the most important albums in music history and often named the best soundtrack of all time. It sold over a million copies in its first week of release in 1984 and blasted to #1 on the charts, where it would remain for a full six months and eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide. It spun off three huge hit singles, won Grammys and an Oscar, and took Prince from pop star to legend—the first artist ever simultaneously to have the #1 album, single, and movie in the country.
Light reveals how a rising but not yet established artist from the Midwest was able not only to get Purple Rain made, but deliver on his promise to conquer the world.
A Will and a Way
Author: Nora Roberts
It was worse than winning the lottery—much worse. This bequest might mean more money, but the strings attached had Pandora McVie tied up in knots. Respecting Uncle Jolley’s last wishes meant spending time isolated in the Catskills with Michael Donahue, her least favorite—though best looking-—distant relative and co-beneficiary.
Living with a carrot-topped termagant wasn’t Michael’s idea of a good time, either, but he realized they were stuck. Jolley was a matchmaker to the end—and apparently for some time beyond. What could happen in six months? Michael answered that one himself: almost anything.
Persephone (The Daughters of Zeus Book 1)
Young Adult > Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author: Kaitlin Bevis
One day Persephone is an ordinary high school junior working at her mom’s flower shop in Athens, Georgia. The next she’s fighting off Boreas, the brutal god of Winter, and learning that she’s a bonafide goddess—a rare daughter of the now-dead Zeus. Her goddess mom whisks her off to the Underworld to hide until Spring.
There she finds herself under the protection of handsome Hades, the god of the dead, and she’s automatically married to him. It’s the only way he can keep her safe. Older, wiser, and far more powerful than she, Hades isn’t interested in becoming her lover, at least not anytime soon. But every time he rescues her from another of Boreas’ schemes, they fall in love a little more. Will Hades ever admit his feelings for her?
Can she escape the grasp of the god of Winter’s minions? The Underworld is a very nice place, but is it worth giving up her life in the realm of the living?
Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up
Alternative Medicine > Naturopathy
Author: Daphne Miller M.D.
In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of “food as medicine” and introduces us to the critical idea that it’s the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.
By venturing out of her clinic and spending time on seven family farms, Miller uncovers all the aspects of farming—from seed choice to soil management—that have a direct and powerful impact on our health. Bridging the traditional divide between agriculture and medicine, Miller shares lessons learned from inspiring farmers and biomedical researchers and artfully weaves their insights and discoveries, along with stories from her patients, into the narrative. The result is a compelling new vision for sustainable healing and a treasure trove of farm-to-body lessons that have immense value in our daily lives.
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Silent Spring
Science & Math > Earth Sciences
Author: Rachel Carson, Linda Lear, Edward O. Wilson
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in theNew Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
Tender Mercies
Author: Kitty Thomas
“Grace. That word that finally meant something again. Mercy. Favor. Good will.”
Fed up with play kink, Grace Warner moves to an island that embraces erotic slavery to be with a man she met online. Within hours of her arrival, everything is ripped from her, and she quickly learns play is preferable to the realities of actual enslavement.
Asher Collins has spent the past year mourning and blaming himself for the death of his slave, Darcy. When Grace catches his eye at a showing, obviously abused, he becomes obsessed with buying her and finding a way to atone for his own past sins.
I Know I Am, But What Are You?
Humor > Essays
Author: Samantha Bee
Candid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from much-loved Samantha Bee, host of TBS’s uproarious late-night show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, executive producer and writer of TBS’s comedy television series The Detour, and former The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s Most Senior Correspondent.
In I Know I Am, But What Are You? she shares her unique and irreverent viewpoint on subjects as wide-ranging as:
BARBIE’S DREAM HOUSE
There were six main players in my coterie: G.I. Joe (macho, good-looking), Wonder Woman (hot, carpet-munching neighbor, busy with athletics), Marie Osmond (career gal, smart), Ken (gay, obviously), regular Barbie (slutty, dumb, eternally single), and an old-timey Barbie from the sixties (smoker’s cough, swinger).
The Bellum Sisters Book Bundle: 4-Book Boxed Set
Romance > Paranormal > Vampires
Author: T. A. Grey
Three Fates. Three Sisters.
The Bellum sisters are endowed with magical and seductive qualities as succubus creatures and although they’ve lived independently for their entire lives, all that is about to change as they reach their 29th birthday.
At a succubus’ 29th year she no longer needs food to sustain herself, but sex. Their father has died and in his wake he has bequeathed his daughters into the ownership of new Protectors: the vampire commander, Tyrian en Kulev; the alpha shapeshifter, Lyonis Keelan; and the demon warlord, Telal Demuzi.
The sisters will fight ancient demons the size of mountains while battling their falling in love, casting a few bad spells, cursing bloody murder, making poor jokes, and cozying up to a hard male body.
Dawnflight (Dragon’s Dove Chronicles Book 1)
Fantasy > Myths & Legends > Greek & Roman
Author: Kim Iverson Headlee, Kim Headlee
Gyan is a Caledonian chieftainess by birth, a warrior and leader of warriors by training, and she is betrothed to Urien, a son of her clan’s deadliest enemy, by right of Arthur the Pendragon’s conquest of her people. For the sake of peace, Gyan is willing to sacrifice everything…perhaps even her very life, if her foreboding about Urien proves true.
Roman by his father, Brytoni by his mother, and denied hereditary rulership of his mother’s clan because of his mixed blood, Arthur has followed his father’s path to become Dux Britanniarum, the Pendragon: supreme commander of the northern Brytoni army. The Caledonians, Scots, Saxons, and Angles keep him too busy to dwell upon his loneliness…most of the time.
When Gyan and Arthur meet, each recognize within the other their soul’s mate. The treaty has preserved Gyan’s ancient right to marry any man, providing he is a Brytoni nobleman—but Arthur does not qualify.
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What can you do in Taree over the weekend?
Go to Ellenborough Falls
Located at Elands, the Ellenborough Falls is one of the longest single drop waterfalls in Australia. It's a top attraction in Manning Valley and well-worth visiting if you're considering purchasing return flights to Taree. There is a viewing platform at the top and steps that lead to the bottom of the valley. It ends at the base of the falls, allowing you to admire the full force of the waterfall up close. You can pack a picnic and spend an hour or two here. Otherwise, if you’re buying airfare to Taree over the weekend, there is a small kiosk selling snacks from Friday to Saturday between 10am to 4pm.
Go on a day trip to Wingham Brush Nature Reserve
Wingham Brush Nature Reserve is located in the nearby town of Wingham. It's home to the last remaining 10 hectares of floodplain rainforest in New South Wales. For nature lovers, it's worth buying cheap flights to Taree to spot the endangered grey-headed flying fox. The reserve is home to one of the largest permanent breeding groups. To increase your chances of seeing these critters, time your trip to the reserve for sunset. Usually, thousands of the flying foxes head out to begin hunting for their dinner.
Spend an afternoon at Harrington Beach
Harrington Beach is located in the fishing village of Crowdy Head. It's a popular spot for travellers buying cheap flights to Taree that love fishing, walking trails and beautiful ocean views. If you're visiting Taree with your family, there's the nearby Harrington Lagoon. It's a safe swimming spot for young children.
Go on a Manning Valley River cruise
Without a doubt, Manning River is the crowning jewel of Taree. The best way for visitors booking flights to Taree to experience its beauty is with a cruise. The cruises usually depart every day from Endeavour Wharf near Fotheringham Park. If you're not a boat person, there are hiking trails through Manning Valley. Brimbin Nature Reserve has a few walks, and you can hire a kayak to cruise past the mangrove-lined waterways.
Go skydiving
End off your weekend trip to Taree with an adrenaline-inducing adventure. You can test your wits by jumping out of a plane and enjoy spectacular views of the coastline and Manning Valley as you return to the ground. These thrilling flights depart from Taree Airport (TRO), and you'll have an experienced instructor to make sure you're safe the entire time.
What are the best restaurants and cafes in Taree?
Raw Sugar Cafe
Need a caffeine fix after your flights to Taree land? Head on over to the quaint Raw Sugar Cafe. It's a popular place for tourists and locals alike. You'll find a decent cup of coffee as well as an array of food options. There are vegetarian dishes available, meals that kids will love and outdoor seating.
Bent on Food
Bent on Food is located in Wingham and is a quick nine-minute drive from Taree. It's an award-winning restaurant that specialises in crafting dishes from regional produce. There's a huge garden on the property, making it a popular choice for families buying cheap flights to Taree. The kids can entertain themselves and burn off some steam while you wait for your food to arrive.
The Sicilian Restaurant
The Sicilian Restaurant overlooks Manning River and is a top spot for locals in Taree. Here, you can experience the flavours of Sicily, which have been influenced by Italian, Greek, Persian and Spanish cuisine. The restaurant serves up delicious meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, making it a good place to visit no matter what time your flights to Taree arrive. If you're looking for a light snack, try the homemade banana bread, or for something more hearty, the meatball pasta is always a winner.
What is the best way to get around Taree?
Transport from Taree Airport (TRO)
Taree Airport (TRO) is only 7km from the city centre. All flights to Taree depart from Sydney with Fly Pelican. If you're travelling from elsewhere in Australia, you'll need to connect via Sydney. Once you arrive, the easiest way to get to your hotel is with a metered cab. You can pre-book a taxi once you’ve bought your tickets to Taree, or you can rent a vehicle when you arrive. Taxi prices are usually between $20 to $25.
You can't rely on public transport to get to the top attractions while in Taree, as the network is limited. When purchasing your return flights to Taree through Webjet, you can reserve a car at the same time. Alternatively, when your flights to Taree arrive at the airport, you can choose from what is available at the rental desks. By having your own set of wheels, you'll have more independence to explore the different regions of Manning Valley and the Great Lakes.
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HR and Payroll Solutions
Search Continues for Employee Retention Silver Bullet
Benefits Insight
By Genevieve Douglas
Human resources departments faced with a tightening labor market are increasingly turning their focus to employee retention and searching for solutions that aren’t just monetary.
Many organizations hoping to retain top talent can’t give workers more money, so they’ve turned to creating benefits packages that will engender employee loyalty, according to new research from MetLife. More employers (83 percent) chose retaining employees as an important benefits objective than increasing employee productivity (80 percent) and controlling health and welfare benefit costs (79 percent). Perhaps even more telling, slightly more than half of employers (51 percent) said that retaining employees through the use of benefits will become even more important in the next three to five years.
“The workforce and the overall concept of work is changing,” in large part due to the rise of the gig economy, Todd Katz, executive vice president of Group Benefits at MetLife, told Bloomberg BNA April 6. Not only is it harder to find the right talent for open positions, but people are increasingly interested in pursuing jobs that are part of the contingent workforce, Katz said.
MetLife found that 51 percent of employees said they would be interested in doing some level of freelance work and that number jumped to 64 percent for millennials. “The traditional employer/employee relationship is being threatened,” Katz said.
MetLife’s annual “U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study” was conducted from October 2016 through November 2016 and consisted of two different surveys. The employer survey is based on 2,504 interviews with benefits decision-makers and the employee survey is based on 2,652 interviews with full-time employees.
Customization Engenders Loyalty
Customization of benefits is the key to attracting and keeping valuable employees, Katz said. “The one-size-fits-all doesn’t work anymore,” he said.
MetLife found that 75 percent of employees said that having benefits customized to meet their needs is important when they consider a new job and 72 percent said that having the ability to customize benefits would increase their loyalty to their employer. People are able to customize nearly everything else in life and they expect to be able to do the same with their benefits, Katz said.
Employers need to offer a broad array of benefits that are holistic enough to recognize the different needs of their workforce, he said.
Wellness benefits, such as employer-sponsored gym memberships or incentive programs for healthy living, are becoming more popular with employees, Katz said. “The key is to cast your net wide, and if you do that you’ll get better [employee] loyalty,” he said.
Addressing Manager/Employee Relationships
Although benefits are certainly part of the solution to improving employee retention, focusing only on these offerings may be “missing the main point” of why workers leave, Rex Conner, author and owner of workplace consultancy Mager Consortium, told Bloomberg BNA April 6. Fixing the root cause of employee retention requires HR to examine manager-employee relationships, he said. “People join companies, but then they leave their boss,” he said.
“When we have conflicts with our boss, it’s because something—a work process—was left open to interpretation,” Conner said. “This subjectivity in the workplace can be a root problem of why employees are unhappy.”
To create happier, more loyal employees, HR must remove subjectivity from job assignments, performance evaluations and other workplace practices. Removing subjectivity will require better communications between employees and supervisors and also clearer workplace programs from HR, Conner said.
For managers, this means offering specific examples of when employees are doing things right, Conner said. This creates something objective on which the employee can be evaluated and get feedback, he added. This is increasingly important when managing younger generations of employees, Conner said. “Millennials are much more apt than their counterparts to leave when they feel they aren’t being treated fairly,” he said.
The fundamental fix for all employees, however, is the same: “Let’s clarify work processes, how you will be evaluated and how you will get pay raises,” Conner said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Genevieve Douglas in Washington at gdouglas@bna.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tony Harris at tharris@bna.com
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david and goliath bible study
Insults ("trash talk") was common practice Who is this uncircumcised 'Saul asked him.
David did the right thing in spite of discouraging insults and fearful threats. mouth.
Philippians All rights reserved. 1, 2, and 3 John Do you need to take courageous action in the face of insults and fearful circumstances?
Evans points out this reminds us of “the lesson God had driven home in the previous chapter about judging someone by their looks” (192). (Psalm 33:16-18, 20), "I do not trust in my bow, And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee. Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith.
It is a lesson of courage, faith, and overcoming what seems impossible. While the Syrian Brown Bear is one of the intrigued.
the boy. he is our help and our shield." [56] I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”, “Now what have I done?” said David. Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab; and the third, Shammah. David To come "in the name of Yahweh Almighty," means to This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. [49]" The and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? Saul, an accomplished warrior himself, tries to give between two armies" (BDB 108, 2). Deuteronomy 2:20-21; 2 Samuel 21:20-22; Numbers 13:22, 28; Joshua 15:13-14. Two to three hold of the Philistine's sword and drew it from the scabbard. But look at the boy's vision: to defeat the entire Philistine army and David, newly anointed but still a boy, was deeply offended by the giant's haughty, mocking challenges. Do We Have Freedom or Responsibility to Wear Face Masks during COVID-19? Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. against him -- without even any armor!
The giant cursed at him, hurling threats and insults.
But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at. David was the youngest of Jesse's twelve sons.
When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock. In order to give you the best experience, we use cookies and similar technologies for performance, analytics, personalization, advertising, and to help our site function.
But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, “Can’t I even speak?”. He later recovers the sword from the tabernacle at And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? Cookies and similar technologies are used to improve your experience, to do things like: Without these technologies, things like personalized recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly. the battle lines for one of his twice-daily taunts.
splayed open as far as possible, usually figured at about 9 inches.
The valley of Elah is a triangle-shaped flat valley, located Lamb of God
Conquering Lamb of Revelation
Instead, he takes on the true number one enemy of Israel (and the world): sin. doesn't fit David. (1 Samuel 17:47). When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. huge -- "Over nine feet" literally "six cubits and a span"[51]
And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of, And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled. "45 You come against me with sword and Set where you live, what language you speak, and the currency you use. Etsy shops never receive your credit card information. the boredom is broken by a huge man of war who taunts the Israelites. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. "The Philistine cursed David by his gods. ', 33 Saul replied, 'You are not able to go Colossians Mediterranean on the west. They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.”.
17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. Galatians This man was big.
terebinth tree (Pistacia palaestina). attack. leave those few sheep in the desert? David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. The sling is an ancient weapon but very simple, and cheap We've sent you an email to confirm your subscription. their lives!
While there, David heard Goliath shouting his daily defiance, and he saw the great fear stirred within the men of Israel. What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
Second, we can see how this story points to Jesus. armor." And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. A single copy of this article is free. David responded, "Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of God?". to a city of Judah, Socoh, into the Valley of Elah, threatening the Israelite
Instead, David chooses his own weapons. Ephesians The armor would destroy David's chief advantage over the giant
The words have been said. Now it's time for action.
The next moment, their champion is lying on the ground and the boy
and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines. David was an ancestor of Jesus Christ, who was often called "Son of David." Great Prayers The Philistines turned and ran when they saw their giant hero killed. Even Goliath mocks this when he sees who Israel chose as their champion and what they chose to give him as a weapon (1 Samuel 17:43). The Israelites must hold this potential attack psychological warfare than a genuine offer from the Philistine generals for King Saul and his army were once again fighting the Philistines. the probabilities. David and Goliath Bible Story Study Guide, Mary Fairchild is a full-time Christian minister, writer, and editor of two Christian anthologies, including "Stories of Cavalry. 17:15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. (Zechariah 4:6), "If God is for us, who can be against us? Jesus and the Kingdom
Anakim.[52]. And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
From having the faith to take on Goliath to trusting God throughout a tumultuous life, he exemplified faith and obedience. "4 A champion named Goliath, who was from (1956) 337; Klein, 1 Samuel, p. 176. spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the Salem Media Group. The sling probably goes back to the Neolithic peoples around First, we can derive the application that God can help us confront any giant he sets before us, often with the tools he has previously given us. 1 Corinthians All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”.
that would prevent the Philistines from moving further inland. http://www.joyfulheart.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1162. Jewish Museum, New York.
Luke No Israelite could see himself beating this monster.
David said, 'I am the son of your servant Jesse of
Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?" You've already signed up for some newsletters, but you haven't confirmed your address. And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. Christian Art, About Us give all of you into our hands."
Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Sokoh in Judah. (17:34-37). will be a shock that might very well determine the outcome of the ensuing Find out more in our Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. He was over nine feet tall.
Imagine being struck in the forehead with a stone the size Just about the time David arrives, Goliath appears between size of males.
Israelite territory in the Shepelah, the low hills to the east of their
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armor-bearer, carried his shield.
Goliath's death has a devastating effect on the Philistine And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
It may be helpful to consider several observations in advance of our study in 1 Samuel 17of David and Goliath. sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will David was just a young teenager at the time. Perhaps David's greatest accomplishment was to be called a man after God's own heart. You can change your preferences any time in your Privacy Settings. I don't accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations. Sling stones from the battle of Lachish, Judah (701 BC).
David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”, Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Exhibits Abenaki Art in Office
July 27, 2019 Administrator 4 Comments
For more information Contact: Vera Longtoe Sheehan, vera.sheehan@abenakiart.org
Image Courtesy of Diane Stevens Photography.
July 26, 2019 – Burlington, VT. – Abenaki art will be on display for the public in Sen. Bernie Sanders Washington DC office from now until November 2019.
Last January, Julia Santos from Senator Sanders office reached out to the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, and the senator’s representative requested that VAAA loan Abenaki artwork to be displayed in the senator’s office as part of an on-going exhibit dedicated to Vermont artists. When asked whether the senator was interested in displaying traditional or contemporary art, Santos suggested that the art represent the beauty of Abenaki culture.
“As the discussion continued, it became clear that the Abenaki people should exhibit a small collection of both traditional and contemporary artists so the art could tell the story of Abenaki continuity of culture in our homeland,” explained Vera Longtoe Sheehan who is the Director of the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association. “It was also important for the Abenaki language to be incorporated into the exhibit title yet for the exhibit name to be understood by a broader audience.”
As visitors enter Sen. Sanders office they are greeted by the exhibit “Askwa n’daoldibna iodali – We are Still Here” which features artwork by well-known artists from three out four of Vermont’s recognized tribes. Some of the highlights include: Amy Hook-Therrien’s, of the Koasek Abenaki Tribe, watercolor painting “An Aerial View of N’Dakinna” depicting the tribal homeland without borders; Jeanne Morningstar of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe’s wood-burned gourd, which tells the story of Gluskape shooting an arrow into the Ash tree and bringing humans into existence; a beaded Chief’s medallion by Lori Lambert, of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe bearing her tribal flag; Vera Longtoe Sheehan, of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe, honoring all Abenaki veterans past and present with a woven bag in the colors of the “Red and Blue Men;” and the photograph Nature’s Palette by Diane Stevens’s of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe. This image won the Best in Color award in the Arts Alive Open Photography Contest.
Sheehan goes on to explain how Abenaki designs carry special meanings, especially when woven into wampum belts that are used in ceremonies. Linda Longtoe Sheehan, also of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe, explains the images on the “Marriage Equality Wampum Belt” which bears the images of “two men together, a man and a woman together, and two women together.”
Last but not least, the acrylic painting 18th Century Abenaki Couple that was created by Francine Poitras Jones. This particular artwork was created by referencing an original 18th century watercolor painting of an Abenaki couple which is in the collection of the Montreal Archives.
“It is important that Abenaki artistry is displayed in the Capitol City of the United States of America. We are part of the original fabric that makes up this country. We continue our governmental relationships with the US Congress delegations as did our ancestors. In this spirit, we must thank Senator Bernie Sanders for hosting our Western Abenaki display and recognizing the importance of indigenous people who still live and thrive in his home state of Vermont,” said Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe.
If you are unable to travel to Washington DC, VAAA has another exhibit is on display at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes, VT. “Nebizun: Water is Life” draws its inspiration from Wabanaki (Native American) Grandmothers that have been doing Water Walks to pray for the water. Grandmother Dorene Bernard and others are currently traveling over 600 kilometers through the traditional territories of the Wabanaki Confederacy tribes (Abenaki, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Malecite). Their journey will take them from Nova Scotia to Nebizun, Maine in “a 53-day ceremony where we’re going to walk with the water, to pray for the water and pray for Mother Earth,” Bernard said.
As fellow citizens of the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Abenaki share their concerns for life bringing waters. “We want to show the Abenaki relationship to water and draw attention to water as a fundamental element that is necessary for all life and acknowledge how pollution can change our traditional lifeways and health,” said Vera Longtoe Sheehan who curated both exhibits.
About the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association (VAAA)
Our mission is to promote Vermont’s Indigenous arts and artists, to provide an organized central place to share creative ideas and professional development as entrepreneurs, and to have a method for the public to find and engage our artists. For more information about VAAA please visit http://abenakiart.org or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Vera Longtoe Sheehan, Director Vermont Abenaki Artists Association (802) 579-0049
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Abenaki Heritage Weekend, Event, Exhibition, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Programs, Teacher Training
April 5, 2018 Administrator Leave a comment
April 19 th, 2018, 7:00 pm – Wearing Our Heritage – Contemporary Abenaki artists and tribal members talk about the meaning of garments, accessories and regalia in their own lives and in the expression of community and tribal identity. This program was created by the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association in partnership with Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and Flynn Center for the Arts, supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Humanities Council. Charlotte Library, Shelburne, VT. Admission is free.
May 7, 2018 – Abenaki Woman’s Panel Discussion- Native American women are perhaps the most marginalized group of people in Vermont. Discussion by a panel of Native women will address their struggles coming to terms with the dichotomy between the respected position of Abenaki women in our past and how society has lost respect for women; their roles as culture bearers, leaders and mothers; and how cultural traditions suggest possibilities for change in the future. This program was created by the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association in partnership with Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and Flynn Center for the Arts, supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Humanities Council. Fletcher Free, Burlington, VT. Admission is free.
June 23 & 24 – Abenaki Heritage Weekend – This special weekend organized by Vermont Abenaki Artists Association and presented at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum gives visitors an Abenaki perspective on life in the Champlain Valley. Dancing, drumming, storytelling, craft and cooking demonstrations are presented by members of Vermont’s Abenaki Tribes. The Native Arts Marketplace and exhibit opening celebration provide opportunities to meet some of the artists featured in the special exhibition Abenaki Ornamaentation: From Trade Beads to Sead Beads. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. Vergennes, VT 05491 · (802) 475-2022. More information
August 3 & 4 – Teaching Abenaki History and Culture. Two day and a half professional development seminar for teachers, museum educators, and home schoolers. Certificate provided upon sucessful completion of 20-hour program. More information
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Abenaki clothing wears a rich history
October 2, 2017 Administrator 2 Comments
By Melanie Plenda, Union Leader, September 22. 2017 5:47PM
Vera Longtoe Sheehan, co-curator of the exhibit Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage, with her painted tolba (turtle) jacket. (Courtesy of Diane Stevens Photography)
WARNER – Next time you see a person wearing a denim jacket or beaded earrings or bracelet, you might do well to take a closer look.
“This is sort of everyday wear that Native people would wear now, and it includes some kinds of things that non-Native people would wear too, but there’s just something about it that shows their native identity,” said Nancy Jo Chabot, curator of the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner.
The new exhibit at the museum, “Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage”, documents the way in which garments and accessories that reflect Abenaki heritage have been – and still are – made and used to express Native identity, according to museum officials.
“You start to see that in little elements in modern clothing,” she said of the portion of the exhibit depicting the current era, “things that wouldn’t look out of place for any modern person walking down the road, but for a Native person have these very distinctively heavy Northeast design elements.
“That’s a crucial, important part of anything we do here at the museum: (showing) that Abenaki people are here, are living, and creating wonderful things. And this exhibit in particular is to show that the Abenaki people that were here, where we are on this land right now, are still here.”
Vera Longtoe Sheehan, an Abenaki teaching artist, activist and director of the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, curated the exhibit with Eloise Beil of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. This exhibit was unique, Sheehan said, in that it is the first traveling exhibit about Abenaki culture co-curated by an Abenaki person and that has been accepted in mainstream galleries such as the Amy Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Performing Arts Center in Burlington, Vt., in addition to museums.
Among other things, the exhibit aims to answer the questions of what it means to be an Abenaki person in the modern world. The exhibit, which is composed of artifact clothing as well as clothing representative of an early time made by contemporary local artists,is the product of a decade-long collaboration among Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and Vermont’s Abenaki artists, community members and tribal leaders.
Like all native tribes, Chabot said, the challenges of understanding their tradition and culture and then making that work in the modern world are huge.
“For Abenaki in particular,” she said, “because there was a time in the early part of the 20th century that being identified as Abenaki Indian was dangerous. Speaking your language was dangerous. So families made conscientious efforts to hide that identity.”
A 17th-century style buckskin dress by Melody Walker Brook, part of the new exhibit of Abenaki clothing traditions at the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum. (Courtesy of Diane Stevens Photography)
What she’s talking about is the time period from 1931 to 1963, when the Abenaki among others were targets of a government-sanctioned sterilization program in New Hampshire and Vermont. Some Abenaki fled. The ones that stayed, hid in plain sight, requiringd them to abandon openly practicing traditions that could identify them as Abenaki. To this day, many tribal elders refuse to admit publically they are Abenaki. As a result, some people believe the Abenaki no longer exist and it is one of the reason the Abenaki – while recognized in Maine and Vermont – are not recognized federally or in New Hampshire. According to government documents the Abenaki can’t prove they’ve consistently existed as a tribe.
“Now we’re in a generation, two generations after that,” Chabot said. “And a lot of people know they have an Indian heritage that are from New Hampshire and Vermont and are in that very challenging place where they want to learn more and are starting to understand some things that their parents or grandparents would do that they wouldn’t have explained years ago.
“So people go about that in many different ways. This is sort of reclaiming their culture. This particular exhibit does that through clothing. . Finding ways to find those cultural threads is very important.”
“In addition to relaying the message that we are still here, the exhibit should show people that we know our history and still practice our culture,” said Longtoe Sheeham. “However, artists don’t need to choose between being a traditional or contemporary artist. Many of us practice both. For instance, I made the Tolba (turtle) Jean Jacket that was designed with traditional designs but I also made the twined woven dress that connects my family tradition to thousands of years of our history.”
The Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum, Education and Cultural Center, 18 Highlawn Road, is open daily May 1 – Oct. 31, Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sunday noon – 5 p.m. In November, the museum is open on weekends from noon to 5 p.m.
The exhibit will be on view in Warner until Oct. 29 and then it will be moving to The Institute for American Indian Studies in Washington, Conn.
For more information, visit the museum’s Facebook page, visit www.indianmuseum.org, call 456-2600 or emailinfo@indianmuseum.org.
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Abenaki cultural artifacts on view at lake museum
CONTEMPORARY ABENAKI ARTISTS share their artwork and family photographs in the special exhibit “Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage,” which is on display at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh through Aug. 12. Photo courtesy Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum will host “Presenting Abenaki Culture in the Classroom,” a summer workshop for educators, this Wednesday, Aug. 2. Members of the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association will serve as faculty for this all-day seminar, and for a series of panel discussions for young adults and adults to be offered in the fall and spring at area libraries.
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Book Review-Mad About Moon by Melissa Foster
Mad About Moon by Melissa Foster
Also in this series: Taming My Whiskey , Tru Blue , Driving Whiskey Wild
Series: The Whiskeys: Dark Knights of Peaceful Harbor #5
Published by World Literary Press on April 10, 2019
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Motorcycle Clubs
Source: Self Purchased
MAD ABOUT MOON is a USA Today Bestseller
Fall in love with Jed and Josie in this emotionally captivating, sexy standalone romance by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster. The perfect love story for those who enjoy fiercely loyal and insanely sexy alpha heroes, smart, sassy heroines, strong family bonds, bikers, babies, and more!
Can true love strike twice in one lifetime? Josie Beckley refuses to believe there is a limit on happiness. A decade after she escaped her abusive parents and lost touch with her siblings, the death of her husband leaves her and her son homeless. But Josie has never been one to wallow in sadness, and when she takes a chance on reconnecting with her siblings, a sinfully handsome bright light from her past shows up and offers to help her find a way out of the darkness.
Most people wouldn't see Jed Moon as someone to look up to. He's been in and out of jail and has lived a less-than-stellar lifestyle. But years ago one woman saw through his nonsense, and he's never forgotten her. Now she's back in his life, and as a prospect for the Dark Knights motorcycle club, Jed promises to keep an eye on the sassy, sexy single mother who has never stopped lighting his fantasies on fire.
Jed and Josie's combustible connection is stronger than ever. Having Josie and her son in his life brings out all of Jed's protective instincts-and visions of a future he never imagined having. But when a shocking revelation knocks the insatiable lovers to their knees, it forces them to make choices that could change their lives forever.
Mad About Moon is the fifth installment in the Whiskey’s series and yeah I am not really reading these books in order even though I know I probably should. But the blurb in this one was what I was really in the mood for and lately I have been mood reading and its been grand. I definitely think I had really high expectations for this book….maybe a bit too high because I had a hard time getting into this one especially the first half. Its a solid story and really good just I didn’t click with the romance for a bit but did enjoy the story overall
Mad About Moon is a story of a second chance love and single parenthood. Jed and Josie met years previous when they were young and fresh and a bit wild. But there was a fierce connection between them but at the time neither was ready for it and went their separate ways. Jed got wild and crazy, did some things he regretted and thanks to the MC he found his way back to solid ground. Josie got married shortly after breaking things off with Jed, a loving man who gave her a beautiful son. But then her husband passed away from a heart defect and financially things are a struggle, barely making it and reconnecting with her sister and brother and stumbling into Jed and the sparks between them fly more fiercely than ever.
“It’s okay, sweetheart,” Red said sweetly. “You’ve been on your own for a long time, but you’ll never have to be alone again.”
Mad About Moon is a story that really delves deep into some serious issues while at the same time not being too dark or serious in those issues. She brings some great humor and levity to the story that offers that balance that is really needed to not overwhelm the reader. I honestly struggled with this couple at times to be honest. I just didn’t quite connect with their romance in many ways especially there in the beginning. It did eventually thaw out but it did take time before I warmed up to this pairing. I did love seeing Josie reconnect with her siblings….that is where I really got to all the feels. They all have suffered such trauma and yet had various paths but find that unity and common ground.
“You can’t choose your parents, but you can choose what kind of parent you will be,”
I really bonded with Jed and Josie’s little boy and he just charmed me in so many ways. Jed is such a strong hero. He has his demons and has made his share of mistakes but has grown in so many ways that is so admirable. I loved seeing his growth and he is a prospect for the MC and boy I wish all prospects were written like Jed. Because WOW….he is one incredible man in all his endeavors that we see here. I especially loved his interactions with Biggs and his sons. It just made me fall more in love with this family even more.
Overall, even though I struggled with the first beginnings, this story offered clarity, a sense of healing and growth and a passionate love worth fighting for and a family coming together in such heartfelt ways.
About Melissa Foster
Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Melissa’s emotional journeys are lovingly erotic and always family oriented, the perfect beach reads for contemporary romance and women's fiction lovers who enjoy reading about loyal, wealthy heroes and smart, sassy heroines with complex relatable issues.
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Young Africans. Peculiarities of Social Practices and their Role in the Formation of the Young Generation
Natalia Krylova, Inna Rybalkina
For the first time in African studies, conducted in Russia, the authors generalize and analyze the experience of centuries-old socialization practices in conjunction with the latest trends in this field.
The problem of childhood has long occupied an independent place in the wide range of scientific disciplines that to some extent examine the image of man. It is difficult to avoid standard phrases expressing the possibilities of studying this stage of a person’s life, all those institutions, rules and codes, traditions, customs and innovations, models of morality and culture that are laid in this unique period of life when mental essence and civil image are formed. One of the main factors of the sociocultural nature that forms a young African is the influence of community norms and traditions of values that hold down a person and tie him to a given social group. In a traditional African society, the family has always been (and remains) the main institution of socialization; for the individual it has been that very sociocultural field within which the personality has been formed. In a large African family, the problem boiles down to the development of a very simple model of behavior – to follow the precepts of the ancestors, to reproduce their experience and skills, to preserve their way of life. The formation of more or less close relations of the child with adults who take care of him/her – parents, relatives, friends of the family, etc. – turns the latter into the main agents of his/her socialization.
At present, one of the most important factors of socialization is schooling. Often children combine study and work; in Africa, child labor is the most common in the world. Despite the official legal prohibition of the use of child labor, family control plays a key role in its practice. It depends mainly on the family whether the child continues to study or leaves school and engages only in labor activity, the latter primarily within the family. The problem of reducing and eradicating child labor has both moral, ethical, and socio-economic aspects. To solve it, it is necessary to expand access to schooling, increase incomes by achieving greater opportunities for employment and earnings for adult workers, and change attitudes towards child labor on the part of the whole society, and at the same time observe the laws regulating its use.
Tropical Africa, North Africa, child labor, traditional education, large African family, child socialization, fertility theory, migration processes, gender differentiation of child labor.
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Aleit Veenstra
Screen(ing) Audiences
Aleit Veenstra, Universiteit Antwerpen
Philippe Meers, Universiteit Antwerpen
Daniël Biltereyst, Universiteit Gent
‘Screen(ing) Audiences’ is a project that researches contemporary film consumption and experience amongst young Flemish audiences (aged 16-18). These audiences grew up in a digitalized media environment, with film being more prominent and accessible than it ever has been. It is amongst them, that we explore whether media use and consumption has changed. Film, we argue, has transformed from one of the central stand-alone media practices, into the first link in a multimedia chain that includes screens as big as the cinema and as small as the mobile phone. Not only the screens have changed though, so has access. Where only a few decades ago film was merely accessible through the cinema, today film can be downloaded, streamed, rented, bought, seen on television and, of course, watched in the cinema, just to name a few options. The changes could not be bigger with research on the young Flemish film audiences conducted a little over a decade ago by Philippe Meers. Or could they?
The Objectives
With the research project ‘Screen(ing) Audiences’ we tap into the debate between, on the one hand, the ‘agency of the audiences’ and, on the other hand, the ‘structures imposed on the audiences’. Once the internet became platform-based (around 2005), no expert knowledge was required to contribute online. A wide body of literature emerged, celebrating the agency of the audiences that were no longer subjected to (powerful) media conglomerates who decided what to screen when and to whom. According to this argument, a new media environment had emerged. It would not take long before the first critiques emerged, directing our gaze towards structural limitations such as the power of and over media platforms (both within and outside the digital environment), the degree to which audiences would indeed participate in this new media environment, how (former) experiences with media shape experiences and how social context (such as income, education etc.) shapes film consumption (e.g. a preference for Hollywood, European or national film). Put shortly, the ‘newness’ of the contemporary media environment is questioned. From this debate, it becomes clear that there is an urgent need for in-depth investigations of lived experiences of film consumption in a digitized media environment.
The research project ‘Screen(ing) Audiences’ is designed in three phases and takes four years (2013-2017). First, we conduct a survey, for which a representative sample will be drawn of 1000 Flemish respondents aged 16-18. In the second phase of the research, we conduct 30 interviews with respondents that indicated willing to participate in further research while filling out the questionnaire. Each interview consists of two parts: one part individually, the second part in the social context of the family. These findings are then confronted with the survey results in the integration phase. Through (integrating) these two studies, we obtain a complex and rich view on the reality of young people and their cinema culture. Moreover, by doing so, we are firmly contributing on European film culture studies.
This project is funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), 2013-2017.
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CS 083: The Throwaway People Pt. 1 (04/03/2018)
April 24, 2018 Uncategorizedchampagnesharks
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Mentioned in the episode:
Update on whether Devonte Hart was intentional murder-suicide: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hart-family-crash-intentional-report-20180401-story.html
“Allison Williams Reveals What White People Ask Her About Get Out” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE0tMvL-aM
Story describing how the Hart parents made Devonte and his siblings dance on camera in their underwear to put on social media: http://www.crimeonline.com/2018/03/30/devonte-hart-and-siblings-appeared-in-unusual-youtube-videos-before-fatal-suv-plunge-that-may-have-killed-the-entire-family/
Stories that updated the Devonte Hart abuse history that came out after we recorded this episode: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/devonte_hart_family_crash_dece.html; https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/devonte_harts_biological_mom_t.html; http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/other_new_developments_in_the.html
3 disturbing tweets by Tariq Nasheed about Devonte Hart https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979542114974425088; https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979564656367779840; https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979566402729209856
Open Secret Documentary, available free online: https://vimeo.com/142444429
Jerry Sandusky’s Black victims: http://blackyouthproject.com/jerry-sandusky-penn-state-black-victims/
Ohio teacher molested her black foster son and had his baby — as crimes went on for years despite red flags” [took two years to be charged]https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ohio-teacher-molested-foster-son-baby-crimes-went-years-despite-red-flags/
https://newsone.com/3786811/lauren-lynn-cross-white-teacher-akron-black-teeanger/
“Neely Fuller – We Are Throwaway People” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmRp6DWPm8w
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Forum For Community Organizations, Funders & Others
BETTER FUTURES
For New York City’s Young Adults Who Are Overage, Under-Credited Or Have Dropped Out
What is being done to transform prospects for these young people & How you can get involved
Progress in high school graduation rates
Successful models and strategies
The role of CBOs and others in creating and implementing new models and strategies
Continuing challenges
Registration: 7:45 am - 8:30 am Event: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Where: Marriott, New York Financial Center, 85 West Street, New York, NY 10006 (map)
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For more information and to RSVP Phone Nichelle at 212 925 6675 ext. 218 or RSVP by EMAIL.
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Leaders from the New York City Department of Education and organizations that are developing the schools and programs
Young people from the new multiple pathways schools and programs
Data about the status of young people
Data about Multiple Pathways
Role of CBO partners
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YOU CAN DO THIS By Corinne Dixon
You can do this,
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You have no choice,
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When will you ever make something out of your life?
You started it,
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Think about it,
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Time Magazine Article about New York City's Multiple Pathways
Connected by 25: Improving the Life Chances of the County’s Most Vulnerable 14 – 24 Year olds
Michael Wald and Tino Martinez, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Out of School Out of Luck New York City’s Disconnected Youth
Mark Levitan, the Community Service Society
Increasing Opportunity and Reducing Poverty in New York City
The Mayor’s Commission on Economic Opportunity
New York City’s Young Adults Newsletter
Youth Development Institute
Summary Findings and Strategic Solutions for Overage and Under-credited Youth
The New York City Department of Education
OFFICE OF MULTIPLE PATHWAYS TO GRADUATION: Overage and Under-Credited Student Population Overview
Certificate presented to Chancellor Klein
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Nutrition. Again.
Hilary Butler - Thursday, January 06, 2011
Yesterday, in discussing the cozy relationship of the medical profession with big pharma while paying lip service to nutrition, I remembered an old book I have on this topic. It's quaint title is, "Intestinal Gardening for the Prolongation of Youth". It was written by Dr James Empringham, and published in 1926. It's fascinating; makes me chuckle, and roll my eyes at the same time. Why? Because it shows just how insular the average doctor was. And by proxy, still is. Much of what he writes is just plain common sense, which us fruitloops have long been wise to. There are a few interesting gems in this book, so have a gander at this lot:
The Foreward is by Dr Harvey W. Wiley who was formerly Director of the Bureau of Foods, Sanitation & Health, and Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Government. Amongst his words, he had this to say:
"In philanthropic work, among those whose situation in life does not permit the private employment of health officers, sanitarians and physicians, the most important work is that of proper nutrition."
Let's just translate that, for those not used to 84 year old diplomacy. Read that as, "If you are dealing with charitable medical cases who can't afford doctors and live in lousy surrounding, your most important job is making sure they eat properly."
Remember that American medicine was user pays - until Obama got into the act.
He continues: "Fortunately, the proper foods are always the cheapest foods because foods which are eaten as nearly as possible as nature has made them have more vitality than foods which are manipulated, refined, overcooked or otherwise changed from their natural state. This book on nutrition, in my opinion, should serve a very useful purpose both in securing better nutrition for those to whom charity is offered, and at the same time providing a more wholesome and nutrition diet both in health and disease."
The medical profession openly acknowledge that the "classes" in which nutritional ignorance was higher, were the lower socio-economic groups.
But on a general note, given the fact that so little food was refined in those days, compared to today, I think he'd die of fright if he saw what was on most people's plates today. Including the plates of many who would consider themselves educated upper class, and who would never ask for "charity" medicine.
But who, amongst the medical profession today, makes any sort of attempt to publish a book on nutrition, like these medical doctors did in 1926?
The heading for chapter one is.... "Our bodies are gardens". Precisely. But again, unfortunately, amongst "high user" patients, who frequent the hospitals, (with their bills being picked up from everyone else's taxes)... how many would really understand the concept of a "garden" in order to metaphorically apply that to their bodies? If you said to them, "Did you know your body is a garden?" would they smile, thinking you were saying they were as pretty as that flower out front which they couldn't name? Getting the meaning of the principle might be beyond them. Why? Because neither doctors, nor schools have taught this in the recent past, and the Government just nuked the new "Gardening in schools" programme. Yet way way back, the education department used to provide schools with vegetable seeds, and gardening tools....
On page 183 in this American book, we read, "Public schools teach everything, it seems to me, except how to eat and how to live."
(Nothing's changed, 84 years later....)
"there is certain fundamental knowledge which every individual should possess regarding foods. Everyone should know the why and wherefore of eating. They should know what to choose and what to avoid. The science of foods is a vital, everyday science, a science essential to the welfare of the human race."
Very true. But you wouldn't know it, if New Zealand hospital food is used as your measure of the medical profession's scientific understanding of nutrition. I doubt that atrocious hospital food indicates that there isn't enough money, because surely, something as fundamental as good food - which can definitely shorten a hospital stay by speeding healing - should be the fundamental priority in hospitals. After all, a day's stay in hospital is a lot more expensive than a day's food for one patient.
Chapter 25, titled "Why don't doctors prevent disease?" lays out the dichotomy ....The author tells the joke about the man mopping up the water in the basement directly underneath a basin with a running tap..., because he's being paid sixpence an hour to clean it up. When asked why he didn't just turn the tap off, his reply was something like, "...because I'm being paid to clean up the mess. If I turn of the tap, I won't get paid."
Touche, and there you have it. The author of the book however, didn't like this joke. He felt that the fault wasn't with the doctors. He went on to whine:
"No class of men gratuitously give so much of their time as physicians, but they must eat and drink and wear clothes like other people, and these things cost money.
The truth is, no man will pay a cent to the doctor until he or his family are sick.
..It is perfectly true that "an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cures," and wherever the experiment has been tried on a large scale it has proved the truth of this proverb, but every successful enterprise that has yet been made in the prevention of sickness, has necessarily been carried on by government, or by philanthropy and never by the medical profession as a self-supporting proposition."
The truth hurt, but he had to admit that doctors need sick people in order to live a lifestyle to which they are accustomed, and... after all, they have no other training... What would they do out in the real world?
He then details how most of the most influential means of preventing disease in the previous century, was provision of sewage, clean water, draining mosquito marshes etc!!!
Today, such "historical progress" is attributed to antibiotics, vaccines, and the heroic medical profession. In 1926, doctors couldn't bullshit about "progress" because antibiotics hadn't been invented; there weren't too many vaccines for too many disorders and most people were in the middle of that public health revolution and could see the changes with their own eyes.
The author of this book, then comes back to the importance of nutrition and says, "Four hundred thousand American children die every year from various causes - most of them victims of parental ignorance. And those that survive, generally have laid the foundation of maladies that will curse them later in life. If you would avoid diabetes, Bright's disease, rheumatism, heart disease and other maladies, begin when the man is an infant. ... Pre-natal existence is the most important part of a man's life. If the mother's diet lack essential elements at this time, the unborn babe will not only sustain injuries itself, but will tear down the maternal body to secure the building material it needs."
Our epigenetics guru, Professor Peter Gluckman would agree. But only sort of... . An article in the NZ Herald in 2006 had the headline Good nutrition 'should start in the womb' ! But I was speechless when I read: "Institute director Professor Peter Gluckman said medical science was just beginning to understand this "novel, revolutionary idea"."
There is nothing "novel" or" revolutionary" about it. Unless you are a doctor who has never come across such a common sense idea before.
However, their solution didn't seem to be educating mothers but: Dr Kuzawa and his team at Chicago's Northwestern University hope to work with Auckland University's Liggins Institute to develop ways to treat adult diseases through prevention as early as in neonates.
Well, why not turn the tap off, and deal with it when men are foetuses???
The lead author who has been studying child nutrition since 1997 said,
"The contribution of malnutrition to ALRI disease burden in NZ requires greater clarification. Such clarification is necessary to inform the development of nutritional policy"
Will this clarification process continue for at least another 13 years?
Will our great grandchildren read some knighted bright spark in 84 years time from now, talking about decent nutrition during pregnancy, or even childhood --- being described as a "novel, revolutionary" idea?
Even more importantly, what will be the health status of those children if the next 84 years is as bad as the last 84 years has been? You'd think people would be really well informed about good nutrition... but do they?
Listen to this programme, and see what you think? There are some home truths here which should be noted:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/lectures_and_forums/smart_talk/2009/radio_nz_-_smart_talk_innovation_and_food
( It's a bit of a tragedy when Dr Cronin thinks that baking muffins and cake is a good sign for cooking in the future! )
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A new TwIST: Two-step iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithms for image restoratin (0)
by J M Bioucas-Dias, M Figueiredo
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm with application to . . .
by Amir Beck, Marc Teboulle , 2009
"... We consider the class of Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithms (ISTA) for solving linear inverse problems arising in signal/image processing. This class of methods is attractive due to its simplicity, however, they are also known to converge quite slowly. In this paper we present a Fast Iterat ..."
We consider the class of Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithms (ISTA) for solving linear inverse problems arising in signal/image processing. This class of methods is attractive due to its simplicity, however, they are also known to converge quite slowly. In this paper we present a Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (FISTA) which preserves the computational simplicity of ISTA, but with a global rate of convergence which is proven to be significantly better, both theoretically and practically. Initial promising numerical results for wavelet-based image deblurring demonstrate the capabilities of FISTA.
...1/k 2 ), k being the iteration number. Moreover, FISTA shares the same simplicity and computational demand of ISTA. Recently, several accelerations of ISTA have been proposed in the literature, e.g., =-=[11, 12]-=-. The recent scheme of [11], called TwIST, uses at each step the last two iterations and is also based on a ”gradient” type step followed by a shrinkage operation. Within another line of analysis, the...
Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation
by Stephen J. Wright , Robert D. Nowak , Mário A. T. Figueiredo , 2007
"... Finding sparse approximate solutions to large underdetermined linear systems of equations is a common problem in signal/image processing and statistics. Basis pursuit, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), wavelet-based deconvolution and reconstruction, and compressed sensing ..."
Finding sparse approximate solutions to large underdetermined linear systems of equations is a common problem in signal/image processing and statistics. Basis pursuit, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), wavelet-based deconvolution and reconstruction, and compressed sensing (CS) are a few well-known areas in which problems of this type appear. One standard approach is to minimize an objective function that includes a quadratic (ℓ2) error term added to a sparsity-inducing (usually ℓ1) regularizer. We present an algorithmic framework for the more general problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a nonsmooth, possibly nonconvex, sparsity-inducing function. We propose iterative methods in which each step is an optimization subproblem involving a separable quadratic term (diagonal Hessian) plus the original sparsity-inducing term. Our approach is suitable for cases in which this subproblem can be solved much more rapidly than the original problem. In addition to solving the standard ℓ2 − ℓ1 case, our approach handles other problems, e.g., ℓp regularizers with p � = 1, or group-separable (GS) regularizers. Experiments with CS problems show that our approach provides state-of-the-art speed for the standard ℓ2 − ℓ1 problem, and is also efficient on problems with GS regularizers. Index Terms — sparse approximation, compressed sensing, optimization, reconstruction.
Proximal Splitting Methods in Signal Processing
by Patrick L. Combettes, Jean-Christophe Pesquet
"... The proximity operator of a convex function is a natural extension of the notion of a projection operator onto a convex set. This tool, which plays a central role in the analysis and the numerical solution of convex optimization problems, has recently been introduced in the arena of inverse problems ..."
The proximity operator of a convex function is a natural extension of the notion of a projection operator onto a convex set. This tool, which plays a central role in the analysis and the numerical solution of convex optimization problems, has recently been introduced in the arena of inverse problems and, especially, in signal processing, where it has become increasingly important. In this paper, we review the basic properties of proximity operators which are relevant to signal processing and present optimization methods based on these operators. These proximal splitting methods are shown to capture and extend several well-known algorithms in a unifying framework. Applications of proximal methods in signal recovery and synthesis are discussed.
...satisfies (∀n ∈ Nr {0}) f1(xn) + f2(xn) ≤ f1(x) + f2(x) + 2β‖x0 − x‖ 2 (n+ 1)2 . (23) Other variations of the forward-backward algorithm have also been reported to yield improved convergence profiles =-=[20, 70, 97, 134, 135]-=-. Problem 3.1 and Proposition 3.3 cover a wide variety of signal processing problems and solution methods [55]. For the sake of illustration, let us provide a few examples. For notational convenience,...
NESTA: A Fast and Accurate First-Order Method for Sparse Recovery
by Stephen Becker, Jérôme Bobin, Emmanuel J. Candès , 2009
"... Accurate signal recovery or image reconstruction from indirect and possibly undersampled data is a topic of considerable interest; for example, the literature in the recent field of compressed sensing is already quite immense. Inspired by recent breakthroughs in the development of novel first-order ..."
Accurate signal recovery or image reconstruction from indirect and possibly undersampled data is a topic of considerable interest; for example, the literature in the recent field of compressed sensing is already quite immense. Inspired by recent breakthroughs in the development of novel first-order methods in convex optimization, most notably Nesterov’s smoothing technique, this paper introduces a fast and accurate algorithm for solving common recovery problems in signal processing. In the spirit of Nesterov’s work, one of the key ideas of this algorithm is a subtle averaging of sequences of iterates, which has been shown to improve the convergence properties of standard gradient-descent algorithms. This paper demonstrates that this approach is ideally suited for solving large-scale compressed sensing reconstruction problems as 1) it is computationally efficient, 2) it is accurate and returns solutions with several correct digits, 3) it is flexible and amenable to many kinds of reconstruction problems, and 4) it is robust in the sense that its excellent performance across a wide range of problems does not depend on the fine tuning of several parameters. Comprehensive numerical experiments on realistic signals exhibiting a large dynamic range show that this algorithm compares favorably with recently proposed state-of-the-art methods. We also apply the algorithm to solve other problems for which there are fewer alternatives, such as total-variation minimization, and
...on, only a few methods have been proposed to solve the more general problem (6.4) even when A is a projector. Known methods include interior point methods (ℓ1magic) [10], proximal-subgradient methods =-=[5, 19]-=-, Split-Bregman [33], and the very recently introduced RecPF4 [55], which operates in the special case of partial Fourier measurements. Roughly, proximal gradient methods approach the solution to (6.4...
Fast gradient-based algorithms for constrained total variation image denoising and deblurring problems
by Amir Beck, Marc Teboulle - IEEE TRANSACTION ON IMAGE PROCESSING , 2009
"... This paper studies gradient-based schemes for image denoising and deblurring problems based on the discretized total variation (TV) minimization model with constraints. We derive a fast algorithm for the constrained TV-based image deburring problem. To achieve this task we combine an acceleration of ..."
This paper studies gradient-based schemes for image denoising and deblurring problems based on the discretized total variation (TV) minimization model with constraints. We derive a fast algorithm for the constrained TV-based image deburring problem. To achieve this task we combine an acceleration of the well known dual approach to the denoising problem with a novel monotone version of a fast iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (FISTA) we have recently introduced. The resulting gradient-based algorithm shares a remarkable simplicity together with a proven global rate of convergence which is significantly better than currently known gradient projections-based methods. Our results are applicable to both the anisotropic and isotropic discretized TV functionals. Initial numerical results demonstrate the viability and efficiency of the proposed algorithms on image deblurring problems with box constraints.
...vergence rate O(1/k 2 ), where k is the iteration counter, and which is significantly faster than standard gradient-based methods such as iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithms (ISTA), see e.g., =-=[3, 10]-=- and references therein. The scheme developed in [1] relies on an extension of a gradient 2projection method which is not so well known and was invented by Nesterov in 1983 [20] for minimizing smooth...
Fast image recovery using variable splitting and constrained optimization
by Manya V. Afonso, José M. Bioucas-dias, Mário A. T. Figueiredo - IEEE Trans. Image Process , 2010
"... Abstract—We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard formulations of image restoration and reconstruction which consists of an unconstrained optimization problem where the objective includes an `2 data-fidelity term and a nonsmooth regularizer. This formulation allows both wavele ..."
Abstract—We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard formulations of image restoration and reconstruction which consists of an unconstrained optimization problem where the objective includes an `2 data-fidelity term and a nonsmooth regularizer. This formulation allows both wavelet-based (with orthogonal or frame-based representations) regularization or total-variation regularization. Our approach is based on a variable splitting to obtain an equivalent constrained optimization formulation, which is then addressed with an augmented Lagrangian method. The proposed algorithm is an instance of the so-called alternating direction method of multipliers, for which convergence has been proved. Experiments on a set of image restoration and reconstruction benchmark problems show that the proposed algorithm is faster than the current state of the art methods. Index Terms—Augmented Lagrangian, compressive sensing, convex optimization, image reconstruction, image restoration,
... that if and is convex, the algorithm converges to a solution of (5) [13]. However, it is known that IST may be quite slow, specially when is very small and/or the matrix is very ill-conditioned [4], =-=[5]-=-, [21], [27]. This observation has stimulated work on faster variants of IST, which we will briefly review in the next paragraphs. In the two-step IST (TwIST) algorithm [5], each iterate depends upon ...
Curvelet-Wavelet Regularized Split Bregman Iteration for Compressed Sensing
by Gerlind Plonka, Jianwei Ma
"... Compressed sensing is a new concept in signal processing. Assuming that a signal can be represented or approximated by only a few suitably chosen terms in a frame expansion, compressed sensing allows to recover this signal from much fewer samples than the Shannon-Nyquist theory requires. Many images ..."
Compressed sensing is a new concept in signal processing. Assuming that a signal can be represented or approximated by only a few suitably chosen terms in a frame expansion, compressed sensing allows to recover this signal from much fewer samples than the Shannon-Nyquist theory requires. Many images can be sparsely approximated in expansions of suitable frames as wavelets, curvelets, wave atoms and others. Generally, wavelets represent point-like features while curvelets represent line-like features well. For a suitable recovery of images, we propose models that contain weighted sparsity constraints in two different frames. Given the incomplete measurements f = Φu + ɛ with the measurement matrix Φ ∈ R K×N, K<<N, we consider a jointly sparsity-constrained optimization problem of the form argmin{‖ΛcΨcu‖1 + ‖ΛwΨwu‖1 + u 1 2‖f − Φu‖22}. Here Ψcand Ψw are the transform matrices corresponding to the two frames, and the diagonal matrices Λc, Λw contain the weights for the frame coefficients. We present efficient iteration methods to solve the optimization problem, based on Alternating Split Bregman algorithms. The convergence of the proposed iteration schemes will be proved by showing that they can be understood as special cases of the Douglas-Rachford Split algorithm. Numerical experiments for compressed sensing based Fourier-domain random imaging show good performances of the proposed curvelet-wavelet regularized split Bregman (CWSpB) methods,whereweparticularlyuseacombination of wavelet and curvelet coefficients as sparsity constraints.
...point continuation [30], inverse scale space nonlinear diffusion [31, 37], Bayesian statistical method [32], spectral projected gradient method [53], iterative shrinkage/thresholding (IST) algorithms =-=[18, 2, 3, 24, 45, 28, 40]-=-, model-based recovery algorithm [1], and nonconvex ℓp-norm optimization with p ∈ (0, 1) [13, 46]. Among the existing methods, the iterative shrinkage methods are quite universal, robust and simple to...
An augmented Lagrangian approach to the constrained optimization formulation of imaging inverse problems
"... Abstract—We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly nonsmooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations sufficiently well. Although the regularizer and con ..."
Abstract—We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly nonsmooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations sufficiently well. Although the regularizer and constraint are usually convex, several particular features of these problems (huge dimensionality, nonsmoothness) preclude the use of off-the-shelf optimization tools and have stimulated a considerable amount of research. In this paper, we propose a new efficient algorithm to handle one class of constrained problems (often known as basis pursuit denoising) tailored to image recovery applications. The proposed algorithm, which belongs to the family of augmented Lagrangian methods, can be used to deal with a variety of imaging IPLIP, including deconvolution and reconstruction from compressive observations (such as MRI), using either total-variation or wavelet-based (or, more generally, frame-based) regularization. The proposed algorithm is an instance of the so-called alternating direction method of multipliers, for which convergence sufficient conditions are known; we show that these conditions are satisfied by the proposed algorithm. Experiments on a set of image restoration and reconstruction benchmark problems show that the proposed algorithm is a strong contender for the state-of-the-art. Index Terms—Convex optimization, frames, image reconstruction, image restoration, inpainting, total-variation. A. Problem Formulation
...e [31], [47]. For solving problems of the form (4), some of the state-of-the-art algorithms belong to the iterative shrinkage/thresholding (IST) family [18], [21], [30], [36], and its two-step (TwIST =-=[9]-=- and FISTA [5]) and accelerated (SpaRSA [54]) variants. These methods were shown to be considerably faster than earlier methods, including [38] and the codes in the -magic 2 and the SparseLab 3 toolbo...
On the Role of Sparse and Redundant Representations in Image Processing
by Michael Elad, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Yi Ma - PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE – SPECIAL ISSUE ON APPLICATIONS OF SPARSE REPRESENTATION AND COMPRESSIVE SENSING , 2009
"... Much of the progress made in image processing in the past decades can be attributed to better modeling of image content, and a wise deployment of these models in relevant applications. This path of models spans from the simple ℓ2-norm smoothness, through robust, thus edge preserving, measures of smo ..."
Much of the progress made in image processing in the past decades can be attributed to better modeling of image content, and a wise deployment of these models in relevant applications. This path of models spans from the simple ℓ2-norm smoothness, through robust, thus edge preserving, measures of smoothness (e.g. total variation), and till the very recent models that employ sparse and redundant representations. In this paper, we review the role of this recent model in image processing, its rationale, and models related to it. As it turns out, the field of image processing is one of the main beneficiaries from the recent progress made in the theory and practice of sparse and redundant representations. We discuss ways to employ these tools for various image processing tasks, and present several applications in which state-of-the-art results are obtained.
Image deblurring and superresolution by adaptive sparse domain selection and adaptive regularization
by Weisheng Dong, Lei Zhang, Guangming Shi, Senior Member, Xiaolin Wu - IEEE Trans. Image Process , 2011
"... Abstract—As a powerful statistical image modeling technique, sparse representation has been successfully used in various image restoration applications. The success of sparse representation owes to the development of the-norm optimization techniques and the fact that natural images are intrinsically ..."
Abstract—As a powerful statistical image modeling technique, sparse representation has been successfully used in various image restoration applications. The success of sparse representation owes to the development of the-norm optimization techniques and the fact that natural images are intrinsically sparse in some do-mains. The image restoration quality largely depends on whether the employed sparse domain can represent well the underlying image. Considering that the contents can vary significantly across different images or different patches in a single image, we propose to learn various sets of bases from a precollected dataset of ex-ample image patches, and then, for a given patch to be processed, one set of bases are adaptively selected to characterize the local sparse domain. We further introduce two adaptive regularization terms into the sparse representation framework. First, a set of autoregressive (AR) models are learned from the dataset of ex-ample image patches. The best fitted AR models to a given patch are adaptively selected to regularize the image local structures. Second, the image nonlocal self-similarity is introduced as an-other regularization term. In addition, the sparsity regularization parameter is adaptively estimated for better image restoration performance. Extensive experiments on image deblurring and super-resolution validate that by using adaptive sparse domain se-lection and adaptive regularization, the proposed method achieves much better results than many state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of both PSNR and visual perception. Index Terms—Deblurring, image restoration (IR), regulariza-tion, sparse representation, super-resolution. I.
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Scottish Ensemble
What may be the last orchestral concert Cockermouth Music Society will be able to bring to Cockermouth sparkled with energy from a brilliant group of string players . Playing a seamless string of pieces which followed from one to the next in a remarkable way, the group gave us string playing at its best, full of great sound and energy. Soloists wandered amongst the audience to bring the experience even closer and the candles that flickered behind the players added to the atmosphere. Modern technology provided the musicians with music on their stands which was lit to give excellent clarity and the pages turned automatically as players pressed their foot pads. Many were the admiring comments at the end of the evening and one can only hope that financial help (for many years provided by the charity Orchestras Live) will be forthcoming in the future to enable such concerts to continue for the benefit of the town of Cockermouth and the people of West Cumbria.
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The Takeaway: Henrion’s Hat Trick Propels UNH to 4-0 Win
Posted by: Josh Seguin
Durham, NH – UNH and UMass skated to a tentative 0-0 tie after one period, but UNH would take advantage in the second period with two goals. John Henrion opened the scoring at one minute, 10 seconds of the second period as Casey Thrush and him came in on a two on 1. Thrush sent a pass to a wide open Henrion and the score would be 1-0 UNH. Henrion later scored on the power-play coming around the net on a wicked wrister that beat Masterlerz glove side, high to send UNH into the second intermission leading the Minutemen 2-0.
Matt Willows would open the scoring in the third period, as Dan Correale sent him in behind the UMass defense and Willows beat Masterlerz through the five-hole and it was 3-0 UNH. UNH would add an empty-net goal on the John Henrion hat-trick marker and the Wildcats picked up the 4-0 win.
UNH moves into a one point lead in the Hockey East Standings ahead of BC, Providence, and UMass-Lowell, while UMass falls into ninth place out of the playoffs with the loss. UNH’s lead could be short-lived as Lowell will take on Merrimack in a 4 pm matinee at the Lawler Arena tomorrow. With games still pending UNH moves up to fourth place in the ever important Pairwise Rankings, which would give them a number one seed if the NCAA tournament were to begin today.
What I saw
Both teams played really well throughout the game, just UNH played that much better. Compared to last night, the game was a 360 as it seemed both teams played for a win instead of playing to not lose. The effort from both teams was there and only the first period seemed a bit tentative.
Both UMass and UNH played really well defensively. UNH held UMass to just three grade-A opportunities in the first 2 period including 0 in the first period, while UMass held UNH top just 11 in the first two periods. For the big sheet of ice at the Whittemore center those numbers are quite low.
Despite the result, Steve Masterlerz played really well in the contest. He stopped everything that he saw on the night and had really good rebound control. Unfortunate him the defense and goaltender,Casey Desmith, on the opposite end played just a little bit better.
The effort given by UNH in this game was probably one of their highest this semester. The defensive breakdowns that have troubled them this semester, the inconsistencies in all aspects of their game and the lack of effort that have been the name of their game throughout the semester were non-existent on this night. For the first time this half it seemed as though they gained the urgency needed to compete for the regular season title.
UMass, despite the score, played well defensively the whole weekend and especially on this night. They gave UNH few opportunities on Saturday night, but UNH was opportunistic on the opportunities they had. Going into next weekend the Minutemen will have a lot of positives to take out of this weekend against UNH. Putting consistency together for a full 60 minutes instead of say 50 might go a long way for them.
UMass Coach John Michelletto said,
“I was happy all weekend with our team defense. I thought we defended away and I thought we defended the rush pretty well. Certainly a handful that we gave up Steve Masterlerz had another great night.”
“Its been that way for a while now. Everybody is fighting for every point, whether you are fighting to get in the playoffs or you are a team like UNH wanting to get home-ice. It is the beauty of our league right now that eight of ten teams make the playoffs. Knowing that our destiny is our own hands. The only people we have to entrust in that is us.”
UNH coach Dick Umile said,
“Obviously the way things shook out today, it was a big opportunity for us and I thought the team came out from the beginning with great jump.”
“I would agree that it was a pretty complete game from us. We started from the beginning and we did a lot of things well from our own end. The guys responded and played well tonight, penalty-kill, power-play and five on five play.”
UNH forward John Henrion said,
“I thought we played a full 60 minute hockey game. Obviously after last night we were determined to get two points. It was a huge opportunity for us and we took full advantage of it.”
What They Didn’t Say
UMass coach John Michelletto mentioned that first liner Michael Pereira missed much of the second half of the game. Pereira came out for his next shift but did not return after. In the first period UNH’s Dan Correale checked him hard and high, seemingly with an elbow. Pereira was down for a minute but skated back to the bench on his own power and returned for the next shift. No injury was given by the coach, but one could speculate a concussion that is very plausible given the type of hit. Michelletto was upset in the post game press-conference that only a minor penalty was called on Correale.
What Else You Should Know
UNH will play in a huge rivalry weekend at home next weekend against the University of Maine. Not only will a rivalry be in play but both teams will have a lot to fight for, as UNH will be fighting for home-ice in the first round, while Maine will be fighting to hold on to the eighth and final playoff berth. UNH defeated Maine 4-0 earlier in the season, but the Black Bear team that they will will see over the weekend is a much different one than they saw early in November.
UMass will play Merrimack in a home and home series next weekend. UMass will need to put together consecutive, solid performances to beat Merrimack. Friday night they will play at Lawler Arena on the campus of Merrimack College and on Saturday they will host the Warriors. The Minutemen now sit one point back of Maine for the eighth and final playoff spot.
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How do you weigh where to make the next investment?
By Mick Peters July 11, 2017 | 6:37 pm EDT
Photo by Wikimedia
Early in my operations management career, I was talking to the VP of Manufacturing at our company. He was exasperated that the owner just ordered another edgebander, which was nice, but not his highest priority. Our bottlenecks were coming from other issues, yet he would now devote resources to the new bander rather than working on more pressing problems.
How do you decide where to make the next investment?
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Many in our industry come from hands-on manufacturing roots. How many websites have a “History” tab that contains something like: “it all started with a craftsman, in a garage with a table saw…” So naturally, most owners have an affinity for technologies that directly affect manufacturing.
When technology other than machinery is under consideration, the typical first response by most managers falls on a sliding scale. The further the investment is from machines, the less enthusiastic the response.
To make my point, here are three hypothetical examples:
Technology Investment Under Consideration
Typical Initial Response
New CNC router
More parts/hour, Better accuracy
Yes of course!
New engineering and nesting software
More jobs/month, Better data to shop, Faster running nests
“Office software” …ERP
Improves: quotes, order processing, scheduling, purchasing, inventory, project management, job tracking/costing…
Are you sure we need it?
Going back to my opening paragraph, about the time the new edgebander arrived, we also got started implementing our first fully integrated software system (ERP). Within less than a year, the software investment had made an enormous impact on the overall workflow in the company.
During that time, orders increased by over 50%, partly because we cut production lead times by several weeks. At the same time, we reduced inventory by $400K, freeing up precious working capital.
Coordination of workflow and timing of resources is just as important as the machinery and manufacturing methods.
Now to give the skeptics their due, implementation of these investments increases in difficulty, as they get more comprehensive. Big ERP implementations are notorious for risks and cost overruns.
However, as with any significant investment, due diligence has its rewards. Planning should always begin with a careful needs assessment that considers the entire workflow from quoting to financials. With this benchmark, evaluation of options becomes a logical process, rather than the typical chaos of PowerPoint presentations and demos.
Once a selection is made, the next step is an implementation plan. Here, success depends on an honest assessment of your company’s capabilities and the time available to do the work.
Finally, project management is just as important during a software implementation, as it is with the production orders your company fulfills. Management of the many details of a project is a necessary component of the order, and trying to do without project management is a recipe for disaster.
In just a few weeks I will be speaking at a couple of the many Industry 4.0 seminars as AWFS. There will be lots of talk about the Internet of Things and many cutting-edge concepts, but a basic integration of workflow is still the first and most impactful improvement. Take the opportunity to learn about these important concepts.
You couldn’t meet your current production goals with a table saw in a garage, nor should you use manual systems to manage your state-of-the-art production facility.
Hear Mick Peters, author of Love Thy Data, at the Woodworking Network Leadership Forum, July 18 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
AWFS Fair 2017
Mick Peters
Mick Peter’s career began in operations management in the manufacture of cabinets and custom architectural millwork, then to hospitality and dormitory, and next retail furniture products. The last two positions involved implementation of ERP from scratch. Both projects went live in under one year. These manufacturing management positions were followed by 12 years as president of InterPort Corporation, a consulting company and contract supplier to brands such as Century Furniture. Mick was also the developer of Trakker manufacturing planning and control software. In 1998 Mick became a founder and the first associate member of Roger Shaw & Associates (RSA).
In 2014 Love Thy Data was published by Archway, aimed at helping business managers understand the reasons ERP is important, what to look for, and how to prepare for implementation. Mick is currently with Applied Automation Technologies LLC, specializing in ERP and manufacturing systems integration for the woodworking industry.
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Column #536 The Junior Dart Association
May 1, 2017 Dartoid's Column
Column #536
The Junior Dart Association
There’s so much positive going on in the wide world of darts these days. At the top of the list for many is the recent announcement that yours truly will stop writing about our sport – just as soon as my 1001st column hits this space. Extrapolating from 1995 when my first column appeared this will occur in approximately May 2038, by which time the ADO may have published a proper financial statement. Perhaps not. Buster Douglas knocked out Muhammad Ali, so anything’s possible.
Uppermost among other positive developments are the return of the PDC to Las Vegas and launch of the CDC’s third season. Every player in North America should take full advantage of all that is on offer.
There’s more but lesser known news which deserves to be widely broadcast – and I’m not talking about RedEye Rhino’s rumored pending announcement that they are now “full partners” with the MGM and have “sold out” the fourth Ali vs. Frazier fight and Elvis’ return later this summer.
Nope, what I am talking about is the Junior Dart Association (JDA) way up north in the state that fields pee wee football players against Ohio State each November. Check out the feature photo at the top of this column to get a sense of the excitement. The photo was taken at the 2015 Meijer State Games of Michigan and featured in a story by Peter Wallner (who was contacted to authorize it’s use).
The cool cat and certain to be future lady killer with the fedora and snappy shirt is Nickolas Osmolinski, son of Christi and Steve Osmolinski. Nicholas is one of the original youth league members. He has a scholarship fund and has a string of victories under his belt already. Although only in the 4th grade he’s proficient at a 10th math level – an achievement credited in large part to his participation in darts. Nicknamed the Wizard of Fries, it’s no surprise that his favorite player is Simon Whitlock.
Scratching his chin hair at Nicholas’ left is Brody Offutt, Willy Doit’s nephew. Brody’s a professional football “fanatic” (his favorite player is Odell Beckham Jr.) and Phil Taylor fan.
The adult in the photo is Alex Worthington (I believe from Battle Creek), one of the many members of the Michigan Dartsmen Club. I am told one of Worthington’s claims to fame is that he lost 5-0 to John Part in one of last season’s CDC qualifiers (after getting by Russ Lyzak in the first round). While a loss isn’t usually something to brag about, losing to a three-times world champion may well be the exception to the rule. And it’s damn well a credit to Part that he’s giving back and helping the CDC bring Big Time darts to North America.
While the JDA is the brainchild of David and Kerry DePriest in Grand Rapids, the youth darts concept – and what eventually became the JDA – was and continues to be enthusiastically supported by the Grand Rapids Dart League (GRDL). For a solid two years the GRDL funded and supported the concept, even adding youth events to their tournaments (these were the only available youth events available in Michigan until the JDA became official). Also supportive every step of the way have been super-promoter Doit and many others from the Michigan Dartsmen Club.
In short, the JDA is a shining example of what can be done to inspire kids and families to embrace the sport of darts – and much, much more. In fact, in many ways darts at the JDA is just a pathway to far more important aspects of life. Below (“Scholarships, Competition, and Community”) the DePriests explain the JDA philosophy…
Scholarships. The JDA is a vehicle parents can use to open important conversations with their children about the future. Financial planning and setting educational goals early are invaluable assets to any child. But a child that is highly involved and takes ownership of their financial and educational planning is much more likely to continue their education.
In this way we seek to not only provide scholarship funds, but to also create a culture where education takes priority and builds self-esteem. Many children are excited to save up their allowance to buy the new game system etc. We want to help children get excited to save and buy an education, an experience, a degree, put simply a lasting advantage in life.
Competition. At the JDA we believe in healthy competition and sportsmanship. We don’t believe in participation awards or that everyone deserves a trophy. Instead, we want our young men and women to learn the value of hard work and be awarded for their accomplishments appropriately. In this way, we harness the competitive fire to forge a much more formidable and capable mentality.
It is important young people understand in order to excel in life you must work hard and be determined. Developing this work ethic at a young age is a major advantage not only in darts but throughout one’s whole lifetime.
The JDA Scholarship Program gives children the platform to succeed and be rewarded for their accomplishments. As the children gain self-esteem through competition and attaining goals, they realize the possibility of attaining even loftier goals. In the end, we hope these advantages will create a more confident, determined, educated, and ultimately successful adult.
Community. At the JDA we believe in community and building a culture that stresses education, financial planning, and the setting and achievement of goals. Like any youth sports organization our real strength lies in the families, parents, coaches, staff, and volunteers. As we grow we hope that the culture will also grow as well.
Imagine hundreds and then thousands of junior dart players earning money for college and being excited to further their education which they have earned with years of hard work! It is our dream to build a better future for our young people and to build a better sport for all of us.
I first “met” David DePriest in 2006 when I interviewed him after he qualified in Chicago for the World Series of Darts (defeating Joe Slivan who qualified a couple of weeks later in Houston). We then formally met at the tournament at the Mohegan Sun Resort in Connecticut and again at the Shoot the Rapids tournament just a couple years ago. So, we don’t know each other well – but I was impressed from the start. Surely anyone who does know him well is not surprised that he’s developed the JDA. He’s one incredibly motivated guy.
DePriest first picked up a dart at home at just 9 years of age, was tutored in the mechanics and mathematics of the sport by his mother Carol (who in 1982 helped form the GRDL and competed locally and nationally), and progressed and achieved considerable success in the ADO system. This was long before the IRS revoked the ADO Memorial Scholarship Fund’s (for kids) status in 2010 after multiple years of not filing required reports (although as of this writing the ADO website still, illegally, promotes donations to the program as tax deductible). This plus the fact that the fund was originally established as “a permanent memorial to friends of the sport who have passed away” and that the ADO has not published the awarding of any scholarships since 2014 only adds to the disgrace.
DePriest’s story is remarkable and every step of the way it foretells the foundation of what is today the JDA.
Darts “game night” with his mother on a board she hung on the living room wall quickly replaced DePriest’s interest in watching television and video games. Although he was involved in baseball, basketball and football – and martial arts – “darts night” with his mother was a constant in his life. By age 11 he was competing in the men’s division and achieving success and by age 13 he was ranked in the top 10 in the Michigan men’s division state rankings. At 17, he qualified for the $100,000 Lucky Strikes Challenge of Champions on ESPN but was excluded because he was not yet 18.
Martial arts is mentioned, seemingly in passing, only because it deserves to be highlighted. With many state and national championships under his belt, in 1995 DePriest placed second at the ISKA world championships. This is a dude not to be screwed with!
As time advanced and his sons Alex and Greyson joined the family “darts night” became a staple for a new generation of DePriests. In 2015, before his third son Gideon was born he of course joined “darts night” in utero.
As some are aware, years ago DePriest took a young 12-year-old under his wing. The rest as they say is history. In 2009, in Stamford, Connecticut, Robert Ham won the US National Youth Championship and the Youth World Cup Qualifier – and went on to take the bronze at the World Cup (the highest finish ever by a US youth player).
What most people don’t know is that DePriest did not agree to coach Ham without conditions (and just like the family aspects of “darts night” the conditions sort of forecasted one of the underlining principles of the JDA). “I agreed to personally coach Robert and teach him what I knew about darts. But there were conditions. His grades were not in the best of repair. He had to maintain at least a B average and complete his darts homework and turn it in before each lesson. Robert’s grades immediately improved and he never failed to turn that homework in to me.”
There is more history. Ham has gone on to win several national tournaments and owns back-to-back Michigan men’s state singles championships. Last year, he made the quarter finals at his first go on the CDC circuit. As partners, Ham and DePriest have won the Michigan men’s doubles three years in a row.
And now, Ham has taken a lead role passing on lessons learned from DePriest to a new generation of kids. Observes DePriest, “The advice and perspective he brings to the JDA program is invaluable. It is such a benefit to the youth players to have a national champion and world competitor as a personal coach. As Robert’s coach I couldn’t be more proud seeing him give back to the community and sport in such a meaningful way.”
There is SO much more and so many people who have been a part of this story…
There’s Steve Roper who early on in DePriest’s career ran a VFW hall and welcomed the kids to play and compete in a safe and family environment. Says DePriest, “Steve’s gesture illustrated to me at a young age what a difference a little kindness and patience can make to a young person. I ran into him at darts just the other night. It was a warm feeling to thank him as a man for the support he showed me so many years ago. And to tell him about our program and our goals.”
There’s Jay Tomlinson, who in 1990 made the decision to feature youth players, including DePriest, on the cover of Bulls Eye News. “I was fortunate to be one of those players and later that year was given a full color 3-page interview as well. It was a powerful gesture to feature youth players at a time when that had never been done before. Jay deserves so much credit for promoting youth darts in the early days.” .
Recently, DePriest committed to be ready to again compete at the highest level against the best in the world when the PDC returns to Las Vegas in July. He’s going to surprise a lot of people.
When I interviewed DePriest more than 10 years ago there was a comment he made that has stuck with me, nearly verbatim, for all these years: “At the end of the day, I believe the man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both correct. I’m a man who thinks he can.”
It is this same attitude that the JDA is instilling in the kids.
The JDA was officially formed in May 2016 and plans to hold the first tournament began in earnest. A non-profit organization was set up with the help of legal and accounting consultants. Details of the scholarship fund were sorted out. Sponsors were recruited.
Key to everything was transparency and ensuring the money kids might win for college was under the control of their parents and there when they needed it.
So besides competition and community, at the heart of it all are the scholarships.
After considerable research, the JDA chose to embrace the Merrill Lynch “MerrillEDGE” 529 College Savings Plan (NextGen Option). This is the plan parents are asked to set up for the kids.
Named for Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code and established in 1996, 529s are basically tax-advantaged savings accounts for college expenses. “Withdrawals, including any earnings, are tax free as long as the money is used for qualified higher education expenses. Funds can be used for tuition and fees, room and board, books, required supplies and equipment, computers or peripheral equipment, computer software, or Internet access and related services, and certain services for special needs beneficiaries.”
There’s no risk of loss. The JDA pays out the scholarship right away – and the accounts can be added to at any time. They just earn interest until needed. If a kid gets a full ride the funds can be used toward books, room and board, and things of that nature. If a kid doesn’t go to college the funds can be used for a trade school or other certifications. If a kid goes directly into the work force the funds can be transferred to another person, a sibling perhaps.
It’s a winner all the way around.
The JDA established two basic divisions for the kids – 12 and under and 13 to 17. There are singles, doubles, and mixed doubles events. All events are 501, cricket, choice.
So far, the JDA has held two tournaments (the next one is June 3 at the Northfield Lanes in Grand Rapids) and 15 kids have won scholarships totaling a little more than $2,400. Sponsorship/advertising opportunities are available at three levels. For details about sponsorship (or to discuss any questions you might have about organizing a similar program in your community) contact:
David DePriest at davedepriest@gmail.com“It’s a great little family we have,” Kerry DePriest told me in one of our last communications. “I’ve had so many parents thank us and express to me this is the part of their lives where they feel the most comfortable and accepted and they look forward to playing darts every week and hanging out with their friends. It’s a very accepting and inviting group, a really great bunch of kids.”
I fired back one last message…
“Great. What a fantastic program. Thanks for all of your help. I have two last questions: 1) if I screw this up will you please not let Dave karate chop me in the eye, and 2) I’m 60 – but I throw like a 6-year-old so… can I enter the next tournament?”
She reiterated the under 18 age limit. And closed with, “DON’T screw it up!”
I hope I haven’t. And I hope youth programs all across the country can benefit from the Michigan experience. Maybe even the ADO.
From the Field,
Dartoid
Author of the column that since 1995 has been featured by Bull’s Eye News, the American Darts Organization’s (ADO) Double Eagle and numerous other darts publications and websites around the globe.
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ECOPOESIS
ECOPOESIS.
Summary - The Ecopoesis model is a hypothesis about the origin of life on Earth that proposes that the geochemical cycles of biogenic elements (or biogeochemical cycles) preceded the appearance of organisms. The existence of such cycles in a prebiological world implies the presence of strong electron donors (reductants) and acceptors (oxidants), replenished by abiotic reactions in the earth's primitive aqueous environment.
Cycling of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur compounds would take place in the oceans, an aqueous environment in contact with a lithosphere rich in reducing ions such as ferrous (divalent) iron and sulphide, and an atmosphere containing substantial amounts of molecular (free) oxygen, generated by the atmospheric photolysis of water vapour.
The redox transitions pertaining to living processes would thus be primordial attributes of the nascent ecosphere, determining the nature of materials and energy-yielding processes that would gradually shape the evolution of organismality.
High atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide would account for some essential reactive properties of this protobiological world, such as the possibility of carbon fixation, and chiral propagation.
The Ecopoesis model (Félix de Sousa, R.A., 2000, 2006) for the origin of life is based on the idea that an atmosphere containing a high percentage of molecular oxygen, generated by the atmospheric photolysis of water vapour, is an essential feature of the Earth's earliest ecosphere.
Ecopoesis offers a different perspective as compared with other models of biopoesis. Traditionally, the origin of life is equalled to the fortunate appearance of very simple cellular organisms, whose metabolic evolution would thenceforth conduct the general evolution of the environment (the oxygen-rich atmosphere being a result of this process). In ecopoesis, in contrast, it is the physical environment that plays the leading role, and not organisms.
Besides endowing the environment, from the very beginning, with the continuous protection of an ozone layer, the early presence of free oxygen determines the onset of a flow of electrons, which leaving the reducing components of the lithosphere, cross the archean seas, pumped by the photolytic production of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. This flow is mediated by, and predominantly channelled through the redox transitions of the redox-sensitive elements in the hydrosphere.
These large-scale environmental interactions cause the development of a geochemically based metabolism in a planetary protoplasm (holoplasm) setting the stage for the gradual evolution of organismal life to take place.
The wide difference of electrochemical potentials in the primordial environment would cause the appearance of the geochemical cycles of biogenic elements. The primitive metabolic pathways are originated by the interaction of these cycles and their products. The buildup of order in the system arises from the energetically favourable transitions, particularly in the oxidation of organic matter, and from the physicochemical properties of the compounds involved. This planetary protometabolism is essentially congruent to today's biochemistry, including carbon and nitrogen fixation, and aerobic degradation of organic compounds (full oxidation to CO2).
Biological evolution, as a rule, would proceed through the increasing functional control of such reactions, rather than through their creation. A naked geochemical metabolism would thus evolve congruently towards our modern enzymatic processes.
GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES OF THE BIOGENIC ELEMENTS IN THE ARCHEAN.
The span of electrochemical potentials in the protobiological Earth is calculated to range from the values of lithospheric divalent iron to those of atmospheric oxygen.
The first geochemical cycles are made up from the possible chemical species for the biogenic elements and their transitions within this interval.
The oxidising nature of the primitive atmosphere would be determined by the abiotic production of oxygen, originating from the photolysis of atmospheric water vapor followed by gravitational loss of hydrogen.
The sparingly low solubility of oxygen in the hot primordial oceans, and the scarcity of emerged lands would require the maintainance of a high concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, so that the flux of electrons from the hydrospheric and lithospheric compartments could compensate for the loss through photolysis.
Most reducing gases originated from volcanic activity would be delivered directly to the hydrosphere or would have short residence in the atmosphere. Small amounts of the less soluble methane and carbon monoxide, however, could co-exist in equilibrium with the oxidising atmosphere.
The stability areas for the chemical species derived from biogenic elements are plotted in the Pourbaix diagrams. The blue line links the extreme values of pH and electrochemical potential calculated for the hypercarbonic medium. It is intended to depict , in an approximate view, the possible chemical transitions in the proposed protobiological conditions.
In the case of sulfur the cycles would be further complicated by the interactions with divalent iron. The Pourbaix diagram for carbon includes just the two extremes, the most reduced species - methane, and the most oxidised, carbon dioxide (and its aqueous derivatives, carbonic acid, bicarbonate and carbonate ions), out of a great number of possible compounds displaying intermediate reduction states.
The carboxylating and condensing properties imparted to the aqueous medium (dubbed "hypercarbonic") by the presence of a heavy CO2 atmosphere are particularly important, since they permit carbon fixation in the presence of reducing power, and chiral propagation.
A HYPERCARBONIC WORLD.
The expression "hypercarbonic medium" describes the reactive properties of the oceanic environment of the early Earth under the atmospheric composition postulated in the ecopoesis model. Owing to the high amount of dissolved CO2, chemical species such as carbonic acid, bicarbonate and divalent ions (mainly the alkaline-earth magnesium) are present in much higher concentrations than in today's ocean, imparting carboxylating properties which may affect amino groups and carbanions. Under the thus arising carboxylation-decarboxylation equilibrium, many organic compounds would form series of closely related "hypercarbonic analogs", whose members differ solely by the amount of CO2 added to their molecules.
The highly polar medium with a lowered water activity (Aw) governs the hydration-dehydration equilibrium. Additionally, a reduction-oxydation equilibrium is a part of the oceanic environment as a whole, poised between a lithosphere delivering reducing ions (mainly divalent iron and sulfur) and the oxic atmosphere. The factors determining the carboxylation-decarboxylation equilibrium and the hydration-dehydration equilibrium are termed permanent factors and are linked to very slightly fluctuating conditions whereas the reduction-oxidation equilibrium is governed by the so-called eventual (contingent) factors, which vary widely, within the redox extremes of the protobiological environment.
The chemistry of the hypercarbonic medium lies at the heart of the ecopoesis model because it reconciles, as dictated by the principle of congruence, the biological relevance of carboxylation and decarboxylation reactions with the geological and astronomical evidence of a heavy CO2 paleoatmosphere.
Since carbon dioxide is extremely stable towards reduction in aqueous solutions, carbon fixation would depend on the carboxylation of pre-existing carbon compounds. Protobiological carbon cycles would run in the anabolic sense intercalating carboxylation reactions of organic compounds with reduction steps. Conversely, catabolic cycles would alternate decarboxylations and oxidation steps, as in modern metabolic cycles. The possibilities of non-enzymatic analogues of such reactions in the hypercarbonic medium are discussed to some detail in the book, as well as the mechanisms through which the reduction-oxidation equilibrium in the protobiological ecosphere would be tightly bound to the carboxylation-decarboxylation processes.
Carbon fixation would also require at least a modest input (primary input) of lithospheric carbide-derived hydrocarbons. Acetylene, in particular, originated by the action of water on divalent ionic carbides, could be directly converted, through hydration and carboxylation, into pyruvic and oxaloacetic acids, which are a part of the very core of biochemical pathways. The likelihood of this reaction suggests the bi-directional Krebs cycle as the main feature of the circulation of carbon in the early ecosphere.
The availability of reducing power for anabolic processes (deriving mainly from lithospheric divalent iron and sulfides), would, in most oceanic domains, outbalance the total amount of oxidising power brought in by the slightly soluble atmospheric oxygen, causing the accumulation of organic compounds in the hydrosphere.
Inquiry into the nature of these compounds and their formation processes may be helped by the presumption of a congruent evolution.
THE PRINCIPLE OF CONGRUENCE.
The principle of congruence is a heuristic tool meant to guide the investigation of the history of living systems. It states simply that modern life is a highly useful and necessary reference in the study of life's previous stages. Congruence can be envisioned as complement to evolutionary theory since it represents the search for evidences of common descent at a biochemical level.
Although the biochemical similarities among existing organisms are generally held as an unambiguous proof of their common evolution, classical models for the origin of life propose a previous, "prebiotic", world, where organic compounds would have accumulated through processes foreign to today's biochemistry.
The first theoretical propositions regarding the research of the evolutionary nature of metabolism were laid out by Granick in the 40s, and were later applied, mainly by De Duve and by Morowitz, to the field of the origin of life. The Ecopoesis model further extends the realm of congruence, from the evolution of organisms to that of the ecosphere as a whole.
This conception implies that geochemical cycles of biogenic elements have always been essentially the same, but also that the steep energy gradients which fuel vital processes have not been created by organisms. Instead, the very existence of energy-yielding processes in the primordial environment, especially the aerobic degradation of organic matter (total oxidation to CO2), would have been essential to the creation of order inherent to organismal life.
The use of the term "protobiological", implying primitive life, as opposed to "prebiotic" (before life) emphasizes the kind of continuity which characterizes the principle of congruence and is consistently followed in the ecopoesis model.
Congruence requires chemical analogy between these two stages of the biochemical evolution , and the action of protobiological environmental factors is shown to parallel that of coenzymes.
CONGRUENT PROCESSES OF THE HYPERCARBONIC WORLD .
Reactive factors of the environment and the corresponding metabolic reactives.
1 - Permanent.
Environmental factors (and opposite reaction)
Corresponding metabolic reactives
+ H2O
- H2O
(spontaneous)
ATP, GTP, etc.
Hydroatmosphere
+ CO2
2 -Eventual (contingent) primary.
TH - Reduced Transporters
(NADH, FADH2, etc.)
T - Oxidised Transporters
(NAD+, FAD, etc.)
Lithospheric Reducing Power
Atmospheric Oxygen
+ H2S
- H2S (+H2O)
CoenzymeA-SH
Hydroatmosphere (S Cycle)
+ NH3 (NH2COOH)
- NH3 (+H2O)
Amine compounds
Hydroatmosphere (N Cycle)
+ H2PO4-
- H2PO4- (+H2O)
3 - Eventual (contingent) secondary.
H2S2
H2S / [O]
NH2COOH / [H]
(NH2COSH / [H])
Nitrogen nucleophile
Pyridoxamine
CN-
Carbon nucleophile
Cyanide or Formic acid
derivatives (One-carbon)
Coenzymes represent the first step towards the incorporation of the primordial naked metabolism into units bearing catalytic activity. That this transition should have happened mainly during the "RNA world", where metabolic functions where carried out by ribozymes, is documented by the fact that most of these coenzymes are structurally related to ribose nucleosides.
Chiral propagation (enantioselective polymerization) would ensure the synthesis of homochiral polypeptides owing to the formation of prochiral centres in the hypercarbonic derivatives of peptidic materials.
CHIRAL PROPAGATION IN THE HYPERCARBONIC MEDIUM.
The chiral propagation mechanism here shown for racemic aminoacids is a minimally stripped down version of the possible equilibrium forms in the hypercarbonic medium. Accordingly, N-carboxylation and protonation of the main-chain carboxyl are essential, but the actual reactive species may involve the addition of CO2 or H2S to the peptidic material, with the use the corresponding aminodiacids and thioacid derivatives. Although modern organisms use optically active aminoacids, this mechanism is otherwise fully congruent with present-day biochemistry.
In the hypercarbonic medium, aminoacids are deprived of their zwitterionic properties. The nucleophilic attack of the carboxylated amino group on the protonated carboxyl proceeds easily, generating an adduct which contains a resonance stabilised carbanion. The asymmetric recombination with the proton is oriented by the aminoacid residue added in the previous cycle. Since initiation may occur through acylation by an achiral carboxylic acid, the first aminoacid of the chain can be any of the two enantiomers. It will determine, however, the chiral orientation of all its subsequents, giving rise to homochiral polypeptides.
Another important aspect is that the acylation of the amino group of the aminoacid residue raises the pka of the carboxyl group thereby increasing the proportion of protonated carboxyls and favouring chain elongation rather than the attack of monomers.
The mechanistic theory for the origin of chirality in the biological world is an integral part of the ecopoesis model.
The organismal characteristics of life are only gradually acquired and cells are fairly late-comers in this model.
EVOLUTION OF ORGANISMALITY: THE PROTOBIOLOGICAL HABITS.
PROTOBIOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND THE FLOCCULAR HABIT.
The initial aggregation of organic matter (dubbed "floccular habit"), countering the entropic tendency to dilution, is ascribed to a combination of factors:
1) The lowered water activity (Aw) of the hypercarbonic medium.
2) The coalescence of hydrophobic compounds (minimizing energy due to charge-separation in the highly polar medium).
3) The kinetics of formation of thio-acids and their partial extraction into the lipid phase.
4) The stabilization of the hydrophobic micelle through the formation of surface amphiphilic compounds.
5) The facile formation of peptide bonds due to the destruction of the zwitterionic character of amino-acids through N-carboxylation.
6) The adhesion of the peptide fraction to the micellar surface amphiphilic compounds due to charge affinity, possibly involving polyvalent cations.
7) The adsorption of low-molecular weight organics to the peptide fraction.
All these properties would stabilize colloidal aggregates in dilute solution. They are even compatible with the vision of the early Earth as a "water-world", devoid of significant evaporating surfaces.
The preferential solubility of oxygen in the lipid phase favours oxidation processes next to the micelle surface. A rather simple process, homogeneous phosphorylation - analogous to substrate level phosphorylation, requiring the oxidation of hydrogen sulphide to hydrogen disulphide (lipoic acid analogs), would cause the oxidation of a-ketoacids to thioacids, permitting the synthesis of 'high-energy' compounds. Sulfur-containing amino-acids in the peptide fraction could bind divalent iron of lithospheric origin. These primitive iron-sulfur clusters, ancestors of today's ferredoxins, are responsible for the localization of reducing power, concentrating redox potentials within early colloidal aggregates, which would thus have both reducing and oxidising poles.
An initially loose and generic interaction between polypeptides and phosphodiester polymers (PDEP- or primitive RNA) would increase in specificity giving rise to translation, and to structural and functional control which characterises the "reticular habit".
THE RETICULAR HABIT.
Although heterogeneous phosphorylation ("respiration") requires physical barriers, like membranes, it could be developed before the advent of the "cellular habit", since protons resulting from the oxidation of lipid soluble electron transporters would segregate in protonic (or acidic) vacuoles, thus creating potential between this vacuole and the external (or metabolic) compartment, which would provide a more efficient path for the synthesis of high-energy compounds.
CELLULARITY AND CELLULAR RESPIRATION.
In the Ecopoesis model cellularity does not arise as a method to protect organic compounds from dilution, but to promote and to profit from their oxidation. This proposal of an aerobic dawn for cellularity is based on the functional energetic properties of cells rather than on their physical appearance.
CELLULAR HABITS.
Gradual enclosure of the metabolic recess would lead to the cellular habit (where the protonic vacuole is no longer needed).
THE BOOK.
Click here to download ECOPOESE - A criação da ecosfera, 2ª Ed., 2006; (in portuguese) - Free PDF (1.7 Mb, 345 pages).
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This document is protected by copyright. However, any parts of the work can be freely reproduced or translated for non-commercial purposes, provided the source is clearly referenced.
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Félix de Sousa, Raul A., (2006). Ecopoese - A criação da ecosfera, 2ª Ed., Rio de Janeiro.
AN ARTICLE.
An abridged viXra version in english is available for download here ( Free PDF 526 kb, 39 pages )
Félix de Sousa, Raul A. (2010). The Ecopoesis Model: Did Free Oxygen Fuel the Origin of Life? viXra: 1010.0001
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KJ Parker
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Re: KJ Parker
Read the hammer I wasn’t that impressed with the novel felt like it was just background information for a wider story also I was hoping for a better twist like the sister never existed apart from inside the mc mind.
I’m now on the second book of the Fencer trilogy and I like this story a lot more.
According to some,* heroic deaths are admirable things
* Generally those who don't have to do it.Politicians and writers spring to mind
Jonathan Stroud:Ptolmy's Gate
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Gentleman Bastard
an nonsense
Quote from: Eclipse on August 27, 2019, 08:48:59 PM
Yeah, The Hammer is still one I scratch my head about. In some ways it feels like Parker-by-numbers, I don't feel like it really stretches out and gives anything big or new. But on the other hand, it's an interesting thing partly because it is so small and tightly bound.
Very interested to hear your thoughts on the Fencer trilogy, because I feel like that--possibly because it was the first thing he published under this pseudonym--is much more a blend of "traditional fantasy" and the Parker aesthetic. I mean, there's a magic system, for starters! But because of that, it doesn't have quite the clean lines of Parker's later work, but I feel like there are interesting things in the intricacies. (I also loved the lady characters, I feel like they're more interesting than he often delivers in later works.)
Yes the ladies in the Fencer trilogy have got more personality than most of his other works. Take the lady doctor from Hammer she didn’t add anything to the story and I thought she could have had a much more interesting and bigger role to play as it was she was overshadowed by the male characters and her part was boring because of it.
It’s like he lost confidence in writing female characters till he wrote Telamon from Two of Swords
Now in his most recent book Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City which I love by the way the two ladies characters have fallen by the wayside and aren’t as fascinating/interesting to read about than Telamon because of lack of screen time we hardly get to know them.. One of them is a friend to the mc who runs a pub and is like a daughter to the mc but we hardly have any page time with her.
In the Fencer Trilogy we do have Page time with the ladies and I think that helps.
I love the relationship between the siblings Venart and Vetriz
I love the relationship between the work colleagues Athli and Loredan , I’m disappointed I’ve not seen her in book two yet. With no romance or maybe there could have been in life hadn’t got in the way.
Machaera an interesting mysterious lady I really hope to learn about her.
Even Loradan Sister and Niece are fun to read about.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2019, 07:09:41 AM by Eclipse »
Just finished The Belly of the Bow and I feel sick. I liked Bardas until this happened I can’t believe he done that to his innocent nephew I guess Iseutz got her revenge by tipping him off the Edge of his mind into insanity and now his insane as the rest of his family. Gruesome ending. I don’t know where the third books going to go
The only other character I can think of where I changed my mind on them was probably Robin Hobb character Kennet
ahhh, now I understand the other question a bit better!
Yeah. Yeah. In Parker's long and subtly nuanced career of writing about families and particularly brothers being awful to each other, I don't think there's ever been a pair quite as WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK??? as the Loredan brothers. And that's saying a lot.
Finished The Fencer trilogy
Wow what destruction one Family can cause.
I’m glad Bardas finally got punished for what his done trapped on an island with Gorgas for the rest of his lifetime I could never forgive him for what he did to his nephew. Before that happened I wanted Bardas and Athili to get together but now I think she had a lucky escape. If only there had got together before the end of book two would there have been happy? And less suffering to people elsewhere.
I thought the Ladies storylines fizzled out for the sons of heavens I expected a lot more from them Vetriz even her brother outshine her in the third book. Still I was sorry to see their deaths as there were my favourite partnership to read about and what the hell happened to Machaera we only got a throw away line.
I’m not sure I ever understood how the magic worked in this world I found it a bit confusing I just let it flow over me.
Looks like everybody had a tragic ending apart from Gorgas who is now living happily with his brother in his mind.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2019, 08:03:42 AM by Eclipse »
Thanks for updating with thoughts on conclusion, Eclipse, because I was really curious to know how you felt about this all, and how it held up altogether.
I think it has some weaknesses not so much as a result of the author's inexperience--because obviously Tom Holt has buckets of writing experience--but the novelty of this particular style/form/subgenre to him at this stage in his career. A lot of the themes from this trilogy get honed and polished and done differently/better (your mileage may vary) in other works, but I still think a lot about the Fencer trilogy in terms of how the elements were particularly put together here and how, for all its flaws, it was fascinating and visceral.
Thesis: all of KJ Parker's work has the underlying theme/moral/message: "You should just get over it and live your life." and therein lies the root of all his tragedies. It's certainly a Thing.
Quote from: Eclipse on September 12, 2019, 08:01:28 AM
I sort of love that about this trilogy, how NO ONE understands how it works, and the entire magic subplot is sort of about frantically trying to fix something when you don't know how it's broken or even necessarily if it IS broken and oh gosh who's flying this thing?? I also find it funny that this is basically the only time Parker bothers having a magic system, and no one understands how it works.
Now reading The Company
Very slow paced and not much has happened yet after 50 % in. I’ve got a sneaky feeling it’s going to end in disaster and that one of the wife’s is a serial killer.
I actually really like The Company, there are some fascinating concepts in there. I just cackle mysteriously at your predictions. (Though, I mean, "it's going to end in disaster" is like, "yes, did you not see the KJ Parker on the cover?")
I also continue to enjoy re-reading Parker vicariously through you, Eclipse!
Finished The Company
I felt it took too long to get going but had an exciting last 20% of the book which never happened with The Hammer
We will eat everything Menin gives us even through we all know she can’t be trusted not to poison us . Big clue she didn’t even eat or pretend to eat the poisoned honey.
Thought Menin burnt the house down killing Dorun but it was another Kunessin con job. Horrible man murdering people and then saying that what happens in war.
What was fly’s secret did he have one?
I feel that Kunessin is like an abusive husband to the rest of A company he has so much power over them and there don’t realise it. There drop everything for him and follow him anywhere . He is poison.
Quote from: Eclipse on July 26, 2019, 11:01:33 PM
- One Little Room an Everywhere (2012)
http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/10/22/one-little-room-an-everywhere-k-j-parker/
Very good loved the Mc is he a villain or not. I just say he very weak morally. There’s a lot more magic in kJ Parker’s shorts then his novels.
The Sun and I
https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/summer_2013/the_sun_and_i_by_k_j_parker
Short story explaining How the invincible Sun religion came into Parker’s world.
A giant con which came true haha
I came hunting for this thread (warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days...) because I've just finished Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City and I'm sort of intellectually buzzing over what a solid piece of work it is. Given the facets which I'm still turning over in my fingers to see how they sparkle from different angles, this previous statement of mine:
Quote from: cupiscent on September 13, 2019, 12:54:56 AM
...is particularly amusing to me. This is where I start talking spoilers, I suppose, so I will cut it away!
I've been thinking that, in a way, Sixteen Ways is the inverse story of the Engineer trilogy (an obvious comparison to make, given the occupation and mindset of the main character). What if the main character was fixated on this particular problem, but his focus was selfless rather than selfish? Or, perhaps, what if there was a guy who could get over it and live his life? In this case, possibly better framed as: "just because they were bad to us doesn't mean we have to be just as bad or worse."
I mean, this is still a classic Parker tragedy because it's caused by people being bloody people, and someone using personal injury as the spur to break out of regular thinking to conceive of something so horrible anyone else would blanch at it. But unlike a typical Parker tragedy, our main character is not that horrible-thinker, and gave this a different cast of tragedy, for my money.
Anyway, this was just about me wanting to blather a bit about this book and knowing scant people who have read it.
I’ve read it , I really enjoyed it I hope he does more in the same vein as Sixteen ways to defend a city.
Quote from: Eclipse on April 09, 2020, 05:51:46 AM
His next book - How To Rule An Empire And Get Away With It - coming out later this year (hopefully; publishing is as much as mess as any other industry right now) looks like it miiiight be related? But of course, with Parker, there's always a solid chance that the relationship is just "yeah, I got that scenario stuck in my mind so I'm just going to write versions of it until I get stuck on something else" (and they will probably all be fascinating, damn him).
But, I mean... the blurb:
The City may be under siege, but everyone still has to make a living. Take Notker, the acclaimed playwright, actor and impresario. Nobody works harder, even when he's not working. Thankfully, the good citizens of Classis appreciate an evening at the theatre even when there are large rocks falling out of the sky.
But Notker is a man of many talents, and all the world is, apparently, a stage. It seems that the Empire needs him - or someone who looks a lot like him - for a role that will call for the performance of a lifetime. At least it will guarantee fame, fortune and immortality. If it doesn't kill him first.
My first thought was that Notker here is one of the impersonators / impressionists that Orhan mentions in passing. And given the ending of Sixteen Ways, there is an obvious way these two link up. BUT... Classis? That was the supply depot that gets trashed in the first couple of chapters, not the City. So maybe I'm right, mor maybe Parker's theme here is actually "the ways in which history is just a giant game of telephone and the details get blurred and rearranged to suit a purpose; are these two related? aren't they? WHO CAN SAY? "
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Second [as a category], Secundan Element
1886 | One, Two, Three: Kantian Categories | EP 1:243
If the universe is thus progressing from a state of all but pure chance to a state of all but complete determination by law, we must suppose that there is an original, elemental, tendency of things to acquire determinate properties, to take habits. This is the Third or mediating element between chance, which brings forth First and original events, and law which produces sequences or Seconds.
1887-1888 | A Guess at the Riddle | EP 1:248-249; CP 1.358
Just as the first is not absolutely first if thought along with a second, so likewise to think the Second in its perfection we must banish every third. The Second is therefore the absolute last. But we need not, and must not, banish the idea of the first from the second; on the contrary, the Second is precisely that which cannot be without the first. It meets us in such facts as Another, Relation, Compulsion, Effect, Dependence, Independence, Negation, Occurrence, Reality, Result. A thing cannot be other, negative, or independent, without a first to or of which it shall be other, negative, or independent. Still, this is not a very deep kind of secondness; for the first might in these cases be destroyed yet leave the real character of the second absolutely unchanged. When the second suffers some change from the action of the first, and is dependent upon it, the secondness is more genuine. But the dependence must not go so far that the second is a mere accident or incident of the first; otherwise the secondness again degenerates. The genuine second suffers and yet resists, like dead matter, whose existence consists in its inertia. Note, too, that for the Second to have the Finality that we have seen belongs to it, it must be determined by the first immovably, and thenceforth be fixed; so that unalterable fixity becomes one of its attributes. We find secondness in occurrence, because an occurrence is something whose existence consists in our knocking up against it. A hard fact is of the same sort; that is to say, it is something which is there, and which I cannot think away, but am forced to acknowledge as an object or second beside myself, the subject or number one, and which forms material for the exercise of my will.
1887-1888 | A Guess at the Riddle | EP 1:250; CP 1.361
We have seen that it is the immediate consciousness that is preeminently first, the external dead thing that is preeminently second. In like manner, it is evidently the representation mediating between these two that is preëminently third. Other examples, however, should not be neglected. The first is agent, the second patient, the third is the action by which the former influences the latter. Between the beginning as first, and the end as last, comes the process which leads from first to last.
The First is that whose being is simply in itself, not referring to anything nor lying behind anything. The Second is that which is what it is by force of something to which it is second. The Third is that which is what it is owing to things between which it mediates and which it brings into relation to each other.
Indeterminacy, then, or pure firstness, and hæcceity, or pure secondness, are facts not calling for and not capable of explanation.
1892 | The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives | CP 3.422
I will only mention here that the ideas which belong to the three forms of rhemata are firstness, secondness, thirdness; firstness, or spontaneity; secondness, or dependence; thirdness, or mediation.
1898-06-11 | The Logic Notebook | MS [R] 339:108r
In the contents of consciousness we recognize three sorts of elements, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness. [—] What a Second is depends partly on another, but is regardless of any third, and thus of any reason. [—] Firstness is feeling-quality; secondness is brute reaction; thirdness is mediation.
1902 | Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise | CP 2.84-89
All experience compels your acknowledgment. What, then, is the fact that is present to you? Ask yourself: it is past. A fact is a fait accompli; its esse is in praeterito. The past compels the present, in some measure, at least. If you complain to the Past that it is wrong and unreasonable, it laughs. It does not care a snap of the finger for Reason. Its force is brute force. So then, you are compelled, brutally compelled, to admit that there is such an element in the world of experience as brute force. […]
Obsistence (suggesting obviate, object, obstinate, obstacle, insistence, resistance, etc.) is that wherein secondness differs from firstness; or, is that element which taken in connection with Originality, makes one thing such as another compels it to be.
1903 | Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III | CP 5.69
Category the Second has a Degenerate Form, in which there is Secondness indeed, but a weak or Secondary Secondness that is not in the pair in its own quality, but belongs to it only in a certain respect. Moreover, this degeneracy need not be absolute but may be only approximative. Thus a genus characterized by Reaction will by the determination of its essential character split into two species, one a species where the secondness is strong, the other a species where the secondness is weak, and the strong species will subdivide into two that will be similarly related, without any corresponding subdivision of the weak species. For example, Psychological Reaction splits into Willing, where the Secondness is strong, and Sensation, where it is weak; and Willing again subdivides into Active Willing and Inhibitive Willing, to which last dichotomy nothing in Sensation corresponds. But it must be confessed that subdivision, as such, involves something more than the second category.
Category the Second is the Idea of that which is such as it is as being Second to some First, regardless of anything else, and in particular regardless of any Law, although it may conform to a law. That is to say, it is Reaction as an element of the Phenomenon.
1903 | Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Lecture III [R] | CP 1.24
Let us begin with considering actuality, and try to make out just what it consists in. If I ask you what the actuality of an event consists in, you will tell me that it consists in its happening then and there. The specifications then and there involve all its relations to other existents. The actuality of the event seems to lie in its relations to the universe of existents. A court may issue injunctions and judgments against me and I not care a snap of my finger for them. I may think them idle vapor. But when I feel the sheriff’s hand on my shoulder, I shall begin to have a sense of actuality. Actuality is something brute. There is no reason in it. I instance putting your shoulder against a door and trying to force it open against an unseen, silent, and unknown resistance. We have a two-sided consciousness of effort and resistance, which seems to me to come tolerably near to a pure sense of actuality. On the whole, I think we have here a mode of being of one thing which consists in how a second object is. I call that Secondness.
1903 | C.S.P.'s Lowell Lectures of 1903 2nd Draught of 3rd Lecture | MS [R] 462:76
The second element is directly experienced in our sense of being here, in our sense of present fact, which is the experience of actual reaction with a non-ego. It consists in anything’s being that which another makes it to be here and now. I give to this element of doubleness the name of Secondness. Besides […] directly experiencing it, we regard outward objects as compelling one another, as exerting force upon one another.
1903 | Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Part 1 of 3rd draught of 3rd Lecture | MS [R] 464:30-34; CP 1.324
I begin with the [element] which the rough and tumble of life renders most familiarly prominent. We are continually bumping up against hard fact. We expected one thing, or passively took it for granted, and had the image of it in our minds, but experience forces that idea into the background, and compels us to think quite differently. You get this kind of consciousness in some approach to purity when you put your shoulder against a door and try to force it open. You have a sense of resistance and at the same time a sense of effort. There can be no resistance without effort; there can be no effort without resistance. They are only two ways of describing the same experience. It is a double consciousness. We become aware of ourself in becoming aware of the not-self. The waking state is a consciousness of reaction; and as the consciousness itself is two-sided, so it has also two varieties; namely, action, where our modification of other things is more prominent than their reaction on us, and perception, where their effect on us is overwhelmingly greater than our effect on them. And this notion, of being such as other things make us, is such a prominent part of our life that we conceive other things also to exist by virtue of their reactions against each other. The idea of other, of not, becomes a very pivot of thought. To this element I give the name of Secondness.
1903 | CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III | CP 1.532
As to Secondness, I have said that our only direct knowledge of it is in willing and in the experience of a perception. It is in willing that the Secondness comes out most strongly. But it is not pure Secondness. For, in the first place, he who wills has a purpose; and that idea of purpose makes the act appear as a means to an end. Now the word means is almost an exact synonym to the word third. It certainly involves Thirdness. Moreover, he who wills is conscious of doing so, in the sense of representing to himself that he does so. But representation is precisely genuine Thirdness. You must conceive an instantaneous consciousness that is instantly and totally forgotten and an effort without purpose. It is a hopeless undertaking to try to realize what consciousness would be without the element of representation. It would be like unexpectedly hearing a great explosion of nitroglycerine before one had recovered oneself and merely had the sense of the breaking off of the quiet. Perhaps it might not be far from what ordinary common sense conceives to take place when one billiard ball caroms on another. One ball “acts” on the other; that is, it makes an exertion minus the element of representation. We may say with some approach to accuracy that the general Firstness of all true Secondness is existence, though this term more particularly applies to Secondness in so far as it is an element of the reacting first and second. If we mean Secondness as it is an element of the occurrence, the Firstness of it is actuality. But actuality and existence are words expressing the same idea in different applications. Secondness, strictly speaking, is just when and where it takes place, and has no other being; and therefore different Secondnesses, strictly speaking, have in themselves no quality in common.
Now we found the genuine and degenerate forms of Secondness by considering the full ideas of first and second. Then the genuine Secondness was found to be reaction, where first and second are both true seconds and the Secondness is something distinct from them, while in degenerate Secondness, or mere reference, the first is a mere first never attaining full Secondness.
1904 | Letters to Lady Welby | CP 8.328
… I was long ago (1867) led, after only three or four years’ study, to throw all ideas into the three classes of Firstness, of Secondness, and of Thirdness. This sort of notion is as distasteful to me as to anybody; and for years, I endeavored to pooh-pooh and refute it; but it long ago conquered me completely. Disagreeable as it is to attribute such meaning to numbers, and to a triad above all, it is as true as it is disagreeable. The ideas of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness are simple enough. Giving to being the broadest possible sense, to include ideas as well as things, and ideas that we fancy we have just as much as ideas we do have, I should define Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness thus:
Firstness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, positively and without reference to anything else.
Secondness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, with respect to a second but regardless of any third.
Thirdness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, in bringing a second and third into relation to each other.
The type of an idea of Secondness is the experience of effort, prescinded from the idea of a purpose. It may be said that there is no such experience, that a purpose is always in view as long as the effort is cognized. This may be open to doubt; for in sustained effort we soon let the purpose drop out of view. However, I abstain from psychology which has nothing to do with ideoscopy. The existence of the word effort is sufficient proof that people think they have such an idea; and that is enough. The experience of effort cannot exist without the experience of resistance. Effort only is effort by virtue of its being opposed; and no third element enters. Note that I speak of the experience, not of the feeling, of effort. Imagine yourself to be seated alone at night in the basket of a balloon, far above earth, calmly enjoying the absolute calm and stillness. Suddenly the piercing shriek of a steam-whistle breaks upon you, and continues for a good while. The impression of stillness was an idea of Firstness, a quality of feeling. The piercing whistle does not allow you to think or do anything but suffer. So that too is absolutely simple. Another Firstness. But the breaking of the silence by the noise was an experience. The person in his inertness identifies himself with the precedent state of feeling, and the new feeling which comes in spite of him is the non-ego. He has a two-sided consciousness of an ego and a non-ego. That consciousness of the action of a new feeling in destroying the old feeling is what I call an experience. Experience generally is what the course of life has compelled me to think. Secondness is either genuine or degenerate. There are many degrees of genuineness. Generally speaking genuine secondness consists in one thing acting upon another, – brute action. I say brute, because so far as the idea of any law or reason comes in, Thirdness comes in. When a stone falls to the ground, the law of gravitation does not act to make it fall. The law of gravitation is the judge upon the bench who may pronounce the law till doomsday, but unless the strong arm of the law, the brutal sheriff, gives effect to the law, it amounts to nothing. True, the judge can create a sheriff if need be; but he must have one. The stone’s actually falling is purely the affair of the stone and the earth at the time. This is a case of reaction. So is existence which is the mode of being of that which reacts with other things.
1904 | A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce | Peirce, 1983, p. 72; MS [R] L107:22-23
Secondness is that mode or element of being by which any subject is such as it is in a second subject regardless of any third; or rather, the category is the leading and characteristic element in this definition, which is prominent in the ideas of dyadic relativity or relation, action, effort, existence, individuality, opposition, negation, dependence, blind force. Secondness has two grades, the genuine and the degenerate (just as a pair of rays is called a “degenerate” conic) and this is true in several ways. Every genuine secondness has two correlative aspects, of which one is more active or first, the other more passive or second; and these two together make a total secondness between two correlative subjects.
This quote has been taken from Kenneth Laine Ketner's 1983 reconstruction of Peirce's 'Autobiography'
1904 | Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R] | MS [R] 914:5
…Secondness, or the mode of being of that which is such as it is relatively to a second object but regardless of any third…
1905 | Letters to Mario Calderoni | MS [R] L67:17-18
I find that there are in the phaneron,
2nd, elements each of which is such as it is relatively to to something over against it, regardless of any third. Such an element may also have a character in itself, a priman character, inseparable from what it is to the other. But however inseparable that priman character may be, it can be distinguished from the Secundan element, which I give to that which is such as it is to another, regardless of any third.
Secondness is the Mode of Being of that which is such as it is relatively to a Second but regardless of any third. That makes it of a brute nature.
1907 | Pragmatism | CP 5.469
Careful analysis shows that to the three grades of valency of indecomposable concepts correspond three classes of characters or predicates. Firstly come ” firstnesses,” or positive internal characters of the subject in itself; secondly come “secondnesses,” or brute actions of one subject or substance on another, regardless of law or of any third subject; thirdly comes “thirdnesses,” or the mental or quasi-mental influence of one subject on another relatively to a third.
‘Secondness’. Term in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/secondness, 18.01.2021.
Firstness | Thirdness | Categories | Dyadic Relation | Altersense | Thisness | Duality | Surd Relation | Genuine Secondness | Degenerate Secondness
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High Impact Strategy 1: Pathways Programs (Goal 1, Strategy 1.1)
CCG Goal 1: Increase in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded by USG institutions
CCG Strategy 1.1: Target increases in completion for students traditionally underserved in post-secondary education.
VSU Goal 1: Recruit, Retain, and Graduate a Quality, Diverse Student Population and Prepare Students for Roles as Leaders in a Global Society
VSU Strategy 1.1.2.: Improve access and completion for students traditionally underserved.
The Pathways Program centers on the priorities of Complete College Georgia, an initiative developed to increase the number of Georgians earning a college degree. These collaborations between Valdosta State University and partner institutions allow students with approved Associates of Applied Science or Associates of Applied Technology degrees to maximize the transfer of credits in order to complete a Bachelor Degree in two years or less.
Pathways students can expect 51 or more transferable credit hours to be applied to one of the two articulated programs: the Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership or to the Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Capital Performance. Our ten agreements are with the Technical College System of Georgia, the Community College of the Air Force, Georgia Military College, North Florida Community College, and Central Texas. These articulations not only increase accessibility, but they also expedite completion of a four year degree by the application of prior earned credit to a four year degree from VSU that otherwise would not be granted.
Transferring from one institution to another can be challenging for students. One way VSU has sought to address that challenge has been through an additional partnership with Georgia Military College. Each fall and spring semester, GMC Valdosta invites a team of advisors from VSU to meet with graduating GMC students to discuss transferring and how credits earned at GMC will apply towards a degree at VSU.
Target increases in access and completion for students traditionally underserved in postsecondary education.
Summary of Activities
During 2014-2015, VSU signed an additional 7 articulations agreements increasing the institution Pathway Partners to 10. The Pathways Program allows students to enroll in one of several programs including the Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Capital Performance and the Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership.
Baseline Status
2013-2014: 3 articulation agreements were signed.
See Table 4 for Entering Students (adult learners and military)
See Table 9 for Degrees Conferred (adult learners and military)
Interim Measures of Progress
Transfer students from technical colleges increased by 6.5% from Fall 2012 to Fall 2013 and an increase of 11.9% from Spring 2013 to Spring 2014.
In the 2014-2015 academic year, 65 students enrolled as a direct result of the Pathways Program. This is nearly double from the 2013-2014 academic year.
The success of this program will be measured by the number of graduates who complete a degree through the Pathways Program. Three students graduated during the 2014-2015 academic year.
Students from the technical college system are looking for ways to continue their education in a way that acknowledges their prior learning and technical knowledge. These partnerships have strengthened recruitment efforts for both traditional students and adult learners.
High Impact Strategy 2: Centralized Advising (Goal 4, Strategy 4.3)
CCG Goal 4: Provide intentional advising to keep students on track to graduate.
CCG Strategy 4.3: Establish criteria for identifying students who may need special interventions in the semester.
VSU Goal 1: Recruit, Retain, and Graduate a Quality, Diverse Student Population and Prepare Students for Roles as Leaders in a Global Society.
VSU Strategy 1.3.1.: Establish a centralized academic advising center for students with 0-30 credits.
During the 2014-2015 academic year, all freshmen and undecided students regardless of credit hours were advised in a centralized location for the first time in the history of VSU. Advising assignments are based on major, and the average advisor to student ratio for this academic year was 1 to 325. Across advisors, over 1600 students were advised in the new model. The advisors implemented a communication plan to expand communication with applicants in order to facilitate the “hand-off” from applicant to student. Advisors responded to risk factors for individual students. These risk indicators during the semester are identified by faculty who “flag” students in our faculty/advisor portal as at risk for either attendance or course performance. Additionally, advisors began gathering qualitative data currently not being collected in regards to student engagement, motivation, and other issues impacting student success.
Centralized Advising provides first year students with intrusive advising, a proven approach for enhancing student success, that has never been available across the incoming classes at Valdosta State University. To be successful, students need assistance in transitioning into the role of college student, identifying appropriate campus resources, and learning to navigate a college campus. While such strategies are needed, creating a new office that impacts campus culture and process always has challenges. To alleviate some of those challenges, each professional advisor serves as a liaison to an assigned college and works to keep the communication lines open. Another challenge is advisor training and team development. To address these challenges, we partnered with VSU’s Employee and Organizational Development team to facilitate advisor training opportunities and planning retreats.
Use predictive analytics to help identify students who are off track and help students understand their likelihood of success in particular programs.
During the 2014-2015 academic year, all freshmen and undecided students regardless of credit hours were advised in a centralized location for the first time in the history of VSU. Additionally, the role of advisors at new student orientation evolved to establish the beginning of the relationship through ice breakers and small group communication. Historically advisors only assisted with registration during the day long programming.
Fall 2014 Retention Rate: 69.8% (unofficial awaiting official number from USG Research and Policy Analysis) See Table 19 for 5 year retention data.
Centralized Advising triaged student focus based on at-risk indicators developed through the use of data analytics and in response to faculty use of the faculty portal to signal “flags” for attendance or progression challenges. The students with the most or most immediate risk were contacted through email, phone, and the MyVSU portal. See Tables 20-23 for 5 year retention data by risk type and student percentile.
The university is using first year student retention as a measure of success. The goal for the fall 2014 cohort is a 3% increase in retention from the fall 2013 cohort’s retention rate.
The Centralized Advising team is reevaluating the communication plan to determine the most effective means of communication, quantity of communication, and frequency of communication with students with and without risk indicators. Additionally, we have created a method for collecting exit interview data that will be gathered for the first time during the 2015-2016 academic year.
High Impact Strategy 3: Faculty and Advisor Portal (Goal 4, Strategy 4.2)
CCG Strategy 4.2: Use predictive analytics to help identify students who are off track and to help students understand their likelihood of success in particular programs.
VSU Strategy 1.3.3.: Encourage utilization of DegreeWorks and Data Warehouse tools.
During the 2014-2015 academic year, we continued to expand our data warehouse in size and scope to include some of the following: watch list, expanded application access, financial aid data, and registration status.
Faculty members who use the portal are attuned to the attendance patterns of students in their courses and the number of students who are struggling. This attention leads some faculty members to offer additional support to students and/or set a flag for students in academic distress. Additionally, when an instructor sets a flag, this action triggers a series of communication across divisions. A first year student living on campus will receive an email from the Student Success Center to remind the student of tutoring services, an email from the assigned advisor in Centralized Advising requesting the student make an appointment, and a resident assistant will check on the student in the residence halls to verify the student’s wellbeing.
During the 2014-2015 academic year, we have continued to expand our data warehouse in size and scope to include some of the following: watch list, expanded application access, financial aid data, and registration status.
Fall 2012:
24,420 page views
1375 flags set
See Table 18 for 3 year rates.
Overall university usage is slightly higher for fall 14 compared to fall 13. This is primarily due to a huge increase in Math flags from 410 to 1,254. Math page views also had a big increase from 4413 to 6098.
23% of students taking a MATH 1000 level course who got a D were flagged
35% of students taking a MATH 1000 level course who got an F were flagged
7% of students taking a BIOL 1000 level course who got a D were flagged
24% of students taking a BIOL 1000 level course who got an F were flagged
The university is using numbers of alerts (in-progress grades, absentee) and grade change for in-progress to final grades. Additionally faculty pass rates compared to themselves from years with non-portal use to years with portal use will be assessed.
The majority of flags set are set by faculty members who are part of retention programming efforts such as First Year Learning Communities or Extended Math. The alert system is effective when in use and we must find ways to expand the use for first year students who may not be a part of such programing.
High Impact Strategy 4: Math Placement (Goal 4, Strategy 4.2)
VSU Strategy 1.1.3.: Shorten time to degree.
Math placement levels have been assigned for two academic years. Upon admission to VSU, students are assigned a VSU Math Index (VMI). The VMI is based on students’ admission data (SAT score, ACT score, etc.), and it places students in mathematics courses based on these recorded math performances. Fall 2014 an additional level, 1e, was added. Students in level 1e were limited to MATH 1101 or a five day a week extended MATH 1111. The VMI assignments are:
Level 1e
MATH 1101, MATH 1111 Extended
MATH 1101, MATH 1111
MATH 1101, MATH 1111, MATH 1112
MATH 1101, MATH 1111, MATH 1112, MATH 1261, MATH 1113, MATH 1113
MATH 1101, MATH 1111, MATH 1112, MATH 1261, MATH 1113, MATH 1113H, MATH 2261
Students may enter at or below their assigned placement level. Should students desire to start beyond the level assigned by their VMI, they must complete a placement exam and achieve the necessary scores to begin at a higher level math.
The implementation of Math Placement assists the Centralized Advising staff in providing intrusive advising to first time students. Academic Advisors in Centralized Advising can help students building their first semester around the most appropriate math course. Students receive the VMI through the new student portal, and orientation leaders discuss it at orientation. Math placement at VSU has been a successful tool to support course completion.
The Data Warehouse; Enrollment, Marketing, and Communication; and the Department of Math and Computer Science partnered to identity math placement levels for all incoming students without math credit in order to properly place students in the first math at the college level. The placement scores were provided to the Office of the Registrar to add registration rules to prevent students from taking a math course at a higher level than the assigned level. Placement level was provided to the student in the admissions check list and students are now advised into the appropriate math during orientation. Math and Computer Science complete analysis each semester to verify the level placement indicators are correct. In year two, an additional level was added to the model.
Math 1111 pass rate in 2011 63%
Overall math pass rate in 2009 61.5%
The focus course for math placement was Math 1111 in which student enrollment increased from 63% in fall 2011 (prior to math placement) to 71% in fall 2013 (the first term math placement was implemented) to 76% in fall 2014 (with extended VMI levels); Additionally the overall math pass rate has increased from 61.5% in fall 2009 to 76.5% in 2014. See Graph 1 and 2.
The University is using student pass rates of the first math course taken at Valdosta State University as a measure of success.
We must communicate early and often to students regarding math placement levels. The earlier students understand the impact of the placement level, the earlier they are able to take the ALEKS exam. Having this exam completed prior to orientation reduces stress for students when registering for courses. It is also clear math placement is making a positive difference in passing math the first time. We now have two years of data to back up our requirement to share with students and parents who question placement.
Of the four high impact practices, math placement has had the greatest impact. We are currently identifying five other gateway courses that have high DFWI rates to participate in the John Gardner Institute. While the use of the faculty portal shows great promise based on the results we have had over the last three years, we need to increase the overall use of the tool. We are rolling out a new version of the faculty portal in January. As a part of this endeavor, we will seek to increase faculty use of the tool through marketing and faculty involvement in product testing.
The collaboration across departments for each of our high impact practices shows the strength in team work at VSU. We have leveraged the skills, abilities, and knowledge across divisions and disciplines to impact success. We have collaborated across educational sectors to technical college systems and high schools to increase access, progression, and graduation for underserved populations. Three of our four high impact practices intersect. Increased success in one area has a systematic impact on the other two high impact practices. Our institution can continue to leverage and adapt these four high impact strategies to increase student success outcomes.
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