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news Pensions Pensions
Drawdown limit increase branded ‘sellotape measure’
By Clare Bettelley 3rd December 2012 12:00 am 5th April 2017 2:09 pm
Autumn Statement 2012: The government’s move to increase the capped drawdown limit of pension funds from 100% to 120% has been branded a ‘sellotape measure’ that fails to tackle major issues in the post-retirement market.
In his Autumn Statement today, chancellor George Osborne announced that an individual will be able to draw up to 120% of their retirement savings, to the value of an equivalent single life annuity.
Drawdown is the means by which an individual can withdraw cash from their retirement savings while their pension fund remains invested.
But Henry Tapper, director at First Actuarial, said: “We welcome this easement. Pragmatically, it was the only thing [Osborne] could have done, but the fundamental issue – the damage done by [quantitative easing] QE2 to [annuity] rates – hasn’t been addressed. It is a sellotape measure, which sticks together the post-retirement mess.”
Annuity rates are based on gilt yields. Quantitative easing reduces the number of gilts on the market, boosting the cost of remaining gilts, which results in lower gilt yields and, therefore, lower annuity income.
Tapper believes that this predicament is reducing retirement funding choices for retirees. “This is not a good time to buy annuities – people are having to rely on drawdown,” he explained. “They may not like it, but the 100% restriction was really strangling their lifestyles.”
But he added that an over-reliance on drawdown could lead to individuals depleting their funds early on in their retirement. Nevertheless, he said: “I think it’s about, politically speaking, rights. It does at least give people something at a time when their option to annuities isn’t there.”
Tom Stevenson, investment director at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, agreed: “We congratulate the government on its willingness to back-pedal on the unhelpful reduction in the income pensioners can enjoy in flexible draw-down arrangements.”
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news Voluntary benefits
M&S to extend clothes recycling campaign
Employee-owner scheme given go ahead
Personal allowance rise impacts auto-enrolment
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pf 6th December 2012 at 1:10 pm
Yes. Desperately needed – but will it be implemented in time to save people with drastic review results?
Also – this needs to switch to percentages. We ought to allow funds to deplete in a controlled manner – this is their purpose. Or does the goverment have an interest in stopping us getting to out money and then taking over half of it when we die? It is intended as a provision to be used in later life, not a bonus to governments when we die.
Tom Stevenson, Fidelity Worldwide Investment 6th December 2012 at 4:37 pm
We congratulate the government on its willingness to back-pedal on the unhelpful reduction in the income pensioners can enjoy in flexible draw-down arrangements. The return to 120% of the GAD rate recognises that many prudent savers who have seen their incomes plummet recently have been unfairly treated.
Joanne Segars, chief executive, NAPF 6th December 2012 at 4:39 pm
The government will take twice as much from this tax hit on pensions as it will from the increase in the bank levy. That cannot be fair, and will only undermine confidence in pension saving.
The Chancellor is wrong to say that the changes will only affect those at the top of the wage tree. Osborne claims he is taking a carrot away from the rich, but he is also beating many middle class savers with a stick. Middle managers in the public and private sectors will get caught in the net.
People in a final salary pension who have worked loyally for the same employer for years and then get a pay rise, or a promotion, could end up with a tax bill of several thousand pounds. This is a charge just for saving into a pension. The self-employed and those nearing retirement desperately trying to ‘catch up’ by boosting their pension are also at risk.
What we desperately need is stability, so that people can trust the pensions system and get on with saving for their old age, instead of being treated like a cashpoint when things go wrong. This raid also adds an extra layer of admin and cost for the businesses trying to run final salary pensions.
The government is unpicking the benefits of saving into a pension at the same time as it is putting several million people into one. Yet again, workers will see the goal-posts being moved and wonder why they should bother. These are difficult economic times, but the government needs to do much more to encourage people to have faith in saving, and to strengthen workplace pensions.
Robin Hames, Capita Employee Benefits 6th December 2012 at 4:40 pm
These reductions further complicate retirement planning for high savers. This is bound to catch out high earners with career breaks and entrepreneurs who may try to fund their retirement after establishing their business.
Another key consequence is that this brings more complexity around fixed, primary and enhanced protection and could signal another round of complicated protection legislation.
Savers affected by this change who have not used all their annual allowance in the previous three tax years may want to consider using this unused relief in that year, a process called carry forward. Savers must have sufficient earnings to obtain tax relief on this amount and must be aware of the effect of the lifetime allowance.
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Iron Range National Park
Infobox_protected_area_of_Australia | name = Iron Range National Park
iucn_category = II
locator_x = 204
locator_y = 17
nearest_town_or_city = Weipa
coordinates = coord|12|34|00|S|143|18|55|E|type:landmark_region:AU
area = 346 km²
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visitation_year =
managing_authorities = Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
official_site = [http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/index.cgi?parkid=195 Iron Range National Park]
Iron Range is a National Park located in Queensland, Australia, 1940 km northwest of Brisbane and 100 km east of Weipa in the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
Within the National Park is the Iron Range (Lockhart River Resources Reserve), Scrubby Creek mining area and Lockhart River Aboriginal Reserve.
During WW2 there were a number of Australian Army units located at this base.
History of airbases
In March 1940, Val Augenson of the Department of Civil Aviation inspected a possible site for an Emergency Landing Ground for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He reported to the RAAF that a suitable all-weather Emergency Landing Ground could be built in the area.
On about 18 April 1942, Walter Maiersperger, the Commanding Officer of 33 Bomb Squadron of the United States Army Air Force's 22nd Bomb Group, carried out an aerial reconnaissance flight over the Iron Range area. He had been tasked with surveying coastal airfields in Queensland that would be suitable for operation of the B-26 Marauders used by the 22nd Bomb Group.Air Commodore Lukis, Air Officer Commanding, North East Area, reported on 28 May 1942, that Pilot Officer Trench, RAAF had inspected the countryside near Portland Roads (also known as Weymouth Bay), with Colonel Mills and Captain Herman G. Cox of the USAAF. Their first attempt to fly to the Iron Range area from Coen was not successful. An engine failed in their Rapide and they returned to Coen. After being repaired they took off the next morning and landed on a beach at low tide a few miles south of Portland Roads. As the plane slowed down upon landing on the soft sand the Rapide swung towards the sea. The tips of the propeller started to thrash in the water but the skilful pilot was able to turn the aircraft back onto the beach.
The inspection party reported to Lukis that there were good jetty facilities at Portland Roads but that there was no suitable site for an aerodrome near the jetty. They reported that a fairly extensive site just to the west of Iron Range and east of the Claudie River was suitable for the construction of several airfields. [ Iron Range Airfield Nth Qld during WW2, accessed May 2006 http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/airfields/ironrange.htm] On 7 June 1942, an advance party of the US 46 Engineer General Service Regiment and 26 Operational Base Unit RAAF boarded the SS Wandana in Townsville headed for Portland Roads. 26 OBU arrived at Portland Roads and established radio communications with Townsville on the evening of 10 June 1942.
A few weeks after his initial visit, Jim Trench returned to the Iron Range area with Colonel Mills and observed two American Battalions of Pioneer Engineers busily buildings the Iron Range runways. They managed to build two 7,000-feet runways and thirteen miles of sealed taxiways within three months.
On 14 June 1942, Companies A, B and C of the 46th Engineers boarded the MS Dona Nati at Townsville and arrived at Portland Roads on 16 June 1942.
Headquarters and Service Company (H & S Company) of the 46th Engineers left Townsville on 10 July 1942 and arrived at Portland Roads on 12 July 1942.On 27 October 1942, Headquarters Detachment of the 46th Engineers left Townsville and arrived at Iron Range on 29 October 1942.
The 90th Bomb Group arrived in Queensland in early November 1942 with their forty-eight (48) B-24D Liberators ( [http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/b2-38.htm variant D] ). They were initially based as follows at Iron Range, 16 km inland from the port facility of Portland Roads:
List of the sections/units during World War II
According to Peter Dunn, [ Iron Range bases during WW2), accessed May 2006 http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/locations/muironrange.htm] the following sections were situated at Iron Range:
* 2 Section, 2 Australian Survey Company
* 3rd Portable Surgical Hospital (US Army)
* 5th AACS
* 13 Garrison Battalion 1 Aust Army, CMF
* 13 Australian Gun (less A, B & C Company)
* 15th Weather Squadron
* 18th Station Hospital (US)
* 22nd Bomb Group
* 26th AA Battery
* 26 OBU (RAAF)
* 28 Service Squadron (US)
* 36 Australian AA Battery Workshops Section, Cape Direction
* 36 Australian Supply Depot Pl
* 43rd Bomb Group
* 46 Engineer Regiment (US)
* 61 Service Group & 46 (EGS)
* 90th Bomb Group
* 197th Coastal Artillery (AA) Regiment
* 387th Port Battalion (US)
* 404 Signal
* 1909 Ordnance
* AASC 4 Australian DID, Cape Direction
* Attached Detachment 200 Supply Depot (AIF)
* Australian 446 - 447 Heavy AA Gun Static
* Australian 136 Coastal Artillery Searchlight Company
* Australian Army Airway Radio Range and Communication Station
* Allied Works Council
* Carrier Pl, 51 Australian Infantry Battalion
* Civil Construction Corps (CCC)
* D Section, 2/4th Australian Dental Unit
* Detachment 1 Australian Army AA Pool Under Command CA Artillery Portland Roads
* Detachment 2/1 Australian Field Butchery Company
* Detachment 2/109 Australian General Transport Company
* Detachment 3 Company Queensland AA & CA Signals
* Detachment 8 Australian Field Baker
* Detachment 19 Australian Field Bakery
* Detachment 21 Australian Field Bakery (AIF)
* Detachment 56 Australian Comp. AA Regiment Workshop (LE)
* Directorate of Air Transport
* HQ 36 Australian AA Battery
* Main Roads Commission (MRC)
* Portland Road Battery
* Port Detachment "A"
* RAAF AASC Station Base and Weather Station
* RAAF Key Communication Centre
* US 5 Air Force Command
Aerial photos & maps - World War II bomber base
* Protected areas of Queensland (Australia)
Idalia National Park
Isla Gorge National Park
Iron Range National Park — noun a national park in Qld, on the eastern side of the Cape York Peninsula, in the northern part; proclaimed in 1977. Approx. 47 000 ha … Australian-English dictionary
Chesterton Range National Park — IUCN Category II (National Park) Coordinates 26°09′15″S 147°19′27″E … Wikipedia
Iron Range — For the former USAF Bomber base in North Queensland and the National Park, See Iron Range, Australia The Iron Range and Arrowhead are overlapping regions that make up the northeastern section of Minnesota in the United States. The Range , as it… … Wikipedia
Restoration Island National Park — Restoration Island is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 1928 km northwest of Brisbane and a few hundred metres from Cape Weymouth and the Iron Range National Park.On 29 May 1789, after the mutiny on the Bounty , Captain Bligh and the men … Wikipedia
Forbes Islands National Park — Forbes Islands is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 1962 km northwest of Brisbanein the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland and is located about 40km North East of Iron Range National Park and Lockhart River in the Cape Weymouth… … Wikipedia
Quoin Island National Park — Quoin Island is a national park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, 1947 km northwest of Brisbane. It is a terrestrial oasis in a desert of water situated about 30km North East of Iron Range National Park and… … Wikipedia
Mount Rainier National Park — IUCN Category II (National Park) Nisqually entrance … Wikipedia
Hot Springs National Park — Infobox protected area | name = Hot Springs National Park iucn category = II caption = locator x = 160 locator y = 120 location = Garland County, Arkansas, USA nearest city = Hot Springs lat degrees = 34 | lat minutes = 30 | lat seconds = 49 |… … Wikipedia
Weddin Mountains National Park — Weddin Mountains is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 291 km west of Sydney. It is a small crescent shaped range running roughly north south with steep cliffs on the eastern side sloping more gradually down to the plane in the west … Wikipedia
Mount Walsh National Park — IUCN Category II (National Park) Mount Walsh Nearest town/city Biggenden, Queensland Coordinates … Wikipedia
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Arctic Securities Chess Stars begins today
8/28/2010 – This double round robin rapid chess event is taking place in Kristiansund, Norway. The four players include reigning World Champion Vishy Anand, the world's strongest male and female players (Magnus Carlsen, Judit Polgar) and Norwegian talent Jon Ludvig Hammer. The rounds start at 14:30 CEST. Live broadcast is available on Playchess, with video on NRK. Here are details and schedule.
On this DVD you will be taken on a journey through what is arguably the sharpest opening line known to men.
Arctic Securities Chess Stars
This rapid chess tournament is taking place in Kristiansund from Saturday, August 28th to Monday, August 30th 2010. It is a double round robin with four players: Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Judit Polgar and Jon Ludvig Hammer. On Monday there follows the finals between the two leading players, together with the bronze final for third place. Time controls are 20 minutes + 10 seconds increment per move. Live broadcast of the moves on Playchess.com, live video broadcast by NRK.
14:30 First round
16:00 Second round
17:30 Third round Sunday, August 29
14:30 Fourth round
16:00 Fifth round
17:30 Sixth round Monday, August 30
14:00 Finals round one
15:40 Finals round two
Press conference on Friday, after the players had arrived in Kristiansund
GM Jon Ludvig Hammer, World Champions Viswanathan Anand
Judit Polgar, Magnus Carlsen, the world's highest ranked female and male players
Anand, Magnus and Jon Ludvik sign books and posters
Judit Polgar does her bit for the organisers and fans
Arctic Securities is an employee owned investment bank, independent of all financial institutions, with an absolute commitment to integrity, quality and independent research, focusing on competence, discretion and rapid execution.
The City of Tromsø, at a latitude of nearly 70 degrees north, is with its 68 000 inhabitants and 10 000 students the biggest city in the North of Norway. The city has the world’s northernmost university, brewery and cathedral and the city lives on education, research, administration, fishing exports and satellite technology. Tromsø is a candidated to hold the 2014 Chess Olympiade.
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File descriptor
(Redirected from File handle)
In Unix and related computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is an abstract indicator (handle) used to access a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket. File descriptors form part of the POSIX application programming interface. A file descriptor is a non-negative integer, generally represented in the C programming language as the type int (negative values being reserved to indicate "no value" or an error condition).
Each Unix process (except perhaps a daemon) should expect to have three standard POSIX file descriptors, corresponding to the three standard streams:
Integer value
<unistd.h> symbolic constant[1]
<stdio.h> file stream[2]
0 Standard input STDIN_FILENO stdin
1 Standard output STDOUT_FILENO stdout
2 Standard error STDERR_FILENO stderr
2 Operations on file descriptors
2.1 Creating file descriptors
2.2 Deriving file descriptors
2.3 Operations on a single file descriptor
2.4 Operations on multiple file descriptors
2.5 Operations on the file descriptor table
2.6 Operations that modify process state
2.7 File locking
2.8 Sockets
3 Upcoming operations
4 File descriptors as capabilities
OverviewEdit
File descriptors for a single process, file table and inode table. Note that multiple file descriptors can refer to the same file table entry (e.g., as a result of the dup system call[3]:104 and that multiple file table entries can in turn refer to the same inode (if it has been opened multiple times; the table is still simplified because it represents inodes by file names, even though an inode can have multiple names). File descriptor 3 does not refer to anything in the file table, signifying that it has been closed.
In the traditional implementation of Unix, file descriptors index into a per-process file descriptor table maintained by the kernel, that in turn indexes into a system-wide table of files opened by all processes, called the file table. This table records the mode with which the file (or other resource) has been opened: for reading, writing, appending, and possibly other modes. It also indexes into a third table called the inode table that describes the actual underlying files.[3] To perform input or output, the process passes the file descriptor to the kernel through a system call, and the kernel will access the file on behalf of the process. The process does not have direct access to the file or inode tables.
On Linux, the set of file descriptors open in a process can be accessed under the path /proc/PID/fd/, where PID is the process identifier.
In Unix-like systems, file descriptors can refer to any Unix file type named in a file system. As well as regular files, this includes directories, block and character devices (also called "special files"), Unix domain sockets, and named pipes. File descriptors can also refer to other objects that do not normally exist in the file system, such as anonymous pipes and network sockets.
The FILE data structure in the C standard I/O library usually includes a low level file descriptor for the object in question on Unix-like systems. The overall data structure provides additional abstraction and is instead known as a file handle.
Operations on file descriptorsEdit
The following lists typical operations on file descriptors on modern Unix-like systems. Most of these functions are declared in the <unistd.h> header, but some are in the <fcntl.h> header instead.
Creating file descriptorsEdit
open()
creat()[4]
socket()
accept()
socketpair()
pipe()
epoll_create() (Linux)
signalfd() (Linux)
eventfd() (Linux)
timerfd_create() (Linux)
memfd_create() (Linux)
userfaultfd() (Linux)
fanotify_init() (Linux)
inotify_init() (Linux)
clone() (with flag CLONE_PIDFD, Linux)
pidfd_open() (Linux)
open_by_handle_at() (Linux)
Deriving file descriptorsEdit
dirfd()
fileno()
Operations on a single file descriptorEdit
read(), write()
readv(), writev()
pread(), pwrite()
recv(), send()
recvfrom(), sendto()
recvmsg(), sendmsg() (also used for sending FDs to other processes over a Unix domain socket)
recvmmsg(), sendmmsg()
lseek(), llseek()
fstat()
fstatvfs()
fchmod()
fchown()
ftruncate()
fsync()
fdatasync()
fdopendir()
fgetxattr(), fsetxattr() (Linux)
flistxatrr(), fremovexattr() (Linux)
statx (Linux)
setns (Linux)
vmsplice() (Linux)
pidfd_send_signal() (Linux)
waitid() (with P_PIDFD ID type, Linux)
fdopen() (stdio function:converts file descriptor to FILE*)
dprintf() (stdio function: prints to file descriptor)
Operations on multiple file descriptorsEdit
select(), pselect()
poll(), ppoll()
epoll_wait(), epoll_pwait() (Linux, takes a single epoll filedescriptor to wait on many other file descriptors)
epoll_ctl() (for Linux)
kqueue() (for BSD-based systems).
sendfile()
splice(), tee() (for Linux)
copy_file_range() (for Linux)
Operations on the file descriptor tableEdit
The fcntl() function is used to perform various operations on a file descriptor, depending on the command argument passed to it. There are commands to get and set attributes associated with a file descriptor, including F_GETFD, F_SETFD, F_GETFL and F_SETFL.
closefrom() (BSD and Solaris only; deletes all file descriptors greater than or equal to specified number)
dup() (duplicates an existing file descriptor guaranteeing to be the lowest number available file descriptor)
dup2(), dup3() (Close fd1 if necessary, and make file descriptor fd1 point to the open file of fd2)
fcntl (F_DUPFD)
Operations that modify process stateEdit
fchdir() (sets the process's current working directory based on a directory file descriptor)
mmap() (maps ranges of a file into the process's address space)
File lockingEdit
flock()
fcntl() (F_GETLK, F_SETLK and F_SETLKW)
lockf()
SocketsEdit
See also: Berkeley sockets
connect()
bind()
listen()
accept() (creates a new file descriptor for an incoming connection)
getsockname()
getpeername()
getsockopt()
setsockopt()
shutdown() (shuts down one or both halves of a full duplex connection)
MiscellaneousEdit
ioctl() (a large collection of miscellaneous operations on a single file descriptor, often associated with a device)
Upcoming operationsEdit
A series of new operations on file descriptors has been added to many modern Unix-like systems, as well as numerous C libraries, to be standardized in a future version of POSIX.[5] The at suffix signifies that the function takes an additional first argument supplying a file descriptor from which relative paths are resolved, the forms lacking the at suffix thus becoming equivalent to passing a file descriptor corresponding to the current working directory. The purpose of these new operations is to defend against a certain class of TOCTOU attacks.
openat()
faccessat()
fchmodat()
fchownat()
fstatat()
futimesat()
linkat()
mkdirat()
mknodat()
readlinkat()
renameat()
symlinkat()
unlinkat()
mkfifoat()
File descriptors as capabilitiesEdit
Unix file descriptors behave in many ways as capabilities. They can be passed between processes across Unix domain sockets using the sendmsg() system call. Note, however, that what is actually passed is a reference to an "open file description" that has mutable state (the file offset, and the file status and access flags). This complicates the secure use of file descriptors as capabilities, since when programs share access to the same open file description, they can interfere with each other's use of it by changing its offset or whether it is blocking or non-blocking, for example.[6][7] In operating systems that are specifically designed as capability systems, there is very rarely any mutable state associated with a capability itself.
A Unix process' file descriptor table is an example of a C-list.
fuser (Unix)
File Control Block (FCB) - an alternative scheme in C/PM and early versions of DOS
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Book Promotion Day: 11th April, 2013
By Imagineer @ImagineerTeam
The Back Road by Rachel Abbott
From the author of #1 bestseller – Only the Innocent.
One girl is fighting for her life in hospital… One village is struggling to hold tight to its secrets.
When a young girl is knocked over and left for dead at the side of the road, the small community of Little Melham goes into shock. Why was Abbie out so late at night, and why wasn’t she missed?
For Ellie Saunders, the truth about that night could put her marriage and even the safety of her children in jeopardy. She has to protect her family, no matter what the consequences.
Former DCI Tom Douglas thought that Little Melham would offer a peaceful retreat from the daily trauma of his work for the Met. But as he is drawn into the web of deceit, his every instinct tells him that what happened to Abbie was more than a tragic accident…
Only one person knows the whole story – why Abbie was out that night, and who was driving the car. For that person, the accident spells disaster, and somebody has to pay.
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Lunch Break Shorts by Ann Mullen
A collection of six short stories, including one alternate ending, for your lunch break reading pleasure. Approximately 27,000 words. A quick read.
*Encounter—A late night call sends Lila on a dangerous journey.
*No More—An abusive husband and a road trip turns deadly for Denise.
*A Gray Area—Lonnie faces the aftermath of his wife’s murder. Will he get revenge?
*A Gray Area 2 (alternate ending)
*Instincts—Sarah’s blind date goes horribly wrong.
*Bittersweet—Evidence of a cheating husband causes a wife to panic.
*The Irony of It All—Lois plans the murder of her husband.
Website: www.aftonridge.com
Blog: www.annmullen.blogspot.co.uk
A Vampire’s Saving Embrace by Darlene Kuncytes
Abby Montgomery is rescued by a dark, mysterious stranger from an evil that she didn’t even know existed. Desmond LaGrange is a man with a past, and when he saves Abby, he finds himself drawn to her in a way that he has never experienced before. The secrets that they both hold draws them together – but will they be able to ever let each other go?
Amazon author page: www.amazon.com
Prelude and Fugue by Laura Haley-McNeil
Olivia St. Claire accomplishes her dream to become a pianist, but didn’t count on falling in love with the man she can never have.
$11.99 (Paperback)
$1.16 (Kindle ebook)
Amazon.com Kindle edition
Cogrill’s Mill by Jack Lindsey
An energetic and witty ride through life and love in the countryside.
£6.99 (Paperback. ISBN 978-0-9549621-2-8. 246 pages.)
£4.00 (ebook. ISBN 978-0-9549621-4-2.)
Peatmore.com
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Redemption Blues by T D Griggs
CHRISTMAS, and it’s the end of the road for Matt and Lauren Silver’s tempestuous marriage. Rock star Silver has been touring abroad just once too often, neglecting Lauren and their twin daughters, Gudrun and Freya. In a desperate attempt to put things right, Silver cancels his tour and comes home for his children – but instead of the reconciliation he seeks he triggers a tragedy which will shatter all their lives forever. Silver’s car smashes though bridge railings into the River Thames. Little Gudrun is killed in the horrific crash and Silver himself vanishes into the shadows of underworld London, injured, traumatized, and unable to face what he has done. Lauren Silver is crushed by guilt, and young Freya is so emotionally scarred that no-one can reach her.
No-one except Inspector Sam Cobb, the detective sent to investigate the tragedy – a man with scars of his own. He only reluctantly enters the Silvers’ bleak world, but when he does he brings hope. Hope of recovery. Hope for the future. Hope of redemption.
But Matt Silver is not yet out of their lives. Disfigured and desolate, he has found comfort of a kind, thanks to the humanity of new and unexpected allies. Despite himself he has begun to heal, to grow stronger. To think of emerging from the shadows.
For Sam Cobb, Lauren and Freya there will come a time when hope alone is not enough.
£9.60 (Paperback, Amazon UK)
£1.99 (ebook, Amazon UK)
Website: www.tdgriggs.co.uk
Blood of Kaos by J D Miller
Etain is torn from a world of childish innocence to be plunged into a realm of deadly chaos. Forced to run for her life at the age of fourteen, she stumbles into the realm of the Alamir, human warriors infused with powerful magic who defend the delicate balance between good and evil, as a young woman. But not even the Alamir can protect her from the Bok’Na’Ra pursuer that murdered her family.
Lord Darknight and Midir, raised as brothers, are the light and the dark of a single soul, split apart by ancient priests when but a child. Midir has known of Etain’s existence most of her life and has conspired to possess the power she holds, power that will give him reign over the evil Bok’Na’Ra, nemesis of the Alamir. Lord Darknight, Dar to those closest to him, unaware of her existence, rescues the young woman after a violent clan battle which proves to be a pivotal moment in both their lives. His charge as a Krymerian mandates he protect and train her in the ways of a warrior however soon realizes their connection runs much deeper than teacher to student.
$9.73 approx. (ebook for Kindle)
ladyofkaos.wordpress.com
The Ossilan Affair by Steve K Smy
A terrible disaster on the Earth type planet of Ossilan leads to Captain Henri Duschelle and his crew being enlisted to risk destruction to investigate. The mystery isn’t what it appears to be, with powerful forces working in the background. Can Duschelle solve the mystery, and live to tell the tale?
A novelette.
$0.99 (ebook. Price may be subject to local taxes, such as VAT. Available worldwide.)
See blog page.
Blog: Imagineer-ing
Terry Irving: Forthcoming Release
This is not exactly the normal kind of book promo’ for a Thursday, but is worth inclusion.
Angry Robot crime imprint Exhibit A has signed two new novels from award-winning journalist Terry Irving.
Exhibit A commissioning editor Emlyn Rees bought world English, translation and dramatisation rights to Irving’s novel Courier, as well as an as-yet-unnamed sequel, from Dean Krystek at Word Link USA.
Courier is the first in a planned series of thrillers called Freelancer set in the 1970s, and follows Rick Putnam, a Vietnam veteran who now works as a motorcycle courier for one of Washington DC’s leading TV networks.
Irving began his career doing a similar job, and later went on to work as a producer, editor and writer for news networks ABC, CNN, Fox and MSNBC. During his news career he won several awards, including four Emmys and three Peabody Awards.
Courier will be published simultaneously in the US and UK in May 2014 as a paperback and e-book.
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COVID-19 positive students will sit for A’ Level exams in separate hall
Students wear masks they attend classes under "new normal" guidelines. (Sun Photo/Fayaz Moosa)
Education Ministry has announced plans to prepare separate halls for that students who test positive for Covid-19 and students identified as contacts of confirmed Covid-19 case so they can take their A’ Level exams while remaining isolated from other students.
In a press conference at Health Emergency Operations Center (HEOC) on Monday night, Deputy Education Minister Mohamed Ihsan explained the measures which will be taken to ensure the health and safety of students who will sit for the exams.
Ihsan said that it is not uncommon that students are unable to attend exam halls and take their exams with the rest of the students during international exams, either due to health conditions or other exceptional circumstances.
He said that Education Ministry already has regulations in place to ensure students are able to take their exams under such circumstances.
Ihsan noted that students who test positive for Covid-19 cannot take their exams in the same exam hall as other students.
“Therefore, whether it is due to testing positive for Covid, we are establishing alternative arrangements to provide exams to the students who are unable to sit for their exams,” he said.
Ihsan said that students from four centers will be taking their A’ Level exams in the Male’ region. He said that Education Ministry was preparing an exam hall so that students from any of the four centers who test positive for Covid-19 can take their exams, for as long as the students are able to.
“We are establishing resources to provide the exams in the aforementioned hall to students who test positive from the centers in Male’ region,” he said.
A separate hall will also be arranged for students who are undergoing quarantine due to contact with a confirmed Covid-19 case.
“We are establishing two halls in Male’ region to provide the exams to students who test positive and students who are quarantined for contact from all the centers in the Male’ region,” he said.
Ihsan said the largest number of students who will sit for the A’ Level exams will be from the Center for Higher Secondary Education (CHSE).
He said that approximately 470 CHSE students are scheduled to sit for their exams, and halls in Iskandhar School, Ameeniya School, and Arabiyya School, in addition to the hall in CHSE, will be used to ensure that social distancing.
“We want to ensure the greatest physical distance possible, and to reduce congestion as much as possible, especially when entering and exiting the exam hall,” he said.
Ihsan said that similar arrangements are available for other centers in Male’ region.
He said that students from the atolls taking the A’ Level exams are fewer in number, but that the Education Ministry will ensure that social distancing is followed.
Students from 33 centers in the atolls will be taking their A’ Level exams.
Ihsan said that halls have been designated to accommodate students from the atolls who test positive for Covid-19 or are undergoing quarantine.
In addition to the separate exam halls, all students will be subject to temperature checks before entering the exam halls, and will be required to follow social distancing.
Due to the closure of schools amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Edexel A’ Level and AS exams scheduled for May/June has been postponed to October/November.
In light of the high number of students who have migrated from Male’ to other residential islands, Education Ministry has instructed students to travel back to the island whether their exam center is located by September 27 in order to take their exams.
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WATCH: Andy Shauf Conjures “The Magician” in the First Episode of “Under the Influence”
In this premiere installment of our new video series, the Canadian folk artist talks us through—and strips down—the opener from his ANTI- debut, The Party.
May 18th 2016 by FLOOD Staff
Like his fellow Saskatchewanian Joni Mitchell, Andy Shauf doesn’t need more than a guitar to get your attention. But on his new album, The Party, the arrangements are quite substantial—and are a joy to take in on their own. Such a joy, in fact, that you might find yourself distracted on the first listen or two from the strength of the songwriting alone. Once the songs really start to sink in, though, there’s a case to be made for Shauf being one of the single most promising voices to emerge from Canada in recent memory.
We here at FLOOD happen to think so, anyway, which is why we were stoked to feature him in the first episode of our new video series, Under the Influence. Like its narrative counterpart, the video series is a forum for artists to walk through the finer details of how a particular piece of work came to be. This is a fitting forum for Shauf, whose latest collection is something of a concept album about, yes, a party. And though they say that a party can’t have been that good if you remember it, the soft-spoken folkster was able to recreate a bit of the scene from the opening track, “The Magician,” and also laid down an acoustic rendition of it—the first time he had ever performed the track solo.
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Capital Gaines proves that what does not kill you makes you stronger (Owen Corrigan/the Fordham Ram)
By Andrea Garcia
Famous comebacks are the ones whose narratives have withstood time as the greatest challenges to adversity, such as Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan. Now enters Chip Gaines, HGTV star and New York Times Bestselling co-author of The Magnolia Story with the Oct. 17 release of his second book, Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff.
Through Chip’s eyes, the anticipated success of a book ironically details every failure he has ever experienced, from the time he had trouble learning to read as a child, to the year he was cut from his baseball team and every struggle he’s faced while starting business ventures.
He faced every failure that shaped him into the author of two books, the owner of multiple businesses and above all, a loving husband and father.
Many people who watch “Fixer Upper” on HGTV know Chip for being a goofball on camera. His crazy antics, while driving everyone in his family crazy, make him loveable and more personable. This aspect of his personality shows through in his writing and make the book an enjoyable, natural read.
The most endearing part of the book is its dedication as a “love letter” to everyone in his life, including his wife and Magnolia Story co-author, Joanna, four children and the rest of their family, friends and employees. One thing that will always be apparent about Chip is that he cares about the people around him. While detailing all of his notable downfalls, it’s evident that he manages to never forget the people who support him.
This ability for Chip to hold meaningful relationships carries through best in how he talks about Joanna. The couple’s first book, The Magnolia Story, provided a he-said, she-said dynamic that allowed the couple to share their story and comment on what the other said. What makes this book different from The Magnolia Story, released about a year ago to date, is that Chip’s voice is the only one telling the story this time around.
In a chapter following the beginning of their relationship to the present day, he praises her for constantly encouraging him to take risks and staying by his side in difficult situations.
Throughout the book, Chip uses his talent for storytelling and illustrates how past choices made him the person he is today. While using some stories that are familiar to the “Fixer Upper” fanbase, Chip fills in the blank of how he grew from being a small-business owner to one of the masterminds to the Magnolia empire in Waco, Texas.
Moving deeper than the anecdotes himself, Capital Gaines gives a reflection on why mistakes make us the people we are. Acknowledging mistakes and knowing how to grow for them are a part of growing up, specifically to those in college. Bouncing back from a major failure or a series of failures is easier said than done. In comparison to time-old stories of people in history books who have overcome major setbacks, Capital Gaines provides a more human and humble approach to understanding the steps of recognizing your own downfalls and learning how they shape you as a person, rather than tearing you down.
Chip Gaines, and the stories he tells within his second book, fall nothing short of a comfortable read that will make its reader trust that there is a reason for every mistake you make while finding what your purpose in life is.
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Burned areas in Sumatra’s LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes close to zero
JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - Using data on forest and land fires from January-October 2020 from Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry as an official reference, very few burned areas have been found in LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes across three peat rich provinces in Sumatra this year, amounting to a mere 0.24% of the total peat dome areas.
Just over two thousand hectares were burned out of the total LiDAR mapping-identified peat dome areas of 971,090 hectares, equal to more than 13 times the size of Singapore, accounting for the near zero percentage.
The LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes in question lie within 17 peat hydrological units (KHGs) with a total area of nearly 4.4 million hectares, an area equal to around 60 times the size of Singapore, distributed over the provinces of Riau, Jambi and South Sumatra.
As such, 22.09% of the almost 4.4 million hectares of KHGs consists of LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes.
In the KHGs, pulpwood concessions are quite prominently distributed. In Riau, the KHGs include the supply chains of the two pulp and paper giants APP and APRIL. Meanwhile, the KHGs in Jambi and South Sumatra are mostly linked to the supply chains of APP.
The spatial information regarding the LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes was obtained from the peat mapping exercises conducted by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in collaboration with Deltares which were funded by APP, UKCCU and NORAD.
The following graphs show the extent and percentage of the LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes in the three Sumatra’s provinces that were burned and not burned from January-October 2020.
Last year, the LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes in the three provinces which were burned stood at the slightly higher, albeit still relatively insignificant, level of 2.1%.
Not an ordinary miracle
In addition to the LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes, where the level of burned areas was close to 0% in the three Sumatran provinces, there was also a hugely significant decrease in the level of forest and land fires nationwide this year compared to last year.
In early September this year, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Sep 4), Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya revealed this sharp fall in forest and land fires in the country, including in Sumatra.
This fantastic progress continued until mid-September 2020, when the decline in potential fire spots remained above 90% compared to the same period last year, as covered by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Sep 15).
By the end of September 2020, the decrease in the distribution of potential fire spots was even more impressive, reaching a level of nearly 92% compared to the same period last year.
This defied the predictions of many parties of a double-disaster – haze-causing fires exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak - as also reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Sep 30).
In fact, by mid-October 2020, confidence about avoiding the much-predicted double disaster was higher than ever, considering that the drop in distribution of potential fire spots still hovered at a level above 90%, as pointed out in a FORESTHINTS.NEWS story at the time (Oct 15).
The decline in the level of potential fire spots to above 90% compared to last year, along with the fact that only 0.24% of LiDAR mapping-identified peat domes have been burned, will ensure that there is no transboundary haze this year.
The miraculous achievement of getting rid of the transboundary haze during the ongoing global pandemic was enabled through dedicated efforts on the ground backed up by clear budget power.
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Man Brutally Beats Puppy Causing Paralysis and Several Fractures – Only Charged With Misdemeanors
By Andrea Powell
A four-month-old puppy named Drax was rushed to Iowa emergency clinic in immense pain after his cruel owner brutally beat him.
Thomas Hand, Drax’s owner, “maliciously body slammed him to the ground only to pick him up again and slam him against the car shattering both of his rear femurs and paralyzing him,” said Molly Crowley, part of the rescue group caring for Drax.
The puppy suffered from several fractures and paralysis in the hind legs from the beating. Drax has temporarily been removed from his abusive home and is recovering in a foster home.
Photo: The Humane Society of the United States
Iowa prosecutors want justice for Drax but were only able to charge Hand with first-offense animal torture and animal abuse – both just misdemeanors. Preston Moore with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) said, “We continue to see these types of crimes in the state of Iowa be committed and not have a label to match those crimes. Iowa right now is the only state in the country without an automatic felony charge for animal torture.”
Drax will likely need surgery and may never regain feeling in his hind legs. Sadly, he could possibly have to be returned to his abusive owner as “There is also nothing in state code that keeps someone convicted of an animal abuse crime from getting their pet back,” reported KCRG.
“I’m hopeful that the county attorney is looking at some other avenues to explore for this,” Moore said.
Photo: GoFundMe
Crowley posted that Drax is slowly starting to trust humans again and has shown improvement, but still can’t run and play like a puppy should.
The case is still ongoing and Drax will remain in a foster home until a verdict is given. This case is just another reason why Iowa needs to strengthen their animal protection laws and make animal torture a felony.
People are outraged by this violent act and want to know why the monster can’t be charged with a felony under the newly passed PACT Act. HSUS replied, “while the new PACT Act makes certain malicious animal cruelty within federal jurisdiction a federal crime, and is a huge victory for animals, we need other, separate laws to cover this type of abuse.”
Drax and thousands of other abused animals need people to speak up for them. Be a voice for the voiceless.
HSUS said, “Animals like Drax, who may never walk again, deserve a fuller measure of justice. It doesn’t do Iowa’s image, nor its citizens, any good for their state to stand as an outlier in the nation, as a place where those who commit the most horrendous acts against animals can still get away with a slap on the wrist.”
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Andrea Powell is an animal enthusiast who resides in West Michigan. When not writing, she is exploring the great outdoors with her dogs and horses.
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Champion Rebalance Information - February 2020
January 2020 edited January 2020 in News & Announcements
Summoners,
Thank you all for your patience as we worked to collect the Data that we wanted to present to you regarding the Balance Changes for Annihilus, Human Torch, Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, and Namor.
Below, you will find information on what changes you can expect for each of these Champions, as well as comparison data for these Champions’ performance in various game modes, such as Act 6, Alliance Wars, Labyrinth of Legends, and Realm of Legends.
Aside from Realm of Legends, these areas are the areas of the game which we use to measure Champion performance as both Attackers and Defenders, against other Champions.
We use the data collected from across the game, compare and contrast to other Champions, and make data informed decisions as to whether or not these Champions are in a place where we feel they are balanced in relation to other Champions and content in game, or whether they need to be tweaked one way or the other.
As a reminder, here is our original post on the intention of Balance Changes, and why they were paused.
Timeline for Release
These changes will be live in game with our 25.3 release, which is scheduled for release on February 5th.
Helping you make educated Rank Up Decisions
With the release of these upcoming Balance Changes in v25.3, we want to make sure that we give players the opportunity to change their minds on rank up decisions made for the 2 Champions that had a tune down.
We have come up with a plan to allow players to regain any resources that were used on Namor and Cull Obsidian, including Awakening Gems and Signature Stones. This is not something we’ve done before, and the process is not as simple as Rank Down Tickets.
For any Summoner that feels that they would like to change their mind about Awakening or Ranking Up Cull Obsidian or Namor, you’ll be able to sell these 2 Champions during a special 2 week timeframe (including 5-Star and 6-Star Versions). We will then identify all users that sold these Champions during that time, and return the Champions, any duplicates*, any Awakening Gems (Generic or Class), Signature Stones (Generic or Class), Catalysts, ISO, and Gold used on these Champions, within the coming month. For cases where a rank up gem was used, an equivalent number of Catalysts will be returned.
*If you received a Champion multiple times from Crystals/Arena, the Champion will be returned awakened, and with the appropriate number of Signature Levels.
This is our projected timeline:
Feb 5th: 25.3 Releases: Changes are live, and you’ll be able to try them out in game.
Feb 10th - 24th: You’ll be able to sell your Cull Obsidian or Namor during this 2 week window.
February 24th: Selling window is closed. Our team will disable the ability to sell these Champions.
March 9th: Projected date to return any Namor/Cull Obsidian that was sold, along with any Duplicates received, Gold, ISO-8, Rank Up Gems, Awakening Gems, and Signature Stones.
Any Cull Obsidian/Namor sold before or after this period is no longer eligible for this resource refund.
This does mean that you will be without your Champions for a couple weeks, so keep this in mind when you decide if this is something that you would like to do. We realize that this is not as straightforward as Rank Down Tickets, but we do not currently have the functionality to return all used resources in that way, though it’s something we would like to look into for the future.
Please note: This is not the de-facto compensation for any and all changes to Champions in the future. Any changes that necessitate Compensation plans will be handled on a case by case basis, and bug fixes are not considered the same as an intentional change. All Champion rank up decisions you make are made with the knowledge that rebalance changes can occur down the road, and if compensation is given it may differ.
The Future of Balance Changes
At this time, we do not have a schedule for the cadence in which we’ll continue Balance Changes. We will continue to do balance changes, but may do them incrementally, or in batches every 6 months or so, such as this one. The timing has not been decided.
There are already quite a few Champions that were released between the time when we started looking at these Champions, and now, and there will be many more released in the future. Based upon our early looks at our data, we are working towards identifying additional Champions in need of Balance Changes.
Our goal with our original cadence was to create a process with the least impact on our players, but that did not work. We’re going back to drawing board, and want to be more inclusive and gradual.
We will let you all know when we have more information on Balance Changes moving forward, and don’t forget to share your thoughts on the process with us as well.
Click the Links Below to see the Posts on the Individual Champions
Annihilus Rebalance Information
Human Torch Rebalance Information
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Bloodhound gang handles the pan again to get back to Hakskeenpan
The Bloodhound Land Speed Record chaps have thrust out the begging bowl to raise funds for a bid to break the 1,000mph (1,609kph) barrier next year. The car hit 638 miles per hour, or 1,010 kilometres per hour in new money, last summer pushed by an adapted Eurofighter jet engine. The team hopes to get back to South Africa and …
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 16:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Hmmm, concentrated hydrogen peroxide as fuel, nasty stuff as it killed a fair few WW2 German ME 163 Komet pilots by leaks of T-Stoff or other fuel mishaps.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 16:42 GMT Aladdin Sane
C-Stoff wasn't exactly nice, and didn't help that the 2 looked identical.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 17:46 GMT Vulch
On the other hand the Black Arrow launched Prospero into LEO using concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide as one propellant component without killing anyone.
>On the other hand the Black Arrow launched Prospero into LEO using concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide as one propellant component without killing anyone.
Fortunately no one was sat on the top of it as they had 50% failure rate for their four launches.
Kursk submariners might debate the safety of HTP, if any of them had lived.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 20:10 GMT werdsmith
High Test Peroxide as a substitute for Sun-In.
Wednesday 4th March 2020 11:02 GMT phuzz
You can have an open container of hydrogen peroxide in a room and it won't kill everyone in the room.
By the standards of rocket propellants it's practically as safe as mother's milk.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 16:44 GMT Evil Auditor
Fund raising: claim you attempt to prove the Earth is flat by running over a flat track fast.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 16:48 GMT Throatwarbler Mangrove
Username definitely checks out.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 18:50 GMT macjules
Slightly Inept
Their concept of sponsorship seems to be to try and sell space on the side of the vehicle. Perhaps someone could mention words like "crowdfunding" or "Elon musk" to them?
I would gladly bung a few hundred their way to see 1000mph on land happen.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 19:40 GMT Andy Non
Re: Slightly Inept
Who is going to read the advertising on the side of the car when it goes past at 1000 mph?
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 20:20 GMT jonathan keith
The age of the blipvert has finally dawned!
Crowdfunding?
Seemingly according to their website their only funding stream seems to be sponsorship, and sponsorship packages start at £25k. Is it beyond the wit of the Bloodhound SSC team to set up a GoFundMe page or similar? Crowdfunding isn't going to raise anywhere near £8m but I'm sure they'd get something from it. I'd be happy to chuck them ten or twenty quid right now if I could find any way to do so, and I'm fairly sure I'm not alone.
All I could find was this now-defunct campaign from 2017, on a site called crowdfunder.co.uk that I'd never even heard of until five minutes ago.
They could even just set up a direct payment page on their own site... Anything, just as long as there's a link to a payment page that can be included in stories like this. Because hyperlinks, the WWW... y'know?
Wednesday 4th March 2020 11:22 GMT Oh Matron!
Re: Crowdfunding?
Why doesn't The Reg do a crowd funding website sitey thing for £25K, and then sponsor Bloodhound? We can all then donate to that...
Wednesday 4th March 2020 16:34 GMT jonathan keith
That's an excellent idea!
The last land speed record before Greta's green global CO2 emissions limit
Incentive to advertisers: this could be your last chance to secure record-breaking infamy before grumpy Greta chides your puppet politicians into curtailing your permitted per-mile CO2 emissions.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 22:52 GMT Fruit and Nutcase
Where's Speed?
No disrespect to Mr Oates and his journalism, but, in covering matters of Speed, where's Mr Speed?
Wednesday 4th March 2020 00:17 GMT quartzz
glad the Reg has an article on this
Wednesday 4th March 2020 02:56 GMT Phil Kingston
So they're ripping out the jet and putting a rocket in? Not an engineer, but that strikes me as a substantial piece of work. And to be honest I don't think the public are as excited about shiny things going fast as they used to be.
Wednesday 4th March 2020 06:56 GMT gypsythief
No, the jet engine is staying in place and they are adding a rocket as well. The idea is that the jet engine will push Bloodhound to 600+ MPH, where upon the rocket is turned on to hit 1000 MPH.
Wednesday 4th March 2020 09:33 GMT JDX
Cars are the past
Come on guys, get to work making a 1000mph HS2 train.
Wednesday 4th March 2020 09:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Cars are the past
We'll come back to you in 20 years time, even if Manchester no longer exists then.
Oh, it'll be there, it's just that it'll be a post-apocalyptic urine-drenched hell-hole populated by barely conscious wrecks of human beings trying to eke out a living selling crap to each other.
Wednesday 4th March 2020 22:09 GMT JDPower
Yup, that's Manchester
Wednesday 4th March 2020 12:35 GMT Anonymous South African Coward
What is the point of all this, in getting the highest speed?
Is there any benefit from all this?
Probably a better BCR than most government infrastructure projects to be honest...
Wednesday 4th March 2020 14:23 GMT Evil Auditor
The benefit of this is, I guess, getting the highest speed. I mean, others collect stamps or participate in Vendée Globe and Bloodhound attempts the land speed record. Because they can. No further explanation required.
One presumes there are advances in some scientific fields that are transferable. Although this does come across as "let's smack the biggest engine on our car" somewhat to me, refining existing tech to brute-force pushing the envelope?
I would imagine steering and stability controls are an area needing a lot of attention.
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Gemma Whelan is an Irish-born theatre director and educator. She is founding artistic director of corrib theatre in Portland, Oregon, and Wilde Irish Productions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gemma has directed more than seventy-five stage productions and is also an award-winning screenwriter, film director, and published novelist. She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has graduate degrees from UC Berkeley in Theatre and San Francisco State in Cinema. Gemma lives in Portland, Oregon. Member SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
“extraordinary artistry as a theatre practitioner...a director of talent and distinction” John Fisher; Executive Director, Theatre Rhinoceros “Gemma is a tireless director, with a demanding sense of perfectionism and the highest of theatrical standards.” Gary Graves; Company Co-director, Central Works
“Artistically versatile, perceptive, and highly desciplined, Gemma Whelan is a gifted director.” Sue Daly; Theater Designer, Sunsaura “She is an outstanding, greatly respected director. She earns praise from performers, critics, and actors across the spectrum from classical drama to cutting edge productions.” Nina Hersch Gableko; Director, Academically Talented Development Program, UC Berkeley “Gemma’s directing is always extraordinarily intelligent and perceptive.” Clive Chafer; Founding Artistic Director, TheatreFirst
“I regard my work with Gemma as among the very best theatre experiences of my career.” Kathleen Turco-Lyon; Actor and playwright, New York City “Gemma is, as her name indicates, a true gem of the theatre.” Carolyn Cox; Actor and producer
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Home > Aerosol and rainfall variability over the Indian monsoon region: distributions,...
Aerosol and rainfall variability over the Indian monsoon region: distributions,...
Gautam, R., N. C. Hsu, W. Lau, and M. Kafatos (2009), Aerosol and rainfall variability over the Indian monsoon region: distributions, trends and coupling, Ann. Geophys., 27, 3691-3703.
Aerosol solar absorption over the Indian monsoon region has a potential role of modulating the monsoon circulation and rainfall distribution as suggested by recent studies based on model simulations. Prior to the onset of the monsoon, northern India is influenced by significant dust transport that constitutes the bulk of the regional aerosol loading over the Gangetic-Himalayan region. In this paper, a multi-sensor characterization of the increasing premonsoon aerosol loading over northern India, in terms of their spatial, temporal and vertical distribution is presented. Aerosol transport from the northwestern arid regions into the Indo-Gangetic Plains and over the foothills of the Himalayas is found to be vertically extended to elevated altitudes (up to 5 km) as observed from the space-borne lidar measurements (CALIPSO). In relation with the enhanced pre-monsoon aerosol loading and the associated solar absorption effects on tropospheric temperature anomalies, this paper investigates the monsoon rainfall variability over India in recent past decades from an observational viewpoint. It is found that the early summer monsoon rainfall over India is on the rise since 1950s, as indicated by historical rainfall data, with over 20% increase for the period 1950–2004. This large sustained increase in the early summer rainfall is led by the observed strengthening of the pre-monsoon tropospheric land-sea thermal gradient over the Indian monsoon region as indicated by microwave satellite measurements (MSU) of tropospheric temperatures from 1979–2007. Combined analysis of changes in tropospheric temperatures and summer monsoon rainfall in the past three decades, suggest a future possibility of an emerging rainfall pattern of a wetter monsoon over South Asia in early summer followed by a drier period.
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Maison Alaïa Launches Editions, a New Collection of Everyday Essentials Made the Azzedine Way
Alaïa fans, ’tis the season to rejoice. Today at 5 PM Paris time, the house will host a live performance on Instagram to present a new, recurring collection of house classics called Maison Alaïa Editions.
True to the couturier’s sui generis ways, the presentation is both off-calendar and designed to replicate the intimate setting he preferred, the better to emphasize craft, sensuality, and the importance of time. That said, it also opens a new chapter.
Famously, Monsieur Alaïa was never keen on having a website, let alone a social media account. Arguably, he didn’t need one: His famed kitchen was his platform, and his dinner parties were the hottest invitation in Paris. And so today marks the Maison Aläia’s debut in the artistic-slash-digital world, with an event to be held at the Gaité Lyrique cultural center for the digital arts in Paris, in a purpose-built set, hosted by model “godmother” and Alaïa’s honorary daughter Naomi Campbell, and starring the French-Moroccan dancer, model, and choreographer Hajiba Fahmy, wearing the white crinoline dress seen above.
Offsetting choreography by Brieuc Breitenstein will be a curtain in cotton voile and light projections orchestrated by technical director Etienne Guiol, whose four cameras and 3D mappings will trace details of craft, perforations, draping, and cut. Afterwards, Campbell and Karlie Kloss will connect via video to talk about the collection.
Since Monsieur Alaïa’s death three years ago, each season has brought with it a small handful of couture-level pieces, each 100% faithful to the original, down to the very last stitch. Inevitably, those items, such as an embroidered black evening coat or a gown in perforated leather, were breathtaking. So, too, were their price tags.
With Editions, newly appointed CEO Myriam Serrano and her team are widening the field with a collection of essentials that are more objectively affordable. Every spring and fall, a seasonal edit of 30 or so pieces will span t-shirts, brassieres and leggings, knit dresses, and classic Alaïa goddess dresses, perfectos, and trenches, each marked with their year of origin. As for accessories, Editions was also the occasion to bring to life the Corset bag, which Alaïa first dreamed up in 1992 yet never produced (it bows in white, black and red).
It already looks like the bet has paid off: The white basque shirt in Japanese poplin famously worn by Tina Turner is all but sold out everywhere.
The Meaning Behind Gianni Versace's Fashion Signatures
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Gosselin UK renews focus on art moves
With an already outstanding resume in art moves and a new co-worker with tons of industry expertise, Gosselin UK renews its focus on private international moves and art moves.
It started with a phone call
Many art moving projects involve a great deal of planning, hard work and precise time management. This is even more so when the project involves shipping precious art objects on behalf of Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, to the residence of the President of the Republic of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian.
Moving the art of the German impressionists
Many German impressionists are not widely known by the general public as their work was seldom seen outside of Germany. The Italian Museo Archeologico in Valle d’Aosta and Gosselin are changing all that now.
Italian heritage hits the road
In mid-2019, the exposition Italy: The (In)visible Stories set off for a tour around the world, with Gosselin’s help. “The project ran into corona problems along the way. Fortunately, this didn’t get in the way of moving the art nor did it put a damper on the enthusiastic reception,” according to organizer Riccardo Anderi of Glocal Project.
Italian cultural heritage tours Europe
What happens when you combine art and heritage with the Italian embassy’s network and Gosselin’s know-how? This results in a surprising and varied exposition on the soul of Italy, organized in minute detail, and travelling through Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria.
From Renaissance to Rococo, from Trieste to Yerevan
Our Italian team is well-known for art moves. This time they organized the move of 55 paintings from Trieste, Italy, to Yerevan. The exhibition was desired by the Italian Embassy in Armenia.
Gosselin moves Georgia’s national pride to Tallinn and Paris
Niko Pirosmani never could have known that his works would travel the entire continent after his death. Destitute at the time of his passing one hundred years ago, the Georgian artist’s work is now worth millions. Pirosmani didn’t achieve international recognition until after his death, inspiring greats such as Picasso.
Exceptional works of art at UN headquarters in New York
As a specialist in moving works of art, it takes a lot to surprise us here at Gosselin Mobility. This time, our team in Italy wasn’t focusing on medieval masters, but on modern works from differently abled artists from Rome. At the initiative of the Community of Sant’Egidio, these artists were given an exposition in New York.
On tour with Bernini
Even as a teenager, Gian Lorenzo Bernini spent his free time working with a hammer, chisel and block of marble. Over 300 years after his death, this prodigy of the Baroque movement is still highly praised by art aficionados from every corner of the world. Gosselin Mobility is currently taking part of Bernini’s oeuvre on a unique journey to a few of these very corners.
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Cabinet approves plans for Cultural Quarter in Swindon town centre
Swindon Borough Council’s Cabinet has agreed plans to build a brand new Cultural Quarter in the town centre.
By: Tim Burghes / 28 October 2020
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Cabinet members met last night (Wed) to discuss the proposals and gave the go-ahead to building the Cultural Quarter on the Kimmerfields regeneration site, located between the railway station and opposite the former Debenhams building on Fleming Way.
The Council has spent the past year working closely with key partners in Swindon’s arts, cultural and business sectors, meticulously preparing plans to create a new Cultural Quarter to help revitalise the town centre and boost the town’s cultural offer.
The plans for the Cultural Quarter are expected to come to fruition over the next 10 years and include, among other things, a new theatre, dance centre, digital media and arts hub and new facilities to display Swindon’s nationally-significant art collection.
Councillor Dale Heenan, Swindon Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for the Town Centre, Culture and Heritage, said: “I am delighted that so many people have agreed that this positive vision is a credible, realistic and deliverable approach for improving Swindon town centre over the next 10 years.
“My Cabinet colleagues and I are determined to see a new Wyvern Theatre built by 2030 with a 1,200 capacity – double the number of seats today – so our town can attract the big national and regional shows and performers. We also support the creation of a wider Cultural Quarter that includes a new museum, art gallery, dance centre and digital studio.
“It won't be the Council paying for the estimated £80m cost, so the hard work now begins. Over the next six months the Council will work closely with partners in the arts sector, and funding bodies like the Arts Council, to prepare the full financial business case and an investment prospectus to make this vision one step closer to reality.”
Mark Powell, Artistic Director at Swindon’s Prime Theatre, said: “Too often Swindon’s young people are disadvantaged by lack of experience or aspiration. Every week in Swindon schools, I see how art awakens imagination, education and empowerment.
“The town is making a bold commitment to future generations with this plan. Swindon won’t just be a place to live and work, but a place to dream and achieve as well.”
The Cultural Quarter plans enjoy cross-party support on the Council.
The proposals are very much in their infancy and residents should not expect to see any building work on site for a while yet. But the Council believes in being bold and brave in its ambitions for Swindon, and to spearhead town centre regeneration.
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Pious individuals recite [[Tikkun Chatzot]] which are said slightly before [[Chatzot]] (midnight) out of mourning for the Beit HaMikdash. It is split into two parts, known as [https://www.sefaria.org/Siddur_Edot_HaMizrach%2C_The_Midnight_Rite%2C_Tikkun_Rachel?lang=bi Tikkun Rachel] and [https://www.sefaria.org/Siddur_Edot_HaMizrach%2C_The_Midnight_Rite%2C_Tikkun_Leah?lang=bi Tikkun Leah]. ==The obligation== # In order to feel pain over the destruction of the Bet HaMikdash, every night slightly before [[Chatzot]], one should recite [[Tikkun Chatzot]].<Ref>Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 1:3 writes that it is proper for a God fearing person to be pained and agonize over the destruction of the Bet Hamikdash. Mishna Brurah 1:9 writes that the Mekubalim emphasized the great importance of [[waking up]] at [[chatzot]] to say the Seder of Tefillot organized by the Arizal, printed in the siddurim. </ref> Although, the Minhag is not to require [[Tikkun Chatzot]] and some Achronim justify the minhag, nonetheless, it’s praiseworthy to say it from time to time. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 1:10. Yavetz in Mor UKesiah ([[Siman 1]]) writes that the obligation only applies to Torah scholars and in [[Israel]]. The Chida in Machzik Bracha 1:3 argues that it applies to all people in all places. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 1:5 writes that it’s good to say Tikkun Chatzot if a person is able to wake up at [[Chatzot]] and say Tikkun Chatzot. Eshel Avraham 1:2 writes emphatically that there's no reason at all to critique someone who doesn't say tikkun chatzot because he is sleeping at that time. If a person sleeps a normal amount of time to stay healthy that is a grounds to exempt him from tikkun chatzot. However, if a person is up, then he should say or think about some of the pesukim about the churban. Orchot Maran (v. 1 p. 4) writes that Rav Ovadia Yosef didn't say Tikkun Chatzot, because he was involved in learning Torah at that time and it would have caused a great interruption for his concentration to say Tikkun Chatzot. However, he would advise those who weren't established in learning to say Tikkun Chatzot. Rav Ben Tzion Abba Shaul (Or LeTzion 2:4:8) is quoted as recommending it for everybody.</ref> # Women may say Tikkun Chatzot. <ref>Rav Yosef Chaim, in Sh"t Rav Pe'alim 1:9 (Sod Yesharim) Ben Ish Chai (Vayishlach 6), writes that women shouldn't say Tikkun Chatzot. However, Kaf HaChaim 1:15, Halichot Olam 1 pg 48, and Halacha Brurah 7 write that women are allowed to say Tikkun Chatzot. Yalkut Yosef (vol 1, pg 173) rules like the Kaf HaChaim but writes that the minhag is that women don't say Tikkun Chatzot. </ref> ==When it should be said== # Ashkenazim hold that it should be said right before [[Chatzot]] (midnight) and then one should learn from [[Chatzot]] until morning when one can pray. <ref> Mikdash Melech on Zohar (Vayahakel 195c) writes the Tikkun Chatzot can be said from the second section of the night which is two hours ([[Shaot Zmaniot]]) before [[Chatzot]]. Shulchan Aruch HaRav rules like that, as well. Similarly, Yeshuot Yaakov 1 writes that [[Chatzot]] should be said a little before [[Chatzot]]. So rule the Malbim in Arsot HaChaim 1:31 and Mishna Brurah 1:9. See also Shulchan Aruch 1:2 who writes one should wake up to pray to Hashem specifically at the end of the first third, the second third, or at the end of the night because [[prayer]] is especially accepted at those times.</ref> However, Sephardim hold that it should be said at [[Chatzot]] of night or afterwards until [[Olot HaShachar]]. <ref> Sh"t Yachave Daat 1:46 pg 135 based on the Zohar (Chaye Sara pg 132b) and Arizal (Shaar Kavanot pg 52d) that one should not say Tikkun Chatzot before [[Chatzot]]. This is also the opinion of Aruch HaShulchan 1:21, Birkei Yosef 1:6, Ben Ish Chai (Vishlach 4), Yalkut Yosef (5764 edition, vol 1, pg 165), and Halacha Brurah 1:5 </ref> # Tikkun Chatzot should be said before [[Olot HaShachar]]. However, many poskim say that one may say Tikkun Leah after [[Olot HaShachar]]. <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 1:5 writes that if a person can’t wake up at [[Chatzot]] a person should wake up before Alot Hashachar. Igret Rramaz 11 writes that one should say it before [[Olot HaShachar]] and in a Shat HaDachak one can say it after Olot. This is brought down by the Shaarei Teshuva 1:6. However, Sh"t Lev Chaim writes that one can say it until the time to put on [[Tallit]] and [[Tefillin]]. Ben Ish Chai Vayishlach 8 argues on this based on the language of the Arizal that one shouldn't say it after Olot. Nonetheless, Zichronot Eliyahu 400:17 and Nemukei Orach Chaim (quoted in Maasef LeKol HaMachanot 1:29) say that one can lenient regarding Tikkun Leah. This is also the opinion of Rav Ovadyah in Halichot Olam 1 pg 49, and Halacha Brurah 1:6. </ref> # During the three weeks (Ben HaMetzarim), Tikkun Chatzot should be said after [[Chatzot]] of the day.<ref> Kaf HaChaim 551:222. Hinted to in Mishna Brurah 551:103, see Piskei Teshuvot there.</ref> ==How it should be said== # It is the practice to say Tikkun Chatzot while sitting on the floor near a doorpost that has a [[mezuzah]]. One shouldn't sit directly on the ground rather one should sit on a cloth, pillow, or small bench. If the floor is tiled, one can be lenient to sit directly on the floor. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (5764 edition, vol 1, pg 161) </ref> # The Minhag is to place ashes on one's head in the area where the [[Tefillin]] Shel Rosh is placed. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (5764 edition, vol 1, pg 161) </ref> # Another practice is to not to wear shoes during Tikkun Chatzot. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (5764 edition, vol 1, pg 161) </ref> # Some had the practice to say Tikkun Chatzot communally in shul. Even though some oppose the practice, it has what to rely on and has it's benefits. <ref> Sh"t Shevut Yacov writes that the practice of some groups to get together to say Tikkun Chatzot at night in Shul was inappropriate because it displayed arrogance as Tikkun Chatzot is something only a minority of people keep. However, Chida in Birkei Yosef 1:3 and Mishna Brurah 1:9 argue on the Shevut Yacov because it's preferable to pray as a community as it says "BeRov Am Hadrat Melech". </ref> ==The feeling with which it should be said== # One should be pained over the destruction of the Temple. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 1:3 based on the Rosh ([[Brachot]] 3b). </ref> However, in general, when one is learning or praying one should do so with happiness.<ref>Mishna Brurah 1:10, Kaf HaChaim 1:25</reF> ==Relative precedence== # If one only has time for Tikkun Chatzot and [[Selichot]], one should say Tikkun Chatzot. <ref> Ben Ish Chai (Vayishlach 9), Yalkut Yosef (5764 edition, vol 1, pg 191) Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (Maamer Mordechai 34:6). </ref> # If one only has time for Tikkun Chatzot and learning torah, one should say Tikkun Chatzot. <ref> Ben Ish Chai (Vayishlach 9), Yalkut Yosef (5764 edition, vol 1, pg 174) and Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (Maamer Mordechai 34:6). </ref> # If saying Tikkun Chatzot will prevent one from being able to wake up for praying at [[HaNetz]] ([[Vatikin]]), nonetheless, one should say Tikkun Chatzot and pray after [[HaNetz]]. However, even if one is [[waking up]] to pray after [[HaNetz]], one must ensure to say [[Shema]] before the [[latest time for Shema]] and pray [[Shemona Esreh]] before the [[latest time for Shemona Esreh]].<ref>Halacha Brurah 1:4</ref> ==Days it is not said== # On the following nights no Tikkun Chatzot is said: [[Shabbat]], <ref> Shaarei Tzion (beginning of sefer) writes that one does say Tikkun Leah on [[Shabbat]], nonetheless, most achronim rule otherwise including the Ben Ish Chai (Vayishlach 7), Kaf HaChaim 1:13, and Halacha Brurah 1:8. </ref> [[Rosh HaShana]], [[Yom Kippur]], [[Pesach]] ([[Yom Tov]] and [[Chol HaMoed]]), [[Shavuot]], [[Sukkot]] (just [[Yom Tov]]), and [[Shemini Aseret]]. <ref> Ben Ish Chai (Vayishlach 7), Kaf HaChaim 1:13, and Halacha Brurah 1:8 quote this list of days that there's no Tikkun Chatzot. Of course one doesn't say Tikkun Chatzot on [[Yom Tov]] Sheni Shel Galiyot just like the first day [[Yom Tov]]. However, Chesed LaAlafim 1:2, and Kaf HaChaim Palagi 3:34 write that one does say Tikkun Leah on [[Yom Tov]]. </ref> # On the following nights no Tikkun Rachel is said, but Tikkun Leah is still said: days when there's no [[Tachanun]], Chol HaMoad [[Sukkot]], Asert Yemei Teshuva, year of Shemittah in [[Israel]], day after the Molad before [[Rosh Chodesh]], <ref> Ben Ish Chai Vayishlach 5, Kaf HaChaim 1:11, Halacha Brurah 1:9 write that the night of the day of the molad has only Tikkun Leah even if it's not the day of [[Rosh Chodesh]] itself. For example, [[Rosh Chodesh]] Sivan 5770 falls out on Friday May 14th 2010 and the molad falls out on Thursday May 13th 2010. If the Molad and [[Rosh Chodesh]] coincide then there's no Tikkun Rachel because there's no [[Tachanun]] on [[Rosh Chodesh]]. </ref> and days of [[Sefirat HaOmer]]. <ref> Ben Ish Chai Vayishlach 5, Kaf HaChaim 1:11, and Halacha Brurah 1:9 </ref> # In the following cases no Tikkun Rachel is said: at a mourner's house, the house of a groom, and the father of a baby boy the night before the milah, Sandak (holder of the baby), and Mohel of a [[Brit Milah]].<ref> Kaf HaChaim Palagi 3:35, Ben Ish Chai Vayishlach 5, Kaf HaChaim 1:11 </ref> ==What texts should be said?== A free copy of the text can be found from the [http://Halachipedia.com/documents/TikkunChatzot.pdf Siddur Torat Emet] (pdf). ==Sources== <references/> {{Prayers}} [[Category:Prayer]]
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Lithuania Event London U.K. Tuesday 27th June
Saul Issroff <saul@...>
ONCE UPON A TIME IN LITHUANIA - THE STORY OF THE JEWS OF LITHUANIA
Tuesday 27th June at the London Jewish Cultural Centre
Exhibition opens at 6.30 p.m. Panel discussion 7.30 p.m.
An evening to explore the world of Jewish Lithuania, past and present
and the opportunity to see the exhibition Once Upon A Time in Lithuania
by artist Naomi Alexander.
Judith Diamond - How to trace family roots in Lithuania
Robin Michaelson - Exploring Jewish Lithuania
Saul Issroff - The Holocaust and Jewish Lithuania today
Judith Diamond is convenor of the Litvak Special Interest Group in the
UK for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. She compiled a
family history around her ancestral shtetl of Leckava, "A Leckava
Haggadah," published in 2002.
Robin Michaelson is a highly experienced group leader who has taken
several group tours to the Baltics. He has helped many Litvaks visit
their shtetls.
Saul Issroff edited and compiled with Rose Lerer Cohen The Holocaust in
Lithuania 1939-1945. A Book of Remembrance (Gefen, 2002).
Venue: London Jewish Cultural Centre, Ivy House, 94-96 North End Road,
London NW11 7SX. RSVP: admin@ljcc.org.uk or. tel 020 8457 5000
Naomi Alexander's book, Once Upon A Time in Lithuania will be on sale
during the evening.
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‘ALL OR NOTHING’: Iran THREATENS Europe Over Nuclear Agreement
The Foreign Minister of Iran threatened to completely withdraw from the multinational nuclear agreement Monday; warning European nations that there’s no “Plan B” should President Trump decide to withdraw from the accord.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif posted the ominous message on social media this week, saying “it is either all or nothing” and his nation would cease complying with the pact should the United States abandon the deal.
“President Macron is correct in saying there’s no ‘Plan B’ on JCPOA. It’s either all or nothing. European leaders should encourage President Trump not just to stay in the nuclear deal, but more importantly to begin implementing his part of the bargain in good faith,” he tweeted.
President Macron is correct in saying there's no "Plan B" on JCPOA. It's either all or nothing. European leaders should encourage President Trump not just to stay in the nuclear deal, but more importantly to begin implementing his part of the bargain in good faith.
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) April 23, 2018
The Iranian official’s comments come as French President Macron heads to DC to meet with President Trump, marking Trump’s first official state visit as Head-of-State.
IRAN ON EDGE: Tehran ARRESTS THOUSANDS as Regime Hangs On
An Iranian lawmaker publicly announced Thursday that the hardline Islamic regime has detained over 3,700 protesters and demonstrators –many of them students- in an attempt to quash the nationwide riots that stunned leaders in Tehran, reports Fox News.
The demonstrations, mostly due to stagnant wages and low employment opportunities for Iranian youth, have rocked the country for nearly two weeks. The protests are the largest seen in Iran since 2009’s “Twitter Revolution” or “Green Movement.”
At least 21 people have been killed in the chaos.
While Iranian authorities insist the demonstrations are coming to an end, the protests continue in towns and cities across the Islamic Republic.
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed their support towards the demonstrators, saying Iran was “finally” fighting for freedom against the oppressive regime.
“The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime,” Trump tweeted. “All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their ‘pockets.’ The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!”
BOMBSHELL: Obama SECRETLY Protected TERROR GROUP to Appease Iran
A bombshell report published in Politico this week outlines the Obama administration’s secret efforts to let terror-group Hezbollah “off the hook” in an effort to appease Tehran ahead of the Iranian nuclear agreement.
The explosive report, titled “The Secret Backstory of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook” shows President Obama’s covert decision to back-off an American law enforcement crackdown on Hezbollah, even as the Jihadi network “funneled Cocaine into the United States” to finance its efforts.
“In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States,” writes Politico.
“Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy,” the author adds.
Hezbollah is a militant, anti-Israeli terror organization based in Lebanon and backed by the Iranian regime. Iran uses the network as a launching pad for attacks against Israeli soldiers stationed near the Lebanese border.
Hezbollah and Israel waged a direct war against each other during the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon War.
SUPREME SHOWDOWN: Supreme Court to Hear ‘TRAVEL BAN’ Case This Week
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All updates and frequently asked questions about the coronavirus related to HAN have been moved to a new page. See the coronavirus page on our new website.
HAN continues to provide distance learning
On Tuesday 31 March the Dutch Prime Minister Rutte announced that the current corona measures will be extended until 28 April. According to the HAN academic calendar, a lesson-free period will follow after that until Friday 1 May. That means there will be no educational activities at the HAN locations up to and including 1 May.
The degree program might choose to continue providing distance learning after the lesson-free period from early May to 1 June. That may even be the case if at that time the government has already eased the measures related to the coronavirus. If that is the case, part of the educational activities will again take place in the HAN buildings from 4 May. Priority will be given to exams, skills lessons and student coaching, for example.
Changes to opening hours for buildings, facilities and contact points
Opening hours will change on 1 April. Go to the frequently asked questions for an up-to-date overview.
Online Open Days on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May
The Open Days at the HAN locations cannot take place up to 1 June. On Saturday 9 May and Sunday 10 May, we will be running an Online Open Day for full-time bachelor programs. On these days prospective students get to know our degree programs, lecturers and students in a different way. Each degree program has developed their own program. This could include things like a video about the degree program or chat sessions with students or lecturers.
Stay at home if you have a cold or a temperature
Are you a student or staff member and using the facilities in a HAN building at the request of your manager? Keep at least 2-meters distance from other people and stick to the hygiene measures. Do you have cold symptoms or a temperature? Stay home and make sure you don’t infect anyone else.
Update on the binding study advice (BSA)
On Thursday 19 March, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science informed us about how we should deal with binding study advice (BSA) in the 1st year. We will now be postponing binding study advice. Any BSA will be sent in the 2nd year of study instead of the 1st year. It may also be possible to extend postponements previously granted to students for the BSA.
Students received a message about this on 20 March.
The reason for this postponement is the possible delay that you as a student may experience due to the measures we have taken because of the coronavirus.
Consequences of tightened measures for HAN still not clear
On Monday 23 March the government tightened the Coronavirus measures for the Netherlands. The exact consequences of these measures for education are still not clear. We will try to clarify them here as soon as possible. We'll keep you posted.
Update: 23-03-2020 20:30
First read the FAQs below. You'll find the answer to most of your questions there. Still have a question? Then you can contact us as follows:
Prospective student:
Ask the HAN Information Center | info@han.nl | (024) 353 05 00
HAN student:
For general questions, ask the Student Affairs Enquiry Desk: VraagpuntStudentZaken@han.nl | (024) 353 05 00
For questions about study/internship/graduation assignment/study trips abroad, ask the International Office: InternationalOffice@han.nl | (024) 353 05 00
HAN staff member:
For general questions, ask the HR Enquiry Desk: Vraagpunt.HR@han.nl | (024) 353 05 50
Important websites about coronavirus in the Netherlands
These websites provide important information on the coronavirus in the Netherlands. The links take you to their English pages concerning the virus:
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Dutch Government
Which guidelines is HAN following?
How does HAN define 'educational activities'?
Is education at HAN going ahead (digitally)?
No education at HAN locations until after Monday 1 June. How will this affect my study progress?
I'm a HAN student. Where can I find information about distance learning?
What will happen with exams / assessment for HAN students?
How is HAN dealing with the binding negative study advice (BSA)?
What will happen with internships and practical assessment for HAN students?
What about travel abroad for study or work?
I'm a HAN student and currently abroad for study, internship or graduation assignment. What should I do?
Who can I go to for coaching and support?
I’m a HAN staff member. Where can I find information about working at home?
I’m a HAN lecturer. Where can I find information about organizing distance learning, assessment and internship activities?
What will happen with my research and the support by NWO?
Who can I go to for psychological support?
Are the HAN buildings open?
Are Sportcentrum Papendal, Gymnasion and Philips van Leydenlaan 25 still open?
Are the reception and enquiry desks at HAN available?
Will assistance for tax returns still be offered?
Is HAN offering Online Open Days?
Are Matching activities going ahead?
What is HAN doing to prevent infection as much as possible?
Which hygiene measures can I take myself?
What is HAN's sick-leave policy?
We are thoroughly preparing ourselves for the consequences of the coronavirus measures on students and staff. HAN follows the advice of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Municipal Health Service (GGD) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
We follow the websites of the RIVM and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
We are in direct contact with the GGD.
When it comes to communication from universities of applied sciences, we follow the advice of the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences.
Regarding travel abroad for work or study, we follow the travel advice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
HAN is no longer offering any educational activities, including exams, at the physical locations. But what do we mean by educational activities?
Educational activities are all organized activities where lecturer(s) and student(s)/course participants and students/course participants can physically meet each other at HAN locations. These are activities that take place from the start of the degree or course up to and including alumni activities. Naturally, students can contact their lecturer or study coach by phone or email.
Graduation meetings where the physical presence of the student is required and other final assessment activities such as exams and modular exams in small groups are not considered educational activities. Where possible these activities take place online. If physical presence is needed, an exception is made for these activities. If permitted, they take place in a HAN building. For these meetings we always follow the general instructions of RIVM and GGD, like keeping a sufficient distance from each other.
Students and lecturers received information by mail about the possibilities for distance education.
All education at HAN that involves the physical presence of students and lecturers has been cancelled up to and including Monday 1 June. Naturally, students can contact their lecturer or study career coach/personal tutor by phone or email.
Students and lecturers received information about the possibilities for distance learning on Sunday 15 March. Staff can find more information on Insite Rondom het werk (in Dutch only). Online education is already possible for a number of degree programs. Students of these programs will receive a message about this.
Students and staff will be informed by mail about the consequences for education and examinations. So, information about things like distance learning. The dates and times when exams will be held. Or what happens with internships and graduation assignments in this period.
Read all about setting up and following distance learning on Insite.
Exams are a crucial aspect of education. Due to the coronavirus, no exams may be administered in the HAN buildings. This does not apply to possible graduation meetings and other final assessment activities such as exams or modular exams in small groups. Teams of lecturers are busy working out which exams can be taken online and which ones can’t. We are busy rescheduling exams that cannot go ahead in period 3. Students will receive further information about this.
Internship and graduation phase
Students interning or doing a graduation assignment at a company or institution have to follow the guidelines of the relevant company or institution. Contact your internship supervisor if that means you’ll be absent. Also read the frequently asked questions on Insite (Dutch only).
For the time being education at the HAN locations is not possible. You’ll receive more detailed information from your degree program about continuing your studies through distance learning. You can already get prepared:
Go to Insite Rondom je studie for all the information about following distance learning.
Go to the frequently asked questions on Insite (Dutch only) for all your other questions.
No classes or exams will be taking place at any of the HAN locations up to and including 1 June. Discussions are currently underway in higher education about what will happen in the period that follows. As soon as we know what this means for students and staff, you’ll receive more information about this. Below we provide more clarity about assessment in term 3. Given the uncertainty of the current situation, changes may occur. Of course, we’ll inform students and staff if that happens.
All exams, hand-ins, oral assessments, presentations, etc. that can be done online will go ahead in term 3. This applies for as long as the government measures are in place.
All exams administered through the Exams Office at a HAN location and that cannot be done online will not go ahead. These will be moved to term 4 or later.
For the time being, we will try not to use the lesson-free periods (in late April/early May and/or in the summer) for exams, because we are already asking a lot more of students and lecturers. But this too depends on developments related to the coronavirus.
For now, exams can still take place where possible:
in the evenings in term 4.
on Saturdays (starting in the lesson-free period in late April/early May).
in the week before the lesson-free period in the summer.
in the 2 weeks immediately after the lesson-free period in the summer, before the start of the new academic year.
The degree program will provide a timely overview of exams. They are working on that overview now.
Assessment of students in the graduation phase takes priority. This also applies to students who need to complete the propaedeutic year because of a planned transfer to another degree program.
On Thursday 19 March, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science informed us about how we should deal with binding study advice (BSA) in the first year. We will now be postponing binding study advice. Any BSA will be sent in the second year of study instead of the first year. It may also be possible to extend postponements previously granted to students for the BSA.
Also read the frequently asked questions on Insite (Dutch only).
We are receiving a lot of questions from students about internships. Your degree program will continue to communicate with you about this.
In general terms, at HAN we believe that the quality of a student's performance during the internship is more important than the exact number of internship hours completed. Your degree program has the space to offer individual solutions, in the interest of your study progress. Unlike with exams, the lesson-free period in late April/early May or the lesson-free period in the summer can possibly be used by groups of students for internships or workplace learning. That will depend on the specific possibilities.
You may have to deal with limitations and modified work conditions enforced by your internship company due to the coronavirus. For example that you may only work from home. You have to follow the advice of your internship company. Contact your internship supervisor if that means you’ll be absent. We are currently working out how we can help you if your internship has been cancelled or you are experiencing problems.
Internship in a healthcare institution
Are you interning at a healthcare institution? For example at a university hospital, a general hospital or an outpatient clinic? In some cases you will need to go home because the healthcare institution has to focus primarily on the healthcare process. In other cases you will need to stay because you provide an important contribution to the care of patients.
The healthcare institution first decides whether you can contribute to patient care as an intern. Safety is a key priority here: your safety and that of the patients and staff in the healthcare institution. You may indicate to the healthcare institution and to HAN whether, for personal reasons, you wish to continue the internship or not. If relevant, an agreement will be made about whether and how the possibly different tasks fit within the goals of the internship. HAN is the leading party in these agreements.
Also when your internship or other form of education is cancelled, you can work as a student volunteer in a healthcare institution. Separate agreements have to be made for this employment relationship between you and the healthcare institution, e.g. regarding insurance. The healthcare institution decides whether you can continue the tasks; HAN is not a partner in this. If you carry out tasks as a student volunteer, there is no assessment and so no credits are linked to this. After all, it is not a continuation of previously followed educational activities.
Practical assessment
Some degree programs are very practice-based. That also needs to be assessed, but the assessments also need to be reliable. So it is not always possible to do this in an alternative way online. These degree programs will look at how assessments can best be planned and/or performed as soon as the HAN buildings are open again for in-person education and exams. Degree programs may also choose to make space for or integrate (parts of) the practical exams in the study program for the following academic year. The program can choose this if it improves the study feasibility for students. Your degree program will inform you about this in good time.
Students have to contact their study coach/personal tutor or internship supervisor to discuss what would be sensible.
Currently all countries across the globe have code red or orange. The advice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs related to these codes is not to travel abroad or only if absolutely necessary. We strongly advise you to keep an eye on formal communications from governments, the RIVM and WHO. Always take their information into account. We are happy to discuss it with you, but in the end the choice whether or not to travel is yours. So it’s also your own responsibility. Many countries are taking far-reaching measures to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. New measures cannot be ruled out, and the situation can change rapidly. These measures have a significant impact on travelers. This means it may not even be possible to travel to the country you were intending to visit or to return home (in the short term).
We advise students who were planning to go abroad for an internship or graduation assignment in the coming weeks to carefully consider whether that is wise. Of course, the student can discuss this with the coach/supervisor. The decision whether or not to travel is the student’s own choice and responsibility.
Up to and including Monday 1 June, HAN is not giving staff permission to travel abroad for study, internship or work.
Can I get assistance for traveling back to the Netherlands?
Are you a HAN student and currently stranded abroad because of the corona crisis and unable to arrange your own return? Click on Netherlands worldwide. Are you unable to complete the form? You can call International Office on +31 26 365 81 32.
I’m abroad for study, internship or graduation assignment. What should I do?
Currently all countries across the globe have code red or orange. HAN strongly advises you to carefully consider the situation. Many people have already decided to return to the Netherlands or their home country by the safest route possible. If you decide not to return, this is your own choice. So, it’s also your own responsibility. Many countries are taking far-reaching measures to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. New measures cannot be ruled out, and the situation can change rapidly. These measures have a significant impact on travelers. This means it may not be possible to return home (in the short term). If you need help, contact your HAN coach. We are happy to help you consider what to do.
I’m in a country that’s currently locked down or threatening to lock down. What should I do?
Many countries are currently ‘locked down’. That means that travelers from so-called Corona countries may no longer enter them. In some countries nobody is allowed to leave. HAN advises you to decide what your safest option is. When making your decision, keep in mind that as a foreigner in that country you’re always allowed to leave the area. However, the cancellation of air traffic could make it increasingly more difficult to book a flight. The EU is taking measures to limit air traffic as much as possible; it is important to know that as an EU citizen or if you hold a valid residence permit you will always have access to the EU.
My internship company/university abroad is closing for a period of time. What should I do?
Also in that case, HAN advises that you don’t have to return. Follow the instructions of the local authorities and partner universities. And wait and see how things develop there. Also contact your internship supervisor for advice. If you decide to stay or to return early, that’s your own decision and therefore your own responsibility.
I'm studying abroad. Who’s the best person to consult with at HAN?
Always consult with your study coach/internship supervisor and study career coach/personal tutor about your situation. Are you thinking about returning to the Netherlands? Then it’s good to consider things such as the local conditions and how controllable the virus is there, what the quality of health care is like, what travel options are available, and how to assess your overall safety. Do you need immediate assistance because of danger, a health or safety issue? Call the HAN 24/7 SOS contact number: +31 320 331 343.
I’m a foreign student studying at HAN and want to return to my home country right away. Who can I best consult with?
Remember that it can be very difficult at the moment to find a suitable flight. If you’re planning on going anyway, always consult with your study/internship coach and/or study career coach/personal tutor. If you decide to return to your home country earlier and to temporarily stop your studies, make sure you drop by the International Office to make sure you’ve arranged everything. Like cancelling enrollment, immigration, grants/scholarships etc.
I’m choosing to return to the Netherlands earlier than planned. What do I have to do?
Report your return by email to HAN International Office internationaloffice@han.nl and inform your study/internship coach and/or study career coach/personal tutor.
How will returning early affect my Erasmus+ grant?
HAN and Erasmus+ have decided that everyone with an Erasmus+ grant who returns early may keep the first payment of the grant.
Who will pay the extra expenses due to cancelling my study/internship abroad? Or because I decide to return to my home country early?
1. Keep track of all your extra expenses, including receipts.
2. Also have a look at whether your own insurance might cover you.
3. Call the alarm number of Allianz Global Assistance (AGA) 020 592 92 92 (from abroad +31 205929292) Policy number 5229-530897 UL. They will decide whether and how to reimburse on a case by case basis.
4. After you arrive in the Netherlands, contact HAN’s insurance department for the further procedure. Mail them at verzekeringen@han.nl
5. There is an excess of 50 euros for baggage. For information about the HAN insurance, including insured amount, read here (only in Dutch).
What will happen to my study progress if I have to terminate my study or internship abroad?
HAN is obliged to make an effort to avoid study delays. We are currently all in a situation with special and difficult circumstances that can vary from country to country. Depending on these circumstances, HAN will always try to avoid study delays, but this will not be possible in all cases.
This is not an easy time: a new form of education, which you hardly had time to adapt to, a different daily routine, not being able to meet and catch up with your fellow students, more dependent on yourself, perhaps you are feeling bored or lonely, or maybe someone in your family has fallen ill. In short, you have a lot to deal with!
Not everyone can manage that equally well. And that's very understandable! If you need a chat, support, a listening ear, a little more guidance or coaching; our student support staff are ready to help you! Here is a list of what support you can access and how. We are limiting personal, face-to-face contact as much as possible, so conversations take place by phone or via Teams. We will always respect your privacy.
Student psychologists
Do you need immediate psychological assistance? Then you can sign up by filling in the intake form and sending it to studentenpsychologen@han.nl. The forms are screened daily by a student psychologist. You will be contacted to discuss what happens next.
Contact: studentenpsychologen@han.nl, by phone (024) 353 04 34.
Student counsellors
You can contact one of the student counsellors by email or phone. You can also use the online appointment planner to schedule an appointment. Don't forget to include your telephone number; a student counsellor will contact you by telephone.
Contact: studentendecanen@han.nl | (024) 353 04 34
Training or coaching
Coaching calls will go ahead via Skype, phone, mail, Teams. You can continue to sign up for 'study skills coaching' via the online portal. Group meetings will continue online or in a different format. Sessions that are cancelled will be rescheduled. You'll be notified about this.
Contact: studenttrainingencoaching@han.nl
Course Transfer Desk
Are you thinking of switching to another degree program? You can discuss this via Skype, phone, email or Teams. Send an email to your Course Transfer Desk, and they will schedule a meeting with you.
studiewisselpunt.FEM@han.nl
studiewisselpunt.FE@han.nl
studiewisselpunt.GGM@han.nl
studiewisselpunt.Techniek@han.nl
Student Chaplaincy
You can also contact a chaplain for support or a conversation.
Arnhem: All group activities at the Arnhem Student Point have been cancelled until 1 June. Individual sessions can still take place both in person (provided all advised measures are followed) and by telephone, Skype and email.
Contact: Iris Springvloed | iris@arnhemstudentpoint.nl | (06) 39 70 92 03Iris Springvloed | iris@arnhemstudentpoint.nl | (06) 39 70 92 03
The building of the Student Church on the Erasmuslaan in Nijmegen is currently closed and there will be no celebrations. The team can be reached for guidance or consultation via email, telephone and Skype. Go to www.ru.nl/studentenkerk for current info and materials you can use to keep in touch.
A small remote course has been developed for this period: MEANING in my life.
Contact: Nicole Schubert | nicole.schubert@han.nl | (06) 55 21 89 44
HAN confidential counselors
At HAN we treat each other respectfully. Unfortunately, incidents can still occur in which you as a student have to deal with unacceptable behavior such as aggression and violence, bullying, (sexual) harassment and discrimination, including digital behavior. If this happens, contact one of the confidential counsellors to discuss what you can do about it. You can choose which confidential counsellor you want to speak to, and you can be sure that your confidentiality is guaranteed.
Tips to stay mentally fit and study independently
How do you stay mentally fit in the current situation? Fortunately, there are a lot of things you can do. On Insite you will find some specific tips.
Staying mentally fit
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Unfortunately, the corona measures might have caused you to have financial problems. Because you can’t work, for example. In such cases, DUO is temporarily offering the possibility to borrow more money each month. That can be done with retroactive effect, as of the start of the academic year. You can also apply for tuition fee credit.
You can arrange this yourself in ‘Mijn DUO’. If this is not enough, contact DUO yourself to find out about the possibilities. DUO is aiming for maximum goodwill when it comes to students with financial setbacks due to the corona measures.
Are you an international HAN student? If you think you are infected with the coronavirus, it is best to contact the GGD (0800 1351) or a general practitioner's office first (Arnhem: 026-3899696; Nijmegen: 0900 8880). They'll tell you what to do next.
If you have other medical complaints, contact a general practitioner by telephone, even if you are not registered with a general practitioner.
Lecturers and support staff work from home as much as possible unless physical presence is necessary. Your manager will decide what is necessary. Spreading work hours is preferable.
Go to the frequently asked questions on Insite (Dutch only) for all the information about working at home.
Go to Insite Rondom je werk (Dutch only) for all the information about organizing distance learning.
Go to the frequently asked questions on Insite (Dutch only) for staff for all the information about assessment and internship activities.
NWO has taken a number of measures to support researchers. The first is that ongoing rounds where no more interaction is required with applicants can go ahead according to schedule. For other ongoing rounds, interviews are being postponed and deadlines for submission extended.
NWO is well aware that postponing interviews is not a good thing for the people involved in application procedures. They are therefore looking for ways to proceed with the grant allocations. The importance of utmost care and a level playing field for all candidates means that finding a solution takes time. In April, NWO will provide solutions in consultation with the knowledge institutes. The deadlines for upcoming calls have been postponed by one month and those for more complex calls with consortia will be put on hold and resumed again one month after the national measures are lifted. If second-flow funding is cut back for longer periods due to these measures, financial problems may arise.
At the moment there is insufficient visibility on the extent of the situation, but the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science remains in contact with NWO and the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences.
We can imagine that this period could cause feelings of restlessness or stress. Perhaps feelings of being powerless, too. Especially if the current measures are to last longer. At the moment, you may not be able to share your concerns as well as usual with colleagues or you may have many thoughts rushing through your mind when you are alone.
Would you like to talk to somebody about that? As a HAN employee, you can request a free consultation (20 minutes) with one of the psychologists from Ascender via a special helpline. You can discuss questions or uncertainties or simply let off steam. You can reach the helpline by phone on 0800-3277378. If you need more support, your colleagues in the HR department are available to help you further.
If you have any questions, you can contact the HR Enquiry Desk | (024) 353 05 50 | Vraagpunt.HR@han.nl.
For the time being some of the HAN buildings are open and others are closed. All buildings will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday. On other work days the following buildings will continue to be open from 8.00 to 17.00:
HAN Nijmegen campus
Kapittelweg 33 via the C wing
Kapittelweg 35 is accessible via the walkway
HAN Arnhem campus
Ruitenberglaan 26 via the main entrance
Ruitenberglaan 31 and 27 are accessible via the walking bridge
For the HAN locations Laan van Scheut 2 and Ruitenberglaan 29, specific agreements have been made with a number of users.
When you enter, report to the reception desk at K33 or R26 and observe the following measures:
It is not permitted to work/study in the buildings in groups of 3 or more.
Students who are not connected to HAN are not permitted.
Keep at least 1.5 meters distance from each other.
Stick to the hygiene measures.
Canteens and facilities
All canteens are closed. Various other facilities in the buildings have modified opening hours up to and including Monday 1 June.
Post desk
The desks in Arnhem and Nijmegen are open from 8.00 to 12.00. The post must be delivered there before 11.30.
Outgoing post can be delivered to the reception desks at K33 and R26
Incoming post is opened centrally and, if necessary, sent to the home address of the addressee. Confidential post items are dealt with by the HAN archivist.
See the procedure for incoming and outgoing post on Insite.
CampusStore
Arnhem location
Open from 8.30 to 12.00.
Nijmegen location
Open from 8.30 to 12.00. The shop in Nijmegen is closed on 2 April.
The study centers are open from 10.00 to 15.00. All work/study spaces are closed.
HAN Nijmegen campus:
The Study Center at Kapittelweg 33 is open from 10.00 to 15.00. You can only borrow books by appointment. See the procedure on the HAN Study Centers website.
HAN Arnhem campus:
In Arnhem you can borrow books by appointment. See the procedure on the HAN Study Centers website. All work/study spaces in the study centers are closed.
Go to www.han.nl/studiecentra for access to online sources via HANQuest or online study books.
Cash desk/bank
The cash desk in Arnhem is closed up to and including Monday 1 June. If you need to pick up money during this period, contact us. We’re happy to make an appointment so we can assist you. Call (06) 55 24 08 51 of (06) 25 64 04 75. We are also available via kas.bank@han.nl.
All other services will go ahead as usual (in-house emergency service, cleaning, catering (sandwiches at receptions for staff), coffee and tea services, archiving, graphic production services, delivery of office supplies.
Visits by external parties, such as suppliers and maintenance services, have to be reported in advance to the receptions at K33 and R26. The caretaker will take the visitor(s) to the other buildings.
No, these locations are closed.
The Service Desks and the Service Information Desks can be reached as follows.
Service Desks
The Service Desks at Kapittelweg 33, Ruitenberglaan 26 and 31 are open from 8.00 to 17.00.
Student Affairs Enquiry Desk, HR Enquiry Desk and other Service Information Desks
All Service Information Desks can be reached by phone and email from 8.00 to 17.00. The post is processed on a daily basis.
Outgoing post can be delivered to the reception desks at K33 and R26.
No, there will be no tax return assistance until after April 6. Each year, the Tax and Customs Administration has organised this together with HAN. Due to the Corona virus and the restrictive measures, this will not go ahead.
The Tax and Customs Administration will contact the client about this.
Questions? You can contact the Tax and Customs Administration on the free number (0800) 0543.
For the status of other events and gatherings, go to www.han.nl/agenda (Dutch only).
The Open Days at the HAN locations cannot take place up to 1 June. On Saturday 9 May and Sunday 10 May, we will be running an Online Open Day for full-time bachelor programs.
On these days prospective students get to know our degree programs, lecturers and students in a different way. Each degree program has developed their own program. This could include things like a video about the degree program or chat sessions with students or lecturers.
The on-campus Open Days planned in the period up to 1 June have been cancelled:
The Open Day in Arnhem on Saturday 28 March has been cancelled.
The Open Day in Nijmegen on Saturday 4 April has been cancelled.
For the status of other events and sessions, go to www.han.nl/agenda (Dutch only).
Matching will be done differently this year because of the measures related to the coronavirus. The questionnaires are a required part of Matching. After the questionnaires you would normally have an appointment at HAN. This academic year all appointments at HAN locations have been cancelled to prevent further spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands.
To help applicants make an informed decision about whether the degree program is a good match for them, online alternatives are being offered where possible. Applicants will be informed about this by the relevant degree program.
For more information about Matching, go to www.han.nl/studiekeuzecheck (Dutch only).
HAN has taken extra (hygiene) measures to prevent/limit the spread of the Coronavirus as much as possible. Cleaning is done several times a day with disinfectants. Notice that the towel or soap dispenser is empty? Or that an area hasn’t been cleaned? Report it to the ServiceDesk: ServiceDesk@han.nl of (024) 353 16 66.
If you have cold symptoms or a temperature? Stay home until you are better and make sure you don’t infect anyone else. So keep a distance from others. You don’t have to call the GP. Your symptoms are mild.
Have your symptoms gotten worse?
You have a fever (over 38 degrees Celsius) and you’re coughing or having difficulties breathing? Then you have to call the GP or after-hours clinic. Call immediately if your symptoms are serious.
Which simple, preventive measures can I take?
Don’t shake hands
Wash your hands regularly.
Cough and sneeze on the inside of your elbow.
Use paper handkerchiefs.
Use an alcohol-based hand disinfectant if water and soap are not available.
Stay at home if you are ill. Note: currently we are following the regular sick-leave policy.
For the time being, HAN's regular sick leave and care leave policies apply.
For staff:
The regular sick policy applies. That’s because we as HAN want to track if and when our business-critical processes might be at risk.
If there are medical reasons preventing you from working, report this by phone to the reception at HAN and to your manager.
In case of mild cold symptoms, we follow the advice of RIVM, GGD and WHO. The general principle is that you don’t report sick with such symptoms, but you continue your work at home. Just like you would in a normal situation.
Fear of infection and the care of sick family members are in principle not valid reasons for reporting sick. If you are not sick but decide not to work anyway, you’ll have to use your sustainable employability hours (DI hours) or leave hours. Contact your manager about this if you have any questions.
If you can’t study due to medical reasons, report this by phone to your study coach.
Fear of infection is no reason to call in sick.
Care for sick family members is no reason to call in sick.
In case of mild cold symptoms, we follow the advice of RIVM, GGD and WHO. Don’t come to HAN, but study at home.
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Home » Health News » Coronavirus: How quickly do I need a second Covid-19 vaccine shot?
Coronavirus: How quickly do I need a second Covid-19 vaccine shot?
How quickly do I need a second Covid-19 vaccine shot? The first Covid-19 vaccines in the U.S. require two doses a few weeks apart. People should get some degree of protection within two weeks of the first shot, with the second shot bringing about the vaccine’s full protection. For the vaccine by Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech, the second shot is supposed to be after three weeks. For Moderna, it’s four weeks.
But how closely those guidelines should be followed has been a point of difference for the United States and the United Kingdom, which has been rolling out the Pfizer vaccine and one by Astrazeneca that requires two doses given four weeks apart.
To get more first shots into people and give them at least some degree of protection, the UK says it’s OK to delay the boosters for as long as 12 weeks. But that strategy has been nixed in the U.S., where regulators say there’s no science backing the approach.
A major concern is that it’s unknown how long the partial protection from one dose can last. “There is no data to demonstrate that protection after the first dose is sustained after 21 days,” Pfizer said.
U.S. regulators agreed, saying too few people in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine studies missed their scheduled boosters to have enough data to show the strategy might work.
The timing of the shots doesn’t have to be exact in the U.S., though; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the second shots can be given up to four days earlier or later.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed. )
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Elon Musk Is Reportedly Heading to Texas for a Tax Break
Brianna Provenzano
Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / Contributor (Getty Images)
Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is reportedly gearing up to permanently decamp to Texas in an effort to take advantage of the Lone Star State’s lack of personal income taxes.
According to CNBC, several of Musk’s close confidants say that the entrepreneur plans to formalize plans to move to the Lone Star State months after he first hinted that he planned to leave California, where he currently resides. Apparently, everything is bigger in Texas—including the local property tax breaks Musk reportedly received in July when he broke ground on a new Tesla factory that will produce Cybertruck, Model Y, Model 3, and Semi vehicles. California also has the highest income tax rate in the country, and CNBC reports that the move could save Musk—who currently stands to earn more than $50 billion in stock options—billions of dollars in the long run.
The decision to relocate to Texas comes after Musk publicly sparred with California officials last spring over covid-19 lockdown restrictions in the state that temporarily forced Tesla’s Fremont plant to shut down.
“Frankly, this is the final straw,” Musk tweeted at the time. “Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be depend on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.”
In May, the billionaire also cryptically tweeted that he planned to sell almost all of his “physical possessions” and “will own no house” after listing his California homes for sale.
Musk has been expanding his operations in Texas for years, and the facilities for his tunnel-building Boring Company and aerospace manufacturing company SpaceX are already located in Austin and Boca Chica, Texas, respectively. In July, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott seemed to corroborate plans for a move when he said during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Musk had told him he’d gotten a Texas driver’s license and is a “bona fide Texan now.”
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It’s actually more than just him. Many Californians are fleeing to Texas [1]. There’s the sentiment that California is going too liberal. I still think that those people will make Texas more liberal though.
[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/12/10/almost-700000-californians-moved-out-of-state-last-year/
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The BASS SHOW with CJ Boyd, David Menestres, and The Uninvited Guest
Event: The BASS SHOW with CJ Boyd, David Menestres, and The Uninvited Guest
Date: 17 Jun 2015 - 8:00 pm
Wednesday June 17th, 8pm – The BASS SHOW with CJ Boyd, David Menestres, and the Uninvited Guest – webcast show at highmayhem.org/livestream
We are very excited to feature 3 very different and amazing solo bass acts.
We have a limited number of presale tickets available for the in studio performance.
By your tix here! for $10
Bassist, composer, vagabond, CJ Boyd uses low-end loops and voices in order to try and stop time. On perpetual tour since March 2008, movement and stasis are both at the center of his music. Though solo performance takes up the bulk of his time and effort, he also plays in the bands Desert Center, Kurva Choir, Rhonya, and Move. His non-stop travels between North America and Europe have been propelled by vans, cars, trains, buses, planes, and boats, but most of all a commitment to ceaseless discovery and re-invention. His oceanic sounds provide a home for the homeless and journeys to the homebound. more at http://www.cjboyd.com/ and https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/cj-boyd/
David Menestres – new transplant from North Carolina, making his Santa Fe debut – more at davidmenestres.com
“The Uninvited Guest”- Carlos Santistevan High Mayhem co-founder, director, and audio engineer making a rare solo performance. A diverse and eclectic musician from groups such as iNK oN pAPER, The Late Severa Wires, The Uninvited Guests, Out of Context, A. Barnhouse and more!
Location: highmayhem.org/livestream, World WIDE, your town,
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Desperate Prohibitionists Claim Marijuana Fuels Jihad
byRuss Belville
It’s tough these days supporting marijuana prohibition. Two states have already legalized the demon weed and two more are planning to this election. Even our nation’s capital is going to allow adults to smoke the devil’s lettuce. Few people still believe the “gateway drug” theory and scaring folks about medibles in their kid’s Halloween candy is a seasonal scare that will pass from memory by Election Day when it turns out no kids anywhere end up dosed by an unwrapped pot candy.
But radical Islamic jihad? Why, that’s the scare that keeps on scaring! So why not tell people that marijuana leads otherwise sane North American teens to commit radical acts of violence? Yeah, it means directly contradicting the long-held prohibition talking point that marijuana makes you a directionless amotivated loser, but that one kind of drowned with Michael Phelps’ gold medals wrapped around its neck.
Cliff Kincaid writes in the ironically named Accuracy in Media that “It may be too early to draw a direct connection between jihad, marijuana, and mass murder, but it is worth considering whether consumption of the drug can alter the mind to such an extent that jihad becomes appealing to some mentally unstable individuals.” From there, Kincaid writes about:
* “Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the Canadian Islamic terrorist killer… [who] was an Islamist, as well as a pothead.”
* “…one of the Boston Marathon bombers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was not only a dope smoker but a dealer.”
* “Michael Brown, the black thug who was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri…. he had marijuana in his system and had been a user for some time.”
* “Trayvon Martin, the black juvenile delinquent shot and killed after he assaulted anti-crime activist George Zimmerman, also smoked marijuana regularly.”
* “The latest White House fence-jumper, Dominic Adesanya… told officials he smoked marijuana “sometimes, but not everyday.”
What Kincaid is doing here is something called a post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy — because this happened, then that happened, this caused that. It’s the most basic of logical fallacies that any college freshman passing Logic 101 should be able to point out. (Leave aside for now the obvious bigotry in naming the race of a “thug” and a “juvenile delinquent” and considering George Zimmerman an “anti-crime activist” when Zimmerman’s committed at least three rage-based crimes since killing Trayvon Martin.)
It’s a pretty common fallacy among prohibitionists, though, and easy enough to understand. Have you ever really wanted a car, let’s say a Subaru, then as you’re on the bus you notice how many Subarus are in your town? Now, it’s most probable that your town has as many Subarus in it as any other, but you’re suffering from an observational bias. Since a Subaru is so important to you, you tend to notice other Subarus. Well, violent potheads are Cliff Kincaid’s Subaru.
If Kincaid wants to find a link between violence and drugs, he’s looking at the wrong drug. Perhaps he could dig into the link between prescription anti-depressants known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and violence.
Russ Belville
"Radical" Russ Belville hosts 'The Marijuana Agenda' on YouTube, a live weekday news/talk program all about cannabis. Learn more at MJAgenda.com.
Marijuana Advocates Send Cease & Desist Letters Over TV Ads
Florida's Pro and Anti-Marijuana Groups Stacking Chips In Days Before Vote
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Successful Cannabis Initiatives In Three States Face Legal Challenges
State residents in Montana, Mississippi, and South Dakota voted for cannabis legalization. But it's still a battle.
byA.J. Herrington
New Jersey Officials Moving Forward With New Marijuana Legislation
New Jersey lawmakers are advancing cannabis legislation after residents voted to approve it.
South Dakota Governor Says Voters Made The ‘Wrong Choice’ By Legalizing Marijuana
South Dakota residents wanted to legalize cannabis. Their governor is less than thrilled.
New Jersey Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Recreational Cannabis
The Garden State was among four states to approve adult-use cannabis, but there’s still work to be done.
byBenjamin M. Adams
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Three Corners – Council Clean up Day
Council Clean-Up Day at Three Corners was a Street Shopper’s delight; and Morrie, who lived on the outer rim of the town looked forward to it more than Christmas every year.
His house, a 1930’s concrete bungalow, was always immaculate; the lawn neatly clipped, the bromeliads flowering, the lavender trim, even the ivy kept to its frame, not daring to divert from its intended topiary. There was a small white painted bird bath in the centre and a bird feeder sat in the branches of a Jacaranda that was always the first to bloom in the valley. A seasonal marker that summer had begun.
Out the back, however, behind the seven-foot-high wrought iron gate was a scavenger’s heaven.
A three-bay garage that never held a car, but had every appliance known to human kind in 40 years housed within its walls. There were bits and pieces of furniture, lounges, antiques, a ton of tins from his ukulele making days, seashells and fence palings. Everything there was ready to be used again, valuable, just waiting for a second chance.
There were wheels of wire and old school seats. If you needed to make a tree house, play house or a billycart, you always went to Morrie’s. Although there were no spare parts for cars, there was a rumour that hidden underneath the grave of bathtubs in the far-left corner a rusty, yellow mini still stood.
Many a new homeowner got their start with a lawnmower from Morrie. He was the go to guy on a weekend when you ran out of whipper snipper coil and the hardware store was closed.
If you needed advice on what glue to use, if something was repairable, how to change a washer, install a septic, how to enamel, or turn a bowl, you went to Morrie.
He would refuse all payment, just happy to tinker, and help; accepting the odd jar of jam in return for handmade lemonade stand for the primary school.
So on Clean Up Day the village of Three Corners paid homage to their handyman, in the only way they could.
On the side of the road was the usual rubbish stacks. Sewing machines, and broken Ikea dreams, fridges and TV’s outmoded and upgraded, and then there were the gifts for Morrie. A gramophone, an old reel to reel, hardware bought in the fervour of a renovation left idle, or well intentioned.
Morrie would set his alarm earlier than usual, and trawl the streets before dawn. He’d greet the slow ghostly procession of costumed night walkers who would relinquish their ownership of the streets. The dog walkers would smile and nod, help lift and sift, and occasionally, coyly, point out something special.
He rented a van especially for the day and would ferry his findings, methodically packing paint tins and piles of tiles, carpet remnants and old drills, and treasure of treasure, wooden cut offs.
From these cut-offs Morrie would slowly compile a wooden picture, using every possible scrap. A valley scene, a news event, a commemoration or celebration, all played out in a carefully compiled cheese board. They were works of art, practical, sought after, given and received with great gratitude.
A small gift, from a big heart, that gave and gave and gave every day, except one.
Council Clean Up Day.
When Three Corners was able to give back.
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One definition is a "prose composition with a focused subject of discussion" or a "long, systematic discourse". So for the first time, they've agreed to speak out publicly. You'll find other newspapers at libraries, bookstores, coffee shops, theaters, stores, everywhere you go, often for free.
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Andrea Crisman, a WSU journalism grad who worked at the Free Press fromconsiders Lessenberry a trusted mentor and describes him as "gentle, kind, and protective. All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on words of writing worth GBP/ZARR Here's the challenge: Describe your bedroom in such a way as to give us an insight into who you are.
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Hebron Israeli attacks News Report
Israeli military again blocks main access road in South Hebron Hills
The Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) stationed in the southern West Bank city of Hebron reported on Friday that the Israeli army blocked the road between At-Tuwani and Yatta, near the city, as a military bulldozer massed a six-foot-high mound spanning the width of the road using concrete slabs, boulders and earth
The CPT reported that this blockade, once again, caused the villagers to be cut off from the main supplies such as water, firewood, and animal feed as this road provides the primary vehicle access to Yatta, which serves as the region’s economic hub, with critical services such as hospitals and secondary schools.
The CPT added that this new mound is not only obstructing vehicle access but also bars the residents from crossing it by foot and even while riding horses of donkeys.
Also, the CPT added that the road between Yatta and At Tuwani is the main entrance for water supplies to the Southern Hebron Hills, as the area is currently experiencing a severe drought.
Palestinian residents of the area said that the Israeli roadblocks have doubled the price of water reaching them.
Meanwhile, a worker with the UN said that this roadblock will increase the cost of transporting essential water supplies to the area by 30%.
By Saed Bannoura
Israeli attacks Jerusalem Nablus News Report Tulkarem West Bank
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians From Tulkarem And Nablus
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What is Respect to a Millennial, a Boomer, and a Gen X’er?
I love talking to groups about generations in the workplace and the challenges it creates. Some experts find this a non-issue, but I respectfully disagree, with vigor. In almost every topic I teach these days, this issue of generations comes up in some way. And in those instances, it is typically a complaint about Millennials.
This makes sense of course because they are the new kids on the block (NKOTB: a little Gen X’er reference), and with that, they are an unknown entity (which I find fascinating because most of them have Boomer parents, so why so much confusion?)
What I hear most often is this:
“They are so entitled!”
“Everyone expects a trophy for just showing up to work”
“They have no work ethic”
I can tell you this: There are upwards of 80 million Millennials in the United States and more than 50 percent are in the workforce. How can we make such sweeping generalizations about 80 million people? Are you kidding me?
A few years ago, while teaching a class on generations, I had a Millennial raise his hand about midway through the session. Up to this point, he had said nothing. Not one word. I work very hard to create a classroom environment where one generation does not beat up the other, devolving into a finger pointing battle around who is right. In fact, I have a rule: If you say something critical of a generation, you must follow it with something nice.
Back to my Millennial.
He raises his hand.
I call on him.
“Everyone complains that we expect a trophy for just showing up. But who was buying those trophies for us as kids? We weren’t. You were. You created this generation, and now you are complaining.”
You could have heard a pin drop.
Yes, that’s the cold, hard fact of the matter: We are to blame. Boomers and Gen X’ers have wrapped this generation of Millennials in saran wrap, knee pads, and helmets. We have protected them from the mean kid on the playground, run their book up to school when they forgot it and cried they wouldn’t be able to check a book out during library time, written their college essay, and rescued them any and every time they fell. And we gave them a trophy at the end of soccer season when their team’s record was 0-10.
When my daughter Maddie played soccer as a little one, she would get in the car and we would say, “Good game, but y’all lost.” Cruel? No way. The league may have not kept score but we did by goodness, and she would learn early what it felt like to lose versus learning when she was 20 years old.
That brings me to a defining parent moment with my daughter Trinity.
When she was about ten years old, I found myself getting onto her about something. My mouthy and sassy child was crossing the line to which I said, “Trinity, you are being disrespectful.” Her reply?
“Mom, if you want respect you have to give respect.”
By a show of hands, how many of you would have had your mouth slapped for a statement like that? Yeah, me too.
But I stopped in that moment and considered her statement. Instead of reacting, I said, “Excuse me?” and Trinity told me the following:
“We get in trouble for yelling, but you yell at us all the time. We get in trouble for being sassy, but you are sassy all the time. It’s not fair.”
I learned some important things that day about my sweet Trinity:
Trinity’s core value is justice. She does not care much for the whole “Because I am older than you, you must respect me no matter what” mindset that generations before her were raised with. I remember as a kid feeling so helpless because I got in trouble for things I saw adults do all the time. But I didn’t say those things out loud, because, honestly, I would have gotten a beating. But we don’t beat our kids (and I can see my parents generation shaking their head in disbelief that we would not hit our kids as a discipline tool).
Millennials see themselves as equal players. My daughter’s generation (she is just at the tail end of Millennials) was raised to have conversations with adults. We trained our girls from an early age that when they meet an adult, they look them in the eye, introduce themselves clearly, and shake their hand. I don’t speak for my kids in the doctor’s office either. They do. Mark and I do this because we want them to have great communication skills. I want them to be assertive and speak up for themselves. That’s the upside. The potential downside is that they see themselves as an equal with adults. I say potential because it’s not good or bad. It just is.
Respect is a value of all generations. How respect is understood is different though for each generation. For Boomers, respect is given to anyone who is an “elder,” but for a Millennial, they are more likely to approach respect as something that goes both ways and is earned through behaviors, character, etc.
Generations share many of the same core values, but their expression of the value is often different. We must all do the hard work to appreciate these differences and see their potential to make us better, together.
What’s your respect story? How do you feel about generations in the workplace? Any ideas on how we can respect each other and draw on our strengths and talents? Share your ideas with me! www.facebook.com/bravocc and @bravoplanbe on Twitter.
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First Lake, located in Valley of the Five Lakes in Alberta. Shot in May 2014.
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Mount Robson, the tallest mountain in the Canadian Rockies. May, 2014.
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Forbidden Road
My surrealistic take on a cloudy afternoon at the Canadian Rockies.
Shot while heading north on Icefields Parkway to Jasper, in May 2014.
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Driving to Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. Shot in May 2014.
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Enchanting Porto
A sunset in Porto in October 2012.
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Population ageing could be affecting Australia’s economic performance
By Abul Rizvi | 28 May 2020, 4:30pm | comments |
Australia's population isn't ageing as rapidly as other developed nations, but still enough to cause concern (Image via Pixabay)
The ageing of Australia's population is having negative impacts on our economic growth and productivity, writes Abul Rizvi.
RESEARCH ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT of population ageing is remarkably consistent in finding that it will:
slow economic growth including per capita economic growth;
lower participation rates and the employment to population ratio;
lower productivity growth and increase income/wealth inequality;
reduce private consumption expenditure and business investment; and
increase pressure on government budgets by reducing growth in tax revenue and increasing pressure on health and aged care expenditure.
While most developed nations (such as Europe and Japan) have been ageing for much longer, Australia’s working age to population (WAP) ratio peaked in 2009 at around 67.5% after rising from around 61% in 1960. By 2019, it had fallen by around two percentage points to 65.3% (Chart 1). Australia’s population is ageing but not as rapidly as other developed nations.
Source: ABS Cat: 3105 and 3101 Series C
Australia’s WAP ratio is projected to decline by another 1.9 percentage points by 2030 to 63.8% assuming net overseas migration (NOM) averaging 175,000 per annum, a fertility rate of around 1.65 babies per woman and life expectancy growing but slightly more slowly than assumed in earlier ABS population projections.
Since 2009, GDP growth has averaged 0.6% per quarter while per capita GDP growth has averaged 0.2% per quarter (see Chart 2). During the ten years prior to that, GDP growth averaged 0.8% per quarter and GDP per capita grew by an average of 0.4% per quarter.
Source: ABS Cat 5206
The crucial policy question is whether the lower rate of per capita GDP growth in Australia since 2009 has been impacted by the declining WAP ratio and whether this negative impact will continue as the WAP ratio continues to fall over the next 20 years.
The Government’s favoured framework for considering the long-term impact of population change on economic growth is that of the three Ps — the combination of population, productivity and participation. In the period 2009-19, both the participation rate and the population growth rate were higher than in the period 2000-09 (ABS Cat 3101). It thus comes down to the question of productivity.
Was Australia’s lower rate of productivity impacted by population ageing?
According to the Productivity Commission (2019), Australia’s labour productivity has been weak since at least 2012-13. In each of 2015-16 and 2016-17, labour productivity was 0.9% and fell to 0.2% in 2017-18. In 2017-18, labour inputs outstripped capital inputs, thus leading to a negative impact on the capital to labour ratio (capital shallowing). As employment growth and NOM were both strong, real GDP growth was a respectable 2.8% in 2017-18 but was well below that level in 2018-19 at around 1.4%.
A key concern of the Productivity Commission is the slow growth in capital investment, particularly slow growth in research and development capital. Also of concern is that “the share of businesses that are innovators” is, according to the Productivity Commission, “no longer growing”.
In a 1938 article titled ‘Population Problems and Politics’, Nobel Prize-winning economist Gunnar Myrdal argued:
‘Age distribution has consequences both for the productivity of people and for total consumptive demand.’
He said that with an ageing population:
‘Young people will have an easier chance to “get-in” but they will meet greater difficulties in “getting-on” and “getting upward”.’
Frydenberg's 'ageist' population backflip https://t.co/pZAzn3sxL4 @IndependentAus
— IndependentAustralia (@independentaus) November 19, 2019
More recently, James Feyrer finds:
Changes in workforce demographics have a strong and significant correlation with the growth rate of productivity. Changes in the proportion of workers between the ages of 40 and 49 seem to be associated with productivity growth. A 5% increase in the size of this cohort over a ten-year period is associated with a 1%–2% higher productivity growth in each year of the decade.
He also finds that large cohorts aged 15-39 are associated with lower productivity. The findings for the cohort aged 50-59 is negative but only marginally, so while the productivity impact of a large cohort over 60 is generally negative.
Aiyer, Ebeke and Shao similarly find that:
‘Workforce aging has direct implications for labour productivity. They consider that if different age cohorts differ in their productivity, then changes in the age distribution of the workforce will affect average output per worker.’
Berk and Weil find that:
‘As populations age, the degree to which workers׳ human capital reflects the cutting edge of technology falls because education took place further in the past.’
GDP per hours worked
The Productivity Commission notes that:
‘While Australia has experienced a productivity slowdown, it has been more persistent and extreme in many other countries.’
One measure of productivity is real GDP per hour worked. Table 1 shows the OECD index of real GDP per hour worked for major OECD economies. Over the past eight years, real GDP per hour worked has increased by less than 1% per annum for the OECD as a whole. Australia has performed slightly better over the eight-year period noting Australia has a significantly lower median age than most OECD countries and is projected to age more slowly due to both a higher rate of NOM and a higher fertility rate.
The WAP ratio for all OECD economies is now in decline (U.N. Population Prospects 2019 Revision). South Korea was the last major developed economy to reach the peak in its working age to population ratio in 2012 while China reached this in 2010. The USA, Canada and the UK reached this point in 2007 while Japan and most major economies in Europe reached this point much earlier. The developed world as a whole has now been ageing for around a decade. The 2020s will be the second decade the developed world has been ageing simultaneously.
Table 1: OCED index of real GDP per hour worked for major developed economies
Source: OECD Open Data. 2010 is Base Year
Weak productivity growth has unsurprisingly coincided with weak wages growth (see Chart 3).
Source: ABS Cat: 6345
Chart 4 highlights a strong relationship between a declining WAP ratio and weak growth in the wage price index (Pearson correlation of 0.869 with a 95% confidence interval).
ABS Cat: 6345, 3101 and 3222
While much of the research anticipates strong wages growth associated with ageing (due to assumed labour shortages), evidence of the last decade across countries such as the USA, UK, Canada and Australia and earlier for countries in continental Europe as well as Japan, suggests weaker economic growth, weaker productivity growth and weaker household consumption associated with ageing has been having a greater impact on wages than general labour shortages.
Hours worked
Negative impact of a declining WAP ratio is further confirmed in Chart 5 which highlights a steadily declining number of hours worked per month per adult (people aged 15 and over) since around 2011.
Source: ABS Cat: 6202 and 3101
This measure incorporates the impact of unemployment, participation, underemployment and population ageing.
Chart 5 highlights the impact of the 1982-83 recession when average hours worked per month per adult fell to 95.4 and the 1992-93 recession when it fell to 98.9.After peaking at 108.1 in June 2008, it fell sharply after the Global Financial Crisis to 103.6, recovering only briefly in 2010 and 2011, largely due to the Government’s fiscal stimulus.
It has been in slow and steady decline ever since. By June 2019, it had reached 99.7 — the first time in 40 years it has been below 100 outside a recession. It will have fallen very sharply due to the coronavirus crisis and should bounce back after lockdown restrictions are removed. But with a falling WAP ratio, it is unlikely to ever return to 100 hours per month per adult.
Private consumption
Population ageing also drives down per capita private consumption as older households have lower levels of private consumption compared to younger households (see Chart 6).
Source: ABC Cat: 5204
There has been a slight narrowing of the private consumption gap between older and younger households. This may reflect rising participation rates of older Australians. However, this is not showing up strongly in terms of the gap between income taxes paid by older and younger Australians. That gap has been widening (see Chart 7).
Government budgets and the 2021 Intergenerational Report
The negative impact of an ageing population will extend to government budgets through weaker revenue growth as older households pay significantly less income tax (see Chart 7) and have a much higher demand for health, social support and aged care services (see successive Intergenerational Reports).
A lower fertility rate and lower NOM for the foreseeable future will mean that Australia will age much more rapidly than forecast in the 2015 Intergenerational Report and in the 2019 Budget.
In its 2021 Intergenerational Report, the Government will have no choice but to retreat from its real economic growth assumption of 3% per annum for the decade of the 2020s.
Abul Rizvi is an Independent Australia columnist and a former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration, currently undertaking a PhD on Australia’s immigration policies. You can follow Abul on Twitter @RizviAbul.
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The TCL 20 Series Makes 5G More Affordable In Europe
The TCL 10 series may not have made all that many headlines, but now the company wants to step things up a little. At CES 2021, TCL has announced the new TCL 20 series, which will eventually be made up of a hefty five models. For now, however, the company is only launching two: The TCL 20 5G and TCL 20 SE.
Here’s a rundown of the two new phones and what they have to offer.
The TCL 20 5G is the top model in the 20 series, though that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a super high-end device. The phone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 processor, along with 6GB of RAM and either 128GB or 256GB of storage — solid, but not mind-blowing. On the front, there’s a 6.67-inch display with a 1,080p resolution and a small hole-punch cutout for the front-facing camera.
On the back of the device, there’s a triple-lens camera, with a 48-megapixel main sensor, an 8MP wide-angle camera, and a 2MP macro camera.
Perhaps more important than the specs are the features, and TCL is quick to tout its NXTVISION display technology. Now on its second generation, NXTVISION encompasses features like SDR to HDR conversion and blue light filtering, which should make for a brighter display but also one that’s easier on the eyes. Of course, a high refresh rate and higher resolution may have made more of an impact, but we’ll have to wait and see.
The TCL 20 5G is now available in Mist Gray and Placid Blue in Italy for 299 euros, or around $366. TCL says that the device will roll out to more countries in the coming months, but specific U.S. details were not confirmed.
The TCL 20 SE, following classic Apple naming fashion, is the budget model. The device swaps out the hole-punch for a small teardrop notch, though it’s still subtle enough to not be too intrusive. The display sits in at 6.82 inches, with just a 720p resolution. Under the hood, the phone features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 processor, along with 4GB of RAM, and either 64GB or 128GB of storage.
On the back, there’s a quad-lens camera, with one 48-megapixel main sensor, a 5MP wide-angle camera, a 2MP macro camera, and a 2MP depth camera. As is usually the case with these inexpensive quad cameras, I’d expect the latter three to be limited in their usefulness.
The TCL 20 SE will be available later this month in Nuit Black and Aurora Green for 149 euros, or around $182. This one’s even less likely to come to the U.S., if I had to guess.
TCL has confirmed that some 20 series devices will be coming to the U.S., but with five to choose from (even just right now), it’s hard to say which will arrive. But given the company was able to get the TCL 10 5G on Verizon last year, it’d make sense to see the same sort of deal spin up again.
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Disqualification of 18 MLAs will bring about mini general election in the form of 20 by-elections
by Rangaraj | Sep 22, 2018 | Politics | 1 comment
A victory for the ruling AIADMK in the disqualification case against AIADMK MLAs may help the government tide over the crisis momentarily but would face major political hurdles in the long run. To begin with, once the seats are declared vacant if they stand disqualified, the State could be headed for a mini general election in the form of 20 by-elections.
By-polls are already due in Tiruvarur and Tiruparankundram. If 18 more seats fall vacant, by-elections would have to be held simultaneously for 20 constituencies in the State.
If the DMK can win more than half the contests, it could come near 110 seats, within striking distance of the majority mark.
While chief minister Edappadi Palaniswamy is confident that TTV Dinakaran, AMMK leader, cannot replicate the RK Nagar by-election victory in these constituencies, the by-polls may provide an opportunity to come close to the majority mark. The DMK already has 88 MLAs, and has the support of 8 Congress and one IUML member, taking the total to 97. If the DMK can win more than half the contests, it could come near 110 seats, within striking distance of the majority mark. Another huge headache for the ruling AIADMK would be tackling the danger from the Dinakaran party and the DMK at the same time, besides bickering within, with aggressive posturing from the O Panneerselvam camp.
The 18 affected MLAs Thangatamilselvan (Andipatti constituency), R. Murugan (Harur), S. Mariappan Kennedy (Manamadurai), K. Karthirkamu (Periyakulam), C. Jayanthi Padmanabhan (Gudiyattam), P. Palaniappan (Pappireddipatti), V. Senthil Balaji (Aravakurichi), S. Muthiah (Paramakudi), P. Vetrivel (Perambur), N.G. Parthiban (Sholingur), M. Kothandapani (Tiruporur), T.A. Elumalai (Poonnamalee), M. Rengasamy (Thanjavur), R. Thangathurai (Nilakottai), R. Balasubramani (Ambur), Ethirkottai S.G. Subramanian (Sattur), R. Sundaraj (Ottapidaram) and K. Uma Maheswari (Vilathikulam) were disqualified by Speaker P Dhanapal on September 18, 2017. STK Jakkaiyan too was disqualified but later retained his membership by an order of the Speaker after the former met Dhanapal.
The by-elections in these 20 constituencies would provide a clear indication of which way the wind is blowing in Tamil Nadu, and could create further shifts in the political equations in the State.
The BJP would be forced to reveal its stand in the State as to whether it would tie-up with the AIADMK or go it alone as in RK Nagar constituency.
The ruling AIADMK would have the opportunity to increase its strength by at least 10 of the 20 seats. Only such a performance could provide confidence to the rank and file of the party that the ruling AIADMK can win elections and retain power in the 2021 elections. A poor performance, especially if the AMMK does well, would cause panic in the AIADMK camp. The DMK, if it wins a majority of the seats, could create the foundation for a change of guard in the State. The DMK has nothing to lose in these by-polls since it was defeated in these constituencies in the 2016 general elections. In fact, the DMK could turn out to be the biggest gainer in the by-elections. With the AIADMK camps split, the DMK could hope to reap rewards.
Some parties which are not part of the DMK-led alliance in the State may look for a tie-up with either the AIADMK, the Dinakaran party, AMMK, or even the parties led by Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth, if the actors decide in favour of their parties contesting the by-elections. In that sense, the by-elections may also help firm up alliances in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
House Bills Delivered to the Governor
Bill String
Date/Last Action
HB795 Johnson, Robert CCS SS SCS HCS HB 795, 972, 1128 & 1161 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2494L.10T - Revises various statutues relating to county government.
HB798 Shoemaker, Christoper SCS HCS HB 798 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2495S.06T - Authorizes certain counties to use moneys from law library funds for courtroom renovation, technology enhancement, and for debt service on bonds.
HB822 Luetkemeyer, William SCS HB 822 6/24/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2685S.03T - Prohibits certain local orders and ordinances related to amateur radio antenna regulation.
HB826 Kelly, Van SCS HB 826 AND HCS HB 883 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3386S.04T - Designates various portions of highways and bridges as memorials.
HB833 Luetkemeyer, William SS SCS HCS HB 833 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3240S.06T - Authorizes an exhibition center and recreational facility district in certain counties; a theater, cultural arts, and entertainment district in St. Charles County; and modifies Community Comeback Act.
HB841 Angst, Randall SCS HB 841 6/30/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3404S.04T - Prohibits the use of glass containers on certain vessels on state waterways.
HB855 Holand, Roy SS SCS HCS HB 855 6/28/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3284S.14T - Requires health insurers to treat mental health services in the same manner as other medical services.
HB869 Townley, Merrill HB 869 6/21/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3267L.01T - Amends various provisions regarding the licensure of veterinarians.
HB895 Emery, Ed HCS HB 895 5/7/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2487L.04T - Establishes dissolution procedures for certain road districts in Jasper County.
HB904 Luetkemeyer, William HB 904 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3503L.01T - Repeals the Uniform Commercial Code statutes relating to bulk transfers.
HB916 Brown, Jason SCS HB 916 5/10/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3308S.02T - Revises the crime of identity theft, creates a new crime of trafficking in stolen identities, and revises the crime of false impersonation.
HB923 Holand, Roy HB 923 6/24/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2901L.02T - Revises the statutes relating to the Missouri Family Trust.
HB928 Bivins, Walt SCS HCS HB 928 AND HCS HB 1123 AND HCS HB 1280 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3463S.03T - Revises various statutes relating to intermediate driver's licenses, regulating the authority for commercial motor vehicles, and specialized license plate restrictions.
3608S.02T - Modifies the requirements for annuity contracts.
HB947 Crawford, Larry HCS HB 947 6/24/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3524L.02T - Allows the cities of Cameron, Boonville, Sikeston, and Kirksville to remove weeds or trash on private property.
HB950 Crowell, Jason HCS HB 950 & 948 3/15/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2969L.02T - Modifies the classification of counties.
HB959 Luetkemeyer, William CCS#2 SCS HCS HB 959 6/14/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3502L.08T - Establishes the Higher Education Deposit Program, revises other statutes relating to banking, and revises the crime of identity theft.
HB960 Roark, Bradley SCS HB 960 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
HB970 Portwood, Charles HB 970 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3406L.01T - Amends various provisions regarding licensure of dentists and dental hygienists.
HB975 Johnson, Robert HB 975 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3645L.01T - Revises certain statutes governing land trusts in charter counties.
HB978 Baker, Brian CCS#3 SS HS HCS HB 978 6/30/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3116S.10T - Establishes the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board to serve as a liaison between state agencies and small businesses.
HB980 Myers, Peter SS#2 HCS HB 980 7/9/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2513S.04T - Requires certain environmental rules to be based on a regulatory impact report and limits the Department of Natural Resources to issuing permits only to statutory requirements.
HB985 Wood, Dennis HCS HB 985 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3563L.03T - Revises the statutes regarding the practice of real estate.
HB988 Yates, Brian HCS HB 988 6/24/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2618L.02T - Increases the number of county political party committee members in Jackson County.
HB994 Cunningham, Mike HB 994 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3708L.01T - Extends the expiration date for the criminal case surcharge in the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit to January 1, 2010.
HB996 Dusenberg, Gary SCS HB 996 AND HB 1142 AND HCS HB 1201 AND HB 1489 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3208S.04T - Changes various statutes relating to annual school bus inspections, regulation of low-speed vehicles, sales of abandoned property by the City of Kansas City, all-terrain vehicles, and bumper heights.
HB998 Sutherland, Mike SS HCS HB 998 & 905 6/7/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3798S.05T - Requires notice of eviction for mobile homeowners to vacate.
HB1001 Bearden, Carl HB 1001 5/7/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2401L.01T - Appropriates money for the Board of Fund Commissioners.
HB1002 Bearden, Carl CCS SCS HS HCS HB 1002 6/16/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2402S.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
2403S.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education and the several divisions.
2404S.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Revenue and the Department of Transportation.
2405S.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Office of Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, and the Chief Executive.
2406L.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Conservation, and the several divisions.
2407S.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Economic Development, Department of Insurance, and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
2408L.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Public Safety.
2409S.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections and the several divisions.
2410S.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Mental Health, the Board of Public Buildings, and the Department of Health and Senior Services.
2411L.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, and distributions of the Department of Social Services and the several divisions.
2412S.05T - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Chief Executive's Office and Mansion.
HB1014 Bearden, Carl CCS SCS HCS HB 1014 4/19/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2414L.04T - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the several departments and offices of state government.
HB1021 Bearden, Carl SS SCS HS HB 1021 6/16/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2421S.03T - Appropriates money for planning, expenses, and for capital improvements.
HB1029 Henke, Wayne SCS HB 1029 AND HB 1438 AND HB 1610 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3793S.02T - Designates various portions of highways as memorials.
HB1047 Guest, Jim HB 1047 6/24/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2893L.01T - Authorizes certain city councils to establish council member salaries by ordinance.
HB1055 Bruns, Mark CCS SS HCS HB 1055 6/14/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3722L.06T - Revises the statutes relating to sexual offenses, assault on law enforcement officers, and the payment of restitution for criminal offenses.
HB1070 Miller, Ronald HB 1070 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3500L.01T - Authorizes boards of education of school districts to adopt an emergency preparedness plan to address the use of school resources in an emergency.
HB1071 Goodman, Jack SCS HB 1071, 801, 1275 & 989 6/16/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3682S.03T - Authorizes the conveyance of various parcels of state property.
HB1074 Byrd, Richard HCS HB 1074 & 1129 6/14/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3897S.02T - Makes it a crime to burn a cross with the intent to intimidate any person or group of persons.
HB1090 Bishop, Daniel HCS HB 1090 6/21/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3774L.02T - Allows property insurance for real estate transferred by beneficiary deed to automatically continue with the grantee for up to 30 days.
HB1099 Reinhart, Geralyn HCS HB 1099 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3839L.03T - Clarifies sales and use tax exemption eligibility for manufacturing and material recovery plants.
HB1107 Crawford, Larry HB 1107 6/21/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3534L.01T - Permits owners of property adjacent to transportation districts to petition to be added to the district.
HB1114 Skaggs, Trent HB 1114 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3910L.01T - Allows for a special license plate for peace officers or firefighters wounded in the line of duty or the survivors of those killed in the line of duty.
HB1115 Dempsey, Tom HCS HB 1115 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3836L.03T - Prohibits civil lawsuits against food manufacturers, packers, sellers, distributors, and marketers for claims arising out of weight gain, obesity, or health conditions associated with weight gain or obesity.
HB1126 Seigfreid, James HB 1126 6/30/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3251L.01T - Changes the procedure for detachment from certain watershed districts.
HB1136 Rupp, Scott SCS HCS HB 1136 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4044S.07T - Establishes the Disposition of Fetal Remains Act and allows the parents of a stillborn child to apply for a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth with the State Registrar of vital records.
HB1149 May, Bob HB 1149 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3506L.01T - Designates a bridge over a portion of Interstate 44 in Phelps County as the "Trooper Mike L. Newton Memorial Bridge."
HB1167 Kelly, Van HB 1167 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4011L.01T - Allows for a special license plate for members of the Missouri Foxtrotting Horse Breed Association.
HB1171 Rector, Rex HCS HB 1171 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3974L.02T - Facilitates joint municipal utility projects.
HB1177 Guest, Jim SCS HCS HB 1177 7/6/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3783S.06T - Revises various statutes relating to concentrated animal feeding operations.
HB1179 Corcoran, Michael HCS HB 1179 6/21/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3842L.02T - Allows the surcharge collected in criminal cases for biometric verification systems to also be used for housing and custody expenses and to maintain the biometric verification system.
HB1182 Munzlinger, Brian CCS SS SCS HCS HB 1182 6/23/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4015S.05T - Revises various statutes relating to incentive tax credits.
HB1187 Ervin, Doug HB 1187 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3941L.01T - Changes the procedure allowing Clay County to operate concession stands at privately operated marinas.
HB1192 Schlottach, Charles SCS HCS HB 1192 6/23/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4098S.03T - Requires the Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture to promulgate rules relating to meat inspection.
HB1193 Self, Tom SCS HS HB 1193 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3253S.06T - Revises the statutes relating to notaries public.
HB1195 Behnen, Robert SS SCS HS HCS HB 1195 7/9/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3944S.13T - Revises the statutes regarding the Division of Professional Registration.
HB1198 Richard, Ron HCS HB 1198 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3971L.03T - Clarifies the definition of "net income" for insurance holding companies and revises restrictions on the issuance of extraordindary dividends by holding companies for property and casualty insurers.
HB1207 Icet, Allen SS HS HCS HB 1207 7/7/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3615S.06T - Changes the procedures for the formation of certain levee districts.
HB1209 Jetton, Rod HCS HB 1209 7/9/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3759L.02T - Designates the Hypsibema missouriensis dinosaur as the official dinosaur of the State of Missouri.
HB1215 Engler, Kevin SCS HCS HB 1215 6/14/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4139L.03T - Revises the crime of escape from commitment.
HB1217 Johnson, Robert SCS HB 1217 6/17/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3988S.02T - Revises the statutes relating to the St. Louis and Kansas City Police Retirement Systems.
HB1233 Dixon, Bob HCS HB 1233 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3810L.02T - Allows public entities that self-insure health care benefits to require a right of subrogation in the same manner that the Department of Social Services has with the Medicaid Program.
HB1246 Portwood, Charles HCS HB 1246 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3909L.04T - Revises various statutes regarding chiropractors.
HB1253 Luetkemeyer, William SCS HCS HB 1253 6/24/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4251S.03T - Revises various statutes relating to insurance.
HB1259 Threlkeld, Kevin HB 1259 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3869L.01T - Gives car dealers and manufacturers the right to file a complaint with the Administrative Hearing Commission if the Department of Revenue refuses to issue or renew their license.
HB1268 Smith, Todd SS#2 SCS HS HCS HB 1268 & 1211 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4224S.18T - Revises the statutes relating to employees and employment security.
HB1284 Engler, Kevin HCS HB 1284 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4228L.04T - Revises the definition of "salvage vehicle" and provides that salvage titles be negotiable with one reassignment on the back of the title by registered dealers or insurance companies.
HB1285 Engler, Kevin SS HS HCS HB 1285 7/9/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4221S.09T - Revises the statutes relating to car rental insurance.
HB1288 Threlkeld, Kevin CCS SS SCS HCS HB 1288 7/9/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4237L.10T - Revises the statutes relating to manufacturer's contractual agreements.
HB1290 Portwood, Charles SCS HS HCS HB 1290 6/24/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3857S.11T - Authorizes income tax check-off boxes for certain chronic illness charities.
HB1291 Pearce, David HB 1291 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4123L.01T - Prohibits a lender of a residential mortgage from requiring a borrower to purchase homeowners' insurance coverage in an amount exceeding the replacement value of the improvement and contents.
HB1304 Byrd, Richard CCS SS#2 SS SCS HS HCS HB 1304 5/13/2004 Veto Override Failed (G)
3380S.19T - Revises various statutes relating to claims for damages and the payment of these claims.
HB1317 Kingery, Gayle HB 1317 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3714L.02T - Allows for a special license plate for members and parents of Boy Scouts of America.
HB1321 Schaaf, Rob SCS HCS HB 1321 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2790S.04T - Establishes additional regulations on neighborhood improvement districts.
HB1347 Jetton, Rod HCS HB 1347 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4334L.02T - Establishes the Secretary of State's Council on Library Development and guidelines for publishing formats.
HB1362 Hobbs, Steve HB 1362 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3808L.01T - Authorizes county planning commissions to accept additional forms of security for improvements made to subdivisions in unincorporated areas.
HB1363 Fares, Kathlyn HCS HB 1363 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4022L.03T - Requires the Secretary of State to acquire, operate, and maintain an archival office in St. Louis.
HB1364 Bishop, Daniel HB 1364 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4057L.03I - Makes the filing of parenting plans in child visitation, custody, or support cases optional when the child is over the age of 18.
HB1377 Sutherland, Mike HB 1377 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4350L.01T - Increases the expense payments for county planning commission members.
HB1398 Lager, Brad HB 1398 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4363L.01T - Authorizes a bid process for selecting the depositary of city funds in the City of Maryville.
HB1399 Lager, Brad HCS HB 1399 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4364L.02T - Revises the statutes dealing with athletic trainers to require licenses in lieu of registration.
HB1403 Moore, Danie SCS HCS HB 1403 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3907S.06T - Creates additional regulations for amusement rides and rock climbing walls.
HB1405 Dougherty, Curt HCS HB 1405 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4466L.02T - Allows for special license plates for members of the Missouri DeMolay and the Missouri Association of State Troopers Emergency Relief Society.
HB1407 Mayer, Robert HB 1407 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3867L.01T - Establishes an administrative system for adjudicating certain municipal code violations in St. Louis City.
HB1422 Stefanick, Jodi HCS HB 1422 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4242L.02T - Requires dentists administering anesthesia agents to have permits.
HB1427 Portwood, Charles HB 1427 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4065L.01T - Revises the statutes relating to the forfeiture of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia.
HB1433 Wood, Dennis HS HCS HB 1433 6/30/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3112L.05T - Authorizes the creation of a watershed improvement district in the Upper White River Basin or any county of the third classification.
HB1440 Deeken, Bill SCS HB 1440 6/24/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4526S.04T - Allows certain Regional Planning Commission employees to enroll in the Missouri Local Government Retirement System and revises the statutes relating to the highway and highway patrol retirement system.
HB1442 Lipke, Scott HB 1442 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4418L.01T - Designates the "Thomas G. Tucker, Jr. Memorial Highway."
HB1444 Moore, Danie HB 1444 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4504L.01T - Repeals the current requirement for legislative committees to have resolutions passed authorizing visits to state institutions.
HB1449 Bruns, Mark HCS HB 1449 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3926L.02T - Allows for additional special license plates.
HB1453 Hanaway, Catherine CCS SS SCS HS HCS HB 1453 6/29/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
2427L.15T - Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster care system.
HB1456 Black, Lanie SCS HCS HB 1456 AND HB 824 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4192S.03T - Authorizes a transient guest tax for tourism purposes and infrastructure improvements in the cities of Marston, Matthews, Concordia, and Steele.
HB1487 Self, Tom CCS HS HB 1487 6/17/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4646L.07T - Revises the crime of kidnapping by including kidnapping of a child under 14 years of age.
HB1494 Ervin, Doug HB 1494 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4214L.01T - Provides for election of regional recreational district board members in Clay County.
HB1502 Wilson, Yvonne HB 1502 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4604L.01T - Revises the statutes relating to the Kansas City Public School Retirement System.
HB1508 Baker, Brian HB 1508 7/1/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4516L.01T - Provides that emblem-use fees received by the Kansas City Chiefs be forwarded to the Chiefs' Children's Fund, a not-for-profit organization established to benefit Kansas City area children in need.
HB1511 Byrd, Richard SS HS HCS HB 1511 7/9/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
3540S.06T - Establishes the Missouri Uniform Trust Code.
HB1529 Lembke, Jim HCS HB 1529 & 1655 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4666L.03T - Requires a minimum reimbursement for emergency services in a tax increment financing district.
HB1548 Crawford, Larry CCS SCS HB 1548 6/8/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4700S.04T - Requires that eligible state employees be paid for overtime hours worked unless the employee requests compensatory time off and revises the statutes relating to the whistleblower laws.
HB1599 Ervin, Doug SCS HS HB 1599 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4678S.03T - Establishes the Joint Committee on Government Accountability to make a continuing study and analysis of inefficiencies in state government.
HB1603 Lager, Brad HB 1603 6/21/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4674L.01T - Reenacts and authorizes the republication of Section 135.766, RSMo, relating to a tax credit for small business guaranty fees.
HB1613 Morris, Larry SCS HB 1613 AND HB 1445 AND HB 1454 AND HB 1462 AND 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4726S.02T - Authorizes the conveyance of various state property.
HB1614 Holand, Roy HCS HB 1614 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4873L.02T - Extends the expiration date for the Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Insurance Act until January 1, 2011.
HB1616 Hanaway, Catherine HB 1616 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4447L.01T - Revises requirements for the publication of administrative rules.
HB1617 Hanaway, Catherine CCS HCS HB 1617 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4518L.02T - Makes it unlawful to obstruct a securities investigation or administrative proceeding and allows the securities commissioner to conduct investigations and promulgate rules.
HB1622 Wasson, Jay HB 1622 7/2/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4769L.01T - Revises the definition of "cosmetology establishment."
HB1631 Dixon, Bob HCS HB 1631 & 1623 7/7/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4877L.03T - Removes an outdated reference to the State Training School for Negro Girls and other outdated institutional references.
HB1634 Behnen, Robert SCS HB 1634 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4899S.03T - Revises the statutes on military discharge records and other vital records.
HB1660 Lager, Brad SCS HCS HB 1660 6/25/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4924S.03T - Revises the statutes pertaining to accident reports and their disclosure.
4519L.02T - Revises registration procedures for business entities that must register with the Secretary of State.
HCR5 Byrd, Richard HCR 5 2/25/2004 Vetoed by Governor (G)
3806L.01I - Disapproves the final order of rulemaking for the proposed amendment to 1 CSR 10-4.010 relating to the State of Missouri Vendor Payroll Deductions.
HCR12 Kelly, Gary HCR 12 7/2/2004 Approved by Governor (G)
3450L.01T - Designates Miss Missouri as an official hostess for the State of Missouri.
HCR21 Ruestman, Marilyn SCS HCR 21 7/6/2004 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
4220S.02C - Reauthorizes the Poultry Industry Committee to continue its study of the economic and environmental impact of the poultry industry in this state.
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“If These Photos Could Talk…” Sharing memories about the prison in Hudson, NY
Posted on October 29, 2012 by Emily
New York State Training School for Girls, 1904–1975
The Prison Public Memory Project invites you…
Sunday, November 18, 2012, 11 am to 5 pm at the Hudson Area Library
Community members are invited to bring family photographs and other documents related to the Hudson prison when it was the New York Training School for Girls (1904-1975) or the House of Refuge for Women (1887-1904), the first reformatory for women in New York. Prison Public Memory Project staff and community volunteers will be present to audio record community member stories about their photos and will copy the photographs and documents on-site. With their owners’ permission, these memories will be incorporated into the work of the non-profit Prison Public Memory Project http://www.prisonpublicmemory.org which is collaborating with local organizations and residents in documenting, interpreting and honoring the rich history of the prison in Hudson.
The day will include a special 30-minute illustrated presentation by public historian Kathleen Hulser starting at 1:30 pm about the Training School For Girls in Hudson and the training school movement in America. There will be time after Hulser’s presentation for the audience to ask questions and share their own knowledge. After that, please join us for a conversation with lifelong Hudson resident Sue Tenerowizc who will share a photo album made by her grandmother about her time working at the Hudson Girl’s Training School in the early 1900’s.
A short written overview and annotated bibliography about the New York Training School for Girls prepared by Columbia County resident Russ Immarigeon will be made available at the event and afterward to the public through the History Room in the Library. The bibliography will include sources found in the Library’s History room with the help of History Room volunteer John Craig.
Sponsored by the Prison Public Memory Project (PPMP)
Co-presented by Hudson Area Library and WGXC community radio 90.7 FM
Supported in part by funds from the New York Council on the Humanities
The program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Emily Chameides at or call the Library at 518-828-1792 or contact Alison Cornyn
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Gabriel Kaplan stars as Kotter, a graduate of a tough Brooklyn high school who returns to teach a classroom of underachieving “sweathogs” – Epstein, Washington, Horshack, and leader of the pack Vinnie Barbarino (rising superstar John Travolta). Comedy class is in session!
Welcome Back, Kotter, The Complete Series
Season 1, Episode 1: The Great Debate
The Sweathogs go into verbal battle against the debating class after their teacher insults the Sweathogs and Gabe challenges them to a debate. James Woods guest stars.
Season 1, Episode 2: Basket Case
Gabe and Washington have a problem after Washington makes the varsity basketball team and he decides not to take his exams.
Season 1, Episode 3: Welcome Back (Pilot)
Mr. Kotter returns to his alma mater James Buchanan High School to teach the Sweathogs a group of remedial students. At first the students don't want to have anything to do with him until they find out he was once a Sweathog himself.
Season 1, Episode 4: Whodunit?
When Rosalie Hotsie Totzi confesses to Gabe that she's pregnant Gabe is determined to find out who the father is.
Season 1, Episode 5: The Election
Barbarino decides to run for student body president but his campaign techniques create more problems than anyone bargained for.
Season 1, Episode 6: No More Mr. Nice Guy
It is a strange day when Vice Principal Woodman becomes friendly with the Sweathogs and Mr. Kotter becomes the school disciplinarian.
Season 1, Episode 7: Classroom Marriage
Washington and Vernajean decide to get married so Gabe makes up a class about marriage and divorce hoping to convince them to wait.
Season 1, Episode 8: One of Our Sweathogs is Missing
Epstein loses a fight and he can't put up with the harassment the other Sweathogs give him so he disappears.
Season 1, Episode 9: Mr. Kotter Teacher
Gabe refuses to obey Mr. Woodman so he is suspended until he can be brought before the Teacher's Review Board on formal charges.
Season 1, Episode 10: The Reunion
Gabe's old friend Lyle Flanagan comes for a visit which reminds Gabe of his all too humble position as a teacher.
Season 1, Episode 11: Barbarino's Girl
After receiving his failing midterm report card Barbarino asks brainy Judy to tutor him.
Season 1, Episode 12: California Dreamin'
A new student arrives at Buchanan and all the Sweathogs want her attention; however she only has eyes for Gabe.
Season 1, Episode 13: Arrivederci Arnold
Horshack is promoted to a higher class and everyone including Horshack wants him to stay with Gabe and the Sweathogs.
Season 1, Episode 14: The Longest Weekend
Gabe has trouble adjusting to being alone when he learns that Julie is going skiing for the weekend with a girlfriend so he invites the Sweathogs over for a Friday night poker game.
Season 1, Episode 15: The Sit-In
The Sweathogs are against serving liver in the cafeteria so Gabe suggests they have a 'sit-in' to protest.
Season 1, Episode 16: Follow the Leader, Pt. 1
Trouble on the Kotter homefront and between the Sweathogs when they hold a new election and Barbarino is overthrown.
Julie has moved into a hotel while Barbarino is living with Gabe and Washington is making life miserable for the other Sweathogs.
Season 1, Episode 18: Dr. Epstein I Presume...?
Epstein gives his entire menagerie of pets to Gabe after Miss Helms the career guidance counselor tells Epstein he isn't to become a veterinarian.
Season 1, Episode 19: One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
When the flu epidemic sweeps through Buchanan the 'enriched' students are put with the Sweathogs creating a learning problem for Gabe's Sweathogs.
Season 1, Episode 20: The Telethon
Gabe and the Sweathogs are in dire need of raising some money for their class so they decide a telethon is the answer to their problem.
Season 1, Episode 21: Kotter Makes Good
Finals week at Buchanan High finds Gabe studying with the Sweathogs -- to take his high school final exams too.
Season 1, Episode 22: Father Vinnie
Barbarino honors his dying grandmother's request for him to become a priest.
Season 2, Episode 1: Career Day
It's Career Day at Buchanan High with a Japanese inventor visiting the class who offers Gabe a lucrative job in Chicago. Pat Morita guest stars.
Season 2, Episode 2: Inherit the Halibut
When the Sweathogs' treasury money is stolen all fingers point to Washington who has just purchased a new bike.
Season 2, Episode 3: Sweatside Story
Gabe tries to dissuade the Sweathogs from forming a gang to combat the New Utrecht High punks.
Season 2, Episode 4: The Fight
The Sweathogs stop speaking to each other after a series of inconsequential misunderstandings.
Season 2, Episode 5: The Museum
Gabe takes the Sweathogs on a field trip to a museum only to become locked in a tomb with a mummy for the night. John Astin guest stars.
Season 2, Episode 6: Gabe Under Pressure
The Sweathogs pressure Kotter to get a physical checkup that the school is offering for free.
Season 2, Episode 7: Sweathog Nebraska Style
Julie's sister makes a surprise visit from Nebraska and to Julie's dismay dates Epstein and becomes a Sweathog.
Season 2, Episode 8: Sadie Hawkins Day
Barbarino the Sweathog heartthrob winds up the only one without a date for the school dance.
Season 2, Episode 9: Hello Ms. Chips
A new student teacher Ms. Wright finds teaching the Sweathogs much different than she learned in college.
Season 2, Episode 10: Horshack vs. Carvelli
Horshack is the only volunteer to fight Carvelli the toughest guy at New Utrecht High. Written by Garry Shandling.
Season 2, Episode 11: Sweathog Clinic for the Cure of Smoking
Epstein is going to kick the smoking habit with the help of Gabe and the Sweathogs in their makeshift smoking clinic.
Season 2, Episode 12: Hark the Sweat Kings
The Sweathogs befriend a homeless man who appears in the Buchanan schoolyard every year at Christmastime.
Season 2, Episode 13: A Love Story
Epstein really loses his temper when his sister Cameron becomes a Sweathog and Barbarino asks her for a date.
Season 2, Episode 14: Caruso's Way
Barbarino is humiliated when the school gym teacher hits him in front of the girl's gym class.
Season 2, Episode 15: Sweatgate Scandal
Barbarino and Epstein investigate to find out who has been substituting the cafeteria's liver with a meat substitute.
Season 2, Episode 16: Kotter and Son
Gabe's father visits from Florida -- disrupting both Gabe's class and his life.
Season 2, Episode 17: Chicken à la Kotter
After having a $1200 root canal operation Kotter has to find a second job to pay the expense. His only option is to dress up like a chicken for a restaurant chain.
Season 2, Episode 18: Whatever Happened to Arnold? Pt. 1
Arnold walks off as lead of the school play and the Sweathogs unable to locate him fear something is wrong.
Horshack's fifth stepfather dies and Arnold is going to take over as head of his house. Andrea McArdle star of Broadway's Annie guest stars.
Season 2, Episode 20: The Littlest Sweathog
Kotter and Julie discover that they are expecting.
Season 2, Episode 21: Radio Free Freddie
When Freddie becomes an overnight success as a disc jockey at a local radio station neither Freddie nor the Sweathogs can deal with his new fame. George Carlin guest stars.
Season 2, Episode 22: I'm Having Their Baby
Gabe is out of town at a teacher's convention and the Sweathogs try to cheer Julie up from her prenatal depression.
Season 2, Episode 23: I Wonder Who's Kissing Gabe Now?
Epstein spies a sexy art teacher kiss Kotter and assumes that Kotter is cheating on Julie.
Season 3, Episode 1: Sweathog Back-To-School Special
Gabe and the Sweathogs are celebrating a new semester in school by reminiscing past events at a surprise party.
Season 3, Episode 2: And Baby Makes Four, Pt. 1
Nearly all the Sweathogs have graduated to the eleventh grade and Julie is about to graduate to motherhood.
Julie delivers twin baby girls while Kotter and the Sweathogs pace in the waiting room. Second of a three-part episode.
Season 3, Episode 4: The Visit
Julie and the twins come home from the hospital while her parents visit to see the new babies. Third of a three-part episode.
Season 3, Episode 5: Buddy Can You Spare a Million?
Whose million dollars is it when Gabe lends Barbarino a quarter for Barbarino's share in a lottery ticket?
Season 3, Episode 6: Just Testing
The Sweathogs help Julie with the household chores so that Kotter can spend time tutoring Barbarino with his makeup exam.
Season 3, Episode 7: The Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack
Horshack needs the help of the Sweathogs after being sucked in by a religious cult.
Season 3, Episode 8: What a Move!
The Kotters move out of their apartment into a bigger place. Their new landlord turns out to be Epstein's uncle.
Season 3, Episode 9: A Novel Idea
The Sweathogs take a dim view of Mr. Woodman's novel -- an expose that takes a potshot at everybody.
Season 3, Episode 10: Barbarino in Love, Pt. 1
The Sweathogs are in the finals of the state talent contest and Barbarino is in love. Can the two compete?
Barbarino must decide if he should compete against his newfound love Cassy. Can love conquer all? Even a talent contest?
Season 3, Episode 12: Kotter for Vice Principal
When Woodman's contract expires Kotter considers running for Vice Principal. Kotter has a strange dream about what James Buchanan High will be like in the year 2050.
Season 3, Episode 13: Swine and Punishment
The Sweathogs defend Washington when Woodman points an accusing finger at him for cheating on an exam.
Season 3, Episode 14: Epstein's Madonna
Rembrandt Picasso DaVinci and Epstein? Juan paints a nude mural for art class and uses Julie's face. The Sweathogs think it's art; Woodman thinks it's outrageous; and Gabe doesn't know what to think!
Season 3, Episode 15: Sweathog Christmas Special
Merriment mistletoe and menorahs are the beginnings of a Merry Christmas celebration with the Sweathogs and Gabe and Julie Kotter.
Season 3, Episode 16: Sweatwork
The Sweathogs are in charge of the new school radio station and Horshack tries to boost low ratings by making outrageous accusations about the faculty.
Season 3, Episode 17: Meet Your New Teacher: Batteries Not Included
The Sweathogs have found a new teacher; Mr. Woodman has a new toy; and Gabe becomes useless.
Season 3, Episode 18: Angie
The Sweathogs deny membership to a new student because she is a girl.
Season 3, Episode 19: Epstein's Term Paper
The Sweathogs purchase term papers from a couple of local hoods. Kotter recognizes Epstein's paper as one he himself had handed in years ago.
Season 3, Episode 20: There's No Business..., Pt. 1
The Sweathogs convince Gabe to audition at a local hot spot never expecting him to succeed but after Mr. Charnoff a slick agent gets through with him it's goodbye teacher hello show biz.
Kotter is a success at being a comedian but it is putting a strain on his marriage and his relationship with the Sweathogs. Second of a two-part episode.
Season 3, Episode 22: What Goes Up
Washington gets hooked on pills and Gabe and the Sweathogs try to help him.
Season 3, Episode 23: Goodbye Mr. Kripps
When Mr. Kripps drops dead from a heart attack after yelling at Barbarino the sweathog turns himself in to the police for murder.
Season 3, Episode 24: Horshack and Madame X!
Horshack falls in love with Julie when she consoles him after he's rejected.
Season 3, Episode 25: The Kiss
Is it a kiss or artificial respiration when sexy new student Laura faints and Gabe is witnessed in a very compromising position?
Season 3, Episode 26: The Return of Hotsy Totsy
The Sweathogs go for some kicks and wind up with a few surprises when they discover Hotsy Totsy is now both an exotic dancer and a mother!
Season 3, Episode 27: Class Encounters of the Carvelli Kind
Carvelli has a close encounter with the planet Yorxyl and Woodman has been chosen to make the return trip with him.
Season 4, Episode 1: The Drop-Ins, Pt. 1
A new year has started at Buchanan High. The Sweathogs decide to quit school and look for jobs after feeling deserted by Kotter who has been promoted to Vice Principal.
The Sweathogs discover that making it in the real world is harder than they thought.
Season 4, Episode 3: Beau's Jest
A practical joke backfires when the new Sweathog Beauregard De Labarre sets Epstein up for a date with a married woman.
Season 4, Episode 4: Don't Come Up and See Me Sometime
Vinnie gets his own apartment and the Sweathogs all learn a lesson in true friendship. John Travolta guest stars.
Season 4, Episode 5: Once Upon a Ledge
A new girl at Buchanan High contemplates suicide after having a hard time making friends.
Season 4, Episode 6: The Sweatmobile
The Sweathogs buy themselves a car and learn a lesson in honesty. John Travolta guest stars.
Season 4, Episode 7: Barbarino's Boo-Boo
Hospital orderly Barbarino loses Woodman when he checks into the hospital for a routine procedure.
Season 4, Episode 8: X-Rated Education
Carvelli and Murray bring an X-rated film to school and Epstein mixes it up with a sex education film Julie has arranged for the parents group.
Season 4, Episode 9: The Barbarino Blues
Vinnie Barbarino is convinced that he has lost his magic with women. John Travolta guest stars.
Season 4, Episode 10: Washington's Clone
One of Buchanan's straight-A students decides he wants to be a Sweathog and acts just like Freddie Boom-Boom Washington.
Season 4, Episode 11: Frog Day Afternoon
Opposition to the biology dissection assignment launches Arnold Horshack on a Save the Frog crusade.
Season 4, Episode 12: A Little Fright Music
Washington decides to liven up Woodman's dull school anthem. The new version is so good that a recording executive wants to make it a top-40 hit.
Season 4, Episode 13: A Winter's Coat Tail
Vinnie (John Travolta) buys himself a new camel hair coat for Christmas but it's stolen before he has a chance to enjoy it. John Travolta guest stars.
Season 4, Episode 14: Bride and Gloom
Barbarino's wedding is coming up very soon and he's getting cold feet.
Season 4, Episode 15: Barbarino's Baby
Barbarino and the rest of the Sweathogs must help deliver a baby when they get stuck on an elevator with a pregnant woman.
Season 4, Episode 16: The Goodbye Guy
Epstein and Mr. Woodman's niece Kelly are planning to move in together.
Season 4, Episode 17: Come Back Little Arnold
Arnold wanting desperately to impress Mary turns to alcohol to give him confidence. Della Reese guest stars.
Season 4, Episode 18: Sweat Smell of Success
Epstein is assigned to the school paper and changes it from a dull lifeless weekly to a gossipy sensationalist money-maker -- almost losing his friends in the process.
Season 4, Episode 19: The Gang Show
The Sweathogs and Carvelli compete against each other in the school's annual talent show.
Season 4, Episode 20: OO-OO I Do, Pt. 1
Arnold discovers he may be transferred out of Buchanan just as he and Mary Johnson discover there is more between them than just friendship.
The guys give Arnold a bachelor party that almost destroys his wedding plans.
Season 4, Episode 22: I'm Okay But You're Not
Beau's sweet-talking to Mr. Woodman backfires when the guys accuse him of bad-mouthing them.
Season 4, Episode 23: The Breadwinners
Epstein goes to interview for a new job and discovers that it's already been taken -- by Washington.
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Men: Trying to Conceive? Go Ahead and Have a Drink; Watch the Caffeine; But No Smoking, Please
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Honolulu, Hawaii- Researchers presenting at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine have identified interesting and somewhat surprising effects that alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco use can have on male fertility and sexual function.
A group from the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York found that infertile men who smoke tobacco are more likely to experience sexual or erectile dysfunction, but those who drink alcohol are less likely to report sexual or erectile problems.
Between 2003 and 2011, men being seen at the infertility clinic completed 753 surveys on their drinking and smoking habits and their sexual health and satisfaction. Their average age was 35; 16% of them used tobacco and 73% used alcohol.
By objective and subjective standards, smokers were worse off than their non-smoking counterparts. Based on their scores on the International Index of Erectile Dysfunction, 8.4% of smokers had moderate to severe erectile dysfunction. Smokers were more likely to be unsatisfied with sex and had much less confidence than non-smokers in their ability to get and keep an erection and complete sexual intercourse.
Drinkers reported better sexual function than teetotalers. Men who did not consume alcohol were more likely to report deficiencies in their erections and ability to complete intercourse. However, there was no difference in sexual satisfaction reported by drinkers and non-drinkers.
O-264 Levey et al, “Substance Use Among Infertile Men Correlates with Sexual Dysfunction”
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February 21, 2014 by Moreland
The Hunger Games: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
So the 1971 film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is based on the beloved children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Thew story is of a young, poor, low-income, starving, boy who is chosen to compete against four other children to not only win enough chocolate and candy for their lifetime, but also a grand, secret prize. Very Interesting, I know, but you are probably wondering what does that have to do with The Hunger Games? A young girl from a starving district competing to the death against 23 others to win food for her family and community?
Now it is not exactly like The Hunger Games, Willy Wonka is a nice guy who really wants to help people, Charlie is the only poor, suffering guy, and you hate everyone else as they are whiny brats. But, there are some similarities. So now presenting the Hunger Games: The Chocolate Factory!
And it’s going to be fabulous!
So what’s different for this version is that we will have one tribute, from only five districts, all competing to survive Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. All who survive win chocolate, the ultimate winner gets the factory themselves, food and money for their families. Let the games begin!!!
District 1’s industry is making luxury items for the Capitol. It is considered to be the wealthiest district, the only other wealthier area being the Capitol itself.
Now presenting our tribute for district one
Loud voice that causes immense pain
Very good at manipulating people and getting what she wants
Has people to do hard things for her
Doesn’t take no for an answer
Can cry on command
Isn’t afraid to lie or crush others to get what she wants
Questions everything
Is a spoiled brat
Won’t take no for an answer to the point where she knocks herself out
Whines all the time
Can Be Defeated:
By a kick in the pants
Saying NO! and meaning it
Geese (Especially those who are golden)
District 3’s primary industry is general electronics of many types, though it is known for also making various mechanical products such as automobiles and firearms. These tributes are always skilled with electronics.
Now presenting our tribute for district three
Mike Teevee
Knows every TV show that has a gun in it (huge pop culture junkie)
Can use knowledge gained from TV in real life
Can sit still for hours
Can shoot a fake gun
Doesn’t scare or get grossed out easily
Willing to try new things
Eager volunteer
Can’t be away from the TV
Will try to shoot anything and everything
Missing front teeth
Can’t read
Sometimes overeagerness to try new things leaves him in bad situations
Doesn’t listen to rules
Bubble Foam
By shrinking him
District 6’s industry is transportation
Now presenting our tribute for district six
Violet Beauragarde
Chewing gum champ
Can chew and talk
Rather chew than eat
Fast talker
Likes to save things
Will do whatever it takes to win, even if it means losing friends
Head-strong and Obstinate
Does whatever she wants
Can wheel and deal like no other
Delights in pain of others
Hard to understand through constant chewing
A braggart
Doesn’t listen to “no”
Picks her nose
The color blue or purple
Throwing away her three-month old gum
By rolling her
District 9’s industry is grain. Little is known about this district, just that there are lots of farmland for grain.
Now presenting our tribute for district nine
Augustus Gloop
Can eat ANYTHING
Never stops eating
Is one huge mass that won’t easily be pushed around
Fast runner when it comes to food
Likes to be first in everything
Has no patience
No self-control
Is always hungry
Can’t swim
Doesn’t like small spaces
Doesn’t listen
By not giving him food and having him starve
Drowning in water or chocolate
Sticking him in tight spot, such as a pipe
Let him go first so he can face things and die
District 12’s industry is coal. This district is one of the poorest districts. The district has not had a winner of the Hunger Games emerge from the ranks of its residents for over twenty-four years.
Now presenting our tribute for district twelve
Charlie Bucket
Has a heart of gold
Cares for others
Would never steal from someone
Always tries to help others out
Thinks first of others needs
Knows how to make things last
Can get by on little food
Listens to directions
Is an enabler
Has a passion for fizzy-lifting drinks
Easily lead astray
Gulps food too fast
MAY THE ODDS EVER BE IN YOUR FAVOR!
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Just Follow the Screams: The Lost World (1997)
Just follow the screams
So The Lost World: Jurassic Park II is the sequel to the first film and based on the the written sequel. Now many out there say that this movie sucks and is the worse out of the three films but I have to say it isn’t that bad. It is pretty good and some of the things wrong with it are not solely the writer’s and director’s fault. The book wasn’t nearly as good as the original so of course the film was only ok as well. However, even though it will never be as amazing as it’s older brother Jurassic Park, it still has some great things in it.
So the plot of this film is that Ian Malcolm has told everyone all about Jurassic Park (even though he signed a contract saying he wouldn’t) and has therefore been thrown through the InGen shredder, every bit of his respectability and credibility has been destroyed. He is approached by Hammond who has turned over a new leaf and wants him to help the dinosaurs. Apparently some evolved from the lysine dependency and are running loose on the “real island”. The island that Dr. Grant, Malcolm, and team went on was only the decorated park, not the real place where they created the dinosaurs. Hammond wants to turn this second island into a wildlife preserve, but his evil nephew has taken control of the company and wants to ship the dinosaurs over to create a park in San Diego. To make matters worse Malcolm’s girlfriend Sarah is already over on the island, and when Malcolm goes his daughter Kelly stows away with him. As you can imagine there are some crazy scenes on the island and in CA when the dinos run amuck.
What’s also interesting about this film is that there were quite a few pieces taken friom the first novel and placed in here, such as the procompsognathus that attack the young girl; one guy being killed by Procompsognathids (Hammond in the novel). Also in the novel, the opposing group on the island is not led by Peter Ludlow, the evil nephew, but by Lewis Dodgson, head of the rival company BioSyn, who had hired Dennis Nedry in the previous film/book. Dodgson hides from the T-Rex under a Jeep with Sarah Harding, who kicks him out to lead the T-Rex away. The T-Rex takes him home to its nest to feed to its young. This is closely paralleled by the fate of Ludlow in the film.
1) Jeff Goldblum
First of all Jeff Goldblum! Jeff Goldblum is in this film, already that makes it pretty amazing. I mean it would have been even more amazing if Sam Neil was in it too, but hey, Jeff Goldblum is really amazing,
2) Free the Dinos!
John Hammond’s nephew, the evil Peter, is trying to capture and cage the dinos and send them over to CA. The group goes over and frees all the dinosaurs. I love this scene because it makes me thnk of one of my fav parts of E.T.
3) The Car Goes Over the Cliff!
In Jurassic Park, we have the scene where the T-Rex knocks the car over the edge of the wall. In this one we have a siimilar scene where a very angry T-Rex almost knocks the RV over the edge of a cliff.
4) The School Cut You From the Team?
So Malcolm, Sarah, and Kelly are being chased by velociraptors in a very intense scene. It is really good, almost as good as in the orginal. Then Kelly, who was cut from her school’s gymnastic team, does this huge number and takes a raptor out, impaling him. Pretty cool!
5) T-Rex in San Diego
Okay, now this has to be one of the best parts of the film as the T-Rex is running amuck in CA, like a modern day, American version of Godzilla.
I love this scene when the little boy discovers a dino in his backyard. 😀
Utter destruction
Pretty sweet! Not as cool as the first but pretty great! 😀
Here’s a poster/cover page I made this year for my facebook Halloween countdown.
In this film
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Remembering a Departed Friend in a Single Image
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Bizet, Carmen, Fashion, Fiction, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friend, friendship, Harold Bloom, Italian Maiden in Algiers., James Wood, literature, Music, novel, Opera, Ravelstein, Richard Wagner, Ron Rosenbaum, Saul Bellow, Slate
“I wonder if anyone believes that the grave is all there is. No one can give up on the pictures. The pictures must and will continue. If Ravelstein the atheist-materialist had implicitly told me that he would see me sooner or later, he meant that he did not accept the grave to be the end. Nobody can and nobody does accept this. We just talk tough.
This is the involuntary and normal, the secret, esoteric confidence of the man of flesh and blood. The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop…
But I would rather see Ravelstein again than to explain matters it doesn’t help to explain.
Ravelstein, dressing to go out, is talking to me, and I go back and forth with him while trying to hear what he is saying. The music is pouring from his hi-fi — the many planes of his bare, bald head go before me in the corridor between his living room and his monumental master bedroom. He stops before his pier-glass — no wall mirrors here — and puts in the heavy gold cufflinks, buttons up the Jermyn Street striped shirt — American Trustworthy laundry-and-cleaners deliver his shirts puffed out with tissue paper. He winds up his tie lifting the collar that crackles with starch. He makes a luxurious knot. The unsteady fingers, long, ill-coordinated, nervous to the point of decadence, make a double lap. Ravelstein likes a big tie-knot — after all, he is a large man. Then he sits down on the beautifully cured fleeces of his bed and puts on the Poulsen and Skone tan Wellington boots. He smokes, of course, he is always smoking, and tilts the head away from the smoke while he knots and pulls the knot into place. The cast and orchestra are pouring out the Italian Maiden in Algiers. This is dressing music, accessory or mood music, but Ravelstein takes a Nietzschean view, favorable to comedy and bandstands. Better Bizet and Carmen than Wagner and the Ring. He likes the volume of his powerful set turned up to the maximum. The ringing phone is left to the answering machine…
‘What do you think of this recording, Chick?’ he says. ‘They’re playing the original ancient seventeenth-century instruments.’
He loses himself in sublime music, a music in which ideas are dissolved, reflecting these ideas in the form of feeling. He carries them down into the street with him. There’s an early snow on the tall shrubs, the same shrubs filled with a huge flock of parrots — the ones that escaped from cages and now build their long nest sacks in the back alleys. They are feeding on the red berries. Ravelstein looks at me, laughing with pleasure and astonishment, gesturing because he can’t be heard in all this bird-noise.
You don’t easily give up a creature like Ravelstein to death.”
The ending to Saul Bellow’s final novel Ravelstein.
This conclusion is remarkable, in my opinion — a richly sonorous, musical piece of writing that packs a deceitfully earnest and dignified solemnity. It was the last bit of prose Bellow published, released when he was in his mid-eighties (at the time of his death, he apparently had a memoir in the works with the unimprovable working title of “All Marbles Still Accounted For”).
Ravelstein is a Roman à clef; Ravelstein, the novel’s eponymous center of gravity, is a thinly veiled version of Bellow’s real-life bud Allan Bloom, a true bon vivant and intellectual extraordinaire whom Bellow had befriended while at the University of Chicago. In an interview with James Wood shortly before his death, Bellow elaborated: “The truth is that Allan was a very superior person, great-souled. When people proclaim the death of the novel, I sometimes think they are really saying that there are no significant people to write about.”
But Bloom certainly was one. He was quite a creature. It’s that word perhaps more than any other which inflects the ending with its somber spark. Too idiosyncratic to be a “character,” too real to be a “personality”: a creature — utterly unique and thus hard to give up. After spending 200 pages in Ravelstein’s company, after enjoying decadent stories and drink after drink in his company, it’s not easy for us to let him go, either. It’s a microcosm of giving up similar creatures in life.
Ron Rosenbaum, writing in Slate, had the following praise to heap on the book:
Ravelstein is not only my favorite Bellow novel, it’s the only one I really love. It’s a rapturous celebration of the life of the mind, as well as a meditation on the glory of sensual life and on the tenebrous permeable boundary we all eventually pass over, the one between life and death.
Martin Amis, similarly enraptured, gave it space in his own memoir Experience:
Ravelstein is a full-length novel. It is also, in my view, a masterpiece with no analogues. The world has never heard this prose before: prose of such tremulous and crystallized beauty. … [Ravelstein is] numinous. It constitutes an act of resuscitation, and in its pages Bloom lives.
Below, watch Bloom on Firing Line in 1987.
My favorite Bellow paragraph, which reflects on the promise of mankind
Bellow on what it means to be a man in modern society
I’ve mentioned Ravelstein here before, as postscript to a letter from Jefferson to John Adams
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Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development
DyeVC: an approach for monitoring and visualizing distributed repositories
Cristiano Cesario1,
Ruben Interian1 &
Leonardo Murta ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5173-12471
Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development volume 5, Article number: 5 (2017) Cite this article
Software development using distributed version control systems has become more frequent recently. Such systems bring more flexibility, but also greater complexity to manage and monitor multiple existing repositories as well as their myriad of branches. In this paper, we propose DyeVC, an approach to assist developers and repository administrators in identifying dependencies among clones of distributed repositories. It allows understanding what is going on around one’s clone and depicting the relationship between existing clones. DyeVC was evaluated over open source projects, showing how they could benefit from having such kind of tool in place. We also ran an observational and a performance evaluation over DyeVC, and the results were promising: it was considered easy to use and fast for most repository history exploration operations while providing the expected answers.
Version Control Systems (VCS) date back to the 70s when SCCS emerged (Rochkind 1975). Their primary purpose is to keep software development under control (Estublier 2000). Along these almost 40 years, VCSs have evolved from a centralized repository with local access (e.g., SCCS and RCS (Tichy 1985)) to a client-server architecture (e.g., CVS (Cederqvist 2005) and Subversion (Collins-Sussman et al. 2011)). More recently, distributed VCSs (DVCS) arose (e.g., Git (Chacon 2009) and Mercurial (O’Sullivan 2009a)) allowing clones of the entire repository in different locations. According to a survey conducted by the Eclipse community (2014), Git and GitHub combined usage increased from 6.8 to 42.9% between 2010 and 2014 (a growth greater than 500%). During this same period, Subversion and CVS combined usage decreased from 71 to 34.4%. This clearly shows momentum and a strong tendency in the adoption of DVCSs in the open source community.
Besides these changes from local to client-server and then to a distributed architecture, the concurrency control policy adopted by VCSs also changed from lock-based (pessimistic) to branch-based (optimistic). According to Walrad and Strom (Walrad and Strom 2002), creating branches in VCSs is essential to software development because it enables parallel development, allowing the maintenance of different versions of a system, the customization to different platforms/customers, among other features. DVCSs include better support for working with branches (O’Sullivan 2009b), turning the branch creation into a recurring pattern, no matter if this creation is explicitly done by executing a “branch” command or implicitly when a repository is cloned.
However, distributed software development, especially from the geographical perspective (Gumm 2006), brings a set of risk factors, and Configuration Management (CM) is affected by them. The increasing growth of development teams and their distribution along distant locations, together with the proliferation of branches, introduce additional complexity for perceiving actions performed in parallel by different developers. According to Perry et al. (1998), concurrent development increases the number of defects in software. Besides, da Silva et al. (2006) say that branches are frequently used for promoting isolation among developers, postponing the perception of conflicts that result from changes made by co-workers. These conflicts are noticed only after pulling changes in the context of DVCSs. Moreover, Brun et al. (2011) show that even using modern DVCSs, conflicts during merges are frequent, persistent, and appear not only as overlapping textual edits (i.e., physical conflicts) but also as subsequent build (i.e., syntactic conflicts) and test failures (i.e., semantic conflicts).
By enabling repository clones, DVCSs expand the branching possibilities discussed by Appleton et al. (1998), allowing several repositories to coexist with fragments of the project history. This may lead to complex topologies where changes can be sent to or received from any clone. This scenario generates traffic similar to that of peer-to-peer applications. In practice, projects impose some restrictions on this topology freedom. However, it can be still much more complex than the traditional client-server topology found in centralized VCS.
With this diversity of topologies, managing the evolution of a complex system becomes a tough task, making it difficult to find answers to the following questions:
Q1: Which clones were created from a repository?
Q2: What are the communication paths among different clones?
Q3: Which changes are under work in parallel (in different clones or different branches) and which of them are available to be incorporated into others’ clones?
Most of the existing works, such as Palantir (Sarma and van der Hoek 2002), FASTDash (Biehl et al. 2007), Lighthouse (da Silva et al. 2006), CollabVS (Dewan and Hegde 2007), Safe-Commit (Wloka et al. 2009), Crystal (Brun et al. 2011), and WeCode (Guimarães and Silva 2012), deal with question Q3, giving to the developers awareness of concurrent changes. However, they do not provide an overview of the topology of repositories, indicating which commits belong to which clones. This overview is essential to understand the distributed evolution of the project.
To answer the questions above, we propose DyeVC,Footnote 1 a novel monitoring and visualization approach for DVCS that gathers information about different repositories and presents them visually to the user. DyeVC allows developers to perceive how their repository evolved over time and how this evolution compares to the evolution of other repositories in the project. DyeVC’s main goal is two-fold: increasing the developers’ knowledge of what is going on around their repository and the repositories of their teammates, and enabling repository administrators to visualize the relationship between existing clones. DyeVC was evaluated over open source projects, showing how they could benefit from having such kind of tool in place. We also ran an observational and a performance evaluation over DyeVC, and the results were promising: it was considered easy to use and fast for most repository history exploration operations while providing the expected answers.
This paper extends a previous conference paper (Cesario and Murta 2016) by including a more thorough discussion of our approach, including how DyeVC discovers the topology and a formal definition of the process underneath DyeVC. Moreover, as the previous version of DyeVC struggled when dealing with large repositories (over 6500 commits), we also added an automatic collapsing feature. This new feature provides a dual contribution: it allowed DyeVC to deal with larger repositories and reduced cluttering when presenting information to users. The performance evaluation was expanded to present an assessment of the automatic collapsing feature. Finally, we included a deeper comparison of DyeVC with its related work. This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 shows a motivational example. Section 3 presents the DyeVC approach. Section 4 presents the technologies used in our prototype implementation. Section 5 describes the evaluation of DyeVC. Section 6 discusses related work, and Section 7 concludes the paper and presents some suggestions for future work.
Motivational example
Figure 1 shows a scenario with some developers, each one owning a clone of the repository created at Xavier Institute. Xavier Institute acts like a central repository, where code developed by all teams is integrated, tested, and released to production. There is a team working at Xavier Institute, led by Professor Xavier, and a remote developer (Storm) that periodically receives updates from the Institute. Outside the Institute, Wolverine leads a remote team located in a different site, which is constantly synchronized with the Institute. Solid lines in Fig. 1 indicate data being pushed, whereas dotted lines indicate data being pulled. Thus, for example, Rogue can both pull updates from Gambit and push updates to him, and Beast can pull updates from Rogue, but cannot push updates to her.
Development scenario involving some developers
Each one of the developers has a complete copy of the repository. Luckily, this scenario has a CM Plan in action. Otherwise, each one would be able to send and receive updates to and from any other, leading to a total of n × (n − 1) different possibilities of communication (where n is the number of developers in the topology). In practice, however, this limit is not reached: while interaction amongst some developers is frequent, it may happen that others have no idea about the existence of some coworkers. It occurs with Mystique and Nightcrawler, for example, where there is no direct communication.
As an example, from a developer’s point of view, like Beast, questions such as the following can arise:
How can he know at a given moment if there are commits in Rogue, in Gambit, or in Nightcrawler clones that were not pulled yet? Suppose that Beast is working on a feature that depends on a utility class developed by Gambit. If such class has a bug, and Gambit is working to solve it, Beast would want to know when Gambit’s commit is ready to be pulled. Moreover, if Gambit is evolving such class, and Beast has this information, he could decide to anticipate a pull to incorporate Gambit’s changes in his workspace.
Would it be the case that local commits are pending to be pushed to Gambit? Beast could certainly periodically pull changes from his peers, checking if there were updates available, but this would be a manual procedure, prone to be forgotten. It would be more practical if Beast could have an up to date knowledge of his peers, warning him about any local or remote updates that had not been synchronized yet.
On the other hand, from an administrator’s point of view, questions such as the following are pertinent:
How can she knows which are the existing clones of a project and how they relate to each other? This is a common need to repository administrators. It helps not only in identifying who must be notified regarding any news related to the repository but also helps in visually verifying if pull/push policies are being followed by the team. Having a map of all existing clones can help repository administrators in identifying who is pushing to / pulling from each other. For instance, unauthorized access to push to a production repository can be visualized, and the administrator can take actions to revoke such access.
How can she know if there are pending commits to be sent from a staging repository to a production one? Having the ability to know how many commits are pending and which commits are these can help administrators decide if this is the right time to release a new version of the system to production.
DyeVC approach
Aiming at supporting both developers and repository administrators in understanding the interaction among repository clones, the main features of DyeVC include: (1) a mechanism to gather information from a set of clones (such as their relationships and known commits) and (2) a set of extensible views with different levels of detail, which let DyeVC users visualize this information. We detail in the following sub-section how DyeVC gathers information from DVCSs. Next, we discuss how this information is presented using different levels of detail. Finally, we show what happens behind the scenes, discussing the algorithm involved in the data synchronization process.
Information gathering
DyeVC continuously gathers information from interrelated clones, starting from clones registered by the user. Figure 2 shows a deployment view of DyeVC’s architecture. For each clone rep that the user registers to monitor, DyeVC transparently creates a local clone rep’ in the user’s home folder to fetch data from all of the peers with which rep communicates. Data is gathered by DyeVC instances running at each user machine and is stored in a central document database. In this way, information from one DyeVC instance is made available to every other instance in the topology.
How DyeVC gathers information
DyeVC gathers information from registered clones in the user’s machine and also from their peers, which are clones that communicate with them. Since there is a communication path between a registered clone and its peers (either to push data or to pull data), we can analyze the commits that exist in these peers. This allows us to present a broader topology visualization that contains not only registered clones, but also those that have a push or pull relationship with them. DyeVC finds out related clones by looking at the remote repositories registered in the DVCS configuration. More details on how data is gathered are explained in section 3.3.
Figure 3 shows how DyeVC discovers the topology from the nodes where it is running and the registered clones. Blue nodes represent registered clones where DyeVC is running, yellow nodes represent known clones located at nodes where DyeVC is not running, dashed nodes and dashed lines represent clones and communication paths, respectively, that are not known yet. Suppose a scenario where the existing clones and interdependencies are shown in Fig. 3a, which depicts the same scenario shown in Section 2 but here represented by the first letter of each clone. After installing DyeVC and registering clone X, DyeVC finds out that this clone communicates with clones W, P, and S (either by pushing to or pulling from them), as shown in Fig. 3b. Later on, clone P is registered and clones C, J and M are included as known clones in the topology (Figure 3c). Clone G is the next to be registered, allowing DyeVC to discover that clones R, N, and B also exist, as well as the communication between clone G and clone W, which was already a known clone (Fig. 3d). Assuming that no other clones are registered, the known topology is shown in Fig. 3e. Notice that, although only clones G, P, and X were registered, DyeVC is also aware of the existence of clones B, C, J, M, N, S and W. Only some communication paths between clones will not be known (C-J, J-M, S-M, R-B, R-N and N-B).
DyeVC discovering the topology: actual topology (a), discovered topology with X (b), discovered topology with X and P (c), discovered topology with X P and G (d), final discovered topology (e)
DyeVC finds out related clones by looking at the remote repositories, which are registered in Git’s config file of each clone. Figure 4 shows an example of this configuration, taken from a local clone of the DyeVC project, where there is a remote named origin, which is located at github.com/gems-uff/dyevc . This information is in the url parameter, which indicates to Git that pushes and pulls use the same location. If there were a pushurl parameter in the configuration, besides the url parameter, pulls would use the location in the url parameter and pushes would use the location in the pushurl parameter.
Remote repository configuration in Git’s config file
Data stored in the central database follows the metamodel presented in Fig. 5. A Project groups repository clones of the same system. Clones are stored as RepositoryInfo and are identified by an id and a meaningful clone name provided by the user (cloneName attribute). A RepositoryInfo has a list of clones to which it pushes data and a list of clones from which it pulls data. These lists are represented respectively by the self-associations pushesTo and pullsFrom. Finally, a RepositoryInfo stores the hostName where it resides (e.g., a server name or localhost), its clonePath (be it an operating system path or an URL) and the set of DyeVC instances that have registered it to be monitored (monitoredBy attribute).
Metamodel used to store DyeVC data
Branches are part of a RepositoryInfo. A Branch has a name and a boolean attribute isTracked, which is true if the branch tracks a remote branch. A RepositoryInfo may have one or many branches (it must have at least one branch, which is the main one). A Branch has two associations with CommitInfo: through the first association, a Branch knows which commit is its head and, conversely, a commit knows which branches point to it as a head (headOf association end). The second association represents which commits are reachable from a given branch (reachableCommits association end) and, conversely, the branches from which the commit is reachable (reachableFrom association end).
The finer grain of information is the CommitInfo, which represents each commit in the topology. A commit is identified by a hash code (hash attribute) and refers to its parents (except for the first commit in the repository, which does not have any parent). As each commit may not exist in all clones of the topology, we store the list of clones where each commit can be found (foundIn association end). We also store the committer, the commit message (shortMessage attribute), and whether the commits belong to tracked or non-tracked branches (tracked attribute).
DyeVC presents information at four different levels of detail: Level 1 shows high-level notifications about registered repositories; Level 2 shows the whole topology of a given project. Level 3 zooms into the branches of the repository, showing the status of each tracked branch. Lastly, Level 4 zooms into the commits of the repository, showing a visual log with information about each commit. The following sections discuss these levels.
Level 1: Notifications
In Level 1, our approach periodically monitors registered repositories and presents notifications whenever a change is detected in any known peer. The period between subsequent runs is configurable, and notifications are presented in the system notification area, in a non-obtrusive way. Figure 6 shows an example of this kind of notification, where DyeVC detected changes in two different repositories. The notification shows the repository id, the clone name, and the project (system) name. Clicking on the balloon opens DyeVC main screen.
DyeVC showing notifications in notification area
Level 2: Topology
Aiming at helping to answer questions Q1 and Q2, we present a topology view showing all repositories for a given project (Fig. 7), where each node represents a known clone. A blue computer represents the current user clone, and black computers represent other clones where DyeVC is running. Servers represent central repositories that do not pull from nor push to any other clone, or clones where DyeVC is not running. Both kinds of nodes use the same representation because, once DyeVC is not running at a given clone, we cannot infer the pushesTo and pullsFrom lists, which will thus be empty as in a server. At first sight, this could be understood as a risk within topology view. However, DyeVC considers servers as clones. The denomination “server” is just to visually differentiate it from other clones. We believe that plotting servers and clones where DyeVC is not running with the same icons is not a risk because the topology view brings more information about the clones (e.g., clone address and name). Thus, a repository administrator can distinguish the servers among the plotted clones.
Topology view for a given project
Each edge in the graph represents a relationship between two repositories. Continuous edges mean that the source clone pushes to the destination clone, whereas dashed edges mean that the destination clone pulls from the source clone. The edge labels show two numbers separated by a dash. The first and second numbers represent how many commits in tracked and non-tracked branches of the source clone are missing in the destination clone, respectively. The edge colors are used to represent the synchronization status: green edges mean that both clones are synchronized (i.e., the destination clone has all the commits present in the source clone), whereas red edges mean that the pair is not synchronized and indicates the direction that is missing commits. For example, it is possible to observe in Fig. 7 that the current user clone (blue computer) is hosted at cmcdell and is named dyevc. This clone pulls from gems-uff/dyevc, which is located at github.com , and there are four tracked commits ready to be pulled (i.e., commits that exist in the remote repository and do not exist locally). It also pushes to the same peer, having five tracked commits ready to be pushed. In this case, both edges are red, which raises attention to investigate further what is happening, because such situation may lead to integration conflicts.
Level 3: Tracked branches
For helping answering question Q3, DyeVC’s main screen (see Fig. 8) shows Level 3 information, allowing one to view the status of each tracked branch in registered repositories regarding their peers. This information is complemented with that of Level 4, shown in the next section.
DyeVC main screen
The status evaluation considers the existing commits in each repository individually. Due to the nature of DVCS, old data is almost never deleted, and commits are cumulative. Thus, if commit N is created over commit N – 1, the existence of commit N in a given repository implies that commit N – 1 also exists in the repository. In this way, by using set theory, it is possible to subtract the set of commits in the local repository from the set of commits in its peers, resulting in the set of commits not pulled yet. In this case, local repository will be behind its peers (arrow down in Fig. 8). Conversely, subtracting the sets in the inverse order will result in the set of commits not pushed yet, meaning that local repository is ahead of its peers (arrow up). When both sets are empty, local repository is synchronized (green checkmark in Fig. 8) and when both sets have elements, it is both ahead and behind its peer (arrow up and down in Fig. 8).
Let us assume that each commit is represented by an integer number to illustrate how our approach works. At a giving moment, the local repositories of each developer have the commits shown in Table 1. Consider the synchronization paths presented in the right-hand side of Fig. 1, where the perception of each developer regarding their known peers is shown in Table 2. Notice that the perceptions are not symmetric. For instance, as Gambit does not pull updates from Nightcrawler, there is no sense in giving him information regarding Nightcrawler. Furthermore, it is uncommon to have a scenario where pushes are performed from a developer to another (such as the one between Beast and Gambit). What happens is that a developer pulls from another (for example, between Gambit and Nightcrawler), avoiding inadvertent inclusion of commits inside others’ clones. Although infrequent, this scenario helps in understanding the need to have awareness about who are the peers in a project and what are their interdependencies.
Table 1 Existing commits in each repository
Table 2 Status of each repository based on known remote repositories
Level 4: Commits
Level 4 complements information of Level 3 to provide an answer to Question Q3. Differently from the usual repository version graph, it presents a combined version graph of the entire topology (Fig. 9). Each vertex in the graph represents either a known commit in the topology, which is named after its hash’s five first characters (e.g., the node labeled 2e10a in Fig. 9), or a collapsed node, representing several commits blended. We implement two ways of collapsing nodes to provide a better understanding over huge amounts of data: manual and automatic. Manually collapsed nodes are named after the number of contained nodes, such as the white node containing 118 commits and the green node containing 24 commits in Fig. 9). Automatically collapsed nodes have ellipses before and after the number of contained nodes in their names (if the first collapse of Fig. 9 were automatic, its name would be “…118…”). Automatic collapsing is detailed in Section 3.2.5.
Collapsed commit history
Thicker borders denote that the commit is a branch’s head (e.g., commit ea6a4). Commits are drawn according to their precedence order. Thus, if a commit N is created over a commit N – 1, then commit N will be located to the right of commit N – 1. For each commit, DyeVC presents the information described in Fig. 5 (gathered from the central database), along with information that is read in real time from the repository metadata, such as branches that point to that commit and affected files (added, edited, and deleted).
This visualization contains all commits of all clones in an integrated graph. Each commit is painted according to its existence in the local repository and the peers’ repositories. Ordinary commits that exist locally and in all peers are painted in white. Green commits are ready to be pushed, as they exist locally but do not exist in peers on the push list. Yellow commits need attention because they exist in at least one peer in the pull list, but do not exist locally, meaning that they may be pulled. Red commits do not exist locally and are not available to be pulled, as they exist only in clones that are not peers. Finally, gray commits belong to non-tracked branches, so they can neither be pushed nor pulled. Heads of these branches are not identified with thicker borders.
This visualization can easily have thousands of nodes, one for each commit in the topology. Nevertheless, despite the high number of nodes, users are usually interested in the most recent commits. As we show the commits following a chronological order, from left to right, most recent commits will be at the right part of the visualization. DyeVC positions the graph so that these commits are shown when opening the visualization.
Automatic collapsing
As previously discussed, the first version of DyeVC struggled when dealing with larger repositories (over 6500 commits). This limitation was mainly due to the memory used to represent commit nodes in the commit history graph. However, we observed that many of the commit nodes are unnecessary for comprehending the evolution and, in fact, were cluttering the visualization. For instance, a sequence of 20 commit nodes that are ordinary revisions and that belong to all clones (i.e., all have the same white color) could be collapsed into just one commit node, avoiding visualization cluttering and boosting performance. This observation motivated us to design and implement an automatic collapsing feature for DyeVC.
We identified two common node structures that can be automatically collapsed: sequential and parallel. The former contains a sequence of commits of the same type, where each of them has degree two, i.e., nodes with just one ancestor and one successor. This kind of structure can be collapsed because it does not represent any additional information besides the fact that some sequential work was performed. Figure 10 shows examples of sequences of commits, highlighted in red, which could be collapsed, producing the graph shown in Fig. 11 (still in red). On the other hand, the later contains one fork node and one merge node, with at most one (regular or collapsed) 2-degree node in each branch, between the fork and the merge nodes. Figure 11 shows examples highlighted in yellow of this parallel structure. The result of the collapse is shown in Fig. 12. The numbers inside the red and yellow circles refer to the number of collapsed nodes.
Sequential structures before automatic collapsing
Sequential structures after automatic collapsing and Parallel structures before automatic collapsing
Parallel structures after automatic collapsing
We implemented an iterative algorithm that works in phases to benefit from both sequential and parallel collapse strategies together. The algorithm is shown in Fig. 13.
Automatic collapsing algorithm
The algorithm receives the commit graph and the number of iterations as parameters. Each iteration is executed in linear time complexity. The first phase collapses sequential structures (lines 2–11). The set of visited nodes is initialized as an empty set in line 2. Each node is inspected in a loop (lines 3–11). If the node is still not visited, the presence of a linear commit chain is tested in line 5 by examining predecessors and successors of the node. All found linear commit chain elements are marked as visited in line 6. If the linear commit chain has more than one node, it is collapsed (lines 7–9).
The second phase of the algorithm collapses parallel structures (lines 12–28). The visited set is reinitialized as an empty set in line 12. All nodes of the graph are examined again in a loop (lines 13–28). If the element is still not visited, and we are in the presence of a fork node (condition in line 14), the parallel structure generated by this fork is analyzed. Both nodes afterward the fork are saved in variables a and b (lines 15–16). Initially, a group set is initialized containing a single element, the fork node, in line 17. If the parallel structure resembles the 4-node group highlighted in yellow in Fig. 11, then the group to be collapsed is populated in lines 18–19. On the other hand, if the parallel structure resembles the 3-node group highlighted in yellow in Fig. 11, then the group to be collapsed is populated in lines 20–21. The visited set is updated in line 23. If the created node group has more than one node, it is collapsed in lines 24–26.
The phases of the algorithm can be repeated, as collapsing parallel structures may lead to new sequential structures. For instance, after applying parallel collapses over the graph shown in Fig. 11, a new sequential structure is formed, as illustrated in Fig. 12. The iteration would lead to a new collapse, and so on. As previously discussed, collapses are performed just for commits of the same type (same color, discussed in section 3.2.4), reducing the size of the graph without compromising the quality of the information shown in the graph.
The process underneath DyeVC can be formally defined using Set Theory, in order to describe how the data is structured and how DyeVC can play with this data to identify the repositories that are ahead or behind of other repositories, showing the commits that are missing or that belong to specific branches. We can define a project p as a tuple (R, C, C database), where R is the set of all cloned repositories of p monitored by DyeVC, C is the set of all commits of p, and C database ⊆ C is the set of commits of p in the DyeVC database. Each repository r i ∈ R is a tuple \( \left({R}_i^{push},{R}_i^{pull},{C}_i^{previous},{C}_i^{current},{B}_i\right) \), where \( {R}_i^{push}\subseteq R \) is the set of repositories that r i is allowed to push to, \( {R}_i^{pull}\subseteq R \) is the set of repositories that r i is allowed to pull from, \( {C}_i^{previous}\subseteq C \) is the set of commits in r i in the previous execution of DyeVC, \( {C}_i^{current}\subseteq C \) is the set of commits in r i in the current execution of DyeVC, and B i is the set of named branches of r i (Fig. 14a). It is worth noting that, as C is the set of all commits of project p (i.e., the domain of commits of p), any set of commits that belong to specific repositories r i ∈ R, such as \( {C}_i^{previous} \) and \( {C}_i^{current} \), should also belong to C.
UML class diagram representing the DyeVC formalization (a) and a directed acyclic graph of commits (b)
Each commit c j ∈ C has a set of parent commits \( {C}_j^{parent}\subset C \). Commits are organized in a directed acyclic graph (Fig. 14b), where the first commit of the project has no parent (e.g., commit A in Fig. 14b), revision commits have only one parent (e.g., commit B in Fig. 14b), and merge commits have two or more parents (e.g., commit I in Fig. 14b). All reachable commits from c j form its history, including c j itself and the transitive closure over its parents (e.g., {A, B, E, F, H, I, J} is the history of commit J in Fig. 14b). The history of c j ∈ C is formally defined as:
$$ {H}_j=\left\{c\in C|c={c}_j\vee \exists {c}_k:\left({c}_k\in {C}_j^{parent}\wedge c\in {H}_k\right)\right\} $$
At this point, it is important to notice that ordering is not important for accounting which commits belong to each repository. The only situation in which ordering is important is when DyeVC plots the commit history graph. In this case, DyeVC accesses the tip of the branches (fast operation, as each branch has a reference to its tip) and traverses its transitive closure for plotting all previous commits (also fast, because each commit has a reference to its parents). Note that the commit graph is a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and this DAG is already represented in terms of pointers in C.
The sets of previous and current commits in a repository r i are updated periodically, according to the monitoring frequency parameter defined by the DyeVC user. In the first execution of DyeVC over r i , \( {C}_i^{previous}=\varnothing \) and \( {C}_i^{current} \) is populated with all commits obtained directly from Git. In the following executions, \( {C}_i^{previous} \) is populated with the commits \( in\ {C}_i^{current} \) of the previous execution and \( {C}_i^{current} \) is again populated with all commits obtained directly from Git.
Each branch b k ∈ B i is a tuple (name, c k ), where name is the name of b k and c k ∈ C is the tip (i.e., head) of b k . Consequently, H k ⊆ C contains all reachable commits of b k .
With this foundation established, we can now formalize the process of updating commits in the topology. For a local repository r i ∈ R being monitored by DyeVC, the rare situations where a commit is deleted can be formally defined as:
$$ {Del}_i={C}_i^{previous}\setminus {C}_i^{current} $$
Each locally deleted commit c ∈ Del i should be removed from C database if no other repository r ∈ R still contains this commit. Conversely, the new commits in r i ∈ R since the previous monitoring cycle can be formally defined as:
$$ {New}_i={C}_i^{current}\setminus {C}_i^{previous} $$
Each locally added commit that is not already in the database (c ∈ New i \ C database) should be inserted in C database. This verification is necessary because some of the locally added commits might have already been inserted into the database by another instance of DyeVC.
Moreover, we can formalize the identification of repositories that contain a specific commit and the repositories that are ahead or behind of a given repository. This information is necessary for building some of our visualizations. We formally define the repositories that contain a commit c j ∈ C database as:
$$ {R}_j=\left\{{r}_i\in R|{c}_j\in {C}_{\mathrm{i}}^{current}\right\} $$
We formally define from which repositories r i is ahead or behind as:
$$ {Ahead}_i=\left\{{r}_j\in {R}_i^{push}|\exists c\in {C}_i^{current}:c\notin {C}_j^{current}\right\} $$
$$ {Behind}_i=\left\{{r}_j\in {R}_i^{pull}|\exists c\in {C}_j^{current}:c\notin {C}_i^{current}\right\} $$
Finally, we can also formalize the commits that are ahead or behind two specific repositories and the branches in which a commit belongs. This relationship among commits and repositories/branches is also necessary for some of our visualizations. Considering two repositories r i , r j ∈ R, we formally define the commits ahead or behind r i regarding r j as:
$$ {Ahead}_{i,j}={C}_i^{current}\backslash {C}_j^{current} $$
$$ {Behind}_{i,j}={C}_j^{current}\backslash {C}_i^{current} $$
Considering a given repository r i , we formally define the branches that a commit c j ∈ C belongs to as:
$$ {B}_{i,j}=\left\{{b}_k\in {B}_i|{c}_j\in {H}_k\right\} $$
The computation of R j , Ahead i and Behind i is not expensive. The set of repositories R is usually small (one or few repositories per developer) and the complexity of the operation for checking if a commit belongs to a specific repository is O(1) (i.e., the complexity of checking if an element belongs to a hash-based set). So, we can say that the complexity of obtaining the relationship of commits and repositories is O(n), where n is the number of repositories in the project.
We implemented our approach as a Java application launched via Java Web Start Technology. It currently monitors Git repositories, as it is the most used DVCS nowadays (Eclipse Foundation 2014). The source code and the link to download the tool via Java Web Start can be found at https://github.com/gems-uff/dyevc. The tool gathers information from repositories using JGit library,Footnote 2 which allows using our approach without having a Git client installed.
Gathered information is stored in a central document database running MongoDB. We hosted our database on a free MongoDB instance provided by MongoLab. We did not use MongoDB proprietary API, which would demand opening specific ports to connect to MongoDB. Instead, we opted to use MongoLab’s RESTful (Representational State Transfer) API. RESTful APIs (Fielding 2000) have the advantage of being available using standard HTTP and HTTPS protocols. In this way, our approach can be used in environments protected with firewalls without major problems. We implemented a MongoLab Provider to use this RESTful API, which translates the application methods into RESTful commands and vice-versa. It also serializes/deserializes the application objects to/from JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) representations to be used through the RESTful commands.
A central document database was chosen because this way DyeVC instances can easily send and gather information. MongoDB was the chosen database because it is free, open-source and cross-platform. Besides, it has many features to improve performance and availability, such as document indexing, replication, and load balancing. Furthermore, it provides RESTful APIs, as cited before.
We present the gathered information as a series of graphs by using the JUNG (Java Universal Network/Graph) library,Footnote 3 from which DyeVC inherits the ability to extend existing layouts and filters. All graphs present similar behavior, allowing the window to be zoomed in or out, whether the user wants to see details of a particular area or an overview of the entire graph. By changing the window mode from transforming to picking, it is possible to select a group of nodes and collapse them into one node, or simply drag them into new positions to have a better understanding of parts with too many crossing lines.
To evaluate our approach, we first conducted a posthoc evaluation over the JQuery project,Footnote 4 an open-source project, aiming at checking if DyeVC can help answering questions Q1-Q3. Next, we conducted an observational evaluation involving four participants that used DyeVC. This evaluation also used the JQuery project. Finally, we ran DyeVC over some open-source projects of different sizes and from different sources, aiming at evaluating the scalability of our approach.
Posthoc evaluation
We conducted a posthoc evaluation using a real open source project to demonstrate that our approach can help in answering questions Q1-Q3. The selected project, JQuery, began in 2006 and had 6222 commits by the time of the evaluation. We reconstructed the repository history, simulating the actions that occurred in the past. We do not replicate the repository history here, due to its size, but it is publicly available on GitHub. Automatically generated comments helped us to depict specific flows. For example, the comment “Merge branch ‘master’ of https://github.com/scottjehl/jquery into scottjehl-master” tells us that there was a user named “scottjehl” and that the merge operation was done at a branch called “scottjehl-master”. Although one might perform a merge manually and insert a different text in the comment, this did not compromise our analysis because we had a focus on depicting some of the merge situations, and not all of them.
Due to the operating mode of Git, some details are missing, but these details do not compromise our analysis. The first one is the moment when a clone arises or deceases. This information does not exist anywhere in the repository. We inferred the creation of clones by looking at the commit messages (a commit by developer X led to the creation of a clone named X). Clones created at a given time stayed alive for the rest of the analysis.
The second missing detail is that, although we had the commit dates and times in the repository history, these dates and times were not guaranteed to be correct. This occurs because DVCSs do not have a central clock. Each commit is registered with the local time on the machine where the clone is located, which could lead to commits in the history with a predecessor in the future, depending on when and where each commit was performed. This missing detail is not relevant, because the order of commits is not depicted using their times, but using the pointers that Git maintains from a commit to its parents, as discussed in section 3.1. We can use these dates, but not as an authoritative information.
Finally, if rebases were conducted at the repository, this posthoc evaluation had no means to detect it, once a rebase consists on rewriting the local history for placing parallel commits on top of existing commits, consequently leaving no trail of the parallel work. This missing detail is not important for our evaluation as well, because this operation is done solely with the purpose of cleaning the repository, leaving its history easier to understand. However, other posthoc studies that intend to use DyeVC for finding all cases of parallel work should consider rebase as a potential threat to validity.
We chose a moment in time when three developers were involved, performing commits and merging changes in the repository. We created three clones for these developers, named after their usernames: jeresig, adam, and aakosh. Figure 15 shows the topology view on Sep 24 2010Footnote 5 when aakosh had 121 commits pending to be pushed to the central repository (hereafter called central-repo). Figure 16 shows part of aakosh’s commit history and how DyeVC represents commits pending to be pushed (green nodes).
First monitored repository in Topology view (Sep 24 2010)
aakoch’s commit history showing commits pending to be pushed
Later on, aakosh pushed his commits to central-repo . In the meantime, both adam and jeresig committed some changes. Before they pushed their work to central-repo, adam’s last commit was on Jun 21, 2010, and jeresig’s on Sep 27 2010. At this moment, we registered them to be monitored by DyeVC. Figure 17 shows the topology view after this registration on Sep 27 2010.Footnote 6 Here, we can see that aakoch was synchronized with central-repo, whereas adam and jeresig had pending actions.
Three monitored repositories in Topology view (Sep 27 2010)
At this point, we can revisit questions Q1 and Q2:
Q1: Which clones were created from a repository? DyeVC’s topology view (Fig. 17) shows all the clones where it is running, and also discovers other clones connected to them, even if it is not running there.
Q2: What are the communication paths among different clones? DyeVC’s topology view (Fig. 17) shows the dependencies between peers in the topology, as well as the number of commits ahead or behind in each of these clones.
Adam had 121 commits to pull from central-repo, what is corroborated by the details of his tracked branches (master branch in Fig. 18a). He also had a non-tracked commit pending to be pushed. Non-tracked commits are not shown in the tracked branches view, but we can see them in gray in the commit history views. Fig. 18b shows the collapsed commit history for jeresig, where we can see adam’s non-tracked commit with hash a2bd8.
Adam’s tracked branches (a) and collapsed commit history for repository jeresig (b)
The repository history leads us to think that jeresig is a core developer of this project because he performed most of the merges to the master branch. Looking at Fig. 17, we see that he had 26 commits pending to be pushed to central-repo. These 26 commits can be seen at aakoch’s commit history (Fig. 19) as red commits since they could not be pulled by aakoch until jeresig has pushed them to central-repo. There was also a commit in central-repo pending to be pulled by jeresig. If we look back at Fig. 18b, we see that the only yellow commit is a0887, made by aakoch. This tells us that jeresig pulled changes from central-repo just before aakoch pushed commit a0887. If we look at Fig. 20, we see that all pending commits (those that were pending to be pushed and pulled) are related to the same branch (master). This tells us that, if jeresig wanted to push these commits to central-repo, he would have to perform a pull operation before.
Aakoch’s commit history
Jeresig’s tracked branches
This analysis helps us revisit and answer Q3:
Q3: Which changes are under work in parallel (in different clones or different branches) and which of them are available to be incorporated into others’ clones? New commits in tracked branches of peers can be easily found by looking at Level 3 information (tracked branches, shown in Fig. 18a and Fig. 20). This view shows to which branch these commits are related and how many new commits exist. If we want to look at each commit individually, we can look at Level 4 information (commit history, shown in Fig. 16 and Fig. 19) and notice the yellow nodes. Additionally, Level 4 information can be used to find new commits in repositories that are not peers (red nodes), or new commits in non-tracked branches (gray nodes).
Observational evaluation
We conducted an observational evaluation over the same project used in the posthoc evaluation (JQuery) to assess the capability of the visualizations provided by DyeVC in supporting developers and repository administrators. The evaluation was conducted with four volunteers, which had previous experience with DVCS. They were graduate students from the Software Engineering research area at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Four sessions were conducted, each of them with one subject.
The goal of this observational evaluation was to analyze when DyeVC helps on understanding the project history better than existing tools. The evaluation was divided into two phases (without and with DyeVC), each one with two scenarios, where the subject had to answer questions related to usual work with DVCS. In Scenario 1, the subject played the developer role, working in a clone named aakoch. In Scenario 2, the subject played the repository administrator role. The following questions were posed: Q1.1 What is the status of your clone, compared to the central repository? Q1.2 Who else is working in the JQuery project (other clones)? Q1.3 Which files were modified in commit 5d454? Q2.1 What are the existing clones for JQuery project? Q2.2 Which clones are synchronized with the central repository? Q2.3 How many commits in tracked branches are pending to be sent to the central repository? Q2.4 Is there any commit in non-tracked branches? Where?
In Phase 1 (without DyeVC), DyeVC was not in place, and the subject answered the questions using any desired DVCS client among the ones available in the computer used in the evaluation: gitk , Tortoise Git , Git Bash, and SourceTree. Participants were allowed to access the Internet and search any other procedure or tool that could help in answering the questions. After that, the subject watched a 10-min video presenting DyeVC and started Phase 2 (with DyeVC), which consisted of answering the same questions with the help of DyeVC. The possible answers in Phase 2 were either “keep the answer of Phase 1”, meaning that using DyeVC did not change the subject perception, or a different answer, otherwise.
Table 3 presents the time spent by each subject to answer each question in both scenarios and both phases. The values include the time to understand the question, investigate repositories with available tools, look for the answer, and write down the answers in the form. However, the values do not include the time spent filling the consent form and the characterization form, watching the video about DyeVC, and filling the exit questionnaire. It is possible to notice, by looking at Table 3, that all subjects took less time to complete Scenario 1 (developer role) in Phase 2 (with DyeVC). For Scenario 2 (admin role), none of the subjects managed to answer the questions in Phase 1 (without using DyeVC). For this reason, times shown in Phase 1 are the times spent by the subjects until they gave up finding an answer.
Table 3 Time spent (in minutes) to answer each question
In Phase 1, each subject used different ways to look for the answers. In Phase 2, subjects correctly used DyeVC to find the answers. Question 1.1 was answered using DyeVC Level 3 visualization (Tracked branches). Question 1.3 was answered using Level 4 visualization (Commit History). Finally, questions 1.2 and 2.1 through 2.4 were answered using Level 2 visualization (Topology). Almost all subjects answered all the questions similarly, except for subject P4 in question 1.2 from Phase 1.
Subject P1 answered questions 1.1 and 1.3 in Phase 1 using the command line interface. To answer question 1.1, she looked at the log for both local and remote repositories, counted down how many hashes there were in each log and subtracted these numbers to find the answer. Question 1.3 was answered with git show command, which shows, for each affected file in the commit, what has changed. The answer to this question was easy to find because only one file was affected, but if many files had been affected, the subject would have trouble finding all affected files using this procedure. For questions 1.2 and 2.1 through 2.4, the subject tried to find a way to discover related clones by searching the Internet. After a few searches with no promising results, the subject gave up, and her answer was “I don’t know”. Once there was no answer to question 2.1, next questions in Scenario 2 could not be answered as well.
Subject P2 answered question 1.1 by issuing the git status command. To answer question 1.3, she used Tortoise Git and walked through the commit tree until finding the desired commit. For questions 1.2 and 2.1 through 2.4, the subject answered that she did not know a way to find an answer. When answering question 2.1, the subject commented that, as a repository manager, she should know which were the existing clones and their relationships, but she did not have any resources available to accomplish that.
Subject P3 answered question 1.1 by issuing a git status command (same as subject P2). To answer question 1.3, she used Tortoise Git but found the desired commit using the search feature of the tool, instead of walking through the commit tree. For questions 1.2 and 2.1 through 2.4, the subject answered that it was not possible to find an answer.
Subject P4 answered questions 1.1 and 1.3 using SourceTree. This subject answered question 1.2 differently from the others. She wrote down each different author of each commit as if it was a different clone. Although this is a valid interpretation, it may happen that authors commit changes in the same clone, and this would lead to a wrong answer for this question. For questions 2.1 through 2.4, the subject answered that it was not possible to find an answer.
The overall results of this evaluation were positive. In Phase 1 (without DyeVC), subjects were able to correctly answer questions Q1.1 and Q1.3 whether using DyeVC or not. Also, further questions were answered correctly only by using DyeVC.
The subjects also answered an exit questionnaireFootnote 7 (Cesario 2015). All subjects found easy to interact with DyeVC, to identify related repositories, and to use the operations available. They consensually elected the topology visualization as the most helpful visualization in DyeVC. Also, by using Product Reaction Cards, three out of the four subjects stated that DyeVC is helpful and easy to use. Product Reaction Cards (Benedek and Miner 2003) have a large set of words, both positive and negative, used to check the emotional response of a product or design.
We measured the time spent to perform the most common DyeVC operations to evaluate the scalability of our approach. We used projects of different sizes and hosted in different Git servers. Table 4 shows the monitored projects (name and hosting service), the repository metrics (the number of commits, disk usage, and the number of files) and the time spent to run some background and foreground operations in DyeVC. All measurements were taken in the same period of the day and from the same machine, a Core Duo CPU at 2.53 GHz, with 4GB RAM running Windows 8.1 Professional 64 bits, connected to the internet at 35 Mbit/s. Each operation was performed once for each repository, except for the repository registration, which was executed twice (“Insert 1st” and “Insert 2nd”), as detailed below.
Table 4 Scalability results of DyeVC for repositories with different sizes
We measured the main operations of our approach: “Insert 1st”, invoked when the user registers the first repository of a given system to be monitored; “Insert 2nd”, invoked when the user registers a repository to be monitored in a system that already has registered repositories; “Commit History”, invoked when the user requests to see the commit history of a given repository; “Topology”, invoked when the user wants to see the topology of repositories of a given system; “Check Branches”, invoked periodically to check all monitored repositories, searching for ahead or behind commits; and “Update Topology”, invoked periodically to update topology information in the central database. This last operation updates the existing repositories, their peers, and the existing commits, marking in which repositories each commit is found.
It may be noted that the “Commit History” operation has no values for the last three repositories. This occurs because, as the number of commits increases, more memory is used to calculate the commit history graph. The current algorithm has an O(x 2 ) space complexity (being x the number of commits). The computer used in this evaluation was configured with a 2 GB maximum Java Heap Size, which let us analyze repositories with up to 6 K commits. This limitation occurs mainly because of JUNG.
Table 5 shows the correlation between each repository size metric and the DyeVC operations’ execution time, according to the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (Spearman 1904). This correlation coefficient measures the monotonic relation between two variables and ranges from −1 to 1. Values of 1 or −1 mean that each variable is a perfect (increasing or decreasing) monotone function of the other. A value of 0 means that there is no correlation between the variables.
Table 5 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient between repository size metrics and DyeVC operations time
Looking at Table 5, it is possible to notice that, except for the “Check Branches” operation, all other operation times are strongly correlated to the number of commits and repository size. This is due to the nature of these operations, which update or show information about all commits in the repository. On the other hand, except for the “Commit History” operation, all other operation times correlate with the number of files. This is also expected due to the nature of “Commit History” operation, which does not dig into the changed files.
However, it is possible to find some more tricky situations, which demonstrate that all three variables (number of commits, size, and number of files) should be taken into consideration when analyzing the performance of each DyeVC operation. One such situation is the one that occurs with Git Extensions, which has significantly fewer commits than repositories such as Git, but presents times for “Topology”, “Insert 1st” and “Insert 2nd” operations in the same level of magnitude. This is because these operations are very I/O intensive. When a repository is registered to be monitored, DyeVC creates the working copy for that repository, as discussed in Section 3.1. Larger repositories will then take more time to perform these actions. Note in Table 4 that the size of Git Extensions is notably bigger than any other of the repositories used in the evaluation.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that, even with all measurements taken in the same period of the day and from the same machine, short network latencies and processor usage peaks may have occurred, which affect the results.
All in all, although we cannot affirm that DyeVC is scalable to all possible repositories, our evaluation helped us to identify the scalability limits of DyeVC. Without automatic collapses, DyeVC was able to process repositories with around 6500 commits. To put this number in perspective, 99% of 50,012 projects analyzed by Rainer and Gale (2005) had less than 3137 commits. Moreover, Kalliamvakou et al. (2014) indicate that 90% of the projects in GitHub have less than 50 commits. This shows that DyeVC is scalable for a large number of projects, although we still see space for improvements, as presented in the following section.
Automatic collapsing evaluation
We also studied the impact of the automatic collapsing algorithm in the “Commit History” operation performance. This evaluation was performed at a later time in comparison with the results obtained in the previous section. Consequently, the repository metrics are slightly different. The repository size, number of commits, and number of files are higher, as shown in Table 6.
Table 6 Characterization of the repositories used in the evaluation of the automatic collapsing algorithm
The design of the evaluation was as follows. First, the “Commit History” operation was performed without using the automatic collapsing. Afterward, sequential and parallel collapse strategies described in Section 3.2.5 were used to simplify the structure of the commit graph, collapsing the corresponding node structures. The execution of the sequential strategy was the first stage, and the parallel strategy was the second stage of each iteration of the automatic collapsing algorithm. Moreover, after each stage, running time and memory consumption were measured. The evaluation was executed in a Core i7 CPU at 2.00 GHz, with 16GB of RAM running Windows 7 64 bits.
We evaluated the capability of the automatic collapsing algorithm to reduce the number of nodes in the commit graph without compromising the quality of the information shown in the graph (collapses are performed just for commits of the same type, i.e., same color, as discussed in section 3.2.4).
Table 7 shows the reduction achieved after two iterations of the algorithm. The number of iterations was set to two due to empirical observation that there was almost no reduction after a second iteration. With two iterations, the algorithm can reduce the number of nodes by an average of 73% compared to the original graph. In some cases, such as Drupal or ExpressoLivre, which are repositories that we could not analyze before, the nodes reduction surpassed 90%, allowing us to visualize their commit history graph after the automatic collapsing process.
Table 7 Reduction of the number of nodes by the automatic collapsing algorithm
Furthermore, we analyzed the running time and memory consumption of the “Commit History” operation. In particular, data collected for repositories that were visualized before and after collapse are represented in Fig. 21 and Fig. 22 using boxplots. The figures show that the more collapse stages we execute, the less time is needed to represent the commit history, and the less memory is consumed for this purpose. This can be explained by the fact that the automatic collapsing algorithm is linear and very fast comparing to the subsequent visualization process, and speeds up the presentation of the commit graph. Using this method, significantly lower running times and memory consumption values are obtained, compared with values before the automatic collapsing. It was possible to visualize repositories with tens of thousands of nodes (Drupal and ExpressoLivre), which could not be represented before, without applying automatic collapsing process.
Boxplot showing the running time of “Commit History” operation depending on the number of executed collapse stages
Boxplot showing the memory consumption of “Commit History” operation depending on the number of executed collapse stages
Git was the only repository that was not represented visually, even after the automatic collapsing. The main contributing reasons for this fact are its high number of nodes, its low nodes reduction rates, and its inherent complexity.
In the case of Drupal and ExpressoLivre repositories, high nodes reduction rates seem to be influenced by a somewhat more linear structure of the commit graph. There are long chains of 2-degree nodes, corresponding to sequential work stages performed by one contributor. Instead, Git repository showed resistant to collapse. To explain what we mean by “intrinsic complexity” of Git, we identified some structures that prevent commit graph’s reduction. An example is shown in Fig. 23. Given the current definition of the collapse operations, the whole structure cannot be reduced because the branches are not sequential chains of commits. Additional automatic collapsing heuristics that consider the possible dependencies between different branches seem necessary to accommodate these cases.
Example of a structure that prevents automatic collapsing
Threats to validity
While we have taken care to minimize threats to the validity of the evaluations, some factors can influence the results. The usage of a posthoc evaluation to assess a real project may not reflect the exact sequence of events that occurred, although the outcome did not change. For example, when we say that aakosh, at some moment, had 121 commits pending to be pushed to the central repository, these commits could have been pushed at once or by a series of smaller pushes. Moreover, only one project was selected to perform the analysis, what imposes limitations from a generalization standpoint. Furthermore, we used an open source project to perform the posthoc evaluation, but the modus operandi of peers may be different in academic or industrial contexts.
In the observation evaluation, the selection of subjects was made by asking for volunteers from students in the same research group of the author. This was necessary due to time and people restrictions. Therefore, this group might not be representative and can be biased. Moreover, there were few subjects in this evaluation. Thus, the results may have been influenced by the size and by specific characteristics of the group. Furthermore, subjects performed tasks involving DyeVC right after knowing the approach, giving no time to subjects to assimilate the tool. Results may have been influenced by this lack of time to mature the necessary knowledge to use the approach efficiently. Also, subjects could have answered questions in Phase 2 faster than in Phase 1 due to their learning regarding the scenario.
Finally, there is a risk regarding the instrumentation used to measure the response times during the performance evaluation. As we used a database stored over the Internet, connectivity issues and network instability may have affected the response times.
According to Diehl (2007), software visualization can be separated into three aspects: structure, behavior, and evolution. DyeVC relates primarily to the evolution aspect, more specifically with studies that aim at improving the awareness of developers that work with distributed software development. Steinmacher et al. (2012) present a systematic review of awareness studies, which we used to perform a forward and backward snowballing. The approaches obtained after the snowballing were divided into four groups. The first group (“Commit notification”) includes approaches that notify commit activities. The second group (“Awareness of concurrent changes”) comprises approaches that not only give the developer awareness of concurrent changes but also inform them about conflicts. The third group (“Repository visualization”) includes approaches that visualize repository information. Finally, the fourth group (“DVCS clients”) contains commercial and open source DVCS clients.
The first group contains tools such as SVNNotifier,Footnote 8 SCMNotifier,Footnote 9 Commit Monitor,Footnote 10 SVN Radar,Footnote 11 Hg Commit MonitorFootnote 12 and Elvin (Fitzpatrick et al. 2006). The primary focus of these approaches is on increasing the developer’s perception of concurrent work by showing notifications whenever other developers perform actions. The approaches in this group do not identify related repositories and do not provide information on different levels of details, such as status, branches, and commits. DyeVC provides these different levels of details, as shown in Section 3.2.
The second group comprises approaches that give the developer awareness of concurrent changes, sometimes informing them if conflicts are likely to occur. This group includes tools such as Palantir (Sarma and van der Hoek 2002), CollabVS (Dewan and Hegde 2007), Crystal (Brun et al. 2011), Lighthouse (da Silva et al. 2006), FASTDash (Biehl et al. 2007), and WeCode (Guimarães and Silva 2012). Among these, only Crystal and FASTDash work with DVCSs. Crystal detects physical, syntactic, and semantic conflicts in Mercurial and Git repositories (provided that the user informs the compiling and testing commands), but does not precisely deal with repositories that pull updates from more than one peer. FASTDash does not detect conflicts directly, as the previously cited studies, but provides awareness of potential conflicts, such as two programmers editing the same region of the same source file in repositories stored in Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Although DyeVC primary focus is not to detect conflicts, it can be combined with such approaches to allow conflicts and metrics analysis over DVCS.
The third group includes approaches that visualize repository information. Each approach has a different visualization focus, such as program structures (Collberg et al. 2003), classes (Lanza 2001), lines (Voinea et al. 2005), authors (Gilbert and Karahalios 2006), and branch history (Elsen 2013)Footnote 13 ,. Footnote 14 The latter have the same focus of DyeVC’s Commit History visualization, but dealing only with the local repository, not showing, for example, where a given commit can be found in related repositories.
Finally, the fourth group includes commercial/open source DVCS clients, which allows one to execute operations on repositories/clones (push, pull, checkout, commit, etc.) and also visualizing the repository history, i.e., the commits, along with their attributes (comment, date, affected files, committer, etc.). For example, some Git clients include gitk, Footnote 15 Tortoise Git, Footnote 16 EGit for Eclipse, Footnote 17 and SourceTree. Footnote 18 The data about commits shown by these tools varies, but usually involves the committer name, message, date, affected files, and a visual representation of the history. These tools, though, have no knowledge regarding peers. For this reason, they do not present commits from other clones and do not include information about where each commit can be found. It is worth noticing that we could not find any similar work showing the dependencies among several clones of a DVCS.
Table 8 compares DyeVC with each group used to classify related work presented in this section, according to the following features: notifications (Which types of notification the approach supports?); CVCS (Does the approach support CVCS?); DVCS (Does the approach support DVCS?); related repositories (Does the approach identifies related repositories?); levels of detail (Does the approach present information in different levels of detail?); multiple peers (Does the approach support repositories with multiple peers, i.e., multiple pull / push destinations?); commits in peer nodes (Does the approach detects commits in peer nodes, i.e., nodes that have a direct communication path to each other?); commits in non-peer nodes (Does the approach detect commits in non-peer nodes, i.e., nodes that do not have a direct communication path to each other?); multiple branches (Does the approach support multiple branches in DVCS?); topology (Does the approach supply any topology visualization that shows dependencies among repositories?); and, finally, commit History (Does the approach allow visualizing only a partial commit history, showing only local commits, or does it allow visualizing a full commit history, including commits in other repositories that were not synchronized yet, or that are in non-tracked branches?).
Table 8 Comparing DyeVC features with related work
All in all, among related work, Crystal is the most similar to DyeVC and deserves a deeper comparison. Both approaches work with DVCSs (besides Git, Crystal also supports Mercurial) and use working copies to perform analyses, but there are major differences between them. Crystal’s goal is to identify conflicts among pairs of repositories, whereas DyeVC’s goal is to provide awareness regarding the existing peers and their synchronization, at different levels. To identify repositories, Crystal demands the user to point out all repositories they want to compare, whereas DyeVC requires that some of the repositories be registered and it automatically looks at configuration files to discover all the repositories that one pushes to or pulls from. The repository comparison in Crystal is from one repository against all the other together, whereas DyeVC analyzes each repository against each other, providing a pairwise view and a combined view of the history. Finally, the allowed actions in Crystal include the ability to push, pull, compile, and test a repository, whereas DyeVC allows one to visualize branches status, topology, and history. In this way, we see potential to have both tools working together to provide awareness and safety better when working with DVCS.
Trace reduction methods and automatic collapsing
Trace reduction is the compression of traces in some manner (either lossless or lossy) so that they can be stored and processed efficiently (Kaplan et al. 1999; Mohror and Karavanic 2009). The process of collapsing the commit graph can be seen as a particular case of trace reduction.
Program analysis and software visualization communities have already proposed trace reduction methods (Kuhn and Greevy 2006; Cornelissen et al. 2008; Noda et al. 2012; Jayaraman et al. 2017). In (Kuhn and Greevy 2006) and (Cornelissen et al. 2008), a trace reduction technique is mentioned, which assigns consecutive events that have equal or increasing nesting levels to the same group. Particularly, method call sequences are summarized in one method-call chain (Kuhn and Greevy 2006).
Also, compact sequence diagram generation is studied in (Noda et al. 2012) and (Jayaraman et al. 2017). To have a better sequence diagram representation of the program execution, Noda’s method (Noda et al. 2012) abstracts the history of object interaction by grouping strongly correlated objects. These objects are compacted, achieving an appropriate reduction in the number of objects appearing in the sequence diagram, which results in compression of this diagram along the horizontal axis. Also, (Jayaraman et al. 2017) presents vertical and horizontal sequence diagram compaction techniques. For this end, one-to-one correspondence between call trees and sequence diagrams is used. A maximally compacted tree is obtained, generating smaller and more useful diagrams.
These approaches work with method-call sequences and sequence diagrams, both having a tree structure. Unlike these works, when applying automatic collapsing, we deal with a commit graph, which is a DAG, with a high number of commit nodes. The structure of a graph is more rich and complex than the structure of a tree.
In this paper, we presented DyeVC, an approach that identifies the status of a repository in contrast with its peers, which are dynamically found in an unobtrusive way. We have evaluated DyeVC on a real project, showing that it can be used to answer questions that arise when working with DVCSs. The observational evaluation results were promising: DyeVC was considered easy to use and fast for most repository history exploration operations while providing the expected answers. This provides initial evidence that DyeVC could effectively help developers and repository administrators by saving time and by supporting answering questions regarding DVCS usage that could not be answered before. We have also evaluated DyeVC’s performance over repositories of different sizes, and we found out that the time and space complexity of the approach are directly related to the number of commits in the repository, especially in the view levels with finer granularity.
Some future research topics arise from this work. DyeVC could gather additional metadata, for example, to create a visualization showing conflicts that would happen when merging two or more branches. This data could also be used to mine information in the repositories, revealing usage patterns or presenting metrics. Moreover, the formalization of DyeVC mechanics could be used to prove correctness properties of our implementation. Finally, some optimization should be done to allow DyeVC work with larger repositories with more complex branch structures.
Dye is commonly used in cells to observe the cell division process. As an analogy, DyeVC allows developers to observe how a Version Control repository evolved over time.
http://www.eclipse.org/jgit/
http://jung.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/jquery/jquery
Considering the scenario just after commit a088751a1b2c5761dab8de9d7da8602defb45b11.
Considering the scenario just after commit ea6a4813b7d996f6f7af0b61a5f1bf4ab80b291d.
The exit questionnaire can be found in Appendix G of the referenced Master’s Thesis, which can be found at https://github.com/gems-uff/dyevc/blob/master/docs/dissertation.pdf.
http://svnnotifier.tigris.org/ (2012)
https://github.com/pocorall/scm-notifier (2012)
http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/CommitMonitor.html (2013)
http://code.google.com/p/svnradar/ (2011)
https://bitbucket.org/dun3/hgcommitmonitor (2009)
Visugit: https://github.com/hozumi/visugit
GitHub’s Network Graph: https://github.com/blog/39-say-hello-to-the-network-graph-visualizer
http://git-scm.com/docs/gitk
https://tortoisegit.org/
http://eclipse.org/egit/
http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
CVCS:
Centralized version control systems
Directed acyclic graph
DVCS:
Distributed version control systems
Hypertext transfer protocol
HTTP secure
JavaScript object notation
JUNG:
Java Universal network/graph
RESTful:
Representational State transfer
Unified modeling language
Version control systems
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We thank CNPq and FAPERJ for the financial support.
CNPq and FAPERJ sponsored this work.
The source code and the link to download DyeVC via Java Web Start can be found at https://github.com/gems-uff/dyevc. All projects used in the evaluations are available in their respective repositories, described in Table 4.
Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niteroi, RJ, Brazil
Cristiano Cesario, Ruben Interian & Leonardo Murta
Cristiano Cesario
Ruben Interian
Leonardo Murta
CC contributed in the design and implementation of DyeVC and the design of the automatic collapsing algorithm and was responsible for running the posthoc, observational, and performance evaluations. RI contributed in the design and implementation of the automatic collapsing algorithm and was responsible for running the automatic collapsing evaluation. LM contributed in the design of DyeVC, the automatic collapsing algorithm, and the evaluations, and was responsible for the DyeVC formalization. All three authors contributed to writing the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Leonardo Murta.
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"What do I owe you?" asked he of the barber.
"Nothing," answered Fragoso. "Between compatriots, when they meet on the frontier, there can be no question of that sort."
"But," replied Torres, "I want to----"
"Very well, we will settle that later on, on board the jangada."
"But I do not know that, and I do not like to ask Joam Garral to allow me----"
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And at that instant Manoel and Benito, coming into the town after dinner, appeared at the door of the loja, wishing to see Fragoso at work.
Torres turned toward them and suddenly said: "There are two gentlemen I know--or rather I remember."
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"But they are Benito Garral and Manoel Valdez."
"I know. They told me their names, but I never expected to see them here."
Torres advanced toward the two young men, who looked at him without recognizing him.
"You do not remember me, gentlemen?" he asked.
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"Very pleased to see you again," said Benito; "but you have not forgotten that you promised to come to the fazenda to my father?"
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"Our compatriot is not going to stop at the frontier," said Fragoso, "he is going on to Manaos."
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"Willingly," said Torres; "and you will allow me to thank you in advance."
Manoel took no part in the conversation; he let Benito make the offer of his services, and attentively watched Torres, whose face he scarcely remembered. There was an entire want of frankness in the eyes, whose look changed unceasingly, as if he was afraid to fix them anywhere. But Manoel kept this impression to himself, not wishing to injure a compatriot whom they were about to oblige.
"Gentlemen," said Torres, "if you like, I am ready to follow you to the landing-place."
"Come, then," answered Benito.
A quarter of an hour afterward Torres was on board the jangada. Benito introduced him to Joam Garral, acquainting him with the circumstances under which they had previously met him, and asked him to give him a passage down to Manaos.
"I am happy, sir, to be able to oblige you," replied Joam.
"Thank you," said Torres, who at the moment of putting forth his hand kept it back in spite of himself.
"We shall be off at daybreak to-morrow," added Joam Garral, "so you had better get your things on board."
"Oh, that will not take me long!" answered Torres; "there is only myself and nothing else!"
"Make yourself at home," said Joam Garral.
That evening Torres took possession of a cabin near to that of the barber. It was not till eight o'clock that the latter returned to the raft, and gave the young mulatto an account of his exploits, and repeated, with no little vanity, that the renown of the illustrious Fragoso was increasing in the basin of the Upper Amazon.
STILL DESCENDING
AT DAYBREAK on the morrow, the 27th of June, the cables were cast off, and the raft continued its journey down the river.
An extra passenger was on board. Whence came this Torres? No one exactly knew.
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They were the first company to allow online payments through CC and electronic check. Compared to other companies it does not require users to sign up before entering their information.
How much does it cost to setup an account?
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What are the monthly fees for using their services?
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What are the fees per transaction?
All In One: 2.9%+ $0.30 / per transaction
Gateway Only: $0.10 / transaction + $0.10 daily batch fee
Enterprise: I'm not calling to find out!
Does it require additional fees or expenses to process payments?
Does it offer any special services or discounts to charities, small businesses, startups, etc.?
It seems that the Enterprise account may do just that as it says it works best for 501(3c) or charity companies.
Discuss how the company is handling mobile payment processing.
They have a plug in adaptor to take CC from customers.
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Non-US Online:4.4%
US In Store:2.7%
Non-US In Store:4.2%
$0.15 per keyed transaction
$0.30 per online transaction
there are also cross-border transaction fees, currency conversion fees and chargeback fees.
They also have lower rates for micropayments Plan (less than ~$10 / transaction) for smaller businesses and an online non-profit discount as well.
They are giving them away fro free
They have some technology issues (I assume) where frequently peoples accounts are randomly freezing, not allowing them to add or withdrawl money from their account.
While they have been around for a long time and have some inherit trust with them, they don't feel like they are the leader of the pack as far as what you hear people using mostly. But a good question is, do we really want something trendy for our banking app or does trust / longevity win out. It wins out for me as they're still what I use to handle online purchases.
Square was founded because one of the founders was frustrated that they couldn't complete a $2,000 transaction because he couldn't accept credit cards in 2009. They got their IPO in 2015.
$60/month for each location and $40/mo for each additional terminal.
2.6% + $0.10
It claims that there are not, but I really ahve a hard time believing that.
Not for non-profits, I don't think for anything else.
They are the leaders and the first in this department.
In 2011 a rival company (Verifone) showcased how easy it was to skimm the CC's off the magnetic reader because it was unencrypted. Now, however, Square uses strong encryption.
Because of their innovation with the Square Stand (a sort of Ipad looking device) in 2013 they're staying on top of the game and I expect them to stay that way in the B2C end.
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Movie Review ~ Jersey Boys
by Joe Movie Review • Tags: Bob Gaudio, Christopher Walken, Clint Eastwood, Erich Bergen, Frankie Valli, GK Films, Gyp DeCarlo, Jersey Boys, John Lloyd Young, Marshall Brickman, Michael Lomenda, Nick Massi, Rick Elice, Tommy DeVito, Vincent Piazza, Warner Brothers Pictures
The Facts:
Synopsis: The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
Stars: John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza, Michael Lomenda, Christopher Walken
Director: Clint Eastwood
Running Length: 135 minutes
Trailer Review: Here
TMMM Score: (3/10)
Review: When it was first announced that the Tony Award winning smash hit Broadway show Jersey Boys would be making the transition from stage musical to movie musical, it seemed like a fairly logical move. The show was still driving audiences crazy on Broadway, on tour, in Vegas, Canada, London, and other international locations and was fueled by genuine nostalgia and a highly cinematic staging that made you feel like you were living the show right along with the stars onstage.
Though it briefly fell into the directorial lap of Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Iron Man 2), when he eventually backed out suddenly Oscar winning director Clint Eastwood set his sights on the property and soon The Man with No Name was lensing the adaptation in his typical economical style. I actually thought Eastwood was a good and not so obvious choice to helm the picture, an actor’s director that could help find balance between the trappings of a stage-bound musical structure and the free-range fantasy film can afford. This was a flashy show that seemed pre-packaged to make a very entertaining film.
So what the hell happened?
Honestly, I was pretty shell shocked just five minutes into the film because I could see some of the trepidation that has been steadily growing as the film neared release was coming true. In the weeks leading up to the screening, I couldn’t believe that Warner Brothers assembled such an average looking trailer and was failing to promote the film that had a pretty decent pedigree behind it. Why would they dump the film smack dab in the middle of summer when everything about the film version of Jersey Boys felt like a late fall release?
Well…like their utter failure two years ago with Rock of Ages, Warner Brothers knew they had a total turkey on their hands and wanted it to go away as fast as possible. However, what Rock of Ages had that Jersey Boys doesn’t were name stars filling out the various roles and not the newcomers that Eastwood has assembled. With many cast members (and three of the title men) culled from various productions of the show worldwide, the cast more than acquits themselves with the music (more on that in a moment) but their green-ness shows when the music stops and actual acting is required.
We have to start with the music. I’m hoping that an extended cut of Jersey Boys is released on BluRay…and that this alternate version will have, oh, I don’ t know MUSIC in it. Eastwood has taken a big bona fide smash Broadway musical and turned it into a biopic drama with musical moments. Now, I’m not saying he had to just film what was onstage…but he had free range to go big and instead he strips the music out almost entirely and instead focuses on the men themselves. Understanding that in any adaptation certain concessions have to be made, what exists in Eastwood’s Jersey Boys is not even a mild representation of what audiences lose their minds for nightly at productions around the world.
Screenwriters Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice adapted their own musical script, sadly dropping many of the magical moments and retaining all the problems…like the ill-advised direct to camera address that lands like a thud. This is partly because it’s not used with the consistently or the panache of its Broadway counterpart and also because it remains a cheap narrative trick slyly designed to help keep a fast moving show zipping along. Eastwood lets absolutely all of the air out of the film pretty much from the get go…including removing any underscore. Without music, we’re left to really get a listen to the hokey dialogue and comically bad accents. All the men are basically giving their take on Robert DeNiro and all women are trying to out Marisa Tomei each other. Example: “Yo ah soch ah lu-sah” Translation: “You are such a loser.” Time flies by and occasionally a character will interject what year it is or a title card will help audiences get their bearings…until the film mystically starts going backwards in time. You’ll need a roadmap to keep track of it all…but you probably won’t care.
I’ve seen the stage show twice and only really liked it the second time around when I stood back and saw it for what it was: a high class jukebox musical that was rough around the edges like the men at the center of the story they were trying to tell. Most of the music sprung from performance, not from the gut of a hackneyed emotional outburst. There were moments of true magic as all the pieces fit into place and the The Four Seasons unleashed songs like Sherry, Big Girls, Walk Like a Man, Dawn, Rag Doll…it was thrilling. Most of these winning set-ups still exist in the film version but have arrived without any verve or showmanship…making it all one big heaping bore.
All of this may have been more tolerable had Eastwood went against his gut instinct and cast his film a different way. I appreciate he wanted to go with stage actors who could sing the music live and already had a working knowledge of the material but though they are in step on the familiar Four Seasons choreography, not a one of them seems to be on the same page with each other.
John Lloyd Young won a Tony Award for playing Frankie Valli onstage but the awards will stop there based on his dreadfully desperate attempt at dramatic range here. I went back after the film and watched some of Valli’s performances from back in the day and nowhere did I see Valli make the kind of pained faces Young does as he strains to hit Valli’s effortless high notes. Further stymied by a wig from the Scott Baio line of near-mullets, Young’s overly emotive squinty singing style comes across like he’s wearing 20 pairs of too small underoos with a bright light constantly being shined directly into his face.
With their supposed lead letting them down in a big way, the remaining Seasons aren’t nearly as bad but have their own dull hang-ups that keep them from working out in the end. Erich Bergen’s habit of looking into the camera with a knowing gaze made me feel like he was auditioning for The Office, not playing the golden boy songwriter that gave Valli his greatest hits, Michael Lomenda looks like Goofy and sounds like him often too as the dopey bassist. Vincent Piazza is the only one of the four not previously involved with the production…but too often he comes across like he’s playing a deleted scene cut out of Goodfellas.
Christopher Walken (The Dead Zone) is the biggest name you’ll see onscreen and while Brickman and Elice have significantly expanded his small time mobster role there are times when Walken is literally standing around with nothing to do on screen. Twenty (thirty?) years ago I could easily see Walken taking on the tough guy role played by Piazza but here he becomes another casualty of Eastwood’s lackadaisical approach.
When the film flashes forward to the early 90s you’d be advised to hold on to your hat because you’re going to see some jaw-droppingly bad make-up on display. I’ve seen better old-age make-up on a grade school production of Driving Miss Daisy. It’s the embarrassing capper on an embarrassing experience. But wait…Eastwood saves the best/worst for last by truncating the penultimate showstopper of a finale in favor of a drab mega mix and fully realized production number that is both totally random and wildly inappropriate. And the final shots of the film must be designed to play over applause…but our audience sat in stunned silence. It’s truly one for the head slapper record books.
The one thing the film has going for it (and trust me, it’s one thing only) is that the design team has crafted an impeccable looking film. Production designer James J. Murakami gets every precise detail down pat and Deborah Hopper’s costumes are period perfect…not that they don’t feature some truly awful fashion trends most would rather forget completely. Were you to watch the film on mute (and without hardly any music…you usually are) you’d see how richly designed the film is.
Earning points for being well sung and immaculately designed, there’s little else to recommend about Eastwood’s tuneless (literally) attempt at bringing the Jersey Boys to the big screen. Now little more than your run of the mill entertainment biopic, audiences are strongly advised to wait until the show comes through your town and seeing the story as it really deserves to be told.
Movie Review ~ World War Z
by Joe Movie Review • Tags: Brad Pitt, Damon Lindelof, Daniella Kertesz, David Morse, Fana Mokoena, GK Films, J. Michael Straczynski, James Badge Dale, Marc Forster, Marc Foster, Matthew Fox, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Max Brooks, Moritz Bleibtreu, Paramount Pictures, Ruth Negga, Skydance, World War Z
Synopsis: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.
Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox, David Morse, Fana Mokoena, Moritz Bleibtreu, Ruth Negga
Director: Marc Foster
Rated: PG-13
Review: So far 2013 has been a very good year for zombies. With the continued success of The Walking Dead on television, the February release of the surprisingly great “zom-com” Warm Bodies, and now the pulse-quickening epic World War Z…it’s not a bad time to crave brains. I have to admit that with each new trailer for World War Z I grew less interested…mostly because it seemed like a run-of-the mill summer blockbuster that would open big and disappear within a few weeks. So you can imagine my surprise when ten minutes in I was white knuckling it in my seat, barely able to catch a breath.
Many felt that Max Brooks’s 2006 novel, written as an oral history, would have been better suited for a television series/mini-series and not as a multi-million dollar picture starting one of the biggest A-listers out there. Those same people should enjoy a nice meal of their own words because the novel has been brought to life in slick fashion that never feels like its cheating on the source material. The film opens big and for the next two hours rarely lets the audience come up for air as we are taken along for the globe-hopping, zombie killing ride.
Pitt (The Counselor) is a retired investigator for the United Nations living a seemingly peaceful life with his wife (Mireille Enos) and two daughters. As they get ready to start their day we can hear in the background news reports of virus outbreaks in other cities but given that it’s not in their neck of the woods the family pays no attention. Soon they are packed up and heading out for their day when traffic jams put them in the center of madness as the entire city population starts to become infected around them.
Calling on his old contacts, Pitt eventually gets his family to safety but is then tapped to lead the investigation to find the origin of the outbreak. This takes him away from his loved ones and into a mystery that moves him from one end of the globe to another…this is one guy who has a full passport by the time the credits roll. Part of the fun of the film is following Pitt from as he country hops because you never know who he’ll meet or who will survive. There are plenty of surprises in the movie, not the least is that Pitt is still a proven star who can easily navigate a picture filled with international actors and accents.
Thought Pitt is the star of the show, director Marc Foster (bouncing back nicely from the dreary Bond entry Quantum of Solace) spreads the love globally employing many new faces to fill the roles of people Pitt encounters in his journey. Enos is so brilliant on TV in The Killing and though she starts strong her character is unfortunately eventually relegated to shouting Pitt’s name in the phone as the time between their connections grows longer. James Badge Dale is an actor that seems to pop up a lot lately (he’s also in The Lone Ranger) and he’s put to good, albeit brief use, as part of the puzzle Pitt must solve to save the human race. Israeli actress Daniella Kertesz is a force to be reckoned with too as a solider that accompanies Pitt on a most harrowing airline ride.
Then there’s the zombies. Not merely brain dead shufflers, these zombies take a page from Danny Boyle’s 2002 zombie classic 28 Days Later… and sprint after their prey. Moving so fast amps up the adrenaline yet it doesn’t overwhelm the bottom line and the film takes care to explain behavior of the zombies/infected in a way that seems fresh and unexpected. Even a sequence set in a sterile lab late in the film has little frenzied action at all and still manages to make the sweat bead up on your forehead.
These little character moments (from the living and the infected) do not go unnoticed and that’s what winds up setting World War Z apart from similar films. It’s a brisk popcorn adventure that keeps trucking along with such expediency that you’ll probably be a little exhausted by the time the lights come up. Yet even with its fast pace I left feeling that the movie had earned its quieter moments and called upon its actors in the right way to give solid performances. One of the best films of the summer, it’s a movie that I feel will warrant repeated viewings alongside other zombie classics that came before it.
Movie Review ~ Argo
by Joe Movie Review • Tags: 2012, Alan Arkin, Argo, Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Chris Messina, Chris Terrio, Christopher Denham, Clea DuVall, GK Films, John Goodman, Kerry Bishe, Kyle Chandler, logo, Michael Parks, Richard Kind, Rory Cochrane, Scoot McNairy, Studio, Tate Donovan, Taylor Schilling, Victor Garber, Warner Brothers, Zeljko Ivanek
Synopsis: As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA ‘exfiltration’ specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Stars: Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kerry Bishe, Kyle Chandler, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Victor Garber, Zeljko Ivanek, Richard Kind, Scoot McNairy, Chris Messina, Michael Parks, Taylor Schilling
Director: Ben Affleck
Review: Over the course of his career, Affleck seems to have been haunted by the Oscar that he shared with Matt Damon for writing Good Will Hunting. Through the years I’ve scoffed a bit when a movie he is acting in touts him as Academy Award Winner Ben Affleck…wanting to shout back at the screen… “It was for WRITING!” With the release of the third film that he’s directed, it’s finally time for me to lay off the guy and give credit where credit is due. While it’s not as strong a film as his last outing (The Town), Argo is still a darn good film that should keep you on the edge of your seat even if you already know how things will turn out.
In his first foray into fact-based filmmaking, Affleck scores big points for his attention to period details and also for easing the audience into the time and place of the events via a clever opening montage. Giving you just enough information to understand why things are happening how they are happening, Argo then asks you to keep up as it packs a lot of movement into its taut two-hour running time.
It’s 1979 and the Iran Hostage Crisis is underway. The focus of the film is not on the US Foreign Service workers who were captured in the US Embassy but in the six workers that escaped and are hiding out in the Canadian Embassy. Sort of like a new take on The Diary of Anne Frank, these individuals are waiting for the government to provide them a way out without being captured and most likely publically executed. Basically, the stakes couldn’t be higher for all involved.
Back on US soil, CIA operative Tony Mendez (Affleck) has been called in to help craft a way of escape. Several of the ideas already being bandied about are laughable to say the least and at this point they are looking for the ‘best bad idea” they can muster. It’s watching a Planet of the Apes sequel that gives Mendez the idea to touch base with his Hollywood contact, Oscar winning make-up artist John Chambers (Goodman) and movie producer Lester Siegel (Arkin) to set into motion a doozy of a plot to get these six people out. How they do it is a wonder to behold…most importantly because it’s a true story.
There are a lot of plot points and characters to juggle and Affleck works with screenwriter Chris Terrio to make it all blend together in a seamless fashion. You do, however, have to pay attention or you may find yourself stumbling a bit to keep pace with this rocket fueled picture. At its core, the kernel of an idea is fairly routine but like all fine films made from a stock storyline, it’s in the execution that makes this particular film a winner.
Continuing my praise for Affleck, he wisely casts himself in the leading role which has spelled trouble for some actor/directors in the past (coughcoughKevinCostnercoughcough). Here, Affleck is a winning choice as a trustworthy man that holds half a dozen lives in his hands. I’m not sure how historically accurate the last twenty minutes or so are, but there’s no denying that Affleck has created a real nail-biter of a third act.
Packing his supporting roles with strong character actors, Affleck finally casts Cranston in the right role after so many recently failed attempts (Rock of Ages, Total Recall) – I still don’t think Cranston is a movie star in any sense of the word but it goes to show you that with the right role he can pass just fine. Affleck had the same luck with Jon Hamm in The Town – again, as charming and winning as Hamm is on TV and award shows, he’s not a solid big-screen actor. Nice turns from DuVall and McNairy as the most interesting of the six would-be-escapees lend nice color to the group. Goodman is as solid as ever and Arkin should get some sort of award recognition…if only for a monologue he delivers to sleaze ball agent Kind in one of the most enjoyable film denouements of 2012
Overall, Argo is absolutely one of the strongest films of 2012 and should help land Affleck his first nomination for Best Director. It will surely end up on the list of Best Picture nominees as well so that’s even more incentive for Oscar completists to buy a ticket for this one and pronto. Luckily for you, the film is thoroughly enjoyable as a well-shaped and delivered account of a dark period of time in our foreign service history and the men, women, and countries that worked together to bring it all to light.
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Fake Gamer of the Week: If She's Going to Play With You Clowns She Might as Well Look the Part
She's a female gamer. She's an attractive Asian woman. She's not exactly the core demographic for a competitive online shooter, but she's got an ace up her sleeve, and possibly a bouquet of fake flowers.
Feel like acting like a clown around her? Fine. Two can play at that game.
"Hey baby, have you got a webcam?" are the words she lives for as she's laying waste to her opponents and waltzing away with their flag. In the dude-centric world of online gaming she's a rarity. The few that truly get where she's coming from? The ones too busy appreciating her skills to worry about her gender? They're smiling to themselves as they hear the tell-tale honk of her giant red nose.
They know what comes to those that take the flirting too far.
The more immature male gamer has an extremely limited range of reactions when presented with a strong, confident female opponent. They lash out. Once they get over that school-boyish teasing, they start the flirting. "You sound cute." "I bet you're hot." "I don't believe you're really a girl. Pics or it didn't happen! Ha ha!" The laughter is added half-heartedly after the fact, covering their intense desire and the impending rejection with a thin veneer of "just kidding."
And then she says, "Okay, give me your email address" or "Sure, hop on AIM."
Their hearts pound in their chest as they comply. She's female! She has just the hint of an accent! She might be Japanese! He's always wanted to play imports, if you know what he means (he actually means play imported games, he's not that clever).
And then he gets this.
Clowns. More terrifying than his libido is rabid. His anonymous internet confidence is shattered. He logs off immediately. She captures the flag one last time, sits back, and smiles a supremely satisfied smile.
Beep. *NEW MESSAGE FROM GUNBOI1867*
"Oh man, I've always had such a thing for clowns."
Fake Gamer of the Week is Kotaku's weekly tribute to the strange and wonderful stock photo models of the world. Male, female, young, old; the beautiful, the ugly, the strange, and the disconcerting. We've got 'em all, with a new entry every Monday. Past Fake Gamers can be found at the Fake Gamer of the Week archive.
Photos by imagehitevo /Pond5
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Sinead Dates: Forget Tinder and Bumble, these are the new dating apps of 2019
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The killer of Grace Millane has been jailed for life, a minimum of 17 years, for strangling her to death in a hotel room in Auckland, New Zealand, after a Tinder date, the night before her 22nd birthday. He set up another date for the following day, leaving her body in the hotel room. It might seem almost incidental that Millane met her killer online.
Maybe it is, maybe not. Online dating sites have been around for too long for the genie to be put back into the bottle. Nor is it necessary, but do we all need to wake up, just in terms of safety? This is about women deserving to be safe and how the online dating model fails them, not least by putting a covert pressure on them to casually put themselves at risk.
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Dating apps are booming right now during the lockdown. As people are at home with more time on their hands, apps like Tinder and Bumble.
But just like with any dating platform — including a good old meeting IRL — everyone has his or her own reason for starting up a conversation. Tinder has more than 10 million users worldwide — in New Zealand more than 5 percent of us are using the app. The Tinder powers-that-be also report there have been at least marriage proposals to date.
That is, arguably, what most people think Tinder is for, after all — the hook-up app for straights, gays, couples looking to add an extra man to the bench and anything in between. But with year-old Warriena Wright falling to her death on the Gold Coast last year while on a Tinder date, and an unnamed year-old woman reporting being drugged and gang raped after a Tinder date in Sydney in October she later retracted her statement based on lack of evidence , safety issues have been swiftly and brutally dragged into the spotlight.
Is it online dating we need to be wary of, or the hook-up culture it breeds among its users? In response to the said spotlight, the App Store has since changed the minimum age restriction for members of the popular app from 12 to 17 years of age, with many other lesser-known dating apps following suit. In March Tinder monetised its services, introducing the paid premium service. But has the damage already been done?
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On Air Now: The Hits. Win Rate the Hits. If you’re looking to give dating apps a go, then check these out: Tinder – most commonly known app and easiest to use. You upload your bio and pictures and start swiping. Swipe left for no, right for yes and if it’s a match you can start messaging each other. PROS: ease of use, accessibility and you can include lots of information about yourself.
CONS: because it’s accessible brand name is known and there’s no fee for basic app it’s probably the go to app for guys just wanting to hook up. Random experience: lots of one night stand offers and un-witty, lazy banter and I got to the end of the app!
We often celebrate the power and pleasures that being single brings us but skip over one harsh reality about it: loneliness. You don’t feel it for a while, but after coming home from a movie night with friends or a long day at work, entering your room, the core of your comfort zone, becomes an empty reminder that you are actually alone. On one side, being single is fun and empowering.
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Enter Hinge. Fresh to the New Zealand market, the makers of this app say it’s designed to be deleted: it’s the place to find a long term relationship above anything else. Singles can often get too busy matching to actually connect with people in person. Makers say the app is designed to quickly learn your “type” and introduce people to you based on that.
Instead of trawling through countless profiles trying to weed out the weirdos, you can cut the process down to a fine art. You can also set your answers to certain prompts so people can get a sense of your personality, and vice versa. Every match on Hinge starts with someone liking or commenting on a particular part of your profile, so you don’t get those cringe-worthy one-liners that seem to come out of nowhere – they’ll be based on a certain topic rather than just on how you look or what they want.
According to app data, Hinge sets up a date every three seconds, and three out of four times, users want to go on a second date. An added bonus – apparently you’ll spend more time on dates than you do in the app itself – with “Hingies” spending only about six minutes a day on the app. Around 99 per cent of Hinge users have also described their dates as “respectful”, a far cry from the wild stories we have all come to know from most modern dating apps.
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History and model making club seeks new home
by: Lisa D'Souza
Posted: Sep 28, 2019 / 08:56 PM MDT / Updated: Sep 28, 2019 / 04:19 PM MDT
After nearly 20 years, a local history and model making club, the Front Range Armored Group RC Tank Club, needs to find a new place to host battles on if scale model World War II replica of Normandy.
“I’ve been here almost the whole 20 years,” Paul Howald the commanding officer for FRAG said. “Put a lot of hard work and labor into it. So, it is sad for me.”
The group has hosted monthly battles on a portion of the Littleton School District’s property, with permission, for the past 19 years.
However, the district says it needs the space back to expand its bus hub to create a wider entrance and exit for buses due to an increase in the number of buses and traffic. District officials say FRAG has been a “great community partner.”
District leaders say FRAG was notified about the potential change seven months ago. FRAG hopes to find an indoor space to host battles at year-round. FRAG asks anyone who may know of a potential location to email the group.
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Blog Tour | Urbane’s 12 Days of Christmas: A Monster by Violet by Laura Wake *Author Q&A & Book Review* @LauraWakeWriter @urbanebooks
December 19, 2017 December 17, 2017 ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages)
Welcome to my second stop on Urbane’s 12 Days of Christmas Blog Tour, today I’ve got a Q&A with Laura Wake, author of A Monster by Violet, and I’ll also be sharing my review of Wake’s debut novel, which I received a copy of in my Urbane Book Club subscription.
Q&A with Laura Wake:
Q) For the readers, can you talk us through your background and the synopsis of your new novel?
I grew up in the suburbs of London. As a child I read a lot, and wanted to either be a roller waitress or a marine biologist. I was obsessed with being on wheels, rollerblading, skateboarding, go karting, motorbiking etc and performed a lot of stunts. After school I went to Italy and became a ski instructor, which I did for seven years worldwide. When I wasn’t ski instructing I did part time jobs from factory work, sandwich making, teaching English as a foreign language and stewardessing on boats. When I was 25 I decided to do an English degree, and started writing stories, one of which sparked the idea for A Monster by Violet. A lot of the places I lived and worked crop up in my writing, and generally there is a theme of travel present in most of my work.
I teach Creative Writing and currently live in Sheffield with my partner, son, and two cats.
My novel, A Monster by Violet opens with twenty one year old Violet Kale waking up after a three day drug and alcohol binge to the sound of her friend’s five month old baby crying with hunger. It’s a familiar situation for Violet, but this time she takes the baby… and runs. It was a perfect way for me to start the novel as the character had to think on her feet as she ran with a five month old baby, and so did I! Intercut with the main narrative is the story of Violet aged seven. Young Violet inhabits a nightmarish world of hunchbacked gardeners, a headmaster with a giant tumour of the side of his head and the very real monster, Mrs Martin, a teacher with an obsessive fixation on Violet. In the childhood story you see glimpses of the ingenuity that serves the reckless twenty one year old Violet as she runs. Likewise in the adult narrative are echoes of the tough little girl who wasn’t afraid to take a claw hammer to a teacher’s desk to prove her innocence, and reflections of the daredevil child who climbed higher on the climbing frame just to see how far she could fall.
Q) Can you talk us through the journey from idea to writing to publication?
The idea for A Monster by Violet started with a short story that I wrote about a girl at an extreme religious school who is made by a teacher to eat the rind of fat she has discarded from her school dinner; the girl is forced to swallow the fat while the teacher watches. I started with this idea that I wanted to pit a child against adults, and I knew I wanted to use a child narrator. I’ve always loved books with children as the central character or as the narrator. Influences for A Monster by Violet were probably Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend and Treasure Island. I think children describing adult events is a really powerful tool. The way little Claudia describes a rape in The Bluest Eye is one of the most hard hitting scenes I’ve ever read, and it is so powerful because it is narrated in that only half understood, childish way. So, I knew I wanted to write about a child pushed to her limits by adults that aren’t acting quite right, and I wanted her to challenge them, and to show through the story how events impact on her and change her as she is let down and hurt by those people who are supposed to protect her. Then I had the character she was going to grow into, the damaged adult, 21 year old Violet Kale who I knew had been pushed past her limits, broken down, and does something unforgivable. But she’s driven by that sort of childish morality that you see in the childhood story.
A Monster by Violet is my first novel, and I never believed I would finish writing it until I was on the last page; it seemed too colossal. After finishing the first draft I had a holiday from it. I needed to get some distance between me and the story so I could look at it clearly and with a fresh perspective when I came to edit. After a few months I edited it. Someone told me that nowadays publishers and agents want the finished article, not something that they love elements of but will want to ‘work’ on. So I made sure that the manuscript was as perfect as I could get it and that if someone said ‘yes I want to publish it’, that I would be absolutely happy for it to go out into the world as it was.
When Matthew from Urbane wrote to me and it was so clear that he was excited about my book and passionate about it, I knew I wanted Urbane to publish it. I feel very lucky to have found a publisher that is so focussed on bringing new authors to readers, and one that works closely with its authors. I even got to choose the cover for my book, which was a real high point.
Q) What are your favourite authors and recommended reads?
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe. This book did everything a perfect book should. It made me laugh, cry, feel sick, and left me feeling a little bit changed after I read it. I just thought ‘wow’ the whole way through reading it.
Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love because it’s wild
Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend and The Goldfinch
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov.
Jenner Clement’s Prayers for the Stolen. The mum in this book was one of those characters that you feel gutted to leave behind when you finish it.
English Passengers Matthew Kneale
Breath Tim Winton
Q) What were your childhood/teenage favourite reads?
The Australian author, Paul Jennings was one of my absolute favourites. In fact I’m going to re-read them all again now. They were dark, surprising, disgusting and the most exciting stories I’d come across when I discovered them about age 8. Uncanny is brilliant, as are all the others, Unreal, Unbelievable etc.
I also couldn’t get enough of reading Greek Myths and legends.
Other books that I loved as a child were:
The Worst Witch Jill Murphy
Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat Ursula Moray Williams
Willard Price’s adventure novels
All of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books.
The Animals of Farthing Wood Colin Dann and all of his other books.
As a teenager I went through phases of sci fi (John Wyndham especially The Midwich Cuckoos, Ray Bradbury), horror (Christopher Pike, Stephen King), crime (Patricia Cornwell, John Grisham), classics (Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare), magic realism (Isabelle Allende, Louis de Bernieres’ trilogy The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts, Senor Vivo and the Coco Lord, and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman). I hated finishing books so made sure I had the next ones lined up for ready.
Q) What has been your favourite moment of being a published author?
Seeing my friends taking A Monster by Violet on holiday with them.
Q) Who has been your source of support/encouragement, throughout the writing process?
My partner, Vanessa who always prompts me to write when I have a free moment, and make use of time that I would otherwise daydream or procrastinate away!
Get Social with Laura:
Twitter: @LauraWakeWriter
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraWakeAuthor/
Urbane author page: https://urbanepublications.com/book_author/laura-wake/
I would like to say a massive thank you to Laura for taking part in a Q&A on my blog. And now, for my review of A Monster by Violet.
Twenty-one year old Violet Kale has fallen out of love with life. A dissolute figure she drifts along with her friend Lisa (mother of a baby daughter Maria), reluctant to take responsibility for anything except her own pleasure.
When Violet wakes up after a 3-day drug and alcohol binge to the sound of her friend’s baby Maria crying with hunger, on a whim she steals Maria away, heading on a journey to a new land, and seeing in the child a chance of a new future, and a hope for salvation…
A Monster by Violet is a unique read and one that I found highly addictive. The reason this book had me in it’s clutches was due to Maria, the baby Violet kidnaps and believes they can start a fresh together – she is Violet’s hope for salvation. From beginning to end I was so concerned about Maria’s welfare that I had to know how this story would play out, praying she came to no harm. Violet, herself, is not a wholly likeable character, I felt some empathy towards her for the things she’s been through in her life, but this was overshadowed by the anger I felt towards her due to her reckless behaviour in the present day. But she has an innocent in her care, Maria, and for that reason, you will her on, to survive because her survival means Maria’s survival.
Narrated in the third person for the present day and the first person for the past, we see, side by side, the events that shaped Violet, and how she copes in the present day. I really liked young Violet, we only see glimpses of what she went through as a child and you see this fight in her, even from a young age, and while this isn’t a complete narrative, it helps you understand how Violet went on to become the reckless 21-year-old on the run with a baby.
There are limited characters in this novel; this is very much Violet’s story and Wake writes in a way that you can’t help but become invested in it. Violet is such a complex character; this is one of those novels where there is so much said in the words that aren’t written, but from the information we’re given, we’re able to fill in the gaps and form our own picture and opinion of Violet.
There’s a nice simplicity to Wake’s writing, and to the plot itself, and it allows you to easily get caught up in this novel, there’s some great elements of suspense and ‘breath-holding’ moments in relation to Maria. Overall, this is a good debut novel and I look forward to reading more from Wake, I’d especially recommend this novel if you enjoy contemporary fiction and coming-of-age novels.
This book is available to buy now from: Urbane / Amazon UK / Book Depository
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Great interview! I love learning more about an author before discovering their book. The book itself sounds very good, I love your review! I crave stories that develop their characters in the best way possible and it sounds like this one does the trick!
Thanks Meggy, I’m so glad you enjoyed the Q&A, I love when you can see authors have put a lot of thought into their answers! I’m glad you enjoyed the review too 😊
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Anticoagulant factor protein S inhibits the proliferation of rat astrocytes after injury
Yoko I. Tomobe, Hiroshi Hama, Takeshi Sakurai, Akira Fujimori, Yoichiro Abe, Katsutoshi Goto
The actions of protein S (PS) on the scratch injury-induced proliferation of rat astrocytes (AC) were studied. PS (10-300 nM) markedly inhibited [3H]thymidine incorporation into injured AC. The effect of 100 nM PS was comparable with that of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1; 20 ng/ml). The incorporation of bromodeoxyuridine, which is usually detectable in AC along the border of the wound, was undetectable in the presence of 300 nM PS. The level of PS mRNA in the injured AC was slightly increased 15 h after the injury, although the level of its receptor, Tyro 3 mRNA was not changed significantly. The results of the present study suggest that PS plays an important role in tissue repair processes in the central nervous system (CNS) by suppressing the proliferation of AC as in the case of TGF-β1.
Neuroscience Letters
Published - 1996 Aug 16
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Tomobe, Y. I., Hama, H., Sakurai, T., Fujimori, A., Abe, Y., & Goto, K. (1996). Anticoagulant factor protein S inhibits the proliferation of rat astrocytes after injury. Neuroscience Letters, 214(1), 57-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3940(96)12880-9
Anticoagulant factor protein S inhibits the proliferation of rat astrocytes after injury. / Tomobe, Yoko I.; Hama, Hiroshi; Sakurai, Takeshi; Fujimori, Akira; Abe, Yoichiro; Goto, Katsutoshi.
In: Neuroscience Letters, Vol. 214, No. 1, 16.08.1996, p. 57-60.
Tomobe, YI, Hama, H, Sakurai, T, Fujimori, A, Abe, Y & Goto, K 1996, 'Anticoagulant factor protein S inhibits the proliferation of rat astrocytes after injury', Neuroscience Letters, vol. 214, no. 1, pp. 57-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3940(96)12880-9
Tomobe YI, Hama H, Sakurai T, Fujimori A, Abe Y, Goto K. Anticoagulant factor protein S inhibits the proliferation of rat astrocytes after injury. Neuroscience Letters. 1996 Aug 16;214(1):57-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3940(96)12880-9
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The best meal delivery kits for 2020: Blue Apron, Sun Basket and more – CNET
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If the coronavirus crisishas made cooking at home feel overwhelming, stressful, or monotonous, a meal delivery service can help you switch it up in the kitchen. Many companies offer kits that contain everything you need to prepare a well-balanced meal, including all of the ingredients and approachable recipes.
We’ve been on the meal delivery service bandwagon for a while now, and what follows is a list of our favorite picks for delicious and nutritious meals. Many of these meal delivery companies are well aware that many people have dietary restrictions, offering options like organic meals, low-calorie and low carb dishes, and, of course, vegan and vegetarian menu options. Even better, many of these services — including Freshly, Blue Apron, Sun Basket, Every Plate and Gobble — are currently offering deals for new customers. And those deals are good. Like, several free meals good. There’s absolutely no reason you need to put on a mask and real pants to get your groceries or grab some takeout if you’re just looking for a healthy meal.
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We’re sure that most of you have probably noticed cheerful meal delivery boxes from the likes of Blue Apron, Freshly, Home Chef, Sakara Life, Purple Carrot and Gobble making ever-more-frequent appearances on your neighbors’ stoops over the last several years. Truly, the age of the meal delivery service is upon us. Each meal delivery company provides a type of convenience service that combines the efforts of chefs, nutritionists and personal grocery shoppers, and delivers them into the hands of enthusiastic eaters or willing home kitchen cooks, with weekly menus and delicious, pre-portioned fresh ingredients including vegetables and meat for you to easily prepare. The variety of meal delivery program options available today is just staggering, with everything from fully prepared meals to gluten-free healthy meals to vegetarian options available and ready to ship. That means that people with special diets such as a diet for healthy weight loss don’t have to exclude themselves from reading further. It’s time to find the best meal kit delivery service for your needs whether you are a picky eater, vegan, on a keto diet or another special diet.
I once met one of the founders of Blue Apron, whose meal delivery kit box I’d become familiar with, thanks to the denizens of my apartment building. I mentioned that I thought the Blue Apron service sounded like a cool idea, but inundated him with a litany of reasons why such a thing didn’t apply to me: I work in an industry where tasty meals are often provided, I’m rarely home, I’m culinary school-trained and so on. His counterargument was flawless: “Can I send you a free box?” I mean, duh.
Despite my protestations, the reasons I enjoyed the Blue Apron meal plan were plenty, and inspired me to continue my subscription with an occasional box of ingredients. Even with culinary school cred, I liked having ingredients I didn’t know of or would rarely seek out when the groceries were put directly into my hands. I was especially moved by the concept of being provided the single rib of celery that a recipe demanded, sparing me the heartache of watching an entire head of celery languish in my produce drawer when left to my own devices.
There are now dozens of meal delivery options to choose from, like Sun Basket, Martha & Marley Spoon and Purple Carrot, with a variety of healthy and niche meal selection customizations. These meal kit delivery service options have ingredients and menus available to fit special diets like vegan gluten-free, vegetarian gluten-free, plain old gluten-free, paleo, low-carb, vegetarian, pescatarian, keto, plant-based, health-conscious and just about anything else when it comes to dietary preference. You’ll also often find promotional offers for new customers and convenient features like being able to skip weeks and cancel anytime. With limited or no commitment, if you’re a calendar master and an account-management ninja, you can dabble in any or all of these meal delivery services and choose, week-by-week, which best suits your circumstances.
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Home Chef boasts over 38 meal kits to choose from in any given week, including the all-new grill packs and one-pan dinners. Meal kit examples include Chipotle Chimichurri Mini Pork Meatloaves with Roasted Sweet Potato and Garlic Peppercorn Salmon Scampi with Garlic Cream Gemelli and Broccolini. Plus, you can customize the protein in your meal choices, which makes Home Chef dishes stand out from the pack. For example, with some Home Chef recipes, you can order double the protein such as chicken or meat without doubling the overall portions. With other Home Chef options, you can choose to order antibiotic-free protein instead of the standard version. Meal kits and ingredients are usually pretty standard in their offering (which is what keeps Home Chef efficient to the masses).
One new and unique offering from Home Chef is their oven-ready meals, which come with everything you’ll need to make the meal including the cooking tray (no messy kitchen and no dishes). See an example of an oven-ready meal here.
Subscription: Starting at $7.99 per serving with additional premium Home Chef recipes offered at market price.
Healthy and fresh are common favorite meal kit descriptors, but Sun Basket goes a step further. Sun Basket is committed to organic, non-GMO, sustainably and responsibly raised products and ingredients, which it packages in 100 percent recyclable materials to boot. Basically, the box took the trip to the farmer’s market for you. Sun Basket’s recipes are developed by Justine Kelly, a San Francisco chef known for her work at the James Beard Award-winning Slanted Door restaurant, and for her appearance on Top Chef. All of her easy and delicious meals with organic ingredients are nutritionist-approved (500 to 800 calories per serving), and most meals take only about 30 minutes to prepare, with online Sun Basket tutorials available if you need a little extra guidance. You’ve got options for these nutritious meals too — you’ll be able to choose from a selection of six to 18 different organic meal recipes each week, including paleo, vegan meal, vegetarian and gluten free meals, so you’ll always get what you want. Sun Basket delivery is available in 36 states, and Sun Basket shipments arrive on Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. For three Sun Basket meals each week, you’ll pay $74.93 for the two-person plan (or $11.99 per serving) and $143.87 for the four-person plan ($10.99 per serving), with a $5.99 shipping fee either way.
Subscription: For three Sun Basket meals each week, you’ll pay $74.93 for the two-person plan (or the $11.99 price per serving) and $143.87 for the four-person Sun Basket plan ($10.99 per serving), with a $5.99 shipping fee either way.
A few of these services provide fully cooked, ready-to-eat meals to your doorstep, and Freshly is a good one if you desire wholesome, tasty comfort foods such as peppercorn steak, penne bolognese or chicken and rice pilaf. Meals are prepared right before delivery and are never frozen. With minimal reheating required by you, it’s like having Mom cook dinner for you in your kitchen, without having Mom live with you. (Sorry, Mom.)
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At just $4.99 per serving and with an emphasis on delicious, hearty meal options and generous portion sizes, EveryPlate is the best plan for those whose journey into meal kit delivery is based on affordability. It keeps its overhead low by offering eight easy recipes to choose from weekly, which does mostly exclude vegetarians and those on special diets, but the eight available meals are full of variety and flavor otherwise. Get 18 meals for only $3.33 each, free shipping on your first order, plus the ability to skip or cancel anytime.
Subscription: Each serving is only $4.99. Each weekly box includes three recipes with either two or four servings apiece.
Blue Apron is largely accepted to be the granddad of meal kit delivery programs in the US. The eight menu choices available weekly range from simple pastas to delicious international options, with a seafood and vegetarian option always available. Even the simplest recipes might include an unfamiliar component or two, and the website often highlights these ingredients as an educational opportunity. Recipes are tagged with helpful keywords such as “customer favorite,” “quick and easy,” “great for grilling” and so on. Occasional promotions include a menu from guest celebrity chefs, or recipes that highlight popular travel destinations. An optional wine pairing service is also offered.
Subscription: Price per serving ranges from $7.49 to $9.99, with options to prepare two to four recipes per week and two or four servings per recipe.
Dinnerly rolls out some pretty exciting-sounding and delicious meals such as summery chicken panzanella and risotto with asparagus and cannellini beans. But with no more than six ingredients per recipe, the damage done to your time and kitchen is minimized. Along with not overwhelming you with myriad ingredients and multiple steps, the price tag for Dinnerly puts it squarely in the budget-friendly category, clocking in with a cost per serving of around $5.
Subscription: The options include a Two-Person Box for $30, or a Family Box for $60, each with three recipes for the week.
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Gobble takes the template from the old guard of meal delivery kits but speeds it up by prechopping and part-cooking many of the components so that all recipes have a prep time of 15 minutes or less. Despite the “fast food” angle, each menu has a sophisticated and worldly vibe. Weekly recipe choices are cleverly categorized into From the Range, From the Ranch, From the Sea and From the Earth options.
Subscription: Options range from $11.99 to $13.99 per serving, with options for two to four servings of two or three (or more!) recipes.
HelloFresh helpfully tags each recipe accordingly, whether you are allergic to (or avoiding) dairy, gluten, soy, nuts and so on. Familiarity of ingredients is key, even when applied to dishes from various world cuisines. A Hello Fresh’s portion sizes are generous, going with its relatively high cost per serving (up to $10 a person). “dinner to lunch” element is a unique twist that provides the home cook a variation on tonight’s dinner to serve as a tasty portable lunch tomorrow.
Subscription: Options range from $8.74 to $9.99 per serving, with options for two to four recipes per week and two or four servings per recipe, customizable along Classic, Veggie and Family plans.
Green Chef
We like Green Chef for its versatility in the different specific diet plans available. Green Chef offers paleo, keto, pescatarian, vegan, and vegetarian options as well as gluten-free meals. No matter which diet you’re following (for health or personal reasons) you’ll be able to find a Green Chef plan that works for you. Because it offers so many different diet plan choices, this also makes Green Chef one of the most versatile meal kit delivery services since you get a plethora of different tasty menu options per week.
Subscription: $12.99-$11.99 per serving for a two-person Green Chef subscription at three meals/week; $10.99 per serving for a four-person Green Chef subscription at two meals/week.
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A Gujarati literary legend finds a home in English
Celebrated Gujarati writer Dhumketu doesn’t get his due in the latest translation of his work
Dhumketu is no radical, but his stories show an abiding interest in marginalised figures. (Aaditya Bhatt on Unsplash)
By Trisha Gupta
“The short story is not the miniature form of the novel... The novel says whatever it wants. The short story, by rousing the imagination and emotions, only alludes to or provides a spark of whatever it wants to say.” These words, in the original Gujarati, appeared in the 1926 introduction to Tankha (Sparks), the first collection of short stories by the Gujarati writer Dhumketu, the nom de plume of Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892-1965). Nearly a hundred years later, you can finally read them in English, in Jenny Bhatt's translated volume Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu.
Bhatt, a Gujarat-born writer and podcaster now based in the US, has clearly thought long and hard about the shape of the book. Taking seriously the burden of responsibility that comes with representing the pioneering Gujarati author to the contemporary English-speaking world, she has picked one story from each of his 24 published collections, plus two of her own favourites. The book certainly displays his range.
It begins with what is perhaps Dhumketu's most anthologised tale, The Post Office, in which a postmaster who once mocked an old man ends up haunted by his ghost. The ending teeters on the edge of the Gothic, making one think of the Russian short story giant, Nikolai Gogol, with its use of the supernatural to invoke a moral justice that social reality rarely seems to grant us. Dhumketu isn't writing ghost stories, but there is often a suggestion that deeply felt hurt or expectation leaves its imprint in the universe even after death—often in the minds of those who caused or ignored it.
In The Post Office, old Coachman Ali's lifelong wait for his daughter Mariam's letter only makes sense to the postmaster when he is anxious about his own daughter. In Svarjogi, an old shehnai player summons the painfully despondent notes of Raga Jogiya only on the death anniversary of his son—who had played them in life. In Ratno Dholi, a village drummer who thoughtlessly drives his lover to suicide ends up imagining her dancing to his dhol for the rest of his life.
Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892-1965), who wrote as Dhumketu, was a pioneering short story writer in Gujarati. (Wikipedia)
Not unexpectedly for a writer born in the 19th century, Dhumketu was also drawn to historical romance as a genre, writing several novels set in the ancient India of the Guptas and Chalukyas. His historical fiction is represented here by Tears of the Soul, which retells the legendary story of Amrapali, a woman condemned by her democratic city state Vaishali to become a nagarvadhu (courtesan, literally “wife of the city”). If such a beauty was to accept any one man as a husband, went male logic, there would be civil war.
Although he turns a critical spotlight onto male-made laws, Dhumketu's real condemnation of Amrapali's predicament is tied to applauding her sacrifice as a mother. In some other stories, too, Dhumketu is revealed as very much a man of his time. Female deservingness is often premised on sexlessness, most sharply in When a Devi Ma Becomes a Woman, the Gorky-inspired tale of a hostel-wali deeply admired by her male hostellers—until it turns out that she is human enough to respond to the odd sexual overture.
But Dhumketu certainly emerges as a sympathetic observer of the unfairness of women's lives. In the tale of two Kamalas in A Memorable Day, the matter is treated as one of luck: one woman finds herself forced to sell her body, while the other has a like-minded partner and a tasteful home. In The Noble Daughters-in-law, the widowed bahu of a rich household is shooed out, and finds herself sheltering in the home of another unhappy daughter-in-law. There is the hint of attachment between the two women, including a kiss on the cheek, before the story ends in a dramatic double suicide that made me think of Deepa Mehta's 1996 film Fire, and of so many lesbian loves that end in similar tragedy in India.
Women are also embedded in social hierarchies of caste and class, and suffer their consequences. In The Gold Necklace, Dhumketu reverses the traditional social hierarchy between wife and mistress. Caste appears frequently, as descriptor and motor of plot: the vagharin, whose low social status taints a man who helps her; the gohil and kaamdaar who prop up the colonial-feudal structure of the Gujarati village; Brahminness mentioned by characters to establish their gentility in many stories, including the comical The New Poet.
Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt, published by HarperCollins India, 324 pages, ₹399.
Dhumketu is no radical, but these stories show an abiding interest in marginalised figures—the penitent criminal in Kailas and The Prisoner of Andaman, the disabled person in Mungo Gungo, the sick low-caste woman Sarju in Unknown Helpers, or the ekla ram, a man who chooses to distance himself from the village's social norms, like Makno Bharthi in The Worst of the Worst.
Some of these solitary souls immerse themselves in art or music: Ratno the dhol-player, the shehnai player of Svarjogi, the sarangi player of My Homes, or even the literary young man of A Happy Delusion. When he writes about these musicians, or even about the aesthetic domesticity of the housewife Kamala in A Memorable Day, Dhumketu is both generous and appreciative.
Fittingly for a writer, perhaps, he displays greater ambivalence when describing literary ambitions. The aspirational poet or writer, especially, gets a drubbing, whether the clerk Bhogilal of Ebb and Flow, the highfalutin train passenger of The New Poet, or the intently focused but talentless Manmohan of A Happy Delusion.
Bhatt's dedication aside, her translations leave much to be desired. Her literal renditions of the original leave us repeatedly in the grip of florid, often archaic language (“Then, because they had not heard such melodious, sweet, alluring, rising and falling music in years, an illicitly joyful passion grew in the soul of thousands” or “Her memory did not endure anywhere now except during the rare occasions of general small talk”), not to mention constantly tripping up against such formations as “slowly-slowly” or “From downstairs, a melodious, bird-like voice came”.
However deliberate Bhatt's approach might be, the English feels jarring; the sentences marred by roundaboutness and redundancy. “What if this amusement was flowing due to his writing?" thinks one character, while a policeman tells a woman “to be careful with [her] tongue when speaking”. Very occasionally one gets a glimpse of what I imagine is Dhumketu's idiomatic Gujarati, such as in Old Custom, New Approach, where a man complains sardonically about modern bureaucracy: “Letters speak with letters. People avoid other people, this is called administration.”
One hopes someday he will receive a better interpreter. In the meanwhile, this is a valuable addition to your Indian classics bookshelf.
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Leslie Posnock
Eatontown, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 36 years of experience
(732) 544-1460 99 Corbett Way
Eatontown, NJ 07724
DUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Traffic Tickets and White Collar Crime
LESLIE B. POSNOCK is a partner in the law firm of Schwartz & Posnock. Ms. Posnock, an attorney since 1984, is licensed in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. Ms. Posnock is a former public defender in Philadelphia and New Jersey and has extensive trial experience. Ms. Posnock has represented individuals in hundreds of cases, involving charges of murder, drugs, sexual assault, mail fraud, wire fraud, theft, forgery, kidnapping, robbery, assault, burglary, Municipal Court matters (including traffic ticket defense), and driving under the influence cases. She has successfully litigated numerous appeals and petitions for post-conviction...
Andres Yoav Mejer
Eatontown, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 17 years of experience
(888) 695-6169 286 RT 35, Unit D
DUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Immigration and Traffic Tickets
I was born in Santiago, Chile, as was my mother. My father is from Rosario, Argentina. I grew up in a Spanish speaking home. We first entered the United State as tourists and overstayed our visas in 1981. We were undocumented for until President Reagan passed a law allowing us to become legal residence. For nearly a decade we had no legal status. Meaning my parents could not legally work or get a driver's license. When the law changed, my parents went to someone they thought...
Todd Brandon Eder
Neptune City, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 40 years of experience
(732) 869-9100 122 W. Sylvania Avenue
Neptune City, NJ 07753
DUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence and Real Estate
Todd B. Eder, Esq. is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a civil trial attorney, and certified as a civil trial advocate(attorney)by the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification, an American Bar Association accredited organization granting board certification,recognitions of his legal knowledge, courtroom experience and high professional standards. He established his own firm in 1997 and brings three decades of insight from his background as a plaintiff's personal injury lawyer, defense counsel and former assistant county prosecutor. The Law firm of Todd B. Eder, P.C. is located in East Brunswick and provides representation to clients in Middlesex, Somerset,...
Mr. Thomas P. Ehrlich Esq.
Belmar, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Belmar, NJ 07719
DUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Juvenile and Traffic Tickets
Widener University Delaware School of Law
The Ehrlich Law Offices are highly experienced lawyers in the areas of criminal and traffic ticket defense. We are dedicated to providing loyal, personalized service to our clients. Every case is treated with the same aggressive, unyielding devotion and determination to win. The firm has defended thousands of satisfied clients. Call me to discuss your matter 732-223-8480.
Michael S. Noonan
Wall Township, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 11 years of experience
(732) 303-7857 1514 NJ-138
Wall Township, NJ 07719
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
Temple University Beasley School of Law and Widener University Delaware School of Law
Christopher Thomas Campbell
Wall, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(732) 462-8700 1720 Route 34
Wall, NJ 07727
I am the principal attorney at the Law Offices of Christopher T. Campbell, L.L.C. I am admitted to practice law in NJ and NY, and dedicate the bulk of my practice to criminal defense litigation. I am one of less than 300 out of 40,000 NJ attorneys designated as a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Charles F. Clark Jr.
Wall Township, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 26 years of experience
Ryan J. Clark
City University of New York - Queens College
Stephen Francis McGuckin
Ocean, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer
(732) 924-4200 1398 Route 35 South
Ocean, NJ 07712
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense and Domestic Violence
Experienced Jersey Shore and Central New Jersey Criminal and DUI Attorney. Attentive and Diligent Representation. Free Consultations.
Sean Spinello
Sea Girt , NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 31 years of experience
(732) 804-7571 2150 Highway NJ-35
Sea Girt , NJ 08750
DUI & DWI, Cannabis Law, Criminal Defense and Traffic Tickets
Nicholas Moschella
Point Pleasant, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 13 years of experience
(732) 451-2283 3828 River Road, Suite 100
Point Pleasant, NJ 08742
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Personal Injury and Traffic Tickets
Born in Livingston, NJ, Nicholas A. Moschella Jr. is a near life-long resident of Ocean County with strong ties to both Monmouth and Middlesex Counties through his career as an attorney. Following his graduation from Brick Township High School, then Seton Hall University in South Orange; where Nicholas was a member of the Baseball Team, he attended New York Law School where he received his Juris Doctor Degree. Nicholas then served as Judicial Law Clerk to The Honorable James N. Citta, J.S.C. (Retired) in the Criminal Division of Ocean County Superior Court in Toms River. Following several years of private...
Frederick P. Sisto
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 12 years of experience
(732) 898-3232 302 Hawthorne Ave
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Appeals, Criminal Defense and White Collar Crime
Rutgers School of Law-Camden
Fred Sisto is a seasoned criminal defense attorney who handles criminal cases throughout New Jersey, with a focus in Ocean and Monmouth Counties. Mr. Sisto graduated Rutgers College and Rutgers School of Law with Dean's List and Distinguished Service Honors in 2007. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar that same year. Fred served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge (later Justice) Jane Cutler Greenspan of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Like many accomplished trial attorneys, Mr. Sisto began his legal career as an attorney for...
Joseph F. Morgano
Shrewsbury, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 24 years of experience
(732) 263-9300 621 Shrewsbury Ave Ste 201
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
WITH 22 YEARS EXPERIENCE WE WILL HANDLE YOUR CASE WITH EXPERTISE AND PROFESSIONALISM! If you would like to discuss your legal matter, please contact us for a free consultation.
Tara Breslow-Testa Esq.
Red Bank, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 18 years of experience
(732) 784-2880 130 Maple Ave
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Red Bank, NJ 07701
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence and Personal Injury
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
In the words of one of my recent clients, “I highly recommend Ms. Breslow. She provided superior representation, she is the one to hire to get the job done right.” Also, Avvo has given me a 10 star- Superb rating. I have spent over a decade in the courtroom- fighting for my clients getting them the best possible results. I am proud to say that I have dedicated my career to representing those charged with criminal offenses, making sure the system does not take advantage of them.
Mr. Carmine R. Villani
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 28 years of experience
(732) 892-9050 703 Richmond Avenue
New England Law | Boston
Carmine R. Villani has been practicing in New Jersey, concentrating in Ocean and Monmouth Counties since 1992. As a former municipal prosecutor, Mr. Villani has experience in all aspects of criminal defense as well as DWI/DUI, Motor Vehicle Offenses, Personal Injury Litigation, Domestic Violence and Restraining orders.
Hillary Brower
Brielle, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 38 years of experience
(732) 967-6777 800 Old Bridge Rd
Brielle, NJ 08730
DUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
My primary goal has always been to deliver the best possible results for you regardless of the cost to me. If you are a client with a criminal complaint pending against you, I will never sacrifice your rights to an unnecessary plea bargain in order to avoid the costs of a trial. If you are a client with a family law matter, I will make it my job to obtain the very best results I can to ensure your future.
I will spend the time needed to prepare your case and bring in whatever resources are needed, even when it means...
Stephen Pascarella
Red Bank, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 37 years of experience
(732) 758-6555 3 Harding Road Suite E
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Civil Rights, Criminal Defense and Divorce
Stephen M. Pascarella, Esq. was born in Staten Island, New York on April 14, 1956. His family moved to Howell Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey in January of 1957. Mr. Pascarella has been a lifelong resident of Monmouth County. He is a 1974 graduate of Howell High School where he lettered in three varsity sports. Subsequent to his graduation he attended the University of Maryland on a football scholarship. While at the University of Maryland Mr. Pascarella, in addition to participating in football, was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and, in 1977, interned...
Timothy Horn
Rutgers University - Camden
Timothy L. Horn, Associate Attorney, has more than 11 years of legal experience in a variety of practice areas. Timothy L. Horn is a former judicial law clerk to the Honorable Edward J. Turnbach, J.S.C. and completed an externship during law school with the United States Attorney’s office in Camden giving him a tremendous background in criminal law. Mr. Horn handles matters including: Criminal Defense, DWI/DUI, Motor Vehicle violations, Non-indictable offenses, Ordinance violations, Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Land Use, Corporate/Small Business, Commercial and Residential Real Estate.
Randolph H. Wolf
(800) 883-6047 214 Broad Street
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense and Juvenile
Bar Admissions: 1983 New Jersey; 1984, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1985, U.S.Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Law School: Rutgers University, J.D., cum laude, 1983. College: University of Rochester, B.A. Political Science/Computer Science, 1980. Memberships: Monmouth County Bar Association (Chairman, Meetings and Programs Committee, 1992 - ) (Member, Criminal Practice Committee), New Jersey State Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Biography: Intern to the Honorable Donald P. Anderson, M.P. (Member of the British Parliament), 1979; Law Secretary to the Honorable George P. Helfrich, J.S.C., Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, 1983-1984, Attorney with Cassidy, Despo,...
Kevin Arthur Buchan
Tinton Falls , NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 16 years of experience
(732) 328-8700 818 Shrewsbury
Tinton Falls , NJ 07724
DUI & DWI and Criminal Defense
New Jersey native Kevin A. Buchan concentrates his legal practice in the areas of criminal defense, administrative law, and ethics proceedings. He regularly handles all phases of criminal litigation at both the state and federal levels.
Kevin’s interest in criminal defense work began in law school when he served as an intern in the office of the Union County Prosecutor. From that time on, he knew that he wanted to devote his career to criminal law. Following law school, Kevin served as a criminal law clerk for the Honorable William L’E. Wertheimer, J.S.C. This experience gave him further insight...
Michael Peter Rubas
Manasquan, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 21 years of experience
(732) 223-3300 75 Main Street
Manasquan, NJ 08736
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Civil Rights and Criminal Defense
Michael Peter Rubas is an aggressive litigator and the founding member of the firm. His legal practice focuses on litigation, specializing in criminal defense, DWI defense, municipal court, and commercial litigation matters. Following his graduation with high honors - magna cum laude - from The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, Mr. Rubas served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Thomas C. Brown, J.S.C. of the Essex County Superior Court. After his clerkship, Mr. Rubas was a member of the litigation departments for two of New Jersey largest law firms, Saiber, P.C. and Budd Larner,...
John George Ducey
Brick, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 26 years of experience
(732) 458-5600 345 Herbertsville Road
Brick, NJ 08724
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI and Criminal Defense
John is the President of the Ocean County Bar Association. He is a prosecutor in South Toms River, NJ. John always answers the phone and you will always be talking directly to the attorney not his staff. Free phone consultations. Credit cards and pay Pal accepted.
Matthew Whalen Reisig
Redbank, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 26 years of experience
(732) 625-9661 125 Half Mile Road
Redbank, NJ 07701
Based on my successes in courtrooms throughout NJ, I consider myself to be one of the top DWI & Criminal Defense Law Firms in the state of New Jersey. If you need help with a driving while intoxicated charge or a criminal offense, give me a call for a free consultation.
Martin Michael Barry
Wall, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 22 years of experience
(732) 927-1010 1913 Atlantic Ave, Suite 226
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Arbitration & Mediation, Real Estate and Traffic Tickets
Jef Henninger
Tinton Falls, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney
(732) 383-6242 788 Shrewsbury Ave
Tinton Falls, NJ 07724
DUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Domestic Violence
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Jason Seidman
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Juvenile and Traffic Tickets
University of the District of Columbia and Lafayette College
Mr. Seidman began his career at the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. During his time as an Assistant Prosecutor, Mr. Seidman served in a variety of roles, including: overseeing investigations conducted by county detectives and police officers; acting as a legal adviser to the Middlesex County Gangs, Guns, and Drugs Task Force; participating in the Special Prosecutions Unit tasked with investigating white collar crime; arguing matters before the Appellate Division; handling forfeiture and expungement matters; and handling hundreds of criminal cases from initial grand jury indictments through plea bargains, trials and sentencing for offenses such as Murder, Drug Distribution, Aggravated Assault,...
Steven Hernandez
Toms River, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 16 years of experience
(732) 286-2700 805 Main Street,
Toms River, NJ 08753
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense and Traffic Tickets
Steven Hernandez is a New Jersey DWI lawyer who specializes in DWI defense and uses his knowledge of forensic science and case law to protect the rights of his clients. He is one of the few attorneys who regularly takes DWI case to trial. He represents DWI cases all over the state of New Jersey. Mr. Hernandez is a Sustaining Member of the pretigous National College for DUI Defense (NCDD) and actively participates in many of the rigorous training seminars they conduct. Mr. Hernandez has been CERTIFIED by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Municipal...
Jonathan F. Marshall
Managing partner of the Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall, an eleven (11) attorney criminal defense firm with 12 offices in NJ. Mr. Marshall is a former prosecutor who routinely appears in Superior Court, Municipal Court & Federal Court, priding himself with representation that is thorough, honest and uncompromising. Mr. Marshall also consults for both newspaper and television, appearing on ABC, CNBC, CN12, the Star Ledger, the Home News and Asbury Park Press, and shows like Law and Order. He has received numerous professional distinctions including theTop 100 Trial Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers Association, Best Attorneys in America,...
Anthony J. Vecchio Esq.
Freehold, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 12 years of experience
(732) 334-7468 4400 Rt. 9 South
Freehold, NJ 07728
DUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Juvenile and Personal Injury
Avvo.com has rated my legal services as "10/10 - Superb" and I have been included in the SuperLawyers - Rising Star listing for criminal defense the past 3 years. My entire career has been dedicated to prosecuting and defending those accused of criminal charges and serious motor vehicle offenses such as DWI and other moving violations. We also handle appeals, expungements, juvenile offenses, and assist those seriously injured in accidents, assaults, and other unfortunate events. Call anytime for a free consultation on your case.
Keith G. Oliver
Middletown, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer
(732) 858-6959 180 Kings Highway
Middletown, NJ 07748
Before founding Proetta & Oliver, Keith Oliver, Esq. was a partner at one of the New Jersey’s largest criminal law firms. While there, he handled hundreds of criminal cases and was rewarded by being named as the youngest partner in the firm’s history. Mr. Oliver is well known for his sheer work ethic and out-working his competitors. He brings this same mentality to every client’s case to ensure the highest level of representation.
Over the years, Mr. Oliver has obtained several nominations and awards based on his work in the field of criminal defense including being recognized by his fellow peers...
Brett M Rosen
Red Bank, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer
Roger Williams University School of Law and Princeton University
Brett was described by a client as “the example of a true winner” and an “advocate who will be there in the clutch situations...I highly recommend anyone fighting a criminal defense or speeding/traffic ticket to hire Mr. Rosen and he will deliver mvp results!” Another client described Brett as “one of NJ’s finest attorneys” where he further detailed that Brett “went above and beyond to prove I was innocent”. One client even commented that “Mr. Rosen was relentless during the initial negotiation with the prosecutor.” Even his looks don’t go unnoticed as one client wrote, “I call him Ryan Gosling”,...
Colin Bonus
Toms River, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 37 years of experience
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Insurance Claims and Juvenile
I am an experienced and skilled Criminal Defense Attorney at the Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall. I exclusively defend clients facing DWI, DUI and Breath Test Refusal charges. I have Alcotest Breathalyzer Certification as well as Instructor Certification in Field Sobriety Testing. I am dedicated to providing the strongest defense based on my clients' unique situations.
I have received numerous awards, being honored as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers, Top NJ CLE Attorneys, and Ten Leaders in DUI Defense Law. I earned my J.D. from the University of Dayton School of Law. I am a member of...
Maria Noto
Matawan, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 41 years of experience
(732) 441-9546 746 Highway 34, Suite 8
Matawan, NJ 07747
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence and Traffic Tickets
Maria Noto is certified by the N.J. Supreme Court as a criminal trial attorney and was the 2003-3004 President of the N.J. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Maria has been named a Super Lawyer by N.J. Monthly every year from 2005 to the present and, in 2005, was also named by N.J. Monthly as one of the top 50 female lawyers. She has also been recognized by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in New Jersey. Prior to becoming an attorney, Maria Noto was a teacher for several years. She was able...
Raymond Raya
Freehold, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 23 years of experience
(732) 845-3203 54 Court Street
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law
Our office handles DWI, motor vehicle and criminal offenses, whether they are scheduled in Superior Court or simply in a local town’s municipal court. We pride ourselves in the personal and dedicated service and exemplary results only a boutique firm can offer. We know our clients by name and their circumstances become our motivation to perform better, look harder, and defend more vigorously.
William Wackowski
Rutgers University Law School
I am an experienced criminal defense attorney at The Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall. My practice areas include Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, DUI & DWI, and Juvenile Law. I aggressively defend clients against criminal charges. I am dedicated to providing the best possible legal representation.
I received my B.S. from Temple University in 1992 and my J.D. from Rutgers University Law School in 2001. I am licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
I. Paul Koutouzakis
Jackson, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 16 years of experience
(732) 416-4460 485 Wright Debow Rd
Jackson, NJ 08527
James Fagen
Jackson, NJ DUI & DWI Lawyer with 48 years of experience
Matthew J. Dorry
Freehold, NJ DUI & DWI Attorney with 9 years of experience
(732) 462-1197 45 Court St Suite 201
Matthew Dorry graduated from Rutgers University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice. During his undergrad studies, he interned and volunteered for the Domestic Violence Agency of Middlesex County and participated in domestic violence hearings as a court advocate. He graduated Cum Laude and obtained his J.D. from Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Dorry participated with in two mock trial competitions with the Trial Advocacy Honor Society. He was recognized for his community service actions during his time in law school. Mr. Dorry is licensed to practice law in the States of New...
Thomas H. Martin
(732) 431-2224 96 W. Main Street
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Juvenile and Personal Injury
Thomas Hugh Martin is an experienced and competent professional who has represented thousands of clients throughout New Jersey for decades. He has successfully tried criminal, juvenile, municipal, DWI, and final restraining order cases.
When you hire Thomas H. Martin he handles your entire case from start to finish. You’ll never have to worry about multiple lawyers handling your case. The Law Offices of Thomas H. Martin knows it’s important to return your calls and answer your questions promptly.
In 2011 and 2012, Thomas was recognized by the magazine Super Lawyers as a Rising Star as a result of his defense work. This...
Ryan Gilbert
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Traffic Tickets
As a graduate of both Rutgers University and Seton Hall Law School, a former law clerk and a representative for several Fortune 500 companies, attorney Ryan E. Gilbert is a highly-experienced professional in his field. As an aggressive legal representative for each client, he may be your best option! Call today to schedule your free initial consultation.
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Star Clipper Comics & Games
Among the reasons comics get so little respect are their ephemeral packaging and serial publication. Although few comics are printed on the cheap newsprint of old -- which quickly yellows and crumbles -- even when slicked up by glossy paper and card-stock covers with holograms and die-cuts and spot varnishes, comic books, despite their misleading name, aren't really books: They're magazines, and usually small ones at that, and those who don't fetishize and obsessively collect such periodicals tend to toss 'em like last week's People or Newsweek. Worse, most comic-book stories are told over the course of many (sometimes very many) issues, and unless you faithfully make a weekly visit to the comic shop, chances are you'll miss an issue, resulting in an unpluggable plot hole. Fortunately, during the last 15 years or so, publishers have begun collecting extended narratives into trade paperbacks and even hardcovers, making easily accessible what once required absurd diligence. Of course, the other reason comics get so little respect is their juvenile content, and no amount of gussied-up packaging can disguise the puerile nature of most superhero "story arcs." But stroll into Star Clipper Comics & Games and you'll find dozens, even hundreds, of volumes on its walls, and most are not just adolescent power fantasies. Try Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde, his harrowing journalistic account of the Bosnian war. Or Tony Millionaire's darkly antic Maakies. Or Chris Ware's gorgeously designed Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth with its eye-popping unfolding dust jacket. Or Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell or Daniel Clowes' David Boring or Seth's It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken or ... well, you get the picture. Now go get the words and pictures.
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The Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series.
The mean and lean 2013 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series
by Jesse See, www.jessesee.com
HERE is on one of the meanest Mercs ever made. The 2013 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series.
This beast is equipped with the classic 'M156' AMG engine that is featured in the standard C63 AMG, but instead of producing a measly 336kW (451 hp), this example will produce 380kW (517 hp) at 6800rpm and 620Nm of torque (457 ft-lbs) at 5200rpm.
The engine in this Black Edition is more refined than in the C63, and it also shares it's forged pistons, lightweight crankshaft and the connecting rods with the SLS AMG.
Jesse See.
This C63 AMG Black Series also has a kerb weight of 1710 kilograms.
This particular Mercedes-Benz is able to launch from 0-100 kilometres per hour in a blistering 4.2 seconds, and it will keep accelerating until it reaches its electronically limited top speed of 300 kilometres per hour (186 miles per hour).
Compared with the standard C63 AMG coupe, this Black Series features a 28mm wider front axle, 48mm wider rear axle, a front splitter, a more aggressive and aerodynamic front bumper, insanely flared wheel arches, bonnet nostrils, an updated rear bumper and much more.
Some other features that this C63 AMG Black Series is equipped with includes 19-inch 10 spoke forged alloy wheels wrapped in performance tyres, variable intermittent rain sensing wipers, MacPherson strut front suspension and multi-link rear suspension, a front and rear stabilizer bar, four-wheel ABS as well as traction and stability control, emergency braking assist and preparation, electronic brake force distribution, xenon headlights along with daytime running lights, AMG Carbon Fibre exterior package, a leather/alcantara interior with front sport seats, dual-zone climate controls, AMG Carbon Fibre interior trim and much more.
Mercedes-Benz originally planned to build only 650 examples of the C63 AMG Black Series, but when the customers demanded more to be made, they upped that number to just 800.
Australia, on the other hand, received only 32 examples of the most expensive C-Class ever offered.
When Mercedes Australia were selling these models, they had a base-price of $245,000 AUD plus on-road costs.
Jesse See is a teenage car enthusiast. His blogs and website can be found at www.jessesee.com
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Claude Rawson (1)
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Henry Fielding (2)
Martin Battestin (2)
Angela Smallwood (1)
Bertrand Goldgar (1)
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Fielding in the dock
Claude Rawson, 5 April 1990
Henry Fielding: A Life
by Martin Battestin and Ruthe Battestin.
Routledge, 738 pp., £29.50, October 1989, 0 415 01438 7Show More
New Essays
by Henry Fielding, edited by Martin Battestin.
Virginia, 604 pp., $50, November 1989, 0 8139 1221 0Show More
The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding. The True Patriot, and Related Writings
edited by W.B. Coley.
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related Writings
edited by Malvin Zirker.
The Covent-Garden Journal and A Plan of the Universal Register Office
by Henry Fielding, edited by Bertrand Goldgar.
Oxford, 446 pp., £50, December 1988, 0 19 818511 1Show More
Fielding and the Woman Question: The Novels of Henry Fielding and the Feminist Debate 1700-1750
by Angela Smallwood.
Harvester, 230 pp., £35, March 1989, 0 7108 0639 6Show More
“... in 1979. The two principal biographies, still widely used as works of reference, and which Martin Battestin’s long-awaited volume is designed to supersede, are those of Wilbur Cross (1918) and F. Homes Dudden (1952). Cross has usually been treated as the standard work, while Dudden’s book has had a bad press. In my undergraduate days I heard ...”
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Thomas Keymer: Henry Fielding, 20 November 2008
Plays: Vol. II, 1731-34
by Henry Fielding, edited by Thomas Lockwood.
Oxford, 865 pp., £150, October 2007, 978 0 19 925790 4Show More
‘The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon’, ‘Shamela’ and ‘Occasional Writings’
by Henry Fielding, edited by Martin Battestin, with Sheridan Baker and Hugh Amory.
Oxford, 804 pp., £150Show More
“... for the Year 1736. The same disdain for technical smoothness is evident in the work included in Martin Battestin’s volume of Fielding’s Occasional Writings, which opens with his earliest extant publication, the hudibrastic satire The Masquerade (1728), continues on to Shamela (knocked out in 1741 from a debtors’ jail), and culminates with the ...”
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posted by Ahmer Asif | May 8, 2009 | In Original Articles
PESHAWAR: Shop owner Saeed Khan has already buried one child killed in fighting between the Taliban and government forces in northwest Pakistan. He cannot bear to lose another, AFP reports.
So the 50-year-old bundled his wife, son and daughter onto a bus in the Taliban-infested town of Mingora in the Swat valley and hurried to the city of Peshawar, hoping for a future free from further bloodshed.
‘I lost my son, who was a police officer in Swat, in a suicide attack in Mingora early this year. I buried him in front of my house,’ Khan told AFP, tears rolling down his cheeks.
‘I don’t want to dig graves for my daughter and son in Mingora. That is why I left the area… His death broke me. Tell me where should I go and from whom should I seek justice?’
Local officials say more than 40,000 men, women and children have packed up and fled Mingora since Tuesday, fearing that Pakistan’s military could unleash a fresh ground and air assault against Taliban fighters.
The bedraggled refugees, some leading goats and cattle through the streets, are seeking safety for their loved ones, as the Taliban claimed to control 90 per cent of the former ski resort and tourist getaway, once favoured by Westerners.
‘I am immediately leaving the city with my wife, mother and four kids,’ said taxi driver Ali Rehman, 46.
‘I don’t really know my destination and destiny. My family and I need protection.’
At the bus stop in Peshawar — the capital of the North West Frontier Province — exhausted and anxious people told stories of horror as they poured out of vehicles carrying old bags, blankets and bundles of clothes.
Zarina Begum, 40, pleaded for help as she staggered off a bus.
‘A mortar hit my house and as a result, I lost one of my eyes. Please take me to hospital, I want medical treatment,’ Zarina begged.
‘They (Taliban) killed my husband, they slit his throat after accusing him of spying… I escaped Swat because I don’t want my son to be killed under the same circumstances. I don’t want to receive his decapitated body.’
The government had hoped that a peace deal agree in February would placate hardliners trying to impose a repressive brand of Islam, but instead the deal appears to be in tatters.
Clashes have flared in recent days throughout Swat, where wealthy Pakistanis and foreigners used to enjoy the breathtaking mountain scenery from plush hilltop hideaways, or cruise down the ski slopes.
Now, gunfire rings out in Mingora, where armed Taliban patrol the streets.
‘I’m really scared of going to Swat. Whenever I see Taliban, they look like vampires,’ said 25-year-old shop keeper Salman Mujtaba, who lost family members in a suicide attack near Mingora.
‘I will never ever go back to Swat. It has lost its beauty.’
Colourful Sindh Festival and the Shade of Grey
میاں سکندر ملتانی، میر و سودا کے عہد کا اہم ترین مرثیہ گو شاعر
People of the Facebook – by Mobarak Haider
De-legitimizing Islamic Fundamentalism – By Hammad Khan
Why then has the great ISI, the Mother of All Agencies, not been able to find Mullah Radio’s radio station? Asks Kamran Shafi
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Jacked (2015-2016)
Eric Kripke (creator of Supernatural) teams up with Vertigo veterans John Higgins (HELLBLAZER) and Glenn Fabry (PREACHER) to bring you a very Vertigo take on the modern superhero in this six-issue miniseries. Josh Jaffe, a neurotic family man mid-midlife crisis, buys an online “smart pill” to increase his focus and jolt him out of his slump. But to Josh’s surprise, the pill gives him incredible strength and power-but its cost is that it’s extremely addictive. This irreverent and brutally realistic story examines both the mighty highs and humiliating lows of being a real-life superhero.
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Survivors' Club (2015-2016)
One was possessed by a poltergeist. Another was trapped in a haunted house. A third had a killer doll. Ever wonder what happened to these children of the 1980s? Find out in SURVIVORS CLUB, a new series cowritten by renowned horror novelist Lauren Beukes and videogame journalist Dave Halverson, with art by Ryan Kelly (NORTHLANDERS). Having found each other over the internet, six grown-up survivor
Kid Eternity (1993-1994)
Ever wonder who's calling the shots? Ever wonder if those in control are reviewing all the resumes? If not, consider the case of Kid Eternity. Everyone knows someone like the Kid-the dude who seems just too cool to live. In his case, though, it's true. Kid Eternity is dead, though he tries not to let that cramp his style. In a lot of ways, he's a pretty typical teenager-more interested in the worl
Effigy (2015)
After a sex-tape scandal, former Hollywood child star turned Z-lister Chondra Jackson returns to her hometown of Effigy Mound, Illinois, to find a seemingly impossible crime – a fresh corpse in an ancient Indian burial site. Will Chondra become the hero detective she played as a child…or is she in fact a cult’s unwitting messiah?
Art Ops (2015-2016)
In this new series by Shaun Simon, co-writer (with Gerard Way) of The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and legendary artist Michael Allred (iZOMBIE), art not only imitates life, it becomes it! When rogue figures from famous works of art come to life and escape their frames, it's up to Reggie Riot and the agents of Art Operatives to track them down before they wreak havoc on the unsuspecting pu
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1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
17 As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.
6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.
8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
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Kings Cross by Coke-light
cooled by Orpheum
(place) by maitland Sat Mar 08 2003 at 1:38:41
This ain't Vegas, and it ain't Soho. And it sure as hell ain't Beverly Hills. This is Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia, and the other thing it ain't is pretty. In fact it's downright ugly. It's 1 o'clock on a winter Sunday morning, the footpaths are crowded, and everyone's got a story.
The four halter-girls swearing and giggling in front of the Kings X Bar would each have a story to tell, if you could get them to stop swearing and giggling. The adidas track-suit guy manning the tiny barbeque by the footpath would have a story to tell, but you’d have to buy a hot-dog first. Did I say hot-dog? More like a barbequed beef sausage in a bun, smothered in onions, cheese and mustard and presented in a paper serviette, the culinary intersection between Hill Street and Ramsey Street.
The two young Asian boys running and dodging towards us through the drifting early-morning crowd have almost certainly got a story to tell, and you can be sure it’s still pretty fresh in their memories. The two police – one male, one female – in hot heads-back pursuit would have so many stories to tell from this shift alone, if you could get to them in a quiet moment. And the soiled and staggering gent yelling after the runners seems anxious to explain to any who'll listen how he came about the streaming gash on his forehead.
My companions – both of whom are large and at a glance seem rich in potential menace – are hypothesising on the relative merits of assisting the police by the use of a judicious shoulder-charge. "The trouble is the cops around here would just as likely arrest you for assault," opines Joel, a copier salesman who moonlights as a doorman at several Sydney clubs. When asked how corrupt King Cross really is, he says that it's "not too bad at the moment", the unspoken suggestion being that corruption in this, the most unashamedly seedy part of Sydney, is cyclical.
Someone once said that each of us is a maximum of six aquaintances from any other person in the world. They even made a movie based on that very premise. If that's true then I probably know a friend of a friend of a friend who slept with the sadly pretty blonde who shivers in her Gosford-skirt, just next to the Pink Pussycat's brightly lit entrance. It makes me feel jaded just thinking about it.
"Come in, boys," says a man with a ponytail, a heavy jacket and a bow tie. He beckons to with a wide wave of the arm. "Live shows, beautiful girls, strippers. Come in, boys, come in and take a peek." He’s so stereotyped that he almost seems out of place. Joel says something to him, and the doorman responds aggressively, tilting his jaw up a couple of degrees and taking a step in our direction. But his hands remain in his pockets, and any chance of the exchange turning into something more is minimal, since we're not going to stop, and he’s not about to leave his post.
The general feeling of aggression and antagonism in the air seems to be catching. As we weave through the people my other companion Des, a high-level customer service manager in a large national firm, comments, "If one more person bumps into me I'm going to fucken smash him." Mental note to self: walk on the other side of Joel.
Later I'm paying for my meal in Hungry Jacks when I hear shouting behind me. Hell, everyone hears it. The exact topic of the debate is as much a mystery as the relationship of the two men having it. One of them is addressing the other by name, so presumably they're friends, or at very least aquaintances.
The security guards materialise but say nothing. They don't have to – everyone knows what a security guard is for, especially in the Cross. They seem to hold more sway than the police around here, probably because there's a whole heap more of them. Everyone knows who they are and what they can do to you, so when they arrive to break up the melee they need to say little. Instead they each take the arm of one of the combatants and calmly lead them outside. The verbal battle takes up loudly and publicly out on the footpath, but by then the security guards are just amused spectators like everyone else, folding their arms and listening to Craig and his friend (lover, it would seem) air their dirty linen at 1:30 on a Sunday morning. They've got a story to tell, and they're doing everything they can to do just that.
Sitting on the step which forms the boundary to Hungry Jacks (there are no walls to the restaurant – you can just wander into the place from pretty much any direction, since it never closes anyway) is what you might call a bum, a tramp, a homeless person, a lost soul. He wears several jackets, bell-bottomed trousers, and he owns a ghetto-blaster. It sits silently beside him on the step, and for a moment I think how easy it would be to walk past, take it by the handle, and keep walking. Not that I've ever knowingly stolen anything in my life, and it's this fact which frightens me most – that the mentality of the place is seeping through my skull and into my brain, and making me wonder how easy it would be to steal from a homeless man. Then I'm ashamed, doubly so when I see that the stereo’s handle is missing. Deliberately removed? Was I out-thought by a bum before I even got the chance to put my plan into action?
I wonder then if the guitar-playing busker under the ANZ Bank sign across the street has also out-thought me before my actions. This after I find myself saying to my companions, "Jesus, that guy’s terrible. How about we wander over there and bust that guitar over his fucken head?" It’s said as a joke – of course I have no intention of harming the poor man or his instrument, regardless of how badly he plays – but again I have to wonder why all the latent aggression within me is finding its way to the surface now that I'm deep within this place. Perhaps it's the constant ears-pricked stance you adopt, the sidling awareness of others nearby, the wariness you barely notice until you're back in the car and can begin to relax. Unspoken but strangely tangible malevolence dirtying the soles of your shoes.
Or maybe it's how another of my friends explains it. He believes that the rash of violent crime in the immediate area is largely borne of frustration and anger. He presents a scenario - a young man out for a brief and hopefully guiltless sexual encounter with a prostitute, whom he presumes will look like a Penthouse model. They rarely do - at least not the ones he can afford - and three hours later, after a browse through a couple of sex shops, a brief and disappointing foray into a strip club, and an equally disappointing hand-job or furtive quickie with a woman of especially disappointing appearance and physique, he finds himself feeling somewhat empty, his wallet moreso. And a long way from home. Not surprising then, contends my friend, that one bump or jostle, or even a verbal taunt, can escalate into a confrontation which often ends in violence.
But the myths persist, propogated by strip clubs and the soft-porn industry - myths of gorgeous women who claim to want a strong but sensitive man who is great in bed. Gorgeous intelligent women who will still show all the world their private parts in what any alien naturalist would have to assume is a clear mating signal. In short, these women appear to be freely available to all. In the several newsagents along the canyon-like Macleay Street, the men's magazine section is prominent, well-stocked and well-used, unlike most of its suburban equivalents, which are small and towards the back. In one of these stores six men stand before this section, leafing leisurely through their selections. One of them draws a mate's attention to the obvious virtues of one particular lady's bosom, and his friend agrees loudly. No one cares, no one seems to even notice. I mean, there's an X-rated bookshop a couple of doors up and a live sex venue next door, so to this market a selection of Playboys, Mayfairs and Hustlers is really like light beer to a hard liquor drinker - barely satisfying but probably not as bad for you.
We walk back the way we came. A drifter squatting down by a dark shop window is rolling a cigarette. A young man in a baseball cap sits a couple of metres away, smoking. The first man leans toward the second and asks him for a light. Cap-man shuffles up and, instead of providing a flame from a lighter, beckons for Drifter to light his smoke off his own burning one. So he takes the rolled cigarette, makes the tip of his own glow, and lights the fresh one that way before handing it back. Then, drawing on the kind of trust found between people with nowhere to go, they sit and chat about God knows what, as we continue by. It's almost three. It's early Sunday. It's winter. There have to be better places to sit and have a chat and a smoke. There have to be better things to be doing at this time of night. Like sleeping, for instance.
All these people with nothing better to do but walk up and down, then do it again. Could it be that they're all here watching each other, like I am tonight? Perhaps everybody is observing everybody else, like a role-play at the asylum. "Everyone here is mad except me." Maybe it's all just an elaborate laboratory experiment. No, I don't think that anyone could be that inhumane.
What is it about the Cross that makes these people swarm here? It's featured in most Sydney tourist brochures, and the Japanese, Americans, British and Germans come here in droves, wandering arm in arm as they soak up the so-called "cosmopolitan" atmosphere. They even build their own hotels just around the corner so they can get to the Cross more readily. But do they really love it, or are they all as disappointed as I was the first time I came to this place? Back then what chiefly drew me there was not the strip clubs, nor the bookshops, nor the dance clubs, not even the fast-food outlets without doors or wall. It was the enormous Coke sign, a sparkling Sydney landmark which years ago had singlehandedly put William Street on the map. William Street, indeed! As a young man discovering Sydney as a card-carrying adult rather than a hand-holding child, I believed that when I got to stand beneath that sparkling billboard I would feel the same sense of place and personal destiny as I did when I at last crossed The Bridge or strolled the forecourt of the Opera House. Not because I dreamed of standing under a big sign, but because I’d so often seen its photos in brochures, masquerading as a Major Place to Go. But when you stand there and tilt your head back to take it in, you see it for what it really is – a collection of red, white and broken bulbs coreographed to dazzle and amaze, or so it was originally hoped. But the closer you get, the less impressive it looks.
No, this ain't Vegas, nor is is Soho, nor is it Hollywood. This is Kings Cross, Sydney, and if it's like those other places at all it's because despite its ugliness people are still drawn to it. It's an infatuation, like an affair. And just like an affair, and just like gazing up at the Big Sparkly Coke Sign, it's never as good as you think it's going to be.
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Forest take 51-point win over Scott Central
Published 1:20 pm Thursday, January 4, 2001
By By Marty Stamper/The Meridian Star
FOREST Choctaw Central, South Leake, and the host Forest Bearcats all came away with easy wins in the opening round of the Central Mississippi Classic Wednesday.
Today's boys' games have Pearl taking on Scott Central at 4:15 p.m. in the losers' bracket and Choctaw Central facing Forest at 6:45 in the winners' bracket.
Choctaw Central boys 62, Pearl 52: The Warriors improved to 6-11 with the early afternoon win.
Choctaw Central led 20-15 after one quarter and pulled out to a 31-21 halftime advantage. The Warriors extended their lead to 48-31 by the end of the third quarter.
The win, along with a road victory at Williams-Sullivan on Tuesday, gave the Warriors their first back-to-back wins of the season.
Tyler Williamson led the Warriors with 18 points, 12 of which came in the second half. Ira Ben scored 16, Devon Jim had nine, and Braden Sam added six.
Pearl, which is coached by former Mississippi State guard Al Perry, got 16 points from Curwin Burk, 11 from Matt Buchanan (formerly of Newton County and Quitman), and 10 from Ricky Jenkins. The Pirates have only one win to date.
Forest boys 81, Scott Central 30: Scott Central trailed 19-10 after a quarter and that was the Rebels' best period in the 51-point drubbing.
Forest took a 40-12 lead into halftime and was up 59-20 by the end of the third period as the Rebels remained winless for the season.
Forest, 7-8, got 21 points from senior Maurice Longmire who hit five 3-pointers. Braxton Boone scored 11 points, Trevarrous Willis had 10, Charles Rhodes added eight, Justin Lyles scored seven, and Paul Brown and Lorenzo Hunt both had six.
Scott, 0-8, got 13 points from Roderick Loper and five each from Cedric Gray and Courtney McClendon.
South Leake boys 86, Brandon 55: Wildcat senior Jamal Brown scored 42 points to lead South Leake to the blowout victory.
Brown had 13 points in the first quarter as South Leake jumped out to a 25-13 lead. He added 14 points in the second period as the Wildcats cruised into halftime with a 47-25 advantage.
South Leake, the defending Class 2A state champion, improved to 17-1. The Wildcats also got 11 points from Kalus Johnson and 10 each from Chris Bloodsaw and Lekendrick Fortune.
Brandon, whose only win this season came against Class 2A St. Andrew's, got 15 points from Corey Washington, 11 from Richard Burch, and nine each from Jerious Norwood and Terrell Christian.
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Franklin County students receive NW-SCC scholarships
Published 9:19 am Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Numerous local students of the Class of 2016 have been named scholarship recipients by Northwest-Shoals Community College.
MaKayla Grace Franks, Russellville, received a valedictorian academic scholarship. Franks, a graduate from Tharptown High School, is valedictorian and a member of the National Honor Society, Pi Club, Spanish Club, Student Council, Franklin County Junior Leadership, FBLA, SADD and FCA. She was also named Who’s Who Most Likely to Succeed, Alabama Girls State representative and All A’s Honor Roll. While at NW-SCC, Franks will pursue a degree in pre-pharmacy and transfer for a doctorate in pharmacology. She is the daughter of Ronnie and Connie Murray Franks and granddaughter of Sarah Murray and the late Robert Murray and the late Richard and Martha Franks.
Jill Masterson, Russellville, received an applied technology scholarship. A graduate from Russellville High School, Masterson was a member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, SADD, FBLA, HOSA, FCCLA, Chemistry Club and the Library/media club. She was a varsity cheerleader, homecoming court member, class secretary and Who’s Who Most Dependable. While at NW-SCC, Masterson will pursue a degree in nursing. She is the daughter of Jeff and Leah Masterson.
Kathryn Amber Gibson, Phil Campbell, received an academic scholarship. A graduate from Russellville High School, Gibson was a member of National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, CSU, FBLA, Peer Helpers, Junior Leadership, Library Media-Book Lovers Club, Chemistry Club, SADD, FCCLA, RHS Varsity Cheer, Junior Varsity Cheer, UCA All-Star Cheerleader and homecoming court. She received the Cheerleader of Excellence Award, Pin-It Forward Receipt, Senior Who’s Who Best Looking, UCA Staff Invite and is in the top 10 percent of her senior class. While at NW-SCC, Gibson will pursue a degree in anatomy with a minor in chemistry. She is the daughter of Tina Gibson and the late Ron Gibson. Grandparents are Billy and Lorraine Hall and Jan Hollman and the late Carrol Gibson.
Bethany Hope Cook, Russellville, received a valedictorian academic scholarship. A graduate from Red Bay High School, she was a member of the Beta Club, Science Club, Leo Club, English Club, HOSA, SADD, FCA, Spanish Club and the varsity basketball team. While at NW-SCC, Cook will pursue a degree in occupational therapy. She is the daughter of Barry and Tracy Cook and the granddaughter of Orbie and Janice Miller and Floyd and Delois Cook.
Ashlyn Vandiver, Leighton, received an academic scholarship. A graduate from Tharptown High School, Vandiver was a member of FBLA, SADD, Spanish Club, 4-H, FCA, National Honor Society, Junior Civitan, Student Council, Pi Club, Math Club, Franklin Co. Junior Leadership, Basketball, Softball, Volleyball team and Cheerleader. She was class president, Who’s Who “Best All Around,” and Homecoming Queen. While at NW-SCC, she will pursue a degree in nursing. Vandiver is the daughter of Jerry and Melanie Vandiver and the granddaughter of Robert and June Vandiver and Pam Clement and the late Terry Clement and Barbara Mefford.
Kaitlyn Nicole Vandiver, Russellville, received an academic scholarship. A graduate from Tharptown High School, Vandiver was a member of the National Honor Society, 4-H, SADD, FCA, FBLA (president) and softball, basketball and volleyball teams. She is the daughter of Carl and Stacia Long Vandiver and the granddaughter of Thomas and Brenda Long and Bobby and Mary Lou Vandiver.
Kaitlin Burks, Vina, received an academic scholarship. A graduate from Red Bay High School, Burks was a member of Beta Club (president), Leo Club (vice president), Science Club (president), SADD, SAFE, Spanish Club, English Club, Robotics Team, FBLA, FCA, varsity basketball team, varsity track team, RBHS Hall of Fame, Miss RBHS, and named Who’s Who “Most Beautiful.” While at NW-SCC, she will pursue a degree in nursing. Burks is the daughter of Jeff and Amy Burks and granddaughter of Bunt and Kathy Burks and Marshall and Janice Blackburn.
Tierney Barton, of Phil Campbell, received an Opportunity Scholarship. A graduate from Phil Campbell High School, Barton was vice president of the National Honor Society and a member of FCCLA, Yearbook, Junior Civitan, Line Dance Club and Student Council. While at NW-SCC, Barton will pursue a degree in office administration. Barton is the daughter of Chris and Tennille Barton.
Elijah Hal Crandall, of Spruce Pine, received an academic scholarship. A graduate from Phil Campbell High School, he was a member of the National Honor Society, FFA and track and field. While at NW-SCC, he will pursue a degree in wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture. Crandall is the son of Frankie and Sherry Crandall.
Nilka “Ivone” Warrior, of Spruce Pine, received an applied technology scholarship. A graduate from Tharptown High School, she was the president of HOSA and a member of Student Council and SADD. While at NW-SCC, she will pursue a degree in nursing. She is the daughter of Fernando Warrior.
Jeffery Gant Dill, of Russellville, received a salutatorian academic scholarship. A graduate from Tharptown High School, he has held leadership positions in the National Honor Society and FCA. He was a member of Student Council, SADD, Junior Civitan, Yearbook, THS Voices and the football and golf teams. While at NW-SCC, Dill will pursue a degree in communications. He is the son of Jeff and Christy Dill.
Drew C. Boshell, of Hodges, received an ACT scholarship. A graduate from Belgreen High School, Boshell was the captain of the varsity basketball team. He is the son of Stacey and Charles Hogan and Chris Boshell and the grandchild of Larry and Barbara Boshell, Ed Moore and Patsy Hill.
Ashley Marie Seahorn, of Russeville, received an applied techonogly scholarship. A graduate from Russellville High School, she participated in cheerleading, volleyball and the National Honor Society. While at NW-SCC, Seahorn will pursue a degree in nursing. She is the daughter of Shawn Seahorn and Travis Seahorn Jr. and the grandchild of Fred and Jaent McKnight and Travidand Diane Seahorn.
More student scholarship winners will be featured in upcoming editions of the Franklin County Times.
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Moses: I had to say no to the yes men
by Dean Ritchie
26th Feb 2020 10:02 AM
Parramatta star Mitch Moses has revealed the breakthrough moment of his burgeoning career came when ditching a backslapping bunch of opinionated mates and yes men.
"They tell you what you want to hear," Moses said. "I had to learn the hard way."
Speaking at Fox Sports' league launch at the SCG on Tuesday, Moses opened up about having to "cut loose" friends who overinflated the Eels stars' ability. Moses claimed they "overwhelmed him".
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"I had people in my life who I thought were good people for me and my footy but I was relying on them too much. What they thought was good for me, wasn't. They tell you what you want to hear," Moses told The Daily Telegraph.
"It took me a lot of time to realise that I needed to cut them loose and it has been the best for me. I guess I had to learn the hard way.
"You play first grade footy and everyone wants to get into your ear and tell you how to play and tell you you're the best - they would tell me I was playing good footy but I wasn't.
"It was about owning up to that fact I wasn't playing good footy, owning your mistakes. I realised I had to do something.
"I have been through relationships with people that aren't there anymore and I'm better for it. I had too much outside noise and was listening to too many outside of footy rather than just focusing on myself.
Eels coach Brad Arthur supported his young star. Photo: John Appleyard
"People tell you to 'play like this, play like that'. You get overwhelmed but I have learned how to handle it a lot better. You have a lot of people telling you what to do."
The man to watch Moses struggle was Eels coach Brad Arthur, who stepped in and sent his frontline playmaker down a different path.
"Even though we were coming off a bad year (in 2018), I just felt calm last season. It was because I was taking ownership of myself. I wasn't relying on those people to help me with stuff," Moses said.
"In the past I kept things to myself and it probably hurt me. I have learned some tough lessons but I'm in a good place and know how to handle it now. Hopefully it has shaped me into a better person.
"Coming to Parramatta, Brad has been one of the best things for me. He has been enormous for me as a person but also for my footy. I can't thank him enough for the chance to play at Parramatta.
"Brad and I have had some very honest conversations. He has shown faith in me so it's only right if I pay it back."
Moses refused to name names of those who mislead him.
"Just certain people - I just feel a lot clearer now," he admitted.
Moses performed to a sustained, elite level last season, driving Parramatta into week two of the finals.
It was a period of growth that will make Moses a better person and player. Photo: Brett Costello
According to rival players, Moses now looks ready to take another leap forward and win a premiership. The player though is refusing to be suffocated by pressure.
"There will always be talk," Moses said. "In the past, I probably haven't handled (expectations) the best, I guess. I think I have learned a lot of lessons from those past years. Hopefully I have learned a lot for that not to happen again.
"I have been through a fair bit in my young career and I have learned a lot of lessons along the way so hopefully I won't let things slip this time. It has made me mature faster than what normal people would.
"I wouldn't call it pressure but more about how to handle game situations, just life really, having that good balance between footy and when away from footy. Hopefully I have learned enough."
There is a real sense of optimism for Parramatta this year. Photo: James Worsfold/Getty Images
Parramatta famously beat Brisbane in round one of last year's finals but limped out feeling dissatisfied after a big loss to Melbourne a week later. But there is a feeling among rival clubs that Parramatta is building, as is Moses as a player.
Asked were the levels increasing for himself and the team, Moses said: "I hope so. There is a good feeling around the club at the moment.
"We are going to have to aim for the top four. The teams in the past couple of years that have won the comp have been in the top four. That's going to be our goal.
"We'll have to start the season well - that's a big thing. If you don't you then you start chasing your tail and it ends up being too tough. I like how we're training but I'm sure every single NRL club would be thinking they can win the comp but we're looking alright."
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Mehbooba (2008)
163 min | Drama, Romance
After dreaming of a beautiful girl for over 8 years, Budapest-based but born in Rajasthan, Karan, finally gets to meet her in the shape and form of Varsha, who happens to be the foster ... See full summary »
Shravan 'S.D.' Dhariwal
Varsha
Asrani
Karan's Mamaji
Poornima Bhave
Karan's aunt
Sanober Kabir
Annu Kapoor
Hari Singh
Kader Khan
Advocate Sahid
(as Kadar Khan)
Mushtaq Khan
Razak Khan
Shashi Kiran
Reema Lagoo
Karan's mom
Tirlok Malik
Suman Ranganath
(as Suman Ranganathan)
Tabrez Hashmi , Afzal Khan
Robin Bhatt (additional screenplay), Rumi Jaffery (story), Afzal Khan (screenplay), Javed Siddiqui (dialogue)
20 July 2008 | Chrysanthepop
Too Many 'Mehbooba'
It's quite known that 'Mehbooba' was supposed to release almost a decade ago but for some reason it got delayed and finally sees the light of day. It's pretty much the same old love triangle that was frequent in the 90s, with two guys falling in love with one girl, an extended family, lots of travelling abroad etc. It has lavish sets (the interiors of the houses are stunning), lots of expensive traditional costumes and some spectacular shots of Budapest (but suspiciously some of the places bear a striking resemblance to Prague), Rajasthan and New York. Clearly Afzal Khan has spent a lot of money on this. Though I believe his intentions were noble, had the film released on time, it could have been a success.
Some of the comedic dialogues are funny but the lines spoken in the dramatic sequences are very old and too familiar. At some points, the film really drags especially in the last hour. another thing is that the word 'Mehbooba' which is irritatingly repeated in every single song and even in the dialogues. We get that it's the title, no need to remind the viewer every single time.
Ashok Mehta's cinematography works quite well. The songs are okay but they are nowhere close to Ismail Darbar's best works. They are filmed in the typical style set in picturesque locations and expensive clothes. Ajay Devgan and Sanjay Dutt are laughably bad at dancing.
The actors themselves look younger. This film was very likely made during the time when Ajay Devgan was still interested in movies because he doesn't have that I-could-care-less look that he has in most of his recent films. It's not an exceptional performance but he's vivacious and likable. Perhaps this is due to his chemistry with Manisha Koirala as she's one of the few actresses with whom Devgan can hit it off on screen. Sanjay Dutt looks a bit too old for the role, yes, even in those times. He does a decent job. However, it is Manisha Koirala's film. Firstly, it's great to see her back in a commercial film. She looks incredibly beautiful and I think if 'Mehbooba' released during the right time, it may have been better for her career. Her performance is great too and she proves that she can carry a commercial film. Of the supporting cast, only Kader Khan stands out. It's good to see this guy again after a long time.
'Mehbooba' is bad but it wasn't so abysmal that I felt like walking out. It had some good moments but the story is too old to be retold, that too in the old fashioned way. It's still much more bearable than many of the Hindi films releasing today. For me, the best things about this film were the exotic locations and Ms. Koirala (both looks and performance).
The film was in cans for 10 years, It started in 1999 and released in 2008.
Ajay,Sanju and Manisha have inconsistent looks throughout due to the delay in making.
Yaar Tera Shukriya
Written by Anand Bakshi
Composed by Ismail Darbar
Performed by Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)
Drama | Romance
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The Soviet Story (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, History, War
The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
Watch on Prime Video rent/buy from $1.99
Jon Strickland
narrator in English version
(voice)
Vladimir Bukovsky
Self - Russian dissident
V.I. Lenin
(archive footage)
Self - historian, University of Cambridge
Nikolay Melnik
Self - survivor of Ukrainian Famine 1932-33
Volodimir Sergiychuk
Self - historian, National University of Kyiv
Boris Sokolov
Self - historian
Pierre Rigoulot
Self - historian, Institut d'histoire sociale, Paris
Françoise Thom
Self - historian, Université Paris-Sorbonne
George Watson
Self - literary historian, University of Cambridge
Edvins Snore
Edvins Snore (creator)
1 nomination.
13 August 2009 | virtualriga
| Great Movie! Explores the close ideological similarities between Nazism and Stalinism
For his in-depth survey of Soviet crimes against humanity, including Soviet cooperation with the Third Reich, Latvian director Edvins Snore was burned in effigy by Neo-Soviet Russians. It is an ominous badge of honor.
Soviet Story acts as an effective corrective to the popular notion that the Communist experiment only turned horrific when Stalin ascended to power. The film documents orders mandating mass executions, estimated in the tens of millions, originating with the father of the revolution, Lenin. Still, it is devilishly difficult to outdo Stalin's sheer capacity for terror. For instance, the deliberate use of famine to pacify Ukraine is explained here in chilling detail. In a crime against humanity largely ignored by the West, seven million Ukrainians were intentionally starved in the cordoned Republic, as foodstuffs were confiscated at gunpoint by the Red Army.
The heart of Soviet Story explores the close ideological similarities and barbaric collusion between the Soviet Socialists of Stalin and the National Socialists of Hitler. There is an eerie sequence juxtaposing thematically similar propaganda posters from both regimes, side-by-side on-screen. Even more damning are the documents Snore uncovers establishing close links between the SS and the Soviet NKVD (the precursor to the KGB), discussing among other issues, the "Jewish Question." They did not just talk—they carved up Poland between themselves, and at Stalin's prompting, staked their claims to the rest of Europe.
Soviet Story is most devastating when discussing the ways in which the more advanced Soviet killing machine served as the inspiration and model for the Holocaust. According former Soviet intelligence officer Viktor Suvorov: "A delegation of German Gestapo and SS came to the Soviet Union to learn how to build concentration camps." Snore has produced a chilling indictment of the Soviet experience with socialism. He calls some very convincing witnesses, including Bukovsky, and the eloquent Cambridge historians Norman Davies and George Watson. As evidence, he produces some shocking archival film and documents. However, as the film makes clear, none of those who did (and still do) the Soviet dirty work has ever faced justice for their crimes. All told, Snore has produced a passionate but thoroughly reasoned case against the Soviet regime.
Written by Gabriel Fauré
Synopsis (WARNING: Spoilers)
EUR170,000 (estimated)
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WHO warns against pandemic complacency amid vaccine rollout
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva
Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Rio de Janeiro
FILE PHOTO: An employee opens an ultra-cold refrigerator filled with vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a secret storage facility in the Rhein-Main area
A policeman directs crowd at a railway station amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai
Mass testing on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Vienna
GENEVA (Reuters) - World Health Organization officials on Friday warned governments and citizens not to drop their guard over the COVID pandemic now a vaccination was close, saying healthcare systems could still buckle under pressure.
Britain approved Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, raising hopes that the tide could soon turn against a virus that has killed nearly 1.5 million people globally, hammered the world economy and upended normal life for billions.
"Progress on vaccines gives us all a lift and we can now start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, WHO is concerned that there is a growing perception that the COVID-19 pandemic is over," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a Geneva news conference.
Tedros said the pandemic still had a long way to run and that decisions made by citizens and governments would determine its course in the short run and when the pandemic would ultimately end.
"We know it's been a hard year and people are tired, but in hospitals that are running at or over capacity it's the hardest it can possibly be," he said.
"The truth is that at present, many places are witnessing very high transmission of the COVID-19 virus, which is putting enormous pressure on hospitals, intensive care units and health workers."
The virus emerged in Wuhan, China, a year ago since when more than 65 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1.5 million have died.
Two promising vaccines could soon receive emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and some 20 million Americans could be vaccinated this year, helping stem the tide of the virus in the world's worst hit country.
However, the WHO's top emergency expert Mike Ryan also cautioned on Friday against complacency in the wake of vaccine roll-out, saying that although they were a major part of the battle against COVID-19, vaccines would not on their own end the pandemic.
"Vaccines do not equal zero COVID," he said.
Ryan said some countries would have to sustain very strong control measures for some time into the future or they would risk a "blow up" in cases, and a yo-yoing of the pandemic.
"We are in a pivotal moment in some countries. There are health systems in some countries at the point of collapse," he said, without referring to specific countries.
COVAX ROLLOUT
The WHO has backed the COVAX global vaccines programme which seeks to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines and to date has seen 189 countries join.
The WHO's chief scientist said she hoped half a billion vaccine doses would be available for distribution by the COVAX scheme in the first quarter of 2021, with an initial plan to vaccinate the 20% of populations at highest risk, including health workers and people aged over 65.
"The goal is to get at least 2 billion doses by end of 2021 which will be enough to vaccinate 20% of the populations of countries that are part of COVAX," chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told the news conference.
This would be enough to "bring to an end the acute phase of the pandemic" by reducing mortality and the impact on health systems, she said.
COVAX is co-led by the GAVI vaccines alliance, the WHO and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). The United States has not signed up to the scheme, having secured bilateral deals.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva and Michael Shields in Zurich; Writing by Toby Chopra; Editing by Jon Boyle, Catherine Evans and Raissa Kasolowsky)
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Tomás Finn is to celebrate the release of his new title, Tuairim,intellectual debate and policy formulation: Rethinking Ireland, 1954-75, with two launches in January and February.
The first will be held in Galway on the 23rd January, at the Moore Institute,
National University of Ireland. Professor Gearóid Ó Tuaithagh, Dr Mary Harris and Professor Jim Doolan, a member of Tuairim, will be special guests.
The second launch will be held in Dublin on the 19th February. Mr Maurice Manning, Chancellor of the National University of Ireland and Mr Justice Donal Barrington, a founding member of Tuairim will be guest speakers at the launch, which will take place at the National University of Ireland.
If you would like to attend either launch, please contact [email protected]
By Manchester University Press
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MARTA VOLKOVA &
SLAVA SHEVELENKO
Marta Volkova & Slava Shevelenko are an artist duo based in The Nederlands.
Collective mythologies and their relationship to reality.
Brief introduction to the work of Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko
"The act of the monument is not memory, but fabulation."(Deleuze and Guattari, What is philosophy?)
Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko were born in the Soviet Union, that distant country which seems to exist only in history books - if it ever existed - and all their work seems to stem from this legendary beginning. In the era of fabulators, perverse mechanics of alternative facts and ill-intentioned fake news forgers, Marta and Slava are like story tellers: their work is expressed in vast narrative installations where, in their own words, "
objects, images (drawings, paintings, photos), video projections and texts become the actors of a large-scale narration, like a film that one doesn't see on a screen but in which one wanders...”.
Their rich, multifaceted projects like to explore the boundaries between reality and fiction. Using subjects from the collective mythology - the Yeti, the so-called Tunguska meteorite in Siberia - they interweave these with moral, social, philosophical or political metaphors which in turn resonate with the realities of today's world.
But that is not the only way their fables are different from the ranting of all those candidates wanting to manipulate history, some of which, in our own country, operate in broad daylight and on a large scale. Their art - the art of Marta and Slava - is recognizable by a very “Mitteleuropa” form of humour, both in its style as in its references, but above all in its melancholy: somewhere halfway between the pataphysical search for imaginary solutions, Keatons dry humour and the gentle despair of the brave soldier Schwejk. Visually, it is characterized by a breath-taking know-how that allows them to convince with the most offbeat objects - from an authentic flying carpet to insects taking the forms of money ,... - all marked by a constant concern for beauty and by a playful and perfectly timely reflection on the world of art.
Yves Randaxhe, art historian,
curator of the Art Collection National Bank of Belgium.
Born and educated in St. Petersburg (Russia).
In the 80-s active in the avant-garde art scene of St. Petersburg.
Since 1991 living and working in the Netherlands.
"This is Titian, baby", PontArte gallery, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“The Transylvania Archive”, The Dr. Guislain museum, Ghent, Belgium.
“Strange Games”, ARTTRA gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“The Transylvania Archive”, The New Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
“The Altai Files”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“In Anticipation of Economic Boom”, SCHUNCK museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
“The Russian Schizorevolution”, Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“Marta Volkova & Slava Shevelenko”, Palais für Aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt, Germany.
“Last Day of Pompey”, Society of the Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden, Germany.
“Dying for the Art”, Post & Garcia gallery, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“Unexpectedly”, The State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia.
“Ene mene mu...”, Art Agents gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
“Girlfriends and other people”, Angelika Kallenbach gallery, Bonn, Germany.
“Women and Heroes”, Werdermann Art gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
“A terrorist and onknown one”, Kunstfabriek, Potsdam, Germany.
“Cabinet of Mirrors”, Museum Panorama Mesdag, The Hague, The Netherlands.
"Metamorphosis of the memory", The Province house of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
"Beating around the bush #6: Scenes from the Anthropocene", Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
"Mirrors of Time", Castle Old Rekem, Belgium.
“The uncanny string”, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“Lost Paradise”, Kai 10 / Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany. "Coming soon", Bureau Europa, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Installation “About Space and Love” for the show “The Russian Atelier on the Amstel”, Hermitage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Installation “Paintings about me”, for the show “The Big Change”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“The New are coming”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
“Brushstroke”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
“Artists of Perestroika”, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
“Home Exhibition Project”, for 1st Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
“Abstraction in Russia. XX Century”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
“In my likeness”, The Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“Contemporary Leningrad Art”, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, N.Y., U.S.A.
“Geopolitics”, Museum of Ethnography of Nations of the U.S.S.R., Laningrad, Russia.
“Contemporary Leningrad Art”, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pensilvania, U.S.A.
“New Art at the State Russian Museum”, The State Russian Museum, Leningrad, Russia.
“Keepers of the Flame”, Fisher gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
De Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender 2019, Rotterdam, 2019.
“Kollektia!”, catalogue, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2017.
Caspar Cillicens, “Met ironie Poetin te lijf”, De Limburger, december 2017.
Marente de Moor, interview Volkova & Shevelenko, NRC, Amsterdam, 7 juli 2016.
Marente de Moor, “De vergeting: een onspoorde geschiedenis”, catalogus van de tentoonstelling “The-Alatai Files”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2016.
Thijs Lenssen, “Russen gek door ruimteafval”, De Limburger, 30 juni 2016.
Emile Hollman, “Tussen Nederland en Rusland”, Zuiderlucht, mei 2016.
Ludwig Seyfarth, “An Insect as the Projection of Human Desires and Yearnings”, catalogue, Kai 10 / Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, 2014.
“The New are coming”, catalogue, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moskou, 2012.
“The Brushstroke”, catalogue, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2010.
“The Russian Schizorevolution”, VPRO-documentaire op Radio 6, juni 2010.
Domeniek Ruyters, “Avant-garde bric à brac. The Russian Schizorevolutie in Marres”, Metropolis M, Amsterdam, mei 2009.
Andrey Khlobystin, “The Russian Schizorevolution”,Thomas Campbell, “We are living to late”, Ekaterina Andreeva, “Alternative Museum”, Marres, 2009.
Wido Smeets, “Tussen de berken”, Zuiderlucht, april 2009.
Caspar Cillicens, “Avant-garde aan vergetelheid ontrukt”, De Limburger, maart 2009.
“The Russian Schizorevolution: the reconstruction by Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko”, The Art Magazine, Moskou, april 2009.
Emille Hollman, “Vreiheid in een jasje”, Zuiderlucht, maart 2008.
Tekeningen in Vrij Nederland, 2007.
“Daying for the Art”, catalogus, galerie Post & Garcia, Maastricht, 2006.
“Russen in Limburg”, BBK-krant, Amsterdam, maart 2005.
“Dreams and Miracles”, catalogus, galerie Steinrötter, Munster, 2004.
“Abstraction in Russia. XX Century”, Palace Editions, St.Petersburg, 2001.
Barbara J. Hazard, “Off Nevsky Prospect”, Open Books, Berkeley, California, 1992.
“Moscow – Leningrad – Tbilissi, Voyage á l'intérieur d'une collection particuliére”, catalogue, Theatre d'Angers, Frankrijk, 1991.
The New from Leningrad”, catalogue, Central Exhibition Hall, Budapest, 1990.
“Keepers of the Flame”, catalogue, Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, 1990.
Jule Reuter, “Gegenkunst in Leningrad”, Klinkhard & Biemann, Munchen, 1990.
“Glasnost”, catalogue, Kunsthalle Emden, Duitsland, 1998.
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Mercedes Diesel Claims
The Case vs Mercedes
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Expression of Chemokine Receptors CCR1 and CCR5 Reflects Differential Activation of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Pattern II and Pattern III Multiple Sclerosis Lesions
Don J. Mahad, Corinna Trebst, Pia Kivisäkk, Susan M. Staugaitis, Barbara Tucky, Tao Wei, Claudia F. Lucchinetti, Hans Lassmann, Richard M. Ransohoff
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the CNS. A recent study identified 4 patterns of demyelination in active MS lesions. The characteristics of pattern II lesions suggested a primary inflammatory mechanism of myelin injury, while pattern III lesions showed features consistent with dying-back oligodendrogliopathy. The recruitment, differentiation, and activation of mononuclear phagocytes are dependent on the expression of chemokine receptors. Using immunohistochemistry we quantified cellular expression of CCR1 and CCR5 in pattern II (n = 21) and pattern III (n = 17) lesion areas of differing demyelinating activity. Infiltrating monocytes in both lesion patterns co-expressed CCR1 and CCR5, suggesting conserved mechanisms of monocyte recruitment into the CNS. In pattern II lesions, the number of cells expressing CCR1 significantly decreased while CCR5 increased in late active compared with early active demyelinating regions. In striking contrast, numbers of cells expressing CCR1 and CCR5 were equal in all regions of pattern III lesions. As hypoxia-like mechanisms may play a role in pattern III lesions, we extended these studies to white matter infarcts (n = 7) in which the expression of CCR1 better resembled pattern III than pattern II lesions. As judged by mononuclear phagocyte chemokine receptor expression, there appear to be distinct tissue environments in pattern II and III MS lesions.
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/63.3.262
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Mahad, D. J., Trebst, C., Kivisäkk, P., Staugaitis, S. M., Tucky, B., Wei, T., Lucchinetti, C. F., Lassmann, H., & Ransohoff, R. M. (2004). Expression of Chemokine Receptors CCR1 and CCR5 Reflects Differential Activation of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Pattern II and Pattern III Multiple Sclerosis Lesions. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, 63(3), 262-273. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/63.3.262
Expression of Chemokine Receptors CCR1 and CCR5 Reflects Differential Activation of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Pattern II and Pattern III Multiple Sclerosis Lesions. / Mahad, Don J.; Trebst, Corinna; Kivisäkk, Pia; Staugaitis, Susan M.; Tucky, Barbara; Wei, Tao; Lucchinetti, Claudia F.; Lassmann, Hans; Ransohoff, Richard M.
In: Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, Vol. 63, No. 3, 03.2004, p. 262-273.
Mahad, DJ, Trebst, C, Kivisäkk, P, Staugaitis, SM, Tucky, B, Wei, T, Lucchinetti, CF, Lassmann, H & Ransohoff, RM 2004, 'Expression of Chemokine Receptors CCR1 and CCR5 Reflects Differential Activation of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Pattern II and Pattern III Multiple Sclerosis Lesions', Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 262-273. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/63.3.262
Mahad DJ, Trebst C, Kivisäkk P, Staugaitis SM, Tucky B, Wei T et al. Expression of Chemokine Receptors CCR1 and CCR5 Reflects Differential Activation of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Pattern II and Pattern III Multiple Sclerosis Lesions. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. 2004 Mar;63(3):262-273. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/63.3.262
Mahad, Don J. ; Trebst, Corinna ; Kivisäkk, Pia ; Staugaitis, Susan M. ; Tucky, Barbara ; Wei, Tao ; Lucchinetti, Claudia F. ; Lassmann, Hans ; Ransohoff, Richard M. / Expression of Chemokine Receptors CCR1 and CCR5 Reflects Differential Activation of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Pattern II and Pattern III Multiple Sclerosis Lesions. In: Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. 2004 ; Vol. 63, No. 3. pp. 262-273.
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Oops! 2 Unaccompanied Minors Put On Wrong JetBlue Flights
September 6, 2016 Travel ArticlesJetBlue, Unaccompanied MinorMichael W
I’ve been asked from time to time if Kim and I would let Lucas fly at a young age as an unaccompanied minor. I’m usually quick to brush off the question with a definite no.
Even though Lucas is an experienced traveler, I can’t imagine a scenario where it would be important enough to have him fly alone, especially not at close to five years old.
The Daily News reports that ” A 5-year-old returning home alone from a family visit in the Dominican Republic was placed on the wrong flight,” by JetBlue.
The boy, who lives in Manhattan ended up a couple of hundred miles away in Boston while his mom was waiting for him at JFK Airport.
Maribel Martinez told the Daily News that she “thought he was kidnapped and never see him again“. The article mentions that “she lost her mind while it took more three hours” to figure out where her son, Andy Martinez Mercado was.
To make matters worse, the JetBlue staff brought Martinez a different 5 year-old boy who they thought was her son.
The boy brought to Martinez had her son Andy’s passport and belonged on the flight to Boston.
Martinez has lawyered-up and plans to sue “JetBlue for their negligence, which caused her family so much emotional distress this summer“.
Some background on the boy Andy’s trip:
Andy flew with his mom to the Dominican Republic on July 28. His mom stayed one week before heading back home, leaving Andy with family. She bought a return ticket for Andy to fly back on August 17, paying the unaccompanied minor fee of $100.
Andy was supposed to arrive in NYC just before 8 AM on August 17. When he didn’t show up at JFK, the airline eventually figured out that he was sent on the wrong plane to Boston. After speaking to his mom, JetBlue put the boy on the next flight to JFK, getting him home on the same day.
In a statement, JetBlue basically said how the two unaccompanied minors who are the same age got mixed up and sent on the wrong flights but were still always being supervised by airline staff.
Martinez (Andy’s mom) says that the airline never apologized or explained how this mistake even happened.
However, JetBlue did try to make things right by refunding $475 for the flight as well as giving $2,100 in credits for future flights. The Daily News reports that “Martinez says that they will never use JetBlue again“.
Would you let a young child fly alone as an unaccompanied minor? In my opinion, 5 years old is a bit young to consider this.
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6 thoughts on “Oops! 2 Unaccompanied Minors Put On Wrong JetBlue Flights”
This is bad parenting at its worst. Let the airline fly your child home so you don’t have to…and then threaten to sue when the airline makes a mistake which still never endangered the child.
I hope any suit brought by this idiot parent is dismissed…and the judge reminds the parent that her parental negligence in dumping parental responsibility on an airline is far worse than anything the airline did. The airline behaved pretty well here in apologizing, taking care of the boys through the mishap, and the. flying the boys home to their correct airports, not to mention refunding the cost of the flights. PLUS providing generous flight credits.
My take? Bad parent who wants to blame anyone but herself. Mistake by airline that still handled it well in the end.
Raul says:
She is suing for emotional distres, it’s mentioned in the post. Imagine the airline loses ur kid then tells u we found him but turns out its not ur kid it’s some other brown kid we thought was urs. The reason she is seeing is because the airline lost her kid. What don’t u get?
Michael W says:
Bill- Interesting take but I’m not sure that I’d call this bad parenting. I don’t understand what the mom is suing for though. The airline got the child back home, refunded the cost of the ticket and offered a credit. Can’t imagine why she thinks she deserves more.
Sueing for emotional distress, didn’t u read the post? The airline lost her kid then told her we found him only to give her the wrong kid. Can u think of a more emotionally distressing situation? I cant.
Fellow blogger “Mommy Points” flew her 6 year old daughter Cate “Unaccompanied” a few months back without a problem. The old rule, “stuff happens” always applies —
Raul- I can’t imagine a more distressing thing to happen to a parent. (I wouldn’t put my son on a plane unaccompanied.) However, what’s the cost for emotional distress? It seems that people want to immediately sue for anything possible. The mom must’ve been so distressed that the kid flew with his Dad soon after. Yes, not as an unaccompanied minor, but if she was so worried, I’d think she wouldn’t want the kid to fly. Better yet, maybe the kid would’ve been afraid to fly if he was so affected by the incident.
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The Suggestion Box #35: Firearm Hands, and Fighting Habits, and Pyramid Heads, Oh My!
Posted on July 9, 2020 July 16, 2020 by Lauren
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Ben’s Movie Pick: Guns Akimbo – Although it goes too far with the occasional gross-out gag, the majority of Guns Akimbo’s humor hits its intended quirky target, and with a bizarre confidence that’s hard to ignore. Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving continue to expand their acting horizons by portraying fairly different characters than what they’re mostly known for (although it’s hard for Radcliffe to surprise me nowadays as he’s already been a wizard, an angel, an undercover neo-Nazi, and a farting corpse), turning what probably would’ve been just an okay-to-good film into something greater. And as expected from the title, Guns Akimbo offers up heaps of balls to the wall, gun-toting action, most of which is choreographed surprisingly well. It’s no John Wick, but that’s okay; Guns Akimbo knows exactly what kind of campy fun it wants to deliver, which it does brilliantly and consistently.
Ben’s Movie Pick: Silent Hill – Silent Hill oozes an eerie atmosphere almost as thick as the fog that envelopes the eponymous town, revealing just enough about the spooky locale to keep you engaged, while still withholding enough to keep you in fear of its unknown properties until the story’s climax. Its cast isn’t anything amazing, but the actors are talented enough to keep you engaged throughout the overly-long story that asks you to endure the occasionally lackluster, lame writing. However, what really keeps you on the edge of your seat in Silent Hill is the fantastic creature design. The insects with faces, molten-skinned children, Pyramid Head, and whatever the Hell those ash-spewing things are, everything is grotesque and unsettling without being gratuitous (with one exception in the movie’s final act). The soundtrack is great too, with lots of haunting pieces throughout. It isn’t a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but Silent Hill is a scary, overall solid horror film, and one of the better video game-based movies that I’ve seen.
Lauren’s TV Pick: Warrior Nun Season 1 – Ben may have been “extremely disappointed” in the first season of Netflix’s new show, but honestly I found it to be pretty enjoyable, especially considering the title had me bracing for the potential dumpster fire of painful campiness. The first couple of episodes leave plenty to be desired as things slowly get going for this Wynonna Earp-esque heroine who spends far too much time on her own dealing with her second chance at life, when what I really wanted was a bunch of training montages with her fellow demon fighting sisters – seriously, all the best scenes involved Ava bouncing off Shotgun Mary, Sister Beatrice, Sister Camila, and Sister Lilith – and I couldn’t care less about this subplot with the scientist and her strange child, but once the show finds what works for it, it becomes clear that there’s a pretty fun world worth exploring here. For season 2 I have my fingers crossed that the show remembers to emphasize the warrior half of the title a bit more. Give us some slo-mo Bennet sisters slicing through the undead in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies energy and I will be more than happy. Oh, and for the love of God, lose the voice over.
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Depersonalization-derealization disorder
Depersonalization-derealization disorder occurs when you persistently or repeatedly have the feeling that you're observing yourself from outside your body or you have a sense that things around you aren't real, or both. Feelings of depersonalization and derealization can be very disturbing and may feel like you're living in a dream.
Many people have a passing experience of depersonalization or derealization at some point. But when these feelings keep occurring or never completely go away and interfere with your ability to function, it's considered depersonalization-derealization disorder. This disorder is more common in people who've had traumatic experiences.
Depersonalization-derealization disorder can be severe and may interfere with relationships, work and other daily activities. The main treatment for depersonalization-derealization disorder is talk therapy (psychotherapy), although sometimes medications also are used.
Persistent and recurrent episodes of depersonalization or derealization or both cause distress and problems functioning at work or school or in other important areas of your life. During these episodes, you are aware that your sense of detachment is only a feeling and not reality.
The experience and feelings of the disorder can be difficult to describe. Worry about "going crazy" can cause you to become preoccupied with checking that you exist and determining what's actually real.
Symptoms usually begin in the mid- to late teens or early adulthood. Depersonalization-derealization disorder is rare in children and older adults.
Depersonalization symptoms
Symptoms of depersonalization include:
Feelings that you're an outside observer of your thoughts, feelings, your body or parts of your body — for example, as if you were floating in air above yourself
Feeling like a robot or that you're not in control of your speech or movements
The sense that your body, legs or arms appear distorted, enlarged or shrunken, or that your head is wrapped in cotton
Emotional or physical numbness of your senses or responses to the world around you
A sense that your memories lack emotion, and that they may or may not be your own memories
Derealization symptoms
Symptoms of derealization include:
Feelings of being alienated from or unfamiliar with your surroundings — for example, like you're living in a movie or a dream
Feeling emotionally disconnected from people you care about, as if you were separated by a glass wall
Surroundings that appear distorted, blurry, colorless, two-dimensional or artificial, or a heightened awareness and clarity of your surroundings
Distortions in perception of time, such as recent events feeling like distant past
Distortions of distance and the size and shape of objects
Episodes of depersonalization-derealization disorder may last hours, days, weeks or even months at a time. In some people, these episodes turn into ongoing feelings of depersonalization or derealization that may periodically get better or worse.
Passing feelings of depersonalization or derealization are common and aren't necessarily a cause for concern. But ongoing or severe feelings of detachment and distortion of your surroundings can be a sign of depersonalization-derealization disorder or another physical or mental health disorder.
See a doctor if you have feelings of depersonalization or derealization that:
Are disturbing you or are emotionally disruptive
Don't go away or keep coming back
Interfere with work, relationships or daily activities
The exact cause of depersonalization-derealization disorder isn't well-understood. Some people may be more vulnerable to experiencing depersonalization and derealization than others, possibly due to genetic and environmental factors. Heightened states of stress and fear may trigger episodes.
Symptoms of depersonalization-derealization disorder may be related to childhood trauma or other experiences or events that cause severe emotional stress or trauma.
Factors that may increase the risk of depersonalization-derealization disorder include:
Certain personality traits that make you want to avoid or deny difficult situations or make it hard to adapt to difficult situations
Severe trauma, during childhood or as an adult, such as experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event or abuse
Severe stress, such as major relationship, financial or work-related issues
Depression or anxiety, especially severe or prolonged depression, or anxiety with panic attacks
Using recreational drugs, which can trigger episodes of depersonalization or derealization
Episodes of depersonalization or derealization can be frightening and disabling. They can cause:
Difficulty focusing on tasks or remembering things
Interference with work and other routine activities
Problems in relationships with your family and friends
Anxiety or depression
A sense of hopelessness
Your doctor may determine or rule out a diagnosis of depersonalization-derealization disorder based on:
Physical exam. In some cases, symptoms of depersonalization or derealization may be linked to an underlying physical health problem, medications, recreational drugs or alcohol.
Lab tests. Some lab tests may help determine whether your symptoms are related to medical or other issues.
Psychiatric evaluation. Your mental health professional asks about your symptoms, thoughts, feelings and behavior patterns, which can help determine if you have depersonalization-derealization disorder or other mental health disorders.
DSM-5. Your mental health professional may use the criteria for depersonalization-derealization disorder listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association.
Treatment of depersonalization-derealization disorder is primarily psychotherapy. However, sometimes medications may be added to your treatment plan.
Psychotherapy, also called counseling or talk therapy, is the main treatment. The goal is to gain control over the symptoms so that they lessen or go away. Two such psychotherapies include cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy.
Psychotherapy can help you:
Understand why depersonalization and derealization occur
Learn techniques that distract from your symptoms and make you feel more connected to your world and feelings
Learn coping strategies to deal with stressful situations and times of extreme stress
Address the emotions related to past trauma you've experienced
Address other mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression
There are no medications specifically approved to treat depersonalization-derealization disorder. However, medications may be used to treat specific symptoms or to treat depression and anxiety that are often associated with the disorder.
Coping and support
While depersonalization and derealization disorder can feel frightening, realizing that it's treatable may be reassuring. To help you cope with depersonalization-derealization disorder:
Follow your treatment plan. Psychotherapy may involve practicing certain techniques on a daily basis to help resolve feelings of depersonalization and derealization. Seeking treatment early can improve your chances of successfully using these techniques.
Learn about the condition. Books and internet resources are available that discuss why depersonalization and derealization occur and how to cope. Ask your mental health professional to suggest educational materials and resources.
Connect with others. Stay connected with supportive and caring people — family, friends, faith leaders or others.
Preparing for an appointment
You're likely to start by first seeing your primary care doctor, but you may be referred to a doctor who specializes in brain and nervous system disorders (neurologist) or a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating mental health disorders (psychiatrist).
You may want to take a family member or friend along, if possible. Someone who accompanies you may remember something that you missed or forgot.
Here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment and what to expect from your doctor.
Before your appointment, make a list of:
Any symptoms you're experiencing, including any that may seem unrelated to the reason for your appointment
Key personal information, including any major stresses or recent life changes
All medications, vitamins, herbs and other supplements that you're taking, including dosages
Some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
What's the most likely cause of my symptoms?
Are there other possible causes?
Do I need any tests to confirm the diagnosis?
What treatments are available? Which do you recommend?
Are there alternatives to the primary approach that you're suggesting?
Do I need to see a specialist?
Is there a generic alternative to the medicine you're prescribing?
Are there any brochures or other printed material that I can have? What websites do you recommend?
What to expect from your doctor
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Be ready to answer them to reserve time to go over any points you want to spend more time on. Your doctor may ask:
When did you first begin experiencing symptoms?
Have your symptoms been continuous or occasional?
How severe are your symptoms?
What, if anything, seems to improve your symptoms?
What appears to worsen your symptoms?
Do you have any long-term (chronic) health conditions?
Do you have any mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
What medications or herbal supplements do you take?
Do you drink alcohol or use recreational drugs?
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01. Chanson de matin Op. 15 No. 2 (1996 Remastered Version)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Lawrance Collingwood
02. Beau Brummel (1996 Remastered Version): Minuet
03. The Starlight Express Op. 78 (1996 Remastered Version): My Old Tunes (Organ-Grinder)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Lawrance Collingwood/Frederick Harvey
04. The Starlight Express Op. 78 (1996 Remastered Version): O children, open your arms to me (Organ-Grinder)
05. The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 1, Op. 1a: IV. Sun Dance (1996 Remastered Version)
06. Dream Children Op. 43 (1996 Remastered Version): 1. Andante
07. Dream Children Op. 43 (1996 Remastered Version): 2. Allegretto piacevole
08. Salut d'amour Op. 12 (1996 Remastered Version)
09. Minuet Op. 21 (1996 Remastered Version)
Northern Sinfonia of England/Sir Neville Marriner
10. May Song (1996 Remastered Version)
11. Rosemary (that's for remembrance) (1996 Remastered Version)
12. Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra Op. 62 (1996 Remastered Version)
Northern Sinfonia of England/Sir Neville Marriner/Michael Chapman
13. Sevillana Op. 7 (1996 Remastered Version)
14. Sérénade lyrique (1996 Remastered Version)
15. Mazurka Op.10 No. 1 (1996 Remastered Version)
16. Serenade mauresque Op. 10 No. 2 (1996 Remastered Version)
17. Contrasts Op. 10 No. 3 (1996 Remastered Version)
18. Carissima (1996 Remastered Version)
19. Mina (1996 Remastered Version)
01. Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Op. 27 (1981 Remastered Version): I. The Dance (Sonnenbichl)
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar
02. Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Op. 27 (1981 Remastered Version): II. False Love (Wamberg)
03. Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Op. 27 (1981 Remastered Version): III. Lullaby (In Hammersbach)
04. Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Op. 27 (1981 Remastered Version): IV. Aspiration (Bei Sankt Anton)
05. Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Op. 27 (1981 Remastered Version): V. On the Alm (Hoch Alp)
06. Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Op. 27 (1981 Remastered Version): VI. The Marksman (Bei Murnau)
07. Symphony No. 3 in F minor Op. 28, 'Irish" (1994 Remastered Version): I. Allegro moderato
Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar
08. Symphony No. 3 in F minor Op. 28, 'Irish" (1994 Remastered Version): II. Allegro moderato vivace
09. Symphony No. 3 in F minor Op. 28, 'Irish" (1994 Remastered Version): III. Andante con moto
10. Symphony No. 3 in F minor Op. 28, 'Irish" (1994 Remastered Version): IV. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
01. An English Suite: I. Prelude
Richard Hickox
02. An English Suite: II. In Minuet Style
03. An English Suite: III. Saraband
04. An English Suite: IV. Caprice
05. An English Suite: V. Pastoral
06. An English Suite: VI. Air
07. An English Suite: VII. Frolic
City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
08. Elegy, Op. 58
09. Sospiri, Op. 70
10. Serenade in E minor Op. 20: I. Allegro piacevole
11. Serenade in E minor Op. 20: II. Larghetto
12. Serenade in E minor Op. 20: III. Allegretto - Come prima
13. Lady Radnor's Suite: I. Prelude
14. Lady Radnor's Suite: II. Allemande
15. Lady Radnor's Suite: III. Sarabande
16. Lady Radnor's Suite: IV. Slow Minuet
17. Lady Radnor's Suite: V. Bourrée
18. Lady Radnor's Suite: VI. Gigue
01. Morning, Communion and Evening Services in G Major, Op. 81: No. 9, Evening Canticle 1, Magnificat, "My soul doth magnify the Lord" (Treble, Chorus, Organ)
King's College Choir, Cambridge/James Vivian/Stephen Cleobury
02. Morning, Communion and Evening Services in G Major, Op. 81: No. 10, Evening Canticle 2, Nunc dimittis, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace" (Baritone, Chorus, Organ)
03. For Lo I Raise Up (Motet) in F Minor, Op. 145: "For lo, I raise up that bitter and hasty nation" (Chorus, Treble, Tenor)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/James Vivian/Stephen Cleobury
04. Bible Songs and Six Hymns, Op. 113: No. 4a, A Song of Peace, "There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse" (Tenor, Organ)
John Mark Ainsley/Stephen Cleobury
05. Bible Songs and Six Hymns, Op. 113: No. 4b, Hymn, "Pray that Jerusalem" (Chorus, Organ)
06. 3 Motets, Op. 38: I. Justorum animae (Chorus a cappella)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
07. 3 Motets, Op. 38: III. Beati quorum (Chorus a cappella)
08. 3 Motets, Op. 38: II. Coelos ascendit hodie (Chorus a cappella)
09. 6 Short Preludes and Postludes for Organ, Set 2, Op. 105: VI. Postlude in D Minor (Allegro)
Stephen Cleobury
10. Magnificat for 8-Part Chorus in B-Flat Major, Op. 164
11. Bible Songs and Six Hymns, Op. 113: No. 6a, A Song of Wisdom, "I came forth from the mouth of the Most High" (Tenor, Organ)
12. Bible Songs and Six Hymns, Op. 113: No. 6b, Hymn "O for a closer walk with God" (Chorus, Organ)
13. The Lord is my Shepherd for Chorus and Organ (Psalm 23)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury/James Vivian
14. Morning, Communion and Evening Services in C Major, Op. 115: No. 10, Evening Canticle 1, Magnificat, "My soul doth magnify the Lord" (Chorus, Organ)
15. Morning, Communion and Evening Services in C Major, Op. 115: No. 11, Evening Canticle 2, Nunc dimittis, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace" (Chorus, Organ)
01. Symphony No. 5 in B minor, 'Symphonic Fantasia' (1987 Remastered Version): I. Stress (Slow - Allegro - Tempo I) -
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult
02. Symphony No. 5 in B minor, 'Symphonic Fantasia' (1987 Remastered Version): II. Love (Lento) -
03. Symphony No. 5 in B minor, 'Symphonic Fantasia' (1987 Remastered Version): III. Play (Vivace - Tranquillo - Vivace) -
04. Symphony No. 5 in B minor, 'Symphonic Fantasia' (1987 Remastered Version): IV. Now (Moderato - Tranquillo)
05. Blest Pair of Sirens (1987 Remaster)
London Philharmonic Choir/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult
06. Symphonic Variations (1987 Remastered Version)
07. Elegy for Brahms (1987 Remastered Version)
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10 edition of Ghost stories found in the catalog.
Published 1993 by Kingfisher in New York .
Ghost stories,
Children"s stories,
Ghosts -- Fiction,
An illustrated collection of scary stories.
Statement chosen by Robert Westall ; illustrated by Sean Eckett.
Series Story library
Contributions Westall, Robert., Eckett, Sean, ill.
LC Classifications PZ5 .G333 1993
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2 edition of Public hearing before Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee found in the catalog.
New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.
testimony on the subject of using decommissioned subway cars as artificial reefs.
by New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.
Published 2002 by Office of Legislative Services, Public Information Office, Hearing Unit in Trenton, N.J .
Artificial reefs -- Government policy -- New Jersey.,
Subways -- Rolling-stock -- Recycling -- New Jersey.
Other titles Testimony on the subject of using decommissioned subway cars as artificial reefs
Contributions New Jersey. Office of Legislative Services. Public Information Office. Hearing Unit.
LC Classifications KFN1811.4 .A375 2002
Pagination 73, 64 p. :
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Black U.S. Capitol Police Officer Hailed As Hero For Taking On Domestic Terrorists
In one of the most harrowing images to emerge from the so-called insurrection, Eugene Goodman averted the angry mob away from the Senate chambers.
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Among the many shocking images of destruction and wanton folly to emerge from the invasion of the U.S. Capitol by mostly white domestic terrorists, one was especially jarring. A U.S. Capitol police, Eugene Goodman, was seen on video taking on the violent mob by himself while leading them away from the Senate chambers, earning him a nod as a hero to many.
The image of Goodman bravely shoving one of the protestors while seemingly retreating was revealed to be a diversionary tactic by CNN reporter Kristin Wilson. Officer Goodman was deliberately drawing the crowd of rioters away from the Senate chambers, which was undergoing the certification of the Electoral College votes in favor of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
Goodman’s heroic actions aside, many on the outside have been critical of the police response to the insurrectionists, especially those who willfully broke the law by stealing personal equipment, causing widespread physical damage to the building, and, perhaps most potently, creating a potential hazard for all in a super-spreader event during the age of COVID-19.
Huffington Post report Igor Bobic was the first to upload the footage of Officer Goodman’s harrowing ordeal with the mob, offering many across the nation a firsthand glimpse into the nature of events that were unfolding inside the famed federal building.`
Officials from both sides of the political aisle have condemned the acts of the invaders while noting President Donald Trump egged it on, although it’d be fair to say that some lawmakers, perhaps plotting their own political future, were somewhat soft in their responses.
His name is USCP Officer Eugene Goodman. Remember his name. He almost certainly saved lives on Wednesday.
My thanks, Officer Goodman. THANK YOU. https://t.co/DwvUqCkW8M
— Kristin Wilson (@kristin__wilson) January 10, 2021
Here’s the scary moment when protesters initially got into the building from the first floor and made their way outside Senate chamber. pic.twitter.com/CfVIBsgywK
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 6, 2021
Photo: Getty
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S’more or Less
I usually wait for three examples before I declare a trend, but this time I’m going to bend my own rule, because two examples—both spotted last week in TechCrunch—are more than enough.
Item #1: “S’moretgage Launches to Bring Real Time Mortgage Data to Real Estate Investors.”
From the TechCrunch story:
From whence the name? It’s a play to make the word “mortgage” less weighty and ponderous. According to [founder Patrick] Browne, the company thought that “S’moretgage could be a nice way to make that word sound a bit less intimidating.” Once you learn how to spell it, it’s not too hard to remember.
A couple of comments:
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“Everybody Has Suggested Changing the Name”
“What if you never had to worry about food again?” asks the home page of Soylent. The company makes a product with the same name: a nutrient-rich food substitute designed to replace traditional meals.
“The packaging is space age, with minimalist black-and-white lettering, reminiscent of Paul Mitchell shampoo.” – “The End of Food”
The New Yorker’s Lizzie Widdicombe traveled to Studio City, California, to interview Soylent’s inventor, Rob Rhinehart, and one of his partners, Dave Renteln, for “The End of Food,” published in the May 12 issue of The New Yorker. Inevitably, the subject of the name came up:
I asked if they really planned to call their product Soylent—which, in my unofficial field research, had evoked, at best, unpleasant associations with “soy” and “soil,” and, at worst, alarmed recitations of the movie catchphrase “Soylent Green is people!”
“Everybody has suggested changing the name,” Rhinehart said. “Investors, media people, my mom.”
“My mom, too,” Renteln said.
Rhinehart said that he liked the self-deprecating nature of the name, and the way it poked fun at foodie sensibilities: “The general ethos of natural, fresh, organic, bright—this is the opposite.”
Anyway, he said, a lot of young people never got the memo about Soylent Green’s being people. “If you Google ‘Soylent,’ we’re in front of the movie.” He added, “Remember, Starbucks was the guy from ‘Moby-Dick.’ ”
Starbuck, actually.
I like the Soylent name—and the whole never-worry-about-food, anti-foodie premise—and wish Rhinehart much success. But he isn’t the first entrepreneur to seize on the “Soylent” name. Soylent Green Crackers (“People Food”) was developed by San Francisco’s Parallax Corporation as a conversation piece and a way to bring an imaginary, movie-spawned idea to life. Soylent Green Crackers have been around for a few years; I wrote about them in September 2011. They’re out of stock on Amazon.
For the hacker crowd, there’s a Make Your Own Soylent website with hundreds of recipes, many of them fancifully named: Metroid Nootropics, Bachelorette Chow, Dingosaurus_KetoFood, Soylent in Paris, Rainbow Unicorn Feed.
Watch: Charlton Heston utters “Soylent Green is people!” in a climactic scene from Soylent Green (1973).
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HBO’s “Silicon Valley” Gets into Naming Trouble
The trouble isn’t the unimaginative name of HBO’s new comedy series, which the pay-cable network has just renewed for a second season, just three episodes into Season 1. Rather, I’m talking about the major plot point of Episode 3, “Articles of Incorporation,” which aired Sunday night.
The business and tech bloggers who covered the episode found nothing amiss in the story. But to anyone who knows how business names work, it betrays the naïveté of the show’s creators.
The protagonist of “Silicon Valley” is a programmer, Richard, who’s inadvertently developed a file-compression algorithm. For reasons that haven’t yet been explained (and may never be), he named the algorithm—and the start-up he creates around it—“Pied Piper.”
Everyone but Richard hates the name. But that’s not his biggest headache.
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Posted at 10:40 AM in Domains, Fictional Names, Naming, Sloganclones, Slogans and Taglines, Startups, Television, Trademark, Twitter, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (4)
Thanks, But…
A San Francisco startup called Gramr has blasted past its $15,000 Kickstarter goal in less than two weeks and appears likely to reach its “stretch goal” of $50,000. Before I give you any links or clues, try to guess from the name alone what Gramr makes. Language-learning flash cards? National Grammar Day T-shirts? An app that corrects your faulty subject-verb agreement?
No, no, and no. Gramr looks and sounds exactly like “grammar,” but the company has a completely different mission.
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Let’s Talk About Names
Need fast feedback about a naming dilemma? On a tight budget? You can now hire my expert naming services by the minute—yes, one-sixtieth of an hour—through Clarity.fm*, a year-old San Francisco company that connects entrepreneurs with experts, over the phone, for advice on business challenges.
In a 15-, 30-, or 45-minute phone conversation (or longer, if you have the stamina), I can review your naming objectives and criteria, give you a quick professional critique of your top name choices, and point out areas you may have overlooked. You can ask me questions about product names, company names, taglines, domains, or brand architecture. There’s no obligation to hire me for further naming work, but if you’d like to do so we can talk about that, too.
Yesterday, for example, I spoke with a couple of entrepreneurs in Vancouver, BC, who wanted my opinion of their four top name candidates. In a fast-paced 17-minute call, I gave them my impressions of the names and advice for a follow-up round of creative work.
Sound good? Read about how it works, check out my Clarity profile, then sign up and give me a call!
* About that .fm domain extension: It’s the country code for the Federated States of Micronesia—and an apt choice for a company called Clarity.
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October Linkfest
It’s Portmanteauber! But first, let’s welcome the return of the Name of the Year Tournament, “a celebration of unconventional names and the people who wear them.” After a 30-year run, NOTY’s originators stepped down in 2012; the tournament is now run “by two recent graduates of a university near Chicago” with “boring names” who are carrying on the tradition under a new URL. This year’s brackets include Hurricane Weathers, Fancy English, and Leila Bossy-Nobs. Go forth and vote!
“One of my biggest language pet peeves is the phrase ‘That’s not a word’,” writes James Callan, a content strategist and linguistics aficionado in Seattle. So he launched the Nixicon “to find and retweet people on Twitter who claimed that something isn’t a word.” In less than a week he’d discovered and circulated more than 200 “not a word” tweets.
A few days after starting this, one thing is clear: people really hate irregardless, ain't, and mines.
— That's Not A Word (@nixicon) October 14, 2013
As for the Nixicon name, James says it’s “a portmanteau of ‘nix’ (meaning ‘no’) and ‘lexicon’.”
Speaking of non-words and portmanteaus, in May 2012 a group of lexicographers, poets, and authors coined “phubbing”—a portmanteau of “phone” and “snubbing”—to describe “the phenomenon of ignoring people in front of you in favor of paying attention to your phone,” according to an article in Advertising Age. Since then, the ad agency McCann Melbourne has been seeding the word—on Facebook and the StopPhubbing website, among other platforms—as a way to create interest in, and sell more copies of, a new edition of Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary. The Wordability blog (which slightly misrepresents the word’s origin) calls phubbing “the best new word of the year” and says the word’s rise demonstrates “all that is good about modern word formation.”
Watch Macquairie’s video about the birth and spread of “phubbing.”
Why do some invented words—gobbledygook, blurb, and smog, for example—catch on? Ralph Keyes writes in The American Scholar that “need and usefulness” and the ability to “capture a widespread sensibility” are key indicators. So is playfulness: “A remarkable number of terms we use today originated in the speech bubbles and captions of cartoonists,” Keyes observes.
In a couple of months we’ll be placing our bets on the 2013 word of the year. Allan Metcalf, author of many books on language (including the definitive history of “OK”) and the executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, makes the case for “Obamacare” as this year’s leading candidate. (My own money, as of this moment, is on “shutdown.”)
My friend Suzanne Mantell, a writer, editor, and rare-book dealer, has written a lovely defense of old-school reading matter: “Real Books and Why We Love Them.”
Another friend, Mike Madrid, has published a new book: Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics. (Mike also wrote The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines.) An illustrated excerpt from the new book—“10 Most Badass Comic Book Heroines”—is up at Huffington Post. I’m loving the name of these nearly forgotten supergals: Jill Trent, Science Sleuth! Madame Strange! Betty Bates, Lady-at-Law! And how did they get away with “Pussy Katnip”?
There were plenty of snorts and snickers in my Twitter timeline over Fukuppy, the name of Fukushima Industries Corporation’s new egg-shaped mascot. But as Victor Mair, Language Log’s Asian-language expert, explains: “Fukuppy is actually a very nice name for a mascot in Japanese.”
Thirty days hath Septaper? In Word Routes, Ben Zimmer looks at “the financial word of the moment,” taper, and how it gave rise to the portmanteaus Septaper (a gradual slowdown of bond-buying in September) and Octaper (ditto, for October). “September through December seem to lend themselves to creative blending,” Ben writes, “perhaps because the names form a prosodic pattern: each is a three-syllable sequence with a stressed middle syllable (i.e., an amphibrach) and ends in -er.” My own “portmonthteau” sightings include Socktober, Sharktober, OAKtober (celebrating the Oakland A’s), and Archtober (pronounced, perplexingly, ark-tober). (And see my 2012 post on X-toberfest.)
Cronut, shmonut: Earlier this month Starbucks UK introduced a doughnut-muffin hybrid it dubbed the Duffin. Just one little problem with that: a small British bakery chain, Bea’s of Bloombury, has been selling its own “duffin” since at least 2011. (That last link includes a list of several other pastry portmanteaus, including the townie, the crookie, the fauxnut, and the muffle.) Alas, proprietor Bea Vo never troubled with trademark protection. As it happens, Bea’s coinage wasn’t original, either: Barry Popik, a historian of food terms, has found print citations for “duffin” going back to 2007.
And speaking of food portmanteaus:
Did no one @BurgerKing say #satisfries out loud and know it sounds like "Saddest Fries"?
— Rye Silverman (@ryesilverman) September 27, 2013
Posted at 05:54 AM in Books, Dictionaries, Japanese, Lingo, Linkfest, Mascot, Media, Name of the Year, Naming, Portmanteaus, Startups, Trademark, Word of the Year, Words | Permalink | Comments (1)
Those Crazy Startup Names!
In today’s Wall Street Journal, reporter Lindsay Gellman looks at the “increasingly quirky names” of startup companies. Her examples include Mibblio (a “digital sing-along storybook”), Kaggle (which connects companies to big-data scientists), and Shodogg (a mobile screen-sharing service). As with most stories about naming, this one is a mix of solid information and misleading assertions. (Disclaimer: I was interviewed for the story’s sidebar about naming trends such as the perplexingly popular -ly suffix.)
My take on the story:
“Quirky” names are not a recent phenomenon. As Gellman rightly points out, Yahoo! and Google were considered bizarre names 20 years ago. In the late 1990s, so were FogDog and Jamcracker (which survived the dot-com bust) and Flooz (which didn’t). Back in 2006, I wrote about startup names like Ookles, Simpy, Weekemor, and DimDim. But oddly spelled names have been with us for much longer than that. In 1999, Salon’s Ruth Shalit wrote a much-cited article on “the vicious world of corporate name-creation”; her examples included the car names Xterra and Alero and the corporate names Acteva and Aquent. Science-fiction-y names have been common in pharmaceuticals for decades (Xanax, Zyrtec, Zyprexa). And you can go back even further, to Cheez-It crackers (1921) and Tastykake baked goods (1914) to trace Americans’ enthusiasm for krazy spellings.
You don’t need a short dot-com URL. You may not need a dot-com at all. The reason for the latest of crop of wacky spellings, Gellman writes, “is that practically every new business—be it a popsicle maker or a furniture retailer—needs its own website. With about 252 million domain names currently registered across the Internet, the short, recognizable dot-com Web addresses, or URLs, have long been taken. The only practical solution, some entrepreneurs say, is to invent words, like Mibblio, Kaggle, Shodogg and Zaarly, to avoid paying as much as $2 million for a concise, no-nonsense dot-com URL.” Nonsense on many levels. Many dot-com names, even short ones, can be bought from third-party owners for less than $2,500. A short name isn’t always the best name. Your URL doesn’t have to be your name: The web address of Open, a design agency in Manhattan, is notclosed.com. And alternatives to .com abound—.us, .ca, and the many country-code domains that can be employed in creative ways. An example from my own portfolio: PostAndBeam.is (Iceland country code).
Do-it-yourselfers beware. Creating a good business idea doesn’t mean you can create a good business name. The skills simply aren’t the same. Naming consultants, on the other hand, have the knowledge and experience to point out illogical pronunciations and unintuitive spellings that will hinder your brand. If you can’t afford a full naming consultation—less expensive and more cost-effective than you think—then at least opt for a short review.
Forget the focus group and focus on the naming brief. One entrepreneur quoted in Gellman’s story, an Australian data scientist named Anthony Goldbloom, says he was “too frugal” to buy an existing domain—or, presumably, to hire a naming professional. Instead, he created an algorithm that spit out 700 names. He picked two finalists and “dashed off an e-mail to family and friends asking for their preferences.” He took their advice and chose Kaggle … which, it turns out, is mispronounced by many Americans. Goldbloom is probably very good at data science, but a) that’s a terrible and unscientific way to conduct a focus group, b) “dashing off an e-mail” is no way to do a names presentation, and c) focus groups are good for product testing and user experience; they’re bad for names, taglines, and logos. (Everyone has an opinion, but only a few people should have a vote.) Instead of polling his nearest and dearest, Goldbloom should have poured his energies into a solid naming brief that spelled out his naming objectives (what does the name need to communicate?) and criteria (which words, word parts, sounds, and letters are most desirable in the name?). Better still, he should have asked for professional help.
Almost lost in the WSJ story is this quote from Steve Manning, a principal at the Bay Area naming company Igor International:
“The primary driver for startup naming right now is the misguided mission to find the shortest possible, pronounceable [unclaimed] dotcom address,” says Igor's Mr. Manning.
Startups are likely underestimating their potential customers, and adding an unnecessary constraint, in clinging to short URLs, he adds.
(Emphasis added.)
Good advice. Is anyone listening?
UPDATE: Rebecca Greenfield of The Atlantic Wire quotes me in "The Pitfalls of the Clever.ly Named Startup."
UPDATE #2: "Silicon Valley's Stupid Naming Problem" reproduces my Pinterest board without crediting me by name.
Posted at 09:24 AM in Domains, Names in the News, Naming, Startups, Trends | Permalink | Comments (5)
Nicely Named: Oxgut Hose Co.
You have to admit it takes guts to name a consumer-product company Oxgut. But that’s exactly why this name works so well. It’s tough, it stands out, and it tells a story – just like the products that bear its name.
Oxgut Hose Co., a startup here in Oakland that’s currently raising money through Kickstarter, salvages “retired” fire hoses that have become unsafe and turns them into useful products: floor mats, furniture, hammocks, tote bags. “Tons of fire hose ends up in landfill,” says company founder (and former ad-agency producer) LauraLe Wunsch*. “And that’s where we come in. We work with fire departments to intercept the fire hose before it goes to the Dumpster and repurpose every bit possible.”
Well-executed stencil-style wordmark.
Those salvaged hoses are weathered yet still rugged and surprisingly colorful. “I’ve never seen anything so full of character or so worthy of a second life,” LauraLe says.
So why “Oxgut”? Because that’s what the first fire hoses were made from. Here’s how a staggeringly comprehensive How Products Are Made article on fire hoses tells the story:
The earliest recorded use of fire hose was in ancient Greece. According to the Greek author Apollodorus, one end of an ox’s intestine was attached to a bladder filled with water. When the bladder was pressed, the water was forced through the long ox gut and was directed “to high places exposed to fiery darts.”
Oxgut Hose Co. doesn’t belabor this history, but it makes sure the name isn’t an indecipherable enigma, like too many startup names I see.
Oxgut also plays, but doesn’t overplay, the emotional card. Just in case you’ve forgotten why fire hoses matter, the company tagline is “Exclusive designs with a heroic past.”
Fire-hose floor mats and non-fire-hose T-shirts from Oxgut.
In addition to creating an effective name and tagline, Oxgut’s founders are doing a lot of other things right. They’ve filed for trademark protection of the name, and they’re working the social-media angles. They’ve also produced a gorgeous print brochure with professional photos of all the products. And they’re showing a social conscience – while reinforcing the origin story – by donating a portion of their proceeds to the Children’s Burn Foundation.
To learn more about Oxgut and its products, check out Oxgut’s Kickstarter video and Facebook page.
* LauraLe is a neighbor of mine, and I’ve happily supported her Kickstarter, but I have no other connection to Oxgut.
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Underwear Week: Startups
It’s Day Three of Underwear Week! Time for some news of the new.
TechCrunch, to which I turn for the latest info about gadgets, gizmos, and Google, surprised me a couple of weeks ago with a guest column by research analyst Ross Rubin about, of all things, four new underwear companies. The tech angle? All four startups had sought crowdfunding to build their businesses; two succeeded, two didn’t. My angle? The companies’ names, naturally.
Thinx (pronounced “thinks”) was started by three women in New York City who saw a need for leakproof, stainproof underwear that women can wear confidently during their periods (referred to in the Kickstarter video with inexplicably coy euphemisms like “that time”).
“QUAD-DRY BreatheTECH” provides “a leak and stain resistant support matrix that’s got you covered.”
The project met its funding goal, but the name falls short. Yes, it’s non-descriptive (remember, that’s a good thing), but the spelling makes it look like a knockoff—or a spinoff—of the successful Spanx brand, and the “think” concept strikes me as off-target. The customer doesn’t care how much thinking went into your product, and she doesn’t want to have to overthink her purchase. (“Think” is also overused in branding to the point of meaninglessness.) The dull, redundant tagline, “Rethinking Women’s Underwear,” doesn’t convey a benefit or convince me to buy.
The bottom line, so to speak: an interesting product that could better realize its potential with a more effective, less derivative name/tagline combination. Something sassy and unexpected is what’s called for here.
By the way, a tip of the hat to columnist Rubin for working “panty ante” into his copy.
Snowballs (“Cooling underwear for conceiving men”) also addresses a serious problem—male infertility—and it does so with candor (in the pitch) and humor (in the name). “Testicular cooling has been shown to increase sperm count,” the website informs us, “particularly in cases of varicoceles, and we’ve created an comfortable, organic product that will help you succeed naturally before investing thousands of dollars in other risky, more invasive solutions.” I love the product name (and also the Procreativity.net domain name), but backers balked, possibly put off by the product’s high market price ($65 to $80).
Don’t give up, Snowballs! I’d love to see you pitch on “Shark Tank.”
JockGods is a decent name, but slightly misleading if what you’re selling is “high-quality underwear designed for men and women”: both “jock” and “god” suggest that these undies are for guys only. There’s also nothing particularly distinctive about the product. I’m not surprised that the project failed to meet its funding goal.
Helux Gear has a clear, straightforward pitch: there’s a need for “ergonomic” (supportive) men’s briefs with a practical, accessible fly. The name has a nice resonance, suggesting both “luxury for men” and “helix” (suggestive of the unusual design of the pouch). “Helix” also sounds powerful, elemental, and science-y, and the logo makes it stick. Backers apparently agreed: they funded the project with room to spare.
Previously on Underwear Week:
Cheekini.
True & Co. and the MILFs.
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New York City gangs take their names very, very seriously, according to “Gang ‘Slang’ers,” in the New York Post. “It took us about a month to come up with our name,” said Piff Montana, a member of the Get Touched Boyz of Jamaica, Queens. … We wanted a name that would make an impact.” The full list of 300 or so gang names reveals a preoccupation with numbers and precinctspercentages: there are gangs called 5 Precinct Percent, 10 Precinct Percent, 40 Precinct Percent, and so on up to 122 Precinct Percent. (Hat tip: NameFlash. And thanks to Dave for correcting me on "precinct.")
New additions to World Wide Words: eastwooding, mirror fasting, underbragging, and gramping. No, gramping is not a misspelling of glamping.
Looking for a title for your book? You can’t go wrong with “The Elements of ___,” says Poynter.org’s Roy Peter Clark, who lists more than 25 knockoffs of the Strunk and White original. Here’s the one that inspired his post:
Before she founded the online dictionary Wordnik, Erin McKean worked on the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, a reference that isn’t just for writers but is also by writers—i.e., various writers were invited to contribute notes on words that interested them. One of the writers assigned to McKean was the late David Foster Wallace, who, she writes, approached the copyediting phase as if “someone invited him to an all-day grammar seminar (with celebrity photo signings and vendor's expo hall), combined with a debating society picnic, where the topic was ‘RESOLVED: This Comma Should Be Removed.’ (You're not surprised, are you?)” Read the whole delightful account at “It was wonderful, marvelous, magnificent, superb, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful ...”
The Chamomile Tea Party was formed in 2010 as an alternative to “the rancor between the political left and right” in the US. It’s using modified World War II posters to get the point across, and you can view and download the posters on Flickr.
By outtacontext.
In brand naming, many clients panic if a name is more than five letters long. According to Baby Name Wizard, there’s a contrary trend in baby-boy naming, at least in the US: fear of short names. Finn becomes Finnegan, Quinn becomes Quinlan, and—most boggling of all—Levi becomes Leviathan (“the twisted serpent to be killed at the end of time”) or Leviticus (the third book of the Old Testament, notable mostly for its litany of laws about skin diseases, sacrifices, and genital discharges).
Fellow name developer Chris Johnson (aka The Name Inspector) has created my new favorite Pinterest board: the Wall of Namifying, “logos of companies whose names end with -ify (or, in one case, -efy).” As you probably know, I share his obsession. (And speaking of Pinterest, I’m trying my hand at a similar project: cataloguing the many, many -ly names and logos.)
Linguist Arnold Zwicky collected some wonderful names of minor-league baseball teams, including the Albuquerque Isotopes, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, the Fort Wayne Tincaps, and the Lansing Lugnuts. Then he followed up with an imaginary list of his own. I’m rooting for the Baton Rouge Compacts.
From the Autoextremist blog, a slightly jaundiced guide to the latest auto-industry terms. An “accidental tourist” describes “executives devoid of the qualifications necessary to properly perform the duties assigned to them”; “greenage” is a program’s environmental potential. (Hat tip: Lance Knobel.)
Speaking of jaundiced, there’s nothing like a Condescending Corporate Brand Page to say “We're a big corporate brand using Facebook. So look out for us asking you to like and share our stuff in a faintly embarrassing and awkward way.” Read more about the CCBP in Fast Company. (Note: the CCBP is British in origin—its URL contains “corporate bollocks”—but the themes are, alas, universal.)
He is the very model of an amateur grammarian.
I attended the Brand New Conference last year, when it was held in San Francisco, but couldn’t make it to New York for this year’s conference. Thankfully, organizer Armin Vit has compiled the best quotes and tweets from the event. Here’s a provocative opinion from UK designer Miles Newlin: “Stories have an end, and unless you want to think of your brand as having an end, then forget the storytelling idea, and forget people who talk about brand storytelling.”
See what happened when New York Magazine sent a reporter to TechCrunch Disrupt SF to ask startup founders about their “chronically misspelled” company names. It’s, uh, Osom. (Thanks, Jessica!)
Posted at 07:19 AM in Art, Baby Names, Books, Branding, Cars, Crowdsourcing, Design, Grammar, Holidays, Humor, Jargon, Linkfest, Naming, Neologisms, Nicely Named, Pinterest, Spelling, Sports, Startups, Story | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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City of CT firefighters rescue a puppy stuck in sewerage line in Ruyterwacht
Health Minister Mkhize adamant COVID vaccination rollout plan achievable
Firefighters came to the rescue of a puppy stuck in a sewer line in Ruyterwacht on Sunday, after a family heard the dog’s cries from their toilet.
The City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service received an early morning call where the first team to respond found that the puppy was stuck in a pipe behind the house.
The family had heard the puppy’s distant cries from their toilet, and quickly called for help when they realized a member of their neighbour’s litter was missing, the City said.
The firefighters called for assistance from another department and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Mayco Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith. said: “Help was going to take time and by then, shifts had changed. The fire crews from Epping 3 and Goodwood 3 platoon took it upon themselves to rescue the puppy as they did not know how long he’d been stuck there.”
The puppy was extricated from the sewerage line at 11:15 and handed over to the SPCA to ensure he was in good health.
On Wednesday morning, both crews returned to the property and Goodwood Fire Station Commander Durandt Geldenhuys bought the materials needed to fix the line they’d damaged when they took the puppy out.
“Our firefighters are once again commended for their dedication to not only going above and beyond the call of duty, but to saving lives. On occasion, those lives are of the furry, four-legged variety, and this is a testament to their commitment,” said Smith.
The puppy was given a clean bill of health and although he is yet unnamed, he could soon sport the moniker of one or more of his rescuers, the City said.
-Cape Argus
Mzansi star Babes Wodumo has decided to bless her fans with the before and after picture of herself with her husband-to-be, Mampintsha. Mampintsha proposed to the woman of his life last year October live on Gagasi FM radio station.
The two have come a long way in their relationship and many of their fans can not wait for their wedding date. Learn More
In other news – Before and After photos of Babes Wodumo and Mampintsha leave Fans in stitches
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Minister Mkhize welcomes staff boost for overwhelmed Steve Biko hospital
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Only Marc Márquez Threatens Wayne Rainey´s “Unbeatable” Podium Appearance Percentage Record
Submitted by Dennis Noyes on Fri, 2020-12-11 23:24
Records are made to be broken and, generally, they are. For example, it seems inevitable that even Usain Bolt´s record of 9.58 from 2009 will eventually fall, given the progress of sprinters since Jim Hines won the 100 meters in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in 9.95 seconds, a record that lasted 15 years.
Someone someday will probably break Lionel Messi´s 2012 record of 91 goals in a calendar year, although I can´t imagine anyone ever beating Will Chamberlain´s 50.4 points per game from the 1961-62 NBA basketball season. That record just might deserve the adjective “unbreakable.” In FIM Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing, there are several records that stand out, some that promise to be around for a long, long time.
Back in 2012, just before Marc Marquez entered the MotoGP class, I was discussing with MotoGP statistician Dr. Martin Raines which important records were the most unlikely to be broken, at least in the short-term future. I recall that seven of the most impressive were:
Giacomo Agostini’s record of 122 overall wins (all classes).
Agostini’s record of seven consecutive titles in the premier class.
Agostini´s record of 20 consecutive wins in the premier class.
Valentino Rossi’s record of 23 consecutive podium in the premier class.
John Surtees’ career premier class race-winning percentage of 64.7%
Kenny Roberts’ feat of winning three titles in his first three years in the premier class.
Wayne Rainey’s career podium appearance percentage record of 77.1%
Only one of the above records seemed to be in any immediate danger at the start of the 2020 season. Marc Marquez, coming into the opening round at Jerez this year, was closing hard on Rainey’s podium appearance percentage record. Marquez was at 74.8% with 95 podium appearances in his 127 premier class starts, and his pace over the two previous seasons was 86.5% (32 podium in 37 starts). In 2019, he was either first or second in every race he finished…18 podium in 19 starts. A perfect 19 for 19 season for podium appearances was marred only by crashing out of the lead at COTA in Texas while holding a 3.7 second lead after eight laps. He came into 2020 riding a string of 16 consecutive podium appearances, just seven short of Rossi’s 23 in a row. (Agostini held the previous record at 22 in a row. His MV Agusta was, from 1968 until 1973, without a true factory-level rival and the fifteen-time World Champion’s podium run could have been a much longer had he not chosen to sit out the final two races of 1969 before chalking up another ten podiums in a row…all wins.)
For Marquez to have provisionally overtaken Wayne in 2020, however, he would have needed to have podiumed in at least 19 of the 20 races of that pre-Covid calendar that was shortened to 14.
With Marquez’ condition now in question as he recovers from yet a third operation on the humerus bone of his throttle and brake arm, we can only wonder if the young man from the town of Cervera, (District of Segarra, Province of Lleida, Autonomous Region of Catalonia, Spain) will recover the amazing form of that scintillating 2019 season. If he comes back strong in 2021, he will certainly be on course to threaten at least two of the most prestigious current records…Rossi’s 89 (or more) premier class wins and that amazing 77.1% podium percentage mark of Wayne Rainey. If Marquez is as strong and fast when he returns as he was before the injuries in Jerez, he is likely to beat Rossi’s win total, but Rainey’s podium appearance percentage record will be more difficult to surpass.
The following tables put Wayne Rainey’s record into historic and contemporary context.
Top Ten All Time Premier Class Podium Percentage
There are only five riders above 70% and only ten above 60%, all of them multiple world champions, and only Marquez is currently active. (Rossi currently has a career podium appearance percentage of 56.2%.) John Surtees only made 34 starts before leaving moving to Formula 1, but he won three 350cc titles to go with four in the 500cc class at a time when complete seasons were as short as six races. Marc Marquez is the only active rider in the top ten and the only rider among these great champions who could move up (or down) in the future.
Rider Starts podium podium %
1 Wayne Rainey 83 64 77.1%
2 Marc Márquez 128 95 74.2%
3 Giacomo Agostini 119 88 73.9%
4 Mike Hailwood 65 48 73.8%
5 John Surtees 34 24 70.6%
6 Mick Doohan 137 95 69.3%
7 Kenny Roberts (Snr) 58 39 67.2%
8 Phil Read 53 34 64.2%
9 Eddie Lawson 127 78 61.4%
10 Casey Stoner 115 69 60.0%
Premier Class Podium Percentage Leaders in the “Modern Era”
(1973 to end of 2020 MotoGP Season)
If we consider the “modern era” to have begun in 1973 when Yamaha entered true, factory two-strokes to the 500cc class, previously dominated by four strokes, we limit ourselves to rider’s statistics garnered from over the last 47 years. It is interesting to note that Mark Marquez needed ten less starts than Mick Doohan to achieve 95 podium appearances. That is largely due to the fact that Doohan had only one podium in his first season compared to Marquez’ 16.
Rossi sits poised to take his 200th podium after 354 starts in the premier class. We have included Freddie Spencer and Pat Hennen who tie for eleventh. Although outside the top ten, both riders won half their starts.
2 Marc Marquez 128 95 74.2%
3. Mick Doohan 137 95 69.3%
4 Kenny Roberts 58 39 67.2%
6 Casey Stoner 115 69 60.0%
7 Valentino Rossi 354 199 56.21%
8 Jorge Lorenzo 203 114 56.16%
9 Dani Pedrosa 217 112 51.6%
10 Wayne Gardner 102 52 51.0%
11= Freddie Spencer 62 31 50%
11= Pat Hennen 24 12 50%
Premier Class Podium Percentages for Current Riders
Marc Marquez is clearly the top podium finisher among his contemporaries. Rossi has seen his podium percentage fall over recent seasons, but no other rider is even close. We are seeing a new generation of riders at the beginning of their careers, but all are off to relatively slow starts if we compare their results with Marquez who was on the podium 30 times in his first 36 starts (83.3%) over his first two seasons.
2 Valentino Rossi 354 199 56.2%
3 Fabio Quartararo 33 10 30.3%
4 Andrea Dovizioso 229 62 27.1%
5 Maverick Viñales 105 26 24.8%
6 Joan Mir 31 7 22.6%
7 Alex Rins 63 12 19.0%
8 Alex Marquez 14 2 14.3%
9 Johann Zarco 66 7 10.6%
10 Franco Morbidelli 49 5 10.2%
11 Jack Miller 99 10 10.1%
12 Brad Binder 14 1 7.1%
13 Miguel Oliveira 30 2 6.7%
14 Danilo Petrucci 151 10 6.6%
15 Pol Espargaro 119 6 5.0%
16 Pecco Bagnaia 29 1 3.4%
17 Aleix Esparagaro 179 1 0.6%
Assuming Marc Marquez makes a strong return and races for another five seasons (to the age of 32) and that there are 20 races per season, as Dorna intend, Marc, to beat Rainey’s record, would have to finish top three a minimum of 81 times in those hundred races…and that, if he retired then, would see him edge Rainey 77.19% to 77.11%. That conveys the idea of just how difficult it will be for whoever, if anyone, eventually surpasses Wayne Rainey in career-long consistency.
This Just In…Rossi could be in the hunt for yet another all-time record
And, just as I was finishing this, Dr. Raines suggested one additional “unbreakable” record that might become unexpectedly vulnerable…one more record that could fall to Valentino Rossi. Back in 1953, the final race of the season was held at Montjuic (Barcelona). With the 500cc title already won by Geoff Duke on his Gilera, the World Champion stayed home, leaving Reg Armstrong, already confirmed as second in the class for 1953 and three other Gilera riders to try and add a final win to close the season.
There was also a surprise starter. Recently-proclaimed 350cc World Champion Fergus Anderson of Great Britain, riding a single-cylinder Moto Guzzi “Gambalunghino” 350cc, was entered in the 500cc class. Since there was no 350cc class at Montjuic that year, Guzzi sent what was said to be a slightly over-bored 350cc. Anderson got the holeshot from the second row and led for eight laps until Armstrong blasted past on the four-cylinder Gilera.
And then the rains came. The Gileras and Carlo Bandirola’s MV Agusta, all inline fours, became handfuls on the slippery surface. Armstrong crashed, letting Anderson on the little Guzzi single back into the lead and he battled to hold off Bandirola on the MV and three other Guzzi to—wait for it!—become the oldest rider ever to win a premier-class World Championship race, a record that stands to this day. Anderson was 44 years 237 days old.
Rossi, who will be 42 on February 16, 2021 just might have a shot at that “unbreakable” record if he signs on for another two years beyond the coming season.
All data courtesy of Dr. Martin Raines.
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Great list, and a question
MotorMikey replied on Sat, 2020-12-12 04:19
Does he have the count for most time elapsed between first, and most recent podium? Vale must be at 20 years right? I'd love to know what that top ten list is.
What an absolutely amazing article
v4racer replied on Sat, 2020-12-12 15:25
Thank you Dennis and Dr Raines.
Martin Raines
Dennis Noyes replied on Sat, 2020-12-12 16:16
In the process of writing this article, I initially used several sources for stats. The only truly reliable source turned out to be Martin's data. It seems inevitable that whenever I write an article based on stats of this nature, at least one error creeps in. But, thanks to Martin, we can see not just how impressively consistent (not to mention fast) Marc Marquez has been so far in his MotoGP career, we also see how solid a rider three-times 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey was against formidable rivals. I never thought any modern day riders would overtake the stats but up by riders from the old days...fast and great riders, but riders with clear machine advantages. As usual, however, one error did creep in...spellcheck decided that Wilt Chamberlain's name was Will. Not even Martin or my fourth reread caught that
Lies, damned lies and statistics....
Lilyvani replied on Sat, 2020-12-12 20:49
Not really, I love stats. Re' Vale, I wonder if he'll go for the magic age of 46. Wouldn't surprise me.
From a stats position though, it would be interesting to see how the greats compare over a like for like period, say in their first 5 years in the top tier; longevity distorts the results a bit, doesn't it.
The name I'm pleased to see up there is Dani Pedrosa - shows true, that he was only ever a smidgeon away from a title or two, by and large denied by back luck and fragility.
Thanks Dennis!
Motoshrink replied on Sat, 2020-12-12 23:28
I love Dani too. Isn't it a bit rude to call him a smidgeon though LilV?
Dennis I didn't know you were a bit of a stats geek. I find them interesting, some much more than others. Ago's #s always leave a bit to be desired for comparative purposes of course given the qualitatively different circumstance. We end up sometimes on a slippery slope the end of which zips occasionally into GOAT talk devolving into what we have come to call "Fanboy" shite. Luckily, Motomatters has nearly been cured of this ill. Stoner - Rossi Laguna Seca battle churned several yrs of it. Then came 2015. I never ever had to choose a side. You are a Spanish Yank, feel like you still have to apologize for endearment of Vale? Or like you are surrounded by Repsolites etc?
I think Vale's sun has just hit the horizon. No more contracts to ride. This Yamaha cut it a tad shorter than it may have been. He deflated this yr after a good go. He was the greatest I had seen myself, and of the 1st MotoGP era. As he says, the new version of him came w upgrades, The Marc is really something special. And is healing up to come break some records, still plenty young. Just needs to dial back his careening attack finding the limit from just past the far side of it.
Curious, can you see Vale merge VR46 w the very Spanish Avintia? Ducati and Yellow? Or is it Yamaha by default? Or, SUZUKI?! I have recently become preoccupied with this.
Hug Kenny for us, he is a HERO. I go back and watch his racing (Macau was the most recent), he is really amazing. I appreciate what you did with/for David and a few other independent journos when they arrived. Good on ya, I really appreciate you as one of the outstanding human beings in there as well as a good journo. My favorite quote is "can you count to 10? Well you could work for HRC!" when The Marc stayed out an extra lap on disintegrating tires.
It would be ok by me if we never see Ago's record beaten. It indicates horribly boring races. We are blessed with a wonderful rulebook and close field now. Suzuki just won a Championship! With a new kid that snuck past the spotlight! No such thing as lappers any more. KTM mounted rookie won a dry race?! 2017 on has been fantastic, eh?
Stats and Their Inevitability of Being Surpassed
BergDonk replied on Sat, 2020-12-12 22:02
Its always an interesting discussion, and always hard to normalise all the data. One stat that always stands out for me, is a cricket one, a game of more stats than most, and that's Don Bradman's Test record batting average. His average is still <> 50% more runs per Test innings than the next best, and maybe, just maybe, one that will never be surpassed.
Fast Freddie
js290 replied on Tue, 2020-12-15 00:31
Winning the 250cc & 500cc classess in the same season.
Ah Mr Noyes
simon68041 replied on Wed, 2020-12-23 07:12
Miss your insightful columns which were regularly featured on Superbikeplanet
Reminded of why I enjoyed reading your work so much whenever David manages to extract some words of wisdom from you and publishes it here.
Thanks again for sharing.
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Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (2020) – Movie Review
Posted by Movie Pub on January 10, 2020 January 10, 2020
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior is the fictionalized biographical period action film directed by Om Raut.
The film sets in the late 17th century, when the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (Luke Kenny) declares strategic hill fortress Kondhana as the Mughal base of Southern India, with an intent to expand his empire. And sends his trusted commander Uday Bhan (Saif Ali Khan) to defend the fortress. However, the Maratha Emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (Sharad Kelkar) enlists his General Tanhaji Malusare (Ajay Devgan) to capture Kondhana at any cost to protect Southern India from Mughal invasion.
The film is based on the life of the great Maratha Warrior Tanhaji Malusare. The film mainly focuses on the Battle of Kondhana. But it is the fictionalized version of that story. And even before the film starts, the makers declare in the disclaimer that the film does not claim to be historically accurate. With that liberty, the film even tries to make itself aligned with the current socio-political environment and ideology.
The film has a very strong plot. But sadly, the film weakens in the storytelling and just feels like the series of not so impacting dialogue exchange. There are some impassioned monologues. But there are hardly any good conversations written for its characters, which are actually required for character development, and it makes them hollow. Whatever is written, only in that much space, both the leads manage to pull off the powerful performances and tries to keep the film interesting and entertaining. The only thing that bugged me regarding the characters was their stereotyping (Saif’s character is over-villainized).
The production cost of the film is high, as the film heavily depends on the practical sets and CGI. Overall, the CGI work is just satisfactory, because at some places it is too noticeable and looks fake. I don’t remember seeing any real locations where the film was shot, and that’s why this film to me is far away from realism. The background score of the film is really good, I liked it a lot, but sometimes it is used unnecessarily. The story wasn’t as much gripping as I was expecting it to be. But I thoroughly enjoyed the action sequences in it, especially the last one. The film is character-centric and mostly depends on the moments of goosebumps, and the audience’s emotional drive towards its story and its characters.
Verdict : The film is an emotional experience and definitely worth a watch for witnessing the courageous story of the great Maratha Warrior Tanhaji Malusare.
Check the trailer here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cffAGIYTEHU&t=64s
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Home / Metal News / Rare Earth / [SMM Analysis] China and the United States confirm that the price of light, medium and heavy rare earths will be raised first and then suppressed at the G20 summit.
[SMM Analysis] China and the United States confirm that the price of light, medium and heavy rare earths will be raised first and then suppressed at the G20 summit.
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The price of light, medium and heavy rare earths generally went up and down this week. In terms of light rare earths, praseodymium and neodymium oxide rose from 36.5-370000 yuan / ton to 37.5-380000 yuan / ton and then dropped to 36.5-370000 yuan / ton. Neodymium oxide followed the trend of praseodymium oxide from 36.7-372000 yuan / ton to 37.5-385000 yuan / ton, then decreased to 36.7-372000 yuan / ton, praseodymium oxide decreased to 40-410000 yuan / ton. In terms of medium and heavy rare earths, dysprosium oxide stabilized at 198-2.02 million yuan / ton this week, while terbium oxide rose from 415-4.2 million yuan / ton to 420-4.25 million yuan / ton and returned to 415-4.2 million yuan / ton again. The high price of light, medium and heavy rare earth products this week was mainly due to the fact that China and the United States confirmed to meet at the G20 summit, Sino-US trade war sentiment eased, rare earth market sentiment was unstable, and some traders and manufacturers increased shipments of light rare earth products such as praseodymium and neodymium oxide. In addition, downstream enterprises have a stronger wait-and-see mood and general transaction sentiment, leading to a downward trend in the price of light rare earths such as praseodymium and neodymium oxide. The price of terbium oxide has also fallen to a certain extent, and the prices of light, medium and heavy rare earths have stabilized on Friday.
The results of next week's G20 summit may have a certain impact on the prices of rare earth products. It is expected that by the end of next week's meeting, the market will have a strong wait-and-see mood, and the prices of light, medium and heavy rare earth products will remain stable.
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AAP alleges workers being stopped, police say no permission for protest march
Hours before the Aam Aadmi Party's protest march to the prime minister's residence, the Delhi Police said no permission was sought for it, even as the party leaders alleged that party supporters were being prevented from taking part in the rally.
The AAP is holding the march to support the sit-in of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues at the lieutenant governor's office for the last six days demanding him to direct IAS officers to end their "strike".
The party leader had also accused the Centre of misusing its powers to stop Delhi government from working.
"The call given by the AAP to march towards PM office or residence is without permission. No permission has been applied for. As such the areas under New Delhi district are under prohibitory orders," a senior Delhi Police officer said.
Four Metro rail stations -- Central Secretariat, Patel Chowk, Udyog Bhawan and Lok Kalyan Marg (Race Course) -- will be closed to prevent AAP workers and supporters to reach Mandi House, venue of the march scheduled at 4 pm.
The officer said preparations are made to prevent assembly of the protesters at Mandi House.
"Those trying to take out the march will be detained since no permission has been sought for it," he said.
A senior Delhi Metro official said entry and exit at the four stations falling in Lutyens' Delhi zone have been closed from 2 pm onwards as per the advice of the Delhi Police.
No entry and exit will be allowed at the Lok Kalyan Marg Metro station, closest to the PM's residence, the official said.
However, the interchange facilities will continue at Central Secretariat, he said.
Reacting on the development, the AAP leadership alleged that the Delhi Police was trying to stop people from joining the march.
AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj assured the police and the PMO that there will be no violence during the march.
"I assure LG, PMO and Delhi police that there won't be any violence. People just want to tell the PM that the LG appointed by him, is doing injustice to Delhi. He'll also be requested to tell IAS officers, who're on strike since last four months, to come back to work," Bhardwaj said in a press conference.
"Police has got several Metro stations closed down. Barricades have been erected all over Delhi and police is going door to door asking people if they were going for the march. People are being stopped from going for the march," Delhi AAP chief Gopal Rai said.
People, who have gathered at the offices and residences of MLAs, are being stopped from moving to Mandi House, alleged Bhardwaj. -- PTI
Image: AAP member Amit Mishra tweeted this picture claiming that police stopped the bus which was taking party workers to Mandi House for protest march to the prime minister's residence, Photograph: @Amitjanhit/Twitter
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Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott
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[Arisaema deflexum Nieuwl. & K.Just, moreArisaema triphyllum f. pusillum (Peck) Fernald, Arisaema triphyllum var. pusillum Peck, Arisaema triphyllum var. stewardsonii (Britton) G.T. Stevens ex Wieg. & Eames]
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Sue A. Thompson in Flora of North America (vol. 22)
Although these morphological forms may be recognizable in the field, distinguishing these differences in herbarium specimens is often difficult, and there is much overlap occurs in expression of the characteristics supposedly defining infraspecific taxa. Numerous intermediate forms exist, including putative hybrid populations be tween the subspecies with 2n = 42 (D. G. Huttleston 1949, 1953). Given these problems and the sympatric ranges of the 'subspecies' recognized by previous workers, A. triphyllum is treated here as one highly variable species. In addition to the above variability within the Arisaema triphyllum complex, putative hybrid populations between A. triphyllum and A. dracontium also occur naturally (L. L. Sanders and C. J. Burk 1992). These plants do not produce mature fruits but do reproduce vegetatively.
Perennial herb 15 cm - 0.9 m tall Leaves: usually two, long-stalked, with three leaflets (rarely five). The leaflets are more or less stalkless, to 30 cm long and 20 cm wide, with the terminal leaflet elliptic to broadly egg-shaped and the lateral leaflets usually asymmetrical and sometimes lobed or divided. Inflorescence: of many tiny flowers borne tightly clustered on the bottom half of a spike with a very fleshy axis (spadix), with male flowers above female flowers, The spadix is yellow, 3 - 9 cm long, and cylindric to slightly club-shaped with a blunt tip. The leaf-like sheath (spathe) surrounding the inflorescence forms a green tube sometimes striped or marked with purple or white, expanding near the tip to form a long tapering hood over the inflorescence. Fruit: a 6 - 15 mm long cluster of nearly spherical red berries, each with one to three seeds reaching 3 - 5 mm across.
Similar species: Arisaema species have compound leaves as well as flowers that only cover the bottom half of the spadix. Arisaema draconitum is distinguished by having five to fifteen leaflets and a tapering spadix that protrudes beyond the spathe. Arisaema triphyllum is represented by two subspecies in the Chicago Region. See links below for further information.
Flowering: mid April to mid July
Habitat and ecology: Common in rich woodlands.
Occurence in the Chicago region: native
Etymology: Arisaema comes from the Greek words aron, meaning Arum, and haima, meaning blood, referring to the blotchy red leaf color of some species. Triphyllum means three-leaved.
Author: The Morton Arboretum
From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam
Infrequent to frequent throughout the state in moist, rich woodland. It is a shade-loving species, found from the alluvial plains to the crests of the highest ridges and seems to have no correlation with Arisaema dracontium in its distribution. A study of my 69 specimens from Indiana shows that they have green and purplish spathes but very few have the hood purplish above, none flower as late as the middle of June, and none have been found in bogs. This species is extremely variable in the color of its spathe, in the shape of the blade of its hood, and in the shape of its leaflets. I have a specimen from De Kalb County with 4 leaflets and one each from Lake and Steuben Counties with the lateral leaflets parted.
[Deam says the following about A. pusillum (a form in which the spathes are purplish brown both within and without):] A comparison of specimens of Arisaema deflexum with a series of specimens of Arisaema pusillum from Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New York shows no essential difference. In fact, Arisaema pusillum itself seems to be only an extreme form of Arisaema triphyllum and it is reduced to synonomy in the Gray Manual, but is maintained as a species in Britton and Brown, Illustrated Flora, ed. 2. Wiegand and Eames in their flora of the Cayuga basin say: "It has not been possible to separate A. pusillum (Peck) Nash in this region from the species (A. triphyllum) by any constant characters." My opinion is that this plant as found in Indiana is only a well marked form or variety of [A. triphyllum]. It has been found as yet only in St. Joseph County where it grew in bogs.
Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = 4
Wetland Indicator Status: FACW
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Corm very acrid; lvs mostly 2, the petiole 3-6 dm at anthesis, sometimes later to 15 dm; lfls 3, acuminate, the terminal elliptic to rhombic-ovate, the lateral often asymmetrical; veins of the lfls parallel from the midrib to the marginal vein, connected by numerous anastomosing veinlets; peduncle 3-20 cm; spathe convolute below, expanded above and arched over the spadix, abruptly acuminate; spadix cylindric or barely clavate, yellow, blunt; fr 1 cm; 2n=28, 56. N.S. to N.D., s. to Fla. and Tex. Spring. Four vars., 3 in our range, the fourth (quinatum) southern:
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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