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NFL discussing major voting education, registration initiative
Kevin Patra
Around the NFL Writer
Thursday's NFL virtual meeting between owners has focused on voting initiatives.
NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported that the 1 p.m. ET meeting kicked off with a discussion of a new major NFL voting education and registration initiative, per a source informed of the situation.
"Our goal is for everyone associated with the NFL to register to vote and vote and inspire others," NFL senior VP of social responsibility Anna Isaacson said on a conference call. "… We all have a shared right and obligation to go vote."
The league is developing programs that will focus on education, registration and activation and working with the NFLPA, the Players Coalition and others (RISE, US Vote Foundation, etc.), per Rapoport. The goal is for everyone associated with the NFL, from players to coaches to executives and staff to register, vote, and spur others to vote.
Commissioner Roger Goodell has had multiple conversations with players the past couple of weeks, and voting was an area they consistently stressed as important and a place where the league could aid, Rapoport added. Owners, general managers, coaches and other execs have also expressed interest in focusing on voting initiatives along with players. The league plans to support players who set up programs in their own communities designed to aid and educate on how to exercise voting rights.
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Nidderdale Museum Society
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The Old Workhouse
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Your Favourite Things
by Nidderdale Museum | Dec 27, 2020 | Nidderdale Museum
The Museum has more than 32,000 artefacts, documents and photos within its collections. For those of you who have visited us, we are sure that you will have one or two favourite items that have a real meaning for you. Maybe this will be based on having seen the item...
Museum remains closed during early part of 2021
The Museum had to close in November as part of the national lockdown, and the decision was taken to remain closed during December, as it is always a quiet period. Given the uncertainty about tiers and the possibility of further lockdowns in January, it has now been...
Support for Re-opening
by Nidderdale Museum | Oct 5, 2020 | Nidderdale Museum
We are delighted to report that Stowe Family Law, in Harrogate have made a donation to Nidderdale Museum to assist with its re-opening costs. Making the Museum COVID secure, with hand sanitising stations, extra cleaning routines, establishment of a one-way system, as...
by Nidderdale Museum | Sep 24, 2020 | Nidderdale Museum
It has now been confirmed by VisitBritain that Nidderdale Museum has acquired the status of Good To Go. This means that the Museum has followed government and industry COVID-19 guidelines, has a Risk Assessment in place and a process to maintain cleanliness and aid...
National Heritage Open Day 12 September
by Nidderdale Museum | Sep 8, 2020 | Nidderdale Museum
The Museum opened to visitors on 29th August at weekends, and there has been a good response. On Saturday 12th September, visitors will be welcomed free of charge, as the Museum takes part in National Heritage Open Day. From then on, it is hoped that the Museum will...
Re-Opening 1.30p.m. Saturday 29th August
by Nidderdale Museum | Aug 18, 2020 | Nidderdale Museum
RE-OPENING is almost here! The Museum has been closed since 19th March in line with government restrictions. Although Museums have been able to open since 4th July, this Museum has needed to take its time to get ready and find more volunteer stewards, but that has now...
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Posted November 21, 2011 by Daniel Levine in Features
Kamikaze Hearts: An Upstate Retrospective
Of all the upstate NY bands to show promise in the last five years – only to fizzle out – did any show more promise than the Kamikaze Hearts? If there was, I didn’t hear them. No other band quite captured the feel of the region quite as well.
See, I know upstate NY. I grew up there. It’s a bit like the American South… more relaxed, but with a heavier edge of fatalism; electric instruments don’t seem right in it. Distortion and noise there seems mostly like a younger brother imitating the NYC older brother. Punk there is mostly a chronicle of the minutia of local gossip. Yet acoustic groups also don’t quite capture the feel of the area, though they come closer. Caffè Lena, where I frequented, and where the Kamikaze Hearts played several of their earliest and most memorable shows, is supposedly the oldest Caffè in America. Don McLean supposedly wrote “American Pie” in The Tin and Lint, a bar down the street (where I also met two very drunk Oxycontin dealers on one dollar draft night, a story for another occasion), then performed it for the first time at Lena’s. A very young Bob Dylan was almost booed off the stage until an irate Lena Spencer supposedly yelled to the crowd to “SHUT THE FUCK UP!” between sets. Among the various couches on which the great Dave Van Ronk slept, it hosted one of the most prominent ones. The place is littered with ghosts and folklore which unfortunately took over the space after the battle for control over it that occurred after Lena’s death.
The Caffè Lena I grew up near was one of the several hubs for Saratoga-based music, but it was also a graveyard of dried-up folk revivalists, who – because of the Caffe’s non-profit charter – were carted up in a seemingly unending cycle as a way to show the country’s culture or something. They played the same couple boring Dylan covers and traditional folk songs (never the juicy murder ballad stuff though) with the same boring Peter Paul & Mary harmonies, the sort of people who honestly saw a cultural line between Clarence Ashley and John Denver. It was embarrassing. America was a much more strange and dingy place than that. That wasn’t our culture. That was the dessicated remains of a dead plagiarism culture, that of the folk revival of the 1960s.
The Kamikaze Hearts – taking liberally from the Neil Young tradition but with enough of their own swagger, craft, and dinginess to distinguish themselves – stood out brilliantly from their first and now impossible-to-find self-titled release. Each successive release grew stronger and stronger, their confidence behind the instruments and behind the board growing exponentially. A wonderful porch-rock sound cushioned the plaintive whines of singers Troy Pohl and Gaven Richard, who sang about common afflictions like pining after women, addiction, and long road trips, but added specifically upstate flavors; they often were couching narratives in civil war imagery, listing off local stalwarts without fanfare, all in a catalog-like fashion. A frequently performed song in live performances, but now only available on the solo Gaven Richard release Wayward Puritan, was “Mahogany Ridge”. It highlighted a broken down bar near Delucia’s Deli in Malta NY with very interesting prose; the narrative was not commemorative, but rather the specific setting simply positioned an internal narrative. People don’t have conversations in Kamikaze Hearts songs, except with themselves.
Foxhole Prayers would not have been their greatest release if the group had continued and finished their final record. I remember a show I saw shortly after the release of Oneida Road; they were the best they’d ever been. The subdued sound of Oneida after I brought it home seemed a disappointment; the show had been more enervating and exciting, more uptempo than any I’d seen by a punk band in the area. Songs off later live recordings such as “Galaxy Room” and “Boston Wailer” offered a glimpse into what could have been.
But as it stands, it’s a lovely release. A combination vinyl EP and mini-CD, the cover stencil of an old man would not have been out of place in John O’Brien’s Vermont trilogy or the kitschy blarney paintings of The Parting Glass, a local bar. I remember working at WSPN Skidmore Radio and playing the songs off it before it was actually released for sale so I could use the recording of my radio show as a bootleg of the album. On a grainy Tascam cassette I sat rewinding “Cinnamon Life” over and over in the grey-silver boombox I’d taken to the backyard to be alone with my discovery.
Opener “Tennessee” has a slow shuffle and repeated guitar line that makes it a direct descendent and refinement of the similarly excellent album opener to their earlier Seven More Wonders of the World album, “Weekend in Western New York”. Pohl’s voice comes across soft with an edge, delivering matter-of-fact punches with such lines as “you always seemed to be that clever and able / to swallow the natural instinct to scream.” The effect isn’t chilling so much as oddly entrancing in its resignation, the workmanlike attention given no matter what one’s station. Chilling, what Sufjan Stevens unsuccessfully strove toward in his strained and promiscuous regionalism.
“Lubbock, TX” is the EP’s other gem, another narrative of people stuck in places. It is interacting with them, almost as much as the other characters in the narrative. In a tone of heartbreak so strained, so urgent, and so marked with déjà vu it approaches trailer park absurdities, the band reaches a pinnacle. The backing stops and starts, stops and starts, stops and starts…
Seven More Wonders of the World, also sometime mistakenly referred to as the self-titled album, is a wonder of vocal tensions and instrumental rejoinders, with strumming patterns tight as tied twine. This is the most emotionally volatile Hearts album, less tinged with regret than with the chaos of recollections and yelps of rationalization, especially on standout tracks “Accident”, an account of a military massacre, and “War Horse”.
Military imagery spots the albums like the fading discolorations of old stone buildings. “Grand Tactics”, perhaps the album’s greatest track, merges both the lovely slow harmonies the group executed so well with a rallying dynamic coda. A rare gospel influence works it’s way into later tracks “Secret Handshake” and “In My Way”.
The song links above are all clips. The following are full song MP3s courtesy of Kamikaze Hearts:
Kamikaze Hearts – Five Point Turn
Kamikaze Hearts – Beverly Hills
Kamikaze Hearts – Ash Wednesday
Kamikaze Hearts – No One Called You a Failure
RIYL: Neil Young, Ish Marquez, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Quichenight, Jayhawks, Grapes of Wrath
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Cécile Locatelli : "Olympique Lyonnais moved the lines"
Published on 30 March 2020 at 1:51 PM by SC / ER
50 years ago, the French Football Federation first recognized women's football. In 50 years since, the discipline has seen its number of licensees multiply by 100 to more than 200,000 at present. Cécile Locatelli (director of the Lyon's academy and coach of the French Women's Under-17 Team), explains in this interview what this anniversary represents.
This recognition of women's football in 1970 by the FFF made it possible to give structure to everything that had been done before. There were things that happened before 1970 that were unofficial. This recognition made it possible to: lead to the creation of a French championship with teams officially recognized by the FFF.
A big step forward:
Yes, because it made it possible to integrate like the mens' structures, to have access to he clubs, to also have a structure that allowed girls to have regular training, regular trainers, leaders, who allowed girls to play every weekend in a much more precise setting than before.
Can we say that from 2004, OL has helped to boost this women's football?
Even before 2004, myself having experience it, before Olympique Lyonnais, there was FC Lyon which was for me the forerunner of Olympique Lyonnais. It was also a fairly pioneering club which won four titles as champions of France, before merging with Olympique Lyonnais so at the Lyon level there was already a good base. After joining up with OL in 2004, it strengthened its structures. And Jean Michel Aulas had the intelligence to take over a well-functioning club and bring it forward with a master's hand to where it is now. I think that Olympique Lyonnais changed the paradigm but we must not forget Louis Nicollin with Montpellier who was one of the first if not the first to want to bring players to the professional level. Another point to note, Jean-Michel Aulas treated them the same way: girls 'and boys' soccer. He then pushed other clubs like PSG, Bordeaux to take his example.
Sum up these fifty years in a phrase :
One phrase is difficult, but I am happy to be able to tell my children and now my children tell me that there is no difference between access to boys 'and girls' football. Before when a girl asked her mom or dad if she could play soccer it was difficult. Now it is getting easier and easier. A little girl can play football anywhere and however she wants, and above all without having any particular comments from anyone. Well done.
50 ans !!!! Merci à toutes ces personnes et toutes les autres qui ont contribué au développement du foot féminin !!!! Bravo et merci 🙏 pic.twitter.com/TlbM4mqkP0
— Camille Abily (@cam10abily23) March 29, 2020
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Review - There's Nothing There #1 (blackmaskstudio)
The lifestyles of the rich and famous are something that very few everyday people can really fathom, primarily because they seem so unattainable. A lot of what goes with that culture is an approach to life rife with hedonism. Sometimes that hedonism leads to perverse after-effects that could border on supernatural as in There's Nothing There #1 from Black Mask Studio. The issue is written by Patrick Kindlon, illustrated by Maria Llovet and lettered by Jim Campbell.
Celebrity-socialite Reno Selleti doesn't believe in very much beyond Instagram comments, hipster drugs, and the flash of paparazzi cameras, so when a friend invites her to an EYES WIDE SHUT-type party she goes along mostly for the lulz. But the joke doesn't feel as funny when she realizes it's an actual occult ritual, and suddenly she's seeing things... Horrifying apparitions trying to warn her. "RUN."
Kindlon launches into There's Nothing There #1 by emphasizing the selfie-obsessed culture that Instagram celebrities cherish as the core underlying thread. His approach is sound in that it let's the reader know right away what kind of character Reno is (and the people she surrounds herself with). The dialogue is very quick and entertaining as well, offer glimpses into that culture through extremely biting statements that also bite the speaker--the exchange about a Long Island renovation's value is definitely a first-world problem. Where Kindlon excels the most though is the horror subtext underlying the entire issue that is spun as a celebrity breakdown. It's apparent that the masquerade-turned-orgy that opens the issue was something more and Kindlon's exploration of that will make the series interesting.
Llovet's artistic approach is very loose and relaxed, providing the book with a sense that everything is being sketched out. The book's premise is predicated on the rich and famous being just that and Llovet does a pretty solid job of rendering that mentality. Characters are illustrated with a loose attention to physique that effectively establishes the style of the characters themselves. There are a couple of pages in the middle of the book that very graphically represent an orgy and might turn some readers off, but Llovet handles the sequence well. And it's almost as if Llovet is looking to simulate a watercolor approach in the book in that there's vaguely colored shapes throughout that symbolize people and objects.
There's Nothing There #1 is a very intriguing first issue. Reno is a seemingly vapid lead character who might be getting into something quite a bit more terrifying than not taking UberBLACK. Kindlon's script does suffer from some pacing issues, but is otherwise pretty solid. Llovet's illustrations are appropriate as the amorphous approach reflects the fluidity of the characters' personalities. There's Nothing There #1 looks to parlay a reality show culture into something with more of a horror undertone.
There's Nothing There #1 is available now.
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Artemas Pushes Pop Boundaries on “High 4 U”
It's clear that Oxford's Artemas is destined for stardom. His songwriting, vocals, and production abilities all come together to create distinct and undeniably catchy electronic pop. His most recent single "High 4 U" is the perfect introduction for those unfamiliar with the artist.
"High 4 U," produced by Artemas and Kevin White, is a captivating combination of electronic and alternative pop sounds that climactically builds with Artemas's emotive performance. The lyrics of the track show Artemas reflecting on a struggling relationship all while stunning listeners with his impressive vocal runs.
The multi-talented artist is only a handful of songs into his discography, but he already sounds like a veteran. Artemas's individuality and unique use of influences make his music refreshing in the oversaturated contemporary pop scene.
Listen to "High 4 u" by Artemas below:
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It was their steps that caused it
Among the the several recurrent storylines about English soccer — wonderful domestic league, are not able to acquire the major intercontinental game, usually chokes in a penalty shootout — there is just one that, to an outsider, seems specifically curious.
The 1 about Raheem Sterling.
The gist of it goes a little something like this: Sterling, who is England’s 23-yr-previous star winger, is typically portrayed as contentious, divisive and one particular of the most polarizing figures in English soccer.
So, then, let’s start in this article: Is Sterling actually polarizing?
Definitely he has influenced a wide range of news media protection in a relatively short time, ranging from fawning tributes (The Telegraph called him a “teenager sensation” as early as 2011) to the acquainted, and frankly unreasonable, anticipations of loyalty normally imposed on athletes when they deign to check out and make more income (“Raheem Sterling turning his again on Liverpool”). There has also been a great deal of coverage of his off-industry pursuits, most of which falls someplace in between acceptable and hysterical (“Baloony” was one particular headline following a online video emerged of him inhaling nitrous oxide in 2015).
It is not apparent that any of this helps make Sterling polarizing (only, rather, that it can make him rather well known). Polarizing figures, specifically in sports activities, typically have to actively do anything or be anything divisive to turn out to be a lightning rod, and generally that some thing is, in by itself, divisive.
For example, Alex Rodriguez, the former baseball star, was polarizing simply because he was commonly arrogant and seemed to defy several of the team-initial tendencies of specialist athletics. That amazing cockiness, blended with his actual prowess, allowed A-Rod to place forth a persona that some uncovered endearing, if not aspirational, though some others saw as epically boorish. Then A-Rod turned even additional polarizing for the reason that he was caught employing efficiency-maximizing drugs, a fact that pitted people who imagined him a cheater towards all those who thought he had built a miscalculation.
But bad behavior is not the only way to be polarizing. Tim Tebow, who aggressively highlighted his devout Christianity (even in the center of football online games), and Colin Kaepernick, who selected to use the pregame actively playing of the national anthem as a auto to make a statement about law enforcement brutality and social justice, are amid the most divisive figures in American sporting activities background, and they became that simply because of beliefs they purposely sought to share.
It was their actions that caused it.
In Sterling’s situation, the perpetual debate close to him feels to be just that — all around him — and does not seem to be some thing in which he is essentially participating. Sterling does not make political statements, does not advocate for just about anything controversial (or just about anything in unique, truly), does not do nearly anything unconventional to press a self-selling agenda.
In a modern initially-particular person essay that was posted on The Players’ Tribune, he told a quite benign — and, if we’re getting honest, not altogether unconventional tale for a expert athlete — of escalating up inadequate, supporting his mother and family members get by and ultimately parlaying his athletic ability into a much better lifestyle. “England is still a location exactly where a naughty boy who arrives from nothing at all can reside his desire,” he wrote.
So what, then, prompts the intense reactions to Sterling? Why are there headlines criticizing him for getting a luxurious property? (The property was actually for his mom.) Why was the tattoo of a gun on his leg a nationwide tale? (He stated he got it to try to remember his father, who was murdered by a gun when Sterling was a toddler.) Why does all the things related to Sterling appear to morph into a referendum on him as a participant or person?
One particular principle is that race is a variable. But that idea doesn’t entirely monitor, as Sterling, like all minorities, faces racism to vary degrees all the time (he was even attacked by a admirer as soon as who was shouting racial epithets) but has not been confined, skillfully, because of it. And Marcus Rashford, Ante Rebic Croatia Jersey who is also young, black and a teammate of Sterling’s with England, does not encourage anywhere around the exact same reactions.
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Romans 5:14 Cross References
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Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jonah 4:11
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
Exodus 1:22
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
Exodus 1:6
Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
Genesis 5:5-31
Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh. Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died. When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.
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Concentrations of Protected Classes from Analysis of Impediments
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A new component of fair housing studies is an analysis of the opportunities residents are afforded in “racially or ethnically concentrated areas of poverty,” also called RCAPs or ECAPs. An RCAP or ECAP is a neighborhood with significant concentrations of extreme poverty and minority populations. HUD’s definition of an RCAP/ECAP is: • A Census tract that has a non‐white population of 50 percent or more AND a poverty rate of 40 percent or more; OR • A Census tract that has a non‐white population of 50 percent or more AND the poverty rate is three times the average tract poverty rate for the metro/micro area, whichever is lower. Why the 40 percent threshold? The RCAP/ECAP definition is not meant to suggest that a slightly‐lower‐than‐40 percent poverty rate is ideal or acceptable. The threshold was borne out of research that concluded a 40 percent poverty rate was the point at which a neighborhood became significantly socially and economically challenged. Conversely, research has shown that areas with up to 14 percent of poverty have no noticeable effect on community opportunity. (See Section II in City of Austin’s 2015 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice: http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/NHCD/Reports_Publications/1Analysis_Impediments_for_web.pdf) This dataset provides socioeconomic data on protected classes from the 2008-2012 American Community Survey on census tracts in Austin’s city limits and designates which of those tracts are considered RCAPs or ECAPs based on these socioeconomic characteristics. A map of the census tracts designated as RCAPs or ECAPs is attached to this dataset and downloadable as a pdf (see below).
2010 Census/ACS Basic Block Group Data
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basic characteristics of people and housing for individual 2010 census block groups
2010 Census/ACS Basic Census Tract Data
basic characteristics of people and housing for individual 2010 census tract portions inside or outside KCMO
Uninsured Population Census Data CY 2009-2014 Human Services
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This data is pulled from the U.S. Census website. This data is for years Calendar Years 2009-2014. Product: SAHIE File Layout Overview Small Area Health Insurance Estimates Program - SAHIE Filenames: SAHIE Text and SAHIE CSV files 2009 – 2014 Source: Small Area Health Insurance Estimates Program, U.S. Census Bureau. Internet Release Date: May 2016 Description: Model‐based Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) for Counties and States File Layout and Definitions The Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program was created to develop model-based estimates of health insurance coverage for counties and states. This program builds on the work of the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program. SAHIE is only source of single-year health insurance coverage estimates for all U.S. counties. For 2008-2014, SAHIE publishes STATE and COUNTY estimates of population with and without health insurance coverage, along with measures of uncertainty, for the full cross-classification of: •5 age categories: 0-64, 18-64, 21-64, 40-64, and 50-64 •3 sex categories: both sexes, male, and female •6 income categories: all incomes, as well as income-to-poverty ratio (IPR) categories 0-138%, 0-200%, 0-250%, 0-400%, and 138-400% of the poverty threshold •4 races/ethnicities (for states only): all races/ethnicities, White not Hispanic, Black not Hispanic, and Hispanic (any race). In addition, estimates for age category 0-18 by the income categories listed above are published. Each year’s estimates are adjusted so that, before rounding, the county estimates sum to their respective state totals and for key demographics the state estimates sum to the national ACS numbers insured and uninsured. This program is partially funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC), National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection ProgramLink to a non-federal Web site (NBCCEDP). The CDC have a congressional mandate to provide screening services for breast and cervical cancer to low-income, uninsured, and underserved women through the NBCCEDP. Most state NBCCEDP programs define low-income as 200 or 250 percent of the poverty threshold. Also included are IPR categories relevant to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In 2014, the ACA will help families gain access to health care by allowing Medicaid to cover families with incomes less than or equal to 138 percent of the poverty line. Families with incomes above the level needed to qualify for Medicaid, but less than or equal to 400 percent of the poverty line can receive tax credits that will help them pay for health coverage in the new health insurance exchanges. We welcome your feedback as we continue to research and improve our estimation methods. The SAHIE program's age model methodology and estimates have undergone internal U.S. Census Bureau review as well as external review. See the SAHIE Methodological Review page for more details and a summary of the comments and our response. The SAHIE program models health insurance coverage by combining survey data from several sources, including: •The American Community Survey (ACS) •Demographic population estimates •Aggregated federal tax returns •Participation records for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp program •County Business Patterns •Medicaid •Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) participation records •Census 2010 Margin of error (MOE). Some ACS products provide an MOE instead of confidence intervals. An MOE is the difference between an estimate and its upper or lower confidence bounds. Confidence bounds can be created by adding the margin of error to the estimate (for the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (for the lower bound). All published ACS margins of error are based on a 90-percent confidence level.
2010 Census/ACS Detailed Block Group Data
detailed characteristics of people and housing for individual 2010 census block groups
2010 Census/ACS Detailed Census Tract Data
detailed characteristics of people and housing for individual 2010 census tract portions inside or outside KCMO
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Corrosion kept MAX train door open on ride along I-84, TriMet says
A screengrab from a video posted on YouTube shows a man sticking his head out of an open door on a moving MAX train on Feb. 15.
By Everton Bailey Jr. | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Corrosion on switches inside a MAX train door probably caused it to stay open during a Feb. 15 trip along Interstate 84, TriMet says.
Transit agency officials announced Friday that they plan to change equipment and maintenance schedules as well as remind MAX operators to watch door indicators and make sure all doors close before leaving stations.
A MAX rider posted a video on YouTube of a Blue Line train speeding along the I-84 corridor to Lloyd Center with a door open. No one was hurt in the incident, but the video shows many passengers were startled.
At one point, one person sticks his head out the open door and exclaims that he "should jump out and sue TriMet."
Harry Saporta, TriMet’s safety and security executive, said the door malfunction probably resulted from moisture causing corrosion on two switches inside the bridgeplate, a ramp under the train’s door that allows users of wheelchairs and other mobility devices to board.
“MAX train doors open, on average, about 74 million times a year, but it’s safe to say that this is a rare occurrence,” he said.
TriMet said the train was preparing to leave the Hollywood Transit Station at Northeast 42nd Avenue when a rider touched the door’s edge to stop it from closing. The door remained open for about 2½ minutes, until the train reached its next stop, the Lloyd Center at Northeast 11th Avenue.
Saporta said no problems were found with the MAX train, an older Type 2 model, during its previous inspection in December. He said each train’s bridgeplate mechanics are examined about every six weeks.
A TriMet investigation and an Oregon Department of Transportation inspection found no overall safety issues with doors of Type 2 and 3 MAX trains, Saporta said. Of TriMet’s 127 MAX trains, 79 are Type 2 or 3.
TriMet plans to replace bridgeplate switches on Type 2 and 3 trains, place the switches higher and put plastic coverings over them to reduce exposure to moisture and corrosion, Saporta said.
The train in the incident was temporarily taken out of service. A monitoring system and other diagnostic equipment will be installed and checked daily to find any problems.
The train will not rejoin the fleet for at least three weeks, Saporta said. If the monitoring equipment works, TriMet plans to install similar systems on all Type 2 and 3 trains. He did not have a cost estimate.
“It’s just the right thing to do,” he said.
The driver involved has been disciplined, but Saporta would not give details. He also refused to comment on claims that the driver ignored passengers' calls for help by intercom.
According to an ODOT inspection report, the operator did not activate the intercom until the train arrived at the Lloyd Center. Also, the operator reported that the door indicator on the driver’s console did not show a problem.
The operator reported learning of the door failure from one rider who used the intercom after the train stopped and another rider who banged on the cab door, the ODOT report said. The door was later latched shut.
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The Osgoode Certificate in Human Resources Law for HR Professionals
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Do you have a solid understanding of the still-evolving laws governing the employment relationship and its risks for employers? Can you appropriately conduct workplace investigations and implement practical, timely solutions? Benefit from our distinguished faculty’s expertise and insights in these and other key areas, at this thirteenth edition of the acclaimed Certificate program now offered in an online only interactive format.
Key takeaways from this certificate:
Do’s and don’t’s when drafting employment agreements
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Occupational health and safety: the key provisions
Practical strategies regarding the duty to accommodate
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Boro: Rags and Tatters
"Boro: Rags and Tatters from the Far North of Japan" by Yukiko Koide & Kyoichi Tsuzuki introduces readers to Japanese "boro" textiles, literally rags that made up clothing and household textiles. Tohoku (snow country), and especially Aomori Prefecture was synonymous to most Japanese with dire poverty. Located on the northernmost tip of the main island of Honsu, Aomori was home to poor farmers who, out of necessity, created astonishingly beautiful textiles. This frozen north country was too cold to grow cotton, so the local folk grew and wove hemp for clothing and made everything, from diapers to futon bedding to work clothes, from scratchy hemp cloth. If a single layer of cloth wasn't warm enough, they stitched and reinforced layer upon layer, patching holes and stuffing hemp fuzz in between for whatever insulation they could get. During the same period in parts of Japan further south, people who could get cotton used and reused any scrap of it they could get. People soaked worn-out old clothes in rice-rinsing water to loosen and pull out threads, never wasting the least bit, stitching over ripped and ragged layers as thick as they could. Or they cut the cloth into thin ribbons and re-wove it into "sakiori". They braided bits of fibers into rope to be worn as headbands while doing farmwork.
The beauty and composition of these pure and simple products have drawn the attention of textile and contemporary art collectors, and boro has been exhibited in New York and Milan. This book presents the collection of Chuzaburo Tanaka, who walked the farming and fishing villages of Aomori from the mid-1960s searching out boro. The collection includes thick jackets made for home or night wear, work clothes, including trousers and vests, undershirts, leggings, children's clothes, tabi (split-toe socks), mittens, diapers, and bedding. The book has very little text, but it is printed in both Japanese and English, as are the captions of the photographs. There is a good explanation of the use and history of both hemp and cotton, as well as how cloth was reused for various purposes. The book contains a brief history of Chuzabuo Tanaka. Almost every page has a beautiful color photograph, so you can see both full-length and up-close images of these wonderful folk textiles.
This un-paginated (approx. 120 pages) book measures approx. 6.75 by 8 inches. This book is brand-new, published in 2009. An earlier edition was published in Japan in 2008.
If you like sashiko stitching, indigo, mingei, folk art or Japanese textiles, you'll find this book very interesting.
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The Data Storytelling Podcast
Ryan and Stef work in one of the most innovative fields of technology, AI. But despite what you think, they didn’t go to MIT or graduate from Harvard, they didn’t even study Computer Science in college. They found their way into the field as they were trying to solve business problems at their former organizations. Now, the two lead up the West Coast Sales and Customer Success teams at Narrative Science and on this podcast they are interviewing some of the most innovative people in the world talking with them about how they acquire and implement cutting edge technology in their organizations big and small. On this podcast, their guests break down the business challenges that are leading indicators that their organization needs to push their analytics strategy further, the conditions that are required to acquire and deploy such technology from a technological, organizational and process perspective, as well as the cultural and financial outcomes of making the leap. You’ll get actionable ideas and advice from thought leaders in the analytics space and beyond so you can start helping your organization step into the future.
Rank #1: Episode 3: Alex Czurylo, SVP, Group Product Operations at Rakuten Advertising on why starting with the outcome and working backwards is the best way to develop a strong business case for implementing cutting edge technology
Find Alex on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexczurylo.
Rank #2: Episode 2: Scott Francis, 3x CTO turned Amazonian, "There’s no compression algorithm for experience"
Learn from Scott Francis and his more than 20 years of experience leading innovative teams and extremely complex and technical products and services on how to identify and implement cutting edge tech by 1) Starting with the business problem, 2) Studying the problems the technology solves intimately and 3) mobilizing a team of willing and/or disillusioned people to help.
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Rank #3: Episode 1: Selling, implementing and helping customers see value in cutting edge AI technology
Ryan Kurt and Stef Caldwell head up the West Coast Sales and Customer Success teams at Narrative Science and created this podcast to get to know our customers and future customers better so we could be better advisors to them as they think about buying and leveraging cutting edge technologies to achieve big business outcomes.
While they might work in AI, despite what you might think, they didn’t go to MIT or graduate from Harvard, and they didn’t study Computer Science in college. They’re just run-of-the-mill business people who found their way into the field of AI and their roles at Narrative Science because they loved solving business problems.
They’ve learned a ton in their combined over a decade working in the field and so they created this podcast to share their knowledge, learn from others and do it in a way that could help more people and businesses unstick their analytics strategies, navigate the ambiguity of deploying cutting edge tech and achieve really big business outcomes.
Rank #4: Trailer: Introducing The Data Storytelling Podcast
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Ryan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryankurt/
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Dutch Competition Authority approves Packagegroup Moonen acquisition
23 July 2018 (Last Updated July 23rd, 2018 12:11)
OptiGroup has closed an acquisition of Dutch packaging distributor Packagegroup Moonen following approval by the Dutch Competition Authority.
OptiGroup and Moonen signed the acquisition agreement last month.
Founded in the 1950s, Moonen designs, develops and distributes food and non-food packaging, as well as hygiene products, disposables and packaging materials to the retail, food, hospitality and catering industries. It aims to deliver cost-effective and environmentally friendly packaging solutions.
The firm currently employs around 80 workers and saw revenues of €51m last year.
“This move represents OptiGroup’s fourth recent acquisition following the purchase of Telpak and Mercamer in Finland, and Proxima in Romania.”
At the time of signing the deal, OptiGroup president and CEO Christoph Sander said: “We have followed Moonen Packaging for a long time as a European leader in sustainable packaging, with a strong market position in the Benelux and a long history of developing innovative products and services.”
Moonen Packaging will continue to operate under the leadership of Gé Moonen, who has developed the company for the last 12 years.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
OptiGroup distributes business essentials as part of safety, facility, industrial packaging and printing and creative solutions.
The company’s net sales for last year stood at €1.5bn.
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As many as one million zero-hour contracts may be active across the UK – Vince Cable calls it exploitation
Government is investigating zero-hour contracts
5th August 2013 News
New research puts the number of people in the UK on zero-hours contracts at one million – and the government is now planning on investigating these controversial employment relationships.
Anyone who’s worked in a pub or restaurant might be familiar with the system, in which your shifts could fluctuate to some degree one week to the next.
This type of contract technically does not mean the employees are guaranteed work from one week to the next however, and in some cases they can be told to work at different locations, which is where the controversy lies.
Some reports claim workers at chains like Boots can be told to leave their homes and families and be shipped off abroad to work at short notice – which may be a slightly hysterical reading of events, but does highlight a fairly un-worker friendly arrangement which doesn’t offer much stability.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has waded in, saying "I think at one end of the market there is some exploitation taking place", and that the Government is investigating the issue.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development put together the research which claims the one million figure, which is far higher than figures from the Office of National Statistics which claims 250,000.
Not everyone think zero-hour contracts are a bad thing – Apprentice runner-up Katie Hopkins has written for the Huffington Post celebrating the contracts, claiming "zero hours contracts create a positive tension in a workforce."
Do you work under or employ people on zero-hour contracts? Do they represent some form of exploitation, or simply a way in which employers can exercise operational flexibility?
Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
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COLTON: Trial ordered in DUI crash that killed…
COLTON: Trial ordered in DUI crash that killed three
lan Allen, left, and Haven Penman, right, were Woodcrest Christian Middle School students who were killed in a Jan. 18, 2013 collision on Main Street in Colton just outside the Riverside city limits. Le Mason, 56, Allen’s grandmother who was driving a PT Cruiser, was also killed. They collided with a Mercury Sable driven by Michael Dwayne Hughes, 31, of Moreno Valley.
By John Asbury | San Bernardino Sun
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2014 at 5:58 p.m. | UPDATED: July 19, 2017 at 3:16 p.m.
A San Bernardino judge ordered a man to stand trial on murder charges Wednesday in a DUI crash that killed a woman and two Riverside teens going to church in Colton.
Police officers testified during a preliminary hearing Wednesday that Michael Dwayne Hughes, 31, of Moreno Valley, was driving with a blood alcohol level of nearly twice the legal limit.
Hughes had said in an interview with police that he was driving home after work, but police said they smelled alcohol on his breath. He failed several field sobriety tests and blew a 0.10 on a Breathalyzer. A blood technician said his blood tested at 0.14.
The Jan. 18, 2013, crash killed Le Mason, 56, her granddaughter Kylan Allen, 12, and Haven Penman, 13, who were going to a dance at the Sandals Church in Colton. Both girls were students at the Woodcrest Christian School in Riverside.
Nine months after the crash, prosecutors charged Hughes with eight felonies, including three counts of murder. He is being held and bail is $3 million.
The families of the victims sat in court Wednesday wearing T-shirts with pictures of the two girls. Haven’s mother broke down sobbing as the judge ordered Hughes to stand trial on all charges.
He had faced second-degree murder charges because of a previous DUI conviction in Orange County He had also signed a waiver acknowledging that drunken driving could kill others, according to court records.
Just before 7:30 p.m. the night of the Inland crash, Hughes had a suspended license when he was driving his Mercury Sable down Main Street in Colton near the Riverside County line while Mason was in the process of making a left turn in her PT Cruiser.
Hughes was estimated to be driving at 63 mph when he “dynamited the brakes” and skidded about 65 feet before broad-siding the PT Cruiser, California Highway Patrol Officer Donald Finn said.
The speed limit on the road was posted at 55 mph. Investigators believe he may have been on the phone during the crash.
All four wheels locked when he braked and the anti-lock break system malfunctioned, Finn said.
CHP investigators estimated Hughes was going 55 mph when he hit the right rear panel of the PT Cruiser. The impact caused the victims’ car to smash its front end into the back of the Mercury twice, before the PT Cruiser went spinning and overturned on its side.
Mason and Haven were declared dead at the scene. Kylan was taken to Riverside Community Hospital but died shortly after.
Hughes was uninjured.
CHP investigators found the PT Cruiser failed to yield when making the left turn and was barely moving when it was struck. The airbags didn’t deploy because the vehicle was struck from the side.
Hughes is due back in court April 30 to be arraigned on the formal charges before a trial date can be set.
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My Struggle: Book Five
By Karl Ove Knausgaard
Translated by Don Bartlett
Part of My Struggle
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
Apr 19, 2016 | ISBN 9780914671398
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The fifth book of Knausgaard’s powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect – he wants it so much that he gets writer’s block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Book Five is also a book about strong new friendships and a shattering love affair. Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: his father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This Worldwon the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything (Archipelago) was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. For My Struggle, Knausgaard received the Brage… More about Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Apr 19, 2016 | 626 Pages | 6-1/2 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780914671398
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“The first monumental literary production of the 21st century.” — Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“A bracing, strange and singular reading experience.” — Kevin Canfield, The San Francisco Chronicle
“Book Five, like the two volumes that preceded it, has a straightforward, linear structure. It tells the saga of a young writer’s path from failure to success . . . ‘The world,’ he writes, ‘extended its hand and I took it.’ Over the course of a masterpiece that runs to more than 3,000 pages, he hasn’t once let go.” — Sebastian Smee, The Boston Globe
“The penultimate entry in Knausgaard’s autobiographical series centers on the trials and tribulations of a competitive young writer, as the protagonist, Karl Ove, adjusts to the various responsibilities and expectations of adult life in the city. . . The narrative, like the protagonist, strikes an impressive balance between the interior and exterior, as well as the cerebral and emotional; snappy and amusing episodes coexist alongside weighty, meditative, and essayistic passages on art and literature. . . Those who have come this far in the series will not be disappointed by book five; it is a pleasure to witness the gradual emergence of a dedicated artist over the course of a decade.” — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“In which our author, never at a loss for words, spends his 20s figuring out how to use the right ones. . . the most conventional book in the series, but its form echoes the urge for conventionality he’s seeking. And in the context of the entire series, it’s a self-deprecating study of how stories are made and found and how the best ones get ignored. His father’s death was a heartbreaking event in Volume 1, told from a decade’s distance. He elides it here, suggesting he lacked the literary and emotional tools to process it at the time. An admirably seriocomic look at a headlong leap into maturity.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Fans of Knausgaard’s indulgent style will revel in every last beer can and krone as the closing chapter of this infamous Norwegian saga approaches.” — Booklist
“[Knausgaard] unspools a middle-class male life, lived amid relative plenty and familiar heartache … What compels the reader is Knausgaard’s total, undiscriminating, ecstatic attentiveness … Every moment, even of putative boredom, seems to have the sharpness of an adrenaline rush, or the terrifying clarity of recollected shame … Mundanity, narrated with such hallucinogenic precision, evokes not a unique perspective but the isolation of selfhood as such.” — The Atlantic
“In each succeeding volume of this one-of-a-kind chronicle, Knausgaard has aimed for nothing less than to discover just who he is, to get to the root of his own particular self. Here, that struggle is intensified, as the idea of being a writer is so woven into his self-conception that failure makes him doubt who he is supposed to be and which direction to take… This fifth volume feels more insular than the others, but that’s where Knausgaard has always been at his best. The inner life inspires him. It’s what gives the sentences their urgency. He’s the rare writer who has made self-absorption work for him.” — Washington Post
“Knausgaard, for his part, finds a tenuous salvation in repurposing old forms. Like Augustine… Knausgaard’s approach is to confess, even if he has no God to receive his confession. His reward, instead of heaven, is an intimation of the divine, which reveals itself when the artist is at his most god-like, deep in the fiery furnace of creation. On one level, this is art as religious experience, in which the artist feels as if the godhead is working through him; on another level, this is Freud’s sublimation at work, the transfiguration of dark thoughts and dark impulses into refinement and beauty. Freud considered this process a triumph of civilization, and in this respect, the salvation that Knausgaard is working toward is not only his own. It has always seemed audacious for Knausgaard to name his novel after Hitler’s autobiography-cum-manifesto, but Book Five is proof that we didn’t realize the extent of his ambitions. It turns out that his Min Kamp is meant to be Mein Kampf’s fraternal twin, and proof that the evil of their shared birthright can be overcome.” — New Republic
“Knausgaard’s books feel like an antidote to the sterile, branded curation we sift through every day. It offers this rich texture as a contrast to the perfection of those suntanned smiles. He is saying, here is what life really feels like. It’s messy. It often ends in failure. It often detours and rambles.” — Chicago Tribune
“‘My Struggle’ has pushed me to think more about my own self, and, in particular, my emotions. It’s reacquainted me with the vividness of feelings. It’s a sentimental education. . . The style of ‘My Struggle’ has often been described as solipsistic. It’s said to capture one person’s impressions of the quotidian, the banal, the everyday. And yet it might be more accurate to describe Knausgaard’s style as disinterested, non-conceptual, or free. His writing is highly personal, but it’s also selfless. He writes about himself, but without recourse to the static ideas from which selves are made. . . The novel imagines a kind of ultimate freedom—a spiritual freedom based in radical openness. It’s expansive and impersonal, yet still human; it’s concrete, anti-ideological, and, above all, emotional. Beyond, alongside, or perhaps within the quest to know oneself, there’s a quest to know the universe.” — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker
“[T]he eerie thing is that, at times, it is as if we are not within the pages of this book at all, but outside it and in his confidence. We understand that [Knausgaard] is ambitious to write a novel that will make his name and we suppress, as we read, the acknowledgment that this achievement, this extraordinary work of which he has been dreaming, is the book we hold in our hands.” — The Guardian
“[T]he charisma of these books, a combination of critical acclaim, commercial success and the strange brilliance of their form, has made being hypnotised by their extensive descriptions of ordinary Norwegian life a sort of cultural obligation. . . My Struggle, by volume five, is so dense with detail that much of it is necessarily forgotten. And yet it is lost in a way similar to how many of our days and hours are lost, only to return in sudden moments of recollection. Knausgaard has thus gifted us with a set of novels that matches the shape and texture of our pasts, in which the relentless accumulation of fictionalised days dramatises, better than any novel I have read, the experience of living in time. It is a pen-and-paper virtual reality; after reading it you feel that another past has been downloaded into your mind.” — The Financial Times
“[O]nce again, Knausgaard’s storytelling is a masterclass in clarity and intensity. The litany of quotidian detail is strangely mesmerising, even gripping … [My Struggle: Book Five] is a lengthy journey, a bumpy ride full of pitfalls and setbacks, but one that shapes its protagonist and transports its reader. Knausgaard may only present fictionalised events, but on each page, and in every detail, Karl Ove pulses with life.” — The Australian
“The experience of reading Karl Ove Knausgaard is an extraordinary one. His eye for detail and for all the little byways of thought and feeling are unsurpassed. . . Knausgaard began his great project with the idea of using himself up and emptying the reservoir. Instead, he emerges more fully himself, replete even.” — Charleston Post and Courier
Of the Series:
“Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our time.” – The Guardian
“Intense and vital… Knausgaard is utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties… Superb, lingering, celestial passages… [with] what Walter Benjamin called the ‘epic side of truth, wisdom’.” – James Wood, The New Yorker
“My Struggle is candid and compulsively readable, with moments of searing insight and bold shifts through narrative time. Its scope is both ambitious and modest; its range aggressive and tender.” -VICE
“Why would you read a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel? The short answer is that it is breathtakingly good, and so you cannot stop yourself, and would not want to… Arrestingly beautiful.” – Leland de la Durantaye, The New York Times Book Review
“With each subsequent book of his that is translated into English, Mr. Knausgaard continues to solidify his reputation as one of the most vital writers working today.” –The Observer
“My Struggle is unexpectedly entrancing – the combination of detail and intimacy creates an illusion of being inside somebody else’s brain… My Struggle is worth the, uh, struggle.” –GQ
“Karl Ove Knausgaard. My Struggle. It’s unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack.” -Zadie Smith
“Knausgaard pushed himself to do something that hadn’t quite been done before. He broke the sound barrier of the autobiographical novel.” – Jeffrey Eugenides
“By exposing every last detail of his life, Karl Ove Knausgaard became your favorite author’s new favorite author.” -Evan Hughes, The New Republic
“If the function of literature is to take you out of your own life and involve you in someone else’s then My Struggle is literature… gripping.” –The Sunday Times
“A masterpiece of staggering originality, the literary event of the century… Life here and now, examined at a fever pitch, daily recollections recounted in exhausting but exhilarating detail.” —The Wichita Eagle
“So what is it that has led fellow authors to rave about Knausgaard and hail him as literary pioneer? The answer lies in the intensity of focus he brings to the subject of his life. He seems to punch a hole in the wall between the writer and reader, breaking through to a form of micro-realism and emotional authenticity that makes other novels seem contrived, ‘made up’, irrelevant… Whether he’s writing about his adult alienation at a toddler’s birthday party or the memory of trying to get hold of alcohol as a teenager on New Year’s Eve, Knausgaard is prepared to go into extraordinary sensuous detail… the overall effect is utterly hypnotic.” -Andrew Anthony,The Observer
“[My Struggle] replicate[s] the vivid, overwhelming sense of being alive on the page… satisfying and moving.” — The National (UAE)
“There were moments when I wondered who was the better comparison: Wordsworth, for the ways that nature bent to Karl Ove’s mood and past selves composed and recomposed themselves in his recollection, or Harry Potter, for the readable, epic soap opera about a young student learning to wave his magic wand about. Few writers create so confidential a bond with the reader, at times uncomfortable, unwanted but also undeniable. Occasionally I fancied him an old friend. An infuriating, unstable, self-obsessed and well-read friend who outstays his welcome, admittedly. But a friend nonetheless.” — The Independent
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Attendance at religious services among adults who pray monthly by frequency of meditation
Attendance at religious services among adults who pray monthly by frequency of meditation (2014) Switch to: Frequency of meditation among adults who pray monthly by religious attendance
% of adults who pray monthly who attend religious services…
Frequency of meditation
Once or twice a month/a few times a year
Sample size = 378. Visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire. Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.
13% 49% 38% < 1% 378
7% 57% 36% < 1% 287
6% 68% 25% 1% 158
8% 56% 36% < 1% 1,086
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Alison Taafe
Alison Taafe is Australia’s fun, fast and fabulous chef. Her passion for cooking paired with her bubbly and down to earth nature makes the perfect recipe for a Celebrity chef. Alison enjoys creating cooking classes and demonstrations for clients bringing motivation and enjoyment to events and conferences.
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Alison Taafe’s interest in all things culinary began at her old school, Ford Pitt Grammar for Girls in Chatham, in the county of Kent, United Kingdom where she excelled at cooking and sport.
It was with great excitement that Alison was accepted into the highly prestigious Westminster Hotel School which boasts other celebrity ex-students such as Jamie Oliver. Alison attributes much of her success as a chef to the vigorous training she received there. It was during this period she starred in the Channel 4 film entitled Salmon for Scotland.
Following graduation, Alison scored – at the age of 20 – a job as Head Chef with New York’s J P Morgan Investments branch in London which involved managing many of its boardroom kitchens.
From there, her culinary career took off with several overseas appointments in France, New York and Washington cooking for film stars, presidents, pop stars, sporting greats and even royalty.
Alison eventually decided to leave behind the high life and head for Australia where once again she was in demand. This time, the Western Australian Parliament was eager to have her services so she again found herself cooking for many dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth.
Eventually, she made her home in Queensland where she met and married Steve Taafe, who was a Warrant Officer in the RAAF at the time. Incidentally, he was the catering manager who interviewed her for the chef position for the Australian Pavilion at World Expo ’88. A career move of Steve’s later found them in Adelaide for three years where Alison was the chef at the Adelaide Town Hall and Festival Theatre. Brisbane drew back the couple in 1991 where Alison and Steve ran a gourmet catering business and delicatessen together. She is now a Leading Teacher of Professional Cookery at Southbank Institute of Technology.
The year 2004 saw Alison winning a Churchill Fellowship – the first chef ever to win the prestigious award – which took her to America for research in culinary arts. This was followed by her writing the first graduate program for Australian qualified chefs. Then in 2006, Alison claimed a further award of Outstanding Educator for the program that she wrote, which was a wonderful endorsement.
Even though she is a highly qualified and experienced chef, Alison still continues with her quest to find fun, fast and fabulous ways of producing fun, fast and fabulous food for dinner parties in the home.
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North End boss Simon Grayson was full of praise for a ‘professional’ performance form his side as they advanced to the second round of the FA Cup at Westleigh Park.
A 3-0 win over Conference South side Havant & Waterlooville was earned as Callum Robinson scored a hat-trick to set up a tie with either Walsall or Shrewsbury Town in December.
Speaking to PNE Player the gaffer said: “It was very professional. It was a word we used before the game so many times and again at half-time we reminded the players it was a no win situation – if you win it everyone expects you to and if you don’t it is a massive upset and you can suffer the consequences.
“Our approach was really good; the early goal settled us down and from then on we looked in control. Havant had their moments but our players focused on what they needed to do and executed the game plan really well.”
The PNE chief made four changes to the side that lost at Swindon and they controlled the game from the outset in Hampshire: “The changes that we made didn’t weaken us; the lads that came in have played a lot of football this season,” continued the boss.
“We have the strength in depth, we felt that one or two needed a game and one or two needed a rest and that’s why we have the squad that we do. We took the game very seriously because we want a good cup run to go hand in hand with the league and we wanted to get back to winning ways.
“In games like this you have to keep the ball and work it well. You have to take the sting out of the game, win your second balls and do the ugly side of the game, but we felt that if we needed to up the tempo in the second half we could have done and all in all we did a job.”
He was full of praise for both the hat-trick hero and the fans as well: “It was only a couple of weeks ago [Callum Robinson] got his first league goal. He is a fantastic lad who really works hard, is down to earth and to get a hat-trick in the FA Cup is magical and he will remember tonight for the rest of his career and hopefully we can keep him with us for a lot longer.
“Kev was looking for another goal for his 150th in football so you could see why he wanted to take it, but if Kev was Callum’s age he would have wanted it as well and so Kev was very sympathetic and rightly so.
“The support was brilliant. We keep talking about them all the time and rightly so. They have gone home happy and I think they were making their own entertainment at times tonight, nut it is a two way thing that we are working together,” he added.
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New York Mayor Facing Backlash After Calling Democratic Voters 'Retarded'
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New York Mayor Facing Backlash After Calling Democratic Voters ‘Retarded’
By Andrea Jefferson
Denis Langlois is the mayor of Fort Ann New York. The community of 6,500 residents is in upstate New York. Langlois has come under criticism for a message posted on Facebook ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. The mayor called Democratic voters “retarded” before resident’s headed to the polls.
Langlois posted on Facebook writing, “If anyone that I know vote [sic] for a Democrat on Tuesday you should sign yourself into the Mental Health unit at your local Hospital because you are retarded and need help, Vote Republican and ‘Keep America Great’!”
In the wake of the post, Langlois has received negative backlash, but that has not made him question his comment. He told the Post Star that he has “no regrets” about the message he sent voters.
Langlois said, “I live for myself and what I believe in.” He went on, “I have no regrets on what I say. I never have regrets on what I say. I believe what I believe.” Langlois continued, “Whether it’s politically correct or not, it’s what I believe, and it doesn’t matter.” He added, “I talk from my heart and my soul, and that’s all there is to it.”
Mayor Langlois also told the newspaper that he did not remember writing the post and insisted that his comment was made in his capacity as a private citizen, not in his official capacity as mayor. He said, “I’m not doing it as an official, I’m doing it as a person.” He went on, “You can’t quote me as the mayor, you can only quote me as a person.” He added, “Most people don’t even know I’m the mayor. Nobody cares anymore. That’s the problem with America today.”
Langlois has since removed the post from Facebook. Most people recognize that the word “retarded” is offensive. Organizations like Best Buddies and the Special Olympics agree that the word is inappropriate and offensive.
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Flight Attendants Union President: Government Shutdown Is 'Disaster' for Aviation Safety
"I am very aware that when I get in a plane that I am less safe than I was a month ago," AFA President Sara Nelson tells Popular Mechanics.
By Sam Blum
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Among the 800,000 federal employees deprived of a paycheck during the government's partial shutdown, aviation workers have warned that their lack of compensation imperils the safety of anyone boarding a U.S. commercial flight.
With all federal employees poised to miss a second paycheck, Association of Flights Attendants (AFA) president Sara Nelson tells Popular Mechanics that the government shutdown is fast creating a crisis that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents, air traffic controllers, and others cannot contend with any further.
Nelson, who recently called for a general strike as a means to open Washington's doors again, warns that the U.S. aviation system isn't far away from a state of "collapse," as scores of workers either call out sick from airports or provide their labor under the duress of no compensation:
"You don’t want any of these systems to be undermined or jeopardized, because the result is catastrophic. Our system is the safest transport system in the world and we have ensured that by what we have learned by major aviation accidents. If we don’t have the system running at the full steam that is required…we’re setting ourselves up for repeat."
The ramifications are already apparent throughout the country's aviation system, various officials have warned in recent days. A joint statement issued on Wednesday by the unions representing air traffic controllers, pilots, and flight attendants called for an immediate end to the impasse, which stems from a GOP initiative to allocate $5 billion for a wall on the southern border with Mexico.
"Staffing in our air traffic control facilities is already at a 30-year low and controllers are only able to maintain the system’s efficiency and capacity by working overtime," says the statement, which also noted a hiring freeze at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
For Nelson, the impact has been personal: "I am very aware that when I get in a plane I am less safe than I was a month ago," she tells Popular Mechanics.
Though TSA agents and air traffic controllers are among the 400,000 federal employees whose jobs are deemed "essential" and must report to work, the potential for callouts has put a squeeze on the industry that could foretell disaster. The industry is on the cusp of a tipping point, says Nelson:
"We have a humanitarian crisis and unprecedented lockout of [close to] one million workers, many of whom are in safety-sensitive positions who are required to work. If this were a natural disaster…we would be rushing aid, we would be doing disaster relief."
With that in mind, Nelson is still adamant that a strike could have an impact on potentially reopening the government, as it could starve a vital industry of the very labor it needs to function.
"It’s a disaster, that’s where we are. Fundamentally, as a labor movement, with the responsibility of defending and protecting workers lives…what are we waiting for. We are in a state of emergency here. So I’m raising the issue. We need to talk about it. We need to take action. When does that spark light and when do we start to inspire a national for the people who've been locked out and people who’ve lost their jobs."
Elsewhere, federal workers deprived of pay have been forced to take out loans to manage their personal finances, while the Senate is set to vote today on a pair of bills that could potentially end the shutdown.
Neither is expected to pass.
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Cholesterol Treatment Trends
“The most recent national guidelines from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association have expanded previous recommendations for reducing cholesterol to include lifestyle modifications and medication use as part of complete cholesterol management and to lower risk for atherosclerotic CVD,” says Carla Mercado, PhD. “A better understanding of the previous disparities in cholesterol care and medication use is important, particularly as more physicians begin implementing the most recent national guidelines.”
For a study published in the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, Dr. Mercado and colleagues sought to determine baseline estimates of U.S. adults who were on or eligible for cholesterol treatment and to identify sex and racial/ethnic disparities. The investigators analyzed data from the 2005-2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Adults who met guideline eligibility criteria and those who were currently taking cholesterol-lowering drugs were assessed as a group.
Assessing the Data
“Our results indicated that about one third of all U.S. adults aged 21 or older—or 78.1 million—were on cholesterol treatment or eligible for it,” says Dr. Mercado. “However, only 55% of eligible adults were actually taking cholesterol-lowering drugs and about 47% reported making lifestyle modifications to lower cholesterol, such as exercising, making dietary changes, or controlling weight. Approximately 37% reported making lifestyle modifications and taking medication, but 36% reported doing neither.”
The study included all types of cholesterol-lowering drugs, but nearly 90% of those on medication were taking a statin. Of the nearly 41% of men who were eligible for or already on cholesterol medication, close to 53% were taking them. Among women, these figures were approximately 33% and 58%, respectively.
The proportion of eligible patients taking cholesterol-lowering medication was higher for non-Hispanic whites than Mexican-Americans and non-Hispanic blacks. The lowest rate of taking a recommended cholesterol medication was among non-Hispanic blacks who did not have a regular place for healthcare. The highest rate was seen in people reporting that they already adopted a heart-healthy lifestyle.
Greater Efforts Needed
“Our study suggests that there are opportunities to reduce disparities with targeted patient education and cholesterol management programs among adults who are eligible for cholesterol treatments,” Dr. Mercado says. “There is also room for improvements in cholesterol screening practices.”
The study notes that the CDC and other organizations are promoting initiatives to reduce disparities, including activities like Healthy People 2020 and the Million Hearts initiative. These programs provide clinicians with comprehensive and effective management strategies to improve cholesterol levels among Americans. The CDC also notes that coordinated community and clinical programs are needed to better identify all people who are now eligible for cholesterol treatment.
Carla Mercado, PhD, has indicated to Physician’s Weekly that she has no financial disclosures to report.
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Frieden TR, Berwick DM. The “Million Hearts” initiative—preventing heart attacks and strokes. N Engl J Med. 2011;365:e27.
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Dutch researchers: Fewer pigs needed worldwide
About 40% less pigs would be needed worldwide if all pork production would take place very efficiently, Dutch scientists have concluded.
Scientists at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI) from the Wageningen University, the Netherlands calculated that about 44 million sows would be sufficient to meet the annual demanded carcass weight of 106 million tonnes of pork.
Worldwide, large differences in productivity exist. Professional pork production facilities in the United Kingdom grow 21 finishers per sow per year, in the Netherlands, however, this is 26. In addition, pigs are slaughtered in the UK at a carcass weight of on average 80 kg, in the Netherlands, however, this is 92 kg. In China, the world’s largest pig producer, annual piglet production/ sow/ year is 13.
The researchers concluded that the required amount of sows per tonne slaughterweight in the Netherlands is relatively low – and they used these efficiency figures for further calculations.
Total swine numbers
According to FAOStat figures, planet Earth had a total of 941 million pigs in 2009. Pork production worldwide that year was 106 million tonnes of carcass weight. Should the production efficiency be similar to that of the Netherlands, a reduction of 40% (to 528 million pigs) could be achieved.
The LEI scientists suggested that the Netherlands could play a role as model how to distribute knowledge and efficiency management.
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Rubama: What did you do during the COVID lockdown? This former Western Branch coach wrote a book.
ODU's 2013, '14 schedules: A puzzling project
By Rich Radford
Coach Bobby Wilder says he hopes ODU fans turn out at away games like they do at Foreman Field.
It's almost guaranteed Old Dominion will play some "guarantee" football games in 2013.
As the Monarchs transition from the Colonial Athletic Association to Conference USA, coach Bobby Wilder has changed his desire to avoid playing for a paycheck.
Wilder met Monday with athletics director Wood Selig and associate ADs Bruce Stewart and Ken Brown to start formulating a scheduling plan for the 2013 and '14 seasons, when the Monarchs will move from the Football Championship Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Traveling for a game in which the Monarchs could receive $500,000 from an FBS team is much more likely now that the Monarchs must piece together schedules for two years.
"We are not in an advantageous position in '13," Wilder said. "We're back to where we were in 2009 and 2010 when it comes to scheduling."
When ODU started its program in 2009, it didn't have a conference affiliation and scrambled to find games, particularly late in the fall when most teams were deep into their conference schedules.
This time, though, is tougher. As a transition team, the Monarchs won't count as an FBS opponent. Meanwhile, the majority of FBS schools each schedule just one non-FBS opponent a year. They do so because it takes six victories against FBS opponents to be bowl-eligible.
Fans wanting the Monarchs to take a guarantee game against either Virginia or Virginia Tech are probably out of luck; both schools already have scheduled non-FBS opponents for the next three years.
Selig has made this type of move before, taking Western Kentucky from FCS to FBS five years ago. He said he reviewed the Hilltoppers' schedule during their transition seasons as the Monarchs begin to tackle this task.
"There's nothing in stone that says we will get some scheduling help from Conference USA in 2014," Selig said. "But we have reached out to them and we could possibly get the full eight conference games from them in 2014 and start our conference schedule rotations that year."
Even if that happens, the Monarchs still must deal with 2013.
Wilder wants a schedule in which the Monarchs face six FBS opponents and six from the FCS. To offset the cost of paying to host three FCS opponents at Foreman Field, Selig indicated the Monarchs could travel to an FBS opponent and accept a payday - maybe more than one.
"We could then take the money we receive and redistribute it," Selig said.
Don't expect the Monarchs to travel to play superpowers such as Florida State, Alabama or Penn State, though.
"Some get-bought situations are better than other get-bought situations," Selig said.
The more likely opponents would be middle-of-the-road ACC squads such as Duke, Wake Forest or Maryland. All three still have availability in their 2013 schedules.
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The Monarchs already have a contracted game for Sept. 21, 2013, with Charlotte. That game probably will be moved to November, which will benefit both schools.
Charlotte, also headed to C-USA, will play its first year of football in 2013 and also will need games later in the year. The game was originally set for Sept. 21 because ODU expected to be a member of the CAA when the teams agreed to the two-year contract.
A second move will involve Norfolk State. The Monarchs and Spartans agreed to six games beginning in 2013 - with the first at NSU's Dick Price Stadium - but that was before the Monarchs announced their move to C-USA. That contract probably will be torn up, with ODU offering to pay NSU a guarantee to play at Foreman Field in 2013. After that, yearly games against NSU are unlikely.
ODU could end up hosting six FCS schools in 2013 and go on the road for six games against FBS opponents.
"We're going to think regionally first," Wilder said. "We want to give our fans the opportunity to watch us on the road, and that means car-ride distance. As I see it, there are 10 FBS car rides from Norfolk."
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Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health said that Halloween will not be cancelled in the province this year. (File photo)
Hinshaw encourages Albertans to celebrate Halloween
The holiday is safer than most indoor gatherings, she said
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Alberta’s chief medical health officer said emphatically that Halloween will not be cancelled in the province this year.
In her twice-weekly briefing Thursday, Dr. Deena Hinshaw noted that Halloween is safer than other holidays that people typically celebrate inside, such as Thanksgiving.
“I have no plans to suggest that Alberta cancel Halloween this year. My own children would never forgive me,” she said.
Hinshaw said there are plenty of tips and advice on how to celebrate the holiday safely on the Alberta Health website.
A few of the key points she emphasized were avoiding group get-togethers or Halloween parties; trick or treating should be done within one’s own cohort and family, in their neighbourhood, and avoiding common touch points such as doorbells and handrails.
She also said children’s costumes should accommodate the wearing of a non-medical mask.
“Try to get creative and have fun with the ways to minimize the risk of exposure, that comes with giving out candy,” she said.
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All Signal No Noise
Synopsys Launches DesignWare HDMI 1.4 Tx/Rx Controller and PHY IP Solutions for 40-nm Process Technologies
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Fully compliant with HDMI 1.4 and High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) 1.4 specifications
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Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of high-quality DesignWare® High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI™) 1.4 transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) digital controllers and PHY IP solutions that are compliant to the standard specification. With full support for new features of the HDMI 1.4 specification including HEAC 3D formats, real-time content signaling, 4K x 2K resolution and 10.2 Gbps aggregate bandwidth, the DesignWare HDMI IP enables designers to quickly incorporate differentiated functionality into their digital TV (DTV) and home theater applications with less risk and improved time-to-market.
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With designers incorporating networking capabilities in next-generation home entertainment devices, the HEAC block in the DesignWare HDMI 1.4 solution helps simplify the connectivity between internet-enabled digital home devices by enabling the transfer of Ethernet and audio frames through a single HDMI cable. The DesignWare IP for HDMI 1.4 also incorporates all 3D formats, which allows device manufacturers to heighten the viewing experience by supporting 3D techniques such as full side-by-side, half side-by-side and frame alternative. The real-time content signaling capability enables televisions to automatically optimize the picture setting with no user intervention. Support for 4K x 2K resolution delivers up to four times the resolution of 1080p, providing the same resolution as state-of-the-art digital cinema systems.
“With a strong focus on innovation, DisplayLink continues to incorporate the latest technologies into our leading network display products,” said Jonathan Jeacocke, vice president of engineering at DisplayLink. “When we wanted to incorporate HDMI IP into our SoC, we turned to Synopsys to provide us with a silicon-proven IP solution that had all the required features. We knew that Synopsys, a trusted IP vendor, would be there to not only provide us with a high-quality product, but also the expert technical support if and when we needed it.”
The DesignWare HDMI IP solution includes a comprehensive set of IP deliverables including baseline software drivers for system development, which help designers quickly embed this complex interface into next-generation multimedia system-on-chips (SoCs). Furthermore, the solution provides the following:
Compliance with HDMI and HDCP specifications with certification from the NXP HDMI authorized testing center and successful interoperability results from HDCP plugfest events.
A superior analog front end that supports up to 20 foot category 2-certified HDMI cables, while maintaining high performance.
Digital controllers delivered in configurable RTL allow designers to optimize gate count and power consumption by choosing only the features required in their application.
PHY offering low power consumption and small die area.
Numerous optional features such as HDCP encryption engine, audio formats, audio DMA engine and system-bus interfaces which help ease the integration effort.
System validation based on the Synopsys Confirma TM HAPS-51 rapid prototyping platform.
“HDMI is a rapidly evolving standard that continues to revolutionize digital home theater systems and other portable multimedia devices,” said John Koeter , vice president of marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys. “Synopsys' DesignWare HDMI IP solutions have been adopted by major OEMs, semiconductor companies, IDMs and foundries worldwide. The availability of the DesignWare HDMI 1.4 digital controller and PHY IP further enables SoC designers and system integrators to introduce the latest features to the market rapidly and with less risk.”
The DesignWare HDMI 1.4 Tx and Rx IP solution is available now. The HDMI PHY IP is available in more than 10 process technologies from 90-nanometers (nm) to 40-nm, and from leading foundries. For more information on DesignWare HDMI IP, please visit: http://www.synopsys.com/hdmi
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Synopsys is a leading provider of high-quality, silicon-proven interface and analog IP solutions for system-on-chip designs. Synopsys' broad IP portfolio delivers complete connectivity IP solutions consisting of controllers, PHY and verification IP for widely used protocols such as USB, PCI Express, DDR, SATA, HDMI and Ethernet. The analog IP family includes analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters, audio codecs, video analog front ends, touch screen controllers and more. In addition, Synopsys offers SystemC transaction-level models to build virtual platforms for rapid, pre-silicon software development. With a robust IP development methodology, extensive investment in quality and comprehensive technical support, Synopsys enables designers to accelerate time-to-market and reduce integration risk. For more information on DesignWare IP, visit: http://www.synopsys.com/designware.
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Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, software-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California , and has more than 65 offices located throughout North America , Europe , Japan , Asia and India . Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com/.
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Peter Mattisson • Oct 22, 2014
Herschel observations of Comet Siding Spring initiated by an amateur astronomer
Editor's note: While we wait (impatiently) for Siding Spring images to come back from all the Mars orbiters, I hope you'll enjoy this personal account of how an amateur astronomer managed to observe it with the great Herschel space telescope last year. --ESL
I first found out about comet Siding Spring in February 2013, when a Mars impact still could not be ruled out and even a near miss might pose a threat to assets orbiting Mars. I then began to search online to see if any observations of this comet by the major space telescopes were being planned.
While doing this I noticed an ESA press release on March 5 announcing that the Herschel Space Observatory was expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in a matter of weeks. Realizing that Herschel was not going to be operational during Siding Spring's closet approach on Oct 19, 2014, I thought that if we couldn't get Herschel observations of Siding Spring when it was close to Mars, we could at least try to observe it further away. Better use Herschel now than never!
So I contacted the Herschel Science Centre (HSC) suggesting an observation of Siding Spring before it was too late. They informed me that time was short in every sense as they were very close to the end trying to complete approved science programs. But there was one way it might be done. I could submit a Director's Discretionary Time (DDT) proposal through the official channels to the Project Scientist. DDT proposals can be approved when the circumstances justified it, so it was a long shot!
On March 6, 2013, I submitted the DDT proposal to observe Siding Spring with the PACS photometer camera. I received a reply from the project scientist Göran Pilbratt on March 10, who informed me that they had after consultation with the Herschel Observing Time Allocation Committee (HOTAC) decided to approve my DDT request.
This meant that the observations of Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring would be scheduled for late in the month, and thus there was no guarantee that Herschel would live long enough to actually execute them, but if it did, my observations would be performed.
At the time they estimated that Herschel would reach end of helium around March 20, 2013. My observation was scheduled for March 31, so it was going to be down to the wire!
After three nail-biting weeks, the observation day had finally come and Herschel was still operational! Just a few more hours of helium was all we needed. The day after, I received an email from HSC that began with the sentence "We had a PACS anomaly today (recovered quickly), but well after your observations were taken."
For a second my heart stopped until I realized the observation was successful.
In August 2014, the Herschel scientists had completed the data reduction and analysis of the thermal emission in all three PACS photometric bands (70, 100 and 160 µm).
Herschel's view of Comet Siding Spring These three images taken on March 31, 2013 show emission from the dust in the coma surrounding the nucleus of Comet C/2013 A1 – also known as Comet Siding Spring – as observed at three different far-infrared wavelengths in the 70 (left), 100 (middle) and 160 µm (right) bands with ESA's Herschel space observatory. This observation was initiated by Peter Mattisson, an amateur astronomer and the Vice Chairman at the Stockholm Amateur Astronomers (STAR) in Sweden. ESA / Herschel / PACS / Cs. Kiss et al. 2014
These results were used by NASA and ESA to reassess possible impact risks for the Mars orbiters. The results are available in this paper that was posted on arXiv.org. Herschel caught the comet on March 31, 2013 at 6.48 AU from the Sun where it was already very active. Based on the PACS measurements, we found that the comet must have been active already much further out at around 8 AU.
The early activity and Herschel's sensitivity to thermal emission originating from larger dust particles made these results important for an improved risk reassessment where the larger particles pose the highest risks for spacecraft damage during the comet's close encounter with Mars. Thanks in part to the analysis in this paper, Mars Express decided to do a full science programme on the comet at closest approach.
I was told by the ESA scientists and authors of this paper that to their knowledge, "This was the only Herschel project which was initiated by an amateur astronomer". I was surprised and humbled by this fact, as I had always imagined that a small part of all proposals submitted for observation time on our space telescopes was initiated by amateurs. On a personal level, it feels very rewarding to have contributed in a small way to the professional astronomy community. But also a bit sad at the same time, considering all the potential observations and science we could have gained but never did because amateurs and the public never submitted proposals that they had in their minds.
If you have an observation idea that you think would be great for the big space telescopes, Don't hesitate. Submit it! You never know...it just might be approved! It might also turn out that this observation would never have been carried out if you hadn't submitted your proposal!
Amateurs CAN and DO make a difference!
My thanks goes out to the the friendly and helpful scientists and authors of this paper and all the great people at ESA and the Herschel teams that built the telescope and operated it. You guys ROCK!
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Are you qualified in IPL and laser hair removal? Now’s your moment.
by Sally Hunwick September 23, 2016 September 28, 2016
The use of IPL and Laser for cosmetic purposes for both men and women has grown exponentially in the last 15 years, says Hayes.
With regulations around IPL and laser remaining undefined in much of Australia, Ella Bache is taking matters into its own hands. Sally Hunwick talks to Ella Bache’s Head of Education, Jennifer Hayes about the brand’s new Grad Certificate for IPL and laser hair reduction – and the problems that can arise for a therapist working in this unregulated landscape.
New regulations will require both “a formal qualification and supervised training”, says Ella Bache’s Head of Education, Jennifer Hayes.
First, lets talk about the booming arena of IPL and laser. With technology getting more advanced by the day, and hair removal practically a national pastime, it follows that IPL and laser hair removal are increasingly asked-for treatments in Australian salons.
“Hair reduction in all forms is still the most popular treatment in salons today,” says Jennifer Hayes, Ella Bache Head of Education. “The use of IPL and Laser for cosmetic purposes for both men and women has grown exponentially in the last 15 years and has made the market very competitive.”
But the reality of what’s going on inside some premises in this unchartered, un-lawed and at the same time booming landscape of IPL and laser is worrying at best. ARPANSA (the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency) lists the use of IPL and Lasers by underqualified operators and inappropriate use as the number one cause of injuries in salons and clinics in Australia. Done well, these treatments are a fantastic offering to clients, done poorly and issues such as burns, blistering, scars, increased hyper/hypo pigmentation and eye damage are a very real danger.
“The significant increase in popularity of these treatments has unfortunately given opportunity for rogue operators, buying cheap, unbranded devices online and performing treatments with little or no training,” says Hayes.
Currently, in terms of regulations, things are less than perfect. NSW, VIC, NT and SA remain without any legislation at all around laser and IPL (Queensland meanwhile is one of the country’s most highly regulated states for laser licensing). This lack of legislation essentially means anybody wielding a piece of equipment is allowed to use it – and at the moment it’s hard for unsuspecting clients to know who’s the real deal, and who is not. But things are likely to change, and soon.
“Regulation, currently pending, will require both a formal qualification and supervised training once ARPANSA recommendations from recent studies and consultations are endorsed,” says Hayes. Which is where Ella Bache’s new nationally recognised graduate certificate comes into play.
“This qualification is for therapists who wish to apply their substantial knowledge and skills to design and safely apply non-ionising radiation treatments using IPL and Laser technologies, to reduce unwanted hair on the face and body,” says Hayes.
“By introducing our Graduate Certificate in IPL and Laser Hair Reduction we hope to ensure that all of our students and therapists learn the crucial fundamentals of the skin along with comprehensive training in the technologies and the safety protocols surrounding them.”
Jennifer Hayes, Ella Bache’s Head of Education, says Ella Bache’s new Grad Certificate will allow students to have a nationally recognised qualification.
Ella Baché has always had a strong commitment to education and a belief that “skin solutions are as individual as you are”. And while Hayes recognises that, like skin, no two technologies are exactly the same, she says that having sound knowledge of the technology and an understanding industry standards puts a professional in good stead; both for now and for later.
“While specific device and manufacturer training is always recommended, by achieving our Graduate Certificate, students can be sure they have a nationally recognised qualification that maps to the Australian and New Zealand Standards, radiation authorities’ recommendations, and industry leader consultation,” says Hayes. “Regardless of any impending regulations, any beauty therapist wanting to provide these treatments should undertake this [Ella Bache] qualification.”
With monthly intakes, the course, which launches in October, runs for 14 weeks full-time or 24 weeks part-time. This includes one day a week at Ella Bache’s state-of-the-art North Sydney campus.
“The course [involves the] equivalent of three days per week of study, including, one day a week attendance at our North Sydney College for practical training, one day for self-paced online learning and assessment preparation, and one day of in-salon experience,” says Hayes. “The work experience component requires at least 100 hours of work in a salon providing treatments to clients with laser or IPL devices for hair reduction. The assessment preparation and work experience components are flexible aspects of the course which may be adjusted, depending on one’s individual circumstances.”
When it comes to what students will learn, Hayes says students will be able to design indiviudal treatments, evaluate and make high level decisions in the treatment room.
“Students will learn to design and evaluate IPL and laser hair reduction treatment programs, making complex, high level, independent judgements in consulting with clients and analysing their skin and hair characteristics,” says Hayes.
With the rise and rise of these new hair removal technologies, it does beg the question whether waxing will become a thing of the past. But Hayes says no.
“There are skin types, hair colours and areas (such as the eyebrows) that IPL and laser cannot treat,” says Hayes. “Even if the technology develops so that these can be treated, it ultimately comes down to the client’s personal preference.”
Even though at the moment, you do not legally need a certificate on your salon wall to perform treatments in IPL and laser hair reduction, Hayes says that proper training is the best way to ensure safe practice.
“This qualification will help therapists gain an in-depth understanding of skin types, hair growth, the technology and how to operate these IPL and laser devices safely and effectively to get maximum results without adverse effects for their clients.”
So if you’re reading this with the niggling feeling you should really hit the IPL and laser hair removal books, now is definitely your moment.
“Now more than ever, it’s important for therapists to hold the Graduate Certificate in IPL and Laser Hair Reduction in order to provide their clients with the peace-of-mind that they are being treated by a therapist that has been assessed to the national standard,” says Hayes. “To be able to promote IPL and Laser Hair reduction treatments conducted by properly qualified therapists will help a salon stand out in this competitive marketplace.”
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The Highly Mobile Toshiba TDP-P5-US
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Toshiba's offering in the ultra-portable form factor is the 2.4-pound TDP-P5 projector, a richly featured user-friendly projector that packs a lot of functionality into a very small and stylish package. Measuring only 2.6 x 6.0 x 8.3 inches, this small powerhouse is targeted at the mobile presenter who needs excellent performance in a sleek package that fits easily into a briefcase or handbag.
The Toshiba TDP-P5 lists at $3,035 with a street price of $2,299 and features Texas Instrument's DLP technology, 1100 ANSI lumens and 800:1 contrast with native 1024 x 768 (XGA) resolution. The projector is compatible with S-video, EDTV 480p, SDTV 480i, composite, and computer resolutions up 1280 x 1024 (SXGA).
The TDP-P5 competes with 5 other projectors in the highly mobile class of 3 pounds or less. As of this writing our database showed 18 projectors in that category, but 13 of them are the same as the other 5 projectors and being sold under other names. This is a good thing for consumers. Choices of like things give you more options on where to buy and generally better pricing.
As of this writing, mobile projectors less than 4 pounds are all DLP based due to the inheritantly smaller and lighter design of single display DLP projectors versus 3 LCD display projectors. For some commentary on the merits of one technology versus another, check out LCD versus DLP.
Out-of-the-Box Experience
The unit comes with a nice remote control, carrying case, User's Manual, Reference Card, and cables for audio, data, mouse control, S-video and composite video. The projector was easy to set up with its manual zoom and focus and produced an excellent picture with the factory settings. Throw distances are from 5.0 to 32.8 feet allowing a maximum diagonal screen size of 266 inches. At a typical viewing distance of 10 feet the diagonal image size ranges from 65 inches to 82 inches. The picture was crisp with good color saturation and contrast, with minimal fan noise (rated at 32dB) and produced the clean pixel-less image expected of DLP projectors.
Because of its size, the P5 has only 4 connectors and power. The audio connection uses a mini-stereo connector. For video an S-video and composite connector are provided; however, as seems to be the case with nearly all manufacturers, the composite cable is included and the S-video is not. Strangely the manufacturers do themselves a disservice by choosing to supply the cable for the lesser quality video source. Presumably this is because composite is more widely supported on old and new video devices, but if you have an S-video source, get the S-video cable. You'll get a better image. Finally, the data connection uses a M1-DA (P&D) connector that is common on InFocus products. The data cable includes a USB pigtail for easy connection of data and mouse to your notebook computer.
The P5 remote control is not your typical credit card type remote often found on mobile projectors. This remote fits comfortably in the hand and has some very nice features including a trackball mouse with left and right click and a laser pointer; two things that all presenters would appreciate.
It includes the usual buttons for power on/off, computer and video selection, volume control, and menu. The unit also has a programmable button called Effects, which we discuss later under Features. Something not usually found on a remote control is a power switch that turns the remote on or off. This is to protect the battery from a power drain due to accidental activation of the laser pointer when traveling.
The projector has front and rear I/R receivers that allow the remote control to operate well when pointed at the projector from a range of up to 20 feet; however, it had marginal performance when trying to bounce the I/R off the screen unless we were within in a few feet of the screen.
As a final note on the remote control, we would have preferred to have the menu button on the last row of buttons nearest the trackball to improve the transition from menu to trackball and back to menu.
The P5 offers a number of features that are selectable from the Remote Control.
PIP - A picture-in-a-picture (PIP) feature allows you to monitor video while in data mode. Menu controls allow you to change the size and location of the PIP.
Magnify & Pan - The P5 allows you to magnify an image up to 25X and then pan the image. This was easily accomplished using the trackball of the remote control and the digitally magnified image was amazingly clean in both data and video modes. Even text and small data images were reasonable well defined at maximum magnification.
Mouse - If you want to give a presentation and control everything with a mouse, the P5 does a nice job. Once you attach the USB connector on the data cable to your notebook, the remote control track ball becomes your mobile mouse.
Keystone Correction - The P5's digital keystone correction produced acceptable results, however some text artifacts remained. Our general view on digital keystone is it's a nice feature to have, but avoid using it if you can when presenting data. The artifacts are not noticeable in video except perhaps by the most ardent videophiles, but in data mode they are most evident when viewing small text such as the document I'm writing. If you're doing slide presentations with graphics and large text it will be less evident.
Effects - The remote control has a programmable button that allows you to assign a specific effect. The effects include Magnify & Pan, Freeze, Mask, Mute, 16:9, and PIP. The purpose is to allow you to select the feature you will most likely use and assign it to the Remote Control Effect button. The Magnify & Pan and PIP featurs were discussed above. Freeze and Mute provide toggles for freezing/unfreezing an image or turning volume on/off. The 16:9 effect lets you toggle between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio. Mask allows you to cover the image and, by using the trackball, reveal the image by dragging the mask from the top down. A nice feature if you want to keep your audience from reading ahead while you're presenting.
The menu is easily controlled using the trackball and includes the usual controls for Contrast, Brightness, Color, Setup and Keystone Correction. Another nice feature was the ability to capture a logo for display instead of a blue or black screen when there is no source detected. It's a nice way to put your company name in front of your audience before and after the presentation. This was quickly and easily accomplished with on-screen instructions.
When viewing a DVD with composite video we found a need to adjust color temperature and although the manual indicated a choice of 4 color temperatures (5200, 6500, 7300, 9300), the menu offered only a choice of "presentation" or "film." Changing the selection to "film" did improve the image by warming the skin tones and toning down the greens.
There was also an "Application" menu item that offered choices of "normal", "film" and "presentation." The effects of the various selections were not obvious and again the choices did not match those in the manual.
The lamp warranty is 90 days. The projector warranty is 2 years and can be extended to 3 and 4 years for an additional fee.
The P5 is an impressive package and a welcome relief if you're doing a lot of road shows. It is easy to set up and use. Menus are intuitive, although we found some incompleteness, and the remote is very functional. Many nice features have been provided with the mobile presenter in mind. The light weight and small package makes it easy to transport using the carrying case provided or packing it into luggage, a briefcase, or a tote bag.
The P5 delivered bright, high contrast quality images in video and data making it ideal for business and pleasure. The projector does not support HDTV, but if the connectivity suits your needs and the price is within your reach, it is an excellent mobile solution.
For more detailed specifications and connections, check out our Toshiba TDP-P5-US projector page.
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Marianne BRODMANN, M.D. CURRICULUM VITAE Date of Birth: September 29, 1964 Place of Birth: Feldbach, Styria, Austria Confession: roman-catholic Citizenship: Austria Civil Status: divorced Business Address: Division of Angiology Department of Internal Medicine Medical University Graz Auenbruggerplatz 15 A-8036 Graz Österreich Phone: +43/316/385-80286 FAX: +43/316/385-13788 Education: 1971-1975 Primary School Edelsbach bei Feldbach 1975-1983 Grammar School (privat education: Lycee Sacrè Coeur and Convent school Ursuline Graz) WS 1983/1984 Medical School WS 1988/1989 Karl Franzens Universität Graz 1986 Au-pair stay London 6/1989 – 10/1989 Study Visit at Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul 10/1989 Graduation as M.D. 2014 GCP Training Course Licence Professional career: 11/1989 – 9/1990 Visiting M.D. at Medical University of Graz, Division of Angiology 2/1990 – 1/1996 Education course of Medical specialist in Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz (Head: Univ. Prof. Dr. G. J. Krejs) 2/1990 – 9/1990 Grand of the Austrian Government for postgraduated education WS 93 – SS 94 Assistance of Reading at Medical University 1/1996 Residency in Internal Medicine, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Karl-Franzens University (Director: Univ. Prof. Dr. E. Pilger) Date of appropation: 01/02/1996 Since 2/1996 Medical specialist in Internal Medicine at Division of Angiology Medical University of Graz (Head: Univ. Prof. Dr. Ernst Pilger) 2/96 – 1/1998 Residency in Angiology, Division of Angiology (Head: Univ. Prof. Dr. Pilger) Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Medicine (Director: Univ. Prof. Dr. E. Pilger) Since 2/1998 Medical specialist in angiology, Division of Angiology Medical University of Graz Since 1/1999 Development of research establishment for experimental angiology (model of isolated perfused guinea pig/mouse hind limb) Since 11/2003 Head of clinical research at Division of Angiology Since 12/2003 Head of the peripheral catheter laboratory 26/1/2004 Promoted to Professor in Internal Medicine Since 1/3/2004 Associate Professor Since 9/2004 Assistant Head, Division of Angiology Since 1/1/2005 Assisstant Medical Director, Division of Angiology, Medical University Graz 1/2005 – 12/2006 Secretary of ÖGA (Austrian Society of Angiology) Since 1/1/2005 National Delegate of IUA (International Union of Angiology) 11/2005 Secretary of Congress “Jahrestagung ÖGA” 6/2006 Secretary of Congress “ Summersymposium ÖGIA” Graz 2007-2008 President elect of ÖGA 2009 President of ÖGA Since 2008 Member of Nucleus Working Group peripheral Circulation of the ESC Since 2010 Member of the Nucleus DVG (Dachverband Österreichische Gefäßmedizin) 2009-2011 Member of the Nucleus ÖGIA 2010-2012 Secretary of the Working Group peripheral Circulation of the ESC 2012-2014 President of the ÖGIA (Austrian Society of Angiology Since 2013 Member of the Nucleus of the European Society of Vascular Medicine Since 2009 Member of the UEMS Board of Angiology 2012-2014 President of the ÖGIA (Austrian Society of Angiology) 2013, 2014 Member of LINC Faculty 2013 Member of TCT Faculty 2013 Member of Veith Faculty 2014-2016 President of the Working Group peripheral Circulation of the ESC 2014 Member of CIRSE Faculty Research Interests Anticoagulation and Thrombolysis New endovascular technologies in the peripheral field Evaluation of nature of restenosis Participation in International 50 international Clinical Trials:
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MEPs vote in favour of 'link tax' as part of new copyright laws welcomed by European publishers
Google has pledged more than €94m to digital media projects over three years in bid to 'help journalism thrive'
Times, Sun, Guardian and Telegraph create joint advertising platform to compete with Facebook and Google duopoly
By Charlotte Tobitt Twitter
Three leading UK national news publishers have combined forces to create a jointly-owned advertising platform which they hope will build a “better digital ecosystem” for publishers and readers.
The Telegraph, Guardian News and Media, and News UK, which publishes the Sun and the Times, today announced their new platform The Ozone Project, which is currently being tested ahead of an autumn launch.
They said the project had been developed “in response to industry-wide concerns across the digital advertising ecosystem”, including brand safety, data governance, a lack of transparency in the supply chain, ad fraud, and calls from advertisers for a single point of access to publishers.
Hamish Nicklin (pictured, left), chief revenue officer at Guardian News and Media, said: “We are working together to build a better digital ecosystem for advertisers, readers and publishers.
“The Ozone Project is a response to the challenges we all face and aims to facilitate the highest standard of digital advertising and ensure quality journalism and content continues to be funded.”
The UK advertising market is dominated by web giants Google and Facebook, known collectively as the Duopoly, who take the lion’s share of revenue and new digital ad growth.
Total advertising spend in the UK grew by 4.6 per cent to a record £22.2bn last year, but the journalism industry is getting a diminishing slice of the pie.
Facebook and Google took 135 per cent of the growth in digital advertising investment in 2017, according to research released today by advertising media company Group M.
Press Gazette launched its Duopoly campaign last year to warn that the dominance of Google and Facebook in the advertising market was pushing news publishers out of business and calling on them to pay more back to news publishers on whose content they rely.
Dora Michail (pictured, centre), managing director of digital at the Telegraph, said: “Funding quality journalism is essential for the good of the media industry and society as a whole.
“The Ozone Project puts in place an infrastructure that creates a better marketplace for advertisers, consumers and publishers alike.”
Dominic Carter (pictured, right), group chief commercial officer at News UK, added: “This project has been driven by a shared ethos to create a channel for advertisers to gain direct access to publishers’ audiences at scale via a transparent and effective platform.”
The publishers said The Ozone Project would offer advertisers and agencies “direct and transparent access” to a combined audience of more than 39.4m unique users in “brand safe, fraud free, premium environments”.
The audience is therefore roughly the same size as on Facebook. The social media platform has not released a figure for its number of UK users, but in May last year said it had 30m daily users on mobile.
The ambition is for The Ozone Project to be opened up to other “quality” publishers and partners “over time”, said the media groups.
Six major UK publishers – News UK, Trinity Mirror (now Reach), Guardian News and Media, Telegraph Media Group, DMG Media and Northern & Shell first began talks in summer 2016 to discuss the feasibility of a joint ad sales venture.
Daily Mail publisher DMG Media was the first to pull out of the talks in January 2017 to focus on its own “broader commercial priorities”, and by July last year only News UK and Guardian Media Group remained involved in the project.
French publishers have led the way with a number of joint ad sales initiatives launched last year, including Gravity, which the International News Media Association said has brought together 25 groups and 150 digital brands – a daily reach of more than 50 per cent of French internet users.
Stylist and DC Thomson sign up to industry-owned ad platform Ozone Project
Joint advertising platform becomes 'truly cross-industry initiative' as Reach unites with News UK, Guardian and Telegraph
Press Gazette launches Duopoly campaign to stop Google and Facebook destroying journalism
Regional ABCs: 38 weeklies increase sales year-on-year
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PS2J 287 News – Who Knows What We’ll Name It
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An indie racing RPG that throws you into the role of a hungry, young hoverbike racer who needs to get off Earth before it explodes- hunt bounties, throw races, get to Mars, and win the Grand Prix
American Fugitive
Top-down open world sandbox that has you framed for your father’s murder, you’ll need to do whatever it takes to unveil the real culprit while evading the police at every turn
Steredenn
Side-scrolling rogue-like shoot-em-up in space, with sharp pixel graphics and chaotic boss battles in a never-ending combat for survival
Turn-based action strategy based on the Netflix TV series, it has you exploring the first season from two sides with two unique stories
Unfortunately it seems to take the XCOM formula and water it way down, so while it seems tactical you can only move one person on each turn
Survival horror puzzle game where you explore the past of an old mansion in the 1930’s and solve puzzles of light and shadows in an entirely black and white setting.
A competitive tile placement game of creating landscapes, claiming areas, and gaining points, with online play and a ton of replayability
Another classic European-style board game that has you racing other players to build up your rail routes and reach your destinations
Pandemic was initially supposed to be included as well, but has actually been completely pulled from the Epic Games store. A statement from Epic said only that they’re shifting it to be free at a later date
Russia’s law against Apple devices seems to be proceeding according to plan, with the July 2020 deadline looming ever-closer
Back in episode 283 we talked about the new legislation passed in Russia by Vladimir Putin that would ban the sale of devices that don’t have a specific list of Russian apps pre-installed
This soon became known online as Russia’s law against Apple, as Apple has historically never allowed carrier bloatware or other apps to be bundled onto their devices- you get the same iOS experience regardless of where you buy your device
Well the list of required apps has finally been released and among them are government-produced apps for paying taxes and fines, as well as some banking, navigation, and social medial platforms with links to official government bodies
All of these apps have the potential to collect and send data related to finances, location, communications, and more, all without direct user permission
All in, it seems like a terrible idea for the privacy of any citizen of the world, and especially when Russia is behind it. If we see tech companies allowing this to go through I’m sure China won’t be too far behind
While Apple could leave the $3B market in Russia, and I’m sure a healthy grey or black market would crop up in the meantime, the $13B China would be a tougher proposition. We’ll just have to hope that companies don’t put a price tag on our privacy
Blizzard’s new Warcraft 3 remaster is so unpopular that they’re now offering instant refunds, but that’s still not enough for many players
The remastered Warcraft 3: Reforged launched late last week, meant to be a remake of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne expansion, introducing a revamped user interface and enhanced cutscenes, along with more dialogue and tweaks to the campaign to align it with the lore of WoW
Unfortunately the plans seem to have changed, with the UI almost identical to the old version, and though some voice lines have been tweaked there aren’t any massive changes. Even the cutscene updates are lackluster
Basically the only real update are the graphics- the visuals are sharper, more detailed, and more fluidly animated, but most of the improvements don’t make much difference unless you zoom too far in to be useful in an RTS setting
The biggest problem is that they didn’t introduce the game as a new version, but rather replaced the old version with a new client and game whether you own Reforged or not, just presenting a toggle in the settings to switch between the two
This wouldn’t be a big deal were it not for all the issues that come with the new client- connectivity problems, trouble getting into custom games, and a complete lack of competitive ranked game modes
Not to mention that the download now includes a ton of extra resources, totalling 27GB compared to the original sitting at just over 1GB, even if you don’t own Reforged
They even implemented a live public chat room that you get dumped in to at launch, similar to Overwatch, but with no option to report or mute users
Loading up custom maps just merges its chat in with the main open channel, so good luck coordinating with anyone
There’s also no native LAN support, so you’re stuck online even if you’re in the same room
Speaking of custom, custom campaigns are entirely gone
Oh, and if the game can’t get an online connection to Blizzard you can play single player, but it won’t save your progress even though the save files are all local anyway
The backlash has gotten to the point where, instead of the normal process of Blizzard looking in to what was wrong with your purchase and denying the refund if you’ve had the game for a while and been playing it, refunds are now being automatically and immediately approved
This doesn’t help users unable to get back to the old client through official means, but it at least offers players dissatisfied with Reforged a way to get their money back
For really dedicated players that want their old client back there are a bunch of guides and videos details steps online, and they even support internet connectivity, but in the meantime they’ve actively removed features and made unwanted changes to an 18 year old game with no way to officially opt out
Amazon’s Ring home surveillance equipment is getting an update this week to address some, but not all, privacy concerns
The update creates a new control center in the app, adding options for two-factor authentication (which it now prompts for by default) and letting you see a list of all devices connected to your account
It also lets you opt out of receiving any requests from police for camera footage as a blanket setting, instead of having to refuse each request individually
This is a solid win for privacy with 897 police and sheriff departments listed as Ring partners with the ability to request those files
Unfortunately this still doesn’t fix everything, as footage uploaded to the Neighbors app has geographic info that lets you pinpoint a camera to the square inch, and they haven’t addressed the EFF report we talked about two weeks ago wherein they share a ton of information with marketing and analytics companies
Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service has left beta this week, and seems to actually fulfill many of the promises Google’s Stadia didn’t
All you have to do is download the app on a supported device, hook up your preferred controls, and connect to the servers. Then you can connect to a PC on the cloud and play one of hundreds of supported games from Steam, Epic Games, Battle.net, uPlay, Bethesda, and Origin (including many free to play titles)
The best part? They actually have a free tier right at launch!
Reporters at arsTechnica saw solid performance with minimal latency, to the point where they could play Sonic Mania without missing a jump or dash.
Whats more, because they basically just give you a virtual gaming PC you can go into a game’s full settings and tweak whatever settings you want to optimize the look and performance to wherever you want them
It’s never going to beat owning a gaming PC, but the ability to play these high-end PC games on a low-end Mac laptop is kind of bananas
It also supports Windows, mobile, and some smart TV’s, with eventual support for Chromebook coming later this year
Right now they’re offering two tiers:
Free, which gives you standard access and maximum one hour sessions (though you can immediately reconnect, you just might hit a queue depending on activity)
Founders, which is $5/month ($6.50 CAD) for priority access, extended sessions, ray-tracing gorgeousness, and a free three-month intro period
General streaming performance and game selection are the same between the two tiers, but the priority access will skip you to the head of the queue if the servers fill up
One big note on the game selection though is you don’t just load your existing game libraries to the service and to go town- you need to connect your other game store account, manually search for the game you want to play in GeoForce Now’s library tab, and add it to your account. Then you can launch those supported games through the GeForce Now app
There are also some loopholes where you can launch their Steam app and try starting games they don’t officially support, but for many games will hit errors when trying to run
There are even a bunch of supported games available through both Steam and Epic that can’t run from your Epic license, only Steam
All in all this is a pretty exciting time in gaming, with unparalleled access to this sort of thing as long as you have the internet connection to support it
Nvidia says that playing games will use about 15GB/hour, so be wary of your data caps!
Square Enix is releasing a brand new bundle-game this March called Kingdom Hearts All-in-One Package to bring together every game in the series up to KH3
The release history of this series is bonkers though. The All-in-One Package is pretty much just KH3 bundled with Kingdom Hearts: The Story So far
Which was Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix
Which is made up of Final Mix, Re: Chain of Memories, 358/2 Days, 2 FInal Mix, Birth By Sleep Final Mix, and Re:code
It also includes 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, which itself is
Dream Drop Distance HD
0.2 Birth by Sleep – a fragmentary passage
X Back Cover
But even with all that it’s still not a complete version, with the DLC for the third game, Re:Mind, still being sold separately
Here is a response to our call out for peoples Top 10 Games
I am going to try for the rest of the year to get everyone’s list!
Adam Blank (Remember the Game and Wrestling with Wrestling podcasts)
Link to the Past
Donkey Kong County
Last of Us
Super Punch Out
Fake Magic card
Posted by Owner of Stony Plain Games & Collectibles, Lance
Lesson of the day!
You got to get up pretty early to fool this gaming shop owner!
Guy called me last night, want’s to know if I’ll trade in some expensive Magic the Gathering cards?
I ask him to come see me about it.
So today, said dude and his friend came in, looking to trade two MtG revised edition duel lands for shop credit?
(red flag-cash is king)
Right the way I could tell the cards looked ‘wrong’ in some way? I thought “these are proxies!” in my head.
(‘homemade’ copy of original version of an actual Magic card, used for gaming when one can’t afford the real thing. The guys that do proxies are getting VERY GOOD at it!)
They were pretty well done as the ‘rosette’ effect on the cards print when looked at under a x20 magnifier wasn’t far off an original, though of course there were differences enough even then to indicate it was a proxie.
(red flag 2)
A rosette effect is when in print, an image magnified looks like coloured dots in a flower pattern, and when observed nomally, look like a normal image. Its so the print colours of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, are printed in grids at different screen angles.
The print was too dark and that was the first thing to alert me as I first checked them out but one has to be sure!
Some incredible proxy cards come in from China that are quite hard to tell the difference unless, you know what you’re looking for! If you have old MtG cards you need verifying, bring them into me!
Nothing worse having a fraud version of an expensive card. In this instance the real version of this card was $375! Each! Did the dude know they were fake? IMO I’d say so.
He listed off the good stores in the city to buy singles, with their owners names, as well as the formats he played of the game, some of which are very expensive to play! (unless you use proxies lol!) So he had some pretty good knowledge of the game and community around Edmonton and surrounding area. When I eventually said these are proxies pal, he was ready with a slack apology but really didn’t seem surprised at all?
Which if you just lost $750 bucks worth of cards, you’d be a little more pissed than anything else. Wouldn’t you? Just be aware that there is an industry for printing proxy cards that are very close to the real thing except,….they are not! Fraud is fraud so don’t get ripped off if you happen to be in the market for some high end MtG cards!
Surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites
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Article by Brave
A new report from Brave reveals that people seeking help for addiction, disability, and poverty on council websites are profiled by private companies in the UK
What is a council?
Councils provide a wide variety of services to their municipalities and enforce various federal, state and local laws for their communities. These services include public health, traffic, parking and animal management
Brave has uncovered widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites.
None of the data collecting companies recorded in this study had received consent from the website visitor to lawfully process data.
These are the Quick Facts, that Brave provides:
Nearly all councils in the UK permit at least one company to learn about the behaviour of people visiting their websites.
People seeking information about disability, poverty, drugs and alcoholism services are profiled by data brokers on some council websites.
198 council websites in the UK use the “real-time bidding” (RTB) form of advertising. Real-time bidding is the biggest data breach ever recorded in the UK. Though illegality is not in dispute, the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) has failed to act.
Google owns all five of the top embedded elements loaded by UK council websites, giving it the power to know what virtually anyone in the UK views on council sites.
Over of a quarter of the UK population is served by councils that embed Twitter, Facebook, and others on their websites, leaking data about what sensitive issues people read about to these companies.
6.9 million people are served by councils that allow data broker LiveRamp to track people on their sites. Until recently, LiveRamp was part of the Acxiom Group, which sold data to Cambridge Analytica.
This report should spur Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information Commissioner, to finally enforce the GDPR. It is 17 months since formal evidence from Brave and complaints about breaches of data protection laws were filed before the ICO.
About Brave:
Brave is a new, private web browser. It has unmatched speed and battery life. And it also blocks data-grabbing ads and trackers.
10 million people use Brave to make the web quicker and safer. You can download it for your phone or computer and browse the web with confidence.
Brave’s CEO is Brendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript, and co-founder of Mozilla/Firefox.
Google Maps Fooled by Man Who Used 99 Smartphones to Create a Fake Traffic Jam: Video
Article on Gadgets 360
Simon Weckert, a Berlin-based artist, used 99 smartphones and a hand cart to create ‘fake’ traffic jams in the German capital.
The slow pace of the hand cart and the fact that 99 phones were used caused Google Maps to believe that there were a lot of vehicles using a street that was actually empty.
Google uses this method to crowdsource traffic data the world over; smartphones in cars provide information to Google, including the speed at which they are moving, and how many smartphones are on that particular street.
If the pace is low and number is high, Google would show that segment of the street as red or maroon, suggesting that there is a traffic jam.
The video, that will be in the show notes on our website, shows the streets on Google Maps gradually turning from green to maroon, suggesting that there was a traffic pileup on those streets.
Google’s navigation suggestions would then recommend that users avoid those streets, even though they were actually clear to drive on, apart from having to watch out for Weckert and his handcart.
Weckert hasn’t shared any further details, so it’s possible that this could have been faked entirely.
If it is authentic, Google should ideally be looking at ways to prevent such an exploit from being used, since this could have very real and physical implications on traffic movement.
In any case, don’t stop trusting Google Maps entirely; it’s not often that you have artists with 99 smartphones on a hand cart wandering around.
In an interesting prank / hack of Google Maps and their traffic data, Simon Weckert carted a wagon filled with 99 phones around simulating a traffic jam in the navigation app
One neat thing to note is the filtering Google uses for the data- if the phones all stopped moving entirely the traffic jam wouldn’t appear, and once a car using Google Maps drove past Google would see there was no jam and set it back to normal
Software engineer and blogger Robert Heaton took a trip down the rabbit hole recently and discovered that Wacom tablet drivers send a ton of identifying data when you use them, including details about every application you use and when you use them
Apparently the data is gathered for development purposes, but if you’re concerned about privacy and want to disable that you’ll need to open up the Wacom Desktop Center and disable the Wacom Experience Program
Allegedly leaked footage of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Flip hit Twitter this week, showing the clamshell device in action for the first time
Size-wise it reminds me of the Gameboy Advance SP, though flatter and wider, and fits better with what we’re expecting a folding screen on a smart phone to do- close and protect the screen
It also is rumoured to use special ultra-thin glass instead of the plastic used by the Galaxy Fold, which could prevent some of the display issues the Fold saw
Nintendo has announced that there won’t be any new Switch systems coming this year, quashing some rumours of the hoped for Switch Pro with increased power and improved performance
This is just going to widen the power gap already existing between Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, and perhaps prevent ports of newer titles to the Switch, with the PS5 and Xbox Series X due out later this year
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PS2J 242 News – The Nindies Gunn Investors
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Patreon is back at it again, ruining their perfectly good business model because investors are annoyed they’re not getting more money for less work
Under the existing setup they’re basically just a transaction processor, allowing creators to receive a little support from a lot of people more effectively than users could on their own
Creators currently get 90% of pledges, with 5% going to transaction fees and the other 5% padding Patreon’s pockets
Considering they just announced they’ve payed out over $1B in payments, that 5% is pretty sizeable
Especially because the business scales indefinitely- adding more users doesn’t really add to their overhead or staffing needs
Compare that to a service like YouTube where a channel could upload hours of video a day, taking up a ton of storage and processing, but if no one watches them then there’s no return on that investment
Unfortunately under the guise of “building a sustainable business”, aka their investors (who they didn’t need) want all of the money forever, they’re moving to creator membership tiers with higher costs and mucking with features that everyone uses
Keep in mind, their business is kind of the definition of sustainable
So, what does this mean for creators? Well the plus side is they say current accounts won’t see any changes (though they’ve sprung changes on us without warning before, so that could change)
New creators will get to choose between Patreon Lite, Patreon Pro, and Patreon Premium
Lite gets you a basic creator page with no membership tiers, and Patreon keeps 5%
Pro gets you basically what they’re offering now, with membership tiers, analytics, and promo tools. This is the one they’re grandfathering existing accounts into at no extra charge, but new accounts will pay Patreon 8%
Premium has all that plus a “dedicated partner manager”, team accounts, merch for membership, and the privilege of giving up 12% of their income with a minimum $300 fee
All in all they’re charging more for the same features, and adding on new features that, from what I’ve seen, current Patreon creators don’t care about
Nintendo’s Nindies Showcase was this week, and here are some of the highlights
Cuphead is coming to the Switch on April 18 with Xbox Live support (so presumably trophies?)
My Friend Pedro, a 2.5D run and gun you’ve probably seen gifs of on Reddit with its ridiculously stylish and acrobatic gunplay, it hitting the Switch this June
The creators of Crypt of the NecroDancer are bringing us a Zelda themed adventure this spring in Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda
Uses an art style reminiscent of portable Zelda games and features 25 remixed songs from the franchise
Those are some of the bigger ones announced, but it’s definitely worth your time to check out the other trailers as well
We also saw some details on Google’s new Stadia game streaming service, and it looks interesting
One of the biggest pieces to it is being able to play a game within seconds of seeing the trailer on YouTube
Official trailers could add a Play Now button, launching the game directly within your browser and letting you play immediately
They say as long as you have a stable internet connection, you can play modern games without hitches even on phones, tablets, or chromebooks
You can play with whatever you have connected to the device you’re streaming on- controller or mouse/keyboard, or you can use their fancy Stadia controller that actually connects directly to the cloud via wifi
Plus it’s got built-in integration with Google Assistant- with the press of a single button it will automatically detect where in the game you are and show you the most relevant YouTube video to help out
They also say that, because the processing is all done in the cloud, developers won’t have to worry about performance when it comes to couch co-op and dealing with rendering a split screen
id Software has even announced that Doom Eternal, the sequel to Doom’s 2016 reboot, will be playable on Stadia in 4K at 60fps
There are still a lot of questions, like latency and costs, not to mention how developers can expect to get paid, but if nothing else this will continue to push the cloud gaming conversation forward
Fingers crossed this doesn’t mark the beginning of the end of offline gaming, especially since I don’t really want me gaming completely controlled by Google
After Disney fired James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy 3 over some decade-old tweets dug up by right-wing personalities, they’ve finally decided on a new director- James Gunn!
Apparently while the film was on hold they never started searching for a new director, and instead became convinced he should be given a second chance
He’s still making The Suicide Squad, so Guardians 3 won’t be coming out for a couple more years yet
As fellow APN member I Have Some Notes said on Twitter, “People who say terrible things should be admonished, people who say terrible things but apologize and learn should be encouraged”
Netflix is getting back in the interactive adventure game with You vs Wild
The show will star Bear Grylls across 8 episodes as he attempts to survive extreme conditions and climates, and ask viewers to decide what he does and whether he succeeds or fails
All 8 episodes are hitting Netflix on April 10
For more proof that we’re in the darkest timeline, NASA has issued a warning about space herpes after the virus was found reactivating in crew aboard the shuttle and ISS
Apparently spaceflight increases stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which can suppress the immune system
The worst parts are, the longer the mission the more it seemed the viruses were reactivating, and it can have lasting effects up to 60 days after landing
Apple’s released new second-gen AirPods with their usual speed improvements, plus they’ve added Hey Siri functionality and a fancy new optional wireless charging case
AirPower is still nowhere to be found, but apparently Apple just recently got their hands on that trademark so it could be here next year for gen3
Either way, the new ones have launched at exactly the same price as the old ones with some extra features so I’d call that a win
We also saw some low-key updated to the iMac and iPad lines, with the new iPad mini finally getting a retina display and Apple Pencil support
A fancy new Oculus headset, the Rift S, is coming this spring with higher-resolution screens and a PSVR-like headband
It also comes with Oculus Touch controllers and not require any external tracking sensors, all for $399 USD
Hello Games continues to revamp No Man’s Sky with this summer’s Beyond update, bringing “radical new” multiplayer components
The new No Man’s Sky Online will specifically avoid subscription fees and microtransactions, and will be free for all existing players
Recommend The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut series) by Mary Robinette Kowal
Really interesting, entertaining, and human alternate history set in a world that a large scale disaster in 1952 has humanity accelerate space programs to create colonies on other planets
This is a series where I find myself really reading the acknowledgements, because it’s so cool how many scientists, astronauts, and pilots contributed to the accuracy
You don’t often see fiction novels with a bibliography
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Rabbitohs Under 20s Go Down in a Thriller to Broncos - Round Eight, 2013
rabbitohs.com.au
Fri 3 May 2013, 07:02 PM
The South Sydney Rabbitohs' under 20s Holden Cup side has fallen two points short of defeating the Brisbane Broncos at Suncorp Stadium tonight (Friday), with the scoreboard reading 22 points to 20 at full time.
Goal kicking proved to be the difference with both sides scoring four tries-a-piece, with halfback Christian Hazard collecting a double.
The Rabbitohs opened the scoring in the third minute through Hazard, following two good offloads from prop Daniel Smith and winger Alex Johnston.
The Broncos struck back straight away, scoring in the sixth minute of play through second rower Caleb Timu. Ashley Taylor converted giving the home side a 6-4 advantage.
Six minutes later the Rabbitohs scored their second try, with fullback Tyrone Phillips dancing through the defensive line to score to the left of the posts. Will Paterson converted, establishing a four-point buffer for South Sydney.
Hazard's short kicking game was very strong, keeping the Broncos under pressure and earning repeat set-on-repeat set.
He was rewarded with his second try for the match in the 26th minute when he sliced through to score out wide on the left, taking the lead to 14-6.
Timu scored his second try for the Broncos in the 38th minute, taking on the winger with his size to score in the right hand corner. The conversion was unsuccessful and the Rabbitohs led at the break, 14 points to 10.
Broncos prop Ben Garcia was the first to score in the second half with a strong charge to the line in the 49th minute, with Taylor's conversion giving the Broncosa two-point lead.
The Broncos scored again in the 62nd minute when fullback Kurt Capewell chased through a grubber kick to score on the right. Taylor converted to extend the lead for the home side to eight points.
The Rabbitohs hit back 15 minutes before full time when winger Alex Johnston made the most of a long break from Phillips, scoring to the right of the posts. Paterson converted, reducing the deficit to just two points.
The Rabbitohs tried hard to break the Broncos' line again over the final stages of the match, and had their best opportunity to score with a minute left in the match, but the final grubber kick trickled long and the Rabbitohs had gone down in a thriller, 22 points to 20.
Brisbane Broncos 22(Caleb Timu 2, Ben Garcia, Kurt Capewell tries; Ashley Taylor 3 goals)
South Sydney Rabbitohs 20 (Christian Hazard 2, Tyrone Phillips, Alex Johnston tries; Will Paterson 2 goals)
Rabbitohs release Corey Allan from the remainder of his playing contract
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Foraging Ahead with Dr. Don Ball: Forage crops and reseeding
When discussing the characteristics of a forage crop, whether with a scientist at a professional meeting or a cattleman at the local coffee shop, a phrase that often gets dropped is “and it’s a good reseeder.” This is often added as an afterthought, much like a car salesman might state, “and the tires are good” or “and it doesn’t use oil.”
Reseeding is most commonly associated with annuals, but even with perennials, the subject frequently arises (as in “thickening stands via reseeding”). Producers like the sound of the term “reseeding” because it implies that a long-term stand is possible with little or no effort. Many forage crops have potential for reseeding, but its occurrence can depend on any of several factors.
What precedes reseeding?
For a forage crop to reseed, it must first produce seed. Most forage crops will make little seed if heavily grazed during the seed production period because grazing reduces seedheads, or blooms. Having only a light stocking rate or removing livestock during the blooming (or heading) period is usually required for a forage crop to make a substantial quantity of seed.
Even when blooming is unhindered, plants may not actually make much seed for a variety of reasons. For example, the clover head weevil can greatly reduce seed production by crimson clover, and the vetch bruchid can devastate seed production of some vetch species. Diseases, drought, flooding or other stresses can greatly reduce seed yields as well.
In addition, seed production from cross-pollinated species (this applies to most grasses) can be largely prevented by heavy rains or strong winds during the pollination period. Similarly, many legumes are dependent upon insects for pollination (no insects = no pollination).
Even when lots of seed is produced, there is no guarantee of a subsequent new crop of young plants. Much of the seed of some clovers often germinates at the wrong time, resulting in seedling death. Much of the “hard seed” that species such as arrowleaf clover make may be so hard that it takes many years for the seed coat to deteriorate enough to allow germination. With some types of seed, various birds, insects, and other creatures may consume or spoil much of the seed while it’s on the soil surface.
Field conditions matter, as always
Conditions in the field where seeds have been deposited also have a great influence on seed germination and seedling establishment. Extremely hard soil, a thick mulch of plant residue, or a thick stand of actively growing competing plants may spell doom for new seedlings. Clipping or grazing summer pastures closely just before the expected time of germination is commonly recommended and also favors obtaining reseeded stands.
Similarly, tillage just prior to the normal date of germination will usually greatly facilitate the establishment of reseeded stands. Tillage can simultaneously “plant” seed in the soil, help reduce or eliminate plant residue and competing plants, and may provide some scarification of hard seed. Sometimes nothing more than lightly “scratching” the soil can be quite helpful.
View reseeding as a bonus, not an essential
Examples of successful long-term reseeded plant stands are plentiful, but reseeding is affected by many factors. Even planting into a prepared seedbed, which is less risky than reseeding, doesn’t guarantee a stand. A prudent approach is to manage forage crops for reseeding when there is no great penalty for doing so, and otherwise to plant seed of forage crops as needed. Reseeding should normally be viewed as a bonus or a possibility rather than as a high-priority objective.
Foraging Ahead is a bi-weekly column presented by Ragan & Massey and written by Dr. Don Ball, Professor Emeritus at Auburn University. Dr. Ball is one of the authors of the popular book “Southern Forages,” available here.
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Illinois man facing DUI charge after pedestrian fatality
On behalf of Law Office of Stephen L. Richards posted in Drunk Driving on Sunday, September 21, 2014.
Any person who has driven after the sun has set knows that a driver's visibility can be significantly reduced at night. If a person were driving on a dimly lit street, it might be difficult to see pedestrians in the roadway. This is especially true if those pedestrians are not in a crosswalk, or if they attempt to cross unexpectedly. However, after an accident that could have just as easily been caused by reduced visibility, one man now faces a DUI charge after a pedestrian fatality in Illinois.
The accident occurred one day in mid-September. Police reported that they received a call just after 9 p.m. one night. They say that a male pedestrian was struck by a pickup truck driven by a man. Unfortunately, the pedestrian died at the scene.
No other injuries were reported, but the driver was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. It is unclear at this time why police suspected him of drinking and driving or what his blood alcohol content may have been at the time of the accident. Reports indicate that the accident remains under investigation.
The death of the pedestrian is a tragedy with which his family must now cope. However, the driver who now faces a DUI charge is presumed innocent until -- and only if -- Illinois prosecutors can provide sufficient evidence to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. While it may be easy to assume that person driving at night who is involved in an accident was under the influence of alcohol, these assumptions are not enough to gain a guilty conviction in a criminal court.
Source: CBS Chicago, "Driver Arrested For DUI After Pedestrian Killed In McHenry Crash", , Sept. 10, 2014
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Self Identity
Relational Wellbeing Therapy
Martin Dewberry BA (Hons) MBACP Registered
St Margarets, East Twickenham, Middlesex
Martin Dewberry
How I Started
I discovered counselling as a second career after spending a number of years in both the gaming and hospitality industries. Having lived through my own difficulties, these experiences led me to train and pursue a career in counselling and therapy myself.
Qualifications & Training
BA (Hons) Integrative Relational Counselling
AQA Level 2 Counselling Skills
Gestalt Workshop - issued by The Dialogue Consultancy
Introduction to Personality Disorder - issued by the Institute of Mental Health (NHS Nottingham)
I am a Registered Member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) and abide by their Ethical Framework. I am insured and in regular professional supervision, which provides me with the support I need to continually support my clients.
I'm also a registered provider for CIGNA Healthcare Insurance. If you're a member of CIGNA and wish to use them to fund sessions, please let me know when you inquire.
Engaging in therapy with me at my home-based practice consists of an hour-long session each week where I will listen closely to what want to say and what you need me to hear. Therapy with me means that I will honour you as an individual member of the human race, engage therapeutically and work collaboratively with you in order to help you find your own path. I believe that working strongly together will help you discover a new way forward towards an independent and autonomous existence.
The relationship that we build and develop between us will be the key to that success. I am particularly interested in areas such as addiction, self-identity, sexual-identity, the power of acceptance and the relational dynamics between the adult, parent and child ego states.
I am trained and work with an Integrative approach using a wide range of theoretical models to help shape me and my thoughts in relation to you and your process. As we navigate and explore the conscious and unconscious we will endeavour to unpick unhelpful behaviours, beliefs, processes and assumptions you may hold, to help enable you to find a different way of being in relationship to both yourself and others.
Working from home means that you will meet with me in both a professional and personal setting. I have a designated therapy space from which I work, and I'm sometimes accompanied by my dog, Harry, the Beagle. The presence of dogs in a therapeutic environment can have a calming and reassuring influence for some people, especially those who experience dogs as a beacon of safety and security. However, I also appreciate that not all of us have had safe, trusted or positive experiences with dogs in our life; I can arrange Harry to be absent from the therapy space should his presence pose a potential difficulty for your therapeutic journey.
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Councillors, democracy and meetings > Have your say…
Your rights to attend and report council meetings
The above Regulations came into force on 6 August 2014 and apply to all councils and other local government bodies in England, allowing the press and public to film and to report, using social media through blogging or tweeting, of all a body’s public meetings.
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We welcome petitions and recognise that they are one way in which you can let us know your concerns and have adopted a Petitions Scheme which sets out how we will deal these and what is required from you.
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Any Rother resident can submit a petition provided it includes 10 or more signatures. A petition may be signed by anyone living, working or studying in the Rother district.
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Petitions can be submitted in paper or by using an e-petition website.
Petitions submitted to the Council must include:
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The full Petitions Scheme details information about the different types of petition, how we will deal with your petition, how we will keep you informed and subjects which, for legal or other reasons, we cannot accept as petitions.
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Sunday School Train Trip To Bangor 1962
Children from Lurgan in County Armagh take a Sunday School excursion train to Bangor in County Down.
An excursion train leaving Armagh railway station has been organised to take a number of Sunday School children from Lurgan to Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. Bangor is a popular seaside resort on the southern side of Belfast Lough.
The children are accompanied to the train station by family members, and they line the full length of the platform, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the train.
When the train pulls into the station the children jostle to get into the carriages. The train whistle blows and it slowly moves off with many of the passengers leaning out the window to wave at onlookers.
This is one of many Sunday School excursions.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 9 June 1962. The footage shown here is mute.
Belfast Children Allowed To Use Swings On Sunday 1965
National Children's Day Parade 1976
Fleeing Northern Ireland 1971
Garda Children's Party 1976
National Children's Day 1989
Europe And The Future Of The Border 1962
An Óige Youth Hostel Association 1962
Mail Train Robbery 1976
Contraceptive Train 1971
Children at the National Gallery 1971
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Women in AI Virtual Evening schedule
Wednesday 18 November
Ashley Cohen - Principal Analytical Lead - Google
Ashley Cohen - Google
As Principal Analytical Lead at Google Ashley helps her clients draw the connections between their investment in Google and their objectives. In addition, she leads projects to leverage her clients' tech infrastructure to drive their business. She has a strong background in statistics and analytics through previous work as a Statistician at The Applied Health Research Centre at St. Michael's Hospital & The Hospital for Sick Children where she has partnered with academic researchers across North America.
Jane Ho - Associate VP, Data & Analytics - TD Bank
Diversity's Critical Role in AI and Innovation
Jane Ho - TD Bank
Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning models are heavily reliant on the data that feed them. While AI can improve on human decision making; however, since data can be biased based on human decisions made in the past, AI output may inherit or even amplify biases. There are different solutions that could help mitigate bias, such as interrogating the data to better understand any inherent bias beforehand or conducting fairness tests to check if the model output may unfairly discriminate against protected groups. One way to provide additional perspectives and mitigate bias that perhaps we don't often talk about is having a more diverse, multi-disciplinary workforce who works in AI. Several sources estimate only 10% to 20% of those who work in AI are women, this percentage being stagnant over the years. Education, mentorship, role models, sponsorship, and recruitment practices can play critical roles to bring more diversity into AI
Jane leads a Data & Analytics team within our Innovation, Technology and Shared Services (ITSS) group. She has been with TD for five years and has led Analytics teams for customer facing contact centre and collections businesses. Prior to TD, Jane held increasingly senior roles in Marketing and Analytics in Telecommunications, Retail and Insurance.
Jane is the Co-Chair of Women in Data & Analytics at TD, and is also President of the Queen's University Smith Analytics & AI Alumni Club. Jane holds a Master of Management Analytics from Queen's University Smith Business School, an MBA from IMD in Switzerland, and HBA from the Ivey School of Business at Western University.
Tanmana Sadhu - Computer Vision Engineer - Huawei Canada
Action Recognition for Behaviour Understanding from Video in 2020
Tanmana Sadhu - Huawei Canada
Automated Behavior Understanding is presently an actively researched area of Computer Vision. It is of interest for applications such as autonomous vehicles, health care, HCI, video summarization, etc. We may break down the behavior understanding task into several levels to make it simpler. At the first level, basic motions, poses, gaze may be recognized. At the next level, we may consider activity recognition approaches. Finally, we may further assign associations for group dynamics, predict crowd motion, interpret scene contexts or even intent from visual cues, essentially unfolding a higher degree of semantics along with temporal information. This talk will explore the latest developments and challenges in this area of research, with a focus on action recognition.
Tanmana Sadhu is a Computer Vision Engineer at Huawei Canada's Vancouver Research Center where she conducts research and development in video understanding. Tanmana graduated from University of Victoria, located in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, with a Masters in Electrical Engineering in 2016. She has since then worked in diverse domains of Machine Learning and Data Science spanning ocean research, banking and smart devices at various organizations.
Exploring AI Advancements & Women in Tech - - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Exploring AI Advancements & Women in Tech - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Roundtable Discussions include:
• AI in the Post COVID19 World and Mentorship for Women in AI Hosted by Jane Ho, TD Bank
• The Importance of Diversity - Hosted by Catherine Paradis-Therrien, TD Bank
• Solving Human Problems with AI in 2020 - Hosted by Tanmana Sadhu, Huawei Canada
You are free to come in and out of all sessions to ask your questions, share your thoughts and learn more from the speakers and other attendees
PANEL: Addressing Change, Challenges and Uncertainty for Women in Tech
Catherine Paradis-Therrien - Sr Manager, Analytics & Insights - TD Bank
Catherine Paradis-Therrien - TD Bank
Catherine Paradis-Therrien, Senior Manager, Analytics & Insights, TD Bank is a passionate leader with over 10+ years of experience in Predictive Analytics. She joined the bank in 2007 having held many progressive roles within the organization supporting both the insurance and personal banking analytics strategy while leading projects involving Machine Learning, GLM, Sampling, and Client Segmentation. Catherine holds a Bachelor of Mathematics and a Masters in Statistics from the University of Montreal.
Inmar Givoni - Director of Engineering - Uber ATG
Panellist
Inmar Givoni - Uber ATG
Inmar Givoni is a Senior Autonomy Engineering Manager at Uber Advanced Technology Group, Toronto, where she leads a team whose mission is to bring from research and into production cutting-edge deep-learning models for self-driving vehicles. She received her PhD (Computer Science) in 2011 from the University of Toronto, specializing in machine learning, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. She worked at Microsoft Research, Altera (now Intel), Kobo, and Kindred at roles ranging from research scientist to VP, applying machine learning techniques to various problem domains and taking concepts from research to production systems. She is an inventor of several patents and has authored numerous top-tier academic publications in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, and computational biology. She is a regular speaker at AI events, and is particularly interested in outreach activities for young women, encouraging them to choose technical career paths. For her volunteering efforts she has received the 2017 Arbor Award from UofT. In 2018 she was recognized as one of Canada’s 50 inspiring women in STEM.
Sedef Akinli Kocak - Project Manager / Senior Lecturer - Vector Institute / Ryerson University
Sedef Akinli Kocak - Vector Institute / Ryerson University
Sedef Akinli Kocak is the Project Manager at Vector Institute for artificial intelligence engaging Vector sponsors on AI projects. Currently she leads several multi-industrial participant projects. She holds a PhD degree from the Data Science Lab at Ryerson University, Canada and earned master’s degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Business of Administration. She worked in data intensive R&D project development and academic industry partnerships in the area of AI/ML at SOSCIP, the Southern Ontario Smart Computing for Innovation Platform. She is also an experienced and accomplished researcher in the area of ICT for sustainability and sustainability design in software intensive systems and a part time Data Science and Analytics lecturer at Ryerson University since 2014. She served as a member of the Compute Ontario Board Advisory Committee and AI program development advisor at the Continuing Education, University of Toronto.
Hakimeh Purmehdi - Senior Data Scientist - Ericsson
Hakimeh Purmehdi - Ericsson
Hakimeh Purmehdi is a senior data scientist at Ericsson Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, where leads innovative AI/ML solutions for future wireless communication networks. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. She finished her postdoc in AI and image processing at the Radiology Department, University of Alberta. Before joining Ericsson, she was the co-founder of Corowave, a startup to develop non-contact bio-signal monitoring, and she was with Microsoft Research (MSR) as a research engineer. Her research focus is basically on the intersection of wireless communication (5G and beyond), AI solutions (such as online learning, federated learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning), and biotech.
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Dear Stefano Gabbana, Your Clothes May Not Be Outdated, But Your Views Are
Truth About Trying Blogger Jen Jones Donatelli debunks the four biggest IVF myths out there.
By Jen Jones Donatelli
When the first successful IVF procedure was done back in 1978, headlines sensationalized the outcome as "The First Test Tube Baby!" And though times have definitely changed since then, it seems that perceptions haven't.
Earlier this year, Elton John called for a mass boycott of Dolce & Gabbana in light of Stefano Gabbana's public comments in Panorama that babies born from IVF are "synthetic" and "children of chemistry." Gabbana did the interview to promote the fashion line's "#DGFamily" project, an online collection of portraits from 4,000 families around the world (but—it would seem—none that were created by assisted reproductive technology).
Like Victoria Beckham, Martina Navratilova, Ricky Martin, and more, I 100 percent support John's boycott. John sums the reasons up best on his Instagram: "Shame on you for wagging your judgmental little fingers at IVF—a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children." So true! IVF's not just a gay thing, it's an everyone thing, from straight to gay, single to coupled, male to female. And it's only becoming more commonplace: the number of babies born through IVF now exceeds five million, and the number of completed cycles grew six percent to 174, 692 from 2012 to 2013 (the most recent data available).
In the interest of clearing up further myths and misconceptions about IVF, I spoke with Dr. Carolyn Alexander of Southern California Reproductive Center.
Myth #1: Everyone who does IVF ends up with multiples.
The truth is that the majority of women who undergo fertility treatment end up with one baby; current ASRM stats show that the risk of multiple gestation is no more than one out of every three pregnancies. Also, to date, more twins have been conceived naturally than through fertility treatments; however, the same doesn't apply to triplets and quadruplets (only 15 percent of triplets and seven percent of quadruplets were conceived spontaneously).
Those numbers are continuing to get lower, as there's a strong movement in medical reproductive circles to end up with one "healthy singleton" as opposed to multiple babies (due to higher risks of pre-term labor and delivery, as well as health risks for the mother). "We're not as aggressive with stimulation as we were in the past; more clinics are feeling the momentum to put in less embryos," says Alexander.
Myth #2: The woman is always the cause for a couple being unable to conceive.
Current stats show that around 30 percent of all reproductive issues stem from male factor infertility (MFI), or male and female infertility in tandem. A range of issues can come into play, from low sperm count to poor sperm motility to abnormal shape (or morphology). "To many people, [the rise in infertility seems to come from] delaying childbearing, but infertility can be multi-factorial," explains Alexander.
Myth #3: Surrogacy is a vanity choice.
Far from it! Many women who choose surrogacy choose to do so because they've had recurrent miscarriages, autoimmune health issues, or have had their uterus surgically removed out of medical necessity; gay male couples also typically use surrogates to bring their dreams of having a family to reality. "Surrogacy is the ultimate to gift to someone, and it's not someone's 'fault' if they need a surrogate," says Alexander. "It's typically patients who earnestly want a healthy child and can't carry."
Myth #4: IVF children are "experiments" (another gem from Gabbana).
Perhaps the most hurtful misconception is that IVF-conceived children are somehow less legitimate than spontaneously conceived children. The process may be completely different, but the end result is the same: a family.
"[The only difference is that] the embryologist is the first 'babysitter' or person to provide responsible care for that fertilized egg, and I'm the fertility doctor that quietly puts it back into the uterus," says Alexander, pointing out that the hormone drugs prescribed directly mimic natural hormones. "No matter how you look at it, it's a biological fertilized egg."
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to consign the only piece of Dolce & Gabbana clothing I own….
Jen Jones Donatelli Jen Jones Donatelli is an author and journalist whose work and photography have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, LA Confidential, Natural Health, Variety, San Francisco, Whole Life Times, Clean Plates, Total Beauty, and many more.
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Remembering Sahar: Rolling Hills Zoo lion cause of death determined
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Oct 17, 2019 at 2:54 PM Oct 17, 2019 at 5:20 PM
The cause of death for Sahar, the Rolling Hills Zoo African lion, was determined to be encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) caused by a fungal infection, officials said Thursday. The finding is based on a necropsy performed by Kansas State University after the lion’s death, announced Sept. 27.
“The infection, which caused lesions in both the brain and a lung, were not detectable by routine examination or by the standard clinical tests that were done,” zoo officials said. “Outward signs of any illness were not seen until the day prior to his death. The fungus is considered to be non-contagious.”
Sahar was born on Jan. 27, 2010, at the Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Society and moved to Lincoln Park Zoo in February 2012. Arriving at 2 years of age, Sahar had become an icon at Lincoln Park Zoo along with his fellow pride members, Kamali and Zalika, 5-year-old female littermates.
On the recommendation of the African Lion Species Survival Plan, a collaborative effort among the Association of Zoos & Aquariums — of which RHZ is an accredited institution — Sahar arrived at the Rolling Hills Zoo this year the morning of June 5 with his pride, Kamali and Zalika. Their move to a new home was needed in preparation for Lincoln Park Zoo’s renovation of their landmark lion house.
During his residency at Rolling Hills Zoo, Sahar could be seen out in the lion exhibit watching over the pride and visitors from a high spot on the rocks, lounging under the shade structure or napping in the yard. Typically, Zalika, his favorite, would be by his side wherever he was in the yard and Kamali would be nearby.
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San Diego’s hub of truck tech startups gets fresh cash — $90M for SmartDrive
SmartDrive makes video telematics tech for commercial fleets.
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Tech for commercial trucking is a hot area in San Diego, attracting big chunks of capital in recent years
By Brittany Meiling
Technology for commercial trucking is not the sexiest startup category, but Silicon Valley investors don’t appear to mind. Several San Diego tech companies making software or other tools for semi-trucks have scored big chunks of investment money this year, including a new deal announced Thursday.
SmartDrive, a UTC company that makes video technology to improve driver performance, just got $90 million in a deal led by San Francisco-based TPG Sixth Street Partners.
SmartDrive’s CEO Steve Mitgang said in a news release that the money will go towards “continued innovation in areas such as computer vision and AI, while also enhancing sales and marketing initiatives and further international expansion.”
The company, which currently employs 175 in San Diego, plans to add jobs in engineering, sales, marketing and other departments. SmartDrive did not respond to inquiries on how many new jobs would be added, nor whether this round was part of a reorganization of SmartDrive’s equity structure.
SmartDrive, founded in 2005, taps data from sensors deployed in commercial vehicles, building a picture of how drivers are handling their vehicles. The resulting data is used to analyze driver and truck performance.
The company has already raised $180 million in seven previous fundraising rounds, according to Crunchbase data.
The new round of capital comes during a point of high sales growth, according to a statement from SmartDrive. The company’s sales are up 44 percent in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018.
SmartDrive is the latest truck tech company to attract the eye of big-money investors. In February, San Diego startup TuSimple, which makes self-driving trucks and the powerful software that runs them, landed a $95 million round of venture money. That deal valued the company at roughly $1 billion, making it one of the most valuable tech startups in the city.
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Senior Emily Hayes gives a presentation to her Anatomy and Physiology class about the different types of shock before the class’ weekly Diagnosis Friday activity. (Photo by Shimin Zhang)
Q&A: EMR-certified senior will restart ‘dangerous’ EMT course in summer
Mehdi Lacombe· May 14, 2019
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Senior Emily Hayes began training in August 2018 to become certified as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). She had already been certified as an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), which Hayes completed in her junior year. However, she was told to stop her EMT training and is therefore certified only as an EMR. Hayes took her classes at Sierra College in Rocklin.
Q: When did you realize you wanted to pursue a career in medicine?
A: My dad got his EMT certification and worked as a lifeguard when he was in college, and my mom worked as a nurse caring for premature babies, so I grew up in a medical household.
My dad would always tell me stories of the trauma calls he got to run, and they fascinated me. When I was about 11, my dad pulled the car over and helped a bicyclist who’d just been hit by a car. It was amazing to watch my father know exactly how to treat the man’s injuries and calm him down until the ambulance got there.
I wanted to be the one who knew what to do in the future. When I was about 13, my aunt was hit by a truck while riding her bike and almost died. A bystander crawled underneath the truck and held her hand until the firefighters could get her free. I want to be there to comfort someone like that when they need it most. After I took my EMR course and realized I had a talent for diagnosing and treating people, I was sold.
Q: What did you do in your EMR classes?
A: To get EMR certification, you have to do around 150 hours of lectures and skills training. Mondays we had a four-hour lecture and tests; Wednesdays were usually skills days where EMTs and paramedics would come and teach us actual hands-on skills.
There was no national exam at the end — you just go and take a test in your class, and then you’re certified.
Q: Were there any funny moments in class?
A: Our teacher’s main purpose was to teach us the things we needed to know that weren’t in the textbook, and he did that through telling us funny stories of calls he’s been on.
It really helped break up the monotony of four-hour PowerPoints!
My favorite moment in class was probably when he was teaching us how to open a patient’s airways without moving their neck, which is important with patients who have spinal trauma.
Normally the maneuver our teacher was teaching us wouldn’t work on a conscious patient because their jaw would be too tight, but (the teacher) had been knocked around so much that his jaw was loose enough for us to practice on him.
The first kid who practiced on him immediately opened the teacher’s jaw and just muttered, “Oh, s—!”, and we all started laughing really hard. Our teacher probably laughed the hardest.
Q: When did you start EMT training?
A: I started EMT training in August before my senior year. I went until September, but then I had a pulmonary embolism and had to go to the hospital, so I missed eight hours of class.
Since your requirements are hourly, you need to make up every class you miss and make up your work. You can actually get kicked out if you miss class. I was really tied up with things, so I said, “Whatever. I’ll just do it next semester.”
I started again in January, which would’ve had me finish in May, but since EMT is considered a really dangerous course, you’re not really allowed to take it in high school.
But then the college administration found out and said I couldn’t continue because I would be a liability, so I got kicked out after seven weeks.
Q: What’s dangerous about EMT training?
A: It’s an inherently dangerous job because we’re exposed to things that hurt other people. When someone gets hurt, we go to the place where they got hurt.
And we’re also exposed to disease; we have to do 24 hours of hospital time and an ambulance ride-along, so they’re afraid we could get diseases from being around those environments.
Q: Did your training in both programs help you with your schoolwork?
A: EMT was incredibly helpful for my Country Day classes, especially Anatomy and Physiology and AP Bio.
EMT really focuses on teaching us anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology (how diseases affect normal body function). Having a really solid base in those subjects from EMT made concepts a lot easier when they came up in class.
Q: Is that why you started Diagnosis Fridays in Anatomy and Physiology?
A: Originally it’s because I’m (high school science teacher Kellie Whited’s teaching assistant), but I loved the labs so much that she let me take them over.
For the labs, students are given a fake patient with a list of symptoms, and then the students have to solve what disease the patient is suffering from and how to treat it using notes and testing options.
My experience in real-world healthcare helps me guide the students and give them tips on how to get to the bottom of what’s affecting their patient. I teach them proper medical terminology and abbreviations they will see in hospitals they work in, and they get to start practicing their diagnostic skills in a low-key environment.
I also teach them a lot of tools EMTs use to diagnose their patients.
Q: Will you continue EMT training after graduating from high school?
A: I’ll definitely be taking the EMT course this summer at Sierra so I can be an EMT in college.
It (will) be 24 hours a week plus the time set apart for the other requirements.
This is kind of a now-or-never time to take this course — and to do it in an environment where the teacher knows me — is nice.
Q: Can you already use your EMR certification to start working?
A: EMRs are not advanced enough to staff ambulances, but I have used my training to do rescues and aid at vehicle crash sites just as a good Samaritan.
Once I receive my EMT certification, I’ll apply to work at an ambulance company throughout college.
Q: Did any of those good Samaritan acts stand out to you?
A: For the first, I was fresh out of my EMR class. I was sitting down with my family eating dinner, and all of a sudden my grandma started choking on her steak.
Long story short, I open her airway for her, get her breathing normally, and then go meet the ambulance when I hear it pulling up outside to give what’s called a “turnover report” (explaining a patient’s symptoms and medical history when passing them onto another medical professional).
After the paramedics all do their thing and make sure that she’s all good to go, the paramedic leading the team told me it was one of the best turnover reports she’d heard in a long time.
It was really validating to know that I could perform correctly under stressful, real-life conditions, and it showed me how well my teacher had prepared me to do my job correctly and interact with other professionals in a way that helped my patient.
The second was actually kind of funny. I was working as a head lifeguard at a swim club when one of my guards ran up and told me there was a woman going into labor. Of course, I thought, “Awesome,” and started sprinting up the hill and snapping on some gloves.
We both walked up to her, expecting to get ready to deliver a baby, and (instead) had her tell us in a rather alarmed, oh-dear-I’ve-made-two-teenagers-incredibly-nervous way that she was completely fine and absolutely not going into labor.
It was a bit of a letdown, but I realized how passionate I was about treating people and how exciting it can be.
I also pulled up to a weird scene one time. It was dark and there was a car stopped right next to the Arco at the intersection of Watt and Fair Oaks with its hazard lights on and people dragging someone out of it. So I circled around and parked somewhere safe before I put on some gloves and walked up.
I’ll be honest — my heart was beating out of my chest. Car accidents are really dangerous scenes that we’re not really encouraged to approach without actually being on the job, but I really wanted to see if there was anything I could do.
I walked up to this group of people and said as calmly as I could, “Hey, I’m an EMT student; is there anything I can do to help?” and immediately heard, “Oh, thank God, yes!” from the crowd.
It was so validating to hear. I knew I’d chosen a profession that was needed and appreciated, and that I would spend my life helping those who were having awful days.
—By Mehdi Lacombe
Originally published in the April 23 edition of the Octagon.
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still dont know, prolly bio
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Getting Banned
foodchain posted a topic in Psychiatry and Psychology
Sometimes I really, really, just want to seriously hurt some people to the point of non existence.
A Green House
foodchain posted a topic in Engineering
Could you model a house as to generate its own electricity via algae biodiesel and solar power? I thought if you could make an efficient system that could produce up to 500 gallons a month you could power not only a vehicle but a majority of home electricity use for a small group of people, possibly even just a dyad. I would think you could work this in with a couple of pet animals, possibly chickens or what not for example. You could process it along with algal specie selection so that the algae could also be feed, and the animal manure could be feed along with CO2 scrubbed from a generator, or possibly just piped in indirectly. I know you cant make modification to vehicles in any fashion you would like, but a system to scrub carbon from diesel combustion for a 24 hour period could also be nice for a CO2 source. I was thinking if you could model some system like that you could then produce one that works within American economic system. I think the key would just be making the system user friendly and automated to some extent. I also think it would help if the system could be diversified to be able to use all waste materials possibly from any given kind of a home with related products to facilitate such. If a generator only had to be fueled two times a day it would also be much more user friendly. That along with a constant solar system should be able to take up a bulk of electricity used by a home. Plus the house could still be on the grid, which could possibly mean earnings for a house. Overall it would be a massive retooling of American infrastructure, but electricity generation is a huge source of CO2 production itself from hydrocarbons primarily.
foodchain replied to foodchain's topic in Chemistry
So would it be an issue of momentum too? Like if I poured from a foot of distance with a volume that would be large environmentally, compared to almost at the surface with a very small flow at the center. I just wonder if the rapid motion of the boiling water would keep the cooler water segregated for a bit of time or if the boiling motion itself would make it easier for the cooler water to move around. Would there be a density difference between the two?
foodchain posted a topic in Chemistry
If you have a small pot of boiling water and you add some cold water to it does the motion of the boiling water keep the cooler water at a boundary for a bit of time, or does the cool water instantly sink in and mingle with all of the water?
foodchain replied to ecoli's topic in Ethics
How would any process protect against damage caused by all of that water freezing?
Math Power
foodchain posted a topic in Speculations
Why are alternate formalisms to physical phenomena altogether bad? For instance I don't know how to model energy, or energetic interactions. Could you use just a graph really. In terms of chemistry this is more interesting though. Why cant you try some alternate system to describe an atom, or polyatomic systems? Giving conservation laws couldn't I just try to model these interactions as noise on a number line. I mean if its regular or periodic in any way I would think this could yield patterns.
foodchain replied to foodchain's topic in Ethics
Just that if the bulk introduction of various traits will impact ecology in ways. If a population of insects is no longer being able to obtain X amount of crop, what do they do? Do they just starve to death, do other phenotypes do better, I mean what happens. Then you have the traits themselves, open up to a multitude of ways to get different. How giving biological systems could a trait be looked at as under control really? All of those crops, could you lock all of that out of horizontal gene transfer, and I think that form of heredity is more common in plants also.
The first organism?
foodchain replied to dstebbins's topic in Biology
What if the process that generated life, or the environment, required over a hundred years to lead to life? For it to be disproved would require science I imagine. All we have right now is hypothetical stuff on the origin of life, or nothing proven fully. Back to the hundred years in a specific environment, we really cant set up such an experiment yet. To be honest going from my readings correctly modeling the behavior of chlorine in the atmosphere is considered a very difficult task.
foodchain posted a topic in Ethics
Is there a percentage estimate for safety in which a biotech product, such as a crop, is automatically stopped from going into application? For instance with single nucleotide polymorphisms and biotech crops. Is there a timeline in which the natural occurrence of such would render controls over such a crop impossible to maintain? What about any other variable, such as what do insect populations do if they can no longer feed on a percentage of the crop? I mean crops that used far less water and were far less intensive for pesticides and fertilizers would be great, but are there sure standards to make sure biotech crops themselves do not become massive problems. More if you consider resource issues, how many people need to eat, population growth, and other factors like global warming. Biotech may be one of the only options in all reality to support human life.
Power Plant Plants
foodchain replied to foodchain's topic in Speculations
If you could get the roots to be able to attach to a variety of surfaces that would also be nice. I would think some kind of film or membranous material would also be useful there. If it could attack to rock, or soil, or what not. Heck you could probably have a ball of molten garbage as a soil then. Think if it could react or recognize certain materials, it could behave in a way to refine it to other materials. You could have all kinds of behavior like that from a perspective of metabolism. Then you could have crops that produced hydrogen in a form usable for large scale electricity production, along with something producing water, it probably would not be so far fetched to have it produce breathable environments. You could simply place them on a planet and come back for resources produced.
Could you engineer plants to become solar panels? Maybe it could produce film concentrated with some kind of photosynthetic mechanism. I would think you could then use the energy to produce maybe a yield of something else, perhaps usable hydrogen or what not. I would think that you could make the leaves to be transparent with some kind of a skeleton that could be connected in the form of a leaf with a film of photosynthetic organisms. Then the energy could be chained into some reactions in which hydrogen would get feed into some kind of budding organ that contains it in an accessible form. I don't know but could you model carbon nanotube structures into DNA expression, this could possibly form the skeleton in which the film attaches, perhaps this could be worked into come kind of a cellular differentiation process. The inside of the tubes could be filled with some kind of a substance possibly to aid in transferring energy. Maybe the roots could be used to produce various compounds for all kinds of chemicals in the soil, and expression of such could match how much is captured via use of the protein or enzyme in the cell. I think a lot of such chemical mechanisms exist in bacteria already for instance. You could probably even work in some kind of process that interacts to make water. Such plants I think could serve to be a resource that could be made large enough to for power plant use.
The Global Warming Consensus and "The Tobacco Strategy"
foodchain replied to iNow's topic in Climate Science
What does greenpeace holding political power mean to you? There is also the green party, and that also has variation in terms of what can suck in votes. Also the Democrats in America and various other political parties around the globe make various environmental issues part of their plateforms to some extent. Also greenpeace is not the only environmental agency really.
Multicellular Evolution
Anaerobic metabolism is not as limited as you think and evolution of sea vent communities prove life is not dependent on the sun also. I dont think any particular rules exist or molecular laws exist for biological structure yet, or at least nothing absolute and or determined as to how you place the role of oxygen, you could say the same for carbon or even Iron if you wanted.
Power and Change
foodchain replied to foodchain's topic in General Philosophy
A major shift in European governance took place along with American influence. The road there is not one way I guess is all. TO my topic its more or less that all major shifts are heated, or polarized. Be it in the U.S with any issue, such as civil rights for example. I furthermore think this can be found going over recorded history. Maybe human nature has this wired into it, and that one of our greater success is finding a way for humans to change in a more civilized manner. Not to say no one ever tried to do such before, or that thinking was somehow absolutely novel in regards to the constitution, just that its workings were radical in how they applied to people at that point in history. That this radical nature was simply finding a way for resolve conflicts within a society by virtue that conflict itself is guaranteed within people. Such change itself is packed with conflict, and in the end all of it can be framed as people that argued to change. So is that very act applied to some certain criteria like above always to be automatically met with resistance for more primal reasons, like a human nature issue.
foodchain replied to Chuck Norris's topic in Biology
Yet people in warm climates can also get colds.
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Ducks down: Oregon out of AP Top 25 for 1st time since 2009
Oregon is out of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since 2009, snapping its streak of consecutive Top 25 appearances at 98.
The Ducks were blasted at home 62-20 by Utah on Saturday night. It was the most points ever allowed by the Ducks at Autzen Stadium and gave them two September losses for the first time since 2004.
The top six teams in the AP media poll were the same as last week with Ohio State No. 1, Michigan State No.2 and Mississippi No. 3.
One small difference, TCU was tied with Ole Miss last week. The Horned Frogs are now fourth after escaping from Texas Tech with a victory. Baylor is fifth and Notre Dame sixth.
Utah surged eight spots to No. 10 after beating the Ducks and received one first-place vote.
Oregon's streak of consecutive AP Top 25 appearances was the second-best current streak in the nation. Here are the top three now that the Ducks' streak is done.
Alabama - 120.
Florida State - 58.
Ohio State - 55.
FIRST-PLACE VOTES
Ohio State - 45, up three from last week.
Ole Miss - 10, down one.
Michigan State - 5, down two.
Utah - 1. It is the first time the Utes have received a first-place vote in an AP regular season poll.
There were five new teams in the rankings this week, including a couple of traditional powers that had been on an extended hiatus.
- No. 22 Michigan and No.25 Florida are in the rankings for the first time since 2013.
- No. 23 West Virginia is ranked for the first time this season.
- No. 24 California is back in the rankings for the first time since 2009.
Like Oregon, Arizona fell from the rankings after getting routed at home on Saturday night. The Wildcats lost 56-30 to UCLA and had quarterback Anu Solomon leave with a possible head injury.
Georgia Tech, Missouri and BYU also fell out.
RANKED VS. RANKED
The first sort'em out Saturday of the season:
No. 3 Ole Miss at No. 25 Florida. Gators back?
No. 6 Notre Dame at No. 12 Clemson. Two teams winning despite key losses and injuries.
No. 13 Alabama at No. 8 Georgia. The Tide has not started 3-2 since 2007, coach Nick Saban's first season.
No. 21 Mississippi State at No. 14 Texas A&M. Aggies got clanged by Dak Prescott and the Bulldogs in Starkville last year.
No. 23 West Virginia at No. 15 Oklahoma. Big 12 schedule maker did the Mountaineers no favors: Face Sooners, TCU and Baylor on the road over the next four weeks.
Plus these games matching ranked teams against unbeaten teams:
No. 1 Ohio State at Indiana (4-0)
Iowa (4-0) at No. 19 Wisconsin.
Follow Ralph D. Russo at www.Twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP
AP college football website: collegefootball.ap.org
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Coach K: Tre Jones Should Practice With Contact on Sunday
Jones couldn't rehab injury while home for holidays, so he got another game off.
Shawn Krest
Coach Mike Krzyzewski said that Tre Jones’ ankle injury is not more serious than initially thought. The reason he didn’t play in the game against Brown is that he couldn’t rehab it while he was home for the holidays.
“When you’re home, then you can’t work out,” Krzyzewski said. “We told him to not work out, so he wasn’t able to try the exercises. The first afternoon when we were back, we had practice, but we had no contact, just a lot of shooting and running, and he did everything. He felt pretty good after and then yesterday. But still not completely sure. I just think he needs another day or two. I expect him to participate in practice with contact and everything tomorrow.”
Krzyzewski also had plenty of praise for Jones’ backup, Jordan Goldwire, who had five assists, two steals and four points. Duke initially brought Goldwire in to compete with one-and-done point guard Trevon Duval, after he performed well against him in a high school tournament.
“We really got involved with him at the end of the recruiting cycle,” he said. “I think he was getting ready to go to Eastern Kentucky. We got in touch. He comes from a really good program—Norcross—so he played with Division I players, and he’s a Division I player. He’s one of our better athletes. He’s as good of an athlete as we have. He’s hung in there and learned. Playing with the level of talent that we have has helped him. He’s continued to become a better player and understands his role. He got sped up a couple times today but it’s so good that he was able to turn that around during the game. It’s kind of like Alex [O’Connell] ... they were juniors today.”
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By Isaac Schade
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Coach K: Wednesday at the Capitol Was "The Sorriest Day"
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Watch: Laremy Tunsil bong video leaked minutes before draft
Explaining Laremy Tunsil's NFL draft night drama
The headline-grabbing prospect during the 2016 NFL draft wasn’t either of the quarterbacks taken with the first two picks: It was offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil.
Jeremy Woo
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The headline-grabbing prospect during the 2016 NFL draft wasn’t either of the quarterbacks taken with the first two picks: It was Ole Miss offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil. Tunsil, once thought to be a potential No. 1 overall talent, was drafted at No. 13 by the Miami Dolphins.
As the draft began, Tunsil was embroiled in a controversy sparked by the apparent hacking of his Twitter account, and later his Instagram.
The Twitter video
Just before the start of the draft, Tunsil’s Twitter account sent out a video that appeared to depict Tunsil taking a hit from a bong through a gas mask.
Tunsil later confirmed that it was indeed him and said the video was from several years ago.
“It was a mistake,” Tunsil acknowledged in an on-stage interview with NFL Network’s Deion Sanders. “It happened years ago... I did not know about [the video’s posting] at all. I don’t know who it was...my Twitter account got hacked.
“I’m going to show everybody what type of person I am.”
Tunsil also confirmed he that passed all drug tests leading up to the draft.
Two offensive tackles, Ronnie Stanley and Jack Conklin, were taken ahead of Tunsil at Nos. 6 and 8.
#http://www.120sports.com/video/v175189930/tunsil-slides-to-13
The lawsuit
In the same on-stage interview, Sanders asked Tunsil if the hacker was his stepfather, Lindsey Miller, who earlier this week sued Tunsil for an alleged physical attack last June and an “intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
On Wednesday morning, Tunsil told reporters in Chicago that he didn’t know anything about the lawsuit. Miller and Tunsil filed domestic violence charges against one another last year, with Tunsil alleging his attack on Miller happened after Miller attacked Tunsil’s mother. Miller said it was unprovoked. Both sides dropped charges in August.
The Clarion-Ledger, based in Jackson, Miss., reported that Miller claimed in an arrest report that the fight stemmed from Miller warning Tunsil, who was still in college, about contact with agents.
Miller told TMZ that he was not involved in the video leak.
"The lawsuit filed against Mr. Tunsil appears to be yet another attempt by Mr. Miller to damage Mr. Tunsil, his family, and the University," Tunsil’s attorney said in a statement. "This unsavory attempt to obtain money from a talented young man is a sad example of the times. The timing of this suit, on the eve of the NFL draft, speaks volumes as to Mr. Miller's motives.”
The Instagram hack
The plot thickened when Tunsil’s verified Instagram account — since deleted — posted apparent messages between Tunsil and a member of the Mississippi football staff. The messages showed Tunsil asking for money and discussing the payment of his mother’s electric bill. The posts went out almost immediately following his selection by Miami. Tunsil did not confirm whether the messages were real.
Via Instagram @KingTunsil
An apparent admission
Shortly afterward, Tunsil held a press conference following his selection. In it, he was asked by a reporter about the Instagram screenshots.
According to SI’s Joan Niesen, Tunsil denied the exchange of money, but then appeared to admit to it in a follow-up comment.
“I made a mistake,” he told reporters. “That happened.”
Asked again, he clarified that he was referring to the money. “I have to say yeah.”
Ole Miss is already being investigated by the NCAA. According to The Clarion-Ledger, a notice of allegations was given to the school in January, and contained at least five violations that concerned Tunsil.
Tunsil was suspended for seven games during the 2015 season by the NCAA.
During the course of the process, it was determined by the NCAA that Tunsil received impermissible extra benefits that included the use of three separate loaner vehicles over a sixth-month period without payment, a four-month interest-free promissory note on a $3,000 down payment for purchasing a used vehicle, two nights of lodging at a local home, an airline ticket purchased by a friend of a teammate, and one day use of a rental vehicle. In addition, it was determined that Tunsil was not completely forthcoming when initially questioned by NCAA investigators regarding the loaner vehicles. He later corrected his account and since apologized.
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Jim Porter: Is grilled chicken bad for you?
Jim Porter
McDonaldand#8217;s, TGI Fridayand#8217;s, Applebeeand#8217;s, Chick-Fil-A (huh?), Chiliand#8217;s, Outback Steakhouse and Burger King all sell grilled chicken. It is supposedly better for us than red meat.
But not according to Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, who sued those restaurants claiming their grilled chicken contains carcinogenic chemicals. Iand#8217;m assuming the claim has to do with the charred part of grilled chicken, but I donand#8217;t really know. The case did not say. What I do know is the charred part of the chicken is the best part.
In 1986, California voters approved Prop 65 which requires the state to maintain a list of chemicals known to cause cancer.
The list is exhaustive, in fact, so inclusive that many large buildings in the state have a sign or plaque warning of Prop 65 cancer-causing materials, which of course makes the warning as ineffective as the health warnings on cigarette packages.
The restaurants that were sued claimed the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, which regulates poultry products and promotes thoroughly cooked chicken, preempts the area of law governing chickens, including grilled chickens, so Prop 65 was not applicable. The trial court agreed and threw out the case.
The Court of Appeal disagreed, so the Physicians Committee is allowed to continue its Prop 65 case in California. A victory for the committee.
However, the California Court of Appeal ruled there was not enough evidence that the restaurantsand#8217; grilled chicken was so carcinogenic that it requires a Prop 65 warning. Further evidence is needed.
Additionally, the Court of Appeal determined that the code-specified Safe Harbor Warning, if the grilled chicken is ultimately found to be significantly carcinogenic, is sufficient: and#8220;WARNING: chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm may be present in foods or beverages sold or served here.and#8221;
The Physicians Committee had argued for a specific Prop 65 carcinogen warning mentioning and#8220;grilled chickenand#8221; or and#8220;well cooked chicken.and#8221; That part of the case was a victory for the restaurants. Bottom line and#8212; this case is not over.
At a minimum you will see the Prop 65 Safe Harbor Warning in all restaurants that sell grilled chicken, if it is not already posted.
Jim Porter is an attorney with Porter Simon, with offices in Truckee, South Lake Tahoe, Incline Village and Reno. He is a mediator and was the Governorand#8217;s appointee to the Fair Political Practices Commission and McPherson Commission, both involving election law and the Political Reform Act. He may be reached at porter@portersimon.com or at the firmand#8217;s web site http://www.portersimon.com.
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6 Ways to Exponentially Increase Your Traffic | Ep. #495
In episode #495, Eric and Neil point out six ways to exponentially increase traffic to your site. Tune in to hear about simple and effective ways to boost your business’ visibility.
Time-Stamped Show Notes:
[00:28] Today’s Topic: 6 Ways to Exponentially Increase Your Traffic
[00:34] Repurposing or updating your content increases hits to your site. You can reevaluate your content every few months.
[01:15] Take the existing content from your website and put the opening lines or entire opening paragraph on LinkedIn and include a link to the full content located on your site.
[01:45] Because LinkedIn isn’t as popular a networking site, it is more likely for them to push your content.
[02:10] Another strategy is to use paid Twitter ads; engagement is high.
[03:24] Try using SEMRush and Ahrefs in tandem: SEMRush will show you your competitors’ traffic, while Ahrefs will help you see the backlink count for their most popular pages. Take this intel and use it to write similar, but better content.
[05:28] The sixth way to increase traffic: translate your content into other languages. English-speaking markets aren’t the only ones with money!
[06:17] SalesForce’s number two market is Japan.
[06:25] Find freelance translators on Upwork, so you get better quality work than you would a translation tool.
[06:37] Make sure you use “HREFLANG”, because it will tell search engines that you have content in multiple languages.
[06:55] Make sure you use subdomains for other countries.
[07:15] Pick regions with high populations and high GDPs. You may corner the market in certain countries, because not everyone is doing this.
[07:43] That’s all for today!
[07:45] Supermetrics is a powerful analytics reporting tool. It does things other analytics tools cannot do! To learn more go to Supermetrics.com/marketingschool.
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Full Transcript of The Episode
Speaker 1: Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any marketing capacity. You're listening to Marketing School with your instructors, Neil Patel and Eric Siu.
Eric Siu: Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Siu.
Neil Patel: And I'm Neil Patel.
Eric Siu: And today, we're going to talk about six ways to exponentially increase your traffic. So, I'll start with number one. Number one is repurposing, or even updating your content. This has done wonders for me. Just to give you an example, I took one post that we had that was getting about 300 visits a month or so. We updated it. Now, that is a post that gets about 5000 visits a month, and ranks for very competitive keywords that are really relevant to our business, so just being able to do something like that where you have you process where every quarter or every month or so, you say, "Hey, these posts look like they have a lot of potential, they've been hitting our goals," whatever your goals are, and then just constantly updating them, because you already have the foundation there, why not build on it?
Neil Patel: Yeah, the second tool I have to for you guys is, if you're really looking to exponentially grow your traffic, you already have social channels, okay? So, you have, let's say a LinkedIn account. You can take your existing content from your website, add the first few paragraphs on LinkedIn, and put click to continue reading, and have that link go back to your website. LinkedIn works extremely well for this, because they're not that popular of a social network. Yes, they get hundreds of millions of visitors a month, but LinkedIn isn't popular compared to Facebook, compared to, maybe, Twitter, or YouTube, or Instagram. Because they're fighting for attention, they're more likely to push your content and your information out to more people, while Facebook, on the other hand, when you submit your content to it, it gets squeezed, their algorithms are like, "All right, unless you boost this post, we're not going to get you a lot of traffic." So, with LinkedIn, just take your content, first few paragraphs, put click to continue, and you'll notice that you can get a lot more traffic to your website. I get around 1000 visitors a day just by using this.
Eric Siu: Number three is a paid Twitter ad. But, wait, Twitter, isn't it dying? Well, Twitter still has an advertising platform. It's still out there. It's not dead yet, right, and, for those of you out there, especially those of you who are trying to reach a marketing audience, I read Twitter every day. That's where I get my news from. I don't read CNN and all of these other news channels. Twitter's where I get my news from, because I can curate what I read that ... Basically, reading from smart people, right? I don't need to read all the BS that's out there. So, Twitter ads are good. Here's why I say it's good. Because, couple weeks ago, I decided to just run a small test on Twitter, and I used a bit.ly link, just a URL shortener and also to track as a secondary source of ... Just as a reference point, but, basically, what I was doing was I was running Twitter ads to a content piece that we had, and I was really surprised to see that we were paying about five cents per click.
And so I thought there was something wrong, the Twitter analytics were showing that, but then when I went to double verify through bit.ly, I was, in fact, getting those clicks for about five cents or so. And I was looking at the engagement on the traffic coming in, and these people were staying for about a minute to about a minute and 30 seconds or so, so, for me, paying five cents or so, that's a nice way to exponentially grow if you have a little cash.
Neil Patel: Yeah, and the fourth tip I have for you is to use SEMrush and Ahrefs in tandem, and here's what I mean. Go to SEMrush.com, put in a competitor URL, and it'll show you, not only their traffic, but their most popular pages and how many visitors each of those pages are getting. Then go to Ahrefs. You can then take those most popular pages and then you can end up seeing how many back links they have. Now that you got a list of their most popular pages with the back link count, look for the pages that get good traffic and don't have a lot of back links, and then go write better versions of those pieces of content on your website. So, for example, if your competitor wrote an article like Ten Ways to do Advance Yoga Poses as a Beginner, you would write 101 Ways to do Advance Yoga Poses as a Beginner, right? So you're using Brian Dean's Skyscraper technique, in which you're making the content extremely better, leaps and bounds, and then you're using SEMrush to see what's popular for your competitors and you're using Ahrefs to see what doesn't have a lot of back link.
Because, if something's popular and it didn't require a lot of back links, the chances are you can write a better version of that piece of content, and outrank them really fast.
Eric Siu: Yeah, and just to build on what Neil's saying too, you can use SEMrush, or Ahrefs, or you can even go to Search Console for this, this tip that I have, but, basically, you're looking for pages that are ranking, maybe, number five and number 30 for certain keywords, or even just the pages itself, you can go to Search Console and look at them, and then look at the average positions for those pages, right? And then switch it over, switch it over from page view to the query view to see the different queries that that page is ranking for. And then, all you need to do, go to that page, and just add a few more of those keywords. Litter those keywords onto the page and that's going to help you to rank. It seems really simple and really dumb, but when you just take the time to do this, again, once every month or maybe once per quarter or so, you're able to get more traffic to that page.
Again, you have the foundation, it's just about having ... I don't know if it's a gatekeeper ... Not a gatekeeper. Maybe you need a gardener. That's what you need. You need a gardener to manage this.
Neil Patel: So, number six. What I would end up doing is, you've got your website, you're getting traffic, right, and you're just like, "All right, how can I just grow through leaps and bounds without, ideally, having to do a lot of work?" One thing that I like to do that has increased my traffic drastically, and just to give you idea, I went from roughly 200 and something thousand visitors of December 2016 to right now, which has been roughly a year, I'm at somewhere around a million plus visitors, and what I ended up doing is, I translated my content to other languages. I know this sounds crazy, it's simple, but English speaking markets aren't the only ones with money. Look how much money there is in China. Look how much money Amazon is investing in countries like India. Latin America has a ton of cash as well. And it keeps going on and on, right? Did you know, Salesforce makes most of their money in America. Their number two market is Japan, and in a lot of these regions, they don't speak English.
So, you can go to Upwork, find translators, they'll translate your content manually, because, if you don't, you're probably going to get hit by a Panda penalty, because the translation quality just sucks if you just do it automatically. And, by translating your content manually, and putting it on your same domain, you'll start ranking really high. Make sure you use hreflang, H-R-E-F-L-A-N-G, you can Google it, and it tells Google and other search engines that, "Hey, here's the English version of the content, and here's the Japanese version of the content," or whatever languages you decide to go after. And, when you're setting this up on your own site, make sure you use sub domains, so like, if I was going after Brazil, I should be using br.neilpatel.com. Funnily enough, I use sub domains, but I made that mistake. Don't make the same mistake as me. And, when doing this, you'll notice that within three to six months, your international content will do extremely well.
It doesn't take that long, and just make sure that you're picking regions with good populations, high population numbers, and high GDP, so when you combine both of them, the chances are you'll be able to monetize those regions. Sure, you won't make as much as you're making, let's say, in the United States, but there's no competition, and, for that reason, you can be the dominate player, and, potentially, see larger income than what you're getting from the United States, because you won't be competing with 1000 other businesses.
Eric Siu: Great. So, that's it for today, but, before we go, we want to tell you about Supermetrics. Supermetrics is a really powerful analytics reporting tool. Hooks in with your Google Analytics, AdWords, Facebook. Really recommend that you check it out, because it does things that other tools can't do. So, just go to supermetrics.com/marketingschool to learn more, and we will see you tomorrow.
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January 18, 2017 by Marc Ruxin
Radiohead, Outside Lands, 2016
2016 was a year to forget … but also to remember. We lost at least a dozen of the most important artists we will ever hear. As much as the music business is still adjusting to the new frontier, great music seems to pour out of every corner of the world, no longer hostage to major labels, walled garden distribution, and a handful of gatekeepers. This list, my 20th, is filled with as many truly incredible records as ever. They cross every thematic genre I can think of, and pay tribute to everything that has come before. I don’t buy that the “album” is dead. Great artists still make albums, that is why they are great. Try to listen to them that way, playlists can be great, but they only tell part of the story.
1. Rufus Du Sol – Bloom (Columbia)
One thing modern streaming services can tell you that records, tapes, and CDs never could, is what you “really” listened to over the course of a year. In my case the sophomore album by Sydney’s Rufus Du Sol was far and away the album I played more than any other. Having stumbled into their set at Coachella in April, and being literally blown away by their melodic and more song oriented approach to dance music, I had no idea what to expect from the recorded version. What I found was eleven of the most lushly produced, instantly addictive songs of the decade. Although somewhat unrelated, I remember feeling the same way in the mid-90’s when first hearing Morcheeba, Zero 7, and Air – beautiful traditional songwriting and structure layered on top of ultra-clean electronic beats.
Because this is also the most consistent album of the year, almost every song is my favorite. From the infectious “You Were Right” whose lyrics “You were right, I know I can’t get enough of you .. the things that I would do” just keeps rolling hypnotically for just the right amount of time, to the broodingly upbeat closing track “Innerbloom” which glitches and grooves along until we get the triumphant chorus “If you want me / And you need me / I’m yours.” For me, everything I love about music is packed into these 11 songs.
2. Andy Shauf – The Party (Anti-)
Some artists come out of nowhere (or in this case Saskatchewan) and record something so perfect its almost inexplicable. Last year Tobias Jesso Jr. (another Canadian) released the near perfect “Goon” which was that record, but this year the orchestral brilliance of “The Party” fills that slot. If you’re as old as me, you’ll remember records piano based chamber pop like this from artists like Epic Soundtracks and Eric Matthews, but this is a very modern sounding affair.
Shauf has a sweet but distinctly low-key voice perfect for the largely slow and moody “The Party.” You’ll hear a bit of Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, strings and brass wafting from the piano on this concept album about young people at “The Party.” On the gorgeous “Early to the Party”, he dials perfectly into the inevitable banality “early to the party, you’re the first one there / overdressed and underprepared / standing in the kitchen, stressing out the host / pulling teeth ’til anyone arrives.” Like most of the selections on this list, this is an “album” – one that pulls you in, warms you up, and takes just takes you away to a better younger place where things were way less complicated.
3. Day of the Dead– Day of the Dead (4AD)
There was no record as ambitious and sprawling as the 59-song, four-year project constructed by the The National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner. Indie rock and jam band enthusiasts have always seemed to have been disconnected both by age and cultural orientation, but below the surface there has always been a connection much tighter than there appears. I can think of no better bridge than these modern interpretations from one of the most important bands of the past half-century.
Whether it’s The National’s sublime “Peggy-O,” Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s jangly “Rubin and Cherise,” Real Estate’s “Here Comes Sunshine,” or Kurt Vile’s “Box of Rain” the spirit and songwriting and instrumentation of the Dead’s catalog is unquestionably magical. Recorded over four years in Dessner’s Woodstock studio, there was no collection of songs that connected the history of modern music as impressively as this one. This is truly a musical masterpiece, and one that creates a new relevance to one of the most impressive musical catalogs that we will ever hear, but also critical exposure to some of the most important artists of today.
4. Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate (Polydor)
Michael Kiwanuka, a young British born child of Ugandan refugees, has single handedly resuscitated the classic soul and R&B of the 70’s. Like Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield before him, he channels a kind of laid back politics that manages to not so much preach but to remind us that the world still suffers from the racist, classist instincts that just won’t seem to disappear.
This time out he is produced by Danger Mouse, whose silky production just adds a bit of lightness to an otherwise heavy themed affair. “Black Man In A White World” is a funked up confessional that is as potent as it is unshakable. While “One More Night” is more a universal anthem about just getting through the bad days, because eventually there will be a good one. In the midst of a terrible year personally, this one made all the difference.
5. Whitney- Light Upon The Lake (Secretly Canadian)
There were few better debut albums released this year than this new project by ex-Unknown Mortal Orchestra drummer Julien Ehrlich and former Smith Westerns guitarist Max Kakacek. This is a whimsical jaunt through the world of modern indie pop, filled with hazy strings and brass, and the kind of familiar sounding guitar lines that have you just kind of smiling without really knowing why.
Each of the 10 songs seem to glide along filled with low burning jams reminiscent of early Luna or the short lived but brilliant Girls. These are indie-pop songs in the purest sense, they ask only that you lay back and bask in the beauty of everyday emotions. On standouts “Golden Days” and “The Falls” we hear about relationships gone bust, despite the longing. This is a tiny little gem of an album, and one we hope begets a long career of jewels.
6. Lambchop – FLOTUS (Merge)
For almost 20 years Nashville’s most quietly rocking Americana big band of hipster musical geniuses has been making some of the most consistently beautiful music I can think of. At the center of it all is bandleader and vocalist Kurt Wagner whose hushed storytelling meanders along like a waking dream. On ‘FLOTUS,’ which needs to be considered among the best of their long career, the band still paints a beautiful country rock symphony, but this time along the music is decidedly electronic.
Lambchop has long been that sadly beautiful brand of music that pre-dates Bon Iver. This time out we hear a deeper more electronic sound with Wagner’s vocals passed through a vocoder while a variety of keyboards and synthesizers flesh out something considerably more modern. The exquisite 9 minute opener “In Care of 8675309” sets a kind of patient groove tone for what comes next: warm waves of meandering rustic beauty.
7. Angel Olsen – My Woman (Jagjaguar)
Sometimes an artist, naked with guitar and microphone, and a short book of stories, projects a kind of greatness that is hard to extrapolate. Like Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen is that rare singer-songwriter whose earlier confessional acoustic efforts have given way to a fully formed band oriented masterpiece. Her voice is a powerful blend of Lucinda Williams and PJ Harvey, at times quiet and restrained but eventually building into a glorious riot of sound.
“My Woman” is a massive step forward in fidelity and musicianship. Where her earlier efforts were sparse and intimate musings, songs like “Not Gonna Kill You” are bigger more ambitious anthems that just tend to explode into the darkness. Others like “Sister” and “Shut Up and Kiss Me” represent chorus heavy almost accessible pop songs, but tattooed with all the signature elements that have come to define her. This is a masterpiece.
8. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (XL)
Twenty-five years into one of the most consistently extraordinary runs of any band I can think of, Radiohead delivers another languidly exquisite album of patient contemplation. Unlike the last few dubstep experiments that were beautiful, sparse and cold, the orchestral texture of “A Moon Shaped Pool” proves that old bands can continue to evolve without sounding like they are trying too hard. Although it is easy to focus on the sublime vocals of Thom Yorke, this time out it is really the musical composition of Johnny Greenwood that saturates each song with a profound depth of feeling.
There are barn burning ragers like “Burn The Witch,” rootsier jams like “The Numbers” and more somber tunes like “Present Tense” where we hear Yorke whisper “ No don’t get heavy / Keep it light and / Keep it moving.” If there was ever a album that attempted to understand the world we live in today it is this one. I am counting on them to neither burn out or fade away.
9. Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans)
Ryley Walker is late twenty-something Chicago guitar prodigy who could have just as easily been the poster child of the 60’/70’s British folk scene along with Nick Drake, Van Morrison and the Fairport Convention. On “Golden Sings” his pure folk instinct gives way a bit to a more modern jazz folk lineage. This long-playing 9-song masterpiece is unlike anything that you have heard for decades.
“The Roundabout” is one of my favorite songs of the past decade. He opens with the profound but ambiguous lyrics “There’s no instance / In conscience or convenience / Even though you stand / On heavy shoulders.” As much as he is a clever lyricist, it is his intricate guitar strumming that puts him way out there on a different plane. Music like this doesn’t fit anywhere in a modern age filled with electronica, dance pop, and festival sized rock and roll. Perhaps this is why this album is so precious and beautiful.
10. Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like A Levee (Merge)
If you are looking for an old school rock record fashioned from the ashes of the best of American country rock music of the 70’s, Hiss Golden Messenger’s gorgeous “Heart Like A Levee” is like some sort of gift from the gods. The band is really the work of Durham, NC’s MC Taylor, a master songwriter and gifted bandleader writing from a time long gone.
With his nasal Dylan meets Petty vocal styling’s, he is a straightforward storyteller who seems so important in an age of screens and feeds and ‘alone togetherness.’ There are a handful of instant classics this time out from the twangy “Biloxi” to the rambling title track “Heart Like A Levee”. This is an album that will help you block out everything, at least for a moment, and remember the past as you’d like it to be remembered.
11. The Radio Dept. – Running Out Of Love (Labrador)
It’s no surprise that the cleanest, crispest piece of New Wave nostalgia is yet another product of the great Swedish music scene. The Radio Dept. has quietly and sporadically been making records for the past fifteen years, never quite spiking a main vein in the US, blending the tween sensibility of Belle and Sebastian with the keyboard buoyancy of the best 90’s Brit pop.
Thematically the album is a modern day protest album, bathed in the bright jangle of casio beats. From the infectious “Swedish Guns” to the even more timely “This Thing Was Bound To Happen,” the band is looking at all of the global political chaos crashing down around us, and creating the kind of art that feels more like a reminder than a call to arms.
12. AHNONI – HOPELESSNESS (Rough Trade)
It is hard to think of another singer whose angelic and other-worldly voice can even compare to that of Nina Simone, but the British born, US transplant Antony Hegarty deserves that kind of unique praise. In an age of both radical openness and extreme hate, the transgender Hegarty, whose most recent project AHNONI, has managed to create the most political dance record of the year.
Despite it’s ominous title, the record creates irony out of real chaos. On “Drone Bomb Me” she sings “Blow me from the mountains, and into the sea … Explode my crystal guts / Lay my purple on the grass” and on “4 Degrees” she tackles climate change singing “I want to see this world, I want to see it boil / It’s only 4 degrees, it’s only 4 degrees.” Heavy stuff indeed but performed with a strangely euphoric touch. Amen.
13. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial (Matador)
Will Toledo was born in 1992, which was coincidentally the year we first heard from Pavement- the band probably most sonically and lyrically similar. Between 2010-15 he self-released a dozen albums on Bandcamp calling himself Car Seat Headrest. 10K hours later, he has emerged as one of the most gifted songwriters of his time.
This lo-fi guitar rock, which has recently lost it’s gravity to the electronic DJs of today, seems to be making a comeback with bands like Car Seat Headrest and fellow wunderkind Courtney Barnett. On the surface the dozen melancholic mini rock anthems seem like more millennial whining, but the joke here is that he seem to be poking fun at all of this undeserved entitlement. He says it better than anyone on “Fill in the Blank” where he wails “You have no right to be depressed / You haven’t tried hard enough to like it.” Yup, game on.
14. Mike Snow – iii (Downtown Records)
The third record from the NY and Swedish dance pop supergroup was about as immediate and consistent as anything I heard this year. I also managed to see the band play live four times in 2016, so with this added context I can’t help but excuse the slickness and embrace the mainstream tendencies – after all these guys have produced albums by Britney Spears, Madonna and Kylie Minogue
From the massively addicting “Ghengis Khan” to the even deeper “My Trigger” the band taps into everything from classic R&B and Soul to the most modern electro dance beats. If I believed in ‘guilty pleasures’ this would fit the bill, but anything that delivers this much joy requires no guilt.
15. Jagwar Ma – Every Now and Then (Mom & Pop)
On their second effort, Aussie psychedelic dance powerhouse Jagwar Ma, continues to channel that bouncy 80’s Manchester sound with a totally modern groove based electronica. Like fellow countrymen Rufus Du Sol and Tame Impala, they both pay tribute to the riches of history managing to create a sound that is genuinely original.
On “Say What You Feel,” the trippiest ballad of the year, the band croons “Cause it’s all you ever wanted / And it’s all you ever dreamed of / And you wake up and you try to / Try to make amends for what you had.” Like a glitchy, bouncy explosions of sound, Jagwar Ma aren’t afraid to stretch out each of these pop songs into deep groovy colorful jams. Let them wash over you.
16. Banks & Steelz – Anything But Words (Warner Bros)
On paper a record featuring the singers from Interpol and Wu Tang making sweet music seems like a bad recipe, but “Anything But Words” is not only the most successful experiment of its kind, but one of the best albums of the year. It’s neither a hip-hop record nor is it a dark new wave indie rock.
Trading vocals throughout each song, Paul Banks and Rza, have written songs that flow effortlessly into and out of their own personal comfort zones but co-existing neatly within a wonderfully familiar zone. The raging “Giant” is one of the best songs in the past decade, a guitar and keyboard driven masterpiece filled with Rza’s rhymes and Banks understated intensity. It almost doesn’t matter if there is another collaboration between the two – this one says all it needs to.
A bunch of other stuff that you must hear …
17. Cass McCombs – Mangy Love (Domino Records) A quietly loud, often moody collection in an age where rock music struggles to make a ripple in the wake of manufactured pop songs and synthesizers.
18. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seeds Ltd.) 33 years into one of the strangest most prolific and darkly beautiful careers imaginable, Nick Cave has delivered a somber masterpiece as he dealt with the loss of a child and the fragility of life.
19. BadBadNotGood – IV (Innovative Leisure) This is not jazz from your parent’s generation, but something wholly different, a fusion of traditional R&B, classic jazz, and spacier Sun Ra meets Miles expansiveness. Breathtaking.
20. The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come to Expect (Domino Recordings) The second wonderfully orchestral release from Artic Monkey’s leader Alex Turner and Miles Kane is a darkly optimistic string soaked voyage into something both theatrical and cooler than ice.
21. Bon Iver – 22, A Million (Jagjaguar) Few albums were as technically and sonically ambitious as this oddly gorgeous evolution from one of the most innovative singer songwriters of our time.
22. David Bowie – Blackstar (Columbia) One final eerily gorgeous collection of jazzy, interstellar genre bending songs from the man who inspired so much of today’s most important bands. Great not because it was his last, but because he always lived in the future.
23. Local Natives– Sunlit Youth (Loma Vista Recordings) Another solidly confident, distinctly authentic effort from one of the finest SoCal art pop bands of the past decade.
24. Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat To Earth (Mexican Summer) Natalie Mering’s sublime, and patiently confessional third effort is a hauntingly otherworldly affair ripped seemingly from some other time and place that is impossible to place.
25. Porches – Pool (Domino Records) Aaron Maine’s sophomore effort features dozen of the cleanest electro-pop songs of the year, alluding to 80’s New Wave, but staying consistently modern and bright.
26. The Avalanches – Wildflower (Modular) 16 years ago a bunch of Aussie music scientists weaved nine-hundred song samples into one of the most important albums in the history of electronic music. Then seemingly out of nowhere, despite years of rumors and hope, they dropped “Wildflower” on the world. Still great.
To listen to the Bestest of the Bestest listen here: https://open.spotify.com/user/ruxputin/playlist/7jEo6HP5Nadtmh7StRNqzc
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! Statement of Principle
|[[Regularity (glossary)|Regularity]]
|[[Abstraction (glossary)|Abstraction]]
|[[Systems Science (glossary)|Systems science]] should find and capture regularities in systems, because those regularities promote systems understanding and facilitate systems practice. (Bertalanffy 1968)
|A focus on essential characteristics is important in problem solving because it allows problem solvers to ignore the nonessential, thus simplifying the problem. (Sci-Tech Encyclopedia 2009; SearchCIO 2012; Pearce 2012)
|[[Boundary (glossary)|Boundary]]
|A boundary or membrane separates the system from the external world. It serves to concentrate interactions inside the system while allowing exchange with external systems. (Hoagland, Dodson, and Mauck 2001)
|'''Change'''
|Change is necessary for growth and adaptation, and should be accepted and planned for as part of the natural order of things rather than something to be ignored, avoided, or prohibited (Bertalanffy 1968; Hybertson 2009).
|[[Dualism (glossary)|Dualism]]
| Recognize dualities and consider how they are, or can be, harmonized in the [[Context (glossary) | context]] of a larger whole (Hybertson 2009)
|'''Encapsulation'''
|Hide internal parts and their interactions from the external environment. (Klerer 1993; IEEE 1990)
|'''Equifinality'''
|In open systems, the same final state may be reached from different initial conditions and in different ways (Bertalanffy 1968). This principle can be exploited, especially in systems of purposeful agents.
|[[Holism (glossary)|Holism]]
|The properties, [[Capability (glossary)|capabilities]], and behavior of a system are derived from its parts, from interactions between those parts, and from interactions with other systems. (Hitchins 2009 p. 60)
|'''Relations'''
|'''Layer Hierarchy'''
|A system is characterized by its relations: the interconnections between the elements. Feedback is a type of relation. The set of relations defines the [[Network (glossary)|network]] of the system. (Odum 1994)
|The evolution of complex systems is facilitated by their hierarchical structure (including stable intermediate forms) and the understanding of complex systems is facilitated by their hierarchical description. (Pattee 1973; Bertalanffy 1968; Simon 1996)
|[[Leverage (glossary)|Leverage]]
|Achieve maximum leverage (Hybertson 2009). Because of the power versus generality tradeoff, leverage can be achieved by a complete solution (power) for a narrow class of problems, or by a partial solution for a broad class of problems (generality).
|[[Synthesis (glossary)|Synthesis]]
|[[Modularity (glossary)|Modularity]]
|Systems can be created by choosing (conceiving, designing, selecting) the right parts, bringing them together to interact in the right way, and in orchestrating those interactions to create requisite properties of the whole, such that it performs with optimum effectiveness in its operational [[Environment (glossary)|environment]], so solving the problem that prompted its creation” (Hitchins 2008: 120).
|Unrelated parts of the system should be separated, and related parts of the system should be grouped together. (Griswold 1995; Wikipedia 2012a)
|[[Network (glossary)|Network]]
|The network is a fundamental topology for systems that forms the basis of togetherness, connection, and dynamic interaction of parts that yield the behavior of complex systems (Lawson 2010; Martin et al. 2004; Sillitto 2010)
|'''Separation of Concerns'''
|'''Parsimony'''
|A larger problem is more effectively solved when decomposed into a set of smaller problems or concerns. (Erl 2012; Greer 2008)
|One should choose the simplest explanation of a phenomenon, the one that requires the fewest assumptions (Cybernetics 2012). This applies not only to choosing a design, but also to operations and [[Requirement (glossary) | requirements]].
|[[View (glossary)|View]]
|Multiple views, each based on a system aspect or concern, are essential to understand a complex system or problem situation. One critical view is how concern relates to properties of the whole. (Edson 2008; Hybertson 2009)
|'''Similarity/ Difference'''
|Both the similarities and differences in systems should be recognized and accepted for what they are. (Bertalanffy 1975 p. 75; Hybertson 2009). Avoid forcing one size fits all, and avoid treating everything as entirely unique.
|'''Stability/ Change'''
|Things change at different rates, and entities or concepts at the stable end of the spectrum can and should be used to provide a guiding context for rapidly changing entities at the volatile end of the spectrum (Hybertson 2009). The study of complex adaptive systems can give guidance to system behavior and design in changing environments (Holland 1992).
This topic forms part of the Systems Thinking knowledge area (KA). It identifies systems principles as part of the basic ideas of systems thinking.
Some additional concepts more directly associated with engineered systems are described, and a summary of system principles associated with the concepts already defined is provided. A number of additional “laws” and heuristics are also discussed.
1 Systems Principles, Laws, and Heuristics
2 Separation of Concerns
2.1 Summary of Systems Principles
2.2 Prerequisite Laws of Design Science
2.3 Heuristics and Pragmatic Principles
3.1 Works Cited
3.2 Primary References
3.3 Additional References
4 SEBoK Discussion
Systems Principles, Laws, and Heuristics
A principle is a general rule of conduct or behavior (Lawson and Martin 2008). It can also be defined as a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct (WordWeb 2012c). Thus, systems principles can be used as a basis for reasoning about systems thinking or associated conduct (systems approaches).
Separation of Concerns
A systems approach is focused on a systems-of-interest (SoI) of an open system. This SoI consists of open, interacting subsystems that as a whole interact with and adapt to other systems in an environment. The systems approach also considers the SoI in its environment to be part of a larger, wider, or containing system (Hitchins 2009).
In the What is Systems Thinking? topic, a “systems thinking paradox” is discussed. How is it possible to take a holistic system view while still being able to focus on changing or creating systems?
Separation of concerns describes a balance between considering parts of a system problem or solution while not losing sight of the whole (Greer 2008). Abstraction is the process of taking away characteristics from something in order to reduce it to a set of base characteristics (SearchCIO 2012). In attempting to understand complex situations it is easier to focus on bounded problems, whose solutions still remain agnostic to the greater problem (Erl 2012). This process sounds reductionist, but it can be applied effectively to systems. The key to the success of this approach is ensuring that one of the selected problems is the concerns of the system as a whole. Finding balance between using abstraction to focus on specific concerns while ensuring we continue to consider the whole is at the center of systems approaches.
A view is a subset of information observed of one or more entities, such as systems. The physical or conceptual point from which a view is observed is the viewpoint, which can be motivated by one or more observer concerns. Different views of the same target must be both separate, to reflect separation of concerns, and integrated such that all views of a given target are consistent and form a coherent whole (Hybertson 2009). Some sample views of a system are internal (What does it consist of?); external (What are its properties and behavior as a whole?); static (What are its parts or structures?); and dynamic (interactions).
encapsulation , which encloses system elements and their interactions from the external environment, is discussed in Concepts of Systems Thinking. Encapsulation is associated with modularity, the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined (Griswold 1995). Modularity applies to systems in natural, social, and engineered domains. In engineering, encapsulation is the isolation of a system function within a module and provides precise specifications for the module (IEEE Std. 610.12-1990).
Dualism is a characteristic of systems in which they exhibit seemingly contradictory characteristics that are important for the system (Hybertson 2009). The yin yang concept in Chinese philosophy emphasizes the interaction between dual elements and their harmonization, ensuring a constant dynamic balance through a cyclic dominance of one element and then the other, such as day and night (IEP 2006).
From a systems perspective the interaction, harmonization, and balance between system properties is important. Hybertson (2009) defines leverage as the duality between
Power, the extent to which a system solves a specific problem, and
Generality, the extent to which a system solves a whole class of problems.
While some systems or elements may be optimized for one extreme of such dualities, a dynamic balance is needed to be effective in solving complex problems.
Summary of Systems Principles
A set of systems principles is given in Table 1 below. The "Names" segment points to concepts underlying the principle. (See Concepts of Systems Thinking). Following the table, two additional sets of items related to systems principles are noted and briefly discussed: prerequisite laws for design science, and heuristics and pragmatic principles.
Table 1. A Set of Systems Principles. (SEBoK Original)
Statement of Principle
Abstraction A focus on essential characteristics is important in problem solving because it allows problem solvers to ignore the nonessential, thus simplifying the problem. (Sci-Tech Encyclopedia 2009; SearchCIO 2012; Pearce 2012)
Boundary A boundary or membrane separates the system from the external world. It serves to concentrate interactions inside the system while allowing exchange with external systems. (Hoagland, Dodson, and Mauck 2001)
Change Change is necessary for growth and adaptation, and should be accepted and planned for as part of the natural order of things rather than something to be ignored, avoided, or prohibited (Bertalanffy 1968; Hybertson 2009).
Dualism Recognize dualities and consider how they are, or can be, harmonized in the context of a larger whole (Hybertson 2009)
Encapsulation Hide internal parts and their interactions from the external environment. (Klerer 1993; IEEE 1990)
Equifinality In open systems, the same final state may be reached from different initial conditions and in different ways (Bertalanffy 1968). This principle can be exploited, especially in systems of purposeful agents.
Holism A system should be considered as a single entity, a whole, not just as a set of parts. (Ackoff 1979; Klir 2001)
Interaction The properties, capabilities, and behavior of a system are derived from its parts, from interactions between those parts, and from interactions with other systems. (Hitchins 2009 p. 60)
Layer Hierarchy The evolution of complex systems is facilitated by their hierarchical structure (including stable intermediate forms) and the understanding of complex systems is facilitated by their hierarchical description. (Pattee 1973; Bertalanffy 1968; Simon 1996)
Leverage Achieve maximum leverage (Hybertson 2009). Because of the power versus generality tradeoff, leverage can be achieved by a complete solution (power) for a narrow class of problems, or by a partial solution for a broad class of problems (generality).
Modularity Unrelated parts of the system should be separated, and related parts of the system should be grouped together. (Griswold 1995; Wikipedia 2012a)
Network The network is a fundamental topology for systems that forms the basis of togetherness, connection, and dynamic interaction of parts that yield the behavior of complex systems (Lawson 2010; Martin et al. 2004; Sillitto 2010)
Parsimony One should choose the simplest explanation of a phenomenon, the one that requires the fewest assumptions (Cybernetics 2012). This applies not only to choosing a design, but also to operations and requirements.
Regularity Systems science should find and capture regularities in systems, because those regularities promote systems understanding and facilitate systems practice. (Bertalanffy 1968)
Relations A system is characterized by its relations: the interconnections between the elements. Feedback is a type of relation. The set of relations defines the network of the system. (Odum 1994)
Separation of Concerns A larger problem is more effectively solved when decomposed into a set of smaller problems or concerns. (Erl 2012; Greer 2008)
Similarity/ Difference Both the similarities and differences in systems should be recognized and accepted for what they are. (Bertalanffy 1975 p. 75; Hybertson 2009). Avoid forcing one size fits all, and avoid treating everything as entirely unique.
Stability/ Change Things change at different rates, and entities or concepts at the stable end of the spectrum can and should be used to provide a guiding context for rapidly changing entities at the volatile end of the spectrum (Hybertson 2009). The study of complex adaptive systems can give guidance to system behavior and design in changing environments (Holland 1992).
Synthesis Systems can be created by choosing (conceiving, designing, selecting) the right parts, bringing them together to interact in the right way, and in orchestrating those interactions to create requisite properties of the whole, such that it performs with optimum effectiveness in its operational environment, so solving the problem that prompted its creation” (Hitchins 2008: 120).
View Multiple views, each based on a system aspect or concern, are essential to understand a complex system or problem situation. One critical view is how concern relates to properties of the whole. (Edson 2008; Hybertson 2009)
The principles are not independent. They have synergies and tradeoffs. Lipson (2007), for example, argued that “scalability of open-ended evolutionary processes depends on their ability to exploit functional modularity, structural regularity and hierarchy.” He proposed a formal model for examining the properties, dependencies, and tradeoffs among these principles. Edson (2008) related many of the above principles in a structure called the conceptagon, which he modified from the work of Boardman and Sauser (2008). Edson also provided guidance on how to apply these principles. Not all principles apply to every system or engineering decision. Judgment, experience, and heuristics (see below) provide understanding into which principles apply in a given situation.
Several principles illustrate the relation of view with the dualism and yin yang principle; for example, holism and separation of concerns. These principles appear to be contradictory but are in fact dual ways of dealing with complexity. Holism deals with complexity by focusing on the whole system, while separation of concerns divides a problem or system into smaller, more manageable elements that focus on particular concerns. They are reconciled by the fact that both views are needed to understand systems and to engineer systems; focusing on only one or the other does not give sufficient understanding or a good overall solution. This dualism is closely related to the systems thinking paradox described in What is Systems Thinking?.
Rosen (1979) discussed “false dualisms” of systems paradigms that are considered incompatible but are in fact different aspects or views of reality. In the present context, they are thus reconcilable through yin yang harmonization. Edson (2008) emphasized viewpoints as an essential principle of systems thinking; specifically, as a way to understand opposing concepts.
Derick Hitchins (2003) produced a systems life cycle theory described by a set of seven principles forming an integrated set. This theory describes the creation, manipulation and demise of engineered systems. These principles consider the factors which contribute to the stability and survival of man made systems in an environment. Stability is associated with the principle of connected variety, in which stability is increased by variety plus the cohesion and adaptability of that variety. Stability is limited by allowable relations, resistance to change, and patterns of interaction. Hitchins describes how interconnected systems tend toward a cyclic progression, in which variety is generated, dominance emerges to suppress variety, dominant modes decay and collapse and survivors emerge to generate new variety.
Guidance on how to apply many of these principles to engineered systems is given in the topic Synthesizing Possible Solutions, as well as in System Definition and other knowledge areas in Part 3 of the SEBoK.
Prerequisite Laws of Design Science
John Warfield (1994) identified a set of laws of generic design science that are related to systems principles. Three of these laws are stated here:
‘’Law of Requisite Variety’’: A design situation embodies a variety that must be matched by the specifications. The variety includes the diversity of stakeholders. This law is an application of the design science of the Ashby (1956) Law of Requisite Variety, which was defined in the context of cybernetics and states that to successfully regulate a system, the variety of the regulator must be at least as large as the variety of the regulated system.
‘’Law of Requisite Parsimony’’: Information must be organized and presented in a way that prevents human information overload. This law derives from Miller’s findings on the limits of human information processing capacity (Miller 1956). Warfield’s structured dialog method is one possible way to help achieve the requisite parsimony.
‘’Law of Gradation’’: Any conceptual body of knowledge can be graded in stages or varying degrees of complexity and scale, ranging from simplest to most comprehensive, and the degree of knowledge applied to any design situation should match the complexity and scale of the situation. A corollary, called the Law of Diminishing Returns, states that a body of knowledge should be applied to a design situation to the stage at which the point of diminishing returns is reached.
Heuristics and Pragmatic Principles
A heuristic is a common sense rule intended to increase the probability of solving some problem (WordWeb 2012b). In the present context it may be regarded as an informal or pragmatic principle. Maier and Rechtin (2000) identified an extensive set of heuristics that are related to systems principles. A few of these heuristics are stated here.
Relationships among the elements are what give systems their added value. This is related to the ‘’Interaction’’ principle.
Efficiency is inversely proportional to universality. This is related to the ‘’Leverage’’ principle.
The first line of defense against complexity is simplicity of design. This is related to the ‘’Parsimony’’ principle.
In order to understand anything, you must not try to understand everything (attributed to Aristotle). This is related to the ‘’Abstraction’’ principle.
An International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) working group (INCOSE 1993) defined a set of “pragmatic principles” for systems engineering (SE). They are essentially best practice heuristics for engineering a system. For example:
Know the problem, the customer, and the consumer
Identify and assess alternatives so as to converge on a solution
Maintain the integrity of the system
Hitchins defines a set of SE principles which include principles of holism and synthesis as discussed above, as well as principles describing how systems problems should be resolved that are of particular relevance to a Systems Approach Applied to Engineered Systems (Hitchins 2009).
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Illegal grow highlights the problems with pot on public land
Locations: News Published Oct. 4, 2017
By Will Grandbois
Sopris Sun Staff
While the recent discovery of a 2,700 plant illegal cannabis grow on Forest Service land near Redstone is dramatic, it’s far from unprecedented.
In fact, according to Regional Press Officer Lawrence Lujan, 51 such sites and more than 160,000 plants have been eradicated statewide since 2009, with Colorado ranked third behind California and Kentucky for such seizures in 2016.
It’s a major challenge for the Forest Service on several fronts.
First, there’s the matter of public safety, with booby traps, armed growers and toxic chemicals par for the course.
“Law enforcement agents are trained to safely navigate most of these hazards, but if forest visitors encounter a grow site, the situation can quickly turn unsafe,” Lujan explained in an email.
The sites are usually chosen for their remoteness and, despite apparently harsh conditions, plentiful availability of fertile soil and water. Nevertheless, recreationalists are responsible for discovering them about half the time, Lujan said, with aerial detection flights, active investigation and other Forest Service action making up the other half.
A typical illegal grow site consists of camping areas, water diversions, three to 15 plots separated by anywhere from few yards or up to half a mile, and a trail system connecting it all. Some signs of a grow include large quantities of supplies or unusual structures, garden tools, tanks, netting, hoses and, of course, five-lobed plants with serrated leaves.
If you encounter something of the sort, the Forest Service recommends making some observations, leaving the area the same way you entered and calling 9-1-1. Don’t linger at the site, call attention to yourself, touch anything out of the ordinary.
It takes interdepartmental cooperation with organizations from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Homeland Security Investigations to local law enforcement to investigate and secure a site after it’s discovered. Suspects face federal charges — and one person is, in fact, in federal custody in association with the Redstone grow.
After that, the challenge switches to cleanup.
“Environmental impacts from growing marijuana are severe,” Lujan wrote. “Growers clear native vegetation before planting and install miles of plastic tubing to transport water from creeks for irrigation, which reduces stream flows for fish and aquatic habitat. Overuse of herbicides and pesticides kill competing vegetation and wildlife. Human waste and trash are widespread. Following harvest, winter rains create severe soil erosion and wash herbicides and pesticides, human waste and trash into streams and rivers.”
“Our goal is to erase the growers’ actions by returning the site to its natural state – in the best ways that we can,” he added. “The environmental damage to the land can take years to mitigate.”
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Written by Scott McGerty on 2nd January 2018
Young people aged 18 and under will pay only £1 for single trips on the Tyne and Wear Metro from today, Tuesday 2 January, following the introduction of an exciting new Pop Pay As You Go smartcard – Pop blue.
Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, has introduced the Pop blue card to make Metro travel more affordable for young people.
Anyone aged 18 and under will only pay £1 for a single trip when they have a Pop blue card, which can easily be topped up online, at Metro ticket machines or at any Nexus Travel Shop.
Young people using a Pop blue card will only ever pay for a maximum of two Metro trips on any single day. A £2 daily price cap will apply to Metro travel and no further charge will be applied for a third, fourth, or even fifth trip.
Pop blue cards are available from www.nexus.org.uk/popblue and from Nexus Travel Shops. The card itself is free but must be purchased with a £10 balance on the card.
Managing Director of Nexus, Tobyn Hughes, said: “I’m really pleased to be introducing a new Pay As You Go product for young people. Pop blue will make it cheaper and easier for young people aged 18 and under to travel on Metro.
“It’s a really simple scheme. Young people can top up their Pop blue card online or at a ticket machine, and as they travel on Metro they will be charged £1 for a single trip and a maximum of £2 for the whole day. This is on top of our existing range of fares for children, young people and students which are still available.
“The North East Combined Authority challenged us to improve the offer for young people and that is what we have delivered.”
Sunderland City Council Portfolio Holder for City Services, Councillor Michael Mordey said: “We are committed to promoting more sustainable forms of travel, and encouraging more people to regularly use public transport is very important.
“Making buying a ticket both more affordable and convenient for young people with the ‘Pop’ card is a great way of attracting them on to the Metro system, as they travel to school, college, work or visit friends and family.”
The Pop blue smartcard can also be used to pay for local bus travel, buying the applicable young person’s fare set by the bus company. The daily price cap will not apply to bus travel.
Pop blue is a major step forward for young people travelling on Metro and is a direct response to feedback from schools, colleges, and from young people themselves.
The new Pop blue scheme was agreed at a meeting of the North East Combined Authority Leadership Board on Tuesday 21 November.
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Welcoming students and families of all faiths, St. Luke's School is a private, coeducational Episcopal day school that proudly serves Junior Kindergarten (pre-K) through Grade 8. We are located on a two-acre landmark block in the West Village of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
From nurturing pre-K childhood development activities, through a challenging yet balanced elementary and middle school curriculum, St. Luke’s School uses students' strengths to help them develop in all areas.
Meet our admissions leadership and learn how we support every child in their academic, creative, and social development, from their first day at St. Luke's School and throughout this pivotal period of growth and discovery.
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Treasured students and their parents, dynamic professional staff, and decades of alumni create the fabric of St. Luke's School. The relationships built here inspire courage in our students to lead in service to our community, world, and future.
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Transformations in philanthropic ventures in our region on a hyper-local scale.
By Brittany Mattie, Ariel Chates, Andrew Fabian and Olivia Liang
In Philanthropy
Photography by Wyatt Kostygan. Pictured left to right: Gretchen Bauer and Debbie Mason of Tidewell Hospice.
We’ve all heard of giving butterfly kisses, and while they are an adorably affectionate gesture, local handbag atelier BSWANKY used less fluttering of its eyelashes and more stitching of its needles to design a special butterfly-themed bag. In a moving fashion–philanthropy collab, a luxury handbag collection was designed and created with proceeds going toward funding the regional Tidewell Foundation’s Blue Butterfly Family Grief Centers. The nonprofit mission of Tidewell Hospice partnered with founder and designer of BSWANKY Gretchen Bauer to further fund its services to grieving individuals with professional counseling, peer-support groups and therapeutic activities to help them along on their journey to coping and healing. Therapy and bereavement services are completely donor-supported and available at no cost to community members, in addition to Tidewell Hospice patients and their families. “Blue Butterfly offers a safe and caring environment for children, teens and caregivers to connect with others and grieve in a way that makes them feel supported,” says Tidewell Hospice President and CEO Jonathan Fleece.
Since launching the give-back handbag collection, Sofita Mariposa (“mariposa” translates to butterfly in Spanish), in August 2020, 15 percent of the total sale of each bag, and 100 percent of Sapphire Mariposa BSWANKY keychain sales, have been donated to Blue Butterfly Family Grief Centers to encourage mourning individuals to “carry” on. “We hope that the sale of these limited-edition luxury handbags can help women and children alike to spread their wings,” says Bauer. Inspired by the personal stories of children and families who are a part of the program, the designer shared the common belief that no child should ever grieve a lost loved one alone. The Sofita Mariposa handbag features honey-colored heritage leather, signature metal embellishments and is entirely handcrafted in Sarasota, then hand-painted and sealed with ethereal butterflies by Dallas-based artist Cherie Fruehan. A dear friend of Bauer, Fruehan donated her services to hand-paint each one-of-a-kind, luxury bag. Much like its namesake, the Mariposa collection was made to symbolize the beauty of life and the flutter of hope—truly making this fashion accessory an emotive, meaningful piece of art.
“We had a customer who emailed us because his wife loved the BSWANKY Blue Butterfly Handbag image she had seen online and he requested to purchase it for her,” explains Bauer. When this very gentleman came in to pick up his gift-wrapped one-of-a-kind, hand-painted handbag, Bauer told him about their giving back program with Tidewell Foundation’s Blue Butterfly Family Grief Centers. It seemed fate. The gentleman shared that he and his wife had lost one of their children recently in an accident and that he had never heard of the organization. “He fought back tears and let us know that this gift could not wait until Christmas and that he would be gifting it to her immediately.” SRQ —Brittany Mattie
You can give a virtual butterfly kiss to someone in need of a smile by purchasing the chic shoulder bag to help the cause at bswanky.com/products/sofita-mariposa.
Have Purpose, Will Profit
Beaver Shriver was standing inside the commercial space on State Street where his new business venture, Rise Coffee Co. & Nye’s Cream Sandwiches, would soon operate when in walked a young man and his mother to inquire about a job. Shriver remembers he showed them around the space, pointing out where the coffee equipment would go, how the ice cream machines would work and his general vision for the operation. “The guy was really quiet and polite the whole time,” says Shriver, “but when they left and thought they were out of earshot, I heard him go ‘woo-hoo!’” The young man had every reason to be excited at even the prospect of a job; he has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and 80 percent of people with that diagnosis are unemployed. Shriver thinks that number is unacceptable. And he aims to change it.
Rise Coffee Co. & Nye’s Cream Sandwiches was founded specifically to employ the broad array of neurodivergent individuals who for too long have been viewed as unemployable. Shriver himself comes from a long line of champions for those with ASD, beginning with his aunt and founder of the Special Olympics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, as well as his cousin Anthony, founder of Best Buddies International, an organization that seeks to increase awareness and inclusion for those with ASD. But one of the biggest challenges in hiring employees with special needs is job training. To that end, Shriver strung together a web of nonprofit and for-profit outfits who could commit their resources and energy to his vision.
The first one is EasterSeals Southwest Florida. “We’ve got leading-edge training for individuals with autism and other disabilities,” says Tom Waters, president and CEO. The nonprofit offers an extensive menu of services, job training among them. Through its extensive network of funding streams, EasterSeals managed to secure a state grant specifically to expand their job training offerings. With that grant, Waters and Shriver enlisted the other player in this endeavor, Three Six and Zero, Inc., a virtual reality (VR) design firm based in Sarasota.
“We met Beaver at a Ringling College event and he told us about his business,” says Alex Guerra, executive producer for Three Six and Zero. Along with business partner Tim Conway, the two started their design outfit to transition out of their Hollywood careers as visual effects designers and into something that satisfied their need to do good. Guerra and Conway had already found their niche in health and wellness with contracts from Moffitt Cancer Center and Sharecare, the medical platform started by Dr. Mehmet Oz and Jeff Arnold (founder of WebMD). Between their rapport with Shriver, their portfolio and their desire to be a part of something good, Guerra and Conway formed the third part of this social enterprise.
The three pieces then set out to collaborate on immersive virtual reality training modules for the coffee shop. “For the first four or five months, we developed the coffee grinder module,” says Guerra. In it, candidates already working with EasterSeals could try out the module, which featured a VR version of the actual Bunn grinder used in Shriver’s coffee shop. “We were able to collaborate with the specialists to draw data analytics,” says Guerra, “and that helped us understand what was working and what was not.” Later versions of the module added the ability to up the stakes with the emotional and social components of the task like irate customers. “VR is a remarkable way to get somebody comfortable with a task,” says Shriver, “especially someone who may have learning issues.”
Each piece of this collaboration has high hopes for the project. “To my knowledge, there has never been anything like this where the job training is so specific,” says Waters. It bodes well for EasterSeals’ ability to place its clients in jobs, but the implications are much larger. “This is about giving dignity and pride to a population that has been kept in the shadows for too long,” says Shriver, “and I think the future of business should be more mission-oriented.” SRQ —Andrew Fabian
Zero-Waste Voyagers
“Recycling is not enough.” That’s a mantra Rethinking Plastic lives and breathes by. The volunteer-driven campaign has been connecting with restaurants and consumers throughout Sarasota County since 2017 on the hot-button issue of eliminating single-use plastics, and thus protecting our coastal land, ocean and marine life. “There is a huge learning curve when it comes to single-use plastic and its alternatives,” say Rethinking Plastic founders Cat Dillard and Jana Hoefling.
The organization’s team of volunteers donates its time to guide restaurants both in the dining-in and to-go transition to reduce excess packaging in their daily operations by converting to eco-smart resources. With a hyper-focus on items they refer to as the “bad five”—clamshell polystyrene takeout containers, plastic cups/lids/straws, plastic bottles, plastic bags and plastic utensils—the BadFive Free (BFF) program works with businesses to source and utilize more eco-minded solutions to combat their carbon waste footprint. “As a community, we can begin to make an immediate and substantial impact on plastic pollution by refusing these single-use items, and begin to use alternatives and reusables,” say Dillard and Hoefling. The applaudable BadFive Free stamp celebrates local restaurants that refuse single-use plastic. When a restaurant obtains “BFF” recognition, they’ve successfully figured out how to provide patrons with options to mitigate each individuals’ waste footprint.
Among the local dining spots taking advantage of Rethinking Plastic’s services is Leaf & Lentil. The family-owned, fast-casual vegan eatery signed on early to become #BFF compliant—having completed all five stars by working closely with Dillard and Hoefling. By only using plant-based/paper to-go packaging and offering cooler drinks that are in glass or aluminum containers, Leaf & Lentil eliminated all single-use plastic serveware and materials within its operations. “Finding alternatives to plastic has been harder than I ever expected but worth the effort,” says Sheila Siegel, co-owner of Leaf & Lentil. “We’ve especially struggled with product availability a bit during this pandemic, but watching The Story of Plastic documentary and being a part of Rethinking Plastic’s coalition has committed us to trying that much harder.” Indigenous and Blu Kouzina are among other restaurants taking the pledge. Sarasota Sailing Squadron is close to gaining its fifth star for its on-site social events, while MADE and the former 1812 Osprey made are working toward eco-alternatives for three of the BadFive.
“Because single-use plastics are not going away anytime soon, we have recently started to research two methods of eliminating it that are gaining traction around the world,” Dillard and Hoefling say. “EPR and incineration.” EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) legislation is being used across the country for items like car batteries, paint, mattresses, etc. This method shifts the responsibility of the end of an article’s life from the consumer to the manufacturer. “During the time of quarantine and the popularity of take-out food, the amount of single-use plastic has skyrocketed,” they say. “Restaurants are struggling to survive and the environment has suffered. While we understand the dilemma, we hope to get back on track soon.” SRQ —Brittany Mattie
Any local establishment or business can get on board with the cause by reaching out to info@rethinkingplastic.org. Those that have already committed to reducing single-use plastics in their businesses can sign a pledge on rethinkingplastic.org.
Pitchfork Basis
From morning floss to worn-out jeans, potato chip bags to paper towels, sugar packets, pencil shavings, grocery receipts and lunch leftovers, you will generate roughly 4.51 pounds of waste per day. But we all know what they say about one man’s trash . . . and that’s where Sunshine Community Compost comes in, a local nonprofit not only spreading the word but supplying the tools to reduce our communal waste. As it turns out, approximately 50 percent of typical municipal garbage can be reallocated through composting, the biological decay of organic matter that turns yesterday’s waste to tomorrow’s rejuvenated soil. Grains, pastas, breads, eggshells, coffees, teas, paper towels, napkins, cardboard rolls, and all fruit and veggie scraps—their meaningful destiny awaits and it’s not on the curb.
The compost conversation, however, begins not with worms or fruit flies, food scraps or soil, but rather a simple acknowledgment: the privilege of having food. “We hope people will take the responsibility to do the right thing,” says Tracie Troxler, executive director and the sole staff member. And in just three short years, aiding that mission statement with a collective of programs available for the everyday waste creator and sustainable soul, Sunshine Community Compost has diverted 44,000 pounds from local landfills. That’s the equivalent of roughly 2,200 watermelons or 14 Prii, “basically on a pitchfork by pitchfork basis,” she says.
After beginning her career as an occupational therapist, Tracie Troxler realized an urge to bring her patients and their communities outdoors, merging people and the planet for the wellness of both. And after 17 years in California, building a network and community of agriculture enthusiasts, farmers and environmentalists, the daunting nature of food waste presented a treatable crisis when Tracie returned home to Florida. What started as a mix of pilot projects has flourished into a nonprofit with a team of 30 volunteers, four board members and more than 500 active composters in the Sarasota area and growing. Programs target community engagement and resource recovery, but most of all, an investment in the education of the waste generation. “So much of what we’re viewing in a limited way as waste is truly a resource that just isn’t put in the right place and can be something that regenerates life, connections and community,” says Troxler.
Nothing embodies their mission more than the signature Park and Garden Community Compost program. The process? Simple. The benefits? Evident. The smell? Not as bad as you might expect. With composting stations at Arlington and Gillespie Parks, North Water Tower Park and Manatee Square Garden, the seemingly overwhelming process of earning a “Composter” badge of honor has emerged as a communal effort within shared spaces. After choosing a convenient composting site—and picking up a complimentary red Ace Hardware bucket to temporarily house your food scraps at home—the process is quite simple. Proudly bring your bucket to your designated park and composting location, weigh and log your deposit for tracking purposes, dump your food scraps into an active compost bin, cover the deposit with pre-collected browns (twigs, leaves, etc.), then seal and feel sustainably energized. Food scraps and everyday materials often thrown in the trash can now contribute to compost missions, transforming would-be waste into regenerated soil for the community’s future use. There’s no cost to you, just an invitation.
“We want there to be many pods of this kind of work that is attuned to that local culture and local community,” says Troxler. By staying small and rooted in the local scene, not only can composting projects be customized to fit the needs of various communities—whether that be neighborhood associations, farmers markets, schools, businesses or even isolated events like weddings and parties—there is a freedom to experiment and dive into the unknown fearlessly. “Any work I’m going to do is going to be a co-creative process,” says Troxler. “When you start planting those seeds of ideas, people start showing up.” SRQ —Olivia Liang
Drink Up for the Pups
As manager Barry Elwonger simply put it, “People love dogs and people love beer.” It’s hard to more perfectly sum up the success of Motorworks Adoptable Lager than that. An idea borne from a previous philanthropic can of breast cancer awareness beers, the dog-friendly brewery decided to put their nonprofit directly into people’s hands with monthly runs of beer featuring the adorable faces of dogs waiting to be adopted. “We’re just big dog people over here. We have ‘yappy hour,’ we have a dog-friendly beer garden. Almost all our staff owns a dog. It’s just something that speaks to who we are,” says Elwonger. The lagers that launched at the bar in January, have been a woofing success. The support from the community has been “overwhelming,” and to date every dog who was afforded their 15 minutes of fame on a can in a hand has been adopted.
Barry also says the local shelters they work with have seen a significant change threefold: in funding, in the interest in adoptions and, most importantly, in the amount of dogs leaving for their fur-ever homes. In collaboration with Pam Freni of Animal Network, Motorworks partnered with the 20-year-old philanthropy effort to help support the Animal Network’s Shelter Manatee Capital Campaign, a long name hoping to shorten the stay of animals in shelters by building a new one in Manatee County. She says, “Working with Motorworks has been an amazing opportunity for us and really emphasizes the synergy that can happen when a nonprofit and a local business come together for the good of the community.”
Perhaps the most heart-warming story, one that sounds like it was written for a Lifetime movie, evolved from the original four-pack of dogs featured. A woman in Minnesota, of all places, spotted a familiar face that she believed to be her dog that had been missing for years. Incredibly, they were able to verify through the microchip that the dog made famous on Adoptable Lager was in fact her long-lost pup who had trekked all the way down to Florida. In a true act of compassion, one of the shelter workers drove the dog all the way back to Minnesota to be reunited with its overjoyed owner.
The quirky cans have proved a raging success even for long-term shelter residents. The newest run of cans saw a doggo with two years under his belt at the shelter adopted within a week. And it’s not just Sarasota taking notice. People magazine and even The Ellen DeGeneres Show picked up this local story. Putting out new dogs roughly every month, Motorworks Brewing has made it easy to look for your newest pet. Just grab a beer. SRQ —Ariel Chates
CARTOON-IFYING COVID
It’s the first day of third grade. Students try on their new Spiderman backpack, jumping up and down to test out their new light-up sneakers, and distractedly listen to their grown-up run through a list of things not to forget. Items they’ve always brought to school like a lunch box, gym clothes and an afternoon snack. But then, some new items like a mask and hand sanitizer and maybe even a face shield. For others, the start of the new school year began in their living room. Kindergarten taught on a comfy couch while looking at 20 little squares with new faces and friends. Adults are all doing their best to navigate and understand the complexities of this “new normal.” Imagine how confusing it might be for little ones who can’t read the newspaper, dig through the internet to synthesize reliable information or stay awake for the 10 o’clock news. “The pandemic is impacting each person differently and, arguably, the most profound impact has been on our children and young people,” says Chris Renouf, executive director of elementary schools for Sarasota County Schools.
Armed with a toolbox full of scientific and medical information, the Suncoast Science Center team realized how important it was for someone to turn the “dense, giant documents” being produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization into “bite-size” information easily digestible for young kids. With this goal in mind, the team led by recent college graduate and volunteer Mimi Faulhaber, 23, dove headfirst into tackling COVID through education “in a way that was innovative and helping to solve future problems, not just addressing the symptoms of the problem.” With this, COVIDUcation was born. It’s an interactive, brightly colored, cartoon-storybook-style website that helps young minds better grasp why they need to wash their hands more often or keep their mask on all day. The story, voiced by student volunteers, follows a young boy named Jacob as he gets ready to start school with the help of his favorite toy Knight. Chapters with themes such as “What are germs?” are presented as adventures, while short quizzes at the end are battles to be won to get to the next step.
“Some have found it challenging to explain the details of COVID-19 to their young children and students,” says Renouf. “The COVIDucation web app is a fantastic resource for both families and educators alike—it helps explain COVID-19 through age-appropriate lessons that engage children safely.” The lesson plan has been rolled out to all local schools and was showcased to teachers during their week of safety training before classes officially began.
“We are so grateful for the desire of these young people to be helpful during this pandemic,” notes Dr. Laura Kingsley, assistant superintendent and chief academic officer of Sarasota County Schools. “Their brilliance and energy combined to create an innovative solution for teachers and parents of our younger students. How can we encourage our children to engage in safe behaviors that will help keep all of us healthy? I believe this web app will be the go-to engaging resource for our families and teachers to use with younger children. It’s heartwarming to watch these students take an interest in the well-being of others in our community.” SRQ —Ariel Chates
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Zeal facility reopens, debuts new partnership with NAI
By Andrea Van Essen | June 12, 2020
Zeal has long provided a physical space for connection and collaboration within the startup community—a role that required some shifting after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sioux Falls.
In order to serve the many tenants who rely on a physical workspace, the facility never closed down completely. However, restrictions and safety measures were put in place soon after the first coronavirus case reached Sioux Falls.
“Our first priority was and will always be the people we serve, so it was important that we keep them informed as to the protocols at our facility as well as business resources to ensure business was able to be conducted safely and sustainably,” said Brienne Maner, Zeal’s executive director.
Maner followed guidance from the Mayor’s office, the City of Sioux Falls Health Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and industry partners like NAI Sioux Falls and Avera, as well as other entrepreneurial ecosystems across the country through a membership to the International Business Incubator Association (InBIA).
“It became apparent pretty quickly that no one governing body or agency had all the answers, so it was important for us to make informed decisions through our strategic research,” Maner said.
Restrictions included limiting the facility’s use to tenants and members only, working remotely when possible, increased cleaning and disinfecting services, and encouraging tenants to remain in their suites rather than spreading out to common areas.
Zeal staff worked remotely, dropping in periodically to pick up mail and address any concerns. In the midst of the pandemic, Peter Hauck was hired and on-boarded as the new community manager with an entirely remote first day of work.
Programming and resources were adjusted to fit with social distancing requirements, and the Zeal & Startup Sioux Falls team even hosted several Zoom events, including the Virtual Startup Social and the New & Aspiring Entrepreneurs Meetup.
“Social media, email marketing and Zoom have been incredible tools during quarantine, not to mention a solid network infrastructure in which we’re supported by our partners at Midco and Workplace IT,” Maner said.
After careful consideration, those measures were lifted at the beginning of June. The team at Zeal is excited to be back at the facility full-time, while taking necessary precautions for the safety of tenants and visitors.
Preparing the facility for safe and healthy work
To ensure a safe return to work for tenants and staff alike, Zeal adopted several new restrictions. These include limiting entrances to the building and advising tenants not to travel unnecessarily between floors of the facility.
Video surveillance will also be installed, and guests will be asked to check in at the front desk. All conference rooms will have reduced capacity, and chairs will be removed from common areas to maintain social distancing.
Signage addressing social distancing and hand-washing will be posted throughout the facility, and Servicemaster will continue to clean and sanitize 5 days per week. Zeal will also be upgrading air filters to HEPA grade for air quality.
Partnering with NAI for facility management
Perhaps one of the most impactful changes at Zeal is the addition of property manager, Matt Bruxvoort, in partnership with NAI.
“It took less than a full year of employment at Zeal Center for me to realize that properly supporting the people we directly serve is the biggest priority for our operation,” Maner said. “Adding a full-time property manager has freed up capacity for our core team to execute a strategic plan and begin tackling mission-driven objectives to serve the greater entrepreneurial population of our city.”
NAI has been a longtime sponsor and supporter of Zeal, and both Maner and NAI Senior Vice President, Gregg Brown, were enthusiastic about the opportunity to partner together on the facility’s management.
“As a brokerage company that represents tenants, this is a great place to be introduced to entrepreneurs that are just starting up,” said Brown. “Once they outgrow or graduate from Zeal, they need a resource to help navigate the waters, and so it’s really natural for us to have that relationship.”
Zeal has hosted NAI on numerous occasions over the years to talk to the community about real estate—covering topics like finding the right space, cost considerations, and the leasing process.
The partnership couldn’t have come at a better time. As Maner began to realize Zeal’s need for a property manager, NAI was simultaneously expanding their services in that area.
Bruxvoort is employed by both businesses and splits his time between them. Brown describes him as a “go-getter.”
Matt Bruxvoort
“He’s young, nimble, polite, and eager to learn,” Brown said. “This is a different model than Zeal has had in the past, and as they’re reopening and people are coming back, there’s a lot going on and it’s good to have him on the ground there every day.”
For NAI, a property management client like Zeal is unique. In most scenarios, a hands-off owner or investor will hire NAI for property management to handle maintenance, collect rent checks, and manage middle-of-the-night emergencies.
Zeal, on the other hand, is an owner-occupant client.
“It’s a much higher degree of service because we have Matt, the on-site property manager, which adds a whole layer of service that not everybody provides to their clients,” Brown said. “Usually we’re just a hired third-party company and we’re not necessarily looked at as a partner, but because of our sponsorship and our shared employee, we’re way more integrated with Zeal. It’s way more rewarding to be involved with the ownership at that level rather than simply being an arms-length contractor.”
What’s been accomplished so far?
NAI took over building maintenance for Zeal several months back, and Bruxvoort started on-site in May. In a short time, they’ve managed to stay busy.
“The property management team has surveyed the building for efficiencies and infrastructure upgrades that we will complete as budget allows, and we are looking to implement new tenant and billing software in the coming months to help streamline the accounting side,” Maner said.
Brown adds that while tenant needs are always different, the nature of the startup community means the property management team is being asked a lot of non-traditional questions.
“I love how dedicated their team is to supporting the mission of the organization, beyond day-to-day facility management,” Maner said. “Their team engages mine on a weekly basis, bringing solutions-driven ideas that are helping to position Zeal as a true leader and innovator in the ecosystem center management space.”
Zeal recently completed Entrepreneurship Center Management Certification through a program led by InBIA, and Maner says putting the right team in place is just one of the many ways they are capitalizing on that education to move forward.
From assisting with day-to-day maintenance and operations to researching and developing a comprehensive plan to minimize the spread of COVID-19, NAI has proved to be a valuable partner for the Zeal Center.
NAI Property Management focuses on office, industrial, and retail. They provide a one-stop shop for building owners, managing full accounting, collection of rents and payments, budgeting, management of all vendors, and making sure properties are in peak performance as far as mechanical issues and building and grounds. For more information, visit their website at siouxfallscommercial.com.
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Forensic Autopsy
Ritesh Menezes
Francis Monteiro
Forensic Autopsy CME
A forensic autopsy is an examination conducted postmortem to address medicolegal objectives. A forensic autopsy is also called a medicolegal autopsy. The performance of a forensic autopsy follows instructions from the concerned legal authority responsible for the medicolegal investigation of sudden, unexpected, suspicious, mysterious, unwitnessed, obscure, unexplained, or litigious deaths, criminal deaths, industrial deaths, and deaths associated with medical or surgical treatment where medical negligence is alleged or anesthetic deaths. In brief, all deaths of unnatural (homicide, suicide, accident) manner, suspicious deaths, and unexpected deaths necessitate a legal investigation, which includes an autopsy as a portion of the evidence-gathering process.
The legal authority directing the autopsy surgeon/forensic pathologist to conduct the forensic autopsy may be the coroner, the medical examiner, the magistrate, the police, or the procurator fiscal as the legal norms differ substantially across the globe. The performance of a forensic autopsy forms a part of the medicolegal death investigation system. The type of medicolegal death investigation system varies from one country to another and may even differ within a country. For instance, in the United States of America, the coroner system and medical examiner system of medicolegal death investigation are prevalent. In India, either the magistrate or the police conduct the medicolegal death investigation. In Scotland, the procurator fiscal investigates deaths requiring further explanation. In the other regions (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) of the United Kingdom, the coroner investigates deaths demanding further explanation.
Issues of Concern
Aims and Objectives of a Forensic Autopsy
The aims and objectives of a forensic autopsy differ from one case to another and can be specific for a particular case. Nevertheless, in general, the following are the objectives of conducting a forensic autopsy:
To establish the identity of the dead
To determine the cause of death
To assist in confirming or refuting the alleged manner of death, wherever possible
To estimate the time since death (postmortem interval)
Establishing the identity of the deceased is of paramount importance while conducting a forensic autopsy on an unknown body. At times, confirming the identity of the deceased also matters.
The cause of death occurs either as an injury in cases of violent deaths or by disease in cases of natural deaths. The cause of death can be either natural or unnatural. For example, if a head injury is the cause of death broadly, then how the head injury occurred can be accidental, suicidal, or homicidal. Death from a head injury can result from an accidental fall from a height, or a suicidal jump from the top of a tall structure, or a deliberate push from the roof terrace, in which this last case the manner of death is considered homicidal. To be more precise, let us consider subarachnoid hemorrhage as the cause of death. Subarachnoid hemorrhage can result from a spontaneous rupture of a berry aneurysm (natural mannered death) or can be secondary to blunt force impact to the head (unnatural mannered death).
However, it is noteworthy that the final verdict regarding the manner of death is decided by the Court of Law in most jurisdictions worldwide since opinion on the manner of death is based not just on medical evidence but more so on other circumstantial pieces of evidence. Medical evidence is only one piece of the puzzle.
In the case of a fetal autopsy or an autopsy of a neonate, the following are the specific medicolegal objectives:
To determine the intra-uterine/gestational age of the fetus, ultimately aiming to know whether the fetus was viable or not (to assess the viability of the fetus)
If viable, to determine whether it was born alive (live birth) or dead (dead birth/stillbirth)
If born alive, to determine the period of survival after birth, the cause, and manner of death
In the case of a body fished out of the water, one of the specific medicolegal objectives of conducting an autopsy is to determine whether the cause of death was drowning or whether the person died by some other means and then the body dumped in the water to conceal the crime. A similar concern is in cases of a simulated hanging where the perpetrators of a homicide present it as a suicide. In the case of a conflagration in a building, the specific medicolegal objectives of conducting an autopsy are to determine whether the person died of burns or otherwise (for example, fall of masonry while in a building on fire or inhalation of irrespirable gases) and to differentiate antemortem burns from postmortem burns. Autopsy finding of the presence of soot particles in the distal airways and autopsy ancillary investigation finding of the presence of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) in the blood do not necessarily prove that the body surface burns are antemortem, but that the victim was alive when the fire was in progress,[1] which is not the same conclusion. A dead body recovered from a fire may present with cutaneous burns sustained before death or after death or at both times. Continued application of fire to skin after death vs. skin burnt before death usually obscures the antemortem features of burns and poses a challenge to the forensic pathologist in determining the nature of burns. Such a situation may arise even in air-crash incidents where there is a fire. At times, the testimony (related to the nature of burns and cause of death) of the forensic expert at the Special Court of Inquiry proceedings held in circumstances of an air-crash incident are misunderstood by lay media personnel and wrongly published in the daily newspapers.
It isn't always straightforward to opine the cause of death in forensic practice. To quote from Professor Stephen Cordner's article published in the Lancet, "Substantial delay between injury and death, non-fatal injury precipitating death in a relatively short time from natural causes, a peculiarity of the victim rendering a survivable injury fatal" are realities often encountered in forensic autopsies.[2] Autopsy surgeons also commonly encounter cases where the pathological evidence of injury or disease is obliterated by advanced postmortem changes and occasionally cases where the opinion regarding the cause of death is entirely dependent on the interpretation of circumstantial evidence.[2] Moreover, they often see instances with multiple competing potential causes of death in autopsy practice.[3]
Preliminaries/Formalities of a Forensic Autopsy
To conduct a forensic autopsy, informed consent of the legal heirs/relatives is not necessary, as the aim of checking for any felonious component involved in the death would get bogged down if the refusal of possibly culpable persons could prevent the performance of the forensic autopsy. Nevertheless, as a matter of formality, it is a custom to inform the legal heirs about the performance of the forensic autopsy. The body to be autopsied is handed over to the autopsy surgeon/forensic pathologist by the legal authority, and the forensic team returns the autopsied body to the legal authority. The legal authority then formally hands over the body to the legal heirs for the last rites to be performed. In all circumstances, it is necessary to document the chain of custody of the dead body.
No casual observer should be present during a forensic autopsy. A register consisting of the names of those persons legally entitled to be present during a forensic autopsy should be maintained.
The best location for a forensic autopsy is a well-equipped, well-ventilated, and well-illuminated autopsy-room adjacent to the mortuary. Nonetheless, forensic autopsies are also conducted at the scene of the discovery of a decomposed body, site of exhumation of a dead body, or in make-shift arrangements organized at the site of mass-disasters, depending on the circumstances.
Forensic autopsies should be the purview of doctors trained and certified in the specialty of forensics. Nevertheless, in the developing world, it is not uncommon for doctors to lack specific training in forensics to conduct autopsies when a trained forensic autopsy surgeon is not available, especially in rural and remote regions of a vast country.[4][5]
The Autopsy Surgeon/Forensic Pathologist
The significance of the powers of observation and interpretation of autopsy findings, awareness of different possibilities, and a flexible and open mind of the autopsy surgeon is always stressed.[6] The failure to maintain a high standard of care of postmortem examination due to a low level of competency in forensic pathology can lead to mistakes in opinions concluded by the autopsy surgeon causing errors and, ultimately, injustice.[6] The literature reports forensic autopsy cases with erroneous opinions related to the cause of death, which further emphasizes the requirement of adequate training of the autopsy surgeon.[5]
The Procedure of a Forensic Autopsy
A complete or full autopsy is necessary to ascertain the definitive cause of death.[7] Incomplete autopsies, including limited autopsies, needle autopsies, or endoscopic autopsies that are comparatively less invasive or non-invasive, are not routinely part of forensic practice.[7] Nevertheless, the legal authority can sanction postmortem examinations that are not complete.[8] In incidents of mass disasters where identification of the deceased is the priority, only external postmortem examination with or without being followed up by ancillary investigations related to forensic identification takes place at times in the developing world.[8] In such circumstances of mass disasters where comparative DNA analysis is not an option, non-identification or misidentification of the deceased is not uncommon.[8] Recommendations are that DNA-based identification of all the victims of mass disasters be made mandatory and considered in addition to other corroborative findings related to identification even in a developing country.[8] A complete autopsy on the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot in an air-crash incident is a must as it can discover pilot-related factors (for example, a disease condition causing sudden natural death, the presence of alcohol or drugs on the toxicological analysis) that can cause the air-crash disaster.[9] A complete autopsy on the bodies of other air-passengers is not mandatory in many jurisdictions across the globe.
A complete forensic autopsy includes an external examination of the body (including the examination of clothes and accessories on the body), internal examination, and collection and preservation of various material for any indicated ancillary investigations.
The anteriorly placed I-shaped incision is the most common body surface skin incision employed to open up the thoracic and abdominal cavities. The other two commonly employed conventional skin incisions include the Y-shaped incision and modified Y-shaped incision.[10] The reflection of the skin by an X-shaped incision of the back and limbs is useful to detect and evaluate hidden subcutaneous hemorrhages in custodial deaths.[11]
The coronal incision is the commonly employed skin incision employed to open up the cranial cavity. The scalp is incised in the coronal plane, beginning at the mastoid process, behind the ear, running across the vertex, to reach the opposite mastoid. Thus a bi-mastoid incision of the scalp along the coronal plane is employed.
The following are the four illustrated autopsy techniques that are described in the "Handbook of Autopsy Practice" by Jurgen Ludwig and elsewhere.[12]
Technique of Virchow
This technique employs organ removal, one by one
Technique of Rokitansky
This technique uses in-situ dissection of organs
Technique of Ghon
In this technique, cervical and thoracic organs, organs in the abdomen, and the urogenital system undergo removal as separate organ blocks ("en bloc" removal)
Technique of Letulle
A technique wherein the removal of the cervical, thoracic and abdominal organs is as a single organ block ("en masse" removal) is the usual practice.
In addition to a complete and meticulous dissection of the dead body, the following should also be taken care of as a part of a forensic autopsy:
Obtaining photographs and video films for future evidential use in the Court of Law
Retaining samples (body viscera and fluids) for chemical/toxicological analysis, histopathological/microscopic examination, and/or other ancillary investigations as stated above
Restoring the autopsied body to the best possible cosmetic condition before handing over to the concerned legal authority
Providing a detailed written postmortem examination report of the autopsy findings and their inferences concluded based on scientific reasoning.
The commonly considered autopsy ancillary investigations include chemical/toxicological analysis of body viscera and fluids and histopathological/microscopic examination of various organs.
The other ancillary investigations (not an inclusive list) include the examination of:
Blood for grouping
Viscera and blood for microbiological culture
Body fluids for postmortem chemistry (thanatochemistry)
For example, evaluation of the potassium levels in the vitreous humor is useful in estimating the time since death during an autopsy in the early postmortem period.
Vaginal swabs, anal swabs, swabs from bite marks, etc
Stains on the skin or fabric/clothing
Material for DNA typing
Sudden and unexplained deaths and mysterious and suspicious deaths should be reported to the concerned legal authority. In such circumstances, there should be no issue of a death certificate (cause of death certificate) without a formal medicolegal death investigation by the legal authority. Deaths that appear to be non-criminal deaths at first can turn out to be criminal-deaths on further investigation.
Negative Autopsy
An autopsy without any positive findings that fail to reveal the cause of death with gross, microscopic, toxicological, and other necessary ancillary investigation is said to be a negative autopsy.
Obscure Autopsy
A complete, meticulous autopsy with its ancillaries that fails to serve the purpose of ascertaining the cause of death, despite the presence of trivial/unclear/obscure findings, is termed an obscure autopsy. An ill-informed opinion often turns out to be worse than no opinion at all. Absent an opinion, the legal authority investigating the death will be at least aware of the lacunae in his/her evidence/investigation, rather than deceived by the speculative or orchestrated statements made by the autopsy surgeon/forensic pathologist.
In general, a negative or obscure autopsy is one where the cause of death remains unascertained despite a complete, meticulous autopsy, including ancillary laboratory tests. Such autopsies where the cause of death remains undermined despite a meticulous workup of the cases are not uncommon in forensic practice.[13][14] With advanced laboratory investigation techniques, the cause of death in otherwise obscure autopsies is determined.[15] Nevertheless, forensic autopsies may conclude as either negative or obscure, even in recent times.
Second Autopsy
A second autopsy is the one that follows the first autopsy on the same body. Some of the circumstances for a second autopsy include a repatriated body and exhumation of a previously autopsied body.[16][17]
Exhumation is the lawful disinterment of a previously buried body, for medicolegal purposes, where a postmortem examination is an imperative task. The exhumation is followed by either the first autopsy or a re-autopsy in light of new suspicious information.[18][17] AN exhumation followed by an autopsy conducted for medicolegal purposes is also an important tool for education and training of forensic specialty related residents or postgraduate students.[19]
Exhumations are usually carried out for one of the following reasons[18][20][21][22][23][24]:
Where new relevant information or substantiated allegations suggesting death due to criminal action, either from poison or injury, arise:
For instance, in Tunisia, a body buried in 1979 without an autopsy was exhumed in 2011 more than 30 years later as the relatives were doubtful of the reported cause of death.
A forensic autopsy conducted on an exhumed body in Switzerland a year after burial revealed the actual cause of death with the revision of the manner of death from natural to accidental
The first president of the Palestinian National Authority, Yasser Arafat's remains were exhumed in 2012 - the new probe into Arafat's 2004 death came after a Swiss laboratory reported traces of a deadly radioactive isotope, polonium-210, on his clothing.
Where confirmation of identity is deemed necessary for various civil and criminal purposes
Where the first postmortem examination report is inexplicable or ambiguous
Stringent measures must be in place to identify the grave and the coffin (if applicable) so that there is no mistake in exhuming the body to be autopsied.[25]
Autopsy Artifacts
The interpretation of the external and internal postmortem examination findings is of utmost importance to the criminal justice system as the autopsy surgeon's expert opinion has a bearing on the outcome of the case decided by the Court of Law. In this context, the autopsy surgeon should be aware of artifacts (resuscitation artifacts, agonal artifacts, and postmortem artifacts) that may be present during an autopsy.
To quote, "A postmortem artifact is regarded as any change produced in the body or any feature introduced into the body, after death, that often leads to much confusion about its nature and causation, and often results in misinterpretation of medicolegally significant antemortem findings or is itself wrongly considered as a significant antemortem finding".[26] The changes that occur during the agonal period and the injuries introduced during resuscitative measures may also pose interpretative difficulties to the autopsy surgeon.[27][28]
The performance of a forensic autopsy as a part of the medicolegal death investigation is of paramount significance in understanding the circumstances of death in every civilized society. In many jurisdictions across the globe, the performance of a forensic autopsy is required cases of unnatural deaths, deaths from sudden natural causes, and deaths occurring under suspicious or unusual circumstances. Although the medicolegal death investigation system and forensic autopsy standards differ from country to country, the aims and objectives primarily remain the same.
Forensic experts are proud to note that forensic autopsies have contributed significantly to the cause of justice and service of humanity over the years. All members of the healthcare team, including non-forensic doctors and nurses operating in an interprofessional team environment, should be aware of death from unusual or suspicious circumstances and refer these cases for a forensic autopsy. [Level 5]
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Soumaya Chargui
Pamidronate CME
Pamidronate belongs to the drug class known as bisphosphonates whose therapeutic value stems from their ability to inhibit osteoclast-mediated bone resorption.[1]
FDA-approved indications for pamidronate include moderate or severe hypercalcemia of malignancy, moderate to severe Paget disease of bone, osteolytic bone metastases of breast cancer, and osteolytic lesions of multiple myeloma.[2][3][4][5][6]
Non-FDA-approved indications for pamidronate include: osteoporosis, complex regional pain syndrome, osteoporosis secondary to chronic glucocorticoid use and prolonged immobility, bone loss nonmetastatic hormone-responsive prostate cancer, and osteogenesis imperfecta in children.[7][8][9]
The mechanism of action of pamidronate, as well as other bisphosphonates, stems from its chemical structure as a derivative of inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi). Bisphosphonates mimic PPi and bind with high affinity to hydroxyapatite crystals found within areas of remodeling bone. The bound drug is released from its bound hydroxyapatite as osteoclasts begin to resorb bone. The freed drug then leads to apoptosis of osteoclasts via inhibition of the enzyme, farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase. This enzyme is involved in metabolic pathways responsible for the production of cholesterol and other lipids. Despite the ubiquitous nature of this enzyme, bisphosphonate-induced apoptosis via inhibition of farnesyl pyrophosphate only appears in osteoclasts. Pamidronate, and the other newer (nitrogen-containing) bisphosphonates induce osteoclast apoptosis via this mechanism while earlier (non-nitrogen-containing) bisphosphonates do so via disruption of several intracellular ATP-dependent processes.[9][1]
For the treatment of osteolytic lesions of multiple myeloma and bone metastases of breast cancer, IV pamidronate is administered as 90 mg infusions for at least 2 hours and repeated every 3 to 4 weeks.[10][5]
For the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy, IV pamidronate administration is a single dose of 90 mg for 2 to 24 hours.[11]
For the treatment of Paget disease of bone, IV pamidronate is administered as 30 mg over 4 hours on three consecutive days, or 60 to 90 mg infusion over 2 to 4 hours for two or more nonconsecutive days. For mild disease, a single 90 mg infusion may suffice. For severe disease, several 90 mg infusions may be necessary.[12]
Pamidronate correlates with numerous adverse effects, including hypocalcemia and resulting secondary hyperparathyroidism, acute phase response, musculoskeletal pain, various ocular events, and osteonecrosis of the jaw.[13]
IV Bisphosphonates, like pamidronate, are more likely to cause symptomatic hypocalcemia than oral medications, which usually occurs days after infusion. Prevention of this complication is achievable by making sure patients receive adequate Vitamin D and calcium supplementation approximately two weeks before bisphosphonate infusion.[13]
An adverse effect similar to the acute phase response can occur following the initial pamidronate infusion, which reaches maximal intensity in 28 to 36 hours and self-resolves in 2 to 3 days. It is rarer following subsequent infusions. Patients with this response complain of fever and symptoms of influenza, such as malaise, fatigue, and generalized body pain.[13] In addition to the pain described in cases of an acute phase response, pamidronate can lead to a delayed, painful syndrome characterized as severe and debilitating occurring up to years after the administration of the drug. It can present any time after administration of the drug.[13]
The most common ocular complication following pamidronate use is nonspecific and self-resolving conjunctivitis. More serious ocular complications include scleritis and uveitis, which both warrant immediate discontinuation of the drug.[13]
Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) is an uncommon but feared side effect of bisphosphonate use. Patients with ONJ may complain of jaw pain, swelling and redness of nearby tissue, loose teeth in the affected region, and the presence of pus.[14] ONJ affects the mandible more often than the maxilla. It is far more common in those receiving IV bisphosphonates. When due to oral drugs, ONJ is milder and responds better to treatment. Incidence of ONJ increases with increasing dose and duration of administration, and the current recommendation is for the careful use of IV bisphosphonate after two years of taking the drug. ONJ is more common in patients receiving bisphosphonate therapy for cancer with bony metastases as opposed to those receiving treatment for osteoporosis.[14]
The IV bisphosphonates pamidronate and zoledronate are also associated with significant nephrotoxicity, which is rare among oral bisphosphonates. The risk of nephrotoxicity increases with larger doses, shorter infusion times, and more frequent dosing intervals.[15] The most common type of nephrotoxicity seen with pamidronate administration is collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Renal toxicity due to pamidronate likely increases in patients with malignancy who also have other risk factors for renal impairment such as chronic kidney disease, hypercalcemia, multiple myeloma, hypertension, older age, treatment with chemotherapeutic drugs, and previous bisphosphonate treatment.
There are reports of pamidronate causing other adverse effects like urticaria and atypical femoral fractures, but the number of such cases is small.[16][17]
Pamidronate is contraindicated for those with hypersensitivity to bisphosphonates or mannitol. It is also contraindicated in patients whose creatinine clearance is less than 30 mL/min, and not found to have fatal calcium levels or severe bone disease secondary to multiple myeloma.[1][10]
Patients treated with pamidronate should have their kidney function closely monitored throughout their treatment with the medication. Clinicians should record serum creatinine before every infusion. In instances of renal deterioration, the patient should not receive the drug until creatinine rises to within 10% of the patient’s baseline level. Electrolyte disturbances can also occur with the drug, and thus magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and vitamin D levels should be monitored and corrected if necessary. Patients should also receive monitoring for albuminuria for 3 to 6 months after pamidronate infusion.[10]
Close monitoring of a patient’s creatinine clearance is vital as the administration protocol of pamidronate depends on this value. Infusion time is not affected with creatinine clearance values greater than 60 mL/min, but for values between 30 to 60 mL/min, it is recommended to either decrease the dose of the drug or infuse it over a longer period. Pamidronate infusion is not recommended in patients with creatinine clearance less than 30 mL/min except in cases of fatal calcium levels or those with severe bone disease due to multiple myeloma.[10]
A small number of cases describe symptomatic hypocalcemia following pamidronate administration. In each case, however, patients had pre-existing derangements contributing to their symptoms, including renal insufficiency and low levels of vitamin D secondary to lifestyle, previous GI surgery, and medication history. Recommendations for the management of pamidronate overdose include appropriate correction of the electrolyte disturbance and pre-treatment supplementation with calcium and Vitamin D.[13][18]
Pamidronate is frequently a therapeutic choice in the management of Paget disease of bone, multiple myeloma, hypercalcemia of malignancy, and bone metastases of breast cancer.[2][3][4][5][6]) Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other members of the interprofessional healthcare team responsible for treating patients receiving this drug must be aware of the value and potential complications associated with this drug. Physicians should take charge of educating the patient about possible side effects of the medication, including osteonecrosis of the jaw, which requires discussion with the patient’s dentist before any procedures.[14] Nephrotoxicity is another feared side effect of pamidronate, and careful monitoring of a patient’s renal function by members of the healthcare team is paramount throughout treatment.[15][10] Pharmacists should perform complete medication reconciliation for the patient, recognize any potential drug-drug interactions, and report any concerns with the rest of the team. Nurses should be knowledgeable about proper drug administration, be able to detect signs of possible adverse effects and communicate regularly with the physician with any updates. [Level 1] The interprofessional team approach to pamidronate therapy can drive patient outcomes positively while limiting adverse events. [Level 5]
[1] Ganesan K,Roane D, Bisphosphonate 2019 Jan; [PubMed PMID: 29262103]
[2] Major P,Lortholary A,Hon J,Abdi E,Mills G,Menssen HD,Yunus F,Bell R,Body J,Quebe-Fehling E,Seaman J, Zoledronic acid is superior to pamidronate in the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy: a pooled analysis of two randomized, controlled clinical trials. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2001 Jan 15; [PubMed PMID: 11208851]
[3] Reagan P,Pani A,Rosner MH, Approach to diagnosis and treatment of hypercalcemia in a patient with malignancy. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation. 2014 Jan; [PubMed PMID: 24021907]
[4] Kravets I, Paget's Disease of Bone: Diagnosis and Treatment. The American journal of medicine. 2018 Nov; [PubMed PMID: 29752905]
[5] Van Poznak C,Somerfield MR,Barlow WE,Biermann JS,Bosserman LD,Clemons MJ,Dhesy-Thind SK,Dillmon MS,Eisen A,Frank ES,Jagsi R,Jimenez R,Theriault RL,Vandenberg TA,Yee GC,Moy B, Role of Bone-Modifying Agents in Metastatic Breast Cancer: An American Society of Clinical Oncology-Cancer Care Ontario Focused Guideline Update. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2017 Dec 10; [PubMed PMID: 29035643]
[6] Mhaskar R,Kumar A,Miladinovic B,Djulbegovic B, Bisphosphonates in multiple myeloma: an updated network meta-analysis. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews. 2017 Dec 18; [PubMed PMID: 29253322]
[7] Zanatta LB,Marcatto C,Ramos CS,Mañas N,Moreira C,Borba V, Use of pamidronate for osteoporosis treatment in public health care in Brazil. Revista brasileira de reumatologia. 2017 Nov - Dec; [PubMed PMID: 29173688]
[8] van Daele PL, Pamidronate in complex regional pain syndrome: effective therapy in CRPS. The Netherlands journal of medicine. 2016 Jan; [PubMed PMID: 26819355]
[9] Drake MT,Clarke BL,Khosla S, Bisphosphonates: mechanism of action and role in clinical practice. Mayo Clinic proceedings. 2008 Sep; [PubMed PMID: 18775204]
[10] Lee OL,Horvath N,Lee C,Joshua D,Ho J,Szer J,Quach H,Spencer A,Harrison S,Mollee P,Roberts AW,Talaulikar D,Brown R,Augustson B,Ling S,Jaksic W,Gibson J,Kalff A,Johnston A,Kalro A,Ward C,Prince HM,Zannettino A, Bisphosphonate guidelines for treatment and prevention of myeloma bone disease. Internal medicine journal. 2017 Aug; [PubMed PMID: 28782211]
[11] Body JJ,Mancini I, Bisphosphonates for cancer patients: why, how, and when? Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. 2002 Jul; [PubMed PMID: 12136223]
[12] Siris ES,Lyles KW,Singer FR,Meunier PJ, Medical management of Paget's disease of bone: indications for treatment and review of current therapies. Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. 2006 Dec; [PubMed PMID: 17229018]
[13] Papapetrou PD, Bisphosphonate-associated adverse events. Hormones (Athens, Greece). 2009 Apr-Jun; [PubMed PMID: 19570737]
[14] Gupta M,Gupta N, Bisphosphonate Related Jaw Osteonecrosis 2019 Jan; [PubMed PMID: 30521192]
[15] Perazella MA,Markowitz GS, Bisphosphonate nephrotoxicity. Kidney international. 2008 Dec; [PubMed PMID: 18685574]
[16] Mubarik A,Iqbal AM, Postpartum Cardiomyopathy 2019 Jan; [PubMed PMID: 30521191]
[17] Edwards BJ,Bunta AD,Lane J,Odvina C,Rao DS,Raisch DW,McKoy JM,Omar I,Belknap SM,Garg V,Hahr AJ,Samaras AT,Fisher MJ,West DP,Langman CB,Stern PH, Bisphosphonates and nonhealing femoral fractures: analysis of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) and international safety efforts: a systematic review from the Research on Adverse Drug Events And Reports (RADAR) project. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume. 2013 Feb 20; [PubMed PMID: 23426763]
[18] Maalouf NM,Heller HJ,Odvina CV,Kim PJ,Sakhaee K, Bisphosphonate-induced hypocalcemia: report of 3 cases and review of literature. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. 2006 Jan-Feb; [PubMed PMID: 16524863]
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Whither the party choir?
Until the folk song group Machesa came along, “Tinto” was just another non-suggestive sobriquet for a B-side football player in really remote areas. That is all in the past. The song by that title has become a big hit and so you can imagine the roar that went up at the recent launch of a Botswana Democratic Party candidate, Botsalo Ntuane, when Machesa broke into a full-throated rendition of Tinto. Among those attending this launch was President Festus Mogae as well as other senior national and party leaders.
At some time in the past, the person who composed Tinto confused art with vulgarity and wrote in a bad word for a male sex organ. In company that includes a head of state and in a society where vulgarity in public speaking/singing is taboo, few expected the lead singer to actually utter that bad word but that is exactly what he did. The singer rolled out the “r” of the word for so long as to not only leave any doubt in the listener’s mind about what he was referring to but to also conjure up this image of an angrily turgid and pre-medievally long member. A section of the crowd, thrilled with this part of the song, applauded wildly and tore into rapturous cheer.
In as far as botho goes, Tinto is clearly not Vision 2016-compliant but don’t expect Machesa to suddenly run out of political candidature launch gigs. With the electoral season having kicked in, this group will play gig after gig after gig.
It is not just Machesa that is cashing in. An hour earlier, a dreadlock-haired kwaito artist ÔÇô one of Botswana’s flavours of the month ÔÇô had been running around the stage earning his keep with a curious combination of pidgin Setswana and some Zulu.
More than any other political party, it is the BDP that employs this sort of artistic labour. The Secretary General of the Botswana Congress Party, Taolo Lucas, says that while his party may also want to have a commercial artist wow crowds at its political rallies, it cannot afford the rather steep prices that come with such entertainment. The price can be anything from P1500 to P5000 and often it is the constituency that foots the bill. Recent history shows that while it may have a myriad of problems with factionalism, the BDP certainly does not have any money problems.
However, entertainment at political meetings that features commercial artists also comes at the expense of what may be degenerating into a relic of the past ÔÇô the party choir. If anybody ever joined the party choir because it gave them an opportunity to be seen and heard, such opportunity seems to be fast slipping away and such people would be better off dancing or doing background vocals for commercial artists.
At some point during Ntuane’s rally, the party choir shuffled onto the stage to do a set but it was all too clear that many in the crowd preferred to hear Machesa spout vulgarities and perform acrobatic dance steps than listen to the choir (literally) sing praises of party leaders. This seems to be evidence that the popularity of the party choir has ridden off into the sunset.
On the other hand, Gomolemo Motswaledi says that use of commercial artists in no way represents the dearth of the party choir. Motswaledi says that in a situation where there is “greater fluidity” in terms of entertainment choice, the party cannot depend on party membership only to mobilise support. He adds that the interests of people who turn up at political meetings go way beyond the political sloganeering couched in choral songs. He suggests that the party choir has not been completely obliterated from the stage as it gets plentiful opportunity to entertain at various other party meetings.
Motswaledi is relevant to this story for two reasons: he is the BDP’s candidate for Gaborone Central constituency and is also an artist with a presidential award under his Brooks Brothers belt. In addition to conducting KTM Choir, Motswaledi has also worked with various commercial artists from different genres. When he officially launches his bid for parliament early next year, Motswaledi hopes to feature a party choir as well as other artists (some commercial) from outside party structures.
That would definitely bring people out but Lucas’ experience is that featuring commercial artists ÔÇô especially big names – at rallies can have a boomerang effect.
“When Vee is in town, you would have lots of young people between the ages of say, seven and 14 years, thronging the freedom square to watch him perform,” he says.
When that happens, Lucas adds, there is the danger that the target audience ÔÇô adults who are the ones who vote in elections and have neither patience for kwaito nor its stars ÔÇô can get bored and just as easily decide to get up and leave the rally.
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Iggy Pop / The Bowie Years 7CD box
April 16, 2020 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, david bowie, iggy pop
Box features The Idiot, Lust For Life, outtakes + unheard live material
In May, Universal Music will issue The Bowie Years, a seven CD Iggy Pop box set that presents Iggy’s 1977 collaborations with David Bowie – both in the studio and live on stage – including classic albums The Idiot and Lust For Life.
Both of those albums were co-written with David Bowie and David produced The Idiot and co-produced Lust For Life with Pop and Colin Thurston (as ‘Bewlay Bros.’). Interestingly, unlike all three of Bowie’s so-called ‘Berlin Trilogy’ albums Lust For Life was entirely recorded and mixed at Hansa Tonstudios and in that respect is the only true ‘Berlin’ album from the five records associated with this era.
Despite being full of fairly well known songs – ‘China Girl’, ‘Nightclubbing’, ‘Lust For Life’, ‘The Passenger’ etc. – the two studio albums delivered no hit singles anywhere, save for some success in The Netherlands with ‘Lust For Life’. That song wasn’t a single in the UK until 1996 (thanks to its inclusion in Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting), and ‘The Passenger’ was only a B-side (to ‘Success’) but like ‘Lust For Life’ was a hit decades later when used in an advert in Britain.
The Bowie Years includes both albums and a disc of previously unreleased alternate mixes, single edits and an interview with Iggy discussing the recording of The Idiot.
The Bowie Years box set contents. Click image to enlarge.
Alongside the studio output in this box is the live album TV Eye. Released in 1978, this features live performance from The Idiot tour which famously featured David Bowie as part of the touring band (on keyboards and backing vocals). This album was originally collated from from performances in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri.
However, The Bowie Years box set features three additional CDs of ‘Live in ’77’ performances. Released for the first time are Live at The Rainbow Theatre, London, Live at The Agora, Cleveland and Live at Mantra Studio, Chicago. These are from the same tour with Bowie in the band.
The box set features newly designed album artwork and comes with a 40-page book written by Michael Hann, with contributions from the musicians who played on the records and fans who talk about the influence the albums had on them.
As well as this box, The Idiot and Lust For Life will also be reissued as 2CD deluxe editions. The Idiot’s second disc is Live at the Rainbow Theatre, while Lust For Life comes with TV Eye. Therefore three discs are exclusive to the box set, the disc with alternate mixes, Live at The Agora, Cleveland and Live at Mantra Studio, Chicago.
The Bowie Years is £56 at the time of writing on Amazon in the UK. That’s a great price. If you have already pre-ordered this at £70 from the uDiscoverMusic store, please be aware that those sets are not signed by Iggy, but rather by poster artist Chris Hopewell. This wasn’t clear originally, which is why I’m mentioning it.
The Bowie Years box and the two deluxe editions will be released on 29 May 2020.
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CD 1 – The Idiot
Dum Dum Boys
CD 2 – Lust for Life
Some Weird Sin
Neighbourhood Threat
CD 3 – T.V.Eye Live 1977
T.V. Eye
I Got A Right
I Wanna Be Your Dog
CD 4 – Alternate Mixes & Edits
Sister Midnight – Mono Single Edit
Sister Midnight – Single Edit
China Girl – Single Edit
Dum Dum Boys – Alt Mix
Baby – Alt Mix
China Girl – Alt Mix
Tiny Girls – Alt Mix
I Got A Right – Single
Lust for Life – Edit
Interview with Iggy Pop about Recording the Idiot
CD 5 – Live At The Rainbow Theatre – London 07/03/1977
TV Eye
Gimme Danger
I Need Somebody
CD 6 – Live At The Agora – Cleveland 21/03/1977
DISC SEVEN – Live At Mantra Studio – Chicago 28/03/1977
THE IDIOT 2CD DELUXE VERSION
DISC ONE – The Idiot
DISC TWO – Live At The Rainbow Theatre – London 07/03/1977
LUST FOR LIFE – 2-CD DELUXE VERSION
DISC ONE – Lust For Life
DISC TWO – T.V.Eye Live 1977
88 responses to Iggy Pop / The Bowie Years 7CD box
Thought about it for a bit and decided to just go for the two Deluxe Edition albums. The box is pretty steep on Amazon US.
My ideal ‘Bowie Years’ box would include Blah Blah Blah. I know, different time and far from 70’s Berlin. But I would spend money on that in a heartbeat.
Michael de wergifosse says:
Very disappointed by the box. I think universal is a specialist for mistakes in boxes. All the CDs are remastered except “lust for life”. Strange. Hope universal will do something for this issue.
How have you ascertained this information?
Paul, I listen back to back the “so called” remastered and the 1990 CD. The sound is the same. If you read the comments on Amazon uk, you can see other people thinks the same. Very sad but I ‘m pretty sure of that.
Daniel Best says:
Hey, more Iggy! More Bowie! I’m happy. Now if I can only find an affordable copy of the A&M Collection with the Blah! Blah! Blah! tracks on CD I’d be even happier. But, as I always say, if you don’t like it, nobody’s forcing you to buy it.
Greg Clow says:
While this hit Spotify and presumably other streaming services on Friday as planned, does anyone know if the physical edition has actually come out anywhere? My pre-order with MusicVaultz here in Canada has been delayed to June 12th, and Amazon Canada and US are showing the same date. And I see that Amazon UK and Germany are showing that it won’t be in stock until July 3rd. Delayed due to COVID, maybe?
Steinar from Oslo says:
The big question here: Are the albums remastered? Can’t find anything about that, but the streaming songs sounds nice!
Adey says:
Staying on the Bowie theme, I’ve just had an email from the official Bowie site saying that the rare as **** liveandwell.com album, that was released years ago to fanclub only sibscribers, is to be released on streaming platforms this friday (15th may)!!! Apparently its the first in a series of 3 releases to be streamed.
Little wonder live in new york is available to stream now.
chazfromtoronto says:
Damn! I would buy this set if it contained REAL WILD CHILD (the awesome 12″ remix by Bowie himself)!!!
The “A&M Recordings” 3CD set from 2006 contains the Real Wild Child 12″ mix.
James Rainbow says:
According to the Amazon box set listing the albums are remastered – doesn’t offer any more than that though.
Tony Kola says:
The Live at Mantra Studios recording was, by 1977 standards, exceptional. I taped it then, and certainly hope this release is superior quality to any boots or my preserved incomplete taping.
DJ of the event (WKQX) mentioned David and Iggy stayed up all night mixing this for broadcast.
William K says:
Michael mentioned the Hip-O Select release from 2006. I was surprised that the full length version of “Shades” was not included. They went with the original vinyl version which is fine but I would have liked both! The excellent “Live At The Channel 1988” promo album is there also but with only 12 tracks. It sounds a lot better than the 16 track French Revenge copy of the show & includes “Cold Metal” which is not on the French release. There is also an exclusive “Winners & Losers/ Scene Of The Crime” track from the same show on a Revenge CD single just to make things even more difficult for us Iggy fans & collectors. I appreciate that this post is not directly linked to The Bowie Years 7 CD box but I wanted to highlight that it’s been a nightmare collecting his stuff over the years. I did shake hands with him once during a concert in 1988 whilst squashed up against the stage but it’s been a Tuff journey over my collecting years.
Blueboy says:
Anything about 2CD deluxe packaging?
Gotta say, I almost feel like the title is an insult to Pop. It almost comes off as, “we know you probably don’t care so much about Iggy Pop, but what if we told you that DAVID BOWIE is featured?” My impression was that Iggy’s feelings about Bowie were a bit conflicted in later years due to Bowie always being the point of interest whenever he was involved, so I’m a little surprised that’s the title they went with. Someone figured, probably correctly, it would sell more.
Iggy approved the title. He could have vetoed it, so clearly doesn’t have an issue.
Bob Wilson says:
Definitely agree, even if Iggy approved. “The Berlin Years” would have been more appropriate, whereas the Bowie Years should include much more: What In the World, Play It Safe, Tumble & Twirl, Dancing With the Big Boys, Blah Blah Blah. But I’m sure even Iggy was convinced by the marketing people that his profits would be much better with The Bowie Years. I remember the LP of The Idiot had a “Produced by David Bowie” label plastered on the album. I also recall Iggy commenting along the lines that Blah Blah Blah was really a David Bowie album. Bowie/Pop, a complicated relationship indeed.
Love these two albums so have ordered both 2cd versions hoping that they’ll be remastered. I’d have bought the box if there were more demos / outtakes /alt versions, but 4 isn’t worth the expense and I’ve personally no interest in single edits. Wonder if there were any 12″ mixes, I’d love an extended Nightclubbing if it ever existed…
Disappointed, but not necessarily surprised at the lack of demos / outtakes … from what I’ve read of those sessions, they didn’t really do multiple takes, everything was recorded very quickly, and they didn’t exactly put aside any tracks to be used as bsides.
I mean, come on – “Nightclubbing” was recorded after most of the band had left and apparently “Turn Blue” predates everything on ‘the Idiot’.
BUT – here’s hoping that ‘the Idiot’ and ‘Lust for Life’ have been remastered (and they actually did a good job at it) … and I can finally replace my cd’s from the mid-90’s.
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Gary Shaw says:
I’ve got to be honest, as big a fan of the Ig that I am, that doesn’t looks very appealing to me. The Alternate Mixes and Edits disc looks very slim. A lot of discs with an interview on, usually just have it to fill time. They’re never worth more than one listen anyway. I can’t imagine that three live discs recorded within 3 weeks of each other will really be that different.
Were there no demos, work in progress versions?
Also, why no DVD or BluRay with videos and TV appearances?
Very disappointing.
Johnny Spasm says:
$80 for this set is just insane. Kudos to all of you willing to spend it, though.
Jonathan Riley says:
thats why musicvaultz.com is the best price at the moment. In USD, it’s $66 shipped after the 20% off coupon
For $66 I think it could be worth it but yes as you said $80 is a little much with how the world is nowadays.
Actually it’s worse than that, it’s $100 on Amazon US (£80).
Glenn says:
Looking forward to these. Plan to get the 2 CD editions. Amazon US has a July 3 date for the full box set as well as The Idiot 2 CD. Lust for Life 2 CD does show May 29. Wonder if these are all being pushed out to July.
tom m hans says:
I applaud the marketing people for milking the “everything Bowie related” cow to the fullest – I realized just now that my excitement over new Bowie posts slowly makes way to overkill-ish reactions. I believe that Iggy Pop deserves his place in the history of Rock’n’Roll but he simply is not for me. The closest I came to the Stooges is 1969 on some The Mission Live Releases. First time I heard passenger was in the mid 80s sung by Siouxsie and the Banshees… I never looked back, somehow. However, 50 something responses show that Iggy and Bowie still sell / trigger emotions. I am not exempt from that. Peace.
Been a hardcore Bowie fan for decades, but for some reason i don’t have any of the stuff in this boxset. Of course it would be rude for me not to order it!!!
Phil O. says:
This looks like a “beat the boots” compilation more than anything. A quick repackaging of well-known semi-legit material. Those “outtakes” on Disc 4 look like they’re lifted right from the “1977” box from Easy Action. I won’t be surprised if we get the fake “Tiny Girls” outtake again, too.
If the live material is improved/upgraded over previously circulating copies, I might pick this up. (A better version of the Mantra Studios session circulates, for example, but has never made it to CD). But I’m not optimistic at all.
Pretty disappointing from a outtakes point of view -I take it the I Got A Right single edit is just the live version from TV Eye and not a studio take? -and that artwork is horrendous. No proper demos to hand?
The live sets are great, and while they have been available from other sources a while, a sonic upgrade would be nice. Also the vinyl remasters of The Idiot and Lust For Life from a couple of years back were great, so i’ll stick with those for the time being…
Shame there’s no vinyl version to invest in – I would like the book etc. but I listen to the digital versions on streaming. This was also a big disappointment with the Conversation Piece box, which has thus far proved eminently resistible unless the price drops a lot.
Something like the soon to be released in July Stooges Funhouse 50th Anniversary deluxe set would be just the medicine for these strange times – all 15 sumptuous LPs of it and a book written by Henry Rollins. Bit pricey though. Stay safe all.
@Jay – Technically the majority of Conversation Piece was released as individual vinyl sets/albums, but I get what you mean.
The Stooges Funhouse set looks brilliant, I’ve ordered mine.
Maybe it’s worth an article, Paul?
Geoff G says:
I only need this for the disc of mixes and edits, and the booklet, which I would like. But in the US it’s at a hundred bucks. It needs to drop about 40% of that cost for me to consider this. Although, I really like the idea of this box set. It’s a good one!
I have a somewhat related question: I saw a Japanese reissue of Bowie’s Images 1966-1967
Do we know if this will be made available in other parts of the world?
Cristian Elena says:
IMHO “Blah Blah Blah” should have counted as an album from the “Bowie Years” as well.
Am I wrong …? :-/
Of course, but it’s an easy narrative confining it to the ‘Berlin’ era. And Blah Blah Blah sounds nothing like the other two studio albums.
Obviously I’m aware of those two facts, but then I think it would have been a good chance to shed new light on that album: maybe a bit dated sonically (*not the only one among the bunch of 80s albums re-released on a monthly basis ;-) ), but by far better than anything put out in the 00-years.
Thanks for taking the time to interact with your readers!
Of course, I love interacting with SDE readers! I’d like to see Blah Blah Blah reissued as its own thing sometime in the future. Maybe that will happen if this box does well.
There was a 2006 3cd set on the Hip-O-Select imprint of the Complete A&M Recordings which included Blah-Blah-Blah, Instinct & Live At the Channel. Both studio albums had 4 twelve inch/extended mixes appended. I would not be surprised if this got another release having been limited originally.
Kevin from Edinburgh says:
I lent a mate my copy of ‘Blah Blah Blah’ back in the 80s. I told him a bit about the album, specifically that it was produced by Bowie, and that Bowie wrote a few tracks on it. On returning it to me, he said that he’d enjoyed it, but was wondering why it was an Iggy Pop album when Bowie did all the vocals…..
I put him straight, but I’m not sure he believed me.
Anyway, a very good effort in the 80s. At least two standout tracks (Shades and Isolation) that were light years ahead of the largely inferior material that appeared on Never Let Me Down (for the record, it did).
As for this box set, I’ll pass (too much live content), but may be tempted by the individual albums if someone can confirm they’ve been remastered?
I’d love that too – especially if there are any Bowie vocal/guide vocal tracks lying around for any of that material which could be deployed in new alternate versions. Isolation, Shades and Hideaway are three great Bowie songs that never were (and better than anything on Never Let Me Down which came out the year after Blah Blah Blah).
Brad B. says:
Paul, I’m with you on a nice reissue of ‘Blah Blah Blah’, I used to slip in Iggy’s ‘Real Wild Child’ into my playlist when I did some DJ’ing in the late 80’s, and the album is overdue for reappraisal. If nothing else, this is a great one to play for people who don’t think they like Iggy, as he really started crooning more on this particular album. And yes the 80’s production is a little dated but it’s actually part of it’s charm to me, a tweak on the mix could help temper that.
This new box set for Iggy is also overdue, yes there are a couple omissions as far as b-sides or demos but otherwise makes sense, especially having so much live material from the time period all in one place. I’m anxious to hear the studio album remasters as the original CD’s sound fine but suffer from being mastered once for CD then forgotten about til now.
Mikael says:
Well, at least then the ‘Bowie years’ at least would be both 77 and 87 ;)
Phideaux Xavier says:
I was hoping for inclusion of that as well. I think it is superior to much of what Bowie was doing at the same time. I always loved much of Blah Blah Blah
Sean Hewitt says:
Thanks for the reply, Paul. I love both albums and would love remastered versions to replace the rather poor-sounding original CDs (especially The Idiot). I haven’t heard any of the live stuff. This is tempting me.
Rare Glam says:
I’ll probably buy this if it drops in price at some point. I’d pre-order it only I already have the three main albums as part of the Japanese Iggy Pop mini LP CD box set from a couple of years ago. The live TV Eye album (as short as a Dave Clark Five LP from the 60s!) was his contract fulfiment obligation recording for RCA I think and there are much better live recordings than this. Nonetheless, if you don’t own a lot of Iggi from this time frame or want to upgrade your older jewel cased versions, this would be worth getting. The context of the book looks nice as well. I do agree about the art work though. Maybe keeping it simple / dull helped keep the overall price down?
Stephen Tomlinson says:
For those in Canada, musicvaultz.com is selling the 7CD set for $115 Canadian funds. Using code MV20, there is a 20% discount.
https://shop.musicvaultz.com/*/*/1977-The-Bowie-Years-7CD/6GCN0000000
This comes out to $65 shipped after the discount code for Americans
Cheaper then the amazon.uk price even if they could ship overseas
Wesley says:
You can’t really call it The Bowie Years without Blah Blah Blah. The Berlin Years would’ve been a better title.
And I’m assuming the 40 page book is a padded out version of Michael Hann’s recent Uncut feature on these albums.
No new material, no remaster… Iggy deserves better than this.
Tim Barton says:
I think I could live with just a bundle of the two albums, but I will think about this. If the price is right at Amazon Japan, I will order the box.
All has been released before on UK’s Easy Action and the French Revenge Records labels.
Not sure why they re-release the London show as this is LoFi sound and not even soundboard or FM. Alternatives/outtakes are welcome but again nothing new. Sister Midnight mono is taken from a Dutch promo single.
What’s really missing here is a decent soundboard show from the Lust For Life Tour. Few have surfaced to date (Paris & San Diego only soundboards so far).
What they could/ should have done was releasing all the full shows of TV Eye live and include those in this box.
Ex-Oligarch says:
Great comment. I was about to post much the same thing.
But do you know for sure if the London show in the set is an audience recording, not a soundboard?
I’ve never understood all the critical animosity towards TV Eye. It’s a fun album, although its brevity always left me wanting more (so, simple solution: I’d just play it again).
David Bly says:
Thanks, Paul for making me feel better.
In the midst of the COVID-45 crisis we are having in the US (Trump is US president #45), I keep getting so many e-mails from non-people, many of them just saying “we’re all in this together” (at least it’s not as bad as the US TV adverts for everything from cars to diapers saying the same), I initially didn’t get to the e-mails about the box until 2 days later, and was peeved I found the signed by the “artist” sets sold out at 3 different sites.
I was annoyed, but in these times I am realsing there are much more important things to worry about.
Now I feel better, but am extremely peeved (OK -pissed!) by the “artist” description, especially seeing how many here were deceived by this borderline fraudulent claim.
Glad you all made the decision to cancel those orders. This nasty business makes me almost not want to get the set at all. But I know I will eventually.
Ordered. A DVD of live and tv appearances would have been nice.
The live recordings have all been available as soundboard or FM radio broadcasts to download in the past so should sound good.
Reissue of the Year, so far.
Oh! And I pre-ordered this from Amazon prior to them putting up the pictures. My price shows as £53.76, a wonderfully surreal amount.
mrcoverdesign says:
the artwork looks terrible for the main box set. god knows where they got the inspiration for that? it doesn’t really reflect either of the album designs.
Tom Kristensen says:
I hear you. Looks terrible!
SimonH says:
Agree, it looks wrong! Such a great opportunity to echo the original art, odd.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing, it’s really awful… to the point of putting me off even considering a purchase.
The individual discs’ artwork as well.
It’s as if they’re trying to convey a general impression of unofficial, bootleg material…
Those live recordings have been released before, although on semi-legit labels. However, the 1977 Easy Action set from a few years back was legit, no? And the Shot Myself Up CD from RSD the other year?
Interesting it’s called the Bowie YearS, but actually only covers 1977.
Eamonn says:
Three live discs with the same setlist, running order and likely the exact same arrangements (was all in the same month/tour) and half an hour of “alternate takes” that sound pretty much identical to the final cut! Piss-poor.
Iggy can’t even be bothered to associate himself with it and scrawl his bony hand across the posters! Apparently there are early Bowie 4-track demos of some of this material. Maybe Jones/Tintoretto Inc. refused to release them from the Bowie vault.
Any Bowie stuff will be released by Bowie. Probably in 2026 – 27.
Just for clarity – you can buy the two studio albums as listed above. This gives you the two albums newly remastered, and two of the three live shows from the box. You don’t get the rarities either – but for those not wanting to spend the maximum amount, you’re getting most of it with those.
zombiekev says:
There are actually four live “shows” in the box not three.
And, as Paul mentioned, TV Eye (the second disc with Lust For Life is compiled from three different shows.
Ian Harris says:
Have to say the alternate mixes CD looks rather disappointing. I appreciate there may not have been any studio outtakes to add but even so it’s a shame this isn’t more interesting.
And as great as he is does the world really need any more live Iggy Pop albums?
I’m interested in the sonic upgrades to the albums, which are both of course brilliant, but it’s a pass from me until this turns up in sales.
Nick Love says:
That’s exactly what I thought. This is a rare occasion where I think I would have been best served by single CD remasters, had that been an option.
Yes, I thought the declaration that the print was “signed by the artist” was a bit ambiguous and merited further investigation.
I’ve pre-ordered on Amazon but would like to know how those live albums sound before making up my mind between the box and the two-CD sets.
A couple of those live records sound fantastic. They are multi track soundboard recordings I’m sure. I think the offical release, tv eye was actually the weakest.
Now I think about it i did have a cassette bootleg from the tour that sounded pretty decent. I think it may have been the London show (it was titled “Iggy & Ziggy”).
He always reminds me of Geoffrey Hayes on the cover of Lust For Life
Peter Muscutt says:
LOL!!! “And what interesting substances are YOU sniffing with Iggy today, Bungle?”
Paul Taylor says:
Not Melvyn Hayes from It Ain’t Half Hot Mum & Double Deckers?
Hi Paul. Any word on whether the albums in this set have been remastered?
I did my best to find this out, without much success. The vinyl from a few years back was mastered by Robert Vosgien at Capitol Mastering. One assumes these will be the same although nothing is confirmed.
According to the Second Disc site they are remastered from, ‘the best available sources’ which presumably means not the master tapes or could be referring to the live shows.
That’s a meaningless phrase, at the end of the day. They had the master tapes for the vinyl reissues, it seems, so they aren’t lost.
I suspect it’s referring to the live shows as they have circulated as bootlegs for years.
Thomas Richter says:
Ordered it from Amazon.UK.
Hope shipping to Poland resumes soon !
Thanks for the heads up !
EW99 says:
Oh thanks. Ordered the signed print version in haste a couple of days ago and didn’t realise it wasn’t going to be Iggy’s signature so I’ve cancelled that and gone for the unsigned.
Has Iggy Pop signed any of them? I bought mine at RecordStore.co.uk for £68 also signed by poster artist Chris Hopewell. They have sold out now, so no need to bother looking there.
Iggy has not signed anything.
I’m going to hold out for one signed by Bowie …
Andrew R says:
‘If you have alreay pre-ordered this at £70 from the uDiscoverMusic store, please be aware that those sets are not signed by Iggy, but rather by poster artist Chris Hopewell. This wasn’t clear originally, which is why I’m mentioning it.’
Thanks for that…’ Signed by the Artist’… you’re right that was very ‘ambiguous’.
Rupi says:
Duly cancelled on uDiscover and ordered on Amazon. Thought it was too good to be true that Iggy had signed it! Thanks for the info, saved me a few quid.
Yousef says:
A little bit disappointed by this – unless the live recordings (some of my favourites of all time, by anyone) are a significant upgrade on the versions that have been doing the rounds for years.
Still holding out hope for some genuine outtakes, rehearsal versions, work tapes or similar coming to light at some point…
Hi Paul – thanks as always. Great point about ‘signed by artist’ – I must admit when I got the e-mails from uDiscover and Recordstore I was very excited – when you see a box set and a headline saying ‘signed by artist’ I think we’d all expect it to be signed by the artist of the box set!!
It was only on closer scrutiny I figured out it probably wasn’t signed by Iggy.
A bit naughty by theses sites? Don’t know…..but as always, you are very helpful.
Great set thought – still ordered! :-)
Good you’re mentioning these are not signed by Iggy, pressed the trigger immediately upon receiving the email then cancelled my order right away.
People please take note you can cancel your order and buy it cheaper from Amazon instead, I don’t think anyone cares much about the illustrator’s signature.
Keep all safe.
LFL had some success in Holland? Thanks to this performance on Dutch tv show Top Pop, where Iggy molested sime fake plastic palmtrees he made the headlines in several papers and introduced thousands of kids to Punk! A defining moment in Holland Please enjoy the clip!
https://youtu.be/K4kl8LNm7hc
T e y o somewhere from the Netherlands says:
Hahaa! Legendary!
The same show in which we were treated with artists like Baccara, Father Abraham or Boney M.
And not to forget: Baba & Rudy!
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And then, we add to the mix the fact that Italian teachers also have their teaching methods and philosophies.
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So, how to find a lower-cost teacher who will still satisfy every criterion you require as you learn to speak Italian?
Take Lessons with a Student
You wish to learn Italian phrases and practice your spoken Italian prior to holidaymaking in Tuscany.
You want to nail down Italian grammar fundamentals.
You need to expand your Italian phrasebook.
For these instances and more, you might appeal to a student of the Italian language.
Besides requesting lower fees than more experienced tutors, this new generation of language learners could make your lessons more relevant to our modern times, and more fun.
Prepare for a Major Exam with a Bilingual Professor
If you are anticipating sitting for any Italian exam, including the life-changing ones such as CILS or PLIDA, you may want to work a bit with such a master.
Being a formal instructor, possibly engaged in a teaching position with a bona fide institution of learning, s/he has probably already sat for the exams you anticipate taking.
As you are most likely more advanced in your studies, and probably only need a boost to your Italian speaking abilities, this would be the ideal teacher for you.
The Native Italian Teacher
This type of tutor would be most apt to provide an immersive atmosphere to his lessons, weaving together language and culture, peppering speech with native expressions and rich Italian slang.
Italian language courses with a native speaker are more likely to refine your Italian pronunciation and, while you're at it... why not incorporate gastronomy or art appreciation into your learning experience?
When learning a new language, it is always best to expand topics of discussion beyond what is offered in textbooks.
That is what a native speaker of this romance language can do for you.
Don't reach for the credit card so quickly: look for more ways to reduce Italian lesson costs Source: Pixabay Credit: Stevepb
Learning is hard work, both for your brain and on your wallet.
If your disposable income is sparse, taking supplemental lessons at home could put undue strain on your budget.
Let us now propose other ways you can help reduce the cost of Italian lessons.
First Hour Free
More than 90% of Superprof tutors give their first hour of teaching for free.
Those introductory sessions are meant to be more of a face to face, get-to-know-each-other proposition, to see if your learning needs match that instructor's style, rather than a full-on teaching session about conjugating Italian verbs.
That doesn't mean that, once you find the ideal teacher, you couldn't negotiate rates.
You will find Superprof teachers to be very understanding and amenable. You may even offer to do some work in exchange for free Italian lessons!
Lower Fees for More Hours
Rome was not built in a day. Nor will a decent lexicon of Italian vocabulary be acquired in that time.
Obviously, to gain proficiency in Italian, you will have to spend more than one hour – or one day with a tutor.
And don't let those adverts fool you: Learn Italian in 30 days? Speak Italian fluently for only £80? Seriously?
It will most certainly take more than one month and, quite possibly more than £100 to gain fluency in any language, including Italian.
By agreeing to a set number of lessons with a particular tutor at the outset of your language learning efforts, you could certainly incur a lower price.
Some Superprof tutors give up to a 15% discount when you sign up for ten or more lessons!
Location, Posizione, Location
Where you live bears on how much you will pay for lessons, believe it or not.
People who learn another language in London are more likely to pay a higher rate than someone who wants to learn language in York or Bath, or the Scottish Highlands.
By no means are we suggesting that you relocate solely for the purpose of incurring lower language learning fees.
You could also consider taking online lessons.
Online communication these days – video-conferencing and chatting are ubiquitous. Just about every business that has in any way modernised makes use of this technology.
You can too!
Using the camera built right into your laptop, tablet or smartphone, you could be speaking Italian in a matter of minutes.
All of these avenues provide you ways to control the cost of learning la lingua d'italia. All you have to do is look for the teacher and price that suits your budget. Try it on Superprof by searching for the subject and city, for example Italian classes London. Good luck!
Buona ricerca!
P.S. You can also Prepare for your Italian exams with our guide to exams.
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Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters
Andrew Clarke
As I’d always been at the top of my class during high school, I headed to art college full of confidence that one day I’d be an accomplished painter. This over-confidence didn’t last long though, because when I arrived, I found myself surrounded by conceptual artists, filmmakers, painters, performance artists, printmakers, and sculptors, who all seemed much more talented than I was.
This was especially true of my friend Ben, a gifted painter who went to his studio late every night to work on several large canvases. Ben’s paintings had incredible depth because he built up hundreds of subtle layers of paint over several months.
I didn’t have any of Ben’s patience. I needed to see results quickly, so my paintings were anything but deep or subtle. Compared to Ben’s, mine looked like paintings by numbers. It didn’t take me long to realise that painting just wasn’t the right medium for me.
Luckily, the course I’d chosen wasn’t structured, and it didn’t have a formal curriculum. This allowed students free movement between disciplines, so I moved from the painting studio to printmaking and spent the next few years happily making prints.
I found the printmaking process incredibly satisfying. I loved making prints from linocuts, and in much the same way that I’m often entirely absorbed by writing code today, I regularly lost myself carving thousands of tiny marks until the floor was covered in sharp shards of lino.
Printmaking and writing code have plenty in common. Both can quickly transform a blank canvas into finished work, without waiting weeks watching paint dry. Both benefit from regular iteration and testing. In fact, there’s very little difference—except inky hands — between running a test print and refreshing a browser window.
Pressing Matters magazine. (Large preview)
I haven’t cut lino for thirty years, but I still appreciate the art of printmaking. On a recent trip to London, I popped into Magma and picked up a copy of Pressing Matters. It’s an independently published magazine which “hones in on the people, passion and processes behind the art form of printmaking.” Its publishers hope to inspire newcomers to printmaking, but as I thumbed through its pages, I found there is plenty about the design of Pressing Matters which can inspire web designers too.
Pressing Matters has a distinctive, but simple style. (Large preview)
Pressing Matters: The Passion And Process Behind Printmaking
I may not have made any prints for thirty years, but I’m still fascinated by the process of printmaking as much as I appreciate the end results. Picking up a copy of Pressing Matters (pressingmattersmag.com) on a recent trip to my favourite magazine shop and flicking through its pages, I was immediately transported back to art school where my fingers were almost always covered in cuts from lino cutting tools, and I smelled like ink and turpentine.
Pressing Matters has a distinctive, but simple style. It uses a limited palette and often connects the colour of headlines and other typographic elements with colours found in nearby photographs and prints. The result is a design which feels connected.
© Pressing Matters Magazine. (Large preview)
Pressing Matters’ Creative Director John Coe uses layout patterns which produce a rhythm which flows throughout the magazine. Differently sized modules speed you past pages packed with prints, then the pace slows to allow you to linger on larger artwork reproductions. These layouts frame the magazine’s content perfectly, and while they’re original, they’re also discreet enough not to detract from the subject matter.
What struck me about Pressing Matters initially was how the magazine includes a variety of layout styles but allowed for various types of content, but still maintains a high degree of consistency throughout.
When I looked closer at how its pages were constructed, I discovered a layered compound grid comprised of two and three columns running through the magazine. Using a compound grid makes perfect sense for a magazine devoted to printmaking, which itself often involves multiple layers of ink to form something deeper and richer than can be achieved with a single layer.
You might think that a complex grid could stifle creativity and would result in designs which look stiff, but in Pressing Matters, the compound grid feels fluid and full of energy.
While many of Pressing Matters’ pages rely on symmetrical two or three- column layouts, it’s when the two and three-column grids are combined that the magazine really comes to life.
Not only is this grid adaptable to accommodate various types of content, the variety of possible layout permutations also allow for changes in visual pacing throughout the magazine.
I’ll teach you all about Karl Gerstner and his mobile grid later in this issue, but just like Gerstner’s iconic work for Capital magazine, Pressing Matters uses large facing images to slow reading down.
Whitespace opens up around running copy to allow for easy reading. Text wraps around the fluid shapes in images. Pages packed with prints are arranged masonry-style. Text split across two columns runs alongside images which are arranged on a three-column grid, and these techniques combine to create an engaging and enjoyable reading experience.
Pressing Matters proves that compound grids can have a profound effect on the experience of reading a magazine. The same layout principles which make Pressing Matters so appealing can also be applied to products and websites, despite them being very different media.
These principles are not new and they have guided art direction and design for decades. They matter just as much on the web as they do in the pages of a glossy magazine. Whether your readers are offline or on, grids are fundamental to their understanding of your stories, and you can use them for more than aligning content.
Next time you’re passing your nearest magazine store, pop in and pick up a copy of Pressing Matters. You won’t get inky fingers, but you will get your hands on inspiration for your next project.
Making Sense Of Compound Grids
Grids have a long and varied history in design, from the earliest books, through movements like constructivism and the International Typographic Style, right up to the present-day popularity of grids in frameworks like Bootstrap and material design.
A generation of product and website designers have grown up with grids from Bootstrap, the 960 Grid System before it, and even the Blueprint framework before that. In frameworks like these — and in plenty of work built on them — grids are used mostly for aligning content to columns.
I guess you’ve seen those “Which one of these two layouts are you designing today?” tweets, lamenting the current state of design on the web. Does Bootstrap create unimaginative designs? No, people do. (Large preview)
When you use grids imaginatively, they do much, much more than align content. A grid brings cohesion to a composition. It helps people understand the stories you’re telling by suggesting hierarchies. Grids inform people what to read first, then next, and how much attention to give it.
They define the position of valuable information or a call to action. A thoughtfully chosen grid leads to a wealth of possibilities and any number of exciting designs.
The use of grids for web design has improved consistency, legibility, and usability, but using grids included with frameworks including Bootstrap has also led to a generation of homogenous layouts and uninspiring designs.
When I teach design classes, I often ask my students to draw what a grid means to them. Nine out of ten sketches twelve symmetrical columns. Symmetrical multi-column grids have become a staple mainly because twelve columns can be easily divided into halves, thirds, quarters, and eighths. Because they’re so easy to learn, grids like the ones included with Bootstrap have become a staple.
In fact, they’re now so ubiquitous that starting a new design without sketching three or four columns can be incredibly difficult as it involves changing your mental model and the way you think about grids. It’s important to know that symmetrical column-based grids are only one of several options. Compound grids are one of those options but despite the enormous flexibility they offer — something incredibly important for today’s multi-device designs — they’re rarely spoken of with product and website design.
Way back in July 2009, Diogo Terror wrote “Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design” for Smashing Magazine which mentions Karl Gerstner and includes many fabulous examples of Swiss Style Graphic Design.
Capital Magazine
In the 1940s and ’50s, designers including Josef Müller-Brockmann made using grids to create consistent and creative layouts one of the defining aspects in what became known as the International Typographic Style or Swiss Design.
Capital Magazine 1962. (Large preview)
Swiss artist and typographer Karl Gerstner was one of the first designers to exploit the creative flexibility of using grids, and it’s the compound grid which Gerstner designed in 1962 for Capital magazine that has become one of his best-known creations.
The concept behind Capital was to provide “a human view of economics, an economic view of humanity” and so its content and Gerstner’s design had to be accessible, clear, and engaging. Given the potential variety and unpredictability of Capital’s content, Gerstner also needed a grid which would help him to lay out any content consistently and without restrictions.
Karl Gerstner’s mobile grid; a compound grid he designed for Capital magazine in 1962. Confused? So was I. (Large preview)
Gerstner designed what he called a “mobile grid,” although it’s not the type of mobile you and I are used to. This grid is the one most likely to be found when searching for compound grids, but it’s also the one most likely to baffle on first look.
The compound grid Gerstner designed for Capital looks incredibly complex when seen as it does above, so to explain how he created it — and how you can use it — I’m going to break Gerstner’s grid down into its constituent parts.
(Large preview)
There are 58 columns and rows in Gerstner’s mobile grid, but he started with just one. Content in this single module fills the full width of the page.
Then Gerstner divided his single module into two columns and rows. Using two columns in this way results in a reassuring symmetrical design.
That large module can also be sub-divided into three columns and rows. Have you noticed how the gutters between the divisions in Gerstner’s grid are always the same size?
By splitting the large module into four, these columns of content feel formal, and the overall impression is that this design is a serious one.
When the full-page module is divided into five columns and separated into two spacial zones by a flowline, this design feels more technical. With Gerstner’s mobile grid, you can use each set of columns and rows separately. You can also turn them into a compound grid by either overlaying or stacking them.
Dividing the page into six columns and six rows of modules, enables an incredible variety of layout options. The flexibility of a compound grid comes from the interplay of two or more grids and how that affects the position and size of elements. This often makes a compound layout far more interesting than one grid in isolation.
Say Hello To Compound Grids
A compound grid is two or more grids of any type — column, modular, symmetrical, and asymmetrical — on one page. They can occupy separate areas or overlap.
If you’re still unsure about using modular grids as Karl Gerstner did, you can start by making a compound by overlapping two column grids; one with two columns, the other with three.
It’s the interplay of the two grids which makes this compound layout more interesting than a single grid. The flexibility of a compound grid becomes apparent when I make the grid lines visible.
4+6 compound grid. (Large preview)
If you’re watching closely, you should notice how compound grids will take your design in a different direction than twelve symmetrical columns.
By laying a three-column grid over one with two columns, you create four columns where the outer two are twice the width of those on the inside. I like to think of this as a rhythmic pattern; 2|1|1|2.
Rhythmic patterns
By using any number of equally-sized columns or rows, your layouts form a consistent pattern and an even rhythm which does not change across the page. Think of each column as a beat and tap twelve of them on your desk. It doesn’t sound very inspiring, does it?
Compare that with the rhythm from a 2|1|1|2 pattern and you should understand how using compound grids can change both your mental model and the layouts you create. Using this 2|1|1|2 pattern for my first layout. I place the main body of content — including the headline, standfirst paragraph, and running text, into the first column in my two-column grid. I use a single column from my three-column grid to place supporting information about the Jaguar E-Type series, without question the most beautiful car ever made.
A blueprint image of that astounding automobile crosses the remaining space, creating a visual connection between the two areas of content.
For an altogether different design (above) — one which uses both layout and italic type to suggest the movement and speed of the E-Type — I stagger my standfirst paragraph and running text using grid lines from both the two-column and three-column grids.
Changing the compound formation to combine three-column and four-column grids (3+4) creates an altogether different rhythmic pattern of 3|1|2|2|1|3.
With a compound of two grids (above,) you might use widths from one or the other. Or you could combine widths from both to form columns which don’t conform to either. You can use these new widths to inform the sizes of images and text. While the standfirst paragraph starts on the three-column grid, the running text which follows begins on the four-column grid.
That same combination of grids (above) can make a very different impression by combining columns widths from both grids to inform the width of my column of running text. This column matches the width of my large vertical image to balance both sides of this design.
This time, I set the main block of running text across two columns and derived their widths by combining column units of 4 and 3.
As for those very narrow columns, whose width is only 1 unit, they’re perfect for informing the size of typographic elements including this bold drop cap.
Overlaying four columns with five (above) leads to a highly unusual rhythmic pattern of 6|1|4|3|3|4|1|6.
For this alternative design, I use that same pattern in a different way by running my text over three columns. I use the widths from the five-column grid to inform the width of my supporting information and the image of this E-Type’s curvy rear end.
In this version of the design (above,) a large image shows off the iconic shape of E-Type’s body and fills almost all the width of my page.
A solid block of running text sits directly under the Jaguar’s wheels and derives its width from both the four-column and six-column grids.
My next design (below) literally places the E-Type at the centre of the action and text wraps around it on both sides. Remember, it’s not necessary to fill every grid module with content. By limiting the width of my standfirst paragraph and leaving space elsewhere in the layout empty, I create a dynamic diagonal which adds energy and movement to this design.
Of all the possible grid combinations, the combination of four and six-column grids is the one I use most often in my work. It’s flexible enough to handle many different types of content and makes an incredible variety of compositions possible.
Left: The pull quote feels disconnected from the story. Right: The edge of this quote aligns to lines in the six-column grid. (Large preview)
While the overall feeling from this final design feels balanced — largely due to a centred block of running text, the pull quote feels disconnected from the story as it occupies only the width from one column in the six-column grid. I can improve this design by aligning the edge of this quote to lines in the six-column grid, so it feels part of the story.
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Magazine designs often use differently sized areas to vary the pace. (Large preview)
Rhythm is an essential factor, not just within the page, but also across the pages of an entire product or website. Compound grids are not only flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of content types, but they also allow you to vary this visual pacing. Magazine designs often use differently sized areas to vary this pace. Repeating smaller modules speeds up the movement, while larger ones slow it down. People naturally spend longer looking at larger spacial zones, and we can use the same technique at particular moments in someone’s journey to slow them down and make them take notice.
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Stacking Grids
You can combine column grids with hierarchical and even modular grids. When pages contain two separate subjects or different types of content, stacking grids can be a great way to make that difference more obvious.
At the top of this next page is a story about the Jaguar E-Type. Underneath there’s an altogether different story about the famous Le Mans 24 hour race. To leave someone in little doubt these stories are separate, use a different grid for each. I base the top story on a four-column grid, the bottom on a six.
4+6 column grids, stacked. (Large preview)
Above, I make the difference between these two stories obvious by placing the second against a grey background. I also use paragraph spacing instead of first-line indentations.
4 columns and a modular grid, stacked. (Large preview)
I make the difference between these two stories obvious by placing the first against a grey background. In the second story I also use bolder type and paragraph spacing instead of indenting the first line.
Karl Gerstner (1930–2017) was a Swiss artist and one of the most influential typographers. He began work when he was only 19, studied under Fritz Büler, and then went on to co-found GGK, one of the most successful Swiss creative agencies of the ’70s.
Books about Gerstner’s work have been out of print for decades, and copies often run to hundreds of Pounds so I wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t seen his designs first-hand. But, you’ll have seen plenty of other peoples’ work which was inspired by it.
Gerstner made unjustified, ragged-right text famous as up until then, columns of type were usually justified. He also developed the idea of using typefaces and typographic design to create connections between words on a page and their meaning. While this concept might seem obvious to us today, this idea seemed revolutionary in the 1960s.
Karl Gerstner’s probably best known for his iconic work on the quarterly Capital Magazine, starting in 1962. In fact, it’s through my research into Capital, and the compound grid Gerstner created for it that I first became aware of him and his work.
Advertisements for Sinar, by Karl Gerstner. (Large preview)
By a strange coincidence, I recently discovered that Gerstner’s agency also created advertisements for Sinar, the Swiss large format camera maker I worked with during the early 1990s. In these advertisements, the shape of the word “Sinar” resembles the results of using the swing and tilt movements on a large format camera.
Developing Compound Grids
When you first see Karl Gerstner’s mobile grid, you might think compound grids are challenging to implement. Whereas developing compound grid would’ve been a complicated process using traditional methods, today’s layout tools, including CSS Grid, now make it simple.
Designing layouts using compound grids requires a shift in your mental model, and developing them is no different. However, CSS Grid line numbers combined with new flexible length units (fr) will make that shift smoother.
Following the order I used earlier, I’ll start with a compound of two-column and three-column grids (2+3) which has a rhythmic pattern of 2|1|1|2.
Translating that pattern into values for grid-template-columns couldn’t be easier, but first I need to apply CSS Grid to the body element of my page, then set a gap between columns which is relative to the width of my viewport. As I don’t want these styles applied at smaller screen sizes, I enclose them within a media query:
@media screen and (min-width : 48em) {
display: grid;
grid-column-gap: 2vw; }
Now, I use fr units to specify the pattern for my compound grid. The result is four columns where the width of the outer columns occupy twice the space of the inner two:
grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr 1fr 2fr; }
A combination of three-column and four-column grids (3+4) will result in six columns and a rhythmic pattern of 3|1|2|2|1|3. My flexible length units will be:
grid-template-columns: 3fr 1fr 2fr 2fr 1fr 3fr; }
Finally, combining four-column and six-column grids (4+6) creates eight columns, two of them much narrower than the rest. To create a rhythmic pattern of 2|1|1|2|2|1|1|2 my flexible length units will be:
grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr 1fr 2fr 2fr 1fr 1fr 2fr; }
With these Grid properties applied, all direct descendants of a grid-container become grid-items, which I can place using areas, line numbers, or names.
The design I’m developing requires only the most basic structural elements to implement it, and my markup looks like this:
I use the eight columns from the 4+6 compound grid above. Here are the styles to implement that:
grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr 1fr 2fr 2fr 1fr 1fr 2fr;
grid-column-gap: 2vw;
grid-row-gap: 2vh; align-content: start; }
The elements above are direct descendants of the body. I place them on the grid by using line numbers. First the headline, the paragraph which immediately follows it, and finally my main element. These elements all start on grid line 4 and end on line 8:
h1, h1 + p, main {
grid-column: 4 / 8; }
The blueprint image of my beautiful Jaguar E-Type should be wider than other elements in this design, so I place it using different line numbers. It starts at line 2 and extends the full width of my page:
grid-column: 2 / -1; }
Now, I place the aside element which contains my supporting information about the three series of E-Type. As I want this element to align to the bottom of my layout, I add the align-self property with a value of end:
grid-column: 1 / 3;
align-self: end; }
Finally, as I want both main and aside elements to appear next to each other on the same row, I give them identical row number values:
aside { grid-row: 4; }
All that’s left is for me to add some small typographic touches to improve my design. I don’t need a presentational class attribute value to style the paragraph, which immediately follows my headline. I can use an adjacent sibling selector instead:
h1 + p {
font-weight: 700; }
To style the first line of the first paragraph in my main element, I use a combination of descendant, pseudo-element, and pseudo-class selectors:
main p:first-of-type::first-line {
Finally, to indent every following paragraph which is does not immediately follow my headline, I use both a :not() negation pseudo-class selector and two adjacent sibling selectors:
p:not(h1 + p) + p {
text-indent: 2ch; }
NB: Smashing members have access to a beautifully designed PDF of Andy’s Inspired Design Decisions magazine and full code examples from this article.
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Investigating the normal functioning of the female reproductive tract and associated diseases can present several challenges. It "is unique at many levels and although we have learned a tremendous amount using animal models, there are species differences in the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive tract. Studying the human reproductive tract is limited by obvious ethical concerns and thus what we know is based on studies that have been performed on human tissues that are otherwise discarded after surgery and pathology examination” explains Dr. J. Julie Kim, Susy Y. Hung Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University.
Dr. Kim and a team of scientists from Northwestern University are hoping to overcome some of these challenges with the development of EVATAR, a 3D organ-on-a-chip model of the female reproductive tract, which can mimic a normal 28-day hormone cycle. Made up of an ovary, fallopian tube, uterus, cervix and liver, EVATAR provides a platform for studying the effects of drugs and learning more about diseases such as endometriosis and cervical cancer. It is hoped that the palm-sized model could help to advance women’s health and fertility.
“The novelty of this technology lies in the use of human tissues, the long term culture, and the communication between 5 different tissues in a state-of-the-art microfluidic platform,” says Dr. Kim.
A vital component developed for EVATAR is a universal blood-like medium which enables the flow of hormones and nutrients between the 5 discreet tissue compartments.
“Initially we thought this would be a significant challenge. Each of the tissue compartments were studied in isolation before EVATAR was built by the lead investigators and media was different for each of the tissues. We learned through EVATAR that the communication of tissues was essential as the tissues were sharing all the factors that were released by each other that allowed long term survival,” explains Dr. Kim.
EVATAR is part of NCATS’ Tissue Chip for Drug Screening initiative. This multi-center project, which launched in 2012, aims to improve the drug discovery process by developing human tissue chips that provide more accurate representations of human organs. The hope is that these models will lead to earlier detection of toxicity or efficacy problems and reduce the amount of drugs failing in human clinical trials. Uniquely, EVATAR will enable researchers to study the effects of drugs on females, an often underrepresented population in drug discovery and safety clinical trials.
Another particularly promising application of EVATAR is the role it could play in personalized cancer treatment. “We can study human tumors in such a system as EVATAR, outside of the woman’s body, treat them long term with hormones and/or drugs and measure specific endpoints. This system could be used to predict how tumors will respond to specific treatments and identify biomarkers as well that could benefit how women are treated in a more personalized manner” says Dr. Kim.
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Apple’s Prime rival “Apple One” will launch in October
The subscription bundles are internally referred to as "Apple One," though this might not be their name after the official launch.
Tech giant Apple plans to unveil a vast range of subscription bundles along with the new iPhones this October. The subscription bundles are internally referred to as “Apple One,” though this might not be their name after the official launch.
The subscription bundles will consist of different tiers, starting with a basic combo plan of Apple Music and Apple TV+. The more expensive subscription will have Apple Arcade, and the high-end priced subscriptions will have Apple News+ and an extra iCloud storage subsequently for the tier above that. The high priced bundles will also include an as-yet-unseen fitness subscription service offered exclusively from Apple. This fitness service will have virtual classes and workouts accessible for fitness enthusiasts through an iOS app and on Apple TV, similar to Nike and Peloton’s services.
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According to the report, the bundles will be marketed aimed at the families, and the subscriptions will have Apple’s Family Sharing system. This means that a maximum of six individuals can access each subscription service. Also, purchasing the subscription bundles will be much cheaper than buying the individual services of Apple. For example, if a family subscribes to the entirety of Apple’s vital services and the highest iCloud storage tier, that will have to pay around $45 per month. A new bundle can tick off more than $5 from that.” this means that the subscription bundles will save the customers up to $2-5 each month.
In addition to these subscription bundles, Apple also plans to offer newer software and hardware combinations, like giving off a free year of Apple Arcade and the purchases of an Apple TV streaming box. However, it is reported that Apple doesn’t plan to include any monthly payment plans for the iPhones or Macs with the subscription bundles.
There is no confirmation or specifics on the pricing of these bundles or the bundle’s exact configuration. The details may change before the bundles are unveiled later this year.
Earlier, there have been reports doing the rounds of Apple’s plan to offer subscription bundles since 2018. However, these reports seem more sure now. In July last, a code was found in iOS 13.5.5 that referred to both a “bundle offer” and a “bundle subscription’. In 2019 Apple company also experimented with a subscription bundle explicitly meant for students. That bundle consisted of Apple Music and Apple TV+.
Apple has significantly focused on recurring revenue from its services business over the last few years, individually as sales from smartphones division. As Amazon came up with Amazon Prime, which bundles together a faster delivery timeline and streaming music and video, subscriptions can provide a fixed income while locking customers into an organization’s ecosystem. Once a person purchased Prime, it makes sense to order more services and products from Amazon. Apple’s subscription bundles are somewhat similar and aimed at doing the same for its services and hardware.
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Torbay offers a wide range of extra opportunities to students throughout the school year. Our EOTC (Education Outside the Classroom) is comprehensive including camps, Waterwise ( Where senior students learn to sail). Students can take part in a wide range of sport, musical and cultural opportunities.
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Labour starts to reverse Tony Blair’s Clause 4 reforms
Corbyn warned against mass nationalisation as key plank of the party’s constitution comes under review
Henry Zeffman, Political Correspondent | Matt Chorley, Red Box Editor
Thursday September 19 2019, 9.00am, The Times
Tony Blair’s change to the Labour constitution in 1995 was seen as key to his New Labour project
SIMON WALKER FOR THE TIMES
Labour has begun the process of reversing Tony Blair’s reform of Clause 4, the totemic section of the party’s constitution.
Mr Blair ditched the old statement of his party’s aims and values, regarded as a commitment to widespread nationalisation, in 1995. The decision was viewed as a significant moment in the party’s history.
Labour’s national executive committee (NEC), controlled by supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, agreed on Tuesday to set up a working group to examine changing the document.
The development comes as a new poll shows that the Liberal Democrats have overtaken Labour after Jo Swinson promised to halt Brexit without a referendum. Today in an interview marking John Humphrys’ last edition of the Today programme Mr Blair predicted that the Liberal Democrats could
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Vegan diet off menu for food tsar Henry Dimbleby
The saviour of school meals hopes to spark an eating revolution with the help of lab-grown meat
Sian Griffiths, Education Editor
Sunday June 30 2019, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
Henry Dimbleby says an agricultural revolution is needed to cope with ‘catastrophic’ climate change
JEREMY YOUNG FOR THE TIMES
It is hard to be healthy on a vegan diet, especially for children, the government’s new food tsar has warned.
Henry Dimbleby, who was appointed last week to lead a review of England’s food system, also attacked the idea that giving up meat, fish and dairy products was a practical way to save the planet, describing such advice as “prescriptive and nanny-state-ish”.
In his first newspaper interview since taking on the task of producing a national food strategy, Dimbleby said he was keen to consider new ways of feeding Britain after it left the EU. They could include so-called Frankenstein food, such as meat grown in test tubes and genetically edited crops — which have been banned under EU rules — as well as unusual
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DOL's Borzi Lays Out EBSA's Agenda
By Melanie Waddell | September 20, 2010 at 08:00 PM
Phyllis Borzi, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security Administration, told attendees at the annual Department of Labor (DOL) Speaks conference in National Harbor, Md., on Monday that EBSA continued progress on its "pension agenda."
Phyllis Borzi, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), told attendees at the annual Department of Labor (DOL) Speaks conference in National Harbor, Md., on Monday that EBSA continued progress on its “pension agenda”–which included target date funds, fee regulation and lifetime income options in retirement plans.
Borzi also said that EBSA was working on a final regulation for its investment advice rule, which should be out early next year. “We’ve resolved most of the policy issues,” concerning the regulation, Borzi said, and are now focusing on “enforcement issues.”
Key issues regarding healthcare reform are also on EBSA’s agenda, Borzi said. Since Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, EBSA “has put out eight packages of regulations” and has plans to release sub-regulatory guidance (transition rules and safeharbors) by Sept. 23, she said. This type of guidance will continue to “roll out” over the next weeks, she said, and “we will finalize the regulations next year.”
As for target date funds, Borzi said that after the DOL’s joint hearing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last June, the two agencies decided to focus on three product areas (two non-regulatory ones, and one regulatory). First was the investor bulletin that had already been sent to investors explaining target date funds. Second is a fiduciary best practices checklist, which EBSA is currently working on and expects to have completed in a matter of weeks, Borzi says. The checklist will provide fiduciaries with all of the information they need to determine whether to offer employees a target date fund. The third regulatory piece, which Borzi said would be out soon, would be an amendment to the Qualified Default Investment Alternative (QDIA) regulation requiring more disclosure to participants.
As for fee disclosure, the DOL’s 408(b)(2) proposed regulation mandating disclosures of compensation and conflicts of interest by plan service providers has gotten 45 comments, Borzi says, and EBSA hopes to move on this regulation “as soon as possible.” Borzi said that Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, wants a single summary document so that fiduciaries can figure out all fees associated with investments on their platforms.
Borzi also said that EBSA hopes to have a proposed regulation regarding its “fiduciary definition” out by year end.
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Jud Mackrill Exits Carson Group to Start Fintech Firm
The executive steps down as Carson’s chief marketing officer after two years to co-found Milemarker in South Carolina.
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Putucusi Mountain is one of the toughest hiking challenges in Machu Picchu. On its top you can see the entire maze of mountains that surround the Inca city. Currently, admission is free and starts in the town of Aguas Calientes. But yes, it takes a lot of physical effort and take the necessary security measures.
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Few tourists know the Putucusi mountain since reaching its summit is one of the most challenging walks in Machu Picchu. While admission is free, it does take a lot of strength and courage to travel its paths. From the top you can see Machu Picchu from a distance.
Ascent to Putucusi Mountain, located in front of Machu Picchu Mountain
From Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu town) you must follow the train tracks in a northerly direction (towards the Hydroelectric Station) until you leave the outskirts of the town.
After walking approximately 1 kilometer you must enter a path that descends from the mountain.
After approximately 10 minutes of walking along the path, you will reach an uninhabited surveillance cabin. At that point the path that leads to the top of Putucusi Mountain begins.
Once the road to Putucusi has begun, the first obstacle must be overcome: a huge vertical rock. A few years ago there was a ladder there but now, no.
To overcome this obstacle you need to hold a rope and ascend slowly and with great force. Most tourists give up continuing on this stretch.
After overcoming the first obstacle, you will have to ascend six less vertical wooden stairs. This section requires a lot of security and courage.
After ascending all the stairs, you will pass a small ridge that connects to the base of the mountain.
From this point, the tour will reveal breathtaking views of the dense jungle of Machu Picchu. From another point you will get views of the town of Aguas Calientes.
The top of Putucusi is at the same height of the Inca city of Machu Picchu.
The most difficult section to reach the Putucusi is to cross the set of vertical stairs several meters high.
The difficulty increases because the first flight of stairs was removed. Thus, tourists must manage to climb the wall.
To ascend this section it is recommended to wear rope and harness. This way tourists will feel safer to reach the top.
It is also possible to ascend by holding the metal rope there. For this it is recommended to wear gloves.
All tourists need courage and strength in their arms to pass the flight of stairs.
Challenging difficulty – It is without a doubt the most difficult hike in Machu Picchu. It is considered quite intense and involves overcoming high stairs and quite steep trails located on rocky slopes. It is recommended for hikers in good physical condition. Not suitable for people with fear of heights.
The most important thing before the hike to Putucusi is to be sure to reach the top. For this it is essential to carry the appropriate implements.
Take clothes with you, both for rain and for the sun. The weather in Machu Picchu is unpredictable at any time of the year. Wearing waterproof ponchos are the best option during the rains.
It is also recommended to wear sunscreen, mosquito repellent and a cap.
Snacks, drinks, camera and other implements must fit in a backpack not very large. So the tourist can use their hands at any time.
The trail is mainly made of stones and wooden stairs so it is recommended to wear hiking shoes.
Water (2 – 3 personal bottles).
Hat, sunglasses and sun protection.
Insect repellent.
Poncho for the rain.
Small snacks
Identity document / passport / university card.
Photographic camera.
Backpack.
Sogas with harness (optional).
This hike is possible throughout the year. However, the route is complicated in the rainy season from November to April). In those days, the trails become slippery and difficult to overcome.
The most advisable thing is to make the walk in the dry season (from May to October). In those months it hardly rains and the weather is ideal for ascending the mountain.
Trekking is recommended in the early hours of the day as temperatures are cooler.
It is not advised to ascend the Putucusi at night (when there is low light).
Time needed: Ascent between 3 hours and 3 hours 30 minutes.
Altitude at the summit: 2,500 meters above sea level (8,202 ft).
Height in relation to Machu Picchu: 460 meters (1,509 ft).
Terrain: Inca stone path, grass paths and vertical wooden stairs.
Recommended footwear: Hiking boots.
Entry schedule: You do not have a set schedule.
Type of ticket: You do not need any type of ticket.
Availability: No income limit.
Climbing the Putucusi mountain can be a dangerous experience due to the difficult stretches that must be overcome to reach the top.
It is not recommended for people traveling alone.
Tourists who are afraid of heights or suffer from vertigo should not do the trek.
If the visitor does not feel safe to overcome the most difficult sections of the Putucusi mountain, it is best to give up.
Putucusi does not remain closed but many tourists think so, since the first flight of vertical stairs were removed.
The only way to reach the top of the Putucusi is to cross this first part and continue on some vertical stairs several meters long.
The first part of these stairs were destroyed because of the constant rains. Therefore, tourists must climb this part with ropes. The same goes for the way back.
Once the difficult obstacle has been overcome, visitors must continue ascending up vertical stairs. The whole journey needs strength, skill and courage.
By Ticket Machu Picchu – Last updated, January 27, 2020
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Jets have no positive COVID-19 tests, game with Arizona on
By Teresa M. Walker and Barry Wilner
AP Pro Football Writers
All New York Jets players and coaches have tested negative for COVID-19, and Sunday's game against Arizona will be played on time.
The Jets posted a statement on social media Friday night, hours after their training facility was closed due to a presumptive positive coronavirus test for one player.
“This evening, we received negative PCR COVID-19 test results for all players, coaches and personnel,” the team said. "Following a presumptive positive COVID-19 test and out of an abundance of caution to ensure everyone’s health and safety, we sent all players and personnel home this morning. We also initiated all NFL mandated protocols including player isolation, subsequent testing, and contact tracing.
“As we have thus far, we will continue to follow required health and safety protocols in the best interests of our coaches, players, staff and community. We look forward to our game this Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals.”
During the summer, Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford had a similar false positive.
The league has had 60 cases since testing began in which one player or staff member tested positive and there wasn’t further transmission among the team. By sending everyone home from the facility Friday morning, the Jets took the appropriate steps under the NFL/NFLPA COVID-19 protocols. And then the 100% negative tests were announced in the evening.
ESPN first reported the Jets' presumptive positive test.
The Tennessee Titans got some good news Friday with no positive test results hours after the NFL rescheduled their game with Buffalo to Tuesday night, a person familiar with that situation told The Associated Press.
The Titans' outbreak increased to 23 on Thursday with 21 positive results returned since Sept. 29. Now the Titans have gone three of the past five days without a positive test after the latest results, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because neither the NFL nor the Titans announced the latest results.
The NFL announced Thursday night that the Titans (3-0) will host Buffalo (4-0) on Tuesday. The league already postponed, then rescheduled the Titans’ game with Pittsburgh from Oct. 4 to Oct. 25 during the outbreak.
The Bills had been preparing and practicing all week for a Sunday game in Nashville. With the NFL rescheduling their game with Tennessee, the Bills announced they will not practice or have any availability Friday.
The league also rescheduled New England’s game with Denver from Sunday to Monday.
“These scheduling decisions were made to ensure the health and safety of players, coaches and game day personnel and in consultation with medical experts,” the NFL said in a statement Thursday night.
Five games now have been rescheduled because of the pandemic: Pittsburgh at Tennessee in Week 3 was moved to Oct. 25 with Pittsburgh-Baltimore also switched from Oct. 25 to Nov. 1. The Patriots now will play on Monday night for a second straight week after their game in Kansas City was postponed a day.
If the Titans' testing allows Tennessee to host Buffalo on Tuesday, the Bills' prime-time game against Kansas City in Buffalo will be moved from Thursday to the weekend. That would be the sixth NFL game to be rescheduled — all this month.
The Patriots worked remotely again Friday after reigning NFL Defensive Player of the year Stephon Gilmore joined quarterback Cam Newton on the reserve/COVID-19 list Wednesday. New England also has a defensive tackle from the practice squad on the list in the league’s other mini-outbreak.
The NFL told the Titans to close their facility on Sept. 29, and their last game was a 31-30 win over Minnesota on Sept. 27.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell warned all 32 teams Monday that following league protocols is mandatory and that violations forcing changes in the schedule could lead to being stripped of draft choices or even forfeiting games. The NFL also updated protocols on Oct. 2.
The Titans’ outbreak increased to 23 Thursday with tight end MyCole Pruitt and a defensive back from the practice squad put on the reserve/COVID-19 list Thursday afternoon. The Titans’ facility remains closed with the team still prohibited from any in-person activities.
Tennessee currently has 13 players on the reserve/COVID-19 list, including four starters and a long snapper.
In a memo to the 32 teams obtained by The Associated Press, the NFL's officiating office reminded “all individuals must keep their masks in place when interacting with game officials on the field."
“We have seen multiple occasions where head coaches have removed their masks to communicate with game officials during games,” the memo from league executive Perry Fewell said. “Doing so creates unnecessary, increased risk for the game official, the head coach, and others, and is inconsistent with the requirement that face coverings be worn at all times.”
The league threatened significant discipline against violators.
“Failure to adhere to the NFL-NFLPA COVID-19 related protocols will result in accountability measures being imposed against offending individuals and/or clubs, including fines, suspensions of persons involved, and/or the forfeiture of a draft choice(s),” the memo said. “Additionally, we have reminded game officials that if an individual not wearing a face covering approaches them inappropriately, they have the authority to take administrative or officiating action, including a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.”
The NFL Referees Association had complained to the league about coaches approaching them without masks properly in place.
AP Pro Football Writer Dennis Waszak Jr. and Sports Writers David Brandt and John Wawrow contributed to this report.
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IDX moves to calm stock market as Indonesia reports first coronavirus cases
Riska Rahman
Jakarta / Mon, March 2, 2020 / 06:57 pm
People walk in front of a screen displaying the Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) movement in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) building in Jakarta on Friday, April 6, 2018. (JP/Aditya Bhagas)
The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) has moved to calm the markets as the country reported its first two coronavirus cases on Monday.
President director Inarno Djajadi said in an emergency press briefing at noon on Monday that the bourse’s executives had met with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo that morning to discuss the latest market situation following the global COVID-19 outbreak.
“We are also maintaining close coordination with the Financial Services Authority [OJK] in handling the situation,” he told the press in Jakarta.
Jokowi announced on Monday morning the first two COVID-19 positive cases in Indonesia, prompting the Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) to immediately slump to as low as 5,394, touching its lowest level of 5,354 during the intraday session. It slowly rebounded and closed the trading session 1.68 percent lower than its previous close at 5,361, the lowest level since February 2017.
Read also: BREAKING: Jokowi announces Indonesia’s first two confirmed COVID-19 cases
The JCI, the main gauge of the IDX, has lost 7.3 percent of its value in the last week and almost dropped 15 percent so far this year, bourse data shows.
The bourse decided to temporarily halt short selling on Monday until further notice to help anchor the index. It will stop publishing the list of stocks available for short selling and advise brokerage firms to refuse short sell requests from their clients.
Short selling is an investment or trading strategy that speculates on the decline in a particular stock or other securities price. Investors and portfolio managers often use such a strategy as a hedge against the downside risk of a long position in the same security or a related one.
“We hope that we can help make the market more stable by imposing this policy,” said Inarno.
The IDX, he went on to say, had prepared other measures, such as force-selling limits and symmetrical auto rejects, to respond to deeper falls in the stock market. However, it was of the view that there was no need at the time to implement such measures.
Read also: Disappearing act: Market braces for volatile March after $2.4b vanishes in a week
“The bourse has yet to receive applications to postpone IPOs [initial public offerings] and bond issues following drops in the JCI,” Inarno said, adding that 24 IPOs and 13 bonds issues were in the pipeline.
Chairman of the Indonesia Equity Analyst Association (AAEI) Edwin Sebayang, however, doubted that such a move as halting short selling could prevent the index from falling deeper.
“Many market players are not that interested in conducting these transactions since the bourse changed the requirements recently as they deem it to be too complex,” he said.
Foreign investors sold Rp 291.24 billion (US$20.48million) worth of Indonesian stocks more than they bought during Monday’s session. Stocks of state-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) recorded the largest net foreign sell of Rp 288.3 billion, followed by private lender Bank Central Asia (BCA) with a net foreign sell of Rp 97.7 billion.
Read also: ‘Triple market intervention’: BI buys bonds, rupiah to prop up prices amid viral rout
As scientists around the world have yet to find a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, Binaartha Parama Sekuritas Nafan Aji projected the JCI could go as low as 5,093 at some point this year. He also revised his JCI target to only 5,939 throughout 2020 as the virus seemed to continue spreading all across the globe.
Edwin of AAEI expressed similar concerns, saying any positive sentiment was unlikely to be able to boost the stock market’s performance this year.
“This will all depend on the government’s efforts to handle the outbreak in the future,” he said.
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Cast Member Magic ~ Cinderella’s Step Sisters are Pretty Awesome! Read why below!
May 12, 2016 April 15, 2020 Michele 497 Views 5 Comments 1900 Park Fare, Cast Members, Cinderella, Disney Random Acts of Kindness, Drizella and Anastasia, Michele Atwood
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It’s Thursday, and if you’re a regular reader, then you know each week we talk about acts of kindness or we talk about a magical experience at Disney. Cast Members are great, as you know, but this past week we had a special experience that I wanted to share with you all! This time, we’re recognizing “villains” instead of the usual Disney heros! Drizella and Anastasia, Cinderella’s “evil” step sisters. But are they really the bad guys? I’d say no!
Let me give a little bit of a back story. My boys are seasoned Disney vets. We go to the Parks all the time. Granted, we don’t do many Character meals, but we’re always around somewhere. On Mother’s Day, we went to 1900 Park Fare for dinner, where they had the Cinderella themed characters in attendance ~ Cinderella, Prince Charming, Lady Tremaine and the step sisters, Drizella and Anastasia. My boys are a little more shy with face characters, they never know what to expect. My older son Andrew, doesn’t get as excited as he used to about the characters. He’s getting older now, and it’s hit or miss on how he’s going to react when he interacts with them. Well, on Sunday, he got a surprise, and so did I with his reaction.
When we got seated, we were waiting for our server to come over and greet us, and there were no characters in sight. I was getting settled in, and I looked up and Andrew was laughing because Drizella was walking by, and came right over to him and started playing with his hair. It wasn’t our turn for a character to come by, we didn’t even have water yet, but she spotted Andrew and walked over to him. I was startled at first, because he’s usually a little shy and I didn’t know what he was going to do. She messed up his hair, played with it for what seemed like forever, it was hilarious. Then, Drizella asks him, “What’s your name handsome?” He shyly says “Andrew” then looks back down. Then, she says “How about if I just call you Dreamboat, Andrew?” “I think we’re going to get married, ok?” We were just dying. Drizella insisted that Andrew get up for an engagement photo, messy hair and all, see below!
I thought Andrew would be embarrassed, but to my surprise, he actually LOVED every minute of it. The attention she gave him made his day. We went back about our business, the server came, and we started our dinner. The characters took awhile to get to us, but once they did, we saw them one after the other. The Prince came over first, then Cinderella. When Lady Tremaine came over, the fun ramped back up again. She came to the table, and my younger son told her that Andrew was asked to marry her daughter. She asked him what grade he was in, and he told her the 8th grade. Then Lady Tremaine told him “Well Andrew, today 8th grade hearts are breaking every where, because we have you now and you’re going to marry my Drizella.” She really played the part of the “mother in law” well. She welcomed him to the family and had him get up for a picture. It was hilarious. Again, he loved it. Yes, my shy boy was coming out of his shell and having a great time!
At this point, I seriously thought things couldn’t get any better. I was so wrong. Next, the other sister, Anastasia showed up. What’s the first thing she did? Played with Andrew’s hair! The smile on his face in the photo below says it all. Disney magic, yet again.
Anastasia asked Andrew if he was available, and again, Aidan spoke up and said “Your sister was already here earlier and asked Andrew to marry her.” Well, this set her off. Out of the blue, Anastasia starts yelling at Drizella a few tables down, and they started fighting over Andrew loudly, his face was so red. It was great. She was hugging on him, and yes, he loved it. Even Aidan got a big old hug.
Well, after ALL of that commotion, could it get any better? Oh yes, it sure could. Andrew was eating his dessert, and before we knew it, he was getting the stare down. Drizella was back…. and Andrew had some explaining to do. (this pic below makes me crack up, it’s the best.)
Drizella yells “HEY” in a high pitched voice… “I saw my sister over here, what were you doing, I thought we were getting married?” Poor Andrew, the look on his face was priceless. After a few minutes of harassment from her, she smiles and says “Ok, I forgive you, get up and give me a hug!” And you guessed it, he did indeed get back up….. and yes, loved it.
Drizella told Aidan that since she was going to be his new sister-in-law, that he gets a hug too.
Yes, the dinner at 1900 Park Fare was supposed to be a treat for me for Mother’s Day, but it turned out to be Andrew’s shining moment. That, in turn, made my evening even better. When your kids are growing up, and going through different stages, we don’t always know what’s going to make them happy or what will bring them out of their shell. Andrew is 13, almost 14, and it’s a touchy age. He’s a good kid, still very young at heart, but has a hard time sometimes stepping out of his comfort zone. Usually it’s my 10 year old who is all about the characters, but thanks to some special Sisters, they helped my older one warm up and just enjoy.
Disney Cast Members seem to always go above and beyond, and this experience was no exception. I seriously can’t thank these special Cast Members enough for doing such a great job, and making a usually quiet boy smile and really let go and have fun. Drizella especially, you’re not an evil step sister, you’re pretty awesome in my book. Thanks again to these girls for being truly magical! ~M
Michele Atwood is the Owner/Editor of The Main Street Mouse and it’s subsidiaries and author of the books “Moving to Main Street U.S.A.” “How Many Sleeps Till Disney?” and “How Many Sleeps Till Disneyland?” Michele also contributes Disney news to the Joe Kelley Morning Show on 107.3 WDBO in Orlando. She and her family made the move from Michigan to the Orlando area to pursue their Disney dreams. Michele is a life long Disney fan, and has two sons who have followed suit, each going on their first Disney trip before their first birthday’s. Part of the goal Michele has for The Main Street Mouse is not only to keep members informed, but to create somewhat of a Disney Family by relating to others through personal experiences and opinions. Also, Michele is making it a priority to share stories of inspiration and hope to other Disney Fans in an effort to share the Magic and hopefully make a difference in the lives of others.
~ I enjoy writing personal perspective blogs, doing TMSM Meet Ups for our readers, and keeping the constant interaction going with others, sharing the Disney Magic to people when they can’t be at their Happy Place.
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Michele Atwood is the Owner/Editor of The Main Street Mouse and it’s subsidiaries and author of the books “Moving to Main Street U.S.A.” “How Many Sleeps Till Disney?” and “How Many Sleeps Till Disneyland?” Michele also contributes Disney news to the Joe Kelley Morning Show on 107.3 WDBO in Orlando. She and her family made the move from Michigan to the Orlando area to pursue their Disney dreams. Michele is a life long Disney fan, and has two sons who have followed suit, each going on their first Disney trip before their first birthday’s. Part of the goal Michele has for The Main Street Mouse is not only to keep members informed, but to create somewhat of a Disney Family by relating to others through personal experiences and opinions. Also, Michele is making it a priority to share stories of inspiration and hope to other Disney Fans in an effort to share the Magic and hopefully make a difference in the lives of others. ~ I enjoy writing personal perspective blogs, doing TMSM Meet Ups for our readers, and keeping the constant interaction going with others, sharing the Disney Magic to people when they can’t be at their Happy Place.
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5 thoughts on “Cast Member Magic ~ Cinderella’s Step Sisters are Pretty Awesome! Read why below!”
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This brought tears to my eyes! This is why I love Disney!! We are going there for my daughter’s 5th birthday! I can’t wait!!!
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My last trip to the World was my first time to go to 190 Park Fare. that team with out a doubt is the best ensemble group in interacting with guests. As you have told us they can keep up the shenanigans with one guest or ten all evening long. One of the few groups I have gone out of my way (Back to MK-GS) to write them up. I also forgot my personal thank you cards that day.
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Northern Illinois vs. Utah, 9/4/19 Week 2 Predictions & Preview
Drew Sharper
Northern Illinois vs. Utah Total Pick
The total is set very low for No. 13 Utah’s game at home against Northern Illinois this Saturday at 1PM ET. Is the total too low for this clash?
Game Snapshot & Odds
325 Northern Illinois vs. 326 Utah
1PM ET – Rice-Eccles Stadium
TV: Pac-12 Network
Compare odds and from multiple different online sportsbooks and shop for the best lines at our new NCAAF Odds & Betting Page.
Public Betting Trends
According to the latest oddsmakers, Utah is the clear favorite in this game, as the Utes are getting odds of -22 points against Northern Illinois. The over/under total for the contest is listed at 43.5 points. The public betting currently has 52 percent going on Utah as the favorite at home. This information is subject to change, however, so be sure to check out our NCAAF Public Betting Page for updated figures on the game.
Huskies grind out win
Northern Illinois opened up its season with a 24-10 win over Illinois State last weekend. The Huskies were a 7-point favorite at home, giving them the cover. They went under the 42.5-point total.
The Huskies won with defense last weekend, holding Illinois state to just 238 total yards and only 51 rushing yards. However, the NIU offense was a concern. Usually known for a ground game, the Huskies had just 90 rushing yards. Tre Harbison rushed for 99 yards on 23 carries, but the rest of the team lost nine yards on 12 carries. Quarterback Ross Bowers led the offense with 299 passing yards and two touchdowns while Tyrice Richie caught three passes for 102 yards and two touchdowns.
Utes roll at BYU
Utah had a really solid win on the road to open the season last weekend, beating BYU 30-12. The Utes were only a 5-point favorite coming into the game, but they pulled away in the second half to get a cover. They also went under the 49-point total.
The Utes were able to contain BYU with their defense, limiting the Cougars to 300 yards of offense while forcing three turnovers. Utah wasn’t overwhelming on offense, posting up just 368 yards of total offense, but the Utes did rush for 262 yards. Zack Moss was impressive, rushing for 187 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries. Tyler Huntley didn’t have to do much under center, but he was efficient. Huntley threw for 106 yards on 13 of 16 passing. Mike Tafua led the Utah defense with four tackles, a sack and a fumble recovery.
College Football Betting Trends
The Huskies have hit the under in eight of their last 10 games in September and in nine of their last 13 games on fieldturf.
Utah has hit the over in four straight home games and in six of its last seven against a winning team.
This game is a similar matchup for both teams, as they face a physical defense that will look to win the line of scrimmage. Utah proved it could still put up points on the road against BYU and I think the Utes will score even easier at home against NIU. The Huskies are a proud program, but I don’t think they have a stronger defense year-in and year-out than BYU. NIU is likely to struggle to score on Utah, but the Huskies won’t need many points to help the Utes hit this over.
College Football Week 2 Prediction: Northern Illinois/Utah Over 43.5
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Lifestyle 15 Jan 2003 | 12:00 AM
How 'bout Some Attaboys and Attagirls (for a Change)
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SUPER yachts, champagne, caviar, flown-in chefs . . . the America#8217;s Cup is in town, and New Zealand#8217;s Auckland has turned into a billionaire#8217;s playground.
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The most recognisable Chinese dish is Pekingduck,known throughout the world as the quintes-sential oriental delicacy. As it is relatively troublesome to prepare,Pekingduck is often used to demarcate an established restaurant from the also-rans.Incredibly,this national delicacy of China isbeing threatened!KEE HUA CHEE finds out whyfeathers are being ruffled.
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What are you taking a picture of that for?
By Sid Fletcher December 11, 2015
Sheffield.
Anti-mediocrity Campaign Part II
Sid Fletcher’s long fascination with social history, architecture and brutalism has been his inspiration to create bleak landscapes of industrial decay, high-rise blocks and deck access estates. He calls his work Tower Block Metal and an exhibition of his work ‘What Are You Taking A Picture Of That For?’ is running at The White Lion on Chesterfield Road until 20th December. Here, Sid writes about the beginnings of Tower Block Metal.
The name Tower Block Metal was originally conjured up back in the heady times of the late ’80s when I was in a metal/ punk group along with some mates back in Rochdale. Metal at that point was constantly being classified into subgenres and so we (jokingly) called our particular brand Tower Block Metal. Written by disaffected young men in a large Northern town towards the end of Thatcher’s reign, the music was naturally quite aggressive, the majority of the lyrics being about alienation, marginalisation and many other societal problems. It was all sung along on the backdrop of quite crude and elementary heavy metal.
The term has always stuck with me really. When I started to become more serious about producing my artwork I really wanted to avoid something like Urban Prints by Sid Fletcher or Sid’s Tower Block page. I read an article about what to call your shop or webpage and one piece of advice that resonated with me was to take two random things that you really like and stick them together – I’ve always liked the imagery of Tower Blocks and I like Metal! That clinched it really.
I remember as a child seeing Le Corbusier’s drawings and sketches re-housing 3 million people in a city of the future with its large block for commerce and different districts or zones for industry, leisure, housing etc. I was blown away!
From that early age I’ve always been interested in post war developments and town planning such as the newer modernist or brutalist estates with their walkways and ramps, transport interchanges, ring roads, precincts and civic buildings. How they were all planned to work cohesively together represents to me the utopian ideals of the time and the vanguard of young planners who I seriously believe were trying to make a better and more futuristic world. Aesthetically I do love Modernism and Brutalism: clean lines, functionality and the use of basic materials. I am somewhat of a utilitarian person.
Park Hill Grey Corridor
When it comes to blocks of flats I like the relentless repetition of units and fenestration and the element of habitation makes each unit paradoxically unique as opposed to just looking at a skyscraper or office block, which is just relentless. Also, commercial or corporate buildings tend to be cleaner and well maintained, unlike flats, which generally have more grime on them, making them more fascinating to capture.
If I do include people in my work they tend to be solitary or vulnerable as if the scale and content of the image dominates the person but still makes them somewhat significant.
Back in the day I pasted lots of black and white photocopies together to make my own dystopian cityscapes – they usually ended up as mix tape covers for mates.
Now, my work usually begins life as a photograph or sometimes a photomontage. I then work with it digitally cutting out some bits and pasting in other bits and then add in lots of effect and/or colours sometimes in blocks, sometimes as highlights. Most of my work oscillates from pure monochrome to hyper-dynamic colour. The idea being to make the end piece incredibly intense and powerful and as far as possible from a photo. In artistic terms I have little if any time for mediocrity, subtlety or safe/middle of the roadness and I’d like to think my work reflects that.
It was Jonathan Wilkinson’s (WeLiveHere) earlier work that was really inspirational for me six or seven years ago; a licence to say it’s ok to celebrate this heritage, you are not alone! You have to remember that up until then, there was very little artwork depicting this sort of architecture.
I think there was somewhat of a collective turning point then following the demolition of Tinsley Cooling Towers and the sudden realisation that within a matter of seconds something that has been there all your life is eradicated forever.
You may have seen Sid’s work in: Frankly My Deer, The Corner Gallery and MoonKo, all in Sheffield. He’s also had his work exhibited at the Urban Outfitters in Manchester and London. Recently he was requested to provide an exclusive limited edition as a welcome present to the commercial clients moving into Park Hill which he is rightly quite chuffed about!
Jon and Mandy at the White Lion hope to hosting more exhibitions of local artists’ work and Sid is most grateful for being asked to present their inaugural one. Find out more about Sid at http://www.towerblockmetal.co.uk.
Tagged with: architecture, art, brutalist, exhibition, metal, punk, Sheffield, Sid Fletcher, The White Lion, Tower Block Metal, Urban Outfitters, we live here
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Coach Allegri seeks improvement against Cagliari
Statesman News Service | September 20, 2016 9:11 pm
Juventus head coach Massimiliano Allegri called on his footballers to up the ante and return to winning ways after a 1-2 loss to Inter Milan when they entertain Cagliari in Serie A on Wednesday night.
After a draw and a defeat in their last two matches, it should not take much to motivate the five-time defending champions for a return to winning ways at the Juventus Stadium.
Those two results aside, Allegri remained optimistic of a successful season while calling on his charges to right the wrongs of the last week and to turn on the style in front of their home supporters.
"The goal aside, which came from an excellent piece of play from Alex Sandro, we were poor on Sunday. Scoring and then immediately conceding twice is something that shouldn’t happen, of course," Allegri said at the pre-match press conference, as reported by his club’s website.
"The way we play will need to be slightly adjusted relative to last season to ensure that we make the most of the characteristics of our new arrivals, all of whom have plenty more to offer," he added.
"As ever, we’ll approach the encounter with maximum focus and with an eye on ironing out the mistakes we made in possession at the San Siro. We must improve, if not, we’ll be in for a tough evening."
As for the Cagliari game, Juventus have decided to field young defender Daniele Rugani, while German midfielder Sami Khedira will be rested.
"Daniele Rugani has trained very well over the summer and, as I’ve said before, will be an important Juventus player for years to come. Given the number of matches we’ll be playing, you can expect to see lots of Rugani this campaign," he said.
Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain is expected to start after being benched against Inter Milan.
Allegri also gave confidence to young forward Paulo Dybala who is yet to score in the five matches so far.
"Paulo Dybala played well on Sunday and for me, all that’s missing at the moment is a goal. Everyone knows what a fabulous player he is and all he can do is remain calm and keep doing what he’s been doing early on this season," he said.
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Limo Communism
Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman once owed by Communist Party commander Chen Yi goes to auction
Communist and dictators are amongst the well-known to have purchased Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman limousines and one fine example is about to go to auction with Bonhams on 12th July in their Stuttgart sale.
1965 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman
The opulent interior of the car
Having a guide price of £120,000 to £200,000, this 1965 car was imported by the Chinese government from West Germany for the use of China’s Foreign Minister, Chen Yi, one of the military leaders of the Chinese Communist Revolution and a close associate of Mao Zedong.
After Chen Yi’s death in 1972, the limousine was given to the government-owned Shanghai car plant with a plan that it would serve as a template for a Chinese-produced version. The ensuing Cultural Revolution forced the abandonment of that plan and the vehicle was left in storage until the 1980s.
In due course a German engineer who worked for Volkswagen Shanghai named Hans Luwich discovered the vehicle and shipped it back to Germany in 1993. He titled the car in 1998 and sold it to the Netherlands earlier this year.
With a current odometer reading of just 21,160 kilometres and having never been restored, this fine vehicle is described as being presented in “good running and driving condition”.
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1969 Mercedes-Benz 600 ‘Dictator Car’ sedan originally owned by Elvis Presley and currently by an Epstein is being sold by auction.
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Allscripts Exceeds Bookings Estimates
Allscripts-Misys outperforms Street expectations for bookings in its third quarter, a key indicator of a pickup in the adoption of electronic records by the health-care sector.
Apr 8, 2010 9:55 AM EDT
(Allscripts-Misys earnings story updated for Thursday morning trading)CHICAGO, Ill. (TheStreet) -- The health-care information technology earnings season got underway after the market close on Wednesday with Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions (MDRX) - Get Report reporting a bookings level of $105.5 million in its third fiscal quarter.
Earnings per share of 17 cents was a penny above Street consensus and revenue of $179.3 million was also slightly ahead of the Street forecasts, but
it's the Allscripts-Misys bookings number that has moved health care IT stocks in the past, and in this case, could push health care IT shares higher.
On Thursday morning in pre-market trading, Allscripts-Misys shares were up between 4% and 5%. The health care IT stock was among the biggest percentage gainers on the Nasdaq in the pre-market on Thursday.
The Allscripts-Misys earnings has served as an early earnings-season bellwether for the group, which also includes
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Athenahealth received an upgrade to a hold from Citigroup on Thursday morning, with the securities firm citing its "superior" sales model and share price currently trading 20% below its high.
The specific benchmark used by the Street for a signal of traction in adoption of electronic records by hospitals and physician groups has been $100 million in bookings for Allscripts-Misys. Last quarter, the health care IT company fell short of the mark and all health care IT shares suffered.
The $105.5 million bookings level exceeded Street estimates for the fiscal third quarter. Anthony Vendetti, analyst at Maxim Group, was looking for a bookings level of $98.3 million, and thought that any increase from last quarter's booking level just below $94 million might have been enough to placate investors who had an itchy trigger finger last earning season with these stocks.
Street consensus on bookings was at $99 million. Caris & Company analyst Leo Carpio was at $95 million for bookings, and thought outperformance by Allscripts-Misys on bookings could be the signal to send the health care IT sector stocks back toward 52-week high levels.
Allscripts-Misys shares were trading at $21.10 in the pre-market on Thursday morning. The health care IT company's 52-week high is $22.21.
"Our organization achieved exceptional results in the third quarter, led by record sales," said Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, in the earnings release. "Physicians are increasingly embracing the Electronic Health Record and Allscripts is capitalizing today on what we believe will be a rapid industry transformation."
Allscripts raised its fiscal 2010 non-GAAP net income guidance to a range of $97 to $98.5 million, which equates to non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of 64 cents to 65 cents. The new guidance is in line with the Street's earnings per share forecast.
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The Coming Week: Data May Show the Economic Rebound Is Real
If manufacturing and payroll reports come in strong, stocks could notch a ninth week of gains.
Diane Hess
Nov 30, 2002 11:35 AM EST
Investors will be looking to economic indicators next week for confirmation that stocks' two-month rally can last. Most watched will be the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index and the jobs report.
For the eighth week in a row, the
closed up last week, gaining 90.43 points, or 1%, to 8895.27. It was the first eight-week streak since 1998. The
ended higher as well, the seventh time in eight weeks.
"There is definitely a solid trend in place over the last two months," said Ben Hovermale, head trader at Wells Capital Management. "Going into the end of the year, you have people that need to make their performance numbers. If someone is 15% to 20% in cash, they cannot afford to miss a rally like this."
Since October, the Dow is up 20.5%, the Nasdaq is higher 22% and the S&P 500 is ahead 33%.
"The market has good momentum lately," said Robert Competiello, a trader at Salomon Smith Barney, but he added that it could be vulnerable to some healthy profit-taking at these levels.
Traders attributed last week's gains largely to economic data, such as consumer sentiment, GDP, durable goods orders and weekly initial jobless claims.
"I think you will continue to see a somewhat better tone to the numbers," said Ethan Harris, an economist at Lehman Brothers, adding that gloomy forecasts for the economy have not been right.
On Monday, the ISM's manufacturing index is likely to grab the market's attention. A consensus of economists, according to
, is forecasting the index will tick up a point to 49.5. That would put it a half-point below levels indicating expansion in the factory sector.
Three regional manufacturing indices, the Empire State index, Philadelphia Fed survey and Chicago PMI, have all had strong readings in November, suggesting improvement on the national level.
Elsewhere, automakers will post monthly sales numbers on Tuesday. They are expected to edge higher to 5.5 million vehicles in November from 5.3 million vehicles in October, when the end of certain dealer financing incentives led to a decreased rate of spending on cars.
Two backward-looking economic releases, third-quarter productivity numbers and factory orders for October, will be reported Wednesday. Both are expected to show healthy increases.
The nation's retailers on Thursday will report weekly chain-store sales results that will capture the beginning of the crucial holiday shopping period. The reports will be watched carefully, amid some negative signs of slow mall traffic and an abundance of sales and markdowns at retailers.
On Friday, the Labor Department will publish the employment report for November. Including payroll and unemployment rate data, it is considered the best single measure of the economy.
"If there is any informational content in the weekly initial jobless claims numbers -- which have seen a 9.2% cumulative decline since the end of September -- I would be looking for employment growth for the month of November," said John Lonski, an economist at Moody's Investor Service.
Nonfarm payroll growth is expected to rise to 13,000 in November after falling by 5,000 in October, according to
. The jobless rate, a lagging indicator, is forecast to 5.8% from 5.7%.
Among companies scheduled to report earnings in the coming week are
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Analysts now expect 20% earnings growth for the S&P 500 in the fourth quarter. But those consensus forecasts, like the ones for the third quarter, are likely to be revised down.
"Starting in the second and third week in December, you will see earnings confessions," said Joseph Kalinowski, chief investment officer at Ehrenkrantz King Nussbaum. "That could pressure the market."
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Facebook Fed the 'Ignorant' Masses an IPO Lite
The average investor, again, was left holding the bag after the share sale.
Gary Weiss
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The Facebook IPO is an excellent reminder of the role that amnesia plays in the stock market.
It's said that markets are efficient, and I guess they are in a narrow sense, in that stocks tend to incorporate all of the publicly available information about them. But the same principle certainly doesn't apply to the way market participants interact with one another. So we have the spectacle of
repeating the mistakes of 2008 and losing $3 billion (and counting). For the rest of us, we have the Facebook IPO, in which an entire body of knowledge and memory of the IPO process was buried down the memory hole, totally forgotten.
How did a company best known for wasting people's time (when it's not violating their privacy) become the IPO stinker of our times? Because people forget that it's been proven time and again that the only proven winners in IPOs are the issuers, insiders and underwriters, with favored clients like hedge funds and institutional investors the only ones able to benefit consistently from IPOs that perform well out of the starting gate.
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In this case, the issuer made out like a bandit. Facebook reaped $16 billion that will allow it to compete with the Goliaths of the industry. Facebook management, meanwhile, has borrowed from the techniques of shoddy used-car salesmen everywhere by failing to give full value for all that money.
As has been pointed out with increasing alarm by several commentators, most recently
Matthew Yglesias at Slate
, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg structured the deal so that he isn't even giving up control of the company. So in a larger sense, divorced from the aftermarket performance and the other controversies swirling around the IPO, the Facebook IPO already stank to high heaven before the first share traded. It was a kind of IPO Lite, offering shareholders the trappings of ownership of the company without giving them the full privileges of ownership.
And who are those lucky investors who bought into the IPO Lite? The word that comes to mind is "ignorant," and I mean that in a nice way.
More on Facebook: The Big Lie of the Facebook IPO>>
Unless they were totally brain dead, the people buying into the IPO were not among the handful of favored investors who were
selectively tipped off
about the company's
lackluster financial results
. The clued-in "smart money" stayed away from the offering, while the rest of us ignorant, uninformed suckers were able to load up on the shares.
The result was the living embodiment of Will Rogers' advice on how to make money in the stock market: "Buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it." Facebook shares weren't going to go up, so the usual favored investors didn't buy it, thanks to the tipoff that they got from their underwriters, who were tipped off from within the company.
But you didn't have to be among the favored few to know that the history of IPO investing is replete with sleaziness. Thanks to the Internet, any of what
charmingly referred to as "Muppets" can access the sordid history of IPO investing with just a few mouse clicks.
It's forgotten that in the aftermath of the 1998-2000 tech boom, it emerged that investment banks systematically rigged the price of IPOs to benefit themselves and their largest customers. In 2003, 300 companies and all of the major investment banks
civil cases arising from their use of techniques like "laddering" to manipulate share prices. In laddering, clients who got shares in IPOs were obliged to support the stock afterwards by making more shares in the aftermarket. Doing so ultimately lured in small investors, who were ultimately creamed when the shares went bust.
At about the same time
, the 10 largest investment banks paid $1.4 billion in the "global settlement" that was reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators, including Eliot Spitzer. Among the allegations was that executives of companies received cut-rate shares in IPOs in return for giving banks their business. Among the high-tech execs who fed from the IPO trough was
eBay CEO Meg Whitman
When the issue reared its head in her unsuccessful race for governor of California a couple of years ago,
Whitman maintained
that she wasn't being bribed by Goldman Sachs -- Whitman's "spinner" -- because she was simply getting the kind of nice treatment that Goldman bestows on its richest clients.
The "spinning" scam was, in turn, nothing more than a replay of the kind of chicanery that penny-stock brokerages used to pull in the 1990s, when cheap stock was routinely doled out to insiders and IPOs were brazenly manipulated by underwriters.
This kind of thing has been going on for years, yet small investors continued to be drawn to IPOs and continue to be creamed. Why?
A lot of it is hype in the financial press. But I wonder if it might not simply be greed, but the mythology that has built up around IPOs as creatures of the vaunted "capital-raising mechanism" that is supposed to be the heart and soul of the U.S. markets, if you listen to politicians as they run for president and argue for deregulation.
Well, we're seeing that "capital raising function" on display, right now, in the Facebook IPO. How do you like it? Working smoothly? Behaving fairly? Treating all market participants equally?
Opponents of regulation say we risk losing IPOs to overseas bourses because of Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank and other regulatory schemes. Well, if the Facebook IPO is an example of all the benefits that IPOs have to offer, I'd say Europe is welcome to have them.
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Pharmos Stumbles Ahead of Crucial Study
Dexanabinol scores high on only one of six tests measuring cognitive function, but the next study remains key.
Nov 23, 2004 7:30 AM EST
Pharmos
(PARS)
said Monday that its experimental drug dexanabinol was able to only partially prevent cognitive problems in patients undergoing heart surgery in a midstage study.
However, the mixed results from this phase II study do not provide much visibility into whether dexanabinol will succeed in a larger, more important, phase III study that is expected to be completed before the end of the year. This high-risk, high-reward phase III study is designed to determine whether dexanabinol can protect accident victims at risk for traumatic brain injury, or TBI. As detailed
here, the phase III trial is one of those all-or-nothing clinical events that risk-loving biotech investors crave.
Pharmos shares lost nearly 4% Monday, closing at $3.61. With a commercial market potential of more than $1 billion, the phase III TBI study is the big event for which investors are waiting anxiously. Convincingly positive data from Monday's heart surgery study might have increased the odds of success in the TBI study, but that wasn't to be.
Monday, Pharmos said an analysis of a phase II study showed that dexanabinol patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery outperformed placebo patients three months after surgery, on the so-called Stroop Color Word test, which measures executive functions of the brain like attention control and decision-making.
But there was no statistical difference between dexanabinol patients and those taking placebo on five other computerized tests measuring cognitive function. The study failed because the primary endpoint was a composite score of all six tests. Pharmos likely will have to conduct additional phase II studies if it wants to continue development of dexanabinol in this indication.
"Six swings with only one solid hit doesn't make you Ted Williams," said Harris Nesbitt analyst Tom Shrader, assessing the mixed data coming from this study.
Shrader said his expectations for the heart surgery study were low. He's still looking toward the phase III dexanabinol study in traumatic brain injury, which is where most investor attention has been focused. Shrader has an outperform rating on Pharmos and his firm has done banking for the company.
Harry Tracy, who runs the
NeuroInvestment
newsletter, says positive results from the Stroop test do suggest that dexanabinol has some positive functional effect. But he's not confident enough to say that Monday's data portend anything for the traumatic brain injury study. Tracy is long Pharmos shares.
Dexanabinol is a drug synthesized from cannabinoid compounds (in other words, a chemical cousin of marijuana) that aims to protect the brain in patients suffering from severe head injuries. Some analysts peg the commercial market for traumatic brain injury, or TBI, at more than $1 billion. But so far, TBI has been a drug graveyard. Scores of companies, including
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, have tried and failed to develop an effective TBI drug.
Please note that due to factors including low market capitalization and/or insufficient public float, we consider Pharmos to be a small-cap stock. You should be aware that such stocks are subject to more risk than stocks of larger companies, including greater volatility, lower liquidity and less publicly available information, and that postings such as this one can have an effect on their stock prices.
Adam Feuerstein writes regularly for RealMoney.com. In keeping with TSC's editorial policy, he doesn't own or short individual stocks, although he owns stock in TheStreet.com. He also doesn't invest in hedge funds or other private investment partnerships. He invites you to send your feedback to
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Google Shows Cost-Cutting Chops
Keeping expenses in line helped save the quarter.
Pia Sarkar
Oct 17, 2008 3:50 PM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO --
Google's
innovative paid-search advertising, along with some good old-fashioned belt-tightening, helped it stay healthy during hard economic times.
But the question is, how severe do conditions have to get before the company finally succumbs?
Most analysts were impressed with Google's ability to grow third-quarter revenue by 31% in the face of a financial crisis, even though it marked a slowdown from its 39% growth in the previous quarter.
Shares of Google were up 6.2% to $375.05 in recent trading.
A big part of Google's performance can be attributed to its cost containment. The company hired 519 employees in the third quarter, bringing its total worldwide workforce to a whopping 20,123. But that's a much slower clip than a year ago, when Google added 2,130 to its staff.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt emphasized on Thursday in a conference call with analysts the need to "keep a very close eye on costs."
"It makes sense given everything we read in the papers and we have done that effectively in this quarter," he said.
At the same time, paid-search advertising -- Google's main cash cow -- held up well in the third quarter, despite fears that
would contract as advertisers shrank their budgets. Paid clicks, or the number of times a user clicks on an ad, grew 18%, a slight drop from its 19% growth the previous quarter.
Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay notes that excluding traffic acquisition costs -- or the money that Google shares with its partners -- the company's revenue grew 4% sequentially in the third quarter while its hiring increased by only 2%. That means that Google's staff is working more efficiently, he says.
"If they kept doing that over and over, their profitability would going even higher," Bernstein says.
As for paid search, it seems advertisers have been reluctant to cut back in that area since they still see a high return on investment.
Bernstein maintains that during tough economic times, advertisers prioritize where they want to spend, and TV and print advertising are the first places they'll cut, followed by online display advertising. That puts companies like
(YHOO)
at risk since they rely so heavily on display.
Paid search, where Google dominates, is the last resort, and the economy would have to worsen considerably before advertisers pull back from spending there. And apparently, they haven't reached that point yet.
Bernstein says the economy may have to slump even deeper for paid search ads to see any significant deterioration. But how deep remains to be seen, assuming that an economic turnaround is still a long way off.
For Google, it may be a race against time. The company has been trying to develop other meaningful ways to generate revenue besides through search ads. Next week,
Deutsche Telekom's
(DT) - Get Report
T-Mobile will introduce the first smartphone using
Google's Android
operating system. The company hopes to bring in more dollars through mobile ads.
Google has also improved its ability to monetize ads on YouTube. For instance, the online video site now offers click-to-buy videos and CDs, as well as other content. It has also teamed up with
(CBS) - Get Report
to launch full-length videos with stream ads.
Bernstein acknowledges that these efforts may take some time before Google realizes any significant revenue from them. But so far, it has proven that its search ads can hold them over.
"They have a long time to get these other products up and working," he says.
But Deutsche Bank analyst Jeetil Patel expressed some caution with the company, given its current emphasis on cost containment.
"We like the stock and the company's execution amidst an uncertain economic environment, but it is also difficult to lose sight of conference call commentary and buzzwords such as "operational efficiency" and "cost containment" and "disciplined hiring," which (in our years of watching business models develop, transition and mature) truly represent the hallmarks of slowing growth (especially in tech investing)," he wrote in his latest research.
Nonetheless, Patel maintained a buy rating on the company, pointing out that "with a substantial focus on cost controls in place, we remain quite optimistic on Google's ability to deploy levers to stoke growth (if necessary) and achieve bottom-line targets in such a difficult industry environment."
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Weekend Wrap: WD-40 Phillip Island Super Sprint
July 16, 2016 November 23, 2015 by Jordan Mulach
Another successful Phillip Island event for Craig Lowndes. Photo: Rhys Vandersyde
Despite only three contenders left in the title chase, there was no let up for any of the drivers with action throughout the pack as the picturesque Phillip Island circuit played host to the penultimate round of the V8 Supercars championship. And after three tense encounters the title rivalry remains very much alive with the stage set for a thrilling season finale at Homebush.
Saturday Qualifying
For race one, it was the in-form, but outgoing champion Jamie Whincup who found pace to put his car on pole position with young gun Scott McLaughlin alongside him in the Volvo. Next up, and keeping the pressure on right from the start, the top three in the championship hunt Craig Lowndes, David Reynolds and Mark Winterbottom made up the top five, while Shane van Gisbergen, James Courtney, Scott Pye, and the Nissan duo of James Moffat and Rick Kelly completed the top ten.
Qualifying for race two saw McLaughlin and Whincup swap positions. While Whincup seemed to be pushing harder than McLaughlin, going off at Lukey Heights on his first lap, Mclaughlin was able to find a bit more from his car to grab another career pole. Lowndes claimed another third place but again it was the three title contenders who filled the top five with Winterbottom alongside the Red Bull on the second row, with row three an all-Ford affair with Reynolds getting the better of the in-form Pye. Michael Caruso and Rick Kelly made the fourth row the Nissan’s, while Courtney, Fabian Coulthard, van Gisbergen and Moffat rounded out the ten.
While Whincup and McLaughlin lined up on the front row for the first race of the weekend, it was Lowndes who got the perfect start flying past them both, and into turn one ahead of his Red Bull team-mate. Behind Reynolds and van Gisbergen went side-by-side around the first sweeper, ending up with the Kiwi in the grass. Having had a new engine fitted in the two-hour gap between qualifying and the opening race after a misfire, Winterbottom initially lost ground dropping from fifth to eighth, not wanting to take any risks when faced with the situation ahead. Out front, the Red Bull racers stretched a gap to the pack while being tailed by McLaughlin in the Volvo. On the second lap, van Gisbergen returned serve, spinning Reynolds after bumping the Ford driver on approach to the Hayshed. The spin dropped Reynolds to the back of the pack with a post-race investigation declared to review the incident which resulted in van Gisbergen penalised 25 points.
Whincup narrowed the gap to Lowndes over the closing laps, but he obeyed team orders, backing away on the last lap and giving Lowndes the win. McLaughlin grabbed another podium while van Gisbergen took fourth. After overtaking Winterbottom on the first lap Moffat and Courtney finished fifth and sixth respectively with Winterbottom, Tander, Waters and Slade completing the ten. Having finished last after his clash with van Gisbergen, Reynolds’ title hopes were all but over.
Race Two
For the last race of the day, Whincup got the jump off the line and beat the pack into turn one. His start was later subject to investigation as he had crept in his box before the lights went out. As it turned out, he had stopped the car at the right moment and got a perfect start, almost as good as his team-mate’s in race one.
While race one had been full of incidents, the mid-pack madness was almost non-existent throughout the second race as a majority of the drivers decided to conserve their tyres for the Sunday race. McLaughlin was close to Whincup but unable to apply pressure, while there was daylight between Lowndes in third and Winterbottom in fourth. Cam Waters in for the injured Chaz Mostert, received yet more warm welcomes from the category, namely from Jason Bright who roughed up the development series leader at the MG hairpin.
An incident free race meant that the field remained relatively unchanged until the flag where Whincup secured his 95th career victory. McLaughlin’s podium finish meant that for the first time in 2015, he’d taken two podium finishes in the same event. Lowndes took a small chunk out of Winterbottom’s championship lead, finishing one place ahead of the championship leader in third, while Reynolds slipped further back in the points standings following Winterbottom home to fifth place. Pye, Caruso, Rick Kelly, van Gisbergen and Courtney made up the remainder of the top ten.
Sunday Qualifying
For the final race of the weekend, the grid couldn’t have been scripted better. After only one pole position previously this year, Winterbottom out-qualified Lowndes to secure Prodrive’s 12th pole of the year. McLaughlin managed third after setting the pace early in the session, Whincup lined up in fourth beside the Kiwi. Pye was up next in fifth with the Nissans of Caruso and Rick Kelly lining up sixth and seventh. Race one foes Reynolds and van Gisbergen qualified alongside each other in eighth and ninth with Todd Kelly the last in the top ten.
Race Three
The final two-hundred kilometre race of the year started with a drag race to the first corner between Winterbottom and Lowndes with the series leader getting the better jump and leading the first lap. McLaughlin then got past Lowndes, splitting the two championship contenders. In typical Sunday racing fashion, the mid-pack was full of battles and rub-ups on the opening lap. At the Southern Loop, contact between Dale Wood and Lee Holdsworth took the Walkinshaw Performance driver out of the race, making it a weekend of uncertainty for those at Charlie Schwerkolt Racing, after the news the team will split from Walkinshaw Racing at the end of the current season. Cam Waters was also caught up in the first lap stupidity, on the inside of Rick Kelly at the Hayshed when they made contact, giving the rookie’s Falcon a puncture.
A number of cars came in on the first lap, taking different strategies for the race to avoid incidents in the pit lane due to the possibility of a safety car. McLaughlin took the lead at the first round of pit stops, entering the lane two laps before Winterbottom and Lowndes. Unfortunately for Winterbottom he then dropped behind Lowndes in the second pit cycle. On pit exit, Lowndes beat McLaughlin to turn one, getting vital track position. While McLaughlin remained close, Lowndes pulled away to a comfortable lead. Winterbottom was unable to reel in the top two and was quickly hunted down by Whincup who had managed to close in on his former adversary at the rate of over half a second per lap. On the final lap, Winterbottom left the door open at MG, tempting Whincup into a dive down the inside. With the gap closing Whincup ended up with two wheels on the grass, but made the bold move stick to take third place. At the front, Lowndes took the race victory, his 11th career win at the coastal circuit while McLaughlin added another trophy to his collection. Todd and Rick Kelly brought their Nissans home in fifth and sixth, while van Gisbergen, Moffat, Tander and Reynolds rounded out the top ten. Finishing in tenth place dropped Reynolds out of championship contention, falling over three-hundred points behind Winterbottom.
WD-40 Phillip Island Super Sprint Winners and Losers
The penultimate round of series was built up as the weekend that Winterbottom could have secured his first championship yet Lowndes and his Red Bull Racing team proved that they are the best in the business. While Reynolds was taken out of contention for the championship trophy, Whincup showed that even if you’re not in the hunt, you can still fight at the front.
Craig Lowndes did the best he could to reel in Winterbottom’s championship lead, beating the series leader in each race of the weekend. Two wins, especially in the all-important Sunday race, means that he has closed the points gap down to just one hundred and seventy-nine. Even though he will need Winterbottom to have horrible bad luck in the final two races of the weekend, history has showed that anything can happen around the streets of Sydney.
Jamie Whincup may not be able to defend his championship crown but he has shown that his mid-season misfortune hasn’t slowed him down, notching up three podiums including one victory at Phillip Island. This shows that he and his team are on track for a stellar 2016, though the year isn’t over yet. While he won’t notch up his century of wins this year, it won’t be too long into next season until he joins his team-mate in the centurion club.
Scott McLaughlin has had a year to forget but his form at the season’s flowing circuits bodes well for the future of his career and Garry Rogers Motorsport. In only his third season, the Kiwi has shown maturity of drivers with years more experience than him. His raw speed and talent were on show over the weekend, giving him confidence going to the track where he secured his 2012 development series title and debut solo drive.
Losers:
Lee Holdsworth had a weekend to forget after finishing 16th, 18th and scoring a DNF over the three races. This, coupled with the news that Charlie Schwerkolt will move on from Walkinshaw Racing, means that his future in the series is uncertain. Being caught in the mid-pack didn’t help his cause and was a contributing factor as to why he was involved in the final race incident. No pace, no drive and no hope sum up Leethal’s weekend.
Brad Jones Racing last year showed that Phillip Island is the team’s bogey track and reconfirmed that theory after a dismal outing over the weekend. In the three races, two 11th place finishes from Coulthard were the best results the team could muster. The team is losing the Kiwi to DJR next year while Bright remains the ailing veteran of the team and Wood departs for Nissan. Once the team that punched above its weight, BJR is now struggling for top ten results consistently.
Mark Winterbottom may still have the championship lead but questions over his ability to seal the deal are growing louder. While his early season pace made many think he would have the title wrapped up by now, he’s slipped from having a comfortable lead to defending his lead going into the finale around the streets of his hometown. Unable to convert his pole position to a win as well as qualifying in a compromised position this weekend showed that he’s not in a risk taking mentality. Without Chaz Mostert by his side Winterbottom seems to be struggling at the time of year where that can have dramatic consequences.
The season finale will begin on 4 December in two weeks’ time around the Homebush streets. Will we see a new champion or one that’s been waiting for sixteen years to claim another title?
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Yup, Audi made a car with drones for headlights
Tue Nov 24, 2020 at 8:26am ET
By Alap Naik Desai
Audi AI:TRAIL concept vehicle has drones for headlights. Pic credit: @Audi/YouTube
An Audi with drones for headlights was discussed on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week — but is it a real thing?
Late last year, Audi offered a preview of its AI:TRAIL Concept, which was first unveiled at the 2019 Frankfurt Auto Show.
The truly futuristic four-wheeler is certainly not a passenger vehicle in the traditional sense. The all-wheel, all-electric concept vehicle is one-of-a-kind, and DOES include drones for headlights, although obviously this isn’t a car you’ll see on the roads anytime soon.
The headlights are still very much in the concept stage, but Audi has certainly indicated how a vehicle’s main headlights need not remain stuck in a single place and serve a single purpose.
Audi AI:TRAIL Concept vehicle’s drone ‘headlights’ can fly
The Audi AI:TRAIL Concept vehicle’s drones headlights will of course offer illumination, but they are not locked into place as is the case in conventional vehicles today.
Instead, they rest on the top of the vehicle, and serve multiple purposes. Essentially, they act as both eyes and sentries for the driver and passengers of the off-road SUV.
The AI:TRAIL revealed last year has five drones instead of traditional headlights. With the ability to dock themselves on the roof, they illuminate both the path ahead and to either side with their omnidirectional freedom, and also double up as cameras.
Perched up on the highest point of the vehicle, the drones have high-resolution cameras which beam video back to the driver’s synced smartphone, which can be mounted inside the AI:TRAIL. Additionally, the drones also function as floodlights or spotlights depending on the use-case scenario.
The drones have the ability to fly ahead of the vehicle or hover as traditional flying drones. Supposedly equipped with bladeless flying technology, they can fly autonomously above and around the car to illuminate a path much further ahead than normal and also an area on either side.
It is important to note that the drones haven’t been shown flying yet, but instead, have just been divulged as a concept.
Is the Audi AI:TRAIL concept the future of off-roading vehicles?
The Audi AI:TRAIL Concept is a vision for the carmaker, and shows that the company wants to lead the rapidly evolving segment of cars that are controlled by Artificial Intelligence.
Interestingly, the AI in Audi AI:TRAIL stands here for Audi Intelligence. The company has four visionary use case vehicles: AI:CON, AI:RACE, AI:ME and AI:TRAIL. The common core theme among these new vehicles is that the driver is no longer at the center, but rather the passenger cabin and the passengers.
Audi has rarely, if ever, ventured out of its domain, which is luxury, performance vehicles with comfort, speed, power, and safety as priorities. Hence, the AI:TRAIL is certainly a special concept car from the luxury carmaker.
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Healthcare >> Analyst Interviews >> December 18, 2000
Opthalmology & Vision Care: Daivd Therkelsen – Dain Rauscher Wessels
DAVID A. THERKELSEN is a Vice President and Medical Technology Analyst at Dain Rauscher Wessels, a division of Dain Rauscher Incorporated. He is a member of the firm's Healthcare Research Team covering the ophthalmology industry. Mr. Therkelsen received a BA in Finance from the University of Minnesota. Profile
TWST: Give us an overview of the ophthalmology and vision care space.
What are the trends, issues and events from 2000 that have set the stage
for 2001 and 2002?
Mr. Therkelsen: The largest
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'VERY STRANGE'
Alexis Sharkey – Murdered Instagram model’s mom was ‘stopped from seeing body for two WEEKS by daughter’s husband’
Nicole Darrah, News Reporter
THE mom of Alexis Sharkey – who was found dead last month – says she had to “fight” with her daughter’s husband just to see the influencer’s body.
Stacey Robinault said she told son-in-law Tom Sharkey, 49, that she wanted to bring Alexis’ body home to Pennsylvania.
Stacey Robinault, right, said she wanted to bring the body of her daughter Alexis, left, home after she was found dead in TexasCredit: Facebook
Robinault wanted to bring Alexis, 26, back home to PennsylvaniaCredit: Instagram
Alexis, 26, disappeared on November 27 and her naked body was found "carefully placed" on the side of the road in Houston, Texas, less than 24 hours later.
At first, Robinault said, Tom was OK with her plan to bring Alexis home, but soon after, stopped responding to her altogether.
She told local news station KRIV: “As her husband, he would have primary custody of what determined what happened with her, and he had said all along that he was willing to let her come home.”
Robinault said Tom cut off communication and eventually, the medical examiner made her the next of kin.
Alexis was an Instagram model and influencerCredit: Instagram
Alexis is pictured here with her husband, Tom Sharkey, 49Credit: Instagram
“I didn’t think I was gonna get her, and I had actually given up hope, when all of the sudden the forensics lab called me,” Robinault said.
“It just was a very strange – I’d almost call it ‘fight’ to get her.”
Alexis’ mom held a “very private” viewing in Houston last Friday for “the very closest of family” and some of her daughter’s friends.
The last time the mom and daughter spoke, they had been excitedly planning their Christmas in Pennsylvania.
Robinault claimed that Tom cut off communication with her as she tried to bring Alexis' body homeCredit: Instagram
“We were desperate to see her and excited to see her,” Robinault previously said.
The 26-year-old influencer was said to have lived in Houston for about a year before her death.
It’s unclear what happened to Alexis’ body after last week’s viewing.
KVIR reported on Tuesday that an autopsy reported has not yet been released as investigators wait for a toxicology report.
The Sharkeys were apparently having marriage problems, and Alexis' friends claimed Tom was abusing herCredit: Instagram
Alexis was found off the I-10 in Houston with no visible injuries, and authorities believe her body had been there overnight.
No arrests have yet been made in connection with her death, but police are still investigating.
After her untimely death, several people close to Alexis have told local media outlets that she was in an abusive marriage.
The Daily Beast reported that Alexis had allegedly told friends during a trip in early November that Tom was abusing her.
Alexis disappeared on November 27 and her body was found on the side of I-10 in Houston less than 24 hours laterCredit: Instagram
She apparently also claimed she was divorcing him.
A friend told the publication: “Throughout the trip, he was sending really awful, nasty messages to her.
“But one night when she and I were talking alone she said, ‘He strangles me and chokes me out and I black out and wake up on the bathroom floor every single time.’”
Another two friends claimed that on the day his wife disappeared, Tom had been arguing with her before she "hopped over their patio fence and into a car."
Alexis' mom held a viewing for close friends and family last FridayCredit: Instagram
Local reports suggest that Alexis did not leave in her vehicle.
Her husband has denied any marital problems, saying he is cooperating with detectives and feels confident police are "going to find everyone that was involved."
She had reportedly spent Thanksgiving with a friend before her death.
Alexis' Instagram account, which has now been memorialized, included pictures of her and Tom alongside her influencer pictures.
One photo posted on July 3 is captioned: "I love this man."
Tom posted a string of photos on social media after his wife, who he married in December 2019, was found dead, calling her "the most amazing woman."
Insta star Alexis Sharkey's mom reveals family were planning Christmas hours before she was found dead naked on roadside
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alayn in the sand
Who is Tony Finau’s wife Alayna and how many children does Masters star have with her?
US star is hoping to shine at the US Open and will have wife Alayna supporting him every step of the way
By Sam Street
Nov 11 2020, 12:17 ET
TONY FINAU is chasing Major glory as he heads to Augusta National for the 2020 Masters.
Finau is still targeting a first ever Major victory, having dropped his form following a breakout 2018. But his wife Alayna will be cheering him on once again this week.
Tony Finaus wife Alayna will be right behind him at Le Golf NationalCredit: Instagram
Who is Alayna Finau?
Not much is known about Tony Finau's wife, whose full name is Alayna Galea’i-Finau.
But both him and her are members of the Mormon Church of Latter Day Saints.
In fact, Alayna takes the couple's children to church every Sunday, while Tony takes to the golf course.
The couple have four children and intend to have at least one or two moreCredit: Instagram
Who is Tony Finau?
Tony Finau was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1989.
His real name is Milton Pouha Finau.
He is of mixed Tongan and Samoan descent, the first person of such ancestry to play on the PGA Tour.
He has said proudly of his Polynesian ancestry: “It’s really an honour for me to represent my people at the level that I am.
“I think the Polynesian people and the gospel are in harmony.
"We’re very respectful people, and very humble people … and I try and let that shine through as much as possible.”
Tony Finau is the first tour golfer of Samoan/Tongan descentCredit: Instagram
His highest finish in a Major to date is fifth place at the US Open in 2019.
But he is most famous for spraining his ankle celebrating a hole-in-one with his family at the Masters Par 3 Contest.
Finau has stated that he abstains from alcohol.
Finau is making his Ryder Cup debut at the age of 29Credit: AP:Associated Press
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How many children do Tony and Alayna Finau have?
The Finau family have four children - Jraice, Leilene Aiaga, Tony and Sage.
And the 29-year-old has stated that he would like to have more kids, with him and his wife hoping to raise a large family.
He commented: “We’d like at least one more.
“We’ll probably do five or six. We come from big families.
"I think Polynesians in general, but also the Mormon community, LDS, we like big families.
"I have five brothers and three sisters. (My wife) has three sisters and a brother.”
Golfer Tony Finau hits a hole in one and then dislocates his ankle in the celebration during Masters warm-up week
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UltraViolet Uforia
Variety Band from Sammamish, WA
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Prepare to make your event the highlight of the year with the psychedelic trance band UltraViolet Uforia. From psychedelic dance pieces to chill melodic grooves these guys come prepared to make your event a success! UltraViolet Uforia draws on over 20 years of experience playing original rock music and classic rock covers to transform that into the modern electronic sounds of dance and ambient music. Long improvisational jams are the centerpiece of the act with their catalog of... (more)
Dick Coolen Band with Linda Terri
Variety Band from Seattle, WA
SWING AND VARIETY DANCE BAND: The Dick Coolen Band featuring Linda Terri has the variety of music specially selected for your wedding reception or corporate event. We can accomodate classical selection for your ceremony music and light jazz for dinner or cocktail hour. For your reception or party you can select a menu of music consisting of Swing, Big Band, Dixieland,Pop, Selected Blues and Rock-n-Roll that all your guest will enjoy. Just like the great bands of the day but these... (more)
Romagossa Blu
Variety Band from Pasco, WA
Romagossa Blú plays "Free Range Fusion": a mix of mostly original music in genres ranging from Folk/Rock to Latin/Reggae. Great for dancing, listening, drinking wine, partying! They have been playing in Washington State since 2002, performing for wineries, concerts, weddings, corporate and private parties. And they have opened for the King of the Blues, B.B. King. The band membership is as varied as their music: a folk/rock singer-songwriter, a blues/funk saxophonist/percussionist, a Cuban... (more)
1*2*3 Music
Variety Band from Vancouver, WA
WHY CHOOSE 1-2-3 MUSIC? 1) PRICE 1-2-3 MUSIC provides the highest quality of entertainment at the lowest possible prices 2) CONTROL 1-2-3 MUSIC allows you to choose the right music and theme for your specific neeeds. We have wardrobe and song repetoire for any occasion. We'll work with you to ensure that you get the best choices for you event. 3) FLEXIBILITY Mickey and Diane cover all types of music and can work in any space regardless of size. They can ever... (more)
The Social Mix
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Swing Band from Seattle, WA
Fun, classy, engaging--the Social Mix brings top-level musicianship and professionalism to your event! In our longtime incarnation as Half-Pack Live!, we brought the swing (and the blues, pop, and R&B) to hundreds of events, delighting clients and their guests alike. (See our reviews!) Re-branding as the Social Mix reflects our commitment not only to the above styles but to our extended experience in vintage French swing ("Gypsy jazz"), and 1920s-style American jazz ("Gatsby" or "Dixie"... (more)
Free Rain
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Cover Band from Issaquah, WA
ARE YOU READY TO PARTY????!!!! Look no further than the #1 COVER BAND in the NORTHWEST. GIGMASTERS BEST OF since 2013! Free Rain is a very experienced, (5 star rated by gigmasters), rockin' dance band! We play music for people who like to dance and have a GREAT time! All of the band members are experienced professional musicians who enjoy interacting and having FUN with our audience. At most of our gigs, by the end of the night, audience members can be seen celebrating on stage with us! ... (more)
FarmStrong
Americana Band from Sequim, WA
FarmStrong, a four piece acoustic band based in the Dungeness Valley on the Olympic Peninsula, fuses a multitude of American roots sounds together, using their world-class vocal harmony singing as a foundation. Each individual in the band brings a wealth of bluegrass picking and singing experience to the band, but what separates the band from the traditional bluegrass fold is a far more nuanced approach to instrumentation, and a very diverse set of songs, ranging from traditional bluegrass... (more)
Dysfunction Junction Bluegrass Band
Bluegrass Band from Seattle, WA
Founded in 2005, Dysfunction Junction is Seattle's premier traditional bluegrass band, playing hundreds of shows in Washington, Oregon and Canada. With a massive 12+ hour repertoire covering genres of traditional bluegrass, country, gospel, Irish, folk, classic rock and blues, they have been hired for over 80 weddings, dozens of corporate events, festivals, parties and top Seattle venues. Dysfunction Junction organized and raised over $5000 for the victims of the Oso Landslide, making... (more)
Mr & Mrs Something
Folk Band from Seattle, WA
Weaving the soulful passion of blues and rock with the honesty of folk, married musical duo Mr. & Mrs. Something offer a refreshing taste of hope that feels like coming home. The blending of two voices is a wondrous thing. The joining of two lives is even more beautiful. How rare and wonderful when the same two voices and the same two lives sing together in harmony. Since recording their first demo where they performed a combined 12 different instruments in 2012, the multi-faceted duo has... (more)
The MacDaddy Band
Cover Band from Bothell, WA
The MacDaddy party band. 4 decades of the best party tunes, 50s thru 80s. We can do a 50s Sock Hop, 60s or 70s party or 4 decades of dance rock that includes 80s. Rock harmonica and 5 lead vocalists really sets us apart allowing us a wider variety of party tunes. We are a 6 person band, making audience participation, sing alongs & dance our main priority. Hired by: Seahawks for 2014 & 2015, Nordstrom, Charles Schwab, a regular at Tulalip and Swinomish Casino's, in case you... (more)
Good Co
We take pride in our name, Good Co is just that! We play swing, hot jazz, Electro Swing, as well pop, funk and rock to turn any night into a dance party but are equally at home performing standards to create the perfect atmosphere for any event. Our band is made up of some of the finest professional musicians in Seattle and we are able to be flexible to accommodate special requests. Good Co has performed all over the US, Canada, and Europe for music festivals, conventions, burlesque... (more)
Ed Mays Groove Kitchen
Cover Band from Seattle, WA
Add a touch of class to your event by hiring the seasoned pros of the award winning Groove Kitchen Band. We are a high energy dance band with an accent on Classic R&B. What you get is world class vocals and monster soloists presented in a tight entertainment package. We are Groove Kitchen because we are the groove masters. We know how to make you feel good and get you and your friends up dancing. We take pride in giving you what you want. Our large song list contains time tested hits that... (more)
Soul Siren
Cover Band from Poulsbo, WA
Soul Siren is the Northwest's Premier Party Band. We have a vast repetoire that makes us a great fit for any event and age group. Soul Siren is a hit at clubs, casinos, festivals, private parties, and weddings. Every client would not hesitate to recommend us or have us back again. Soul Siren explodes with energy from the start of the first song. DANCE, DANCE, DANCE ALL NIGHT LONG. Whether you like Adele, Black Eyed Peas, LMFAO, Cameo, Wild Cherry, Brian Setzer, Lady Gaga, The Commodors,... (more)
The TROPICS play for more Yacht Club events than any band in Washington and perform at Weddings, Corporate Events and Private Parties. OUR SOUND and SERVICES The TROPICS produce a sound beyond the ability of larger groups, offering an incredible variety of music from the 1950s to today's hits including Classic Rock, R&B, Swing, Light Jazz, Country and Edgy-pop! For Weddings we provide "MC services", and are happy to perform Ceremony Music and Special Dances. Visit our... (more)
Quarter Past 8
Classic Rock Band from Seattle, WA
Quarter Past 8 can easily entertain your guests with the broad range of music we play and our high energy show. We are seasoned pro's who are eager to entertain you and your guests and we love the music we play. We are honest musicians and take pride in the fact everything we play is 100% live. We don't use pre-recorded tracks like some bands do. In addition, we play at the volume you want and what suits your event. We'd much rather you ask us to turn it up, than turn it down. We can... (more)
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200 Trio
Jazz Band from Seattle, WA
The 200 trio shares a passion and love for jazz music and its roots around the world. Performing both original music as well as songs from a vast arsenal of jazz standards and arrangements, the group and its members have been nominated for 8 separate Earshot Golden Ear Awards including the NW Acoustic Ensemble of the Year award for 2016, 2017, and 2018. Their second album, Trinity, was recorded live by the legendary Jim Wilke (NPR, KPLU/KNKX), features all original music, and was released mid... (more)
VOTED BEST BAND OF 425! Check it out @ 425magazine.com/the-best-of-425-2019/#arts-and-entertainment Playing rock and pop hits with harmonies that zing - No backing tracks here, we're the real deal! Hall Pass voted one of the top local bands in Western Washington playing for the Seahawks to the Bite of Seattle, the Triple Door, Chihuly Glass Garden, McCaw Hall and the Hard Rock Cafe as well as various local venues in Seattle and Portland! Check out our videos, recordings and song list and... (more)
Red Hot Band
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Attention event planners… "TRANSFORM YOUR NEXT PARTY INTO A SENSATIONAL AND MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE WITH WORLD CLASS MUSIC BY THE RED HOT BAND!" Choosing the right entertainment for your party doesn't have to be time consuming & difficult! No matter what kind of private event you're having, you have lot's of choices to make. Let us help you. There are few components more important than the right music. By creating the perfect ambiance at your party you'll turn it into an extra special... (more)
Portage Bay Big Band
Big Band from Seattle, WA
The Portage Bay Big Band is Seattle's hardest workin' Big Band featuring the swing hits of the 1930's and 1940's. Our 18 piece band of musicians, led by Todd Nordling, has been playing dances, weddings, outdoor concerts, corporate and special events throughout the Puget Sound region since 1981. PBBB's vocalist, Hannah Scott, sings from a variety of eras, including the hits of June Christy and Helen Forrest. Other featured vocalist and musicians in the band add fun to our show. As an... (more)
Larry and Diane
Acoustic Band from Bellevue, WA
We are Larry and Diane, a unique acoustic duo with Larry holding down the Guitar and backup vocals; Diane singing and providing the rhythm. We are new to Gigmasters but not new to performing together the past 4 years in the Greater Seattle area. We offer an eclectic music experience... singing mostly COVER songs from the 1940's up to present day Pop. Blues, Jazz, Country, Contemporary, light Rock, Etc. We have put together mashups of well known songs and medleys of artists such as... (more)
The Takers
Cover Band from Bellingham, WA
Looking for some REAL Classic HARD ROCK?? Like the kind you remember hearing at the killer rock parties of your youth?? The Takers are a Hard Rock/Metal Cover Band that wants to take you back to the stadium rock of those times.. If you're into bands like: The Scorpions, Audioslave, Tom Petty, Judas Priest, Tonic, Black Sabbath, Radiohead, Montrose, Quiet Riot, AC/DC, Ratt, Bad Company, Fastway, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Foghat, Motley Crue, Ted Nuget, The Outfield, Angel City,... (more)
Good Vibez Jazz
Are you looking for a jazz solo artist, duo, trio, or quartet? Good Vibez Jazz will create a great atmosphere for your event! Featuring the cool sounds of the vibraphone and the warm, percussive sounds of the marimba, our group provides fun and energetic music for your party or function. All the band members are hard working Seattle musicians that love playing together and sharing their music with the audience, whether it be in a concert hall, jazz club, or at a private event. Our bands... (more)
Becca Atterberry and Soul Intention
Variety Band from Everett, WA
"We are proud to announce that Becca Atterberry & Soul Intention has been rated by local brides and voted The Knot Best of Weddings 2008 Pick. Please pick up a copy of The Knot Best of Weddings 2008 magazine and check out our listing." Want to dance and party? Then Soul Intention is the band for you! This band of professional musicians prides itself on making your evening fun and memorable by playing the perfect music selections for your occasion. Our song list includes selections from... (more)
Locust Street Taxi
Variety Band from Quilcene, WA
Locust Street Taxi is comprised of three musical geniuses and a trombone player and is standing by to deliver a more entertaining, unique and wholesome kick-in-the-pants than you thought you would ever find for your wedding, festival or party. If you are looking for something a little more fresh and unique than just another cover band, do ask for a free quote from us. We look forward to working with you. Locust Street Taxi makes grandmothers smile, children laugh, baby-boomers... (more)
Rendetta
Rock Band from Redmond, WA
Rendetta is a hard rock band based out of Seattle, formed in late 2010 by Billy Baines (guitar) and Christopher Tin (vocals). Writing songs that consist of pleasant melodies and hard hitting guitar riffs. In the later part of 2012 Billy and Chris recruited drummer Tom Coffey and Jeff Creighton on bass in the summer of 2013. They continue writing and expanding their style of music. Rendetta has played at venues like The Mix, Studio 7, and The Hard Rock Cafe. Rendetta is currently looking to... (more)
The Jennifer Lind Band
Cover Band from Gig Harbor, WA
In 2013, CBS Seattle ranked The Jennifer Lind Band as one of the Best Wedding Bands in Seattle. Band leader, Jennifer Lind is one of the most sought-after vocal artist in the Pacific Northwest. Extremely versatile, she has performed for numerous commercial jingles (T-Mobile, Sleep Country USA), film scores (Ghost Rider, Mirror Mirror, etc..) and radio station I.D announcements (KJR, KLSY and The Deliah Show). You can also hear Jennifer on numerous recording projects including Grammy... (more)
VonGrimorog
Metal Band from Spokane, WA
Von Grimorog will inspire you to Unleash Your Inner Demon! Von Grimorog performs both covers and originals in their own unique Power Metal/Horror Inspired style. Some of the artists they cover are Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Dream Theater, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Metallica, Dio and other classic metal bands which feature strong melodic singing and virtuosic guitar work. Every Von Grimorog show is a magical experience, a real spectacle,... (more)
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Development of a luggage Service Level Agreement for Air France-KLM
The Blockchain Xdev developed a blockchain MVP to trace luggage and manage the performance of contractors of Air France-KLM
“We chose Blockchain Xdev for the development of a blockchain MVP, that they carried out from start to finish. From identifying the industry’s pain points, to showcasing how blockchain could be deployed as a solution for our use case, until the final stage of the application’s development.”
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Air France-KLM is a major player in global air transport. Its main activities are passenger and cargo air transport and aircraft maintenance.
The journey of luggage is complex. From the moment a passenger checks-in at her departure airport, to the moment she collects her bag at her arrival. Luggage is loaded, dispatched, transported, unloaded, re-loaded… by multiple teams, both part of an airline’s organization and their external contractors. Each contributor relies on their IT infrastructure, making it difficult to reconcile data, trace a bag and identify responsibility in the case of a delivery failure. This inevitably results in time-consuming and, sometimes conflictual negotiations.
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What Are You Going Through
Author(s): Sigrid Nunez
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship. A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.
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The Free Library > Date > 2020 > January > 3 > Pakistan Observer (Islamabad, Pakistan)
Old age homes.
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Byline: AATIF KHAN - Islamabad
Nobody on earth can ever love you more than your parents. In Pakistan, parents are considered as next to God. People consider it a sin to disobey them. Pakistani parents expect their children to look after them when they become old. When their son gets married, they are overjoyed by the arrival of their daughter-in-law, feeling more secure and comfortable.
Most Pakistani families respect their parents and take good care of them but unfortunately there are people who treat their parents as liabilities and make them feel neglected. Of course, there are rare cases when parents themselves prefer the privacy of old people's home but in the majority of cases, it is the cold attitude of children that forces parents to move to old people homes. There is an unnecessary race for more money and luxuries which is intoxicating and shattering the family system. Children think they are doing nothing wrong to keep parents in an old people homes and that's why demand for more such homes is increasing.
Our society's values of taking care of old people are fading away. One often implies that the elderly are only counting down their days. Such comments about individuals who can still contribute much to society should be taken with a pinch of salt. Meanwhile, society itself needs to give serious thought to taking care of the needs of the elderly who have given them everything they have today.
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Boysenberry Festival 2019... Food, Flowers, and Fun!
It's that time of year again! The rains have ended, the flowers are blooming, and it's time to celebrate everything boysenberry at Knott's Berry Farm! Every boysenberry in the world can be traced back to Walter Knott and his farm in Buena Park. The boysenberry is a cross between a red raspberry, blackberry and loganberry. The berry was propagated by Anaheim neighbor Rudolph Boysen, but abandoned shortly thereafter when harvesting it was unsuccessful. The scraggly bushes were brought to Walter Knott's attention and by 1934 he had a bumper crop of enormous, sweet-tart berries which prove more popular than anything he'd grown before. Coupled with Cordelia Knott's berry preserves and pies, folks came from across the country to sample the famed boysenberry.
Each Spring, for the past several years, Knott's Berry celebrates their history with the Boysenberry Festival, which typically takes place for several weeks during Spring Break and Easter season. This year's festival runs through Sunday, April 28, 2019. The event features more than 75 boysenberry-themed food items, a variety of take-home goods, merchandise, beer and wine tastings, and more! Special entertainment has been added in the form of live shows, games, art displays, and short films on the history of the berry and the park. Limited-time food items are available to purchase individually, or sample your way around the park through a tasting card and try select items.
Berry superfans attended opening weekend dressed in the Boysenberry best!
Food, Food, and More Food
This year, 75 boysenberry-inspired creations will be available during the 2019 Knott's Boysenberry Festival! Fourteen of the 75 items will be available to sample through a $35 tasting card, which offers a choice of any eight you desire. Try eight separate dishes, or have multiples of your favorite! Each inspired creation was crafted by the Knott’s culinary team. Guests will have the opportunity to indulge in a tantalizing lineup of dishes ranging from savory foods with a boysenberry twist to one-of-a-kind specialty desserts and drinks that can only be found at Knott’s Berry Farm during this time of year. For a more detailed look at the food options, and where to find them, visit our Boysenberry Festival Preview post and download our handy guides to your phone!
theFUNnelCakeBlog's favorites: Boysenberry Rubbed Flank Steak with Boysenberry Cream Cheese sauce, Boysenberry Chili in a Boysenberry Bun, Boysenberry Sausage, Boysenberry BBQ Pulled Pork Tostada, and the Boysenberry Butter Grilled Cheese with Boysenberry Jam!
Wine, Beer, and Cheese!
A variety of local wines, craft beer, and specially themed cocktails are available through the park during the Knott's Boysenberry Festival.
Select locations sell beverages by the glass. Head to the Wilderness Dance Hall and purchase a tasting card to sample six beer and wine selections of your choice from the specially curated collection.
Each tasting card card comes with a cheese and fruit plate!
Our favorite: the Boysenberry Wine and the Lindeman's Framboise Raspberry Beer.
While the food takes center stage at the Knott's Boysenberry Festival, the park decor steals the show. Lavish displays and fresh flowers transport you to a Spring wonderland!
Merchandise Shop 'til you drop! From Knott's Berry Market's classic preserves, to their now famous Boysenberry BBQ sauce in various varieties, dozens of Boysenberry themed food, bath, and souvenir items are for sale around the park. With any purchase, get a limited edition pin and patch for only $3! Select from, coffee, bath bombs, rum infused dipping sauces, candy pies, and much more. Even take home your own boysenberry plant to start your own mini farm! For less than $10, bring home a can of boysenberries and fresh mix to make your own warm, fresh cobbler.
The Knott’s Boysenberry Festival offers a variety of entertainment options throughout the day.
- Tied up in Knott’s! (Wilderness Dance Hall) This tribute art show is dedicated to the rich history of Knott’s Berry Farm. Over 30 artists contributed 50 pieces of art to the show, which pays homage to Knott’s Berry Farm’s past, present and future in various mediums including: oil paintings, illustrations and digital mixed media. Original artwork is for sale, as are prints of select pieces.
- Snoopy’s Boysenberry Jamboree! (Calico Stage) Guests are invited to join Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts Gang in a musical stage show that will have families dancing along at the Calico Mine Stage. (theFUNnelCakeBlog favorite!)
- Boysenberry Bedlam... Or The Villain Was In a Jam (Old Time Melodrama) (Bird Cage Theatre) Knott’s pays tribute to its past at the Legendary Bird Cage Theatre with a special presentation of the musical comedy melodrama with a surprising boysenberry twist. (theFUNnelCakeBlog favorite!)
- Krazy Kirk and the Hillbillies (Wagon Camp) A group of krazy talented performers will have guests toe tappin’, vine dancin’ and knee-slappin’ to a comedic country music show at the Wagon Camp stage.
- Musical Performances (Fireman's BBQ and Boardwalk BBQ Stages) Various musical duos playing Country and Bluegrass tunes will take the stage and entertain festival goers.
- Old MacDonald Petting Zoo (Main Street Barn) Young ones and young at heart are invited to cozy up to the cutest critters on the farm including horses, sheep, goats and other furry friends. Old MacDonald’s farm pays tribute to one of the farm’s original attractions.
- Knott's Totally Tubular 80's Dance Party (Boardwalk Ballroom) Grab your leg warmers for a trip back in time with all of your favorite 80's music just like you remember it! It's totally tubular!
- Fiesta Dance Party with DJ Cruz (Fiesta Stage) Slap on your dancing shoes as DJ Cruz spins the hottest dance tracks this side of Calico! Once you hit the dance floor, you won't be able to stop.
- The History of the Boysenberry Festival (Town Hall) Enjoy films and old photographs which pay tribute to founders Walter and Cordelia Knott and the berry that put their farm on the map. (theFUNnelCakeBlog favorite!)
- Calico Park Fun & Games (Calico Park) Test your skills in a variety of picnic games, including Grandpa's Boysenberry Pajamas, a Pie Walk, and more!
In addition to these special festival entertainment options, park favorites such as the Frontier Feats of Wonder Stunt Show, Calico Saloon Show, Native American Dancer, Mystery Lodge, and Space Beagle in Camp Snoopy will be performed. Show schedules subject to change.
For updates throughout the festival, visit facebook.com/theFUNnelCakeBlog and theFUNnelCakeBlog on Instagram.
For up-to-date festival information, visit knotts.com.
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Taung Kalat, a spiritual vacation
December 14, 2017By The Golden ScopePosted in Travel
These hectic and competitive modern times force a lot of us to live daily with the stress and fatigue so as soon is possible we feel the need to stop and allow our minds and spirit to rest….if possible in quiet and picturesque places…
So, to get away from the pressures that mark our days, and to regenerate the spirit, today The Golden Scope has decided to ” to bring” in Myanmar, a beautiful country in the Far East that in a previous article we called “The Great Soul of the East”.
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, in the past named Burma, has a special charm that gently envelops everyone who visits its places with the temples that magically transmit a kind of inner peace …
In the middle of Myanmar there is the Mount Popa National Park, it was established in 1989 and its main point of interest is due to the mountain dominating the plain with its strange conical shape due to the fact which was once a volcano.
Climbing Mount Popa, 1518 meters high, means to do 777 steps, a real physical effort because local traditions say that it to be done barefoot in honor of “Nat”, the 37 guardian spirits dwelling in Taungkalat Monastery …on top of the mountain.
Then, the path of 777 steps is “populated” by a lot of funny monkeys to guard the temple, they often approach visitors to steal whatever is to eat… some very comic situations…
It’s difficult to describe by words the shocking beauty of the landscape that can be seen from the temple but certainly the photos and the video, that we have selected for you, will help to give honor to this mystical place… one of the most beautiful in the world!
The Temple of Taungkalat, as we said in the title, is the perfect place for a spiritual vacation to contemplate the beauty of our beautiful planet and at the same time to restore our stressed spirit; one of those rare places where the magical atmosphere is a caress for the soul…
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Thanjavur Airport plan yet to take off
September 06, 2018 Air Travel
Air travellers in delta districts may have to wait longer for enjoying the benefit of the UDAN Regional Connectivity Scheme of the Central Government.
At the start of 2018, Thanjavur was identified along with Vellore in Tamil Nadu under phase II of UDAN for operation of domestic flights with ATR aircraft this year.
Spicejet was awarded the Thanjavur-Chennai route for operating 70 to 80 seater planes. But, construction of the terminal building is yet to be taken up pending completion of process of exchange of land between Airports Authority of India and Indian Air Force that has been using the air strip in Thanjavur.
Business and industry sector in delta districts apprehend that the Thanjavur will be left out of UDAN II under which 43 airports and helipads in the country were proposed to be connected.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation had, earlier this year, approached the Indian Air Force for exchange of land needed at the air strip for commercial operations. AAI plans to build a small terminal for passenger operations and create other basic facilities.
But, things have not moved on expected lines. Land transfer may take more time since it is a matter involving defence land, said K. Gunasekaran, Airport Director, Tiruchi International Airport.
S. Vaithiyanathan, Chairman, Builders Association of India, Thanjavur Centre, said air connectivity has been a long-felt need for people of Thanjavur and nearby districts. In the absence of an airport, travelling to other parts of the country becomes a time-consuming affair. Only a small section of businessmen and industrialists from delta districts travel to Tiruchi to board flights. As things stand, train is the most preferred mode of travel to Chennai since the bus route till Vikravandi via Kumbakonam is in poor shape, he said.
With agricultural sector witnessing a slump over the years, the economy could be revived only through industrial activities for which air connectivity is vital, Sabapathy, president of Thanjavur District Small and Tiny Industries Association, said.
Leading educational institutions in Thanjavur and nearby areas are also looking forward to early operation of flights from Thanjavur for better national-level visibility.
The general view prevailing among the public is that Members of Parliamentary constituencies in delta districts must lobby harder with the Union Ministries of Civil Aviation and Defence for an early outcome, considering Thanjavur’s importance as a vibrant hub for religious tourism, culture, education, silk weaving and craft materials.
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