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Definition of Antisemitism
Recognising Antisemitism
The Law of Antisemitism
Prevalence of Antisemitism
Antisemitic Crime Levels
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University of Essex fires lecturer Dr Maaruf Ali over antisemitic posts opposing creation of student Jewish society
The University of Essex has reportedly dismissed a computer science and electronics lecturer, Dr Maaruf Ali, over antisemitic Facebook posts opposing the creation of a Jewish society at the university. In one post, Dr Ali wrote that “the Zionists next want to create a society here at our university” on a Facebook page for new students.
We commend the university for its handling of this incident.
In February, Dr Ali openly and vociferously opposed the establishment of a student Jewish society at the university, which was formed after the initial vote had received opposition from hundreds of students.
Dr Ali also posted conspiracy theories alleging “Zionist” control of the media, and shared far-right content alleging Mossad involvement in the 2015 terror attack in Paris. He also shared a post claiming that the Jewish population of Europe actually rose during the Holocaust, and equated Israel with Nazi Germany.
In response to his sacking, Dr Ali said that he was disappointed to be dismissed and did not “hate Jews, their religion, people or their culture. I believe that everyone should be allowed to form any society. This is what I’m thinking now, which is what I didn’t think at the time.”
A University of Essex statement confirmed that a member of staff had been dismissed following a tribunal hearing. The statement said: “The university has now completed an independent investigation into the serious allegations made against a member of university staff.”
Daniel Kosky, Union of Jewish Students campaigns organiser, welcomed the dismissal and said that it was the correct decision for “severely antisemitic” social media comments.
Earlier this month, Chris Skidmore, the Minister of State for Universities, urged all of the UK’s higher education institutions to formally adopt the International Definition of Antisemitism.
If any students are concerned about antisemitism on campus or need assistance, they can call us on 0330 822 0321, or e-mail [email protected].
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Envisaging a Better 2018 or Envisioning any Future
December 26, 2017 By Faro Laz
At the time when few days remain before closing this year, envisaging a better 2018 or envisioning any future of any sort could these days be somewhat not easy to apprehend, but nevertheless, here are few thinkers’ views as recalled by Annabel Bligh, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation, and Will de Freitas, The Conversation.
Anthill 10: The future
In this episode of The Anthill podcast we talk to historians, future thinkers, designers and sci-fi watchers about our love of predicting what’s to come.
We talk to somebody who does it for a living, Anders Sandberg, research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, who explains how he got into future studies, and what it’s like predicting the future as a day job. Thankfully, not all doom and gloom.
Back in the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes predicted the future of work would leave us more time to sit back and relax. With robots taking on more and more menial tasks, he thought technology would reduce the working week to just 15 hours and the rest of our time would be devoted to leisure.
So why haven’t we got there yet? As we hear from Martin Parker, professor of organisation and culture at the University of Leicester, it will take more than just robots to make this happen; society will need to be entirely reorganised in the process. Meanwhile, Ursula Huws, professor of labour and globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire, identifies four areas where jobs will boom – in spite of all the robots.
We delve into the history of how our ancestors imagined the future too. Selena Daly, assistant professor in Italian Studies and an expert in the Italian futurists, tells us the story of the avant-garde art and cultural movement started by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti a few years before World War I. Both destructive and provocative in its vision, it’s a case study in how visions of the future can get wound up in politics.
Dynamism of a Cyclist by Umberto Boccioni.
Helping us to track other visions of futures past, Nick Dunn, professor of urban design at Lancaster University who runs its Imagination design research lab, reveals his favourite dystopian and utopian visions for what future cities could look like. And Amy Chambers, who researches science communication and screen studies at Newcastle University, explains how both utopias and dystopias in science fiction have been used to help imagine a better future. Today, she says, science fiction on the small screen is taking the idea of AI and running with it, creating a range of near futures that we can all be scared of.
Click here to listen to more episodes of The Anthill, on themes including Beliefs, Self-experimentation and Fuel.
The Anthill theme music is by Alex Grey for Melody Loops.
Music in the futurists segment is Impending Boom by Kevin MacLeod via Incompetech, and Fausto Bongelli’s recording of Virgilio Mortari’s piece, Fox-trot Futurista. Music in the utopia segment by I believe in you, by Lee Rosevere and sound effects by dobroide. Sound effects in future studies segment from mknausscat, cydon and CGEffex.
A big thanks to City University London’s Department of Journalism for letting us use their studios.
Correction: The section on Thomas More’s Utopia states that he was hung, drawn and quartered. He was in fact beheaded.
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by Guest/Previous | 05/07/2010 · 6:00 pm
GAME REVIEW – Transformers: War For Cybertron (PlayStation 3)
By Stewie Sutherland
Now that the release date has finally been broken on this title, I can sit back, enjoy a good online rumble and bring the experience to all of AMO’s readers. As someone who has followed the different storylines, universes and timelines of the Transformers since childhood I was pretty intrigued to see what developers High Moon Studios had come up with. Featuring a new take on the original cartoon incarnation, Peter Cullin reprises his role as noble leader Optimus Prime in an effort to save his planet from the threat of Megatron’s rule.
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GAME PREVIEW – Transformers: War For Cybertron (All Platforms)
If there’s a franchise that’s been retold over and over again it’s the story of the Transformers. In their 25 year lifespan they’ve had stories of beast wars and machine battles on Earth and in space. One series may have heroic leader Optimus Prime take the form of a semi-trailer fighting a planet-sized villain and in the next he’ll be a fire truck that combines with his tough-guy brother Ultra Magnus. He’s been a big gorilla that’s played King Kong with T-rex Megatron and won time and time again, and recently he’s returned to the silver screen to tear bad guys apart and draw attention away from Megan Fox’s lacklustre acting.
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TV REVIEW – A Nero Wolfe Mystery (A&E)
With Sherlock Holmes taking over the big screen, I decided to re-watch one of my favourite shows that first got me into mysteries. If Holmes and Watson were the classical-persons detectives, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin were the more modern representations. Well, to a degree. Set 80 years ago, A Nero Wolfe Mystery was a short run (2 series only) show of the famous detectives created by Rex Stout.
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BCEC Quarterly Economic Commentary – November 2020
AuthorsRebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan, Daniel Kiely, Silvia Salazar
EditorsRebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan, Daniel Kiely, Silvia Salazar
PublishedNovember 2020
PublisherBankwest Curtin Economics Centre
Research ThemesWA Economy, Business and Industry
This Western Australia Quarterly Economic Commentary analyses the most recent data on economic and social indicators for WA. Key findings from this edition include:
Careful navigation required, as optimism emerges in the New Year horizon
Through a combination of geographic isolation, good management and strong leadership, the community spread of coronavirus was eliminated in WA by the middle of April, a situation which continues to the current day. While strict border restrictions remained in place, the winter months saw an easing of restrictions and social gatherings, and a lift to regional travel bans. This has positioned the WA economy better than most, with WA’s situation the envy of many jurisdictions both nationally and globally.
The WA economy grew by 1.4 per cent in the year to June 2020, with the mining sector contributing the lion’s share of that growth. The mining sector now accounts for 47 per cent of gross value add. Yet with the state’s continued reliance on mining, and in particular on iron ore, the WA economy has become less diversified over time. This reiterates the case for economic diversification, to ensure that Western Australia can benefit from stable and secure economic growth into the future.
Exports in the year to June 2020 rose by 13 per cent in WA, driven primarily by the increasing volume and price of WA’s main export, iron ore. The bulk of WA’s exports (57.4%) are directed to China. This leaves the state vulnerable to geopolitical tensions, and trade wars. While commodities such as barley have been able to pivot quickly to alternative markets, others will be more vulnerable.
WA’s domestic economy contracted by 6 per cent in the quarter to June 2020, with the initial COVID restrictions taking a toll. A key driver of this decline was household consumption (down 10.6% over the quarter to June 2020), which comprises 50 per cent the state’s domestic economy. This hit to household consumption comes on the back of a decline of 1.2 per cent in the quarter to March 2020, and despite the green shoots displayed in 2019, household consumption has now declined by 2 per cent overall in the twelve months to June 2020. However, more current retail trade data is showing a significant bounce back with growth of 11 per cent in the quarter to September 2020, some 15 per cent higher than that reported in the month to September 2019.
Business investment in WA grew by 9.3 per cent over the year to June 2020, but declined by 1.8 per cent in the June 2020 quarter. While Australian businesses have shown a great deal of resilience, cash flow has become a major concern for many businesses. For many, this, along with general uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, weakened supply chains and restricted access to global markets will no doubt have led to a cancellation or deferral of investment decisions. It will be interesting in the months ahead to see the extent to which various government incentives aimed at increasing business investment and general business confidence will impact capital expenditure programs.
This Commentary includes some important insights from the new BCEC Small Business Survey 2020. The findings are based on data collected during November 2020, and hence give us a truly contemporary picture of the small business sector in Western Australia.
The share of small businesses that increased the number of employees over the course of the pandemic at least matched the share that had to lay off workers. Revenues have fallen during COVID-19 for more than 4 in 10 small businesses. Yet despite this, many small businesses have adapted to the new circumstances presented by the pandemic, sustaining themselves and their workforces and seizing opportunities where they can.
The BCEC Small Business Survey 2020 invites small business owners to rate which policy measures have helped them through COVID-19, and more than 40 per cent nominated the JobKeeper wage subsidy as the most important support for their business.
There is also a striking degree of optimism shown by the small business sector, with a quarter of small business owners expecting to hire more workers over the next six months. However, this optimism is tempered with some trepidation over what’s in store in 2021 when JobKeeper payments and other supports are withdrawn, and when deferred tax and loan payments become due.
BCEC launches November 2020 Quarterly Economic Commentary The Centre’s latest publication, the November 2020 Quarterly Economic Commentary was launched in partnership with Business News at the State of the Economy lunch on Friday 27 November at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. The latest QEC data indicates that... Read article News1 December 2020 Read More
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Sydney Researchers Pour Environmentally Friendly Concrete
The University of Sydney states that its researchers have poured ‘green’ cement pavement consisting of fly ash, and waste materials such as ground glass and gaseous carbon dioxide.
In comparison with traditional concrete, the basic pour of the slab salvaged:
52kg of sand from being dredged
327kg of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.
(during production) the equivalent energy of 1,000 cups of coffee or driving a car over 1,800km.
Across the globe, concrete is the most frequently utilised human-made product because of its use as a structural material in buildings and infrastructure.
Its advantages include durability; resistance to fire, weather and flood; sound thermal performance; flexibility and prospects for reuse and recycling.
Yet the material bears an extensive carbon footprint because of the carbon intensive nature of cement manufacture.
And its creation involves sand and aggregate dredging, which plays a major role in erosion and environmental degradation.
Director of the Waste Transformation Research Hub and School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering researcher, Professor Ali Abbas , stated that the cement was designed to counteract the ecological effect of conventional concrete construction.
Abbas said that he—in partnership with Delta Electricity and IQ Renew, construction materials and industrial minerals supplier Morgan Ash: an Adbri Company, to develop a less energy intensive alternative to concrete.
The concrete is culled from a cement that includes fly ash – a by-product of coal combustion – and waste glass, which is energy-intensive to recycle.
According to Abbas, about 12 million tonnes of fly ash are produced annually in Australia. In the green concrete, fly ash serves as a cement replacement.
Glass has conventionally been a costly and energy-intensive material to recycle. Less than half of the 1.4 million tonnes of glass created yearly in Australia is recycled. When crushed, glass can take the place of sand and aggregates in green concrete.
The team also is testing an algorithmic intelligence technique that adapts the concrete blend to particular applications.
Gaseous carbon dioxide is sequestered or “locked” into the concrete in a stable mineral state, which keeps greenhouse gases from penetrating the atmosphere.
The researchers said more environmental benefits could be derived when put into place on a larger scale. They plan to install two additional eco-pavements on campus with different blends to advance their trial studies.
Over the next year the team will watch the concrete’s performance, with the aim to make the technology commercial and get it on the market as an alternative to conventional concrete.
Fly ash can be reused under the NSW resource recovery plan.
Source: Sourceable.Net
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IPPERWASH INQUIRY PDF
A landmark provincial inquiry was established on 12 November to look into the factors leading to the confrontation between protestors and police and ways to prevent excessive use of force in the future. In our submissions to the Ipperwash Inquiry, Amnesty International highlighted that the police killing of Dudley George was symptomatic of a complex and inter-related set of serious human rights concerns faced by Indigenous peoples in Canada. These include their relationship with justice and policing systems, and shortcomings in the protection of land, resource, and treaty rights. During the inquiry, the OPP pointed to a policy framework that it had adopted after the killing of Dudley George. The Inquiry report released on 31 May endorsed the Framework, but it went further, setting out recommendations on actions to improve the relationship between First Nations and the Government of Ontario. The Inquiry report also called on the Province to Carry out an independent assessment to determine how effectively the Framework has been adopted into OPP procedures and organizational culture.
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This is an archive of the Ipperwash Inquiry website, which was last updated in June and will not be updated further. If you have difficulty accessing any material, please contact the ministry. Linden, released the Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry on May 31, , in Forest, Ontario, where the hearings were held. It was transmitted to Attorney General Michael Bryant shortly before the public release.
Publications Ontario can be reached at or through their website. Its mandate was to inquire and report on events surrounding the death of Dudley George, who was shot in during a protest by First Nations representatives at Ipperwash Provincial Park and later died.
The Inquiry was also mandated to make recommendations that would avoid violence in similar circumstances in the future. The Honourable Sidney B. Linden was appointed Commissioner. The Commissioner separated the Inquiry into two phases that ran concurrently: The evidentiary hearings that dealt with the events surrounding the death of Dudley George and the Policy and Research part that dealt with the issues directed to the avoidance of violence in similar circumstances.
The hearings began in Forest in July and ended in August The Report, containing finding and recommendations from both phases, was made public on May 31, It is available on this web page.
About the Inquiry. Commission Counsel. Advisory Committee. Commission Staff. Parties with Standing. Legal Information. Closing Submissions. Media Releases. Location of Offices. Teaching Resources. Updated June 6,
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Ipperwash Inquiry was a two-year public judicial inquiry funded by the Government of Ontario , led by Sidney B. Linden , and established under the Ontario Public Inquiries Act , which culminated in a four volume 1,page Ipperwash Inquiry Report released on May 30, On November 12, the Liberals called for an inquiry with a twofold purpose, to investigate events surrounding the death of year-old Dudley George , who was shot and killed by an OPP officer at Ipperwash Provincial Park in September , and to make recommendations to prevent the escalation of violence that took place during the Ipperwash Crisis. It was led by a neutral third party, Sidney B. Linden , "pursuant to his powers as commissioner established under the Ontario Public Inquiries Act. The inquiry had a twofold mandate, set out by the order in council, "to look into and report on events surrounding the death of Dudley George and to make recommendations focused on the avoidance of violence in similar circumstances. The Ipperwash inquiry has been called a landmark by Amnesty International Canada.
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This is an archive of the Ipperwash Inquiry website, which was last updated in June and will not be updated further. If you have difficulty accessing any material, please contact the ministry. The Ipperwash Inquiry was a public inquiry that examined the events surrounding the death of Dudley George who was shot during a protest by Aboriginal people at the Ipperwash Provincial Park in September The Inquiry also made recommendations aimed at avoiding violence in similar circumstances.
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The New Orleans Train Garden
Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.
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When it comes to evocations of the past, model railroads are hard to beat. Few North American cities, meanwhile, can boast histories as rich, as complex and as downright engaging as that of New Orleans. It’s only fitting, then, that in the heart of the Big Easy – that is, smack in the middle of the 1,300-acre urban oasis known as City Park – resides a thoroughly whimsical and impressive model train experience.
The Historic New Orleans Train Garden, located in the park’s Botanical Garden, a treasure in its own right, features almost a quarter-mile of track carrying 1/22-scale streetcars and freight trains similar to those that wound through and around Crescent City a full century ago.
What’s especially marvelous about this particular display, however, is the landscape the trains traverse. Designed by the ingenious artist Paul Busse, who for decades has created equally magical scenes in botanic gardens around the country, the small, dream-like buildings and iconic sights of New Orleans have been crafted from organic, natural, biodegradable materials. As visitors walk around the display, they can read about certain landmarks and neighborhoods (the Old Absinthe House; the Garden District; the St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square) that are “stops” along the trains’ routes.
The Train Garden is open when the Botanical Garden itself is open, but the trains run on a limited schedule, i.e., Saturdays and Sundays from 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM.
Shifting Tides: Art in New Orleans
Get to know the art, history, and dynamic culture of New Orleans—and the people who bring it to life.
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Holt Cemetery
The Singing Oak
The Luling Mansion
A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.
This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.
Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.
The Oldest Fire Hydrant in New Orleans
This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.
Jonesport, Maine
Maine Central Model Railroad
An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.
Grand Maket Rossiya (Grand Model of Russia)
A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.
Holiday Train Show at New York Botanical Garden
Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.
Sæby, Denmark
Minibyen Sæby
Residents of this seaside village are building a miniature 1:10 scale version of their historic town.
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Home » Destinations » Australia, NZ & South Pacific » Aurora Expeditions reveals program ·
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Aurora Expeditions reveals program
Aurora Expeditions, Australia’s leading expedition cruising company, has today launched the full program for its new world-class expedition ship ‘Greg Mortimer’ and its inaugural 2019/2020 polar season.
Following Greg Mortimer’s maiden sea voyage ‘Spirit of Antarctica’ in late October 2019, the ship will operate an additional 20 expeditions across the 2019/2020 season with itineraries spanning Antarctica (Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and Falkland Islands) and the Arctic (Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, East Greenland, Jan Mayen, Iceland and Norway).
Launching with the itineraries are two exclusive deals including a free upgrade from Aurora Stateroom to Balcony Stateroom valid on all 2019/2020 Antarctica and the Arctic voyages or the option to save up to $6,000 per person on other selected cabin categories*.
Robert Halfpenny, Managing Director of Aurora Expeditions, said of the launch, “We are delighted to launch the Greg Mortimer program and these exclusive deals – the countdown until the first voyage has well and truly begun!”
For more than 25 years we’ve been driven by the passion to explore, and we’ve always chosen the best ships to do so. Greg Mortimer has been purpose built for adventure and will set a new standard for expedition cruising while continuing to provide the authentic, small group adventures that we are known for.”
“To be on-board the inaugural voyages and visiting the world’s most spectacular wilderness areas will be a once in a lifetime experience for any expeditioner.”
The state-of-the-art Greg Mortimer will redefine expedition cruising as the first expedition cruise ship to feature the patented ULSTEIN X-BOW®. The new 104-metre ice class 1A expedition ship will utilise the latest advancements in naval design and technology to make exploring remote destinations even easier and to create a more enjoyable and comfortable expedition experience for the 120 expeditioners on-board.
The main advantage of the ULSTEIN X-BOW® is its ability to pierce waves with much greater stability than a traditional bow whilst maintaining speed. Because it uses less fuel to get through the waves, it also improves fuel efficiency and reduces air emissions.
Safety is a core principle for Aurora Expeditions and Greg Mortimer will feature the latest ‘return-to-port’ technology as well as virtual anchoring and dynamic positioning to ensure the protection of the delicate sea floor the ship will visit.
Featuring up to 15 Zodiacs, sea-level Zodiac and activity loading platforms as well as dedicated 360° observation decks – getting up close to and experiencing nature will be at the core of the ship’s experience. Additionally, passengers will have the option to attend onboard lectures delivered by some of the world’s leading experts, enjoy a drink in the panoramic observation lounge, or unwind in the wellness centre.
The vessel was named Greg Mortimer in honour of the Australian adventurer and Aurora Expeditions co-founder.
Mortimer co-founded Aurora Expeditions in 1991 with his wife Margaret, with a shared passion for adventure, exploring wild places and sharing the experience with friends. Their aim was simple – to take small groups of travellers on voyages to regions that inspired them, thereby creating lifelong ambassadors for the preservation and protection of these sacred places.
The new ship will complement the company’s existing fleet of vessels and destinations.
Bookings go on sale from 22 January 2018.
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Properties and flocculation efficiency of cationized biopolymers and their applicability in papermaking and in conditioning of pulp and paper sludge
Kuutti, L., Haavisto, S., Hyvärinen, S., Mikkonen, H., Koski, R., Peltonen, S., Suortti, T., and Kyllönen, H. (2011). "Properties and flocculation efficiency of cationized biopolymers and their applicability in papermaking and in conditioning of pulp and paper sludge," BioRes. 6(3), 2836-2850.
Safe biodegradable “green” alternatives with minimal environmental and health risks have received widespread research interest. Thirty different kinds of bio-based flocculants (modified starches, modified celluloses, native chitosan, and lignin-based flocculant) were pre-tested using a simple jar test for the examination of the applicability of new organic flocculants in papermaking and in conditioning of waste activated sludge from the pulp and paper industry. Three starch-based and two cellulose-based polymers were chosen for further flocculation and filtrations tests. Key optimization parameters for the polymer were identified as the increasing of molecular weight and nitrogen content. The starch-based polymer had the best performance in both applications, but in neither of the cases did it function as well as the commercial polyacrylamide-based polymers. The importance of the molecular weight came up in the experiments. The developed starch-based polymer was cationic and had the charge density used in industry. On the other hand, although cationic flocculants are the most used in sludge conditioning, also anionic and non-ionic polymers are needed, depending on the characteristics of the sludge to be flocculated. Overall action of the tailored polymers was also studied in order to predict their potential as papermaking retention and dewatering aids.
Lauri Kuutti,* Sanna Haavisto, Sari Hyvärinen, Hannu Mikkonen, Riikka Koski, Soili Peltonen, Tapani Suortti, and Hanna H., HKyllönen
Keywords: Biodegradable flocculants; Starch; Cellulose; Papermaking retention; Dewatering
Contact information: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland. * Corresponding author: lauri.kuutti@vtt.fi
Large amounts of wet sludge are produced annually in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment. Already the pulp and paper industry produces more than ten million tons of primary sludge, waste activated sludge (WAS), and de-inking sludge. Due to legislation and increased taxes, landfills are quickly being eliminated as a final destination for wastes in Europe (Monte et al. 2009), and other disposal methods, such as incineration and fertilizer use, are becoming more important. For proper disposal, mechanical dewatering plays a key role in the treatment chain of sludge. WAS is a difficult type of sludge to dewater. The dry solids content after traditional dewatering process can still be less than 15%. Flocculation is an important stage of mechanical dewatering, especially when using cationic flocculants, but also anionic and non-ionic flocculants are needed, depending on the sludge to be flocculated. Proverbial synthetic flocculants are highly efficient, but they have poor biodegradability with respect to fertilizer use, and the environmental aspects are more and more the focus of critical discussions. In Germany sludges treated with polyacrylamides will be excluded from application on areas under cultivation by the end of 2013. Safe biodegradable “green” alternatives with minimal environmental and health risks, based on biopolymers such as starch or cellulose, have thus a strong research interest.
Flocculating agent systems are extensively used to improve the retention of fibre fines and fillers in papermaking. The flocculating agents are often polyelectrolytes whose mechanisms of operation depend on the molecular weight and charge density. The efficiency of the flocculating agents in papermaking is generally evaluated by measuring the state of flocculation or retention efficiency under the desired flow/process conditions.
The cationizing agent most commonly used today is 2,3-epoxypropyltrimethyl-ammonium chloride or, alternatively, a corresponding cationizing agent with a chloro-hydrin functional nature. These compounds have the characteristic that they can establish an ether bond with the OH groups of starch. Thus, they react with starch so as to form a compound that is stable over a very wide pH range. They are particularly stable over the basic pH range. This characteristic is advantageous during long-term storage, since high pH gives an increased resistance to microbiological attack.
The flocculation efficiency of the various cationic starches depends on (a) the amino group type and follows the order: quaternary > tertiary > secondary > primary, and (b) the chemical structure of the flocculants, i.e. the flocculants prepared by grafting have higher flocculation efficiency than those prepared via etherification. Structural aspects of starch have been found that with a decrease of molar mass and radius of gyration, and hence the flocculation efficiency decreases (Shirzad-Semsar et al. 2007).
Bio-based flocculants can be produced from starch (amylose and amylopectin based) (Pavlovic and Brandao 2003; Khalil and Abdel-Halin 2001), cellulose (Ott et al.1989), chitosan (Ashmore and Hearn 2000; Roussy et al. 2004), phosphate-modified glucomannan (Xie et al. 2007), or by grafting acrylamide onto natural polysaccharides such as guar gum (Nayak and Singh 2001), and carboxymethyl cellulose (Biswal and Singh 2004). Starch derivatives have potential to replace petroleum-based flocculants and chelating agents (Oelmeyer et al. 2002; Bratskaya et al. 2005) for applications where the sludges are used on cultivated areas by reason of tighter environmental laws. A high degree of substitution (DS) in cationization of up to 1.1 in a one-step synthesis of the samples can be controlled by adjusting the molar ratio of cationization agent to anhydroglucose unit. A two-step reaction yields products of a DS of up to 1.5 (Heinze et al. 2004). Adsorption of polysaccharides onto mineral surfaces has been investigated and explained in many papers (Weissenborn et al. 1995; Liu et al. 2000). The recent patents (Karppi et al. 2007; Likitalo and Käki 2005) have been shown, that the molecular weight of the flocculant, at least for sludge applications, should get much higher concerning applications of papermaking retention and dewatering.
The flocculation performance of 30 different kinds of the bio-based polymers was first examined using a simple jar test, where a suspension of 0.05 % kaolin and 0.1 % thermo-mechanical pulp (TMP) fines was used for the flocculation studies. The best modified ones were further tested using more realistic filtration tests and compared with some commercial polyacrylamide-based flocculants.
Various starch-based materials, such as enzymatically hydrolysed potato starch (N%: 0.4-2.8%), hydroxypropylated starches or acetylated potato starch (DS = 0.9-2.5), maize starch (amylose rich, N% = 1.3-1.57%), or enzymatically hydrolysed barley starch (N% = 0.66%)) have been chemically or enzymatically modified before the cationization. The starting material for the cationized modification of carboxymethyl cellulose, lignin, and chitosan were commercial samples. The acetylated samples were prepared using VTT´s own technology. The flocculants had not been optimized for further studies with respect to molecular weight, molecular weight distribution, chemical structure of the polymers, or the nature or ratio of functional groups on the polymeric backbone.
For the flocculation and filtration tests, the starting material was hydroxypropyl starch (MS=0.4, Mw=2.3 MDaltons) made in a pilot plant (Peltonen et al. 1998). As a hydroxyethyl cellulose sample, Aqualon’s Natrosal 250 MBR (Mw=220000) was used. To increase the molar mass of selected samples, epiclorohydrin (Fluka) was used as a crosslinking agent. The mostly used cationization reagent, Raisacat 151 (2,3-epoxy-propyl-trimethylammonium chloride, industrial grade, Ciba Speciality Chemicals OY, Mietoinen, Finland) was used. All of the above-mentioned chemicals were used as received without further purification. If not otherwise mentioned, all other chemicals were of industrial grade.
The used furnish in the papermaking drainage and in flocculation measurements was a thermomechanical pulp (TMP)-based news-type recipe with a filler content of 30%. The fines content of the furnish was 25%. The flocculants in sludge application were tested using waste activated sludge (WAS) from a pulp mill. The samples were fresh and taken daily when needed. The total solids content of the WAS was 0.9+0.2%, the average particle size was 70+5 µm, the capillary suction time (CST) was 16+2 s, and the pH was 7.9+0.3.
The potato starch used in acetylating was provided by Periva Oy (Kokemäki, Finland). The used starch acetate was manufactured according to VTT´s patents (FI 107386). Reaction was carried out in the mixture of acetic acid anhydride and acetic acid in the presence of sodium hydroxide at reflux temperature, typically for 6 hours. Crude product was typically washed with an excess of water and dried.
Cationization of starch
Starch granules were suspended in water (e.g. 20% w/v), typically at 30°C, and were adjusted to pH 11.0 with NaOH. A commercial etherifying agent containing 2,3-epoxypropyltrimethylammonium chloride (RAISACAT, Raisio Chemicals Oy) was added to the slurry. The reaction temperature was raised to 80°C, and the reaction was stopped after 7-20 hr by adjusting to pH 6.5 with HCl (34% v/v). The slurry was filtered and washed with water and then with ethanol. The sample was freeze-dried.
The crosslinking of the hydroxypropyl starch sample was carried out typically as follows: an aqueous suspension of 70 g hydroxypropyl starch and 0.5 mL epiclorohydrin in 1000 mL of water (pH over 11) was stirred at low speed at room temperature and then stirred for 1 hour at 60C. On the next day, 35 g 50% NaOH (catalyst for the cationic reaction) and 85 g Raisacat 151 were added to the solution at room temperature and stirred for 10 hours at 80C. The pH of suspension was adjusted to 7, and the product was purified with ultrafiltration (Microza UF Module, PALL Corporation) and freeze dried.
The quantitative determinations of nitrogen in chemical substances were done by the Kjeldahl method. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) was used to analyze molar mass distributions and mass average molar masses. A refractive index detector was used to determine the absolute molar masses in 1 M NaOH. The molar masses of the cross-linked samples were also evaluated by the viscosity measurement with a Brookfield DV-II+Pro viscometer at 25C.
A simple jar test was conducted as a pre-test for the examination of the applicability of new organic flocculants. 4 beakers of suspension of 0.05 % kaolin or 0.1 % TMP fines were used for flocculation studies at pH 4 and pH 7. Immediately after the addition of flocculants, all the suspensions were stirred at a constant speed of 100 rpm for 10 min, followed by slow agitation at 40 rpm for 10 min. The suspensions were then allowed to settle for 15 min. The turbidity of the suspension was measured with a Hach Model 2100P Portable Turbidimeter. The dose of flocculants was varied within the range of 0 to 4 ppm.
Starch- and cellulose-based polymers with different charge densities and molecular weights were screened in pre-tests, and the best ones were chosen for flocculation and filtration tests (Table 1, A-E). The pre-tested flocculants were further modified and compared to commercial polyacrylamide-based flocculants (C-PAM) used in industry (Table 1, F-I). The molar masses of the crosslinked samples A, C, and D measured by the viscocity measurements indicated increasing molar masses respectively.
The aim was to examine the applicability of new organic flocculants in conditioning of WAS from a paper mill. The sludge was coagulated with ferric sulphate and/or flocculated using flocculants having different charge densities and molecular weights (Table 1). The success of flocculation was determined by using a visual estimation of floc appearance and the dewatering methods discussed below.
Also the capillary suction time (CST) measurements using a Triton Electronics CST meter were conducted, indicating the ability of the liquid phase to propagate in the filter paper. Particle size measurements were carried out using a Malvern 2600c analyser. However, the CST values were too low to obtain reliable differences between different flocculants. The particle size measurement proved to be unsuitable for floc size determination.
Table 1. Flocculants Used in Flocculation and Filtration Tests and the Information for Modified Polymers. *
HPS = Hydroxypropyl Starch, HEC = Hydroxyethyl Cellulose and C-PAM= Commercial Cationic Polyacrylamide
Sludge Treatments
Two different types of laboratory-scale dewatering methods were tested for WAS, a batch type gravity filtration procedure and continuous belt filter pressing (Fig. 1). Gravity filtration tests were carried out using a filter cloth (Tamfelt DP313, permeability 2500 m3/m2h) in a funnel, when the sludge was coagulated and/or flocculated in a separate mug and decanted to the funnel in an identical manner. Success of the filtration was determined by measuring the amount of filtrate, the DS-content of the gathered cake and the filtrate, and the turbidity of the filtrate.
Fig. 1. Schematic illustration of the belt filter press
Laboratory-Scale Drainage and Flocculation Measurement Equipment
Drainage and retention efficiency of each polymer were studied with a laboratory-scale drainage device, as shown in Fig. 2. The device consists of a sample chamber, a filtrate flask, a scale, a vacuum pump, and a manometer. The wire in the bottom of the sample chamber was a 200 mesh metallic screen. The cumulative filtrate mass was measured with a scale and recorded by a computer. The experiments were carried out with a typical news furnish containing 30% of filler with an initial total consistency of 8 g/L. Each sample was prepared by mixing the polymer manually in the sample chamber for 30 seconds at a temperature of 50°C. The pressure in the filtrate flask was initially set to -10 kPa. After the measurement, the filtrate in the flask was collected and analysed for turbidity. The efficiency of the polymers was evaluated as the change in the dewatering rate and the change in turbidity of the filtrate.
Fig. 2. Schematic illustration of the laboratory drainage device
The state of flocculation in the furnish following the addition of the polymers was studied in a laboratory flow loop system with a contraction channel simulating the conditions in a headbox of paper machine. The flow geometry and measurement set-up are presented in Fig. 3.
The flocculation and retention capabilities of the polymers were evaluated using an image analysis technique. The average size of flocs was determined downstream after the abrupt contraction in the slit channel using a pulsed light emitting diode (LED) light source and a fast CCD camera. After correcting the images for uneven illumination, the floc size was determined in the flow direction and the transverse direction as a run-length average of the median thresholded image (Kellomäki and Karema 1999; Karema and Salmela 2001; Salmela and Kataja 2005). The retention efficiency was evaluated by calculating the mean intensity and deviation of the intensity of the light transmitted through the channel. The light scattering efficiency of pulp decreases as the filler particles attach onto fibres. As a result, the mean intensity and deviation of intensity are increased when more light is able to pass the pulp layer flowing in the channel.
Fig. 3. Schematic illustration of the flow loop system with circular tube of 40 mm in diameter and a rectangular slit channel with height of 5 mm
Pre-Test Result and the Further Developed Polymers
Thirty flocculants for the jar test were selected randomly from other projects. As source material either hydrolysed potato (N%: 0.4-2.8 %) or acetylated potato starch (DS = 0.9-2.9), maize starch (amylose rich, N% = 1.3-1.57 %), or enzymatically hydrolysed barley starch (N% = 0.66%) were used.
Table 2. Turbidity Results of Jar Test Study
Symbol values : +++ = under 5, ++ = 6 to 20, + = 20 to 49, – = 50 to 100, – – = 101 to 199 and – – – = over 200 NTU. NTU = nephelometric turbidity units.
Also one sample was made of chitosan and cationized lignin. Total nitrogen content of the flocculants was typically very low, below 1%, i.e. medium cationization DS values of 0.14. As a general observation from the studies (Table 2) it can be said that products that had been subjected to anionic modifications, such as crosslinked and cationized CMC-flocculants, acted as dispersing agents, whereas an increasing degree of acetylation or increased nitrogen content improved the efficiency of the flocculant. Also, lowering of the pH in the suspension improved the efficiency of the flocculants.
Figure 4 presents the influence of the side chain of modified starch (HPS) on the effectiveness of TMP fines flocculation. The bigger the side chain was, from methyl to stearyl, the more ineffective was the flocculation. The comparison of the best flocculants to commercial flocculants revealed that at small dosage the commercial flocculants were more effective than the modified starches.
Fig. 4. Effect of side chain of the modified starch to the flocculation of TMP fines at pH 4
Fig. 5. Comparison of modified flocculants compared to a commercial flocculant in relation to the flocculation efficiency
Based on the jar test results it was concluded that the molecular weight or nitrogen content of bio-based polymer should increase. The best candidates for the application studies were further developed to optimize the flocculation properties. The optimization parameters for the polymer were chosen as increasing the molecular weight and the nitrogen content. Table 1 lists information pertaining to the modified polymers considered during the project. The jar test data of the modified polymers revealed that the best flocculants achieved almost at same efficiency level than the commercial products (Fig 5.).
In an ideal situation, a flocculating polymer intended for sludge dewatering produces flocs that are large and stable enough for filtration, gives a clear filtrate (turbidity and dry solids are low), yields a high dry solids content of the cake, and the amount of clear filtrate is also high.
The cellulose-based polymers did not produce flocs in sludge application, based on estimating floc appearance visually. The starch-based polymers functioned clearly better. The tested polymer D, which was a cross-linked starch based polymer, functioned the best of all the developed polymers in this application (Table 3). It also had the highest molecular weight of the developed polymers. However, the best flocs were obtained using commercial flocculants with smaller dosages. The most satisfactory flocs for further dewatering tests were obtained using the commercial flocculant H with the molecular weight of 9.5 MMW. The use of ferric sulphate produced better flocs only with flocculants C and I.
Table 3. Visual Estimation of Floc Appearance. *
* Polymer dose (kg/t DS) in parenthesis
The filtration tests gave similar results to the visual estimation of floc appearance. There was no cake on the filter when filtering sludge flocculated using cellulose-based polymers. Correspondingly, the filtrates had similar total solids content (TS) to the reference with no flocculant addition. Starch-based polymers produced better filtration results. When the sludge was flocculated using the polymer D (polymer dose 15 g/t TS), the DS of the cake obtained was fairly good, 4.3%. However, the filtrate was turbid and the TS of the filtrate was high (>0.6%). The TS values of the cakes when using either of the commercial polymers were >5.0%. The filtrates were clearer (TS < 0.4%) than when using the starch-based polymers. The commercial polymer I produced more turbid filtrate (380 FTU) than the polymer H (260 FTU). Also the filtration rate with the polymer H was higher and the polymer needed for flocculation lower than with the polymer I.
The continuous belt filtering was carried out with the starch-based polymer D and the commercial polymer H. The TS 10 % obtained using the polymer D was fairly good. The TS with the polymer H was, however, a bit higher (12 %), and the filtrate was clearer. The polymer needed for flocculation was 1.5-fold higher for the polymer D than for the polymer H.
Drainage and Flocculation Efficiency in Papermaking
The effect of polymer additions on free water removal rate from the furnish was analysed by measuring cumulative mass of the filtrate as a function of time during the dewatering process (Fig. 6). The total filtration times when the maximum amount of filtrate was achieved are presented in Table 4. All flocculants increased the dewatering rate of the furnish. This is not surprising, since all the polymers evaluated were cationic and therefore flocculation is expected at least due to electrostatic attraction. A decrease in specific surface area of the pulp through flocculation of fines and fillers onto fibres leads to an increase in porosity of the consolidating pulp layer during the dewatering process.
Despite the similar charge density and molecular weight of polymers C and G, the commercial CPAM-based polymer G outperformed the starch-based polymer C in dewatering efficiency. Furthermore, the starch-based polymers C and D achieved almost identical dewatering behaviour, albeit the noticeable difference in both charge density and molecular weight. The highest dewatering rate was achieved with C-PAM having relatively low charge density but very high molecular weight. The performance of the cellulose-based polymer as a flocculating agent proved very weak.
Fig. 6. Cumulative filtrate mass as a function of time for polymer dosage of 0.5 kg/ton
Table 4. Total Filtration Times of the Pulp Samples *
* (time when maximum filtrate amount is achieved)
The effect of different polymers on retention was characterized in terms of turbidity. Filtrate turbidity values are presented relative to the value of reference pulp in Fig. 7. The commercial CPAMs F and G were able to reduce the turbidity to 20% of the reference. The tailored starch-based polymers C and D decreased turbidity to 30% of the reference, whereas the cellulose-based polymer E only yielded turbidity that was approxi-mately 65% of the reference. The reason for the poorer performance of the cellulose-based polymer in dewatering and retention might be the significantly lower charge density and somewhat lower molecular weight.
Fig. 7. Filtrate turbidities relative to the reference pulp filtrate
The starch-based flocculant C and the commercial flocculant F were selected for studies in a laboratory flow loop system. The cross-sectional area of the flocs produced by the different polymers relative to the reference without additives is shown in Fig. 8. Similarly, the relative mean intensity and deviation of intensity are presented in Fig. 9. As seen from the results, the commercial polymer F produced 1.9 to 2.3 times larger flocs, depending on the flow conditions and polymer dosage, when compared to the reference. The increase in intensity and deviation of intensity indicate that filler particles were attached onto fibres.
Fig. 8. Cross-sectional area of the flocs relative to the reference pulp. Similar flow conditions and polymer dosage are connected with a line.
Fig. 9. Mean intensity (solid lines) and deviation of intensity (dashed lines) relative to the reference pulp. Similar flow conditions and polymer dosage are connected with a line.
The polymer C was able to increase the flocculation level with high dosage and slow flow velocity, but as the velocity was doubled and the dosage halved the floc size remained almost unchanged. Furthermore, the intensity quantities indicate that a major part of the fillers remained in the water phase.
Figure 10 shows an example of the acquired images for each studied case. Clear flocculation into localized mass concentrations (variations in gray levels) was observed for pulp treated with polymer F, whereas the flocculation pattern produced by polymer C was quite close to that of the reference pulp without additives.
Fig. 10. Examples of transilluminated pictures of the flow in the channel with different flow conditions and polymer dosages. These images were corrected for uneven illumination for further analysis.
Promising modified bio-based flocculants from jar tests were evaluated further. A starch-based polymer functioned best in both sets of experiments, but in neither of the cases did it function as well as the commercial polyacrylamide-based polymers. The importance of the molecular weight was highlighted by the experimental results.
The flocculation and retention efficiency of the starch-based polymers were generally lower than those of commercial C-PAM. In shearless dewatering conditions with auxiliary filtrating fibre network, the retention and dewatering properties were quite good compared to the studied C-PAMs. However, the flow studies at higher shear conditions showed that the starch-based polymers could not produce a significant flocculation level as would be needed to maintain sufficient retention properties with studied dosages. The performance of the cellulose-based polymer as flocculating agent was very weak.
The molecular weight of the prepared flocculant should be much higher in order to perform well in applications of papermaking retention and dewatering. Also, the effective dosage of the flocculant should be lower, which might be feasible when the molecular weight is higher. The different charge densities, the molecular structure, and rigidity should also be tested more closely in further studies.
This work is carried out in the projects in the Fiber-based Innovation Chain – Consortium, which is coordinated and financially supported by the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT).
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Gemini Crypto Exchange Opens Up GBP for Buying, Selling, and Trading for UK Customers
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini is now expanding into the UK.
The launch follows obtaining an electronic-money institutions (EMI) license from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after the agency declared that all crypto exchanges operating in the country are required to register with it as per its Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5MLD) by Jan. 10, 2021.
Now that Gemini is open for business in the UK, the users in the region can buy, sell, store, and trade crypto using their local currency pound sterling (GBP).
“London is one of the birthplaces of modern finance and has a rich tradition of regulation, but also fosters an environment of innovation,” said Tyler Winklevoss.
UK customers! You can now easily buy, sell and trade #crypto on Gemini in $GBP!
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— Gemini (@Gemini) September 24, 2020
The New York-based firm founded by Tyer and Cameron Winklevoss will now let its users buy Bitcoin and other cryptos using debit cards. Supported cryptos include Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Dai (DAI), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), ChainLink (LINK), Orchid (OXT), Amp (AMP), Pax Gold (PAXG), and Compound (COMP).
Cryptocurrency investors can also fund digital wallets via bank payments such as CHAPS, Faster Payments, and Swift wire transfers without incurring foreign exchange fees.
Gemini is among the few registered firms — already operating — in the UK, with Archax being another one approved by the US regulator and due to launch in the fourth quarter.
The crypto exchange, which is also a New York State Department of Financial Services regulated custodian, is also in the licensing process in Singapore.
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Economist Discusses What Would Happen if the Masses Ditch Fiat Currencies for Bitcoin
American economist Brian Wesbury has shared his thoughts on what would happen if the masses were to ditch fiat currencies and adopt bitcoin instead. He discussed whether the government would allow it to happen and how bitcoin can become a true currency.
Economist Brian Wesbury Answers Question About the Masses Ditching Fiat Currencies for Bitcoin
Brian Wesbury is an economist with a focus on macroeconomics and economic forecasting. He is currently the chief economist at First Trust Advisors, a financial services firm headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois.
He was asked on Fox Business News last week about what would happen “if the masses were to ditch fiat currency,” whether it will “trigger a financial collapse,” and “could bitcoin ever replace the dollar?” Wesbury began by acknowledging:
A lot of people who are buying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies believe that they are going to replace the dollar.
He explained: “if they were to replace the dollar, if you take all the of the M1 — its all of the checking accounts and cash — in the system, you divide it by all the bitcoin that can exist — 21 million of them — you end up with over $300,000 worth of worth if it replaced the dollar.”
However, he raised a number of questions: “Will the government allow that to happen? Can you pay your taxes in bitcoin? Can you buy anything you want with bitcoin?” The economist opined:
That’s what has to happen for you to have a true currency … so it’s a long way away from that.
The chief economist did not mention that a growing number of jurisdictions are already embracing bitcoin for tax payments. For example, the canton of Zug in Switzerland announced that it will start accepting bitcoin for tax payments this year. Several other local governments in Switzerland have made a similar announcement, such as Zermatt.
Recently, the mayor of Miami said that he is working on allowing payments for city services in bitcoin. Furthermore, a growing number of stores are accepting bitcoin payments. Payments giant Paypal, for example, is planning to allow people to use cryptocurrency to pay for goods and services at 2.8 million merchants in its network this year.
Wesbury also claimed that the volatility of bitcoin is one of the problems. As an example, he said he hopped into his car with two bitcoins in his pocket. “When I got to the car dealer, I didn’t know if I could buy two cars or half a car and that’s one of the problems with bitcoin.” He concluded:
It’s so volatile that we don’t know really what it’s worth.
However, many experts have argued that the volatility of bitcoin decreases with rising adoption. Alliance Bernstein’s Inigo Fraser-Jenkins said in December that bitcoin’s volatility has significantly declined over the past three years, making it a more attractive store of value, and its relative volatility to both gold and stocks has fallen to historically low levels. In July, BTC’s volatility hit a three-year low. In addition, billionaire investor Bill Miller said Friday that bitcoin becomes less risky the higher the price goes.
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The 10 Most Vicious Brawls in Major League Baseball History
David A. Cucchiara@@cucch22Twitter LogoCorrespondent IMay 19, 2013
A fight in Major League Baseball is a rather rare occurrence—especially those that result in injury and bloodshed.
Regardless, baseball has seen its fair share of brawls over time. Whether fights are spontaneous or provoked, vicious or wimpy, bench clearing or bullpen emptying, they all share one characteristic—each is adrenaline pumping for the players and fans.
Back in April, the San Diego Padres’ Carlos Quentin took to the mound—but not to pitch. A few high elbows and a well-timed tackle resulted in a broken collarbone for Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke.
Each season we witness beef between players turning into punches and inside pitches resulting in ejections. Baseball has yet to see its last brawl.
Here are the top 10 nastiest and adrenaline pumping fights in Major League Baseball history.
10. Mexico v. Canada, 2013
It may not be a Major League Baseball sanctioned game, but on May 9, a World Baseball Classic game turned into a straight slug fest.
It began with Mexico’s Luis Cruz telling pitcher Arnold Leon, “hit the next guy.”
Leon proceeded to drill Canada’s Rene Tosoni square in the spine—resulting in a bench clearing skirmish for the ages.
This brawl had it all—everything from bats being hurled from the on-deck circle at the dugouts to fan clashing in the stands. This fight reinforced the notion that these two countries do not like each other.
9. Mike Mussina v. Bill Hasselman, 1993
Catcher Bill Haselman may have been a little premature in charging the mound against 185-pound starter Mike Mussina, but his untimeliness resulted in a nasty brawl between the Orioles and Mariners on June 6, 1993.
Randy Johnson, Jay Buhner, Tino Martinez and Omar Vizquel were just some of the names to throw punches in sub-skirmishes that erupted as a result of the beaning.
The scuffle lasted about eight minutes and ended in manager Lou Piniella being ejected from the game. “Sweet” Lou made sure home was neatly covered in a thin coat of dirt before exiting the stadium.
Mariners starter Chris Bosio would fracture his collarbone in the brawl.
8. Pete Rose v. Bud Harrelson, 1973
“The Reds looked like me hitting,” said Bud Harrelson prior to Game 3 of the 1973 NLCS.
The simple sentence would ignite a feud between Harrelson and the Reds, putting the Mets second baseman on watch.
A heavy takeout slide from Pete Rose in the fifth inning resulted in punches instantaneously being thrown between the two. A tackle by Rose and before you knew it second base was covered by a massive brawl between the Mets and Reds.
The Reds would end up falling to the Mets in a blowout, 9-2.
7. Chris Volstad v. Nyjer Morgan, 2010
Outfielder Nyjer Morgan is known for his spunky attitude and controversial smack talk.
On Sept. 1, 2010, Morgan’s demeanor would get the best of him. After Marlins starting pitcher Chris Volstad threw behind the Nationals center fielder, Morgan took off from home plate.
A 15-5 blowout in the seventh inning, Morgan likely found it the perfect time to take all his energy out on the 230-pound Volstad.
Before Morgan could even land a punch on Volstad, first baseman Gaby Sanchez—who was running from first base—was able to clothesline Morgan into the ground.
The fight resulted in multiple ejections, some of which would be followed later by suspensions. Morgan received an eight game suspension from Major League Baseball for his role in the fight.
6. Marichal v. Roseboro, 1965
On August 22, 1965, Giants Hall of Famer Juan Marichal used more than just his fist in a fight against the Dodgers’ John Roseboro.
In the midst of a pennant race between the teams, Sandy Koufax was on the mound in a marquee pitching matchup. Roseboro, the Dodgers’ catcher, routinely threw the ball back to Koufax in the third inning. Unfortunately, Marichal—who was batting at the time—thought Roseboro was intentionally trying to hit him in the head on the throw back.
A brawl between Roseboro and Marichal ensued and, instead of a fists, Marichal chose to utilize his bat. After a few blows to the head of Roseboro, Koufax and his teammates were able to pry Marichal away from Roseboro, but not after the Dodgers' catcher was dripping in blood.
This was certainly one of the more surprising, nasty and disturbing fights recorded in MLB history.
5. Pedro Martinez v. Don Zimmer, 2003
Game 3 of the 2003 ALCS between the Yankees and Red Sox was one of the more memorable in the series—but for reasons other than good baseball.
The tumultuous day began after outfielder Karim Garcia was drilled in the back by a Pedro Martinez fastball. The Yanks retaliated in the bottom half of the inning with a high and inside pitch to the always feisty Manny Ramirez.
Ramirez charged and a bench clearing brawl broke out. In the chaos, Don Zimmer was tossed to the ground by Martinez—igniting even more side fights and bickering.
Roger Clemens would pitch well for the remainder of the game as the Yankees took Game 3, 4-3.
4. Alex Rodriguez v. Jason Varitek, 2004
If you’re a Yankee fan, you remember what occurred on July 24, 2004. The brawl goes down as one of the most significant and nasty in the history of the rivalry.
It began in the third inning when Alex Rodriguez was hit by a Bronson Arroyo high and inside fastball. Rodriguez immediately starting cursing at Arroyo, then directed his verbal abuse at the Red Sox catcher, Jason Varitek.
A shoving match turned into punches and the skirmish escalated into a team-on-team brawl.
Kevin Millar and Trot Nixon decided to throw a few punches at Yankees starting pitcher Tanyon Sturtze, which resulted in a bloodied ear. The dust settled and there were no major injuries during the scuffle.
The Red Sox would win the game 11-10.
3. Robin Ventura v. Nolan Ryan, 1993
Nolan Ryan, the Hall of Famer known for his high-90s fastball, would plunk White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura on Aug. 4, 1993.
Ventura thought about taking his base, but something snapped about ten feet up the line that triggered his attack on the 46-year-old Ryan.
A bench-clearing brawl ensued and Ryan was able to put Ventura in a headlock—pounding his head with a few crushing blows. However, Ventura would not quit.
He was able to take down Ryan and avoid any major injury.
Ryan pitched well and the Rangers were able to take the game, 5-2.
2. Armando Benitez v. Tino Martinez, 1998
Following a Bernie Williams home run on May 19, 1998, Armando Benitez learned a very valuable lesson: you don’t throw at Tino Martinez.
As soon as Benitez drilled one into Martinez’s spine, the Yankees quickly exited the dugout and one of the nastiest brawls in Yankee and MLB history began.
With everyone hitting everyone, the fight spilled across the field and into the Orioles’ dugout. Darryl Strawberry was the catalyst behind the dugout battle and went blow for blow with three Orioles. Jeff Nelson got his blows in on the side of the dugout as well.
The fight ended when Joe Torre made his way into the dugout and escorted Strawberry across the field and into the locker room.
The Yankees would end up taking the game, 9-5.
1. San Diego Padres v. Atlanta Braves, 1984
On Aug. 12, 1984, the longest, nastiest and most epic MLB brawl took place between the San Diego Padres and Atlanta Braves.
The tension began in the first when Braves starter Pascual Perez hit San Diego second baseman Alan Wiggins in the lower back. Words were exchanged between the two.
Padres starter Ed Whitson then attempted to hit Perez in his first trip to the plate. Perez proceeded to run around with the bat to defend himself after the benches cleared, but no punches were thrown.
Then, in the fourth, Perez was thrown at again. Whitson and manager Dick Williams were ejected by the umpire.
Reliever Greg Booker tried to hit Perez again in the sixth, but was unsuccessful and ejected.
Finally, in the eighth inning, reliever Craig Lefferts drilled Perez in the elbow and the brawl ensues. Punches are thrown, fans get involved and more players are ejected.
More fights and hit batsmen occurred in the ninth—including Goose Gossage beaning Donnie Moore.
The Braves took the game, if you even want to call it that, 5-3.
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Week 1 NFL Betting Picks Preview
Vernon CroyCorrespondent ISeptember 11, 2009
Week 1 of the NFL is finally here! You can start the grill, put down the tailgate, and prepare for the ultimate Sunday tradition again. Now that the games count again, what can you expect each team to do? You know at the very least that it will be nothing like last year.
Every year, the majority of the teams in the playoffs were not there the year before. This year should be no different. As easy as it would be to just look at the playoff teams from last year and pencil them in again, many of them will not be back. So what does Week One hold in store for the fans? Check out Week One NFL Football Picks by the World’s Top NFL Handicappers.
Kansas City vs. Baltimore (Baltimore -12 1/2). This game depends a lot on the injury situation with Matt Cassel. The Chiefs went out and spent $60 million on their franchise quarterback, and they will be a completely different team if he’s under center.
He’s been practicing all week, but is listed as questionable. The Ravens still boast one of the best defenses in the league. Expect a low scoring, slug-fest in Baltimore.
Philadelphia vs. Carolina (Philadelphia -2 1/2). Donovan McNabb gets to try out all of his new toys in the Philadelphia offense. He’s got a bolstered offensive line and a new receiver and running back to help carry the load.
On the other side of the ball, the Panthers still have a very solid team. They have a stellar running game and a tough defense. Will McNabb be able to toss the ball around or will the Panthers ground him before he gets started?
Denver vs. Cincinnati (Cincinnati -4). When you’re a four-point underdog to a team that won five games last year, it usually means you’ve had a pretty rough offseason.
In Denver, question marks abound. Will Brandon Marshall be ready to shut up and play ball? If so, the Denver offense might actually be decent with a pass-happy coach calling the shots.
On the other side, Carson Palmer appears ready to go after a season-ending injury last year. Will he return to form?
Minnesota vs. Cleveland (Minnesota -4). The Brett Favre era officially begins in Minnesota as they take the field against the Browns. Will he look like the Favre of old or the one that limped to the finish line last year?
If he looks good, Minnesota could be a team to be reckoned with. They also have a guy by the name of Adrian Peterson running the ball for them.
Cleveland’s defense will have a tough matchup against the running game of the Vikes.
New York Jets vs Houston (Houston – 4 1/2). The Texans will try to pick up where they left off last year with a top five offense. The question is, did they fix their defense yet?
The Jets have a new head coach in Rex Ryan, so they will have an emphasis on defense as well. Look for a good game in this one between two good teams.
Jacksonville vs Indianapolis (Indianapolis -7). No preseason surgery has kept Manning on the shelf this year. He has had a full offseason to practice with the team and should be ready to roll in Week One. Although they lost Marvin Harrison, they still have a slew of talent on offense.
Jacksonville has a lot of question marks that should be answered in Week One. How will Maurice Jones-Drew handle the spotlight?
Detroit vs New Orleans (New Orleans -13). Nothing like pairing the best offense in the league against the worst defense in the league from last season.
Detroit is hoping that things have changed in the offseason. New Orleans will still have a good offense with Drew Brees under center.
It will also be interesting to see the Matt Stafford era begin in the Motor City.
Dallas vs. Tampa Bay (Dallas -6). The T.O. show has officially left town in Big D, and they’re ready to put it behind them. Romo is healthy again and ready to throw the ball.
Tampa Bay basically threw everything out and started over after a 9-7 year last season. No one really knows what to expect from them.
San Francisco vs Arizona (Arizona -6). The defending NFC Champions look to kick off their defense in style against the Niners. If Kurt Warner can stay healthy again, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be a top offense again this year. They might even be better with new running back Beanie Wells in town.
The Niners are still waiting on Michael Crabtree to sign. Hopefully someone else can catch a ball in his absence.
Washington vs New York Giants (New York 6 1/2). The Giants will immediately try to create some chemistry in the passing game now that Burress is gone. They really don’t know who will step up, so expect a lot of running early in the game.
For Washington, we’ll get to see if the $100 million-man in Albert Haynesworth will make a difference.
St. Louis vs. Seattle (Seattle -8). Seattle has their quarterback healthy again as well as a shiny new receiver to throw to. They should have a pretty decent offense.
The Rams will be improved as well with a revamped offensive line and healthy quarterback. Expect a close game in this one.
Chicago vs. Green Bay (Green Bay -3 1/2). Green Bay is favored in this game, despite the Jay Cutler experiment in full bloom in Chicago. Will “Crybaby Jay” be able to lead the Bears to the upset?
Aaron Rodgers quietly had a solid season last year and looks to expand on that this year.
Buffalo vs. New England (New England -10 1/2). “The Golden Boy” returns to his throne in New England. Tom Brady will take the stage and look to bounce back from his season-ending injury last year. Will he immediately return to top form?
As if that wasn’t enough of a storyline, you’ve got T.O. taking the field for Buffalo. This should be a fun game to watch regardless of what happens.
San Diego vs. Oakland (San Diego -9). The Chargers are healthy and have all of their guns back for the opener.
On the other side of the ball, Jamarcus Russell will look to prove the doubters wrong. Will the Chargers roll or will the Raiders put everyone on notice?
Check out Vernon Croy’s Expert NFL Football Picks for Week One.
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Unit 1: Number Tricks, Patterns, and Abstractions
Unit 2: The Number Line Project
Unit 4: Creating Linear Equations
Unit 5: Statistics
Unit 6: Mini Unit: Patterns, Programs, and Math Without Words
Unit 7: Lines
Unit 8: Linear and Exponential Functions
Unit 9: Systems of Equations
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LESSON 1: Introducing the Number Line Project
LESSON 2: Fractions and Decimals on the Number Line
LESSON 3: Irrational (and Other!) Numbers on the Number Line
LESSON 4: The Number Line Project, Part 2: Two Dimensional Number Lines
LESSON 5: Patterns on Two Dimensional Number Lines
LESSON 6: Workshop Period: The Number Line Project
LESSON 7: The Number Line, Patterns, and Units
LESSON 8: The Number Line Project: More Unit Lines and Finishing Up
LESSON 9: Project Collection Day, and an Introduction
Opener: Describing Patterns in Words
Agenda Check, This Week's Homework, and a Goal for the Class
The Number Line Project, Part 2c: Patterns Questions
Closing: Get Organized and What's Your Homework?
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Write a function that describes a relationship between two quantities.*
Write arithmetic and geometric sequences both recursively and with an explicit formula, use them to model situations, and translate between the two forms.*
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Today's opener is my response to the exit I used in the previous class. On that exit slip, I asked students to describe some patterns they noticed while working on Part 2 of the Number Trick Project. This turned out to be very difficult for many of them; although many of my students are coming in with strong computational skills, their ability to describe mathematical ideas in words will need improvement this year.
So with today's opener, I show students a simple, formulaic way to describe a pattern, in hopes that this will give them a starting point on the work that's coming up in today's class. First of all, the opener is on the first of these two pages: Opener and Framing Notes (the second page is for my framing of the lesson, which follows).
For each of these patterns, I tell students that I'd like for them to be able to describe what the pattern is doing, and where each pattern starts. In addition for giving kids a starting place to talk about patterns, this language will give us the ability to transition from talking about these as number patterns to seeing them as linear functions. Look at the wording we use (U1L18 Opener Complete.jpg), and you can see how we'll transition to "slope" and "y-intercept".
The last one is different, of course, and it's always interesting to see how few of my students notice that this is the list of perfect squares. So it goes, but at least it's fun to get kids thinking about how the "increase is increasing". It's fun to let them know that the idea of "changing change" is central to what they'll see in a calculus course. This pattern also forms a diagonal on the multiplication tables that students will see again today, so that will make for an opportunity to help kids notice what these numbers are and how they're related to each other.
Opener and Framing Notes.pdf
U1L18 Opener Complete.jpg
After the opener, we make a quick check of today's agenda. I remind students that the goal for the Number Line Project is for everyone to improve on their results from the previous project. Today we will continue that work, with the goal of finishing all parts of the project by Friday, when it's due.
I distribute this week's homework sheet, which is just a half-page for this week, simply providing room for students to record what they'll do for homework each night, as they complete their projects. Last week's homework sheet, and the checklist of all parts of the project is still an important place for students to record and review their progress.
U1L18 Agenda.jpg
HW Week 5 Sep23toSep27.pdf
Here's a video overview of this part of the project: About Part 2c.mov
As in previous days, different students may have different work to do today. For the most part, however, almost all students have completed Parts 2a and 2b of the Number Line Project as prerequisites to receiving Part 2c: Patterns Questions (NLP Part 2c.pdf). This new handout is a series of questions about the addition and multiplication tables that students produced on Parts 2a and 2b.
I love teaching this part of the project, because it gives students a chance to really slow down and think, and it provides for them an example of the kind of think I aspire for them to be able to do. It would be impossible to try to recount all of the great conversations I've had with kids while they've worked on this part of the project, so here's what I'll say: if you'd like to try a student-centered activity that challenges students, lets them feel the thrill of "getting it," and promotes all sorts of interesting conversations in your classroom, then try this activity.
What Groundwork is Laid Here?
Moving forward, these arithmetic tables and the questions on this handout will give us a way to talk about inequalities, arithmetic properties, linear functions, arithmetic sequences, and number theory, to name a few topics. A week from now, when I return this project to students after grading, I tell them all to place these tables prominently in their binders, because we'll reference them frequently throughout the term.
NLP Part 2c.pdf
About Part 2c.mov
U1L18 Commutative Property.jpg
With a few minutes left in class, I call everyone to attention and ask, "What's your homework tonight?" As was the case last week, students are responsible for figuring out what they need to accomplish each night this week. Today, that will mean completing Part 2c for most students, but there may be other incomplete work that they'd each like to finish.
This is also an opportunity to remind students to stay organized. "There's nothing worse than doing all your work but then losing it," I say. "Remember that I'm not collecting and grading everything until this Friday, when you'll clip it all together and hand it in for a grade." As important as all of these number line concepts are, the ability to set and accomplish goals and to stay organized is something I'd like to cultivate in my students as they begin their high school careers.
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Physicians have been mystified by chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition where normal exertion leads to debilitating fatigue that isn’t alleviated by rest. There are no known triggers, and diagnosis requires lengthy tests administered by an expert. Now, for the first time, researchers report they have identified biological markers of the disease in gut bacteria and inflammatory microbial agents in the blood.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a condition where normal exertion leads to debilitating fatigue that isn’t alleviated by rest.
Physicians have been mystified by chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition where normal exertion leads to debilitating fatigue that isn’t alleviated by rest. There are no known triggers, and diagnosis requires lengthy tests administered by an expert.
Now, for the first time, Cornell University researchers report they have identified biological markers of the disease in gut bacteria and inflammatory microbial agents in the blood.
In a study published June 23 in the journal Microbiome, the team describes how they correctly diagnosed myalgic encephalomyeletis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in 83 percent of patients through stool samples and blood work, offering a noninvasive diagnosis and a step toward understanding the cause of the disease.
“Our work demonstrates that the gut bacterial microbiome in chronic fatigue syndrome patients isn’t normal, perhaps leading to gastrointestinal and inflammatory symptoms in victims of the disease,” said Maureen Hanson, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell and the paper’s senior author. “Furthermore, our detection of a biological abnormality provides further evidence against the ridiculous concept that the disease is psychological in origin.”
“In the future, we could see this technique as a complement to other noninvasive diagnoses, but if we have a better idea of what is going on with these gut microbes and patients, maybe clinicians could consider changing diets, using prebiotics such as dietary fibers or probiotics to help treat the disease,” said Ludovic Giloteaux, a postdoctoral researcher and first author of the study.
In the study, Ithaca campus researchers collaborated with Dr. Susan Levine, an ME/CFS specialist in New York City, who recruited 48 people diagnosed with ME/CFS and 39 healthy controls to provide stool and blood samples.
The researchers sequenced regions of microbial DNA from the stool samples to identify different types of bacteria. Overall, the diversity of types of bacteria was greatly reduced and there were fewer bacterial species known to be anti-inflammatory in ME/CFS patients compared with healthy people, an observation also seen in people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
At the same time, the researchers discovered specific markers of inflammation in the blood, likely due to a leaky gut from intestinal problems that allow bacteria to enter the blood, Giloteaux said.
Bacteria in the blood will trigger an immune response, which could worsen symptoms.
The researchers have no evidence to distinguish whether the altered gut microbiome is a cause or a whether it is a consequence of disease, Giloteaux added.
In the future, the research team will look for evidence of viruses and fungi in the gut, to see whether one of these or an association of these along with bacteria may be causing or contributing to the illness.
Materials provided by Cornell University. Original written by Melissa Osgood. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
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New leak again shows how Samsung’s Galaxy S9 will copy Apple’s smartest iPhone strategy
Image source: Zach Epstein, BGR
By Zach Epstein @zacharye
Back in mid-December I wrote a piece about how after all these years of copying Apple, it appeared as though Samsung was finally going to copy Apple’s smartest strategy in 2018. Apple and Samsung copy each other all the time, of course, and this has been the case ever since Samsung first entered the smartphone market. The South Korean company has been a bit more blatant over the years — you’ll recall that Samsung was once fined hundreds of millions of dollars for stealing from Apple — which is why I found it odd that Samsung missed a big opportunity last year with the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+.
Once Apple finally copied Samsung and released a Plus model iPhone with a much larger display in 2014, Samsung copied Apple right back by changing up its Galaxy S lineup to mimic Apple’s iPhones. So instead of releasing a small Galaxy S phone in the first half of the year and a large Galaxy Note flagship in the second half, Samsung started to release “Plus” versions of its Galaxy S phones, just like Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
Fast-forward to 2016, and Apple made a brilliant business move. Instead of differentiating its iPhone and iPhone Plus handsets solely by display size, Apple could add special exclusive features to the Plus model to further encourage customers to choose it over the smaller iPhone. Apple’s margins are much higher on Plus model iPhones, after all, as I explained back in December.
When Samsung released the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ the following year though, it stuck to Apple’s old strategy of releasing two identical phones with different display sizes. In 2018, however, that’s going to change.
Aside from the bigger displays, Apple made its iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus more appealing by adding two unique features: a dual-lens rear camera and extra RAM. Unsurprisingly, Samsung has been rumored to be planning two unique features for its Galaxy S9+. You guessed it… a dual-lens rear camera and extra RAM. Those rumors were just that back in December, but subsequent leaks have shored things up. Now, a new series of Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ images reminds us that this will indeed be the case in 2018.
Posted by a gadget blog called GeekSnipper, the images come from third-party smartphone accessory maker Nillkin. They show renders of both the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ that are believed by our own sources to be entirely accurate. They’re likely based on the same information we’ve seen floating around for weeks now, so it obviously makes sense that they’re in line with what we’ve seen before.
Here’s an image of the Galaxy S9:
And here’s the Galaxy S9+:
As you can see above those centrally located fingerprint sensors (finally!), the Galaxy S9 has a single-lens camera while the S9+ has a dual-lens setup. The Galaxy S9+ is also expected to have 6GB of RAM instead of the 4GB in the smaller Galaxy S9. Both new phones should be unveiled next month, and we expect them to be released in March.
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Death at La Fenice
Donna Leon (Author)
Available in paperback for the first time, the first book in the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti detective series in which a high society murder leads the detective
Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it--cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and genius detective, finding a suspect isn't a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right--and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.
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Donna Leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, has worked as a travel guide in Rome and as a copywriter in London. She taught literature in universities in Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. Commissario Brunetti made her books world-famous. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice.
"Donna Leon's Venetian mysteries never disappoint, calling up the romantic sights and sounds of La Serenissima even as they acquaint us with the practical matters that concern the city's residents."--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
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"A gripping first mystery, as beguiling and secretly sinister as Venice herself. Sparkling and irresistible."--Rita Mae Brown
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Al Ahly confirms coach Pitso Mosimane has tested positive for Covid-19
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- Egyptian team Al Ahly have officially confirmed that head coach Pitso Mosimane has tested positive for Covid-19
- Mosimane will now enter into self-isolation at home according to the team
- This comes shortly after Mosimane led the team to victory at the CAF Champions League
Egypt's Al Ahly have officially confirmed that SA coach Pitso Mosimane has tested positive for the coronavirus.
In a statement issued by the club on Wednesday, the team commented on the situation:
"Al Ahly's head coach Pitso Mosimane tested positive for COVID-19. Mosimane will follow the Ministry of Health’s protocol for COVID-19 and will be self-isolated at home."
Mosimane has tested positive for Covid-19. Image: Pitso Mosimane
The 56-year-old coach managed to end Ahly's 7-year wait for the CAF Champions League and led the team to victory just a few short months after joining their ranks.
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Mosimane joined the team in Septembers shortly after leading the Mamelodi Sundowns to victory at home.
Mosimane is now one of the elite few to win two CAF Champions League trophies, the first title for the Egyptian team in 7 years.
Meanwhile, Briefly.co.za reported that Pitso Mosimane is the latest person in South Africa's football world to share a tribute for the late Mamelodi Sundowns player, Motjeka Madisha, who died on Saturday this weekend in a fatal car accident.
Mosimane, who is the former Mamelodi Sundowns coach, headed to his Twitter page and shared a picture of the Sundowns defender Madisha standing face-to-face with another footballer during what looks like a very intense match.
The captionless post quickly garnered thousands of likes and reactions from Mosimane's followers and football lovers.
Many of them headed to the comment section to share messages of support and encouragement with Mosimane and the Madisha family.
Motjeka Madisha's family requests privacy during difficult time
Read a few of their comments below.
@Zizoberry said: "Pitso I remember how you used to protect this boy. I thought of you when I heard about his passing... You were a father to them. You instilled discipline that's why they were always safe. They miss a father figure."
@BonganiKhoza07 said: "Coach, you were the first person that I thought about after learning of the passing this morning. The love that you had for him was heart-warming. My condolences."
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[SCI][Gabriel Knight][GNU/Linux/SD:2] Can not restore saved game.
vanfanel
--Unset--
Using latest .DEB version of Scummvm, 2.2.0 as of this writting. Also tried stock Ubuntu version, which is currently 2.1.0.
I have tried on both X86_64 and ARM aarch64.
I have been using Scummvm for years, and I have never encountered this bug with any other game.
With the GOG version of GK1, I can save the game but I can not restore it. The engine says: The game was saved under a different game or interpreter version.
With my own spanish CD copy, it says the same, except... well, in spanish.
I can also see this on the console:
WARNING: Save game was created for game version ��4�U, but the current game version is �I�ɮU!
Version numbers look like that. Any idea on what could be happening here?
The game is listed as supported.
gk1-cd.001 (43.3 KB ) - added by vanfanel 7 days ago.
by vanfanel, 7 days ago
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comment:1 by eriktorbjorn, 7 days ago
I know very little about the SCI engine, but it looks to me like the version it's referring to is the one found in the file called VERSION. At least in my copy of the game, this is just a text file (with CRLF line breaks) that contains the text "01.100.000".
If I look at the start of a savefile I just made, I see this:
$ zcat gk1-cd-win.002 | xxd | head -4
00000000: 666f 6f62 6172 002d 0000 0030 312e 3130 foobar.-...01.10
00000010: 302e 3030 3000 e507 010c 0d2f 0800 d51b 0.000....../....
00000020: 1e14 1f38 0000 0000 0000 0054 484d 4200 ...8.......THMB.
00000030: 0096 1602 00a0 0078 0203 0203 080b 0500 .......x........
So the version gets stored there. So I tried removing the VERSION file. The game still starts, but my next savegame looked like this:
00000000: 626c 7570 7000 2d00 0000 e0a2 10a3 1b56 blupp.-........V
00000010: 00e5 0701 0c18 3208 00d5 1b1e 1402 1c00 ......2.........
00000020: 0000 0000 0000 5448 4d42 0000 9616 0200 ......THMB......
00000030: a000 7802 0302 0308 0b05 0000 0000 0000 ..x.............
Where the version should be stored, there's now only random (?) garbage. And when I try to load this later, I guess it's checking against different random garbage and determines that the save file is incompatible.
Could this be a clue?
comment:2 by vanfanel, 6 days ago
Yes, creating this file manually works. Thanks!
Maybe SCUMMVM should warn about this file being missing at start?
That's what I would have thought too, but I'm not sure which games actually require it. Hopefully someone more familiar with SCI will be able to tell us.
I noticed that I had missed copying the VERSION file for some of my SCI games that I haven't gotten around to playing yet, which made me a bit worried. But at least for some it didn't seem to make a difference. And for a few - I forget which ones - I couldn't even find such a file on the CD.
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Dorian Recovery: How You Can Help
Here in South Florida, we dodged a bullet. Our neighbors in the Bahamas were not as lucky.
Leadership by Rep. Brian Mast and the Army Corps lowered lake levels before this year’s rainy season. As Hurricane Dorian crept closer, state and federal water managers expressed confidence in their ability to manage heavy rainfall expected on and around Lake Okeechobee. Pre-storm discharges were not called for, but they warned residents to be prepared for large releases to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers in the storm’s wake.
As of now, those discharges remain at bay. A change in Dorian’s track spared Florida from the rainfall that was projected to leave the lake hovering near 17 feet. As Dorian continues up the coast, taking aim at the Carolinas, the forecast is still calling for rain over the Kissimmee Watershed, but it looks better than it did a few days ago. For now, the locks leading to our estuaries remain closed and we’re thankful for operational management that ensured that we didn’t go into the storm with a lake already swollen to 15, 16, or 17 feet.
Your help is still needed.
Hurricane Dorian’s stall over the Bahamas may have saved Florida’s east coast but it brought unprecedented devastation to the island community in the Caribbean that so many of us love.
For every person sighing in relief at a near miss, there’s another who’s lost everything to Dorian. As the Bahamas begins the long process of recovery, thousands of people still need our help.
CharityWatch says sending money is always the most useful and efficient way to help. As the needs of those affected vary, monetary contributions allow emergency responders on the ground to buy specific supplies, while material donations often take up unnecessary space and time to process.
Emergency response experts also stress that well-intentioned volunteers without prior disaster relief experience can become more of a burden than an asset during relief efforts. To find out more about how you can help, here’s a few verified charitable organizations that are working directly to rebuild the Bahamas in the wake of devastation.
The Bahamas Red Cross has 200 volunteers on the ground providing direct aid to affected areas.
Global Giving has established the Hurricane Dorian Relief Fund to provide emergency supplies and long-term assistance to help in rebuilding.
Operation 300 is a Treasure Coast-based non profit that has partnered with Amazon and Martin County officials to organize volunteers and a large-scale donation drop-off for the Bahamas post-Hurricane Dorian.
Waterkeeper Alliance, a charity that works with local partners to preserve water ecosystems and fight for clean water, is taking donations on behalf of its affiliate in Grand Bahama, Save the Bays. Specify “Hurricane Dorian – Bahamas” on its donation site.
Yacht Aid Global has set up “Operation Topaz,” working with yachts in the region to bring emergency supplies like food, tarps, hygiene kits and medicine to Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands.
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The main responsibility of the University Council is to formulate the budget of Al Falah University(AFU) and to confer on the financial position of the University.
The Council also makes the policies and procedures related to the University’s participation in community service.
Additionally, the Council makes the plans for relations between AFU and other academic institutions on an international level.
The university council is chaired by the President of AFU. This council is composed of the Vice President Academic Affairs, College Deans, Representatives from each College, Dean of Student Affairs, Director of Quality Assurance, Finance Manager, Administrative Supervisor, Head of Admission and Registration Unit, Head of General Education, Head of IT Unit, and two AFU students.
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To ensure the alignment of the university enrollment and admission policies with those of the MOE.
Monitoring the implementation of college plans for teaching and research.
Executing the final decision on faculty promotions upon the recommendations from the Appointment and Promotion Committee.
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The establishment of Al Falah University (AFU) is an expression of the wise attitude of our leadership towards education and its role in the welfare of society.
Under the patronage of our leaders the country has achieved high levels of economic, educational and social accomplishments. The role of AFU is to effectively contribute to the development which the UAE is experiencing and to help pave the way for the prosperity that lies ahead.
Deans Council declaration for the academic year 2020 2021 states the formation of centralized committees set forth below:
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A Builder, Not An Operator
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By 2030, the majority of organizations will have LGBTQ+ representation across their leadership teams and workforce, and we will have eliminated discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation, due to my work at Mathison in advancing diversity recruiting.
Arthur Woods is a serial entrepreneur working at the intersection of equity, inclusion and technology. He Co-Founded, Mathison, the leading talent marketplace connecting underrepresented populations to the most competitive job opportunities globally. Arthur launched the first Equal Hiring Index to assess and improve inclusion in organizations’ hiring. Arthur came from Google where he led operations for YouTube’s Education division and oversaw YouTube for Schools. Arthur previously co-founded Imperative, leading social learning platform and Out in Tech, the largest global LGBTQ technology community worldwide. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30, is a three-times TEDx speaker and is an advisor to leading brands from Disney and MetLife to the Smithsonian.
As a co-founder of Mathison, a talent marketplace connecting underrepresented populations to the most competitive job opportunities globally, he recently launched Mathison’s Equal Hiring Index™️. The EHI is the first way to assess and improve inclusion at every step of the hiring process. The work of his combined platforms has influenced the practices of more than 300 employers and, in all, they have supported over half a million individuals globally.
Arthur came from Google where he led operations for YouTube’s Education division and oversaw YouTube for Schools. Arthur previously co-founded Imperative, leading social learning platform; Out in Tech, the largest global LGBTQ technology community; and Social Impact 360, the leading collegiate social enterprise education program.
He works “every day to create value” and that work is the “vehicle” in which he brings his ideas to life. That vehicle is fueled by his belief that purpose is abundant but money and status are two elements of work that exist in scarcity. Arthur has embarked upon on a mission to shift the way we think about work—an expression of who you are, a demonstration of your values, a calling—from scarcity to abundance.
Arthur’s work challenges us to ask the question “Where am I at my best?” and then take action around the things that bring out the best in us. Fortunately, his answer to this profound question was the realization that he is a builder and not an operator with a passion for educating. He recognized that he needed to be building relationships and connecting to people every day. With this understanding, he set out to follow his passion while understanding his purpose to build.
He found a voluntary opportunity while working at YouTube helping transform the content from “cat videos” to a rich source of “educational content”. This volunteer opportunity turned into a full-time job leading operations for YouTube’s education division—bringing his passion for education to his work.
He believes that “purpose is a choice that we make every day and you can connect to purpose in any role in any line of work.” His research found that purpose is the reason why we work beyond money and status. We work because of our depth of personal relationships and sense of community, our sense of personal impact (work that creates value) and personal growth.
Arthur has been one of the most impactful entrepreneurs in the area of diversity and inclusion, founding four social enterprises with game-changing business models to drive inclusion. He has shared his message in three TEDx speeches and been recognized by Forbes as a top 30 social entrepreneur and the World Economic Forum.
He has dedicated his career to creating organizations and movements that advance diversity and inclusion with financially sustainable business models that enable the work to grow. The arc of his career trajectory begins with co-founding Social Impact 360, the first collegiate fellowship program to enable college students to launch their own socially conscious companies while in school. Through SI360 he has supported and launched ventures with over 2,500 entrepreneurial fellows over the last 10 years.
While growing SI360 he moved to the Google world where he launched YouTube’s education division focused on democratizing access to educational content to the world. They were able to curate more than two million free educational videos globally.
While at Google he helped launch Google’s first LGBTQ employee resource group. This work inspired him to co-found Out in Tech, the world’s largest LGBTQ technology community which he helped grow to more than 30,000 members. They are in 15 cities and have held over 300 events to date. He launched a digital corps to support organizations in regions where LGBTQ members face persecution and coding scholarships for disadvantaged LGBTQ youth. He has been able to mobilize hundreds of volunteers who have contributed more than 4,500 hours to the movement to date.
From Out In Tech, he co-founded Imperative, a workforce development company with an assessment and coaching platform and a major emphasis on supporting employees in need and to people with disabilities. Thereby, directly responding to the 80% unemployment rate facing the disability community. He led a national research endeavor that proved the significant role that work plays for people with disabilities and the business case for employing them. This business case enabled many employers to change their policies in this area.
Most recently he co-founded Mathison, to address the fact that representation of diverse and disadvantaged communities is severely lacking in the workforce and board room. He launched the first diversity recruiting marketplace through which they donate a free recruitment marketplace technology to nonprofits and associations serving underrepresented communities across the world. They also equip employers to be able to recruit and hire disadvantaged individuals and with every hire, they donate half of their profits back to nonprofits supporting underrepresented job seekers—a generative model indeed.
He has led partnerships with over 100 nonprofits serving disadvantaged communities, created and launched the first Equal Hiring Index with the only global benchmarked scores and resources to measure and improve inclusion at every step in the hiring process. The work of Arthur’s combined platforms has influenced the practices of over 300 employers and, in all, they have supported over half a million individuals globally.
Arthur’s leadership is profound in that his work and research in diversity and inclusion is making an impact across constituencies. He dreams of a world where we are all “treated equally and we all have the same opportunities despite being different. In our world today the things that make us different are often viewed as a disability” or a disadvantage “or considered a weakness.” He dreams of a world and systems that support embracing what makes us different as it is a model for increased growth and opportunity.
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by Diane Gerth
At the 2019 West Seventh/Fort Road Federation annual meeting on April 17, a host of changes, new approaches, and successes were celebrated. More than 100 attendees heard about the past year and learned what is in store for the future. Local organizations — from the St. Paul Police to Zero Waste Saint Paul to Keystone Community Services to the West Seventh Garden Tour — were on hand to update residents on their activities. Against a slideshow of historic images of the West End, outgoing President Becky Yust welcomed people and led the group in the business of the meeting.
Mark Fangmeier gave the report of the joint Riverview Task Force. The task force was made up of members from both the Federation and the West Seventh Business Association and was tasked with trying to find and articulate common ground on transit in West Seventh. Given the difficult and sticky issue of transit through our neighborhood over the years, the task force focused on what we can agree on. The end result was a resolution based on nine guiding principles that explain the needs and desires of those who live and work here. After questions and discussion, the plan was passed.
Dana DeMaster outlined the Federation’s strategic plan. The plan is based on the vision of a neighborhood that is vibrant, supportive, welcoming, and safe. Outlining a renewed mission statement, five goals for the next years were detailed for the organization: Inclusion, diversified income streams, livability, locally owned institutions, and increased awareness. This roadmap for the future will guide the Board of Directors and the Executive Director as they move forward.
By-law changes that adjusted the workings and membership of the Board of Directors were also approved. The Board and its officers will now hold staggered terms to ensure both continuity and change. Additional Board seats that are reserved for those who rent their homes in the neighborhood will be added. Other technical updates were made to clarify the by-laws.
Elections were held for officers and the Board of Directors. The following people were elected officers: President Dana DeMaster, First Vice President Meghan Redmond, Second Vice President Wendy Underwood, Secretary Andrea Marboe, and Treasurer Nicole Loran. The Board of Directors will be Area I Coordinators Mark Fangmeier and Craig Johnson, Area II Coordinators Brenna Barrett and Tracy Farr, and Area III Coordinators Tayna Fabyanske Beck and Sue Nichols.
Finally, outgoing president Becky Yust gave a rundown of awards and honors residents and businesses of our neighborhood have won in the past year. This truly impressive list of honorees showed how far we have come and how committed our people are to the future of our corner of St. Paul.
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Joshua Reviews Roger Mitchell’s Le Week-End [PIFF 2014 Review]
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No matter one’s age, love and romance are things that anyone and everyone deals with on a seemingly daily basis. Whether you’re a bachelor or a wife in the middle of a decades-long marriage, finding the one person one dreams of spending the rest of his or her life with is something that we all long to have happen, and then keeping that fire burning is something we all have to try our damnedest to do.
Such is the subject of the newest film from director Roger Mitchell, entitled Le Week-End. Starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, the film follows a long-married pair as they head off to Paris in the hopes of re-igniting that very fire that once burned between this formerly vital and vibrant romantic duo. Broadbent stars as Nick Burrows, a writer and college professor, who joins his wife Meg (Duncan in a bizarrely entrancing performance) as they return to Paris for the first time since their honeymoon, in an attempt to rebuild their relationship. However, when they arrive and almost instantaneously discover that this journey will more than likely fail, but follows is a beautifully engrossing and oddly charming meditation on love, loss, aging and regret in the body of a supremely understated romantic feature.
With a script from Hanif Kureishi, the film really thrives thanks to the top notch performances that adorn it. Broadbent and Duncan are absolutely superb here, both together and in their handful of moments apart. Together, their chemistry is real and palpable, allowing the viewer to really delve deep into this world where the end of this relationship is very much a possibility. There is a bittersweet feeling to the proceedings, a melancholic cloud hanging over this likely futile attempt to save a marriage. There is a genuine love between these two characters, and it is that undercurrent of real love and admiration that makes the falling apart so much more potent and heartbreaking. Singularly, the two are great. Broadbent is charming, quiet and immensely sweet, but also seemingly undriven and happy with his current lot in life. Duncan on the other hand tackles Meg with a bleak detachment from the relationship, all founded by this constant drive to find something new and vital in her life. The two still very much love one another, but are at a crossroads in their lives, and this trip is an attempt to make, and not break, that very relationship. Rounded out by a rarely better Jeff Goldblum as the clingy hanger on that is Nick’s fellow writer Morgan, a character made complete flesh and bone by Goldblum and his brazenly entrancing cadence and physicality, this cast is a top notch collection of great thespians working in a relatively intimate and raw environment.
Best known for films like Venus and Notting Hill (as well as 2012’s God-awful Hyde Park On Hudson), director Roger Mitchell is at the top of his game here, taking a decidedly more intimate route with this small romantic picture. Naturally photographed to really bring out the life of Paris, the film rarely ventures into aesthetic flights of fancy (save for a few solid moments of experimentation like a time lapse sequence near the end of the film), instead centering itself solely around the central relationship. An honest film and a film drenched in prickly dry comedy, the film really comes to life when the camera allows these performances to breath, getting some truly great human moments out of this cast of underrated character actors. A beautiful meditation on love and loss, Le Week-End is a great, deeply touching look at the issues found in relationships, mining this oft-discussed topic for some beautifully toned humor and some moments of real humanism. Save for a final scene that feels completely out of place and in many ways cheap, this is a solid romantic comedy that will hopefully find an audience after its festival run has concluded.
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2019: CAN, Muslims In Cross River Endorse Ayade, Donate N1.2m To Governor’s Campaign
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- Updated January 17, 2019
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Muslim Community in Cross River today endorsed Governor Ben Ayade for the March 2, 2019 governorship election in the state.
According to CAN, their decision is predicated on the governor’s giant strides in the areas of industrialization, infrastructural development and human capacity development.
The associations also made a cash donation of N1.2 million and handed it in a black polythene bag to the governor to assist his campaign.
The endorsement came during an interface between the governor and the Christian body held at the main bowl of the Cultural Centre, Calabar.
A voice vote put to CAN members at the event venue by the immediate past state chairman of CAN, Archbishop Archibong Archibong, for the endorsement of the governor was returned with an overwhelming YES!
The clergy present, gathered round the governor and prayed for God’s continued grace, guidance and wisdom upon him to continue to lead the state.
At the same event, the Muslim community led by the Chief Imam of the Calabar Central Mosque, Imam Abdul Kabir Olowolayemo, also endorsed the governor for the forth coming gubernatorial election.
Earlier in his address, the State Chairman of CAN and Archbishop emeritus of Calabar Archdiocese, Most Rev. Joseph Ukpo, commended the governor for the achievements recorded by his administration.
He described the governor’s achievements as monumental, adding, “You have made landmark progress especially in industrializing the state; construction of the garment factory, the first rice seeds and seedlings in Africa, construction of Calapharm for our pharmaceutical needs, the ongoing construction of chicken processing factory, the rice mill in Ogoja and the cocoa processing plant in Ikom.”
In his response, Governor Ben Ayade expressed his gratitude to the Christian body for finding him worthy of their endorsement.
Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade (2nd right) and his Deputy, Professor Ivara Esu (1st R), being prayed for by the heads of blocks of the Cross River State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) during an endorsement prayer gathering led by Archbishop Emeritus of the Calabar Archdiocese, Archbishop Joseph Edra Ukpo in Calabar today.
“If there is any endorsement that is important to me, it is the CAN endorsement. I am moved by this endorsement and appreciate all the prayers and insistence that I should continue and complete all the industrialization agenda of the state.” he said.
Continuing Ayade said, “I cannot thank you enough. I am indeed grateful. This endorsement I must say is the greatest certification of my government and I promise I will not fail you because the church has made a huge statement and I will continue to offer good governance for our people.”
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Emotion As RUSHPIN Wind Up, WSSCC Transforms To SHF
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By Patrick Obia
It was scene of emotion as Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion in Nigeria (RUSHPIN), came to a close in Cross River State.
The review and close-out meeting held in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, the Program Manager of the implementing organisation, United Purpose, Mr. Nanpet Chuktu disclosed that, the transition is to allow more roadmap and Government led initiatives.
RUSHPIN which began seven years ago was aimed at maintaining a good hygiene, menstrual hygiene and eradicating Open Defecation (ODF) in Benue and Cross River State.
The close-out of RUSHPIN was necessitated by the transition of it’s donor, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) to Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) under new modalities set to start next year.
Mr. Nanpet Chuktu, Program Manager of United Purpose speaking at the meeting.
According to Mr. Nanpet, SHF is to have modalities that will focus not only on hygiene but on sanitation.
“The transition from Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) to Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) is coming at a critical moment. The organization want to focus beyond just ending open defecation, they want to look at four critical areas of innovation in sanitation; how to take sanitation to scale, how to tackle urban sanitation, how to manage sanitation in primary healthcare centers and how to manage sanitation in schools.
“So because of this, they are now looking for more funding. The organizers want to work directly with the Central Government so they came to Nigeria, to Cross River and say what is your sanitation and hygiene plan? What is your road map? Then they support you and take the components of your road map with that funding you expand and see if you can meet the SDGs. So that is the new modality and that is why they have now requested that we close what we have being doing and plan towards a new program from 2021.
“For Sanitation and Hygiene Fund, you will expect more Government led initiatives, more alignment to it, the Government program and plan. So Cross River State must have a road map and a direction it wants to go in terms of sanitation and hygiene, more activities in Primary Healthcare Centers in ensuring that all PHCs are equipped, more collaborative involvement in schools with the Ministry of Education. Menstrual health and hygiene management is key to this donor and they will like to see how the empowerment of women in terms of understanding and managing their menstrual health and hygiene. So that is the direction.”
In his opening speech, the State Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr. Godwin Ettah said, it is emotional to bid RUSHPIN fair well looking at the successes recorded in water, Hygiene and sanitation as well as Open Defecation (ODF) in the State in a short while.
Cross River State Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr. Godwin Ettah speaking at the event.
“lt is emotional, a review meeting of RUSHPIN. RUSHPIN is winding up the sponsorship of this program and they have achieved so much; at the State level, Local Government and Community level, they have helped us out of the six ODF Local Government, they have actively supported Cross River State Government in achieving four. So we are saying a very, very big thank you to them. lt is emotional to hear that after few years the program is coming to an end. It’s a new thing that will reveal strategies, interventions, our achievement so far and see how we can key in those achievements and experiences into a fresh program,” he said.
Others who spoke about the giant strides of RUSHPIN and optimism about SHF include, Local Government Chairmen of Bekwarra, Abi, Biase and Obanliku and the Director Generals of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency and Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency.
Some stakeholders at the close-out meeting.
Highpoint of the meeting include interactive session, group photographs, award presentation to first ODF Local Government Area, most resourceful LGA, timely reporting LGA, most resourceful Civil Society Organization, most outstanding WASH Coordinator amongst other categories.
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Episode # 8 … Rockin’ From the Rail with Chele Drappel and Friends. Tesla with Bad Marriage 2/25/20 Graceland Sound-stage
I can’t over emphasize how much my friends and I have been looking forward to this show. Tesla and Bad Marriage playing on the stage at Graceland? The home of the “King?” C’mon what more could this Elvis freak ask for? The concert alone was what made us plan this trip but with the history of Memphis at our feet, this was going to be an epic few days. I started this adventure on Monday at 4:30am when an Uber rolled up my driveway to pick me up. You never know what might crawl up your driveway in the wee hours of the morning especially in New York. Her name was Rosie and outside of her hacking smokers cough she was pretty cool. We arrived at LaGuardia Airport in NY at 5:30am. As I approached the security lines, it looked like a scene from the night of the living dead. The TSA agents are notably cranky asses in NY. Not to mention a lot of passengers were wearing masks in fear of the Coronavirus. God I needed coffee. Finally boarded with a 2 and a half hour flight to Charlotte. Landed, quick plane change, another cup of coffee and it was wheels up to Memphis where I was to meet my friends. The first of my “crazies” as they are affectionately known as that I would meet up with would be Bernice. Our planes landed minutes apart. We headed for the car rental. Loaded our suitcases into the SUV and headed for the exit. Of course as we approached it the dashboard lit up like a damn Christmas tree. Check Engine! Crap! We were on a tight schedule to meet the others as we had a tour of Graceland booked for 12:30pm. So we unloaded and reloaded our bags into a new upgraded SUV. Off to Beale Street to pick up crazy #2, Tammy and her son who joined us on this adventure. Now there were four of us, we were on our way to meet Lisa and Tonya at the beautiful Guesthouse at Graceland.
I had stayed there before but this was everyone else’s first time at this hotel. It’s stunning. Hotel lobby, lounges and rooms are beautifully appointed. All Elvis 24 hours a day in your room between movies and music of your choice. What could go wrong? Well…. one thing you don’t want to hear when checking into your hotel is “Oh….. it looks like your reservations were canceled!” WTF? Our reservations were booked through another party called “Iprefer.” Instead of modifying the reservations, they canceled them! At this point a bit of panic was setting in as the hotel was swarming with attendees for the upcoming rockabilly awards show that was taking place at the hotel. I thought they might be sold out. Luckily, the staff were great and assured us they would have our rooms ready once we returned from our Graceland Mansion tour.
So off we went in the Graceland provided shuttle down the road to 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd, the home and final resting place of the King. This was my second visit to Graceland and the first for the others. From the moment you walk through the front door it hits you….. Elvis stood here, Elvis walked through here in his pajamas, Elvis freaking recorded in that jungle room! Goosebumps to say the least. Graceland is a bucket list destination for all music fans. We decided to forgo the John Stamos (Yes, Uncle Jesse) iPad guided tour and went off on our own. Well all of us except maybe for Tammy……
Since February is considered “off peak” at the mansion we had plenty of time to oooh and ahhh at each room and it’s artifacts. The mansion’s 70’s decor is still maintained throughout. Upon entering you visit the Peacock stained glass in his white living room where Elvis entertained his guests. The infamous jungle room and it’s funky furniture are pretty eccentric. There are many cool rooms to visit each holding their own story. The only part of the mansion that is closed off to the public is the upstairs where Elvis passed away in 1977. Upon exiting the home, you can visit Elvis’s private racquetball club. As you walk to the final destination of the mansion tour the meditation garden, you’ll notice stables where Elvis would ride his horses. Today it’s home for several rescue horses procured by Priscilla herself. Once in the meditation garden you are at the King’s grave as well as his other family members. It’s an emotional experience for many and one we soon won’t forget. We also took a quick trip across the street to the entertainment complex to see the king’s rides. Check out the photos below.
Back at the hotel for some fried green tomatoes and then we were off to Beale Street for an evening of Blues. Well, that didn’t turn out so great. For whatever reason the Uber app kept canceling and adding an hour to the pick up time. We said “the hell with it” and decided to take up in the hotel lounge. Much to our surprise the support act for Tesla “Bad Marriage” was already there. With a provided house band playing all the great Elvis hits and a drink menu containing “jungle room juice” (see below) and late night peanut butter and banana sandwiches why the hell would we leave? Exactly, we didn’t. Great music, great friends and tons of laughs and this was only day one.
The next morning we ventured out for a tour of the famous Sun Studios. Known to many as “the birthplace of rock n roll” icons such as Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and the King Elvis Presley recorded there. Standing on the spot where Elvis recorded “That’s Alright Mama” and posing with his microphone was a thrill for this Elvis freak. Tons of history can be found at this place. Something did piss me off however. I noticed that a guitar that belonged to original Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore had been autographed but by someone else. You may know who he is. Gene Simmons from Kiss. Apparently he was recording his now defunct tv show “family jewels” and while visiting Sun Studios he decided to autograph a guitar for the staff. Imagine the gasps when he picked it up! I feel sometimes things should be left as is, especially Scotty’s guitar. Mr. Moore passed away in 2016.
Now that I was disgusted, it was time to leave and get ready for the Tesla meet n greet. The Sound stage at Graceland is located across the street from the Guesthouse in the Elvis Presley Entertainment Complex and a shuttle is provided by the hotel. The 6 of us crazies decided since we planned this trip together we’d all jump in one photo with the band. We had our Elvis/Sun Studios shirts on but that didn’t seem enough. Hmmmmm we needed to incorporate a bit more of Elvis into the photo. What better than giving the band replica Elvis sunglasses with fake sideburns! Some in our group didn’t think the band would wear them but Bernice and I did and wouldn’t you know…..they loved them and ran with it. (See below)
After another “jungle room juice” it was almost show time. We secured our spots, front row, center rail. Did I mention we take this seriously? The Soundstage at Graceland had great acoustics and was sold out this evening. This was not a general admission show (thank god), there were seating assignments. Non general admission shows can be tough for supporting acts as sometimes it’s hard to get people out of their seats if they aren’t familiar with their music. That however wasn’t an issue for Bad Marriage. The Boston hard rock quintet opened with their song “Gateway Drug ” which isn’t about what you’re thinking. It’s actually about discovering rock’ n’ roll for the first time and the song kicks ass! The band continued on with 6 more songs which included “Ready, Aim, Fire” and the anthem like “Nay-Sayin’ Blues.” These Bostonites are also known for their killer cover tunes. This show included rousing versions of Petty’s “Honey Bee” and “Toys in the Attic ” from the original Boston bad boys Aerosmith. They concluded their set with “Old School Stereo ” which has a fantastic addictive catchy chorus. The band consists of flamboyant lead singer Jon Paquin who packs a powerful vocal range and definitely has the moves like Jagger. His boundless energy built up a sweat to which Bernice pulled out a fan to cool the fiery singer off. Much to his liking. Lead guitarist Mike “Fitz ” Fitzmaurice always looking the rock’ n’ roll part, appeared in a stylish fuschia suede fringed jacket and provided some blistering riffs on his honey burst Gibson Les Paul. Always smiling, leather clad rhythm guitarist Ian Haggerty is the perfect compliment to Fitz. The backbeat of the band consists of the ferocious drumming of Michael Delaney and and groove master bassist Todd Boisvert who makes keeping the time and tone look easy. These fellas are the real deal. They are a great cohesive fit and if you enjoy good old school in your face rock roll then this band is for you. Keep an eye out for them and have a look at some photos from their set posted below.
After a quick set change, it was Tesla time! Fresh from the Monsters of Rock cruise this was Tesla’s 3rd show on this run. The multi platinum selling artists hit the stage and opened with “Tied to the Tracks” from their 2019 record “Shock.” Guitar master and co-founder Frank Hannon donning his Elvis shades, brought some slide action to this song with his new beautiful shiny cherry red Gibson SG with a Floyd Rose. The band forged into the next two songs to the thrill of the crowd with “Modern Day Cowboy” from their 1986 debut album “Mechanical Resonance” followed by “Lazy Days, Crazy Nights” from the “Great Radio Controversy.” The sold out crowd were on their feet from the get go. The always charismatic lead vocalist Jeff Keith sounded spot on as he danced his way across the stage. Guitarist Dave Rude shared his flare with solos on his signature Epiphone Flying V. The guitar duo of Hannon and Rude is unique. When they trade off solos it’s almost like their guitars are talking to each other. Then there’s co-founder bassist Brian Wheat and drummer Troy Luccketta. Brian and Troy’s undeniable reliable sound is the heartbeat that gets us rocking! The band played on with some of their biggest hits including everyone’s favorite “Love Song” , “Little Suzi” and “Signs.” The highlight of the evening for me was 2 acoustic songs that were played. Frank Hannon and Dave Rude paying homage to two of music’s greats. They performed a stellar version of Johnny Cash’s “Mystery Train” which Elvis himself had recorded as well. The crowd clapped and sang along on that one as well as the band’s cover of the Beatles “We Can Work It Out” which was originally recorded on their 1990 “Five Man Acoustical Jam ” record. Tesla has since recorded a new version at the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London along with a full acoustic record to be released later this month called the “Five Man London Jam.” The night closed out with a badass version of “Rock Me To The Top.” Oh what a show it was and I’m sure the King was smiling down on us all. The guitar riffs, songwriting and melodies are what make Tesla the mainstay they are in rock ‘n’ roll till this very day.
The next morning before we left to head off on our separate ways, Lisa, Tonya and I stopped by Graceland for one last visit to the meditation garden to say goodbye to the King. The three of us shared something in common. Our moms were huge Elvis fans who bestowed that love onto us. Tonya’s mom passed away 6 years ago and my mother passed a year and a half ago. Although Lisa’s mom is still with us, Lisa lost her best friend “Barbie” not long ago as well. Where am I going with this you ask? Well….., all you spiritual freaks listen up because you can’t make this shit up!!!
It was a dreary, cloudy morning. It wound up being just the three of us sitting at Elvis’s grave. We shared our memories of him and of our loved ones. Laughter, tears… when a woman approached us. She began to introduce herself, “Hi girls. Are you here together?” We told her why we were there, about the show and our visit, and then about our loved ones we lost. This woman then introduced herself as “Barbara” and gave us all hugs! Not only was Lisa’s friend’s name Barbara but it was also Tonya’s mother’s name! A bit freaked out? No goosebumps yet? Did I mention to you what the woman who handed us our tickets for the Graceland mansion tour said to us???? She said “Welcome to Graceland, my name is Emma!” Might not mean much to you but my mother’s name was Emma! All I could think at that moment was “well of course your name is Emma.” I knew my Mom would be there with us somehow. Still not enough for ya? That’s ok, there’s more! Back to Barabara at Elvis’s grave. She was a flight attendant who only had a few minutes because she had to catch a flight. She was going to Chicago. No she wasn’t on my flight, she wasn’t on Tonya’s flight but she was on Lisa’s flight!!! Not only was she on Lisa’s flight but minutes before we met her Lisa’s husband messaged to say her flight had been canceled and she was now rebooked on another flight but had to change in Chicago. Naysayers? Need one more affirmation? We all tossed a coin into the fountain by the grave……then took a photo of the stained glass windows pictured below.
Look at this photo below of the stained glass window in the middle. That murky sky had opened up and a green orb appeared. We didn’t notice it until we got home and went through our photos. That last photo is of the stewardess “Barbara” on the left sitting next to Lisa on the same plane going home.
Just like that, the trip had come to an end. Thanks Elvis, Graceland, Tesla,
Bad Marriage, Barbara and Emma. Memories to last a lifetime. Until next time, and there will ALWAYS be a next time! Stay tuned.
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Not quite digital mixers, but with capabilities beyond the basics of analog mixers, hybrid mixers employ both analog and digital signal paths, with features like USB inputs/outputs, digital effects processing, or built-in digital recorders.
Mixers that combine analog and digital tech have existed for decades. But more recently, manufacturers have been touting the “hybrid mixer” moniker on mixers like the PreSonus ARc series, Tascam Model series, and Korg SoundLink series mixers.
Let’s take a closer look at what makes a mixer analog, digital, or hybrid — and a few examples of hybrid mixers you might expect to see in studio recording and live performance setups.
Analog Mixers vs. Digital Mixers
What’s the difference between an analog mixer and a digital mixer? A digital mixer converts incoming analog audio signals to digital audio, and all signal processing, routing, and mixing takes place in the digital domain. An analog mixer processes and routes audio in its original analog form.
How do you know you’re looking at a digital mixer? One dead giveaway is the row of “select” buttons for each channel. Select a channel by pressing one of those buttons, and you’ll be able to assign routing or dial in effects via a set of “soft knobs” that affect whichever channel you’ve selected. Another tell-tale sign: if someone’s remote-controlling the mix via a tablet or laptop rather than standing in front of a console, there’s a digital mixer at work. In fact, the digital mixer hardware might not have any physical control panel to speak of — perhaps it’s just a rack box or a stagebox with an antenna, and all the mixing is done remotely, via a mixing app on an iPad or the like.
“Rack box” digital mixers like the Soundcraft Ui24R don’t have many on-board controls — they’re designed to be remote-controlled via a mixing app on a tablet or computer.
Benefits of Digital Mixers
Why choose a digital mixer over analog? The answer comes down to convenience and expandability. With fast and easy recall of settings, and powerful, flexible effects processing built into the mixer, digital mixers save time and space. While digital mixers represent a sizeable investment, they can potentially save money, too — since they can take the place of racks of expensive outboard gear, like reverb units, compressors, and graphic EQs. Because of these efficiencies, mixers like the PreSonus StudioLive digital consoles have become increasingly commonplace in live applications, even in smaller venues and houses of worship.
A digital mixer has analog inputs and outputs, but it’ll also have digital audio I/O of some kind, often on a USB cable that can plug straight into your computer, which makes DAW recording simple. Larger digital mixers often come with an Ethernet port, or a slot for an expansion card that can accommodate Ethernet audio networking protocols such as AVB (Audio Video Bridging), Dante (Digital Audio Network Through Ethernet), WSG (Waves SoundGrid), Klark Teknik StageConnect, etc. This kind of digital I/O is especially useful for sending and receiving audio over long distances, because digital audio is much more resistant to noise than long analog cable runs.
Benefits of Analog Mixers
An analog mixer may be a giant console with a ton of bells and whistles, or a compact sound board with very basic capabilities — but if all mixing and routing is done in the analog domain, it’s an analog mixer. Visually, the first tip-off that you’re looking at an analog mixer instead of a digital mixer is that each channel has its own dedicated row of EQ knobs and aux sends.
Compared with digital mixers, analog mixers score points for simplicity and ease of use. Since analog mixers typically have one physical control per function, all of which you can easily see and access via a hardware control panel, the mixer’s signal flow is relatively easy for a first-time user to follow. Ease of use is a big advantage if the mixer is bound for an environment like a school or a DIY venue where a variety of folks, some with little or no experience, may find themselves in front of the sound board. (That’s not to say that digital mixers are inherently difficult to use — some digital mixers, like the QSC TouchMix-8, are known for their intuitive workflow. It’s just that with a digital mixer, it’s simply not possible to see everything the mixer can do at a glance.)
Analog mixers are also generally less expensive than their digital counterparts, and if you don’t need all the networking capabilities, recallable complex effects chains, and remote-controllability of a digital mixer, an analog mixer can be the more cost-effective choice.
It’s worth mentioning that for certain high-end studio applications — like out-of-the-box analog summing — an analog mixer is really the only choice. When you’re after the warmth and character that only an analog summing mixer can provide, digital mixers don’t even enter the conversation.
What are Hybrid Mixers?
Most hybrid mixers are technically analog mixers at heart, with at least part of the signal path seamlessly converted from analog to digital (and perhaps back again) within the mixer, under the hood. While the term “hybrid mixer” doesn’t really have any hard-and-fast qualifications, what makes these mixers “hybrid” are the digital-world features they build in — most notably digital audio interfaces, digital recorders, and digital effects processors. Let’s take a look at each of those features and how you might use them in the real world:
Hybrid Mixers with Built-in USB Audio Interfaces
One hallmark of a hybrid mixer is its built-in digital audio interface — a means of sending audio in and out of a computer, usually via USB connection. If a mixer is touted as a hybrid mixer, odds are it’s got a USB port. It could be a USB-C port, such as on the PreSonus StudioLive ARc family or Tascam Model family. Or it might be the older USB-B port, found on Korg SoundLink or Mackie ProFX mixers. If your goal is to record into a DAW — whether it’s capturing live shows, quick demos, or intricate productions — a USB output on a mixer can save you the cost and hassle of adding a separate USB audio interface to your rig.
Analog Mixers for Multi-Track Recording
What’s Your Channel Count?
What you can’t tell by looking at a mixer’s USB port is the channel count of the built-in interface. For example, the Tascam Model 12 has a 12-in/10-out (or 12×10) interface, which means it can send 12 separate audio channels to your computer, and receive 10 separate audio channels. The Mackie ProFX12v3 has a 2-in/4-out (or 2×4) interface: it can send 2 separate audio channels (a stereo mix) to your computer, and receive 4 separate audio channels.
How many input channels do you need on your audio interface? If you’re recording a podcast or solo performance with just one or two microphones, then 2 input channels may be all you need. If you’re multi-tracking a full band, you’ll probably need 8 input channels at the bare minimum. It all depends on how many simultaneous audio sources you’d like to capture on their own separate tracks.
And how many output channels do you need on your interface? If you’re doing all your mixing “in the box” in your DAW software, then you can get by with just 2 output channels to send a stereo mix your pair of monitor speakers or headphones. But if you’d like to send individual audio tracks out of your computer for outboard processing through various hardware, you’ll need more channels.
Hybrid Mixers with Built-in Digital Recorders
Many fully digital mixers have SD Card slots, or a port for a USB stick, giving users the ability to record (and play back) multi-track audio right on board the mixer, no computer necessary. At zZounds, we’re starting to see analog hybrid mixers adding this capability. The Tascam Model series mixer/recorders have Portastudio-style recording capabilities, with up to 24-track recording and playback on SD Card media. PreSonus StudioLive ARc mixers offer 2-track stereo recording/playback via SD Card, as does the Rode RODECaster Pro podcast production console.
Even if you’re planning on doing all your recording to a computer-based DAW, these built-in SD Card recorder/players can really come in handy for capturing quickie demos, or even triggering a playback track at a live show.
Hybrid Mixers with Digital Effects Processors
Who doesn’t want more reverb? Just about every live performance or recording scenario can benefit from some tasteful use of FX. That’s why digital effects processors have become common additions to even the most basic entry-level analog mixers.
Now, the addition of a digital effects processor doesn’t necessarily turn an analog mixer into a “hybrid.” But the digital effects engine on Korg’s SoundLink MW-2408 and MW-1608 hybrid mixers, with FX borrowed from Korg’s Kronos workstation synth, deserves a big shout-out here.
The 32-bit effects engine on Korg SoundLink mixers lets you stack up to 10 effects, choosing from 12 reverbs, 4 delays, chorus, flanger, exciter, and sub-bass booster, all with tweakable and recallable parameters. These mixers also feature multi-band EQ, compression, limiting, noise gate, feedback suppression, and even a spectrum analyzer with test tones on board — tools you’d be hard-pressed to find on any other mixer that’s not a full-blown digital board. (And all this is in addition to the one-knob compressors and parametric EQ on each channel, which are analog-domain effects.)
Korg SoundLink hybrid mixers — released at the 2020 NAMM Show
All Hail Hybrid Mixers
If the Korg SoundLink mixers, Tascam Model series mixer/recorders, and their ilk are any indication, we’re betting we’ll see more and more “hybrid” designs that draw from the best of the analog world and digital world. Expect to hear the term “hybrid mixer” bandied about — and expect to see these mixers on studio desks and in live venues in 2020 and beyond.
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Former audio engineer, current editor-in-chief of zZounds.com. When I'm not geeking out about recording gear and enforcing proper punctuation, I can be found playing the keytar. It's a serious instrument, you know.
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Stampolis elicits cheers
Posted on August 19, 2016 by Sharon Noguchi
Chris Stampolis finally got some cheers from his opponents — colleagues, parents and employees he oversees as trustee of the Santa Clara Unified School District — for deciding not to run for re-election.
Ending his tenure might be the most widely hailed decision Stampolis, 50, has made in four contentious years on the board.
“I am pleased that he has realized that he is not suited to be a trustee of our school district and is not running for re-election,” wrote board member Jodi Muirhead in an email.
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Stampolis loses bid to stay on Dem National Committee
Posted on July 1, 2016 by Sharon Noguchi
Usually only party apparatchiks pay attention to the inner workings of the Democratic Party, but IA found an item of interest in a recent obscure election.
A select group of Dems — the several hundred members of the state executive board — were choosing representatives to the Democratic National Committee. That’s a body that promotes the party, its platform and activities. Its members all become superdelegates. Santa Clara Unified trustee Chris Stampolis, who was seeking a fourth term on the national committee, lost his bid for re-election.
To be fair, other incumbents, two from Southern California, also lost in the mid-June election. Among the successful newcomers, Sunnyvale Councilman Otto Lee won a seat to the national body. Continue Reading →
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Stampolis heading to court — again
Posted on June 23, 2016 by Sharon Noguchi
Santa Clara Unified schools’ trustee Chris Stampolis appears to be spending a lot of time in court this summer.
The school board member, who’s been both the target and the litigant in several civil and small-claims cases, now is being summoned to criminal court.
Santa Clara Police stopped him just after 7 p.m. June 2 for allegedly speeding near Kiely Boulevard and Pruneridge Avenue. He was let off with a warning about the speeding, but ordered to appear in court Aug. 1 for allegedly driving with a suspended license, police Lieutenant Dan Moreno said.
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Stampolis challenges restraining order
Still contesting a stay-away order placed against him, Santa Clara schools trustee Chris Stampolis appeared in court June 16 to appeal the order that bars him from a school his son used to attend.
Back in 2014, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Kuhnle ordered the controversial trustee to stay away from Sunnyvale’s Peterson Middle School and its principal, Sue Harris. Among other things, Stampolis was captured on a school camera angrily clasping his hands and pointing his finger, as if they were a gun.
Stampolis was reacting after being asked to pick up his son on time. He subsequently tried to file a complaint with police, filed a harassment complaint against Harris, filed a small-claims complaint against her, filed three complaints against her with the state teacher credentialing commission and filed a discrimination complaint against the district. None of the complaints was upheld.
In October, the stay-away order was extended for three years. Stampolis no longer has children at the school, although as a Santa Clara Unified board member he might have an interest in visiting the campus. He’s also been censured by his board colleagues. Continue Reading →
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Trustee’s alleged fling incites teachers, sparks mailers
Noelani Sallings
Ten Buchser Middle School teachers, concerned about a colleague wronged by an allegedly unfaithful husband, wanted to punish the Other Woman.
They wrote to the school board and now have sparked the latest brouhaha in Santa Clara Unified. The teachers’ plaintive letter demanded consequences for “a stunning breach of ethics” by schools trustee Noelani Sallings, for an alleged dalliance with a Buchser teacher’s husband. Their letter was seized and mailed anonymously this month to dozens of Santa Clara residents and leaders — with the district’s return address on the envelope.
Sallings, in an email to IA, called the letter “not worthy of a response,” labeled the allegations “a distraction” and threatened legal action. She is not married; she wrote she is in a “committed, happy relationship.”
The 10 teachers who signed the letter did not answer emailed questions. They’re incensed in part because they campaigned two years ago for Sallings, who was running to restore civility to the fractious board. She’s now board vice-president. So far the Santa Clara school board has not responded to the letter — but it would be surprising if it took any action. School boards don’t investigate the personal lives of employees, much less of fellow elected officials. Continue Reading →
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Controvery snares Stampolis girlfriend
Posted on March 4, 2016 by Sharon Noguchi
Santa Clara schools trustee Chris Stampolis’ girlfriend, a Southern California schools trustee, is under suspicion of living in Silicon Valley — rather than in the county that elected her. Assistant Imperial County District Attorney Deborah Owen told IA her investigators are looking into whether Annette Gonzalez-Buttner lives in a Santa Clara apartment with her three children instead of where she’s registered to vote in Calexico.
Questions about Gonzalez-Buttner’s residency have circulated for some time; late last month reporter Gary Redfern of the Imperial Valley’s Desert Review broke the story about the investigation.
IA has learned that two of Gonzalez-Buttner’s children attend a high school and one attends a middle school, all in Santa Clara. To enroll students in Santa Clara Unified, parents must declare that the children live with them full time at an address within the district.
If Gonzalez-Buttner, 51, used the Kiely Boulevard apartment where records show she has lived, it raises the question of whether she’s violated the law by not residing where she’s elected to serve. She told the Desert Review that she lives in Calexico.
Stampolis, as IA readers know, has attracted his own share of scrutiny. His own school district is suing to force him to reveal his connection with a laborers’ union group that in the past has paid him for consulting. District officials want to find out whether it’s a conflict of interest for him to vote on union matters.
Stampolis wouldn’t discuss Gonzalez-Buttner’s residence, and she did not respond to our inquiries. But she told Redfern that critics — whom she called “white Republicans” — were targeting her because she’s Mexican-American and speaks “truth to oppression.” Continue Reading →
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Stampolis stay-away order extended
Posted on November 12, 2015 by Sharon Noguchi
Continued alleged harassment by Santa Clara schools trustee Chris Stampolis has earned him an extended order to stay away from Principal Susan Harris
Last year Harris, principal of Peterson Middle School in Sunnyvale, won a year-long restraining order against Stampolis. She said he threatened her, making a gesture as if he had a gun in his hands, after a conversation over picking up his then-seventh-grade son on time.
Since then Stampolis:
*Brought a small-claims court complaint alleging that Harris held his son against his will in the office. The case was dismissed.
* Allegedly violated the protective order by driving near Peterson to drop off his son; Harris took her complaint to court and got the no-entry borders clarified. Continue Reading →
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A different Sept. 11 anniversary
Posted on September 11, 2015 by Sharon Noguchi
On Sept. 11, most Americans recall the World Trade Center. Veronica Robinson has flashbacks to a different life-altering event — one at her Los Angeles office where she says she was attacked by Chris Stampolis, now a Santa Clara schools trustee.
Robinson said Stampolis and his father sought to access a Democratic Party locker — Stampolis was then a party delegate — at Saf Keep Storage. He had a locker key but not the required code, she said. After a clerk refused him access, he got into a verbal confrontation with Robinson, the manager, then reached across the counter.
“He socked me in the chin, and grabbed me by the neck and was choking me,” Robinson told IA. Police were summoned, but no charges were filed against Stampolis. However, an arbitrator later awarded Robinson $35,000 to settle her civil suit against Stampolis over the incident.
However, “he hasn’t paid me a dime,” Robinson said. We couldn’t reach Stampolis for a response. He’s previously denied the allegations.
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The Stampolis tab
Posted on May 22, 2015 by Sharon Noguchi
When Peterson Middle School Principal Sue Harris last fall successfully sought a stay-away order against school board member Chris Stampolis, she paid for her own legal costs. At the time, the
school board had even balked at beefing up security to protect Harris, who claimed that she felt threatened by Stampolis after speaking to him about being tardy in picking up his seventh-grade son.
But after the November election transformed Santa Clara Unified’s board, Harris sought reimbursement. The tab so far, including both paid and pending bills, comes to more than $144,500.
Stampolis a court regular
Posted on April 10, 2015 by Sharon Noguchi
Santa Clara Unified schools’ Trustee Chris Stampolis seems fond of going to court. A law school graduate but not a member of the California Bar, he’s been a regular in legal cases.
Most recently, his restraining-order case was back before Judge Thomas Kuhnle. It’s been almost six months since Kuhnle ordered Stampolis to stay 50 yards away from Peterson Middle School Principal Susan Harris and also off of the school campus. But Harris became alarmed in February when Stampolis drove toward school, near where she was supervising morning drop-off. On seeing her, she said, he stopped, backed up and did a quick U-turn. She called Sunnyvale police.
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Just how far is 50 yards?
Posted on February 27, 2015 by Sharon Noguchi
Did Santa Clara schools trustee Chris Stampolis flout a court order last month when he dropped off his son at Peterson Middle School in Sunnyvale? Principal Susan Harris was frightened enough to think so and called police.
Harris reported that on Feb. 5, she was startled to see Stampolis driving his son toward school, where she was out monitoring the morning student drop-off. Upon seeing her, she said, Stampolis stopped, started to back up, then made a U-turn. He’s supposed to stay 50 yards away from her and also stay away from school property, according to a restraining order Harris won last fall after reporting she felt threatened and harassed by Stampolis.
Sunnyvale Public Safety Officer Todd Fekete reported that Stampolis thought he was far enough away from the school, and that he was driving close because he was late. Stampolis stopped, according to police measurements, about 41 yards from the school property. He and Fekete later chatted about other locations to drop off his son without violating the order.
Stampolis claimed, in an email to IA, that he was in compliance with the order.
Fekete reported he would forward his report to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office, which as of late last week hadn’t decided what to do about the issue.
“I sure hope,” Harris said, “they hold him accountable for his actions.”
Stampolis-related security: $42,500 and counting
Posted on February 5, 2015 by Sharon Noguchi
The dollar meter keeps running for costs related to the fear trustee Chris Stampolis has sowed in Santa Clara Unified.
In pursuing a restraining order against Stampolis, Superintendent Stan Rose and Peterson Middle School Principal Sue Harris paid their own legal costs. (Harris won her order; Rose lost his attempt.)
But taxpayers are picking up the fees for security that the school district put in place after employees, parents and students said they felt threatened.
For guard service at Peterson last fall, the district paid $40,800. That was after Harris said she felt frightened and harassed by Stampolis, whose son attends the school, Continue Reading →
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It’s a leap year.
5G goes Pro. A14 Bionic rockets past every other smartphone chip. The Pro camera system takes low-light photography to the next level — with an even bigger jump on iPhone 12 Pro Max. And Ceramic Shield delivers four times better drop performance. Let’s see what this thing can do.
iPhone 12 Pro Design
Less bezel, more screen.
6.7” Super Retina
XDR display2
Kicks glass.
Ceramic Shield, tougher than any smartphone glass
Surgical-gradestainless steel.
Blows other phones out of the water.
Industry‑leading IP68 water resistance4
Four finishing touches.
Pacific Blue, Gold, Silver, and Graphite
Superfast wireless
Say Hello to 5G.
5G on iPhone is superfast. Now you can stream higher-quality videos and enjoy multiplayer gaming without all the lag.5 And Smart Data mode helps conserve battery life. iPhone also has the most bands of any smartphone, so you get 5G in more places.
The only thing even close was our last chip.
A14 Bionic is the first 5-nanometer chip in the industry, with advanced components literally atoms wide. Forty percent more transistors rev up speeds while increasing efficiency for great battery life. And a new ISP powers Dolby Vision recording — something no pro movie camera, let alone any other phone, can do.
Up to50% fasterCPU and GPU than any other smartphone chip
11.8 billiontransistors
First5 nmchip in the industry
Up to80%faster Neural Engine
16-coreNeural Engine
Up to70% fastermachine learning accelerators
Generations ahead of any other smartphone chip
LiDAR Scanner
AR at the speed of light.
The LiDAR Scanner on iPhone 12 Pro measures how long it takes light to reflect back from objects, so it can create a depth map of any space you’re in. Because it’s ultrafast and accurate, AR apps can now transform a room into a realistic rainforest or show you exactly how a new sneaker will fit.
NASA is developing LiDAR technology for Mars missions
A depth map in nanoseconds
Pro camera system
A new day for Night mode.
Night mode comes to both the Wide and Ultra Wide cameras, and it’s better than ever at capturing incredible low-light shots. LiDAR makes Night mode portraits possible. And the Wide camera lets in 27 percent more light, for greater detail and sharper focus day or night.
Wide camera with ƒ/1.6 aperture captures 27% more light
New 7‑element Wide lens for edge‑to‑edge sharpness
New OIS makes 5000 adjustments per second
LiDAR delivers up to 6x faster autofocus in low light
12 Pro Max. Camerus maximus.
The bigger iPhone maxes out the Pro camera system. A 47 percent larger sensor and larger pixels dramatically increase the amount of light gathered on the Wide camera. A new OIS stabilizes the sensor instead of the lens so your shots are steady — even when you’re not. And the new 65 mm Telephoto camera lets you zoom in tighter on portraits.
87% better low‑light photos
5x optical
Bigger 1.7 μm pixels
New sensor-shift optical image stabilization
Portraits that
come out at night.
Night mode portraitson the Wide camera give you vivid color, as well as beautiful bokeh that accentuates lit buildings, streetlights — any background lights.
Even with a single small light source, LiDAR and our A14 Bionic can render every pattern and texture in the foreground along with realistic color throughout the room.
Deep Fusionkicks in for low- to mid-light scenes. The Neural Engine analyzes multiple exposures pixel by pixel to bring out unprecedented detail in the magnifying glass, the woman, and the wall.
Portrait mode, fine-tuned.
Machine learning on iPhone 12 Pro is even better at separating the subject from the background. And creative controls let you adjust the background blur and light on faces.
More detail. In the blink of AI.
Smart HDR 3automatically refines highlights, shadows, and contours. Even at midday, you can see detail in her face and shadows that graduate all the way to true black.
Smart HDR 3 captures every bit of golden hour magic, pulling out all the texture in the rock, while staying true to the subtle blues of the sky.
Smart HDR 3 dials in the white balance, and the sea foam holds its shape and definition despite all the motion.
Beyond faces, Smart HDR 3 uses machine learning to recognize scenes, so it can bring out the cracks in the ground and the roughness of the hill without increasing noise in the sky.
Shot on iPhone 12 Pro Max.
2.5x optical zoomon the 65 mm Telephoto camera lets you see all that close-up detail without being right next to your subject.
Bigger pixelson the Wide camera help reveal intricate patterns, subtle textures, and incredible detail throughout the shot — even when you’re shooting in available light.
Colorsare remarkably true-to-life in almost any light, like all the translucent reds in her outfit, and the saturated neon hues of the diner behind.
A snapshot of each camera.
13 mm focal length
120º field of view
5-element lens
1.4 µm pixels
100% Focus Pixels
Sensor-shift OIS
Focus Pixels
Apple ProRAW. For an absurd amount of creative control.
ProRAW gives you all the standard RAW information, along with the Apple image pipeline data. So you can get a head start on editing, with noise reduction and multiframe exposure adjustments already in place — and have more time to tweak color and white balance.
Dolby Vision recording
60 times more colors. Infinitely more spectacular.
First camera ever to record in Dolby Vision
iPhone 12 Pro jumps from 8- to 10‑bit HDR recording, capturing 700 million colors for much more lifelike video. Then it goes one better, recording in Dolby Vision — the format used by film studios. You can even edit Dolby Vision video and use AirPlay to see every last bit of the difference on the big screen.
streams your 4K Dolby Vision video to Apple TV and smart TVs.6
Now every night is movie night.
The Wide camera’s larger sensor brings way more detail out of the shadows. And for the first time, you can take Night mode Time‑lapse videos with a tripod to capture scenes with dramatic motion. Now even your movies can pull an all-nighter.
87% better low-light video with iPhone 12 Pro Max
New ISP with improved noise reduction for more detail
It’s never too late to take another Night mode selfie.
Night mode comes to the front camera, bringing all that low-light detail and natural color to your favorite subject. Deep Fusion, Smart HDR 3, and Dolby Vision recording are now on the TrueDepth camera, too. So you’ll look your best in any light.
An infinity pool of pixels.
How do you make our brightest display even better? Make it bigger. A new design with flat edges and our flexible custom OLED allowed us to push the screen’s amazing color, brightness, and contrast right to the very edge.
Up to1200 nitspeak brightness for
HDR photos and movies
2,000,000:1contrast ratio for true blacks
and bright whites
Over 3.4 million pixels in 12 Pro Max,
the most ever in an iPhone
Everything just clicks.
Instant attraction.
Each piece magnetically snaps together like magic.
Stack and go.
Snap on a case, a wallet, or both. (Fear not, the wallet is shielded so it’s safe for credit cards.)
Turbo chargeable.
Magnets align themselves perfectly every time for faster wireless charging.
Get right to the good stuff.
iOS 14 is packed with shortcuts that get you just what you want, right when you want it.
App Clips let you use a small part of an app to quickly do things like pay for parking or order takeout.
Widgets have been redesigned to serve up info you want at a glance — right on your Home Screen.
Pinned conversations in Messages put the people you talk to most right at the top of the list.
Privacy is built in.
iPhone is designed to protect your information. Face ID data doesn’t leave your iPhone and is never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else. iOS shows you an app’s privacy practices before you download it. When you use Apple Pay, your card number isn’t shared with merchants. And the list goes on.
We reduced our carbon footprint. By thinking inside the box.
Carbon savings equal to 450,000 fewer cars on the road per year.
Across the iPhone family, we’re removing the power adapter and EarPods that often go unused, but including the fast‑charging USB‑C to Lightning cable that most people need. That shrinks packaging, and more boxes per shipment means fewer shipments overall. We’re also transitioning our manufacturing partners to renewable energy. Altogether, this eliminates over 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually.
Even the little things are a big deal.
Best worldwide coverage
iPhone 12 Pro has up to 20 5G bands and up to 32 LTE bands — more than any other smartphone — for the most extensive coverage around the world.5
Twice the starting storage
iPhone 12 Pro starts at 128GB of storage, doubling the space for things like photos and videos.
More shots, less lag
Snapping shots quickly? iPhone intelligently adapts, speeding up processing so you can capture all the action.
Spatial audio with Dolby Atmos
Sound moves around you in 3D space, so you feel like you’re inside the action.
Have two numbers
Dual SIM lets you have both a personal number and a business number on the same iPhone.7
Recycled rare earth in magnets
iPhone 12 Pro uses 100% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets, including those in our MagSafe accessories.
Express Transit Cards with power reserve
Even if your iPhone is out of juice, your Express Transit Card will still work at transit gates for up to 5 hours.
Use AR to see it from every angle.
Open this page using Safari on your iPhone or iPad.
Silver, Graphite, Gold, Pacific Blue
Textured matte glass back and
stainless steel design
Capacity1
Size and Weight2
(2.82 inches)
(0.29 inch)
187 grams (6.60 ounces)
6.1‑inch (diagonal) all‑screen OLED display
2532‑by‑1170-pixel resolution at 460 ppi
The iPhone 12 Pro display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 6.06 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).
The iPhone 12 Pro Max display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 6.68 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).
Both models:
800 nits max brightness (typical); 1200 nits max brightness (HDR)
Splash, Water, and Dust Resistant3
Rated IP68 (maximum depth of 6 meters up to 30 minutes) under IEC standard 60529
Next‑generation Neural Engine
Pro 12MP camera system: Ultra Wide, Wide, and Telephoto cameras
Ultra Wide: ƒ/2.4 aperture and 120° field of view
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Coronary heart disease and heart failure in asthma, COPD and asthma-COPD overlap
Respiratory epidemiology
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5892-7659Truls Sylvan Ingebrigtsen1,2,
Jacob Louis Marott3,
Jørgen Vestbo4,
Børge Grønne Nordestgaard2,3,5,6 and
Peter Lange2,3,7,8
1Respiratory Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark
2The Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
3The Copenhagen City Heart Study, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
4Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
5Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
6Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
7Medical department O, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
8Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Correspondence to Dr Peter Lange; peter.lange{at}sund.ku.dk
Introduction We investigated risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure in phenotypes of obstructive airway disease.
Methods Among 91 692 participants in the Copenhagen General Population Study, 42 058 individuals were classified with no respiratory disease, and 11 988 individuals had different phenotypes of obstructive airways disease: asthma with early onset or late-onset, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) above or below 50% of predicted value (%p) or asthma-COPD overlap (ACO).
Results During a mean follow-up of 5.7 years we registered 3584 admissions for coronary heart disease and 1590 admissions for heart failure. Multivariable Cox regression analyses of time to first admission were used with a two-sided p value of 0.05 as significance level. Compared with no respiratory disease the highest risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure were observed in ACO with late-onset asthma and FEV1 <50% p, HR=2.2 (95% CI 1.6 to 3.0), and HR=2.9 (95% CI 2.0 to 4.3), respectively. In COPD with FEV1 above 50% p the HRs were 1.3 (95% CI 1.2 to 1.5) for coronary heart disease and 1.9 (95% CI 1.6 to 2.3) for heart failure. Asthma associated with increased risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure, however, in asthma without allergy the HR was 1.1 (95% CI 0.7 to 1.6) for coronary heart disease while individuals with allergy had an HR of 1.4 (95% CI 1.1 to 1.6).
Conclusions Risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure were increased in asthma, COPD and ACO. In asthma, the risk of coronary heart disease depended on presence of allergy. We suggest that cardiovascular risk factors should be assessed systematically in individuals with obstructive airway disease with the potential to facilitate targeted treatments.
COPD epidemiology
Do different phenotypes of obstructive airway disease associate with increased risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure?
Several population-based studies have shown an association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular disease, however, most studies lack adjustment for important clinical characteristics and prospective designs. Similarly, previously observed associations between asthma and cardiovascular disease are poorly understood, and recently it has been proposed that these associations could depend on age of asthma onset or presence of allergy. Furthermore, there are to date few studies investigating the association between asthma-COPD overlap and cardiovascular disease.
Obstructive airway disease phenotypes increase risk of cardiovascular disease, but could depend on allergy presence in individuals with asthma.
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are prevalent chronic inflammatory airway diseases and an increased risk of cardiovascular comorbidity has been described in both.1 2 Recent systematic reviews suggest that the risk of being diagnosed with coronary heart disease or heart failure is approximately twofold higher in individuals with asthma and even higher in COPD.3–5
In patients with asthma, observed associations with cardiovascular disease are poorly understood, inconsistent,6–8 and recently it has been proposed that the risk could depend on age of asthma onset.9–11 Furthermore, studies have indicated that allergy associates with risk of cardiovascular disease.12 Since allergy is associated with asthma13 this could influence observed associations between asthma and risk of cardiovascular comorbidity.
Other studies have shown an association between COPD and risk of cardiovascular disease. However, a recent systematic literature review points to inconsistencies in these associations with lack of adjustment for important and well-characterised clinical characteristics, and a paucity of significant prospective studies.4
Recently, asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) has been acknowledged as a clinical entity,14 that is, individuals with persistent airflow limitation and features usually associated with both COPD and asthma,15 but only few studies have focused on cardiovascular comorbidity in individuals with ACO.16 These studies have mostly been cross-sectional and based on registry data without comprehensive information on clinical and lifestyle characteristics16–18 but significant associations between ACO and both coronary heart disease and heart failure have been reported in retrospective study designs.19
We hypothesised that obstructive airway disease phenotypes, asthma, COPD and ACO are prospectively associated with risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure.
In the present study, we analysed data from The Copenhagen General Population Study. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The Copenhagen General Population Study is a prospective epidemiological study that has recruited more than 100 000 individuals representative of the general population and collected genotypical and phenotypical data of relevance to a wide range of health-related problems.20 Recruitment began in 2003 (response rate 45%), and a follow-up examination of all individuals was initiated in 2014 and is still ongoing. In the present study we had access to participants examined in the first examination from 2003 to 2014 and therefore the follow-up examination (the second round of the Copenhagen General Population Study) is not included in the present study. All participants completed a comprehensive questionnaire and underwent a physical examination including spirometry at recruitment. Only prebronchodilator measurements were available. Predicted values were calculated using internally derived reference values based on a subsample of healthy asymptomatic never-smokers, as reported earlier.21
Airway disease phenotypes
Among 91 692 participants aged above 40 years with spirometry, 2867 (3.1%) had missing data on at least one of the variables necessary for the stratification described below. Among the remaining participants, we identified 54 046 individuals defined by one of eight groups of different phenotypes of airway disease, based on the information obtained in the questionnaires and results of spirometry, and a reference group consisting of participants with no respiratory disease:
No respiratory disease: individuals with forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1)/forced vital capacity (FVC) ≥0.70, no self-reported asthma, no prior admissions for asthma and COPD, and ≤10 pack-years of tobacco smoking.
Asthma with earlyonset: current self-reported asthma with onset before 40 years of age, ≤10 pack-years of tobacco smoking and FEV1/FVC≥0.70.
Asthma with late-onset: current self-reported asthma with onset after 40 years of age, ≤10 pack-years of tobacco smoking and FEV1/FVC≥0.70.
COPD with FEV1≥50%of predicted value: FEV1/FVC<0.70 with >10 pack-years of tobacco smoking, no self-reported asthma and FEV1 ≥50% of predicted value
COPD with FEV1<50%of predicted value: FEV1/FVC<0.70 with >10 pack-years of tobacco smoking, no self-reported asthma and FEV1<50% of predicted value.
ACO with earlyonset asthma and FEV1≥50%of predicted value: current self-reported asthma with onset before 40 years of age, FEV1/FVC<0.70 and FEV1≥50% of predicted value. There were no criteria regarding smoking for assignment into this group.
ACO with late-onset asthma and FEV1≥50%of predicted value: current self-reported asthma with onset after 40 years of age, FEV1/FVC<0.70 and FEV1≥50% of predicted value. There were no criteria regarding smoking for assignment into this group.
ACO with earlyonset asthma and FEV1<50%of predicted value: current self-reported asthma with onset before 40 years of age, FEV1/FVC<0.70 and FEV1<50% of predicted value. There were no criteria regarding smoking for assignment into this group.
ACO with late-onset asthma and FEV1<50%of predicted value: current self-reported asthma with onset after 40 years of age, FEV1/FVC<0.70 and FEV1<50% of predicted value. There were no criteria regarding smoking for assignment into this group.
Individuals with missing data were excluded. In the study population of 91 692 individuals, only 3% had missing data on either smoking, body mass index, hypertension, family history of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, total cholesterol or physical activity in leisure time, hence imputation of missing data was not performed.
Hospitalisations for coronary heart disease and heart failure
Data on hospitalisations were available from the national Danish Patient Registry,22 23 until November 2014. The national Danish Patient Registry was established in 1977 and provides complete nationwide registry data without loss to follow-up. Data are available on permission for research purposes from 1977 and forward and the cardiovascular diagnoses have a high specificity and positive predictive value.24 25 Denmark used the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-8 until 1994 and hereafter shifted directly to ICD-10. Participants with previous admissions for COPD (ICD-8: 491–492 and ICD-10: J41–J44) and asthma (ICD-8: 493 and ICD-10: J45–J46) were removed from the reference group of no respiratory disease. We recorded hospital admissions for coronary heart disease (ICD-8: 410–414 and ICD-10: I20–I25) and heart failure (ICD-8: 427.09–427.11 and ICD-10: I50), and in our main analysis individuals with previous admissions of coronary heart disease and heart failure were included in the prospective analysis, however, we also performed a sensitivity analysis excluding individuals with previous cardiovascular admissions from our analysis, as described below.
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For demographics, continuous variables and categorical variables were compared using analysis of variance and χ2 tests as appropriate. The Kaplan-Meier estimator was used to estimate the percentage of events during follow-up after the initial examination, accounting for censoring of data. Hence, percentages presented are 100% minus the Kaplan-Meier estimate of being event-free. Kaplan-Meier curves were included to describe the clinical prognosis for groups of individuals with obstructive airway disease phenotypes, thereby indicating which patients are at increased risk. To estimate the confounder adjusted risks of hospital admissions we used a Cox regression model. Time since examination was the underlying timescale and all Cox models were adjusted for age. In a base model, age and gender were included as covariates, and in a full multivariable model we also included established cardiovascular risk factors: family history of cardiovascular disease, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, total cholesterol levels and physical activity in leisure time26 (details of all variables are provided in the online supplementary table S1). In our analysis, a two-sided p value less than 0.05 was considered significant. The assumption of proportionality in the Cox regression models were tested with the Lin, Wei and Ying Score process test by visual examination of plots of cumulative martingale residuals, and no violations of the model assumptions were found.27 No adjustments for multiple comparisons were made. All analyses were performed with R V.3.2.0 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria).28
Sensitivity analyses
Asthma with or without allergy
Previous studies have indicated that there is an association between allergy and risk of cardiovascular disease.12 Due to the rather low numbers of participants in our main analysis in some of the phenotype subgroups, we disregarded age of onset in our asthma definition and divided asthma into two other groups: asthma with or without allergy. Presence of allergy was defined by answering yes to the question ‘Do foods, medicine, grass, flowers, animal hair or other factors cause asthma, hay fever or eczema in you?’. In the reference group (‘No respiratory disease’) individuals reporting presence of allergy were excluded explaining a smaller reference group.
Furthermore, we also did a subgroup sensitivity analysis by analysing the association between presence of allergy compared with no presence of allergy in the ‘No respiratory disease’ subgroup, and prospective risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure.
Age of asthma onset
Early onset asthma and late-onset asthma were defined based on a previous study using 40 years of age as the cut point.29 However, this choice could be discussed, and we did a second sensitivity analysis with 20 years of age as the cut point defining early onset versus late-onset asthma.
No history of admissions with coronary heart disease or heart failure
In our third sensitivity analysis, acknowledging the presence of coronary heart disease and heart failure in some individuals with obstructive airway disease at baseline, we excluded these individuals from our study population and repeated our analysis.
Adjusting for pack-years
Smoking cessation is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease30 and cumulated tobacco consumption measured in pack-years was used to define some of our airway disease phenotype subgroups. Therefore, we initially adjusted our main analysis for smoking status as current/former/never. However, in our fourth and final sensitivity analysis acknowledging that smoking is a possible strong confounder we adjusted our main analysis for cumulated smoking exposure calculated in pack-years, as this variable could have a finer resolution and provide better confounder control than smoking status.
Characteristics of participants with different phenotypes of airway disease
The distribution of the 54 046 participants and their characteristics are shown in the table 1. There were 11 988 individuals with any airway disease and 1901 of these were classified as having ACO. Individuals with ACO constituted 2.1% of all participants, 15.9% of those in the airway disease phenotype groups and 19.3% of all those with airflow limitation.
Baseline characteristics* of 54 046 individuals according to different phenotypes of obstructive airway disease
As shown in the table, severity of lung function impairment in individuals with COPD and ACO was related to presence of dyspnoea (ie, mMRC ≥2) whereas a high frequency of previous respiratory infections was particularly present in ACO with FEV1<50% p, regardless of age of asthma onset. Prevalence of treatment with medication for respiratory disease was highest in participants with ACO, followed by those with asthma, and then those with COPD and FEV1<50% p, whereas only 6% of those with COPD and FEV1≥50% p were on medical treatment. Current smoking was most prevalent in those with COPD. Individuals with asthma and those with ACO with early onset asthma more often reported having experienced asthma, hay fever or eczema in childhood.
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease was highest in participants with FEV1<50% p in both COPD and ACO as shown in the table. There was a trend towards higher blood pressure and a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus in COPD and ACO with FEV1<50% p, and more individuals with these obstructive airway disease phenotypes reported a low physical activity level in leisure time. Furthermore, family history of cardiovascular disease, total cholesterol, and HDL cholesterol levels seemed largely similar across different phenotypes of airway disease.
During an average follow-up of 5.7 years (maximum: 11.0 years), 3584 admissions for coronary heart disease and 1590 admissions for heart failure were recorded.
Figure 1 shows Kaplan-Meier curves with regard to admissions for coronary heart disease while figure 2 shows heart failure. These unadjusted analyses illustrate the increased risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure in real life groups of individuals with different phenotypes of obstructive airway disease.
Kaplan-Meier curves comparing risk of coronary heart disease for different phenotypes of obstructive airway disease in the Copenhagen General Population Study. (A) Asthma with early onset or late-onset versus no respiratory disease. (B) COPD with FEV1<50%, COPD with FEV1≥50%, versus no respiratory disease. (C) ACO with late-onset asthma and FEV1≥50%, ACO with early onset asthma and FEV1≥50%, COPD with FEV1≥50%, vs no respiratory disease. (D) ACO with late-onset asthma and FEV1<50%, ACO with early onset asthma and FEV1<50%, COPD with FEV1<50%, versus no respiratory disease. ACO, asthma-COPD overlap; CHD, coronary heart disease; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; FEV1, forced expiratory volume in one second; GOLD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.
Kaplan-Meier curves comparing risk of heart failure for different phenotypes of obstructive airway disease in the Copenhagen General Population Study. (A) Asthma with early onset or late-onset versus no respiratory disease. (B) COPD and FEV1<50%, COPD and FEV1≥50%, versus no respiratory disease. (C) ACO with late-onset asthma and FEV1≥50%, ACO with early onset asthma and FEV1≥50%, COPD with FEV1≥50%, versus no respiratory disease. D) ACO with late-onset asthma and FEV1<50%, ACO with early onset asthma and FEV1<50%, COPD with FEV1<50%, versus no respiratory disease. ACO, asthma-COPD overlap; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; FEV1, forced expiratory volume in one second; GOLD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.
Figure 3 shows adjusted HRs for hospitalisations due to coronary heart disease in the left panel and heart failure in the right panel. In full multivariable models, early onset asthma did not associate with coronary heart disease with an HR of 1.2 (95% CI 0.9 to 1.6, p=0.13) but was associated with heart failure HR=2.2 (95% CI 1.4 to 3.4, p<0.001). Late-onset asthma was associated with both coronary heart disease and heart failure, HR=1.4 (95% CI 1.1 to 1.7, p=0.01) and HR=1.5 (95% CI 1.1 to 2.2, p=0.02), respectively.
Risk of hospitalisations for coronary heart disease or heart failure in the Copenhagen General Population Study, by eight phenotypes of airway disease with no respiratory disease as reference. Percentages are Kaplan-Meier estimates. Individuals with asthma are divided by early onset versus late-onset using 40 years of age as cut point. Left part shows coronary heart disease and right part shows heart failure. Top-down: base model or multivariable model (‘Age and sex adjusted model‘ or ‘Multivariable adjusted model’). Left to right: the number of participants included (‘No. of Participants’), number of events recorded during follow-up (“Events No.’), HR from Cox-regression analyses with 95% CIs (“Hazard Ratio (95% CI)"). Online supplementary table S1 shows details of variables included in multivariable modelling. ACO, asthma-COPD overlap; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CVD, cardiovascular disease; GOLD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.
The highest risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure were observed in COPD with FEV1<50% p and in ACO with late-onset asthma and FEV1<50% p, and the HR was 1.8 (95% CI 1.4 to 2.3, p<0.001) and 2.2 (95% CI 1.6 to 3.0, p<0.001), respectively, for coronary heart disease, and 2.9 (95% CI 2.2 to 3.9, p<0.001) and 2.9 (95% CI 2.0 to 4.3, p<0.001), respectively, for heart failure, compared with no respiratory disease. Interestingly, COPD with FEV≥50% p also associated with coronary heart disease as well as heart failure even when adjusting for established cardiovascular risk factors, HR=1.3 (95% CI 1.2 to 1.5, p<0.001) and HR=1.9 (95% CI 1.6 to 2.3, p<0.001), respectively.
Online supplementary table S2 shows characteristics of individuals with asthma with or without allergy and ACO with or without allergy. As shown in figure 4, asthma without allergy did not associate with risk of coronary heart disease, HR=1.1 (95% CI 0.7 to 1.6, p=0.73), while asthma with presence of allergy was significantly associated and the HR was 1.4 (95% CI 1.1 to 1.6, p=0.002) for coronary heart disease compared with no respiratory disease. Similarly, ACO with Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 1+2 COPD without allergy did not associate with risk of coronary heart disease, HR=1.1 (95% CI 0.8 to 1.6, p=0.41) while ACO with GOLD 1+2 COPD and allergy had an HR of 1.4 (95% CI 1.1 to 1.7, p<0.001) for coronary heart disease compared with no respiratory disease. Asthma with or without allergy and ACO with or without allergy associated significantly with risk of heart failure.
Risk of hospitalisations for coronary heart disease or heart failure in the Copenhagen General Population Study, by eight phenotypes of airway disease with no respiratory disease as reference. Percentages are Kaplan-Meier estimates. Individuals with asthma are divided by presence of allergy. Left part shows coronary heart disease and right part shows heart failure. Top-down: base model or multivariable model (‘Age and sex adjusted model’ or ‘Multivariable adjusted model’). Left to right: the number of participants included (‘No. of Participants’), number of events recorded during follow-up (‘Events No.’), HR from Cox-regression analyses with 95% CIs (‘Hazard Ratio (95% CI)’). Online supplementary table S1 shows details of variables included in multivariable modelling. ACO, asthma-COPD overlap; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CVD, cardiovascular disease; GOLD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.
Furthermore, there were no associations between allergy and coronary heart disease (multivariable adjusted HR=1.03 (95% CI 0.93 to 1.13, p=0.60)) nor heart failure (multivariable adjusted HR=0.94 (95% CI 0.79 to 1.12, p=0.51)) in the ‘No respiratory disease’ subgroup.
Asthma age of onset
In our second sensitivity analysis, defining early versus late asthma onset by using 20 years as the age cut point, we observed only minor changes and most HRs and p values were largely unchanged compared with our main analyses, as shown in online supplementary figure S1. Importantly, though, using this cut point, asthma with early onset was significantly associated with risk of coronary heart disease, HR=1.5 (95% CI 1.0 to 2.2, p=0.03).
Excluding individuals with previous admissions of coronary heart disease or heart failure from our study population, we observed similar results as in our main analyses. However, statistical power was reduced by the somewhat smaller study population and fewer events recorded during follow-up, as shown in online supplementary figure S2. However, late-onset asthma was not statistically associated with heart failure, HR=1.5 (95% CI 1.0 to 2.3) while early onset asthma remained associated with an HR of 2.3 (95% CI 1.4 to 3.7).
After adjustment for pack-years, we observed similar estimates between obstructive airway disease phenotypes and prospective risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure as shown in online supplementary figure S3.
In this large prospective study of the general population we observed that risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure were increased in COPD, even in mild-to-moderate disease. We also observed a similar increased risk in individuals with ACO with observed associations largely explained by severity of lung function impairment. Asthma also associated with risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure, with increased risk of coronary heart disease only in individuals who reported presence of allergy. We suggest that cardiovascular risk factors should be assessed systematically in obstructive airway disease with the potential to facilitate targeted treatments.
The burden of cardiovascular comorbidity in obstructive airway disease is increasingly acknowledged, and there is a need of identifying which patients are at increased risk31 to facilitate optimal treatment and prevention. To our knowledge, this is the first large prospective population-based study showing that individuals with ACO have an increased risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure, and that this risk is of similar magnitude, or perhaps even slightly higher, than the risk observed in individuals with COPD. Recently, we have observed a poor survival in individuals with ACO in another Copenhagen cohort, The Copenhagen City Heart Study,29 and therefore the present study suggests that cardiovascular comorbidity is not a major part of the explanation for the poorer prognosis observed in ACO compared with COPD. The prevalence of ACO among those with airflow limitation in the present study was approximately 19%, which is in line with the prevalence reported in other cohorts.16 17 29 32 33 Our definition of ACO is based on objectively verified airflow limitation and self-reported asthma and our main findings of a higher risk of cardiovascular events in ACO are in line with findings of van Boven et al, although these investigators used a register-based diagnosis in their main analyses.16
Ageing in itself is a common risk factor to both obstructive airway disease and cardiovascular disease. However, in a recent study of ACO using the Copenhagen City Heart Study, we reported that age of asthma onset significantly influenced lung function decline and survival.29 Our present findings suggest that the age of asthma onset in ACO does not seem to play a major role with regard to future risk of cardiovascular comorbidity, which is somewhat surprising as previous research has indicated that early onset asthma and late-onset asthma could represent different pathological processes. However, in line with such a hypothesis, our main asthma analysis suggested that an increased risk of coronary heart disease might only be present in individuals with late-onset asthma. Similar results were observed in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort9 and among women in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.10 Importantly, in our sensitivity analysis using 20 years as the cut point, both early onset and late-onset asthma associated with risk of coronary heart disease. Thus, the lack of association with early onset asthma in our main analysis could depend on the choice of age cut point. Furthermore, limitations regarding our asthma definition should be acknowledged. Both heavy smoking history and airflow limitation were exclusion criteria in this group, thereby excluding individuals with a major cardiovascular risk factor or with obstructive lung function impairment.3 7 34 35 We thus recognise that our results may not apply to individuals with asthma and presence of airflow limitation, although the majority of individuals with asthma in the general population do not show presence of obstruction on spirometry.
Previous studies have indicated that presence of allergy could be associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.12 Therefore, we did a sensitivity analysis dividing asthmatic individuals by presence of allergy. In this analysis, we observed that only asthma with presence of allergy associated significantly with the risk of coronary heart disease. A possible explanation could be cellular pathways such as mast cell release linking allergy in asthma with coronary heart disease.36 The hypothesis of inflammatory pathways as a possible common mechanism is compatible with at recent finding of an increased risk only present in individuals with active asthma37 and also in line with observed associations between atopic dermatitis and myocardial infarction.38 Furthermore, the observed association between presence of allergy in asthma and coronary heart disease could be dependent on the late-phase reaction and chronic allergic inflammation involving mediators such as transforming growth factor α,39 a cytokine that has been associated with coronary heart disease.40 However, many complex mechanisms and mediators are involved in chronic inflammation in allergic asthma,39 and future studies are needed to investigate whether there could be particular inflammatory links between presence of allergy in asthma and cardiovascular comorbidity since our subgroup sensitivity analysis showed no association between presence of allergy without presence of asthma and prospective risk of cardiovascular disease.
As expected, we observed that diabetes and hypertension were strongly associated with the prospective risk of cardiovascular disease. These risk factors can be easily assessed at regular pulmonary examinations in an ambulatory setting by measuring glycated haemoglobin and blood pressure in other to facilitate targeted treatment. Our analyses also showed reduction in risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure associated with increased physical activity in leisure time, also when adjusting for several other important covariates. Considering that many previous studies have corroborated the importance of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD, physical activity seems particularly important in patients with presence of both obstructive airway disease and comorbid cardiovascular disease.
In addition, while increased body mass index, as expected, associated with increased risk of both coronary heart disease and heart failure, previous research has shown that an increased body mass index is, in fact, associated with a lower risk of exacerbations in COPD.41 This seems like a paradox as several studies have shown a strong association between increased risk of exacerbations in COPD and increased risk of cardiovascular events.42 We therefore also call for future studies of associations between body mass index, weight changes, and body composition and risk of exacerbations in individuals with obstructive airway disease and cardiovascular comorbidity.
Our study seems to corroborate and supplement previous findings on the strong association between COPD, disease severity assessed by lung function impairment, and future risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure.4 5 A major strength of our study was inclusion of important clinical respiratory and cardiovascular characteristics. After adjusting for established risk factors, we observed that even mild-to-moderate COPD was associated with coronary heart disease and heart failure. Severity of FEV1 impairment seemed important in our study, thus, individuals with FEV1 below 50% of predicted had a higher risk than those with FEV1 above 50% p. A potential limitation is that our spirometries are prebronchodilator only. However, we believe that our findings support the notion that severity of lung function impairment plays the most important role in the risk of hospitalisations with coronary heart disease and heart failure in COPD. These results are in line with a previous study from the Copenhagen City Heart Study,43 and also in line with a study using the UK-based General Practice Research Database, where the investigators used COPD treatment as a proxy for disease severity and observed a higher risk among those patients with COPD with most severe disease.44
Most individuals with COPD have a history of smoking and therefore, we included pack-years in our definition of COPD phenotype. This explains why smoking was a weakly associated variable in multivariable modelling. We are aware of the fact that the way we defined our subgroups of airway disease phenotypes may significantly affect our findings and interpretation such as exclusion of individuals with light smoking COPD and heavy smoking asthma. However, our classification used both elements from the Global Initiative for Asthma and GOLD documents, and also elements commonly employed to define inclusion criteria for drug trials in asthma and COPD.45 46
It should also be acknowledged that we lack further characterisation of types of airway inflammatory process in our individuals with different phenotypes of obstructive airway disease. Furthermore, as another possible limitation, we only had access to information on self-reported asthma, and a physician-based diagnosis would likely be more reliable. Nevertheless, the use of self-reported asthma is well established for identification of asthma in population-based settings,47 48 as well as reported age of asthma onset.49
Strengths to the present study include the high number of enrolled participants and a complete follow-up in nationwide registries of diagnoses with a high specificity.24 25 We also consider the quite comprehensive information on both established cardiovascular and respiratory risk factors and an objectively verified presence of airflow limitation an important advantage that allows new clinical information on the associations between obstructive airway disease phenotypes and prospective risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure.
Despite our findings, we acknowledge that whether obstructive airway disease phenotypes should be considered as genuine cardiovascular risk factors is still a matter of dispute. Recently, a large randomised trial of treatment with inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β2-agonists, the SUMMIT Study, aiming at reducing risk of cardiovascular mortality in individuals with COPD, failed to show any effect.50 Considering the importance of low lung function as a major risk factor both for cardiovascular disease and mortality, and considering that the SUMMIT Study did not show an effect of inhaled maintenance medications on mortality in subjects with COPD at increased cardiovascular risk, we suggest that cardiovascular as well as metabolic concomitant diseases should be not only carefully searched for in subjects with impaired lung function, but also appropriately treated with cardiovascular and metabolic agents. All together, we therefore suggest that, presence of asthma, COPD and ACO should lead to an increased focus on established cardiovascular risk factors in this population and result in relevant interventions if indicated.
In conclusion, risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure were increased in COPD, even in mild-to-moderate disease. We also observed similar increased risks in individuals with ACO, that seemed largely explained by the severity of lung function impairment. Asthma also associated with risks of coronary heart disease and heart failure, with an increased risk of coronary heart disease only present in individuals who also reported presence of allergy. We suggest that cardiovascular risk factors should be assessed systematically in obstructive airway disease with the potential to facilitate targeted treatments.
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. Fluticasone furoate and vilanterol and survival in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with heightened cardiovascular risk (Summit): a double-blind randomised controlled trial. Lancet2016;387:1817–26.doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30069-1
Contributors Study concept and design: PL, TSI, JLM, JV, BGN; Acquisition of data: BGN, PL, JLM; Analysis and interpretation of data: TSI, PL, JLM, JV; First drafting of the manuscript: PL and TSI; Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors; Statistical analysis: JLM, TSI; Obtained funding: BGN, PL; Administrative, technical and material support: BGN, PL; Study supervision: PL, BGN; Data access and responsibility: PL, TSI, JLM. All authors had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Funding Capital Region of Copenhagen, Danish Lung Foundation, Velux Foundation, Herlev Hospital, GlaxoSmithKline (unrestricted grant: EPI 115882 – EUPharmaLocal). JV is supported by the NIHR Manchester BRC. The funding sources had no role in the design and conduct of the study, in the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data, or in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
Competing interests TSI has received fee for speaking from AstraZeneca. JV has received fee for speaking from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi and Novartis; received fee for consulting from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi and Novartis. PL has received research grants from Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline; received fee for speaking from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithCline; received fee for consulting from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline.
Ethics approval The study was approved by institutional review boards and the local Danish ethics committees (H-KF01-144/01), and was conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki.
Data availability statement No data are available. For this research project a protocol was approved by the board of the Copenhagen General Population Study. Researchers were allowed access to the data in the study through encrypted access.
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Knight on the bike- Northlake Elementary continues innovative rewards program for progressing student readers
In the medieval era, knights rode horses as they went into war. Today, Northlake Elementary School “knights” ride on something a bit smaller and for a different purpose.
Once a month, NES teachers nominate a student in their class who has shown growth in their reading skills. The recommended student, (referred to as a “knight” to match the school’s mascot), is met at their classroom, just before lunch, by one of the school’s five literacy aides.
The chosen knight gets to take a ride on the school’s bright, blue tricycle. The bike has a giant wire basket on the back and a loud, squeezable bike horn on the front. The bike proudly adorns a triangle flag that reads, “Knight on the Bike” on one side and “Make way for an EXCELLENT READER” on the other.
Students can choose to ride by themselves or sit in the basket while a staff member pedals. They ride through the hallways to the lunchroom or around the school’s entryway honking the horn to announce their accomplishments.
Students in the hallways pine for their turn on the bike while Literacy Aides encourage them to keep turning in their reading minutes for their chance to ride.
How this tradition started
About 10 years ago, Tooele County School District Teaching Mentor, Debbie Bird, was an Instructional Coach at NES. At the time, students were participating in Ken Garff’s Road to Success Program which aimed at helping students improve their literacy skills through incentivized daily reading.
For every 100 minutes of reading students completed, they received a ticket for a drawing at the end of the year which included a chance to win a new bike. To add more fun to the program, Bird decided to purchase the adult tricycle and ride it from class-to-class to collect reading minutes. She would show up at a classroom, honk the horn and teachers would send out a student with the classroom’s reading results. She would then pile the papers in the bike’s basket and move on to the next classroom.
When she took a new position at the district office, Bird donated the bike to the school.
Over time the program evolved, and one student would be selected from the ticket entries used in the Ken Garff program to be the reading minute gatherer. They were referred to as a “Noble Knight” and the bike was called “The Noble Steed.” For a time, the bike was outfitted with a white horse cutout that covered the tires of the tricycle.
Although NES no longer participates in the Ken Garff program, staff members found a way to continue a reading-rewards program for students.
The new program was spurred by the story, “Duck on a Bike,” by David Shannon. In the story, a duck is seen riding a red bike around the farm while the other barnyard animals mock him and his bike. But, by the end of the story, all the animals have a change of heart and are seen riding around the farm on bikes as well.
Northlake Elementary Literacy Coach, Linda Sehlmeier, said it is all about celebrating a student’s progress in reading.
“We let teachers decide on how they nominate the students,” said Sehlmeier. “It could be the student who turned in the most reading minutes, mastered a list of high-frequency words or perhaps the one who increased their fluency scores.”
To highlight the students’ success to a wider audience, students have their picture taken as they ride and Principal Renee Milne puts the photos on the school’s Facebook page.
Be on the lookout at Northlake Elementary and congratulate the student riding through the halls on the blue tricycle.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” -Dr. Seuss
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Question: Okay, seriously? Purple plants? That sounds like something from a fantasy story.
Believe it or not, it’s true. At least according to scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who study extraterrestrial life and try to guess what it might be like.
Did you ever notice how, not counting flowers or budding plants like food, everything on Earth is green? Take a moment and think about that. Why are they all green? To answer that, let’s look at plant physiology for a moment.
Plants get energy from the sun through a process called photosynthesis. Chlorophyll in the plants converts the sun’s energy into useable compounds, like sugars.
Image Credit: NASA
Our sun, Sol, is classified as a “Yellow” star (G2V to be exact). This doesn’t mean that it’s literally yellow colored, but that it gives off light in the yellow EM bands. All stars emit different bands of EM energy from the star where some bands are stronger than others.
EM Bands found in Stars. Image Credit: NASA
Once that light is filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere, some of the light is blocked or changed until a specific band remains. In order to capture as much of the light reaching the ground as possible the plants use Chlorophyll in the photosynthesis process. This is what gives the plants the green color.
If the Earth, or another planet with a similar atmosphere, were orbiting around a star that emitted a different EM band of light, then the atmosphere would filter out different wavelengths and the plants would be different colors. Around a dimmer star, like a K-Type or an M-Type, the plants would be darker, like this…
Image Credit: Caltech/JPL/NASA
And that’s just for plants around a single star! You don’t want to know how complicated it gets for plants around binary stars or multiples.
If you’d like to read more about this discovery I would recommend the following links:
NASA/GSFC press release
Spitzer news release
Nancy Y. Klang, Scientific American, April 2008
Kiang et al, 2007a
Kiang et al, 2007b
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Finding a Path to Reconciliation: Mandatory Indigenous Law, Anishinaabe Pedagogy, and Academic Freedom
Karen Drake, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow
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Indigenous Law; Anishinaabe Pedagogy; Reconciliation; Mandatory Indigenous Content; Academic Freedom
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called on law schools in Canada to make Indigenous law a mandatory component of legal education. In its final report, the Commission provides the outline of a rationale in support of this call to action. This paper builds on that outline by grounding the Commission’s rationale in the jurisprudence on section 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982. Articulating a comprehensive rationale is useful for at least three reasons. First, such a rationale can underpin a response to the claim that a required Indigenous law course lacks value for those students who do not intend to practise Aboriginal law. Second, the format and pedagogy used to teach Indigenous law as a mandatory subject should be informed by the rationale underlying the call to action. Third, this rationale dispels the concern that mandating the study of Indigenous law violates academic freedom.
Drake, Karen, "Finding a Path to Reconciliation: Mandatory Indigenous Law, Anishinaabe Pedagogy, and Academic Freedom" (2017). Articles & Book Chapters. 2698.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/2698
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Southeast lawmakers condemn Trump over violence at Capitol, only some vote to impeach
by: Kellie Meyer
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday became the first president in United States history to be impeached twice. The House of Representatives secured their votes late Wednesday afternoon with 10 Republicans breaking from their party to vote with Democrats for the impeachment.
Members of the House started debating an article of impeachment for “incitement of insurrection” on Wednesday morning. The charge was introduced to hold the president responsible for the attack on the U.S. Capitol one week ago.
“The violence last Wednesday was abhorrent,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) said.
However, Bishop slammed the process as “partisan” and said he would vote no on impeachment.
Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace strongly condemned Trump and said “he needs to be held accountable,” but said the impeachment effort was too rushed to earn her support.
“[It] poses great questions about the constitutionality of this process,” she added.
The impeachment vote comes exactly one week after the U.S. Capitol riot and exactly one week before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Some House members want President Trump out of office before that transition of power happens.
“The traitorous incitement of an insurrection demands not just impeachment but removal from office immediately,” Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) said Wednesday.
Castor is urging the Senate to act quickly. But Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) doesn’t expect it to get that far.
“It’s nothing more than a snap impeachment,” Carter said.
In a statement Wednesday, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham said, “the last thing the country needs is an impeachment trial of a president who is leaving office in one week.”
The Senate isn’t currently expected to return until Jan. 19, just one day before Biden takes office.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named the House Impeachment Managers on Tuesday night, fully anticipating a trial in the Senate.
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Olivier Giroud nears Chelsea exit as agent meets Inter Milan chiefs over £10m transfer
by Daily Star January 10, 2020, 6:00 am 14 Views
Olivier Giroud’s Chelsea exit has moved a step closer after the player’s agent met with Inter Milan officials to discuss a transfer.
The French World Cup winner is looking for a January exit after falling out of favour under Frank Lampard .
He has found himself third in the pecking order at Stamford Bridge behind Tammy Abraham and Michy Batshuayi.
The 33-year-old has been linked with several Premier League clubs this month but Serie A giants Inter been constantly mentioned as another option.
Antonio Conte is a fan of the former Arsenal man and sees him as a useful back-up to Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez.
The Italian was the man who originally signed Giroud when he was manager of Chelsea before leaving soon after.
And according to Italian transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, Conte is looking to seal a £10m move as soon as possible.
He claims that Giroud’s agent met with Inter chiefs on Thursday for talks about a move.
Olivier Giroud wants to leave Chelsea and could be set to join Inter Milan
West Ham, Aston Villa and Newcastle are also believed to be interested in signing the Frenchman, who is out of contract with Chelsea in the summer.
It is understood he would prefer a move abroad than a Premier League relegation battle as he looks to keep his spot for Euro 2020.
Romano also claims that Christian Eriksen’s representatives are also due in Italy to discuss a move to Inter.
The Tottenham midfielder is able to speak with foreign clubs and can sign a pre-contract agreement to move in the summer.
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The Denmark international’s contract at Spurs expires at the end of the current season.
Giroud has not featured for Chelsea since the end of November with Lampard putting his faith in Abraham.
He has only scored five goals since joining the Blues in January 2018, although the majority of his appearances have come as a substitute.
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In the Church of England parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul the north wall of the chancel contains two blocked-up Norman arches that suggest the building may date from about 1200. The chancel contains a window that pre-dates 1300, but is probably not in its original position.
Other features from the Decorated Gothic period include the windows of the south aisle and the east window of a room to the north of the chancel.
The East window of the chancel, the only complete stained glass window, and the four-bay arcades between the nave and the north and south aisles are from the early part of the Perpendicular Gothic period. The bell tower is also Perpendicular Gothic.
The pews are 18th century and are in raised tiers at the west end. Together with the stained glass window and the etched window in the tower (dedicated to those who served at the local wartime airfield), St Peter & St Paul’s makes a wonderful backdrop to any service, especially a wedding service.
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The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of St. James are the 13th century south doorway and three-bay south arcade. Inside the church is a series of monuments to the Chauncey family. The oldest are to Toby Chauncey (died 1579) and William Chauncey (died 1585). They are followed by four monuments to 17th and 18th century members of the family carved by the Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack. St. James’ has a ring of four bells plus a sanctus bell.[8] The sanctus bell was cast in about 1500 by an unidentified bell-founder. Bartholomew Atton of Buckingham cast the oldest bell in the ring in 1592. His successor Robert Atton cast the tenor bell in 1623. Henry I Bagley of Chacombe ncast the third bell in 1660 and the treble bell in 1668. The ring is currently unringable.
St. James’ parish is a member of the Benefice of Culworth with Sulgrave and Thorpe Mandeville and Chipping Warden with Edgcote and Moreton Pinkney.
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Reading: Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations
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Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations
Stephanie Russo Carroll,
Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona; Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, US
Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear,
Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona; College of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Sociology, University of Arizona, US
Andrew Martinez
Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona, US
Data have become the new global currency, and a powerful force in making decisions and wielding power. As the world engages with open data, big data reuse, and data linkage, what do data-driven futures look like for communities plagued by data inequities? Indigenous data stakeholders and non-Indigenous allies have explored this question over the last three years in a series of meetings through the Research Data Alliance (RDA). Drawing on RDA and other gatherings, and a systematic scan of literature and practice, we consider possible answers to this question in the context of Indigenous peoples vis-á-vis two emerging concepts: Indigenous data sovereignty and Indigenous data governance. Specifically, we focus on the data challenges facing Native nations and the intersection of data, tribal sovereignty, and power. Indigenous data sovereignty is the right of each Native nation to govern the collection, ownership, and application of the tribe’s data. Native nations exercise Indigenous data sovereignty through the interrelated processes of Indigenous data governance and decolonizing data. This paper explores the implications of Indigenous data sovereignty and Indigenous data governance for Native nations and others. We argue for the repositioning of authority over Indigenous data back to Indigenous peoples. At the same time, we recognize that there are significant obstacles to rebuilding effective Indigenous data systems and the process will require resources, time, and partnerships among Native nations, other governments, and data agents.
Keywords: Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Indigenous Data Governance, Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, Data Sovereignty, Data Stewardship
How to Cite: Carroll, S.R., Rodriguez-Lonebear, D. and Martinez, A., 2019. Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations. Data Science Journal, 18(1), p.31. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-031
Accepted on 20 Jun 2019 Submitted on 01 Sep 2018
Data is synonymous with life in a modern society, including official national statistics, surveys, social media posts, lab results, shopping preferences, voter registrations, school enrollment, IP addresses, and the list continues. These data have become the new global currency, and a powerful force in making decisions and wielding power (IEAG 2014, The Economist 2017). As the world moves toward open data, big data reuse, and data linkage, what do data-driven futures look like for communities historically plagued by data inequities? This paper draws on strategies from Native nations in the United States and combines expertise honed through meetings at Research Data Alliance plenaries and elsewhere to answer this question in four main ways. First, we define key terms and explore the evolution of Indigenous peoples’ rights to Indigenous data sovereignty. Second, we extend the Indigenous data sovereignty conversation to Indigenous data governance. Third, we describe the relationship between decolonizing data, Indigenous data governance, and rebuilding Native nations. Fourth, we provide case studies of Indigenous data governance occurring at tribal and non-tribal entities. Finally, we conclude with recommendations to strengthen Indigenous data governance for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous entities.
Defining Key Terms
It is first necessary to describe the vastly diverse Indigenous peoples and communities to which we refer in this paper. While there are many definitions of Indigenous peoples, including those that have been imposed by non-Indigenous entities, one of the more universally accepted “working definitions” is stipulated in the United Nations’ Martinez Cobo Study:
“Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them. They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal system” (Martinez Cobo 1982).
Worldwide, there are over 370 million Indigenous peoples in over 90 countries representing more than 5,000 distinct cultures (United Nations 2009). This paper focuses specifically on the United States, where 5.2 million individuals self-identified as American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) alone or in combination with other races in the 2010 US Census (Norris et al. 2012). Individuals that reported AIAN heritage alone, known as the single race AIAN population, comprised 2.9 million people (49% of those that reported any AIAN heritage). In 2018, the United States government recognized 573 Native nations, 342 tribes in the lower 48 states with the remaining in Alaska (Federal Register 2019). A further 60 tribes have been recognized by state governments (National Conference of State Legislatures 2016). Many more Native nations and communities remain unrecognized by the settler colonial state, including those in the state of Hawai’i.
Indigenous Data
Data are not a foreign concept in the Indigenous world. Indigenous peoples “have always been data creators, data users, and data stewards. Data were and are embedded in Indigenous instructional practices and cultural principles” (NCAI 2018, p. 1). For example, many Indigenous knowledge systems were based on generations of data gathering through observation and experience that then informed Indigenous practices, protocols, and ways of interacting with other people and with the natural world. The translation of knowledge into data was similarly evident. Indigenous data were recorded in oral histories, stories, winter counts, calendar sticks, totem poles, and other instruments that stored information for the benefit of the entire community (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016).
Indigenous data systems center on interdependence, not the acquisition of individual knowledge. While the acquisition and transmission of knowledge by individuals is necessary to support the collective base, Indigenous data systems rely on shared responsibilities to ensure that Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing are transmitted from one generation to the next. Within this context, knowledge belongs to the collective and is fundamental to who Indigenous nations are as peoples. Similarly, data that inform Indigenous ways of knowing are also collectively held. While individuals hold knowledge (stories, songs, knowledge of special relationships with the natural world), they have roles and responsibilities to the collective to steward this knowledge (Cajete 2000).
We consider Indigenous data to be “any facts, knowledge, or information about a Native nation and its tribal citizens, lands, resources, cultures, and communities. Information ranging from demographic profiles, to educational attainment rates, maps of sacred lands, songs, and social media activities,” (Rainie et al. 2017b, p. 1) among others. Indigenous data comprise information and knowledge about our environments, tribal citizens and community members, and our cultures, communities, and interests (Nickerson 2017). The definition encompasses both collective and individual level data. It also highlights that the concrete boundaries between data, information, and knowledge as defined in Western contexts are more fluid in an Indigenous context; Indigenous data extend far beyond bits and bytes (De Beer 2016) and have implications for the governance of both data born digital and that which emerges from knowledge, lanugae, and information.
Data Dependency
The legacy of colonialism remains a central organizing force in Indigenous-settler relations across the world. In the United States, this legacy is evident in the demarcation of reservation lands, long-standing economic inequality, vast environmental violations, and persistent Indigenous health disparities, among numerous other measures (Deloria and Lytle 1983). A less explored area is the role of data as a tool to marginalize Indigenous peoples, eradicate their ways of life, and rewrite their histories to advance the colonial project (Bruhn 2014). Throughout the Indigenous world, epistemicide, or the killing and co-optation of knowledge systems, has occurred and continues today (Sousa Santos 2007). Examples in the United States include, federal policies of assimilation, forced removal, relocation, residential schooling and other cultural ruptures that sought to erase Indigenous knowledge and forced many tribes to rely on external sources of information about their communities’ economic, environmental, and health status. The resultant state of data dependency for US Native nations is precipitated by such processes of colonization.
Data dependency is sustained through a paradox of scarcity and abundance: extensive data are collected about Indigenous peoples and nations, but rarely by or for Indigenous peoples’ and nations’ purposes (Walter 2018, United Nations 2018). Many of these data do not recognize or privilege Indigenous worldviews, or benefit Indigenous peoples (United Nations 2018). As a result, Indigenous data ecosystems are characterized by:
Inconsistent, inaccurate, and irrelevant data for Indigenous peoples;
External control and ownership of data;
Community mistrust of data resulting from exploitative research and policies;
Lack of external support for data infrastructure and capability; and,
Data that describe Indigenous peoples and lifeways through a deficit lens (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016, Rainie et al. 2017c, Kukutai and Taylor 2016, Walter 2016).
The suppression, usurpation, and co-optation of Indigenous knowledge systems perpetuates the data divide, furthering data dependency and maintaining the paradox of scarcity and abundance. Indigenous data sovereignty disrupts the current paradigm, offering a way forward to shift power dynamics and realize Indigenous goals and visions.
In mainstream usage, “data sovereignty is the concept that information which has been converted and stored in binary digital form is subject to the laws of the country in which it is located” (Rouse 2013). This definition focuses on geographic jurisdiction over digitized data. A nation-state’s laws control the digital data that is housed within its geographic boundaries. Indigenous data sovereignty extends beyond this mainstream definition. It is not limited by geographic jurisdiction or digital form.
“Indigenous data sovereignty is the right of Indigenous peoples and tribes to govern the collection, ownership, and application of their own data” (Rainie et al. 2017b). Further, it refers to all data gathered by the Native nation themselves or by other external data agents. “Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS) derives from the inherent right of Native nations to govern their peoples, lands, and resources” (NCAI 2018, p. 1). Some settler-colonial governments, particularly those in English settler societies, recognize the right of Indigenous peoples to govern via treaties and other legal mechanisms negotiated on a nation-to-nation basis with Native nations. The concept of IDS as a collective right also is positioned within an international Indigenous rights framework. IDS “accords with international declarations and covenants to which the United States has become a signatory, such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP),” (NCAI 2018, p. 2) specifically Articles 3, 4, 5, 15(i), 18, 19, 20(i), 23, 31, 32, 33, 38, and 42 (Davis 2016).
While the inherent right to exercise IDS extends to all Native nations in principle, the extent to which Indigenous peoples can exercise IDS is constrained by their position in the problematic settler colonial paradigm of recognition and acknowledgment. Therefore, IDS is a site of tension and opportunity that signals a departure from the mainstream construct of government recognition towards inherent sovereignty and self-determination.
The genesis of Indigenous data sovereignty lies in the traditions, roles, and responsibilities for the use of collectively held information (Kukutai and Taylor 2016). IDS aligns with the concept of peoplehood, which positions Indigenous peoples within a complex system of inter-relationships among sacred histories, ceremonial cycles, ancestral homelands, and continuously evolving cultural traditions and languages (Cajete 2000, Holm et al. 2003). Peoplehood also underscores Indigenous nations’ inherent responsibilities to the system of inter-relationships, to the natural world, and to their peoples. Through this communal lens, Indigenous peoples conceptualize IDS not only as a right, but also as a responsibility.
Unlike racial or ethnic groups, Indigenous peoples and nations are political entities with rights and interests in data about their peoples, lands, and resources (Banerjee 2003, United Nations 2018, Rainie et al. 2019). The status as political entities is the fundamental difference in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and nations with Indigenous data, and other racial and ethnic groups’ relationships with data about their populations and peoples. As IDS asserts Indigenous nations as rightsholders of their data, it challenges dominant data discourses, articulating power and colonial dynamics within data agendas that apply outside Indigenous contexts (Rainie et al. 2019).
Indigenous Data Governance
Now, we explore Native nation governance and its relationship to IDS. Governance of data is an extension of the rights and practices that originate in the sovereignty of nation states. As sovereigns, governance of data in an Indigenous context is within the purview of tribal governments. However, positivist approaches to knowledge acquisition and dissemination often sustain and support the use of mainstream policy, research, and evaluation. Such privileging of Western science and other mainstream knowledge systems favors current power dynamics, maintaining the paradox of data scarcity and abundance and perpetuating data dependency. IDS deliberately repositions control of data back to Indigenous peoples. It is at the center of a growing global movement created, nurtured, and designed to be Indigenous led (Kukutai and Taylor 2016). IDS challenges the power dynamic inherent in Western data systems that continue to disenfranchise Native knowledge systems and Indigenous people, providing space for the data governance that reflects Indigenous nations’ voices, values, and vision (United Nations 2018). Thus, overcoming data dependency requires acknowledging tribal sovereignty and supporting Indigenous data governance, and making changes across the data ecosystem to data processes, ownership, access, and control.
Through a western lens, governance can be defined as “the system of values, policies and institutions by which a society manages its economic, political and social affairs through interactions within and among the state, civil society and private sector. It is the way a society organizes itself to make and implement decisions” (United Nations Development Programme 2011). Governments are the structures that carry out these functions, which include tribal governments. In the United States, tribes are sovereign nations. Each tribe has its own government that makes and enforces laws and policies. Tribal governance structures vary from theocracies to chiefdoms to tripartite systems akin to Western governance models (Duthu 2008). We acknowledge that Indigenous governance systems vary across global contexts. However, the destructive impacts of colonization on governance infrastructure and leadership mechanisms are universal. As such, there is value beyond US context in understanding the intersection of governance and data sovereignty.
Indigenous governance systems have been undergoing processes of reclamation of self-rule and increased self-determination over the last fifty years. This movement has been referred to as Native nation rebuilding (Jorgensen 2007). It occurs as tribes ‘enhance their foundational capacity’ to make and implement strategic decisions about their own affairs. It is a comprehensive effort to rebuild Indigenous societies that work on Indigenous nations’ terms in the continued wake of colonization. This includes political, economic, social, and cultural development that requires accurate and relevant tribal data (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016, Kukutai and Taylor 2016, Rainie et al. 2017c, United Nations 2018). We argue that the core of a nation’s ‘foundational capacity’ must include strong tribal data systems.
Indigenous data sovereignty is an aspiration to be achieved through data governance (see Figure 1). Native nations exercise IDS through the interrelated processes of Indigenous data governance and decolonizing data. Decolonizing data occurs as Indigenous nations and other data agents replace external, non-Indigenous norms and priorities with Indigenous systems that define data, and inform how it is collected and used. It results in findings—derived both from Indigenous data collected externally and from internal data produced by Indigenous nations—that reflect the understandings of those peoples. Indigenous data governance is the act of harnessing tribal cultures, values, principles, and mechanisms—Indigenous ways of knowing and doing—and applying them to the management and control of an Indigenous nation’s data ecosystem (Rainie et al. 2017b, Walter et al. 2018). “Indigenous data governance is decision making. It is the power to decide how and when Indigenous data are gathered, analysed, accessed and used” (Walter et al. 2018, p. 3).
Reclaiming Indigenous Data Sovereignty Through Indigenous Data Governance and Decolonizing Data.
The processes of decolonizing data and reclaiming Indigenous data governance seen in Figure 1 are not linear nor are they purely parallel. As technology advances, data are decolonized, new data are created, and changes in tribal government activities occur, the process will continue to evolve and the need for new Indigenous mechanisms of data governance that honor and protect data arise. This process of decolonizing data and the mechanisms of Indigenous data governance will be continuously revisited, revised, and remembered (in the case of traditional cultural methods of data governance). The extent to which Indigenous nations are engaging in these processes varies as we describe later in the paper.
Data Governance and Nation Rebuilding
Like other nation states, tribal governments carry out the multitude of tasks that comprise governance (Cornell et al. 2004). Key among these tasks is making decisions about one’s citizens, communities, and resources; doing so requires data. Indigenous data sovereignty epitomizes the connections among Indigenous data, data governance, and Native nation rebuilding (see Figure 2) (Rainie et al. 2017b). Tribes need accurate, relevant, and timely data for policy and decision-making; that is, data for governance (Smith 2016). Tribes also need mechanisms to honor, protect, and control their information both internally and externally; that is, governance of data. As tribes rebuild their governance institutions, they increase their capability to govern their data, which in turn, facilitates stronger evidence-based decision-making. Indigenous data governance can thus be described as a reciprocal relationship between data for governance and governance of data. The first is a matter of quality, relevance, and access: can Native nations obtain the data they need for governance? The second is a matter of ownership and control: can Native nations manage, protect, and use that data? Tribal sovereignty and IDS sit at the center of this relationship.
Data and Governance: The Interdependence of Nation Rebuilding and Data Rebuilding.
Data for Governance
Data for governance is a central need and, therefore, investment of most nation states. In the United States, for example, the decennial census is arguably the premier source of data for governance among federal, state, and local governments. The US Census is the largest peacetime mobilization that the government undertakes (Thompson 2015). The data generated from this $13 billion operation are used to, among other things, calculate political apportionment, disperse billions of dollars in federal funding, and plan the nation’s economic and social development portfolios.
Data for governance raises the question: what data do nations need to govern effectively? Often, the data to which tribes have access are not relevant nor accurate for their governance needs (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016, Rainie et al. 2017c). For example, the US Census notoriously undercounts American Indian and Alaska Native peoples, particularly those living on tribal lands (Lujan 2014). American Indians and Alaska Native peoples experienced the highest undercount (4.9%) of any racial or ethnic population in the 2010 Census (US Census 2012). Further, the US Census captures self-identification, which is not the same thing as tribal citizenship. As nations and polities, tribes have defined citizenship criteria. Not all people who self-identify as American Indian or Alaska Native are citizens of a tribe. Thus, the value of the US Census as an accurate and relevant count of tribal populations for Native nation governance is questionable.
A population census is not the only source of data for governance. Administrative data collected through routine government interactions, including voting, obtaining a driver’s license, paying taxes, and accessing federal services are another powerful source for governance, as are survey and other research data. However, equal access to these data and linkage with existing data held by Native nations are not guaranteed. Native nations do not have ready access to the data collected by external agents about their citizens, lands, and resources (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016, Rainie et al. 2017c, Walter 2016). Disparate access is compounded by the limited capability of many Native nations to build their own data systems that support governance. The underlying power structures enabling or inhibiting data development, data legitimization, and data access leads us to the importance of governance of data.
Governance of Data
The mainstream discussion of data governance, to date, has largely encompassed corporate data governance, where data governance serves corporate goals of efficiency and profit (Khatri and Brown 2010). Public entities have reconfigured corporate data governance to reflect their values—policy and service improvements, cost reduction, and ensuring and easing compliance (Bruhn 2014). Data governance in the Indigenous world, however, serves a different set of goals. IDG is about the people—arguably a nation’s most valuable resource—and purpose. In addition to governing data with the intent to use the data for decision-making, Indigenous peoples’ steward data in order to protect their cultural knowledge and sustain their way of life for past, present, and future generations (Smith 2016). Therefore, instead of aligning with corporate values, IDG aligns with Indigenous communities’ core values; reciprocity and stewardship are higher priority than efficiency and economic growth.
Within Indigenous data governance efforts, the control of data plays a critical role in exercising IDS. Opportunities exist along a spectrum of data governance models in which tribes can exert increasing levels of control: 1) zero to low control in data commons scenarios, such as open data sets required by federal funders; 2) equal control in partnerships; and 3) full control over proprietary data, such as tribal enrollment records (Bruhn 2014).
While tribes may ultimately have little control over data generated by large corporations who wield data hierarchies (e.g., Facebook, Amazon), they can strive to exert control in scenarios where no or low control might have been presumed. For instance, the National Institutes of Health (2014) requires all genomic data generated by NIH funded research projects to be deidentified and submitted for inclusion in a secondary data set. However, if tribal laws or policies require a tribe to retain ownership of all data generated by research projects, then tribes can request to have those data exempted from broad data sharing, including submission to federal secondary databases. This is a clear example how tribal control of data via Indigenous data governance mechanisms—tribal laws and policies regarding data—can influence the way others (e.g., researchers and the federal government) interact with tribal data.
Open data, big data, and broad data sharing all create challenges to Indigenous nations’ control of their data ecosystems. These data trends and others sit at the nexus of issues around colonization, bias, and lack of knowledge about Indigenous rights. Data communities often view these challenges in binaries: data are open or not, data are useful or not, and data are included in data sets or not. For Indigenous peoples, the risks and benefits exist at both ends of the binary. If Indigenous data are not included in large datasets, such as genomics metadata, then Indigenous peoples will be invisible and may not realize the benefits of emerging health technologies and advances. On the other hand, if data about Indigenous peoples in big data and open data are used without guiding rights and interests frameworks, Indigenous peoples risk representation that reflects the bias in existing data ecosystems. IDS as operationalized through IDG provides a framework and mechanisms for protecting Indigenous rights with respect to data and promoting ethical use of data for development according to Indigenous values and interests. Solutions require engagement with Indigenous peoples and the use of IDG principles by others when stewarding Indigenous data (Smith 2016, Rainie et al. 2019, Garrison et al. 2019).
Tribal data governance faces challenges other than control. Indigenous nations encounter data capability, capacity, and funding shortfalls, resulting in limited resources for governing data. Such resource constraints complicate tribal decisions about data governance, including what data to control, whether to exert authority over that data, how to manage and protect the data, and how to use it. However, evaluating the likelihood of gaining control over the data, the sensitivity of the data, and the accessibility of data can assist tribes in deciding when to utilize limited resources in order to govern data (Hudson et al. 2018). For example, the Māori Te Mana o te Raraunga Framework from Aotearoa/New Zealand provides a guide for determining data governance methods and levels of control/accessibility in order to ensure trusted use of secondary data (Hudson et al. 2018). Data determined as highly sensitive via this framework require active approaches to data governance through Māori control of data or partnerships with Māori to control data; moderately sensitive data might demand less active data governance and looser control such as consultation with or notification of Māori when data are used. Further, Māori may choose low or no control data governance mechanisms such as data commons or open data for data that are deemed not sensitive.
Relationships are also at the core of IDG (Smith 2016). Indigenous peoples and nations are more than mere stakeholders (Banerjee 2003); as sovereign polities, they are rightsholders with the right to govern data about their peoples, lands, and resources, choosing what when, how, and how much control to exert. That right is the fundamental difference in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous stakeholders with regard to Indigenous data (Banerjee 2003, Rainie et al. 2019).
IDG has implications for how tribes internally govern their data and their influence over how others steward data about tribes, their peoples, lands, and resources. Exercising the right to IDS and implementing effective IDG occurs within a larger data ecosystem in which other governments, corporations, and entities also control tribes’ data. Many Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations steward Indigenous nations’ data. Indigenous stakeholders include Indigenous-led or serving organizations and IDS networks. For example, Indigenous organizations such as urban Indigenous organizations and other Native-serving nonprofits collect and store data about their participants. Non-Indigenous stakeholders include nation-states and other governments, researchers, and NGOs. Stakeholders have interests in Indigenous data and at times govern or steward Indigenous data, but they do not have the inherent sovereign right to govern and choose when and how to control that data. Tribes establishing and maintaining relationships with these stakeholders is a critical aspect of IDG. IDS also necessitates these stakeholders to incorporate tribal principles into their own data governance practices.
Strategies for Indigenous Data Governance
In the continuous pursuit of Indigenous data sovereignty, Native nations are actively moving away from data dependency—the state of depending on other entities to provide data about the tribe and its peoples, communities, and resources (see Figure 1). Existing research has demonstrated that positive outcomes are evident in the cases where repositioning Indigenous control over data, knowledge, and information has occurred (Rainie et al. 2017c, Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016, Berry 2009, Champagne 2012, Cornell and Kalt 2007, Cross et al. 2004, Edwards et al. 2009, Galloway 1995, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development 2006, Krepps and Caves 1994, Wakeling et al. 2001). Strategies to reclaim and decolonize tribal data systems include, rebuilding community trust in research, improving data accuracy and quality, promoting Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies, developing local capability, supporting self-determination, and producing meaningful and relevant data for decision making (Rainie et al. 2017c). Next, we share results of a systematic search of Indigenous data governance strategies and efforts that Native Nations and others in the US are undertaking as they exercise IDS and decolonize data.
Tribal Case Studies
Within the last five years, there has been increased awareness of IDS and a growing number of tribes exercising IDG (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016, Rainie et al. 2017c, NCAIPRC 2017, NCAI 2018). The recent interest may be associated with growth in funding for data intensive projects, particularly in the age of big data and open data. So too could it correspond with an increased demand for better data as voiced by tribal leaders, Indigenous researchers, and community stakeholders (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016, Rainie et al. 2017c). Tribes have also sought data that align with their values and vision, such as empowering families and improving health and wellbeing. To facilitate these pursuits, many tribes have either developed or adapted data governance mechanisms. In this section, we present the efforts of several tribes that engaged in tribal data governance. We also examine specific mechanisms that influence the governance and stewardship of Indigenous data by Native nations and non-Indigenous entities.
National Congress of American Indians Tribal Data Capacity Project
In 2014, the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center coordinated a pilot project to build tribal data capacity with five tribes across the country (NCAIPRC, 2017). Each tribe undertook a unique data project that supported their governance efforts. These projects included tribal population censuses, a “data gap” needs assessment, and a tribal version of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System household survey. The key recommendations from these five tribal data projects, as reported by the National Congress of American Indians, primarily target the federal government: more federal investment to support tribal data collection, analysis, and management; tribal authority to integrate federal program funds for comprehensive and streamlined data collection and management efforts; partnerships between federal agencies and tribes to achieve shared data aims; and intertribal forums to encourage the exchange of tribal data best practices. In addition to these overall recommendations, the governance mechanisms that these tribal nations deployed to successfully complete their projects are critical to examine as tribal nations increasingly turn to each other for guidance to advance IDS.
For example, the Pueblo of Laguna was the only tribe of the five to plan and execute their own census or survey (as opposed to hiring external consultants) (NCAIPRC, 2017). The Pueblo engaged in a unique partnership agreement with the University of New Mexico to develop a proprietary software program used by the tribe’s census enumerators. This is an example of an effective data governance mechanism that secures external expertise to develop cutting edge technology on tribal terms with tribal money (i.e. grant money obtained by the tribe) for tribal purposes. Their software was effective in achieving a high census response rate across their reservation. Notably, the software remains the property of the tribe and can be used for future data collections.
Swinomish Tribe Climate Change Initiative
The Swinomish Tribe in Washington illustrates another case of tribal data governance through their Swinomish Climate Change Initiative (Swinomish Climate Change Initiative undated, Donatuto et al. 2014). Since 2007, after a Proclamation by the Swinomish Indian Senate, the tribe has been studying the effects of climate change on their reservation. In 2014, the tribe engaged in a pilot study to evaluate climate change impacts along their shorelines and on the health of their people. The tribe examined key community health concerns and projected impacts to habitat and shoreline archaeological sites. By testing existing indicators of community health, they identified which ones were most relevant to their communities and proposed alternatives to the ones that were less relevant. In this case, the Swinomish tribe engaged in a formal partnership agreement with another Native nation, as well as with non-tribal researchers. This agreement and the decision-making processes and protocols that followed are effective governance mechanisms because both Native nations agreed that they retain complete ownership over their respective data and that data would not be used in analyses or released without prior review and approval by that tribe’s leadership. The tribes also are named as co-authors in all related publications (as opposed to an individual tribal leader or staff member), which is another means by which tribes can exercise control over the dissemination of research findings on their terms in academic and scientific fora.
Tribal Codes and Review: Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board
Tribal legislation and tribal research bodies, such as tribal institutional review boards, are governance mechanisms that wield some measure of influence over governance of Indigenous data. They do so by controlling access to research about tribal peoples, resources, and cultures, as well as by controlling research taking place on tribal lands. An example of an effective tribal research code is the Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board (NNHRRB). The Board has functioned to regulate, monitor, and control research within the Navajo Nation since 1996 (Navajo Nation 2009). A core element of the NNHRRB’s 12-step approval process is extensive engagement with community partners. Further, all data must be turned over to the Navajo Nation at the conclusion of the project.
Non-tribal Case Studies
While data governance by tribes for tribes is advancing across Indian Country, a less developed area of Indigenous data governance asks: how can Native nations influence external governance and stewardship of Indigenous data? Answering this question requires discussion at the intersection of IDG, western legal frameworks, and corporate systems of management.
One of the most compelling, albeit elusive, mechanisms is the law. Federal laws like the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Action of 1990 (NAGPRA) provide a strong legal mechanism requiring external institutions that receive federal funding to return possession and control of precious tribal data: cultural items, including human remains, funerary objects, and other sacred objects unlawfully obtained from Native American homelands. Penalties for non-compliance are steep—up to 12 months of prison time and a $100,000 fine. Since NAGPRA’s passage, nearly 60,000 individual human remains and over 1.7 million funerary objects have been repatriated to Indigenous communities (National Park Service 2018). By these accounts, NAGPRA is an effective data governance mechanism; yet NAGPRA took nearly twenty years to become law, and there have been few pieces of legislation since with the same sweeping mandate for compliance by non-Indigenous entities with respect to Indigenous data.
Guides and Guidelines
Other governance mechanisms are more administrative in nature, such as partnership agreements and the adoption of guiding principles and values, which are often catalyzed by an ethical impetus. For example, the School for Advanced Research developed a set of Museum and Community Collaboration Guidelines in partnership with Native and non-Native museum professionals, cultural leaders, and artists. The Guidelines offer principles for building successful collaborations between Indigenous communities and museums. Important considerations are addressed, such as following cultural protocols, being flexible, extending hospitality, ensuring appropriate compensation for expertise, and understanding that access to knowledge is not a universal right (The School for Advanced Research 2018). Similarly, the National Congress of American Indians (2012) developed a guide for doing research in tribal communities entitled, “Walk Softly, Listen Carefully: Building Research Relationships with Tribal Communities.” This guide can be considered a road map of diverse strategies for doing meaningful and responsible research with tribes. It includes a set of core values in conducting research with tribes: “Indigenous knowledge is valid and valued; culture is always a part of research and thus research cannot be culturally neutral; responsible stewardship includes the task of learning how to interpret and understand data and research; tribes must exercise sovereignty when conducting research and managing data; and research must benefit Native people” (NCAIPRC and MSUCNHP 2012, p. 10).
Urban, Inter Tribal, and Supra-tribal Cases
Indigenous organizations also have a critical role in promoting IDS and IDG. Located in metropolitan areas, embedded in Indian Country, or in key state or federal government hubs, Indigenous entities such as inter tribal organizations, urban Indian entities, and supra-tribal groups are uniquely positioned to advocate for IDG and IDS in spaces where external entities are often located.
Urban Indian Health Institute
Urban organizations serve citizens of Native nations in diaspora (in addition to numerous other populations), and thus share a degree of common constituency with tribes. The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) is an organization that actively partners with Native nations to decolonize data and improve health outcomes for American Indians and Alaska Natives living in metropolitan areas. UIHI’s Data Dashboard uses national surveillance data to visualize health disparities across a range of indicators (UIHI 2018). In addition to providing needed information on Urban Indians, the UIHI’s Data Dashboard is an example of a tool that Native Nations may wish to pursue to advance data governance at the tribal level.
Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center
The Albuquerque Indian Health Board’s Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center is an example of an entity decolonizing data and pursuing IDG partnerships between a non-profit and tribes. Guided by a board comprised of tribal leaders, the Center uses Indigenous quantitative methodologies aligned with IDS to develop Indigenous data collection instruments, support Native nations in improving data used to make funding decisions, and “serve as translators and intermediaries between community and non-Native partners” (Walter and Suina 2018).
Finally, in June 2018, the National Congress of American Indians, the largest tribal membership organization in the US, passed a resolution (KAN-18-011) in “Support of US Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Inclusion of Tribes in the Development of Tribal Data Governance Principles” (NCAI 2018). This is the first collective action and statement in the US to “support the efforts of tribes to exercise Indigenous data sovereignty and governance, the efforts to advocate for and provide research on Indigenous data sovereignty, and support the inclusion of tribes in the development of any broad principles of tribal data sovereignty and/or governance” (NCAI 2018, p. 1). The resolution sets the initial agenda for both pantribal and Native nation movement toward IDS via IDG.
International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Efforts
The international sharing of information and action around IDS is a critical pathway towards supporting IDG and decolonizing data. Such sharing requires a degree of goodwill and buy-in, especially for Indigenous peoples for whom the ‘sharing’ of data often looks much more like ‘taking” (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016). The sharing of ideas, actions, and best practices for reclaiming and decolonizing data is occurring in the United States and elsewhere, particularly in Canada and Australasia (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016; Rainie et al. 2017c, Kukutai and Taylor 2016, BCFNDGI 2018, FNIGC 2018, Nickerson 2018). However, it has not happened organically; rather, a persistent community of practice has been steering the course. The establishment of an Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group through the Research Data Alliance (RDA IDS Group; rd-alliance.org) has provided a mechanism for in-person sharing, interaction with mainstream data users, and expansion to other global geographies, which has proven to be most effective in this context.
Currently three nation-state based Indigenous data sovereignty networks exist: Te Mana Raraunga, the Māori Data Sovereignty Network in Aotearoa/New Zealand (temanararaunga.maori.nz) formed in late 2015; co-authors Stephanie Russo Carroll and Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear launched the United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (USIDSN; usindigenousdata.arizona.edu) in early 2016; and the Maiam nayri Wingara Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Sovereignty Collective in Australia (maiamnayriwingara.org) emerged in 2017. Similar initiatives are underway elsewhere, and the First Nations Information Governance Center in Canada has been a leading voice for the right of Indigenous peoples in relation to their data for over two decades (http://fnigc.ca/).
The USIDSN developed relationships with the RDA in 2016. Carroll convened an invited IDS workshop at the RDA Plenary at International Data Week, Denver, Colorado in 2016. The following year, Rodriguez-Lonebear was awarded an RDA Fellowship. Through the merging of connections leveraged through the USIDSN’s international relationships and with researchers at the RDA, the founders of the existing nation-state based networks joined to create the International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group at the Research Data Alliance (RDA IDS Group; rd-alliance.org). The group has convened at every RDA plenary since for a total of five RDA plenary sessions plus an International Data Week panel, which engaged over 100 participants. The RDA plenaries have facilitated the expansion of the IDS discussion beyond North America and Australasia to include Indigenous peoples in the Global South and Asia. In addition, the RDA IDS Group hosted a workshop at the RDA plenary at the International Data Week in Gaborne, Bostwana in late 2018. The workshop participants drafted broad, international principles for the governance of Indigenous data. The C.A.R.E. Principles of Indigenous Data Governance (collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, ethics) are intended for adoption and implementation by international research and policy organizations in addition to and alongside the FAIR Principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) (Wilkinson et al. 2016).
Recommendations to Strengthen Indigenous Data Governance
As these case studies demonstrate, Native nations are working toward Indigenous data sovereignty at various paces by implementing mechanisms of Indigenous data governance. In this process, tribes are developing principles of IDG, research protocols, research review boards, data sharing agreements, and data repositories. They also will continuously revisit, reuse, and revise these mechanisms, and others employed over millennia, to better achieve their goals. As the development of data governance principles and mechanisms expands, so too will opportunities for strengthening nation-to-nation relationships between Native nations and other governments, and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders.
The following set of recommendations for the continued development of IDS and IDG is the product of two years of rightsholder and stakeholder engagement through the USIDSN and RDA. Rightsholders included tribes and Indigenous nations internationally. Stakeholders included Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, policy makers, data users, tribal leaders, and community activists. Specifically, we employed qualitative methods to analyze participant observation data from 27 gatherings in the United States and at RDA plenaries. Data included input on mechanisms for data governance, tribal data governance opportunities and challenges, and other stakeholders’ roles in bolstering tribal data governance efforts. Table 1 highlights recommendations. Tribal rightsholders must be involved in every recommended. To ensure equitable and beneficial outcomes, Indigenous peoples must have a decision-making role as policies, principles, and strategies are developed and when IDG mechanisms and infrastructure are established and implemented. Table 1 also illustrates how recommended actions are not the sole purview of Indigenous peoples. Non-Indigenous entities also have a role in some of these efforts.
Means of Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance via Responsible Actors.
Tribal Rightsholders
Develop tribe-specific data governance principles
Develop tribe-specific data governance policies and procedures
Generate resources for Indigenous data governance by tribes
Acknowledge Indigenous data sovereignty as a global objective
Build an Indigenous data sovereignty framework that specifies the relationships among data processes such as collection, storage, and analysis.
Create intertribal institutions dedicated to data leadership and building data infrastructure and support for tribes
Develop mechanisms to facilitate effective Indigenous data governance
Establish data governance mechanisms that non-tribal governments, organizations, corporations, and researchers can use to support Indigenous data sovereignty
Explore the complexities of individual and collective rights in relation to Indigenous data sovereignty
Explore the relationships among ethics, law, data governance in relation to Indigenous data sovereignty
Grow financial investment in Indigenous data infrastructure and capability
Identify common principles of Indigenous data governance
Incorporate Indigenous data sovereignty rights into all rightsholders’ and stakeholders’ data policies
Promote adoption and implementation of common principles of Indigenous data governance by tribes, governments, organizations, corporations, and researchers within the United States
Recruit and Invest in data warriors (Indigenous professionals and community members who are skilled at creating, collecting, and managing data)
Share strategies, resources, and best practices
Strengthen domestic and international Indigenous data sovereignty and Indigenous data governance connections among Native nations and Indigenous peoples
Tribal rightsholders can decide their level of engagement with every recommendation based on cultural fit, vision, capacity, and resources. As tribal resources and capacity grow, so could the degree of engagement. There are also identified areas of overlap where involvement from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders is beneficial. For example, every Indigenous nation has established cultural protocols around songs, stories, and ceremonies, regardless of whether those protocols have been codified into contemporary law. Those protocols should be communicated and honored by all parties. These recommendations are meant to serve as a starting point. It should be noted that this is not an exhaustive list, and it will continue to grow as rightsholders and stakeholders develop and implement their IDG frameworks.
This list of recommendations is nonlinear; it is not meant to be a step-by-step process. Every Native nation engages with these issues to some degree, and there is no wrong place to begin nor any wrong place to focus attention and resources. Some Native nations have identified specific areas to advance internally within the tribe, and they have deployed their resources accordingly. Other Native nations have chosen to partner with external Indigenous or non-Indigenous stakeholders to identify potential funding sources, develop their capacity, and build their IDG framework.
Reclaiming Indigenous data sovereignty is a journey, not a destination. The journey will look different for each Native Nation as they identify their respective data needs and then determine how they can best meet those needs. Tribes will use many different mechanisms on their journey, just like one may take different modes of transportation, double back, and pick up various passengers along the way. Central to Indigenous data sovereignty, however, is that Native Nations always remain in the driver’s seat. Indigenous data governance and Indigenous data sovereignty are integral to rebuilding strong Native Nations. As tribes grow their data systems and expand their reach to external entities, financial support and technical expertise become even more critical to the mission. Without investment in people and infrastructure, Indigenous data governance is unlikely to be fully realized. This brings us back to the value of people and relationships. At its core, practicing Indigenous data governance is about being a good ancestor, partnering with other data stewards, and ensuring data-driven futures by Indigenous peoples for Indigenous peoples.
Operationalizing the recommendations requires investments by tribes, other governments, foundations, and other funders to support tribes in growing their own data capacity and capability, including hard infrastructure (e.g., servers) and soft infrastrucure (e.g., people and networks); codes, policies, and procedures; and strengthening relationships toward Indigenous led data governance. Next steps include the release of the C.A.R.E. Principles of Indigenous Data Governance, increased regional and issue-focused meetings to advance the Indigneous data governance agenda in the US, and the creation of US-based principles of Indigeous data governance.
Finally, and most importantly, approaches to enhance Indigenous data governance must recognize and promote sovereignty; lead with Indigenous core values; include dialogue comprised of multiple ways of knowing; utilize and support exiting tribal data governance protocols and procedures; engage and promote Indigenous scholarship; and conduct data science in service to communities. Fundamentally, enhancing Indigenous data governance efforts toward Indigenous data sovereignty require a commitment to changing the current power dynamics in open data, big data, data systems, and data science. We must make the invisible, visible by including and listening to Indigenous peoples and nations in data decisions and discussions that affect them, such as federal advisory committees, data science principles implementations (e.g., FAIR), and the creation of policies for open data, open science, and secondary data use.
This paper began as two policy briefs: Rainie et al. 2017a, Rainie et al. 2017b. The authors gratefully acknowledge the tribal leaders, scholars, and others who particpated in the Indigneous data sovereignty gatherings in the US and at the Research Data Alliance. Also, thank you to the US Indigenous Data Sovereingty Network, the Te Mana Raraunga Māori Data Sovereignty Network, and the Miaim nayri Wingara Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Data Sovereignty Collective. We acknowledge the Indigenous leaders and scholars at the heart of the Indigenous datas sovereingty efforts in the US and internationally. The authors gratefully acknowledge the the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation for their financial support. This paper uses Indigenous nation, Native nation, and tribe interchangeably to refer to sovereign, political collectives of Indigenous peoples.
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Writings On Mormon Studies
Interviews With Myself: Parts Five, Six, and Seven
How To Write a Correlated History
What is a Mormon, From an Anthropologist’s Perspective
Below you’ll find an Older Essay written for MainStreetPlaza
The Bananality of Mormon Studies: A Personal Encounter
T’other day: during a jaunt through a simmering intellectual salon called Facebook, I learned that by adding a flavored pudding mix to one’s banana-bread dough, why, the resultant increase in relative moisture renders the final product altogether de-light-ful. Here I too strive by way of personal anecdote and even cultural analysis to add something like that secret pudding mix secret to the banana bread that has become Mormon Studies; or is it reversed? To the Mormon Studies that has become so much banana bread, I mean to say, I hope to mix insight into how it has become rather moister of late, and not, you see, because some priest has cast it upon the waters. Anyway.
Now, that metaphor has some leftover utility, just like spotted bananas my kids sneer at, unless concealed by cake. What should we do with all these belearned Mormons, many with post-graduate education, and many more graduates of professional schools, eager to learn lesser educated Saints how to acquire the baubles of intellect and without concealing the garish flair of faith. These green bananas, let’s say. Become a Mormon Scholar! Or, a Mormon who studies Mormons and or Mormonism, historicosociologotheologiphilosophically speaking. Grow one’s Faith, and even get published was the basic premise when it all started.
The vast majority of practitioners of Mormon Study are amateurs, I mean to say. Green. And what of it, elitist schmuck, is not this the Age of the Amateur? Indeed. Having devoted the better part of my adult years to the actual study of Mormon culture, language, and history, having even got a PhD for my troubles, from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, let me explain why the Amateur is, in fact, an agent of the Correlated Fruit Company, otherwise called the Corporation. Some call it, wrongly, The Church.
A personal account, then. Before nightly slaving away on the index of my dissertation, I was by day employed to conduct media research for a subsidiary of the Corporation, for the Presiding Bishop, the CPB for those in the know. I worked at the COB, the Church Office Building. I was to assess the cultural and spiritual effects of media produced in the Audiovisual Department. Sounds exciting, I know, but peel back the peel. It was a miserable job, in no small part because I was warned never to do any actual work (or that’s how I recall it now), and before I was “laid off” in December of that year I was creating online surveys that measured the impact of a training film designed to teach Temple Engineers how to check the batteries on smoke alarms. Really.
So, I ended up teaching college for a few years. Then I became a convenient plug for gaps in the departmental budget. Removing me, that is. Yet, while Visiting Assistant Professor I managed to knock out not only a draft of a book about the way grammar shapes speculative imagination, but also got several chapters deep into a novel concerning an 1880s polygamist baseball club in Utah Territory. And I wrote what eventually was titled The Book of Mammon.
Again finding myself unemployed, I dutifully twisted the work into something utterly unpublishable, unning man and book alike. Sent the manuscript to a Mormon publisher, just to be sure no one would indeed ever publish it (or read it, if published). Thanks but no thanks. I sent the MS to a few friends, and some rather liked it. Having recently dealt with another editor at a quasi-academic press who suggested I “play up the coltishness of the religion” (I doubt “colt” was a pun), and another copy editor who changed an academic essay to read “antipolygame” where I apparently misspelled “anti-polygamy,” why, I bethought myself, who needs these guys? So I decided to … wait, pretend you’re a bishop in the Church of Academia, OK? I decided to publish the book. Myself. It feels good to confess that sin. I illustrated it, designed the cover, and so on. Called it an “independently published book” in hopes that it might borrow something of the cachet of independent film.
Copies were sent to prominent persons of high rank in Mormon Studies Circles. Some held high seats in Bloggernacledom. One replied that though it was fucking brilliant, I had written a book that should never be published. Professional suicide was kindly given and probably fair prognostication. Others ignored it. One threatened to quit a particular blog if a review ran. An undergraduate said it was full of hubris. A legitimate scholar wrote a review, or rather, a “review” that warned, though I am an Angry Man, and it an Angry Book, Mormons should give me an ear nonetheless. This reviewer forgot to mention that the book was about the culture and recent history of the Church Office Building, where I also worked; but that theme was, I suppose, an oblique sentiment silenced by throbbing invective. A friend with rather better social skills proposed the review not be posted, anywhere. MSM bore similar non-fruits. Mammon was, of course, rejected as altogether unsuitable for discussion at the liberal Salt Lake Tribune, on Utah Public Radio stations, and other media outlets apparently uninterested in the corporate side of Mormonism. I mean, who cares what really goes on in the headquarters of the religion of the majority of Utahns? Here the bananas took on a distinctly yeller, or maybe just jaundiced, cast.
Andrew Ainsworth at Mormonstories.com kindly interviewed me for four hours, and MSP also posted an interview. Then, the big break. The portal keeper at Patheos.com invited me to submit an essay, “off-the-cuff and not too academic,” scrying the Future of Correlation. It was for their upcoming Future of Mormonism series, and as I had a (apparently unread) dissertation on the history of Correlation, I was deemed both faithful and credentialed. The essay was sent on a Friday at deadline, its author hoping the Portal Keeper would post it without a glance. I heard nothing other than thanks, and waited until Monday for it to post. Would they really post an essay that suggested the LDS Church would become virtual religion, its Prophet updating His Facebook Status to read Prophesying? The Editor, Supervisor of the Keeper, suggested that day I revise the essay because it was too oblique, and perhaps a bit sly for the presumed readers. Revised, dumbed down, lamed up, altogether crippled of humor, the revised essay was marched out. Much more in line with the others, Editor replied, great work, just a little copy-editing. Next day I was told the essay was too much an angry one-sided rant, its tone not at all in key if it was to sing with the choir there. So I revised, counseled the work, twelve-stepped it, resubmitted. Nothing. Perhaps, I replied, you might indicate the offending passages? No. Perhaps the employment of the Portal Keeper as a half-educated Priestcrafter in the Church Education System has something to do with the sudden turn to “tone” as the essay’s irresolveable and unspeakable problem? Editor replied that s/he knew not of what I spoke. I sent a link to the CES catalogue wherein Brother Keeper was listed as teaching Book of Mormon this fall at the local institute. That was the end of our dialogue. Perhaps the author’s bio was finally glanced at, and Mammon was noticed. The banana had shown its spots.
So? In the essay about “The Future” I suggested that online venues not directly funded by the Corporation’s widows’ mites would increasingly self-Correlate; that is, conduct discursive surveillance and patrol the borders of the sayable. Why? Correlation is a term for a genre whose contours shift, and thus whose “pragmatics” as we say in anthropology, whose social effects, are measured in practical ways every Sunday, every home teaching, every FHE. What is appropriate is vaguely defined, and that means those with cultural power get to say what is Correlated; failing that, what is not offensive to one’s neighbor, real or imagined, can be the measuring stick of Correlated.
What can be said about Correlation is also likened unto the phrase Mormon Studies. It has no definition; it has only defenders of an undefined ideal. An ideal even more dependent on uses of language, under assault by imagined enemies: Anti-Mormons, and The Overly Faithful (TBMs?). All three are merely projections, stereotypes, from discursive acts disseminated by identifiable outlets (e.g., ULHM, Deseret Book, Dialogue), and in the future I hope to read an excellent dissertation on their interdependent development. Each genre offers medicines for venal diseases contracted when one’s mind lingered too long in a dark alley, the back pew, or some frottageal dorm. Each genre of Mormon discourse seems to engender more disbelievers in, than converts to, its cause.
Thus further self-correlation is prescribed, and reactions emerge.
Mormon Studies is something like a half yellow, half green, prematurely spotted banana, when unpeeled reveals bruising enough to inedible but to the desperatest of apes; or to be no banana at all, but something merely bananal. It is the ape of academia, the hooting jackanapes of the Corporation, and the jack-in-the-box of the AntiMormon. Verily witness the trinity, three in one, one in three. A mystery, without shape or form, passions or art. Like “The Church,” a name tossed about but which in practice names nothing tangible; only a way that is neither straight nor narrow, but curved and yellow, not forever durable but rather set to expire three days from the date of purchase. These are slogans. Tweet away.
I mean to say this: The name “Mormon Studies” apes on Cultural Studies, but does so without the architecture of its better angel. There are no tenured professors to train the next generation, rigorously but fairly in the ways of serious analysis, research, and writing. What of the much ballyhooed Chairs in Mormon Studies, or Masters Programs? Chairs are the enemy of Mormon Studies, for Chairs are given to professors preferred by benefactors; the market holds sway there. Without the protection of tenure, and a funding source independent of the subject studied by the Chaired, such positions are to Mormon Studies what Swiftboat Veterans For Truth are to documentary film. Masters Programs without terminal doctoral degrees are akin to banana trees genetically modified to bear no fruit. Look good in a greenhouse, but don’t punch the ol’ meal ticket.
So Mormon Studiers have three options. First, cozening by the Corporation. Need I even say this option merely extends the work of Correlation already done freely by so many bloggers, editors, and essayists? Seekers after COB should sign up with CES and be done with it. There can be no middle ground where God is thought to punch in and hold conference calls; get in line or get out of the way, a social key easy to carry about in such places.
Second, part-timering the Mormon scholarship while buttering one’s bread with serious work in other fields: lawyering, selling, knitting, whatever. This is often good enough for God, as Book of Mormon prophets, at least, ate bread earned by sweat rather than got by taxation. But. Half of one’s heart being given to a work grows only half-hearted work; no matter how many late nights and early mornings one devotes, it generally remains a hobby. Perhaps one blogs while pursuing degrees in some distantly related fields or paying occupations, attends or even presents at some conference that is not General but nevertheless faith-promoting. The damage done by hobbyists can be seen at the MHA, for example. Tiny obsessions, perhaps one’s great-granddaddy’s milch cow versifications, are allowed so long as they do not disturb The Narrative chanted by the Church History Department and its echoers. Sure, a little controversy is required, but nothing that would question the basic purity of the journal, the conference, or the blog. Hobbyists believe that sincerity, pluck and pure determination supplement a lack of training, earned craftsmanship, and the need for total sacrifice to the discipline. Thus Correlation emerges while hobbyists remain, content to lead lesser Weekenders.
Third, attempting to write serious scholarship with an eye single to Mormonism. Sound promising? Give D. Michael Quinn, no meager scholar, a call. I was asked by a dean during a job interview if I was a Mormon; he being Evangelical noted certain facts on my CV. I was told by a colleague too, that if I only downplayed my research on Mormonism, my attendance at the U of Utah, my last name, I would be on the tenure track. Despite millions spent on PR, Mormons remain a most despised religious group, equally so on the Left and the Right hand. We should content ourselves with the knowledge that the Spirit of Contention flees when these opposed parties slander Mormons. Replace the word “Mormon” where it occurs in daily conversations around the nation’s campuses and offices with the word “Jew” and one has grounds for censure. Otherwise, chortles ensue.
If you can convince academia that Mormons are legitimate subjects for study, and that you can do it without preaching or cryptoconverting, you are a better scholar-actor than I. Or you are clearly not Mormon, say, B. Carmen Hardy, one of the few outsiders who doesn’t try to write as an insider (Jan Shipps, anyone?) and who also does brilliant work. If you can convince the Utah State Legislature that your proposed major leading to advanced degrees in Mormon Studies is worth funding, despite the subject-independent stances necessarily taken by your students, your program is already DOA when it comes to respected scholarship. Outside Utah all of Utah is Mormon, and that means rejection letters. Your graduates will adjunct in your department.
There are no options, I mean to say, for Mormon Studies. It’s a genre, not a discipline. Mormon Studies is now the ghetto of Correlation, for it is cheaply built (relative to the Corporation’s expenses) and far away, and not offensive enough for a pogrom. It is often an auxiliary of the Public Relations Department, and getting at the Truth is not really in their job description. Just like the word “The Church,” or Correlation, it too has no single referent. Thus it gains sense only as a tool: to slap with, to lament its impotency, hardly visible but when extending already existing Powers. It is a word for Unofficially Correlated, for Hobby, for Woefully Naïve, and the reasons are obvious. The only groups with real interest, that is, interest enough to pony up for scholarship, are the Antis and the Corporation (and subsidiaries like BYU). They have interests in the conclusions reached, they imagine converts come from your pens. Mormon Studies is a word for not-quite-passionate-enough to be Anti, not quite self-referential enough to be faith-promoting. So, what’s the point, you might be asking? Not about this essay, I assume that was asked some time ago, but the point of Mormon Studies?
Bananas pair well with milk, but never with meat. Another slogan, perhaps, but there’s religion for ye. The point of Mormon Studies? Just as the phrase refers to many distinct discursive practices, the purposes are likewise varied. To create a “faith” that seems free of official propaganda, or a “community” where the “mind” is valued, in short, to design a falsely secular solution to spiritual malaise; to change the course of the Church, that is, until one gets a Red and High Seat; to enrich the gospel with unofficial resources (“Hegel, Whitehead, or Peirce, anyone?”) that are all too easy to Correlate; to write a navel-gazing thesis; to be a big fish in a small pond (“Given this, let me mention Bakhtin/Kant/Foucault, but not face any terrifying thoughts”); to revise our History in the image of the Present (Kathleen Flake’s inconceivably championed pamphlet on the Smoot hearings and train rides thereabout provides plenty of evidence contradictory to its “thesis,” and even captions a photograph of the Joseph Smith Memorial as, ironically, raised to the memory of “Joseph F. Smith” (pictured, no less; see p.113).
What can be the effect of Mormon Studies? Until a generation of tenured scholars cranks out research read by students in the discipline, and then by “natives” who may squirm, and journals and Chairs are independent of benefactors, subscription or donation; until there is evidence satisfactory to academia that Mormons can write without ulterior motive about Mormons and Mormonism, the point of Mormon Studies seems to be: to stroke one’s ego where Church has left it unattended, or after unattending oneself from Church in mind or in body, to convince oneself that a community, any community, can’t be wrong. Either way, call its seed Correlation.
Meat doesn’t go with bananas; Cain made an offering of the field, Abel grilled fresh lamb. See where bananas got Cain? The gods, says Roberto Calasso, prefer the incense of burned flesh, and savor the salt wrung in our devotions. So let us return to my personal tale. The Book of Mammon exists, and that is enough for me. It’s no masterpiece, but its pretty good, I think. Sorta complex. I’d like people to read it, sure, but not people who have in interest in saying it says something it don’t say. It ain’t about bureaucracy, or validating Weberian typology, or an angry hypermasculine rant, or confirming the Divine Mind in Correlation. It’s about numbers; how numbers change things, make new things possible, like a new religion. It speaks to believers in some sort of Mormonism who can’t seem to find much to believe in at Church, and gives a few reasons for why the Spirit has apparently fled; or to non-believers who’d like to learn and laugh at the same time. Whatever. However, the book reveals fractures I never discerned before.
Before my experiment to publish independently, I believed the blogs independent from the Corporation. In truth their dependence is all the greater because the relationship to Official Mormonism, qua Correlation, remains uncertain. Mormon blogs are the eager beaver awkward and paranoid summer intern at the Corporation, trying extra hard because never convinced it will be asked on board, thanked, appreciated. The hard fact, obvious enough, is that blogs are no solution to the structural problems of Mormon Studies; in fact, blogs make its realization perhaps impossible, creating props for the closet unbeliever, stumbling blocks for others, and costuming in priestly robes the Bananarama called, wrongly, The Church.
In the spirit of Mormon Studies at its facilest, let me paraphrase Derrida, who said maybe tongue-in-cheek that we’ve reached a point in history where only the Messiah can save our asses. In a more defiant spirit, let me mention the opening scene of Thomas Pychon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Pirate Prentice after “pissing, without a thought in his head” and waiting in vain for the German rockets to hit his flat in England, enters a bananery, “among the pendulous bunches, among these yellow chandeliers, this tropical twilight. . . .” There follows banana mead, banana omelets, banana cassaroles, mashed bananas, banana blancmange, waffles, sandwiches, kreplach, croissants, oatmeal and jam, all banana; a “sharing of the conjuror’s secret” and more plainly, in the “high intricacy” of this communion eaten by pals, “it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off.” Until Mormons fear extermination, and this from someone other than our own determined, best of intentions People, Mormon Studies will remain another loaf of mealy bananality. Wrap in foil, share with neighbors; a gesture, bland and not offensive, a gift sometimes welcome; but lacking the good priestly rites, a quickening charity, leavening of flesh and heft of sacrifice that would send its image knocking, knocking on heaven’s door. Saint Peter’s first question? Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just happy to see heaven?
A little angry in tone but well written and most enjoyable. I agree that Mormon Studies seems to be for monkeys (at least for the present moment).
Susan Brown says:
New convert here, so its a bit over my head but I think I get your point. It is very thought provoking.
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Cold Blooded
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The following stories of vile and malicious activities were gleaned from a variety of resources. They show the murky depths to which a human being can and will succumb. The people featured in this book are the dregs of society and are gathered here in this book like so much sewage at a treatment plant.
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The term Patricide refers to a child killing their father. The term Matricide refers to a child killing their mother and the term Parricide references a child killing both of his or her parents.
What type of child is capable of such an act of violence against a parent and under what circumstances could this happen? The literature suggests that these are neglected and abused children, more commonly, teenagers, who feel trapped with few options. They have had enough and they feel there is no other way out. Children cannot simply leave a bad situation as the law does not allow youths to run away and if caught, they will be returned to their legal guardian. Some do run away successfully but then find it difficult to survive on the streets with limited resources, limited skills, and insufficient money.
In many instances, parents grow dependent on the adolescence and the child has too many responsibilities looking after the household and their parents. Children going through adolescence need the support of their parents as it is an altering time in their lives.
The children who commit parricide are either the harshly abused child who is pushed beyond his or her limits, or the ruthlessly, mentally ill child or the severely rebellious child.
The abused child is the most commonly encountered kind of killer. They killed because they could no longer contend with their surroundings at home. These children were severely abused by one or both parents and repeatedly suffered sexual, physical, and verbal mistreatment as well. Classically, they do not have histories of severe mental illness or grave and extensive antisocial behavior. They are not criminally stylish. However, for them, the killings symbolize an act of desperation.
The ruthless mentally ill child can kill on occasion. These children have lost contact with reality and their medical records will indicate that prior psychiatric treatments have failed. In most cases, they are deemed unfit to stand trial due to insanity.
There have been few children who have killed without remorse and yet their parents were kind and loving. This dangerously antisocial child is frequently the silage of news captions. These young offenders characteristically display improper conduct and severe disorderly behavior that continues for several months.
These are the children that kill their parents solely for some kind of self-seeking reasons.
Few severely abused children actually kill their parents. But most are at a high risk of becoming negligent or socially dependent rather than children who are treated well by concerned parents or loving guardians. Most often, the damage relinquished because of child abuse does not manifest itself until a generation later.
The undeniable realities and effects of child abuse are increasingly being recognized as the responsibility of everyone in the culture. Yet society has failed these children. It has failed to make a sufficient commitment to all children. It has clearly failed to protect these children and it has failed to foster good parenting.
Parenting skills and parental support are areas that desperately need attention. Education needs to be made available to help parents cope with the stresses of raising children, particularly young parents or parents of children with special needs. Research shows that increasing the knowledge of parents about home and child management, and enhancing the development of good communication skills, healthy emotional ties, and parent-child bonding helps prevent child abuse.
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Dennis and Brenda Freeman
Discovery of the bodies
On February 27, 1995 the Police discovered the bludgeoned bodies of Dennis Freeman, 54, his wife Brenda, 48 and their son Eric, 11 in their Salisbury, PA home. The immediate suspects were the older children, Bryan, 17, and David, 16, who had shaved and tattooed their heads as a symbol of their Neo-Nazi beliefs.
Dennis Freeman was a High School Custodian and Brenda a Homemaker. They were devout Jehovah Witnesses and raised their children according to the strict rules of their beliefs, which included: no birthday celebrations, no voting, no participation in any form of military, and no recognition of national holidays. The older boys resented it deeply. When Bryan took an interest in joining the military, his parents first noticed the trouble with their son and his anger issues. They tried various programs in dealing with Bryan's anger, but several times he threatened to kill them.
On February 27, 1995 his threats would become reality. Early that afternoon Brenda's sister Valerie arrived at the family home to find the front and back doors locked, and also the garage door. However since Dennis's truck was in the driveway she assumed he was home. She found the sliding door on the side of the house unlocked so she entered but found the house to be cool and unusually quiet. She slowly walked to Erik's closed bedroom door. It was then that she knew something was wrong and a feeling of dread came over her. She hesitantly opened Erik's door and was faced with her nephew’s blood-splattered body. She silently bit back a scream and proceeded to the master bedroom where she came upon another body lying on a blood-soaked bed.
Erik Freeman, age 11
Valerie ran from the house to a neighbor's and phoned the police. Officer Michael Pochran responded first at the scene but before entering the house he called for backup. The first thing the police discovered upon entering the house was a bloody aluminum baseball bat, leaning against the dining room cabinet. In the master bedroom they found Dennis, beaten to death: his face and head were smashed in and his brains were exposed and his neck was slashed. The second victim, 11 year old Erik was on his bed, bloody and bashed. Apparently they hated their young brother Erik just as much as their parents because he didn't resist their parent’s teachings.
They searched each room but couldn't fin
d Brenda, until they proceeded to the basement. On one of the steps they found a bloody metal pipe. They found Brenda lying on her side with her nightgown pulled up and a knife at her side. She had been stabbed repeatedly. On a wall above the body, two swastikas had been drawn.
As the house began to fill with Police Officers and Homicide Detectives, it was clear that Bryan and David were missing and so was the family car. Given their reputation as white supremacists and their history of aggression, the hunt was on to find these boys and their cousin Nelson Birdwell III, whom they were known to associate with.
Background on the killers
David Freeman, age 16
David was 6' 3” and weighed 245 pounds. He had tattooed Sieg Heil on his forehead and Bryan had Berzerker on his. Their classmates, teachers and friends confirmed that they were impressive and threatening but students also said they were well respected. In 1992, David was in and out of various rehabilitation centers for substance abuse. He was eventually committed to a hospital where he stayed for one month. The doctors evaluated him and determined him to be of above-average intelligence but with an antisocial personality disorder.
Bryan Freeman, age 17
Bryan was 6' and 215 pounds at the time of his arrest. He was known to be more polite and intelligent than his brother and even made the honor roll in school. But, he too experimented with drugs and was in and out of treatment centers. It was in one of these centers where another boy encouraged him to join the skinheads.
Skinheads are a despotic youth movement which sanctifies violence as a means to attain political domination. Their objectives are a clutter of slogans including defending the white race and building white pride. They are open in their expressions of anti-Jewish, anti-black, anti-gay, anti-Hispanic, anti-Asian, and anti-immigrants. Their name originally came from their shaved heads, although currently most let their hair grow to lessen their visibility. Tattoos are also part of Skinhead appearance and members decorate their bodies with tattoos of white power slogans and symbols such as swastikas. Nazi regalia such as the Iron Cross and the SS badge are also part of their distinctive clothing.
So upon his return home, Bryan encouraged David to get involved in the skinheads and after attending several meetings they decided to form their own group with their cousin Benny Birdwell. Early in the investigation, Police were able to learn from schoolmates about Bryan's and David's association with Skinheads and that they bragged about decapitating a cat and worshipping its body.
Nelson (Benny) Birdwell III, age 18
The three boys shaved their heads, got tattoos and proclaimed their loyalty to the white supremacist movement. Bryan was enraged that his parents continued to place him in treatment facilities as he viewed these places as 'mental institutes'. David soon adopted the same behavior and attitude toward his parents. Both would terrorize their brother Erik who they considered a wimp and a momma's boy. They also terrified the parents. The parents tried tough-love by taking things from their sons. This enraged them even more. Brenda sold her sons cars...the boys in turn tattooed their heads. Brenda and Dennis stripped all paraphernalia pertaining to hate from their sons rooms. It was during the removal of Nazi posters and pamphlets they discovered a book about killing ones parents. This was just three weeks before they were killed. On February 23, two days prior to the killing, they were overheard saying that they were going to kill their mother. David was also suspended from school for getting into an altercation which erupted into threats of violence against the principal.
After interviewing Harry Liste, a classmate, the Police learned that the brothers had mentioned killing their parents and heading to Florida but the trio in fact went west to Michigan. A truck driver heard about the murders and the descriptions of the three boys and called authorities indicating they were at the Truck World Motor Inn in Hubbard, Ohio. A videotape from a nearby grocery store also captured the boy’s picture. This video was sent back to the Allentown police department where the suspects were positively identified by outraged family members.
Unfortunately, by the time police arrived, they were long gone. But, they had made phone calls from the Inn to Frank Hesse, another skinhead, in Hope, Michigan. The day they arrived in Michigan, some six hundred miles from home, they decided to go ice fishing with their friend. While they were gone, S.W.A.T. Members from the Michigan State Police along with assistance from the FBI surrounded the house. Upon their return at 6:00 pm from fishing, they were apprehended.
David’s Story
David and Bryan Freeman had previously decided that if they were caught, they would take the fall instead of their cousin Benny. They assumed that they would be tried as juveniles, and Benny would be tried as an adult. So David waived his right to a lawyer and offered up a statement.
According to David the evening before the bodies were discovered, all three of the boys went to the movies where they saw 'Murder in the First' and then returned home at 10:30pm. He said that both Dennis and Erik were asleep however Brenda had waited up for them. They climbed through the basement window and were in the process of calling some friends to go drinking when their mother heard them. She came downstairs to tell the boys to go to bed and Benny to go home. Benny obeyed but never went home. It's reported that Brenda came down three times and asked Benny to leave and each time he would crawl out the window but return. The third time is when the murders took place. David said that Brenda and Bryan were yelling at each other and that he really never witnessed what actually happened. He did implicate his brother Bryan in the killing of his mother. He said that Bryan threatened to stab both him and Benny and then ordered them to go upstairs and get their father and brother. David admitted to killing his father Dennis and brother Erik and said that Benny just watched, following from one room to the other, but never participating in the murders. They placed the baseball bat in the dining room and the knives in the kitchen sink, changed their clothes and left the house. While the detectives listened to David's story, Benny was telling other investigators a whole different story.
Benny's Story
Benny's parents arrived to be with him in Michigan after he was arrested. They were very distraught as Benny was not a troublesome child and appeared to be an all-around nice kid. Benny reiterated about going to Wendy's, then the movies and then returning home. He also confirmed that Brenda came downstairs repeatedly and asked him to go home and that he pretended to leave and came back each time. When questioned about the murders, he said that Bryan and Brenda were screaming at each other and Bryan stabbed Brenda in the back as she was leaving to go upstairs. She pulled the knife out of her back and attacked Bryan. They fought over the knife and Bryan eventually stabbed her in the shoulder. When she screamed this time, Bryan forced a pair of shorts into her mouth so that she wouldn't wake Dennis. After a few minutes she laid still.
He said that Bryan and Dennis went upstairs to kill Dennis and Erik and that he remained in the basement. He was called upstairs after the other two killings and saw that Bryan was covered in blood and went to change his clothes. David didn't look bloody but went out to the backyard and vomited. They took all the cash, about $200 out of Dennis's wallet, argued in the car about where to go and eventually deciding on going to a friend’s farm in Michigan. They contemplated going back and staging the scene to look like a robbery gone bad but heard the news on the radio so it was already too late.
Bryan's Story
Bryan and David read an article in the Midland News and felt that Benny was putting all the blame on them so they decided to retaliate. Before Bryan gave a statement for the first time, he requested certain conditions: he wanted a lawyer for him and his brother, he wanted the death penalty taken off the table and they wanted to give an interview to a reporter of their choosing. The deal was approved by the prosecution.
Bryan told a similar story but with more details and admitting his own involvement in the murders. He confessed that after he killed his mother, Benny used the handle of a pick
ax to bludgeon her over the head, and then went upstairs to help David. Bryan did deny telling the others to go and kill Dennis and Erik. Bryan started to cry while giving his statement and said that Ben told him how he shattered Erik's skull and hit both Erik and Dennis in the face several times with a baseball bat. He admitted that Ben had cut their throats and that they were going to take the fall for Benny.
The Arraignment
The three boys were extradited back to Allentown and taken to the Lehigh County Jail where they were each officially charged. The arraignment for the brothers was on April 26. The Coroner was first to be called and his testimony confirmed the following.
Dennis had been killed first, struck six times on the head, seven times on the chest which fractured the breastbone and ribs. He had fractures on the neck, eye sockets, nose and jaw. The brain had actually protruded through the skull. He had been struck with two different weapons indicating there were two different attackers. The cause of death was extreme brain trauma.
Brenda was the next to die and her death was caused by multiple stab wounds. She was stabbed through the heart and lung plus the right scapula and a shoulder stabbing that was 5 inches deep.
Erik died from excessive head injuries. He was beaten on his head, face, torso and arms. The fractures and bruises on his arms indicated that he tried to defend himself from the aluminum bat.
The prosecution again announced that if the boys admitted to first-degree murder they would receive life in prison and not the death penalty. Both declined as their lawyers again thought they would be tried as juveniles. But as time went by, it was evident that if the lawyers continued to press for a juvenile trial, they would likely lose and then their strategy would be revealed to the prosecution.
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October 15, 2020 - Dr. Archer's Update on COVID-19 response from the DOM and Medicine Program
Dr. Archer's Updates on COVID-19
General DOM News & Events
| 16 October 2020
1) The Great Barrington declaration (click here): a cautionary note re a naïve presentation of the facts about COVID-19 public health policy and herd immunity that has gained Whitehouse support (click here)
2) COVID volumes stabilize in KFL&A following resolution of a community cluster at Queen’s University
3) Canadians drinking more during pandemic-a cautionary note and some advice (click here).
4) Testing asymptomatic people in local Pharmacies begins
5) The second wave of COVID-19 in Ontario now matches the 1st wave, with 721 new cases yesterday (click here) and a marked increases in positive COVID-19 tests (3%) (click here)
1) The Great Barrington declaration (click here): a cautionary note re a naïve presentation of the facts about COVID-19 public health policy and herd immunity that has gained Whitehouse support (click here).
If you have an inflammatory idea the ideal moment to gain publicity for it is during a pandemic when major countries are led by narcissistic males with a predisposition to demagoguery and an anti-scientific bias (USA, Russia, and Brazil). In this charged environment has emerged the Great Barrington Declaration which cherry picks facts to support the notion that government is trying to “lockdown society”. The signatories advocate that we should allow COVID-19 infections to occur and await protection from the herd immunity that will develop (see above). They advocate that, “individual people, based upon their own perception of their risk of dying from COVID-19 and other personal circumstances, to personally choose the risks, activities and restrictions they prefer”. If this sounds like making traffic policy by allowing people to choose their own speed limit or the side of the road they prefer to drive on you are not far wrong. For those struggling to read their petition based on font size (above), here is the concluding paragraph
“Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.“
Most readers will recognize that in Canada most of what they want to happen (schools, sports, businesses open) is happening currently. The idea of avoiding a broad, societal lockdown, which for the record no government or public health officer is proposing, is of course attractive to us all…but again, this idea is not being proposed! The dangerous part of their idea is that the preferences of the individual trumps the broader good of society. The notion that people will get sick and recover without consequence allowing society to become immune is simply not borne out by the facts to date. This is a libertarian view of health and should not be surprising since the petition emerges from the support of the American Institute for Economic Research, a free market Libertarian think tank.
There is nothing great about this declaration, which has been signed by 12,000 physicians, including some from Canada. Rather the petition takes its name from Great Barrington, a resort town of 7,000 people in the southwest Berkshires in Massachusetts (click here). The declaration misrepresents current good public health practices, and offers incorrect ideas (like herd immunity only requiring infection of 10-20% of the population). The signatories agree with President Donald Trump. They suggest that everyone should go about their busines, get infected, allow herd immunity to develop and reassure us that if we do this all will be well (if you are not amongst the dead and damaged). Currently it is estimated that in the USA 90% of the population remains susceptible to COVID-19 (click here). In fairness, the declaration does advocate for protecting the vulnerable, which they call focused protection, although they offer no details as to how this would occur. This plan is naïve, misguided and thus it will not be surprising for you to learn it is supported by President Trump. I mention this declaration, not only to oppose it on the basis of fact, but also to arm you to thoughtfully consider their message.
One example of the Great Barrington Declaration put in practice is in Wisconsin. In Wisconsin Republican-controlled Legislature and a conservative law firm have been fighting and delaying masking policies in public spaces. Finally, in late September, a court ruling allowed the state's mask mandate to stand, rejecting the attempt to overturn the Governor’s rational public health policy, all as coronavirus cases spiked and the number of people hospitalized hit record levels (click here).
Wisconsin COVID-19 infections illustrate what happens when political ideology over-rules public health policy-test results shows 1/5 COVID-19 tests are now returning positive in Wisconsin (click here) and hospitalizations are skyrocketing.
In Ontario with relatively rational health policies the positive test rate in Wave 2 has spiked at 3% nowhere near Wisconsin’s 25%. Canadian society is not locked down and no one in Public Health is advocating for a lockdown. To my fellow physicians I urge you to be responsible and fact based in your pronouncements on issues like the Barrington Declaration and realize there are people susceptible to irrational ideas (so called cognogens-click here). As a health care professional, our jobs are to promote a science and evidence based approach to this pandemic. The Great Barrington Declaration, which is supported by Donald Trump (of bleach and strong light fame), is naïve at best and dangerous if taken seriously…enough said! Read more here (click here)
2) COVID volumes stabilize in KFL&A following a community cluster at Queen’s University: There have been no new COVID-19 cases in our region since my note last Thursday. The total number of cases since the pandemic began is now 167 (unchanged from Tuesday). Currently there are 12 active cases locally (down from 14 cases on Tuesday). All local COVID-19 patients are recovering in the community (see update from KFL& A Public Health). There are no hospitalized patients at KGH. The KHSC lab did 957 tests since my report on Tuesday. Of these 1 positive test was from KFL&A the other 2 were in Perth-Smith Falls and Kawartha.
This local stability in COVID-19 allows us to continue to provide patients with much needed health care for the many diseases other than COVID-19.
2) Canadians drinking more alcohol during pandemic-a cautionary note (click here).
This section of today’s note was inspired by a Medical Grand Rounds given earlier today by Dr. Melissa Kelley, a gastroenterologist and hepatologist. Dr. Kelley was reminding us of an increase in alcohol-related liver disease in Canada, particularly in younger people, especially young women. She noted that alcohol consumption was on the rise in the COVID-19 era in Canada.
Dr. Melissa Kelley Division of Gastroenterology (hepatology)
In support of her theory I found the following Nanos poll commissioned by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction and conducted by Nanos Research. They conducted a hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,036 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between March 30th to April 2nd, 2020. Participants were randomly recruited by telephone using live agents and administered a survey online.
This NANOS survey confirms what any of us who visit the LCBO know first-hand-alcohol consumption is up during the pandemic! The survey found that 18 % of Canadians who were staying at home during the pandemic reported increased alcohol consumption (vs 12% % decreased and 70% no change)-see graph below.
People who acknowledged increased alcohol consumption reported that they drank more because they are bored (49%), stressed (51%) and because their days now lack structure(51%) . Canadians 55 years of age and older were less likely to report their alcohol consumption has increased (10%) than Canadians 35 to 54 (25%) and 18 to 34 (21%). Women were more likely to cite stress (57%) as a reason for consuming more alcohol than were men (32%). Men were more likely to cite boredom as a cause for increased alcohol consumption (54% vs 44% for women) (see graph below).
While cannabis use increased in some people this was in a small minority (6%) of those surveyed.
The margin of error for this survey is ±3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
While alcohol is relatively safe at low doses the general advice for people who choose to drink, they should not exceed the following maximum limits (per guidelines form CAMH) (click here) and see Figure below:
My Advice: COVID-19 infections, particularly infection with severe outcomes, are more likely if you are obese or diabetic, so reducing alcohol and exercising are healthy choices that cost little or nothing to implement.
1) Be aware of why you are drinking and how much you are drinking
2) If you do drink alcohol stay within your limits (see Fig above).
3) Avoid drinking alcohol during weekdays (Mon-Fri).
4) Focus on maintaining your cardiovascular health by getting 10,000 steps/day or 30 minutes of exercise/day (which can simply be going for walk) is good for body and soul.
5) Remember that there is no safer place than the great outdoors to avoid COVID-19! If there are no crowds you can exercise safely outside without a mask, although physical distancing must still be practiced.
Reducing alcohol consumption and exercising are amongst the best ways you can be proactive in reducing your COVID-19 risk and maintaining your health.
3) COVID-19 testing in local pharmacy’s begins: Four pharmacies in the area are now offering testing of asymptomatic patients: Shoppers Drug Mart (Kingslake plaza and Bayridge) and two independent pharmacies, 1 in Amherstview and 1 in Kingston). However, these tests are not being run in our hospital or the public health labs in Ontario. In fact, they are being shipped to California and tested there. As a consequence, turnaround time may be quite slow! Stay tuned for more details.
4) The second wave of COVID-19 in Ontario now matches the 1st wave, with 721 new cases yesterday (click here) and a marked increases in rates of positive COVID-19 tests (3%) There have been a total of 61,413 cases with 5483 hospitalizations, and 3017 deaths in Ontario, since the pandemic began. There have been no deaths since my report on Tuesday but ICU admission are up 1.9% (+4 cases) and hospitalizations up 8.9% (17 cases) since yesterday. The rate of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests is up sharply from 1.3% last week to 3.0 % yesterday.
Ontario’s COVID-19 prevalence rate is 413.2/100,000 (click here). A month ago between wave 1 and 2 it was 263.8/100,000. This provincial rate is 5X higher than in KFL&A, which has a prevalence of 78 cases/100,000 population. Toronto is Ontario’s hotspot for COVID-19 (697.4 cases/100,000 population), a rate 9 times higher than Kingston. Windsor no longer has the highest prevalence of COVID-19 (642.8/100,000), having been surpassed by Toronto.
The graph below shows that the majority of infections in Ontario are in young adults age 20-29 (blue and green below, on left). In contrast virtually all deaths are in people over the age of 60 years (gray on graph below) (click here). There seems to be a female predisposition to detection of COVID-19 infection (right graph).
Age (left) and sex/gender (right) of people infected with COVID-19 Oct 15th 2020
Also note the sustained rise in hospitalizations in Ontario (shown by the black line in the graph below).
We are continuing to see more active cases in the Halton and Hamilton health regions, a new trend in the past week (click here for data).
Strategy for the second wave must include ongoing resilience, calmness and adherence to public health policies. With careful attention to public health measures we can flatten the second wave without shutting down schools, business and society. To address wave 2 we should:
Prioritize who we test and ensure rapid availability of test results.
Limit indoor assembly to the permitted group size (<10)
Focus on key demographics who tend to get infected (young adults, migrant workers, low income neighbourhoods)
Continue to respect our social bubbles and avoid socializing in large groups
Protect our essential workers including health care workers (so they can protect society).
To do this we will need to continue practicing simple and effective public health measures (physical distancing, mask use indoors, frequent hand washing).
What we should not do in wave 2: We should not shut down schools and businesses. The unintended consequences of shutting down society for the 99.9% are huge and not readily reversible (click here to read more on this topic). We need to manage outbreaks and hot spots with good public health policies, as are in place currently in KFL&A.
Use the Mobile Screening Tool: Complete the COVID-19 pre-screening tool here and you will be able to “skip the line”: We are working hard to get as many patients as possible into our outpatient clinics to ensure care for the 99.9% of patients (i.e. those who do not have COVID-19 but who have a multitude of other pressing health needs). One way we physicians can help safely expedite entry of patients into our facilities is to ask them to complete the pre-screening questionnaire. This will screen out people who are sick and expedite entry to the facility for everyone else.
To all patients: Please complete your COVID-19 screening for your upcoming outpatient appointment online with the mobile screening tool. The mobile screening tool, available in English and French, only takes a few minutes to complete and you will receive an email with confirmation to bring with you, along with your appointment slip, in printed form or on your mobile device.
Screening staff will validate the confirmation at entry and you will be able to go directly to your appointment. This mobile screening must be completed a maximum of four hours before your appointment. If the screening confirmation expires, you will need to re-do the mobile screening or be screened in person (by a screener) when you arrive.
With the exception of caregivers for children, this mobile screening tool is for patients only and does not give family members or caregivers an option to pre-screen because we must continue to restrict family presence for outpatients at KHSC in order to maintain physical distancing. To complete the mobile-screening in English, click here and in French, click here.
KHSC visitor policy: One of the hardest aspects of COVID-19 care in the hospital is the need to restrict visitors to ensure we don’t import COVID-19 into the hospital. A very few cases of COVID-19 can paralyze the hospital, particularly if they are brought in by visitors and then spread undetected, as happened in Foothills hospital in Calgary and in Toronto. KHSC has a clear visitor policy, which has been in place for many months. All details on the policy can be found using this link (click here) see below:
Community Assessment Center at Beechgrove: (click here): All COVID-19 test must be scheduled appointments (versus walk in). Appointments can be scheduled by telephone or by our new Eventbrite on line scheduling system. This is working well and we are doing 250 tests/day. In addition to this we are doing Queen’s testing and this volume is down too. This relates to more targeted testing guidelines form the province.
Before booking a test, individuals should complete the online tool to determine whether they qualify for testing (click here). We are still working on our on-line system (it will be available shortly).
A reminder: Per Ontario Health guidelines we do not test asymptomatic people unless they have a confirmed COVID-19 contact and we do not recommend testing children with runny noses as their sole symptom (click here).
The Beechgrove Complex is south of the King St. West/Portsmouth Avenue intersection. Signage will direct people through the Complex to the Recreation Centre building at 51 Heakes Lane for walk-in testing. Operating hours: Testing hours will return to 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Requirements if you need to be tested
1) A valid Ontario health card or a piece of photo identification.
2) Wear a mask and maintain physical distancing at all times while in the walk-in line.
KHSC capacity-preparing for an anticipated need for hospital admission: KGH has adequate bed capacity for a COVID-19 surge (with 81 available beds-up from 62 last week) and we have good ventilator capacity (58 ventilators). In the event of a COVID-19 hospitalization surge and/or quarantine of wards we will need to expeditiously transfer ALC people form the institution to more appropriate sites. Our PPE supply is good, despite a global shortage of some supplies like medical gloves. In fact, the problem of KHSC is the availability of PPE (we are committed to purchasing these supplies-but sometimes they are hard to obtain).
COVID-19 in toddlers and young children: (click here).
Fortunately kids remain much less likely to be infected by SARS-CoV2 and when they are infected they usually become much less ill. The graph below shows the low incidence of cases in kids under age 10 years in Ontario (click here). The vast majority of upper respiratory tract infections in kids in Ontario are caused by other viruses, like rhinovirus and RSV. Thus, health policy makers and parents of young children should recognize that while children are not immune from COVID-19 infection, infections are relatively uncommon and outcomes are usually excellent for those who are infected.
Children are usually infected by an adult, usually in their home, rather than by other children. Here are some data supporting this assertion, first for school age children and then for daycare age children. That said the number of cases in school age children which includes teenagers) has more than doubled over the past 2 weeks (increasing from 236 to 635 cases).
Amongst younger children and toddlers COVID-19 is relatively rare. In Ontario’s 5,500 licensed child care centres and over 120 licensed home child care agencies there is also a very low COVID-19 burden (see table below). The rise in cases has been modest in these young children. 164 children in Ontario’s licensed childcare facilities have been infected to date (up from 65 cases 2 weeks ago).
The reforms required to make our Long term care facilities (LTC) safe are simple (but expensive): We have 4060 LTC beds in KFL&A. As discussed in many prior notes, most COVID-19 deaths occur in people who are not only old but who are also frail and live in nursing homes and long term care facilities (LTC). As of today, the 1897 deaths in nursing homes account for 63% of all deaths in Ontario, click here. In the last 2 weeks the rate of death amongst LTC residents has once again begun to increase. There was an outbreak at Fairmont nursing home last week with 1 infected staff member (click here). The definition of an “outbreak” in a nursing home is quite strict and only requires 1 case to qualify as an outbreak.
The reforms required to make our LTCs safe are simple to understand but expensive to implement: single rooms for all residents, proper funding of PSWs so they only work at a single site, availability of COVID-19 testing for residents and staff and adequate supplies of proper PPE.
We want to protect residents of LTC facilities but we can’t do this by locking them up and denying them access to family members and loved ones. The emotional trauma, despair and grief caused to people in LTCs in wave 1 is a story that is not yet fully told. In wave 2 we need to do better. LTC residents must be allowed to have ongoing access to their families in friends, with proper screening, PPE and in reasonable numbers. If we fail in this the consequences are as bad as failing to control COVID-19 infections in these facilities.
Deaths from COVID-19 in Ontario LTCs
17 or more neighbourhoods in Toronto have a COVID-19 prevalence of over 1000 cases/100,000 population (click here). Toronto remains a collection of neighbourhoods with vastly different COVID-19 realities due to differences in social/economic, racial and health circumstances. For example, the Beaches has 204 cases of COVID-19/100,000 residents whilst Weston has 2584 cases/100,000. These rates, both in low and high prevalence neighbourhoods, have increased each day for the past month and continue to increase this week. Half of Toronto’s neighbourhoods have a very high disease prevalence of over 1000 cases/100,000 population (each dot is a neighbourhood on the map below and all dots to the right of the one highlighted have >1000 cases/100,000 population).
Canada’s second wave: We have had 189,385 cases of COVID-19 in Canada and 9664 deaths (see below) since the pandemic began. Most cases (86%) are resolved. However it is clear the number of hot spots in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are increasing over the past 2 weeks (see below). We are well into a second wave, which exceeds the first in case number but not in hospitalizations (thus far).
COVID-19 in Canada as of Oct 15th 2020.
COVID-19 testing: Ontario SARS-CoV-2 testing continues at a rate that exceeds the national average of 24.6%, with 31.0 % of Ontarians tested to date ( click here). Our overall positive test rate in Ontario still remains low (1.37%), although it has spiked to 3% in the last week. Another important caveat to our relatively favorable test positive rate is that in some areas, such as certain neighbourhoods in Toronto, positive test rates exceed 10. This is a reminder COVID-19 is global but its impact varies greatly even from one neighbourhood to the next.
SARS-CoV2 Testing in Ontario as of Oct 15th 2020
American data of COVID-19 testing: In contrast with Canada’s 2.0% rate of positive tests, the USA has an average rate of positive COVID-19 tests of 5.1% (stable) (click here), although most states are seeing surges in case numbers in the last 2 weeks. The US-Canadian border will remain closed for routine travel at least until the end of October.
Active cases in the USA Oct 15th 2020 (the large the do the more the cases)
The COVID-19 global pandemic exceeds 1 million deaths and 38 million cases: There are now 38,701,030 cases globally and there have been 1,094,591 deaths. The number of cases has more than doubled since July 27th2020, when there were 16,296,635 cases globally. The pandemic hot spots are in the USA, India, Brazil, and Russia ( (click here). There are approximately 40 countries that have had a total of more than 100,000 cases. The USA with 7,423,328 cases and 209,857 deaths tops the COVID-19 list and accounts for ~20% of the global pandemic. India has the second largest number of cases (see list of countries with the most cases below left).
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Why Switzerland's a must-visit destination this summer
January 17, 2019 November 13, 2020 by Megan Padilla
An upcoming festival invites exploration of Switzerland’s Lavaux wine region on the slopes of Lake Geneva.
A leisurely three-course lunch with wine usually demands a post-prandial nap. But when you’re enjoying that lunch in Switzerland with friends while overlooking Lake Geneva in the heart of the historic Lavaux wine region, a digestive stroll afterwards is definitely in order.
The blueprint for the Lavaux was literally set in stone by Benedictine monks who in the 12th century tamed the steep south-facing slopes of Lake Geneva into terraced vineyards by building hundreds of rows of stone walls. Today, they are the cornerstone of the Lavaux UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this region, the cultural and economic connection to viniculture is entrenched in timeless traditions, including a once-per-generation festival dating to 1797 that reappears this summer for only the 12th time in its history (landing it on the New York Times‘s “52 Places to Go in 2019” list). I may not get to attend the festival, but I can certainly explore the landscape (and the wine) that spawned it.
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Tasting the local grape
After lunch, we first walk along the lake in Cully (coo-yee), midway between Lausanne and Vevey (vuh-VAY), where a layer of mist separates the mirror-like surface from the dramatic French Alps across the lake (Switzerland is on the north side of the lake, France is on the south). Then we turn back through town, cutting between houses with French doors and wild roses in the garden. There’s an honor-system wine stand beside the road. We take a bottle and leave 10 Swiss francs in the box, not yet realizing that there’ll be plenty of opportunity to taste our way through the Lavaux. Before this trip, I’d never tasted Swiss wine (they keep it for themselves!). Now, we’re drinking it like water.
I’m at the back of the pack, breathing hard as the path climbs straight uphill. It’s October and the white Chasselas grapes are still being hand-harvested, just as they have been for centuries. The golden-tinged leaves provide a patina of fall foliage. Below, a majestic steam-powered paddle boat steals attention as she glides across the lake.
We reach a speck of a village named Riex and head to a caveau (wine cellar) for refreshment. Only Chasselas grapes are grown here, but it’s up to the winemakers to interpret them. The grapes themselves carry little distinction. They are sponges, soaking up the taste of sunshine and of millions-of-years-old minerals carried off the Rhone glacier from high in the Alps. They are the story of families who have tended the earth, vines and fruit with precision, passion and a long view for sustainability since the 1500s.
We’d intended to walk in a loop, returning to Cully to catch a train on to Vevey. But everyone is enjoying the outing too much to stop, so we continue east along the level path called the Route de la Corniche that cuts across the hillside. It’s after 5 p.m. when we arrive at the train station in Rivaz. Everyone is tired, happy and even a little bit hungry.
The train arrives two stops later In modern Vevey, where there’s a Starbucks across the street from the station. I’m sad to have left the timelessness of the vineyards behind. But just a few blocks away, the old town reveals itself in the narrow lanes surrounding the market square that faces the lake. I find flower-festooned shops, cozy sidewalk cafes and heavy wooden doors with hand-painted signs indicating “caveau.” Posters and banners are hung throughout town promoting next summer’s Fête des Vignerons, the festival of winegrowers, that will take place in a 20,000-seat stadium to be erected in the marketplace.
Five times a century
A few days later I go to the museum of the ancient society called the Confrérie des Vignerons, the brotherhood of winegrowers, that organizes the Fête des Vignerons. There I meet Mr. François Margot, the abbot-president. Among the artifacts, costumes and architectural models of past stadium designs, the first thing I learn from Margot is that the festival isn’t actually about the wine.
Though that doesn’t stop him from opening a bottle of grand cru. I’ve barely had my first cup of coffee, but happily accept a glass (or two) as Mr. Margot explains. The Fête des Vignerons honors the winegrowers and the workers. The first one in 1797 was more like a “parade celebrating the religion of wine,” he said.
The Confrérie exists to regulate and control the vineyard production of this region, thus ensuring economic longevity. “Our mission is to take a longview look at the balance between the ground and the grapes,” he explains. For instance, if the vines aren’t cut correctly, they invite pests and disease.
The Fête des Vignerons was created to recognize best practices in viniculture by the winemakers and evolved into a stadium-sized theatrical production featuring a cast of 5,500 locals. They rehearse for the better part of a year, buy their own costumes and take time off work for the 20 performances scheduled between July 18 through August 11.
This year’s Fête des Vignerons is only the 12th production since the first in 1797 because the Confrérie set out guidelines stating that it cannot occur more than five times per century. The festival is so unique that UNESCO recently included it on its list of living traditions that contribute to the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity.” Since the last winegrowers’ festival happened during the early days of the internet in 1999, the 2019 festival will be the first to attract a wider international audience.
Not everyone who travels to Vevey will have a ticket to the mainstage, says Margot. During the festival, the town itself becomes a second stage with food and wine tastings, parades, music and street performers showcasing customs from all of Switzerland.
When I return to my room at the Grand Hotel du Lac that afternoon, I sit on my balcony overlooking the manicured garden and the glorious Lake Geneva to enjoy a late-afternoon libation in the warm glow of the setting sun. Attending the Fête des Vignerons would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience and I hope to return for it. But if I can’t, that’s ok too.
The festival is an elevated moment to celebrate the beauty, history, wine, food, traditions and hospitality of a region whose identity is as solid as those stone walls set in place so many years ago. I am grateful to be experiencing it all right now.
Experience the culture, food, wine and legendary Swiss hospitality of the Lake Geneva region, bookended by Lausanne and Vevey. Both cities are situated on the northeast shore of Lake Geneva and flourished during the Belle Époque era of the late 1800s and early 1900s. With tree-lined promenades beside the lake, the borrowed scenery of the Alps, and 150-year old grand hotels that are still at the top of their game, the “beautiful era” doesn’t seem so long ago.
Fly to Geneva. There are many routes that offer a U.S. connecting flight direct to Geneva. [Alternatively, Edelweiss flies direct from Tampa International Airport to Zurich, and from there you can connect to Geneva.] Then take a train to Lausanne (45 minutes) or Vevey (about an hour). The Lavaux Vineyard Terraces are in between. Start planning at lake-geneva-region.ch
Where to stay. In Lausanne, stay at one of the luxury Old World standards in the Sandoz Foundation Hotels portfolio. The Lausanne Palace (opened in 1915) is located high up the slope, and lakeview rooms have incredible views of the city. The Beau-Rivage Palace (from 1861) is lakeside and feels more like a resort hotel. Both have spas, Michelin-starred restaurants and five-star concierge service. The Grand Hotel du Lac (1868) overlooks Lake Geneva in Vevey and is a full-service, intimate hotel with just 50 guest rooms. Hotel Major Davel is a more budget-friendly option that opened last year in Cully after a complete makeover by the owner who was the longtime general manager of the Lausanne Palace. Fourteen simple but elegant rooms overlook the plaza and Lake Geneva.
Attending the Fête de Vignerons. The winegrowers festival is July 18 through August 11 in Vevey. You must purchase tickets in advance to one of the 20 performances. Book online at fetedesvignerons.ch/en/tickets. Hotel and ticket packages are available through the official Montreux Riviera region tourism organization at hotelfevi19.ch (click EN for English). The Lausanne Palace and Beau-Rivage Palace have secured top category tickets to every performance for their guests to purchase at face value. This would be a good time to work with a luxury travel advisor (such as Virtuoso Travel) who can deliver to you an unforgettable trip to Switzerland.
Exploring the Lavaux Terraced Vineyards. Whether you have only a few hours or want to spend a few days, visiting the UNESCO-listed vineyards is easy. Learn more at lake-geneva-region.ch (click on Montreux Riviera under “destinations”).
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APPLE iPad 10.2" Gen 8 (2020) Wi-Fi, 32GB, Space Gray
Forsiden / APPLE iPad 10.2" Gen 8 (2020) Wi-Fi, 32GB, Space Gray
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Oppløsning 2160 x 1620
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Apple iPad 8 Gen (September 2020)
Delightfully capable. Surprisingly affordable.
The new iPad combines tremendous capability with unmatched ease of use and versatility. With the powerful A12 Bionic chip, support for Apple Pencil and the Smart Keyboard, and the amazing new things you can do with iPadOS 14, now there’s even more to love about iPad.
Kick some serious tasks.
With iPad, getting work done is all hustle and no hassle. Edit a document while researching something on the web and making a FaceTime call to a colleague at the same time. Attach a full‑size Smart Keyboard for comfortable typing. And for tasks that require more precision, support for a trackpad or mouse complements the familiar Multi‑Touch experience of iPad.
Jot ’til you drop.
Paired with the power of iPadOS, Apple Pencil makes note‑taking with iPad a breeze. Do things like sign paperwork, mark up a document, or sketch out an idea. It feels as natural to use as a regular pencil, but with so much more capability.
Learn your lesson the fun way.
Let your curiosity run wild with iPad. The App Store is the best place to discover apps that let you get a leg up in geometry, learn a new language, and attend virtual classes. You can even use augmented reality to learn something exciting, like watching the history of spaceflight unfold in your living room or making characters from your favorite book literally leap off the page.
Live your best extra life.
It’s go time for gaming. The A12 Bionic chip delivers an amazing performance boost, so games are immersive, fluid, and incredibly detailed. And you can pair an Xbox Wireless Controller with Bluetooth, PlayStation DualShock controller, or MFi game controller with your iPad to create the ultimate portable game console. You can also try out Apple Arcade, with over 100 ad‑free games in one subscription.
Draw something drawsome.
iPad lets you express your creative ideas in so many ways. Whether you’re taking notes, designing a logo, or just sketching up a storm, Apple Pencil is the perfect tool to bring your vision to life. It’s designed to feel intuitive and let you draw with pixel‑perfect precision.
Shoot from the hip. Edit with your finger.
No matter how you capture your photos and videos - with the 8MP back camera or the FaceTime HD camera on iPad, with an iPhone, or with a digital camera - you’ll love editing them on the large, immersive screen of your iPad. Take advantage of the machine learning capabilities to enhance your photos. Once you’ve got your perfect shot, share it to your social feeds or send it to friends with a tap.
Your home theater. Home optional.
Everything you watch on iPad looks and sounds awesome, thanks to the 10.2‑inch Retina display and stereo system. With the Apple TV app, you’ll have access to popular streaming services, must‑watch shows, and blockbuster movies. And when you buy a new iPad, it includes a year of Apple TV+, our streaming service featuring original shows and movies from the world’s best storytellers. Now all you have to do is remember the popcorn.
Take your to-do list to go.
With a thin and light design and fast Wi‑Fi and Gigabit‑class LTE, iPad is designed to go where your life goes. So you can browse the web, download books, and more, wherever you are. And with up to 10 hours of battery life, you can do it all on a single charge. It does pretty much everything but carry itself.
iPadOS does even more.
iPadOS delivers a distinct experience that enhances the unique capabilities of iPad. New note‑taking features make handwriting as powerful as typed text, shape recognition makes your drawings more precise, and now you can handwrite in any text field with Scribble.
Apps for everything.
There are over a million apps on the App Store specifically designed for the large display and power of iPad. Make a beat, get a workout in, read the news, or join a battle royale with friends. Whatever you’re interested in, you’ll find an app for it.
Privacy built in.
Like every Apple product, iPad was designed with your privacy and security in mind. It’s not always easy. But that’s the kind of innovation we believe in.
Designed for everyone.
Technology is most powerful when everyone can use it. That’s why iPad comes with accessibility features that support vision, hearing, mobility, and learning needs. Like sign language prominence in FaceTime, which can detect when a participant is using sign language and make the person prominent in a Group FaceTime call.
9.8 inches (250.6 mm)
0.29 inch (7.5 mm)
Wi-Fi models
1.08 pounds (490 grams)
Wi-Fi + Cellular models
Buttons and Connectors
On/Off Sleep/Wake
Home/Touch ID sensor
Dual microphones
Nano-SIM tray (cellular models)
10.2-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
2160-by-1620-pixel resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi)
Supports Apple Pencil (1st generation)
A12 Bionic chip with 64-bit architecture
Neural Engine
Five-element lens
Hybrid IR filter
Backside illumination
HDR for photos
Tap to focus
Timer mode
Body and face detection
1080p HD video recording at 30 fps
Slo‑mo video support for 720p at 120 fps
Video image stabilization
3x video zoom
Video geotagging
1.2MP photos
720p HD video recording
FaceTime video
iPad to any FaceTime-enabled device over Wi-Fi or cellular
Dual microphones for calls, video recording, and audio recording
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac); dual band (2.4GHz and 5GHz); HT80 with MIMO
Bluetooth 4.2 technology
UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Gigabit-class LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 66, 71)
Nano‑SIM (supports Apple SIM6)
Built-in GPS/GNSS
Three‐axis gyro
Unlock iPad
Secure personal data within apps
Make purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and Apple Books
Pay with your iPad using Touch ID within apps and on the web
Send and receive money in Messages
Get proactive suggestions
Use hands-free
Listen and identify songs
Built‐in 32.4‐watt‐hour rechargeable lithium‑polymer battery
Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi‐Fi or watching video
Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system
Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using cellular data network
iPadOS comes with powerful features and built-in apps designed to take advantage of the unique capabilities of iPad.
Accessibility features help people with disabilities get the most out of their new iPad. With built-in support for vision, hearing, mobility, and learning, you can create and do amazing things.
App Store / Books / Calendar / Camera / Clock / Contacts / FaceTime / Files / Find My / Home / iTunes Store / Mail / Maps / Measure / Messages / Music / News / Notes / Photo Booth / Photos / Podcasts / Reminders / Safari / Settings / Shortcuts / Siri / Stocks / Tips / TV / Voice Memos
Pages / Numbers / Keynote / iMovie / GarageBand / Apple Store / Trailers / Remote / Music Memos / Clips / Swift Playgrounds / Support
macOS Catalina 10.15 using the Finder
Windows 7 or later using iTunes 12.10 or later
English (Australia, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Traditional Hong Kong), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Latin America, Spain), Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), Chinese - Simplified (Handwriting, Pinyin QWERTY, Pinyin 10 Key, Shuangpin, Stroke), Chinese - Traditional (Cangjie, Handwriting, Pinyin QWERTY, Pinyin 10 Key, Shuangpin, Stroke, Sucheng, Zhuyin), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Japanese (Kana, Romaji), Korean (2-Set, 10 Key), Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Albanian, Arabic (Modern Standard, Najdi), Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Belarusian, Bodo, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese - Traditional (Cangjie, Handwriting, Stroke, Sucheng), Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dogri, Dutch, Emoji, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi (Devanagari, Latin, Transliteration), Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Kannada, Kashmiri (Arabic, Devanagari), Kazakh, Khmer, Konkani (Devanagari), Kurdish (Arabic, Latin), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maithili (Bangla), Malay (Arabic, Latin), Malayalam, Maltese, Manipuri (Bangla, Meetei Mayek), Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Santali (Devanagari, Ol Chiki), Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin), Sindhi (Arabic, Devanagari), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil (Anjal, Tamil 99), Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tongan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin), Vietnamese, Welsh
English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Arabic (Najdi and MSA), Cantonese (Traditional), Dutch, Hindi (Devanagari, Latin), Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
English (Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, U.S.), Spanish (Chile, Mexico, Spain, U.S.), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (China mainland, Taiwan), Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong), Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), Finnish (Finland), Hebrew (Israel), Malay (Malaysia), Norwegian (Norway), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia), Swedish (Sweden), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Turkey)
English (Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, UK, U.S.), Spanish (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, U.S.), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (China mainland, Taiwan), Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao), Arabic (Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates), Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi (India), Hungarian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Shanghainese (China mainland), Slovakian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
English, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Bilingual dictionary support with English
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Dutch, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese
Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3), Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
User-configurable maximum volume limit
AirPlay Mirroring, photos, audio, and video out to Apple TV (2nd generation or later)
Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 1080p through Lightning Digital AV Adapter and Lightning to VGA Adapter (adapters sold separately)
Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 4K, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.2 with AAC‑LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio or Dolby Audio up to 1008 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo or multichannel audio, in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG‑4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC‑LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio or Dolby Audio up to 1008 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo or multichannel audio, in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M‑JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
.jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel); .zip; .ics
Operating ambient temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Nonoperating temperature: −4° to 113° F (−20° to 45° C)
Operating altitude: tested up to 10,000 feet (3000 m)
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DealRoom Sponsors Tutoring Chicago's Inaugural Celebrity Spelling Bee
Marsha Lewis
Director of Marketing at DealRoom
As part of DealRoom's newly developed giving program, our organization is proud to sponsor a Tutoring Chicago event.
DealRoom was proud to sponsor Tutoring Chicago's inaugural Celebrity Spelling Bee!
Tutoring Chicago is a private, non-profit organization that offers free one-on-one tutoring services to an average of 700+ students in grades 1 - 6 every week. Their mission is to empower economically disadvantaged children through education. Each year, adult volunteers from all over the city work with students on homework, math, technology, reading, and life skills.
Tutoring Chicago was founded as the Cabrini Green Tutoring Program in 1965 by a group of employees at Montgomery Ward. The program officially became incorporated as a private non-profit organization in 1990 with dedicated efforts towards the youth of Cabrini Green. As the program continued to grow, Cabrini Green Tutoring Program wanted to target local neighborhoods beyond Cabrini Green and rebranded the organization as Tutoring Chicago in 2012. Today, Tutoring Chicago is working on opening a fourth site location.
They have received numerous awards including the the Sun-Time Literacy Award, the Impact 100 Award, and the Thomas A. Demetrio Lend-A- Hand Award of Excellence.
The spelling bee was comprised of local Chicago celebrities and emceed by Ryan Asher and Jeff Murdoch from The Second City, one of Chicago’s premiere comedy clubs. After eight rounds of spelling ,Team SYKES TalentSprout came out on top! The duo included Chicago Sun-Times interim CEO/COO, Nykla Wright, and a TalentSprout representative, Jonathan Gray.
Most importantly, the event raised more than $30,000 to help Tutoring Chicago continue their work. If you are interested in learning more about Tutoring Chicago, or donating to the cause, go to https://www.tutoringchicago.org/donate/.
In order to more effectively support Chicago’s community, DealRoom recently joined the movement Pledge 1%. Along with leading companies around the world, DealRoom proudly pledges to donate one percent of profit, employee time or product to local charities and nonprofits.
DealRoom as an organization greatly values strengthening Chicago’s educational resources as a way of advancing the community’s youth. DealRoom will focus our charitable efforts towards this cause and look forward to making a meaningful impact.
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Home Design & Decorate Decorating Ideas 3D-printed Robotic Hand Wins 2015 UK James Dyson Award
3D-printed Robotic Hand Wins 2015 UK James Dyson Award
A 3D-printed bionic hand developed by prosthetics startup Open Bionics is the recipient of the 2015 Uk James Dyson Award for design engineering innovation.
The Open Bionics hand is made to be more affordable and quicker to generate than numerous of the prosthetics currently available for amputees, which can expense in between £3,000 and £60,000.
Taking just 40 hrs to 3D-print, the robotic hand is developed from customized pieces made to match amputees’ limbs exactly.
Wearers can be fitted with the bionic hand less than two days soon after being scanned – a stark contrast with numerous other possibilities which can take weeks or months.
The hand is printed in 4 lightweight elements, manufactured from flexible plastic materials that makes it much more resistant to injury incurred by falls or through everyday use.
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Electromyographic sensors – which detect muscle motion – are attached to the skin and utilised to control the hand. By flexing their muscle groups, wearers can choose whether to open and close the hand or grip objects.
The hand’s “smart” fingers have also been developed to sense when they are in contact with an object to prevent wearers from accidentally crushing objects they are holding.
The designer intends to add new parts that will further replicate the structure of a biological hand by mimicking bones and ligaments.
“Open Bionics is not just focusing on the functionality of the device we’re focusing on producing 3D-printed hands that amputees will enjoy wearing,” founder Joel Gibbard stated in a statement.
“We want them to be fashionable, inspiring for kids, and even have a handful of added capabilities to one-up the human hand. We’re consistently working with amputees to build these desirable products.”
Open Bionics intends to make the hands offered for buy by the 2nd half of 2016 for less than £1,000. The hand will also be open source to inspire customers to customise and share their own patterns.
Gibbard, who studied Robotics at Plymouth University, initially raised much more than £40,000 to help him produce a prototype of the hand on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
As winner of the United kingdom James Dyson Award, Open Bionics will acquire £2,000 and will also be entered into the Worldwide Dyson Award, with a prize of £30,000.
Connected story: Alleles Layout Studio turns prosthetic limbs into a style statement
The award – named following British inventor James Dyson and which “celebrates, encourages and inspires the up coming generation of design engineers” – has previously been given to a sustainable trawler fishing net, a method that extracted water from the air like a desert-dwelling beetle, and a strap-on exoskeleton arm for humans to lift hefty weights.
The pace and ease of 3D-printing is having a significant effect on health care technological innovation as designers use it to improve existing instruments.
Graduate Jake Evill proposed a 3D-printed lightweight and ventilated edition of the cast, although researchers at the University of Cambridge have worked on the following generation of 3D-printed nose and ear replacements for people with facial disfigurements.
In an extract from Print Shift, Dezeen’s one particular-off publication about 3D printing, editor Claire Barrett reported on the developing quantity of health care applications utilizing the technology, and questioned how quickly prior to 3D-printed organ transplants would turn out to be a actuality.
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RECALL NOTICE: Conagra Brands, Inc. Recalls Spaghetti and Meatball Products Due To Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens
Conagra Brands, Inc. Recalls Spaghetti and Meatball Products Due To Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens
Health Risk: High Jun 9, 2017
Autumn Canaday
Press@fsis.usda.gov
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2017 – Conagra Brands, Inc., a Milton, Pa. establishment, is recalling approximately 717,338 pounds of spaghetti and meatball products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The product(s) contains milk, a known allergen which is not declared on the product label.
The spaghetti and meatball products were produced on Jan. 5, 2017 and Jan. 12, 2017. The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels (PDF only)]
131,718 lbs. of 14.75-oz. cans with “Libby’s Spaghetti and Meatballs MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF IN TOMATO SAUCE” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19.
71,614 lbs. of 14.75-oz. cans with “Del Pino’s SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF IN TOMATO SAUCE” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19.
38,330 lbs. of 14.75-oz. cans with “Hy-Top Spaghetti and Meatballs Made with Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19.
22,064 lbs. of 14.75-oz. cans with “Food Hold Spaghetti & Meatballs MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF IN TOMATO SAUCE” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19.
21,975 lbs. of 14.75-oz. cans with “Essential EVERYDAY Spaghetti with Meatballs Made With Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19.
414,424 lbs. of 14.75-oz. cans with “Chef BOYARDEE Mini pasta shells & meatballs, Pasta and Meatballs made with Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce” on the label with package code 2100700500 and Use By Date 12/26/18.
14.75-oz cans with “Hannaford Spaghetti & Meatballs in tomato sauce made with pork, chicken & beef” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19.
14.75-oz cans with “Food Club Spaghetti & Meatballs Made With PORK, CHICKEN & BEEF” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/2019.
The products subject to recall bear establishment number “EST. 794M” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped nationwide to warehouses for distribution and retail locations.
The problem was discovered on June 6, 2017, when the company received notification from an ingredient supplier that the bread crumbs the company received and used in the recalled products potentially contained undeclared milk.
Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on the FSIS website at www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls.
Consumers with questions about the recall can contact Conagra customer service at 1 (866) 213-1245. Media with questions about the recall may contact Daniel Hare, company spokesperson, at (312) 549-5355.
Consumers with food safety questions can “Ask Karen,” the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day. The online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours a day at: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/reportproblem.
Last Modified Jul 25, 2017
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THE GOAL POST | English Premier League Match Week 30 Preview & Prediction
luka 19 Jun 2020
Buaksib Asia presents the preview of match week 30 of English Premier League season 2019/2020 ‘Project Restart’.
Highlighting upcoming games of Tottenham Hotspur VS Manchester United & Everton VS Liverpool.
Tottenham Hotspur Vs. Manchester United
Tottenham’s home league form under their current manager has been reasonably stable. That sequence includes an 80% win rate against teams from outside last season’s top four, with three of those four wins seeing the first half won 1-0 either way. For the benefit of optimistic Spurs fans. Four of Tottenham’s last six Premier League home victories have seen one team win the first half by a one-goal margin. Every one of the four matches in that category also ended separating the sides by a single goal.
Man Utd are unbeaten in five Premier League outings, averaging exactly 1.0 unanswered goals per game after the hour mark across the three victories. By extension, each of Man Utd’s last five Premier League victories have come with a clean sheet and by an average margin of 2.60 goals. Each of Man Utd’s last six Premier League away games have featured precisely two goals, with victors winning both halves in three of the previous four games won/lost therein. Though Man Utd are favorites here, they still have a win rate of just 18.18% in the role of Premier League away match preferences this term.
Players to watch: Five of Son Heung-Min’s last six goals for Tottenham have come in the second half, with two of the three home goals therein coming last and proving decisive.
Man Utd midfielder Bruno Fernandes has scored in two of the Red Devils’ last three Premier League games, with both goals arriving in the 31st-45th minute period.
Stat attack: Each of Tottenham’s last four Premier League matches have seen the home team on the day score first inside 15 minutes.
However, the team doing so dropped an average of 2.0 points after that.
Seven of Man Utd’s last nine Premier League H2Hs vs. Tottenham have yielded a 0-0 or 1-0 half-time scoreline.
Everton Vs. Liverpool
Everton restarts their Premier League campaign with a Merseyside derby. Hosting Liverpool on the back of seven unbeaten home league matches. Four of those games featured both teams scoring, but it was the Evertonians who netted the first goal on every occasion (excluding a goalless draw). Indeed, Everton have been reliable starters this season, and have been behind at half-time in just four of 29 league matches – a stat that is only bettered by rivals, Liverpool. Furthermore, across Everton’s last five Premier League matches. A substantial majority of the total goals (65%) arrived in the first half.
Liverpool are six points away from the title, with a 3-0 loss at Watford in their last away league match their only defeat this Premier League campaign. That game also accounts for a full third of their conceded away goals this Premier League season, and before it, they averaged a superb 0.46 conceded goals per away match. Against Everton, they’ve kept a clean sheet in four of the last five competitive H2Hs (at all venues).
However, the visitors lost four of their last six competitive matches before the hiatus (including one in extra time), and have scored more than once in just two of their last eight competitive games (90 minutes only). Notably, four of the previous six goals they scored during regulation time came before half-time.
Players to watch: Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored five goals across Everton’s last seven Premier League matches, and his team’s final goal on four of those occasions. Meanwhile, Divock Origi has had a hand in four of Liverpool’s last seven goals vs. Everton (three goals, one assist).
Stat attack: With Everton as the home side, six of the last seven H2Hs have ended in a draw, three of them goalless.
Friendly derby? The last five competitive H2Hs averaged just 2.4 yellow cards per fixture.
Liverpool’s last five competitive away matches saw just one side score.
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Title Race Continues: The English ‘Clasico’ | The Preview Of MW 19 EPL Season 20/21 | THE GOAL POST
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It’s a new episode of the “Goal Post”. Justin and Dana are back with a perfect resume of the year and of course the preview of the matches of match-week 17. Buaksib Asia presents the preview of Matchweek 17 of the English Premier League season 2020/2021. Highlighting upcoming games of match week 17, Manchester
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Boxing Day Madness | The Preview Of MW 15 EPL Season 20/21 | THE GOAL POST
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Ole’s At The Wheel | The Review Of MW 14 English Premier League Season 20/21 | THE GOAL POST
Dana and Justin are back again with another episode of the “Goal Post”. They will review the main matches of matchweek 14 of Premier League. Everton 2-1 Arsenal Carlo’s team is back on the track. After a win against Arsenal, they still have a chance to get into the top four. Everton was very
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MFG Day 2020 to Educate Students Across the Country on the Importance of the Modern Manufacturing Industry
October 2, 2020 By ESN.net Leave a Comment
The 8th annual and first virtual MFG Day, organized by The Manufacturing Institute with Microsoft, PTC and Salesforce, aims to inspire the country’s next generation of talent to learn about the modern manufacturing industry throughout October
Today, The Manufacturing Institute, the charitable nonprofit workforce development and education partner of the National Association of Manufacturers, announces the official start to MFG Day 2020, which will run through October. The MI’s flagship initiative, MFG Day, showcases the many and diverse modern manufacturing careers and addresses the skills gap, which may leave more than 2.4 million American jobs unfilled by 2028 due to outdated misconceptions surrounding the industry and the lack of highly skilled workers to fill those jobs.
Carolyn Lee, executive director of The Manufacturing Institute, and Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, take part in a MFG Day demonstration during last year’s event
MFG Day encourages companies and educational institutions around the nation to host events where students, parents, teachers and community leaders can learn more about the exciting field of modern manufacturing. These events, which range from virtual—and safe in person—factory tours to panels featuring the world’s leading CEOs, help the country’s next generation of workforce talent better understand the well-paying career opportunities modern manufacturing offers as well as what a modern manufacturing career looks like, including:
The chance to work in a diverse range of companies manufacturing offers, from small, local businesses to global Fortune 500 companies, in exciting industries, from aerospace to pharmaceuticals;
Earning $88,406 annually on average, including pay and benefits;
Working in an industry that employs more than 12.13 million workers across the country;
Hands-on experience with the most innovative technology, including 3D printing, drones and virtual reality;
The opportunity to work on real, tangible products that improve people’s lives, from lifesaving medical equipment to food products; and
Career growth that starts at entry level but allows for additional training and promotion opportunities.
“As we celebrate MFG Day across the country over the next month, we are reminded of the important role that modern manufacturing plays in each of our lives. From the masks and clothes we wear to the food we eat, modern manufacturing is at the heart of our country and, as the pandemic continues, will lead the way to our recovery and renewal,” said MI Executive Director Carolyn Lee. “This year’s MFG Day, more so than ever before, is a uniquely powerful opportunity to bring awareness to the high-paying, rewarding and meaningful career opportunities in our industry and to open minds to what’s possible with a career in modern manufacturing.”
Transforming the annual tradition of manufacturing open houses into a series of mostly virtual events, this year’s MFG Day will be like no other, with opportunities for more connection, reach and participation across the industry and the country without the limitations of physical events and travel. This year, MFG Day will be celebrated with more than 300 events throughout October kicking off on Friday, Oct. 2, with the flagship event “Creators Wanted: A Program for America’s Students” sponsored by MFG Day’s National Sponsors Microsoft, PTC and Salesforce, featuring leaders in the manufacturing industry and Netflix star Emily Dawn Calandrelli of Emily’s Wonder Lab. A full schedule of national, local and regional events can be found at creatorswanted.org.
To reach more people across the country and meet the needs of this unique moment in time, MFG Day will run throughout October, Manufacturing Month, and will feature engaging virtual events on CreatorsWanted.org, including the following events:
Friday, Oct. 2, at 12:00 p.m. EDT – The official kick-off to MFG Day with the following special guests and speakers:
Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the NAM
Dr. Walt Copan, under secretary of commerce for standards and technology and NIST director
Emily Dawn Calandrelli, The Space Gal, host and co-executive producer, Emily’s Wonder Lab
Carolyn Lee, executive director, the MI
Jenny Gai, industry solutions manager, Salesforce
Matt Miller, build prep supervisor, SLS, Protolabs
Chelle Travis, executive director, SkillsUSA
Richard Grimsley, director, career and technical education, Dallas ISD
Leah Curry, president, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana
Monday, Oct. 5, at 12:00 p.m. EDT – A program honoring National Teachers’ Day that will highlight how teachers and educators can use their role to inspire the next generation of creators, featuring Allen Gannett, technology entrepreneur and author of The Creative Curve.
Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 12:00 p.m. EDT – A deep dive into creators’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, presented by Walmart; the event will feature an interview of manufacturers involved in the nation’s COVID-19 response by legendary broadcaster Elvis Duran.
MFG Day is receiving great support from both the private and public sectors. The governors of Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio and West Virginia have all issued proclamations celebrating the day and marking October as a time to celebrate the importance of manufacturing and its contributions to our local and national communities.
The platform of MFG Day for manufacturers to educate and inspire new talent is made possible by the support of leading American businesses, including National Sponsors Salesforce, PTC and Microsoft and Platinum Sponsors Walmart and ABB.
Other sponsors include Gold Sponsors Siemens, Polaris and Emerson; Silver Sponsors NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Kronos, Ceridian and Plex; State Sponsors Ohio MEP Network and Ohio Manufacturers’ Association; and Industry Sponsors The Plastics Industry Association and Alliance for Automotive Innovation. Additional sponsors include Stanley Black & Decker and Marvin.
As sponsors, all of these companies have signaled their commitment to highlighting the essential and innovative work modern manufacturers do and energizing a future pipeline of skilled workers.
Since its founding in 2012 by the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International and subsequent organizing by the MI, MFG Day has been the keystone manufacturing education and awareness day that gives manufacturers the unique opportunity to address the skills gap, connect with future generations of talent, reframe the public perception of what modern manufacturing is and ensure the ongoing prosperity of the industry as a whole. Follow MFG Day on Facebook and Twitter and #MFGDAY20.
About the MI
The MI grows and supports the manufacturing industry’s skilled workers for the advancement of modern manufacturing. The MI’s diverse initiatives support all workers in America, including women, veterans and students, through skills training programs, community building and the advancement of their career in manufacturing. As the workforce development and education partner of the NAM, the MI is a trusted adviser to manufacturers, equipping them with resources necessary to solve the industry’s toughest challenges. For more information on MFG Day, please visit creatorswanted.org.
SOURCE The Manufacturing Institute
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Hyundai To Release 13 Alternative Fuel Vehicles By 2022
Hyundai announced its commitment to introduce 13 alternatively fueled vehicles by 2022, including six sedans and seven SUVs.
Upcoming highlights from this eco-friendly commitment include a refreshed 2020 Ioniq Electric, Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid to be revealed later this month at the Los Angeles Auto Show. In addition, the all-new Sonata HEV sedan will be coming next year. The remaining nine eco-focused products will be showcased over the next three years.
“As the automotive industry evolves to meet the needs of a diverse customer base and environmentally-aware society, we will continue to provide alternative-propulsion options in a variety of product choices,” said Mike O’Brien, vice president of Product, Corporate and Digital Planning, Hyundai Motor America. “For consumers seeking forward-thinking and eco-friendly personal transportation options, Hyundai’s product line-up meets these criteria and more.”
Hyundai’s commitment to eco-friendly propulsion leads to improved powertrain efficiencies, particulate-matter contributions and an exceptional level of clean air improvements.
At Hyundai Motor America, we believe everyone deserves better. From the way we design and build our cars to the way we treat the people who drive them, making things better is at the heart of everything we do. Hyundai’s technology-rich product lineup of cars, SUVs and alternative-powered electric and fuel cell vehicles is backed by Hyundai Assurance—our promise to create a better experience for customers. Hyundai vehicles are sold and serviced through more than 830 dealerships nationwide and nearly half of those sold in the U.S. are built at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama. Hyundai Motor America is headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, and is a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Company of Korea.
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Home is Where the Hate Is
Oregon Contemporary Theatre explores racism and real estate in Clybourne Park
Theater by Anna GracePosted on 05/15/2014
Hillary Ferguson, Jason Rowe, Jonathan Thompson and Donella-Elizabeth Alston in Clybourne Park
A witty, often biting examination of neighborhood integration, white flight, gentrification and just how far we have not come in the last half century, Clybourne Park is playwright Bruce Norris’ 21st-century response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, in which a black family plans to move into a white neighborhood. Norris’ play, now at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, takes Hansberry’s tale of balancing assimilation and heritage full circle as white professionals return with grand plans to the neighborhoods their grandparents fled.
In the first act, we view Hansberry’s story from the point of view of the all-white neighborhood association. The second act takes place 50 years later when the neighborhood association, made up of African-Americans, takes issue with a white couple’s plans for a historic home. The problem? Literally, the house they’ve designed is too tall. Metaphorically, ethically, spiritually and politically, the problem is a bit more complex.
Clybourne Park tears into our fears, our inability to talk about race and the emotions we bring to real estate. This both laugh-out-loud funny and gut-wrenchingly painful script won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Director Craig Willis has put together a beast of a cast, drawing members from throughout the Willamette Valley. Each cast member is charged with two different characters, in two different eras. The modern characters often have shades of former characters, indicating a similar soul born to another era.
Donella-Elizabeth Alston reveals powerful undercurrents of frustration, expressed by an eloquent physicality in her performance as Francine/Lena.
First a 1950s homemaker, then a 2009 lawyer with a penchant for foreign capitals, Storm Kennedy is hysterical as Bev/Kathy. Her humor buoys up the audience just as the darkness of the plot threatens to pull us under.
Robert Hirsh is powerful as the grieving Russ, and likable as Dan. Cloud Pemble handles the language of his characters nimbly, giving a hearty performance. Jonathan Thompson as Albert/Kevin brings a self-assured charm to two of the play’s more likable characters. Jason Rowe delivers white male privilege in all its complex ugliness in two eras as Karl/Steve.
Clybourne Park’s home in question develops its own character in the accomplished hands of set designer Jeffrey Cook. Beginning the evening as an elegant abode, the house finishes the night as a trashed and graffitied old place awaiting destruction. Like other characters in the play, the house retains its original soul, which hangs in the balance as fear and prejudice pulse through it.
Clybourne Park is timely and timeless, a painful and funny illustration of how everything, and nothing, has changed. This play will make you laugh so hard your sides hurt, but you will continue hurting long after the laughter subsides and the play’s deeper message seeps in.
Clybourne Park runs through June 1 at Oregon Contemporary Theatre; info and tickets at octheatre.org
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"Atlantis", "My Thoughts Are Silent" and "The Earth is Blue As an Orange": which one will compete for the Oscar?
The names of three Ukrainian films that will take part in the national selection for the Oscar in 2020 are known. They are:
drama "Atlantis" directed by Valentin Vasyanovich (Ukraine, 108 min.)
lyrical comedy "My Thoughts Are Silent" directed by Antonio Lukic (Ukraine, 104 min)
documentary film "The Earth Is Blue As an Orange" directed by Iryna Tsilyk (Ukraine, Lithuania, 74 min.)
All films are made with the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency.
We wish success to all the films!
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 029 Page 0412 KY.,MID. AND E.TENN.,N.ALA.,AND SW.VA. Chapter XXXII.
impossible to do more without losing the whole battery, and ordered it limbered to the rear, and to retire into the cedar thicket, now being cut off from the road we came in the day previous. Being principally in the rear of our retiring forces, was subject to a heavy fire from the enemy following our retreat, and having all except one horse that moved my 6-pounder smooth-bore gun shot, was compelled to leave it; also one caisson belonging to the 10-pounder Parrott gun, containing about 50 rounds of ammunition. The remainder of the battery we succeeded in saving. Some of the carriages moved out with two horses, having had over half my horses killed and crippled. Fired during the day 493 rounds of ammunition, losing 2 men killed and 1 wounded.
Early on the morning of January 1, reported to General Negley the Parrott gun, and sent it on the field in charge of Lieutenant Spence. I then took the remainder of the battery, now unserviceable, to the rear; at the same time procuring 22 rounds of Parrott ammunition, and was subsequently ordered to move the unserviceable portion of the battery to Nashville, which I did, and immediately returned; but, while on the road, was attacked, and lost the rear chests of one caisson.
Lieutenant Spence was placed on the left center for a short time, then receiving orders to move to the right and take position with Marshall's battery, where he remained until about 12 m. January 2, when ordered to move to the left center and take position as on the day previous.
About 4 p.m. a heavy force of the enemy was discovered moving on our left and front, driving in our skirmishers. He immediately ordered shell to be fired into him as rapidly as possible, and at the same time receiving a heavy cross-fire from the enemy's artillery. Not long after the batteries on his right and left retired, and retired about 40 yards to the rear; found that the limber contained about 10 rounds of shell and few canister; immediately ordered the gun to its former position, using all the shell, and reporting the same to Captain Lowrie; was ordered to remain and use the canister in case a second attack was made; but the enemy being repulsed and driven beyond their intrenchments, he retired, moving the gun about one-fourth of a mile to the rear. Forty-two rounds of ammunition were expended, receiving little damage, except a few horses wounded.
On the morning of the 3rd, I failed to procure ammunition, and remained as on the night previous.
Early on the morning of the 4th, procured 75 rounds of ammunition, and reported to Colonel Miller, who ordered me to move to the left center, and placed my gun in position with Marshall's battery.
About 3 p.m., was ordered to advance on Murfreesborough, and moved about 1 mile and remained during the night.
Early on the morning of the 5th, forded the river and passed through Murfreesborough.
I take great pleasure in referring to the valuable assistance rendered by Lieutenant Spence, whose heroic bravery inspired the men with courage, and his conduct is deserving of public commendation.
My non-commissioned officers and privates deported themselves like veterans who fight for the cause of their country.
Our loss in killed was 2-Godfrey Hautt, Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on detached duty which the battery, and Lewis Sagers, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania, on detached duty which the battery; wounded, 1-Milton Crawhorn.
A. A. ELLSWORTH,
Lieutenant, Comdg. Hewett's Battery, Kentucky Vol. Artillery.
H. M. CIST,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
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Thoughts on Saying “Amen”
December 12, 2014 By eJP
By Edward Hamburg
“Amen: The Final Word in Faith” was the theme of a recent retreat held by Sicha, an organization dedicated to promoting ongoing dialogues between classical Jewish texts and lived experience.
In his introductory remarks to the three days of discussion, Sicha executive director Rabbi Steven Sager observed that:
Amen is, after all, a response, not an opening. An amen that stands alone invites questions: What does this amen confirm? To what is it an affirmation? Would we add our own amen to an unheard claim or blessing? To what claims and blessings are we prepared to say amen? Under what conditions are we not prepared to say amen?
He explained how amen embeds the root of other Hebrew words expressing faith, trust, belief, dependability, and artful practice; how it is a word “so engrained, so ready on the tongue, so familiar to the ear that we overlook the ways in which the word forms and informs our lives as individuals who live in communities that are both constant and changing.” Sager also reminded us that while sages and poets have extensively explored the meaning of amen, “they do not have the final word as to its meaning, its use, or its place in building community.”
Indeed. Or perhaps better said, “amen.”
Like others at the retreat, I processed the presented materials within my own intellectual and experiential context. Our discussions resonated for me at the intersection of my academic training as a political scientist and experience as a member and lay leader in the American Jewish community. For the very first time, the word “amen” – saying it, how it is said, or deciding not to say it at all – struck me as an important way Jews respond to each other; that it represents an essential, tangible expression of Jewish citizenship.
While few Jews may actually think of themselves as being “citizens,” I believe citizenship accurately describes the relationship between individual Jews and the collective Jewish people. The term captures the reciprocal nature of this relationship, how it involves having rights and responsibilities that are understood and exercised very differently, with very different degrees of efficacy and intensity, by each of us, just like the rights and responsibilities we have as citizens of conventional polities.
When we become Jewish citizens by birth or election, we are presented with the rights to share a collective identity as well as participate in a liturgy, a host of traditions and conventions, a history, and a multitude of stories. How we decide to exercise the rights and accept the associated responsibilities of this legacy determines our position within the kaleidoscopic Jewish world that includes the disassociated and committed, the religious and secular, and the alchemical combinations in between. Among the ways we express these decisions is with the word “amen.”
Because amen is an affirmation; it is an expression of agreement and support.
But, as Sager asks, do we always know to what we are expressing agreement when “amen” departs our lips? Moreover, does the intensity of our expression – or our hesitation to express it at all – reveal the underlying truth of our convictions, if not the absence of agreement itself? Consider the following table describing very different ways in which amen can be expressed: a “Typology of Amens/Amenim.”
Typology of Amenim
Expression Passive Active
Agreement or Supportive Perfunctory Affirmative
Ambivalence or Not Supportive Directed Withheld
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In the upper right corner is the amen ideal-type: the intentional articulation of the word in an active expression of affirmation or support. This ideal-type is exemplified when we respond five times with “amen” to Jews as they recite the Mourner’s Kaddish. Some of us might be affirming the actual Aramaic liturgical statements confirming God’s sovereignty in the universe, while most of us are likely expressing our support for those who, with this venerable formula, are recalling the loss of loved ones. Prompted by faith, tradition, intellect, or emotion, these affirmative expressions are almost always made with active conviction, and the absence of such responses in a community is hard to imagine. Other examples of ideal-type “affirmative” expressions of amen might include our responses to the Shehecheyanu blessing said at rare and joyous occasions, or after hearing profound teachings from scholars, or even in reaction to occasional thoughtful statements made at congregational board meetings. Most importantly, affirmative amenim are expressions of efficacy and intensity emblematic of engaged Jewish citizens. They not only demonstrate considered agreement and support, but presence and commitment as well.
Complexity creeps in, however, as we move to the upper left corner of the table inhabited by “perfunctory” expressions of amen – when the word, “so engrained, so ready on the tongue, so familiar to the ear,” is said because, well, because it’s supposed to be said. Part of the reason for this is structural: amen at various points is actually embedded in the liturgy, as it is four of the five times we say it in response to the Mourner’s Kaddish. Yet more often than not amen can be a perfunctory response due to inattention, a lack of understanding, or simply the desire to go along with conventional thought and practice. Was my quasi-orthodox maternal grandfather really making an affirming statement when he said amen to the part of the traditional daily liturgy that thanks God for not making him a woman? Do I really understand what I’m affirming when I say amen to our regular requests for the coming of the Messiah or rebuilding the Holy Temple in Jerusalem? Do we ever think about to what we are assenting when we say amen to the various insertions increasingly added to Birkat Hamazon (Grace after Meals)? There is also a larger concern: how much of what is interpreted as agreement or satisfaction in Jewish communities is really drawn from collections of torpid, programmed, practiced, and risk avoiding expressions of support? Beware of the perfunctory amen. At best it may unwittingly perpetuate ideas and conventions in need of questioning or change; at worst it can make us accomplices to sophistry.
We confront even more complexity moving to the bottom left corner of the typology table containing exogenously influenced amens. Some clergy, for example, regularly conclude sermons with the familiar directive, “and let us say amen,” presuming that those in attendance actually agreed with or were positively moved by their remarks. While the amens they hear may in fact be expressions of genuine support, some of these directed responses may also come from congregants wrestling with confusion or disagreement. At Conservative synagogues in the United States, the prayers for the country and State of Israel also conclude with directed amens based on the presumption that congregants will affirm what is said in these passages. There are times, however, when many Jews struggle to articulate their faith in the nation’s “leaders and advisors,” as there are Jews unconvinced that Israel holds for them any “promise of redemption.” Beware of amens initiated by direction based upon presumption. At best they are expressions of affirmation in response to reminders or encouragement; at their worst they can dismiss the range of beliefs and opinions that often exists in increasingly diverse, independently-minded Jewish communities.
Finally moving to the bottom right corner of the table we find amens that are actively withheld, expressions that come from Jews who, if you will, say “amen” to Sager’s earlier question about whether there are conditions under which one might not be prepared to say it. These expressions are the inverse of the amen ideal-types above them in the table: they represent intentional decisions to respond to what is heard with silence in active pronouncements of ambivalence or disagreement. Yet withheld amens are also identical to their affirmative counterparts in that they too are expressions of efficacy and intensity emblematic of engaged Jewish citizens. They demonstrate considered ambivalence or opposition, and do so in a context of presence and commitment. They show that our right to withhold an amen can sometimes be as important as our responsibility to say it.
Maimonides maintains that “anyone who hears one of Israel offering any of the blessings, even without hearing the entire blessing from beginning to end, and without being obliged to make that particular blessing, is obliged to respond amen.” He also provides careful instructions on how amen should be said – never rushed, never truncated, never with hesitation – to express it with optimal effect and respect. And he stipulates exceptions to when it should be said: to blessings offered by heathens, apostates, children while learning, or anyone who materially alters the text, we are told not to respond with amen (“Laws of Blessings,” 1:13-14).
While there is much to be interpreted in these passages, I contend that one message of Maimonides is clear: that we should be mindful of what we affirm and how we express our affirmations, whether in our homes, among our families and friends, and in our communities. They should be expressed with courage and conviction; they should never become perfunctory, nor should we ever allow ourselves to simply affirm what others, regardless of who they are and whatever their intent, encourage or direct us to do. I further contend that we should be mindful that our ability to withhold affirmations is both a right and responsibility of empowered Jewish citizenship, particularly when expressed with courage and conviction.
Perhaps these are thoughts to which some will respond with an affirmative “amen.”
Besides serving as a corporate director of various high technology companies, Edward Hamburg sits on the boards of Sicha, the Institute for the Next Jewish Future, and Congregation Rodfei Zedek on the south side of Chicago.
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Dutch settlement profiteers listed in new report
Adri Nieuwhof Rights and Accountability 31 May 2013
Companies profitting from Israel’s settlement enterprise may be prosecuted in Dutch courts, the Netherlands’ chief prosecutor has warned.
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A recent report by the economic research and corporate responsibility group Profundo on Dutch economic links with the Israeli occupation lists Dutch companies profitting from Israel’s settlement enterprise.
Produndo identified 18 Israeli settlement companies — including Agrexco/Carmel, Edom Fruits, Hadiklaim, Mehadrin Group, Shamir Salads, Golan Heights Winery, SodaStream, Ahava Cosmetics, Keter Group plastics and Tip Top Toys — which trade with 38 Dutch companies.
Some of the Dutch companies distribute agricultural produce and Ahava cosmetics from the settlements mislabeled as “Made in Israel,” and which are sold to Dutch chains such C1000, Jumbo and Kring Pharmacies. EU consumer law requires the correct labeling of the place of origin, especially food imports.
Profundo’s findings also include the involvement of Dutch company Kardan Group NV in the construction of a sewage treatment plant on occupied West Bank land which will serve Israel’s illegal settlements.
Kardan Group NV is active in the Israeli settlements through its subsidiary Tahal Group International, an Israel-based international engineering company specializing in water and wastewater systems. Tahal Group developed the master plan for Jerusalem’s wastewater treatment system which, once completed, will serve illegal settlements in the area.
Tahal Group’s wastewater plan also includes the construction of a sewage treatment plant on Palestinian land in the area of Nabi Mussa in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley, and the construction of the Og reservoir which will be used for the irrigation of date trees in settlement farms.
Dutch settlement profiteers warned
Meanwhile, the Netherlands’ chief prosecutor recently warned Dutch companies profiting from the settlements that participation in violations of international humanitarian law is a crime under Dutch law.
The prosecutor took this stand earlier this month in a letter regarding the state’s decision not to pursue criminal charges against the Dutch crane company Riwal over its involvement in Israeli violations of international law.
The letter makes it clear that the trade of products from, delivery of services to or any other involvement in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise may result in criminal prosecution.
The prosecutor’s decision was the culmination of a three-year criminal investigation opened after the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq lodged criminal complaints against the company for its involvement in the construction of Israel’s wall and settlements in the occupied West Bank. The company’s headquarters and the residences of its directors were raided as part of the investigation.
The probe found that Riwal had rented out equipment which was used both in “the construction of the wall and an industrial site near a settlement in OPT [occupied Palestinian territory],” and the prosecutor affirmed that the construction of the wall and settlements in the West Bank “was considered to be a violation of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions of 1949.”
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and its annexation of East Jerusalem are illegal under international law. Numerous UN resolutions and the 2004 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on Israel’s wall in the West Bank have confirmed that settlements violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Corporate culpability
While criminal charges against Riwal and its directors will not be pursued, the chief prosecutor’s letter leaves no doubt about the culpability of companies involved in such activities.
“Participation in a violation of International Humanitarian Law by Dutch persons and legal entities is a crime according to article 5 of the Dutch International Crimes Act. The Public Prosecution Service considers such a violation a serious criminal offense,” the letter states. Under Dutch law persons and companies “should not in any way be involved in, or contribute to, possible violations of the Geneva Conventions or other rules of International Humanitarian Law.”
The prosecutor further warns companies “to take decisions of authoritative international bodies and judicial institutions as the International Court of Justice extremely serious [sic].”
The prosecutor states it had decided not to pursue criminal charges against Riwal and its directors for “reasons of expediency” because part of the used equipment was rented out to third parties and therefore effective involvement of the company and its directors was considered to be relatively minor.
The probe also found that there was little danger of repetition of the crime because the company had taken far-reaching steps to permanently terminate its activities in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The consequences resulting from the company’s involvement in the construction of Israel’s wall and settlements, including “searches of homes and company premises and by the [media] attention which ensues from the investigation,” was also taken into consideration by the prosecutor.
The prosecutor also states that necessary follow-up investigations would “consume a significant amount of resources of the police and judiciary” and that fact-finding on the ground would “most probably not be possible due to lack of cooperation from the Israeli authorities.”
However, the letter adds that new facts or circumstances could lead to a reopening of the investigation into Riwal.
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The link to the report doesn
Permalink Arno Brosi replied on Fri, 05/31/2013 - 17:12
The link to the report doesn't seem to be working,do you have the good one or a maybe a list of the Dutch companies involved?Thanks!
Now fixed
Permalink Maureen Clare Murphy replied on Fri, 05/31/2013 - 18:21
Thank you for alerting us to the error — it’s now corrected.
the link to the letter doesn't work either
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Permalink Benjamin Doherty replied on Sun, 06/02/2013 - 01:34
Sorry for the mistake. The link works now.
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Oil tanker still burning after more than 60 hours since collision with cargo ship
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Bad weather is hampering efforts to contain a fire and an oil spill - more than 60 hours after two ships collided in the East China Sea, officials say.
China says an Iranian-owned oil tanker is still burning after the incident, with a cargo ship about 260 km off the coast of Shanghai.
The Sanchi tanker has on board 136,000 tonnes of condensate, which is an ultra-light version of crude oil.
Rescuers have now widened their search for 31 missing crew members.
The body of only one crewman, among the 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis on board, has so far been found.
Twenty-one Chinese nationals on the cargo ship have been rescued.
There fears of a major environmental disaster as the tanker is continuing to leak oil.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Chinese transport ministry said heavy winds, rain and waves up to four meters high continued to hamper efforts to contain the fire.
A formal accident investigation, involving several government departments, would start on Tuesday, officials said.
The collision, in the mouth of the Yangtze River Delta, occurred on Saturday evening.
The exact cause is not yet known.
The tanker, run by Iran's leading oil shipping operator, has on board 136,000 tonnes of condensate.
That is about one million barrels and at current prices is worth roughly $60m.
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DMK all set to name M K Stalin as party chief on August 28
PTI | Updated on: 20 Aug 2018, 11:35:01 PM
DMK all set to name M K Stalin as party chief on August 28 (Photo: Facebook)
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DMK is all set to elect M K Stalin, its working president and younger son of late party patriarch M Karunanidhi as party chief at its general council meet on August 28 here.
The agenda for the meeting to be held at party headquarters ‘Anna Arivalayam,’ will be the election of party president, and treasurer, a party release said.
Also Read | DMK under strain – a challenge for Stalin
Days after Stalin’s estranged brother M K Alagiri virtually questioned his brother’s leadership saying true loyalists of his father were on his side, DMK on Monday announced that its general council meet will be held on August 28.
In a release here, DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan asked all elected general council members to participate in the meeting without fail.
Alagiri’s opposition to Stalin is not expected to cast a shadow on Stalin’s elevation since party units are firmly behind Stalin, party sources said.
Party district units like Cuddalore West have already adopted resolutions unanimously proposing Stalin’s elevation, they pointed out.
Also Read | Will not be cowed down by any flutter: Stalin
While Stalin will be the party chief, senior leader and party principal secretary Duraimurugan is tipped to be elected to the post of party treasurer, the sources told PTI.
Karunanidhi who died on August 7 after a prolonged illness, had during his lifetime made it clear that Stalin will be his successor.
Stalin, who is 65-years-old had held several party posts including that of treasurer and youth wing secretary.
His innings in the party began early when he campaigned in the 1967 elections as a 14-year old school student. He became party’s youth wing Secretary in 1984.
Also Read | DMK Succession War: Alagiri mounts challenge against Stalin for Karunanidhi’s political legacy
He was incarcerated under MISA (Maintenance of Internal Security Act) in 1976 during the emergency.
Stalin’s growth has been steady and he became party deputy general secretary in 2003. He was re-elected treasurer for the second five-year term in January 2015.
He became an MLA for the first time in 1989 from Thousand Lights constituency from where he was relected thrice.
In 2006, he became the Municipal Administration Minister in the DMK government and went on to become the Deputy Chief Minister in 2009.
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More than one in three U.S. IT leaders (36 percent) responding to Deloitte’s 2018 Global CIO Survey say their organizations proactively recruit and hire diverse employees.
That’s a necessary step toward correcting disparities in the IT workforce. As one measure of IT’s relative homogeneity, 80 percent of technology executives are men, according to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and 82 percent are white.
There’s clearly plenty of work still to be done, especially in an IT sector that regularly wrings its hands over skills shortages and cutthroat competition for talent. Some 44 percent of CIOs in the same Deloitte survey said their organizations have no particular initiatives in place to recruit, develop, or retain a diverse workforce.
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“Organizations that focus primarily on recruiting and hiring diverse populations but not on retaining them may not be fully committed to true inclusivity,” the report states. “Many employees appreciate perks such as generous parental leave and on-site childcare, but they also want to work on IT teams that authentically prioritize and value inclusivity, provide advancement and development opportunities, and remove biases that may exist in HR and IT policies, [such as those reflected in] salaries, performance reviews, and flexible scheduling.”
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Another key takeaway: CIOs must make the business case for diversity and inclusion. Consider, for starters, these findings from the book Which Two Heads Are Better Than One?: How diverse teams create breakthrough ideas and make smarter decisions, by Deloitte partner Juliet Bourke. According to the book, companies with inclusive cultures are:
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That’s a business case in four bullet points. (In fact, they all sound like digital transformation goals, don’t they?)
Another part of the business case: You can’t complain too loudly about hiring challenges if you’re not investing in diversity and inclusion. Not only do diversity and inclusion initiatives expand your pool of potential talent – and the chances of retaining the best people over time – but also, you become more attractive to job seekers.
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A Monster Calls is probably my top film of this year: beautifully made and heartrendingly emotional. Both the film and the original book were written by Patrick Ness and the film opened in cinemas last week.
The story revolves around Conor, a 13 year old boy trying to cope with his mother’s cancer as she tries one treatment after another. He is plagued by a recurring nightmare where a huge sinkhole opens up and almost swallows both him and his mother if only he holds tightly to her.
Like his artist mother, he loves to draw and paint so the film is a visual feast. One night while drawing, the yew tree in the churchyard outside his bedroom window becomes a monster, an ancient elemental force of nature coming to hold him to account. The monster tells him three stories, told in paintings, in return for a fourth story from Conor himself.
The monster’s stories generally don’t have the ending you would expect, with no comfortable platitudes or simple goodies and baddies to cheer on. Conor finds this frustrating (and he was pretty angry to start with), but like Jesus’ parables, story can wriggle its way into your heart in a way that bald truth finds it hard to do. The problem with grief is that our own stories don’t always end the way we hope, but courage and truth definitely help. Is his grandma really such an ogre, or is she also struggling to cope? Will his mother be healed? Why is he so angry all the time?
It is only at the finale that we discover Conor’s own truth: why his nightmare hurts him so much, and why he can’t bear to talk about it. I don’t want to spoil the ending, but it certainly resonated with my own experience and gave me words to express it.
Warning: You will need a whole box of tissues for this film! I would also not recommend it for those who have recently been bereaved, since one of its strengths is the unflinching but poetical way that it draws out what it really feels like to lose someone you love. If that’s you at the moment, send your mates to see it instead…
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From a ‘Shoestring Budget’ to the Big Screen! The Fresh-Faced Stars of Puffs Prep for Movie Magic
May 4th, 2018 | By Lindsey Sullivan
Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic was only supposed to play five performances at the People’s Improv Theatre in 2015. “We barely received funding of a few thousand dollars and put it up in the winter of that year,” explains playwright Matt Cox. “The best case scenario was that people would maybe come see it.”
Rotate that Time Turner three years forward, and the comedy play, unofficially based off of J.K. Rowling's blockbuster boy wizard series, is scheduled to be witnessed by countless fans in more than 600 movie theaters nationwide on May 9 and 12, courtesy of Fathom Events. The tight-knit cast, including Langston Belton, Madeleine Bundy, Jessie Cannizzaro, Nick Carrillo, A.J. Ditty, Julie Ann Earls, James Fouhey, Andy Miller, Zac Moon, Eleanor Philips and Stephen Stout, will make their silver screen debuts playing a delightful bunch of misfits.
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At its core, Puffs is an underdog tale that centers on the Puffs, the misfits who watched Potter slay giant snakes and battle Death Eaters during his time at Hogwarts while they well,…(maybe) got some homework done and (maybe) made a feather (or two!) levitate. “It would have been kind of terrible to be another student at that particular magic school who just wanted to learn,’” Cox says. “It was then an easy jump to focus that story on our Puffs, whom pop culture has deemed the maybe-not-so-cool-kids at magic school.”
Nevertheless, the Puffs are cool in New York audiences' books. Since the production's premiere at the PIT, Puffs has extended many times, moving off-Broadway to the Elektra in September of 2016 and then to New World Stages, where it is currently playing, in July of 2017. The show’s undeniable popularity caught the attention of Fathom Events. It is the organization’s first New York off-Broadway production that they have chosen to share with audiences across the country.
Top Left: A.J. Ditty and Madeleine Bundy | Top Right: Stephen Stout, Eleanor Philips and Nick Carrillo | Bottom Left: Langston Belton, Zach Moon and Julie Ann Earls | Bottom Right: Andy Miller, James Fouhey and Jessie Cannizzaro
“We have a long-standing partnership with National Theatre Live to bring top stage productions from the West End to U.S. cinemas, like our upcoming broadcast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,” explains Fathom Events CEO Ray Nutt. “We were also the first to film and broadcast Newsies. Puffs has a dedicated and passionate fanbase, so we wanted to give them the opportunity to enjoy their favorite show together.” This marks a major milestone for Puffs, but also for the future of making off-Broadway theater more accessible.
It’s clear that the play resonates with audiences who hold J.K. Rowling’s phenomenon dear. And yet, Puffs is its own entity entirely. The major similarity between the two fan favorites? The message that fierce friendships conquer all.
Puffs’ 11 players are pals. “It’s been awesome to get to watch this show that we made together on a shoestring budget among friends grow and become a film,” says Puffs performer Jessie Cannizzaro.
The cast of 'Puffs'
“Puffs was very much a thing built by a bunch of friends who liked a thing, and wanted to do a show with a lot of laughs and a surprising bit of heart,” continues Cox. “It's really hard to even process where Puffs has gone and is going.”
A Potter comedy play performed amongst friends, then off-Broadway, then across the country? Magic, indeed.
To see Puffs in movie theaters across the country, click here. To see the show at off-Broadway's New World Stages, click here. To find out more, watch The Broadway.com Show below.
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Tag Archives: La Coruna
La Liga Team of the Week
Posted on April 16, 2018 by Joe Thomas
Want to see our team of the week from La Liga’s most recent action? Check it out here!
Daniel Gimenez, Real Betis – seven points
The keeper has played twice for his club this season, keeping consecutive clean sheets in the process.
The 34-year-old’s performance helped his side to a 1-0 win over Girona and he will be hoping his run can put him in the frame as a first team contender for next season.
Damian Suarez, Getafe – nine points
The 29-year-old scored the decisive goal in his side’s fiery 1-0 win in which Flamini saw red in the second half.
The side’s ability to dig in for the win symbolised a mentality that has seen Suarez earn eleven clean sheets and 45 points across the season.
Sime Vrsaljko, Atletico madrid – seven points
The Croatian international has not always been a fixture this season but always dependable when called upon.
With 11 clean sheets and four assists in his 17 games, Vrsaljko remains more than valuable to Diego Simeone.
Diego Godin, Atletico – five points
The Uruguayan has kept a highly impressive 17 clean sheets this season, helping him to 78 points so far across the campaign.
His exploits helped Atletico onto an impressive 3-0 win this weekend as they look to run the campaign in with a flourish.
Victor Laguardia, Alaves – five points
Another player to be named in our team of the week for consecutive turns, his Alaves side ran out 1-0 winners against an uninspired Eibar.
Laguardia now has six clean sheets this season, an impressive tally when considering the fact he has managed just 14 appearances over the campaign.
Casemiro, Real Madrid – four points
The Brazilian scored what proved to be a pivotal second goal for his side as they ran out 2-1 victors against an all-but-relegated Malaga.
Casemiro may not have had the best of campaigns over 2017/18 but his goal saw him hit 35 points for the season.
Daniel Parejo, Valencia – four points
Parejo has managed 49 points across the campaign, his seven goals and seven assists seemingly likely to help Valencia to a Champions League spot for next season.
Parejo scored a late penalty during the weekends action, but it was not enough to facilitate an unlikely come back at the Camp Nou.
Philippe Coutinho, Barcelona – four points
Coutinho is finally starting to find his groove for Barcelona, setting up his one-time Liverpool team mate Luis Suarez to score the games opener.
The Brazilian now has nine goals and 11 assists across La Liga and the Premier League, seeing him hit 77 points across the two competitions.
Angel Correa, Atletico Madrid – eight points
The Argentine midfielder has been a valuable member of the Atletico side this season, making 32 appearances for Simeone’s men.
Correa now has 75 points, thanks in part to his 15 goals – one of which game in their comprehensive win over Levante.
Isco, Real Madrid – six points
It’s been a tough campaign for many in the white of Madrid but Isco has arguably been one of the better performers.
He got the opener against his old side Malaga as he hit six goals and six assists in his 27 games.
Adrian Lopez, Deportivo La Coruna – eight points
It’s been a disappointing season for relegation threatened La Coruna but Adrian’s brace in the 3-2 victory over Bilbao gives them a sniff at survival.
If they are to stay up then the form that has seen him secures nine goals in 25 appearances will prove crucial.
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Theoretical analysis of a single-stage and two-stage solar driven flash desalination system based on passive vacuum generation
Shalabh C. Maroo, D. Yogi Goswami
An innovative solar driven flash desalination system is proposed. The system uses the natural forces of gravity and atmospheric pressure to create a vacuum. Single-stage and two-stage concepts have been outlined. The main components include evaporator(s), condenser(s), collection tanks, heat source and seawater circulation pump. Partial heat recovery is attained by first passing the feedwater through the condenser(s), followed by the heat source. Additional distillate output is obtained in the second stage of the two-stage system without any extra heat addition, since the high temperature brine from the first stage is passed and flashed in the second stage. Theoretical analysis of the single-stage and two-stage concepts is done for the system when coupled with constant temperature heat source and solar collector. When coupled with a solar collector of 1 m2 area, a single-stage system produces 5.54 kg of water in 7.83 h, while the two-stage system produces 8.66 kg in 7.7 h. The performance ratios obtained, including the efficiency of solar collectors, are 0.48 and 0.75 for a single-stage and two-stage system respectively, or 0.748 and 1.350 if only the useful heat collected by the solar collector is considered.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2008.12.055
10.1016/j.desal.2008.12.055
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Maroo, S. C., & Goswami, D. Y. (2009). Theoretical analysis of a single-stage and two-stage solar driven flash desalination system based on passive vacuum generation. Desalination, 249(2), 635-646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2008.12.055
Theoretical analysis of a single-stage and two-stage solar driven flash desalination system based on passive vacuum generation. / Maroo, Shalabh C.; Goswami, D. Yogi.
In: Desalination, Vol. 249, No. 2, 15.12.2009, p. 635-646.
Maroo, SC & Goswami, DY 2009, 'Theoretical analysis of a single-stage and two-stage solar driven flash desalination system based on passive vacuum generation', Desalination, vol. 249, no. 2, pp. 635-646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2008.12.055
Maroo SC, Goswami DY. Theoretical analysis of a single-stage and two-stage solar driven flash desalination system based on passive vacuum generation. Desalination. 2009 Dec 15;249(2):635-646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2008.12.055
Maroo, Shalabh C. ; Goswami, D. Yogi. / Theoretical analysis of a single-stage and two-stage solar driven flash desalination system based on passive vacuum generation. In: Desalination. 2009 ; Vol. 249, No. 2. pp. 635-646.
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Uranium-series age constraints on lavas from the axial valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, MARK area
Marnie E. Sturm, Steven J. Goldstein, Emily M. Klein, Jeffrey A. Karson, Michael T. Murrell
Mass spectrometric measurements of 230Th-226Ra, 235U-231Pa and 238U-230Th disequilibria are used to determine eruption ages for four mid-ocean ridge basalts from the median valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Kane Fracture Zone (MARK area). Three samples were collected across-axis on the Axial Volcanic Ridge (i.e. the Neovolcanic Ridge) near the Snake Pit hydrothermal mound, and one sample was collected near the crest of Serocki Volcano ~ 50 km south of Snake Pit. (226Ra)/(230Th) and (230Th)/(238U) activity ratios are low and uniform for all four samples, while (231Pa)/(235U) activity ratios are elevated and somewhat more variable. Age constraints suggest that these lavas, from the most robust volcanic edifices in the MARK area, are 10 000-20 000 yr old. The age data are used to evaluate the efficacy of commonly used age estimate scales based on qualitative indicators (e.g. sediment cover, glass quality) and to begin to quantify the temporal and spatial dependence of volcanic, tectonic and hydrothermal processes at slow-spreading oceanic ridges. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00177-1
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Mid-ocean ridge basalts
Uranium disequilibrium
10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00177-1
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Sturm, M. E., Goldstein, S. J., Klein, E. M., Karson, J. A., & Murrell, M. T. (2000). Uranium-series age constraints on lavas from the axial valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, MARK area. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 181(1-2), 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00177-1
Uranium-series age constraints on lavas from the axial valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, MARK area. / Sturm, Marnie E.; Goldstein, Steven J.; Klein, Emily M.; Karson, Jeffrey A.; Murrell, Michael T.
In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 181, No. 1-2, 17.10.2000, p. 61-70.
Sturm, ME, Goldstein, SJ, Klein, EM, Karson, JA & Murrell, MT 2000, 'Uranium-series age constraints on lavas from the axial valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, MARK area', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 181, no. 1-2, pp. 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00177-1
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Sturm, Marnie E. ; Goldstein, Steven J. ; Klein, Emily M. ; Karson, Jeffrey A. ; Murrell, Michael T. / Uranium-series age constraints on lavas from the axial valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, MARK area. In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2000 ; Vol. 181, No. 1-2. pp. 61-70.
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Kevin McCloud - Biography
Last Modified: Jun 7, 2020
TV presenter, Designer, Journalist, Screenwriter
The Grand Designs
1.89 meter (6 feet 2 inch)
Light Brown, Grey
Kevin McCloud
Bedfordshire, England
Donald McCloud
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Graham McCloud (brother)
Dunstable Grammar School
Corpus Christi College
Suzanna McCloud (seperated)
Hugo McCloud (son)
Elsie McCloud (daughter)
Grace McCloud (daughter)
Milo McCloud (son)
Who is Kevin McCloud?
Kevin McCloud has been a presenter on TV since April 1999, presenting the show The Grand Designs. He is not only a presenter but also a designer and an author. Read more facts about the self-acclaimed ‘Workaholic’.
Kevin McCloud (Image: Instagram)
Kevin McCloud: Age, Family
Kevin McCloud was born on 8 May 1959 in Bedfordshire, England. His father is Donald McCloud who worked as a rocket scientist and his mother is deceased. He also has siblings, two brothers named Terence and Graham McCloud.
Talking about his father, he remembers, “He bought a three-bedroom semi that was incomplete, and added an extension. He was a builder, a designer, and an engineer, all his life. He always had a project.”
McCloud attended Dunstable Grammar School for his education. He then went on to attend Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he studied the history of art and architecture. There he was a member of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club simply known as Footlights comedy alongside Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Kevin McCloud: Marriage, Wife, Children
Kevin McCloud has four children. a son and a daughter from multiple relationship. The details of the mother of his first two children (a son and a daughter) is not known.
He married Suzanna McCloud, nicknamed Zani in 1996. With his wife he has two children - a son and a daughter. His four children are - daughters Elsie McCloud, Grace McCloud and sons Milo McCloud, Hugo McCloud, who graduated from School of Architecture with a Masters of Architecture in 2013.
Kevin McCloud, Zani with their children (Image: DailyMail )
In December 2019 DailyMail reported that he walked out on his wife of 23 years and are now separated.
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Kevin McCloud: Career
After graduation from the University, Kevin McCloud trained as a theatre designer, working with different productions. Gradually, he set up his own lighting design practice and his own business McCloud Lighting.
In early 2007, he opened HAB (Happiness, Architecture, Beauty) Housing Limited in Swindon, Wiltshire. 2 years later in October 2009, HAB and housing group GreenSquare, collectively called HAB Oakus had been granted planning permission for its first housing scheme in Swindon. The construction of the 42- home scheme, called The Triangle, was completed in late 2011.
The construction process was filmed and broadcast as part of a The Grand Designs' episode called Kevin's Grand Design. He also is an editor of The Grand Designs Magazine.
Kevin McCloud (Image: DailyMail)
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Books, TV Shows
Kevin McCloud published his first book titled Kevin McCloud's Decorating Book in 1990. His other books include The Techniques of Decorating (1995), Kevin McCloud's Lighting Book (1995), and The Complete Decorator (1996).
His first TV appearance was in Homefront on BBC Two as a guest presenter. He also wrote and presented the shows Grand Designs Indoors and Grand Designs Abroad and has been presenting The Grand Designs since April 1999.
McCloud also took part in programs such as Grand Designs Live (May 2008), Don't Look Down (2000), Demolition ( 2005), The Stirling Prize: Building of the Year (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008), Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan (August 2008),
Since 2009, McCloud has also worked with programs Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour (2009), Kevin McCloud: Slumming It (January 2010), Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home (September 2012), Escape to the Wild (June 2015).
Kevin McCloud: Net Worth, Salary
His net worth is estimated at $2.85 million while the estimates on his annual salary is under review.
Kevin McCloud: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
On social media, Kevin McCloud is active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram with thousands of followers where he advertises her products.
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Amanda Kloots’ husband Nick Cordero might be waking up from coma
Broadway actor Nick Cordero, 41, is showing the early stages of waking up from a medically-induced coma who has been battling coronavirus for the last two months.
The doctors treating Cordero at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have seen very small signs of eye movement and tracking which is something he has not been able to do since he went into the coma.
Nick Cordero (Image: Los Angeles Times)
On Wednesday Nick Cordero’s wife of over 2 years, Amanda Kloots took to social media to share the news an in an emotional Instagram story, calling “the best news they’ve gotten so far.”
“The doctor just called and said that Nick is showing very, very, very early, early, early signs of stages of tracking.” she said, “The doctor just really thinks this is a great sign that he is starting to wake up.”
Just days ago she had reported that her husband had a “rocky night” when his oxygen levels fell too low and doctors had to take him into surgery. He was reported to be in critical condition in April 2020 and on April 18, 2020, his right leg was amputated as a result of complications.
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In every generation, the burden must be taken up anew.
Ceremonial magic is by its nature an art defined by mysticism and mystery, which is to say, by obfuscation. This is doubly true of goetia, with its frightening demonic drama and its grandiose claims. The impenetrable allegories, the coy vagueness, the secrets and initiations, the smoke-and-mirrors… These things are integral to the sorcery, they are part of what makes it work, and so they cannot be lightly tossed aside to assuage a skeptical public. All sorcerers are liars, and there is good reason for it.
But the fact remains that our society is gluttonous for information, and that magicians and would-be magicians have as much share in the gluttony as anyone else. At some point, someone must pull back the curtain and account for what is actually going on, at least to some extent. There is a demand for understanding, and so there will be a supply. If the understanding does not come in the form of lucid truth, then it will come in the form of fraudulent nonsense, or else in the form of a sneering dismissal: “it’s all charlatanry and crankery.” The nature of the craft must be explained in the idiom of the day, or else the craft as a whole will suffer the consequences.
This is where The Key of Zev ben Avram comes in. Devoid of any unnecessary prose, this quintessential grimoire delves directly into the specifics of 72 demons, each with its own sigil and detailed description, in a highly practical way. This grand catalogue of Goetic Spirits is the heart of the book, followed by explicit instructions about the necessary tools and rituals to work with the spirits described within it. Although far from the Solomonic demons, which are among the mightiest servitors of hell, the entities introduced in this grimoire are less awful in their wrath, proving easier to work with and bind them to one’s will.
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Beyond the Grave is a horror-themed comedic RPG by AlpacaSoft
Beyond the Grave follows a newly deceased soul named Terry, who must traverse the fields of the underworld, going through dungeons, fighting demons and evil ghosts so that he may defeat the Lord of Hell and have a peaceful afterlife, safe from his tyranny.
1 Plot Summary
5 Nightmares
5.1 Terry
5.2 Horold
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
The game begins with Terry arriving in the underworld and being forced to mine Nether for the rest of his afterlife, after making a new friend with a sheet ghost-looking fellow named Horold, they fight off a guard with their pickaxes and leave the mines, making their way to the "surface" where they fight another, bigger guard, Terry and Horold are safe to go out into the underworld to fight the Lord of Hell. More TBA
Spoiler warning: Spoilers end here.
Beyond the Grave plays like most other RPGs, it is a top-down game where the player must explore fields and dungeons, collecting items and facing enemies, which are found through random encounters.
In the overworld, treasure chests can be found, which give the player money, in the form of Nether, or items to use in battle or to progress in the game, the player has an action button, a running button and a menu button. From the menu, they may access their items, their party formation, among other things, and may also leave the game.
In battle, the player has various options to fight off the enemies:
Spook - The normal attack.
Nightmares - Special, stronger attacks to be used in a tough situation.
Block - Guards against the next enemy attack.
Items - Use up an item to heal, restore SP or deal damage to a foe.
Aside from the actual battle options, the player can also run, if they feel they cannot fight the current enemy.
The player has a few stats to look out for, there are:
DP - "Death Points" are the game's version of HP, if this stat hits 0, the character will fall and will require a "Killing" item.
SP - "Scare Points" are this game's MP, they are used up when the player uses Nightmares in battle or to restore DP.
Attack - Affects how much damage a character or enemy does in battle.
Defense - Affects how much a character or enemy resists an attack.
Agility - Affects what character moves first in battle.
Luck - Affects how often a character will land critical hits or dodge an attack.
All of these stats are raised by leveling up or by wearing certain pieces of equipment, they can also be lowered by certain moves or pieces of equipment.
Terry A newly deceased human who found himsself as a cloaked ghost in the afterlife, he quickly rebels against the Lord of Hell's tyranny and swears to fight back with whatever friends he makes in his journey.
Horold A sheet ghost who was once a human, he joins Terry when they want to escape the Nether Mines.
TBA Lord of Hell The main villain of the game, a large demon who rules over the underworld with an iron fist, not letting his own demons stop working or the lost souls in there have a peaceful afterlife.
Main Article: Beyond the Grave/Enemies
There are various bizarre enemies and bosses to face off against in the underworld, above is a full list of them.
Nightmares are this game's special moves to be used in battle, they deal more damage than the normal attacks and some even have special effects. Each party member has their own set of Nightmares to use. Some of these attacks are also shared with enemies throughout the game.
SP Cost
Scary Face Terry stuns and damages an enemy with a horrifying stare. "Hit them with the cold, dark, empty gaze of a ghoul, you look drop dead gorgeous" 8
Knives Out Attacks an enemy with a barrage of blades. "Slice n' dice those pitiful demons with your Ghost Shankstm" 10
Sharp Bite Terry bites down on a foe, has a chance of giving them the "Bleeding" ailment. "You wouldn't think the dead have much of a use for eating, but go ahead" 14
Horold
Main Article: Beyond the Grave/Items
There are various types of items in Beyond the Grave, to restore DP and SP, restore a fallen ally and some even do damage to enemies.
The underworld in the game is never truly given a name, not even from the final boss' name, "Lord of Hell", as "hell" is more of a generic term used to refer to the underworld, as it is used by other characters as such.
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2 edition of An innocent abroad found in the catalog.
An innocent abroad
Jeffrey M. Chusid
Joseph Stein in India
by Jeffrey M. Chusid
Published 2010 by India International Centre in New Delhi .
Criticism and interpretation
About the Edition
On the architectural projects executed by Joseph Allen Stein, U.S. architect, in India.
Other titles Joseph Stein in India
Statement [by Jeffrey M. Chusid]
Series Occasional publication -- 18
Contributions India International Centre
LC Classifications NA737.S+ (Stein, Joseph Allen) C+
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Benjamin Franklin Papers
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To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Galloway, 18 [July] 1765
From Joseph Galloway
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Philada. June [July3] 18. 1765
Since the Receipt of yours by the Packet, I was favor’d with yours by Capt. Robinson.4 I Thank you for the Case of the D. of Athol,5 which is a curious one, and also for the still more curious Reasons of Mr. Pownal for refusing the Govt. of this Province.6 They appear to me very just and sensible, and must do real Honor to that Gentleman, as they manifest an Integrity not very Common in our Day.
In Return permit me to present you with the Inclosed Resolves of the Lower House of Assembly of Virginia on the Stamp Act, and the Right of the Brittish Legislature toward Forming that Law. After they were passed, The Governor7 by some Means procured from the Clerk the Original Minutes of the House tore them out, and instantly Dissolved the Assembly.8 They were However Published in the Mary Land Gazzettee from which this Copy is taken, as I coud not procure one of them to send you.9 I cannot describe to you, the indefatigable Industry that have been and are constantly taking by the Prop--y Party and Men in Power here to prevail on the People to give every Kind of Opposition to the Execution of this Law. To incense their Minds against the King Lords and Commons, and to alienate their Affections from the Mother Country. It is no uncommon thing to hear the Judges of the Courts of Justice from the first to the most Inferiour, in the Presence of the attending Populace, to Treat the whole Parliament with the most irreverent Abuse. Scarcely any thing, is too Bad to be said of the Ministry, and that worthy Nobleman Lord Bute1 is openly cursed whenever his Name is mentioned. These things are truly Alarming to our Friends and the Discreet and sensible part of the People, as it is Evident they tend with great rapidity to create in the Minds of the Populace and weaker part of Mankind a Spirit of Riot and Rebellion, which will be hereafter Quelled with great Difficulty, if ever Quelled at all.
It is already become Dangerous to Espouse the Conduct of the Parliament in some parts of America, in any Degree, as the Resolves before mentioned prove. And I fear will in a very short Time become so in this Province. For almost every Pen and Tongue are employ’d against them, while not a word scarcly is offerd on their side. And yet I have thoughts of Endeavouring to state the Conduct of the Mother Country with regard to her Colonies in a true Light, and endeavour, if possible to Check the growing Mischiefs —By Proving the reasonableness of our being Taxed—The Opportunity the Crown afforded the Colonies of Taxing themselves in the Manner which they contend they ought to be Assessed—Their repeated refusals—The necessity there is, as well for our own as, the safety of the Mother Country, that the Crown (in whose Hands is constitutionally Lodged the Powers of War and Peace, and of the Protection of the people) shoud have some certainty of receiving the Supplies when necessary—That if we are aggrieved, the Imprudence and Folly of pursuing the present rash and wicked Measures for obtaining a redress—and the Fatal Consequences which must attend them—And by Pointing out the Better Mode, a decent and discreet Application to the Crown and Parliament such as shall Correspond with the Professions we make of being a faithful and Loyal People. Some Thing of this Nature I have thought might give the People a different Turn or at least prevent the Contagion of Rebellion from spreading irrecoverably far.2
The Hopes your last Letters gave us of a Change give us great Joy—And the Expectation of seeing you in a Station superiour to the Malice of your unrelenting Enemies adds beyond Measure to that Pleasure.3 We are afraid of nothing but your want of Inclination to accept of it. Which we Pray may not be the Case.
I heartily thank you for the pains you have taken in setting aside the intended Applications for the Delaware Islands and for your Intentions to Serve the Petitioners, in procuring a Confirmation of their Right.4 Shoud any Expence Attend it a Draught on me shall be duly Honord. I am Dear friend with the greatest sincerity your most Affectionate and Obliged
Jos. Galloway
Benja. Franklin Esq
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
3. Although Galloway plainly wrote June 18, his pen must have slipped, for the contents of this letter point incontrovertibly to a July 18 dating. In the second paragraph, Galloway informed BF that he was sending him a copy of the resolves of the Virginia House of Burgesses against the Stamp Act, May 30, 1765. Similarly, Galloway stated that the version of the resolves which he was sending was copied from the Maryland Gazette, but since that paper did not publish them until July 4, 1765, the present letter must have been written on the 18th of July, not June. The “Merchant in Philadelphia” who wrote BF on June 19 had apparently seen only a MS copy of the resolves; see above, p. 187 n.
4. The Prince George, Captain Robinson, arrived in Philadelphia on May 31, 1765, after what was described as a “most tedious” passage, the ship having been becalmed for seven weeks. Neither of BF’s letters mentioned in this sentence has been found.
5. BF probably sent Galloway The Case of John, Duke of Atholl, and Charlotte Duchess of Atholl his wife (London, [1765?]). In 1764 John Murray, 3d Duke of Atholl, inherited through his wife the proprietorship of the Isle of Man. In 1765 the Treasury negotiated a contract with the duke by which for a generous financial consideration he surrendered the powers of government of the island, which for years had been a haven for smugglers, but retained his rights to the land and patronage. Later in the same year Parliament ratified the contract. BF and his associates could not help but be interested in a transaction which effected what they were striving for in Pennsylvania, the replacement of proprietary government by royal government.
6. In 1756 rumors were rife in Pennsylvania that Thomas Pownall would be appointed governor of the province; see above, VI, 453 n, 456 n. There was considerable substance to these rumors, for in 1756 or shortly thereafter the Duke of Cumberland recommended Pownall to Penn for the governorship and Pownall and Penn conducted negotiations about the position, but these finally proved abortive. For a statement of Pownall’s reasons for declining the post, see PMHB, XIII (1889), 441–6.
7. Francis Fauquier (1704?–1768) was lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1758 until his death. Despite differences with the Assembly he was popular and his passing was genuinely regretted. DAB.
8. Fauquier dissolved the Assembly on June 1, 1765. The present letter is the only authority the editors have been able to find for the statement that he mutilated the House’s minutes.
9. The version of the resolves which appeared in the July 4, 1765, issue of the Maryland Gazette is conveniently reprinted in Edmund S. Morgan, Prologue to Revolution Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764–1766 (Chapel Hill, [1959]), pp. 49–50. For the thorny problem of precisely what resolutions were passed by the House of Burgesses, see above, pp. 212–14, and the references cited there. No copy of the Maryland Gazette version has been found among BF’s surviving papers.
1. Bute had resigned as first lord of the Treasury and retired into private life in April 1763, but in the colonies and in England itself in 1765 he was still believed to be running the government covertly. For Bute, see above, IX, 401–2 n.
2. Over the signature “Americanus” in Pa. Jour., Aug. 29, 1765, Galloway published a long letter for which this paragraph might very nearly serve as an outline. As “the Better Mode” of securing redress mentioned here, “Americanus” suggested either that “an united legislature of the colonies” be created by the King and Parliament or by acts of “our several assemblies,” or, if the colonists preferred, that they petition the home government to be permitted to send colonial members to the British Parliament.
3. This may mean that Galloway thought BF had been offered the governorship of Pa. in the event that the province became a royal jurisdiction. Galloway’s allusion thus lends some color to the charges of BF’s enemies in 1764 that he was working to overthrow the proprietary government to become royal governor himself.
4. Galloway was apparently concerned in some manner in a petition from the owners of certain islands in the Delaware River, which WF sent to the Privy Council in a letter of Feb. 21, 1765. The islands in question had never been granted to any colonial government and the petitioners were requesting that they be put under the jurisdiction of New Jersey. They professed themselves willing to pay quitrents as a consideration for royal confirmation of their land titles and WF suggested that these quitrents be applied to the support of the government of New Jersey. On Aug. 22, 1765, the Privy Council Committee referred the petition to the Board of Trade but the Board does not seem to have taken any action on it. See 1 N.J. Arch., IX, 488–90; Acts Privy Coun., Col., IV, 681.
Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © the American Philosophical Society and Yale University. All rights reserved.
Franklin Papers
Galloway, Joseph
“To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Galloway, 18 [July] 1765,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-12-02-0111. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 12, January 1, through December 31, 1765, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 216–219.]
From Galloway to Franklin [28 June 1765]
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All correspondence between Galloway and Franklin
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COVID-19 may eventually be no worse than childhood cold, study finds
by: Michelle Robertson, Nexstar Media Wire
(NEXSTAR) – COVID-19 is known to cause life-threatening, and sometimes fatal, outcomes today. But in the future, contracting the virus may be akin to coming down with a common childhood cold.
Using data from other human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-1, researchers from Emory University and Pennsylvania State University have determined that, eventually, COVID-19 will resemble other common childhood infections. They published their findings Tuesday in the journal Science.
“What we see with other coronaviruses is that people will get the virus for the first time as a child, and then they may get it again as an adult multiple times,” explained lead study author Jennie S. Lavine, a post-doc researcher at Emory. “But — and this is true for many infections — our first exposure is the most severe because we have no prior immunity to it.”
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COVID-19 will likely manifest with mild symptoms in childhood, such as light sniffles, while in adulthood, your previously exposed immune system will be able to fight the virus off before it replicates internally, meaning no symptoms or infection will appear.
The researchers’ analysis looked at virus data qualitatively, rather than quantitatively, so researchers say it’s not yet known when COVID-19 will become a run-of-the-mill, non-fatal infection.
For that to happen, herd immunity is required, which can be achieved when large swaths of the population contract the virus or are vaccinated against it. The latter scenario would involve far fewer lives lost.
“Getting first exposure to happen by vaccination is really the ideal way to get to this endemic state, and how fast we get there is determined by how fast we get people vaccinated,” Lavine explained.
As of Thursday, more than 11 million people in the U.S. had received a first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, according to CDC data. Over 30 million vaccines have been distributed thus far.
The grim milestone, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, wasn’t entirely unexpected in a state with 40 million residents, but its speed was stunning. The state only reached 2 million reported cases on Dec. 23.
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Melania Trump’s Speech Appears to Plagiarize Parts of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Convention Address
by: CNN Wire
Posted: Jul 19, 2016 / 07:50 AM PDT / Updated: Jul 19, 2016 / 07:48 AM PDT
At least one passage in Melania Trump’s speech Monday night at the Republican National Convention appears to plagiarize Michelle Obama’s address to the Democratic National Convention in 2008.
Side-by-side comparisons of the transcripts show the text in Trump’s address following, nearly to the word, the first lady’s own from the first night of the Democratic convention in Denver nearly eight years ago.
The controversy quickly overshadowed the speech, which was to have been her introduction to voters. It focused on her immigration to the US and her love for her husband.
So that's pretty blatant, right? pic.twitter.com/EPnHME7afV
— Mike Hearn (@mikehearn) July 19, 2016
A Republican operative familiar with how the campaign was handling the speeches said a number of senior aides had a role, edited Melania’s speech, suggested changes and provided guidance.
The Trump campaign released a statement on the speech after the similarities were uncovered, but the statement did not mention the plagiarism charge.
“In writing her beautiful speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking. Melania’s immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which made it such a success,” according to Jason Miller, the senior communications adviser.
Earlier in the day, Melania Trump told NBC’s Matt Lauer: “I read once over it, that’s all, because I wrote it … with (as) little help as possible.”
https://twitter.com/BenNPetersen/status/755264243490971650
Here is Trump, on Monday:
“From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily lives. That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son,” Trump said.
And we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow. Because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
And here is Obama, on August 25, 2008:
“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them.
And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and to pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
The reaction:
“(To be honest), I was more offended by just about every other speech than Melania’s plagiarized paragraphs,” former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau jokingly tweeted as the accusations went viral hours after Trump’s address.
Jarrett Hill seems to have been one of the first to notice the similarities on Twitter.
He’s a big fan of the Obamas, and told CNN over the phone that one particular line from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech really spoke to him: “To know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
When he heard Melania Trump start saying “the only limit to your achievements,” he new something was wrong.
CORRECTION: Melania stole a whole graph from Michelle's speech. #GOPConvention
WATCH: https://t.co/8BCOwXAHSy pic.twitter.com/zudpDznGng
— Jarrett Hill (@JarrettHill) July 19, 2016
Hill said he then Googled Michelle Obama’s speech and saw the similar lines.
“It was kind of a total recall moment,” he said.
After he posted the comparison on Twitter, his tweet garnered 16,000 retweets.
“Um. This is becoming a thing,” he later tweeted.
Never gonna let you down?
In an even stranger twist, some on social media posited that Trump surreptitiously Rickrolled everyone in the middle of her speech.
“He will never give up,” she said of her husband. “And most importantly, he will never, ever let you down.”
The chorus of the 80s classic sounds very similar: “Never gonna give you up/ Never gonna let you down/ Never gonna run around and desert you.”
A bit of background — Rickrolling is where you get someone to unwittingly click on a link to the video of the Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
So, for example, if someone were to tell you to click here, saying it’s another article about Melania Trump, and you click, you have been Rickrolled.
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Matt Jarvis is surely wrong to imply West Ham shot-stopper Roberto can ease any concerns about whether Lukasz Fabianski will be a big miss in the coming weeks by impressing against Crystal Palace.
The former Hammers winger was asked about Manuel Pellegrini’s side losing Fabianski to injury and he pointed out that he thought the 34-year-old was a huge player for the club.
Jarvis stated that “we” will find out how West Ham can cope without Fabianski against Crystal Palace, and in turn, that implies that Roberto will be able to ease any concerns about his teammate being stuck on the sidelines by impressing on Saturday.
After all the 33-year-old is likely to be the one who takes Fabianski’s first-team spot considering he was the player to replace him after the Poland international went down injuried against Bournemouth.
“Yeah he has been one of the best keepers this season, I think,” said Jarvis on Match Centre (Sky Sports News, 11:38am, Friday, October 4th).
“He has kept them in games, made a lot of important saves, and we’ve been saying that having a regular back-four and goalkeeper who are a unit that you can rely on every week is huge and for them, it’s been him.
“So him not being there…we’ll see this weekend if they can cope with that, they will have enough to be fine for the weekend.”
Yet Roberto could play out of his skin against Palace, and it still wouldn’t ease any worries that Fabianski missing games would potentially hurt the team.
As Crystal Palace aren’t going to be the hardest test Roberto faces in the coming weeks, far from it in fact.
Roy Hodgson’s side have only managed to score six goals in their first seven league games with just three Premier League sides having scored less.
Also, Luka Milivojevic is one of only four Palace players to have scored a goal this season, in fact, he’s their joint-second highest scorer with one goal (Source: BBC), and the 28-year-old isn’t set to face the Hammers due to being suspended after picking up five yellow cards. (Source: Crystal Palace)
While Palace star man Wilfried Zaha looked back to his best against Norwich City, he got an assist and made five key passes in the 2-0 win over Canaries (Source: WhoScored), and could cause the Hammers’ keeper problems if on form, it’s worth noting he hasn’t scored yet this season.
So there is a tiny chance that his return to form against Norwich was a one-off last weekend and his shooting boots will stay at home once again when facing West Ham.
With all that in mind then surely it will be impossible to tell if the Hammers will be able to cope without Fabianski and rely on Roberto for the coming weeks based on what happens in Saturday’s Palace clash.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: WORK IN PROGRESS (1991)
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farerb
The best version of Beauty and the Beast: WIP is the 35mm scan provided on the Diamond Edition Blu-ray, but it needs to be ripped in order to watch it in full screen.
2021-01-13, 07:17 PM (This post was last modified: 2021-01-13, 07:18 PM by pipefan413.)
(2021-01-13, 06:21 AM)farerb Wrote: The best version of Beauty and the Beast: WIP is the 35mm scan provided on the Diamond Edition Blu-ray, but it needs to be ripped in order to watch it in full screen.
This is the only one I haven't yet checked because I was so peeved about the changes to BATB on Blu-ray that I didn't ever buy it. The picture looks terribly revisionist even without getting to the redrawn stuff etc. However, I do have:
1. Multiple copies of the US LaserDisc release
2. The version from the US special edition DVD
3. The version from the UK special edition DVD
Incredibly, they're all different transfers. The LD is tidied up to add dissolves etc. and the colours are very different from the UK DVD version (if anything the UK DVD version is almost certainly the original in this respect because the colours are a lot less sophisticated, e.g. the castle just looks mostly like a blue wash rather than everything being individually painted in various different colours). The US DVD has colours similar to the LD but the logo from the UK DVD. Neither DVD has the dissolves, they both jump abruptly at cuts where there are intended to (eventually) be dissolves.
When you say "best", what exactly are you basing that on? So far, from all I've seen, it looks like the UK DVD is probably the most true to the original festival screening in most respects except that they've cranked the crap out of the contrast so all the tactile texture is blown out and so on. But the one that appears to look the "best" from a subjective standpoint is the LaserDisc, which makes some sense to me because of how it came to be (as discussed previously in this thread). My guess would've been that the Blu-ray version is probably just the NTSC DVD version (or maybe the PAL DVD one, I suppose) rather than a whole new transfer, but maybe it is unique as well. If so, then there are 4 different transfers of this in the wild!
Interesting that the UK DVD has a different look than the US DVD (both are the DVDs that were released in 2002?). Anyway from what I know, the US DVD has seamless branching, so the colored parts are the same as the final transfer of the movie's. Perhaps the UK DVD has a scan like the Blu-ray did.
Anyway here are some screenshots from the Blu-ray (I only took colored ones):
(2021-01-13, 07:57 PM)farerb Wrote: Interesting that the UK DVD has a different look than the US DVD (both are the DVDs that were released in 2002?). Anyway from what I know, the US DVD has seamless branching, so the colored parts are the same as the final transfer of the movie's. Perhaps the UK DVD has a scan like the Blu-ray did.
Yep, that's definitely what the UK DVD looks like, see screenshots I shared previously in the thread. Interesting! Thanks.
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"Check this out, fool!"
Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by Stegyre, Aug 8, 2007.
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For the pro- and con-gun control debates, I thought the "pros," in particular, would enjoy this story. I've edited, just to include the most amusing parts:
Allen Van Arsdale calls himself a peaceful man who doesn't seek out trouble. But he doesn't apologize for his killer instinct.
Van Arsdale was tending his antique shop near downtown Ogden about 12:40 p.m. Monday when an intruder stormed in.
"Check this out, fool!" the man yelled, with a gun aimed at Van Arsdale's head 15 feet away.
In retrospect, Van Arsdale acknowledged Tuesday, he probably should have given the man the cash he most likely wanted.
But in one swift motion, the 46-year-old rock collector dropped to a knee, pulled out the .45 Colt revolver he keeps handy and fired a shot.
"I missed him by 14 inches," said Van Arsdale, owner of Al's Antiques Etc.
Van Arsdale speculates the man, who is still at large, wanted money for drugs.
"Whatever drugs he's doing altered his brain chemical, and he did something he probably didn't want to do," Van Arsdale said. "When somebody points a gun at me, it alters my brain chemistry and makes me do things I don't normally do."
Morale of the story: you don't want to alter some people's brain chemistry.
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Stegyre, Aug 8, 2007
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The guy deserved to be shot just for the bad Mr. T impression.
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Well, a massive burst of adrenalin tends to do weird things to you thats for sure.
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MobBoss, Aug 8, 2007
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Surely if there was another gun control law, the "criminal" (who is really a victim of the institutional rasism in our capitalizt $ociety) wouldn't have ever had a gun.
amadeus, Aug 8, 2007
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Shame on the store owner for shooting at another human being! He should have followed the man's orders because the man taking the money would NEVER hurt you if you complied with his wishes!
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leonel said: ↑
Well actually that thing crossed my mind.
Not because of the shame shooting at another human being (which isn't that much valid point since the person is holding a gun and making that Mr. T impression) but that he himself might had got hurt.
It's of course good to have gun around if criminals have access to guns easily but make sure you know when and how to use it.
Especially with that kind of aim and accuracy. You might not only lose your money but also your precious life.
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C~G, Aug 8, 2007
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A quick question about accuracy? I don't know if I'm the odd man out or what, but I'm more accurate in a one-handed stance with a pistol rather than a two-handed stance. Does anyone else experience this?
EDIT: And no, it's not that retarted "hold the gun sideways with your hand on top" one-handed stance.
bhsup, Aug 8, 2007
VRWCAgent said: ↑
For me it depends on the gun. I shoot Bullseye one-handed (rules require everyone to do so) but find that I'm slightly more accurate two-handed. A fellow I know who is an expert marksman in a variety of disciplines (including Bullseye) says that one-handed is inherently more accurate, but factoring in recoil management and such that for practical shooting he'd always use two hands.
Hundegesicht Manly Studmuffin
How far out do you usually hold your gun? 2-handed is definately better for when your arms are fully extended, because it minimized muscle stress caused by end-range movement, and thus, stops your hands from shaking.
Your arm probably doesn't shake when you're doing target practice, especially if your weapon is light. But if you're about to shoot someone, you'll probably be in a situation where you're very nervious/panicky, which is why it's good to practice with a stance that gives you as much control as possible. (unless you shoot from the hip or something weird)
And, I shoot well either way, but I'm used to 2-handed.
Hundegesicht, Aug 8, 2007
Wow, it's inherently more accurate? I don't doubt you, but that is the first I've ever heard that. Quite interesting. Course, it surprised me as well when I learned that females were better designed to handle the prone position for firing a rifle and should actually make the best snipers.
EDIT: @Hundegesicht: Typically, I have the arm fully extended with my body parallel to the arm, cocking my head to the right or left (depending on the arm, obviously) to sight.
Well, while I admire the guy's skills and his experience, it is the only place I've ever heard that and frankly I'm wary.
Anyway, as he and Hundegesicht (and I, for that matter) suggest, if you're in a combat situation you almost certainly want to use two hands if possible.
Stupid question maybe and in wrong place but do you guys have tried wrist guard (support for the wrist) while shooting with one hand or in two handed position?
C~G said: ↑
It is against the rules in Bullseye, so I haven't tried it for one-handed, and two-handed I tend to focus on practical shooting skills so aside from safety items (safety goggles, hearing protection) I shoot "come as you are".
IglooDude said: ↑
I can only say that it can make helluva difference. Especially for beginners.
I recommend it as I think it will also affect your whole way of keeping firm position while shooting. First it kind of makes you focus too much into the thing and the grip but then suddenly you don't even notice it and after while even without it, the focus is better.
Then again you might have had so much practice otherwise it wouldn't make a difference to you.
But as it is offtopic, maybe we should discuss these issues other time.
As for the "inherently more accurate" statement, I think I might know what he's getting at.
When you look at something, presuming you have two eyes, you are actually taking 2 seperate scans of your surroundings, and your brain merges these scans into a single composite image, allowing you to see 3 dimensionally with a fair amount of accuracy.
Now, if you're shooting one handed, you are holding the gun to one side of your body, and standing sideways, right? So if you've got a target in front of you, and are closing your opposite eye, you've got a straight line from your eye across your arm, through the sight, and to the target, since you're looking straight on.
Whereas shooting two handed, you'll hold the gun in the middle of your torso instead of to one side, and probably have both eyes open. This means that your brain will form two images, one image at the gun's range, and one at the range of your target. This will cause a problem, though, as your eyes have greater "curve" (is that the word?) inwards when you're looking at something close to you, and straighten the further away you look. So the gun sight wouldn't neccessarily match up with the target.
This is more of a technicality of how sights are mounted on guns than vision. It wouldn't affect you throwing a baseball, for example.
This only applies for a 2D, stationary target, though. When you've got a target that's jumping, rolling, running towards you, hiding, or whatever, you DEFINATELY want to see in 3D. And I think the actual effect, if you're holding the gun far away from your body, is so small it doesn't affect anything outside of long-distance sharpshooting.
I had no doubt that you would get a kick out of this story.
leonel said:
You'll be relieved to know that the store owner actually only shot the photocopier, and many of us would have liked to do that!
Let's face it: the perp was just an excuse to fulfill his secret longing to put a slug into that machine!
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Hundegesicht said: ↑
You throw your baseballs two-handed?
Masquerouge, Aug 8, 2007
Bugfatty300 Buddha Squirrel
I don't think the guy had time to level the sights and take aim. He probably saw the man with a gun already aimed at him, grabbed his gun and shot as quickly as he could before Mr T could fire.
It was kind of risky since Mr T already had him covered. The old guy was lucky. The drugs probably didn't Help Mr T's response time.
Then again even police officers have been known to empty a 15 round magazine at a suspect and still miss.
Bugfatty300, Aug 8, 2007
mrt144 Deity
this is more evidence that you'd have to be stupid to be a criminal.
mrt144, Aug 8, 2007
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Bugfatty300 said: ↑
I've read in some report that the NYPD cops have a 9% chance to hit the suspect with each bullet...
Edit: Its a bit more complicated then that, if anyone is realy interested here it is.
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COVID-19 pneumonia is believed to be a major cause of death in patients with COVID-19 and despite improvements in standard of care, remains difficult to treat. Accumulating data across a range of clinical studies in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia continues to point at the central role of complement C5a and C5b9 as well as neutrophil accumulation in the lung leading to severe inflammation and dramatic reductions in the delivery of blood through the capillary bed of the lung and ultimately other organs. Nomacopan has been shown to inhibit all these pathways directly; by binding C5, nomacopan inhibits production of C5a and C5b9 which have inflammatory and prothrombotic effects, and by preventing LTB4 from interacting with its cell surface receptors nomacopan may directly inhibit the migration of neutrophils to the lung and subsequent damaging cytokine release.
The Company’s initial proof of principle studies have demonstrated that the 45mg standard dose of nomacopan can be used to treat patients with COVID-19 pneumonia without the need for up-dosing. The studies showed rapid onset of action of nomacopan, as well as no reported adverse safety signals in this fragile patient group. In addition, the Company believes that the relatively fast offset of nomacopan activity once dosing has been discontinued is a beneficial safety feature potentially allowing early patient discharge from hospital without the risk of long term immunosuppression. Furthermore, nomacopan was dosed alongside both antivirals and steroids (current standard of care) and may have an additive effect as steroids do not directly inhibit complement activation or LTB4.
Both studies in the U.S. and Brazil are double blind randomized clinical studies (2:1 in favor of nomacopan treatment) of over 60 patients each, with a primary endpoint of time to oxygen normalization and hospital discharge. The secondary endpoints will include the need for intubation and mortality. Patients will receive either a daily subcutaneous dose of nomacopan and standard of care or placebo and standard of care. Treatment is for up to 14 days, with study monitoring and completion after two months.
Akari Therapeutics has been invited to present an update on its COVID-19 pneumonia program at the 4th Annual Complement-Based Drug Development Summit 2020 on October 15, 2020. The presentation will explore the association between COVID-19 morbidity, complement activation and LTB4, as well as the current trials with nomacopan in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Akari’s presentation at the conference will be available by visiting ‘Events’ in the Investor Relations section on the Company’s website at www.akaritx.com.
About Akari Therapeutics
Akari is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing inhibitors of acute and chronic inflammation, specifically for the treatment of rare and orphan diseases, in particular those where the complement (C5) or leukotriene (LTB4) systems, or both complement and leukotrienes together, play a primary role in disease progression. Akari's lead drug candidate, nomacopan (formerly known as Coversin), is a C5 complement inhibitor that also independently and specifically inhibits leukotriene B4 (LTB4) activity.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You should not place undue reliance upon the Company’s forward looking statements. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any event or circumstance that may arise after the date of this press release. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions we have made. Although we believe that our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects as reflected in or suggested by those forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that the plans, intentions, expectations or strategies will be attained or achieved. Furthermore, actual results may differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements and will be affected by a variety of risks and factors that are beyond our control. Such risks and uncertainties for our company include, but are not limited to: needs for additional capital to fund our operations, our ability to continue as a going concern; uncertainties of cash flows and inability to meet working capital needs; an inability or delay in obtaining required regulatory approvals for nomacopan and any other product candidates, which may result in unexpected cost expenditures; our ability to obtain orphan drug designation in additional indications; risks inherent in drug development in general; uncertainties in obtaining successful clinical results for nomacopan and any other product candidates and unexpected costs that may result therefrom; difficulties enrolling patients in our clinical trials; our ability to enter into collaborative, licensing, and other commercial relationships and on terms commercially reasonable to us; failure to realize any value of nomacopan and any other product candidates developed and being developed in light of inherent risks and difficulties involved in successfully bringing product candidates to market; inability to develop new product candidates and support existing product candidates; the approval by the FDA and EMA and any other similar foreign regulatory authorities of other competing or superior products brought to market; risks resulting from unforeseen side effects; risk that the market for nomacopan may not be as large as expected; risks associated with the impact of the outbreak of coronavirus; risks associated with the SEC investigation; inability to obtain, maintain and enforce patents and other intellectual property rights or the unexpected costs associated with such enforcement or litigation; inability to obtain and maintain commercial manufacturing arrangements with third party manufacturers or establish commercial scale manufacturing capabilities; the inability to timely source adequate supply of our active pharmaceutical ingredients from third party manufacturers on whom the company depends; unexpected cost increases and pricing pressures and risks and other risk factors detailed in our public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Except as otherwise noted, these forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any of these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after this press release. We caution investors not to place considerable reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release.
Peter Vozzo
Westwicke
peter.vozzo@westwicke.com
Sukaina Virji / Lizzie Seeley
Consilium Strategic Communications
Akari@consilium-comms.com
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CyberOptics (CYBE) Is Up 11.57% in One Week: What You Should Know
June 29, 2020, 12:00 PM ·4 min read
Below, we take a look at CyberOptics (CYBE), a company that currently holds a Momentum Style Score of A. We also talk about price change and earnings estimate revisions, two of the main aspects of the Momentum Style Score.
It's also important to note that Style Scores work as a complement to the Zacks Rank, our stock rating system that has an impressive track record of outperformance. CyberOptics currently has a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy). Our research shows that stocks rated Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and #2 (Buy) and Style Scores of A or B outperform the market over the following one-month period.
Let's discuss some of the components of the Momentum Style Score for CYBE that show why this high precision sensor products maker shows promise as a solid momentum pick.
A good momentum benchmark for a stock is to look at its short-term price activity, as this can reflect both current interest and if buyers or sellers currently have the upper hand. It's also helpful to compare a security to its industry; this can show investors the best companies in a particular area.
For CYBE, shares are up 11.57% over the past week while the Zacks Lasers Systems and Components industry is up 1.34% over the same time period. Shares are looking quite well from a longer time frame too, as the monthly price change of 1.67% compares favorably with the industry's 0.84% performance as well.
Considering longer term price metrics, like performance over the last three months or year, can be advantageous as well. Shares of CyberOptics have increased 91.5% over the past quarter, and have gained 100.94% in the last year. On the other hand, the S&P 500 has only moved 15.26% and 5.41%, respectively.
Investors should also pay attention to CYBE's average 20-day trading volume. Volume is a useful item in many ways, and the 20-day average establishes a good price-to-volume baseline; a rising stock with above average volume is generally a bullish sign, whereas a declining stock on above average volume is typically bearish. CYBE is currently averaging 151,350 shares for the last 20 days.
The Zacks Momentum Style Score also takes into account trends in estimate revisions, in addition to price changes. Please note that estimate revision trends remain at the core of Zacks Rank as well. A nice path here can help show promise, and we have recently been seeing that with CYBE.
Over the past two months, 1 earnings estimate moved higher compared to none lower for the full year. These revisions helped boost CYBE's consensus estimate, increasing from $0.27 to $0.33 in the past 60 days. Looking at the next fiscal year, 1 estimate has moved upwards while there have been no downward revisions in the same time period.
Taking into account all of these elements, it should come as no surprise that CYBE is a #2 (Buy) stock with a Momentum Score of A. If you've been searching for a fresh pick that's set to rise in the near-term, make sure to keep CyberOptics on your short list.
CyberOptics Corporation (CYBE) : Free Stock Analysis Report
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Texas Music Collection
The Texas Music Collection contains research files on the history of Texas music, particularly musicians and record labels, including the administrative and financial files of Duke/Peacock Records of the Houston area. Newspaper clippings, photographs, financial records, songbooks, and administrative files comprise the research files.
The collection is divided into six series, which are arranged in order of volume of material, from most to least represented: Artists; Production and Events; Geography; Genres; Reference; and Ephemera. The Production and Events series is further divided into five subseries: Labels and Studios; Radio; Producers; Venues; and Record Shops.
Majority of material found in 1940-1969
Brown, Andrew, 1969- (Person)
Biographical Information:
Andrew Brown is a Texas music historian who primarily writes biographies and histories of music artists and record labels for books, magazines, and album liner notes. Brown has also conducted interviews for major Texas music figures, including Huey Meaux.
Artist Direct: http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/andrew-brown/2573116
Digital Collections:
Duke-Peacock Records Publicity Photos and ACA Master Books digital collection
http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/2011_011
Music -- Texas -- History and Criticism
Musicians -- Texas
Popular music -- Texas -- History and Criticism
Publications (document genre)
05. Houston & Texas History Research Collection
Guide to the Texas Music Collection
Texas Music Collection. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. To cite a specific item from this collection, please consult the most recent edition of your style manual for the proper formatting. See the Citing Special Collections Materials page for more information. https://findingaids.lib.uh.edu/repositories/2/resources/12 Accessed January 18, 2021.
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August 1, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Wednesday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Dream With Me, Cowboy
Author: Debra Clopton
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No
A wacky hairstylist on a mission for God, the cowboy thrown into keeping her out of trouble, watching this unlikely couple fall in love is pure fun! Dream With Me, Cowboy is book 1 of an addictively fun Christian romance series! Hairstylist Lacy Brown believes love is in the air and the hair when she drives her ancient pink convertible into town and joins forces with three matchmakers who’ve started a national “wives wanted” ad campaign to save their dying town. The women will come~she believes and she’ll help each of them find their happily-ever-after… But she’s not looking for love…
From the moment rancher Clint Matlock and Lacy Brown collide the unpredictable spitfire turns his life upside down and suddenly he’s having trouble keeping his mind on stopping rustlers…
Click here to pick up your free copy of Dream With Me, Cowboy in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Trials of Hercules
Author: Tammie Painter
Genre: Historical Fantasy
A devoted father and celebrated hero.
A crime that puts him at the mercy of a corrupt leader and vengeful goddess.
A classic myth brought to life as you’ve never seen it before.
Herc Dion wakes to find himself amidst the carnage of three heinous murders. Convicted without trial by Eury, ruler of Portaceae, Herc is forced to atone for these crimes by embarking on a series of trials. Trials that will pit him against formidable monsters, push his physical and mental endurance to the limit, and deliver him to the edge of Hades.
Encouraging Eury to throw Herc into increasingly shameful and dangerous ordeals is the goddess Hera whose vengeful jealousy has lead her to take every opportunity to ruin Herc’s life. But when one of the trials delivers Hera’s immortality into Eury’s hands, Hera’s vengeance may have gone too far. Realizing Hera’s whims have destroyed everything he ever cared about, will Herc risk his own life to protect her?
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Trials of Hercules in the Amazon Kindle store.
City of Beads
Author: Tony Dunbar
TUBBY’S CURE FOR BOREDOM: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet is bored. He wants to bill enough hours to pay his alimony and keep his daughter in college, with enough left over for an occasional drink and a good meal, but he longs for something different and exciting.
Sure, researching licensing law for the new casino will keep trout meunière on the table, but what could be more tedious? (Unless, of course, the client turns out to be connected.) Meanwhile, there’s the estate of an old friend who controls some dock leases on the wharf. And he agrees to help his daughter’s environmental group stop illegal dumping in the river.
Ho-hum, thinks our hero. But suddenly all three cases begin to converge in an entirely ominous way–the toxic dumping, the dock leases, and the too-good-to-be-true casino job. How is that possible? Could it be Tubby’s been set up as the fall guy in a Mob effort to expand its gambling empire?
NOW it’s exciting — he’s running for his life!
Click here to pick up your free copy of City of Beads in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Thought Readers
Authors: Dima Zales & Anna Zaires
Everyone thinks I’m a genius.
Everyone is wrong.
Sure, I finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that’s not because I’m unusually smart or hard-working.
It’s because I cheat.
You see, I have a unique ability. I can go outside time into my own personal version of reality—the place I call “the Quiet”—where I can explore my surroundings while the rest of the world stands still.
I thought I was the only one who could do this—until I met her.
My name is Darren, and this is how I became entangled with all the Russians and learned that I’m a Reader.
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Thought Readers in the Amazon Kindle store.
Failed Moments
Author: A. Robert Allen
Today’s Price: $0.99
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What if the only way to survive your life is to go back in history and right the wrongs of two other men’s lives?
Patrick Walsh finds himself in this precarious position as his time travel takes him from modern day New York City to:
The French Caribbean in 1790
Biracial plantation owner Patrice Beaumont is known as a “kinder” slave master and claims to be committed to ending slavery, but his actions don’t back-up his words. Is being the “best of the worst” all he’s capable of?
1863 New York City
Irish street fighter Patrick Allen is days away from the biggest fight of his career, when the Draft Riots ignite dangerous racial conflicts around the city and deadly acts of violence by Irish gangs. Never one to take sides outside the ring, he steers clear of the angry mobs. So when he stumbles on a lynching in progress, who can expect him to do anything more than look away?
Tackling race relations from a unique perspective, Failed Moments is a thought-provoking adventure that questions the measure of a man not by his decision to do no harm, but his willingness to act on what is right.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/failedmoments into your web browser to pick up your copy of Failed Moments in the Amazon Kindle store.
Life in the Lion’s Mouth
Author: James R. Dubbs
Genre: Literary Fiction
Greenwich Village, folk music, a traveling circus, the road, and first love: Life in the Lion’s Mouth will delight anyone who came of age in the 60s or wishes they had…
Set in 1962, Life in the Lion’s Mouth is the “Beat-lite” story of seventeen-year-old loner Robert Campbell. Desperate to escape his hometown, Robert embraces his dead father’s long-ago advice to “live life in the lion’s mouth” and joins a small, dysfunctional traveling circus where he finds uneasy solace as the star prop in the troupe’s long-defunct lion’s mouth act.
But when Robert meets new-hire Anna, an aspiring folksinger who instantly re-names him “Bobby,” his new life is upended and he embarks on a seminal journey that tests his loyalty to the circus and leads him to the outskirts of the Greenwich Village folk scene and The Cafe Flame. There, among the Cafe’s eclectic cast of artists, sages, and fools, Robert confronts his buried past and truly discovers “life in the lion’s mouth.”
Click here or type in http://geni.us/lionsmouth into your web browser to pick up your copy of Life in the Lion’s Mouth in the Amazon Kindle store.
Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America
Author: John Egenes
Genre: Action & Adventure
In 1974 a disenfranchised young man from a broken home set out to do the impossible. With a hundred dollars in his pocket, a beat up cavalry saddle, and a faraway look in his eye, John Egenes saddled his horse Gizmo and started down the trail on an adventure across the North American continent. Their seven month journey took them across 11 states from California to Virginia, ocean to ocean.. As they left the pressing confinement of the city behind them, the pair experienced the isolation and loneliness of the southwestern deserts, the vastness of the prairie, and the great landscapes that make up America. Across hundreds of miles of empty land they slept with coyotes and wild horses under the stars, and in urban areas they camped alone in graveyards and abandoned shacks. Along the way John and Gizmo were transformed from inexperienced horse and rider to veterans of the trail. With his young horse as his spiritual guide John slowly began to comprehend his own place in the world and to find peace within himself. Full of heart and humor, Egenes serves up a tale that’s as big as the America he witnessed, an America that no longer exists. It was a journey that could only have been experienced step by step, mile by mile, from the view between a horse’s ears.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/manhorse into your web browser to pick up your copy of Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America in the Amazon Kindle store.
To Everything A Season
Author: Sherri Schaeffer
Genre: Women’s Fiction
One June night, on a dark country road, two worlds—one of privilege and wealth, one modest and plain—collide, and tragedy forces two families together, causing both to question the lives they lead.
Taylor Loden, future heiress to her father’s media empire, is fused 24/7 to her two cell phones, wakes up in the middle of the night to check emails, and has never examined her breakneck work pace or her empty life until she meets the Old Order Amish Yoder family of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Taylor has zero desire to muck a barn or strip tobacco, yet feels compelled, for reasons she’s not prone to analyze, to temporarily trade her technology-fueled business life in Philadelphia for country life without electricity on the Yoder farm. While she strives to adapt to Amish life, she bonds with the family, especially with two of the Yoder siblings: Jacob and Becca.
Jacob, the eldest son, refuses to baptize and join the church, and according to his frustrated father, lacks direction. He not only faces a grave physical challenge resulting from his actions that June night, but also harbors a secret that threatens to upend his family and community.
Becca is 16, just entering her rumspringa, the time period when she is free to explore the normally forbidden modern world. When Taylor returns to her Philadelphia penthouse, Becca accompanies her for the summer and for the first time is exposed to city life—museums, music, technology, restaurants, fashion, even religious faiths different from her own.
Taylor mentors Becca’s city fling and helps Jacob conceal his secret, actions that jeopardize her relationship with the Yoder family and her father. As the two cultures clash, both families struggle to determine whether the deep ties that bind them are greater than the differences that may tear them apart. Ultimately, Taylor, Jacob and Becca must answer for themselves: Are we more than what we do for a living or where we’re born? And if so, what price, if any, is too steep to walk away from family expectations?
Click here or type in http://geni.us/everythingaseason into your web browser to pick up your copy of To Everything A Season in the Amazon Kindle store.
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Crane’s Bride
Author: Linda Ford
Genre: Historical Romance
Preparing to travel west to begin a new life, Byler Crane has thought of everything. Everything, that is, except a wife. An impromptu ad placed in the local mercantile brings Maggie Malone into his life–and a whole lot more than he bargained for. Before the ink on their marriage certificate dries, the feisty new bride has managed to add a foundling girl and a young boy to the “family.”
Maggie has no reason to trust men. But Crane promises to give her a home in the west. She’ll take a chance with him if for no other reason than to escape her present situation. But she will not tolerate any sort of injustice which lands her in one situation after another.
Through it all, Crane remains true. Is this enough reason to trust him with her heart?
Click here to pick up your free copy of Crane’s Bride in the Amazon Kindle store.
In Sheep’s Clothing
Author: Emily Kimelman
Justice with a vengeance.
Sydney Rye is missing.
All that’s left of her is a depression in the dirt and a pool of blood.
Robert Maxim is ruthless, powerful, and determined to find her.
April Madden is a preacher’s wife, and Sydney’s mother. She’s willing to risk everything…her sobriety, her marriage, even her faith, to hunt for her daughter.
But they can’t find Sydney Rye if she doesn’t want to be found.
ISIS has a new enemy, a ghost haunting their territory, infecting their flock with radical ideals. They will do anything to capture her. Their reign depends on this new prophet’s destruction.
Graffiti of a woman’s silhouette, set in a snarling wolf’s profile, appears in ISIS-controlled territory convincing Robert Maxim that Sydney Rye is alive. When women in the area begin attacking their abusers, he suspects Sydney is responsible. But Robert can’t believe she is involved after rumors claim a prophet, a weapon of God, has risen to free women from oppression.
April Madden hears the devil whispering to her; just one little cocktail to dull the pain. Instead of picking up a glass, she throws herself into a quest; track down her missing daughter, her only surviving child, and make amends. Traveling into the Islamic State is fraught with danger and thick with obstacles. April doesn’t have her daughter’s combat training or Blue, Sydney’s loyal, giant dog. But she does have her instincts, tenacity and the voice that whispers; your daughter is alive, don’t give up.
Click here to pick up your free copy of In Sheep’s Clothing in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Madness of Grief
Author: Panayotis Cacoyannis
July 1969. While men are walking on the moon, life in London for sixteen-year-old Jane takes unexpected turns. On the point of falling in love with her best friend Karl, she discovers that there’s more to her father’s spectacular girlfriend than at first meets the eye. In the sweltering heat of a fast-moving evening, other revelations quickly follow, reconciling Jane with her father but also reopening wounds from the past, laying bare raw emotions kept suppressed for too long. And as the evening draws to a close, the night’s drama has only just begun, unfolding in a sequence of violent events that threaten to have lasting repercussions for Jane and the people she loves…
Lightened by a touch of dark humor, with magic tricks, sexuality and family secrets all playing a prominent part, The Madness of Grief is a coming-of-age tale of friendship, betrayal and loss.
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Madness of Grief in the Amazon Kindle store.
Authors: Various
She didn’t mean to use magic
She didn’t even know she HAD magic
She just wanted to save her brother, who was dying in her arms.
Accused of using illegal magic, and sentenced to a cruel death at the hands of the city’s guards, Hannah has no choice but to trust in the aid of a strange old man who wields unimaginable power.
The Founder has returned to correct the wrongs of unjust. But to do that, he needs Hannah, a young woman from the city slums. She has a key to unlocking a power even greater than his own–if she can only learn to trust herself and the magic flowing within her blood.
Restriction is a fantasy set in the far future, where magic and monsters ravage the land of Irth and only the strong survive.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Restriction in the Amazon Kindle store.
Summer Snoops and Cozy Crimes:
12 Mysteries for the Dog Days of Summer
Help Us Help Pets!
Have a howlingly good read during the dog days of summer with a dozen cozy mysteries from Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon best-selling authors. Murder lurks in every corner during the dog days of summer. Solve the mystery as our snoops leash the criminals – at the beach, at the farm, on the mountain – everywhere! All profits from this pack go to support NO KILL animal charities! Fetch it now! And help us help pets!
‘Summer Snoops and Cozy Crimes’ includes never before published books from:
WSJ Bestselling Author Judith Lucci – Gawd Almighty & the Corn
WSJ Bestselling Author Cindy Bell – Murder at Pawprint Creek
WSJ Bestselling Author Colleen Mooney – Dog Gone and Dead
USA Today and WSJ Bestselling Author Amy Vansant – Summer Teeth
WSJ Bestselling Author Colleen Helme – A Midsummer Night’s Murder
WSJ Bestselling Author Kim Hunt Harris – The Murder of Bandera Bandito
USA Today Bestselling Author Anna Celeste Burke – A Body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff
Ava Mallory – A Dream Stray-Cation
Sandi Scott – Croquembouche Murder
Susan Boles – Death on the Beach
USA Today Bestselling Author Sam Cheever – Toxic Tech
Anne R. Tan – Just Lost and Found
Bonus recipes from the authors are included!
Click here or type in http://geni.us/summersnoops into your web browser to pick up your copy of Summer Snoops and Cozy Crimes: 12 Mysteries for the Dog Days of Summer in the Amazon Kindle store.
Karma Box Set
Author: Donna Augustine
People say karma’s a…well, you know. Personally, I don’t think I’m that bad. It’s not like I wanted this job. I wasn’t even in my right mind when I accepted the position.
Now, I’m surrounded by crazy coworkers like Lady Luck, who’s a bit of a tramp, and Murphy’s Law, who’s a bumbling oaf. But the worst is Fate. He’s got a problem with transfers like myself, and I have to see him constantly. It’s unavoidable. We’re hunting the same man, my murderer.
Jinxed
Karma, it’s what they call me and the very essence of who I am. When I died young, I was recruited by the agency that keeps the Universe running smoothly. As someone with a human past, most of my coworkers consider me inferior.
But not everyone. Something evil has been stalking me for centuries. It’s been biding its time, waiting for the moment when it will strike and it needs me to to do it.
Its methods of recruitment are tearing apart every aspect of my life. I’m slowly losing myself, both mentally and physically. I don’t know who I can count on but I’m finding out how much I’m willing to sacrifice to save the ones I care about.
Settling the cosmic score is what Karma was drafted by the Universe to do. But what happens when all the humans start going to the dark side? She’s got to find the source and the most likely suspect is her long time rival, who outclasses her in both power and resources.
Luckily, she’s got a new partner, Fate, but he comes with his own set of complications. The confirmed bachelor has a target of his own.
This is a short Karma prequel. This was written after the series was complete to give more insight into the events prior to Karma. It can be read at the beginning or end of the series.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/karmabox into your web browser to pick up your copy of Karma Box Set in the Amazon Kindle store.
A Real Christmas
Author: Christie Logan
A struggling single mom. Her lonely boss who hates Christmas. As they rediscover the magic of the holiday, will they also find love?
Christmas hasn’t been the same for Allison Voss since losing her husband, but she’s determined to make it merry for her daughters’ sake. She’s between jobs and simply managing day to day is a struggle until she meets Ward Haysgard. His act of kindness and offer of employment just might turn her luck around.
Ward is not a fan of Christmas. As a district manager for a large department store, he’s seen plenty of greed and selfishness and not much good will toward men. But Allison’s plight touches him. As he gets to know her and her girls, they work their way into his heart. A heart he thought had hardened long ago, when he lost the loving grandmother who raised him.
As the holiday approaches, an old secret from Ward’s past emerges and threatens his closeness to Allison. Will he leave her heartbroken? Or will she and Ward discover together what makes Christmas real?
Click here or type in http://geni.us/realchristmas into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Real Christmas in the Amazon Kindle store.
Legacy Redeemed
Author: Aubrey Grayson
Genre: Religious Fiction
Susannah Blackmon is desperate when she learns her fiancé jilted her and her dowry is gone. Her guardian devises a nefarious scheme to ensnare Susannah in an unsavory life, and she knows she must flee. But to where? When she meets a mysterious stranger at a masquerade ball, he inadvertently directs her to his family’s vicar, and she heads to the seacoast to escape the worst. But when her mystery counselor invades her newfound space, she risks exposure. Will she ever redeem the life her parents had hoped for her?
Nick Daventry, younger brother of the Duke of Weston, is a widower, with a young son, whose family is encouraging him to remarry. But Nick never expects to find love again. When he discovers his inheritance is in jeopardy thanks to a crazy provision in his grandfather’s will, he puts everything he has into saving it. He returns to his coastal home, only to encounter a deceiver in the form of a devilishly beautiful woman he’d traveled all the way from London to escape. But is she the key to redeeming what is lost?
Click here or type in http://geni.us/legacyredeemed into your web browser to pick up your copy of Legacy Redeemed in the Amazon Kindle store.
Filed Under: Featured, Featured Book of the Day, Free Book Links, Free From Amazon Store Tagged With: fantasy, free from amazon, free kindle books, historical fiction, literary fiction, mystery, religious fiction, romance
New Releases on Kindle
Included in this post are relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres: I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below. Also, similar to what I tell you in the daily posts, while the pricing is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!
Battlefield High
Author: Shana Figueroa
From a cruel and desolate future, one tough-as-nails soldier is forced to relive her even crueler high school years, where the key to saving the world may not be learning to fight but learning to love…
In 2045, Major Cora Johnson is the middle-aged leader of an elite US Army squad in a dying world, where mysterious time-altering weapons have started a second civil war. A devastating plague has pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. The only thing keeping Cora going is the belief she must keep fighting to end the war and save the future.
When a bomb goes off during her squad’s attack on a temporal weapons facility, Cora dies…and then wakes up in her teenaged body in the past.
Her childhood memories have been wiped away, leaving her stumbling around the unfamiliar and cruel world of the modern teenage girl. She may have one ally, though—Quentin Rose, another traveler from the future trapped in his teenage body and fighting for survival in the take-no-prisoners war zone of high school. Unfortunately, she’s not sure if he’ll help her, kill her…or kiss her.
Things get even stranger when Cora receives mysterious orders to kill the school queen bee, Madison, who she’s told will start the Second Civil War. But since being forced to relive the past and everything she sacrificed for the greater good, she’s beginning to question what she fought for to begin with—and if it’s worth doing again.
Should she obey like the good soldier she’s supposed to be, or resist and risk destroying the future?
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Aerisian Refrain
Author: Sarah Ashwood
Following the prophesied Artan’s victory over the Dark Powers, the land of Aerisia is finally at rest, until ancient beings, long imprisoned, begin to stir…
Eight years after Annie Richards’ stellar voice and musical talents skyrocketed her from rural Oklahoma to international fame, haunting visions have begun threatening her sanity. While she’s returning to her childhood home to convalesce, creatures straight from her nightmares bring down her plane. Annie wakens in a parallel world, Aerisia. Here, she discovers her musical gifts translate into magical powers—the legacy of a banished race who have been invading her dreams.
Mistrusted by Aerisia’s most powerful factions because of her heritage, Annie finds allies are hard to come by. Supporting her are one Simathe warrior, Cole, who refuses to label her as evil, and one woman willing to stand against anything and anyone to help a friend: the Artan herself. Seizing control of her destiny will mean defying both her ancestors and the Aerisian leaders. Mastering her magic may mean making the greatest sacrifice of all…or risk becoming the reason Aerisia itself is torn apart.
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Immoral Justice
Author: M.A. Comley
A chance encounter leads to a gruesome conclusion.
But there is much more to this case than first meets the eye.
Yet another case for determined DI Lorne Warner and her team to solve.
The investigation proves to be a complex one from the outset, revealing not just one murder to solve but several.
Just when Lorne believes she has all the answers, the killer contacts her and makes a terrifying threat.
She’s up against it, mentally and physically…
Will Lorne be able to pit her wits against a killer who isn’t afraid of getting caught?
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From the heart 2: poetry and philosophy
Author: Kuo Kenih
From the heart 2 is a combination of philosophical ideas, poetry and inspiring quotes. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is made up of quotes, and the second part is a combination of poetry and philosophy. There are few humorous pieces to spice the book.
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The Mage’s Tome
Author: Arisawe Hampton
The Acere have spoken; the tome must come to the mage.
Among the rubicund grasslands to the forests of Roan, a quest begins at the onset of royal betrayal. The fate of Roan rests on the hermit mage, Pyrus, who has singular powers but is loathe to help. Yet, the susurrus words of the ancient Gods have promised that he will be instrumental to their plans. Their entreaties show him the nature of their magic. He must first avow to create the soldier, and he must also protect the Lady.
Meanwhile, seething in the pit, the Hellion will soon emerge.
They all will be tested, yet it is Pyrus who holds the key to camaraderie and purpose.
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Oops-A-Navy
Author: Gregg Bell
She thought he was neurotic. He thought she was psychotic. The Navy thought they were the perfect pair.
Shelby Ryder is a loose cannon. A Kansas farm girl, she became a Navy SEAL to avenge her parents, who were killed on vacation when a Russian sub torpedoed their catamaran. Earl Bernstein, from Chicago, became a SEAL to get away from his over-protective parents. Earl’s the sensitive type. He writes poetry and worries about his teeth enamel eroding.
The Navy thought by pairing them together they would balance each other out. They were wrong.
After brushes with the law and staying just this side of sanity, Shelby and Earl are on the verge of being de-SEALed. Now they’ve been given one last chance to redeem themselves.
It’s a simple enough mission: they’re tasked with finding a United States senator who disappeared in Cuba while playing golf. But then one day the president tweets that the Russians are responsible, and things get perilous in a hurry. Soon it becomes clear—if Shelby and Earl don’t get the senator back, the situation will escalate into a nuclear war. So into the steamy Cuban jungles filled with snakes, spies and a German tuba band, the pair ventures, breaking every rule of civilized behavior known to man as they desperately try to find the senator before the missiles fly or Earl runs out of anti-cavity rinse.
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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Tuesday
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Tuesday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Kurtain Motel
Author: A. I. Nasser
Genre: Horror and Suspense
Patrick Lahm is down on his luck. Late for his book signing, out of gas and stuck in a storm. He hitches a ride to the Kurtain Motel where he is forced to spend the night. The small motel seems harmless enough at first, but as the night drags on, Patrick and the other guests slowly begin to realize there is a lot more to their temporary lodging than meets the eye.
Something evil is at work at the Kurtain Motel; something that creeps into the deepest, darkest corners of your mind and tugs at the chords of sanity until they finally break. On the longest night of his life, Patrick soon finds out that there is a reason why skeletons are kept in closets. He realizes that your sins always find a way to catch up with you, no matter how hard you try to run.
Welcome to the Kurtain Motel, where all your nightmares come true.
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Author: Kristen Wolf
Anna is a striking and spirited young girl living in ancient Palestine where being a daughter is a disappointment. While her father excitedly anticipates the birth of his first son, the invisible Anna endures a life of drudgery. One bright spot in her world is the crippled old woman living by the village well who declares that the headstrong girl possesses a powerful destiny. But before the elder can reveal her prophecy an unexpected tragedy strikes Anna’s family and her father—dressing Anna as a boy—sells his daughter to a band of wandering shepherds.
Abandoned and armed with only bravery and wits, Anna must learn to survive the harsh desert and unruly men. Yet just when she masters her bold life of disguise, she stumbles upon a den of mysterious caves and is captured by the secret band of women living inside. Unable to escape, Anna soon discovers that the sisterhood’s mystical teachings and miraculous healing abilities have forced her to question everything she’s been told to believe and—to her amazement—unleashed an astonishing power within her.
But when violent enemies opposed to the women’s ways threaten to destroy them, Anna vows to save her mentors and preserve their powerful wisdom. Forced again to leave home and loved ones behind, a transformed Anna returns to the world of men—as only she can—determined to unfold a daring and dangerous quest. Her final effort drives toward a gripping climax that pits the new leader against overwhelming forces and puts everything she’s become to the test.
Will she succeed and save all she loves… or be condemned?
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Way in the Amazon Kindle store.
Author: Skye Malone
Running away from home was never Chloe Kowalski’s plan. Neither was ending up the target of killers, or having her body change in unusual ways. She only wanted a vacation, someplace far from her crazy parents and their irrational fear of water. She only wanted to do something normal for once, and maybe get to know her best friend’s hot stepbrother a bit better at the same time.
But the first day she goes out on the ocean, strange things start to happen. Dangerous things that should be impossible. Things to which ‘normal’ doesn’t even begin to apply.
Now madmen are hunting her. A mysterious guy with glowing blue eyes is following her. And her best friend’s stepbrother seems to be hiding secrets all his own.
It was supposed to be a vacation. It’s turning out to be a whole lot more.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Awaken in the Amazon Kindle store.
Cayman Cowboys: Reefs Under Pressure
Author: Eric Douglas
The gruesome death of a girl, a protest of new development and the systematic destruction of coral reefs on Grand Cayman all alert photojournalist Mike Scott that criminal elements are at work on the idyllic island. When Mike’s buddy Kelly is kidnapped, it is a race against time for Mike to save his friend and bring down the greedy developer putting his own wealth before the beauty of the island and the welfare of the people.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Cayman Cowboys: Reefs Under Pressure in the Amazon Kindle store.
Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel
Author: Linda Bennett Pennell
Lake City, Florida, June, 1930: Al Capone checks in for an unusually long stay at the Blanche Hotel, a nice enough joint for an insignificant little whistle stop. The following night, young Jack Blevins witnesses a body being dumped heralding the summer of violence to come. One-by-one, people controlling county vice activities swing from KKK ropes. No moonshine distributor, gaming operator, or brothel madam, black or white, is safe from the Klan’s self-righteous vigilantism. Jack’s older sister Meg, a waitress at the Blanche, and her fiancé, a sheriff’s deputy, discover reasons to believe the lynchings are cover for a much larger ambition than simply ridding the county of vice. Someone, possibly backed by Capone, has secret plans for filling the voids created by the killings. But as the body count grows and crosses burn, they come to realize this knowledge may get all of them killed.
Gainesville, Florida, August, 2011: Liz Reams, an up and coming young academic specializing in the history of American crime, impulsively moves across the continent to follow a man who convinces her of his devotion yet refuses to say the three simple words “I love you”. Despite the entreaties of friends and family, she is attracted to edginess and a certain type of glamour in her men, both living and historical. Her personal life is an emotional roller coaster, but her career options suddenly blossom beyond all expectation, creating a very different type of stress. To deal with it all, Liz loses herself in her professional passion, original research into the life and times of her favorite bad boy, Al Capone. What she discovers about 1930’s summer of violence, and herself in the process, leaves her reeling at first and then changed forever.
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Arctic Wargame
Author: Ethan Jones
All they had left was . . . survival.
Mysterious icebreakers appear off the Arctic coast.
A treasonous plot is in the works.
CIS Spymaster Justin Hall has no time to put the pieces together.
Betrayed, disarmed, freezing, and left for dead, Justin must save himself and his entire country.
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Stone Eater
Author: D.F. Bailey
A reporter on the rebound.
An ex-cop with nothing to lose.
A murder they can only solve together.
Will Finch returns to the San Francisco eXpress convinced that Gianna Whitelaw was murdered. But everyone claims that she threw herself from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Who can dispute the facts? Her suicide note posted on Facebook. Her fiancé, murdered. When her father, US Senator Franklin Whitelaw, demands that the press respect his privacy, the story is quietly shut down.
Then Finch receives a mysterious text from Eve Noon. She knew Gianna. And she knows about Gianna’s intimate night with Finch. Her revelations could ruin his career. Will she destroy him, or can Finch use what Eve knows to crack open the case?
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July 8, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Sunday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Author: Trevor Douglas
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
How do you catch a killer who never leaves a clue?
Bridgette Cash is a rookie detective working her first murder case. The circumstances surrounding the murder of a young woman lead her to believe it’s the work of a serial killer, but nobody is listening. Convinced the killer will strike again shortly, can Bridgette find enough evidence to catch the killer before another young woman is murdered?
Click here to pick up your free copy of Cold Comfort in the Amazon Kindle store.
Eternity’s War
Author: Ruben Stelliswolfe
3 rival factions … 2 days to stop the President … 1 eternal war.
Time is desperately running out for White Shadow—a vigilante group with superhuman abilities—in their quest to execute the newly elected President before he damages Athenia any further. The inauguration looms, as does a new era of chaos for the already corrupt nation.
Little do they know that Black Dawn have plans of their own for fixing the country: by controlling the President’s every move, doing whatever it takes—and sacrificing whoever necessary—to ensure he comes into power.
But both factions are being monitored by the Tianzu, an all-powerful clan who will stop at nothing to keep the peace, even if that means killing those who stand in their way.
All three have their own vision for a perfect world. But in an eternal war, there can be no victor …
Click here to pick up your free copy of Eternity’s War in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Honorable Thing
Author: Karl Jacobs
Katie’s a married, 30-something mom, as prim and proper as a nun. Jack’s a married, 30-something dad. The last thing either of them expect is to fall for each other.
What happens when they are thrown together in a huge, strait-laced corporation, will have you holding your breath, laughing out loud, and feeling the enormous anguish that Katie and Jack feel as they are torn between their yearning for each other and their love for their kids and their well-meaning, if too-often insensitive, spouses.
From an Amazon bestselling author, a beautiful story of the extraordinary power of profound love.
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Wolfheart
Author: Paul DiPersio
Single dad David Holtz needs a new heart.
And if he doesn’t find one soon, his six-year-old daughter, Chloey, will end up in a foster home.
Turns out, the biotech company he used to work for, Gentax Corporation, has a brand new genetically engineered heart waiting for him at its secret research facility, somewhere in the jungle of southeast Mexico.
But there’s a catch. The new heart was harvested from a wolf. And the stem cell infusion he must undergo to prevent rejection–well, that’s from a wolf as well.
With time running out, Gentax’s brilliant and eccentric Chief Scientist, Doctor Knochenmus, makes David an offer he can’t refuse: volunteer for the experimental heart transplant, and his daughter gets a six-figure trust fund.
And as an added bonus, David’s personal nurse, Amiya, is the most beautiful woman he’s ever laid his eyes on.
But there’s another catch; his new Wolf Heart has a mind of its own, and doesn’t like being trapped in the body of a human.
It yearns to break free, to hunt, to kill … and it’s very hungry.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/wolfheart into your web browser to pick up your copy of Wolfheart in the Amazon Kindle store.
Life in Reverse
Author: Beth Michele
It definitely wasn’t love at first sight for this quirky girl and broody book nerd. But first impressions can be wrong, can’t they?
Vance and Ember didn’t love each other at first sight. They didn’t even like each other.
Ember, with her quirky ways, and Vance, and his angry, broody exterior. But there was more to both of them than met the eye. And when layers were peeled back, all their broken pieces exposed, they soon got a lot more than they ever bargained for…
And found a love they never expected.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/lifereverse into your web browser to pick up your copy of Life in Reverse in the Amazon Kindle store.
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Tuesday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book
Life in a Box
Author: JoDee Neathery
How much would you sacrifice to hide a secret? The answer reveals itself as Andee Camp, after inheriting a box of old photographs and journals, accepts a challenge from her mother to write a novel based on their family. What evolves is not only the fulfillment of a dream, but the reality of her relationship with her parents and theirs with each other.
As Andee writes the stories of two sets of twins born on the same day seventeen hundred miles apart, the mysteries defining the Smith and Brown families become more poignant as the pieces in the complicated puzzle begin to fit together.
The very fabric of long-held truths unravel in a tapestry woven with love and betrayal, joy and tragedy, humor and melancholy. As a reader, if given the opportunity, would you like to examine your own life in a box?
Life in a Box is a roller coaster ride until the very end providing a blend of mystery and history as the colorful and memorable characters come alive on the pages. It is like leaping off the diving board and seeing the sky from the bottom of the pool. When the author breaks through the ripples, readers understand the depth of the layered story…a literary gem.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Life in a Box in the Amazon Kindle store.
JoDee Neathery, drawing from her Southern California and Texas roots, plucked a few personalities off the family tree, encasing their world inside fictional events to create a literary novel. “I spent many hours savoring a suitcase full of old photographs and journals, realizing by discovering the past, the present became relevant. Every face and every word inside this treasure trove of antiquity told a story.”
JoDee spent her professional life in the banking industry, prior to branching out into the recruiting business with an exclusive contract with TracyLocke Public Relations and Bustin & Company in Dallas, and Creamer Dickson Basford in New York. Upon relocating to East Texas, JoDee spent six years handling public relations for a non-profit, and writing freelance articles for the newspaper, trade publications, newsletters, installation ceremony scripts, and sadly a few obituaries. Her dream “job” has been chairing, writing minutes, and reviews for her ninety-three member book club, Bookers, for the past thirteen years. She also enjoys a byline, Back Porch Musings, a light-hearted view of life in general, in an area newspaper.
She and her husband live in close proximity to their only daughter, son-in-law, two grandsons, a bird dog, three cats, a donkey, and a few head of cattle. Always an avid reader with a love of the written word, JoDee took a leap of faith debuting her novel, five years in the making.
You can visit JoDee’s Amazon author page if you click here.
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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Monday
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Monday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Quiet The Dead
Author: Morgan James
MURDER IN SLEEPY APPALACHIA. AND PSYCHIC CLUES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE…
Promise McNeal is startled awake one night by a jarring dream: she sees a beautiful woman, hanging over a shallow creek, strangled to death with a red scarf. An unsettling image to say the least for a woman who recently left her lucrative job as a psychologist in bustling Atlanta for the mountains of North Carolina, hoping for some peace and quiet. Promise begins to dig into the mystery surrounding the woman’s murder…until a brand new murder occurs…and Promise’s hoped-for peace and quiet flies right out the window.
Promise has always been a little psychic, and a little embarrassed about it. But here in the mountains, the effect seems magnified. Now making her living as a struggling country-store owner, she has to rely on her psychologist’s knowledge of what makes people tick to make her way through the thicket of intrigue within the family of the dead woman.
Along the way, she makes a surprising art world find, and starts to fall in love (maybe, just a little…) with a very attractive new man. Her tentative relationship with Daniel, the father of Susan, her semi-Goth, twenty-something employee, is one of the major delights of this slightly psychic cozy mystery. Both Daniel and Susan are renowned bluegrass musicians and, well…characters. Despite what’s right in front of her nose (and what Susan tells her), Promise’s psychic abilities fail her when it comes to mountain men—because Daniel is most definitely “sweet on her,” as Susan attests. And, true to form, opposites attract here—alien as he may seem to this city girl, something deeper is responding.
Meanwhile, there’s that murder mystery. Daniel, despite his endearing over-protectiveness, is able to help out there too, and so is Susan. Allthewhile, Promise’s amusingly sexist friend, Garland Wang, provides just the right dash of humor.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Quiet The Dead in the Amazon Kindle store.
Imperfect Chemistry
Author: Mary Frame
She’s never understood the point of romance, but now he’s going to show her.
Lucy London is a genius. Having obtained her PhD in microbiology by the age of twenty, she’s amassed a wealth of knowledge, but one subject still eludes her—people. The pendulum of passions experienced by those around her confuses and intrigues her, so when she’s offered a grant to study emotion as a pathogen, she jumps on the opportunity.
Enter Jensen Walker, Lucy’s neighbor and the one person she finds appealing. Jensen’s life is the stuff of campus legend, messy, emotional, and complicated. Basically, the perfect starting point for Lucy’s study. When her tenaciousness wears him down and he consents to help her, sparks fly. To her surprise, Lucy finds herself battling with her own emotions, as foreign as they are intense. With the clock ticking on her deadline, Lucy must decide what’s more important: analyzing her passions…or giving in to them?
Click here to pick up your free copy of Imperfect Chemistry in the Amazon Kindle store.
Ben Archer and the Cosmic Fall
Author: Rae Knightly
Genre: YA Science Fiction
A HUMAN BOY WITH AN ALIEN POWER.
“The thing is, it wasn’t meteors that fell into the woods that night. It was alien spacecraft.”
Government agents have taken every precaution to cover up the truth about an event dubbed The Cosmic Fall: when UFOs crash near a peaceful town, the media are led to believe it was fallen meteors. But the agents weren’t counting on young Ben Archer being a witness. Nor were they counting on there being a lone survivor of the crash: an alien man called Mesmo.
Thus begins a police hunt to capture the boy and the alien, as, among the agents, hides Mesmo’s treacherous enemy who quietly spurs on the investigation.
And although the destinies of boy and alien become inextricably linked, one question hovers above their unlikely friendship: why did the aliens come to Earth in the first place?
Click here to pick up your free copy of Ben Archer and the Cosmic Fall in the Amazon Kindle store.
Finding Cory
Author: Caitlyn Lynch
Olivia Stratten wasn’t thinking about romance when she accepted a job as marketing director for a resort island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. She just wanted to get far, far away from New York and her ruined career. She’s running away from a mess not of her own making…
Her ex-boyfriend’s crimes destroyed her reputation. Nobody in New York will hire Olivia Stratten, once the PR darling of the Big Apple. Offered a job on a resort island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, she jumps at the opportunity to escape. To start again.
Trust doesn’t come easily when you’ve been burned, but when Olivia meets Cory, she can’t help but be tempted. The resort’s easy-going activities director is not only one of the most physically attractive men she’s ever met, he also seems like one of the nicest.
Can Cory possibly be for real? There’s only one way to find out… and Olivia’s way is diving in head-first!
Click here to pick up your free copy of Finding Cory in the Amazon Kindle store.
Those Who Dare
Author: Phil Ward
This is the first book in the epic WWII Raiding Forces Series. Meticulously researched (the author was an instructor at the Army Ranger School) the series begins with the birth of special operations—as seen through the eyes of a young American officer who has volunteered to serve with British Forces. May 1940, 10th Panzer Division has decimated France and is driving on Calais a short distance from Dunkirk. Lieutenant John Randal, a veteran of the US 26th Cavalry Regiment volunteers to serve with the British Forces and arrives on the continent three days before the town falls. What unfolds is a blend of guerrilla tactics learned in the Philippian jungles, the first small-scale Commando raid, tough training at No.1 Parachute Training School, the Commando Castle, Special Operations Executive. suspense, humor and a little romance with the drop dead gorgeous widow Lady Jane Seaborn. The author—a decorated Ranger combat veteran covers the details of war extensively putting the reader right in the middle of the action. As the novel ends newly promoted Major Randal, upon returning from the first British parachute raid of the war is alerted that Raiding Forces will deploy within 48 hours via sea transport for their next mission off the Gold Coast of Africa.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Those Who Dare in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Lightning Stenography Device
Author: M. F. Sullivan
The first marketable thought to text device is released for public consumption in 2031. That same year, author Cassius Wagner will have a seizure. At least, that is what the novel says: the novel to which he awakens in fragments one morning after a late night of writing. This novel.
Terrified to have a prophetic manuscript unfurling at his heels, his desperation to evade his fate prevents him from considering that his lover and editrix, Katherine Beauvoir, might be wrestling with a destiny of her own–one which seems to concern the discovery of a human skull.
Told in four parts which peak with the magic-rich fable of a sublingual Huntress as she fights to save her King, THE LIGHTNING STENOGRAPHY DEVICE is a mystical voyage of psychological literary fiction perfect for fans of Philip K. Dick’s VALIS Trilogy, and is sure to leave them questioning not just the boundaries of literature, but of reality.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/lightningsteno into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Lightning Stenography Device in the Amazon Kindle store.
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June 8, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment
Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Friday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Author: E.H. Reinhard
A known serial killer is once again taking lives in Chicago. Bodies drained of blood are being strewn across the city.
For former Tampa homicide sergeant, Hank Rawlings, tracking down the man responsible for the killings becomes his first assignment at his new position, agent in the FBI’s homicide division of the serial crimes unit.
Almost before the ink dries on the new job’s acceptance papers, Hank finds himself in Chicago, knee-deep in an investigation with a mounting body count.
While every lead brings him and his partner closer to the killer, the one that puts them directly in front of him threatens them most.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Drained in the Amazon Kindle store.
Keepers of the Stone Book One: Outcast
Author: Andrew Anzur Clement
A trained killer. A demonic Order. A jewel that could change the course of history.
An orphan raised by a fanatical Sect of thieves, Malka has already sacrificed the lives of her people to protect the object she carries. Having become its unwitting guardian, she is forced to flee British India for the American West. Her immediate goal? Keep the Urumi’s demonic Order off her trail and avoid being taken into the ranks of its enslaved members. But – even with her superhuman speed and the aid of a mysterious shapeshifter – doing so will prove tougher than she could’ve possibly imagined.
Stas is about to go on a journey of his own. The courageous son of a refugee learns he is being sent home to a continent he has never visited. But, even as he begins to grapple with his new environment, the Order of the Urumi sets its own plans in motion for Stas and his closest friend, Nell. They are about to embark on their most dangerous adventure yet….
Trapped in unfamiliar parts the globe and thrust into a fantasy world they do not understand, Stas, Nell and Malka must struggle to find allies. Battle the Urumi. And uncover their path to the stone’s cataclysmic final purpose.
Whether they know it or not, their most epic quest has just begun….
Click here to pick up your free copy of Keepers of the Stone Book One: Outcast in the Amazon Kindle store.
AIljan: The Silk Revolution
Author: Andy Graham
When Rick Franklin finds out the truth behind the Silk Revolution, will he risk everything for what he knows to be right, or hide behind a lie?
In a country ripping itself apart from the top down, Corporal Rick Franklin is torn away from his young family. He is sent to a military base in a ruined castle on Aijlan’s restless border. Exhausted and over-worked, he makes a simple error with terrible consequences. His mistake is buried and Rick becomes a reluctant hero for a president that is soon overthrown. Trapped in the capital as the revolution starts to bite, he attempts to ensure his family’s safety. In doing so, he stumbles across the murderous secret behind the Silk Revolution, a secret that stretches to the heart of the government.
Set in an alternate world based on life in 21st Century EU and US, Aijlan (pronounced ‘eye-lan’) is Book One of The Lords of Misrule series. Part political thriller, part dystopian fiction, part tragic love story, Aijlan is a dark, morally ambiguous tale from British author Andy Graham.
Will Rick Franklin walk the easy path?
Click here to pick up your free copy of Aijlan: The Silk Revolution in the Amazon Kindle store.
Final Hours
Author: Cate Dean
Time brought them together – will it also tear them apart?
Elizabeth Barritt fought hard to put her childhood behind her. Now she has the chance to move forward, to reach out for a new future.
And she does – right into Jackson Kane’s path. He is a time traveler, from the future, and on the hunt for a rogue agent.
Their attraction is immediate, unexpected – and for Kane, an unwanted distraction. When he is injured protecting Elizabeth, she makes a decision that will change both of their lives. She takes him home.
Once Kane is healed, he goes after the agent. But his journey back to World War II London takes a sideways turn, forcing Elizabeth to make another choice. She follows him into the past, to help him stop one man from sabotaging the evacuation of Dunkirk, and changing their future.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Final Hours in the Amazon Kindle store.
A Better Place To Be
Author: David Wind
…. A story about life, and what goes with it….
….John and Claire Edghes have a wonderful marriage. John is a sweet and likeable man, whose love for his wife is unquestionable, as is her love for him. But when life deals John a devastating blow, as happens to far too many people, and his wife is taken from him, John’s life corkscrews into an overwhelming and agonizing journey to the bottom of life. There, in the darkness of his despair, a homeless drunk in trouble with the law, he wakes up one day in a rehab center, where he is pushed to look at what he has become…
…Forced to face both his past and possible future, John must find the path to rise from the despairing quicksand and somehow manage to find a way to survive. The question is, without Claire, can he?
Click here or type in http://geni.us/betterplace into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Better Place To Be: based on the Harry Chapin Song in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Book of Moon
Author: George Crowder
It coulda been worse.
That’s the “working epitaph” of 15-year-old Moon Landing. Not that Moon’s death is imminent—far from it—but his thoughts have turned to gallows humor, as his world disintegrates along with his parents’ marriage. His older brother skateboards through life with ease, but Moon is deeply troubled.
Just as he is solving for romantic unknowns with a gorgeous older girl, Moon must contend with his dad’s sudden absence, his mom-gone-wild’s sexcapades, and his best friends’ curious penchant for self-destruction. Not to mention his newfound role in agitating to end an African guerrilla’s bloody rampage.
To make sense of it all, Moon embarks on a quest to unravel the riddle of God’s injustice to man.
In this humorous and touching coming-of-age novel, Moon struggles to understand his parents—who they are, what brought them together, what broke them apart—and what that all means for his future.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/bookofmoon into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Book of Moon in the Amazon Kindle store.
Cadaver Dog
Author: Doug Goodman
Training a dog to track a zombie is like training any other dog. It takes patience, trust, and the right dog-and-handler team. And to not be afraid of zombies. Book 1 in the Zombie Dog Series.
When Angie Graves is approached with the idea of training a dog to hunt zombies, she thinks this is a bad idea. She has worked all kinds of dogs, including cadaver. But she needs a different dog for this line of work, and the only one available is a rescue named Murder. The problem is, Murder is nothing like a hero dog. He is scarred emotionally and physically. He is slow to trust, has a mischievous mind, and obsesses over his chicken toy. But if he and Angie can learn to work together, they may be able to solve the riddle of where the zombies come from, and why they are snatching up people.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/cadaverdog into your web browser to pick up your copy of Cadaver Dog in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Shadow Order: Books 1 – 3
Author: Michael Robertson
THE SHADOW ORDER – BOOK ONE OF THE SHADOW ORDER
In a fight, Seb is unbeatable. But in this galaxy, there are a million ways to lose…
Seb Zodo has never backed down from a fist fight. After all, he’s been gifted with powers that make losing impossible. But lately, Seb’s gift seems more like a curse…
Seb’s fearlessness leads to stupid decisions, short-lived jobs, and unwanted attention in dangerous places. In a desperate bid at a fresh start, Seb swears off fighting. But it may be too late…
When a run-in with an electrifying thief and the head of a shadowy organization sends his life spiraling out of control, Seb has no choice left but to go down swinging…
THE FIRST MISSION – BOOK TWO OF THE SHADOW ORDER
THE CRIMSON WAR – BOOK THREE OF THE SHADOW ORDER
Click here or type in http://geni.us/shadoworder into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Shadow Order: Books 1 – 3 in the Amazon Kindle store.
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Death Turns A Trick
Author: Julie Smith
Click here to pick up your free copy of Death Turns A Trick in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Auriga Project
Author: M.G. Herron
Transported light years in a heartbeat
Ripped from Earth in a horrifying teleportation accident, archaeologist Eliana Fisk finds herself stranded on a strange planet whose denizens want her as a human sacrifice.
Can she stay out from under the knife long enough to find her way home? Or will the desperate natives and their bloodthirsty gods get to her first?
The Auriga Project is a fast-paced science fiction thriller with an edge of the fantastic. It’s a harrowing tale of survival against all odds, and the gateway to an ancient alien mystery.
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Auriga Project in the Amazon Kindle store.
Abby & Sei Thriller Starter
Author: Ty Hutchinson
Russian Hill
A serial killer. An elaborate game of death. Who’s ready to play?
A killer is loose in San Francisco, and he’s collecting body parts. FBI Agent Abby Kane believes a dead hiker found ten miles north of the city is the key to solving those crimes.
The more Abby digs, the more she begins to think the killer is playing an elaborate game and there’s an audience cheering him on. But to catch the monster, she’ll have to join in his twisted game.
Contract: Snatch
They used her daughter to pull her out of retirement. They messed with the wrong mother.
Sei abandoned her life as an assassin to try to find peace—but when contacted by a source claiming to have information about the daughter she thought she’d lost, Sei finds herself taking on one last mission. Can she unravel the truth before time runs out?
Grab these two series starters for a fast-moving, action-packed thrill ride.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Abby & Sei Thriller Starter in the Amazon Kindle store.
Author: Melanie Shawn
The Firefighter…
With his sexy good looks, natural born charisma, and playful sense of humor, firefighter Alex Sloan is Harper’s Crossing’s most eligible bachelor. Since returning home from serving his country as a Navy SEAL women have been lining up to be with him. Alex works hard and plays even harder. Nothing can stop him when he sets his mind to something, and since meeting Jamie his mind is set on her.
Jamie Miller learned the hard way that there is one person she can depend on in this world…herself. To keep her life on track she needs to stay focused on her ten-year plan that includes working two jobs and does not include sexy distractions. And distractions don’t come much sexier than Alex Sloan.
After Alex lands in the hospital from an on the job injury, Jamie is assigned to be his nurse-slash-guard. Caring for Alex during his recovery while simultaneously fending off female admirers. Will Jamie be able to resist the irresistible Alex Sloan, or will her resolve crumble when Alex decides that his plan includes being with Jamie?
Click here to pick up your free copy of My Only in the Amazon Kindle store.
Withering Leaves
Author: Sam Cohen
What if you are stuck in a wheelchair with nothing to do but think about love?
The life of Kobi, a cynical, pessimistic sixty-year-old retiree, turns upside down overnight due to a leg injury. He finds himself wheelchair-bound and helpless with little to do except reminisce about his life and past loves. A new neighbor, Leah, falls in love with him, and they spend hours discussing the meaning of life and love.
What if your loved one suddenly disappears?
Kobi tells Leah about the heart-breaking end of his relationship with Rachel, an English actress whom he had loved deeply when he had lived in London 20 years before. That intense love affair of several years ended abruptly when Rachel broke it up with a letter and then disappeared without a trace. Kobi’s heart was broken, leaving him in pain to this day. Yet he never lost hope of meeting Rachel again.
What if there is new hope of seeing her again?
When his leg healed, he received word from a friend who had seen her recently. Will Kobi succeed in connecting with Rachel again and finally begin to grasp the meaning of love? This is a story that will keep you and your beloved musing and discussing for long time.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/witheringleaves into your web browser to pick up your copy of Withering Leaves in the Amazon Kindle store.
Moon Tortured
Author: McKenzie Hunter
Death should be the end of your life—not the beginning.
Sky Brooks’s life started with a death—her own. Sky’s spent the first twenty-three years of her life unaware of this, among other things. She always thought she was just a shapeshifter until she wakes up in a strange house in rural Illinois with only vague memories of her mother’s death at the hands of vampires.
At the request of a powerful witch, Sky is put under the protection of the Midwest Pack. But she isn’t sure she can trust them, especially after she meets the dangerously sexy Ethan, a pack member, who’s known for being more ruthless than altruistic. After she’s attacked by a necromancer, a mercenary, and the vampires who killed her mother, she has no choice but to accept the pack’s help.
The Midwest Pack aren’t quite what they seem—but then again, neither is Sky. As they form an uneasy alliance to search for the reason behind the vampires’ vicious attacks, it becomes clear that Sky possesses magic no one has ever seen—and it all started with what happened at her birth.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/moontortured into your web browser to pick up your copy of Moon Tortured in the Amazon Kindle store.
Tomorrow The Tangles Will Unravel
Author: Chelly Abraham-Eitan
Heartrending family and social experiences transformed into beautiful, captivating poetry
The poems in this book explore the themes of love and its complexity, marital upheaval, separation and loss, and the author’s large family (13 brothers and sisters, 5 of whom are blind; a brother killed upon completion of military service; a sister who died of cancer). They are the deciphering code for the sensitive reader of an encrypted autobiography, written in the face of so much hardship, and no doubt because of it.
The optimistic title chosen for the book, Tomorrow the Tangles will Unravel (a quote from the last line of the poem, “Recovery” reflects the hopeful tone of the poems, despite all of the difficulties and evils depicted in them. It alludes to the insights and paths of light that conquer the heart of the reader.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/thetangles into your web browser to pick up your copy of Tomorrow The Tangles Will Unravel in the Amazon Kindle store.
Greyhound at the Gravesite
Author: Kyla Colby
In this town, the secrets are as well-kept as the pets.
Samantha Hodges is ready to get as far away from crime reporting as possible — especially after what happened in Chicago.
Writing for the paper in her pets-obsessed hometown will be easy. Except that she’s not really into animals. And her first interviewee turns up dead.
Sam must solve the murder to clear her name — all while attending Dog Zumba class with a new four-legged sidekick like it’s no big deal.
If Sam’s going to uncover the dark side of her hometown, she’ll have to embrace the lighter side of life to do it.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/greyhound into your web browser to pick up your copy of Greyhound at the Gravesite in the Amazon Kindle store.
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The Case of the Not-So-Fair Trader
Author: Jim Stevens
Genre: Humor / Mystery
A despicable stock trader is found buried under an avalanche of his own garden rocks, causing fired-from-the force- Richard Sherlock to be yanked off the bowling alley and whisked to the crime scene by his pampered protegee Tiffany Richmond. He must prove murder and stop payment of the twelve-million-dollar Richmond Insurance policy.
Nothing makes sense. Crime scene is a mess. There is no money trail. There are too many motives from too many suspects who have too many alibis. Worst of all Sherlock’s bad back is acting up, his ex-wife wants more money and the murder investigation is putting a serious dent in his parenting schedule of his two daughters.
Richard Sherlock hates his job, and may be a reluctant dick, but he is better at finding the WHO in WHODUNIT than anyone else.
Click here to pick up your free copy of The Case of the Not-So-Fair Trader in the Amazon Kindle store.
Enemy of Man
Author: Scott Moon
Earth Fleet wants Kin Roland dead. The Reapers of Hellsbreach want revenge.
Once, in another lifetime, Kin Roland had been legendary. His experience as an elite space trooper taught him to rely on the men and women of his unit – with or without powered battle armor. Now he is marooned on a planet in the mouth of a wormhole and must trust the people he protects. The decisions he made in the face of nuclear genocide are history.
His actions on Hellsbreach mean nothing on Crashdown until a Reaper named Droon haunts his nightmares and Earth Fleet discovers he survived execution by void burial.
Changed by captivity and torture, hunted by the Reapers of Hellsbreach and wanted by Earth Fleet, Kin Roland has made a lost colony on a harsh planet near an unstable wormhole his home.
A distant space battle propels a ravaged Earth Fleet Armada through the wormhole and a Reaper follows, hunting for the man who burned his home world. Kin fights to save a mysterious winged native of Crashdown from the Reaper and learns there are worse things in the galaxy than the nightmare stalking him. The end is coming and he is about to pay for a sin that will change the galaxy forever.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Enemy of Man in the Amazon Kindle store.
Painting Deception
Author: Brian Hebbel
Lily Clarke, the elderly mother of three dysfunctional and distant daughters, makes life altering discoveries regarding her new found wealth and other dark secrets, after she receives a diagnosis that she has a terminal illness. The challenges and decisions she must face in her final months will define her lasting legacy. To execute her plan, she invites her three dysfunctional and distant daughters to her home for a short stay to determine you will receive her new found wealth. Her plans become disrupted when dark secrets emerge, questioning her decision making and the meaning of her entire life.
Click here to pick up your free copy of Painting Deception in the Amazon Kindle store.
Author: Michelle Granas
Cordelia is disabled and painfully shy but none of that matters when a stranger desperately needs her help. Shaken out of a routine that centers on caring for her odd family in Warsaw–her father is an academic with no life skills, her brother never leaves the villa, and her mother has dementia–she is forced to act. Zaremba, a wealthy businessman, is fleeing arrest when he stops to save her father’s life. He claims to be innocent and wants a favor as he seeks to turn the tables on the authorities. Cordelia is grateful but wary. Is he truly being persecuted or is he deceiving her? Her reluctant agreement to aid him plunges her into new realms of emotion. It is when he disappears, however, that she must gather all her courage and pursue the truth. Touching on human rights issues and real events in Europe, this is primarily a love story, intended for readers who enjoy language, conversation, and human relationships. It contains no graphic sex or violence.
Click here or type in http://geni.us/zarembaorlove into your web browser to pick up your copy of Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law in the Amazon Kindle store.
Unforgettable Weddings
To Have and To Hold. That’s the promise made by marriage. In this era of casual relationships, true love STILL exists. True love is what helps a woman and a man overcome huge conflicts. It’s what keeps them together despite battles they fight and obstacles they confront. When everything seems to go wrong, true love is what brings the lovers back into each other’s embrace.
Celebrate true love and commitment with UNFORGETTABLE WEDDINGS, 8 breathtaking stories from NY Times and USA Today bestselling authors.
Follow the adventures of 8 couples as they face many twists and turns on their way to happily-ever-after. These intriguing men and women will navigate dysfunctional families, pregnancy (oopsies!), second chance at love, royalty, trust fund calamities, and even time travel as they make their way down the aisle toward, “I do!” One thing is certain—love is never easy, but it’s always surprising, fun, and memorable!
UNFORGETTABLE WEDDINGS produce Joyful Memories that will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading each of these heart-throbbing romances.
April Fool Bride, Joan Reeves, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Is it a Marriage of Convenience or something–more?
The Troublemaker Bride, Leanne Banks, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: When a single pregnant mom needs emergency help from a single dad, sparks fly and emotions run high. But can forever love prevail?
Trouble In Vegas, Patrice Wilton, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: A bride-to-be is in Vegas with her sister and bridesmaid to celebrate her upcoming wedding when calamity, chaos and a hot guy named Josh, sets her life on a different course!
Return Of The Runaway Bride, Donna Fasano, USA Today bestselling author: She ran from her fairy tale wedding; now she’s back to face the man whose heart she broke.
Forever By The Sea, Traci Hall, USA Today bestselling author: Will the ceremony they both want so much be the end of their relationship—or will the trials create a love to last forever?
A Bride For Prince Paul, Mona Risk, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: She loved him as her driver, but she can’t abandon her patients for his crown!
Be My Angel, Dani Haviland: USA Today bestselling author: He dreamed of saving the wild horses in the west, but hadn’t anticipated being mesmerized by a sassy woman in a wheelchair.
Together Always, Mimi Barbour: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: A new body, a new face, someone else’s husband!
Click here or type in http://geni.us/unforgettable into your web browser to pick up your copy of Unforgettable Weddings in the Amazon Kindle store.
The Cyprus Coverup
What if you killed someone because of false intelligence?
Justin Hall, the toughest CIS covert operative, has been misled in his operation to find a rogue Russian agent. After Justin’s other sources fail him, he is forced to cut a deal with Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence service, the monster he was trying to stay away from, so he can discover the truth.
Mossad’s intelligence shows a powerful Qatari prince is behind the false intelligence ploy. Justin is determined to eliminate the devious prince no matter the cost. But how can he reach an untouchable man? What game of deception must he play to bring the prince down, and will Justin survive the consequences of his actions?
Click here or type in http://geni.us/cypruscoverup into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Cyprus Coverup in the Amazon Kindle store.
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Blackout PR’s Blackeye
Last summer, Con Edison, New York City’s electric monopoly, had a big problem, that seemed to go on…and on….and on. It concerned a massive power failure in the NYC Borough of Queens affecting some 350,000 customers.
(For my two readers in Jakarta, don’t confuse Queens with New York’s other boroughs of The Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn or Manhattan. Think of it this way: Queens is home to the New York Mets, whereas The Bronx is home to the Yankees. Queens has LaGuardia Airport, Brooklyn and Kennedy.)
The blackout somehow lasted over a week’s time (during a nasty New York heat wave), allowing the local politicians to ingratiate themselves with their constituents at the expense of the big bad utility. With the power finally restored, Con Ed decided that it needed to mend the broken bridges since the news media filter pretty much filtered out Con Ed’s perspective.
The company smartly resorted to advertorials, the knd of which we witnessed recently from JetBlue, which also is headquartered in Queens. This brings us to the present. On Sunday, a popular day for politicos to posture for the press, one New York State Assemblyman from Queens, not wise to the ways of corporate reputation, castigated the utility for the “Blackout P.R. Overload.” Democrat Michael Gianaris, said:
“It’s the ultimate outrage . . . that they’re running a slick p.r. campaign . . . instead of helping businesses get up on their feet.”
Gee. Couldn’t this esteemed politician have chosen a different adjective to describe the campaign? A Con Ed spokeswoman replied:
“…the utility has spent about $90 million for its emergency response, permanent repairs and ‘ongoing improvements’ in the area since the blackout. She added that Con Ed paid out a total of $14.3 million in claims. And she defended the p.r. campaign, saying, ‘Advertising in local papers . . . is an important means of communicating our commitment…We have an ongoing commitment to communicate to our customers.'”
Right. And by the way, Mike, “advertising in newspapers” is not exactly PR, though most full-service PR firms offer clients the advertorial option. Ironically, it’s this Queens politician who’s actually using PR (and taxpayer dollars) for his own aggrandizement.
Published March 6, 2007 By Peter Himler
Categorized as advertorial, blackout, Con Edison, electric utility, Michael Gianaris, New York City, PR, public relations, Queens
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Research shows vehicle smartphone apps are easy to hack
Smartphone apps which enable drivers to control vehicle functions remotely are vulnerable to a number of security threats, according to new research.
The seven carmaker apps all contained security flaws which could be used to hack vehicles.
Russian cybersecurity research unit Kaspersky Lab researchers examined seven apps which, according to Google Play, have been downloaded tens of thousands, and in some cases, up to five million times.
The research found that all contain a number of security issues that can potentially enable an attacker to gain control over the car, unlock the doors, turn off the alarm and, theoretically, steal it altogether.
The list of the security issues discovered includes:
No defence against application reverse-engineering. As a result, malicious users could understand how the app works and find a vulnerability that would allow them to obtain access to server-side infrastructure or to the car’s multimedia system.
No code integrity check, which is important because it enables criminals to incorporate their own code in the app and replace the original program with a fake one.
No rooting detection techniques. Rooting a device enables users to change fundamental parts of its operating system. It also provides Trojans with almost endless capabilities and leave the app defenceless. Some banking apps will refuse to run if they detect they are on a smartphone which has been rooted.
Lack of protection against app overlaying techniques. This enables malicious apps to show phishing windows, which masquerade as trustworthy sites but steal users’ credentials.
Storage of logins and passwords in plain text. Using this weakness, a criminal can steal users’ data relatively easily.
Kaspersky Lab said in each case the attack vector would require some additional preparations, like luring owners of applications to install specially-crafted malicious apps that would then root the device and get access to the car application.
However, it added this is unlikely to be a problem for criminals experienced in social engineering techniques, should they decide to hunt for owners of connected cars.
Victor Chebyshev, security expert at Kaspersky Lab, said: “The main conclusion of our research is that, in their current state, applications for connected cars are not ready to withstand malware attacks.
“Luckily, we have not yet detected any cases of attacks against car applications, which means that car vendors still have time to do things right. How much time they have exactly is unknown. Modern Trojans are very flexible – one day they can act like normal adware, and the next day they can easily download a new configuration making it possible to target new apps. The attack surface is really vast here.”
Kaspersky Lab researchers also issued advice for users of connected car apps to protect their cars and private data from possible cyberattacks:
Don’t root your Android device as this will open almost unlimited capabilities to malicious apps.
Disable the ability to install applications from sources other than official app stores.
Keep the OS version of your device up to date in order to reduce vulnerabilities in the software and lower the risk of attack.
Install a proven security solution in order to protect your device from cyberattacks.
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About flow5
XFoil, xflr5, flow5
The 3d viscous problem
Demos and trial versions
3d Galerkin formulations
Plane analysis
Non linear control polars
Intel MKL
C.A.D. interfaces
Sail design and analysis
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Données personnelles / Privacy notice
An analysis tool for planes and sails operating at low Reynolds numbers
flow5 is a potential flow solver with built-in pre- and post processing functionalities. Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly.
Flow solver
flow5 uses a potential flow solver which includes the following methods:
A non-linear Lifting-Line Theory method which follows the methodology described in the report NACA-1269
Two VLM methods using quad ring vortices and horseshoe vortices.
A volume quad panel method based on the report NASA 4023
Two triangular panel methods based on Galerkin formulations. The first uses uniform source and doublet densities on panels, the second uses uniform source and linear doublet densities. The benefit of triangular methods is their ability to describe general 3d surfaces including fuselages. In addition, the linear method improves the accuracy of the predictions in cases of high local pressure gradients.
The wake can be represented either by conventional straight vortex lines and flat panels, or by using a Lagrangian description with vortex particles. The latter method is the way forward and is recommended for its better predictions.
Viscosity is accounted for by interpolation of 2d viscous data, and by a viscous loop used to derive a solution which satisfies both the 2d viscous properties and the 3d inviscid flow solution.
Note: XFoil is not part of flow5, the program uses xflr5 as an external back-end to generate the 2d viscous data.
Bench-marking and validation are part of the beta phase of the on-going development.
The first benchmark shows good agreement between predictions and wind tunnel test results.
flow5 includes the core capabilities of xflr5 for plane analyses, and of sail7 for boat analyses. A number of new features have been introduced to improve on these two applications and to make the analyses more user-friendly, versatile and accurate.
Plane analyses with fuselage
Vortex Particle Wake
CAD Interfaces
2d Interactive Boundary Layer solver
Alpha and beta phases, and first version
The alpha phase was closed on November 15th, 2019.
The beta phase has ended December 6, 2020.
flow5 v.02 is the first formal version of the application, released on December 6, 2020.
flow5 is available under a commercial licence on a subscription basis. The intent of the commercial license is to provide support to the on-going development.
For beta-backers, subscriptions are available for the duration of the beta phase + 1 year of use.
On the long term, nothing is firm, but the intent is that flow5’s price remains affordable for students and private individuals.
flow5 has been designed to run on all configurations which support xflr5.
Compatibility with future ARM-based macOS configurations is not guaranteed and will depend on the availability of Intel’s MKL library on the new platform.
Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.
Check-out the detailed hardware requirements before purchasing flow5.
Bug reports and feature requests
Until a ticket functionality similar to the one available for xflr5 is added to this website, please use the discussion section to report a bug or request a feature.
Check out also the troubleshooting section to fix the most common issues.
xflr5: xflr5 is an analysis tool for airfoils, wings and planes operating at low Reynolds Numbers
sail7: sail7 is a tool designed for the analysis of sail boat performance
XFoil : XFoil is an interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic isolated airfoils
flow5 – video tutorials
A tentative online documentation is under construction, focusing first on user questions and comments, and on the most recently introduced features..
The presentation documents and project files used in the demonstration videos can be downloaded from this page.
flow5 ® is a registered trademark in France of the company Cère-Aéro.
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Birding, Day walk, Ecology, Forest, Garden Route, Knysna, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, SANParks, Sedgefield, South Africa, Wilderness
The message on Saturday afternoon simple : I will be in the Garden Route on Monday and would like to photograph a Knysna Woodpecker and a Knysna Warbler. Can you help?
August Birding in the Garden Route can be extremely fickle, very much dependent on which way the wind blows. A week of South westerly winds can drop the temperature and blast the birds into hiding while a northerly wind, as a light Berg Wind, can warm everything up and stimulate flowers to bud and birds to start early nesting activities.
The historical village of Knysna flanks a the eastern side of the Knysna Estuary.
Knysna, the name of a historical coastal town in the Garden Route, is unique in being used in the names of no less than 5 species. There are three avian species, Knysna Turaco, Knysna Warbler and Knysna Woodpecker.
The endemic Knysna Seahorse occurs only in three estuaries in the Garden Route
There is also a reptilian species, the Knysna Dwarf Chameleon, and a marine species, the Knysna Seahorse, an endemic species found only in three locations in the Garden Route.
There is a sixth species which includes the towns name, the Knysna Elephant, but this is merely a reference to a historical population of African Elephants that roamed through the Garden Route, and isn’t a true name.
Focusing on the brief to photograph the two species, I set out on Sunday to scout a few well known sites for both species. My first stop was the Woodville Big Tree, a convenient site for both species.
Near the wooden bridge leading to the big tree is a regular site for Knysna Warbler.
It was midmorning and warm. The forest canopy was alive with birds. Cape Batis pairs chirped their contact calls from every direction while foraging.
Overhead, Black-headed Orioles, Green Woodhoepoes, Knysna Turaco and Sombre Greenbuls flitted through the canopy. In the undergrowth Bar-throated Apalis and Terrestrial Brownbuls picked off prey from the branches.
Flocks of Double-banded Sunbirds, both Greater and Southern, competed with Cape White-eyes in the flowering Wild Pomegranate over the stream.
Forest Canaries swooped down to the undergrowth along the stream, and in the background Grey Cuckooshrike, Fork-tailed Drongo and Olive Woodpecker announced their presence.
Of the Knysna species, only silence. Nada. Maybe another location would be more productive the next morning.
At sunrise on Monday, as we set off, I decided to try a different site for the Woodpeckers, a section along the Seven Passes road with a stand of tall dead Eucalypt trees.
The rivers that the Seven Passes road crosses over all have ideal habitat for Knysna Warbler as well as Knysna Woodpecker.
After 10 minutes of calling and scanning for the woodpeckers, we were about to leave when the distinctive trill of the Knysna Warbler broke the uncanny silence and the contact call of a female filtered up from the dense undergrowth.
For the next hour Johan tried his best to get a clear photo. As a skulking species two birds flitted through the undergrowth, popped out onto branch tips but it was only a flash of a wing, a frame of tail or a cropped portrait that he captured.
Calling it quits, he high fived me and we set off to a second site for the Woodpeckers. Again, another Warbler and some Olive Woodpeckers, but no Knysna Woodpeckers.
Unsure how the rest of the morning would play out, we stopped in at the big tree. Silence. Nothing except a chorus of Sombre Greenbuls in the canopy and Sunbirds in the Wild Pomegranate.
Resigned to the absence of the Woodpecker, we turned back to the vehicle only to have a Spotted Eagle-Owl swoop over our heads and land on an open branch, probably the reason for the lack of bird activity compared to the day before.
With a deadline for an onward journey we got into the car only to have an Olive Woodpecker flash past and stop 2 meters in front of the vehicle. Despite having a photographic portfolio of 703 species which includes the Olive Woodpecker, Johan couldn’t resist the indifferent attitude of the bird as it pecked for a meal, and he managed to get a great photo before we drove off.
Typical tall canopy trees in the Knysna Forest. Bird parties frequent the mid level and canopy crown.
Unfortunately we didn’t track down the targeted Woodpecker. Personally, it was remarkable to observe how distinctly different the collective bird behavior was on the two days, an insight into the chance aspect of finding a species out of nesting season.
Both visits to the Woodville Big Tree where at similar times, namely mid morning. Both days were sunny, calm and mild conditions. One of the possible reasons for the reduced activity of birds in the canopy could be attributed to the presence of the Spotted Eagle-Owl.
For more details of our Lakes Loop bird tour and birding photography visit Garden Route Birding.
Mark Dixon September 7, 2018 Bird Photography, forest, Garden Route, Garden Route National Park, Knysna, Wilderness
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Peace Through Tourism: How Louis D’Amore spread the virus?
December 9, 2020 December 28, 2020 gaytourism
Louis D’Amore is a hero and was awarded this honor by World Tourism Network.
Lous D’Amore is the president and founder of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism. (IIPT)
Yesterday IIPT celebrated the Commemorating 35 Years of Peace Through Tourism. The platform was a launch event for the World Tourism Network (WTN)
Thousands of fans watched the event on various social media platforms, including eTurboNews and livestream.travel . About a hundred WTN members attended the virtual event. With so many dedicated leaders in travel and tourism from around the globe, it felt like a global family was coming together.
Markly Wilson is the Director of International Marketing for New York State Tourism. He was previously Director of Marketing for the Caribbean Tourism Organization and, for nine years, U.S. Manager for the Barbados Board of Tourism.
He told the audience how he spread the virus of tourism for so many years. He said Louis d’Amore infected him, but it was a good virus.
Louis D’Amore congratulated WTN for its opening and felt the organization is already very powerful. World Tourism Network was started by the members of the rebuilding.travel discussion group. D’Amore agreed to lead the Peace Through Tourism Interest Group on the World Tourism Network.
Every panel member had it’s own story to reflect on the last 35 years. Panelist included included
Dr. Taleb Rifai – Chairman, IIPT International Advisory Board
Louis D’Amore, IIPT Founder and President
Markly Wilson IIPT Board of Directors
Ajay Prakash, IIPT Executive VP
Diana McIntyre, IIPT Caribbean
Pike, President, IIPT Australia
Gail Parsonage, President, IIPT Australia
Reza Soltani, IIPT Image and Communication
Birgit Trauer, Founding Director, The Cultural Angle
Fabio Carbone, IIPT Ambassador at Large and President, IIPT Iran
Juergen Steinmetz, president World Tourism Network
World Tourism Network Launch: Just Amazing
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Clean Beauty: A Beginner’s Guide
The European Union has banned over 1,300 potentially harmful chemicals in beauty products. The FDA–has banned 11.
I remember being awakened in the middle of the night by the sounds of frantic crying and wheezing in the distance. It took a minute to realize the sounds were coming from the bathroom where my mother, who is allergic to everything, was experiencing a severe allergic reaction that led to a swollen, unrecognizable face and difficulty breathing. The culprit? A face cream with an undisclosed allergen.
For many of us, products with undisclosed or problematic ingredients won’t trigger such an immediate or severe reaction, but the potential for longterm damage, like cancer, is painfully real. Our skin is our largest organ—so it’s safe to assume that toxic chemicals we already know are linked to health problems and severe illnesses will have an impact on our bodies when applied to our skin.
AN INDUSTRY WITH NO GOVERNMENT REGULATION
Similar to the reckoning of the tobacco industry, brands across the beauty industry are now being held accountable for the harmful ingredients in their formulas that are adversely impacting the health of their consumers. The most notable and recent lawsuit that confirmed the newfound link between Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder and various forms of cancer resulted in a massive $100MM+ in settlements.
But the call for accountability isn’t coming from the government–it’s coming from consumers. The European Union has banned over 1,300 potentially harmful chemicals in beauty products. The FDA–has banned 11. The only legislation regulating the personal care industry was enacted nearly 100 years ago in 1938. And, as of today, the FDA does not require beauty brands provide safety information on ingredients before use and the FDA does not issue recalls on products that use harmful ingredients. Beauty brands are left to regulate themselves.
And here lies the problem.
THE RISE OF GREENWASHING
When it comes to beauty, the word ‘clean’ has undeniably become the ‘it’ word of the industry. In recent years, beauty consumers have increasingly called for more transparency in products and formulas that use non-toxic ingredients–paving the way for the clean beauty movement.
But without FDA regulations, brands have the ability to label and market their own products as ‘clean,’ ‘green,’ or ‘natural’ to reach the increasing segment of ingredient-conscious consumers. However, with a practice known as 'greenwashing,' some brands have used these terms to refer to a range of products that include ingredients that have been found to be unsafe. So it’s no surprise that many consumers are unclear on the actual definition.
Unlike cruelty-free products, clean beauty products do not have a registered mark of approval so consumers must rely on brand trust and their own ability to scan labels for harmful ingredients.
HOW GLAM INC DEFINES CLEAN BEAUTY
Clean beauty at GLAM INC refers to luxe, high-performance beauty products (e.g. makeup, skincare, haircare, etc.) made without a long, unnecessary list of ingredients that are non-toxic, ethically-sourced and processed. Clean beauty can include natural or synthetic ingredients that have been clinically-proven to not be harmful to the body or the environment.
We love luxurious, high-performance, beautifully pigmented products which is why we will offer them in addition to our current products that are so clean, they can be used as bases. Science and technology are here. Clean beauty no longer means you have to compromise quality, efficacy, or luxury.
LIST OF CLINICALLY-PROVEN HARMFUL INGREDIENTS
GLAM INC’s current list of toxic ingredients are below.
1,4 Dioxane*
Asbestos-Free Talc
Aluminum Salts
Animal Oils/Musks/Fats
Benzophenone + Related Compounds
Bromostyrene
Butyl Methacrylate
Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA)
Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT that is 0.1% or more of total formula.)
Coal Tar
Deastyrene
Divinylbenzene Copolymer
Dvbcopolymer
Ethanolamines DEA/TEA/MEA/ETA
Ethyl Acrylate
Ethyl Methacrylate
Formaldehydes, Formaldehyde-Releasing Agents
Hydroxypropyl Methacrylate
Insoluble Plastic Microbeads (Used in products to be rinsed off.)
Lead/Lead Acetate
Mercury + Mercury Compounds (Thimerisol)
Methyl Cellosolve + Methoxyethanol
Methylchloroisothiazolinone (Used in products not rinsed off.)
Methylisothiazolinone (Used in products not rinsed off.)
Methyl Methacrylate
Nanoparticles (As defined by the European Commission.)
Oxybenzone
Parrafin (that is not USP Grade.)
Petrolatum (that is not USP Grade.)
Phenoxyethanol (that is 1% or more of total formulation.)
Polyacrylamide
Sodium Styrene
Styrene Oxide
Sulfates (SLS + SLES)
Tetrahydrofurfuryl Methacrylate
Triclocarban
Undisclosed Synthetic Fragrances**
* Refers to final formulas that do not comply with the thresholds as follows: (10 or < PPM for products that are meant to be rinsed off, wiped off or removed, 3PPM or < for products that are meant to remain on the skin
** Products can be formulated with disclosed synthetic fragrances as long as they do not include ingredients listed here and are at a concentration below 1% of the total formula).
FRAGRANCE AS AN INGREDIENT
Fragrance, not considered an actual ingredient but is commonly listed as one, is a trade secret which means that companies are not required to disclose what’s in it. There are dozens, if not hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals, which cause the fragrance to stick to your skin.
For questions about clean beauty or the ingredients in GLAM INC product, please contact us.
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What is equity in business terms
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Business Equity for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses. Equity Ownership interest in a firm. Also, the residual dollar value of a futures trading account, assuming its liquidation is at the going trade price. In real estate, dollar difference between what a property could be sold for and debts claimed against it. In a brokerage account, equity equals the value of the account's securities minus any, Definition of equity capital: Invested money that, in contrast to debt capital, is not repaid to the investors in the normal course of business. Mentioned in These Terms. cost of ….
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Customer Equity Definition Marketing Dictionary MBA. Definition of equity capital: Invested money that, in contrast to debt capital, is not repaid to the investors in the normal course of business. Mentioned in These Terms. cost of …, Business Equity for Entrepreneurs Table of Contents. Is Equity Even For Me? It can be tough to pay employees what they want in the beginning stages of your business. So if you're considering equity compensation, it's good to consult a lawyer for working out terms to ensure everyone is happy..
Review the general business terms and policies for trading with Saxo Bank here. Equity. Equity refers to some form of capital that is invested into a business, or an asset that represents ownership held in a business. In a company balance sheet, the capital contributed by the owner and shares held by a shareholder represent equity as it shows ownership held in the company by others.
What is a Business Plan? A Brief Explanation of a Business Plan Definition. The private equity definition for a Business Plan is currently in production; we will update this page as soon as the definition is complete. In the mean time, we do have a comprehensive glossary of … Equity is one of those words in property investment that is bandied about by many yet understood by relatively few. For small business owners, the definition of equity is simple: It is the difference between what your business is worth (your assets) minus what you owe on it (your debts and liabilities). Equity = Assets – Liabilities
Equity Ownership interest in a firm. Also, the residual dollar value of a futures trading account, assuming its liquidation is at the going trade price. In real estate, dollar difference between what a property could be sold for and debts claimed against it. In a brokerage account, equity equals the value of the account's securities minus any 12.07.2018В В· Other terms include an 'employee share purchase plan' or an 'employee equity scheme'. Encumbered - an encumbered asset is one that is currently put forward as security or collateral for a loan. Equity - the value of ownership interest in the business, calculated by deducting liabilities from assets. See also owner's equity.
30.09.2013 · Also remember that a private equity fund's ultimate goal is to make the company worth more than it was before in order to produce a return for investors. Sentimentality, the workforce, the role of the founders in the business, even the business' long-term success -- they can all be secondary to this goal. So be prepared for some ruthlessness. 20.05.2015 · 24 Accounting Terms Every Business Owner Needs to Know . If the company is small with only a handful of owners, this can also be referred to as “owner’s equity.” If the company has many different owners, Run your entire business with QuickBooks Try it free
30.09.2013В В· Also remember that a private equity fund's ultimate goal is to make the company worth more than it was before in order to produce a return for investors. Sentimentality, the workforce, the role of the founders in the business, even the business' long-term success -- they can all be secondary to this goal. So be prepared for some ruthlessness. Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more.
Equity may also refer to вЂshareholder’s equity’ which is the proportion of equity investment held by a shareholder depending on the value of the shares purchased and held. Capital vs Equity. The similarity between equity and capital is that they both represent interest that owners hold in a business whether it is funds, shares or assets. What is a Business Plan? A Brief Explanation of a Business Plan Definition. The private equity definition for a Business Plan is currently in production; we will update this page as soon as the definition is complete. In the mean time, we do have a comprehensive glossary of …
Equity. Equity refers to some form of capital that is invested into a business, or an asset that represents ownership held in a business. In a company balance sheet, the capital contributed by the owner and shares held by a shareholder represent equity as it shows ownership held in the company by others. Business Equity for Entrepreneurs Table of Contents. Is Equity Even For Me? It can be tough to pay employees what they want in the beginning stages of your business. So if you're considering equity compensation, it's good to consult a lawyer for working out terms to ensure everyone is happy.
For a business, the cost of equity is the expected return they will get from the equity financing they receive. For an investor, the cost of equity is the expected return that they will get in exchange for their investment in a business in the form of buying shares - Retention Equity: This measures the tendency of a customer to be loyal to the brand. This can be measured by the loyalty programs, its reputation etc. Browse the definition and meaning of more terms similar to Customer Equity. The Management Dictionary covers over 7000 business concepts from 6 categories. Search & Explore : Management Dictionary
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Equity financial definition of Equity. A business equity loan is when you put your business’s assets up for collateral to up your chances of getting approved for a loan with low rates. Startups and small businesses that have trouble qualifying for a business loan might want to consider business equity investments, especially if …, Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more..
Equity Financing for Business Definition. For a business, the cost of equity is the expected return they will get from the equity financing they receive. For an investor, the cost of equity is the expected return that they will get in exchange for their investment in a business in the form of buying shares, Sam’s equity has increased since the business earned a profit. Partnership Equity. Equity in business is not a one-man show, however. If a business has more than one owner, which makes it a partnership, then the partners will all have equity in the enterprise..
What Is Business Equity? A Guide for Small Business Owners. 15.10.2019 · Debt finance – money provided by an external lender, such as a bank, building society or credit union. Equity finance – money sourced from within your business. Check out our handy list of financial terms. If you need finance to buy goods like furniture, technology or equipment, many stores https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_on_investment Equity ownership in the firm means that the original business owner no longer owns 100 percent of the firm but shares ownership with others, known as shareholders. On a company's balance sheet, its total equity is represented by the sum of the following accounts: common stock, preferred stock, paid-in capital, and retained earnings..
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Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more. Given this, buyers are sometimes drawn towards an asset sale rather than an equity sale since there is less concern for undisclosed liabilities and a better tax treatment. On the other hand, a seller may be better off from an after-tax standpoint conducting an equity sale.
Equity. Equity refers to some form of capital that is invested into a business, or an asset that represents ownership held in a business. In a company balance sheet, the capital contributed by the owner and shares held by a shareholder represent equity as it shows ownership held in the company by others. Start studying Accounting Vocabulary. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Search. liabilities, and owner's equity of a business as of a specific date. of asset is apportioned equally over its estimated useful life expressed in terms of months or years.
12.07.2018 · Other terms include an 'employee share purchase plan' or an 'employee equity scheme'. Encumbered - an encumbered asset is one that is currently put forward as security or collateral for a loan. Equity - the value of ownership interest in the business, calculated by deducting liabilities from assets. See also owner's equity. Equity is one of those words in property investment that is bandied about by many yet understood by relatively few. For small business owners, the definition of equity is simple: It is the difference between what your business is worth (your assets) minus what you owe on it (your debts and liabilities). Equity = Assets – Liabilities
Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more. Equity definition is - justice according to natural law or right; specifically : freedom from bias or favoritism. How to use equity in a sentence.
27.02.2018 · Equity accounting, or what is sometimes called the equity method, is an accounting process for recording investments in associated companies or entities. Generally, the equity accounting method is applied when an investor or holding entity owns 20–50% of the voting stock of an associate company. 26.05.2005 · For the small business the chief advantage of equity is that it need not be paid back. In contrast, bank loans or other forms of debt financing have an immediate impact on cash flow and carry severe penalties unless payments terms are met. Equity financing is also more likely to be available for startups with good ideas and sound plans.
Definition of equity: Fairness and impartiality towards all concerned, based on the principles of evenhanded dealing. Equity implies giving as much advantage, consideration, or latitude to one & Small Business' Terms. stakeholder management macro environment … - Retention Equity: This measures the tendency of a customer to be loyal to the brand. This can be measured by the loyalty programs, its reputation etc. Browse the definition and meaning of more terms similar to Customer Equity. The Management Dictionary covers over 7000 business concepts from 6 categories. Search & Explore : Management Dictionary
Owner's equity. When starting a business, the owners fund the business to finance various operations. Under the model of a private limited company, the business and its owners are separate entities, so the business is considered to owe these funds to its owners as a liability in the form of share capital. 27.02.2018 · Equity accounting, or what is sometimes called the equity method, is an accounting process for recording investments in associated companies or entities. Generally, the equity accounting method is applied when an investor or holding entity owns 20–50% of the voting stock of an associate company.
Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more. In business. Equity theory has been widely applied to business settings by industrial psychologists to describe the relationship between an employee's motivation and his or her perception of equitable or inequitable treatment. In a business setting, the relevant dyadic relationship is that between
Equity ownership in the firm means that the original business owner no longer owns 100 percent of the firm but shares ownership with others, known as shareholders. On a company's balance sheet, its total equity is represented by the sum of the following accounts: common stock, preferred stock, paid-in capital, and retained earnings. 21.05.2019 · Many small business owners invest their own money to help fund their startups. According to one study, 77% of small businesses rely on their personal savings for initial funding. The initial funds you or others invest in your company help lay the foundation for your business’s equity. Your
Equity ownership in the firm means that the original business owner no longer owns 100 percent of the firm but shares ownership with others, known as shareholders. On a company's balance sheet, its total equity is represented by the sum of the following accounts: common stock, preferred stock, paid-in capital, and retained earnings. 30.09.2013В В· Also remember that a private equity fund's ultimate goal is to make the company worth more than it was before in order to produce a return for investors. Sentimentality, the workforce, the role of the founders in the business, even the business' long-term success -- they can all be secondary to this goal. So be prepared for some ruthlessness.
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General Business Terms Saxo Group. Equity Interest Definition. Equity interest, defined as the amount of equity a single person holds in a business, is a common concept to the small business world. For example, if an angel investor receives 25% ownership of a company, the investor has a 25% equity interest in that business., Given this, buyers are sometimes drawn towards an asset sale rather than an equity sale since there is less concern for undisclosed liabilities and a better tax treatment. On the other hand, a seller may be better off from an after-tax standpoint conducting an equity sale..
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General Business Terms Saxo Group. Review the general business terms and policies for trading with Saxo Bank here., Equity. Equity refers to some form of capital that is invested into a business, or an asset that represents ownership held in a business. In a company balance sheet, the capital contributed by the owner and shares held by a shareholder represent equity as it shows ownership held in the company by others..
Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more. A business equity loan is when you put your business’s assets up for collateral to up your chances of getting approved for a loan with low rates. Startups and small businesses that have trouble qualifying for a business loan might want to consider business equity investments, especially if …
21.05.2019В В· Many small business owners invest their own money to help fund their startups. According to one study, 77% of small businesses rely on their personal savings for initial funding. The initial funds you or others invest in your company help lay the foundation for your business’s equity. Your Equity may also refer to вЂshareholder’s equity’ which is the proportion of equity investment held by a shareholder depending on the value of the shares purchased and held. Capital vs Equity. The similarity between equity and capital is that they both represent interest that owners hold in a business whether it is funds, shares or assets.
Equity is one of those words in property investment that is bandied about by many yet understood by relatively few. For small business owners, the definition of equity is simple: It is the difference between what your business is worth (your assets) minus what you owe on it (your debts and liabilities). Equity = Assets – Liabilities 12.07.2018 · Other terms include an 'employee share purchase plan' or an 'employee equity scheme'. Encumbered - an encumbered asset is one that is currently put forward as security or collateral for a loan. Equity - the value of ownership interest in the business, calculated by deducting liabilities from assets. See also owner's equity.
21.05.2019 · Many small business owners invest their own money to help fund their startups. According to one study, 77% of small businesses rely on their personal savings for initial funding. The initial funds you or others invest in your company help lay the foundation for your business’s equity. Your Sam’s equity has increased since the business earned a profit. Partnership Equity. Equity in business is not a one-man show, however. If a business has more than one owner, which makes it a partnership, then the partners will all have equity in the enterprise.
15.10.2019 · Debt finance – money provided by an external lender, such as a bank, building society or credit union. Equity finance – money sourced from within your business. Check out our handy list of financial terms. If you need finance to buy goods like furniture, technology or equipment, many stores Equity is typically referred to as shareholder equity (also known as shareholders' equity) which represents the amount of money that would be returned to a company’s shareholders if all of the assets were liquidated and all of the company's debt was paid off.
Equity Interest Definition. Equity interest, defined as the amount of equity a single person holds in a business, is a common concept to the small business world. For example, if an angel investor receives 25% ownership of a company, the investor has a 25% equity interest in that business. What is a Business Plan? A Brief Explanation of a Business Plan Definition. The private equity definition for a Business Plan is currently in production; we will update this page as soon as the definition is complete. In the mean time, we do have a comprehensive glossary of …
20.05.2015 · 24 Accounting Terms Every Business Owner Needs to Know . If the company is small with only a handful of owners, this can also be referred to as “owner’s equity.” If the company has many different owners, Run your entire business with QuickBooks Try it free Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more.
- Retention Equity: This measures the tendency of a customer to be loyal to the brand. This can be measured by the loyalty programs, its reputation etc. Browse the definition and meaning of more terms similar to Customer Equity. The Management Dictionary covers over 7000 business concepts from 6 categories. Search & Explore : Management Dictionary EQUITY. In the early history of the law, the sense affixed to this word was exceedingly vague and uncertain. This was owing, in part, to the fact, that the chancellors of those days were either statesmen or ecclesiastics, perhaps not very scrupulous in the exercise of power.
Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more. Owner's equity. When starting a business, the owners fund the business to finance various operations. Under the model of a private limited company, the business and its owners are separate entities, so the business is considered to owe these funds to its owners as a liability in the form of share capital.
Obtaining equity financing is more difficult for startups than for established businesses needing funds to expand. (According to a Wells Fargo Small Business Survey, 77% of small business startup funding comes from the personal savings of the owners.) In either case, having a solid business plan in place is a must for attracting investors. 30.09.2013В В· Also remember that a private equity fund's ultimate goal is to make the company worth more than it was before in order to produce a return for investors. Sentimentality, the workforce, the role of the founders in the business, even the business' long-term success -- they can all be secondary to this goal. So be prepared for some ruthlessness.
In business. Equity theory has been widely applied to business settings by industrial psychologists to describe the relationship between an employee's motivation and his or her perception of equitable or inequitable treatment. In a business setting, the relevant dyadic relationship is that between Equity Interest Definition. Equity interest, defined as the amount of equity a single person holds in a business, is a common concept to the small business world. For example, if an angel investor receives 25% ownership of a company, the investor has a 25% equity interest in that business.
Definition of equity capital: Invested money that, in contrast to debt capital, is not repaid to the investors in the normal course of business. Mentioned in These Terms. cost of … Equity. Equity refers to some form of capital that is invested into a business, or an asset that represents ownership held in a business. In a company balance sheet, the capital contributed by the owner and shares held by a shareholder represent equity as it shows ownership held in the company by others.
Obtaining equity financing is more difficult for startups than for established businesses needing funds to expand. (According to a Wells Fargo Small Business Survey, 77% of small business startup funding comes from the personal savings of the owners.) In either case, having a solid business plan in place is a must for attracting investors. Equity. Equity refers to some form of capital that is invested into a business, or an asset that represents ownership held in a business. In a company balance sheet, the capital contributed by the owner and shares held by a shareholder represent equity as it shows ownership held in the company by others.
Definition of equity: Fairness and impartiality towards all concerned, based on the principles of evenhanded dealing. Equity implies giving as much advantage, consideration, or latitude to one & Small Business' Terms. stakeholder management macro environment … Equity Ownership interest in a firm. Also, the residual dollar value of a futures trading account, assuming its liquidation is at the going trade price. In real estate, dollar difference between what a property could be sold for and debts claimed against it. In a brokerage account, equity equals the value of the account's securities minus any
The equity capital act as a cushion for the lenders, as with more and more equity base, the company can easily raise additional funds on favorable terms. Thus, it increases the creditworthiness of the company. The firm is not bound to pay dividends, in case there is a cash deficit. The firm can skip the equity dividends without any legal Equity may also refer to вЂshareholder’s equity’ which is the proportion of equity investment held by a shareholder depending on the value of the shares purchased and held. Capital vs Equity. The similarity between equity and capital is that they both represent interest that owners hold in a business whether it is funds, shares or assets.
30.09.2013В В· Also remember that a private equity fund's ultimate goal is to make the company worth more than it was before in order to produce a return for investors. Sentimentality, the workforce, the role of the founders in the business, even the business' long-term success -- they can all be secondary to this goal. So be prepared for some ruthlessness. In business. Equity theory has been widely applied to business settings by industrial psychologists to describe the relationship between an employee's motivation and his or her perception of equitable or inequitable treatment. In a business setting, the relevant dyadic relationship is that between
Obtaining equity financing is more difficult for startups than for established businesses needing funds to expand. (According to a Wells Fargo Small Business Survey, 77% of small business startup funding comes from the personal savings of the owners.) In either case, having a solid business plan in place is a must for attracting investors. Obtaining equity financing is more difficult for startups than for established businesses needing funds to expand. (According to a Wells Fargo Small Business Survey, 77% of small business startup funding comes from the personal savings of the owners.) In either case, having a solid business plan in place is a must for attracting investors.
Difference Between Equity and Capital Compare the. 21.05.2019 · Many small business owners invest their own money to help fund their startups. According to one study, 77% of small businesses rely on their personal savings for initial funding. The initial funds you or others invest in your company help lay the foundation for your business’s equity. Your, Start studying Accounting Vocabulary. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Search. liabilities, and owner's equity of a business as of a specific date. of asset is apportioned equally over its estimated useful life expressed in terms of months or years..
Equity Definition of Equity by Merriam-Webster. Equity definition, the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. See more., 21.05.2019 · Many small business owners invest their own money to help fund their startups. According to one study, 77% of small businesses rely on their personal savings for initial funding. The initial funds you or others invest in your company help lay the foundation for your business’s equity. Your.
What is equity capital? definition and meaning. Definition of equity: Fairness and impartiality towards all concerned, based on the principles of evenhanded dealing. Equity implies giving as much advantage, consideration, or latitude to one & Small Business' Terms. stakeholder management macro environment …, - Retention Equity: This measures the tendency of a customer to be loyal to the brand. This can be measured by the loyalty programs, its reputation etc. Browse the definition and meaning of more terms similar to Customer Equity. The Management Dictionary covers over 7000 business concepts from 6 categories. Search & Explore : Management Dictionary.
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Difference Between Equity and Capital Compare the. 21.05.2019 · Many small business owners invest their own money to help fund their startups. According to one study, 77% of small businesses rely on their personal savings for initial funding. The initial funds you or others invest in your company help lay the foundation for your business’s equity. Your https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_Premium_Puzzle 12.07.2018 · Other terms include an 'employee share purchase plan' or an 'employee equity scheme'. Encumbered - an encumbered asset is one that is currently put forward as security or collateral for a loan. Equity - the value of ownership interest in the business, calculated by deducting liabilities from assets. See also owner's equity..
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15.10.2019 · Debt finance – money provided by an external lender, such as a bank, building society or credit union. Equity finance – money sourced from within your business. Check out our handy list of financial terms. If you need finance to buy goods like furniture, technology or equipment, many stores Definition of equity: Fairness and impartiality towards all concerned, based on the principles of evenhanded dealing. Equity implies giving as much advantage, consideration, or latitude to one & Small Business' Terms. stakeholder management macro environment …
15.10.2019 · Debt finance – money provided by an external lender, such as a bank, building society or credit union. Equity finance – money sourced from within your business. Check out our handy list of financial terms. If you need finance to buy goods like furniture, technology or equipment, many stores Equity Ownership interest in a firm. Also, the residual dollar value of a futures trading account, assuming its liquidation is at the going trade price. In real estate, dollar difference between what a property could be sold for and debts claimed against it. In a brokerage account, equity equals the value of the account's securities minus any
26.05.2005В В· For the small business the chief advantage of equity is that it need not be paid back. In contrast, bank loans or other forms of debt financing have an immediate impact on cash flow and carry severe penalties unless payments terms are met. Equity financing is also more likely to be available for startups with good ideas and sound plans. The equity capital act as a cushion for the lenders, as with more and more equity base, the company can easily raise additional funds on favorable terms. Thus, it increases the creditworthiness of the company. The firm is not bound to pay dividends, in case there is a cash deficit. The firm can skip the equity dividends without any legal
Equity definition is - justice according to natural law or right; specifically : freedom from bias or favoritism. How to use equity in a sentence. Equity is typically referred to as shareholder equity (also known as shareholders' equity) which represents the amount of money that would be returned to a company’s shareholders if all of the assets were liquidated and all of the company's debt was paid off.
What is a Business Plan? A Brief Explanation of a Business Plan Definition. The private equity definition for a Business Plan is currently in production; we will update this page as soon as the definition is complete. In the mean time, we do have a comprehensive glossary of … Given this, buyers are sometimes drawn towards an asset sale rather than an equity sale since there is less concern for undisclosed liabilities and a better tax treatment. On the other hand, a seller may be better off from an after-tax standpoint conducting an equity sale.
EQUITY. In the early history of the law, the sense affixed to this word was exceedingly vague and uncertain. This was owing, in part, to the fact, that the chancellors of those days were either statesmen or ecclesiastics, perhaps not very scrupulous in the exercise of power. In business. Equity theory has been widely applied to business settings by industrial psychologists to describe the relationship between an employee's motivation and his or her perception of equitable or inequitable treatment. In a business setting, the relevant dyadic relationship is that between
The equity capital act as a cushion for the lenders, as with more and more equity base, the company can easily raise additional funds on favorable terms. Thus, it increases the creditworthiness of the company. The firm is not bound to pay dividends, in case there is a cash deficit. The firm can skip the equity dividends without any legal Given this, buyers are sometimes drawn towards an asset sale rather than an equity sale since there is less concern for undisclosed liabilities and a better tax treatment. On the other hand, a seller may be better off from an after-tax standpoint conducting an equity sale.
30.09.2013В В· Also remember that a private equity fund's ultimate goal is to make the company worth more than it was before in order to produce a return for investors. Sentimentality, the workforce, the role of the founders in the business, even the business' long-term success -- they can all be secondary to this goal. So be prepared for some ruthlessness. - Retention Equity: This measures the tendency of a customer to be loyal to the brand. This can be measured by the loyalty programs, its reputation etc. Browse the definition and meaning of more terms similar to Customer Equity. The Management Dictionary covers over 7000 business concepts from 6 categories. Search & Explore : Management Dictionary
21.05.2019 · Many small business owners invest their own money to help fund their startups. According to one study, 77% of small businesses rely on their personal savings for initial funding. The initial funds you or others invest in your company help lay the foundation for your business’s equity. Your EQUITY. In the early history of the law, the sense affixed to this word was exceedingly vague and uncertain. This was owing, in part, to the fact, that the chancellors of those days were either statesmen or ecclesiastics, perhaps not very scrupulous in the exercise of power.
Equity is typically referred to as shareholder equity (also known as shareholders' equity) which represents the amount of money that would be returned to a company’s shareholders if all of the assets were liquidated and all of the company's debt was paid off. Obtaining equity financing is more difficult for startups than for established businesses needing funds to expand. (According to a Wells Fargo Small Business Survey, 77% of small business startup funding comes from the personal savings of the owners.) In either case, having a solid business plan in place is a must for attracting investors.
Start studying Accounting Vocabulary. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Search. liabilities, and owner's equity of a business as of a specific date. of asset is apportioned equally over its estimated useful life expressed in terms of months or years. In business. Equity theory has been widely applied to business settings by industrial psychologists to describe the relationship between an employee's motivation and his or her perception of equitable or inequitable treatment. In a business setting, the relevant dyadic relationship is that between
Obtaining equity financing is more difficult for startups than for established businesses needing funds to expand. (According to a Wells Fargo Small Business Survey, 77% of small business startup funding comes from the personal savings of the owners.) In either case, having a solid business plan in place is a must for attracting investors. What is a Business Plan? A Brief Explanation of a Business Plan Definition. The private equity definition for a Business Plan is currently in production; we will update this page as soon as the definition is complete. In the mean time, we do have a comprehensive glossary of …
26.05.2005 · For the small business the chief advantage of equity is that it need not be paid back. In contrast, bank loans or other forms of debt financing have an immediate impact on cash flow and carry severe penalties unless payments terms are met. Equity financing is also more likely to be available for startups with good ideas and sound plans. Equity is one of those words in property investment that is bandied about by many yet understood by relatively few. For small business owners, the definition of equity is simple: It is the difference between what your business is worth (your assets) minus what you owe on it (your debts and liabilities). Equity = Assets – Liabilities
27.02.2018В В· Equity accounting, or what is sometimes called the equity method, is an accounting process for recording investments in associated companies or entities. Generally, the equity accounting method is applied when an investor or holding entity owns 20–50% of the voting stock of an associate company. Equity may also refer to вЂshareholder’s equity’ which is the proportion of equity investment held by a shareholder depending on the value of the shares purchased and held. Capital vs Equity. The similarity between equity and capital is that they both represent interest that owners hold in a business whether it is funds, shares or assets.
Equity Ownership interest in a firm. Also, the residual dollar value of a futures trading account, assuming its liquidation is at the going trade price. In real estate, dollar difference between what a property could be sold for and debts claimed against it. In a brokerage account, equity equals the value of the account's securities minus any What is a Business Plan? A Brief Explanation of a Business Plan Definition. The private equity definition for a Business Plan is currently in production; we will update this page as soon as the definition is complete. In the mean time, we do have a comprehensive glossary of …
12.07.2018В В· Other terms include an 'employee share purchase plan' or an 'employee equity scheme'. Encumbered - an encumbered asset is one that is currently put forward as security or collateral for a loan. Equity - the value of ownership interest in the business, calculated by deducting liabilities from assets. See also owner's equity. Given this, buyers are sometimes drawn towards an asset sale rather than an equity sale since there is less concern for undisclosed liabilities and a better tax treatment. On the other hand, a seller may be better off from an after-tax standpoint conducting an equity sale.
Equity is one of those words in property investment that is bandied about by many yet understood by relatively few. For small business owners, the definition of equity is simple: It is the difference between what your business is worth (your assets) minus what you owe on it (your debts and liabilities). Equity = Assets – Liabilities Owner's equity. When starting a business, the owners fund the business to finance various operations. Under the model of a private limited company, the business and its owners are separate entities, so the business is considered to owe these funds to its owners as a liability in the form of share capital.
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ABHIRAMI GIRIJA SRIRAM
Print edition : May 11, 2018 T+ T-
Twenty-one stories that hold a mirror up to the lives of ordinary Tibetans.
OLD Demons, New Deities was born out of writer-editor Tenzin Dickie’s deep-felt personal need for a collection of modern Tibetan fiction, “the kind that I would have loved to read when I was growing up, the kind of book that may have made me want to become a writer sooner”. In her introduction, Tenzin Dickie, a second-generation exile, articulates the melancholy and the insularity of growing up in “an artistic vacuum”, as it were, imbibing only “the ... national fascination with Buddhism—and the attendant demonisation of desire”.
Asian-American writer Grace Lin once memorably said that it was what young readers read that paved the path for both self-worth and empathy. While Tibetan literature may boast a millennia-long storied history, beginning with the epic of King Gesar, it was reduced down the centuries to the status of a “sub-branch” taught in monasteries, and even this would invariably comprise Buddhist tracts on ethics, metaphysics, epistemology and the like. The peculiar politics of Tibetan publishing, which chose to abjure the printing press for the longest time, only served to complicate and further delay the evolution of its fiction. All this meant that an entire generation of Tibetans grew up without any cultural reflections of their selves, without a literature to hold an authentic mirror up to their own lives, hopes and dreams.
Tenzin Dickie goes on to describe how Tenzin Tsundue’s poem, “When it rains in Dharamsala”, first alerted her to the possibility of a reader becoming a writer as well. That moment of recognition, in which she saw the reflection of a Dharamsala she had grown up in, her Dharamsala, also opened her up to the warm embrace of her own identity.
The “old” and “new” of the title anticipate the dichotomy in the lives that the stories themselves describe, the twin pulls of tradition and modernity, the tightrope walk between the religious and the secular and the conflation of the national with the personal. The anthology features a cross section of writers from the Tibetan diaspora, including in China, the United States, India, Nepal and Canada.
Takbum Gyal’s “The New Road Controversy” eulogises Tibet as “the land where our umbilical cord is cut”, whereas Woeser’s “Nyima Tsering’s Tears” dwells on the reality of Tibetans having been cut from the umbilical cord of their motherland for generations. The burgundy robes of the Tibetan lama Nyima Tsering feel “like a brightly blazing flame” when he encounters the incensed faces of exiled Tibetans protesting outside the Chinese embassy in Norway. That is also when he comes to understand “what it means to be an ant on a hot pan”. In one of the defining moments of this story, the penitent lama, torn by self-realisation, laments: “How can I not return [to Tibet]? Our home is there. If we all leave, to whom will Tibet be left?”
Each one of the 21 stories in Old Demons, New Deities is a luminous sleight of hand that delights and disturbs in equal measure. Even as the stories shimmer with dream-like, almost prelapsarian images—a sarus crane soaring heavenwards from the marshes in the dead of night, a great shaggy snow lion “that only the kindest and purest of heart can see”, a nine-eyed agate stone, the blood-red blossoms of rhododendrons, a festoon of many-coloured prayer flags, a bright yellow balloon (or “wind horse”) inscribed with a little girl’s name that floats across the mountains for days—they are just as deeply steeped in the inescapable pathos of all literature of exile, the nostalgia for what may never have been and the reality check that “home will always be elsewhere”.
Tenzin Dickie employs a fascinating metaphor when introducing the anthology: “I like to think of this book as the ‘coming-out’ of the Tibetan short story.” The book is not only a coming-out but also a richly deserved coming into its own of contemporary Tibetan fiction. Carefully curated and expertly translated, Old Demons, New Deities is both a mirror and a wondrous window into the fabled rooftop of the world.
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Located in the historic North Amherst Mill District, Bread & Butter embraces quality ingredients prepared with care and integrity. Opening November 2014, Bread & Butter is the debut restaurant of local chef Brian Knox. Brian and his wife Jaime hold close a commitment to quality that will make Bread & Butter stand out as one of the best restaurants in the area.
The menu will offer a wide range of choices for every eater, from traditional staples such as fresh local eggs, bacon, and homefries, to chef specialties like duck confit hash, and house cured lox. Vegans and vegetarians will also delight in the menu offerings.
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Brian Knox, owner of Bread & Butter, is someone who pursues his dreams. He spent years as a musician in the Amherst area – building relationships with local business owners, working in the restaurant industry on the side, and developing his “background dream” of owning his own restaurant someday. He and his wife Jaime came up with the idea for Bread & Butter; an upscale, local, organic restaurant that focuses on breakfast and lunch, and they’ve been going full steam ahead since opening five months ago.
Bread & Butter is part of The Mill District, a new development that is aiming to bring a commercial center to North Amherst and will soon house a second Atkins Farms location. Cinda Jones, leader of The Mill District project, was thrilled when Brian proposed his restaurant concept to her, and Brian was quickly able to move forward with building out the space. Integrity Builders was responsible for most of the construction and the family helped finish the interior details along with Kamil Peters and Mike Karmody of Brick Co. Workshop who helped with all of the tables, benches, shelves and bar and Rico Guttierez who put the floor in. Everything eventually came together by sourcing bits and pieces locally and refinishing the furniture to bring out the “soft industrial” look that Brian was going for.
Brian and Jaime decided to focus on breakfast and lunch so that they could balance the demands of the restaurant world with raising their nearly two-year-old daughter. Despite this attempt at balance, Brian works very full days, getting up at 4am to prepare the restaurant for the day. Alongside him at this early hour is Claire Maurey, former baker at Peoples’ Bakery and Hungry Ghost, who is well known locally for her amazing bread. “She came in to offer me a sample,” says Brian, “and with my mouth full of bread I immediately said ‘yes!’
Part of the demanding schedule is due to the fact that at Bread & Butter, nearly everything is made from scratch. They source their produce locally through Squash Trucking, Queen’s Greens, The Kitchen Garden, Book & Plow, Red Fire Farm and Jekanowski Farm. Sourcing eggs has been a challenge, as Brian has had difficulty finding a supplier whose scale and pricing matches up with the needs of his restaurant but he currently buys from Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs. Brian does what he can to support the local farms in this area. “Sourcing locally is too easy around here to not do it – all the farms are right here and the food is readily available.”
Brian’s vision for the Bread & Butter is ambitious. He wants to ramp up the local scene in the area by adding more local items to his menu and helping establish even stronger connections between food and his community by turning Bread & Butter into an established event space. Currently the restaurant hosts catered events at night, a writing seminar every Wednesday, and they’re planning to host many more events, including weddings and their own “breakfast for dinner” events this fall. Their space is available for meetings, musical events, rehearsal dinners, parties, and more. In a year, he’d love to be smoking his own meat on site and potentially adding a few bee hives behind the restaurant to sustainably collect their own honey. He has longer-term dreams of maybe opening a second location or a smaller café one day but for now, Brian is working on establishing himself and Bread & Butter in what he hopes becomes an alternative downtown Amherst hub. As far as the menu goes, Brian is proud of everything they offer, but the Pork Belly is a “must try!” He loves seeing his customer’s reactions to it. The flavor is great and it’s a little something different. You don’t find pork belly everywhere but Bread & Butter is becoming known as the place to get it. At Bread & Butter the name says it all. It stands for the basics. It’s what we all need. And there’s simply nothing better than Bread & Butter
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Druid Hill Complete Streets
Published at November 1, 2018 December 7, 2018 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: auchentoroly terrace, baltimore, complete streets, druid hill complete streets, druid hill park, druid park lake drive, green space, mondawmin, open society institute, OSI, placemaking, public art, public health, public space, reservoir hill, transportation 1 Comment
I’m honored and humbled to announce that I have been awarded a 2018 Open Society Institute (OSI) Baltimore Community Fellowship providing me with eighteen months of funding and organizing support as I collaborate with residents on reconnecting our West Baltimore neighborhoods with Druid Hill Park. Through the Druid Hill Complete Streets project I will be working with my neighbors to ensure that a forthcoming Baltimore City Department of Transportation (DOT) planning effort is as reflective of community voices as possible as we seek to convert the dangerous barrier highways around Druid Hill Park into complete streets safe and accessible for all – especially the approximately 50% of area residents who do not drive. Complete Streets are streets designed and operated to be safe and accessible for all, including pedestrians, transit users, wheelchair riders, and people who rely on bicycles. During the fellowship I will be working with local youth to create traffic calming public art to slow down cars and improve pedestrian safety. Potential ideas include mural-filled crosswalks, artistic planters protecting pedestrians, and creative signs reminding motorists where pedestrians have the right-of-way.
Auchentoroly Terrace community advocacy walk with city agencies, 2017.
West Baltimore’s historic work class neighborhoods of color have systematically been denied safe access to Druid Hill Park due to dangerous six-to-nine-lane-wide highways constructed over community opposition between the 1940s and the 1960s. Click here to read my story about the history behind the highways cutting off the neighborhoods of Mondawmin, Penn North, and Reservoir Hill from Druid Hill Park. The formerly two-lane, park-front streets of Auchentoroly Terrace and Druid Park Lake Drive were widened into high-speed highways primarily serving suburban commuters at the expense of park access for local residents.
Structurally racist urban planning decisions to build highways around Druid Hill Park make it difficult for the residents to enjoy the park’s public health benefits, including exercise, healthy food, and clean air. The Baltimore City Health Department’s 2017 Neighborhood Health Profiles show that the majority working class, African American communities around the park have some of the city’s highest mortality rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Click here for the Penn North / Reservoir Hill and Greater Mondawmin health reports. Census data also shows that approximately half of residents in the immediate area code of 21217 do not drive. As pedestrians, transit users, wheelchair riders, and people who rely on bicycles, our residents deserve priority access to the park.
Since moving to Auchentoroly Terrace in 2013 I’ve listened to my neighbors talk about and experienced firsthand the need for more crosswalks, narrower roadways, less vehicular traffic, and slower speeds. With no playground in our neighborhood, I all too often witness small children on foot and bike darting across eight lanes of high speed traffic to reach the safe green spaces and play areas of Druid Hill Park. I also see how my retired, car-free neighbors are unable to reach the Druid Hill Farmers Market due to a lack of safe, convenient crosswalks. Most at risk are wheelchair riders who along sections of the park are blocked by non-ADA pathways.
In response to community transportation needs, 7th District Councilman Leon F. Pinkett III convened the Druid Hill Park Stakeholders group in early 2017. The group includes representatives from Mondawmin, Auchentoroly Terrace, and Reservoir Hill; Baltimore City agencies including the Departments of Transportation, Public Works, and Recreation and Parks; as well as non-profits including Bikemore, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, and Parks & People. We are also reaching out to more local leaders and organizations to bring into the planning and advocacy effort. Thanks to the councilman’s leadership, in February 2018 Baltimore City DOT agreed to conduct a major transportation study to address our community’s concerns. This study will build on two ongoing local initiatives, the Big Jump Baltimore and the Baltimore Greenway Trail Network northwest trail planning effort. As an OSI Community Fellow, I will work full-time with my neighbors to shape this forthcoming transportation plan for rebuilding the dangerous barrier-highways of Druid Park Lake Drive and Auchentoroly Terrace as accessible boulevards that safely connect our most vulnerable residents with Druid Hill Park.
The Druid Hill Complete Streets initiative will support community education, creative urban planning, and traffic calming through public art. We will organize community-led walking tours in which youth, seniors, wheelchair riders, elected officials, and city planners learn from one another while seeking common ground for enacting equitable park access. We will also creatively engage residents in the ongoing DOT planning process through a new website, social media campaign, and activities at places like the Druid Hill Farmers Market to get input from residents who may not be able to make traditional public meetings. Lastly, we will collaborate with youth to create traffic calming public art around Druid Hill Park based on community design workshops in which residents will identify sites for enhancing pedestrian safety and reconnecting with the park. These low-cost interventions will have an immediate positive impact on park connectivity and public health while enabling residents and the public at large to envision the possibilities for complete streets.
The schedule of events and public art production will be determined by the yet-to-be-confirmed DOT study timeline. The Druid Hill Complete Streets project will bring together diverse neighborhood groups to shape the upcoming improvements around the park, empowering communities to claim our public spaces through creative city planning and public art interventions.
The Big Jump Towards Druid Hill Park Access
Published at August 30, 2018 February 4, 2019 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: #bigjumpbaltimore, big jump, bikemore, complete streets, druid hill park, shared-use path, urban planning, wayfinding 3 Comments
Listen: Urban Planning History and Park Access in Druid Hill Park, Graham Coreil-Allen, Maryland Humanities podcast, August 30, 2018
If you’ve recently visited Baltimore’s Druid Hill Park, you may have encountered a long row of orange and white plastic Jersey barriers running along the Druid Park Lake Drive and across the 28th Street Bridge. This is the Big Jump Baltimore shared-use path. Championed by local residents like myself, 7th District Councilman Leon Pinkett, Baltimore City Department of Transportation, and Bikemore, this temporary project counteracts decades of highway expansion with a protected space for pedestrians, wheelchair riders, and bicyclists to connect with green space, school, and jobs. Those of us living in West Baltimore certainly need it as for the past seventy years, walking or bicycling to Druid Hill Park has proven prohibitively dangerous. As a local resident and public artist, I’ve been working with neighbors on creating public art along the Big Jump pathway to make it safer for all people to enjoy the cultural and public health benefits of Druid Hill Park.
Half of residents around Druid Hill Park do not own cars. So why does the area feel like a suburban highway? From the 1940s through the 1960s, car-focused transportation projects drastically changed the face of the park. The city’s goal was faster commute times for downtown workers living in the suburbs. Back then the surrounding neighborhoods of Reservoir Hill and Mondawmin were largely Jewish and African American communities. Proposed in 1945, the “Druid Hill Expressway” would convert Druid Hill Avenue and McCulloh Street to one-way thoroughfares connecting with a widened and extended Auchentoroly Terrace. By 1947 the highway plans had sparked a robust public debate
When the “Druid Hill Expressway” was proposed, NAACP Labor Secretary Clarence Mitchell Jr. argued that increased traffic speeds through westside neighborhoods would imperil black residents effectively barred by racist real estate practices from moving to the very suburbs that the highway would serve. Shaarei Tfiloh synagogue Rabbi Nathan Drazin expressed concern that traffic would endanger children attending Hebrew school as well as the throngs of congregants who traditionally walked down the middle of Auchentoroly Terrace during the high holy days.
Despite local outcry over the expressway plans, the three local council members were asked by area political boss James Pollack to ignore the opposition of their constituents and support of the “city wide” highway effort. In those days Pollack’s Trenton Democratic Club ran a political machine that effectively picked and elected all northwest Baltimore politicians. While the councilman had local independence, they dared not to cross Pollack over issues he considered important to the city at large. It didn’t hurt that the soon-to-be widened Auchentoroly Terrace just happened to end at Anoka Avenue – the calm, tree-lined street that Mr. Pollack called home. [Hat tip to my neighbor Dr. Daniel Hindman for discovering the connection to Pollack’s home.] In the end, the councilmen appeased the local political machine and voted in favor of cutting down over 250 trees in Druid Hill Park to make room for widening Auchentoroly terrace into a highway flushing cars in and out of the central city at the expense of safe park access for west side residents.
Just a few years later Reservoir Hill residents in on the south side of the park found themselves facing a similar fate. In 1951 Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. proposed the Jones Falls Expressway. Druid Park Lake Drive would need to be expanded to serve as a feeder road to this new highway. Ensuing years of residents’ protests were ignored and construction began in 1956. Completion of the 1948 Druid Hill Expressway and 1963 Jones Falls Expressway resulted in the widening of Auchentoroly Terrace and Druid Park Lake Drive. Two-lane, park-front residential streets became dangerous five-to-nine-lane-wide highways difficult for people to traverse on foot, and virtually impossible to cross for wheelchair riders. These expressways literally paved the way for white flight while cutting off the surrounding working class African American and Jewish neighborhoods from the park. A park once served by over 20 footpath entrances is now only equipped with merely five sets of badly deteriorated, nearly invisible crosswalks.
Structurally racist urban planning decisions to build highways around Druid Hill Park made it difficult for the existing majority working class, people of color living in Auchentoroly Terrace, Mondawmin, Penn North, and Reservoir Hill to enjoy the park’s public health benefits, including exercise, cultural gatherings, healthy food, and clean air. The Health Department’s 2017 Neighborhood Health Profiles shows that the majority lower income, African American communities around the park have some of the city’s highest mortality rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Census data also shows that nearly half of neighbors around the park do not have access to cars. As pedestrians, wheelchair riders, transit users, and people who rely on bicycles, neighbors deserve priority access to the park.
Seventy years after the first highway was built around Druid Hill Park there is now a movement afoot to rethink how these barrier roadways can become connectors enabling more equitable access to our historic, 714 acre green space. In 2017, Councilman Pinkett convened the Druid Hill Park Stakeholders group to counteract years of urban planning that prioritized cars over the public health and economic opportunity of residents. We are pushing for “complete streets” to safely connect our neighborhoods with Druid Hill Park. Complete streets are designed and operated to be safe and accessible for all, including pedestrians, children, seniors, mobility users, transit riders, and bicyclists. Earlier this year Baltimore City Department of Transportation agreed to conduct a corridor study that has the exciting potential to address our community’s concerns. Leading up to this study, a newly created, temporary shared-use path now connects Reservoir Hill and Remington. The Big Jump Baltimore pathway previews what life could be like if we privileged all people, not just outside car commuters.
With the Big Jump temporary infrastructure now in place, myself and other residents and artists are adding public art enhancements making the trail more visible and usable for neighbors. In close collaboration with Bikemore, we’ve designed and installed creative wayfinding to show that the Big Jump Baltimore pathway is for everyone. Wayfinding consists of any number of sensory cues, such as signs, maps, textures and sounds, that provide travelers with orientation and possible paths. The Big Jump logo was designed by Danielle Parnes on behalf of Bikemore, with icon input from myself. I then adapted the logo to serve as pathway signage and wayfinding. For the Big Jump path we designed a street-sign-inspired logo featuring icons of the trail’s many different active uses, including but not limited to walking, wheelchair riding, bicycling dog walking, and skateboarding. We then went to our local makerspace Open Works and used their special equipment to cut the signage and icons out of adhesive backed, colorful vinyl. We used this cut vinyl to label and decorate the plastic jersey barriers so that both pedestrian and passing motorist can understand the purpose of the pathway.
To provide wayfinding for people not in cars we made our own set of large scale street stencils highlighting the pathway primary uses – walking, wheelchair riding, and bicycling. With these stencils we boldly marked the pathway as an active place for people. We also made several different footprint cutouts representing the people and creatures that travel daily between Druid Hill Park and surrounding neighborhoods. Stenciled with colorful traffic paint, these footprint trails visually lead residents from surrounding blocks to safe access points for the Big Jump Baltimore pathway and Druid Hill Park.
Local residents deserve priority access to Druid Hill Park. The Big Jump Baltimore shared use pathway shows that through low cost traffic projects, public art and community collaboration we can make immediate positive impact on the lives of our neighbors. For the first time ever wheelchair riders and people who rely on bicycles can actually cross the Jones Falls Expressway. More work needs to be done, but the Big Jump is a step in the right direction towards reconnecting our neighborhoods with Druid Hill Park. Starting in 2019 Baltimore City DOT will be conducting a roadway alignment study through which residents will have the opportunity to shape how the city converts the dangerous highways around Druid Hill Park into “complete streets”: streets safe and accessible for all, including pedestrians, children, seniors, mobility users, transit riders, and bicyclists. In the meantime, it’s up to us take advantage of the Big Jump pathway while to creatively envisioning how our neighborhoods will one day reconnect with Druid Hill Park.
Big Jump father and son bicyclists, 9/26/18, photo by Brian O’Doherty
Big Jump Walking Tour 9/26/18 with Graham & Ms Dee, photo by Brian O’Doherty www.odohertyphoto.com
Listen to a version of this story on the Maryland Humanities Podcast: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cwqjv-9886f5
Click here to see more photos of Big Jump wayfinding: https://grahamprojects.com/projects/big-jump-wayfinding
Learn more about the Big Jump: https://www.bikemore.net/bigjump
Group photos courtesy of Brian O’Doherty: https://www.odohertyphoto.com
Read related letters to the editor by community leaders:
Op-Ed: Pinkett: We must make Druid Hill Park accessible, Leon Pinkett, Baltimore City 7th District City Councilman, Baltimore Sun, July 5, 2018
Op-Ed: Right a past wrong by opening access to Druid Hill Park, Daniel Hindman, Medical Doctor, Baltimore Sun, October 17, 2018
Op-Ed: Asphalt arteries cut off communities from Druid Hill Park, Davin Hong, Architect, Baltimore Sun, June 8, 2017
Why I support the Baltimore Greenway Trails Network
Published at April 26, 2017 December 4, 2018 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: baltimore, baltimore greenway trails network, cycling, historic preservation, pedestrian, plan4health, public space, trails 2 Comments
The Baltimore Greenway Trail Network is an exciting vision for connecting our amazing urban trails and park system into a 35-mile loop around the city. I support this vision and have been working with Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and Bikemore to communicate the many exciting traffic calming and public health benefits of the proposal. With their support, last fall I was able to collaborate with neighbors on creating a demonstration public art crosswalk at Gwynns Falls Parkway and Auchentoroly Terrace that called attention to the need for such safety and connectivity improvements.
Rails-to-Trails and the city have begun a long process of engagement to design the Baltimore Greenway Trails Network. Last night I attended the Baltimore Greenway Trails Coalition public meeting regarding their proposal for a multi use path down the middle of 33rd Street. Below are the concerns I heard, plus some facts.
Concern: No one tried to inform neighbors about the Greenway Trail Network plan. Fact: Rails-to-Trails has been reaching out to community associations for at least year now. I first heard about the plan in February 2016. Several meetings have been held for both 33rd Street and Gwynns Falls Parkway communities, including last night’s gathering. This is the beginning of the planning process, not the end. Nothing is approved or fully designed. Lets keep on participating!
Concern: A median trail will destroy the historic Olmsted plan for boulevards connecting Baltimore’s parks. Fact: over 100 years ago, the Olmsteds’ designed numerous multi-use, tree-lined paths for cities across the country. The Baltimore plan for boulevards connecting parks was never fully realized and quickly compromised by increased car traffic choking off the median green spaces from people who would like to use them. A median trail will in fact help properly realize the Olmsteds’ historic vision for Baltimore.
Concern: A median trail will kill trees. Fact: there are numerous examples of historic and modern trails that do not kill trees. The city’s arborist must approve any such design, and the proposal is for a pervious trail surface that will allow the trees to continue to thrive.
Concern: The trail will take away green space used by kids for playing. Fact: I lived on 33rd Street for five years with a bedroom overlooking the median. I never saw kids playing because the median is locked off from pedestrians by curbs and dangerous traffic. A median trail will make the space safe and accessible for kids learning to ride bikes, people traveling in wheelchairs, walkers, runners, and cyclists.
Concern: The trail will cause an increase in car traffic. Fact: the trail’s many bumpouts and crosswalks will help slow the dangerous traffic on 33rd while giving people more options for commuting without needing a car, thereby reducing traffic.
From 2008-2013 I lived on 33rd Street and wished we could add a path down the middle and calm traffic. In 2013 I moved to Auchentoroly Terrace and now hold similar pedestrian safety and connectivity hopes for our community. Many of my neighbors and I are excited to help support the median trail proposal for the Olmsted-designed Gwynns Falls Parkway. A multi use, center-running trail will help calm traffic and enable our many differently abled neighbors to connect with Druid Hill and Leakin Parks. I’m excited to share this vision with my friends and former neighbors along 33rd Street
— Graham (a guy who likes to hang out on median strips)
Read about the trail network from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy: https://www.railstotrails.org/our…/trail-projects/baltimore/
More facts from BikeMore: https://www.bikemore.net/news/fact-check-the-greenways-trail-network-plan-is-awesome-support-it
Citizen Artist Baltimore
Published at January 11, 2016 December 4, 2018 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: activism, art, baltimore, citizen artist baltimore, election, organizing, politics, public art Leave a comment
I’m honored and excited to acknowledge my role helping to co-organize the art voting initiative Citizen Artist Baltimore along with my friend and fellow arts and equity advocate Rebecca Chan. Citizen Artist Baltimore is a non-partisan advocacy effort that is helping to mobilize the creative community in Baltimore City, by providing the opportunity for mayoral candidates to outline their positions and goals related to arts, culture and humanities. The effort serves as a call to action for individuals, organizations, and institutions to work together to advance inclusion of these issues in the April 2016 Primary Mayoral Election and beyond. The initiative also encourages voter registration and long-term engagement in the democratic process. We are collecting the top priorities of people who care about the arts through a citywide series of six facilitated listening sessions in January 2016. Input gathered from these listening sessions will be used to inform a questionnaire that will be sent to mayoral candidates in February. All candidate responses will be made public, and will culminate in a March candidate forum leading up to the April 26, 2016 Primary Election.
As all of my public art projects, I’m operating in a few different ways to to amplify our message and mobilize participants. As the initiative’s Creative Director, I designed the the #CitizenArtistBmore visual identity above, built the website, assisted with co-writing all of the copy featured, am designing all of the print collateral (such as these fun buttons), and am documenting events and pushing a multimedia story out across our facebook and twitter pages. As a co-organizer, I’ve been working closely with Rebecca, GBCA, MCA and our diverse steering committee members to host our series of six listening sessions across the city. We talking with anyone who benefits from arts and culture about their top priorities with it come to the arts, Baltimore City, and our next mayor. From block parties and creative upstarts to public art and marching band performances, the arts have for decades been making a tremendous social and economic impact in Baltimore. We all know this and want to make sure that the next mayor includes arts and culture in their vision for healing and strengthening an already vibrant and unparalleled cultural epicenter: Baltimore, the Greatest City in America.
– Graham
The Baltimore Uprising
Published at April 30, 2015 December 4, 2018 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: baltimore, baltimore uprising, community, mondawmin, new public sites, protest, sitelines Leave a comment
Over the past week we’ve seen an outpouring of peaceful protests and direct actions as Baltimore residents express the pain of economic inequality and seek justice for victims of state violence. Out of respect for the Baltimore Uprising, I have cancelled the May 2 New Public Sites “Formative Drift” walking tour so that we can focus on helping our neighbors. On Tuesday, April 28, we came together to clean up our neighborhoods and share public expressions of positivity. This is the Baltimore we know and will continue to nurture. Lets stand in solidarity of the people of Baltimore in this struggle to bring peace, opportunity and improvement to our people and places.
A message on ways to help from local art-activist group Force:
The best way to help right now is to support grassroots organizations who have been doing sustained organizing to combat poverty and racism in Baltimore, through policy, direct action, and education. Here are a few groups to consider:
Bmore United is a coalition of concerned citizens and organizations working for justice in Baltimore City.
http://bmoreunited.org
The No Boundaries Coalition is a resident led community organization working to bring neighborhoods in Central West Baltimore together across race and class.
http://www.noboundariescoalition.com/get-involved/donate
Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle is a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people, in Baltimore, through: youth leadership development, political advocacy, and autonomous intellectual innovation.
http://lbsbaltimore.com/donate
We need Larry Hogan to save the Red Line
Published at January 9, 2015 December 4, 2018 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: baltimore, larry hogan, red line, transit Leave a comment
My Neighbors, Baltimore and Maryland need Governor-elect Larry Hogan to save the Red Line
As a Baltimore City homeowner, professional artist, millennial and pedestrian, I am expressing my unequivocal support for the Red Line as planned by the MTA. Governor-elect Larry Hogan must help our city achieve its fullest social and economic potential by making this long-planned transit project a reality.
I moved to Baltimore City in 2008 to go to MICA, and have since stayed, got a job teaching art, bought a house and joined an ever growing community that I love. With my student loans, I cannot afford to own a car, and therefore must walk, cycle and take transit within a certain radius of my home. I honestly could not have afforded to stay in Baltimore were it not for metro access to downtown and light rail access to BWI airport.
Building the Red Line will give our transit starved neighbors in East and West Baltimore, and the County access to jobs while also attracting new residents who are unable or prefer to not rely on the expenses of owning a car for work. The construction period is estimated to generate nearly 10,000 jobs and its completion is expected to create access to more than 200,000 jobs within the next 15 years.
The Red Line will not only serve East and West Baltimore, but also multiply the effectiveness of our regional rail transit network through integrated connections at key hubs. Such regional impact will also help the state as a whole by attracting environmentally friendly new urban development while preserving vital farmland across the state.
Great urban cities need great transit – just look at NYC, Boston, DC and even LA. The Red Line is no doubt expensive, but no more so than other similar rail transit projects around the country, such as Portland’s Milwaukie Light Rail line. For 12+ years the MTA has worked closely with residents along the Red Line corridor to plan this shared vision. People wanted trains on dedicated tracks, not buses on clogged roads. Changing the current plan by even a few feet will mean losing nearly $1 billion in secured federal funding. With Red Line planning this far along, and Baltimore City and County residents in need of transit access to jobs, we literally cannot afford to stop this train!
Building the Red Line is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to achieve Baltimore and Maryland’s social and economic potential. For the elders who can’t drive, for the working families who need access to jobs, for preserving rural sustainability and for investing in the future strength what is not doubt The Greatest City in the Greatest State in America, Hogan must do what he can to build the Red Line.
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The Forthcoming Reality of Holly Whyte Way
Published at April 2, 2012 December 4, 2018 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: 6-1/2 ave, arcade parade, crosswalk, holly whyte, midtown, new york city, parade Leave a comment
Image courtesy of NYC DOT via The New York Observer.
Only six months after the Arcade Parade, Holly Whyte Way is officially becoming a reality! This week the New York City DOT announced its proposal to connect the privately-owned public plazas and arcades that run from 51st to 57th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Since then, Community Board 5′ Transportation Committee has approved the plans for crosswalks, stop signs and warning markers that will alert motorists to yield to pedestrians moving along what will be soon be officially known as 6½ Avenue. Needless to say, Friends of Privately Owned Public Space is celebrating. Special thanks to Matt Chaban for his wall-to wall coverage of the development. More details below…
Meet Me on 6½th Avenue: DOT Planning Public Promenade Through Middle of Midtown Towers / Matt Chaban, NY Observer, 3.26.12
Paving the Way for 6½th Avenue: Midtown Community Board Committee Gives Pedestrian Plan Unanimous Support / Matt Chaban, NY Observer, 3.26.12
For Walkers, a Sixth-and-a-Half Ave. May Take Shape / Matt Flegenheimer, The New York Times, 3.29.12
Plans Unveiled for a Secret Boulevard in Midtown Manhattan / Kelly Chan, Achitizer Blog, 3.29.12
Arcade Parade a Wandering Success
Published at October 29, 2011 December 4, 2018 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: arcade parade, holly whyte, holly whyte way, midtown, new york city, parade, placemaking Leave a comment
The Arcade Parade celebration of Midtown privately owned public spaces, October 2011, New York, NY. 1.5 hours, uniform, maps, performers, public spaces, participants. Combination view.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Arcade Parade on Saturday, October 15th. Together the F-POPS team, Hungry March Band, and over one hundred people festively wandered through Midtown’s largest network of privately owned public spaces. Under LeWitt stripes waving, the Arcade Parade fomented the Social Life of these Small Urban Spaces through festive music, critical observation, site specific play and interventionist sound. Through blocks played and plazas performed, Holly Whyte Way is cemented as path and place.
More pictures and info about Friends of Privately Owned Public Space at f-pops.org.
Special thanks to the 27 backers on kickstarter and the many other volunteers and supporters who helped make the Arcade Parade possible.
Organizers: Brian Nesin, David Gryder, Graham Coreil-Allen, Christina Kelly, Elena Volkova. Performers: The Hungry March Band, the children on scooters, Simone and Claire Ghetti
The Arcade Parade / 10.15.11 / 11am / Midtown-NYC [updated]
Published at October 1, 2011 December 4, 2018 In Category Advocacy, News Tags: arcade parade, holly whyte way, midtown, new york city, parade, placemaking Leave a comment
Join us on Facebook and visit our KICKSTARTER page to help make this parade a success!
Download your own Holly Whyte Way SELF-GUIDED TOUR here.
Arcade Parade
Holly Whyte Way Dedication
October 15, 2011, 11am-12:30pm
Starting at AXA Plaza
151 West 51st St, New York, 10019
Join us in Midtown New York on Saturday, October 15th for the Arcade Parade, a free pedestrian tour through a series of little-known shortcuts composed of privately owned public spaces. Between 51st and 57th Streets and 6th and 7th Avenues, there exists an exciting, if unfinished, network of privately owned public spaces (POPS) provided by developers in exchange for additional floor area within the buildings above. Friends of Privately Owned Public Space (F-POPS), in conjunction with the West 54th/55th Street Block Association, and openhousenewyork, is promoting the individual spaces along the parade route as a single entity called Holly Whyte Way. William “Holly” Whyte was an influential urbanist whose books and films championed the substance of successful public space. In addition to enlivening these midtown arcades, F-POPS also seeks to increase their visibility and accessibility by connecting the spaces along the parade route with crosswalks. The proposal for crosswalks has been approved by the Community Board and is now being studied by the NYC Department of Transportation. The Arcade Parade will mark the dedication of Holly Whyte Way through a series of festive events along the nine-block parade route, including presentations of architecture and history by architects Brian Nesin and David Grider, episodes of play from artists Graham Coreil-Allen and Christina Kelly, a moment of site-specific sound by Simone and Claire Ghetti, and raucous music by the Hungry March Band!
Friends of Privately Owned Public Space is an organization dedicated to the celebration and improvement of New York City’s eighty-two acres of POPS. A collaborative of architects, artists, and community leaders concerned with the civic realm, F-POPS seeks to raise public awareness of the existence and purpose of these unique spaces.
f-pops.org / ohny.org / grahamprojects.com
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