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Met Gala 2018 Cheat Sheet: Banished Foods, Guest Trackers and More
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By Zanna Roberts Rassi May 07, 2018 7:44 PMTags
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Met Gala frenzy has ensued...but are you feeling a little out of the loop?
Don't fret, friend. The biggest night in fashion can feel a little too insular for even the most style savvy among us. If all the red carpet throwbacks Bella Hadid and Rihanna are posting are making you feel a little confused, we tapped E! News style correspondent and Marie Claire editor-at-large Zanna Roberts Rassi to break down what this night is all about. Ahead of the big event, here are 10 little gems that'll make you look like a fashion insider...even if you're not.
It's Business: The Met Gala is the fanciest business meeting you've never been to. The seating chart at the Met is more selective than a high school cafeteria, especially when you consider that Anna Wintour does it all herself. Most tables belong to major fashion houses like Chanel, Burberry and Versace. Celebs are then invited by these houses as their guests, wearing their exclusive designs to showcase their couture works of art that take on the theme. Major fashion and beauty deals have begun at The Met Gala.
$50-$30,000!? That's Inflation: In order to raise megabucks, you gotta pay megabucks! The standard issue price for a Met Gala ticket is a cool $30,000. Compare that to 1948 when the first Met Gala tickets sold for $50 bucks a pop. Last year's Gala raised $13 million dollars for the Met, making this event the single biggest fundraiser for the museum year after year. The price for an entire table is over a quarter million, as most tables are bought out by brands who then invite their celebrity guests. Even so, there's still a waiting list to get in, and all attendees must be personally approved by Anna.
The Most Controversial Met Gala Outfits Ever
On Your Marks...: On the day of the Met Gala, the iconic Mark Hotel converts into a massive celebrity salon as many of the biggest names choose to get their glam on here. Bonus points for those who score the penthouse suite with a private terrace overlooking Central Park, which goes for $75,000 a night and has five bedrooms, six bathrooms, four fireplaces and a dining room that seats 26. The Mark has housed the glam squads of Kendall Jenner, Kate Hudson and Jennifer Lopez in years past; while, the nearby Carlyle Hotel has played host to Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Gigi. The wait for the elevators is notorious...making a few guests late for their red carpet arrival time!
THE celebrity stylist: The Met Gala brings Anna Wintour into a new role: that of stylist to the masses. It often takes months and several offers before a designer and a celebrity are matched, as agents dance around contracts and financial agreements. A designer has to consider every person sitting at his or her table—no two outfits can look a like. And, as always, every little detail has to get Anna Wintour's seal of approval.
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Tracking Guests?!: Fashion GPS is a real thing! From the red carpet to the dinner there are many steps in between...so many that Vogue has a fashion GPS system to track guests and their arrivals, from carpet to exhibition to dinner.
There's Something in Your Teeth: You will never here! Anna Wintour is the ultimate host. Don't believe me? Consider the fact that bruschetta and parsley are banned from the Met Gala. Anna banished these two items off the menu in fear of crumbs landing on a dress and parsley getting stuck in someone's teeth. Regardless, rumor has it that the painstakingly perfect canapés are hardly touched!
Meet You in the Bathroom: If you're looking for the VIP section, your best bet is to check the bathroom. A number of Met starlets have been caught smoking in the bathroom in years past, which has ruffled some very big feathers. Guests congregate there to meet their friends they are not sat with at dinner. Which leads us to....
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Rouge Traditions: If you're headed to the Met Gala, leave your selfie stick at home! Anna Wintour is notoriously against selfies and claims that she's never taken one! Last year Kylie Jenner broke the rule by posting an epic mirror selfie including Frank Ocean, Kim Kardashian, A$AP Rocky, P. Diddy, Paris Jackson, Lily Aldridge and sis Kendall that went viral. This undoubtedly becoming one of the Met's rouge traditions.
Celebrity Dash: Now the party doesn't end when the museum doors lock. Everyone knows that after the party there's an after-party. Celebs make a mad dash for the stairs and change into friendlier looks to head downtown to the Standard Hotel. Remember the Solange elevator incident? Last year Katy Perry co-hosted the annual party that brought out big names like J.Lo, Kate Hudson, Dakota Johnson and others. It wasn't until 2 a.m. that the real party got started with Rihanna setting off her own bash at 1OAK.
Watch: 2018 Met Gala Theme Preview
Heavenly Bodies: This year's theme is "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination." If you're expecting Catholic school uniforms, think again. This year's theme is all about the influences of religious art on high fashion. Designers have a full year to plan and prepare for the Met Gala's theme, but as the saying goes, "Man plans and God laughs."
And just like that, you're a fashion pro.
Watch E! Live From the Red Carpet: The 2018 Met Gala special Tuesday, May 8 starting at 8.30am AEST.
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James Beard nominated chef and cookbook author who served as the host of the TV One show Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin, as well as the host of G. Garvin: The Road Tour. He later was selected to host The Cooking Channel's Road Trip.
He worked as a line cook at Atlanta Ritz Carlton-Downtown before heading to the Ritz Carlton-Rancho Mirage in California. He worked as a sous chef at Noa Noa and as an executive chef at Morton's and Kass Bah.
He released a cookbook called Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin in October of 2006 which earned an American Literacy Award as well as a NAACP Image Award nomination. His follow up cookbooks were Make it Super Simple with G. Garvin and Dining In.
His name is Gerry Garvin. He has a son named Maxwell and a daughter as well.
He and Keyshawn Johnson partnered up to open Reign Restaurant, before he opened his most well known restaurant G Garvin's.
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In this season of giving, Open Banking now offers hope to all those small to medium-sized businesses facing financial exclusion across European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
The numbers speak for themselves when it comes to the value SMEs contribute to our economic wellbeing. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) regards this sector as the dominant form of enterprise across its region. Approximately 99% of all firms come under this umbrella, creating around 70% of all jobs.
Yet banks have traditionally struggled to invest in this crucial segment, given the historic challenges in assessing the creditworthiness of SMEs.
At the same time, a pain point for smaller businesses is trying to demonstrate their own cash flow, as they must manage it closely. Since SMEs tend to receive small, frequent deposits into their bank accounts, they can find themselves short-changed when it comes to securing a loan.
So, how can firms capitalise the potential of this lucrative sector? Open Banking and PSD2 are now changing the game by improving access to finance for even more SMEs, sole-traders and microbusinesses.
The sharing of SME’s bank transactional data gives financial institutions a clearer picture of a firm’s finances and its individual circumstances. By identifying, recording and categorising the frequency of the deposits, lenders are able to develop a more sophisticated and accurate assessment of the applicant’s affordability.
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HS-LS1-1: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins which carry out the essential functions of life through systems of specialized cells.
Building DNA
HS-LS1-2: Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.
HS-LS1-3: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.
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HS-LS1-5: Use a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.
Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab
HS-LS1-6: Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.
Dehydration Synthesis
HS-LS1-7: Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are broken and the bonds in new compounds are formed resulting in a net transfer of energy.
HS-LS2-3: Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for the cycling of matter and flow of energy in aerobic and anaerobic conditions.
HS-LS2-5: Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
Plants and Snails
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Prairie Ecosystem
Rabbit Population by Season
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Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
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HS-LS2-6: Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
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Meowsis
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Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
HS-LS3-3: Apply concepts of statistics and probability to explain the variation and distribution of expressed traits in a population.
Chicken Genetics
Fast Plants® 1 - Growth and Genetics
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HS-LS4-3: Apply concepts of statistics and probability to support explanations that organisms with an advantageous heritable trait tend to increase in proportion to organisms lacking this trait.
HS-LS4-4: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural selection leads to adaptation of populations.
HS-LS4-5: Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in: (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species.
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At The Drive-In announce first new album in 17 years, in •...
News I By April Clare WelshI 22.02.17
At The Drive-In announce first new album in 17 years, in • ter a • li • a – listen to ‘Incurably Innocent’
Photograph by: Júnn
The follow-up to Relationship of Command is finally here.
After sounding the clarion call for their return with explosive first single ‘Governed By Contagions’, beloved post-hardcore titans At The Drive-In have announced their first album in 17 years.
Out May 5 on Rise Records, in • ter a • li • a has been produced by guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Sigur Rós collaborator Rich Costey at Hollywood’s Sound Factory. It’s the long-awaited follow-up to the band’s third studio album, the landmark 2000 LP Relationship of Command.
Listen to the LP’s second track, ‘Incurably Innocent’, which vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala describes as “a song about sexual abuse and being able to finally speak out,” and see the artwork and tracklist below.
At The Drive-In will head out on a North American tour in March, before hitting the UK and Europe for a series of festival appearances, including performances at Reading and Leeds.
Full tracklist:
01. ‘No Wolf Like The Present’
02. ‘Continuum’
03. ‘Tilting At The Univendor’
04. ‘Governed By Contagions’
05. ‘Pendulum In A Peasant Dress’
06. ‘Incurably Innocent’
07. ‘Call Broken Arrow’
08. ‘Holtzclaw’
09. ‘Torrentially Cutshaw’
10. ‘Ghost-tape No.9’
11. ‘Hostage Stamps’
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'Trumbo' Leads the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations
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The nominees for the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced today, putting awards season in full swing before the nominations for the Golden Globes are announced tomorrow morning. The Screen Actors Guild Awards are unique in that it's the actors themselves choose the best performances from amongst their peers. Last year it was Iñárritu's Birdman and The Theory of Everything battling for the top nominations, this year it's a very eclectic mix including the films Trumbo, Beasts of No Nation, Carol, Brooklyn, Room and I Smile Back as the big highlights. Leonaro DiCaprio also gets a nom for The Revenant.
Here's the full list of film nominees for the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards (see TV nominees here):
Bryan Cranson - Trumbo
Johnny Depp - Black Mass
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl
ACTRESS:
Cate Blanchett - Carol
Brie Larson - Room
Helen Mirren - Woman in Gold
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
Sarah Silverman - I Smile Back
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Christian Bale - The Big Short
Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon - 99 Homes
Jacob Tremblay - Room
Rooney Mara - Carol
Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
Helen Mirren - Trumbo
Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
ENSEMBLE CAST:
Beasts of No Nation - Abraham Attah, Kurt Egyiawan, Idris Elba
The Big Short - Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Brad Pitt, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, Finn Wittrock
Spotlight - Billy Crudup, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci
Straight Outta Compton - Neil Brown Jr., Paul Giamatti, Corey Hawkins, Aldis Hodge, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell
Trumbo - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Louis C.K., Bryan Cranston, David James Elliott, Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alan Tudyk
ENSEMBLE STUNTS:
And there you have it. Lots of dissension, many interesting and odd picks, but most of them are some of the better performances of the year. I'm still a big fan of two other Supporting Actor performances: Jason Segel in The End of the Tour, and Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight, but that's such a crowded category this year with so many incredible performances. I'm also surprised that Mad Max: Fury Road was only nominated for stunts, not even Charlize Theron or ensemble. At least it got something. As usual, there are plenty of other awards coming up so if your favorite performance got snubbed here, there's a chance it may still get recognized. The SAG Awards will be handed out Sunday, January 30th, 2016, airing on TNT and TBS at 8pm ET/5pm PT.
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Not really surprising about TRUMBO, all things considered. I hope FURY ROAD wins for those stunts. I mean it has to, right?
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It Chapter Two Review
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Anyone who’s read Stephen King’s 1986 novel or watched the 1990 miniseries will tell you that the best parts of It revolve around the Losers during their childhood. The material involving the adult Losers is where King started writing himself into a corner. By only focusing on the kid Losers in his 2017 film version, director Andy Muschietti turned in a consistently fun and creepy horror story that lived up to its promise. With half a book left to adapt, though, it seemed like Muschietti might’ve shot himself in the foot going into It Chapter Two. Now that the most interesting part of the story has been told, does Muschietti’s follow-up sink or somehow stay afloat?
In some respects, Muschietti’s interpretation succeeds where the source material fell short. Many of the goofier aspects are omitted, or at least given a welcome update. The screenplay by Gary Dauberman also adds a few nice touches that give our characters new dimensions. We very well could’ve gotten a sequel on par with its 2017 predecessor if only Muschietti spent more time in the editing room. Given the length of King’s book, 1,000+ pages, it’s not surprising that Chapter Two is just under three hours. Unlike Avengers: Endgame or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, however, this movie could’ve been cut down to a crisp two hours without losing anything crucial.
Chapter One’s charm lied in its gifted cast of child stars, who return for several flashbacks here. Their adult counterparts share instant chemistry as well and everyone is well-suited for their roles. Jessica Chastain as Beverly was everyone’s dream casting choice and James McAvoy once again proves he can do little wrong as Bill. Interestingly, the most complex character this time around is the trash-talking Richie, played by Bill Hader, who’s running from more than typical childhood fears. Ben (Jay Ryan) has significantly slimmed down since his Chunk phase, although Eddie (James Ransone) still finds himself under a nagging woman’s thumb. Upon receiving a call from Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), the Losers are drawn back to Derry where Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård) has awakened from hibernation to chown down on more children.
Chapter Two is at its best when the Losers are all together, whether they’re cracking jokes or staring evil in the face. Regrettably, the Losers split up for a good portion of the second act, causing the narrative to drag. For almost half an hour, the film becomes a series of episodic misadventures that just go around in circles. Some subplots have zero payoff, such as Bill’s marriage and Pennywise’s encounter with a gay couple. The film also would’ve benefited from shuffling a few moments around. There’s a particularly chilling scene at a baseball game that would’ve made for a much stronger opening.
The scares are more hit and miss this time around as well. Chapter Two has almost double the budget of Chapter One, which you can tell from the abundance of computer-generated imagery. While the effects are a vast improvement from the miniseries, the CGI rarely looks authentic. Even when a creature has a cool design, you can see right through the illusion, which inevitably takes away from the terror. The film excels when it relies on Skarsgård’s charisma alone, not to mention Joan Gregson as a blood-curdling old lady. That darn CGI, however, can make the film feel less like a horror picture and more like an action flick.
While the pacing and effects hold Chapter Two back from being a great movie, it maintains the heart that made Chapter One so special. Even though the first film is barely two years old, this follow-up captures a sense of nostalgia that makes it seem as if we haven’t seen these characters in decades. This can be largely attributed to the cast, young and old, who never skip a beat. Although various problems from the book remain present, the tweaks Muschietti makes go a long way. It may not soar like a balloon, but it doesn’t sail into the sewer either.
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged Horror on September 4, 2019 by Nick Spake.
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Mark Twain once said “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” But with negative stereotypes of aging in the media, it’s hard not to associate growing older with nothing but aches, pains, feebleness, and lack of freedom and mobility. So to uncover the truth about aging, journalist and photographer Vladimir Yakovlev set out to find if age really has anything to do with your happiness or ability to accomplish great things.
At 56, Yakovlev said it was his own curiosity about aging that prompted the series, “The Age of Happiness. “It was a personal question,” Yakovlev told The Huffington Post in an email. “I wanted to find out how much I can affect/influence whatever is my life gonna be after 70.”
For nearly five years, Yakovlev traveled Europe, China and the United States, meeting incredible people at age 60, 70, 80 and beyond, who aren’t letting age slow them down. The stunning photographs reveal individuals who are accomplishing things they never thought were possible, especially at an older age.
They are marathoners, skateboarders, ice skaters, and DJs. There’s even a 60-something pole-dancer. What did the photographer learn from the dozens of inspiring seniors he met? “Life after 60 can be the best time in your life. I can be happy,” he said.
Check out some of the amazing images from the collection in the gallery below.
Greta Pontarelli is 63 years old. Greta only started pole dancing two years ago, when she was diagnosed with osteoporosis, a condition that destroys bone density. “To strengthen my bones, I needed strenuous exercise. But just weight-lifting is very boring. That’s why I looked into dancing with a pylon.”
Lloyd Kahn first tried skateboarding at 65. He stood up on a board, fell immediately, and hurt his hand. From that experience, he concluded that he should wear full protective gear: knee pads, elbow pads, a helmet. Lloyd, who is now 79 years old, said: “I don’t do any special tricks. I don’t ride like the teenagers. I try not to go too fast, so that I could always jump off and land on my feet.”
For most of his life, Paul Fegen was a multi-millionaire. Today, at 80, he’s a card trick magician. Paul became bankrupt and lost all he had at the of 66. Now his main source of income is the modest compensation he receives for his performances.
Yvonne Dole had a car accident when she was 80 years old resulting in a serious concussion. Doctors advised her to hang up her skates. Today the 89 year old continues to participate in competitions. “If I ever get in a bad mood, I look at [my] peers with their oxygen bags, put on skates and smile.”
Yvonne Dole had a car accident when she was 80 years old, resulting in a serious concussion. Doctors advised her to hang up her skates. Today the 89 year-old continues to participate in competitions. “If I ever get in a bad mood, I look at [my] peers with their oxygen bags, put on skates and smile.”
Montserrat Mecho is happiest when she jumps out of an airplane with a parachute strapped to her back. Over the last few years, the 80 year old has jumped thousands of times — her pursuit of happiness brings her back to the skies over and over again. Aside from her free falls, Montserrat has broken a few records in swimming. She is also a downhill skier, a windsurfer, and a diver.
Nina Melnikova, 79 and Antonina Kulikova, 79, (Novosibirsk, Russia) picked up aikido at the age of 70. They now train at least twice a week. Each training lasts around three hours.
At 88, Johanna Quaas is a true gymnastics star. Quaas only started training when she turned 56.
Duan Tzinfu, 76, demonstrates his amazing flexibility. He only started training when he turned 60. Before he started training, 40 years of hard work at a glass production plant meant he could barely walk and was not flexible enough to reach his toes.
The day Pat Moorhead turned 80, he celebrated by performing 80 parachute jumps in a row, with no breaks. The 82 year old spends most of his time traveling around the world with his wife. They have visited over 180 countries.
Ruth Flowers decided to become a DJ at 68 with no prior experience whatsoever. The 73 year old now enjoys flying around the world performing at popular clubs.
John Lowe took up ballet when he turned 80. Now 94, he dances professionally and enjoys performing on stage.
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Ex-IPRA investigator refiles suit, says he was told to favor cops
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) - Months after a federal judge dismissed his lawsuit, a former top investigator for the agency that reviews Chicago Police shootings has filed another suit in Cook County Circuit Court claiming he was fired for not siding with officers.
Lorenzo Davis was a supervising investigator for the Independent Police Review Authority in 2014 when administrator Scott Ando and his deputy Steven Mitchell ordered Davis to change his findings of police misconduct, according to the suit filed Friday.
Davis’ lawyer, Torreya Hamilton, has said Davis’ firing was prompted by the police shooting death of Cedrick Chatman, a black 17-year-old confronted by officers after he allegedly stole a car in January 2013. Davis told the Chicago Sun-Times he believed Chatman’s death was a “murder.”
An IPRA spokeswoman declined to comment Friday evening. Representatives for the city law department could not immediately be reached.
Davis, a 66-year-old former CPD commander, made the same claims in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in September 2015, three months before Mayor Rahm Emanuel replaced Ando with Sharon Fairley as head of the beleaguered agency.
A judge tossed that suit in February, ruling that Davis’ written reports and findings — and his refusals to change them — were not protected by the First Amendment because he was an IPRA employee at the time.
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Pink Moon: Here's what to know about the colorfully named full moon on Friday
By Gabrielle Moreira
LOS ANGELES - The full Pink Moon will be lighting up the night sky on Friday, but the lunar event won’t actually be pink.
The moniker for this month’s full moon comes from the earliest widespread flowers that bloom in the spring called wild ground phlox. The flowers are pink in color, which is why the moon gets its name, according to Farmer’s Almanac.
Other names for April’s full moon are full Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon and full Fish Moon.
Full moon names were applied to the entire month in which they occurred to help Native American tribes keep track of seasons.
For example, the names for the moons in May and June are the Flower Moon and Strawberry Moon, respectively. May’s moon means that flowers are everywhere and June’s moon signifies the time for harvesting strawberries.
The Pink Moon will be fully visible around 4:12 a.m. PST and 7:12 a.m. EST.
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Ferruccio Pastore
email: ferruccio.pastore@fieri.it
skype: ferruccio.pastore2
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Ferruccio Pastore è direttore di FIERI dal 2009. In precedenza è stato vicedirettore del Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (CeSPI) di Roma. Ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Diritto presso l’Istituto Universitario Europeo di Firenze nel 1996. E’ International fellow dell’Institut Convergence Migrations di Parigi e membro dell’Expert Group on Economic Migration (EGEM) della Commissione europea. Oltre alla ricerca, svolge un’intensa attività di consulenza e divulgazione, anche a livello internazionale.
Ferruccio Pastore (PhD, European University Institute, 1996) is the director of FIERI since 2009. He was previously deputy director of the Centre of International Policy Studies (CeSPI), a think-tank based in Rome, and a post-doctoral fellow at the Università degli studi di Firenze. He is International fellw of the Institut Convergences Migrations in Paris and a member of the Expert Group on Economic Migration (EGEM) of the European Commission. Besides research, he actively participates in the public debate on migration policies at national and international level.
Migration Policies and Negative Extraversion. Making sense of Euro-African cooperation on migration and its effects (with Emanuela Roman), Revue européenne des migrations internationales, forthcoming in vol. 36 n° 1 (2020)
From Source to Corridor: Changing Geopolitical Narratives about Migration and EU-Western Balkans Relations, in R. King and N. Oruc (eds.), “Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?”, Routledge, 2019
Women in Mediterranean Asylum Flows: Current Scenario and Ways Forward (with Milena Belloni and Christiane Timmerman), in Timmerman, C., Fonseca, M.L., Van Praag, L. & S. Pereira & (Eds), “Gender and Migration: A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Migration Dynamics”. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018, pp. 217-241
The Forced, the Voluntary and the Free. Migrants’ categorisation and the tormented evolution of the European migration and asylum regime, “Studi Emigrazione – International Journal of Migration Studies”, Vol. 52, No. 200, 2015, pp. 569-586
Introduction, in Pastore, F. The Governance of Migrant Labour Supply in Europe, Before and During the Crisis (Guest Editor), Special Issue of “Comparative Migration Studies”, 4/2014, http://www.imiscoe.org/publications/library/6-journal-cms/44-comparative-migration-studies-vol-2-no-4; pp. 385-415
Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG): Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (2019 – 2022).
LABOUR INT 2. Labour market integration of TCNs: a multi-stakeholder approach (2018-2020).
Study on Complementary Pathways for Refugees commissioned by Cedefop/ Studio su canali di ammissione legali per rifugiati, commissionato da Cedefop (2018-2020)
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Secrets of the newsroom - revealed!
Pic: Lukas via Pexels
By Simoney Kyriakou
Financial Adviser has been going for longer than some of its current journalists have been alive and, consequently, has reported on myriad events large and small.
The paper has covered the effects of all the biggest changes for financial advisers, some of which were huge global and national episodes.
These events included the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (a business that turned out to be pretty short-term); the dotcom boom and bust; the tragic events of 9/11; the famous Gleneagles speech in 2006 that laid the foundations for the Retail Distribution Review; the credit crisis; the RDR itself; pension freedoms; the Brexit vote; and the black swan of Covid-19.
The paper raised the alarm back in 1991, when Robert Maxwell’s unexpected demise revealed just how fragile defined benefit pensions and scheme security were. It covered the pension reviews, the endowment debacle, the split-cap crisis, the rise and fall of the UK star fund manager and the need to rebuild trust in the industry.
The paper has been a strong voice for its readers. It campaigned for the protection of pensions before A-Day in 2006; it urged the then Financial Services Authority time and again to work with industry to restore consumer confidence in financial advice; it waged war on usurious practices by credit card providers and it has called for the current regulatory bodies to keep fees fair.
Over the years, Financial Adviser managed to galvanise a wide field of support for its campaigns, such as the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who lent his voice to our Question of Trust campaign, the brainchild of Nottingham-based adviser Shane Mullins.
Throughout all these years, reporters have worked tirelessly to deliver ‘scoops’ and exclusives – not just with a view to getting one-up on the rival titles, but with the principal aim of delivering the very best news and information that advisers need to make their business successful.
This task was made easier by the introduction of FTAdviser.com, although online seemed a relatively light-touch affair in the days when 120-page newspapers were the norm.
Online news had only just been born – a nascent idea at the time, as touched on by Kevin O’Donnell in his column. Even by 2004, the website was seen as a repository of stories that had appeared in Financial Adviser, Investment Adviser and Money Management, rather than a first-look medium for delivering news and comment direct to advisers.
From 2011 to 2019, Financial Adviser’s ‘Hackwatch’ kept an eye on the comings and goings of the team, keeping an accurate, if deliberately out-of-context, list of funny things. Here are some of the choice chuckles from the 29-page document.
Iona: I’m in touch with Kevin Carr more than I am with my own mother.
Nikki: Do you find, more often than you’d like, that IFAs are knocking around in your dreams?
Simoney: The head of North Korea, Kim Jong…
Julia: Kim Jong Un
Marc: And his brothers, Kim Jong Deux and Kim Jong Trois.
Kevin: I’m so going to beat Alistair Cunningham at the London to Brighton. Even though he’s starting before me. And been training for months.
Simoney: And he’s going there and back.
Kevin: Yeah. I’m still going to beat him. I’m going on a motorbike, anyway.
David: I have a really sad resting face. I must have. I once had a man sitting in the street tell me: “It’s not that bad.” That’s how bad my resting face looks. I got patronised by a homeless person.
David: Clark Kent was a lazy journalist.
Damian: He only had one source.
Caught at the last moment:
This line almost entered the splash in 2012: Both the FSA and RBS came under mounting from Andrew Tyrie. oo-er!
This was the same everywhere; Budget reports were ordered, and couriered to news rooms as soon as the Chancellor sat back down – unless you were on a trade paper and then some lackey drew the short straw and had to loiter at the Westminster press room door for their pre-booked copy. Now, you can download it from the Treasury website from the comfort of your own desk.
Press releases arrived mostly by post, and were followed up with a phone call. By the turn of the millennium, life had partially moved on: many press releases delivered to Financial Adviser were sent by fax machines – themselves a now-near obsolete piece of technology.
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Federal agencies hacked including U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments
By Tom Krisher and Eric Tucker
The U.S. Treasury Building as seen from the Bank of America offices. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - Hackers broke into the networks of federal agencies including the Treasury and Commerce departments as U.S. government officials said Sunday that they were working to identify the scope of the breach and to fix the problem.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm are investigating.
The hacks were revealed just days after a major cybersecurity firm disclosed that foreign government hackers had broken into its network and stolen the company’s own hacking tools. Many experts suspect Russia as responsible for the attack against FireEye, a major cybersecurity player whose customers include federal, state and local governments and top global corporations.
There was no immediate connection between the attacks, and it wasn’t immediately clear if Russia was also responsible for the hack of the Treasury Department, which was first reported by Reuters. National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said in a statement that the government was “taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to this situation.”
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The government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said separately that it has been working with other agencies “regarding recently discovered activity on government networks. CISA is providing technical assistance to affected entities as they work to identify and mitigate any potential compromises.”
President Donald Trump last month fired the director of CISA, Chris Krebs, after Krebs vouched for the integrity of the presidential election and disputed Trump’s claims of widespread electoral fraud.
Federal government agencies have long been attractive targets for foreign hackers. Hackers linked to Russia were able to break into the State Department’s email system in 2014, infecting it so thoroughly that it had to be cut off from the internet while experts worked to eliminate the infestation.
Reuters earlier reported that a group backed by a foreign government stole information from Treasury and a Commerce Department agency responsible for deciding internet and telecommunications policy. Intelligence agencies are reportedly concerned that other agencies were hacked using similar tools.
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The Treasury Department deferred comment to the National Security Council. A Commerce Department spokesperson confirmed a “breach in one of our bureaus” and said “we have asked CISA and the FBI to investigate.”
Last Tuesday, prominent U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye said that foreign government hackers with “world-class capabilities” broke into its network and stole offensive tools it uses to probe the defenses of its thousands of customers. Those customers include federal, state and local governments and top global corporations.
The hackers “primarily sought information related to certain government customers,” FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said in a statement, without naming them. He said there was no indication they got customer information from the company’s consulting or breach-response businesses or threat-intelligence data it collects.
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FireEye responded to the Sony and Equifax data breaches and helped Saudi Arabia thwart an oil industry cyberattack — and has played a key role in identifying Russia as the protagonist in numerous aggressions in the burgeoning netherworld of global digital conflict.
Neither Mandia nor a FireEye spokesperson said when the company detected the hack or who might be responsible. But many in the cybersecurity community suspect Russia.
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Sabathia shouts insults at Rays, Yanks rally in 9th to win
NEW YORK (AP) — CC Sabathia shouted salty insults at the Tampa Bay Rays and said he tried to hit one of their batters.
A little while later, it was Gio Urshela who had the last word for the New York Yankees.
Urshela's RBI single capped a three-run rally in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the surging Yankees leapfrogged Tampa Bay into first place in the AL East with a rousing 4-3 victory Friday night.
"When Gio came up, I said: 'Turn off the lights,'" Sabathia recalled.
Urshela, subbing spectacularly for injured third baseman Miguel Andújar, sent a two-out drive over Kevin Kiermaier's head in deep right-center field for his first walk-off hit.
"The kid's just been unbelievable and every time there's a big situation, he always comes through," teammate Luke Voit said.
"He's been the energy of this team so far," Sabathia said.
Voit homered on the first pitch from José Alvarado (0-3) to make it 3-2. New York tied it when pinch-runner Thairo Estrada scored on a bases-loaded wild pitch by Alvarado, who entered with a 1.04 ERA.
Urshela and Voit had three hits apiece. Kendrys Morales clubbed an early solo shot for his first home run since joining the Yankees on Wednesday following a trade from Oakland.
Willy Adames homered off Sabathia, who pitched six strong innings , and rookie Brandon Lowe hit a tiebreaking double against Chad Green with two outs in the eighth. Tampa Bay added another run on shortstop Gleyber Torres' throwing error before rain caused a 35-minute delay in the bottom of the inning on "Game of Thrones" night at Yankee Stadium.
Torres doubled on the 10th pitch of his at-bat in the ninth to put runners at second and third with one out.
"There's no excuse for what happened," Alvarado said through a translator. "They must have been sitting on my fastball."
Jonathan Holder (3-1) struck out two in a perfect inning.
With their fourth straight victory and ninth in 11 games, the injury-ravaged Yankees took over the division lead for the first time since falling to 1-1 on March 30.
"Night in and night out, I mean, it gets better and better. It's crazy," Voit said.
Tampa Bay had been alone in first place since the end of games on March 31.
The unfriendly rivals play twice more this weekend after New York took two of three from the Rays last weekend at Tropicana Field.
"Anytime you get walked off, it's tough," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "We did a lot of things good. We just came up short."
Sabathia threw three inside pitches to Austin Meadows, including one right near the knees, before walking him with two outs and nobody on in the fifth. As he was coming off the field, a camera caught Sabathia telling teammates he "was definitely trying to hit" Meadows.
"I really didn't think anything of it, honestly," Meadows said. "He didn't hit me. So all good there."
After striking out Lowe with his final pitch in the sixth, the big lefty cursed and yelled a nasty phrase in the Rays' direction.
"I don't remember what I said," Sabathia answered. "Just excited about the game. We are playing for first place."
The 38-year-old Sabathia got into heated exchanges with the Rays the previous two times he faced them — once last year, once this season — when he grew angry over pitches that either hit or went behind New York batters.
In his final start last season, Sabathia was ejected at Tropicana Field and handed a five-game suspension for plunking Jesús Sucre after Andrew Kittredge of the Rays threw behind Austin Romine.
"CC's always got a little bit of an edge," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "He went out and set the tone really well to start off this series."
Despite the latest verbal antics by Sabathia, who plans to retire after this season, there was no trouble on the field.
"You know CC, he's been around a long time. He's a competitor," Meadows said. "He obviously wanted to take a shot there, but it is what it is, obviously. We've had beef back and forth, so it is part of the game."
Rays: Yandy Díaz was back in the lineup at first base after leaving Wednesday's game in Miami with a sore left ankle. ... Guillermo Heredia (bruised right hand) started in center field. He was hit by a pitch Wednesday, but X-rays were negative. ... C Anthony Bemboom, who sprained his left knee Wednesday, was placed on the 10-day injured list and is expected to miss four to six weeks, Cash said. That opened a 25-man roster spot for catcher Erik Kratz, acquired Thursday from San Francisco. ... RHP Hunter Wood (sore right shoulder) struck out three in one inning of a rehab outing Thursday for Class A Charlotte and is "real close" to returning, Cash said.
Yankees: LHP James Paxton (left knee inflammation) won't come off the injured list in time to start Sunday's series finale, Boone said. He is expected to throw another bullpen in the next few days and could return to the rotation on the upcoming road trip next week.
A rematch Saturday afternoon between 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell (3-4, 3.56 ERA) and Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka (3-3, 3.44). Snell struck out 12 over 5 2/3 innings last Sunday at Tropicana Field but lost 7-1 to Tanaka, who went seven innings.
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Simon Weller
“Dealmaker of the Year”
The Macallan ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2016
Simon Weller, Partner
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Simon heads our Asia transactional practice.
Simon focuses on domestic and cross-border public and private M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions.
He has experience advising a broad range of private equity and other financial investors, corporates and investment banks on transactions in both Asia and Europe.
Advising Tesco on the US$10.6bn auction sale of its Thailand and Malaysia businesses to CP Group
Advising PepsiCo on its US$130m acquisition of a 26% interest in Natural Food, a Hong Kong-listed company
Advising Affinity Equity Partners on its US$520m acquisition of Trimco Group, a global provider of labels and brand identification solutions to the apparel sector
Advising Biostime International Holdings on its leveraged acquisition of leading Australian vitamins and health supplements brand, Swisse Wellness
Advising China Minmetals Corporation on the privatisation and de-listing plan of Hunan Nonferrous Metals Corporation from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Advising Creat Group Corporation on its £820m acquisition of Bio Products Laboratory from Bain Capital
Advising Hutchison Whampoa (now CK Hutchison Holdings) on the establishment of a strategic alliance between its subsidiary A.S. Watson Holdings and Temasek
Advising Permira on its HK$6.47bn acquisition of Tricor Holdings from BEA
Advising Tesco on the £4.2bn auction sale of its Korean business, Homeplus, to a group of investors led by MBK Partners and including CPP Investments, PSP Investments and Temasek
Advising Warburg Pincus on its investment in Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank)
Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK (LLM)
Licensed to practise as a solicitor in Hong Kong, and England and Wales
Simon Weller heads the firm's transactional group across Asia and is highly regarded for a variety of private equity and corporate mandates.
Named ‘Dealmaker of the Year’
Simon Weller is head of the firm's global transactions team in Asia and offers clients a wealth of experience on global M&A and private equity transactions. One client asserts: "We've had a long relationship with Simon and he's very responsive and useful."
Simon Weller leads the Hong Kong private equity offering and has deep experience assisting prominent financial investors on activity in China… Peers comment that he is ‘very reasonable to deal with.’
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"Rhydyfelin is a large village and part of the community of Pontypridd, a town about two miles to its north west, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf. " wikipedia
"Rhydfelen, 2 miles south-east, is a village, with Baptist and Congregational chapels." [From Kelly's South Wales Directory 1923 (ArchiveCDBooks) - transcribed by Gareth Hicks]
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The Glamorgan Family History Society have produced a set of microfiche containing Monumental Inscriptions for the following burial grounds :-
For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives
The church is dedicated to St. Luke, and is in the Benefice of Rhydyfelin. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference ST091878.
Anglican Parish Registers Held at the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff
Baptisms Marriages Burials Banns Bishops Transcripts
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Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Rhydyfelin Ecclesiastical Parish records " ......... is a modern parish within the rural deanery of Rhondda in the diocese of Llandaff. It is situated south of Pontypridd and was formed from the conventional district of Cilfynydd in Pontypridd ecclesiastical parish in 1908. St. Luke??'s Mission church was originally a chapel of ease"
" ......... records inlcuding registers of banns, 1964-1976; services, 1933-1969"
This place is alternatively spelled Rhydfelen - see Wikipedia
Rhydyfelin - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site
You can see pictures of Rhydyfelin in the Parish of Eglwysilan which are provided by:
Transcript of name listing for Pontypridd, and district, from Commercial and Trade Directories, for the years:-
1880 (Slaters Directory)
Ask for a calculation of the distance from Rhydyfelin in the Parish of Eglwysilan to another place.
You can see the administrative areas in which Rhydyfelin in the Parish of Eglwysilan has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site
Rhydfelen (Rhydyfelin) village, near Pontypridd, c. 1900
General view of Rhydyfelen (Rhydyfelin), looking towards Glyntaff, 1910
Round Houses at Rhydfelen (Rhydyfelin), built by Dr William Price, c. 1861
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST095885 (Lat/Lon: 51.588059, -3.307697), Rhydyfelin in the Parish of Eglwysilan which are provided by:
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This week, we take a deep dive into a very interesting part of our universe- a constellation known as the Grus constellation which is one of 88 constellations that the sky is divided up into. Positioned in the southern sky, it has the Latin name for crane and was first reported in 1598. But why is it so interesting and what about the history behind it?
It is thought to have around 12 stars within it, including a few double-stars which can be seen (on a clear night) with the naked eye! In July 2019, astronomers reported finding a star in the constellation, S5-HVS1, traveling 3,930,000 mph, which is faster than any other star detected so far.
Unusually, there are not many myths associated with this constellation, but there is a connection to the notion that the crane is a sacred bird to the god Hermes. It was originally named after the Latin for flamingo (Phoenicopterus) but more stars were discovered and it formed a ‘crane-like’ shape. One of the more interesting stars within the solar system is a red dwarf star called Gliese 832. It’s closest star to Earth in the constellation and one of it’s exoplanets (Gliese 832c) was the closest potentially habitable exoplanet in range of the Sun at the time of discovery.
The whole constellation takes up 0.89% of the night sky but it was not one of the original constellations. It was featured in our Hidden Histories series because one of our admins was lucky enough to go to the Greenwich planetarium and see it at night!
“You could see it so clearly, even in the pollution of this major London county!”
— Charlotte, Admin at The Hive
It’s one of the clearer constellations that you can see, so why not spend an evening using the resources below to see if you can find it? If you do, let us know and we’ll feature it on our social channels!
Check out Grus, the Crane Constellation: Live for a better view of this amazing constellation! The information and pictures for this blog came from Grus, The Crane Constellation Facts and Mythology and https://starregistration.net/c...
An amazing feature of this series is that each blog comes with it’s very own factsheet! Check out the Grus constellation one here.
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This Advocate Is Empowering Youth Across Kenya's Slums Through Education
Kennedy Odede’s SHOFCO Urban Network is training the country’s future leaders.
To end extreme poverty, communities living in poverty need access to quality education. The Kenyan government needs to follow through with its commitment to increase education funding so all children can have an opportunity to learn. You can join us and take action on this issue here.
Growing up in Kibera, Kenya, the largest slum on the African continent, Kennedy Odede thought everyone lived in poverty. Once he realized this wasn’t the case, he became angry — but he quickly turned his frustration into productive change.
“Social change became a tool for me to channel that anger into something positive,” Odede told the organization Hearts on Fire.
He didn’t let his informal education stop him from aiming high. At the age of 18, he started a social justice youth movement with just 20 cents in his pocket. Through the movement, he met his future wife Jessica Posner, who was studying abroad in Kibera at the time. Posner encouraged Odede to apply to Wesleyan University in the US, where she went to school, and Odede ended up getting in — with a full ride, no less.
Fast forward to 2004, and while still at Wesleyan, the two founded the nonprofit organization Shining Hope For Communities (SHOFCO) with the vision to “build urban promise from urban poverty” by promoting education, gender equality, and clean water in Kenya’s slums. From helping women sell handmade goods on Etsy to providing scholarships that keep girls in school, SHOFCO is using bottom-up organizing to allow people to take on leadership positions and succeed.
Odede has always believed engaging the community is the best strategy to make a real difference, and education is a big component. Since only primary education is free in Kenya, SHOFCO has built schools for girls and offered achievement-based scholarships for children to attend high school outside of their slums — in some cases, in the US.
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These days, Odede is focusing on expanding the SHOFCO Urban Network (SUN), a movement of connected urban slums that are empowering communities to advocate for themselves. SHOFCO provides SUN groups with spaces that can be used for educational purposes and where community groups can get together on a weekly basis. The network prioritizes promoting peace and encouraging collective action, providing structures to launch advocacy campaigns and peaceful protests. Currently, SUN operates in eight slums in Kenya, but SHOFCO is looking to have a wider reach throughout the country.
With SUN, Odede wants to support girls' growth by giving them the tools they need to use their education to become leaders. More than 49 million girls are out of primary and secondary school in sub-Saharan Africa and don’t have the chance to reach their full potentials. Child marriage and teen pregnancy are the most common barriers. In 2018, President Kenyatta of Kenya responded to calls from Global Citizens and committed to increasing the allocation of Kenya’s budget for education from 17% to 30%, but the government has yet to follow through.
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“I believe that a society that respects and values women and awards equal opportunities to them will not only be happier, but also flourish,” Odede said in a statement to Global Citizen.
Hadija Hussein, secretary of Kibera's Makina village SUN group, has seen the program positively impact her whole family. Her children received scholarships through SUN and without it, Hussein said she would not have been able to finance her children’s education.
Hussein’s group has a Group Savings & Loans program that collects donations of 500 shillings ($5 USD) each month to provide loans for a few people in the community.
“I think my community has definitely benefited from the scholarship program and the compensation programs,” Hussein said in a statement released by SHOFCO.
Today 24/3/2018 @hope2shine launches SHOFCO URBAN NETWORK (SUN) in Mathare with the attendance of CEO @KennedyOdede@JessRPosner@GodwinOyindo @OkwamaErick pic.twitter.com/pwala5oRQ1
— DennisMwanzia (@MwanziaDennis) March 24, 2018
Odede’s organization aims to support youth at every stage of their life –– the SUN youth network services young people from ages 18 to 35. So far, the network has already brought together over 28,000 young people throughout Nairobi who have partnered on youth forums, clean-up initiatives, mentorship, and income-generating activities.
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If more young people continue flocking to slums in search of opportunities, Odede believes programs like SUN will ensure no one gets left behind. Kenya is experiencincing rapid growth, the city of Nairobi’s population more than doubled between 1986 and 2009, and the risks of youth unemployment and poverty are high due to a shortage of jobs and resources. Between 2019 and 2023, SHOFCO plans to expand SUN to reach 31 slums across all of Kenya’s major cities.
“As Africa continues to urbanize, and more young people like me migrate to the slums in search of hope, but only to be met with despair … together, we must transform the urban slums so that more young leaders like our girls might start a new course for their communities and for our rapidly urbanizing world,” Odede said.
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The Complete History of Tree Surgery and Arboriculture
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Tree surgery and arboriculture has a rich and long history. People have appreciated the fortitude and beauty of trees forever, but the science of studying trees is only around 120 years old.
What is arboriculture?
Arboriculture is the study, management and cultivation of individual vines, shrubs and trees as well as perennial woody plants. Arboriculture as a science studies how trees (and woody plants) grow and, in particular, how they respond to the environment and cultural practices. It focuses mainly on individual trees that are for amenity or landscape purposes rather than timber production. These are usually located in parks and gardens and are there to benefit the public.
An arboriculturalist or arborist is someone who studies or practices arboriculture. A tree surgeon, on the other hand, is someone with training in the field of maintaining and manipulating trees.
Arboricultural practice involves tree planting, tree fertilisation, controlling pathogens and pests, tree pruning, tree shaping and tree removal. There are other considerations involved in arboriculture including aesthetic considerations, legal issues and risk management. Often, for example, businesses need arboriculturalists to visit their premises to carry out a tree hazard survey and to manage on-site trees in order to meet requirements of health and safety.
The First Ever Tree Surgeon
Born on the 6th June 1846 in a small village called Stawley in Somerset, John Davey is well known as the founder of tree surgery. His father was a farm superintendent and under his father’s guidance, John Davey learnt to appreciate the outdoors and what comes with it. With his father’s tutelage, he developed a strong interest in arboriculture.
Aged 27, Davey relocated to the United States to Kent in Ohio. He worked at Standing Rock Cemetery and planted lots of new flowers, shrubs and trees. He was also responsible for planting hundreds of new trees along the streets in Kent and around houses in his community. He also carried out a modest amount of what we would now call ‘tree surgery.’
He created a greenhouse and in 1878 began producing a newsletter once a month to educate his customers. This monthly newsletter was called “Davey’s Floral and Landscape Educator.” Around two years after he began his newsletter in 1880, Davey founded his organisation “The Davey Tree Expert Company.” Even though over 100 years have now passed, this organisation still exists today. When the company became incorporated in February 1909, the President was listed as John Davey while Martin L. Davey, his son, was the treasurer and general manager. Leadership clearly ran in the family as Martin later became governor of Ohio in the pre-WWII era of 1935-1939.
By 1915, Davey’s company was expanding at a rapid pace. In the five years from 1915 to 1920, Davey Tree saw more than fivefold growth.
It’s a known fact that John Davey did not know the alphabet until he was in his 20s but he was certainly an intellectual and analytical man who was able to pursue a career demonstrating himself to be an excellent author, orator, inventor and publisher. He believed that people should go to great lengths to preserve the earth’s natural resources and trees were a huge part of that since they take a vast amount of time to replace.
The Davey Tree Expert Company
Otherwise known as Davey Tree, this company has grown to be a multinational company that is an employee-owned corporation. It provides environmental consulting services, tree services, lawn care and utilities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Typically, it provides its tree services to businesses and homeowners as well as federal, state and local agencies and public utilities. In fact, it is the largest company of its kind in the whole on the North American continent.
The company has been owned by its employees since 1979. It has its headquarters in Kent, Ohio and, in 2018, was listed by Forbes as one of the best employers of more than 5000 employees in America – it ranked 294/500. Today, its sales figures topple $1 billion and there are around 7000 employees.
The motto of Davey Tree is “Do It Right or Not at All.”
The Tree Doctor
Davey was determined to share his tree care methods with the wider public and so, in 1901, he published a book called The Tree Doctor. The book was available for $1 and detailed his methods on arboriculture and tree care. It included photographs that helped to illustrate the methods used, which was a rarity for the era. Davey also discussed his inventions, which helped to lay the groundwork for his future patents. On two patents, John Davey was named as the inventor and he developed the research that led to twelve other patents.
Davey was the first to see arboriculture as a science and he talked about tree surgery in a new way with his analogy of tree work to care by a physician – hence the term ‘tree surgery.’ This new way of thinking was responsible for a shift in perceptions and attitudes. Davey likened a tree needing repair to a person needing surgery. Just like a person wouldn’t go to a butcher for an operation, trees should be treated by a ‘tree scientist’, that is to say, a person who is versed in the most up-to-date arboriculture methods.
He demonstrated the need to conserve and preserve forests, woodlands and natural landscapes and he urged both governments and citizens to adopt a more scientific approach to preserving trees. Many of Davey’s methods, pruning, for example, are still used by tree surgeons today.
Tree Surgery Research and Inventions
John Davey was responsible for numerous inventions in the tree surgery field. Among these included tree bracing and cabling, tree cavity filling, innovations in disease prevention and fertilization and large tree moving. John Davey wasn’t always correct but what he did do was turn looking after trees into science. This science is constantly evolving as tree surgeons and arborists gather more data and knowledge.
Pruning the John Davey Way
As mentioned above, many of Davey’s pruning techniques are still being used today. How a branch or limb is pruned or trimmed has consequences for the whole tree. With this understanding, Davey looked at different pruning methods. Among his pruning innovations was the hypothesis that tree wounds should be sterilised and waterproof in order to heal and avoid becoming decayed, just like a house made of wood needs a coat of paint or waterproof protection.
Another thing that Davey noted with regards to pruning was that trees that were not pruned correctly, would not be able to heal themselves. This is what lead to him developing and promoting proper techniques for pruning. Of these techniques was the angled cut, the theory being that this type of cut conforms to the natural physiological processes of the tree. For the time, this innovation in pruning was pretty radical. In fact, it is only in the last 25 years that this technique has been adopted as an industry standard. Now, it has become the most widely used tree pruning method as it means the tree has minimal damage during the process and can heal properly.
Davey’s Cavity Filling Technique
John Davey noticed that trees with hollows were susceptible to developing wounds that began as exterior callouses, which then inflicted decay inside the cavity. With this in mind, Davey developed a process to fill cavities that artificially replaced the supporting surface. This meant that the callous would be restored to health over the cavity.
Davey used another analogy to explain his technique for cavity filling that was linked to the medical profession. He explained how tree surgeons worked like dentists to fill cavities, disinfect them and then seal them to protect them. Nowadays, however, cavity filling is considered to be a damaging practice that does not form part of modern-day arboriculture. The current approach is to avoid large wounds forming. This means that there should be no interference with the natural decay process.
Bracing and cabling – Davey’s research
Davey carried out research, which determined structurally weak trees due to the pattern of their branches. Davey invented bracing and cabling methods with steel in order to preserve trees like stately elms from succumbing to the stresses and strains of strong winds and big storms. Davey’s techniques meant that urban areas could prevent damage caused to properties from falling trees. Also, it meant that homeowners and pedestrians were safer going about their business near large trees. The Davey practice of cable bracing still exists today.
The Davey Compressor
As WWI ended, John Davey’s youngest son Paul returned from service and became the Davey Tree Expert Company’s head of research. Paul Davey went on to develop and patent an air compressor that was used for tree surgery. This lightweight compressor was the start of the subsequent Davey Compressor Company. The “Davey Compressor” was an air-cooled machine whose uses would end up far-reaching through the coming years. For its time, it was remarkably innovative. It was much more portable and substantially less bulky than conventional compressors that worked on water cooling.
The Davey Compressor had a finned aluminium head which served to conduct heat from the engine so water cooling wasn’t needed. Despite being smaller and lighter than conventional compressors of the time, the Davey Compressor was just as powerful. It was used in the removal of decay from cavities in trees.
Paul Davey went on to get patents for more than 50 improvements and designs in this field and the Davey Compressor Company went from strength to strength in Kent, Ohio.
The Second World War didn’t stop Paul Davey and he used his ingenuity to help in the war. His company turned to manufacturing truck-driven equipment like field servicing units, compressors for the military and floodlighting.
Tree Surgery as a Scientific Study
John Davey was very enthusiastic about improving the tools and the technology that was needed for advancements in the research of tree care. Davey’s company created a research station underground called the rhisotron. This was a station that was 1.2 m. sq. and 1.2 metres deep. One side there was polished glass which allowed Davey to study the growth of tree roots directly.
Davey’s invention meant that he was the first person to prove how tree roots grow laterally and shallow rather than vertically and deep, which was the view of his contemporaries. With this discovery, Davey led the way to develop watering and root fertilization techniques that could stimulate tree growth.
In 1908, Davey founded the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery. This was a cutting-edge facility that was dedicated to teach its employees the necessary skills. This institute is still providing training to Davey Tree employees.
Davey’s Tree Surgery Patents
John Davey is attributed to the following patents:
The Process of Treating and Dressing a Bruise or Wound in the Trunk or Live Brank of a Live Tree (Patent #890,968, 1908)
This patent details the process of preserving and revitalising dying and injured trees through a surgery-like method. The process removes the unsound and decayed wood from the tree and then fills it with a cement-like material and anchor ties so that the tree is reinforced. Firstly, molten tar is applied to coat the cavity, a system for drainage is installed and then a waterproof covering is added.
Means for Tying Tree Branches Together (Patent #860,967, 1908)
This patent details how to brace two branches together when there is a wound at the base. The patent uses a chain-link device that has a shank and hook bolts at the ends so that the tied branches move together.
Davey’s Legacy
John Davey died in 1923 at the age of 77. He received substantial praise from many high-profile people of his day and became recognised as a leader in arboriculture. Just three years before his death, he received acclaim from The Naval Academy and The White House as well as entrepreneurs and innovators William Wrigley, John D. Rockefeller and Thomas Eddison.
The Arboricultural Association in the UK
The Arboricultural Association is an educational and scientific organisation that began in 1964. It is an association that promotes the value and care of trees everywhere. The association has trees at its core and recognises that both our environment and our health benefit massively from trees.
The Arboricultural Association published its first issue of The Arboricultural Association Journal in May of 1965. It was also responsible for the development of tree-related documents and British Standards. Included in these were BS3936: 1965 Nursery Stock – Trees and Shrubs, BS3998: 1966 Recommendations for Tree Work, and BS4043: 1966 Semi-Mature Trees.
In the same year, ABTSA (The Association of British Tree Surgeons and Arborists) was formed. The two associations later merged in 1974 and became the “new” AA that incorporated ABTSA.
The AA is responsible for the development of new standards and documents related to trees, including Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs).
In 1971, The AA launched its professional accreditation and its Register of Consultants and Directory of Approved Contractors.
Today, the AA has 3200 members and is officially the largest association in the United Kingdom for professionals working in tree care for amenity trees. The AA defines amenity trees as “those with recreational, functional, environment, ecological, social, health or aesthetic value as opposed to those cultivated as a timber crop.” It is responsible for regulating the qualifications and education of the UK’s tree surgeons and it gives a voice to those involved in the industry. Members of the AA receive support and benefits that are tailored to their needs through their career in arboriculture. They are able to get involved in decisions and have their say on key developments.
Many people think of the AA as being a focal point for best practice across the world for all sectors involved in arboriculture and all professionals working in tree care.
Other Notable Arborists
Aside from Davey, there are other acclaimed arborists in the history of arboriculture and tree surgery. These include:
Francis A. Bartlett – the founder of The Bartlett Tree Expert Company in 1907. Dr Bartlett was the first arborist to use power-spray equipment for pest management. He also created cabling and bracing methods.
John Chapman – a pioneering orchardist and nurseryman from the U.S. who was aptly named Johnny Appleseed. He was responsible for introducing apple trees to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Ontario, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Sebastian Junger – an arborist from Massachusetts who later went on to write Perfect Storm and War.
Chuck Leavell – author of The Tree Farmer, a children’s book, as well as the recipient of the Georgia Tree Farmer of the Year award twice.
Alex Shigo – named as ‘the father of modern arboriculture.’ Shigo was a Pennsylvanian plant pathologist and biologist for the United States Forest Service. He had more than 270 publications.
Mark Hartley – founder of the Australian National Arborist Association who introduced standards to Australian arboricultural practices.
Tree surgery doesn’t just involve the proper felling of trees. Moreover, it is a whole field of knowledge surround tree planting, shrub planting, tree care, shrub care, tree removal and shrub removal. Throughout the history of tree surgery, there have been many advances that have ensured trees are healthier and safer. What’s more, the process of tree removal is much safer too.
Article was written by Conner D.
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Provided Fairness Opinion to the Transaction Committee of the Board of Directors of New Senior Investment Group, a $2.5 billion publicly traded REIT, on its acquisition of a 28-property portfolio from Holiday Retirement, one of the largest private operators of senior housing in the US
Telecity Group plc
Equinix, Inc.
Advised Telecity Group plc, Europe’s leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, on a recommended cash and share offer from Equinix, Inc. a leading US provider of colocation data centre services globally
$11 billion+
TUI Travel Plc
Advised TUI AG on the merger with TUI Travel Plc creating the world’s number one integrated leisure tourism business (+Transaction value represents enterprise value of combined entity)
MGM Hakkasan Hospitality
Advised MGM Resorts International on the formation of a joint venture hotel management company with the Hakkasan Group called MGM Hakkasan Hospitality that will design, develop and manage luxury non-gaming hotels worldwide
Residential property portfolio of Grainger plc
Clifden Holdings Limited
Advised Grainger plc on the sale of a portfolio of 1,203 residential home reversion properties located across the UK to Clifden Holdings Limited
Advised the Special Transaction Committee of the Board of Morgans Hotel Group on the transfer of its ownership interests in Delano South Beach and The Light Group to The Yucaipa Companies in exchange for the cancellation of certain securities held by Yucaipa (debt, preferred stock and warrants) together with a $100 million rights offering backstopped by Yucaipa
Archstone Enterprise LP
AvalonBay Communities & Equity Residential
Advised AvalonBay on its joint acquisition with Equity Residential of the assets and liabilities of Archstone Enterprise LP, an owner of high-quality apartment communities in major markets in the United States, from Lehman Brothers Holdings
Peninsula Gaming, LLC
Advised Boyd Gaming Corporation, a leading gaming operator in Nevada, the Midwest and South, on the acquisition of Peninsula Gaming, a casino operator of five properties in Kansas, Iowa and Louisiana
The Miller Group
Advised The Miller Group, the UK’s largest private homebuilder, on the recapitalization of its balance sheet comprising a substantial new equity capital raising and a significant debt for equity swap
Minerva plc
Jupiter Properties (owned by AREA Property Partners and Delancey Real Estate Asset Mgmt)
Advised Minerva plc, a property investment and development company, on a recommended offer from a consortium consisting of AREA Property Partners and Delancey Real Estate Asset Management
Imperial Palace Casino Resort and Spa
Advised Boyd Gaming Corporation, a leading gaming operator in Nevada, the Midwest and South, on the acquisition of Imperial Palace Casino Resort and Spa in Biloxi, Mississippi
Centrebet International Limited
Sportingbet plc
Advised Centrebet International, a leading International online wagering and gaming operator on the recommended cash offer by Sportingbet plc
General Growth Properties Inc.
Advised the 2006 Credit Facility Lenders, the largest class of unsecured debt with claims in excess of $2.8 billion, in connection with the Chapter 11 proceedings of mall REIT GGP, which resulted in cash payoff of the facilities in full
Tishman Speyer Washington D.C. Portfolio
Advised term loan and credit facility lenders to the Tishman Speyer partnership holding a portfolio of 28 office buildings in Washington D.C. and the surrounding area on a restructuring which resulted in payoff of the facilities in full
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Greta Moran
Hi! I'm an independent journalist living in Queens, New York. I have written for The Atlantic, Grist, Pacific Standard, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, The New Republic, Quartz, Civil Eats, The Cut, Popular Science, The New Yorker online, and elsewhere. I am mostly interested in writing narrative-based stories about public health, climate change, and environmental justice, especially with a lens on the people working towards solutions. I have a degree in science journalism from Columbia Journalism School and have taken coursework at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and The Earth Institute.
I currently am covering hurricanes for Popular Science and writing a Digiday award-winning newsletter for Inverse.com where I muse about recent science news.
My email is greta.l.moran@gmail.com. Please use it!
Popular Science • 1st November 2020
Healthy ecosystems are nature’s barrier to hurricane damage
A new report documents how natural ecosystems can safeguard communities from supercharged hurricanes and other natural disasters.
The Intercept • 26th October 2020
The Dark Money-Funded Women’s Group Rallying Behind Amy Coney Barrett
The Independent Women’s Forum and its sister group have received millions from dark-money groups advancing conservative control of the courts.
Popular Science • 26th October 2020
Severe storms are increasingly leaving us without power. Microgrids can help.
Severe storms are increasingly leaving us without power. Microgrids can help. As climate change spurs worsening hurricanes, renewable microgrids have the potential to generate and redistribute power.
We didn’t track hurricanes hundreds of years ago—but trees did
Researchers are trying to extend the tropical storm record by looking inside ancient coastal trees.
Slow, meandering hurricanes are often more dangerous—and they’re getting more common
Hurricanes are often described as “barreling” through a region, yet some of the most dangerous storms in recent years have exhibited just the opposite behavior: meandering, roaming, and hovering for days on end.
Al Jazeera • 12th October 2020
Is the climate crisis creating a mental health crisis?
A growing network of psychiatrists is tackling a mental health crisis spurred by climate change.
As climate change spurs worsening hurricanes, renewable microgrids have the potential to generate and redistribute power.
Toxic waste sites aren’t prepared for hurricane season
The EPA has ignored reports that Superfund sites are not resilient to climate change, and communities are at risk.
The Intercept • 7th October 2020
The House Just Passed Another “Save Our Seas” Act. Here’s Why It Won’t.
In narrowly focusing on marine plastic debris, the law fails to address the behavior that is at the root of the plastic crisis: the fossil-fuel intensive production of plastics
The New York Times • 11th August 2020
When Disasters Overlap
Cities around the world are facing more frequent and more deadly heat waves, and New York is no exception. But community organizers say the city’s response could use some help in one key area: communication.
Popular Science • 30th July 2020
Nursing homes aren’t equipped to provide life-saving A/C in the event of a power outage
Despite tragedies, there is no federal requirement for nursing homes to have backup generators capable of restoring power to the air conditioning.
A potential wave of mass evictions could make this year’s turbulent hurricane season even worse
The confluence of a pandemic, mass evictions, and a particularly nasty hurricane season could make the rest of 2020 even more of a nightmare.
Teen Vogue • 22nd June 2020
What a Democratic President Could Do On Climate Change Right Away
It didn't take long for the Green New Deal, a framework and policy package designed to meet the scale of the crisis by addressing far-reaching inequality and decarbonizing the United States economy at once, to gain quick traction — and the support of the majority of Americans.
Guernica Magazine • 15th June 2020
Poison Route
National Grid’s North Brooklyn pipeline will funnel fracked gas through largely low-income neighborhoods of color. Can it be stopped?
Teen Vogue • 2nd January 2020
The Real Reason California’s Wildfires Are Getting Worse
California’s beautiful stretches of forest and grassland are meant to burn. Fire is a natural part of the state’s diverse ecosystems, and native plants (including sequoias and redwoods) have adapted to withstand periodic fires. But California was never meant to burn the way it is now.
Civil Eats • 18th November 2019
High Plains Farmers Race to Save the Ogallala Aquifer
About a decade ago, Chris Grotegut realized that he had to start pumping much less groundwater out of his wells. It dawned on the cattle rancher and grain farmer that if he didn’t act soon, there may not be enough water to sustain his 11,000-acre farm in Hereford, Texas—much less to support the next generation on his land.
Teen Vogue • 2nd November 2019
What If the Public Took Control of the Energy Grid?
Earlier this month, Pacific Gas & Electric, the investor-owned utility company that supplies power to much of California, cut off electricity to over 700,000 customers. The company argued that such a drastic measure — the largest planned power outage in the state’s history — was necessary to prevent wildfires.
Vice • 1st November 2019
The Companies That Invest in the Earth's Destruction Must Be Held Accountable
You may not have heard of the company BlackRock, yet you are certainly feeling its impact. The global investment management corporation, responsible for managing $7 trillion worth of assets, is a massive backer of climate destruction, investing billions in new coal plant construction and the deforestation of the Amazon.
The New Republic • 25th October 2019
The Missing Piece in Democrats’ Health Care Plans
Democratic presidential hopefuls so far have mostly debated health care policy and climate policy as separate issues, with the former getting far more debate time. Given the way the two topics intersect, it’s critical not just for climate plans to talk about public health implications, but also for any articulation of health care policy to acknowledge that health care will increasingly take place in a changed environment.
Massive Science • 24th September 2019
An interview with Mary Anne Hitt
This week is Climate Week, coinciding with the UN Climate Change Summit. On September 25th, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its newest report. Every day this week Massive will be publishing articles and interviews with scientists, policy experts, and activists about climate change, all aspects of the new report, and the future of the planet.
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Holsinger’s Fly Shop is a full service fly shop based in the heart of the limestone rich streams of Central Pennsylvania. With over sixty years combined of fly fishing and fly tying experience, Ron and Shawn can help you with all your needs when it comes to fly fishing and tying. Since opening the fly shop in 2010, we have strived to bring our customers the highest quality products while keeping up with the latest materials and techniques to hit the market. Our time in the industry has brought us in contact with many of the leaders in the fly fishing industry, enabling us to provide you the products and customer service you desire. Bringing you the best materials and equipment on the market is our goal, which is why we are dealers for some of the most respected suppliers available. We carry products from Whiting Hackle, the industry leader in genetic hackles and feathers. Our tying supplies come from great supply companies such as Nature’s Spirit, Hareline, Hemingway, and Wapsi, among others. We also carry Regal Vises, the standard by which other vises are judged. We carry rods from Temple Fork Outfitters, Echo, Syndicate, and Maxxon.
ROnald Holsinger
Ron Holsinger, owner of Holsinger’s Fly Shop, was born and raised in the trout rich area of South-Central Pennsylvania. Growing up in the country, Ron was raised in the outdoors and from an early age had a love for the outdoors which he passed on to his son Shawn. Growing up living close to the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata gave him the opportunity to fish and a love for trout fishing; however, Ron didn’t learn to fly fish till he was in his early 30’s when he became friends with a co-worker Jack Igou. Jack taught Ron and Shawn to swing wet flies and encouraged them to start tying their own flies. Ron began tying and over the years became a very proficient tier. Experience and his attention to detail opened the doors for him to get into fly tying commercially for a local guide. The connections made from tying commercially gave him the opportunity to open his own fly shop. Holsinger’s Fly Shop started out as a mail order fly shop operating out of a spare bedroom of his house. Eventually the inventory outgrew the spare room and was moved to its current building behind his house. Ron, along with his wife Shirley run the shop and are there on a daily basis. Ron’s 30+ years of fly fishing and fly tying experience combined with his willingness to learn the new tricks and techniques of the industry allows him to stay up to date on the latest trends in the business. Ron is always willing to answer your questions or search down and order products you can’t find elsewhere. If you would like to contact Ron he can be reached by calling the shop number or by email at contactus@holsingersflyshop.com
Shawn Holsinger
Shawn was raised by his parents Ron and Shirley. His father taught from an early age, his love for the outdoors. Growing up hunting and fishing for just about everything that swims, flies, or walks he learned to appreciate the outdoors and God’s creation. At the age of 12 Shawn was taught by their close family friend Jack Igou to fly fish. Little did Jack know at the time the impact he has on Shawn’s life. Jack also led Shawn and Ron into fly tying. Every year in those first early years of Shawn’s fly tying, Jack would ask him to tie flies for him. Like all beginning tiers the flies were oversized, disproportional, and probably didn’t catch many fish, but Jack always encouraged him and asked for more. 30 some years later Shawn’s fly-tying abilities have given him the opportunity to tie at show and give tying demonstrations all over the east. When Ron and Shawn discussed how to start the shop Shawn assumed the role of the internet guru. Shawn started the Holsinger’s Fly Shop YouTube channel as a way of advertising for the shop. Along with the YouTube channel Shawn also host a fly fishing podcast called The Bugs and Beards Podcast and runs the shops Facebook and Instagram pages. As the shop grew, so grew the need for a guide at the shop. In 2014 he got his guide license and began Holsinger’s Guide Service. Between guiding, the social media, YouTube channel, podcast, and tying at fly show his time in the shop is often limited. Shawn also speaks at churches for big game dinners and at TU and fly tying clubs. If you would be interested in having Shawn speak at your organization or have any questions for Shawn feel free to reach out to him at holsingersflyshop@gmail.com
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Scott County’s jobless claims rise sharply
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Unemployment claims are rising sharply in Scott County, and have more than doubled in the two weeks since Christmas. According to data from the TN...
Covid tragedy: Coach became the third from Henry family to die of coronavirus
Since the coronavirus pandemic reached the United States in March, there have been sporadic stories of tragedy — multiple members of the same family...
Scott County sees slight uptick of active coronavirus cases
Scott County has seen its active coronavirus cases climb slightly the past two days, from 159 to 171. The number of active covid cases in...
The latest: NWS forecasts one to two inches of snow for Cumberland Plateau
Light snow showers will move into the Cumberland Plateau region late Friday night and continue through Saturday morning, with minor accumulations expected. The National Weather...
Editorial: Governor’s policy banning cheerleaders from games deserves revisiting
Independent Herald - January 3, 2021 0
On Monday, the high school basketball regular season will resume for teams throughout Tennessee. Some have been in action in holiday tournaments throughout the...
2020: Good riddance!
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As we sat here one year ago, bidding farewell to 2019 and envisioning what 2020 would bring, few could have imagined what was in...
What we’re trying isn’t working. When do we try something new?
My wife and I were in Knoxville on Saturday, and I was hardly in the Christmas spirit. "Stop glaring at that driver; are you trying...
How to promote resilience amidst Covid-19 and holiday stressors
Independent Herald - December 14, 2020 0
By Michael Yates As if the year hasn’t been stressful enough with living in the midst of a pandemic health disaster, we’re now faced with...
Editorial: It’s time for Scott County to deed sports fields to Scott High School
Independent Herald - October 1, 2020 0
Imagine asking your next-door neighbor, who owns a large parcel of property that isn’t being used, if you can build a home on one...
‘We had no properties. Now we have properties.’
What began as a quest for new industrial properties more than a year ago has led to the Scott County Industrial Development Board being...
Revisiting the site of a Big South Fork tragedy
There are several culturally-significant sites throughout the Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area backcountry that are preserved by the National Park Service....
Christian roots: How Baptists came to be Scott County’s predominant denomination
Ben Garrett - November 24, 2020 0
Editor's Note — This article combines both parts of a two-part series appearing in the Independent Herald's Focus On Religion, exploring how the Baptist...
Scott County in Kentucky? It almost happened
How would you like to live in McCreary County, Ky.? If you're a resident of Scott County, Tenn., you're likely to turn up your nose...
School system honors longtime technology director Mike lay by renaming facility for him
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The Scott County Board of Education last week voted to honor the school system's long-time former technology director, Mike Lay, by renaming the technology...
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The Oneida Lady Indians used a well-rounded effort to tighten their grip on the District 3A- standings Friday, downing the preseason favorites from Sunbright...
Oneida pulls away from determined Sunbright team to remain unbeaten in district play
Sunbright proved to be a formidable opponent Friday night on The Reservation, but in the end the duo of Kolby Morgan and Nathan Bowling...
Fulton comes from behind in the second half to defeat Lady Highlanders, 58-48
HUNTSVILLE — When the shots mattered most, they simply stopped falling for Scott High here Friday night, as Fulton came from behind in the...
Oneida pulls away late for a 61-49 win over Harriman
The home-standing Oneida Indians seized control of District 3-A on Tuesday (Jan. 12) night on The Reservation, pulling away from the Blue Devils of...
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Update: Winter weather advisory issued for Fentress County, none for Scott County
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Cloud in 2020: The year of edge, automation and industry-specific clouds
December 12, 2019 | Written by: Alex Wolfe
Categorized: Hybrid
It was a banner year for cloud computing in 2019. The area that gained the most ground was hybrid multicloud, which emerged as the favored strategy of enterprises looking for a flexible and efficient way to move their workloads to the cloud while reducing costs, boosting productivity and avoiding vendor lock-in. Those advantages are so significant that hybrid cloud is now estimated to be a $1.2 trillion opportunity.
That momentum will accelerate further in 2020 as businesses in all sectors use hybrid multicloud strategies to rapidly roll out applications that accelerate the digital transformation of their businesses while delivering exceptional experiences to their customers. At the same time, enterprises will increasingly turn to advanced encryption and protection solutions to ensure that their clouds remain secure in today’s threat-rich environment, and they’ll embrace emerging technologies like edge to extend the reach of their capabilities. They’ll also begin to adopt automation tools to make it easier to keep their complex cloud ecosystems humming along.
Let’s dive deeper into five trends, which we expect to see in the year ahead as enterprises continue on their cloud journeys.
1. 5G will enable more enterprises to use edge as part of their hybrid cloud strategies
Edge computing, where computations are performed as close to where the data is generated as possible, is in many ways the next chapter in cloud. Retailers will benefit from faster updates on consumer buying trends, factories will be able to perform predictive maintenance on equipment that’s about to fail, cellphone carriers will be able to support mobile gaming and augmented reality.
5G is a critical element as more enterprises look to incorporate edge as part of their hybrid cloud strategies. Hybrid cloud will continue to serve as an aggregation point for the most relevant data and backend functions, while the edge can support analytics and other core functions in real-time where the data is created and actions are taken.
“Edge computing is a transformative technology,” says Ryan Anderson, IBM platform strategist, CTO group for edge development. “Edge is an enabling technology to deliver things that do work to the places that work needs to get done.”
5G is edge’s key enabling technology because it delivers the higher speeds and broader bandwidths required to cut data latency to the bone. As 5G deployments begin to hit the cellular airwaves, hybrid cloud ecosystems will increasingly take advantage of opportunities to perform computations at the edge. The resulting innovations are projected by the GSMA’s Mobile Economy report to contribute as much as $2.2 trillion to the global economy over the next 15 years.
Learn more about 5G and edge computing through the following posts:
5G Network Transformation: What CSPs Need to Know
Cloud at the Edge (Part 1 of a 7-part series)
Open Source and the Race to 5G
2. Automation will dominate the next phase of hybrid multicloud
Companies are adopting hybrid multicloud strategies at a rapid clip, taking advantage of the flexibility to move mission-critical business applications to the environment of their choosing — public cloud, on-premises or private clouds. Indeed, hybrid cloud is a $1.2 trillion market opportunity and nearly 80 percent of IT decision makers see it in their future. However, the very advantages of hybrid environments, including resiliency, scalability and support for a broad variety of applications, APIs and data types, means they are by nature complicated.
“One of the challenges that’s going to become really important is managing the hybrid multicloud landscape,” says Bala Rajaraman, IBM Fellow and VP IBM Hybrid Cloud. “In 2020, even more enterprises will find themselves using multiple clouds, and the make-or-break for capitalizing on these investments will be how they effectively manage all this data spread across environments.”
The upshot is that automated tools — including early offerings that incorporate artificial intelligence — will emerge in 2020 to help manage this complexity. “AI is transitioning into a function that helps manage operations complexity and security,” says Hillery Hunter, VP & CTO of IBM Public Cloud.
Along with increasingly automated tools, dashboards that provide a big-picture overview of cloud operations will become an important tool for administrators. This will enable enterprises to tune their environments, putting the right workloads in the right place, controlling costs and managing security keys and encryption effectively.
3. Security “command centers” will proliferate as part of hybrid cloud strategies
Some 60 percent of IT decision makers rated security as the most important attribute in selecting a cloud provider. In 2020, tools will emerge that can uncover security insights and respond to incidents faster through dashboards that help centralize operations.
“In the hybrid multicloud world, you need a command center,” says Hunter. “Traditionally, that’s been called a security operations center. That whole space is evolving significantly. We’re seeing tremendous resonance on the notion that a single dashboard in hybrid multicloud is going to be important.”
The emergence of DevSecOps, where security is integrated into the development process itself, is another indication that a more connected security ecosystem is in the cards for 2020.
“Security posture and visibility across all environments is one of the next fronts,” says Hunter.
4. More adoption of industry-optimized clouds, beyond banking
As organizations turn to the cloud, they’re looking for solutions that serve the needs of their specific industry. For highly regulated industries in particular, this means features that offload the burdens of compliance. According to a recent study by Thomson Reuters, financial service organizations, for example, deal with an average of 220 regulatory updates per day — and 71 percent of firms expected that number to increase in the next year.
The financial-services-ready public cloud launched in 2019. That Bank of America will use this industry-specific cloud to host key applications and workloads to support its 66 million banking customers provides both an important proof point and a useful template that other industries will follow.
“We’re going to see more and more industry-specific characteristics,” says Rajaraman. “Ecosystems will have to target particular markets because it’s very hard to be generic. So, there will be more of a focus on delivering industry-specific value and addressing industry-specific requirements.”
Global research from IBM shows that only 40 percent of organizations today have the skills and strategy to manage a multicloud environment. Here, industry-specific clouds help organizations by shielding them from the complexities of their cloud infrastructure and architecture. Perhaps that’s why, according to a recent survey, 61 percent of respondents said that one of the biggest benefits of adopting industry cloud services was ease of management and administration.
5. Open source tools will proliferate to make Kubernetes more consumable
Open source technology is having a profound impact on cloud. In 2019, enterprises turned to open source software to modernize their infrastructure and accelerate their adoption of hybrid multicloud. In 2020, developers will focus on tools that can support rapid deployment of applications, which their businesses need to stay at the cutting edge of digital transformation.
This means widespread uptake of the continuous delivery paradigm, where organizations embrace the DevOps philosophy of rapid builds, tests and deployments. The continuous delivery model is growing in tandem with the increased development of cloud native applications built from the start to be deployed through containers and Kubernetes.
“You’re going to see an amplification of people moving to Kubernetes and OpenShift in 2020 and start adopting technologies like Red Hat Operators to become an integral part of the Kubernetes ecosystem,” says Rajaraman.
In sum, as we look ahead, enterprises will have a growing palette of options at their disposal to facilitate workload management, speed application deployments, ensure maximum security, exploit additive technologies such as edge, and more. Indeed, the brave new cloud world of the decade that’s about to begin will deliver value, resiliency and responsiveness that could only be dreamt of just a few short years ago.
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Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?
Nic Fleming
The technology behemoth is preparing a move into the healthcare market, but critics fear profit will come before patients and privacy.
Enthusiasts predicted the plan would relieve the pressure on hard-pressed GPs. Critics saw it as a sign of creeping privatisation and a data-protection disaster in waiting. Reactions to news last monththat Amazon’s voice-controlled digital assistant Alexa was to begin using NHS website information to answer health queries were many and varied.
US-based healthcare tech analysts say the deal is just the latest of a series of recent moves that together reveal an audacious, long-term strategy on the part of Amazon. From its entry into the lucrative prescription drugs market and development of AI tools to analyse patient records, to Alexa apps that manage diabetes and data-driven experiments on how to cut medical bills, the $900bn global giant’s determination to make the digital disruption of healthcare a central part of its future business model is becoming increasingly clear.
Why Amazon is moving into health
Few doubt new digital technologies have roles to play in the huge challenges healthcare systems are facing. Amazon has many detractors, but even they concede it has been highly successful in improving customer experiences and cutting costs. Yet the company’s move into healthcare raises some fundamental questions. What precisely are its ambitions? Can we trust it with our sensitive health data? And are its commercial imperatives compatible with the core values of the NHS, or do they threaten its very existence?
While Amazon’s recent focus on health has caught the attention of observers, its interest in the sector is far from new. As far back as 1999, it bought a big stake in online retailer Drugstore.com. The company’s early bid to move in on the prescription drug market ultimately failed due to a combination of regulatory hurdles, logistical challenges and defensive moves by rivals.
Amazon came back for another go in June 2018 when it paid close to $1bn for online pharmacy PillPack, which has licences to supply prescription drugs across the US. The global healthcare market is worth more than $7tn, and health spending consumes a huge proportion of the GDP of major economies – 17% in the US, around 11% in France and Germany and 10% in the UK.
Consumers are starting to expect the same level of flexibility from healthcare as they get from other industries
“First and foremost, Amazon sees a highly inefficient, highly regulated and potentially very lucrative multitrillion-dollar global healthcare market,” says Jeff Becker, a senior tech analyst at US market research company Forrester. “While most other companies are put off by the high barriers to market entry, organisations of the size and complexity of Amazon are not dissuaded, and see a major financial opportunity.”
Meanwhile, health systems across the world are under pressure to reform to maintain care levels in the face of major challenges. The NHS faces an ageing population, rising demand for services, a funding squeeze, the continued social care gap and serious staffing problems.
Patient expectations are also changing
Thanks to digital transformations in other areas of our lives, we expect to get what we want quickly, conveniently and affordably in ways that take account of our personal needs. “Consumers in the UK can order something at midnight and take delivery the next day,” says Anurag Gupta, an analyst at global research consultancy Gartner. “They’re starting to expect the same level of service and flexibility from healthcare as they have got used to from other industries.”
Amazon doesn’t like to go into detail about its long-term vision, but a series of recent launches, acquisitions and appointments reveal a clear and ambitious strategy. In January 2018, it formed a not-for-profit joint venturewith banking giant JPMorgan Chase and multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. Later named Haven, its public pronouncements have been vague and modest, stating that it aimed to better use data and technology to provide improved, cheaper healthcare for the three companies’ 1.2 million employees and their family members.
Suspicions that this is far from the limit of Haven’s aims were confirmed in June last year when it announced its new CEO was Atul Gawande, a renowned surgeon, Harvard Medical School professor, writer and ambitious reformer with a firm belief in the power of data to deliver safer, more efficient and better integrated healthcare.
Analysts say Haven is in reality a test bed for new forms of employee healthcare benefits, experimenting in areas including improving GP access, remote patient monitoring and digital care delivery and reducing prescription drug costs. “The idea is to apply Amazon’s culture of taking the friction out for consumers end-to-end and bring that to healthcare,” says Becker. “I think Haven is an incubator for a next-generation healthcare delivery model, which, after testing, will be made available to general consumers.”
Amazon’s choice of partners in Haven is also instructive. Berkshire Hathaway’s multibillionaire CEO Warren Buffett has described healthcare as the “tapeworm” of the US economy. JPMorgan Chase is one of the world’s biggest banks. Together they would be well placed to create and sell lower-cost payment plans for other companies or advise them how to do so, based on an in-depth understanding of insurance risk and Haven’s experimentation.
Amazon Prime for health
Last year, Amazon unveiled Amazon Comprehend Medical, a cloud-based service that uses machine learning to extract information from medical data including patient records and provide new insights. In April, Amazon began offering PillPack’s service – medications packaged by dose and time – with free delivery to its Prime subscribers.
Meanwhile, last month’s NHS-Alexa deal is just the tip of a very big iceberg. Amazon has announced new Alexa applications under development, including ones that manage health-improvement goals, handle blood-sugar readings and book appointments. Crucially, it says it has created ways for Alexa-enabled devices to handle patient information that conform to US privacy laws.
Amazon consistently refuses to discuss its healthcare plans. Neither it nor Haven responded to multiple requests for comment for this article. In mid-2017, it was reported that the online retail giant had set up a secretive lab to explore tech-driven healthcare disruption called Amazon 1492, presumably named after the year Columbus first arrived in the Americas as a signal of its paradigm-shifting ambitions.
Becker and others believe the company is working towards the launch of an Amazon Prime service for healthcare. The company already knows a lot about its customers, including their reading preferences, education levels, approximate weight if they buy clothes, search histories, and the eating habits of customers of its Whole Foods subsidiary. Add to this data from AI-powered extraction from medical records, Alexa, fitness trackers and connected medical devices like blood-pressure monitors and glucometers, and Amazon will know those who sign up inside out.
A Prime Health virtual doctor could decide whether you need a human doctor or just to stock up on tissues, for example. Appointments could be much simpler and quicker to book. Patients with chronic diseases or those recently discharged from hospital could be remotely monitored at home, while medication could become cheaper and quicker to access. Alexa could provide alerts and personalised health advice, and even reward healthy choices.
“These elements are being deployed incrementally, and I think when we step back, what we’ll see from Amazon is fully curated digital-first healthcare that, for example, only brings in your GP when and where it makes sense,” says Becker.
He is not alone in his analysis. Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, a friend of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, told a conference in November: “Imagine what it’s going to be like when he [Bezos] rolls out Prime Health, which I’m convinced he will.”
Amazon and the NHS
But aren’t Amazon’s ambitious, data-driven plans more relevant in the US than in the UK, where all have access to free-at-the-point-of-delivery, more or less comprehensive care? In fact, NHS patients have been using virtual GP services for some time. The most high profile is London-based Babylon Health, which has more than 50,000 registered patients and recently launched in Birmingham.
The incentive for companies like Amazon is to increase profits, which puts them at odds with the goals the NHS.
Most observers expect digital healthcare providers, both big and small, to work with rather than in competition with NHS providers, as they are already doing. “These changes are relevant globally,” says Becker. “There would be real benefits to the UK public in some of the digital innovations inspired by the kinds of incubator models being generated in Haven. Like the NHS-Alexa deal, I think it will be a partnership rather than an alternative.”
Others, however, believe the commercial imperatives of the tech giants conflict with the public service values of the NHS. “What does return on investment look like in healthcare?” asks Mathana Stender, a Berlin-based tech ethicist. “The incentives of companies like Amazon are to increase market share, share prices and profits, which puts them at odds with the underlying goals of a public health system like the NHS.”
Some fear that free-market tech evangelist politicians would be more than happy to cut NHS funding and invite private companies to fill the gap. However, Matthew Honeyman, of health thinktank the King’s Fund, says those primarily interested in cutting costs shouldn’t expect quick gains. “These kinds of transformations do bring efficiencies and productivity benefits, but our research suggests these take years to come through.”
Can I trust Amazon with my health data?
The most widespread concerns relate to data protection. Last month it was revealed that contractors working on quality control of Apple’s Siri voice assistant regularly hear recordings of confidential conversations, including doctor-patient discussions. In 2017, London’s Royal Free hospital was rebuked for failing to comply with the Data Protection Act when it handed over the personal data of 1.6 million patients to Google’s DeepMind as part of efforts to develop an early diagnosis system.
Amazon has promised that UK patients who asked Alexa for health advice would have their data encrypted, but critics demand more specifics on how patient data is protected. “We need more detail and transparency about how people’s sensitive data will be processed and used when they ask Alexa a question,” says Honeyman.
Others say there are privacy risks even if big tech companies do make stringent efforts to protect patient data. “Even using the most sophisticated anonymisation techniques, given enough data points, it may become possible to de-anonymise individuals in future,” says Stender, also a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt an der Oder.
Healthcare is widely considered a “digital laggard” compared with other sectors. But the pace of change is quickening. Amazon and the other major tech companies have become rich and powerful in large part by realising the value of and monetising data. Critics highlight what they say is their poor data protection track record, and warn of irreparable damage to our privacy if the same approach is applied to personal health data. Few doubt digital disruption can bring big gains in healthcare. Less clear is whether Amazon and its ilk can or should be trusted to play central roles in the new era of data-driven healthcare they are carving out for themselves.
It’s not just Amazon
Jeff Bezos’s firm is far from alone in looking to disrupt healthcare with data and technology. Apple is rolling out its Health Records feature designed to make it easier fo users to visualise, use and store medical data on their iPhones. The latest Apple watches have ECG sensors that can alert users if they have potentially dangerous irregular heart rhythms. The Google-owned company DeepMind last month claimed its AI algorithm could predict acute kidney injury – which kills 100,000 people per year in the UK – 48 hours before it happened. Startups are working on everything from smart pill bottles and clinical-grade home diagnosis kits, to mental health tracking and personalised nutrition plans tailored to specific health needs.
Government ministers including self-proclaimed techie, health secretary Matt Hancock, and other health leaders agree that data and tech can transform healthcare for the better. A Department of Health and Social Care policy paper published in October last year outlines a strategy built on open standards, data security and interoperability of modular systems.
Since 2016, NHS England has been awarding grants of up to £10m to digitally advanced NHS trusts to create blueprints for others to follow. Early examples include integrated care records, an AI-driven sepsis early warning system, an online platform for patients to play an active role in managing inflammatory bowel disease, and the use of Alexa in adult social care.
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Port of Indiana marks 40th year with largest project shipment in port
October 25 - The Port of Indiana is celebrating its 40th year in a big way - by handling the largest shipment of project cargo in the port's history.
Business, community and Great Lakes officials joined port management for a special celebration on Thursday commemorating the 40th anniversary of Indiana's first port. During the ceremony, Port Director Peter Lamanannounced that the port is currently handling a project cargo shipment that is by far the largest ever to come through the Lake Michigan port.
The shipment of 134 complete turbine units has been carried by 11 ships from Canada Steamship Lines and Flinter Shipping from various locations around the Great Lakes - with the final two ships offloading their cargo at the port last week.
The shipment was coordinated by Vectora Transportation for final destination in Bloomington. The windmills are being stored throughout the port on about 20 acres (8 ha). The shipments were unloaded by port terminal operator,Federal Marine Terminals. This year, the port also handled its first outgoing shipment of wind equipment as two ships of turbines from the Acciona Windpower plant in Iowa are being exported through the port to Nova Scotia.
"It's an exciting time around here right now," Laman said. "This port is truly becoming the preferred destination for wind cargo shipments in and out of the Midwest because of our modern facilities, the central location and our extremely efficient terminal operations."
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Alpha lens mount. The Sony A850's Alpha lens mount is compatible with the full array of Alpha lenses, both screw-drive and electronic autofocus models. A crop mode is available for DT lenses designed for APS-C sized sensors, but the manual cautions that exposure accuracy may suffer with DT lenses.
The Sony A850 features a bayonet lens mount, which accommodates a wide range of Sony and Konica-Minolta autofocus lenses. The Sony A850 is sold body-only, so no kit lens is offered. A small button on the front of the camera releases the lens from its mount, so it can be turned and removed.
All current Sony lenses may be used with the A850, but DT (sub-frame) lenses may require exposure adjustments due to the corner darkening produced by their sub-frame image circles. (The camera does support an APS-C exposure mode, that crops a sub-frame area from the larger sensor, but be prepared for possible exposure issues.) All Konica-Minolta AF lenses are compatible with the Sony A850 as well, but note that the 1x-3x Macro Zoom lens isn't compatible with the A850's SteadyShot image stabilization: Turn that feature off when using one of these lenses.
The Sony A850's CMOS sensor is roughly the same size as 35mm film (35.9mm x 24mm), so the angle of view at any given focal length will be the same as on a 35mm camera.
Sony Alpha 850: Autofocus System
The Sony A900 marked a new level of autofocus sophistication for Sony, and the A850 carries over the same AF system. At first glance, the viewfinder might look like a step backwards, as there are fewer AF points visible in the viewfinder than we've seen in previous Sony SLRs like the A700. It turns out though, that there are now two classes of AF points: Nine Primary AF points are marked in the viewfinder and illuminate to show subject acquisition. In addition, 10 new "Supplemental" AF points are arranged between and/or around the Primary points. As their name suggests, the Supplemental AF points assist with autofocus operation, but aren't selectable under user control, and don't illuminate in the viewfinder when they've locked onto a subject. The Sony A850's sensor pattern is shown in the illustration below.
In the diagram above, the blue rectangles with black marks in their centers are the Primary AF points, while the green rectangles mark the Supplemental points. Sony's been a little cryptic about the function of the Supplemental AF points, but the way they surround and fill in between the Primary ones suggest that they can provide additional position and velocity data for dynamic AF tracking.
It's not entirely clear, though, how the two types of AF points interact during autofocus operation: For instance, if the closest/most prominent subject detail falls under a secondary AF point, will it lock focus on it? Or, are the Primary AF points the only ones that can initially lock focus, with the Secondary AF points only helping with subject tracking during continuous AF operation? (Note that the Sony A850's manual points out that the Supplemental AF points are only active in wide-area AF mode.)
When it comes to subject tracking, more AF points are definitely a good thing, as they give the camera's autofocus system a much more comprehensive view of subject distance across the frame. On the other hand, as we've seen in the case of Nikon's D300 and D700 SLR models (which have no less than 51 AF points), a large number of AF points can actually slow shutter response in dynamic-area AF mode.
The cluster of AF points right at the center of the frame is typical of most SLRs, but Sony packs more in than many systems do. There's a "dual cross" array, a group of four sensors that create an expanded area of AF sensitivity, responding to both horizontally- and vertically-oriented subject detail. There's also a single, large, horizontally-oriented sensor that provides significantly greater AF accuracy, but only for lenses having maximum apertures of f/2.8 or larger.
As is often the case with full-frame SLRs though, the Sony A850's AF array covers a bit less of the total frame area than those of the A700 and other Sony sub-frame DSLRs, so subjects will need to be closer to the center to be covered by the AF system.
Sony A850 Autofocus Area Options
Autofocus Area also has three options available through the Function or Record menu: Wide, Spot, and Local (manual setting). The default option is a nine-point Wide Focus area, indicated on the Quick Menu display by an array of dashes inset within four widely-spaced brackets in the viewfinder image. You can override the chosen AF mode by pressing the Spot AF / OK button in the center of the Multi-controller, which defaults to the more accurate center AF point (the latter indicated by a target box in the center of the viewfinder). Wide AF bases its focus on the most prominent subject detail in the portion of the image that falls within the AF brackets. Spot mode bases its focus on the very center of the frame, where the square target resides. The Local setting is Sony's terminology for a manual AF area selection, and lets you manually set the main AF point by using the Multi-controller to highlight one of the nine Primary AF points. The active AF area is briefly illuminated in the viewfinder. Like the Sony A900, the A850 includes the ability to apply autofocus micro adjustment, which offers +/-20 step adjustments for up to 30 lenses to address front- and back-focus issues.
Sony A850 Autofocus Modes
The Sony A850 has three main focusing modes, namely Single-shot, Continuous, and Automatic. In single shot mode, focus is set when you initially half-press the shutter button (or trigger focus via the AF/MF button, if you've configured it to act as a focus lock control via the AF/MF option on Custom Settings Menu 1). When focus lock is achieved, a viewfinder indicator illuminates, and the camera beeps to let you know that the subject is in focus. In Wide Area mode, the AF point selected illuminates briefly as well, so you tell what the camera has locked onto.
In single-shot mode, if the subject moves, the focus won't shift to track it. Conversely, in Continuous AF mode, when the shutter button is half-pressed and held, the camera automatically switches to Wide Area AF (if it wasn't already in that mode), and will continuously adjust both the focus setting and its choice of AF points to follow the subject. In this mode though, the selected AF points won't illuminate, and there's no audio signal to let you know when the subject is in focus.
Auto AF mode lets the camera start out in single-shot AF, but then switches to Continuous AF if it detects subject movement after the initial focus lock. When using the A850's continuous shooting option in conjunction with Auto AF mode, the first shot of a series will be captured in single-shot AF mode, but the camera will automatically switch to Continuous AF mode for the second and subsequent frames in the sequence.
Sony A850 AF Assist
Like the A700 and A900, the A850 has a very bright LED built into the body, that projects a pattern onto the subject for better focusing in dim light. The pattern projected by the LED is a significant help when dealing with low-contrast subjects. Thanks to the projected pattern, the Sony A850 can focus on a blank wall in total darkness. (Not that a blank wall would make a particularly interesting subject, but if it can handle that, it can probably handle most any normal subject.)
SteadyShot INSIDE: Sony A850 Anti-Shake
The Sony A850 also employs Sony's SteadyShot INSIDE (their latest branding; previously referred to as Super SteadyShot) anti-shake technology, which uses a highly sensitive angular rotation sensor and Smooth Impact Drive Mechanism (SIDM) to move the sensor assembly itself to counteract camera movement, rather than the conventional approach of moving an optical element inside the lens. This body-based anti-shake approach is based on technology Sony acquired from Konica-Minolta, but Sony claims that it has been improved significantly since that time.
Sony claims that the SteadyShot INSIDE anti-shake system in the A850 provides a 2.5 to 4-stop reduction in the blurring produced by camera shake. Translating that into real-world shutter speeds, a two-stop improvement means that a shutter speed of 1/30 second would give you the same resistance to blur from camera shake that a speed of 1/120 would without anti-shake. A 4-stop improvement would mean you could shoot as slow as 1/8 second and get the same results (blur-wise) as when shooting at 1/120 second unaided. Even the lower end of the specified range of effectiveness means a pretty significant improvement in one's ability to hand-hold long exposures.
When SteadyShot INSIDE is activated, the SteadyShot scale on the right side of the viewfinder display indicates the degree of stabilization. A downside to Sony's body-based SteadyShot approach is that while you can see the results of stabilization on competing lens-based designs, you have only this scale to tell you how the A850's SteadyShot mechanism is doing. SteadyShot minimizes the effect of blurring caused by slight camera movement, which is more noticeable at long focal lengths.
Sony A850 Anti-Dust Technology
To help combat dust particles on the imaging sensor from changing lenses, Sony included both an anti-static coating on the sensor filter and an anti-dust vibration to automatically shake the sensor each time the camera is shut off. The anti-static coating may be of some benefit, but we frankly don't expect much from the A850's vibration cycle: It uses the same motion actuators as the image stabilization system. This means that the peak vibration frequency is probably on the order of a few hundred hertz (cycles per second). That's not nearly fast enough to produce strong enough g-forces to shake loose most dust particles; only the very largest pieces are likely to be dislodged by the SteadyShot system's relatively leisurely vibration. (Other vibration-based dust removal systems use frequencies in the tens of kilohertz: 20,000 to 50,000 cycles per second.)
The Sony Alpha A850 does not come with a kit lens, and since optical performance varies with the lens used, this section is intentionally left blank.
The images above were taken from our standardized test shots. For a collection of more pictorial photos, see our Sony Alpha DSLR-A850 Photo Gallery .
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#WIT4Impact - Meet Franca Pavličević, Head of Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Evolution, EUROCONTROL
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Learn what it is like working at EUROCONTROL in air traffic management. In this article, you will meet Franca Pavličević from Croatia who heads EUROCONTROL’s CNS Evolution Unit since October 2008 (the Unit was previously known variously as the Navigation or Navigation & CNSS Research Unit).
I first worked as an air traffic controller and then an instructor, I moved from there into airspace design, which took me into the world of performance-based navigation (PBN). I am involved in developing the ICAO PBN Concept, chair the ICAO PBN Study Group, and was previously a member of the ICAO Separation and Airspace Safety Panel
Having worked extensively with European national experts on terminal airspace design projects, I also instruct on PBN and airspace design at EUROCONTROL’s Training Institute in Luxembourg.
Today, as head of CNS Evolution, my responsibilities include the Agency’s research contribution for the integration of communication, navigation and surveillance (SESAR); contributions to European rulemaking on all-weather operations, ground-based augmentation applications and avionics, the dual-frequency multi-constellation concept (and the evolution from a single constellation), navigation infrastructure rationalisation, as well as GNSS vulnerability and mitigation. I hold a bachelor’s degree in law and an MSc in airport planning.”
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Santa's got his reindeer but how do you manage the huge demand for home deliveries? Is putting your trust in a third party the way ahead? Liz Jones reports
Home delivery is one of those pharmacy services that has shown terrific growth. Broadly speaking, most pharmacists have delivery offerings of some description in place; when CitySprint Health recently surveyed the pharmacist community, 78% of those it spoke to said that they offer delivery of medication to homes.
Running a delivery service impacts the pharmacy operation in many ways. The survey also showed that pharmacists are investing a very significant proportion of their time – a huge 11 hours a week on average – in managing delivery services. “Even more worryingly, it is highly-qualified pharmacists themselves who are devoting their time to delivery in a third of cases, rather than delegating to other staff within the organisation,” says Darren Taylor, chief development officer CitySprint. “For many, using an external delivery partner to provide driver resource and logistics management may be more about freeing up valuable time to invest in the business, and better serve patients.”
CitySprint Health’s infrastructure and scale means that it can provide pharmacies with a secure and rapid response, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. “Using our technology and resources means we’re ideally placed to meet consumers’ demand for convenience and to free up pharmacists’ time to evolve their businesses and use their expertise where it’s most needed,” he says.
To validate the time and money-saving opportunities its new service provides, it has created an efficiency calculator (see http://costperdropsavings.co.uk) that allows pharmacists to understand their delivery costs and the potential savings available.
While delivery services have the potential to enhance patient care and improve pharmacy workflows, putting your trust into a third party takes careful consideration. “It’s important to choose a delivery partner that operates as an extension of the pharmacy to help shoulder the burden of delivery and offer peace of mind,” says Taylor. “At CitySprint Health, we understand the importance of an unbroken chain of custody and have incorporated a number of processes to ensure the safe delivery of medicines.”
From a courier team which is fully DBS checked (formerly CRB) and trained in secure delivery and sensitive package handling, to a full audit trail, CitySprint Health’s service is tailored to sensitive data and deliveries where security is paramount. “Our healthcare couriers also carry out a doorstep security check when handing over medication at a patient’s home to help ensure it gets delivered into the right hands, and real-time GPS tracking is in place which ensures a transparent chain of custody so you can see where your delivery is throughout its transit,” Taylor explains.
Leonard Fraser, head of sales and customer services of Delivery Mates, the scooter delivery service, agrees that security is crucial. “We follow strict SOPs which we create alongside pharmacists,” he says. “We ensure that a training session is held for the drivers by a pharmacist and that the drivers fully understand the SOPs and sign to accept this. Our service means that we are able to deliver medication safely to further distances than in-house drivers.”
The company operates a 360o process. So, from the training and the supplying of scooters, servicing and recovery allows Delivery Mates to sustain high service levels because everything is under its direct control, maintains Fraser. “We use our own proprietary software too, which allows us to give full visibility to the customer and to the patient in real time, enabling full interaction with the biker to ensure an efficient delivery.”
The highest and most obvious risk facing drivers delivering medicines is that of theft – the chances of which can be significantly reduced by adhering to a few simple steps. These include not leaving keys in a delivery vehicle, parking in well-lit areas, and also taking heed of surroundings. “We encourage drivers who don’t feel comfortable about a certain area to postpone delivery and call operations,” says Taylor.
With a proper delivery process in place, should delivery not be possible – as even with specified hour delivery options people’s plans may change or they may not be at home – it is vital that a proper process for returning medication to a pharmacy within a specified timeframe is in place.
CitySprint Health estimates that approximately 1 in 20 items it is tasked to deliver are returned to the pharmacy. “In situations like this, the key area where we can add value is through our ability to advise the pharmacy why the delivery failed, which is possible due to our sophisticated technology and step-by-step audit trail,” says Taylor. “This information allows pharmacists to decide if a re-delivery attempt is something they are willing to fund on the patient’s behalf.”
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Delivery drivers who go the extra mile are what courier services look for. Sandy Martin works as a courier for CitySprint in Bristol and is a case in point. Recently, on the first working day after a Bank Holiday weekend, Sandy had carried out her deliveries but on her return to Well Pharmacy, Burnham she was asked to make an extra, urgent delivery to an 80-year-old patient. Once at the patient’s property, her knocks at the door went unanswered. On further investigation, she could see that the patient was facedown inside the home. Sandy called an ambulance and alerted the fire service to gain access to the property. The patient’s niece later advised the pharmacy that if Sandy had not taken the steps she did, her uncle may have passed away as no-one was due to visit him for several days. The patient has since made a full recovery.
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2020 | 7 July, Taking the Temperature Report Launch
7 July, 2020 | 2.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. | Report Launch and Discussion
TAKING THE TEMPERATURE: IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON INDIA's CREATIVE ECONOMY | Report 1 In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the Art X Company in partnership with British Council India and FICCI launched the Taking the Temperature survey.
The survey aimed at tracking the impact of COVID-19 on the creative sector in India, gathering responses from creative professionals, arts companies, sector support organisations, policy-makers and funders.
Based on the survey, we launched Taking the Temperature Report (first edition) which includes key findings, case studies of resilience and innovations in action across the creative sector, and recommends measures to support the sector in the current situation.
This first edition of the report provides a snapshot of the situation in India since COVID-19 and the lockdown in late March 2020 to June 2020; the data received cuts across sectors and represents further diversity in terms of its geographical representation with 67% of the respondents being present on a national scale.
The survey has sought to understand the immediate impact on artists livelihoods, arts organisations and their audiences, strategic response by governments, NGO’s and major stakeholders to ensure the sector survives, recovers, sustains and grows.
The Report was launched on the 7 July during a digital event. Barbara Wickham, Director, British Council India welcomed the audience as Jonathan Kennedy, Director, British Council Arts India presented the finds of the report. This was followed by a discussion with Rashmi Dhanwani, Founder, The Art X Company and Sanjoy Roy, Co-Chair, FICCI, Art & Culture Committee on aspects ranging from cultural policy and the self-organisation of the sector. They also discussed examples of countries which have supported their cultural economy through this crisis. The discussion was moderated by Pragya Tiwari, Regional Director, Flint Culture.
Link to watch the discussion: click here To download the report: click here
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Press Release December 15, 2020
Noname Launches from Stealth to Eliminate API Security Chaos for Enterprises
Lightspeed, Insight Partners and Cyberstarts invest $25M to help enterprises gain visibility and control over threats created by the explosion of APIs
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Noname Security, the enterprise API security company, launched from stealth today with $25 million in funding from Lightspeed, Insight Partners and Cyberstarts. Noname is the only holistic security platform that lets enterprises see and secure managed and unmanaged APIs exposed by the organization, consumed by the organization or used internally, thereby eliminating the API security blind spots that exist in most businesses today.
Digital transformation encourages companies to leverage APIs extensively to grow business and promote innovation. However, many have an underdeveloped API security strategy, which creates a major attack surface. Gartner has stated that "by 2022, API abuses will move from an infrequent to the most-frequent attack vector, resulting in data breaches for enterprise web applications."(*)
Noname provides an agentless security platform that gives enterprises a complete view into the activity and threats in their environment. Frictionless to deploy, Noname integrates with existing IT infrastructure and gives businesses visibility, security, and control over any API, whether on or off the corporate API gateways. With Noname, enterprises are able to gain the productivity benefits of using APIs without sacrificing security.
"Application security has a huge blind spot," said Oz Golan, CEO and co-founder of Noname. "A leaky API on T-Mobile’s website exposed customer data. The US Postal Service API vulnerability exposed personal information of 60 million users of its online service. The fact you cannot place agents on every application server, and you cannot trust network architecture to funnel all APIs through a single gateway, means we need a new approach. We built Noname to give enterprises complete visibility into all APIs in their environment without requiring an agent or relying on API gateways. We can stop APIs from compromising corporate assets, regardless of whether those APIs are managed by IT or not."
"Noname's holistic solution to API security is spot on. The breadth and depth of insights provided while being so easy to deploy is magic," said Joseph Tso, a leading banking CISO.
Founded in 2020, and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an office in Tel Aviv, the Noname team is composed of top engineering talent from Israel and experienced Silicon Valley technology leaders. Noname CEO and co-founder Oz Golan was Director of Engineering at NSO. He served with co-founder and CTO Shay Levi in the selective Unit 8200 of the Israeli Defense Forces, whose alumni also founded Check Point, Waze (acquired by Google) and Palo Alto Networks.
Gili Raanan, Cyberstarts founder, was the first to partner with Noname, while Guru Chahal, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Thomas Krane, Principal at Insight Partners, joined to close the Series A round.
"The exponential growth of APIs introduces risk that most enterprises are not prepared to handle," said Gili Raanan of Cyberstarts. "Oz and Shay's strong vision combined with their decision to blend top Israeli engineering talent with sales and marketing executives from Cylance, Armis and NSO set them up for success."
"Noname presents a big opportunity to help enterprises navigate the uncharted territory of APIs in their environment," said Guru Chahal of Lightspeed Venture Partners. "We were impressed with how the team has really listened to their customers to deliver what businesses need. Customers especially liked the on-click frictionless deployment for API discovery and stopping unauthorized access to their applications."
"Our investment in Noname represents Insight’s commitment to partnering with the next generation of Israeli software ScaleUps," said Thomas Krane, Principal at Insight Partners. "Noname’s pure-play API security platform delivers on the long-awaited hope for true runtime application security and will enable enterprises to continue their digital transformation without sacrificing security. We are thrilled to partner with Oz, Shay, and the rest of the team to bring the Noname product to the global enterprise community."
To learn more about Noname visit: www.nonamesecurity.com
(*) Gartner, API Security: What You Need to Do to Protect Your APIs, Mark O’Neill, Dionisio Zumerle, et al., 28 August 2019.
About Noname Security
Noname Security eliminates API security blind spots and protects enterprises from data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse and data corruption with no agents and no network modifications. Fortune 500 companies trust Noname's holistic API security platform to see and secure their APIs. Noname is a privately held company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an office in Tel Aviv. www.nonamesecurity.com
About Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, and Health sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 400 companies globally, including Snap, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, OYO, Guardant, StitchFix, and GrubHub. Lightspeed and its affiliates currently manage $10.5B across the global Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, China, Southeast Asia and Europe. www.lsvp.com
About Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners has invested in more than 400 companies worldwide and has raised through a series of funds more than $30 billion in capital commitments. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Across its people and its portfolio, Insight encourages a culture around a belief that ScaleUp companies and growth create opportunity for all. www.insightpartners.com
About Cyberstarts
Cyberstarts is a venture capital firm focused on cybersecurity and is backed by successful cybersecurity entrepreneurs. Cyberstarts is a leading platform for amazing teams of entrepreneurs solving the next big pain points in the cybersecurity world. Cyberstarts founder, Gili Raanan, was the first investor in cybersecurity-focused companies like Armis, Adallom, Axis and Fireblocks. www.cyberstarts.com
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Avengers Defenders War TP New Ptg
They are the Earth's Mightiest Heroes and greatest Defenders. They have thwarted the attacks of aliens, monsters and even gods. But now, they face their greatest foe: each other! Loki, the Avengers' first and greatest enemy, has teamed with Dormammu, Master of the Dark Arts, to rebuild the shattered Evil Eye -- enabling the Dark Dimension to expand until it finally is able to swallow the Earth and rid the evil pair of their enemies ... forever! But trust between enemies is rare. And soon, each has recruited his former foes as allies. As the Avengers attempt to devise a way to stop the Defenders from succeeding in Dormammu's quest, the Defenders accuse the Avengers of acting under the control of Loki. What follows is a battle between two of comics' most popular super-hero teams! Witness the super-powered match-ups of: Hawkeye vs. Iron Man, Namor vs. Captain America, Hulk vs. Thor, Silver Surfer vs. Vision and Scarlet Witch! COLLECTING Avengers (1963) #115-118, Defenders (1972) #8-11. Rated T
Black Widow Marvel Team-Up TP
(W) Chris Claremont, More (A) Bob Brown, More (CA) Al Milgrom The world's greatest superspy in her finest team-ups! First, the terror group Sword of Judgment threatens the end of the world - unless Natasha Romanoff and the Thing can stop them! Then, Spider-Man and the Widow form an arachnid double act to take on the Silver Samurai! But when they meet again, why does Natasha think she's a teacher named Nancy Rushman?! Maybe Nick Fury and Shang-Chi can help unravel the mystery of the Widow's double life! Plus: When a young man is wrongfully accused, Natasha must cross paths with old flame Daredevil. And it's all-out action when the Black Widow teams up with Silver Sable and Darkstar! Collecting MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (1974) #10; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #57, #82-85, #98 and #140-141; and material from MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #53, #70 and #93. Rated T
MMW Daredevil HC Vol 12
(W) Marv Wolfman & Various (A) Bob Brown, Gene Colan (CA) Rich Buckler The Man Without Fear's life is about to change forever. Bullseye is coming. The countdown begins when Daredevil, Black Widow and Nick Fury unite to battle a renewed Hydra. In the aftermath, Black Widow leaves and a new love interest, Heather Glenn, enters, but Matt Murdock's growing obsession with his life as Daredevil puts their budding relationship at risk. The drama continues with Death-Stalker, the Torpedo, a destructive day in court for Man-Bull and the opening of Murdock and Nelson's storefront law practice. Last, but certainly not least: Marv Wolfman, Bob Brown and iconic Daredevil inker/finisher Klaus Janson unleash one of comics' most iconic adversaries. It's the first appearance of Bullseye, the madman with perfect aim and no mercy.Collecting DAREDEVIL (1964) #120-132 and material from F.O.O.M. (1973) #13.
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This is the closest thing to xscreensaver porn that I've seen:
Annuit Coeptis:
Filthy, filthy polyhedra:
Tags: comics, mpegs, perversions, xscreensaver
The Internet is leaking again
Are we on a 5 year meme-to-mural cycle? Or has it tightened to 4?
Tags: art, billboard, firstperson, photography, sf
Light is really slow.
Riding Light:
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective.
I've taken liberties with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually "sees" or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall I've kept the size and distances of all the objects as accurate as possible. I also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter as I wanted to keep the running length below an hour.
Previously, previously, previously, previously.
Tags: mpegs, space
< Messages
I played a game at Maker Faire where I tried to identify the exact second that builders began tuning me out as I tried to sell them on the idea of entering the Cocktail Robotics competition.
Was it when they realized it wasn't in a South Bay parking lot at 1pm?
Most of the eyes-glazing-over occurred when I mentioned it was at an actual venue.
Oh, one guy mentioned that there's a robot builders meeting happening at Google campus on Wednesday. I gave him a dozen flyers, and he said he would try to hand them off, but I'd wager they just ended up in the trash when I left.
So full of "why the fuck do I even bother" right now.
So look, if you think you might be attending some event where people who build robots might be interested in entering our goofy little contest, and you think they might be people who don't all think that "trying" is so 2010, I'd love to give you a stack of flyers and posters to take with you.
Tags: dnalounge, doomed, firstperson, robots, sf
GOOGLY THE PLANET
Tags: dnalounge, firstperson, music, photography, sf
XScreenSaver 5.35
XScreenSaver 5.35 is out now!
Yup, this is the first release with a pre-built Android application. Note: it's flaky. Consider the Android port an early beta. About 2/3rds of the savers are included, and not all of them are working properly. But more on that in a minute.
This is a pretty long post. I guess I don't usually talk much about the process that goes into xscreensaver, so, why not. I'm pretty proud of this release so there's kind of a lot to say. It's a big one, because xscreensaver tends to get a lot of attention when my business is doing badly. So my misery is your gain.
First, the new screenhacks:
RaverHoop: It may surprise you to learn that I spend a lot of time at DNA Lounge. Over the last few years we've had quite a few more "rave"-like parties, and those always attract the fuzzy-boots crowd with their light-up hula hoops. When I'm hanging out at the bar watching people goofing around with toys that make blinky persistence-of-vision vapor trails, one of the things my brain does is try to figure out the motion model necessary to simulate it. "I can replace you with a screen saver" is something nobody wants to hear but it's where the brainmeats go. Well that one percolated for a couple of years, and then I finally got it mentally worked out, and wrote it in about half a day. I cracked it when I stopped thinking about inverse kinematics and just came up with a set of simple chained oscillators that kinda matched the physical reality (the term of art for this is "cheating").
That's one of my longest ratios between those two ends of the process, I think. The cool insight I had in this one was the way I manage the decaying after-images as a particle system. I use the traditional GL matrix manipulations to rotate and translate the disk, driven by those randomized oscillators, but then I don't actually render anything while I'm down that matrix stack! Instead I just reverse the matrix to convert the resultant points back to world coordinates and put them on a stack where they decay away. The actual rendering takes place back at the top level. So basically I'm using GL as a matrix library, but then not actually drawing with it. I thought that was neat.
DymaxionMap came together pretty easily too; matching up the triangles with the texture coordinates was the hard part. I admit that there are some magic constants in the unfolding code. I cheated and eyeballed a few things instead of doing it in pure trig. I really enjoy how it stellates out into an object closer to a sphere. The one thing that I'm disappointed in, though, is that I had to use a Dymaxion-shaped texture map for it, instead of starting with a Mercator projection. I'd like to change it so generate the Dymaxion texture on the fly from the same texture that GLPlanet uses, because then (by regenerating the texture a few times a second) I could combine the day and night maps and show where the terminator would be, and show its progression. That would look incredibly freaky when it was folded out flat. But the function F(x,y) that converts Dymaxion Cartesian coordinates to Mercator latitude and longitude... that's a really complicated function, that is.
So I kept having this conversation. "What's up?" "Well, I wrote a thing. Look." And I show them my phone running DymaxionMap, and they say, "Wow, that's freaky!" And I ask, "Do you recognize it?", and they say "No." And I ask, "Do you know who Buckminster Fuller was?" "No." (They always say no. Nobody knows who he was.) "Well, he was this brilliant and kooky mathematician and engineer who invented all of these amazing things, with this very sincere social agenda behind them all, like, he invented the geodesic dome and tensegrity structures and it was with the explicit goal of making inexpensive prefab housing to make homelessness impossible. And this map -- which distorts the relative size of the land masses less than most other projections -- whose political goal was to make everyone realize that all the contintents are more or less connected, and that north and south are political constructs, and it's really one big island that we're all stuck on together. But he was a huge proto-hippie and it wasn't convenient or familiar and nobody cared. So he had these huge ideas, invented all of these incredible things, almost none of which ever actually became relevant or important. He died a fairly tragic figure like, I dunno, Tesla, except that we actually use AC current, and nobody uses a geodesic dome outside of god damned Burning Man, and everything he devoted his life to kind of came to nothing. And then it occurs to me that maybe I'm not talking about Buckminster Fuller at all any more and I get another drink. So. I hope you like the screen saver.
Hydrostat: I ported some Javascript code for this one, and spiced it up by sprinkling more 3D on it. Well, 2½D, more like. When you run it on your phone, pick one of them up and drag it. Spin it in a circle really fast to make it dizzy. They love that.
About that Android port: Let me remind you of the layers of software archaeology going on here:
I started writing XScreenSaver in 1991, using the then-relevant vintage-1985 X11 API. A couple years later, I added the first 3D hacks, targetting the vintage-1992 OpenGL API.
When porting XScreenSaver to other platforms, my goal is to keep a single code base that compiles for multiple platforms. That is, I don't want to end up with two different files that implement "Decayscreen" using different APIs or different languages.
So when I ported it to MacOS, I did that by implementing most of X11 in terms of Cocoa.
That was, you know, kind of a lot of work.
Then I wanted to port it to iOS. Well, iOS supports something kind of like Cocoa, so I got to re-use a lot of that work, but it doesn't have OpenGL, it has OpenGLES instead -- which, despite the similar name, doesn't have much in common with its namesake. Which is incredibly stupid. I talked about that at length here.
So I implemented most of OpenGL in terms of OpenGLES.
So then Dennis made a first pass at porting XScreenSaver to Android. Now, Android really, really wants you to write your programs in Java. But, there is a "native interface" where Java code can call out to C code. It's a hairy, finicky pain in the ass. So he got a chunk of the xscreensaver C code to compile on Android (cross-compiling for like 16 different architectures, since the Android ecosystem is so amazingly fragmented). He was able to use my OpenGLES implementation of OpenGL to get some of the hacks up and running. (The interface between C and Java is completely maniacal. Transferring objects between the two languages is incredibly verbose, and extremely persnickety about object lifetimes, what's running in what thread, and exceptions. I recommend avoiding JNI if at all possible.)
So then Dave took a crack at getting the X11 hacks working. Instead of doing what I had done the first time and implementing X11 in terms of android.graphics.Canvas or something, he decided to start implementing X11 in terms of OpenGL... Which is altogether a more portable and reasonable idea, and some day we might end up replacing the Cocoa implementation with the OpenGL implementation. But it's not quite complete or up to speed yet.
This is so many layers it's almost like we've built a stack of emulators to run these old programs.
For me this is yet another exercise in "writing programs for hardware you don't own", since I don't have an Android device. That's because I think the Android mobile UI is just monumentally shitty, and I would never inflict that kind of pain on myself in my daily life. I need an appliance that works, not one whose UI feels like it was designed by Linux kernel hackers -- which, in fact, it was. Plus it has all of the security you've come to expect from desktop Linux -- "Oh, I'm sorry Sir, I didn't realize you were root." Pre-jailborken for your botnet and surveillance convenience! I have a lot of issues with Apple and their lock-everything-down gatekeeper business practices, but... "Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos."
Anyway. It's been a long-assed time since I've written any Java code, and man, it was kind of like slipping into a warm bath. Just so mellow and pleasant. I said this in conversation the other day and my friend said, "What, even after your Java rant?" And I said, "Remember that that thing began with, 'It's is the best language going out of the set bagbiting loser languages that we have to work with!'" He said, "How do you remember the exact words you wrote two decades ago?"
That's what I do, I drink and I remember things. Anyway, probably all of those complaints are still true, and I still think it's dumb that they force you to wed your class hierarchy to your directory hierarchy, but it's all just so easy in Java. I think I enjoy Objective C more, though. Objective C just feels more honest about what it is. It's C with a pretty decent Smalltalk sheen on top (but shitty memory safety), whereas Java is really trying to be a Lisp but it is overall a swing and a miss.
I do think it's kind of awesome, though, that my team totally won and these days basically all languages have the Lambda Nature. Remember when I used to have to argue with people about how garbage collection was a good idea, bounds checking was a good idea, intrinsic types were a good idea, and everyone disagreed, I mean, you had to actually argue with people about that, but now every language has garbage collection, bounds checking and intrinsic types? Ha ha, screw you guys.
Hey, pop quiz! Which of these languages is the best Lisp dialect?
The answer, of course, is Perl, because it's the only one of those languages that has both lexical closures and first class anonymous functions. And how sad is that?
And -- yes -- Dear Debian, please stop shipping xscreensaver.
As for the rest of you, I hope you enjoy them!
Tags: computers, dnalounge, firstperson, linux, lisp, mac, maps, phones, security, toys, xscreensaver
Hyper-Reality
Tags: corporations, doomed, movies, mpegs, the future
Painting a digital clock in realtime
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
Tags: art, mpegs, toys
Will HOORAY For Food.
Tags: firstperson, photography
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Kaci and the World.
Hello. Guten Tag. 你好。
Extreme Wilderness Hiking in Libo
I like to consider myself as a person who has taken the "road less traveled." I have made it my mission to explore places far away from home, to understand cultures once foreign to me, to communicate with people in languages that are not my native tongue. This is especially true in my new job, where I will be helping to pave the way for American outdoor leisure companies to expand to China (and in the process, teach Chinese people how to enjoy the great outdoors while preserving the environment).
But rarely do I get the chance to literally blaze my own trail, spastically waving a piece of dead bamboo in front of me to destroy any spider webs in my path. So thank you, Big Mountain, for giving me such an opportunity.
Libo is a place of dazzling beauty, surrounded by mountainous "karst" formations that make even those who are only mildly enthusiastic about hiking (cough cough, me) feel the need to climb something. The national park has already been somewhat developed, so much of my trip was spent looking at (and participating in) the various activities offered (rowing a boat, touring a cave, taking a leisurely stroll through a swamp) and working with architects to brainstorm ways to make these activities more enticing to tourists.
One of the more popular locations in the park is the Waterfall Forest, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Though rather slippery and unkempt in some spots, there was indeed a path to follow on the hike:
Little did we know, however, that the Waterfall Forest was a mere warm-up to the main event: the Feral Pig Bamboo Forest. (Feral pig is their translation of "Wild Boar," which has a slightly better ring to it.) Big Mountain showed off his knowledge of his namesake and took us quite a ways off any sort of beaten path in an attempt to show us the entrance to a cave where he wants to offer ziplining. We never made it to the cave, but we did see a lot of bamboo. Luckily, the feral pigs were nowhere to be found.
It's not quite clear from the pictures how much we were forced to use our hands as well as our feet on this hike. My chief concern was that one of us would twist an ankle and have to be somehow carried out (the hike went from the parking lot down a series of mossy old stairs, through the bamboo forest, into a riverbed, up a steep slope of mud, and to another riverbed, this one with water in it, which is where we chose to turn back.).
Big Mountain, who is a world-renown photographer in his spare time (no joke, he works for National Geographic), taking a picture of some mushrooms:
Tim lends Tai a hand crossing the second riverbed (which was larger than it looks like in this picture, and also where we decided to turn back):
Action shot:
Stop to smell the roses? Please, this is China. Stop to use your cell phone is more like it. Hey, at least there was service! Not bad!
Now that it's all said and done, and all of our ankles made it out of the forest intact, I can safely say that this hike was one of the best parts of my trip to Libo.
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Found your site through Weebly and wanted to say hi
Hello, my name is Kaci. My parents have a hard time keeping me at home.
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Facebook Launches Instagram Reels, Hoping To Lure TikTok Users
By Shannon Bond
Published August 5, 2020 at 12:32 PM CDT
Facebook's new Reels feature on Instagram allows users to create and share short videos, similar to TikTok.
Facebook has launched its answer to TikTok, the wildly popular video-sharing app that the Trump administration considers a national security threat.
Reels is a new feature on Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook. Like TikTok, users can make short videos set to music, add filters and other effects, and easily share them.
The launch comes as TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is under increased pressure from Washington. President Trump said on Monday that ByteDance must sell TikTok's U.S. business by Sept. 15 or shut it down entirely. Microsoft Corp. is among the potential buyers exploring a bid for the app's U.S. operations.
Facebook has been testing Reels in Brazil for months and is now rolling it out in the U.S and dozens of other markets, including India, where TikTok was recently banned. It's the second time the company has tried to take on TikTok; Facebook shut down a previous attempt, Lasso, in July.
The launch also comes as regulators are examining whether Facebook and other Big Tech companies use their scale and dominance to disadvantage their rivals unfairly.
Reels is the latest in a long line of Facebook products and features that closely resemble other companies' successful services. That includes Stories, similar to Snapchat's Stories, which disappear after 24 hours, and Messenger Rooms, a video-call competitor to Zoom that also incorporates elements of the popular video app Houseparty.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was pressed about that strategy last week at a congressional hearing examining the power of Big Tech. Asked by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., if he copies competitors, Zuckerberg said Facebook, like other companies, has "adapted features that others have led in."
Ahead of the hearing, TikTok's CEO attacked Facebook for launching a "copycat product" and accused the social media giant of trying to put it out of business.
Facebook is the world's largest social network, with more than 3 billion people using one of its apps monthly, but TikTok has emerged in the past few years as the trendiest new social media platform for teens and millennials.
Editor's note: Facebook is among NPR's financial supporters. TikTok helps fund NPR content that appears on the social media platform.
Shannon Bond is a business correspondent at NPR, covering technology and how Silicon Valley's biggest companies are transforming how we live, work and communicate.
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(AUCTION CATALOGUE: BULTEAU).
Bibliotheca Bultelliana: seu Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae...Caroli Bulteau, Regi a consiliis & Secretariorum Regiorum decani. Digestus & descriptus à Gabriele Martin…cum Indice Authorum alphabetico.
Engraved arms on title. 5 p.l., xxxvi, 499 pp.; 1 p.l., [501]-1035, [78] pp. Two parts in two vols. 12mo, later 18th-cent. speckled boards, cont. paper labels on spines, entirely uncut. Paris: P. Geffart & G. Martin, 1711.
Charles Bulteau (ca. 1630-1710), historian and the King’s secretary, took over the library of his brother Louis when Louis entered the Benedictine order. Charles greatly increased the collection and, upon his death, left a library of about 10,000 works. This is one of the most important and extensive catalogues compiled by Gabriel Martin and the first of 22 for which he made an index. Martin refined his system of arrangement, first used in the Bibliotheca Bigotiana (1706), for this catalogue. 8819 lots, including MSS.
A remarkable uncut set from the H.P. Kraus reference library with bookplate.
❧ Blogie col. 2. Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions…1643-1830, 18. Peignot, p. 85. Pollard & Ehrman no. 268 & p. 241–“The Bulteau library catalogue by Gabriel Martin has a note at the end saying that it was printed off before 5 September 1711, and that to conform with the new edict certain books have been taken out of the library and should not form part of the catalogue.” Taylor, Book Catalogues, pp. 114, 157, & 235.
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More than 80 babies vaccinated against measles after exposure by sick father
Mayanei HaYeshua hospital decided to vaccinate 24 premature babies and 60 babies who were in the adjacent hospital.
By CASSANDRA GOMES-HOCHBERG
A vial of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and an information sheet is seen at a hospital
(photo credit: REUTERS/BRIAN SNYDER)
More than 80 premature and newborn babies were vaccinated against measles following the exposure by a sick person who visited the Mayanei Hayeshua hospital in Bnei Brak on Thursday, Israel Hayom reported.
A father, who felt ill and did not report his conditions to the nurses, insisted on visiting his premature son. After checking the symptoms of his illness, he was diagnosed with measles.
Measles vaccine is given only from the age one. Premature and newborn babies were not vaccinated with the regular vaccine, but with a passive immunization.
"From now on, we will also guard the entry of adults and also hang signs around the hospital that ask visitors with fever or bloating not to enter the hospital," said Prof. Motti Ravid, the director of the hospital to Israel Hayom.
"This is a wild and inconsiderate act," he added.
According to the Health Ministry, there were 948 measles cases in October and 893 cases in November. As of the last week of December, there had been 194 cases.
The Health Ministry reported in the middle of 2018, that 90% of the cases in Israel were either people who had not been vaccinated, or who came into contact with unvaccinated people.
Uri Bollag contributed to this report.
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The Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund is a UK registered charity that provides support to students of architecture who wish to enter the architectural lighting design profession
Thanks to Simon at SwearingDad Design
We would like to extend our gratitude and thanks to Simon Watson at SwearingDad Design, who designed and looks after our fabulous website. Given the current global pandemic, he has very generously absorbed a number of the annual charges typical of running a website. We truly appreciate all he does for the charity, both in a typical year and especially so at the moment – thank you Simon!
Winners announced for 2019/20 Scholarship
The Trustees of The Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund are delighted to announce that, following the extremely high standard of entries this year, they have selected two winners for the 2019/2020 award, with an additional two students receiving commendations. The winners for this year are Stella Destephanis Murray who is studying at Penn State University, USA and Krina Christopolou from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.
Commendations were awarded to Sydney Nguyen of California Polytechnic State University and Meryem Ozmen of Northumbria University.
You can read more about the winners and commendations on the Scholars page. Congratulations to all the recipients!
Thanks to RSHP Charitable Foundation
Huge thanks to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Charitable Foundation who recently donated £1,000 to the Scholarship Fund. This is on top of previous donations in other years. Special thanks to RSHP Managing Director Avtar Lotay who nominated JSSF for the donation. Your support is most appreciated!
Joint Winners Announced for 2018/19 Award
The Trustees of The Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund are delighted to announce two winners for the 2018/2019 award. The recipients selected this year are Apoorva Jalindre of the University of Michigan and Merethe Granhus of London Metropolitan University.
This year presented another excellent shortlist culminating in the selection of two outstanding scholars with completely different approaches, but with a clear understanding of light as not just a medium by which to visualise but also using it as a tool to enhance the experience of the viewer. Both scholars presented projects that have a social element we enjoyed discussing. Merethe presented a project that uses virtual reality to tell a story from the remains of a whale which becomes the centrepiece of a Museum in Milazzo, Sicily. She plans to complete the project in reality for others to experience. Apoorva’s approach is about well-being and the benefits of careful lighting design in creating a healthier environment. She is planning to use her research in a Living & Learning centre which helps autistic children. Both are worthy and responsible projects which we are happy to encourage with the aid of the Scholarship.
Congratulations Apoorva and Merethe!
The Trustees of the Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund are delighted to announce this year there are two winners of the 2016/17 award: Eleanor Connolly of the Royal College of Art, London and Martyna Marciniak of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Chairman John Roake met with them last week to present them with their medals.
While the two winning scholars showed strengths in different areas, they both conveyed equally high levels of passion and creativity and showed a clear understanding of the importance of light in architectural design. They were also keen to explore the influence of light on human perception and emotion.
Eleanor will be using the scholarship to complete her thesis and bring some of her ideas to reality, in collaboration with the Grymsdyke Farm – a research facility, workshop and living space for creatives. Martyna plans to use the scholarship to fund the required models and prototypes for her final architectural projects as part of her studies, and subsequently to subsidise a period of internship at a firm in the lighting industry.
Congratulations Eleanor and Martyna!
CHAIRMAN’S COMMENT
“This summer we mark the fifth year since Jonathan Speirs’ passing. We promised that his legacy would be continued through the JSSF and we are very appreciative of the support from family, friends, colleagues and companies that continue to support the Fund each year.
The Trustees discussed at some length the strengths of the nominations received this year. There were two exceptional and worthy candidates who stood out and, after further discussion and research, we reached the decision to award not one, but two awards this year.
We are therefore very pleased to announce the winners as Eleanor Connolly of the Royal College of Art, London, and Martyna Marciniak of the Bartlett School or Architecture, University College London. I have met both scholars and have seen two talented, very dedicated and ambitious students who in different ways have shown a passion and understanding of light and how it can enrich architecture and people’s lives.
The additional award this year was only made possible by an extremely generous donation from Lucifer Lighting. This was alongside the contribution they made in their role of ‘Benefactor’. We are also extremely grateful as ever to all our Benefactors, Sponsors, Contributors and Supporters who regularly make donations to the fund.
We now have a small and international community of five scholars at the beginning of their careers who we hope with the help of the JSSF will go on to great things – which was always our ambition. These are the beneficiaries of the Scholarship but we also want to encourage the other candidates in their endeavours and studies as the quality of submissions have been diverse, interesting and stimulating to critique.
We congratulate Eleanor and Martyna as well as their Tutors and Schools.”
John Roake / Chairman / May 2017
2017 Scholar Update
As we prepare to award the 2016/17 Jonathan Speirs Scholarship, we look back at our previous scholars to see what they have been up to over the past year.
Charlotte Eley, Scholar 2015/16
Last year’s scholar, Charlotte Eley, graduated from the University of Sheffield shortly after receiving her award, and, after a short summer internship with Speirs + Major in London, she found a full-time position at Hawkins Brown Architects in Manchester. She has already organised a CPD talk about the physics and psychology of lighting, and is keen to continue her research into the social aspects of lighting which she focused on during university.
Cashel F. L. Brown, Scholar 2014/15
Cashel Brown was awarded the scholarship in 2014/15. He has recently taken up a position at Lighting Design International and is looking forward to the new projects and challenges he will come across there. Cashel will be speaking at PLDC in November where he will present his research into lighting festivals and events that commenced with his university dissertation.
Alex Stewart, Scholar 2013/14
Our first scholar, Alex Stewart, is still busy juggling work at Bernheimer Architecture in New York with being a part-time faculty member at his alma mater, Parsons The New School for Design. He continues to work with and be inspired by light in both personal and professional projects.
We have been very fortunate in the talent and potential of our three outstanding scholars so far, and look forward to getting to know future scholarship winners and supporting them in their passion for light.
Applications in for 2016/17!
We are pleased to announce the next batch of student applications for our 2016/17 award have been received. The Trustees are looking forward to reviewing these over the next few weeks, speaking to the shortlisted candidates and selecting a well-deserved winner. Stay tuned!
Thank you Lucifer Lighting!
A massive thank you goes out to Suzanne and Gilbert Mathews of Lucifer Lighting who have just donated US$15,000! Their generosity and continued support is hugely appreciated. Thank you!
Cashel speaks at third Jonathan Speirs Memorial Lecture
Our second scholar, Cashel, has spoken at the third annual Jonathan Speirs Memorial Lecture as organised by the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL). Cashel was introduced by trustee David Speirs, who also gave an update on JSSF. Cashel spoke about the scholarship, his passion for light and what inspires him as a lighting designer. The lecture also featured Malcolm Innes, senior lecturer at Edinburgh’s Napier University, and was held at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.
Thanks to Knight Architects
Huge thanks go to Knight Architects who have recently signed up as Sponsors of the Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund. All the support from our Friends is much appreciated and goes towards funding brilliant students of architecture to pursue their passion for lighting.
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Football wages have to be controlled before it kills the sport
By Admin Martin - 23 April 2020, 16:15
One thing that the coronavirus pandemic has taught us is that football wages are getting out of hand and it has to be controlled now before it destroys the game.
Teams like Arsenal and Liverpool get ridiculed for not being able to pay high wages to their players, but this tough time has shown that being reasonable when offering wages is the wise thing to do.
Today players don’t always justify why they earn so much and the nature of football contracts leave the clubs in a position where they have no choice but to pay the agreed wages.
The clubs are at the mercy of the players in times like this that they are struggling to pay them even though they are not even playing for the team.
I suggest that the world’s football governing body comes together and impose a salary cap and a cap on transfer fees.
This wouldn’t make any sense, especially to the players who would want their earnings to be unlimited.
However, the clubs have to fight for some sanity to be brought back to players’ earnings, otherwise, clubs will run out of business because they are paying more money in wages than they are bringing in through earnings.
Obviously there are rules, especially within the European Union where salary caps are very difficult to impose, however, if this pandemic has taught us one thing, it is if there is a necessity then rules will be changed and considering the financial catastrophe coming down the line I am expecting change on a significant basis.
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SueP says:
The problem is that this virus has shown the way football clubs have been run until now, paying players a ridiculous percentage of their income, is not sustainable. There are many guilty parties having jumped on the football gravy train have lined their pockets and in the process have allowed a small group of society to have riches that are completely out of context to virtually anybody else. Even mega rich business men & women didn’t start off on millions a year. Financial success usually takes time but not in the world of a PL player where the rewards are given to the young who haven’t had enough life experiences to understand or appreciate what they have. Many end up with all sorts of mental health issues, spend money recklessly, have gambling problems for example.
I’d love to see a ceiling on salaries but I’m afraid I’m not sure the will is there as long as tv money rolls in.
What a sensible post Sue P. My post below will be in similar vein!
I have been longing for decades now for a major change in attitudes towards these obscene salaries, as it has been very clear that football is well on the road, to moral and financial bankruptcy. It is true, as Martin states, that most, even almost all players, will fight tooth and nail to bitterly resist wage cuts but since this pandemic has finally brought REAL HUMAN VALUES, back in the world spotlight, the greedy players and their parasitic agents will now also be fighting the doughty court of public opinion, which is WHY I am very hopeful that we now have a way out of this road to nowhere.
In the end ,if we do not lawfully limit the endless upwards direction of wages and also transfer fees, football will fall apart. There can be no serious doubt, even if some (though not me)had doubt before this virus struck . The simple facts are that from now onwards football will be fighting just to stand stil and almost all clubs worldwide, cannot afford to finance wages as they stand today. Consequently, wage cuts for all clubs is on the agenda and I need not remind Gooners how much our OWN players have fought it before finally agreeing to a minor and far too small cut. And WE are the first to implement them in our Prem, so the others are even more immoral than our players.
Many fans, going entirely from comments on this site, blame the clubs for offering obscene wages and not the players for accepting them. I blame BOTH sides equally and the immorality of such as Kroenke, Abramovitch , Sheikh Mansoor and that ilk is also disgusting and evil.
What has become clear to many fans and most decent people worldwide – and remember the majority care nothing for pro football at all – is that things have to massively change and that new moral attitudes MUST prevail.
Happily, I see this as a certainty, over time, albeit in gradual stages. I firmly belive that even FIFA and UEFA , in order to protect the sport they run, will be FORCED to bring in new rules concerning wages and also transfer fees , which will impose limits, though that will be of necessity a long and tortuous process and will involve court battles by players, agents but probably NOT by clubs.
In the end, the court of public opinion will help change even European laws of the land and I predict the players wil be left stranded to either accept this reality or be unemployed in football.
MANY OF THOSE PLAYERS WILL STILL BE TOO DULL WITTED TO SEE THAT THIS VITAL AND NECESSARY STEP WILL BE THEIR OWN (CAREER) SAVIOUR, AS WELL AS OURS. But who cares about their feelings? Not me! They have needed bringing into the real world for decades and now , at long last, we are on the edge of the long process that WILL vastly change things for the better.
I think what this enforced layoff and financial fallout to this pandemic has done is made everybody ( as Jon Fox has said a lot of us realised this anyway ) aware that even a weekly wage of £100,000, let alone £300,000, to a man who earns maybe £30,000 a YEAR, is totally obscene. As for the transfer stories going around that clubs are ready to pay 50 million to 100 million for players once we get back to normal are frankly absurd.
Indeed Marty
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Cant add any more to the very good posts by Sue, Jon and Marty. I for one will be giving less to the football bubble that is taking its dirty attitude to even greater levels during this time. The greed is disgusting and i for one will not be fuelling it like i have done in the past. I will not be greasing the dirty palms of the footballing world, unless i see a massive change which should be forth coming but i doubt it. Its a system where the rich are getting richer and the rest are not, that isn’t sport.
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Very well said gentlemen.
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IoT botnets are on the rise and 5G isn’t helping anything
Botnets are more common and coming in more diverse strains than ever before
The detection of IoT botnets is at an all-time high and the number of varieties is also steadily rising - two trends that are showing no signs of slowing down.
That's according to Kevin McNamee, director of threat intelligence at Nokia who added that the advent of 5G 'creates more problems than it solves'.
Referencing figures from Nokia's 2019 Threat Intelligence Report, McNamee said the telecoms giant observed 78% of botnets carried active malware, 35% of which shared similarities in either code or attack methodology with 2016's Mirai.
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The hugely successful Mirai botnet in 2016 which was responsible for one of the biggest DDoS attacks in history, has inspired a wide portfolio of newer iterations that are pervasively proliferating.
Satori and Reaper botnets are examples of the more malicious variants which succeeded Mirai, while Hajime copied Mirai's attack methodology to plug the vulnerabilities its malicious predecessor exploited in the first place - a bot for good.
Researchers at Unit 42 announced in March that they had discovered another new variant of Mirai that had an updated attack methodology, a wider-reaching attack surface which specifically targeted enterprise IoT devices.
Any device that's visible on the open internet right now can be targeted by an IoT botnet and if it has a vulnerability as well, then it will be hacked within minutes, said McNamee, and the advent of 5G complicates things further.
While the next generation of mobile networking has its cyber security advantages, such as network slicing, it also presents issues that could exacerbate the already growing botnet bother.
"Now with 5G, we're going to be moving to much more devices, bigger networks, higher bandwidth and probably the carriers are going to make decisions around what IP addresses to use and likely they'll use IPv6 addresses [rather than the current IPv4 ones]," said McNamee. "So there is the potential to make the wrong decisions that you're opening up the attack surface by making those devices visible."
He also noted that due to more IoT devices becoming potentially visible, it means that bots can recruit more devices through which it can launch offensives like DDoS attacks. These can then become far more damaging than before due to the larger bandwidth that 5G affords.
"More IoT devices means bigger botnets," he said. "So nowadays, when you see a botnet of 100,000 bots, think five years down the road, [we could see] a botnet of 1 million, 2 million or 10 million bots."
In addition, the ability for a 5G network to be 'sliced' or segmented by the carrier might also present problems that it otherwise intends to solve.
Network slicing is emblematic of classic cyber security best practice: segmenting different parts of a network so attackers can't move across the whole company. Alongside the more inherently secure and encrypted 5G control plane, the slicing capability gives businesses an added layer of network security and a way of mitigating the negative possibilities of attacks exploiting higher bandwidths.
However, segmenting the network can also make an attacker's job easier by signposting where the information they want resides. It's like the context page of a textbook indicating the page of a topic but also the pages on which you can easily find different sub-topics.
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Jack's Country Store > Hearth & Home > Stormy Kromer Caps > Ida Kromer Hat, Soft Pink
Ida Kromer Hat, Soft Pink
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Since there's no better way to keep all that sense in operating order than to keep it warm, we figured it was high time we introduced the exceedingly stylish Ida Kromer hat. Featuring a shorter brimmed feminine cut and premium quality pre-shrunk wool. It's every bit as rugged and durable as the Original Stormy Kromer caps, but just seems a little sweeter when you say, "I told you so." since there's no better way to keep all that sense in operating order than to keep it warm, we figured it was high time we introduced the exceedingly stylish Ida Kromer hat. Featuring a shorter brimmed feminine cut and premium quality pre-shrunk wool. It's every bit as rugged and durable as the Original Stormy Kromer caps, but just seems a little sweeter when you say, "I told you so."American Made - Since 1903.
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The History Behind the Legend of Stormy Kromer
George "Stormy" Kromer was a real guy - a semi-pro baseball player and railroad engineer. Not the kind of guy you'd expect to start a clothing company, in other words, but one who happened to create a cap that became known for long-comfort and the ability to stay snug, even in the fiercest winds.
This final feature, in fact, is the reason he made his famous headgear in the first place, but we'll get to that in a bit.
Mr. Kromer, known as "Stormy" to the folks who knew his temper, was born in 1876 in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. He grew up with baseball and would eventually play on nearly 30 semi-pro teams throughout the Midwest. He might have continued to play that field, too, but he met Ida, and before Ida's father would allow her hand in marriage, our ballplayer needed to find real work.
That meant the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and long, cold trips across the plains. Stormy was an engineer, and to see where he was headed, he had to stick his head out the window - into the wind. Mother Nature stole his cap more than once, and as the story goes, he set out to get her back.
In 1903, he asked Ida (now his wife and an excellent seamstress) to modify an old baseball cap to help keep it on in windy weather. The all-cloth cap with the soft, canvas visor was a departure from the traditional fedoras of the day, but it was more comfortable and because of its six-panel fit, it stayed put.
Soon other railroad workers wanted one of Stormy Kromer's caps for themselves, and when Ida could no longer keep up with demand, they hired a few employees and the business was born.
A lot of things have changed since those first few caps - new colors, new fabrics, new styles - but we haven't changed the way we make 'em. They're hand-stitched right here in the good old U-S-of-A, and they're still made to fit better than anything you've had next to your noggin. Stormy Kromer caps are true to the original, and that means you get all the comfort and function that made them famous.
Wear one, and you'll know what we mean.
Why wool?
No other fabric has such an ability to hold its shape, resist wrinkles and withstand wear, and nothing else is as naturally cozy and breathable. Wool can absorb 30% of its weight in water, but youll never know it. Our products take on a lot of H20 before they feel damp, and with their ability to shed precipitation and evaporate your bodys natural moisture, youll stay comfy all day.
How does the earband work?
You might not need instructions to wear your Stormy Kromer masterpiece, but there is a right way and a wrong way. The right way involved putting the cap on your head, grabbing the earband on both sides and pulling down. Theres no unfolding or flipping of the flaps, and you dont have to take the hat off to use them. Just pull down and settle in. Theyll stay in place without pinching.
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Bond In Motion extended for a further year
The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu is proud to announce that Bond In Motion, the exclusive official exhibition of 50 original James Bond vehicles, will be continuing throughout 2013.
The exhibition, is the largest of its kind staged anywhere in the world and features 50 original vehicles from the James Bond films, including some of the best loved and most iconic.
The exhibition, staged to celebrate 50 years of this enduring film franchise is brought right up to date with four vehicles from the 23rd and latest Bond film SkyFall which premiered last month; the Land Rover Defender 110 and two Honda CRF250R motorcycles that feature in the opening sequence as well as the vehicle most recently added to the exhibition, the Aston Martin DB5.
Beaulieu’s Commercial Director, Stephen Munn said: “Since its opening, Bond In Motion has been an outstanding success, attracting over 400,000 visitors from all over the world. This critically acclaimed exhibition has been a fantastic addition to the National Motor Museum and we are delighted to have the opportunity to extend its run and welcome even more Bond fans throughout 2013.”
Bond In Motion features a whole range of vehicles which have appeared in Bond films over the years including cars, boats, motorbikes, jets and many more. This collection of iconic movie vehicles includes the Phantom lll Rolls-Royce from Goldfinger, the Lotus Esprit S1 affectionately nicknamed ‘Wet Nellie’ from The Spy Who Loved Me, the Bede Acrostar jet famously flown in Octopussy, the original SFX Cello Case Ski famously navigated by Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights the original villain Parahawk featured in The World Is Not Enough and the Aston Martin DBS from Casino Royale.
Bond In Motion will run to 5th January 2014 and can be seen as part of a visit to the whole Beaulieu attraction. Advance tickets, at a special rate, are available to buy online at www.beaulieushop.co.uk.
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House passes FAA reauthorization bill
The House is set to vote Friday on a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that would renew the agency...
Posted: Apr 27, 2018 10:48 AM
Updated: Apr 27, 2018 10:48 AM
The House is set to vote Friday on a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that would renew the agency's funding for another five years.
Besides renewing funding, the legislation also includes provisions directing how disaster program funds are spent, though the measure does not allocate money for those programs.
Because of all the recent disasters and emergency aid packages Congress has passed, a lot of the funding that was allocated still hasn't been spent. The bill would apply to all those still-unspent funds, and any future disaster funds, a Republican aide told CNN.
A total of about $4.35 billion per year would be allocated for the FAA in the legislation. A few major FAA programs would receive funding authorizations. About $3.35 billion per year through 2023 would go to infrastructure, and an additional $1 billion would be authorized for an amendment proposed by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster that would create a report on the agency's Next Generation Air Transportation System to evaluate air traffic control technology.
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The bill has garnered bipartisan support in the House and is expect to pass Friday. After that, a Republican aide to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee told CNN they were looking to have the legislation on the Senate floor in May or June and a long-term reauthorization in place by August.
The legislation was formally introduced in the House last week. It previously included a measure proposed by Shuster that would have privatized air traffic control. That measure was taken out of the legislation after Democrats opposed the idea and it became apparent it wouldn't receive the votes it needed to pass.
"Although our air traffic control reform provisions did not reach the obvious level of support needed to pass Congress, I intend to work with Senator (John) Thune (chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee) and move forward with a reauthorization bill to provide long-term stability for the FAA," Shuster said in a statement at the time.
The Shuster amendment that was included would direct the FAA to report on the agency's Next Generation Air Transportation System to evaluate air traffic control technology and submit the findings to Congress. NextGen, which is a plan to modernize the air transportation system, has been, as a Republican aide described to CNN, costly, delayed, and ill-defined over the years.
"The FAA Reauthorization Act will ensure long-term investment in many of the nation's airports," Shuster said in a statement last week. "The bill will also cut the red tape that can bog down our manufacturers and innovators, and allow them to be more competitive and provide more good-paying American jobs."
The legislation also includes language that urges the FAA to investigate last week's fatal Southwest airplane incident, in which one passenger died after an engine failed on a commercial flight.
House Speaker Paul Ryan touted the FAA bill as one of several items GOP leaders planned to bring up this year to boost the nation's infrastructure.
"For families, this will make air traffic and air travel safer and easier," Ryan said. "For workers, it's going to make the airline industry more competitive, which means more jobs. For communities, we are improving disaster relief so that they're better prepared for hurricanes and wildfires."
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Astronaut recounts harrowing failed space launch
Two minutes into his first trip to space last Thursday, US astronaut Nick Hague found himse...
Updated: Oct 21, 2018 12:04 PM
Two minutes into his first trip to space last Thursday, US astronaut Nick Hague found himself thinking how smoothly the flight was going. "It was everything I expected it to be," he told NASA director Jim Bridenstine at Johnson Space Center on Tuesday.
All was going according to plan. The Kansas native, selected by NASA to be an astronaut in 2013, was finally heading to the International Space Station. Alongside him in the cramped quarters of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft's capsule was Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin.
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They had lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:40 pm local time.
Two minutes into the launch, during the first stage separation, the rocket's boosters are supposed to separate simultaneously and jettison back to Earth. Their job is done.
Then, things didn't go according to plan.
Shortly after launch, there was an anomaly with the booster and the launch ascent was aborted, resulting in a ballistic landing of the spacecraft, according to a NASA statement.
"We were violently shaken side to side, thrust back into our seats as the launch escape system ripped us away from the rocket," Hague said in describing what happened. "As all of that's happening, you're being shaken around, vision is blurry. I hear the alarm sounding and see the red light where the engine has had an emergency. I had the vivid realization we aren't making it to orbit today, we've been pulled off rocket and we have to land."
When the capsule aborted the ascent automatically, it caused some shock for a moment. "I knew we were away from the rocket," Hague recalled. They were in ballistic reentry and descent, a sharper than normal angle of landing.
The astronauts first felt weightlessness and then an excess of G force, or the force of gravity. The interpreter for the Russians said "6.7 Gs." Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted, "On a normal Soyuz entry we pull about 4G, but ballistic yields 8 or 9, depending on angle and speed."
"As it rips us away from the rocket, once those thrusters are done. We're like if you throw a baseball up in the air, it's going to follow this ballistic trajectory," Hague said. "That weightlessness was when we were peaking out and getting ready to fall back down to the Earth."
As the capsule fell back to Earth, it had to slow down so the chutes could open. The aerodynamic drag caused the excessive G forces. Minutes passed and the G force started to "peak up," Hague said.
The worst of it lasted for about 20 seconds, he said. But they had trained for this in the centrifuge, at higher G forces, for longer durations.
But it wasn't like his experience in military aircraft, where the Gs try to pull the blood out of your head. Instead, they were "coming straight at us," he said. They pushed down on his chest. He had learned how to keep his chest open so he could take in a breath of air. Then, he had to keep his muscles flexed and essentially breathe with his stomach, using his abdomen to open the diaphragm in order to keep breathing in and out.
Memories of that moment will be forever burned into Hague's mind he said. "I remember this small piece of debris floating across in front of my face and looking up and seeing our Zero G indicators floating there and realizing, 'This must be what space is going to feel like, but not today.'"
The capsule was still under the nose cone of the rocket. For 30 seconds, they couldn't see outside, anxiously waiting for the cone to separate so they could watch as they plummeted down through Earth's atmosphere.
"Those 30 seconds were the longest of the entire process," Hague said. His mind was full, trying to process what had happened, where they were, if he and his fellow cosmonaut were OK and figure out the state of their vehicle.
Then, the practice kicked in.
Hague and Ovchinin both transitioned from launch procedures to landing, preparing for what to do to get back to ground over the next 15 minutes.
Yet, to listen to them speak on the recording now, they sound calm.
Part of Hague's astronaut training included learning Russian. He can be heard speaking in Russian as Ovchinin communicated what was happening to Russian mission control.
Hague chalks it up to so much time spent training, going through every possible failure scenario -- including one similar to what actually happened. But, he chuckled, "There were a lot of things I probably wanted to say."
"You realize you're in a tough spot, the thing you can do to give yourself the highest chance of success is focus and stay calm and do the things you were trained to do," he added.
After the Gs started to drop off, the astronauts followed standard landing procedure -- which they've practiced hundreds of times.
But they weren't prepared for the physical sensations. Hague had scrawled some notes during training of what to expect. Then, he felt it.
"When the parachute opens, it's five to six Gs of lateral side to side of swinging back and forth," Hague said. "Before the chutes open, we're trying to collect loose items in capsule so they don't become projectiles."
Normally, in anticipation of a landing, rescue forces would be circling in helicopters, giving the astronauts updates on their altitude. Instead, Hague was looking out the window and trying to guess while Ovchinin tried to communicate with rescue forces in order to be extracted.
Then, at the last minute right before touchdown, the rockets ignited to help brace and minimize impact with the ground.
"It is the brute force method of getting back from space," retired astronaut Scott Kelly told CNN in 2016 to describe what it's like to return to earth from the International Space Station. "It's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel but while you're on fire." Hague said that's exactly what it felt like.
Next, Ovchinin acted quickly, cutting the parachute so they wouldn't drag. The crew landed south of the city of Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. The whole ordeal unfolded in about 15 minutes.
"It felt like we bounced two or three times, tumbled and skidded to a stop," Hague said. "It was a rough ride. When we skidded to the stop and I looked out the window, I gave this huge sigh of relief."
A similar landing happened to now-retired astronaut Peggy Whitson during a gut-wrenching, off-target landing in April 2008. She said the Soyuz spacecraft hit the ground so hard it bounced -- although she didn't know it at the time. "From inside the capsule I had no perspective that we actually had bounced, it was just one big hit and a roll," Whitson told CNN at the time.
Hague and Ovchinin were all grins from ear to ear, high-fiving each other and cracking jokes about the short flight.
"We looked each other eye to eye and knew we had survived," Hague said.
The capsule had landed on the hatch that the astronauts are supposed to be able to use to evacuate. They were hanging from their straps. Rescue forces said they weren't far away, and para-rescuers jumped as soon as possible to reach them.
Minutes later, there was a tap on the window, and fingers forming the OK signal. Hague gave them a big smile in response. He said the Russian search and rescue teams "amazed" him with their response.
Hague walked away from the landing with a few bumps and bruises. The two astronauts were flown to Baikonur, where they were reunited with their families and officials.
"When I got to see him at the airport, his personality was as bright as ever," NASA director Bridenstine said. "I am humbled and just thrilled. The training paid off."
The investigation behind the cause of the booster anomaly is underway. Tuesday, Hague went out with his wife for a run in Houston, enjoying the cool fall weather. But he's eager to truly go to space and have a successful launch in the future, whenever that may be.
"For a first flight for me, it was extremely memorable," Hague said.
It could have been worse, but still, it's a harrowing experience for an astronaut expecting to live in space for six months.
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AskUs: How worried should we be about the Clathrate Gun?
So one of our readers asked us this question the other day: How worried should we be about the Clathrate Gun? Year after year is becoming hotter than the last. Scientists are being ‘caught off-guard’ by record temperatures. Natalia Shakhova says we may have only DECADES before things get really bad. Are things really this dire? Could the human race be gone in less than 100 years?
There is at the present, to my knowledge, no consensus on the immediacy of a “smoking” global & catastrophic clathrate gun. I believe it is worth quoting at length the conclusion of the following recent study (Ruppel, C. D. (2011) Methane Hydrates and Contemporary Climate Change. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):29):
Catastrophic, widespread dissociation of methane gas hydrates will not be triggered by continued climate warming at contemporary rates (0.2ºC per decade; IPCC 2007) over timescales of a few hundred years. Most of Earth’s gas hydrates occur at low saturations and in sediments at such great depths below the seafloor or onshore permafrost that they will barely be affected by warming over even 103 yr. Even when CH4 is liberated from gas hydrates, oxidative and physical processes may greatly reduce the amount that reaches the atmosphere as CH4. The CO2 produced by oxidation of CH4 released from dissociating gas hydrates will likely have a greater impact on the Earth system (e.g., on ocean chemistry and atmospheric CO2 concentrations; Archer et al. 2009) than will the CH4 that remains after passing through various sinks.
That being said, it appears that there might indeed be a localized increase in clathrate destabilization in some specific settings such as the relatively shallow Arctic continental shelves (Op. cit.), but the rate and actual scale of this phenomenon, as well as what actually happens to the released gasses (does it remain in solution? does it get degraded by microbes?), remains to be determined.
The safe answer to the question is that you probably shouldn’t be worried about the clathrate gun hypothesis. There is evidence of releases in the geological record coinciding with sharp increases in temperature but the causal relationship between the two is debated. However, probably most importantly, as we learn more about methane hydrates the probability of it being a major issue gets less and less over time. The conditions in which they form and exist have become more constrained. The concentrations of them in oceanic sediments has drastically declined. The mechanisms of how they contribute to climate change has been with increase clarity revealed to be less rapid than what we initially thought. The current understanding is drastically more informed and less catastrophic than when hypotheses of apocalyptic temperature increases as a result of a clathrate gun were formulated.
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Global estimates of hydrate-bound gas in marine sediments: how much is really out there? which includes an overview of all past estimates, their methodologies, etc.
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CD Review: North & South
I received the CD North & South: Forgotten Music from the American Civil War (Gaslantern Records, 2013) and its accompanying sheet music as a birthday gift this year, and a very lovely gift it was! Sixteen new pieces of historical music, beautifully played by the Orchestra of the Gilded Age, conducted by Jeffrey Hunter, many of them suitable for dancing!
The actual disc features a gorgeous historical battle scene, but there are no real liner notes included. Happily, almost all the information one could want appears on the album website: not merely dates and lengths, but composers, background notes, and even the musical key of each piece.
This is a "listening" CD, not made specifically for dancers, but many of the pieces will work for dancing. As usual, I've gone through the album track by track and made notes about which pieces are danceable and for what.
Of special note: the album is divided into two themes, "North" and "South", with the pieces for each named in honor of particular Union or Confederate leaders or otherwise connected to one side. If one's dancers or listeners are apt to find such celebratory naming problematic, be careful which half you select from!
First, the three art pieces which, while fun to listen to, are not suitable for dancing:
"Battle of Gettysburg:
"I'm Going Home to Dixie"
"Improvisation on The Bonnie Blue Flag"
"Battle of Gettysburg" is particularly impressive, as it musically illustrates the battle from the Grand Army of the Potomac's entry into Pennsylvania to the Rebel prisoners being marched away, with a bit of Star Spangled Banner at the end. The full list of the events depicted in this piece is on the website.
There are five marches, ranging from slow to very brisk. The briskest, "General Lee's Grand March", is so brisk I wouldn't use it for a march, so I've not listed it in this category. The other four vary somewhat in their march-like quality, but the main problem with them is that they are all very short, the longest not even being three and a half minutes. That is not nearly long enough for the most common use for marches at a mid-nineteenth-century American ball, a Grand March. Possibly some clever looping could extend them. They could also be used as workable polkas.
"President Lincoln's Grand March" (100 bpm)
"Fort Sumter Quick Step" (106 bpm)
"Jefferson Davis Grand March" (111 bpm)
"Pickett's Charge March" (114 bpm)
There are two official galops and one march so brisk that it works as one. The "Ericsson Galop" is played at a killer pace, even by galop standards. The other two are in a more typical range for the dance.
"General Lee's Grand March" (121 bpm)
"Sherman's Advance on Savannah Galop" (122 bpm)
"Ericsson Galop" (143 bpm)
There are two polkas on the disc, both danceable, and, as noted above, the marches can also double as polkas in a pinch. Their tempo is more suited to relaxed sliding footwork than the more technically stylish (hop)slide-cut-leap. Note that "Dixie Polka" has some six-bar phrases, which will drive dancers accustomed to perfect eight-bar phrases for everything absolutely crazy.
"General Grant Polka" (104 bpm)
"Dixie Polka" (109 bpm)
The two schottisches are both fine for dancing, and it's a pleasure to have new ones!
"McClellan Schottisch" (65 bpm)
"General Forrest Schottisch" (70 bpm)
Alas, there is only one waltz, at a gentle tempo. It has a lengthy thirty-two-second introduction, but once one gets past that, it is quite danceable.
"Appomattox Waltz" (132 bpm)
And, finally, there is a mazurka, played very, very slowly with ritards I can only describe as "trancelike". I like my mazurkas slower than they are often danced nowadays, but this is too slow even for my tastes. It's beautiful, but it would take substantial speeding up with software to make it good for dancing. Given the ritards, I would keep it listening-only.
"Silver Bells Mazurka" (95 bpm)
Wonderfully, Gaslantern has also provided for those lucky enough to have musicians to dance to or to play in concert by making all of the sheet music for all of these pieces available in clean, modern format as well, in either physical form or PDF. I'm no judge of the quality of musical arrangements, and I don't have access to all the original sheet music to see whether they have exclusively copied the originals or added their own harmony lines, but the music is laid out clearly, easy to read, and includes details like the dedications for pieces that have them and the events meant to be depicted in each phrase of "Battle of Gettysburg". The physical book is spiral-bound for ease of use.
The one problem with the CD, website, and book is that nowhere in all of this can I find any list of credits for individual musicians or a list of what instruments were played for the recording. I tried contacting Gaslantern by email and got no response. It sounds inoffensive to me overall, but my ear for instruments is not good enough to catch something not-quite-period slipping through.
North & South (CD and sheet music) may be purchased at the Gaslantern Records website. Note that their shipping practices are aggravating: there is no shopping cart, so each item must be ordered separately and will be shipped separately. I highly recommend this album for anyone doing mid-nineteenth century couple dance, or who enjoys listening to the music of this era, and the sheet music for bands that play for it.
Special thanks to Serge for the wonderful birthday present!
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The Estée Lauder Companies Announces the Promotion of Stéphane de La Faverie To Group President
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Jun 29, 2020 10:30 KST
NEW YORK--(Business Wire / Korea Newswire) June 29, 2020 -- This week, The Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) announced that Stéphane de La Faverie has been promoted to Group President, while continuing in his role as Global Brand President, Estée Lauder and AERIN. He will report directly to Fabrizio Freda, President and Chief Executive Officer in his role as Group President, and will continue to report to Jane Hertzmark Hudis, Executive Group President, for his Global Brand President responsibilities for Estée Lauder and AERIN. As Group President, Stéphane’s new portfolio of brands will include Jo Malone London, Aramis and Designer Fragrances, Le Labo, Darphin, Lab Series, By Kilian, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, RODIN olio lusso and Prescriptives.
“Stéphane has extensive expertise leading brands, making him well suited to the significant leadership responsibilities of the Group President role,” said Fabrizio Freda. “As Global Brand President, Estée Lauder and AERIN, he has been the ideal leader to bring our company’s iconic namesake brand into an incredible phase of broad-based growth. His well-deserved promotion reflects his excellent track record of building and leading global brands, his expertise across categories and channels, and a keen understanding of local relevance.”
As Group President, Stéphane will oversee and drive ELC’s recently-announced third brand cluster, which is focused primarily on artisanal and luxury fragrances. In addition to the Company’s enterprise fragrance strategy, Stéphane will leverage his skin care expertise to drive differentiation for cult-favorite brands in this category, as well as opportunities in China and Travel Retail.
Stéphane was named Global Brand President of Estée Lauder and AERIN in July 2016, and his successful leadership has driven Estée Lauder’s tremendous global performance across demographics, regions and channels. Under his oversight, Estée Lauder continues to exercise its power of recruitment and loyalty around the world, with a special focus on Chinese consumers globally. The brand’s hero strategy continues to demonstrate its strength across existing, globally iconic franchises like Advanced Night Repair and Double Wear.
Stéphane’s unique ability to cultivate and honor the brand’s authentic roots while simultaneously connecting with consumers of all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities, has helped make Estée Lauder one of the world’s most beloved prestige beauty brands. He has continued to reinforce Estée Lauder’s aspirational positioning through elevated brand storytelling and disruptive partnerships including cult streetwear designer KITH and Japanese graffiti artist LADY AIKO.
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Tony Millard issues challenge to would-be globetrotter ahead of Sha Tin run: ‘the talk stops here’
He’s outlined the Dubai World Cup meeting and the US$20 million Saudi Cup as options for dirt specialist Elusive State but Tony Millard says “the talk stops here” ahead of the six-year-old’s run at Sha Tin on Sunday.
The horse returns to its pet course and distance in the Class Two Kwangtung Handicap Cup (1,650m) and Millard hopes Elusive State can provide the highlight of Sunday’s all-dirt meeting.
“He’s got to do his thing, the talk stops here,” he said.
Millard knows that boosting Elusive State’s rating, which sits at 96, is crucial if he is to attract invites to race at the top level overseas.
“For sure, it’s always frustrating because there’s not much programme for these horses in Hong Kong,” he said. “We’ll see how he goes here and I just hope he comes through it well.”
Elusive State’s story is a remarkable one – he dipped to a rating of 43 before winning two of this final three starts under Derek Cruz, and then going on to win four of six starts for Millard last season to rocket into Class Two.
The horse was super impressive first-up this term, rattling home for second over an unsuitable 1,200m trip, and Joao Moreira is again in the saddle on Sunday.
“His run the other day over 1,200m was eye-catching, he was closing off nicely and indicated that he needed more ground,” Moreira said. “I’m glad that Tony has given the ride to me and hopefully he doesn’t let us down.”
Elusive State tackles an intriguing band of challengers, with Glorious Artist stepping out for the first time since his fourth in the Korea Cup (1,800m) last month.
Zac Purton takes the ride on Glorious Artist after jumping off last-start winner Buddies, who steps into Class Two company for the first time.
John Size has consistent dirt performer Raging Blitzkrieg in the race and also takes Hong Kong Derby runner Enrichment to the all-weather surface for the first time after three midfield finishes on the turf to start the season.
Another galloper to race on the all-weather track for the first time on Sunday is Benno Yung Tin-pang’s Ka Ying Master, a four-year-old colt who strung together two wins in Class Four before struggling last time out in Class Three.
Yung hopes a change in surface and a step-up in trip for the Class Three Guangzhou Handicap (1,200m) can spark Ka Ying Master back to life.
“He’s got ability but the one variable is his wind issue, he’s a roarer,” Yung said. “Last time he trialled on the dirt he went really well so we want to see how he goes, he’s in good condition.”
One runner lining up at Sha Tin who punters may not be too familiar with is Peter Ho Leung’s Pleasant Guy, who runs for the first time since February last year in the Class Four Shenzhen Handicap (1,200m).
After two starts early last year for a fourth and a 13th, Pleasant Guy has struggled to overcome tendinitis, among other things, but Ho rates him highly enough to have persisted with him.
“I have spent so much time on this horse, looking after him and making sure I didn’t train him too hard,” Ho said. “He will win races.”
The five-year-old ran on nicely into fourth in a trial earlier this month but Ho says he’s still a work in progress.
“He trialled well but you can’t expect him to be 100 per cent because he hasn’t raced for so long. I think he’s at 70 per cent,” he said.
“I think he will run a good race because he is a good horse, he’s very genuine and he always tries his best. Hopefully after this race he can improve even more.”
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2020 Fellowship Experiences
Among its many programs, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law administers the Donner Civic Leadership and Tuohy Fellowships and June Callwood Program in Aboriginal Law Fellowships. These Fellowships give students the opportunity to do public interest work full-time during the summers. Additionally, the SLS sponsors up to three first or second year law students to work in a public interest legal job each summer.
On this page, the Donner, SLS, and Callwood Fellows describe their experiences in the summer of 2020.
Rachel Bromberg
Donner Fellow
Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
This summer, I worked as a Donner Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). CAMH is a psychiatric hospital conducting research and providing frontline care related to mental health and addictions challenges. My role as a Donner Fellow involved assisting the legal department on forensic (Ontario Review Board) matters, including legal research and drafting documents. I prepared a legal memo on the recent de-designation of forensic hospitals and a memo on anonymization of Ontario Review Board hearing documents given the recently enacted Tribunal Adjudicative Records Act. This experience taught me a lot about the forensic mental health system, and my work with CAMH has provided me with valuable tools for what I hope will transformational changemaking within the mental health care system as a future lawyer.
Mackenzie Cumberland
Animal Justice
The Donner Fellowship gave me the opportunity to work with Animal Justice, Canada’s only national animal law organization. Canada has some of the worst animal rights laws in the western world. To solve this problem, Animal Justice represents animals in court and works politically with the federal government and provincial legislatures to pass strong new animal protection laws.
This summer, Ontario passed a law that will prevent animal advocates from documenting and sharing instances of animal abuse with the public. Courts in four states in the US have struck down similar laws for being unconstitutional violations of Americans’ rights to free speech. These laws have been given the term “ag gag laws” for the chilling effect they have on activists exposing animal cruelty. My role as a Donner Fellow was to conduct legal research for a pending constitutional challenge to this legislation as an infringement of Canadians’ Charter rights. My legal research gave me the opportunity to work on interesting legal problems that pertain to charter rights, statutory interpretation, and the legal process.
In addition to my legal research for the constitutional challenge to Ontario’s ag gag law, I got to work on freedom of information requests, was involved in the selection of speakers for the Canadian Animal Law Conference and conducted legal research for another constitutional challenge. I am so grateful to the Donner Fellowship for giving me the opportunity to do meaningful work, while also learning a lot about myself and the law.
Michelle Huang
Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario (IAVGO)
This summer, I had the opportunity to work at the Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario (IAVGO) Community Legal Clinic as a Donner Fellow. IAVGO is a community legal aid clinic that provides free legal services to injured workers and their families. Additionally, IAVGO is committed to working with the injured worker community in Ontario and is heavily involved in community organizing, public legal education, as well as systemic advocacy and law reform.
IAVGO’s most significant systemic advocacy project this summer was a test-case litigation on behalf of migrant workers who are repatriated due to a work injury. Based on the current practices, they are unfairly compensated for their injuries as their compensation is based on the discrepancy between wages they would receive in another occupation in Ontario (where they cannot live as they have no status), as opposed to wages in another occupation in their home country (where they must repatriate to once they can no longer work in the job in Ontario). This is an issue that appears frequently in migrant worker cases and thus, this was the perfect opportunity for IAVGO to be involved in law reform. As the Donner Fellow, I was responsible for revising and developing an outdated argument for a previous test-case. Originally, my argument was to be applied to a new test-case to be brought before the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) in the upcoming year. However, due to COVID-19, the WSIAT has decided on a different format and my argument will be applied to batch-case hearings instead. I will continue to be involved in this litigation and will lead the application of my argument to the new batch-cases.
My summer experience was both professionally and personally rewarding, and I feel extremely privileged to have had this opportunity through the Donner Fellowship. I have always been concerned about labour and employment’s intersection with social justice, and this summer provided me with both practical legal skills as well as new frameworks through which to view access to justice issues. I conducted research in a brand new area of law, formulated a complex legal argument that will be used in law reform, and learned about specific issues that compose the structural barriers migrant workers face in our legal system. I look forward to learning more in my upcoming year as a credit student at IAVGO and to see my summer project be put – literally – to the test.
Michelle Lafortune
Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA)
This summer I worked as a Donner Fellow at the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA). CELA is a public interest, specialty legal clinic funded through Legal Aid Ontario. Since 1970 CELA has worked toward protecting public health and the environment by seeking justice for those harmed by pollution or poor-decision making and by changing policies to prevent these problems from arising in the first place. CELA carries out these goals through environmental law legal services, summary advice, law reform, and public legal education.
My main project at CELA was understanding municipal responses and preparations for climate change impacts. I catalogued the actions taken by municipalities in Eastern Ontario, created a toolkit to help municipalities better understand their role in the climate crisis, and put on a public legal education presentation on how municipal powers play a role in responding to climate change. As CELA is a poverty law clinic, the main lens through which I focused my work was on the needs of vulnerable communities. I concentrated on assessing if equity for vulnerable and disadvantaged communities is included in climate action plans and, if not, I made the case for why equitable approaches are crucial.
My time at CELA was immensely valuable and it allowed me to develop professional skills that will help me advance in my legal career. The summer of 2020 was particularly challenging for everyone adjusting to our new online and remote world. Nonetheless, I was brought into a supportive and encouraging environment that allowed me to flourish. I am immensely grateful to the Donner Fellowship for making this experience possible.
Iris Liu
Don Valley Community Legal Services
I interned as a summer student with Don Valley Community Legal Services. This summer, I:
worked with staff lawyers and paralegals as part of the clinic's immigration team
worked on immigration case files including refugee cases, sponsorship, TRPs, etc.
conducted original research on the poorly developed area of law governing migrant caregivers
worked with CLEO and clinic staff to create a PLE template to educate non-legal community workers about caregiver clients and their legal issues
Braxton Murphy
The Donner Fellowship allowed me to spend my summer working at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital. Specifically, as a Donner Fellow, I assisted in-house counsel at CAMH’s civil litigation department by: drafting facta and affidavits for superior court appeals about patient capacity, preparing legal advice for CAMH physicians, supporting internal CAMH policy development, and assisting physicians prepare submissions for hearings at the Consent and Capacity Board and Ontario Review Board. Additionally, during my fellowship I completed research memos on health law topics including the reporting obligations of psychologists treating potential offenders and the utilization of Ulysses Clauses to treat patients with recurring mental illness.
Through my work at CAMH, I gained extensive exposure to both civil and forensic mental health law, administrative law in practice, as well as what it looks like to work as in-house counsel for a public organization. Additionally, through this crash course in fast-paced tribunal-focused litigation, I was able to make strong connections with my team members and supervising lawyers. Ultimately, my experience at CAMH was overwhelmingly positive and has inspired me to pursue a career in administrative litigation work in the future.
Haleigh Ryan
Toronto Ravine Revitalization Science (TRRS)
This summer, I was a Donner Fellow at the Toronto Ravine Revitalization Science (TRRS) Organization. The TRRS, promotes community engagement in environmental stewardship in Toronto, and completes scientific studies in urban ecosystems. Toronto’s ecosystems are essential to the health and wellbeing of the city’s residents, but they are severely degraded and require significant attention to help them thrive. My project this summer focused on engaging community members in environmental volunteerism on public and private ravine lands.
I developed a model program that will facilitate the public’s engagement in stewardship activities essential to ravine maintenance (such as invasive species removal, and tree planting) in the City of Toronto. To create this model, I spent the summer working through municipal and provincial legislation and policy, interviewing community stakeholders and experts, and reading through applicable caselaw. The program will be used as the TRRS engages in environmental advocacy with the City.
Environmental law is what initially drew me to law school. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to explore this area of law so early in my legal career. Regardless of what area of law I ultimately end up practicing in, this fellowship has provided me with invaluable learning opportunities. I was able to work directly with a practising lawyer who taught me an incredible amount about how to analyze and solve problems through a legal lens. I have learned legal skills that I will take into any future workplace I enter.
Sophie Zhao
Innocence Canada
My Donner Fellowship allowed me to work with Innocence Canada, a national non-profit whose mandate it is to identify, advocate for, and exonerate individuals convicted of a crime they did not commit and to prevent wrongful convictions through legal education and reform. Applications for ministerial review on the grounds of miscarriage of justice (section 696 of the Criminal Code) are one of the few avenues to achieve this vital end. As an Innocence Canada summer student, I worked on multiple homicide files while conducting independent legal research on Canadian and international criminal justice systems. This included analyzing the facts and evidence in each case, developing potential avenues of investigation, acquiring disclosure, and researching legal questions pertaining to a file, among other tasks that were both challenging and engaging. I also worked on creating educational content on wrongful convictions for Innocence Canada, as public legal education is crucial to preventing wrongful convictions before they happen.
I am deeply grateful for the opportunity the Donner Fellowship gave me to explore my interest in criminal law. My supervisors were consistently helpful in giving detailed feedback as well as incredibly inspirational as mentors. I finished work every day with a sense of having learned something new. Working at Innocence Canada as a Donner Fellow has been an invaluable education in criminal law and I highly recommend it to anyone with a similar legal interest.
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Margarete Bieber (31 July 1879 – 25 February 1978) was a Jewish German-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor. Ancient copies: Contributions to the history of Greek and Roman art. New York: New York . ISBN 978-0-8147-0970-2.
Margarete Bieber (31 July 1879 – 25 February 1978) was a Jewish German-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor. She became the second woman university professor in Germany in 1919 when she took a position at the University of Giessen. She studied the theatre of ancient Greece and Rome as well as the sculpture and clothing in ancient Rome and Greece.
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Bieber's 11th book, Copies: A Contribution to the History of GraecoRoman Sculpture, was published two years ago, when she was 96. Other books included History of the Greek and Roman Theater (1961), Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age (1955) and 1961) and Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art (1964). On her 90th birthday in 1969, two of her colleagues, Prof. Larissa Warren of New York University and Prof.
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The label Roman copy after a Greek original can be found in museums throughout the world on most Roman sculptures that portray deities, heroes, or athletes. Its origin goes back to the early 18th century, when learned travelers such as Joseph Addison and Jonathan Richardson Jr. first conjectured that most ancient statues known in their time were Roman copies after lost Greek prototypes.
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Washington County GOP makes historic appointment to Maryland General Assembly
by: Steven Cohen
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (WDVM) — Thanks to Washington County, the Maryland General Assembly will have its first-ever Republican African American woman member in the House of Delegates.
Hagerstown special education teacher Brenda Thiam has been named by the GOP central committee as their choice for an appointment by Governor Larry Hogan. The vacancy in the legislature was created when Delegate Paul Corderman was named to fill the seat of Senator Andrew Serafini, who resigned this summer after 12 years in Annapolis.
Jerry DeWolf, chairman of the Washington County GOP central committee says “it is exciting that we chose Dr. Thiam. She brings a lot to the table. She brings a lot of talent. She is a very educated woman and has a lot of excitement and energy. And she will do well for the city of Hagerstown.”
Dr. Thiam is on the ballot for Hagerstown City Council this November. It is too late to remove her name. Should she be elected, the city council will name her replacement.
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HANCOCK, Md. (WDVM) -- After months of delays caused by Covid and cold weather, the town of Hancock, Maryland has finally opened its bridge across the C & O Canal.
The old beams on the bridge were deteriorating. But the National Park Service has been able to allow traffic from the western Maryland town off Interstate 70 to access boating ramps and the recreation area. With warmer weather, the Park Service will pave the approaches to the bridge, and add restrooms at the picnic areas.
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The village of Arleux-en-Gohelle is a small village located north of France. The town of Arleux-en-Gohelle is located in the department of Pas-de-Calais of the french region Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The town of Arleux-en-Gohelle is located in the township of Vimy part of the district of Arras. The area code for Arleux-en-Gohelle is 62039 (also known as code INSEE), and the Arleux-en-Gohelle zip code is 62580.
Geography and map of Arleux-en-Gohelle :
The altitude of the city hall of Arleux-en-Gohelle is approximately 56 meters. The Arleux-en-Gohelle surface is 6.27 km ². The latitude and longitude of Arleux-en-Gohelle are 50.364 degrees North and 2.87 degrees East. Nearby cities and towns of Arleux-en-Gohelle are : Fresnoy-en-Gohelle (62580) at 1.41 km, Willerval (62580) at 1.92 km, Acheville (62320) at 2.32 km, Oppy (62580) at 2.39 km, Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult (62580) at 3.21 km, Neuvireuil (62580) at 3.26 km, Farbus (62580) at 3.40 km, Bois-Bernard (62320) at 3.55 km.
(The distances to these nearby towns of Arleux-en-Gohelle are calculated as the crow flies)
Population and housing of Arleux-en-Gohelle :
The population of Arleux-en-Gohelle was 708 in 1999, 814 in 2006 and 824 in 2007. The population density of Arleux-en-Gohelle is 131.42 inhabitants per km². The number of housing of Arleux-en-Gohelle was 318 in 2007. These homes of Arleux-en-Gohelle consist of 307 main residences, 1 second or occasional homes and 10 vacant homes.
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Administrative Information of Arleux-en-Gohelle
Region : Nord-Pas-de-Calais (31)
Departement : Pas-de-Calais (62)
District : Arras
Township : Vimy
Nearby towns of Arleux-en-Gohelle
Here are maps and information of the close municipalities near Arleux-en-Gohelle.
See all the towns of Pas-de-Calais (Distances are calculated as the crow flies)
Fresnoy-en-Gohelle (62) at 1.41 km Willerval (62) at 1.92 km
Acheville (62) at 2.32 km Oppy (62) at 2.39 km
Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult (62) at 3.21 km Neuvireuil (62) at 3.26 km
Farbus (62) at 3.40 km Bois-Bernard (62) at 3.55 km
Gavrelle (62) at 3.90 km Rouvroy (62) at 3.99 km
Méricourt (62) at 4.01 km Vimy (62) at 4.51 km
Drocourt (62) at 5.01 km Thélus (62) at 5.02 km
Fresnes-lès-Montauban (62) at 5.31 km Izel-lès-Équerchin (62) at 5.67 km
Avion (62) at 5.86 km Sallaumines (62) at 6.25 km
Billy-Montigny (62) at 6.44 km Noyelles-sous-Lens (62) at 7.10 km
Geography of Arleux-en-Gohelle
Maximum altitude : 75 m
Population and housings of Arleux-en-Gohelle
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Bed and Breakfast : Le Château
Providing a sauna, fitness centre and rooftop terrace, Le Château is set in Fresnoy-en-Gohelle in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region and 12 km from the Louvre-Lens Museum. Free WiFi ...
Address : 9 rue du Puits 62580 Fresnoy-en-Gohelle
Distance Bed and Breakfast - Arleux-en-Gohelle : 1.30 km
Guest accommodation : Gîte des clés de l'Artois
Located in Willerval, Gîte des clés de l'Artois offers self-catering accommodation with a terrace and free WiFi. The holiday home features garden views and is 35 km from Lille. ...
Contact : 5 Grand Rue 62580 Willerval
Distance Guest accommodation - Arleux-en-Gohelle : 2.01 km
Guest accommodation : La Vieille Vigne
La Vieille Vigne is located in Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult and is set in a renovated, former barn. This modern-style accommodation offers a terrace, a garden and exposed beams in the...
Contact : 20 Rue De Fampoux 62580 Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult
Hotel : Le Manoir de Gavrelle
Set on a 1-hectare park, Le Manoir de Gavrelle is located in Gavrelle and 3 km from the A1 motorway. It offers a garden, free Wi-Fi access and a restaurant that serves tradition...
Contact : 35, rue nationale 62580 Gavrelle
Distance Hotel - Arleux-en-Gohelle : 3.98 km
Guest accommodation : Les Quatre Saisons
Offering free WiFi and garden views, Les Quatre Saisons is an accommodation situated in Thélus. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equipped kitchen. The...
Address : 7 rue des sept 62580 Thélus
Apartment : La Romanée
Located 28 km from Lille, La Romanée offers pet-friendly accommodation in Sallaumines. The property features views of the garden is 48 km from Ypres. Free private parking is ava...
Prices : from 95.00 €
Contact : 71 rue lamendin 62430 Sallaumines
Distance Apartment - Arleux-en-Gohelle : 6.25 km
Bed and Breakfast : Heure Bleue
Featuring free WiFi and a terrace, Heure Bleue offers accommodation in Givenchy-en-Gohelle, 34 km from Lille. The Louvre Lens Museum is a 10-minute drive away. The rooms come w...
Contact : 105, rue Léon Degreaux 62580 Givenchy-en-Gohelle
Hotel : Hotel Le Jardin
Hotel Le Jardin features rooms with free WiFi in Lens, ideally set 1.7 km from Bollaert-Delelis Stadium. The property is set 2.3 km from Louvre Lens Museum. Certain rooms at the...
Contact : 29 Place de la République 62300 Lens
Apartment : Résidence Le Majestic
Résidence Le Majestic is a 2-bedroom apartment located at the heart of Lens, opposite the train station and 2 km from The Louvre Museum. The accommodation features parquet floor...
Address : 41 Rue de la Gare 62300 Lens
Hotel : Hôtel de France
Opposite the Lens Train Station, Hôtel de France is set in a historical building dating from 1900. It offers a 24-hour reception and free WiFi access is available throughout. T...
Contact : 2 place du Général de Gaulle 62300 Lens
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New Hampshire passes law protecting transgender people from discrimination
There was no arguing with the gay state senator's logic.
By Ron Johnson Thursday, May 3, 2018
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., tweeted congratulations to her son, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen (right).Photo: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen / @RosLehtinen
New Hampshire has outlawed discrimination against transgender people.
On Wednesday night, the state’s senate voted 14-10 on legislation that updated state law prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing and public spaces specifically to include transgender residents.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has signaled he will sign it, making New Hampshire the 19th state to outlaw discrimination against transgender people.
The news has the LGBTQ community celebrating not just in the Granite State, but nationwide.
“No person should be fired, evicted or denied service just because of who they are, and it is far beyond time that New Hampshire’s nondiscrimination protections include transgender people,” said Marty Rouse, national field director for the Human Rights Campaign.
“Fair-minded people across the Granite State support these protections and recognize the importance of making New Hampshire an inclusive and welcoming state for all. Inclusive nondiscrimination protections are now one step closer to becoming law, and we urge Gov. Sununu to continue this momentum by signing HB 1319.”
The Williams Institute, a UCLA think tank that researches LGBTQ law and policy, tweeted congratulations to the 4,950 transgender adults and teens in New Hampshire.
4,950 transgender adults and teens in New Hampshire will now have statewide protection against discrimination. https://t.co/hTQIAcO2sT
— Williams Institute (@WilliamsPolicy) May 2, 2018
The tide for such protections is turning nationwide notes the organization Freedom for All Americans, a bipartisan campaign fighting for LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections.
“New Hampshire’s transgender residents will rest easier tonight, knowing their elected leaders voted to affirm their dignity by passing comprehensive nondiscrimination protections,” CEO Masen Davis said.
“Earlier this month, voters from all walks of life upheld transgender equality in a historic vote at the ballot in Anchorage, Alaska. I’m now overjoyed to see the conservative New Hampshire legislature pass a comprehensive nondiscrimination law that will make it that much easier for transgender Granite Staters to live their lives without fear.”
Davis said Freedom for All Americans was proud to have played a leadership role in both of these campaigns.
“We continue our work to secure full nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people nationwide. Our shared triumph in New Hampshire is yet another example that equality is not a partisan issue, but a human issue — and one that resonates deeply with the core values of Americans from all walks of life.”
The Union Leader newspaper, in Manchester, reports that a gay state senator shared his personal experience during the debate. State Sen. Dan Innis, of New Castle, said the legislation was long past due.
“I am supported by the anti-discrimination passed into law years ago,” Innis said. “Am I better than the transgender people here? No, I am not, absolutely not. So let’s give them the same protections I enjoy.”
The campaign manager of Freedom New Hampshire, Linds Jakows, congratulated fellow transgender residents and thanked them for sharing their stories.
“This law will go a long way to affirm the dignity of transgender people and allow them to truly live free,” Jakows said to the Union Leader.
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In its many forms and manifestations, Action art has questioned the logic of the spectacle and the distance between producers and receptors; between those who perform and those who simply watch, or so it seems. Being a programme of performances, Idiorhythmias feels the need to examine what it is that attracts an audience and what configures it. While the previous edition cast a critical reflection on the role of institutions and their capacity to ‘institute’ practices, set disciplinary limits and draw up the rules of the game, as well as examining their responsibility as guarantors of the relationship between artist and public, the present edition focuses on the viewers to explore the multiple roles they can play and the spaces allocated to them by the institutions.
Programme curated by Soledad Gutiérrez, independent curator, and Pablo Martínez, MACBA’s Head of Programming.
One of the art forms that has most radically confronted the relationship with the public is the happening. In this sense, we welcome the exhibition Oscar Masotta. Theory as Action, currently at MACBA, which investigates the contribution of Masotta, an intellectual whose work is based on transmission, repetition and artistic forms such as the happening and the ‘anti-happening’ (1966). The programme also features the screening of Segunda vez (2018), a film by Dora García inspired by Julio Cortázar’s eponymous short story, presenting two re-enactments – or repetitions, to use Masotta’s psychoanalytic terminology – of two of the happenings created by Masotta in Buenos Aires during the 1960s. Happening, public, author, musical score/script, filming and repetition are some of the concepts to be discussed in the context of Dora García’s film, and as part of this year’s programme.
Another concept developed by Masotta was dematerialisation as an artistic practice and resistance, a concept first expressed by him in a lecture given at the Instituto di Tella in 1967 under the title ‘After Pop: We Dematerialise’, which MACBA has recently re-published in its collection of online publications Quadern Portàtil. A common reflection in many of the works included in the present edition of Idiorhythmias, the idea is central to the practice of Mette Edvardsen, featured in this year’s programme. In her work objects become tools to trigger the public’s imagination, so they become active thanks to dematerialisation. Edvardsen’s performances are part of a body of work built upon the research the artist has been conducting over the last decade. In her seminal piece Private Collection (2002), the dancer/choreographer enters the world of objects and their presence on the stage. Her relationship with objects, already apparent in this early work, is proof of her capacity to transform through a game of absence and presence. Edvardsen pushes her investigations to the limit in two works from a trilogy she produced from 2011 to 2015: Black and No Title. Here language plays with the objects, while the presence of the artist on stage alters the real space. The performative power of words cannot only do things, but also summon things by their appearance and disappearance. While in these pieces the activation of the public’s imagination and the orality of the dematerialised text are fundamental, in Oslo (2017), it is the performer who disappears to make room for the spatial presence of the text and other multiple voices. Accompanying these performances, a selection of Edvardsen’s video works and publications will be available for consultation in the atrium of the Museum.
Running parallel to the presentation of Edvardsen’s work and closely linked to the idea of idiorhythmia, the programme opens with a concert by Luke Fowler and Richard Youngs, a kind of musical dialogue experimenting with various genres and invented instruments.
While dematerialisation is important for the development of this programme, so is the construction or recreation of other imaginaries through words and the invocation of other beings, as in the work by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Ye-gua, Ye-ta, Yu-ta (2015–17), and her collaboration with Decòrum, the Museum’s choir, on the ‘dishonest investigation’ of texts by the Argentine poet Néstor Perlongher; the analyrical recital Jinete Último Reino Frag. 3 , by María Salgado and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, a call to subjective disobedience aiming to provoke emotion through words; and Fino Fantasma (2015–17), by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, a subtle piece about life beyond death, a kind of journey to the materialisation of that which no longer exists.
Mette Edvarsen, "Private Collection". Photo: Ilse Joliet
28 ABRIL, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 MAY 2018 SATURDAY 28 ABRIL
6.30 pm Luke Fowler and Richard Youngs
Venue: Meier building Atrium.
Price: Free admission
WEDNESDAY 2 MAY
8 pmScreening of Segunda Vez (2018), by Dora García.
Followed by a talk with Dora García, Marla Jacarilla y Victoria Pérez Royo
Venue:Cinema Maldà
Price: Single ticket 3 €. Sale exclusively at the ticket office of Maldà cinema
THURSDAY 3 MAY
8 pm Mette Edvardsen, Private Collection (2002), performance.
Venue: Museum galleries*
9 pm Mette Edvardsen, Black (2011), performance.
Venue: Capella MACBA
Price: Combined ticket 5 €
FRIDAY 4 MAY
8 pm Mercedes Azpilicueta and Decorum, Bestiare of Tonguelets (2018), performance
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Fino Fantasma (2015–17), performance
Mercedes Azpilicueta, Ye-gua, Ye-ta, Yu-ta (2017), performance
Venue: Exhibition gallery, Convent dels Àngels.
10 pm Mette Edvardsen, No Title (2014), performance.
Price: Admission 5 €
SATURDAY 5 MAY
12.30 pm Talk and drinks with Mette Edvardsen, Soledad Gutiérrez and Pablo Martínez.
Venue: Espai Taller.
7.30 pmNina Power, lecture Conflict, Compassion, Commitment.
9 pm Mette Edvardsen, Oslo (2017), performance.
10.30 pm María Salgado and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Jinete Último Reino Frag. 3 (2017). Venue: Exhibition gallery, Convent dels Àngels.
From 28 April to 5 May, a selection of publications and video works by
Mette Edvarsen will be available for consultation at the Atrium of the Meier building.
*There are limited places for Private Collection, so admission will be on a first come first served basis
Public Programmes
Luke Fowler and Richard Youngs Idiorhythmias
Proyección de "Segunda Vez" de Dora García y coloquio posterior Idiorhythmias
Mette Edvardsen Idiorhythmias
Mercedes Azpilicueta + Decòrum, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa + Carme Torrent and Mette Edvardsen Idiorhythmias
Mette Edvardsen, Nina Power, María Salgado + Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca Idiorhythmias
May 4th, 2017 to May 13th, 2017
Idiorhythmias A programme of performance, music, poetry, laboratory and text
SON[I]A #256. Nina Power Deleted scenes
Son[i]a #247 María Salgado
Son[i]a #248 André Lepecki
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Review: Komplete Kontrol 1.5
Hollin Jones on Fri, December 4th 0 comments
Native Instruments recently added an 88-key model to Komplete Kontrol. Along with that release was Komplete Kontrol 1.5 (software) which adds a slew of tasty new features like 3rd-party VST support.
When Native Instruments released their Komplete Kontrol keyboards they also debuted the Komplete Kontrol software. This is a plug-in host and itself a plug-in (it runs in either mode) into which you could load the latest versions of NI’s instruments and then use all the specialized functions of the hardware with them. This included things like Light Guide, Native Map, Smart Play and tag-based browsing. Although the hardware would work with any MIDI gear, the really clever stuff happened when you combined it with the Komplete Kontrol software.
Early in 2015 I heard from NI that they were working on opening up the platform to all VST plug-ins. And although it’s taken a little while, the 1.5 update does just this, and indeed rather more. The company has created a new plug-in format called NKS, or Native Kontrol Standard, and developers will be able to make their instruments compatible with it so that they enjoy the same deep integration with the KK and Maschine hardware as NI’s own tools.
Third-party instruments can now work as seamlessly as NI’s own.
Not another plug-in format!
Before you start fretting about yet another plug-in format to cope with, it should be noted that NKS isn’t like the difference between AU and VST, or AAX and AU—it’s an “extended” format which adds functionality rather than being a complete rewrite. As such, NI states that updates to third-party plugs to bring NKS compatibility will be free rather than rolled into paid updates. This will encourage users to get involved in NI’s hardware ecosystem and from the developers’ point of view, lets them boast of greater compatibility with hardware. Having played around with the technology (and I stress I’m not a developer), it feels like it’s mostly about mapping controls to certain standards, which isn’t spectacularly difficult if you’ve already built a whole software instrument.
At launch there are a fair few big-name developers already on board or about to come on board with compatible updates. These include Arturia, Heavyocity, Softube, Spitfire Audio, U-He, Output and more. A specific list can be found on the site and not every instrument from every company will get compatibility, but this list can only grow as time passes. Arturia has the most at present with its whole V Collection 4 already set up to work with Komplete Kontrol.
As far as NI’s own instruments go, not all that much has changed in terms of interaction between the hardware and software so I’m not going to dwell on it. As you’d expect, integration is seamless but it’s the expansion to third-party instruments that’s the real news. Let’s start with the instruments that are already compatible at the time of writing. I was able to test Arturia’s V Collection to see how the linking actually worked in practice.
Full integration
The first thing you get with NKS compatibility is a presence in the KK browser so that when you press Browse on the hardware your instrument appears under the relevant category. This is set by the developer so that drums always appear in the drums section, organs under keyboards and so on. You can select an instrument from the hardware and then use the navigation dial and arrow keys to filter using tags if you like. So you might choose a synth and then filter for patches that were leads, and with effects on.
Compatible instruments get full tagging support in the browser.
The readout appears on the computer screen but the navigation can be done from the hardware. You don’t have to start by selecting an instrument, you could choose to view all presets across every compatible instrument, filter by type of instrument or by mode (meaning monophonic, percussive and factors like those). Tapping over to the presets list on the right, pressing the navigation wheel down loads that patch.
With a compatible patch loaded you get the clever visual feedback of the hardware via Native Map. So there are multiple pages of real-time controls that get mapped to the eight screens and touch sensitive dials, and you can flip between pages easily. The screens give very clear feedback with only the odd exception where a parameter’s name is by definition obscure, as with organ drawbars for example. You can page through and tweak everything from synthesis parameters to effects settings.
Light Guide is one of the things that NKS plugs can use.
With Arturia’s compatible instruments this worked brilliantly and provided far more intuitive control than using the mouse ever could. There’s the odd limitation such as the fact that effect sections for the Wurlitzer and Vox V are pre-mapped as expected but you still have to load an effect using the mouse, or save a preset with an effect loaded. You don’t seem to be able to load effects remotely although you can switch them on and off if they are already present. Still, it’s only a minor grumble. Compatible instruments can also use the Light Guide system. So for example when an instrument doesn’t occupy the whole range of the keyboard, the lights will show you that.
What about my old VSTs?
Let’s turn now to what you can do if your favourite plug-ins aren’t NKS compatible yet, or indeed may never be. Well the good news is that you can still do a surprising amount. You don’t get tags or a place in the browser but you can still load any VST plug-in with the mouse inside the KK app. Presets aren’t visible to the hardware either, but your instrument’s software interface still works just like it should so loading and saving behave as expected. All the stuff that gets sent as MIDI from the hardware like scales, arpeggios and the touch strips works here like it does with any MIDI destination.
Edit and create your own maps to link the hardware to instruments not yet officially supported, or indeed tweak those that are.
The parameters inside your non-NKS instrument aren’t specifically mapped to the Native Map system but many of them do appear nonetheless. So you still get multiple pages of controls with names, that can be tweaked from the hardware, they’re just not arranged specially for the hardware by default. NI provides a free Controller Editor app so you can build your own templates for hardware (when you flip into standalone mode) but crucially this is also possible from inside the software. Enter Edit mode and for any of the multiple pages of controls you can reassign dials to control any available parameter, and thus make your own controller presets for any VST instrument. Scale and Arp settings can also be made here and are remembered with a preset.
The Komplete package?
The 1.5 update is free for existing users so it’s a no-brainer. The more important question is will it bring more musicians into the world of NI’s KK and Maschine hardware? I have no doubt at all that it will. Since the KK keyboards have the exact same set of controls, differing only in the number of keys, you can spend just £369 for the 25-key model and still get all the hands-on tweaking. Or go for a larger model for more expressive playing. It’s worth mentioning that the Komplete Selection of ten instruments comes bundled with any model too. NKS-compatible instruments are ready to rock and the numbers will surely grow quickly. Even without that, you can easily save your own maps with the new software. NI is opening up its walled garden to your favorite VSTs, so come on in. The water’s lovely.
KKS25 £369 / $399
From: www.native-instruments.com
Pros: Brings compatible third party VSTs seamlessly into NI’s hardware world. Pre-mapping means everything is taken care of. Existing VSTs can still take advantage of many features. Edit and save your own maps in the app. Standalone for live performance or plug-in for the studio. Updates for NKS compatibility will be free.
Cons: Not every single thing can be done remotely, like loading effects inside certain instruments. Limited to VSTs, at least for now.
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Hollin Jones
Hollin Jones was classically trained as a piano player but found the lure of blues and jazz too much to resist. Graduating from bands to composition then production, he relishes the chance to play anything with keys. A sometime lecturer in videographics, music production and photography post production, Hollin has been a freelance writer on music technology and Apple topics for well over a decade, along the way publishing several books on audio software. He has been lead writer at a number of prominent music and technology publications. As well as consultancy, full-time journalism, video production and professional photography, he occasionally plays Hammond, Rhodes and other keys for people who ask nicely. Hollin is Contributing Editor at Ask.Audio.
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Hands on with GarageBand for the iPhone and iPad
By Serenity Caldwell
It’s no secret around these parts that we’re pretty fond of GarageBand on iOS. Apple’s mobile music app hits all the right notes, appealing to newbie musicians and professionals alike, offering massive amounts of functionality behind the guise of an easy-to-use interface and playful instrument designs; it’s almost hard to believe the program has only been around since March.
Now, GarageBand is getting its first full update, and it’s a whopper: The app has gone universal, with a brand-new iPhone and iPod touch interface, and has added a bunch of new features, including custom chords for Smart Instruments, an Arpeggiator for the Smart Keyboard, new velocity settings, transposition, new time signatures, quantization options, and support for AAC and AIFF export.
I spent the morning playing around with GarageBand on both my iPad 2 and iPhone 4; here are some initial impressions on the update.
Phenomenal cosmic powers… itty bitty living space
When I first got a chance to play with GarageBand on the iPad back in March, I had little expectation for an iPhone port. While the device's portable size makes it ideal for recording vocal snippets and guitar parts on the go, I was skeptical about the viability of GarageBand’s full feature-set on such a small device. I’d owned guitar and piano iPhone apps before, but found them severely lacking in actual usability, thanks to small screen space and poorly-done interfaces.
GarageBand's iPhone implementation retains every feature from its iPad version.
As of Tuesday, I am very happy to be completely, utterly wrong. Not only does GarageBand’s iPhone and iPod touch version make music creation, editing, and exporting a snap, but the folks on the development team have somehow managed to implement almost every single feature from GarageBand for iPad into the device, and without compromising on design or user experience, at that. (The only missing feature I could find was support for multiple keyboards on one screen—something that makes little to no sense on a device as small as an iPhone or iPod touch.)
All your instruments from GarageBand for iPad are ready and waiting; all your settings, ready to be tweaked. The design team has made some very clever adjustments to compensate for the iPhone’s small screen: The instruments themselves take up the full length of the screen, saving a small amount of space for the toolbar, which offers all your controls, hidden in several nicely-defined menus.
To access alternate instrument styles, other instruments, or to return to your songs list, tap the upside-down triangle in the upper left corner. If you want to swap back to your song timeline for editing, tap the timeline button immediately next to it. This button is intelligent: When in timeline mode, the icon switches to that of the instrument you have selected; tap it again to return to instrument mode, and it will turn into the timeline icon again.
In the center, you have your standard play controls: A button for returning to the beginning of the song, one to Play/Pause, and one to record. Off to the right, there are one or two icons, depending on the complexity of your instrument. The first—the effects icon—appears only if your instrument has additional toggles that the iPhone simply doesn’t have space to display. (For example, the Autoplay knob and Chord/Notes toggle for the Smart Guitar.) Tap the icon, and the play area will slide down, revealing the extra controls.
Tap the effects icon on the iPhone, and the chords view will slide down, revealing extra controls.
I like everything about this implementation. For one, the effects area still provides you with some access to the instrument (or, in the case of Smart Instruments, their chords) so that you can try out effects without constantly switching views. In addition, the GarageBand designers have been able to have a bit of fun stretching the instrument design metaphor, which leads to really beautiful discoveries: Tap the effects icon while in Smart Guitar, for example, and as the chords slide down, so does the entire guitar, revealing the curve of the instrument.
The last icon in the toolbar—the ever-familiar gear icon—has been multi-purposed here into a single window for track, section, and song settings. (In the iPad version, all three have separate pop-overs.) Like the effects view, you can test out a tweak made without having to leave the screen by tapping the volume icon in the upper left corner; it’ll play a snippet from whatever you’ve been working on.
I didn’t have too much time to play around in GarageBand’s editing mode, but it, again, looks remarkably similar to its iPad cousin. You have full access to loops, support for cutting gestures, and the same eight-track limit for songs. Our full review of GarageBand 1.1 will likely take a closer look at the music-making process, but from the limited time I spent with it, I was incredibly impressed.
Instrument ch-ch-changes
GarageBand's custom chords feature lets you adjust any one of your Smart Instrument chords.
You’d think adding universal support to GarageBand would be enough for one update, but there are plenty of other tweaks. The program’s Smart Instruments—Smart Guitar, Keyboard, and Bass—now offer support for custom chords, something I’ve been itching for since its release. You can adjust any of the eight pre-formatted chords by tapping Edit Chords in the settings pop-over and test them on the fly; if a chord you picked doesn’t work well with the one next to it, you can just adjust it at will.
First introduced in 1.0 with the Keyboard and the Sampler, the Smart Keyboard instrument now gains access to GarageBand's Arpeggiator, a feature that sounds like it should be destroying things in a science-fiction film; in reality, the only thing it’ll destroy is your free time. Based on the synthesizer effect of the same name, the Arpeggiator lets you define a sequence by playing a chord, then proceeds to create an arpeggio from that input. You can add a varied octave range (from one to four) for your arpeggio, change the note order, and alter the speed and note kind (1/4 - 1/32 note, dotted, or triplet).
Those who like velocity-based instruments—Drums, Smart Keyboard, and the Sampler among them—will be happy to hear that there are now some rudimentary controls for adjusting sound. Because your iOS device doesn’t have a pressure-sensitive screen, GarageBand uses the velocity of your touch to imitate force. The Velocity Sensitivity setting offers four options: High, Medium, Low, and Off.
You can transpose tracks made with the Keyboard, Smart Keyboard, and Sampler.
From my experience, off presents a default forte) sound with every tap; Low seems to more-or-less provide the same sound as when off; Medium offers two distinctions between taps, forte and piano; and High offers forte, mezzo-piano, and piano options. In English: Off—Loud; Low—Loud; Medium—Loud and Soft; High—Loud, Medium-Soft, and Soft.
Other instrument features include a transposition option for the Keyboard, Smart Keyboard, and Sampler: If you’re unhappy with your track, or want a different sound, you can adjust it by half-steps and octaves. And if you’re a drum enthusiast, you’ll also find a new switch in settings to separate the bass drum from the cymbal.
General tweaks
GarageBand’s instruments have gotten most of the new goodies in this update, but there are a few new general features out there, too: Two new time signatures, 3/4 and 6/8, join the default 4/4; you can change your song’s key without automatically transposing your other tracks to the new key; and new quantization options allow you to correct your song’s timing with swing and triplet notes. Finally, you can export your finished song in two new formats: AAC (from low-quality 64 kbs to iTunes Plus-quality 256 kbs) and uncompressed AIFF.
In short: This is a huge update. I spent several hours digging around, and even then, I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface of what it has to offer. I certainly like what I see, though, and can’t wait to dig around a little more. Who knows? There might even be some treasure lurking beneath the surface. For that, you’ll have to stay tuned for Macworld's full review of GarageBand 1.1, coming soon.
Updated 11/3/11 1:53 p.m. PT to note that the Arpeggiator had previously been available in 1.0 for the Keyboard and Sampler.
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Comedy drama series Moving Story details the ‘ups and downs’ of a removal firm, especially the main crew of ‘The African Queen’ led by the general...
Monsignor Renard (ITV Drama, John Thaw)
Period drama series Monsignor Renard was an interesting series for John Thaw, the series was set in the 1940’s French town of St-Josse-des-Bois, where Catholic Priest...
Peak Practice (ITV Medical Drama, Kevin Whately, Amanda Burton)
Medical drama series Peak Practice detailed the problems of a medical practice in the Derbyshire peak district. Initially the first three seasons concentrated on the relationship...
What Katy Did (ITV 2000, Alison Pill, Kevin Whately)
Period drama. At the beginning of the 19th Century in Canada, young 14 year old mischevious Katy tries to change her ways following the arrival of...
Frenchman’s Creek (ITV 1998, Tara Fiztgerald, Anthony Delon)
One off period drama Frenchman’s Creek was based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier. 17th century noblewoman Lady Dona St Columbo returns home to Cornwall...
Canterville Ghost, The (ITV 1997, Ian Richardson, Celia Imrie)
Period Children’s comedy drama. A faithful rendering of the Oscar Wilde short story The Canterville Ghost about an American family in Victorian times moving into a...
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (ITV 2000, Nigel Planer)
Each episode of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is a humorous animated morality tale in which naughty children get punished in various gruesome ways. For example,...
Is It Legal? (ITV-C4 1995-1998, Patrick Barlow, Imelda Staunton)
Sitcom Is It Legal? detailed the exploits of the staff of the firm of shambolic solicitors Lotus, Spackman & Phelps. Stella Phelps was the senior partner...
Holding The Baby (ITV 1997-1998, Nick Hancock, Joe Duttine)
In sitcom Holding The Baby Father Gordon Muir copes with bringing up his young son alone and holding down a responsible job. As the series begins...
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AUTOIMMUNE INTERSTITIAL LUNG, JOINT, AND KIDNEY DISEASE; AILJK
Autoimmune interstitial lung, joint, and kidney disease is an autosomal dominant systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by interstitial lung disease, inflammatory arthritis, and immune complex-mediated renal disease. Laboratory studies show high-titer autoantibodies. Symptoms appear in the first 2 decades of life, but there is incomplete penetrance (summary by Watkin et al., 2015).
Genes related to Autoimmune Interstitial Lung, Joint, And Kidney Disease; Ailjk
Top most frequent phenotypes and symptoms related to Autoimmune Interstitial Lung, Joint, And Kidney Disease; Ailjk
Respiratory distress
Abnormal lung morphology
Tachypnea
Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate
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Autoimmune Interstitial Lung, Joint, And Kidney Disease; Ailjk Recommended genes panels
Panel Name, Specifity and genes Tested/covered
Neonatal Respiratory Distress Del/Dup Panel.
By Division of Genomic Diagnostics The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in United States.
JAG1, FOXF1, GATA2, SLC7A7, FLNA, DKC1, MARS, TERC, TERT, CSF2RA, CSF2RB, NKX2-1, ABCA3, SFTPB, NOTCH2, COPA
Neonatal Respiratory Distress Seq + Del/ Dup Panel.
Neonatal Respiratory Distress Seq Analysis.
Comprehensive Pulmonary-Vascular Seq Analysis.
INVS, JAG1, RPGR, CCDC39, CFTR, FOXF1, SMAD4, GATA2, ENG, SLC7A7, FLNA, OFD1, RASA1, DKC1, MARS, TERC, ACVRL1, BMPR1B, DNAH8, DNAH1 , (...)
View the complete list with 45 more genes
Panel GTR000553478 complete gene list
INVS, JAG1, RPGR, CCDC39, CFTR, FOXF1, SMAD4, GATA2, ENG, SLC7A7, FLNA, OFD1, RASA1, DKC1, MARS, TERC, ACVRL1, BMPR1B, DNAH8, DNAH1, MCIDAS, TERT, GAS8, RSPH3, CCDC151, CCNO, GDF2, SPAG1, CCDC65, DNAAF4, RSPH1, ARMC4, ZMYND10, KCNK3, CAV1, SMAD9, DRC1, CSF2RA, CCDC114, LRRC6, DNAAF5, CCDC103, DNAAF3, CSF2RB, DNAL1, CCDC40, DNAAF1, RSPH9, RSPH4A, DNAAF2, DNAI2, KCNA5, DNAH11, NKX2-1, ABCA3, NME8, DNAH5, BMPR2, SFTPB, DNAI1, NOTCH2, EIF2AK4, COPA, DNAH6, HYDIN
Comprehensive Pulmonary-Vascular Del/Dup Panel.
INVS, JAG1, RPGR, CCDC39, CFTR, FOXF1, SMAD4, GATA2, ENG, SLC7A7, FLNA, OFD1, RASA1, DKC1, MARS, TERC, ACVRL1, BMPR1B, DNAH8, DNAH1, MCIDAS, TERT, GAS8, RSPH3, CCDC151, CCNO, GDF2, SPAG1, CCDC65, DNAAF4, RSPH1, ARMC4, KCNK3, CAV1, SMAD9, DRC1, CSF2RA, CCDC114, LRRC6, DNAAF5, CCDC103, DNAAF3, CSF2RB, DNAL1, CCDC40, DNAAF1, RSPH9, RSPH4A, DNAAF2, DNAI2, KCNA5, DNAH11, NKX2-1, ABCA3, NME8, DNAH5, BMPR2, SFTPB, DNAI1, NOTCH2, EIF2AK4, COPA, DNAH6, HYDIN
Comprehensive Pulmonary-Vascular Seq + Del/Dup Panel.
Single gene testing COPA.
By CeGaT GmbH in Germany.
Invitae Primary Immunodeficiency Panel.
By Invitae in United States.
PMS2, STAT1, SLC37A4, CASP8, TLR3, HAX1, AP3B1, UNG, TAP1, TAZ, TCN2, AK2, SLC35C1, CYBA, STAT3, ADA, MOGS, IL2RG, PNP, AIRE , (...)
View the complete list with 187 more genes
PMS2, STAT1, SLC37A4, CASP8, TLR3, HAX1, AP3B1, UNG, TAP1, TAZ, TCN2, AK2, SLC35C1, CYBA, STAT3, ADA, MOGS, IL2RG, PNP, AIRE, CHD7, RMRP, TINF2, ATM, NBN, GATA2, PRF1, CYBB, DCLRE1C, SLC7A7, RTEL1, WAS, BTK, SAMHD1, RNASEH2A, RNASEH2C, RNASEH2B, TREX1, VPS13B, ACTB, NLRP3, SEMA3E, MVK, FOXP3, MAGT1, DKC1, CTSC, BLOC1S6, LYST, TBK1, TERC, TERT, PARN, DOCK8, CSF2RA, PSMB8, IFIH1, ADAR, MEFV, SH2D1A, NCF2, NCF4, JAK3, SH3BP2, CTC1, NHP2, NOP10, NOD2, SLC29A3, FERMT3, RAB27A, STIM1, MYD88, CSF3R, TNFRSF13B, AICDA, CD40LG, IFNGR1, IFNGR2, CD3E, CD3D, IL7R, RAG2, RAG1, ZAP70, POLE, UNC13D, FAS, STX11, ELANE, XIAP, FASLG, CASP10, STXBP2, ITK, G6PC3, VPS45, GFI1, LAMTOR2, RAC2, CXCR4, NHEJ1, LIG4, STAT5B, PTPRC, ORAI1, FOXN1, LPIN2, PIK3CD, IRAK4, LRBA, NFKBIA, FADD, CD27, WIPF1, CIITA, IL12RB1, RFX5, RFXANK, RFXAP, STK4, TNFRSF1A, NFKB2, CTLA4, EPG5, IL10RA, IL17F, JAGN1, NLRC4, SMARCAL1, TTC7A, PIK3R1, TPP2, ACD, CARD9, CR2, ICOS, IL10RB, PRKDC, TNFRSF13C, TYK2, ADA2, IL12B, ISG15, PRKCD, PSTPIP1, PGM3, UNC93B1, TRAF3, TICAM1, NLRP12, TMEM173, CARD11, IL2RA, DNMT3B, CLPB, TRNT1, SPINK5, IL36RN, CARD14, IL1RN, IL10, ACP5, RBCK1, PLCG2, B2M, BLNK, CD79A, IGLL1, CD79B, ITGB2, TMC6, TMC8, CEBPE, COPA, IL21, IL21R, MALT1, TRAF3IP2, IL17RA, CD3G, CORO1A, STAT2, ITCH, CD8A, CD247, IRF8, BCL10, ADAM17, ZBTB24, CTPS1, LCK, IKBKB, TNFSF12, SP110, FPR1, RHOH, TNFRSF4, TAP2, TAPBP, IL17RC, NFAT5, MAP3K14, DOCK2, DCLRE1B, RORC, IRF7
Invitae Autoinflammatory Syndromes Panel.
NLRP3, MVK, PSMB8, MEFV, SH3BP2, NOD2, SLC29A3, ELANE, LPIN2, TNFRSF1A, IL10RA, NLRC4, IL10RB, ADA2, PSTPIP1, NLRP12, TRNT1, IL36RN, CARD14, IL1RN , (...)
View the complete list with 6 more genes
NLRP3, MVK, PSMB8, MEFV, SH3BP2, NOD2, SLC29A3, ELANE, LPIN2, TNFRSF1A, IL10RA, NLRC4, IL10RB, ADA2, PSTPIP1, NLRP12, TRNT1, IL36RN, CARD14, IL1RN, IL10, RBCK1, PLCG2, COPA, ADAM17, NFAT5
By Fulgent Genetics Fulgent Genetics in United States.
Primary Immunodeficiency Panel.
By Blueprint Genetics in Finland.
PMS2, RECQL4, STAT1, SLC37A4, CASP8, CLCN7, HAX1, AP3B1, UNG, TAP1, TCN2, AK2, SLC35C1, CYBA, STAT3, ADA, MOGS, IL2RG, PNP, AIRE , (...)
PMS2, RECQL4, STAT1, SLC37A4, CASP8, CLCN7, HAX1, AP3B1, UNG, TAP1, TCN2, AK2, SLC35C1, CYBA, STAT3, ADA, MOGS, IL2RG, PNP, AIRE, CFTR, BLM, CHD7, KRAS, NRAS, RMRP, TINF2, ATM, MRE11, NBN, GATA2, SBDS, PRF1, G6PD, CYBB, DCLRE1C, SLC7A7, RTEL1, WAS, BTK, PIGA, SAMHD1, RNASEH2A, RNASEH2C, RNASEH2B, OFD1, TREX1, VPS13B, TBX1, ACTB, NLRP3, MVK, FOXP3, MAGT1, DKC1, CTSC, UNC119, LYST, TERC, TERT, PARN, DOCK8, CSF2RA, CSF2RB, PSMB8, HELLS, IFIH1, ADAR, MEFV, SH2D1A, NCF2, NCF4, JAK3, CFB, CFI, CFH, CD46, C3, THBD, CTC1, WRAP53, NHP2, NOP10, C1S, NOD2, DGKE, SLC29A3, MASP1, SRP72, USB1, SLC46A1, FERMT3, MYO5A, RAB27A, STIM1, MYD88, IKZF1, CSF3R, TNFRSF13B, AICDA, CD40, CD40LG, IFNGR1, IFNGR2, CD3E, CD3D, IL7R, RAG2, RAG1, ZAP70, POLE, UNC13D, FAS, STX11, ELANE, XIAP, FASLG, CASP10, STXBP2, ITK, G6PC3, VPS45, GFI1, LAMTOR2, RAC2, CXCR4, NHEJ1, LIG4, STAT5B, PTPRC, ORAI1, FOXN1, LPIN2, PIK3CD, IRAK4, LRBA, NFKBIA, FADD, CD27, WIPF1, CIITA, IL12RB1, RFX5, RFXANK, RFXAP, STK4, TNFRSF1A, NFKB2, CTLA4, EPG5, IL10RA, JAGN1, NLRC4, SMARCAL1, TTC7A, PIK3R1, ACD, CARD9, CD19, CR2, CD81, ICOS, IL10RB, PRKDC, TYK2, CFD, ADA2, IL12B, ISG15, PRKCD, PSTPIP1, PGM3, DNAJC21, C2, UNC93B1, NLRP12, TMEM173, CARD11, SAMD9, SAMD9L, IL2RA, DNMT3B, RNU4ATAC, USP18, CLPB, RNF168, TRNT1, SERPING1, SPINK5, IL36RN, CARD14, NLRP1, TNFAIP3, NCSTN, PSENEN, IL1RN, DDX58, IL10, RNF31, C1QC, ACP5, C1QA, RBCK1, C1QB, PLCG2, BLNK, CD79A, IGLL1, CD79B, NCF1, ITGB2, PEPD, CFP, TMC6, TMC8, COLEC11, CEBPE, COPA, NFKB1, IL21, IL21R, MALT1, TRAF3IP2, IL17RA, TCF3, CD3G, CORO1A, CD70, WDR1, SMARCD2, EXTL3, STAT2, MTHFD1, CD8A, CD247, IRF8, BCL10, ADAM17, CD59, ZBTB24, ERCC6L2, CTPS1, LCK, IKBKB, RPSA, SP110, RHOH, TNFRSF4, TAP2, TAPBP, IL17RC, MAP3K14, DOCK2, DCLRE1B, RORC, CD55, IFNAR2, NSMCE3, CDCA7, GINS1, MSN, MRTFA, LAT, BACH2, ARPC1B, JAK1, HYOU1, POLE2, TFRC, ZNF341, CARMIL2, RASGRP1, IRF2BP2, OTULIN, BCL11B
Next Generation Sequencing for Jaundice Associated Genes Variation Test.
By National Taiwan University Hospital A1 Center National Taiwan University Hospital in Taiwan.
HFE, ABCB11, ABCB4, ATP7B, ATP8B1, BCS1L, TWNK, INVS, HBB, HNF1B, AMACR, JAG1, POLG, RRM2B, SLC25A13, DGUOK, MPV17, SUCLG1, ASS1, CYP27A1 , (...)
HFE, ABCB11, ABCB4, ATP7B, ATP8B1, BCS1L, TWNK, INVS, HBB, HNF1B, AMACR, JAG1, POLG, RRM2B, SLC25A13, DGUOK, MPV17, SUCLG1, ASS1, CYP27A1, ASL, CFTR, LIPA, NPC1, NPC2, HBA1, G6PD, HBA2, SERPINA1, UGT1A1, PKHD1, PKD2, PKD1, CYP7B1, DCDC2, TJP2, ABCB1, TFAM, FTL, AKR1D1, SCO1, VPS33B, BAAT, SLC40A1, ABCC2, TFR2, PRKCSH, HAMP, HJV, CLDN1, EPHX1, SLC10A1, NOTCH2, HSD3B7, SLCO1B1, SLCO1B3, SEC63, CYP7A1, COPA, NR1H4, MYO5B, CD14, FOXM1, CHMP5, SLC51A, SLC51B, SLCO1A2, SLCO2B1, ABCC3, ABCC4, HES1, ONECUT1, FGF19
Autoimmune Interstitial Lung, Joint, And Kidney Disease; Ailjk Is also known as ;copa syndrome.
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The Top 10 Exhibitions of 2017
This year saw an incredible diversity of exhibitions, many of which looked to the past in unconventional ways.
Metropolis Editors,
Barbican Exhibit on Japanese Houses Is a Veritable Architectural Playground: This exhibition at the Barbican Gallery highlighted Japanese architects’ thrilling, seemingly impractical, sometimes topsy-turvy experiments with the house. Click for More.
As 2017 draws to a close, we’re looking back at this year’s biggest and best stories: from new buildings to controversies, interiors, products, and beyond. Enjoy the list below, but be sure to find our other “Top 10” lists here as they come online running up to December 31, 2017.
This year saw an incredible diversity of exhibitions, many of which looked to the past in unconventional ways. The Chicago Architecture Biennial challenged participants to “Make New History” while Adam Nathaniel Furman used colorful pottery to evoke the architectural grandeur of Rome. And for each more conventional exhibition—the Met’s delightful look back on Ettore Sottsass, for instance—there was something more idiosyncratic to match, such as BIO 25, Ljubljana’s design biennale.
Frank Lloyd Wright Is a Urbanist, Marketeer, Horticulturalist, and More, at This MoMA Exhibition: Curator Barry Bergdoll breaks down Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive and explains why he hopes the show will signal a Wrightian renaissance. Click for More.
From Monstrous to Marvelous, “Never Built New York” Showcases NYC’s Unrealized Ambitions: By considering the city's unbuilt skyline, this exhibition at the Queens Museum compels viewers to consider its future. Click for More.
111 Garments that Changed the Course of Modern Fashion, According to MoMA : From Burberry to the burkini, the museum spotlighted the cultural significance of clothing for the first time in seven decades. Click for More.
The Chicago Architecture Biennial Looks to "Make New History": Catch all of Metropolis Magazine's coverage of the U.S. largest architectural event Click for More.
New Exhibition Rediscovers the Overlooked Design Work of Pierre Chareau: The show at the Jewish Museum in New York City rescued the French avant-garde architect and designer from obscurity. Click for More.
RIBA Tells a Tale of Two Londons, or Why Mies Failed and Stirling Prevailed: Circling the Square at the RIBA dealt closely with the work of two of the 20th century’s most formidable architects: Mies van der Rohe and James Stirling. Click for More.
At BIO 25, Design Mends Political and Cultural Divisions: The latest iteration of BIO, Ljubljana’s design biennale, aimed at the full socialization of design and miraculously succeeds. Click for More.
Adam Nathaniel Furman Condenses Rome’s Architectural Wonders into Vibrant Ceramics: The designs were hosted at the Sir John Soane's Museum in a newly-opened basement gallery. Click for More.
A Q&A With Met Curator Christian Larsen on Rediscovering Sottsass: Associate curator of Modern Design and Decorative Arts, Christian Larsen, explains why the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to revisit and exhibit the "happy" works of Italian designer Ettore Sottsass. Click for More.
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Francesc Rifé Designs a Headquarters for Power Electronics
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Michigan Bed Rail Injury Lawyers
Our Michigan nursing home injury lawyers at Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. handle cases involving bed rail entrapment injuries and deaths in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living centers in Michigan. While bed rails serve the purpose of preventing patients from falling out of bed and sustaining injuries, they also pose a significant risk of injury to nursing home residents. A resident who is injured from a bed rail does have legal rights under Michigan law.
According the the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), bed rail injuries are disturbingly frequent. Between January 1, 1985 and January 1, 2008, FDA received 722 incidents of patients caught, trapped, entangled, or strangled in hospital beds. There are many potential risks of bed rails. They include:
Strangling, suffocating, bodily injury or death when patients or part of their body are caught between rails or between the bed rails and mattresses.
More serious injuries from falls when patients climb over rails.
Skin bruising, cuts, and scrapes.
Inducing agitated behavior when bed rails are used as a restraint.
Feeling isolated or unnecessarily restricted.
Preventing patients, who are able to get out of bed, from performing routine activities such as going to the bathroom or retreiving something from a closet.
There are recommended bed rail guidelines for hospitals and nursing homes for bed rails. When bed rails are used, it is essential that the medical staff perform an on-going assessment of the patient’s physical and mental status and closely monitor high-risk patients. The facility should also consider lowering one or more sections of the bed rail, such as the foot rail, and reducing the gaps between the mattress and the side rails. It is also recommended that the facility should use a proper size mattress or mattress with raised foam edges to prevent patients from benign trapped between the mattress and rail. The failure to follow these recommended procedures can cause serious injury and harm to a patient and can give rise to a Michigan nursing home neglect lawsuit.
Our experienced Michigan nursing home neglect lawyers represent residents and their families in lawsuits involving bed rail injuries. These lawsuits seek compensation for the resident and the family for the injuries suffered. They also serve to prevent such a tragedy from happening to another resident in the future. When a resident dies due to a bed rail, we file a Michigan Wrongful Death lawsuit on behalf of the surviving family members.
If a loved one has suffered a bed rail injury in a Michigan nursing home due to neglect and abuse, call our office now at (800) 606-1717 to speak with one of our experienced nursing home injury lawyers. We will start working on your case immediately and gather the necessary evidence to prove and win your case. We will also get you the real answers as to what happened and how it happened.
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Tag: gender
A major study in India offers insights into on how the spread of the virus differs by age and gender.
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An ambitious new study of nearly 85,000 coronavirus cases in India and nearly 600,000 of their contacts, published Wednesday in the journal Science, offers important insights not just for India, but for other low- and middle-income countries.
India now has more than six million cases, second only to the United States.
Among the findings of the study: The median hospital stay before death from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, was five days in India, compared with two weeks in the United States, possibly because of limited access to quality care. And the trend in increasing deaths with age seemed to drop off after age 65 — perhaps because Indians who live past that age tend to be relatively wealthy and have access to good health care.
The contact tracing study also found that children of all ages can become infected with the coronavirus and spread it to others
Championing better health outcomes for sexual, gender minorities – UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff
By CHARLES ANZALONE
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified health disparities among minority racial and ethnic populations. Amy Hequembourg, associate professor in the School of Nursing, is also concerned about another population facing disproportionate health risks: sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations.
SGM populations represent diverse individuals who suffer from a variety of health disparities. Unique forms of stress resulting from discrimination and prejudice targeting SGM identities are at the heart of these disparities, and drive poor health outcomes and risky health behaviors.
“Heterosexism operates as a system of interrelated cultural, legal and social structures that assume compulsory heterosexuality, and marginalize and penalize those who don’t conform to that expectation, thus perpetuating inequality” says Hequembourg, whose research focuses on understanding why SGM individuals are at risk for experiencing adverse health outcomes.
“Sexual minority stressors, such as repeated exposure to daily micro-aggressions and prejudice, are rooted in
A new database tracks COVID-19’s effects on sex and gender
This story was published in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy.
© Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP Images
Pedestrians wear masks as they cross a street amid the coronavirus pandemic in Santa Monica, California.
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, details about the virus’ sex and gender implications have begun to emerge: More men than women are dying from the coronavirus. But other details — such as why, or what social or biological mechanisms are involved, or what that means for treatment or public health — remain unknown.
One problem, experts say, is an international blind spot to sex and gender. Global disease surveillance systems have done a poor job of monitoring how the virus affects people of different gender identities or sexes.
Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.
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Causes Of Gender Inequality
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Dual Language Parent Collaboratives
Elementary ESL Campus and District Contacts
Newcomer Immigrant Summer Academy (NISA)
Spanish Immersion Program - Parent Collaborative Resources
Advanced Spanish Language Program
SOAR Academy
Secondary ESL Campus and District Contacts
Advanced Spanish Language Program FAQ's
Will the elementary Dual Language Program be continued?
There are no plans to discontinue elementary dual language programs.
Will the elementary Spanish Immersion Program be continued?
There are no plans to discontinue this elementary program of choice. LISD is pleased to be one of a small number of districts in North Texas to provide this type of enrichment language program at select elementary schools.
Why is a content-specific program not being offered at middle school campuses?
Information previously provided indicated the middle school program was expected to mirror the elementary program. As the program continued to develop, we discovered maintaining staffing necessary to continue in this manner would not be sustainable across all middle schools offering the program, due to the lack of secondary teachers that have a bilingual certification and content area certification.
What is the district doing to increase retention and recruitment efforts for hiring bilingually certified staff?
The recruitment of certified bilingual staff is a challenge across Texas and the United States. Even still, the percentage of diverse staff in Lewisville ISD has climbed from 10% to 16% over the past 5 school years. To increase interest of certified bilingual staff in Lewisville ISD, we commit to the following strategies:
Continue to advertise Lewisville ISD as an employer in traditional and social media aimed at diverse audiences.
Continue to enhance professional relationships with colleges and universities across the state that produce bilingual and minority candidates.
Continue to attend local, regional and statewide employment fairs to connect with bilingual and minority candidates.
What type of success rate do middle school 8th grade students currently have on the AP Spanish 4 exam?
On an AP exam students can score a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. In 2016, 72% of 8th graders who took the AP Spanish 4 exam earned a 3, 4, or 5. According to the College Board, many colleges and universities grant credit and placement for scores of 3, 4 or 5; however, each college decides which scores it will accept.
What are the benefits of AP courses?
According to the College Board, by taking an AP course and scoring successfully on the related AP Exam, you can save on college expenses. Most colleges and universities nationwide offer college credit, advanced placement, or both, for qualifying AP Exam scores. These credits can allow students to save college tuition, study abroad or secure a second major. Taking an AP course, the most rigorous courses high schools have to offer, lets colleges and universities know that your student has what it takes to succeed in an undergraduate environment. When admissions officers see “AP” on a transcript, they know that what they experienced in a particular class has prepared them well for the challenges of college.
Is the Spanish 3 PreAP course in middle school the same course as the Spanish 3 PreAP at the high school?
No, the middle school course is designed specifically for Spanish Speakers that are coming with significant language experiences.
UPDATED Sept. 2, 2016
Are any current students losing services?
It is important to remember that the largest numbers of students who are either in a Dual Language or Spanish Immersion program are currently 4th graders or younger. The changes explained by the district does not change a program that was already implemented and in progress. Only one middle school out of five that were offering a program last year is impacted by any change, the other 3 programs remain unchanged for current middle school students.
How will these changes impact students enrolled in the program?
The program consistently offered across the district was already PreAP/AP Spanish, which is unchanged by the information shared with parents. Until this school year only four middle schools received students who have participated in an elementary Dual Language program, as students who participate in Spanish Immersion and other elementary Dual Language programs have not yet reached middle school age.
Is there any dual-language instruction at the middle school level in LISD?
As stated earlier, there were only four middle schools receiving students from elementary Dual Language programs last school year. Three out four of those schools have been providing a PreAP/AP Spanish program, so for those students there is no change in what is being offered. Three years ago there were three middle schools that piloted offering a content area course in Spanish in addition to PreAP/AP Spanish courses. Last school year only Killian MS still had content area courses in 6th and 7th grade in addition to PreAP/AP Spanish. In June, the Killian teachers in the content area courses taught in Spanish pursued other job opportunities. Therefore the Killian MS program beginning with this school year consists of PreAP/AP Spanish only. Parents of incoming 6th graders who were impacted by these staffing changes were notified in June of this change.
What LISD is doing to attract and retain bilingual teachers?
Since, the 1990s the area of bilingual certified teachers has been submitted by Texas to the U.S. Department of Education as an area of shortage. The shortage of bilingual teachers is not specific to LISD, but is a statewide issue. Jobs are always posted with bilingual in the title and last year our Employee Services department went to job fairs that had bilingual attendees and also visited colleges and universities that have significant numbers of bilingual teachers in their population.
If the number of bilingual teachers available increased, could the middle school program change? Or if the number of bilingual teachers decreased, would the elementary program be significantly changed?
As addressed above bilingual teacher shortages are a statewide job market challenge at both elementary and secondary. As indicated in the materials provided to parents the district is not planning on changes to the elementary programs.
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Anna Sudac is an actor, singer/songwriter, comedienne and proud Kingstonian. A graduate of Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Performance program, Anna has spent the last decade following any and every creative impulse. This has led to a resume which includes hosting a weekly variety show, headlining house concerts, emceeing musi c festivals, DJ-ing dance parties, appearing in both th e Toronto and Montreal Sketch Comedy Festivals, presenting original songs & stand-up in the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival, and singing backup in Georgette Fry’s Etta James Show and Spencer Evans’ recent tribute to Ray Charles.
Anna has appeared in productions at Theatre Kingston, as well as staged readings at the Thousand Islands Playhouse, performed original pieces in the Storefront and Kick & Push festivals, co-created and toured five musicals, and performs with Jesse MacMillan at weddings, bars, theatres, fish-frys and aboard VIA Rail.
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Tracey is a movement-based actor, collaborative creator, and teaching artist who recently studied with Philippe Gaulier in France. Kingston co-creations include Ambros, Anybody Can be Pussy Riot, the film LIVE in Kingston, and When I Get There – a Performance as Research master's thesis completed with the Environmental Studies department at Queen's University, where she brought together her activism, philosophical studies and love of performance. Tracey is also a co-founder of anARC Theatre and the Kingston Stilters. She lives on a working farm on one of the Thousand Islands.
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Jesse MacMillan comes from a family of performers and grew up within Toronto’s arts world. While studying Film and Television Production at Humber College, Jesse expanded his musical skills by leading a bluegrass comedy band, singing in a rock group, and recording his own music on the side. Since finishing school, Jesse has had his short films screened at The After Dark Film Festival and The London Short Film Festival, where his film 'Sea Shells' won 'Best Story' and 'Audience Choice' in 2011. Performing with Toronto sketch troupes, Geronimo Deadly and ThunderCountry, Jesse has always maintained a strong connection with audiences and loves to perform.
Having played Johnny Cash in Million Dollar Quartet (Thousand Islands Playhouse), and most recently as Johnny in What a Young Wife Ought to Know (Theatre Kingston), he has also kept himself involved in the theatre world as a sound designer/composer for Butcher, Armstrong’s War (Theatre Kingston), Midsummer's Eve (Calliope Collective), One Last Night with Mata Hari (Dan School of Drama and Music), MacDeath (Kingstown Players), Gruesome Playground Injuries, Psychosis 4.48 (Common Place Theatre).
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James was live in Kingston for four great years of Drama studies. He has since moved back to Toronto and continues training as an actor and to make art. He certainly misses the Kingston arts community. His top artistic memories include Kingston film projects like LIVE In Kingston, touring the city with the Barefoot Players theatre troupe and playing the Wolfe Island and Skeleton Park music/arts festivals with his own band Sweet Jets.
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Kitten thrives after losing leg
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Ryan's faced a lot in life for a three-month-old.
Born on the streets and brought to the Brandywine Valley SPCA with a severely damaged and broken leg, he had to have his leg amputated. Resilient, like most kittens, Ryan took it all in stride. With the help of BVSPCA staff and medical team, he made a full recovery.
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Today, Ryan is a cheerful, playful kitten looking for a forever home. He loves the company of other kittens and enjoys playing with any toy he can find.
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NYCFC happy to have Taty Castellanos in form as they press for playoffs
November 1, 202011:08PM EST
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New York City FC don't control their own destiny when it comes to opening the Audi 2020 MLS Cup Playoffs at Yankee Stadium. That doesn't mean the prospect is completely out of the question, though, especially after Sunday night's 5-2 victory over the New York Red Bulls in the latest chapter of the Hudson River Derby.
Despite Orlando City's 1-0 win at the Montreal Impact, if Orlando or Columbus Crew SC lose their final two matches and the Cityzens top Chicago Fire SC on Decision Day presented by AT&T, the 4th seed is theirs. The odds of this happening increase considering Orlando and Columbus play each other on Wednesday.
HIGHLIGHTS: NYCFC vs. New York Red Bulls
It might be a tough ask, but NYCFC head coach Ronny Delia can rest assured knowing that his club did their part, scoring their most goals in the history of the derby.
"We knew that if we won this game that we would keep it exciting until the last game," he said. "Now Orlando and Columbus can't [make] any mistakes. If they do, then we are (right) there if we do our job.
"Chicago's going to be a tough game. They are one of the best teams to play. If we don't [play well] there, we can get in big trouble. But at the same time, we beat them last time and we really want to do that again."
Regardless of what happens, NYCFC have already safely clinched a spot in the postseason, and after a big night from Valentin Castellanos, Delia will be leaning on the Argentine — as well as fellow attackers Gary Mackay-Steven, who scored on Sunday, and Jesus Medina — to continue to be active as the club pushes toward a first championship.
For the first-year boss, it starts with continued confidence and belief in the group, even through difficult stretches.
"We believe in the players," Delia said. "They have been through some hard times, Taty lately, and Gary [in] the period he's been here and Jesus had it tough last year. So you have to, again, keep on working with them, give them opportunities, and then they (will) understand that they are great football players and they get more and more confidence."
If the Cityzens do end up in the top 4, it will look upon Castellanos' best performance in MLS — scoring the 5th hat trick in club history and adding an assist — as a key factor. The striker had been struggling this season with just two goals and is Deila's lone option up top with Heber out for the year.
WATCH: Castellanos' hat trick
It was a much different feeling in the opposing dressing room, as the Red Bulls were left licking their wounds after their heaviest defeat to their cross-river foes as a five-game unbeaten run came to a screeching halt. The loss comes with Toronto FC coming to town next week looking to add a second Supporters' Shield to their trophy cabinet and with the playoffs right around the corner.
"If you allow a team like New York City to pass the ball around at ease and at will, it's going to be tough for anybody," interim head coach Bradley Carnell said. "We pride ourselves on our proactive defending and I felt that slipped away from us today. I can't blame the players. This is something that has to go on my cap and I take full responsibility."
Got the derby dub ✅ pic.twitter.com/FaVBWXr6Ay
— New York City FC (@NYCFC) November 2, 2020
Still, Carnell hopes that with the Red Bulls having already clinched a playoff spot, Sunday can serve as a "reality check", especially with an opportunity wasted to send a message to not just its opponent, but the entire league.
"Big apologies to the fans, because this hurts the most and certain games like this, where we want to achieve more and really make a statement in the league and show where we are and who we believe to be," he said. "And then we just get our feet taken away from us.
"Disappointing for sure, learning moments for sure, but we’ll bounce back, and work harder than ever to finish the season in the right way."
Taty more than doubles 2020 goal total with hat trick
November 1, 2020 (1 min)
HIGHLIGHTS: NYCFC vs. New York Red Bulls | November 1, 2020
NY is blue! Taty's hat trick leads NYCFC past Red Bulls
PK GOAL: Valentín Castellanos, NYCFC - 84th minute
PENALTY: Tim Parker, New York Red Bulls - 83rd minute
GOAL: Valentín Castellanos, NYCFC - 76th minute
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Alere forks over $33m to settle DOJ inquiry
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The U.S. Dept. of Justice said today that Abbott‘s (NYSE:ABT) Alere (NYSE:ALR) agreed to pay $33.2 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly sold unreliable point-of-care diagnostic devices, causing hospitals to submit false claim to Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs.
The U.S. alleged that Alere sold materially unreliable Triage devices, which are designed to diagnose serious conditions like acute coronary syndrome and drug overdose, between Jan. 2006 and March 2012. The government claimed that Alere received an array of customer complaints regarding its Triage devices, notifying the company that certain devices produced results with the potential to create false positives and negatives.
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Federal agency visit Corning Center nursing home due to COVID outbreak
by: Ariel Salk
CORNING, NY (WETM) – The Corning Center nursing home has reported 25 COVID related deaths, making up roughly a third of the deaths in Steuben County.
A Strike Team from the federal agency, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, has been sent to the nursing home, according to state officials.
The Strike Teams “provide onsite technical assistance and education to nursing homes experiencing outbreaks in an effort to help reduce transmission and the risk of covid-19 spread among residents,” according to the CMS website.
“Members from the NY State Department of Health, Infection Control and the CDC have visited over the past week and members of the federal agency, CMS, are visiting today and they have found ZERO deficiencies at the Corning Center on East First Street in Corning. This means that the facility is doing nothing wrong as they are following the guidelines by the CDC at the Department of Health with keeping residents and staff safe from COVID-19. A “strike team” isn’t a special team as people think it may be, clarifying this, it is just a combination of various agencies giving guidance to the staff and leadership at a facility, this being Corning Center,” said Spokesperson Jeff Jacomowitz of the Corning Center.
Jacomowitz says that the Corning Center is not calling the help from the CMS a Strike Team because of how it sounds.
“Corning Center is not calling this a “strike team” because we feel that term misconstrues what was really going on at the facility…..guidance,” said Jacomowitz.
The New York State Department of Health has also stepped in to help the Nursing Home manage the spread. Jill Montag, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health, said in a statement
The New York State Department of Health continues to actively respond to the situation at Corning Center. We have held daily phone calls with the facility. We have conducted Focus Infection Control Surveys at Corning Center on June 10, September 10, September 23, October 6 and October 12. No deficiencies were identified. Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker has spoken to the administrator, offering assistance with PPE and staffing. The facility declined this offer, stating that they had sufficient PPE and appropriate staffing levels, had tested all residents of the facility and all of the staff, are continuing all testing efforts, and are cohorting Corning Center residents based on COVID-19 test results. . In addition, a DOH epidemiologist visited the facility on September 22 and made general infection control recommendations to the facility, and we have shared information with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for their strike team visit,” Jill Montag, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health, said in a statement.
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STEUBEN COUNTY, NY (WETM) - At the start of the pandemic, Steuben County nursing homes were hit the hardest, but recently the once hotspots are reporting fewer fatalities.
Over 100 residents in nursing homes have passed away due to COVID in the county. As of 2021, the county has reported one COVID related death.
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COVID-19: UBA Presents N1billion to Lagos State, Applauds Govt Effort to Fight Pandemic
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Lagos, March 29, 2020; United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has presented the sum of N1 billion to the Lagos State Government as part of the bank’s commitment to help curb the effect of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). This is also in fulfilment of its N5 billion commitment made by the UBA Group Chairman, Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, last week.
Whilst presenting the cheque to the Lagos State Governor at the Government House in Marina, UBA’s Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, said that as a socially responsible institution, UBA cares for its communities and for Lagos State which has recorded the highest number of positive cases thus far, needing special attention.
Donation to Lagos 1: UBA Supports Lagos State in Fight Against COVID-19 . Group Managing Director/CEO, United Bank for Africa(UBA), Mr, Kennedy Uzoka presenting a cheque of N1 billion to Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as part of the Bank’s donation of over 5 billion Naira (USD14 million), through the UBA Foundation, to catalyse a comprehensive pan-African response to the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic., in Lagos House, Marina on Sunday
He disclosed that the decision to give Lagos N1bn was as a result of the important role that the state plays in the economy of not only Nigeria, but Africa as a whole, given its vast population and other key economic factors.
Uzoka said to Mr Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, “Given the population of this state and that it is the business nerve centre, we at UBA are committed to lending our support to the state government. So today, we are giving you and the state N1bn (one billion naira) to support your endeavour in fighting the Coronavirus disease.
Continuing, he said, “I will not fail to mention that this wasn’t an easy decision for us because Lagos is just one of the many states in Nigeria. However, we looked at the importance of Lagos to Nigeria, but more importantly, we looked at the fact that Lagos has set up the right structure to administer whatever it is that we are giving to the state. So, we are rest assured, because we believe without an iota of doubt that the state will use these funds effectively and efficiently,” Uzoka explained.
Receiving the cheque, Mr Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, appreciated the support of the bank, which according to him will go a long way to assist the state in kicking out the worrisome pandemic. He said, “We appreciate UBA. This is not the kind of money that we would want to take for granted. This is really an important intervention and this fund will go a long way to meet all of our needs both now and in the future, to ensure that Lagos continues to remain safe for business.
Continuing, the Mr Governor said, “And so, we are indeed happy that you decided to make this very bold move to support the health facility infrastructure in Lagos. You can be rest assured that once the structures have been developed, we will call you again to see what we have put these resources to.”
On Thursday, UBA announced a donation of over 5 billion Naira (USD14 million), through the UBA Foundation, to catalyse a comprehensive pan-African response to the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic.
The donation is expected to provide significant and much needed support to Nigeria and 19 other African countries, by supplying relief materials, critical care facilities, and financial support to Governments. The bank has begun to roll out its support programme, having already disbursed the pledged amounts to many states within Nigeria and 7 countries in Africa including Ghana, Guinea, Cameroun, Tanzania, Tchad, Liberia, Republic of Benin. The N5 billion donation by the bank is being distributed as follows:
N1 billion (USD2.8 million) to Lagos State Government in Nigeria
N500 million (USD1.4 million) to Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja
N1 billion (USD2.8 million) to the remaining 35 states in Nigeria
N1.5 billion (USD4.2 million) to UBA’s presence countries in Africa
N1 billion (USD2.8 million) for Medical Centres with equipment and supplies
Free Telemedicine call centre facility.
Operating in 20 African countries and globally in the United Kingdom, the United States and France, the United Bank for Africa has a strong record of supporting its communities, through challenging times.
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2021: Governor Wike To Present N448 Billion Budget
Enioluwa Adeniyi
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is set to present the 2021 Appropriation Bill of four hundred and forty-eight billion naira to the State House of Assembly.
The development was disclosed by the Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, while speaking with newsmen at the Government House Port Harcourt.
Kamalu who said the Rivers State Executive Council also approved the Medium Term Expenditure Framework for 2021-2023, added that the 2021 budget consideration is aimed at consolidating on the achievements of the current administration.
“Council considered the budgetary estimates for 2021. This was done taking into consideration the need to further facilitate the recovery following the ongoing economic depression and to consolidate on the myriad of development programmes that are in place across the state.”
“The budget volume for the year 2021 budget estimate is N448, 660, 773, 476.”
“This will help the Rivers State government accomplish all its ongoing projects and support and make life more meaningful for the people of the state,” he said.
The Rivers State Executive Council also approved the sum of two point seven billion naira to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC for the conduct of Local government Council elections next year.
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Movie Treasures By Brenda
Love the movies? How about blu-ray movies? Maybe movie merchandise? Learn more about your favorite movies past, present, and future, whether at the movie theatre, on blu-ray or on DVD. Find some unusual gift ideas for movie fans, including yourself. Join the fun and discover a new movie or two!
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Fool's Gold Movie Review (2008)
Fool's Gold is a romantic comedy and part thriller movie, which stars Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Ewen Bremner and Alexis Dziena.
I stumbled across Fool's Gold quite accidentally last night when I could not sleep. I've learned my lesson not to start watching a movie in the middle of the night because it is quite possible that rather than putting you to sleep, the movie will make you stay awake for a full two hours...but I digress.
A bit of online research shows that Fool's Gold was not very successful, particularly with the critics who say that it was an attempt to ride on the success that Hudson and McConaughey had in How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days. Nevertheless, I enjoyed Fool's Gold. It was a fun piece with plenty of humorous moments and I think it is quite possible you too will like it if you like romantic comedies and if you approach it simply as light entertainment, rather than looking for a top-rated movie.
The critics? Well, here is a sample of what they had to say:
High-Def Digest said it is but another unsuccessful example of Hollywood using popular lead actors rather than a great script.
Blu-ray.com says that despite an attractive and charismatic pair, the movie is somewhat trite. They do say that the tropical scenery makes it worth viewing, if not owning.
At Rotten Tomatoes just 11 percent of the critics liked it. However, 53 percent of the audience who participated in the poll liked it so perhaps it is worth watching...
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Jimi Goodwin – Odludek
(Heavenly) UK release date: 24 March 2014
by Alan Ashton-Smith
published: 18 Mar 2014 in Album Reviews
It’s entirely predictable that Jimi Goodwin’s first solo album will be compared to his work with Doves, even though that’s not necessarily the most appropriate way of analysing it. After all, Goodwin is only one third of Doves and if he wanted to make something that sounded like a Doves album then presumably he would have recorded it with that band, currently on hiatus since 2010.
So it’s fairer to come at Odludek bearing in mind that it will sound different to anything Goodwin has been involved in before – we should expect an evolution. Let us not forget that Doves only became Doves because their previous incarnation, Sub Sub, was killed off when the band’s studio burned down in 1996. A radical change can work very well indeed.
Looking back through Goodwin’s oeuvre, we might draw a rough trajectory from urban to pastoral. Sub Sub were connected with the Hacienda rave scene, and while Doves weren’t urban in a dance music way, their material always felt very connected to the city. Think of M62 Song, from their album The Last Broadcast, which felt a bit metropolitan psychogeographical, like Iain Sinclair writing about the M25.
Here though, there are far more guitars than synths, and some of those guitars jangle and slide – there are moments when a transition into Americana looks to be on the cards. And by the last track, Goodwin is singing about a fucking tree: yes, the song has a wry tone and the tree is a metaphor, but it’s a tree nonetheless, and it doesn’t get much more pastoral than that.
Even so, it’s not difficult to place this album somewhere close to Manchester, and not just because a song called Didsbury Girl pops up earlier on. At times, it sounds like a slightly heavier Elbow – who Goodwin will be supporting on tour this Spring – and it shares a magpie-like tendency with Doves’ old friend Badly Drawn Boy. The aforementioned Didsbury Girl lies somewhere in between psychedelic haze, baroque Britpop, and something close to full-on shredding. But that patchwork of styles that Badly Drawn Boy occasionally pulled off so well is a difficult thing to get totally right. Goodwin does manage to keep the album sounding coherent, but there are some jarring elements, such as the electronic forays of Live Like A River, which, if one was being unkind, one might describe as sounding like Oasis attempting to cover Friendly Fires.
Man v Dingo, meanwhile, is simultaneously the best and worst track here. It starts off with some truly dreadful gameshow theme tune effects (is Man v Dingo perhaps meant to be some horrible reality TV show?), but then gets into its stride when some meaty jazz horns are introduced. It briefly goes a bit wrong again when a didgeridoo makes an appearance (even when a song’s title includes an Australian animal, you don’t need a didgeridoo), but somehow recovers.
There are a couple of total misfires, such as Keep My Soul In Song, a moment of sub-par pub philosophy in which Goodwin appears to wish he was Guy Garvey. But that track is followed by Oh! Whiskey, a moment of pub philosophy that he makes entirely his own. Midway through, the pace changes to a piano-led trot that’s reminiscent of Ian Dury, but it still works. The song ends with Goodwin singing “Have you had too much? I think you’ve had enough?” and this call for moderation serves to excuse any potentially risky quirks.
Odludek is a mixed bag, then. But it’s to Goodwin’s credit that the bravery he shows in trying to pull so much into one album is more often than not worthwhile. Indeed, if he hadn’t mixed Mancunian pub wisdom with a hint of slide guitar and touch of the cod-Australian, then this would probably be a much duller record.
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Z3TA+ 2: see and hear it in action
By Ben Rogerson 04 July 2011
Z3TA+ 2: it's coming.
We told you last week that Cakewalk is preparing to unleash its Z3TA+ 2 synth, and you now have the chance to get a taste of what it can do.
A new video features footage and sound of the synth being used, and reveals that it offers new waveshaping and filter types, enhanced effects control, a graphical arpeggiator and drag 'n' drop effects routing. Cakewalk has also revealed that there will be 'hundreds' of new sounds and backwards compatibility with the original Z3TA+.
Pricing and formats have still to be confirmed - Z3TA+ 2 should be available this month.
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Coronavirus cases break out across the Navy
The amphibious warship Boxer’s crew gather in the hangar bay during LDH-4's 25th anniversary celebration on Feb. 11th. Two members of the crew have now tested positive for the new coronavirus. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin Daniel Rankin/Navy)
Military medical investigators are probing what officials say is the second confirmed coronavirus test tied to the crew of the amphibious warship Boxer, part of a proliferation of COVID-19 cases across the country.
Navy commands on Wednesday reported that a sailor at Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 48 in Florida tested positive for the respiratory disease, as did a civilian worker at the Naval Construction Battalion Center’s Naval Exchange in Gulfport, Mississippi.
The San Diego sailor’s results came back on Wednesday, four days after another enlisted sailor from Boxer tested positive for COVID-19.
“There is no indication that the sailors were in close contact with each other, but a thorough contact investigation continues,” U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Myers J. Vasquez told Navy Times.
Boxer remains at Naval Base San Diego and is not at sea. Both sailors have been confined to their residences off base. Anyone who came into close contact with them also has been isolated and is self-monitoring for COVID-19 symptoms.
Officials told Navy Times that the latest positive case tied to the warship isn’t believed to be linked to a coronavirus cluster that blossomed inside the Training Support Center at Naval Base San Diego.
That outbreak snared the first case from Boxer’s crew. He’s believed to have contracted COVID-19 from an instructor.
A third enlisted sailor from Naval Base Point Loma who also was attending a course at the schoolhouse at Naval Base San Diego caught coronavirus, forcing Naval Education and Training Command to shutter a large number of classrooms there.
But authorities told Navy Times that there’s no evidence the two sailors from Boxer had close contact with each other.
One was a blue shirt and the other a member of the Goat Locker. Although the chief briefly visited Boxer on March 16, he’s not believed to have had close contact with any crew members and both sailors worked in different divisions.
One of the patients recently took leave locally and the other returned from out of town.
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The link between two of the cases appears to be the training center on Naval Base San Diego.
Sailors standing watch continue to stay overnight on the warship, but their sleeping arrangements are now spaced at least 6 feet away from each other, per Pentagon and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
“Sailors are reporting to the ship to maintain readiness,” said spokesman Vasquez. "In the U.S. Pacific Fleet and across the Navy, our three missions are to protect sailors and their families, prevent the spread of the virus, and ensure warfighting readiness.
“We are taking every measure possible to protect the health of our force."
Officials insist that Boxer’s crew has developed what they’re calling “an aggressive mitigation strategy” to halt the spread of the disease, including establishing a medical station at the quarterdeck to screen all personnel coming aboard the vessel.
Quarterdeck watchstanders wear nitrile gloves to prevent touching others, and they’ve been ordered to maintain social distancing similar to the sleeping arrangements. Group gatherings and formations are minimized and sailors are “deep cleaning” the ship with bleach twice daily, according to a prepared statement emailed from the Pentagon to Navy Times.
Antiseptic wipes and hand sanitizer are located in workspaces near computers, mess decks, common areas and the tool issue, officials added.
The ship’s gyms are closed and there are no self-serve meals on the mess decks, chief petty officer mess or wardroom.
An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Vipers of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 48 takes off from the guided-missile destroyer Roosevelt on May 18 in the Atlantic Ocean. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Austin Ingram/Navy)
Three days after taking the test for coronavirus, a sailor assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 48 at Naval Station Mayport in Florida was confirmed positive for the disease.
Like other Navy COVID-19 patients, the sailor remains confined to an off-base residence while health authorities conduct a contact investigation to trace any others possibly exposed to the virus.
“The health of our people and the readiness of our force is critical. Our people are our most valuable assets,” said Naval Air Force Atlantic spokeswoman Cmdr. Jennifer Cragg.
Cragg declined to provide details about that investigation, but officials are not sure other Vipers were exposed to the disease. The sailor had been traveling on orders and did not report back to the unit after showing symptoms for the virus.
The patient is believed to be the first sailor in an East Coast naval aviation squadron to contract the disease.
And in Mississippi, a NEX employee is undergoing evaluation and treatment while public health agencies investigate potential contacts with other people, according to a Pentagon press release.
“In consultation with the State of Mississippi Public Health and Navy public health officials it was deemed that a quarantine for additional personnel was not needed due to the lack of exposure to other NEX employees/associates or patrons,” the prepared statement indicated.
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Glimpse of the divine — or wishful thinking? Novel takes us on aging priest's road trip
by Connor Turque
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Mercifully, author Daniel Hornsby gives us no road-trip romance about being "out there" or any lofty passages on the grandeur of the American West. (Unsplash/Diego Jimenez)
I've occasionally been grateful not to have been a fisherman in Galilee 2,000-plus years ago. I worry I would have been asked to follow and wouldn't have been able to. I'm afraid I would've just kept on fishing.
In Via Negativa, Daniel Hornsby's funny debut novel about guilt, we meet our protagonist, Father Dan, as he's driving west through Kansas. He finds an injured coyote, who we come to know as Bede, on the side of the road. He nurses Bede back to health and keeps him sedated with painkillers for much of the journey west. It's an act of goodwill, but more importantly, it's a way for Father Dan to prove to himself what a good Franciscan he still is. He's 70 and newly homeless, expelled from his Indiana diocese and on his way to meet some old friends.
The circumstances of his expulsion are eventually explained but aren't very important, since it's as much a figurative excommunication as it is a literal one. Father Dan is an anachronism, and a little bit of a liar. An aloof, artsy, left-leaning oddball, he could so easily have been a caricature, but his voice is what draws you in and wins you over. It's the heart and the motor of the book.
Oversized crosses and billboards of "singer-songwriter Jesus in his white karate robes" follow Father Dan like specters as he drives west through Kansas, headed toward Seattle. We spend most of the drive in his head, looking back on his life; from his childhood spent in a junior seminary up through his tenure in the priesthood with regrets wrapped in jokes.
By Daniel Hornsby
256 pages; Penguin Random House
Vignettes that feel like little parables play out as Dan makes stops along the way. They include a dog named Reese Witherspoon, a teenage pyromaniac, and a waiter with an unforgettable story about a supernatural encounter with Carrie Underwood. Mercifully, Hornsby gives us no road-trip romance about being out there or any lofty passages on the grandeur of the American West. I did roughly the same drive as Father Dan quite a few times while shuttling back and forth between college in California and my parents' house in Kansas City — it's a slog of a drive and one I have very little nostalgia for. Like real road trips, Via Negativa does drag a bit in the middle. But overall, Hornsby keeps us alongside him with plain, understated prose and a conversational tone.
There's a sure debt to Charles Portis' road novels here; Portis' dry humor and the spirit of his eccentric and endearing idiot-protagonists feel very much alive in Father Dan. There's also the occasional passage that feels ripped right out of a Cormac McCarthy Western, such as Father Dan's thoughts on highways.
A road is a stripe of death, it requires a streamlined apocalypse to be born: hacking down forests, leveling the ground, blasting through layers of rock. Then, once the road is there it becomes a trail marked by white crosses and piles of deer … patches of mashed, illegible gore. All killed by machines that run on the black rot of microscopic creatures, the dead that power death. A road is a long absence, a black line crossing things out.
The title takes its name from the ancient practice of Christian mystics who defined God only by what it is not, or "by way of denial." Or as he puts it in the end of the first chapter,
I hate the billboards. I hate that giant white cross in Effingham. I don't like holy cards all that much. Even crucifixes bother me sometimes. If anything, all my vision-seeking has only confirmed the paradox of God hiding, perfectly, in plain sight. If we want to see God in the world, all we have to do is see the world. If we want to see God in human form, look at people. Look around. Turn around. Billboards should be outlawed, not just the Jesus ones. They block the sky and my view of the trees.
This concept is the linchpin that holds together the rest of the complex spiritual framework Father Dan has built for himself over the course of a lifetime as a hermit in the middle of a community. Obscure movements from the early centuries of Christianity, geodesic domes and the music of Prince all play roles in this tapestry as well. It's an engrossing place.
As the curtain gets drawn back and we begin to get a clearer, messier portrait of Father Dan, the line between enlightened theology and elaborate coping mechanism blurs. Watching Dan move through the world as it is, outside the safety of the rectory, what we see isn't a current day Thomas Merton committed to study and contemplation, which is how he sees himself, but rather a lonely and damaged old man who has spent a life in hiding, confronting the fact that he may have played a role in covering up clerical sex abuse. His behavior is erratic, and he's all over the place emotionally and physically, grappling with the weight of that, and with the very real possibility of taking revenge.
Has he seen glimpses of the divine, or was that just wishful thinking? This is a question Hornsby comes back to throughout the journey, particularly in the memorable final scene.
Father Dan is dumb in a way that only a smart person can be. He's singular and totally familiar. NCR readers will appreciate his little asides on minor saints, obscure Christian communities and some deep-cut theological history.
Hornsby doesn't make any firm judgments, and gives us ample time and space to arrive at our own conclusions. Is he someone who tried to do the right thing, in his own dense way, or is he a man that just kept on fishing?
A version of this story appeared in the Jan 22-Feb 4, 2021 print issue under the headline: Novel takes us on aging priest's road trip .
Connor Turque
Connor Turque is a writer based in Burlington, Vermont. Follow him on Twitter: @turkowits.
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FIRST FIVE FINALISTS FOR LANCASTER INSURANCE PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP SPRING FINAL REVEALED
The first Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership final of 2019 is shaping up to be one of most hotly-contested yet, and as anticipation builds ahead of the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show, with Discovery, the first five finalists can now be revealed.
Held at Birmingham’s NEC from 22-24 March, the first finalist is the Volkswagen Type 2 ‘Splittie’, loved around the world, and the 21-window De Luxe Micro Bus owned by John Smith since 2015 is sure to attract plenty of attention.
Built in December 1964 as a right-hand drive vehicle for the UK market, power comes from a 42bhp, 1.5-litre engine and it still sports the original factory colour scheme. The subject of a six-year nut and bolt restoration that began in 2004, it has even featured in a German television programme on classic cars.
Annie Lloyd’s 1961 Bond Minicar Model G has been in her family for around 25 years and she inherited the car from her late ex-husband. Keen to keep his name alive, this quirky three-wheeled British classic which the owner calls ‘Mr Bond’ has appeared at numerous shows and always draws a crowd. With the bodywork in need of a refresh it is currently undergoing some restoration, but Annie promises it will be ready for its appearance at the NEC.
Show visitors who prefer a more modern classic certainly won’t be disappointed by Paul White’s 1990 Eunos Roadster. Better known as the Mazda MX-5 in the UK, the car was bought by the current owners’ grandfather in 2002, and when he sadly passed away Paul decided to keep the car in his memory. Having restored the paintwork, it now looks stunning and has won awards at a number of car shows.
No Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership display would be complete without an American classic and the 1970 Dodge Challenger RT owned since 2006 by Robert Nauer is guaranteed to stand out.
The original ‘GoMango’ orange paintwork is certainly striking, but not only has the car covered less than 48,000 kilometres but it is also rare. It is one of the few remaining examples built at the AMAG plant in Switzerland and has appeared at shows on both sides of the Atlantic.
And last but not least is another modern classic in the form of a 1992 Toyota Starlet GT Turbo. It belongs to Sammie-Jo Webster and was bought by her father back in 2006, before being given to her as a 21st birthday present. Once used as her daily driver and in delightfully original condition, Sammie-Jo is keen to promote the ownership of classic cars amongst young people.
Andrew Evanson, Senior Operations Manager at Lancaster Insurance, comments: “This announcement is always exciting and the first reveal of the 2019 Spring finalists has not disappointed. Here is a great selection of classics from around the world and with MX-5s also celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, I can’t wait to see these incredible cars on display and hear the stories behind them.”
A total of 20 wonderful classics will be competing for this year’s Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership spring final, and with fifteen finalists still to be announced visitors to the show can look forward to a tough choice when it comes to voting for their favourite.
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Michigan couple with 21 grandchildren claims $80M Powerball
Fifty-four-year-old Phillip Chippewa of Suttons Bay won the large prize
Oct. 24, 2019 1:00 p.m.
A northern Michigan couple with seven children and 21 grandchildren has claimed an $80 million Powerball prize.
Fifty-four-year-old Phillip Chippewa of Suttons Bay travelled to Lansing on Wednesday with his wife, Dawn, and their family to claim their prize.
Their Powerball ticket matched all five numbers and the Powerball in the Sept. 21 drawing. The couple opted to receive their payment as a one-time lump-sum, which came to $42 million after taxes.
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By New Republic Liberia Last updated Dec 3, 2020
In obvious recognition of its brand acceptance and its role in facilitating economic development across Africa, six subsidiaries of pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc have been named ‘Bank of the Year 2020’ by the Banker Magazine, leading global finance news publication published by Financial Times of London.
For the second year running, UBA’s multiple initiatives which include its investment in digital technology, adherence to world-class customer services offerings and financing critical projects have been recognised by the organisers of the world’s leading award in finance, as UBA Benin, UBA Cote D’Ivoire, UBA Chad, UBA Liberia, UBA Sierra Leone and UBA Zambia emerged best bank in their respective countries.
The 2020 edition of the awards ceremony was held virtually on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, and the exceptional win makes it the second time ever in the history of the banker awards, that any banking group will be clinching as many as six wins in the same year. The bank made history with the same number of awards in the 2019 edition of the Banker’s awards.
John Everington, Middle East and Africa Editor for The Banker, explained that a rigorous and highly analytical process is made to reach each Bank of the Year decision and the institution’s reputation for independence, authority and integrity is applied to each submission.
“More banks apply for the Bank of the Year Awards than any other similar process and our access to data on each bank and our focus on transformation, inclusion and diversity in the industry is well known. Winning Bank of the Year, this year more than any other, is an opportunity for your Bank to position itself as playing a key role in what the future holds and building towards a recovery in economies in 120 countries worldwide,” Everington said.
CEO, UBA Africa, Africa, Oliver Alawuba, expressed delight over the recognition from The Banker stated “The recognitions come as a reassurance that we are on track in consolidating our leadership position in Africa, as we continue to create superior value for all our stakeholders,”
He said, “Following the multiple awards won by UBA Group and five of our subsidiaries in 2019, this year’s award is another testament of our hard work and increasing effort by the UBA Group to impact the African continent, positively.
“This award comes at a very auspicious time due to the Covid-19 global pandemic but the UBA Group has been able to stand strong and resilient in its mandate of delivering excellent financial services to over 21 million customers, across 23 countries of operations.
Alawuba dedicated the awards to the over 20,000 staff of bank, adding, “We believe that this award will spur us on in our renewed commitment to exceed customers’ expectation, always.
Since1926, the Bank of the Year awards has been celebrating the best of global banking and is regarded as the industry standard for banking excellence and the 2020 edition highlights those institutions that have outshone their peers in terms of performance, strategic initiatives and response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Armed Florida Boat Captain Held Passengers Captive During Terrifying Fishing Trip Turned Nightmare
By Callum Paton On 6/5/19 at 6:28 AM EDT
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What had been intended as an enjoyable fishing trip for Carlo Lopeparo, his family and friends, morphed into a terrifying hostage situation Sunday after the captain of their charter ship became drunk and violent, threatening to shoot his clients and assaulting one of the passengers.
According to the Sarasota Herald Tribune, charter ship captain Mark Bailey, 36, has been charged with boating under the influence and resisting arrest following a nightmare fishing trip he led in the Gulf of Mexico. His passengers described the incident as "a real-life hostage situation."
Lopeparo, from Bradenton, Florida said the first half of the $2,000 fishing trip went according to plan but seven hours in, Bailey became increasingly drunk, disorderly belligerent. The clients reported seeing the captain snorting cocaine and smoking marijuana before firing several shots from the upper deck.
According to the police report on the incident the captain told the passengers."I have a 9 mm and if I want, I will put a bullet in each of your heads and leave you out here."
Illustrative: Mark Bailey, 36, has been charged with boating under the influence and resisting arrest following a nightmare fishing trip STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images
Bailey, a Sarasota local, grabbed Jason Rialmo Jr., 15, the son of one of the five passengers, Jason Rialmo, 39. Rialmo Jr. reportedly misunderstood whether he was allowed to take a beer from a pail on the second deck. As a rebuke to the teenager, the captain followed the boy down a ladder and pulled on him by a chain necklace he was wearing. The jewelry broke as a result.
A confrontation followed with Lopeparo, 35, the boy's uncle, yelling and screaming at the captain. Bailey agreed to leave Rialmo Jr., alone but seethed as the journey continued.
Christopher Giuffre, 53 and one of the passengers, explained he saw the captain drinking heavily, knocking back rum and beer. It was Giuffre who also said he saw Bailey taking cocaine and smoking marijuana.
The fishing expedition continued but the mood was reportedly "awful." The passengers asked Bailey to turn the ship back five hours before the trip was scheduled to end. It was on the return journey that Bailey reportedly fired six or seven shots into the water.
Then, for five hours, from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m., Bailey just circled offshore. The captain continued to drink heavily throughout. He only agreed to return to dock after being paid $2,000 — $1,600 for the trip and a $400 tip to the first mate. Even after he was paid it took him two and half hours to make it into shore.
Giuffre Jr. told the Herald Tribune of the impossible situation the passengers encountered as they considered overpowering Bailey. However, they deemed it too risky. "He clearly has the gun within arm's reach of him," the 23-year-old said. "It was the most helpless situation that I could imagine to be in. Everyone was just helpless—a real-life hostage situation."
The irony that money they paid as used for Bailey's bail was not lost on the group. "He took our $1,600 we paid him to put us in this hostage situation," Giuffre Jr. said. "And we paid for his freedom."
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Scientologists Ongoing Campaign to End Drug Abuse in Taiwan
Carrying on the tradition that has earned them 14 consecutive annual awards from the Ministry of Interior of Taiwan, Scientologists relentlessly promote drug-free living—because the best time to prevent drug abuse is before it begins.
Press Release - updated: Oct 24, 2017
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 24, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Living up to their reputation as an “Excellent Religion,” volunteers from the Church of Scientology Kaohsiung and the many Church of Scientology Missions of Taiwan continue to carry out humanitarian programs for the benefit of their communities. Throughout the year they volunteer with the Truth About Drugs initiative to create a drug-free Taiwan.
Each week, volunteers conduct drug education lectures in local schools. The program is exceptional because of the way it engages the children on this vital subject, with youth-friendly booklets and award-winning public service announcements and The Truth About Drugs: Real People, Real Stories documentary.
Scientologists also reach out to their communities with information booths in high traffic areas, encouraging people of all ages, but especially youth, to sign their drug-free pledge. Whenever there is a parade or a festival, they join in, dressed in bright turquoise T-shirts and carrying banners that promote drug-free living.
They bring the Truth About Drugs curriculum to government officials and community and religious leaders, encouraging them to train as drug education specialists and carry the campaign forward using their own resources.
In his research, Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard noted: “the single most destructive element present in our current culture is drugs.”
The Foundation for a Drug-Free World (FDFW) is a secular nonprofit corporation that empowers youth and adults with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions to live drug-free. The Church of Scientology and its members support the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, whose Truth About Drugs campaign is one of the world’s largest nongovernmental drug education and prevention initiatives. Thanks to this support, the Foundation provides—free of charge—drug education booklets, videos and educator guides to teachers, mentors and civic and community leaders.
According to the United Nations Office on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, “Every dollar spent on prevention can save governments up to ten dollars in later costs.”
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Are The Kardashians Smarter Than We Think?
By Cody LaGrow
Keeping up with the Kardashians means keeping up with more than their image — they have brains for business, too.
"Do you know how to do your own laundry?" Khloe Kardashian asked younger sister Kylie Jenner in an episode of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."
"No," replied Kylie Jenner.
Are the Kardashians smarter than we give them credit for?
"Do you know anything about credit?" Khloe asked in a follow-up question.
"Not really," said Kylie.
Sure — it's hard to take them seriously sometimes. (Video via E!)
But one thing they are serious about is business. And as much as you don't want to admit it, the women are business savvy. Kris, Kourt, Kim, Khloe, Kendall and Kylie — all businesswomen with booming brands. Hey girls. Brunch?
Slate dug into Kardashian-omics and praised the family for its talent in personal branding, saying "What they do best is they stack their success." And talk about starting from the bottom, so to speak.
"Would you be where you are without the sex tape?" Oprah Winfrey asked Kim Kardashian in a 2012 interview.
"You know, I think that's how I was definitely introduced to the world," replied Kim.
Kim Kardashian, now worth an estimated $85 million, turned bad press from a home video of sorts into publicity, which garnered her a fan base, got her a TV show, made the entire family famous, launched partnerships and made everyone millions.
Contrary to popular belief, the Kardashians aren't famous just for being famous. They're also famous because they're talented in business, and they have transcended their image of being pretty people doing pretty things. For goodness' sake, they're all techies now!
The clan launched their new personalized apps — where you can tune in to learn more about how to get Khloe's curves or Kylie's hair.
Kylie Jenner's app alone quickly became the most downloaded app in Apple's free App Store upon its release, re-affirming the family's influence. Combined, the girls have an Instagram following nearly equivalent to the population of Nigeria.
The family has built an empire, and sometimes it seems like there's no end to product possibilities — like when Kendall and Kylie Jenner penned a sci-fi novel. Or when Kim curated a collection of her best selfies. Though based on sales, it's fair to say the Kardashian following doesn't like to read, even picture books.
So don't let their perfect brows and breathy voices fool you. These women also have brains for business as big as their ... lips.
"Lip liner definitely changed my life," said Kylie Jenner.
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Volunteering On The Old Ghost Road
New Zealand’s Longest Backcountry Singletrack — The Old Ghost Road
Back in 2015, we got to enjoy a memorable week-long volunteering mission on New Zealand’s newest backcountry wilderness mountain bike/hiking track known as the Old Ghost Road. Spanning an impressive 86 km’s from an old gold mining settlement in Lyell to high alpine passes, lush native fern-filled gullies and wild rushing waters of the Mohikinui River, situated on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. The Old Ghost Road offers NZ’s longest singletrack descent in the country, and let’s just say it was an absolutely awesome project be a part of.
This project has and continues to be an inspiring labor of love.
Taking time out for lunch on the Old Ghost Road.
It Took a Team of Visionairies to Build the Epic Old Ghost Road
Blood, sweat, and tears have been poured into this remote track, built by an incredible eclectic team of visionaries, with of course a large amount of generous support by many.
The Old Ghost Road, simply put, is an epic backcountry hut-to-hut wilderness adventure on two knobby wheels or foot — whatever you choose. We reckon by bike it’s a whole lot of fun, sweat, and sometimes tears depending on which weather system decides to join you. It’s a classic slice of what New Zealand’s backcountry adventure is all about, and experiencing it by mountain bike is just plain awesome.
Ben and Cristina, the founders of New Zealand Single Track Adventures, along with nine other volunteers and a few strong chiefs, were based at Ghost Lake Hut for a week. Nestled beneath Rocky Tor in an alpine section of the trail, it’s quite easily one of the most scenic spots on the track offering expansive views over the Murchison Mountains to Nelson Lakes National Park and Kahurangi National Park.
Ghost Lake sleep outs.
The Day of a Volunteer on the Old Ghost Road Unfolds
A typical day includes rising to a stunning sunrise burning away the heavy clouds that have built up overnight.
Morning sunrise over the Murchison Mountains is breathtaking.
Starting off with a good breakfast to fuel us up, and some lunchtime sandwich making before we hop on our bikes and set off to ride up to the Goat Track. Not a bad way to get to work, right?
Morning above Ghost Lake Hut on Old Ghost Road.
This part of the track is our main focus for the seven-day period, where we hack away at the earth, lay gravel for miles and even have a crack at a few blasts from the old dynamite at the end of a hard day’s efforts! That was honestly a highlight, building bombs from scratch kiwi style, and then plugging them into the holes we spent half the day drilling into bedrock.
Sunny days for mountain bike track building.
Everyone putting in a lot of physical labor laughs, and even a few swear words before our most exciting time of the day to press the RED button and VOILA! We blast away to reveal a new piece in the puzzle and what will forever (hopefully) be a rideable section of the epic Old Ghost Road. The Goat Track is situated from the start of an alpine section of the trail, just in view of Rocky Thor spanning a wicked few kilometers of singletrack. It is on the edge of some hairy rocky bluffs where you don’t want to fall off! This is an impressive and exciting part of the trail that offers great vistas to “heaven’s door” and the deep lush wilderness valleys below.
Goat track building and time out for a selfie.
After a good eight-hour day, it was the sweet descent back to Ghost Lake Hut, and those that were riders in the group, hooped and hollered their way back to a nice cold brew on the deck. Ahhhhhh. Now those are some tasty ones! Hard-earned and well worth the effort. Evening dinner is a time to run through our day’s adventure, and discuss plans for the next day. We learn who is teamed up, and what part of the Goat Track we’ll be working.
Ghost Lake Hut volunteers.
As night came, we all fell asleep to the sounds of nearby native Moreporks, the odd Kiwi Bird and clear lit sky’s dazzling above us.
Making History and Building an Icon on the Old Ghost Trail
What a week! We made friends with wonderful people from all walks of life and made a small part of New Zealand history. But most of all we were lucky to have experienced a week in the wilds building an iconic labor of love and hardship. Being part of a team and putting in an effort to a trail we love and are now able to share with our guests on our mountain bike trips is pretty special. It’s the experiences in life that make you rich.
Building a mountain bike track is hard work and we loved every minute of it.
Here are big thanks to all who made it a blast and an even bigger thumbs up to the visionaries who made it all come together.
The Crew of volunteers Old Ghost Road 2015
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Nikon Ambassadors Benedicte Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde document the complexities of twinhood in Nigeria
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2019 - A new photography project from Nikon Ambassadors Benedicte Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde investigates the contrasting beliefs regarding twinhood in contemporary Nigerian society. Equipped with the D850, Z 7 and NIKKOR lenses, the photographers immersed themselves in the communities of Igbo-Ora, where more twins are born than anywhere else in the world¹ the town of Abuja, which represents a darker history of twinhood in the country, and Calabar where traditions and beliefs have been transformed.
The rate of twin births in West Africa is about four times higher than in the rest of the world. In response to this high birth rate, binary beliefs and practices - from celebration to devotion to demonization - have evolved across Nigeria. In many areas, shrines are built to worship the spirit of twins and siblings are encouraged to embrace their sameness and feel lucky to have such an inseparable bond. In others, there are reports of twins still being killed for their perceived role in being evil.
Transcending prejudice
Having only worked individually before this project, Benedicte and Sanne joined forces in order to understand twinhood in Nigeria, not just the perceptions of society but also the genetic connection, via powerful portraits and compositions of twins interacting.
Benedicte Kurzen comments: “Twinhood is a symbolic figure in many different places around the world, but nowhere more so than in Nigeria. Given the negative headlines the country has faced about its treatment of twins, we wanted to take a closer look at the complex mythology underpinning this dark history, while also looking at the bigger picture that, in most places, twins are worshipped.”
Contrasting beliefs
Their twelve-week journey started in Abuja, where just a few years ago, twin persecution was still reported as happening nearby through methods like poisoning. Given that the risk of death to the mother during childbirth is more common when delivering twins, some people still see twins as a danger to the existence of the community, or as humans with ‘strange powers’.
Contrastingly, the town of Igbo-Ora celebrates its twin culture, calling itself the ‘nation home of twins’ and hosting an annual Twin Festival. Almost every house here has at least one set of twins, and the community celebrates this.
Sanne De Wilde, comments: “In Western societies twinhood is seen as something biological but in Africa it’s about the spiritual connection you build through sharing a womb. In Igbo-Ora, twins are encouraged to embrace their sameness and are treated, dressed and fed the same until a very late age. We wanted to communicate this symmetry with our images.”
Calabar, a city in Southern Nigeria, represents an area where beliefs have transformed. In the late 19th century, Mary Slessor, a missionary from Scotland, moved there and opened a clinic in a remote village. By raising twins, she successfully stopped the common practice of infanticide of twins among the Ibibio people. Today, her legacy lives on, and she is remembered in both Nigeria and Europe for the impact she had.
Both photographers used the Nikon D850, with its combination of resolution, speed and light sensitivity, to capture over fifty twins across three different parts of the country. The Nikon Z 7 was also used by Benedicte in the last leg of the project in Calabar, paired with the NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S lens. The AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G ED, AF-S NIKKOR 58mm f/1.4G and AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED lenses completed their kitbag.
Sanne comments: “The D850’s amazing image quality means that no matter what shot you go for, whether wide angle or portrait, you know the result will be super sharp yet sensitive to light, nuance and expression. Similarly, the lightweight and compact body of the Z 7 is invaluable in our line of work - we can’t wait to put it to the test even more during future projects.”
Talking about their passion for the project, Benedicte concludes: “The aim of this project is to understand the complexities of how twins are treated in Nigeria, not to simplify it. We spoke to some siblings who are extremely proud of their twinhood and the extraordinary connection they experience through it. Other twins have been born into a society where twinhood is condemned and try to shun the symmetry and sameness in fear. By immersing ourselves in the country, its societies and its community of twins, we saw how twinhood’s painful past has become an important part of a future where twins are celebrated.”
The Nikon Europe Special Project Programme
The Nikon Europe Special Project Programme offers the opportunity for Nikon Ambassadors - consisting of talented and influential photographers from across Europe - to realise their dream projects. The programme forms part of Nikon’s ongoing mission to support inspiring photographers, giving them a platform to undertake projects they are passionate about while creating a community of visual artists who aspire to do things differently.
For more information about Benedicte and Sanne’s project please visit their Special Project page.
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• AF-S NIKKOR 58mmf/1.4G
• AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
About Benedicte and Sanne:
Bénédicte and Sanne met through NOOR, a collective of ethically driven photographers, which has been taking a stand for the past ten years through empowering storytelling.
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NOOR is a global, multilingual collective of highly accomplished journalists, authors, photographers, artists and filmmakers documenting, investigating and witnessing our world.
NOOR, which takes its name from the Arabic word for light, launched in 2007 as a platform for its members to take financial control over their work and leverage the power of a group in a changing media landscape.
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Robotics;Notes Elite Coming Westward On Nintendo Switch In 2020
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Spike Chunsoft has announced that Robotics;Notes Elite will release on Nintendo Switch, the 5pb.-developed visual novel undergoing localization for Europe and North America.
The age of advanced technology has finally reached Tanegashima, thanks to the rising popularity of the PhoneDroid – a device that uses augmented reality (A.R.).
However, on that island, Central Tanegashima High’s Robot Research Club is about to have their club disbanded.
While Kaito Yashio couldn’t care less and would rather play a robot fighting game all day, reckless club leader Akiho Senomiya ignores her friend’s apathy – striving to keep the club from closure by completing their giant robot.
And then one day, Kaito discovers a mysterious A.R. annotation called “Kimijima Report.” It provides instructions relating to locations across the island, and warns of a conspiracy that involves the entire world.
You must travel around Tanegashima, using the PhoneDroid to unlock the secrets that were once sealed away by Ko Kimijima – with branching storylines leading you to a different ending.
Robotics;Notes Elite will release for Nintendo Switch across Europe and North America in 2020.
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NFL rumors: Potential Eagles draft target receives positive injury update | Why wide receiver could be an option with 21st overall pick
Updated Feb 12, 2020; Posted Feb 12, 2020
Colorado wide receiver Laviska Shenault Jr. won't need surgery on his nagging groin injury, according to ESPN.AP
If the Eagles are interested in spending a first-round pick on a wide receiver, Colorado’s Laviska Shenault Jr. could be a prime candidate for the 21st overall selection in April’s NFL Draft.
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Shenault, who has been battling a nagging groin injury, was told he didn’t need surgery to fix the ailment, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. He is hoping to take part in this month’s NFL Combine and Colorado’s March 11 pro day.
Shenault dealt with a core muscle injury during this past season at Colorado, per Schefter.
Shenault is projected to be among the second-tier of wide receiver prospects in this year’s draft class. With a stacked class at the position, 5-6 wide receivers could be selected in the first round.
Shenault is likely to be considered with the likes of Clemson’s Tee Higgins and TCU’s Jalen Reagor, who are slotted behind Alabama’s Henry Ruggs and Jerry Jeudy and Oklahoma’s CeeDee Lamb in the wide receiver prospect pecking order.
Shenault is a jack-of-all-trades playmaker, who can score from anywhere on the field. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound receiver can play outside receiver, slot receiver, wildcat quarterback and running back.
He produced 1,943 receiving yards, 280 rushing yards and 17 total touchdowns during his three seasons with the Buffaloes.
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While the injury update is good news for Shenault, the Eagles could be turned off by the mention of a core injury. Former Pro Bowl wide receiver DeSean Jackson dealt with a similar ailment this past season and his campaign was marred after he initially elected to bypass surgery.
The Eagles are probably hoping Ruggs somehow makes it to the 21st overall pick. If he doesn’t, the Eagles may need to address another position in the first round.
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WikiLeaks addresses ‘oddities’ regarding Julian Assange’s Twitter account after Navy tweets out his name
Julian Assange's Twitter account was the subject of speculation and conspiracy theories Christmas day. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
Julian Assange may not be home for Christmas but he did make it back to Twitter.
The WikiLeaks founder's Twitter account mysteriously vanished from the social media platform, reportedly between 7 and 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Searches for 46-year-old Assange's account repeatedly turned up error messages until he tweeted a cartoon of Santa appearing to use WikiLeaks to compose his naughty and nice list, CBS reported.
Neither Twitter nor Assange has commented on the matter, though the 46-year-old has already tweeted several times since his return to the network — mostly soliciting donations.
The mysterious disappearance — and re-appearance — of the account proved even more bizarre when the U.S. Navy on Christmas morning mistakenly tweeted out Assange's full name, in quotes, and nothing else.
The tweet was later deleted and the Navy later apologized for the mistake.
"This morning, an inadvertent keystroke by an authorized user of the U.S. Navy Office of Information's Digital Media engagement team caused the trending term 'Julian Assange' to be tweeted from the Navy's official Twitter account," they wrote.
"The inadvertent tweet was briefly posted for a few seconds before it was quickly deleted by the same authorized user. The inadvertent tweet was sent during routine monitoring of trending topics."
Assange retweeted the apology and paired it with the same Santa Cartoon he posted earlier in the morning.
The string of events sparked conspiracy theories, with many Twitter users suggesting it was an attempt to silence Assange ahead of a big information dump — though there is no evidence to suggest that is true.
Here a screenshot of the deleted @USNavy Christmas tweet about @JulianAssange. Note the use of quotation marks.https://t.co/Asfw6cH6C7 pic.twitter.com/7Gg6mVOoCx
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 25, 2017
Others were hesitant to believe Assange is actually the one controlling his account upon its return, with many pointing out a decrease in followers. Some Twitter users claimed they had to re-follow Assange after the incident, which may or may not be Donald Trump Jr. followed the Assange Christmas day.
It was revealed earlier this year Trump Jr. corresponded with WikiLeaks amid the presidential campaign via direct messages on Twitter. The President's eldest son released the string of messages after the Atlantic wrote about to conversation.
The official WikiLeaks Twitter account remained live throughout the ordeal and responded to the incident with a cryptic tweet of its own.
"Despite some oddities from the US Navy and Twitter today and increased physical surveillance, @JulianAssange's physical situation at the embassy remains unaltered — confined without charge in violation of two UN rulings requiring the UK to set him free."
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The all-too-aptly-named "Solopassion"
By Dirk,
April 25, 2006 in Rants
Dirk 0
Given his ongoing obsession with "wanking", naming his own site "Solopassion" is surely Perigo's most unintentionally hilarious moment yet!...:-)
Michael Stuart Kelly 9 posts
Charles R. Anderson 9 posts
Philip Coates 7 posts
Barbara Branden 7 posts
Dirk.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...
Dayaamm! That escaped me. (btw - Welcome to OL.)
I admit to having a bit of fun recently with SLOP as an acronym, and it seems to fit your observation... er... ahem...
Never mind...
If you haven't followed the lampoons, we have been having a ball with these people on a thread called "Announcing yet another new Objectivist website (satire)." The trick to good satire is that it has to be based on reality.
(One more shameless plug chalked up...)
Paul Mawdsley 2
Paul Mawdsley
Location:Whitby, Ontario
Interests:Philosophy, Psychology, Theoretical Physics
Dirk, creating humour is an art. I'm not much of an artist. But I sure do appreciate the fine lines and simplicity of a great work. Damn that was funny!
Welcome. What do you do for an encore?
>Welcome. What do you do for an encore?
Hmmm. Judging by her latest bug-eyed public wig-out, how about Diana Psych-o? (for sticklers, pronounce it kinda like Sid the Sloth in "Ice Age")
As to whether she and Linz are destined to be pals for life, let's hear Diana's frankly curious views on homosexuality one more time:
"I regard homosexuality as unfortunate and suboptimal, but I do not think any case can be made that a loving homosexual relationship is immoral."
"Suboptimal", wink, wink. Kinda beautiful payback, poor "unfortunates" like Linz now having to be BFF with that. Actually, forget my first suggestion. Regina Firehammer, anyone? :-)
Fran 1
Location:Limassol, Cyprus
Interests:Drawing & painting, Psychology, Tae Kwon Do, writing, NVC (Non-Violent Communication)
Why is homosexuality unfortunate and suboptimal? Unfortunate to whom? The homosexuals, or her? It's certainly suboptimal when they deny their sexuality and marry the opposite sex.
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L W HALL
Location:North Fla. U.S.A.
So I guess what Diana is saying is that Lindsay is OK as far as suboptimal human beings go.
And they say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. :-k
The problem is that Rand stated that there were no innate ideas. Hsieh holds that homosexuality cannot be innate because Rand said so. Therefore it must be learned.
Apparently, to her heterosexuality is innate for whatever reason.
Thus, she has no other choice except to conclude that homosexuality is "unfortunate and suboptimal." However, she states that once homosexuality is irreversible, it's OK. The problem is that the homosexual learned it all wrong as a kid and damaged himself.
How's that for a premise that needs checking?
The idea of learning homosexuality I mentioned are words directly from the horse's mouth (Hsieh's). You have to conclude this, but it is relatively simple: if homosexuality is impossible to be innate for her and it becomes (archaic spelling and all) "engrained in a person's childhood psychology," obviously it is learned - thus for her, homosexuality is "unfortunate and suboptimal."
I also conclude from these words that if a kid learns something irreversible that is "unfortunate and suboptimal," he somehow got it wrong and damaged himself (irrespective of degree). As a booby-prize, she claims this damage is not immoral and a loving relationship is possible.
Here are her very own iddy biddy words to this effect:
As for an innate compulsions, that's simply impossible. A person would have to have an innate idea of property to have an innate compulsion to steal. I do not believe that homosexuality is innate, but I strongly suspect that it is too engrained in a person's childhood psychology to change in most cases. I regard homosexuality as unfortunate and suboptimal, but I do not think any case can be made that a loving homosexual relationship is immoral.
Sounds like a closet hetero supremacist to me. I repeat: How's that for a premise that needs checking?
M Kelly:
Totally. Henceforth let her be known as Ms Regina Firehammer aka Diana "Homos-are-unfortunate-and-suboptimal" Hseih.
Charles R. Anderson 0
Charles R. Anderson
Location:Columbia, MD
Interests:physics, history, philosophy, writing, blogging, economics, politics, business, materials development, biking, sailing, exercise, sexuality
Once again Diana has latched onto a simplistic idea and maneuvered it to a false conclusion. She is a master of wrongheadedness. Orthodoxy has also come to have a great deal of appeal to her, so it is not surprising that her imagination is crippled when it comes to dealing with a tradition-loaded subject such as homosexuality.
It has been widely observed that Diana has an insatiable appetite for being the center of attention. Perhaps this also makes homosexuals suboptimal since they do not hunger for her sexually. By her Hsiehcological evaluation, this makes homosexuals suboptimal.
It most certainly is not known that homosexuality is an idea that people somehow get when they are young. How can she even seriously consider that it is? First, it does not even operate in one's mind as an idea. If it is not, then any simple argument that it would have to be an innate idea cannot follow. To justify describing it as unfortunate and suboptimal requires a value argument in addition. Some or many people are probably homosexual by virtue of their biochemical attributes. This has nothing to do with an innate idea any more than the fact that some people are heterosexual is the result of an innate idea. It is very reasonable to believe that heterosexuals are the result of their biochemical attributes also.
If one's sexuality is substantially attributable to one's biochemistry, then it is also reasonable to suspect that some people may have biochemistries that are sufficiently intermediate in nature that they can be attracted to both sexes. These people may be bisexual and again, this is not due to their claiming that they have an innate idea. They may be in a greater position to exercise choice in the issue of who they will have sex with and they may develop ideas on this choice, but these ideas are not innate either.
This blogger certainly has an extreme Hsiehcology. She is perhaps Objectivism's ultimate wrongheaded prolemicist. Incredibly, she is admired by far more people than my benevolent mind can fathom.
She (Hsieh) is perhaps Objectivism's ultimate wrongheaded polemicist.
Well said. Consider this: What could be a more priceless example of the very "weasel-worded academese" that so outrages Perigo than her:
It just doesn't GET any weaselier than that. Ironically, it was Chris Sciabarra who saw straight through Hsieh's mealy-mouthed euphemising, and amazingly is getting condemned for calling exactly as he - and anyone else who's got half a brain and an ounce of self-respect - sees it.
Perigo on the other hand, seems to have suddenly lost all his self-proclaimed "KASS". Why, he is going to politely "disagree", and let's all look the other way, tiptoe round the teacups and say no more about it shall we? One fears this little episode shows the true measure of the man. If Chris Sciabarra makes a few personal remarks about him in a private email, why that's a terrible moral crime that needs to be denounced ad nauseum throughout the halls of Objectivism. But should Hsieh casually disparage all homosexuals - is anyone mealy-mouthed enough to to call her description complimentary? - does Perigo have the cojones to stand up to it? No, he just mutters that he "disagrees" and then goes just as weasel-wordy as Hsieh as he tries to disagree with Chris's frank, no-nonsense, spade-is-a-spade assessment. What could be less 'KASS' than this display of utter limp-dickness?
For contrast, imagine the howling if someone on the shitlist like Joseph Rowlands or Barbara Branden or Michael Kelly had said it (not that they would dream of doing so!). We'd never hear the end of it. As Joseph Rowlands recently remarked, it's pretty obvious where Perigo's real priorities in life lie.
"What could be less 'KASS' than this display of utter limp-dickness?"
Good point, Dirk, but let's not be too loud about it. I kind of like the idea that Hsieh has tamed Perigo. Maybe a few months as a deferential eunuch in the House of Hsiehame will be the first step toward his becoming a grown-up.
Jonathon:
>Maybe a few months as a deferential eunuch in the House of Hsiehame will be the first step toward his becoming a grown-up.
Hee hee. "Deferential eunuch" sums up Perigo's stance nicely. However, I fear you are too optimistic. I can also see this is just another timebomb set a-tickin'...
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Location:Centreville. Va
If people would realize that we are as strong as iron and as fragile as a leaf, they would have a different approach to life.
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> priceless example of..."weasel-worded academese"..."I regard homosexuality as unfortunate and suboptimal, but I do not think any case can be made that a loving homosexual relationship is immoral."
Dirk, I'm not used to defending Diana :-), but I have to disagree with you on this: I'm not arguing the position, but she's holding two separate positions, and that's what the word 'but' indicates in English grammar.
One is apparently that it's better to be born (become?) hetero-sexual as nature and evolution intended (You "fit better" both physically and into a society hostile to sexual variation). The other is saying that it's not immoral to be gay.
Those two positions do not logically contradict each other (and Chris was wrong to presume dishonesty or that she sneakily believes h. is immoral...that is not in evidence in her statement).
An analogy: Suppose you were born without some physical capacity or color-blind (or something-I don't have a perfect analogy). That would be unfortunate to some degree or other or less than optimal. But you can be fully fulfilled, successful, achieve happines...be moral..without it.
Dirk, MSK, Charles and others-->
I am an opponent of Diana's on many things...including many aspects of how she judges people...but there are several things it is important to do in dealing with intellectual adversaries:
(1) Don't oversimplify or 'strawman' their positions
(2) Don't indulge in ad hominem, character assassination, or name calling...even if they do.
(3) Don't jump to moral condemnation or overstated character evaluations prior to hard and thorough evidence that honest error is totally impossible....even if they do.
(4) Just go on the evidence in people's statements. Do not read conspiracy theories or ulterior meanings or hidden motives into people's statements.
I've seen people on this list and on RoR who are outraged when their opponents do 1, 2, 3, or 4. Then they turn around and do the same things themselves toward -their- opponents.
Having now read and outlined her piece on Chris, I have started posting questions and gotten responses from her and her defenders. I have not assumed evil on their part and vice-versa in the discussion and it has been polite and civil....so far!
Even though absolutely no agreement has been achieved on anything.
PHIL,
Is there more to the quote attributed to Ms Hsieh that what you stated which is the same as I have read elsewhere because I have a problem with what you said above.
I will not argue that one part of the statement does not contradict the other however I can't see where you are getting the context of her message concerning the first part as being the following:
Where do you derive this? Is this based on something else she said?
When one makes a statement that they regard "homosexuality as unfortunate and suboptimal", then is there any real stretech to believe they also regard the homosexual as unfortunate and suboptimal. I don't know about your world, but in mine anyone who considered me as suboptimal would not be in consideration for a Christmas Card this year.
Barbara Branden 2
Barbara Branden
Location:Los Angeles, CA
Phil, you say that one of Hseih's positions is that "it's better to be born (become?) hetero-sexual as nature and evolution intended." But if it's true that approximately 10% of any population is and alway has been homosexual, surely one could conclude that that's precisely what nature and evolution intended -- that it's "natural" that a certain percentage of the population be homosexual. .(Although "intended" is a dubious word to use in this context.)
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Aggrad02
Location:Calvert, TX
Phillip, I agree with the part of your post that it is counter productive to engage in the four topics you posted.
I'm new to this board and the online objectivist community, and I don't know any of the players involved and have never read anything by Hsieh or Chris, but I went to solo passion to read the article by ms. hsieh, and I can see no value she could obtain by posting that article. Even if everything in the article is true and all of the claims are valid, it is still a piece of trash. From the tone and the content of her article she seems to be a very sour souled person. Someone I would never want to have any interaction with whatsoever. I am not sure how it works in academia but in the real world (except in politics) such a person would be ostracized. Criticizing someone's work is fair, but attacking them personally is so low I wouldn't even do such a thing to my worst enemy. How can anyone ever trust her again.
What was the point of the article besides attempted assasination. Objectivism is about the producer not the destroyer.
Dustan Costine
I appreciate the voice of civility, but this case involving some crummy little people went way over the top.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE HONOR OF CHRIS SCIABARRA AS IF IT WERE PROPER TO QUESTION IT.
Dayaamm!
The points you raised:
I stated what I believed about the homosexuality issue using the words - in context - from the horse's mouth. Hsieh thinks homosexuality is learned. That makes her a hetero supremacist. How to evaluate that is up to each person. I personally have no other opinion. I certainly can see a message between the lines that gives others pause, though.
Let me address your numbered points:
1. I don't know what you mean about strawman in this case. I read the article as did several here. I have seen no oversimplifications and I have seen no inaccuracies. The article, on the other hand, was a straw dungeon full of straw men. You act like answering this garbage is required because it is valid. It is not valid. It is an attempted character assassination. It is a smear. I will not stand for it. I will not treat it as respectable.
2. The only name-calling I encourage in OL is lampooning done with talent. Out of anger and contempt, we started using satirical names in serious writing. Then, Roger, I and others had an e-mail "whispering campaign" amongst ourselves and decided that we were diluting the effectiveness of both the humor and arguments by combining them, so we made the proper adaptations - lampoons went to humor and a serious tone was adopted for arguments. I'll bet you didn't even know about that particular "whispering campaign," did you?
Between posters on OL, acrimony is nipped in the bud the moment it erupts. One thing you should be aware of. I hold the people who perpetrated this mess in total contempt. I have read enough of their works (all of them) to know what and how they think. I have looked at their lives. They are mediocre underachievers who try to take down famous people who have achieved something in the world.
Once again, you sound like they deserve respect. They don't. They are crummy little people who give Objectivism a bad name. They don't produce much anything of value.
3. That piece of trash that Hsieh wrote is really the only thorough "evidence" anybody needs, but I have a wider perspective. I was one of the insiders at one time (not with Hsieh or Valliant, though). I can tell you with absolute certainty that the integrity level in the wings is disgusting. I might write about that one day - and believe me, I have plenty of "evidence" too if I ever need to use it.
4. Conspiracy theory? Ha! Hsieh is a stoolie who sang like a canary in public, broke the law (as I understand it) to do so, and called for people to send her their private correspondence with Sciabarra. Lemme tell ya something, dude, that I learned in the streets. A stoolie who sings in public sings in private. There ain't no conspiracy there. It's the nature of the canary to sing.
Hsieh cannot be trusted to keep any confidence whatsoever. Another word for stoolie is "tattle-tale." I have no doubt that any correspondence involving Sciabarra sent to her will end up in other places, including ARI. Let those who decide to send her stuff ponder the consequences of that.
You know, reading this last post of yours brought the phrase, "Peace in our time" running through my mind. I like you. A lot. So please don't take this to mean that I am saying you are the equivalent of Neville Chamberlain. But your argument in this case shows the same blindness.
You make your own choices. You go and debate these intellectual parasites and give them some minimal image of respectability. If you find value in that, go for it. You give them audience so they can keep calling Chris Sciabarra a liar and scumbag. That is the practical result.
I make my choices too. I stand by my friend, Chris Sciabarra. I admire him tremendously - hell, I love that guy. He is a person with one of the finest moral characters I have the honor of knowing. He is highly competent. He is honored throughout the world for his achievements. What was done against him was unconscionable spite.
And I am not done with his defense - not by a long shot.
Phillip was trying to better explain what Ms. hsieh was saying in the first part of her statement: "I regard homosexuality as unfortunate and suboptimal". I think the best word that could be used instead of unfortunate (which I think is a horrible word because it implies fortune and luck) is unsuitable. That would take care of the problems of unfortunate and include suboptimal. The statement "I think homosexuality is unsuitable, but but I do not think any case can be made that a loving homosexual relationship is immoral." is alot less contradictory and less negative. I would also solve the problem of natural, because something that is only represented by 10% of a species could be considered unsuitable.
Dustan
Edit: Upon further consideration I am revoking my above statement. Any action that is moral cannot be also unsuitable. Therefore the original statement by ms. Hsieh is a contradiction no matter how you improve the wording.
Phil, you wrote that “there are several things it is important to do in dealing with intellectual adversaries:
"(2) Don't indulge in ad hominem, character assassination, or name calling...even if they do.
"(3) Don't jump to moral condemnation or overstated character evaluations prior to hard and thorough evidence that honest error is totally impossible....even if they do.
"(4) Just go on the evidence in people's statements. Do not read conspiracy theories or ulterior meanings or hidden motives into people's statements.
As you know, Phil, I argued long and hard on the old Solo for precisely this position, so much so that my arguments were crucial in causing Solo principals to direct their venom against me – as you also know. But I think that in the present context you are overlooking some important factors.
Let me give an example – admittedly an extreme one, but not more extreme than many others I could cite. Recently, a poster on SoloPassion announced that Chris Sciabarra “has a much greater job on his hands than just responding to Diana's charges. He also has to totally repudiate all of his previously published work on or related to Objectivism, either as primary writer or editor, most especially TRR and JARS. That I don't expect to happen anytime soon, if ever - and that tells me a lot about his purported ‘integrity"."
I had to read this statement three times before I could believe that any sane person could make such a suggestion, and in private email I “indulged” in name-calling and moral condemnation about the person who posted it. I believe that both the names I called him and the condemnation that accompanied it were totally warranted, and that I went on the evidence in his statement. Nor do I for a moment believe that honest error could possibly account for his position. And I cannot quite imagine how anything but some ugly hidden motive could explain it. Nor that it is even possible to “strawman” such a position. I did not “assume” evil in this statement; I saw it.
You see, I completely agree with your four points when one is addressing what you term “intellectual adversaries.” But I do not agree that the core of the conflict here is between such adversaries. We are dealing with thugs masquerading as intellectuals, masquerading as rational beings, masquerading as Objectivists, and we should not pretend otherwise. Not if we value intellectuality, reason, and Objectivism.
Philip writes:
(4) Just go on the evidence in people's statements. Do not read conspiracy theories or ulterior meanings or hidden motives into people's statements
A very sobering perspective. This is an approach I hold as ideal, though I sometimes find myself not living up to it. It is an approach that keeps one's feet planted firmly on the ground and not running away with the imagination. If the imagination is not grounded in evidence, it is merely fantasy. The only real evidence we have of people's perspectives is their words and their actions. It is easy to interpret more than is really there. Our biases can play a large role in shaping those interpretations. Objectivity requires we be aware of our biases and pay attention to the evidence. Thanks Philip.
Oh, by the way, earlier today I was thinking of a response to this thread and was also considering an analogy for a gay orientation. I came up with shyness. As I see it, like homosexuality, shyness can be thought of as being the result of a physiological predisposition to orient the individual's consciousness a particular way that can make life more challenging than it would be with another orientation. On this view, like shyness, homosexuality is just a fact of reality not a choice to be ethically evaluated.
Recently my wife rented Brokeback Mountain. I had told her previously that I would not be interested in watching it but she conveniently forgot. I wanted to spend the evening with my wife, and I thought I was pretty open minded about considering other perspectives, so I decided to watch it with her. When "the scene" arrived I had to leave. I had to leave not because of a moral response but because of a visceral response.
There I was, engaged in the movie, empathically experiencing the characters perspectives, and the characters began taking me to a place my being was not oriented to go. A trivial example of the same effect is when you watch a horror movie and the protagonist does everything you wouldn't do. It breaks the spell. It breaks the empathic connection to the character and the movie. I had the same type of response, but deeper in my being, to Brokeback Mountain. My being was oriented against that experience.
The interesting thing is that at no point did this become a moral response as it seems to for a lot of people. A physiological predisposition to orient my consciousness with particular motivational biases has determined my sexual orientation. But it is my interpretive framework interacting with my motivational biases that ultimately determines my moral responses.
An orientation of consciousness determines how sensory information is processed into a perceptual experience. An interpretive framework determines how perceptual information is integrated into a conceptual experience. Motivational biases determine how we respond to what we perceive and conceive. I had a motivated response to my perceptual integrations but not to my conceptual integrations. Why?
My interpretive framework includes an understanding of causality that allows for both a relative perspective and an absolute perspective. I know that a homosexual's response to a given sexual event is relative to his particular physiological predisposition: he or she has a particular set of motivational biases. My absolute perspective, held in my mind's eye, includes, and has integrated, the idea that each node in the web of interacting individuals is a relative point of view. Therefore, my absolute perspective does not devalue the relative perspective of a given individual. Nor do I have to agree with or hold the same relative perspective. I can hold both relative perspectives simultaneously in my imagination and consider them equally valid. Mine is not threatened by the existence of others that disagree. By integrating other people’s relative perspectives my absolute perspective allows me to be more open to exploring points of view that differ from my own. An alternative point of view does not threaten my right to my own or my certainty.
Consider the traditional approach to absolute perspectives in religion or in Objectivism. There is one ultimate view of truth, of right, and of good. Anything that deviates from this absolute perspective is false, wrong, or evil. (I could go off on a multitude of tangents here, but I won't.) Homosexuality, viewed from the perspective of someone who has an absolute view of human nature that does not integrate relative perspectives, will typically be viewed as deviant: false, wrong, or evil. Any such deviant perspective is a challenge to the individual's absolute view of human nature. Even such an absolutist cannot escape a knowledge of the reality that their position is only relative. Alternative views are a threat to certainty and security. Remember, self-esteem is tied to our competence in the face of reality and our understanding of existence is the foundation of our competence. Deviant relative perspectives are seen as a threat to the ego because they challenge one's certainty and security. Anyone who threatens one's ego will be attacked.
I think this is why many are motivated to moralize sexual orientation. Their absolutist view allows them to self-righteously attack those who threaten their claim to certainty.
If I knew Diana Hsieh better I might suggest this is the psychological dynamic at work in her relative to the unorthodox Objectivist's she attacks. But I don't know her so I won't say that.
(Note: I wrote this before seeing any responses to Philip's post)
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JennaW
There's been research done on the neuro nature of sexuality. Also Journals sexuality & neuroscience are available online and at universities.
At this point, when someone says "it's better to be [insert this or that]" is their opinion. I can take it or leave it, depending on how valid that is to my life (none). For Chris, he's going to be who he's going to be, sexuality wise, and he has stated it. Who cares what others opine.
I'd say the same for my own opinions/ideas. Everyone else go get their own ideas! Reality is the final arbitrator... and within that reality is the reality of social interaction/human behavior. [laugh]
But I think that in the present context you (Phil) are overlooking some important factors.
Barbara is absolutely right. Phil, I know you mean well. But as Jenna observed, and Barbara also notes, the whole business is nuts. Laughter is the first sane response. The second is to drill down a bit, get at some of the plate tectonics of the situation under the hot lava. Ellen Stuttle does this very well over at ROR, laying out how Chris' integrity carries a benefit for those who don't have it, and how he maintains it at a serious cost to himself. On the other side of the ledger, we're starting to see just how far players like Maurone and Perigo are prepared to sell themselves out in order to avenge obscure personal scores. So far it looks like a fair way indeed.
Phil:
4) Just go on the evidence in people's statements. Do not read conspiracy theories or ulterior meanings or hidden motives into people's statements.
People often write in such a mealy-mouthed style when they are trying to dress up an unpleasant prejudice in pseudo intellectual drag. For example, what would you think if I said the following:
"I regard being Black as unfortunate and suboptimal, but I do not think any case can be made that being a loving Black person is immoral."
Might you suspect I have an underlying opinion of Black people that is not particularly positive? Do you consider Hsieh's comment about gays should be taken as a complimentary one, or an uncomplimentary one?
> if it's true that approximately 10% of any population is and alway has been homosexual, surely one could conclude that that's precisely what nature and evolution intended
Barbara, that's an interesting point and I hadn't thought of it. But my purpose was not to argue in favor of Diana's two positions on homosexuality but against the over the top idea that it was proof of weasellyness or dishonesty or subterfuge. That would be to make the same cynical mistaken of lack of any possible benevolent interpretation that she is making with Chris.
Michael, my point is that the most effective counter to bad ideas is not to draw a psychological diagnosis whether they could be held innocently or whether the opponent has to be evil or trying to curry favor with an orthodoxy (or with academics -- again, same mistake as is being made by the other side against Chris!) but to take them at face value and rebut them or ask questions about them.
This is what I'm doing on SP right now. I created a thread called "Questions for Diana." You can read my posts and you'll see I'm pulling no punches in my strong disagreements...but I am not using invective.
And you can see that there is a very vigorous debate between me and four? other people against me on that thread. The only problem is I don't really have time to keep answering everything said by that many opponents. If you think my posts and discussion are *bad or improper ones*...please post that here (rather than there, so I can keep my questions going) why you think so.
If you aren't civil, it gets in the way. The person who has nothing to fear from clear and direct expression of his ideas is the person who -avoids- ranting and name-calling?
Because his points and arguments get lost. And he can't win his case.
Are you accepting Peter Schwartz's sanction principle? That I shouldn't have a discussion or debate because I'm 'sanctioning' it by disagreeing with it or critiquing its basis it on the deepest level?
RESPECT FOR THE DISCUSSION DOES NOT MEAN SANCTION OR RESPECT FOR THE POINT OF VIEW.
(That's not true in every single case...e.g., a debate on whether genocide is proper...but it is true when someone propounds a long list of moral charges and accusations and data against someone...they have to be answered.)
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My taxi stopped outside an unassuming building in an industrial part of Shanghai about a half hour drive from the centre of the city. Is this it? I thought. There was no shopfront and no sign announcing I had arrived. But I was met by Kexun Ge the founder and managing director of KGe Reeds so I knew I was in the right place.
KGe Reeds employ approximately 60 workers who are highly skilled in the precise & detailed process of making Oboe & bassoon Reeds. There are many different types of reeds to suit every player from students to professional oboists. Kexun is very proud of the experience and skill of his workers who have averaged 10 -15 years working for KGe Reeds.
The KGe factory looks like a large workshop & is made up of a number of smallish rooms, each with 4 or 5 workers sitting at a series of workbenches. Each room is dedicated to a part of the reed or oboe making process. KGE occupies two floors of the industrial building. What surprised me was how much of the reed and oboe making was done by hand. The workers are very highly skilled craftsmen & women, using innovative machinery and tools. Each oboe and reed is hand crafted to exact specifications. Kexun oversees and regularly checks the work of his staff & gives expert advice in the complex process of making reeds and oboes.
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Innovation has played an important part in the success of Kexun’s business. Kexun has designed and developed precision machinery such as the oboe reed profiler to streamline the reed making process. Profilers are very popular with professional oboists who need a constant supply of reliable reeds. The Oboe reed profiler greatly speeds up the reed making process and can be adapted and adjusted to suit the requirements of each player.
KGe’s latest innovation is the “Oboe Bocal Reed”. This is a revolutionary new type of reed that allows the oboist to experiment with different tone colours and different staple lengths. The Bocal Reed also enables oboists to make small intonation changes by lengthening or shortening the reed using the same staple without changing the dimensions of the scraped part of the reed. Kexun believes, from his own testing, that the “Bocal Reed” is more stable and has a warmer tone than a traditional oboe reed. He hopes that the KGe Bocal Reed will benefit oboists at all levels of playing.
As I walked through the reed making factory, I noticed that each worker had a specific job. One woman was gouging cane, another was soaking and shaping the gouged cane. Yet another woman was tying the shaped & folded cane onto the staple and a man was working with a reed making profiler, scraping blank reeds and finishing them by hand with a very sharp reed knife.
In another room there were several people sitting around a large table. One woman was measuring the thickness of the gouged & shaped cane. Another was sticking labels on plastic reed boxes. A finished Lan Mei Intermediate Oboe was being checked and tuned & several reed orders were being made up to send out to customers. There was chatting and laughter in this room and the atmosphere was friendly and productive.
PART 2 - OBOES
A large part of the KGe factory is dedicated to making oboes for Professional and student players. Many KGe professional Oboes are made from Grenadilla wood but KGe Oboes have become known for their quality synthetic & hybrid oboes (with a synthetic top joint and a lower joints made from wood). KGe Synthetic oboes are increasing in popularity around the world, especially in Germany and Russia. KGe consistently offers quality oboes at a very competitive price.
Kexun Ge began his career as an oboe player with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. He won a scholarship to study in London with Anthony Camden and started selling oboe reeds while he was in London. In 1989 Kexun followed Anthony Camden to Brisbane Australia where he founded KGe Reeds and became an Australian citizen.
As his business grew, Kexun found a reliable source of oboe cane in Anhui province in China and he returned to Shanghai to set up his workshop. A reliable supply of cane was crucial for Kexun to produce reeds of a consistently high quality and Anhui cane has a higher fibre density and greater resilience than other canes, including French cane.
Kexun has personally trained his staff at KGe reeds and he believes it is the skill and experience of his employees that sets his business apart from many of his competitors. But, with innovations such as the KGe reed making profiler, KGE has been able to produce Oboe reeds that are reliable and consistent at a reasonable price. And the innovation continues with the new KGe Oboe Bocal Reed.
by Linda Jane Stacy, Oboe player & teacher, Sydney, Australia
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are my own and are not the views of my employers.
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S. Linden, J. Kuhl, and H. Giessen
S. Linden,1 J. Kuhl,1 and H. Giessen2
1Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, D-70569 Stuttgart , Germany
2Department of Physics, Philipps-University, 35032 Marburg, Germany
S Linden
J Kuhl
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S. Linden, J. Kuhl, and H. Giessen, "Amplitude and phase characterization of weak blue ultrashort pulses by downconversion," Opt. Lett. 24, 569-571 (1999)
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We present difference-frequency generation cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating, a new method of characterizing the amplitude and phase of weak ultrashort pulses in the blue spectral region. The method uses the spectrally resolved downconversion signal of the blue pulse and a fully characterized reference pulse with a lower center frequency. The amplitude and phase of the blue test pulse are retrieved from the corresponding spectrogram and electric field of the reference pulse with an interactive Fourier-transform algorithm.
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The Sims 4: Seasons Review - We had joy, we had fun
The latest Sims expansion brings weather, holidays and seasonal fun - and a whole load of vengeful gnomes
2nd July, 2018 By Sarah Morris
Game Info // The Sims 4: Seasons
Publisher: EA
Developer: Maxis
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Available On: PC
Genre: Life Simulation
We're not sure why, but back in the days of The Sims 2, we always saw the Seasons expansion pack as the red-headed step child of the family. After all, adding some weather effects seemed like the lamest add-on going, marginally above IKEA furniture or H&M clothes. But then it turned up in our stocking one Christmas morning, and boy, were we proved wrong. Almost overnight, we turned into a gardening addict, fished up a storm, and definitely got our Simoleons worth out of the new careers (Gamer and Musician in particular), while our toddlers got their money's worth by eating through ALL the snow. It's surprising how much a little change in the weather can make a town feel much more alive, compared to the eerie perma-sun of your normal Sim city. So, when we heard our much-loved Seasons expansion was coming to The Sims 4, we were pretty darn stoked to see how it mixes things up this time round.
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The Sims 4: Seasons, then, is pretty much everything you'd expect from a game that opens your Sims lives up to the ups and downs of yearly life. Perhaps the most obvious change for your Sims on a day to day basis is the addition of weather, swapping the forever sunny weather for something a bit more variable, as the seasons change from spring to summer, and from autumn (aka 'fall' *shudder*) to winter. It's hardly a new feature for the Seasons expansion packs, having been added to both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, but it's one that always makes a huge difference to the game. In terms of the weather effects themselves, The Sims 4: Seasons adds all the usual suspects - snow, rain and scorching sun - along with all the associated fun that comes with them. There's making snow angels, jumping in puddles, and water balloon fights; not to mention the snowmen, thunderstorms and heat-induced grumpiness to deal with, all of which help liven up your Sims' daily lives. New fashions mean you can wrap your Sims' up for a wintery stroll, grab an umbrella to shield you from a rainstorm, or bare it all on a sweltering hot day. Few things can put a damper on your Sims' mood like catching a cold, getting soaked to the skin or overheating, so for your Sims' sanity, wardrobe management is fairly essential.
Wrapping up for all the seasonal weather is pretty important to The Sims 4: Seasons.
But arguably the biggest and best addition is Seasons' new holidays. An actual in-game calendar sees your Sims' lives broken down into four different seasons, each of which lasts a week (although you can change this in the settings to be 14 or 28 days if you want something a bit longer), and each season comes with its own unique holidays to ring in. There's plenty of them to keep you occupied, too, from the expected ones like Christmas, New Years and a Valentine's-esque 'Love Day', to a handful of more unexpected ones that are worth looking forward to too - Talk Like A Pirate Day for example, or 'Neighbourhood Brawl', a whole day dedicated to getting into fist fights with your neighbours (put 'em up, Mortimer! - Ed). And if that's not enough, you can even create your own celebrations, and choose your own "traditions" to go alongside it. Perhaps making your own 'Creator Day', where Sims travel to a shrine to give thanks to a merciful player who hasn't starved them to death this year - they could even have to fast the whole day, to reflect on what less fortuitous Sims went through before their untimely demise. Maybe even throwing caution to the wind with a bit of celebratory streaking for good measure.
Every so often a surprise festival might show up that's not marked on your calendar.
Each holiday comes with its own set of objectives to complete during the day, before your Sim will class it as having been suitably celebrated, whether it's having a 'Grand Meal' for "Winter Fest" (eurgh) and opening a present, watching the Countdown to Midnight on TV for New Years' Eve, or donning ye best pirate outfit and spouting ye best buccaneering lingo for Talk Like A Pirate Day. Each objective you tick off will give you a chunk of Satisfaction and a feel-good moodlet for your Sim, giving you warm, fuzzy seasonal feelings, along with helping break up the daily grind of work, skill-learning, and house expansions. However, it's also totally optional - and sometimes, depending on your Sims' unique personalities and age bracket, they may choose not to observe the holiday at all. For example, our Elder really couldn't care less about the Free Food and Drinks festival, seeing as she's obviously long done with nights out on the town, instead preferring to stay home with her cats and rose bushes.
And let's not forget all the glorious new NPC characters The Sims 4: Seasons brings. Our created gardening pro granny, Doris Gardener, has been steadily WooHoo-ing her way through new arrivals Father Winter (that's Father Christmas to you and me), and Patchy the Straw Man, a helpful, sometimes-sentient scarecrow that helps with your gardening chores. When she's not romancing scarecrows, Doris can mostly be found bonding with the bees in her brand new beehive - which, if you befriend them enough, can be used to attack other Sims.... Just the thing for getting those young whipper-snappers off her perfectly-manicured lawns. And if you're thinking an overly friendly scarecrow, and an angry bee army sounds pretty out there, just wait until Harvestfest rolls around, and out come the gnomes…
When he's not busy watering your plants, Patchy is more than happy to lend a hand building a snow man.
If Harvestfest teaches you one thing, it's that hell hath no fury like a gnome scorned. No, this isn't your average harvest festival with tables of produce and everyone singing kumbaya - it's the holiday from hell. Basically, overnight, a whole army of gnomes appear on your lot, demanding appeasement. You can choose to give them coffee, pie or toys - all manner of things really - but heaven help you if your gift isn't up to snuff, because these gnomes mean business. Give them the wrong present, and they'll take their anger out on your household appliances, breaking your TVs, wrecking your toilets and generally causing thousands of Simoleans-worth of damage. You can choose to 'Plead for Forgiveness' from an angered gnome, but they're not exactly merciful creatures, and the odds are you'll just get struck by a bolt of lightning. Not impressed with their antics, Doris gave one a swift kick to the gnome-nuts (it's his own fault really, for being a naked gnome with nothing covering his modesty but a pixelated box) - but it turns out, her outburst was a bit of a mistake. After lashing out, an evil looking circle of gnomes basically followed her wherever she went for the rest of the day, repeatedly wrecking every appliance in the immediate vicinity. It wasn't long before Doris broke down in a puddle of tears and her own urine, because what else can you do when your toilet's out of action? But at least Patchy came to mop it all up, obviously trying to get in her good books for later...
Who knew garden gnomes were such a vindictive bunch?
Really, the only genuine complaint we have with The Sims 4: Seasons is that it doesn't come with a new neighbourhood to explore. You know, one filled with themed buildings and seasonal activities, etc. Your Sims can go ice skating and roller blading thanks to the new expansion, but with no dedicated lots for them, it's something you'd probably have to rearrange your neighbourhood to include. That being said, EA have made it so that the seasons, and associated weather effects, do work properly across all the preset neighbourhoods, so snow covers the whole map and such, which is pretty cool.
As an expansion pack, The Sims 4: Seasons really does bring a whole host of new features to the table, and is a great way to refresh your Sims experience. We're particularly fond of the new holidays it adds, but the whole gamut of weather effects are pretty darn fun too, especially playing in the snow, and all the associated winter festivities. The more out-there holiday moments, such as Harvestfest's somewhat sinister gnome squadron, and the silliness of Talk Like A Pirate Day (and many more) are easily the highlight of the pack too, helping to mix up your Sims' day-to-day lives with some much-needed seasonal stupidity. The Sims 4: Seasons does everything and more to live up to our expectations, cementing it's place up at the top of our favourite expansions list, alongside Cats & Dogs.
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Weather effects are a nice touch
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Gardening career is a bit generic
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