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Divisible group for a set of primes
2 Related notions
3 Conjunction with group properties
4.1 Journal references
4.2 Textbook references
Let be a set of primes. A group is termed -divisible if it satisfies the following equivalent definitions:
Shorthand
1 -divisible, for each prime For every and every , there exists such that . In other words, the map is surjective from to itself for all .
2 -divisible for every -number if and is a natural number all of whose prime divisors are in the set , then there exists an element such that .
3 (not necessarily unique) rational powers with denominators -number if and are integers with all prime divisors of in , there exists satisfying .
Related notions
Powered group for a set of primes
Powering-injective group for a set of primes
Torsion-free group for a set of primes
Conjunction with group properties
Nilpotent group that is divisible for a set of primes is the conjunction with the property of being a nilpotent group.
Journal references
Some aspects of groups with unique roots by Gilbert Baumslag, Acta mathematica, Volume 104, Page 217 - 303(Year 1960): PDF (ungated)More info: This paper uses the notation -group to describe what we call a -divisible group. The notation is introduced in Section 2, Page 218 (second page of the paper).
Textbook references
p-automorphisms of finite p-groups by Evgenii I. Khukhro, 13-digit ISBN 978-0-521-59717-3, 10-digit ISBN 0-521-59717-X, Page 18, Section 1.3 (Algebraic systems, varieties, and free objects), More info
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Echo, Meet Mycroft
The Amazon Echo is an attempt to usher in a new product category. A box that listens to you and obeys your wishes. Sort of like Siri or Google Now for your house. Kickstarter creator [Joshua Montgomery] likes the idea, but he wants to do it all Open Source with a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino.
The Kickstarter (which reached its funding goal earlier this month) claims the device will use natural language to access media, control IoT devices, and will be open both for hardware and software hacking. The Kickstarter page says that Mycroft has partnerships with Lucid and Canonical (the people behind Ubuntu). In addition, they have added stretch goals to add computer vision and Linux desktop control to Mycroft.
With or without Mycroft, people are going to hack things like this together. If you dream of being able to start your teapot with the command “Computer. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” then Mycroft might be a pretty good leg up on getting started. We’ve also seen Echo integration with Roku and even Nest. We imagine an open platform would spawn a lot of interesting hacks. You can find out more about Mycroft’s plans in the video below.
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50 thoughts on “Echo, Meet Mycroft”
jonored says:
I approve of the choice of name, although I won’t use one of those names myself until the computer can properly live up to the namesake :)
Dahud Lefthanded (@david_haitch) says:
I don’t know if the world is ready for a computer capable of lunar rice bombardment quite yet.
MyCrotch says:
Can I change Mycroft’s name?
Yes. You can replace the key phrase “Mycroft” with the word or phrase of your choice.
Ardy says:
This is a HUGE selling point for me.
Rodney McKay says:
Alexa, block this guy’s comments.
Clicked video first, took me a while to realize little girl wasnt talking to MY_COCK …
RoGeorge says:
Don’t know why, but I found both the women and the machine as very annoying!
Even the name is very unpleasant (maybe because it reminds of Microsoft?)
Whatnot says:
I agree that the way she says the commands makes it seem a very arduous and tedious thing, like talking to those automated phone services.
And the name does indeed remind you of MS, even if you also think of sherlock’s brother https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycroft_Holmes
“Possessing deductive powers exceeding even those of his younger brother, Mycroft is nevertheless incapable of performing detective work similar to that of Sherlock as he is unwilling to put in the physical effort necessary to bring cases to their conclusions.”
Odd choice of name perhaps?
NoSpam McGee says:
I think Mycroft must actually be referring to the computer in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. I’m not sure why RAH chose that name, though.
I suspect that it’s a specific reference to the Mycroft usually referred to as “Mike” in _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress , who is in turn named after Mycroft Holmes.
Not an odd choice for a name if you’ve ever read Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
No need to assume or guess it is stated on the page why the name in the FAQ Section:
Why name it Mycroft?
Mycroft is named in honor of Mike, the supercomputer in Robert A. Heinlein’s classic novel “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. Heinlein’s Mycroft was a High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV, Mod. L” – a HOLMES FOUR. Mycroft’s friend Manuel named him “Mycroft” after Sherlock’s elder brother Mycroft Holmes. This was later shortened to Mike.
In Heinlein’s book Mike became self aware when the Lunar Authority hooked so much hardware to it (decision-action boxes, additional memories, associated neural nets) that the system became self aware. This took place gradually over time.
Heinlein’s fictional explanation in mirrors our own approach to achieving a strong AI.
For those of you who might not know; there are two types of AI. A weak AI is a system that is obviously a computer. It can perform certain tasks and solve certain problems, but cannot initiate action on its own or hold a meaningful conversation with an educated adult. A strong AI on the other hand is capable of communicating with educated adults in a way that is indistinguishable from a human being.
So how does one distinguish a strong AI from a weak AI? Alan Turing – the father of the universal computer – proposed a test known as “the Turing test” where humans are asked to judge a computer based on a casual conversation. If humans are unable to determine whether a program is a human or a computer – the program is considered a strong AI. The recent movie “Ex Machina” was an excellent dramatization of this test.
By this definition Mycroft is a weak AI. It can interpret natural language, initiate search and maintain the context of a query, but anyone interacting with it for more than a minute or two will know it is a computer.
Our long term vision at Mycroft AI is expand Mycroft’s skills and abilities to the point where interacting with Mycroft becomes indistinguishable from interacting with a human being. When that time comes Mycroft will become a strong AI – hopefully the world’s first. Obviously we won’t achieve this vision for years, possibly decades.
We believe that the best approach to achieving strong AI is to add diverse skills to Mycroft one at a time. If properly integrated and coordinated these skills will gradually create an entity that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Since this approach to achieving strong AI would take a proprietary software company decades of effort and hundreds of millions of dollars, we have made Mycroft open source. It is our hope that developers, hackers and makers will develop new skills and abilities for Mycroft and contribute them back to the greater Mycroft community. Gradually moving the system from weak to strong.
But can it help overthrow oppressive government/corporate overlords? :)
nitePhyyre says:
Mycroft is the name of Sherlock Holmes’ older brother.
Though Sherlock initially tells Watson that Mycroft audits books for some government departments, he later reveals that Mycroft’s true role is more substantial. While Conan Doyle’s stories leave unclear what Mycroft Holmes’ exact position is in the British government, Sherlock Holmes says that “Occasionally he is the British government […] the most indispensable man in the country.”
He apparently serves as a sort of human computer:
“He has the tidiest and most orderly brain, with the greatest capacity for storing facts, of any man living. The same great powers which I have turned to the detection of crime he has used for this particular business. The conclusions of every department are passed to him, and he is the central exchange, the clearinghouse, which makes out the balance. All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other. They began by using him as a short-cut, a convenience; now he has made himself an essential. In that great brain of his everything is pigeon-holed and can be handed out in an instant.”
— ”The Bruce-Partington Plans”
I deduce that people don’t read the comments of others before posting their own.
Oh, you think?
jaegpo says:
Much hype, little value and a bit creepy. I wouldn’t trust black box that keeps listening 24/7.
Mycroft is “Always Listening”. Does this mean everything I say is being streamed to the Internet?
Mycroft is always listening. When you call him, he answers … Otherwise he ignores you so your conversations are confidential. Mycroft respects your privacy.
Mycroft only begins streaming when you call his name, all other audio is ignored. The process of analyzing the audio is done locally and not retained, until Mycroft hears his name.
What if it were a white box?
Then we would be living in In Australia, there was a software program based on the commodore Amiga 500 personal computer called White box which was used for phreaking, it used CCITT#5- (R2) tones to manipulate the phone systems in Australia in a similar way to blue boxing white box screenshot. In other countries white box can be referred to a Portable DTMFtone-dial keypad with speaker which was used to access an answering machine to hear your messages when you were away from home and also could be used on PBX phone systems that required tone dialling & used to generate tones if the telephone is rotary-dial or its keypad is locked.
Sigh… I mourn the passing of the 2600 Hz days.
I completely agree this should be done without the big ‘friends of the NSA’, but even if he isn’t corrupted and he manages to deliver a clean product, he’ll only be bought out by google or amazon or some such and it’s back to square one. Except he’ll have a nicer bank account . Good for him, not much good for the rest.
Free Tinfoil hat with purchase.
That’s so last century. He needs a quantum encryption hat.
The stretch goal wasn’t hit so alls they could afford was tinfoil.
So you are living under a rock, and it’s such a big rock you find you can’t move it, and you had the sense to install internet all those years back when you crawled under it but you created a firewall that was too big to get any news.
Good for you I guess?
atomic3 says:
Whatever happened with Jasper?
https://jasperproject.github.io/
Same thing that happens with most university projects full of piss and vinegar out of the gate, just something to show effort and experience to employers, then real world says hello, then abandon ship and move on.
Ideally its still there and you can by all means contribute all the code you want to it on github.
In the comment section of Mycroft it says they are game to share with each other:
Creator Joshua Montgomery on August 26
Rutulian,
We’re not using any of the Jasper project, but we would love to form a formal relationship with them to make it easy for us to share code and help each other out. If any members of that community are reading this, let us know! :)
Otherwise, we will reach out to them in the near future and say “Hi!”
You have a rather negative opinion of the jasperproject “full of piss and vinegar” … “real world says hello, then abandon ship”.
Why Mycroft is any different? Is there any strong business plan? I understand that there are much hype right now, but what next year and after? Do you plan new generations of products?
Google voice recognition are pretty accurate, even on non-english language! Any other solution is mostly a joke eg. in polish language or croatian. Will Mycroft try to address non-english languages? Is there a business plan in this area?
I wish you the best, would be excellent if it could compete even remotely with google voice recognition…
Its not a negative opinion towards the project, it was more towards uni projects in general. piss and vinegar just means “aggressive energy” like yay new project so many hopes and dreams, were going to conquer the world, etc.
I actually hope they get some more energy for the project in the future.
I just really want open source Linux speech recognition worked on as much as possible and feel sad when they peter out.
I wish that androids local device speech recognition would get backported to Linux as it works not so bad as I rather enjoy stuff more that is not “cloud” based.
What languages will Mycroft speak?
The initial version will be English followed very closely by Spanish, German and French.
Since it is an open source project, the number of languages is only limited by the willingness of contributors to translate the voice prompts into their own language. They expect to eventually support 10 languages including Arabic, Mandarin, and Hindi.
as for competing with online stt that is not the point, they says they are open to using all of the stt and having multiple input methods.
Who are you using for speech to text (STT) processing?
We want to be transparent with our supporters, but at the same time we need to keep some details of our project private until negotiations are complete and contracts are signed. Remember that Kickstarter is not a store. It is a place to build support and access capital to complete amazing projects. Our platform is still more than 10 months away from release and we have a lot of details to iron out before we ship.
We are currently evaluating several STT application interfaces (APIs). Our software is designed to use multiple APIs simultaneously. Partially this is to improve performance, but it is also to prevent getting locked into a single technology or vendor. When we’ve selected and executed agreements with our upstream STT providers we will communicate our selection to end users.
We will also remain open to adding STT vendors in the future or bringing this portion of our technology in-house.
To preserve end user privacy we are looking at several mechanisms to randomize STT query destinations, mask IP addresses and conceal other personally identifiable information.
Mycroft is open source so users who don’t like our STT or AI selection can always deploy their own STT or AI back end.
kingofl337 says:
Why can’t they call it “Computer” and use the voice from Majel Roddenberry? I’d pay good money for that.
Also, I know she has passed.
You can add that feature if you want submit a pull request when the project is live next year.
I just spent 20 minutes looking around for the open software and open hardware and I’m not finding it. Can someone point me in the right direction? Is this really open?
bunedoggle says:
I contacted Mycroft about getting the sources, here is the reply:
Right now our aim is to release the repos under GPLv3 early 2016. This is to ensure they meet a certain level of quality before we put them out in the world. Too many projects have released unfinished or unstable code too early and have been relegated to the “not good” category because of it.
We are looking at bringing community members into the project to test the code early, so if you are active in the community there is that possibility. Also, the more money we raise via Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the earlier we might be able to release.
” the more money we raise via Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the earlier we might be able to release” This is a novel interpretation of “open”.
*cough* extortion.
Fennec says:
Oooh, development costs money, waaaah. This is why it will never be “the year of the Linux desktop”. So many people involved in OS are anti-gov, anti-corp, anti-payingforanything, self-entitled Galluses.
NicG says:
Yeah, i went on to their kickstarter. I always hate reading the project leads’ profiles. All of them are marketers. one guy is called the product designer, but he looks to be an industrial designer. The cfo is a system admin for a kansas library. So the tally is 1 guy doing software, one guy designing the box, one accountant and 3 marketers. Its pretty obvious where their priorities lie. No thanks.
This isn’t the assistant you’re looking for. Move along.
Me: “Ok Google, should I support Mycroft?”
My Phone: “Bwah, ha, ha, ha, ha!”
I’m going to do a Kickstarter for a remake of Woody Allen’s “Take the Money and Run”. That should have good credibility, don’t you think?
That’s all well and good but it would probably be more user friendly if it had a smile rather than the straight line mouth. It just looks annoyed all the time.
That face thing is terrible, reminds me of the robot from some ’80s film.
Pointless.
Yup. I guess they don’t get the Amazon Echo/Mac Pro trash can aesthetic.
It’s sad that they raised so much money for this obvious failure-in-the-making. Alexa Voices Services is quickly opening up, and it’s going to blow this toy (along with Apple’s HomeKit) out of the water. This sort of BS gives a bad name to Kickstarter projects.
You can tell its coll because everyone is shouting into it on the video, also Show me to buy milk at this opportunity!
Dan#1438459043 says:
These have now shipped to devs? Anyone got feedback on using them?
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Union Plus recently awarded $170,000 in scholarships to 108 students representing 34 unions, including three winners representing the Transportation Communications International Union (TCU/IAM). This year’s group of scholarship recipients includes university, college, and trade or technical school students from 31 states plus the District of Columbia. The TCU/IAM winners are:
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Eat well, live well
From left, Air Force Capt. Abigail Schutz, 39th Medical Operations Squadron health promotions element chief, Staff Sgt. Jennifer Mancini, 39th MDOS health promotions technician, and Tech. Sgt. Brian Phillips, 39th MDOS health promotions flight NCO in charge, pose for a photo at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Learning about proper nutrition can help service members stay healthy and ensure they’re in optimal warfighting shape. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew Wisher)
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Who doesn’t have a friend or family member trying out the latest paleo, keto or other diet that eliminates processed foods including grains and sugar? Perhaps you are the one following a strict eating regimen because you want to improve your health. But have you wondered if it’s your best option?
“Many of the fad diets that we see today are just recycled old ones with new names,” explained Air Force Lt. Col. Saunya Bright, chief, health promotion nutrition, Air Force Medical Support Agency, Falls Church, Virginia. Bright described the Paleolithic or “paleo” diet as one including foods that can be hunted or gathered, such as meat, fish, chicken, eggs, vegetables, fruits and berries. The ketogenic or “keto” diet is a low-carbohydrate, high-protein and high-fat eating pattern meant to burn fat rather than carbohydrates for fuel.
While some of these diets emphasize eating more fruits and vegetables and less processed food, “some also cut out complete food groups, such as whole grains and dairy,” said Bright. She cautioned that such diets are difficult to sustain over long periods. “Eliminating food groups or types of foods increases the risk of some nutrient deficiency or disordered eating.”
Army 1st Lt. Vladi Ivanova, chief, outpatient and community nutrition at Madigan Army Medical Center, agreed. “Following a keto diet, for example, means eliminating a full food group. When we restrict certain foods, our bodies notice and may not respond in the way we want.”
Options and choices about what to eat, from diets to trendy snacks and drinks, are plentiful. The result is confusion, according to Ivanova: “My patients are asking a lot of questions, whether a diet is good or bad, or if eating certain foods will help them lose weight. They are overwhelmed by all of the information available.”
According to Bright, a return to the basics is what’s needed. “The most important suggestions for good nutrition are captured in the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans,” she said.
These guidelines, developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture, provide evidence-based tools and resources that enable everyone to follow a healthy eating pattern for life.
Ivanova likes to use “MyPlate,” a tool developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as a visual aid with her patients. “It shows how to fill a healthy plate of food: one-half should include fruits and vegetables, one quarter whole grains, and one quarter lean protein,” she said.
Using the guidelines, both experts agreed that a healthy eating pattern includes a variety of vegetables; whole fruits; fat-free or low-fat dairy, including milk, yogurt and cheese; and a variety of proteins, including seafood, lean meats and poultry, eggs, beans, nuts and seeds.
Bright said to avoid excess sugar, sodium, and saturated and trans fat as part of establishing a healthy eating pattern. “With all the new and trending foods, it's important to consider how substituting a certain type of food with another can impact your nutritional intake,” she said. “There are instances where foods that are advertised as ‘lower fat’ or ‘no fat’ contain increased sodium or sugar, so being aware of trade-offs is important.”
Ivanova said good nutrition is key to service members’ ability to carry out their mission as well – responding to their needs for quick, healthier meals on-the-go, and also ensuring their families are making good choices. “Often when speaking with my patients, I end up talking to them about their children’s nutrition, too. Any service member who is a parent has to model the diet that they want their kids to eat,” said Ivanova, who advocates a mindful approach to healthy eating.
“My patients have told me that after eating a fast food meal, they feel awful,” she said. “Mindfulness about how and what we eat is critical. You have to make eating healthy a priority in your life. This means taking time to understand healthy options and planning your meals in advance – perhaps for the week – so that you think through what you are putting into your body.”
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This Defense Health Agency-Procedural Instruction (DHA-PI), based on the authority of References (a) and (b), and in accordance with the guidance of References (c) through (ab), establishes the procedures for the FHPQA Program as defined in Reference (z). This DHA-PI applies to: a. OSD, the Military Departments (including the United States Coast Guard (USCG) at all times, including when it is a Service in the Department of Homeland Security by agreement with that Department), the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of the Inspector General of the DoD, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD (referred to collectively in this DHA-PI as the “DoD Components”). b. Civilian personnel, as defined in Reference (e), and DoD contractor personnel authorized to accompany the force (CAAF), in accordance with References (j), (m), and (n), respectively.
DoD Instruction 6200.05: Force Health Protection Quality Assurance (FHPQA) Program
This issuance establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and defines requirements for the development and establishment of the FHPQA Program in accordance with the authority in DoD Directive (DoDD) 5124.02, Sections 731 and 738 of Public Law 108-375; Sections 1074f, 1092a, and 1073b of Title 10, United States Code; and DoDDs 6200.04 and 5136.13.
Identification #: DoD Instruction 6200.05
Type: Instructions
Topics: Quality and Safety of Health Care (for Healthcare Professionals) | Health Readiness
DoD Instruction 6490.13: Comprehensive Policy on Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Neurocognitive Assessments by the Military Services
This instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes standard elements, pursuant to section 722 of Public Law 111-383, requiring the implementation of a comprehensive neurocognitive assessment policy in the Military Services.
Topics: Traumatic Brain Injury | Conditions and Treatments | Health Readiness
Embedded Fragment Analyses
Clarification of the Requirement for Continuation of Semi-Annual Reporting of Results of Embedded Fragment Analyses
Identification #: N/A
Type: Memorandums
Topics: Health Readiness | Public Health | Deployment Health
Detecting and Reporting DoD Cases of Ebola Virus Disease Infection
Guidance as of 17 OCT 2014 from the Department of Defese (AFHSC)for Detecting and Reporting DoD Cases of Ebola Virus Disease Infection
Type: Guidelines
Topics: Health Readiness | Pandemic Diseases | Ebola | Information for Healthcare Workers
Influenza Surveillance Program
Sentinel Sites for the 2014-2015 Influenza Surveillance Program
Topics: Health Readiness | Public Health
Deployment Limiting Mental Disorders and Psychotrophic Medications
Policy memorandum about Deployment Limiting Mental Disorders and Psychotrophic Medications
DoD Laboratories Participating in CDC Laboratory Response Network 03-213
Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored Laboratory Response Network (LRN) do so with the approval and support of their respective Military Department Surgeons General.
Medical Planning and Programming Lexicon
Topics: Health Readiness | Deployment Health
DoD Instruction Number 6490.11: DoD Policy Guidance for Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion in the Deployed Setting
This instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures on the management of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), also known as concussion, in the deployed setting.
Identification #: DoD Instruction Number 6490.11
Topics: Conditions and Treatments | Traumatic Brain Injury | Health Readiness
Access to Medical Services Who were Exposed to Rabies in Combat Theater
Topics: Health Readiness | Public Health | Deployment Health | Veterinary Service
U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps COSC Policy Update
Identification #: NTTP 1-15 M
Mental Health Assessments for Members of the Armed Forces Deployed in Connection with a Contingency Operation
Topics: Deployment Health | Mental Health Care | Health Readiness | Public Health
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It's that time again, and this time it's more important than ever.
You're probably used to our weekly post by this point, but a little reminder never hurt. If you haven't been paying attention to reality television, then you probably missed out on some really fantastic local talent.
Signer/songwriter Ian Flanigan from Saugerties has been wowing the celebrity judges and America for the last few weeks on NBC's The Voice.
The Ulster County native has been representing for Blake Shelton and Team Blake since the end of October. Flanigan has not only wowed Blake, but he's also left Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani and John Legend speechless and in awe of his amazing talent.
Week to week Ian has put his best performances on the line for new and old fans across the US. Last week, however, was a close call. After his performance of Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" during the Top 9 performance round, Ian found himself in the Instant save.
Ian performed Travis Tritt's "Anymore" for an Instant Save and it's was that final push. That performance solidified his spot in The Voice Top 5 and in the finale.
Tonight (Monday, December 14th) is the big night. Ian and the rest of the Top 5 will be performing live on The Voice at 8 pm. Each contestant will be singing 3 songs apiece. Voting begins immediately after the show airs at 10 pm. Votes will be accepted until 7 am Tuesday (December 15th) morning at 7 am.
Each voter can vote 10 times 3 different ways. So 30 total votes. Here's how you can vote for Ian:
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17 data found. 1 - 17 listed
Communication | Regular issue | Vol 43, No. 10, 1996, pp. 2083 - 2090
■ Reactions of Methacryloyl Isocyanate with Imines Derived from Ketones and Alkyl Amines
Otohiko Tsuge, Taizo Hatta, Masaaki Kuwata, Tadahiro Yamashita, and Akikazu Kakehi
*Department of Industrial Chemistry, Kumamoto Institute of Technology, 4-22-1, Ikeda, Kumamoto
The reactions of methacryloyl isocyanate (MAI) with imines derived from ketones and alkyl amines led to the formations of the corresponding 2H-1,3,5-oxadiazin-4(3H)-one, 1,3-oxazine, piperidinedione, and/or 1-alkyl-1-alkenyl-3-methacryloyures, whose relative yields greatly depended on the reaction conditions as well as the nature of imine. The latter three compounds sorrespond to products arising from the reaction of MAI with enamine tautomers of imines.
■ Reaction of 1,2,4-Triazine 1-Oxides with Benzyne: Formation of 1,3-Benzoxazepine and 1,3,5,6-Benzoxatriazonine Derivatives
Naoki Kakusawa, Kazunori Sakamoto, Jyoji Kurita, and Takashi Tsuchiya
*School of Pharmacy, Hokuriku University, 3-Ho, Kanagawa machi, Kanazawa 920-1181, Japan
Reaction of the 6-unsubstituted 1,2,4-triazine 1-oxides (5) with benzyne gave the 1,3-benzoxazepines (8) and/or the 6-(o-hydroxyphenyl)-1,2,4-triazines (10) via the unisolable 1,3-dipolar cycloadducts (6), whereas the 6-substituted compound (12), 5,6-dimethyl-3-methoxy-1,2,4-triazine 1-oxide, afforded only the relativily stable 1,5-shift product (15) derived from the initially formed 1,3-dipolar cycloadduct (13). Heating the adduct (15) gave the novel 1,3,5,6-benzoxatriazonine derivative (16) and 2,3-dimethylbenzofuran (17).
■ Ring Transformation of 3-Halo-1,2,4-triazines with α-Chlorocarbanions: A Novel Route to Pyrazoles with Sulfonyl, Sulfonamido and Sulfonyloxy Groups
Andrzej Rykowski and Danuta Branowska
*Institute of Chemistry, Agricultural University at Siedlce, 08-110 Siedlce, ul. 3-go Maja 54, Poland
A novel route to pyrazoles bearing sulfonyl, sulfonamido and sulfonyloxy groups at C-3 by ring cleavage reaction of 3-halo-6-phenyl-1,2,4-triazines (1a-b) with α-halocarbanions (2a-g) is described.
Paper | Regular issue | Vol 43, No. 10, 1996, pp. 2099 - 2112
■ A Convenient Access to Protoberberine Derivatives
Imanol Tellitu, Dolores Badía, Esther Domínguez, and Luisa Carrillo
*Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Pais, Vasco, P.O. Box 644, 48080-Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
A synthesis of protoberberine derivatives starting from (1R*,3S*,4R*)-3-aryl-1-methyl-4-silyloxytetrahydroisoquinolines is presented. The influence of the substitution pattern of the aryl ring at C-3 and the effect of the derivatization of the hydroxyl group at C-4 on the final cyclization reaction is discussed.
■ Total Synthesis of Amphimedine
Shinsuke Nakahara, Yoshihiro Tanaka, and Akinori Kubo
*Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan
The cytotoxic fused pentacyclic aromatic alkaloid, amphimedine (2) from a Pacific sponge, was synthesized employing hetero Diels-Alder reacions.
■ Stereochemistry of the Products of Base Catalyzed Self-Condensation of Biacetyl
John Hudec, Trevor A. Crabb, and Asmita V. Patel
*Department of Chemistry, University of Potsmouth, Nuffield Centre, St. Michael's Road Portsmouth PO1 2DT, U.K.
The structures of the base catalyzed trimer and dimer of biacetyl have been deterimined.
■ Synthesis of 2- or/and 6-Methylated Analogues of Isoguvacine (1,2,3,6-Tetrahydropyridine-4-carboxylic Acid) a GABAA Agonist
Markus Rohr, Saïd Chayer, Fabrice Garrido, André Mann, Maurizio Taddei, and Camille-Georges Wermuth
*Laboratoire de Pharmacochimie Moleculaire, (UPR 421 DU CNRS), Centre de Neurochimie du CNRS, 5, rue Blaise Pascal, 67084 Strasbourg-Cedex, France
1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-4-carboxylic acid (isoguvacine) and related 2-and/or 6-methylated analogues (1-4) were synthesized using the methoxycarbonylation [Pd(OAc)2, PPh3, CO, MeOH)] of their corresponding vinylic triflates. Analogue (5), the 6-methyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-4-carboxylic acid was obtained after a reductive deoxygenation of the corresponding β-keto ester.
■ Studies on Nitrogen-containing Heterocyclic Compounds. Novel Synthesis of Naphtho[1,2-b and 2,1-b][1,8]naphthyridines and Oxidation Reactions with Peroxy Acids
Isao Takeuchi, Koosuke Asai, Yoshiki Hamada, Katsuyoshi Masuda, Hiroko Suezawa, Minoru Hirota, Yukihisa Kurono, and Keiichiro Hatano
*Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, 150 Yagoto, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 468-8503, Japan
A modified Friedländer condensation of 2-aminonicotinaldehyde with α- and β-naphthols lead successfully to two new naphtho[1,2-b and 2,1-b][1,8]naphthyridines in a single synthetic procedure. The oxidation of the naphthonaphthyridines with peroxy acids afforded novel products such as a seven-membered oxazepine moiety. Structures were characterized by standard spectroscopy. The crystal and molecular structures (3) and (4) were determined by X-ray analyses.
■ Novel Barbituric Acid Derivatives, Uracil-pyridinium Salts and Polycondensed Oxopyrimidines
Andreas Schmidt, Annemarie Hetzheim, and Dirk Albrecht
*Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Soldmannstrasse 16, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany
Nucleophilic substitution of the 6-chloropyrimidines (1) with piperodine, morpholine, 4-(piperidin-1-yl)piperidine and 4-dimethylaminopyridine yielded the corresponding 6-aminosubstituted pyrimidines (2), (3), (4), and (5), respectively. The barbiturates (9) and (10) were formed either starting from the chloroaldehyde (7), or by applying Knovenagel reaction to the barbituric acid (13) with 2-formylaminohetarenes. Cyclocondensation of the chloroldehyde (11) with 2-aminnopyrisines resulted in the formation of the tricycle (12) which is also sccessible by initial Knoevenagel reaction of the barbituric acid (14) and subsequent cyclization of the resulting barbiturates (15). Analogously, the new ring system (17) was formed upon treatment of 14 with 2-formylaminopyrimidine and subsequent cyclization.
■ Synthesis and Photobiological Activity of N-Substituted 2-Oxo-2H-1-benzopyran-3-(thio)carboxamides
Youssef El-Ahmad, Jean-Daniel Brion, Pierre Reynaud, Dietrich Averbeck, and Simone Averbeck
*Laboratoire de Chme Thérapeutique, Faculté de Pharmacie, 5, Rue, Av. J.B. Clément, 92296 Chåtenay-Malabry Cedex, France
Several polyfunctional coumarins and the corresponding uatenary ammoniums, associated with a coplanar structure have been synthesized in order to test the relationships between structure and photobiological activity. In vitro studies on their phototoxic effects in yeasts suggest that five of them are able to intercalate in DNA and to covalently photobind tto DNA.
■ 1,3-Cycloaddition of Benzonitrile Oxides to Diazepines. III. 1H-1,2-Benzodiazepine
Paolo Beltrame, Enzo Cadoni, Maria M. Carnasciali, Gioanna Gelli, and Angelo Mugnoli
*Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Universita di Cagliari, S.P. Monserrato-Sestu km 0.700, I-09042, Nonserrato(CA), Italy
Arylnitrile oxide (1) and 1H-1,2-benzodiazepine(2) undergo 1,3-cycloaddition reactions to give derivatives of 1,2,4-oxadiazole (3) and isoxazole (4). Aithough usually stable, the nitrile oxide partly dimerizes giving a 1,2,4-oxadiazole (7). Secondary products were also identified: for one of the (6) the structure was unambiguously determined by X-ray diffraction. Overall kinetics and product distribution were measured at 40-70°C, in mixtures of 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane and DMF: a set of parallel reactions was evidenced.
■ First Example of a 4-Amino-1,2,4,6-thiatriazine 1,1-Dioxide Derivative
Carmen Ochoa, Angela Herrero, Rafael Provencio, Jan Balzarini, Erik De Clercq, Alicia Gómez-Barrio, Rafael Martinez Díaz, and Juan José Nogal
*Instituto de Química Médica, C. S. I. C., Calle Juan de Cierva, 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain
For teh first time, an N4-amino derivative of 1,2,4,6-thiatriazine 1,1-dioide (5) was prepared by cyclocondensation reaction of the appropriate sulfamoylcarbamate (3) with hydrazine. Reaction of 3 with ammonia yielded the cyclic 4H-derivative (4). Nucleophilic substitution reactions of 4 and 5 with hydrazine, as well as comdensation of 5 with ethyl orthoformate were achieved. The antiprotozoal and anti-HIV properties of the new compounds were evaliated, but none of them showed significant biological activities.
■ Tin(IV) Chloride Catalyzed Herero-Diels-Alder Reaction of Methyl 2-Oxo-4-phenyl-3-butenoate with Styrene
Akira Sera, Naohiro Ueda, Kuniaki Itoh, and Hiroaki Yamada
*Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Nada-Ku, Kobe 6557-8501, Japan
Hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of methyl 2-oxo-4-phenyl-3-butenoate with stryene to give dihydropyran derivatives were found to proceed through an exo-selective concerted as well as an ionic stepwise mechanisms concurrently.
■ Oxidative Free Radical Reaction of 2-Phenylthio-1,4-naphthoquinones Initiated by Manganese(III) Acetate
Che-Ping Chuang and Sheow-Fong Wang
*Department of Chemistry, Natioanl Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 70101, Taiwan, R.O.C.
A free radical reaction between 2-phenylthio-1,4-naphothoquinines and diethyl malonate initicated by manganese(III) acetate is described. This free tadical reaction provides a new method for the synthesis of 6,11-dihydro-6,11-dioxo-12H-5-thianaphthacenes. This reaction was performed in various solvents, the best results were obtained in DMSO. With meta substituent on phenylthio ring, this reaction shows unusual high regioselectivity.
■ Biogenetic Synthesis of Biflavonoids, Lophirones B and C, from Lophira lanceolata
Tomoyuki Shimamura, Yuka Arakawa, Kiyomi Hikita, and Masatake Niwa
A biogenetic synthesis of biflavonoids, lophirone A and Lophirone C, was achieved by enzymatic oxidation of the corresponding chalcone.
■ Total Synthesis of (8'R)- and (8'S)-Corossoline
Hidefumi Makabe, Hisahide Tanimoto, Akira Tanaka, and Takayuki Oritani
*Division of Environmental Bioremediation, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 1-1 Tsutsumidori-Amamiya, Aoba-ku, Sendai 981-8555, Japan
A convergent stereoselective total synthesis of (8’R)- and (8’S)-corossoline (1) has been performed via a multi-step process. Comparison of the mp, [α]D, ir and nmr data of both synthetic materials with those reported for natural corossoline did not allow for the strict deterimination of the donfiguration at the C-8’ hydroxyl group of 1. However, a slight chemical shift difference at the C-8’ methine proton was observrd in the 1H-nmr spectra of the corresponding tris-MTPA esters of synthetic (8’R)- and (8’S)-1, indicating that if the tris-MTPA ester of natural 1 is available, the stereochemistry at the C-8’ hydroxyl group of corossoline will be established.
■ Synthesis of 1-Isopropylamino-3-(pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridyloxy)-2-propanols
Yasuyoshi Miki, Junko Tasaka, Kyoko Uemura, Kunihiro Miyazeki, and Jun Yamada
*Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kinki University, 3-4-1, Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Japan
Treatment of the 4-hydroxypyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine with glycidyl tosylate in the presence of base, followed by reaction with isopropylamine gave 1-isopropylamino-3-(pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrid-4-yloxy)-2-propanol. In a similar manner, 1-isopropylamino-3-(pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrid-6- and 1-isopropylamino-3-(pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrid-3-yloxy)-2-propanol were also prepared.
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O.U. (Gone, Gone)
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The ʻōʻū (pronounced [ˈʔoːʔuː]) (Psittirostra psittacea), is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, that is endemic to the Hawaiian islands. It has a dark green back and olive green underparts; males have a yellow head while females have a green head. Its unusual beak seems to be adapted to feeding on the fruits of Freycinetia arborea. It has a strong flight which it uses to fly considerably distances in search of this Hawaiian endemic vine, but will eat other fruits, buds, flowers and insects.
Although formerly widespread and present throughout the island group, numbers have declined dramatically during the twentieth century. It may have been affected by habitat loss and introduced predators, but the main factor in its decline is probably avian malaria and fowlpox, transmitted by the mosquito. The bird is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being critically endangered, but there are no recent records, and it may be extinct.
The ʻōʻū is a large, plump forest bird measuring 17 centimetres (6.7 in) in length. Males have a bright yellow head, dark green back, and an olive-green belly. Females are duller with an olive-green head. TheʻŌʻū has a pink, finch-like bill and pink legs.
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OU or Ou or ou may stand for:
Oakland University in Oakland County, Michigan
Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama
Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia
Ohio University in Athens, Ohio
Olivet University in San Francisco, California
University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma
University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon
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"O.U. (Gone, Gone)" is a single released by British pop band Pulp in 1992. The song was later included on the compilation album Intro – The Gift Recordings in 1993.
All songs written and composed by Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Steve Mackey, Nick Banks and Candida Doyle.
"O.U. (Gone, Gone) (Radio Edit)" – 2:56
"O.U. (Gone, Gone) (12" Mix)" – 3:34
"Space" – 5:13
" O.U. (Gone, Gone) (Radio Edit)" – 2:56
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69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album by the Magnetic Fields released in 1999. As its title indicates, the album is composed of 69 love songs, all written by Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt. It was ranked #465 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was well received by critics, music critic Nick Mirov claimed that "Stephin Merritt has proven himself as an exceptional songwriter, making quantum leaps in quality as well as quantity on 69 Love Songs".
Conception and live performance
The album was originally conceived as a music revue. Stephin Merritt was sitting in a gay piano bar in Manhattan, listening to the pianist's interpretations of Stephen Sondheim songs, when he decided he ought to get into theatre music because he felt he had an aptitude for it. "I decided I'd write one hundred love songs as a way of introducing myself to the world. Then I realized how long that would be. So I settled on sixty-nine. I'd have a theatrical revue with four drag queens. And whoever the audience liked best at the end of the night would get paid." He also found inspiration in Charles Ives's 114 Songs, about which he had read earlier in the day: "songs of all kinds, and what a monument it was, and I thought, well, I could do something like that."
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Y-O-U, also known as the Pleaserock collective, is a rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, probably most widely known for their collaborations with The Brothers Chaps on projects such as Strong Bad Sings and the karaoke music from strongbad email.exe. In addition, the Chapmans animated a music video for Y-O-U's song "LA Lindsay."
Originally from Indiana, the band relocated to Georgia in 2002. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2003. Their next LP, Flashlights, was released on compact disc in January 2007; however, as a promotional tactic, the entire album is also available as a free download via the band's MySpace profile. After a final record was released in the summer of 2009, the band announced its retirement from recording and performing their original music as Y-O-U.
Y-O-U is also known for short mockumentaries available on their website, their MySpace page, and YouTube.
In December 2006, Y-O-U was named one of the Top 25 Best Bands on MySpace by Rolling Stone Magazine.
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Y-O-U is the first album by Atlanta rock band Y-O-U. Released in 2003, it is their only album with members Eric Harlan Park and Matt Sonnicksen, who left the band approximately a year later.
The sole writing and producing credits for the album go to the band as a whole.
"Radio" - 2:58
"LA Lindsay" - 4:24
"Easy" - 3:16
"Hold Me" - 2:15
"Moviekiss" - 5:50
"Good Intentions" - 2:34
"Heart That Remains" - 3:24
"Wings" - 3:08
"Back with Him" - 3:03
"How to Say Goodbye" - 4:00
"Radio"
Dir: Jon Danovic
Feat: Josh Rifkind as "Coach Adair"
Billed as part 3 of mockumentary The Flying Wallabies
"LA Lindsay"
Dir: The Brothers Chaps
Animated in Macromedia Flash
Features animals representing each band member
"Easier"
Dir: Y-O-U
Song is 3-man version of "Easy" recorded after Sonnicksen and Park left the band
Video is photo slideshow featuring all 5 members
"Hold Me"
Dir: Peter Sobat
First Y-O-U video created
"Moviekiss"
Video is about the band filming a video for "Moviekiss"
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by Tiffani Carcieri, YPI staff
YPI's Annual Rainbow Party is our organization's largest fundraising event of the year. Hosted at the Dunes Club for the third year in a row, the 2018 Rainbow Party on September 23 was a great success. Over 80 individuals attended and raised more than $10,000 on behalf of YPI. Guests enjoyed an open bar with specialty cocktails, a wide selection of hors d'oeuvres, and a dessert station, while taking in beautiful views of Narragansett Beach. Board members, staff, and YPI youth were present to talk with guests and provide insight into YPI, what we do, and how contributions directly support our programs and services. A slide show highlighting important YPI moments ran throughout the afternoon. Photos from Pride, Rhode Island's NOH8 campaign, State House events, holidays, and more were included. Custom YPI t-shirts designed by our youth were available to guests who donated at the door. Board Chair Michelle Saunders and Executive Director Elana Rosenberg addressed the room. The longstanding history of YPI's discussion group The Way Out was told along with snippets of how and why Michelle and Elana became involved with the organization. Ollie and Rowan (Michelle’s son) are two active YPI youths who spoke about our space and
how it changed their lives for the better. Ollie says YPI treated them like family and offered unwavering support even when their biological family could not. We sincerely thank Bank of America, Locke Lord, and IGT for being our sponsors. We also extend profound thanks to State Representative Deb Ruggiero who was in attendance. Deb has been a longtime friend of YPI, and a champion for the LGBT community for years.Without the generous support of all these individuals our Rainbow Party could not have happened. We are incredibly overwhelmed with the generosity of our guests.These contributions will immensely help LGBTQQ youth in Rhode Island get connected to the resources and services they need. A full album of photos of the event can be found on our Facebook page. We look forward to seeing everyone next year! Youth Pride Inc. provides support, education, and advocacy for LGBTQQ young people ages 9-23. Our Drop-in Center is at 473 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903. Visit www.youthprideri.org, emailinfo@youthprideri.org, or call (401) 421-5626 for more info.
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Ella’s strange cult activities re-examined
Angela Power-Disney does waffle on, doesn’t she? The other day she published three videos in which she “exposed” her erstwhile friend and fellow Hoaxtead mobster Tracey Morris—literally hours of Angela droning on about Tracey’s various shenanigans.
It’s Angie’s signature move, really: befriending somebody, singing their praises to the skies, and then turning on them and “outing” them on her blog, Facebook, YouTube, or all three. We’ve lost count (well, all of us but the Office Tapir, who remembers everything) of the number of people she’s done this to, but yesterday in our Comments section we were reminded of a particularly egregious instance: her repeated allegations against Ella Gareeva Draper, whom she accuses of having participated in the imaginary Hampstead cult, and of having made videos featuring herself sexually abusing a young child.
We have absolutely no love for Ella, but we reject Angela’s story, which she claims came to her via one of her usual “impeccable sources” who turned out not to actually have the goods. Surprise!
However, a conversation in yesterday’s Comments section reminded us that while Angela’s version of Ellagate was obviously fabricated, there are other well-documented reasons to suspect that Ella was involved in cult activities of one kind or another.
The Gold-Digger Academy
In October 2017 we noted that Ella was the admin of a group on “OK.RU”, a sort of Russian version of Facebook. The group was called “Ellochka the Cannibal”, a well-known Russian fictional character whose single-minded man-hunting proclivities made her the model for Russian “gold-digger academies”.
These schools teach attractive women all they need to know to attract and retain the attentions of wealthy men—so a poor art student, struggling to get by in Moscow, might meet a well-to-do financial expert and latch onto him, just for example.
As commenter Surreal Hustle pointed out, the “gold-digger academies” engage in some very nasty practices:
There is a post on this blog about Ella’s involvement with a “Man-Eater / Gold Digger Academy” and this raised many red flags for me as I have been researching these organisations for almost a decade. Many of them (in fact all of them that have some to my attention) are linked to extremely dangerous cults / sects that harvest collateral / compromat from followers early on in their involvement. The collateral usually takes the form of compromising photos or videos of transgressive sexual acts. This is exactly the same method used by the cult NXIVM, except that in NXIVM the women were told that collateral being collected to keep them in line. In the Gold-digger Academies (often called Goddess schools / Geisha schools / courtesan academies and the like) compromat is collected during “tantric initiations” that are portrayed as spiritual awakenings.
There have been reports in credible sections of the Russian press that, when the police raided these establishments they seized photographs and video films showing cult members sexually abusing children and engaging in sexual acts with animals.
So, just for the record, I do believe that it is possible that some compromising film or video of Ella exists, in fact, given her involvement in the Gold-Digger Academy it would be surprising and unusual if some compromising material on her does not exist. It would certainly consist of Ella engaging in a sexual act that would be considered transgressive and very shameful by most people. That is the whole point of the collection of such material. Such material would have been collected prior to Ella’s marriage to Mr Draper and would not have involved her own children as they had not been born back then.
This interests us, as we recall that in the early days of the Hampstead SRA hoax, Ella complained that RD had been “harassing” her by sending her “unwanted pornography” on her phone. This seemed very odd to us, as the former couple had been involved in a protracted and very bitter legal battle over RD’s access to the children.
Is it possible that the unwanted pornography in question might have been something which either RD or one of his friends dredged up online? We may never really know the answer to this, but it raises some disturbing possibilities.
Ella and the Supreme Master
We can be much more certain, though, of Ella’s involvement in a well-known cult: as Ydychyncachu Tracey pointed out yesterday, Ella was a devotee of the “Supreme Master” Ching Hai, who claims to have a direct pipeline to God (don’t they all?).
An article on DW.com states,
In just four years, vegan restaurant Loving Hut has opened more than 200 locations in the United States, Austria, Germany, Australia and South America, which makes it the biggest vegan chain worldwide. Its founder, known as Ching Hai, has more than 500,000 followers (by some counts up to 2 million) who believe she has direct conversations with God and call her Supreme Master.
With thousands of videos on YouTube showing spiritual lectures going back to the 1990s, Ching Hai preaches all over the world to acolytes of a meditation-based philosophy she has dubbed Quan Yin. Wearing colorful outfits and sitting on outlandish sets with one or two favored followers, Ching Hai mixes Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam to instruct her believers in how they can achieve higher levels of consciousness and also speak directly to God. She claims to be the next “master” following in the likes of Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed.
In the lectures, she also reminds her adherents that they should not be ashamed of making money, “people will make you feel guilty about making money…it’s none of their business.”
She also sometimes advocates something called breatharianism, which is a denial of food and water in favor of spiritual “sustenance.” The practice, sometimes associated with older religions, has been tied to numerous dehydration and starvation deaths.
In a 1999 article in The Independent, Ching Hai’s London recruitment drive was highlighted. At that time, alarm was expressed over her organisation’s control over members:
Fears are growing…that Ching Hai’s recruits have undergone changes in personality after being recruited at great speed. According to the Cult Information Centre, relatives of her followers are also worried by the large amounts of merchandise available to disciples and the money they can spend to be in the presence of their leader. Last week the sect gained 300 new British members during a course of 19 lectures where people crowded around desks to be “initiated” before being “immediately enlightened” by Ching Hai.
Recruits are interviewed and have to follow five rules including becoming vegetarian and meditating for two-and-a-half hours a day.
Visitors to Ella’s home prior to the Hampstead hoax have told us that her walls were plastered with posters featuring Ching Hai. And readers might recall that during the police interviews, the little girl mentioned that she was able to meditate for three hours per day, though she did not enjoy it and tried to find ways out of it.
Whether Ella’s involvement in Russia’s gold-digger academies led to incriminating material being posted online or not, she certainly did not seem averse to exposing her children to a bona fide cult which advocates some very strange practices.
Peculiar, then, that when it came time to accuse her ex-partner of the most heinous crimes possible, she chose to set them in the context of cults and cult behaviour. Then again, we suppose it’s easiest to talk about what one already knows.
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“It’s Angie’s signature move, really: befriending somebody, singing their praises to the skies, and then turning on them and “outing” them on her blog, Facebook, YouTube, or all three. We’ve lost count (well, all of us but the Office Tapir, who remembers everything) of the number of people she’s done this to…”
Thanks, EC. And your wish is my command…
Friends Angela’s alienated/fallen out with:
Alan Alanson
Eilish de Avalon
Sandy Bergen
Biggi Boho
Heather Brown (on and off)
Abraham Christie
Kris Costa
Beth ‘Jockney Rebel’ Donnellly
Ella Draper
Dawn ‘Hope Girl’ Feagin
Jason Goodman
Christine Hart
Miles Johnston
Arthur Kaoutal
Mary McDermott
Belinda McKenzie
Jim McMenamin
Tracey Morris
Stephanie Oostveen
Andy Peacher
Rupert Quaintance
Melanie Shaw
Margaret Sneddon
Nina Valentine
Sonia van Gelder
Mel Ve
Charlotte Ward
Many of them (in fact all of them that have some to my attention) are linked to extremely dangerous cults / sects that harvest collateral / compromat from followers early on in their involvement.
So they purport to be teaching a scam to would-be scammers, whiley in fact they are operating a scam on them?
So ella was trained to be able to romance and control wealthy men for her own gain ? probably skipped a few lessons as she ended up with a failed gold investor cum hemp soup nutritionist who helped her lose custody of both her children and flee the uk as a wanted fugitive. I recently read a post where someone claimed abe would publicly drink his own pee as a party trick.
It’s claimed the scientologists do that. some would say the catholic church’s confession is open to abuse. cults are bad m’kay.
Cat & Malcolm’s Butt-Hurt Bonanza:
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A roundup of the last 24 hours of fuming, fury and feather-spitting by the Highland Hag and the Kincorth Creep
I particularly love how they’ve posted a Wiki entry that states ‘coyote’ means someone who smuggles people into the US – and that it has nothing to do with people-trafficking – to ‘prove’ that EC traffics children into the UK. I genuinely believe that these people don’t actually read their own sodding evidence before posting it!
I once heard Angela described as a dangerous cult. I think they said cult anyway.
When a mexican illegally aids someone over the border they’re a coyote. when a canadian crosses the border their satnav had packed up.
Cat uses spiderman as her avatar image. just google rock spider and pay attention to it’s usage as australian slang. by the powers invested in me by casual coincidence and the ability to type words into an online search engine i find her guilty !
She also sells Mickey Mouse (Boo! Evil Disney!) and demonic skull keyrings. Join the dots, sheeple 😮
An impressive list by any standard.
Dances with Swords says:
OMG, where is the outrage? 😡
Keyrings you say ? well a key is used by a gatekeeper of course. and we all know what a gatekeeper is. as for ring ? well this is the ring a satanistickal term for anus and also a very real circle drawn on the terrorchamber floor with a child’s dismembered limbbone dipped in blood and known to initiates as the ring of fire. Only when inside the confines of the ring is it ignited. and it burns burns burns, the ring of fire. Be careful not to fall into a ring of fire. the mouse of course is symbolic of the saucemakers apparatus, chill medievel devices to harvest the hormonal juicewaters of a victims prostate glands as they are sacraficiated on the alter of darkness. the skull represents the skull, no symbolistickal elements there. i declare her guilty of keyringery most foul.
Sounds accurate to me.
Roman popalovski attended many terrorchamber masses while researching rose marie’s baby and he later showed the ring of fire ceremony in the nine greats with johnny depp as a turfaccountant who stumbles into frank langella’s evil insurance scam to raise the value of antique books and get his castle fixed up. i watched the film only through a tinted mirror with to sound off to prevent mack basking of subliterate messages defeating me.
Two things strike me about ella.
1. she is incredibly uptight and completely obsessed with control. she flies into rages when challenged and smoulders bitterly over any challenge to her.
2. she never acts alone. she had abe make the videos and put the children before the camera. she had other people post the police interviews on her behalf. on the recent polygraph fiasco she had footage of a long dead person cut into it to speak on her behalf along with the polygraph specialist. ella very rarely does anything without someone else pretending to be an expert on her behalf.
as for the compromising video that was reduced to ‘written evidence’ from a vague source and related to oldcastle’s journo in chief ? i’d give that a very wide berth as it’s probably imaginary at best.
as far as cults go i’m not very clued up beyond watching stuff on tv but they do attempt to convince people of all manner of bizarre practices at large in the unsafe world beyond the true beliving members of the cult.
Damn it. finger slipped and i lost an entire boxful. i forgot what i wrote now. in short i think it’s possible the vegan cult influenced ella in some ways, it’s equally possible she was already of a mind to agree with the cult if it echoed her own opinions. as for the importance of diet it was central to the issues that first brought ella into conflict with the teachers and social services concerned the children were underfed.
Now assuming you’re an extremist vegan who is almost militantly against meat your absolute nemesis and chief nightmare would be an infanticidal anthropophage (anyone who isn’t a joe d’amato fan or egregdously overvocabulized can google it, that means you cat and malcolm). so maybe the cult or the meditation planted the cannabalistic elements into the storyline. maybe cult members believe that any outsiders eat babies ? just a thought. obsession with food is frequently a problem for people with control issues, just google ian brady or anorexia for more details.
JasmineRose says:
Well. I just want to know what’s taking Interpol so long in capturing Abe and Ella? RD and his kids and all the people unfairly harmed by those criminals have a right to justice. Eddie et al are itching to restart this hoax. What will stop its re-emrgence is for all those who started this evil lie to be behind bars. Come on The Police, do your job please!
I have an unrelated question that I hope you guys can help me with because its something that is upsetting me greatly.
My neighbour for some reason has become fixated with me and he has asked me to be his life partner. This neighbor is in his early 60s, I am over 30 years younger than him, he has also told me he has come up with a new religious way of life were you can’t eat meat or drink milk or buy wood or paper or write with pencils but he has written a letter to me. Confusing isnt it?? Its so odd, he clearly is unstable and he does have bipolar so I wonder if he is off his meds? Couple of weeks ago he also exposed himself to me as he was looking at me across the street from his window and he has been knocking on my door constantly as he has stated in the letter he wants me to answer his letter or ask him questions about his religion-which was two pages long. In that creepy letter he says he is not egotistical but he is and creepy. I am literally living in fear. I feel like he is becoming a dangerous stalker. Also I haven’t spoken to him for over a year as he tried to start problems with me with other neighbors and come on to me. I rebuffed him and ran away from him. I really dislike him.
Please advise me in what I should do. My friend thinks I should report him to the mental health department in our area or even the police. But I don’t want to if it will make things worse as he lives one door down. But if I need to I will. Another friend has said her husband will talk to him but it could turn nasty and I don’t think that’s a good idea either as it might lead to confrontation or even violence.
Thank you for reading and I hope you can help me.
The more i think about it the more the extreme diet becomes the central theme of the initial conflict with the school. has anyone got the dates and history of it ? when did abe enter the fray ? before or during the food conflicts ? did ella provide the cannabalism to which abe added the sexual and cult elements ? was ella planning it before she met abe and had him add to the bizarre conspiracy plot ? bloody hell, it’s like listening to beatles records and working out which bits john and paul did.
Ching hai is interesting. once donated a massive sum to the clintons but had it refunded due to concerns of how it was raised. suck that up pizzagatekeepers, suck it up. she also had an illegal artificial island removed by the feds and it’s assumed her followers built it. in china she is considered a dangerous anti communist. she maintains people have ten eyes but nine of them are closed if you’re boozed up. drugs and booze aren’t allowed. she’s vietnamese. she’s worth a mint but is suspected of improper fundraising. she has a clothing line should you wish to dress like a supreme master.
Some of them are exactly like that Smut Clyde, some present themselves in different ways, with more of an emphasis on being a spiritual school of shamanism, a yoga school, a tantra school, an academy where parents learn how to raise genius children, a business school teaching the “money making secrets” of the Jews or the ancient Egyptians.
Women are generally treated so badly in Russia and have such little power that marrying a wealthy man, whether a Russian “Forbes” or a foreigner, like Mr Draper (Ella’s mission was a success in that respect) is an aspiration for many. Feminism is considered a disease of the West. Domestic violence and rape are serious problems and victims seldom secure justice. Women have very limited choices and these academies exploit a range of women from would be scammers and social climbers through to women who are vulnerable through poverty, abuse and poor mental health.
The article linked to in the original Hoaxtead article is below and well worth a read.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-gold-digger-academy
The article describes the school that teach women how to ensnare a wealthy husband and they charge a lot of money to do so.
At one time I could have shown you clips on the BBC and on Channel 4 where famous journalists visited one of the most monstrous of the cults involved. In both examples the cultic school concerned was reported on with an element of humour and disbelief but the reporters seemed unaware of quite the kind of enterprise they were involved with.
The female reporter on the Channel 4 documentary at least expressed disgust that the school taught women to lick men’s arseholes in order to impress them but taught them that they should never expect a reciprocal arse licking. The BBC male reporter seemed embarrassed to watch a class in which women were invited to practice deep-throating bananas. He declined to try the banana element of the class himself and seemed rather shocked by the whole thing.
Both programmes have since been removed from all platforms and are unavailable, which is probably for the best.
The more overtly cultic end of these businesses emphasise a range of practices including but not limited to:
Complete, unquestioning obedience to a teacher or guru
Prolonged periods of chanting and / or meditation
Vegan, low protein raw food diets
Water fasts (prolonged periods of starvation)
So called “liver cleanses” (the use of emetics and purges)
The use of enemas to rid the body of “blockages”
Drinking urine as a form of medicine
Theatre and acting skills
Clowning skills (often presented as a sacred path)
Yoga, especially kundalini and tantric yoga but any kind of yoga will do
Tantra / neo-tantra
The acquisition of sexual and seduction skills
The acquisition of erotic dance skills including pole dace / lap dance / striptease
The acquisition of skills in bellydance and other dances that may be perceived as sexy e.g. tango
The acquisition of skills in hypnotism and emotional manipulation
The acquisition of martial arts skills (although to be fair the “martial arts” they learn are usually as fake as everything else the teach)
A syncretic mishmash of spiritual beliefs incorporating appropriated and twisted elements of shamanism, Buddhism, sexualised “tantra”, Hinduism, Christianity, the debunked works of the fraud Carlos Castaneda and whatever else they can think of.
Aliens usually feature in the narrative, sometimes the guru claims to be an alien
Training in divination, astrology, tarot etc.
The use of “magical make-up” – basically drugs applied via the transdermal route
The consumption of highly addictive drugs via so called “life-enhancing elixirs” that leave students in a robotic, disengaged state.
The denouncing and abandonment of friends and family. The guru is everything.
One of the links to false SRA allegations that these “schools” have is the teaching that trauma is trapped in the body at a cellular level. Narratives about “awakening” and “yoni activation / awakening” through intimate massage, learning “sacred sexual secrets” and learning how to use supernatural energy fields in the body and how to use orgasms to develop supernatural powers permeate various schools of body psychotherapies and schools for goddesses / gold-diggers.
We have already started to discuss here some of the many links between body psychotherapies, cults and false allegations of SRA / CSA.
In the below link various “academics” posit that quack body psychotherapy can be used to treat DID
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232998513_Using_Psychomotor_to_Treat_Dissociative_Identity_Disorder
The Notorious SRA promoter Norma Howes, who presented a lecture in the UK on 22nd September 2018, is now practicing as a Sensorimotor Psychotherapist (a body psychotherapist)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curiosity-not-conclusions-assisting-not-assuming-with-norma-howes-tickets-45555495714
SRA promoter Phil Mollon has his insane theories about “energy therapies” plastered all over the www.
Self-proclaimed SRA survivor and sinister cult leader Teal Swan also has multiple articles and videos re “tantra” using orgasms and sacred energy to awaken human body. She posits that women need to remember / awaken their “divine feminine”. The below video is an interesting example
She describes the divine feminine as something that women repress and that they need to awaken. In some ways this narrative mirrors that of Scientology. The concept is that humans have forgotten who we are. In Scientology we are alien souls reincarnated in human bodies. In goddess cults and gold-digger academies women are really goddesses who have forgotten who they really are. In both instances they are invited to “remember who they really are”. Both Scientology and the goddess schools are, at heart, organisations inviting us to remember things that never happened. They are organisations whose foundations are false memories.
Narratives regarding gender are common in these sects and a much promoted theme is that feminism is toxic and that women are pressurised by society to be masculine and that to become empowered women need to awaken their “inner goddess” (actually her inner “holy whore”) who knows about ancient spiritual and sexual secrets. The narrative is like a highly sexualised version of the “surrendered wife” movement combined with pick up artist and hypnotism / NLP skills.
Another common theme is to present sex work as a sacred sexual path that helps women to be lightworkers, goddesses, “dakinis”, etc. and to awaken the planet from it’s state of sleep. It is unsurprising that some of these schools have faced legal problems in various territories, usually relating to criminal charges re sex trafficking and other sexual offences including sexual offences against children.
In these schemes women learn to “awaken their inner goddess” and then are encouraged to set up their own goddess school with associated blog / website / FB page / youtube channel inviting more women to do the same. And so it spreads, like a virus, via social contagion and multi-level marketing.
Because of the way in which it spreads via social networking sites, it leaves a trail behind and anyone taking to time to examine the lineages can identify “tics” or indicators and email addresses, telephone numbers etc. that demonstrate the evolution of the schools and their histories. Taking screen shots is highly recommended. Saving videos and webpages in the archive also recommended. Websites come down, FB groups close and change, videos come down or are changed to “private”.
It is no big surprise to me that Ella was (is?) involved in such schemes. She fits the demographic in many ways. Yoga teacher, new age entrepreneur, raw vegan diet, promoting videos on “natural” ways to stay young (facial yoga), promoter of cannabis as a cure-all, into enemas / colonic irrigation, neglectful of her children and incredibly narcissistic. I can’t help wondering whether her robotic, distant, disengaged manner is a result of the consumption of “elixirs”?
Again I am left feeling devastated for Ella’s children, for Mr Draper and for RD. They all deserve so much better and I hope that they can find some much deserved peace and enjoyment in their lives.
Looked around. i say around, on here of course. the kids being left alone and hungry dates to 2013. Apparently vegan diets are a complicated affair as there are vital nutrients harder to find outside of meat and dairy so you need to be very careful and really know what you’re doing, doubly so if you’re feeding children. so the food issue predates the Pissdrinking hemphead’s arrival and establishes ella’s initial conflict with the school she would mercilessly attack the next year. i read an interesting blog that theorises that cults use vegetarian or vegan diets to control followers as
The hard to find nutrients missing result in impaired mental ability, unclear thoughts, docility, lack of concentration. dunno how much validity there is in that but some people obsessed with control are funny eaters and ella obviously took exception to social workers criticizing her parenting skills and, allegedly, malnourished children. of course the Wankers all conveniently forget this and want to only focus on the tattoos and ‘believe the children’
PMSL Grobnob
Been digging again and just read about mister draper and the monthly payments he made to ella. The comments on that post are closed, just like mister draper’s wallet. i’d love to have been a fly on the wall when ella realized she wasn’t getting her income cheque or bank deposit. don’t suppose the warm salty lager drinker was happy either. oh it’s all gone so monumentally wrong for ella. lost her marriage, lost her boyfriend, lost her kids, lost her uk citizenship (unless she likes prison food), lost her alimony that afforded her a comforable life without working and has to content herself with kisses from the wet salty lips of a urine drinking imbecile who thinks cannabis soup can be given in place of blood in transfusions. not really what you can call a success is she ?
Sorry to hear about your experience Rose
Definitely, definitely phone the police. It sounds like a potentially dangerous situation. He is harassing you and in exposing himself to you he has committed a crime. It is an extremely unsafe situation and you need all the help and support you can get.
You may also like to phone your local rape crisis or similar helpline. The helplines are there for women who have been sexually assaulted and your neighbour exposing himself to you is a kind of sexual assault and can be deeply traumatising. What concerns me the most about this is that it is part of a pattern of slaking and harassment of you. He may be harassing others online or in real life. He sounds potentially dangerous unless he gets urgent treatment.
I appreciate that you don’t want to make matters worse but you are in a a dangerous situation right now.
You have the letters from him yes? This is great as it is evidence of harassment. Record any further interactions / conversations with him on your phone. Also explain to the police that you are afraid of making things worse. They may be able to contact the MH team and get him sectioned without him knowing it was you who reported him.
You may prefer to phone the police and make an appointment to attend the police station or to request non-uniformed police to attend for discretion.
Just tell him to Fuck Off
Here is a non-recent Russian documentary regarding possibly the most notorious of these gold-digger academies / goddess schools, the extremely dangerous “Ashram Shambala”. Warning: Includes distressing scenes.
The video shows a reporter attempting to infiltrate a yoga event run by the sect. Yoga is one of the many fronts the sect uses to disguise its activities.
The video shows a lot of non-recent promotional material produced by the sect. In one horrifying scene a skeletal cult follower shows off his emaciated body, apparently in the belief that he possesses supernatural martial arts skills (a common delusion of people in the cult).
At 5.03 you can see cult members engaging in the practice of acting out stabbing cult enemies, this is a routine practice in the cult.
The cult teaches that “might is right” Hitler was a wonderful person who was misunderstood. Women should be sexy “goddesses” who serve men sexually. People not in the cult are “grey mice” upon whom any violent act can be committed with impunity. Cult members are routinely drugged with addictive psychoactive substances, recommended by the cult as life enhancing “elixirs”.
longer video here
Pay attention especially at 5.12, where there is a brief clip showing some of the promotional material of a goddess school / gold digger academy (similar brief cutaways appear throughout the documentary) – this is exactly the kind of group that Ella was involved with and in fact appears to be an administrator for such an online group.
13 mins in there is a brief section showing one of the first of many sections showing a popular pastime for cult members; practicing stabbing enemies of the cult.
At 15.36 there are brief cutaways of goddess / gold-digger school promotional material and then a section showing the distressed parents of a missing young woman who got involved with the sect. The mother leafs through a folder showing various certificates awarded to her daughter by the “school” before she went missing.
At 16.42 a former cult member leafs through a similar document folder from the same organisation. The website URL on the top of the page is no longer active but you can see a translated version of a 2012 archived page here
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20101124064436%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ladyworld.ru%3A80%2F&edit-text=
I would recommend NOT clicking on any links in the above archived page. Just read it and then close the link.
The section immediately following this is interesting as the former cult member talks about the school’s training in yoga and massage and at 18.09 there is another brief clip of some of the sect’s published materials.
Viewers wishing to avoid watching scenes of extreme violent abuse / torture of women and subsequently of a helpless cat by the cult leader are advised to skip the section between 23.33 to 25.25
at 35.10 the report refers to the use of drugs by the cult
at 35.12 the report covers criminal charges against a senior member of he sect a man called Pavel (Paul) Handozhko whose face is clearly visible in the footage. He is a Russian psychiatrist and surgeon who is fairly high up in the cult and a very close associate of the leader.
He travels all over the world recruiting new members and was in the UK in 2010.
I have photos of him attending a raw food cafe in Chalk Farm, NW London, at this time. I also have screen shots from his blog advertising his London events.
He has HIV and is wanted in Russia for infecting dozens of people with HIV in orgies presented to followers as “tantric rituals”.
Even though the above videos are in Russian language they are worth paying attention to. They show how many Russian families are losing their beloved children to this disgusting cult.
To conclude:
I have no idea whether Ella sexually abused children. However her involvement in a gold-digging / man-eater academy does raise the possibility that she has been involved serious criminality including sexually transgressive acts. It is extremely likely that someone somewhere possesses compromat on Ella.
In fact Ella was not simply involved in a gold-diggers’ academy, she ticks all the boxes indicating involvement in one of the sinister criminal sects that use sexual rituals and the sexual abuse of minors as part of their MO.
Operates as an admin in a goddess / gold-digger school – major red flag
Succeeded in marrying a wealthy, influential man – check
Involvement in yoga – check
Advocates raw, vegan diet – check
Advocates enemas / colonic irrigation / purging – check
New age entrepreneur – check
Promoting anti-ageing products or techniques – check
Advocates the use of psychoactive drugs to attain enlightenment – check
Appears to be under the influence of drugs / robotic – check
Alienated from immediate family – check
promoter of conspiracy theories – check
Abandoned her children – check
Hmm, good luck with that, Johnny. Sigh 🙄
Thank you surreal hustle. Yes I will call the police because things are getting out of hand. Yes I do have the letters. Thank you for advising me. Its means a lot.
What the actual Fuck is going on with arsehole licking (annilingus, trade ~ rimming, rimjob) being taught as something to do to please me. next they’ll be encouraging them to slip a cheeky finger up the bottle and glass. ladies, golddiggers or otherwise, please restrain yourselves from going anywhere near my jacksy. I’m writing to the british ambassador in moscow about this. i refuse to have russian bints hell bent on tonguing my rusty sherif’s badge. keep these communist sirens out of the uk and away from my chocolate starfish.
What the actual Fuck is going on with arsehole licking (annilingus, trade ~ rimming, rimjob) being taught as something to do to please men. next they’ll be encouraging them to slip a cheeky finger up the bottle and glass. ladies, golddiggers or otherwise, please restrain yourselves from going anywhere near my jacksy. I’m writing to the british ambassador in moscow about this. i refuse to have russian bints hell bent on tonguing my rusty sherif’s badge. keep these communist sirens out of the uk and away from my chocolate starfish.
All those people must be delighted at Praterson and Devine publishing their email addresses.
Someone’s spell check has gone wrong.
ella gareeva is found in no sense a fit mother.
I can remember watching this documentary years back and can remember my disbelief at the sex lessons in how to please a man as a way of winning a Westerner,
Also Ella’s involvement in the Ching Hai sect does not in any way detract from her involvement in the gold-digger academy and associated cults.
To study cults is to study networks, nodes and how networks interact with one another.
While some people might possibly be involved in insular cults that have little or no connection to other cults this is not the case for most cults. Even before the internet many cults endorsed each other and gurus and leaders posed for photos and PR events alongside other gurus and leaders. Cults are just businesses and in the same way that DJs and producers in a certain genre of music will promoted and endorse each other cults do the same thing.
Most people involved in Ashram Shambala, to my knowledge, are also involved in other cults. It is easy to target vulnerable people and recruit them if they have a social network page identifying their interests, especially if they are already involved with cults that have been exposed on reputable news sites or on cult awareness websites. Anyone who is a proud member of a cult that has been exposed multiple times is someone with a strong commitment to “positive thinking” (critical thinking is based on fear. or something). They are likely to reject the MSM as a source of information. They are ripe for the picking by other cults.
The worst of these cults are merely criminal enterprises. If you look at the traditional structure for Italian mafia networks it is pyramidal. The Don is at the top of the pyramid, the Capos are underneath him and the soldiers are at the bottom. OC networks emanating from former soviet territories have a different structure. They are not pyramidal, they are nebulous shape shifters. Individuals may belong to several networks or may shift alliances. Networks form, disperse and reform depending on the task in hand. This shape-shifting model seems to me to be the new way in which OC networks operate post internet.
The study of cultic networks is the study of shape shifting, nebulous entities. Their use of social networking websites and their strategy of “cuckooing” the personal blogs and social network pages of vulnerable people means that they can change appearance and form extremely rapidly.
In some ways they are like this remarkable creature
I will worry about you now, as will others here
Do let us know how you get on
For anyone still in doubt about Malcolm Konrad Ogilvy being a sick fuck (trigger warning):
https://postimg.cc/TK7R4nHj
I think that you would be wise to follow the advice from Surreal Hustle. This man has already displayed behaviour that is way beyond anything that could be described as normal behaviour. It is best to try and get this man stopped before he gets worse. Don’t feel guilty or sorry for him when reporting him to the police as you have done nothing wrong whereas he has already overstepped many boundaries.
Yes, hardly a success at all Grobnob. Whatever her life-plan involved i am sure that losing her children and being skint whilst unable to return to the UK was not part of her life’s dreams.
I picture Praterson and Devine both wearing over-sized suits with orange curly hair wigs, white face paint with a red nose and over size shoes.
Poor old JournoAngie. She never was the sharpest pin on the porcupine…
Wait – who’s obsessed with whom, Angie?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DhwAfc1GMaBuYqi27_dvBFN9zp5QuCV4
Angie’s disgusting posts about Karen’s daughter and the numerous banned videos she and her ‘anons’ posted to intimidate Karen aren’t included in the above folder.
Jasmine Rose, I have gone through something eerily similar to what you are going through, only a few years ago. Please, contact the Police.
Also, pass on any crime reference numbers to his landlord (private, council, Housing Association) and make them aware. They may remove him from the property.
From the same pair who brought us such gems as “We’re working hard to expose the Hamptead children” 😆
Just realised that the videos I linked to show old video footage that is very out of date
Nowadays recruitment looks more like this
I think the last video gives a clear impression of the brand of the cult and how it appeals to new agers
Arthur Pint and surreal hustle thank you. I have spoken to the police this morning and a non-uniformed police officer will come over tomorrow morning. The police operator also said they will have to get mental health involved too if he does have a mental health issue. As well as discuss ways of protecting me like restraining order. I just hope I will get no more letters from him and he leaves me alone.
Will keep you all posted.
OK, pardon my dimissitude but I’ve now read that post through three times and can’t see that quote! Whereabouts is it?
“It is best to try and get this man stopped before he gets worse”
Yep. And before he does this to someone else.
Flashing his old chap at you is never a good sign and unchecked there’s a likelihood it could escalate to something more extreme. the guy’s obviously got a screw loose and isn’t very happy so needs a mental health intervention before he pulls his stunts on the wrong person and gets beaten up or worse. call the authorities and maintain that you want him compassionately attended to as a sick person and not a malicious criminal. i’m sure there’s a department for steering lonely old perverts back on to the straight and narrow short of clink.
The female to the left of the first video has travelled extensively internationally including long periods in the UK. She is Lithuanian. Poster who have known Ella, Araya Soma and others in the dirty 30 IRL may recognise her.
I hope he leaves you alone too.
I don’t know where you are, or whether you own or rent your home, but in the U.K. if you or your neighbour are council or housing association tenants they can get involved protecting you as well. Not harassing neighbours is often on private tenancies.
I hope the police are helpful.
If you are in immediate danger ring 999 or whatever your emergency number for police is.
There are also charities who provide advice to victims of stalking.
Singlewhitefemale ? angie didn’t get the memo then ? hilarious stuff when a police interviewed suspect who’s had high ranking officers come and confiscate her web devices and two cars who personally knows people who’ve been locked up for exactly the behaviour she’s involved in has the gall to type this utter codswhallop and balderdash ? is she going for diminished responsibility on the grounds of being from planet wrong ? alert australia, the hole she’s digging for herself might pop out the other side.
Good for you for doing the right thing.
If he had done to someone else what he had done to you, you would have no hesitation in advising her that she reported him to the police.
The effect of violating sexual and other assaults and harassment is, very often, to leave the victim questioning her/his own reality and I think that this is what happened to you Rose. I have experienced it myself, countless times.
When someone intrudes upon our life in a violating and frightening manner we cannot comprehend it. “People are not supposed to treat me like this” we think and a part of us might think “so maybe it didn’t happen or isn’t serious”. It can have the effect of putting the victim into a helpless trance of inaction.
Cults routinely abuse victims for exactly this reason.
Apologies for using your delicate situation to make a point about dissociation, but I think it is important to think about this kind of thing.
The hoaxers spout insane narratives about MKUltra and the creation of Manchurian candidates or mind controlled super-soldiers and while their narratives are as crazy as they sound there is a grain of truth in the idea of abusing people in order to better control them. Abe knows a thing or two about this very subject.
I am so pleased that you have stood up for yourself and called the police. If this man intrudes upon you between now and your appointment tomorrow morning just call 999.
Wishing you well
And speaking of mentally unhinged bandwagon jumpers…
Aww, bless – another opportunity for Malcolm and Freakyfucker to demonstrate their pathological hatred of women to the World and for Malcolm to clarify once again why he’s not allowed anywhere near his daughter.
Fasting, low calorie and low protein diets are fairly routine as is sleep deprivation.
You only need 2-3 hours sleep a night if you want to be a shaman. Apparently.
Also not all cults promote raw, vegan diets but most do in my experience.
It is easier to control people if they are sleep deprived and starving, obviously,
Cat must be so proud of him 😆
I really don’t want to alarm you and I’m sorry if this does but I just need to make you aware and to be on alert. Restraining Orders don’t always work and didn’t in my case.
Cat will love Ogilvy’s comment about “fat fucks” too, I’m sure.
Something Abraham Christie aka Abe Christie, Abraham Jemal Christie, Papa Hemp and Nemesis says, frequently, “If you are crying you are lying”. I can only conclude childrens’ distress is evidence of deception to the foul individual.
I know he is paranoid. He assaulted his minor son over an accusation of theft of money, he accepted a police caution for this. You must accept your guilt of the offence to receive a caution. He also accused the children of stealing money and bits and pieces.
Food comes up a lot with Ella and Abraham. They were raw food devotees. I think Ella was controlling with food.
Paragraph 27 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2015/26.html She also made a fuss about her children eating vegan Hula Hoop crisps.
Having said that, I don’t really have any criticism of a healthy vegetarian or vegan diet, even for children. I know there are lots of sweets and treats that are vegan!
She properly Fucked herself up with an absolute anti midas touch own goal of the most inept blackmail attempt ever. if the guiness book of records had a stupidest scheme section she’d be a shoo in.
How’s Gus?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VT3DYbv98MxLO5x81nlI2oG_CE9WKCjc
On a side note to answer your first question, Interpol has no powers of arrest. It is an intelligence sharing operation only.
Extradition to the UK from Morocco is only available for offenses that carry a sentence over 12 months. Can’t remember if Abe or Ella have ever been charged but criminal harassment has a maximum sentence of 6 months. Those who get headline higher sentences are normally done for breach of an order, contempt of court, or a higher order crime (such as assault) not the original offence.
They’ve going to be furious when they find out that ‘karen irving’ is only a pen name adopted for the fictional novels she published 2 decades ago and she’d hardly use her real identity on a facebook account set up only a year ago when she was fully aware of what the mob was like. suck it up people, suck it up.
I could have worded that better, I’m not saying don’t get a R.O.
Just remain alert if you do.
Flo Destroyer says:
Thanks for this hadn’t realised they had tried to put my name up and location.
Yeah. i’m convinced the food stuff was instrumental in ellas warped vision of child rearing early on prior to mister p drinker entering the story. i’d also agree that in the right circumstances vegetarian or vegan diets can be healthy for children, but only if you’re very sensible and have really done your research on nutrition. Ella and abe probably aren’t such individuals and thankfully school and social service intervention will probably have ensured the children were fed at the school along with being monitored. it looks, to me, that the diet was the source of all the early conflicts between ella and the school while child access was entirely the issue between ella and ricky. i wonder if she has a karl pilkington level iq ? it’d explain how she thought the baby killing scam would work.
There is something very disturbing about his sense of ‘humour’ there. 😟
“Up all night writing”?. It may take you 12 hours to string a paragraph together Olgivy out of that sewer pit of a mind but us ordinary mortals can usually do it within minutes.
“The blog came to the realization that it is pointless”.
Oh I don’t know Olgivy- how else would we be able to read in one place about all the arrests and convictions of hoax promoters like you?. I won’t mention names but Quaintance & Berry come to mind (others are awaiting court appearances).
We may read all about you one day.
That’s very perceptive of you Arthur as a pal of mine at the Home Office (MI5 operative) sent me copies of their passport snaps and you were very close.
My flabber is completely ghasted! Thanks for all that, SH.
I assume this is the same sister she said should be horsewhipped:
Have all your fucks been whatted?
You’re welcome SC
This isa youtube channel from the Mexican wing of the cult – should let you know that this is a massive criminal network operating in multiple territories internationally
https://www.youtube.com/user/Diosasyartefemenino/videos
If you check out the videos you will see videos promoting colonic irrigation, tantra, bellydance, healing foods, yoga type exercises and spiritual retreats to the Altai mountains in Siberia.
This old video shows some of the subjects I have described in earlier posts being taught in Mexico
I would advise extreme caution re researching these networks. They are extremely dangerous, not least because they exert profound influence over many mentally unwell and brainwashed people all over the world (see earlier cult activity of practicing stabbing enemies with knives).
The earliest videos on this channel feature a female with many aliases who appears in many of the cult videos. In these videos she is called Miradas, she is also known as Tamara Ra and Ilirya Kanti and a load of other names.
Also this is the sexual predator and criminal who is wanted in Russia for infecting dozens of people with HIV. Like all the people in this network he uses multiple aliases.
He liked to hang out in Chalk Farm in London when he was here. He was especially keen on an expensive raw / superfood vegan cafe in Chalk Farm (now closed) and also a yoga school in the area (re-branded – under new ownership?). I have not been on FB for a while but from my old screen shots of his FB friends pages I know that he is / was FB friends without least one of the original dirty thirty.
Breaking news: There’s some action going on between a YT user named Wavyevergreen and Angela Power Disney. Check out both their channels.
Angela is the angriest I’ve ever seen her on her response video to Wavyevergreen.
Grateful if someone could please let us see the conversations hereif poss as some of us don’t have facebook
They’re both on YouTube.
That WavyEvergreen guy ain’t taking no prisoners. Can I make a suggestion that we don’t comment on there, as Angie would inevitably use it to counter RD’s complaint against her and it could undermine the case. Probably best not to post the link here either, so she can’t accuse us of being part of the harassment. The guy’s threatening to attack her and her friends across various platforms, so my thinking is we should avoid being associated with it. Any thoughts, EC?
That said, Angie’s apoplectic response is well worth a butcher’s. Sample quotes:
“Take your glasses off, you Brummie bastard” 😂
“Eww, you can see Satan coming out of your mouth” 🤣
Thanks for letting us know about these, Jake
I see from her screengrabs that the PC she’s been lent is still on Windows 7 🙄
“One has to assume you’re a paedo”. That well worn cry of all the hoaxers 🙄
I’ve just reported the bit at 12:40, where she says she hopes the UVF track him down.
Simply because the guy told her he would troll her on all platforms.
I reckon Ange’s idea of “saving her life” was when she was throttling her in the playground and then decided to stop and let her live!.
WaveyEvergreen is my new Hero.
It’s amusing that they have gone into overdrive re Ms. Irving and are posting ever increasing hatefests..yet it was all RD or GCHQ before. Flighty bunch they are.
Actually, my view is that we should distance ourselves from him. She’ll inevitably link him to us and use it to undermine the RD harassment case.
Thank you everyone for your kind words. I didn’t realise the council could help me too in staying safe, I will discuss this with the police too.
The police operator discussed a woman’s refuge if I was in serious danger so my neighbour doesn’t know where I am.
Yes I have been informed to call 999 if things get worse and I will guys.
R.O might not work but atleast it will go on his record so there is a history of his behaviour. I wish I reported him when he exposed himself. I realise now my very calculated and unhinged pervy neighbour is very controlling as he has tried to cause me problems with others all in the hope I believe to isolate me and make him think I will run to him. That will never happen.
Thats one of the funniest videos ive seen in ages! lololol
Well done JasmineRose. You have done the right thing by alerting the police to his behaviour. You just never know what actions you may have prevented him from doing to yourself or somebody else in the future. Well done indeed JR, a great move that you have made, 👍
Wow GOS, that is quite spooky in their likeness. You must thank your MI5 operative contact for us.
“Dimissitude” has surely got to be recorded in our Big Book Of Words as today’s word of the day? Well done Tinribs. 👏🏻
Yes, that really could have gone better.
So…just to clarify here: I am actually a Mexican who smuggles people across the U.S. border? Helluva long commute to work each day.
Yes, very good points. She likes to have others do her dirty work for her.
Good luck, JasmineRose. I hope the police will help, and that you regain peace in your life.
Yes, it’s interesting to consider how many times the children mention food during the police interviews. Food, the obtaining thereof, etc. obviously loomed very large in their lives at that time. And for some reason they didn’t seem to think that Abe’s hemp soups were particularly tasty.
Dear, dear, dear. Funny how some people think that if they say awful things about you while they have you blocked on Facebook and Twitter, you won’t know about them, and will have no opportunity to reply. 😀
Yes, it’s not the vegetarianism or veganism which concerns me, but the children’s evident obsession with food. The fact that they were fishing food out of the bins at school says a great deal to me. Interesting, too, that the medical report notes that both were significantly under-sized for their age. While some children are just naturally tiny, RD’s children’s current pictures don’t show them as emaciated or under-sized, which makes me wonder whether they had gone a very long time without enough to eat.
Yes, I was not impressed with Wavy’s video either. I feel that sort of thing can be “weaponised” by someone like Angela, who will use it to claim that we are bullying her.
Agree 100%, Tinribs. He’s nothing to do with us, and while we disapprove of Angela’s actions, getting behind someone who appears to be making threats towards her is not the way to go, in my opinion.
Why does one “have to assume” this? Is this the standard thing one “assumes” whenever one thinks someone has said unkind things about one?
In that case, must I “assume” that Catriona Selvester/Catherine MacKinnon, Angela Power-Disney, Malcolm Whatsisname, and others are all “paedos”? Nasty unintelligent bullies, yes, but “paedo” seems a bit of a stretch to me.
I was taking a good look at the morocco footage and the girl had bags under her eyes and looked worn out. on repeated viewing the amount of coaching and leading responses from the children is chillingly evident. i suspect this contributes to the belief in the videos because the children were definately abused, but not by the named individuals. you can clearly see the girl looking to offscreen ella and back to the camera as she’s guided in to giving the coached responses. I dread to think how weak and uncomfortable the combination of underfeeding, drugging and sleep deprivation made those poor children feel as they were forced to lie repeatedly.
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‘Dimissus!’ snapped Chapman, always a stickler for that kind of thing.
‘Kindly leave my wife out of this,’ Keats said stiffly
I have to say, I thought a “Gold Diggers School” would just be a paticularly venal charm school, equipping young women to snare rich older men. This is coming across as closer to the Manson Family.
Hehe, thanks Hugh 🙂
I’ve been hoping that one might catch on, lol.
The guy’s clearly a pervert.
I believe the phrase is “Lie, cry and deny” and it’s something I’ve been happy to throw back at him whenever he’s told porkies, thrown hissy fits and/or blocked me and run away 😀
I think it’s becoming a default term of abuse, EC. I reckon in time it will lose its impact and become akin to calling someone a bastard, which has completely lost its original meaning.
I was just thinking, Charles Manson was simply ahead of his time.
I’d say that Malcolm and Angie are child abusers but not paedophiles to my knowledge.
By the way, do I take it that Catherine McKinnon is a Cat pseudonym (or “pysendeum” as that nice Miss McDermott would call it)?
You don’t want a big kiss from Ella then?
Neelu’s up to her antics again. Somehow I didn’t think the auction would be the end of the matter…
I saw that. She is not going to give up and accept the situation. She didn’t pay all the mortgage. The bank got the house.
The sad thing is all the costs for the security will mean she gets less money in the end.
I saw she has posted the pictures off the two policemen she says are the same person. They are very clearly different blokes. Someone needs to get her some help.
Also,no one took her niece’s organs. The baby’s eyes were padded slightly with something.
This is an article which explains some of what embalmers do. Perhaps they were eye caps to keep the eyelids closed and a more natural shape. Don’t read it if you are squeamish about things like this.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/spiky-contact-lenses-keep-your-5229622
I think Neelu is deluded as in she has delusions.
Looks that way, yes.
I wonder what excuse she will use when the new owner moves in?
“Excuse me (as she barges past them through the door) you are in my stolen house, I need my remedy! Please remove yourself at once!”
He’s obviously not one of us but I was sort of amazed by his “passion” as she has upset him dreadfully somehow. I guess time will reveal what it’s all about. I didn’t think he was physically threatening her which of course is unacceptable.
But Ange should not think one person’s actions- unconnected to this website- cancel out her shenanigans. She cyber harasses innocent individuals and encourages others to take physical actions against them ( Rupert Quaintance).
She endlessly harasses an innocent father and continues to publish details about 2 children who should be left in peace to grow up. Even when they try to make an honest living she attacks.
She should not be surprised when she pushes a person over the edge to the point. Clearly she has done so with this guy. Why? Who knows.
New owner will just call the police and it’ll be a much more serious matter than trying to annoy a security guard who she’s being billed for. dunno what the procedure is but it’ll probably involve a restraining order and however many breaches it takes to escalate it in order to prevent her going near the former home. if it was me i’d just ignore the silly woman and let her enjoy the weather as it turns colder and wetter.
Yes. If you study folk tales such as those of the Brothers Grimm for example, food and the need to avoid starvation feature prominently. The Hampstead children’s sorry tale of abuse, neglect and starvation reminds me of the story of Hansel and Gretel. It is a very modern nightmare rather than a folk tale with countless evil people playing the role of the child eating witch.
On a tangent I can remember reading a news story about rising rates of rickets amongst middle class vegan families where the parents failed to grasp the central importance of vitamin D in bone growth.
Some examples of the problems that can arise from vegan diets for children below
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/shock-as-vegan-diet-girl-12-979912
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26382654
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Imperial stars
by Edward Elmer Smith
Published 1976 by Pyramid Books in New York .
Statement E.E. "Doc" Smith with Stephen Goldin
Series His The family d"Alembert series -- 1, Pyramid -- V3839
Contributions Goldin, Stephen
LC Classifications PS3537.M349 I6x 1976
Pagination 143 p. ;
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Video Review: Billie Eilish “You Should See Me In A Crown”
July 3, 2019 June 26, 2019 / by Pam Avoledo
A crown sits on the beige floor, crawling with spiders. She lifts up the crown.
She tilts her head as she watches a spider crawl on her knuckles. Moving her right hand over, she lets the spider walk on her palm. With her finger, she hangs it from her lip.
Wearing the crown, the spider walks on her chin. Three spiders walk on her forehead and on her tennis shoes.
They walk on her sweatshirt. A spider stays by her eye. She opens her mouth and a spider walks on her tongue. She holds a spider in her hand. She looks at the spider as it walks on her wrist.
A popular young woman screams and jumps out of her from her desk. The teacher asks her what’s wrong. She says she saw a spider on the floor and points to it. Her boyfriend picks it up with a tissue and squeezes. Billie Eilish sits at her desk and stifles a laugh. Her best friend bursts out laughing and Eilish snorts. The popular young woman and her classmates turn to glare at her.
In her bedroom, she sets her books down and says hello her pet spiders. She feeds them some insects and tells them about her day. She asks them if they want to come out for a little bit. Her spiders crawl on her arms and legs. The spider scurries towards a dresser and she rushes past it. Scooping up in her palm, she tells him he knows better than to go under the dresser.
Sitting at her desk, she works on her homework. She waves to her spiders and tells them she thinks she’s going to pass the test. Her mother knocks on her door and says “dinner is ready.” She says she’ll be there in a second. She pets her spiders and tells them she’ll give them a treat after dinner.
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PM Modi to interact with beneficiaries of PM SVANidhi Scheme from Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday
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PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) scheme was launched on the 1st of June this year to help poor street vendors, impacted by COVID-19, resume livelihood activities. So far, a total of more than 24 lakh applications have been received under the scheme, out of which more than 12 lakh have already been sanctioned. In the state of Uttar Pradesh, more than 6 lakh applications have been filed, out of which about 3 lakh 27 thousand have been sanctioned and 1 lakh 87 thousand loans have been disbursed. The interaction will be witnessed by beneficiaries of the Scheme from across the state of Uttar Pradesh and will also be telecast Live on DD News.
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A Solution in Revolution
posted by Mason on 9th March 2014, at 12:20am
You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We’d all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
– The Beatles’ “Revolution”
The support and collective sigh of relief with the release of revolution combat in Runescape is something we aren’t used to seeing with combat’s uncertain status these days but it was a welcome change. No matter where you are in the combat debate, I think we can all agree that revolution was a positive improvement to combat. The constant key pounding didn’t make combat more interactive or more strategic. It was just annoying and what felt like pointless. As many have said, we kind are left to ponder how different the setup of Runescape would be had this been introduced from the beginning. Revolution is a good step forward in overall enjoyment of combat, but does it revert too much back to how things were and where can we go from here?
Revolution is great in that it strikes a nice balance between being hands on but with the option to auto-pilot if you want to. For Slayer, you may be getting kills so fast that basic abilities are all you really need. I particularly like revolution while Dungeoneering because of the stop-go nature of combat room to room. It’s up to the player as to how efficient they want to really be. Some people say it takes combat back to pre-EoC, but I disagree. Really, your loadout on the ability bar is even more important than before because of how it auto-fires abilities. You don’t want to use the magic basic ability Chain if you are in an area where multiway combat wouldn’t be good, for example. Before you would just keep that ability on the bar and not press it, but now you have to think about your setup more. You have to set them up and pick and choose more carefully than before and you have to plan and use more mental power as to when you want to use those thresholds and ultimates. This achieves the goal of making combat interactive moreso than making you mindlessly press keys every second.
I really hope this is a trend we can continue in combat. What revolution does well is that it statically gives certain combat styles built in attributes, but that I can pick and choose. Go back to the Chain magic basic. Without having to really think about it I have that multi target ability that now defaults. Now in my mind magic has that sort of ability. Before I didn’t really have that sort of mentality because basics were just kind of there. Now that I always use them all, I can associate all of those basic abilities more easily. It’s like small special attacks that I can apply to all the weapons in that class. It separates things better in my head, even though they have always had the same abilities available.
If only we could get the armour types to have that similar system. Weapons have classes that perform differently, such as dual wielding, two handers, and sword and shields. As it is, and as I’ve highlighted in previous articles, all the armour classes kind of blend together despite having labels like “power” and “hybrid”. What if we had these same static ‘basic abilities’ for armour classes? Take melee armour, for example. What if power armour had a sort of damage absorption or a power to deflect attacks that happened automatically in combat? Like offensive abilities, they could require certain levels or quests. If you consider this sort of mechanic you can really fundamentally change people’s decision on armour rather than just having people throw on the most expensive stuff they can afford. Showing my age here, but when Barrows was released players consciously made a decision whether they wanted to use Veracs or Dharoks or Guthans (funnily enough, each melee Barrows brother uses a different class of offensive weapon and we all know their set abilities complement that). There is no reason why we can make a broader and less powerful version of Barrows that applied to all armour of a certain class. That would really make you think and have to interact with combat! Fighting would be based on your knowledge and preparation rather than the size your coin purse.
Now, that’s kind of a stretch to go from the relatively minor thing of auto-firing basic abilities to an idea like that, but it gets the wheels turning. From what I gather from the beta these days is that nothing is really out of the realm of possibility. After all, anything is worth trying if it makes for a more enjoyable experience. Better to do them now while they are tinkering with other things than how they dealt with things after the EoC, where they were I kind of wonder if Jagex is glad the elf quest was voted for over the Inventor skill because it has the potential to impact combat in a major way. I don’t blame them if they take this opportunity to make some changes to ensure the compatibility with Inventor and the modern combat mechanics. If they really wanted to revolutionize the Evolution they most certainly could.
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Novel Fluorescent Broth Microdilution Method for Fluconazole Susceptibility Testing of Candida albicans
Robert S. Liao, Robert P. Rennie, James A. Talbot
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Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, and
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James A. Talbot
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.7.2708-2712.2001
A comparative evaluation of the reference National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) broth microdilution method with a novel fluorescent carboxyfluorescein diacetate (CFDA)-modified microdilution method for the susceptibility testing of fluconazole was conducted with 68 Candida strains, including 53Candida albicans, 5 Candida tropicalis, 5Candida glabrata, and 5 Candida parapsilosis strains. We found trailing endpoints and discordant fluconazole MICs of <8 μg/ml at 24 h and of ≥64 μg/ml at 48 h for 12 of the C. albicans strains. These strains satisfy the definition of the low-high MIC phenotype. All 12 low-high phenotype strains were correctly shown to be susceptible at 48 h with the CFDA-modified microdilution method. For the 41 non-low-high phenotype C. albicans strains, the CFDA-modified microdilution method yielded 97.6% (40 of 41 strains) agreement within ±1 dilution at 24 h compared with the reference method and 92.7% (38 of 41 strains) agreement within ±1 dilution at 48 h compared with the reference method. The five strains each from C. tropicalis, C. glabrata, andC. parapsilosis that were tested showed 100% agreement within ±2 dilutions for the two methods being evaluated.
Candida is the fourth most common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection in the United States (2, 4), and the rate of primary bloodstream infections continue to increase (3, 9). In the Americas,Candida albicans is the species most frequently isolated from the bloodstream (16). Candidemia is often difficult to diagnose and refractory to therapy. The attributable mortality rate is 38% in the United States (28) and between 19 and 23% in Canada (9, 25, 29).
Use of the broad-spectrum antifungal fluconazole for the treatment of serious systemic Candida infections has increased. Fluconazole is a less toxic alternative to amphotericin B and has been recommended as primary therapy for candidemia in nonneutropenic and stable neutropenic patients who have not received prior fluconazole treatment and in whom Candida krusei is unlikely (5, 24). In vitro susceptibility testing for fluconazole is of clinical importance, as therapeutic success depends substantially on achieving plasma fluconazole levels that are sufficiently higher than MICs (22).
Despite great advances in the standardization of antifungal susceptibility testing, azole endpoint determination continues to be problematic and subjective and a major source of interlaboratory variability (6, 18, 23). The trailing-growth phenomenon is often responsible for these difficulties, whereby partial inhibition of fungal growth occurs over the range of azole concentrations (6, 13, 14, 23).
Previous work has demonstrated the utility of using fluorescent dyes to assess the viability of C. albicans exposed to amphotericin B (10). We have investigated the use of the vitality-specific dye carboxyfluorescein diacetate (CFDA) in the standardized NCCLS M27-A broth microdilution method (12) to assess the susceptibility of Candida spp. to fluconazole. In this study we compared the NCCLS microdilution method with a CFDA modification in determining fluconazole susceptibility for common clinical yeast isolates (C. albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida glabrata, and Candida parapsilosis).
Antifungal drug.Fluconazole powder (Pfizer-Roerig, Inc.) was dissolved in sterile distilled water to make a stock concentration of 10,000 μg/ml and frozen at −70°C. The stock solution was thawed once, and fresh dilutions were used.
Yeast isolates.Yeast isolates were obtained from the National Centre for Mycology, Division of Microbiology and Public Health, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and two low-high phenotype C. albicans strains were kindly supplied by John H. Rex from the Center for the Study of Emerging Pathogens and Reemerging Pathogens, Laboratory of Mycology Research, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Tex. The identity of the isolates was confirmed by standard methods (27); isolates were stored in skim milk at −70°C and were then subcultured twice on Sabouraud dextrose agar (Difco, Sparks, Md.) before use. These strains included 48 clinical isolates of C. albicans and homologous control strains ATCC 90028, ATCC 90029, ATCC 24433, ATCC 10231, and ATCC 20408; 4 clinical isolates of C. tropicalis and ATCC 750; 4 clinical isolates of C. glabrata and ATCC 90030; and 4 clinical isolates ofC. parapsilosis and ATCC 22019.
Antifungal susceptibility testing.The reference NCCLS broth microdilution method was performed as described in the M27-A document (12). Fluconazole concentrations were diluted in RPMI 1640 medium with l-glutamine. Morpholinepropanesulfonic acid (MOPS) buffer at 165 mM and pH 7 (Angus Buffers & Biochemicals, Niagara Falls, N.Y.) and 100-μl aliquots were placed into the wells of 96-well microtiter Linbro plates (Flow Laboratories Inc., McLean, Va.) with clear, U-shaped well bottoms. The final concentrations of fluconazole ranged from 0 to 64 μg/ml. Six C. albicansstrains were tested per 96-well plate, which allowed for the empty outermost wells to be filled with sterile water to minimize evaporation.
Five C. albicans colonies with a diameter of ≥1 mm were suspended in sterile 0.85% saline and adjusted to a final concentration (after inoculation) of 0.5 × 103 to 2.5 × 103cells per ml in RPMI 1640-MOPS medium. The inoculum was added to the fluconazole trays, incubated at 35°C, and evaluated at 24 and 48 h.
(i) Reference MIC endpoint.The reference broth microdilution was scored by comparing the growth in each well with that in the growth control (drug-free) well. The MIC was defined as the minimum drug concentration at which visual growth was determined to be 80% relative to that of the growth control.
(ii) Fluorescent MIC endpoint.The CFDA-modified microdilution method was identical to the method described for broth microdilution susceptibility testing, except that after determination of visual endpoints at 24 and 48 h of incubation at 35°C, a fluorescence assay was also performed. The supernatants were first removed from the tray wells by using a multichannel pipettor, and the remaining yeasts were resuspended to 200 μl per well in 35°C-warmed 0.1 M MOPS buffer at pH 3.5 with 50 mM citric acid. Into each well, 5 μl of a stock of 5 mg of 5(6)-CFDA (Molecular Probes, Eugene, Oreg.)/ml in dimethyl sulfoxide was added for a final concentration of 122 μg/ml. 5(6)-CFDA is a lipophilic, nonpolar substrate that traverses the cell membrane and is hydrolyzed by nonspecific intracellular esterases to the fluorescent anion carboxyfluorescein (10). A multichannel pipettor was used to resuspend well contents by pipetting, alternately filling and emptying the wells 20 times. The tray contents were then incubated in the dark at 35°C for 1 h. The well contents were resuspended again as before, and the trays were assayed for fluorescence with an FL500 microplate fluorescence reader (Bio-Tek Instruments Inc., Winooski, Vt.). 5(6)-CFDA was evaluated using excitation and emission wavelengths of 485 and 530 nm, respectively. The fluorescence of the drug-free control was defined as 100%, and the fluorescence of the fluconazole-exposed wells was reported proportionally to this value (see Fig. 2). The MIC endpoint was defined as the lowest fluconazole concentration at which the fluorescence was reduced to 80% of that of the drug-free growth control. The CFDA microdilution method was performed in triplicate for each yeast strain assayed.
The technical time required to include the CFDA modification to the standard microdilution susceptibility test is primarily dependent on the 1-h incubation time and on the time required using a multichannel pipettor to add the CFDA and resuspend the yeasts in the wells.
The comparative evaluation of the reference NCCLS broth microdilution method and the CFDA-modified microdilution method for susceptibility to fluconazole was conducted with 68 Candida strains, including 53 C. albicans, 5 C. tropicalis, 5 C. glabrata, and 5 C. parapsilosis strains. The C. albicans isolates chosen covered a broad range of susceptibility to fluconazole (Fig. 1). The fluconazole MICs for control strains were within accepted limits, providing an internal control for the NCCLS reference method. Evaluation by the reference microdilution method determined that of theCandida strains tested; 12 strains of C. albicansmanifested extreme trailing endpoints producing discordant MICs at 24 h (<8 μg/ml) and 48 h (≥ 64 μg/ml). They were thus considered to have the low-high MIC phenotype (20). AllC. albicans strains with the low-high phenotype tested by the CFDA-modified microdilution method were not discordant between 24 and 48 h. These C. albicans strains were all shown to be susceptible at both 24 and 48 h. In fact, the MICs were identical for 11 of the 12 strains.
Range of fluoconazole MICs for 53 isolates of C. albicans at 24 and 48 h determined with the reference M27-A broth microdilution method. The fluconazole breakpoints forCandida species are as follows: susceptible, ≤8 μg/ml; susceptible-dose dependent, 16 to 32 μg/ml; and resistant, ≥64 μg/ml (12).
The CFDA-modified microdilution method allows for the quantification of fluconazole inhibition and the production of dose-response curves (Fig.2). MICs were determined from these dose-response curves after plotting the 80% inhibition and rounding up to the standardized M27-A endpoint.
Effect of fluconazole on representative strains ofC. albicans, which are low-high phenotype (707-15), susceptible (Y91), susceptible-dose dependent (Y98), and resistant (965). Each isolate was tested for susceptibility with the M27-A microdilution method (MICM27-A) and the CFDA-modified microdilution method (MICCFDA) at both 24 and 48 h. Results for the CFDA-modified method are shown graphically as relative fluorescence units. The fluorescence of the growth in the drug-free control was defined as 100%, and the fluconazole-exposed wells were scaled to this value. Error bars indicate standard error. The results of the reference M27-A method are shown below as a digital image of the unagitated growth in the 96-well plate at 24 and 48 h.
Table 1 summarizes the distributions of the differences in MICs and the percent agreement using the reference and CFDA-modified broth microdilution methods for non-low-high phenotype strains of C. albicans. Considering the non-low-high phenotype C. albicans strains only, the CFDA-modified broth microdilution method yielded 97.6% (40 of 41 strains) agreement within ±1 dilution compared with the NCCLS reference method. At 48 h the two methods yielded 92.7% (38 of 41) agreement within ±1 dilution and 97.6% (40 of 41) agreement within ±2 dilutions. Where MIC endpoints differed between the two methods, the interpretive susceptibility category changed for only one strain. The most common discrepancies between the different susceptibilities of C. albicans strains to fluconazole were due to the CFDA-modified microdilution MICs being 1 dilution lower than those obtained by the standard method. The five strains each ofC. tropicalis, C. glabrata, and C. parapsilosis showed 100% agreement within ±2 dilutions for the two methods being evaluated.
Distribution of difference between the MICs of fluconazole for 41 strains of C. albicansadetermined by comparison of the CFDA-modified and reference NCCLS M27-A broth microdilution methods
Endpoint determination for fluconazole susceptibility testing is recognized to be problematic and a significant source of interlaboratory variability (6, 18, 23). The trailing-growth phenomenon, which describes the partial inhibition of fungal growth over most or all of the concentration range (6, 13, 14, 23), is largely responsible for the difficulties attributed to endpoint determination, especially with Candida spp. (14). The impediment that this so-called trailing endpoint represents for azole susceptibility testing can with some isolates be exacerbated over time, producing discordant MICs of <8 μg/ml at 24 h and of ≥64 μg/ml at 48 h (1, 11, 20, 21). Such discordant MICs place these isolates into susceptible and resistant MIC interpretive categories at 24 and 48 h, respectively, if one uses the NCCLS M27-A guidelines (12) and are conveniently referred to as having a low-high MIC phenotype (20). The present evidence suggests that the lower MIC obtained at 24 h using the reference microdilution method correlates most closely with the in vivo outcome (11, 20, 21).
The M27-A method establishes the endpoint for susceptibility testing ofCandida spp. to azoles at 48 h with a criterion of 80% reduction in growth (12). Modifications of the M27-A reference method are acceptable and expected (6, 21), and it has been suggested that correction can be made for trailing MIC endpoints by shortening the incubation time to 24 h and lowering the MIC endpoint to the lowest drug concentration producing a 50% reduction in growth (15, 21, 22). The requirement of a 48-h incubation for optimal testing conditions may represent a barrier to this change (7, 21). In one study (17) the results for three microdilution susceptibility test formats were shown to be reproducible and in agreement with one another after 24 h but required 48 h to achieve acceptable agreement with the macrodilution reference MICs.
Additional studies have proposed the use of a colorimetric endpoint in a microdilution format by including an oxidation-reduction indicator with the yeast and drug prior to incubation (15). However, the colorimetric method also presents trailing azole endpoints at 48 h (15, 26), and some species-specific discrepancies have been observed (15).
The CFDA-modified microdilution format does not alter the M27-A microdilution protocol but instead can be employed at 24 or 48 h to clarify MIC endpoints. The fluorescent dye CFDA is applied postincubation to the microdilution tray and thus does not interfere with the complex interaction between the yeast and antifungal drug.
The fluorescent dye CFDA is a lipophilic, nonpolar substrate that diffuses across the cell membrane and is hydrolyzed by nonspecific intracellular esterases to the fluorescent anion carboxyfluorescein (19). Cells with compromised membranes rapidly leak carboxyfluorescein, even when residual esterase activity is retained intracellularly (8). The utility of CFDA for assessing the vitality of C. albicans exposed to amphotericin B has been previously demonstrated (10).
The CFDA-modified microdilution method allowed for the stringent 80% growth inhibition endpoint to be maintained with fluconazole susceptibility testing. Furthermore, this method permitted the evaluation of MICs at 24 or 48 h with clearly demarcated endpoints despite the trailing-growth phenomenon. The CFDA-modified microdilution method determined that all 12 low-high phenotype strains of C. albicans were susceptible to fluconazole and had identical endpoints at 24 and 48 h. This result supports the in vivo evidence suggesting that the strains of C. albicans with the low-high phenotype are actually susceptible to fluconazole (1, 20, 21). In fact, one of the low-high phenotype strains, 707-15, demonstrated to be susceptible with the CFDA-modified microdilution method, has previously been shown to be susceptible in vivo (21).
There was excellent agreement between the NCCLS M27-A broth microdilution method and the CFDA-modified microdilution method using an 80% inhibition-of-growth endpoint for strains of C. albicans without the low-high phenotype. These results demonstrate that the CFDA-modified microdilution method for testing fluconazole is entirely comparable to the NCCLS reference microdilution method. The one strain of C. albicans for which the fluconazole MIC differed in the two methods being compared was shown to be very resistant using the M27-A microdilution method and susceptible using the CFDA-modified method. This strain has unusual fluorescent staining properties, and investigations are under way to determine the nature of its resistance mechanism.
A small survey of the other three major bloodstream fungal pathogens (16) (C. tropicalis, C. glabrata, and C. parapsilosis) showed excellent agreement between the M27-A microdilution and CFDA-modified microdilution methods. Further studies to evaluate the applicability of the CFDA-modified method with other antifungal agents and other species of yeast are ongoing.
In summary, the CFDA-modified microdilution method provides objective and quantifiable endpoints for fluconazole susceptibility testing at 24 and 48 h which are reproducible and easy to interpret. It eliminates the ambiguity of the low-high phenotype while maintaining the integrity of the NCCLS protocol. This method is simple to perform and provides the opportunity for automation and widespread use.
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by K. M. September 24, 2020, 12:00 am
Here is what we know about the series called Peacemaker on Hbo Max!
Well, well, well, as of right now, you guys should all be aware of the fact that HBO Max is now going on to have a new TV series called Peacemaker. This new show will serve as a spinoff yo the upcoming sequel for the Suicide Squad of whose director is James Gunn.
The entire spotlight of the show will be thrown upon the origin of all its titular characters including the Peacemaker. It should also be kept in mind that John Cena is now set as the actor who will reprise the role of the Peacemaker.
Here is what the story of Peacemaker is going to be about!
All this while, the streaming platform has gone on to place an order for potential eight episodes of the show while the production for it is going to begin in the early half of 2021.
The information about the plot of this series or even an official synopsis is not known to the public yet as they are kept under tight wraps but we have Warner Bros who says that the timeline of the series is set on the same universe as The Suicide Squad. All this while, the film is all ready to launch in the theatres on the 6th of August 2021.
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James Gunn is also working on the Peacemaker project while he will serve as a writer and director for various episodes in the show.
Peacemaker could be considered as the recent property of DC to get a TV show on the new streaming service called HBO Max. Also, back in July, we had Warner Media announcing a potential show which will be a spinoff and focus on the Police Department of Gotham City. This particular show is set to be in the same universe as that of the upcoming film by Matt Reeves called The Batman.
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Iowa Man Creates Viral Song To End 2020
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Last year Rob Merritt put out a post saying:
"Once again, made a video for the Iowa Film Quarantine weekly cell-phone challenge (has to be shot entirely on a phone, and can only use cast who live at home with you). So of course, I went the 80s parody route. I hope Billy Joel won't be too mad at me for this. (Note: The original "We Didn't Start The Fire" is obviously the copyright of Billy Joel.)"
He created his first song solely based off of that idea.
This lead to his viral hit "This Year Is Dumpster Fire" which he released 8 months ago (well, part one at least) in early April, only a little over 3 months into 2020. Some may say the song prematurely jumped to conclusions about what the rest of the year would hold, but as we progressed through 2020 it became clear that Rob's assumptions were correct.
Part one received over a million views on countless platforms, so he rolled with it and later into the year 2020 he created a part two because let's be honest, the 3 minutes of part one is not nearly enough time to dive into the train wreck that was 2020.
Finally, he created a part three to round out the year. This Iowan creatively explained every horrible part of 2020 with these hits, and even made it rhyme while doing so. For the final part he even brought in his friends and fellow Iowans, including yours truly, to add their own little flare of individuality in regards to the 2020 experience. Don't worry, this was coordinated according to social distancing guidelines; everyone sent in clips that were then added into the music video by Rob.
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PAWS has successful year-end auction
Camden — The PAWS Auction for the Animals is the largest fundraiser of the year for the Camden-based animal shelter, making it the most important. When it became clear they would need to move the event online in 2020, staff were worried.
“We weren’t sure what to expect,” PAWS Executive Director, Shelly Butler, explained. “We had to cancel three major fundraisers this year due to the pandemic. The fundraisers we were able to hold virtually online helped but didn’t receive the level of participation they typically do at live events.”
Despite the challenges, the PAWS online auction raised more funds than the shelter expected. “We are very grateful to the community,” Butler said. “We set our fundraising goals for this year’s auction conservatively, keeping the pandemic in mind. We ended up exceeding those goals by 33%, which will make such a difference to the animals in 2021.”
A major driver for the auction’s success was a matching gift, which doubled donations to the PAWS Auction for the Animals Fund-a-Cause up to $5,000. Over $10,000 was successfully raised for the Fund-a-Cause alone, which will go toward the purchase of a PAWS Cares van to mobilize PAWS essential services out into the community in 2021.
“We could not have done it without all those who bid on items and especially our event sponsors, including the hundreds of local businesses who donated items to be auctioned off,” Butler said. PAWS 2020 Auction for the Animals sponsors were Fuller Chevrolet; David & Felicia Feldman; Loyal Biscuit Co.; Uncle Willy's Candy Shoppe; Camden House of Pizza; Good Tern Co-op, Penobscot Bay Dentistry; Taxes Plus; The Stone; and Captain Swift Inn.
To support PAWS with the cost of food, shelter, medical care, and rehoming for hundreds of homeless animals every year, visit www.pawsadoption.org/donate-now. PAWS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization; donations are tax-deductible.
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Holland"s house
Daniel Johannes von Balluseck
a nation building a home
by Daniel Johannes von Balluseck
Published 1939 by Printed by J. Enschedé en zonen in Haarlem, Holland .
National characteristics, Dutch.,
Netherlands -- History.
Statement a short story told by Peter Bricklayer [pseud.] with pictures by Jo Spier.
LC Classifications DJ109 .B3
Pagination 3 p. l., 11-122, [2] p.
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Fiction: Flash
In the moment before the first shot was fired, Clarissa’s entire life passed before her. The present and past and future fused into an image compressed so tightly it seemed to catch fire. She saw herself run, her fists pummeling a pathway through the press of screaming humanity. Her shoulders bruised against the doorframe as she and three others burst through an opening built for one. She stumbled on a cracked step and nearly tumbled down the concrete flight. The sound of gunfire cracked the facade of the still morning, like a whip pursuing her beneath the boughs of a brilliant sweet gum.
She wept as she ran…ran until one high heel broke and her ankle twisted painfully; then, stripping off her shoes, she ran more. Ran beyond the power of strength. Ran, until at length the screaming of police sirens barricaded her from the madman, and she collapsed against the sun-warmed red brick of a parking garage.
Nylon snagged on the branches of a burning bush as she slid to the ground, releasing a rain of crimson that brushed her face and hid the ruined pantyhose, but she was safe. Safe to feel the throb in her ankle. Safe to contemplate what she hadn’t noticed before fleeing: the faces of those who were on the wrong side of the gunman. The ones who couldn’t get out.
There was Maddy, who had four little ones at home. Rick, the volunteer firefighter. Yun, whose parents had scrimped for years to send her to America to find a better life. Aaron, who spent his evenings teaching swim lessons to kids with special needs.
In the moment before the first shot was fired, Clarissa saw her entire life pass before her, past and present and future, and she knew if she could save only one person, that single moment would give her life more meaning than all the hours she’d spent in this grand old building combined.
As the press of people stampeded toward safety, Clarissa stepped forward and faced down the barrel of a gun. She could see her own heart poised there like a target he couldn’t miss. She thought of the empty loneliness of her life, the solitary movie nights, her lackadaisical relationship with what was left of her family. For a wistful moment, she wondered if her sister would weep, hearing the news.
In the moment before the first shot was fired, Clarissa’s entire life passed before her. The present and past and future rolled into an image compressed so tightly it seemed to catch fire and race toward her, riding a wave that crashed upon her with an unstoppable force: all that was, all that could have been, and all that now would never be.
When I saw the picture for this week’s prompt, my instantaneous impression was of a heart being targeted. At first I dismissed the idea, but then I heard a news story about people running away from a gunman, and it crystallized.
This story is a an experiment for me, structurally, so I’m wondering how it works. Is it clear that the first flash, in which she runs away, is not actually happening; she’s just seeing it in her mind? I’m afraid it might not be, and if that’s the case I’d love some feedback on how to make it clearer.
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This was so intense! You did a stellar job describing the scene as it unfolds in her mind, and then her last heartbreaking thoughts in the split second before the gun is fired.
I think your story is clear. You tell us right away that Clarissa is seeing the events, and not doing them, and I also think the repetition of the phrase “In the moment before the first shot was fired…” reinforces that idea.
This was good writing. I have a knot in my stomach the size of Texas-and I mean that as the highest compliment!
Thank you, Valerie. I appreciate the feedback–and the compliment. 🙂
melanie jean juneau says:
It is VERY clear- you tell the reader that past and present are fused in an IMAGE and that she SEES herself running.
Many popular fiction pieces need to be read a second time because they are ambiguous. NOT the case with your writing- which is getting even better!!!
Jennifer Dillon says:
I really liked the piece and though I did understand in the end that she hadn’t run away or gone back into the building to help the others, it was the final line, all that was, all that could have been, and all that now would never be, that let me know that. For me it read like she had gone back in, as if she had sacrificed herself because she had deemed her life not as worth as the others that she talks about.
I think for me if the first repetition of: In the moment before the first shot was fired, Clarissa saw her entire life pass before her, past and present and future, happened earlier it would have been clearer, especially since the details of her running were so clear and specific.
As I said above, I really enjoyed it!
I went back and forth putting all those details in “ing”–must’ve switched them all out half a dozen times, trying to make up my mind. I may play with it some more.
shelton keys dunning says:
Ooh, well done. The story was clear, at least I got the intent as I read without needing to reread. The best though was the descriptive words you chose to use…they were simple, but vivid. Again, well done!
Ida Fogle says:
Nice! You pulled this off really well. Have you ever read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce?
Have not, but I will. Thanks, Ida.
Oh, I didn’t realize she wasn’t running and that it was only a thought. But that’s probably me. It’s a very emotional and driven piece!
Write on Edge says:
I actually didn’t catch that the running was in her head until she started thinking about saving one life. I (wrongly) assumed when she “saw” herself running that it was more like she was moving but seeing it like a movie, not just picturing it in her head. It’s probably my error.
I like that she made the decision so quickly to save others.
(And sorry, this is Angela posting from the WoE account!)
🙂 Thanks, Angela! I actually was kind of wanting that ambiguity–that she saw herself, as if she was standing outside herself watching things actually happening. I was just hoping that when we came back to the “before the first shot” line, readers would catch that what they’d just seen hadn’t actually happened, after all. So I guess I got it right! Now the question is, does it work?….
lexy3587 says:
Such a great last line – really tied everything in beautifully. I didn’t immediately realise that she wasn’t actually running away, that it was just a thought, but that didn’t take anything away from it when that did become clear when she was once again there, a moment before the shot was fire.
Annabelle says:
Intense and painfully topical. At the end, I kind of wished she had run, noble though it was. Well done.
inmandyland2 says:
This was hard to read. I wanted her to stay in safety but understand why she felt she needed to do what she did. But what a painful piece. The part about her sister especially.
Ellen Gable Hrkach says:
Nice job, Kate. Difficult topic, done well…
I didn’t catch it on the first pass through, but by the end I understood. Her sacrifice was an intense read.
I’m not sure what happened the first comment, but just in case it didn’t get through, I appreciated the intensity and sacrifice in this, and while I didn’t catch the meaning at the beginning, it was completely clear by the end.
Oh, thank you!
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Conservation planning for species recovery under the Endangered Species Act: A case study with the Northern Spotted Owl
Jeffrey R. Dunk ,
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Jeffrey.Dunk@humboldt.edu
Affiliation Department of Environmental Science and Management, Humboldt State University, 1 Harpst St. Arcata, CA, United States of America
Brian Woodbridge,
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation US Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Golden Eagle Conservation, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
Nathan Schumaker,
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation US Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Lab, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
Elizabeth M. Glenn,
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation US Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office, Portland, OR, United States of America
Brendan White,
Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
David W. LaPlante,
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Natural Resources Geospatial, sMontague, CA, United States of America
Robert G. Anthony †,
Contributed equally to this work with: Robert G. Anthony, Raymond J. Davis, Karl Halupka, Paul Henson, Bruce G. Marcot, Michele Merola-Zwartjes, Barry R. Noon, Martin G. Raphael
† Deceased.
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
Raymond J. Davis ,
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Affiliation US Forest Service, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
Karl Halupka ,
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Affiliation US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wenatchee, WA, United States of America
Paul Henson ,
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Bruce G. Marcot ,
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Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR, United States of America
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Affiliation US Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 1 Endangered Species Listing Division, Portland, OR, United States of America
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Affiliation Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America
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Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Olympia, WA, United States of America
Jody Caicco ,
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
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The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) was listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1990. We applied modern spatial conservation theory and models to evaluate several candidate critical habitat networks, and sought an efficient conservation solution that encompassed the highest value lands for spotted owl recovery rather than maximizing the total area of potential critical habitat. We created a map of relative habitat suitability, which served as input to the spatial conservation prioritization program Zonation. We used the spatially-explicit individual-based population model HexSim to estimate and compare simulated spotted owl population outcomes among a suite of candidate critical habitat networks that varied in size and spatial arrangement under alternative scenarios of future habitat suitability and barred owl (S. varia) effects. We evaluated simulated spotted owl population outcomes, including total population size, and extinction and quasi-extinction likelihoods for 108 combinations of candidate critical habitat networks by habitat change by barred owl scenarios, both range-wide and within 11 distinct portions of the owl’s range. Barred owl encounter rates and the amount and suitability of habitat had substantial effects on simulated spotted owl populations. When barred owl encounter rates were high, changes in the amount and suitability of habitat had minimal impacts on population performance. Under lowered barred owl encounter rates, candidate critical habitat networks that included most existing high suitability habitat supported a high likelihood of long-term population persistence. Barred owls are currently the primary driving force behind poor population performance of NSOs; however, our models demonstrated that a sufficient area of high suitability habitat remains essential for recovery when effects of barred owls can be reduced. The modeling approach we employed is sufficiently flexible to incorporate new information about spotted owls as it becomes available and could likely be applied to conservation planning for other species.
Citation: Dunk JR, Woodbridge B, Schumaker N, Glenn EM, White B, LaPlante DW, et al. (2019) Conservation planning for species recovery under the Endangered Species Act: A case study with the Northern Spotted Owl. PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210643. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210643
Editor: Sara M. Kross, California State University Sacramento, UNITED STATES
Received: May 30, 2018; Accepted: December 29, 2018; Published: January 14, 2019
This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
Data Availability: There are legal restrictions of providing the locations of the northern spotted owl site-centers, that were used to create the relative habitat suitability models, owing to it being listed as a Threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has made this determination. On a case-by-case basis, requests for access to the data can be sent to Larry Reigel (Larry_Reigel@fws.gov).
Funding: This work was supported in part by USFWS Agreements 134250BJ151 and F12AC01135 to JRD, and USFWS Agreements 81333BG035, 81333BG036, and 13420 – BJ to DL. The information in this document has been funded in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Methods for spatially explicit conservation planning have increased rapidly over the last several decades. For example, the seminal paper “Systematic Conservation Planning” [1] had been cited 4,819times (Google Scholar accessed 19 Aug 2018). It was estimated that more than 5,000 papers had been published on various aspects of conservation planning since the mid-1980s [2]. The quantity and quality of datasets on species’ locations, broad-scale patterns of land-cover, and fine-scale environmental data have increased dramatically over this period. Coupled with increases in computing power, complex spatial analyses linking species location data to environmental factors are now possible. Given this capability along with access to free software for conducting analyses, it is not surprising that conservation plans are generated at a rate that greatly exceeds their implementation [3]. In cases where conservation planning is conducted under the auspices of government regulations, successful implementation is also reliant on the degree to which the conservation planning approach and modeling tools address statutory requirements (e.g., the Endangered Species Act).
To date, modern conservation planning methods have rarely been used for identifying and evaluating critical habitat for organisms listed as threatened or endangered under the United States’ Endangered Species Act. Critical habitat represents the areas within the geographic area occupied by a species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that contain the physical and biological features that are essential to conservation of the species and that may need special management or protection (Endangered Species Act, Section 1532). The goal of our modeling effort was to identify and evaluate the potential effectiveness of candidate critical habitat networks (hereafter, networks) for the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina; hereafter, spotted owl), which was listed in 1990 as threatened under the ESA. Our work was a response to statutory requirements of the ESA which include the development of a recovery plan and the designation of critical habitat. We begin our paper by developing and articulating the theoretical framework used to identify networks by 1) linking the concepts of habitat and niche; 2) linking systematic conservation planning, as a process, to identifying spatially explicit networks; and 3) formalizing a science-based approach to address the legal and policy-mandated requirements of critical habitat designation.
Because critical habitat as defined in the ESA is not explicitly linked to a species’ demography, we clarify how we viewed critical habitat in our analyses. Grinnell [4] and Hutchinson [5] viewed niches as a property of a species, so they are necessarily viewed as a species-specific concept [6]. In light of a combined Grinnell-Hutchinson view of the niche, we define habitat as areas that possess features of the environment that, on average, allow a species to experience a positive growth rate, and thus must allow for occupancy, survival, and reproduction [6]. In practice, the relationship between habitat and demography is seldom known, so this assumption generally remains untested (but see [7, 8, 9]). Estimates of the niche based solely on observations in nature pertain to the realized, rather than to the fundamental, niche of a species, accounting for the influence of other organisms such as predators and competitors. In addition, we assume that properties of habitat determine the abundance of the focal organism in any given area and that these properties can be measured (e.g., [10]).
Habitat is species-specific as well as a spatial and a temporal concept. By definition, no two species have exactly the same habitat requirements just as no two species’ niches are identical. Finally, habitat is a multi-dimensional concept—habitat is characterized by multiple environmental factors (e.g., climate, vegetation, prey, terrain ruggedness). Within a specific area, habitat is the collection of resources and environmental conditions needed to support survival and reproduction of the focal organism and support population persistence over time. Thus, habitat is a specific combination of both biotic and abiotic components and processes that allow continuing occupancy of the environment by an organism [6].
The systematic approach to conservation planning is a step-down process [1] that has been used in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems for a wide diversity of species (e.g., [11–13]). Systematic conservation planning attempts to make the best use of existing information, recognizing uncertainties and limited funds. It is, by design, adaptable to new information, insights, or conditions [1].
To be most effective, conservation network planning would include: 1) a good understanding of habitat requirements for the species of interest, including how variation in habitat types, amounts, and juxtapositions influence population growth [14]; 2) a method for translating knowledge of habitat requirements into a spatially-explicit map representing variation in habitat suitability at a scale relevant to the species [15, 16]; 3) an understanding of each species’ adaptive demographic response to multiple networks under both current and future conditions; and 4) performance metrics that can be used to rank networks in terms of their relative risk to species persistence or likelihood of achieving desired conservation outcomes. Conservation network planning typically uses a variety of modeling tools to determine species' habitat and resource requirements [17, 18]. For evaluating potential critical habitat for the spotted owl, we chose this approach to provide decision makers with a set of scientifically defensible outputs from a series of plausible scenarios (viz., changes in habitat suitability and barred owl [S. varia] presence) among candidate networks from which to make decisions on spotted owl critical habitat designation.
According to the ESA, critical habitat is defined as “(1) The specific areas within the geographical area occupied by the species, at the time it is listed in accordance with the Act, on which are found those physical or biological features: (a) essential to the conservation of the species; and (b) which may require special management considerations or protection; and (2) specific areas outside the geographic area occupied by the species at the time it is listed, upon a determination that such areas are essential for the conservation of the species.”
We operationally defined critical habitat as the area on the landscape needed for the spotted owl to reach an appropriate population size and geographic distribution so that its risk of extinction meets specified recovery criteria (e.g., <5% chance of extinction over the next 100 years). Implicit in this definition is a set of scale-dependent biological criteria that must be met by critical habitat. These criteria include:
At the individual organism scale, the habitat provides the resources and physical conditions necessary for individual spotted owls to survive and reproduce.
At the local population scale, habitat must be sufficiently extensive and connected so that it has a high probability of supporting a local population of sufficient size to be resilient to natural and human disturbance events and not experience local extinction over the time frame of interest.
At the geographic range scale, habitat must be sufficiently extensive at the scale of the spotted owl's geographic range so that it is highly unlikely that all local populations will simultaneously experience extinction events. That is, the dynamics of local populations are asynchronous as a consequence of spatial redundancy of geographic range-scale critical habitat designations. This would constitute a viable metapopulation [19].
Given a recovery objective (e.g., <5% chance of extinction over the next 100 years), critical habitat must address all three spatial scales resulting in a habitat network that, on average, results in positive growth rates, while also being resilient to disturbances and/or changes such as wildfire or climate change.
The spotted owl is a conservation icon and one of the most studied of all imperiled species [20]. The spotted owl’s selection of forests characterized by old, large, economically valuable trees, coupled with its large area requirements (home ranges >1,000 ha in many areas; [21]), has resulted in controversy over how to conserve the species while preserving the economies of timber-dependent communities [22, 23]. The chronology of spotted owl conservation efforts is well-documented [24–26] and thus, we will only briefly elaborate on it herein.
Early research on the spotted owl demonstrated a strong association of nesting and roosting sites with areas of late seral forests [27–30], which was corroborated by subsequent studies across the range of the species [21]. A notable exception to the general pattern of spotted owls selecting for mature and old-growth forest habitat occurs in redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests of northwestern California, where the owls frequently nest and forage in complex, naturally-regenerating early-seral forests as well [31].
The northern spotted owl was listed as a threatened species in 1990 due to extensive reduction and fragmentation of late-seral forest as a consequence of timber harvest [32]. After listing, a recovery team was established [33], but a final recovery plan was never formally adopted. Subsequently, the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP; [22]) was developed which served as a de facto spotted owl recovery plan. In contrast to previous spotted owl conservation efforts [33, 34], the NWFP addressed the habitat requirements of multiple species as required by the National Forest Management Act of 1976. The NWFP more than doubled the amount of federal public land protected from intensive timber harvest within the range of the spotted owl [22].
At the time of listing, several long-term spotted owl demographic studies were initiated on federal, private, and tribal lands. Those studies have monitored vital rates and population changes over a wide portion of the species' geographic range. Since 1996, a meta-analysis of the demographic study areas’ (DSA) data has been conducted approximately every five years [35–39], each of which has reported a declining population trend overall, but with variation in vital rates and rate of population change among study areas. The analysis that coincided in time with our efforts [38] reported a mean annual rate of population decline of 2.9% range-wide during the previous >20 years, while [39] reported a range-wide decline of 3.8% per year from 1985–2013. The importance of habitat for spotted owls remains [38, 40], even though the relationship between amount of late-seral habitat and demographic rates [7], occupancy [41], and abundance [42] is not always linear.
Since the initial listing, the threat that barred owls, native to eastern North America, posed to spotted owls through interspecific competition and displacement has increased dramatically [40, 43–49]. Meta-analyses have documented negative effects of barred owls on spotted owls [38, 39]. Barred owl presence was associated with increased local spotted owl territory extinction rates on all 11 DSAs, and presence of barred owls was negatively related to spotted owl territory colonization rates in 5 of 11 DSAs [39]. Similarly, spotted owls were much less likely to use areas occurring within barred owl “core areas,” and barred owls were more numerous than spotted owls in western Oregon [50]. Overlap in habitats used by barred and spotted owls resulted in reduced territory occupancy for spotted owls, but the effect was less pronounced in areas with more high quality spotted owl habitat [51]. The barred owl’s impacts on spotted owls can be seen as a reduction of the latter’s realized niche [52] and as a stressor adding to an already challenging conservation problem.
Our modeling approach is similar to the approach proposed by others [53, 54] for designing and evaluating habitat networks, and follows the landscape conservation planning framework we outline above. We invoked four guiding principles as the basis for establishing quantitative and qualitative criteria to evaluate and compare various critical habitat networks:
Ensure sufficient habitat to support population viability across the range of the subspecies.
Support demographically stable sub-populations (see modeling regions below).
Ensure the distribution of spotted owl populations across their range of habitats.
Explicitly address sources of uncertainty (e.g., barred owl invasion, climate change, wildfire and other disturbance risk, and environmental stochasticity).
Our study area consisted of the known range of the spotted owl in the United States (Fig 1). The spotted owl’s geographic range is 232,000 km2, occurs within large portions of three U.S. states (Washington, Oregon, and California) and a small portion of British Columbia, Canada, and within a variety of biophysical contexts (e.g., climate, elevation, major vegetation types). Approximately half of the lands within the study area are managed by public agencies, primarily the federal government. National Forests make up the majority (71%) of public lands in this region, followed by state owned lands (11%) Bureau of Land Management (10%), and lands managed by the National Park Service (8%) [22].
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Fig 1. Geographic extent of study area and modeling regions boundaries.
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We subdivided the 232,000 km2 study area into 11 modeling regions that ranged in size from 10,500 km2 to 49,900 km2 (Fig 1, Table 1). These regions differ, to some extent, from previous approaches to dealing with variation among major regions within the spotted owl’s geographic range (e.g., [34]). We assumed that within each modeling region spotted owls would occur as a discrete metapopulation. More thorough descriptions of modeling regions can be found in USFWS ([45], Appendix C).
Table 1. Name, acronym and size of modeling regions, and definitions of acronyms used throughout.
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The modeling process involved three major analytical phases (Fig 2): 1) use of a species distribution model to estimate relative habitat suitability (RHS) in the form of a map; 2) use of the RHS base map as input to a spatially explicit conservation prioritization model to identify candidate critical habitat networks (hereafter, candidate networks); and 3) use of an individual-based, spatially explicit population model to evaluate and rank candidate networks.
Fig 2. Flow chart of generalized modeling phases.
NR = nesting and roosting, F = foraging, RHS = relative habitat suitability, NWFP = Northwest Forest Plan.
Analytical phase I: Modeling and mapping relative habitat suitability
The first phase in our modeling process (Fig 2) was to develop RHS maps for spotted owls, both at modeling regional and range-wide scales. RHS maps do not display absolute measures of habitat suitability but rather, gradients of habitat suitability relative to what is available within a given modeling area. We modeled RHS for individual modeling regions based on evidence that the habitat relationships of spotted owls vary geographically [20]. Because much of the spotted owl location data used in our modeling was presence-only data, we used MaxEnt [55] to model RHS. MaxEnt was developed specifically for presence-only data [55], has been extensively tested on many datasets and species, and was found to perform better than most other modeling tools [56]. We used a variety of metrics to evaluate RHS models and maps before incorporating them into the second phase in our modeling process aimed at identifying candidate networks (see Analytic phase II: identifying candidate potential critical habitat networks, below).
Data for relative habitat suitability modeling
We modeled RHS using spotted owl site centers, which are the surveyed locations of nests or daytime roosts used by pairs. We used site center data from spotted owl DSAs, the NWFP Effectiveness Monitoring Program [57], and other sources. RHS models were created at the 200-ha scale (see below).
Barred owls have displaced many spotted owls from previously occupied nesting areas, sometimes into habitat types or conditions that spotted owls rarely used prior to the barred owl’s invasion [44, 58]. To develop RHS models for spotted owls with a focus on habitats selected prior to extensive barred owl influence, we used vegetation data from 1996 (see below). We followed previous research [57] and restricted our spotted owl location data to site centers from surveys during 1993–1999 so that our owl locations and vegetation data were from roughly the same time period (see S1 Appendix). We also thinned site center locations to avoid sample selection bias ([59]; see S1 Appendix for details).
We used 23 biotic variables (see S1 Appendix) from Gradient Nearest Neighbor (GNN; [60]) vegetation data developed for the NWFP’s Effectiveness Monitoring Program [61, 62]. We used GNN because it provided detailed maps of forest composition and structural attributes for all lands within the NWFP area [63] and was the sole “wall-to-wall” vegetation map for the entire study area. For our modeling, we selected 23 biotic variables (Table 2) from a set of 163 GNN output variables. The reliability or accuracy of vegetation databases poses a primary concern for wildlife habitat evaluation and modeling [64], but pixel-level inaccuracies of the GNN data are less influential when applied at larger scales [65].
Table 2. List of variables used for modeling relative habitat suitability of northern spotted owl site centers.
Spotted owl habitat is often classified into dispersal, foraging, roosting, and nesting habitat (e.g., [45]), with each being a consecutive superset of the previous type(s). Habitats used for nesting and roosting are very similar [34], which we combined into nesting-roosting. In our modeling, we attempted to map the suitability of habitats used for breeding by spotted owls. Thus, we evaluated and modeled nesting-roosting and foraging habitat, but not dispersal habitat. Using various combinations of the forest structure variables (Table 2), we developed a suite of nesting-roosting (NR) and foraging (F) habitat definitions specific to conditions in each modeling region (see Appendix C in [45]). Each 30x30 m pixel was either NR, F, or neither habitat type, and the total amount of NR and F within a 200-ha (800-m radius) area around each pixel was estimated.
The spatial arrangement of habitat, particularly the amount of habitat patch "edge" and "core" (i.e., patch interior), influences both habitat selection and fitness of spotted owls within the southern portion of their range [7, 66]. Therefore, we also estimated NR core and edge. NR core was estimated as the total area of habitat within a 200-ha circle surrounding each pixel remaining after each NR patch was internally buffered by three pixels around its entire perimeter (i.e., 90 m), and the buffered area subtracted from the total area. Edge was likewise estimated within the 200-ha circle surrounding each pixel and was the total length of NR habitat patch perimeter wherever it was adjacent to non-NR habitat.
We evaluated eight abiotic features known or suspected to influence spotted owl habitat selection and use (Table 3). Local geographic features such as slope position, aspect, distance to water, and elevation influence spotted owl NR site selection (e.g., [30, 67, 68]). Several authors noted the absence of spotted owls above elevation limits that varied geographically (e.g., [69–71]). At broader spatial scales, temporal variation in climate has been related to fitness [7–9, 72], suggesting that spatial variation in climate may also influence habitat suitability for spotted owls. Mexican spotted owls (S. o. lucida) have a narrow thermal neutral zone [73] and it has been assumed [7] that the northern spotted owl is similar in this regard. Furthermore, the spotted owl’s selection for areas with older-forest characteristics has been hypothesized to, in part, be related to its needing cooler areas in summer to avoid heat stress [74]. Temperature extremes (winter low and summer high) as well as potential breeding-season specific stressors (spring low temperature and high spring precipitation) were also included as candidate predictor variables in our models [72, 75].
Table 3. Categories of candidate variables (and order of entry), variable names of variables used in the relative habitat suitability modeling process.
Some forest types could have structural attributes suitable for spotted owls (e.g., high canopy cover, multi-layered canopy, large trees) and yet be rarely used by the species (e.g., ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa): [76]). We attempted to account for this possibility by evaluating models that included dominant tree species composition (amount within 200-ha of site centers) variables (Table 3).
To determine the spatial scale at which to develop RHS models, we adopted a uniform analysis area size that corresponded to large differences between use and availability at the individual owl territory scale, while also considering the spatial scale at which the GNN data could be reliably used. Studies of spotted owl habitat selection have reported differences between spotted owl-centered (nest or activity center) locations and random or unoccupied locations across the range of spatial scales examined (e.g., [31, 41, 77–80]). However, the largest differences were often found in areas approximately the size of what was defined as “core areas” [81]; that is, areas of the home range that receive disproportionate use, and we recognize that core area alone is likely insufficient to provide for the species [82]. Based on an extensive review of published studies [7–9, 41, 57, 79, 80, 83–85], we chose a 200-ha analysis area centered on spotted owl site centers to represent core areas. We assumed that our modeled core areas approximated individual spotted owl territories. Geographic variation in home range size was explicitly addressed at phase three in our modeling.
There is higher uncertainty associated with GNN data at smaller spatial extents than at larger extents [64]. Although the GNN data are available at 30-m resolution, our RHS models were developed at 200 ha, and applied to the 11 modeling regions. Hence, each pixel’s RHS value was a function of conditions within an 800-m radius (200 ha) of it (but other pixels in that 200-ha area had different RHS values, based on the conditions within 800-m around them). Thus, our smallest extent of evaluation is a modeling region which is consistent with previous recommendations [60] that GNN maps are appropriately used for regional-level planning, rather than local management decisions.
Developing relative habitat suitability models
To estimate RHS, we used MaxEnt [55] to compare the characteristics (variables included in the models) of training data sites (spotted owl site centers) to a random selection of approximately 10,000 “background” (available) locations. We used linear, quadratic, and threshold covariate features within MaxEnt. We rescaled the logistic output of MaxEnt to range from 0 to 100. We masked (removed from consideration as habitat) areas above elevations used by spotted owls in each modeling region as well as all non-potential habitat (e.g., lakes, cities, non-forested areas, agricultural areas).
We used a model-building process (Fig 3) to determine the best model for each modeling region. At each step, the best performing model at that point (hereafter, best model) was “challenged” by adding other variables or combinations of variables to it (sensu [86]), in an attempt to improve its predictive ability. Models were evaluated based on the average rank of their area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and gain ([14]; see below).
Fig 3. Flowchart of development and evaluation of MaxEnt relative habitat suitability (RHS) models within each of 11 modeling regions.
Evaluating relative habitat suitability models
We sought models that had good discriminatory power, were well calibrated, were robust, and had broad generality. We evaluated model discrimination via AUC. We assessed model calibration by comparing ranks of area adjusted frequencies (sensu [87]) to RHS bin rank. Robust models are those that perform well under cross-validation and are not simply well-fit to the full training data set (i.e., they are robust to perturbations of the developmental data set). We evaluated model generality using independent data when it was available. A model with good generality performs well on independent data. MaxEnt balances model fit and complexity through the use of regularization [88]. MaxEnt fits a penalized maximum likelihood model [88], closely related to other penalties for complexity such as Akaike’s Information Criterion [89]. To evaluate whether any model region’s model was over-fit, we conducted cross-validation on each model, and, when possible, we evaluated how well models classified independent data (Fig 3).
Model discrimination and model calibration are independent measures [90]. Model calibration reflects the agreement between proportion of the modeling region in each RHS bin and observed proportions of owl sites within RHS bins [90, 91]. A “continuous Boyce index” for species distribution models uses a moving-window approach [92], which we refer to as “strength of selection” (SOS). SOS assesses the distribution of presence locations (use) by RHS bins relative to the abundance of such areas in the modeling regions (availability). A well-calibrated model will show the species to use higher suitability areas disproportionately more and lower suitability areas disproportionately less than expected based on area.
Using each modeling region’s best model, we conducted cross-validation to evaluate model fit and how robust the model was. Each of 10 times, we removed a random subset of 25% of the spotted owl site centers, developed the model with the remaining 75% (training data) and classified the withheld 25% (test data). AUC was evaluated for both training and test data. The difference between training and test AUC values indicates the extent to which models are over-fit [93], because over-fit models generally have high calibration accuracy and perform poorly on data not used in the model’s development. We evaluated the difference in AUC values between training and cross-validated (test) models.
We had samples of independent spotted owl site centers gathered from 2003 to 2009 and compared their RHS values to corresponding values for spotted owl site centers used in model development. All test sites were more than 0.8 km from any training site. Comparison with independent spotted owl site centers from 2006 enabled us to evaluate accuracy of the models when projected to a new time period (model transferability), and to investigate systematic shifts in RHS at spotted owl sites. These shifts may occur, for example, in areas where densities of barred owls increased during 1996–2006 and displaced spotted owls from favorable habitat. If this is the case we would expect to see reduced use of high RHS areas at 2006 spotted owl sites, relative to 1996 values.
Analytical phase II: Identifying candidate networks (Zonation)
In order to identify candidate critical habitat networks, we used each modeling region’s best RHS model as a single species file, the biodiversity feature, to input into the conservation planning model Zonation [94]. The RHS files were comprised of estimates of RHS for each 30-m pixel (based on the 200-ha around them) within each modeling region, and therefore, throughout the spotted owl’s geographic range. Zonation produces a hierarchical prioritization of the landscape based on the habitat value of cells [95]. In our application, a cell is a 30-m pixel and its habitat value was a function of its RHS value and the values of neighboring pixels. The resulting solution is hierarchical, meaning that the most valuable five percent of habitat is retained within the most valuable 10 percent; the most valuable two percent is retained within the valuable five percent, etc. We used the Core Area Zonation cell removal function, and added 200 edge points per modeling region. Within Zonation we also used an α-value of 0.000952 for distribution smoothing [94], based on a buffer distance around each pixel of 2.1 km (to approximate a home range sized area).
We conducted Zonation analyses separately within each modeling region to reflect geographic variation in the spotted owl's habitat relationships and to attempt to meet the goal that spotted owls and critical habitat would be well-distributed throughout the species' range. Zonation allows for the identification of any percentage of habitat value to display as maps of candidate networks. Selection of the percentage of habitat value has a large influence on the size and distribution of networks. We evaluated the amount of area and abundance of various RHS classes within a broad range of Zonation-defined habitat values (30%, 50%, and 70%), with the objective of identifying a smaller subset of diverse (e.g., varying size and ownership) candidate networks for testing with the individual-based model.
We developed 18 candidate Zonation-defined networks, expressed in terms of area of various RHS classes (Fig 4), to existing networks including previous spotted owl critical habitat designations (1992 and 2008) and the NWFP reserve network. We did not force the inclusion of previously existing public lands with special protection (e.g., Wilderness Areas or State Parks) in any networks, but we did assume that such areas would continue to provide habitat in the future (see below). We then evaluated simulated spotted owl population outcomes within and among each of those networks (see below).
Fig 4. Flowchart of steps using Zonation to identify alternative candidate critical habitat networks for northern spotted owls.
Analytical phase III: Evaluating candidate networks using individual-based spatially explicit population modeling
Whereas other approaches such as population viability analysis (PVA) and meta-population models have been used for evaluating spotted owl populations (e.g., [96]), we required an approach that enabled comparison of a wide range of spatially explicit conditions such as variation in size and spacing of candidate critical habitat networks, and varying RHS and barred owl impacts over time. Spatially-explicit individual-based models (IBMs) allow for the representation of ecological systems in a manner consistent with the way ecologists view such systems as operating.
IBMs need to be simple enough to be practical, but have enough resolution to capture essential structures and processes [97]. For the spotted owl there exists a large quantity and quality of data on: vital rates from several long-term DSAs [37–39], habitat selection (see review by [21]), and dispersal [98], among many other aspects of the species’ ecology, and it is thus well-suited for spatially-explicit IBM. IBMs allowed us to conduct “model experiments” that would be impossible with live animals [97] and real landscapes.
HexSim [99] is an IBM designed for simulating terrestrial wildlife population dynamics and interactions. HexSim was designed to quantify the cumulative impacts to wildlife populations of multiple interacting stressors. HexSim was used to evaluate effects of size and spacing of spotted owl habitat areas on owl population size and trend [100]. Sensitivity analysis subsequently established HexSim as a viable tool for modeling spotted owl populations [101]. We developed a HexSim spotted owl scenario (see [102] for details) based on the most up-to-date demographic data available on spotted owls [38], published information on spotted owl dispersal [98], and home range size [21], as well as on parameters for which less empirical information was available. HexSim serves as a consistent framework into which variation in spatial data layers (e.g., candidate network sizes and distributions; different assumptions about habitat conditions (RHS) inside and outside of networks; different assumptions about RHS change on public versus private lands; and different assumptions about the impact of barred owls among modeling regions) can be introduced. Comparison of estimates of simulated spotted owl population performance across the range of scenarios incorporating variation in network sizes, RHS trends, and barred owl influence, can provide insights about candidate networks and other conservation measures designed to lead to spotted owl recovery.
Each HexSim simulation run provides estimates of population size (breeders and non-breeding floaters) at any chosen time step as well as population trend over any range of time steps. Estimates are reported at both range-wide and modeling region scales. The results are intended to allow comparison of relative population performance among networks, not precise predictions of actual population size in the future.
When a HexSim simulation starts, the number of individuals, age class distribution, spatial arrangement of territories, and other population attributes will have values that reflect the model's initial conditions. It takes many time steps (“model years”) for these artifacts to subside past the start-up bias period, and thus for the population's stable-state dynamics to become evident. We started simulations with 10,000 female spotted owls, thus this initial period of transitory dynamics involved a period of rapid population decline for the first 25 or 30 time steps ("free response" analysis [102]); typically subsiding by approximately time step 50 [102]. It is important not to confuse this decline with an observed or predicted loss in spotted owl numbers that has resulted from changing environmental conditions.
Overview of the spotted owl scenario in HexSim.
Here, we reference the northern spotted owl life history simulator documented in [102]. In summary, this is a spatial individual-based, females-only model, because female owls are the most influential sex in terms of population dynamics [103]. Individual vital rates and movement decisions are influenced by the RHS habitat map described above, by variation in home range size among modeling regions [104], by resource acquisition rates capturing landscape structure and conspecific competition, stage class, and by the spatially-inferred presence of competition from barred owls (Fig 5). The model has been used to forecast both range-wide and regional population trends, and to quantify emergent movement patterns and demographic source-sink dynamics [102].
Fig 5. Flowchart of generalized steps involved in the northern spotted owl HexSim model.
The HexSim spotted owl simulator was purposely kept parsimonious and defensible, in part due to anticipated legal challenges to the recovery plan [45] and designation of critical habitat [105] it informed. Future applications of the model could be improved if two key enhancements were made. First, underlying habitat map could be updated and perhaps made dynamic, so as to include ongoing land use, climate change, and altered fire regimes. Second, a full two-species version of the model could be developed that enabled the direct simulation of northern spotted owl and barred owl interactions. Work towards this latter goal is ongoing (David Wiens, pers. com.). Details of the northern spotted owl HexSim model can be found the S1 Appendix.
Evaluation of HexSim model calibration.
We compared simulated spotted owl population sizes in eight DSAs to empirically estimated number of spotted owls on those DSAs to evaluate the model’s ability to accurately predict owl numbers. For calibration purposes data from the eight DSAs were used. We subsequently tuned various parameters in the model (e.g., resource acquisition target, home range size, and dispersal) to reduce differences between simulated and empirical estimates. The numbers of female spotted owls were tracked range-wide, per modeling region, and per DSA. We compared simulation time step-50 HexSim estimates to field data from the DSAs. For these comparisons, we used the HexSim simulations during which barred owl impacts were inserted during time step 40 and remained constant for the remaining time steps. We used a static RHS map for these initial evaluations.
HexSim simulations are stochastic, and to quantify population size for Phase 1 simulations, the mean was taken from five replicate simulations. Although five replicates was relatively small, at this stage of modeling we were interested in fairly coarse-scale questions such as whether simulated population sizes were close to real-world population sizes. Each simulation was 250 time steps in duration. The length of the simulations (250 time steps) allowed a steady-state population size and trend to be estimated.
Dispersal is a critical process through which landscape structure affects spotted owl population size and metapopulation structure, and is a primary concern in conservation network design [15]. Of particular importance is natal dispersal. We evaluated natal dispersal distances of simulated owls in HexSim relative to empirical estimates of dispersal distances of juvenile spotted owls [98]. The dispersal behavior of the simulated spotted owls was affected principally by landscape structure, the dispersal stopping criteria, and the degree of autocorrelation of movement direction.
HexSim sensitivity analyses.
We conducted sensitivity analyses of the spotted owl HexSim model (sensu [101]) by modifying nine separate parameter values. Seven of the nine were subjected to two modifications (one decrease and one increase), one was assigned four distinct values (two lower and two higher), and one was modified three times (S1 Appendix).
Development of scenarios for evaluation and comparison in HexSim.
We simulated spotted owl population performance relative to three primary sources of variation: overall size (area) and distribution of networks; differences in amount and quality of RHS inside and outside of candidate critical habitat networks; and the influence of barred owls. Considering the many possible variations in network designs, land ownership limitations, future habitat trends, and barred owl effects that could be evaluated, it is clear the number of scenarios needed to evaluate all of the possibilities could increase rapidly and become unfeasible. Instead, we developed an iterative process for evaluation of scenarios, which ranged from a series of relatively simple, coarse-scale, evaluations (Phase 1) to more complex, finer-scale evaluations (Phases 2 and 3).
We created RHS change scenarios to represent variation in habitat management within and outside of candidate critical habitat networks (i.e., one would expect areas of critical habitat to be managed different than areas not in critical habitat). Zonation-generated networks were developed with only two simple precedence masking rules: (1) no land-ownership restrictions (ZALL networks) and (2) prioritizing public lands before considering the inclusion on non-public lands (ZPUB networks). We treated previously existing protected public lands similar to those lands selected by Zonation. Previously existing protected public lands included all Congressionally Reserved lands (i.e., National Parks and Wilderness Areas), NWFP Late Successional Reserves, and State Park lands.
For Stage1 simulations, we compared spotted owl population responses among six candidate networks derived from Zonation plus the NWFP (Table 4), three RHS change scenarios, and four barred owl scenarios, for a total of 84 network by scenario combinations. These enabled us to evaluate relative performance among simulated spotted owl populations within individual modeling regions and range-wide. We considered Stage1 simulations coarse-scale and used them to inform the creation of Stage2 networks.
Table 4. Number of alternative candidate critical habitat networks by relative habitat suitability by barred owl scenarios, inclusion of environmental stochasticity, number of replicates, and total time steps used in HexSim simulations of northern spotted owl populations.
We evaluated three RHS change scenarios for Stage1 modeling. HAB1 consisted of maintaining RHS values within networks at their currently-estimated values, and reducing all non-network lands with RHS values ≥35 to a value of 34. This scenario was intended to simulate an “isolated” network by only allowing territory establishment within networks. In HexSim, territory establishment was only allowed to happen when hexagon RHS values were ≥35 for three adjacent hexagons (S1 Appendix). Areas outside of networks could still be incorporated into simulated home ranges and thereby contribute resources to owls, but territories were restricted to networks in this scenario. In scenario HAB2, we maintained the RHS value within networks at their current estimated values, and reduced all non-network areas with RHS values ≥35 to a value of 34, but maintained RHS >50 on non-network areas on public lands at their currently-estimated values. This scenario was intended to emulate the management approach of maintaining occupied spotted owl habitat outside of networks (e.g., full implementation of Recovery Action 10 [45]) on public lands. Scenario HAB3 was identical to HAB2, except that RHS >50 was maintained on all non-network lands, regardless of ownership. This scenario simulated full implementation of Recovery Action 10 [45] on all lands. For the purposes of developing RHS scenarios in Stage1, Congressionally Reserved lands (e.g., Wilderness Areas and National Parks) were treated as part of networks, regardless of whether Zonation had selected these areas. This was done because such areas were set aside by acts of Congress, and we assumed that RHS would be retained.
Barred owl scenarios used for Stage1 included: STVA1 in which we assumed no barred owls existed (i.e., barred owl encounter probability was set to zero for all individual spotted owls in all places); STVA2 in which barred owl encounter probabilities were held constant at their current estimated rates within each of the 11 modeling regions; STVA3 in which barred owl encounter probabilities were held constant at 0.25 everywhere in the spotted owl’s range; and STVA4 in which barred owl encounter probabilities were held constant at 0.5 everywhere in the spotted owl’s range. For Stage1 simulations, barred owl encounter probabilities were inserted at time step 40, and RHS changes were inserted at time step 50. Population performance metrics were evaluated range-wide and for each modeling region.
The following range-wide population performance metrics were used to compare and rank the Stage1 networks by habitat and barred owl scenarios: 1) mean percentage population change among the five replicates between time steps 50 and 250; 2) percentage of time steps during which population growth rate (λ; mean of five replicates ± 95% CI) was ≥1.0 between time steps 50 and 250; and 3) the first year that λ (mean ± 95% CI) was ≥1.0. Because we were interested in longer-term trends, we calculated λ as Nt/Nt-10 rather than by successive time steps.
For each modeling region we evaluated: 1) percentage of time steps during which λ (mean of five replicates ± 95% CI) was ≥1.0 between time steps 50 and 250; 2) the first year that λ (mean ± 95% CI) was ≥1.0; 3) the percentage of replicates during which the population fell below 250 individuals; 4) the percentage of replicates during which the population fell below 100 individuals; and 5) the percentage of replicates during which the population went to extinction. The thresholds of 250 and 100 individuals were considered to be quasi-extinction thresholds (i.e., population sizes that we believed to be at relatively high risk of extinction). By not including environmental stochasticity in Stage1 simulations, simulation results were more likely to provide optimistic results (i.e., predisposed to underestimate extinction risk). Thus, we chose the two quasi-extinction thresholds.
Stage1 simulations were intended to provide coarse-level information that would be used to refine and create subsequent networks which would be subjected to more thorough evaluations. Therefore, the evaluation of Stage1 simulations included comparing the quantitative measures articulated above, as well as our professional judgment. For example, we carefully considered the fact that only five replicates were run for each of the 84 combinations of network by RHS change by barred owl scenarios in Stage1. We generally ignored small differences in the performance of networks relative to our evaluation metrics. Furthermore, we did not weigh each performance metric equally. For example, one of the 84 combinations might have had a population that was the first to achieve population stability (λ ≥ 1.0), but subsequently declined rapidly or became very unstable over the longer-term. Longer-term stability was considered more important in such circumstances.
Stage2 simulations were developed after evaluating the performance of Stage1 simulations. Stage2 simulations were run on three networks, two of which were created based on the results of Stage1 (Composite 1 and Composite 2), and the NWFP. Composites 1 and 2 were considered to be of lower and higher risk to spotted owls, respectively. Composites 1 and 2 (see Table 5), and all subsequent Composites (see below), were not “one-size-fits-all” (e.g., Z50ALL in all modeling regions) as were the Zonation-derived networks in Stage1. Instead we evaluated the performance of previous networks within individual modeling regions and refined range-wide networks on a modeling region by modeling region basis, as described below.
Table 5. Candidate critical habitat networks Composites 1 and 2 that resulted from Phase 1 modeling.
For Stage3 simulations we used identical comparisons, both range-wide and within modeling regions, as Stage2. Stage3 simulations included nine additional candidate networks, Composites 3–11. Composites 3–11 were either successive refinements of earlier networks or recommended by federal land management agencies (Composite 5). Efficiency of candidate networks was evaluated by comparing network size to spotted owl population performance metrics. Given similar performance, smaller networks (more efficient networks) are preferred.
We evaluated the influence of two scenarios of RHS change on simulated spotted owl populations in Stages2 and 3. Our goal was to evaluate relative population performance among a range of candidate critical habitat networks, so we developed two contrasting scenarios that directly projected RHS values into future conditions. The two RHS change scenarios used in Stages2 and 3 were dubbed “optimistic” and “pessimistic.”
These RHS change scenarios were not intended to be predictions, forecasts, or recommendations of future habitat conditions. The goal of these scenarios was to evaluate how different the various spotted owl population outcomes were as a function of different RHS change scenarios, not to estimate size of spotted owl populations under expected or predicted conditions. We chose the optimistic and pessimistic scenarios to reflect plausible futures, not the most extreme best- and worst-cases we could imagine. The optimistic scenario was an attempt to model future habitat that was maintained not only in protected areas, but was fairly well distributed throughout the landscape. In contrast, the pessimistic scenario was an attempt to model future habitat that was concentrated within candidate critical habitat networks.
For the optimistic scenario we used estimates of RHS change that were measured between 1996 and 2006, and projected these rates into the future (S1 Appendix). Because the primary goal of these evaluations was to compare simulated spotted owl population performance across a range of candidate networks, the objective of the pessimistic scenario was to simulate isolated networks by increasing contrast between network and non-network areas. The pessimistic scenario used in Stage2 and 3 modeling was identical to HAB1 scenario used in Stage1. In this scenario we held RHS within networks constant at its 2006 estimated level, whereas outside of networks we truncated all RHS values that were ≥35 to a value of 34; just below the value needed for territory establishment. All other non-network areas (already <35) remained constant. This generalized pessimistic scenario did not reflect a plausible scenario for the RDC modeling region, where privately owned lands continue to support large numbers of spotted owls despite a long history of intensive timber management. Thus, for the RDC pessimistic scenario, RHS within a network remained constant at its estimated 2006 level, whereas RHS outside of a network was reduced by 5% in each of two 20-year time steps. During Stages2 and 3, for private lands on which landowners had either Habitat Conservation Plans or Safe Harbor Agreements (www.fws.gov/endangered/) that would be anticipated to maintain some level of habitat, we held RHS values at their 2006 estimated levels under both optimistic and pessimistic RHS scenarios. This assumption resulted in these private lands being managed intermediately between network lands and non-network lands.
For HexSim modeling in Stages2 and 3, we used a constant barred owl encounter rate within, but not among, modeling regions (see Table 5). Stage1 modeling revealed the strong impact that barred owl encounter rate had on population performance metrics regardless of trends in RHS. In Stage1, modeling regions with high barred owl encounter probabilities, particularly in Washington and coastal Oregon spotted owl populations declined rapidly under all RHS scenarios (see Results). Because critical habitat alone cannot ameliorate all non-habitat based stressors to spotted owl populations, it was necessary to establish barred owl encounter rates that we believed were both plausible, and could, along with the critical habitat designation, lead to recovery of the spotted owl.
We made modeling region-specific decisions about barred owl encounter probabilities based on barred owl encounter probabilities estimated from studies within each modeling region [38] and the HexSim results from Stage1 (see below). We established a maximum encounter probability of 0.375 because population performance ranged from marginal to poor at higher barred owl encounter probabilities (see below). For some modeling regions with currently-estimated barred owl encounter probabilities greater than 0.375, this resulted in a substantial reduction in the barred owl encounter probabilities through time. Furthermore, we believed that achieving these barred owl encounter probabilities was plausible. For modeling regions with currently-estimated barred owl encounter rates less than 0.375, we generally assumed that barred owl encounter probabilities would remain similar to those currently estimated or would increase slightly over time and could potentially be maintained at those levels through management actions (see Table 5). In HexSim simulations, estimated current modeling region-specific barred owl encounter probabilities were inserted at time step 40 and the final probabilities were inserted at time step 60.
For Stages2 and 3, environmental stochasticity was added to the HexSim model by allowing survival rates to vary by up to 2.5% per year, and fecundity to vary by 50% per year. Stochastic survival and reproductive rates were selected independently (e.g., a good year for survival did not imply a good year for reproduction) (S1 Appendix).
Adding stochasticity increases variability within and among HexSim replicates. To adequately assess these more variable results, we ran 100 replicates of each candidate critical habitat network by two habitat change scenarios. Each replicate was run for 350 time steps. Initial evaluations of 100 replicates showed that the grand population mean was relatively stable with 100 replicates and 350 time steps.
We evaluated the following range-wide population performance metrics for Stages2 and 3: 1) total (mean of 100 replicates) population size at time step 350; 2) percent population change between time step 50 and time step 350; 3) percentage of simulations during which the range-wide population fell below 1,250 individuals; 4) percentage of simulations during which the range-wide population fell below 1,000 individuals; 5) percentage of simulations during which the range-wide population fell below 750 individuals; and 6) the grand mean of the population between time steps 150 and 350. Except for the second metric (percent change between time steps 50 and 350) all other metrics were derived from time steps 150 through 350. In most cases, HexSim simulations achieved steady-state by time step 150, and thus all but one of these metrics could be used to quantify the relative steady-state population size and distribution associated with a network.
The threshold population sizes of 1,250, 1,000, and 750 represented population sizes that represented overall population risk thresholds. Connectivity/isolation, demographic stochasticity, competition, and other factors are more likely to have deleterious impacts on small populations. Furthermore, such population sizes would likely result in large areas of the currently-occupied range becoming unoccupied by owls. Although arbitrary, these thresholds provide a consistent way to compare the relative risk of various networks and scenarios.
For each modeling region we evaluated the following population performance metrics for Stages2 and 3: 1) percentage of replicates during which the population fell below 250 individuals; 2) percentage of replicates during which the population fell below 100 individuals; 3) percentage of replicates that went to extinction; 4) mean (of the 100 replicates) population size at time step 350; and 5) grand mean of population size from time steps 150 to 350. We interpreted the percentage of simulations during which the population fell below each of the threshold modeling region population sizes to be equivalent to the probability of moderate population risk (250 females), high population risk (100 females) and extinction risk (0 females). We used these probability of population risk and extinction risk metrics to compare population results among networks; however, (unlike range-wide comparisons) we were unable to establish limits or a priori criteria for comparing modeling region-specific results because of the high variability in extent (area) and population sizes among modeling regions. Instead, we used the differences between risk probabilities to compare results among networks within modeling regions.
We used a combination of quantitative output from HexSim and professional judgment to evaluate composite networks and the NWFP by RHS and barred owl scenarios. We considered classifying HexSim output into categories representing the degree to which recovery goals were likely to be met. However, we did not carry through with this because there were circumstances when two results differed markedly, but both might be categorized as high risk (e.g., 33% vs. 78% of replicates falling below 250 individual females in a modeling region). In cases like this, we held that 33% was much less risk than 78%. Therefore, we evaluated both the raw output data for each metric, as well as ranking each of the reserve scenarios. The rankings provided a relatively simple and consistent method to evaluate the performance of each scenario. We also estimated the difference in population performance between optimistic and pessimistic scenarios within each candidate critical habitat network and ranked the absolute value of the differences. This was done to evaluate how reliant a network’s performance was on a particular RHS scenario–or its potential vulnerability to future uncertainty in RHS change. That is, if, within a network, population performance metrics were relatively similar (less variable) and relatively good in both optimistic and pessimistic RHS scenarios, it would suggest that that network was more resilient to uncertainty in future habitat conditions.
Relative habitat suitability models
Because the primary objective of the RHS modeling was to provide accurate prediction of RHS, we focused primarily on the evaluation of model performance and the distribution of RHS range-wide and among modeling regions, rather than on describing spotted owl-habitat associations. In nine of the modeling regions the amount of NR habitat or a related covariate (NR edge) was the most influential covariate in the model, and it was the second and third most influential in the other two modeling regions (S1 Appendix). Of the abiotic covariates, slope position was had the largest influence in nine modeling regions (S1 Appendix).
Overall, RHS models had good-to-excellent discrimination ability, good generality, and were well-calibrated. AUC values of full models (all data) varied between 0.76 for the RDC region and 0.93 for the WCN (Table 6). AUC values were highly correlated with the percentage of each modeling region comprised of RHS values >30, >40, and >50 (r2 = 0.9685, 0.9649, 0.9574, respectively). Hence, variation in AUC values among modeling regions appeared to have less to do with model discrimination ability (i.e., the quality of the model) and more to do with the quantity of suitable habitat in each modeling region. See ([48], Appendix C) for specific variables included in each region’s model. Washington had much less high RHS value area than did either Oregon or California (Fig 6).
Fig 6. Map of relative habitat suitability throughout the geographic range of the northern spotted owl.
Table 6. Relative habitat suitability model evaluation statistics among 11 modeling regions.
Strength of selection (SOS) analyses showed that models from all regions were well-calibrated, with the relative density of owl site centers being much greater than expected in areas with RHS >60 (mean SOS for all modeling regions at RHS of 60 = 3.5 (SE = 0.32)) and much lower than expected in areas with RHS < 0.2 (mean SOS for all modeling regions at RHS of 20 = -2.77 (SE = 0.27; Fig 7)). Among modeling regions there was little variation in the magnitude of differences in relative density of owl site centers in low RHS areas, high RHS areas, and the point at which site center relative densities were approximately proportion to the extent of the RHS bin (i.e., where SOS = 1). Mean RHS where modeling region SOS values crossed from being slightly lower than expected relative densities to slightly higher than expected relative densities was between 35 and 36. SOS curves were similar among the 11 modeling regions (Fig 7).
Fig 7. Northern Spotted Owl strength of selection (SOS) by relative habitat suitability (RHS) bin mid-point and modeling region.
SOS is estimated by dividing the proportion of northern spotted owl site centers within a RHS bin by the proportion of the modeling region comprised of that bin (and thus represent relative densities of site centers). For values <1, we divided the SOS value into -1 to allow values <1 and >1 the potential to vary to the same extent. Without doing this, values <1 are constrained to be between 0 and 1, whereas values >1 can grow nearly infinitely. Legend acronyms are the 11 modeling regions and the mean of all regions combined.
Cross-validation revealed only very small differences in the percentages of spotted owl site centers classified among 10 equal-sized RHS bins between the full model (using all of the spotted owl locations) and the cross-validated (CV) models (S1 Appendix). The maximum percentage point difference (percentage of observations from the full model minus percentage of observations CV model) was 11.1, and the mean difference of the absolute values among modeling regions ranged from 1.6 (for the KLW) to 4.5 (for the WCN; (S1 Appendix)).
We obtained 916 independent spotted owl site center locations from the ORC, KLE, KLW, and RDC modeling regions. The percentage of spotted owl sites in each of five RHS bins for the training data and test data were very similar for all comparisons (Table 7), with 4 of 20 differences exceeding four percentage points and 11 of 20 differences being less than two percentage points.
Table 7. Comparison of percentage of northern spotted owl site center locations from 1996 training sites versus independent test sites from 2006 among five relative habitat suitability (RHS) bins for four modeling regions.
More than 64% of the geographic range of the spotted owl had RHS values <20, whereas 31% of the area had RHS values between 20 and 60, and 5.2% had RHS values >60 (Table J in S1 Appendix). Nonetheless, there was wide variation in the distribution of RHS among modeling regions (Table J in S1 Appendix). The WCN, NCO, ECS, WCC, and ECN modeling regions had more than 70% of their area with RHS values <20, but the KLW and RDC had 36.99% and 43.36% of their area with RHS values <20, respectively. The percentage of modeling regions with RHS values >60 ranged from 2.83 (WCN) to 8.04 (RDC) (Table J in S1 Appendix).
Network sizes and relative habitat suitability.
The Zonation networks we evaluated ranged from 5.57 to 11.24 million ha when Congressionally Reserved lands were included (Table 8). Because Congressional Reserves are existing protected areas and will continue to provide some habitat value for the spotted owl in the future similar to what they currently provide (major deviations from climate change-induced increases in canopy fires notwithstanding), when we henceforth reference network sizes and performance, they always include Congressional Reserved lands, even when they were not selected for inclusion in a critical habitat composite. Zonation ALL and PUB networks differed by less than 1% in size for Z30 and Z50, but Z70PUB was 6.5% larger than Z70ALL (Table 8). The percentage of 1996 spotted owl sites that were included in the NWFP was 46%, and varied from 50% to 88% in Zonation networks (Table 8).
Table 8. Comparison of 6 candidate critical habitat networks (we developed) by size and percent of 1996 spotted owl sites used in model development that occur within the network.
Reserve networks of vastly different sizes could potentially function very similarly if the smaller of the two was primarily comprised of high RHS and the larger had much more low RHS. Therefore, we evaluated both network size and amount of various RHS classes contained within the network. Zonation networks included a higher percentage of high RHS than the NWFP and ALL networks included more high RHS than PUB networks (Table K in S1 Appendix).
Approximately 1.21 million ha, or 5.2% of the total area, within the more than 23 million-ha range of the spotted owl had RHS values ≥60, about 58,890 ha had RHS between 80 and 90, and only about 2,300 ha had RHS ≥90. Approximately 14.9 million ha, or 64.2% of the total area, had RHS <20 and about 12 million ha had RHS <10. All composite networks contained >70% of the areas with RHS ≥60 (Table K in S1 Appendix). Composite 1, the largest composite network, contained the most area of the highest RHS categories (range = 86–98% for the four bins with RHS >60). Composite 8 was the smallest composite network and contained the least area of the highest RHS categories (range = 72–81%). There was relatively little variation in the percentage of RHS 0–9.99 included in composite networks (range = 18–22%). There were, however, relatively large differences in the percentage of RHS between 10–19.99 and 20–29.99 among composite networks (ranges = 26–41% and 35–51%, respectively). As Zonation-only networks got larger, and when comparing PUB to ALL networks including the same amount of habitat value, most of the differences were in the percentage of the lowest RHS category (0–9.99) included. For example Z70ALL included 8% of the 0–9.99 RHS area whereas Z70PUB included 25% of that RHS category.
Spatially explicit individual-based population model.
The baseline HexSim simulations without environmental stochasticity, in which barred owl impacts were introduced at time step 40, then held static at 2008-estimated rates, produced an estimated total female spotted owl population size of 675 within the eight DSAs for which empirical abundance estimates were available. This estimate was 89% of the empirical population estimate from those DSAs (S1 Fig). Similarly, the distribution of dispersal distances of simulated owls was quite similar to those estimated empirically ([98]; S2 Fig). Sensitivity analyses at the modeling region and range-wide scales revealed appreciable effects of varying parameter values for reproduction (Table K, columns 7A-B, in S1 Appendix) and survival or parameters that influenced survival (Table K, columns 3A-D; 4A-C; 6A-B in S1 Appendix). Nonetheless, varying survival, and/or parameters that influenced survival had the largest impacts (Table K in S1 Appendix).
Stage1 simulation results.
Stage1 simulations revealed a strong influence of barred owl encounter rates, relative to RHS change and network size, on estimated spotted owl population performance. In general, scenarios with the largest barred owl encounter rate (STVA4) resulted in the smallest (range = 87–94% reduction in population size among 21 such STVA4 by HAB scenarios) and least variable estimated spotted owl population sizes, regardless of network or RHS scenario (Table 9). In scenarios with intermediate barred owl encounter rates (STVA2 and STVA3), estimated spotted owl population sizes were much more variable among networks and RHS scenarios–with larger networks and habitat scenarios that maintained more high-RHS area (HAB2 and HAB3) having larger population sizes than smaller networks (Table 9). For example, simulated populations were estimated to decline by between 16% (Z70ALL) and 54% (NWFP) for the HAB1 scenario when barred owl encounter probabilities were 0.25 (STVA3). When barred owl encounter probabilities were maintained at their currently-estimated levels (STVA3) and with HAB1, simulated spotted owl populations were estimated to decline by 40% (Z70ALL and Z70PUB) to 66% (NWFP). Within a network, such as the Z30ALL, and with the same RHS scenario (HAB1 in this case), spotted owl population declined an estimated 30% to 91% depending on the barred owl scenario (0.0 and 0.5 encounter rates in this example, respectively). Likewise, under the same HAB1 RHS scenario and with barred owl encounter rates held at 0.25 in all regions (STVA3), spotted owl populations declined an estimated 16% to 54% with the smallest population declines in the largest networks (Table 9).
Table 9. Phase 1 HexSim modeling results showing the percentage of the time-step 50 range-wide population size that was realized at time-step 250 (mean of 5 replicates) among 7 candidate critical habitat networks, various barred owl encounter rates, and relative habitat suitability (RHS) change scenarios.
In general, among similar STVA (except STVA4 which had little variation in results) and RHS scenarios, simulated owls performed worse in the NWFP than the Zonation networks, and best in the largest networks (Z70ALL and Z70PUB). If estimated current barred owl encounter rates were to be maintained (STVA2) and under HAB1, the NWFP network was estimated to have spotted owl populations decline by 66%, whereas owls in the Z70ALL network declined by 40%. Lastly, without barred owls on the landscape (STVA1), and under the same RHS change scenario, spotted owl populations under the NWFP network were estimated to decline by 43%, but increase by 2% under the Z70ALL network (Table 9).
The population stability metrics (first year that lambda became stable and number of years it was stable) were relatively uninformative because they were very similar for most RHS by STVA by network combinations. Therefore, we put little emphasis on those metrics.
For individual modeling regions, Stage1 modeling suggested that spotted owls in the ICC, KLE, KLW, and WCS modeling regions were the most stable and least prone to fall below either quasi-extinction threshold (250 or 100 individuals) except under STVA4. Under STVA4, 76 of 77 modeling region by network evaluations fell below 250 individuals during all five replicates, and the 77th did so during four of five replicates. The RDC modeling region also generally had a low quasi-extinction (100 and 250) rate, but under the NWFP network, populations frequently fell below those thresholds. In contrast, the WCC, WCN, and ECS modeling regions most frequently (60–100% of replicates among networks) fell below quasi-extinction thresholds (especially 250), even under HAB3 and STVA1 (no barred owls). Similar to the range-wide results, STVA4 scenarios resulted in populations falling below quasi-extinction 250 in 100% of replicates for 221 of 231 modeling region by network by HAB scenarios. Among the various networks, and except for STVA4, owl population metrics among modeling regions generally performed best in the larger networks and more poorly in smaller networks.
Stages 2 and 3.
After evaluating Stage1 modeling-region-specific results, we developed 11 additional composite scenarios. Composites 1 and 2 represented lower and higher estimated risk to spotted owls, whereas Composites 3–11 represented various refinements to Composites 1 and 2 or suggestions from federal land management agencies. Because Stage1 results revealed that under STVA4 barred owl impacts overwhelmed variation in RHS change and network size and spacing we made modeling region-specific decisions on the barred owl encounter rates to carry through to Stages2 and 3, including an upper limit of 0.375 for any modeling region. We decreased barred owl encounter probabilities in 3 of 11 modeling regions and increased encounter probabilities in 8 modeling regions (Table 10). Decreases ranged from 0.335 (0.71 to 0.375 in the OCR) to 0.065 (0.315 to 0.25 in the KLW). Increases ranged from 0.005 (0.245 to 0.25 in KLE) to 0.079 (0.296 to 0.375 in ECN). Mean absolute value of change among modeling regions was 0.081 (SD = 0.091).
Table 10. Barred owl (STVA) encounter rates by modeling region.
Modeling region comparisons.
Under the optimistic RHS scenario, simulated owl populations in the WCN, WCC, and NCO modeling regions went to extinction in more than 75% (75–82%), 13% (13–27%), and 11% (11–22%) of replicates under all networks (Table 11), respectively. In all other modeling region by network comparisons, no more than 2% of replicates resulted in simulated populations going to extinction, with the vast majority never going to extinction. However, in the ECN, ECS, NCO, ORC, WCC, and WCN modeling regions, >99% of simulated populations fell below 250 individuals in all networks evaluated. In the WCS from 44% (Composite 3) to 52% (Composite 8) of simulations had estimated populations falling below 250. In the ICC, KLE, KLW, and RDC modeling regions, from 0 to 18% of simulations fell below 250 among networks (Table 11).
Table 11. Estimated northern spotted owl population responses, in modeling regions, among candidate critical habitat networks for the optimistic relative habitat suitability change scenarios.
For the optimistic RHS scenario, estimated population size at time step 350 was generally smallest in modeling regions under Composite 8 and NWFP, and largest under Composites 1 and 11 (Table 11). As with the range-wide population performance metrics, there was relatively little variation in population performance among networks under the optimistic RHS scenario (Table 11).
Under the pessimistic RHS scenario, simulated spotted owl populations in the ECS, ICC, KLE, KLW, RDC, and WCS never went to extinction among the 100 replicates in any of the networks (Table 12). Simulated owl populations in the WCN were most prone to extinction, ranging from 75% (Composite 4) to 84% (Composites 8 and 9) of simulations. However, in every network and modeling region, from 3 to 100% of simulations fell below 250 individuals, with the KLW and ICC populations falling below 250 individuals the fewest times (Table 12), and the ECN, ECS, NCO, ORC, WCC, and WCN populations falling below 250 individuals during ≥98% of replicates in all networks. Mean estimated population size at time step 350 within modeling regions was generally largest under Composites 1, 4, 10, and 11 (Table 12).
Table 12. Estimated northern spotted owl population responses, in modeling regions, to potential critical habitat networks for the pessimistic relative habitat suitability change scenarios.
Range-wide comparisons.
Under the optimistic RHS change scenario we found relatively small differences in owl population performance among Composites 1–11 and the NWFP (Table 13). For example, the average estimated percentage of time step 50 population size that was realized at time step 350 ranged from 54% (Composite 8) to 63% (Composite 11). Similarly, the number of replicates during which population size fell below 1,000 individuals ranged from 0 to 3. Mean population sizes at time step 350 under the optimistic RHS scenario ranged from 3,774 (Composite 8) to 4,375 (Composite 1), however, the 95% confidence intervals of all optimistic RHS scenario networks overlapped (Table 13).
Table 13. Estimated range-wide northern spotted owl population responses to candidate critical habitat networks for the optimistic and pessimistic relative habitat suitability change scenarios.
Under the pessimistic RHS scenario, we observed more pronounced differences in owl population performance among networks (Table 13). Estimated percentage of time step 50 population size that was realized at time step 350 averaged from 35% (NWFP) to 47% (Composites 1 and 4; Table 13). Number of replicates during which the range-wide population fell below 1,000 individuals ranged from 3 (Composite 3) to 14 (NWFP). Mean population size at time step 350 under the pessimistic RHS scenario ranged from 2,420 (NWFP) to 3,374 (Composite 1); however, 95% confidence intervals overlapped for Composites 1, 3–7, and 9–11 (Composite 8’s confidence interval overlapped with all of these except for Composites 4 and 11) (Table 13).
There were no replicates in either optimistic or pessimistic RHS scenarios during which the range-wide population went to extinction. Range-wide populations fell below 750 individuals during only 29 (6 optimistic and 23 pessimistic) of 2,400 (1.21%) replicates (Table 13).
Composite 11 was the most efficient of the networks we evaluated (Fig 8). Population performance metrics were nearly identical for Composite 11 and other high-performing networks, but Composite 11 was less than half the size (Fig 9) of some other high-performing networks (e.g., Composite 4).
Fig 8. Mean and 95% confidence intervals of simulated northern spotted owl population sizes among 11 composite candidate critical habitat networks and the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) size, based on the pessimistic habitat change scenario.
Maps of (a) Composite 11 (Critical Habitat designated in 2012), and (b) The Zonation scenario with 70% of habitat value, with emphasis on public lands. Although Z70PUB was more than twice the size of Composite 11, simulated spotted owl populations performed similarly.
The depth and breadth of research on the spotted owl range from habitat selection at different spatial scales and throughout much of the species' range (e.g., [41, 80]) to long-term demographic studies [37–40] to more recent evaluations of the impacts of competition with the congeneric barred owl [40, 50, 51]. The tremendous body of literature on spotted owls provided strong empirical underpinnings for much of our modeling. The vast majority of large-scale conservation planning projects have large data gaps, whether missing altogether, data being from locations that may not represent broader conditions in which the species lives, or from relatively short-duration studies. Thus, it is perhaps unsurprising that most such efforts rely on proxies or best guesses to fill in informational gaps or to parameterize models. We contend that, owing to the quantity and quality of data available on spotted owls, we came close to achieving the ideal of successfully combining spatial prioritization and population modeling to evaluate the likelihood of population persistence under a variety of scenarios [2, 106]. We did, however, make simplifying assumptions (e.g., no variation of barred owl encounter rates within modeling regions) when existing data could not substantiate more nuanced representations. Nonetheless, the modeling framework we created is scalable and can incorporate such data as they become available.
Our project was motivated by legal requirements under the ESA. Our modeling work was a part of this larger process and necessitated several formal legal and policy considerations. Nonetheless, our approach allowed for comparisons of candidate networks and scenarios, including those that might be considered optimistic but unrealistic from a social-politico standpoint. The ESA requires that the listing of a species, sub-species, or distinct population be made “solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available” [107]. We attempted to use that same guidance in our process of developing and evaluating candidate critical habitat networks.
Our overall approach was to identify RHS throughout the spotted owl's range using MaxEnt, use that RHS map to help identify habitat networks in Zonation, and then use HexSim, an individual-based spatially-explicit population model, to evaluate spotted owl population performance among the various networks. To our knowledge, our effort is the first to use these conservation planning tools in tandem to develop and evaluate alternative networks for the designation of critical habitat. In a review of studies evaluating critical habitat in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, ours was the only one that explicitly referenced population viability [108].
Our models and approach are scalable. Thus, if and when the distribution, abundance, demographic performance, and impacts of barred owls become better understood, and in a spatially-explicit manner, we can include those more nuanced effects in HexSim. If warranted, HexSim can explicitly accommodate a two-species model [51] with barred owls using resources, breeding, dying, etc.; as opposed to our representation of them as only influencing spotted owl survival. Further, there may be alternative ways to model barred owl influence on spotted owls. For example, barred owl presence was used in HexSim to decrement spotted owl habitat quality, rather than spotted owl survival [109]. The best way to incorporate barred owls in an explicitly two-species HexSim model may yet be told from continued monitoring and from field studies on the interactions of the species. Other refinements to our modeling approach may also be possible as more is learned about spotted owls themselves. For example, a two-sex model could become possible for spotted owls, as mate finding, “divorce”, and adult dispersal become better understood.
Provided sufficient data exist, our approach to developing and evaluating candidate critical habitat networks for spotted owls could be applied to conservation and/or land use planning for other species. However, for most other species more proxies or professional opinion would likely be needed to parameterize models. Our process was repeatable and scientifically defensible and allows for evaluation of the efficacy of candidate habitat networks or reserves for meeting conservation objectives under a variety of potential future scenarios. For other species and circumstances, potential future scenarios could include urban development, energy development, habitat conversion, water diversion, livestock grazing, mining, disease outbreaks, climate change, rodenticide poisoning [110], culling of barred owls [111], shifts of wildfire regimes from climate change, and many other factors that may affect population performance. Our generalized approach is flexible enough to accommodate relatively simple scenarios like we used or far more nuanced and sophisticated forecasting such as predicting climate change impacts to habitat, prey, and competitors in a spatially explicit manner. We would also recommend that other researchers evaluate many different candidate networks (size and distribution) as well as scenarios (assumptions about habitat, prey, competitors, etc.). Doing so provides decision makers with more “option space”, given insights into how simulated populations respond to variation in network size and distribution, and assumptions about important ecological conditions.
Different portions of the landscape were prioritized when using resource selection function (RSF) maps versus when HexSim was used in combination with RSF maps to model biologically-informed population outcomes for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) [112]. HexSim was also used to evaluate potential effects of renewable energy development on Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) [113]. In those studies and ours, insights that were not possible or obvious without the modeling tools helped to identify conservation actions more likely to result in positive population outcomes. Nonetheless, it is important to understand and identify key model assumptions and how influential they are on model outcomes. For example, our sensitivity analyses of the HexSim spotted owl model showed that population outcomes were highly sensitive to variation in adult survival. For the spotted owl, it has long been known that populations are most sensitive to adult survival [103]. Furthermore, empirical estimates of adult survival exist for many study areas throughout the owl’s range [38, 39], so we were confident with the values we used in the model.
We could have used our RHS maps to quantify NSO population dynamics through the construction of patch dynamics models (e.g., metapopulation or patch occupancy models). While effective pedagogic tools, patch dynamics models have limited practical utility compared to the HexSim simulator. Metapopulation and patch occupancy models, for example, extrapolate measures of population size and stability from estimates of patch-specific colonization and extinction rates, but do not account for within-patch dynamics, nor can they accommodate movement behaviors or impacts of disturbance exhibited by some individuals but not others. And, unlike the parameters informing our mechanistic IBM (e.g., biological upper-limits on vital rates), extinction and colonization rates cannot be assumed immutable. Hence, patch dynamic models are more constrained regarding population forecasting. The rationale for developing patch dynamics models is that they can account for spatial pattern while having minimal data requirements, and this may be a good reason for their use in some circumstances. But the colonization and extinction rates they require are typically not well characterized, nor is it clear that distinct resource patches can always be identified within our RHS map. In contrast, our parsimonious but mechanistic IBM did not necessitate tessellating the RHS map, and it was based on life history information that has been recorded consistently for decades over much of the NSO's range. Patch occupancy and metapopulation models set the stage generally for the development of spatial IBMs, but the latter now constitute the best available science, and as such are sought out by regulatory agencies. Plus our spatial IBM can be made more biologically nuanced as additional demographic information becomes available, as illustrated by previously cited efforts to extend its utility through the addition of a full barred owl population sub-model.
Model estimates and reality
As with several previous efforts at devising conservation plans for the spotted owl, we attempted to use and synthesize the extensive empirical data available. Conservation planners recognize that the models they use are imperfect, and often rely on proxies for environmental features that have no valid estimates, or when those estimates don’t exist in a spatially explicit way. The ultimate measure of a conservation plan is its effectiveness [15]–a measure that is only available over some (generally long) time period. Nonetheless, and notwithstanding the uncertainties inherent in these processes, confidence in model outputs can and should be tempered relative to their concordance with contemporary empirically-derived estimates.
Our models were largely informed by empirical research on spotted owls. Our RHS models were based primarily on published studies, but some variables included were informed by expert opinion. Nonetheless, the resulting RHS predictions showed strong fidelity to empirical studies of spotted owl habitat selection. That is, high RHS values within each modeling region corresponded to areas with more basal area of large-diameter trees, high percentage canopy cover, etc. (B. Woodbridge and J. Dunk, unpublished data). From RHS estimates, we estimated “resource value” for each territorial owl, an over-arching feature that represented the sum total of resources that we did not have spatially explicit estimates of. Because of the well-established variation in spotted owl home range size, we varied resource targets among modeling regions by a factor of 5 (Table E in S1 Appendix). Age specific survival estimates from the meta-analysis that occurred nearly coincident with our analyses [38] were also used. We set three classes of age-specific survival as a function of the percentage of the target resource value owls acquired in their home ranges. Empirical studies informed, but did not directly guide, our decision making process. For example, survival (and fitness) were related to spotted owl habitat characteristics [7]. Our division of age-specific survival into three resource classes was logical, but one of many possible choices that could have been made. Ultimately, the question is whether the myriad decisions made in developing the model(s) resulted in realistic population-level patterns of distribution, movement, and abundance. Our model estimates of owl density were close to empirical estimates for six of eight demographic study areas we found data for (S1 Fig). For the remaining two, one model estimate was too high and the other too low. Similarly, estimates of dispersal distances between modeled and real owls showed very similar distributions (S2 Fig).
In the meta-analysis of the finite rate of population change [38], the top-ranked a priori model included ecoregion and proportion of spotted owl territories with barred owl detections. In our modeling, we used estimates of barred owl encounter rates from DSAs [38], and applied them to our modeling regions. In an effort to further evaluate the proxies we chose in our modeling, we overlaid modeling region boundaries with DSA boundaries and estimated mean RHS of each DSA by modeling region subdivision (n = 18). We then created a generalized additive regression model using mean RHS and barred owl encounter rates to predict finite rate of population change from [38]. For the DSAs that overlapped more than one modeling region, the same estimated lambda value from [38] was used in both regions. We then evaluated the relationship between our estimated lambda, based on RHS and barred owl encounter rate, and the DSA lambda values from [38]. The coefficient of determination between the two was 0.81 (of the 18 differences, the largest absolute value of difference between the two estimates was 0.0197). The value of this exercise was to evaluate whether the time-consuming data gathered by many scientists over the course of, sometimes, multiple decades and analyzed using sophisticated mark-recapture techniques could be closely predicted using our proxies. Importantly, our estimates would have no known mooring to reality without these empirically-derived estimates. This specific evaluation may also provide insights into what, among the ecoregions, within the top-ranking model of [38] was driving the relationship; perhaps variation in RHS. Although approached differently, the findings of [38, 40, 50, 51], and ours all suggest that habitat and barred owls are important drivers of spotted owl distributions, abundances, and population dynamics. In the revised recovery plan for the spotted owl [45], it was noted that critical habitat was necessary, but not sufficient alone, to recover the owl. A project related to ours [102] reached the same conclusion. Our analyses corroborate this contention. We suggest that the close correspondence between our models’ estimates and empirical data meets the “realism” standard for informing conservation planning.
The most conservative interpretation of model outputs is to treat them as purely relative to other scenarios, such that some scenarios have better or worse population outcomes than others. However, we strove to develop a model that was also accurate. Due to the closeness of model estimates and empirical data, our model estimates can also be used to make more nuanced statements about the degree of difference among various scenarios. That is, rather than “better or worse”, our modeled population performance metrics can also be interpreted to represent how much better or worse owls would be expected to perform under various scenarios.
Given the purpose for which our modeling framework was developed, the application of the models for other purposes has some limitations. For example, the models were developed for use and tested at relatively large spatial scales. We do not have a specific area threshold below which it would be inappropriate to use the model but we recommend that it be used at relatively large scales. For example, a national forest could use our HexSim model to evaluate the estimated effects of potential future management actions or other changes to their lands on spotted owls. However, we would also recommend that the models should be run on much larger modeling region or range-wide landscapes than the national forest is embedded within. For these exercises, we recommend either holding other landscape areas constant or making assumptions about what may happen to spotted owl habitat on other ownerships over time. HexSim allows reports for any particular geographic area to be generated, so evaluating what happens to simulated owls on relatively small areas among various scenarios can occur when applying the model to a large area. We strongly caution against the application of our HexSim model to small landscapes that are treated in an insular way (i.e., treating a study area or ownership as if it exists in a vacuum).
Conservation and management implications
Although we conducted a time- and labor-intensive process to develop and evaluate candidate networks, one of which (Composite 11) was chosen and designated as critical habitat [105], we do not believe this was the most important part of the “critical habitat” process. The most important part of the process is what comes next; in deciding what happens where and when within critical habitat and monitoring the effects of those decisions. The Revised Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl [45] and the final rule designating critical habitat [105] recommended maintaining and restoring high quality spotted owl habitat and active management within critical habitat. Hence, the intentions of the USFWS were to maintain the most valuable areas for the owls but allow management to restore, improve, or protect other areas.
Our findings could be used to identify areas to provide strong protections against habitat loss (e.g., ≥50 RHS) as well as identifying lower suitability areas (e.g., <30 RHS) where various management treatments, including ecological forestry approaches [114] might be warranted. Such management approaches could have the goal of protecting high suitability areas for spotted owls and other species with overlapping habitat associations and restoring or improving habitat conditions, reducing fire risk, or generating revenue in low suitability areas. For areas of intermediate suitability (RHS 30–49.99), a more case-by-case approach to the management is warranted. In general, active management within critical habitat should consider the larger landscape including the amounts and spatial patterns of habitats of all suitability levels. In some portions of the owl’s range, intermediate RHS areas may represent the best conditions for owls. Such circumstances may warrant greater protection. In other portions of the range, intermediate suitability areas may coincide with high wildfire risk and hazard, and be reasonably targeted for thinning, especially when thinning those areas provides a protective benefit to nearby high-suitability areas.
Barred owl populations within the range of the spotted owl are apparently not currently at equilibrium. There is evidence of increases in barred owl populations [39], since the work of [38] that we used to parameterize our models. Hence, it is likely that barred owl encounter rates, and thus impacts, in many portions of the spotted owl’s range will increase if no countervailing management actions are taken. Our models that assumed a barred owl encounter probability of 0.5 throughout the range resulted in estimated spotted owl population declines by about 90%. Declines of that magnitude would almost certainly lead to the disappearance of the spotted owl from large portions of its currently-occupied range, if not functional extinction. Using the spotted owl HexSim model presented herein, barred owl management scenarios (encounter probability decreased to 0.15) within accessible (by road) high suitability conservation lands in Washington state were evaluated and spotted owl population responses compared to scenarios with no barred owls and with no barred owl control (0.5 encounter probability state-wide) [115]. Under the no barred owl control scenario state-wide owl populations declined by 95%, but under the barred owl control scenario populations declined by about 50%. Other, more nuanced, and spatially explicit scenarios can be evaluated, perhaps with implementation costs (e.g., see [116]) or other socio-political constraints included. In the redwood region, on-the-ground barred owl removal resulted in large differences in spotted owl population trends (2.9% increase) in areas where barred owls were removed compared to areas where they were not removed (13% decrease) [117]. Improvements in our modeling process, such as moving from forecasting scenarios to making predictions about future conditions could be accomplished with more realistic and spatially-explicit estimates of forest growth, wildfire, and harvest throughout the spotted owl’s range. Similarly, a two-species HexSim model that included both spotted owls and barred owls, and that modeled interspecific competition, would also likely add realism to such predictions.
Our process of synthesizing the vast literature on spotted owls and incorporating it into modern conservation planning approaches (species distribution modeling with MaxEnt, reserve location modeling with Zonation, and population modeling with HexSim) provides a repeatable and scientifically defensible approach to evaluating many candidate networks and alternative scenarios. Doing so allows decision makers a better understanding of risk and the potential for successful conservation. Additionally, our approach is modular, such that more information can be incorporated into the modeling approaches we developed. For example, more nuanced habitat change information or a two-species population model can be incorporated into the models we’ve developed. The majority of species of conservation concern do not have the wealth of information that we had for the spotted owl. Nonetheless, our generalized modeling approaches can be utilized for many species, and new information can be incorporated as it becomes available. Thus, the modeling and decision making framework can and should be adaptable to new information.
S1 Appendix. Details of modeling methods and results.
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S1 Fig. Differences between empirical estimates of northern spotted owl densities and HexSim-derived estimates (mean and 95% CI of 5 replicates) for eight demographic study areas.
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S2 Fig. Comparison of distribution of northern spotted owl dispersal distances derived empirically from banded owls (Forsman et al. 2002; n = 328) and from HexSim simulations (n = 850,000).
Alan Brookes put up with endless urgent requests for model enhancements, and translating biology into computer source code at an amazing speed. We would also like to acknowledge the work conducted by many biologists who shared their data, experiences, and understanding of spotted owl habitat use and behavior, in particular B. Hollen and L. Folliard of the BLM. H. Dunk assisted with manuscript formatting and preparation. We also thank Academic Editor Sara M. Koss and two anonymous reviewers whose comments and suggestions greatly improved the manuscript.
This manuscript has been subjected to review by the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory’s Western Ecology Division and approved for publication. Approval does not signify that the contents reflect the views of the Agency, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. Similarly, the findings and conclusions in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the U.S. Forest Service. Our friend and colleague Robert G. Anthony passed away before the submission of the final version of this manuscript. Jeffrey R. Dunk accepts responsibility for the integrity and validity of the data collected and analyzed.
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A new privacy policy by the popular social media platform, Whatsapp, is triggering an exodus of users to other less popular but equally functional platforms such as Telegram, Signal, among others.
Technology experts say if this is addressed, it could lead millions of users away from WhatsApp.
The new privacy policy which comes into force from February 8, allows WhatsApp and Facebook to share user information with businesses and third-party service providers that transact on these platforms.
Whatsapp in its new ‘Terms of Service’ which the users are expected to agree to says “…as part of the Facebook companies, Whatsapp receives information from and shares information with the Facebook Companies as described in Whatsapp’s privacy policy including to provide integrations which enable you to connect your Whatsapp experience with other Facebook company products; to ensure security, safety, and integrity across the Facebook company products; and to improve your ads and products experience across the Facebook Company products.”
Since its release days ago, the policy has been generating reactions from Whatsapp users in Nigeria and all over the world. But that is coming from those who took their time to read the terms as many users would hurriedly click ‘Agree’ without reading the content of the agreement.
Should you worry?
Though WhatsApp has been collecting data from its users since its inception, the new policy is about integrating the database with Facebook, which could on a future date resort to targeted advertising and political campaigns based on user information.
Also, it raises privacy concerns as it plans to monetise the user data.
Besides the device information and location data, the platform also collects information like messaging data, calling, status, groups (including group name, group picture, group description), payments or business feature, profile photo, whether you are online or not among others details.
It now wants users to share the phone number, IP address, mobile service provider, and browsing information with Facebook.
The new terms and conditions also say that if a user uses a data backup service integrated with WhatsApp (like iCloud, Google Drive), he/she will receive information such as your WhatsApp messages, the content of in-app players, your payment and transaction information, shipping details and transaction amount (if using WhatsApp Pay).
For now, the company has said it “still” does not allow third-party banner ads on their services and has no intention to introduce them, but it hinted at introducing the feature in the future. “If we ever do, we will update this privacy policy,” the company stated in the policy.
Here are five alternatives of Whatsapp that you can use
Telegram: The cloud-based messaging app offers end-to-end encryption for both messages and voice calls. Users can send up to 1.5GB of files and add up to 200, 000 users in a group. It is compatible with Android, iOS, Windows, Windows NT, macOS and Linux based operating systems.
Signal: It is available on Android and iOS. Unlike WhatsApp, the Signal Private Messenger app is also available on the iPad, and users can also download and install the Signal app on Windows, Linux and Mac, like WhatsApp.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also advised people to “Use Signal”. After his suggestion, Signal beat WhatsApp to become the top free app on App Store in India, Germany, France, Austria, Finland, Hong Kong, and Switzerland.
Viber: With Viber users will have access to unlimited calls, endless texting and high-quality video chat.
Threema: The messaging app from Switzerland provides end-to-end encryption for all messages. Threema uses the trusted open source NaCl cryptography library for encryption.
Element: Element also gives end-to-end encryption for text, voice, videos Messages. It works with Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and major browsers.
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Are Anabolic Steroids Safe To Use If You Are A Recovering Addict?
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Anabolic steroids are synthetic, man-made versions of the hormone testosterone and certainly have legitimate uses. For example, they can be used to induce puberty and to treat with serious diseases such as cancer.
However, they are often abused for non-medical purposes to increase muscle mass or to improve physical performance. Unfortunately, the use of steroids may result in very serious long-term consequences, just like drugs and alcohol. And also like other substances, steroids can cause dependence – moreover, a substance can be addictive even if it does not induce a euphoric high.
When someone becomes dependent on steroids, that person may continue to use them even when use negatively impacts his or her life and health. And just like addicts and alcoholics, anabolic steroid users will often spend excessively on their habit, and go to great lengths to both acquire the substances and hide their addiction.
Some people believe that steroids are safe to use when recovering from other addictions, but this could not be further from the truth. A person who has already exhibited the propensity for addiction to one substance is at a heightened risk for dependency to another.
Clearly, the answer is no – steroids are never safe to use especially if you are an addict or alcoholic in recovery.
Furthermore, many people who have addictions to anabolic steroids enter rehab facilities for treatment just as if they were addicted to drug or alcohol. Anabolic steroids are never safe for non-medical use and should not be used for any other purposes than those prescribed by a doctor.
Short-Term Side Effects of Steroids
In addition to perceived positive effects of steroids, there are many side effects that may occur even after using steroids for just a short time. These include:
Moodiness
Irritability/agitation
Decreased sperm count
Additionally, since anabolic steroids usually come in the form an injectable liquid, users may incur swelling or infection around injection sites, sometimes not dissimilar to track marks seen in heroin users.
Approximately 13 % of steroids users admit to sharing needles or vials, a dangerous practice that could result in HIV and hepatitis infections.
More Possible Side Effects
Since anabolic steroids are a form of testosterone, they will influence gender characteristics. Some people have been known to use steroids at incredibly high doses, 100 times or more the level of what is medically appropriate.
The following side effects may also occur:
Growth of breast tissue in men
Severe mood swings, depression, and mania
Menstrual irregularities in women
Excessive hair growth in women
Deepening of the voice in women
Long-Term Effects of Steroids
Although the use of anabolic steroids does not invoke the same intense, short-term psychological reaction that drugs such as cocaine and heroin do, use does alter the brain over the long-term, including impaired production of neurotransmitters. This often results in mood and behavior changes, and may cause the following:
Acceleration of balding in men
Anger and aggression (“roid rage”)
Paranoia and delusions.
Increased cholesterol
Increased risk of diabetes
Blood-borne diseases from injecting
Can You Overdose on Steroids?
Yes, you can overdose on steroids. The most serious overdoses most occur after a cumulative effect of long-term use, but taking a very large amount can also cause the following:
Tremor and convulsions
High blood pressure and body temperature
Anabolic Steroids Dependence and Withdrawals
As noted, anabolic steroid use can result in dependence, generally described as the feeling that one cannot function normally without using the substance. The longer and more frequent a substance is used, the more severe the dependence, and the more difficult it may be to overcome it.
Fortunately, steroid withdrawal may be done by using a tapering schedule. This helps mitigate withdrawal symptoms and lessen the risk of relapse. Withdrawal symptoms may include:
Apathy and depression
Concentration difficulties
Sleep disturbances and fatigue
Decreased libido
Joint and muscle pain
Depression is a very dangerous side effect of withdrawal and may result in suicidal thoughts. Treatment for anabolic steroid dependency is critical to both ensure safety during the withdrawal period and to decrease the likelihood of negative consequences and relapse.
Psychological Motivation
Finally, there is often very concerning mental health issues surrounding anabolic steroid use. These include body dysmorphia (distorted body image.) These false beliefs can be very debilitating, and keep someone using in an effort to keep these feelings at bay.
People with these feelings should also be treated with psychotherapy to understand their intrinsic motivations behind use, and why they are so counterproductive.
Anabolic steroids have a high potential for overuse and dependency. The truth is that no one should use steroids for any reason that is not medically-approved. Recovering addicts and alcoholics may be especially vulnerable because they have already exhibited tendencies toward addiction.
If you believe you may have a dependency on anabolic steroids, please seek the help of a professional as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be to recover.
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WaveFront Sensing for Large Telescopes
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My name is Thomas Zielinski, and I am currently a second year PhD student at the Institute of Optics. I am working under the direction of Professor James R. Fienup on wavefront sensing risk reduction methods for next generation telescope systems. Current work is modeled after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
The JWST is a large infrared, segmented-aperture space telescope scheduled for launch in 2015. The large 6.6 meter primary mirror is too large to fit in any current launch vehicle, and therefore must be designed to fold in on itself. In the current design, the primary will consist of 18 controllable hexagonal segments. After unfolding, each one of these segments must then be precisely aligned. For proper operation, these segments must be positioned and maintained to an accuracy on the scale of billionths of a meter. In order to determine misalignments an image-based wavefront sensing algorithm will be used. Unfortunately, there are several possible scenarios under which a conventional variant of such an algorithm may fail. The goal of this research is to develop and characterize phase retrieval and phase diversity algorithms that are more robust under several non-ideal circumstances and can be used to phase the telescope when the current algorithms are not adequate, thereby reducing the risk of failure.
Geometrical Ray Trace through the James Webb Optical Telescope Element
Artist’s rendition of a future formation flying telescope
Additionally, the development of such algorithms may serve as an enabling technology for future missions. Several planned NASA space telescope missions require image-based wavefront sensing and control under conditions for which the primary fine-phasing approaches for the JWST will not be adequate. More advanced and robust algorithms will be required in order to satisfy the alignment requirements of such missions.
In order to ascertain the misalignemnts on the primary mirror, several defocused images are taken as illustrated below.
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Our goals are to extend and characterize the performance of such a method in situations with :
Lower SNR (allows use of dimmer stars)
Larger aberrations
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The Legend of Zelda: the cure for obsessions and broken hearts
This post is part of a series exploring the history of The Legend of Zelda and its major entries. Be sure to check out the hub article on NekoJonez’s Gaming Blog for links to all the great retrospectives written by other bloggers, and to find out more about what makes this Nintendo franchise such a classic.
Image above courtesy of Pieter-Jan Casteels.
A couple of years ago, it seemed as if Minecraft had completely taken over my young stepson’s world. He talked about it non-stop for the entire time he was with us every weekend. He woke us up at 05:30 each day just so we could play it together (despite being told to go back to bed). He explained that we were exploring ‘Minecraft world’ whenever we went out to the park for the day; and all of his imaginary games involved enemies that looked suspiciously like creepers who blew up when hit with a sword.
You could say it was a childhood obsession but we noticed Ethan’s behaviour changing. After picking up the controller he’d start to get tetchy: he stopped taking on our suggestions for things to build because they were ‘silly’ and did the opposite of whatever we proposed when he asked what armour or weapon he should take on his adventures. This title about ‘creativity’ seemed to bring about a more aggressive side in my stepson that we weren’t expecting – but luckily, a green-suited hero on a sure-footed steed came to the rescue in our hour of need.
Ethan has always had a fascination with castles, knights and all things noble for as long as I’ve known him. It therefore wasn’t much of a surprise when he chose a Link Amiibo to go with the Wii U he received for Christmas that year. Other than a short amount of time spent with The Legend of Zelda on his dad’s old Game Boy he’d never had any contact with the character, but the sword in his hand and shield on his back convinced him that this was a mighty, powerful warrior worthy of spending his pocket-money on.
His slightly distorted view of Link may have been based on his imagination rather than the developer’s intended design but he came to like him so much that other characters featured in Mario Kart 8 stopped getting a turn on the track. It was therefore a sign when I heard Nintendo were making The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time available on their Virtual Console in 2015, and we decided to download the game as a surprise before we picked him up one Friday evening.
We were a little worried it might be too difficult for him or that the retro-style would put him off playing but my other-half and I both had such fond memories of the title that we thought it was worth a shot. I first experienced it back in the late 1990s after a boyfriend had cruelly broken my teenage heart and my brother invited me to play it with him to take my mind off things, and it worked: we spent hours in his bedroom just running around the fields of Hyrule and fishing in Lake Hylia. It was the first time we hadn’t had a sibling argument in years and I didn’t give that boyfriend a second thought.
It turned out that Ethan loved Ocarina of Time just as much as we had when we were younger. We raced on Epona while trying to get to Lon Lon Ranch before the skeletal Syalchildren came out at night. We became entangled in the Lost Wood on several occasions and drew maps on scraps of paper to help. We turned day-into-night and night-into-day more times than I can remember so we could learn the Ocarina notes. We befriended Kokiri and Gorans, found lost puppies, made staggering leaps of faith – and yelled at Navi to keep quiet whenever she nagged us to listen.
It’s proof you don’t need fancy high-resolution graphics, endless open-worlds or complicated gameplay to make an amazing title. An awesome video game will stand the test of time regardless of technological advances and this one still holds up since its release almost 20 years ago. Yes, the graphics may now look dated and yes, Navi can be really bloody annoying when she wants to be, but many people the world over still refer to it as one of the best titles ever made and you can almost guarantee its place in any new ‘top games’ list.
Its legacy is pretty clear to any gamer. As one of the first 3D action-adventure games, it introduced many aspects that would become staples of the genre in future years – just look at the lock-on Z-targeting and the context-sensitive actions as good examples. This is a game held in such high esteem that it’s sometimes easy to forget how ground-breaking its mechanics were, and how accomplished they remain all these years later.
Ocarina of Time also seemed to have a great effect on my stepson: he stopped being all about bashing everything in sight and filling Nether fortresses full of chickens (although that was pretty funny), and became more about saving the world. I think it was the actions-and-consequences element of the storyline that did it. If we didn’t help the citizens of Hyrule – even if it was only finding their lost puppies, reorganising their crates or selling them masks – the evil Ganondorf would triumph, and that was something Ethan didn’t want to let happen.
Link may not have turned out to be the ‘mighty warrior’ of his imagination but he now sees him as more than just the Master Sword and Hylian Shield. He’s also getting to have his own experience of playing and it’s sweet to think that perhaps he’ll end up showing Ocarina of Time to his own children one day. Those familiar notes will sound on the Ocarina, he’ll remember the battle for the Triforce, and he’ll be transported straight back to the beautiful land of Hyrule.
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Robert Ian Shepard says:
Ocarina of Time is a really awesome game because so many people have stories like this. Not only was it impactful on the industry but it was impactful on people. I know for me it was my first Zelda game and that was the moment when Link became my childhood (and let’s be honest, adulthood) hero. I’m glad to see that Ethan likes the game despite its age – may it be the gateway for him to enjoy many more Zelda experiences!
Ethan and I started playing The Wind Waker together a while ago, and it looks as though it’s going to be one of those games he dips into every so often rather than complete it all in one go. We did however have a lengthy conversation about The Legend of Zelda lore over dinner a couple of weekends ago – so I’d say Link has made quite an impression on him! 😉
NekoJonez says:
While Ocarina of Time hasn’t aged THAT well, it’s like AdventureRules said.
The impact it had on some many childhoods… That makes this game into a real true classic.
The Wii U version is great, even though it doesn’t look the best… except for the damn controls. I just can’t get the hang of them on the GamePad so we usually let Ethan have the controller! Ha ha ha
This is really sweet! I’m just going through all the Zelda Project posts now, and while it’s really cool learning about each game’s place in the history of the series, my favourite posts are the ones that talk about how that game made them feel. Sadly, I’ve played very few of the Zelda games anywhere near their launch, but seeing stuff like this about how a decades-old game can still bring joy to a child is really cool.
It’s really only Ocarina of Time I’ve played myself, with a bit of The Wind Waker thrown in for good measure. But reading everybody else’s post has inspired me and made me feel as if I need to expand that list! 🙂
silverbullethead says:
While Zelda has never really appealed to me, i really liked reading this post
I’ll admit, I never would have played Ocarina of Time had it not been for my brother and the situation at the time; and even now it’s the only Zelda game I’ve really played. Maybe we’re the odd ones out. 😉
sininenkettu says:
The last the Legend of Zelda I have played was the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. I remember that I did not like that one so much, because of the way that they did the art in it. Too cartoonish for my taste.
I have this weird condition, that the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time theme music in the Lost Woods sometimes start to ring in my head, even though I haven’t played that game in many many years. But that game was THAT game that made me into gaming. ^____^
Ah that’s a lovely story, thank you for sharing! Everybody has ‘that game’ that started them off. For me it was The Secret of Monkey Island – I can still hum the entire theme tune despite playing it back when it was released. 😉
Drakulus says:
I’m not a huge Zelda fan, but I really enjoyed reading this :). Ocarina of Time is my favorite Zelda game. It was my first Zelda game too. It didn’t make my top 10, but it’s definitely in my top 20. That’s a cute kid by the way.
Would like to add that the 3DS version is much better. Looks better and plays better than the Wii U version.
Yeah, I can imagine that the 3DS version is better. The controls on the Wii U are just way too fiddly – it kind of spoils the game a bit as they constantly break immersion while you’re trying to figure them out…
GerudoKing says:
Ha! I forced my way past those controls! It took me forever, and I will be DAMNED if I could shoot just one shot with that bow without screwing up, but I eventually managed.
You sir, are a saint! How you had the patience to eventually master the controls, I’ll never know. 😂
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classic game. I’d love to try it again one day. I was fascinated by it when it first came out. The whole day and night system alone blew me away.
If you give it a go, try something other than the Wii U version if you can – the controls aren’t that great as mentioned in the comments above.
I think there’s something magical even now about being able to affect the time of day with the Ocarina. I’ve caught my stepson turning day-into-night and vice-versa several times in a row just for the sake of it, because he likes watching the change!
spoilsoflore says:
Glad he’s gotten the bashing out of his system~ It wouldn’t have been preceded by an unfortunate incident at the LonLon Ranch, would it? XD Great article and insightful perspective as always!
Cuccos nuggets and beef burgers. That’s all I’m saying.
Won an auction for Zelda on the SNES, hoping it’s good
Wow, congrats! Let us know what you think of it once you’ve had a chance to play? 🙂
Hey, playing it now and I’m really getting into it. Good game!
Ryan Cheddi says:
Ah, this is a feel-good story, really warms the heart y’know? I hope many more young gamers like Ethan become inspired by Link’s heroism and courage; we need more of that in this world, I think.
Well said! It’s the ‘negative’ side of video games that tends to be focused on more often than not, but there’s a lot of positivity that comes out of gaming and the community. 🙂
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The home of the Long Beach Renaissance High School For The Arts is a location steeped in the educational history of Long Beach . RHSA is the newest-old school in the Long Beach Unified School District. By the summer of 1896, the schools of Long Beach were thought to be large enough to justify the establishment of the first school administrative position. After considering the qualifications of 17 interested applicants, the Board of Trustees selected Howard L. Lunt to fill the dual role of high school principal and supervising principal for the total district. Mr. Lunt was the first principal of Long Beach High School . After one year, this position was divided so that Mr. Lunt could devote himself to his duties as high school principal while D. H. Chaplin became the supervising principal for the lower schools.
The original school on the corner of 8th Street and American Avenue was known as Long Beach High School and later American Avenue School . American Avenue was later renamed Long Beach Boulevard . This school was funded by a $10,000 bond, which was passed by the voters in 1897. This was the first locally built high school opened in Los Angeles County outside of the City of Los Angeles .
When the school was dedicated in May 1898, County Superintendent of Schools Riley confessed that when he had been petitioned three years before to organize a Long Beach high school he had undertaken it "with sincere misgivings." "The mistake I made," said Superintendent Riley, "was in assuming Long Beach to be an ordinary community."
The Long Beach High School of 1898, the school at 8th and Long Beach Boulevard offered a limited program that was primarily aimed at preparing students for college. So satisfactory was the quality of instruction that on July 9, 1904, the University of California accredited the high school to enter college with out passing special examinations. By 1905 when high school enrollment had climbed to 271 students with a faculty of 11, courses were introduced in manual training, cooking, sewing and commercial subjects.
By 1910 the City of Long Beach was the home to 18,000 people. American Avenue High School , was said to be "bulging at the seams" despite many additions to the original structure. Local citizens who visited Los Angeles Polytechnic High School wanted a similar school in Long Beach . Such a school, it was argued, would appeal to many young people who had not been reached by the more traditional type of program. Long Beach Poly High School opened its doors in September of 1911. American Avenue High School became American Avenue Grammar School.
In 1916 the voters of Long Beach rejected a bond issue which would have provided funds for the building of a junior high school. However, when fire destroyed the old American Avenue Grammar School during the Christmas holiday of 1918 a new bond issue was passed for the construction of a new junior high school, known as George Washington Junior High School.
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The Trade Extension Evening High School, which had been organized three years earlier in temporary quarters at State Street (now Pacific Coast Highway), and Cedar Avenue was moved to 8th Street and American Avenue sharing the new location of John Dewey High School. John Dewey was founded in 1925 at another location. This was a big step toward the broadening of a vocational education program for adults, which was to become increasingly important with the outbreak of World War II.
By 1940 John Dewey School , formerly a vocational junior senior high school, took over the Continuation High School . This type of school functioned to provide for the part-time school attendance required for working students under eighteen years of age.
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The Academic Writer's Toolkit by Arthur Asa Berger Berger's slim, user-friendly volume on academic writing is a gift to linguistically-stressed academics. Author of 60 published books, the author speaks to junior scholars and graduate students about the process and products of academic writing. He differentiates between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books. He has suggestions for getting the "turgid" out of turgid academic prose and offers suggestions on how to best structure various forms of documents for effective communication. Written in Berger's friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.
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A full text resource to hundreds of business and general interest magazines and newspapers. Excellent source for company, industry and product information. Also good for general and political news. Legal and medical information can also be obtained. Updated daily. Click on Subjects-->Accounting to search across accounting-specific resources including the Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Today, Wiley GAAP Guide, and more. Click on US Legal-->Tax Law to search across resources related to tax law such as AICPA Tax Advisor, IRS Actions and Memoranda, Combined State Attorney Tax Opinions, and more.
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An intuitive and comprehensive resource for those interested in financial analysis of publicly traded firms. International in scope. Fixed income, industry coverage, news, peer analysis, earnings forecasts, people and private company information is also available. This resource is widely used in the business community.
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Electronic journals and books. Some are subscribed by WU Libraries (available full-text); some are not. Click on Search to search all titles. Includes full-text access to Business, Management & Accounting ebooks and journals.
Provides users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information. Integrates data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
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Electronic journals and books. Some are subscribed by WU Libraries (available full-text); some are not. Select Business, Economics, Finance & Accounting subject to begin your search.
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The first thing to do when you receive a summons – a notice to appear in court – is to read it, thoroughly, every word. Then write out a detailed response and deliver it to the clerk of court. North Carolina law gives you 30 days to respond to a summons. You must also send a copy of your response to whoever is suing you.
Read It Carefully
The summons comes with a copy of the complaint, the accusations made by the plaintiff suing you. Reading it provides you with important information:
Who is the plaintiff and what does she want from you?
Are there multiple plaintiffs or defendants named in the suit?
What are the arguments or evidence in the complaint for why the plaintiff should get what he wants?
Read the complaint over promptly. If you miss the 30-day deadline to file your answer, the court can issue a default judgment against you, ending the case without you participating.
Draft Your Answer
The civil complaint will break down the facts and allegations in the case into a numbered list. You should respond to each item, using the same numbered system. There are three potential responses:
Admission. You might admit that your name is A.J. Smith and that you reside at Mockingbird Lane, if this true.
Denial. If you dispute or are unsure about an allegation of fact in the complaint, deny it.
A statement that you do not have sufficient information to formulate a reply. If the complaint says that the plaintiff was on his way to church at the time of the accident, you may not be in a position to know one way or the other.
Your answer should also include your affirmative defenses – reasons the court should rule in your favor even if an allegation is true. For example, saying the North Carolina statute of limitations has run out on the plaintiff's claim is an affirmative defense.
Read More: How to Answer to the Complaint in a Civil Court
Make Your Own Claims
State your counterclaims, cross-claims and third party claims in your answer. A counterclaim is a related suit you may have against the plaintiff. You may have a counterclaim for shoddy service or a defective product if you are being sued for failure to make a payment on a purchased item. A cross-claim is a claim against a co-defendant. A third-party complaint is a related suit against a third party. If you are sued for crashing your car into a fence, you could assert a third-party claim against the motorist who ran the stop sign and caused you to swerve off the road.
Filing and Serving The Answer
When you've finished and signed the answer, make three copies. File one with the clerk of court in whichever county the plaintiff filed suit against you. You can mail it in – double-check you have the right address – or hand deliver it. You must also "serve" the plaintiff's attorney, or the plaintiff himself if he's his own lawyer. To serve him, mail a copy of your answer. Submit a certificate of service to the court with your paperwork, stating the date on which you served the answer.
OneCle: North Carolina General Statutes § 7 Pleadings allowed; motions
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This article is not intended as legal advice. Only an attorney licensed in North Carolina can give you legal advice on a North Carolina civil suit.
Grayson Charles has been writing and editing since 1986. He enjoys writing technical articles in the areas of government, law, public policy, computers and the impact of the Internet on society. He was previously a freelance writer for "Panacea Magazine." Charles holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the State University of New York at Albany.
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PSYD 6201: Multidisciplinary Approaches to LGBT Health and Well-Being
Students in this course study LGBT health and well-being from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (e.g., medicine, public health, psychology and women’s studies). The course focuses on health status and outcomes at both the individual and community levels. Explored are mechanisms by which social mistreatment of LGBT individuals (i.e., discrimination) “gets under the skin” to affect health behaviors and health outcomes, how the health care setting both improves and detracts from LGBT health at population and individual levels as well as the specific illnesses and medical processes of concern to members of these groups (e.g., HIV/AIDS, cancer, substance use, gender transition). The course also adopts an intersectional analysis of sexual orientation and gender identity with race, social class and age whenever possible.
PSYD 6202: LGBT Mental Health
This course educates students of diverse backgrounds with foundational concepts that will equip them to be thought leaders and change agents on LGBT mental health issues in health policy, physical health care and related professional settings. From an LGBT-affirmative perspective, students examine topics in LGBT psychological and identity development; mental health issues specific to LGBT communities; how LGBT identity can shape experiences of mental health services; effective approaches to LGBT mental health care; and mental health prevention and promotion in LGBT communities. Issues of the intersection between LGBT identity, other minority identities and disability will receive particular focus. This course is open to GW graduate students and to undergraduate students with instructor permission.
PSYD 6203: LGBT Health Policy
This course examines various health policy issues with relevance to LGBT populations including health reform, marriage equality, HIV/AIDS, hate crimes and transgender health policy. Coursework addresses the ways in which LGBT individuals and couples are treated unequally in federal policy and how that impacts health and experiences with health care. Also covered are the various ways in which government can play a role in advancing equality for LGBT health and health care with policies that lessen inequality and enhance the lives of LGBT individuals, couple, and families. This course is meant to be practical. Assignments are focused on developing skills for influencing policy at the federal, state/local level and institutional level.
PSYD 6211: LGBT Health Capstone Project
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Please see details on the Capstone page.
PSYD 6221.10: Transgender Health
This course provides a foundational, conceptual understanding of core trans health issues, in their multifaceted complexity and their physical health, mental health and policy/care systems dimensions. Trans people are often marginalized in the LGBT community and in the society at large and are often targets of violent and vicious oppression. It is at the intersection between these two powerful sets of realities that trans people’s health issues are located, and that our course takes up its work, exploring core issues in the psychology and psychological health, physical health and health care experiences of trans people, and related issues of policy and health care system design. Our in-person sessions will equip students with a foundational conceptual understanding of core trans health issues and also with emerging skills for integrating relevant scientific findings, advocating for trans issues in the contexts and settings in which students work and developing competencies to help students pursue professional work on trans issues.
PSYD 6221-11: Health of Sexual Minority Youth
In this course, students examine approaches for intervention and interaction with the LGBT youth population aimed at improving access to culturally competent care and health outcomes for youth. Course material provides strategies and skills to prepare students to be thought leaders and change agents on LGBT youth health issues in mental health, health policy and related professional settings. This course specifically examines the intersection of racial, ethnic and other disempowered identities within the youth population; topics in LGBT psychological and identity development; and mental health issues specific to LGBT youth communities. Students develop skills in leading change projects related to LGBT sexual minority health issues in their current or potential work settings.
PSYD 6221.DE: Health of Sexual Minority Men
This course provides an introduction to the health of sexual minority men, including mental health, alcohol and drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, syndemic production, aging, social discrimination, violence victimization and child sexual abuse as well as optimizing and obtaining culturally competent health care. The backbone of the course allows students to identify a focused, personalized topic relevant to their professional needs. Topics studied can include mental health, alcohol and drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, syndemic production, aging, social discrimination, violence victimization and child sexual abuse and optimizing and obtaining culturally competent health care.
PSYD 6221.DE1: Rural LGBT Health
This course offers students an intersectional analysis of health care barriers encountered across the lifespan by LGBT individuals living in rural communities. Coursework examines how a rural context can affect human development and understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Students discuss how isolation in rural communities affects coping methods for navigating complex and often conflicting macro social identities (race, ethnicity, social class, religion and other important social identities). A lifespan approach helps guide discussions of public health policies or health care practices that may reinforce barriers to culturally competent rural health care. Conversations focus on approaches for intervention and strategies to create or improve LGBT culturally competent health professionals across the service line in rural communities.
PSYC 6221.DE1: Lesbian Health
This course offers an intersectional analysis of health care barriers encountered across the lifespan by lesbians. Coursework examines how claiming a lesbian identity can affect human development by exploring lesbian themes of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. Historically, women’s health issues have been underfunded for research and receive less publication space in professional journals. The difference is even more profound when we consider the health disparities and impact of institutional barriers on lesbian health. While the LGBT community has made great strides in addressing health disparities, one unintended consequence of “LGBT” is that specific issues that impact lesbian health are often ignored or minimized. Due to the current nature of data collection, some of the issues considered in this course will be relevant for bisexual women’s health care. While there is overlap in this course between transgender and lesbian health care, transgender health disparities are discussed in more detail in the concurrently offered transgender course. Discussion topics include specific health risks for lesbians, what factors may help to mitigate those risks, approaches for intervention, strategies to create or improve lesbian health outreach and the impact of social policy differences between U.S. states.
PSYC 6221.DE1: International LGBTI Health Policy
In this course, students examine key elements influencing global health policy related to LGBT populations. Coursework demonstrates the nature of change in health policy priorities and the fundamental influences driving such change, including political commitment, single-country agendas, multi-stakeholder partnerships (global development actors, private sector and civil society) and how the interplay of multiple factors impact the health and well-being of LGBT individuals by country and region.
Approved Elective Courses From Other Departments
Students may opt to take elective courses within their area of study at other GW schools and departments; pre-approved existing courses are listed here. These on-site elective courses may be double-applied as required courses for master’s and doctoral programs. Students may request approval from the program for other GW courses not listed to apply as elective credit.
PSYC 8236: Ethnic and Racial Diversity in Psychology (3 credits)
PSYC 8275/WGSS 8275: Women and Health (3 credits)
PSYD 8270.14: Cross-Cultural Clinical Psychology (1-3 credits)
PUBH 6099.17: Designing and Evaluating HIV Prevention Programs (1-3 credits)
PUBH 6514.10: Preventing Health Disparities (2 credits)
WGSS 3170.12: Sexuality and the Law (3 credits)
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The Texas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday on expanding voters’ ability to use mail-in ballots for upcoming elections. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton received a stay from the court last Friday in response to his petition asking the court to stop counties from approving such requests. Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann appellate attorney David Coale notes that […]
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a petition asking the Texas Supreme Court to block counties from allowing mail-in ballot requests. LPHS partner David Coale discussed the matter with the Houston Chronicle and said “Paxton’s request for a court order limiting the discretion of government officials is a very unusual legal maneuver in this case because of the pending […]
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The Department of Justice recently dropped the charges against President Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn. LPHS partner David Coale provides perspective on the matter to WBAP Morning News radio hosts. “What the pleading says is we have gone back, and we’ve looked at the way this investigation has been done, and we concluded they just […]
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With many government orders coming from the state, county and cities, many Texans have been wondering which orders to follow. The firm’s David Coale talked to Texas Lawyer on who has the authority to reopen Texas. “According to the Texas law, the governor has the authority to declare when the state can reopen. Since this outbreak is […]
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Many events like weddings and scheduled trips are being canceled to contain the spread of the coronavirus. LPHS commercial litigation attorney Josh Sandler provides perspective on the potential of legal disputes because of the language in a specific contract. “But most contracts don’t give a specific out for global pandemics. A judge could decide that […]
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The SXSW conference canceled, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ended early and sporting events are suspended or disallowing fans in the stands. The coronavirus outbreak has many state and health experts making voluntary decisions to prevent the spread of the disease. But what if a person or place is put under a government-ordered involuntary quarantine? What are the legal […]
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Mitchell Starc hasn’t had his best series. Pic: Michael Klein
Warne turns blowtorch on Aussie bowlers
by Russell Gould
AUSTRALIAN Test great Shane Warne has again turned up the heat on Australia's bowling spearheads declaring new-ball partners Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood need to "get better".
All the Boxing Day Test fallout has zeroed in on the batting failures that lead to the 137-run MCG defeat - and not without merit after the first innings capitulation for 151 and three Tests without a century from any batsmen.
But Warne pointed to a wider trend of the misfiring frontline bowlers hurting Australia's chances by allowing opponents to rack up massive first innings totals in 2018 which put their team immediately on the back foot.
A fervent supporter of the quality of the Australian attack, Warne said that new-ball bowlers Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood in particular had not met national expectations bowling to opposition top orders.
Against top six batsmen in 2018, Starc has taken just 17 wickets at an average of 47. Hazlewood only fares marginally better, snaring 18 at an average of 40.
"If you lose a toss and the opposition decide to bat and you've got to try and knock them over, our new ball bowlers in Starc and Hazlewood averaging 47 and 40 with the new ball is not good enough," Warne said.
Shane Warne (right) thinks Aussie coach Justin Langer doesn’t just have problems with his team’s batting. Pic: Getty Images
"That's not very good at all."
"When the (opposition) sides have made 346, 488, 482, 443, there's a lot of scoreboard pressure on the batsmen to come out and make a decent score to try and get in there and not give up a big lead.
"I just don't think they're bowling well enough. You've got to look back at the preparation. Are the bowlers preparing the right way, are they bowling enough in competitive cricket."
In 10 Tests this year, the Australian attack has given up 10 first innings scores in excess of 300 and four in excess of 400.
Aussie skipper Tim Paine has won just one toss in his six Tests as captain. That was in the second Test in Perth, where Australia batted first, and won.
He conceded that giving up big first innings runs was always hard to make up.
"I think so. India batted superbly in the 1st innings, from that moment we were behind the game," Paine said.
"We'd like to get to Sydney, win the toss and have the same thing reversed."
Pat Cummins finished with nine wickets at the MCG.
Calls for Pat Cummins to take the new ball have grown after his nine-wicket MCG haul and the 2018 numbers, compiled by Fox Cricket stats man Lawrie Colliver, show his excellent record against top order batsmen.
Cummins, who took 4-2 in a stunning third day spell at the MCG, has 30 top six wickets this year, at an average of 23.56.
In 2018, for the first time in nearly 60 years, five-wicket hauls form bowlers have outnumbered centuries made by batsmen.
Starc has one in 18 innings this year, Hazlewood none in 16. Nathan Lyon and Cummins both have two five-fors, including one each in this series against India.
"The ball is dominating the bat except for us," Warne said.
"I'm not saying drop them all, because we've got a very good attack, but they need to get better.
"They need to be put on notice, and say "guys, 47 with the new ball and 40 with the new ball, opening the bowling to the top six batsmen, isn't good enough".
"Yes, the batting's got to get a lot better, but the bowlers have got to get better too and the numbers don't lie."
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces a three-month mortgage holiday
People facing financial difficulty due to coronavirus will be offered a three-month mortgage holiday, the government said on Tuesday.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak made the announcement as part of a government package designed to shore up the economy during the coronavirus crisis.
Now, mortgage lenders have set out how they will offer payment holidays to ease the burden on households.
Stephen Jones, UK Finance chief executive, said people should “get in touch with their lender at the earliest possible opportunity” to discuss options.
Here are some answers from UK Finance, which represents financial firms, to questions customers may have about their potential options:
How do ‘payment holidays’ work?
The mortgage repayment is deferred for a period. The monthly payment changes to zero, and interest accrues for the period.
Where repayments are deferred for a time, the borrower will need to make up these repayments in the future, which could be over the remaining term.
It is not long-term solution, but can be particularly appropriate where there is a temporary shortfall of income.
Will all customers receive an automatic three-month payment holiday?
Firms will help customers to find the best solution for them – which may not be a payment holiday.
How do I apply for a payment holiday?
Under usual circumstances, the lender would assess the customer’s finances and consider what forbearance options were the most suitable.
But in these extraordinary times, lenders are offering customers who are up-to-date with their mortgage payments – and who are impacted by coronavirus – the ability to self-certify.
Customers who believe they may be impacted, either directly or indirectly, should contact their lender as soon as possible.
Are all customers eligible for a payment holiday?
Payment holidays are not in the interests of everyone with a mortgage.
The offer of a payment holiday applies to customers who are not already in arrears and whose payments are up-to-date.
Under Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules, lenders must ensure that any forbearance offered enables recovery through full repayment of arrears, minimises the long-term impact of arrears, and that the mortgage remains affordable and sustainable.
Overall, forbearance needs to minimise the risk of repossession.
This is why payment holidays are generally short-term. For customers who are already in arrears or in financial difficulty, lenders will consider the full range of options ordinarily available to customers under existing rules.
What about customers who may need support longer term?
While the payment holiday is in effect, the capital sum of the loan remains as is, while the interest that would have been paid accrues.
At the end of the payment holiday period, the mortgage rules will re-apply. Lenders will assess a customer’s circumstances, including income and expenditure, and come to an arrangement about the best way of making full repayment of the arrears.
If the customer is in financial difficulty, lenders will work out with them to find ways to manage the mortgage and come to an arrangement that would minimise the risk of repossession.
How will a payment holiday affect my credit score?
Firms will speak to credit reference agencies to ensure customers who take a repayment holiday are treated consistently and will make efforts to ensure that forbearance offered under these circumstances will not result in an adverse impact on the customer’s credit score.
What if I don’t own my property but rent instead?
Contact your landlord or managing agent if you have problems paying your rent. If you are a landlord and your tenants are unable to pay their rent you should contact your lender as soon as possible to discuss the options that may be open to you.
What if I’m already in arrears?
You should continue to speak to your lender. Lenders will review existing arrangements if there is a change in circumstances.
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Traditional Amazonian medicine, ayahuasca, found to be a safe alternative treatment for depression
Depression is a common and serious medical illness that affects how you feel, act, or perform. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 16 million adults in the U.S. had at least one depressive episode in 2012. Meanwhile, 350 million people worldwide suffer from the condition. With these overwhelming statistics and the seeming ineffective of prescription drugs, it’s no wonder people are looking for an alternative way to combat depression.
Ayahuasca, a traditional Amazonian medicine is known for being a hallucinogenic concoction. It contains ingredients illegal in most countries and is served in many religious rituals in South America. Ayahuasca is traditionally brewed from the bark of a jungle vine and the leaves of a shrub. In a recent research study, it was proven to drastically help in improving hard-to-treat depression by rapidly improving mood.
In March 2015, researchers from Brazil published the result from clinical tests on ayahuasca and its therapeutic benefits for treating depression. The clinical trial involved administering a single dose of Ayahuasca to 14 people who were suffering from hard-to-treat depression. Meanwhile, 15 people suffering from the same condition received a placebo drink.
Those who were given the placebo drink were not aware that they were drinking a non-ayahuasca concoction. The researchers mixed the same bitter and deep-brown brew while making sure that all the recipients from the clinical trial haven’t tasted ayahuasca nor took any psychedelic drugs before. (Related: Mental health screening of teens creates a “crisis” where none exists.)
A day before the dose was administered, participants were given a set of questionnaires to rate the level of their depression. On the day of the actual experiment, recipients spent the next eight hours in a controlled, quiet and supervised environment as both the placebo and ayahuasca potion can cause hallucinogenic effects for around four hours. They were also given another set of questionnaires one, two, and seven days after drinking the brew.
The clinical study showed that both placebo and ayahuasca potion received substantial improvements on the recipients in the first two days after the treatment. However, a week into the trial, 64 percent of the those who took ayahuasca reported that they felt like the treatment has reduced their level of depression by at least 50 percent or more. Meanwhile, only 27 percent of the placebo recipients reported the same effect.
A week later, those who had taken ayahuasca showed massive improvements – their mood scaling from severe to mild in the standard scale of depression. According to Dráulio de Araújo of the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, who led the trial, the main evidence indicated a significant difference in outcome between patients who used ayahuasca compared to those who took the placebo drink.
In addition, the team believes that the study can help in finding the right balance of treatments for those who are suffering from depression and have learned to view it as a permanent disability.
Even scientists who were not part of the clinical study agreed with the therapeutic claims of ayahuasca. David Mischoulon of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said, “The findings suggest a rapid antidepressant benefit for ayahuasca, at least for the short term. But we need studies that follow patients for longer periods to see whether these effects are sustained.”
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Bank of Canada keeps rates on hold
Posted on September 10, 2015 by Hafez Panju
The Bank of Canada announced on September 9th, 2015 that it was keeping its trend-setting target overnight lending rate at 0.5 per cent.
Little has changed since the Bank’s previous announcement and revised economic forecast published in July. Its September announcement serves as a placeholder as the Bank awaits more economic data prior to the release in October of its Monetary Policy Report which will be published two days after the federal election.
Previously, the Bank said it expected most of economic damage from the oil price shock would be “front loaded”, with the hit to economic growth being sharp but contained mostly in the first half of the year. However, in its September announcement, the Bank said that the adjustments stemming for the oil shock “are complex and are expected to take considerable time”.
This suggests that the Bank may soon revise its economic forecast in October to reflect how ongoing weakness in the oil patch may continue to offset strength in other sectors of the economy and lead to weaker than currently projected economic growth over the second half of the year.
At this point, the Bank is unlikely to be concerned with the need to fight inflation by raising interest rates. Headline inflation continues to trend near the bottom of the Bank’s target range between 1 and 3 per cent, mostly because of oil prices. Core inflation is hovering near two per cent. Underlying inflation is likely somewhere slightly below two per cent.
The Bank’s September announcement was shorter than usual and acknowledged increased uncertainty while highlighting both upside and downside risks to growth. The Bank now has until October to gauge how it thinks the economy will evolve over the rest of this year. In the meantime, interest rates will remain very supportive for household spending and the housing market.
As of September 9th, 2015, the advertised five-year lending rate stood at 4.64 per cent, unchanged from the previous Bank rate announcement on July 15th, and down 0.15 percentage points from one year ago.
The next interest rate announcement will be on October 21st, 2015, and will be accompanied by an update to the Monetary Policy report.
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Supreme Command - Notes
The book is an examination on civil military relations in war and their impact on grand strategy. A story told through the examples of Lincoln, Clemenceau Churchill and Ben Gurion. Its lessons are at least as much about effective executive leadership as they are about military strategy.
All 4 of these Statesmen were maverick leaders in their own way and all are seen as exceptional in historical terms. No attempt to emulate a particular leaders style or personality will bear much fruit but understanding what they did and why as leaders is instructive. As Kissinger remarked 'Great men are so rare, they take some getting used to.'
Lincoln, far more clearly than his generals understood the Strategy necessary to win the war. He was burdened by a great number of weak commanders and not until Grant takes over in the East does Lincoln finally have the right team in the traces. This is only a part of the story though and underappreciates how involved Lincoln was in shaping the thinking and actions of his senior military commanders. His correspondence frequent visits in depth interrogations and use of special envoys were all essential in this. Lincoln was really the finest strategist on either side in the civil war as he most clearly understood the relationship between pollical end and objectives and military means.
George Clemenceau took over as French prime Minister in 1917 after the disasters of Verdun and with Russia now out of the war.
From Jan 1918 on average Clemenceau spent 1 day in every 7 visiting the front lines often within machine gun range of the German lines.
He had 2 very different senior commanders in Petain and Foch who he had to balance.
'Much of leadership is knowing whom to encourage, whom to restrain, whom to select and whom to replace.'
Churchill as Prime Minster was sceptical of the military bureaucracy, 'You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and the most audacious solider, put them at a table together, what do you get? The sum of all their fears!'
His experience from WW1 was that it was the failure of political leadership to deal effectively with Lord Kitchener in the early years of the war because they were not prepared to put military subordinates under pressure for their views. 'The whole habit of a military staff is based on subordination of opinion'.
Churchill in common with all these statesmen had a huge capacity for detail which in no small part he used in a continuous audit of the militaries judgement. He never over ruled the chiefs on a purely military matter but kept up incessant close questioning of their assumptions and arguments.
'Churchills cardinal political virtue was his ability to touch the hearts of men and women with words that reflected his own unique and indomitable spirit.'
Ben-Gurion also a relentless prober. He ran what came to be known as the seminar a process of understanding the capabilities of the underground Jewish Haganah and how it needed to evolve into a national defence force, capable of detering and defeating hostile Arab States.
'The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.'
2nd part of the book looks at more recent US examples of where civil military relations in strategy have failed in part though lack of statesmen ship. In both Vietnam and in the 1st Gulf War the generals are arguably allowed too much influence with their plans and thinking uncritically accepted - strong echoes here for the British and their involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan!
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Thrive Montgomery 2050: How does the COVID-19 pandemic shape our plans for the future?
Posted: 11:08 am April 14, 2020 by Caroline McCarthy
For more than a year, we have been working on Thrive Montgomery 2050, an update to the General Plan directing the long-term vision and direction for land use and growth in the county. While public attention is understandably more focused on short-term issues, long-term thinking remains critical to guide how we respond to changes in the future.
From the beginning of the Thrive 2050 planning process, we have emphasized that the plan needs to be flexible and adaptable to a future in which change seems to happen more rapidly than in the past. Where to do we want to be as a county in five, 10, 30 years? The framework for the plan identifies three key themes as core outcomes we would like to see in the future – community equity, environmental resilience, and economic health. The following are my initial thoughts about implications of the pandemic as related to these outcomes.
Community equity
The pandemic has further highlighted existing inequality and need for greater social safety nets. Thousands of low-wage child care, retail, and restaurant workers have been laid off, while others in warehousing and distribution, health care, and grocery are working at increased risk.
It also highlights the need for affordable housing near jobs and mixed income communities. There have been several stories about dedicated teachers standing outside students’ houses to help with homework. Those relationships only work if teachers live in the same communities as their students. In the Thrive Montgomery 2050 issues paper, which describes the core issues that are the focus of the plan based on community feedback and staff research, we present complete communities as places where everyone can live, work, and play, and we are looking at how to build more of these communities in our county that support a variety of uses and household incomes.
A final point related to community equity is the need for housing policy as health policy. Social distancing at home is manageable if you have space in a larger home. But for people in crowded housing, it is harder to both function at home and avoid illness if another family member gets sick. Further, poor quality housing can cause negative health outcomes that can make people more susceptible to diseases to begin with.
Environmental resilience
Prior to the pandemic, the local discussion about environmental resilience was primarily focused on the environment and preventing the impacts of climate change. The shift to remote work and a general effort by residents to stay at home has improved air quality in many cities with fewer cars on the road. Parks and trails have become in demand spaces as people look for new locations to get outside and exercise, reinforcing access to nature as important to physical and mental health.
Economic resilience, the ability of a community to withstand shocks to its economy, is an important component of resilience that warrants further consideration. For example, empty grocery store shelves and the potential for interrupted global supply chains illustrate the need for new thinking about sourcing and distribution networks. Montgomery County is unique among suburban counties in that it has an agricultural reserve. Community gardens also provide another source of food supply for individuals. Even before the current crisis, we were discussing the potential for local food and how to support small farmers at our winter speaker series. How can we make better use of this asset to support our local economy and environment?
Economic health
While the short term is very painful, I remain optimistic about the long-term potential of the Montgomery County economy. The presence of the federal government will provide stability as it has in past recessions. The pandemic will spark new funding for medical research, for which the county is well positioned with the presence of several federal research labs and a strong biohealth and life sciences sector. The county should double down on existing efforts to leverage our strengths and encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.
Even in the best-case scenario, where the economy reopens in May, no one knows how long a true recovery will take. There are debates about what recovery will look like, with letter shapes used to provide a visual – will economic recovery resemble a “V” with a robust rebound? A “U” with a smoother turnaround? An “L” with a long period of depression? An “S” with a recovery and then a decline again with future outbreaks?
In any scenario, the local economy will need support. Retail, restaurant, entertainment, personal services, hospitality and other sectors that have had to shut down overnight, laying off or furloughing millions of workers nationwide, will especially need support. In fall 2019, University of Maryland students completed a study of the Long Branch neighborhood on behalf of the Planning Department and developed a number of recommendations to support small businesses based on a national scan of policies and tools used in other places. Many of the recommendations in that study apply more broadly today. For example, aside from the immediate crisis of needing cash to stay afloat during the closure period, businesses may need assistance retooling their business models to stay sustainable under new economic conditions; understanding complicated lease provisions and negotiating with landlords for fair concessions; and boosting their marketing efforts to let the public know they are still in business and eager to serve.
The pandemic has initiated debate on a number of other questions about the future, including whether telework will become the new norm, what will the impacts be on preferences for urban versus suburban living, and more. What do you think about implications of the pandemic for the General Plan? Please share your thoughts below or feel free to email me at caroline.mccarthy@montgomeryplanning.org.
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One Response to “Thrive Montgomery 2050: How does the COVID-19 pandemic shape our plans for the future?”
Maj-Britt Dohlie
I think you need to rethink the downtown concepts that you have pushed for, for ex, Bethesda. Sidewalks are too narrow both for walkability and corona virus (or similar); safe biking is impossible, etc.
Urban parks are nice but we need parks and green space you rightly point out, and it needs to be nearby. That’s a problem in Bethesda, the Trail is overused at the best of times and unusable in times of social distancing.
Livable neighborhoods have amenities such as rec centers and pools; many amenities in Bethesda are privatized and cannot be accessed.
What to do with empty retail space? Most likely there will be lots more after the end of the pandemic. Measures to mandate lower rents? Seed money to start businesses?
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how to tell if a chipmunk is dying
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All types of fruits are favorable to be given to infant chipmunks. For example, the pests gnaw on wood framing, wiring, and insulation, which can cause structural problems. Just let it die lol. and contact a wildlife rehabilitator for advice.
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btw, its "you're" not your. Read: Beware ~ Signs an Animal is Trying to Warn You. In an effort to prevent their incisors from overgrowing, chipmunks are known to chew wires, pipes, insulation, and flooring, and damage personal property like furniture, clothing, pictures, boxes and other stored items. Feeding on foods like mushrooms, insects, nuts, grains and berries, chipmunk populations can balloon in urban settings with bountiful food sources. Save Save. Our proprietary process, the STEPS® Total Protection System™, looks closely at the total picture, top to bottom, inside and out.
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You can contain a small mammal the same way, on a larger scale. You may not always notice them — and they may not look all that scary — but termites are truly terrifying. If you find a chipmunk indoors, she’s there by accident, and she’ll be glad to leave as soon as you provide a way to escape. Avoid wooden chips and shavings as these will get wet, and possibly harm the young chipmunk. Home » Wildlife emergency rescue hotline » How to help sick or injured wild animals » Sick or injured small mammal. Once the chipmunk is out, look for the entryway and take steps to keep it from happening again. Also, consider putting in plants like garlic and daffodils that act as natural repellents. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Look for holes in your lawn, tiny footprints (four toes in front, five in back), and piles of seed shells under your birdfeeder. Some people think chipmunks cause problems—we think these little critters couldn’t be cuter. Chipmunks are not considered to be a significant source for any infectious disease that can be transmitted to humans. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Containing a small mammal is not that difficult — you just need to know what to look out for. Place feeders where chipmunks can’t get to them. Have you come across an orphaned baby chipmunk, and are unaware what to do with it, or how to care for it? It’s best and safest to use an indirect method to contain them. Don’t give it any food or water until you have spoken to a rehabilitator. 6789 Quail Hill Pkwy, Suite 211 Irvine CA 92603. These tips will help you take care of the abandoned chipmunk, and provide it some much-needed shelter. But if you’ve seen evidence of munching in your garden, start sleuthing.
To discourage the critters from approaching your home’s foundation, avoid shrubs and low rock boundaries near the house, which provide shelter and transportation for critters. There are four main types of chipmunk repellents, which can be used together and for different purposes: RELATED: A Dozen 10-Minute DIYs for a Pest-Free Home. contact a wildlife rehabilitator for advice, While we never recommend live trapping to resolve nuisance situations, Contact a wildlife rehabilitator for advice. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Bodybuilding.com℠ and BodySpace® are trademarks of Bodybuilding.com. The HSUS's tax identification number is 53-0225390. All Rights Reserved. However, if it keeps occurring, I'd suggest going to your neighbours and asking if they knew why the squirrels were dying or calling the city - this could cause more trouble if curious pets were to get into whatever was killing the squirrels. If the baby shows symptoms of diarrhea, discontinue milk feed, or reduce the number of feeds. We hope you are enjoying PetPonder! A couple of weeks ago, we found a drowning chipmunk in our pond in the front yard. If you think the small mammal might be a BABY, click here for more information. Fortunately, you can discourage and—if necessary—humanely remove the critters from your property. They can give you species-based tips and tricks, or talk you through a tricky rescue. Be the first to receive exciting news, features, and special offers from Bodybuilding.com! We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. It could be simply that the squirrels got into something and suffered the consequences. When cornered or handled, however, they may scratch or bite to defend themselves.
It describes how chipmunks characteristics change as they grow. Small rodent with two tan and five blackish stripes on the back. Have you ever caught a spider to put it outside by putting a cup over it and sliding a piece of paper underneath? This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. Avoid attracting chipmunks to your yard by preventing access to easy food sources like unsecured trash cans, bird feeders, standing water and gardens full of edible plants. Choose a different type of seed—for instance, they’re not fond of thistle, but sunflower seed is a favorite. Bag and dispose of small rocks, vines, and clippings where chipmunks may hide. Avoid feeding whole goat milk, vitamin drops, iron drops, or Karo syrup, as it may cause death.
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Jose Aldo And His Imminent Move To 155
By on August 5, 2013 inUncategorized
Jose Aldo currently is the UFC’s champion at 145lbs, having defending the featherweight belt five consecutive times in the UFC, and twice prior in the WEC. Understandably, he’s one of the top pound for pound fighters in all of MMA, and yet it’s quite apparent that he has the potential to do much more in the sport. Besides continuously defending the featherweight belt, a move up to the lightweight division seems imminent, and to me, makes the most sense at the moment.
For one, Aldo is 26 years old and it’s well known that he cuts a lot of weight to make the featherweight limit of 145lbs. He’s been fighting at the weight for quite some time but his body has definitely filled out over that time period. I think we all remember that video of him cutting weight for the Mark Hominick fight, back in 2011, which was over two years ago. It’s just one specific moment in time, but he’s encountered injury problems as well that have delayed or caused fights to be cancelled. Depleting the body so much to make weight probably doesn’t help that at all.
I even think that Aldo would be a better fighter at 155. It’s quite apparent in his fights in the last three years that he tries to exert as little energy as possible early on to save himself incase the fights head into the later rounds. Adding to that, when the fights do go to the later rounds, he seems to get noticeably fatigued. It just seems to me that the weight cut is taking away significantly from his performance.
When you think about it, what else really is there left for him at featherweight? Is a match-up with Ricardo Lamas that interesting? The champ has already beaten Frankie Edgar, Cub Swanson and Chad Mendes, all current contenders in the division. If Aldo moved up, it’s an opportunity for the UFC to have somewhat of a name in Frankie Edgar get the belt again (It’s very arguable that he won at least one of the Benson Henderson fights. I thought he won the second one.) or try and build up a new champion in the form of another contender in the division.
Adding to everything aforementioned, the possibilities for him at 155 are very intriguing and open up a whole new can of worms. I’m a firm believer that Aldo is capable of beating top lightweights and is truly one of the greatest talents in the entire sport. A move to 155 brings up a number of variables, such as: How will cutting less weight affect his performance? If the gas tank problems lessen due to the weight cut, will we see an even more dynamic Aldo, one that will open up more? How will he handle bigger fighters? And so on. Again, who wouldn’t want to see him fight Benson Henderson, Anthony Pettis, Gilbert Melendez, etc.? It seems a lot more interesting to me than what’s currently on the table at featherweight.
I can’t say I know for sure about any of this. Only Jose Aldo and his team know. Based on what I’ve seen from his fights though, I think the potential for Aldo to be an even better fighter lies one weight class up.
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Bracey-Blackridge area DNA mystery project
On October 30, 2020 January 7, 2021 By Julie Cabitto1 Comment
I’m working on solving some DNA mysteries that happened between 1864-1875. I’m looking for people who have taken an Ancestry.com DNA test with family tree roots in the Bracey-Blackridge area. All ethnicities. Family surnames will include, but are not limited to: Bennett, Boyd, Gray, Harper, Jones, Mabry, Mayo, Marks, Newman, Pearson, Thomas, Walker, Wright. There are many unknowns, as well as many cousin marriages. I’m helping a descendant of Missouri Jones and George Harper who has taken a DNA test on Ancestry.com. I want to ask each person if they match 1) myself, and/or 2) the descendant of Missouri and George Harper. Missouri’s mother was Jane Bennett Thomas, who was divorced but continued using her married name of Jones. George’s mother was Susan Harper. It appears both Missouri and George were born out of wedlock.
It is important for me to also know who is not related, but has taken a test. For example, I am a Jones descendant, through Alginon Gray. But I do not match Missouri Jones. This chart shows how I would not match Missouri genetically. I do not have any pink. :
There are many Jones and Thomas cousin marriages. So I will need help knowing people’s family lines before 1900. I will try the same approach I did to solve a DNA mystery on Fannie Gray’s husband’s side of the family, from 1918. There were several cousin and step-siblings in that project, as I know will be the case with this project. We will be comparing how people match George & Missouri’s descendants and how they match me. We have several unknown lines:
Missouri’s father: paternal line (aqua on chart above)
Missouri’s father: maternal line (brown on chart above)
African American & Jane’s baby: male paternal line (orange on chart)
African American & Jane’s baby: male maternal line (green on chart)
George Harper’s mother: maternal line
George Harper’s father: paternal line
George Harper’s father: maternal line
First I will chart if people had a test, and if they match me or my grandparents. Also, if or how they match Missouri’s family. Then I will make a color-coded chart to show how closely people are related to Missouri’s family, based on centimorgan (cM) closeness.
The shapes were the paper trail. The colors were the DNA trail. If you are willing to message with me, my email address is: mecklenburgvagen@gmail.com
Previous post about this family and project.
Three Doctors From Mecklenburg
On October 26, 2020 January 7, 2021 By Julie CabittoLeave a comment
While looking through various Mecklenburg Court records on FamilySearch.org, I saw something of interest in the Circuit Court records: Doctor certificates from 1892 and 1893. There were only three records: Doctor Edward T. Hamilton, Doctor Edward R. Tarry, and Doctor Garland H. Carter. I looked to see what I could find about each man.
Edward T. Hamilton
The first man, Edward T. Hamilton, was born in Alabama, but found living in Boydton by the age of fourteen. He did not marry. While a practicing doctor, he lived with his sister, Annie Toone, in Boydton. His mother’s name was Lucy Tarry, and his middle name is Tarry. So, I wonder if he is related to the second doctor I found, doctor Edward R. Tarry. This is Edward Tarry Hamilton’s medical certificate at the Mecklenburg, Virginia Courthouse:
I found all three doctors in a digitized record collection on FamilySearch called ‘United States Deceased Physician File’. This link shows images and tells about the collection.
Here is a direct link to search the collection.
This is the index transcription of this same collection that shows up on Ancestry.com:
Doctor Edward R. Tarry
Doctor Edward R. Tarry has an 1893 doctor’s certificate in Mecklenburg, but I haven’t found any other evidence that he practiced there. His obituary says that he moved to Omaha Nebraska in 1902 and that he was from Tarry’s Mill, Virginia. I found this 1911 map which shows that location. (Bottom center, on the state line)
Doctor Tarry’s obituary also said that he married Miss Alpha Fields in July 1917, and that he had a daughter named Virginia. He was listed in the 1910 Omaha City directory as a doctor, renting No. 222 – Bee building.
This findagrave link shows his obituary and an advertisement for his practice which includes his picture.
marriage record on FamilySearch.org
Dr. Tarry’s family, the year after his death.
Edward Tarry’s medical certificate in Mecklenburg,VA courthouse
Doctor Garland H. Carter
Doctor Garland H. Carter had a medical practice in Boydton in the same time period that Doctor Edward Hamilton also lived and practiced there. The 1920 Federal Census listed Doctor Garland Carter’s occupation as a town and country medical doctor. I think he lived near the intersection of Washington and Jones Streets, according to the census address notations. Doctor Carter lived to be ninety years old, dying from a cerebral vascular accident.
Do you know any stories about these doctors, or any other doctors in Mecklenburg County before 1960? If so please comment below.
Patterns of Moving: Before Mecklenburg
Whenever I feel stuck researching my family history, I try to think about patterns. What is the normal pattern for this family? If they did something that breaks the normal pattern, why? What is the normal pattern for that time and place? One pattern I have noticed is that people moved in groups. They joined military units or were in the local militia together as neighbors. Moves often happened for economic reasons. People moved with close family and friends to a new place, the people they knew they could depend on for a new start.
I know about several early Mecklenburg families, but cannot personally document any of my ancestors born before 1800, or know where they lived before Mecklenburg- except for one line, and that is my Newman line. James B. Jones (Great Creek area) married Martha Newman. They raised 15 children! Martha’s death record said she was born in Orange, VA. At first, I thought that was a mistake because Martha’s father, Abner Newman was in a Mecklenburg unit during the War of 1812 and married in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1792. I kept searching for a some kind of connection to Orange County Virginia. I discovered that when Martha’s father died she went to live with her grandfather in Orange. She, her mother, and siblings who had not yet married all moved to Orange.
Martha’s grandfather William Newman was born in Essex County, Virginia. He lived where the Occupacia Creek crosses Route 17, very close to the Rappahannock River. William Thomas lived between the Newmans and the Rappahannock River. The more I read the court books, the more I start to wonder about if several of my Mecklenburg ancestors lived in Essex first. William Newman’s next door neighbors were Walkers, Thomases, Joneses, Brookes, Moseleys, Kidds, and Grays. (Even though I know my Grays immigrated from County Armagh, Ireland in 1838). I see all those family names as neighbors to the Newmans for 100 years in Essex County. Because farms were failing in Essex county during the 1750’s and 1760’s, some people started to move to Caroline County and Orange County. William Newman worked for many years for John Baylor and his wife Frances Walker who had farms in both Caroline and Orange counties. Mrs. Baylor had a brother who settled in Brunswick County, Virginia. Three Walker brothers (whose father was born in Essex), married three of Martha’s sisters. (William Newman’s grandchildren.) I know that these are common British surnames, but I can’t help wondering when I see these families as next door neighbors in Essex for 100 years, and then see these same names as close neighbors in Eastern Mecklenburg. That’s a pattern I don’t plan to ignore or think of as just a coincidence. It is true that a lot of people migrated from Isle of Wight and Surry counties to Mecklenburg, but now I am studying the early Essex (Old Rappahannock County) migration route to Mecklenburg.
This map shows the path that my Newman family traveled from 17th century Essex county, to 1810 in Mecklenburg. When I find more connections to colonial families or where families were before they came to Mecklenburg, I will share them here. On the map below, I have marked landmarks closest to where William Newman, then where his granddaughter Martha Newman lived. The route displayed is the current highway/ travel route.
William B. Jones deposition about Revolutionary War in Mecklenburg, VA
On October 12, 2020 January 7, 2021 By Julie Cabitto3 Comments
This is the second deposition of my ancestor William B. Jones for John Carroll. I love this deposition for several reasons: He talks about growing up in the same “neighborhood” as John Carroll, going to the same school as John Carroll, and that his brother John Jones was serving with John Carroll. William vividly remembers his brother John Jones and John Carroll were soldiers in the Revolutionary War because of an event that happened while he was helping bring horses to them at their headquarters at Taylor’s Ferry on the Roanoke river. A gang of men tried to steal their horses. William said he would never forget that when the men surrounded them on the Allen’s Creek bridge over the Roanoke, his horse got spooked. The men had taken up planks in the middle of the bridge, but his horse leaped over the large gap, causing both William and his horse to escape from the gang. I don’t know the year of the event. But William would have only been a young boy, possible a young teenager. Based on the age given in this deposition and the 1850 Census, William would have been nine years old in 1776.
I’m curious what school William Jones and John Carroll went to. I wonder if they boarded at a school in a private home, or if they visited an actual school each day. I also wonder what area William considered his neighborhood. As an adult he lived just north of Nellie Jones Rd, a rural farming area in present day Bracey, VA.
Taylors Ferry info from Reg Cook: Taylors Ferry is due south of and presently accessed from Boydton, across Jefferson St. extended, at the old Randolph Macon College. Historical Marker is on new Rt. 58, just North. Believe Ferry date was ca. 1746, There was a Tri County “Powder Magazine” at “Banks Old Store”
Taylor’s Ferry historical marker.
Note: This William B. Jones was son of William Jones, and father of Zachariah and James B. Jones, of the Great Creek area.
(Above) Horse story, part of the images and my typed transcription for download (PDF) here:
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See William’s first deposition, a year earlier
Mecklenburg, VA: War of 1812 Militia
On October 5, 2020 January 7, 2021 By Julie Cabitto2 Comments
Researching records from the War of 1812, I have found three militia units with men from Mecklenburg County, all in the 1st Virginia militia, under Colonel Byrne. Militia men typically served for three months during the war of 1812. I’ll be posting information about various men from Mecklenburg who served in these three militia units soon.
The captains of the three units were:
Captain William H. Cousins: 28 August to 30 Nov 1814.
Captain William Grigg: 29 August to 4 December 1814.
Captain John J. Moore: 31 August to 30 Nov 1814.
The more that I study the men in these three units, the more I see neighbors, friends, and their families who married each other. My ancestors who served in the war did not file for pensions. So, I learned more about my ancestors by reading the pension records of other men in the unit. War of 1812 Pension records gave proof of marriage, with deposed witnesses stating they attended the wedding or other information they knew about the veteran. All three of the Mecklenburg militia groups guarded the Virginia waterways, particularly: the Potomac River, the Chesapeake Bay, and the waterways in Norfolk.
Captain John J. Moore led one of the militia groups from Mecklenburg, Virginia. Averett King’s pension record says the men in this group signed up in Lombardy Grove. The payroll heading says “Pay Roll of a company of Virginia Militia, commanded by Capt. John J. Moore, of the First Regiment, in the Service of the United States, from the 31st August to the 30th November 1814, both days inclusive, under the command of James Byrne, Colonel Commandant.”
Not all of the men in the unit show up on all the payroll lists. For example, my ancestor Newman Dortch served in Captain Moore’s company. Newman shows up on a payroll list, but another man who served in the company, Averett King, does not. Yet several other men on the payroll list at the Library of Virginia, witness that Averett was in their company. I have found more men on Fold3, and in land bounty records than on some of the original payroll lists from these Mecklenburg units. This information will gradually be added to the military section of this site, under genealogical resources.
Newman Dortch does not have a pension record, but he does have a military record at the National Archives. The pages below the map are his entire file. He was at Powell’s Creek, which is in Prince William County, Virginia, where Powell’s Creek and Potomac meet.
This record, in summary, is Newman Dortch granting his Captain power of attorney to collect pay for him. It states that Newman was a Quarter Master, that they were at Powell’s Creek and that he was living in Mecklenburg. Presley Hinton signed this record for the county. His title was covered up but could be a Justice of the Peace or a clerk.
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A Community for Every Kid
Last week youth culture guru Chap Clark spoke at the January series about how to help kids and teens develop a faith that sticks beyond high school. His recommendation: create a community for every kid. In the book Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids he talks about flipping the 5:1 kid-to-adult ratio. Rather than one leader for every five teens, what if every child and teen in our churches had five adults who were investing in their lives? Five adults who loved them unconditionally, listened to their stories, asked about their lives, prayed for them, and were there when they needed them? What if we talked about the kids in our faith communities as our kids instead of his kids, her kids, or their kids? What if we all promised to raise our kids in faith together?
Oh wait, that last part sounds very familiar… Chap’s message is not new to us. We’re Reformed. We believe in God’s covenant promises! We make vows at baptism and we sign up to lead Sunday school and serve in the nursery. But still so many of our kids are growing up and leaving faith behind. Why?
The structures that we have in place to teach our kids about God are essential. But Chap’s research points to something more personal than educational programming. Kid’s need to understand the content of their faith, but they also need mentors and models—people whose lives reflect the gospel that we teach. They need caring adults who are available to know and love them years after they move out of our classroom or graduate into the next program. They need a web of relationships that wrap them into the body of Christ and help them experience God’s grace and love.
As I think about this I’m grateful for the adults who served that role in my life. A neighbor who lived across the street, a teacher who took me under her wing, a small group leader who helped me learn how to lead. I want that for all of our kids.
What could I do, and what could you do as a Sunday school teacher or coordinator to help build a community of caring adults around each of the kids in your church?
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Tim Postuma on February 1, 2013
For years, we've been part of intergenerational small groups (with families, singles, couples). We alternate between meeting with kids (a fun but chaotic soup supper, with some time to sing, share, and pray together) and without kids (calmer with adult conversation, in-depth sharing and study).
I've been AMAZED at the effect of that on our young kids. They truly love their small group and have formed real connections with the other adults. If my wife and I are busy during the service, they'll occasionally sit with them instead. One is a Sunday school teacher, another a kids club leader, others occasionally babysit - all of which adds other dimensions to the relationship and, through that, to our church and their faith.
But it takes time to form those relationships. And, at least in our experience, intergenerational small groups have really helped provide that time.
Jolanda Howe on February 5, 2013
That's awesome, Tim! That's the kind of web of relationships we need to weave around all of our kids!
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Volunteers Needed For SWEP Extended Winter Provision At Two Saints
With Christmas and the winter period approaching, we are receiving an increased amount of requests from people to help and volunteer at the Soup Kitchen this year. Unfortunately however we are unable to accommodate such requests at the moment as we are only open Thursday evenings and our existing volunteer rota has all sessions covered into the New Year. However, there are other ways you can volunteer.
Two Saints are asking for volunteers to support the intended SWEP Night shelter provision that they are providing.
Partner organisations in West Berkshire have joined forces to help rough sleepers as the temperature drops. From 1st November 2018, the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) will be activated to ensure that the most vulnerable rough sleepers have the support they need during cold weather.
West Berkshire Council will be working alongside local organisations including Two Saints, Newbury Soup Kitchen, West Berkshire Homeless and Loose Ends.
Arrangements For The Extended Winter Provision
Arrangements for the extended winter provision will be provided to rough sleepers with a local connection to West Berkshire over the winter period. The extended provision will be in place from the 1st of November 2018 to the 31st of March 2019 and will be located at Two Saints.
Anyone wishing to access the provision will need to attend the Housing Service at the Council Offices at Market Street between 08.30am and 17.00pm Monday to Thursday and 08.30am and 16.30pm on a Friday.
To ensure that the provision is available to those who need it, please ensure that referring individuals have no other accommodation available to them and who would thus be otherwise rough sleeping.
Those authorised to use the extended provision will be able to access Two Saints from 19.00pm and will be provided with an evening meal and breakfast prior to leaving at 09.30am the next day. There are plans to provide some daytime activities, but these are not currently finalised and so arrangements will be confirmed by Two Saints at the start of each day.
Anyone who becomes homeless when the offices are closed should contact the council’s Emergency Duty Team on 01344 786543.
For more information, please read this article on the West Berkshire Council website.
The provision is the statutory requirement to provide accommodation when the temperature is forecast to be zero degrees centigrade or less for three or more consecutive nights. If this appears to be the case, individuals should be advised to approach us as above.
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#VU2020 committee plans celebrations now and for 2021
by Amy Wolf May. 7, 2020, 10:00 PM
When Jack Ke Ding dreamed of celebrating his degree in civil and environmental engineering from Vanderbilt, the health and safety constraints of COVID-19 never came to mind. Now he and a volunteer team of undergraduate, graduate and professional students, along with university leadership, are leading the planning for this year’s virtual celebrations and the in-person Commencement festivities slated for 2021.
“Not rain or distance or a pandemic can keep us from celebrating,” Ding said. “We need hope right now, and planning this celebration gives me hope.”
Interim Chancellor and Provost Susan R. Wente assembled a student committee to help bolster the May 8 virtual celebrations as well as the Class of 2020’s special campus celebration next year.
“This is a huge occasion for all of us to celebrate,” said Peabody undergraduate Nikhil Kothari of Austin, Texas. “We’re trying to do everything we can to make it special, given all of the circumstances.”
The committee is working with each undergraduate, graduate and professional school to produce online tributes and videos as well as a special gift package to be sent to all 2020 graduates that will arrive in early June.
“I think what I’ve gotten from the committee is a really great opportunity to see that Vanderbilt truly cares about honoring the graduates right now,” said marketing graduate student Carolyn Talaske Williams of Oak Park, Illinois.
Celebrating #VU2020 in 2021
Vanderbilt is dedicated to honoring the Class of 2020 in person next year, and the committee is leading plans for the 2021 celebration, which will include all of the traditions typical of Vanderbilt Commencement ceremonies.
“For the majority of graduate students, the hooding ceremony is a huge thing, so we’re really looking forward to that in 2021,” said Joey Blake, a Vanderbilt Law School graduate from Gastonia, North Carolina. “We need a proper way to see each other and get those proper goodbyes.”
The committee says they’re making the best of an unusual situation, and they’re dedicated to making the 2021 celebration “one for the books.”
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Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy ups ADHD risk
Published on : Tue 11th February 2020, 04:07 PM
London, Feb 11 (IANS) Prenatal factors such as vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy, can influence the development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), say researchers.
The findings, published in the Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, demonstrated an association between low maternal vitamin D level in early to mid-pregnancy and an elevated risk for diagnosed ADHD in the offspring.
The researchers from University of Turku in Finland, included 1,067 children born between 1998 and 1999 diagnosed with ADHD in Finland and the same number of matched controls.
The data was collected before the current national recommendation in Finland for the intake of vitamin D during pregnancy, which is 10 micrograms per day throughout the year.
In the study, the researchers used the exceptionally comprehensive Finnish Maternity Cohort (FMC) consisting of approximately 2 million serum specimens collected during the first and early second trimester of pregnancy.
The research offers strong evidence that a low level of vitamin D during pregnancy is related to attention deficiency in offspring.
As ADHD is one of the most common chronic diseases in children, the research results have a great significance for public health, according to the researchers.
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Wash hands but also close the taps: Paes on fighting COVID-19
Published on : Thu 19th March 2020, 01:21 PM
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) With the coronavirus pandemic seeing people across the country panicking, tennis star Leander Paes has asked the people to stay calm and follow the guidelines of the World Health Organisation and the health ministry.
Taking to Twitter, Paes wrote: “We currently face a big battle against an opponent that is spreading its reach across the globe. At times like this, it’s most important that we each play our part in the community and ensure we contribute to a healthy society.
“It is important that we follow guidelines set by @WHO and the @MoHFW_INDIA, not panic, and not fall into the trap of, or spread fake news. It is also important that we help educate the people around us, like our house help, who might not have access to information as easily.
“Currently, one of the best things to do is to wash your hands thoroughly and regularly, so that we prevent the spread of COVID-19. And don’t forget to turn off the taps while washing so you save water as well.”
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WhistleDrive raises Rs 72 crore, plans aggressive growth
Published on : Thu 26th September 2019, 06:36 PM
Hyderabad, Sep 26 (IANS) WhistleDrive, an employee transportation company which provides technology-enabled fleet services for corporates, on Thursday announced plans to expand its operations with Rs 72 crores raised from the Chicago-based Colosseum Group.
The Hyderabad-headquartered company, which currently operates over a 700-strong fleet in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai, plans to rollout its services in Pune early next year. It is also looking at Gurugram and Noida to launch its services.
WhistleDrive founder and CEO Rakesh Munnanooru told reporters that with this series B investment they are looking to grow 10 times in 12 months.
The company, which transports more than 15,000 employees to their offices every day, plans to increase its trips to 10 lakh per month from one lakh currently.
WhistleDrive, which currently has annual revenues of Rs 15 crore, is also looking to grow 10 times. The number of employees is also expected to reach 400-500 from the current headcount of 76.
The company currently serves 32 clients including ADP, Invesco and Hitachi Consulting.
“The tech-platform, Whistle Tech, developed by the company, allows corporates to automate the entire transportation process resulting in significant cost savings and also improve employee satisfaction via a reliable, comfortable and secure ride to work,” he said.
Shailendra Tipparaju, Chairman of Colosseum Group, said their offerings include “Whistle Fleet” – technology enabled fleet, “Whistle Shuttle” – a B2B shuttle service for last mile connectivity and point pick-ups and “Whistle 360o” – end to end transport management powered by best in class technology and ground operations.
The number of direct workforce in India’s Information Technology sector is pegged at about 3.9 million, of which 1.1 million use transport arranged by the company. The transportation sector in India is currently valued at a whopping $16 billion, of which about $2.5 billion is spent directly by Indian corporates. Yet, the domain still suffers from a lack of tech intervention, said Shailendra.
Founded in 2016, the company has raised Rs 5 crores from Colosseum Group last year. It bagged several awards including the 10 best Start-ups in Hyderabad- 2018, 50 emerging start-ups to watch in 2019.
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Biedermann Introduces Bills on Quarries, Border Security
Stephanie Johnson March 11, 2019
In this undated image, Texas House Rep. Kyle Biedermann (D-73) attends an advisory council meeting.
Texas House Rep. Kyle Biedermann (D-73) filed his final general bills for the 86th Legislative Session this week, and they include two measures calling for greater regulatory authority over rock quarries and aggregate operations like the proposed Vulcan Quarry at FM 3009 and SH 46.
“He listened and is focused on representing his district and the values of his constituents,” Rep. Biedermann’s office said in a prepared statement mailed to media on Monday.
His Texas House bills include:
HB 2590 – Increasing consumer protections for citizens of new municipal districts.
HB 2871 – Moving parts of the permitting process for rock quarries and aggregate operations from the TCEQ to the Railroad Commission increase protections of the citizens. Click here to review the bill.
HB 3798 – Increasing permit requirements and protections for citizens on rock quarries and aggregate operations through the TCEQ.
HB 4306 – Border security fund to create barriers, increase technology and create better infrastructure at the border to deter illegal alien crossings.
HJR 98 – Instituting twelve year term limits on representatives, senators and statewide elected officials.
“I am excited to see what we can get done for the people of Texas this legislative session,” Rep. Biedermann said. “For too long, we have been blocked by House leadership, but this session there is a new speaker, and new opportunities.”
He serves on County Affairs and Land & Resource Management committees and represents Gillespie, Comal, and Kendall counties.
More information about Rep. Biedermann can be found at www.kylebiedermann.com.
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Classification: Firefighter/EMT
The Bradenton Fire Department is building an eligibility list to fill one position. Candidates desiring to apply will need to have all testing completed and job requirements met by October 30, 2020 at 17:00 hours to be considered for this round of hiring. Interviews will be conducted the week of November 9, 2020. The anticipated start date is December 7, 2020.
FireTEAM and a valid CPAT testing are both required for this listing.
The Bradenton Fire Department also requires the candidate PHQ. You can access the questionnaire through your candidate account. Candidates are encouraged to complete the PHQ as soon as possible to ensure eligibility.
Please direct all questions about the job posting to National Testing Network. The department will not be fielding calls about this posting.
Salary Information: Starting salary, including holiday pay, is $47,102 per year and incrementally increases over four years to $72,125 through the department’s promotional step program. Educational incentives and specialty pay are available depending on current assignment.
Progressive salary structure.
Twelve paid holidays per year, including the employee's birthday.
Educational incentive pay.
Specialty pay opportunities.
96 hours of sick leave days per year.
Six vacation leave days per year.
One vacation bonus day for every five years of service.
Medical and life insurance availability to member and family.
Pension plan funded by members, City of Bradenton, and State of Florida.
Vested rights after ten years of service.
Retirement benefits at age 55 with 10 years of service.
Retirement benefits at any age with 25 years of service.
Department Information: The Bradenton Fire Department serves the City of Bradenton in an emergency management, fire suppression, fire prevention, and first responder capacity. Comprised of three stations, the department is staffed by 63 suppression personnel divided among three shifts, and 11 administration and support personnel with offices in the Gene Gallo Central Station.
In response to approximately 6,000 calls for service annually, the department operates six basic life support (BLS) engine companies, two aerial ladders, a special operations/light technical rescue unit, and a marine rescue unit.
Other services include fire prevention and investigation, plans review, pre-fire planning, life safety code inspections, home safety inspections, and smoke alarm installation. Community involvement includes public education and a myriad of public relations events.
City Information: The City of Bradenton is located on the central west coast of Florida, south of Tampa, along the southern bank of the Manatee River. The county seat of Manatee County, the city was chartered in 1903 and currently comprises approximately 15 square miles of residential, commercial, and recreation.
The city features vibrant downtown and waterfront areas that host to community events such as the Bradenton Blues Festival, ArtSlam, Farmer’s Market, and more. The city is home to two major hospitals, the headquarters for Champs Sports and Tropicana Products, the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, the minor league Bradenton Marauders, and is the winter home and training camp of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Gulf beaches are located just minutes away, west on Manatee Avenue.
Population: 49,546 (2010 US Census); 56,963 (UF BEBR estimate)
Vision: As required in the current edition of NFPA 1582
Necessary Certifications: State of Florida Firefighter II
State of Florida Emergency Medical Technician
Post Hiring: Members will be required to complete courses related to probationary/promotional policies. (i.e. ICS, NIMS, various fire-science courses, EMT re-certification).
Specific Disqualifiers/Behaviors: Felony, Criminal Activity Disqualifiers
Convicted of a misdemeanor relating to perjury, false statement, or moral turpitude
Convicted of a felony or a crime punishable by imprisonment of 1 year or more under the law of the United States or of any state thereof, or under the law of any other country
Dishonorably discharged from any of the Armed Forces of the United States
Driving Disqualifiers
A poor driving record will classify a candidate as undesirable; however, it will not necessarily remove a candidate from consideration.
Drug Use Disqualifiers
Pre-employment testing and ongoing compliance with the City of Bradenton Drug Free Workplace policy is required.
Employment Disqualifiers
Applicant will be disqualified if he/she omitted material information or presented false oral or written information during his/her consideration for employment.
Financial Disqualifiers
A poor credit history and financial background will classify a candidate as undesirable; however, it will not necessarily remove a candidate from consideration.
Additional Disqualifiers
Tobacco Use:
All applicants must be non-users of tobacco products for at least one year prior to the date of application, and must remain tobacco free for the duration of their employment.
Tattoos/Body Markings:
No perspective member shall have tattoos/body markings that are offensive, in excess, vulgar, or otherwise deemed detrimental to the professional appearance and positive public image of the department. No prospective member shall have tattoos/body markings of any type that are visible about the head, neck, and/or face.
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The world’s largest inventory of known (and accepted) plant species (names)
Leipzig researchers compile world’s largest inventory of known plant species. It contains 1,315,562 names of vascular plants, thus extending the number of recognised plant species and subspecies by some 70,000 – equivalent to about 20%.
Marten Winter
Head of sDiv, Synthesis Centre of iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Who would have thought that I would be introduced to one of the potentially most challenging endeavours in plant taxonomic research, when I entered the room of Martin Freiberg, the custos of the Botanical Garden in Leipzig, in late summer 2018, paying him a visit in his beautiful office in one of the old garden buildings. We talked about our joint passion for large scale plant distribution data and he told me that he was collecting related information since the mid 1990ies to ultimately update the famous global plant diversity maps of Barthlott and his colleagues (e.g. 1). For this, he needed a starting point of pure diversity measures to know how many plant species there were in each genus, family etc. He told me he had failed with compiling this potentially simple data, despite living in a globalized world with internet access and huge databases claiming to describe any living species known on earth. I still remember standing behind him and looking over his shoulders while he showed me a “list” of 1.3 million species name entries of accepted names and their synonyms and describing authors, which he had worked upon for the past 10 years, almost every day.
Dr Martin Freiberg constantly searches for new plant species, not only through modern genome sequencing but also in nature. (Picture: Wolfgang Teschner)
I was simply in awe. I immediately understood that this is huge and needs to be seen by the world. You can call it a lifetime project. We call it the Leipzig Catalogue of Vascular Plants (LCVP, 2). This catalogue is nothing else than a complete revision of the most commonly used similar data set of all described species of our planet, with their accepted names and synonyms, The Plant List (TPL3). Still, after almost 2,5 years of working with Martin and colleagues on publishing this list accompanied by a nice R package, I’m amazed by the sheer amount of new information added to our global knowledge on plant diversity. Just one of the many aspects is that LCVP increased the list of accepted plant species names by 20%. With this product, we now know about ~400.000 validated vascular plants species and infraspecies taxa, which is 20% more than before; i.e. an increase of 70.000 accepted species and infraspecific names compared to TPL.
But who needs such a huge amount of knowledge? The answer is many: According to Google Scholar, TPL is probably cited ~13.700 times. Knowing which plant names are those to work with or which hint to another accepted species name (i.e. synonym) is essential for modern global ecology - by no means old-fashioned. Only since 2019, TPL has been cited more than 3.600 times. Any researcher who searches for information to a vascular plant species, who combines different plant information using the species name, should use LCVP, otherwise you might end up with the wrong information or none. I, myself, am a macro-ecologist and have worked already quite often with such global plant name databases, e.g., when comparing floristic changes of the European and North American Flora (4) or to compile the first global database on alien plants (5). Plant name databases are also at the core of developments towards a global map of medicinal plant “hotspots”, enabling new approaches to phylogenetically guided drug discovery to support the battle against the global antimicrobial crisis (6).
LCVP is not “just” an update of TPL (which has terminated its updates as of 2013), it is a significant improvement and increased the amount of known synonyms by 85.000 names. Compared to TPL, LCVP resolved 180.000 plant names, which either in the past could not be “translated” into an existing and accepted plant name or had other issues (e.g. circular name information, different authors for same name).
With LCVP, we really know now much more about global plant diversity. But of course this would have not been possible without starting with the huge amount of already existing knowledge on vascular plants on Earth. Martin Freiberg compiled information from many different accessible relevant databases, harmonized it and standardized the names listed according to the best possible criteria. On the basis of 4500 other studies, he investigated further discrepancies, such as taxonomic placement, different spellings and synonyms. He also added thousands of new species to the existing lists – species found and described in recent years, mainly thanks to rapid advances in molecular phylogenetics. As a beneficial supplement, the data paper not only comes with the actual catalogue, but also gives detailed information which reference was used to revise which name (see the freely available data package here at iDiv's data portal: https://idata.idiv.de/ddm/Data/ShowData/1806).
Leipzig is host to the oldest botanical garden in Germany. On an area of only three hectares, around 6500 of the 350,000 plant species worldwide grow here. (Picture: Martin Freiberg)
Such a huge data table can be overwhelming. We thus developed a handy R package which supports the match of your input list of plant names with those of the accepted names according to LCVP. It also provides a function which anticipates misspellings and helps to find potential correct name matches via swapping around individual letters.
Ultimately, we hope that LCVP will be widely used and we will make sure that this product will be further developed and updated, which is again a huge task. For me, it’s hopefully a start of some more exciting years to collaborate with this author team and beyond on this project. LCVP is just one project showing the wide and strong expertise in high quality plant research.
Stay tuned for more & stay healthy!
sMarten Winter
1 Barthlott, W., Kier, G. & Mutke, J. Globale Artenvielfalt und ihr ungleiche Verteilung. Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 214, 7-22, (1999).
2 Freiberg, M. et al. LCVP, The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants Scientifc Data, (2020). here
3 The Plant List. http://www.theplantlist.org/ (2013)
4 Winter, M. et al. The role of non-native plants and vertebrates in defining patterns of compositional dissimilarity within and across continents. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 19, 332-342, (2010). here
5 van Kleunen, M. et al. The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database. Ecology 100, e02542, (2019). here
6 Holzmeyer, L. et al. Evaluation of plant sources for anti-infective lead compound discovery by correlating phylogenetic, spatial, and bioactivity data. PNAS 117, 12444-12451, (2020). here
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I'm a macroecology and invasion ecologist, being much occupied with leading sDiv, the synthesis centre at iDiv (ww.idiv/sdiv). I'm also interested in conservation aspects and how we measure biodiversity change and what does it tell us.
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Elucidation Hour: Episode 1
The very first episode of Notre Dame Science Club presents “Elucidation Hour” was broadcast on Wednesday, 23rd June, 2020 . The first episode was about “Virus: Its details & How does medical sector deal with it?”. With a view to introduce the community with the current situation of the ongoing pandemic and the process by which our health workers are dealing from the front line and with the insights of Corona Virus this show was wrapped up. Our honorable guests were Dr. Fr. Hemanto Pius Rozario, CSC, Principal, Notre Dame College, Vincent Titas Rozario, Moderator, Notre Dame Science Club, Md Nazmul Hassan, Lecturer, Department of Biology, Notre Dame College, Dr. Ahmed Nawsher Alam Principal Scientific Officer Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Dr. Abir Shaqran Mahmood, MBBS, BCS (Health), MPH (on course), Assistant Airport Health Officer, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka.
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Susan Mikula: 5 Things To Know About Rachel Maddow’s Partner Who’s Battling Scary Case Of COVID
Samantha Wilson
Rachel Maddow held back tears as she told the world that her partner, Susan Mikula, was battling COVID-19. Here’s five things you should know about the photographer, who’s been with Rachel for 21 years.
After taking a two-week absence from her nightly MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow returned with heartbreaking news, and a warning to her viewers. Her partner of 21 years, Susan Mikula, tested positive for COVID-19 and became deeply ill. “At one point, we really thought there was a possibility that it might kill her,” Rachel said. “That’s why I’ve been away.” An emotional Rachel, 47, said that Susan, 62, was still sick, but would “be okay.” And she pleaded with viewers to stay home this Thanksgiving, using her own family’s struggle as a cautionary tale. Here’s five things you should know about Susan, the woman Rachel loves so deeply.
1. She’s an acclaimed artist and photographer. Susan is best known for making unique prints from expired polaroid film, which creates a blurred, yellowish tint unlike anything else out there. “Every day, I make pictures in my head. It could be of the wet patch of pavement I can see from the bedroom window, of the light — that light! — angled out and splayed all gold and sparkly, of the broken bench, the mossy stone, the gas can. Right? Pictures — photographs are part of how I see and how I think. They are, I guess, my way of speaking,” she told Advocate, about why she wanted to become a photographer.
On her show tonight, @maddow reveals her partner has been sick with #COVID19.
“Whoever is the most important person in your life, whoever you most love, and most care for, and cherish in the world… That’s the person who you may lose.” pic.twitter.com/8wvshAGDk5
— David Gura (@davidgura) November 20, 2020
2. She and Rachel began dating in 1999. In the late 1990s, Rachel took up a series of odd jobs to support herself while working on her doctoral dissertation in Western Massachusetts. She met Susan after being hired to do yard work at her home — and the rest was history. Rachel said in 2016, after same-sex marriage was legalized, that they weren’t thinking about tying the knot. “I’m an unabashed advocate that people in this country should have equal access to the rights and privileges of citizenship,” she told CBS. “But in terms of what that means for my own relationship — eh, that’s my own relationship.”
3. And they’re still desperately in love with each other. Twenty-one years later, nothing has changed. Rachel made that clear at the top of her November 19 broadcast when she tried to describe just how much Susan means to her. “I’m in love. And Susan really is the center of my universe,” Rachel said, her voice cracking. “The way I think about it is she is not the sun and I’m a planet that orbits her. That would give too much credit to the other planets. I think of it as a much more pitiful thing, that she is the planet, and I’m a satellite up there just beep beep beeping at her and blinking my lights and trying to make her happy.”
“I’m one of the lucky people on Earth who has a life like that,” she continued. “She is the center of my life. She’s the organizing principle of my life. My relationship with Susan at the end of the day is the only thing I would kill or die for without hesitation. And, Susan has been sick with COVID.”
4. She’s published several books. Susan’s photography collections have been published as books. Those include American Bond, Kilo, u.X, and Photographs, 2008. Their releases coincide with gallery exhibitions of the same names.
Rachel Maddow, Susan Mikula’s partner of 21 years (AP Images)
5. She nearly died from COVID-19. Rachel said in her broadcast that there was a very real fear that the coronavirus could kill Susan at one point during their two-week ordeal. “What you need to know is that whoever is the most important person in your life, whoever you most love and most care for and most cherish in this world, that’s the person who you may lose,” Rachel said.
“Or who you may spend weeks up all night freaking out about, and calling doctors all over the place, over and over again all night long, trying to figure out how to keep that person breathing and out of the hospital.” As of November 20, at least 251,000 people have died from COVID-19 and more than 11.7 million cases have been reported in the United States.
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Governor Cuomo Suggests that NYC Indoor Dining Might Be Allowed via Massive Policing
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Suggests that Thousands of Police Enforcing Social Distancing for Indoor Dining Might Work
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo today implied a scenario that’d allow for the resumption of indoor dining in New York City.
Since the city’s entry into Phase 3 on July 6, indoor dining has been one of the numerous restrictions it’s had to endure – unlike other regions in the state which were allowed to partake in all that this phase allowed.
During his tele-press conference today the Governor addressed the concerns of NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson. It’s a concern of other local leaders as well as countless food establishment owners – the subject of indoor dining.
Governor Cuomo today:
“We now open restaurants, that’s going to complicate by the hundreds if not thousands the number of establishments that have to be monitored. How is that going to happen? I don’t have any more state resources to do it, so we’re going to contact the Speaker today and say look, if New York City can say “this many police, NYPD, can be put on the task force to monitor the compliance,” that’s something we can discuss,”
“Because the facts with what has happened on bars are damning and you’ve all heard me on this phone for the past month saying, “there’s a lax and an ineffectiveness in the compliance and that’s why I did the task force. But the state task force cannot take on the issue of restaurants just by personnel. “
“So, if the Speaker — and look, you have I don’t know, 34,000 NYPD — there’s a lot of questions about the NYPD and their activities. Put together a task force of NYPD, Speaker Johnson, and say, “there are going to be 4,000 police who are going to be doing restaurant compliance.” Not sheriffs. There are only 150 sheriffs.”
Mr. Cuomo has spoken of NYC’s reluctance to carry out COVID-19 Regulation compliance for months now. He’d instituted a plan which involved SLA investigators and State Police’ enforcement of compliance in NYC and other areas. With nearly every utterance on the issue he would mention how the city, with its police force of over 30,000 officers, would not enforce the law as it pertained to alcohol serving establishments. All told, dozens of businesses have lost their alcochol licenses and thou
And so, it’s such concerns which underpin his worries about enforcement.
Not long ago, over the course of a few weeks, the Governor had also voiced his fears over a COVID-19 rebound – something he assured everyone would happen.
Since last month, the question of indoor dining has been on the minds of many restaurant owners, fearful of losing their businesses. Without customers how would they survive? Fears held by so many in light of the oncoming cooler weather and the culmination of the city’s outdoor dining initiative.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has been questioned about this repeatedly during his own press briefings. When asked last week by Errol Louis, of ‘Inside City Hall’, the mayor responded.
“…the example we see now in Hong Kong is an important one. Where dining, indoor dining was allowed pretty loosely over the last few months. And now all of these places are seeing a resurgence. And literally indoor restaurants, bars, nightclubs are one of the single biggest factors in the resurgence,” stated the Mayor. “This is the consistent information that the New York City Health leadership keeps bringing back to me from the studies they are seeing from around the world. So we have to understand, we all want it back. I want it back as soon as possible, but I’m not going to risk the overall health dynamic of New York City to bring back indoor dining.”
Since the Governor’s words today, there’s been many posts on Twitter indicating mass disapproval of his suggestion.
Yet whereas the Governor’s suggestion of police enforcement exists, the Mayor’s been steadfast in his unwillingness to mix actual law enforcement with social distancing compliance. It was a surprise to yours truly when the NYC Sheriff’s Office began to play a role in compliance enforcement. This started at and around the Independence Day Weekend.
It was from this point going forward that Mayor de Blasio’s thinking changed.
It could be argued that it’s not exactly the sort of enforcement the Governor had in mind.
So the question remains. If the Mayor were to make use of the NYPD then would they be allowed to issue summonses? To what extent would their enforcement role go and how many would actually be involved?
Regarding the Mayor’s thoughts on police and compliance, one must keep in mind the history behind this.
During the first months of the Coronavirus Pandemic in NYC, police were involved with social distancing compliance. It was on May 3 that an incident occurred involving police brutality and a bystander. Within the East Village section of Manhattan, police were dealing with folks who were supposedly not abiding by social distancing regulations. Thereafter, chaos ensued. The officer is under investigation and the bystander was hospitalized.
Also, regarding summonses – not that the Governor said anything in that regard – the Mayor’s declared more than once his lack of appetite for the process. He’s spoken of how folks are already hurting financially and don’t need to be burdened any further.
The Mayor was asked about indoor dining today and said that an answer will be coming very soon. Let us see how this all turns out.
NY Governor Still Concerned Over Non COVID-19 Compliance Encourages Stricter Enforcement
Something Wrong with Mayor de Blasio’s Rationale About Social Distancing Enforcement
NYC Mayor Tweet: Police Instructed to Summons or Arrest those Congregating in Large Groups
Governor Cuomo Announces New York City Will Enter Phase Three of Reopening Without Indoor Dining Tomorrow
The True Reasoning Behind Postponing Indoor Dining in NYC – A Tale of Two Leaders
NY Governor Talks about Filters Needed for Malls and Slowing Down on Restaurant Indoor Dining
Non COVID-19 Compliance
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All the chatter about who is in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. Who Isn't. Who should be etc. is utter tosh. In the grand scheme of things it matters less than nowt. What may have started out as well-intentioned has gone the way of all things. It gets taken over by elements that just can’t be trusted to be thrust into the stratosphere of scenes that celebrate themselves first and foremost. They think that’s gonna bump start “sales”? Forget it. As a symbol of recognition, it's like all awards. There are too many of them. Some may carry some faux prestige but ultimately being saddled with such a protracted accolade seems like more baggage. "Shorts don't matter" as Michael Palin quoth in Ripping Yarns "Golden Gordon. Some people are up in arms about Patti's induction. Much as I think she should tell them to stick it up their jacksy, it's her dime. But the peons yattering about the merits of her being in or out, of REM being in or out will not make one iota of difference to your existence, nor mine. It’s all tainted. Hall of Shite more like. Even if there are some of our own “in there”.
Today was the annual slight fall of snow, country grinds to a halt fiasco. It had been predicted for days but did that help? Course not. I'm probably exaggerating by saying there was two inches. Or 50mm if you're a stickler for metric but everything stopped this morning. Pathetic. It was much worse elsewhere in the UK, the borders and the South took a real hammering and a lot of people are without power and worse. However 2 sodding inches of snow was what snarled up the highways and byways around here. Just wait til we get independence….
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Shri Ram Kuber ,New Executive Director of NTPC Talcher Kaniha
Kaniha: Shri Ram Kuber who has taken over as Group General Manager, NTPC Talcher Kaniha recently has been elevated to the post of Executive Director, Talcher Kaniha w.e.f Sept 1, 2017.
Prior to this, Shri Kuber was the Group General Manager of NTPC’s No .1 power station, Talcher Thermal Power (460 MW),Odisha. A Mechanical Engineering Graduate from Allahabad University,Allahabad. Shri Ram Kuber joined NTPC in 1982 as 7th Batch Executive Trainee.
He started his career at Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station, Uttar Pradesh which is regarded as the Mother Power Station of NTPC. Shri Kuber has a long stint of 35 years service in NTPC.
Shri Kuber has served the Maharatna Company in various capacities in the field of mechanical maintenance, Maintenance Planning, Operation & Management at Singrauli, Tanda & Unchahar Power stations. He was Head of O&M at Ramagundam Super Thermal Power Station,Telangana during 2012-16, before becoming as Head of station of Talcher Thermal power station in 2016.Shri Kuber is a veteran Power Professional and brings with him rich exposure in Power Sector.
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2 state legislators mulling run for governor say defeating Cuomo is imperative in 2018
By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 20 October 2017 at 9:16 am
Photos by Tom Rivers: John DeFrancisco, a state senator from Syracuse, speaks during Thursday’s Orleans County GOP Rally.
LYNDONVILLE – Two leaders of the Republican conference in the State Legislature are both considering a run for governor. Brian Kolb and John DeFrancisco are united in saying Andrew Cuomo must be defeated for a third term in 2018.
“We have to figure out who will go after the current governor, who definitely has to be replaced,” said Kolb, the Assembly minority leader.
Both Kolb and DeFrancisco spoke at the Orleans County Republican Rally on Thursday at the White Birch Golf Course. They both say the Republican Party needs a strong candidate who can topple Cuomo.
DeFrancisco, 70, is the Senate Majority Leader in Albany, the second in command. The Syracuse resident has nearly 30 years as a state legislator. He said he is willing to be the candidate. But if the party decides on someone else, he said Republicans need to unify with a focus on unseating Cuomo.
“The time is right,” DeFrancisco told more than 200 people at the White Birch. “It’s a question of getting the right candidate and getting the backing of the Republican Party.”
Cuomo would appear to heavily favored in the election. He has $25 million in his campaign warchest, and Democrats have a significant enrollment advantage statewide over Republicans. But DeFrancisco says George Pataki faced a similar daunting challenge in 1994 when he ran against Mario Cuomo. Pataki at the time was a state legislator after serving as mayor of tiny Peekskill.
DeFrancisco said it feels like déjà vu as Andrew Cuomo pursues a third four-year term. Both Cuomos were talked about for possible runs for U.S. president while they were long-serving governors.
DeFrancisco said both presided over significant population losses and economic decline upstate, while pushing a liberal social agenda on the state.
DeFrancisco said the governor pursues headlines at the state expense, whether sending state resources to Puerto Rico or firefighters to California.
“Everything he does has a purpose, and that is to benefit himself,” DeFrancisco said. “He wants to promote his national image.”
DeFrancisco also faulted Cuomo for not admitting mistakes and looking to blame others.
“Everybody makes mistakes,” DeFrancisco said. “If you make a mistake own up to it.”
He would favor across-the-board tax cuts, rather than targeted tax breaks and incentives for some businesses.
“We got to have everyone benefit,” he said.
State Sen. Rob Ortt introduced DeFrancisco.
“He’s a fighter,” Ortt said. “He fights everyday for the values of Upstate New York and Orleans County.”
Ortt has been in the State Senate for about three years.
“We have an ever-increasing tyrant for a governor who thinks the Legislature is there to applaud his political theater,” Ortt told the crowd.
DeFrancisco and Kolb both said they worry about the population loss in New York.
Brian Kolb said the state needs to reduce regulations and taxes on businesses or else it will continue to lose residents.
The population is down in New York in the latest population estimates from the Census Bureau, which shows declines in 46 out of 62 counties. Orleans County has one of the steepest drops. Orleans County had 42,883 people in the 2010 Census. It is down by 1,538 residents to 41,345, based on the 2016 population estimates. That drop of 3.57 percent ranks as the 55th most out of 62 counties.
The out migration of residents to other states has deprived New York of $4.6 billion in income to other states, Kolb said.
Kolb, 65, is a Canandaigua resident who co-founded the North American Filter Corporation, which manufactures air, gas and liquid filtration systems.
His private sector experience has showed him the need to reduce taxes and regulations that make it difficult for businesses to grow and succeed in New York State.
Kolb made a point to thank Charlie Nesbitt of Albion, the former state assemblyman. Nesbitt was a leader in the Republican Conference when Kolb was one of five candidates pursuing a seat to the district in Canandaigua. Nesbitt supported Kolb and helped get him elected. Nesbitt went on to be the conference leader in Albany. Kolb has held that position for more than eight years.
“Charlie’s heart is for our state and our country,” Kolb said at the GOP rally.
Kolb also commended Ed Morgan, the county’s Republican Party chairman, for his work promoting candidates around the state.
“Ed is a giving soul,” Kob said. “He’s one of the greatest people I’ve met in this business.”
Kolb has declined offers before to run for Congress and U.S. Senate. But he is interested in running for governor because he said state policies are driving away residents and burdening those that stay in the state.
“We have to reverse the out migration,” he said. “We have to make it better for your kids and my kids.”
Both Kolb and DeFrancisco said they are traveling the state to see if they can generate enthusiasm among Republicans for their candidacies. Neither has officially declared a run for governor.
Both Kolb and DeFrancisco travelled to Lyndonville with much of the trip on the Lake Ontario State Parkway. Both said it was a very bumpy ride and the road desperately needs state attention.
“The first thing I will do as governor is fix the Lake Ontario State Parkway,” DeFrancisco told the Republican crowd to cheers. “It was like driving on railroad tracks. It was absolutely ridiculous.”
Ed Morgan, the GOP chairman, joked he sent both guest speakers Mapquest directions that took them to the Parkway, rather than Route 104 or Route 18.
Morgan said he expects more Republicans to show interest in pursuing governor against Cuomo. Morgan said he hasn’t picked a candidate at this point. He said Kolb and DeFrancisco “are both very good men.”
DeFrancisco was the much more loquacious of the two on Thursday, talking far more and with more edginess than Kolb. DeFrancisco told the Republican candidates in town and county races to win big in the contested races, which would send a message to Cuomo.
“Beat the hell out of your opponents, punish your opponents, so they will never run against you again,” DeFrancisco said. “That will start the momentum to defeat Andrew Cuomo.”
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Philosophy and experimental writing: a reading and conversation
For the most part, English language experimentalism has eschewed the conventions and concerns of philosophical discourse, and Anglo-American philosophical writing has equally avoided the kind of literary and lyric innovations that motivate various poetic and diegetic avant-gardisms. This is not true of other philosophical traditions, and in recent years a number of experimentalists with interests and backgrounds in academic philosophy have begun to incorporate overtly philosophical tropes in their work, writing in prose, verse, and hybrid forms. This panel gathers a number of such writers for a reading of their work and a conversation about the way that philosophical discourse has played a role in their own development as writers both inside and outside of academic philosophy. Participants include Steven Seidenberg, Lou Pam Dick, and Oana Avasilichioaei.
Oana Avasilichioaei
Oana Avasilichioaei’s practice is concerned with textuality, polylingual poetics, the social and political forces/voices of the polis, and the intermediary spaces between word, sound and image, exploring the transgressions of these terrains through poetry, translation, performance... Read More →
Lou Pam Dick
Lou Pam Dick (aka Moina Pam Dick, Mina Pam Dick et al.) plays fast and tense with abstraction, the transtextual, the prose-poetic splinter and the paragraph. Her work explores spiritual contemplation and urban expressionism through forms of the influx and the coil. She is the author... Read More →
Anna Moschovakis
Anna Moschovakis is the author most recently of the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love (Coffee House Press 2018).Her books of poetry include the James Laughlin award-winning You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake and They and We Will Get Into Trouble... Read More →
Steven Seidenberg
Writer and artist Steven Seidenberg's work is concerned and infused with the algorithmic paradigms and lyrical latencies of Western philosophy and theology, occupying the interstices between philosophical, diegetic, and poetic discursive timbres, while surrendering the epistemology... Read More →
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THE NRL WARRIOR
August 13, 2018 nrlwarrior 1 Comment
In March of every year, 16 teams set out on an epic journey to reach the pinnacle of their sport. Step after step, week after week, they climb towards the summit, driven by a singular goal. As they trek along this well-trodden path, they imagine what it might be like to stand on the planet’s greatest podium and look out at the world. They dream of that view. Some think of nothing else until their journey is complete. At times along the way, when they catch a glimpse of what surrounds them and what they have already achieved, they smile. They appreciate what an opportunity they have been given to etch their names into history.
As time moves on and the year marches from month to month, the groups begin to spread out. Some start strong and fade away as the journey takes its toll. Others plan meticulously to combat each and every obstacle likely to come their way, aiming to peak when the time is right. They try to resist looking too far into the distance, focusing instead on the key checkpoints along the way.
In 2018, the expedition led by Roger Tuivasa-Sheck — ‘Warrior Nation’ — find themselves perhaps no more than one week from base camp. They are close enough now that they can see the colourful flags waving in the distance, close enough to breathe the fresh mountain air into their lungs. Up ahead they see a place that’s perfect for quiet reflection; somewhere to sit, surrounded by a silence that only altitude can provide, and think about where they have come from and what they have sacrificed to get there.
The view from base camp is spectacular, whether you are seeing it for the first time or the tenth time. Surrounded by majestic peaks and other adventurers, it becomes clear that dreams can become a reality, and that the ultimate prize is only four weeks away. For the brave members of Warrior Nation, it has been many years since they have seen it with their own eyes. In fact, there are those in Roger’s party who have never seen the horizon from such a height before. In previous seasons the mountain air has proved overwhelming. This time, they hope all their hard work will be worthwhile.
In the end, only 8 parties will make it to base camp. As Warrior Nation faces up to their next challenge, behind them are others trying to find the courage and the will to take their place should they slip. Roger and his men may be tired — no doubt there are some in the party who feel the aches and pains of the climb — but the chasing pack ensures that now is not the time to rest. They’ve come so far, and they’re almost there. One final shove and the first and most gruelling part of this epic journey will be a successful one, and a new journey — with an even greater reward — will begin.
1) So close to the finals. I’d hate to jinx it, but finals football feels close enough to reach out and touch. And with the up-and-down nature of the NRL, who knows how far up the ladder this Warriors side could climb if they finish the season with three more wins.
2) Captain Fantastic does it again. It’s becoming harder and harder to come up with adequate superlatives to describe Roger Tuivasa-Sheck’s performances. After one of the greatest halves in a Warriors’ jumper a week ago against the Dragons, he backed it up by running 338 metres with 11 tackle breaks. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone sidestep at such speed — he must be a nightmare to tackle. One second he’s in front of you, the next you are clutching at thin air.
3) Defence is the best form of attack. After three consecutive scoreless second-halves, the first 10 minutes after oranges was always going to take on extra importance against the Knights. This time, the Warriors played with the kind of defensive intensity that has given us hope that they could achieve something special this season. The line speed was excellent and, as a result, it took the Knights 8½ minutes of the second half to pass halfway. The territorial advantage allowed the Warriors to control the game and grind out a very comfortable victory.
4) Sign him up. There wasn’t much fanfare made of Issac Luke’s 250th appearance, but his importance to the squad becomes more and more obvious with each passing week. There’s nothing further to be said now, other than ‘Sign him up!’
5) Gavet on the improve. After missing time due to injury, it’s taken James Gavet a while to work his way into form in 2018, but he looks like he’s starting to get his mojo back. Especially against the Knights, he threw himself into contact, ran with the intensity we came to know and love in 2017 and looked eager to get the ball in his hands. If he can continue that kind of form, he, along with Agnatius Paasi and Bunty Afoa, can provide an alternative source of metres if teams look to shut down the Warriors’ impressive back three.
6) Respect. The culture change has generated plenty of publicity this season, but the club warrants every ounce of praise they’re receiving for the respect they are showing to the game. Whether it’s recognising the contribution of an Immortal like Johnathan Thurston, a stalwart like Chris Heighington or a referee like Matt Cecchin, or putting the women’s game at the forefront of people’s minds, they are setting high standards both on and off the field.
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Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF) N NSF Wide Programs
Balakrishnan (Prabha) Prabhakaran fwhtf-contacts@nsf.gov (703) 292-4847
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Solicitation 21-548
Full Proposal Deadline Date
In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a set of “Big Ideas,” 10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identify areas for future investment at the frontiers of science and engineering (see https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/index.jsp). The Big Ideas represent unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering leadership by bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to support convergence research. As such, when responding to this solicitation, even though proposals must be submitted to the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (ENG/EFMA), once received, the proposals will be managed by a cross-disciplinary team of NSF Program Directors.
The overarching vision of this program is to support multi-disciplinary research to sustain economic competitiveness, to promote worker well-being, lifelong and pervasive learning, and quality of life, and to illuminate the emerging social and economic context and drivers of innovations that are shaping the future of jobs and work.
For the purposes of this solicitation, work is defined as mental or physical activity to achieve tangible benefit such as income, profit, or community welfare. A proposal for a research grant in this program must focus on advancing fundamental understanding of future work and work outcomes for workers and society.
The specific objectives of the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program are to (1) facilitate multi-disciplinary or convergent research that employs the joint perspectives, methods, and knowledge of behavioral science, computer science, design, economics, engineering, learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and the social sciences; (2) support deeper understanding of the societal infrastructure that accompanies and leads to new work technologies and new approaches to work and jobs, and that prepares people for the future world of work; (3) encourage the development of a research community dedicated to designing intelligent technologies and work organization and modes inspired by their positive impact on individual workers, the work at hand, the way people learn and adapt to technological change, creative and inclusive workplaces (including remote locations, homes, classrooms, or virtual spaces), and benefits for social, economic, educational, and environmental systems at different scales; (4) promote deeper basic understanding of the interdependent human-technology partnership to advance societal needs by advancing design of intelligent work technologies that operate in harmony with human workers, including consideration of how adults learn the new skills needed to interact with these technologies in the workplace, and by enabling broad and diverse workforce participation, including improving accessibility for those challenged by physical or cognitive impairment; and (5) understand, anticipate, and explore ways of mitigating potential risks including inequity arising from future work at the human-technology frontier.
Proposals to this program should describe multi-disciplinary or convergent research that addresses technological, human, and societal dimensions of future work. Technological innovations should be integrated with advances in behavioral science, computer science, economic science, engineering, learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and the social sciences. Proposals that address the impact of large-scale disruptions such as the Covid-19 pandemic on the future of jobs and work are also of interest.
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Pocket Full of School Fund-raisers
Barron rocking the Upper West Side Friday night. Photo: S. Jhoanna Robledo
Gruppy parents expecting nothing more than heated hors d’oeuvre, questionable D.J.-ing — La Isla Bonita, anyone? — and fevered overbidding for class projects at an Upper West Side public-school auction Friday night got a rare treat when Chris Barron, lead singer of the Spin Doctors, took to the school’s stage for a surprise set. Barron, whose child attends the school, worked the crowd into a near-fever pitch, sending them back to grungy college years — when school auctions were so, well, uncool — with his biggest hits, including “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Two Princes,” both from Pocket Full of Kryptonite, the Doctors’s triple-platinum debut album. Does Barron, like other, crankier musicians, resent having to play old standbys decades after they first hit the charts? “That’s silly,” he said. “Those are great songs.” Agreed. —S. Jhoanna Robledo
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security Mar. 21, 2019
Facebook Stored Passwords Insecurely for Years, Accessible to Employees
By Brian Feldman@bafeldman
Photo: Konstantin Sergeyev/Intelligencer
Security researcher Brian Krebs reported earlier today that Facebook had been improperly storing user passwords for years, making them widely accessible to thousands of company employees. The number of users potentially affected by this is in the hundreds of millions, going back as far as 2012.
According to Krebs, “Facebook is probing a series of security failures in which employees built applications that logged unencrypted password data for Facebook users and stored it in plain text on internal company servers.” Krebs’s source said that there was no evidence any of the company’s tens of thousands of employees misused the data, but “access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.”
Web services are not supposed to ever store user passwords in plaintext (that is, as they actually appear). Oftentimes, they will “hash” the password, running it through a cryptographic program that spits out a different string of characters, and store that instead. So often when you submit a password to login, the web service runs it through the same program, then compares your submission and compares that to the hash in its database. Hashes are meant to be easy to generate, but difficult to reverse engineer, making them more secure. Storing passwords in plaintext is universally frowned upon (unless you’re a hacker, I guess).
Scott Renfro, a Facebook engineer, told Krebs, “We’ve not found any cases so far in our investigations where someone was looking intentionally for passwords, nor have we found signs of misuse of this data.”
In a blog post ironically titled, “Keeping Passwords Secure,” Facebook said it had caught the issue affecting “some user passwords” in January and it was now fixed. “We estimate that we will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users,” the company wrote.
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Basketball photos: Oak Ridge in state quarterfinal game
Posted at 7:12 pm March 8, 2019
Senior Jada Guinn (24) has broken basketball records at Oak Ridge, including most points scored in a game and most points scored in a season. Guinn, a Miss Basketball finalist who has signed to play at Tennessee Tech, is pictured above shooting the basketball during a 65-49 win over Science Hill in a Class AAA girls basketball tournament quarterfinal game in Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State University in Mufreesboro on Thursday, March 7, 2019. (Photo by Luther Simmons)
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats defeated Science Hill 65-49 in a quarterfinal game of the Class AAA girls basketball tournament in Murfreesboro on Thursday. Here are photos by Luther Simmons.
(Note: The girls’ season ended with a 56-50 loss to Bradley Central during a semifinal game on Friday.) [Read more…]
Filed Under: High School, Slider, Sports, Sports Tagged With: basketball, basketball photos, Bri Dunbar, Class AAA girls basketball tournament, Jada Guinn, Khamari Mitchell-Steen, Lady Wildcats, Luther Simmons, Middle Tennessee State University, Oak Ridge, Paige Redman, Rachael Brewer, Raja Eckles, Science Hill, Shatyrah Copeland, Taliah Davis
Lady Wildcats advance to state basketball semifinal with win over Science Hill
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats made it to the state basketball tournament for the third time in four years by beating Dobyns-Bennett 59-42 in a Class AAA sectional game at Wildcat Arena on Saturday, March 2, 2019. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was updated at 3:25 p.m.
Oak Ridge advanced to a state semifinal game on Friday with a 65-49 win over Science Hill in the Class AAA girls basketball tournament in Murfreesboro on Thursday.
The Lady Wildcats trailed in the first quarter by five points, but they went on an 11-0 run to take the lead by the end of that quarter.
The game remained relatively close until Oak Ridge went on a 14-4 run starting at about 3:30 in the third quarter and continuing through the first few minutes of the fourth quarter. The Lady Wildcats then widened their lead in the final six minutes.
The Lady Wildcats (34-2) will play Bradley Central (32-3) in a Class AAA girls semifinal game in Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State University at 2:45 p.m. (3:45 p.m. Eastern) on Friday.
Bradley Central advanced by defeating Lebanon 34-26 in another quarterfinal game on Thursday. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Front Page News, High School, Slider, Sports, Sports Tagged With: Alasia Smith, basketball, Bradley Central, Bri Dunbar, Class AAA girls basketball tournament, Class AAA girls semifinal, Jada Guinn, Khamari Mitchell-Steen, Lady Wildcats, Leila Greenlee, Middle Tennessee State University, Murphy Center, Raja Eckles, Science Hill, Shatyrah Copeland, state semifinal
Basketball: Lady Wildcats blow out Clinton 67-23
Posted at 8:47 pm January 3, 2019
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats had a blowout 67-23 win over Clinton at home on Thursday.
Oak Ridge (16-2, 4-1 District 3-AAA) outscored Clinton 25-1 in the first quarter and continued to outscore the Lady Dragons in the next three quarters.
The Lady Wildcats were led by senior guard Jada Guinn, who scored 22 points, including 12 in the second quarter.
Sophomore guard Khamari Mitchell-Steen added 15 points for Oak Ridge, including three three-point shots. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Front Page News, High School, Sports, Top Stories Tagged With: basketball, Clinton, Danyel Joy, Jada Guinn, Jazmine Moore, Khamari Mitchell-Steen, Lady Dragons, Lady Wildcats, Nikki Jones, Oak Ridge, Raja Eckles, Shatyrah Copeland
Lady Wildcats win championship in Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic
Posted at 11:58 pm December 29, 2018
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats won the championship game in the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic basketball tournament, beating Jefferson County 49-36 at Greeneville on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was updated at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 30.
GREENEVILLE—After finishing second the past two years, the Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats won the championship game in the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic basketball tournament in Greeneville on Saturday, beating Jefferson County 49-36.
It’s the sixth time Oak Ridge (15-2, 3-1 District 3-AAA) has won the title in 10 appearances in the tournament final. The Lady Wildcats have been runner-up four times, including in 2016 and 2017, when they lost to Bradley Central. Oak Ridge’s last championship win in the tournament was in 2002.
The team didn’t want to settle for second place again this year.
“When you want to play for championships, you want to win championships,” Oak Ridge Coach Paige Redman said.
It was the second championship win for Oak Ridge in about a week. The Lady Wildcats won their division championship in the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix on Saturday, December 22.
Oak Ridge senior guard Jada Guinn was named the most valuable player of both tournaments. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Front Page News, High School, Slider, Sports, Sports Tagged With: Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic, basketball, basketball tournament, Bri Dunbar, Cayla Smith, championship, Jada Guinn, Jefferson County, Kali McMahan, Khamari Mitchell-Steen, Lady Patriots, Makayla Alvey, Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats, Paige Redman, Shatyrah Copeland, Taliah Davis
Track: Wildcats, Mavericks competing at state championship meet on Thursday
Posted at 9:09 am May 24, 2018
Genevieve Schwartz of Oak Ridge, who was then a junior, is pictured above competing in the girls 4×800-meter relay in the state championship at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro on Thursday, May 25, 2017. This year, Schwartz, a senior, is the number two seed in the girls 1,600-meter run in the state championship at MTSU on Thursday, May 24, 2018. (File photo by Kindell Moore)
The Oak Ridge Wildcats and Anderson County Mavericks track and field teams are competing in the state championship meet in Murfreesboro on Thursday.
Oak Ridge will compete in the girls 1,600-meter run, the boys 4×800-meter relay, the boys 4×100-meter relay, the girls 4×100-meter relay, and girls discus. The Wildcats are the number two seed in the girls 1,600-meter run, the fifth seed in the boys 4×100-meter relay, seventh seed in the boys 4×800-meter relay, eighth seed in the girls 4×100-meter relay, and ninth seed in girls discus.
Anderson County will compete in the girls 100-meter hurdles, girls pole vault, boys long jump, girls 1,600-meter run, and girls 3,200-meter run. The Mavericks are the top seed in the girls pole vault, fifth seed in the girls 1,600-meter run and 3,200-meter run, seventh seed in the girls 100-meter hurdles, and 13th seed in the boys long jump.
The top Oak Ridge qualifier headed into the state meet, senior Genevieve Schwartz, is the number two seed in the girls 1,600-meter run, with a time of 5:07.07. The top qualifier is Sasha Neglia of Dobyns-Bennett in Kingsport in upper East Tennessee, with a time of 5:01.14. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Front Page News, High School, Sports, Top Stories Tagged With: Allen Etheridge, Anderson County Mavericks, boys 4x100-meter relay, boys 4x800-meter relay, boys long jump, Brittany Bishop, Caelan Thompson, Dalton Morgan, Desiree Bates, Erin Van Berkel, Genevieve Schwartz, girls 100-meter hurdles, girls 1600-meter run, girls 3200-meter run, girls 4x100-meter relay, girls discus, girls pole vault, Isaiah Goskowicz, Jordan Graham, Jose Villegas, Loleita Cruz, Maddy Moody, Makiya Garrett, Oak Ridge Wildcats, Parker Fulton, Reid Dukes, Section 1 Large School Championships, Shatyrah Copeland, state championship meet, State Track and Field Championships, track and field, TSSAA, Vaughn Coleman, Will Jeter
Oak Ridge girls finish ninth in state 4×800 meter relay
Oak Ridge junior Genevieve Schwartz competed as part of the 4×800 meter relay at MTSU in Murfreesboro on Thursday, May 25, 2017, when the girls finished ninth out of 16 teams. Schwartz also competed in the 3,200 meter run, where she finished 15th. (Photo by Kindell Moore)
MURFREESBORO—The Oak Ridge girls 4×800 meter relay team finished ninth in the state track meet in Murfreesboro on Thursday.
The team includes senior Abbey Greenhalgh, junior Genevieve Schwartz, and freshmen Rebecca Joyal and Muskaan Vohra.
The team finished ninth in a field of 16 teams with a time of 10:02.58.
The top three teams in the girls’ 4×800-meter relay were West (of Knoxville), Brentwood (of the Nashville area), and Hardin Valley Academy. West finished first with a time of 9:30.90.
The 2017 TSSAA Girls’ Track State Championships were at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro on Thursday.
In a second event, another Oak Ridge girls team finished 12th in the 4×200 meter relay. That team includes senior Breanne Young, junior Desiree Bates, sophomore Makiya Garrett, and junior Shatyrah Copeland. Their time was 1:47.72. The first-place team, Whitehaven, had a time of 1:41.44. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Front Page News, High School, Sports, Top Stories Tagged With: Abbey Greenhalgh, Anderson County, Breanne Young, Brittany Bishop, Desiree Bates, Genevieve Schwartz, girls 4x800-meter relay, Hardin Valley Academy, Jake Etheridge, Jordan Graham, Jose Villegas, Kensi Gray, Lizzie Davis, Maddy Moody, Makiya Garrett, Muskaan Vohra, Oak Ridge, Rebecca Joyal, Rebekah Hampton, Reid Dukes, Shatyrah Copeland, Symphony Buxton, Timaya Ray, Will Jeter
Thirteen Wildcats qualify for state track meet in seven events
By John Huotari 1 Comment
Pictured above is the Oak Ridge boys 4×800-meter relay team, which qualified for the 2017 TSSAA State Track Meet during the Class AAA Section 1 Finals at Hardin Valley Academy on Saturday, May 13, 2017. From left are junior Reid Dukes, senior Jake Etheridge, and juniors Jose Villegas and Will Jeter. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was last updated at 1 p.m. May 14.
HARDIN VALLEY—The Oak Ridge track and field team had 13 athletes qualify for seven events in the state track meet during the Class AAA Section 1 Finals at Hardin Valley on Saturday.
The seven events included three relays, three runs, and the 100-meter dash.
Here’s who qualified:
Girls 4×200-meter relay—senior Breanne Young, junior Desiree Bates, sophomore Makiya Garrett, and junior Shatyrah Copeland (4th with a time of 1:45.22);
Girls 4×800-meter relay—senior Abbey Greenhalgh, junior Genevieve Schwartz, and freshmen Rebecca Joyal and Muskaan Vohra (4th with a time of 9:53.08);
Girls 3,200-meter run—Schwartz (4th with a time of 12:02.05);
Boys 4×800-meter relay—senior Jake Etheridge and juniors Reid Dukes, Will Jeter, and Jose Villegas (3rd with a time of 8:06.50);
Boys 1,600-meter run—Etheridge (3rd with a time of 4:33.87);
Boys 3,200-meter run—Etheridge (4th with a time of 9:55.97); and
Boys 100-meter dash—sophomore Jordan Graham (4th with a time of 11.53).
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Enhancement by α-fluoromethylhistidine of the thiopental sleep-prolonging action of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol
Ryozo Oishi, Yoshinori Itoh, Masahiro Nishibori, Kiyomi Saeki, Showa Ueki
The effect of α-fluoromethylhistidine (α-FMH), a specific inhibitor of histidine decarboxylase, on the potentiation of thiopental-induced sleep by Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which inhibits the histamine turnover in the brain, was examined in mice and rats. The sleeping time after injection of thiopental sodium (40 mg/kg, IV) was prolonged by THC (10 mg/kg, IP, 1 h before) to approximately twice the control value. α-FMH (50 mg/kg, IP) administered alone had no significant influence on the thiopental sleeping time. However, α-FMH given 1 or 3 h before THC treatment markedly enhanced the THC potentiation of thiopental-induced sleep. Such an enhancement by α-FMH was not observed when α-FMH was administered 15 h before THC treatment. The brain histamine level decreased by 60% during the first 4 h after α-FMH injection and remained low until 15 h after the treatment. The thiopental sleep-potentiating action of morphine, chlorpromazine and diazepam was not affected by pretreatment with α-FMH. The transient enhancing effect of α-FMH on the THC potentiation of thiopental-induced sleep suggests that the histaminergic system is one of the activating transmitter systems in the brain.
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Oishi, R., Itoh, Y., Nishibori, M., Saeki, K., & Ueki, S. (1988). Enhancement by α-fluoromethylhistidine of the thiopental sleep-prolonging action of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol. Psychopharmacology, 95(1), 77-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00212771
Enhancement by α-fluoromethylhistidine of the thiopental sleep-prolonging action of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol. / Oishi, Ryozo; Itoh, Yoshinori; Nishibori, Masahiro; Saeki, Kiyomi; Ueki, Showa.
In: Psychopharmacology, Vol. 95, No. 1, 01.05.1988, p. 77-81.
Oishi, R, Itoh, Y, Nishibori, M, Saeki, K & Ueki, S 1988, 'Enhancement by α-fluoromethylhistidine of the thiopental sleep-prolonging action of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol', Psychopharmacology, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 77-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00212771
Oishi R, Itoh Y, Nishibori M, Saeki K, Ueki S. Enhancement by α-fluoromethylhistidine of the thiopental sleep-prolonging action of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol. Psychopharmacology. 1988 May 1;95(1):77-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00212771
Oishi, Ryozo ; Itoh, Yoshinori ; Nishibori, Masahiro ; Saeki, Kiyomi ; Ueki, Showa. / Enhancement by α-fluoromethylhistidine of the thiopental sleep-prolonging action of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol. In: Psychopharmacology. 1988 ; Vol. 95, No. 1. pp. 77-81.
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Share this Story: Boswell: LeBreton Flats has been cursed for almost two centuries
Boswell: LeBreton Flats has been cursed for almost two centuries
Randy Boswell
Lebreton Flats, on a frosty November day. Photo by Jean Levac /Postmedia News
It’s been described as a “bombshell” moment, a “staggering” turn of events, an “egregious” clash of corporate interests that came clear out of the blue — and seems certain to doom the long-awaited, $4-billion megaproject to redevelop the last big chunk of Canada’s most storied vacant lot.
Eye-roll. Chuckle. Yawn.
Boswell: LeBreton Flats has been cursed for almost two centuries Back to video
Sure, it’s noteworthy that a $700-million lawsuit has been filed by Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk against his erstwhile partners, Trinity Developments’ John Ruddy and consultant Graham Bird, in the now-collapsed RendezVous LeBreton project.
And yes, it’s painful to watch National Capital Commission chief Mark Kristmanson and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson still hoping to spur the two corporate combatants in this “dysfunctional partnership” (Watson’s words) to patch things up before a key January deadline to move the project forward.
But anyone familiar with the history of LeBreton Flats shouldn’t be too surprised at what just happened. Is it any wonder that this cursed acreage near the heart of downtown Ottawa has produced yet another set of screaming headlines, another high-stakes legal drama, another batch of broken dreams?
For nearly two full centuries before anyone envisioned a sparkling new NHL stadium at the centre of a sprawling commercial-residential community on this historic patch of earth, there have been people fighting with each other for a foothold on Capt. John LeBreton’s infamous Flats.
Is it any wonder that this cursed acreage near the heart of downtown Ottawa has produced yet another set of screaming headlines, another high-stakes legal drama, another batch of broken dreams?
Heck, hockey hadn’t even been invented by the time plaintiffs and defendants were facing off over the future of this prime property, which LeBreton purchased in 1820 — in murky circumstances that spawned a later court challenge — for 499 pounds.
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Rubin: Ottawa needs a public vision for LeBreton Flats, not a private one
Just how long has there been trouble brewing on the Flats? For so long that 190 years ago, an eviction notice was issued to Ottawa’s first tavern keeper — trouble brewing, literally! — as part of an 1828 legal showdown over ownership of the land.
That court contest was between LeBreton (a War of 1812 veteran) and a cast of characters that included the angry ex-con Robert Randall (who felt he’d been cheated of the Flats), Lord Dalhousie (governor-in-chief of Upper and Lower Canada) and Lt.-Col. John By himself, founder of the future Ottawa and builder of the Rideau Canal.
Col. By had been hoping to force a cheap Crown acquisition of LeBreton’s land to connect the canal to the Ottawa River at Richmond Landing, a shoreline stretch of the Flats a kilometre or so west of today’s Parliament Hill.
But LeBreton won the court fight and secure title over his namesake Flats, while By made do with a canal outlet just east of Parliament Hill.
Phil Jenkins, local author of a Flats history titled An Acre of Time, has recounted another early struggle for justice that encompassed the lands now subject to the Melnyk lawsuit and — count on it — umpteen unknown future court battles.
Children on the street of LeBreton Flats, circa 1963.(Ted Grant/Library and Archives Canada) OTTwp
In an 1830 petition to the British Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa-area Algonquin chief Constant Penency sought compensation for the loss of his former hunting grounds — a stretch of land on the south side of the Ottawa River east and west of the Rideau River — where recent settlement and other “incursions” had caused “the destruction and the distancing of the beaver and of game.”
Penency was offered a settlement that amounted to “a better class of rifle and blanket” — what Jenkins called “a bribe to stay ruly, to not make waves on the Ottawa River.”
The next phase of LeBreton Flats history saw the late 19th-century buildup of a robust industrial zone and working class community fuelled by the juggernaut growth of Ottawa’s world-class lumber business, centred at the adjacent Chaudière Falls milling complex.
Though largely destroyed in the Great Fire that swept through Ottawa and Hull in 1900 — the curse strikes again — the LeBreton Flats community was revived and thrived for decades until its obliteration in the 1960s.
The NCC’s announcement in April 1962 that the Flats would be flattened as “urban renewal” sent an army of lawyers on an expropriation blitzkrieg. Then an army of demolition teams razed the low-income housing district ahead of its planned future development as a campus of federal office buildings — “a dazzling new annex to Parliament Hill and Wellington Street,” the Ottawa Journal enthused at the time.
But then, apart from sporadic special events such as the massive public gathering at the Flats for a 1984 appearance by Pope John Paul II, the lands sat silent for more than 40 years before this century’s construction of the Canadian War Museum and, finally, the erection of some east-side condo buildings took a bit of the punch out of one of the longest running jokes about this city.
Along the way, various redevelopment visions came and went: a proposed aquarium swam away; a planned baseball stadium struck out; a landmark convention centre cancelled its booking; and an earlier arena dream, transplanted to Kanata, was put on ice until now.
“Now,” once again, looks a long way off.
MORE FROM RANDY BOSWELL:
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Boswell: Sir John A. statue debate shows history isn’t carved in stone
Carleton journalism professorRandy Boswell is a former Citizen city hall reporter and history writer who wrote often about LeBreton Flats.
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Evaporation Lines on EPT Results
Last updated Dec 31, 2020 0
Early pregnancy tests are a highly accurate method of checking for pregnancy. They work by detecting a hormone present in urine called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), also known as the “pregnancy hormone” because it builds rapidly in the body when a fertilized egg implants in the uterus.
Although pregnancy tests are quite accurate, some test results, known as evaporation lines, give an impression contrary to this fact, where the results aren’t clearly discernible as positive or negative.
Evaporation Lines Explained
Usually a pregnancy reveals positive results with an appearing colored band if high concentrations of hGC are detected and no colored band if not. Evaporation lines appear usually as an extremely faint line that confounds the results.
The lines are visible enough to question a negative result and faint enough to question a positive result. Most frequently, they appear when the urine on a test area begins to dry; however, in some instances, they appear due to the concentration of the urine sample. It is possible to get evaporation lines regardless of the test’s brand. Take another test a few days later for more accurate results.
Avoiding Evaporation Lines
Taking the test properly will help reduce the chances of evaporation lines appearing as the result. Wait a week after a missed period before taking a test. Some pregnancy test brands claim 99% accuracy as soon as one day after a missed period, but most doctors argue that hGC levels are still quite low in the very early stages of pregnancy and might be missed by a test.
The hGC hormone builds gradually after a missed period and doesn’t become fully present until a week later. Taking the test then will greatly reduce the chance of an evaporation line occurring due to extremely faint concentrations of hGC in the urine.
Improve Result Accuracy
During the day, people tend to drink lots of fluids that flush the system. Taking a pregnancy test after consuming several glasses of water will likely produce a poor urine sample. A poor, watered down urine sample will reduce the presence of hGC and could yield an extremely faint and so questionable, evaporation line.
For the best results, use a high quality urine sample such as the first of the day. Using a potent urine sample will greatly reduce the chances of evaporation line confusion.
Confirming the Results
Regardless of the results you have received, be it clearly positive, negative or confounding, it is absolutely essential to confirm the results by taking multiple tests. Wait a week or at least a few days between confirmation tests to allow your body to build more hGC.
If the confirmation tests yield unsatisfactory results and you’re still confused, speak to a doctor. Remember, it can take up to a week after a missed period for your body to reach sufficient hGC levels. If you are testing before this time and continuously get uncertain results, have patience and take the test at a later date.
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Recommendations Relating To Employment
Having something to do is vital for mental health. Participation in employment can meaningfully contribute to our sense of purpose, accomplishment and more.
‘Mentally healthy’ workplaces – those that are sensitive and equipped to respond to the needs of people with complex mental health issues – can offer a nurturing environment in which people can bring their ‘whole selves’ to work. It is these types of workplaces that are likely to support wellbeing and recovery for people living with complex mental health issues.
“I found returning to work really hard after periods of acute illness. I've had to change jobs and downsize my career but with more legitimate support I could achieve more.”
– Our Turn to Speak participant, Victoria
Respondents to this domain reported unfair treatment in the workplace as a result of stigma associated with their complex mental health issues. Concerns also extended to unfair denial of flexible work arrangements, employment and promotion opportunities, and social exclusion. Others highlighted barriers to obtaining or sustaining employment, ranging from difficulties at the application and interview stages, or the process of engaging with employment support services. These difficulties continued throughout the lifecycle of employment for many, with discussion of unfair treatment, pressure to disclose or to conceal mental health status, and termination following disclosure being common themes.
“I got asked why I needed to take sick leave; I told them that I was unwell, the manager kept pushing me to talk, so I told him I had to see a psychiatrist, and the next day I was fired from my job as it was “unsafe to have an unstable employee working with the team.”
– Our Turn to Speak participant, Western Australia
Some people affected by complex mental health issues may require more support to enter or maintain employment – from carers, families and others supporting people impacted by these issues. Many employers need guidance to understand the support needs of people affected by complex mental health issues and how they can create a more inclusive work environment. These goals tie in neatly with the work currently underway to develop the National Workplace Initiative, led by the National Mental Health Commission.
Ensure that the National Workplace Initiative and other approaches to improving mental health in the workplace are inclusive of complex mental health issues by promoting reasonable adjustments, flexibility, safe disclosure, unconscious bias training and mental health first aid.
Increase visibility, representation and valuing of lived experience perspectives in the workplace through inclusion in training, decision-making and establishment of peer support roles.
Increase funding for programs that support people affected by complex mental health issues to identify their strengths and employment goals with the option to access support during their employment.
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Billingsley, A. (2003-03-27). A Tale of Two Cities: Black Churches in Denver and Atlanta. In Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 Jan. 2021, from https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161793.001.0001/acprof-9780195161793-chapter-11.
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Billingsley, Andrew. "A Tale of Two Cities: Black Churches in Denver and Atlanta." In Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2011. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161793.003.0011.
Billingsley A. A Tale of Two Cities: Black Churches in Denver and Atlanta. In: Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform. Oxford University Press; 2003. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161793.001.0001/acprof-9780195161793-chapter-11. Accessed January 19, 2021.
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Abane, Ramdane
Jeremy Rich
was born in the village of Azouza, Tizi Ouzou province, Algeria on 10 June 1920. He came from a prosperous merchant family of the Kabyle ethnic minority. Abane’s mother was Fatima Meradi, and Abane was her second child, whom she doted on. She died in 1957 and Abane saw her for the last time in the fall of 1956. His father, Farhat, was a trader who had traveled far more than most Algerians, and had even gone to North America twice in 1908 and 1912 on business matters. The family business flourished until World War II, and collapsed during the Algerian war for independence. Ultimately, Abane’s father outlived his son by over twenty years and died in 1979 at roughly 103 years of age.
Abane had a rebellious streak even as a child However the young Abane adored learning He excelled in his French primary school and his ...
Abani, Chris
Ariel Bookman
Nigerian novelist, poet, dramatist, educator, and political activist, was born Christopher Uchechukwu Andrew Abani, on 27 December 1966, in Afikpo, Nigeria. Abani’s life has been dramatically shaped but not defined by the political violence associated with the Nigerian state. Born in the Igbo heartland of southeast Nigeria to an Igbo father and British mother, Abani was six months old when the Biafran War began. His mother fled to Britain with him and his siblings, an experience that he would later narrate in poetic form in Daphne’s Lot (2003). Returning to Nigeria after the war, Abani demonstrated precocious literary talent, publishing his first short story at age ten and finishing his first novel, Masters of the Board (1984), at sixteen. The novel, a political thriller, imagines a Nazi plot to return to power by using unwitting Third World governments as its pawns.
Abani was arrested in ...
Abbott, Israel Braddock
Alice Bernstein
carpenter, newspaper editor, and state representative during Reconstruction, was born free, of “unmixed African blood,” in New Bern, North Carolina, to Israel B. Abbott and Gracie Maria Green. His father died in 1844, and Abbott was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, Hannah, the wife of Bristow Rue (Rhew). His mother's second husband was Nelson Brown, with whom she had a daughter, Hannah Cora, and stepsons Samuel H. Brown and George M. Brown. She married her third husband, the Reverend Joseph Green, a Methodist Episcopal Zion Church minister, in 1854. When Abbott was four, his grandmother contributed one dollar toward his education, and he attended a school taught by Mrs. Jane Stevens. He went to school regularly until age ten, when he began serving two years as apprentice to a carpenter, completing his trade with his stepfather, Joseph Green ...
ʿAbduh, Muhammad
Geoffrey Roper
Egyptian Muslim theologian, modernist, and reformer, was born in the Gharbiya Province of Lower Egypt, the son of ʿAbduh ibn Hasan Khayr Allah, a peasant farmer, and his wife, who was descended from the Bani ʿAdl clan. He grew up in the village of Mahallat Nasr and received a traditional education, learning the Qurʾan by heart. In 1862 he was sent to the madrasa (Islamic college) in Tanta. There, he perfected his Qurʾan recitation and started to learn Arabic grammar, by the then normal method of memorizing texts and commentaries without explanation from his teachers.
Reacting against this, according to his own account, he ran away from the college and returned to his village, intending to become a peasant rather than a scholar. In this condition he married in 1865 at the age of sixteen But after various vicissitudes he resorted to his great uncle Shaykh Darwish Khadr who ...
Abdul, Raoul
Brenna Sanchez
classical singer, author, gay rights activist, and former literary assistant to writer Langston Hughes, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Abdul's father, Hamid Abdul, was from Calcutta, India, and his mother, Bernice (Shreve) Abdul, was able to trace her ancestry back to the pre-Revolutionary War era. Abdul got his start in theater at a young age, participating in children's theater by age six. He attended John Hay High School and, after graduation, worked as a journalist for the Cleveland Call and Post. He would later go on to earn a diploma from the Vienna Academy of Music in 1962. He also studied at Harvard University, the New School for Social Research, the Cleveland Institute of Music, New York College of Music, and the Mannes College of Music.
In 1951 at age twenty two Abdul relocated to New York City There he began studying music and was ...
Abernathy, Juanita Jones
Alma Jean Billingslea Brown
civil rights activist, educator, and businesswoman, was born Juanita Odessa Jones in Uniontown, Alabama, the youngest of eight children of Ella Gilmore Jones and Alex Jones Sr., an influential and prosperous black farmer in Perry County, Alabama. When Alabama telephone and electric companies refused to provide service to the Jones homestead, Alex Jones Sr. and his brothers installed their own telephone lines and wired their own homes for electricity. One consequence of the family's financial independence was that Juanita was able to attend boarding school from age five until she graduated from high school in Selma, Alabama, where she had older sisters in attendance at the historically black Selma University. After high school, in 1947 Jones enrolled in Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in business education with a minor in history and social studies. She returned to Alabama after earning a BS in 1951 ...
Abo, Wassis Hortense Léonie
Karen Bouwer
Congolese activist and prominent member of the Kwilu rebellion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was born in Malungu on the banks of the Kwilu River in the Belgian Congo on 15 August 1945. In 1963 she joined the armed uprising led by Pierre Mulele, the leader of the rebellion and the former minister of education in Patrice Lumumba’s cabinet.
Her mother, Labon, died in childbirth, so Abo, whose name means “mourning” in Kimbundu, was raised by her adoptive parents, Awaka and Mabiungu. Despite the violent protestations of her grandmother Aney, Abo started attending primary school in the village of Lukamba in 1952. She transferred to a boarding school at the Totshi mission at the age of nine. There she was baptized and renamed Léonie Hortense. In 1957 Abo and thirteen other young girls made up the first class of assistant midwives and pediatric nurses at ...
Aboulker, José
was born on 5 March 1920 in Algeria. Both his parents were Jewish and were notable figures in their own right. Aboulker’s father, Félix, was a surgeon and the leader of the centrist Radical Party in Algiers. Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker was one of the first Algerian women to publish a novel and the author of numerous poems. Because after 1879 Algerian Jews became French citizens by an act of the French parliament, Aboulker had the opportunity to receive an advanced education, unlike other Algerians. After completing his primary and secondary education, Aboulker planned to continue in the family profession of medicine, but the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939 forced him to postpone his education. He enlisted in a French regiment of spahis at Miliana in Ain Delfa province in northwest Algeria. However, the French government surrendered to the Germans in 1940.
The establishment of a pro ...
Abranches, Henrique
Jessica Falconi
Angolan anthropologist, writer, and political activist, was born Mário de Carvalho Moutinho in Lisbon on 29 September 1932. Portuguese by birth and Angolan by nationality, Henrique Abranches also used the pseudonyms “Mwene Kalungo” and “Mwene Kalungo-Lungo.” In 1947 he and his family left Portugal to settle in Luanda, where he attended the Liceu Salvador Correia, a pioneering institution of secondary education in Angola whose students included several names that were later important in Angolan literature. After five years in Luanda, Abranches moved to the city of Sá de Bandeira (now Lubango) in the Huíla Plateau in southern Angola, where he became interested in the customs and traditions of the people of the region. He returned briefly to Portugal, where he finished secondary school and attended the Society of Fine Arts. He returned to Lubango on his own and began working for the Bank of Angola. In 1952 he ...
Abron, Lilia Ann
Sherri J. Norris
chemical engineer and environmental engineering entrepreneur, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the second of four daughters of Ernest Buford Abron and Bernice Wise Abron, both educators. Abron was educated in Memphis public schools and was a member of the National Honor Society. Abron divorced and had three sons, Frederick, Ernest, and David; she is occasionally credited as Lilia Ann Abron-Robinson.
Abron stayed close to home when she attended LeMoyne College, a historically black college in Memphis, Tennessee. She considered medical school, but she was persuaded by her advisor, Dr. Beuler, to pursue a career in engineering instead. Her decision was a risky one. She did not know of any African Americans with engineering degrees who were actually working as engineers; instead, she once said in an interview, they were often working in post offices. In 1966 Abron received her BS in Chemistry from ...
Abu-Jamal, Mumia
April Taylor
Born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a political activist from adolescence. At the age of fourteen he was arrested and beaten for demonstrating against segregationist presidential candidate George Wallace. He was a founding member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968 and worked on the party's newspaper in California during the summer of 1970.
Returning to Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal became a radio journalist with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and had his own talk show on station WUHY. He was highly critical of Philadelphia's police department and of the city's “law and order” mayor, Frank Rizzo. He provided coverage of the police treatment of MOVE, a Philadelphia black militant group, which further alienated the authorities. Forced to leave his position as a journalist, Abu-Jamal took a job as a taxi driver.
While Abu Jamal was driving his cab on the ...
Christopher Phelps
a Philadelphia radio journalist who became an international icon in debates over race and the death penalty after he was convicted for the murder of a police officer, was born Wesley Cook to Edith and William Cook, migrants from the South. The family subsisted on welfare in the housing projects of North Philadelphia. As a boy Cook read avidly and sought enlightenment, attending services with his Baptist mother and Episcopalian father, then dabbling in Judaism, Catholicism, and the Nation of Islam. When he was about ten years old his father died of a heart attack, prompting him to assume a protective role toward his twin brother, Wayne, and younger brother, William.
The black liberation movement shaped Cook's coming of age. In a 1967 school class in Swahili, a Kenyan teacher assigned him the first name Mumia. In 1968 at age fourteen he and some friends protested ...
Todd Steven Burroughs
radical prison journalist and author. Mumia Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a teenager in the 1960s he was attracted to the Black Panther Party (BPP). Cook—christened “Mumia” by one of his high school teachers—helped form the BPP's Philadelphia chapter in spring 1969 and became the chapter's lieutenant of information. He wrote articles for the Black Panther, the party's national newspaper, and traveled to several cities to perform BPP work. He left the party in the fall of 1970 because of the split between Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton.
After attending Goddard College in Plainfield Vermont Cook now calling himself Mumia Abu Jamal the surname is Arabic for father of Jamal Jamal being his firstborn returned to Philadelphia and began a radio broadcasting career in the early 1970s Abu Jamal was part of the first generation of black journalists to become professional newscasters for ...
Acea, Isidro
Bonnie A. Lucero
who later became a political activist in the early Cuban Republic, was born in 1876 in Cienfuegos. He joined the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) just months after the first uprisings broke out in Cienfuegos on 4 April 1895. He initially served in Cienfuegos and Las Villas under Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Rego. He later enlisted in the invasion force led by Máximo Gómez (Cuba’s military leader during the war) and Antonio Maceo when it passed from Oriente through Villa Clara in December 1895, and he participated in the famous battle of Mal Tiempo. Acea served under the command of Juan Eligio Ducasse, and he was wounded in a battle in early 1896 outside Ceiba de Agua After operating in the vicinity of Alquizar for several months Acea organized his own infantry regiment called the Tiradores de Maceo in the Fifth Corps of the Cuban army ...
Achmat, Adurrazack
Mandisa Mbali
antiapartheid, gay rights, AIDS, and human rights activist, was born in Johannesburg in South Africa. Adurrazack (“Zackie”) Achmat was of Cape Malay heritage. His father, Suleiman Achmat, was a member of the South African Communist Party and his mother, Mymoena, was a trade union shop steward. Achmat’s entry into politics began at the age of 14 with his participation in the 1976 student uprising. He was detained in 1977 for burning down his high school in Salt River to demonstrate his support for the uprising. Achmat obtained a bachelor of arts honors degree in English literature from the University of the Western Cape in 1992.
He spent much of the period between 1976 and 1980 in detention for his opposition to the apartheid system. It was also in this period that Achmat read the then-banned works of Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky and the progressive academic journal Work in ...
Acosta Saignes, Miguel
Angie Colón Mendinueta
was born on 8 November 1908 in San Casimiro, in the state of Aragua, Republic of Venezuela. He was the son of Miguel Acosta Delgado, a native of Maturín in the state of Mongas, and Adela Saignes Roulac, from the village of Saignes Roulac, of French origin. From childhood onward, Miguel received a good education, and he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1927. After graduation, he became a teacher in the Colegio San Pablo de Caracas (San Pablo de Caracas High School), where he had formerly been a student, and the vice principal of the Zamora School (also in Caracas).
In 1928 Acosta began medical school at the Universidad Central de Venezuela That same year along with several of his classmates he was arrested and taken to prison for his participation in student protests against the regime of the military dictator Juan Vicente Gómez They were taken to ...
Adair, Thelma Cornelia
David B. McCarthy
Presbyterianeducator and activist, was born Thelma Cornelia Davidson at Iron Station, North Carolina, one of five children of Robert James Davidson, a Baptist minister, schoolteacher, and principal, and Violet Wilson Davidson a schoolteacher mortician and community organizer Her grandfather six uncles and three brothers were all ministers as would be her future husband She grew up in Spindale North Carolina where her mother was a teacher and her father was principal and superintendent of Western Union Baptist Academy and later in Kings Mountain North Carolina where her father served as a high school principal and as the pastor of several local churches After her early years in public school she enrolled in Lincoln Academy a boarding school run by the American Missionary Society of the Congregational Church Just before her thirteenth birthday she enrolled in Barber Scotia Junior College in Concord North Carolina a school of ...
Adams, Carolyn
Karen Backstein
dancer and arts administrator, was born in New York City, the daughter of Julius J. Adams, a journalist who rose to managing editor of the New York Amsterdam News, and Olive A. Adams, an accomplished pianist. Her parents cultivated in her a deep appreciation of the arts, as well as a legacy of social activism that stayed with Adams throughout her life—both during her career as a dancer and after her retirement from the stage, when she helped found community-based arts centers for children in Harlem. The dance writer Muriel Topaz described the Adamses' home as a “center of social and political activity,” and noted that the Global News Syndicate, an organization of black newspapers, was founded in their small apartment (Topaz, 30).
When she was eight years old Adams entered New York s progressive Ethical Culture School an institution dedicated to the moral as well ...
Adams, Grantley Herbert
Shani Roper
chief minister of Barbados (1948–1958); premier of Barbados (1954–1958); and prime minister of the West Indian Federation (1958–1962), was born on 28 April 1898 in Government Hill, Barbados. The third of seven children born to Fitz Herbert and Rosa Adams (née Turney), Adams attended St. Giles’ Primary and later Harrison College. In 1918 Adams was awarded the Barbados Scholarship, which enabled him to attend Oxford University to study law. At Oxford, he regularly participated in political debates and became a member of the Liberal Party there. He campaigned for the Liberal candidate Frank Gray in 1922–1923 and canvassed for C. B. Fry in 1924. He returned to Barbados in 1925. Adams met and eventually married Grace Thorne in 1929 One year later she gave birth to their only child John Michael Geoffrey Adams otherwise known as Tom Adams prime minister of ...
Adams, Henry
a Baptist minister and educational reformer, was born in Franklin County, Georgia, to free parents, whose names are unknown. His early life is obscure. On 29 October 1820, at the age of eighteen, Adams converted to the Baptist faith, and in 1825, at the age of twenty-three, he was ordained a minister.
Adams began preaching in his home state of Georgia and also in South Carolina. In 1829 Adams moved to Louisville Kentucky to become a pastor of First Baptist Church where he ministered to the needs of the African American congregants In the beginning of his pastorship he was devoted to preaching and studying but he also taught individual students Because of his study and teaching Adams became known as a great biblical scholar and was proficient not only in English but in dead languages such as Latin as well Adams also attracted a large ...
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Donna Leon makes a rare UK appearance
Jonathan Sacks, Donna Leon and Pat Barker in 2020 line-up
The 2020 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival is open for booking for the first 80 events, which include former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Booker Prize-winning novelist Pat Barker, crime writer Donna Leon, historian and children’s novelist Lucy Worsley and cookery writer Prue Leith.
Jonathan Sacks will talk about his book on morality and heads a new programme of events on Jewish and Hebrew literature and culture that also includes House of Lords crossbencher Rabbi Julia Neuburger.
Pat Barker will talk about her latest novel, The Silence of the Girls, and receive the prestigious Bodley Medal for outstanding achievement. Her fellow Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively gives this year’s Chancellor’s Lecture on her life and work.
Donna Leon makes a rare UK appearance to talk about the 29th novel in her bestselling Commissario Brunetti series, Trace Elements. And leading commentator on religion Karen Armstrong talks about her new book, The Lost Art of Scripture.
Great British Bake-Off judge Prue Leith is joined by ner niece Peta Leith to talk about their new book, The Vegetarian Kitchen, and about their lives in food.
Lucy Worsley returns to the festival to talk about her new historical children’s novel The Austen Girls.
The children’s programme also welcomes space scientist and The Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock who will go on an epic and interactive journey through the solar system, Murder Most Unladylike author Robin Stevens, and poet Allie Esiri.
This year’s festival also features three of our hugely popular one-day creative writing courses on plot development, character development and biography/memoir.
Watch out for lots more events as they are added to the festival line-up in the next few weeks.
Tickets are on sale now from this website or by telephoning the box office at 0333 666 3366 (a booking fee of £1.75 applies to purchases made through the telephone box office).
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BBC news presenter John Humphrys, adventurer Levison Wood and broadcaster Dermot O’Leary confirmed
Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro and comedian Jo Brand among speakers announced for 2019
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Buddhist history in the United States traces to the mid-19th century, when early scholars and spiritual pioneers first introduced the subject to Americans, followed soon by the arrival of Chinese immigrants to the West Coast. Interest in Buddhism was significant during the late Victorian era, but practice was almost completely confined to Asian immigrants, who faced severe white prejudice and legal discrimination. The Japanese were the first to establish robust, long-lasting temple networks, though they, too, faced persecution, culminating in the 1942 incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, a severe blow to American Buddhism. Outside the Japanese American community, Buddhism grew slowly in the earlier decades of the 20th century, but it began to take off in the 1960s, aided soon by the lifting of onerous immigration laws and the return of large-scale Asian immigration. By the end of the 20th century American Buddhism had become extremely diverse and complex, with clear evidence of permanence in Asian American and other communities.
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Aspects Of Physics
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FreeNews
The Experimental Ethic
The Experimental Contributors
Information Measurement
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The information measurement is an attempt to “recalibrate” and effect change within and upon dynamic systems through the revision and introduction of new tools.
Source –> Medium –> Observer
Primitive Change: A Primitive change is a change from within the rules of the system, where change is any alteration in the state of the system over time -time being hastily described as that “thing” or “concept” through which two contradictory statements can be made of the same object.
Evolved Change: An evolved change acts ON the system, changing the rules themselves. If the rules have changed, the set of all possibilities of that system must also change, unless the rule changed was a sterile or empty rule.
Information Measurement Outline
Approach (Source/Field/Normative) or Philosophical and Conceptual Basis
Dynamic vs. Closed Systems
Limitations: Closed systems tend to be based upon dualistic thinking (i.e. The Bell Curve is useful to a point, but it can not illustrate the dynamics and correlations of extreme groups or actions and how these relate energetically
The Information Measurement seeks new ways to measure
Tri-perspectival Philosophy: a referencing snapshot of a dynamic system:
This relates to the particle in the wave/particle duality. The wave/particle duality is a duality, but it is also an accepted paradox, the “true” nature of an atom being dynamic and not “on/off”
Kinetic Torus: A conceptual model of energetic dynamic systems. A measurement of systems’ evolving changes
The Mobius Chain and Impossibility of Precision Mapping:The synthesis of the torus and tri-perspectival approach are virtually impossible to map, but rather we will attempt ways to idealize or approach these systems simultaneously.Steven Wright (paraphrase): I have a life-sized map of the United States, 1mile equals 1 mile.The more complex a model or mapping, the less comprehensive it becomes as it resembles more closely the thing to be mapped.
Application: The Information Measurement Framework (Situational/Domain)
Specifics of the Information Measurement
The measure of the movement of information
Identification and classification of information and information networks
Identifications and classification and analysis of information filters
Institutions (i.e. museums, libraries, collections, search engines)
Media (radio, television, newspapers, web, film, the arts, advertising) [editor’s note: It could be argued that there is a dwindling of the openness of media as the viral tendencies of institutions in a open capitalist system increasingly control the filtration of these items. Historical examples include the homogenizing of radio because of private ownership. ]
Individuals (i.e. disc jockeys, artists, scholars, educators, collectors, critics, etc.)
Application of the Information Measurement
Modeling/mapping of these systems and their flow
Historical/Critical/Theoretical analysis
Our Motivations
Application throughout the Experiment Network as a means of information management
We are artists and desire to create
Individual frustration with the system’s existing networks
There is an opportunity for greater awareness, comprehension and application of ideas and concepts outside of daily modular thinking
As a society we are in a privileged position to reflect upon the governing systems
To create a self-referential feedback loop, to activate the ability of consciousness and awareness of one’s self
To foster an educational environment of reciprocal exchange
To challenge ourselves to grown and learn
Complete Table Of Individual Art Forms
From Joseph Schillinger’s Mathematical Basis Of The Arts
General Component
System of
[kinetic] Hearing Time [1] Sound 1. The Art of Audible Sound
[kinetic] Touch Time [1] Mass 2. The Art of Touchable Mass
[kinetic] Smell Time [1] Odor 3. The Art of Smellable Odor
[kinetic] Taste Time [1] Flavor 4. The Art of Tastable Flavor
[static] Sight Space (X1, X2) [2] Light 5. The Art of Visible Light
[static] Sight Space (X1, X2) [2] Pigment 6. The Art of Visible Pigment
[static] Sight Space (X1, X2) [2] Surface 7. The Art of Texture of Visible Surface
[kinetic] Sight Time [1], Space (X1, X2) [2] Light 8. Kinetic Art of Visible Light projected on a Plane Surface
[kinetic] Sight Time [1], Space (X1, X2) [2] Pigment 9. Kinetic Art of Visible Pigment transforming on a moving surface.
[kinetic] Sight Time [1], Space (X1, X2) [2] Surface 10. Kinetic Art of Visible Texture transforming on a moving surface
[static] Sight Space (X1, X2, X3) [3] Light 11. Static Art of Visible Light placed inside of a 3-dimensional spatial form
[static] Sight Space (X1, X2, X3) [3] Pigment 12. Static Art of Visivle Pigment covering the surface of a 3-dimension form
[static] Sight Space (X1, X2, X3) [3] Surface 13. Static Art of Visible Texture of 3-dimension forms
[static] Sight Space (X1, X2, X3) [3] Mass 14. The Art of Static 3-dimension visable mass
[kinetic] Sight Time [1], Space (X1, X2, X3) [3] Light 15. The Art of Visible Kinetic Light projected on a 3-dimensional or a 2-dimesional screen in motion
[kinetic] Sight Time [1], Space (X1, X2, X3) [3] Pigment 16. The Art of Visible Kinetic Pigment covering 2-or 3-dimesional surface in motion
[kinetic] Sight Time [1], Space (X1, X2, X3) [3] Surface 17. The Art of Visible Kinetic Texture of surface or volume
[kinetic] Sight Time [1], Space (X1, X2, X3) [3] Mass 18. The Art of Visible Kinetic Mass
Meltzer’s Philosophical Inquiry
This is a sequel, not a formulation of prolegomena[1].
I seek to view philosophical inquiry (and everything else too), already itself an effete notion, as afterthought. Historically, multitudes have wailed that all knowledge has already been stated. Plato’s Meno reveals that man’s reason can penetrate all reality by memory of his immortal soul; Plato proceeds to render all truth himself and thus virtually closes the door, allowing for minor revision by such men as Kant. Bob Dylan is not moaning when he says, almost quotingly, “All the great books have been written,” realizing that man can no longer open his mouth without seeming to quote. Zooey Glass of J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey sees as frightening the possibility of man knowing everything of his predecessors. But man must strive to order aesthetically[2] the knowledge available to him, knowing always that the entire system can become “played out” and crumble. I must begin this critique with the aesthetic notions presently composing the totality of my particular afterthought, relaizing that they will quite likely be utterly different when I finish. “Tommorow Not Today,” written by Sandy Fadin[3] of the obscure Tuckets, sets the tone for this procedure. The bulk of my writing itself will have effected my comtemplative state, possibly quite vastly or minutely. It the course of my writing, objective changes in the face of rock ‘n’ roll have themselves taken place, and I began[4] dealing with “folk-rock” before the label ever achieved wide usage.
Oh, you know, prolegomena (as in Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics) -sort of (clarification of) ground for future moves.
Mere grocery list is order too. etc.
Man Ray’s grandson or grand-nephew or something like that.
Meltzer, R. (Richard) The aesthetics of rock. New York: Something Else Press, 1970
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Planting Our Flag
The Upstream Imperative, Volume 1
This is the first article in “The Upstream Imperative,” a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the social services sector.
By Adair Mosley, President and CEO, Pillsbury United Communities
Here’s a hard truth: our systems are failing our communities. The black and brown families we see every day inhabit a society where they are in last place. Minnesota is 49th or 50th nationally for disparities in earning high school diplomas. We are 49th for racial gaps in home ownership. Mortality rates for African-American and Native residents are up to 3.5 times higher than for other racial and ethnic groups.
While these challenges disproportionately affect people of color and families living in poverty, they are a legacy of choices we’ve made as a community. So how will we respond to these shared problems as a society?
Will we focus on providing services that ease suffering in the short term, while ignoring the systemic causes that have brought us to this point? Or will we embrace deeper, more lasting solutions?
Make no mistake, traditional human services are a lifeline our communities can’t do without. Our sector improves millions of lives in thousands of communities by working to close gaps in food, housing, education and beyond. These efforts must be preserved and strengthened.
But on their own, they are not enough. Beyond delivering programs and services, it’s time to re-envision the ecosystem and impact of our work as a whole. To remove systemic barriers that hold back people’s lives, we need to embrace radical and disruptive innovation. And urgently.
Social needs: widening the scope
Agencies often say they address social determinants of health when in reality they treat symptoms. Food shelves help feed families, but they don’t solve the financial and transportation burdens that put grocery stores out of reach for many communities. Health education can save lives, but it only succeeds when supported by healthcare infrastructure that makes the knowledge actionable to people where they live.
While providing near-term services to individuals is necessary, it does little to change the systemic issues on the ground — most importantly the long-term economic disadvantages faced by families living in poverty. Until we confront that social reality, food, housing and health assistance will be a temporary salve at best.
Responding only to individual needs can give us a false sense of progress. We celebrate the number of people we’ve served through our programs while ignoring the conditions that make these programs necessary.
To move the needle on a population scale, we must take a broader view. If we are serious about addressing social determinants of health, we must dismantle the systems that perpetuate inequities and hold people back across generations.
Changing the ecosystem
Shifting the context in which people live their lives is hard work. System-wide solutions take more effort, money, and political will. They require cross-sector partnerships that can reform complicated entities like our health care and education system. They require us to ask difficult questions, demand more of ourselves and our partners, and refuse to be complacent.
The social services sector can’t be expected to move these mountains on its own. Partners in government, philanthropic community, and businesses must also step up. When money is restricted to incremental solutions, entrenched problems fester and our communities remain unstable. We need brave financial partners willing to collaborate on ambitious solutions — and allow those with proximity to the community to focus dollars and energy where it matters most.
In over a century working with and for our community, we have learned that the best solutions flow from the community itself. But only when we understand the lives behind the challenges and stay anchored in their dreams and aspirations.
This is where we plant our flag as an agency. We envision communities where people achieve greater personal health and wellbeing together. Where cultural understanding creates social connections. Where prosperity is shared by all through equitable education and employment opportunities.
This is our motivation: going upstream to reform entrenched systems that can meaningfully change people’s lives long term. As an agency, as a sector, and as a society, we must be willing to think bigger and do the hard things. Only then can we realize a healthier, happier, more prosperous future for everyone in our community, no exceptions.
Serving with a smile at People Serving People
Every Tuesday, volunteers from our Employing Partners in Community (EPIC) Program are at People Serving People to assist with building beautification. This is a partnership that has been in place since 2010. Its just one of the many places where program participants and staff volunteer each week.
The EPIC Program, based at the Pillsbury House, is all about skill building, involvement in our community and making memories. Volunteering is practice that provides program participants a chance to gain and strengthen work skills while also helping others and integrating in the community. At People Serving People, EPIC helps with the janitorial services and that’s a big job. There are seven floors and a long list of housekeeping tasks that need to be done on each floor. Tasks include sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, and cleaning windows. After the work is completed, People Serving People kindly provides a hot meal in exchange for the work. Some of the volunteers favorites are beef nachos, tacos, and smothered chicken.
Public Allies volunteer to help raise youth voices
On March 30, 2019 the Minnesota Youth Council hosted the first of its kind, Youth in Educational Leadership Summit at Patrick Henry High School. The Minnesota Youth Council is a group of youth and adults working together to empower and mobilize young people across the state to use the power of their voices to address issues affecting youth. The event featured many young speakers. Janaan Ahmed spoke about advocacy and leadership and Maddy Fernands spoke about climate justice. Edie Weinstein, a young author, spoke about her book and connecting with people with dementia. More than 200 students, parents, mentors, and teachers participated in the event.
A team of Public Allies volunteered at the event. They did everything from provide childcare to take photos while not participating in workshops. “As a Public Ally, the experience at YELS was refreshing.” said second year Public Allies fellow You Lee. “Many times, youth voices are pushed aside to make space for adults or professionals in the room. So, it was cool to see youth-led presentations and overall coordination of the conference. I can see that the conference was a good experience for youth as they continue their work in the future.”
Public Allies is a national movement committed to advancing social justice and equity by engaging and activating the leadership capacities of our young people. Since 1992, Public Allies has helped thousands of underrepresented young leaders serve our country, get on successful pathways to higher education and careers, and bring communities together to work for the common good. Public Allies seeks to find and cultivate young community leaders and connect them to the issues and causes that ignite their passion to create last change. Allies are placed with a nonprofit organization where they help address critical community needs such as youth development, education, workforce development, environmental issues, arts programming and community health.
Sisterhood Boutique celebrates diversity with style
On March 5, 2019 Sisterhood Boutique celebrated its fifth anniversary with a fashion show. The boutique was started by Somali and east African girls as safe space to learn skills like financial literacy, leadership and sewing by running their own business selling secondhand clothes.
“We do a lot of things and the fashion show is a way to show the community what we’ve been doing. We’ve had over 200 people go through the process,” said store manager Amal Muse.
The fashion show is part birthday party, part fundraiser and features models of all shapes and sizes wearing looks designed by students from the University of St. Catherine’s Advanced Construction Class to reflect the diversity found in the West Bank neighborhood where the boutique is located.
“We have women wearing traditional hijabs and burkas; there’s everything. It really runs the gamut of what you would see walking around in a very fashionable Minneapolis,” said Julie Graves, Director of Career & Future Readiness.
For some of the girls involved with store, the show is a chance to strike a pose, while for others, it’s one more example that the Sisterhood Boutique lives up to its name.
“It’s very family-like. You feel like you are part of a sister family. I don’t have sisters, so I gained sisters,” Ali said.
Full Cycle delivers food and more by bike
On May 23, 2019 the team at Full Cycle made their first food delivery of the spring. The weather was great, everyone biked hard, and most importantly 150 meals were delivered to transitional living programs in Minneapolis. Food delivery by bike is just one of the many programs offered by Full Cycle, a social enterprise bicycle shop in south Minneapolis, MN that offers support and connection to young people experiencing homelessness.
Young people who have experience with homelessness can make an appointment to pick out and help fix a bike they can use for transportation. The free bikes also function to relieve stress, provide a fun outlet, and allow youth to practice being self-reliant. In addition, bike appointments are a natural way for youth and youth workers to get to know each other and how Full Cycle can be useful.
Full Cycle also offers youth a two-phase, six-month-long paid internship, which teaches a structured mechanic curriculum and imparts professional knowledge like résumé writing. The idea is to give kids a complete set of skills—not just the know-how to work on bikes.
Pillsbury House Theatre amplifies the stories of older adults
In 2018, Pillsbury House Theatre received a grant to run Centerstage, a series of free memoir writing classes for residents of local Augustana Care buildings. Teaching Artist Jen Scott taught three separate 8-week courses, culminating in a reception at Pillsbury House Theatre in which participants and professional actors read their stories out loud. It was a joyful occasion punctuated with laughter, a few tears, and even music; one of the participants played the harp as she told her story!
This year, Pillsbury House Theatre is doing it again, this time hosting three free eight-week classes for adults 55 and up in their building on Chicago Avenue. The first class, Intro to Memoir, taught by Jen Scott, is wrapping up this month. The second class, Advanced Memoir, will be taught by Dr. Louis Porter starting in June, with a third class to follow later in the summer.
Centerstage is not just about teaching people how to write in the form of memoir. More than that, it’s about empowering people with the knowledge that everyone has a story to be told, and that telling those stories both grounds us in ourselves and connects us to one another.
Plays on the political divide, by and for women at Pillsbury House Theatre
Every year since the spring of 2017, Pillsbury House Theatre has produced a series of new 10-minute plays called The Great Divide. Featuring five brand-new 10-minute plays by local playwrights, The Great Divide is a response to the deeply partisan political climate that has become our new normal.
For this year’s installment, titled She Persists: The Great Divide III, Pillsbury House Theatre focused on women’s stories, commissioning plays from local playwrights Cristina Florencia Castro, Casey Llewellyn, Oya Mae Duchess-Davis, Philana Omorotionmwan and Aamera Siddiqui. In addition to the playwrighting cohort, She Persists also featured an all-woman production team and cast, starring Ashawnti Sakina Ford, Audrey Park, Nora Montañez & Sara Richardson.
“These are really politically driven shows, and a few of them deal with the future,” said actress Nora Montañez. “These women, these playwrights took in the theme, and then they went with it, and it’s absolutely gorgeous how different each of these plays are, and how it affects the audience seeing what currently is happening and what could possibly happen in the future.”
Written and performed by and for women, She Persists was a powerful, intersectional look at the place where womanhood and politics collide. To learn about Pillsbury House Theatre’s current season, visit http://pillsburyhouseandtheatre.org/mainstage/
New star emerges at Chicago Avenue Project performance
Each spring, kids and their adult acting mentors star in plays written just for them by adult playwrights, and each winter, kids and their adult playwriting mentors write plays to be performed by adult actors. The most recent CAP show, Fortune Favors the Bold, was performed by kids and their adult acting mentors on April 22nd and 23rd. Among other stories, the plays included a robot uprising, a wolf directing a nature documentary, and a couple of cartoon characters having an existential crisis!
One of the CAP stars, 8-year-old Deparis, made his acting debut in Fortune Favors the Bold. He played a DJ named Mr. Peep who was on his way to the biggest show of his career, along with his trusty sidekick, Donkey. “I’ve been watching CAP since I was three years old,” he said. “I always wanted to do CAP, and now I have the opportunity, which I’m very excited about… I love CAP because I finally get to let out all my energy and I get to make things that just express me.”
Since 1996, the Chicago Avenue Project (CAP) has brought local youth together with the Twin Cities’ best adult playwrights, actors, and directors to create and produce original theatre that is heartwarming, hilarious, and infused with the brilliance of young minds.
To learn more about the Chicago Avenue Project, visit http://pillsburyhouseandtheatre.org/chicago-avenue-project/.
Sisterhood Boutique heads north for adventure
In July 2018, Sisterhood Boutique took a group of young women to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This was the third year the Sisterhood has facilitated an expedition in lead by Big City Mountaineers.
On this trip, youth camped for 8 days, paddled 39 miles, and portaged 350 rods where they carried 80 pound canoes on their shoulders and 50 pound bags on their backs.
These expeditions are meant to introduce youth to the outdoors (especially young East African women) through backcountry camping and canoeing where they are taught how to be independent in the wilderness. Youth learn technical skills including how to set up a tent, purify water, cook and clean outside, and paddle a canoe—all while making sure to take care of the land and ‘leave no trace’ in the process. While developing these hands-on skills, youth are simultaneously enhancing their communication and leadership skills, pushing themselves to new limits, and experiencing what it means to work as a teamwork at a whole new level.
It was a life changing experience for many of the young women:
“It was a nice trip. I never used to enjoy nature like that. I always used to ignore it and stay in my house. But now I learned the real meaning of being outdoors and it’s actually pretty fun.” Sara, 13
“I learned that after some hardship, there comes an ease. After going through some really tough situations, we came across a nice place to stay, played a little, had a swim in a cool lake, walked on a beach, experienced something new.” Fardowza, 17
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Terraria Journey's End - The Final Patch launching on May 16 PC
Thread starter Andromeda
Terraria has been known to be an action-adventure game that has spawned a massive fanbase because of its cheap price at the Steam store yet offering a hundreds and thousands of hours worth of playing time. From slaying monsters, personalizing gear, exploring new areas and building bases, the game has tons of things to do and it really fits in the time where everyone is on quarantine and need something to put time on. Well, Terraria has got you covered if you are still holed up until May 16.
Journey's End is the name of the final patch of Terraria, patch 1.4. It includes a lot of changes and new items along the way. World generation has also been revamped, take a look at what they have to show before we break down things.
New Modes
There are will be 2 new modes in the game. Master Mode and Journey Mode. Master Mode is for those who think Expert is nothing and want to have a brand new experience. Cenx, the lead developer of the game has promised that there will be 2 new exclusive loot from the bosses in Master Mode. He also said that it will not be weapons or accessories though, so it is very interesting what type of loot will it be. Guess we need to find out ourselves
As for Journey Mode, there has been no clue what it was, ChippyGaming, one of the prominent Terraria Youtuber has thought of something like a creative mode but it is only a speculation. There has been no leads to wait the game could be so we would only have to wait to see what it contains. But 2 new modes, am down for that!
New Bosses
Terraria's charm is that it has bosses to rule over with. Some dedicate their time to build boss-specific arenas and preparations just to have a one-up on them. Whether it helps on progression or not, we know we want that loot to make ourselves stronger and better. So they will be making 2 new optional bosses in the game. Since it's optional we still don't know if it's pre-hardmode or post-Moon Lord, but even still, it's a great way to test our mettle once more. Unless, you bring in your end-game equipment that is. HAHA.
New NPCs
NPCs are something that is always nice to have. You can interact with them especially if they are villagers that can offer you new equipment, gear or stuff to work on. Terraria will have 2 new NPC villagers, there would be a golfer NPC where it helps you.... play golf. There is also a female NPC but we don't know what their role is. Either way, more occupants to your base in the future. They also promised more dialogue along the way so that is great for those curious with NPC interaction.
Since the latest item number is 4985 as according to Cenx so that means it is possible that they may have added a thousand more items to the game! Which is huge, but remember, there may be color variations and such so don't get to all hyped up. Still, more items means more time to look into them and explore stuff. Who knows, you might have a new weapon, gear or furniture set once this is all and done. Something to look forward to if you are either an adventurer or a builder.
New Biomes and World Generation Revamp
Biomes are big in Terraria. Biomes usually contain new stuff to tinker with, new weapons, new items and treasures! Some might have new NPCs hidden there and all you need to do is to explore it and find out things for yourself, for a game like Terraria. Biomes are definitely important. And I heard there will be new ones along the update.
There will be a mini-biome called Oasis where there will be various new things to explore there. While some details are still being hidden under wraps. Their communication to the content creators and the delivered promises in the last patches are testament that we are in for a surprise.
And with new biomes comes with a revamped world generation. This way it will reduce the minor issues, bugs and graphic errors that players see in the game, making it more cohesive than clashing with different biomes that might not make sense.
Other than previously mentioned, expect new sounds such as Owls in night and wind mechanics are coming soon. New music that you will encounter soon in the game especially when something triggers the music to be played. Balance from both boss drops and weapons are going to be implemented and other things to add such as a large health bar below when you battle a boss. Better be on the lookout once 1.4 is released.
1.4 in Mobile soon
With all the hype surrounding Journey's End, mobile players are asking when are they going to release an update for 1.4. Fret not, Journey's End will be coming to mobile soon as well, so get ready for that!
With years of amazing experience and excellent support to their player base, Re-Logic has earned its rank as one of the trusted game developers out there. They said that they will be keeping some folks for a skeletal force in Terraria once Journey's End has finally been released to keep up with the maintenance but they will be moving on from the game once it's released. Whatever, they are going to do, we will be waiting in anticipation for another fun game. Have you played Terraria? Are you interested in it because they are going to be releasing a final patch? Would you play it if you have played before? Tell us in the comments below!
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Check Out this Natural Gas-Powered Airplane
Jason Paur
<a href="http://www.aviataircraft.com/CNG/husky_cng_dual_fuel_media_downloads.html">Aviat Aircraft Inc.</a>
This story first appeared in Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Aviat Aircraft has introduced the first airplane able to run on both standard aviation fuel and compressed natural gas. The airplane is the first to fly on CNG, opening the door to use a cheaper and cleaner alternative to gasoline.
Alternative fuels have been a pressing issue in general aviation, with many small airplanes still burning low-lead fuel, something the car industry phased out decades ago. But aside from the environmental benefits, the reduced cost of CNG can also help make flying small aircraft less expensive, and the test airplane that debuted in Oshkosh is the first step in realizing its potential.
“One aspect we’re particularly excited about is the opportunity to dramatically reduce the cost of learning to fly,” said Greg Herrick, an aircraft owner who spearheaded the idea to convert an airplane to operate on CNG. “If a flight school installs a simple CNG refueling station they can cut the cost for the student’s fuel, perhaps by thousands of dollars.” That’s not an insignificant sum when you consider the cost of getting a pilot’s license can run near five figures.
Herrick owns an Aviat Husky, a popular small aircraft aimed at pilots who like to fly in and out of grass runways and other atypical airports. While the cost savings is an added benefit, CNG will dramatically reduce the pollutants emitted by smaller airplanes that are now burning the typical aviation gasoline known as 100 low lead.
Aviat converted one of its Husky airplanes to fly on both 100LL and CNG, and they flew it to Oshkosh from the factory in Afton, Wyoming. The airplane is equipped with both tanks and can run on either fuel at the flip of a switch. The company says other than the CNG fuel tank mounted to the belly and associated controls, the only changes made to the airplane were using a slightly higher-compression engine. Additionally, Aviat says the performance was better with the CNG fuel and the engine even ran cooler. With an economy cruise setting, the Aviat estimates their plane can fly for about seven hours on CNG.
Because the demonstration model can burn both types of fuel, the company says there are no limitations to where it can fly. But like all switches to an alternative fuel source, it’s all about infrastructure. Before the widespread adoption of CNG in aviation, refilling stations would need to be installed at airports. The most likely starting point would be flight schools where the cost savings would be significant, and with many local airports hosting training programs, it wouldn’t take long for smaller airports to start having CNG on tap.
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Patriots of America
Is Trump Nailing Himself to the Cross Over Mail-In Voting?
It’s important to work with conviction. President Trump has conviction, even if it’s going to be the last nail that goes into his cross. Mail-in voting is riddled with fraud. It’s the way for the Dems to cheat their way into the White House, and Trump is going down swinging.
We can only hope that his conviction is what will also get him resurrected…in the polls, that is.
The Dems are staking their reputation on the fact that mail-in ballots are safe. Yet, this also comes from the party who has just tried to pass a law that will allow them to vote for dementia patients without their consent.
Mail-in ballots have countless problems.
It’s common for falsified voter registrations to take place. With no personal appearance, people can vote multiple times under assumed names.
Voter registration rolls are inherently corrupt. The problem has been going on for a while, too. In the 2000 general election, 261 counties along with the states of Montana and Alaska certified more voters than their actual adult population.
Ballots can be lost in the mail. Ballots are unreadable if someone uses the wrong writing instrument at home.
Even when absentee ballots have been requested in the past, about 10% are marked as undeliverable. It means that about 1 out of 10 people may not have their voices heard – and that’s too many to risk.
Trump has listed countless others, too – people receiving ballots for those who no longer live at the address, kids who moved out, parents who are in nursing homes…Oh, and let’s not forget about the whole ballot stuffing.
Have you ever gotten a piece of mail that clearly wasn’t yours? Yep. That’s the problem with mail-in ballots right there.
And, ballots could be sent to questionable addresses – empty homes, bars, motels, fraternity houses, and more. Who will fill those in? You don’t think people are just going to rip them up, right? More voter fraud – and that’s what the Dems are counting on.
No one wants to vote if they don’t think their voice will be heard. Mail-in voting is fraudulent and everyone knows it. The only reason the Dems want to move forward with it is so that they can spin it in their favor.
Polls show that a high number of Trump voters in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Michigan would be less likely to vote in November if they receive a ballot in the mail. Meanwhile, only a small fraction of Biden voters say receiving a paper ballot would deter them from voting.
Trump isn’t saying that there’s the need to delay the election. Although the Dems love the conspiracy theory that Trump is planning on staying in the White House forever, Trump just wants a fair fight. And mail-in ballots are hardly playing fair.
There is a concern about health, however. In fact, about 70 percent of voters in swing-states are concerned about going to a polling site when they view the pandemic as a “very serious” problem.
The reality is that Trump has more to lose if voters don’t make it out to the polls. Many Trump supporters skew older than those of Biden.
There’s really no Plan B. Mail-in ballots have been used in past elections, predominantly as the “absentee ballot.” Mail-in ballots will have to be used to allow people an alternative for voting in person. And, the USPS will have to be the delivery method to the voter and to the polling location.
Trump continues to fight, though. He’ll fight until the end because he has no other choice. As for whether he’ll issue an executive order, “I have the right to do it, we haven’t got there yet, but we’ll see what happens.” He references the New York Congressional race, which “is a disaster..how are you going to do that for an entire nation?” And there lies his point.
As he makes it very clear, “Absentee ballots are great. But the universal mail-in ballots..” It’s a mess. And the Dems are famous for playing dirty, so it will be interesting to see how far Trump will be willing to take this fight.
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Home Brand Showcase Chai Break Chai Break with Raghavendra Agarwala, CTO & Co-Founder, TorcAI
For this segment of Chai Break, we had an interesting chat with Raghavendra Agarwala of TorcAI. Last week we had a webinar hosted in partnership with TorcAI, you can read the report here. Read the interview to find out how AI is changing the digital landscape and more!
1. How do you think AI and ML are transforming the media and advertising landscape?
Success of a digital campaign depends on multiple factors including your bid price. Such operations are mostly repetitive and one needs to analyse multiple data points, which, with the advancement of Data Sciences, are best done by machines and not humans. Example, we will see AI recommending win bid price with far more accuracy which in general is good fast forward for ad tech and publisher industries. This also brings in the efficiencies of automation in desilting fraud, channel & creative attribution etc.
2. Do you think advertisers are making full use of available technologies to improve ROI?
Unfortunately, most of the advertisers look at marketing from a short-term ROI perspective. Few have ventured into data and technology. When you continue to look at a goal from ROI perspective, the risk-taking appetite to explore technologies decrease.
Some of them, that I know of, in BFSI, media and retail have begun to invest in technologies and their CXOs have taken up the mandate to include the ad-tech stack into the core biz-tech stack.
There is a lot of scope to work in this space.
3. What do you think will be the long-term impact of GDPR on the data supply chain?
In the long run, the user privacy concerns will go down considerably. Publishers would become consent gatekeepers and high-quality data would be available in a much more structured way. Also advertisers will learn to respect user privacy and brand, in turn, will be the biggest beneficiaries by way of controlling budget wastages, and earning user loyalty and respect.
4. What are the key disruptors that businesses should take note of?
World wide data privacy frameworks will change a lot of things people do in ad landscape. The privacy frameworks also make it mandatory to have data sharing framework between controllers. Such regulations will break the monopoly of data that is enjoyed by Google, FB or other walled gardens. This will open a lot of possibilities for data biz-based investments in this zone, in turn bringing a lot of innovation thereafter. Secondly, AI & ML are today in reach of only a few. Newer biz formats will enable AI/ML to reach masses giving them clearing ground to compete with bigger players. Most of the transparency and discrepancy issues can be resolved by some or other flavour of blockchain. These three things will make heads spin for few years to come.
5. What is the role of the CTO in TORC AI?
TorcAI is a very unique entity. We engage with our clients at CXO levels and they look at us to drive one of the most complex biz and tech strategy that an organization could have. Our IP is designs and patterns that we learn and discover. We look at tech as enablers and are not bound by it. It’s like, when you want to play the master tune you need to become master of the piano, then forget what you have learned and then play the tune. Only then can a master piece be achieved. For us, our clients want us to deliver a master piece for them.
As a CTO, I need to stay in tune with architectural designs for high performance; algorithms that become building block and constantly contemplate on tech & biz models that our clients should pick. TorcAI is a team work, and tech masterpieces need a team of mavericks. At the end of the day, I have a lot of fun working on complex deliveries along with my team.
6. What advice would you give your 21-year-old self?
A lot of things, let’s say top three are:
1. Listen to everyone and everything. Use what you hear and think about it. Usually the important things, you don’t understand it the first time. Make sure you have understood before you decide to use or let go.
2. Have patience, it’s not about high speed or slow speed, it’s about controlled speed.
3. Have faith in yourself and constantly evaluate yourself and your team critically.
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PMHS Model UN club brings schools to virtual meet to solve that Montague-Capulet problem (among others)
By Evan Kaplan, Staff Writer|January 5, 2021
Pelham Memorial High School hosted the annual winter conference of its Model UN club (PelMUN) on Dec. 19 virtually for the first time in its 15-year history.
The Model UN club came up with unique problems that had to be discussed and resolved by each of the different “committees” at the annual conference, a system that is meant to resemble the way the United Nations works. Fifty delegates from five different schools met virtually for the PMHS winter conference.
During the conference, there were four committees:
The Romeo and Juliet crisis: Delegates acted as members of the Montague and Capulet houses to determine the fate of their city, in a scenario based on “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare.
French Revolution: In this committee, participants acted as crucial figures in the French Revolution of the 18th Century.
Clone Wars JCC: Delegates acted as members of both the Old Republic and Separatists fighting for control of the galaxy in a crisis based on the “Star Wars” franchise.
Soviet Union SA: In this committee, delegates represented different nations following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
In each committee, the delegates debated to try to resolve the crisis their committee was faced with, after it was presented to them by one of the organizers of the committee.
According to PMHS Model UN Treasurer Caleb Persanis, the delegates from different schools worked together ethically. “They always work to find a solution and make sacrifices and compromises along the way, which is a crucial life skill that I don’t think is used enough in modern times,” said Persanis.
One of the ways the virtual platform changed the way Model UN functions was that the committees retained some of their authenticity, said Thomas Roche, president of PelMUN. Roche said the committees had to use the features on Zoom to attempt to “imitate a normal conference.”
(Roche is managing editor/news of the Pelham Examiner.)
Still, Persanis and fellow club member Sophia Leung said the conference was productive.
The PMHS group doesn’t only solve made-up challenges. It engages in philanthropic activities to help solve real problems. During the conference, $10 donations were collected from delegates for the World Kitchen Charity.
Leung is vice president of PMHS Model UN. Her job involves leading committees, planning conferences, organizing fundraisers and training sessions, and trying to promote the involvement of younger members. She said that Model UN teaches more than merely resolving fictitious crises and that parallels can be drawn between crisis resolution and how people handle everyday issues.
“A lot of what I’ve learned from conferences has actually been very applicable outside of MUN,” she said. “As delegates, we have to make sure that we’re unquestionably clear in our requests, and that we are doing our best to appeal to everyone we want to work with. That same level of diplomacy is increasingly useful in every conversation I have, whether it be about politics or a group project for class.”
A member since freshman year, Leung, now a PMHS senior, said the most important lesson she has learned from PelMUN is that “it’s important to take pride in what you have to say, whether or not you believe someone else will argue with it. As long as you get your ideas out there, someone will respond, and that’s how productive discussion starts.”
(Leung is deputy managing editor of the Pelham Examiner.)
The next home conference for PelMUN is MilSim, a collaboration with the PMHS Military Club. Until then, PelMUN will be training new members in preparation for future conferences. The members hope to attend several college conferences this spring, and in the meantime, will continue to search for fundraising opportunities.
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8 held for hosting welcome rally for murder accused
ByGunwanti ParasteGunwanti Paraste / Updated: May 31, 2020, 06:00 IST
The duo got out on parole from Yerawada jail and were greeted by their friends in a loud procession
Two murder accused out on parole were greeted by their friends and relatives holding a raucous rally in a battery of 20-25 four-wheelers and twowheelers, even as they emerged from Yerawada jail on Friday night. The cacophony they raised caught the attention of the Vishrantwadi police, who then gave them a chase. Eight participants in the rally were arrested which, remarkably, included a constable belonging to the crime branch of Pimpri-Chinchwad police commissionerate.
The cop nabbed, 36-year-old Sharif Baban Mulani, is a resident of Indrayanagar in Bhosari and is a cousin of the two released on parole. The others picked up include Azad Sheikhlal Mulani (age 30 and resident of Talwade Chikhali), Aadesh Dilip Okade (21, from Suyog Nagar, Nigdi), Mubarak Baban Mulani (38, from Morevasti, Chikhali), Sandeep Kisan Garud (40, Talegaon Dabhade), Hussain Jafar Mulani (43), Siraj Raju Mulani (22) and Vinod Narayan Mane (26) – the last three, all from Kolvan Mulshi. The cops also managed to round up four cars, a country-made pistol and cartridges worth Rs 33 lakh from the group.
According to the cops, when Sameer Mulani and Jamir Mulani, accused in a murder case, were released on parole, their relatives and from Pimpri-Chinchwad, Mulshi, Bhosari and Chikhali had gathered outside the jail. As the duo exited the jail, the group started shouting on the road. They passed in front of the Vishrantwadi police station, catching the attention of the officers there. This set the cops behind them.
“There were about 30-40 people in the group, but they started to flee when the police tried to stop them,” said Arun Avhad, senior police inspector at Vishrantwadi police who guided crime inspector Ravindra Kadam and his team in the case. The cops finally caught up with part of the group at Phulenagar and arrested eight of them.
The court has ordered three days’ police custody for the arrested and a case has been registered under sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 146 (rioting), 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offense committed in the prosecution of common object), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), 188 ( disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of Indian Penal Code, besides the Indian Arms Act and Disaster Management Act, Avhad added.
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Ranking Recovery
SEO & Marketing Updates in October 2020
Our monthly round-up of all things SEO goes to show that while the world may be in a constant state of stop and start, the online realm of digital is still accelerating at a superhuman speed.
As online is becoming the backbone of our current COVID economy; no matter your business service or product, now more than ever online is paramount to your survival through this pandemic.
Whether you’re getting online to sell your products, or ensuring that when this thing blows over, you’re dominating the search results; our latest marketing and SEO news from October 2020 is just the place to keep your finger firmly on the digital pulse.
SEO is by no means a one task wonder. As you should know by now, Google likes to keep us on our toes, which means updates come thick and fast every month to ensure that the results are fresh and relevant for users.
We highly recommend you take a look at these latest SEO updates from October to see they can help grow your business.
Google’s Bert is In Action
Google confirmed in October that their algorithm BERT now powers almost every single English query.
If you haven’t swatted up on BERT; the algorithm which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers is an update introduced in 2019 to improve how Google understands users’ search queries.
Google has already been pretty savvy in learning how to identify a user’s intention from a search. Hence why we’re all so used to the autocomplete from Google as it attempts to learn what we’re truly looking for without having to write the full query. Clever but scary at times.
However, BERT takes this up a notch as it is now adding context into its understanding of search queries.
In reality, SEO wizards cannot technically optimise for BERT, but as with any SEO, the more you understand your users, the more relevance you can have to their search query.
BERT is simply designed to improve the relevancy of the results shown to a user.
According to Google, so far, BERT has enabled them to improve results on specific searches by 7%.
As Google’s power of search becomes more human with the help of artificial intelligence, once again as a web owner, it’s critical that you are creating content that speaks to the user, not to the robot.
Bing Site Explorer Has a New Look
Bing may not be as popular as Google, but optimising your website for Bing should still be on your SEO checklist especially, as Bing is the default browser on Microsoft computers.
For many businesses who are so heavily focussed on Google, Bing can, in fact, be the forgotten search engine where traffic is just as important.
In October, Microsoft announced that Bing’s Site Explorer now comes with a completely new look.
Bing Site Explorer provides you with data on clicks, impressions, links, errors, warnings, indexing issues and many more SEO related features.
If you’re used to Bing Webmaster Tools, then don’t be fooled that this is simply an upgrade. Bing Site Explorer is a completely new tool which has been redesigned and improved to enhance any web owners experience.
Ultimately, Bing Site Explorer reveals how Microsoft Bing views your website. It will show you redirects, broken links, and URLs blocked by robots.txt.
With such a vast amount of data available for your website, it gives you an incredible insight into how many search engines are probably viewing your website.
If you haven’t got yourself stuck into Bing yet, we’d highly recommend you take some time focussing on Bing optimisation, and understand where your websites current faults lie. Now is not the time to have an underperforming website.
Google Podcast Reveals Google Search Data
Podcasts are now growing in popularity, and Google has been quick to ensure they can support podcasters with as much data about their listeners as possible.
In October, Google announced a new feature for podcasters named, Google Podcast Manager.
Podcast manager enables podcasters to see how well their podcasts are performing in Google Search, as well as incredible insight into top discovered episodes and search terms that lead to their podcast being found.
However, in true Google style, they take the dive into data much deeper by providing information on each episode so podcast managers can understand where people are dropping off.
If you’ve put your heart and soul into creating a podcast, this new tool will help you maximise it’s potential.
Popular podcasts now show up in Google search, so understanding the data behind how it’s performing could help you massively enhance its reach.
Mysterious Google Algorithm Update
Was there a ghoul in Google, or did we experience an algorithm update?
That’s what we’re all asking in October after some strange shifts in the ranks had SEO’s around the world scratching their heads.
It all began on 28th October, with SEOs reporting on Twitter and Webmaster World that there were some unusual drops in ranks.
While the conversation isn’t as intense as what normally occurs when a core update happens, it was still large enough to create a buzz online that something was happening at Google.
Of course, in Google style, there has been no social response as they keep quiet.
As we head towards 2021, we’ll certainly be keeping our eyes peeled for any big algorithm announcements, as no doubt one is due.’
A Google Home Movie
A home movie in October sounds like some kind of Halloween horror ready to be released upon the world. But in fact, Google decided in October to release a home movie of their own to show people the origins of Google and how search works.
The film, titled “Trillions of Questions, No Easy Answers: A (home) movie about how Google Search works”, is available to watch for free on YouTube, and takes you behind the scenes at Google HQ.
If you’ve ever wondered how the decisions get made about search, and the challenges that Google has to face, this film provides an eye-opening insight into the world of Google. Plus, for the first time, many high-level Googlers are sharing their thoughts on rankings, spam, BERT, and machine learning.
Google My Business Just Got More Data
We know we hammer on about Google My Business ALOT, but that’s because it is still one of the most underutilised tools created by Google, but can provide so much support for a business online.
Thankfully, in October Google revealed that they are now adding more search results data to Google My Business to enhance the experience further. Which we hope means more people will now start taking it seriously and using their profile religiously.
The most useful of the data coming to Google My Busiess, is the ability to see how many times a business profile was seen in the search results. Perfect, if you want to see how well your local SEO is performing.
Besides with more data about how your page is performing and when it shows up in the search results, you can get an even better understanding of what’s truly working for you.
Just like Halloween candy, we recommend you take full advantage of your Google My Business profile.
Is Google Ranking Pages or Passages?
It appears that a new core update within Google is now showing specific passages rather than pages to answer a user’s search query.
The new passages update as it is being coined highlights relevant passages from a page in the search results, similar to how a featured snippet is highlighted in the results.
As you can imagine, this caused a frenzy of panic in the world of SEO and amongst SEO agencies, as people started to question how content and even pages should be structured for search.
Google itself confirmed that it is not a pages over passages situation, and in fact, they consider passages as an additional ranking factor.
Traditionally Google evaluates a page as whole to determine how relevant it is to a search query. However, as you can imagine, this gets challenging when it comes to long web pages, or pages that maybe touch on a variety of topics.
With Google’s new technology, it will now be able to better identify and understand key passages rather than just entire pages.
While this may feel counterintuitive for you as a web owner to begin with, this has the potential to allows more pages to get in the search results which may not have been seen as relevant before. So in reality, this may do you a favour.
Once again, this Google update puts the emphasis on having not just great content, but also a good content structure. Every one of your paragraphs should have a clear focus and topic.
For many businesses, it may feel like you want to bury your head in the sand and wait for COVID-19 to blow over. But if marketing shows us anything, it’s that during a turbulent time you have to stand up and weather the storm come rain or shine.
Keeping your business present in the minds of your customers is paramount so that they don’t forget you.
While marketing on a big-budget scale may not be available right now, there are some exciting updates in the realm of marketing that could lend you a hand.
TripAdvisor Launches New Features
For the hospitality industry, TripAdvisor is the place where many customers go to truly understand the truth about your offering. It’s the one-stop-shop to understand the good, the bad and the ugly about restaurant, hotels and everything in between.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hotels and restaurants have been hit the hardest, which is why TripAdvisor has now upped the anti on the support it’s providing to those listed on the directory.
In October, TripAdvisor announced new features to its platform that could support hotels and restaurants in not only continuing to provide services but also enhancing their overall listing.
The first of these major new features includes menu syndication. Restaurants can confirm their business listing and upload their menu. The information from TripAdvisor is then distributed across a network of more than 100 sites, including Google, Yelp, OpenTable, Facebook and many other restaurant apps.
While this feature alone sounds incredible, TripAdvisor takes it one step further with an analytics dashboard that offers data on menu views and customer status. Ie. are the new customers or returning.
Taking advantage of these new features could greatly support your business in the adaptation of these new times, and offer some diversification. For example, more take-aways and collection services are emerging through COVID-19 restrictions, allowing businesses to remain open.
Facebook Increases Shopping Capability
Throughout 2020 Facebook has made some major changes to its shopping features to support small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In October, Facebook announced that it would be future improving its shopping feed capabilities to add to the marketplace that they have already created.
For retailers, these new features will come at a particularly helpful time as we head into the biggest shopping season of the year.
The first of many of these features will be on Instagram, where product tags including the name and price when a user clicks the white dot; will now be added to photos, videos and carousel ads.
For brands who already have a Facebook shop will also now be able to promote discounts using Commerce Manager across their platforms. This is currently being trialled in the U.S, but it is set to be rolled out globally in the coming weeks.
Facebook is also playing its own part in the promotion of black-owned business throughout November.
According to Facebook data, black-owned businesses have been hit especially hard during the pandemic, with 41% of black-owned businesses shut down in the U.S.
Every Friday through November, Facebook will be promoting #BuyBlackFriday across its platforms and will be promoting a gift guide and directory of black-owned businesses.
TikTok to Partner with Shopify
TikTok has catapulted into popularity during 2020 due to the global pandemic, and now it is partnering with Shopify to support merchants in reaching TikTok’s growing user base.
It’s predicted that by 2021, TikTok will reach 10 million users, so it comes as no surprise that the platform now wants to start earning from ad revenue.
The partnership between TikTok and Shopify will see sellers gain access to the user base in the US, Europe and Southeast Asia.
To take advantage of the data base, merchants will be required to download the TikTok app from the Shopfify App store, where they can create a TikTok for business account.
TikTok is offering $300 (£251) in free ad credit for the users who sign up for a new TikTok for business account.
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A rigorous finite volume model to simulate subaerial and submarine landslide-generated waves
S Yavari-Ramshe, Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani
This paper presents a new landslide-generated wave (LGW) model based on incompressible Euler equations with Savage-Hutter assumptions. A two-layer model is developed including a layer of granular-type flow beneath a layer of an inviscid fluid. Landslide is modeled as a two-phase Coulomb mixture. A well-balanced second-order finite volume formulation is applied to solve the model equations. Wet/dry transitions are treated properly using a modified non-linear method. The numerical model is validated using two sets of experimental data on subaerial and submarine LGWs. Impulsive wave characteristics and landslide deformations are estimated with a computational error less than 5 %. Then, the model is applied to investigate the effects of landslide deformations on water surface fluctuations in comparison with a simpler model considering a rigid landslide. The model results confirm the importance of both rheological behavior and two-phase nature of landslide in proper estimation of generated wave properties and formation patterns. Rigid slide modeling often overestimates the characteristics of induced waves. With a proper rheological model for landslide, the numerical prediction of LGWs gets more than 30 % closer to experimental measurements. Single-phase landslide results in relative errors up to about 30 % for maximum positive and about 70 % for maximum negative wave amplitudes. Two-phase constitutive structure of landslide has also strong effects on landslide deformations, velocities, elongations, and traveling distances. The complex behaviors of landslide and LGW of the experimental data are analyzed and described with the aid of the robust and accurate finite volume model. This can provide benchmark data for testing other numerical methods and models.
Coulomb mixture
Impulsive waves
Landslide-generated waves
Submarine/subaerial landslides
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Yavari-Ramshe, S., & Ataie-Ashtiani, B. (2017). A rigorous finite volume model to simulate subaerial and submarine landslide-generated waves. Landslides, 14(1), 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-015-0662-6
Yavari-Ramshe, S ; Ataie-Ashtiani, Behzad. / A rigorous finite volume model to simulate subaerial and submarine landslide-generated waves. In: Landslides. 2017 ; Vol. 14, No. 1. pp. 203-221.
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What Can Data on Educational Outcomes Reveal Regarding Australian Children's Right to Develop 'To Their Fullest Potential'?
Gerard Redmond
Economics and Labour Relations Review
Redmond, G. (2009). What Can Data on Educational Outcomes Reveal Regarding Australian Children's Right to Develop 'To Their Fullest Potential'? Economics and Labour Relations Review, 20(1), 35-58.
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Persistent AF
AF Treatment
Persistent AF Treatment
STAR Mapping
RHYTHM AI announces publication of successful STAR Mapping™ clinical outcome trial
RHYTHM AI announces publication of successful STAR Mapping™ clinical outcome trial that identified Atrial Fibrillation (AF) drivers in all study patients
STAR Mapping guided ablation of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) drivers led to either AF termination or Cycle Length slowing in all patients
Prospectively designed study used conventional mapping catheters
London, 17 November 2020: RHYTHM AI Ltd, a UK company focused on the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF), today announces publication of a human clinical outcome study for its STAR (Stochastic Trajectory Analysis of Ranked signals) Mapping™ system designed to improve outcomes in patients receiving ablation treatment for persistent AF. The article in the peer-reviewed journal, Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology is entitled; “Prospective STAR-Guided Ablation in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Using Sequential Mapping With Multipolar Catheters”.*
STAR Mapping uses novel computer algorithms to identify the sources or drivers of AF from data acquired from the standard procedure equipment. This study is the first STAR Mapping study to be conducted using sequential mapping catheters. Importantly these are the standard catheters used in an AF ablation procedure and does not necessitate the use of additional medical devices.
Key highlights from the study:
30 patients with persistent AF were included in the trial
Three patients had AF terminated during the Pulmonary Vein Isolation (PVI) procedure
Commercially available multipolar catheters and equipment were used to gather sequential data for STAR Mapping in the remaining 27 patients
AF drivers were identified in 100% of patients using STAR Mapping.
A positive response (AF termination or Cycle Lengths slowing of ≥30ms) was achieved with STAR Mapping guided ablation in all 27 patients
81.5% of patients (22 of 27) undergoing STAR guided ablation were free from AF at an average follow up time of 17.3 months without the need for antiarrhythmic drug
Simon Hubbert, Executive Chairman of RHYTHM AI said: “We are delighted with the results from this study which further strengthens our belief that STAR Mapping may significantly improve outcomes for patients undergoing ablation treatment for persistent AF. In September, MHRA approved our application to evaluate STAR Mapping in the ROCSTAR multi-centre randomised trial and we look forward to announcing results from this trial in the future.”
* Honarbakhsh S, Schilling RJ, et al; Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol, 2020 Oct;13(10): e008824. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.120.008824. Epub 2020 Sep 9. Full paper available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32903033/
About Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the commonest abnormal heart rhythm seen in clinical practice in which irregular electrical signals wander chaotically throughout the upper chambers (Atria) of the heart. AF affects an estimated 1.5 million in the UK and 4 to 6 million in the USA alone and the prevalence of AF has been projected to increase to 15.9 million by the year 2050.
AF is associated with significant clinical morbidity,and is also an independent risk factor for mortality. Thromboembolic stroke is the most serious and debilitating of all the complications of AF and AF is also known to precipitate and worsen the outcomes of congestive heart failure.
Treatment of AF and its associated complications increases the use of healthcare resources and contributes to the ever-growing costs of healthcare, particularly costs associated with hospitalizations.
Catheter ablation is the commonest and most effective treatment for AF but has limited success in patients in whom the AF is present all the time because of the seemingly random and chaotic nature of the AF. This makes it highly challenging to identify the cause or sources of the AF. This means that even in the best hands the first-time success rate is usually only around 50%.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is a remaster which provides you first of all with polished graphics. The game which was created back in 2011 now looks like a product from modern times. You'll be astonished by new models, polished textures and higher resolution. Places you already know are going to look completely different. You'll be surprised. Furthermore The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition also gives you access to three DLC-s: Dragonborn, Heartfire, and Dawnguard.
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Home / News / John Walton pointed out that the Capitals outscored the Redskins on Sunday
John Walton pointed out that the Capitals outscored the Redskins on Sunday
October 21, 2019 1:29 am
The Washington Redskins got shut out by the San Francisco 49ers 9-0, Sunday, in a soggy, mud-filled game at FedEx Field. It was the DC football team’s sixth loss in seven games of what is already another harrowing season.
Later that night, Capitals radio announcer John Walton, who always stays up and up on local DC sports current events, put in perspective just how bad things are for the Redskins after TJ Oshie scored the Capitals’ first goal of the game.
🔊 on! John Walton pointed out during the Caps radio broadcast that the Capitals outscored the Redskins on Sunday. 😂😂😂
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“The Capitals with a first-period goal by TJ Oshie on a powerplay meaning they’ve already outscored the Redskins today,” Walton said. “So we’ve got that going for us. What a travesty that was.”
“That’s good for the Caps but not so good for the Redskins,” Ken Sabourin replied.
“Not even a surprise really anymore,” Walton concluded.
Walton later pointed out that the Capitals have points in seven of nine to start the season, which has them at the top of the Metropolitan Division.
The Capitals would go on beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-3.
Meanwhile, the Redskins franchise remains a mess. The product on the field… just isn’t very good. They fired their head coach, Jay Gruden, earlier in the season. Fans aren’t coming to games anymore. Frustrated that there is no hope anymore, Redskins nation wants Bruce Allen fired and Dan Snyder to sell the team.
Final #SFvsWAS pic.twitter.com/Of4ndgczek
— Washington Redskins (@Redskins) October 20, 2019
And then there’s this. Earlier in the season, there was a report from Chris Russell of 106.7 The Fan that the Capitals’ success makes Dan Snyder mad.
When the Capitals won the Stanley Cup two years ago, Bruce Allen and Dan Snyder “were privately very, very angry and hostile and not happy about their success quite honestly,” said Russell. “Maybe that has something to do a little bit with competitive business frustrations with Ted Leonsis, but they do not like to see anybody else praised and happy and doing good and advancing because they can’t figure it out and they can’t understand why they can’t figure it out.”
Didn’t hear whether they covered the “Skintangibles” though. https://t.co/wgLFpOdnvE
— John Walton (@WaltonCaps) October 21, 2019
Headline photo: @WaltonCaps
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Home Music Local Music Rio Turbo Brings the Party
Rio Turbo Brings the Party
by Thomas Michalski
As we settle in at a remote table in a nearly deserted Riverwest watering hole, Rio Turbo asks me if I’d like to take a shot with him before the interview gets underway. I politely refuse, explaining that I have to drive, but encourage him not to let that hold him back. He bounces off to the bar, buying a round for the few folks sitting around, quietly sipping beers and observing the Chicago Bears trounce the Detroit Lions on Monday Night Football. It’s not a grand gesture, a few dollars and a few minutes spent drinking a toast with total strangers turned instant friends, but it’s indicative of what appears to be his operating philosophy: It doesn’t matter where you are or who you’re with, it’s never a bad time for a party.
“It’s a hard lifestyle,” he jokes, “a lot of partying, a lot of beautiful women, a lot of hunky boys.” And indeed, if you’re in attendance at a Rio Turbo show, that’s exactly what you’ll find, Turbo flowing over punchy, sexed-up dance jams in his sleazy, clipped mumble, flanked by the limber Turbette back-up dancers and an animated, be-jumpsuited DJ, known as Nike Mane. If the audience is going in cold, the first reaction always seems to be laughter, and while there is an element of mischievous humor at work, they soon realize that he’s more fun than he is funny, and doesn’t cut any corners musically either. “If I’m one of four groups on the bill,” he boasts over his whiskey, “the other three are going to sound exactly like each other. Some of them might be more talented than the others, but I’m going to be the only thing anyone remembers about the show.”
As you can probably tell by now, he’s not exactly unsure of himself or of his music (one of his more memorable lyrics declares the inevitability of his being bigger than Elvis Presley and marijuana combined), to the point where you’ve got to wonder where the persona of Rio Turbo ends and his secret identity of Joseph M. Peterson begins. “It’s just natural,” he explains, a little wary of defining anything too much. “It’s not an alter ego, though some people have tried to pin it down as that, because it’s not too far off from who I am.” Of course, when he’s on stage, it’s clearly performance and a theatrical one at that. “There’s showmanship involved, and I try to give people their money’s worth,” he says, citing ex-Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry as an idol in that department.
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Since last year’s Heart Attack, a promising but rough-around-the-edges affair freely distributed on CDR and online, he’s upped the quality of his tracks exponentially, mainly by seeking out talented local producers to work with, and then learning everything he can from them, which bodes well for his new release, Party Trash, due out Nov. 8. “Half the tracks, I did everything on my own,” he says, “and then the other half is stuff that good friends have come up with, Willy Dintenfass and Tony Dixon, who’ve helped make some of the beats that I use. I’m really fortunate to have those guys, they understand what I’m trying to do; half the time I don’t understand what I’m trying to do.” The development is clear on the title track, released via Bandcamp as a teaser, where speed-freak vocals race feverishly against a wobbly, immediately infectious bassline. It’s a shame it’s only two minutes and 19 seconds long.
True to form, the album release show will be somewhat over the top, featuring five other bands in addition to Turbo’s 15-minute opening set, only one of which, Outside, is local. It also serves as the kickoff for Rio Turbo’s first tour, which will finally give Madison and Chicago audiences a chance to get in on one of Milwaukee’s best kept secrets. Quarters is an appropriate place for the sendoff—although with only two dates it’s more of a “see you later”—since it’s become Turbo’s quasi-official home base, a testing ground and a home away from home. “I love the atmosphere and it’s run very well,” he says, “I think everybody there understands the rules of life basically, respecting people and not being afraid to party like crazy.”
Rio’s Turbo’s album release party is Thursday, Nov. 8 at Quarters Rock ’N Roll Palace.
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Rybovich Joins Safe Harbor Marinas
We are pleased to announce that Safe Harbor Marinas has acquired Rybovich, the premier US destination and service provider for the superyacht industry.
“We’re extremely excited about what this means for our people, our customers, and our partners,” said Wayne Huizenga Jr., owner and CEO of Rybovich. “We share with Safe Harbor a fundamental commitment to excellence in service and hospitality. We believe this transaction will allow us to deliver on that commitment at more and more locations over time.”
“Not only are our people continuing at Rybovich,” said Carlos Vidueira, who will oversee Safe Harbor’s superyacht marinas “but we will have access to more resources and a larger, growing network. Our commitment to our community, our team members and their families, and to the yacht owners, their captains and crews has never been stronger. We’ve been searching for the right way to serve them all from a larger platform and we’ve found it.”
“Our plan is to serve Rybovich with excellence so they, in turn, can do what they do so well at more locations throughout the country and perhaps the world,” said Baxter Underwood, CEO of Safe Harbor. “We are humbled and honored to be on their team.”
To read the official press release, please click below.
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Public health officials advise nine additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
• a male in his 70s from Northern health region;
• a female in her 70s from Prairie Mountain Health, linked to the outbreak at Fairview Personal Care Home;
• a female in her 90s from Prairie Mountain Health;
• a male in his 50s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 50s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at Health Science Centre GH4;
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to the outbreak at the Southeast Personal Care Home; and
• a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.1 per cent provincially and 10.3 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 222 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one was removed due to a data correction making the net new total 221. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 25,963.
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