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Music Friday: Chris Lane Sings About His Real-Life Proposal in ‘Big, Big Plans’
Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you romantic songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, country singer Chris Lane shares his real-life proposal to reality TV star Lauren Bushnell in 2019’s “Big, Big Plans.”
In a music video viewed on YouTube more than 10.5 million times, Lane’s fans get to see the actual moment he popped the question to Bushnell in the backyard of her parents’ home in Oregon.
The video starts with romantic, smartphone-generated footage of the couple having fun in everyday situations and then transitions to his actual proposal, where he gets down on one knee and tells his girlfriend that she’s the best thing that ever happened to him.
Written by Lane and two collaborators, “Big, Big Plans” offers a play-by-play account of how he bought an emerald-cut diamond ring and hid it in the bathroom.
He sings, “She don’t know I already bought a ring / Hid it in the bottom left drawer right beside the sink / Shiny emerald diamond on a brand new band / Asked her momma for permission and her daddy for her hand.”
“Even though I felt pretty confident I was going to get the ‘yes,’ I’ve never been that nervous,” Lane told People magazine. “When I got to the third verse of the song and knew it was time, I pretty much blacked out. The next thing I knew, she said ‘Yes’ and the nerves just lifted. It’s an explosion of excitement, pure joy, and love.”
The engagement took place in June of 2019 and the two married shortly thereafter in Nashville in October of the same year.
A second video for “Big, Big Plans” features footage from the couple’s wedding day. That video earned 2.4 million views on YouTube.
Written by Chris Lane, Ernest K. Smith and Jacob Durrett, “Big, Big Plans” topped out at #33 on the U.S. Billboard Country chart.
Bushnell famously won the 20th Season of The Bachelor, during which she won the heart of Ben Higgins. The couple was engaged in March of 2016 and ended their relationship a little more than a year later.
Lane and Bushnell had been dating since 2018.
At the time of her engagement to Lane, Bushnell posted to Instagram a photo of the couple kissing, along with this caption: “I can’t stop smiling I feel so incredibly blessed that every misstep, mistake and heartache has led me to you. I couldn’t be happier to call you mine, forever.”
Scroll down to see both the engagement-themed and wedding-themed videos. The lyrics are included if you’d like to sing along…
“Big, Big Plans”
Written by Chris Lane, Ernest K. Smith and Jacob Durrett. Performed by Chris Lane.
Just look at her sittin’ there
Sweatpants t-shirt in a comfy chair
Her hair in a bun one hand on her mug
And the other one’s playin snare
To a George Strait vinyl
That Yes or No line’ll get her close
But I don’t think she can understand
Just how far I’ve been lettin’ my heart
Fall and what’s in my head
She don’t know I got some big, big plans
Build a little house out on some hand me down land
Find a little island where we go to get tan
I bet we take our kids down there one day
And I know she wouldn’t mind if I
Did a lil somethin’ like find a flight
Over night to Paradise
And leave tonight
And I’ma put a diamond on her hand
She don’t know
She don’t know I already bought a ring
Hid it in the bottom left drawer right beside the sink
Shiny emerald diamond on a brand new band
Asked her momma for permission and her daddy for her hand
I got some big big plans
Well here I go
Cause right now we’re back in her hometown
And I’m down on one knee
I guess she finally figured out
I’m gonna ask her to marry me…
I some big, big plans
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Your Dream Journey Discover Dubai And Abu Dhabi
Andrew Harper Travel Journey Overview
Dubai, Abu Dhabi
Starting at: $5,939.00 Per Person
Discover the highlights of Dubai and Abu Dhabi and be amazed by how the two Emirates have their own distinct characteristics. Get a glimpse of the cities' history, culture, modern influences, and desert experiences. With the help of our partner Desert Adventures, an Andrew Harper Travel advisor will personalize this journey.
DAY 1 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Upon arrival, you will be met by your representative and escorted to your waiting private transfer to the hotel. Check-in at the hotel and enjoy the rest of the day/evening at leisure.
Stay Overnight Burj Al Arab Jumeirah
Burj Al Arab is an architectural marvel that has put Dubai on the world map.
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel then meet your guide and driver for a private Dubai city tour. Learn about the 19th-century life in Dubai as you visit the Dubai Museum and weave through the alleys of the Al Fahidi Historical District. Board an abra, a traditional water taxi that ferried the locals through the years across the Dubai Creek. Take a must-have photo at the Jumeirah Beach with the iconic Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Mosque in the background. The tour will conclude with a visit to the world’s tallest tower, Burj Khalifa. Ascend to At The Top’s Level 148 to give you an uninterrupted bird’s eye view of various parts of the city. Transfer back to the hotel to spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure.
DAY 3 Dubai Desert
Enjoy breakfast and your morning at leisure. At noon, check out of the hotel and meet your driver for a private transfer to your next hotel in Dubai. After check-in, meet your driver for a shared dinner safari. Ideal for special occasions and intimate celebrations, this grand dinner safari includes transportation across the desert via Range Rover, a delectable six-course dinner in a private set-up amidst the rolling dunes of the desert, a spectacular wildlife drive through the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, and more.
Stay Overnight One&Only The Palm
One&Only The Palm
This glamorous seaside resort is located on an artificial island, opposite the dramatic Marina district.
DAYS 4 - 5 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel followed by two full days at leisure to enjoy the hotel’s facilities or explore the city on your own.
DAY 6 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before check out. Meet your guide and driver for a private Abu Dhabi city tour. Wander around the city’s cultural landmarks and be mesmerized by the magnificent skyline. Stop by Yas Island and take photos at the iconic Ferrari World. Explore the majesty of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, a palatial architectural wonder that is one of the world’s largest mosques. Sneak a peek into the relaxed modern city life in Abu Dhabi as you are driven to the heart of the city, along the Corniche. Discover the emirate’s past with a visit to Heritage Village, a reconstruction of a traditional oasis village that features the desert way of life. Marvel at the grandiose Emirates Palace and indulge in the hotel’s world-class cuisine for lunch. Then take an unguided visit to the Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi.
Enjoy an overnight stay at a luxury accommodation. Contact an Andrew Harper Travel advisor for more information.
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel followed by a day at leisure to enjoy the hotel’s facilities or explore the city on your own.
DAY 8 Departure
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before check out. Transfer from your hotel to Dubai International Airport for your journey back home.
Prices are per person, based on two people sharing, except where noted. Room categories, dates of travel and change to services will affect the price. Dollar conversions shown will fluctuate throughout the year. Contact the Andrew Harper Travel Office to customize this itinerary to fit your needs.
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Since we first published one of his feature stories in October 2010, Anthony has become one of our most valued freelancers. His writing always is on target for our audience; his knowledge of craft beer and food always infuses his work on those topics with a well-informed confidence; his clean and well-researched submissions always require very little editing; and his vibrant voice always shines through in his storytelling.
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Home » Gehry Loses Atlantic Yards Arena to Ellerbe Becket
Gehry Loses Atlantic Yards Arena to Ellerbe Becket
Nadine M. Post
Architect Ellerbe Becket, of Kansas City, has been retained by New Jersey Nets owner and Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner, of Forest City Ratner Cos. (FCRC) to come up with a new design for the long-delayed and controversial Atlantic Yards basketball and entertainment arena in Brooklyn.
Ellerbe Becket replaces Gehry Partners. New York City-based structural engineer Thornton-Tomasetti, and mechanical-electrical-plumbing engineer, WSP Flack + Kurtz, will remain on the project.
FCRC says it hopes to unveil new images of the arena, named Barclays Center, in late June and intends to break ground later this year in anticipation of a completed arena in time for the Nets to play the 2011-2012 NBA season in Brooklyn. In 2006, the developer was aiming to move the Nets into the arena by the 2009-2010 NBA season.
Recently, the Appellate Division of the New York state court ruled four to zero to uphold the state’s right to use eminent domain to build the Frank Gehry-master planned Atlantic Yards mega-development in Brooklyn, which includes the arena.
"I have an immense gratitude toward Frank Gehry for his amazing vision, unparalleled talent and steadfast partnership," said Ratner, FCRC chairman and CEO, in a statement. “Both at Atlantic Yards and with the Beekman Tower in Lower Manhattan, he has continually produced beyond our expectations.”
Ratner added: “Throughout this process—-as litigation produced delays; as rising construction costs impacted the budgets of all developers; and a slowing economy altered expectations—Frank and his team have shown remarkable flexibility and professionalism, making cost-effective revisions as needed. The current economic climate is not right for this design, and with Frank’s understanding, the arena is undergoing a redesign that will make it more limited in scope.”
Also in a statement, Gehry said: “We remain extremely proud of our work on the Atlantic Yards master plan and on the original arena, which we designed in close collaboration with Forest City Ratner. While there are always regrets at designs not realized, we greatly appreciate our ongoing relationship with Bruce and his team."
Under a master plan by Frank Gehry, the development would encompass 606,000 square feet of office space, 6.79 million square feet of residential space (6,860 units of affordable and market-rate housing), 850,000 square feet of sports and entertainment arena, 247,000 square feet for retail use, a 165,000-square-foot hotel (180 rooms), and over seven acres of open space. FCRC says it expects to begin construction of at least one residential building during the project’s first construction phase.
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To- Do List December
Nov 28, 2018 In: To Do List Tags: Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Anne Appleby, EUQINOMprojects, Gabriel Orozco, Janet Delaney, Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Minnesota Street Project, Orestes Gonzalez, San Jose Museum of Art, SF Camerawork, SOMArts, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator
Images courtesy of Minnesota Street Project Editions.
Saturday, December 1, 11am to 8pm– Editions Holiday Pop-up Shop at Minnesota Street Project: Come and peruse Minnesota Street Project’s full line of artist-made editions while enjoying a holiday-themed cocktail from Besharam’s bar. Editions features a mix of handmade collectibles and functional items—from sculptures and exclusive prints to artist-designed apparel and homeware. Editions exists to support Minnesota Street Project’s mission to provide affordable spaces for artists, galleries, and cultural nonprofits in the Bay Area. They share proceeds evenly with each Editions artist and use their portion to further reduce the rents for their tenants. Minnesota Street Project is located at 1275 Minnesota Street.
Mark Baugh-Sasaki, “Between Landscape and Memory (1105-D)”, 2018. Image courtesy of Minnesota Street Project.
December 1 to 29– re: home: A For Freedoms exhibition at Minnesota Street Project’s Gallery 200: re:home is a For Freedoms exhibition and community action that examines how the broad societal crises of sanctuary cities, homelessness, and the flight of the creative class intersect in the San Francisco Bay Area. re:home pushes forward the conversation sparked by the exhibition Making Heimat, which was developed by Deutsches Architekturmuseum and first presented in theGerman Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. re:home examines how the concepts of “Heimat” (Homeland) and “Arrival City” invoke contemporary regional struggles, exploring what it means to be a political refugee, and the modes of displacement endured by economic refugees. The exhibition reflects upon and critiques the lights and shadows of San Francisco as an “Arrival City” and presents the ways in which it can become a more effective one. To further democratize access to the artwork and concepts within re:home, a Pop-Up Shop of prints, artist editions, and books will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Minnesota Street Projects’s Gallery 200 is located at 1275 Minnesota Street.
Related event: Saturday, December 15, 6– 8pm
A For Freedoms Town Hall event will take place in Minnesota Street Project’s Atrium hosted by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, spoken-word poet, dancer, playwright, and Chief of Program and Pedagogy at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Throughout the exhibition, programming, performances, and special events will be held in collaboration with various individuals and organizations.
Image courtesy of SOMArts Cultural Center.
Thursday, December 13, 6 to 9pm– Reorienting the Imaginaries: Markers’ Market at SOMArts Cultural Center: The exhibition on view at SOMArts, Reorienting the Imaginaries, brings together artists of color who are connected by complex histories, identity and power to disrupt the unwarranted representations imposed upon them by the Western gaze. As part of the exhibitions programming, the Makers’ Market moves beyond representational identity politics to highlight makers and organizers in a variety of industries. Participating vendors are taking control of their own means of production and redefining the business model that is rooted in community building and engagement based on community needs. Vendors include Allatum Jewelery, Damn Good Teas, Diaspora Co., Illustrated Truths, La Botanica Azul, Narinda Heng Pottery, and Vida Vazquez StudioQueer Care. SOMArts Cultural Center is located at 934 Brannan Street.
Janet Delaney, “Cookies not Contras”, 1986. Image courtesy of EUQINOM Gallery.
Ongoing to December 22– Janet Delaney: Public Matters at EUQINOM Gallery: Capturing the spirit of protest and parade, Public Matters brings together photographs made in Reagan-era San Francisco. At this turbulent time in the mid eighties, Delaney was living in the primarily Latino neighborhood of the Mission District. If political governance was regressing, the West Coast city was a place where, as Delaney remembers, ‘progressive ideas would always be upheld.’ Celebrating multiculturalism and collective struggles for social justice, Public Matters surfaces at a juncture when the message of building bridges is needed now more than ever. In the vintage glow of her sun-drenched images, Delaney leads viewers in and out of crowds – among demonstrators, fair-goers, crossdressers, union organisers, beauty pageants, dancers, salesmen, mothers, kids, and market punters – searching for as many intimate moments as she found collective voices. EUQINOM Gallery is located at 1295 Alabama Street.
Anne Appleby, “Mountain #3 (Mineral Hill)”, 2017. Image courtesy of Anglim Gilbert Gallery.
Ongoing to December 22– Anne Appleby: The Mountain and Me at Anglim Gilbert Gallery: In this exhibit, Appleby offers offers a powerful, nuanced account of evolutions in the natural environment of her home in central Montana. Appleby’s 360 degree, 365 days-a-year observations encompass distant views of the rising mountain forms, as well as the finely tuned abstractions derived from specific tree species and the effects of climate change. Appleby’s process of intimately observing the sweeping mountainsides and tree species indigenous to her surroundings, results in abstract compositions that capture the quietness yet monumentality of the natural world. Her works have a subtle palette and tonal range that reflect how light, color, and form are optically experienced. Clusters of tree groves and shadows appear in soft focus, allowing the viewer’s gaze to slowly drift across the painted surface, observing the work in a mode similar to Appleby’s personal vision of the landscape around her. Anglim Gilbert Gallery is located at 1275 Minnesota Street.
Gabriel Orozco, “Right couple”, 2010. Image courtesy of San José Museum of Art.
Ongoing to March 10– Other Walks, Other Lines at San José Museum of Art: One of our most elemental behaviors as human beings is walking. But what happens when we become explicit, inquisitive, and deliberate about what is as natural to us as eating and breathing? Walking is both universal and idiosyncratic; we all walk but choose different paths, peppered by unique interactions and experiences. Other Walks, Other Lines examines the variety of ways in which 23 artists reflect on this specific, mundane activity, and use it to make meaning. San José Museum of Art is located at 110 South Market Street in San José.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, “Future Fauna 1”. Image courtesy of SF Camerawork.
Ongoing to January 12– Orestes Gonzalez & Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: I am to see to it that I do not lose you at SF Camerawork: The exhibition presents two bodies of work that establish a vital temporal line between a retrieved history and a proposed future. Gonzalez’s photographic tour of his late uncle’s home in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood invites audiences into his uncle’s space to witness a life lived unapologetically amidst rigid twentieth-century social morals that rejected queerness outright. Gonzalez’s work records and deconstructs the family and culturally-driven narrative about who his uncle was as a gay man, immigrant, and hard-working provider. Bhutto’s multimedia series fuses textile, performance and lens-based practices to envision a rebellious queer future. Bhutto seeks to subvert the western gaze at Muslim, queer, and black and brown bodies by creating high femme warriors who fight for a world in which all are embraced. SF Camerawork is located at 1011 Market Street, 2nd Floor.
On View in Miami: Art Basel Miami Beach
Dec 9, 2013 In: Art Fairs Tags: Albert Oehlen, Art Basel Miami Beach, Clare Rojas, Gabriel Orozco, Galerie Lelong, Galerie Max Hetzler, Hauser & Wirth, Mark Bradford, Petah Coyne, Roget Hiorns, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Tomas Saraceno By: ArtSource Inc.
Our last day in Miami was filled with Art Basel Miami Beach, here are a few highlights:
Mark Bradford at Hauser & Wirth
Albert Oehlen at Galerie Max Hetzler
Tomas Saraceno at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Clare Rojas at Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Petah Coyne at Galerie Lelong
Gabriel Orozco at Marian Goodman Gallery
Roger Hiorns at Luhring Augustine
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Black Cockatoos have rich black feathers, and are found in various places around Australia.
The most commonly seen include the Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus magnificus) and the Yellow-Tailed Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus).
Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
Black Swans can be found around lakes and rivers all over Australia. They nest on small islands or amongst the reeds alongside the riverbanks, with both parents protective of the young.
There are about 12 species of Bowerbird found around Australia, with the most common being the Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis), the Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) and the Spotted Bowerbird (Chlamydera maculata). They are often brightly coloured, and have an unusual mating ritual where the male decorates his bower with brightly coloured objects to attract the female.
Brolga (Grus rubicundus)
Brolgas are large cranes, which grow to about 1 metre tall. They live in the wetlands of northern Australia. The Brolga has a grey body, and a rather distinctive red head.
Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulates)
Budgerigars stay in large groups, and can often be seen in the inland regions of Australia. Their colouring varies greatly from greys and blues to greens, yellows and pinks.
Cassowaries are found in the rainforests of Far North Queensland. They can be seen at various times throughout the day, although are generally timid animals. Many are victims of forest fragmentation, due to areas of rainforst being divided by farmland and the Cassowaries scared to cross the open land.
Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Emus are large flightless birds, which live in various areas around Australia. Emus grow to about 2 metres tall, and have thick busy feathers and long thin legs. The female lays about six to twelve eggs, although the male is the one who hatches the eggs and looks after the young.
Galah (Cacatua roseicapilla)
Galah are found in various places around Australia, and is often seen at the side of the road. They have a pretty grey and pink colouring and are similar in appearance to the Cockatoo.
Jabiru (Xenorhynchus asiaticus)
The Jabiru is also known as the Black-Necked Stork, and is found in North Eastern parts of Australia. The Jabiru grows to a height of about 1 metre tall and has long thin orange legs, a black and white marked body and a shiny blue-black neck, with a long black beak.
Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguinae)
Kookaburras belong to the Kingfisher family and can be found in various coastal areas around Australia. The laughing Kookaburra has a recognisable laugh, which you often hear.
The Blue-Winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii) lives in the northern part of Australia, and like its name suggests has a blue colouring rather than the traditional brown and cream.
Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)
The Lyrebird is found around the South Eastern part of Australia. Lyrebirds live in the rainforest areas, and are extremely shy birds. When mating the males will spread its tail feathers to attract the females.
Magpie (Gymnorhina spp)
Magpies are found all over Australia, and have a bold black and white colouring. Magpies make a number of different sounds, and are often heard singing at dawn.
Magpie Goose (Anseranas semipalmata)
The Magpie Goose can be found in the tropical northern parts of Australia. They are often seen in groups around the wetland areas.
Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)
Rainbow Lorikeets are like their name suggests "rainbow coloured". They have blue heads, an orange breast and green body and tail. The Rainbow Lorikeet also has a rather unusual brush like tongue, which helps it remove nectar from flowers.
Rosella (Platycercus spp)
There are a wide variety of species of Rosella found around Australia. They often have brightly coloured feathers, with blues, reds and yellows. The Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius) is the most commonly seen.
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos can be found in Eastern and Northen parts of Australia, and often stay in large groups. They have thick white feathers, and whilst feeding several of the Cockatoos will keep watch for danger from the air.
Wedge-Tailed Eagle (Aquila audax)
Wedge-Tailed Eagles are found mainly in the great Australian Outback, and are the largest bird of prey found in Australia. They have dark feathers with a yellow beak, and "wedge" shaped tail. In flight their wingspan can reach about 2 metres across, allowing them to fly at great heights and swoop down on prey.
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La Bible racontée aux enfants
Written by: divers auteurs
Narrated by: Jacques Charron
Voici la Bible racontée aux enfants, à partir de 2 extraits emblématiques : l'histoire de David et Goliath, et Moïse sauvé des eaux...
Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids
Written by: Sarah Young
Narrated by: Nan Gurley
Devotions written as if Jesus is speaking directly to a child's heart. Based on her original Jesus Calling, this version has been adapted in a language and fashion that kids and tweens can relate to their everyday lives....
The Complete Bible Story Book for Kids: 2 in 1: True Bible Stories for Children About the Old and the New Testament Every Christian Child Should Know
Written by: Karen Jones
Narrated by: Ivy Starlight
These stories presented are interspersed with quotes from the Bible, enhancing the storyline, and helping children to get used to the language used in the original translation....
By Craesiv on 2020-03-10
Your Magnificent Chooser
Teaching Kids to Make Godly Choices
Written by: John Ortberg
Narrated by: John Ortberg
Length: 8 mins
We all have choices to make every day, even the youngest children. The choices we make play a large part in forming who we grow to be as adults....
Love Does for Kids
Written by: Bob Goff, Lindsey Goff Viducich
Narrated by: Bob Goff
In the same way that Love Does has struck a deep chord with adults, kids will experience God in new and thrilling ways and see that living out our faith certainly isn’t boring! With this audio book, children will laugh, dream, and be inspired to make a difference for God....
The Action Bible Devotional
52 Weeks of God-Inspired Adventure
Written by: Jeremy V. Jones
Narrated by: Todd Busteed
With a week’s worth of activities for each Bible story, this one-year devotional gives you real-life ways to live out God’s spiritual adventure every day....
By Alvin on 2020-11-11
Every Day a Friday
How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week
Written by: Joel Osteen
Narrated by: Joel Osteen
The title comes from research that shows people are happiest on Fridays. Pastor Joel Osteen writes how we can generate this level of contentment and joy every day of the week....
Bible Story Book for Kids
True Bible Stories for Children About Jesus and the New Testament Every Christian Child Should Know
The New Testament is a clear and concise summary of the greatest story ever told, the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is narrated for young minds to understand and explore the main points of Jesus’ birth, life, death, and ascension, as well as the rise of the Christian church....
Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
Stories of Changes, Choices, and Growing Up for Kids Ages 9-13
Written by: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, and others
Narrated by: Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap
Written by and for preteens, this uplifting collection of stories touches on the emotions and situations we experience every day....
The Story of Civilization, Volume III The Making of the Modern World
Written by: Phillip Campbell
Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
The Story of Civilization emphasizes presenting world history as a thrilling narrative. Volume III: The Making of the Modern World continues the journey where Volume II left off amidst the Renaissance, quickly diving into the history-altering events of the Reformation....
Don't Know Much About World Myths
Written by: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Jason Harris, John Bedford Lloyd
Whether it's the adventures of Greek gods and goddesses or Norse trickster tales, we all love to hear a good story....
The Action Bible New Testament
God's Redemptive Story
Written by: David C. Cook, Doug Mauss (editor)
The heroes and stories of the Bible come to life in this New Testament edition of The Action Bible....
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Lies Girls Believe
And the Truth that Sets Them Free
Written by: Dannah Gresh, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth - editor
Narrated by: Jessica Golder, Lexi Gresh, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Today's girls face a number of challenges we never dealt with at their age. From skyrocketing anxiety rates to bullying on social media, the Enemy's lies are everywhere. How do you help the girl you love walk in freedom? Equip her with Truth....
Adoniram Judson
Bound for Burma (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)
Written by: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
As America's first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) spent 38 years working in Burma, then one of the most hostile countries on Earth....
George Muller
The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans
With scarcely enough food or money for his own family, George Müller (1805-1898) opened his heart and home.
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Every Story Whispers His Name
Written by: Sally Lloyd-Jones
Narrated by: David Suchet
In The Jesus Storybook Bible, every story whispers his name. It tells the story beneath all the stories in the Bible....
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By Laakso on 2020-11-13
How Much Is a Little Girl Worth?
Written by: Rachael Denhollander
Narrated by: Rachael Denhollander
How Much Is a Little Girl Worth? is Rachael Denhollander's tender-hearted anthem to little girls everywhere, teaching them that they have immeasurable worth because they are made in the image of God....
So the Next Generation Will Know
Preparing Young Christians for a Challenging World
Written by: Sean McDowell, J. Warner Wallace
Narrated by: Sean McDowell, J. Warner Wallace
Written by youth influencers and experts on Generation Z, Sean McDowell, PhD, and J. Warner Wallace, So the Next Generation Will Know is an extraordinarily practical, relatable guide for anyone concerned with ensuring the next generation embraces a biblical worldview....
The Book of God
The Bible as Novel
Written by: Walter Wangerin Jr.
Narrated by: Walter Wangerin Jr.
Master storyteller Walter Wangerin, Jr. makes the Bible come alive in vivid detail with The Book of God...
Children of God Storybook Bible
Written by: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Narrated by: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Children of God Storybook Bible is a collection of beloved Bible stories written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu....
Winning the Battle Against Your Giants
Written by: Louie Giglio
Narrated by: Louie Giglio - introduction, Mark Smeby
Our kids face more pressure and stress than ever before. Issues such as fear, jealousy, loneliness, and anxiety seem like giants standing in the way of the joy-filled childhood and adolescence we want them to have....
Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories
Written by: Mark W. McGinnis
Narrated by: Rachel Yoder, Sanjiv Jhaveri
Mark McGinnis has collected over 40 of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact....
Jungle Doctor and the Whirlwind
Written by: Paul White
Narrated by: Paul Michael
There is a stranger in the hospital compound - his pockets brimming with money; his clothes brighter than the sunset… and Maradadi is as full of trouble as a scorpion...
The Story of God's Love for You
Narrated by: Sally Lloyd-Jones, David Suchet
Every story whispers his name.... It's an adventure story about a young hero who comes from a far country to win back his lost treasure....
The Story of the Bible, Volume I
The Old Testament
Written by: TAN Books
In The Story of the Bible, young listeners will discover not only the sanctity, but the excitement of the stories and events that shaped human history and brought about salvation....
The Case for Christ Young Reader's Edition
Investigating the Toughest Questions About Jesus
Written by: Lee Strobel
Narrated by: Mark Smeby
Is Jesus real? Was he actually born in a stable? Did he really come back from the dead? Aren’t all the stories in the Bible about Jesus just that...stories? Kids ages 8–12 can join in this incredible search for the truth about Jesus....
True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
Written by: Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children's experiences during the Holocaust. These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe....
NARRATOR RUIBED IT FOR ME
By RP on 2020-01-12
Keeper of the Angels' Den (Christian Heroes: Then and Now)
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
Corrie ten Boom's life of determination, faith, and forgiveness in the face of unimaginable brutality and hardship is a stunning testimony of the sustaining power of God....
Amazing story of a godly family
By Amazon Customer on 2019-08-17
The Story of Civilization, Volume II The Medieval World
The strength of the content lies not only in the storybook delivery of it, but also in the way it presents history through the faithful prism of the Church....
The Angry Dragon
Written by: Michael Gordon
Narrated by: Teresa Booth
George has a pet dragon called Joe. Joe always gets angry when he doesn't get what he wants or when things don't go his way. The little boy tries to show his friend that being angry is not normal. In the end, Dragon understands treating others with kindness is the best way to go....
Elisabeth Elliot: Do the Next Thing
Trailblazers Series
Written by: Selah Helms
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Although Elisabeth Elliot is possibly best known for her story of grief and the surname of her first husband, she's a remarkable woman. From persevering after the untimely death of her husband, to becoming a notable writer and public speaker, Elisabeth Elliot is a true testament to God....
Superheroes: Bible Bedtime Stories for Kids - Bible Adventure Storybook for Kids!
Heroic Biblical Characters with Bible Action Stories for the Children...Future-Modern Bible Stories for Beginners
Written by: James McKing
Narrated by: Joshua Clark
In Superheroes: Bible Bedtime Stories for Kids, your child will uncover a world of wonder that is often overlooked, where ordinary people do extraordinary things that have lived on for centuries....
Voices of Christmas
Written by: Nikki Grimes
Narrated by: full cast
Step into the shoes of Mary, Joseph, the Innkeeper, Elizabeth, the Shepherds, and more as we poetically recount the wonder of the birth of Jesus through the eyes of those who were witness....
Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul
Stories of Courage, Hope, and Laughter
Narrated by: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
Now more than ever, kids want and need the inspiration and hope that Chicken Soup for the Soul provides....
David Livingstone
Africa's Trailblazer (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)
With the heart of an explorer and the passion of an evangelist, David Livingstone mapped vast, unexplored areas of Africa, sharing the gospel with whomever he encountered....
The Boy on the Wooden Box
Written by: Leon Leyson, Marilyn J. Harran (contributor)
Narrated by: Danny Burstein
This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable....
By Kikster on 2018-10-29
The Bright Light and the Super Scary Darkness
Written by: Dan DeWitt
Narrated by: Michelle Prater Freeman
Have you ever been super scared of the dark? The Bright Light and the Super Scary Darkness uses the imagery of darkness and light to help children understand God’s power over evil. With an emphasis on Jesus, the Light of the World, this book reassures children ages 4-8 who struggle with fear and anxiety and offers them courage from God’s Word. Kids will find comfort in the book’s reassuring tone, which shows that Jesus’ love is strong enough to defeat even the super scary darkness.
Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day
Exploring Creation with Zoology, Book 2
Written by: Jeannie K. Fulbright
Narrated by: Jeannie K. Fulbright
God filled the Earth’s waters with animals great and small. Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day covers swimming creatures from the microscopic to the massive. No matter how near or far you live from the ocean, you and your students will wonder at God’s designs in the amazing aquatic animals he formed.
Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day
Let your child's imagination soar with this fascinating study of birds, bats, and flying insects. Your young zoologist will investigate the dynamics of flight, learn classification skills, keep a field journal, and explore how the design we see in flying creatures points us toward our Creator.
Nicholas: God's Courageous Gift Giver
The Courageous Series, Book 6
Written by: The Voice of the Martyrs
Narrated by: Lance Smith
When Nicholas was a young boy, both of his parents died, and he used his inheritance to help others. As a grown man, he became a leader in the church. He was later imprisoned under the Roman Emperor Diocletian, who imprisoned church leaders in an effort to stop the spread of the gospel. After Nicholas was released, he faced a new challenge: A wrong teaching had infiltrated the church. Nicholas had to stand for truth, but that, too, came with a price. However, it did not deter him from generously giving to those in need until his death.
Patrick: God's Courageous Captive
When Patrick was a young boy, pirates invaded his home and made him a slave on the island known today as Ireland. While there, he recalled the Bible stories that his father had told him and dedicated his life to the Lord. Although he later escaped and returned home, he knew the Lord was calling him back to share the gospel with his captors.
Christian Bedtime Stories
Elisha the Prophet, The Story of Angels and Elijah the Tishbite
Written by: Benjamin Owino
Narrated by: Ian Cullen
Length: 1 hr and 1 min
Part of the Christian Bedtime Stories series, the stories in this book adapt the works of the Bible to make them appropriate for younger children so that the books can be listen by them for themselves. This book includes the stories: "Elisha the Prophet", The Story of Angels" and "Elijah the Tishbite".
Paul: God's Courageous Apostle
He hunted down the followers of Christ and threw them into prison. However, as he made his way to Damascus to arrest more, Jesus appeared to him in a blinding light. Soon, Saul the persecutor became one of Christ’s boldest apostles, whom we know as Paul. God’s Courageous Apostle highlights some of the dramatic events in the life of the apostle Paul, who founded many of the first "underground" congregations and spent time in prison for his witness. His story will inspire children to share Christ with the lost.
Valentine: God's Courageous Evangelist
Buried beneath the sentimental cards and candy hearts lies the story of a man named Valentine who defied an imperial order prohibiting marriage. The emperor, known as Claudius the Cruel, needed all strong young men to enlist in Rome’s military, so he forbade them from getting married. When Valentine was caught marrying couples in secret, he was brought before the emperor. Valentine saw an open door to share the gospel with the emperor. Did the emperor choose to place his trust in Christ?
Stephen: God's Courageous Witness
He defended the faith and became Christianity’s first martyr. Stephen lived a life full of faith, performing miracles, boldly telling others about Jesus and even serving with others to help widows in their time of need. Then, his courageous witness was silenced. However, the gospel could not be stopped, as his martyrdom caused the gospel to be pushed outside the city walls of Jerusalem and into the surrounding region.
Elohim, Bless My Babies
Written by: Jessica Smith
Narrated by: Jessica Smith
Elohim, Bless My Babies is truly a story of self-discovery, self-awareness, and the celebration of self-identity. The prayer that wisdom cries out to the Creator of all things, on behalf of her "babies". A cry for her babies to know who they are and why it's critical that they know the answer to this question.
David and Goliath, Joseph and His Brothers, The Trials of Job, and Daniel and His Three Friends
Narrated by: Kim Noble
Length: 1 hr
Important Christian bible stories written and edited for younger children and narrated in a calming way set to soft music. This set includes the stories of David, Joseph, Job, and Daniel. A great way to tell the important Biblical stories to your children in an engaging and enjoyable way. Can be used as bedtime stories.
Thomas: God's Courageous Missionary
Jesus’ disciple Thomas rightly earned the title "Doubting Thomas" by refusing to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. He told the disciples, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, I will not believe." Soon after, Jesus appeared to Thomas, shattering his unbelief. Thomas became so convinced of the resurrection of Jesus Christ that he took the gospel to India, where he is believed to have died as a martyr at the hands of Hindu priests.
Joshua, God’s Warrior
Written by: Clive Johnson
Narrated by: Clive Johnson
Joshua may be well known for fighting the battle of Jericho, but this mighty warrior was a man who was faithful to God, too. In this delightful retelling of the classic bible tale, told in the spirit of the countless storytellers who’ve enthralled audiences young and old with their dramatic retellings through the centuries, we journey with Joshua as he fights many battles and leads the children of Israel into the land promised to them by God.
Israel in the Days of Samuel the Prophet, Israel Gets Its First King and the Story of Jacob and Esau
This book tells four important stories from the Bible, presented in a bedtime story format that is age-appropriate and easy for younger children to understand and read for themselves as they get older.
Paul, Simon Peter, Joshua and the Fall of Sodom and Gomorrah
This book tells four important stories from the Bible, presented in a bedtime story format that is age appropriate and easy for younger children to understand. The stories are narrated in a calming tone with soft background music, making them a perfect part of your family bedtime routine.
How Should I Manage Time?
Written by: Ryan M. McGraw
Narrated by: William Sarris
In Ephesians 5:16, the apostle Paul instructs Christians to redeem "the time, because the days are evil." Author Ryan McGraw says that "how you use your time measures the quality of your life." But how can you manage your time in order to serve the Lord and the church well? In this pamphlet, you will learn what the Bible has to say about the gospel foundation for time management and how to apply its instruction so that you redeem the time in a God-honoring way.
My First Book of Saints
Written by: Christian Publication, Catherine Habbie
Narrated by: Linda Fitak
This audiobook on the lives of Christian saints tells your child all about the blessed saints of the past. It explains how a holy life leads one closer to God and away from temptations. Do listen to this book to renew your faith and come closer to God by following the examples of these great lives.
My ABC's the Bible & Me
Fruits of the Spirit, Book 9
Written by: Art Fuller
Narrated by: Art Fuller
Enjoy introducing the Bible using the ABC's. Using fun pictures and positive words that build self-esteem and knowledge. This picture audiobook series is focused on how we can talk with our children about their emotions, feelings, habits, and five senses, beginning at birth. We focus on positive words, positive affirmations, and language that helps kids be their best self.
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Boris Johnson ‘bursting with antibodies’ as he continues to self-isolate
Boris Johnson said the fact he was “bursting with antibodies” having had coronavirus before would not impact on his having to self-isolate following contact with an MP who tested positive.
It comes as Mr Johnson’s bid to reframe his tenure as Prime Minister has been left in limbo after his meeting with Tory MP Lee Anderson, who has since tested positive for Covid-19.
The Prime Minister, who was admitted to intensive care with coronavirus in April, said he was notified by NHS Test and Trace on Sunday that he must self-isolate and will now remain at Number 10 for a period of 14 days.
Hi folks, I’ve been instructed by our NHS Test & Trace scheme to self-isolate for two weeks, after being in contact with someone with Covid-19.
I’m in good health and have no symptoms, and will continue to lead on our response to the virus & our plans to #BuildBackBetterpic.twitter.com/yNgIme8lOz
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) November 16, 2020
In a video message on Monday, he tweeted that he was “in good health” and that he has “no symptoms”.
The Prime Minister said: “Hi folks, the good news is that NHS Test and Trace is working ever-more efficiently, but the bad news is that they’ve pinged me and I’ve got to self-isolate because someone I was in contact with a few days ago has developed Covid.
“It doesn’t matter that we were all doing social distancing, it doesn’t matter that I’m fit as a butcher’s dog, feel great – so many people do in my circumstances.
“And actually, it doesn’t matter that I’ve had the disease and I’m bursting with antibodies. We’ve got to interrupt the spread of the disease and one of the ways we can do that now is by self-isolating for 14 days when contacted by Test and Trace.”
Mr Johnson said he was self-isolating with a “high heart” that the country was getting on top of the virus, with rapid speed testing and hopes of having a vaccine roll-out before Christmas providing reasons for encouragement.
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Tax Pitfalls, Opportunities in Pittsburgh
By Brendan Kelly, Esq as published in the October issue of Northeast Real Estate Business
Here's what investors should know before buying or developing in the Steel City.
Over the past decade, Pittsburgh has been named the most livable city in the continental U.S., a hipster haven, a tech hub and other trendy titles. Publications laud the city's affordable housing stock in a stable real estate market, access to the arts in an established cultural community, and world-class healthcare and higher education that place the Steel City at the forefront of medicine and robotics.
This attention has drawn real estate investors to submarkets well beyond downtown Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. Even in the midst of the pandemic and the economic uncertainty that has come with it, a surprising amount of new development has continued in the region.As investors from outside the region consider investing in this real estate market, they should be aware of idiosyncrasies and pitfalls lurking in Pennsylvania tax law.
Welcome, Stranger
As in most states, assessors in Pennsylvania cannot independently change a property's assessment upon its transfer. However, Pennsylvania lets local taxing districts appeal assessments and request value increases, which they often do following a sale. Locals call this the "welcome stranger" tax.
"One of the most common reactions I hear from our out-of-state clients who are new to this market is disbelief that school districts can appeal assessments," says Sharon F. DiPaolo, Esq., the managing partner of Siegel Jennings' Pennsylvania property tax practice. "Of course, in most states that's called a spot assessment, but in Pennsylvania it's just another appeal."
In fact, local school districts (which take the largest piece of the property tax pie) filed more assessment appeals than property owners in 2017-2019, according to The Allegheny Institute for Public Policy data. "The most difficult part for buyers is accurately estimating what is obviously a large part of a property's value equation," DiPaolo explains. "Buyers can budget for the legal costs of defending against an appeal by the government, but it's much harder to underwrite the real estate taxes when they can't know where the assessment will eventually be set. We have seen many investors choose not to enter this market because of the uncertainty."
Allegheny County in particular is unusual in that it has a March 31 assessment appeal deadline, and Pennsylvania uses the filing date as the effective date of value for assessment appeals.This means that properties already under appeal for 2020 should be valued as affected by the early fallout from COVID-19, and 2021 appeals will have to consider the pandemic's continuing impacts on property values.
Understanding the local legal landscape can help investors budget for potential risks, and thoughtfully structuring a deal can sometimes help reduce that risk. For instance, when appropriate, transferring a property's holding company rather than the property itself can avoid triggering an increase appeal.
Further, properly allocating a purchase price—either among multiple properties in a portfolio or among the different components of a going concern—can avoid misinterpretation of deeds and transfer tax statements by local taxing authorities. This also ensures Pittsburgh's 5% transfer tax is applied to the real estate only.
Net lease investors should also be aware that, while many states can be described as "fee simple" or "leased fee" jurisdictions, Pennsylvania is unique in that, in practice, its courts will usually tax a leased property according to whichever of those values yields greater taxes. Through a series of cases over 15 years, Pennsylvania's appellate courts have struggled to base a property's taxation on its "economic reality."
Currently, a property achieving above-market rent is assessed according to its leased fee value (which will be greater than the fee simple value), while a property with below-market rent will be taxed at its fee simple value (which will be greater than its leased fee value). Under this system, two physically identical properties within the same taxing district can be assessed at wildly different values.
Neighborhood Discrepancies
Anthony Barna, senior managing director of Integra Realty Resources Pittsburgh, cautions investors to vet property specifics. "People keep saying,'Pittsburgh's hot,' but it's not the whole region," he says. "It's not even the whole city."
While office vacancy in the CBD had reached a 10-year high even before the onset of the pandemic, some nearby neighborhoods including Oakland and the Strip District can barely satisfy demand. Similarly, new apartments in popular neighborhoods like Lawrenceville are stabilizing quickly at record rental rates, yet rents and occupancies in other neighborhoods remain flat.
"The lack of a significant population increase in the city, coupled with the large number of new residential units coming online, threatens the economic balance and risks an oversupply," Barna observes.
Even more fundamentally, Barna says "a lot of our neighborhoods don't yet have the infrastructure to actually support what someone might want to build." In fact, Amazon cited infrastructure concerns as a major factor in its decision to drop Pittsburgh as a final contender in its HQ2 search.
Similarly, developers should investigate available tax breaks, which vary by location. Frequently these come in the form of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) or Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (LERTA). In 2019, Pittsburgh opened all neighborhoods to potential tax benefits for new developments that meet certain employment or affordability requirements.
Tammy Ribar, Esq., Director at Houston Harbaugh who concentrates her law practice in commercial real estate transactions, advises that additional opportunities are available through various government bodies and can entail program-specific deadlines. "I think the best advice I can give to buyers is to research and understand in advance what programs are available and be informed about applicable deadlines, so that a relatively easy opportunity for savings is not missed," says Ribar.
Based on the recent pace of construction throughout the city, many investors have clearly decided that Pittsburgh's anticipated rewards outweigh its risks. And as many have learned, working with knowledgeable locals during planning can help to avoid headaches – and create significant savings later.
Brendan Kelly is an attorney in the Pittsburgh office of Siegel Jennings Co. LPA, the Ohio and Western Pennsylvania member of American Property Tax Counsel, the national affiliation of property tax attorneys.
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2018/19 NBL Awards - Division Two Men
Wednesday sees us announce award winners for NBL Division Two as we continue our 2018/19 NBL awards. After counting up the votes cast by the other teams in the division, we have the names of this year's Wilson Player of the Year, Wilson Coach of the Year and Team of the Year winners! We also have a list of other awards including Best Commentator, Best Game Day Experience, Best Team Secretary and Best Social Media!
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Wilson Player of the Year: David Ulph (Liverpool)
Liverpool's David Ulph receives the Wilson Player of the Year award for the 2018/19 Season after a terrific year. The 6'7 British forward received the majority of votes from teams across the league after averaging an impressive double-double of 18.6 points and 11.4 rebounds per game, whilst shooting 56% from the field. The star big man earned multiple NBL Player of the Week and Player of the Month nods throughout the season whilst also bagging the award for D2's most efficient player throughout the regular season with a rating of 23.6 per game. His consistent high-level play helped Liverpool to a historic season this year as they dominated Division 2 with a 20-0 record.
Wilson Coach of the Year: Delme Herriman (Liverpool)
Given their unbeaten record in D2, Liverpool's Coach Delme Herriman unsurprisingly receives this season's Wilson Coach of Year Award. The multiple NBL Division 2 Coach of the Month winner and former professional player is no doubt proud of his Liverpool side, as they dismantled their competition to go undefeated and be crowned league champions. The award is coach Herriman's second consecutive Coach of the Year award after leading his side to third in the standings a year ago. Herriman is also the Director of Archbishop Beck Sports College Basketball Academy in the ABL which he coached to an undefeated season this year to win their respective Conference title before falling out of the playoffs in the Elite 8.
David Ulph
The Wilson Player of the Year and multiple NBL award winner can add one more accolade to his 2018/19 season after making the Team of the Year. Ulph dominated NBL Division 2 averaging a double-double of 18.6 points and 11.4 rebounds per game with an average efficiency of 23.6 (highest in NBL Division 2).
Jack Hudson
Much like his teammate, Liverpool's other star Jack Hudson makes the Team of the Year for NBL Division 2 after an outstanding season. The 6'1 guard averaged 15.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and dished an impressive 6.6 assists per game whilst shooting 40% from beyond the arc. Hudson also won the NBL Player of the Week award twice throughout the course of the regular season.
Cordaris Townes
6'7 American forward Cordaris Townes makes the Team of the Year from Sussex Bears after a truly special season. The talented Townes made his presence known as he led the league in scoring with a huge 25.5 per game, whilst grabbing 8.6 boards and blocking 2 shots. This season was the first in the NBL for Townes who joined the Bears out of NAIA school, Bluefield College in the U.S.
Justin Hitchman
Westminster Warriors' Justin Hitchman gets the nod for D2 Team of Year and is another worthy selection. The 6'4 British wing averaged a huge 21.7 points for the London side whilst shooting 56% from the field. Hitchman received a wealth of awards this season, as he won the 2019 Patrons Cup with the Warriors for the second consecutive year, as well as winning the NBL Player of the Week award in December.
Juan Manning
Westminster Warriors guard Juan Manning completes this season's line up, joining fellow Warrior Hitchman on the NBL Divison 2 Team of the Year. The 6'2 guard dropped 14.9 points per game and snatched 4.9 rebounds to go along with 2.1 steals, helping his side to a second place league finish with a 14-5 record. Manning received MVP honours for his efforts in the 2019 Patrons Cup Final as he dropped 20pts and dished out 6 assists, showcasing his clear ability. The British guard was also awarded the NBL Player of the Month award for January.
Team of the Year selections were made using statistics from the 2018/19 season, selecting the top two guards and top two forwards, plus one other, based on adjusted efficiency (efficiency and team win percentage) and a number of other statistical factors.
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Sainsbury's has confirmed it is to remove tobacco from sale at a further six supermarkets in Scotland.
It said the move is in response to the Scottish government's health levy, a supplementary charge on business rates paid by large stores selling cigarettes and alcohol.
Sainsbury's already operates three supermarkets and one convenience store in Scotland which do not sell tobacco.
The extension of the policy will come into force on Monday 12 November.
The stores covered by the change are at Drumchapel, Garthdee, Hamilton, Saltcoats, Livingston and Leven.
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About 240 of the largest stores in Scotland are thought to be affected.
Ministers estimated that it would raise £110m during its first four years of operation.
A report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), commissioned by Asda, claimed that profits from Scottish supermarkets could be reduced by 10% following the introduction of the levy.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: "The public health supplement was introduced in recognition of Scotland's well-documented health and social problems associated with alcohol and tobacco use.
"This government is already taking action fixed - to reduce alcohol and tobacco-related harm through legislation to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol and banning tobacco displays.
"The public health supplement will contribute towards the preventative spend measures that are being taken forward jointly with the Scottish government, local authorities, the NHS and the third sector."
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The Coder School Berkeley: Early Bird Discount on 2021 Summer Camps
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We are pleased to present our 2021 Summer Camp Schedule. This summer we will be holding both in-person and online summer camps as our community continues to face the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and will operate our in-person camps according to all City of Berkeley's health guidelines.
Our In-Person Summer camps are held at The Coder School Berkeley from 9 am to 3 pm Mon-Fri and will be limited to 6 campers with 1 coach per camp. Kids bring their own lunches and water bottles and we'll take care of the rest! Kids code throughout the week and then demo their week's creations on the last day of camp. Our In-Person camps will require all students, coaches and staff to wear face coverings and our facility will be organized for campers to maintain 6 feet of physical distance between campers and coaches.
Our Online Summer Camps will use Zoom and will run from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm with a 1 hour lunch break from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Our Online Camps will be a mixture of working on a week-long coding project, coding challenges, Kahoot! quizzes, tech talks, small group collaboration with breakout rooms, interactive games, exercise and screen-free breaks and of course, the chance to present their project to their fellow campers on the last day of camp!
For a limited time (through January 31, 2021), we are offering our early-bird discount of $100 off in-person camps or $50 off online camps. Just use the code EARLY100 (for In-Person Camps) and EARLY50 (for Online Camps) at checkout. Camp registration may be cancelled up to 30 days prior to the first day of the start of camp for a full refund. Cancellations made up to 14 days prior are eligible for a 50% refund.
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The aquatic system consists of more than 70% of the earth. This review describes a summary of available information on historical background of DNA barcoding, biodiversity in aquatic habitats, and available resources of DNA barcoding in marine and freshwater systems. Documentation about invertebrate animals diversity in, . Indeed, ecosystem processes (e.g., productivity and nutrient recycling) result directly from the diversity of functional traits in biotic communities, which in turn are determined by species composition and diversity. The two main types of aquatic ecosystems are marine ecosystems and freshwater ecosystems. Another useful r, project was conducted to assess the marine biodiversi, adjacent to the aquatic systems should be controlled as industrial effluent, can damage the environment supporting aquatic ecosystem and finally, programme. It is usually said that global change is an unprecedented human experiment on the planet, and as any experiment its consequences and reaches are to a certain degree, unpredictable. Contributors to this volume - Paul R. Armsworth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Giles Atkinson, London School of Economics and Political Science Edward B. Barbier, University of Wyoming Ian J. Bateman, University of East Anglia Joanne C. Burgess, University of Wyoming Salvatore Di Falco, University of Geneva Paul J. Ferraro, Georgia State University Ben Groom, London School of Economics and Political Science Kirk Hamilton, The World Bank Nick Hanley, University of Stirling Dieter Helm, University of Oxford Cameron Hepburn, London School of Economics and Political Science Kris Johnson, The Nature Conservancy Chris J. Kennedy, George Mason University Georgina M. Mace, University College London Charles F. Mason, University of Wyoming Dustin Miller, United Nations Environment Programme Daniela A. Miteva, Duke University Susana Mourato, London School of Economics and Political Science Charles Palmer, London School of Economics and Political Science Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Duke University Grischa Perino, University of Hamburg Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota Pavan Sukhdev, Yale University Timothy Swanson, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Kathy J. Willis, University of Oxford, Much as Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was a call to action against the pesticides that were devastating bird populations, Charles S. Elton's classic "The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants" sounded an early warning about an environmental catastrophe that has become all too familiar today-the invasion of nonnative species. 0000002953 00000 n Aquatic Ecosystems 2. May 27, 2016 - Explore Daren Goodman's board "Aquatic Ecosystems" on Pinterest. Co, ticides in agriculture and water for irrigation purpose, rise in urban and indu, trial sector, regulation of water for dam and hydr, and petroleum extraction, Solid wastes dumps, botto, ologically distinguished system, but seriously at the risk of extinction in te, conservation category. %%EOF Aquatic ecosystemsppt 1. Only a small fraction of the Earth's surface (0.3 %) is covered by lakes, rivers and marshes. 0000003095 00000 n The results point towards the urgent need for enhanced regulation and enforcement of fishing practices in Saudi Arabia, while making a strong case for protection in the form of no-take marine protected areas to maintain preservation of the relatively intact southern Sudanese Red Sea. This complexity of life system is completely under control of genetic, organismal, and ecological diversity. 0000007565 00000 n Applied Aquatic Ecosystem Concepts Read Online Applied Aquatic Ecosystem Concepts If you ally compulsion such a referred Applied Aquatic Ecosystem Concepts book that … Also Read: Pelagic Zone. Aquatic ecosystems support a substantial source of the ea, productivity. <<06855B0F5F36E74285EAD29037F644B1>]>> The aquatic ecosystem definition states it is a water-based environment, wherein, living organisms interact with both physical and chemical features of the environment. "History has caught up with Charles Elton's foresight, and "The Ecology of Invasions" can now be seen as one of the central scientific books of our century. Identification of rich submerged biota in freshwater and marine aquatic ecosystem is a difficult task to accomplish. A simple grazing food chain (GFC) is depicted below: Increased precipitation falling in the form of rain rather than snow in … Aquatic ecosystems have a limited ability to adapt to climate change. To contextualize this human influence, reef-associated fish assemblages on offshore reefs in Saudi Arabia and Sudan in the central Red Sea were investigated. Notably, data that could inform science-based management approaches are badly lacking in most Red Sea countries. Daily and annual bio-geo-chemical cycles drive changes in water chemistry and the species composition of aquatic communities. Information and translations of Aquatic ecosystem in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. 0000010880 00000 n This waterbody can include marine and freshwater bodies. 0000045296 00000 n Types of Aquatic Ecosystem. Besides, it is also relevant to understand how ecosystem gets degraded, and what measures are best and should be undertaken to prevent further degradation of marine habitats. The Corals are particularly fragile animals and very sensitive to changes in temperature and salinity. Marine systems are highly responsive to alterations in the physical environment (particularly those with decadal scales), and also highly adaptable to such changes (Steele 1998), which makes it diffi cult to defi ne. 0000007618 00000 n The same objective should, habitat to conserve the aquatic biodiversity. Further, more than 50 % of the published research from the Red Sea originated from the Gulf of Aqaba, a small area (<2 % of the area of the Red Sea) in the far northern Red Sea. 0000002656 00000 n DNA barcode is used by biologists and ecologist to a standardized short sequence of DNA that can be recovered and featured as a unique identification marker for all species in the biosphere. 0000012326 00000 n The Ramsar Convention estimated the extent of all wetlands from national inventories as approximately 1280 million hectares, Rivers, lakes and wetlands are particularly species-rich ecosystems. Aquatic Ecosystems and Watersheds Aquatic … ecosystem and molluscs in aquatic ecosystem. As a result, changes in biodiversity in response to environmental selection pressures tend to have a direct impact on ecosystem processes. There are total 222,000, populations to the total quantity of freshwater, formation about the total species diversity in the fr, tic taxonomic groups are still not discovered, Aquatic biodiversity increases with latitudes with maximum in, zones. The Red Sea has long been recognized as a region of high biodiversity and endemism. 0000006089 00000 n TYPES The two main types of aquatic ecosystems are marine ecosystems and freshwater ecosystems. In this paper, we outline the concepts underlying the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and illustrate these concepts with examples from aquatic ecosystems. Shrimp pond waste (Litopenaeus vannamei) is a waste metabolite that produces changes in the quality of the aquatic environment and affects the abundance and composition of macrozoobenthos. Other articles where Aquatic ecosystem is discussed: coral reef: Tropical water conditions: Water conditions favourable to the growth of reefs exist in tropical or near-tropical surface waters. What does Aquatic ecosystem mean? Species diversity results both from biotic introductions and from environmental pressures. •As the amount of plants and algae grows, the # of bacteria feeding on decaying organisms grows. startxref We summarize the general state of knowledge in these eight topics and highlight the areas of future research priorities for the Red Sea region. Biodiversity in aquatic ecosystem is immense. Governance of marine biodiversity has long suffered from lack of adequate information about the ocean’s many species and ecosystems. 0000005276 00000 n Examples of aquatic ecosystems include lakes, ponds, bogs, rivers, estuaries and the open ocean. 0000000878 00000 n We found that biomass of top predators on offshore Sudanese reefs was on average almost three times that measured on comparable reefs in Saudi Arabia. University of Toronto Press. Diminishing populations gives rise to inbreeding, genetic drift, and a loss of genetic variation and, therefore, creates vulnerability of species toward environmental changes. With 20% of the species represented by single specimens (0.4% of all catches), rare species make up a considerable proportion of the fauna. 0000002446 00000 n DNA barcoding has been established as a mature field of biodiversity sciences filing the conceptual gap between traditional taxonomy and different fields of molecular systematics. Here, we estimated the diversity distribution patterns of freshwater vertebrates and invertebrates in the Napo Basin, as a tool for present and future management and conservation efforts. 0000008146 00000 n Threats are manifold: i.e., primarily from overexploitation of marine resources, overfishing, climate warming, sewage disposal, industrial chemical discharge, oil spills, Life on Earth is abundant, diverse, and intricate in organization with different interconnected strata. conservation of aquatic ecosystem services with IWRM is a very effective strategy for achieving water security and adapting to the effects of climate change. Biomass values from some of the most remote reefs surveyed in Sudan’s far southern region even approach those previously reported in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, northern Line Islands, Pitcairn Islands, and other isolated Pacific islands and atolls. variety or variation within the natural system, both in terms of number and frequency. •A lake with large amounts of plant growth due to nutrients is known as a eutrophic lake. be more utilization of water resources so their biodiversity. © 2008-2020 ResearchGate GmbH. In particular, freshwater invertebrates and microbes are poorly studied groups, and in tropical latitudes, that support most of the species of the world, the information is lacking. We carried out a quantitative assessment of ISI-listed research published from the Red Sea in eight specific topics (apex predators, connectivity, coral bleaching, coral reproductive biology, herbivory, marine protected areas, non-coral invertebrates and reef-associated bacteria) and compared the amount of research conducted in the Red Sea to that from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and the Caribbean. Communities of organisms that are dependent on each other and on their environment live in aquatic ecosystems. As one of the world’s most biodiverse coral reef regions, the Red Sea may yet have a significant role to play in our understanding of coral reef ecology at a global scale. Altered streamflow patterns are also expected to degrade aquatic ecosystem function and decrease the quantity and quality of . Showing various uses of ecosystem biodiversity. The highest macrozoobenthos diversity value at station 5 was 2.10, and the lowest at station 2 was 0.99. 0000000016 00000 n Water quality means different things to different people but, regardless of one's scientific worldview, an aquatic ecosystem with good water quality supposes that it is capable of providing multiple aquatic ecosystem services (UNEP 2016).From an ecological worldview, trophic status is known to directly and indirectly affect the delivery of multiple ecosystem services. This paper reports an extensive review of work that evaluates the current main threats for freshwater biodiversity, on a local and global scale. Living organisms in a particular environment are directly affected by environmental characteristics such as nutrient concentrations, temperature, water flow, and shelter. 54 Environmental Studies for Undergraduate Courses 3.1 CONCEPT OF AN ECOSYSTEM An ‘Ecosystem’ is a region with a specific and Urban aquatic ecosystems provide a wide range of ecosystem services, which are the goods and services produced by ecosystems that are beneficial to humans (Table 5).The impacts of urbanization described in the previous sections have reduced the capacity of aquatic ecosystems to provide these services. Such kind of ecological phenomena, temperate regions; in addition species richness increases rapidly in lower lati-. Learn more about the thousands of aquatic species found in freshwater and the ecosystems that keep them, and us, healthy. Restor, se ecosystem, a disruption affecting one sp, Pan, J., Marcoval, M.A., Bazzini, S.M., Vallina, M.V, N. (1970) Ecology of Running Waters. The importance of spatial scale will also be considered. The diversity of macrozoobenthos was analyzed using PCA tests. For example, USDA Forest service has begun a speci, with target to protect and restore the river ecosystem an. Ecosystem services provided by coastal areas helps to sustain coastal people whose livelihood depends on fishing and fish products, aquaculture and exploitation of biologically diverse resources that the seas and the oceans provide them. Immediate action, nomic incentives, public awareness and stak. From kudzu to zebra mussels to Asian long-horned beetles, nonnative species are colonizing new habitats around the world at an alarming rate thanks to accidental and intentional human intervention. The direct entry of waste into water bodies, without prior treatment [9,10], has the potential to cause problems in aquatic ecosystems [7,11]. Serious conservation attention and efforts should be drawn and directed towards restoration of fragmented marine habitats and estuarine ecosystems. Alterations and interference by humans within the ecosystems have resulted in extensive impairment and fragmentations of habitats. ecosystem, such as fungi and bacteria, also exchange energy within the ecosystem by breaking down waste material to substances that can be used by plants for food. Macrozoobenthos identification was carried out at the Fisheries Laboratory and water testing at Perum Jasa Tirta Malang. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is now widely considered the most promising paradigm for balancing sustainable development and biodiversity protection, and various international strategies and conventions have championed the EBM cause and the inclusion of ecosystem … Our results provide the first comprehensive representation of freshwater biodiversity patterns at high resolution in an Andean-Amazon basin, and calls attention to the need for incorporating different taxonomic groups when assessing diversity patterns. Biodiversity is collection of all species of animals, plants, fungi, and microbial organisms living on Earth and the variety of habitats inhabited by them. Aquatic ecology is the study of water based ecosystems. However, species detection is sometimes extremely difficult especially in marine and aquatic environments where organisms have complex life cycles, and direct observation of early development stages is almost impossible. Aquatic Research and Monitoring Section Science and Research Branch Ministry of Natural Resources Aquatic Research Series 2013-06 Aquatic Ecosystem Assessments for Rivers Robert A. Metcalfe, Robert W. Mackereth, Brian Grantham, Nicholas Jones, Richard S. Pyrce, Tim Haxton, James J. Luce, Ryan Stainton Ontario.ca/aquaticresearch Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly influenced by multiple stressors that lead to loss of sensitive species and an overall reduction in diversity. Definition of Aquatic ecosystem in the Definitions.net dictionary. 3.6 Discover many common and endangered plant and animal species found in local ecosystems with AQUATI FLORA AND FAUNA. &2�Br�uN�����0f��S��]�9b-��ɇ��DS�>�8r��ҡS8̦͛��B����IP0yɝ�!�q���[���{�il�P�����Q�3;2�z����-E������T���گU��a�+i���.����hIz@�����,i|a�\�$�Aʇ{�@��y�[��`b��S�Щh;��ʋ�t¹0FTUU+g4PI��!IB��_^5�"�T�j��s�n�R�-���k�B���v�����%8yFx�MN��m���)�/���Q�n.��m�\^�P�i����v��o�M7�=d��!���������. Given these different diversity patterns, conservation programs Aquatic ecosystems are generally divided into two types --the marine ecosystem and the freshwater ecosystem. Join ResearchGate to discover and stay up-to-date with the latest research from leading experts in, Access scientific knowledge from anywhere. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, Contamination of shrimp pond waste: The impact on macrozoobenthos diversity, Reef fish communities in the central Red Sea show evidence of asymmetrical fishing pressure, Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate diversity patterns in an Andean-Amazon basin: implications for conservation efforts, Coastal Marine Biodiversity: Challenges and Threats, The status of coral reef ecology research in the Red Sea, Marine Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Governance of the Oceans, Assessing the magnitude of species richness in tropical marine environments: exceptionally high numbers of molluscs at a New Caledonia site, Biodiversity and aquatic ecosystem functioning: A mini-review, Freshwater biodiversity: a review of local and global threats, Nature in the Balance: The Economics of Biodiversity, The Ecology of Invasions by Animals And Plants, Impact of Urban Wastewater on Biodiversity of Aquatic Ecosystems (Draft to reviewers), An Analysis of Threats to Marine Biodiversity and Aquatic Ecosystems, Aquatic Plant Biodiversity and DNA Barcoding. 0000006940 00000 n 0000041042 00000 n strategy, Switzerland is sending Freshwater diversity - remarkably rich and particularly threatened. This quantitative descriptive study] uses a purposive sampling technique. Global change, a term that adequately fi ts into the focus of this book, is broader than climate change and comprises the major anthropogenic forcings that produced a signifi cant change or impact on the natural environment during the last ~ 200 years. Coral reefs are coastal habitats build by corals that are also one of the most productive habitats within the marine ecosystems, but they are however, at great danger of going extinct from any drastic changes in sea surface temperature and salinity. xref Both aquatic resources and its biodiversity are, nuous decline because of overexploitation of species, introduced exotic plant, Aquatic Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Conservation, Restoration, The Convention on Biological Diversity, describes “Biodiversity as the variations, ing such as intraspecific diversity, interspecific diversity and diverse biota in the, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, ocean water contributes about 90% of the marine ecosystem and shares about, ecological diversity. This can also lead to death of certain species within the ecosystem. But this diversity is seriously threatened, and effective measures that ensure biodiversity persistence are urgently needed. A totally re-written and rejuvenated edition of an established student text. Habitats with little diversity are considered as, and biodiversity richness. 223 28 They are an area of water, in which ‘significant’ biological activity can occur This definition excludes most groundwater systems Aquatic ecosystems can involve flowing or still water, and can be fresh or saline PDF | On Jan 1, 2019, Sufia Irfan and others published Aquatic Ecosystem and Biodiversity: A Review | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate Later chapters consider the individuals and communities in aquatic ecosystems. 8. %PDF-1.4 %���� Even in Switzerland, Central Europe's "water tower", little more than 4 % of the country's area is water. Aquatic Ecosystems: Processes and Applications. Interested in research on Aquatic Ecosystems? Meaning of Aquatic ecosystem. For this reason, it is essential to monitor marine biodiversity and prevent further degradation of marine habitats. This book focuses on the economics, but incorporates the underpinning science and philosophy, combining the application of a number of theoretical ideas with a series of policy cases. It is the degree of nature’s. The objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues and evidence, and to suggest how this very urgent problem should be addressed. © 2002 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 75, 421–436. Entire volumes have been written on ecosystem services (Nation-al Research Council 2005; Daily 1997), culminat-ing in a formal, in-depth, and global overview by hundreds of scientists: the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment(2005a).Itisvirtuallyimpossibletolist all the ecosystem services let alone the natural Likewise, surface freshwaters account for an extremely small portion of the world's water volume (< 0.001 % of the total volume, or 0.3 % of all freshwater), since 97 % of the total is in the oceans and the remaining 3 % is stored almost exclusively in glaciers, snowfields and ground water.
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Scientists at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can precisely, quickly identify age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a principal cause of vision loss in the United States.
AMD is characterized by the deterioration of the central region of the retina known as the macula—the location of central vision—causing a blurry vision that can significantly worsen over time.
The new study published in the April/May issue of Translational Vision Science and Technology is the first to illustrate that AI technology might help doctors to estimate the risk of progression of AMD and its intensity, which can make patients seek earlier medical treatment and save their eyesight.
We are excited to have built a deep-learning form of AI that can be trained to match the performance of a human expert to accurately diagnose AMD grade and stage based on scanning retinal photographs, without using other information. This is an important step in identifying those at risk for late-stage AMD and may allow them to get quick referral to an eye specialist for timely, preventive treatment.
R. Theodore Smith, Study Lead Researcher, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
Smith continued, “This algorithm can easily be applied in the ophthalmology telemedicine landscape as the practice of medicine transforms under the impact of the COVID pandemic to embrace ‘medicine at a distance’. For example, our large ambulatory facilities can strategically place teleophthalmology kiosks with inexpensive cameras that take these retinal images to screen underserved populations for AMD.”
“The AI algorithm would instantly generate results, so patients get immediate diagnosis, and if they need additional care, they could have a same-day follow-up at a nearby ophthalmic center,” added Smith.
This may become an important and cost-effective tool for high-risk or low-income groups who may not have direct or frequent access to eye screening, as early detection is critical to preventing AMD. This will not only aid in quick diagnosis, but help to close gaps in health disparities.
At NYEE, researchers designed deep-learning AI screening and prediction models by making use of data from the Age Related Eye Disease Study, a long-time, wider study on AMD of more than 15 years, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Patients aged between 55 and 80 years were classified into categories for early, intermediate, advanced, late, or normal AMD.
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For screening purposes, the researchers selected 116,875 color fundus photos (images capturing the eye’s inner surface) from 4,139 participants. They trained the algorithm to group them as “early,” “advanced,” “intermediate,” or “no” AMD along a 12-level severity scale to compare the results of human experts. In general, the algorithm achieved 98% precision while matching the decisions of experts.
Furthermore, the scientists at Mount Sinai combined the intensity scores with the patients’ sociodemographic clinical data (such as gender, age, and medical history like diet, diabetes or cardiac illness, and tobacco use) and other imaging data using a second algorithm to estimate AMD progression, particularly the risk of advancing to late AMD within a year or two.
The researchers trained and verified the predictive learning model on 901 patients who had disease progression within a year, 923 participants who had progression within two years, and 2,840 patients who did not show any progression within two years.
Furthermore, the AI model refined the risk of advancement to late AMD so that scientists were able to estimate the accurate type of progression of late AMD—either wet or dry. Dry AMD forms more gradually; layers of the macula get increasingly thin and lose their function. In the case of wet AMD, which is faster, abnormal blood vessels develop behind the retina and start leaking.
According to Smith, “The prediction program will produce a report that can help eye doctors counsel AMD patients on their risk for progression based on their retinal photographs and other lifestyle (diet and smoking) and demographic variables: age, gender, and medical history.”
Smith added, “The ophthalmologist can then recommend changes in modifiable factors in consultation with family and the primary care physician, and patients at high risk can be followed up with sooner.”
The proposed noninvasive technology thus proceeds in two steps: we first screen high volumes of patients in the community to find the at-risk patients with intermediate and advanced AMD for referral to an ophthalmologist, and second, we help the eye doctor manage these patients by predicting if they will develop late AMD in one to two years.
“This can allow screening to take place more efficiently and cost-effectively in primary care clinics, with detection of a much smaller at-risk group for referral to specialty care,” concluded Smith.
The algorithm has been tested by the NYEE for detection and staging of AMD in its eye clinics and has obtained positive results. The scientists believe that once these systems are ready for extensive use with automatic, affordable cameras at primary care facilities, patients will gain access to rapid, non-invasive screening for the blinding eye disease.
Source: https://www.mountsinai.org/
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MARILYN MANSON aka Brian Hugh Warner (born 5 January 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band. His stage name was formed from the names of actress Marilyn Monroe and convicted murderer Charles Manson.
Warner formed Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids in Florida in 1989 (the name was shortened to Marilyn Manson in 1992). While with The Spooky Kids, he was involved with Jeordie White (also known as Twiggy Ramirez) and Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. (also known as Madonna Wayne Gacy) in two side-projects: Satan on Fire, a faux-Christian death metal ensemble where he played bass, and drums in Mrs. Scabtree, a collaborative band formed with White and then girlfriend Jessicka (vocalist with the band Jack Off Jill)as a way to combat contractual agreements that prohibited Marilyn Manson from playing in certain clubs. In the summer of 1993, the band drew the attention of Trent Reznor. Reznor produced their 1994 debut album, Portrait of an American Family and released it on his Nothing Records label. The band began to develop a cult following, which grew larger with the release of Smells Like Children in 1995. That EP yielded the band's first big MTV hit with "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", a cover of the 1983 Eurythmics hit. Antichrist Superstar (co-produced by Trent Reznor) was an even greater success. Three of the band's albums have been awarded platinum certification, three more gold, and the band has seen three of its releases debut in the top ten, including two number-one albums.
Warner first worked as a producer with the band Jack Off Jill. He helped name the band and produce most of the band's early recordings, and also played guitar on the song "My Cat" and had the band open most of his South Florida shows. Warner later wrote the liner notes to the band's album Humid Teenage Mediocrity, a collection of early Jack Off Jill recordings.
Warner is also one of the many early managers for rap artist Eminem and has appeared as a guest performer on DMX's album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood and on Godhead's 2000 Years of Human Error album -- the only album released on his vanity label Posthuman.
Warner's latest musical project is a cover of the Danny Elfman song "This is Halloween" that will be included on the soundtrack of the 2007 3D re-release of the 1993 Tim Burton film The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Upgraded vent systems ordered for 31 nuclear reactors, including two at Peach Bottom
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday that it has ordered a venting upgrade for nearly a third of the reactors in the country, including ones at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station just north of Harford County.
Peach Bottom, in Delta, Pa., has two of the 31 reactors that must now have venting systems that can better handle accidents. The commission's order is part of its review effort following the 2011 nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, after an earthquake and tsunami.
Scott Burnell, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said officials want venting systems in place that can operate "under a wider set of conditions and keep doing the job they're designed for" — releasing pressure and hydrogen so containment buildings can hold on to radioactive material.
The Peach Bottom plant is co-owned by Exelon Corp. and Public Service Electric and Gas Co. in New Jersey. Exelon spokeswoman Lacey Dean said Thursday that the company had already planned improvements to its steam venting and is "well prepared to meet all requirements."
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The LA Angels head out to Minnesota for a four game series with the Twins. The Angels have won all three games versus the Twins so far this season but a bright note for the Twins is that they have won 6 of the last 8 meetings at home versus the Angels so that’s something for them to look at.
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Over is 31-15-5 in the last 51 meetings.
Angels are 2-6 in the last 8 meetings in Minnesota.
Minnesota Twins (+108)
The Minnesota Twins are last in the American League Central 16.5 games back of the 1st place Kansas City Royals. The Twins are 17 games under .500 at 61-78 and they play just as bad at home as they do on the road so they don’t seem to have much of a home field advantage. The Twins big problem this season has been starting pitching. A lot of teams would probably say the same thing right now but the Twins starters have a combined ERA of 5.08 which is the worst in all of baseball. On the hill for the Twins today is second year man Kyle Gibson who is 11-10 with a 4.23 ERA on the season.
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Twins are 3-8 in their last 11 overall.
Twins are 0-4 in Gibsons last 4 home starts.
Twins are 4-11 in their last 15 games vs. a left-handed starter.
LA Angels (-118)
The LA Angels are 1st in the American League West 4.5 games up on the 2nd place Oakland Athletics. The Angels are not only 1st in the West but they also have the best record in baseball with 83 wins and just 55 losses. The Angels have been on a nice roll for a while now winning 45 of their last 66 games and they have also won 56 of their last 77 versus teams with a losing record so they really know how to take advantage of the weaker teams. On the mound for the Angels is lefty Hector Santiago who is 4-7 with a 3.28 ERA. Santiago might only have 4 wins in 19 starts this season but he has pitched fairly well of late allowing just a total 7 earned runs over his last 7 starts.
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Angels are 45-21 in their last 66 overall.
Angels are 56-21 in their last 77 vs. a team with a losing record.
I like the Angels to get it done and beat the Twins in this one today. The Twins are not the best team in the world while the Angels have the best record in baseball right now so I think there’s some solid value in the Angels today as a small road favorite.
Free Pick: LA Angels -118
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AstraZeneca ties up with IQVIA to speed up studies of COVID-19 vaccine candidate – Midwest Communication
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(Reuters) – Life sciences company IQVIA Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it would collaborate with AstraZeneca Plc to speed up clinical studies of the British drugmaker’s potential COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
The collaboration is part of the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
AstraZeneca is among the drugmakers farthest along in the race to develop a safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus. The British drugmaker has received U.S. funding of more than $1 billion to secure access to dosages.
The agreement includes an expansive study of trial participants and will use IQVIA’s virtual trial solutions that would make parts of the study remote.
Clinical trial service providers like IQVIA have seen a boost in demand for their offerings in virtual care – an area that has been slow to catch on – as the pandemic forces people to self-isolate and stay at home.
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Wherever you are in the world you can now become a Patron of Blackburn & Darwen Band.
For just £20 you will receive an exclusive invitation to a Patrons only Concert to be held in the summer, a chance to meet and chat with members of the band after the concert, discounted tickets for our hugely popular series of concerts at the Thwaites Empire Theatre and a quarterly newsletter keeping you informed of the band’s progress.
Many of our current Patrons have already signed up for this new scheme but we are always searching for additional ones. If you would like to become a Patron (or dual Patronage for £30) please print off a copy of the Patron form and send it to Alan. We would be delighted if you could support the band in our endeavours to become one of the finest bands in the country.
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Venus docked at its home port of Vopnafjörður yesterday with a full payload of capelin on board. The fish were caught on the eastern edge of the Langanes Bank, so the capelin season looks to have got off to a fine start.
‘We sailed from Reykjavík on the 3rd of January and started fishing off the Westfjords. We had one shot there and as that was all small capelin, we set off for Langanes,’ said skipper Guðlaugur Jónsson, optimistic that there are 2800 tonnes on board.
‘We were three days on the fishing grounds east of Langanes and even though there wasn’t much to be seen and the marks were nothing special, we managed to fill up in seven tows. They’re finishing pumping the fish ashore now and we’ll be sailing again as soon as they’re done,’ Guðlaugur Jónsson said when we caught up with him yesterday.
Víkingur is on the capelin grounds off the east coast and is expected to dock in Vopnafjörður tomorrow night.
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Airbus Warns 15,000 Job Cuts ‘Not the Worst Case’ Scenario
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Jun 30 2020, 11:11 PM Jul 02 2020, 4:31 AM June 30 2020, 11:11 PM July 02 2020, 4:31 AM
(Bloomberg) -- Airbus SE Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury warned that a plan for 15,000 job cuts is “not the worst case” scenario facing the company in the battle to steer through the ongoing Covid-19 aviation crisis.
The move to eliminate 11% of global headcount is based on what the jetmaker expects to be the most likely pace of market recovery, the CEO said, namely that domestic air traffic picks up significantly by the end of 2020 and long-haul traffic rebounds by summer 2021. If that doesn’t happen as predicted, the manufacturer will have to revisit its plans, Faury said in a phone interview.
If a second wave of Covid-19 emerges that hits airlines to a similar degree as in the first half of 2020, “we would have to adapt again,” he said. Airbus’s current expectations for recovery are “the most likely scenario -- it’s reasonable to believe with what we see -- but it’s not the worst case.”
The job cuts are the largest since the European planemaker’s creation two decades ago and go beyond what unions and staff were expecting. Yet Faury’s warning suggests more pain ahead in the event of a virus resurgence, a development seen as increasingly more likely as cases, particularly in the U.S., continue to rise alongside a reopening of economies and borders.
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Airbus said late Tuesday the company will eliminate more than 10,000 positions across its main bases in Germany and France. Faury has said the group’s output will be 40% lower than expected for two years due to a dramatic slump in demand for aircraft, and has previously warned it is bleeding cash.
About 1,700 jobs are set to go in the U.K., 900 in Spain and about 1,300 in other countries by mid-2021. Voluntary measures such as early retirement will be the main part of the process, with compulsory cuts a “last resort,” Faury said.
Airbus shares slid 3.9% to 61.03 euros as of 1:09 p.m. Wednesday in Paris, and have declined more than 50% this year.
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A forecast for international traffic to rebound by the middle of next year is in line with most airlines’ plans, but countries remain cautious about reopening too quickly and ushering in another wave of infections. The U.K. will continue to quarantine arrivals from countries not on a pre-approved list, while the European Union has opted not to allow U.S. travelers to visit, saying the country’s response to the virus has been insufficient.
Airbus has to “act fast” on cutting jobs partly because the future is so uncertain, said Faury. He added that the company is renegotiating contracts with airline customers, and will be focused on deliveries and cash-flow over orders for the next 12-24 months.
Caught in an aircraft-market slump that Airbus said could last three to five years, the company is striving to bring down costs while avoiding political and labor tensions in its home nations. In a letter to employees sent Tuesday, Faury called on staff to avoid “finger-pointing between colleagues along national or local lines.”
The plans will be subject to union agreement, and have already faced criticism from governments and labor force representatives. The French finance ministry called the cuts “excessive,” while German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said he expects Airbus to ensure that no country will be favored or disadvantaged.
Faury acknowledged the difficulty of setting a single global strategy to restrict job losses when countries offer different levels of support to the sector, and said the U.K. is likely to see more voluntary departures as the country hasn’t so far extended a furlough plan designed to help companies retain employees during the coronavirus lockdown.
He said he hopes to retain staff elsewhere through long-term furlough arrangements, but “there will be a lot of jobs lost because the workload is not there -- that’s something we can’t change.”
The planemaker has about 135,000 employees globally, with almost 81,000 of those in the hard-hit commercial-aviation division. In the U.S., Airbus rival Boeing Co. is in a similar predicament, and said in late April it would reduce its workforce by about 10%, or about 16,000 jobs, to conserve cash.
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Turkey Is Struggling to Undo Lockdown Damage
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Jun 16 2020, 9:30 AM Jun 17 2020, 5:11 PM June 16 2020, 9:30 AM June 17 2020, 5:11 PM
(Bloomberg) --
Once the growth engine of Turkey’s $750 billion economy, consumers are setting their sights lower in the post-lockdown era.
After the coronavirus pandemic struck Turkey in mid-March, the government severely limited people’s movements at the expense of business activity, keeping most curbs in place until late May. The lifting of restrictions alone hasn’t been enough to bring the consumer economy back, while a second surge in new infections soon followed.
High-frequency indicators over the past few weeks gave a snapshot of an uneven and weak recovery even before new cases started to rise again in recent days. Lacking momentum, restarting the idled economy will be a challenge for Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak and his promises to deliver fast-track growth and jobs for the nation of 83 million people and around 5 million refugees.
Albayrak still maintains that positive growth is possible for 2020. By contrast, the median forecast in last month’s Bloomberg survey of economists was for a 3.6% contraction.
To jump-start activity, authorities have unleashed credit to the economy, with state banks offering negative real interest rates and long grace periods on new loans. Annualized lending growth is on track to set new highs after already hovering around 50%.
But figures that allow to track the economy in near real-time suggest Turkey has a long slog ahead as it winds up activity. After splurging in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when people were hoarding basic goods and food, Turkish consumers began to dial back spending as job cuts or a policy of unpaid leave became common.
The rolling four-week average of credit card purchases -- an indicator with a strong correlation to domestic demand -- is barely catching up to levels seen a year earlier.
Data collected by Google show Turks have been reluctant to return to offices or go out and about even after restrictions were lifted from late May.
Much like elsewhere, online shopping has been one of the few bright spots in an economy reeling under restrictions on social mobility. Consumers wary of frequenting shopping malls leaned on e-commerce websites to shop for everything from basic needs to used cars.
Although online sales and credit card purchases appear to suggest a gradual revival in activity to levels seen last year, energy consumption is lagging far behind. One explanation is that most people employed in the services sector are still working from home, suppressing demand for refined fuel.
Plants and factories running at lower capacities are also eating into energy consumption. The current state of oil and power demand shows some sectors are more likely to be vulnerable to the lasting damage suffered by the economy even if the rebound were to continue despite the surge in new cases.
A resurgence of new coronavirus infections in Turkey could mean the threat is far from over.
Over 3,000 people tested positive during the weekend, the highest number in almost a month, following a period when authorities gradually reopened restaurants and cafes and resumed internal flights.
The increase in new cases is natural and doesn’t mean the reimposition of restrictions is inevitable, according to Tevfik Ozlu, a member of the top board of scientists advising the government on Covid-19 measures.
“If the pandemic was going to end soon, then we could delay normalization,” Ozlu said in a series of Twitter posts on Monday. “But it seems that the pandemic will continue for as long as two years with different waves. In that case, instead of halting or postponing normalization, we need to execute a controlled and cautious normalization.”
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For the hunter seeking a wide variety of game animals, beautiful country, century-old hunting traditions, and the spice of danger, hunting in Africa is an experience unmatched anywhere on Earth. Whether you choose to hunt plains game in southern Africa or take on Cape buffalo and elephant in the wilds of East Africa, a hunt on the African continent will create memories that will stay with you for a lifetime. More than a dozen countries in Africa offer hunting in some form. The countries in southern Africa, especially South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, are visited by the largest numbers of hunters. Hunting in these countries is accessible and affordable and provides an outstanding experience, especially for the first-timer. East Africa, especially Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Mozambique, holds large wilderness areas and good numbers of dangerous-game animals such as lions, buffalo, leopards, and elephants. Safaris in this region are true to the tradition of the luxury tented safaris of the mid-twentieth century. Safaris in western and central Africa appeal to experienced African hunters in search of very challenging game such as bongo and giant eland. Most hunting in Africa is conducted “safari-style,” where hunters drive around the hunting area in open-topped vehicles searching for game or tracks of game. When game is sighted, hunters stalk on foot, or when fresh tracks are spotted, hunters disembark to follow on foot, sometimes for many hours. There are a few exceptions, such as leopard hunting, which is usually conducted from a blind over bait. With such a wide variety of terrain, countries, and game animals to choose from, hunting in Africa holds something for everyone.
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Murky Waters Around British Coastline Are Turning Tropical During Lockdown
Judita K
While the novel coronavirus is ravaging the globe and people are locking themselves up at home to avoid getting infected, the world seems to be doing just fine without us. We have seen news from all over the world about animals invading cities and claiming them for themselves as people empty from the streets, witnessed water in Venice go crystal clear and welcome some of the wildlife back to its canals, and many more examples of nature thriving.
This time, it’s the Brits throwing some good news at us. Even though they are usually not the ones to brag about their sunny weather and tropical coastline, it seems the lockdown has done some good to their coastline near Portsmouth.
Incredible drone photos show a tropical-looking British coastline
Image credits: Solent News/Solent Sky
Even though most people would never expect tropical-looking pictures of the seaside to be coming from the Brits, they did manage to surprise us this time. Mike Woods took these incredible pictures by flying a drone over Portsmouth. He was amazed to see usually murky waters azure blue and crystal clear.
The photos of azure blue waters were taking by flying a drone over Portsmouth
Some people believe the sea around Portsmouth has cleared up due to decreased pollution levels during the coronavirus lockdown. It’s not necessarily the case, but the locals are happy about this change despite the possibility of it being temporary.
The usually murky waters have most likely cleared up because of a decrease in pollution
It could be pretty accurate, since the color of the sea depends largely on how many particles are in the water, so the more it is affected by car pollution, boat traffic, and other human activity, the more particles get into the water and change its hue, making it appear darker and murkier.
Pollution levels have dropped significantly in the UK due to the coronavirus lockdown
Mike Woods, who took these aerial shots of azure blue seas near Portsmouth, said: “There has been a lot of talk about the color of the water in the area recently and I think the perception is, nature is thriving.”
“It’s phenomenal. We’ve never, ever seen the water look this clear before, it’s lovely,” said Mike Woods, who took these photos
“It’s beautiful to see it and it looks like you are in a different country down there, it really does. It’s phenomenal,” he added. We’ve never, ever seen the water look this clear before, it’s lovely.”
However, the water could just appear cleaner with fewer people and boat traffic to disturb its stillness
Looking at the prospects of keeping the British coastline as tropical as it looks now, it would seem people should just leave it alone for good, not only during the lockdown, as scientists explain that murky waters are caused by the concentration of particles in them.
These Google Earth images showcase how the British coastline looked before the lockdown
Image credits: Google Earth
Despite the good news about the tropical-looking British coastline, waters of Venice clearing up, and even the ozone layer fixing itself, assuming that all the environmental problems of the world will fix themselves within a couple of weeks of human inactivity and will stay fixed is a little bit over-optimistic. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t enjoy it while we can, though!
The murkiness was most likely caused by car pollution, water traffic, and human activity
Here’s how people responded to the photos
Incurable book lover and thinker, Marvel geek and social media enthusiast with a Bachelor's Degree In Creative Communication. Will write everything about anything as long as it brings joy to pandas all over the world.
PjandBolt
I forget who says this, but it's a powerful quote. "If you remove animals from the planet, it would die. But if you remove humans from the planet, it would flourish."
David Jeu
Humans are animals.
Only it's not true at all. We for sure have to learn a lot but that's why we are here for in the first place and it's not that any other species would be so much different. Look at chimps, they wage ware, rape & kill, exhaust their territory beyond sustainability give them a view million years and it would be humans + chimps already and we could go on like that. So where do you draw the line? I prefer we learn how to life sustainable on our planet and don't wait for another species to go trough the same mistakes we did. But I get it: it's much more exhausting to do than to complain.
Phil Painter
Chimps dont burn fossil fuels to generate electricity; chimps dont operate farms; chimps dont fly planes... Chimps are still doing what chimps were doing thousands of years ago... We have had various "revolutions", colonised other civilisations and continents and they are still sitting in West Africa minding their own business...
Monika Soffronow
Mathias, you get downvoted for being right! Or at least on the right track. Give them anything they can pounce on in order not to feel the pain of our collective culpability and they will. We Need To Change Our Ways SoThat Our Descendants And All Other Life May Inherit A Liveable Planet.
T Simmons
This is nothing to do with pollution but weather and ocean currents. The water frequently changes from cloudy to clear along the coast. Huge leaps in conclusions. Poor.
Cathelijne van Weelden
I think so too, we have areas in the Netherlands at the coast where waters can be crystal clear. And there are areas which are always murky due to currents, algea, mud... Even though water quality is high.
Aria Whitaker
Has the weather and ocean currents never done this before? Because they are saying that it has not looked like this, well...ever. If it were only currents and weather, we would have seen this before, right? Or are you saying a unique, never-seen-before weather and current pattern are responsible?
helped me for today, thanx!
Nothing to do with pollution. It's the calm sea not stirring up the soil as it usually does. Talk about some bs reporting.
Tiny Dynamine
"We’ve never, ever seen the water look this clear before." I think that is the difference between someone who has seen it all his life and, well, you.
Well by that standard a sandstrom in the dessert would be huge pollution as would be a foggy day or heavy rainfall...
Amen. Car pollution? Are they serious? "particles", eh? How scientific. Take any body of water and leave it undisturbed and you'll see a noticeable difference. My god the stories get dumber dumber.
mewmew34
Yes, "particles". You know, like if you take a glass of clear water, and then start adding food coloring to it. Each drop adds more "particles" that make the water more and more colored, getting darker and darker as you go.
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I have noticed that a lot of the organisations that I and the team advise and work in partnership with have embraced Mental Health week which was a fortnight ago. Statistics 1 in 4 people in the UK experience a mental health problem each year. The Mental Health Foundation confirms that 1 in 6.8 people (14.7%) experience mental health problems in the workplace, and that 12.7% of all sickness absence days can be attributed to mental health conditions. When you look at the statistics there is a lot more to be done to help businesses and the individuals involved.
Mental health conditions can be protected under the Equality Act as a disability. But what if you as an employer or manager are not aware? When do you gain knowledge of the disability? The recent EAT case of Baldeh v Churches Housing Association highlights that where an employer should have gained knowledge of a disability during an appeal against dismissal, it may be unfair to dismiss. This is not a great decision for employers but again stresses how careful employers must be when dealing with mental health in the workplace.
Mrs Baldeh (B) was employed by Churches Housing Association of Dudley and District Limited (D) as a support worker, subject to a probationary period of six months. Issues were raised about her performance throughout the period, including breach of professional boundaries, complaints from service users, data breaches and communication issues with colleagues. After 6 months she was invited to a probation meeting to discuss these issues, and told that one of the outcomes could be termination. Following the meeting, D wrote to B to terminate her employment with a month’s notice. B wrote to appeal the outcome. The letter did not make any mention of depression or disability, but it was mentioned in the meeting.
The letter rejecting the appeal stated that B had said her behaviour can be “unusual” and had offered information about her mental health, which D said it had “not previously been aware of”.
B brought a claim to ET of disability discrimination, under s15 of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA). S15(1)(a) relates to discrimination where a person discriminates against a disabled person because of something arising in consequence of their disability. It does not apply if there was no knowledge of the disability, and D, the respondent could not have reasonably been expected to know.
D accepted at ET that B was disabled with depression, but argued that it could not have reasonably been expected to know of it at the time of the dismissal. The ET found that D had not known about the disability and could not have been expected to know. There was no evidence that her behaviour was “in consequence” of her disability. It found there were other reasons for her dismissal that were sufficient, and that the dismissal was in any event justified under S15(1)(b) EqA, which allows the treatment if it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.
B appealed to the EAT. The EAT allowed the appeal. Although D did not know of B’s disability when the dismissal meeting took place, arguably they had acquired the necessary knowledge by the time of the appeal hearing. The rejection of the appeal formed part of the unfavourable treatment. There was some evidence that her depression caused her behaviour, which the ET had not considered, and it considered that it was sufficient for the “something arising in consequence” of the disability to have a “material influence” on the unfavourable treatment - the fact that there were other causes as well was “not an answer to the claim”. In addition, the ET had not addressed the s15(1)(b) defence properly and not considered whether dismissal was a proportionate response.
What does this mean for you or your business?
The EAT remitted the claim back to a new ET, as it considered the ET had not answered the correct questions. However, it is worth noting that if anything is mentioned by an employee (whether mental or physical health) which could be “substantial” (i.e. which impacts on their day to day lives) and “long-term” (likely to continue for a period of longer than 12 months), they may have a disability under the EqA and therefore have protection under the Act. It is therefore important to seek advice and an occupational health assessment before making any decisions to dismiss and document any decisions made as this could be helpful evidence that any decision to dismiss was not discriminatory.
What do you need to be doing now?
As an employer, make sure that you follow the ACAS code on disciplinary and grievance and your own policies when investigating and making any decisions to dismiss. Be aware of anything that could be considered a ‘disability’ and make sure that an Occupational Health specialist and HR are involved if it is necessary so that reasonable adjustments can be made. If in doubt, seek our advice as this is a growing area and difficult to navigate in the workplace.
Employers should take practical steps to ensure that they are able to support employees, such as making sure managers are trained on mental health and making sure that there is a culture of support in the workplace. ACAS has a useful section on mental health which can be found at HERE.
Finally BPE are supporting employers with the complex cross over between employment law and mental health and will be speaking about this at the forthcoming October CIPD event. Watch this space for details.
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Home Education ASUU Divided Over Federal Govt’s Offer To End Strike
ASUU Divided Over Federal Govt’s Offer To End Strike
Following federal government’s offer to end strike, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) branches are now divided over whether to accept the government’s offer and call off the strike.
According to The Nation, with some branches insisting that the government must meet all the demands before the strike is called off, the union may put the decision to a vote.
The Ahmadu Bello University branch agreed with the government on the N40 billion Earned Academic Allowance (EAA).
The branch, however, called for payment of the allowance before the strike will be called off.
Lecturers at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Delta State, said negotiations with the Federal Government must be concluded before the strike is called off.
Ezekiel Agbalagba, chairman of ASUU at the university, said the congress on Wednesday accepted the EAA, but rejected the N25 billion for the revitalisation of the varsities.
ALSO SEE: Strike: ASUU Insists On Implementation Of Existing Agreements
According to him, the latest concession by the Federal Government is “an offer”, adding: “Let it land in our purse first.”
He added: “We are willing to suspend the strike, but some of those contending issues should be thrashed and thrashed once.”
ASUU chapters of the University of Maiduguri, Yobe State University and Federal University Gashua resolved to get a serious commitment from the Federal Government before they call off the industrial action.
The Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (UAM) ASUU voted to continue with the strike action until the Federal Government implements what was offered during the negotiation.
ASUU- UAM chapter said both their withheld salaries and sundry allowances must be also paid.
A lecturer at UAM, who preferred not to be named, said they voted that the strike should continue until the government fulfils its part of the bargain.
ASUU national leadership will receive reports from zonal coordinators, following state congresses.
After considering the reports, the leadership is expected to take a position and present it to the Federal Government.
ALSO SEE: ASUU Breaking News This Morning, November 11
A source said some of the congresses voted to call off the strike; others did not.
The source said the congresses agreed on the offers presented by the government to the union and with a timeframe to implement some of them.
The source added: “All the reports will come in today (yesterday) and we can make a decision on it.”
Last Friday, the Federal Government agreed with ASUU’s demand for payment of lecturers’ salaries from February to June through the old platform – the Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System.
The government said the exemption of ASUU from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) was temporary pending when the university lecturers will complete the development of its payment platform – the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
After weeks of negotiations, the government offered to raise the EAA from N30billion to N35billion and the revitalisation fund from N20billion to N25billion.
Cumulatively, the government, through the Accountant-General of the Federation, offered the lecturers N65 billion to call off the strike.
The government also shifted ground on some issues, including the insistence that all the academic staff of federal universities must be paid through the IPPIS platform.
ALSO SEE: ASUU BREAKING NEWS This Afternoon, Saturday, November 21
The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN ASUU Chairman, Prof Moyosore Ajao, said the chapter was in alignment with the national body.
“Our president will make a pronouncement on our resolution after our meeting tomorrow (today).”
A source at the ASUU UNILORIN meeting said the union resolved that “our salaries be paid and must henceforth not be stopped,” he said.
“We also resolved that ASUU is not and cannot be on IPPIS,” he added.
Chairman of University of Jos chapter of ASUU, Dr Lazarus Maigoro, said: “We are under a strict directive from the national body not to release our resolutions yet.”
Sokoto Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr Jamilu Shehu, told our correspondent that the zones are expected to make their positions known at the Abuja meeting.
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'PLL' Unmasks Charles & You'll Never Guess Who
By Sam Rullo
After years of clues, red herrings, and speculation, the time has finally come. As promised, Pretty Little Liars unmasked A in the Season 6 summer finale, revealing a villain who I don't think many fans saw coming. As "Game Over, Charles" showed just a few minutes in, CeCe Drake is Charles DiLaurentis, aka Big A, aka Ali's former BFF, aka, well, a lot of things. No matter how you reacted during that tense moment when that hooded figure finally turned around to show Ali her face, I'm sure you're still freaking out. I. Marlene King and the rest of the PLL writers have been diligently building this part of the A mystery since Season 3, and it seems the emphasis on Big A's gender was a misdirect, as CeCe told Ali she always wanted to wear dresses, implying she identified as a girl, from when she was still living in the DiLaurentis home.
With this reveal comes so many questions. Why exactly did CeCe target the Liars, when it seems she was angrier at her own family? What has she done as A, versus Mona and any other players out there? King has promised over and over that we would completely understand why Big A has done this by the end of the Summer of Answers, so we knew that if she planned on keeping that promise, "Game Over, Charles" was going to be on hell of a ride. You can watch the actual Big A reveal below.
Later, CeCe revealed where the Charles headstone at Aunt Carol's house came from, explaining that Mrs. DiLaurentis faked Charles' death, then checked CeCe into Radley as Charlotte, accepting her daughter for who she was. Then once Mona went to Radley, CeCe, already a patient there, got all of the information she needed to officially take over the A game.
For more on CeCe, the Summer of Answers, and everything else PLL, check out Bustle's podcast Taking This One To The Grave.
And if you need something to lighten the mood after this intense finale, check out the video below as PLL virgins try their best to describe the show and even uncover A's identity.
Image: Eric McCandless/ABC Family
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Black Box on Broadway- FBS' Inaugural Production
Since moving back to Houston I've found a home at Feijoo Ballet School teaching tap and theatre dance. Along with my regular classes, I have also kicked off a new performance series for the studio with our first production being this last month- Black Box on Broadway! We transformed their big studio into a Black Box theatre space with the help of some lighting installation, flat set pieces, fabulous costumes, and the splashy red show curtain.
Thanks to Harvey, we lost a good chunk of time out of our already short rehearsal process. I was in awe of how everything came together and couldn't have been more proud of my talented students! The structure of the show was review style, featuring the casts' unique talents and personalities in numbers from different Broadway musicals, classic and contemporary.
On our final performance I traded in my director's notepad for my camera and snapped some fun pics of my little gem of a show. (I sat next to our brilliant pianist, Ms. Jennifer, to conduct the music, therefor my view from the side was a bit limited for photo taking!)
Huge thanks to Lorna, Melissa, and Natalie for giving me this platform to help our students grow and develop into well rounded performers and human beings. Looking forward to doing it again in the Spring!
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"I Wanna Be A Rockette" from Kicks
"I Cain't Say No" from Oklahoma! and "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid
"The Boyfriend" from The Boyfriend
"The Doctor is In" and "Happiness" from You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
"One" from A Chorus Line
"Someday" from The Wedding Singer
"The Girl I Mean To Be" from The Secret Garden
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"A Lovely Night" from Cinderella
"42nd Street Ballet" from 42nd Street
"Anything Can Happen" from Mary Poppins
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'You feel sick': Burnaby musician falls victim to $1,500 bitcoin scam
Dana MacLeod, 32, describes an aggressive scam in which she was convinced by phone that police were about to seize her assets in the course of an investigation, and that she had to secure $1,500 for herself for necessities in the meantime.
Dana MacLeod, 32, was convinced by phone that police were about to seize her assets in investigation
Rafferty Baker · CBC News · Posted: Jan 14, 2020 6:00 AM PT | Last Updated: January 14, 2020
Dana MacLeod, 32, says a fraudster's call convinced her — against her suspicions and hesitation — to withdraw $1,500 and deposit in a bitcoin ATM. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)
It was about 7:30 a.m. last Tuesday when Dana MacLeod, 32, was awoken by a phone call. It was much earlier than the musician would normally start her day, and she was still quite groggy.
What followed was an elaborate high-pressure phone scam involving claims of identity theft, FBI and Burnaby RCMP investigations, the Canada Revenue Agency, and ultimately $1,500 lost to a bitcoin ATM in a Burnaby convenience store.
The man on the phone claimed to be calling from the Canada Revenue Agency. MacLeod quickly searched the Ontario number online and it checked out.
She was told that her identity had been stolen, and an abandoned blue Honda Civic that had been rented under her name had been found in Vancouver. The caller said that addresses associated with the rented car had been raided, and massive amounts of cocaine and 40 bank accounts registered in her name had been found.
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"I was basically the lead suspect in a drug trafficking, money laundering situation with accounts in Mexico and Europe and the United States," said MacLeod on Monday.
'Identity theft happens'
She said the scammer said told her she was both a suspect and the victim of identity theft, and that she needed to take measures to protect herself.
She was told there was a warrant out for her arrest.
"I know it seems like an extraordinary story, but I thought 'OK, but this is possible.' Somebody could have taken my information and done this, because identity theft happens," said MacLeod, who had recently had her credit card compromised.
MacLeod was given an appointment time, name and number of a Burnaby RCMP officer. She searched the number and it matched the detachment's non-emergency line.
The scammer convinced her that she needed to secure money to live on, because the police would promptly seize her assets.
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The man insisted that she not hang up the phone — or even put him on hold — while she made the trip to her bank and withdrew $1,500.
The scammer sent Dana MacLeod a QR code to scan with the bitcoin ATM when she made her $1,500 deposit. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)
"I'm still in my pajamas; I'm barely awake," she said. "I'm terrified."
The man asked for her postal code, and directed her to the nearest bitcoin ATM at a convenience store. MacLeod said she was told it was some sort of digital security box that police and the CRA use in situations like this.
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She was given a QR code to use to deposit the cash in the cryptocurrency machine.
'I realized it was a complete scam'
Once the directions had been followed and the dramatic call with the scammer ended, she called police to confirm the appointment. That's the moment everything became clear.
MacLeod was told nobody with the officer's name works with Burnaby RCMP.
"Immediately I was like, 'Oh my God this is not happening, this is not happening.' So I got in the car, I drove — I drove straight to the police station and I just totally broke down," said MacLeod. "I realized it was a complete scam."
Dana MacLeod says falling victim to the scam left her feeling embarrassed and sick to her stomach, but she hopes that be speaking out with her story, others might avoid a similar fate. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)
"You feel sick and you can't believe you would fall for something like this," she said.
Hang up the phone
MacLeod said, in retrospect, it's easy to spot the major red flags. She said if she could do it again, she would have immediately hung up the phone and told the man she'd call back.
Police echo the lessons MacLeod has learned from her misadventure.
According to Cpl. Mike Kalanj with Burnaby RCMP, neither police, nor the CRA would ever use bitcoin or another cryptocurrency, so that's one way to tell it's absolutely a scam.
New scam keeps fraudsters connected after victim hangs up
Kalanj said phone spoofing — faking the phone number you're actually calling from to make it look official — is becoming more and more rampant in scams, and it's hard to detect. He suggests calling the police, the CRA, or whoever the caller is claiming to be to be sure.
For MacLeod, the unfortunate episode left her feeling embarrassed that she had been fooled by the fraudster, but she said sharing her story might help prevent other people from falling victim to similar scams.
Do you have more to add to this story? Email rafferty.baker@cbc.ca
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Rafferty Baker is a video journalist with CBC News, based in Vancouver. You can find his stories on CBC Radio, television, and online at cbc.ca/bc.
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Lasers for Science Facility & Artemis User Meeting 2019
- Justin Tabbett
This year’s “Lasers for Science Facility/Artemis User Meeting” ran from the 9th – 11th of April in St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Delegates gathered to discuss research from the CLF’s Octopus, Ultra and Artemis Facilities.
The event had 107 registered delegates coming from over 35 different universities and institutions to share scientific research, and new developments in laser technologies. The meeting commenced with an introduction from director of the Central Laser Facility, Prof. John Collier where he briefly discussed changes that have been happening in the CLF and new developments for the facility.
Dr Chris Toseland, University of Kent, started off the first day of talks with his keynote lecture “Nanoscale organisation of transcription regulated by myosin VI". The afternoon continued with some research from Octopus, one of the imaging clusters based in the Research Complex at Harwell. Prof. Maria Martin-Fernandez then gave an update on the facility.
Prof. Stan Botchway of Octopus was chair for the first day and shared his thoughts about the user meeting
“The combined LSF/Artemis user meeting worked very well. This is a useful way to identify future cross-over of research areas of high power lasers to biological applications. An example of this is the presentation by Dr P Chaudhary on 'DNA DSB Repair Dynamics following Irradiation with Laser-Driven Protons at Ultra-High Dose Rates'. Although this work was carried out on Gemini and Vulcan with contribution from LSF staff and access to the Octopus imaging cluster, it highlighted the possibilities and opportunities in biomedical applications using high power lasers. This of course was part of Prof. John Collier's introduction address of the user meeting."
Left: Dr Chris Toseland, University of Kent. Right: Prof. Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol.
The afternoon saw talks from Imperial College London, Queen's University Belfast, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Birmingham. These talks covered a range of topics from lipid-protein membrane sensing to using laser accelerated carbon ions for radiotherapy in cancer stem cell models. Tuesday came to a close with a talk about real time imaging of graphene uptake in mammalian cells, followed by a talk about bioinks and 3D printing of cells.
Day two featured two keynote lectures; the first was given by Prof. Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol on “Ultrafast infra-red spectroscopy as a probe of chemical reaction mechanisms". The second keynote lecture of the day, from Dr Russell Minns, University of Southampton, was “Molecular dynamics studied via femtosecond extreme ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy".
Senior Experimental Scientist for Artemis, Charlotte Sanders who chaired the second keynote session, had this to say about the conference
“It was very nice to hear updates from our user community and to hear about so much exciting new science coming out of all of their labs. The event was a great opportunity to have discussions with our users about our ongoing facility upgrades. We've had really useful input about the capabilities we're hoping to have in the new lab. It's valuable for us to hear all of their helpful ideas about how we can support them with the best possible facilities for the kind of science they want to do."
Left: Dr Russel Minns, University of Southampton. Right: Poster Session.
As well as these two keynote lectures, day two contained 12 other talks and a breakout session where users were able to speak to the laser groups. The second day of the conference closed with a poster session where users, PhD students, and sandwich students were able to present their work.
The final day of the conference had 14 talks, with the keynote lecture being given by Dr Elizabeth Gibson of Newcastle University on “Photoinduced electron transfer dynamics in photoelectrochemical and photoelectrocatalytic solar cells".
Left: Dr Elizabeth Gibson, Newcastle University. Right: Audience participation.
The conference proved to be useful for both the Central Laser Facility and the user community, highlighting the benefits of shared knowledge and collaboration.
Contact: Tabbett, Justin (STFC,RAL,ISIS)
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SC upholds environmental clearance & notification for change in land use for Central Vista Project
The Supreme Court, in a majority verdict, today upheld the environmental clearance and notification for change in land use for the Central Vista Project in the National Capital.
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In its judgment, the Apex court said the exercise of the power under the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Act was valid and the recommendations of environmental clearance by the Ministry of Environment proper. The three-judge bench hearing the case comprised Justices Dinesh Maheshwar, A. M. Khanwilkar and Sanjiv Khanna.
The Supreme Court also said that it also calls upon the Ministry of Environment to install smog towers in future projects, particularly in those cities where pollution is an issue.
The Apex Court said in its judgement that the heritage conservation Committee approval needed when construction work is to begin. It also directed the project proponents to get approval from the heritage committee.
The SC was hearing a batch of petitions that questioned whether the project complied with land use and environmental regulations peculiar to the area which houses the Parliament and Central Secretariat buildings.
Earlier, the Supreme Court on 7th of December had allowed the foundation stone laying ceremony for the new Parliament building, but on 10th of December it directed that no construction should take place. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone and performed Bhumi Pujan for the construction of the new Parliament building, which is a part of the 20,000 crores rupees Central Vista project.
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has welcomed the judgement of Supreme Court giving the go ahead for the ambitious Central Vista Project.
In a tweet, the Minister said, Central Government has always been sensitive to environmental concerns and will continue to adhere to the highest standards during the period of construction. He added that Delhi is on course to becoming a World Class capital city and a new Parliament building will be ready by the time nation completes 75 years of its Independence in 2022.
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South Philadelphia Health and Literacy Center: Special Synergy
South Philadelphia Community Health and Literacy Center Provides Neighbors Unique Opportunities
Published on Dec 29, 2017 in Community Benefit Report
The Castro family — Raul Sr., Veronica, Raul Jr., 13, and Elizabeth, 11 — relax in the Free Library of Philadelphia branch located on the first floor. When Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was exploring a bigger location for the CHOP Care Network South Philadelphia primary care practice, it wasn’t content to be in the community. It wanted to be part of the community.
The result is the South Philadelphia Community Health and Literacy Center, a first-of-its-kind facility that houses the pediatric primary care practice plus Philadelphia Health Center 2, a branch of the Philadelphia Free Library and the DiSilvestro Recreation Center.
Building the facility required collaboration with the City of Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia and families in the neighborhood. The new 96,000-square-foot, three-story structure, built by Perryman Building and Construction, a Philadelphia-based minority-owned business, sits on the site that had previously housed the three non-CHOP entities. The Hospital worked to build trust with those in that community.
“We held a series of town meetings for people in the community to learn about the project and build trust," says Doug Carney, Senior Vice President, Facilities, Real Estate and Construction Management. “The more we explained and showed the plans, the more excited they became.”
The excitement grew once the facility opened in spring 2016 and everyone not only saw the spectacular building but also experienced the transformative park next to the recreation center, which quickly became a gathering place for families.
“This is what the future is — all of us working together to help our children’s lives be better,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said at the grand opening.
As the four partners have settled in, they have worked to make the most of the unique synergy the South Philadelphia Community Health and Literacy Center provides.
Integrative resources
Patients from CHOP and Health Center 2 will receive “prescriptions for health” that draw upon the resources at hand. For a child who is obese or an adult with diabetes, for example, the prescriptions may include researching healthy recipes on a library computer or checking out organized fitness activities at the rec center.
Health fairs are planned that combine information from the library, advice from pediatric and adult healthcare providers, and activities from the rec center. To reach neighborhood teens, a Barra Foundation grant enabled CHOP to hire an adolescent health outreach coordinator to work with all four entities at the center to engage with youth served by them. For example, the coordinator might set up a table by the basketball court and offer information on family planning and rapid tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Just as the facility design included feedback from neighbors, programming will be responsive to community needs. Opportunities are limitless.
“By way of a public-private partnership, a project of this scope is unprecedented in Philadelphia,” says Peter Grollman, CHOP’s Senior Vice President, External Affairs. “Integrating health, literacy and wellness will do remarkable things for families.”
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31 bilingual staff (Spanish, Mandarin or Vietnamese)
Asthma specialist
Care coordination for complex patients
Financial/health insurance counselor
Intimate partner violence counseling
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Police will continue to protect Singapore’s racial and religious harmony, says Shanmugam
Law and Home Affair Minister K Shanmugam speaks at the Police Workplan Seminar 2019 at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, on Apr 11, 2019. (Photo: Hanidah Amin)
By Kevin Kwang @KevinKwangCNA
11 Apr 2019 12:25PM (Updated: 11 Apr 2019 03:25PM )
SINGAPORE: One key area the Singapore Police Force (SPF) will focus on will be defending the country’s social cohesion, particularly in the areas of racial and religious harmony, said Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Thursday (Apr 11).
Speaking at this year’s Police Workplan Seminar, Mr Shanmugam pointed out that many countries are struggling with identity politics and fractured relations between communities.
Law and Home Affair Minister K Shanmugam attends the Police Workplan Seminar 2019 at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, on Apr 11, 2019. (Photo: Hanidah Amin)
New Zealand, for one, was rocked last month when a right-wing extremist shot and killed 50 worshippers and wounded dozens more in two mosques in Christchurch. Australian Brenton Tarrant, a suspected white supremacist, has been charged with 50 counts of murder.
These have led to predictable trends like the rise of Islamophobia, white supremacy movements and radical and political Islam with its own creed, he added.
In Singapore, racial and religious relations are always fragile, Mr Shanmugam said.
“If we do not take care, (race and religious relations) rupture, all of Singapore suffers,” he said. “And police know this. (They) can never take racial, religious harmony for granted.”
Law and Home Affair Minister K Shanmugam watches a demonstration of the Enhance Live Firing Range System at the Police Workplan Seminar 2019, on Apr 11, 2019. (Photo: Hanidah Amin)
They are aware of how insensitive attacks on social media can go viral quickly and can evoke strong, emotive responses, the minister said, adding that police have had to intervene as the impartial party on various occasions to deal with the issue before the situations get more tense.
He cited an example in 2018 of a 38-year-old woman who made insinuations that members of one race acted in a racist manner towards other races in a Facebook post. The post went viral and the online exchange of views was bitter and divisive, the minister recounted.
“When she returned to Singapore, police investigated and gave her a warning. Which is how we deal with most of these things,” Mr Shanmugam said.
The Home Affairs and Law Minister had addressed the issue of hate speech through a ministerial statement in Parliament earlier this month. In it, he highlighted the serious consequences that can follow when countries are lax about this issue and how restricting hate speech can help maintain racial and religious harmony.
READ: Shanmugam warns 'serious consequences can follow’ when countries are lax about hate speech
PROTECTING THE VULNERABLE
Mr Shanmugam also stressed that the police must continue to protect the vulnerable in Singapore’s society.
He pointed out that the Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence Act has been amended to give victims of sexual or child abuse added protection during court trials. These, he said, include the questions that can be asked of these victims and what the courts have to look out for.
The minister pointed to the sweeping changes proposed to the Penal Code that include enhanced punishments for those who commit offences against vulnerable victims like children, foreign domestic workers and persons with mental or physical disabilities.
READ: Children to get more protection against sexual predators in Criminal Law Reform Bill
READ: Sweeping changes proposed to Singapore Penal Code; attempted suicide to be decriminalised
Women, too, will receive more protection going forward, Mr Shanmugam said.
For example, intimate partners will be able to apply for personal protection orders. This was not possible previously as the Women’s Charter only applied to married women.
“In the past you had to go to the police and treat it like an assault, as in other cases of assault. Now, additional avenues,” the minister said.
He mentioned that the police will continue to invest in technology, and highlighted the automation of investigative processes, police cameras and autonomous technology as areas that have resulted in significant productivity gains.
Law and Home Affair Minister K Shanmugam observes the M.A.T.A.R 3.0, an autonomous patrol robot, at the event. (Photo: Hanidah Amin)
READ: Singapore police roll out drone-equipped surveillance vehicles
On police cameras, Mr Shanmugam said the SPF has completed the installation of about 10,000 cameras under the PolCam 2.0 programme. These bring the total of fully operational police cameras deployed in public areas of Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates to nearly 80,000, he added.
The police will be pressing ahead with the use of video analytics and “smart” cameras, and these will allow for the earlier detection of criminal and security threats. These, in turn, will mean earlier intervention, he said.
The Sky Aerial Response Command, or Sky ARC, will be used for pre-planned security events, search missions and aerial surveillance. (Photo: Hanidah Amin)
The minister also reiterated the support that will be given to the SPF and the Home Team to allow them to do their jobs.
He said: “We cannot let our guard down in Singapore. So there has got to be and there will be a commitment to continue to resource the police, keep our laws updated, fit for purpose, and we will support the police in your mission.”
Source: CNA/ic(ms)
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H.R.2138 - Sinai Service Recognition Act115th Congress (2017-2018)
Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10] (Introduced 04/25/2017)
House - Ways and Means
House - 04/25/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
Constitutional Authority Statement
Sinai Service Recognition Act
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require a qualified hazardous duty area to be treated in the same manner as a combat zone for certain tax provisions.
A "qualified hazardous duty area" is the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt if a member of the Armed Forces performs services in such location that qualify for special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger.
The requirement applies to specified tax provisions relating to:
the special rule where a deceased spouse was in missing status;
the exclusion from gross income of certain combat pay of members of the Armed Forces;
income taxes of members of the Armed Forces on death;
combat zone-related deaths of members of the Armed Forces;
the definition of wages relating to combat pay for members of the Armed Forces;
the taxation of phone service originating from a combat zone from members of the Armed Forces;
joint tax returns where an individual is in missing status; and
additional time for individuals serving in combat zones to file returns, pay taxes, and perform other specified acts.
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What 100 Calories of Cheese Looks Like
A guide to help you make healthier choices for your sandwich, snack, or party plate
By Julia Calderone
Whether it’s sliced, cubed, crumbled, or shredded, Americans can’t get enough cheese. According to a recent survey of 2,000 adults by market research firm Mintel, a whopping 95 percent reported having eaten cheese within the past three months, with the majority saying they’d eaten it several times per month.
A few downsides come with all that consumption, says Amy Keating, a registered dietitian at Consumer Reports: “Cheese is an excellent source of protein and supplies calcium, but it’s easy to nibble on; and the calories, saturated fat, and sodium can add up.”
An ounce of cheddar, for example, supplies nearly 7 grams of protein and 200 mg of calcium—that’s 20 percent of your daily calcium need. But it also has 114 calories, 5 grams of saturated fat, and 185 mg of sodium. That can put you over your daily limit if you’re mindlessly snacking on a cheese plate, Keating says. “A good idea,” Keating says, “is to stick to 100 to 200 calories’ worth of cheese as a snack or at parties.”
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And on top of that, you have to consider what you pair with the cheese. In recent CR tests, even healthy crackers had 5 to 40 calories each, and some had 50 mg of sodium per cracker.
A better option, Keating says, is to enjoy cheese with fruit or raw nuts. These foods have no added sodium or other added ingredients, such as sugars, and they’re good components of a healthy diet.
To help keep your portions in check, we calculated what 100 calories of popular cheeses looks like, so you can snack soundly at your next soirée or snack break.
Julia Calderone
I'm a former scientist, using words and an audio recorder as my new research tools to untangle the health and food issues that matter most to consumers. I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., where I cook as much as possible. You can find me in the grocery aisle scrutinizing the fine print of every food item I put into my cart. Follow me on Twitter @juliacalderone.
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Who Else Might Like Medicare for All? Retired Coal Miners Who Just Had Their Health Benefits Ripped Away
Virginia billionaire says that while he recognizes the nullification of the coal miners' health package and union contract is "painful," the pain is necessary for the sale to be worthwhile to an investor like him
Jon Queally, staff writer
Many retired coal miners are suffering a slow and painful death from black lung and other chronic illnesses, but investors argue that taking away their health benefits is only feasible option. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
On Friday, a ruling by a federal bankruptcy judge in Texas showed why retired coal miners led to believe their health benefits would be with them for life were wrong and at least one advocate for Medicare for All noted that this is just one more reason why a healthcare system that includes everyone and excludes nobody would be a lifeline for workers which capitalism has pulled the rug out from under.
"Another reason for #MedicareForAll - healthcare for retired coal miners." —Michael Lighty, Sanders Institute Fellow
As the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming reported over the weekend, retired union members who worked at the local Kemmerer coal mine in Lincoln Country, Wyoming "likely lost their company health benefits" after Judge David R. Jones of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston ruled that the Westmoreland Coal Co.—now up for auction under bankruptcy proceedings—could eliminate retirement health care and a union contract in order to sell the mine.
According to the Star-Tribune:
In order to sell the Kemmerer mine to new operators, Westmoreland has argued that it must eliminate union agreements that affect the nearly 300 employees of the western Wyoming mine as well as obligations to retired miners and dependents, many of whom still reside in the region.
United Mine Workers of America had argued that responsibilities to employees and former miners of Kemmerer are protected in binding contracts between the miners and owners of the mine. That argument now becomes one for a Virginia billionaire to hear instead of the judge.
That billionaire is Virginia businessman Tom Clarke, who said that while he recognizes the nullification of the coal miners' health package and union contract is "painful," it's necessary for the sale to be worthwhile to an investor like him.
"It's a story," admitted Clarke, "of Wall Street versus the average person that fully expected after putting in a lifetime of work at the mine (that) they were going to have a certain pension and a certain health package."
And even though Clarke recognized that a retired coal miner's body has taken a beating from his career—"When you are 55, you feel like you are 70," he said—the healthcare benefits are simply too expensive to continue. "We can't afford that," Clarke said, "nor could anybody else."
It's nothing new. Coal miners—who Republican lawmakers have used as pawns in their political battles for years—have repeatedly been sold out when their pensions or healthcare become a liability for mine owners or investors. As Common Dreams reported in 2016, Republicans—led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—refused to allow a bill to protect miners' pensions receive a vote in the Senate. "We're dying like flies," said Billy Smith, a coal miner for 39 years said at the time, as he put the onus on McConnell and his fellow Republicans.
Allies of the miner workers, like Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union, said the kind of joint behavior by bankrupt companies like Westmoreland and predatory investors like Clarke is a betrayal of workers who have risked their very lives while fulfilling their side of the economic agreements:
Bankruptcy has become a sham business tool to negate obligations to workers for a lifetime of service. Miners have given their lives and health to keep the rest of us warm and safe. Shame on Westmoreland and Tom Clarke! https://t.co/p4NsWy0qlr @MineWorkers
— Sara Nelson (@FlyingWithSara) February 17, 2019
At the same time, Michael Lighty, a fellow at the progressive Sanders Institute and former public policy director for the National Nurses United (NNU), said that such rulings prove that a single-payer system is very much needed by workers who are told their healthcare needs—despite the promises made to them—are too expensive to be covered:
Another reason for #MedicareForAll - healthcare for retired coal miners @LaborforSPayer @Labor4Health @dsam4a https://t.co/mFEUVKpM2v
— Michael Lighty (@mlighty60) February 17, 2019
"Because of the inherent health risks for mine workers, we can easily see the need for a health system that guarantees they get the care they need," Lighty explained to Common Dreams in an email. "Yet, the present U.S. system cannot consistently do that. Anyone of us could suffer health consequences from our job, or be locked into a job we don't want because we need the health benefits. Only Medicare for All solves these problems, and provides the security workers need."
Lighty's tweet was subsequently shared by other leaders in the Medicare for All movement, including the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Democratic Socialists for Medicare for All.
While Clarke stated that covering retired miners was cost prohibitive, Mike Dalpiaz, vice president of United Mine Workers of America District 22, which represents the miners in Wyoming, told the Star-Tribune that if the miners are not taken care of by somebody, there would be a major revolt among the workers still employed at the mine.
"If we get them people taken care of, Tom Clarke doesn't have to take care of them," he said. "But, somebody is going to take care of them, or that coal is not going to be mined up there. It's about that simple."
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Birthday Hobgoblin
Home Meditations Dare to Not Know!
Dare to Not Know!
written by Martin LeFevre 2016/04/04
In 1784 Immanuel Kant, responding to a general challenge by a clergyman and official in the Prussian government, wrote an essay entitled, “What Is Enlightenment?” Kant’s essay had great and lasting impact. As our age crashes down around and within us, it’s time revisit the question.
Kant, whose philosophical treatises are mostly impenetrable, is surprisingly clear, succinct and incisive in this essay. “Those guardians [of society] who have kindly taken supervision upon themselves see to it that the overwhelming majority of mankind–among them the entire fair sex–should consider the step to maturity [of thinking for oneself], not only as hard, but as extremely dangerous.”
Apart from the outdated reference to women, the same principle holds true today. Very few people think for themselves, whatever their gender, and whatever their station.
Kant defines enlightenment as “man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage.” ‘Nonage’ is an archaic word meaning “period of immaturity,” and Kant used it to mean “the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance.”
“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain minors all their lives, long after nature has freed them from external guidance…Dare to know! (Sapere aude.)”
The 18th century is generally known for a number of things: The Enlightenment; The American Revolution; The French Revolution; Robespierre and the Reign of Terror; the steam engine and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Revolution, in one form or another, is a theme and thread running through this period.
Kant wrote, “Enlightenment requires nothing but freedom, freedom to make public use of one’s reason in all matters…and this alone can bring enlightenment to mankind.”
That is a far too limited a definition of human freedom. It has also turned out to be untrue that “when one does not deliberately attempt to keep men in barbarism, they will gradually work out of that condition by themselves.”
“When we ask, Are we now living in an enlightened age? the answer is, No, but we live in an age of enlightenment… the hindrances against general enlightenment or the emergence from self-imposed nonage are gradually diminishing. In this respect this is the age of the enlightenment.”
Though dyed-in-the-wool secularists and rationalists still maintain “reason alone can bring enlightenment to mankind,” history, American and Western culture, and the global society, have proven that false.
Since Kant’s main premise that reason is sufficient for enlightenment is untrue, and since reason is the cornerstone of our collapsing Western civilization, it must be replaced. But what can replace it?
Enlightenment in the West and enlightenment in the East have historically meant very different things. In the West, Kant extended the exercise of reason to include thinking for oneself, so that people would “emerge from nonage by cultivating their own minds.”
In the East, enlightenment meant the full awakening of insight within, irrespective of the individual. Illumination was understood to be an arduous process of liberation from conditioning, requiring a tremendous degree of self-knowing, and at least a temporary withdrawal from society.
The emphasis on the individual in the West has degenerated into the atomism of individualism. But we still refer to “the Age of Enlightenment,” and believe we are the beneficiaries of it. Scientifically and technologically we are, but psychologically and spiritually we are living in an age of darkness.
Enlightenment in the East has come to mean the fading precepts of Buddhism, with the inward life inundated by the tsunami of materialism and consumerism from the West. Ironically, the West is painting over the rotting timbers of reason with a veneer of Buddhism. God must have a sense of humor.
We need a new meaning for enlightenment, befitting this age of outer science and inner rot. I see enlightenment as a transmutation in the brain such that psychological separation, psychological memory and psychological time no longer dominate. That mode of being is replaced by a living baseline of attention in the present, stillness of thought, and deepening insight. Dare to not know!
The phenomenon of illumination occurs temporarily near daily now during sittings beside the streams in this sylvan town. What happens is this. After a period of sensory enjoyment of nature and passive observation of thought/emotion, the observer ends and thought falls silent.
That’s the moment meditation spontaneously begins. Remaining with what is, attention gathers unseen and unbidden, and wipes the mind and heart clean. Psychological time ends and the actuality of death draws near, and with it, strangely, impersonal love floods into one. There is great peace, bliss and happiness.
Why then is this timeless state still the exception and not the rule? Why does the brain still default to time?
Martin LeFevre
Kant’s essay: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html
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Fame does not give Hayne ‘pass’: court
Former star rugby league player Jarryd Hayne is on trial for sexual assault. Picture NCA NewsWire/Peter Lorimer
2nd Dec 2020 3:19 PM
Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne's fame and fortune does not give him a "pass" for allegedly forcing himself on a woman he thought had "promised" him sex, a court has heard.
The former Parramatta fullback is on trial at Newcastle District Court fighting claims he sexually assaulted the woman, then 26, after arranging to go to her house the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.
The court has heard the woman suffered two lacerations to her genitalia when Mr Hayne, 32, allegedly pulled off her pants and began digital and oral sex on her as a taxi waited outside her home on Newcastle's outskirts.
Mr Hayne claims the sex was consensual and the woman's injuries were caused by a stray fingernail.
He had been in Newcastle that night, September 30, 2018, to attend a buck's party for a former Fiji teammate.
On day seven of the trial, Crown prosecutor Brian Costello began his closing address by telling the jury how the woman's "significant" injuries and bleeding painted a "vivid picture" of a rough sexual assault.
Mr Costello said the jury should reject Mr Hayne's evidence as being unreliable, adding the fact he had "achieved a level of fame few of us have achieved in our lives" did not permit the jury to "give him a pass".
"We are all equal before the law," he said. "No sympathy you feel for the accused can stand in the way of delivering a true verdict."
Jarryd Hayne denies the accusations. Picture NCA NewsWire / Peter Lorimer.
The court has heard a $550 taxi was arranged for Mr Hayne to travel back to Sydney but he made a pit stop at the woman's home after the pair exchanged explicit messages on Instagram and Snapchat.
Mr Costello said Mr Hayne effectively invited himself over to the woman's house, ditching his friends at the party and missing out on watching a grand final featuring some of his former State of Origin teammates.
"He's given that up for one plain and obvious reason - the sex he thought he had been promised by way of those communications," he said.
"The reason he went there was for sex; pure and simple."
Jarryd Hayne arrives at Newcastle Court for closing arguments of his trial for sexual assault. Picture NCA NewsWire/Peter Lorimer
Mr Costello said the drunk footballer arrived about 9pm and was at least in a reckless state of mind when he "simply ignored" or "failed to consider her consent" and forced himself on the woman.
Mr Hayne admitted during the trial the woman was "upset" at learning about the taxi waiting outside, and told him she didn't want to have sex.
The prosecutor said nothing the NRL star did after that point - including accidentally breaking a bed slat and leaving her bedroom to watch the game - would make her "more enthusiastic" about sex.
He said if the woman's account of trying to evade his attempted kissed and saying "no" and "Jarryd stop" was true, it was clear the footballer knew she was not consenting.
The only thing that stopped him was the significant bleeding, Mr Costello said.
The woman's decision to reject requests to meet Mr Hayne at the buck's party showed she was cautious and had no "clamouring desire on her part to leap straight into bed" with him.
Mr Hayne's barrister, Phillip Boulten SC, said the allegations set out by the woman "did not occur in the way that she claims that they did".
Mr Boulten said his client did not ignore her protests or overbear the woman, because she reciprocated his kisses and was a willing participant in the oral and digital sex.
"She consented to both of these acts and he knew she consented," he said.
Mr Boulten said the history of that night had now "rewritten itself" and suggested the woman "might even have convinced herself that she did not consent".
"But the accused Jarryd Hayne had every reason to believe she was consenting, because the truth is she was," he said.
Jarryd Hayne playing for the Parramatta Eels in 2018. Picture: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
He said embarrassment at the combination of the taxi waiting outside, the fact the woman told her mother she wouldn't be having sex with Mr Hayne and the resultant injuries could be the reason for her creating the story.
Earlier, the court was read excerpts of a statement from defence witness Monique Smiles, who exchanged Instagram messages with the alleged victim about 10.18pm on the night of the incident.
The Newcastle-based solicitor said the woman said something along the lines of "he went down on her and that was it" and that "she felt a bit used and he just left".
"I feel a bit like an idiot," the court heard the woman wrote.
Crown prosecutor Brian Costello said there were gaps in Mr Hayne’s story. Pictures NCA NewsWire/Peter Lorimer
Mr Costello said it was not surprising the woman would not disclose the intimate details of her injuries and the alleged assault to someone she had never met.
He said the complainant was a frank and honest witness who "she just tells it like it is", making reference to an in-court outburst when she called Mr Hayne a "f***ing piece of shit".
"She told it like it was on Instagram, she told it like it was in the witness box, and unfortunately she told it like it was as she was leaving court," he said.
During the trial the woman admitted she was at the time open to sexual activity with Mr Hayne in "the right circumstances", but told her mother she was "definitely not going to have sex" with him after learning of the taxi.
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Push to break up unions
Long-awaited IR reform to be introduced in parliament's final sitting week
by Jade Gailberger
5th Dec 2020 2:15 PM
Militant unions such as the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union could be disbanded under new laws being proposed by the Morrison Government.
Attorney-General Christian Porter unveiled on Saturday the new bill, which it will introduce when parliament returns next week for the final sitting of the year.
Under the proposed laws, registered organisations that have been together for at least five years could apply to the Fair Work Commission for a ballot to de-merge from their joint organisation if it had a record of failing to meet standards, workplace and safety laws.
"It means that decent, hardworking parts of an amalgamated union that are dissatisfied with the state of their union will have an opportunity to leave, if that is their wish and this bill is passed by parliament," Mr Porter said.
"Whilst registered organisations cover both employer and employee organisations, the appalling behaviour of the CFMMEU has driven some divisions within that organisation to consider their options."
Attorney-General Christian Porter says the government will introduce new industrial relations bills next week. NCA NewsWire/Gary Ramage
This is the government's second attempt to seize on divisions the CFMMEU has had with construction union secretary John Setka.
In May shelved its union-busting Ensuring Integrity Bill - which would give the court the power to disqualify officials or cancel the registration of organisations that don't work in the interest of their members - in a move to appease the unions as they worked with government on emergency industrial relations changes during the pandemic.
Labor MP Linda Burney confirmed the opposition would look at the legislation.
"But I make the point … that this has been an ideological obsession of Christian Porter and the government for a long time in terms of breaking up the unions," she told ABC.
"The union movement is important to the Labor Party and obviously this legislation is important to the party as well."
The government will also introduce its industrial relations omnibus reforms, which it has spent several months working on with unions and business groups.
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By Megan Williams 18/12/2020 9:25 am
Magazines are often searching for what’s next. Yet this year has been one where nobody has known what is around the corner, and it’s forced us all to pause, take stock and reflect. It’s a collective behaviour that has manifested in magazine covers that have in many ways felt quieter, giving breathing room for images to speak for themselves.
Headlines and covers have turned overwhelmingly to urgent matters ranging from the climate crisis to widespread systemic racism, while also documenting the ever-changing situation surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
Covid-19 of course influenced the media in other ways, namely the very means of production. For magazines reliant on commissioning photoshoots, resourcefulness and imagination have been essential in getting an issue over the finish line at all. And yet, despite the challenges facing media publications the world over, titles ranging from Playgirl to Fact have baulked at the idea that ‘print is dead’ by relaunching this year in the format.
As we approach the end of 2020, we’ve hand-picked ten memorable magazine covers that embody a year nobody will forget.
Vogue Italia’s January 2020 issue cover, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
Vogue Italia: January 2020 issue
In a bid to examine ways of producing a magazine with sustainability in mind, Vogue Italia kicked off the year with an illustrated magazine that abandoned photoshoot production for the entire issue. Seven artists were commissioned to create each cover, which not only bucked the visual status quo but also came as a beautiful tribute to the early tradition of fashion illustration. The magazine covers were inadvertently prophetic given the spate of illustrated and painted covers that were adopted more widely this year during the pandemic – a format to which even Vogue Italia returned for the June issue, which featured covers illustrated by children.
Good Weekend’s cover shows scenes from Orangeville, NSW photographed by Nick Moir
Good Weekend magazine: Bushfires Photographic Special
In January 2020, Australia was rocked by a disastrous, record-breaking bushfire season, with lives, homes and habitats destroyed in blazes that consumed over 20% of Australia’s forests. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend magazine dedicated a special edition to the reportage photography covering the events. The cover shows a firefighter running to safety, vision obscured, sparks falling like rain, and engulfed in burning red hues that many will recognise from the distressing footage that emerged during the coverage – the likes of which are already reappearing as Australia grapples with bushfire season all over again.
The Guardian Weekly cover art directed by Andrew Stocks
The Guardian Weekly: The New Isolation
As the coronavirus pandemic broke out around the world, the many behavioural changes offered no shortage of inspiration for art directors. A March special edition of the Guardian Weekly came as the UK entered national lockdown for the first time, with a sparse cover visualising the physical distancing guidelines that had come into play for many societies the world over. This approach proved popular among titles elsewhere, from St Louis Magazine in Missouri to Slovenia’s Objektiv supplement, while Vogue Italia took the white space approach even further with a blank April cover.
Vanity Fair Italia cover created by artist Francesco Vezzoli
Vanity Fair Italia: L’Italia Siamo Noi
Italy grabbed headlines in April as it became one of the earliest western European countries to come up against the coronavirus crisis. The Italian edition of Vanity Fair acknowledged this by commissioning a cover by artist Francesco Vezzoli, who depicted the nation’s tricolour flag with a tear at the centre. The artwork paid homage to 20th century painter, sculptor and founder of spatialism Lucio Fontana, and was auctioned off to raise money for charities supporting businesses.
The New York Times Magazine features a cover shot by Philip Montgomery
The New York Times Magazine: Epicenter
By April, Covid-19 had become part of the everyday vernacular as death tolls skyrocketed around the world. However, many people had not seen what it looked like on the frontlines in hospitals. Photographer Philip Montgomery gave an intimate insight by capturing these scenes for a New York Times Magazine assignment and documenting the chaos and trauma faced by doctors and health workers on a daily basis. “It took me a second to engage and really start to make my pictures because, in a lot of ways, my jaw was on the floor,” Montgomery said of the experience in an interview with Gem Fletcher. “The reality had set in, in terms of what was happening to our city and our fellow New Yorkers.”
David Hockney’s iPad drawing on the cover of the Telegraph Magazine, also shown top
The Telegraph Magazine: A New Dawn
During the coronavirus crisis, David Hockney kept himself occupied by creating iPad drawings from his home in France. Offering some light relief in difficult times, the artist was commissioned to create the Telegraph Magazine’s front cover at the end of May, depicting a peaceful Normandy sunset. Hockney’s work was later snapped up by British Vogue for its Reset issue, where his 2006 oil painting of East Yorkshire was joined by 13 other covers of landscapes created artists including Nick Knight, Nadine Ijewere and Tim Walker.
Kadir Nelson’s Say Their Names on the cover of the New Yorker
New Yorker: Say Their Names
Following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of US police, and the outrage, trauma and reflection that ensued, New Yorker published a cover that contextualised his murder as part of a long history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. New Yorker regular Kadir Nelson painted the cover portrait of Floyd, which also contains portraits of victims within his silhouette, whose stories can be unearthed in more detail online in the interactive cover story. Painted cover images were favoured at other US titles too, including Time magazine’s poignant America Must Change artwork by Charly Palmer, and Amy Sherald’s painting of Breonna Taylor for Vanity Fair.
Michaela Coel photographed by Ruth Ossai for the cover of New York magazine
New York magazine: TV issue
Easily one of this year’s biggest TV sensations came in the form of Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You, a gripping drama that navigates waters as vast as sexual assault, identity, race, sexuality, gender, love and friendship to extraordinary effect. Although anchored in east London life, the series – which aired on both BBC and HBO – caught the attention of leading stateside publications. Chief among them was New York magazine, which put Coel – the show’s co-director, executive producer, writer and star – on the cover with an image shot by British-Nigerian photographer Ruth Ossai. While Coel also made the cover for the likes of the Wall Street Journal, Ossai’s portrait for New York mag has both a strength and sensitivity that speaks to the complexity of the series that landed her on the cover.
Misan Harriman’s photograph of Marcus Rashford and Adwoa Aboah on the cover of British Vogue
British Vogue: Hope
For the first time in Vogue history, all 26 editions of the magazine from around the world coordinated the all-important September issue on a single theme: hope. At British Vogue, Edward Enninful turned to activists to bring the issue to life, led by a cover portrait of footballer and staunch campaigner Marcus Rashford alongside model, activist and Gurls Talk founder Adwoa Aboah, photographed together by Misan Harriman. The issue came with a special fold out cover comprising portraits of multigenerational changemakers in the UK and beyond, and marked yet another powerful, unconventional cover from Enninful’s Vogue.
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin’s Amt und Unwürde cover created by Jonas Natterer, art direction by Thomas Kartsolis
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin: Amt und Unwürde
In a year punctuated by world-altering events at every turn, many of the usual political fiascos have slipped away from the headlines. Yet between the US Presidential Election and the bewildering handling of Covid-19 in the USA, Trump still managed to gain plenty of column inches and grace a handful of magazine covers. While satirical covers have been a mainstay at US titles, Germany’s sharp-witted Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin put a new spin on the Trumpian visual language for its presidential quiz special. With the Trump administration on its way out, the graphic cover might be one of the final examples of orange iconography that we see for a while.
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14 retailers with flexible return policies during the coronavirus pandemic
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To adhere to social distancing and help stop the spread of coronavirus, many—if not all—retailers have closed their storefronts temporarily. While we can still order from these retailers online, it does make returning purchases a little more tricky, since you can no longer do so in stores. Because of this, many stores are adding a little more flexibility so you can return your unwanted goods without penalty.
Currently, some retailers are extending their return time period and some are even offering curbside returns to lessen the burden on their customers. Below you’ll find 14 popular retailers who are offering more flexible return policies at this time, but be sure to double check the current return policies of other stores before you order.
1. Target
While the big box retailer recently announced that it will be suspending its in-store product returns and exchanges—from March 26 through April 16—Target is being lenient for those purchases. The company is extending the return time for purchases made at this time by three weeks so consumers won’t be impacted by the suspension.
Apple typically has a 14-day return window, but has expanded that window due to its store closures. They stores will accept return within 14 days after they reopen. Unfortunately, if your device is at an Apple Store for repairs, you’ll have to wait for the store to reopen to retrieve it.
3. Sephora
Due to their temporary closings, Sephora has adjusted their in-store return policy for new or gently used products. For purchases made in-store after February 15, the stores will accept returns within 30 days of its reopening as long as you have the receipt. For online returns, the typical 30-day return policy has been extended to 60 days.
4. Macy’s
Like other retailers, this popular department store has also extended its return policy. You’ll now have a 60-day extension for all returns. That means 150 days for most purchases; 120 days for jewelry, watches, dresses, and small electronics; 90 days for Macy’s Backstage purchases and Last Act Clearance; and 75 days for tech, Apple, and Samsung purchases.
5. Gap
The return window for both Gap and Old Navy, which are owned by the same company, has been extended to July 1, but this only applies for purchases made between January 1 and April 30.
6. Kohl’s
Kohl’s typically has a lenient return policy of 180 days, but the company is getting even more flexible in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Stores will accept returns outside of that window for the first 30 days after they reopen.
7. Best Buy
Aside from items with a third-party contract and major appliances, purchases made between March 1 and April 15 at Best Buy have an extended return period until April 29. You can also make returns or exchanges through Best Buy’s curbside pickup service
8. Bed Bath & Beyond
Need to make an in-store return at Bed Bath & Beyond? Don’t worry. The company has extended its typical 180-day return policy to 240 days from the receipt date for all purchases made on or after February 20.
9. Foot Locker
For items purchased after February 1, Foot Locker is offering some leniency in returns. The company will accept returns up to 30 days after its stores reopen for both items bought online and in-store.
10. GameStop
While GameStop is implementing Delivery@Door—a.k.a curbside pickup—the stores will not currently accept returns or exchanges. However, GameStop is adjusting its return policy to be more flexible once stores reopen, though they did not explicitly state the changes.
11. H&M
With the temporary closing of its stores, H&M has extended its in-store return policy indefinitely or until further notice. Basically, you won’t have to worry about meeting the typical 30-day return policy until the stores reopen.
12. J.Crew
To help customers adhere to social distancing, J.Crew extended its return policy from 30 days to 60 days for all orders placed on and after March 1. This goes for both online and in-store purchases.
13. Urban Outfitters
While Urban Outfitters typically has a 14-day return policy for in-store purchases, the company is extending it to 60 days. Note that it only applies to in-store purchases—online purchases can still be returned via mail.
14. Victoria’s Secret
In response to the coronavirus, Victoria’s Secret will be extending its return policy for 30 additional days. This means that returns can be made within 120 days of the original purchase date as long as you have the receipt.
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H is an unique book about the studio of contemporary artist Diango Hernández. This book depicts with a subtle series of black and white photos the artist’s working space in Düsseldorf. By permanently documenting his studio Hernández lets us see how silent and intimate is his relationship with objects, books and memories. ‘Home’ contains an extensive interview with Patrizia Dander and Diango Hernández which allows us to better understand Hernández’s practice, background and his way of working. A very interesting part of the book contains Hernández’s Diaries Notes in which he describes relevant studio moments and his daily working routine.
Excerpt from ‘Home means belonging – and vice versa’. An interview with Diango Hernández by Patrizia Dander
DANDER: At this point we should start to talk about the studio situation you are exposing in the book. I believe many of the processes you just described are firmly rooted in the studio space. At the beginning of our conversation you mentioned that after your collaboration you decided for a kind of work that “requires more solitude”. That sounds like if you were looking for a place where you could take your time and answer your questions at your own pace and according to your own logic and rules. Maybe even a place where doubt would play a more central role? Is that what you find in your studio?
HERNÁNDEZ: When I decided to move to Europe I wasn’t thinking in any particular place where I could eventually start developing my work, at that time I didn’t have in mind a studio, but a different scenario where I could start all over again. I knew from my former short trips abroad that it wasn’t easy for European artists to give a permanent continuity to their practices and I could guess that an artist’s life over here was extremely complicated. My priority number one since I arrived in Europe was oriented towards finding my own freedom and to dedicate 100% of my time to my art work. I knew that a studio would give me the possibility to expand my thoughts – albeit not my time. It took me a year and a half after arriving to Italy to fully reconnect with my everyday artistic routine. During this first year in Italy I was working at home and only during night-time because during the day I was busy working for an advertising agency. I knew from Havana that working at home has a few great advantages; it is a type of work that develops in a very intimate way and carries a lot of invisible life traces. And also whatever you’ll do in a space where you also live contains the scale of living and not really the scale of working.
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Thanks to Anne Pöhlmann / Patrizia Dander / Rogelio Hernández / Dirk Hartmann / Michael Dornieden / Adeline Morlon / CS Leigh / Alexander and Bonin, NY / Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Cologne / Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin / Pepe Cobo y Cia, Madrid / Stella Lohaus, Antwerp / Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto / Federico Luger, Milan
Printed in Germany in a limited edition of 750 copies. 103 Diango Hernández‘s special editions produced by dh-artworks. (25 unique studio polaroids, 25 original drawings, 50 bronze / wood sculptures and 3 bronze sculptures)
Launch 6th of September at Alexander and Bonin New York during Diango Hernández’s opening of solo exhibition “If I send you this”
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©2017 Diango Hernández
Diango Hernández’s work is in the collection of Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany | Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany | PAMM, Miami, USA | Artpace, San Antonio, USA | Museum of Fine Art Huston, Huston, USA | Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany | Kunstsammlung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany | INHOTIM, Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy | CAB de Burgos, Burgos, Spain | Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany | Rheingold Collection, Duesseldorf, Germany | Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, (MUSAC), Spain | Collectión Bergé, Madrid, Spain
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X marks the spot: Tesla’s Model X SUV officially launches
By Alexander Kalogianni September 30, 2015
After more than a few false starts, Elon Musk officallly launched Tesla Motors’ second original vehicle, the Model X, late Tuesday night at a ceremony in California.
Expanding the all-electric lineup, the Model X is the SUV cousin to the wildly successful Model S sedan. Motors in the front and back promise to send the all-wheel drive SUV to a top speed of 155 mph. The base model 90D has a 257-mile range and has a decent, 4.8-second 0 to 60 time. Shell out for the performance version, the P90D, and the utility vehicle can rocket forward in a mere 3.2 seconds.
One of the more unique features of the Model X (and the alleged source for the vehicle’s delays) is the set of falcon doors. These rear doors differ from the gullwing doors seen on classics like the Mercedes 300 SL and the (slightly) more modern DeLorean in that they are hinged in the center, allowing the doors to open in a vertical fashion. Calling the front doors “standard” hardly does them justice as they self-present themselves as the driver approaches, opening automatically and closing once the driver is seated.
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The five-door utility vehicle fits people and a boatload of cargo. Along with that, it sports a 5,000-pound towing capacity. If hitching Airstreams isn’t your thing, an accessory attachment can be mounted in seconds that can accommodate multiple bikes and skis.
If you’ve eagerly awaited this day, hopeful to get your hands on one, you’ll sadly have to wait ever so slightly longer: The first round of Model Xs have been already pre-ordered — Tesla fanatics have reportedly already bought tens of thousands of them — with the next round becoming available to customers in several months. The initial “signature series” models sold for around $130,000, but the standard one will be slightly cheaper, the company says.
Though hotly anticipated, it’ll still take a bit of time to see if the Model X will be the SUV that defies convention, like the drag-racing, crush-test-machine-breaking–ludicrous-mode-sporting Model S.
In the meantime, we’ll reset our clocks and start our wait for the Model 3.
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Mankind has gone to great lengths to explore space. It is a natural curiosity that has led us to build incredible machines and push the boundaries of what we thought was possible. In the All About Space Annual Volume 3, you'll find a collection of the best articles from the last year of All About Space magazine. From the power of supermassive black holes and the search for a new Earth to 10 daring space rescues and how we may colonise space, this is the perfect book for any space fan. Featuring: 100 wonders of space - Explore All About Space's favourite parts of the cosmos. Exploration - A look at mankind's most incredible missions. Solar System - Take a look at what lies within our solar system. Future Tech - Uncovering the tools that will help us conquer space.
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A New Jim Crow: Disability and Racial Segregation in Georgia “Psychoeducational” Schools
This is a must read piece on the use of “psychoeducational” schools to segregate predominantly black children in Georgia from their peers.
At age 7, David was too much for his teachers to handle. So they decided to send him to a special program — unique to Georgia — called a psychoeducational school. He was like so many others already there: male, diagnosed with a behavioral disorder — and black.
Georgia’s public schools assign a vastly disproportionate number of African American students to psychoeducational programs, segregating them not just by disability but also by race, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found.
Black children form the majority at programs where teachers restrained children with dog leashes, where psychologists performed behavioral experiments on troubled students, and where chronically disruptive students spent time in solitary confinement, locked in rooms with bars over the windows. In one such room, euphemistically called a “time-out” area, a 14-year-old boy hanged himself.
Fifty-four percent of students in Georgia’s psychoeducational programs are African American, compared to 37 percent in all public schools statewide, the Journal-Constitution found. In half of the 24 programs, black enrollment exceeds 60 percent. In one, nine of every 10 students are African American.
The state and the individuals who make up the state respond differently to black behavior than to white behavior, accommodating the latter and segregating the first. There’s a DoJ suit pending, because this is likely illegal under federal law.
Many of these students have complex needs requiring sophisticated supports. Some, perhaps, might need less time in mainstreamed classrooms. But these programs function as warehouses for kids no one is truly serving. Here’s a quote from Mary Wood, who founded the program:
Wood stressed treatment, along with rigorous data collection that allowed her to evaluate the effectiveness of various therapies.
Over time, she said, funding decreased and priorities shifted. The programs compiled less data, and the people in charge placed less emphasis on mental health treatment.
“Behavior management, behavior control, and making sure they’re going to achieve what they’re supposed to achieve on testing” is how Wood, now retired, describes GNETS.
“The therapeutic dimension has disappeared,” she said.
The schools dispute this assessment, of course, and also denies that race plays any factor in placement.
On Sept. 18, Tonyi went to the school to meet with teachers and a behavioral specialist. Approaching David’s classroom, she said, she heard crying, then her son’s voice: “You’re hurting me, you’re hurting me.”
An aide had pinned David to the floor, Tonyi said. The woman was digging her fingernails into David’s hands, saying, “Do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand?”
“Get your f-ing hands off him,” Tonyi yelled, and teachers called for a school police officer. Tonyi wanted to press charges against the aide, but the woman said David had thrown a timer at her.
The police officer ended up escorting Tonyi out of the building.
Regular readers of my work, including my CNN piece yesterday, know this kind of treatment happen around the nation. Abuse is a fundamental aspect of segregated education, but Georgia does seem to have specific problems.
Special education placement in Georgia, as with other states, seems to function as an element of what Michelle Alexander dubbed, “The new Jim Crow.”
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The Golden Compasses (1969-1972)
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The Golden Compasses
(1969-1972)–Leon Voet
The History of the House of Plantin-Moretus
Proof Correction1.
The important process of proof correction must be carried out between setting and printing. This was done sometimes by the author himself2. or by persons recruited by him for the task;3. but mostly the work was done by the proof-readers, the specialists employed by the house.4. It is fairly easy to reconstruct the list of these correctores for Plantin's period, but more difficult from the time of Jan i Moretus onwards, for from the beginning of the seventeenth century these members of the staff were no longer entered in the livres des ouvriers. Their names only appeared there when their work, and therefore their pay, was exceptional in some way, or when a special agreement had to be recorded. They continued to figure in the semaines des ouvriers rather longer, but usually without any indication that they
were proof-readers - which makes it difficult sometimes to track them down among the compositors, pressmen, and other workmen. A number of separate notes and the list of members in the ledger of the proof-readers' fraternity (founded in 1664) makes it possible to draw up a more complete list for the second half of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, although some gaps may remain. The list of names is given on pp. 176-179.
In the period 1563-67 Plantin frequently called in what would now be termed free-lance workers to rewrite texts, translate, or collate, to compile indexes or glossaries, or to carry out similar tasks.1. In writing about the Plantin House, scholars have usually included these occasional workers among the proof-readers of the officina. They should not be regarded as such for they did no actual correction work and worked only irregularly for Plantin. In this category belong Quintinus Steenhartsius,2. Guillaume Symon,3. the schoolmaster Antoine Tyron,4. Estienne de Wallencourt,5. and Petrus Kerkhovius.6. Among the regular proof-readers in that period there were a few who worked occasionally for Plantin and wholly or partially on what amounted to a piece-rate basis, as for example Andreas Madoets, Victor Giselinus, and Theodoor Kemp. These were exceptional cases: then and later, proof-reading in the Plantinian house was a full-time job.
Unlike the work in the press itself, proof-reading was reckoned and paid on the basis of working days. This does not mean that no account was taken of average rates of work when it came to fixing standards of achievement and salary. Mathias Ghisbrechts was the first proof-reader engaged after the reorganization of the firm in 1563 and Plantin entered into an agreement with him ‘pour me servir de correcteur à l'imprimerie et est obligé de me servir... pour autant de besogne que six compositeurs pourront composer soit qu'une, deux ou trois presses
List of Proof-readers
(according to date of first entry)1.
Under Christophe Plantin2.
*Kilianus, Cornelis [1558] 8th Dec. 1563 - d. 15th Apr. 16073.
*Ghisbrechts, Mathias 1st Nov. 1563 - 11th May 15654.
*Raphelengius, Franciscus 12th Mar. 1564 - 15855.
Madoets, Andreas 1st Apr. 1564 - 17th Mar. 15666.
*Giselinus, Victor Dec. 1504 - 22nd Dec. 15667.
*Spithals, Antonius 1st Jun. 1569 - 31st Aug. 1576; May 1577 - 20th Aug. 15778.
*Le Fèvre de la Boderie, Nicolaas 8th Jun. 1569 - 6th Mar. 15729.
*Kemp, Theodoor 1st Jul. 1569 - 10th Dec. 15691.
*Zelius Neomagensis, Bernardus 8th Feb. 1570 - 28th Jan. 15812.
Sterck, Laurentius (before 12th Apr.) 1571 - 3rd Aug. 15713.
*Paschalis, Carolus (before 13th Apr.) 1571 - 1st Mar. 15724.
*Moonen Hapartanus, Joannes 23rd Sep. 1571 - 17th Oct. 15765.
*Cornelii Harlemensis, Godefridus 1st Dec. 1573 - 17th Oct. 15766.
* Valerius, Robertus early Oct. 1574 - 14th Jun. 15777.
*Stur, Nicolas 14th Oct. 1574 - 20th Jun. 15768.
*Favolius, Baptista (c. 1574 - 1576, 16 weeks)9.
Vredius, Michael mid-Dec. 1578 - end May 157910.
Feudius Orschotanus, Joannes 1st Jan. 1579 - 12th Mar. 158011.
Moerman, Joannes 21st Jan. 1580 - 17th Mar. 158212.
Fine, Oliverius a 8th Feb. 1581 - 25th Sep. 159313.
Sasbout, Mathias 3rd Nov. 1582 - 16th Apr. 158314.
Fagle, Franciscus 18th Jun. 1588 - 18th Mar. 158915.
Mert, Joannes 29th Apr. 1589 - 1st Jul. 158916.
*Geesdael, Joannes 10th Jun. 1589 - 17th Aug. 159117.
Under Jan I Moretus (1589-1610)
Kilianus, Cornelis see above
Fine, Oliverius a see above
Geesdael, Joannes see above
*Neoclesianus, Guilielmus (c. Mar. 1591?)18.
Pauli, Renatus 19th Sep. 1591 - 14th Sep. 159219.
*Harduinus, Franciscus 8th Jan. 1594 - 7th Jan. 159520.
*Drumarus, Petrus c. 159421.
Hausius, Petrus Nicolaus 7th Jan. 1595 - 25th Mar. 15951.
*Rombouts, Joannes 17th Oct. 1598 - 18th Oct. 16052.
*Stratonus (Straten), Alexander 22nd Jan. 1605 -?3.
*Nobelius, Jacobus 4th Nov. 1605 -?4.
*Corbinot, Mathias 7th Sep. 1608 -?5.
17th-18th centuries (list incomplete)6.
Binnard, Martinus before 1615 - after 16287.
Principe, Maximilianus a (Liège) Mar. 1625 - d. 21st Oct. 1667
Par, Ludovicus before 1640 - d. 10th Oct. 1653/29th Jan. 16548.
Hacqué, Joannes Baptista left 9th Mar. 16589.
Coppens, Ignatius (Westerlo) Mar. 1648 - d. 15th Nov. 167810.
Tasselo, Petrus (Antwerp) Aug. 1662 - before 26th Oct. 1667
Blanckaert, Joannes (priest) Sep. 1663 - before 27th May 166811.
Coninck, Antonius Martinus de (Antwerp) Dec. 1663 - d. 4th Mar. 168212.
Neels, Adrianus (priest; Retie) 21st May 1668 - 28th May 167113.
Fabri, Guilielmus ('s-Hertogenbosch) 16th Oct. 1671 - before 22nd May 168114.
Oliva, Philippus (Antwerp) Jul. 1673 - d. 1719
Weyden, Theodatus (Godtgaf) van der (priest; Antwerp) Dec. 1678 - 19th May 1728
Jansenboy, Philippus Jacobus (nobleman) proof-reader for twelve years after 16811.
Goupil, Joannes (Brussels) proof-reader for 31 years after 1681
Varick, Norbertus van proof-reader for twelve years after 1681 (died young)
Noyens, Philippus Jacobus c. 1714 - 14th Mar. 17442.
Elst, Franciscus van der (styled himself noble) proof-reader for four years c. 17143.
Pleeck, Andreas (priest; Dendermonde) proof-reader for two months c. 1714? (died 1722)4.
Kleyn, Martinus de (priest; Antwerp) c. 1714-1728? - 28th Jun. 1765
Verdonck, Jacobus (Antwerp) proof-reader for two years c. 1714 - 1728?
Brauw, Hieronymus (Alost) 1st Jun. 1728 - ?
Verwithagen, Norbertus (priest;5. Antwerp) 8th Feb. 1751 - 11th Feb. 1763
Mertens, Nicolaus (priest; Antwerp) 28th Feb. 1763 - ?
Reyns, Maximilianus Petrus (priest; Antwerp) 2nd Apr. 1764 - ?
impriment lad[icte] besongne de 6 compositeurs’.1. Later, on 22nd June 1564, Plantin paid Ghisbrechts a bonus of 3 fl. because he had checked the work of two extra compositors besides his regular six.2. Presumably a similar arrangement was in operation then for the other proof-readers engaged. They were supposed to match their work with a certain number of presses - normally two or three in Plantin's time. This number could be raised or lowered as need arose. In February 1567, when business grew very slack because of the political and religious troubles, Plantin arranged with Kiliaan, one of his two remaining proof-readers (the other was his son-in-law, F. Raphelengius, and therefore rather an exceptional case), that he should check the work of all the presses for as long as Plantin could keep them in operation. This meant 2, 3, or 4, with the salary adjusted according to the number.3.
The number of proof-readers was therefore conditioned by the number of presses working, but with a certain amount of flexibility. If a number of presses were temporarily stopped, this did not mean that the readers appointed to them were automatically dismissed; conversely a temporary increase in the number could be dealt with by extra efforts on the part of the regular proof-readers, or by roping in auxiliaries - such as the master himself,4. or his family,5. or compositors.6. However, a considerable expansion or regression of any
duration was reflected in the number of proof-readers in service, as may be seen in the table on pp. 182-183.
The regression of 1566-67 and 1576, the slump of 1584-85, and the crisis of the following three years are as clearly reflected as the expansion of 1570-75, but not as quickly in the number of proof-readers as in the number of working presses, confirming that this class of employees was not as quickly dismissed nor as easily replaced or augmented as the compositors and pressmen.
The normal rate of work of the proof-readers in Plantin's time - the checking of the output of two or three presses, with some variation up or down, and occasional extra tasks1. - seems not to have changed much in the subsequent centuries. The Moretuses began to specialize in the production of service books which had to be run off more slowly and in larger quantities than the average products of Plantin's period. This made it easier to check the work of a larger number of presses, but on the other hand these books had to be read more carefully than ordinary publications and the latter factor largely cancelled out the former. The ratio of one proof-reader to three presses was apparently fairly constant in the seventeenth century. There was, however, an instance of two proof-readers who each checked the work of four presses for a few years, but they received considerably increased pay for this. When a ninth press was brought into operation a third proof-reader made his appearance.2.
The proof-readers' task consisted of carefully reading proof sheets of the set text, watchful for any mistakes that might have crept in, and then handing it back to the compositor for correction if necessary. The archives have many such corrected sheets,3. but the ordinances of
Ratio of Proof-readers to Presses in Plantin's Time1.
Proof-readers
1564 2 2 Kiliaan, Ghisbrechts
1565 5 3 (+ 2) Kiliaan, Ghisbrechts, Raphelengius, (Madoets, Giselinus)2.
1566 7 2 (+ 2) (Raph.) - Kiliaan, (Madoets, Giselinus)
1567 5 2 (Raph.) - Kiliaan
1569 10 2 (+ 3 in second half of year) (Raph.) - Kiliaan; 3 new proof-readers taken on in June-July (Spithals, Le Fevre, Kemp) - Kemp not mentioned after end of 1569.
1570 9 4 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Spithals, Le Fevre
1571 11 5 (+ 2 later in the year) (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Spithals, Le Fevre, Zelius. Note: a sixth proof-reader, Paschalis, in April; a seventh, Sterck, in April-July.
1572 13 7 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Spithals, Le Fevre, Zelius, Moonen, Paschalis
1573 12 5 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Spithals, Zelius, Moonen
1574 16 6 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Spithals, Zelius, Moonen, Cornelii
1575 15 8 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Spithals, Zelius, Moonen, Cornelii, Valerius, Stur
the house, mainly drawn up for the attention of compositors and pressmen, have little to say about the process or the proof-readers' place in the printing office. They are only mentioned in passing,3. and only by exception is anything said about their relationship with
1576 15 8 (- 4 in second half of year) (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Spithals, Zelius, Moonen, Cornelii, Valerius, Stur. Note: Spithals, Moonen, Cornelii, Stur dismissed in June-Oct.
1577 3 4 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Zelius, Valerius. Spithals back, May-20th Aug.
1578 6 3 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Zelius
1579 5 5 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Zelius, Vredius, Feudius
1580 7 5 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Zelius, Feudius, Moerman
1581 8 3 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Moerman. Zelius dismissed in January.
1582 7 4 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Moerman, Fine
1583 10 4 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Fine, Sasbout
1584 6 3 (Raph.) - Kiliaan, Fine
1586 3 2 Kiliaan, Fine
1589 4 3 Kiliaan, Fine, Fagle. Note: Fagle left in March; two others (Mert, Geesdael) engaged in April and June.
compositors and pressmen.1. Plantin's correspondence affords few concrete facts about them.2.
Fortunately a few other documents are more informative. One of these, in Latin and in the handwriting of Jan i Moretus, can be dated to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Dr. H.D.L. Vervliet, who discovered and published this important piece, suggests that it
was compiled in 1607 or 1608, when the death of the old and tried proof-reader, Kiliaan, made it necessary to codify and write out for the newcomers the practices hitherto followed. In translation it reads:1.
Proof-readers who work for the Plantin printing press must diligently observe the following rules:
[That] in the morning they must be present punctually at the arranged time. They cannot absent themselves during lunch or dinner before the revised copy or the uncorrected proofs have been examined with care and zeal and compared with the marked corrections, so that the printers do not begin, by their fault or by that of compositors or by their negligence, to print before all has been properly corrected and revised.
That they take care to possess a knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages; that they study the vernacular tongues in order to respect the spelling of each.
That they read attentively not only the small type, but that in reading the large type sizes they look carefully at the syllables and letters of all the words and verbs; that they do not laugh when in very large type, not only letters but entire phrases have been omitted; that they do not reveal by what negligence this might have happened.
That they keep count of the exact order of pages in each of the formes of a book. The pagination must be diligently observed; in fact, an unnoticed fault in the pagination makes indexes quite useless, and hinders the reader in his work.
The proof-reader must examine the punctuation closely, and he must accustom himself to anticipate the [professional] ‘reader’ by a sentence. The ‘reader’ in fact should read more slowly or stop as soon as he sees that the proof-reader has been overwhelmed and held back by the mistakes.
The ends and beginnings of lines must be looked at carefully. In fact a frequent cause of trouble is the repetition of the end of the preceding line at the beginning of the following line. The catchword (that is, the syllables which announce the beginning of the next page) must be examined properly to see if it is not too short or too long.
In the smallest sizes, the letters rt, nu, av, ae, oe, ct, &, st, si, fi, require great attention to ensure that one is not substituted for the other.
That he watches to see that a letter of a wrong fount is not mixed with the
others. If the cursive ff's or ss's have been turned upside down, the top loop is the bigger. If the ‘o’ is inverted it appears a little above or below the line. That they note also the difference between the letter o and [the numeral] zero.
That they follow carefully the spelling of each language; that they take into account, however, that used by wise and competent writers in their manuscripts, and the difference between the letters n and u, which by many authors are written in such a way that the difference cannot be seen, and often the sense [of the sentence] is lost. Similarly for abbreviations which often, in spite of every care, no one can understand; if for this reason faults have now and again been committed, these are not attributable to the proof-readers but to the authors who must furnish the printers with neat and legible copy.
Drinking and drunkenness must be carefully avoided; it is like a shameful illness, and very bad for the body and for the eyes.
Most of these hints are fairly obvious: naturally the proof-readers had to look more carefully at easily confused letters and ligatures, and at the end and beginning of lines and pages, and check the pagination. Less obvious is the request that they should not laugh out loud on finding glaring errors or reveal the name of their originators. Presumably the person who made this rule was influenced by actual incidents that had begun with merriment on the part of a proof-reader and had ended with an exchange of words between him and the aggrieved compositor.
The most revealing aspect of this document, however, is its presupposition of a lector in addition to the corrector. Such readers are mentioned several times in the Plantinian archives. ‘Ung liseur espaignol’ was among those who in 1562 brought the clandestine printing of a Calvinist pamphlet to light, and the activities of the Plantin press to a standstill for nearly eighteen months.1. In October 1574 Robertus Valerius was taken on as a lector correctoribus, and Oliverius a Fine on 8th February 1581. Both soon acquired the qualification correcteur beside their names and the appropriate adjustment of salary. This must mean that the function was not a permanent appointment in the house and that ‘apprentice’ proof-readers and
young, untrained ones spent a period as lectores before promotion to the position and salary of proof-reader.1. Sometimes temporary lectores were recruited: Plantin's daughters worked in this capacity when young.2.
Although the individual lector appeared only briefly in the Plantinian wages accounts, the regulation of c. 1607-08 implies that the function itself was a permanent one and consequently in most cases can only have been fulfilled by a proof-reader. The proof-readers must often have worked in conjunction, one of them reading the text out loud, the other following the proof looking for faults. Probably the reading aloud was omitted if the work was too long or the number of proof-readers too small.
This hypothesis concerning the division of labour among the proof-readers is confirmed by a memorandum of about 1760.3. It is of late date and only concerns the correction of liturgical works (with one proof per set page of red type and one per page of black) but it is probable that the system in broad outline at least was in use in the seventeenth, and possibly the sixteenth century.
The English translation of the Dutch text reads as follows:
The practice of the correctors in correcting proofs when there are three proof-readers:
(1) The first or senior reads the red [proof] and corrects it, item the second proof and the third proof.
(2) The second proof-reader corrects the first [black] proof and hears the third [black] proof read.
(3) The third proof-reader must read out the first [black] proof and listen to the red proof, and read and correct the second [black] proof by himself.
When there are four proof-readers:
(1) The first reads the red [proof] as in no. 1 above.
(2) The second reads and corrects the second [black] proof and the third [black] proof by himself.
(3) The third corrects the first [black] proof.
(4) The fourth proof-reader reads out the first [black] proof, and listens to the red and the third [black] proof.
This text poses some problems of interpretation. The author offers a summary by way of clarification.
Three proof-readers
First or senior proof-reader
Second proof-reader
Third proof-reader
1st proof red Reads out & corrects Heards read
1st proof black Hears & corrects Reads out
2nd proof red Corrects
2nd proof black Reads & corrects himself
3rd proof red Corrects
3rd proof black Hears (& corrects) Reads out?
Four proof-readers
Fourth proof-reader
1st pr. Red Reads out & corrects Hears read
1st pr. Black (Hears &) corrects Reads out
2nd pr. Red Corrects
2nd pr. black Reads & corrects
3rd pr. red Corrects
3rd pr. black Reads & corrects Hears read
Proof-readers were given other tasks besides the actual correction. In the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries these were called extraordinaria and included rewriting, collating, and correcting manuscripts, making indexes, compiling glossaries, and so on.1. An exceptional instance occurred at the reorganization of Plantin's business in 1563,
when Madoets prepared the type-cases of Hebrew type and set the first pages of Isaac's Hebrew grammar.1.
In Plantin's early years these miscellaneous tasks were often done by casual workers - sometimes, as has already been pointed out, wrongly classed as proof-readers2. - and part-time proof-readers. The regular proof-readers seldom did this work, or if they did it was treated as part of their daily work and paid as such, requiring no special entry in the wages accounts.3. The only special assignments traced for Plantin's period were undertaken by Raphelengius,4. Kiliaan,5. Ghisbrechts,6. Moonen,7. and Spithals.8. In the seventeenth century L. Par9. and I. Coppens10. distinguished themselves in this respect.
The proof-readers in fact worked at piece rates, although it was far easier in their case to arrive at a fixed daily wage (sometimes reckoned on a weekly or even annual basis). Distinction has to be made between the resident and non-resident proof-readers. The great number of these more intellectual members of staff in Plantin's day1. received board and lodging for some length of time from their employer - sometimes for the whole period of their service with him. Manual workers were also engaged on this basis,2. but the percentage was much higher with the proof-readers. Until 1571 most of them lived in, and after that date the non-residents were the exception rather than the rule.3. Plantin paid the resident proof-readers a salary calculated on an annual basis and varying between 40 and 60 fl. The upper limit was usually only reached after a few years. Just a few received more, among them Kiliaan4. and Nicolaas Le Fèvre de la Boderie.5.
If Plantin was not providing a proof-reader with board and lodging, then the salary was of course higher6. and paid weekly. L. Sterck received 2 fl. per week in 1571 - but left because he could not manage
on this; ‘encore que ie le luy eusse prédict’ was what Plantin phlegmatically added to his note recording Sterck's departure.1. The other non-resident proof-readers usually earned slightly more than 2 fl. per week: A. Spithals 2 fl. 10 st. in 1571, 2 fl. 14 st. from 1572 to 1574; B. Zelius 2 fl. 5 st. in October 1573, 2 fl. 10 st. from December 1575 to the beginning of 1580, 3 fl. from March 1580 to 1581; M. Sasbout 2 fl. 6 st. in 1582; J. Mert 2 fl. 14 st. when he started on 29th April 1589, 3 fl. per week from 13th May 1589; J. Geesdael 3 fl. per week in 1589. Oliverius a Fine began his career in 1582 as a fully fledged proof-reader ‘without board and lodging’ at 2 fl. per week, reaching 2 fl. 6 st. after six months, 2 fl. 10 st. one week later, 3 fl. in May 1584, and finally - in June 1589 - achieving 4 fl. The lector R. Valerius began in October 1574 at 1 fl. 10 st. per week, rising to 1 fl. 18 st. one year later, and 2 fl. 2½ st. after a further year. J. Moerman's advance was even swifter: 1 fl. 4 st. per week on 25th March 1580, 1 fl. 10 st. on 22nd April 1580, 1 fl. 16 st. on 29th April 1580, 2 fl. on 13th May 1580 - but this was his limit and he stayed on this salary until his departure on 17th March 1582. Because of the small number of proof-readers it is difficult to discover how far their salaries followed the upwards trend that can be shown for the manual workers.2. The facts do suggest that there were adjustments, and that these, not the proof-readers' personal merits, or an accommodating attitude on the part of the master, were the reason for the 3 fl. and 4 fl. a week that the proof-readers were beginning to earn after 1585.
Sometimes there was extra work, paid accordingly. In the seventeenth century energetic proof-readers were able to earn considerable additional amounts in this way. But in Plantin's time such work rarely came the way of the regular proof-readers who, resident or non-resident, had to manage on their ordinary weekly pay. That pay was not particularly high compared to the manual workers. A good compositor or pressman generally took more home.3.
The masters of the Golden Compasses took on quite a number of apprentices, training them up as compositors or pressmen while they
either drew a very low wage or else lived in. A few proof-readers also entered the Plantinian press in this manner. The word apprentice was not used in their contracts but the phrasing and conditions were essentially those of articles of apprenticeship. In the case of Oliverius a Fine, for example ‘s'est accordé à me servir 4 ans pour les despens, présents sa mère, sa seur et le mari d'icelle’. He was given the title not of corrector but of lector lectoribus. From 8th February 1581 until 10th March 1582, Plantin paid sums to a total of 32 fl. which were charged to this reader's account. When Oliverius a Fine married in March 1582, this debt was cancelled, he was given a wedding present of 3 fl. 4 st., and he was promoted to full proof-reader at a weekly salary of 2 fl.
Jan i Moretus made an agreement in October 1598 whereby J. Rombauts, son of Herman Rombauts, a doctor from 's-Hertogenbosch, came to live in for six years ‘for his board and lodging’ and a gratuity of 40 fl. at the end of this term (from which was to be deducted any expenses Moretus had incurred on the apprentice's behalf). If at the end of the six years, Rombauts wanted to stay, then he would receive his keep and a yearly salary of 20, 25, or 50 fl. When the six years were up Rombauts decided to stay on - but as a compositor, helping with proof-correcting when necessary, at an annual wage of 120 fl. plus keep.
Although they were not the best paid of the Plantinian work force, the proof-readers were considered a step above the compositors and pressmen. Some of them gained a name for themselves outside the Plantin House: Frans Raphelengius, Plantin's learned son-in-law; Cornelius Kiliaan (Kilianus) who, with his Dutch dictionaries, became a pre-eminent figure in Dutch linguistics; Victor Giselinus, the doctor and humanist. Most were less distinguished and their intellectual standing and ambitions more modest. Until the middle of the seventeenth century there were only lay proof-readers, but with the Moretuses' specialization in the publication of service books, priests began to appear in this capacity and eventually largely replaced their lay colleagues.1. At the end of the seventeenth century and the
beginning of the eighteenth, there was even an aristocratic proof-reader and a person ‘styling himself noble’ (‘se nobilis dicens’).
Plantin and his successors did not have the same difficulties with these ‘white collar’ workers as with the turbulent, inky-handed ones. This does not mean that there was never any friction. The little world of the proof-readers was visited by the demon drink. The regulation of c. 1607-08 contains an earnest warning against its dangers and entries in the records show that this admonition was occasioned by actual incidents. For example, A. Spithals was dismissed in October 1574 because of ‘ivrognerie’ (but later taken on again). No details are given of what the ‘meurs fascheuses’ of B. Zelius precisely consisted of, although apparently this proof-reader later mended his ways to some extent.
Questions of wages rather than alcoholism presumably lay at the bottom of other expressions of ill humour on the part of the proof-readers or their employer. Oliverius a Fine departed with an angry slam of the door in 1593 after thirteen years with the Plantin House.1. P.J. Noyens was dismissed without reason given in 1744 after thirty years' service.2. The hope of better money caused many proof-readers eventually to leave the Golden Compasses.3. However, in general relations between the master and the proof-readers, and among the proof-readers themselves, were more peaceful and equable than was the case with the manual workers.
The higher social standing of the proof-readers also put them on a different footing in the firm. The first of Plantin's ordinances, compiled in 1555-56, laid down that proof-readers had to pay a bienvenue
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(30) Opposite: Proof-readers' room in the Plantin house. On the large table against the wall the sheets for correction were spread out. The readers sat on the benches fixed to the partitions.
(31) Top: Joannes Christophorus Calvete de Stella, Ad ... Ferdinandum Alvarum Toletum Albae Ducem Encomium, 1573: page-proof with corrections by the readers (A 328). The Hebrew letters on the left-hand page were used as quadrats (see also plate 32). After correction they would have been replaced by quadrats. The ‘summa privilegii’ is a typical example of the way in which privileges were reproduced in Plantinian texts. Apart from these page-proofs in A 328 there is no other known copy of this eulogy of Alva by Calvete.
(32) Bottom: Laurentius Gambara, Ad Deum gratiarum actio, pro victoria de Turcis habita, 1572: page-proof with corrections by the readers (A 328). The empty space on the left-hand page where the quadrats were left projecting was probably meant for the text of the privilege (see also plate 31). These proofs are the only known copy of Gambara's eulogy.
to the chapel when they entered the firm's service,1. but their official relationship to this association of the pressmen and compositors was confined to this entry fee. Later ordinances enjoined a respectful mode of address to the proof-readers,2. but complaints and grievances could be uttered in their presence as they were in no sense outsiders.3. Although treated with respect and recognized as members of the workers' community in the Plantinian house, they remained completely outside the chapel. However, when the sick fund was reorganized in 1653, they were allowed to join the scheme, but as individuals.4.
Not until 1664 did the proof-readers feel the need to form themselves into an association. On 22nd October of that year Maximilianus a Principe, Ignatius Coppens, Joannes Blanckaert, and Antonius Martinus de Coninck signed the rules and articles of the confrérie or Concordia inter correctores typographiae Plantinianae with the motto ‘DVLCIs ConCorDIa Vera CharItate ConstrICta’.5. However, unlike the chapel, which fulfilled an important and social function in the firm as a trade union and sick fund, the Concordia was little more than a convivial club for the proof-readers. Its immediate purpose remained restricted to saving for and organizing an annual two-day celebration which normally began on 18th October, the feast day of St. Luke, patron of the Antwerp printers.6. Also unlike the chapel, membership of which was obligatory and a condition of employment, joining the Concordia was optional - in fact a number of later proof-readers remained outside it.
Details in Rooses, Musée, and Sabbe, ‘De Plantijnsche werkstede’ (on this work see p. 310, note 1). An important contribution to the subject in H.D.L. Vervliet, ‘Une instruction plantinienne à l'intention des correcteurs’, Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1959, pp. 99-103. For comparison: P. Simpson, Proofreading in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, 1935, and the notes in the 1958 edition of Moxon, Mechanick Exercises, pp. 382-383.
Cf. pp. 300-301.
Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1500 (Stapleton to Jan Moretus, 4th Oct. 1589: ‘Conveni hic Duaci R.P. Oliverium Manaraeum Provinciali in Belgio Societatis Jesu, qui mihi promisit curaturum se ut aliquis ex suis in collegio Antverpiensi correctioni hujus operis incumbat, si quidem ejus opera a te exquiratur. Cura quaeso ne illa commoditas e manibus dilabatur, si tamen illa necessaria est, id est, nisi correctorem habeas vigilantissimum et doctum’).
See Hellinga, Copy and Print, pp. 146 sqq., about the way proof-readers made their corrections. Cf. also plates 31 and 32.
He probably did this later too, but in this particular period their names and the work they carried out were more carefully recorded in the wages accounts (Arch. 31). See also p. 188.
Arch. 31, fo 42.
A list of the Plantinian proof-readers, from 1564 to 1598, with an addendum up to 1605, is in Arch. 116, fo 13 (it gives simply the names with the year of commencement of service and a folio referring to one of the wages books). Proof-readers whose names appear in this list are indicated here by asterisk(*). Those mentioned in the list but omitted from this table: Carolus Clusius (no year or folio given) and Guido Fabritius Boddianus [Guy Le Fèvre de la Boderie] (1572; no folio).
Information is scanty for the period 1555-62: (1) one Franciscus Tiletanus started work in 1561, probably as a proof-reader, recommended by G. Symonius (Corr., I, no. 8, Plantin to Symonius, 15th Oct. 1561); (2) the presence in 1561 of a proof-reader called Godefridus [Goevaert] Tellevorius (Arch. 36, fos 10vo, 16vo, 17ro; see also Rooses, Musée, p. 157, who read the name as Tellinorius); (3) the presence of a proof-reader and a ‘liseur estant espaignol’ in 1562 (cf. Vol. I, p. 35).
‘Cornelis dict Special’ appears in the Plantinian wages accounts for the first time on 5th Feb. 1558 (Arch. 15, fo 160); on 6th March 1558 he came to lodge with his employer (Arch. 35, fo 148). He was then a compositor and had also to ‘prendre garde aus lettres, partes, formats et autres ustensiles de limprimerie asscavoir de les faire serrer et mectre en ordre par ceux à qui il apartiendra.’ On 8th Dec. 1563 he reappears in Plantin's service (Arch. 31, fo 13, 1563-71; Arch. 32, fo 93, 1572-79; Arch. 33, fo 66, 1582; Arch. 786, fo 4, 1590). Biographical details in M. Rooses, Kilianus' Latijnsche Gedichten, uitgegeven en met een levensbericht voorzien, 1880; P. Génard, Levensschets van Cornelis van Kiel (Kilianus), 2nd ed., 1882; M. Rooses, ‘Kiel (Corneille)’, Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 10 (1888-1889), col. 748-759; Kiliaanhulde op Zondag, 23 Juni, 1929; F. Claes, ‘Kiliaan, de grondlegger van de Nederlandse lexicografie’, Wetenschappelijke Tijdingen, 28, 1969, col. 193-204. There is constant reference to Kilianus in Dutch language studies. A list of some recent articles in which the work of Plantin's proof-reader is discussed in L. Voet, ‘Plantiniana’, De Gulden Passer, 37, 1959, pp. 45-47.
Arch. 31, fos 82 and 83 (agreement between Plantin and Raphelengius when the latter started work). In 1565 he married Plantin's eldest daughter, Margareta.
Arch. 31, fo 3. Cf. F. Claes, ‘Andries Madoets, auteur van de Thesaurus Theutonicae Linguae’, Wetenschappelijke Tijdingen, 30, 1971, col. 157-164.
Arch. 31, fo 138; Arch. 32, fo 276.
Arch. 31, fo 139.
Arch. 31, fos 163 and 164; Arch. 32, fo 274; Arch. 33, fo 30. Entered as Bernardus Neomagiensis in Arch. 31; as Bernardus Zelius in Arch. 32 and 33.
Arch. 32, fos 187 and 190. Began at the Plantin House as ‘lector lectoribus’.
Arch. 32, fo 200: ‘... natif d'Audenarde, est venu céans le 14 octobre 1574 à nous servir de correcteur en Grec, Hebrieu, Latin, etc.’
Arch. 33, fo 9.
Arch. 33, fos 49, 95, 141; Arch. 786, fo 15. Began with the firm as ‘lector lectoribus’.
Arch. 33, fo 157; Arch. 786, fo 13.
Arch. 786, fo 22.
Arch. 786, fo 53; also mentioned in Arch. 779 (Semaines des ouvriers).
Arch. 786, fo 53. Became ill after a very brief term of service and left for Liège.
Arch. 779 (Semaines des ouvriers). Not mentioned in the livre des ouvriers (Arch. 786).
Arch. 786, fos 75 and 95. An apprentice proof-reader, he became a compositor on completion of his training.
Arch. 786, fos 53 and 54 (until 1608); Arch. 777 (Semaines des ouvriers: entered to the end of the wages book, 18th Sept. 1610).
Arch. 786, fo 137 (to 1608); Arch. 777 (to the end, 18th Sept. 1610); Arch. 130, fo 64 (1616-24).
Arch. 786, fo 117; Arch. 777 (to the end, 18th Sept. 1610).
Information for the period 1640-84 in the livres des ouvriers of 1640-60 (Arch. 781), 1660-1672 (Arch. 784) and 1673-84 (Arch. 783). There are entries only when proof-readers did more than the average amount of work; loose sheets give the names of readers in service, sometimes with additional details, such as the date of joining the firm and birth place. The register of the Concordia, the proof-readers' association, lists its members from its foundation in 1664 until 1764, often with biographical particulars, but not always with exact dates (Arch. 329); where no references are given in the list, the details were compiled from this register.
Arch. 130, fos 39 and 45.
Arch. 781, fos 140 and 168; Arch. 130, fos 156 and 169.
Incidental reference in Arch. 784, fo 23 (under I. Coppens).
Arch. 781, fos 141 and 214; Arch. 784, fos 23, 56, 103, 154, 161, 239, XXIV; Arch. 783, fos 26 and 126.
Became canon of Antwerp Cathedral in 1668 (Arch. 329, fo 10ro).
Arch. 784, fo 182.
Arch. 784, fo xxiii.
Left the press after receiving a benefice from the Duke of Bavaria (Arch. 329, fo 11ro).
Dismissed for no apparent reason in 1744; ‘qui postquam fuisset secundum attestationem valde intelligens sua et diligens corrector per triginta annos sine causa fuisset dimissus a Joanne Jacobo Moretus 1744 14 Martii’ (Arch. 329, fo 11ro).
‘Cum per quatuor annos fuisset corrector abiit, et dicebat velle adiscere Practicam ad requirendum majorem fortunam’ (Arch. 329, fo 11ro).
Presbyter Teneramundanus quinquagenarius venit ad nos, et per duos menses fuit corrector valde urbanus ac bonȩ indolis, postea factus est Pastor Monialium vulgo Vredenbergh Lyrȩ [Lier] et post paucos annos ibi mortuus est' (Arch. 329, fo 12vo).
A curate at Antwerp Cathedral (Arch. 329, fo 12vo).
Arch. 31, fo 71vo.
Arch. 31, fo 72ro: ‘Le 22 Juin [1564] payé pour ce qu'il a vacqué à la correction de la besongne faicte par Otho Pasch compositeur et d'Augustin à cause quil ne devoit par son accord corriger que pour 6 compos[iteurs]: 3 fl.’
Arch. 31, fo 12vo: ‘Et doresnavant ie luy payeray le temps que ie ne tiendray que trois ou quatre presses douze st. par semaine outre les despens et en cas que ie ne tinse que deux presses ie seray quicte pour la despense.’
Corr., IV, no. 947 (Plantin to Arias Montanus, 15th-18th Sept. 1581: ‘Valetudo nempe adversa, cotidianae occupationes typographicae hoc maxime tempore nobis ita difficili ut jam cogar praeter morem adjuvare nostrum Franciscum [Raphelengium] in legendis quod aiunt probis typographicis et quod parum laeta vel utilia queam aperte uti cuperem’). Ord. G(1555) stipulates ‘Item, that the master... must read the proofs promptly, or have them read’ - implying that on occasion the master himself might act as proof-reader. On this Ord.: p. 310, note 1.
Including his daughters: cf. Vol. I, pp. 143-144, and below p. 186.
An entry for the compositor Hans van Vossenhole reads: ‘Le 4 May 1566 pour 1 forme in Jure civili: 18 st.; il a aidé à lire 8 espreuves in Jure civili: 8 st.’ (Arch. 31, fo 61). In 1605, after serving his apprenticeship as a proof-reader, Joannes Rombauts elected to become a compositor, but it was agreed that he should also ‘soulager à la correction estant besoing’ (Arch. 786, fo 95).
Cf. p. 188.
J.B. Hacqué left on 9th March 1658 and was not replaced until August 1662. His colleagues received an increase of 1 fl. 10 st. a week, because ‘the work of three correctors has fallen on the remaining two’ (Arch. 784, fo 23). Cf. Vervliet, ‘Une instruction plantinienne à l'intention des correcteurs’, p. 102.
Examples from the Officina Plantiniana in Hellinga, Copy and Print, figures 52, 98, 156, 157, 163, 193.
For the number of presses see Vol. I, Appendix 5. In general the figures give the position in January of any year.
Madoets and Giselinus were part-time proof-readers.
Cf. pp. 192-193. They and their work are explicitly mentioned only once: in Ord. A (1563), Art. 15. (The proof-reader shall do his work with great care and always inform the master of any errors that may occur; he shall read the proofs at once, in the order in which they have been brought to him, or as work and the occasion shall demand; on penalty of 4 st.)
Ord. A (1563), Art. 11. (The type-setter who is last to complete his task must take both proofs to the proof-reader.) For the significance of this article see p. 312.
The proof-readers and their work are usually only mentioned in connexion with complaints about errors, as in Corr., I, nos. 39 and 58; II, nos. 297 and 323; VIII-IX, no. 1157. Cf. also p. 298.
Arch. 118, fo 1. Latin text and French translation in Vervliet, ‘Une instruction plantinienne à l'intention des correcteurs’, pp. 100-101.
Cf. Vol. I, p. 35.
A. Straten, who joined the firm on 22th Jan. 1605, was at first termed a ‘correctoris adiutor’ (Arch. 777). This must have been another expression for the function elsewhere indicated as ‘lector’.
Vervliet, ‘Une instruction...’, pp. 102-103. Cf. Vol. I, p. 144.
Arch. 697, no. 101, fo 2ro. On this memorandum cf. L. Voet, ‘Een aantekenboek van Franciscus Joannes Moretus...’
See also pp. 282 and 286 about these extra tasks.
There were, nevertheless, instances after 1567 of the ordinary proof-readers being allotted to this kind of task: Corr., IV, no. 606 (Plantin to de Pimpont, 21st Jan. 1575: ‘J'ay receu hier vos Paralipomena... et tout incontinent faict mectre la main a noter les pages de nostre impression a chaicun article desdictes Paralipomena par celuy mesme de mes correcteurs a qui j'avois donné la charge de vostredicte oeuvre et d'en faire aussi l'Index, de sorte que j'espere maintenant de le parachever bien tost’). The author has found no record of this work in the wages accounts, but another entry by Plantin shows that the proof-readers were paid extra on these occasions: when making an agreement with Arnold Mylius in 1576-77 for the joint printing of an edition, Plantin stipulated ‘Item ie feray changer les ciffres à lindex général desd[icts] Opera S. Hieronymi quil payera selon que ien payeray à mes correcteurs à qui ie les bailleray à faire comme iay faict de St. Augustin’ (Arch. 32, fo 299ro). Again the author has not been able to discover any trace of the relevant payments for the extraordinaria of this work in the wage sheets of the readers then in service. But there are records of the work done on the index of the Opera S. Augustini (see note 8).
He collaborated on the Polyglot Bible. Cf. Vol. i, p. 149.
See the biographies of Kiliaan referred to on p. 176, note 3.
Arch. 31, fo 72ro (1563-65, compiling of indexes and revision of a Greek dictionary: ‘Le 11 May 1565. J'ay receu le Thesaurus linguae Graece in fo Crispini auquel il a (suivant laccord faict entre nous deux au mois d'Octobre 1564) noté ce qui doibt laisser pour imprimer ung Lexicon Graecum in 4to abrégé dud[ict] Thesaurus et doibt avoir pour son loger ung st. pour chaicunne feille dont il y en a 826 feilles faictes par luy qui sont en tout 41 fl. 6 st.’).
Arch. 32, fo 70 (one extra payment, 12th Jan. 1574: ‘Je luy ay aussi payé pour son exemplaire du petit Missal in 4o: 1 fl. 12 st.’).
Arch. 32, fo 276 (one extra payment, 20th Aug. 1577: ‘pro 14 septimanis in Index Augustini 54 st. pro unaquaque septimana: 37 fl. 16 st.’).
Arch. 781, fos 140 and 168.
Under the Moretuses there would have been far fewer readers living in - mostly ‘apprentice’ readers and young assistants.
L. Sterck in 1571 seems to have been the first non-resident proof-reader. Residents were: Raphelengius, Madoets, Ghisbrechts, N. Le Fèvre de la Boderie, Feudius. Probably resident: Kemp, Cornelii, Stur, Vredius. Non-resident, or probably so: Sterck, Spithals, Valerius, Moerman, Sasbout, Fagle, Mert, and Geesdael. Resident at first: Zelius (joined 8th Feb. 1570; ‘despens hors la maison’ 28th Oct. 1573), Moonen (joined 23rd Sept. 1571; 26th Oct. 1573 ‘propres despens’), Oliverius a Fine (joined 8th Feb. 1581; ‘hors despens’ - and married - in March 1582). Kiliaan lived in from 1558 to 1582 and from 1586 until his death (Rooses, Musée, p. 126). In 1572 Plantin sought to be excused from having soldiers billeted on him, pointing out ‘Comme ainsi soit que j'aie la maison si pleine d'ouvriers et d'ouvrage pour le service de Sa Majesté que je suis contraint de tenir trois licts hors de ma dicte maison pour y coucher aucuns de nos correcteurs...’ (Corr., III, no. 386: Plantin to Albernoz, Alva's secretary, 20th May - 9th June 1572).
Although not in the early years. Until 1571 Kiliaan earned only 4 fl. a month; from 1571 to 1582 he earned 1 fl. 10 st. a week (6 fl. a month; 72 fl. a year); from 1586 to 1591 he was paid 100 fl. a year; from 1591 until his death 150 fl. a year.
Monthly 6 fl. (1 fl. 10 st. a week).
At all events the two things were connected. In 1580 Feudius received an allowance of 12 st. for the 15 days he slept in the town instead of at the Plantin house.
Cf. pp. 339 sqq.
Cf. the figures given on pp. 336-338.
The first to be described as such was J. Blankaert, who joined the firm in September 1663.
Arch. 786, fo 15ro: ‘Est parti malcontent et sans dire adieu etc.’
As was indicated in the list of members of the Concordia (Arch. 329, fo 11ro: ‘sine causa fuisset dimissus a Joanne Jacobo Moretus’). See also p. 179, note 2. Noyens must have been active in the Concordia. In Arch. 329, fo 10vo is his note: ‘... ego Philippus Jac. Noyens sepissime audivi [of earlier former colleagues whom he mentions by name]... quod correctores solerent quando fuissent per duos annos augmentari in pretio...’ It may have been an action for higher wages that provoked J.J. Moretus's wrath.
Including in the sixteenth century L. Sterck and in the eighteenth Jansenboy, Van der Elst, and Pleeck.
Ord. G. Cf. on the chapel pp. 361 sqq.
Ord. L, Art. 94 (1681).
Ord. L, Art. 108 (1692).
Statutes and list of members: Arch. 329.
Cf. Sabbe, ‘De Plantijnsche werkstede’, pp. 630-632.
Over het gehele werk
over Christoffel Plantijn
over Jan Moretus
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Stuart Hameroff. Quantum Consciousness.
Discussions about Metaphysics, Quantum Physics, the Holographic Universe and the Nature of Reality.
by Maddogkull » 18 Mar 2010, 04:37
http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/views.html
Has anyone ever heard of this guy? How microtubules might have quantum effects. He was stating this might explain why during anaesthesia why we don’t remember anything, is because of how the microtubules processing in the neurons sort of shut down. I do not understand his theory full. Hopefully someone on here knows more. BTW he is an anaesthesiologist.
Maddogkull
Re: Stuart Hameroff. Quantum Consciousness.
by Nostradamus » 18 Mar 2010, 23:53
I took a look at this material and my initial thoughts are that the ideas are based on the information being encoded in quantum states rather than as chemical changes or electrical potentials. Basically, quantum effects are things where we see that energy comes out in fixed 'lumps'. Common items that use quantum effects are lasers and MRIs. The laser shines with one 'color' of light. Each 'lump' of energy comes out the same.
Apparently, the idea here is that effects that are observed because energy moves from place to place in fixed 'lumps' are important in consciousness. It also appears that so far all of this is conjecture and not a theory.
Scimitars were not available - beware January 19, 2038 is upon us.
by NinjaPuppy » 19 Mar 2010, 04:31
For me, once the word "quantum" comes into play, y'all start sounding like Charlie Brown's teacher to me.
Here is an appropriate YouTube video to accompany my comment:
Not sure if it is true, but there seem to be no peer reviewed articles on this. That means that no one appears to be doing experiments to verify this.
He has challenged a lot of skeptics Either way, to go to a atheist convention and present a model to say consciousness exists after death, and then challenge every question a skeptic lays on him, gives me the greatest respect for his work.
by ciscop » 20 Mar 2010, 08:47
I know but his credentials are amazing. Do you know how much schooling it takes to be an anaesthesiologist? Way more then any B.A degree or masters. You have to e extremely good in chemistry and math and also biology. This guy is smart. Just goes to show you if you’re a scientist dosen't mean you have to be an atheist.
It is my understanding that most scientists are not atheists. On a separate issue, being smart in some ways does not mean being smart in all ways. What stands out though is that no papers have been published on this idea. I'd like to know if even poster presentations have been done on this subject matter.
by NucleicAcid » 29 Mar 2010, 07:32
I think Stuart Hameroff's work is profound and will hopefully pave the way for a new understanding of consciousness. I love this stuff. However, I don't think microtubules are the only cellular structure that engages in quantum coherence. (Teacher: wah woh wah wooh wahh wohhh)
- They've already shown enzymes of photosynthesis and electron transport chain show some sort of quantum coherence. (wah waah woohh wahh)
I think that electronic resonance of the neurotransmitters Serotonin and Dopamine in the active site of their respective receptors plays a big role in Quantum Consciousness, and could explain where psi information transference can slip into the brain. It's also the most likely place for free will (I mean, where else would it occur? Apart from signal transduction and some random occurrence due to brownian motion, the brain is basically deterministic. Wahh wooh wah wuh. Naturalists already argue there is no free will.). I have a theory that free will is actually a form of micro-PK on your brain. Or rather, consciousness and matter interact in a non-trivial way, with some information transfer between the two modalities.
As for the no peer review/no way of experimenting this, aside from psi experiments, there is no way to test for consciousness. We can test the mechanism (see above), but we can't test the consciousness. Empirically, there is no difference between a and a person with consciousness. This has led some (idiot) skeptics (no one on this forum, I'm not calling names at anyone here ) to conclude that subjective consciousness doesn't actually exist. Clearly, they're wrong, to me at least. I can't prove to any of you guys I'm experience subjective consciousness, but I know I am. Reductionists HATE these sort paradoxes. I revel in them, because I think this train of thought is going to go down the road that it'll make it so that psi is seen as a necessary consequence of consciousness, just how entanglement arose as a necessary consequence of Quantum Mechanics, and was later demonstrated to be true.
Otherwise, we're all meat computers, there is no free will, the universe is a pointless accidental quantum bloop (technically the occurrence of a virtual particle in a 0-dimensional space due to uncertainty, resulting in an energetic feedback loop that instantaneously created all the matter and energy in the universe, along with the spatial dimensions), there is no meaning of life, I'm only here right now because these are the only conditions that favored life, evolution, and sentience, and there isn't any point to anything, ever. Did I mention there isn't a point to anything under the reductionist paradigm?
Hey, you there. Yes, you.
If what I say sounds like the teacher from Charlie Brown (Wah wahh woohh wuh waah), then you should try college. It's fun, and only costs you your soul and several tens of thousands of dollars.
“I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven“ - Richard Wiseman
Let's make directional hypotheses, test them repeatedly, replicate experiments, and publish results! Yay, science!
NucleicAcid
by absinthe_minded » 01 Sep 2010, 04:06
I made a video outlining Hameroff's theory of consciousness and then critiquing it, here it is if anyone wants to take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIo9uSnuu8
absinthe_minded
by Paradox » 02 Jan 2011, 13:46
I don't think consciousness itself has anything to do with the quantum level of 'reality'. Quantum theory already shows that matter is mostly made up of empty space just like the insides of most atoms are made up of mostly empty space. Everything that our consciousness perceives as 'real' is made up of quantum particles and waves. Consciouness is forced to function through the limitations of a brain-mind which consists of a conscious and subconscious. According to this grid theory of consciousness to prevent information overload all universal information would penetrate into the subconscious part of the brain but through some type of information filter barrier programmed by the i-ther would seperate the subconscious and conscious part of the brain. This way only the reality meant to be experienced through our absract senses would be experienced by our i-theric mind through the conscious part of our brain. Perhaps this explains why any psi phenomena could occur as well such as in the case of telepathy or mediumship. A leak in the information filter barrier itself. Perhaps this also explains the common 'life reviews' reported by many people with near death experiences. Information of everything that has ever happened is stored in the i-theric grid.
I think Ron Pearson's grid theory of the supermind of outerspace may have some truth in it. Information of everything that is happening in the entire universe is already available to this 'supermind' aka God. Quantum entanglement experiments already show that quantum waves can react to a change faster than light speed. Information then (telepathy, thought, etc) could move almost instantaneously (near infinite speed) as well. If consiousness was required to create matter (all matter is made of quantum waves/particles) then consciouness would have to precede the existance of anything quantum related. Consciouness would then have to exist on an even deeper level than that of the quantum level. Perhaps this so-called dark energy believed responsible for the increased acceleration of the universe is really the intelligent aether or i-ther (short for the latter). Perhaps the 'big bang' was really put in motion for the sole purpose by the supermind made up of this (supposed) subquantum level of reality known as i-ther aka dark energy to create the matter systems which our brain-minds perceive as reality. A disembodied single consciouness aka supermind/god consisting of this i-ther would have pre-existed the big bang. Just a thought.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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Taxonomic revision of the genus Herposiphonia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from Korea, with the description of three new species
Young Ho Koh, Myung Sook Kim
DOI : https://doi.org/10.4490/algae.2018.33.3.10
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Koh and Kim: Taxonomic revision of the genus Herposiphonia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from Korea, with the description of three new species
Algae 2018; 33(1): 69-84.
Published online: March 15, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4490/algae.2018.33.3.10
Young Ho Koh, Myung Sook Kim*
Department of Biology, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Korea
*Corresponding Author: E-mail: myungskim@jejunu.ac.kr, Tel: +82-64-754-3523, Fax: +82-64-756-3541
Received September 15, 2017 Accepted March 10, 2018
Copyright © 2018 The Korean Society of Phycology
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We examined the species diversity of Herposiphonia on Korean coasts, based on a combination of morphology and molecular analyses of the mitochondrial COI-5P DNA barcode marker and plastid rbcL gene. We report the presence of eight species including three novel species: H. donghaensis sp. nov., H. jejuinsula sp. nov., H. sparsa sp. nov., H. caespitosa, H. fissidentoides, H. insidiosa, H. parca, and H. subdisticha. Specimens were separated into eight clades in both the COI-5P and rbcL gene analyses, with 1.3–19.6 and 6.6–15% interspecific sequence divergence, respectively. These eight species are also distinguishable by several morphological characteristics such as: branching pattern (d/i pattern in H. donghaensis sp. nov. and H. sparsa sp. nov.; d/d/d/i pattern in others), shape of determinate branch (ligulate in H. fissidentoides; terete in others), number of vegetative trichoblasts (1–2 in H. insidiosa and H. sparsa sp. nov.; 3–4 in H. caespitosa; absent in others), and number of segments and pericentral cells in determinate branches. About three novel species revealed by our analyses, H. donghaensis sp. nov. is newly discovered, and H. jejuinsula sp. nov. and H. sparsa sp. nov. were previously reported in Korea as H. nuda and H. secunda, respectively. Our results show that DNA barcoding and rbcL analyses are useful for delimiting species boundaries and discovering cryptic species diversity in the genus Herposiphonia.
Key words: Herposiphonia donghaensis sp. nov.; H. jejuinsula sp. nov.; H. sparsa sp. nov.; molecular phylogeny; Rhodophyta; taxonomy
First established by Nägeli (1846), the red algal genus Herposiphonia currently includes 56 species found in tropical to warm-temperate regions of the world (Guiry and Guiry 2017). The genus is characterized by a dorsiventral habit, polysiphonous and uncorticated thalli, with a more or less regular sequence of exogenous determinate and indeterminate branches (Hollenberg 1968). Apices of main axis are usually inrolled upwardly, and vegetative trichoblasts and reproductive structures are formed exclusively on determinate branches (Masuda et al. 2006).
Taxonomic studies of Herposiphonia have primarily utilized morphological features and are mostly regional. For instance, in Korea, eight species of Herposiphonia: H. caespitosa Tseng, H. fissidentoides (Holmes) Okamura, H. insidiosa (Greville ex J. Agardh) Falkenberg, H. nuda Hollenberg, H. parca Setchell, H. plumula (J. Agardh) Falkenberg, H. secunda (C. Agardh) Ambronn and H. subdisticha Okamura have been reported to occur in intertidal to subtidal habitats (Lee et al. 1992, Lee 2008). Other regional morphological studies have documented species of Herposiphonia from Brazil (Silva and Fujii 2012), China (Ding et al. 2016), Hawaii (Hollenberg 1968), Hong Kong (Tseng 1943), Japan (Masuda et al. 2006), South Africa (Wynne 1984), and Venezuela (García et al. 2008). The diversity of Herposiphonia, however, has not been studied using molecular analyses, despite the large number of species.
Recent studies of the family Rhodomelaceae used the plastid-encoded ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase / oxygenase large subunit gene (rbcL) and uncovered several novel species (Kim et al. 2012, Kang and Kim 2013). DNA barcoding, such as the 5′ end of mitochondrial-encoded cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene (COI-5P) has also proved the effective for species-level identification of red algae (Le Gall and Saunders 2010, Saunders and McDonald 2010, Sherwood et al. 2010, Yang and Kim 2015). The COI-5P marker has been successfully utilized in studies of the genus Herposiphonia and revealed cryptic species diversity in the Iberian Peninsula and Western Australia (Díaz-Tapia and Bárbara 2013, Huisman et al. 2015). The barcoding gap observed using the COI-5P marker allows specimens to be assigned to their genetic species unambiguously (Le Gall and Saunders 2010).
In the present study, we aimed to investigate the species diversity of Korean Herposiphonia based on morphology and molecular analyses. We utilized DNA barcoding using COI-5P marker to identify Herposiphonia species groups, and inferred their phylogenetic relationships using the plastid rbcL gene. Our results demonstrate the presence of eight species of the genus Herposiphonia from Korea including three distinct new species.
Samples of Herposiphonia were collected from the intertidal and subtidal zones in Jeju Island and the east coast of Korea (Supplementary Table S1). Samples were assigned voucher numbers and permanent slide vouchers were deposited in the Herbarium of Jeju National University (JNUB) and National Institute of Biological Resources (KB), Korea. Samples for morphological study were preserved in 3–5% formalin / seawater and sectioned by using a freezing microtome NK-101-II (Nippon Optical Works Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) or by hand. Photographs were taken with a digital camera (Canon EOS 600D; Canon, Tokyo, Japan) mounted on a microscope (Olympus BX43; Olympus, Tokyo, Japan). All images were imported into the Adobe PhotoShop CS6 software (Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, USA) for plate assembly.
Parts of samples dried in silica gel were used for DNA extraction. DNA was extracted using the DNeasy Plant Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) following the manufacturer’s instructions except for using half of the elution buffer at the elution step. The primer pairs used for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and sequencing reaction of rbcL gene were rbcLJNF1-rbcLJNR1 and rbcLJNF2-rbcLJNR2 (Kang and Kim 2013). The primer pairs used for COI-5P region followed Kim et al. (2010). Amplification conditions for both rbcL and COI-5P were 7 min at 97°C for denaturation, followed by 35 or 37 cycles of 1 min at 97°C, 1 min at either 45°C or 47°C, and 2 min at 72°C, with final 7 min extension cycle at 72°C and a soak cycle at 4°C. PCR products were purified using the AccuPrep PCR Purification Kit (Bioneer, Daejeon, Korea) following the manufacturer’s instructions. Nucleotide sequences of rbcL and COI-5P region were determined on both strands of PCR amplification products at the Macrogen sequencing facility (Macrogen Inc., Seoul, Korea). Electropherogram outputs from each sample were edited using Chromas ver. 1.45 software (Chromas, Queensland, Australia). Total rbcL and COI-5P sequences were organized using the multiple-sequence editing program MEGA ver. 6.05 (Tamura et al. 2013) and aligned visually (Supplementary Table S1).
DNA barcode data analysis was conducted to define species boundaries of the genus Herposiphonia using MEGA ver. 6.05 (Tamura et al. 2013) with distances collected under a Kimura 2-parameter model, and neighbor-joining (NJ) was used to provide a visual display of COI-5P variation within and between species. Maximum likelihood (ML) analysis was conducted to estimate the phylogenetic relationships of the genus Herposiphonia using RAxML software (Stamatakis 2006) under the GTR + I + Γ evolutionary model. We used 1,000 independent tree inferences using -# option (1,000 distinct ML) with the algorithm “a” using -f option (rapid bootstrap analysis) to search the best-scoring tree in one program run.
Molecular analyses
We analyzed 32 COI-5P sequences of Korean Herposiphonia specimens together with 29 sequences from GenBank (Supplementary Table S1). These sequences consisted of 613 nucleotides with no insertion or deletion mutations, permitting unambiguous alignment of all sequences. Of these nucleotides, 235 positions (38.33%) were variable and 208 positions (33.93%) were parsimoniously informative. An unrooted phylogram using NJ analysis showed that 32 Korean Herposiphonia specimens were resolved into eight species groups that could be assigned to five known species, H. caespitosa, H. fissidentoides, H. insidiosa, H. parca, and H. subdisticha, and three novel species, H. donghaensis sp. nov., H. jejuinsula sp. nov., H. sparsa sp. nov., based on the combination of interspecific (1.3–19.6% range) and intraspecific (0–0.8% range) sequence divergence (Fig. 1). This barcoding gap is slightly conservative compared with results of similar analyses in several red algal taxa where the maximum intraspecific and minimum interspecific divergences were 0.9 vs. 9.2% in Gracilariaceae, 0.9 vs. 4.22% in Rhodymeniales, and 1.36 vs. 3.2% in Gelidiales (Freshwater et al. 2010, Kim et al. 2010, Saunders and McDonald 2010, Koh et al. 2013) but similar to that observed in Phyllophoraceae as 0.75 vs. 1% (Le Gall and Saunders 2010).
For 51 samples, 1,166 nucleotides of the rbcL gene were analyzed including three outgroups: Pterosiphonia cloiophylla (C. Agardh) Falkenberg (GQ867081); Symphyocladia marchantioides (Harvey) Falkenberg (GU731229); and Womersleyella setacea (Hollenberg) R. E. Norris (JX828160). Insertion or deletion mutations were not found. Of these, 418 positions (35.84%) were variable and 365 (31.3%) were parsimoniously informative. The sequence divergence ranged from 6.6 to 15% among Herposiphonia species. The genus Herposiphonia formed a well-defined monophyly with 100% bootstrap support in ML analyses and eight Korean Herposiphonia species were also well distinguished by 100% bootstrap support (Fig. 2). As the case of COI-5P barcoding analysis, H. donghaensis sp. nov., H. jejuinsula sp. nov., and H. sparsa sp. nov., were also resolved. Two of them, H. jejuinsula sp. nov. and H. sparsa sp. nov., had been previously recorded as H. nuda and H. secunda, respectively (Lee 2008, Nam and Kang 2012). In this analysis, H. sparsa sp. nov. formed a clade with two unidentified species from Australia (MF094072 from Queensland, MF094073 from Western Australia) (Díaz-Tapia et al. 2017) with 100% support value and was positioned next to H. donghaensis sp. nov. with moderate support value (84%). Similarly, H. subdisticha was closely related to an unidentified Herposiphonia species (MF094075) (Díaz-Tapia et al. 2017) from Western Australia with full support value and H. caespitosa was related to another unidentified Herposiphonia species (MF094071) (Díaz-Tapia et al. 2017) from Queensland, Australia with moderate support value (88%).
Morphological observations
Morphological characteristics of eight Korean Herposiphonia species identified from the molecular phylogenetic analyses are as follows.
Herposiphonia donghaensis Y. H. Koh et M. S. Kim sp. nov
140112-99-1, vegetative thallus, Jan 12, 2014 (Fig. 3A), deposited in the Herbarium of Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea (JNUB).
140112-99-2, deposited in the National Institute of Biological Resources (KB: NIBRAL0000152592).
Jukbyeon, Uljin, Gyeongbuk, Korea (37°03′28″ N, 129°25′49″ E).
The specific epithet (donghaensis) refers to the Korean name of East Sea.
동해거미줄.
Molecular vouchers
MF962751-MF962754 (rbcL); MF962809-MF962810 (COI-5P).
Other specimens examined
140112-48, 140112-49 (Ganggu, Yeongdeok, Gyeongbuk, Korea; Jan 12, 2014); 140112-100 (Jukbyeon, Uljin, Gyeongbuk Korea; Jan 12, 2014).
Thalli are delicate and red to dark red in color. Primary axes are prostrate, with upwardly circinate apices, attached to other algal species such as Gelidium spp. and Chondracanthus spp. by numerous unicellular rhizoids with digitate haptera cut off from ventral pericentral cells (Fig. 3H). Prostrate branches are terete, with 8–9 pericentral cells (Fig. 3C & F). They are 60–100 μm in diameter and segments are 120–150 μm in length, with length : diameter (L : D) ratio 0.7–2. Indeterminate branches (i) arise on primary prostrate axes on alternate sides from every third or fourth segment, with a determinate branch (d) and one or two naked nodes (n) on intervening segments in the dorsal position (d/i pattern) (Fig. 3A–D). Some indeterminate branches grow like main axis possessing branches but others remain short or rudimentary (Fig. 3A). Determinate branches are also terete, with 8–9 pericentral cells and are 12–16 segments long (Fig. 3C & D). They are 55–80 μm in diameter with segment L : D ratio 0.8–1 (Fig. 3G). Vegetative trichoblasts are absent (Fig. 3E).
H. donghaensis sp. nov. was collected from the central region of the east coast of Korean Peninsula. This species had previously been misidentified as H. parca based on the rbcL sequence (JX828127) collected from the same location (Bárbara et al. 2013, not include in our phylogenetic analysis because the sequences have several ambiguous characters). We recognized as a novel species here because H. parca has a d/d/d/i branching pattern (Hollenberg 1968) in contrast to that of our species (d/i patterns) with one or two irregular naked nodes. Other species that has the d/i branching pattern includes H. arcuata Hollenberg, H. dubia Hollenberg, H. pacifica Hollenberg, H. ramosa C. K. Tseng, H. secunda, and H. variabilis Hollenberg (Hollenberg 1968, Tseng 1943, Schneider and Searles 1997) but they can be distinguished from H. donghaensis in various vegetative features such as diameter of prostrate axes (140–190 μm in H. arcuata, 180–200 μm in H. ramosa vs. 60–100 μm in H. donghaensis), number of segments in determinate branches (45–75 in H. dubia, 60–80 in H. pacifica vs. 12–16 in H. donghaensis), number of naked nodes (1–6 in H. variabilis vs. 1–2 in H. donghaensis), and number of vegetative trichoblasts (1–2 in H. secunda vs. absent in H. donghaensis) (Hollenberg 1968, García et al. 2008, Lee 2008, Xia 2011, Nam and Kang 2012, Silva and Fujii 2012). In our molecular analyses, H. donghaensis sp. nov. is clearly separated from other Herposiphonia species with sequence divergence of 14.4–18.9% in COI-5P and 10.9–15.3% in rbcL.
Herposiphonia jejuinsula Y. H. Koh et M. S. Kim sp. nov
YHK-130522-1, female gametophyte, May 22, 2013 (Fig. 4A), deposited in the Herbarium of Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea (JNUB).
YHK-130522-2, tetrasporophyte, deposited in National Institute of Biological Resources (KB: NIBRRD0000001693).
Gangjeong, Jeju, Korea (33°13′51″ N, 126°29′58″ E).
The specific epithet (jejuinsula) refers to the location of type locality, Jeju Island.
민털거미줄.
130330-2 (Sangmo, Jeju, Korea; Mar 30, 2013); YHK131020-1 (Munseom, Jeju, Korea; Oct 20, 2013); E14014 (Hagwi, Jeju, Korea; Oct 30, 2013); 140704-70 (Jongdal, Jeju, Korea; Jul 4, 2014); YHK140729-1 (Munseom, Jeju, Korea; Jul 29, 2014); YHK140813-1 (Munseom, Jeju, Korea; Aug 13, 2014).
Thalli are delicate and pink to pale red in color. Primary axes are prostrate, with upwardly circinate apices, attached to coralline algae such as Amphiroa spp. by numerous unicellular rhizoids with digitate haptera cut off from ventral pericentral cells (Fig. 4E). Prostrate branches are terete, with 6–8 pericentral cells. They are 50–80 μm in diameter and segments are 120–200 μm in length, with L : D ratio 0.5–1.2 (Fig. 4A & B). Indeterminate branches (i) arise on primary prostrate axes on alternate sides from every fourth segment, with three determinate branches (d) on intervening segments in the dorsal position (d/d/d/i pattern) (Fig. 4A & B). Some indeterminate branches grow like the main axis possessing branches but others remain short or rudimentary (Fig. 4A & B). Determinate branches are terete with, 5–6 pericentral cells and are 18–23 segments long (Fig. 4A & B). They are 40–60 μm in diameter with segment L : D ratio 0.5–1 (Fig. 4A, D & G). Vegetative trichoblasts are absent (Fig. 4D). Trichoblasts are formed only on gametophytes and divide pseudodichotomously (Fig. 4B). A procarp consisting of a supporting cell and a 4-celled carpogonial branch (Fig. 4G & H) is enclosed in a pericarp prior to fertilization and develops into a cystocarp following fertilization. Fertile branches bearing a developing cystocarp continue to grow and form an additional 7 to 12 segments, resulting in a cystocarp in the middle of fertile branches (Fig. 4I). Mature cystocarps are urceolate and 500–550 μm in diameter. Tetrasporangia are formed from stalk cells inside 5–8 successive segments of fertile determinate branches and grow spirally to fill the segments (Fig. 4A & F). Mature tetrasporangia are tetrahedrally divided with prominent spores of 40–55 μm diameter (Fig. 4A).
H. jejuinsula sp. nov. has been misidentified as H. nuda in Korea due to the position of cystocarp on fertile determinate branches (Lee 2008). First described by Hollenberg (1968), H. nuda is characterized by considerably long (25–30 segments) and slender determinate branches with 4–5 pericentral cells, lack of trichoblasts, and the mid-branch location of cystocarps. Most features of H. jejuinsula are in fact similar to Hawaiian and Brazilian specimens of that species (Hollenberg 1968, Silva and Fujii 2012). However, H. jejuinsula has slenderer main axes (50–80 vs. 80–105 μm) and shorter determinate branches (18–23 segments vs. 25–44) than Hawaiian H. nuda (Hollenberg 1968, Abbott 1999). In our molecular analyses, H. jejuinsula was distinctly separated from other species of Herposiphonia by a sequence divergence of 7.5% (H. fissidentoides) to 12.4% (H. subdisticha) in rbcL and 12.1% (H. parca) to 18.9% (H. donghaensis) in COI-5P. In addition, H. jejuinsula sp. nov. was clearly separated from Hawaiian Herposiphonia specimens by a 12.2–18.5% sequence divergence in COI-5P (Sherwood et al. 2010).
Herposiphonia sparsa Y. H. Koh et M. S. Kim sp. nov
140704-68, vegetative thallus, Jul 4, 2013 (Fig. 5A), deposited in the Herbarium of Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea (JNUB).
140704-67, deposited in National Institute of Biological Resources (KB: NIBRAL0000152593).
Jongdal, Jeju, Korea (33°29′42″ N, 126°54′45″ E).
The specific epithet (sparsa) was chosen to represent the feature of sparse branch development.
외쪽거미줄.
130329-6 (Sagye, Jeju, Korea; Mar 29, 2013); 130405-1 (Sagye, Jeju, Korea; Apr 5, 2013); 130724-1 (Jongdal, Jeju, Korea; Jul 24, 2013); 140423-1 (Gimnyeong, Jeju, Korea; Apr 23, 2014); 140603-1 (Mureung, Jeju, Korea; Jun 3, 2014); E14043 (Seongsan, Jeju, Korea; Jun 27, 2014).
Thalli are delicate and red to brown red in color. Primary axes are prostrate, with upwardly circinate apices, attached to other algal species such as Amphiroa spp. and Gelidium spp. by numerous unicellular rhizoids with digitate haptera cut off from ventral pericentral cells (Fig. 5C & E). Prostrate branches are terete, with 10–12 pericentral cells. They are 80–100 μm in diameter and segments are 100–160 μm in length, with L : D ratio 0.5–1 (Fig. 5G). Indeterminate branches (i) arise on primary prostrate axes on alternate sides from every fourth segment, with a determinate branch (d) and two naked nodes (n) on intervening segments in the dorsal position (d/i pattern) (Fig. 5A & B). Some indeterminate branches grow like the main axis possessing branches but others remain short or rudimentary (Fig. 5A–C). Determinate branches are terete, with 8–10 pericentral cells and are 8–10 segments long (Fig. 5F). They are 40–60 μm in diameter with segment L : D ratio 0.2–0.6 (Fig. 5A–C & F). One or two vegetative trichoblasts usually grow at the tip of the determinate branch (Fig. 5D).
H. sparsa sp. nov. has been misidentified as H. secunda in Korea due to its d/i branching pattern (Lee 2008). H. secunda is characterized by a d/i branching pattern with 1–4 naked nodes (Ambronn 1880, Hollenberg 1968, Schneider and Searles 1997). In the original description of H. secunda, the number of naked node usually varied between two and three (Ambronn 1880) while H. sparsa has a quite regular d/i/n/n branching pattern of determinate and indeterminate branches. Hollenberg (1968) observed the isotype of H. secunda collected from Tangier, Morocco and described d/i branching pattern with 2 naked nodes. During this study, we collected Herposiphonia specimens from Tarifa, Spain, near of Tangier, which specimens are having same branching pattern and similar morphology with H. secunda. However, we confirmed the morphological differences between H. sparsa and Spanish sample by number of pericentral cell in main axes (10–12 in H. sparsa vs. 8–9 in Spanish one) and number of segment in determinate branches (8–10 in H. sparsa vs. 10–12 in Spanish one). In addition, H. sparsa and Spanish specimens were clearly distinguished the molecular analyses using COI-5P and rbcL gene (data not shown). In the comparisons of other vegetative features, H. sparsa has slenderer (40–60 vs. 60–110 μm) and shorter (8–10 segments vs. 12–25) determinate branches than H. secunda (Hollenberg 1968, Schneider and Searles 1997, Xia 2011, Silva and Fujii 2012). H. donghaensis also has a d/i branching pattern, but it has one or two naked nodes between each d/i set irregularly. In the molecular analysis using COI-5P marker, H. sparsa appeared as a monophyletic group with strong support, clearly separated from H. secunda f. tenella (C. Agardh) Wynne from Spain and Portugal with 15.2–16.6% sequence divergence (Díaz-Tapia and Bárbara 2013). H. sparsa formed a clade with an unidentified Hawaiian Herposiphonia species (HQ422856, HQ423007) with negligible sequence divergence (0.5–0.8%) (Sherwood et al. 2010). Five species, having naked nodes in branching pattern, had been reported in Hawaii, such as H. arcuata, H. dubia, H. obscura Hollenber, H. pacifica, and H. variabilis (Abbott 1999). However, H. sparsa differs from Hawaiian species by several vegetative features such as branching pattern (2 naked nodes regularly in H. sparsa vs. 1 to several naked nodes irregularly in all Hawaiian species), diameter of determinate branches (40–60 μm in H. sparsa vs. over than 60 μm in H. arcuata, H. dubia, H. pacifica, and H. variabilis) and number of segments in determinate branches (8–10 in H. sparsa vs. more than 10 in H. arcuata, H. dubia, H. pacifica, and H. variabilis) (Hollenberg 1968, Abbott 1999). In conclusion, the exact identity of the Hawaiian Herposiphonia species could be confirmed using further morphological and molecular comparisons.
Herposiphonia caespitosa Tseng
Putoi Island, Hong Kong.
잔디거미줄.
Thalli are robust and red to brown red in color. Primary axes are prostrate, with upwardly circinate apices, attached to coralline algae by numerous unicellular rhizoids with digitate haptera cut off from ventral pericentral cells (Fig. 6G–I). Prostrate branches are terete, with 10–12 pericentral cells. They are 120–150 μm in diameter and segments are 100–120 μm in length, with L : D ratio 0.5–1 (Fig. 6A). Indeterminate branches (i) arise on primary prostrate axes on alternate sides from every fourth segment, with three determinate branches (d) on intervening segments in the dorsal position (d/d/d/i pattern) (Fig. 6A). Some indeterminate branches grow like the main axis possessing branches but others remain short or rudimentary (Fig. 6A). Determinate branches are terete, with 10–12 pericentral cells and are 20–30 segments long. They are 50–100 μm in diameter with segment L : D ratio 0.5–1.0 (Fig. 6F). One or two vegetative trichoblasts usually grow at the tip of determinate branch (Fig. 6B–D).
First established by Tseng (1943) from Hong Kong, H. caespitosa is characterized by d/d/d/i branching pattern with 3–4 well developed vegetative trichoblasts that are subdichotomously branched 5–6 times, and cystocarps on terminal portions of determinate branches (Tseng 1943). H. caespitosa appears to be closely related to H. elongata M. Masuda & K. Kogame, H. secunda f. densa (Pilger) M. J. Wynne, and H. secunda f. tenella (Tseng 1943, Masuda and Kogame 2000). However, H. elongata is characterized by its spermatangial branches terminated by sterile filaments of five to seven cells (Masuda and Kogame 2000). H. secunda f. densa has distinctly short cystocarpic branches because the apical growth of fertile branches is truncated (Tseng 1943). H. secunda f. tenella has one or two distinctly short vegetative trichoblasts formed spirally on determinate branches that are pseudodichotomously divided one to three times (Wynne 1984, Masuda and Kogame 2000). Lee (2008) previously identified specimens having well developed vegetative trichoblasts at the terminal of determinate branches as H. caespitosa. In this study, we note a close morphological similarity between Chinese and Korean specimens, they have similar d/d/d/i branching pattern, similar number of segments (20–30 in Korean vs. 16–30 in Chinese) and pericentral cells (10–12 in Korean vs. 8–12 in Chinese) in determinate branches, and the number of vegetative trichoblasts (Tseng 1943, Xia 2011). Although we could not confirm molecular monophyly with Korean and Chinese specimens of H. caespitosa, the species is distinctly separated from other species of Herposiphonia in our molecular analyses, with sequence divergences of 13.8% (H. fissidentoides) to 17.4% (H. donghaensis) in COI-5P and 10.9% (H. insidiosa) to 15% (H. subdisticha) in rbcL.
Herposiphonia fissidentoides (Holmes) Okamura
Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
제주거미줄.
Thalli are robust and red to brown red in color. Primary axes are prostrate, with upwardly circinate apices, attached to other algal species such as Amphiroa spp. or Gelidium spp. by numerous unicellular rhizoids with digitate haptera cut off from ventral pericentral cells (Fig. 7C). Prostrate branches are terete, with 9–12 pericentral cells (Fig. 7D). They are 70–130 μm in diameter and segments are 200–240 μm in length, with segment L : D ratio 1–2. Indeterminate branches (i) arise on primary prostrate axes from alternate sides at every fourth segment with three determinate branches (d) on intervening in the lateral position (d/d/d/i pattern) (Fig. 7A). All determinate and indeterminate branches are laterally arranged (Fig. 7A, B & H). Some indeterminate branches grow like the main axis possessing branches but others remain short or rudimentary (Fig. 7A–C). Determinate branches are ligulate, with 8–16 pericentral cells and are 12–18 segments long (Fig. 7A). They are 80–200 μm in diameter with segment L : D ratio 0.2–0.5 (Fig. 7E–G). Vegetative trichoblasts are absent (Fig. 7A & B). One or two spermatangial branches with a sterile tip are formed on the tip of determinate branches, which are spirally arranged with 50–60 μm in diameter and 140–210 μm in length (Fig. 7I). Tetrasporangia, appearing inside determinate branches, grow to ca. 50 μm in diameter filling up a series of 2–4 segments in lower or middle part of determinate axes during maturation (Fig. 7H).
In addition to the sequence of determinate and indeterminate branches, their 3-D disposition is also important in the determination of branching patterns for Herposiphonia taxonomy (Masuda et al. 2006). H. fissidentoides displays the d/d/d/i branching sequence, its determinate branches grow on alternate sides of the main axis, forming an almost 180° angle between two consecutive branches (Masuda et al. 2006). This differs from other Herposiphonia species with d/d/d/i branching sequence such as H. prorepens (Harvey) Schmitz where determinate branches are usually arranged in two rows on the same dorsal side of the main axis forming an acute angle between them (Schneider and Searles 1997). Furthermore, while other Herposiphonia species of similar branch arrangement exhibit terete determinate branches (Okamura 1899, Falkenberg 1901, Millar 1990, Norris 2014), our specimens display ligulate shape like Japanese H. fissidentoides. In addition, many other vegetative features such as numbers of segments and pericentral cells in determinate branches and the diameters of primary axis and determinate branches are also within the morphological variation range of H. fissidentoides (Okamura 1899). In the molecular analysis, H. fissidentoides is distinctly separated from other species of Herposiphonia by sequence divergence from 10.8% (H. insidiosa) to 18.3% (H. donghaensis) in COI-5P and from 7.5% (H. jejuinsula) to 12.1% (H. subdisticha) in rbcL.
Herposiphonia insidiosa (Greville ex J. Agardh) Falkenberg
ad oras Indiae Orientalis [India].
애기거미줄.
Thalli are robust and red to brown red in color. Primary axes are prostrate, with upwardly circinate apices, attached to coralline algae by numerous unicellular rhizoids with digitate haptera cut off from ventral pericentral cells (Fig. 8F). Prostrate branches are terete, with 9–11 pericentral cells (Fig. 8D). They are 80–100 μm in diameter and segments are 120–180 μm in length, with segment L : D ratio 0.7–1.5. Indeterminate branches (i) arise on primary prostrate axes on alternate sides with some determinate branches (d) on intervening in the dorsal position irregularly but some specimens show a d/d/d/i branch pattern (Fig. 8A). Some indeterminate branches grow like the main axis possessing branches but others remain short or rudimentary. Determinate branches are terete, with 8–9 pericentral cells (Fig. 8E) and are 15–19 segments long (Fig. 8A & B). They are 40–60 μm in diameter with segment L : D ratio 0.5–0.8 (Fig. 8A & E). One or two vegetative trichoblasts grow at the tip of determinate branches (Fig. 8C).
H. insidiosa is known to be widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific oceans including Korea and Japan (Guiry and Guiry 2017). H. insidiosa is characterized by the irregular pattern of indeterminate branches with very closed branches and by forming a thick entangled mass (Okamura 1930, Wynne 1984). Some vegetative features of Korean specimens are well matched with H. insidiosa, such as irregular branching pattern, 8–9 pericentral cells and having one or two vegetative trichoblasts (Agardh 1863, Wynne 1984). However, Korean specimens sometimes show a regular d/d/d/i branching pattern and determinate branches have less segments (15–19 rather than 20–26). In our molecular analyses, H. insidiosa is distinctly separated from other species of Herposiphonia by sequence divergence from 10.8% (H. fissidentoides) to 16.2% (H. sparsa) in COI-5P and from 7.7% (H. jejuinsula) to 11.9% (H. subdisticha) in rbcL.
Herposiphonia parca Setchell
Arue Reef, Tahiti.
기는거미줄.
Thalli are delicate and pink red in color. Primary axes are prostrate, with upwardly circinate apices, attached to coralline algae such as Amphiroa spp. by numerous unicellular rhizoids with digitate haptera cut off from ventral pericentral cells (Fig. 9G). Prostrate branches are terete, with 9–10 pericentral cells (Fig. 9E). They are 100–150 μm in diameter and segments are 120–220 μm in length, with segment L : D ratio 1–1.2 (Fig. 9E & F). Indeterminate branches (i) arise on primary prostrate axes on alternate sides from every fourth segment with three determinate branches (d) on intervening in the dorsal position (d/d/d/i pattern) (Fig. 9A & B). Some indeterminate branches grow like the main axis possessing branches but others remain short or rudimentary (Fig. 9A). Determinate branches are terete, with 8–9 pericentral cells and are 12–16 segments long (Fig. 9A & B). They are 55–80 μm in diameter with segment L : D ratio 0.8–1 (Fig. 9A, B & D). Vegetative trichoblasts are absent (Fig. 9C).
H. parca is one of the most common species found in the central tropical Pacific Ocean (Hollenberg 1968). This species resembles H. elongata closely in the its branching pattern and thallus dimensions (Masuda and Kogame 2000). H. elongata produces up to four long vegetative trichoblasts per determinate branch in a spiral sequence and they are dichotomously branched. However, H. parca and H. elongata can be distinguished in the location of tetrasporangia, these in H. elongata appearing on distal portions of branches, frequently in spirals (Masuda and Kogame 2000) but, in H. parca, tetrasporangia appear on lower segments of branches (Hollenberg 1968). In morphological comparison between Korean and Hawaiian specimens, Korean specimens have slenderer determinate branches (30–45 μm in Korean) than Hawaiian specimens (50–79 μm) (Hollenberg 1968). In our molecular analyses, Korean H. parca was distinctly separated from other species of Herposiphonia, with sequence divergences of 11.1% (H. fissidentoides) to 18.7% (H. subdisticha) in COI-5P and 8.3% (H. jejuinsula) to 13.2% (H. subdisticha) in rbcL.
Herposiphonia subdisticha Okamura
Boshu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
두줄거미줄.
Thalli are robust and brown red to brown in color. Primary axes are prostrate, with upwardly circinate apices, attached to coralline algae such as Amphiroa spp. by numerous unicellular rhizoids with digitate haptera cut off from ventral pericentral cells. Prostrate branches are terete, with 10–11 pericentral cells (Fig. 10C). They are 120–150 μm in diameter and segments are 100–180 μm in length, with L : D ratio 0.8–1. Indeterminate branches (i) arise on primary prostrate axes on alternate sides from every fourth segment with three determinate branches (d) on intervening in a lateral position (d/d/d/i pattern) (Fig. 10A). Some indeterminate branches grow like the main axis possessing branches but others remain short or rudimentary (Fig. 10A). Determinate branches are terete, with 8–9 pericentral cells and are 9–12 segments long (Fig. 10A). They are 80–100 μm in diameter with segment L : D ratio 0.8–1 (Fig. 10D). Vegetative trichoblasts are absent (Fig. 10B). One or two spermatangial branches with a sterile tip are formed on the tip of determinate branches, which are spirally arranged with 50–60 μm in diameter and 80–120 μm in length (Fig. 10E).
H. subdisticha is characterized by a fully decumbent thallus and lateral branching pattern of determinate and indeterminate branches (Okamura 1899). In fact, specimens of H. subdisticha from northwestern Pacific countries such as Korea, Japan, and China share very similar vegetative characteristics in their branching pattern, number of pericentral cells, and the length-diameter ratio of segments (Okamura 1899, Xia 2011). However, when Hollenberg (1968) described lateral branching specimens of H. subdisticha from Hawaii, he noted the difference between Hawaiian and east Asian populations of the species: Hawaiian populations were more strictly distichous, and had determinate branches curved slightly toward the substratum and apices of indeterminate branches slightly inrolled (Hollenberg 1968). In our molecular analyses, H. subdisticha was distinctly separated from other species of Herposiphonia, with sequence divergence of 14.6% (H. insidiosa) to 18.7% (H. parca) in COI-5P and 11.7% (H. insidiosa) to 15% (H. caespitosa) in rbcL.
Despite the proven utility of molecular analyses, the genus Herposiphonia has rarely been studied using both COI-5P and rbcL sequences. This study marks the first examination of the genus Herposiphonia in Korea using both morphology and molecular analyses, revealing a hidden biodiversity. We confirmed the presence of eight species including three new species: H. donghaensis sp. nov. is newly discovered from Korean coasts, and H. jejuinsula sp. nov. and H. sparsa sp. nov., which have previously been misidentified as H. nuda and H. secunda, respectively, but they are recognized as new species based on a result of our molecular investigation. Considering the widespread distribution of Herposiphonia species, especially known as the cosmopolitan species like H. insidiosa and H. parca, future studies aimed at understanding its unambiguous taxonomy and species diversity require both molecular and morphological information relating to species from diverse regions of the world.
Supplementary Table S1.
List of species used for the molecular analyses in this study including collection information, vouchers and GenBank accession number with references (http://e-algae.org).
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We thank all members of the Molecular Phylogeny of Marine Algae Lab. and Dr. John M. Huisman (Murdoch Univ.) for training about morphological observations and field collection of Herposiphonia in Australia. This work was supported by a grant from National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), funded by the Ministry of Environment (MOE) of Korea (NIBR201401204 for collecting samples), and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (2017R1A2B4009420 for molecular analyses) of the Republic of Korea.
Unrooted phylogram generated using neighbor-joining analysis of COI-5P sequences of Herposiphonia specimens.
Phylogenetic tree of Herposiphonia species inferred from maximum-likelihood analysis of rbcL sequences.
Herposiphonia donghaensis sp. nov. Y. H. Koh et M. S. Kim. (A) Vegetative thallus collected from Jukbyeon, Uljin, Gyeongbuk, Korea showing d/i branching pattern with 1 or 2 bare nodes between indeterminate branches (d, determinate branch; i, indeterminate branch; n, naked node). (B) Apical part of main axis. (C & D) Determinate branches composed of 12–16 segments. (E) Apical part of a determinate branch showing absence of vegetative trichoblast. (F) Cross section of a prostrate branch. (G) Cross section of a determinate branch. (H) A transparent rhizoid cut-off from pericentral cells. Scale bars represent: A, 1,000 μm; B & D, 200 μm; C, 400 μm; E & H, 100 μm; F & G, 40 μm.
Herposiphonia jejuinsula sp. nov. Y. H. Koh et M. S. Kim. (A) Tetrasporophyte thallus showing d/d/d/i branching pattern (d, determinate branch; i, indeterminate branch). (B) Procarps developed in the middle of fertile branches. (C) Apical part of main axis. (D) Apical part of a determinate branch showing absence of vegetative trichoblast. (E) Rhizoids cut-off from pericentral cells. (F) Straight series of tetrasporangia along determinate branches. (G & H) Procarps showing 4-celled carpogonial branches developed inside (cb, carpogonial branch; s, supporting cell; t, tricogyne). (I) Fully matured cystocarp. Scale bars represent: A & B, 200 μm; C–E, G & H, 50 μm; F & I, 100 μm.
Herposiphonia sparsa sp. nov. Y. H. Koh et M. S. Kim. (A) Thallus collected from Jongdal, Jeju, Korea (d, determinate branch; i, indeterminate branch; n, naked node). (B) Branches showing d/i branching pattern. (C) Apical part of main axis. (D) Apical part of a determinate branch with two vegetative trichoblasts. (E) Rhizoids cut-off from pericentral cells. (F) Cross section of a determinate branch. (G) Cross section of a primary axis. Scale bars represent: A & B, 400 μm; C, 200 μm; D & E, 100 μm; F, 20 μm; G, 40 μm.
Herposiphonia caespitosa Tseng. (A) Vegetative thallus showing d/d/d/i branching pattern (d, determinate branch; i, indeterminate branch). (B & C) Trichoblasts well developed at tips of determinate branches. (D) Apical parts of determinate branches showing scar cells (arrowhead). (E) Determinate branches slightly strict on nodes (arrows). (F) Cross section of a determinate branch. (G) A rhizoid cut-off from pericentral cells. (H) Ends of rhizoids revealing digitate haptera structure. (I) A hapteron attached to Laurencia spp. Scale bars represent: A & B, 400 μm; C, 200 μm; D & E, 100 μm; F–I, 40 μm.
Herposiphonia fissidentoides (Holmes) Okamura. (A) Vegetative thallus showing d/d/d/i branching pattern (d, determinate branch; i, indeterminate branch). (B) Apical part of main axis. (C) Rhizoids cut-off from pericentral cells. (D) Cross section of primary axis. (E–G) Cross sections of determinate branches. (H) Straight arrangement of tetrasporangia along determinate branches. (I) Terminal portions of spermatangial branches on fertile branches. Scale bars represent: A & H, 200 μm; B, C & I, 100 μm; D–G, 40 μm.
Herposiphonia insidiosa (Greville ex J. Agardh) Falkenberg. (A) Vegetative thallus showing d/d/d/i branching pattern (d, determinate branch; i, indeterminate branch). (B) Apical part of main axis. (C) Apical part of a determinate branch showing a trichoblast. (D) Cross section of primary axis. (E) Cross section of a determinate branch. (F) A rhizoid cut-off from pericentral cells. Scale bars represent: A, 200 μm; B & C, 50 μm; D & E, 20 μm; F, 100 μm.
Herposiphonia parca Setchell. (A) Vegetative thallus collected from Sagye, Jeju, Korea. (B) Branches showing d/d/d/i pattern (d, determinate branch; i, indeterminate branch). (C) Apical part of a determinate branch showing absence of vegetative trichoblast. (D) Cross section of a determinate branch. (E & F) Cross section of primary axis. (G) Rhizoids cut-off from pericentral cells. Scale bars represent: A & B, 200 μm; C, F & G, 100 μm; D, 20 μm; E, 40 μm.
Herposiphonia subdisticha Okamura. (A) Vegetative thallus showing d/d/d/i branching pattern (d, determinate branch; i, indeterminate branch). (B) Apical part of determinate branches without vegetative trichoblast. (C) Cross section of primary axis. (D) Cross section of a determinate branch. (E) Spermatangial branch. Scale bars represent: A, 500 μm; B, C & E, 50 μm; D, 10 μm.
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MIT to release new online homework review system (continued)
For each approach, the system — called OverCode — creates a program template, using variable names that a preponderance of students happen to have converged on. It then displays templates side-by-side, graying out the code they share, so the differences stand out in relief. And from any template, instructors can, if they choose, pull up a list of the student programs that accord with it.
Instructors who notice variations across templates that make no difference in practice can also write rules establishing the equivalence of alternatives. In some instances, for example, “y*x” might yield a different result than “x*y”, but — depending on the ways in which x and y are defined — in other instances, it won’t. When it doesn’t, an instructor could further winnow down the number of templates by creating the rule “y*x = x*y”.
The system could allow instructors of online courses to provide generalized feedback that addresses a broader swath of their students. But it could also provide information on how computer-science courses — both online and on campus — could be better designed.
With online courses, “in a few months, you can have many orders of magnitude of students go through the same material and find all the interesting alternative solutions or make the same errors,” says Elena Glassman, an MIT graduate student in computer science and engineering and first author on the new paper. “Then it’s taking all those records of what people did and making sense of it so that when we run the course again, it’s better, and when we run the course residentially, we’re better able to handle the particular 200 students that we’re meeting with on a regular basis.”
Two programs that perform the same computation may have code that looks somewhat different. The programmers may have chosen different variable names — “total,” say, in one case, versus “result” in the other. Subfunctions may be executed in different orders.
So in addition to comparing programs’ code, OverCode observes the values that variables take on as the programs execute. Two programs with variables that take on the same values in the same order are judged to be identical.
In their new paper, Glassman and her collaborators — her thesis advisor, professor of computer science and engineering Rob Miller; her fellow graduate student Jeremy Scott; Rishabh Singh, who completed his PhD at MIT last year and is now at Microsoft Research; and Philip Guo, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Rochester — also report the results of two usability studies that evaluated OverCode.
In the studies, 24 experienced programmers reviewed thousands of students’ solutions to three introductory programming assignments, using both OverCode and a standard tool that displays solutions one at a time. For each assignment, the subjects were given 15 minutes to assess the strategies students most commonly used to design a particular function and to provide general feedback on each, complete with example code.
Remarkably, when assessing the simplest of the three assignments, the subjects analyzing raw code performed as well those using OverCode: In both cases, the five strategies they identified covered about half of the student responses.
For the most difficult of the three assignments, however, the OverCode users covered about 45 percent of student responses, while the subjects analyzing raw data covered only about 9 percent. “The strategy starts to shine on more-complicated programs,” Glassman says.
Material from a press release was used in this report.
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Children’s & Youth programme @ the Nordic Filmdays Lübeck
The 61st Nordic Filmdays Lübeck (29th October – 3rd November) were a complete success. In six days 196 films were screened (283 screenings) and over 36,000 people came to watch northern films and drama series.
It’s the only festival on the continent entirely devoted to the presentation of films from the North and Northeast of Europe. “We are very pleased to have matched the numbers of our anniversary last year,” said Florian Vollmers. “We sold 1,000 more tickets, which gave a small boost to revenues, while industry visitors took greater advantage of our extensive side-bar programme.”
As every year, the Nordic Filmdays Lübeck puts great value on projects and films for children and young people with artistic themes and approaches. The film ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS by Christian Dyekjær (Denmark, photo) was awarded the Children’s Jury Award of the Radisson Blu Senator Hotel Lübeck. The four jury members, aged 11-13, stated that the film’s subject was “very important and topical and that they liked the exciting and imaginative story”. The film tells about 12 year old Lucia, who dreams of taking over the job of Father Christmas one day. Unfortunately, that aspiration is reserved solely for male students. The jury’s honourable mention went to PHANTOM OWL FOREST by Anu Aun (Estonia).
The Children’s & Youth Film Award of the Gemeinnützige Sparkassenstiftung was given to STUPID YOUNG HEART, a drama by Selma Vilhunen (Finland, photo). The jury stated that the film “electrifies from the beginning till the end and stays with you afterwards. It tackles social and political issues that we consider highly topical worldwide without pointing any fingers“. Finland’s Oscar submission for 2020 tells the story of Kiira, 15 years old and pregnant. Lenni was just a boy she met at a party, but she wants to keep the baby. AWAY by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia) received an honourable mention.
In addition to a thematically broad film programme, there was also a packed programme with workshops and concerts. This year, the Young Nordic Filmmakers including 20 young directors from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Germany have dedicated themselves to exciting topics about Europe in short documentaries. A group of young festival bloggers presented short video clips, blogs and guided interviews with festival guests and organisers. The rehearsal of the silent film project ‘Cine Concert’ was also part of their coverage. For the Cine Concert the festival cooperated with the Lübeck College of Music and Art and the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma in Lübeck’s French partner city. Young musicians from Germany and France jointly composed music to accompany three silent Norwegian films by Hans Berge, presented at both festivals, in Lübeck and La Rochelle.
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'Money Heist' Season 3 (Part 3) Ending: Is There A Cliffhanger?
Is the ending of “Money Heist” (“La casa de Papel”) Season 3 (Part 3) a cliffhanger? It is arguably the question you most want to know before you decide to start (or continue) binge-watching the crime thriller on Netflix. There is nothing worse than having to wait out an edge-of-your-seat plot twist.
Especially, as the wait for Season 4 (Part 4) is currently wearing on, and its premiere is a bit from imminent. Thankfully, yours truly can answer the cliffhanger question without spoiling any specific “Money Heist” plot details. Do not read any further -- unless you want to know the nature of Season 3’s ending.
The answer: Yes, “Money Heist” Season 3 (Part 3) ends on a massive cliffhanger. For binge-watchers, that means having to endure a lot of pondering. Want more specifics without exact details as to who they pertain too? Keep reading!
RELATED: Review: “Money Heist” Season 3 (Part 3) Thrillingly Ups The Ante
Season 3 (Part 3) ends with a life-and-death cliffhanger for one character, a game-changing twist for another, and a life-altering decision for three others. There is no way around it. The latest installment in “Money Heist” changes everything for everyone! Now to the spoiler-laden details!
Warning: Spoilers for the ending of “Money Heist” Season 3 (Part 3) are discussed and disclosed below.
Who is near death?
Sadly, Nairobi is the one whose life is in peril as “Money Heist,” Season 3 ends. Nairobi was shot by a police sniper as she went to the window to see her son, who she had not seen in years. As she was standing there, a shot rang out, striking her. Nairobi’s condition was critical. Severe blood loss was clearly evident.
The hopes of those around her were dim, except Tokyo. She is not exactly known for her relationship with reality, so it is tough to take that as a good sign for Nairobi. As for her chances. “Money Heist” going through with killing off a character that has been so integral to the show is hard to believe, but not impossible too.
Who experienced a game-changing twist?
That would be the Inspector/Raquel/Lisbon. She was captured by the police after her attempts at negotiating with a farming family failed to yield timely results. Knowing that Raquel had an earpiece in to talk to the Professor, the authorities took full advantage of it. Just as the Professor had done earlier, they managed to trick him into believing something that was not true.
They convinced the Professor (and this audience member) that they had shot and killed Lisbon, even after she had surrendered. It was a heart-racing moment that led to a heart-stopping one. The Professor was distraught beyond all reason, believing it full-heartedly. In that moment of absolute blinding grief, he ordered another game-changing twist. Cue that cliffhanger.
[Image by Tamara Arranz Ramos]
Who participated in a life-altering decision?
The Professor declared war against the authorities and gave an order that was soon brought to horrifying reality. Tokyo and Rio went in and got rocket launchers. The doors to the Bank of Spain were open, and as the authorities prepared to force their way in, an eager Tokyo and Rio unleashed rockets. Two tanks exploded and the people inside of it crawled out the best they could.
Sadly, they were all on fire. Even if the injured police manage to survive, they will suffer from severe burn injuries. The Professor’s decision made him a potential murderer, and he was not alone. It was the disquieting moment where the audience knew there was no going back. “Money Heist” will never be the same.
Where Season 3 Leaves the Audience
There should be no shortage of twists and turns to anticipate when “Money Heist” returns. Season 4 (Part 4) is destined to be another game-changer. If it follows the trend set by its previous seasons, the heist at the Bank of Spain should be concluded within it. Who will survive this life and death battle? How bad is the carnage that the Professor unleashed? Stay tuned!
“Money Heist” Season 4 (Part 4) will premiere on April 3, 2020, on Netflix. The first three seasons/parts are already streaming on the mega-successful platform.
[Featured Image by Tamara Arranz / Netflix]
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The 'This Is Us' Season 3 Episode 10 Promo Is Heartwarming & Chilling At The Same Time
My Kleenex budget has significantly decreased since This Is Us's holiday hiatus began in November, but Season 3 of the weepy drama seems to be returning in full emotional force. Ahead of its Jan. 15 episode, This Is Us is definitely delivering a tear-filled start to 2019. The This Is Us Season 3 Episode 10 promo promises some cute cuddles between family members, but those heartfelt moments never last long. In addition to teasing heartwarming scenes, the episode's promo alludes to the characters experiencing another bout of sadness. What else is new?
When we last saw the Pearsons in Nov. 27's "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning," Randall's campaign manager shared that despite his passionate debate performance, his polling numbers just wouldn't recuperate in time for Randall (Sterling K. Brown) to win his city council election. Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Toby (Chris Sullivan) learned that they were expecting a baby boy, while Kevin (Justin Hartley) realized that Jack's brother Nicky (Michael Angarano) didn't actually die during the Vietnam War. A present-day scene taking place in Pennsylvania then confirmed the guess that Nicky was still alive, but the Nicky-less promo for "The Last Seven Weeks" confirms that we'll have to wait until more light is shed on the mystery of the Pearson uncle.
Instead, the clip focuses on the culmination of Randall's campaign, which formed a wedge between Beth and Randall in the fall finale. Despite the low chances of victory, Randall refused to quit the election, breaking his promise with Beth that he'd step away from it if she no longer approved. Although the last episode ended with Randall sleeping on the couch, the two have seemingly reconciled and are seen in bed together as Randall muses about Jack never seeing what he became. Flashback footage that appears to resemble Jack and Randall's trip to Washington D.C. is also shown, giving Milo Ventimiglia another chance to deliver a proud, fatherly monologue.
Kevin and Zoe also return from Vietnam in the episode, with the promo teasing that they hit a bumpy patch at Randall's election night party. Zoe telling Kevin she "can't do this" isn't really new territory, as the character has been vocal about avoiding serious relationships in the past. However, Beth's upcoming backstory episode is due to offer some insight into Zoe's life as well.
Meanwhile, footage of Kate and Toby looking teary plays alongside a sweet flashback of Kate laughing with Jack. Again, being upset and reminiscing about Jack isn't new material for the married couple. But with the birth of their son quickly approaching, maybe Kate and Toby have found yet another reason to freak out about their situation and past experiences.
The episode title, "The Last Seven Weeks," also suggests that the story will actually walk us through the family's past two months before picking up in current time. A quick shot at the end of the promo shows Beth in a New Year's Eve party hat, and although the rest of the footage doesn't tease a Christmas tree or East Coast snow flurries, perhaps we can expect a slow and steady winter premiere rather than a rapid-fire catch-up. All the better to get us crying, This Is Us!
Season 3 of This Is Us continues on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
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IT hosting company Rackspace has expanded into vibrant new UK premises. Natalie Li finds out more
The task was this: to find a new, inspiring building ?for a growing company, ?while managing the fit out and relocation - all within ?six months. Back in December 2010, the facilities team at ?hosting and cloud computing company Rackspace rose to this daunting challenge.
Rackspace Hosting, founder of open-source cloud platform OpenStack, has its main headquarters in San Antonio, Texas. Placing great emphasis on a high level of customer service, employees work around the clock, 365 days a year, to get fast solutions to critical issues and offer technical phone support.
In the UK, Rackspace employs 750 staff. They were originally based in two offices in Stockley Park, Middlesex, with a data centre in Slough, still in place and housing 70 members of staff.
The company had witnessed fast growth over the preceding years, seeing more than 100 new staff members joining each month. To support the UK team in providing the best service possible, a grand design project was undertaken, with the brief to house sales, support, finance, HR and administrative staff under one roof and reflect the existing vibrant company culture. Creating a harmonious, inspirational, themed and homely environment was top priority - and with new staff arriving all the time, speed was of the essence.
The facilities team found the building they considered a natural fit - a 9,290 square metre (100,000 square feet) office space, spread over four floors, in Hayes, Middlesex, situated to the west of London. It wasn't far from the Stockley Park offices and had the added bonus of being nearer to a train station.
"The fit-out was very much a design-led piece of work," explains director of real estate Jamie Kinch, who has been with Rackspace for seven years.
After tendering for three design companies, Morgan Lovell was chosen as the fit-out firm to transform the space - in just ?13 weeks. Rising to the challenge, the space opened up on week 11, with staff tours taking place on the premises during week nine.
"We gave the designers a very loose brief," says Kinch. "We didn't want to stipulate exactly what we wanted as we felt it was important to let their imagination run wild and then we could rein them in where we felt necessary. We certainly wanted to avoid a conservative look and feel."
Kinch was also keen to invest in staff happiness and so, along with the rest of the FM team - FM manager, office manager and two receptionists - involved the whole company with the move and the look of the office. A consultation took place with all staff members (known colloquially as 'rackers') and in the summer of 2010, Kinch and his team presented the initial concept to every member of staff.
Conscious of fulfilling staff needs and paying attention to feedback, the FM team then met with a final consultation group of 20 employees every week to analyse feedback and commentary.
The office needed to be open ?24 hours-a-day, seven days a week, with support teams working on various shift patterns. From this, the idea of creating a 'home' environment naturally evolved, with a range of facilities offered on site.
With the home theme in mind, each of the four floors in the Rackspace building has been designed to mimic a domestic environment. Themes include a garage-style area complete with an old Mini sourced from eBay for £1,300 by Kinch. The first floor is laid out with retro lounge furniture, bright orange carpets and green sofas, while the second floor houses a quiet library area filled with mahogany furniture and Chesterfield sofas. The third floor features a courtyard garden with picnic benches and a glass-roofed atrium.
A state-of-the-art gym is available for staff to use free weights, take classes and relax in the treatment rooms. In addition, there is bike storage available close to the gym.
A staff restaurant on site was a must, offering subsidised meals and space for informal meetings, while a cosy country-style kitchen was created to provide an informal area for shift workers around the clock. Long wooden benches fill the space to allow teams to congregate for informal meetings. Meals can be prepared throughout the day and night. "We're even looking for a catering company that can provide staff with ready-made meals or gourmet packs of ingredients complete with recipe cards," says Kinch.
Up on the downside
When it comes to working, each floor is carefully dotted with ?quiet 'downtime' areas where small, informal meetings can take place or for private working. Large, long tables are also dotted ?around each floor - ideal for ?larger team meetings.
The meeting rooms themselves proved the most emotive subject among staff feedback, says Kinch. Eight meeting rooms are therefore available on each floor. Fitting in with each floor's theme, the ground floor meeting rooms are named after car manufacturers; the first, after 1970s' music groups; the second, after children's authors; and the third, after London parks.
With international business taking place on site, a fun boardroom came into existence - a replica of 10 Downing Street's famous black door, complete with a David Cameron cardboard cut-out outside. It has proved a hit with staff and those over on business from as far away as Hong Kong. "People love having their picture taken outside our 10 Downing Street," says Kinch.
Such lavish designs and the small time window compounded the pressure on the budget. ?Kinch points out it was necessary to be as frugal as possible in the overall spend.
"There was a fine balance - we didn't want flash over substance," he says. "We were very aware of creating a fun and usable space within budget. We didn't need expensive finishes.
"This meant reusing a lot of ?old furniture where we could - ?in particular in the café/canteen area, where we brought in the ?old tables and chairs, which worked well."
According to Morgan Lovell's project designer Stuart Jefferson, rugs were also a relatively inexpensive way to create a homely feel and setting.
Savings were also made in other areas. Previously, travelling to the Stockley Park site involved a shuttle bus service from the train station to the work site. Moving to the new site reduced bus usage by 30 per cent and C02 emissions by 10 per cent, according to Kinch.
The decision to consult with staff seems to have paid off; 'Rackers' perform well and respond to their environment with enthusiasm. ?One, Kinch tells me, brought his parents into the office during their visit to London. He was so proud ?of where he worked, he just ?wanted to show it off.
But it wasn't just the staff workspaces that needed attention - Rackspace puts customer service at the top of the agenda and with a brand motto of 'fanatical support', it was necessary to design spaces reflecting corporate priority aims.
Therefore, a shiny, sleek reception area greets visitors to the Rackspace building, all glistening red glass and white floors, complete with a kitchen area, large TV and seating areas. These are mainly used for customer and partner day events, with a partition sliding across to cut out noise from reception. A number of meeting rooms are also available for interviews and formal meetings. Cleverly placed glass panels offer a glimpse into other areas of the office and beyond.
The outdoor space also experienced a transformation during the fit-out. The surrounding area now offers ?1,858 square metres (20,000 square feet) of green space for summer barbeques and parties.
It's not just staff members and visitors who are impressed by this innovative space. In 2011, Rackspace was recognised by the Sunday Times Best Places to Work and Financial Times Top 50 Great Places to Work in the UK for the sixth year in a row.
Handling growth
But with rapid growth increasing the density of the office, the challenges naturally grow too. The building has desks for 750 staff, but numbers will increase to 1,000 by the end of March 2012. Just how does the FM team of seven cope with this kind of demand?
"Staff were very tolerant of the work we've had to put in and understand the growth of company," reveals Kinch.
"We've had to accommodate for extra Rackers and are sometimes only given a few days of warning. This can mean moving half an office floor, but we're so impressed at how responsive staff are.
"We are regularly tasked with undertaking internal moves involving 20 to over 200 people, right up to relocations involving the entire office. Each move must have minimal impact on the business, particularly on the sales and support teams. Moving offices tends to take place out of hours and shift workers are kept on the same floor to save on energy.
"But with the site being operated 24/7, department reorganisations can certainly present some challenges," he adds.
Agile working allows staff to ?be more mobile, but Kinch believes loose hot-desking could be the answer.
"Technology moves on and it would be a good thing to have performed more testing on possible hot-desking options. As the company continues to expand, people won't need to be rooted to the conventional desk space."
Kinch adds that the company is looking to trial a video-conferencing photo booth, which can be used to free up meeting room space.
"The issue we have is that we are a global company and rely on video conferencing (VC) technology on a daily basis," he says. "Often, though, we have one member of staff using a large meeting room for the sole purpose of video conferencing technology. The photo booth trial is to create areas where one staff member can attend a VC meeting in private without using ?up our meeting rooms, which are ?a valuable resource."
And if he could change anything? "If we did the project again, we would think a little bit more about improving collaborative and quiet spaces," says Kinch.
But with any design-led project rolled out in such a small amount of time, tweaks and changes are part of the process.
All the contracts in the building are completely new - a big challenge for the FM team, which had shared facilities with the tenants in the previous building at Stockley Park. The contracts are expected to last for a year.
While the UK operation has settled nicely into its new home, Kinch is gearing up for a permanent move to San Antonio to lead up the strategy globally. He will lead a project to convert a disused shopping centre into a new head office for Rackspace in the US with the ability to accommodate more than 6,000 people.
"It's a continual process," concludes Kinch. "We intend to roll out further projects across the globe - each office designed with its own identity."
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In August we teamed up with YHA to pilot Family Activity Camps. YHA donated the breaks to us, and we were able to give short breaks to groups of families at YHA Edale.
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Simon attended with his wife and two children. With a long-term disability, he welcomed the opportunity to holiday as a family after more than three years of not being able to do so. It was also the first time that any of them had been in a hostel.
Of the benefits of the break, Simon talked about ‘feeling better within himself’. He especially liked the ‘adult space’ they had. With the kids running on ahead and playing with others under the supervision of staff and support workers, they could walk at their own pace and talk. This allowed them to get close to each other and do things together.
The time spent doing various activities (of which he liked the ‘leap of faith’ the most), exploring the greenspaces, making friends and trying new things resulted in great memories for him and his family. Simon emphasised just how much they had enjoyed their time at YHA Edale, he said: ‘it’s a shame we are going home’.
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New Delhi: Congress leader Harish Rawat has accused the Narendra Modi government of trying to weaken the ongoing farmers’ protest against the three farm laws by alleging that the opposition was seeking to mislead them.
“The matter is between the government and the farmers. Why is the government seeking to give the opposition this opportunity,” Rawat, who is the party’s Punjab in-charge, told IANS in an interview.
Following are excerpts of the interview:
Q: The government is accusing Opposition, especially the Congress, of misleading the farmers on the three farm laws. Your response?
A: The whole matter is between the government and the farmers. Why is the government giving an opportunity to the Opposition to be aggressive? Farmers are demanding the withdrawal of the laws as they are against them and will further increase their troubles so the government should roll them back and end the matter. The government is trying to weaken the protest by dragging the Opposition into it. The farmers have realised that these three laws will be threat to the MSP, government procurement and APMC system. All of these are inter-related, if one system collapses, the other will also collapse. As far as misleading the farmers is concerned, I think they are capable enough to understand that what is good for them and what’s bad.
Q: Why is there a protest despite assurance from the Prime Minister as well as the government officials that these laws are in the favour of the farmers?
A: Why were such laws enacted that the government now has to give assurance over them? On one side are these laws while on the other there is the assurance from the government. Now what will work, the laws or the assurance. You have made the laws which are against the farmers and still the government is saying that it is in their favour. Instead of giving written assurance, the government should roll back these laws immediately and the farmers will end their protest. This fight is for the rights of the farmers and the whole country is with them.
Q: Why is the Opposition objecting if the corporates will buy the produce at higher price?
A: No one is stopping the corporate houses from buying farmers’ produce at higher rates. They could have bought it at higher rates earlier also… then why were the laws needed? They can buy the produce at any cost but for that you don’t have to end the mandi system. Even today milk and egg, meat, fruits and vegetables etc. are purchased from mandis. Once the mandi system ends, the farmers will become slaves in the hands of big corporates which will make their situation worst.
Q: It is being alleged that the Congress is provoking the farmers in Punjab, where your party is in power and you are the in-charge.
A: I would like to ask the government, that why the farmers of Udham Singh Nagar and Haridwar (Uttarakhand), western UP and Haryana, where the BJP is in power, have also joined the protest. The basic thing is that the farmers are concerned in the places where the MSP and mandi system is strong. Paddy and wheat is being procured the most, and is grown in Punjab so the farmers there are worried. The farmers of Uttarakhand have also understood the problem and hence are protesting.
Q: A few days ago, some farmers’ organisation met the Union Agriculture Minister and supported the farm laws. So is there a faction among the farmers’ organisations too?
A: The farmers who have extended their support have been created by the government itself. The difference between them and the real farmers can be clearly seen. You are talking about Punjab and other places just to divert the protest. The government is associating Khalistan and “tukde-tukde” gang with the movement. They didn’t realised that the protest will become so strong. The BJP felt that they will end this movement also as they did with previous movements. Every time you can’t play the same tactics. You can’t deny the truth by alleging involvement of “tukde-tukde” gang. The farmers themselves as well as the figures suggest that their income is continuously decreasing. The NDA is in power in Bihar and there is no mandi system, no MSP system, then why the income of Bihar farmers is not increasing. Why the corporates are not buying produce there?
Q: Is it right to blame to the corporates?
A: Various pillars of our economy have been gifted to the corporate houses. It is clearly visible that some sectors are being controlled by the corporate houses. Now, if the corporates will start controlling the agriculture sector also, then the farmers will lose their lands. We are not fighting against any individual, we have been talking about all the sections of the country.
This fight is not about the farmers alone, it is fight for the poor. The farmers have understood the issues with the laws.
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Shares of Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) were down 5% as of 2:40 p.m. EST on Thursday, as investors reacted to an earnings warning announced at Delta's investor day in New York.
In a press release preceding the actual conference, Delta revealed that it would be updating guidance today to reflect an expectation for $6 to $7 per share in net earnings next year.
Investors are dragging Delta down today, but Delta stock is priced to take off. Image source: Getty Images.
Delta spun this news as a positive, noting that $6 to $7 in earnings will represent double-digit earnings growth for the company, undergirded by top-line growth in 2019 of 4 to 6 percent and margin expansion.
Travelers should note that Delta also says it will be expanding its capacity, but only by 3%. Thus, to get to 4% to 6% revenue growth, it's likely Delta will raise fares next year.
Problem is, analysts who follow Delta have been thinking the company would earn more along the lines of $6.70 per share. Taken at the midpoint, Delta's new forecast implies an earnings miss of roughly $0.20 per share next year -- which is why investors are selling. But is that the right call?
I'm not so sure. Even if $6.50 per share is below Wall Street's forecast, at Delta's current share price of $53 and change, it still works out to a P/E ratio of only 8.2 on the stock. That seems awfully cheap for a company promising to deliver double-digit earnings growth. (Going from an expected $5.58 per share in 2018 to $6.50 per share in 2019 would be 16% growth.)
At a PEG ratio of barely 0.5, some investors' decision to sell Delta shares today may be exactly the wrong thing to do. It creates a buying opportunity for other investors who are better at math.
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May the fourth be with you! For reasons clear to every fan of the Star Wars universe, the fourth of May has become a crucial day on the yearly calendar. This is Star Wars Day, where fans of that famous galaxy far, far away celebrate through many weird and wonderful traditions.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker launches on Disney+
For over four decades, the Star Wars saga has made its way through cinemas and into the homes of millions of fans across the world. The ninth film in the main lineage of Star Wars movies, not including spin-offs, is The Rise of Skywalker.
It released in cinemas in late 2019 and usually wouldn’t be hitting video on-demand services as early as 4 May 2020. However, with the coronavirus pandemic in full swing, Disney+ is rushing the date forward to better serve consumer needs.
With the addition of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to Disney+, you can now stream all nine films from the series through the SVOD service. It joins a ton of other Star Wars related content on the format, most notably the new live action TV series The Mandalorian. In fact, also launching on Star Wars Day is a documentary diving into the creation of that series. It’s called Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian.
What is Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker about?
The Rise of Skywalker brings the battle between the light and dark sides of The Force to a head through the characters of Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) respectively. The former is an instrument wielded by Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and the latter a puppet of the returning Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). Or are they?
The dynamic between these two characters is the compelling heart of the film, which jumps between exotic worlds and familiar characters at a breakneck pace. Some of the set pieces are truly breathtaking, particularly in 4K.
Fans are divided on whether the story concludes the nine-film saga fittingly or not, but there’s certainly no shortage of fan service to enjoy. Expect to see Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), Finn (John Boyega), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and plenty more along the way. Currently, it’s tracking at an audience score of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Can you watch Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 4K?
Yes, Disney+ will stream The Rise of Skywalker in 4K. In fact, if you look at the list of 4K content on Disney, all nine films in the main lineage will now be available in UHD. So too is Solo: A Star Wars Story and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The TV series The Mandalorian is also available on Disney+ in 4K.
How to watch Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
So, here’s some great news. If you’re new to the Disney+ service, you can watch Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. There is so much Star Wars content on the streaming TV service we doubt you could get through it all, but if The Force is with you, you could give it a shot.
If you sign up now, Disney+ costs €6.99 a month or €69.99 a year. There are no price tiers, so you get 4K, access to offline downloads, four concurrent streams and more within that price. It works on PC/laptop, Mac, iOS and Android devices, and PS4 and Xbox One game consoles. Alternatively, you can view it in your living room via Apple TV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV Stick or Android TV, as well as some Samsung and LG TVs.
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Ken's Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Force Is Strong In This One
by Ken Evans
While I wouldn't call myself a Star Wars fanatic, I am a big fan of the films and mythology Lucas has created. Somehow the existance of any previous animated Star Wars shows escaped me, and I thought this was the first. Luckly a friend of mine brought me up to speed and let me borrow the animated shows, that first aired back in 2003, on DVD. After watching those and loving them, I got really excited to see Star Wars: The Clone Wars on the big screen. Thankfully my excitement was not left entirely unrewarded.
This film roughly fits in between Episode's II and III of the live-action films, in theory. As we come into the story, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are immersed in battle fighting with the Republic to fend off the onslaught of Separatist droid troops. Yoda is trying to reach them to send Anakin on a mission to find Jabba the Hut's kidnapped son in order to gain the Hutt's respect. Finally, Yoda is able to get the message to Anakin while also surprising him with a new Padawan named Ahsoka Tano, much to his dismay. Skywalker, accompanied by his Padawan, leaves Obi-Wan's side to begin the search for Jabba's son, knowing full well that a Separatist trap is probably lurking just around the corner.
Anakin and Ahsoka prepare for a fight in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
I realize that a lot of Star Wars fans will probably watch this and be really picky about the content and the feeling of the film. Since I wouldn't be able to be as picky with the story, I just sat back and enjoyed. The visual look of the film was great. The animation during the battles was smooth and really captured my attention. Some scenes felt very epic as Anakin and Obi-Wan fought and flew over battlefields. I loved the drawing style and colors, which were on par with any animation I have seen recently. My only complaint was that when the characters weren't fighting and just walking, they seemed abnormally slow and a bit jerky. Hardly anything to make a big deal over.
The story was really good but not amazing, now that I look back at it. It didn't really fill in any stuff that I was dying to know about. More than anything I wanted to get deeper into Skywalker's character and his struggle with the dark side. There really wasn't too much about that. Mostly it deals with the battle on Christophsis, Anakin's relationship with his Padawan, and the rescue of Jabba's son. All of these things are pretty cool, but nothing major was revealed or added to the Star Wars mythology.
Obi-Wan Kenobi and a battalion of clones prepare to defend against a droid attack in a scene from Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
There were really only a few things that bothered me about the film. The first, and biggest, problem I had was with Ziro the Hutt, Jabba's gay uncle. Right now I'm having a hard time imagining a more annoying, pointless and useless character. His design, voice and place in the plot were just stupid. The only other thing that bothered me was some of the misplaced humor. Most of it came from the Padawan saying annoying things, such as giving Anakin the nickname of "Skyguy" and so on. For the most, part I could chalk her annoyingness up to her being so young, but I could definitely see how a lot of people wouldn't like her.
For Star Wars fanatics this is going to be a must see. For the average Star Wars fan, which is where I place myself, this should be enjoyable, especially after watching the first series of the 2003 animated television show. Your average moviegoer should still have fun with this because it holds well as a stand-alone film that you can enjoy without knowing much about the Star Wars universe. It is definitely not a film that I would consider a waste of money to see in the theater, but if you have any reservations, just hold off and wait for the Blu-Ray version.
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I skipped out on the midnight show of this, but plan on seein' it in the mornin' tomorrow. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations, as Star Wars is one of my favorite franchises. Episode V is on my top 10!
Will S. (Co Springs) on Aug 15, 2008
Looks AWFUL
Rory on Aug 15, 2008
I'd like to see it, but it isn't exactly a priority of mine. We'll see...
Chris W. (Co. Springs...) on Aug 15, 2008
Pass. This looks like an "Add to Netflix list, I get it when I get it" caliber movie.
William Mize on Aug 15, 2008
If the "Force" was so "strong in this one" why did you only give it a 6.5? Your rating system is quite odd...
The Real Alex on Aug 15, 2008
I too was wondering about the 6.5 rating. But I guess it isn't that low of a rating in the grand scheme of things. I've been hearing some reaalllly bad things about this Ziro guy. Can't wait to see it and judge for myself. 🙂
kevjohn on Aug 15, 2008
Someone actually liked this piece of shit? Oh, and what's the son of Jabba called? Stinky (I'm not lying!). One word which describes this whole prequel mess of Lucas's.
avoidz on Aug 16, 2008
It's official... i'm only ever coming here for news. If you honestly enjoyed ANY of this as any kind of "fan", whether it be small or uber, you're an idiot. You basically just told me you liked the pretty colors and the action. If you had any credibility at all you'd see this for the poorly stitched together TV show it is, and tell everyone to NOT waste there time and wait till it shows on Cartoon Network and TNT in October. This might be the worst movie i've seen all year and you gave it an average rating.... thanks... no please never review anything again.
Kent on Aug 16, 2008
WOW this movie was so wack when i went to go see it. Both me and my little 12 year cousin fell asleep not even half way into the movie. I know its suppose to be part of the star war series but I'll just block this one out of my mind as if it never existed.
Alex on Aug 16, 2008
Really, George Lucas just HAD to reach out and crush my soul one more time with the introduction of a big, gay, purple Hutt. Really? Egh. Of course, him yelling, "It was Dooku!" in his Scarlett O'Hara voice will be quoted by my friends for years to come and we'll get a lot of mileage out of it, so I guess it wasn't all bad.
Simosarus on Aug 16, 2008
You guys have got to realize that Clone Wars was NOT meant to be another film on the same level as any of the 6 original Star Wars movies. It was meant purely 100% to be a kids cartoon that you'd see on Cartoon Network on Saturday mornings... My reaction was spot on with Ken's. It's not a great film, by any means, but I had a really fun time and enjoyed the visuals. I felt like I was watching a cartoon and I brought myself back down to that kid's level to enjoy it. Everyone is expecting it to be the next big Star Wars prequel but that's not its goal or intention! If you don't watch Saturday morning cartoons already, maybe you shouldn't be seeing Clone Wars either!
Alex Billington on Aug 16, 2008
"You guys have got to realize that Clone Wars was NOT meant to be another film on the same level as any of the 6 original Star Wars movies. It was meant purely 100% to be a kids cartoon that you'd see on Cartoon Network on Saturday mornings…" Right, be we GOT THAT already. It's called the Clone Wars animated DVD's, which were very well done for what they were and didn't have all the useless BS you mentioned as negatives in the review of this movies. I'm also probably bias, but I just think the hand-drawn style looked better than the hurky-jerky CG used in this move.
Veggies on Aug 17, 2008
Sorry, but it was not marketd as a kids movie from the get go. It was marketed as a CGI Star Wars movie. George screwed up on this one. 15 million for the weekend is a flop. If he would have made this for us, the fans it would have banked. George has lost his mind, plain and simple.
Obiwopkenobi on Aug 17, 2008
The part I like.... Ive been a Star Wars fan for 31 years. If anyone out there is the true Star Wars fan they always brag they are, then you would have smelled this piece of shit comin from the beginning and never wasted your time or money to go see it. Nor would you be buying up the ridiculous action figures and giving those people behind this embarrassment any profit. Did I see it? Hell no. My point of view comes from people I know complaining about it, people on line complaining about it, complaints about the figures, etc... Nothing but complaints and regret. Just because something has the Star Wars name behind it, does not mean its good. Im sorry but the trailer said it all... a female teenage padawan who speaks with no Jedi respect, a baby Hutt burping green gas????? Come on people.
Holy Sht on Aug 17, 2008
I saw this movie Friday night and I knew what I was getting into. Reviews have been punishingly bad and every insists one should enter with lower expectations. Well, I did and I was STILL let down! It was nothing but cliched sound bites stringing action sequences together. And the cute nicknames? "Snips?" "Sky Guy?" Ugh. Nevermind the nagging thought in the back of your mind that Anakin is going to kill all the Jedi one movie from now. The whole false-drama with "Stinky" the Hutt and needing to get him to a medical freighter only to have his condition reversed after taking a small pill? That's just shitty storytelling no matter which way you slice it. Sure, this movie might be aimed at kids. But they gotta be the dumbest fucking kids on Earth to enjoy this tripe. Sorry, Ken. But this review makes everything you say from here on out suspect. I would give this film A star, if that. An only for the visual style, which, truthfully, doesn't have much going for it beyond a painterly quality. On the big screen, it looks awful!
Tom Brazelton on Aug 17, 2008
U dumbshites this movie was awesome! The Character and was the only things I was looking for really considering the PT{Prequal Trilogy} sucked ass! U get a completely different Anakin and still get the VaDer- esque apperance and know that he'll turn to the dark side. The PT Anakin reminded me of my whiny ass sister and the average whiny popstar you try to avoid. I liked this Anakin and his relationship with Ahsoka. It had wit! Something you miss completely from the PT but yet you get from the OT{Original Trilogy}. The PT was all about who would be the next great politician and nothing to do with jedi or whatever the main concept of the story was. In the PT you don't get to like Padme' that much because she's pretty flat and has almost no character. Ahsoka was comical and witty and had oh wait... oh my god , Character! The Padme' in this installment was way better and is portrayed better as well. I mean come on! The scene in Revenge of the Sith where Anakin throws a fit because he didn't make master was Hideous and made me want to take a bathroom break. In this Installment Anakin is not the whiny brat but he is still your future Vader. I could actually picture him becoming the vader that was in the OT better than the Anakin in the PT. And don't forget Obi! He was also protrayed better but not that much cause I kinda did like him in the PT, The part where he taunts Asajj Ventress was awesome I could actually portray and picturing him doing that. What I don't get thopugh is why in the hell people get brainwashed in to thinking it doesn't have character. ANd also The guy who replyied to this review Holy Shit: Don't bother taliking if you haven't seen it yourself . You have thus proved you are indeed a Jackass. Anyway: The film will recieve a 8.5/10.
SF on Aug 17, 2008
The trailer was enough to make me sure that this animated movie is so low ... I respect almost every 3D films ...but Star wars in such a low poly (Polygon) look ???? !!!! That is shame .... What is beautiful about 3D is having small details no matter if it is CGI for a movie or a full 3D animated film ... seeing the characters with such low poly is enough to understand that this movie it for TV... No matter if it is for children or not ....still low ....What is THAT mean : for children ? What about Ratatouille ? Wall- E ? Finding Nemo ? and of course Happy Feet ? ... they were for children too but they were with more details and have more dynamic than this one .... But I am sure there are some Star Wars fans who will hate me for this but it is the truth accepted or not it is so low 3D work .... and it is shame that such a big - classic - Historical movie appear in such a low look ...
Shero on Aug 18, 2008
I agree with SF! Had a great time watching the movie with my son. He was very excited to watch the clones fighting and Obi Wan in clone armor. Obi Wan is portrayed this way in Karen Traviss' clone wars series. I didn't really like the stupid nicknames, but she is a very young padawan, so it kinda works. Anyways, just my $0.02.
Shocker on Aug 18, 2008
If I ever saw George Lucas I'd punch him in his throat.
Crapola on Aug 18, 2008
This generation's Ewok Adventure.... Nuff said. -Aimed soley at kids while having a conveluted storyline that clashes with the movies. Gennedy's was better but I enjoyed it as new SW material.
jmoney on Aug 20, 2008
You guys drool over anything. I still like your site, though.
Mario Tenorio on Aug 21, 2008
Like many on this page, I am a huge Star Wars fan. We grew up with the original trilogy and since then we've forgiven a lot. The PTs and the more muscular action figures. Every new star wars initiative and event serve only to erode the past glory. It has felt to me that George Lucas was so in awe of what was now technically possible that he allowed that to get in the way of plot and character development. In this new medium, I was hoping that animated didn't mean childish. The green belches from the baby huttlet being one example of the infancy. That said, for a younger generation it was very good. this Annakan was certainly a better actor than the morons that played him in the Pre Trilogies. In short, comparing it to episodes 1-3, it comes out favorably but comparing this to A New Hope onwards and it is simply not good enough. 7 out of 10 if you are under 15. For the rest of us, put Return of the Jedi in the DVD for the 100th time and accept we've had our phenomenon that is Star Wars.
paul Johns on Aug 23, 2008
Hey Alex. Love the site. Read it all the time. Per your take on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, you nailed it on the head in your piece. It is a Saturday morning cartoon and that's precisely the problem (among numerous other things). It has no business playing in theaters. Furthermore, it's an uninspired animated feature and pales in comparison to Genndy Tartakovsky's wonderful shorts from a few years back. I'd gladly pay to see those on the big screen. Even the Ewok t.v. movies knew where they belonged. To fall back on the whole "it's a kid's movie" is a complete cop out. It's also an insult to the intelligence of kids everywhere. Even John Williams wanted no part of this poorly executed rush job. True, everyone has a right to their own opinion, but I have a hard time buying that any true Star Wars fan would speak favorably of this flick. Just because it has the Star Wars name doesn't make it worth recommending. Far from it. As for the kids, I'd suggest taking them to Wall-E or Kung Fu Panda--films that know how to entertain folks of all ages. I think you're giving Star Wars: The Clone Wars far too much credit simply because others are shitting all over it (rightfully so). Still love the site though. Keep up the good work. I've got to go now. I'm going to go watch my Star Wars Holiday Special bootleg. At least it's so bad it offers up some entertainment value. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a mess and I can only hope creative writers and directors will make the upcoming t.v. series more tolerable.
Adam on Aug 24, 2008
Just a bunch of geeks and nerds crapping on about Star Wars and whose "light saber" is the the biggest. LAME. ... zzzzZZZZZzzzz...
Yawn on Aug 31, 2008
Just another boring troll posting a comment bagging Star Wars fans... Zzzzzz.
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Yawn on Sep 1, 2008
Of course, every serious Star Wars fan knows this is BS. And that stupid thing about this being a saturday cartoon? I wouldn't have my son get teached by Lucas about Hutts' sexuality... crap, crap mega-crap, Lucas should try to make money somewhere else, which I doubt, since he can't write one simple plot.
David on Sep 15, 2008
Nothing like the real characters. This is not even close.
peoplemagazine lover on Oct 20, 2008
The fact that George Lucas made this movie just says to me that he's still trying to milk his precious Star Wars for all its worth. It's bad enough he had to soil the SoulCalibur series with Darth Vader, Yoda and the Apprentice from the Force Unleashed, but now THIS? Before I continue I'll let it be known that I am a Star Wars fan and I understand that its a Saturday morning cartoon and all, but - as someone previously mentioned - its already been done, and far better at that. Quite honestly this strikes me as being the Star Wars equivalent of the original Ninja Turtles complete: A complete and total embarassment upon the franchise that quite frankly has no business existing.
soul_reaver265 on Dec 13, 2009
Oops, meant to say "cartoon" when talking of the old Ninja Turtles. My bad.
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While you can stand on a busy underground/metro platform, cheek by jowl with hundreds of other people over many minutes, you can’t go into a church with social distancing, nor can you go into a private business, where there may only be one or two other masked people present.
Private enterprise and religious worship, globalist Great Reset targets.
This article from Christian Concern is linked to below (see Church leaders pursue judicial review over ‘unlawful’ government church closures) but this is noteworthy in that the UK government is breaking its own laws:
122 church leaders from England and Wales have launched an urgent legal challenge of the English and Welsh government’s actions in unilaterally stopping church worship services.
Led by Pastor Ade Omooba MBE and with the support of the Christian Legal Centre, the group’s challenge formally began on Friday as papers were submitted asking a judge to urgently review the lawfulness of the bans.
The independence of the Church to govern its own affairs is guaranteed in the constitution and religious freedom is protected throughout human rights law. Civil governments should not simply be able to declare that churches are shut without providing any real evidence that it absolutely necessary to close them. When church buildings are allowed to be used for secular purposes, but not for religious ones, this is clearly not the case.
Some churches may willingly stop their services. The crucial point is that it’s their decision to make.
Jonathan Hough QC, a leading barrister in the area of public law, is lined up to argue this critical case which we hope will be heard in the coming week.
Churches go Underground
LOCKDOWN SCEPTICS
Regular church-goers are following the example of religious people in Communist China and holding clandestine services.
The Guardian has more:
Minimal information – time, directions – is quietly given with pleas for discretion. Once everyone is assembled in a barn on a remote farm – “away from prying eyes,” says the organiser – it begins.
This is no rave, but an English church service under lockdown, and the organiser is a Protestant pastor. The Christians who will gather illegally in the west of England on Sunday morning – as they have for the past two Sundays – will pray, read from the scriptures, sing hymns and listen to a sermon.
“We’ve been holding clandestine services since this lockdown began,” the pastor told the Observer, speaking on condition of anonymity. “It feels weird for us to act this way. People have said it feels more like an underground church in China.”
“I never thought I’d say this in Britain, but churches are going underground. These are not isolated cases – and the longer it goes on, more churches will join the movement,” said Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, a conservative evangelical group, and a member of the Church of England’s ruling body, the General Synod.
Andrew, a minister at a London church, said: “We’ve carried on as normal [during the current lockdown]. We’re holding a couple of services each Sunday, with about 160 people attending in total.
“We’ve asked people to be discreet. This is not a stunt we’re pulling, we’re not seeking publicity. It was a big decision – I’ve never practised civil disobedience before.”
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The story comes hot on the heels of the closure of bookshop and tea-room – The Mustard Seed – in Gedling, which cited the Magna Carta in its bid to stay open. From the BBC:
The owner of the Mustard Seed in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, had already been fined a total of £17,000 for breaching coronavirus rules, the Council said.
She had argued she had a right under the Magna Carta and “common law” to remain open.
On Friday magistrates in Mansfield granted a closure order.
This means the business has to close immediately. Failure to do so could lead to imprisonment, a fine, or both, according to Gedling Borough Council.
Anyone visiting could face the same punishment
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UK and Ireland Christians take worship ‘underground’ in wake of govt lockdowns
‘The fact that we have to sneak around to worship God, in fear of criminal prosecution, is alarming. But we do what we have to do,’ a pastor said.
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(LifeSiteNews) – Churches across the British Isles are returning to clandestine-style worship in the wake of the U.K. government’s lockdown prohibiting communal worship, as ministers and priests continue to hold services in “answer to a higher authority.”
In the current second national lockdown, communal worship is prohibited by law, and churches are permitted to open only for private prayer. The law was rushed through Parliament in early November by a vote of 516-38.
LifeSiteNews has already reported that during the first weekend of the new restrictions, police entered at least one Catholic church in England on the suspicion that a supposed transgression was taking place.
The Observer reported how worship is returning to a style more recognized and associated with Catholic penal times.
Speaking under condition of anonymity, a Christian pastor noted that he and his community had continued their Sunday ceremonies throughout the current lockdown.
“We’ve been holding clandestine services since this lockdown began. It feels weird for us to act this way. People have said it feels more like an underground church in China,” he told the Observer.
“The fact that we have to sneak around to worship God, in fear of criminal prosecution, is alarming. But we do what we have to do,” he continued.
The minister added,
“As Christians, we want to be the best citizens we can. We don’t want to be disobedient, but we’re being forced into a position where we either have to go with our religious convictions or go against our consciences and beliefs and submit to the state. That’s the situation we’re in.”
The Observer wrote that when speaking to a number of religious leaders across the country, “an increasing number of congregations are breaking the law in order to worship together, an activity banned under current restrictions.”
On November 15, police broke up a service in north London, held by evangelical pastor Regan King, stating that the event was in violation of the law. King had previously told national radio that “Our priority is our fear of God … We serve a greater law.”
According to the Observer, King plans to continue to hold further services, adding that his public example in defense of religious liberty had inspired many others to contact him, with a large number who were ignoring the state ban on religious ceremonies.
Another London-based minister told the Observer that
“We’ve carried on as normal. We’re holding a couple of services each Sunday, with about 160 people attending in total. I don’t believe the government has the authority to tell the church of Jesus Christ that it can’t gather for worship. They have provided no evidence, they just classed us as non-essential. But we believe worship is the most essential thing in life.”
“We answer to a higher authority. When there is a contradiction between the laws of the country and God’s command, the Bible is very clear that God’s command must win out,” the minister added.
Father David Palmer had previously detailed on Twitter how he would continue to provide the sacraments for his congregation during the upcoming lockdown, in a manner somewhat resembling the ingenuity practiced by Catholic clergy during the Elizabethan persecutions. However, Fr. Palmer was banned by his bishop from even saying a private Mass while parish members were in the church praying privately.
More than 120 religious leaders from around England and Wales have issued a legal challenge to the government’s current ban on public religious ceremonies.
Speaking to the Observer, Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, said, “I never thought I’d say this in Britain, but churches are going underground. These are not isolated cases – and the longer it goes on, more churches will join the movement.”
In Wales’ recent lockdown, which closed churches for public worship, members of the New Hope Community Church in Cardiff continued to gather to pray. The result was that Welsh police arrived in a riot van and sent home the 30 people gathered there.
Reverend Wade Mclennan of the church told the BBC that other churches across Wales were also ignoring the ban.
Meanwhile, across the Irish Sea, Father P.J. Hughes in Ireland rejected the unconstitutional ban on public Mass and quietly continued to offer Mass without turning away the parishioners who appeared at the church. In response, police arrived at the church, turning people away and warning Fr. Hughes “that he may be prosecuted for breaching the Covid rules.”
The Irish government is expressly forbidding gatherings for “religious or other reasons” and threatening priests with a fine of €2,500 and/or six months’ imprisonment should they attempt to offer public Mass.
Two other Catholic priests in the southwest part of the country faced a similar response from the police when they attempted to continue the Church’s worship in an underground manner. After being contacted several times by the police, one of the priests was warned that if he continued to offer public Masses, the police would “apply the full rigours of the law.”
Despite the ban, this past Sunday saw several priests across Ireland defy the law and celebrate Mass publicly. In total, dozens of priests in 11 counties offered Mass publicly — the first public Masses since the Irish government closed the churches on October 4.
As new laws prohibiting public worship become more intense and widespread, a priest told LifeSiteNews anonymously, “I think it’s vital that we, priests and religious particularly, be realistic about what is now happening in our own countries and around the world to religious freedom and civil freedom and not to be deterred from the challenges that now face us.”
“We are blessed and sanctified by the blood of so many that have gone before us, and so with continued effort in our interior lives, or a reanimation if it is necessary, we will be able to suffer courageously for Christ and His people,” he continued.
“I think it’s very important for us all to realise that, and not shy away from it. What is being asked of us now is monumental, but so are the graces that were given to the martyrs before us, and will be also be given to us if we but ask for them.”
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Volatile Trading Action for Rexahn Pharmaceuticals as Stock Swings from Gain to Loss
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| Wednesday, 26 February 2014 06:53 (EST)
Shares of Rexahn Pharmaceuticals (RNN) continued to show considerable volatility on Tuesday and Wednesday, making a late run to end Tuesday’s trading session then swinging from positive to negative on Wednesday. This comes only just over two weeks after the lead-up to the company’s presentation at the 16th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference caused big gains followed by a rapid swing to losses.
Late Run, Gap Up, Big Sell-Off
Tuesday’s trading had found Rexahn enjoying a modestly strong day, with shares climbing about 7 percent from $1.11 apiece to $1.19 on strong volume. However, at almost 3:30 EST exactly, the stock started to take off, soaring another 8.4 percent in just an hour with a heavy spike in volume to close at $1.29 for a gain of 16.2 percent on the day.
Speculation in some circles appeared to point to pending news driving gains, and closing above $1.20 appeared to break a psychological barrier for some that had been in place since the stock spiked to close at $1.60 on Jan. 13 before retreating just as rapidly.
After gaining in after-hours trading, shares opened up on Wednesday morning, gapping up almost 4 percent to $1.34 to start the day and climbing as high as $1.40 a share on extremely heavy volume. However, at 11 am, the stock abruptly turned south, shedding value rapidly and bottoming out at $1.21, down 7 percent.
Shares began regaining ground, ultimately getting back to a break-even point of $1.29 at noon.
This small-cap pharma has clearly remained a focal point for traders, speculators, and investors alike as its average daily volume exceeds 15 million shares. However, its strange trading patterns continue to create some consternation given that lack of news stories that could be driving them.
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Clearly, speculation that strong news is around the corner isn’t out of place, with three different cancer drugs currently in clinical trials. What’s more, Roth Capital analyst Joseph Pantginis, Ph.D. noted in his Jan. 9 research report that he believes the company would target a partnership for marketing its lead therapy RX-3117 by mid-2014, providing more fuel to the potential rumor mill.
Pantginis was bullish on the stock, initiating coverage with a buy rating and a $3 price target in January, and stating that he felt Rexahn was a “re-focused, re-tooled company with a clear focus on oncology drug development.”
While the reason for Tuesday’s end-of-day buying spree remain murky, the answer for the strong open, crash, and recovery could be simpler. A quick look at the company’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) shows that the run on Wednesday pushed the company right up to the 70 level, widely acknowledged to be a technical barrier indicating a stock is overbought.
Shares opened above that RSI level and climbed higher prior to the sell-off at 11 am. However, once the stock started to plunge, the RSI levels dropped to 30, recognized as a sign that a stock is oversold. Given that Rexahn is a clear point of interest for traders, and that these basic RSI patterns are simple and easily recognizable, it’s probably unsurprising that the share price started to recover after dipping to that 30 level.
The timing of Rexahn’s big price swings are also curious in just how precise they appear to be. The sell-off that swung the company from a 6.25 percent gain to 5 percent loss in a matter of minutes on Feb. 10 started at exactly 2:30, but this could easily be attributed to the fact that the company’s presentation at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference started at that time.
However, Tuesday and Wednesday’s big swings almost seem too precise to be a coincidence. Tuesday’s big run to end the day started almost exactly at 3:30, and Wednesday’s big sell-off came at 11 am on the nose. While any explanation for this would be pure speculation, and it remains entirely possible that this timing is in fact a coincidence, it wouldn’t be out of the question to consider the possibility that algorithmic trading could be a part of what’s driving these big price shifts. But without any specific news items to point to, and with such heavy volume, a clear explanation for this sort of high-volatility, heavy trading remains elusive.
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Like many organizations adjusting to a changing work environment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, all of the Energy Sciences Network’s (ESnet’s) summer students did their internships remotely this year.
Despite the challenges, ESnet was dedicated to providing a unique opportunity that would enhance each student’s professional development. As their internships draw to a close, we talked with a few of our students about their experiences this summer. Here are their stories.
Zhang Liu
I am currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student, studying telecommunications at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I have a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, so being able to do this internship remotely was nice because I got to stay with my family rather than travel to California alone, but I did miss socializing with some of the other interns.
I chose to work at ESnet this summer because I’ve had some experience working in industry at AT&T Research and I was interested to see what it would be like to work at a national lab. I was also interested in the prospect of maintaining a long-term collaboration between my university and the Lab.
This summer I worked on per-packet telemetry data ingestion/storage for ESnet’s High-Touch project. This project is very interesting because it requires the ingestion system to be able to handle 10 million telemetry messages per second. To develop optimized solutions for such a high data rate, you need a deep understanding of every action in the pipeline. This work aligned perfectly with my own research interests, which include optimizing distributed and networked systems using novel hardware and technologies.
Overall, I think the virtual internship was a great experience. My mentor, Richard Cziva, was very supportive, we had a zoom meeting every week and we chatted almost daily over Slack. He helped me align my objectives/schedules during the internship so that I do a lot in my short period of time. My supervisor Chin Guok and other team members like Bruce Mah, Yatish Kumar and others were all very supportive.
Divneet Kaur
I am currently a freshman at the University of California, San Diego, majoring in computer engineering. This summer at ESnet, my research focused on building a monitoring stack for multiple network data sources. At present, network engineers switch between different network monitoring tools to check various performance statistics of a network. My goal was to build a network monitoring stack that ingests all the metrics from these tools and displays them simultaneously in the form of interactive visualizations such as graphs, single stats, and heatmaps that make it very convenient to monitor a system as a whole.
I was excited to work at Berkeley Lab this summer because it's known for its groundbreaking research in order to solve scientific problems that lead toward the betterment of mankind. I was looking forward to working with and learning from some of the experienced people, as well as contributing towards creating something that will help people. Being my first internship, I was looking forward to working in an office environment and learning skills that would be helpful later on in life, like gaining confidence and valuable lessons from people who are experienced in my field of interest. It would have also been nice to interact with other summer interns and people who work at the lab.
Even though the virtual internship experience was not exactly what an in-person internship would have been, it was not hard to complete my project while working remotely. My mentor, Mariam Kiran, and the members of the DAPHNE team were always available on Slack or on Zoom to clear my questions and to help me with the project I was working on. I also learned a lot while working on my project and gained knowledge from my mentor, other team members, and the workshops organized by Work Development & Education and Computer Science Student Program.
Shan Sun
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside. This summer, I worked on reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm designs for packet-routing problems in dynamic environments. I was working with my mentor Mariam Kiran as part of her research project. It is a very interesting and challenging problem because in the real world the network environment is highly dynamic and hard to model. Therefore, we use the meta RL algorithm, which is a kind of model-free algorithm, to deploy the packets in a dynamic environment. The meta RL algorithm guarantees that the network controller is able to adapt to a new environment quickly.
I’d heard of Berkeley Lab in academia before, it’s a prestigious national lab with an excellent track record and I feel really proud that I got to work here this summer. If I had the opportunity to come back next year, I definitely would.
This is my first summer interning at Berkeley Lab and it would have been nice to be there in person and to meet some of the other interns. But even with the virtual internship, I found that I still got to work with interesting people and on impactful projects.
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13-year-old girls arrested as shocking Stratford video shows teen attacked on train
Fellow passengers rushed to the aid of the victim and tried to intervene shouting: "Leave her alone"
Chris Kitching
Two teens have been arrested
Two 13-year-olds have been arrested after a viral video showed another young girl being attacked on a busy train.
The footage was circulated on Facebook and shows a girl talking on the phone as another hovered over her and threatened her on a Central Line train, which had just pulled out of Stratford station.
She demanded the victim to hand over her phone and, as her friends count down from five, grabbed the teen by the hair pulling her out of her seat.
Fellow passengers rushed to the aid of the victim and tried to intervene shouting: "Leave her alone."
A British Transport Police spokeswoman confirmed that two 13-year-old girls were arrested in connection with the incident and were released under investigation but said no serious injuries were reported.
The video has been shared more than 5,000 times on Facebook, the Mirror Online reports.
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The victim was sat next to her friend at the time of the incident.
In the footage, a group of girls joke and laugh when one gets up and walks out of the camera's view.
She is heard telling the teen: "I’m not in the mood, so can you get off the phone?
“On my mother’s life, I’m not in the mood.”
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She throws her jacket to her friends as they laugh, and adds: “Don’t mess with me.
“Five seconds before I take your phone."
As her friends count down from five, the girl grabs the teen by the hair and drags her out of her seat before there is a scuffle on the floor as a man shouts: "Leave her alone."
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The Brentwood and Epping Forest Community Policing Team wrote on Facebook: "You may have seen a viral video on Facebook over the weekend of an assault on a young lady.
"The video shows the female being assaulted by several other females on the central line.
"Yes, we got them in #EppingForestDistrict.
"All six. Racked, packed and stacked.
"They have been handed over to our buddies in #Btp.
"Holding the line.
"We do not say it often enough, but a huge thank you to the lady that got involved and prevented this incident from escalating. Well done."
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Learning To Be Less Japanese
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Little more than a year since arriving in Japan to run car-window maker Nippon Sheet Glass, Stuart Chambers is heading home. His retreat back to the U.K. is, the 53-year-old Brit and Japanese company claims, for personal reasons, a life choice to spend more time with his family.
Few, if anybody, in Tokyo's business community believe him. More likely, he's another hapless Westerner flummoxed by impenetrable Japanese business practices. When Carlos Ghosn took over at Nissan Motors in 2000, the hope of some and dread of others was that foreigners were poised to takeover managing corporate Japan. It never happened, and although Howard Stringer at Sony has since joined Ghosn, gaijin in charge are rarer than ever.
To finger-snapping Western managers used to telling their underlings what to do and when to do it, Japanese corporations are baffling. A dearth of English-speaking staff is usually the least of their concerns. There are the pitfalls of hierarchy. Even for the Japanese, coping with the diffidence that defines their relationship to one another is daunting. Decision making is a laborious process of meeting after meeting to make sure everyone, from the cafeteria workers on up to the boss, is on board. And although Japan is a nation renowned for teamwork, internal turf wars at its firms are rife. Sony's Stringer refers to the consumer electronics and entertainment group's business divisions as silos.
And then there's the tricky question of who calls the shots. Shareholders own companies, but they must vie for their managers' attention with other stakeholders. Corporations exist not just to make money; they provide jobs, pay taxes, and buy goods and services from loyal vendors.
For Chambers, it may just have been too much to handle. At Nissan, Ghosn succeeded because the near-bankrupt carmaker he took over after years of sloppy management was left with little choice but to swallow a big dose of Western-style cost cutting. For Chambers, there was no such free hand. In 2006, Nippon Sheet Glass bought his then employer Pilkington Glass, giving Chambers the top post in Tokyo last year as it integrated the British company into its operations. Losses over the past several quarters shattered his business plans.
Nippon Sheet's foreign experiment was an important test not just for the glassmaker, but for all corporate Japan as it comes to grips with doing business everywhere from Tokyo to Beijing, Moscow, New York and Rio de Janeiro. Japan's prime minister in waiting, Yukio Hatoyama, and the Democratic Party of Japan, which he led to victory in national elections on Aug. 30, scoff at globalization. Though still vague on specific policies, the group seems intent on dragging the nation back to regulation and protectionism. If they do, it would be a disaster, and corporate bosses in Japan know it. To them the math is simple: Japan's shrinking population equates to fewer customers.
"You have to go where the growth is," Yasuchika Hasegawa, president of drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical, said Friday at a World Economic Forum meeting in Tokyo. His company already generates two-thirds of its revenue outside Japan. The trade-off is that to succeed in the global economy, the Japanese have to be less Japanese. If that means dumping homegrown business practices that deter foreign managers, then corporate Japan shouldn't flinch from doing so, because it's the diversity and talent they bring that will give Japan Inc. the edge it needs to take on Chinese, Korean American or European competitors.
Tim Kelly is Tokyo bureau chief for Forbes. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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Carlton ReidSenior Contributor
I have been writing about transport for 30 years.
Micromobility as imagined by Italian magazine La Domenica del Corriere in December 1962: “Will... [+] cities be like this? Here’s how the problem of traffic in cities could be lightened, if not completely solved: tiny single-seater cars that occupy a small area.”
La Domenica del Corriere
Bicycling isn’t micromobility but add a motor and it is. That’s one of the definitions suggested by tech industry analyst Horace Dediu, founder of the Asymco podcast which majors on the “automobility reformation,” or how driving is being disrupted. Dediu is considered the coiner of the word “micromobility,” using it in the title of a 2017 conference.
At that first Micromobility Summit, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, thirty or so delegates started to wrestle with what exactly was meant by the word.
Two years later and there’s still no fixed definition, but Dediu is hoping to pin that down via a series of probing would-be FAQs he has published online.
Posing questions such as “Does micromobility compete with transit … walking … automobilty?” he also wonders whether there’s sustainable long-term money to be made in micromobility.
Micromobility is roofless short-distance urban transport, and includes Lime-style electric scooters, Jump-style electric bikes and take-your-pick from any number of gyroscopic mono-wheels that now jostle – often illegally – with pedestrians on the sidewalk.
But, posits Dediu, if micromobility continues to be roofless it may eventually whither and die in those cities which experience extremes in weather:
“Historically consumers have shown a preference for more comfort and less effort in transportation … [so] why would consumers adopt what appears to be less comfortable and requiring more effort?” asks Dediu in his FAQ reach-out.
Apple analyst Horace Dediu.
Horace Dediu
Last year, Dediu co-founded The Micromobility Podcast with ex-Uber executive Oliver Bruce. On the first show, at the end of August, Dediu said micromobility “means vehicles which are not cars and yet are motorized.”
He reckoned the “great innovation that will happen in transportation will not come from making big cars better … but it’s what happens at the low end.”
Or, how to get from A to B when A and B are not that far apart, perhaps topping out at three or four kilometers distant.
Micromobility revolutionaries assume there will be dinosaurs who won’t budge and therefore that the roads will continue to be jammed with space-inefficient motor vehicles meant for four or more occupants but which often carry just one.
“Cycling is one part of [micromobility] but the thing about machines that help us move is going to be more focused on motorized machines,” Dediu remarked in that first show.
And despite others thinking “analog” bicycles must be micromobility machines, Dediu is sticking to his original definition.
By email, he told me: “motorization will be the default.” In line with other e-mobility experts, Dediu believes pedal-power is on the wrong side of history.
“Human-Powered Vehicles will be as obsolete and as rare as black-and-white televisions or monochrome cell phones,” he predicts.
Micromobility, for Dediu, is “personal transportation using any vehicles whose gross weight is less than 500 kg.”
And that includes automobiles, if they can be made light enough.
“However I know enough about the car business to say that it’s extremely unlikely we will see under-500kg cars again,” he said.
“The last such vehicle that I could find was the Fiat 500 from 1957.”
Most of the vehicles he expects to be used in the dense, overcrowded cities of the near future will weigh less than 100 kg. Think e-scooters, powered skateboards, and e-bikes – a future of Skips, Spins and Jumps.
“One reason why weight is a good metric is that it is a powerful proxy for many other metrics of impact,” Dediu has written.
More weight equals more energy, more cost, more materials, more production, more wear-and-tear, more isolation, more size, more land, more emissions, more speed, more danger, more exclusion. The tendency is as features creep up, weight creeps up. More weight means more worry that a smaller vehicle will not protect its occupants in case of collision with a bigger vehicle. Buyers buy bigger cars because other people buy bigger cars. Rinse, repeat.”
Motors aren’t the problem, it’s the size of the structure around them that’s the problem. Micromobility is personal transport, stripped to the basics, and, for Dediu, a motor is essential.
Walking is walking, it’s not micromobility. Scooters without motors? Not micromobility.
Wait a moment. Is that fair? Today’s e-scooters owe almost all of their existence to the human-propelled “micro” scooters that were all the rage in the late 1990s.
The craze for adult scooters was – literally – kicked off by Dutch-Swiss banker Wim Ouboter who, in 1996, incorporated a company to market his “micro-scooter,” an adult-sized inline skateboard with foldaway handlebar. The name of this company? Micro Mobility Systems.
By 2001, Ouboter’s company had sold 2 million of these non-motorized scooters, and Chinese copycats sold many millions more.
Even though stunt versions later appeared, Ouboter never meant for Micro Mobility’s scooters to be wheelie-popping toys. He always envisioned them as transport devices, “last-mile” transport solutions. In 1998 he was in talks with Mercedes-Benz, working on a deal to outfit the company’s Smart cars with his scooters. The talks collapsed, but sales of the kick scooters to blue-collar commuters took off anyway.
The popularity was short-lived. Riding one looked a breeze, but it still took effort; effort that was too much for most people.
Lyon France, 2 December 2018 : Lime-S electric scooter of the company Lime in the street in Lyon... [+] France
Adding motors took away the effort, and the scooter – this time with an “e” on the front – has now bounced back. Razor made the first foray in the market in 2003 (Micro Mobility Systems didn’t electrify until 2013) but it was the short-lived dockless bikesharing boom that gave e-scooters their second wind.
E-scooter startup Bird raised $200 million from investors in June last year at a valuation close to $2 billion. And, according to a McKinsey analysis, $5.7 billion has been sunk into micromobility start-ups over the last four years, which includes the money lost by those investing in Chinese dockless bicycle start-ups Ofo and Mobike.
“Micromobility could theoretically encompass all passenger trips of less than 8 kilometers, which account for as much as 50 to 60% of today's total passenger miles traveled in China, the European Union, and the United States,” states the McKinsey report.
Micro mobility started in the 1990s with the Micro scooter? Yes, but adult scooters with foldaway... [+] handlebars have been kicking around since at least 1932 when H. F. Shepherd was granted this patent, #1,890,755.
Google Patents
However, the report estimates that micromobility will “cannibalize” only about 8 to 15% of this theoretical market because scooters – even motorized ones – suffer from the problems also identified by Dediu, including “weather conditions, age fit, and micromobility’s lower presence in rural areas.”
While scooters – “e” or otherwise – wax and wane, the popularity of e-bikes is on the rise. Some – such as Uber-owned Jump – are shared, but most are personally owned. There are now more e-bikes sold in The Netherlands than non-electric bikes.
Not all markets are so advanced, and the non-motorized bicycle continues – for now at least – to be the world’s most popular short-distance wheeled transport device even if it remains excluded from Dediu’s definition of micromobility.
Horace Didiu is the author of Micromobility: The First Year, a book currently raising funds on Kickstarter. It has exceeded its $7,500 goal with eight days left on the clock.
Postscript: Micro Mobility Systems is planning to launch an automobile that would fit within Didiu’s micromobility definition: the Microlino weighs 435kg.
I was Press Gazette's Transport Journalist of the Year, 2018. I'm also an historian – my most recent books include "Roads Were Not Built for Cars" and "Bike Boom", both
I was Press Gazette's Transport Journalist of the Year, 2018. I'm also an historian – my most recent books include "Roads Were Not Built for Cars" and "Bike Boom", both published by Island Press, Washington, D.C.
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FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, Chicago White Sox shortstop Omar Vizquel watches practice on an adjacent field during baseball spring training practice in Glendale, Ariz. Longtime major league shortstop Omar Vizquel is denying accusations of domestic abuse made by his wife after she described two alleged acts of physical violence by the 11-time Gold Glove winner in a story published by The Athletic. Blanca Vizquel, 36, said her 53-year-old husband first assaulted her in 2011, three years before they married, and again in 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
Longtime major league shortstop Omar Vizquel denied accusations of domestic abuse made by his wife after she described two alleged acts of physical violence by the 11-time Gold Glove winner in a story published Wednesday by The Athletic.
Blanca Vizquel, 36, said her 53-year-old husband first assaulted her in 2011, three years before they married, and again in 2016. She described another heated dispute with him last August, which she said prompted her to leave him and file for divorce. She also spoke of the allegations in a video on her Instagram posted Oct. 7, saying in Spanish that “no one deserves to have violence against them.”
Omar Vizquel said in a statement on Twitter that he cheated on Blanca and apologized for the “pain my indiscretions may have caused,” but he denied ever abusing her.
“Let me be clear and unequivocal,” he said. “I have never hit or been violent towards my wife, Blanca. Any accusation to the contrary is false.”
Vizquel was taken into police custody in Sammamish, Washington, in 2016 after an incident at the couple’s home, The Athletic said. Blanca Vizquel told police her husband pushed her over, injuring her shin and breaking several finger nails. She later asked prosecutors to drop charges against her husband, but she told The Athletic she did so only after Omar Vizquel threatened her with financial repercussions.
Blanca Vizquel also described a 2011 incident when Omar Vizquel allegedly strangled her.
Major League Baseball is investigating the 2016 arrest and has spoken to Blanca. The league is also looking into a 2019 clubhouse incident while Vizquel was managing the Double-A Birmingham Barons in the Chicago White Sox system.
Vizquel was set to manage the Toros de Tijuana in the Mexican League in 2020 before the league canceled its season due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Vizquel, from Caracas, Venezuela, has been gaining support on the Hall of Fame ballot, getting 52.6% of the required 75% needed for enshrinement in the last round of voting. The three-time All-Star was considered the top defender at his position through much of his 24-year career, which ended in 2012 after time with Seattle, Cleveland, San Francisco, Texas, the Chicago White Sox and Toronto.
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Author: STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer
Published: 4:58 AM EST January 8, 2021
Updated: 4:58 AM EST January 8, 2021
TOKYO, Japan — A senior member of the International Olympic Committee has said he “can’t be certain” the postponed Tokyo Olympics will open in just over six months because of the surging pandemic in Japan and elsewhere.
The comments by Canadian IOC member Richard Pound to British broadcaster the BBC came as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency on Thursday for Tokyo and surrounding prefectures.
“I can’t be certain because the ongoing elephant in the room would be the surges in the virus,“ Pound said speaking about the future of the Tokyo Games.
Japan's emergency order, which is largely voluntary, will be in force until the first week of February.
Tokyo reported a record of 2,447 new cases on Thursday, a 50% increase from the previous day — which was also a record day. Japan has attributed over 3,500 deaths to COVID-19, relatively low for a country of 126 million.
It's crunch time for Tokyo. Organizers say the Olympics will take place, but they are not expected to reveal concrete plans until spring. That's about the same time the torch relay begins on March 25 with 10,000 runners crisscrossing the country for four months leading to the opening ceremony on July 23.
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Pound also hinted athletes should be a high priority for a vaccine because they serve as “role models.” Pound’s comments seem to contradict IOC President Thomas Bach.
Bach said in a visit to Tokyo in November that athletes should be encouraged to get a vaccine, but would not be required to. He also indicated they should not be a priority. Bach said that nurses, doctors and health care workers should be first in line for a vaccine, ahead of healthy, young athletes.
“Athletes are important role models, and by taking the vaccine they can send a powerful message that vaccination is not only about personal health, but also about solidarity and consideration for the well being of others in their communities," Pound said.
Pound went further in a separate interview with British broadcaster Sky News. He said giving athletes priority might be “the most realistic way of going ahead.”
FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo, workers stand at the bottom of the Olympic rings at Tokyo's Odaiba district. Just two months after the unprecedented postponement. Chief Executive Toshiro Muto was asked Thursday, May 28, 2020 about progress rescheduling next year's Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
“In Canada where we might have 300 or 400 athletes — to take 300 or 400 vaccines out of several million in order to have Canada represented at international even of this stature, character and level — I don't think there would be any kind of public outcry about that,”he said.
Reports suggest that the vaccine rollout in Japan is likely to be slowed by the need for local clinical trials. Some vaccines might not be readily available until May, although Suga said some would be ready in February.
The Japanese public is becoming skeptical. A poll of 1,200 people last month by national broadcaster NHK showed 63% favored another postponement or cancellation.
The IOC has said the Olympics, first delayed by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, will not be postponed again and would be canceled this time.
The budget for the Tokyo Olympics is also soaring. The new official budget is $15.4 billion, which is $2.8 billion above the previous budget. The new costs are from the delay.
Several audits by the Japanese government have said the costs are closer to at least $25 billion. The University of Oxford in a study published four months ago said these are the most expensive Summer Olympics on record. This was before the cost of the delay was added.
All but $6.7 billion of Olympic funding is public money.
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Foreign policy fights a sign of what's to come in 2016?
Obama battles his own party while Republican heavyweights face off on the border
This is a rush transcript from "Journal Editorial Report," July 26, 2014. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
PAUL GIGOT, HOST: This week on the "Journal Editorial Report," fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine. Two more fighter jets shot out of the sky. Putin holds firm. The White House talks new sanctions. So what does it all mean for the future of U.S./Russia relations?
Plus, the debate is on. Texas Governor Rick Perry and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul square off on foreign policy. If this is round one, who's left standing in 2016?
And lost and now found -- maybe. The IRS chief says tapes that could contain Lois Lerner's emails are now in the hands of investigators. So what's on them? And will officials finally fess up?
Welcome to the "Journal Editorial Report." I'm Paul Gigot.
The Russian-backed rebels accused of killing 298 innocent people on a commercial airliner are not backing down. The separatists say they shot two Ukrainian fighter jets out of the sky Wednesday, not far from where the doomed Malaysia Airlines jet went down. Russian President Vladimir Putin is promising help, but says there are limits. Here at home, President Obama is taking a lot of heat for not being tough enough. So is Putin playing us?
Wall Street Journal deputy editor, Dan Henninger; and editorial board member, Matt Kaminski, join me with more.
So, Matt, a lot of people hoped -- I'm not saying they expected -- but they hoped that the Malaysia Airlines shoot-down might stop the war in Ukraine. It hasn't worked out that way.
MATT KAMINSKI, EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: No. I mean, it was a very big event for us, for the world that was really forced to wake up to the conflict. But unfortunately, it was actually not that big of an event and didn't really change the calculus either for the Ukrainians, who are trying to defeat essentially foreign troops --
GIGOT: On their soil.
KAMINSKI: -- on their soil and trying to defend their country against Russia, nor did it change Putin's calculus.
GIGOT: Why wouldn't it change Putin's calculus? He's now been exposed in most of the world. You saw the headlines in the London tabloids, around the world, essentially putting the burden, the blame on Putin. Why hasn't he shifted his calculus?
KAMINSKI: Because I think something important happened earlier this month in the weeks before the shoot-down when both we and the Europeans threatened sanctions and then didn't move to impose sanctions on Putin. Putin didn't think we were serious. But Putin also saw the Ukrainian government, the Ukrainian military doing a lot better to defeat the rebels. So Putin decided in early July to send far more sophisticated weapons, including --
GIGOT: Including anti-aircraft --
KAMINSKI: Exactly. But tanks. He's been shelling Ukrainian territory from Russia for weeks, which the U.S. has finally come out and stated as fact this week, that we have also picked this up.
GIGOT: And he's sending heavy weapons now, since the airliner shoot- down over the border.
KAMINSKI: Throughout, yes, exactly. Nothing's stopped. The flow has been kept going. But the important thing for Putin, I think, is to realize that Putin has a choice. He is -- he cannot -- I think he has a choice, will he let these rebels lose, or will he do everything to make them succeed? But now he has to do a lot more because the Ukrainian military is getting its act together.
DAN HENNINGER, COLUMNIST & DEPUTY EDITOR: Well, I think we should the goal here. Vladimir Putin does have a strategic goal here.
GIGOT: What is it?
HENNINGER: To absorb Ukraine towards the Russian sphere.
GIGOT: Pull it back and make sure it doesn't join the West.
HENNINGER: Make sure it doesn't join the West. And this is something Russian leaders have tried to do for virtually 60 years. He has a goal and he's pursuing it. And I think he understands that the West at this point is not going to push back against him. We have gone back many times on this program to Obama's Syrian red line where he told Bashar al Assad that if they didn't stop using -- then he pulled back from that. This week, on Monday, he stood in the White House lawn and said that if Vladimir Putin didn't understand that these separatists were -- this is after the shoot- down.
GIGOT: Right, sure.
HENNINGER: After the shoot-down --
GIGOT: Holding them responsible.
HENNINGER: After the shoot-down of the Malaysia Airline. Holding them responsible. But he said if he did not control these separatists, who were now a threat to the broader world community, as Obama put it, there will be costs. This was another red line. And Putin has already had experience with those red lines.
GIGOT: I want to go back to what Putin is doing in Russia, and saying in Russia, the Kremlin media because it's really an alternative universe from what we're reading and what the rest of the world is reading. They're blaming Ukraine and they're blaming the United States for shooting down the jet.
KAMINSKI: They're raising all kinds of alternative theories. One of them is that they were aiming for Putin's plane that was coming back from Latin America that was nearby. That it may have been Ukrainian fighters who were shooting jets out of their own air space for reasons that are unclear.
But the important thing for us is that Putin has boxed himself in in Russia itself. He has told a completely alternative version of essentially global reality of what's happening in Ukraine.
GIGOT: For years.
KAMINSKI: For years, but especially since the Ukrainian revolution was such a humiliation for him. His crony was toppled in February. A mass movement for freedom, for democracy. The Ukrainians did it on their own. The West didn't really help in any way. So Putin is trying to explain these are fascists, these are people who hate Russians.
HENNINGER: But, Matt, by all evidence, the Russian population is buying it.
KAMINSKI: Because they --
HENNINGER: Even the intelligencia is signing on to it.
KAMINSKI: Well, a lot of them are actually leaving Russia. The people still in Russia do live in a very closed space. They don't have access to other sources of information.
GIGOT: When you lie to your own people so systematically, that's how you can take a country to war.
HENNINGER: Yeah.
GIGOT: Because you back yourself into a corner and you end up having to strike out at the world.
Now, Dan, I talked to a Senator who went to the White House and said the White House was telling them, we're really upset with the Europeans, the Western Europeans. They're doing nothing about Putin. As if they're the people who are supposed to lead in resisting Putin. What do you think of that?
HENNINGER: Well, I think it is feckless. The Europeans are --
GIGOT: The Europeans are feckless?
HENNINGER: Well, I think both the White House and -- look, the Europeans are simply not going to lead.
GIGOT: They're Europeans.
HENNINGER: Look -- no, Germany. Germany, after two world wars, it's simply never going to take the initiative. You talk to Germans and they'll tell you there is no possibility that Germany is going to lead in a situation that might lead to more war. The French, the French are selling a missile-class warship to Russia.
GIGOT: Unbelievable.
HENNINGER: And Hollande says he will not back down on that. So you have a mess over there. The only way anything will happen is if the United States -- if Barack Obama sends his secretary of state, instead of sending him to Gaza, sends him to Brussels and comes with a plan to impose sanctions on Russia.
HENNINGER: But unless the U.S. leads, it is not going to happen.
GIGOT: -- Ukraine. And so this is part of a strategy to isolate Putin, raise the costs economically, and really put the pressure on.
OK, gentlemen, we've got to go. Thank you. I get the last word this week.
When we come back, a foreign policy fight on both sides of the political aisle. Could 2016 be on the line?
GIGOT: President Obama's approval ratings are suffering from multiple crises at home and especially overseas. A new FOX News poll shows 56 percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of foreign policy. But he's not the only one getting flack for his stance on all things abroad. Disapproval is crossing party lines. Texas Governor Rick Perry and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul are trading blows over the growing threat from ISIS and what the U.S. should do about it in Iraq. Perry and Paul are considered early contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. So is this conflict a preview of 2016?
Wall Street Journal deputy editor, Dan Henninger, and editorial board member, Matt Kaminski, are back with us.
So, Dan, I want you to explain a paradox for me. On the one hand, you heard Barack Obama's approval ratings way down on foreign policy. Yet, if you ask the American public what to do about specific cases, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, always say, don't intervene, don't get involved. Yet Obama is being punished because of his detachment on foreign policy. How do you explain that seeming contradiction?
HENNINGER: I think the explanation is pretty straightforward, Paul. They don't want to get involved because they've been spending the past five years watching Barack Obama basically not handle foreign policy. I mean, what you're suggesting is that, if we were to commit to Ukraine or to the Middle East, would you want to follow Barack Obama? And if he's such an uncertain trumpet, I think, unfortunately, it's a very rational decision on the part of the American people to want to step back at this point. I mean, you're talking about presidential leadership.
GIGOT: But is that fair? Aren't they also tired of Iraq and tired of Afghanistan after a decade?
HENNINGER: You know, Paul one poll that jumped out at me is the Islamic State in Iraq took over a third of Iraq in seven days. The Washington Post asked people, should we do something? 44 percent said we should commit air strikes against them, 59 percent of Republicans said we should and 44 percent of Democrats said we should hit ISIS. I think there is still an instinct on the part of American people when they see a serious problem to act if they are properly led. But it is not the job of the American people to create American foreign policy. That job falls to the White House.
GIGOT: I would also put it a little differently, Matt. President Obama spent five years telling the American people there are really two options on foreign policy. One is you intervene militarily full force, like Iraq and Afghanistan, or you do nothing.
With all of the things you can do in between, like forging alliances, like arming surrogates, for example, in Syria, like putting together coalitions, like economic and diplomatic pressure, that sort of thing he hasn't explained adequately to the public about -- and about U.S. interests in the world.
KAMINSKI: Also, remember how he won this office. He won as the anti- war president and anti-Iraq president. The message didn't change two years ago when he beat Mitt Romney. So he himself has been so stuck in 2008 in this sort of endless loop. I think there's a legitimate point about war fatigue. It took us 20 years to get over Vietnam and that handicapped us from doing anything in the Balkans in the '90s. But I think what people are seeing now and how where the mood is shifting is they're seeing it's a very mad, mad world out there or some say a "Mad Max" world.
KAMINSKI: Sort of instability all over the place. And things are not going well. That's why he has such low marks for foreign policy. I think Americans see that things are going terribly in a terrible direction and more terrible things will keep happening. That's why you will have --
GIGOT: This undercurrent of --
KAMINSKI: -- of activist presidents and --
GIGOT: Well, let's talk about that alternative. The Republican debate on foreign policy, Rick Perry versus Rand Paul. Rand Paul has, I think, noninterventionist instincts, to put it kindly, some would say isolationist. That's the world he comes out of, with the exception perhaps of Israel. Rick Perry saying, you can't do that. What do you make of this debate?
HENNINGER: I think the interesting figure here is Rick Perry. I mean, I hate to say it, but I think if the isolationism were real, Rick Perry would be pedaling it.
GIGOT: Why do you say that?
HENNINGER: Political ambitions has excuses.
GIGOT: You mean if the real sentiment of the American people were isolationists, he would be playing to it?
HENNINGER: Yes. Rick Perry is a politician. I think if he thought it was real that he would be doing it.
And as far as Rand Paul goes, this is a guy who is basically a rookie running for the presidency of the United States. He has to differentiate himself. And if you look at his campaign, he's been sort of putting together his own coalition of the ascendant (ph), as they say about Obama. It's techies, it's urban sophisticates, it's isolationists. He's got a program for minorities now. He's running his own campaign. And the isolationist strain is part of that. But I do not think it reflects sentiment inside the Republican Party.
GIGOT: Who do you think has the better pulse on the mood within the Republican Party?
KAMINSKI: I think I agree with Dan that Rick Perry reflects more the mainstream view in the Republican Party and probably the country as well. Because Rand Paul, like his dad, is an isolationist. But what is very telling, Hillary Clinton is running a more hawkish pseudo campaign --
KAMINSKI: -- on foreign policy. She's running to the right of Obama and Rand Paul is running to the left of Obama. I'm not sure there's -- on foreign policy.
GIGOT: Where is she running to the right of Obama? Where has she said, look, I disagree with the president? Because she's associated with his policy.
KAMINSKI: No, but she disagreed with the Syria policy, that she was pushing for the U.S. to arm the rebels in the summer of 2012.
KAMINSKI: She has always sounded a bit more hawkish than Barack Obama. I think that's very telling. From the moment she left office, there were some select leaks about, you know, positions she took inside the administration.
GIGOT: Quick question, Matt. If she gets the Democratic nomination and Rand Paul gets the Republican nomination, will she be the more hawkish candidate?
KAMINSKI: Oh, without a doubt.
GIGOT: Without a doubt?
HENNINGER: I think she has to watch her left. The left is going to want her to support Obama's left wing foreign policy. And if she doesn't, I think they'll pull back from her. She's got a dilemma.
GIGOT: All right, guys, thanks.
When we come back, could there be a break in the IRS targeting probe? New details on how backup tapes may lead investigators to Lois Lerner's infamous missing emails.
REP. DARRELL ISSA, R-CALIF., CHAIRMAN, HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE: You asked us to believe that your very special experts couldn't save one piece of data from this drive or one just like it, correct?
JOHN KOSKINEN, IRA COMMISSIONER: That's what I was advised, yes.
ISSA: The American people don't believe that. You realize, that the idea that we can recover the last 17 or 18 seconds from "Challenger" exploding above our atmosphere, falling to the sea, and being left under the sea for a year, that we could recover the voice from that, makes people wonder why a product that simply came in and out of the office with Lois Lerner every day, suddenly, not one piece of data could be recovered.
GIGOT: That's Congressman Darrell Issa grilling IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on Capitol Hill this week. At the same hearing, Koskinen also testified that investigators have found backup tapes in the Lois Lerner email probe. So those lost emails may not be so lost after all.
We're back with Dan Henninger. And "Wall Street Journal" Washington columnist, Kim Strassel, also joins us.
So, Kim, to paraphrase Vince Lombardi in a different context, what in the heck is going on around here?
KIM STRASSEL, COLUMNIST: So this is crazy, Paul. About 10 days ago, congressional investigators got a tip from a guy who works in the IRS counsel's office. He was giving private testimony and said, well, we may have some tape after all and they might have Lois Lerner's emails. Koskinen, who we just heard, in fact, confirmed that, indeed, they look as though there may be some backup tapes and, indeed, her emails may be on it.
Now, here's what interesting about this. He also acknowledged this has come out of the fact that the treasury inspector general is conducting yet another investigation. He was the guy who blew the whistle on IRS targeting in the first place. And it appears these tapes have only been found as a result of his investigation. This is the same IRS who, only a month ago said, without a doubt, these tapes are all gone. There's no way we can --
GIGOT: OK, so given --
STRASSEL: So now they've had to reverse themselves.
GIGOT: OK, so given that, how are we going to find out what is the real truth here? Who is going to be the person who is responsible for going in and saying, yes, we have them or, no, we don't. Or are we going to have to rely on the word of the IRS again --
STRASSEL: Yes.
GIGOT: -- and then we'll be back here six months later saying, sorry, can't find them again.
STRASSEL: That is the billion-dollar question. Here's the problem. As I said, it looks as though this is coming out of a treasury inspector general investigation. He is not obliged to make public anything he does until he puts together a report. Now, he has told a judge here that he's got 11 people working on this investigation. But this is all happening behind the scenes.
Meanwhile, the IRS is using that special inspector investigation as an excuse to not tell Congress things, saying, look, we don't want to mess with the inspector general's investigation. So, you know, now the other question is whether or not you shouldn't have a court appoint a forensic investigator to look at this.
GIGOT: Let me ask you that. There are some civil lawsuits that are going -- moving forward, separate from these probes that you were talking about. And judges have asked the IRS to explain the missing emails. Is Judge Reggie Walton, for example, in Washington, does he have the capacity to appoint, say, a forensic expert who could go in and do his own investigation of what happened?
STRASSEL: He absolutely does. In fact, that's the question that's facing him right now. Last Friday, the IRS filed a declaration with him giving him a bit of bland information about the history supposedly of what happened to the tapes and to the hard drive.
STRASSEL: He now has to decide whether or not that answer is adequate and whether or not he wants to appoint a forensic investigator. Let's hope he does, Paul, because I think that will be one of the only ways we actually get some public information about what's happening at the IRS.
GIGOT: So here you have the tax agency of the United States --
GIGOT: -- which is responsible for handling confidential tax records, and they can't keep track of the most basic emails, hard drives? I mean, something wrong with this picture?
HENNINGER: Something is tremendously wrong with this picture, Paul. Just set aside the issue of the investigation of the conservative groups. I think, to the average American taxpayer, the question here is whether the Internal Revenue Service, which -- is guilty of frightening incompetence. I mean, incompetence that's mind-boggling to anybody who works in the private workplace or whether something more maligned is going on here. And as Kim suggests, the only way we're going to find out is if Judge Walton appoints an independent forensics expert to get into that agency and find out what their problem is. It cannot go on like this.
GIGOT: Kim, is this part of a larger problem of just data handling and transparency inside this administration? You've been following this issue as closely as anyone.
STRASSEL: This is an administration that claimed it would be the most transparent in history. And we have disappearing hard drives and missing emails everywhere. It's not just the IRS. You know, Congress was also told recently they're looking into, for instance, the EPA and a guy who is central to their EPA investigation, they're looking into the Pebble Mine veto --
GIGOT: In Alaska --
STRASSEL: -- in Alaska.
STRASSEL: And one of the guys who they're most interested in, who seems to encouraged the agency, the EPA to take this route, guess what? His hard drive crashed, too.
STRASSEL: Yeah, it's amazing.
GIGOT: Kim, thanks so much. We'll keep following this for folks.
We have to take one more break. When we come back, "Hits and Misses" of the week.
GIGOT: Time now for "Hits and Misses" of the week.
Kim, start with you.
STRASSEL: A hit to Republican voters who are now in the final stages of their primary season and have managed to get there without once devolving into the ugly and debilitating civil war that Democrats and the media were rooting for. We saw that again in Georgia this week when they picked another very strong candidate for the Senate, David Perdue. He joins a slate of nominees that are going to position the party, give them their best shot of actually taking back the Senate and doing something about this presidency in a long time. It didn't have to be this way. And Republican voters look like they're focused.
GIGOT: OK, Kim.
HENNINGER: Paul, I'm giving a miss to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and California A.G. Kamalla Harris. Both are trying to force nonprofit groups to identify their private donors if they wish to raise money in those states. Mr. Schneiderman claims he'll keep the donor names confidential, but it's impossible to believe. This looks like another effort to go after conservative groups.
Matt?
KAMINSKI: Well, here's a miss to a mayor of a town in Holland who said this week that Maria Putin should be expelled from the Netherlands after the downing of the plane in which over 100 Dutch people died. Now Maria Putin happens to be Vladimir Putin's daughter and she happens to live there. Like many Russians, she is voting with her feet and choosing to live abroad. And it's the only way to vote in Russia these days.
GIGOT: Getting out of town. All right.
That's it for this week's show. Thanks to my panel. Thanks to all of you in particular for watching. I'm Paul Gigot. Hope to see you right here next week.
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Adjustable Oral Airway Devices, And Adjustable Oral Airway Kits
Some embodiments include adjustable oral airway devices. The devices may contain a bite block, a tongue deflector extending through the bite block, and at least one locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block. Some embodiments include adjustable oral airway kits. Such kits may contain a bite block, a tongue deflector configured to extend within an opening in the bite block, and at least one locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block.
Ogilvie, Daniel (Spokane, WA, US)
Zawadzka, Beata (Spokane, WA, US)
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PHILIPS, BRADLEY H
Wells St. John P.S. (Spokane, WA, US)
I/we claim:
1. An adjustable oral airway device, comprising: a bite block; the bite block having an opening extending therethrough, and having a longitudinal dimension along the opening; a tongue deflector extending within the opening through the bite block; the tongue deflector being slideably engaged within the bite block; the tongue deflector being a strip of material and comprising a straight region and a curved region; the straight region being at least as long as the longitudinal dimension of the bite block; and at least one locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block and along the longitudinal dimension of the opening.
2. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 1 wherein: the bite block has a floor beneath the opening, a top over the opening, and a pair of opposing sides extending from the floor to the top along sides of the opening; the opening has a height from the floor of the bite block to the top of the bite block, and comprises a lower slot region and an upper cannula-receiving region; the tongue deflector is along the floor of the bite block and within the slot region of the opening; and the cannula-receiving region of the opening is over the tongue deflector.
3. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 2 wherein the cannula-receiving region is at least three-times as wide as it is tall.
4. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 1 wherein the tongue deflector is a strip of pliable material.
5. The adjustable oral airway of claim 1 wherein the tongue deflector is a strip of polypropylene.
6. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 1 wherein the locking mechanism includes two or more ridges in a floor of the bite block adjacent the opening, and includes at least one deflectable protuberance within the straight region of the tongue deflector; the deflectable protuberance being configured to lock against the ridges to releasably retain the tongue deflector in said one of the predetermined positions.
7. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 6 wherein the ridges are edges of cavities formed in the floor of the bite block, the cavities having “L” shapes with a lower base regions and an upper stem regions; and wherein the deflectable protuberance has an “L” shape complementary to the “L” shapes of the cavities and releasably seating within the cavities.
8. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 1 wherein the locking mechanism includes two or more cavities in a side of the bite block adjacent the opening, and includes at least one deflectable protuberance along a side of the tongue deflector; the deflectable protuberance being configured to seat within the cavities to releasably retain the tongue deflector in said one of the predetermined positions.
9. An adjustable oral airway device, comprising: a bite block portion; a tongue deflector portion extending through the bite block portion and being slideably engaged within the bite block portion; the tongue deflector portion including a curved region extending outwardly of the bite block portion; at least one locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector portion in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block portion; and a cannula-receiving region extending through the bite-block portion and along the tongue deflector portion.
10. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 9 wherein the cannula-receiving region has a height extending from the tongue deflector portion to the bite block portion, and has a width extending orthogonally to the height, and wherein the cannula-receiving region is at least three-times as wide as it is tall.
11. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 9 wherein the tongue deflector portion extends within a slot in the bite block portion.
12. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 9 wherein the locking mechanism includes two or more ridges in a floor of the bite block portion, and includes at least one deflectable protuberance within the tongue deflector portion; the deflectable protuberance being configured to lock against the ridges to releasably retain the tongue deflector portion in said one of the predetermined positions.
13. The adjustable oral airway device of claim 1 wherein the locking mechanism includes two or more cavities in a side of the bite block portion, and includes at least one deflectable protuberance along a side of the tongue deflector portion; the deflectable protuberance being configured to seat within the cavities to releasably retain the tongue deflector portion in said one of the predetermined positions.
14. An adjustable oral airway kit, comprising: a bite block; the bite block having an opening extending therethrough, and having a longitudinal dimension along the opening; a tongue deflector configured to extend within the opening through the bite block; the tongue deflector being configured to be slideably engaged within the bite block; the tongue deflector being a strip of material and comprising a straight region and a curved region; the straight region being at least as long as the longitudinal dimension of the bite block; and the tongue deflector and bite block together comprising at least one locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block and along the longitudinal dimension of the opening.
15. The kit of claim 14 wherein the tongue deflector is a strip of pliable material.
16. The kit of claim 14 wherein the tongue deflector comprises a loop at an end of the straight region.
17. The kit of claim 14 wherein the tongue deflector comprises two or more markings along the straight region to indicate which of the predetermined positions the tongue deflector is engaged in.
18. The kit of claim 14 further including a headband configured to be releasably retained to the bite block.
19. The kit of claim 14 wherein the bite block includes a planar surface around the opening, and has a pair of receptacles extending through said planar surface on opposing sides of the opening; each receptacle including a wide region joined to a narrow slot region; the kit further including a headband having a pair of ends; the ends have pins associated therewith; the pins having narrow stems extending to wide heads; the heads being configured to pass through the wide regions of the receptacles, but not through the slot regions of the receptacles; the pins and receptacles being configured together to releasably retain the headband to the bite block.
20. The kit of claim 14 wherein the locking mechanism includes two or more ridges in a floor of the bite block adjacent the opening, and includes at least one deflectable protuberance within the straight region of the tongue deflector; the deflectable protuberance being configured to lock against the ridges to releasably retain the tongue deflector in said one of the predetermined positions.
21. The kit of claim 14 wherein the locking mechanism includes two or more cavities in a side of the bite block adjacent the opening, and includes at least one deflectable protuberance along a side of the tongue deflector; the deflectable protuberance being configured to seat within the cavities to releasably retain the tongue deflector in said one of the predetermined positions.
RELATED PATENT DATA
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61/106,875, which was filed Oct. 20, 2008.
Adjustable oral airway devices, and adjustable oral airway kits.
Breathing difficulties may occur from severe trauma (such as trauma that may result from a vehicular crash), medical conditions, drug reactions, smoke inhalation, etc. Professional medical emergency response personnel (for instance, paramedics, medevac crews, firefighters, etc.) are thus trained to provide breathing assistance to injured persons. The breathing assistance may include ventilation and oxygenation (with oxygenation comprising administration of oxygen-enriched gas mixtures).
The administration of the ventilation and oxygenation may involve placement of a mask over the injured person's mouth, and/or insertion of a cannula into the injured person's mouth. An oral airway device is often placed in an injured person's mouth prior to utilization of the mask and/or cannula to prevent the soft tissues of the oropharynx (i.e., the part of the throat at the back of the mouth) from collapsing into and obstructing the airway. This can be particularly important if the injured person is unconscious, or in danger of becoming unconscious.
Commercially available oral airway devices often comprise a region that rests between the top and bottom teeth, together with a region having a distal curve (i.e., the blade) to provide support along the back of the palate. The region resting between the teeth may be configured to prevent clenching of the teeth on the tongue, as well as to prevent clenching of the teeth on medical structures (such as, for example, an endotracheal tube, a suction catheter, a fiberoptic laryngoscope, etc.) which may be passed into the oropharynx while the oral airway device is in place.
A problem for medical emergency response personal (e.g., so-called “first responders”) is to find an appropriately sized oral airway device for the injured person (or to find appropriately-sized devices for more than one injured person if multiple injured persons are present at a site). If the wrong sized oral airway device is inserted into a person, it may fail to restrain soft tissues (if it is too small for a person's mouth and oropharynx), or may gag and/or choke the person (if it is too large for the person's mouth and oropharynx). Presently, medical emergency response personnel may carry a wide selection of oral airway device sizes and shapes in order to be adequately prepared for numerous different sizes of injured persons. However, stocking of a selection of different sizes of oral airway devices consumes valuable space in a tool kit. It is desired to develop improved oral airway devices that could be used for persons of different sizes, so that a single device could substitute for numerous different sizes of devices.
There has been some effort to develop adjustable oral airway devices. In theory, adjustable oral airway devices could eliminate the need for medical emergency response personnel to stock numerous different sizes of oral airway devices. However, the adjustable oral airway devices utilized by medical emergency response personnel should be suitable for rapid deployment under the stress of emergency situations, and under the awkwardness of the difficult environment conditions that may be encountered by the personnel in emergency situations. In practice, the presently available adjustable oral airway devices tend to be unsuitable for utilization by medical emergency response personnel under the adverse, and time-sensitive, conditions that may be encountered by such personnel. Accordingly, it is desired to develop improved adjustable oral airway devices.
In one example embodiment, the invention includes an adjustable oral airway device. The device includes a bite block. The bite block has an opening extending therethrough, and has a longitudinal dimension along the opening. The device also includes a tongue deflector extending within the opening through the bite block. The tongue deflector is slideably engaged within the bite block; and is a strip of material comprising a straight region and a curved region. The straight region is at least as long as the longitudinal dimension of the bite block. Additionally, the device includes at least one locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block.
In another example embodiment, the invention includes another adjustable oral airway device. The device includes a bite block portion, a tongue deflector portion slideably engaged within the bite block portion, and at least one locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector portion in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block portion. The device also includes a cannula-receiving region extending through the bite-block portion and along the tongue deflector portion.
In yet another example embodiment, the invention includes an adjustable oral airway kit. The kit includes a bite block. The bite block has an opening extending therethrough, and has a longitudinal dimension along the opening. The kit also includes a tongue deflector configured to extend within the opening through the bite block. The tongue deflector is configured to be slideably engaged within the bite block. The tongue deflector is a strip of material comprising a straight region and a curved region. The straight region is at least as long as the longitudinal dimension of the bite block. Additionally, the tongue deflector and bite block together comprise at least one locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block.
FIG. 1 is a three-dimensional view of an example adjustable oral airway device.
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the example adjustable oral airway device of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a view of the bite block portion of the adjustable oral airway device of FIG. 1.
FIGS. 4 and 5 are a top view, and a side view, respectively, of the tongue deflector portion of the adjustable oral airway device of FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 shows side views of the example adjustable oral airway device of FIG. 1 at three different size adjustments.
FIG. 7 is a view of the adjustable oral airway device of FIG. 1 together with a cannula extended within an opening within the adjustable oral airway device.
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of a person's lower head and upper throat, showing the example adjustable oral airway device of FIG. 1 utilized to provide an oral airway for the person.
FIGS. 9 and 10 are a top view, and a side view, respectively, of another embodiment of a tongue deflector portion of an adjustable oral airway device.
FIGS. 11-13 are a front view, cross-sectional top view, and cross-sectional side view, respectively, of an embodiment of a bite block portion that may utilized with the tongue deflector portion of FIGS. 9 and 10 to form an adjustable oral airway device. The view of FIG. 12 is along the lines 12-12 of FIGS. 11 and 13, and the view of FIG. 13 is along the lines 13-13 of FIGS. 11 and 12.
FIGS. 14-17 are cross-sectional side views showing the tongue deflector portion of FIGS. 9 and 10 engaged in the bite block portion of FIGS. 11-13 at various stages of adjustment of an adjustable oral airway device.
FIGS. 18-20 are views of the tongue deflector portion of FIG. 9 showing different stages of flexion of a biasing member of the tongue deflector portion. The views of FIGS. 18-20 are along a line labeled “18, 19, 20” of FIG. 9.
FIG. 21 shows top views of a portion of the example adjustable oral airway device of FIGS. 18-20 at three different size adjustments.
FIG. 22 shows a portion of a headband oriented for engagement with a slot in an example bite block portion of an adjustable oral airway device.
FIG. 23 shows a headband having hook and loop (e.g. VELCRO™) attachment regions at a pair of opposing ends.
FIG. 24 shows the headband of FIG. 23 after utilization of the hook and loop attachment regions to retain a pair of projecting stems to the headband.
FIG. 25 shows an adjustable oral airway device retained to a person's head with a headband.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATED EMBODIMENTS
As discussed above in the “Background” section of this disclosure, a prior art problem exists with respect to conventional devices utilized for maintaining the oral airways of patients in an emergency applications. Specifically, the conventional devices are either non-adjustable so that numerous different sizes of devices must be carried by medical emergency response personnel to accommodate the different sizes of individuals that may be in need of aid; or, to the extent adjustable devices exist in the prior art, such tend to be awkward to utilize with the speed and efficiency desired in emergency applications.
In some embodiments, the invention includes adjustable oral airway devices that are convenient to utilize by medical emergency response personnel under the difficult conditions that they may encounter.
An example adjustable oral airway device 10 is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The adjustable oral airway device may be referred to as a Dual Air System™. The device 10 comprises two primary components—a bite block 12 and a tongue deflector 14. FIG. 1 shows the tongue deflector 14 slideably engaged within an opening 16 in the bite block 12; and FIG. 2 shows the tongue deflector 14 separate from the bite block 12. The tongue deflector and bite block may be completely separate components relative to one another (as shown); or in other embodiments (not shown) may be connected to one another through a tether or other suitable means. In some embodiments, the bite block 12 and tongue deflector 14 may be considered to be portions of the oral airway device 10; and accordingly may be referred to as a bite block portion and a tongue deflector portion, respectively.
The bite block 12 is shown in combination with the tongue deflector 14 in FIGS. 1 and 2, and is shown in isolation in FIG. 3. The bite block includes a planar surface 18 around the opening 16, and includes a bitable region 20 adjacent the planar surface 18. In operation, the bitable region is placed between the teeth of a person, and the planar surface 18 is outward of the lips of the person. The bite block comprises a material 15. In some embodiments, such material may comprise, consist essentially of, or consist of polypropylene, such as polypropylene approved for use in medical devices by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and/or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The opening 16 extends longitudinally through the planar surface 18 and through the bitable region 20 of the bite block 12.
The bite block may be considered to comprise a floor 22 beneath opening 16, a top 24 over the opening 16, and a pair of opposing sides 26 and 28 extending from the floor to the top along the sides of the opening 16.
The planar surface 18 may be considered to be a front surface of the bite block, and the bite block may be considered to comprise a back surface 19 in opposing relation to such front surface. The bite block has a longitudinal dimension 21 extending from the front surface 18 to the back surface 19; or, in other words, has a longitudinal dimension extending along opening 16. Such longitudinal dimension may be, for example, from about 4 centimeters to about 5 centimeters, in some embodiments. The bitable region 20 may have a length of from about 3.8 centimeters to about 4.8 centimeters in such embodiments.
The opening 16 has a height 23 between the floor 22 of the bite block and the top 24 of the bite block. A lower region of the opening 16 is a slot 30 configured for receipt of the tongue deflector 14, and an upper portion of the opening may be configured as a cannula-receiving region 32 (as explained in more detail below with reference to FIG. 7).
FIG. 1 shows the tongue deflector 14 received within the slot region 30 of opening 16, and shows that the cannula-receiving region 32 of the opening is over the tongue deflector. The cannula-receiving region may have any suitable shape, but it may be advantageous for there to be enough room in the cannula-receiving region to receive one or more cannulas, and to provide ample airspace adjacent the cannulas for ventilation to occur through the bite block while the one or more cannulas are in place. The cannula-receiving region may be substantially rectangular (as shown).
FIG. 1 shows that the cannula-receiving region 32 has a height 34 and a width 36. In some embodiments, the cannula-receiving region 32 may be at least three times as wide as it is tall. For instance, in some embodiments the height of the cannula-receiving region may be about 0.6 centimeters, and the width may be about two centimeters.
Bite block 12 comprises a pair of receptacles 200 and 202 extending through planar surface 18. Such receptacles may be utilized for connecting the bite block to a headband as discussed below with reference to FIGS. 22 and 25.
The bite block 12 has a plurality of cavities 40, 42 and 44 extending through the side 26 of the bite block. In some embodiments, the side 28 of the bite block will be a mirror image of the side 26 (as shown in FIG. 8), and accordingly will also have multiple cavities extending therethrough. In the shown embodiment, there are three cavities extending through the side 26. Each of the cavities represents a predetermined position where the tongue deflector may be locked into the bite block. The number of cavities may thus be chosen based upon the number of predetermined locking positions that are desired. There may be some applications in which is desired to have a large number of predetermined locking positions so that the location of the tongue deflector may be finely controlled. In other applications, it may be desired to have fewer predetermined locking positions so that the location of the tongue deflector is more coarsely controlled. It may be faster to adjust the tongue deflector to a desired location if there are fewer predetermined locking positions, but there will be a trade-off relative to the degree to which the adjustable oral airway device 10 may be tailored to specific mouth/throat sizes. There will generally be at least two predetermined locking positions associated with adjustable oral airway devices of the present invention.
Although the cavities 40, 42 and 44 are shown to extend entirely through the side 26 of bite block 12, in other applications the cavities may be dents formed along the interior of the wall (in other words, along opening 16) rather than being formed to extend entirely through the wall.
The tongue deflector 14 is shown in combination with the bite block 12 in FIGS. 1 and 2, and is shown in isolation in FIGS. 4 and 5. The tongue deflector comprises a material 50. Such material may be a pliable material, and in some embodiments may comprise, consist essentially of, or consist of polypropylene, such as polypropylene approved for use in medical devices by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and/or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The tongue deflector has a length 51, a width 53, and a thickness 55, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. In some embodiments, the length may be from about 11 centimeters to about 13 centimeters; the width may be from about 1.5 centimeters to about four centimeters; and the thickness may be less than or equal to about 0.2 centimeters.
A segment 52 of the length corresponds to a loop 54 configured to enable grasping by the fingers of a person operating the adjustable oral airway device 10. In some embodiments, segment 52 may have a length of from about one centimeter to about two centimeters. The loop 54 may be omitted in some embodiments.
FIG. 5 shows that the length 51 of the tongue deflector 14 may be considered to be sub-divided into three segments. One of the segments is the segment 52 discussed above as corresponding to loop 54. Another of the segments is a straight region 56, while the remaining segment corresponds to a curved region 58. The straight region 56 is utilized for adjustment of the tongue deflector location within the bite block 12, and the curved region 58 is utilized for retaining the tongue and/or other soft mouth/throat tissue of a patient. The straight region may be at least as long as the longitudinal dimension 21 of the bite block 12.
The tongue deflector 14 comprises a pair of deflectable protuberances 60 and 62 along the opposing sides of the tongue deflector. In operation, such protuberances engage within the cavities in the sidewalls of bite block 12 (for instance, cavities 40, 42 and 44 in the sidewall 26 of the bite block, and similar cavities in the opposing sidewall 28 of the bite block) to releasably retain the tongue deflector in the predetermined positions defined by the cavities. For instance, protuberance 60 may be seated within any one of the cavities 40, 42 and 44 to releasably retain the tongue deflector in a predetermined position.
The illustrated tongue deflector has marks 64, 66 and 68 which may be aligned to the planar surface 18 of the bite block 12 to identify to a user when the tongue deflector is engaged in a specific predetermined position. The tongue deflector has an end 70 which will be at the deepest location in a patient's throat during utilization of the adjustable oral airway device 10. The adjustable oral airway device may be provided with instructions, or with additional markings on one or both of the bite block and tongue deflector, which identify to the operator of the device the overall depth to which end 70 extends when the tongue deflector is in the predetermined positions identified by markings 64, 66 and 68.
Although three alignment markings 64, 66 and 68 are shown, in other embodiments there may be less than three alignment markings, and in yet other embodiments there may be more than three alignment markings. Generally, there will be at least two alignment markings corresponding to the at least two predetermined positions that the tongue deflector may be locked in relative to the bite block.
In the shown embodiment, tongue deflector 14 has a pair of slots 72 and 74 extending through the tongue deflector adjacent protuberances 60 and 62, respectively. The slots enable protuberances 60 and 62 to flex inwardly during adjustment of the tongue deflector within the bite block. The material 50 of the tongue deflector provides sufficient outward bias to the protuberances 60 and 62 so that the protuberances will lock within the cavities in the bite block when the protuberances are aligned with such cavities.
Although the illustrated tongue deflector has two protuberances, in other embodiments there may be only one protuberance utilized, and in yet other embodiments there may be more than two protuberances utilized.
The protuberances on the tongue deflector (i.e., the protuberances 60 and 62), together with the cavities in the bite block (for instance, cavities 40, 42 and 44) define a locking mechanism configured for releasably retaining the tongue deflector in one of two or more predetermined positions within the bite block.
FIG. 6 shows adjustable oral airway device 10 at three different size adjustments corresponding to the three different predetermined locations defined by cavities 40, 42 and 44. Specifically, a topmost orientation of the adjustable oral airway device shows the protuberance 60 of the tongue deflector 14 engaged within cavity 40, and thus shows the end 70 of the tongue deflector at the deepest predetermined location of the device 10. The next orientation down shows the protuberance 60 pulled into cavity 42, and thus shows the end 70 of the tongue deflector at a predetermined location that is less deep than that of the topmost orientation of device 10 in FIG. 6. The bottom orientation of the adjustable oral airway device shows the protuberance 60 engaged within cavity 44, and thus shows the end 70 of the tongue deflector at the shallowest predetermined location of the device 10.
FIG. 7 shows a cannula 72 extending through bite block 12 within the cannula-receiving region 32 of opening 16. FIG. 7 also shows that in some embodiments there may be a significant amount of space available within the cannula-receiving region 32 after a cannula it is inserted within such region. Such may enable multiple devices and/or cannulas to extend simultaneously through the bite block, and/or may enable ventilation to be provided through the bite block after one or more cannulas and devices are inserted through the cannula-receiving region.
FIG. 8 shows adjustable oral airway device 10 in operation, and specifically shows the device within the mouth and throat of a patient 74. The bitable region 20 of the bite block is between the teeth 76 of the upper and lower jaws of the patient, and also between the lips 78 of the patient. The device 10 has a large surface exterior of the patient's mouth, which can avoid having the device fall into the patient's mouth. The tongue deflector 14 extends into the upper throat 80 of the patient and holds down soft tissues 82 within the upper throat.
In practice, a mask (not shown) will typically be provided over the patient's mouth, and thus over the adjustable oral airway device 10. The mask may be used in bag valve mask ventilation. The opening 16 through the adjustable oral airway device 10 can provide, among other things, a route for ventilation between the mask and the patient's lungs, a path for a breathing tube to be inserted into a patient's mouth, a path for a flexible camera to be inserted into a patient's throat, and/or a path for a suction device to be inserted into a patient's mouth or throat.
One of the advantages of the invention is that if the patient 74 becomes conscious and is uncomfortable with the tongue deflector 14 and/or starts to gag on the tongue deflector, the tongue deflector may be retracted from the throat and pulled entirely out of the bite block, while leaving the bite block in place. Ventilation may continue to be provided through the opening 16 in the bite block after the tongue deflector is removed.
The view of bite block 10 in FIG. 8 is rotated relative to the view of FIGS. 1, 2 and 5, and accordingly side 28 is visible in FIG. 8. Side 28 is shown comprising cavities 90, 92 and 94 analogous to the cavities 40, 42 and 44 (FIG. 1) of side 26; and the protuberance 62 of tongue deflector 14 is shown engaged within the cavity 92.
The adjustable oral airway device 10 of FIGS. 1-8 comprises an embodiment of a locking mechanism in which protuberances along the side of a tongue deflector (specifically, the protuberances 60 and 62 shown in FIG. 4) engage within cavities in the sidewall of the bite block (specifically, the cavities 40, 42, 44, 90, 92 and 94 of FIGS. 1 and 8). In other embodiments, other locking mechanisms may be utilized.
FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate a tongue deflector 14a of an example embodiment in which the locking mechanism includes a deflectable region 100 that extends downwardly from within a center of the tongue deflector. The tongue deflector 14a comprises the length 51 discussed above with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8, and comprises the segments 52, 56 and 58 of such length. Segment 52 is a handle, segment 56 is a straight region, and segment 58 is a curved region. In the shown embodiment, the deflectable protuberance 100 is within the straight region 56 of the tongue deflector.
The deflectable region 100 is along a length 102 of a deflectable material of the tongue deflector. Such length comprises a first end 104 where the deflectable material joins to the rest of tongue deflector 14a, and an opposing second end 106 which may be deflected downwardly from a central region of the tongue deflector. The second end 106 has a primary end surface 105 that is substantially orthogonal to an upper surface of the deflectable material of the tongue deflector. An engagement structure (which may be considered to be a deflectable protuberance) 108 extends downwardly from surface 105, and extends below a bottom surface 107 of the deflectable material. The engagement structure has an “L” shape, and specifically includes a lower base region 110 joining to a stem region 112. One surface of the stem region corresponds to the surface 105, and an opposing surface of the stem region includes a surface 109 that is angled relative to bottom surface 107. In operation, the engagement structure 108 corresponds to a protuberance that may be releasably retained in cavities formed along a bottom of a bite block.
FIGS. 12-13 illustrate an example bite block 12a which may be utilized in conjunction with the tongue deflector 14a of FIGS. 9 and 10.
Bite block 12a includes the planar surface 18 discussed above in FIG. 1 with reference to bite block 12, and includes the bitable region 20 adjacent such planar surface. The bite block 12a also includes the opening 16, the floor 22 beneath the opening, the top 24 over the opening, and the opposing sides 26 and 28 extending from the floor to the top along the sides of the opening. However, in contrast to the bite block 12 of FIG. 1, the bite block 12a of FIGS. 11-13 does not include cavities 40, 42 and 44 along the sidewalls, but instead includes cavities 120, 122 and 124 extending into the floor 22.
The cavities 120, 122 and 124 are complementary to retaining structure 108, and accordingly comprise “L” shapes. Such “L” shapes include a base region 126 and a stem region 128. The stem region 128 includes a surface 119 that is substantially orthogonal to an upper surface 123 of the floor, and includes a surface 121 that is sloped (i.e., not orthogonal) relative to the upper surface 123 of the floor.
The tongue deflector 14a may comprise the same material 50 discussed above with reference to tongue deflector 14 of FIG. 1, and the bite block 12a may comprise the same material 15 discussed above with reference to the bite block 12 of FIG. 1.
FIGS. 14-17 illustrate utilization of deflectable region 100 relative to cavities 120, 122 and 124. The deflectable region 100 is shown in isolation from the rest of tongue deflector 14a to simplify the drawings, but it is to be understood that the deflectable region would be part of the tongue deflector 14a described in FIGS. 9 and 10.
FIG. 14 shows the deflectable region 100 sliding across a surface 123 along the floor 22 of bite block 12a, with a direction of movement of region 100 being indicated with arrow 130.
FIGS. 15 and 16 show the retaining structure 108 of deflectable region 100 falling into cavity 122 of bite block 12a. Directions of movement of region 100 are indicated by arrows 130 and 132.
FIG. 17 shows the retaining structure 108 of deflectable region 100 locking into cavity 122. More specifically, the surface 105 of the deflectable region 100 engages with the ridge 119 of the “L”-shaped cavity and precludes further movement of tongue deflector 14a along the direction indicated by arrow 130.
It is noted that the retaining structure 108 may be removed from within the cavity by pulling deflectable region 100 in a direction opposite to the direction of arrow 130. Specifically, the sloped region 121 of the cavity, in combination with the sloped surface 109 of deflectable region 100, enables retaining structure 108 to be lifted out of the cavity when the deflectable region 100 is pulled in a direction opposite to arrow 130. Thus, deflectable region 100 locks securely into one of the cavities 120, 122 and 124 when pushed in the direction of arrow 130, and may be released from within the cavity when pulled in a direction opposite to arrow 130.
The direction of arrow 130 may be referred to as a downstream direction (and specifically, such direction would be in a direction down a patient's throat in an orientation in which an adjustable oral airway device is utilized), and the direction opposite to arrow 130 may then be referred to as an upstream direction. Accordingly, deflectable region 100 of tongue deflector 14a may be considered to slide into cavities 120, 122 and 124 to preclude movement of the tongue deflector in the downstream direction, while enabling movement in the upstream direction. In operation, a mask over a patient's mouth may provide pressure on a tongue deflector to press the tongue deflector in the downstream direction and keep it locked within one of the cavities 120, 122 and 124.
In some embodiments, an adjustable oral airway device utilizing tongue deflector 14a and bite block 12a may be provided so that the deflectable region 100 is locked in the furthest downstream cavity (for instance, cavity 120 of FIGS. 14-17). Then an operator of the device may simply slide the tongue deflector upstream if it is desired to adjust the tongue deflector.
The deflectable region 100 has a bias that tends to push it into one of the cavities 120, 122 and 124 as the deflectable region passes across such cavity. The deflectable region may be passed over a cavity along the direction of arrow 130 if a counter-bias is provided to the deflectable region so that the deflectable region does not fall into the cavity. FIGS. 18-20 illustrate an embodiment in which an operator's fingers may be utilized to provide a counter-bias enabling the deflectable region to passed over cavities 120, 122 and 124 in the direction of arrow 130. FIGS. 18-20 show tongue deflector 14a with a cross-sectional cut along an edge of deflectable region 100. Such cross-sectional cut enables illustration of gaps 140 and 142 formed between lateral edges of the deflectable portion and adjacent edges of non-deflecting portions 144 and 146 of tongue deflector 14a. The gaps 140 and 142 result from removal of lateral sidewall regions of deflectable portion 100, and removal of lateral sidewall regions of non-deflecting portions 144 and 146. Remaining corners along the lateral edges of deflectable portion 100 form projecting points (or wings) 148 and 150, and similarly remaining corners along the lateral edges of non-deflecting portions 144 and 146 form projecting points (or wings) 152 and 154.
FIG. 19 shows deflectable region 100 biased to extend downwardly relative to non-deflecting portions 144 and 146. Such would lead to locking of deflectable region 100 into the cavities 120, 122 and 124 of FIGS. 14-17. Deflectable region 100 may have a natural downward bias induced by the combination of the choice of material of tongue deflector 14a and the shape of the deflectable region relative to the non-deflecting region. Alternatively, or additionally, a user of the tongue deflector may impart a downward bias on the deflectable region by utilizing finger pressure against such deflectable region.
FIG. 20 shows deflectable region 100 biased upwardly relative to non-deflecting portions 144 and 146. Such would enable the deflectable region to be passed across cavities 120, 122 and 124 of FIGS. 14-17 in the downstream direction of arrow 130. The user of the tongue deflector may impart the upward bias on the deflectable region by utilizing finger pressure against such deflectable region. In the shown embodiment, the points 148 and 150 of the deflectable region engage the points 152 and 154 of the non-deflecting portions to prevent the deflectable region from being popped up and over the non-deflecting portions. This may assist in alleviating problems that could occur during use of tongue deflector 14a that would render the tongue deflector inoperable. In some embodiments, points 148, 150, 152 and 154 may be omitted if it is found that there is little risk of problems occurring from users popping the deflectable region up and over the non-deflecting portions.
The tongue deflector 14a has markings 164, 166 and 168 similar to the markings 64, 66 and 68 discussed above with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. Tongue deflector 14a is an example of an embodiment in which text is provided with the markings to indicate a depth to which a bottom end of the tongue deflector will extend into a patient's throat when such markings are aligned with a bite block.
FIG. 21 shows an adjustable oral airway device 10a comprising the tongue deflector 14a in combination with the bite block 12a, and shows three specific predetermined positions that may be obtained by locking deflectable region 100 (FIGS. 14-17) into the various cavities 120, 122 and 124 (FIGS. 14-17).
In some embodiments, adjustable oral airway devices may be configured to be retained on a patient's head with a headband or other suitable structure. FIG. 22 shows bite block 12, and a portion of a headband 200. The bite block comprises the receptacles 202 and 202. The receptacles each have a wide region 204 joining to a narrow slot region 206. The headband 200 has a pin 210 attached thereto. The pin has a narrow stem region 212 extending to a wide head region 214.
In operation, the wide head region 214 of stem 212 may be passed through the wide region 204 of receptacle 200, and then the stem 212 may be slid down into the narrow region 206 of the receptacle. Once the stem is slid down into the narrow region 206, the stem becomes locked in the receptacle due to the head 214 being too wide to pass out of the narrow region 206. The shown method of attachment of the headband to the bite block 12 may be accomplished quickly in an emergency situation.
The pin 210 may be connected to the headband with any suitable means. FIGS. 23 and 24 illustrate one embodiment for attaching the pin to the headband. FIG. 23 shows a headband 200 having a pair of opposing ends 250 and 252. Each of the ends has an outer region 251 and an inner region 253, with the outer and inner regions being complementary parts of a hook and loop (e.g. VELCRO™) system. Thus, the outer regions may be folded onto the inner regions, and will then connect with the inner regions through the hook and loop attachment system.
FIG. 24 shows pins to 10 joined on ends 250 and 252 by passing the ends of the headband through slots adjacent the pins (such slots are not visible in FIG. 24, but an example slot may be seen in FIG. 22 as a slot 260), and then folding the outer regions 251 onto the inner regions 253 to connect the outer regions to the inner regions and thereby retain the pins 210 to the headband 200. Such attachment may render the sizing of the headband to be adjustable by simply disconnecting the outer regions 251 from the inner regions 253, changing the amount of overlap of the outer regions over the inner regions, and then reattaching the outer regions to the inner regions.
FIG. 25 shows an adjustable oral airway device 10 retained on a patient's mouth with a headband 200. A cannula 72 extends into the opening 16 through the adjustable oral airway device. The tongue deflector 14 also extends within the opening 16, and the cannula is along an upper surface of the tongue deflector. The shown tongue deflector has a loop 54 to enable grasping by an operator, and has a marking 68 to provide a visual reference to the operator of how deep the end of the deflector is in the patient's mouth. A mask (not shown) may be provided over the patient's mouth and nose, and over the adjustable oral airway device, to assist in providing ventilation for the patient.
The various manipulations of the tongue deflector (for instance, movement of the tongue deflector within the bite block for sizing of the adjustable oral airway devices, removal of the tongue deflector from the bite block if a patient regains consciousness and becomes uncomfortable with the tongue deflector in his mouth, etc.) may be accomplished with limited manual dexterity, and thus may be accomplished with gloves on and/or with a loss of a fine motor skills that may occur in a stressful situation.
The adjustable oral airway devices shown herein may be particularly advantageous for utilization by professional medical emergency response personnel, in that the adjustable oral airway devices can take up less room in a toolbox than a large number of differently sized oral airway devices, and can be rapidly deployed under adverse and stressful conditions. However, the adjustable oral airway devices are not limited to emergency response applications, and may also be utilized in other applications in which breathing assistance may be administered, such as, for example, in hospitals (or other medical facilities) when patients are anesthetized during surgery.
In compliance with the statute, the subject matter disclosed herein has been described in language more or less specific as to structural and methodical features. It is to be understood, however, that the claims are not limited to the specific features shown and described, since the means herein disclosed comprise example embodiments. The claims are thus to be afforded full scope as literally worded, and to be appropriately interpreted in accordance with the doctrine of equivalents.
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Mumbai Rains: Central Railways to run 8 special trains from Dombivali and Thane
"To ease the travelling of office-goers and college students in the peak hours of travelling, six trains from the main line and 2 trains from the harbour line on Dombivali and Thane railways stations have been arranged.
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Mumbai: Central Railways has arranged eight special trains from Dombivali and Thane railway stations in Mumbai in order to clear the rush during peak hours amidst incessant rainfall on Wednesday.
We are also running special trains apart from Sunday schedule ", Sunil Udasi, Chief Public Relation Officer (CPRO) said.
As the rain spell continues to drown the city, a high tide of about 4.69 meters is also expected to hit Mumbai at 12:35 pm today, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The organisation also stated that a low tide of about 1.58 meter will occur at 6:34 in the evening today.
The state government declared July 2 as a public holiday amid heavy downpour which caused water logging at various places in the financial capital and surrounding metropolitan area.
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WCW: Rachael Stirling
By Kendra on November 27, 2019 in Woman Crush Wednesday
I had no idea that Rachael Stirling was Diana Rigg‘s daughter until I went to research this post, y’all. I just knew her as the dark-haired beauty with the really interesting voice who knocked my socks off in Tipping the Velvet, and who every time she pops up in something I get excited. Onwards!
The Triumph of Love (2001)
A super meh attempt at cross-dressing and crossed-lovers in a vague 18th-century setting. Stirling plays a ruler’s daughter who falls in love with the kingdom’s rightful heir.
The costumes are all “fine,” from what I remember.
Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Cross-dressing late 19th-century vaudeville performers fall in love! Such a wonderful series! Stirling plays Nan, a shy oyster girl who ventures out onto the stage and learns a whole lot about herself.
Cute hats!
Nan embraces her new identity.
DAY-UM!
There’s some girly too.
Poirot: Five Little Pigs (2003)
One episode of the famous 1930s-set Belgian detective, based on the Agatha Christie novels.
Agatha Christie’s Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (2004)
More Agatha Christie, this time in the 1950s!
That’s a great ensemble on Stirling! Black & white ftw!
Riot at the Rite (2005)
The backstory on the premiere of Stravinksy’s “The Rite of Spring,” performed in 1913 Paris by the Ballet Russes. Stirling plays ballerina Marie Rambert.
I guess it’s Russian folkloric?
The Haunted Airman (2006)
Robert Pattinson is a wounded RAF pilot during World War II; Stirling plays his aunt-in-law in this psychological thriller.
ROBERT PATTINSON, RACHAEL STIRLING & JULIAN SANDS.in The Haunted Airman.rob.*Filmstill – Editorial Use Only*.CAP/PLF.Supplied by Capital Pictures.
The Young Victoria (2009)
In this story of Queen Victoria’s early reign, Stirling plays the Duchess of Sutherland, who was a lady-in-waiting to the queen. When Victoria refused to dismiss Sutherland (and other ladies) after an election changed the ruling party, the Bedchamber Crisis of 1839 returned the previous party to power.
Nice lace!
Love the sheer striped tiers.
Centurion (2010)
What sounds like a very “meh” movie about Romans soldiering in Scotland. Stirling plays the Roman Governor’s daughter.
Did someone get confused while wrapping gifts?
Women in Love (2011)
Based on a novel by D.H. Lawrence, Stirling plays one of two 1920s sisters who “try to find sexual fulfillment and love in a painful, overly intellectual way,” to quote my own review.
Nice hat!
The Bletchley Circle (2012-14)
A series of World War II codebreakers, now in the 1950s, join together to solve a murder mystery. Stirling plays the independent Millie.
Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror (2013)
The Doctor travels to 1890s Yorkshire where people in a utopian community are dying. Stirling plays a victim of her mother’s (Diana Rigg) character.
In 1953, Churchill has suffered a stroke. Stirling plays his daughter, Sarah.
Plaid!
Their Finest (2016)
During World War II, the Ministry of Information is producing propaganda; Stirling plays an executive at the Ministry.
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (2018)
The Bletchley codebreakers travel to 1950s San Francisco to solve more murders.
What’s your favorite Rachael Stirling historical costume role?
Tags1830s1870s1890s1910s1920s1940s1950sAgatha Christiebitchy Romanscross-dressingDoctor WhoWorld War II
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Happy Thanksgiving From Frock Flicks
Kendra has been a fixture in the online costuming world since the late 1990s. Her website, Démodé Couture, is one of the most well-known online resources for historical costumers. In the summer of 2014, she published a book on 18th-century wig and hair styling. Kendra is a librarian at a university, specializing in history and fashion. She’s also an academic, with several articles on fashion history published in research journals.
mmcquown November 27th, 2019
In the Triumph of Love pic she looks most like her mother; her left side seems to favour her. Unfortunately, most of these shows haven’t appeared here. Lovely that she got to work with her mother in the Dr Who episode. “Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said, “Mrs Peel, we’re needed.” From a fan magazine called “Rigger Digger.”
Roxana November 27th, 2019
I didn’t know she was Diana Rigg’s daughter either, but looking at that header image I can see the resemblance.
ctrent29 November 27th, 2019
I first became aware of Rachael Stirling in “Five Little Pigs”. I believe the sequences featuring her were set in early-to-mid 1920s. It’s one of the best “Poirot” episodes I have ever seen and i highly recommend it.
Frannie Germeshausen November 27th, 2019
We recently re-watched “Five Little Pigs.” She was great in that. What a glorious voice she has!
Brandy Loutherback November 27th, 2019
Appearantly Robert Pattinson is good, outside of those godawful Twilight movies?
Katie November 27th, 2019
He really is! If it helps, the entire cast of Twilight was doing it for the money.
Also, I think Rachel shags Robert I think?! I mean, I would too, Rachel!
J Lou November 27th, 2019
Churchill’s daughter Sarah was also an actress, best known for playing the love interest of Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding (1951). She was 37; he was 52.
Back to the subject at hand: I adore The Bletchley Circle, and want all of the clothes! I loved Rachel as the independent one.
Andrea Makes Things November 27th, 2019
The navy pantsuit in Bletchley. The cropped jacket, the wide legs, the orange blouse underneath – all perfection!
Ellen November 27th, 2019
In The Triumph of Love, Rachael Stirling plays the lady’s maid to the ruler’s daughter chasing the gentleman around, I believe.
MrsC (Maryanne) November 28th, 2019
She’s such a ringer for her mother!!! And I loved Tipping the velvet so much.
Roxana December 3rd, 2019
I think it’s the cheekbones and the eyes.
Aleko November 28th, 2019
Those costumes in ‘The Rite Riot’ are close copies of the ones in the original production that caused the riot: in fact that shot was created as a copy of an original photo – see here: https://theartsdesk.com/dance/still-shocking-rite-spring-100-years. The costumes were by Nicolas Roerich and are not so much ‘Russian folkloric’ as an imagination of what pagan medieval Russian peasants might have worn, very heavily stylised.
MoHub November 29th, 2019
Precisely. You beat me to the explanation. Also, it took some time, but the original choreography of The Rite of Spring was recreated only a couple of decades ago.
Kathy Gustafson December 2nd, 2019
Not period but my fave, The Detectorists.
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Meet OSA’s Journal Editors
Monday, 14 September, 08:00 – 09:30
The OSA Publishing journal editors welcome your questions, ideas and concerns. Join this online event to learn more about journal acceptance criteria, responding to review requests, addressing reviewer feedback and other topics of interest. As part of this session, the Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize winners for Optical Materials Express and JOSA A, as well as the 2020 OSA Publishing Outstanding Reviewers, will be recognized. All are welcome!
Kelly Cohen, The Optical Society, USA
Alison Taylor, The Optical Society, USA
The Symposium on Undergraduate Research has been a feature of the annual meeting of the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society (APS-DLS) for twenty years, and it has showcased the research of more than 500 students during that time. Students’ presentations often describe their work during the previous summer. The NSF has played a vital role by providing the research opportunities for many of the students through its REU programs, as well as by direct support of the event. The symposium has been generously supported by the DLS, OSA, NSF, SPS and Univ. MD (JQI), along with corporate sponsors Thorlabs, Photonics Industries and East Coast Optical Technologies. View schedule.
Samir Bali, Miami University of Ohio, USA
Harold Metcalf, Stony Brook University, USA
OSA Fiber Optics Technology & Applications Technical Group Career Round Table
Join the OSA Fiber Optics Technology and Applications Technical Groups for this special event featuring entrepreneurs sharing their insights and experiences in a diverse pool of markets in optics and photonics, ranging from bio-oriented applications and fiber lasers to optical communications and photonic component markets. Our panelists, Michelle Stock, Iñigo Artundo and Barbara Buades, will discuss how they conceived of an initial idea and curated it into a feasible business case, secured investments, and de-risked the business. We’ll have an exchange of ideas on day-to-day running of a start-up, navigating customer demands, generating value, and final exit strategy. We will learn their point of view on the current trends and challenges in their respective markets and advice for young entrepreneurs on how to kick-off a business.
Career Insights & Advice with OSA Honorary Members William (Bill) Phillips and Elsa Garmire
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with two of OSA’s Honorary Members, William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA, and Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth College, USA (retired), as they share career insights, advice and stories from their careers. The session, moderated by OSA Ambassador Claire McLellan, Stanford University, USA, includes a short presentation from both speakers followed by live Q&A.
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt
Do you feel like your success can all be explained by luck and hard work? Do you feel constant pressure to achieve and cannot let something go until it is perfect? Imposter syndrome and self-doubt are prevalent across all genders and stages of one’s professional career. Learn tools to free up mental space by not carrying the emotional drain of feeling like an imposter and develop compassion for yourself.
*This event is open to students and early career professionals only (member or non-member)*
OSA Advancing Mid-Managers Summit- It’s Not You, It’s Your Brain: Practical Neuroscience for Leadership
Ever wonder how what goes on inside our brains affects how we interact within our organizations? Oftentimes, leadership tactics that have worked to engage or motivate others simply fall flat with your colleagues or employees. Rest assured – it’s not you, it’s your brain! Participants in this session will explore the world of the brain and dissect some of the top neuroscience research and models to create practical applications on how to engage, motivate and develop others. You will experience the ways in which the brain drives people toward – or away from – certain situations which, in turn, affects how they process information, learn, lead and engage with others. Through interactive exercises, you will leave this session with:
The building blocks of neuroscience and neuroleadership
Ways to apply the models to your specific leadership or leadership development situation
This session is designed for participants with at least 6+ years of professional experience and not for students. Space is limited.
RSVP within the registration portal.
Vision Science Virtual Coffee Break
The leaders of the OSA Color Technical Group, Manuel Spitschan and Francisco Imai, invite you to join them for a virtual coffee break. Grab a cup of coffee, tea or beverage of your choice and join us for a chance to chat with your fellow vision scientists.
Congressional Fellowship Q&A: A Unique Career Opportunity for Scientists and Engineers
Learn about the Congressional Fellowship program and the fellowship experience from a past Congressional Fellow. Congressional Fellows spend one year in Washington, D.C., USA, working as legislative assistants on the staff of a member of U.S. Congress or Congressional Committee. The Congressional Fellowships are designed to provide a unique public policy learning experience, demonstrate the value of science-government interaction and bring technical backgrounds and external perspectives to the decision-making process in U.S. Congress.
Brandy Dillingham, The Optical Society, USA
Chris Schaffer, (2012-2013) Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow
Felicia Lucci, (2016-2017) OSA/MRS Congressional Fellow
Website to learn more: www.osa.org/congressionalfellowships
OSA Volunteer Engagement - OSA Technical Groups
Join other FiO attendees for this this informal networking discussion about OSA Technical Groups. Learn more about the governing structure and activities of OSA Technical Groups. The session will include a brief overview and time for Q&A so come with your questions. You will be able to turn your camera and mic on or off to participate as you choose.
OIDA Roadmap Roundtable—Part 1: Quantum Communications
Tuesday, 15 September, 08:00 – 10:00
This is the first of two online discussions at OSA’s Frontiers in Optics to review the requirements on optical components for applications of quantum technology. This first roundtable will focus on quantum communication, particularly quantum key distribution and quantum computer networking. The aim of the event is to assess and revise, if necessary, the requirements described in the document published this year, OIDA Quantum Photonics Roadmap—Every Photon Counts. The event will feature experts invited to offer their perspectives, and attendees will also be encouraged to participate in the interactive discussion.
Warren Grice, VP R&D, Qubitekk ,USA
Andrew Lord, Senior Manager of Optical Research, BT, United Kingdom
Gregoire Ribordy, CEO, IdQuantique, Switzerland
Bill Munro, Group Leader, NTT BRL, Japan
Paul Kwiat, Director, Illinois Quantum Information Science & Technology Center, University of Illinois, USA
Tom Hausken, Senior Science Advisor, The Optical Society, USA
OSA Volunteer Engagement – OSA Ambassadors
Join with other FiO attendees for this informal discussion on the OSA Ambassador Program. Hear from OSA Ambassadors from different classes as they provide an overview of the program, their experiences and discuss the application process. The session will include a brief overview and time for Q&A, so come with your questions. You will be able to turn your camera and mic on or off to participate as you choose.
OSA Annual Business Meeting
Learn more about OSA and join the OSA Board of Directors for the society’s annual business meeting. An update on the society’s activities will be presented and the results of the board of directors election will be announced.
*This event is open to OSA Members only.*
Meet the APS Physical Review Editors
Editor-in-Chief, Michael Thoennessen and several editors for Physical Review journals, including the newly launched PRX Quantum journal, will talk about the current and future perspectives of the Physical Review journals portfolio. The presentation will focus on how Physical Review journals will serve the needs of the optical community. After the brief presentations there will be time for comments, questions and suggestions.
Michael Thoennessen, Editor in Chief of APS
Juan Jose Lietor-Santos, Associate Editor of PR Research
Katiuscia Cassemiro, Co-Managing Editor of PRX Quantum and Associate Editor of PRA
Stojan Rebic, Co-Managing Editor of PRX Quantum and Associate Editor of PRL
Ling Miao, Managing Editor of PRX
Navigating the Virtual Job Market
The in-pandemic and post-pandemic job market has increased demands on job candidates in terms of their performance during virtual interviews. The virtual interview is the first "real" interview step whereby an average of only 6-12 out of every 525 job candidates who submit a resume receive a request for a phone screen, and only 3-5 who are screened move forward to a video interview.
How quickly and how correctly you respond to a virtual interview request can determine whether or not the interview will go well. Likewise, the questions you ask at the end of these interviews and the very last sentence you say can determine whether or not you will move forward to get a job offer. Thus, from beginning to end, your contact with an employer about a video interview is a crucial process that all technical job candidates must understand. Moreover, the technical candidate must understand how to speak with the interviewer, who most often is a non-technical hiring manager and front-line gatekeeper tasked with screening out technical candidates who come across as "arrogant, awkward, or defensive", or who come across as a "student" or a "people pleaser".
Data from interviews with hundreds of technology, engineering, optical and biotechnology employers will be discussed, including which 10 questions are most commonly asked during virtual interviews.
Plenary - Nergis Mavalvala
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Nergis Mavalvala, Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2010 recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award, is a physicist whose research focuses on the detection of gravitational waves. She is a longstanding member of the scientific team that announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Mavalvala has also conducted pioneering experiments on generation and application of squeezed states of light, and on laser cooling and trapping of macroscopic objects to enable observation of quantum phenomena in human-scale systems. Mavalvala received a BA from Wellesley College and a PhD from MIT. She was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the California Institute of Technology before joining the Physics faculty at MIT in 2002.
Awards + Honors Presentation
Please join OSA, The OSA Foundation and APS as we celebrate award winners and honorees during the Plenary Session featuring Nergis Mavalvava, Massachusetts Insitute ofTechnology, USA. This special session includes the presentation of the 2020 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science to Shaul Mukamel.
OSA Advancing Mid-Managers Summit- Chart Your Course: Professional Development, Branding and Networking
Would you like want to become more proactive and effective in your own professional development and make better use of your scarcest resource: your time? Attend this workshop to learn:
How to bring intent into your professional development and chart a course to meet your specific objectives
The importance of a personal brand and how to develop one that will guide your efforts
Five key steps in becoming a more effective networker
You will come away from this session with a new understanding of what it means to be a networker extraordinaire and the foundations of a personal development, brand and networking plan you can start putting into practice right away.
OSA Therapeutic Laser Applications Technical Group Special Talk
Join the OSA Therapeutic Laser Applications Technical Group for a special talk from Bernhard Baumann, Medical University of Vienna, on volumetric imaging of the eye and brain by optical coherence tomography. Baumann’s talk will discuss optical coherence tomography (OCT), a non-invasive technique for biomedical imaging using low-coherent light, which enables the acquisition of volumetric data in real-time and with micrometer scale resolution. Current developments of OCT technology as well as applications for imaging the eye and brain will be presented and will be followed by a moderated question and answer session.
OSA Volunteer Engagement - OSA Social Media
Join other FiO attendees for this informal networking discussion on getting the most out of your social media efforts, particularly on Twitter. Suzanne Ffolkes, OSA Chief Communications Officer and James Merrick, OSA Director of Communications, will be available to share opportunities to engage with OSA and tips for connecting with the global optics and photonics community. The session will include a brief overview and time for Q&A so come with your questions. You will be able to turn your camera and mic on or off to participate as you choose.
DLS Annual Business Meeting
All members and interested parties are invited to attend the annual business meeting of the APS Division of Laser Science (DLS). The DLS officers will report on the activities of the past year and on plans for the future. Questions will be taken from the virtual audience. This is an opportunity to help define the operations of the DLS and the Laser Science Conference. In addition, the winner of the Carl E. Anderson Dissertation Award will be announced.
Undergraduate Labs on Quantum Key Distribution via Polarization Entanglement
The OSA Polarization Technical Group invites professors, lab technicians and undergraduate students to join them for this special talk from Prof. Enrique J. Galvez of Colgate University. Prof. Galvez’s talk will explain some lab experiments on quantum key distribution using polarization entanglement of down converted photons, which could be done in undergraduate courses on quantum mechanics. The talk will be followed by a question and answer session.
OSA Volunteer Engagement – OSA Awards and Medals
Join other FiO attendees for this informal discussion about the OSA Awards and Medals program. Former Chair of the Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize Selection Committee, Dr. Nan Marie Jokerst, Duke University, USA, past award nominator Dr. P. Scott Carney, University of Rochester, USA and OSA Director of Awards and Special Programs, Meredith Smith will be available to discuss the program, how members can get involved and the role of the selection committee, as well as share a bit about the nomination process. The session will include a brief overview and time for Q&A so come with your questions. You will be able to turn your camera and mic on or off to participate as you choose.
OSA Integrated Photonics Technical Group Career Round Table
You are invited to join our technical group for a career roundtable discussion for integrated photonics related companies. You will have the chance to hear from experts in areas including quantum photonics, LIDAR, telecommunications and nanofabrication and then speak with them in a small group setting. Our panelists include Michael Watts, Founder/CEO, Analog Photonics; Chris Monroe, Founder/Chief Scientist, IONQ; Michael Hochberg, CTO, Optical Subsystems at Nokia; Chad Husko, Founder, Iris Light; Mian Zhang, Co-Founder/CEO, Hyperlight Corp.; and Steven Miller, Co-Founder/CTO, Voyant Photonics.
Space at this event is limited; to inquire about reserving a spot at the event please contact tgactivities@osa.org.
Chairs' Special Session I: Optics and Photonics Technologies to Combat COVID-19
Wednesday, 16 September, 10:45 – 11:30
Optical scientists and medical experts have been racing to deploy existing technologies and to develop new approaches to diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 patients. A parallel effort is underway to understand the biology and epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen. This session will summarize the way photonics technologies are being used for screening, diagnosis, monitoring progression, measuring immunity and providing instruments for personal protection equipment (PPE) decontamination. Additionally, there will be discussion on a special OSA Foundation project to support OSA student chapters and their local hospitals to build and deploy PPE decontamination chambers which use intense UV-C irradiation.
Tom Baer, Executive Director, Stanford Photonics Research Center, USA
OSA Volunteer Engagement - OSA Industry
Join other FiO attendees for this informal networking discussion about engagement opportunities within OIDA, OSA’s industry arm. Learn more about the governing structure and additional volunteer opportunities with OIDA. Simin Cai, OIDA Council Chair and President & CEO of Go!Foton, Amy Eskilson, President & CEO of Inrad Optics as well as OIDA staff, will be on hand to answer your questions. The session will include a brief overview and time for Q&A so come with your questions. You will be able to turn your camera and mic on or off to participate as you choose and the questions that will be explored include:
1. What is the overall mission of OIDA?
2. How does the governance of OIDA work? (requirements, responsibilities and time commitment)
3. How to be more engaged with OIDA programs and events? (planning committee, speaking roles and attendance at Lunch & Learn event)
Plenary - Federico Capasso
Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University, USA
Federico Capasso is the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after a 27-years career at Bell Labs from postdoc to Physical Research VP. He pioneered bandgap engineering of heterostructure materials and devices, including the quantum cascade laser, metasurface based flat optics, MEMS based on the Casimir effect and measured for the first time the repulsive Casimir force. He is a member of NAS, NAE and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). His awards include the Balzan Prize for Applied Photonics, the King Faisal Prize, the APS Arthur Schawlow Prize, the AAAS Rumford Prize, the IEEE Edison Medal, The Optical Society Robert Wood Prize, the Materials Research Society Medal and the Witherill medal of the Franklin Institute.
Talk: Structuring Light with Flat Optics
Metasurfaces can generate arbitrary vector beams. I will discuss recent work on spin to total orbital angular momentum (OAM) converters including high OAM lasing, flat devices that enable light’s spin and OAM to evolve, simultaneously, from one state to another along the propagation direction and polarizing elements that virtually rotate their orientation as a function of the propagation distance.
Please join OSA as we celebrate 2020 OSA Fellows, award winners and honorees during the Plenary Session featuring Federico Capasso, Harvard University, USA. This special session includes the presentation of the 2020 Frederic Ives Medal / Jarus W. Quinn Prize to Ursula Keller and recognizes OSA 2019 Honorary Member Elsa Garmire.
OSA Fiber Modeling and Fabrication Technical Group Special Talk
Join the OSA Fiber Modeling and Fabrication Technical Group for a special talk from Dr. Fan Yang, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), on intense Brillouin amplification in gas using hollow-core fibers. Dr. Yang will present a novel strong Brillouin amplification in gas using hollow-core fibers. Using this approach, Dr. Yang will then discuss a low-threshold gas Brillouin laser and a high-performance distributed temperature sensor, intrinsically free of strain cross-sensitivity. Following the talk we will have a moderated question and answer session.
OSA Applications of Visual Science Technical Group Coffee Break
Join the leaders of the Applications of Visual Science Technical Group, Enrique Josua Fernandez and Karen Hampson, over coffee to learn more about the group and share your ideas for future activities. This informal conversation will also be a great opportunity to connect with fellow attendees who share an interest in your field.
OIDA Roadmap Roundtable—Part 2: Quantum Sensing
This is the second of two online discussions at OSA’s Frontiers in Optics to review the requirements on optical components for applications of quantum technology. This second roundtable will focus on quantum sensors, such as optical clocks, gravimeters and magnetometers. The aim of the event is to assess and revise, if necessary, the requirements described in the document published this year, OIDA Quantum Photonics Roadmap—Every Photon Counts. The event will feature experts invited to offer their perspectives, and attendees will also be encouraged to participate in the interactive discussion.
Michael Fanto, Senior Research Physicist, USAF/AFRL, USA
Orri Jonsson, Cold Quanta, Sales & Marketing Manager, USA
Brent Young, President and Co-Founder, AOSense, USA
Ole Kock, Technical Authority, Teledyne e2V, United Kingdom
Paul Juodawlkis, Assistant Group Leader, MIT, USA
Chad Hoyt, Principal Research & Development Engineer & Scientist, Honeywell International Inc., USA
Friends of Dorothy: LGBTQ+ & Allies Meet & Greet
Grab your coffee, soda or beverage of your choice and join others attending FIO + LS for an informal virtual get-together to discuss being LGBTQ+ in STEM and how we can work together to create a more inclusive community.
Chairs' Special Session II: Optics and Photonics Community Contributions to Combat COVID-19 Panel Discussion
During the global pandemic of 2020, some members of the Optics and Photonics community have turned talents toward mitigating the harm caused by COVID-19. Panelists will describe contributions toward detecting, understanding transmission and reducing the spread of this virus.
Moderator: Kristan Corwin, NIST, USA
Laura Lechuga, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain
Chris Myatt, MBio Diagnostics, Inc., USA
Jong Mo Seo, Seoul National University, South Korea
Krister Shalm, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
OSA Quantum Optical Science and Technology Technical Group 20x20 Talks
This special session, hosted by the OSA Quantum Optical Science and Technology Technical Group, offers a unique platform for individuals to present their research in a creative and concise fashion that differs from the usual oral or poster session. Join us as selected participants from the technical group showcase their research in a presentation of 20 images. Our presenters will talk along to the images in their presentation as each slide advances automatically after just 20 seconds.
OSA NonImaging Optical Design Technical Group Special Talk
Thursday, 17 September, 09:00 – 10:00
Join the OSA NonImaging Optical Design Technical Group for a special talk with Ravitej Uppu of the Niels Bohr Institute on "Scaling Up Quantum-Dot-Based Photonic Qubits". The presentation will discuss the capability of quantum-dots in realizing robust and high-efficiency single-photon sources and benchmark their performance in near-term quantum technologies. A moderated question and answer session will follow the presentation.
OSA Nanophotonics Technical Group Paired Networking Session I
The OSA Nanophotonics Technical Group will host special networking sessions that aim to pair young researchers with more experienced individuals in the nanophotonics community.
Pre-registration is required: Mentors and mentees interested in participating in will need to register in advance by completing this form to be paired with one another. Our pairs will then have two opportunities to meet virtually on Thursday, 17 September, at 9:30 EDT and 15:30 EDT.
OSA Volunteer Engagement - OSA Meetings
Join other FiO attendees for this this informal networking discussion about OSA meeting committees. Learn more about the roles, responsibilities and time commitment needed to serve on a meeting committee. The session will include a brief overview and time for Q&A so come with your questions. You will be able to turn your camera and mic on or off to participate as you choose.
OSA Nanophotonics Technical Group Paired Networking Session II
OSA Imaging Optical Design Technical Group Special Talk
Join the OSA Imaging Optical Design Technical Group for a special talk with Lyuba Amitonova of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on "Breaking the Abbe and Nyquist Barriers in Far-Field Optical Microscopy". Our featured presenter will give a talk on their research, which will be followed by a moderated question and answer session.
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During this time of uncertainty, with travel off the cards, you may well have had to cancel your trip to Scotland. I look forward to a time when we can fly again but until then how about some books about Scotland to keep you inspired and excited about your future trip? I know it's one of the only things keeping me sane at the moment. Books are a wonderful escape and will help you wile away the hours being stuck at home. These books may also give you some ideas for when you are planning for your future trip.
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The Scottish Bothy Bible
If you hike in Scotland there is a good chance you will stumble across a bothy, abandoned buildings which are often old farmsteads or crofts, which are free to stay in should you need. They are as basic as they come, and all entirely individual. This brilliant book is a complete guide to these little gems and includes maps, directions and all the information you need about facilities and nearby attractions. One of my favourite books about Scotland.
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Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches
This book is filled with stirring stories from inspirational Scottish women from the past. Fierce women with attitude who broke rules, changed rules and made rules. Women who made a difference and done it in style. If you want to be inspired this book is perfect.
The Secret Life of Tartan
What was once a cloth woven in colours to represent your clan in the Scottish Highlands, whilst this is still the case, is now also parading down catwalks in New York and Milan, it's an iconic fabric and this book tells the tale of it's history, from the battlefield, royalty and it being banned altogether to independent makers fashioning purses, iPad covers and dog collars. This colourful book is filled with beautiful pictures and goes deep into a fascinating history of this important Scottish fabric.
The History behind the Game of Thrones
Explore the fascinating events, people and locations in Scotland which mirror the story of the Game of Thrones at every dramatic turn. An intriguing look into Scotland's past and it's uncanny resemblance to the hugely popular TV series.
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Explore the Munros
The writer of this book is the editor of Scots Magazine and I followed his journey online as he climbed all 282 of Scotland's Munros. This book tells his story, of the most iconic of these majestic mountains, from the dominating Cuilin mountain range on the Isle of Skye to the highest mountain in the country, Ben Nevis. One of the most fascinating books about Scotland I've read.
Scotland the best
A brilliant all round guide to the best of everything Scotland has to offer. The best ice cream, the best Ceilidhs, the best beaches, the best places for kids, the list goes on. If you are planning your Scotland trip for after lockdown this will give you some excellent pointers of things you can include.
101 Men in Kilts
If this doesn't inspire you to book that trip I don't know what will. Tongue in cheek fun to lighten your mood.
Wild Guide Scotland
Wild Guide Scotland takes you on an adventure to Scotland's most remote places. It contains over 800 wild beaches, ancient forests, wild camping spots and artisan whisky distilleries. These places are off the beaten track and truly special.
Outlander Kitchen
Outlander is based in Scotland and has become rather a huge deal. While you are stuck indoors why not recreate some of the recipes from the show? Recipes include Cock-a-Leekie soup, pumpkin seed and herb oatcakes and Banoffee trifle at River Run. These recipes were popular in the 17th and 18th century but include ingredients you can find today.
Based on a BBC documentary this book is filled with stunning photos taken from the sky by pilots, from the First World War all the way up to the present day. See just how stunning Scotland is, from a different angle. The photography in this book is incredible.
Take the slow road
Many people cram so much into their trips to Scotland that they leave feeling like they haven't experienced much at all, the trip turns out to be too rushed and they quickly learn that next time they will take it slowly and this is what this book is all about. Slowing down, letting Scotland, the way of its people and the beauty of the landscape seep in. This book is for those of you who want to travel around Scotland in a campervan or motorhome and has the best driving routes, depending on what you want to see, with activities you might like to try and places to eat and take photos.
The North Coat 500 guide book
A guide to Scotland's North Coast 500, a driving route which leaves from Inverness and loops around the northern coast of the country. It's a popular route best taken out of season when the roads are quieter. It shows off some of the best scenery Scotland has to offer and the photography in this book will make you want to pack your cases now.
Coastal Scotland
Scotland has thousands of miles of coastline and over 800 islands and this book takes you from the wild waters around Cape Wrath to the gentle Silver Sands of Morar.
Street Food Scotland
Another book of recipes from Scotland, this time from the vibrant street food sector which has taken off in Scotland on a massive scale. Read stories from the people who make it happen, try the recipes and choose some to visit while you are here.
A year of Scottish poems
This wonderful books has a 366 poems from some of the most exciting poets in Scotland, from past and present, with poems celebrating some of Scotland's key dates including Hogmanay and Burns Night. Poets include Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Mackay Brown, Sir Walter Scott, Don Paterson, Nan Shepherd and Stewart Conn.
Scottish Island Bagging
So island bagging has become a thing in Scotland! Although we have over 800 islands around our coast only 99 of them have regular ways of reaching them so this book explores these, tells you the bet way to explore each, what there is to see and how to get there. Some of the islands included are Bute, Skye, Lewis and St Kilda.
A history of Scotland for children
This book may be for children but if you want to learn about the history of Scotland then this book is perfect. It traces the fascinating history from the very first settlers to the Scotland of modern times. This is one of the first books about Scotland I bought, it's simple, easy to read and gives you a good starting point which you can then expand upon.
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Chew Seong Aun Named Rank Group Non-Executive Director
Rank Group CFO Chew Seong Aun will succeed Tang Hong Cheong as acting non-executive director
Chairman Alex Thursby has welcomed Mr. Aun and thanked Mr. Cheong for his many years with the company
UK-based Rank Group Plc has announced that Chew Seong Aun will succeed Tang Hong as non-executive director.
Aun Succeeds Company Veteran Cheong
UK-based gambling market leader and LSE-listed Rank Group Plc announced on Thursday that CFO Chew Seong Aun will succeed Tang Hong Cheong as the company’s non-executive director.
Mr. Aun is an expert in corporate finance with over 30 years of experience in the field of investment banking and is the current acting CFO of Rank Group, which . The veteran investment banker is also a member of the board of Hong-Kong based private investment fund Guoco Group – the majority shareholder of Rank Group Plc.
During his three-decade-long executive career in investment banking, Mr. Aun specialized in raising working capital for large-scale projects across Asia, Europe as well as in the UK.
Chairman Confident in Move
Rank Group Chairman Alex Thursby welcomed the Mr. Aun to the company’s management board and praised the substantial work experience and financial and commercial expertise Mr. Seong Aun would bring to the table. Furthermore, Mr. Thursby is confident that the move would help further strengthen the solid communication between Rank Group and its majority shareholder Guoco Group.
Rank Group’s previous non-executive director Tang Hong Cheong has held this position for 20 years. He recently announced his retirement from the board and all of his duties representing the company.
Mr. Thursby also bid farewell to Mr. Cheong and thanked him for his dedication to the firm and his many years of service. “On behalf of Rank I would like to thank Hong Cheong for his valuable contribution as a director over the past two years and wish him well on his retirement,” he said.
Rank Group has had an overall solid year, given the current economic climate, and the decision to name Mr. Aun non-executive director primes the company for a stronger 2021.
The gaming sector has had an overall turbulent year due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. In order to curtail the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, jurisdictions across the world have introduced strict limitations and regulations for various gambling establishments, including in the UK – Rank Group’s base of operations.
In September, Rank Group revealed that despite go-ahead for casinos to reopen, revenues on the UK market were 40% lower compared to last year.
CEO John O’Reilly has stressed that it is vital to restore consumer confidence in the city’s infrastructure in order to boost player numbers and bring revenues back to healthy levels.
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Siena Walking Tour
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The unveiling of the floor of the Siena Cathedral: visiting a hidden jewel
A jewel visible only in a few months of the year
It is only in the period between the second half of August until the end of October that something extraordinary can be admired in Siena. This is the time in which there is the unveiling of the floor of the Siena Cathedral, an unmatched work within the Italian artistic panorama. To characterize the floor of the Cathedral of Siena – according to the biographer Giorgio Vasari “the most beautiful, the largest and most magnificent that has ever been made” – is the series of fifty-six large squares that were almost all made with the marble inlay technique (tarsia marmorea), a type of execution that stands out from the mosaic for a greater degree of complexity.
A scene of the marble floor with the detail at the centre of the Sacrifice of Isac
Eighty-five metres of beauty
What is striking about this huge ‘marble carpet’, about eighty-five meters long, is its aesthetic beauty since the visitor can admire the wonderful images created by combining marbles of different colours that have been expertly inlaid; the precious materials used for this floor come from Montagnola, an area located in the western part of the province of Siena.
Pagan images within a Christian worship place
In addition to this, the charm of the floor of the Siena Cathedral also lies in its surprising iconography; considering that we are inside a Christian worship place, what we would expect to find here is a series of Christian iconographic themes.
Instead, what it can be seen under own feet, while someone is walking through the Cathedral’s aisles, is hundreds and hundreds of figures inserted into scenes that are in some cases a pagan subject while in others episodes of the Old Testament.
The central nave of the Siena Cathedral with the unveiled marble floor
A journey into the history of the Humankind Salvation
From Hermes Trismegistus to the Slaughter of the Innocents, passing through the representation of the Sibyls, the Mount of Wisdom and the Stories of the Exodus, a journey into the history of the Humankind Salvation unfolds on this splendid floor which has been articulated through references to the texts of philosophers and writers of antiquity, as well as those of the authors of early Christianity of which the artists who made the marble inlays took care to report the exact textual quotations. Indeed, another fascinating constituent of this floor is the conspicuous presence of inscriptions, in Latin and in the vernacular, which represent the essential reading key to interpret the complex and sometimes rare iconography of this grandiose work.
Together we will contemplate the beauty and thematic richness of this floor by guided tours that will take place in the Cathedral of Siena, during the unveiling of the marble floor from August to October.
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My name is Michele Busillo and I am an official tourist guide of Florence and Siena, in Italian, English and Spanish language. I live in Chianti, midway between Florence, the cradle of Renaissance, and Siena, the city of the Palio. I love passing on the others my excitement of my job, accompanying people to discover the beauties and the secrets of Tuscany…
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Located in Southeast Asia along the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, China is the world’s third largest country, after Russia and Canada. With an area of 9.6 million square kilometers and a coastline of 18,000 kilometers, its shape on the map is like a rooster. It reaches Mohe in Heilongjiang Province as its northern end, Zengmu Ansha (or James Shoal) to the south, Pamirs to the west, and expands to the eastern border at the conjunction of the Heilongjiang (Amur) River and the Wusuli (Ussuri) River, spanning about 50 degrees of latitude and 62 degrees of longitude.
China is bordered by 14 countries — Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Mongolia, and Russia. Marine-side neighbors include eight countries — North Korea, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
The vast land expanses of China include plateaus, plains, basins, foothills, and mountains. Defining rugged plateaus, foothills and mountains as mountainous, they occupy nearly two-thirds of the land, higher in the West and lower in the East like a three-step ladder.
The highest step of the typical ‘ladder topography’ is formed by the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at the average height of over 4,000 meters, with the Kunlunshan range, Qilianshan range and Hengduan mountain chain as the division between this step and the second one. The highest peak in the world, Everest, at 8844.43 meters high is known as ‘the Roof of the World’.
On the second step are large basins and plateaus, most of which are 1,000 – 2,000 meters high. The Daxing’an, Taihang, Wu and Xuefeng Mountains divide this step and the next lower one. Plateaus including Inner Mongolian, Loess, Yungui Plateaus, and basins such as Tarim, Junggar, and Sichuan Basins are situated here.
The third step, abundant in broad plains, is dotted with the foothills and lower mountains, with altitudes of over 500 meters. Here are located famous plains: the Northeast, the North China, and the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plains, neighboring with each other from north to south. These well-cultivated and fertile lands produce abundant crops.
Regional Divisions
Although the physical features are as described, people tend to divide China into four regions, that is, the North, South, Northwest and the Qinghai-Tibetan areas. Because of geographical differences, residents of each region have distinctive life styles and customs.
The North and South regions are located in the Eastern monsoon area and are divided by the Qin Mountains-Huai River. Nearly 95 percent of the Chinese population lives here. The other two regions, the Northwest and Qinghai-Tibetan regions that occupy 55 percent of the land, have fewer people, although most of the ethnic groups cluster there.
China has numerous rivers and lakes. According to statistics, more than 50,000 rivers have drainage areas that exceed 100 square kilometers; more than 1,500 exceed 1,000 square kilometers. These rivers can also be classified as exterior and interior rivers. The Yangtze, the longest in China and even in Asia, is the third-longest in the world. The Yellow River, ‘Mother River of the Chinese People’, is just behind the Yangtze, both flowing into the Pacific Ocean. The Yarlung Zangbo River belongs to the Indian Ocean water system, and the Irtysh River to the Arctic Ocean. On the other side, the interior rivers drain less area than the exterior ones.
Lakes are also important. The areas with the most lakes are the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Many lakes in the northwest are salty. Qinghai Lake, a beautiful natural salt-water lake, is the largest. In southeast China, most lakes are fresh water. Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake , and Taihu Lake are all fresh water lakes.
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Mountainous Topography
China has large areas of mountainous land, about two-thirds of the country. The ranges mainly run from east to west and from northeast to southwest. Among these mountains, some reach to the sky, and others are lower with charming scenery. Out of the mountains throughout the world at the altitude of over 7,000 meters, over 50 stand in China. To the east in China, lower mountains like Mt. Taishan, Mt. Huashan, and Mt. Emeishan, also display their unique beauty.
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Amazon’s Rumored Tablet Won’t be Named Scratchpad
Chuong Nguyen
As Amazon had recently registered a domain name for Scratchpad, there has been speculation on the Internet that the Internet retailer may soon launch its own tablet to compete with rival bookseller Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color and Apple’s iPad under the Scratchpad brand. However, that may not be the case as the Scratchpad name may be related to tools that Amazon is offering to developers.
According to The Next Web, “Amazon’s legal department registered several domain names on the 25th of March, including AmazonScratchpad.com and several variations that include the letters MWS — Amazon’s Marketplace Web Service.”
As Scratchpad includes tools that Amazon has since released for developers, it seems unlikely that the company will release a tablet under the same branding.
Speculations over an Amazon-branded tablet have been swirling since the rumoured Amazon Appstore, which has since launched, for Android smartphones as a third-party app store that rivals Google’s native Android Market. The company has been making an aggressive push into the digital space with the Amazon Appstore and now with Amazon Cloud Player for mobile devices, which could signify a larger digital strategy that can set an Amazon-branded tablet apart from the competition. Unlike Barnes & Noble, which has both an e-ink and a color touchscreen-based e-reader tablets, Amazon is currently limited to a dedicated e-ink e-reader.
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If I could be anywhere in the country as this month ends, it would be The Big Easy, and the Oct. 26 Packer-Saints football game is just one reason why.
Inside the fiercely creative city with French roots, a free spirit and big love of jazz is a mix of mystery and beauty, with an appetite for gumbo and the risqué. Some of the locals seem to be in costume all year, which makes it OK for visitors to shed a few inhibitions, too, especially as Halloween approaches.
Add spooky cemeteries, psychic predictions and the fact that New Orleans loves a parade – sanctioned or not, especially in the city's anything-goes French Quarter.
What's better than watching a New Orleans parade? Being in one.
I didn't know that riding a float here was on my bucket list until after being invited to do it. The all-day prep, party and anticipation were nothing compared to my reaction of seeing thousands clamor for attention during the three-mile procession. It began at dusk.
An odd sea of humanity – kids on parents' shoulders, weary homeless folks, hand-holding couples, greedy trick-or-treaters, silly drunks – cheered and whooped nonstop. Some begged for attention. Others stayed quiet and were thrilled to get noticed. A few got beaned when aims went awry.
I was surprised to get teary-eyed about this unending crowd. Having the power to make stranger after stranger grin, just for catching a cheap stuffed animal or one-pot bag of coffee, was surprisingly gratifying.
What you'd expect during Mardi Gras – bead necklaces thrown in exchange for the flash of bare breasts – didn't happen during this Krewe of Boo, a city-sanctioned event.
It's far from a free ticket to ride on one of the horrifyingly decorated, two-story wagons. Most parade participants begin by paying $575 for a Krewe of Boo membership. That buys a pre-parade lunch, entry to an after-parade party with open bar and three-day pass to Voodoo Fest, a Halloween-themed music festival in City Park.
The float rider also pays $400 for merchandise to throw during the parade. That's a lot of toys, packaged pralines, candy corn necklaces and voodoo doll pins – but you'd be surprised at how quickly box after box vanishes.
You provide the costume; onsite makeup artists add gruesome touches. Then everybody waits and wanders at Mardi Gras World, where some of the world's largest and most elaborate parade floats are made throughout the year.
In late afternoon, the procession of wagons with enormous paper maché ghouls putters toward the starting point, Elysian Fields. Riders pretty much stand the whole time. Smart groups pack coolers with muffulettas (fat cheese-meat-olive-salad sandwiches) but not too much beer, because of another lengthy wait for the show to go on.
On a budget? Watch the parade instead of buying a ticket to ride. This year's event starts at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 30. kreweofboo.com, (504) 669-7655
The flamboyant Mardi Gras World, open since 1947, offers tours all year. mardigrasworld.com, (504) 361-7821
New Orleans has no shortage of costume shops. Our media group was taken to New Orleans Party and Costume, where it sure isn't hard to spend $100 to develop an alter-ego. facebook.com/nolacostume, (504) 525-4744
Smitten with the supernatural? Spook yourself out with a haunted history tour (hauntedhistorytours.com, (504) 861-2727), Bloody Mary tour (bloodymarytours.com, (504) 915-7774), spirit tour (neworleanstours.net, (504) 314-0806) or cemetery tour (tourneworeleans.om, (504) 947-2120), available all year in New Orleans. The cost depends on the tour provider and tour length.
St. Louis Cemetery, the oldest in the city, fills one fascinating square block downtown. Actor Nicolas Cage bought himself a pyramid-shaped tomb here, not far from where voodoo queen Marie Laveau is buried.
It is a short walk to priestess Miriam Chamani's Voodoo Spiritual Temple, a resting place for many human hopes and regrets. Visitors leave behind cigarettes, hootch, trinkets, spare change, notes and much more. Then some seek herbal potions, psychic readings, gifts or curses before heading home.
"Is voodoo real? Is Christianity real?" tour guide Robert Florence asks, rhetorically. "It's real if you think it is." He is the author of the book "New Orleans Cemeteries and City of the Dead."
The priestess, a former surgical nurse, compares voodoo to gumbo – not an exact science.
"People come through this door, trying to find a respite from the pain they feel, and hope for what is in front of them," she explains. "No one knows all your ins and outs." voodoospiritualtemple.org, (504) 522-9627
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5 moments you missed from the 2019 Oscars
For the first time in 30 years, the Academy Awards went without a host. And while it felt like the evening moved a little more smoothly without one, it was still a long night. So if you didn't watch the entire show, here are the highlights, popular moments and big wins from the night.
Everyone wore velvet.
Billy Porter's velvet tuxedo dress absolutely destroyed everybody else on the red carpet Sunday night. Did anybody else even walk the red carpet? Cast him in the next "A Star is Born" remake, please.
When you come to the Oscars, you must dress up. Thanks@CSiriano for creating this custom couture masterpiece.@OscarHeymanBros you have outdone yourselves with your iconic jewels. Style by@sammyratelle Grooming by Anna Bernabe.@TheAcademy#AcademyAwards2019#oscars#oscars2019pic.twitter.com/IpTG2OK20x
— Billy Porter (@theebillyporter)February 24, 2019
Also, Jason Momoa rolled in wearing a pink velvet suit and a matching pink scrunchie and now I've ordered a package of velvet scrunchies on Amazon.
Melissa McCarthy and Bryan Tyree Henry presented an award in the best costumes ever.
The duo walked out on stage to present the Best Costume Design award wearing over-the-top costumes of their own, clearly inspired by "The Favourite," looking absolutely regal and absolutely ridiculous. McCarthy's outfit had stuffed animals attached to it, and she even had a rabbit hand puppet.
Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry announce the award for Best Costume Design in some costumes of their own.#Oscarshttps://t.co/zSrvQG8ZE6pic.twitter.com/SPkT92WlSw
— ABC News (@ABC)February 25, 2019
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey joined forces to present "Bohemian Rhapsody."
To introduce the highlights from nominated Best Picture "Bohemian Rhapsody," Myers and Carvey reunited 26 years after their iconic film "Wayne's World," which featured the best "Bohemian Rhapsody" singalong ever. They pointed to members of Queen who were sitting in the audience and exclaimed "We're not worthy!"
It was a huge night for people of color.
Several presenters from the night, including presenters for the best foreign film award and the duo who introduced Best Picture nominee "Roma," spoke in Spanish about the importance of love, compassion and telling the stories of underrepresented communities.
"Black Panther" received h three awards throughout the night, including a win for production design for Hannah Beachler, the first black woman to ever be nominated in the category, and Ruth Carter's win for costume design made her the first black person to win in that category.
For his role in "Green Book," Mahershala Ali took home the award for best supporting actor, making him the first black man to win two awards in that category.
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The Absolute Russell Set Exists
by browser32 » Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:25 pm
The absolute Russell set exists.
Lemma. If a statement is false, then it materially implies some contradiction exists.
Proof of Lemma. It is given that a statement is false. So, the hypothesis of the material implication “the statement materially implies some contradiction exists” is false. By the truth table for material implication, any material implication with a false hypothesis is true. So, the statement materially implies some contradiction exists. This concludes the proof of the lemma.
Assume the absolute Russell set exists. As I’ve proved in my post at http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?p=2699066#p2699066, the absolute Russell set both is and is not an element of itself. For that reason, some contradiction exists. It follows by ex contradictione quodlibet that no contradiction exists. Discharge the assumption. Thus, by implication introduction, it is materially true that if the absolute Russell set exists, no contradiction exists. So, as a step of the proof that may be questionable, it is not materially true that if the absolute Russell set exists, some contradiction exists. In other words, the absolute Russell set exists does not materially imply some contradiction exists. Using modus tollens with the lemma and previous statement, the statement “the absolute Russell set exists” is not false. Thus, the statement is true. Therefore, the absolute Russell set exists. This concludes the proof.
A possible question with the proof is whether “the absolute Russell set exists materially implies no contradiction exists” strictly implies “the absolute Russell set exists does not materially imply some contradiction exists.” It's fairly intuitive that if a statement implies no contradiction, then it does not imply some contradiction. “The absolute Russell set exists materially implies no contradiction exists” does not tautologically imply “the absolute Russell set exists does not materially imply some contradiction exists;" the four corner entries in the bottommost two rows and the rightmost two columns of the following truth table reveal that in the case where the absolute Russell set does not exist, the former statement is true, but the latter is false.
Truth Table.
p = “The absolute Russell set exists.”
q = “Some contradiction exists.”
p.....q..|..¬q.....p → q.....p → ¬q.....¬(p → q)
T.....T...|...F.........T............F...............F
T.....F...|...T.........F............T...............T
F.....T...|...F.........T............T...............F
F.....F...|...T.........T............T...............F
This concludes the truth table.
The question of interest, however, regards strict implication, not tautological implication. Both statements describe the epistemically possible case in which the absolute Russell set does exist. So, the question can be reconsidered as whether, in the epistemically possible case in which the absolute Russell set exists, “no contradiction exists” strictly implies “it is not true that some contradiction exists.” The answer is intuitively yes; that strict implication is true in all cases. Therefore, the proof that the absolute Russell set exists is sound.
Paul E. Mokrzecki
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Location: Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
Re: The Absolute Russell Set Exists
by wtf » Fri Apr 20, 2018 8:59 pm
I clicked on your link that the "absolute Russell set," whatever that is, exists. Sadly, there was no proof there ... just ANOTHER link to some claimed proof, which I did not click on. Fool me once dude.
So just to keep this discussion self-contained in this thread, please do me a favor.
1) Define what you mean by the "absolute Russell set," since I have no idea what that means nor does anyone else; and
2) Show your "proof" here.
If by "absolute Russell set" you mean the standard Russell set, namely the set of all sets that are not members of themselves, of course that set does NOT exist via an easy and standard proof.
by Meno_ » Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:39 pm
browser32 wrote: The absolute Russell set exists.
If a statement is false, materially, regardless of the material, then that statement is neither true or false, for example that the Absolute Russell Set Exists/ ( or not); therefore there can not be a contradiction with whether it is contradictory or not.
If by absolute set is meant the idea or proposition , that an absolute set does or does not exist, that is a separate material, and that is a preoccupation of set theory, that is, whether the absolute set contains ALL sets, including the absolute set.
But the proposition that Russel's Absolute Set Exists, is not contradictory, therefore it does exist.
Topical and dynamic logic play a part here, and they are not necessarily connected, therefore there is no contradiction.
It seems so simple, but it was this 'discovery' , which made Frege exclaim, that he sees logic in a completely different way now.
by wtf » Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:42 pm
Meno_ wrote: If a statement is false, materially, regardless of the material, then that statement is neither true or false
Sorry can you please clarify? If a statement is false then it's false.
wtf wrote:
A statement is neither true or false. It is merely a statement.
I can say that I am Einstein, and if You were to say that's obviously false, I could retort by saying, You are lacking certain facts, therefore my statement could be true or false, no contradiction there.
But if You were to press on further, I could retort just as well, and until that happens( You Pressing On) , no further clarification could be possible.
Meno_ wrote:
We're in the realm of formal set theory. A statement along with an interpretation (model) has a truth value. If it's false it's false. Otherwise you're just confusing the issue and you're not helping browser to unconfuse himself.
We're in the realm of formal logic. A statement along with an interpretation (model) has a truth value. If it's false it's false. Otherwise you're just confusing the issue and you're not helping browser to unconfuse himself.
by Meno_ » Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:15 am
Not at all. What is the issue? That it even befuddled Cantor himself to insanity?
Lets build this from the basement foundation to (through) the roof.
by wtf » Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:18 am
Meno_ wrote: Not at all. What is the issue? That it even befuddled Cantor himself to insanity?
Utter nonsense. Cantor's pre-existing emotional issues were no doubt exacerbated by the hostility his theory of sets received, especially from his teacher Kronecker. But Cantor was certainly not confused by the Russell set. In fact your history is off. Cantor was not involved in that conversation at all. Frege published his book on logic that included unrestricted comprehension as an axiom. Russell showed that unrestricted comprehension leads to a contradiction. Russell's fix was type theory. Mainstream math instead adopted restricted comprehension.
Meno_ wrote: Lets build this from the basement foundation to (through) the roof.
Doubling down on browser's confusion won't get anyone anywhere.
That Cantor was uninvolved , is a misnomer. He was involved in general set theory, as was Russell. That Leibnitz discovered the differential calculus independently, does not mean am absolute absence of total relations with Newton. The same with types of logic.
Whether set theory is simple or complex, is an ISSUE conjecture. That may ultimately be the issue of clarity.
Russell's contradiction was paradoxical, however.
Meno_ wrote: That Cantor was uninvolved , is a misnomer. He was involved in general set theory, as was Russell. That Leibnitz discovered the differential calculus independently, does not mean am absolute absence of total relations with Newton. The same with types of logic.
Your claim that Cantor was confused and driven to insanity by Russell's paradox is pathetically wrong. That's a matter of historical fact.
Meno_ wrote: Whether set theory is simple or complex, is an ISSUE conjecture. That may ultimately be the issue of clarity.
English please. Whether set theory is simple or complex? What does that mean? What is an "ISSUE conjecture?" You are speaking nonsense.
Meno_ wrote: Russell's contradiction was paradoxical, however.
Not in the least. It simply showed that unrestricted comprehension leads to a contradiction; hence unrestricted comprehension may not be taken as an axiom of set theory if you wish set theory to be consistent. There's nothing paradoxical about that.
Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes shows that if we have a finite list of the first n primes, there must be some prime not on the list. That's not paradoxical; it's a straightforward proof that there can't be only finitely many primes.
Likewise, Russell's proof shows that unrestricted set formation leads to a contradiction. Nothing paradoxical. It's just a straightforward proof of a mathematical fact.
by Meno_ » Sat Apr 21, 2018 1:08 am
Since You asked, what is Absolute Russell Set, what is unrestricted set formation?
Is there a relation between the two concepts, or propositions?
by wtf » Sat Apr 21, 2018 1:19 am
Since You asked, what is Absolute Russell Set
I have no idea. That's a phrase browser used. I asked him to define it and I await his response.
The (standard, usual, historically accurate) Russell set is the set of all sets that are not elements of themselves. Symbolically:
$$R = \{x : x \notin x\}$$
Meno_ wrote: , what is unrestricted set formation?
Defining a set via a predicate. For example if P is a unary predicate such that P(x) = $$x \notin x$$ then we can rewrite the above definition as
$$R = \{x : P(x)\}$$
and as Russell noted, this leads to a contradiction. R both is and isn't an element of R.
Note that symbolically I wrote, "x such that P(x)". That's unrestricted, I'm allowing x to range over the entire universe. That leads to trouble.
The fix is to require restricted comprehension. ["Comprehension" is just a buzzword meaning "set formation."] When defining a set, we must write
$$\{x \in S : P(x)\}$$
In other words we have to start with some set S, and restrict x to range only over the elements of S.
Let's see how this fixes Russell's paradox. Say we let \(\mathbb Z\) be the set of integers. Then suppose we form a restricted Russell set:
$$R = \{x \in \mathbb Z : x \notin x\}$$
What are the elements of R? Well 3 is an integer. Is 3 an element of 3? No, so 3 is in R. Is 47 an element of 47? No, so 47 is in R. Continuing like this, we see that R is just the integers! So by requiring x to range over the elements of an already-existing set, we avoid the paradox.
So unresricted comprehension leads to a contradiction; and restricted comprehension doesn't.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_sch ... cification for a longer discussion of the same point. It's simply that in order to legally form a set by taking all the objects that satisfy some predicate, we must restrict the objects to some set that's already known to exist.
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I understand this much in simpler terms , normal and abnormal sets are easier to understand without any contradiction between logic and language
Zemelo's treatment seems most informal for the purposes at hand.
Never the less, it is obvious that primal logic would lead to contradiction. But that such a nuance be so earth shaking to Frege shows , that it is not so easy to shift gears into sub typical nomenclature, from merely one of order as a way of differentiation.
I bring in calculus for the reason that reference to Euclid is as far removed ,do that lest we forget that 3000 years difference in thought can really up the ante.
Meno_ wrote: I understand this much in simpler terms
Are you being serious? Since I gave you a clear and simple explanation of restricted and unrestricted comprehension, a simple thank-you would suffice. Instead, you wrote a post of meaningless gobbledygook. Why? Can't you accept that I explained something to you that you asked about, and be happy that you learned something?
Meno_ wrote: , normal and abnormal sets are easier to understand
I have no idea what normal and abnormal sets are. There is no such terminology. There are of course many uses of "normal" in math, such as normal subgroups in group theory, and normal extensions in field theory. But none of these usages have any relation to set theory. There are simply no such things as normal and abnormal sets.
Meno_ wrote: without any contradiction between logic and language
What contradiction between logic and language do you think is involved in my explanation of restricted and unrestricted comprehension? Did you read the Wiki page I linked? Are you trying to learn anything? Or just trying to argue with the most basic of mathematical facts taught to undergraduates?
Meno_ wrote: Zemelo's treatment seems most informal for the pirposes at hand.
Really? I find that quite surprising, since it's Zermelo who did the most in the early days to formalize set theory. In fact Cantor gets the credit and Zermelo did most of the heavy lifting.
Tell me, which particular aspects of Zermelo's treatment of set theory do you find relevant here?
Meno_ wrote: Never the less, it is obvious that primal logic
I'm afraid that I don't know what primal logic is. Please define it.
Meno_ wrote: would lead to contradiction.
Until you define primal logic you're in no position to make such a claim.
Meno_ wrote: But that such a nuance be so earth shaking to Frege shows , that it is not so easy to shift gears into sub typical nomenclature, from merely one of order as a way of differentiation.
You appear to be speaking in bullshit-ese here. You're slinging words that have no referents. The above sentence says nothing and means nothing. Are you playing games?
Meno_ wrote: I bring in calculus
You did? When? Calculus has nothing at all to do with any of this.
Meno_ wrote: for the reason that reference to Euclid is as far removed
Euclid has nothing to do with any of this.
Meno_ wrote: , that we forget that 3000 years difference in thought can really up the ante.
I hope you won't mind if I'm direct. You're full of baloney and clearly not engaging in a good faith dialog. Have a nice day.
Well, emotionalism doesen't enter here and I could refer you to normal and abnormal sets, but briefly, an abnormal set contains all sets including itself and a normal one does not. Primal logic is reducible logic which ends in contradiction, and all others do not.
If philosophy be a matter of naivete, it is as understandable as that, with which Cantor was concerned, yet surely one couldn't label him ignorant.
If Euclid has nothing to do with this, why did You bring it up?
I see he has everything to do with it& absolutely.
Of course I do not see anything in Your directness, but bravado, and that is perfectly forgivable, as far as I am concerned.
Its like I don't know who wrote it, Jane Austin, You can make sense without being sensible, or having sensibility. And remember my name , Meno, and You know how he learned.
I chose it somewhere along that line, for an obvious purpose.
And a very good day to you as well.
by browser32 » Sat Apr 21, 2018 4:20 am
wtf wrote: I clicked on your link that the "absolute Russell set," whatever that is, exists. Sadly, there was no proof there ... just ANOTHER link to some claimed proof, which I did not click on.
The link in my previous post should bring you to a proof. If you want to better understand the proof, then please follow the appropriate additional referrals. It's all there; you just have to click and scroll a bit.
wtf wrote: If by "absolute Russell set" you mean the standard Russell set, namely the set of all sets that are not members of themselves, of course that set does NOT exist via an easy and standard proof.
By the absolute Russell set, I do not mean the set of all sets that are not members of themselves; I mean the set of all things that are not members of themselves. As I have proved privately in first-order logic, as I explained in the past debate "The Absolute Russell Set Exists" I proposed at http://www.debate.org/debates/The-Absol ... -Exists/1/, which I have already indirectly referred to, and as may be common knowledge, the set does not "exist via an easy and standard proof." I, notwithstanding, present proof to the contrary.
wtf wrote: Russell showed that unrestricted comprehension leads to a contradiction.
And that contradiction, through ex contradictione quodlibet, leads to no contradiction at all. I brought that up in my original post.
wtf wrote: unrestricted comprehension may not be taken as an axiom of set theory if you wish set theory to be consistent.
That's not true. Set theory is consistent both with and without unrestricted comprehension. By the law of non-contradiction, set theory is consistent or inconsistent. If set theory is consistent, then by reiteration, it is consistent. If set theory is inconsistent, then by ex contradictione quodlibet, it is consistent. Therefore by disjunction elimination, set theory is consistent.
Contradictione quidlobet is a shift to a functional approach to verifying a second order logic , grounding a utilitarian-positivism, meaning it tries to overcome the naturalistic fallacy, utilizing a neo-Kantism.
Marbourg school-Cassirer.
It is, as if in Ayer's behaviorist model, what signifies meaning. through the function of language where usage determines the logical structure , not some intrinsic property.
This structural hierarchy coincides with the epistemological significance of semantic usage, rather then the intractibly logical signifier, of a first order hierarchy , which does cause contradiction. The usage will will synthesize this by reasserting the logical unity between usage , function and meaning.(Typical logical progression. Is de-emphasized, in favor of logically ordered sequences).
This is the ontic, rather then the ontological take on it.
I hate to appear defensive, but a proof predicated on an assumption is only part of the story, and this is an effort to show the fallibility of that assumption.
I just learned this : in classical logic the principle of acceptance of contradictory statements is valid, but in relevance logic it is rejected. This backs up the idea that such a logical proof is not totally relevant therefore invalid.
The paradox comes in where two different types of logic are conflated.
It is an interesting mind game, however the claims upon which the assumptions are based have lost their significance.
But thanks for the opportunity !
by browser32 » Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:02 pm
This post includes a second proof that the absolute Russell set exists. The second proof is a modified and arguably stronger version of the first proof. All conditional statements in the modified proof are strict; that differs from the first proof, in which some conditional statements were material.
Second Proof.
Lemma 2. If a statement is false, then if the statement is true, then some contradiction exists.
Proof of Lemma 2. It is given that a statement is false. Assume the statement is true. Then some contradiction exists. Discharge the assumption. So, by conditional introduction, if the statement is true, then some contradiction exists. This concludes the proof of the lemma.
Postulate 2. If one statement implies it is not true that a second statement, then the first statement does not imply the second statement.
Argument for Postulate 2. Postulate 2 seems intuitively true, despite the fact that Postulate 2 would traditionally be false due to the case in which the first statement is necessarily false, since, as suggested by Property 4 of Theorem 2.1 on page 11 of the March 23, 2014 Edition of Want Theory #6 by me, any conditional statement with a necessarily false hypothesis is true. However, a conditional statement with a necessarily false hypothesis is only vacuously true, and treats the false hypothesis as true, yielding a contradiction that by ex contradictione quodlibet implies and does not imply everything. So, such a conditional statement is true and false simultaneously. Thus, for the sake of Postulate 2, if the first statement is necessarily false, then the conditional statement "if the first statement, then the second statement" is considered false. This concludes the argument for Postulate 2.
Assume the statement "the absolute Russell set exists" is true. By simplification, the absolute Russell set exists. As I’ve proved in my post at http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?p=2699066#p2699066, the absolute Russell set both is and is not an element of itself. wtf was critical of that citation in my first proof, so I will explain the linked proof some more here. That proof invokes the fact that the absolute Russell set is an element of itself if and only if it is not an element of itself. That fact is readily derived from a property of the absolute Russell set: a thing is an element of the absolute Russell set if and only if it is not an element of itself. As I had done in the debate I previously proposed and referred to, for more context, I cite pages 432, 433, and 434 of Language, Proof and Logic (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008) by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox#Formal_presentation.
Since the absolute Russell set is and is not an element of itself, some contradiction exists. It follows by ex contradictione quodlibet that no contradiction exists. Discharge the assumption. Thus, by conditional introduction, if the statement "the absolute Russell set exists" is true, then no contradiction exists. So, by Postulate 2, it is not true that if the statement "the absolute Russell set exists" is true, then some contradiction exists. Invoking modus tollens with Lemma 2 and the previous sentence, it is shown that the statement “the absolute Russell set exists” is not false. Thus, the statement is true. Therefore, the absolute Russell set exists. This concludes the second proof.
As to the first proof, although the truth table for material implication may be correct, it is incomplete. Material implication is not truth functional as has been believed. As suggested by my argument for Postulate 2, whenever the hypothesis of a material implication is false, the implication is not just true, but it is also false. That claim is supported by the fact that if a false statement is assumed true, then by ex contradictione quodlibet, all statements are true and false simultaneously. So, a false statement always materially implies and always does not materially imply every statement. For these reasons, the following Postulate 1, which was implicitly invoked in the first proof at the step I explicitly claimed may be questionable, is true.
Postulate 1. If one statement materially implies it is not true that a second statement, then the first statement does not materially imply the second statement.
Note that while the hypothesis and conclusion of Postulate 1 are a material implication and material nonimplication, respectively, Postulate 1 itself is a strict implication.
by wtf » Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:48 pm
browser32 wrote: This post includes a second proof that the absolute Russell set exists.
Bizarre that you'd write all this word salad without bothering to define the "absolute Russell set," which has no meaning in standard math or logic.
But if you merely mean the class of all sets that are not members of themselves, I already showed you how to define it:
This is a perfectly well-defined proper class. It's just not a set.
Proper classes are formally defined in some versions of set theory. In ZFC where they're not formally defined, they're used informally, meaning a class that's "too big" to be a set. The class of all sets, the class of all Abelian groups, the class of all topological spaces, the class of all sets that are not members of themselves, etc. All those are proper classes either in the formal or informal sense.
With your interest in the subject, why don't you study some basic set theory and logic? You'd find it interesting and fun.
wtf wrote: Bizarre that you'd write all this word salad without bothering to define the "absolute Russell set," which has no meaning in standard math or logic.
I do not have to define the absolute Russell set. A property I described it to have should have sufficed for the discussion so far. I now define the absolute Russell set as the set that has a property I have ascribed to it in my previous post; I define the absolute Russell set as the set such that
browser32 wrote: a thing is an element of the absolute Russell set if and only if it is not an element of itself.
wtf wrote: With your interest in the subject, why don't you study some basic set theory and logic?
I've already done that. And I am not convinced, despite formal proofs, that neither the absolute Russell set nor the universal set exist.
Just because a set is inconsistent, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I've already showed you how to define the class of all sets (or things, if you prefer) that are not members of themselves:
As far as your saying you don't have to define something to show it exists, surely even you can see that's insane.
by browser32 » Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:11 pm
I'm not interested in classes; I'm interested in sets. I'm skeptical of the difference between sets and classes. The difference seems rather artificial and unnecessary.
wtf wrote: As far as your saying you don't have to define something to show it exists, surely even you can see that's insane.
Just because a thing is not defined, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
by wtf » Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:51 pm
browser32 wrote: I'm not interested in classes; I'm interested in sets. I'm skeptical of the difference between sets and classes. The difference seems rather artificial and unnecessary.
Are there any sane people on this forum?
wtf wrote: Are there any sane people on this forum?
Yes, I am a sane person on this forum.
There's a difference between a definition and a description. All definitions are descriptions, but not all descriptions are definitions. The description I had initially given of the absolute Russell set, while on another web page, exclusive, and sufficient for my purposes, was not regarded by me as a formal definition. I believe I may have regarded so intentionally, because I may have suspected the definition of the absolute Russell set was already given in a printed textbook, the one by Barwise and Etchemendy.
I should not have to define in this thread everything that has already been defined elsewhere. That decreases the value of this thread and increases its unattractiveness to people looking for original thought.
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‘Zama’ Review: Lucretia Martel’s Long-Awaited Epic Is a Serious Achievement That Will Keep You Guessing
The filmmaker's first feature in a decade boasts Pedro Almodovar, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal as producers — but it's going to challenge even the most diehard cinephiles.
Ben Croll
Credit where it’s due: Few films have done more to unite the international film community than “Zama.” The minutes-long opening titles list over 20 different production companies and regional supports. The nominally Argentinian film is a joint venture between nine other countries as well, and the end credits name figures as diverse as Danny Glover, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gael Garcia Bernal among the many other who jumped on to help this project through a troubled, many year production. Finally complete, Lucrecia Martel’s film promises to be significantly more divisive.
Technically an adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto acclaimed modernist novel, “Zama” reads just as much like an open declaration of war against the line that separates form and content. The source text told the story of an 18th century magistrate driven to madness while waiting for his next post; the film forces the viewer to go mad right there with him.
That man is Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho, of “Bad Education”), an elite servant of the Spanish crown stationed in the remotest point of what we now know as Paraguay. In the film’s opening shot, he’s a regally dressed, high-shouldered beacon of Spanish imperial power. But as he stares longingly on the beach, we can see that’s already aching to escape. And that’s the best he ever looks in the narratively threadbare tale, which basically tracks his dawning realization that he’s just as much a prisoner as the slaves he commands.
The film’s uncompromising aesthetic and deliberate pace may prove too steep a hurdle for many a viewer, even for those who wowed by the director’s previous films. While films like “The Headless Woman” and “The Holy Girl” also tied themselves to the lead’s subjective experience, both took place in the here-and-now, benefitting from a readily understandable context wholly apart from the alien colonial world of “Zama.” By eschewing any real exposition or situational cues, Martel forces viewers to either go all in all at once, or to never meaningfully connect.
Viewers that are willing to meet the film at its very particular wavelength will find themselves lulled into a state of confused delirium. As Zama meanders through his outskirts post, he finds himself in a number of recurring situations. There are the frequent visits with Luciana (Lola Dueñas), a colonial matron who constantly rebuffs his advances, or his repeated visits with local governor, played by three different actors so to indicate the cruel advance of time while our lead remains maddeningly inert. Often in lieu of linear dialogue the script will repeat the same lines again and again, using them as kind of incantation to bring on that state of feverishness.
As the film goes on, that delirium will infect the very dialogue itself. Characters will deliver lines out of conversational order, as if an actor tasked with reading three sentences delivered them in any he or she chose. Sometimes the fever attacks grammar itself, like at one point, where Zama looks to native girl who may or may not be his former mistress and notes, “that boy, she’s holding my son.”
All the while, many species of animals chirp, growl, and howl off-screen, and do so with metonymic timing. Sound designer Guido Berenblum and sound editor Gerardo Kalmar greatly enhance the film’s hypnotic pull with textured audio landscape, rife with the unnatural sounds of nature and pitched just too loud so as to be disquieting. The film employs an equally uncanny visual approach, sometimes speeding up individual bits of action to point that they feel cartoonish, and bathing a number of late-in-film sequences with colors too vivid to feel real.
But one can reasonably wonder just what it all means. Giménez Cacho tracks Zama’s long descent from despair to delirium with expressive physicality, but that remains the only narrative through line in what is otherwise two hours of impressionistic, purely experiential cinema. As an existential objet d’art “Zama” stands as a serious achievement. But that won’t prevent even the most sophisticated of cinephiles from staggering out of the theater, wondering “What in the world did I just see?”
“Zama” premiered at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival. It is currently seeking distribution.
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S&T | How the Blockchain will Transform Housing Markets
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By Danika Wright, University of Sydney
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An emerging technology, blockchain, could transform the way we buy and sell real estate by doing away with the hidden costs and inefficiencies of our housing markets.
Blockchain is an online ledger that records transactions. It’s capable of recording the movement of any kind of asset from one owner to the next.
It’s public and isn’t owned by any one corporation, there are no charges to record transactions. Its openness ensures the integrity of transactions and ownership, as everyone involved has a stake in keeping it honest.
This means there are fewer intermediaries; less middle-men who increase the costs and time to complete a transaction.
There are risks associated with the system as it’s only as strong as the code that supports it, which has come under attack in the past. Despite this, examples from overseas show it is possible to apply this technology successfully to our housing market.
Problems in how the property market is run
For buyers able to find the right property, secure a mortgage and save a deposit, they must also pay for a range of so-called “hidden costs”. These are additional payments associated with the transaction over the cost of the home itself. Many legal and title-related costs would become near-obsolete in a blockchain system.
The combined costs of title registration, title insurance, and legal fees associated with register the property transfer approach A$1,000 on the average Australian house. Costs continue to rise as the prudent buyer undertakes further due diligence, through building inspection documentation, previous sales records and so forth.
On top of the financial cost, it then typically takes over a month to settle a real estate transaction in Australia. The blockchain system can speed things up, as currently tedious checks undertaken by hand, move to an automated system overseen and approved by the relevant stakeholders.
There is also the risk that land titles offices with a single database simply get things wrong too. In 2016 it was reported that 300 incorrect certificates had been issued in NSW, with 140 of those being recent property buyers affected by government plans for major motorways in Sydney’s west.
There are now concerns that the system’s quality could be compromised in several states, including NSW and South Australia, as land titles offices become privatised.
A blockchain real estate market
If blockchain were applied to the property market in Australia, every property would be encoded with a unique identifier. Property IDs already exist in most land registry systems, so these would need to be migrated to a blockchain.
Next, the blockchain ecosystem then needs to have defined who the people behind the transaction are, those stakeholders that include the owner, lender, and government.
Transactions of property are conducted via “smart contracts” – digital rules in the blockchain that process the agreement and any specified conditions. Buying and selling could still take place via agents, or the smart contract can be advanced to incorporate the sale rules and make this decision automatically. The blockchain for each property grows as transactions are added to the ledger.
A housing market without agents, conveyancers and a land-titles office may seem decades away, but a handful of countries have already piloted blockchain land registration system.
In Australia, our current land titles system is among the world’s best, but it is not infallible. A range of hidden taxes and transaction costs increase market inefficiencies.
And while the electronic system Property Exchange Australia or PEXA, has brought us to the point of a near paperless property market, it’s still an intermediary between the parties and the record of the transfer in the Torrens system - our current land title system.
The added advantage of a blockchain system is in eliminating risks, in particular the risk of records being accessed fraudulently and altered or deleted because it is a permanent and immutable record. This means that a huge amount of computing power would be required, probably along with some collusion, and the alteration is easily detected across the ledger. That’s not to say the blockchain system is perfect.
Blockchain’s advantage in restricting any changes to historical records becomes a disadvantage when incorrect or fraudulent entries are added. Digital currency managers, Ether and Bitfinex, learned this the hard way through cyber attacks.
Last year these attacks siphoned off over US$50 million in ether tokens from The DAO, the largest crowdfunded venture capital fund. This breach led to a controversial split of Ether into two separate active digital currencies.
Only months later, Hong Kong-based crytocurrency trading firm, Bitfinex, had the equivalent of US$68 million stolen by hackers in a security breach reminiscent of the hack that bought down Mt Gox in 2014. It is little comfort to cautious market regulators that the thieves behind these attacks can not spend it without revealing their identity on the blockchain.
These hacks demonstrate that blockchain systems are only as secure as the code which supports them. As a nascent technology, its cracks are detected only when they are exposed.
Where blockchain has worked before
Sweden became the first western country to explore the use of blockchain for real estate in July last year. At the time, the Swedish Land Registry partnered with blockchain startup ChromaWay to test how parties to a real estate transaction – the buyer, seller, lender, government – could track the deal’s progress on a blockchain.
Other countries at the forefront of blockchain for real estate include The Republic of Georgia, Honduras, and Brazil which announced a pilot program earlier this month. While this might seem like a disparate list, it’s in these countries where the long-term potential of a blockchain for real estate are most significant.
Systemic corruption and insecure database management in these countries, and many other emerging economies, is seen as a major constraint on growth and prosperity. Why would you invest in a house, or any other asset, if there is a distinct possibility that the record of your ownership could simply disappear?
With ever increasing demands for improvements to transaction efficiency and local real estate industry giants like CoreLogic appointing research teams dedicated to new technology applications, it might not be long before we see a real estate blockchain system in Australia.
This is an edited version of an article originally printed in The University of Sydney Business School Magazine.
Danika Wright, Lecturer in Finance, University of Sydney
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ANTONINA KRECHOWIECKA (1791-1831) - A FORGOTTEN LVOV WRITER IN GIRLS' EDUCATION FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 19TH CENTURY (Antonina Krechowiecka (1791-1831) zapomniana lwowska publicystka poczatku XIX wieku o wychowaniu dziewczat)
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Antonina Krechowiecka (1791-1831) - a publicist, translator and writer is nowadays almost completely forgotten. She was connected with Lvov circles, and her literary ontput occurs in the years 1817-1827. Her reflective and philosophical articles, aphorisms, literary reviews, anecdotes and historical and moral novelettes were published in the columns of 'Pamietnik Lwowski' (Lvov Diary), 'Pszczola Polska' (Polish Bee) and 'Rozmaitosci' (Miscellany). She is also an author of the noveI entitled: 'Kazimierz i Jadwiga. Skutki dobrego wychowania', Lwów 1827 (Kazimierz and Jadwiga. Results of Good Education), and represents quite numerous circles of women that used to take up literary works in those days. She is a typical writer of the tuming-point of two literary epochs - classicism and romanticism, and two political periods - independent Poland and Poland under partitions. Krechowiecka began her literary career in the years 1817-1818 in the columns of 'Pamietnik Lwowski' (Lvov Diary) with a series of articles conceming widely understood education of girls of the Ianded gentry. Publishing her articles, she got ahead of other contemporary authors, who used to concentrate on the issue of girls' education as, for instance, Klementyna Hoffmanowa maiden name Tanska, or Anna Nakwaska. However, her impact on contemporary ideas - unlike Hoffmanowa - was insignificant, and her literary output was quickly forgotten. In ideas of Krechowiecka one can observe an inevitable incoherence: on the one hand, however, she is putting forward an idea of a very narrow and traditional programme of education and upbringing for girls, and on the other is talking openly about a necessity of establishing girls' schools and clamours against unjust moral standards that were different for women and men. It is probably the first so much significant moment, when a woman rose to speak about 'double morality' in the columns of Galician periodicals, and even Polish magazines. Undoubtedly, this protest together with promoting the idea that both women and men have right to supply their spiritual and intellectual needs for own satisfaction and upgrowth, and not only because of their practical use, distinguish Krechowiecka from other contemporary female publicists and speak for unconventional character and novelty of her literary output.
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InfoQ Homepage News Five Years of Lets Encrypt
Five Years of Lets Encrypt
Alex Blewitt
Five years ago, Let's Encrypt broke out of its private beta and launched a public beta that allowed administrators to request a valid certificate that could be used for encryption with SSL (now TLS). After starting the private beta with 26,000 certificates issued, it has now grown to supporting over 230 million sites and has issued over a billion certificates.
The success of Let's Encrypt was in only provisioning certificates with a limited lifetime – 90 days, to be precise. Before Let's Encrypt, certificates were generally created for an expiry of a year or two. This generally led to people forgetting about renewing the certificates, causing problems when the certificate subsequently expired, such as the Certificate Expiration problem on Azure in 2013. By enforcing a short certificate lifespan, it encouraged the development of automated solutions to acquire and renew certificates periodically. The ACMEv1 protocol was defined and created, and open-source utilities such as Certbot provided an easy means for an operating system to acquire and renew such certificates. The ACMEv1 protocol is now deprecated and the ACMEv2 protocol is now standardised as IETF RFC 8555 and now many ACMEv2 clients are available.
From the start, Let's Encrypt used a top-level certificate (known as the ISRG Root X1 certificate authority root), whose sub-CAs (X1... X4, R3/R4 etc.) that were cross-signed by IdenTrust, which means the certificates are accepted by existing web browsers. This certificate used 4096 bit RSA key and had an expiry in 2025, and although it's still got life left, it will become necessary to replace it with a stronger key in the future.
As a result, in September this year, Let's Encrypt created a new root certificate ISRG Root X2, using ECDSA. The main advantage of using ECDSA is that it results in a much smaller data set, and therefore a fewer number of packets sent in order to obtain the security handshake. In addition, the new root certificate has been submitted to the browsers who look after the certificate stores; although it has not been included in wide systems yet as much as the ISRG Root X1. The ISRG Root X2 certificate is cross-signed with ISRG Root X1 to allow for certificate validation in the interim.
The problem is that the DST X3 certificate, which is currently used by Let's Encrypt to issue certificates, is due to expire in September 2021. As a result, the plans are in place to move towards the ECDSA root for future certificate issuance, but not by default yet. From January 11 next year, the API that serves certificates will return metadata for the certificates to a chain of trust through to the ISRC Root X1 certificate, instead of to the DST X3 certificate.
The ACMEv2 protocol provides an 'alternate' link, which can be used to rollback to the current behaviour, but the key problem is dealing with older operating systems that either don't have the correct root certificate, or don't have support for either the SHA-256 or ECDSA protocols that are used in the process of verifying a certificate. This includes older versions of operating systems, and in particular the blog post highlights that Android operating systems below 7.1 may not be able to process certificates returned by this mechanism. Alternatively, installing a more recent browser such as Firefox Mobile will work, or embedding the Let's Encrypt CA into your app.
More information about the certificates provided by Let's Encrypt can be found on their certificates page, and the community support site has more information about the upcoming changes.
In the space of five years, Let's Encrypt has changed the way in which encrypted communications happen through the automated generation of certificates and the clients and API to make it happen. By moving towards their own root, and moving to a more compact key representation, it will be possible to optimise the setup connection of encrypted data streams as well as moving towards a stronger encryption model.
The changeover on 2021-01-11 to the API will potentially impact older Android clients, and the expiration date of the DST X3 certificate in 2021-09-30 next year is something to watch out for. Bear in mind that the new API will start to return the new root certificate chain but there may be up to 90 days before all existing certificates will be rotated and replaced, so it may be that nothing is visible until February or March.
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Alberta Party Candidate Films Man Ripping Out Tenants' Election Sign
Gar Gar said the man owes voters an apology.
By Mohamed Omar
An Alberta Party candidate in the province's upcoming election says his recent interaction with a landlord and prospective voters was a "slap in the face" to democracy.
UPDATE — April 15: Two days after the incident, Gar posted a photo of himself on Twitter with a man named Steve, who he said "personally apologized" for the the incident captured on video.
Grateful to meet w/ Steve tonight. He did personally apologized for the incident. Indicated that he just had a bad day & will also be apologizing to the renter.
As a landlord, Steve did not know that they were changes to @ElectionsAB#ABleg#abpoli#yyc#calgaryeastpic.twitter.com/s08HhuXE2p
— Gar Gar (@GarGar4YYCEast) April 13, 2019
Gar Gar told HuffPost Canada he was door-knocking in Calgary's Penbrooke neighbourhood on Wednesday when he ran into a man and a woman who said they supported his campaign. The man told Gar he wanted him to meet his mother and took the candidate back to their house.
Gar said she, too, was a supporter and was interested in a lawn sign.
"Everything went fine. I installed it for her and screwed it in," he said.
Gar Gar/Twitter
A screengrab from a video that Alberta Party candidate Gar Gar shared on Twitter shows a man forcibly removing one of his campaign signs.
"We were about to go to my car, me and my wife, and I heard somebody calling me from my back and say 'hey, you, come back'," said Gar.
The candidate said he thought it was another voter who wanted to speak about the election, but he quickly noticed the man's body language as he approached.
"Just mad. Bursting," Gar said, adding that he started filming when he realized something serious could happen.
The man told Gar he was the landlord of the property and didn't want the signs on his lawn.
Destroying a lawn sign right in front of a renter. In #CalgaryEast, where most voters are renting homes, this only continues to isolate and instill fear in our community. Its a slap in the face for those who died in fighting for our democracy. #abvote#abpoli#yyc#ablegpic.twitter.com/dZyO3xIHoi
Wanting to de-escalate the situation, Gar said he was about to offer to remove the sign when the man decided to "take matters into his own hands."
"Everything just happened so fast, this guy just burst in ... took [the sign] out, ripped it and said here you go," he said.
Election Act outlines tenants' rights
In the video he shared on Twitter, Gar can be heard asking about the woman's rights since — as several users on the social network pointed out — Alberta's Election Act prohibits landlords or condo boards from preventing tenants from displaying election advertising material.
Gar said he could "sense the fear" from the renters, that they wanted to avoid any problems for their living situation.
Screengrab/Gar Gar/Facebook
Gar Gar, an Alberta Party candidate in the riding of Calgary-East, says a man who tore out one of his election signs from a lawn owes Calgarians an apology.
She later came to him and said that they still supported Gar. But he said she spoke in a lower voice, as if she didn't want the landlord to hear her.
"She was saying 'I'm so sorry.' She shouldn't be the one saying sorry."
Gar said he's running in Alberta's election to help fight what he calls a stigma between renters and homeowners. He said some voters, like the woman on that lawn, might "fear" casting a ballot because they believe they can't make a difference.
For every poster that goes down, it's a slap in the face to donors who believed in us. The people that go out and vote.Gar Gar, Alberta Party candidate
"I think it comes back to each one of us to do their right obligations, to bring the community standard to what it is," he said.
"For every poster that goes down, it's a slap in the face to donors who believed in us. The people that go out and vote."
This isn't the first time that Gar's election material has been damaged. Last month, he found one of his posters defaced with the phrase "vote for your future."
Thinking is about our children is a positive vision, but the real way to make change is through the ballet box.
It pains me to see graffiti in any community. It truly reinforces the negative stigma that we are fighting against every day.#calgaryeast#yyc#ableg#abpolipic.twitter.com/dIpBZpeHTP
— Gar Gar (@GarGar4YYCEast) March 24, 2019
Other parties have also seen sign trouble during the campaign.
According to Global News, several fake signs mocking the United Conservative Party have popped up in Calgary, promoting candidates like "Lake of Fire" and "Another Bozo." The UCP blamed the NDP for the signs. The NDP denied the accusations.
Albertans go to the polls on April 16.
Mohamed Omar Reporter-Producer, HuffPost Canada
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A. Gärtner, S. Merchel, S. Niedermann, R. Braucher, ASTER-Team, P. Steier, G. Rugel, A. Scharf, L. Le Bras, U. Linnemann, Nature does the averaging - in-situ produced 10Be, 21Ne, and 26Al in a very young river terrace, Geosciences 10 (2020) 237.
I. Leya, J.-C. David, T. Faestermann, M. Froehlich, N. Kivel, D. Koll, G. Korschinek, S. McIntyre, S. Merchel, S. Pavetich, G. Rugel, D. Schumann, T. Smith, A. Wallner, 53Mn and 60Fe in iron meteorites - new data and model calculations, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55 (2020) 818-831.
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M.C. Meyer, L.A. Gliganic, J.-H. May, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, F. Schlütz, M.S. Aldenderfer, K. Krainer, Landscape dynamics and human-environment interactions in the northern foothills of Cho Oyu and Mount Everest (southern Tibet) during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, Quaternary Science Reviews 229 (2020) 106127.
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K. Riisager, M.J.G. Borge, J.A. Briz, M. Carmona-Gallardo, O. Forstner, L.M. Fraile, H.O.U. Fynbo, A. Garzon Camacho, J.G. Johansen, B. Jonson, M.V. Lund, J. Lachner, M. Madurga, S. Merchel, E. Nacher, T. Nilsson, P. Steier, O. Tengblad, V. Vedia, Search for beta-delayed proton emission from 11Be, The European Physical Journal A 56 (2020) 100.
Z. Slavkovská, A. Wallner, R. Reifarth, S. Pavetich, B. Brückner, K. Al-Khasawneh, S. Merchel, M. Volknandt, M. Weigand, Investigation of 54Fe(n,γ)55Fe and 35Cl(n,γ)36Cl reaction cross sections at keV energies by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, EPJ Web of Conferences 232 (2020) 02005.
M. Šujan, R. Braucher, M. Šujan, J. Hók, P.P. Povinec, F. Šipka, G. Rugel, A. Scharf, The tectono-sedimentary evolution of a major seismogenic zone with low slip rate activity: A geochronological and sedimentological investigation of the Dobrá Voda Depression (Western Carpathians), Sedimentary Geology 383 (2020) 248-267.
A. Wallner, J. Feige, K. Fifield, M.B. Froehlich, R. Golser, M.A.C. Hotchkis, D. Koll, G. Leckenby, M. Martschini, S. Merchel, S. Panjkov, S. Pavetich, G. Rugel, S.G. Tims, 60Fe deposition during the late Pleistocene and the Holocene echoes supernova activity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) (2020).
C. Wilske, A. Suckow, U. Mallast, C. Meier, S. Merchel, B. Merkel, S. Pavetich, T. Rödiger, G. Rugel, A. Sachse, S Weise, C. Siebert, A multi-environmental tracer study to determine groundwater residence times and recharge in a structurally complex multi-aquifer system, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24 (2020) 249-267.
D. Koll, G. Korschinek, T. Faestermann, J. Gómez-Guzmán, S. Kipfstuhl, S. Merchel, J.M. Welch, Interstellar 60Fe in Antarctica, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) 072701.
S. Mechernich, T.J. Dunai, S.A. Binnie, T. Goral, S. Heinze, A. Dewald, I. Schimmelpfennig, K. Keddadouche, G. Aumaître, D. Bourlès, S.M. Marrero, K. Wilcken, K. Simon, D. Fink, F.M. Phillips, M.W. Caffee, L.C. Gregory, R. Phillips, S.P.H.T. Freeman, R.P. Shanks, M.A. Sarýkaya, S. Pavetich, G. Rugel, S. Merchel, N. Akçar, S. Yesiyurt, S. Ivy-Ochs, C. Vockenhuber, Carbonate and silicate intercomparison materials for cosmogenic 36Cl measurements, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 455 (2019) 250-259.
S. Merchel, S. Beutner, T. Opel, G. Rugel, A. Scharf, C. Tiessen, S. Weiß, S. Wetterich, Attempts to understand potential deficiencies in chemical procedures for AMS, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 456 (2019) 186-192.
S. Merchel, A. Gärtner, S. Beutner, B. Bookhagen, A. Chabilan, Attempts to understand potential deficiencies in chemical procedures for AMS: Cleaning and dissolving quartz for 10Be and 26Al analysis, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 455 (2019) 293-299.
S. Pavetich, A. Wallner, M. Martschini, S. Akhmadaliev, I Dillmann, K. Fifield, S. Haon, T. Heftrich, F. Käppeler, C. Lederer, S. Merchel, M. Paul, R. Reifarth, G. Rugel, P. Steier, M. Tessler, S. Tims, M. Weigand, L. Weissman, Accelerator mass spectrometry measurement of the reaction 35Cl(n,γ)36Cl at keV energies, Phys. Rev. C 99 (2019) 015801.
T. Smith, S. Merchel, S. Pavetich, G. Rugel, A. Scharf, I. Leya, The constancy of galactic cosmic rays as recorded by cosmogenic nuclides in iron meteorites, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 54 (2019) 2951-2976.
P. Steier, M. Martschini, J. Buchriegler, J. Feige, J. Lachner, S. Merchel, L. Michlmayr, A. Priller, G. Rugel, E. Schmidt, A. Wallner, E.M. Wild, R. Golser, Comparison of methods for the detection of 10Be with AMS and a new approach based on a silicon nitride foil stack, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 444 (2019) 116175.
A. Stolle, W. Schwanghart, C. Andermann, A. Bernhardt, H. Wittmann, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, M. Fort, B.R. Adhikari, O. Korup, Protracted river recovery from medieval earthquakes, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 44 (2019) 331-341.
T. Štor, M. Schaller, S. Merchel, K. Martínek, T. Rittenour, G. Rugel, A. Scharf, Quaternary evolution of the Ploučnice River system (Bohemian Massif) based on fluvial deposits dated with optically stimulated luminescence and in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides, Geomorphology 329 (2019) 152-169.
C. Tiessen, D. Bemmerer, G. Rugel, R. Querfeld, A. Scharf, G. Steinhauser, S. Merchel, Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) for beryllium-7 measurements in smallest rainwater samples, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 319 (2019) 965-973.
A. Wallner, M. Bichler, L. Coquard, I. Dillmann, O. Forstner, R. Golser, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, W. Kutschera, M. Martschini, A. Mengoni, S. Merchel, L. Michlmayr, A. Priller, P. Steier, M. Wiescher, Stellar and thermal neutron capture cross section of 9Be, Phys. Rev. C 99 (2019) 015804.
R. Braucher, K. Keddadouche, G. Aumaître, D.L. Bourlès, M. Arnold, S. Pivot, M. Baroni, A. Scharf, G. Rugel, E.B. Bard, Chlorine measurements at the 5 MV French AMS national facility ASTER: Associated external uncertainties and comparability with the 6 MV DREAMS facility, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. 420 (2018) 40-45.
G. Domènech, J. Corominas, O. Mavrouli, S. Merchel, A. Abellán, S. Pavetich, G. Rugel, Calculation of the rockwall recession rate of a limestone cliff, affected by rockfalls, using cosmogenic chlorine-36. Case study of the Montsec Range (Eastern Pyrenees, Spain), Geomorphology 306 (2018) 325-335.
J. Feige, A. Wallner, R. Altmeyer, L.K. Field, R. Golser, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, P. Steier, S.G. Tims, S.R. Winkler, Limits on supernova-associated 60Fe/ 26Al nucleosynthesis ratios from mass spectrometry measurements of deep-sea sediments, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 221103.
L.V. Luna, B. Bookhagen, S. Niedermann, G. Rugel, A. Scharf, S. Merchel, Glacial chronology and production rate cross-calibration of five cosmogenic nuclide and mineral systems from the southern Central Andean Plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 500 (2018) 242-253.
V.A. Sulaymonova, M.C. Fuchs, R. Gloaguen, R. Möckel, S. Merchel, M. Rudolph, M.R. Krbetschek, Feldspar flotation as a quartz-purification method in cosmogenic nuclide dating: A case study of fluvial sediments from the Pamir, MethodsX 5 (2018) 717-726.
L. Wüthrich, E. Garcia Morabito, J. Zech, M. Trauerstein, H. Veit, C. Gnägi, S. Merchel, A. Scharf, G. Rugel, M. Christl, R. Zech, 10Be surface exposure dating of the last deglaciation in the Aare Valley, Switzerland, Swiss Journal of Geosciences 111 (2018) 295-303.
J. Feige, D. Breitschwerdt, A. Wallner, M.M. Schulreich, N. Kinoshita, M. Paul, C. Dettbarn, K.L. Fifield, R. Golser, M. Honda, U. Linnemann, H. Matsuzaki, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, P. Steier, S.G. Tims, S.R. Winkler, T. Yamagata, The Link Between the Local Bubble and Radioisotopic Signatures on Earth, Proc. 14th Int. Symp. on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC2016), JPS Conf. Proc. 14 (2017) 010304.
M. Legrand, S. Preunkert, R. Weller, L. Zipf, C. Elsässer, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, D. Wagenbach, Year-round record of bulk and size-segregated aerosol composition in central Antarctica (Concordia site) Part 2: Biogenic sulfur (sulfate and methanesulfonate) aerosol, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17 (2017) 14055-14073.
K.L. Linge, L.P. Bédard, R. Bugoi, J. Enzweiler, K.P. Jochum, R. Kilian, L. Jingao, J. Marin-Carbonne, S. Merchel, F. Munnik, L.F.G. Morales, C. Rollion-Bard, A.K. Souders, P.J. Sylvester, U. Weis, GGR Biennial Critical Review: Analytical Developments Since 2014, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 41 (2017) 493-562.
R. Querfeld, S. Merchel, G. Steinhauser, Low-cost production of a 7Be tracer from rainwater and purification: preliminary results, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 314 (2017) 521-527.
S. Rosenwinkel, A. Landgraf, O. Korup, W. Schwanghart, F. Volkmer, A. Dzhumabaeva, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, F. Preusser, Late Pleistocene outburst floods from Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan?, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42 (2017) 1535-1548.
T. Smith, B.A. Hofmann, I. Leya, S. Merchel, S. Pavetich, G. Rugel, A. Scharf, The cosmic-ray exposure history of the Twannberg iron meteorite (IIG), Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 52 (2017) 2241-2257.
L. von Albedyll, T. Opel, D. Fritzsche, S. Merchel, T. Laepple, G. Rugel, 10Be in the Akademii Nauk ice core–first results for CE 1590‒1950 and future sampling strategy for validation of ice-core chronology, Journal of Glaciology 63 (2017) 514-522.
A. Landgraf, A. Djumabaeva, K.E. Abdrakhmatov, M. Strecker, E.A. Macaulay, J.R. Arrowsmith, F. Preusser, H. Sudhaus, G. Rugel, S. Merchel, Repeated large-magnitude earthquakes in a tectonically active, low-strain continental interior: the northern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121 (2016) 3888-3910.
P. Ludwig, S. Bishop, R. Egli, V. Chernenko, B. Deneva, T. Faestermann, N. Famulok, L. Fimiani, J.M. Gómez-Guzmán, K. Hain, G. Korschinek, M. Hanzlik, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, Time-Resolved Two Million Year Old Supernova Activity Discovered in the Earth's Microfossil Record, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 113 (2016) 9232–9237.
Th. Müller, K. Osenbrueck, G. Strauch, S. Pavetich, K.-S. Al-Mashaikhi, C. Herb, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, W. Aeschbach, W. Sanford, Use of multiple age tracers to estimate groundwater residence times and long-term recharge rates in arid southern Oman, Applied Geochemistry 74 (2016) 67-83.
G. Rugel, S. Pavetich, S. Akhmadaliev, S.M. Enamorado Baez, A. Scharf, R. Ziegenrücker, S. Merchel, The first four years of the AMS-facility DREAMS: Status and developments for more accurate radionuclide data, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 370 (2016) 94-100.
W. Schwanghart, A. Bernhardt, A. Stolle, P. Hoelzmann, B.R. Adhikari, C. Andermann, P. Hölzmann, S. Tofelde, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, M. Fort, O. Korup, Repeated catastrophic valley infill following medieval earthquakes in the Nepal Himalaya, Science 351 (2016) 147-150.
A. Wallner, J. Feige, N. Kinoshita, M. Paul, L.K. Fifield, R. Golser, M. Honda, U. Linnemann, H. Matsuzaki, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, S. Tims, P. Steier, T. Yamagata, S.R. Winkler, Recent near-Earth supernovae probed by global deposition of interstellar radioactive 60Fe, Nature 532 (2016) 69-72.
L. Zipf, S. Merchel, P. Bohleber, G. Rugel, A. Scharf, Exploring ice core drilling chips from a cold Alpine glacier for cosmogenic radionuclide (10Be) analysis, Results in Physics 6 (2016) 78-79.
M.C. Fuchs, R. Gloaguen, S. Merchel, E. Pohl, V. A. Sulaymonova, C. Andermann, G. Rugel, Denudation rates across the Pamir based on 10Be concentrations in fluvial sediments: dominance of topographic over climatic factors, Earth Surf. Dynam. 3 (2015) 423-439.
M.C. Fuchs, R. Gloaguen, S. Merchel, E. Pohl, V. A. Sulaymonova, C. Andermann, G. Rugel, Millennial erosion rates across the Pamir based on 10Be concentrations in fluvial sediments: Dominance of topographic over climatic factors, Earth Surf. Dynam. Discuss. 3 (2015) 83-128.
S. Merchel, I. Mrak, R. Braucher, L. Benedetti, B. Repe, D.L. Bourlès, J.M. Reitner, Surface exposure dating of the Veliki vrh rock avalanche in Slovenia associated with the 1348 earthquake, Quat. Geochron. 22 (2014) 33-42.
U. Ott, S. Merchel, S. Herrmann, S. Pavetich, G. Rugel, T. Faestermann, L. Fimiani, J.M. Gomez-Guzman, K. Hain, G. Korschinek, P. Ludwig, M. D’Orazio, L. Folco, Cosmic ray exposure and pre-atmospheric size of the Gebel Kamil iron meteorite, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 49 (2014) 1365-1374.
S. Pavetich, S. Akhmadaliev, M. Arnold, G. Aumaître, D. Bourlès, J. Buchriegler, R. Golser, K. Keddadouche, M. Martschini, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, P. Steier, Interlaboratory study of the ion source memory effect in 36Cl accelerator mass spectrometry, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 329 (2014) 22-25.
D. Rodrigues, G. Korschinek, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, A. Arazia, G. V. Martí, APLICACION DE LA TECNICA DE ESPECTROMETRIA DE MASAS CON ACELERADORES EN EL ESTUDIO DE LA DINAMICA DE SEDIMENTOS SUBMARINOS, ANALES AFA (Asociación Física Argentina) 25 (2014) 51-55.
M. Wiedenbeck, L.P. Bédard, R. Bugoi, M. Horan, K. Linge, S. Merchel, L.F.G. Morales, D. Savard, A.K. Souders, P. Sylvester, Critical Review of Analytical Developments Since 2012, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 38 (2014) 467-512.
S. Akhmadaliev, R. Heller, D. Hanf, G. Rugel, S. Merchel, The new 6 MV AMS-facility DREAMS at Dresden, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 294 (2013) 5-10.
M. Arnold, G. Aumaître, D.L Bourlès, K. Keddadouche, R. Braucher, R.C Finkel, E. Nottoli, L. Benedetti, S. Merchel, The French accelerator mass spectrometry facility ASTER after 4 years: Status and recent developments on 36Cl and 129I, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 294 (2013) 24-28.
K. Hahne, R. Naumann, S. Niedermann, H.-U. Wetzel, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, Geochemische Untersuchungen an Moränen des Inylchek-Gletschers im Tien Shan, System Erde. GFZ-Journal 3 (2) (2013) 44-49.
D. Hampe, B. Gleisberg, S. Akhmadaliev, G. Rugel, S. Merchel, Determination of 41Ca with LSC and AMS: method development, modifications and applications, Journal of Nuclear and Radioanalytical Chemistry 296 (2013) 617-624.
J. Llorca, J. Roszjar, J.A. Cartwright, A. Bischoff, A. Pack, U. Ott, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, L. Fimiani, P. Ludwig, D. Allepuz, J.V. Casado, The Ksar Ghilane 002 shergottite – the 100th registered Martian meteorite fragment, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 48 (2013) 493–513.
S. Merchel, R. Braucher, V. Alfimov, M. Bichler, D.L. Bourlès, J.M. Reitner, The potential of historic rock avalanches and man-made structures as chlorine-36 production rate calibration sites, Quat. Geochron. 18 (2013) 54-62.
S. Merchel, W. Bremser, D.L. Bourlès, U. Czeslik, J. Erzinger, N.-A. Kummer, L. Leanni, B. Merkel, S. Recknagel, U. Schaefer, Accuracy of 9Be-data and its influence on 10Be cosmogenic nuclide data, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 298 (2013) 1871-1878.
C. Yildirim, T.F. Schildgen, H. Echtler, D. Melnick, B. Bookhagen, A. Çiner, S. Niedermann, S. Merchel, M. Martschini, P. Steier, M. R. Strecker, Tectonic implications of fluvial incision and pediment deformation at the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau based on multiple cosmogenic nuclides, Tectonics 32 (2013) 1107-1120.
R. Zech, I. Röhringer, P. Sosin, H. Kabgov, S. Merchel, S. Akhmadaliev, W. Zech, Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Gisssar Range, Tajikistan, based on 10Be surface exposure dating, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 369 (2013) 253-261.
S. Merchel, S. Akhmadaliev, S. Pavetich, G. Rugel, Ungeduldige Forscher träumen mit DREAMS - Bestimmung langlebiger Radionuklide mit Beschleunigermassenspektrometrie, GIT Labor-Fachzeitschrift 56 (2012) 88-90.
S. Merchel, W. Bremser, S. Akhmadaliev, M. Arnold, G. Aumaître, D. L. Bourlès, R. Braucher, M. Caffee, M. Christl, L. K. Fifield, R. C. Finkel, S. P. H. T. Freeman, A. Ruiz-Gómez, P. W. Kubik, M. Martschini, D. H. Rood, S. G. Tims, A. Wallner, K. M. Wilcken, S. Xu, Quality assurance in accelerator mass spectrometry: Results from an international round-robin exercise for 10Be, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B. 289 (2012) 68-73.
R. Braucher, S. Merchel, J. Borgomano, D.L Bourlès, Production of cosmogenic radionuclides at great depth: A multi element approach, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 309 (2011) 1-9.
S. Merchel, W. Bremser, V. Alfimov, M. Arnold, G. Aumaître, L. Benedetti, D. L. Bourlès, M. Caffee, L. K. Fifield, R. C. Finkel, S. P. H. T. Freeman, Y. Matsushi, D. H. Rood, K. Sasa, P. Steier, T. Takahashi, M. Tamari, S. G. Tims, Y. Tosaki, K. M. Wilcken, S. Xu, Ultra-trace analysis of 36Cl by accelerator mass spectrometry: an interlaboratory study, Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 400 (2011) 3125-3132.
M. Arnold , S. Merchel, D.L. Bourlès, R. Braucher, L. Benedetti, R.C. Finkel, G. Aumaître, A. Gottdang, M. Klein, The French accelerator mass spectrometry facility ASTER: Improved performance and developments, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 268 (2010) 1954-1959.
M. Altmaier, U. Herpers, G. Delisle, U. Ott, S. Merchel, Glaciation history of Queen Maud Land (Antarctica) using in-situ produced cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al and 21Ne, Polar Science 4 (2010) 42-61.
S. Merchel, L. Benedetti, D.L. Bourlès, R. Braucher, A. Dewald, T. Faestermann, R.C. Finkel, G. Korschinek, J. Masarik, M. Poutivtsev, P. Rochette, G. Rugel, K.-O. Zell, A multi-radionuclide approach for in situ produced terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides: 10Be, 26Al, 36Cl and 41Ca from carbonate rocks, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 268 (2010) 1179-1184.
T. Orlowski, O.Forstner, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, S. Merchel, M. Martschini, A. Priller, P. Steier, C. Vockenhuber, A. Wallner, Comparison of detector systems for the separation of 36Cl and 36S with a 3-MV tandem, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 268 (2010) 847-850.
P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, M. Martschini, S. Merchel, T. Orlowski, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, A. Wallner, 36Cl exposure dating with a 3-MV tandem, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 268 (2010) 744-747.
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Ranchers take law into their own hands
Tim Sullivan Dec. 4, 2000 From the print edition
TAKEBACK: David Johnson herds his and Mary Bulloch's cattle in Moccasin, Arizona
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
What began as the Bureau of Land Management's attempt to salvage rangeland from a dry summer has become a miniature Sagebrush Rebellion.
This summer, the BLM repeatedly ordered ranchers Quinn Griffin and Mary Bulloch to remove their cattle from remote grazing allotments in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Finally, the agency did the deed itself, impounding 44 cows in a Salina, Utah, feedlot to await auctioning (HCN, 9/25/00: Ranchers test an agency's image).
Griffin, Bulloch and about 14 other ranchers were quick to retaliate, however. On Election Day, the ranchers took back the cattle after convincing Sevier County attorney Don Brown that they owned the animals.
"Since when did the cattle become government property?" asks Todd Macfarlane, a rancher and lawyer representing a few of the ranchers involved. Macfarlane says the ranchers had every right to take back their herds and did so in a forthright, peaceful manner. It was the BLM, he says, that violated the law.
U.S. attorney Paul Warner is threatening the ranchers with $250,000 fines and 10 years in prison if they don't return the cattle. Whether or not the BLM had the right to impound the cows, adds Warner's spokeswoman, Melodie Rydalch, stealing them back wasn't the answer.
"If they had a grievance," says Rydalch, "the remedy for that is to go to court and tell the BLM they were wrong."
While Macfarlane and Rydalch confirm that the U.S. attorney is close to a deal with Griffin, Mary Bulloch, the rancher who owns most of the cattle, is far from giving in.
Bill Hedden of the Grand Canyon Trust finds the whole situation disheartening. If the BLM wasn't within the law in impounding the cows, says Hedden, then "they'd better forget about having any authority to manage grazing" on the monument in the future.
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