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Gradual Daily 51 📈
To: Gradually's OGs
Some Days vs. Other Days
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Cheers to the newly subscribed OGs🧃
Some days are inevitably going to be easier than others. Harder days are hard for a reason. The end reward is greater than the end reward of easy days. Hard days become harder when you let the hardness of the day affect your attitude and action. Hard days become easier when you feel you have a sense of control over your attitude and action. If all else fails, there’s always tomorrow. Tomorrow is a new chance to regain control. To start fresh. If you’re able to, don’t wait until tomorrow, though. Reset yourself, gain control of your attitude/action, and start again. You can do it.
If you’re new here, welcome! Below you’ll find 3 pieces of valuable curated content that aim to make you wiser, wealthier, and healthier — gradually (aka your daily dose of digital vitamins).
1mg • consume content below with care for full effect
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Growth Without Goals by Patrick O’Shaughnessy
I highly suggest consuming the full piece here (7 min. read time)
“Continuous, habitual practice(s) trumps achievement-based success,” says O’Shaughnessy.
“…‘accomplishments’ are traps. Accomplishments, by their very definition, exist only in the past or future—which are not even real things.” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy
“The story that we are told in America is that achievement—money, power, awards—equals success. I had this idea deeply imbued at a young age. We are desire-fulfilling machines: the mind literally IS desire. My desires–and therefore my actions–were shaped by these stories, like the story of achievement. Now I try to ask, what stories are we telling ourselves that are bullshit?” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy
“Now I just want to explore…Exploration is continuous, there is no endpoint. Focusing on exploration is very rewarding all the time. It may produce things that look like endpoints, like achievements, but those things are just byproducts.” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy
“In the famous 1997 letter to shareholders, which lays out Amazon’s philosophy, Bezos says that their process is simple: a ‘relentless focus on customers.’ This is not a goal to be strived for, worked towards, achieved, and then passed. This is a way of operating, constantly—every day, with every decision.” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy
“explore for the sake of exploration, without expectation. Discover essence in your surroundings and in yourself, free from external conditioning (stories) and expectations. Build from the inside out and bottom-up. Great habits and practices make a great and successful life. Cultivate those and the rest will take care of itself.” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy
My two cents: Patrick mentions that he uses an app called, “Way of Life” to help track his continual habitual practices. I downloaded it and am going to try and use it each day. It looks well made and the philosophy behind it screams “gradually.” Our habits…day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year, decade by decade…make up our lives. I see the app as a helpful reminder to help me stay on track with habits that align with my vision of a successful life.
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Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit by Rahul Vohra
I highly suggest consuming the full piece here (21 min. read time)
“We’ve all heard that product/market fit drives startup success — and that the lack thereof is what’s lurking behind almost every failure.” — Rahul Vohra (Founder & CEO of Superhuman)
“If, after launch, revenue isn’t growing, raising money is tough, the press doesn’t want to talk to you and user growth is anemic, then you can safely conclude you don’t have product/market fit.” — Rahul Vohra
Sean Ellis, who ran early growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite and later coined the term “growth hacker.” Ellis had also found a leading indicator to know whether you have PMF or not: “just ask users ‘how would you feel if you could no longer use the product?’ and measure the percent who answer ‘very disappointed.’”
To achieve this, Rahul says to ask these 4 questions:
How would you feel if you could no longer use Superhuman?
Somewhat disappointed
Not disappointed
What type of people do you think would most benefit from Superhuman?
What is the main benefit you receive from Superhuman?
How can we improve Superhuman for you?
All you need is 40 users to answer those questions truthfully (more is better, though). And the goal is to get 40% of users to feel “very disappointed” if they were unable to use your product again. This is the key to know whether you’ve reached PMF or not.
If you fall underneath that 40% threshold, then you’ll need to optimize your product/market fit engine. Rahul goes into great detail in his piece, but here were his main points:
“Segment to find your supporters and paint a picture of your high-expectation customers.
Analyze feedback to convert on-the-fence users into fanatics.
Build your [product] roadmap by doubling down on what users love and addressing what holds others back.
Repeat the process and make the product/market fit score the most important metric.” — Rahul Vohra
“Investors advising early-stage teams should avoid pushing for growth ahead of product/market fit. As an industry, we all know that this ends in disaster, yet the pressure for premature growth is still all too common. Startups need time and space to find their fit and launch the right way.” — Rahul Vohra
“…it’s better to make something that a small number of people want a large amount, rather than a product that a large number of people want a small amount.” — Rahul Vohra
My two cents: I’ve never seen/heard of a product/market fit optimization engine before, but it’s most likely because I’ve never worked for a real tech company before. The way Rahul explains it makes it seem like optimizing for product/market fit is so easy, although I personally know it’s a lot harder to execute (especially if your product is still subpar). Nonetheless, this framework is too fascinating to not give it a try.
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The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food by Michael Moss
Kelly Brownell, a Yale University professor of psychology and public health on why the processed-food industry should be a glaring public health concern: “As a culture, we’ve become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.”
“‘Stomach share’ — the amount of digestive space that any one company’s brand can grab from the competition.” — Michael Moss
Food companies spend millions in their product optimization process. “food engineers alter a litany of variables with the sole intent of finding the most perfect version (or versions) of a product. Ordinary consumers are paid to spend hours sitting in rooms where they touch, feel, sip, smell, swirl and taste whatever product is in question. Their opinions are dumped into a computer, and the data are sifted and sorted through a statistical method called conjoint analysis, which determines what features will be most attractive to consumers.” — Michael Moss
“People could point to these things and say, ‘They’ve got too much sugar, they’ve got too much salt,’…Well, that’s what the consumer wants, and we’re not putting a gun to their head to eat it. That’s what they want. If we give them less, they’ll buy less, and the competitor will get our market. So you’re sort of trapped.” — Geoffrey Bible, former C.E.O. of Philip Morris
“…the Lunchables team would delve into adolescent psychology to discover that it wasn’t the food in the trays that excited the kids; it was the feeling of power it brought to their lives.” — Michael Moss
Dwight Riskey’s (expert on cravings) theory on why snacking became such a big industry: “Eating real meals had become a thing of the past. Baby boomers, especially, seemed to have greatly cut down on regular meals. They were skipping breakfast when they had early-morning meetings. They skipped lunch when they then needed to catch up on work because of those meetings. They skipped dinner when their kids stayed out late or grew up and moved out of the house. And when they skipped these meals, they replaced them with snacks.”
Vanishing caloric density: when something melts down quickly, our brains get tricked into thinking there are no calories in it.
My two cents: I can’t be the only one that forgets that each individual snack or processed food we consume is a business. And businesses compete and deceive. This piece shows what goes on behind the scenes for products such as Lunchables, Dr. Pepper, and others. Be intentional about what you consume!
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Thirteen dead after fire in Czech mine
21 December 2018 | 1:10 pm
Rescue personnel prepare to search for missing miners after a methane explosion at the CSM hard coal mine in Karvina, Czech Republic, December 20, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
Thirteen miners died and 10 were injured after a fire caused by burning methane erupted in a black coal mine in the east of the Czech Republic, a spokesman said Friday.
“In total, we have 13 dead miners, 11 Polish and two Czech,” Ivo Celechovsky, spokesman for the OKD mining company, told AFP.
The accident occurred at a depth of 880 metres (yards) at the CSM mine in the city of Karvina, about 300 kilometres (200 miles) east of Prague, on Thursday afternoon.
Rescuers found five dead miners on Thursday and reported eight missing. All of them were also found dead.
Celechovsky said the fire was still burning, with rescuers building barriers to stop it from spreading.
He added they would work there at least until Sunday.
Nada Chattova, a spokeswoman for the hospital in the nearby city of Ostrava, said two men had been treated at its burn centre.
“One was brought in by a helicopter, he is still in a critical condition. The other one is in a stable condition and his life is not in danger,” she told AFP.
One miner with a lighter injury was taken to a hospital in Karvina and seven were treated on the spot, also with lighter injuries, Czech media said.
“The blast at the CSM mine is a huge tragedy,” tweeted Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who will travel to the site on Friday morning along with his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki.
The prime ministers talked on the phone after the accident, Morawiecki said in a tweet, adding that Polish rescuers had also been sent to the mine.
Celechovsky said on Thursday the dead Polish miners were from the Poland-based Alpex mining company.
“We’re one big family, it’s a terrible tragedy,” a Czech miner told the local Polar TV.
“I was supposed to be there, I work with these teams every day. They sent me to work somewhere else today,” said a Polish miner.
“I feel like crying,” he told Polar TV.
OKD, which runs the mine, is controlled by the Czech state and expects to extract about five million tonnes of coal this year.
The accident is the most serious one at a Czech mine since 1990 when 30 miners died following methane combustion at another mine in Karvina.
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APC deserters corrupt, weak, selfish, says Buhari
By Terhemba Daka, Adamu Abuh (Abuja) and Ijeoma Thomas-Odia (Lagos)
[FILE PHOTO] Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that all who defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to other political parties were selfish, weak and corrupt people that could not align with the vision of his administration.
He made the remarks while accepting the expression of interest and nomination form donated by a group, the Nigerian Consolidation Ambassadors Network (NCAN), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“I am honoured today to receive youths from all over the country contributing to buy the form for me,” Buhari said, as he received the N45 million document.
“The corrupt, the selfish have left APC. Today, I am pleased to say the weakest among us, those whose selfish expectations did not align with our patriotic zeal, have exited out party.
We are now a party of strong and patriotic individuals who are ready, willing and able to continue on this journey of building a secure, self-sufficient and corruption-free Nigeria,” he added.
It will be recalled that last month, the national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, also referred to “Buhari’s critics” as “saboteurs and thieves.”
The president listed some achievements of his administration as the completion of rail projects and construction of new ones; support for farmers; rehabilitation of fertiliser plants; the introduction of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which he claimed had curbed looting in the public service; provision of jobs; and cash aid to vulnerable Nigerians.
Earlier, the deputy chairman of the NCAN board of trustees, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said the group purchased the form based on its conviction that the president had performed outstandingly in reviving the economy and combating graft and terrorism.
But three APC presidential aspirants, Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, Chief Charles Udeogaranya and Alhaji Mumakai, criticised the cost of the form, saying it was too exorbitant.
In a joint statement, they threatened: “We demand that the party should, without further delay, scrap nomination fees, in line with the laws of the land.
Failure to adhere to the demands will give us no other option but conduct our own primaries in line with extant electoral laws and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Also, the APC clarified its position on the controversy surrounding consensus candidacy.
Its spokesman, Yekini Nabena, said though the party’s constitution makes provision for the option, there are conditions attached.
According to the party, consensus does not foreclose direct or indirect primaries for all elective positions, as contained in resolutions at the sixth meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC).
Consensus will apply when no other aspirant signifies interest through the purchase of a nomination form for the position in question, the party said.
Notwithstanding, an APC governorship aspirant in Abia State, Prince Paul Ikonne, backed the arrangement.
Ikonne told reporters after he obtained his form at the national secretariat in Abuja that the mode would help the party upstage the opposition Peoples Democratic party (PDP) in Abia.
According to him, “As long as our party comes together with a consensus candidate, which we will eventually go for, we will come out strongly.”
This came as Senator Shehu Sani and 14 other APC aspirants rejected indirect primaries adopted by the party in Kaduna State.
In a letter to Oshiomhole, the aspirants, led by Sani, demanded direct primaries.
The APC state executive committee had announced it would use indirect primaries or the delegate method to select candidates for the 2019 polls.
The indirect method, the aspirants said, is a “direct antithesis to the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari to fight against corruption at all levels.
The party, having touted the change mantra, must shine the light into those dark places in the electoral system where the corruptive influence of ill-gotten wealth is used to subvert the will of the electorate.
The indirect method will only perpetuate the vicious circle of corruption, bad governance and weak and dysfunctional institutions and processes.”
The national secretary of the APC, Maimala Buni, meanwhile, has disclosed that Buhari is the sole candidate of the party¬ for next year’s presidential election.
According to him, those who are intere¬sted in the p¬osition are free to pick the nomination¬ form but the National Executive Council¬ (NEC) has already endorsed¬ the incumbent.
“Once the NEC of the party passes a vote o¬f confidence in the president, that pres¬ident stands accepted because the NEC is¬ the highest organ of the party.
It m¬et to take the decision where every int¬erest was represented.
The NEC of the APC has passed ¬a vote of confidence in our president an¬d that means every APC member has endors¬ed him,” Buni told reporters.
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Plan B releases third album “Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose”
British singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer Plan B has released his third album under Warner Brothers Records.
“Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose” – featuring singles “In the Name of Man” and “Heartbeat” – is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The follow-up to 2012’s “Ill Manors” boasts contributions from Craze & Hoax, Jonny Coffer, Fred Gibson, Kwabs, Dom Search, Foy Vance, Al Shux, Kid Harpoon, Eric Appapoulay, Mojam Music, Stint, Kieron McIntosh, Tom Wright-Goss, Francis “Eg” White, John Hill, Arrow Benjamin, and Show N Prove.
Stream “Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose” below.
Tags: Ajay "Stint" Bhattacharyya, Ajay Bhattacharyya, Al Shux, Alexander “Al Shux” Shuckburgh, Alexander Shuckburgh, Arrow Benjamin, Benjamin “Plan B” Drew, Benjamin Drew, Craze & Hoax, Dean “Arrow Benjamin” McIntosh, Dean McIntosh, Dom Search, Dominique "Dom Search" Betmead, Dominique Betmead, Eg White, Ellis “Show N Prove” Taylor, Ellis Taylor, Eric Appapoulay, Foy Vance, Francis “Eg” White, Francis White, Fred Gibson, Harry Craze, Hugo Chegwin, James Murray, John Hill, Jonny Coffer, Kid Harpoon, Kieron McIntosh, Kwabena Adjepong, Kwabena “Kwabs” Adjepong, Kwabs, Mojam Music, Mustafa Omer, Plan B, Show N Prove, Stint, Thomas “Kid Harpoon” Hull, Thomas Hull, Tom Wright-Goss, Warner Brothers Records, Warner Music Group, WMG
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Games of 2013 (4/10)
February 13, 2014 · by Haywire · in Distractions
A few of the games we liked last year.
There were a lot of great games in 2013. Far too many, in our opinion, for a list of five or ten, or to declare one our definite champion. Even a list of fifty would not do them justice, but we compiled one anyway. Over the next two weeks we’ll be highlighting five games a day, Monday to Friday. No ranks or numbers, they are all equally close to our hearts.
Let me tell you what Payday 2 is about. It’s as if someone had picked up a copy of Left 4 Dead and said “What is this zombie cack? How about killing cops instead?”
No, no. You’re not looking at it in context. Payday 2 is the spiritual successor of They Stole a Million, Mafia and Kane and Lynch.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! You’re not saying Payday 2 is the son of Kane and Lynch? Tell that bullshit to your sociology professor. Even he’ll tell you to go fuck yourself.
Why did they change Hoxton anyway? I liked Hoxton.
Mafia hasn’t got shit on Payday 2. You don’t get ‘dozers going “I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!” on your ass in Mafia. It’s more like Killing Floor.
Which one is Killing Floor?
Killing Floor is the zombie thing they reel out every holiday with a fresh paint job. Shit, even I’ve got Killing Floor from the Steam sale.
Look asshole, I’ve got Killing Floor, I’m just asking how does shooting circus girls relate to bank robberies?
Hey, you’re making me lose my train of thought. What was I talking about?
Wasn’t just Hoxton. They got rid of Chains and Dallas.
Why was that?
They never said. I know Bane and Wolf actually work for them. Maybe because of the web series?
What the fuck was I talking about?
You were saying Payday 2 was Left 4 Dead with Cops, or maybe Killing Floor.
That was it. Payday 2 makes you feel like you’re there. You’re leaping counters, shooting cops, drilling SWATs, taking hostages and you don’t have to worry about no undead bullshit. It’s just dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.
How many dead cops is that?
And then, just when you think you’ve got everything locked down, it’ll throw some other shit at you. Sometimes you just stroll in, punch the safe and you’re out. Other times, someone blows the whistle and you’re fighting waves of cops
Hoxton isn’t even English anymore.
You can play online, which gets you the psycho motherfuckers that run in hosing cops. Fuck that. You get yourself a good group, people you can Skype with, and you’re there, man. You’re fucking living it. And you’re getting away with the whole stack.
I mean, why call him Hoxton if he’s not English?
Dallas is a Swede, so shut your damn mouth. It’s still a blast and it gets your blood flowing like no other game. Even when you’re grinding. Now, throw in a buck and pick it up.
Uh-uh, I don’t do Steam Sales.
That’s it. You’re history.
Mr. Pink has been voted off. Hold G to put on your mask.
– Mike Grace
In a year-end podcast I joked that 2013 was the year that game narratives overstayed their welcome. The ham-fisted clusterfuck that is Beyond: Two Souls and the tired father/daughter plots of The Last of Us and BioShock Infinite left my palette in dire need of a deep cleanse. I hadn’t heard too many (good) things about the Call of Juarez series, but I decided to pick up the stand-alone short story that is Gunslinger, and it surprised me.
The game introduces an unreliable narrator named Silas Greaves who shares his heroic adventures in exchange for free whiskey at a saloon. Greaves talks about shootouts with legendary Western icons like Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to name a few. As his stories progress, patrons start calling him out on his lies, which causes Greaves to backtrack and change the plot. In doing so, the game physically rewinds and the player is forced to take different routes.
These moments are hilarious: the progress players make is essentially trivial, and the narrative becomes the most prominent structure in the game. Gunslinger is not without its issues in terms of its treatment of Apache tribes to perpetuate the “mystic Native” trope, which soured some parts for me. Overall, there is a great amount of play with time and narrative, which makes the game a huge success.
– Soha Kareem
What do you get when you combine the intensity of Resident Evil 4 with the simple intimacy of Ico and a thick streak of McCarthy inspired human violence? The Last of Us is an exercise in restraint, an understated but deeply affecting epic on the morality of survival. But rather than the trite ideas of what are you willing to do to survive, it depicts survival as the fear of loss, of lying to someone you love, of selfishness and of the theft of agency. It’s a game about the collision course between the human and the barbaric, and every bit as terrifying as that sounds.
On top of the dense thematic resonance is a marvellously produced game. It’s achingly gorgeous, as nature retakes the desolate cities humans once lived in. The central performances are some of the most sophisticated and admirable seen in videogames. For an industry where blockbusters cost so much for so little, The Last of Us uses its high production values not for spectacle, but to bolster a story and a game that’s epic, heartfelt and poignant.
– Andrew Huntly
Old maps are delightful artifacts. They can encapsulate multi-faceted worldviews frozen in a single image that endures time. Unlike their modern counterparts, they still contain uncharted territories and blurry lines that create phantastical spaces for our playful minds. Color me surprised that I am still excited to stare at the same, relatively modern map for countless hours.
The grand strategy genre might seem impenetrable in its complexity and depth but Europa Universalis IV finally allowed a complete newcomer like me to indulge in its qualities without several magnitudes of overwhelming details and micromanagement. On the contrary, I’m amazed how simple it can be. There’s no investment of some extraordinary amount of brain power or strategic prowess necessary. It doesn’t take much time to learn about its systems, but predicting the consequences of your actions will require experience.
Europa Universalis IV contains a relatively approachable tutorial that will teach you the toolset needed to embark on its quest of controlling a nation. Additionally, the developers have added a handy mission system that will give a choice of three goals to choose from as soon as you enter the game proper. It’s a simple feature that helps aimless players and establishes early goals for those that might feel lost in the giant sandbox of the world map.
While Crusader Kings 2 features a much more personal approach focused on individual leaders and the many levels of feudal rule they acted in, Europa Universalis has always been a little more detached in its portrayal of the sweeping web of nations and relations between them. The level of abstraction might appear unrelatable. However, just like old maps, the concept of a nation through time allows for imagination through abstraction.
– Philip Regenherz
Natural charm is, in itself, a superpower. The smooth delivery of music and sound, the organic immersion in a well-crafted setting and the natural desire to progress is the mark of a good game beyond trappings of higher-minded criticism. It’s what makes the game a game at its core. Guacamelee manages to pin down the core of a game. Fun, fast-paced, playful and unconcerned with trying to be anything bigger.
The story is silly at best, and unapologetically so. Vibrant colors and mariachi-inspired sound explosions punctuate quest completions. Everyone is dressed like the set of a Mexican soap opera or a pay-per-view Lucha Libre special. Characters all speak in cheeseball Spanish, and live in villages plastered with luchador posters lampooning internet memes or other games. The entire game is filled to the brim with life and vibrance, utterly prepared to play as well as be played. Past the cheeseball aesthetic and jubilance is an energetically quick game. Combat is precise and varied, mechanics evolve as the story progresses, and the game never stalemates. Encounters are swift, the fights are high quality and the dungeons never overstay their welcome.
All of which translates to an experience tempered with a firey passion for play and a meticulously crafted cohesion. Guacamelee builds up to something altogether childlike in the best possible way: unrelenting fun communicated through supernatural luchadors. Which is all the charm it really needs.
– Taylor Hidalgo
Tags: Call of Juarez Gunslinger, Europa Universalis IV, Guacamelee, Payday 2, The Last of Us
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Home People Hoover’s Biggest Loser contestant wins ‘At Home’ competition
Hoover’s Biggest Loser contestant wins ‘At Home’ competition
by MEGAN SMITH
Photos courtesy of NBC.
0313 Hoover Biggest Loser
Hoover's Gina McDonald lost 113 pounds since starting to compete on The Biggest Loser.
Gina McDonald was eliminated in the penultimate episode of season 14 of NBC's The Biggest Loser. But McDonald didn't let elimination keep her from achieving her weight loss goals. She was sent home and kept a rigorous training schedule and healthy diet.
McDonald said she's dreamed of being fit and healthy her whole life. She wasn't going to let the opportunity to make her dream come true pass her by.
"It was a truly amazing and life changing overall experience," McDonald said.
During the live finale on March 18, 11 previously eliminated contestants returned for a chance to weigh in a final time. They were still competing for the "At Home" prize, $100,000. Having lost 46.12 percent of her starting weight, or 113 pounds, McDonald won.
"Winning the money was just icing on the cake," McDonald said. "I won more than that. It was about the change, not cash for me."
Starting at 245 pounds, McDonald has not only changed her physical appearance, but she also became emotionally healthy and cured herself of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and type two diabetes.
"My weight loss goal was to weigh in at 135," McDonald said. "I achieved that and more."
Now, at a healthy 132 pounds, McDonald plans on using her weight loss as motivation and education for others.
"I plan to keep myself accountable by staying involved in fitness and wellness activities," McDonald said. This includes running the Biggest Loser Run/Walk in Jackson, Miss., on April 6. She plans on using the money to reward her staff for keeping her law firm going in her absence and to help her trainer with his non-profit wellness outreach.
Congratulations Biggest Loser!
You look amazing!!! What an inspiration you are! Way to go!
Dana Stewart more than 7 years ago
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House Democratic Leader-Elect Greimel Fills Staff Positions
LANSING — House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel (D-Auburn Hills) has named four key staffing positions. Patti Tremblay – Pluta has been named legal counsel, while continuing in their positions are Ben Miller as constituent relations director, Mark Salogar as policy director and Maureen Watson Bolger as deputy policy director for the House Democratic Caucus. Greimel became the leader of the Democratic Caucus on Jan. 1, and the positions of the newly named staffers began then as well.
“I look forward to working with Patti, Ben, Mark and Maureen to improve the economic success and well-being of middle-class families,” Greimel said. “While the Republicans have passed a number of laws recently that will have dire consequences for everyday Michiganders, the House Democratic Caucus remains as committed as ever to fighting for the working men and women of this state.”
Most recently, Tremblay – Pluta worked on the House Democratic Policy staff as an analyst covering the Insurance and Regulatory Reform committees. Before that, she was employed with the House Clerk’s Office as a session and committee clerk. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Michigan State University and a law degree from Michigan State University College of Law.
Miller will continue in the position of constituent relations director. Miller has also served as executive director for the Coalition for Progress, in the government affairs office at Butzel Long, and on the Calhoun County Commission from 2001 to 2006. Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and journalism from Northern Michigan University.
Mark Salogar has been the director of the House Democratic Policy staff since 2007, having moved into the position after serving as its deputy director. Before that, he was on the policy staff as an analyst from 2003 to 2006. Salogar was the district office manager for Congressman Jim Barcia from 1993 to 2002, and served as Barcia’s legislative assistant from 1984-1992 when Barcia was in the state Senate. Salogar holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Saginaw Valley State University.
Maureen Watson Bolger has been with the House Democratic Caucus since 2007. She previously worked for state Sen. Buzz Thomas, the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University, and was a research fellow with Citizens Research Council of Michigan while attending graduate school. Watson-Bolger earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Central Michigan University and a master’s in public administration from Wayne State University.
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Australia looking to use renewables to create ‘green’ steel, ammonia and biofuel exports
Date posted: 22nd Jun 2020
An article in the June edition of the UK’s Energy World magazine has looked at Australia’s possible pivot towards export-ready ‘green’ commodities identified by think tanks the Grattan Institute and the Clean Energy Council (in separate reports). The latter looks at the potential to bring forward an “enormous pipeline” of wind and solar projects amounting to some 30 GW of generating capacity, which would triple Australia’s total renewable power generation capacity, bringing with it something like AU$50 billion (US$34.2 billion/€30.5 billion) of investment. (In 2019, 24% of Australia’s electricity was produced by renewable energies.) The Grattan Institute report looks at how Australia could use zero carbon energy to create export goods, in effect a means of exporting renewable energies while utilising Australia’s vast mineral resources. Steel is the best first choice, according to the report, as it can help replace ‘carbon worker’ jobs – work in coal mining and other carbon intensive industries, generally in rural or remote locations – with green industrial jobs, solving the “wicked conundrum” of Australia being economically reliant on carbon-intensive industries that contribute to climate change, which in turn affects other important sectors of the Australian economy such as agriculture and tourism. The report suggests a somewhat optimistic-sounding target of capturing 6.5% of the global steel market in producing ‘green’ steel, with steelmaking furnaces utilising green hydrogen as a fuel. Australia has a competitive advantage over countries such as Japan, Korea and Indonesia in producing green steel, the report argues, because of its “extensive solar and wind resources” – though these obviously need to be further developed. Steel is not the only green commodity, however, that Australia could produce – ammonia and aviation biofuel are two others. As with all large-scale plans, governmental support is identified as being vital.
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S Zorb Diesel Sulfur Removal Technology
PEP Review 2001-12
Published July 2003
The ConocoPhillips S Zorb process desulfurizes diesel fuel by sorption on a proprietary sorbent. Sulfur-containing molecules are adsorbed, including sterically hindered molecules like 4,6 dimethyldibenzothiophene, and the sulfur atom is split from the molecule. The sulfur is retained on the adsorbent while the hydrocarbon desorbs. Sulfur is typically removed to about 5 ppm from feedstock of 500 ppm sulfur (but greater than 2000 ppm sulfur feedstocks are possible). The process responds well to feed sulfur changes. Depending upon the feedstock, the process operates at very mild conditions: 275 to 500 psig about 700 to 800°F (371 to 427°C). H2S is not released. Critical diesel fuel properties are unchanged. Due to very low hydrogen consumption, the process potentially produces relatively lower CO2 and NOx refinery emissions.
The fluid bed design of the S Zorb process enables long run lengths that can match the refinery run length. Diesel fuel has grown faster globally than the growth in total transportation fuels, a trend that is likely to continue. In Europe and Japan, the number of diesel powered cars increased in the last two decades faster than the growth of all cars.
Currently the most common on road diesel fuel sulfur specification is 500 ppm (350 ppm in Europe) with higher limits in some countries. The European Commission adopted a 10 ppm sulfur specification for on road diesel fuel beginning in 2005 with full conversion by 2010. An U.S. EPA rule phases in 15 ppm sulfur highway diesel fuel starting June 1, 2006. In Japan, 10 ppm sulfur fuel is proposed for 2008. Furthermore, the U.S. EPA recently proposed sulfur in off road diesel fuel be limited to 15 ppm in 2010.
The capital investment needed by the refining industry to meet the new diesel fuel specifications is anticipated to be substantial (estimates range from $3 to 13 billion for the U.S. industry). The S Zorb process can be added to a refinery to further process diesel stock from existing hydrotreaters and other units, enabling prior investments to continue to be utilized.
A 6,000 BPSD gasoline unit has operated at ConocoPhillips Borger refinery since April 2001. Overall, S Zorb technology is licensed to 42 sites. ConocoPhillips is reviewing locations for the first diesel unit and expects to soon begin design work.
We review the S Zorb diesel process. Economics for a 30,000 B/CD unit desulfurizing 500 ppm sulfur diesel to 5 ppm are estimated.
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HP Exstream Accelerator Enables Multichannel Communications within Accenture Duck Creek Policy
Business users of Accenture Duck Creek Policy can now quickly and easily configure personalized multiline quotes, proposals, and contracts that are relevant for today’s multimedia consumer.
Anthony R. O’Donnell // June 9, 2015
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HP (Palo Alto) has launched a new accelerator Accenture Duck Creek Policy software. The HP Exstream accelerator integrates with Accenture Duck Creek Policy to help insurers transact business more efficiently through new digital channels and connect with multimedia consumers, according to an HP Extreme Statement.
“We’re pleased to be working with HP Exstream to provide this augmented capability,” said Patti Griffin, global product lead, Accenture Duck Creek. “With this accelerator, customers are able to utilize data from Accenture Duck Creek Policy and customize the content using HP Exstream to easily create, edit and deliver more personalized
Patti Griffin, Global Product Lead, Accenture Duck Creek.
of Accenture Duck Creek Policy, applying HP Extream’s capabilities to help insurers create knowledge-based, actionable communications from a single customer communications management platform while continuing to leverage the policy administration software as the source for existing forms and their core data repository, HP Exstream says.
The vendor reports that the HP Exstream accelerator business users of Accenture Duck Creek Policy can users can quickly and easily configure personalized multiline quotes, proposals, and contracts that are relevant for today’s multimedia consumer. The new capabilities give business users increased speed-to-market and ease of use, while reducing IT dependency.
(Related: New HP Exstream Solutions Aim to Power Next-Level Customer Interaction)
“HP Exstream is committed to helping businesses deliver the next level of customer engagement,” comments Patrick Kehoe, worldwide director, Product Marketing, HP Marketing Optimization, HP Software. “With this enhanced integration, insurers will be better positioned to provide a superior customer experience through more relevant, targeted and highly personalized multichannel customer communications.”
Anthony R. O’Donnell // Anthony O'Donnell is Executive Editor of Insurance Innovation Reporter. For nearly two decades, he has been an observer and commentator on the use of information technology in the insurance industry, following industry trends and writing about the use of IT across all sectors of the insurance industry. He can be reached at [email protected] or (503) 936-2803.
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Barangay Ginebra Approval Ratings: Kerby Raymundo
Kerby playing like it was the mid 2000’s during the PBA playoffs (Photo Credit: Pranz Kaeno Billones, InterAKTV)
Prior the start of the second conference, there were speculations that Kerby Raymundo will be traded before or during the conference. That rumor seemed true as he was benched for most of the conference. However, come playoff time, Kerby was still wearing a Ginebra uniform and with Ginebra’s frontcourt (except for Macklin), struggling offensively, Coach Chua decided to call Kerby’s number – then he delivered. From the start of the quarters up to the finals, he was expected to provide a steady post-up presence when Macklin was taking a rest. Lastly, he was also expected to give Ginebra a strong veteran presence during crunch time situations.
His average ballooned during the playoffs as he recorded 12.3 points and 6.9 rebounds compared to the 7.3 points and 4.8 rebounds he put up during eliminations. He also provided that scoring punch at the power forward position – something Hatfield, Mamaril and Taha couldn’t consistently deliver. He also rediscovered his mid-range jumper which his opponents kept on giving him since they were focusing their defenses towards the other Ginebra offensive threats. Kerby’s renaissance allowed Macklin to operate on the post easily. He took advantage of this as he went to the line 33 times during the playoffs, making 70% (compared to 64% during eliminations) of his freebies. He was far more aggressive and looking to score every time he operated in the post as well as on pick and rolls and pick and pop situations.
Kerby’s downfall was on the defensive end. His lacking defense was a big reason why Sonny Thoss had a fantastic finals series because Kerby can’t stop him. Aside from the defense, Kerby’s rebounding numbers were down as well as he only averaged 5.7 rebounds as a starter this conference.
It is not coincidental that Kerby found his groove after the trade deadline. It was obviously hard for him to keep his focus on the court if his name was constantly floating around in trade rumors. In the end, he showed us all that he still got game and still be a constant contributor for Ginebra. But, with Japeth Aguilar now in tow and rumors circulating about Ginebra trying to acquire another marquee big man, it looks like Kerby will have to fight for minutes again in the third conference.
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IFAT is postponed—new date September 7-11, 2020
Due to the increasing spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Europe and based on the recommendations of the German Ministry of Health and the Bavarian State Government, Messe München feels compelled to postpone IFAT 2020.
This measure is taken in consultation with the Executive Board of the Exhibitors’ Advisory Board, the conceptual partners and in responsibility for the health of exhibitors and visitors. IFAT will take place from September 7 to 11, 2020.
“Under the given circumstances, opening IFAT in May would not be justifiable towards our customers, in particular from a medical and economic perspective,” says Stefan Rummel, Managing Director of Messe München and responsible for IFAT. “Now, we are looking forward to host a successful IFAT 2020 in September jointly with the industry.”
The decision to postpone the event was taken by Messe München in close cooperation with the Executive Board of the Exhibitors’ Advisory Board, the conceptual partners and in consideration of the many exhibitors’ responses. The Chairman of the Exhibitors' Advisory Board, its Executive Board and Managing Partner of the Kirchhoff Group, Dr. Johannes F. Kirchhoff, explains: "The conceptual partners of IFAT support the postponement of IFAT 2020. Based on the current situation, we estimate that the willingness of exhibitors and visitors to take part in the event is increasingly declining. Many companies have massively tightened the travel conditions for their employees, in addition to the personal insecurity of the individual and the unpredictability of further developments, jeopardizing the success of the trade fair in May. At the same time, the importance of IFAT for the entire industry is so great that we do not want to take this risk.”
The new IFAT date is September 7 to 11, 2020.
Purchased tickets and redeemed vouchers will of course remain valid for the upcoming event.
Source: Messe München GmbH
ACHEMA 2021: Stimuli for business growth
From 14 to 18 June 2021 the world’s leading show for the process industry will open its doors in Frankfurt. Anticipation is growing: with an elaborate hygiene concept and additional digital and hybrid elements, ACHEMA 2021 offers the global industry the chance to experience current trends and technological innovations.
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Royal Enfield Himalayan showcased at EICMA 2016
10/11/2016 - 16:55 | Royal Enfield Himalayan, Royal Enfield | Aravind Jayachandran
Will be launched in European markets soon.
The Royal Enfield Himalayan made its European debut at the EICMA 2016 this week. It will launch in European markets once sales operations are set up and underway next year. The Indian bike manufacturer has already appointed an official importer and distributor for Europe.
The Himalayan features a tall windscreen, mudguard and a mud flap, half-duplex split cradle frame, a 41 mm long-travel telescopic fork, etc.
Royal Enfield's first dual-sport bike measures 2,190 mm in length, 840 mm in width, 1,360 mm in height, 1,465 mm in wheelbase, 220 mm in ground clearance, 800 mm in saddle height, 182 kg in kerb weight and has a 15 litre fuel tank. The chassis was developed by UK-based Harris Performance.
The Himalayan features a tall windscreen, mudguard and a mud flap, half-duplex split cradle frame, a 41 mm long-travel telescopic fork with rubber boots and 200 mm travel, monoshock with linkage and 180 mm travel and tubeless multipurpose tires. It gets analog instruments such as speedometer, tachometer and fuel gauge, and a digital display for trip readings, odo reading, time, compass and ambient temperature.
The Himalayan gets analog instruments such as speedometer, tachometer and fuel gauge, and a digital display for trip readings, odo reading, time, compass and ambient temperature.
Powering the Himalayan is an all-new 411 cc air-cooled single-cylinder engine mated to a five-speed gearbox. The motor develops 24.5 PS at 6,500 rpm and 32 Nm at 4,000-4,500 rpm. The intake has a carburettor that is equipped with a throttle position sensor.
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Third annual Mni Ki Wakan Water Is Sacred: World Indigenous Peoples Decade of Water announced
(Photo: Mni Ki Wakan)
Mni Ki Wakan (Water is Sacred): World Indigenous Peoples Decade of Water scheduled for August 13th–15th
Mni Ki Wakan
Indigenous peoples and youth are convening the 3rd Mni Ki Wakan (Water is Sacred): World Indigenous Peoples Decade of Water, August 13th–15th, in the Black Hills, South Dakota known to the Oceti Sakowin as He Sapa, The Heart of Everything that Is. Mni Ki Wakan is held in partnership with Indigenous peoples, youth, and allies working to develop collective innovations and transformations dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices on water. Participants will envision a world of clean and healthy water for all life and future generations leading with the guiding mandate of Mni Ki Wakan: Water is Sacred.
Mni Ki Wakan centers the guiding language of its global Indigenous community and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This collective movement enables the participation of all stakeholders from multiple levels across sectors and Indigenous communities ensuring a strategic comprehensive water movement that engages diverse water areas.
On July 18, 2019, Mni Ki Wakan Co-Conveners attended the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, calling for a global Indigenous water study; an Indigenous water decade; urging the UN to help stop the Keystone XL pipeline:
“Woope Wakan Ki Naunkicizinpi Ca Oyate Ki Mni Ki Wakan Yuhapi Kte Lo
Hau Mitakuyapi, greetings madam chair, members of EMRIP, dignitaries, and Indigenous peoples.
In 2017, Indigenous peoples and youth launched the Mni Ki Wakan: World Indigenous Peoples Decade of Water to build strategic partnerships and collective innovation dedicated to the future of water. Mni Ki Wakan means Water is Sacred, it is not only our theme but our guiding mandate that carries us into the 3rd Indigenous water decade on August 13-15, 2019, Black Hills, South Dakota, United States. My relatives, our global Indigenous community of Mni Ki Wakan believes that water is not what divides us, but it is what connects us all….
Today, my delegation is here before you to call on the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to initiate a global study on Indigenous peoples and water that is capable of elevating their water initiatives to unprecedented levels in decision-making, that may one day hold extractive industries accountable to the principle of Free, Informed, and Prior Consent, treaties, and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Therefore, my delegation recommends EMRIP, UN Water, UNESCO, and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues develop Indigenous coordinating water bodies and declare an Indigenous water decade that would maximize partnerships and coordination between Indigenous peoples, global actors, and initiatives.
In closing, we call for a world where all water is recognized for its legal personhood and sacredness....”
Prior to this, teams coordinated innovations from the 2nd Mni Ki Wakan at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (EMRIP) 18th Session providing the aforementioned rights recommendations, building a global Indigenous community. Their work was prompted by Indigenous peoples and youth who called for the presence of Mni Ki Wakan at EMRIP and the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues during the 2nd Indigenous Water Decade held in Minnesota, 2018.
Indigenous peoples, youth, allies, and global actors are cordially invited to the 3rd Mni Ki Wakan occuring on August 13-15, 2019, at the Ramkota Best Western Inn Conference & Events Center, (2111 N. LaCrosse St., Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701.
Mni Ki Wakan is co-hosted by Rapid City Community Conversations, Black Hills Clean Water Alliance, regional and international partners, and endorsed by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
mnikiwakan.org | mnikiwakan@gmail.com | 612-442-5399
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52nd Annual California Native American Day
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'Warrior Women' documentary screening and reception February 20
New York Women in Film & Television and Vision Maker Media present the story of AIM leader Madonna Thunder Hawk
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Eugenics, historical trauma and survivance: A conversation with artist and educator Judy Dow
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Several House Republicans join Donald Trump impeachment push
Donald Trump's iron grip on his party was showing further signs of weakening as at least four Republicans, including a member of the House leadership, said they would vote for his historic second impeachment.
By: Reuters | Washington | January 13, 2021 10:02:50 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
At least four Republicans said on Tuesday they would join Democrats in voting to impeach President Donald Trump over the attack on the US Capitol, as Vice President Mike Pence rejected calls to use a constitutional maneuver to oust him.
With eight days remaining in Trump’s term in office, the House of Representatives was poised on Wednesday to pass an article of impeachment accusing the Republican of inciting insurrection in a speech to his followers last week before a mob of them stormed the Capitol, leaving five dead.
That would trigger a trial in the still Republican-controlled Senate, although it was unclear if enough time or political appetite remained to push Trump from office.
Even as the Democratic-led House debated a resolution that urged Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution to expel Trump from office, Pence sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that said he would not comply.
“I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our Nation or consistent with our Constitution,” Pence said. Despite the letter, the House moved forward on Tuesday with a vote on the resolution after it cleared a procedural hurdle.
At the same time, Trump’s iron grip on his party was showing further signs of weakening as at least four Republicans, including a member of the House leadership, said they would vote for his historic second impeachment.
Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said: “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack” on the Capitol last Wednesday, Cheney, the daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, said in a statement, adding: “I will vote to impeach the president.”Three other Republican House members, John Katko, Adam Kinzinger and Fred Upton, said they would also vote for impeachment.
Their announcements came as Republican leaders in the House refrained from urging their members to vote against impeaching Trump, saying it was a matter of individual conscience.
President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
‘Demonstrated no remorse’
In his first public appearance since last Wednesday’s riot, Trump showed no contrition on Tuesday for his speech, in which he repeated his false claim that President-elect Joe Biden’s victory was illegitimate. Biden will be sworn in as president on Jan. 20.
“What I said was totally appropriate,” Trump told reporters as he left for a trip to the US-Mexico border wall near Alamo, Texas, his first public foray since the assault on the Capitol.
At a meeting to set the rules for Wednesday’s impeachment vote, Democratic Representative David Cicilline told the House Rules Committee that the impeachment drive had the support of 217 lawmakers – enough to impeach Trump.
Cicilline, who helped craft the impeachment measure, said Trump “has had almost a week to do the right thing. He has refused to resign, he has failed to take responsibility, he has demonstrated no remorse.”
The New York Times reported that the Republican majority leader of the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, was said to be pleased about the Democratic impeachment push, suggesting Trump’s party was looking to move on from him after last week’s stunning attack on Congress.
McConnell believes the impeachment effort will make it easier to purge Trump from the party, the Times said.
If Trump is impeached by the House, he would have a trial in the Senate to determine his guilt. A two-thirds majority of the Senate is needed to convict him, meaning at least 17 Republicans in the 100-member chamber would have to vote for conviction.
“I don’t think you would have a hard time finding 17 Republicans to convict” with a tightly drawn article of impeachment, a former Senate Republican leadership aide told Reuters. “I think for McConnell, there’s a very strong impulse for this (the Capitol assault) not to define the party.”
Pelosi on Tuesday named nine impeachment “managers,” who would present the House’s case for impeachment during a Senate trial, but it remained unclear how swiftly such a trial would take place if the House votes to impeach.
McConnell has said no trial could begin until the chamber returns from its recess on Jan. 19.
But Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is set to become the majority leader after two Democrats from Georgia are seated and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is sworn in, told reporters the Senate could be recalled to handle the matter.
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Partisan fight
In a debate ahead of the House vote on the 25th Amendment resolution, Democrats pushed Republican lawmakers to disavow Trump’s false allegation that Biden’s victory was illegitimate. That claim enraged Trump’s supporters and prompted the violence in Washington that killed five including a police officer.
Republicans refused to concede the point and said their unsuccessful effort last week to challenge the results of the election was justified.
The resolution calls on Pence to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, a never-before used power that allows a majority of the Cabinet to strip the president of power if he or she is deemed unable to discharge the office’s duties.
But Democrats say Trump’s actions demand a response.Democrats could also use an impeachment trial to push through a vote blocking Trump from running for office again.
Rather than a two-thirds vote, only a simple Senate majority is needed to disqualify Trump from future office. There is disagreement among legal experts as to whether a conviction on an impeachment charge would be needed before a disqualification vote. A different part of the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, also provides a procedure for disqualifying Trump from future office with a simple majority of both chambers.
Trump has said he plans to run again in 2024.
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Interview with Brandon Martinez
Nov 18, 2020 | Interviews
Brandon is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer. Originally from Los Angeles and now based out of Austin, TX. Brandon was mentored by the legendary punk guitar legend, Johnny Ramone. Brandon is also the creator & CEO of B. The Product Hair Care. B. The Product can be found on Amazon worldwide and Walmart.com. Brandon authored the highly popular memoir, “Sex, Hair & Billionaires,” available at Amazon, Itunes, and Barnes & Noble.
How long have you been making music?
As long as I can remember
What genre would you consider your music to be?
Pop, Alternative, Rock, Country & Hip Hop
What inspired you to pursue a career in music?
What are your biggest musical influences?
The Ramones, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, EPMD, Amy Whinehouse
Are you signed to a label or are you an independent artist?
What have been the biggest challenges in your music career?
No challenges
How many songs or albums have you released to date?
Seven songs
Can you tell us a few things about your latest release?
Go Big Or Go Home is about giving relationships 100%, or nothing at all. The in-between is no good when it comes to love.
Any plans for new music or upcoming projects we should know about?
I am releasing my next single, “But It’s All Good,” in the few days.
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Posted on: December 11, 2020 Last updated on: December 12, 2020 Written by: Deborah Wilson-Allam Categorized in: Action this Week 2020, Dec 2020
Building Power Together @ NY State Indivisible Convening
It's not too late to sign up for New York State's Indivisible Convening! We know people are too zoomed out for long meetings on the weekends. So this year's NYS Convening is broken up into manageable bites on Saturday night (for an energizing, social kickoff, Sunday afternoon, and Monday evening. Join in for as little or as much as your schedule allows.
We have some key mover and shaker speakers like NYS Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, but we'll also be doing a lot of connecting and collaborating with Indivisibles from across the state to figure out the most effective ways we can lead given Sen. Schumer's role in DC, and the new balance of power in Albany.
Here's the scoop on this amazing event that our statewide organizer, Sarah Reeske, has planned:
Register here for the NYS Virtual Convening! Agenda is here. There is a cap on sign ups, so act now.
Happy Hour on Saturday, December 12th at 7-8pm!
Day 1 - Sunday, December 13th at 2-4pm
“The Power of NY in the Senate”
“Indivisible OneNYS: Build & Use Our Power”
“Day of Action - The People Lead - 1/13/21”
Day 2 - Monday, December 14th at 6-8pm
“2021 Readiness Trainings”
“Regional Breakouts”
You’ll receive a confirmation email that will have the one Zoom link we’ll use for all three events. This is for all Indivisibles in New York. Please sign up now.
IMV Connecting & Building Democracy
IMV holds our final meeting of 2020 on Sunday, Dec. 20 3-4 pm. Please don't miss this one. We'll cover what democracy action looks like in 2021, and then use breakout rooms to connect and talk about the issues and strategies that matter most to us.
It's been a long, hard year, but what we have heard the most from you in the past months is that you are grateful for the political action community that we have built in the past four years, and want to keep the relationships, the energy, and progress going. Community matters, and so does solidarity around shared values of humanity, social justice, and love. 2021, here we come!
NY Renews Coalition Victory on Disinvestment
Have you heard the good news about fossil fuels divestment? Here's what a widely respected climate activist has to say about the announcement from NYS. Most importantly, check out this statement from Mona Perrotti and the IMV Climate Crisis Workgroup, which was part of a press release this past week:
"Indivisible Mohawk Valley celebrates a huge victory for the climate! We congratulate NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on the announcement of his plan to effectively divest the NYS Common Retirement Fund from fossil fuels and achieve a net zero portfolio by 2040. It has taken years of hard work by many climate activists and state legislators to help achieve this plan. With bold climate action so desperately needed to combat the climate emergency, this news comes not a moment too soon. Thanks to the leadership of Comptroller DiNapoli and Senator Liz Krueger on the divestment issue, New York will again be at the leading edge of climate action and will provide a critical boost to the fossil fuel divestment movement nationally and worldwide!"
In our view, there are two reasons for this groundbreaking win: 1) People powered pressure on NYS elected leaders. The Divest NY Coalition is broad, brought so many groups to the table, and spoke with such a loud and unified voice that it could not be ignored; 2) Electoral work that led to a Democratic State Senate in 2019 and now, a super majority in Albany. Votes and elections have consequences. This tremendous win validates our approach of working both to flip seats at the local, state, and national level, and to pressure elected officials to enact progressive policy. Congratulations to everyone who attended a meeting, made a phone call, worked a phonebank, and sent an email. This one's for you!
Holiday Cards for Healthcare Heroes
Want an easy way to spread some holiday cheer this season? Write a holiday card to some healthcare workers today! You write the cards, drop them off at Celeste Friend's front porch at 37 Emerson Ave in Utica, and she will work with local unions to distribute them to local healthcare workers in Utica and Rome.
Call for Website Feedback
Are you willing to participate in a short term project to review and provide feedback on our website? We now have a new Biden administration, a supermajority in Albany, and some viable avenues to push our progressive values in politics. What should our IMV website look like? How can we use it to reach more people and to provide the people who find it with the tools they need to connect with our political activism?
Please email IndivisibleMohawkValley@gmail.com with the subject line WEBSITE if you are interested in joining a short term committee and bringing some fresh eyes to the IndvisibleMV.org site.
Rep. Brindisi: Still in the Running
The #NY22 race continues, as reported in both the Washington Post and the Daly Kos, and Anthony Brindisi is still in the running, because the judge has said that every vote that can legally be counted should be counted. That means that the Boards of Elections in NY22 have some backtracking to do. They need to recount some ballots that were counted, and they need to review and possibly count some others that were not previously counted. This is good for Rep. Brindisi in general, because the more absentee and provisional ballots that were counted following the Election Day totals, the more votes were added to his column as compared to Tenney. Still, it is clear that the gap between them is going to remain close, and there could be more legal battles ahead.
If there is nothing else to learn from this 2020 NY22 election, it is that every vote counts. And for activists like us, that means every postcard, every door knock, every text message, every phone call, and every conversation with a neighbor, COUNTS.
How to Citizen: A Recommendation from the Editor
Nothing has fired me up in the past couple of weeks like a podcast I only recently discovered called How to Citizen with Baratunde Thurston, "a podcast that reimagines 'citizen' as a verb and helps reclaim our collective power." According to Thurston, to citizen (v.) is to:
1) participate--show up for the civic and political work;
2) value the collective--work for outcomes that benefit the many, not just the few;
3) understand power and the ways we can build it and use it;
4) invest in relationships with others and recognize our connectedness.
This is what we in IMV have been doing and what we will keep doing. But if your tank is running a little on empty as we near the waning days of 2020, then this podcast might give you some fresh inspiration, energy, and hope. If you give it a try, I recommend starting with the first two episodes with Valarie Kaur (Revolutionary Love is How to Citizen) and Eric Liu (Democracy Means People Power, Literally). You can also check out some of the key moments in the podcast season, which were featured on a recent edition of the TED Radio Hour.
I can't even count the number of times in the past four years that I have Valarie Kaur's question: "What if? What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb but the darkness of the womb? What if our America is not dead but a country that is waiting to be born?" And then reminded myself of her guidance: "What does the midwife tell us to do? Breathe. And then? Push. Because if we don’t push we will die. If we don’t push our nation will die."
Our nation has passed through a critical moment in labor with the 2020 election, but the new nation is not yet born.
Will we be a nation that caters to those who rig the system to the advantage of the very few or one that ensures health care, housing, quality education, decent paying jobs, and a future for the planet so that the many can stay healthy and thrive?
Will we be a nation where a few small, mostly white states and a few super wealthy individuals and corporations control outcomes, or one where every voice and every vote counts just the same as the next?
Will we be nation that cages children and incarcerates Brown and Black populations excessively and inequitably or one that treats refugees and immigrants with dignity and respect and works to create racially just systems, laws, and policies?
Let's work out the answers to those questions by "citizening" together: See you at the Convening this Sunday and Monday, and at the December IMV meeting on Dec. 20th.
Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate the Festival of Lights.
May we all know light and peace, and for now, social solidarity through physical distancing. --Jen DeWeerth
Website: https://indivisiblemv.org/. Follow us on Twitter using @indivisiblemv and of course our Facebook page and IMV Activism Group.
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What’s trending in Licensing: Experience tech
Published by Karen Biilmann • 11 months ago
Keep up with key trends in Licensing with 500px’s Senior Art Director, Karen Biilmann, as she analyzes common threads and current themes throughout our Contributors’ photography submissions. From generating interactive and collaborative experiences through tech to the influence tech has on our daily lives, here’s what’s trending in the 500px Licensing Collection.
The year 2020 is a year for tech. Companies are accelerating their pathways forward by integrating how they connect with their user base through mindful tech, diving deep into connectivity triggers, and the critical role innovation plays into human experience. The future is bright and fueling the partnership between experience and electronics. It cultivates relationships, empowers us to travel solo, and contributes to opportunity—with GenZ leading the charge and influencing brand direction and voice.
According to the Technology Vision Consumer Survey, 52% of consumers say that technology plays a prominent role and is ingrained in their daily activities, while 19% state that they view technology as an extension of themselves. This calls into question the idea of a “cyborg” future. We aren’t talking about a dystopian, Mad-Max-like society, but about the seamless integration of technology and its influence over accessibility, ease, and wellbeing—using technology as an extension of ourselves.
Apps and websites are being designed to help aid people in communication, whether it’s in the form of translations such as Google Translate, which is available on the web, iOS, and Android, in 103 different languages—52 of which continue to work offline, ideal for traveling off the grid. Other companies, such as Duolingo, are free and accessible to anyone with a mobile device or access to a computer. This company offers 94 different language courses in 23 different languages, supporting a global community of 300 million registered users, creating interactive and engaging learning experiences for their users.
We also see a number of companies jumping onto the wellness movement, integrating healthy and active lifestyle choices into how they represent themselves as a brand online. Having Apps that support their vision, and overarching brand goals, creates a widely accessible platform for people to integrate into their daily routines. Products, such as Fitbit, integrate themselves into wellness by offering virtual challenges that you can use to compete amongst your friends or other Fitbit users. You can keep track of your dietary needs or goals within the app, or learn breathing exercises to help you release stress and tension.
With technology now integrated into daily life from such a young age, it is no surprise that the pressure for companies to start integrating tech into how they engage and intertwine user experience into the products they sell is now a necessity instead of a nice to have. The learning curve previously associated with technology advancements merely become the next stage in evolution, creating demand for a more unique and innovative path forward.
This has caused leading businesses to work with customers to develop an “experience” within their products. Companies are bringing a critical focus on the people who use their products and how they interact with them, integrating experience through the process of collaboration. Last year, Netflix did this by presenting their audience with the concept of “control”, as they were able to make real-time decisions that would ultimately dictate the outcome in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Connectivity has also become a major trend throughout a number of companies, enabling users to feel less isolated and creating a movement of solo travel or global relocation with ease. Facebook recently launched Portal, a TV application that allows up to seven people to conference from the comfort of their home, embracing connectivity while enforcing the concept that no one is ever really that far away.
How does this play into commercial photography—shoot people using tech!
Consider how you integrate tech into your daily life and routines, and apply those scenarios to your shoots. With businesses focused on integrating tech into how they build long-lasting user relationships, the need for people using technology and different devices in a variety of scenarios has presented itself, and is something commercial photographers should embrace.
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Coronavirus: What are social distancing and self-isolation?
by Saad April 4, 2020
Members of the public should stay at home and not be tempted out by good weather expected over the weekend, the government says.
In a video posted on Twitter, Boris Johnson urged people not to “start to break the regulations” introduced to beat coronavirus.
Restrictions state that everybody must stay at home where possible, and only leave if they have a “reasonable excuse”. This includes;
Exercise – alone, or with members of your household
Shopping for basic necessities
Any medical need, or providing care for a vulnerable person
Travel to or from work, but only when you cannot work from home
What are the rules on exercise?
Warnings to stay away from beaches, national parks and other destinations were made as forecasters predicted warm weather in some areas and temperatures of up to 20C.
If you have to go outside you should stay more than 2m (6ft) apart from anyone other than members of your own household. This is what’s known as social distancing.
Government guidance urges people to “stay local”, use open spaces near their home and avoid unnecessary travel
Guidance to police says that the public shouldn’t be sanctioned for “travelling a reasonable distance to exercise” – although no definition has been given
People should only exercise once a day, although in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland there is no legal ban on exercising more than that. In Wales, which sets its own health regulations, exercising more than once a day is now illegal – and potentially a criminal offence
You can exercise alone or with members of your own household
Gatherings of more than two in parks and public spaces have been banned (ruling out most team sports)
Dogs can be walked as part of a person’s daily exercise
No mention is given to how long you can exercise for. But Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said: “I would have thought for most people a walk of up to an hour, a run of 30 minutes or a cycle ride of between that, depending on their level of fitness, is appropriate.”
Police have wide-ranging powers to help fight coronavirus by enforcing social distancing measures. But there is an enormous gap between what the government would like people to do and the limits of the law restricting movements, says BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.
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Who won the 2016 World Series?
Which team has the most wins recorded in one season?
What two teams are the newest to the MLB?
Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Rays
Which player hold the record for the most hits?
How many positions are on a standard MLB field?
Which team has won the most World Series?
Which team had the most runs scored in a season?
What is the oldest team in the MLB?
Which non performance enhancing drug player has the most home runs in MLB history?
Which part of the field is generally the deepest?
Which team has never won a World Series? A) St.Louis Cardinals B)Miami Marlins C)Tampa Bay Rays
Which team scored the most runs in a game in baseball history?
How many teams are in the MLB?
Which player holds the record for most stolen bases.
How far is the pitcher's mound from home plate?
60 ft 6 inches
As of 2018 World Series, how many World Series have been played?
Which two teams were tied for the worst record in the 2017 season?
San Francisco Giants and Detroit Tigers
What is the Washington Nationals original team name?
Who holds the MLB record for RBI in a single season?
A ball hit in fair territory that bounces into the stands is considered what?
Ground rule double
What are the only two teams that have never made the World Series?
Washington Nationals and Seattle Mariners
How many total runs were scored in the highest scoring game ever?
How many teams have relocated their city?
Which player holds the record for the most MVP awards in a career?
When a player hits a home run, they travel this many feet around the bases.
360 feet
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I Was Very Excited To Get Married To Suriya: Jyothika OPENS UP About Her Personal Life In This EXCLUSIVE Interview!
She captured the hearts of millions from the time she forayed into the cinema industry. Though Jothika is back in the big screen with her awe inspiring women-centric films from Jackpot, Raatchasi, 36 etc after being a part of the filmdom for a decade, this bubbly actor decided to take a break and focus on her family life for almost 7 years. In a cover story interview in the year 2015, the actress opened up on why she took a break.
“Someone or the other would message Suriya saying, “Jo’s film is playing on TV. She has done a fabulous job, why don’t you let her act?”
Though Jo had decided to take a break from cinema post her wedding, there was constant pressure and speculation about her comeback. “Most people were under the misconception that Suriya and his family did not want me to work post our wedding – that was not true. It was a conscious decision not act post my marriage as I had wanted to focus on my family life. Though I had made my intentions very clear to the media, Suriya was always being asked about my return to movies. Whenever one of my films is played on television, someone or the other would message Suriya saying, ‘Jo’s film is playing on TV. She has done a fabulous job, why don’t you let her act?’ Immediately Suriya would forward that message to me! He had faced a lot of heat from friends and fans, that too on my account.”
“I was very excited to be getting married to Suriya and missing out on the big films did not matter that much.”
Although it was her decision, it must have been a really hard one especially since she was doing the best movies of her career at that time. Also didn’t she suddenly feel she was missing her work post her marriage, we ask. Smiling, she says, “I was very excited to be getting married to Suriya that nothing else mattered. Infact I had to return the advances of two big Telugu films – one was a Selvaraghavan film (which Trisha signed on later and went on to become a big hit) and the other was a film with Nagarjuna. I wanted everything in my life to happen at the right time! I got married at the age of 27 and immediately had my first child, Diya, as we did not want to wait any longer. So I really did not have the time to miss cinema.” A few years later, the couple had their second child, Dev. “I could not even think about leaving my children alone and focus on my career again. Of course, I have done a few endorsements during my break, but apart from that I have spent every waking moment focusing on my family,” she says.
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Clifton L. Taulbert addresses the 2018 Annual Assembly crowd.
Nearly 200 people gathered on Thursday, May 10, for Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul’s 2018 Annual Assembly. Our new venue this year was spectacular: the Klas Center at Hamline University. We were thrilled to be welcomed to the beautiful space by Sandy Klas, whose founding of The Arc in Minnesota has improved the lives of people with disabilities and their families in myriad ways.
Her welcome kicked off a spirited, hopeful evening with music by the talented Walter Chancellor Jr. and Brian Nielsen from Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project. The Honorable Lucinda Jesson, who serves on Interfaith Action’s board of directors, served as emcee. Daisy and Coco Leonard from Interfaith Youth Connection offered their heartfelt and unique prayers.
“Our interfaith community of 4,187 volunteers, 298 community partners and 1,000 donors built opportunity in 2017,” Executive Director Randi Ilyse Roth noted in her remarks to the crowd. “We are deeply grateful for the support and know that nothing can stop us when we work together.”
The Report to the Community multi-media presentation highlighted the impact supporters of Interfaith Action made possible in 2017, from meeting vital needs to providing quality, culturally relevant after-school enrichment, from packing 550 backpacks with supplies for success to helping 252 people prevent diabetes, and from launching the first cohort of Opportunity Saint Paul volunteers to providing 215 interfaith youth with leadership training and service opportunities.
Bruce Nerland, president of the Interfaith Action board, paid respect to retiring board members Betsy Keyes and Rev. Norma Rae Hunt. Those in attendance then voted to renew the terms of Sharon DeMark, Kirk Kleckner and Rev. Javen Swanson, and elect new board members Diane Benjamin, Suzanne Kelly, and Fr. Erich Rutten, plus Dr. David Misemer to the Interfaith Action Foundation board.
Board member Louis André Fischer presented the Interfaith Progress Award to Rev. Dr. Thomas Duke for his many years of leadership of the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches and Saint Paul Interfaith Network. Ken Crea from the Catholic Church of Corpus Christi received this year’s Bringing Faith to Life Award for his extraordinary contribution to faith-based poverty relief in the Twin Cities.
Kristi Anderson, Interfaith’s long-time Director of Development and Communications, was recognized for her years of faithful service. Kristi is retiring this summer. Staff members Sara Liegl (Project Home) and Kathy Denman-Wilke (Department of Indian Works) were respected for their 20 and 5 years of service, respectively.
The evening culminated with Clifton L. Taulbert’s keynote address, “Eight Habits of the Heart: Connecting and Inspiring Community.” Mr. Taulbert challenged us to “affirm, inspire and include” in all we do. Fr. Erich Rutten closed the Annual Assembly with a fitting interfaith prayer:
“Holy One, Creator of us all, Lord of the Universe, and Shepherd of our souls,
You have made us to be incredibly powerful – masters of commerce and industry and science,
But you have also made us humble – from the clay of the Earth.
You have made us in such a way that we are incomplete on our own.
You have made us like yourself – with a heart.
You have made us for relationship and for community…
To depend on one another, to nurture each other, for friendship, sisterhood and brotherhood.
You have made us with responsibility for each other.
It is YOU who gather us – knit us together in and through our service to each other.
We thank you for this evening,
For the amazing work of Interfaith Action.
We thank you for Clifton Taulbert’s message that reminds us of the habits of our hearts.
O Holy One, be with us, Guide us, Empower us in our community building
Help us to bring respect, affirmation, and inclusion.
Give us high expectations for ourselves, for each other, and for our community.
Give us the courage and hope we need in our work for justice and peace and the common good of all.
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Employers Are Spying on Remote Workers in Their Homes
As the Covid-19 pandemic has forced more people to work from home, employers have begun using digital surveillance technology to increase control and maintain productivity.
Steven Hill September 23, 2020
Bhawani Singh, a software engineer, works from his house in Delhi, India as his office was closed during a nationwide lockdown in view of the coronavirus pandemic. Amarjeet Kumar Singh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The future of work is here, ushered in by a global pandemic. But is it turning employment into a Workers’ Paradise of working at home? Or more of a Big Brother panopticon?
Disturbing increases in use of digital surveillance technologies by employers to monitor their remote workers is raising alarm bells. With the number of remote workers surging as a result of the pandemic—42% of U.S. workers are now doing their jobs from their kitchens, living rooms and home offices — a number of employers have begun requiring their workers to download spying software to their laptops and smartphones. The goal is for businesses to monitor what their remote employees do all day, and to track job performance and productivity and reduce so-called “cyber-slacking.”
Business software products from Hubstaff, which tracks a worker’s mouse movements, keyboard strokes, webpages visited, email, file transfers and applications used, are surging in sales. So are sales for TSheets, which workers download to their smartphones so that employers can track their location. Another product, called Time Doctor, downloads videos of employees’ screens and uses a computer’s webcam, which can take a picture of the employee every 10 minutes. As one worker who was subjected to Time Doctor told NPR, “If you’re idle for a few minutes, if you go to the bathroom or to the kitchen, a pop-up comes up and says, ‘You have 60 seconds to start working again or we’re going to pause your time.’”
Another system, InterGuard, can be secretly installed on workers’ computers. As the Washington Post notes, it “creates a minute-by-minute timeline of every app and website they view, categorizing each as ‘productive’ or ‘unproductive’ and ranking workers by their ‘productivity score.’” Other employers are using a lower tech approach, requiring workers to stay on a teleconference like Zoom all day so they can be continually watched.
Since the Covid-19 outbreak, one surveillance company, Awareness Technologies, Inc., says it has seen its sales triple. Executives at Hubstaff and Teramind also say demand for their companies’ monitoring products have tripled. One website showing “Employee Monitoring Software in the USA” lists nearly 70 companies with products for sale.
Outdated laws keep it legal
Online surveillance of employees may seem invasive and creepy, but it is a legal practice in the United States. Individual state laws vary over whether companies must inform workers that they’re using tracking software, but in reality “when you’re on your office computer, you have no privacy at all,” Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute, told CNBC. “Anything and everything you do is probably monitored by your boss.”
Current laws are vastly outdated, as they are based on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, when the primary form of electronic communication was the telephone. That was a distant time when desktop computers were first becoming popular, and smart phones were not yet a glint in Steve Jobs’ eye.
And now, in response to the coronavirus outbreak, companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Salesforce have developed intrusive applications that enable companies to continuously track the health status of their employees. Often they include a system for tracking contacts between employees within an office, and a mobile app for collecting information about their health status. A number of large U.S. employers, including Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot and Starbucks, are taking the temperatures of their employees before they are allowed to work. Certainly, employers have a legitimate need to collect the necessary data to safeguard their workplaces, especially in response to a pandemic. But what is the appropriate level of “health intrusion”? How voluntary is the participation of workers, and who gets to decide?
The reality of this constant Big Brother digital spying in people’s homes is that dozens of remote workers are starting to complain that they feel burned out by this pressure. A recent Fishbowl survey of major companies’ employees found that three-quarters of those polled were opposed to using an app or device that allows their company to trace their contacts with colleagues. Yet many fear they will be branded as troublemakers or lose their jobs if they speak out. And since remote workers hardly see each other — and increasingly may not even know many of their coworkers — these factors will make labor organizing and collective worker empowerment increasingly challenging.
U.S. labor unions have been slow to advocate for updating these outdated laws. One union, the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, has been working to blunt the worst of the abuses. Labor-friendly media have been missing this story as well. Not only should unions advocate to update the laws and limit digital spying, but why not also demand that home-based workers be compensated by employers for use of their house, utilities and the internet? And that the employer remains responsible to provide equipment and a safe workplace, even in the home?
Remote workforce growth — the new normal?
As the number of remote workers rises, concerns are growing among labor advocates that this is quickly becoming the “new normal.” One survey found that 74% of companies intend to keep some proportion of their workforce on a permanent remote status, with nearly a quarter of respondents saying they will move at least 20% of their on-site employees to permanent remote status. Google, whose parent company is Alphabet, recently announced it will keep its 200,000 full-time and contract employees home until at least July 2021, and Mark Zuckerberg predicts half of Facebook employees will work from home over the next decade. HUB International, a global insurance brokerage, has shifted 90% of its 12,000-plus employees to remote status. Teleperformance, the world’s largest call-center company, estimates that nearly 155,000 of its employees — almost half its global workforce — will not return to a physical worksite. A survey of firms by the Survey of Business Uncertainty found that the share of working days spent at home is expected to increase fourfold from a pre-Covid-19 level of 5 percent to 20%. Post-pandemic, many employees will work from home one to three days a week, and come into the office the rest of the time.
But not all at-home workers are created equal. Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom says “This is generating a time bomb for inequality.” More educated, higher-earning employees are far more likely to work from home, continuing to get paid and advance their careers. But many others are unable to work from home, often because they lack suitable space or fast, affordable internet connections, and they are being left behind. “They face bleak prospects if their skills and work experience erode during an extended shutdown and beyond,” says Bloom.
The future of work has become more uncertain than ever. In this “brave new world,” labor unions and advocates must ensure that the pandemic is not misused by businesses as an excuse to worsen conditions for employees who work out of the office. It is easy to imagine how the lines between ‘remote’ work and ‘platform’ work could blur, leading to more ‘Uberization’ as work devolves into ‘independent’ contracts, bogus self-employment and ‘pay-by-project’ arrangements that can be easily outsourced to remote (and lower cost) destinations.
Worker advocates must push for a strong and modern legal data protection framework. And that should include an effective enforcement system against privacy abuse that creates a disincentive against illegal spying behavior. Remote work should not become a downward slide toward a Big Brother panopticon that penetrates into society ever more deeply, including into our homes.
Steven Hill is co-founder of FairVote and the author of seven books, including“10 Steps to Repair American Democracy” and “Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics”. His opinions are his own.
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Coronavirus latest: Texas death toll tops 30,000 as New York Mets to host ‘mega-vaccination’ site
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Peter Wells in New York
The US on Tuesday reported more than 4,000 coronavirus fatalities in a single day for only the second time and as the death tolls in the country’s two most populous states surpassed 30,000.
State authorities attributed a further 4,056 deaths to coronavirus, a daily tally second only to the 4,081 fatalities reported on January 7, according to Covid Tracking Project data.
Over the past week, 23,119 deaths in the US have been attributed to coronavirus, a record for a seven-day period and averaging out at about 3,303 a day.
The overall death toll for the US stands at over 371,000, more than any other country.
On Tuesday, the health departments of California and Texas, which rank first and second among US states by population, revealed their death tolls had surpassed 30,000, climbing to 30,513 and 30,219, respectively.
Only New York, with 32,007 fatalities — the majority of which occurred during the early stage of the pandemic — has more.
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Arizona (335), Alabama (226), Mississippi (98) and Wyoming (33) reported record one-day increases in deaths.
The number of people currently in US hospitals with coronavirus ticked back above 130,000 for the first time in three days to 131,326.
On January 7, a record 132,464 people were reported to be in hospital.
Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and president-elect Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware reported record hospitalisations, as did Texas, which crossed the 14,000 threshold for the first time.
States reported a further 213,885 infections over the past 24 hours, according to CTP data, up from 193,857 on Monday and compared with an average over the past week of 244,519 cases a day.
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REVIEW: “The Call of the Wild” (2020)
March 3, 2020 by Keith
When prepping to watch “The Call of the Wild” I couldn’t help but wonder which is the greater American classic: Jack London’s timeless 1903 novel or Harrison Ford? If I was honest I’d have to admit that I find Ford to be the bigger draw. But personal bias aside, London’s beloved novel is a significant blind spot for me so I was anxious to see what it was all about.
This latest adaption had its share of pluses and minuses. I’ve already mentioned Ford and the source material as strengths. Add to it a really good supporting cast. On the negative side, a movie with a $150 million budget getting a February release usually isn’t a good sign. And you never know what you’re going to get when there’s such a hefty dependence animal CGI.
Long-time animator, screenwriter, and director Chris Sanders makes his live-action directorial debut, working from a script written by Michael Green (“Logan”, “Blade Runner 2049”). Their lead character is a congenial and rambunctious St. Bernard-Scotch Collie dog named Buck. Here’s the catch, he isn’t played by a real dog at all. He’s an elaborate coat of CGI on top of a fine motion capture performance from the talented Terry Notary. The problem is you never fully forget he is a digital creation despite how impressive he looks.
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In fairness I’m not sure London’s story could have been told any other way. Buck’s harrowing adventure across the Yukon is filled will action and peril and I simply can’t see a real pup pulling it off. The good thing is there is enough personality in Buck to make him feel like a full-on character. He works best when he is simply being a dog and doing doggie things. It’s when the filmmakers add human expressions that Buck suddenly comes across as fake.
Buck’s overall story is heart-tugging but it’s the human actors who sell it best. Set in the 1890’s during the Gold Rush, the story begins in Santa Clara, California where the clumsy but lovable Buck lives happily with a well-to-do local judge (Bradley Whitford). Gold Fever has driven people to pay top dollar for able dogs to pull sleds in the Yukon where “there’s gold in them thar hills“. Buck is snatched by scoundrels, sold to an abusive trader, and stuck on a freighter bound for the Klondike.
Buck is purchased by Perrault, a kind man who delivers mail across the frozen Yukon. He’s played by the delightful French actor Omar Sy who brings a lot of warmth to the screen. Perrault needs an extra sled dog for his arduous route and sees something special in Buck. But once again not everyone Buck encounters represents the best side of humanity. Dan Stevens is a hoot playing a dastardly business man who only cares about the glittering fortune hidden in the mountains. Stevens’ scene-chewing is fun to watch even though his cruelty towards Buck isn’t.
As Buck moves from master to master, he keeps crossing paths with John Thornton (Ford), a tortured lost soul trying to cope with a family tragedy. He also serves as the movie’s narrator. From their first meeting the two seem destined to come together. Both are far from home and both are looking for something more valuable than gold. The grizzled Ford gives an earnest and understated performance, quietly lending pathos to Thornton while doing all he can to help us believe in Buck.
The story plays out through picturesque locations set across the gorgeous Canadian wilderness. Surprisingly, the bulk of it was shot in and around Los Angeles. Most of the stunning backdrops are CGI but so well done that you would never know it otherwise. That makes it easy to get lost in the beautiful, lush scenery.
In “The Call of the Wild” we get a story of a dog who witnesses the best and worst of humanity. Think of it as a Disney-fied “Au Hasard Balthazar” which is still giving it way too much credit. I hear it has been tamed down from the novel which might not sit well with purists, but that’s why I never pit movie against book. When taken on its own merits, it’s a satisfying crowdpleaser. A quick note: be careful with its PG rating. If you have young children go in thinking PG-13 instead.
VERDICT – 3.5 STARS
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16 thoughts on “REVIEW: “The Call of the Wild” (2020)”
fragglerocking says: March 3, 2020 at 10:51 am
My only question is.. does the dog die?
Keith says: March 3, 2020 at 10:57 am
But do you reeeeeally wanna know?
Yes because if it does I’m not watching it. 😀
In that case…
(SPOILER)
(SPOILER)….
Watch it😊
OK, I’ll give it a go. I don’t get why they couldn’t use a real dog though, Lassie managed some harrowing stuff.
That’s true. But some of these action scenes would put even Lassie in danger. To be honest, if I had known a real dog was doing this movie I would have been nervous wreck. And that’s coming from a cat person!!! 🤣🤣
fragglerocking says: March 3, 2020 at 1:01 pm
Haha will make do with fake dog then 😊
Martin1250 says: March 3, 2020 at 12:44 pm
I enjoyed the post Keith. this is the movie that have seen for this week. but because the book left a strong impact on me, the film came out as a disappointment. one of the reasons is what you pointed out- Buck having “human expressions”.
nevertheless the book is a blind spot for you, so the review is well understood.
ps. I read the book only a few years ago. am not sure if it can be depicted in a movie due to the many intense moments. but its a great story.
Keith says: March 3, 2020 at 1:16 pm
Thanks so much. From the way it sounds this would be a tough movie to make if it really stuck close to the book in spots. That’s why comparing the two can be a little tough. At the same time, if you’re basing your movie on a beloved novel you do open yourself up to that kind of scrutiny. So I can understand how it could be disappointing for some.
M.B. Henry says: March 3, 2020 at 4:27 pm
Oh… they definitely tamed it down from the book. Let’s just say the “law of club and fang” is portrayed somewhat more graphically on the page than the screen. Had they left it the way it was written, there’s NO WAY it would have been marketed it as a family friend film. I will admit that I am one of those that typically prefers the book version over the movie, although there are some very rare exceptions. While Call of the Wild is not one of those exceptions, I still very much enjoyed the movie for what it was, especially Harrison Ford and Omar Sy. It was nice to see a fun adventure film with a very cute CGI dog who made very cute CGI faces, and who wasn’t put through quite the same untamed and rabid trials of the wilderness as he was in the book. Sometimes, you just need to smile at the antics of a cute doggy! 🙂
And isn’t Omar Sy great. I love what he brought to the movie. It’s hard not to love his character. And I’m always up for more Harrison Ford.
Who isn’t? 🙂
ninvoid99 says: March 3, 2020 at 7:24 pm
I thought about seeing it but then I saw the CGI dog and I was like…. “I’m out”. Sorry, it just doesn’t work for me.
I can understand that. I know others who just couldn’t go with the CGI dog.
Daniel Prinn says: March 13, 2020 at 2:32 pm
I’m glad you liked this one, reading your review makes me like a bit more. I thought it was fine watching but thinking back there just wasn’t much I loved about it. I loved the bits with Omar Sy and that portion of the film (the avalanche and ice scenes are great). Hated Dan Stevens’ character and the CGI was too distracting 😦 Tho, Buck body slamming a Siberian Husky? So ridiculous it’s kind-of brilliant lol.
Keith says: March 14, 2020 at 12:51 am
It’s funny, I kinda liked Stevens’ character as an over-the-top vaudevillian type. Impossible to take seriously but fun nevertheless. Still, I can completely see why others wouldn’t go for him. It’s a wacky character and performance.
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Ottessa Moshfegh's DEATH IN HER HANDS: A Review
By Brenna McPeek
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death In Her Hands is a wry, toying tailspin of a book. It begins with the finding of a note: “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body.” Its discovery sends the newest of Moshfegh’s eccentric narrators into a psychosomatic spiral of homespun sleuthing and self-realization. What results is an insidious meta-mystery that launches the protagonist on a twisted quest for justice, identity and erratic female independence.
The novel tells the story of Vesta Gul, a seventy-two-year old widow who, after her late husband’s death, has picked up and moved to the rustic town of Levant with her dog Charlie. “I felt I needed to hide a little,” she explains. “My mind needed a smaller world to roam.” Her new home is a cabin on an old, abandoned Girl Scout camp. She has little company there besides her dog, her late husband Walter’s ashes and an evangelical public radio personality named Pastor Jimmy, whose show Vesta listens to every night. She hikes with Charlie each morning, reads, cooks and drinks wine—just generally “finding things to do to pass the time.” That is, until she comes across the mysterious note in her birch woods (“Her name was Magda…”). Just the note on the ground—no body or murder weapon or lingering clues. Nonetheless, Vesta is quick to assign herself the role of amateur detective, excited to have her mellow routine ruffled by the note’s unsolved mystery.
The detective narrative Moshfegh initially sets up plays freely with the hand-me-downs of genre conventions. Vesta herself has “seen plenty of murder mystery TV shows,” and as such her investigation begins traditionally enough. She brainstorms a list of suspects. She goes to the library and searches: “How does one solve a murder mystery?” She easily (and eagerly) conjures up graphic descriptions of Magda’s missing body, wondering, “was it so hard to come up with a description of her corpse, tangled in the brush under a fallen tree…her hands hog-tied behind her back, the blood from her stab wounds leaching into the ground.” Vesta, like any avid reader, is familiar with society’s favorite murder mystery tropes. Moshfegh has her fun with these from the get-go, setting our expectations up for an eventual slashing. She lines up parts of Vesta’s little world like game pieces on a chess board. Her lakeside cabin in the woods. Her mysterious neighbors across the water. A foreboding island in the middle of the lake, just a rowboat’s trip away…
Vesta herself is positioned as a potential Miss Marple or Jessica Fletcher type heroine—a mellow old widow turned amateur detective, whiling away the back half of life solving local mysteries. Moshfegh lets her protagonist play to formula and fantasy, but she never lets things get too precious. Vesta’s trite conclusions ultimately reveal a lurking darkness to her character. At the very start of her investigation, Vesta casts Magda as the young, female victim—the mystery genre’s very own fetishistic version of the manic pixie dream girl. But Vesta soon becomes obsessed with acting the author and crafting Magda’s character—continuously morphing her looks, personality and backstory throughout her investigation. Her identity is entirely at the whim of Vesta’s oscillating mental state. One moment she’s a daughter-like figure, one the childless Vesta imagines nurturing. The next she’s a reflection of Vesta herself—a youthful, might-have-been incarnation that Vesta mourns the near-existence of. “It is easy…to find great affection for victims, emblems of vanished potential,” Vesta muses, thinking back on her marriage to Walter and its lopsided power dynamic. “There is nothing more heartbreaking than a squandered opportunity, a missed chance.” She sees her young self in Magda—the vulnerable victim in a man’s quest for control. After all, Magda’s murderer could only have been a man. “It seemed unlikely that a woman would abandon a dead body in the woods,” Vesta decides early on, “so I felt I could safely presume that the writer of the note, this me, this character, the I of the story, must be male.”
As Vesta’s role in the mystery turns more personal, Death in Her Hands in turn becomes increasingly meta. Vesta gets swept up in the romanticism of the crime and its telling, referring to the ominous message as an “invitation, or poem” and to herself as a “mystery writer.” She deems the story “a cozy little whodunit.” She remarks on the mystery’s pacing when researching at the library (“Let us hope [the killer’s] not presently strangling the lady librarian. If he was, the mystery would be solved too easily”) and invents a cast of supporting players to construct a more enticing narrative. “I still needed a strong male lead,” she declares as she brainstorms her suspect list. “Someone in his mid to late forties, a Harrison Ford type.” She fills out her cast and plot as only an author would, editing her narrative to bring her chosen reality to fruition.
Vesta’s god-like manipulation of Magda’s mystery allows Moshfegh to ironically remark on the authorial act of crafting a novel. Death in Her Hands is preoccupied with omniscient authority. God is always lurking, speaking to Vesta through a number of proxies—Pastor Jimmy, her late husband Walter, and the novel’s immense natural setting. Moshfegh—playing God—sets up the novel’s elements, but lets her protagonist manipulate them so that the reader can see the seams of Vesta’s makeshift narrative, the flaws in her reasoning. It would be easy to sum up Vesta’s investigation as the boredom or hysteria of an old woman, but just as we’re tempted to draw such conclusions, Moshfegh tips the novel’s tone from darkly comedic to downright disturbing. Vesta’s abandoned Girl Scout camp transforms into a scene of decaying girlhood—the perfect backdrop for the once demure and dutiful Vesta to succumb to the escalating madness of her mystery. Her actions, even simple ones like eating or dressing herself, turn primitive. The scattering of her husband’s ashes—an act Moshfegh heavily foreshadows—is handled bluntly, without ceremony. Just a sudden trip out in the rowboat at night. Not a laying to rest, but a dumping. The entire urn goes into the lake, its plunk into the depths not unlike the disposal of a body.
Such acts make up Vesta’s desperate attempts to reclaim her own mind. Early in the novel, Moshfegh introduces the concept of “mindspace” or the sharing of a mind with another, which Vesta says she did with her late husband Walter. “Walter and I had shared a mind, of course. Couples get that way. I think it has something to do with sharing a bed.” The reader shares a “mindspace” with Vesta; Moshfegh offers us no relief with any outside logic. Her perception proves claustrophobic, both for the reader and for Vesta herself. Vesta is badgered by a chorus of imagined critics—the late, domineering Walter, the Levant townsfolk and even, on occasion, her dog Charlie. Her “mindspace” is a crowded one, turning her search for Magda’s killer into a crisis of self, a quest for her own independence. Yet the voices in Vesta’s head call into question her reliability—are they a yearning for companionship, a sounding board? Or are they proof of an old woman’s mental demise?
Moshfegh never lets the reader get too comfortable in our assessment of Vesta, preferring to let us fester in her protagonist’s precarious mental state. The author has always enjoyed plunking her readers into the mindsets of oddball characters—people you’d never think to share a “mindspace” with. Take her past protagonists—the alcoholic McGlue, the prudish, sardonic Eileen, the sedated heiress from My Year of Rest and Relaxation who’s determined to sleep for a whole calendar year. Moshfegh’s true talent comes from her ability to craft characters who swallow up the reader in their bizarre plights. We become one with their oddity, subject to their stream of conscious narration, until we eventually uncover the blunt humanity Moshfegh’s hidden beneath their peculiar facades. We begin Death in Her Hands summing Vesta up as so many others do: a mentally stale old woman stuck in her routine. We aren’t inclined to take her seriously. She is entertainment, for we are the reader and Vesta our protagonist. But as reality and fantasy begin to blur in Vesta’s world, so do our respective roles. We become one with Vesta in her “mindspace.” We piece together unsavory memories with her, make conclusions with her, feel the walls of reality close in on her (our?) fantasy. As such, Vesta becomes less and less of a foregone conclusion. She sheds her tropes like skins, exposing something darker, messier. Her memories of Walter lose their initial rose-colored tint, Magda’s death its romanticism and Moshfegh’s tone its irony. What we’re left with is the portrait of a woman forced to face the ugly truth she’s disguised from herself.
“[It’s] good to have a few secrets here and there,” Vesta muses early on in Death in Her Hands. “It [keeps] one interested in herself.” Keeping interest is not something Moshfegh needs to worry about. Her precarious balancing act between fantasy and reality gives the novel’s protagonist and her mystery—no matter how cozy or claustrophobic it becomes—staying power until its conclusion. We are happy to remain here inside Vesta’s “mindspace,” grappling for clues to assure us that Vesta’s lucid, Vesta’s right—because if not, we will go mad, trapped in the mind of this protagonist.
But maybe it isn’t madness at all—at least, not in the classic sense. The quest for identity is a mad one. The struggle for self-realization can drive anyone to extremes. In Vesta’s case, it transforms her into a force—whether sound or not is up to the reader to decide. Death in Her Hands isn’t a “cozy little whodunit.” It’s a character study, a twisted tale of empowerment. Vesta’s liberation might be warped, but by the end of her mystery, she’s definitely not the victim.
Brenna McPeek is a writer based in New York City. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and her work has appeared in Drizzle Review and Thoughtful Dog.
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The Time Now provides Northern Constitution Ltd. About this Item: 1st ed Northern Constitution Coleraine, Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Foolscap8vo, [15 - adverts], 16 - 96, [94 plates], [21 - adverts] p. Original printed light card covers.
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Ex Libris Security And Privacy Incident Response Policy
Cross-Product
Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)
Policy Review and Update
Security and Privacy Incident Response Procedure
Incident Identification
Documenting the Incident Initially
Severity Assessment
Notification/Communication
Corrective Measures
Lessons Learned Review
Incident Closure
Procedure for Handling Notification of Personal Data Breach
Notification for a Personal Data Breach
Appendix 1- Post-Incident Report
Appendix 2 - Data Breach Notification Form to Customers and Data Subject
Appendix 3 - Data Breach Notification Form to the Supervisory Authority
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that Ex Libris reacts appropriately to any actual or suspected security or privacy event regarding Ex Libris systems and/or data and that all activities are documented for future reference. This policy establishes responsibility and accountability and defines the steps required to ensure that security incidents are identified, contained, investigated, remedied, communicated, and documented.
This policy applies to all systems, personnel, and data at Ex Libris.
Management responsibilities and processes will be established to ensure a quick, effective, and orderly response to information security and/or privacy incidents. All activities pertaining to the incident will be documented in a Service Now ticket.
Security Incident - A security incident is any real or suspected event that may adversely affect the security of Ex Libris cloud information or the systems that process, store, or transmit that information. examples include:
A Security Incident includes, but is not restricted to, the following:
Attempts (either failed or successful) to gain unauthorized access to a system or its data
A system infected with malware, such as a worm, virus, or Trojan horse
Theft, loss, or unauthorized transfer of data to those who are not entitled to receive that data
Unwanted disruption or denial-of-service (DoS) attack
Changes to data or system hardware, firmware, or software without Ex Libris’ knowledge, instruction, or consent
Event Management Kit – Ex Libris for internal use only document for recording details of an event.
SIRT – Security Incident Response Team
CISO – Chief Information Security Officer
The SIRT consists of:
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) - Team Lead
Privacy and Regulation Officer & DPO
Cloud Operation Group (COG) Manager
Cloud Engineering Group (CEG) Manager
24 x 7 HUB Manager
BU Development (URM or URD) Director
Global Support Organization (GSO) Director
Responsibilities of the SIRT include:
Coordinating and overseeing the response to incidents in accordance with the requirements of Ex Libris’ security policy and regulatory laws
Minimizing the potential negative impact on Ex Libris and Ex Libris’ customers resulting from such incidents
Determining what type of incident has occurred: security, privacy or both security and privacy
Repairing, or coordinating the repair of, damage caused by the incident
Restoring services to a normalized and a secure state of operation
Preserving evidence of the incident, as appropriate
Providing clear and timely communication to all interested parties
Taking proactive steps to prevent future incidents
This policy and its supporting procedures will be reviewed at least annually and updated as required.
Security and privacy incident response includes:
Reporting the initial information regarding how the incident was identified.
Collecting the information around the event to understand what has happened and the impact.
Assessing the event to understand the severity.
Communicating about the event, which includes:
Communication within the immediate event team.
Communication within the company, as appropriate.
Communication with customers, as appropriate.
Containing/limiting the current event
Taking corrective action
Ensuring that complete documentation is available during and after the event.
A privacy or security incident is initiated when:
An employee contacts the Information Security Office
A Salesforce case is opened by a customer
An alert is created from the Security Information Event Management (SIEM) system
An incident begins when a security or privacy incident is reported to the Ex Libris Chief Information Security Officer, the Ex Libris Privacy and Regulation Officer, or the VP of Cloud Services. This report could come from an Ex Libris employee, an automated system diagnostic, a support ticket submitted by a customer, or other means.
Customers usually contact the Ex Libris through Salesforce, but can also contact the HUB directly. When the customer contacts Ex Libris regarding a system disruption, the incident will be escalated to the HUB immediately and will include information regarding the disruption.
Based on the information collected below, an immediate determination will be made by the CISO or event manager. If the event involves customer data notify the Privacy and Regulation Officer immediately.
Once an incident is identified, document the following information in an information system.
Customer data affected?
Yes/No (required)
Source of the complaint/issue (e.g., Salesforce ticket, email, individual).
Include the following information:
Contact information for the incident reporter: Full name, affiliation, organization, e-mail address, phone number and location.
If an automated system reported the event: Name of software/product, where the software is installed, physical location of the host, host/CPU ID of the host, network address of the host.
Incident contact information
List contact information for all parties involved in the incident.
Incident timeline
Date/time that the incident was discovered
Date/time that the incident was reported
Date/time that the incident occurred (if known)
Type of incident
Compromised system
Compromised user credentials
Network attacks (DOS, scanning, sniffing)
Malware (viruses, worms, trojans)
Lost equipment/theft
Physical break-in
Policy violation
Unauthorized access to customer data
Detailed description of the incident
System(s) or product(s) affected
Description of incident
Affected resources and organizations
Estimated technical impact of the incident (i.e., data deleted, system crashed, application unavailable)
Initial actions taken
Cause of incident if known
List of evidence gathered
Official Common Vulnerabilities (CVE)
Individuals contacted
Identification of the host(s)
Source of the incident: List of sources' host names/IP addresses
Target of the attack: Host name/IP address (Note: the target of the attack should not be listed for the incidents involving personal data)
Internal – Ex Libris only
External – customers or other parties
Does this incident require notification within 72 hours?
An incident must be assessed to understand the severity and impact of the event. The following factors should be considered:
Personal information – was personal information affected? This can be customer or employee information.
Service disruption – did the event disrupt service, and if so, who/what was affected?
Has the event been stopped or contained, or is it still on-going?
What is the urgency?
Incident severity will be determined as either high, medium or low. In general, use the following:
Requires immediate remedial action to prevent further compromise of data and adverse impact on network or other systems.
Network of system outage with significant impact on the user population or operation of Ex Libris cloud services.
High probability of propagation.
Probable or actual release or compromise of personal data.
Some adverse impact on the operation of Ex Libris.
Adverse effects are localized or contained, or minimal risk of propagation.
No apparent release or compromise of personal data.
Remedial but not immediate action is required.
Localized with little or no risk to other systems.
Minimal impact on small segment of user population or operation of Ex Libris cloud services.
Completely localized with few individuals affected and presenting little or no risk to other system.
No loss or compromise of personal data.
Remedial action is required.
SIRT Lead will take action to notify the appropriate internal and external parties, as necessary.
Internal Notification (within Ex Libris)
SIRT Lead will issue or direct all internal communications.
SIRT Lead will notify Ex Libris senior management, cloud directors, support directors, and 24x7 HUB of the incident and provide ongoing status reports.
Where applicable, SIRT Lead will notify Ex Libris employees and provide on-going status reports.
External Notification
In the case of a personal data breach, the affected customer(s) will be notified as soon as is reasonably practicable, but no later than twenty-four (24) hours after Ex Libris becomes aware the breach.
For all incidents where external notification is necessary, the notification will include:
Date and time that the incident was discovered
The type of security incident (e.g., network attack, worm, phishing)
Description of the incident (i.e., how it was detected, what occurred)
When the customer can expect the next update
For personal data breaches, refer to Procedure for Personal Data Breach.
For incidents caused by an Ex Libris product or a third-party product a Security Advisory must be written and published to the Customer Knowledge Center.
Once the incident is resolved and documented, if appropriate, a report will be sent to the affected external party describing the root cause analysis results, corrective measures implemented, and any additional pertinent information.
The objective is to prevent the incident from continuing. This is accomplished by:
Isolating the incident to prevent it from spreading further.
Putting measures in place to stop the immediate threat.
Preventing further damage to the compromised system and/or data.
Incident containment activities in a case of unauthorized access include, but are not restricted to, the following:
Disconnect the system or hosts from the network or access other system.
Isolate the affected IP address from the network.
Where possible, capture and preserve system, host, and application logs, network flows for review.
Disable the affected application(s).
Discontinue or disable remote access.
Stop services or close ports that are contributing to the incident.
Power off the host(s), if unable to otherwise isolate.
Notify SIRT of statues and any action take.
Note: Information pertaining to the incident should be kept confidential until the incident is resolved, at which point the classification of the information will be reconsidered.
After the incident is contained, a plan should be developed and implemented to correct the cause of the incident. This is accomplished by:
Identifying the root cause of the incident
Taking the necessary actions to prevent the incident from recurring
Securing the Ex Libris cloud environment
Restoring the Ex Libris cloud environment to its normal state
Corrective activities in a case of unauthorized access include, but are not restricted to, the following:
Change passwords/passphrases on all local user and administrator accounts or otherwise disable the accounts as appropriate.
Change passwords/passphrases for all administrator accounts where the account uses the same password/passphrase across multiple appliances or systems (servers, firewalls, routers).
Rebuild systems to a secure state.
Restore systems with data known to be of high integrity.
Modify access control lists as deemed appropriate.
Implement IP-range filtering as deemed appropriate.
Modify/implement firewall rule sets as deemed appropriate.
Make all personnel “security aware”.
Monitor/scan systems to ensure problems have been resolved.
Notify SIRT of status and any action taken.
After the incident has been managed and corrective actions have been implemented, a review of lessons learned will be performed within a one week period.
All incident activities, from receipt of the initial report through Lessons Learned Review, will be documented in a ticketing system. The SIRT Lead will ensure that all the activities regarding the incident are recorded and will organize the lessons learned review.
When it is determined that personal data is involved, the Privacy and Regulation Officer will immediately notify the President of Ex Libris, the Chief Operating Officer, and Ex Libris General Counsel.
If further analysis confirms that personal data was not breached, no additional special actions are required. Normal incident response process should continue.
When the analysis identifies what personal data was breached, the Privacy and Regulations officer will convene a meeting immediately to:
Determine the exact scope of the personal data breach (which individuals were affected and what data was compromised)
Determine which customers need to be notified and the method for notification.
Provide affected customer(s) with a description of the breach.
Where appropriate, assist the customer(s) as needed.
· When customer data has been breached, the customer will be called personally to notify them.
Document in detail in a ticketing system what actions were taken, including who was notified.
All notifications regarding a personal data breach will be developed in conjunction with Legal.
Failure to comply with this policy will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
Incident Salesforce ID Number: YYYYYYY
Incident Severity:
Incident Title:
Incident Manager (name, title, e-mail, phone):
Date of Initial Suspicious/Malicious Activity:
Date Incident Reported:
Date Incident Fully Contained:
Post-Incident Review Session:
Date Incident Response Completed:
Post-Incident Report Submitted by (name, title, e-mail, phone):
Post-Incident Report distributed to:
Date Post-Incident Report Submitted:
Incident Overview:
Provide a general overview of what happened, indicating how the security incident occurred and the scope of the incident
(for example, who was affected, what systems were compromised, the dates of major milestones, etc.). Detailed information, such as a timeline, may be added to the end of the report as appendices.
Incident Detection:
Briefly describe how the incident was first discovered (when, how, and by whom).
Incident Containment & Corrective Measures:
Describe how the incident was contained (prevented from spreading and/or doing further damage) and eradicated (removed from infected hosts). Also describe recovery activities.
Incident Notification:
If the incident involved the breach of, or suspected breach of personal data that requires notification, describe how and when the affected customers were notified.
Incident Follow-Up:
Identify steps taken to prevent future incidents, lessons learned, and any other recommendations resulting from the incident and the post-incident review session.
A. Steps Taken to Prevent Future Incidents
B. Lessons Learned
C. Other Recommendations
Appendices:
Attach any other relevant information about the incident that should be archived.
From: Ex Libris
To: [Affected data subject name and address – Customer Name]
Sent by:
• Post
• Fax
Dear customer, we regret to inform you that on [date] we have discovered that we have been the subject of a personal data
As a result of the above mentioned personal data breach, the personal data concerning you might have been:
• Disclosed
• Destroyed
• Lost
• Modified
• Accessed
• Other [please specify other possible results]
By unauthorized persons.
The following measures have been taken/will be taken to address the data breach:
[list all the measures taken such as: we have moved the data base to a secure location, we have reviewed and strengthened the security measures; we have encrypted our data bases, etc]
If you have any questions or concerns regarding to the data breach, you can contact our Privacy and Regulation Officer & DPO, Ellen Amsel by email at privacy@exlibrisgroup.com, or by post at Bldg. 9, Malcha Technological Park Jerusalem, Israel 9695809
To: [name and address of the Supervisory authority]
Please be informed that on [date] we suffered a data breach that consisted of:
[Please fill in with the data of the occurrence of the data breach, Insert details of the nature of the data breach and a description].
Following the data breach, the following personal data were affected: [e.g. names, contact details, accounts, etc].
We estimate that around [estimated] data subjects and [estimated] records were affected by the data breach.
We believe that the personal data breach might have the following consequences:
[list all possible consequences such as: you might be subject to unsolicited emails; you might be subject to phishing attempts; you might be subject to fraud attempts, etc]
[list all the measures taken such as: we have moved the data base to a secure location, we have reviewed and strengthened the security measures; we have encrypted our data bases, etc].
Record of Changes
Document Title:
Document Owner:
Tomer Shemesh - Ex Libris Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Approved by:
Barak Rozenblat - VP Cloud Services
Reviewed & Revised:
Nature of Change
Date Approved
Updated – Tomer S
Review and Update- Tomer S
14-Feb-018Apr 26, 2018
Document Distribution and Review
The document owner will distribute this document to all approvers when it is first created and as changes or updates are made. This document will be reviewed and updated annually or upon written request by an approver or stakeholder. Questions or feedback about this document can be directed to the owner or a listed approver
Ex Libris Security Disciplinary Policy
Ex Libris Security Patches and Vulnerability Assessments Policy
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Iran’s Zarif Rejects Netanyahu’s Nuclear Claim, Says He “Cries Wolf”
DUBAI, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Iran on Monday rejected a claim by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Tehran had been developing nuclear weapons at a secret site and said he was seeking a pretext for war.
“The possessor of real nukes cries wolf,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet, a reference to Israel’s own presumed nuclear arsenal.
Netanyahu said on Monday that Tehran had been developing nuclear weapons at a secret site in Abadeh in Iran but had destroyed the facility after learning it had been exposed.
Zarif said in a tweet: “He & #B_Team just want a war, no matter innocent blood & another $7 TRILLION.”
The Iranian foreign minister has in the past said that a so-called “B-team” including U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton, Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could goad the U.S. president into a conflict with Tehran.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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L.A. Kennedy
Beyond the story
Cross-Pollination: The Future Is Genre-Blending
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The future is genre-blending, and it’s in full bloom. Here’s why your next novel shouldn’t fit neatly into any one pot.
By: Paul Goat Allen
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re standing on top of a grassy hill. Spread out before you is a vast meadow of wildflowers. It’s an ocean of undulating color—slow, kaleidoscopic waves as far as the eye can see. It’s the peak of summer and the fragrant breeze smells of fertility—rich soil and uninhibited growth.
That sprawling meadow is the current landscape of popular fiction.
The golden yellows of mainstream fiction are everywhere—patches of daisies and towering sunflowers—but so, too, are the various shades of genre fiction. The scarlet sage, red poppies and crimson clover scattered about constitute romance. Fantasy is blue sage and chicory. The whites of wild carrot and wood anemone are science fiction. Purple flowers like cow vetch and violets are mystery and thrillers. The orange of the tiger lilies is horror.
It’s a spectacular sight, and if you look closer, you’ll notice vast stretches where the flowers have cross-pollinated to create new blooms with multi-colored petals of varying sizes and shapes. The beauty of this new, hybrid flora is breathtaking—reds blending with oranges and yellows; mélanges of purples, blues and white. The combinations of color are seemingly endless and appear to be changing right before your eyes.
Now, if I were to ask you to visualize this scene roughly three decades ago—the metaphorical meadow would’ve looked radically different. Walls built of fieldstone would snake throughout the landscape, separating the wildflowers by color.
There’s no doubt about it: Today’s climate is one in which genre-blended novels are a fixture on bookshelves and bestseller lists. And understanding this ever-changing landscape of popular fiction will help you learn how to take advantage of the opportunities arising from those ecological shifts.
The Old-World Model
Back in the late ’80s and ’90s—before becoming a book critic—I managed multiple Coles and Waldenbooks stores in New York and witnessed this strict demarcation firsthand. The rift between fiction and the various genre categories was much deeper than simple shelving designations. The vast majority of book buyers—at least the ones in my stores—had relatively fixed reading habits. There were a handful of romance readers, for example, who came in on the same day every week to purchase all of the various Harlequin offerings. They would head straight to the romance section, gather up the new releases, then head to the cash wrap. Science fiction and fantasy readers rarely scoured the mystery shelves. Literary readers seldom explored the genre fiction aisles. The boundaries between categories were clearly defined. If you ever examine a novel released back then—and in the decades before—chances are good that you’ll find a label of some kind on the cover classifying the novel’s category. I’ve got hundreds of old paperbacks on my shelves with their category right on the spine: “Science Fiction,” “Fantasy,” “Mystery.”
While these labels were arguably just another way to market the respective titles in an overly straightforward way, they were also useful in accurately describing the narrative content. Romance novels, for example, featured classic romance elements—readers knew a novel labeled Romance wouldn’t contain sentient robots or insectoid gods from another dimension bent on wiping out humankind. The marketing of novels back then was all about familiarity: familiar cover art philosophies, familiar storylines, returning readers to that safe, comfortable headspace again and again.
Three decades ago you’d struggle to find any commercially successful genre-hybridizing novels—and that’s in large part because there simply weren’t that many being published. Those fieldstone walls separating mainstream fiction from genre fiction were thick and impermeable, making it virtually impossible for a cross-pollinated novel to make it to the shelves. The concerns from agents and publishers were myriad: Who was the audience? Where would it be shelved? How could it be marketed? Where was that comfortable familiarity?
I know what you’re thinking: Genre-blending narratives are certainly nothing new. Algernon Blackwood, for example, published stories featuring psychic doctor John Silence back in the early 1900s. These tales were essentially hybridized supernatural fiction and mystery. But such releases were never truly embraced by mainstream readers—the audience was niche.
That paradigm began to change during my time as a bookstore manager. In the late ’80s, Plume released Stephen King’s The Gunslinger: the first installment of his Dark Tower sequence, a series of novels that audaciously blends together elements of dark fantasy, Western, science fiction and horror. The sales of this uncategorizable novel and its follow-ups like The Drawing of the Three and The Waste Lands were phenomenal—I remember every title in this series being at the top of regional and national bestseller lists for months. Unsurprisingly, other commercially successful genre-blending series soon followed. In 1991, Diana Gabaldon published Outlander, a 850-page debut novel that fused together historical fiction and romance with time travel. This shelf-bender of a hardcover sold so well I had trouble keeping it in stock for an entire holiday season.
Slowly but surely, those fieldstone walls were crumbling piece by piece. One of the biggest selling—and certainly most divisive—series in the ’90s was Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake saga, about a polyamorous female necromancer who hunts down and executes rogue supernatural creatures. Although Hamilton had finished the first novel (Guilty Pleasures) in the early ’80s, the novel was rejected more than 200 times before Ace Books finally published it in 1993. Guilty Pleasures was indeed a book ahead of its time.
Like The Dark Tower series, Hamilton’s Anita Blake saga was uncategorizable—utilizing elements from horror, romance, hard-boiled mystery, fantasy and erotic fiction. This was the series that finally obliterated the fieldstone walls. During my time as a bookstore manager—and later as an editor for Barnes & Noble—I saw the Anita Blake novels shelved in horror, fantasy, romance, mystery and, finally, fiction. Think about that for a moment: A series that was legitimately shelved in five different categories. The question was no longer where to shelve the books or how to market them, but where to find more comparable series for an audience that was frothing at the mouth for more genre-blending literary escapism.
It’s fitting that on Jan. 1, 2000, Hamilton released her first hardcover Anita Blake novel, entitled Obsidian Butterfly. It marked the beginning of a new year, as well as a new era in popular fiction. The novel was commercially successful and critically acclaimed (Publishers Weekly called it a “monstrously entertaining read”), and shortly after the success of this release, the shelves were inundated with paranormal fantasy series like Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld, Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries, Kim Harrison’s Hollows and Kat Richardson’s Greywalker. Each one of these series is unique in their own cross-pollinated way. Richardson’s Greywalker, for example, is an addictively readable fusion of classic Raymond Chandler-esque mystery and dark fantasy, while Harris’ Southern Vampire novels are a light-hearted mix of romance, fantasy and mystery.
While reader demand (and publishers finally understanding the windfalls of releasing cross-pollinated novels and series) is an obvious reason why this evolution gained momentum after 2000, the cultural impact of technological advances cannot be understated. The rise of internet commerce and e-readers—coupled with the astronomical increase of digital and indie publishing releases—gave readers virtually unlimited (and cheap) alternatives to traditional published, printed fare. Readers could now find their literary escapism online—and the anarchic nature of self-published novels meant buying books was like a box of chocolates: You never knew what you were going to get! It was here in the largely unexplored wilderness of self-published releases where I found—and continue to find—some of the most bizarre (and, in some cases, wildly entertaining) cross-pollinated storylines I’ve ever read.
Years passed and naysayers said time and again that the rise of genre-hybridization was just a trend—it would eventually burst. Well, let me tell you, the bubble hasn’t popped. In fact, it has evolved slowly and subtly to the point that now—in 2018—it’s become the New Normal.
As a book critic who has reviewed thousands of novels over the last two decades, I’ve seen some remarkable changes in popular fiction, not only in the increasing hybridized nature of the narrative content but in the way in which novels are marketed and reviewed.
As I stated earlier, fitting comfortably into one category used to be a good thing for a new release. Readers knew exactly what they were getting. But today’s Age of Amazon is a different world. Readers are far more adventurous, seeking out and popularizing genre-blending releases that would once have been considered niche (think Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith or Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs). Books are now often marketed in multiple categories in an effort to appeal to as many audiences as possible. Take The Passage, the first book in Justin Cronin’s brilliant Passage trilogy. If you visit any brick-and-mortar bookstore, you’ll probably find the series shelved under general fiction. But on Amazon, it’s listed under Mystery, Thriller and Suspense; Supernatural: Vampires; Conspiracies; and Epic Fantasy.
Every week I receive dozens of press releases, and find the same kind of marketing philosophy implemented there. In February 2018, Tom Sweterlitsch released his stellar novel The Gone World. If a comparable novel was published three decades ago, it would’ve been sold as conventional science fiction. But in 2018, the press release for The Gone World touted it as a “must-read genre bender” and a “science-fiction thriller [that] truly transcends genres.”
A similar shift becomes evident when looking back at my early reviews. Those I wrote for Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and The Chicago Tribune all have the category right in the opening sentence: “The latest installment in the fantasy saga,” “a page-turning thriller,” and so on. But perusing the reviews I’ve written within the last few years, many of the storylines are so cross-pollinated that I have to start reviews with descriptions like “a dark and disturbing fusion of suspense, horror, and thriller elements …” Or “a smooth blend of science fiction and police procedural …” My Kirkus review for The Gone World is a perfect example. It starts: “Sweterlitsch’s latest is a mind-blowing fusion of science fiction, thriller, existential horror and apocalyptic fiction.”
The Opportunity for Authors
Let’s revisit the metaphorical field of wildflowers. That smell of fertile soil and uninhibited growth means narrative opportunity for writers adventurous enough to pen a novel that might have been considered uncategorizable in past decades. Category isn’t all that important anymore—it’s all about the quality of the story itself.
Perhaps the most important takeaway: Anything is possible in this New Normal—and that’s a thrilling prospect for writers, readers and publishers alike. Readers get intriguing new plots. Publishers get novels that are innovative and fresh. Writers are able to play in an exponentially larger sandbox where the potential for exciting new storylines are virtually limitless.
While there will always be an audience for distinct conventional fiction and genre fiction, this fusion will continue to fuel the future, only becoming more omnipresent. In an interview I did with Laurell K. Hamilton for BarnesandNoble.com back in 2014, we discussed the appeal of genre-blending novels and the future of popular fiction. What she said struck me then, and still holds power more than four years later: “The landscape of genre and fiction in general has changed forever. There is no going back.”
Hamilton is right. The cross-pollination of popular fiction isn’t just an evolution, it’s a revolution—where everybody wins.
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Martijn Grooten
Lapsed Ordinary
Lapsed Ordinary?
Throughout my career working in digital security, I have been engaged in many smaller and sometimes larger research projects. This page includes a selection of these projects. (Before working in digital security, I worked as a junior researcher in pure mathematics, a job which obviously included a large research component.)
Twitter botnet takedown
In 2013, I discovered some accounts on Twitter that were sending identical tweets. Studying these tweets and then writing a tool that detected similar ones helped me find more than 45,000 fake Twitter accounts that were being sold as followers. Twitter removed the accounts after I reported them. A brief write-up appeared on Virus Bulletin’s blog.
Spam: quality vs quantity
For more then ten years while working at Virus Bulletin, I researched unwanted and malicious email campaigns and products’ ability to block them. The most important trend I noticed during this time, was that the more successful campaigns gradually became less prolific but at the same time did a better job at evading filters.
In security, we are often impressed by big numbers, but even in something as mundane as email spam, size doesn’t always matter: a campaign sending 25,000 emails can be more effective than one sending many millions. Here are two examples of this kind of research, a more concluding version was presented at Botconf 2020.
Mevade (Sefnit) botnet
In 2013, together with João Gouveia from Anubisnetworks, I looked into network traffic of what appeared to be a mysterious but prolific botnet. We were able to link it to Mevade (also known as Sefnit), a botnet used to mine for cryptocurrencies. We presented our research at Botconf 2014 in Nancy and also did a write-up for Anubisnetworks’ blog (of which only an archived version exists).
Qakbot botnet
In 2014, João looked at the network traffic of another botnet, Qakbot (also known as Qbot and Pinkslipbot). Seven years later, Qakbot continues to be active and has been the initial infection for a number of prominent ransomware cases. An archived version of the blog post we wrote still exists.
Dridex malicious spam campaign
This is an example of some ad hoc malware analysis performed with two colleagues at Virus Bulletin, resulting in a short blog post.
Phone support scams
During the early days of phone support scams (around 2012), I found myself of the receiving end of a few of such calls and then ended up researching this kind of scam and the (fake) companies behind them, getting a good understanding of how and why such scams work. A regularly cited paper on the subject, written together with three others, was presented at Virus Bulletin 2012. I also shared my research with other researchers, the FTC and law enforcement.
© 2021 Martijn Grooten
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Let's Talk Loneliness > Stories > Mum Bub Hub
Mum Bub Hub
Mum Bub Hub is a National Lottery-funded social enterprise, based in East London, that aims to bridge the gap between before- and after-birth care for vulnerable and at-risk women, particularly in BAME communities.
Its recent grant will be used to launch the Support Hub, an accessible online resource, which allows new mothers across the capital to get help and share experiences as they feel socially isolated after giving birth, with lockdown making this worse.
The new Support Hub will offer free perinatal education and personalised specialist help to women who are having difficulties accessing care due to financial troubles, long waiting lists or for those who are unaware of how to get access to services.
The funding will enable Mum Bub Hub to collaborate with experts in maternity care, including perinatal psychiatrists, prenatal and perinatal educators, holistic wellness coaches and doulas to provide the best support to new mothers.
Mum Bub Hub’s new support service comes at a good time, with the Pre and Post-Natal Depression Advice and Support (PANDAS) service reporting a 75% increase in calls from new mothers to their helpline in the first week of lockdown alone.
Mum Bub Hub, which champions a holistic approach to postpartum recovery and self-care, has also launched a natural and handcrafted product range, with all profits going towards social goals.
Nyree-Dawn Adams, Founder of Mum Bub Hub says:
“Now more than ever, an accessible approach is necessary for the challenges pregnant and new mums are now facing with social distancing in place. We understand that women and birthing people are feeling even more isolated than ever and are having increased anxieties and concerns and need practical support about how to adapt to changing circumstances.”
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Products Liability Law Daily New Jersey appellate court finds talcum powder ovarian cancer cases may proceed to trial
New Jersey appellate court finds talcum powder ovarian cancer cases may proceed to trial
By David Yucht, J.D.
In two cases selected for trial in a New Jersey multi-county litigation, the plaintiffs’ experts adhered to generally accepted methodologies and relied upon studies generally considered an acceptable basis for inclusion in formulating expert opinions. Thus, suppression of their testimony was an abuse of the trial court’s discretion.
A state appeals panel in New Jersey determined that the preclusion of expert testimony in a case brought against several talcum powder manufacturers by women who claimed that use of the manufacturers’ products resulted in their developing ovarian cancer was based on the trial judge’s reliance on his own reading of the supporting materials and his conclusions went to the merits of the experts’ opinions and his disagreement with them, rather than being based on their methodology and the soundness of their data. Consequently, the appellate division reversed the trial judge’s order excluding the plaintiffs’ expert testimony. As a result, the appellate division also reversed the summary judgment dismissal of the cases (Carl v. Johnson & Johnson, August 5, 2020, Alvarez, C.).
Based on complaints by women who used talcum powder in their peritoneal areas and later developed ovarian cancer, a "talc-based body powder products" multi-county litigation was begun in Atlantic County, New Jersey involving women who claimed that their talcum powder use contributed to their developing cancer. Lawsuits filed by two of the women were selected to be the first cases tried in this litigation.
The women retained a gynecological epidemiologist who opined that long-term talc use could cause chronic inflammation in pelvic lymph nodes, that the immune system's response to such chronic inflammation would eventually fatigue it, and that the fatigue would blunt the immune response to the over-production of much in the ovaries and allow cancer to develop. Another expert epidemiologist specializing in identifying avoidable cancer risk factors also was retained as an expert by the women. Citing over 60 published studies, this expert concluded that based on the "totality of all evidence and the continuing accrual of new studies," genital talc use "can cause ovarian cancer." He opined that talc is a biologically plausible cause of ovarian cancer because it "can travel to the ovaries causing an inflammatory response" and that "the inflammatory mechanism is consistent with the increase in risk of ovarian cancer." The women also offered the testimony of a pathologist and a pharmacologist. The trial court granted the manufacturers’ motion to suppress the testimony of these expert witnesses and consequently granted the manufacturers’ summary judgment motion dismissing the complaints [see Products Liability Law Daily’s September 7, 2016 analysis].
Expert testimony. The New Jersey appellate court reversed the trial court’s suppression of the expert witness testimony. The court looked to a recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision, In re: Accutane, 234 N.J. 340 (2018) [see Products Liability Law Daily’s August 2, 2018 analysis], in which the state supreme court reiterated that a trial judge's function is to be a "gatekeeper" and "not to substitute his or her judgment for that of the relevant scientific community." A trial judge needs to determine whether the experts adhered to "the same level of intellectual rigor that characterizes" their field and look to experts’ "principles and methodology—not on the conclusions they generate." The appellate division noted that the trial court did not criticize any of the studies that supported the experts’ conclusions for having an unsound methodology, for misstating results, or for failing to consider bias and confounding influences. Consequently, the trial court did not find that the relevant scientific community would consider the studies unreliable. As such, the appellate division concluded, contrary to the trial court’s findings, that the experts' opinions were based on sound methodology applied to data upon which experts in their field may reasonably rely. The appellate court was satisfied that the plaintiffs’ experts adhered to methodologies generally followed by experts in the field and relied upon studies and information generally considered an acceptable basis for inclusion in the formulation of expert opinions. Therefore, according to the New Jersey appellate court, the suppression of the testimony by these experts was an abuse of discretion. Because reversal meant that there was a dispute of material fact, the order dismissing the complaints was reversed.
The case numbers are Docket Nos. A-0387-16T1 and A-0978-16T1.
Attorneys: Richard M. Golomb (Golomb&Honik, PC) for Brandi Carl and Diana Balderrama. Susan M. Sharko (Faegre Drinker Biddle &Reath LLP) and John H. Beisner (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &Flom LLP) for Johnson & Johnson, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc., Imerys Talc America f/k/a Luzenac America, Inc. and Personal Care Products Council f/k/a Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association [CTFA].
Companies: Johnson & Johnson; Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc.; Imerys Talc America f/k/a Luzenac America, Inc.; Personal Care Products Council f/k/a Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association [CTFA]
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On Thursday 18th October, archaeologist and author from the University of Kent, Dr Simon Elliott, visited the Association and addressed more than 215 members and visitors in his talk ‘Septimius Severus in Scotland’.
Our youngest founder member at the age of 8, Jonah Crouch, now in year 7 and at his final lecture before moving away to Madrid, tells us all about it:
“Dr Simon Elliott blew the audience away on Thursday with his speech on Septimius Severus. He was very knowledgeable about this subject and left us much more informed. My favourite part was when Caracalla killed Geta (both of whom were Severus’s children) because it just shows that the older sibling will always prevail – apologies to all those younger siblings out there but as an eldest child, it is the truth!
Caracalla and Geta – before the former killed the latter!
I also found it amusing that Severus decided to make the capital of the Roman Empire in York, in freezing cold England! While it did make sense to make the capital the place closest to the biggest battles, I am quite surprised he wanted to locate it so far away from everything else in the empire.
Educating 215 members of the audience about this fascinating Scottish campaign
During the lecture we discovered Septimius’s tragic ending in York – where he died after one of his campaigns – but also learned about his brilliant tactical skills in battle. One of his tactical deployments was used during a battle in Scotland: Septimius split his army between himself and his son Caracalla. Caracalla went off and blocked the exit across the Highlands whilst the navy guarding the sea meant that the Northern tribes had nowhere to run. Fans of Lord Of The Rings will recognise this strategy!
A similarity in battle technique?
Romans may have normally thought of Augustus when they talked about a supreme warrior emperor. Septimius conquered the Parthians, yet Augustus failed to do that; Septimius even almost conquered Scotland which Augustus also attempted but failed at as well. Therefore, Dr Elliott’s thinking is true: Septimius could be considered the supreme warrior emperor.
The arch commemorating Septimius Severus’ military campaigns in Parthia
A fact-filled lecture ended my time with the LSA Classical Association. You have made my classics journey a brilliant one, inspiring me with every talk since I was 8 years old and just being an amazing overall part of my life. I will continue to forge my own classics path as I move to Madrid – where at least it is physically closer to the classical world (and climatically too)!”
©JonahCrouch
Another great Vote of Thanks from Jonah, just before officially becoming an International Classics Ambassador
We would like to say a huge thank you to Dr Elliott for travelling such a long way to deliver a great lecture which entertained and enlightened us all. A special farewell and congratulations to Jonah, who has inspired us with his excellent questions and his enthusiasm for all things ancient, taking part in our Junior Classics Competition for the past two years running and being crowned the AKS Junior School winner on both occasions.
Already a published author, he has a bright future ahead in Classics and we were proud to present him on Thursday night with the badge that shows he is our very first International Classics Ambassador. We’re looking forward to welcoming him back to the Association soon, perhaps giving us a talk on Roman Spain!
What the Greeks and Romans did for us!
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How Qld singer faked her own kidnapping
by ANDREW POTTS
6th Dec 2020 10:07 AM
IT sounds like something out of a potboiler thriller - A local singer is kidnapped by a crazed fan only to be abandoned on a rural road days later.
Only it then turned out it wasn't true at all - Instead it was all just a publicity stunt to try and boost a flagging career.
It's a plot right out of a Hollywood scriptwriter's fevered imagination but it actually happened right here on the Gold Coast.
The Town and Country at Nerang was demolished this week. Photo: Scott Powick Newscorp
Memories of the Fairlie Arrow saga were revived this week when the wreckers moved in on the Town and Country Motel at Nerang.
The unassuming hotel was where Ms Arrow hid out during the days she claimed to have been held by her alleged kidnappers.
The hotel will be replaced by a new office tower but memories of its role in the bizarre stunt remain strong nearly 30 years later.
Singer Fairlie Arrow, who faked her own death.
It was December 15, 1991 when Ms Arrow came to public note when police announced to the media they held fears for the singer's safety
They said the then-27-year-old, who had complained of having been harassed by a male fan for six months had disappeared from her Isle of Capri home.
Det Sgt Mike Sparke told media a friend raised the alarm after having gone to the singer's home 8.50pm the previous night only to find the door of her car was open and the open front door had the keys in the lock.
Sgt Sparke said a man had previously entered Ms Arrow's former home at Mudgeereba and written the words "don't leave me'' in lipstick on a bedroom mirror.
Singer Fairlie Arrow as pictured in magazine Penthouse Aug 1992 P/ magazines music singers
He said it was believed the same man had discovered her new address and written the words "you left me'' on a mirror, again in lipstick.
"This man has been building up his infatuation over a lengthy period of time and he's so infatuated that he has to be with this girl,'' Sgt Sparke said.
"I'd say he's demented _ he needs help and we're hoping he's not going to harm her. He's never shown signs that he wanted to hurt her before.''
Ms Arrow's then-husband, George Harvey, was a member of the Gold Coast comedy troupe The Four Kinsman and rushed back from Adelaide where they were on tour at the time.
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He made an emotional plea for his wife's return.
"It's like something out of a Stephen King novel,'' he said.
Fears grew for Ms Arrow's safety but there was joy when she was found 48 hours later dumped on the side of the road at Mudgeeraba.
Police initially declared it a miracle but the case soon soured when officers began to have serious doubts about her story.
How the Bulletin reported Arrow being found safe.
Just a day later, the story was already coming undone
Outside Broadbeach Police Station, Ms Arrow said she knew there was a lot of scepticism about her 48 hour ordeal in which she said she was blindfolded, gagged and her arms and legs tied to a four-poster bed.
Ms Arrow, 27, also described as ludicrous suggestions that "the most frightening experience of my life'' was designed to boost plans for a commercial neighbourhood watch security company.
"Trust me. This is not a bad publicity stunt," she said.
"I can think of a lot of easier ways to run a publicity stunt than this."
Fairlie Arrow arriving at Southport Court 16 June 1992.
It was just a week later that Ms Arrow admitted it was indeed a hoax before fleeting to Sydney.
Mr Harvey announced the couple's marriage was over while MS arrow was charged her with making a false complaint and false statement while also slapper her with the $18,000 bill for the search.
By the mid-1990s she relocated to the US where she still lives today.
Originally published as How Coast singer faked her own kidnapping
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Active for nearly 11 years, the Yemen Shelter Cluster has witnessed and responded to the evolutions of the protracted Yemen crisis. The situation is now a complex emergency, with multi-layered and often interdependent components, ranging from long-term displacement, to the latest population movements linked to a recent conflict flare-up, exceptional floods in 2020, and the recurrent needs of the most vulnerable population during the winter season.
Therefore, as a coordination structure with field ramifications in 6 sub-national and 2 area coordinations, the Shelter Cluster collects and analyses a considerable volume of needs-based information. In order to contribute to the 2021 Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) with evidence-based and maximum of consistencies, the Shelter Cluster took the decision in spring 2020 to classify all sectoral activities according to their relevancy to three groups, or “lenses”, organized according to key thematics: 1) armed violence, 2) climate and natural hazards 3) long-term assistance The findings on severity of shelter-needs and People in Need (PIN) figures of these lenses aim to inform strategic planning and ensure a relevant, more flexible and efficient humanitarian response.
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Document raises questions about federal government’s retirement policies
Posted on August 24, 2015 May 26, 2016 by CARP
Click here to read ‘Document raises questions about Harper retirement policies‘ by Dean Beeby – CBC News-Politics, August 23, 2015.
Canada scores poorly among developed countries in providing public pensions to seniors, according to an internal analysis of retirement income by the federal government.
And voluntary tax-free savings accounts or TFSAs, introduced by the Harper Conservatives in 2009, are so far unproven as a retirement solution and are largely geared to the wealthy.
Those are some highlights of a broad review of Canada’s retirement income system ordered by the Privy Council Office and completed in March this year by the Finance Department, with input from several other departments.
The research, compiled in a 30-page presentation deck, was created as the government came under fire from opposition parties, some provinces and retiree groups for declining to improve Canada Pension Plan or CPP payouts through higher mandatory contributions from workers and businesses.
The CPP issue has already become acrimonious in the federal election campaign, with Conservative Leader Stephen Harper saying on Aug. 11 that he is “delighted” to be making it more difficult for Ontario to launch its own version of an improved CPP. The federal Liberals are hoping to use Harper’s clash with Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne over pensions to win seniors’ votes in the province and beyond.
A heavily censored copy of the internal document was obtained by CBC News under the Access to Information Act.The review acknowledges that Canada trails most developed countries in providing public pensions, and is poised to perform even worse in future.
“In 2010, Canada spent 5.0 per cent of GDP on public pensions (OAS/GIS and C/QPP), which is low compared with the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) of average of 9.4 per cent,” it noted.
“The OECD projects that public expenditure on pensions in Canada will only increase to 6.3 per cent of GDP by 2050 – much lower than the 11.6 per cent of GDP projected for OECD countries on average.”
The document also says Canada’s public pensions “replace a relatively modest share of earnings for individuals with average earnings” compared with the OECD average of 34 countries; that is, about 45 per cent of earnings compared with the OECD’s 54 per cent.
“Canada stands out as one of the countries with the smallest social security contributions and payroll taxes.”
The Harper government since at least 2013 has resisted repeated calls to enhance CPP, saying proposed higher premiums for businesses could kill up to 70,000 jobs in an already stagnant economy. Instead, the government has promoted voluntary schemes, such as pooled pension plans for groups of businesses, as well as TFSAs.
The document notes that participation rates for TFSAs rise with income, with only 24 per cent of those making $20,000 annually or less contributing, compared with 60 per cent in the $150,000-plus bracket.
The review also acknowledges “it is still too early to assess their effectiveness in raising savings adequacy.”
Much of the document is blacked out under the “advice” exemption of the Access to Information Act, including a section on policy questions. The research may have underpinned a surprise announcement in late May by Finance Minister Joe Oliver that the government was considering allowing voluntary contributions by workers to their CPP accounts.
The review takes issue with Statistics Canada’s data showing a sharp decline in personal savings by Canadians since 1982, arguing that when real estate and other assets are factored in, savings are as high as they have ever been. “Taking into account all forms of private savings suggests no decline in the saving rate over time.”
The provincial minister in charge of implementing the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, the province’s go-it-alone CPP enhancement, says the internal review shows Harper is ignoring hard evidence.
“This document is further confirmation that Stephen Harper is continuing to bury his head in the sand,” Mitzie Hunter, associate minister of finance, said in an interview. “CPP is simply not filling the gap. … It’s unfortunate that Mr. Harper has really chosen to play politics rather than address serious concerns for retirement security in Canada.”
“TFSAs, which Harper touts as a cure-all, are really untested and they’re only really benefiting the wealthiest Canadians.”
Ontario’s ORPP minister, Mitzie Hunter, says an internal Finance Canada document shows the Harper government is burying its head in the sand when it comes to pension issues. (votehunter.ca)
Susan Eng, executive vice-president of CARP, which lobbies for an aging population, said the review cites evidence that single seniors are especially vulnerable to poverty, and that young Canadians and the middle class are not saving enough.
“The government repeats that mandatory employer contributions would be ‘job-killing payroll taxes’ despite the briefing clearly stating that Canada’s social security contributions and payroll contributions are amongst the lowest among similar OECD countries,” she said.
But Harper spokesman Stephen Lecce argues the document also found Canada compares well with other OECD countries on income replacement, ranking third; and that the poverty rate for Canadian seniors is among the lowest in the industrial world.
Lecce also cited a series of measures, including boosting Guaranteed Income Supplement payments and introducing income splitting for pensioners, that together have removed about 380,000 seniors from the tax rolls since 2006.
“Our position is clear, consistent with our Conservative government’s efforts to encourage Canadians to voluntarily save more of their money, we are consulting on allowing voluntary contributions to the Canada Pension Plan.”
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Tibetan Buddhism , according to Jose Tirado. Bennett [20] Teachings and teaching methods[ edit ] Basis of teachings[ edit ] Present here now [21] We do not remember ourselves [22] Conscious Labor is an action where the person who is performing the act is present to what he is doing; not absentminded. At the same time he is striving to perform the act more efficiently. Intentional suffering is the act of struggling against automatism such as daydreaming, pleasure, food eating for reasons other than real hunger , etc. Self-Observation Observation of ones own behavior and habits.
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Start your review of The Fourth Way Write a review Aug 02, Scot rated it really liked it This book took me six months to crawl through and though painful at times was worth the effort.
It mirrored in many ways my own journey in terms of timing and though I could not pretend to have initiated the level of effort the Ouspensky says that we need to wake up from our slumber, from time to time I catch glimpses and that reminder alone was worth the read.
I would not recommend this book for anyone that is not naturally drawn toward it and would say if you are interested in the ideas of This book took me six months to crawl through and though painful at times was worth the effort.
I would not recommend this book for anyone that is not naturally drawn toward it and would say if you are interested in the ideas of G. Gurdjieff there are many easier places to start. For me though this was an excellent place to begin because it mirrored the journey and was a reminder that no matter how complex and difficult life and the world can seem at times, patience, reflection, and effort are rewarded.
If you are interested in digging in start with Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse. There are quite a lot of concepts covered, but the main ones are that we are not conscious, do not self-remember, are mechanical and have 4 centers: moving, instinctive, emotional and intellectual.
The idea in principle is good; that we need to work toward self-development and growth by becoming more aware of the multiple "Is" that we have through the centers and understanding how When I read this book it literally made me angry to know just how flawed the teachings and the way it is taught is.
The idea in principle is good; that we need to work toward self-development and growth by becoming more aware of the multiple "Is" that we have through the centers and understanding how they can be used appropriately to transform ourselves. The problem is that Ouspensky hides behind words and fails to explore his ideas any further than what he wants to focus on. I am aware of myself, my surroundings and can remember it. So what does he mean by it?
Its his own made up definition of these words. So if he has his own definitions then he should firstly call it something else, secondly explain what he means by those definitions and lastly provide evidence for the phenomenon behind the definitions. But when you look at the dialogue between Ouspensky and the other person, they are insistently asking what Ouspensky means by some of his definitions, but he refuses to answer and repeatedly says "figure it out for yourself by practice and you will understand".
The vagueness of his terminology not only becomes a problem for practice, but also for validity. He just tells people to accept his ideas and practice it. This is what irritates me the most. He acts like some authority who has special knowledge over others without actually caring to explain why his knowledge is factually accurate.
He just makes the assumption that people will believe whatever he says and that they should learn how to practice it on their own. Believing in his ideas without actually seeing results is blind faith. The responses to the questions are also quite disturbing. Again, it is him acting like an authority who has special knowledge. He is an elitist and a false prophet, who again, hides behind his words. From what I gather, what he means by lacking consciousness is the fact that we are constantly doing things without knowing the reasons why we do it - which according to the system means that we are mechanical.
To put it in psychological terms that actually make sense this is the distinction between automatic and controlled thinking. I agree that oftentimes we are more in the automatic state and seldom in the controlled state. Automatic thinking serves a purpose. If we were always controlled in our thinking it would be impossible to filter out certain information and would result in information overload.
Self-remembering in the system really means that we often forget why we act in certain ways. Some ways we act contradict each other. We are also unable to remember a total self that is congruent with all sides of ourselves. Again, this is true. For example, I could be trying to relax, which is positive, but when someone interrupts me I get angry, which is negative.
Which brings me to why Ouspensky has no grasp on emotions. He basically says that there are "wrong emotions" and that there are "right emotions" and that the "wrong" ones need to be discarded. The wrong emotions are basically negative emotions: anger, sadness, anxiety etc. But anyone with a basic understanding of the human psyche knows that these emotions serve a useful purpose. When we are anxious it alerts us that our body is in a dangerous situation and that we need to deal with it appropriately.
There is nothing inherently wrong with negative emotions. But Ouspensky actually goes so far to call these emotions unreal.
And by telling other people to abandon their negative emotions, he is effectively telling them to repress theirs too. He said that you need to ignore negative emotions.
Research suggests that repressing emotions actually make it harder for the emotions to go away. First of all, anyone who is in the daunting position of repressing thoughts knows that it is harder to ignore those thoughts than dealing with them. And the more they build up the harder it is to deal with them.
In one chapter he says that the moon controls our behaviour and that we communicate with the moon. This is nothing more than pseudoscience. He says that when we die the moon eats us, because it is hungry. He goes on about how we consume "impressions" in this convoluted explanation that lack any parsimony. It is no surprise to me that Ouspensky abandoned the system long after people already committed to following his outrageous ideas.
But I take it how it is. Even though Ouspensky consistently says that the system is practical and not theoretical, there is really nothing that actually tells you how to self-remember or become conscious, so your guess is as good as mine how to actually practice this.
Until then, I find the system and his teaching style discouraging and is not worth my time.
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In London, a number of eminent people became interested in his work. The influential intellectual and editor A. Prominent theosophist and editor G. Mead became interested in his ideas on the fourth dimension. By order of the British government, Gurdjieff was not allowed to settle in London. But after his death, Mme Ouspensky showed its draft to Gurdjieff who praised its accuracy and permitted its publication.
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Shamuro Unfortunately, I am very disappointed with this book. Classic Ouspensky, also try and read Gurdjieff if you can, it will blow your mind! But Ouspensky actually goes so far to call these emotions unreal. We think we have to do with real beings, but in reality we have to do with imaginary beings.
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Consolidation, based on strong sources of driver supply and solid logistical systems, signals the beginning of the end of the first rev of the local on-demand economy.
Gett has announced that it has acquired Juno, a rival in the New York market. Separately, Gett’s CEO and founder Dave Waiser has told TechCrunch in an interview that the price of the deal was $200 million, although the companies are not disclosing other terms such as whether the deal was in cash, shares or a combination of the two.
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Niumba is a Spain-based vacation company known for its extensive inventory of beautiful properties like private holiday homes, villas, and beach houses all throughout the world. The website provides around 334,000 private holiday homes, 22% of which are located in Spain. Niumba’s business model is based on putting those who wish to rent their homes in contact with travelers.
About Stayz:
Stayz, based in Sydney, Australia, is the leader in holiday rentals with over 40,000 properties domestically. Stayz allows guests to search and compare a wide variety of amazing holiday rentals across the country. From humble beachside shacks to country abodes, they provide unique accommodation options for every taste and budget.
Australia, New Zealand, Europe
About Owners Direct:
Owners Direct specializes in advertising privately owned holiday accommodation, which can be booked directly from the owner or through the owner’s property manager. Properties can be rented for variable stays, from a weekend break through to a long-term.
About Toprural:
Toprural is a rural house search engine whose mission is to promote rural tourism. Since its inception in 2000, the objective has been clear: to offer the traveler the simplest and most effective way to organize their rural getaways and give the owner the best platform to attract customers to their accommodation.
About Holiday Lettings:
Based in Oxford, England, what started as a few rental specialists in 1999 has grown to a huge team, providing traveler and owner support in multiple languages. From traditional stone cottages to modern apartments with sea views in Somerset, Holiday Lettings focuses on providing travelers with a unique travel experience.
About Srilankan Airlines:
Srilankan Airlines is the flag carrier and largest airline of Sri Lanka. Srilankan also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website separate from their flight or as apart of a grouped travel package.
About Flipkey:
FlipKey is a leading American vacation rentals marketplace with more than 830,000 properties in 190 countries. It allows travelers to find unique rentals like a city-center studio, a far-flung private island, a cozy ski chalet, or a sprawling beach house.
About Hipmunk:
Hipmunk’s website, mobile app, and AI-powered bots help save time and money by comparing top travel sites to show the perfect flight or hotel at the cheapest price. They also allow travelers to compare condos, apartments, homes, and other short-term rentals.
About Homelidays:
Homelidays connects homeowners who rent their principal residences or secondary holiday rental with millions of french and foreign holidaymakers who are looking for spacious, intimate, and authentic accommodations.
About Tripping:
Tripping is the larget vacation rental metasearch engine. It specializes in comparing over 10 million listings in more than 150,000 cities worldwide, to find travelers the best short-term rental prices.
North America and Europe
About Swoodoo:
Swoodoo is the leading flight search engine in Germany. Their website and mobile apps allow travelers to compare hundreds of travel sites at once for flights, car rentals, hotels, and vacation rentals.
About eBookers:
eBookers is one of Europe’s largest online travel agents based in the UK. They help travelers find airline tickets, car rentals, train tickets, excursions, and hotel deals. They also recently added vacation rentals to their portfolio.
About Finnair:
Finnair is the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland. Finnair also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website separate from their flight or as apart of a grouped travel package
About Air New Zealand:
Air New Zealand is the countries flagship airline. They work closely with the US travel bureau and bring in 1,000s of international visitors to the states. In addition to flights, they also allow travelers to book hotels and vacation rentals.
New Zealand, Australia, South Pacific, United States
About Malaysia Airlines:
Malaysia Airlines serves more than 50 destinations worldwide and operates over 300 flights a day. They also allow travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website.
Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, United Kingdom
About FeWo-Direkt:
Fewo is a German website that allows travelers to find and book the perfect holiday rentals. For over 20 years it has specialized in connecting residential short-term rentals with German enthusiasts that need a place to stay.
About Trip.com:
Trip.com conducts business in over 200 countries and is a leading provider of hotels, transportation ticketing, packaged tours, and corporate travel management. They also recently added vacation rentals to their portfolio.
About Abritel:
Abritel is a French website that allows travelers to find and book the perfect holiday rentals. Founded in 1979, it specializes in connecting residential short-term rentals with French enthusiasts that need a place to stay.
France, Belgium, Italy, Germany
Apartments, Vacation Rentals, Resorts, Bed and Breakfast Inns (B&Bs)
About Cheap Tickets:
Cheap Tickets is a popular metasearch engine that focuses on finding airline ticket, car rental, cruise, and hotel deals. They also recently added vacation rentals to their portfolio.
North America, Central America, The United Kingdom
About KLM Airlines:
KLM Airlines is based in the Netherlands and transports more than 20 million passengers every year to over 140 destinations worldwide. They also allow travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website.
The Neatherlands
Europe and North America
About Qatar Airlines:
Qatar Airways is based in Doha, Qatar. The airline operates a hub-and-spoke network, linking over 150 international destinations and uses over 180 aircrafts. Qatar Airways also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website separate from their flight or as apart of a grouped travel package.
Middle East, The United States, The United Kingdom
About Emirates Airlines
Emirates Airlines is the largest airline in the Middle East, operating over 3,600 flights per week to more than 140 cities in 81 countries. Emirate Airlines also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals.
The Middle East, Europe, The United States
Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, China
Accommodations Accepted
About Iberia Airlines:
Iberia is Spain’s top airline and transports passengers to over 109 destinations in 39 countries. They also allow travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website.
About Hotels Combined
Hotels Combined is a popular price comparison service based out of Australia. They search other hotel and vacation rental websites to compares prices, reviews, and value.
Australia, Southest Asia, United Kingdom, United States
About Hometogo
Hometogo is a specialiozed metasearch engine that allows travelers to compare vacation rental prices from Airbnb, VRBO, Flipkey, and over 240 other providers in over 200 countries.
North America, Europe
About Pegasus Airlines
Pegasus Airlines is a Turkish low-cost airline with services to Eastern Europe and some of the Middle-East. Pegasus Airlines also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website separate from their flight or as apart of a grouped travel package.
Qantas is the flag carrier of Australia and is the largest airline in the country by fleet size, international flights, and international destinations. Qantas recently partnered with Airbnb and allows travelers to now book vacation rentals on their site.
Ausralia
Australia, The United States, The United Kingdom, New Zealand
About Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines is based in Istanbul, Turkey. It operates scheduled services to 302 destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, making it the largest carrier in the world by the number of destinations. also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals.
Expedia is one of the world’s leading travel sites. It’s best known for comparing flights, hotels, rental cars, cruises, vacation packages, and more. It recently started accepting select instant bookable private homes, villas, apartments, condos, and other short-term rentals worldwide. It’s looking to continue to expand its inventory.
Travelocity is best known as an online travel agency for flights, hotels, rental cars, cruises, vacation packages, and more. It recently started accepting instant bookable private homes, villas, apartments, condos, and other short-term rentals across North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. It’s looking to continue to expand its inventory.
About Orbitz
Orbitz is best known as a travel fare aggregator for flights, hotels, rental cars, cruises, vacation packages, and more. It recently started accepting instant bookable private homes, villas, apartments, condos, and other short-term rentals across North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. It’s looking to continue to expand its inventory.
North America, Central America
About Momondo
Momondo is a popular metasearch engine based in Europe. It is best known for curating deals and inspiring travel. It allows travelers to easily look at destination photos, price shop, compare hotels, vacation rentals, car rentals, and flights.
Europe, The United States
About Japan Airlines
Japan Airlines is is the second largest air fleet in the country, carrying over 52 million passengers each year. Japan Airlines also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals from their site.
About Despegar.com and Decolar.com
Despegar is the leading online travel agency in South America and operates in Argentina as Despegar and Decolar in Brazil. They allow travelers to reserve anything from flights to car rentals, excursions, hotels, and vacation rentals.
About Wiz Air
Wizz Airlines is the largest Hungarian airline and currently serves 42 countries. Wizz Airlines also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website separate from their flight or as apart of a grouped travel package.
About Tourico Holidays
For over 21 years, Tourico Holidays has brokered hospitality accommodations for major airlines, credit card and banking reward programs, travel agencies, and various e-commerce partners. They recently started supporting vacation rentals in addition to hotels.
About Trivago
Trivago is a popular metasearch engine. It was the first hotel booking website in Germany and quickly gained global popularity due to its ease of use to compare prices. Traditionally used for hotels, they are now accepting some vacation rentals too.
United States, Europe, and South America
About American Airlines
American Airlines is a major United States airline with nearly 6,700 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries. American Airlines also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, on their website as individual bookings or as apart of group packages.
About Cheapflights
Cheapflights is a major metasearch engine and popular mobile app that helps travelers find good faires on millions of flights. They also allow travelers to compare hotels, apartments, and rescently added vacation rentals.
United States, Australia, and Southeast Asia
About Skyscanner
Skyscanner is a popular mobile app and offers a supporting online website. Their services are available in over 30 languages and is used by travelers to compare and book a comprehensive range of flight, hotels, and vacation rentals.
Scotland, The United Kingdom
The United States, Europe
About VRBO
VRBO is one of the original vacation rental marketplaces. They offer a comprehensive selection of short-term rentals for families and groups to find accommodations such as cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns, B&Bs, and farmhouses.
HomeAway is a vacation rental marketplace with more than 2,000,000 vacation rentals in 190 countries. The company offers a comprehensive selection of rentals for families and groups to find accommodations such as cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns and farmhouses.
About Easy Jet Airlines
EasyJet Airlines is the second largest airline in Europe by the number of passengers carried. EasyJet also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, from their website separate from their flight or as apart of a grouped travel package.
About Priceline
Priceline.com is an American company and a commercial website for finding discount rates that receive over 100 million booking annually. It has traditionally been used to reserve airline tickets and hotel stays but recently started accepting vacation rentals too.
About Latam Airlines
Latam is currently the largest airline conglomerate in Latin America. In addition to flights, Latam also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, on their website as individual bookings or as apart of group packages.
About Ctrip
Ctrip, short for China Trip, is a provider of travel services including accommodation reservation, transportation ticketing, packaged tours and corporate travel management. 1,200,000 hotels and accommodations are bookable through the website and cover more than 5,000 cities across the globe.
About Airbnb
Airbnb uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents to become hospitality entrepreneurs. Airbnb’s accommodation marketplace offers access to millions of places to stay in more than 191 countries, from apartments and villas to castles, treehouses and B&Bs. With Experiences, people can see a different side to a destination through unique, handcrafted activities run by locals.
Apartments, Vacation Rentals, Bed and Breakfast Inns (B&Bs)
TripAdvisor provides travelers with the wisdom of the crowds to help them decide where to stay, how to fly, what to do and where to eat. TripAdvisor also compares prices from more than 200 booking sites so travelers can find the lowest price on the accommodation that’s right for them.
Booking.com is available in 43 languages, offer over 1.5 million properties and cover more than 121,000 destinations in 229 countries and territories worldwide. It also hosts the world’s largest selection of incredible places to stay, including everything from apartments, vacation rentals, and family-run B&Bs to 5-star luxury resorts, tree houses, and even igloos.
About Agoda
Agoda is a global online accommodation reservations provider based in the heart of Asia. With a network of over one million properties, including apartments, villas, homes, and hotels backed by over 15 million real traveler reviews, Agoda helps other travelers find and explore new experiences in new destinations.
About Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines has scheduled services to 100 destinations in the United States. Southwest also allows travelers to book accommodations, like hotels and vacation rentals, on their website as individual bookings or as apart of group packages.
The United States, Canada, Mexico
About Kayak
KAYAK’s mission is to provide the world’s favorite travel tools. KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, vacation rentals, B&Bs, rental cars and vacation packages. With a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK Trips, Explore and Price Forecast and an award-winning mobile app, KAYAK makes trip planning easier.
About Hotels.com
Hotels.com has 85 websites in 34 languages, and lists over 325,000 accommodations in approximately 19,000 locations.
The company recently started accepting a small collection of premium vacation rentals and will continue expanding its offerings. Currently, marketing on this channel is by invitation only.
List your rentals on the top travel sites
All from a single listing on Lodgable
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Hometogo
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This guide will help you research and locate information and resources for Alberta legislation.
Bills come into force:
on the day they receive Royal Assent if the act doesn’t state otherwise.
a specific date
on proclamation
or a combination of the above
Legislative Assembly of Alberta – Bills and Amendments The Bills and Amendments page provides free online access to the text of bills and status reports for individual bills from 1906 to present. It also lists session bill activity by date. From this page you can directly search the Hansard for discussion of a specific bill.
Legislative Summary – Summarizes the latest session including bills
Print copies of Alberta Bills may be available from the Legislature Library (780-427-2473), Legislative Counsel (780-427-2217) or laocommunications@assembly.ab.ca. There may be a charge for a copy from Legislative Counsel. Alberta Hansard The Bill Status Report located at the end of the last Hansard issue of each session provides a report on the status of all bills introduced in that session. The Thursday Hansard issues give a summary to date. As of January 1, 2016 the Alberta Hansard is only published digitally. Older print copies are available in the library. Electronic versions of the Hansard are also available through:
Legislative Assembly of Alberta – Assembly Records Hansard from 1972 – current are available and searchable.
Hansard Debates, Journals, and Royal Commissions
Alberta Hansard
The introduction and discussion of a statute in the Legislative Assembly is found in the Hansard since 1972. The hard copy index has two parts the “Subject Index” and the “Speaker Index”.
As of January 1, 2016 the Alberta Hansard is only published digitally. Older print copies are available in the library. Electronic versions of the Hansard are also available through:
Legislative Assembly of Alberta – Assembly Records
Includes searchable Hansards from 1972 – current. Also available are House Records, Journals and transcripts for Committees and Reference documents.
Alberta Law Collection – Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections at the U of C. Includes Hansards from 1972-1993
Scrapbook Hansard is an historical collection of newspaper clippings and a few speech transcripts covering Alberta’s legislative debates from 1906 to 1971 prior to the Alberta Hansard publication.
Legislative Assembly of Alberta – Journals – 1980 – Current
Alberta Law Collection – Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections at the U of C. – 1906-1975
Alberta Digital Royal Commissions
Orders in Council and Ministerial Orders
Orders in Council
Alberta Queen’s Printer – June 1998 – current. Searches can be done by year, ministry, description, legislative authority or Order in Council number.
QP Source Professional – 1967 to current
Alberta Gazette Pt. I
Provincial Archives – older than 10 years
Legislature Library – 780-427-2217
Ministerial orders
Alberta Queen’s Printer – 2015 – current. Searches can be done by year, ministry, ministerial order number, or authorizing act or regulation.
are not automatically made public in Alberta.
have the force of law
are used to make important political and policy decisions
If you know the minister who made the order you can try to locate a copy by:
contacting the Alberta Government library
contacting the appropriate Alberta Justice Ministry
looking in the Alberta Gazette (sometimes ministerial orders are published)
looking online – some departments post their ministerial orders online
To become a Provincial law, a bill goes through three readings in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and then receives Royal Assent. A bill becomes law when it receives Royal Assent. Alberta provincial laws are binding only in the province of Alberta. Even though a bill became a law the statute still might not be in force.
Public and Private Statutes
Public Acts are found in the:
annual bound volumes
Revised Statutes of Alberta (R.S.A.) (bound volumes) the latest being RSA 2000 which were proclaimed in force Jan. 1, 2002.
Revised Statutes of Alberta (R.S.A.) (looseleaf volumes) – (provides a convenient consolidation and is updated twice a year, but it is not considered an “official” version for citation to the Courts.)
in pamphlet form (printed by Queen’s Printer after Royal Assent and before the annual volume is published)
QP Source Professional a fully searchable database including the current text of Alberta’s statutes, regulations and Rules of Court. It also includes Alberta Gazette (1995 to present) and Orders-in-Council (1967 to present), Tables of Public and Private Statutes, the Index of Regulations, and point-in-time statutes (2002 to present).
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
Private Acts
Are only published in the annual volumes of the statutes. They are not on Canlii or QP Source Professional.
The “Table of Private Statutes of the Province of Alberta”, found in the last volume of the Revised Statutes of Alberta (R.S.A. 2000 Looseleaf ed.) and in each of the annual bound Statutes of Alberta volumes (blue pages), lists alphabetically all private statutes and any amendments to them. It is also available on QP Source Professional.
Legislation enacted as a private statute is limited and is restricted to private companies, organisations or individuals.
Statutes of the Province of Alberta
Revised Statutes of Alberta
Table of Public Statutes – This is an alphabetical table of statutes including all amendments up to the date specified on the table. It is frequently referred to as the “pink pages”. Found in the last volume of the Revised Statutes of Alberta (R.S.A. 2000 Looseleaf ed.) and in each of the annual bound Statutes of Alberta volumes.
Annotated Alberta statutes, you can find texts on specific statutes by searching the ALL Catalogue
For older statutes:
Index to the Statutes of Alberta: RSA 1980 to SA 1985 inclusive, 2nd ed. by Canadian Law Information Council. – This print index provides subject access to earlier versions of the statutes.
The following e-resources include updated, searchable consolidated Alberta statutes in their collections. Some of the resources also include access to the annual historical volumes. Check the currency information in each source for the date of their last update.
Alberta Queen’s Printer – You can display the statutes by responsible ministry. Once you locate an act you can download a copy or request a print copy (for a fee) to be mailed out.
QP Source Professional
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) – Check the statutes and regulations of Alberta page for the latest update to the content. Includes the annual volumes from 1906 onwards
Lexis Advance® Quicklaw®
Halsbury’s laws of Canada – This multi-volume set (print & electronic) includes coverage of Federal, Provincial & Territorial legislation.
WestlawNext Canada
HeinOnline – Includes PDF versions of all the Statutes of Alberta from 1906 – current
Coming in Force
New statues and amendments to existing statutes are introduced as bills in the Legislative Assembly and will come into force in one of three ways:
upon receiving Royal Assent.
by a “coming into force” provision at the end of the statute which specifies a date
on proclamation given by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.
Once in force, existing statutes may be repealed by the Legislative Assembly. For further information on coming in force provisions consult the Interpretation Act, RSA 2000, c I-8.
To determine if a Statute is in force consult the following sources:
The following two tables are located in the annual bound volumes and the last volume of the Revised Statutes of Alberta (R.S.A. 2000 Looseleaf ed.) :
Table of Public Statutes (“pink pages”) – includes all of the Acts and amendments back to the last R.S.A. by statute and section. ‘Proc.’ indicates that the statute or amendments are not yet proclaimed, and so not in force, as of the date of the Table. Currency information for the table is clearly given at the beginning of the pink pages.
Enactments brought into force or repealed by proclamation or on a named date – contains the status of proclaimed and unproclaimed statutes including the Gazette reference information. Found just before the pink pages.
Alberta Gazette Part I (print)– The official text of proclamations is published in the Alberta Gazette, Part I. They can be found by using the annual index which includes a listing of proclamations.
Alberta Queen’s Printer – Alberta Gazette, Part I – 1995 – current.
Alberta Queen’s Printer – recent proclamations.
Alberta Queen’s Printer – Laws online – lists all proclaimed acts alphabetically.
QP Source Professional – Under the “What’s new section – Statutes” you can find recent proclamations.
The Legislative Counsel Office is responsible for drafting government bills, regulations and Orders in Council. The office also works with the Alberta Queen’s Printer to make the laws of Alberta available to the public. The most current information is available from their office. Call: 780-427-2217
You can trace the legislative history of a statute using the history notes found at the end of each section of the revised or consolidated statutes. The history notes indicate previous sources for the current legislation and help you determine when a section was added to an act. Table of Concordance Schedule D, in the last volume of the Revised Statutes of Alberta (RSA 2000 Looseleaf ed.), is a chart that shows where previous legislation may be found in the new revision.
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) – Includes older versions of the Statutes of Alberta 1906-current.
Lexis Advance® Quicklaw® contains Alberta Repealed Statutes from 2000 and Alberta Annual Statutes from 2001-current.
Alberta Queen’s Printer contains Alberta Statutes from RSA 2000 – current.
Comparing versions
To compare a statute’s amended wording with its former wording go to CanLII:
Search for the legislation you are interested in
click on the box beside the dates of two versions you are interested in
click on COMPARE in the blue box
The result is a side by side view of the two versions:
On the left is the older version (changes highlighted in red)
On the right is the newer version (changes highlighted in green)
Background & Legislative Intent
The following sources can provide background on the legislative intent behind the passing of legislation:
Alberta Law Reform Institute Their publications provide a historical overview of the law, explanation of the current law and discuss possible legislative changes.
As of Jan. 1, 2015, these documents are only published electronically. Older copies are available in the library.
Index to Canadian legal literature (ICLL) The “Table of Statutes” section indexes articles under specific statutes, case comments, and annotations. No longer updated in print.
Also available electronically through WestlawNext (Canada)
English Statutes in Force in Alberta
“The Introduction of English Law into Alberta” by J. E. Cote (1964) – Alberta Law Review, vol. 3 no 2
“The Reception of English Law” by J.E. Cote (1977) – Alberta Law Review, vol. 15 no. 1
For modern language versions of selected English Statutes in force in Alberta see The Alberta Legal Desk Book
Alberta gazette, part II – Index to regulations: Each annual volume of the Alberta gazette, part II includes an index with the current regulations organized under the title of the governing statute, including all the amendments made to the regulation. A cumulative index of regulations for the current year only is included at the back of each print issue.
Alberta Queen’s Printer – Consolidated versions of the regulations can be displayed alphabetically by title or numerically by regulation number, searched by keyword(s) in the title, or displayed by responsible ministry.
Alberta Law Collection – Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections at the U of C.
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) – You can search regulations by keyword(s) or retrieve them from an alphabetical list. This page indicates the last update to the content which may not be as current as other sources.
A few regulations are exempt from publication. For example:
Power purchase arrangements determinations regulation, Alta Reg 175/2000
Governing act: Electric Utilities Act
This regulation is so large it is not available online.
Regulations under the Public Service Act, RSA 2000, c P-42. – Some of these regulations can be found on Alberta Public Service Commission
Consolidated Regulations There is no print consolidation for the regulations in Alberta. Check the following e-resources for updated and searchable consolidated Alberta regulations in their collections. Take note of the currency of each resource when using them.
Coming into Force
Regulations are in force on the date they are filed with the Registrar of Regulations, unless another date is specified in the regulation. Such dates are usually located at the end of the regulation.
The filing date is included under the title.
Use the history note at the end of a section of any consolidated electronic version of a regulation to trace the history of that section.
The Alberta gazette Part I & II – Part II: The Index of regulations gives the citation for the original regulation and lists any amendments to that regulation. Information on regulations repealed during that year are included. All regulations in force as of 31 December are included in the annual index for that year. Current year amendments are included in the cumulative index found at the back of each issue.
Canadian current law: legislation – This component of the Canadian Abridgment summarizes changes (new, amended, repealed) to regulations. Changes for the year are covered in the annual volumes.
Lexis Advance® Quicklaw® – Alberta Repealed Regulations contains repealed and expired regulations from January 1, 2000, which you can browse or search.
Regulations Act, RSA 2000, c R-14
Regulations Act Regulation, AR 288/1999
Judgment Interest Rates
Pursuant to the Judgment Interest Act, RSA 2000, c J-1 (previously Judgment Interest Act, RSA 1984, c J-0.5) the judgment interest rate is set by regulation. A current consolidation of the Judgment Interest Regulation, Alta Reg 215/2011 is available on the Alberta Queen’s Printer website. The Judgment Interest Regulation, Alta Reg 364/84 has been repealed by section 2 of the current regulation.
See Section 1 – Calculation of Interest of the Judgment Interest Regulation, Alta Reg 215/2011 for interest rates from 1993 to current.
Judgment Interest Act, RSA 2000, c. J-1
Judgment Interest Regulation, Alta Reg 215/2011
See also: Limitations Act, RSA 2000, c L-12, s 11 “Judgment for payment of money”.
Limitations Act, RSA 2000, c L-12
The citation information on this page is following the 7th edition of the McGill Guide as adopted by the Court of Queen’s bench and detailed in the notice to the profession below. At this point the 8th edition of the McGill Guide has not been adopted. Citing Statutes Statutes are cited by the short title, in italics, followed by a non-italized comma. Followed by RSA (Revised Statutes of Alberta) or SA (Statutes of Alberta), and the year followed by a comma and then abbreviate chapter to c and follow it by the numeric or alphanumeric chapter designation as seen in the statute volume.
Revised statutes and all new statutes are cited by an alpha-numeric chapter number
Local Authorities Election Act, RSA 2000, c L-21
Access to the Future Act, SA 2005, c A-1.5
Amending statutes are cited by a numerical chapter number
Traffic Safety Amendment Act, SA 2005, c 34
For pinpoint references (reference to a specific section) use s for section and ss for reference to multiple sections.
Note: If the year is part of the title of statute ensure you include this in the title portion of your citation. Citing Regulations Alberta regulations are cited as “Alta” (Alberta abbreviated) “Reg” (Regulation abbreviated) and a sequential number plus year:
Alta Reg 339/91
It is the 339th regulation in 1991 and is found in the 1991 annual volume
Since 2000, the year is given in full:
Alta Reg 222/2003
For more information on citing statutes or regulations see:
Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 7th ed.
Also referred to as the McGill Guide
Notices to the Profession – Citation of Authorities – On November 12, 2013 the Court of Queen’s Bench adopted the 7th edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation.
Judicial Consideration
Judicial consideration, or noting up, of a statute or regulation involves searching for case law that interprets or applies the statute or regulation or a section thereof. The judicial decisions retrieved reveal how courts have interpreted and analyzed the legislation. Since statutes and section numbers can change over time, it is important to consider repealed or superseded legislation, with particular attention to changes to the section numbers.
Noting up is easiest done online and is often more current. It is always best to check more than one source when noting up.
Find the statute and then select the Noteup tab at the top of the screen.
Select either to retrieve citations to the whole statute or to a specific section or subsection.
To retrieve citations to a specific section or subsection, enter the section number in the box provided. You will retrieve a hyperlinked list of decisions citing the statute or section/subsection of the statute.
There is no editorial input into this list.
In the top search box enter cit: followed by the legislation you wish to noteup.
If you already have the legislation on the screen select citing cases on the right of the screen.
WestlawNext Canada This services contains federal and provincial legislation, including rules of practice for every court in Canada except Quebec. It also contains repealed statutes.
Under the Find and KeyCite by Name tab > Find and KeyCite a Statute or Regulation by Name
Enter the title, section (if applicable) and jurisdiction of the legislation you wish to note up
Open the legislation
Select the Citing References tab
Under All Content >Primary Sources select Statutes and Regulations
select the appropriate jurisdiction
select either statutes or regulations
select name in the list and then the section
select the Citing References tab.
Statutes of Alberta Judicially Considered
This looseleaf citator service provides judicial consideration of Alberta statutes and regulations. A brief digest accompanies each case listed. There are volumes for R.S.A. 1980 & R.S.A. 2000.
Civil Procedure Encyclopedia by W.A. Stevenson, J.E. Côté Table of Contents
This multi-volume legal encyclopedia covers common-law Canada and England. It is arranged by subject. It doesn’t provide a Table of Statutes or Regulations to follow. It’s content is more relevant to court procedures and rules.
Annotated Textbooks
These publications compiled on specific statutes contain the text of the statute along with annotations. The annotations often provide in-depth information on the judicial consideration the statute has received. Many different annotated statute publications can be located through our catalogue. For example:
Alberta rules of court annotated by Allan A. Fradsham Table of Contents Judicial consideration is listed for specific sections of the Alberta Rules of Court
Halsbury’s laws of Canada
This multi-volume set provides judicial consideration of federal and provincial statutes, and statutory instruments in each volume, subject title or particular area of law.
Table of Public Statutes
Proc. – Means to come into force on Proclamation but no Proclamation has been issued as of the date of the table.
Rep – Means repealed by
R & S – Means repealed and superseded by
Supp. – refers to amendment acts included in Vol. 13 of RSA 2000, unproclaimed as of Dec. 31, 2000.
O.C. – Order in Council
M.O. – Ministerial Order
Updating Statutes and Regulations for all Canadian Jurisdicitions, 5th ed. by Nancy McCormack & Nathalie Leonard
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Quoted: Tech billionaires and human immortality
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By Levi Sumagaysay — siliconbeat
“When I am successful in realizing this mega-project, then I will finally have 10,000 years for numerous hobbies.”
— Dmitry Itskov, founder of the 2045 Initiative, which aims to transfer our brains and human consciousness to robot avatars instead of bodies that weaken and die. Itskov is a billionaire who’s known as the godfather of the Russian Internet. He also apparently has plenty of hobbies.
Think tech isn’t working on big problems? Newsweek checks on the progress of the 2045 Initiative and other efforts — including in Silicon Valley — to cheat death. The efforts are funded by other deep-pocketed titans of tech: Peter Thiel of PayPal fame has given money to the Methuselah Foundation, which is working to find drugs that cure age-related damage to the body’s cells. Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s Ellison Medical Foundation distributes grants to those who are researching aging. As we’ve written, Google spinoff Calico‘s stated mission is to “harness advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan.” Google’s Larry Page has also backed Singularity University; co-founders Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis are big fans of immortality — or at least living till 700.
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Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
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Living Machines 2016: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems pp 288-296 | Cite as
Thrust-Assisted Perching and Climbing for a Bioinspired UAV
Morgan T. Pope
Mark R. Cutkosky
First Online: 12 July 2016
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 9793)
We present a multi-modal robot that flies, perches and climbs on outdoor surfaces such as concrete or stucco walls. Although the combination of flying and climbing mechanisms in a single platform extracts a weight penalty, it also provides synergies. In particular, a small amount of aerodynamic thrust can substantially improve the reliability of perching and climbing, allowing the platform to maneuver on otherwise risky surfaces. The approach is inspired by thrust-assisted perching and climbing observed in various animals including flightless birds.
Vertical Surface Locomotory Mode Rotor Thrust Climbing Mechanism Flightless Bird
Support for this work was provided by NSF IIS-1161679 and ARL MAST MCE 15-4. We gratefully acknowledge the help of H. Jiang, C. Kimes, W. Roderick and C. Kerst in conducting experiments.
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treadmill: a cruel & unusual history
Posted on January 6, 2015 Categories Uncategorized
It’s no wonder our perennial New Year’s resolutions to lose weight fail. Working out it can be so punishing–and if you are on a treadmill, that’s historically all too true.
In 1822, the London-baed Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders published the Description of the Tread Mill invented by Mr. William Cubitt of Ipswich, for the Employment of Prisoners and Recommended by the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, &c. This short text, which you can read here, is considered by the Oxford English Dictionary to be the earliest attestation for the word treadmill. In the text, the Society discusses the “Tread-wheels of the Discipline Mill” (3).
The prison treadmill. Image from Early American Crime via Readex.com
Like a waterwheel, this human treadmill was made of boards on which over 20 prisoners would tread for up to 8 hours a day. Their efforts would ground corn for flour, though in reality often nothing. Around 1818, famed engineer and millwright Mr. William Cubitt (later, Sir) did not initially invent this human treadmill expressly for punishment, though he apparently later applied it so. The Society liked its “simplicity,” as it required no instruction, little management, and easy oversight, as well as allowed for what it considered the equitable exaction of prison labor according to criminals’ offenses (5).
The Description records that a prisoner would step 2,193 ft/hr with a 12-minute break over the same time period (5). That’s hard labor indeed, which explains why in 1824, a Reverend Sydney Smith was decrying the treadmill’s cruelty: “The labour of the tread-mill is irksome, dull, monotonous, and disgusting to the last degree” (The Edinburgh Review 304). A treadmill as a metaphor for laborious monotony was already afoot later that same decade.
In spite of these initial protestations against its cruelty, Oscar Wilde did not escape its rotational ruthlessness when jailed in 1895. As he writes in his 1896 Ballad of Reading Gaol By C.3.3., a work condemning prison practices and capital punishment, in particular:
We sewed the sacks, we broke the stones,
We turned the dusty drill:
We banged the tins, and bawled the hymns,
And sweated on the mill:
But in the heart of every man
Terror was lying still.*
This form of punishment eventually lost its punitive and practical efficacy. A combination of factors seemed to have spelled its demise in the UK: weak output of ground corn compared to horses or water; the fact that treadmills could employ non-incarcerated men in need of work; and, as with the cause of Sydney and Wilde, its cruelty as a punishment. Some US prisons did adopt the treadmill, but it was never widely adopted, especially in the face of other forms of prison punishment such as cotton-picking or chain gangs.
But the treadmill endured, though in radically different form and though exercisers might disagree with respect to function. Filled in 1911 and approved in 1913, Claude Lauraine Hagen patented a Training Machine featuring a “treadmill belt.”
Hagen’s Training Machine. Image from Google Patents.
In 1949, Dr. Robert A. Bruce lead-authored “Normal Respiratory and Circulatory Pathways of Adaptation in Exercise” in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, where he describes “walking on a motor-driven treadmill,” which technology enabled doctors to regulate patients’ activity for their clinical purposes (1423).
Bruce’s treadmill. Image from J Clin Invest. Nov 1949; 28(6 Pt 2): 1424.
After reading Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s 1968 pioneering book Aerobics, which championed the 8-minute mile for general health, William Staub then pioneered the treadmill for home use, the PaceMaster 600, giving us all the gift of extra closet space for decades to come. Treadmills later joined the home office with the treadmill desk by the 2000s.
A New Model of Treadmill
Now, treadmills are thriving not only because of January gym memberships but also because of their broader metaphorical power. In the 1952 presidential campaign, General and Republican party candidate Eisenhower likened Illinois Governor and Democatric Stevenson’s economic policies to “prosperity” on “a treadmill,” later referred to as “treadmill prosperity.” (The real headline, though, was Eisenhower’s characterization of his opponent as “completely untutored.”)
Today, we speak of hedonic treadmills (the psychological theory dates back to the 1970s; the actual term is evidence in the 1980s and 1990s). We talk of pesticide treadmills, mediocrity treadmills, and even euphemism treadmills. Treadmill is an effective metaphor and useful one, distinguishing itself as a term and conceptual model from feedback loops. (The positive feedback loop in particular can be confounding and is often confounded.)
As a word, treadmill simply joins tread and mill. These will get their own etymological treatment soon. In the meantime, I suggest you avoid the treadmills at CardioTech in North Ipswich in Queensland, Australia. It sounds suspicious on so many levels.
* Wilde, Oscar. “The Balland of Reading Gaol By C.3.3.” The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry & Poetics. Ed. Valentine Cunningham. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. 953. Print.
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basicallyatwentysomething says:
I can’t deal with them, I was falling asleep once on one untill I fell off and was abruptly awoken and confused, I still dont really fully understand that experience. Are you a fan?
I love walking on my treadmill, especially in the dead of winter. I put on music and go into my own little world. I don’t think I’d want to do it for twelve hours a day, though.
I will say that the treadmill was a life-saver when I lived in Minnesota. No doubt about that.
Johanna Wee says:
I can’t even run on a treadmill more than two hours non-stop. For some odd reason, those prisoners deserve a salute and clap. Teach me, master.
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Tetration Forum › Tetration and Related Topics › Mathematical and General Discussion
Ackermann function and hyper operations
andydude
Long Time Fellow
I wanted to say something about the first part, "1 Introduction". In this part of the paper, you equate the original Ackermann function with a[n]b, which (stictly speaking) is not true. Robert Munafo has discussed this on his website (http://www.mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html), and I have also verified this for myself by reading the original paper Ackermann wrote. Ackermann's tetration is a function which is an offset from tetration. Because it is an offset of tetration, is not pentation at all. It wasn't until Reuben Goodstein that the "offset" disappeared. I think we should take this into account when discussing the original Ackermann function, because its evolution is way more complicated than any introduction can really summarize.
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08/23/2009, 09:45 AM (This post was last modified: 08/23/2009, 12:34 PM by bo198214.)
@Andrew: Good! Thats a very attentive observation.
While verifying myself I found that the deviation (up to a difference of 1 in the rank) from our operator sequence comes from forming an unnecessary odd initial condition. I dont know why he does, perhaps it is more suitable for his proof of non-primitive recursiveness.
In his article
Ackermann, W. (1928 ). Zum Hilbertschen Aufbau der reellen Zahlen. Math. Ann., 99, 118–133.
Ackermann defines:
Where in our notation ( is a free variable here to determine the argument of the function to be applied).
So everything would be good if the initial value was for . Then would . But instead Ackermann defines:
where and in today notation with the Kronecker- .
This definition is hence equivalent to:
as he also mentiones in his paper.
So he introduces a third initial value besides 0 and 1 which causes the deviation from our operator sequence:
PS: Munafo gives a very detailed description of the different versions of the Ackermann-function here. It is a very good reference to show to someone for explaining about different versions of the Ackermann-function. All glory to Andrew for digging out such references.
Also, about a month ago, I redesigned the Hyperoperation page, to try and explain these differences.
04/18/2011, 05:08 PM (This post was last modified: 04/18/2011, 05:09 PM by bo198214.)
(08/23/2009, 09:45 AM)bo198214 Wrote: While verifying myself I found that the deviation (up to a difference of 1 in the rank) from our operator sequence comes from forming an unnecessary odd initial condition. I dont know why he does, perhaps it is more suitable for his proof of non-primitive recursiveness.
Oh now I found out where this odd initial conditions comes from!
I assert that Ackermann originally wanted to define left-braced hyperoperations!
Then this initial condition for makes sense!
Left-braced hyperoperations would similarly be defined by:
here again we have and .
But the forth operation is not as one would obtain with the initial condition , but it is due to the initial value !
So this initial condition makes left-braced hyperoperations look simpler, while it makes right-braced hyperoperations looking odd.
I think he started with the left-braced hyperoperations and then switched to the faster growing right-braced hyperoperations, perhaps it was more suitable for his proof of non-primitive recursiveness of
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When 19th Century writer, Jules Michelet, wrote La Sorcière (Satanism and Witchcraft) his goal was not limited to providing a history of Medieval European Witchcraft. In truth he was seeking to do something far more interesting — his intention was to reveal that history as a cultural rebellion against the oppressions of the Roman Catholic Church and Feudalism. Michelet was sympathetic to the plight of peasant women of this era. What culture and history named as Satanic or Witchcraft, he attempted to redefine from the other side of a largely unrecognized side of this phenomenon: Paganism.
An impoverished woman doesn’t quite fit into her community is to be judged as an Evil Witch.
Illustration by Martin van Maele
from Jules Michelet La Sorcière, 1911 Edition.
The idea, as presented by Michelet, was to look underneath such dark practices as Devil Worship and discover its true origins. In fact, he viewed this with an eye to where non-prescriptive spiritual beliefs might lead to something of beauty and goodness. Was the cultural magnifying glass obstructing the goodness to propagate the fear of the people? His sympathies were given to the oppressed and victimized. Paganism was not necessarily Evil from Michelet’s viewpoint. His book would assist in laying out a model for modern Pagan Wiccan Ideologies.
Were these men afraid of Witchcraft or simply afraid of a women refusing patriarchal control?
“The Witch, No. 3”
Joseph E. Baker, c. 1890
Michelet reconstructs and reimagines a situation in which a coven of desperate women push their unique forms of social protest into darkness by the use of decadent rituals performed under the power of the moon. Black Sabbaths performed by witches. It was not the strength found in nature that was the problem. The problem was when these spiritual and empowering rituals sought to do harm. He then devotes the remainder of the book to reconstructions / imaginings taken from the horrific European witch trials. Michelet’s writings were debunked as inaccurate and problematic long ago, but he is responsible for turning a sympathetic light toward oppressed women and scorn on irrational societal fears. If nothing else, La Sorcière speaks to a very different kind of revolutionary danger that goes far beyond the simple political. If a society chooses to push large groups into oppression and misery, there is simply no telling what those groups might form to rebel.
Entering the 1970’s society felt that parents had control of their children. Cue a masterful film about a pretty little girl possessed by The Devil.
As the world crashed out of the 1960’s and slammed into the resulting gains and damages of the 1970’s, Japan’s Mushi Production was looking to take on a bigger slice of the Animated Movie Pie. They instructed their animation team to create three adult-oriented projects referred to as The Animerama Trilogy. Mushi Productions and legendary animator, Osamu Tezuka, were looking to keep up with an ever evolving and reactionary era. The Animerama Trilogy would be Anime / Manga with a difference. These three films were to be full-on erotica and they would also adhere to psychedelic animation.
“All those lonely people…” Taking animation into the psychedlic.
George Dunning, 1968
Art Direction | Heinz Edelmann
Perhaps it was worries about trying to push ahead of the coolness / originality created within the animated Beatles movie, Yellow Submarine, combined with rumors of hardcore content about to explode within mainstream cinematic entertainment. This was the era of Last Tango in Paris, The Devils, A Clockwork Orange and The Exorcist. It was at this time that two truly pornographic films enjoyed mainstream success. Deep Throat and Beyond The Green Door were not limited to creepy porn cinemas. Whatever propelled Mushi Productions to push the cinematic envelope, this was The Sexual Revolution and Liberation moving in full-tilt-boogie mode. Mushi Productions was ready to make X-Rated pornographic animated films. The sexuality was to be both erotic and graphic, but equal attention needed to be applied in the areas of plot and artistic quality.
The original movie poster
Belladonna of Sadness / Tragedy of Belladonna
Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973
Belladonna of Sadness was actually the second of the trilogy. Tezuka assigned Eiichi Yamamoto to serve as Belladonna‘s director and visionary leader. He quickly convinced painter, Kuni Fukai, to helm the film’s art direction duties. Artistic freedom and quality were of upmost importance. Astro Boy was the money maker for Mushi Productions. This trilogy was to be creative. Concerns regarding commercial success were to be pushed off the table.
The oppressed victim transforms into a magically powerful Witch…
Cinematography | Shigeru Yamasaki
Yamamoto understood the importance of story and the importance of artistic quality. Fukai was not particularly interested in Anime or Manga, but he did want the freedom to pursue his artistic vision. He was also drawn to the idea that Tezuka was not particularly interested in movement. His goal was to focus on the detail of illustration. In other words, traditional ideas of animation were out the window. Fukai found the film’s development and production to be an enjoyable artistic experience. Based upon interviews, it is clear that Fukai captured the director’s ideas onto scrolling murals. The film’s cinematographer, Shigeru Yamasaki, then set the framing as his camera moved along the murals and other illustrations. Belladonna of Sadness took two years to create using less than ten additional animators. Masahiko Satoh was hired to provide the musical score. It is a jazzed-fused mash-up of experimental synthesizers with syrupy pop ballads. The musical score works incredibly well. Like the film itself, Satoh’s score has a large number of fans as well.
Defying conventional ideas of Anime and animation…
By the time Belladonna of Sadness was ready for release, Mushi Productions was about to fall into bankruptcy. Their Japanese distributor, Nippon Herald Eiga, was at a loss when it came to marketing the movie. Even though the strange film was well received at the 1973 Berlin International Film Festival, it received a limited release in Japan without any success. Having now seen this infamous movie, it seems all the more odd that it came and went with little to no interest. It was never officially released outside of Japan. In the late 1970’s it was discovered that Belladonna had gained a minor female following.
An attempt to re-cut the movie so that it might hold a more immediate appeal to female viewers only resulted in muting the film’s power. Much of the hardcore sexuality and sexual violence was trimmed away. It is easy to understand why the director decided to remove some of these elements as they have and continue to cause problematic issues, but those original choices still make sense to the overall reach of the film. However Yamamoto had the idea of incorporating a scan of Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix to serve as a potent closing image.
A poisonous flower or a source of magical healing?
The additional mix of Delacroix’s style makes sense given that the movie pulsates via a number of various stylistic influences. But the most logical piece of this idea is that the painting better conveys the film’s closing lines. Belladonna of Sadness has always enjoyed a strong reputation among fans of the Anime / Manga genres. Various and inferior versions of the movie floated around for years. The folks at Cinelicious Pics worked hard to secure the rights to restore and distribute an uncensored version of the movie to the world. All of the eroticism, depravity and sexual brutality has been returned. But the 1979 inclusion of Delacroix’s painting remains. Belladonna of Sadness is now available in 4K remaster.
How to describe this film without giving too much away? I’m not confident I can do that so I will keep my summary simplistic and utilize shots from the film to indicate the beauty, complexity and ultra-weird world it portrays. The over-all look of the film is tied to an idea of glam beauty that you might expect to see in illustrated adverts of the early to mid-1970’s. The film’s protagonist, Jeanne, is rendered as a slender and sublimely perfect nymphette. Her appearance is the one consistent element of the movie’s imagery. Jeanne‘s beauty does not match the world in which she has been born. She is simply too elegantly beautiful to belong here.
The identity finds no solace or safety in marriage…
She is a peasant girl who has just married a humble but handsome man. Only minutes into her marriage, Jeanne is raped by the land’s Feudal Lord — and his entire court including Church leadership. This might sound silly, but that animated / painted sequences of rape and sexual torture are truly horrific. Kuni Fukai and his team found ways to render this human cruelty that go well beyond the boundaries of living actors. The sequence is traumatic and may prove to be more than some are willing to watch. When the film was screened in San Francisco more than a few people opted to leave the cinema. If you thought the killing of Bambi‘s mom was harsh, that classically upsetting animated moment is rendered sweet in comparison.
Believe it or not, this film’s animated depiction of rape is disorienting, visceral and horrifically disturbing.
The ability of this film to capture both the act of rape and the consequence of the attack is nothing short of brilliant. As horrible as these sequences are — they are essential. The rape of Jeanne is not presented as erotic, but it does force forward an uncomfortable issue. While Yamamoto is clearly not looking to excite the audience, that doesn’t mean that this depiction of rape is above reproach. An argument could be made that his film goes too far. Somewhere in the synapse of the depicted horror there registers a worrying sense of the sadistic.
Is the explicit manner in which these brutalities are depicted meaningful or exploitive? While I think a case could be made, ultimately I was moved by the way the film managed to present the sheer trauma and damage of rape. Even still it must be noted that these sequences are so repulsive and shocking — they push it all so far that the viewer’s mind and body are both required to react.
It is a manipulation. It is a tough watch. Maybe too tough to be considered as an “entertaining” experience — and, no matter, this movie’s intentions are to entertain.
Draw your own conclusion.
Belladonna of Sadness is obviously surrealistic, but it is persistently grounded in realistic logic. Jeanne‘s life and marriage are ruined. As she attempts the impossibility of healing and restoring her identity she falls into a spiraling depression. Pushed past the edge of sanity, Jeanne appears to retreat into an attempt at calming through sexual self release. Or at least this is how I interpret it. Instead of finding peace, she discovers The Devil. Playful and ever-ready to flirt, The Devil never attempts to hide his identity. He repeatedly points out that Jeanne has summoned him.
Evil has not come to Jeanne without invitation.
Jeanne makes a pact and gives her body and soul for as she phrases it, “something bad.” The something bad is actually empowerment and full claim of her sexual liberation.
Surrendering to Satan…
Our protagonist is angry when she awakens from her surrealistic fuck-fest with Satan. She has anticipated that she would wake in Hell. She thought her hair would have turned into snakes. She expected to be a scary old hag. Instead she wakes refreshed, clean, energetic, healed and surrounded by flowers that seem to radiate energy.
“You had already died, anyway.”
“I want people to turn away in horror when I pass by in the street. I don’t want to forget anger and hatred!” Jeanne seethes to The Devil.
“You have become beautiful, Jeanne. Like a young girl in love. Radiant. You are even more beautiful than God,” The Devil replies.
The One who owns her soul explains that a woman can be angry, scary and raging with hatred and remain beautiful. Why? Because she does not fully understand the power of her own self and beauty. The Devil teaches her that she can channel her beauty, charm, intellect and intelligence to do good or utilize those same powers to cause righteous evil. Nature will bend to Jeanne‘s will. Why? Because she is woman.
Meet Jeanne, The Witch.
Cinematography | Shigeru Yamazaki
Yamamoto’s vision of The Devil is a penis of various sizes and compulsions. Evil is represented by the penis. It is comical, but it is also oddly effective in depicting Jeanne’s initiation into the sensual. The vagina is used to symbolize a wide range of ideas and aspects of life, but the key to Belladonna of Sadness‘ use of yonic symbology are related to joy, pleasure and life.
“Are you The Devil?”
“Yes,” replies the cock along with an opportunity for empowerment…
Welcome to Eiichi Yamamoto’s take on Feminist Theory. As Jeanne allows herself to shed inhibitions — she evolves into a powerful sexual predator. She seduces and gains strength as the men begin to lose theirs. Jeanne has long left her former life, she is now surrounded by beauty. She finds creative and magical ways to return to her fellow peasants.
Jeanne magically creates food and wine. She brings sexual education to her fellow peasants. She turns the poisonous Belladonna flower into medicine that stops pain — most importantly notes is that her magic flower takes away the pain of childbirth for the women of her village. And she pulls the peasants back to her Sexual LSD’d-like trip’d out home for orgy sabbaths. All of which are depicted in stunning ways and in a multiple manner of styles. Some of the film’s stylings are truly beautiful, others are crude, some are silly, some profane and all are aiming to shock.
Eventually Jeanne must decide how she really wants to use her new found power.
Ultimately there is a reason Yamamoto named the protagonist “Jeanne.”
Jeanne d’Arc, anyone? Did I mention the story takes place in France?
Do ya wanna hold me?
Regarding the film’s X-Rated ideologies — Belladonna of Sadness aims to sexually excite. This is eroticism. To be more specific, this is experimental eroticism.
Why is it experimental? For more reasons than I care to list, but this is an animated film. Depictions of the human body morph from realistic renderings to the profanely abstract. This is even more true when applied to genitalia.
Is Belladonna of Sadness actually erotic? I guess that depends on what winds your clock. Personally, I do not find illustrations all that sexy. But that is just me.
Eroticism morphs…
I should also point out that I’ve no interest in animated film, Anime or Manga. The fact that I wanted to write about Belladonna of Sadness indicates a great deal regarding how I feel about it. I loved the experience of this movie.
I admire the artistic audacity, experimentation and the epic go-for-broke approach. And I take great pleasure in seeing something totally new and unique. I have never seen a movie like this one. It is unique. It is also a problematic film and it doesn’t always work. But when Belladonna of Sadness does work — it compulsively pulls us into its own astounding world.
Erotica Abstracta / Fascinating to watch
Belladonna of Sadness has been gyrating for over 43 years. It isn’t going anywhere. For more info: http://www.cineliciouspics.com/belladonna-of-sadness/
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Research Article | Therapeutics and Prevention
Analysis of Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Titers of Recovered COVID-19 Patients
Jeffrey E. Gold, William H. Baumgartl, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, Paul L. Fidel Jr., Mairi C. Noverr, Larry P. Tilley, David J. Hurley, Balázs Rada, John W. Ashford
Liise-anne Pirofski, Editor
Jeffrey E. Gold
aWorld Organization, Watkinsville, Georgia, USA
ORCID record for Jeffrey E. Gold
William H. Baumgartl
bNevada Spine Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Ramazan A. Okyay
cKahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
Warren E. Licht
dWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Paul L. Fidel Jr.
eLouisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
ORCID record for Paul L. Fidel Jr.
Mairi C. Noverr
fTulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Larry P. Tilley
gVetMed Consultants, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
David J. Hurley
hCollege of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Balázs Rada
ORCID record for Balázs Rada
John W. Ashford
iStanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Liise-anne Pirofski
The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has been theorized to provide protection against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Our aim was to determine whether any MMR IgG titers are inversely correlated with severity in recovered COVID-19 patients previously vaccinated with MMR II. We divided 80 subjects into two groups, comparing MMR titers to recent COVID-19 severity levels. The MMR II group consisted of 50 subjects who would primarily have MMR antibodies from the MMR II vaccine, and a comparison group of 30 subjects consisted of those who would primarily have MMR antibodies from sources other than MMR II, including prior measles, mumps, and/or rubella illnesses. There was a significant inverse correlation (rs = −0.71, P < 0.001) between mumps virus titers (mumps titers) and COVID-19 severity within the MMR II group. There were no significant correlations between mumps titers and severity in the comparison group, between mumps titers and age in the MMR II group, or between severity and measles or rubella titers in either group. Within the MMR II group, mumps titers of 134 to 300 arbitrary units (AU)/ml (n = 8) were found only in those who were functionally immune or asymptomatic; all with mild symptoms had mumps titers below 134 AU/ml (n = 17); all with moderate symptoms had mumps titers below 75 AU/ml (n = 11); all who had been hospitalized and had required oxygen had mumps titers below 32 AU/ml (n = 5). Our results demonstrate that there is a significant inverse correlation between mumps titers from MMR II and COVID-19 severity.
IMPORTANCE COVID-19 has presented various paradoxes that, if understood better, may provide clues to controlling the pandemic, even before a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available. First, young children are largely spared from severe disease. Second, numerous countries have COVID-19 death rates that are as low as 1% of the death rates of other countries. Third, many people, despite prolonged close contact with someone who is COVID-19 positive, never test positive themselves. Fourth, nearly half of people who test positive for COVID-19 are asymptomatic. Some researchers have theorized that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine may be responsible for these disparities. The significance of our study is that it showed that mumps titers related to the MMR II vaccine are significantly and inversely correlated with the severity of COVID-19-related symptoms, supporting the theorized association between the MMR vaccine and COVID-19 severity.
It has been theorized that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine may protect against or reduce the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection (1–5). Gold et al. introduced this theory in March 2020 after observing that recent, large-scale MMR vaccination campaigns were associated with countries with the fewest COVID-19 deaths (6). We set out to investigate whether measles, mumps, or rubella IgG titer tests would reveal an inverse correlation between antibody concentrations from MMR II vaccinations and COVID-19 severity.
Vaccines induce a variety of different antibodies to protect against a virus, since each part of an antigen stimulates different antibodies. Titer tests determine seropositivity based upon a narrow set of antibody concentrations but do not measure the viral neutralization power of all the different antibodies related to a virus. Since only a narrow subset of antibodies related to measles, mumps, or rubella may protect against COVID-19, one must consider the possibility that even if MMR II is cross-protective against COVID-19, titer tests alone may not paint a complete picture.
We had to consider the various ways in which individuals develop MMR-related antibodies, as each would affect titer values differently. First, individuals may have antibodies from the current MMR II vaccine by Merck, initially licensed in 1979, which includes the Edmonston strain of measles, the Jeryl Lynn (B-level) strain of mumps, and the Wistar RA 27/3 strain of rubella (7). Second, individuals may have antibodies from early monovalent measles, mumps, or rubella vaccines. Third, individuals may have antibodies from other combination vaccines, including the original MMR vaccine by Merck, utilizing the less effective HPV-77 DE-5 strain of rubella (8). Lastly, older adults, including virtually all born before 1957, most likely have MMR antibodies from naturally acquired infections (9). We also had to consider that if someone was at some point infected by the measles virus itself, that individual may have had up to 73% of their prior antibody repertoire eliminated (10).
Mumps titers were inversely correlated with severity and symptom scores.We found a significant inverse correlation (rs = −0.71, P < 0.001) between COVID-19 severity and mumps IgG titers (Fig. 1). There was also a significant inverse correlation (rs = −0.58, P < 0.001) between symptom scores used to determine COVID-19 severity and mumps IgG titers (Fig. 2). There were no significant correlations between mumps virus titers (mumps titers) and severity, or between mumps titers and symptom scores, in the comparison group. There were also no significant correlations between severity or symptom scores, and measles or rubella titers, in either group (Table 1).
Mean mumps titer values (in arbitrary units per milliliter) were compared to each of five severity categories. Each severity category was based upon the symptom scores shown in Fig. 2. “Functionally Immune” data represent subjects with a severity score of 0. “Asymptomatic” data represent those with a score of 1, i.e., those who were COVID-19 positive but had no symptoms. “Mild” data represent those with scores ranging from 2 to 10. “Moderate” data represent those with scores ranging from 11 to 20. “Severe” data represent those with scores from 21 to 30. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance, with an adjustment made for three comparisons. Severity data were not normally distributed, so comparisons were done with a Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
Mumps titer values (AU/ml) for each subject were plotted against symptom scores, with overlapping scores subjected to dithering. Each subject began with a score of zero, and then points were added. One point was added for each of the following symptoms: COVID-19 positivity, dry cough, sore throat, slight shortness of breath, headache, confusion, muscle aches/pain, fever over 101° F, nausea and/or vomiting, or diarrhea. Two points were added for each of the following symptoms: severe difficulty breathing, chest pain, or sudden loss of sense of smell/taste. Five points were added for each of the following statuses: hospitalization, requirement of supplemental oxygen, or intubation on a ventilator. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance, with an adjustment made for three comparisons. All data were normally distributed, so comparisons were done with a Pearson’s correlation coefficient.
MMR IgG titers versus severity and symptom scoresa
Mumps titer values in the immunoassay (IA) that we used could range from a minimum of 0 (seronegative) to 300 (maximum seropositivity) arbitrary units (AU)/ml. The following observations were noted in the MMR II group: mumps titers of 134 to 300 AU/ml were found only in those who had asymptomatic COVID-19 cases or who were functionally immune (n = 8); all who had mild COVID-19 cases had mumps titers below 134 AU/ml (n = 17); all who had moderate COVID-19 symptoms had mumps titers below 75 AU/ml (n = 11); all who had been hospitalized and had required oxygen therapy had mumps titers below 32 AU/ml (n = 5).
In the MMR II group, 5 of 50 subjects had mumps titers of 182 AU/ml or above, and all 5 of these subjects, ranging in age from 21 to 41, were functionally immune. Functionally immune subjects tested negative in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nasopharyngeal and/or SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests. Each had had several days of extensive exposure to an actively symptomatic person who was positive for SARS-CoV-2, e.g., a housemate or a spouse. These subjects took no social distancing or other precautions such as wearing masks. Despite this, the functionally immune subjects never tested positive for COVID-19 despite the ease of transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
The inverse correlation between mumps titers and severity was not age related.No significant correlations were observed between age and mumps, measles, or rubella titer values in the MMR II group (Table 2). There were no significant correlations between age and severity levels (rs = −0.06, P = 0.69), or between age and symptom scores (r = 0.04, P = 0.77), in the MMR II group. There were no significant correlations between age and severity (rs = −0.14, P = 0.47), or between age and symptom scores (r = −0.13, P = 0.48), in the comparison group.
MMR IgG titers versus agea
COVID-19 case prevalence is seven times lower in young children than in adults.Publicly available case prevalence data are typically published only in large increments of years of age, e.g., “<20,” “21 to 29,” and “30 to 39.” Through an open records act request, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided us with COVID-19 case totals by individual years of age. We divided the total number of cases for each individual age by the total estimated 2020 population of the United States for each individual age to determine the prevalence percentages by age for cases (Fig. 3). Prevalences of positive cases began to rise slowly at age 5, began to rise most sharply at age 14, and then peaked at age 21 at 2.17% prevalence, a rate seven times higher than that determined for the youngest ages.
COVID-19 case totals provided by the CDC, at individual years of age 0 through 44, for the United States (1 January 2020 through 2 September 2020), were each divided by the total estimated 2020 U.S. population for each individual age to determine prevalence percentages.
After two MMR II vaccinations 5 years apart, IgG titers for rubella remained seropositive in 93% of individuals, IgG titers for measles remained seropositive in 82% of individuals, and IgG titers for mumps remained seropositive in 40% of individuals (11). As such, the mumps titer is the only MMR titer which steadily and substantially decreases over time after vaccination, decreasing 9.2% per year (12). On the basis of a 9.2% mean annual decay rate for mumps titers, and 300 AU/ml being the maximum seropositive value for mumps titers in our study, we calculated that an individual’s mean mumps titer would decrease to 142 AU/ml 9 years after vaccination with MMR II and to 130 AU/ml after 10 years. On the basis of the fact that the mean age for the second vaccination of MMR II for children in the United States is 5 years, the mean age at which a child’s mumps titers would decrease below 134 AU/ml would be 14 years.
We found that high mumps titers (134 to 300 AU/ml) from MMR II vaccinations were found only in subjects with asymptomatic and functionally immune COVID-19 cases. Subjects with moderate and severe cases of COVID-19 all had low mumps titer values (below 75 AU/ml). The significant inverse correlations that we observed in the MMR II group between mumps titers and severity, as well as between mumps titers and symptom scores, indicate that there is an association between mumps titers and COVID-19. This significant inverse correlation existed at all ages. In contrast, similar associations were not identified for measles or rubella titers. Prior research had suggested a possible relationship between COVID-19 and measles or rubella, in addition to mumps, based on the sequence homology of each with SARS-CoV-2 (13). Our findings, however, have placed more emphasis on mumps.
There were no significant correlations in the MMR II group between age and severity or symptom scores, nor were there any significant correlations between age and titer values. COVID-19 severity levels were represented across all ages, eliminating the possibility that the inverse correlations that we observed between mumps titers and severity were confounded by the ages of study subjects or age-associated factors such as the prevalence of comorbidities. For example, three subjects in the MMR II group with severe cases were 28 to 33 years of age and showed low mumps titers ranging from 0 to 31.9 AU/ml, while three other subjects in the MMR II group who were 38 to 41 years of age were functionally immune, with mumps titers ranging from 120 to 300 AU/ml. These observations indicate either that some older subjects in the MMR II group retained high antibody concentrations from MMR II vaccinations given to them as children or that some may have received MMR II boosters as adults. MMR II boosters are often given to persons entering the military, or to women of child-bearing age. A limitation of our study was that the nonrandom process of selection of applicants employed to ensure a wide variety of severity levels over a wide age range had the potential to introduce biases.
Although our study showed no correlation between rubella titers or measles titers and COVID-19 severity, if some portion of measles or rubella antibodies protects against COVID-19, measles or rubella titer seropositivity tests may not measure those antibody isoforms. Hence, while our study provided clear evidence linking mumps seropositivity to COVID-19 severity, we do not dismiss the possibility that there are links between measles or rubella seropositivity that have not yet been identified.
Taken together, our finding that 14 years is the mean age at which mumps titers fall below 134 AU/ml and our finding that mumps titers above this value (in the MMR II group) were exclusively associated with functionally immune and asymptomatic individuals suggest that age 14 years would be the pivot point after which a further decline in mumps titers would be associated with a sharp rise in age-related risk of a COVID-19-positive test result or having a symptomatic case. The CDC data that we reviewed indeed indicated that the age of 14 years is the pivot point at which both the incidence of COVID-19-positive cases and the risk of death begin to rise sharply. We acknowledge that the sharp rise in the incidence of cases at age 14 years may also be influenced by other factors; however, this association adds further support to the hypothesis that MMR II-induced immunity may be a significant factor in protecting vaccinated children through age 14 years from COVID-19, in addition to protecting older adults with adequate mumps titers.
In the United States, there have been 65% more COVID-19 cases diagnosed in infants less than 12 months of age than in children 2 years of age. The increase in the number of cases in infants less than 12 months of age might also be related to an association between MMR II and COVID-19 because infants do not receive their first MMR II vaccination until 12 to 15 months of age. Those infants who are protected might be protected by transplacentally acquired MMR antibodies lasting up to 6 months of age (14). A study in China further supported age-related associations in children. While COVID-19-positive children aged 1 to 15 years were found to be asymptomatic 3.1% to 6.5% of the time, infants less than 1 year of age in China were asymptomatic only 1.9% of the time. Further, children in that Chinese study who were aged 1 to 15 years had critical COVID-19 illness no more than 0.7% of the time, while those less than 1 year of age had critical illness 1.9% of the time (15).
The lack of correlation between mumps titers and severity or symptom scores in the comparison group does not mean that MMR II is the only source of antibodies that may confer protection against COVID-19. It is possible that the original MMR vaccine, other combination vaccines, prior monovalent vaccines, and prior infections with measles, mumps, and/or rubella may also confer some level of protection from COVID-19. Such associations, however, may be impossible to detect through titer tests alone since older people with naturally acquired mumps, measles, or rubella antibodies usually have high titer values for the measured antibodies, which may not be the same ones relevant to protection from COVID-19. Such high titers most often are indicative of naturally acquired antibodies, not those from vaccinations (16). All titers significantly and positively correlated with age in the comparison group, indicating that older subjects were more likely to have antibodies from natural infections and not from vaccinations.
Since the presence of high mumps titers did not indicate a level of protection from COVID-19 in those who have not had the MMR II vaccine, if MMR II is given in a trial to evaluate possible protection against COVID-19, it should be given regardless of mumps titer or other MMR titer seropositivity, particularly in older adults. Given the significance of our findings related to mumps titers, it is also important to emphasize that while most MMR vaccines worldwide use the same strains of measles and rubella as MMR II from Merck, at least 10 different mumps strains have been used in recent decades by other manufacturers of MMR (17). In addition to Jeryl Lynn, the most common mumps strains currently in use in vaccines manufactured outside the United States are RIT 4385, Urabe, and l-Zagreb.
Despite many older adults having high MMR seropositivity from naturally acquired antibodies, the underlying antibodies that may protect against COVID-19 may have waned beyond protective levels. Further, there are several different wild-type mumps strains in circulation (18) and, should the Jeryl Lynn mumps strain in the MMR II vaccine be found to be protective against COVID-19, this does not mean all mumps strains would be protective. Natural infections that yielded long-lasting, high titers would often have been quite severe and broadly systemic, causing several rounds of affinity maturation. This level of affinity maturation, leading to a much narrower population of strongly recognized antigens, is different from the brief and limited replication that vaccines provide in generating adaptive immunity. Advanced test methods, such as VirScan, could possibly provide more definitive information (19).
While the associations that we have observed between MMR II and COVID-19 do not prove causation, the significant associations lend further support to the theory that the MMR II vaccine may provide long-term, cross-protective immunity against COVID-19. A possible factor in this protection is the sequence homology between both mumps and measles viruses and the fusion proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and/or the 29% amino acid sequence homology between the rubella virus and Macro (ADP-ribose-1-phosphatase) domains of SARS-CoV-2 (13). This may provide a memory target for adaptive immunity that leads to rapid, but relatively weak, proinflammatory or suppressor/regulator cytokine upregulation. This may then modulate early innate immune activity and invariant T cell activity and begin priming memory B cells for antibody production. It is likely that immunity induced by severe clinical infection with rubella would provide a long-lived memory pool of T cells that could be reactivated years after the infection. Vaccine-induced memory cells also appear to have a relatively long duration in the body, often 7 years or more, with smallpox vaccine memory documented to last at least 88 years (20).
There are other ways in which the MMR II vaccine may function against COVID-19. Live attenuated vaccines induce forms of nonspecific trained innate immunity that may act against COVID-19. The term “trained innate immunity” is based upon observations made in different infection and vaccination models describing increased resistance to reinfection independent of memory lymphocyte reactivation, resulting in the hypothesis that the innate immune system “remembers” prior infections through cellular epigenetic reprogramming (21). Studies of trained innate immunity related to Mycobacterium bovis BCG have found that a heterologous T cell immunological phenotype can last from 3 months to 1 year and that the heterologous protection against infection can last up to 5 years (22, 23). Furthermore, recent reports have proposed transgenerational effects related to innate immune memory (24, 25). Even keeping this in mind, trained innate immunity is generally considered reversible and shorter-lived than antigen-specific, adaptive immune memory (26).
T cell reactivation occurs when weak to moderate affinity binding occurs in the proper major histocompatibility complex (MHC) context and is enhanced when local activation of NK cells (or other interferon-producing cells) in the infection target tissue are triggered (27). We believe that the epiphenomenal model, involving differentially assorted MHC genes governing the response, is not as likely as the biologically driven model of low-level cross-reactivation of memory cells combined with trained innate immunity. This is due to the distribution of the individuals in the population who are resistant. On a gene distribution basis, assortment of MHC class I and II alleles in the U.S. population does not follow the population split observed here (28, 29).
An appropriate, trained innate immune response due to exposure to prior live vaccines such as MMR II improving the symptoms of COVID-19 also provides an attractive, potential explanation because the success of SARS-CoV-2 is largely attributed to its ability to evade the early, antiviral innate immune clearance mechanisms and to exaggerate innate immune responses in late stages of the infection leading to the cytokine storm, a key component of COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (30, 31). SARS-CoV2 is known to suppress interferon production, evade natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity, and overstimulate the NLRP3 inflammasome, all of which are essential antiviral innate immune mechanisms that have also been implicated in the mechanism of trained innate immunity (26). Exposure to strong bacterial or viral vaccine antigens also appears to induce metabolic reprogramming events modifying enzyme activity and histone packing to improve the response to other challenges using similar inflammatory and immune activation signaling networks (32). Accordingly, clinical trials are being conducted to determine whether MMR II can induce immune-tolerant myeloid-derived suppressor cells that inhibit sepsis, the most severe life-threatening symptom of COVID-19 infection (33).
If MMR II is proven to be effective against COVID-19 in the short or long term, preclinical and postclinical management of COVID-19 infections will certainly be impacted. The association between MMR II and COVID-19 may also warrant consideration during development and testing of monovalent COVID-19 vaccines, as a patient’s previous immune status, including prior vaccinations, may need to be considered when evaluating disease prevention (34). Suggestions for further research include randomized controlled clinical trials of MMR II, investigations of anti-mumps antibodies to assess potential effects against SARS-CoV-2, the utilization of a larger sample size, and employing more-predictive types of analysis of data to establish a causal link between various levels of immunity offered by MMR II and severity of COVID-19 symptoms.
Study design.MMR IgG titers were measured in 80 adults who had consented to join our study. All were born in the United States and were over 18 years of age. Applicants (n = 568) were screened using a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant online form in which informed consent was obtained, approved by our Investigational Review Board (Integrity IRB Protocol identifier [ID]: 40005). Subjects were chosen from applicants who responded to online advertisements that we ran seeking recovered COVID-19 patients for this study. Each applicant was required to upload documentation of their COVID-19 medical history, including COVID-19 test results and hospitalization records, as well as to complete an in-depth online survey in which they provided details related to their COVID-19 symptoms and outcomes on a HIPAA-compliant form. Follow-up was done as necessary to verify the information provided to ensure that each subject met the study criteria. Subjects in the study were selected in the order in which they had applied, if they matched criteria for either the MMR II group or the comparison group, until all 80 subjects had been selected and tested. Review of applicants stopped once 80 subjects had been selected. The selection and titer test process ran from 12 May 2020 through 26 August 2020. A small stipend to help defray costs was available to subjects. We divided the subjects into two groups.
The first group was the MMR II group, which consisted of 50 subjects (33 women and 17 men; mean age, 30.6 years [standard deviation {SD}, 7.6 years]) whose only likely source of MMR antibodies would have been the MMR II vaccine. Of these, 40 had previously had COVID-19-positive test results, with statuses ranging from asymptomatic to requiring a ventilator, and 10 subjects were functionally immune (COVID-19 negative despite strong COVID-19 exposure). Functionally immune subjects had had several days of close contact with someone who was symptomatic and who had tested positive for COVID-19, without either person social distancing or wearing masks. Despite the extensive contact, the functionally immune subjects tested negative for COVID-19 and never exhibited symptoms. Each person in the MMR II group was U.S. born and either had been born on or after 1 December 1978, meaning that that individual would have received the first MMR vaccination after the MMR II vaccine was launched, or, if born on or after 1 December 1973 but before 1 December 1978, had been specifically documented to have received one or more MMR II vaccinations.
The remaining 30 subjects (18 women and 12 men; mean age, 57.4 years [SD, 7.8 years]) made up the members of the comparison group, all of whom tested positive for COVID-19 and had been born before 1 December 1976. All subjects in the comparison group had birth dates at least several years before the MMR II vaccine was launched, and none had any record of ever having received an MMR II vaccination or booster. The age disparity between the MMR II group and the comparison group was purposeful, which is why we utilized a comparison group, not a control group. Age differentiation was the only way to accurately separate people who definitively had prior MMR II vaccinations from those who had not.
Mumps, measles, and rubella IgG titers were measured by Quest Diagnostics using Liaison analyzers with chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) technology for the qualitative determination of IgG antibodies in human serum specimens. The method for qualitative determination of each specific IgG corresponding to each virus was an indirect CLIA. The principal components of each test were magnetic particles (solid phase) coated with recombinant antigen and a conjugate of mouse monoclonal antibody to human IgG linked to an isoluminol derivative (isoluminol-antibody conjugate). Diagnostic sensitivities were as follows: measles, 94.7% (95% confidence interval [CI], 91.7% to 96.9%); mumps, 98.5% (95% CI, 96.5% to 99.5%); rubella, 100% (95% CI, 99.3% to 100%). Diagnostic specificities were as follows: measles, 97.4% (95% CI, 94.1% to 99.2%); mumps, 98.2% (95% CI, 94.8% to 99.6%); rubella, 100% (95% CI, 97.0% to 100%).
Symptom score calculations.Each subject began with a score of zero, and then points were added. One point was added for each of the following symptoms: COVID-19 positivity, dry cough, sore throat, slight shortness of breath, headache, confusion, muscle aches/pain, fever over 101° F, nausea and/or vomiting, or diarrhea. Two points were added for each of the following symptoms: severe difficulty breathing, chest pain, or sudden loss of sense of smell/taste. Five points were added for each of the following statuses: hospitalization, requirement of supplemental oxygen, or intubation on a ventilator.
Severity levels.Five severity levels were designated based upon symptom scores. “Functionally Immune” data represent subjects with a symptom score of 0. “Asymptomatic” data represent those with a symptom score of 1, i.e., those who were COVID-19 positive but had no symptoms. “Mild” data represent those with symptom scores ranging from 2 to 10. “Moderate” data represent those with symptom scores ranging from 11 to 20. “Severe” data represent those with symptom scores ranging from 21 to 30.
Statistical analysis.We compared measles, mumps, and rubella IgG titer levels from our 80 study subjects with each person’s symptom scores and severity, in both the MMR II and comparison groups. It was determined that a sample size of 29 per group would provide the trial with 80% power, using a two-sided test, alpha value set to 0.05, and a correlation value of 0.50. We exceeded the required sample size in both our MMR II group (n = 50) and the comparison group (n = 30). All statistical analyses, including the sample size calculation, were performed with the use of SAS software, version 9.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC). A P value of less than 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance, with adjustments made for three comparisons when measles, mumps, or rubella titer values were analyzed. All data found to be normally distributed were analyzed using a Pearson correlation coefficient, with the resulting r values included here. The only data that were found to not be normally distributed were the severity data, and as such, all comparisons that included severity data were done with a Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, with the resulting rs values included here. All statistical analyses were completed by Tom Vidmar (BioSTAT Consultants, Inc., Portage, MI).
Data availability.Deidentified individual subject data for both the MMR II group and the comparison group are available at Dryad (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jsxksn077).
We thank all subjects who participated in this study and gratefully acknowledge John W. Cornwell for helpful discussions related to study design.
We declare that we have no conflicts of interests.
This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Received 11 September 2020
Accepted 28 October 2020
Copyright © 2020 Gold et al.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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Prosecutors allege Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, was conducting weapons training on the compound, where 11 children were found hungry and living in squalor. They asked Wahhaj be held without bail.
Authorities raided the compound on Friday after a monthslong search investigating the disappearance of Abdul-ghani Wahhaj, a boy with severe medical issues who went missing from Georgia in December.
On Monday, a child’s remains were found on the property, but authorities were working on a positive identification and did not confirm if the remains were that of the missing boy.
From the left, Subhannah Wahhaj, Jany Leveille and Hujrah Wahhaj were arrested on Friday. They are the mothers of the 11 malnourished children. (Taos County Sheriff’s Office) (Taos County Sheriff’s Office)
Lucas Morton, Jany Leveille, 35, Hujrah Wahhaj, 38, and Subhannah Wahhaj, 35, were also arrested on the property on Friday and all face child abuse charges.
The makeshift compound — located near the Colorado border — was found shielded by old tires, wooden pallets and other debris. Upon authorities’ arrival, Wahhaj was “heavily armed with an AR15 rifle, five loaded 30 round magazines, and four loaded pistols, including one in his pocket when he was taken down,” Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said.
The makeshift compound — located near the Colorado border — was found shielded by old tires, wooden pallets and other debris. (AP Photo)
The sheriff said the children, ages 1 to 15, “looked like third world country refugees not only with no food or fresh water, but with no shoes, personal hygiene and basically dirty rags for clothing.”
The only food investigators found was some potatoes and a box of rice inside a dirty trailer, the sheriff said, adding the living conditions were “the ugliest looking, filthiest” he’s ever seen.
Hogrefe previously said the occupants of the compound were “most likely heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief.”
In a warrant made public on Monday, Wahhaj told the missing boy’s mother that he wanted to perform an “exorcism” on his then-3year-old son because he was “possessed by the devil.” The missing child reportedly suffered from seizures and couldn’t walk.
Wahhaj’s family background was already controversial prior to his arrest. Wahhaj is the son of a Brooklyn imam, also named Siraj Wahhaj, who was named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the New York Post reported.
The elder Wahhaj, who heads Masjid At-Taqwa mosque, was a character witness in the trial for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the notorious “blind sheikh” who was convicted in 1995 of plotting terror attacks in the U.S.
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December 14, 2018 December 14, 2018 - by Lynds
‘Let’s Boogie! Live From Telia Parken’ released today
On August 26, 2017, Volbeat became the first Danish band to headline and sell out their hometown venue, Denmark’s Telia Parken, setting the record for the biggest show by a domestic artist in Denmark ever with over 48,250 people in attendance.
Today, the band have released their live album and concert film from that special night, titled Let’s Boogie! Live From Telia Parken,and also unveiled the live video of ‘For Evigt‘ from it. Watch the video here
The album and concert film is available on Blu-ray/2CD, DVD/2CD, 2CD, 3LP vinyl, and digitally here
Featuring 26 tracks, Let’s Boogie! Live From Telia Parken includes live versions of Vobeat’s chart-topping hits “Still Counting,” “For Evigt,” “The Devil’s Bleeding Crown,” and “A Warrior’s Call” as well as a live performance of new song, “The Everlasting”.
Special guests on the album (in order of appearance) include Mille Petrozza (Kreator), Johan Olsen (Magtens Korridorer), Mark “Barney” Greenway (Napalm Death), Lars Ulrich (Metallica), boxer Mikkel Kessler, and Danko Jones.
1. The Devil’s Bleeding Crown
2. Heaven Nor Hell
3. Radio Girl
4. Lola Montez
5. Let It Burn (feat. Mia Maja)
6. Doc Holiday
7. Sad Man’s Tongue
8. 16 Dollars
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11. Slaytan
12. Dead But Rising
13. Goodbye Forever
14. Maybellene I Hofteholder
15. The Everlasting
16. For Evigt (feat. Johan Olsen, Mia Maja and Rod Sinclair)
17. Evelyn (feat. Mark “Barney” Greenway)
18. Lonesome Rider
19. Seal The Deal
20. The Garden’s Tale (feat. Johan Olsen)
21. Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood (feat. Lars Ulrich)
22. Enter Sandman (feat. Lars Ulrich)
23. A Warrior’s Call (feat. Mikkel Kessler)
24. Black Rose (feat. Danko Jones)
25. Pool Of Booze, Booze, Booza
26. Still Counting
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A Perfect Rivalry: Top-10 In-State ACC Battle
No. 7 Miami (7-0, 3-0 ACC) takes its nine-game winning streak to Tallahassee to face No. 3 Florida State (7-0, 5-0 ACC) for yet another Top 10 showdown in the epic rivalry. Saturday’s game will kick at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and will be the feature site for College GameDay Built by the Home Depot.
Miami leads the all-time series 31-26, but Florida State has won each of the last three meetings. The Hurricanes are 14-8 all-time in Tallahassee.
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7/6/7 MIAMI HURRICANES (7-0, 3-0 ACC) at 3/3/3 FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES (7-0, 5-0 ACC)
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 • 8 p.m. ET • ABC • Tallahassee, Fla. • Doak Campbell Stadium (82,300)
Miami leads 31-26, but Florida State has won last 3 meetings … Miami 14-8 in Tallahassee … Seventh time Miami/Florida State is featured College GameDay site.
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Miami is one of eight unbeaten teams left in major college football.
Miami’s nine-game winning streak is the program’s longest since a 10-game streak between Nov. 15, 2003 and Oct. 23, 2004.
Duke Johnson is the only player in Miami history with at least 3 kickoff returns of 95+ yards in his career.
A PERFECT RIVALRY (Stat courtesy of Tim Reynolds, Associated Press)
Excluding season-openers, Saturday will mark the ninth time that Florida State and Miami will meet with unbeaten, untied records. Both teams are 7-0 this season. They’ve only met as unbeatens this deep into a season once before – 1991, when they were a combined 18-0 to start the season before Miami won a classic in Tallahassee on the way to a national championship.
Saturday is the first meeting of undefeated teams in the series since 2003 – also the last Top 10 regular-season matchup between the schools.
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1979 FSU 2-0, Miami 1-0 FSU, 40-23 Tallahassee
1980 FSU 3-0, Miami 3-0 Miami, 10-9 Miami
1987 FSU 4-0, Miami 2-0 Miami, 26-25 Tallahassee
1991 FSU 10-0, Miami 8-0 Miami, 17-16 Tallahassee
1992 FSU 4-0, Miami 3-0 Miami, 19-16 Miami
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College GameDay Built by the Home Depot, whichwill originate from the Florida State campus from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., is hosted by Chris Fowler and features analysts Lee Corso, Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and contributors David Pollack and Samantha Ponder.
It will mark the Miami Hurricanes’ 18th appearance as either visiting or home team at the College GameDay site and Miami’s first appearance since Sept. 6, 2008. Miami is 12-5 all-time on College GameDay.
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Oct. 7, 1995 No. 1 Florida State 41, Miami 17 Tallahassee, Fla.
Dec. 5, 1998 Miami 49, No. 3 UCLA 45 Miami, Fla.
Nov. 13, 1999 No. 2 Virginia Tech 43, No. 19 Miami 10 Blacksburg, Va.
Oct. 7, 2000 No. 7 Miami 27, No. 1 Florida State 24 Miami, Fla.
Nov. 4, 2000 No. 3 Miami 41, No. 2 Virginia Tech 21 Miami, Fla.
Oct. 13, 2001 No. 2 Miami 49, No. 14 Florida State 27 Tallahassee, Fla.
Nov. 17, 2001 No. 1 Miami 59, No. 14 Syracuse 0 Miami, Fla.
Jan. 3, 2002 No. 1 Miami 37, No. 4 Nebraska 14 [Rose Bowl] Pasadena, Calif.
Sept. 7, 2002 No. 1 Miami 41, No. 6 Florida 16 Gainesville, Fla.
Nov. 9, 2002 No. 2 Miami 26, Tennessee 3 Knoxville, Tenn.
Jan. 3, 2003 No. 2 Ohio State 31, No. 1 Miami 24 – 2 OT [Fiesta Bowl] Tempe, Ariz..
Oct. 11, 2003 No. 2 Miami 22, No. 5 Florida State 14 Tallahassee, Fla.
Oct. 23, 2004 No. 4 Miami 45, NC State 31 Raleigh, N.C.
Nov. 5, 2005 No. 5 Miami 27, No. 3 Virginia Tech 7 Blacksburg, Va.
Sept. 4, 2006 No. 11 Florida State 13, No. 12 Miami 10 Miami, Fla.
Sept. 6, 2008 No. 5 Florida 26, Miami 3 Gainesville, Fla.
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Faramir’s test of quality.
The story of the One Ring ensnaring the wills of even the mightiest and strongest warriors and filling them with lust for power is well-known. Few who encountered it could resist the treacherous nets of the Ring of Power created by Sauron. Still over the course of the narrative we see those characters who manage to escape its allure even finding themselves within the nearest proximity of the Ring. Faramir is one of such characters.
When we first meet Faramir in Ithilien he gives the impression of the person strong and noble, just and wise. He does not let Frodo and Sam walk away on their errand without learning who they are and what they are doing on the borders of the Enemy’s realm, but he also makes sure that their «captivity» is as comfortable as possible. Not being rash, Faramir does not take decisions in the heat of a moment or acts on impulse alone.
One of the key elements of the Hobbits’ meeting with Faramir and his company is the matter of the Ring. Frodo is scared and distrustful to speak of it openly, thus he hides a great deal back. Faramir guesses as much but does not press on. But as it often happens after a few drinks, the secret matter – the one of the Ring in this case – is let slip in the most unexpected manner and it is done by Sam.
«So it seems,» said Faramir, slowly and very softly, with a strange smile. «So that is the answer to all the riddles! The One Ring that was thought to have perished from the world. And Boromir tried to take it by force? And you escaped? And ran all the way – to me! And here in the wild I have you: two halflings, and a host of men at my call, and the Ring of Rings. A pretty stroke of fortune! A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality! Ha!» He stood up, very tall and stern, his grey eyes glinting.
(Two Towers, p. 358)
This episode can be regarded in two ways. Faramir’s words lead some readers to thinking the Captain of Gondor indeed wanted the Ring for himself and his saying that it was a chance for him to «show his quality» stands exactly for his wish to take the Ring to prove himself useful for his realm in the times of dire need. While his behaviour and words can indeed seem to be betraying his desire to possess the Ring, even though for a fleeting moment, there is also a more subtle way to interpret what he says.
When Frodo and Sam are being taken to Henneth Annûn and talking to Faramir, the Captain shows that he guesses that the Hobbits are in possession of some mighty heirloom. He says, though:
I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.
In the days of war when every stranger is doubted these words might mean naught. But when Sam lets slip the matter of the Ring, it is a chance for Faramir to show that he is true indeed. As it is one thing to say that one would never use such a powerful object and it is absolutely another to really reject it when it is within your grasp and its power is well-known. Faramir is well aware of the devices of the Enemy and is well-read in the ancient lore. So, remembering the tale of Isildur’s fate he knows that such heirlooms are not for others, especially mortals, to use as he understands the consequences such things can bring. Moreover, Faramir, who trusts in Men’s valour, is not the one to rely on magic and tricks to gain the triumph which will then be overshadowed by the cruel means it was achieved by.
Thus Faramir’s words that by coming so close to the Ring he got a chance to «show his quality» imply that it is a chance for him to show that he is a worthy man, a man of his word and the enemy of the Dark Lord who would not use even the mightiest artifact on Earth to save his beloved realm and fight the greatest evil. He says as much after scaring the Hobbits with his reaction to the news of the Ring:
We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. Not if I found it on the highway would I take it I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.
But I am not such a man. Or I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.
(Two Towers, pp. 358-359)
Tom Shippey also attributes Faramir’s rejecting the Ring to the Captain’s wisdom. He guesses that the Ring is addictive and he is wise and strong-willed enough to stay away from the temptation which can lead to addiction beyond any means of curing it (1). So it is no wonder Faramir is among those who pass the test of the Ring successfully.
(1)Tom Shippey – The Road to Middle-earth.
Works consulted:
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; HarperCollinsPublishers; London; 2001.
Tom Shippey – The Road to Middle-earth; HarperCollinsPublishers; London; Epub Edition; 2012.
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17 thoughts on “Faramir’s test of quality.”
Aldael says:
Faramir’s portrayal in the films as someone who would take the hobbits to Denethor and then change his mind at the last moment didn’t do justice to the character. Yes, it added some suspense but i think it was not worth it.
I totally agree. The film didn’t do him any justice at all. He’s not really different from Boromir in the film, but in the book the differences between the brothers are very clear. Among so many bad decisions by P.J. this one is among my least favourite. He turned the whole character upside down.
Exactly. And it’s especially bitter since Faramir is one of my favorite characters. At least the extended edition had his scene with Eowyn so at least for that I’m grateful.
joviator says:
So we’re all agreed – this scene makes us think of movies. Faramir, too!
To whom is he talking, when he says “a chance … to show his quality”? I think it’s an imaginary audience in the theater. He could be apostrophizing (if that’s a word) to Tolkien’s readers, but then why would he stand up? Faramir has spent his whole life consciously trying to be a romantic hero. He stands up because he knows at that moment the camera is going to zoom in for a dramatically-lit close-up. Had the movie been made in the 1950’s, he would have been right.
The last sentence from the last quotation is my favorite part. Faramir knows himself too well to take the hero-of-song act too far. In wartime, having a captain who wants to be a hero is usually a disaster for the men who follow him. Tolkien has him drop the façade for just an instant, to let us know that we’re dealing with a true leader, not the kind of officer who got thousands of men killed in the trenches in World War 1.
That’s a wonderful point! There’s something theatrical about the book scene and it just exaggerates the point that this standing up and looking all threatening was to show that it wasn’t Faramir’s real self.
stephencwinter says:
Thank you so much for this. My own conviction is that Faramir has spent a lifetime, not so much learning to be a romantic hero as the Joviator puts it but in becoming a true Númenorian, one of the Elendili, the Elf Friends. It is his father who accuses him of posturing, always checking out where the cameras are, playing the role of one of the kings of all. The evidence to the contrary is that Faramir acknowledges Aragorn as king on their first meeting. That too is the fruit of a lifetime’s practice. When I wrote my reflection on those words of Faramir that you quote, “A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality” I likened this practice to the one developed in the 16th century by Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, which is a form of meditation that is a kind of good day dreaming. Both Faramir and Boromir are day dreamers. The difference is that Boromir dreams of deeds of valour in which he is the hero; while Faramir dreams of the restoration of the kingdom of the Elf Friends, of Gondor as “a Queen among other Queens”, feared for only for her wisdom.
Faramir’s position in his family is so difficult. Having on the one hand to try and not fall out with his father, but on the other – to stay true to himself. Must be really tough for him. But what I really like about Faramir is that he somehow manages to stay incredibly noble, wise and good-hearted, even in such circumstances. I admire him for that.
Our relationships to our parents are perhaps the toughest we have to work out. Faramir will be doing that long after his father’s death but I think he will make it. He is a man of deep compassion.
tphillman says:
There are a few things about this moment in the books (of the film character more aptly named ‘Farlessamir’ I have nothing to say) that are quite interesting.
1) How does Faramir say ‘so that is the answer to all the riddles!’ What word receives the emphasis? I have come to think we should hear this sentence as ‘so that IS the answer to all the riddles!’ As if he had guessed as much, but dismissed the idea as improbable. Now he is astonished and humbled to discover that he was right. After all the Ring had vanished 3,000 years earlier — or to put it in our time frame, as long ago as the fall of Troy. I think with this emphasis, the humor and irony Faramir sees in the situation fits perfectly.
2) It is interesting to note the way his behavior when he stands up and seems to menace them echoes the scene at Bree, where Strider also pretends to menace the hobbits, saying that if he wanted to take the Ring he could easily do so. (Why the Dunedain seem to find terrifying hobbits so much fun is a question for another day.)
3) The glint in Faramir’s eye now and the glint in Boromir’s when he first sees the Ring at Rivendell, and when his remarks reveal that he had very little clue as to the meaning of the riddle, unlike Faramir.
Now this gives me ideas. But it’s time for me to go to work, and I have another article to write first.
Thank you for your thoughts on this scene, Olga
tomehuntress says:
The blood of Numenor still runs strong in Faramir. He is both wise and noble. Also is a good and favored student of Mithrandir. It ticked me off that his father could not see his true quality.
I guess Denethor just didn’t need those qualities. He needed someone like Boromir and was too blind to see Faramir’s worth.
Yes. And Denethor’s used of the palantir didn’t helped. It made it easier for the enemy to twist the truth and manipulate him.
Olga, thank you as always for your thoughts on Tolkien. A few things came to my mind as I read your post. The first is one I’ve pondered for a long time. It’s about how Faramir says ‘So that is the answer to all the riddles.’ Where the stress falls changes everything. As I see it, given his smile and his irony in the next few sentences, Faramir says ‘So that IS the answer to all the riddles.’ As if he had guessed it, but dismissed it as too improbable, since of course the Ring was lost 3,000 years ago, as long ago as the fall of Troy is for us.Now, finding out that he had been right all along, he is as amazed as he is amused.
The second is ‘He stood up, very tall and stern, his grey eyes glinting.’ The glint in his eye now as he realizes the Ring is before him may be compared to the glint in Boromir’s when he sees the Ring at the Council of Elrond and he, too, is thinking of the ‘riddle’ of his and Faramir’s dream: ‘Boromir’s eyes glinted as he gazed at the golden thing.’
The third links Faramir to Strider, all the way back in Bree. Just as Faramir at this moment stands up suddenly and momentarily seems to be a threat to the hobbits and the Ring, so, too, on that first night at the Prancing Pony, Strider seemed to threaten the hobbits: ‘If I had killed the real Strider, I could kill you. And I should have killed you already without so much talk. If I was after the Ring, I could have it — now!’
Why the Dunedain think it’s a lark to terrorize hobbits is another question entirely. But perhaps it’s also a key. Faramir and Aragorn find humor in their situations. Faramir’s quality is at issue here, but so was Strider’s there, as the hobbits tried to assess this rascally looking stranger who seemed to know far too much for their own good. Boromir, however, finds only perplexity.
Ooh, now you’ve got me thinking.
Thanks a lot for reading, Tom!
There are some amazing points you mention here. There does seem to be some connection between all of these reactions and the situations look particularly similar. There’s indeed a lot to think about.
Allan Jett says:
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
I always thought this to be one of the most powerful lines in the story. Tolkien can say so much with an economy of words. He captured the essence of the man in two brief sentences.
Olga Polomoshnova says:
I absolutely agree with you here. This quote is a very accurate reflection of his character.
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The playlist was created on September 16 and annotated on the 17th. I also had to revise the end of the first segment. There wasn’t enough time for “Beyond the Seventh Galaxy” by Return to Forever, so I replaced it with “Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal.” Time constraints also led me to omit various annotations, particularly most of the personnel on Bernie Williams‘ “Go For It.” I may be a Mets fan, but as I said on the air, Bernie should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. “Maybe someday.”
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Oh. I didn't carry it long enough each day to make a difference. But yeah, it's a big boy.
— Mike Chimeri (@MikeChimeri) December 2, 2019
I was late in boarding the NES bandwagon, not getting a console until February 1990, over four years after its initial release in the New York Metropolitan Area. The Super NES, released on August 23, 1991, is a different story. Besides commercials, my first exposure to the console came at my friend Jessie’s house. I regularly played Super Mario World and F-Zero on her projection TV as 1991 gave way to ’92. After saving up part of the cost, my parents got a console for me and my sister Lauren in late January. In the months that followed, I spent many hours playing games, especially the aforementioned Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart (an 11th birthday present), and Mario Paint. I discovered all of Super Mario World’s exits and repeatedly watched the end credits. I would get emotional at the scene with the Yoshi eggs hatching. I successfully beat all cups in Super Mario Kart in all cc modes, and I loved the Rainbow Road theme. And as a weather buff, I had fun making radar loops with Mario Paint’s animation feature.
In nearly 28 years, I’ve amassed a collection of 46 Super Nintendo games. Reading this guide inspired me to add to that collection, at least somewhat.
Guide to the SNES Library chronicles all games released in North America and PAL territories in alphanumerical order, from 3 Ninjas Kick Back and The 7th Saga to Zool and Zoop. (Yes, those are their names.)
Pat Contri was not alone in reviewing the games. Returning from Guide to the NES Library are Asheton “Ashi” Phinney (I loved his alliteration, puns, and rhymes), Jim Evans, and Karen Niemla. The new recruits are Daniel Anderson, Daniel Greenberg, Dagan Moriarty, Kyh Yang, Alli Flanagan (who, like Pat, appeared in The Video Game Years), Pete Skerritt, and Mike Vito. (12/14 UPDATE: Dagan, Kyh, and Pete also wrote reviews for the third edition of the NES guide.) Visual effects artist Yoshi Vu provided cart and hardware images, and additional cover art. The foreword was written by Jirard Khalil, a.k.a. The Completionist.
As with Guide to the NES Library, most pages in Guide to the SNES Library are devoted to two games. An image from one of the games is blurred in the background with two images from each game appearing above and below the review. The top of the page shows the games’ cartridge designs and lists their genre, release date, developer, publisher, number of players, special features, availability during the SNES’s life (from “very common” to “extremely rare”), and star rating. There are 10 ratings that range from half a star (one small star, “poor”) to 2 1/2 stars (two big stars and one small star, “average”) to 5 stars (five big stars, “classic”). Reviews can take up anywhere from a fifth of the page to a third of it, followed by the reviewers’ “reflections.” Reviewers are identified by their initials (i.e. PC, PS, AP, DG).
Eleven landmark titles with five-star ratings got full page reviews, including EarthBound, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario World and its sequel, and Super Metroid. Those reviews take up more space on the page than regular half-page reviews. I only own four of the games out of those eleven, and only two that I listed here. Some five-star games only got half a page, such as Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest, Super Street Fighter II, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time. I have two of those, along with one that I didn’t mention. You’ll have to buy the book to find out which other five-star games were only on half a page and which got the full page treatment.
The tone of game reviews ranged from clinical to critical, but not in your face or obnoxious. I’m just glad the SNES versions of Tetris 2 and Yoshi’s Cookie weren’t treated as harshly. As I mentioned earlier, I currently have 46 SNES games, and I plan on buying some of the easier-to-obtain games in the book with ratings of 4, 4 1/2, or 5 stars to add to the collection. If they cost over $100, forget it. No Pocky & Rocky for me.
There were plenty of sports games released for the Super Nintendo that I read about. At the moment, I only have four: NBA Hangtime (which I also have on the Genesis and Nintendo 64), NBA Jam: Tournament Edition, True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links and Super Bases Loaded. While reading about Midway games like NBA Jam, I learned who that the voice of most of those games was Tim Kitzrow. Besides NBA Jam, Tim also voiced the NFL Blitz series, which I enjoyed on the N64. He included video of an appearance on FOX Sports West on his website:
NBA Hangtime, Midway’s successor to NBA Jam, was voiced by longtime Bulls TV play-by-play announcer Neil Funk, who is retiring at the end of this season. Other TV announcers and analysts to lend their voices to sports games on the Super Nintendo are Al Michaels, Jack Buck, Pat Summerall, and of course, John Madden, to name a few.
After 400 pages of North American and PAL releases, there are chapters on special and promo cartridges, test cartridges, select games from the Japanese Super Famicom library, a look at some unreleased games (by Evan Gowan of SNES Central), and the SNES console and its accessories.
Guide to the SNES Library concludes with supplemental articles. Three of the articles were based on the authors’ YouTube videos. James Rolfe‘s “The Console Wars: SNES vs. Sega Genesis” was taken from a two-part video in 2012, which was combined into one part on the Cinemassacre Plays subchannel:
James and Pat Contri’s friendship dates back to their early days on YouTube. They’ve occasionally collaborated on videos. In fact, their latest went up on Saturday night:
Kelsey Lewin‘s supplemental article was on the Life Fitness LifeCycle Exertainment Bike, based on her video from last year:
In addition to her YouTube channel, Kelsey is the co-owner with her husband Cody of Pink Gorilla Games and co-director with Frank Cifaldi of The Video Game History Foundation. For you sports fans, Kelsey’s father is play-by-play announcer Josh Lewin. You may know him from his stints with the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers on TV, and the New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Chargers, and UCLA Bruins football and men’s basketball on radio. Those and other credits can be found here.
And speaking of sports, the third article based on a video was Norman Caruso‘s Gaming Historian 2016 episode on Nintendo‘s ownership of the Seattle Mariners, which he posted as Nintendo was selling most of their shares. The episode had periodic quote readings by YouTubers, and Pat read a quote – in a sinister tone – from Fay Vincent, commissioner of Major League Baseball at the time of Nintendo’s purchase. Unfortunately, MLB forced the removal of the video, so I can’t embed it here.
As for the rest of the supplemental articles, Chris Kohler’s entry on the SNES CD-ROM originally appeared on Kotaku last September. Roger Barr, Andre Meadows, and Karen Niemla supplied original articles. It’s worth reading each article, especially the ones based on videos so you can see differences in text.
It took 19 days to read 445 pages of Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the SNES Library. Once again, I kept a journal of how many pages I read per day. Dividing 445 by 19, I averaged about 24 pages a day. I mostly imagined my own voice in my head as I read the reviews, but I occasionally thought of certain public figures narrating them. I had Pat’s voice in mind when I read his reviews.
Guide to the SNES Library was another great read! Thanks to Pat Contri and his fellow reviewers Ashi Phinney, Daniel Anderson, Daniel Greenberg, Kyh Yang, Karen Niemla, Alli Flanagan, Jim Evans, Dagan Moriarty, Pete Skerritt, and Mike Vito.
For those that grew up with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, are collecting for it, or just want to learn about it, this book is a must. There are eight versions available for purchase ranging from $59.99 to $99.99, or $29.99 for just the digital download. I have the $79.99 special edition, but I recommend the physical/digital combo at $99.99. I should have bought that in the first place, but I didn’t mind paying an extra $10 yesterday for the digital download and paying the same price to download the NES guide. Having the books physically and digitally is the ultimate experience.
There will eventually be an Ultimate SNES Game Guide Collecting app for iOS and Android. I will update this post when it’s available.
12/12/20 UPDATE: A year has passed and there’s no app. Forget what I said.
My experience at Day 1 of 2018 New York Comic Con October 5, 2018
Posted by Mike C. in Animation, Art, Audiobooks, Baseball, Comedy, Internet, Interviews, Media, Personal, Photography, Sports, Technology, Travel, TV, Video, Video Games, Weather.
Other New York Comic Con recaps: 2012 Day 2, 2014 Day 1, 2017 Day 1, 2019 Day 1
Yesterday marked my fourth time at New York Comic Con, held annually at the Javits Center in Midtown West. It was also my second consecutive year at NYCC.
I’d been looking forward to going ever since I bought my badge in June. Grey DeLisle (a.k.a. Grey Griffin), Phil LaMarr, and Richard Horvitz were among the voice actors that would be signing autographs, recording video or audio messages, and taking pictures with fans like me. Like last year, this was my sole reason for attending. None of the panels interested me.
I woke up at 5:30 in the morning. I spent the next three hours watching the American League Wild Card Game on DVR (the Yankees won handily), a couple of episodes of season six of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on Amazon Prime, working out, and of course, getting ready to leave for the day.
My mother drive me to the Wantagh LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) station at 8:30 for an 8:47 westbound train. When I went there last Saturday on the way to see Chieli Minucci & Special EFX at The Cutting Room, the elevated track platform was partially closed off while the west half of it was being renovated. Little did I realize that renovation would complete two days later. Finally, after two years, when boarding a Babylon-bound LIRR train at Penn Station, you no longer have to ask if you’re in one of the six cars that lets out at Wantagh. When the east half was being renovated, only the last six cars could exit. When the west half was under renovation, you had to be in one of the first six cars.
I didn’t feel like taking out my DSLR until I got to the Javits Center, so I used my iPhone to take pictures on the platform:
It felt good to sit in the first car again.
The train ride to Penn Station took nearly an hour. Upon exiting, I walked up West 33rd Street to 10th Avenue, then north to West 35th to enter the Javits Center’s south side:
I endured a quick bag search (including emptying my pants pockets and holding up the contents) and tapped my badge in. Unfortunately, I was scolded for not moving beyond the area where the badge was tapped when I replenished my pants pockets. I felt like a fool, but felt better when I got inside and relayed my situation to an empathetic staff member when she asked if I needed help finding something.
Off to the autographing area:
I was third in line to meet Grey DeLisle at Table 1 after waiting about 45 minutes before her scheduled arrival.
As she and Richard Horvitz arrived, they spoke to each other in their respective voices on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Richard was Billy and Grey was Mandy.
Grey was very nice. In my brief time with her, I told her I’d been a fan of hers since Clifford the Big Red Dog and three Butch Hartman cartoons – The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, and T.U.F.F. Puppy. She did the voices of Emily Elizabeth (Clifford) and Vicky (FOP) for me, which led me to respond as Mark Chang, voiced by Rob Paulsen, whom I met last year. Then, we posed:
After we said our goodbyes as Vicky and Mark, I headed to Table 6 for Phil LaMarr:
I let him know how the chronological order in which I’d seen his work: Futurama, Family Guy, MADtv reruns on Comedy Central, and Butch Hartman’s Bunsen Is a Beast. He was complimentary of Bunsen, and I lamented that it was a shame the show was canceled after only one season.
I concluded at Table 3 with Richard Horvitz:
We didn’t have time to chat, but I’m still glad to have met him. Shortly before our picture, I saw him record a video message for a fan as Zim from Invader Zim. As with his conversation with Grey as Billy and Mandy, it put a smile on my face and made me laugh. I applauded when he was finished.
After that, I headed back to civilization, so to speak…
…and walked the show floor:
I happened to pass by the SYFY Wire stage…
…as Cher Martinetti spoke to the creator/showrunner and cast of the new Netflix series, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
The creator/showrunner is Noelle Stevenson, who was accompanied by Aimee Carrero (Princess Adora/She-Ra), Karen Fukuhara (Glimmer), and Marcus Scribner (Bow).
You can watch the interview here:
I commented on the video:
I walked by the stage during this interview. I was curious about this series after seeing The Power of Grayskull documentary, but now I’m all in. I’ll definitely be watching.
11/20 UPDATE: I have unfortunately fallen off the bandwagon. While I wish nothing but the best for the series, it plays out like a soap opera, and I’m more into episodes with self-contained plots. I don’t know how I would have managed watching the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons when they were new with story arcs lasting several weeks. The “Jet Fuel Formula” arc took 20 weeks, “Upsidasium” lasted 18 weeks, and “Missouri Mish-Mash” played out over 13 weeks. Now, back to the recap…
I pre-ordered Mega Man 11 for PlayStation 4, but have yet to play it.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is on my Xbox One wish list:
Having seen all I wanted to see on the show floor, I headed down to the main entrance:
Then, I left:
It’s a good thing I didn’t wear a jacket because it was warmer than it had been in the morning.
Within 20 minutes, I was back at Penn Station, where I boarded a Babylon-bound train. An hour later, I was back in Wantagh.
I walked about a mile and half home, listening to Marion Ross’s memoir on Audible along the way.
Once I had unpacked my things at home, I took a picture of my badge (blurring out the codes):
It was a nice few hours at New York Comic Con. Thank you to Grey DeLisle, Phil LaMarr, and Richard Horvitz. It was a pleasure meeting you all.
Dave Koz 20th Anniversary Christmas Tour at Tilles Center December 4, 2017
Posted by Mike C. in Baseball, Comedy, Education, Football, Internet, Jazz, Music, Personal, Photography, Radio, Sports, Travel, TV.
Saturday night, my friend Lori Downing and I saw the Dave Koz 20th Anniversary Christmas Tour at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of my college alma mater, LIU Post. Saxophonist Dave Koz’s friends are guitarist Peter White, horn player Rick Braun, pianist David Benoit, and singer Selina Albright, daughter of saxophonist Gerald Albright. (She plays the sax, too.) The rest of the band was made up of music director Randy Jacobs on guitar, Brian Simpson on keyboards, Nathaniel Kearney Jr. on bass, and Jay Williams on drums.
There are 149 pictures waiting below, but first, the backstory.
This was my first time at Tilles for something not involving WCWP since July 2009 when I saw John Tesh perform. It was also my first concert since Smooth Jazz for Scholars in May. Rick Braun was there for the first night.
I have been meaning to see Dave in concert for almost 11 years. My dad bought tickets to Dave’s Valentine’s Day show at Best Buy Theater in Manhattan in 2007, but an ice storm kept us from going. Four Februarys later, I had another opportunity to see Dave at the same theater with my friend, and loyal Dave Koz fan, Kelly Dacey. Unfortunately, plans came up for her and I missed out again.
For four years in a row, I saw Peter White Christmas – a spin-off of Dave’s Christmas tour featuring Peter and Rick Braun, along with saxophonist Mindi Abair – at the defunct IMAC (Inter-Media Art Center) in Huntington. (Here’s my recap of my fourth year.)
This year, to use a cliche, Dave got the band back together to mark the 20th anniversary of his tour. The inaugural tour coincided with his first Christmas album, December Makes Me Feel This Way. With Peter, Rick, and David Benoit, whom I hadn’t seen perform since five days before Hurricane Sandy, on board, I felt compelled to finally see Dave in concert. When I noticed in early September that the tour was coming to the Tilles Center on December 2, I immediately bought two tickets, inviting my friend Lori Downing to come with me. I picked those tickets up at Tilles’s Will Call booth on October 13, following my WCWP Homecoming Weekend show.
I was anxious in the days leading up to Dave’s show, worried that something would go wrong. Thankfully, nothing did.
Until Lori picked me up around 6:30 PM, it was a typical Saturday for me. I exercised, ran on the treadmill, went grocery shopping with my friend Rob Leeds, and watched NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) conference championship games.
I guided Lori from my house to LIU Post, going the route I’ve known for 18 years of my life: the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway (NY 135) north, the Long Island Expressway (I-495) west, NY 106/107 north, breaking off into 107 north, Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) west, and the west entrance to LIU Post. I usually went in the east entrance to be let off at Post Hall (where the Academic Resource Center was) or WCWP, but I directed her to the other one since we were going to Tilles.
We arrived just after 7PM, but had to wait half an hour for the concert hall doors to open.
Our tickets were for row JJ, which I affectionately called the Uecker seats, a reference to an infamous Miller Lite commercial from 1984, starring Hall of Fame baseball player and broadcaster Bob Uecker, a spokesman for Miller beer at the time:
Our seats weren’t that high. The view of the stage was great (and less filling). It still helped to have my 55-300 mm lens for the pictures I was about to take.
The show began at 8:08 when David Benoit, offstage, announced: “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host for the evening, Dave Koz!”
“New York, make some noise!”
Before you see the rest of the pictures, I present the set list:
1. Opening Medley: Winter Wonderland/Happy Holiday/The Most Wonderful Time of the Year/Angels We Have Heard On High/Sleigh Ride
Dave Koz – lead vocals on “Happy Holiday”
Dave’s saxophone: tenor
2. Let It Snow
3. Little Drummer Boy
Can be heard on: December Makes Me Feel This Way (1997), A Smooth Jazz Christmas (2001)
Dave’s saxophone: soprano
4. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Selina Albright – lead vocals
Rick Braun, trombone
6. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Peter White, Rick Braun – background vocals
Peter White – spoken verse
Randy Jacobs – electric guitar solo
Can be heard on: December Makes Me Feel This Way (1997)
Dave Koz only
Dave’s saxophone: alto
8. Together Again (Dave Koz)
Originally heard on: The Dance (1999)
Dave Koz/David Benoit
9. Possible (Selina Albright)
Originally heard on: Conversations (2017)
Selina Albright only
10. Everything is Alright (Rick Braun)
Originally heard on: Around the Horn (2017)
Rick Braun/Dave Koz/Peter White
Rick Braun – lead vocals
Randy Jacobs, Nathaniel Kearney Jr., Peter White, Dave Koz – background vocals
Brian Simpson – piano, dance solo
Jay Williams – drum solo
Rick prompted the audience to sing the “hey, hey, pretty mama” line.
11. Do I Do/Promenade (Peter White)
Originally heard on: Groovin’ (2016)/Promenade (1993)
Peter White/Dave Koz/Rick Braun
12. The Music of Charlie Brown: Christmas is Coming*/Skating**/Christmas Time is Here***/Linus and Lucy**** (David Benoit)
David performs these songs on:
* – Remembering Christmas (1996), 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas (2005), Believe (2015) (part of “Guaraldi Medley”)
** – Remembering Christmas (1996)
*** – Christmastime (1983); Remembering Christmas (1996), Here’s to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years! (2000)
**** – This Side Up (1985); Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1989); Here’s to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years! (2000)
Dave’s saxophone: soprano on “Christmas Time is Here,” tenor on “Linus and Lucy”
Selina Albright – vocals on “Christmas Time is Here,” vocalese on “Linus and Lucy”
13. Hark! The Herald Angels We Have Heard On High (Medley) (Dave Koz & Friends)
Originally heard on: 20th Anniversary Christmas (2017)
Can be heard on: 20th Anniversary Christmas (2017)
Selina Albright, end verse vocals
15. Feliz Navidad
Dave Koz, Rick Braun – background vocals
16. Joy to the Wonderful World (Medley) (Dave Koz & Friends)
In a year where Lori and I went to the Louis Armstrong House and Museum, and 50 years since “What a Wonderful World” was recorded, this song warmed our hearts.
17. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
18. The Hanukkah Song/Eight Candles (A Song for Hanukkah) (Dave Koz)
“Eight Candles” originally heard on: December Makes Me Feel This Way (1997), A Smooth Jazz Christmas (2001)
Dave Koz/Peter White/Rick Braun
Dave Koz – lead vocal on “The Hanukkah Song”
Peter White – accordion on “Eight Candles”
Rick Braun – trombone on “Eight Candles”
Dave’s saxophone on “Eight Candles”: soprano
19. Every Step of the Way/Kei’s Song Redux/Freedom at Midnight (David Benoit)
Originally heard on: Every Step of the Way (1988)/Conversation (2012)/Freedom at Midnight (1987)
Dave’s saxophone on “Freedom at Midnight”: tenor
20. Bueno Funk (Peter White)
Originally heard on: Glow, 2001
21. Grazing in the Grass (Rick Braun)
Originally heard on: Shake It Up (with Boney James) (2000); Sessions, Volume 1 (2006)
Mid-song vocal medley: Groovin’/Just My Imagination/Shotgun/Soulful Strut (instrumental)
22. You Make Me Smile (Dave Koz)
Originally heard on: Lucky Man (1993)
Nathaniel Kearney Jr. – bass solo
Rick Braun – trombone
23 (Encore). Celebrate Me Home
Part of “The Home Medley” on 20th Anniversary Christmas (2017)
Dave Koz, Selina Albright – lead vocals
Rick Braun, Peter White – background vocals
Everyone, even the audience, joined in on vocals at the end
Now, the rest of the pictures. We start with Dave Koz on tenor sax:
Soprano sax:
And alto sax:
Peter White:
Peter played accordion on “Eight Candles”:
Rick Braun:
I never knew Rick played trombone until Saturday night:
Marching back and forth during the “Eight Candles” refrain:
David Benoit:
The “Linus and Lucy” solo, complete with Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree:
Selina Albright:
Randy Jacobs:
Brian Simpson:
Nathaniel Kearney Jr.:
Jay Williams’ “Bueno Funk” solo:
On to wide shots, starting with the opening medley:
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town”:
“Together Again”:
“Everything is Alright”:
…which featured a dance solo by Brian Simpson, accompanied by drummer Jay Williams:
“Promenade”:
“Linus and Lucy”:
“Hark! The Herald Angels We Have Heard On High (Medley)”:
“Silent Night”:
“Feliz Navidad”:
“Joy to the Wonderful World (Medley)”:
“Eight Candles”:
“Freedom at Midnight”:
“Bueno Funk” began in the audience:
The James Bond routine:
After Selina put the sunglasses on, Peter played a wolf whistle riff, which made me chuckle.
“Grazing in the Grass”:
“You Make Me Smile”:
Finally, the encore: “Celebrate Me Home”:
Dave had everyone pose for a picture – albeit, a small one – posted to Facebook and Instagram:
Here’s how it looked:
“… God bless you, Happy Holidays, good night!”:
About an hour after the band left the stage, there was a meet and greet in the Tilles Center’s Herbert and Dolores Goldsmith Atrium, which has hosted the annual WCWP Hall of Fame Ceremony since the first class was inducted in 2012. Coincidentally, I was wearing the same shirt that I wore at this year’s ceremony. Rick was the first musician Lori and I met and greeted while we were in line for Dave, Peter, and Selina:
Then, at the table, I caught up with Peter, and introduced myself to Selina and Dave. I told Dave that Kelly Dacey said hello. He appreciated that and asked what she’s up to these days. I told him. 15 minutes later, after the autograph portion of the meet-and-greet was over, I posed for a picture:
As we were posing, Dave said it was great to meet him. Through my posed smile, I said “likewise.” Selina got a kick out of that, which led me to quip “I’m a regular Jeff Dunham.”
Then, Lori joined us:
I told Dave about how we’d been to the Louis Armstrong House and Museum earlier this year and how special it was to hear “What a Wonderful World” following the trip.
After that, Lori and I packed our things and left the building, but not the campus. First, I wanted to show Lori around WCWP; or at least, since the door was locked, the exterior of the Abrams Communication Center that’s been home to it since its switch to FM in March 1965. (It began as a carrier current station in October 1961.) She was fascinated.
The clock struck midnight as Lori and I drove back to our homes. It had been a fantastic five hours on the campus of LIU Post and its Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. I had a blast! It was great to meet Dave and Selina for the first time and see Peter and Rick again. I spoke to David on Facebook on Sunday, letting him known how things went for me, complimenting him and the band, and wishing them all luck on the rest of the Dave Koz 20th Anniversary Christmas Tour.
Merry Christmas to all that observe it and Happy Hanukkah to me, Dave, and our Jewish friends and family.
P.S. As I finish this post, I’m at the end of my 302-song iTunes instrumental Christmas music playlist, which I started listening to on November 9. Okay, let’s take it from the top!
Mid-season thoughts July 9, 2017
Posted by Mike C. in Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Personal.
The first half of the 2017 Major League Baseball season ends today. I have watched very little of it. Considering the way the New York Mets, my favorite team, have performed, that’s a good thing. As I’ve told my Facebook friends, ignorance is bliss.
As for Tuesday’s All-Star Game in Miami, I expect the American League to win yet again. Thankfully, though, this will be the first time in 15 years that the winner doesn’t get home field advantage in the World Series. Starting this season, home field goes to the league champion with the better record, finally putting MLB on par with the NBA and NHL.
This was originally a Facebook post, but I revised it for the website.
My 2016 MLB Predictions April 3, 2016
Posted by Mike C. in Baseball, Personal, Sports.
Previous MLB season predictions: 2015
(12/21/16 UPDATE: Results italicized in parentheses.)
The 2016 Major League Baseball season begins today. That means it’s time for my annual preseason predictions.
NL (National League) East
Nationals (3) (2)
Mets (Wild Card 1)
Phillies (finished 4th)
Braves (finished 5th)
Marlins (finished 3rd)
Cardinals (1) (missed playoffs, finished 2nd)
Cubs (Wild Card 1) (won division, 1 seed)
Reds (finished 5th)
Brewers (finished 4th)
Giants (2) (Wild Card 2, finished 2nd)
Dodgers (Wild Card 2) (won division, 3 seed)
Diamondbacks (finished 4th)
Padres (finished 5th)
Rockies (finished 3rd)
AL (American League) East
Red Sox (2) (3)
Yankees (Wild Card 1) (missed playoffs, finished 4th)
Blue Jays (Wild Card 2) (Wild Card 1, finished 2nd)
Orioles (Wild Card 2, finished 3rd)
Royals (1) (missed playoffs, finished 3rd)
Indians (won division, 2 seed)
Astros (3) (missed playoffs, finished 3rd)
Angels (finished 4th)
Rangers (won division, 1 seed)
Mariners (finished 2nd)
Playoff predictions:
NL Wild Card Playoff
Cubs defeat Dodgers (Giants defeat Mets)
AL Wild Card Playoff
Blue Jays defeat Yankees (Blue Jays defeat Orioles)
NL Division Series
Cardinals vs. Cubs: Cardinals win 3-0 (Cubs vs. Giants: Cubs win 3-1)
Giants vs. Nationals: Giants win 3-2 (Nationals vs. Dodgers: Dodgers win 3-2)
AL Division Series
Royals vs. Blue Jays: Royals win 3-0 (Rangers vs. Blue Jays: Blue Jays win 3-0)
Red Sox vs. Astros: Red Sox win 3-1 (Indians vs. Red Sox: Indians win 3-0)
NL Championship Series
Cardinals vs. Giants: Cards win 4-2 (Cubs vs. Dodgers: Cubs win 4-2)
AL Championship Series
Royals vs. Red Sox: Royals win 4-1 (Indians vs. Blue Jays: Indians win 4-1)
World Series (AL home field advantage via All-Star Game win) (home field correct; last time decided by All-Star Game; new Collective Bargaining Agreement says team with better record gets home field)
Cardinals vs. Royals: Cardinals win 4-2 (Indians vs. Cubs: Cubs win 4-3)
As you can see, I predict the two teams I don’t like will square off in the World Series for the first time since 1985. But unlike the last time, the team I’ve disliked longer, the Cardinals (since 2006) will prevail. (A classic World Series played out between the Indians and Cubs, both vying to end long championship droughts. The Indians hadn’t won the World Series since 1948; the Cubs hadn’t since 1908. The longer drought was busted as the Cubs prevailed, in spite of blowing a four-run lead in regulation in Game 7, then almost blowing a two-run lead in the bottom of the 10th inning after going ahead in the top of the inning. There was joy in Wrigleyville as, to quote Joe Buck on FOX, “the Cubs…have finally won it all!”. Hallelujah.)
I’m a pessimistic Mets fan, so it’s only fitting that I have them missing the playoffs. I was generous enough to predict second place, but not a Wild Card spot. (They ended up with the first Wild Card spot, but lost late in the game to the Giants. I didn’t watch, but I was disappointed. The fact the Cubs eliminated the Giants in the NLDS eased the disappointment.)
(I’ve decided to give up public preseason predictions for the MLB and NFL. Thanks for reading what I’ve posted.)
Lisa Hilton at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall: 2016 edition January 18, 2016
Posted by Mike C. in Baseball, Jazz, Music, Personal, Photography, Sports, Travel, Weather.
Previous Lisa Hilton recaps: June 2011, January 2014, January 2015
Later recaps: January 2018, January 2019
The second show I’ve attended in 2016 – the first was the Jeff Lorber Fusion, ten nights earlier – continued an annual tradition: Lisa Hilton at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Yesterday’s performance marked her third year in Weill and I’ve been in the audience every time.
Like last year, I got a ride to the Wantagh LIRR station at around noon. Once there, I bought a round trip off peak ticket and waited for the 12:18 train to Penn Station. The ride wasn’t as quiet as last year in either direction, but I didn’t mind.
When I got to Penn, I took the 1 train to 59th Street-Columbus Circle. I walked two blocks south and one block east to get to Carnegie Hall, taking pictures along the way:
It was a 2:00 show:
My seat was front row center again. I had the row all to myself. You’d think people would buy front row seats if they’re available, but not in this case.
I grabbed a few shots of the stage, and ceiling, before showtime:
Lisa Hilton and the band were fashionably late, starting at 2:03. Lisa played piano with Ben Williams on bass and Rudy Royston on drums. Except where noted by an asterisk*, J.D. Allen and Ingrid Jensen rounded out the band on tenor saxophone and trumpet, respectively.
1/27 UPDATE: Here’s a shot from further back in the audience during the show:
I’m to Ingrid’s left (screen right).
All but the last two songs in the set were from Lisa’s new album, Nocturnal, which comes out this Friday. Copies were on sale in the lobby and I bought one before entering the hall. Here is the set list:
1. Nocturnal (also on Horizons, 2015)
2. A Spark in the Night
3. Whirlwind
4. Seduction (also on Seduction, 1997; Cocktails at Eight, 2000; My Favorite Things, 2005; and The New York Sessions, 2007)
5. Willow Weep for Me (written by Ann Ronell)
Midnight Sonata:
6. Part I: Symphony of Blues
7. Part II: Desire (also on In the Mood for Jazz, 2003)
8. Part III: Midnight Stars
9. Twilight
10. An August Remembered (rewritten from “August 1999,” which was composed for Cocktails at Eight in 2000)
11. The Sky and the Ocean (from Horizons, 2015)
12. Stepping Into Paradise (from Getaway, 2013)
“A Spark in the Night” and “Midnight Stars” had a Latin feel to them. “Midnight Stars,” in particular, sounded like a bullfighter song at one point. “Nocturnal,” “Seduction,” and “Twilight” sounded as good as they did last year. “Whirlwind” was a whirlwind. I loved it. I remember August 1999: Tony Gwynn and Wade Boggs achieved the 3,000th hits of their eventual Hall of Fame careers, I had two weeks of diagnostic vocational evaluation at Abilities, Inc., in Albertson, and I spent an afternoon at Splish Splash water park in Riverhead. I thought of all that as I listened to “An August Remembered.” Unlike on the Nocturnal album version, which was a solo performance, the band accompanied Lisa.
I caught up with Lisa after the show and we posed for this picture:
I was caught off guard when I looked out the window and saw snow falling. And it was accumulating. But the end result was merely a coating. As I type, there may be more significant snowfall at the end of the week.
“See you next year,” I said to Lisa after we said our goodbyes. Year 3 at Carnegie Hall was a success. Thanks to Lisa, Ben, Rudy, J.D., and Ingrid.
Back in September, I went public with my annual NFL season predictions after years of posting them on Facebook. Another personal tradition is predicting the Major League Baseball season.
Here are my predictions for 2015:
Nationals (2) (missed playoffs, finished 2nd)
Braves (Wild Card 2) (missed playoffs, finished 4th)
Mets (won division, 3 seed)
Pirates (Wild Card 1)
Cubs (Wild Card 2, finished 3rd)
Dodgers (3) (2)
Orioles (2) (missed playoffs, finished 3rd)
Red Sox (finished 5th)
Yankees (Wild Card 1, finished 2nd)
Blue Jays (won division, 2 seed)
Rays (finished 4th)
Indians (1) (missed playoffs, finished 3rd)
Tigers (Wild Card 1) (missed playoffs, finished 5th)
Royals (Wild Card 2) (won division, 1 seed)
Twins (finished 2nd)
Athletics (3) (missed playoffs, finished 5th)
Angels (finished 3rd)
Mariners (finished 4th)
Astros (Wild Card 2, finished 2nd)
Braves defeat Pirates (Cubs defeat Pirates)
Tigers defeat Royals (Astros defeat Yankees)
Cardinals vs. Braves: Cardinals win 3-1 (Cardinals vs. Cubs: Cubs win 3-1)
Nationals vs. Dodgers: Dodgers win 3-0 (Dodgers vs. Mets: Mets win 3-2)
Indians vs. Tigers: Tigers win 3-2 (Royals vs. Astros: Royals win 3-2)
Orioles vs. Athletics: Athletics win 3-0 (Blue Jays vs. Rangers: Blue Jays win 3-2)
Cardinals vs. Dodgers: Cardinals win 4-1 (Mets vs. Cubs: Mets win 4-0)
Athletics vs. Tigers: Tigers win 4-2 (Royals vs. Blue Jays: Royals win 4-2)
World Series (AL home field advantage via All-Star Game win) (home field correct)
Cardinals vs. Tigers: Cardinals win 4-1 (Royals vs. Mets: Royals win 4-1)
As with my Patriots prediction, pessimism drove me to pick the Cardinals to win the World Series. The 2006 NLCS, in which the Cards defeated the Mets in seven games, turned me against them. (The 2015 World Series turned me against the Royals.)
I will update this post after the World Series with results italicized in parentheses. Play ball! (The revision is complete, ten days after the World Series concluded with a disappointing result. In a dream world, the 2016 Mets will make like the 2015 Royals and win the World Series one year after losing it. But the more likely outcome is a return to futility for the Mets. Worse yet, the Mets open next season with two games in Kansas City. Until then, thanks for reading this revised post.)
Audiobooking December 2, 2014
Posted by Mike C. in Audio, Audiobooks, Baseball, Basketball, Broadway, Comedy, Commentary, Film, Health, Media, News, Personal, Politics, Radio, Sports, Theatre, TV.
While I may have indefinitely suspended photo album picture scanning, one constant since June has been audiobooks. What I’ve usually done is listen to a whole chapter while working out in the morning or on my portable elliptical machine in the afternoon. I only buy nonfiction and prefer that they are read by the author. I want to hear their words in their voice, not someone else’s, even if the author’s delivery is subpar.
This isn’t the first time I’ve listened to audiobooks. That goes back to a road trip with my parents and sister in January 1997, as we drove back from Florida. To show you how long ago that was, the audiobook was on cassettes. That book, The Hobbit, was the only time I’ve listened to fiction. It’s been all nonfiction since.
Between December 1997 – when I listened to The Big Show: A Tribute to ESPN’s SportsCenter – and June 2014, I would get an audiobook here and there, but I wasn’t a regular buyer. I didn’t exercise in the morning, either. That began in late March. It’s always best to get tough tasks out of the way early because your willpower drops as the day progresses. It helps to have something interesting to listen to while you’re working out, not something aggravating like politics and sports debate and discussion.
With all that in mind, I’ve listened to the following audiobooks, on CD or through Audible, since June:
President Me: The America That’s In My Head by Adam Carolla (via CD) – an outline of all the things Adam would do to improve the United States if he were president
Not Quite the Classics by Colin Mochrie (via Audible) – improvised stories based on the first and last lines of select novels and poems
I’ll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir by Pat O’Brien (via Audible) – Pat’s memoir chronicled his early life, television career, and struggle with addiction. Knock on wood, Pat has been sober for six years and counting.
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (via CD) – This is the latest in Bill and Martin’s “Killing” series that factually recounts the events of historical figures leading up to their tragic deaths. Their previous books focused on Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Jesus of Nazareth, respectively.
Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? by Billy Crystal (via Audible) – Billy’s memoir ran the gamut of emotions, from funny to heartbreaking, recalling major events in each decade of his life as of publication last year. I learned things I never knew and recalled fond memories of what I already knew. The only downside to the book is that Billy peppered his liberal ideology throughout it, outlining his liberal points of view and maligning right-leaning personalities and media. I’m not a lockstep conservative, but I do tend to take criticism of or jokes about people, places, and things that I like personally. But I didn’t let that completely ruin the listening experience.
Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large by William Shatner with Chris Regan (via CD) – When I was searching for the next audiobook to listen to, as Still Foolin’ ‘Em was winding down, I recalled William Shatner had a memoir out called Up Till Now: The Autobiography. But then I noticed that Shatner Rules had come out later than Up Till Now. So, I opted for Shatner Rules instead. The big message I took from the book was to say “yes” to as many things as possible. “‘No’ closes doors,” William said. “‘Yes’ kicks them wide open.” Shatner briefly drifted into politics, too, but the environmental kind. His doomsday scenarios were frightening. I didn’t let that completely ruin the listening experience. (ding) Rule: I highly recommend Shatner Rules as either the written book or spoken audiobook.
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks by Dick Cavett (via Audible) – It was here that I did let politics completely ruin the listening experience. This is not a memoir. It is a compilation of Dick’s columns at The New York Times’ Opiniator blog. That structure is similar to that for Things That Matter, a compilation of Charles Krauthammer’s columns over his 30-year career to date. Charles is Dick’s polar opposite. But I didn’t know any of that until my second day of listening. And it was this rant of a column that Dick read for Brief Encounters – combined with frustration that the book was not what I expected – that led me to request a refund from Audible. Thankfully, they granted it. I did learn a few things, though, about Dick’s days writing for The Tonight Show. I also learned that Arthur Godfrey preferred to address only one member of the listening or viewing audience (“you”), not the entire audience (“everybody”).
Scribe: My Life in Sports by Bob Ryan (via Audible) – I bought this in place of Brief Encounters. I’ve been listening for nearly a week and I’m enjoying it.
There will be more audiobooks to come in the weeks ahead as I continue to try to keep myself in shape.
NFL Network coming to Cablevision!!! August 16, 2012
Posted by Mike C. in Baseball, Basketball, Football, Media, News, Personal, Radio, Sports, TV.
Effective tomorrow, NFL Network and NFL RedZone will be added to Cablevision’s lineup. Via NFL.com:
BETHPAGE, NY and NEW YORK, NY — August 16, 2012 – NFL Network and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), the largest TV provider in the nation’s top media market, announced today that they have reached a multi-year agreement for carriage of NFL Network and the NFL RedZone channel.
NFL Network will make its debut in Cablevision homes beginning Friday. NFL Network will be available on channel 150 in both standard-definition and HD for customers who subscribe to iO Preferred, iO Silver, iO Gold or the iO Sports & Entertainment Pak. NFL RedZone, which airs on Sundays throughout the regular season, will be offered in both standard-definition and HD on channel 151 as part of the iO Sports & Entertainment Pak, which is now included in the new iO Gold package, which was launched last spring. …
Cablevision customers like myself have been waiting for this day since the network launched nearly a decade ago. I learned of this from Steve Somers on WFAN twenty minutes before publishing this post.
NFL Network will round out a trio of channels devoted to professional sports leagues. iO (Interactive Optimum) channel 148 is NBA TV and 149 is MLB Network.
Thank you very much, Cablevision.
8/18 UPDATE: Here is the Steve Somers monologue that tipped me off to NFL Network’s arrival on Cablevision. After talking about the Mets and Yankees results, he got to the big deal at the 9:02 mark. My transcript (listen along):
As you have heard [earlier in the day on WFAN], Cablevision has taken on the NFL Network, giving the face of the NFL Network, Rich Eisen, the opportunity to extol the virtues of the cable industry in general, and the NFL Network in particular, as we heard on his live infomercial, apparently sponsoring Joe and Evan this afternoon. Rich will also appear with Joe and Evan sometime soon, where we will actually hear from him discussing football! …
Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts filled in for Mike Francesa all this week.
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CT125 is a sure thing for the Australian market.
Author: Honda Brand Team
Yes you read correctly, the CT125 is coming to Australia in the coming months and you’ll have two colours to choose from: Matte Fresco Brown and Glowing Red. It will also be available for an MLP of $6,999.
Born as a concept, the CT125 now joins the Monkey and the Super Cub as the latest Honda classic to get a modern-day re-vamp.
We look back to Honda’s classic CT series, a model that’s delivered plenty joy to people’s lives for decades; from fulfilling the everyday transportation needs of many families around the world, to delivering the mail to households around Australia in its CT110 ‘postie’ bike form.
The new CT125 is certainly CT110 inspired, with many of the iconic touches that have become so familiar around Aussie streets. It’s been beefed up though; with a 125cc, 1-cyl, 4-stroke engine, electric Start, ABS, LED lighting and a digital display.
The traditional CT series were and still are distinctive and recognisable all over the world so it was only right that when developing the new CT125, we took the best parts of the old CT series and brought them to life for what motorcyclists need today.
A modern take on a Honda classic aimed to keep as much of the original styling as possible. As a tribute to the series, the styling of the old is designed to harmonize with the modern lifestyle, just like the Super Cub C125.
While simplifying the surface of each part on the frame, we carefully took the symbolic features of the CT series, including the upswept muffler, air cleaner cover, fuel tank, large carrier and steel front fender and created a balanced new image of the tough old CT entering modern times. The styling for other parts ranging from the turn signals to the handgrips also highlights the distinctive presence typically found in the CT series.
The CT125 chassis has been designed to adapt to a broader variety of situations and a broad variety of riders. It’s based on the common Super Cub chassis package, so its nimble and easily controlled but with an increased wheel base, seat height and upswept handlebar.
The CT125 provides enhanced traveling and cornering stability with the adoption of the same type of top bridge and telescopic suspension commonly used for a regular motorcycle. The CT125 has a 4-speed semi-automatic transmission for simple use and front suspension stroke has been increased to 110mm, up 10mm compared to the Super Cub C125, making gravel road riding a lot more comfortable.
The CT125 is an ode to the postie of old and ideal for a weekend cruise or as your daily commuter – no one can escape its nostalgic charm.
Find out more about the new CT125, visit the model showroom.
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It’s “The Flying Mullet’s” birthday today!
Gastón Mazzacane – better known to many as “The Flying Mullet” – is celebrating his 35th birthday today!
The Argentinean somehow found his way into the second Minardi seat for the 2000 season, after an undistinguished pedigree in the lower categories. Despite few expectations of him, he surprised his critics with many sensible – albeit, not particularly quick – drives and was an extremely consistent race finisher throughout the season.
That being said, Gastón certainly didn’t disgrace himself, and one of the principal highlights of his career was running as high as third during the pit stop sequence at the United States Grand Prix, overtaking none other than an incandescent Mika Häkkinen (left)!
Gastón – or, rather, his PSN sponsorship – found a home with the financially strapped Prost team for the 2000 season, but after four well and truly anonymous, off-the-pace races, he was quietly eased aside and replaced by the accident-prone Luciano Burti.
Gastón now competes in the Top Race V6 championship, Argentina’s equivalent to stock car racing.
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Kerb-hopping Kobayashi comes to grief
The exuberant Kamui Kobayashi had, unsurprisingly, a fraught opening day at the Monaco Grand Prix, with his kerb-hopping antics bringing him undone with another front-wing-smashing accident, this time at the Swimming Pool complex (pictured).
By our count, it’s the fourth front wing he has destroyed his season!
Things settled down for the Japanese driver in the afternoon on his way to 17th-quickest overall.
"It is really difficult to drive here and I had a few moments," he said. "I think we had a reasonable setup from the beginning but it was still difficult to find grip in the slow corners, which is our main problem. We will work and try to improve the setup."
Team-mate Pedro de la Rosa, who hasn’t raced on this circuit since 2002, found that driving around the Principality was “like learning a new track”. The Spaniard lapped two-tenths quicker than his team-mate in the second session and was placed 16th on the timesheets.
"We covered all the mileage we wanted to and made a lot of changes between the two sessions," the Barcelona driver explained. "We are heading in the right direction and have more ideas for Saturday.”
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FEATURE: The Art of Motorsport
The Museu do Caramulo is currently exhibiting the works of motorsport artist Alex Wakefield. Titled ‘Speed Lines’, it opened to an enthusiastic of art-loving petrolheads in the Portuguese city of Caramulo – located 60 miles from the city of Porto – two weeks’ ago.
The exhibition displays not only the undeniable artistic side and talent of Alex Wakefield, but also an unexpected freedom in the interpretation of different points of view. Many angles in his paintings would be impossible to photograph or see in person, thus resulting in a pure exercise in imagination. The show consists of ten oil paintings across a spectrum of racing genres and runs until June 19.
Alex Wakefield’s artwork is currently on display.
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, Alex has always been fascinated by, the world of racing and the stories surrounding it. His love of motorsport reaches across the decades and covers both automobiles and motorcycles.
This passion was the spark that triggered his art of capturing speed through the lines of his drawings and paintings, depicting some of the most famous moments and greatest circuits, drivers, and riders in the history of competition.
Alex’s work has been featured both online and in print via outlets such as Motor Sport, Petrolicious, and Spiegel.
His work is collected by people across the motorsport spectrum from fans to F1 drivers as well as historic racers. Alex has also been involved with the Road Racing Drivers Club for the past three years, with sales of his art raising funds for the Team USA Scholarship which brings up-and-coming American driving talent to the world stage.
“Having Alex present at the opening [on March 19] was a great honor and pleasure,” said Tiago Gouveia, Director of the Museu do Caramulo. “The guests were delighted to meet the artist and took the opportunity to discuss his works. Everyone enjoyed the explanations that Alex kindly provided, thus enriching their overall experience of the exhibition.”
“Through his paintings, Alex Wakefield takes us inside the races, in a tangle of colors, sounds, speed and excitement, as if we had actually witnessed these great historical moments,” said Salvador Gouveia, Museu do Caramulo’s Curator.
Wakefield’s oil on canvas of Mario Andretti
“This past week in Portugal has been truly a wonderful experience,” Wakefield added. “I don’t think my family and I could have had a better introduction to a country. Tiago, Salvador and their staff run a first-rate institution where great care of both art and automotive history are presented for all to enjoy.
“This is a place of stewardship and I am privileged to have my work on display at their museum. I encourage everyone when in Portugal to visit Caramulo and the Museu do Caramulo. Obrigado!”
To contact Alex Wakefield, please click here to visit his website.
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Arijit Singh's TV Show is Not a Sequel to Honey Singh's India's Raw Star
Raw Star is not a sequel to India's Raw Star, and will bring forward a new concept and new challenges with the focus on singing rather than performing
Indo-Asian News Service | August 16, 2016 18:49 IST (Mumbai)
Arijit Singh photographed in Mumbai.
Raw Star is not a sequel to India's Raw Star
Arijit Singh will mentor and groom contestants
The auditions will tentatively go live on August 21
Singer Arijit Singh, who started his journey in the music industry from a reality TV show, will be back on the small screen to judge a music reality show - Raw Star.
Arijit, who has made a lasting impact with songs like Tum Hi Ho, Soch Na Sake, Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse and Muskurane, will also mentor the contestants on the show.
Contrary to reports that suggested the show will air on Star Plus, the musical show will be aired on Life OK. Arijit has shot for a promo, which will be out on August 20, read a statement from Life OK.
Raw Star is not a sequel to India's Raw Star, and will bring forward a new concept and new challenges with the focus on singing rather than performing.
The singer, who earlier posted a public apology to Salman Khan on social media, will challenge, mentor, groom and put the contestants through the grind in order to get that ultimate winner.
There will be digital auditions allowing people from every corner of the world to participate. The auditions will tentatively go live on August 21.
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We take a tour of the most innovative and enticing compact communities around the world.
Small packages: Villages report
Little by little: Perfect village
The happy hamlet we’ve conjured up blends an easy pace with the dynamism to retain its young talent.
Europe briefing
Val d’Aran’s break from Spain, Portuguese petrol and Norwegian citizenship.
Q&A: Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves
The Estonian president talks (and talks) to us about his fixes for Europe.
Americas briefing
What might trip up the presidential candidates on their way to the White House? Plus Central American migration to the US.
Ready to run: Julián Castro
The Democrats’ poster boy on making a difference and shaking off his Latino label.
Unpacking the wardrobe of Taiwan’s incoming president, plus Pakistan’s record-breaking solar-power project.
Africa / Middle East briefing
The Egyptian president’s motorcade runs the gamut from bike to yacht.
Oceania briefing
Rebuilding Christchurch, Fiji opens up to Russia and Samoa’s most senior female politician.
Urbanism briefing
London’s mayoral candidates assessed, high-speed rail pulls in to Tel Aviv and a chat with Belgrade city architect, Milutin Folic.
Q&A: Mayor of Vienna
We have a chat with Vienna’s mayor, Michael Häupl.
Defence briefing
Russia after its Syrian adventure, China’s seaborne ambitions and the Nordic defence business hots up.
Political pooches
We sniff out the secrets of diplomatic wags with our third round of embassy-based canine profiles.
State of a nation: Indonesia
Examining chances for change and the limits of power in Southeast Asia’s polyglot republic.
New tricks in the sticks: Village shops
The rural retailers whose need to adapt put them back at the heart of their communities.
Hitch a ride on Switzerland’s iconic mountain-traversing bus.
Liquid launch
In the second part of our new series, we look at what it takes to make a splash in the booze business with the help of some of our favourite makers.
Making empty space work in the UK, Turkey spreads its wings and microfinance on the march.
The Cannes property fair returns, shaping the future of our urban spaces with bigger ambitions than ever.
Robert Wu: Words of wisdom
Eslite booksellers’ founder gives us chapter and verse on getting the best from his team.
Making a splash: The Islander
We drop in on the offices of a Floridian newspaper that takes its lead from the community it reports on.
Tough talks: TRT World
The Istanbul-based news channel’s uphill battle in a country where media freedom hangs in the balance.
Media briefing
This month’s audio and visual highlights.
Collecting briefing
The greatest show-and-tell on Earth.
Palette cleanser
How Austria’s once-conservative seat of aesthetic endeavour learnt to love modernity.
Culture briefing
Choice cuts from the world’s creative minds.
Start small: Design villages
The rural communities that have built on their craft heritage to stay relevant in an urbanised world.
Model living: Urban villages
From Auckland to Rome, find out why city living doesn’t rule out a relaxed, bucolic pace.
Shorts story: Tracht & Country fair
Fashion meets folk as new designers cut out the kitsch in traditional alpine clothing.
One day at a time: Baselworld
New shades and a return to simplicity are the keynotes as the eminent watch fair maintains a buoyant mood.
Fashion briefing
A world tour of wardrobe wonders, lingering a while at the Bangkok International Fashion Fair.
Menswear: Warm up, cool down
Straddle the seasons (in an elegant fashion, of course) with our spring/summer sojourn in Surfers Paradise.
Inventory No. 93
Spirits, shoes and ceramics are just a sprinkling of the products we’re pining after this month.
Travel briefing
From a Mexican hotel made of natural materials to a Scandinavian-inspired escape in the Japanese mountains.
Simply the zest
Prepare your palate for the family-run company making lemon liqueur on the Amalfi Coast.
Sleeper hit: Railyard
The Santa Fe neighbourhood that’s on the right track for families and entrepreneurs.
Small wonder: Oldroyd
Tom Oldroyd’s small London restaurant is turning out to be a big success – and here’s why.
Food briefing
From a pasta-only restaurant in London to a colourful cocktail bar in Kuala Lumpur.
Laurie Anderson: Diverse dish
Meet Laurie Anderson: musician, director, artist, composer and inventor. Here she holds forth on dogs, violins, cheese and Lou Reed.
A refreshed radio offering, our Quality of Life Conference, a new book, our latest travel guides, a seasonal shop, a summer market and brand-new subject matter for our next issue: take a seat because editor in chief Tyler Brûlé has an awful lot to talk about.
The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris is an academic village of ideas and interrelations on a global scale. Monocle attends campus to find out what happens when countries come together in the classroom.
Q&A / Washington
Ed Stocker
Jared Soares
It’s easy to see why the Democrats are keen to make Julián Castro one of their poster boys: at 41, he’s young; he’s from the delegate-rich state of Texas; and, perhaps most importantly of all, he’s Latino. In the world of US politics – its keen eye trained on demographics and the country’s evolving electorate – he ticks plenty of boxes.
This is why his name keeps on cropping up as a potential vice-presidential candidate in 2016. It’s also why it has been suggested that further down the line – following in the footsteps of the nation’s first black president and possibly its first female leader – Castro may even become the US’s first Latino head of state.
Castro was keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and has been a rising star for some time. He won praise for his five-year spell as mayor of the Texan city of San Antonio and for the last two years has been in Barack Obama’s cabinet as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud). His relative lack of experience may play against him though. He has not made much of an impact in federal government so far and, while he left a positive record as mayor, much of the day-to-day work was handled by a city manger.
For now Castro is coy about his VP chances, preferring to focus on the job in hand: fixing some enormous housing problems. Even if 2016 doesn’t prove to be his year, there is little doubt we’ll be seeing plenty more of him – not to mention his twin brother Joaquín, a member of the House of Representatives – in the near future.
Monocle: Do you find it frustrating being put in certain boxes, representing a ‘generation’ or the ‘Latino community’?
Julián Castro: On the one hand I do feel a responsibility to the Latino community to demonstrate to every little girl or boy who doesn’t see that many folks like them in positions like this that it’s meaningful – and that they can do it too. And at the same time being Latino is not the only thing that I am: I’m young, I’m from Texas, I’m a former mayor, I’m a lawyer. All of us have these different aspects; we’re all three-dimensional people.
M: You’re reportedly very close to your brother Joaquín and you advise each other. Are you a political unit?
JC: There’s no question that we’re both interested in politics – we’ve both been at it for 15 years – and it helps that he’s had a similar experience; he’s in Congress. And even though I wouldn’t want his job it does help that he’s there to bounce ideas off.
M: Why did you make the decision to endorse Hillary Clinton?
JC: I believe that Hillary Clinton would be the strongest president that we could have over the next four years.
M: And do you think that she’ll consider you as a running mate?
JC: No. I’ve made it very clear that I expect to be back in Texas next year and that I’ve learned over time that the best way to have a future is to ensure that you do a good job with what’s in front of you. And so I’m trying to do a great job here at Hud and focus on this; I’m glad to lend her my support but I look forward to getting back to San Antonio.
M: You seem like an ambitious person: if you were offered the role would you take it?
JC: I don’t think anybody who is offered that role, whether they are Republican or Democrat, would take that decision lightly. There is no automatic acceptance because it’s very weighty. And so I would hope that whoever the person is, both on the Republican and Democratic sides, would take a moment to actually think about what it entails. There’s a difference between ambition and actually being in the role.
M: What have you made of the Republican race and, in particular, Donald Trump?
JC: It’s disappointing to hear a lot of divisive talk on the other side. It’s not very becoming of someone who wants to be president and certainly not in keeping with the reputation that America has around the world as a welcoming nation.
M: You have talked about a housing ‘Department of Opportunity’; what does that mean in real terms?
JC: It means that housing is a powerful platform to spark greater opportunity in people’s lives. What I’ve tried to preach and embed in the mindset of our employees is that we work hard to ensure that somebody has a roof over their head but it’s about more than that. We’re serving more than 1.1 million families that live in public housing and we want to measure ourselves by how much we do to ensure that the breadwinner in a family is able to get the skills he or she needs to either get a job if they don’t have one or get a better job if they have a lower-level one.
M: You also talk a lot about sustainable neighbourhoods – what are they?
JC: When we talk about sustainable neighbourhoods we talk about neighbourhoods that have a good quality of life and economic opportunity, and are the kind of places that people can afford to live in. So that means a neighbourhood that has good schools, good housing stock and good access to transport.
M: You say that you expect to head back to San Antonio; if that’s the case, what would you be happy doing there after this?
JC: You know, I really don’t have any plan in mind. I’ll look forward to getting back and figuring out the future; we’ll see. But I’ve always had this sense that if you’re prepared to work hard and prepared for new opportunity, things are going to work out.
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"Immune Cell Identity Crisis: What Makes a Liver Macrophage a Liver Macrophage?" UC San Diego Health Newsroom, by Heather Buschman, October 3rd, 2019
"Three UC San Diego Researchers Receive Top Honors with NIH Director’s Awards" UC San Diego Health Newsroom, by Alison Cadwell, Mario Aguilera, & Liezel Labios, October 1st, 2019
"UC San Diego Receives $9 Million in Grants to Pinpoint Cellular Cause of Type 1 Diabetes" UC San Diego News Center, by Yadira Galindo, August 13th, 2019
"UCSD scientists find possible link between eating fast-food and Type 2 diabetes" La Jolla Light, by Joe Tash, July 3rd, 2019
"Researchers Sudy Improvement in Patient Compliance and Screening Efficacy by Using the EyeArt AI Eye Screening System for Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy" Business Wire, June 5th, 2019
"Genetic Switch Controls Conversion of Bad to Good Fat" ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 May 2019. Materials provided by University of Utah Health.
"Fecal Transplant to Treat Obesity and Diabetes - Pilot studies raise more questions" MedPage Today, May 21st, 2019
"JUST THE FAQs: New Theory on Mitochondria's Role in Diabetic Complications" UC San Diego Health, by Yadira Galindo, February 24th, 2019
"Colorectal Cancer Stem Cell Growth Driven by High-Fat Diet and Altered Bile Acid Profile" Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, February 22nd, 2019
"Macrophages Influence Both the Replication and Function of Beta Cells" UC San Diego Health, by Yadira Galindo, January 4th, 2019
"Janelle Ayres awarded $1.8 million by NOMIS Foundation for research on mechanisms to promote health" Salk Institute, December 12, 2018
"Mapping the Pancreatic Islets" UC San Diego Health, by Yadira Galindo, October 24th, 2019
"$65 Million Earmarked for Drug Development in New UCSD Partnership" Times of San Diego, authored by Chris Jennewein, September 5th, 2018
"Enzyme plays a key role in calories burned both during obesity and dieting" ScienceDaily. Materials provided by University of California - San Diego. Original written by Yadira Galindo. February 2018.
“TBK1 at the Crossroads of Inflammation and Energy Homeostasis in Adipose Tissue”
“FGF21 Acts Centrally to Induce Sympathetic Nerve Activity, Energy Expenditure, and Weight Loss”
“Peptide Improves Glucose and Insulin Sensitivity, Lowers Weight in Mice,” UC San Diego Health, authored by Yadira Galindo, February 7, 2018
“Eating Well with Diabetes,” UC San Diego Health, authored by Melanie Peters, December 20, 2017
“5 Endocrinologist Tips for People With Diabetes,” Healthgrades, authored by Kristin Kulusa, MD
“Top reports on obesity and liver health for 2017” Healio, features Rohit Loomba November 24th, 2017.
“How Chronic Inflammation Tips the Balance of Immune Cells to Promote Liver Cancer” UC San Diego Health by Heather Buschman, PhD, November 8th, 2017.
“Indigenous Insight” Triton Magazine by Yadira Galindo, features Keolu Fox, PhD
“Diabetes drug results positive, Ligand says,” San Diego Union Tribune, features Robert Henry, MD (Emeritus), and Jeremy Pettus, MD
“How an old asthma drug could be a new diabetes treatment,” UC San Diego Health, features Dr. Alan R. Saltiel, August 15, 2017.
“Asthma drug shows potential benefit for type 2 diabetics,” The San Diego Union-Tribune, features Dr. Alan R. Saltiel, July 5, 2017.
“Could a 30-year-old asthma drug lead to a new treatment for diabetes?,” by Arlene Weintraub, features Dr. Alan R. Saltiel, July 5, 2017.
“Inhibition of IKKɛ and TBK1 Improves Glucose Control in a Subset of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes,” July 5, 2017.
“UC San Diego Partners with Janssen to Research New Approaches to Treat Metabolic Diseases,” by Yadira Galindo, features Jerrold Olefsky, MD, June 15, 2017.
“Pathways Leading to Beta Cell Division Identified, May Aid Diabetes Treatment,” by Yadira Galindo, features Maike Sander, MD, May 02, 2017.
“UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Christopher Glass Joins National Academy of Sciences” by Heather Buschman, PhD and features Christopher K. Glass, MD, PhD, May 02, 2017.
“Carmel Valley resident joins more than 180 diabetes advocates for the American Diabetes Association’s 2017 Call to Congress Advocacy Day”, DEL MAR TIMES, features Dr. Alan R. Saltiel, April 24, 2017.
“Diabetes drug could be the first to reverse the disease,”New Scientist, features Stephanie Stanford, PhD, and Nunzio Bottini, MD, PhD, March 27, 2017.
"Gut health and weight loss: what you need to know -- The microbes in your stomach could help you lose weight" on AOL Health quotes Rob Knight, PhD, faculty member of the IDMH Center for Integrative and Molecular Metabolism. Dr. Knight is Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and holder of an additional appointment in the Department of Computer Science.
Insulin Resistance Reversed by Removal of Protein - UC San Diego press release by Yadira Galindo, UC San Diego Health, November 3, 2016.
By removing the protein galectin-3 (Gal3), a team of investigators led by University of California School of Medicine researchers were able to reverse diabetic insulin resistance and glucose intolerance in mouse models of obesity and diabetes...Read the full story
At left: Project Principal Investigator Jerrold Olefsky, professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at UC San Diego School of Medicine and faculty member, Center for Integrative Metabolism, IDMH
The Heat Is On. Dr Saltiel and his work are profiled in Discoveries Magazine, Volume 7, pages 32-33, 2016. Discoveries Magazine is a publication of UC San Diego Health Sciences.
How to Battle Cancer Linked to Obesity - By Alan Saltiel, PhD, and J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD, San Diego Union-Tribune, September 22, 2016.
New Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health Debuts at UC San Diego: Expansive effort will encompass both research and treatment of major national health issue. By Scott LaFee, UC San Diego Health Newsroom, June 9, 2016.
Leading Metabolics Researcher Joins UC San Diego School of Medicine: Alan Saltiel will head unified effort to create comprehensive diabetes center. By Scott LaFee, UC San Diego Health Newsroom, July 6, 2015.
The Connection Between Oxygen and Diabetes: A lack of O2 in fat cells triggers inflammation and insulin resistance in obesity. By Scott LaFee, UC San Diego Health Newsroom, June 5, 2014.
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Equity, Equality, and Biculturalism in the Restructuring of New Zealand Schools: A Life-History Approach
Sue Middleton
Harvard Educational Review (1992) 62 (3): 301–323.
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Sue Middleton; Equity, Equality, and Biculturalism in the Restructuring of New Zealand Schools: A Life-History Approach. Harvard Educational Review 1 September 1992; 62 (3): 301–323. doi: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.62.3.06u43p45m6t2682m
In this article, Sue Middleton draws on interview data from the initial phase of"Monitoring Today's Schools," a research project to monitor the impact of New Zealand's educational restructuring. Unlike restructuring movements in other countries,the New Zealand movement specifically included goals of social equity and cultural inclusiveness, and Middleton focuses on the reactions of parents, teachers,and administrators to the restructuring efforts surrounding these issues. After presenting a brief historical overview of the development of and debate over equity and cultural inclusiveness in New Zealand education, Middleton presents excerpts from interviews with members of three different schools' boards of trustees, which were created as part of the restructuring effort to move more authority to the local school level. She includes their reactions to the impact of social equity and cultural inclusiveness policies on their schools and their children, and concludes by describing recent developments in New Zealand education regarding these issues.
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Genotypic differences.
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A description of differences among the individual members of a series or population.
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The degree of homogeneity or heterogeneity within a given sample; The diversity of a sample
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The proportion or ratio of organisms within a community. Instead of counting each and every organism, scientists measure the variability of populations to look for change over time. In your class, student variability may be 4 girls for every 3 boys.
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differences in the measurement of variables.
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The amount of difference (or similarity) between points in a data set.
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A population’s natural heterogeneity or diversity, particularly that which contributes to differences in exposure levels or in susceptibility to the effects of chemical exposures.
riskworld.com
The differences between animals within a given population.
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Variability refers to true heterogeneity or diversity. For example, among a population that drinks water from the same source and with the same contaminant concentration, the risks from consuming the water may vary. This may be due to differences in exposure (i.e., different people drinking different amounts of water and having different body weights, different exposure frequencies, and different exposure durations) as well as differences in response (e.g., genetic differences in resistance to a chemical dose). Those inherent differences are referred to as variability. Differences among individuals in a population are referred to as inter-individual variability, differences for one individual over time is referred to as intra-individual variability.
Keywords: aleatory, variation, irreducible, stochastic, catchment
Related Terms: Multicollinearity, Independent variable, Logistic regression, Covariance, Dependent variable, Regression, Regression analysis, Covariate, Coefficient of determination, Coefficient of correlation, Partial correlation, Variability, Variate, Spurious correlation, Regression equation, Regression coefficient, Confounding variable, Multivariate, Multiple regression analysis, Correlation coefficient, Correlation, Negative correlation, Variable, Independent variables, Linear regression, Latent variable, Analysis of covariance, Correlated, Factor , Serial correlation, Multiple regression, Spatial autocorrelation, Variability, Intervening variable, Variables, Indicator variable, Extraneous variable, Dummy variable, Univariate analysis, Autocorrelation, Probability distribution, Stochastic model, Deterministic, Error variance, Homoscedasticity, Distribution, Probability density function, Causal relationship, Covariation, Control variable
The quality or state of being variable; variableness.
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The power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or function.
Most measured variables show some variation, i.e. their values are not constant between, or even within, experimental units.
the quality of being subject to variation
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a quality of variability and lack of uniformity
The fluctuation or variation due to randomness or stochasticity. Variability is also associated with aleatory uncertainty, stochastic uncertainty, Type I or Type A uncertainty, irreducible uncertainty, and objective uncertainty.
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The likelihood of variation or change. High variability of river flows means that stream height at any one place can change substantially over time. Variability is determined by catchment size, number of tributaries, slope and climate. Overall, Australia has extremely variable rainfall and river flows. River management for consumptive uses has decreased variability.
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Keywords: deviation, tendency, scores, variance, norm
Related Terms: Variance, Coefficient of variation, Coefficient of determination, Linear regression, Standard deviation, Error variance, Homoscedasticity, Covariance, Dispersion, Spatial autocorrelation, Coefficient of correlation, Correlation coefficient, Regression, Regression equation, Distribution, Regression analysis, Normal distribution, Analysis of covariance, Variate, Variability, Logistic regression, Regression coefficient, Anova, Spurious correlation, Analysis of variance, Gaussian distribution, Standard error of the mean, Standard error, Serial correlation, Deviation, Probability distribution, Kriging, Z-score, Sep, Covariate, Multicollinearity, Univariate analysis, Confidence interval, Confidence level, Variability, Heteroscedasticity, Partial correlation, Correlation, Goodness of fit, Random error, Probability density function, Multiple regression analysis, Correlated, Autocorrelation
Spread of scores in a distribution
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The degree to which scores in a frequency distribution depart from the central value. See also central tendency, measure of central tendency, standard deviation (SD), variance (V).
wwnorton.com
The quality of being subject to change or deviation from a norm or standard.
aquarius.gsfc.nasa.gov
The degree to which differences exist among a set of scores. The standard deviation is usually used to describe the variability of scores in a sample.
psy.st-andrews.ac.uk
The tendency to vary or fluctuate around an average or expected value, or around a specific average pattern.
colorado.edu
Keywords: outcomes, dispersed, event, range, glossary
Related Terms: Logistic regression, Regression, Covariate, Regression analysis, Multicollinearity, Variate, Coefficient of determination, Spurious correlation, Covariance, Dependent variable, Regression equation, Serial correlation, Independent variable, Confounding variable, Coefficient of correlation, Probability distribution, Linear regression, Variability, Multiple regression analysis, Partial correlation, Regression coefficient, Analysis of covariance, Variability, Multiple regression, Multivariate, Random variable, Spatial autocorrelation, Significant, Latent variable, Indicator variable, Independent variables, Deterministic, Univariate analysis, Error variance, Correlation coefficient, Correlated, Correlation, Factor , Dummy variable, Distribution, Homoscedasticity, Statistical significance, P value, Intervening variable, Negative correlation, Probability density function, Confidence level, Likelihood, Markov chain
The range of possible outcomes of a given situation.
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Dispersion in the likely outcomes.
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In a set of numbers, how widely dispersed the values are from each other and from the mean. go to glossary index
The possible different outcomes of an event. As an example, an investment with many different levels of return would have great variability.
bobbrinker.com
The possible range of outcomes for any given event.
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Keywords: staleness, overuse, adherence, minimizing, sessions
The training technique of changing (varying) exercise sessions to prevent overuse, to prevent injuries, and to increase interest and adherence while minimizing staleness in a training program.
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Keywords: quartile, spread, mathematically, range, describe
Numbers that describe how spread out a set of data is (e.g., range and quartile).
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Mathematically, same as spread.
amsglossary.allenpress.com
Keywords: characteristic, distinguish, corresponds, ability, family
The property or ability of an organism to change its characteristics from one generation to the other.
pestmanagement.co.uk
A characteristic of a domain that corresponds to features that distinguish among members of the associated family of systems. See Commonality.
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Keywords: reveals, stability, student, movement, consistency
The up and down movement in the data that reveals the stability or consistency in a student's performance over time.
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The helminths in the digestive tract of the mallard and pintail in southern Manitoba
Crichton, Vincent F. J.
This study was designed to identify the parasites of the mallard and pintail in southern Manitoba and to examine the role of these parasites in the regulation of the host populations. The Delta marsh was the centre of the study during 1967- 1968. One hundred and one mallards and 100 pintails were examined for helminths. The average helminth burden in the mallards was 243 per bird and 189 in the pintails. Mallards harboured an average difference of 56 helminths per bird more than pintails. The following kinds of helminths were recovered: Cestoda, five genera containing five species; Trematoda, seven genera with seven species; Nematoda, six genera with seven species; and Acanthocephala, two genera with two species. Both birds are host to a similar helminthfauna but the mallards have a greater intensity of infection than pintails. Similar foods were found in the crops of both species. The mallard may be more susceptible to parasitism than the pintail. The helminths in the host duck caused neither emaciation of the breast muscles nor a weight loss. The effects of the parasites in times of stress could be greater on mallards than pintails. The parasite fauna of the canvasback was similar to that of mallards and pintails but the numbers were greater in the former. The helminthfauna variability is just as great within each of these host species as between the two closely related hosts.
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2021 Honda CRF450R
New Motorcycles • Competition
2021 Honda CRF450R • $9,599
CRF450RM
LIGHTER. FASTER. AND RAZOR SHARP.
How many corners are there on your favorite motocross or Supercross track? Because each one of those leads directly from the starting gate to the winner’s circle—at least when you’re riding a redesigned 2021 Honda CRF450R. New chassis. Major engine overhaul. New suspension. New bodywork. All with the goal of letting you rail through the corners with the most precision and power you’ve ever experienced. The engine’s power delivery starts off deep down for corner drive, and just keeps building until it’s at maximum roost. Forget about clutch fade, adjustment, or hand fatigue with the new hydraulic system. And lighter than ever, the CRF450R explode out of corners when it’s time to increase your lead.
SLIM BODYWORK: We’ve slimmed down the CRF450R’s bodywork, and reduced the total number of pieces. It makes it a lot easier to move around on the bike, and that maximizes your riding freedom. While we were at it, we reduced the total number of fasteners needed to remove the body panels—maintenance off the bike just got easier too.
FRESH NEW STYLING: A bike the works as well as the 2021 CRF450R should look just as good, right? That’s why we freshened up the overall graphics package. Plus, our “in mold” graphics help keep your bike looking good. We think the only thing that could make it look better is a big ol’ First Place trophy sitting on the seat. We did our part—the trophy is up to you.
RENTHAL "FATBAR": The aluminum Renthal Fatbar features a bend that’s even better than the legendary Honda “CR” bar. It’s the standard of excellence—you’re gonna love it!
BLACK RIMS: They may not help you go faster, but the black DID DirtStar rims sure look good.
SEAT: Sometimes you need to think out of the box—that’s what we did with the CRF450R’s seat. We moved the attaching bolts from the rear to the front, and the tongue from the front to the rear. The result? When it’s time for service, removing and installing your CRF450R’s seat is easier than ever.
FLAT SEAT/TANK JUNCTION: The CRF450R features a flat seat/tank junction, including a titanium fuel tank. The superior ergonomics make it easier to move forward and back on the bike, increasing your control.
CABLE ROUTING: You may not notice it at first, but re-routing the CRF450R’s throttle cables and hydraulic clutch line let our engineers shave almost half a pound off the bike. Light is always right!
AIRBOX AND FILTER: Along with the air filter, the airbox shape helps deliver more torque. You can access the airbox through the left number plate. And because the filter has no rubber gasket where it interfaces with the intake boot, cleaning and servicing the filter is faster and less messy than ever.
ELECTRIC STARTER: Kickstarting? Maybe if you’re riding in the vintage class, but not here. By ditching the kickstarter entirely, our engineers can make the CRF450R lighter. Electric starters and lithium-ion batteries are so light now and so good that putting them on a bike like this is a win/win combination. And winning is what a CRF450R is all about.
SWITCH ASSEMBLY: Check out the controls on the 2021 CRF450R. We’ve made them lighter, and more intuitive. Controls used to be your bike’s shifter, clutch, and brakes. Now you have things like launch assist, selectable power modes, and more. We believe they should be easy to use, and we’ve just made them easier.
HYDRAULIC CLUTCH: This is huge news for the 2021 CRF450R. Out with the old cable-actuated clutch, and in with the first hydraulically actuated clutch we’ve offered outside of our works bikes. Made by Nissin, it’s the same design as in our Grand Prix MX machines, and performs better than third-party conversions. You get a clutch-lever pull that’s ten percent lighter at its peak, even though it’s paired with a new, stronger 8-plate clutch. Plus, you’ll never have to worry about making a clutch-cable adjustment, even during the longest events.
CLUTCH ASSEMBLY: While the hydraulic clutch is getting all the attention, we’ve made even more improvement with the parts that do the work: the clutch assembly itself. Say good-bye to clutch fade—we’ve upped the number of clutch plates from seven to eight, to improve durability and hookup. That means 85 percent less slip at peak horsepower, and 27 percent more total torque transmission through the clutch pack. Even the spring is stronger, but thanks to the hydraulic actuation, clutch-lever pull is lighter than ever.
HRC LAUNCH CONTROL: We’re talking about a special ECU program here: push the button to select the mode, hold the throttle open, release the clutch, and the CRF450R will do the rest, launching you into the first turn with a big advantage. It turns your bike into a holeshot-seeking machine!
HONDA SELECTABLE TORQUE CONTROL (HSTC): Notice that button on the handlebar by the clutch perch? The CRF450R get our Honda Selectable Torque Control (HSTC). You can choose from one of three settings to perfectly dial your bike in depending on how much traction is available.
ENGINE MODE SELECT BUTTON: This simple handlebar-mounted button lets you dial in engine power delivery character with a push of your thumb. Choose between Standard, Smooth and Aggressive, depending on track conditions.
COMPACT FUEL PUMP: No detail is too small for our engineers—especially if they can make it smaller and lighter. That’s what they did to the 2021 CRF450R’s fuel pump. Why carry around any extra weight when you don’t have too? While they were at it, they reduced the number of attaching fasteners from six to four.
RADIATOR SHROUDS: Using computer-aided Computational Fluid Dynamics, we’ve fine-tuned the CRF450R’s radiator shrouds to increase cooling. They’re now a one-piece design, but more important, better cooling equals more consistent power, longer into a race, especially when you’re really on the gas and working the engine hard.
REAR BRAKE PADS: Brakes are for more than just stopping: they help you set up the bike in turns and jumps. Which is why we pay so much attention to detail like brake pads. They’re designed to last longer and give you more stopping power—a real win/win to help you win.
260MM FRONT BRAKE: The CRF450R’s large front-brake disc measures a whopping 260mm. You get great brake feel and a pattern that cuts down on weight. Front and rear brake-disc guards are part of the package too.
TITANIUM FUEL TANK: Grams and performance count, and the CRF450R uses a titanium fuel tank. Light and strong, it maintains the same capacity as our previous plastic unit, while freeing up more space and helping to centralize fuel mass.
LIGHTER, NARROWER FRAME: Great handling starts with a superior frame, and we’ve made some big changes to our 2021 CRF450R’s chassis. First, it’s lighter—over a pound and a half lighter. By making the frame’s main spars narrower, we saved weight, but more important we made the chassis more responsive by reducing lateral rigidity 20 percent. The result is a bike that gets into, around, and out of corners faster.
NARROWER SWINGARM: Designed in conjunction with the frame, by using narrower main members (just like the frame uses narrower main spars), we’ve matched the swingarm’s lateral rigidity to the rest of the chassis. What you get is a balanced, fully integrated approach to frame stiffness, letting you get around corners faster and with better feel.
LIGHTER SUBFRAME: We totally redesigned the rear subframe to make it nearly three-quarters of a pound lighter, and along the way simplified its construction too.
BATTERY BOX: Three key features changed here: The battery box is lower, for an improved center of gravity. Second, it’s also easier to service. And third, it’s now water-tight, so there's nothing to worry about when racing in wet conditions.
FRONT SUSPENSION: We’ve increased the front suspension’s stroke by 5mm for 2021, for better handling and rider comfort. Also, we redesigned the axle holding fixtures at the bottom of each fork leg—that increases rigidity, and enhances steering precision and suspension performance.
TRIPLE CLAMPS: The CRF450R is a perfectly matched package. With the frame and swingarm featuring a retuned lateral stiffness, and the fork legs featuring a new, stiffer axle fixture, we joined the two with new upper and lower triple clamps. Working in concert, they help improve and balance total rigidity, responsiveness and turning performance.
REAR SUSPENSION: The 2021 CRF450R’s frame design gave us the opportunity to fit a rear shock. We’ve optimized its shape to match the frame, and gave it settings to work with the chassis. The shocks valving resets faster for better response. In addition, we’ve fit a steel spring that’s way lighter, cutting weight without cutting performance.
SHOWA SPRING FORK: The 49mm Showa fork features a conventional spring design that helps increase the CRF450R’s front-suspension precision, handling and feel. The spring rate provides better bottoming resistance and improved handling.
EXHAUST PIPE: Along with the single-muffler exhaust, naturally we gave the 2021 CRF450R a single-pipe header. We’ve completely changed the routing too, bringing it 74mm closer to the center of the bike. It’s lighter, and helps improve weight distribution.
SINGLE-MUFFLER EXHAUST: Changing the muffler’s construction to a pressed-alloy design let us reshape it too, for better rider ergonomics and lighter weight. How much lighter? More than two and a half pounds!
449CC UNICAM ENGINE: Honda’s Unicam cylinder heads combine the best of single- and double-overhead-cam designs. The configuration contributes to a compact engine that saves weight over a comparable dual-overhead-camshaft motor and also permits a narrow included valve angle. This flattens the combustion chamber to facilitate ignition flame propagation, allowing a high compression ratio. Since less space is taken up in the cylinder head, the camshaft sits lower in the head for a more compact engine and a lower center of gravity.
REVISED DECOMPRESSION SYSTEM: You can’t see this unless you take the engine apart, but you’ll notice it on the track. Our engineers redesigned the auto decompression hardware, and also moved it from the right side of the cam to the left. The result is less stalling at extreme low RPM (think deep into a turn without downshifting) as well as better rideability.
CYLINDER HEAD: The 2021 CRF450R gets a whole cylinder head this year. Its biggest feature: an oval-shaped centralized exhaust port. Together with the single-muffler exhaust, it boosts power from 5000 rpm up, and increases exhaust efficiency.
TITANIUM INTAKE VALVES: Lightweight titanium intake valves cut down on reciprocating mass and permit the use of smaller valve springs, reducing overall engine height.
FUEL INJECTOR BODY POSITION: We’ve changed the angle where the fuel-injector fits into the CRF450R’s intake tract. By steepening the angle from 30 to 60 degrees, the injector now sprays fuel all the way back to the throttle butterfly. The engine gets a cooler, denser fuel charge for more power and better torque. It’s little details like this that put the CRF450R up front.
DOWNDRAFT FUEL INJECTION: The CRF450R features a downdraft intake tract and FI body to help increase both power and fuel-metering precision. It’s part of the reason the CRF450R offers such explosive power and massive torque, especially out of the starting gate and in the critical first 100 feet of the race to the first turn.
DOUBLE-SPRAY INJECTOR SETTINGS: The CRF450R’s fuel-injection system sprays twice per intake cycle. That helps increase fuel atomization without adding the weight or complexity of a second injector. The better fuel atomization means more power in the midrange and on overrev—you’ll feel it the first time you race.
DUNLOP MX33 TIRES: These are the skins of choice for serious MX racers right now, so naturally, we fit the best to the 2021 CRF450R. The Dunlops hook up in a wide variety of conditions, and help you put the CRF450R’s improved cornering performance to the ground.
CYLINDER HEAD LAYOUT: The CRF450R uses our latest finger-follower rocker design. The Unicam cylinder head remains one of the most efficient in the MX world, giving you the design and performance of a double-overhead-cam layout but the compactness of a single-overhead-cam design.
13.5:1 COMPRESSION RATIO: Honda engineering at its best: The CRF450R’s cylinder head features a highly refined combustion-chamber shape and generous squish area, allowing an impressive 13.5:1 compression ratio for superior efficiency and power.
SKID PLATE: A factory skid plate is light and offers the engine and lower-frame protection that a racer demands.
Front - Single 260 mm disc with twin-piston caliper
Rear - Single 240 mm disc
Front - Dunlop MX33 80 / 100-21
Rear - Dunlop MX33 120 / 80-19
Curb - 244 lb. (Includes all standard equipment, required fluids and full tank of fuel—ready to ride.)
Close-ratio five-speed
#520 Chain; 13T / 49T
Four-stroke, Unicam four-valve; 38 mm intake; 31 mm exhaust
Programmed Fuel Injection (PGM-FI), 46 mm downdraft throttle body
DC-CDI
49 mm inverted Showa fork with rebound and compression damping adjustability
Pro-Link Showa single shock with adjustable spring preload, rebound and compression damping adjustability
27° 7 ft. (Caster Angle)
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Search With Yahoo, Hear The Music From Rhapsody
Using Yahoo’s search engine might become music to your ears due to the latest deal between the Internet giant and Rhapsody.
Users who search for an artist with available content on Yahoo will be able to click play right in the Yahoo shortcut at the top of the search results and instantly stream full-length songs by that artist. The songs will be provided by Rhapsody’s FoxyTunes Player.
"The integration of Rhapsody playback into Yahoo! Search is a major step toward our goal of delivering "Music Without Limits" to consumers across the Web," said Neil Smith, vice president of business management for Rhapsody America. "The integration between Rhapsody and Yahoo! eliminates additional steps that previously served as a barrier to connecting consumers with artists and their music."
The new partnership will enable all users to listen to 25 free full-length tracks every 30 days. Once 25 songs have been played, users can are limited to 30-second samples until the next month. Users who already subscribed to the Rhapsody Unlimited streaming service (or wish to subscribe) will not encounter this limitation.
In total, Yahoo offers full-song playback for more than 5 millions tracks.
This is a good for Yahoo, a company which is in great need to increase its share on the Google-dominated search market. As for Rhapsody, the company stands every chance to increase its number of subscribers (or at least, to keep the current ones happy), and that says it all.
Categories: Internet Tags: hear, music, rhapsody, search, yahoo
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'I'm proud of my body': Jessica Mulroney hits back at trolls with bikini pic on Instagram
Elizabeth Di Filippo
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Jessica Mulroney. Image via Instagram/JessicaMulroney.
Jessica Mulroney has only one thing to say to her critics: “I don’t care.”
While most Canadians were enjoying the August long weekend, the Toronto-based brand strategist and public relations maven was busy in Las Vegas, working on assignment for “Good Morning America.” In between filming and coordinating bachelor and bachelorette parties and weddings for a few lucky couples Mulroney shared a photo to Instagram taken while she enjoyed some poolside R&R that immediately set off a firestorm of internet backlash.
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The mother-of-three quickly deleted the photo of herself, facing away from the camera, wearing a blue bikini while shielding her eyes from the sun after some branded the photo “tacky for a mom.” Hours later, Mulroney reposted the snap accompanied by a strong message to all of her haters.
“I took this down after posting it yesterday. Too many trolls attacking,” Mulroney began. “But I realized today, I don’t care. I work hard on every aspect of my life and I’m proud of my body. I’m proud of the work I do. I’m proud that I’m driven. I’m proud of it all. And if we can’t be proud of ourselves, then what’s the point? No more apologies.”
ALSO SEE: Céline Dion looks unrecognizable in bold new photoshoot: 'She's changed so much'
The 39-year-old received support from some of her famous friends and more than 326,000 followers who praised Mulroney for standing up for herself.
“You’re a strong, motivated, driven, hands-on mom who works her ass off with a killer bod that you also work for,” former “Bachelorette” star Kaitlyn Bristowe wrote to Mulroney. “You show off your family proud and you show off that bod, too.”
(Photo by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for Hudson's Bay )
“CityTV” host and Tracy Moore also rallied behind her friend.
“Honestly, I know we’ve chatted about this but sometimes a proper clap back and standing your ground is the best thing to do. Show all the [peach emoji] whenever you want to,” she wrote. “Your body. Your platform. Your rules.”
The petite television personality has been candid about her fitness journey and turning to exercise to help manage anxiety. Mulroney frequently shares photos and videos from her work-outs with her followers as well as inspiring quotes and poems that help her maintain a positive mindset.
ALSO SEE: Renée Zellweger reclaims her status as red-carpet favourite with candy-coloured look
Many of Mulroney’s followers thanked her for being honest about the negativity she receives online.
“Thank you for reposting and telling everyone the ‘back story,’” one follower wrote.
“You should be proud of your body and all the hours of working out. Don’t let the trolls dictate what you post. We’ve got your back!” another echoed. “If I looked like you I would wear that bikini everywhere I went!”
Mulroney has made it clear that she won’t play games when it comes to online bullying. On Sunday, she shared a sample of the hurtful messages she receives on Twitter, re-tweeting a comment from someone who attacked the appearance of her children with husband Ben Mulroney, 8-year-old twins Brian and John and 6-year-old daughter Ivy.
“I put a spotlight on trolls because I want people to really see the truth of what is happening on social media,” she wrote. “We can’t let people get away with appalling behaviour. It should never be tolerated.”
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Man arrested at inauguration checkpoint with gun and ammo says he was lost and did not mean to bring weapon to DC
The man said he got lost driving around Washington DC
The medieval building of Lichfield Cathedral saw a large group of people, mostly over 80's, passing through its doors on Friday (January 15) to receive the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine. The Archbishop of Canterbury and local Member of Parliament Michael Fabricant praised the cathedral's transformation to help battle the coronavirus pandemic on social media, with Fabricant calling it "the UK's most glamorous vaccination center." The government is aiming to vaccinate those in the four highest risk tiers - the elderly, clinically vulnerable and frontline health and social care workers - by February 15, something that would require more than 2 million vaccinations a week. Britain recorded 55,761 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, as the number of infections rises despite hopes that lockdowns across the country could start to help push rates down.
Sen. Bob Casey: ‘Confident’ Capitol will be secure ahead of Biden Inauguration
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World news - Claire Polosak becomes the first female referee in the men's test match
World news – Claire Polosak becomes the first female referee in the men’s test match
Polosak has joined Australian match officers Paul Reiffel, Paul Wilson, Bruce Oxenford and David Boon on the match control team for the third test of the ongoing Border Gavaskar trophy.
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Claire Polosak inspects conditions as the rain stops playing on the first day of the third cricket test between India and Australia during the game. (Photo | AP)
SYDNEY: Australian Claire Polosak made history when she became the first female referee to lead a test match for men as she took on the role of fourth referee in the third test between Australia and India, which will take place on Thursday at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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The 32nd Year old already has the distinction of being the first female referee on the field in an ODI game for men in the ICC Division 2 league between Namibia and Oman, which was played in Windhoek in 2019.
Polosak’s international referee career began 2015 with the appointment to the ICC Women’s T20 qualifying tournament in Thailand. This led to her nomination for the T20 Women’s World Cup in India.
In November of the following year, Polosak made her ODI debut for women when Australia played South Africa in Canberra. Polosak was then named to the 2017 50-Over Women’s World Cup in Great Britain.
Polosak was then nominated to the Women’s T20 World Cup in the West Indies in November 2018, including the semi-finals between England and India at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.
In addition to her men’s ODI match, Polosak has set up 17 ODIs for women with another three as third referee and 33 T20Is for women with another five as third referee. Polosak has been a member of the ICC Development Panel of Umpires since 2018 and a member of the CA Supplementary Umpire Panel since 2014/15.
Domestically, Polosak has played three national one-day cup games and has so far fulfilled the third referee duties in Big Bash 13 times.
The current series of four games is currently set 1-1, with Australia winning the first test in Adelaide while India wins the second in Melbourne.
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Pau Gasol on verge of tying legendary Olympics scoring record
By Kurt HelinAug 7, 2012, 6:35 PM EDT
When Brazilian basketball legend turned broadcaster Oscar Schmidt showed up for a Team USA practice, students of the game like Carmelo Anthony went up to him and asked if they could take a picture with him. Schmidt is an international legend.
And he was the leading scorer in the Olympics in 1988, 1992 (more points per game than Charles Barkley or any Dream Teamer) and 1996.
Pau Gasol may beat equal that mark, (something noted by the ESPN stats department).
Gasol is fluid and skilled in the post, a lethal scorer. (Note to Mike Brown, may want to get him some touches there next season. Just an idea.) Plus Gasol can step out and knock down the midrange. Gasol has been the anchor of the Spanish offense for more than a decade.
Gasol was the leading scorer of the 2004 Olympics in Athens and the 2008 games in Beijing. Do it one more time and he ties Schmidt.
Gasol is tied as the London Olympics’ leading scorer with Patty Mills of Australia at 20.6 points per game. Right behind them are Argentinians Luis Scola (20.2) and Manu Ginobili (20, and arguably the guy playing the best overall in games). Kevin Durant leads the USA at 18.6 per contest.
Mills has one more game, against the USA and its defense aimed at “cutting off the head” — take out the best scorer of the other team, make him give up the rock. Mills is going to get hounded Wednesday. If Kobe wants to do his Laker teammate a solid, he could shut down Mills.
The question is what happens to Gasol’s scoring average against the better teams of the medal round? Be careful asking Lakers fans about them, some of them are oddly biased against Gasol. Because what’s he ever done for them?
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Wizards’ Kevin Seraphin ejected after delivering flagrant foul to Grizzlies’ Jon Leuer (VIDEO)
By Brett PollakoffMar 12, 2015, 10:30 PM EDT
Late in the third quarter of Thursday night’s contest between the Wizards and the Grizzlies, the score was predictably lopsided in Washington’s favor, after Memphis chose to rest four of its starters.
But even with a 21-point lead in place, Kevin Seraphin decided to hammer Jon Leuer on a fast break dunk attempt, which caused him to fall awkwardly to the floor.
It’s unclear whether this was a culmination of smaller incidents between the two players that may have occurred throughout, or if Seraphin just made an unnecessary play to attempt to stop the easy two points.
Either way, the referees saw fit to eject Seraphin for his actions.
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› Human Rights › UN MOVES TO UNBLOCK HUMANITARIAN AID TO NORTH KOREA
UN MOVES TO UNBLOCK HUMANITARIAN AID TO NORTH KOREA
nepalnewsgazette.com August 3, 2018 Comment Closed Human Rights
The UN Security Council is poised to back a US proposal aimed at removing some of the hurdles that tough sanctions on North Korea have thrown up in the way of delivering
humanitarian aid.
North Korea's humanitarian crisis has left about 10 million people � nearly half of the population � undernourished, according to UN officials, who have reported a drop in food production last year.
UN resolutions specify that sanctions should not affect humanitarian aid but relief organizations argue that strict trade and banking measures are creating bureaucratic obstacles and slowing down the flow of vital supplies.
A US proposal put forward last month would provide clear instructions to aid organizations and governments to apply for UN sanctions exemptions for North Korea.
After weeks of negotiations, the UN sanctions committee is expected to give final approval to the new guidelines on Monday.
Once approved, a notice will be sent to the UN's 193 member-states by the committee to provide a clear explanation of its comprehensive humanitarian exemption mechanism which will improve the delivery of humanitarian assistance to North Korea, according to the documents.
The move comes as the United States is calling for maximum pressure to be maintained against North Korea to compel Kim Jong Un to follow through on his pledge to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.
After Russia and China urged the council to ease sanctions, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said the United Nations should not do one thing until North Korea takes action to dismantle its nuclear and missile programs.
A US official said the guidelines would ensure that only critical, life-saving humanitarian activities needed in North Korea can continue and that requests for exemptions will undergo a detailed review.
The United States has been very clear that we will continue to enforce the current sanctions until we achieve the final, fully verified, denuclearization of North Korea, said the official.
Asked about the new guidelines, a Dutch official, speaking as the chair of the sanctions committee, said: We want to make clear that this is about easing the process, not about easing the sanctions.
The Security Council last year adopted three rafts of sanctions targeting North Korea's economy in response to Pyongyang's sixth nuclear test and a series of ballistic missile launches.
Those sanctions ban North Korea's exports of raw commodities while severely restricting imports of a range of goods and supplies of oil � vital for the country's military.
The measures have had a chilling effect, with UN agencies and aid organizations struggling to find partners willing to deal with the bureaucratic red tape from the tight sanctions regime on North Korea.
Economic sanctions are not supposed to have an impact on impartial humanitarian action. But they do. They have unintended consequences, said Simon Schorno, the head of aid operations for the International Red Cross in Asia.
We haven't seen the guidelines yet but we have been promised that they will speed up procedures, exemptions, and generally make processes run smoother. We're hopeful that the guidelines will make carrying out our work easier, he said.
At a UN meeting last month, North Korean Deputy Ambassador Kim in Ryong complained that deliveries of medical equipment such as X-ray machines, anti-malaria insecticides and reproductive health kits had been held up for months.
Kim said humanitarian aid was being politicized and argued that denying assistance to North Koreans in need was a violation of human rights.
The United Nations is also facing a major funding shortfall for its aid operations in North Korea.
An appeal for $111 million in funding for food, medicine and other basic needs for six million North Koreans has so far raised only $12 million � 10.9 percent of the total amount needed.
Only four countries have come forward with donations: Switzerland, Sweden, Canada and France.
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Rizzla releases “Iron Cages / Twitch Queen”
Iron Cages, the new EP by Rizzla is now available via Fade to Mind, and today he releases a video mix from two of his tracks, “Iron Cages / Twitch Queen”.
An unflinching reflection of chaos and resistance, the video is a blend of over 100 YouTube clips taken from riots, newscasters, home rocket enthusiasts and natural disasters, grappling with totalitarianism, gun culture, and revolution. The FADER features a statement from director Yulan Grant, and Rizzla notes:
“The idea was to subvert the current American narrative of racialized disruption, but not shy away from the reality of contemporary police violence. We worked closely together to find the right tone of sci-fi, contemporary horror, and depictions of revolution.”
Steeped in dread and violence, Iron Cages is named for Max Weber’s definition of capitalist bureaucracy, “the polar night of icy darkness” that Rizzla sees personified in modern corporatized club culture. The EP contains five dirges produced over a physically and existentially painful period of his life, deeply influenced by his explorations in ragga, soca, dembow, bubbling and hardstyle, all laced with the signature sinister laughs and masochistic moaning of his early bootlegs.
Rizzla – Iron Cages – Tracklisting
(September 25th, 2015 | Fade to Mind)
1. Iron Cages feat. Odile Myrtil
2. Fucking Fascist
3. Airlock
4. Twitch Queen
5. Black Jacobins
Rizzla streams new track “Twitch Queen”
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Rodrigo Amarante Shares “Mon Nom” video
Rodrigo Amarante has shared a short film for the track “Mon Nom”, from his album Cavalo, now out on Easy Sound. Rodrigo Amarante hits the road with Kevin Morby on July 28th.
[Easy Sound]
Release Date: Out Now
1. Nada Em Vão
2. Hourglass
3. Mon Nom
4. Irene
5. Maná
6. Fall Asleep
7. The Ribbon
8. O Cometa
9. Cavalo
10. I’m Ready
11. Tardei
About Cavalo:
This is my first solo record. It was made during an unexpected but very welcome exile, in a land I wouldn’t predict I’d moor my boat for long but that, given such difference and a refreshingly nameless arrival, gave me the opportunity to recognize my nature, to recoup my ascendance and to disclose a new perspective over myself. It was as a foreigner, separated from others and yet still somehow attached to the furniture I had left behind, bits of myself I hung up around me like dead mirrors I could no longer turn my face to, that came to focus the beauty of the empty room ahead, a hint. I became enamoured by space, by distance, and began to see the double that looks at me from the outside, that reflects the vision I call mine, vehicle and invented accomplice to which I am also a channel, the one I name Cavalo.
I have always felt like a foreigner, imagined myself as an explorer, moving from city to city every three years as a kid, pretending to have the forbearance and courage i ended up forging while secretly carrying the resentment of the imposed detour, of the wait to return. When I finally arrived back in Rio no longer a child and with an accent three times tampered I realized that my home town was mine only because I had invented it, its memory a dream of smells and hope that didn’t exist in space, maybe in time. I discovered myself a stranger, what I had been since I first left, what I knew I would forever be. And it was light and warm, I felt free and grateful, strong, and like this I departed again. I ended up finding myself in a type of desert, happy to be alone, overwhelmed with the void, with silence, the place where I wrote these songs from. I believe that everybody can feel foreign in one way or another, in the way that they feel they’re perceived by others, in their bodies, their streets, in their fate perhaps, so I dream that this vehicle, an unpredictable mirror that i fill, that serves me and that moves me, can also move you, serve yet others, with luck.
To give room to this double that appears as an echo, that shows itself with distance reflected, I opened up space as much as I knew how, subtracted all undue, threw adjectives away and using different languages I was forced to a new conciseness, gathering codes that wouldn’t always be understood as a whole and therefore can create other spaces, allow diversions, inventions. I also threw away the cover. Everything that was inside protected by the cover came out, became exposed, clean of directions or colors, unashamed, open. And the simple beauty of the page revealed itself, black and white that we like to use as a synonym of things clear and exact but that is where the infinite delight of interpretation resides, where the biggest gap is, a lacuna. Inside only the music. And there was yet another separation, another double: inside and outside, the thing and the name of the thing, me and the notion I have of myself. Between one and the other the open hand, the train at the station, an opening in the veil, your own dream. With luck!
R. Amarante
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7/26: Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
7/28: Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom *
7/29: San Francisco, CA – Swedish American Hall *
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8/02: Seattle, WA – The Triple Door
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Boothroyd admits Sunday's epic 'drained' City; Hornets clash was too much, too soon
7th November 2007 By Latest News Leave a Comment
After last night's happy return to Norfolk for ex-Academy coach Adie Boothroyd, the now Watford boss revealed the Hornets' extra day's rest had a vital part to play in the league-leaders' 3-1 victory.
Although the Canaries were still in with a shout after Lee Croft's second-half goal, in truth, they were lacking the spark of Sunday's East Anglian derby. It was understandable really, the sheer nature of the occasion was exhausting for all involved and it was always going to be a massive ask to be at full throttle again just over 48 hours later.
Having played a day earlier in Saturday's 3-0 home defeat to West Brom, the away team came flying out of the blocks and the first-half proved to be key as the Hornets overpowered their hosts and found themselves deservedly two goals up at the break.
Whilst City staged a fightback of sorts ? if not of Ipswich standards – it was always going to be too big a mountain to climb and Marlon King's late goal secured all three points for the Hertfordshire club.
“Did the extra day's rest give us an advantage? Without a doubt,” said Boothroyd, speaking to the gathered press after the game.
“I watched the game on Sunday and I thought it was a great spectacle, a lovely game to watch, very, very open ? almost like two boxers going toe to toe. The emotion of getting up for a big game against your local rivals and to come back from 2-0 down must have definitely taken its toll.
“I thought they might be emotionally and physically drained and in the first-half we had too much for them. Although they started well, we managed to grind them down because of it.”
As for the Canaries, as each game goes by, the gap between themselves ? with only nine points to show for their season so far ? and Championship safety grows ever wider.
To be fair, it won't be against the Watfords of this Championship world where City's fate will be decided; it will be the Colchesters, Scunthorpes and Blackpools that will need to be put to the sword if they are to start climbing the table.
Even Plymouth (a) this Saturday must be seen as a winnable match because yet again ? Watford and West Brom apart ? the clubs in English football's second tier are much of a muchness and if confidence is to be restored at Colney, then the Canaries must start picking up points sooner rather than later.
But with 31 games left and plenty of points to play for, Boothroyd is confident that the Norfolk club can drag themselves out of trouble ? with Glenn Roeder the right man to mastermind the great escape.
“I think they can get out of it and you can see that the players are playing for him (Roeder),” added the 36-year-old Hornets chief.
“They had a real go at us in the second-half and the game on Sunday suggests that there will be lots for Norwich City fans to shout about. Knowing Glenn as I do, I think the club suits him, it's a nice fit and I'm sure he'll get them going and they'll go on a good run of results.”
After watching a spirited Canary fightback at the weekend, Boothroyd must have had a sense of d?j? vu when Croft pulled one back for City on 64 minutes but with the likes of Marlon King and Darius Henderson leading the line, a breakaway third was always on the cards and so it proved.
They pushed forward with menace and purpose all evening and in truth, they could have been more than two-up at half-time but Boothroyd admitted there were a few jitters at 2-1, even if it would have been an injustice had Roeder's men drawn themselves level.
“I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried at 2-1. But it was almost as if we took our foot off the pedal and then put it back on.
“We're always liable to score on the break whilst we are under pressure and Norwich had to chase the game. Thankfully we took one of the chances we managed to create.”
It would be a major surprise – on this showing certainly ? if the Hornets did not claim one of the two automatic promotion spots and the Vicarage Road boss was left licking his lips after a first-half showing that he described as one of the best of the season.
“I was pleased with the result and the first-half performance. That was as good as anything we've played all season and we have tried to build on our efficiency.
“2-0 at half-time is a horrible score and I felt that if we didn't start right then the opposition can come back into it. After Norwich scored, we took a lot of pressure but we managed to deal with it and we're always likely to score another one when we've got players in the team like Marlon King and Darius Henderson.”
Tom Haylett
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Health & Body, Inspirational, Kind Strangers, Medical Office, Oregon, Patients, USA | Hopeless | July 16, 2019
(When I am 24 I notice I am losing weight quite rapidly. I’m a six-foot-tall man and was around 250 pounds with shoulder-length hair. I am at 225 when I go to the doctor about my weight loss. After the blood tests, I am diagnosed with a form of leukemia that is treatable without chemo. I still need to go to an oncologist every few months just to make sure everything is going the way it should be. On my third visit to my oncologist, I am back to my original weight. I’ve seen several patients in the waiting room who have been going through chemo. Everyone else there is going through treatments for more severe forms of cancer and dealing with the effects. I am gaining weight with no side effects from my medication, and have kept my long hair. I can’t help but feel bad, like everyone is thinking I’m not the patient. One day, a woman who is around her mid-30s strikes up a conversation with me. She’s skinny, pale, and wearing a bandanna.)
Woman: “I love your hair.”
Me: “Thank you; I try to take care of it.”
Woman: “So, are you waiting for someone?”
Me: *already feeling my face turning red* “Actually, I’m a patient.”
Woman: “Oh, I’m sorry. Have you just started treatment?”
Me: “No, it’s actually been almost a year. I don’t need chemo; I just come in here so [Doctor] can review my blood tests and make sure my blood count is normal.”
(The woman’s eyes begin to well with tears. I’m feeling really bad, so I start to apologize.)
Me: “I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to upset you.”
Woman: *raising her hand to shush me* “No, don’t apologize. I’m sorry for making you think that. I’m just glad to see that not everyone has to suffer with such a diagnosis.” *pulls out her phone and shows me some photos* “This was what my hair looked like before my diagnosis.”
(She had long black hair that went down to her hips.)
Woman: “I actually had it all cut off before my treatment and donated it to [Charity that doesn’t charge for wigs]. I was a stylist and loved helping people take care of their hair. Don’t feel bad because you still have your hair; a lot of us actually love it when people don’t have to compromise their health even more.”
(I thanked her for helping me not feel uncomfortable anymore. As we were finishing our conversation, a man and a boy come in and sat next to her — her husband and son. We chatted about how the boy was about to start youth football and how I coached one of the teams. He ended up on my team and we became really good friends. She even invited me and my girlfriend to her cancer-free party.)
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The Candleford Chronicle Upstairs Downstairs
Lady Agnes/Keeley Hawes
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Beryl (Laura Haddock)
Lady Agnes Holland - Keeley Hawes
The eldest daughter of the 12th Earl Towyn, Lady Agnes was reared in a very damp castle in Wales. Beautiful and aristocratic, she hasnever been well off. Despite financial hardship, and their failure to have children, her marriage to Sir Hallam has been happy and devoted. The sudden rush of new money thrills her, and she is determined to put her husband, and her home, at the heart of London high society. But even as her dreams come true, Lady Agnes is forced to digest unpalatable truths, and fight to preserve the things she holds most dear.
Sir Hallam Holland - Ed Stoppard
Sir Hallam appears to have everything. In his mid-30s, he has risen rapidly through the ranks of the Foreign Office, and has recently inherited not just 165 Eaton Place but a considerable fortune and a baronetcy.
After a lonely childhood spent in boarding schools, he also has found deep love and solace with his wife Lady Agnes. However, he must also find room in his heart, and his home, for his formidable mother Maud, Lady Holland. The events of 1936 will challenge and change him in ways he could not have foreseen.
Maud : Lady Holland - Dame Eileen Atkins
Maud, Lady Holland is Sir Hallam's mother, and one of the women who helped to build the Raj. A fiercely intelligent and complex woman, she spent her whole adult life in support of her husband, the late Sir Greville Holland, seeing him rise to the very top of the Indian Civil Service. Newly widowed, she returns to England to write her memoirs, and secretly hopes to build a new relationship with her grown-up son. But thirty years of distance are not easily undone, and there will be shocks and heartache along the way
Claire Foy as Lady Persie Towyn
Lady Persephone Towyn is the 20 year-old sister of Lady Agnes.Ravishing but gauche, she has been marooned in Wales due to lack of family funds - a situation Lady Agnes is delighted to reverse. But Lady Persie’s lack of education, and the stimulation of the London scene, make for a highly combustible mix.
Dr. Blanche Mottershead - Alex Kingston
Blanche married her practical nature with her passion for history and became a noted archaeologist. After the Great War, during which she drove an ambulance in Belgium, she was involved in studies of the Rosetta Stone, and the excavation of tombs in the Valley of the Kings. However, Blanche is by no means a romantic and the endless sifting of soil has made her a pragmatist, a seeker and a speaker of the truth. Blanche loved her late sister, but had little respect for her and her lack of reverence for Maud’s memory causes friction with both Sir Hallam and Mr Amanjit, who are dismayed when the uncompromising spinster announces her intention to remain at Eaton PlaceBut Blanche has a history of her own and, when her unconventional lifestyle is exposed, she is forced to
excavate the most tender, painful corners of her soul.
Lady Portia Airesford - Emilia Fox
Lady Portia Alersford, is an upper-class socialite who publishes a scandalous novel. The book gets people talking because it’s based on Portia’s lesbian relationship with Blanche (Alex Kingston). She’s aware of the scandal it might cause, but she doesn’t look too deeply at the consequences of it. She doesn’t think it will be too bad. Her feelings for Blanche overwhelm the scandal it may cause.
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BALL OF EYES
Placebo's debut LP Ball of Eyes is a remarkably focused Soul Jazz record, without the experimentation or Free Jazz moments which were still in vogue during the first half of the '70s. Excellent covers of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues" and Sam & Dave's "You Got Me Hummin'" as well as his own compositions make Ball Of Eyes a perfect example of the genius of Marc Moulin and his incredible band.
Marc Moulin's three Placebo albums are the 'Holy Grail' for the rare groove crowd
More PLACEBO
Catalog # : MOVLP1091 Format : 1 LP, 180 gram Releasedate : 2018-09-21
Barcode : 8719262007840 Sleeve : 3mm Original Release : 1971
1. Inner City Blues
2. Planes
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Marc Moulin (1942 - 2008) was a Belgian musician and journalist. In the early Seventies, he was the leader of the Jazz-Rock group Placebo. Moulin was one of Belgium's jazz legends, making jazz-influenced records for over 30 years. Marc Moulin's three Placebo albums are the 'Holy Grail' for the rare groove crowd, a sector of music fans who love that unique 70s style of cool.
HIGH ON YOU
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HEADLESS HEROES OF THE APOCALYPSE
FINLEY QUAYE
MUCH MORE THAN MUCH LOVE
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POWER OF SOUL
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Standards Committee - Monday 29 June 2020 6.00 pm
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Contact: Catherine Phythian, Committee and Member Services Officer email standards@oxford.gov.uk tel 01865 252402
Note: This meeting was held by Zoom and streamed to the Council's YouTube channel
Election of Chair for the year 2020-21
Councillor Jamila Azad was elected Chair for the year 2020-21.
Election of Vice Chair for the year 2020-21
Councillor Susanna Pressel was elected Vice -Chair for the year 2020-21.
Code of Conduct: summary of complaints and individual dispensations - 1 February to 31 May 2020 PDF 235 KB
View item 4. as HTML 36 KB
View the background to item 4.
Purpose of report:
To advise the Committee of:
1. the number of complaints received under the Members’ Code of Conduct which have been, or are to be, considered by the Head of Law and Governance (in her statutory capacity as the authority’s Monitoring Officer) and the Independent Persons. The report also notes the outcome, where complaints have been concluded; and
2. the number of dispensations to an individual member, granted under Section 33 of the 2011 Localism Act, by the Monitoring Officer, following consultation with an Independent Person.
That the Standards Committee notes the content of the report.
The Monitoring Officer introduced the report. There had been no complaints that councillors had breached the Members’ Code of Conduct in the period covered by the report. Similarly there had been no requests for an individual dispensation under Section 33 of the Localism Act 2011.
The Standards Committee resolved to note the content of the report.
LGA consultation - Model Code of Conduct PDF 251 KB
This report informs the Committee of the consultation by the Local Government Association on its draft Model Member Code of Conduct.
That the Standards Committee resolves to:
1. Note the report;
2. Approve the draft consultation response at Appendix 3; and
3. Authorise the Head of Law and Governance to submit a consultation response to the LGA on the Council’s behalf.
Appendix 1 - LGA Model Member Code of Conduct , item 5. PDF 214 KB
Appendix 2- LGA Model Member Code of Conduct consultation questions , item 5. PDF 265 KB
Appendix 3 - draft responses to LGA Model Code of Conduct , item 5. PDF 265 KB View as HTML (5./4) 20 KB
The Monitoring Officer and the Lawyer introduced the report and summarised the key elements of the LGA draft Model Code of Conduct:
· it aims to be concise, written in plain English and be understandable to members, officers and the public.
· it has been designed to aid members in all tiers of local government model the behaviours and high standards that anyone would expect from a person holding public office.
· it articulates behaviour which falls below the standards that would be expected of council members
· it is designed to help set a framework for public and councillor interaction, emphasising the importance of civility and that councillors should be protected from bullying, intimidation and abuse.
The Committee discussion centred on the draft responses to the consultation, particularly questions 7,8, 9, 11 and 13 of Appendix 3 of the report. The revised draft response set out below reflects the Committee’s views:
Q1: To what extent do you support the proposal that councillors demonstrate the behaviours set out in the Code when they are publicly acting as, identifying as, and/or giving the impression that they are acting as a councillor, including when representing their council on official business and when using social media?
“To a great extent” since it helps to clarify official capacity
Q2: Is it sufficiently clear which parts of the Model Code are legal requirements, which are obligations, and which are guidance?
“No”, it is not clear
Q3:” Do you prefer the use of the personal tense, as used in the Code, or would you prefer the passive tense?
“Passive tense
Q4: To what extent to you support the 12 specific obligations?
Support each of the 12 obligations “To a great extent”
Q5: If you would like to propose additional or alternative obligations, or would like to provide more comment on a specific obligation, please do so here:
Q6: Would you prefer to see the obligations as a long list followed by the guidance, or as it is set out in the current draft, with the guidance after each obligation?
“As a list”, for ease of editing / copying if nothing else – and without a list as an appendix you could be mistaken for thinking the 7 principles of public life are the basis of the code
Q7: To what extent to you think the concept of ‘acting with civility’ is sufficiently clear?
“To a moderate extent”
Q7a: If you would like to suggest an alternative phrase that captures the same meaning, or would like to provide a comment on this concept, please do so here:
“The concept and language of acting with civility seems relevant to the current political environment although perceptions will vary and it will not be easy to assess whetherthis obligation has been breached. The alternative concept of “respect” is suggested (although the same difficulties with recognising breaches apply).”
Q8: To what extent do you think the concept of ‘bringing the council into disrepute’ is sufficiently clear?
Q8a: If you ... view the full minutes text for item 5.
Member training 2020 PDF 133 KB
Purpose of report
To seek the endorsement of the Standards Committee of the specific arrangements for member training in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of local authority elections until 2021.
1. Endorse the arrangements for member training in 2020/21 as set out in the report
The Monitoring Officer presented the report which set out the proposed arrangements for member training in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of local authority elections until 2021. She advised the Committee that the compulsory induction and training programme planned for 2020 would now commence in 2021 and that 2020 would be treated as a “non-election year” for the purposes of member training under the terms of the agreed member Training and Development Scheme 2020-24, which had been endorsed by the Standards Committee at its meeting in March 2020.
In discussion the Committee noted that:
· There would be no compulsory training for Code of Conduct or Planning in 2020
· Where there are changes to councillor roles such as Lord Mayor (in November 2020), training will be offered to those councillors directly.
· Personal Safety training will be offered to candidates standing in the May 2021 local elections, subject to the availability of this training either on a face to face or online basis depending on the circumstances in early 2021.
· Briefings on topical issues will continue to be offered to councillors.
· Councillors may, with the agreement of their Group Leader, draw on the Member Training budget held by Committee and Member Services to access external training courses and events relevant to their special responsibilities or the reasonable learning and development of a councillor.
· Training, equipment and other support has been offered to all councillors in accessing meetings held remotely under new legislation passed in April 2020. The need for this training had not been anticipated in the Member Training and Development Scheme for 2020-24. Feedback from councillors has been broadly very positive about the support provided by ICT and Committee and Member Services.
In response to a question from the Committee the Monitoring Officer confirmed that supplementary training would be provided if there was a recognised need, for example regulatory changes which would impact on the planning or licensing committees.
The Committee were mindful of the changes in the patterns of exploitation that had been reported during the COVID-19 pandemic and considered that annual Safeguarding training should be provided. Members of the Committee who had been present for the previous discussion on training in March 2020 believed that this was what had been agreed at that meeting.
The Monitoring Officer undertook to amend the member Training and Development Scheme 2020-24 to reflect the view of the Committee and to instruct officers to provide Safeguarding training for councillors in 2020.
The Standards Committee resolved to:
1. Endorse the arrangements for member training in 2020/21 as set out in the report and subject to the amendment that Safeguarding training should be provided on an annual basis.
Minutes of the previous meeting PDF 307 KB
The Committee approved the minutes of the meeting held on 2 March 2020 as a true and accurate record subject to the following amendments:
· Apologies: delete “Councillors” and replace with “Independent Persons” before Chris Ballinger and Jill McCleery.
· Minute 18, 4th bullet: delete “biennial” so that minute reads: Safeguarding training was vital and should be provided on an annual basis.
Dates of future meetings
The Committee is scheduled to meet at 6.00pm on the following dates:
· 15 September 2020
· 16 November 2020
· 8 March 2021
The Committee noted the dates of future meetings.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020 | History
2 edition of universal English dictionary found in the catalog.
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by H. C. Wyld
Published 1952 by Routledge and K. Paul .
Statement edited by H.C. Wyld ; with appendix by E. Partridge.
Contributions Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979.
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Montana Congressman Who Assaulted Reporter Lied to Police About It
By Benjamin Hart@realaxelfoley
Who you gonna trust, me or your lying ears? Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
It can be difficult to recall all the individual low points we’ve experienced so far in 2017. Like, remember when an about-to-be-congressman physically assaulted a reporter for having the temerity to ask him a question about health-care policy?
That lawmaker was Montana’s Greg Gianforte, and records made public on Friday show that shortly after body-slamming The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs in May, he falsely told police that Jacobs had been the belligerent one.
Sergeant Scott Secor of the Gallatin County sheriff’s office wrote that when he interviewed Gianforte in a parking lot in the aftermath of the assault, Gianforte said that Jacobs had “stuck a microphone in my face” and had been “interrogating in a very intensive way.” Gianforte told Secor, “I probably shouldn’t do it but I reached out for his phone … he grabbed my wrist, he spun, and we ended up on the floor … so he pulled me down on top of him.”
Gianforte described his ongoing problems with some of The Guardian’s standard journalistic tactics, then resorted to that hoary chestnut, telling Secor that the “liberal media … is trying to make a story.”
This victim-blaming was in line with the campaign’s initial version of the story. Gianforte’s spokesman, Shane Scanlon, said hours after the assault, “It’s unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer BBQ.”
That account, which had seemed absurd on its face, was disputed by eyewitnesses and definitely debunked when Jacobs released audio of the altercation.
Despite his violent behavior, Gianforte was elected to Congress the next day, prevailing over Democrat Rob Quist by about six points in the special election to fill the seat left vacant by the appointment of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
Gianforte pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and offered what seemed like a heartfelt apology to Jacobs, as well as a donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists
But later, to add insult to literal injury, he refused the one-on-one interview he had promised Jacobs.
What a guy.
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Cross country: Moody of Anderson County finished 16th in state, Farragut sixth
Posted at 11:05 am November 28, 2016
Maddy Moody, a sophomore at Anderson County High School, finished 16th in the state during the girls’ Class AAA cross country championship in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Percy Warner Park in Nashville. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
NASHVILLE—Maddy Moody, a sophomore at Anderson County High School, finished 16th in the state during the girls’ Class AAA state cross country championship in Nashville this month.
During the same race, the Farragut girls’ cross country team finished sixth in the state.
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, or TSSAA, State Cross Country Championships were November 5 at Percy Warner Park in Nashville.
As previously reported by Oak Ridge Today, the Oak Ridge boys’ team finished third in the state in Class AAA during the boys’ championships, and Wildcats senior Jake Etheridge finished 11th.
Sasha Neglia, a freshman at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, finished first in the Class AAA girls’ race with a time of 17:32.17.
Annika Sleenhof, a Ravenwood junior, was second at 17:50.40, and Erica Fisher, a sophomore at Arlington, was third, with a time of 17:58.29.
Lindsey Stallworth, a senior at West in Knoxville, was 12th at 19:00.62.
In 16th place, Moody’s time was 19:30.59.
The fastest Farragut runner, junior Anna Delahunt, had a time of 19:51.92. She finished 25th.
Hardin Valley junior Madison Grimm was 34th with a time of 20:12.33, and Anderson County sophomore Mollie Longmire was 38th at 20:17.10.
Oak Ridge junior Genevieve Schwartz, the only Lady Wildcat to qualify for state, was 47th at 20:26.03. She finished 0.01 second behind Farragut sophomore Maggie Atchley, who finished 46th at 20:26.02.
Hardin Valley had two other runners in the top 50: freshman Ellie Bachmann in 49th with a time of 20:27.65, and junior Jenna Wall in 50th at 20:27.94.
The top three girls’ teams were Ravenwood, which finished first with 77 points; Dobyns-Bennett, which was second with 105 points; and Houston, which was third with 175. Farragut was sixth with 227. Hardin Valley was 11th with 281. In cross country, fewer points is better.
The Oak Ridge and Anderson County girls’ teams did not qualify for state, although individual runners—Moody, Longmire, and Schwartz—did.
See the complete girls’ results here.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
The fastest Farragut runner, junior Anna Delahunt, had a time of 19:51.92. She finished 25th in the girls’ Class AAA state cross country championship in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Percy Warner Park in Nashville. The Farragut team finished sixth. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Hardin Valley junior Madison Grimm was 34th in the girls’ Class AAA state cross country championship in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Percy Warner Park in Nashville. The Hardin Valley team finished 11th. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Anderson County sophomore Mollie Longmire was 38th in the girls’ Class AAA state cross country championship in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Percy Warner Park in Nashville. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Oak Ridge junior Genevieve Schwartz, center background, the only Lady Wildcat to qualify for state, was 47th in the girls’ Class AAA state cross country championship in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Percy Warner Park in Nashville. She finished 0.01 second behind Farragut sophomore Maggie Atchley, left, who finished 46th. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Anderson County sophomore Maddy Moody, right, races Ravenwood runners in the girls’ Class AAA state cross country championship in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Percy Warner Park in Nashville. Moody finished 16th in state, and the Ravenwood team finished first. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Sasha Neglia, center, a freshman at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, finished first in the girls’ Class AAA state cross country championship in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Percy Warner Park in Nashville. Annika Sleenhof, a Ravenwood junior, left, was second. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
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Porsha Williams talks ‘rebuilding’ with fiancé Dennis McKinley after cheating rumors
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While discussing the upcoming season of “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Williams opened up about her summertime split from Dennis McKinley, their re-engagement and slowly building trust again.
“We’re happy and we’re raising our daughter together,” Williams told Us Weekly. “It’s been a long road, one we’re still on. We’re going day by day rebuilding our relationship and making sure our foundation is where we want it to be to have a strong family.”
Williams, 38, and McKinley, 42, went public with their relationship in June 2018. Three months later, Williams announced her pregnancy, followed by their New Year’s Eve engagement. They welcomed daughter Pilar Jhena’ in March, and whispers of a split began in May 2019 when McKinley was rumored to have cheated on the reality star, with all of the drama unfolding in front of “Real Housewives” cameras.
“Fans will see everything. I think fans like the fact that I’ve always been very honest and transparent, and I definitely had to just dig in and continue to be that way, even though I was going through a hard time.
Dennis McKinley and Porsha WilliamsAnnette Brown/Bravo
“Fans will see us in counseling and will see me dealing with real life. A lot of what a lot of people deal with in relationships, they’re going to see on TV — the good and the bad and the ugly.”
The couple temporarily split in June, with the new mom admitting that show cameras didn’t make the situation any easier.
“I think the cameras became so big,” she said. “Having to deal with a breakup on camera, having to deal with just what we were going to do as a family, it was really difficult.”
Season 12 of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” debuts Sunday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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Review: Pass Labs X600.8 mono block Power Amplifier
Posted on April 7, 2018 by John Stancavage in Components // 10 Comments
Do you want the hernia or the double hernia? The voice on the phone asking that question was Bryan Stanton, a communications specialist who works with Pass Labs.
A few weeks prior, we had begun chatting about Pass sending me one of its X-series amps for review. I had agreed, and now Pass wanted to know if it should ship the 127-pound X350.8 stereo amp or a pair of the top-of-the-line, 123-pounds-each X600.8 mono blocks. I didn’t hesitate for even a second. “Oh, the X600.8s. Definitely,” I told Stanton. Apparently, my lack of hesitation to go for the big mono amps was the source of some amusement around the Pass office, with the punch line being that reviewers are a rather predictably size-obsessed bunch. (Careful what might end up in an email thread, guys…)
I didn’t take it too personally. After all, there is some truth to that – quite a bit, actually. My particular fascination tends to be less about dimensions, however, and more about performance. I, like many audiophiles, always am curious about the state of the art. If a manufacturer has one product in the middle of its line that’s impressive, what does the flagship sound like? I might not be able to afford it, but I want to hear it nonetheless.
Pass, a pioneer in solid-state power, makes a mind-boggling number of amplifiers. I suspect the explanation for the company’s exhaustive catalog is that its founder, legendary designer Nelson Pass, is a man who is constantly tinkering and getting new ideas. In my mind, I imagine Pass as kind of the Neil Young of high-end audio. In the same way that Young, after decades working at his craft, continues to issue albums at a relentless pace, the industry-veteran Pass has a comparable and seemingly bottomless well of creativity. As a result, Pass has at least five separate lines of amps – with each containing many models – plus an entire second brand, First Watt, for his additional experiments.
123 pounds of American mono block.
The chiropractor-pleasing X600.8s I received are, at $26,000 USD a pair, the top of the X.8 high-voltage series. They are not, however, the ultimate expression of Pass Labs technology, as there stand the pure Class A Xs300 monos at $85,000 USD a pair. Still, the X600.8s are formidable in their own right. While many Class A/B amps operate in A for a handful of watts before switching to B, each X600.8 stays in room-heating Class A for the first 50 of its massive 600 watts of output (into eight ohms).
I’ve had plenty of high-current, high-watt amps in my home. For many years, my reference amps were either a Krell KSA-150 (150 watts, all Class A) or a Krell FPB 300 (offering 300 WPC, although with a sophisticated A/B switching circuit). I remember when I first hoisted the Dan D’Agostino-designed FPB 300 out of the box (with a lot of help) and connected it, I was afraid to push the “on” button. The thought of unleashing so much power was a bit frightening. That feeling came back as I set up the X600.8s. First of all, Stanton was right about the double hernia. The heavily muscled Fed Ex man sighed loudly and gave me an eye-roll when I asked if he would mind hauling the boxes through my front door. Grudgingly, he carried them about 3 feet and plopped them down in the hallway. There they sat for a while, mocking me, until I talked a pair of home handymen (helping with a remodeling project) into moving them into the listening room. Standing clear and watching their faces as they wrangled these amps was a little hard on my ego, I have to admit. Still, discretion is the better part of valor, and all that. They’d saved me from injuring myself, or so I thought…
The X600.8s are handsome amplifiers. The casework is gorgeous, with a tall, polished-stainless face-plate sporting a huge, circular VU meter illuminated by a blue glow, underneath those is an on/off button. On the back, the amps have two sets of output binding posts. The arrangement is a little unusual, with each pair (positive and negative) arranged vertically on one side. The posts are well-marked, however, and are extremely robust. Near the top is a single RCA input, and below that, an XLR jack for balanced operation. The XLR plugs come with a shorting pin that should be left in if the RCA connection is chosen.
I disconnected my Merrill Audio Thor mono blocks and inserted the X600.8s using two-meter XLR runs of AudioQuest Lapis. Next, I attached my Transparent Reference XL speaker cable, which was a little difficult with the vertical location of the outputs and the thick, stiff wire. Finally, I plugged the heavy, supplied power cords into my new PS Audio PowerPort wall receptacles which I added when I had three 20-amp dedicated lines installed during remodelling. The X600.8s now were fully integrated into my reference system, which also included a Mark Levinson 380s preamp, Musical Fidelity M1 CD transport, Mark Levinson 30.5 DAC and Revel Studio loudspeakers. Other wire included AudioQuest Sky XLR from the DAC to preamp, as well as Kimber/Illuminati Orchid and MIT Reference digital cables. My turntable was out for modification, so I listened only to CDs.
As I sat on the couch for a few minutes, still somewhat intimidated to flip the switches on the Pass Labs behemoths, my wife came in to check on me. “Oh my God, you’re bleeding,” she said, looking at a blood-soaked white sock on my left foot. Apparently, I had accidentally brushed up against the X600.8s, which have dozens of sharp heat fins on their sides. The brand-new carpet now had a blood trail. Word to the wise: Either wear boots during set-up or try not to be as clumsy as yours truly.
I decided to kick-start the new amps with a raucous Keith Richards solo track, “As Wicked as It Seems.” As I cautiously brought the volume up, I forced my eyes back open and slowly looked around. The lights didn’t dim, my speakers weren’t melting and I hadn’t succumbed like a character targeted for a dirty deed by AC/DC. (High voltage!) So far, so good. I switched to more ethereal fare, Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way, for an extended repeat-play period that lasted about a week. As I waited for the amps to burn in, I read up on what Nelson Pass was trying to accomplish here.
The Class A/B line of the Pass Point-8 Series, which consists of the X600.8 and four lesser-power amps, is the product of seven years of research. The new amps replaced the well-regarded Point-5 series. In the owner’s manual for the X600.8, Nelson Pass writes that his goal was to advance the key elements of the older amps to the next level. This wound up involving more of everything. The X600.8 uses bigger hardware that is biased more deeply into the Class A operating region. The front-end circuit is more sophisticated and customized for each model. The power supply also is beefier. And, finally, there are those heat fins – larger and more abundant to carry off the extra heat. The solid-state front end uses a mix of JFET, MOSFET and bipolar devices made by Toshiba. The parts actually have been discontinued, but Pass believes so strongly they are superior to anything else that he ordered a deep stock to allow both construction of new amps and repairs. “The result is a front end with high stability, low distortion and (low) noise,” Pass says. “It has a very high input and is DC-coupled. There are no compensation capacitors — in fact, there are no capacitors in the amplifier circuit except across the shunt bias regulators and the power supply.”
Talk Is Cheap.
Since I’d blown the packing dust off with Keith Richards, it seemed appropriate to return to the same number to start my formal listening. “As Wicked as It Seems,” from Keef’s 1992 Talk Is Cheap LP, could easily have been a great Rolling Stones single. Here, Richards’ shaky, nicotine-ravaged vocals are ducked down in the mix. The X600.8 perfectly revealed the wisdom of that production decision. His five-string rhythm guitar had its trademark bite and swagger, however, matched by the equally crunchy lead work of LA session godhead Waddy Wachtel. Several other things immediately stood out about playback of the song through the Pass Labs X600.8s. First, there was an effortless quality to the sound, even when Richards’ band, the X-Pensive Winos, shifted to full tilt. Second, there was a weight and solidity to the presentation that was combined with an unusual sense of depth.
The Trinity Sessions.
I switched to the Cowboy Junkies’ slow, hushed cover of Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane” from their chill-out classic The Trinity Session. The song was recorded live to RDAT in a Toronto church, with the four players circling a single Calrec Ambisonic microphone. This spare 1987 song contains just bass, electric guitar, drums and vocal. On an exceptional system, however, the ambiance of the old venue is a key fifth element. The X600.8s recovered this ethereal quality to a remarkable degree, with Michael Timmins’ guitar echoing off the walls and sister Margo Timmins practically whispering the lyrics into my ear. Probably because of the straight-to-tape nature of the recording, the vocals have some occasional sibilant issues. On the X600.8s, those sibilants were still there, but the lush midrange I attribute to the first 50 watts of Class-A power seemed to minimize them. At the same time, both ends of the frequency extreme were equally as impressive, with Alan Anton’s bass having both depth and tunefulness and Peter Timmins’ subtle cymbal work portrayed with a silken sheen.
Another recording that really highlighted the X600.8s resolution and dynamic capabilities was jazz singer Lyn Stanley’s The Moonlight Sessions, Vol. 2. The second song, a cover of the American Songbook standard “The Very Thought of You,” begins with Stanley introducing the lyric over a tasteful piano line. Then bass enters, following by the swell of an orchestra. The X600.8s easily handled the dynamic shift, with the song getting louder but not aggressive. Stanley’s voice, which was recorded on Frank Sinatra’s old Neuman tube mic, had notable texture and the piano – a difficult instrument to capture – sparkled.
Plugged in, and turned on.
Occasionally in reviews, I will rave about how a component created reverb trails that stretched far into the back of the studio. The X600.8s had that kind of sound-staging, but they did more than that. Track after track, each player’s instrument was extremely full-bodied. It was easy to conjure the illusion of real people gathered in a room. The best way to describe it would be that the experience was the aural equivalent of witnessing live actors in a play, rather than watching the same production on a movie screen. One has people occupying real space on a large stage, while the other is a projection that doesn’t extend behind a thin screen.
In comparison to my reference Merrill Thor mono blocks, the X600.8s had better-defined lower bass, more weight and a fuller midrange. The perceived dynamic range seemed wider, and the Pass amps had the uncanny ability to portray three-dimensional players in space. The 200-watt Class D Thors, though, had a slight edge in overall smoothness. Finally, the X600.8s got much hotter than the Thors. If you have a cat, it won’t curl up for long on top of these babies. My Krell units, meanwhile, had superior bass slam, but showed their age in nearly every other category. To be honest, none of these matchups was a fair fight, since the most expensive of the Krell amps had half the watts and retailed for $10,000 USD when new, while the Thors sell for $4,800 USD and come second in the Merrill line to the $12,400 USD Veritas monoblocks.
After swapping amps, I decided to see how the X600.8s would fare with speakers that are significantly different from my Revel Studios. I inserted a pair of MartinLogan Prodigy hybrid electrostatics, which have a nasty impedance dip that goes down to about 2 ohms. The Pass monoblocks’ significant Class A power brought a new depth to the Prodigy’s magic midrange and both extended and polished the high frequencies.
Full size, full weight: X600.8
At $26,000 USD a pair, the Pass Labs X600.8s are the most expensive amplifiers I’ve ever had in my reference system. Heck, they are by far the costliest component of any kind I’ve ever unboxed. Yet, these unabashedly heavyweight powerhouses offered a fascinating opportunity to see what a gifted, veteran designer could achieve with fewer cost restrictions. Perhaps the outstanding attribute of the X600.8s was their ability to portray musicians and their instruments as 3-D, full-size entities, realistically positioned left-to-right and front-to-back across the soundstage. I’ve heard some other listeners describe the Pass house sound as “solid state with warmth.” After a months-long demo, I think what they’re hearing isn’t really warmth, which to me would imply some degree of reduction in texture, detail and resolution. Instead, I suspect what they’re reacting to is a remarkable, full-bodied presentation. Pass amps – particularly the X600.8 – offer solidity without excessive thickness, detail without brightness, and dynamics without fatigue. Add to that stunning depth with realistic instrument layering, and you have quite a feat of engineering.
Simply put, the Pass Labs X600.8s are the finest amplifiers I’ve ever had in my home, and are on the short list of the best I’ve ever auditioned anywhere at any price. For those who can seriously shop at this level, they should be a must-audition. For everyone else, these mono blocks still deserve to be heard, if for no other reason than to attune your ears. Audiophiles in the latter category, if it’s any consolation, at least you won’t have to risk the double hernia getting them home.
Associated equipment:
Preamplifiers: Pass X12, Mark Levinson No. 380s
Amplifiers: Pass Labs X600.8 monoblocks, Merrill Audio Thor mono blocks, Krell FPB 300.
Digital: Mark Levinson No. 30.5 DAC, Musical Fidelity M1 transport.
Loudspeakers: Revel Studio, Martin Logan Prodigy.
Cable: Transparent Reference XL speaker cable, AudioQuest Sky and Lapis XLR interconnects, Kimber/Illuminati Orchid digital, MIT Reference digital.
Editor’s Choice recipient: The Pass Labs X600.8 power amplifier.
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10 Comments on Review: Pass Labs X600.8 mono block Power Amplifier
Andrea // May 12, 2018 at 5:12 PM //
Nelson Pass è uno dei più grandi nel panorama audio, detto questo mi chiedo perché i cavi blu e rossi che portan corrente ai stadi finali son cablati in modo non molto corretto.
Pat // April 8, 2018 at 10:44 AM //
Wow, very nice. I don’t think I’d ever buy them. Not just because my pockets aren’t anywhere near deep enough but because at what point in audio fidelity is the point of diminishing returns?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a music junkie as is anyone with a soul. I’m also a want a be hardware junkie. I buy the best I can afford. Usually used components. But, would I realy be able to tell the difference between a fabulous system and one that is priced at ludacrice level? I’m not so sure.
John // April 8, 2018 at 1:25 PM //
Yes of course you can. Don’t be hard on your ears just because of price. Try What’s Best Forum to read discussion of the differences. They’re obvious and worthy. Of course personal taste, room acoustics and everything else matters. No need to close a door to your mind that your pocket and 98% of everyone else can’t afford. Lol just enjoy great engineering and design wherever you find it.
Bill Caraher // April 8, 2018 at 9:42 AM //
I love the Marantz on your rack! Do you still use it? I’d love to read more reviews of affordable and accessible vintage gear that punches above its price on eBay or Audiogon.
I just parted with mine (https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2013/10/02/sound-archeology-vintage-marantz/) and already miss it.
Panagiotis Karavitis // April 7, 2018 at 4:45 PM //
You don’t need a 600 Pass beast to drive the Revels. If you had a pair of big ATCs on the other hand, now that would be quite something 😉
hectorcarballosa // April 7, 2018 at 3:14 PM //
Dear Peanut Gallery; If you aint heard these amps and cant afford them and you cant post a well-mannered comment, stuff a smelly sock in your ____ “opinions”, please. And thank you. Sincerely, a poor shmuck who aint heard nor can afford these things. XO and tootles!!!!
cedup // April 7, 2018 at 12:41 PM //
For $26K, then why wouldn’t this guy include the best AC line cord to make it the best $26K, think about the markup!!! What changes with a “different” AC cord, that doesn’t happen with a “standard” line cord, so you are saying Pass, really doesn’t know everything? Or did he FORGET, as is mentioned in the article ..PROFIT on each dopey unit
Matt Schmidt // April 7, 2018 at 8:33 AM //
“Wicked As It Seems’ is from Main Offender, not Talk Is Cheap. Good song though.
cedup // April 7, 2018 at 7:28 AM //
$26K!!! That is funny. And that means they shouldn’t have sharp edges on the heat sinks. It also means it’s poor build quality. So they buy generic heat sinks, unfinished, and charge $26K, are you a rube? Audio by VanAlstine has better stuff more potent for much much much less, checkout his new MONO 800+ watt amps…ya can buy 4 of em for less than these Pass crap, Pass on Pass, fancy box, that is not even well finished.
John Read // April 7, 2018 at 5:15 AM //
Nice review. I’ve read in other Pass Labs reviews that he ships with a stock power cable as you used. Reviewers who used upgraded power cables such as MIT Cables report another significant uptick in performance. Imagine that…😉
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Weaponising rumour: Australia's new political sensitivity
By Binoy Kampmark - posted Monday, 5 March 2018 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
The hide of Australia's political classes has been worn. Some members, admittedly, never had one. With tiptoeing around language ravaging, and in some cases savaging discussion, pondering policy has become nigh impossible. What matters after the Barnaby Joyce affair is rumour and private speculation.
First came the threatening malice associated with Jobs and Innovations minister Michaelia Cash. Having been pressed by Labor Senator Doug Cameron in a Senate Estimates hearing about her newly hired chief of staff, including relevant employment record, Cash went volcanic. The minister, wrote Jenna Price with tart disgruntlement, "is what you get when you hire on merit. Or at least the Liberal Party's version of merit."
Having touched upon "staff matters" – a self-designated sacred zone – Cash warned Cameron to be "very, very careful" as she was "happy to sit here and name every young woman in Mr Shorten's office over which rumours in this place abound."
This gave an odd twist to proceedings: the former minister for women had effectively made women potential dynamite in an unsubstantiated claim of impropriety, sexual or otherwise. It would be for "Mr Shorten to come out and deny any of the rumours that have been circulating in this building now for many, many years."
After the hearing, Labor Senator Penny Wong weighed in, demanding Cash withdraw the "outrageous slurs… impugning the staff working for the Leader of the Opposition". This Cash did, "if anyone had been offended by them" and duly lodged a complaint about media filming her whiteboard shelter as she entered another estimates committee hearing.
Deputy Opposition leader Tanya Plibersek suggested that Cash had undermined "the professionalism of the many competent, intelligent, hardworking young women who work on all sides of politics."
The stir duly became a whirlpool, sucking in all its adherents. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull explained to members in the House of Representatives how Senator Cash had been "bullied and provoked by [Labor] senator [Doug] Cameron… who was making insinuations about staff."
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, never considered a merry friend of women, cared to angle it differently from his successor, telling Sydney radio 2GB that the minister had suffered a "brain snap". "There's been far too much cheap smear and it's time it ends… it must end."
In this age of hashtag outrage and social media clicktivism, a paradox has emerged. Never have people been more engaged in snark and venality online while upholding a fictional standard of purity in political debate.
A blurring has now taken place, to the point where suspicions abound, and everything is fair game. "Tabloid culture, emboldened by the looseness of social media," claims Jacqueline Maley of the Sydney Morning Herald, "has merged with the openness encouraged by the #metoo movements to create a new atmosphere where previously unsayable things are being said."
As if to prove the point, Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton told his customary reactionary refuge, 2GB radio, that "we've sat here taking a morals lecture from Bill Shorten in relation to Barnaby Joyce over the last few weeks and people know that there's a history of problems in Bill Shorten's personal life, Tony Burke's personal life." A view charmingly free of any policy critique.
Soon afterwards, a similar incident unfolded in another estimates hearing. Veteran Labor Senator Kim Carr, whose length of time in the chamber has essentially imprinted him into Canberra's furniture, felt so comfortable as to call his opposite number, a young Senator James Paterson, a "member of the Hitler Youth". Paterson expressed outrage; Carr claimed he was being facetious. Withdrawals duly followed.
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Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne and blogs at Oz Moses.
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pizzeria tazza
Tazza transforms "the big cup" into pizzeria
To dine at Tazza Pizzeria, 5010 W. Vliet St., is to eat "Pizza at The Cup." Owner Matt Bohlmann introduces his new restaurant to Washington Heights.
By Julie Lawrence Special to OnMilwaukee.com Published Nov 09, 2007 at 5:24 AM
It's been almost five years since the 2,200-sq. ft. building at 5010 W. Vliet St. belonged to Milwaukee Coffee Company, yet, despite the space's frequent turnover -- from coffee to bagels, back to coffee and now pizza -- the gigantic coffee mug and saucer the company used to advertise its locale remains perched high above Vliet Street for all to see.
In fact, the huge cup has become such a community landmark that when Matt Bohlmann opened his pizzeria there in August, it was the neighborhood that convinced him to keep it.
"At first I wasn't sure what we'd do, but as it evolved, it's been unanimous -- the majority of the neighborhood wants it to stay," says Bohlmann. "Someone even said, 'I'll never come in there if you get rid of it.'"
So now, as their tagline reads, to dine at Tazza Pizzeria is to eat "Pizza at The Cup."
Teaming up with a group of MATC interior design students, Bohlmann and crew have created a delightful little sit-down restaurant that feels fun enough to bring the kids, but mature enough to enjoy a nice evening sharing a pie and a couple glasses of wine.
The students converted the space from the stainless steel jungle that it was during the brief Another Blessings Café days into something colorful, comfortable and pizza appropriate. To tie the exterior coffee cup in with the dining room, they crafted larger-than-life pieces of pizza to act as booth dividers, made slice-shaped chairs for the tables, and hung an oversized pie cutter above a corner table for six.
If it sounds cheesy, just go see it for yourself -- it actually works really well in the setting.
A Washington Heights resident for many years, Bohlmann says he had a vested interest in opening a restaurant in a neighborhood that is definitely on the rise, but is still lacking in the dining department.
Meritage, 5921 W. Vliet St., opened in late summer -- replacing Indigo -- and Tazza neighbor Perpendicular Wine Bar, 5000 W. Vliet St., serves lunch daily, but Bohlmann says there was still nowhere to take the kids. Opening up shop directly across from Wick Field Park will most likely hit a home run with the ravenous post-game crowd during softball and football season.
So while he never owned a restaurant before, Bohlmann had his community's best interests in mind when he went forward with the pizzeria.
"Pizza has universal appeal if you can come up with a good recipe," he says. "So far, the food's been the easy part."
And it is easy. The pizza menu is completely create-your-own, with your choice of a traditional tomato sauce base, pesto, or alfredo sauce. The appetizers -- all of which are handmade - range from simple items like fries ($1.50) and garlic bread ($2.50) to an antipasto plate ($3.50) hot or plain wings ($3.95) and breaded eggplant ($4.95 for full order). Dinner plates feature calzones ($6.95), lasagna ($8.95) and a series of Italian sandwiches.
Tazza offers a nice beer selection -- Miller, Lakefront, Sam Adams, Hacker Pschorr, among others -- as well as wine, which is sitting right there on each table in individual jugs. Tazza serves Three Thieves wine, in red zinfandel and chardonnay, and, if drinking red, customers help themselves to the bottle already at the table and pay on the honor system.
"It's been working out really well so far," say Bohlmann. "With Perpendicular Wine Bar next door we didn't want to be like a Pizza Man with a thousand bottles of wine and compete with them, so we are keeping it simple."
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OnMilwaukee.com staff writer Julie Lawrence grew up in Wauwatosa and has lived her whole life in the Milwaukee area.
As any “word nerd” can attest, you never know when inspiration will strike, so from a very early age Julie has rarely been seen sans pen and little notebook. At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee it seemed only natural that she major in journalism. When OnMilwaukee.com offered her an avenue to combine her writing and the city she knows and loves in late 2004, she knew it was meant to be. Around the office, she answers to a plethora of nicknames, including “Lar,” (short for “Larry,” which is short for “Lawrence”) as well as the mysteriously-sourced “Bill Murray.”
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Pragya Singh Thakur is no ordinary member of BJP, the ruling dispensation in the country. She is a MP from Bhopal and was also made the member of defense committee before she was removed from that committee for her statement hailing Nathuram Godse. She first came to lime light after the Malegaon blasts, in which six people were killed. Hemant Karkare, the police officer who was killed in 26/11 (2008) attack was investigating the case and he came across the fact that the motor cycle used in Malegaon blast was previously owned by Thakur. That led to her arrest and unearthing of the plot in which many were arrested. She is currently under bail on medical grounds.
Then she came to prominence as she stated that Karkare had tortured her and it is due to her shap (curse) that Karkare got killed. Under pressure from top, she withdrew this statement. After this she went to state that Nathuram Godse was a nationalist, is a nationalist and will remain a nationalist. Again she was pressurized to withdraw this statement, and Mr. Modi even said he will not be able to forgive Thakur.
Latest in the series of her statement come the one about Varna system. On one hand she stated (on 13 12 2020) that “shudras “feel bad” when they are called shudras due to “ignorance” about the social system. Addressing a gathering of the Kshatriya Mahasabha, Thakur said that society has been divided into four categories in “our dharmashastra (social treatise)”. In the same vein she commented that “Today’s kshatriya need to understand their duties and produce more and more children to induct them into the Armed Forces so that they can fight for the nation and strengthen its security.”
It is likely that she may be pressurized once again to withdraw these utterances of hers’, but it is not just incidental that what she says is the part of deeper understanding of sectarian nationalists. Despite the meticulous investigation of Karkare, what is being propagated currently that it was the UPA II which wanted to implicate Hindu right wings groups. Two of RSS workers have been in jail for the blasts around that time. Many of those against whom cases were going on, were given bail or exonerated. The reason for this has been that the prosecuting authorities have been told to go soft on these cases. Rohini Salian the Public Prosecutor (PP) in Mumbai court stated this and she refused to budge. Thereby she was removed as PP.
As far statement about Godse is concerned they are so many from the cabal of Thakur who have been openly celebrating Godse, temples in his name are coming up. Even that act of assassination of Gandhi was recreated by Poonam Pandey of Hindu Mahasabha on 30th January 2019.
Caste Varna has been the thorn in the flesh of this sectarian nationalist ideology. While Ambedkar burnt Mausmriti for its prescriptions of Varna and Gender hierarchy, the second Sarsanghchalak of RSS, M.S. Golwalkar praised the laws of Lord Manu and stated that these ancient laws are matter of admiration even today. RSS mouthpiece Organizer criticized the Indian Constitution on the ground that it does not draw from the great laws given in Manu Smiriti and many from Hindu nationalist argued that India does not need a new Constitution as it already has the one, Mausmriti.
The dilemma for this sectarian ideology is to keep talking in the language which should appear to fit into the contemporary times, to keep giving lip service to the Indian Constitution, while doing everything to undermine it in practice. While demonizing Muslims has been the starting point of consolidating Hindus and mobilizing them but keeping dalits in subjugation as a strategy has been more complex.
Ambedkar aimed at caste annihilation, the ideology of Hindu nationalism has floated ‘Samajik Samrasta Manch’ (Social Harmony Forum). The projection here is that in ancient times all castes were equal and living in harmony. It was due to coming of Muslims, who wanted to convert and as natives offered resistance, were displaced leading to castes becoming unequal. Mr. Modi in his book, Karmayog, since withdrawn, tells us that Manual scavengers are not doing so just for the sake of livelihood but for the spiritual pleasure which they derive from that. The process of social engineering, in co-opting the sections of dalits into Hindutva political fold has been very deep, and dalit-Adivasis have even been used as foot soldiers of Hindu nationalist politics.
BJP has also succeeded in incorporating many dalit leaders by luring them with power. What Pragya Singh Thakur says is not out of the sync with what the ruling dispensation and RSS plan. It is a question what to say and what to mean. Closest analogy may be that of Elephant’s teeth, what is seen, shown and what is visible is different from the real one. The biggest challenge for this ideological organization is to take the name of Gandhi while keeping Godse alive in their ideology. Keeping caste-Varna system alive, while mouthing equality, is their aim.
As far as Khstriyas producing more children, it is being heard for the first time in a loud and clear manner. So far different RSS Chiefs have opposed family planning programs on the ground that Muslims don’t follow it, Hindus follow it so the Muslim population will go up. Most of these celibate propagators so far have been advising Hindu women to produce more children. Thakur is bringing forth the Varna, among Hindus and saying that Khstriyas (Warrior group) should produce more children. This is novel. Whether this will also be followed by the recruitment policies of the armed forces will become clear over a period of time.
It is the ilk of Thakur which shows us the deeper agenda of sectarianism, it is not only marginalizing of minorities, it is also aims at putting up the show of Hindu unity, while retaining the caste/Varna hierarchy.
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Bandit9‘s new L-Concept motorcycle is a two-wheeled masterpiece that pays tribute to sci-fi films. The road-ready bike consists of a sleek stainless steel unibody tank along with a suspended engine that mimics the stylings of the USS Enterprise.
The L-Concept is built with a unibody tank, while the chrome plated stainless steel suspended engine is modelled after the reactor on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek. The engine alone takes over 60 hours to make by hand.
The handcrafted build comes with sculpted grips along with levers chiseled from one piece of solid aluminium and an accompanying Italian calf leather teardrop saddle. LEDs also provides the necessary signals for travelling the road and making you feel like you’re piloting a speeder. The tail section supports the bike’s square taillight, which consists of 45 micro LEDs covered by what Bandit9 calls a “Pantheon Rear Grill”. The tail light has integrated turn signals, while the indicators up front are two small units wrapped around each fork residing on both sides of the cowl.
The L-Concept might look like a piece in the museum, but it is in fact made for the road. According to Bandit9, the L Concept has a top speed of 110 km/h. Powered by a 125 cc engine paired with 4-speed manual transmission. Bandit9 states on the website that 4 out of 9 L-Concept examples are still up for grabs at US$ 10,950 each.
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Monastery of the Assumption of Our Lady of Mount Royal (Jacksonville, Florida)
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Dormition of Our Lady of Mount Royal (Holyrood) is a Western Rite stavropegial monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). It is currently located in Jacksonville, Florida.
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1.2 Western Rite Orthodoxy
2 Abbots
Old Catholicism
After three years of working toward restoring an authentic Benedictine Rule in the West, the monk Dom Augustine Harding founded the original monastery on March 7, 1910 near Chicago, Illinois under the auspices of the Old Catholic Church. The community grew, and by the 1930s, began its scholarly restoration of early liturgics pre-dating the Great Schism. In 1938, the community moved to Woodstock, New York, where it was re-dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Royal and had its canonical enclosure set up in 1940. Eight years later, the monastery's buildings were destroyed by fire on New Years Day, which forced the brethren to abandon the grounds and disperse.
In 1958, Dom Augustine Whitfield was elected as the second abbot under the promise to continue the monastery's original mission of a restored Western monastic observance to its original pre-schismatic form.
Western Rite Orthodoxy
In 1962, the community was received into the patriarchal Russian Orthodox Church by its American exarch, Bishop Dositheus (Ivanchenko) of New York. For several years, the monks of Mount Royal staffed a Western Rite chapel in the Russian Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Manhattan. Bishop Dositheus' successor, Archbishop John (Wendland), blessed and confirmed the Western Rite observance and mission of Mount Royal and the leadership of its abbot, Dom Augustine Whitfield.
In 1975, under Abbot Augustine, the monastery was received into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia by Archbishop Nikon (Rklitzsky), who again authorized and blessed its mission and observances.
In 1993, the former Prior of Mount Royal, Dom James (Deschene) founded Christminster in Rhode Island, which subsequently relocated to Hamilton, Ontario.
On Sunday, July 4, 2010, Abbot Augustine reposed[1] and was succeeded as abbot by Dom David (Pierce), whom he had nominated to Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) of Eastern America and New York before his repose.
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 Dom David (Pierce) reposed in the Lord[2].
Dom Augustine Harding: 1910-1958 (Old Catholic hierarchy)
Dom Augustine Whitfield: 1958-2010 (1958-1962 Old Catholic)
Dom David Pierce: 2010-2014
↑ Jacksonville, FL: Abbot Augustine (Whitfield) has reposed in the Lord
↑ Abbot David (Pierce) and Archpriest Alexander Atty reposed in the Lord
http://orthodoxwesternrite.wordpress.com/mount-royal-monastery Unofficial site
Dom Augustine Whitfield (Abbot of Mount Royal). Directions for the Celebration of The Western Orthodox Liturgy Commonly Called the Mass. Revised Edition. Privately Printed, 1975. (Usage of Mt Royal - Part 1)
Dom Augustine Whitfield (Abbot of Mount Royal). The Order for the Celebration of The Western Orthodox Liturgy. (Usage of Mt Royal - Part 2)
Dom Augustine Whitfield. Mount Royal - the monastery of Mount Royal, a Brief History (revised 2011)
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Mount Athos as seen from the ridge road
Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece, called Άγιο Όρος (Ayio Oros or "Holy Mountain") in Modern Greek, or Ἅγιον Ὄρος (Hagion Oros) in Classical Greek. It is home to 20 Orthodox monasteries and forms an autonomous state under Greek sovereignty. Only monks are allowed to establish permanent residency on Athos and the current population numbers around 1,400. The peninsula, the easternmost "leg" of the larger Chalkidiki peninsula, protrudes into the Aegean Sea for some 60 km at a width between 7 to 12 km and covers an area of about 390 km², with the actual mountain and its steep, densely forested slopes reaching up to 2,033 m.
The seas around the end of the peninsula can be dangerous. Xerxes I had a channel excavated across the isthmus to allow the passage of his invasion fleet in 483 BC.
Monastics from Mount Athos are often referred to as Athonites or Hagiorites.
3 List of Monasteries and Sketes
4 World Heritage Classification, UNESCO
St. Athanasius of Athos being shown the Holy Mountain by the Theotokos
Mount Athos as a monastic community was formally founded in 963, when St. Athanasius (not to be confused with the 4th century St. Athanasius the Great) established the monastery of Great Lavra, still the largest and most prominent of the 20 monasteries. It enjoyed the protection of the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire during the following centuries and its wealth and possessions grew considerably. The Fourth Crusade in the 13th century brought new Roman Catholic overlords which forced the monks to seek protection from Pope Innocent III, until the restoration of the Byzantine Empire. It was raided by Catalan mercenaries in the 14th century, a century that also saw the theological conflict over the hesychasm practised on Mount Athos and defended by Gregory Palamas.
The Byzantine Empire collapsed in the 15th century and the newly established Islamic Ottoman Empire took over. They heavily taxed the monasteries, but for the most part left them alone. The population of monks and their wealth declined over the next centuries, but was revitalized around the 19th century by the donations and new arrivals from other Orthodox countries, such as Russia, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia, while each country came to exert its influence on individual monasteries. In 1912, during the First Balkan War, the Ottomans were forced out and after a brief conflict between Greece and Russia over sovereignty, the peninsula formally came under Greek sovereignty after World War I.
Politically the peninsula is mostly self-governed and consists of 20 main monasteries and the capital city and administrative center, Karyes, also home to a governor as the representative of the Greek state. Beyond the monasteries there are 12 sketae, which are dependent communities of a monastery, as well as many (solitary) hermitages throughout the peninsula. Visits to the peninsula are possible for laymen, but they need special permission.
Women are completely barred from the peninsula, a fact which has earned a certain amount of fame; even female domestic animals (with the exception, some say, of cats, as well as chickens which lay eggs that provide the fresh egg yolk needed for the paint used in iconography) are forbidden. However, during the Greek Civil War, Athos did shelter refugees including women and girls. [1] The reason for the ban are various miracles of the Mother of God when she shown her desire in this matter and, also, a canon forbidding male visitors to enter female monasteries, and female visitors to male monasteries. While not observed in most monasteries today, Athos is by no means unique in its enforcement of the rule. Unique to Athos is the fact that, due to the whole peninsula being devoted to the monastic vocation, the rule is observed also outside the monastery walls.
In modern times, the Mount Athos monasteries have repeatedly been struck by wildfires, e.g. in August 1990, and in March 2004, fire gutted a large section of the Serbian monastery, Chilandari. Due to the secluded locations of the monasteries as well as the unavailability of suitable fire fighting gear, the damages inflicted by these fires are often considerable.
Greek is commonly used in all Greek monasteries, but in some monasteries there are other languages in use, in St. Panteleimon, Russian; in Chilandari, Serbian; in Zographou, Bulgarian; and in the sketae of Prodromou and Lacu, Romanian. Today, many of the Greek monks can also understand English or other European languages.
Xenophontos Monastery
Looking toward the sea from the main entrance of Iviron Monastery
St. Panteleimon's Monastery
List of Monasteries and Sketes
The Monasteries
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Great Lavra (Megisti Lavra)
Vatopedi Monastery
Iviron Monastery
Chilandari Monastery (Hilandar)
Dionysiou Monastery
Koutloumousiou Monastery
Pantokratoros Monastery
Xeropotamou Monastery
Zographou Monastery
Dochiariou Monastery
Karakalou Monastery
Philotheou Monastery
Simonopetra Monastery
St. Paul's Monastery
Stavronikita Monastery
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The Sketes
Prodromou Skete (of Saint John the Forerunner)
St. Anne's Skete
Little St. Anne's Skete
Kafsokalyvia Skete
Skete of Vatopedi (of Saint Demetrios)
Skete of Iviron (of Saint John the Forerunner)
Skete of Koutloumousiou (of Saint Panteleimon)
Skete of Pantokratoros (of Saint Elijah)
New Skete (Nea Skiti)
Lacu Skete (of Saint Demetrios) (Lakkoskete)
Skete of Xenophontos (of Announciation)
St. Basil's Skete
Provata Skete
Associated Monasteries
Cenobium of the Annunciation (Ormylia, Chalkidiki)
Monastery of St. John the Theologian - Souroti
World Heritage Classification, UNESCO
Date of Inscription - 1988
Reference No. 454
Criteria: (i), (ii), (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii)
An Orthodox spiritual centre since 1054, Mount Athos has enjoyed an autonomous statute since Byzantine times. The 'Holy Mountain', which is forbidden to women and children, is also a recognized artistic site. The layout of the monasteries (about 20 of which are presently inhabited by some 1,400 monks) had an influence as far afield as Russia, and its school of painting influenced the history of Orthodox art. [1]
1988, "Advisory Body Evaluation"
1988, Decision "Report of the 12th Session of the Committee"
2004, Decision "28COM 15B.37"
2005, Decision "29COM 7B.32"
2006, Periodic Reporting "(cycle 1) Section II Summary"
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The Ascetic Experience - an Athonite site run by Athonite monks
A Pilgrim's Guide to Mount Athos
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Greece Mount Athos
The Holy Mountain - Mount Athos: The Heart of Orthodox Monasticism
Mount Athos: The Holy Mountain
Walk in Mount Athos
Chilandar Monastery
The Friends of Mount Athos
A Pilgrim's Guide to Mount Athos (courtesy of The Friends of Mount Athos)
Books of Athonite Interest (courtesy of The Friends of Mount Athos)
Visiting Mount Athos
An American Pilgrim on Mount Athos
Visiting Athos, the Holy Mountain (Aghion Oros)
The Holy Mountain
Athos - Monastic life on the Holy Mountain (exhibition)
Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Information for Pilgrims
Called to the Holy Mountain: The Monks of Mount Athos by Robert Draper, photographs by Travis Dove, from National Geographic
Holy Mount Athos
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Joanna Kirk’s pastel paintings relate her experience of motherhood in which beauty is marked out against everyday reality to provide a new perspective on her work and life. Using her fingers to b...
Joanna Kirk’s pastel paintings relate her experience of motherhood in which beauty is marked out against everyday reality to provide a new perspective on her work and life. Using her fingers to blend colours and build surface, much of Kirk’s inspiration is drawn from the Impressionist painters Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt for whom domesticity was their given sphere, as well as later artists such as Louise Bourgeois for her ongoing revision of childhood experience.
Kirk's new work takes this theme to a more extreme level. The children are now immersed in the landscape more than ever before, 'lost' or 'devoured' by the chaos and scrupulousness of nature. These much larger pieces challenge the eye with their deliberately detailed surfaces.
May 21, 2016 I Prefer Life
Weserburg Museum of Modern Art
Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Germany
21 May 2016 – 26 February 2017
September 9, 2015 At Blain|Southern London
Blain|Southern London will present an exhibition of new large-scale works in pastel by Joanna Kirk from September 9th to October 8th, 2015.
October 4, 2012 Paintings at Blain Southern
Joanna Kirk continues with her themes of landscape, figure, memory and nature – psychological pastel landscapes in her two recent paintings available to view at Blain Southern. They are uniquely detailed and highly charged pastel paintings. See the paintings on our blog here.
The works are available to view by appointment at Blain Southern, Hanover Square, London.
Joanna Kirk’s publication is available through Other Criteria here.
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September 9, 2010 Miles To Go Before I Sleep
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Using her fingers to blend colours and build surface, Joanna Kirk’s pastel paintings relate her experience of motherhood in which beauty is marked out against everyday reality to provide a new perspective on her work and life. A number of the landscapes are drawn from locations in north Wales including Nant-y-Coed, Llanberis and Llanfairfechan.
Joanna Kirk's large-scale works at Blain|Southern London
Afghanistan Pakistan, 2009, Pastel, 122 cm x 214 cm x 4 cm
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France Italy, 2009, Pastel, 122 cm x 214 cm x 4 cm
Pakistan United States, 2009, Pastel, 122 cm x 214 cm x 4 cm
United States France, 2009, Pastel, 122 cm x 214 cm x 4 cm
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Crisis response capability (organisation, surveillance, training)
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